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Greg Bell (running back, born 1962)

Gregory Leon Bell (born August 1, 1962) is an American former professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL) for the Buffalo Bills, Los Angeles Rams and Los Angeles Raiders, from 1984 to 1990.

Bell played college football at the University of Notre Dame and was drafted by the Bills in the first round of the 1984 NFL Draft. Before going to Notre Dame, he attended South High School in Columbus, Ohio.

College Statistics
1980: 5 carries for 66 yards and one touchdown.
1981: 92 carries for 512 yards and 6 touchdowns. 11 catches for 135 yards. 13 kick returns for 371 yards and 1 touchdown.
1982: 24 carries for 123 yards and 1 touchdown. 3 catches for 20 yards. 3 kick returns for 50 yards. 1 punt return for 12 yards.
1983: 37 carries for 169 yards and 4 touchdowns. 6 catches for 65 yards and 1 touchdown. 5 kick returns for 108 yards. 10 punt returns for 55 yards.

Professional career
Bell was drafted by the Buffalo Bills in the first round of the 1984 NFL Draft. He was a one-time Pro Bowler after his rookie year in 1984 with the Bills after having a 1,100 rushing yards and a seven touchdown season. Bell had his best year after the 1988 NFL season with the Rams, in which he had 1,212 rushing yards and led the league with sixteen touchdowns. He had a similar season the year after in which Bell had 1137 rushing yards and fifteen touchdowns, again leading the league. To that point, no other running back had ever led the league in rushing touchdowns in consecutive seasons without entering the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and Bell attempted to hold out for a better contract. The Rams instead traded him to the Raiders, who had a loaded backfield consisting of Marcus Allen, Bo Jackson, and Napoleon McCallum; Bell barely saw the field and was out of the NFL after that season.

NFL career statistics

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1962 births
Living people
Players of American football from Columbus, Ohio
American football running backs
Notre Dame Fighting Irish football players
Buffalo Bills players
Los Angeles Rams players
Los Angeles Raiders players
American Conference Pro Bowl players
Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's track and field athletes
HMS Pelorus (1857)

HMS Pelorus was a 2,330 ton displacement, 21 gun corvette launched on 5 February 1857 from the Devonport dockyard. It was captained at first by Frederick Beauchamp Paget Seymour, then by Henry Boys, and later William Henry Haswell.

She participated as part of a squadron after the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Then she was sent to the China Station during the Second Opium War until May 1859 when she sailed for Australian Station.

In June 1860, as flagship of the Australian Squadron under Captain Frederick Seymour, she participated in the attack on Puketakauere pā during the First Taranaki War. Later that year, the crew landed at Kairau to support British troops under attack from Maori and in January 1861 a gun crew from the ship helped defend the British redoubt at Huirangi against the Maori. She left the Australia Station in July 1862 for Plymouth.

The future admiral, Cyprian Bridge served on Pelorus in the East Indies as a midshipman.

She was decommissioned in 1868 and was broken up for scrap in 1869.

Pelorus Island, a tiny island of the Palm Islands group off North Queensland, is said to be named after the ship.

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Pearl-class corvettes
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Ships built in Plymouth, Devon
Maetel Legend

is a 2000 anime OVA based on characters created by Leiji Matsumoto about how the planet La Maetelle becomes the planet Andromeda, also known as Planet Maetel ("the mechanized world"). It serves a link between Matsumoto's previous series Queen Millennia and Galaxy Express 999. Space Symphony Maetel. The OVA and series are supposed to follow Queen Millennia chronologically, and are prequels to Galaxy Express 999.

Cast

External links
Central Media's Site
Tull en 't Waal

Tull en 't Waal is a village in the Dutch province of Utrecht. Until 1962, it was a separate municipality, but now it is a part of the municipality of Houten. Originally, there were two villages:  't Waal, at the site of the present village; and Tull, more to the south. It also has a ferry connection to the town of Culemborg. It is located close to the Lek River.

History 

Tull is first mentioned in 1155 as "in loco qui dicitur Tylle". The etymology is unclear. 't Waal was first mentioned in 1307 as Wale, and means "pool after a dike breach". In 1504, the hamlets are first mentioned as Tul ende tWael. The village is a 12th century peat excavation project along the Waalsewetering. The church is a medieval building which was extensively modified in 1778 and 1890. The hamlet  used to be part of the village, but was transferred to Schalkwijk. In 1840, Tull en 't Waal was home to 532 people.

Werk aan de Waalse Wetering is a military fortification as part of the Dutch Water Line. It was constructed in 1815, and has bomb proof barracks. The fort became obsolete after the investion of the air plane. It was later used by the Nederlandse Spoorwegen to store bridging material. In 1999, it was converted into a tea house and camping.

Gallery

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Populated places in Utrecht (province)
Houten
HMS Mildura

HMS Mildura was a  built for the Royal Navy in the late 1880s. Originally named HMS Pelorus, she was renamed after an Australian town in April 1890. Per the Imperial Defense Act of 1887, she served primarily in Australian waters.

Captain Henry Leah was in command from April 1897 until April 1900, when Captain Henry C. A. Baynes arrived in Australia on board  to take command of the ship. He was succeeded by Captain Charles Kingsmill in September 1900. She was part of the naval escort for the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (later King George V and Queen Mary) to New Zealand aboard the chartered Royal liner HMS Ophir during 1901. With  (flagship) and , she visited Norfolk Island in July 1902, Suva, Fiji the following month, and Tonga in September.

