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Neha Ahuja

Neha Ahuja (born September 27, 1981) is an Indian alpine skier who represented India in the 2006 Winter Olympics held in Torino, Italy. Ahuja was also the flag bearer in the opening and closing ceremonies. She has achieved several milestones in skiing for India. She is the first Indian woman to have qualified for the Winter Olympics. She is also the first woman to qualify for both the slalom and giant slalom events in the Olympics. Ahuja was one of four Indians competing at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. She placed 51st in the slalom (SL) and 42nd in the giant slalom (GS) events. Her older sister Shefali Ahuja represented India in the 3rd Winter Asian games held in Harbin, China, and her younger sister Swati Ahuja participated in the fourth season of MTV Roadies.

Early life 
Ahuja was born in New Delhi to Anita Ahuja (née Wadhwa) and Comdt. S.P. Ahuja, an officer in the Indian Border Security Force (BSF). Ahuja's father was also the director of winter sports in Gulmarg and was the principal of the Indian Institute of Skiing and Mountaineering. At the age of four, Ahuja and her family moved to Kashmir due to her father’s posting, and that was when she first learnt to ski.

In 1994, she participated in a two-week training camp under Otto Santner and Peter Santner at the Thayer Racing Club, Kaprun, Austria, which encouraged her to continue her career as a skier.  Soon after, she began training under Kazuo Sato in order to participate in the 1996 Junior Asian Winter Games being held in Japan. At the age of 16, Ahuja moved to Vail, Colorado and trained at the Vail Mountain School for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah. After sustaining a knee injury that year while training, she could not perform physical activity for six months. As a result, she could not participate in the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics.  A year later, however, she competed in the Winter Asian Games (2003).

She then trained under Dietmar Thoni at the Bartsch Race Academy, Pitztal, Austria for the 2006 Winter Olympics.

In 1999, she graduated from Air Force Bal Bharti, and in 2003, she graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder. Additionally, she was a competitive swimmer and swam at the Delhi state level.  She was also a national level diver.

Personal life 
Ahuja has two sons.  She currently works as a Strategy Consultant at a major firm.  She now plays tennis and skis recreationally.

Alpine skiing results
All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).

Olympic results

References

External links
 
 Tahoe.com news story

1981 births
Living people
Indian female alpine skiers
Alpine skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Olympic alpine skiers for India
Sportswomen from Delhi
Alpine skiers at the 1999 Asian Winter Games
Alpine skiers at the 2003 Asian Winter Games
University of Colorado Boulder alumni
21st-century Indian women
Gumbel

Gumbel or Gumble is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 Bryant Gumbel (born 1948), American television sportscaster, brother of Greg
 David Heinz Gumbel (1906–1992), Israeli designer and silversmith
 Emil Julius Gumbel (1891–1966), German mathematician, pacifist and anti-Nazi campaigner
creator of Gumbel distribution
 Greg Gumbel (born 1946), American television sportscaster, brother of Bryant
 Nicky Gumbel (born 1955), Anglican priest and author
 Thomas Gumble (died 1676), English biographer
 Wilhelm Theodor Gumbel (1812–1858), German bryologist
 Wilhelm von Gumbel (1823–1898), German geologist

Fictional
 Barney Gumble, a fictional character from The Simpsons
Uri Rotstock

The Uri Rotstock is a mountain on the territory of Isenthal, Uri, Switzerland and part of the Uri Alps.

In literature

In Alan Dean Foster's 1984 science-fiction novel The I Inside, the great supercomputer known as The Colligatarch, the de facto ruler of the world, is located inside Uri Rotstock.

References

External links

Uri-Rotstock on Hikr
Uri-Rotstock on Summitpost

Mountains of the Alps
Bernese Alps
Mountains of the canton of Uri
Mountains of Switzerland
Hallstatt Lecture

The Hallstatt Lecture is an hour-long lecture in any European language on some aspect of ancient and modern Celtic culture. It is given at The Tabernacle, Machynlleth in Wales at lunchtime on the Wednesday of each Machynlleth Festival.

Past lecturers

 1991 Professor J. E. Caerwyn Williams
 1992 Morfydd Owen
 1993 Emeritus Professor Dafydd Jenkins 
 1994 Frank Delaney
 1995 Unknown
 1996 John Meirion Morris
 1997 Gwynn ap Gwilym
 1998 Graham and Ann Arnold
 1999 Trevor Fishlock 
 2000 Murray Chapman
 2001 Dr Marion Loffler
 2002 Simon Jenkins
 2003 Professor Alistair Crawford
 2004 Dr Damian Walford Davies
 2005 Derec Llwyd Morgan

Further reading
 Gwynn ap Gwilym: Our Cousins' Verse: connections between some Welsh and Irish poets in the early twentieth century (Hallstatt Lecture). Machynlleth Tabernacle Trust, Machynlleth, 1997 
 Trevor Fishlock: Invitation to a Mystery (Hallstatt Lecture). Machynlleth Tabernacle Trust, Machynlleth, 1999

External links
 The Machynlleth Festival 

British lecture series
Annual events in Wales
1991 establishments in Wales
Recurring events established in 1991
Celtic culture
Education in Powys
Belmonte, Portugal

Belmonte () is a municipality in the district of Castelo Branco, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 6,859, in an area of 118.76 km2.

History

Belmonte is the birthplace of Pedro Álvares Cabral, the navigator who discovered the land of Vera Cruz, now known as Brazil. Located in the Church of Santa Maria is the iconic statue of Nossa Senhora da Esperança (Our Lady of Hope), which Cabral took with him on his voyage. Until 1834, the statue was held by the Monastery of Nossa Senhora da Esperança. The former religious facility has been adapted for use as a modern boutique hotel.

