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1501 in science

The year 1501 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed below.

Astronomy
 Nilakantha Somayaji completes his astronomical treatise Tantrasamgraha.
 Amerigo Vespucci maps the two stars Alpha Centauri and Beta Centauri, as well as the stars of the constellation Crux, which are below the horizon in Europe.

Exploration
 March 25 – Portuguese navigator João da Nova  probably discovers Ascension Island.
 November 1 (All Saints) – Amerigo Vespucci discovers and names Baía de Todos os Santos in Brazil.
 Gaspar Corte-Real makes the first known landing in North America by a Western European explorer this millennium.
 Rodrigo de Bastidas becomes the first European to explore the Isthmus of Panama.

Medicine
 Continuing until 1587, a pandemic outbreak of fever, headache, sweating and black tongue spreads through Europe. Initially called morbus Hungaricus (the Hungarian disease), it will later be regarded as an outbreak of typhus.

Births
 January 17 – Leonhart Fuchs, German botanist (died 1566)
 March 23 – Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Italian physician and botanist (died 1577)
 September 24 – Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician and physician (died 1576)
 approx. date – Garcia de Orta, Portuguese Sephardi Jewish physician (died 1568)

Deaths
 presumed date – Gaspar Corte-Real, Portuguese explorer (born 1450)

References

 
16th century in science
1500s in science
2000 Liverpool City Council election

Elections to Liverpool City Council were held on 4 May 2000.  One third of the council was up for election and the Liberal Democrat party kept overall control of the council.

After the election, the composition of the council was:

Election result

Ward results

Abercromby

Aigburth

Allerton

Anfield

Arundel

Breckfield

Broadgreen

Childwall

Church

Clubmoor

County

Croxteth

Dingle

Dovecot

Everton

Fazakerley

Gillmoss

Granby

Grassendale

Kensington

Melrose

Netherley

Old Swan

Picton

Pirrie

St Mary's

Smithdown

Speke

Tuebrook

Valley

Vauxhall

Warbeck

Woolton

References

2000
2000 English local elections
2000s in Liverpool
G18

G18 may refer to:

Roads 
 G-18 (Michigan county highway)
 County Route G18 (California)
 G18 Rongcheng–Wuhai Expressway, in China

Vehicles 
 , an Auk-class minesweeper of the Mexican Navy
 Chase G-18, an American combat glider
 EMD G18, an American diesel locomotive
 Fiat G.18, an Italian airliner
 , a Weapon-class destroyer of the Royal Navy

Other uses 
 Glock 18, an automatic handgun
 Prince G-18, a car engine
 Xplore G18, a cellular phone
Learning to Lie

Learning to Lie () is a German film released in 2003. It is based on the novel of Frank Goosen from the year 2000.

Plot 
Beginning in West Germany in 1982, 18-year-old school boy Helmut falls in love with fellow pupil Britta. He starts working for a Peace movement to get to know Britta. Britta, however, suddenly moves to San Francisco to live with her father and whilst there, finds a new boyfriend. Helmut studies literature and politics in his home town and has a relationship with another girl from his former school, now studying medicine on the same university but they break up after having an affair with her roommate. Helmut begins a lot of short affairs with different women but still searches for his first girl.

Years later, in 1989, the Berlin wall falls and the Cold war ends. Helmut is lying in his girlfriend's bed when his old school friend Mücke calls him, who saw Britta in Berlin. Helmut hurries to Berlin and finds Britta, but she has changed and has become arrogant. Mücke tells him afterwards that he had an affair with Britta and that Britta has had a lot of affairs. Worried by this, Helmut begins a lot of new affairs and his parents get divorced at that time. 
In 1998, Helmut settles down with a girl who wants a baby with him, but Helmut travels one more time to Berlin to meet Britta for one last time.

The novel 
The film is based on the novel Liegen lernen by Frank Goosen from the year 2000. While the novel takes place in Bochum, the film was set in Düsseldorf. The novel has a lot of biographical moments from Goosen, but the story is typical for a West German youth in the 1980s.  The novel became very popular through the great '80s revival in western Germany around the year 2000.