She was sold to Garnham, London for scrap in 1906 for £7,200.

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Ships built by Armstrong Whitworth
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McLeod Center

The McLeod Center is a 7,018-seat multi-purpose arena on the campus of the University of Northern Iowa (UNI) in Cedar Falls, Iowa, USA, currently housing the university's teams in men's and women's basketball, and women's volleyball. The arena opened on November 18, 2006, with a volleyball game against Bradley. The other three UNI teams made their debuts in the facility over the next three days — men's basketball versus Milwaukee on November 19, women's basketball against Iowa State on November 20, and wrestling versus Iowa on November 21.

The McLeod Center replaced the UNI-Dome as the home of the university's basketball teams and West Gymnasium as the home of the volleyball and wrestling teams (the wrestling squad moved back to the West Gym after the 2007-2008 season). The McLeod Center is located on the west end of the campus, directly south of the UNI-Dome and connected by a covered walkway that also houses an extensive athletic hall of fame.

A video board is located on the south wall with home and visiting team scoreboards on either side showing the players' game information. There are two scoreboards on the north side and ribbon boards above the concession stands on the east and west sides.

Since opening, the arena has had quite a significant positive economic impact for the university. It brings in $20–25 million annually, doubled the attendance of basketball games, and has almost 400,000 visitors a year.

The arena also hosts commencement ceremonies throughout the year and can be used for recreation upon request.

During the 2009-2010, 2014-2015, and 2019-2020 men's basketball seasons, the team was undefeated at the McLeod Center.

For the first time in venue history, they sold out every seat for a women's basketball game against Iowa on November 12, 2023. This was primarily because of Hawkeye phenom Caitlin Clark.

Other use
On May 18, 2010, the McLeod Center was the first building in Iowa to host the 14th Dalai Lama.
On October 24, 2010, Bob Dylan performed at the venue.
Other artists who have performed include Brad Paisley, Luke Bryan, Rodney Atkins, The All-American Rejects, Meat Loaf, Miranda Lambert, Gloriana and Alan Jackson.
The Stadium also hosts the yearly Iowa Regional for the FIRST Robotics Competition

See also
 List of NCAA Division I basketball arenas

References

External links
Official web site
Center facts

College basketball venues in the United States
Buildings and structures in Cedar Falls, Iowa
Northern Iowa Panthers basketball
Basketball venues in Iowa
College volleyball venues in the United States
2006 establishments in Iowa
Sports venues completed in 2006
Jack Dyer Medal

The Jack Dyer Medal is an Australian rules football award given each season to the player or players adjudged best and fairest for the Richmond Football Club.

The award is now named in honour of Jack Dyer, a champion ruckman who won the award five times from 1937 to 1946. He was one of the inaugural "Legends" inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 1996.

Other multiple winners have been Kevin Bartlett (five times); Wayne Campbell and dual Brownlow Medallist Roy Wright (four times each); Ron Branton, Neville Crowe, Geoff Raines, Brownlow Medallist Bill Morris, and Trent Cotchin (three times each).  Basil McCormack, Jack Titus, Leo Merrett, Des Rowe, Dave Cuzens, Royce Hart, Maurice Rioli, Dale Weightman, Matthew Knights, Tony Free, Joel Bowden, Brett Deledio, Dustin Martin, and most recently Jack Riewoldt have all won the award twice.

Bill Morris, Roy Wright, Ian Stewart, Trent Cotchin and Dustin Martin all won the best and fairest in the same years that they won their Brownlow Medals at Richmond, while Stan Judkins, Brownlow Medallist in 1930, never won the club's award.

The voting system as of the 2023 AFL season, consists of all the team’s players on match day receiving a rating from 0-5 based on their overall performance.
The match committee assesses each player’s offensive, defensive and contest impacts on the game.
After those game phases have been analysed, the 0-5 rating is given as a joint match committee decision.
Votes are not allocated for what the match committee deems a below-average performance.

Recipients

Multiple winners

Removed winners

Following a nineteen-year investigation undertaken by members of the Richmond Historical Committee, it was announced in November 2019 that their research into the history of the award had discovered that 18 of the 22 awards between 1911 and 1936 (none had been listed in 1912, 1915, and 1930–1931) were not actually presented at the time but were instead erroneously added retrospectively in 1988 and 1991. 

This caused a degree of controversy, as this resulted in Jack Dyer's record tally of six medals being reduced to five (with his 1932 award being removed), equal with Kevin Bartlett. In addition, Ray Martin also had his back-to-back medals reduced to one (his 1934 award was removed), and a further twelve players—including those from the club's earliest years in the VFL/AFL, members of the club's 1920–1921 premiership teams, and teammates of Dyer—had all of their awards removed from the records.

References 
General

Specific

Australian Football League awards
Richmond Football Club
Australian rules football-related lists
HMS Pelorus (1896)

HMS Pelorus was the first of the s, and was laid down at Sheerness dockyard in 1895. Completed and commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1897, she was designed by Sir William White. Construction cost £154,315. The ship was well armed for her size, but was primarily a workhorse for the overseas fleet.