The singer Zeca Afonso lived in Belmonte for part of his childhood, between 1938 and 1940. He lived with his uncle, the mayor of the town, whilst his parents, José Nepomuceno Afonso dos Santos, a magistrate, and Maria das Dores Dantas Cerqueira, a primary school teacher, were living and working in Mozambique.

Belmonte is home to the last remaining community of marranos in Portugal (known as the Belmonte Jews). They officially returned to Judaism in the 1970s and opened a synagogue in 1996.

In 2003, the American Sephardi Federation founded the Belmonte Project, designated to raise funds to acquire Judaic educational material and services for the community, which now numbers 160–180. They opened a Jewish Museum of Belmonte () on 17 April 2005. In the summer of 2006, the American Sephardi Federation ceased to have the Belmonte Project under its auspices.

Geography
Administratively, the municipality is divided into 4 civil parishes (freguesias):
 Belmonte e Colmeal da Torre
 Caria
 Inguias
 Maçaínhas

Notable people 
 Pedro Álvares Cabral (ca.1467 – ca.1520) was a Portuguese nobleman, military commander, navigator and explorer.  In 1500 Cabral conducted the first substantial exploration of the northeast coast of South America and discovered Brazil.

References

External links

Town Hall official website
, Spring 2003
Photos from Belmonte
After 500 Years in Hiding, Jews Bring Prosperity to Iberian Town

Historic Jewish communities in Europe
Jewish Portuguese history
Populated places in Castelo Branco District
Municipalities of Castelo Branco District
Verjnuarmu

Verjnuarmu was a heavy metal band from Finland singing in the Savo dialect of the Finnish language.

Performing in a dialect is rare in the Finnish heavy metal scene. Sometimes their style is dubbed as "Savo metal". According to Viitakemies, former guitarist of the band, their greatest influences musically are death metal, traditional heavy metal, and traditional folk music.

Their full-length debut album, Muanpiällinen helevetti, was released in 2006 under Universal Music Finland. In 2008, the band signed to the Finnish metal label Dynamic Arts Records and released their second album, Ruatokansan uamunkoetto.

in August 2018 the band announced the death of their drummer, Musta Savo, and that the band would quit also.

Members 
Puijon Perkele (lead vocals)
Tervapiru (guitar)
Woema (bass)
Musta Savo (drums and death grunts)

Discography

Studio albums
Muanpiällinen helevetti (CD, Universal, 2006)
Ruatokansan uamunkoetto (CD, Dynamic Arts, 2008)
Lohuton (CD, Osasto-A, 2010)
Pimmeyvven ruhtinas (CD, Osasto-A 2012)
1808 (CD, Independent 2015)

Demos
Verjnuarmu (demo, 2002)
Verta, woemoo ja viitakkeita (demo, 2002)
Laalavat jouset (demo, 2004)

Singles
Kurjuuvven valssi (single, 2005)
Itkuvirsj (single, 2006)
Kuvajaenen (digital single, 2010)
Turja (digital single, 2010)
Lentävä kalakukko (digital single, 2012)

External links
  Verjnuarmu - official MySpace
 Official site
 Universal Music Finland
 Verjnuarmu at mikseri.net
 Verjnuarmu @ Dynamic Arts Records

References

Finnish melodic death metal musical groups
Musical groups established in 2002
2002 establishments in Finland
Tuy Hòa

Tuy Hòa () is the capital city of Phú Yên Province in South-Central Vietnam. The city has a total area of  and a population of 202,030 (in 2012). The city is located approximately midway between Nha Trang and Qui Nhơn. The city is formulated mainly from alluvial of the downstream of Đà Rằng River. There are two mountains in the center of the city: Chóp Chài Mountain and Nhạn Mountain. There is a Champa Temple on the top of Nhạn Mountain.

Climate
Tuy Hòa has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen climate classification: As).

Infrastructure

Transportation

By air

The city is served by Đông Tác Airport which lies south of Tuy Hòa.

By land
Tuy Hòa Railway Station is a stop on the North-South Railway. National Route 1 runs through the city, providing road connections to Hanoi in the north and Ho Chi Minh City in the south.

Gallery

References

Populated places in Phú Yên province
Districts of Phú Yên province
 
Cities in Vietnam
Provincial capitals in Vietnam
Dewi Griffiths

Dewi Griffiths (born 16 August 1931) is a BBC radio host and former Welsh television producer. He joined BBC Wales from the Royal Air Force where he became a producer of TV sports programmes, notably rugby union broadcasts. After his retirement, he hosted the nostalgia record programme A String of Pearls on BBC Radio Wales.

References

Living people
British television producers
Women television producers
Welsh radio presenters
BBC Radio Wales presenters
Welsh women radio presenters
1931 births
20th-century Royal Air Force personnel
Pompton Lakes School District

The Pompton Lakes School District is a comprehensive public school district that serves students in kindergarten through twelfth grade from Pompton Lakes, in Passaic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

As of the 2020–21 school year, the district, comprised of four schools, had an enrollment of 1,755 students and 138.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.7:1.

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "FG", the fourth-highest of eight groupings. District Factor Groups organize districts statewide to allow comparison by common socioeconomic characteristics of the local districts. From lowest socioeconomic status to highest, the categories are A, B, CD, DE, FG, GH, I and J.

Students from Riverdale (in Morris County) attend the high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Riverdale School District.