Cast
 Fabian Busch as Helmut
 Susanne Bormann as Britta
 Fritzi Haberlandt as Gisela
 Sophie Rois as Barbara
 Anka Sarstedt as Gloria
 Birgit Minichmayr as Tina
 Florian Lukas as Mücke
 Tino Mewes as the long Schäfer
 Sebastian Münster as Beck
 Beate Abraham as Helmut's Mother
 Wilfried Dziallas as Helmut's father
 Uwe Rohde as Uwe
 André Meyer as Rüdiger
 Jean Pierre Cornut as Professor Mutter
 Heinz Schubert as Uncle Bertram

Crew
 Direction: Hendrik Handloegten
 Script: Frank Goosen and Hendrik Handloegten
 Production: Maria Köpf
 Music: Dieter Schleip
 Camera: Florian Hoffmeister
 Editing: Elena Bromund

References

External links
 
 moviemess
 

2003 films
German romantic comedy-drama films
Films set in the 1980s
Films set in the 1990s
Films set in Berlin
Films set in Germany
Films set in West Germany
Films based on German novels
Films shot in Cologne
Films shot in Berlin
2000s German films
Russell Nelson (disambiguation)

Russell M. Nelson (born 1924), is an American physician and leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Russell Nelson may also refer to:
 Russ Nelson (born 1958), American computer programmer
 J. Russell Nelson (1929–2016), American educator
Europa (Greek mythology)

In Greek mythology, Europa is the name of:

 Europa (consort of Zeus)
 one of the Oceanids, the daughters of the Titan Oceanus
 daughter of the earth giant Tityas and mother of Poseidon's son Euphemus the Argonaut
Georg Lenck

Georg Lenck (sometimes spelt Lembke) (7 November 1685 – 22 March 1744) was a German musician.

Biography 
Lenck was born in Reichenbach, Vogtland, Saxony, and was Kantor at Laucha an der Unstrut, near Naumburg when he competed unsuccessfully for the post of Thomaskantor at Leipzig, which was eventually offered to Johann Sebastian Bach.

In 1725, he was appointed Kantor at Weissenfels, where he remained for the rest of his life.

References

1685 births
1744 deaths
HDB Hub

HDB Hub is the headquarters of the Housing and Development Board. It is located on Lorong 6 Toa Payoh in Toa Payoh, Singapore next to Toa Payoh MRT station.

History
The HDB Hub opened on 10 June 2002 as the headquarters of the Housing and Development Board, with all public service counters in the board's former headquarters in Bukit Merah being closed on 8 June. The building cost $380 million to complete. A showroom, named Habitat Forum, was launched in the hub on 24 October 2002.

The building is connected to the Toa Payoh Bus Interchange. The hub includes a four-storey shopping mall, named Toa Payoh Central, and a 33-storey office tower. Tenants of the office building initially included ABN AMRO, OCBC Bank, POSB Bank, DBS Bank, United Overseas Bank, housing agency C & H Properties, real estate firm ERA Real Estate, property agent PropNex, commercial space management company Ideal Connection. Real estate firm DTZ and Global Real Estate later became tenants. By September 2003, at least nine law firms were located in the hub. The RSAF50@Heartlands event was held in the mall in 2018 to celebrate the golden jubilee of the Republic of Singapore Air Force.

Gallery

References

Buildings and structures in Singapore
2002 establishments in Singapore
Kiss of the Vampire

Kiss of the Vampire may refer to:

Kiss of the Vampire (film), a 1963 film by Don Sharp
Kiss of the Vampire, also titled Immortally Yours, a 2009 film by Joe Tornatore
Kiss of the Vampire, a novel by Francine Pascal

See also
Vampire's Kiss, a 1989 film with Nicolas Cage
Vampire Kisses (series), a series of books written by Ellen Schreiber
Vampire Kisses (novel), the first book of Ellen Schreiber's series
O Beijo do Vampiro, a Brazilian telenovela (titled "The Kiss of the Vampire" in Portuguese)
I Kissed a Vampire, a vampire rock musical web series
Castlevania: Dracula X, a 1995 videogame by Konami released as Castlevania: Vampire's Kiss in Europe
Wemding

Wemding () is a town in the Donau-Ries district of Bavaria, Germany. Wemding is situated on the edge of the Ries meteorite crater in the Geopark Ries.