HMS Pelorus displaced 2,135 tons and had a top speed of . She had reciprocating triple expansion engines and Normand water-tube boilers which could give  for limited periods of time with forced draught, and  under natural draught. It carried a crew complement of 224 men and it was armed with eight QF 4 inch (102 mm) (25 pounder) guns, eight QF 3 pounder (47-mm) guns, three machine guns, and two 18-inch (450-mm) torpedo tubes.

Service history
Pelorus served in the Channel Fleet under Captain Henry Charles Bertram Hulbert, when in February 1900 she joined the Eastern division of the fleet.

In 1901, the ship was stationed at Gibraltar under the command of Commander Ernest Troubridge. The following year she paid off at Devonport, had her boilers repaired, and in August was towed to Clydebank to be refitted by Messrs J. Brown and Co. in Glasgow.

In 1906, the ship was assigned to the Cape of Good Hope Station under the command of Commander James C. Tancred. In 1908 the captain was Arthur W Craig.

References

E E Highams, 'Across a Continent in a Man of War' (Westminster Press, London, 1909)

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Pelorus-class cruisers of the Royal Navy
Ships built in Sheerness
1896 ships
World War I cruisers of the United Kingdom
Echmiadzin Gospels

The Echmiadzin Gospels (Yerevan, Matenadaran, MS. 2374, formerly Etchmiadzin Ms. 229) is a 10th-century Armenian Gospel Book produced in 989 at the Monastery of Bgheno-Noravank in Syunik.

The book 

The manuscript has 232 extant leaves which measure approximately 32 by 25.5 cm.  The book was made under the patronage of bishop Stepanos and written by the scribe Hovhanes. The binding of the book is made of two carved ivory plaques, probably of Byzantine manufacture of the 6th century. Bound into the book are two leaves (fols. 228–229) with miniatures dating to the late 6th—early 7th century (so-called 'Final Four Miniatures').

Eusebian Canons 

The art historian Carl Nordenfalk considered the Eusebian canon tables of the Echmiadzin Gospels (fols. 1–5, including the Eusebian letter) to be the best representative of the original table design (column arrangement, pattern of frame, ornament, etc.) developed in Caesarea Palaestina at the time of Eusebius (1st half of the 4th century). Taking into account the Caesarean type of the Armenian text of the Gospels, Nordenfalk concluded that the Echmiadzin Gospels were copied from a Caesarean codex equipped with the Eusebian canon tables.

References
Nordenfalk, C. "Die spätantiken Kanontafeln". Gothenburg, 1938.

External links
 Index of Armenian Art: Manuscripts:Matenadaran, Ms. 2374, Etchmiadzin Gospels, the 'Final Four Miniatures' (short description, page images)

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10th-century biblical manuscripts
Armenian books
History of religion in Armenia
Gospel Books
10th-century illuminated manuscripts
Sick Again

"Sick Again" is a song by English rock band Led Zeppelin from their 1975 album Physical Graffiti. It was written by singer Robert Plant. The song is about a group of teen groupies, which Plant referred to as "L.A. Queens", with whom the band were acquainted on their 1973 US Tour.

Lyrics
Plant took pity upon these girls who would flock to the hotel rooms of the band to offer them "favors". In an interview he gave in 1975, he provided an explanation of the lyrics:

Live performances
Led Zeppelin frequently performed "Sick Again" in concert; during the 1975 and 1977 tours, it was often the second song they played. A performance from the 1979 Knebworth Festival is included on the Led Zeppelin DVD (2003). The song was dropped for the band's final tour Over Europe in 1980.

Page performed this song on his tour with the Black Crowes in 1999. A version of "Sick Again" performed by them can be found on the album Live at the Greek.

Personnel 

 Robert Plant - vocals
 Jimmy Page - guitar
 John Bonham - drums, percussion
 John Paul Jones - bass

References

1975 songs
Songs about teenagers
Songs about groupies
Led Zeppelin songs
Song recordings produced by Jimmy Page
Songs written by Jimmy Page
Songs written by Robert Plant
Heemstede, Utrecht

Heemstede is a hamlet in the central Netherlands. It is located 3 km west of Houten, Utrecht. The hamlet is known for Heemstede Castle (1645).

Until 1812, Heemstede was a separate heerlijkheid. Between 1818 and 1857 it was a part of Oud-Wulven, until that municipality merged with Houten. The area had 75 inhabitants around 1850.

History 
It was first mentioned in 1219 as in Hemsteden, and means "place with houses". Heemstede is not a statistical entity, and the postal authorities have placed it under Houten, and there are no place name signs. Nowadays, it consists of about 20 houses.

Castle Heemstede 
A fortified farm called Heemstede was first mentioned in 1323. Between 1398 and 1404, a tower was constructed, and it officially became a castle in 1536. In 1614, the castle became derelict and turned into a ruin. In 1645, a manor house was built about 500 metres to the north. During World War II, it was in use as monastery. In 1971, the building was squatted, and burnt down in 1987. It was rebuilt in 1998 and served as a restaurant which went bankrupt in 2012. The estate is now private property.

Gallery

References

Populated places in Utrecht (province)
Houten
KRES

KRES (104.7 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a classic country music format. Licensed to Moberly, Missouri, United States, the station serves the Columbia, Missouri, area.  The station is currently owned by Alpha Media, through licensee Alpha Media Licensee LLC, and features programming from ABC Radio.  The station began broadcasting on 1550 AM in St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1947, playing hits from the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.  The station changed its call sign to KKJO in 1962 and began playing hits from the 1950s and 1960s.