Schools 
Schools in the district (with 2020–21 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are:
Elementary schools
Lenox School with 352 students in grades K-5
Mike McCarthy, principal
Lincoln School with 331 students in grades PreK-5
Louis Shadiack, principal
Middle school
Lakeside Middle School with 384 students in grades 6-8
Jake Herninko, principal
High school
Pompton Lakes High School with 679 students in grades 9-12
Vincent S. Przybylinski Jr., principal

Administration
Core members of the district's administration are:
Dr. Paul Amoroso, superintendent
Angela Spasevski, business administrator and board secretary

Board of education
The district's board of education, comprised of nine members, sets policy and oversees the fiscal and educational operation of the district through its administration. As a Type II school district, the board's trustees are elected directly by voters to serve three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with three seats up for election each year held (since 2012) as part of the November general election. The board appoints a superintendent to oversee the district's day-to-day operations and a business administrator to supervise the business functions of the district. The Riverdale district appoints a tenth member to represent its interests on the Pompton Lakes board of education.

References

External links 
Pompton Lakes School District

Pompton Lakes School District, National Center for Education Statistics

Pompton Lakes, New Jersey
New Jersey District Factor Group FG
School districts in Passaic County, New Jersey
Francavilla di Sicilia

Francavilla di Sicilia (Sicilian: Francavigghia) is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Messina on the island of Sicily, southern Italy.

It has a population of about 3,900 people and is situated in the southern part of the province, close to the northern slopes of Mount Etna. The distance to Messina is about , and the town is about  from Catania airport, in the valley of the River Alcantara between Taormina and Randazzo. Taormina and the Mediterranean Sea are about  to the southeast. 
Neighboring towns and villages include: Antillo, Castiglione di Sicilia, Fondachelli-Fantina, Malvagna, Montalbano Elicona, Motta Camastra, Novara di Sicilia and Tripi.

History
In the vicinity of the town artefacts have been found dating back to the 5th century BC.

In 1092 the Abbey of San Salvatore di Placa was built, and the town grew around it.

On June 20, 1719 a major battle was fought between Spanish and Austrians in the War of the Quadruple Alliance, leaving 8000 dead and wounded.

Main sights

Gole dell'Alcantara, a canyon on the river Alcantara, which over the centuries found its way through the lava stones of Mount Etna and which flows close to the town. Between Francavilla and Motta Camastra it reaches its most remarkable point: a canyon, partly cave-like, about  deep and including characteristic lava rocks.
Chiesa dell'Annunziata in the centre of the town.
Convent of the Capuchins, near the cemetery.
Ruins of the medieval castle on the hill above the town.
Archaeological excavations, including ancient Greek findings from the 6th-century BC onwards.

Events
Last Sunday of August: Celebration of Saint Euplio.
December 4: Celebration of the town's patron saint, Saint Barbara.
Good Friday procession (every 4 years)
Nativity Play
Carnival

People
 Gaetano Cipolla: American linguist, educator and author, principal of Legas Publishing

References

External links

Official website 

Municipalities of the Metropolitan City of Messina
Castles in Italy
List of Statutory Instruments of the United Kingdom, 1967

This is an incomplete list of Statutory Instruments of the United Kingdom in 1967.

 Teachers (Colleges of Education) (Scotland) Regulations 1967 S.I. 1967/29
 Sheffield Order 1967 S.I. 1967/104
 Diplomatic Privileges (Citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies) (Amendment) Order 1967 S.I. 1967/474
 Carriage by Air (Convention) Order 1967 S.I. 1967/479 C.8
 Carriage by Air Acts (Application of Provisions) Order 1967 S.I. 1967/480
 Transfer of Functions (Miscellaneous) Order 1967 S.I. 1967/486
 Commonwealth Countries and Republic of Ireland (Immunities) Orders 1967 (Nos. 815 and 1902)
 Carcinogenic Substances Regulations 1967 S.I. 1967/879
 Industrial Training (Rubber and Plastics Processing Board) Order 1967 S.I. 1967/1062
 Coal and Other Mines (Electricity) (Amendment) Regulations 1967 S.I. 1967/1083
 Teachers (Education, Training and Registration) (Scotland) Regulations 1967 S.I. 1967/1162
 Industrial and Provident Societies Regulations 1967 S.I. 1967/1310
 Aberllefeni Mine (Storage Battery Locomotives) Special Regulations 1967 S.I. 1967/1395
 Braich Goch Mine (Storage Battery Locomotives) Special Regulations 1967 S.I. 1967/1396
 Ammonium Nitrate Mixtures Exemption Order 1967 S.I. 1967/1485
 Carcinogenic Substances (Prohibition of Importation) Order 1967 S.I. 1967/1675

References

External links
Legislation.gov.uk delivered by the UK National Archive
UK SI's on legislation.gov.uk
UK Draft SI's on legislation.gov.uk

See also
List of Statutory Instruments of the United Kingdom

Lists of Statutory Instruments of the United Kingdom
Statutory Instruments
David Ogle

David Slingsby Ogle  (1921 – 25 May 1962) was a British industrial and car designer. He founded the design consultancy company Ogle Design in 1954.

He was educated at Rugby School and briefly studied law at University of Oxford. In 1940 he joined the Fleet Air Arm. He flew the Supermarine Seafire in operations in North Africa, the Mediterranean, and in the south of France. He rose to the rank of Lt Commander and was awarded the DSC and the MBE.

At the conclusion of the war he attended the Central School of Art and Design in London, studying industrial design. He subsequently joined Murphy Radio. He left Murphy in 1948 to join Bush Radio. It was while at Bush that he was responsible for the iconic design of the TR82 transistor radio.

He went on to design the Ogle SX1000 based on the Mini. Sixty-nine cars were made before David Ogle's death. He also designed the Reliant Scimitar.