Today KRES broadcasts on 104.7 FM with a classic country music with spot news and agricultural news format.  KRES is the Moberly affiliate for St. Louis Cardinals baseball.

Throughout the day, the on-air programmers who can be heard on KRES include, Brad Boyer, Bill Peterson, J.B. Connoley, Dan Patterson, Adam Hildebrandt, and Kyle Hill.

In the late 1980s, on air staff included Jack Larkin, Jim Coyle, Bob Bagby, Dale Palmer, Ron Block, Larry Weller, Doug Owens and Rich Cain. In the early 1990s, KWIX-KRES radio's on-air staff included St. Louis-area transplants such as Bryan Polcyn, Doug Stewart, Mike Roberts and Paul Lewandowski.

Ownership
On March 1, 2007, it was announced that GoodRadio.TV LLC planned to buy The Shepherd Group of radio stations in Missouri.  The Shepherd Group operates 16 small-market radio stations in Missouri.  The deal was reportedly worth $30.6 million.

Dean Goodman recently formed the new company, GoodRadio.TV.  He is the former president and chief executive officer of the television broadcasting company ION Media Networks Inc.  Goodman stepped down from ION Media Networks in October 2006.

The Shepherd Group includes KJEL and KBNN in Lebanon; KJFF in Festus; KREI and KTJJ in Farmington; KRES-FM and KWIX in Moberly; KIRK in Macon; KIIK, KOZQ-FM, KJPW and KFBD-FM in Waynesville; KAAN-FM and KAAN in Bethany; and KMRN and KKWK in Cameron.

In December 2013, GoodRadio.TV merged into Digity, LLC. Effective February 25, 2016, Digity and its 124 radio stations were acquired by Alpha Media for $264 million.

References

External links

RES
Country radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1962
Alpha Media radio stations
William Nelson Runyon

William Nelson Runyon (March 5, 1871 – November 9, 1931) was the acting governor of New Jersey from 1919 to 1920 and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Runyon was nominated by President Warren G. Harding on December 30, 1922, to a new seat created by 42 Stat. 837; He was confirmed by the United States Senate on January 16, 1923, and received commission the same day. Runyon's service was terminated on November 9, 1931, due to death.

Education and career

Born on March 5, 1871, in Plainfield, New Jersey, Runyon received an Artium Baccalaureus degree in 1892 from Yale University and a Bachelor of Laws in 1894 from New York Law School. He was a member of the Plainfield Common Council from 1897 to 1898. He was a Judge of the Plainfield Municipal Court from 1899 to 1910. He was a member of the New Jersey General Assembly from 1915 to 1917. He was a member of the New Jersey Senate from 1918 to 1922. He served as Acting Governor of New Jersey from 1919 to 1920. He was a member of the Republican Party.

Federal judicial service

Runyon was nominated by President Warren G. Harding on December 30, 1922, to the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, to a new seat authorized by 42 Stat. 837. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on January 16, 1923, and received his commission the same day. His service terminated on November 9, 1931, due to his death in Plainfield. He was interred in Hillside Cemetery in Scotch Plains, New Jersey.

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Yale University alumni
New York Law School alumni
New Jersey lawyers
Republican Party governors of New Jersey
Republican Party members of the New Jersey General Assembly
Republican Party New Jersey state senators
Presidents of the New Jersey Senate
New Jersey state court judges
Judges of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
United States district court judges appointed by Warren G. Harding
20th-century American judges
Burials at Hillside Cemetery (Scotch Plains, New Jersey)
List of defunct network processor companies

During the dot-com/internet bubble of the late 1990s and early 2000, the proliferation of many dot-com start-up companies created a secondary bubble in the telecommunications/computer networking infrastructure and telecommunications service provider markets. Venture capital and high tech companies rushed to build next generation infrastructure equipment for the expected explosion of internet traffic. As part of that investment fever, network processors were seen as a method of dealing with the desire for more network services and the ever-increasing data-rates of communication networks.

It has been estimated that dozens of start-up companies were created in the race to build the processors that would be a component of the next generation telecommunications equipment. Once the internet investment bubble burst, the telecom network upgrade cycle was deferred for years (perhaps for a decade). As a result, the majority of these new companies went bankrupt.

As of 2007, the only companies that are shipping network processors in sizeable volumes are Cisco Systems, Marvell, Freescale, Cavium Networks and AMCC.

OC-768/40Gb routing
 ClearSpeed  left network processor market, reverted to supercomputing applications
 Propulsion Networks  defunct
 BOPS  left network processor market, reverted to DSP applications

OC-192/10Gb routing
 Terago  defunct
 Clearwater Networks  originally named Xstream Logic, defunct
 Silicon Access  defunct
 Solidum Systems  acquired by Integrated Device Technology
 Lexra  defunct
 Fast-Chip  defunct
 Cognigine Corp.  defunct
 Internet Machines  morphed into IMC Semiconductors, a PCI-Express chip vendor
 Acorn Networks  defunct
 XaQti  acquired by Vitesse Semiconductor, product line discontinued

OC-48/2.5Gb routing
 IP Semiconductors  defunct
 Entridia  defunct
 Stargate Solutions  defunct

Gigabit Ethernet routing
 Sibyte  acquired by Broadcom, product line discontinued
 PMC-Sierra  product line discontinued

OC-12 routing
 C-port  acquired by Motorola (now Freescale), product line discontinued
 IBM  PowerNP product line discontinued
 Sitera  acquired by Vitesse, product line discontinued

Access products
 Netargy  defunct
 Ishoni Networks  defunct
 HyWire   defunct

VOIP products
 Silicon Spice  acquired by Broadcom, product line discontinued
 Malleable Technologies  acquired by PMC-Sierra, product line discontinued

Traffic managers
 Extreme Packet Devices  acquired by PMC-Sierra, product line discontinued
 Azanda Network Devices  acquired by Cortina, product line being sold as CS53xx family
 Teradiant  defunct
 Orologic  acquired by Vitesse, product line discontinued
 Maker Communications  acquired by Conexant, product line discontinued

Packet classifiers
 SwitchOn  acquired by PMC-Sierra, product line discontinued
 FastChip  defunct

Switch fabrics
 Abrizio  acquired by PMC-Sierra, product line discontinued
 Stargen  left networking market for computer server market

Security products
 Chrysalis-ITS  defunct

 
Defunct network processor companies
Network processor companies
In the Mid-Nite Hour

In The Mid-Nite Hour is the fifth studio album by Warren G, released on the label Hawino Records on October 11, 2005. His first single was "Get U Down" featuring Ice Cube, B-Real, and Snoop Dogg, and his follow up single was "I Need A Light" featuring Nate Dogg. Neither single was able to make the Billboard charts for music and the album peaked at number 80 on the Billboard 200 album chart selling 14,800 in its first week. It is notable for having a laid back feel to it and featuring rapper Bishop Lamont on seven tracks. The album was released in the UK on March 25, 2006.

Critical reception

Steve 'Flash' Juon of RapReviews praised Warren's musicianship for crafting well-produced tracks with a strong featured cast while maintaining his smooth flow, saying that "In the Mid-Nite Hour may not raise him to prominence, but it won't disappoint his audience or the casual purchaser who wants some nice shit to cruise to." Jason Birchmeier of AllMusic praised the independent approach to the album and found it more approachable than Warren's previous effort The Return of the Regulator. Jozen Cummings of Vibe commended Warren for attempting to recapture his early work but found it too brief and often backfiring on itself, concluding that "it's no secret that his G-funk prime has passed."

Track listing

References

2005 albums
Warren G albums
Albums produced by Warren G
Albums produced by Terrace Martin
Albums produced by Raphael Saadiq
World of Beer

World of Beer, branded as WOB, is an American tavern chain with locations in the United States, China, and South Korea. Founded in 2007, the company's headquarters are in Tampa Bay, Florida. WOB locations sell about 300 craft beers, including almost 50 on tap, and serve food.

In 2018, the company hired former Raymond James investment banker Kevin MacCormack as CFO, and Hard Rock International executive James Buell as vice president of marketing.

References

Alcohol distribution retailers
Drinking establishment chains in the United States
Companies based in Tampa, Florida
Restaurants established in 2007
2007 establishments in Florida
American companies established in 2007
Satya Pir

Satya Pir () is a belief system found in Bengal created by the fusion of Islam and local religions. Experts maintain that the Muslim Satya Pir and the Hindu Satyanarayan Puja essentially represent the same beliefs and rituals.
A century ago in Bengal, the ritual called, pujah was mainly performed by Hindu women and was interchangeably called Satya pir Pujah or Satya Narayan pujah.

According to the author, Dwijendra Nath Neogi, some  Muslims  at that time also performed the pujah. The author gives alternate theories as to how Pir and Narayan got associated. In one theory, he proposes that Brahmins during the Islamic era  in Bengal changed Narayan into Pir in order for the Muslims to believe that they were worshipping an Islamic saint. The other theory says the worship started as that of a Muslim saint or Pir and later the Pir was changed into Narayan. 

In folklores, Narayan and Pir get mixed such as one supplicant will address him as Satya Narayana, implying that he is an avatar of Krishna, while another one in a different tale will be told that Satya Pir has just come from Mecca, which would make him Muslim.

In Orissa, the state adjacent to Bengal,  Sufism gained popularity and led to the emergence of the Satya-Pir tradition. Even today Hindus worship Satyanarayan and pir together.

Satya pir is worshipped by some Buddhists in Bangladesh.

References

Bengali culture
Religion in Bangladesh
Hindu traditions

Further reading 

 Stewart, Tony (2003). Fabulous Females and Peerless Pirs: Tales of Mad Adventure in Old Bengal. Oxford University Press.
La Romana International Airport

La Romana Casa De Campo International Airport  is an international airport located on the southeastern coast of the Dominican Republic, adjacent to the tourist town of La Romana and the resort of Casa de Campo. It is located about 68 miles (110 km) from the capital, Santo Domingo, approximately 1 hour and 34 minutes by car. In 2008, 374,724 passengers passed through the airport.

Overview
The current single terminal is built in the style of an old sugar mill. The airport consists of a main terminal with four modern gates. It has facilities for passengers and for the maintenance of aircraft. This airport receives most of the private flights in the country, principally businessmen that come to La Romana for vacations in Casa de Campo. The La Romana VOR/DME (Ident: LRN) and the La Romana non-directional beacon (Ident: LRN) are located on the field.

History
The current airport has been open for 22 years and opened in December 2000 and replaced the earlier La Romana Airport with the same name and IATA code. The old airport was on the Caribbean shore,  southwest of the current airport. The former airport served private planes and one daily American Airlines flight from Miami and a few American Eagle flights.