Ogle died in an automobile accident on 25 May 1962, while driving an Ogle Mini GT sports car on the way to Brands Hatch race circuit where he was going to demonstrate the vehicle. He was on the A1 highway at Digswell Hill, Welwyn, Hertfordshire and travelling at  when he collided with a van and the car burst into flames.

Honours and awards
27 March 1945 – For distinguished service and gallantry during the invasion of the South of France, the Distinguished Service Cross (DSC) to Temporary Lieutenant (A) David Slingsby Ogle, RNVR (Reigate).
13 June 1946 – To be a Member of the Order of the British Empire – Lieutenant (A) Davide Slingsby Ogle, DSC, RNVR.

References

1921 births
1962 deaths
People educated at Rugby School
Alumni of the University of Oxford
British World War II pilots
British automobile designers
Members of the Order of the British Empire
Recipients of the Distinguished Service Cross (United Kingdom)
Fleet Air Arm aviators
Road incident deaths in England
British industrial designers
Alumni of the Central School of Art and Design
Fleet Air Arm personnel of World War II
Surjan Singh Bhandari

Surjan Singh Bhandari was a commando of the elite National Security Guards of the Indian armed forces. Bhandari hailed from Gochar, North Indian state of Uttarakhand. Bhandari was critically wounded during the operation to flush out the terrorists from the Akshardham temple complex on September 24, 2002.

The terrorists had stuck the Akshardham complex and killed 29 civilians before the NSG team managed to flush them out. Bhandari was injured by a bullet that hit his head during the operation.

Bhandari was comatose for 600 days till his death on May 19, 2004. He had the "Tiranga" (Tricolor), the Indian national flag, by his side when he died. He was awarded the Kirti Chakra, India's second highest gallantry award by the President of India, Abdul Kalam. The deceased commando's two brothers are also in the armed forces.

References

External links 
 Akshardham: Injured NSG commando dead

Terrorism victims in India
Indian military personnel killed in action
20th-century births
2004 deaths
Kirti Chakra
Recipients of the Kirti Chakra
River Finn (Foyle tributary)

The River Finn () is a river in the west of Ulster, the northern province in Ireland. The river mainly flows through County Donegal, part of the Republic of Ireland, while 
a short stretch of the river also partially flows through County Tyrone, part of Northern Ireland. From Lough Finn, the river goes to Ballybofey and Stranorlar before joining the River Mourne at Lifford and Strabane.

The Monellan Burn, also known as the Creamery Burn, flows into the River Finn very near a hamlet called The Cross, not far from the former site of Monellan Castle, just outside Killygordon. From Castlefin downstream, the river is tidal, becoming deeper towards Strabane. The Finn is  long and together with its tributary the Reelin River, drains a catchment area of 195 square miles. The River Foyle is formed by the confluence of the River Mourne and the River Finn, west of Lifford Bridge. The area which the River Finn flows through is called the Finn Valley. The village of Clady, near Strabane in County Tyrone, is on the River Finn. The football club in Ballybofey, Finn Harps, is named after the river.

Angling

The upper reaches of the Reelin and the Finn are fast downstream to Ballybofey and can give excellent fishing. From Ballybofey downstream the river becomes deeper and slower. In all there is more than  of salmon fishing on the river from Flushtown right up to Bellanmore Bridge and part of the Reelan too. There is good sea trout fishing at Liscooley and Killygordan and from Ballybofey to Bellanamore Bridge. The Finn and its tributary the Reelan are probably the most prolific salmon and grilse rivers in Donegal and indeed throughout the Foyle catchment. Fish species such as  roach, perch, eels and brown trout are caught in the Finn system.

Area of special scientific interest

The River Foyle and tributaries Area of Special Scientific Interest (ASSI) include the River Foyle and its tributaries i.e. that part of the River Finn which is within Northern Ireland, the River Mourne and its tributary the River Strule (up to its confluence with the Owenkillew River) and the River Derg, along with two of its sub-tributaries, the Mourne Beg River and the Glendergan River. The area encompasses 120 km of watercourse and is notable for the physical diversity and naturalness of the banks and channels, especially in the upper reaches, and the richness and naturalness of its plant and animal communities. Of particular importance is the population of Atlantic Salmon, which is one of the largest in Europe. Research has indicated that each sub-catchment within the system supports genetically distinct populations.

References

External links

Geograph - The River Finn at Capry Photograph
Salmon fishing on the River Finn, from salmon Ireland

Ballybofey
Finn
Finn
Finn
Glyndŵr Award

The Glyndŵr Award (Welsh: Gwobr Glyndŵr) is made for an outstanding contribution to the arts in Wales. It is given by the Machynlleth Tabernacle Trust to pre-eminent figures in music, art and literature in rotation. The award takes its name after Owain Glyndŵr, crowned Prince of Wales at Machynlleth in 1404.

The award consists of a large medal in silver, bearing a stylised design of Cardigan Bay and the Dyfi river, with the location of Machynlleth marked by an inlaid bead of pure unmixed 18ct Welsh gold from the Gwynfynydd gold mine, near Ganllwyd, Dolgellau.  The bilingual Glyndŵr medal was designed in 1995 by designer and goldsmith Kelvin Jenkins, whose studio is in Machynlleth, and has been handmade by him for presentation to every winner since then.