Airlines and destinations
The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights to and from La Romana Airport:

Statistics

See also 
Transport in Dominican Republic
List of airports in Dominican Republic
List of the busiest airports in Dominican Republic
List of the busiest airports in the Caribbean

References

External links
OpenStreetMap - La Romana Airport
 La Romana International Airport
 
 

La Romana, Dominican Republic
Airports in the Dominican Republic
Buildings and structures in La Romana Province
Airports established in 2000
2000 establishments in the Dominican Republic
Sot, Šid

Sot () is a village located in Syrmia, Vojvodina, Serbia. It is situated in the Šid municipality, in the Syrmia District. The village is ethnically mixed and its population numbering 791 people (2002 census).

Ethnic groups (2002 census)

The population of the village include:
 340 (42.98%) Serbs
 317 (40.08%) Croats
 33 (4.17%) Hungarians
 28 (3.54%) Slovaks
 15 (1.90%) Yugoslavs
 others.

Historical population

1961: 1,272
1971: 1,077
1981: 900
1991: 819
2002: 791

References
Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.

See also
List of places in Serbia
List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina

Populated places in Syrmia
Not Without Laughter

Not Without Laughter is the debut novel by Langston Hughes published in 1930.

Plot introduction
Not Without Laughter portrays African-American life in Kansas in the 1910s, focusing on the effects of class and religion on the community.
The main storyline focuses on Sandy's "awakening to the sad and the beautiful realities of black life in a small Kansas town."

Characters
James "Sandy" Rodgers 
Jimboy Rodgers – Sandy's father, Annjee's husband
Annjelica "Annjee" Rodgers – Sandy's mother, wife of Jimboy
Aunt Hager Williams – Annjee's mother and Sandy's grandmother
Tempy Siles/Williams – Annjee's sister
Mr. Siles – Tempy's husband
Harriett Williams – sister of Annjee
Maudel Smothers – friend of Harriett
Willie-Mae Johnson – friend of Sandy

Background
Hughes said that Not Without Laughter is semi-autobiographical, and that a good portion of the characters and setting included in the novel are based on his memories of growing up in Lawrence, Kansas: "I wanted to write about a typical Negro family in the Middle West, about people like those I had known in Kansas. But mine was not a typical Negro family."

Reception
A review in the New York Times on August 3, 1930 stated: " "Not Without Laughter" is very slow, even tedious, reading in its early chapters, but once it gains its momentum it moves as swiftly as a jazz rhythm. Its characters, emerging ever more clearly and challenging as the novel proceeds, gives it this rhythm. Every character in the novel, it can be said, with the exception of Tempy and Mr. Siles, is a living challenge to our civilization, a challenge that is all the more effective because it springs naturally out of its materials and is not superimposed upon them."

References

1930 American novels
Works by Langston Hughes
Random House books
African-American novels
Novels set in Kansas
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Duchess Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (24 August 1758 – 29 November 1794) was born a Princess and Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and by marriage Hereditary Princess of Denmark and Norway.

Life

Born in Schwerin, she was the only daughter of Duke Louis of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, second son of Christian Louis II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Princess Charlotte Sophie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. Her only sibling was Frederick, who was about two years older.

Life in Denmark
On 21 October 1774 in Copenhagen, she married Hereditary Prince Frederick of Denmark and Norway, the son of King Frederick V of Denmark and his second wife Juliane Marie of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, who was the regent in Denmark between 1772 and 1784. She was sixteen years old when she was married.

Sophia Frederica, known as Sofie Frederikke af Mecklenburg-Schwerin in Denmark, was described as jolly, charming and intelligent.  She had a hard time in the beginning adapting to her new, stiffer environment, but became quite popular.   During the first ten years of her marriage (1774-1784), she gave birth to three daughters, the eldest two were stillborn and the third lived only five months; it was only in 1786 when she had the first of her living children, the future King Christian VIII.

It is said she was disappointed when she met her husband for the first time, but they came to be fond of each other, although they both supposedly took lovers; her husband had a mistress, her companion Caja Hviid, while the father of Sophia Frederica's children was rumored to be her husband's adjutant, Frederik von Blücher. It was said that the harmony of their marriage was based on mutual understanding.   The harmonious friendship between the spouses created a fear that Sophia Frederica's influence over her husband would lead to her interfering in politics.

She died in Sorgenfri Palace.

Issue

Sophia Frederica and Prince Frederick had the following children: 

Stillborn daughter (19 September 1781).
Stillborn daughter (17 February 1783).
Princess Juliana Marie (2 May 1784 - 28 October 1784), died in infancy.
Prince Christian Frederick (18 September 1786 - 20 January 1848), future King Christian Frederick of Norway and Christian VIII of Denmark.
Princess Juliane Sophie (18 February 1788 - 9 May 1850), married in 1812 to Prince William of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld; they had no issue.
Princess Louise Charlotte (30 October 1789 - 28 March 1864), married in 1810 to Prince William of Hesse-Cassel; they had issue.
Hereditary Prince Ferdinand (22 November 1792 - 29 June 1863), married in 1829 to Princess Caroline of Denmark; they had no issue.

Ancestry

References

Citations

Bibliography

External links

  Article in the Dansk biografisk Lexikon

1758 births
1794 deaths
18th-century Danish nobility
18th-century German people
18th-century Norwegian nobility
18th-century Danish women
Danish princesses
Duchesses of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Princesses in Germany
House of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
House of Oldenburg in Denmark
Norwegian princesses
People from Schwerin
Burials at Roskilde Cathedral
Silpelit

Silpelit might be:

A figure from Eduard Friedrich Mörike's poem "Elfenlied".
A specific type of the fictional mutant, human-evolved species of the Japanese anime and manga Elfen Lied. The Silpelit is the offspring of Homo sapiens who had their genes mutated by interaction with Diclonius vectors or from exposure to the "vector-virus".
Ljuba, Šid

Ljuba (Serbian Cyrillic: Љуба, ) is a village located in Syrmia, Vojvodina, Serbia. It is situated in the Šid municipality, in the Syrmia District. The village has a Slovak ethnic majority and its population was 558 people at the 2002 census.

Historical population
1961: 838
1971: 757
1981: 639
1991: 585
2002: 558

See also
List of places in Serbia
List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina

References
Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.

Populated places in Syrmia
Slovaks of Vojvodina
Liminal being

Liminal beings are entities that cannot easily be placed into a single category of existence. The concept was developed by the cultural anthropologist Victor Turner. It is associated with the threshold state of liminality, from Latin līmen, "threshold".

Liminal entities

Turner considered that liminal entities, such as those undergoing initiation rites, often appeared in the form of monsters, so as to represent the co-presence of opposites—high/low; good/bad—in the liminal experience.

Liminal personas are structurally and socially invisible, having left one set of classifications and not yet entered another. The social anthropologist Mary Douglas has highlighted the dangerous aspects of such liminal beings, but they are also potentially beneficent. Thus we often find presiding over a ritual's liminal stage a semi-human shaman figure, or a powerful mentor with animal aspects, such as a centaur.

Legendary

By extension, liminal beings of a mixed, hybrid nature appear regularly in myth, legend and fantasy. A legendary liminal being is a legendary creature that combines two distinct states of simultaneous existence within one physical body. This unique perspective may provide the liminal being with wisdom and the ability to instruct, making them suitable mentors, whilst also making them dangerous and uncanny.

Many beings in fantasy and folklore exist in liminal states impossible in actual beings. One example is the sphinx: 'a liminal figure...straddling the divide between animal and human, and partaking of both'.

See also

References

Further reading
John Clute and John Grant, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy

External links
 Allison Wright, 'liminal, liminality'
 Liminal beings: Indian mythology

Fantasy tropes
Mythological archetypes
Colin Bennett

Colin Bennett may refer to:

Col Bennett (1919–2002), Australian politician
Colin Bennett (actor), English actor, writer, and producer
Colin Bennett (soccer) (born 1950), Australian football player
Colin Emerson Bennett (1908–1993), Canadian politician and lawyer

See also
Colin Bennetts (1940–2013), English clergyman, bishop of Coventry
Cole Bennett (born 1996), American videographer and business executive
Bennett (name)
William H. Smathers

William Howell Smathers (January 7, 1891September 24, 1955) was a Democratic United States Senator from New Jersey, serving from 1937 to 1943.

Biography
Smathers was born on January 7, 1891, on a plantation near Waynesville, North Carolina.

He attended public school and Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. Smathers was graduated from the law department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1911 and was admitted to the bar in 1912, commencing practice in Atlantic City, New Jersey, where he served as a judge of the common pleas court of Atlantic City from 1922 to 1932. Additionally, he served as the first assistant Attorney General of New Jersey, from 1934 to 1936. Smathers was elected to the New Jersey Senate in 1935. He served one term in the U.S. Senate, losing his bid for reelection in 1942. He returned to his law practice in Atlantic City until his retirement to Waynesville.

He died on September 24, 1955, in Asheville, North Carolina.

Legacy
He was the uncle of Florida Senator George Smathers.

References

External links 

 

1891 births
1955 deaths
People from Haywood County, North Carolina
Democratic Party New Jersey state senators
Politicians from Atlantic City, New Jersey
Democratic Party United States senators from New Jersey
Washington and Lee University alumni
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni
London Monarchs (baseball)

The London Monarchs  played in the independent Canadian Baseball League that existed for half of the summer season of 2003 before folding. Located in the city of London, Ontario, the team featured a variety of international ballplayers from Canada, the Dominican Republic, Japan and the United States. 

The Monarchs led the east division with a 20–13 record before league officials pulled the plug on the season at the half-way point. They played out of Labatt Park.

The Monarchs' field manager was former Major League outfielder Willie Wilson.  The team went through two general managers, the first being former pro umpire Kirk Sawyers.  Shortly after the regular season began, Sawyers and several other prominent league employees, including ex-MLB star Ron LeFlore, resigned en masse.

The Monarchs hosted the inaugural CBL game.  This was the league's only regular season sellout, as more than 5,000 people saw London defeat Montreal in the nationally televised game.  The Monarchs averaged over 700 fans per game for the remainder of the shortened season.

Defunct minor league baseball teams
Sports clubs and teams in London, Ontario
Defunct baseball teams in Canada
Baseball teams in Ontario
2003 establishments in Ontario
2003 disestablishments in Ontario
Baseball teams established in 2003
Defunct independent baseball league teams
Baseball teams disestablished in 2003
WCVI-TV

WCVI-TV, virtual and UHF digital channel 23, is a dual CBS/ABC-affiliated television station serving the United States Virgin Islands that is licensed to Christiansted, Saint Croix. The station is owned by Lilly Broadcasting. WCVI-TV's transmitter is located on Estate Princess Hill.