Recipients

The composer Ian Parrott (1994)
The painter Sir Kyffin Williams (1995)
The writer Jan Morris (1996)
The composer Alun Hoddinott (1997)
The painter Iwan Bala (1998)
The poet Gillian Clarke (1999)
The harpist Robin Huw Bowen (2000)
The sculptor John Meirion Morris (2001)
The poet Gerallt Lloyd Owen (2002)
The harpist Elinor Bennett (2003)
The painter Peter Prendergast (2004)
The historian Dr John Davies (2005)
The composer Rhian Samuel (2006)
The painter Shani Rhys James (2007)
The poet bard Tudur Dylan Jones (2008)
The pianist Llŷr Williams (2009)
The sculptor David Nash RA (2010)
The writer Mererid Hopwood (2011)
The conductor and musicologist David Russell Hulme (2012)
The painter David Tress (2013)
The writer Angharad Price (2014)
The conductor and pianist Eirian Owen  (2015)
The writer Dylan Iorwerth  (2017)
The composer Sir Karl Jenkins (2018)

See also

 List of European art awards

References

External links
 The Machynlleth Festival 
 Kelvin Jenkins Jewellery Glyndŵr Award
 University of Aberystwyth
 Connaught Brown; Rhys James biography

Welsh music awards
British art awards
Welsh literary awards
Awards established in 1994
1994 establishments in Wales
Cultural depictions of Owain Glyndŵr
Glow plate

Glow plates are sheets of glass or plastic that "glow" when light is supplied to one of their edges.
The light source for a glow plate can be artificial, such as fluorescent light, or natural, with sunlight being directly exposed to the plate or fed through a fiber-optic system.

A joint effort between Florida State University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory is focused on the design of a "spiral bio-reactor light sheet", which consists of a plexiglas sheet that has been micro-etched on one side and rolled into a spiral shape.

Aside from aesthetic or utilitarian lighting purposes, much interest in using glow plates as a source of light comes from recent developments in algal cultivation.

External links
Algae used to mitigate carbon dioxide emissions The energy blog
Fabrication of spiral bio-reactor light sheets Student abstracts: engineering at ORNL

Lighting
Fiber optics
Algaculture
Bollschweil Priory

Bollschweil Priory was a Cluniac monastery of nuns at Bollschweil (formerly Bolesweiler) in the district of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

It was founded by Saint Ulrich of Zell in or after 1087 to complement the monastery he had founded for monks at Grüningen, later moved to Zell. The priory was moved to nearby Sölden in 1115, probably due to the unsuitability of the site, after which time the monastic community became known as Sölden Priory.

See also
Sölden Priory
Abbey of Cluny

References

Cluniac nunneries
Monasteries in Baden-Württemberg
Cluniac monasteries in Germany
Christian monasteries established in the 11th century
Religious organizations established in the 1080s
11th-century establishments in the Holy Roman Empire
Buildings and structures in Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald
Wigtown Area

Wigtown is a lieutenancy area in south-west Scotland and a committee area of Dumfries and Galloway Council. From 1975 until 1996 it was also a local government district. It closely resembles the historic county of Wigtownshire, covering the whole area of that county but also including the two parishes of Kirkmabreck and Minnigaff from the historic county of Kirkcudbrightshire.

History
Wigtown district was created on 16 May 1975 under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, which established a two-tier structure of local government across Scotland comprising upper-tier regions and lower-tier districts. Wigtown district was one of four districts created within the region of Dumfries and Galloway. The district covered all of the former administrative county of Wigtownshire plus the parishes of Kirkmabreck and Minnigaff from Kirkcudbrightshire. The 1973 Act named the new district as "Merrick" after the mountain which formed the new district's highest point, but the name was changed to Wigtown prior to the new system coming into force in 1975.

For lieutenancy purposes, the last lord-lieutenant of the county of Wigtownshire was made lord-lieutenant for the new Wigtown district when it came into effect in 1975.

Further local government reform in 1996 under the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 saw the four districts of Dumfries and Galloway abolished, with Dumfries and Galloway Council taking over their functions. The council continues to use the former Wigtown district as an area committee, alongside committees for the other three abolished districts of Annandale and Eskdale, Nithsdale, and Stewartry. The area of the former district also continues to be used for lieutenancy purposes as the Wigtown lieutenancy area.

Political control
The first election to the district council was held in 1974, initially operating as a shadow authority alongside the outgoing authorities until it came into its powers on 16 May 1975. Throughout the council's existence a majority of the seats were held by independents:

Premises
Wigtown District Council was based at Ashwood House on Sun Street in Stranraer, which had been the main offices of the former Wigtownshire County Council prior to 1975. After the council's abolition in 1996 the building became an area office of Dumfries and Galloway Council.

See also
Wigtownshire
Lord Lieutenant of Wigtown

References

Committee areas of Dumfries and Galloway
Lieutenancy areas of Scotland
Sölden Priory

Sölden Priory was initially a Cluniac monastery of nuns, established in 1115 at Sölden in the district of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald in the Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. In the 16th century it became a community of monks.

History
About A.D. 1087, Saint Ulrich of Zell, a monk of the Abbey of Cluny, founded Bollschweil Priory, a monastery of nuns, which was moved in 1115 to nearby Sölden and became known as Sölden Priory. This foundation was a complement to the monastery he had founded at Grüningen and later moved to Zell, afterwards known as St. Ulrich's Priory in the Black Forest ().

Sölden was a priory directly subject to Cluny, as was the norm in that reform congregation of the Order of St. Benedict. The community consisted of approximately 13 to 20 nuns under a prior appointed by Cluny. The priory declined so severely in the 15th century that by 1500 there were no nuns left here, and the priory eventually became occupied by monks. The men were subject at first to St. George's Abbey in the Black Forest from about 1546 and then transferred in 1560 to St. Peter's Abbey in the Black Forest, into which it was formally incorporated in 1598.

The priory was dissolved in 1807 in the course of secularisation.

Territory and buildings
Sölden's grounds were not extensive and were concentrated in Breisgau. The Vogtei belonged to the Priory of St. Ulrich.

Of the monastic buildings still remaining, the oldest portions date from the 15th century. Much refurbishment took place in the Baroque period.

Priors of Sölden
 Rudolf Ecklin (1514-1541)
 Johann Maternus Roth (1570, 1580)
 Christoph Sutter (1581)
 Gallus Vögelin (1596)
 Michael Stöcklin (1597)
 Johann Jakob Pfeiffer (vor 1601-1610)
 Johannes Schwab (1612, 1635?)
 Matthäus Welzenmüller (1624?-1637)
 Johann Baptist Heinold (1672, -1692)
 Placidus Steiger (1692-1705)
 Ulrich Bürgi (1705-1712)
 Gregor Gerwig (1712, 1716)
 Heinrich Füegl (1718)
 Aemilian Kaufmann (1723, 1730)
 Cajetan Hildtprandt (1744, 1746)
 Franz Dreer (1756)
 Ulrich van der Lew (1776-1786)
 Paul Hendinger (1786-1807)

References
 Buhlmann, Michael, 2004. Benediktinisches Mönchtum im mittelalterlichen Schwarzwald. Ein Lexikon. Vortrag beim Schwarzwaldverein St. Georgen e.V., St. Georgen im Schwarzwald, 10. November 2004, Teil 2: N-Z (= Vertex Alemanniae, H.10/2), pp. 96f. St. Georgen.
 Müller, Wolfgang (ed.), 1976. Sölden, in: Die Benediktinerklöster in Baden-Württemberg, ed. Franz Quarthal (= Germania Benedictina, vol .5), pp. 599–604. Ottobeuren.
 Stülpnagel, Wolfgang, (ed.), 1980, Sölden, in: Handbuch der historischen Stätten Deutschlands, Bd.6: Baden-Württemberg (= Kröner Tb 276), 2nd ed., pp. 747f. Stuttgart: Kröner.

External links 
 Sölden Town Website

Cluniac nunneries
Cluniac monasteries in Germany
Monasteries in Baden-Württemberg
1110s establishments in the Holy Roman Empire
1115 establishments in Europe
Religious organizations established in the 1110s
Christian monasteries established in the 12th century
Vogtei (Verwaltungsgemeinschaft)

Vogtei is a former municipal association (Verwaltungsgemeinschaft) in the district Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis in Thuringia, Germany. The seat of the association was in Oberdorla. It was disbanded on 31 December 2012.

The Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Vogtei consisted of five municipalities:
Oberdorla, 
Kammerforst, 
Langula, 
Niederdorla, and 
Oppershausen.

Former Verwaltungsgemeinschaften in Thuringia
William R. Timken

William Robert Timken Jr. (born December 21, 1938) is an American industrialist, businessman and former diplomat. He served as the U.S. Ambassador to Germany from 2005–2008. He has served at The Timken Company (which his great-grandfather Henry Timken founded) as chairman of the board of directors, president and CEO. Timken has been chairman of Securities Investor Protection Corporation, National Association of Manufacturers, The Manufacturing Institute and the Ohio Business Roundtable. He also served on the advisory council of the Stanford University School of Business and the U.S.-Japan Business Council.

Timken is an honorary citizen of Colmar, France. He attended Phillips Academy and received his bachelor's degree from Stanford University, where he was captain of the swim team. He earned his MBA from Harvard Business School. He is married with 6 children. He was recipient of the Gold Medallion Award from the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 2009.

He is of German descent and was honored by the German-American Heritage Foundation of the USA in 2009. His great-grandfather was from Tarmstedt,  Germany, near the city of Bremen.

See also
Distinguished German-American of the Year

References

External links

 Chiefs of Mission for Germany

Living people
1938 births
American people of German descent
Stanford University alumni
Harvard Business School alumni
Ambassadors of the United States to Germany
Phillips Academy alumni
Stanford University trustees
20th-century American businesspeople
Henry Laurence Gantt Medal recipients
List of caves in Slovakia

There are more than 2,400 caves in Slovakia, of which more than 400 have been explored so far. New caves are being discovered constantly.

Caves open to the public
 caves included in the UNESCO World Heritage Sites list:
Dobšiná Ice Cave (Dobšinská ľadová jaskyňa), Slovak Paradise
Domica, Slovak Karst
Gombasek Cave (Gombasecká jaskyňa), Slovak Karst
Jasovská Cave (Jasovská jaskyňa), Slovak Karst
Ochtinská Aragonite Cave (Ochtinská aragonitová jaskyňa), Slovak Karst
 other public caves:
Belianska Cave, Tatras
Bojnická hradná jaskyňa (literally Bojnice Castle Cave), Bojnice
Brestovská Cave (Brestovská jaskyňa), Western Tatras
Bystrianska Cave (Bystrianska jaskyňa), Low Tatras
Cave of Dead Bats (Jaskyňa mŕtvych netopierov), Low Tatras
out of the Demänová Caves ( long), Low Tatras:
Demänovská jaskyňa Slobody (literally Demänová Cave of Freedom)
Demänovská Ice Cave (Demänovská ľadová jaskyňa)
Driny, Little Carpathians
Harmanecká Cave (Harmanecká jaskyňa), Staré Hory Mountains (Starohorské vrchy)
Važecká Cave (Važecká jaskyňa), Liptov Basin
Krásnohorská Cave (Krásna Hôrka Cave), Slovak Karst 
Stanišovská Cave, Jánska valley
Bad Hole (Jaskyňa zlá diera), Bachureň