History   
The station was founded as WATU on May 16, 1997, but then changed its call letters to the current WCVI-TV that same year on June 30, as an affiliate of the United Paramount Network (UPN). The WATU calls were previously used by the now-defunct NBC affiliate in Augusta, Georgia from the station's sign on from 1968 to 1981. Before then, UPN programming was seen via satellite from New York City's WWOR-TV. At one point, the station also carried Urban America Television as a secondary affiliation; this arrangement was discontinued when that network ceased operations on May 1, 2006. That September, WCVI joined The CW following the shutdown of both UPN and The WB.

On April 17, 2014, Virgin Blue reached a deal to sell WCVI-TV to LeSEA Broadcasting Corporation (now Family Broadcasting Corporation); the sale was completed on July 27, 2014, with LeSEA assuming ownership on July 28, 2014. Upon acquisition, WCVI dropped its CW programming in exchange for programs from LeSEA and World Harvest. It was unknown where CW network programming will be carried in the U.S. Virgin Islands at the time of the transaction becoming final, but CW programming is seen on cable channel 13 via WSEE-DT2 in Erie, Pennsylvania.

WCVI-DT2 serves as the ABC affiliate for the Virgin Islands since the network ended its affiliation with WSVI-TV at the end of 2015. At the time, ABC announced that WCVI would become its new affiliate for the territory, although station management denied any knowledge of such an arrangement. ABC programming duly began in 2016, however, as WCVI-DT2 began relaying a feed of WENY-TV in Elmira, New York provided to the area by Lilly Broadcasting; non-network timeslots are filled by paid programming and Lilly's One Caribbean Television.

On September 10, 2019, WCVI was sold to Lilly Broadcasting for $85,000, pending approval of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The sale allows Lilly to invoke must-carry rules on local cable and satellite providers, avoiding a potential repeat of notorious carriage disputes with Dish Network and DirecTV in 2017. The sale was completed on November 5, 2019. Lilly also announced that its CBS feed for the market, previously only available on cable via a separate feed of Erie, Pennsylvania affiliate WSEE-TV, would move to WCVI-DT1 on November 20. It was the first time in three years that the U.S. Virgin Islands had one of the "Big Four" networks carried on their primary channels on a full-power TV station since WSVI-TV switched from ABC to Ion Television on December 31, 2015.

Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Logos

References

External links 
Official website

CBS network affiliates
ABC network affiliates
Television channels and stations established in 1997
CVI-TV
1997 establishments in the United States Virgin Islands
Lug (Beočin)

Lug () is a village in western part of the Serbian province of Vojvodina, in the municipality of Beočin, South Bačka District. It lies on the northwest slopes of Fruška gora mountain, in the region of Syrmia. The village has a population numbering 801 people (2002 census), most of them being ethnic Slovaks.

History
The village originates from the late 19th century, when the local land owner Odescalchi employed people from Bački Petrovac and Gložan, Slovak villages across the Danube, in order to satisfy growing timber export. At first, they resided seasonally and returned to their villages. In order to ensure more permanent work force, they offered them cleared forest land as loan, at the location of the later village. In 1910, the village had 371 residents, and in the mid-century around 500.

Economy
The residents are mostly engaged in agriculture, with a part working in nearby Beočin.

Culture
Cultural society "Mladost", with folklore section, maintains the Slovak traditions and dances. The village twice hosted the Slovak cultural festival "Tancuj, tancuj", and their members acted in various folklore festivals across Europe.

Historical population

1961: 764
1971: 775
1981: 824
1991: 864
2002: 801

See also
List of places in Serbia
List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina

References
 Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.

External links
 

Populated places in Syrmia
South Bačka District
Beočin
Slovaks of Vojvodina
Princess Charlotte Sophie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

Princess Charlotte Sophie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Duchess in Saxony (24 September 1731 – 2 August 1810) was a German duchess.

She was the daughter of Franz Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and Princess Anna Sophie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt. Through her brother Ernest Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, she was grandaunt of King Leopold I of Belgium and great-grandaunt of King Leopold II of Belgium, Empress Carlota of Mexico, Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, King Ferdinand II of Portugal and Prince Gaston, Count of Eu, consort of Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil. She was also the maternal grandmother of King Christian VIII of Denmark, twice great-grandmother of King Frederick VII of Denmark and great-great-grandmother of Albert, Prince Consort of the United Kingdom.

Marriage and issue
She married Duke Louis of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (6 August 1725 – 12 September 1778), younger son of Christian Ludwig II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.  They had two children:

Ancestry

References 

1731 births
1810 deaths
People from Coburg
Princesses of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
Duchesses of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Daughters of monarchs
Mothers of monarchs
William Edwards (inventor)

William Edwards (1770–1851) was an American inventor, grandson of Jonathan Edwards, the elder. He was born in Elizabethtown, New Jersey. He introduced a valuable improvement in the manufacture of leather, whereby tanning was accomplished in a quarter of the usual time.  He invented machines which greatly advanced the production of leather in America.

References

American inventors
1770 births
1851 deaths
People from Elizabeth, New Jersey
People of colonial New Jersey
Tanners
Engineers from New Jersey