Other caves 
Note: The list is incomplete
 Diviačia priepasť (literally Boar Pit Cave), Slovak Karst
 Medvedia jaskyňa (Bear Cave), Slovak Paradise
 Demänová Caves (other than those mentioned above), Low Tatras
 Čertova diera (Devil's Hole), Slovak Karst
 Drienovská jaskyňa (Drienovec Cave), Slovak Karst
 Brázda, Slovak Karst
 Krásnohorská Cave (Krásna Hôrka Cave), Slovak Karst
 Malá železná priepasť (Little Iron Pit Cave), Slovak Karst
 Javorová priepasť (Maple Pit Cave), Low Tatras
 Mesačný tieň (Moon Shadow Cave), High Tatras
 Starý hrad (Old Castle), Low Tatras (the deepest cave in Slovakia)
 Silická ľadnica (Silica Ice Cave), Slovak Karst

See also

List of caves
 Speleology

External links 
Slovak Caves Administration

 
Slovakia
Caves
Huff Hills

Huff Hills Ski Area is a ski resort located sixteen miles south of Mandan, North Dakota.  It was established in 1993 on the former site of the defunct Twilight Hills ski area, which operated during the 1960s.

Description
21 runs
425 ft. vertical
3 lifts - 2 double chairlifts, handle tow
Snowmaking
Ski and snowboard ready and

Lifts
Huff Hills began operation with a chairlift acquired from Buffalo, New York's Holimont ski resort and a t-bar lift.  Two years later, the resort purchased a Hall 1405 chairlift that had been the first chair used at Brian Head Ski Resort in southwestern Utah.

References

External links
Huff Hills website

Buildings and structures in Morton County, North Dakota
Ski areas and resorts in North Dakota
Tourist attractions in Morton County, North Dakota
Mandan, North Dakota
Skarnes

Skarnes is the administrative centre of Sør-Odal Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village lies along the river Glomma, about half-way between the villages of Disenå and Sander. The new Sør-Odal municipal hall is located in the village. Construction was finished in 2010.

The Kongsvingerbanen railway line runs through the village, stopping at Skarnes Station which opened in 1862. The European route E16 highway runs through the village. The Oppstad Church is located about  north of the village.

The  village has a population (2021) of 2,557 and a population density of .

Location 
The village consists of three parts. The "original" Skarnes is on the south side of the river Glomma, near a bridge. The area called Tronbøl is south of the original village area, on the same side of the river. The third part of the village is Korsmo, across the river to the northwest.

Notable people
Charles Berstad (born 1964), football player
Magnus Gullerud (born 1991), handball player
Kent Håvard Eriksen (born 1991), football player
Kåre Tveter (1922–2012), painter
Øystein Sunde (born 1947), musician
Hanne Tveter (born 1974), jazz vocalist
Elias Akselsen (born 1947), singer
Veronica Akselsen (born 1986), singer

References

Sør-Odal
Villages in Innlandet
Populated places on the Glomma River
Disenå

Disenå is a village in Sør-Odal Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The main part of the village is located south of the river Glomma, about  southwest of the village of Skarnes. The Kongsvingerbanen railway line passes through the village. The Disenå Station on the railway was closed in 2012.

The  village has a population (2021) of 263 and a population density of .

Every August the Audunbakkenfestivalen is held.

References

Sør-Odal
Villages in Innlandet
Populated places on the Glomma River
Sander, Norway

Sander is a village in the municipality of Sør-Odal in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located along the river Glomma, about  southeast of the village of Skarnes. The village has a train station, a kindergarten, an elementary school and a grocery store. The area around the village is dominated by agriculture. Strøm Church lies about  northwest of Sander. The local sports club is Sander IL. 

The  village has a population (2021) of 302 and a population density of .

The Kongsvingerbanen railway line runs through the village. There is a bridge over the river Glomma at Sander, which connects the village to the European route E16 highway that runs along the other side of the river.

References

Sør-Odal
Villages in Innlandet
Populated places on the Glomma River
Kirkenær

Kirkenær is the administrative centre of Grue Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located on the eastern shore of the river Glomma. The village of Namnå lies about  to the north and the village of Grinder lies about  to the south. 

Grue Church is located on the south side of the village. The Norwegian National Road 2 and the Solørbanen railway line both run through the village.

The  village has a population (2021) of 1,231 and a population density of .

History
The place is named after the Kirkenær farm and is located in the middle of Solør. 

In 1822, the Grue Church fire occurred at Grue Church which was located a little to the northwest of Kirkenær. It was a major fire catastrophe where at least 113 people perished in addition to destroying the church. Afterwards, the church was rebuilt about  to the south, closer to the village. 

When the Solørbanen railway was completed to Kirkenær in 1893, the village rapidly grew up around the railway station.

Media gallery

References

Grue, Norway
Villages in Innlandet
Populated places on the Glomma River
The Wishing Game

The Wishing Game is a psychological suspense novel by British author Patrick Redmond. It was his debut novel and was published in 1999. The novel is set in a boarding school for boys in 1950s Norfolk, England. It deals with bullying, secrets, supernatural phenomena, and homosexuality. It was published in the US as Something Dangerous.

Synopsis
Jonathan Palmer is a shy teenager at a traditional British boys' boarding school in the 1950s. He has three friends: bookworm Nicholas and twins, Stephen and Michael. Unfortunately, his friends live in a separate dormitory, leaving Jonathan exposed to regular bullying at the hands of sadistic James Wheatley and his cronies Stuart and George. There is only one boy who is not bullied with James Wheatley – Richard Rokeby. Richard is a loner but has confidence and scathing wit. Jonathan gradually befriends dark and dangerous Richard, who in turn encourages Jonathan to be brave and stand up to the bullies (both students and faculty members). Richard begins to turn Jonathan against his three friends.

One night, Richard suggests that the boys play a game with a ouija board that he has brought to the school from his aunt's house. The twins refuse and leave. Nicholas refuses to let Richard scare him, so he remains. Following that evening, bad things begin to happen that Jonathan believes he has caused. Both James Wheatley's cronies leave the school – Stuart's family leaves for the United States and George spends a considerable time in hospital after a brutal injury on the rugby field. This leaves James Wheatley vulnerable. James Wheatley becomes paranoid and becomes too afraid to go to sleep. Driven mad, he ends up running out of the school in his pyjamas and is killed in a hit and run. Jonathan believes that it was his fault and begins to fear Richard Rokeby.

It is on the last night of the school year that police are called to the school grounds. The headmaster has a heart attack. The cruel Latin professor has gone insane and has beaten his wife to death. The closeted history teacher has hanged himself. Michael has fallen to his death trying to stand up to Richard. The police break into a locked room where Richard and Jonathan are. Both boys are dead and one police officer has to break a window for air, as he is suffocated by an indescribable smell in the room. Nicholas ends up taking the blame for all of it, despite being innocent.

Many decades later, an adult Nicholas tells his story to a journalist. However, he tells the journalist that if he publishes the story, Nicholas will ensure that his life is ruined. Nicholas claims that, like Richard and Jonathan, he also acquired dark powers during their "wishing game" with the ouija board. The journalist deliberates for a few moments before throwing the tape recordings of Nicholas's story into the fire.

References

1999 British novels
Novels set in Norfolk
Fiction set in the 1950s
Novels set in boarding schools
1999 debut novels
Hodder & Stoughton books
Bergesida

Bergesida is a village in Grue Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located about  east of the village of Kirkenær. The lake Gardsjøen (Grue) lies just south of the village. 

The  village had a population (2009) of 205 and a population density of . Since 2010, the population and area data for this village area has not been separately tracked by Statistics Norway.

References

Grue, Norway
Villages in Innlandet
Grinder, Norway

Grinder is a village in Grue Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located on the eastern shore of the river Glomma, about  to the south of the village of Kirkenær. The Norwegian National Road 2 and the Solørbanen railway line both run through Grinder. The village is named after the large Grinder farm which covers about  of cultivated land and forests.

The  village had a population (in 2012) of 256 and a population density of . Since 2013, the population and area data for this village area has not been separately tracked by Statistics Norway.

References

Grue, Norway
Villages in Innlandet
Populated places on the Glomma River
Windsor T. White

Windsor Thomas White (August 28, 1866 – April 9, 1958) was an American automobile developer. A native of Orange, Massachusetts, he produced the White steamer cars in 1900, and later expanded to trucks. These vehicles were used militarily during World War I. White, along with two of his brothers Rollin White and Walter, were inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame in 1997.

He was the father of polo player Windsor Holden White.

References

External links

1866 births
1958 deaths
American businesspeople
People in the automobile industry
People from Orange, Massachusetts
Namnå

Namnå is a village in Grue Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located on the east shore of the river Glomma, about  north of the village of Kirkenær. The Norwegian National Road 2 and the Solørbanen railway line both run through the village.

The  village has a population (2017) of 357 and a population density of . Since 2018, the population and area data for this village area has not been separately tracked by Statistics Norway.

References

Grue, Norway
Villages in Innlandet
Populated places on the Glomma River
Master of the Rings

Master of the Rings is the sixth studio album by German power metal band Helloween, released in 1994. It is the first to feature new members Andi Deris and Uli Kusch.

This album contains four singles, which are "Where the Rain Grows", "Mr. Ego (Take Me Down)", "Perfect Gentleman", and "Sole Survivor", with corresponding videos for the first three. "Mr. Ego" was dedicated to the band's former singer, Michael Kiske, and was released as an EP in Europe.

Context and recording
Helloween and vocalist Michael Kiske had reached the end of the road during the touring of 1993's "Chameleon". Michael Kiske's replacement was Andi Deris, formerly with Pink Cream 69.

After an alcohol and drug-related incident in Japan, drummer and co-founder of the band Ingo Schwichtenberg was replaced first by the session-drummer Richie Abdel-Nabi, then on a more permanent basis by former Gamma Ray drummer Uli Kusch, who only arrived when most of the album was already written.

After two highly controversial studios projects and a live album, Helloween parted company with EMI records, aligning themselves with the more modestly sized Raw Power (an imprint of Castle Communications). Nevertheless, the effect of Deris and Kusch was to re-energize their collective fortunes. In Japan, "Master of The Rings" sold more than 120,000 copies.

Commenting on the recording sections for the album, bassist Markus Grosskopf said:

According to Roland Grapow's comments in the liner notes, the lyrics for "Take Me Home" were written by his wife Silvia (the song is simply credited to "Grapow" in the album).

Track listing

Expanded edition (disc 2) track listing

 M – 1 and 2 also appear on the "Mr. Ego" and "Where The Rain Grows" singles.
 M – 3, 4 and 5 also appear on the "Perfect Gentleman" single.
 M – 6 and 7 also appear on the "Sole Survivor" single.

Personnel

Helloween
 Andi Deris – vocals
 Michael Weikath – guitar
 Roland Grapow – guitar, lead vocals on "Closer to Home"
 Markus Grosskopf – bass
 Uli Kusch – drums

Others
 George Chin – photography
 Ian Cooper – mastering
 Jorn Ellerbrock – programming
 Tommy Hansen – production, mixing, programming
 Michael Tibes – sound engineering

Charts

Certifications

References

Helloween albums
1994 albums