History 
The town of Wemding was founded in 793, and Wemding is also the location of the Zeitpyramide (Time pyramid), a public art work begun in 1993 and scheduled to be completed in 3183. The most recent block, which was the fourth block, was placed on 9 September 2023, and the next block will be placed in 2033.

Notable people
Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566), born in Wemding, physician and botanist. The botanical genus Fuchsia is named in his honour.
Veit Amerbach, also Vitus Amerpachius, (1503–1557), born in Wemding, was a theologian, scholar and humanist.
Luitgard Im  (1930–1997), born and died in Wemding, theater and film actress.

References
Adíb

Hájí Mírzá Ḥasan-i-Adíbu'l-ʻUlamá (‎; September 1848–2 September 1919), known as Mírzá Ḥasan or Adíb, was an eminent follower of Baháʼu'lláh, the founder of the Baháʼí Faith. He was appointed a Hand of the Cause and identified as one of the nineteen Apostles of Baháʼu'lláh.

Background 
Mírzá Hasan was born in Talaqán in September 1848. His father was an eminent Islamic cleric and Mírzá Hasan went through the usual religious education in Tihrán and Mashhad. He became the Friday prayer leader at the Daru'l-Funun, Iran's first technical college set up by the Shah, where he received his title of Adíbu'l-'Ulamá (littérateur of the 'Ulamá) In 1874 he was employed by the Qajar princes, writing a large number of encyclopedic books on their behalf.

Conversion 
Mírzá Hasan's acceptance of Baháʼu'lláh was the result of several Baháʼí friends, including Nabíl-i-Akbar, who prompted him to investigate the teachings. Upon converting to the Baháʼí Faith, he was expelled from his work. In 1889, his conversion was made official and he soon became one of the four Hands of the Cause appointed by Baháʼu'lláh.

Service and final years 

After the passing of Baháʼu'lláh in 1892, Mírzá Hasan became instrumental in dealing with the activities of Covenant-breakers in Iran. He later participated in the meetings that evolved into the Central Spiritual Assembly of Tihrán, which later became the National Spiritual Assembly of Iran, of which he was the chairman.

In 1903, he travelled to Isfahan, where he was briefly imprisoned. From there he also visited Shiraz, Bombay, and ʻAkká, where ʻAbdu'l-Bahá instructed him to travel with an American Baháʼí to India and Burma to help spread the Baháʼí Faith in those areas.

After returning to Tehran, he died on 2 September 1919.

Notes

References 

Hands of the Cause
Apostles of Baháʼu'lláh
Iranian Bahá'ís
Converts to the Bahá'í Faith from Shia Islam
19th-century Bahá'ís
20th-century Bahá'ís
Vanguard Sailboats

Vanguard Sailboats was one of the most successful sailboat builders. It was founded in 1967, and is now owned by LaserPerformance.

History
Vanguard Sailboats was founded in 1967 in Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA by Peter and Olaf Harken.  The brothers started to gain attention after their sailing hardware was used on boats that won Olympic gold in 1968, and after Vanguard supplied the Finn class for several countries in the 1976 Olympics. The hardware segment was maintained somewhat separately, as it was marketed to competing boat builders.  In 1986, the Harkens sold Vanguard to Stephen Clark, who moved the business to Portsmouth, Rhode Island.  The brothers focused their efforts on the performance sailing hardware business in Pewaukee, WI under the name Harken, Inc., while Vanguard continued in boat building.

In March 1997, Vanguard Sailboats, Inc., bought Sunfish Laser, Inc., which built the Laser, Sunfish and 49er sailboats.

In 2007 Vanguard Sailboats was acquired by Performance Sailcraft Europe. The combined company is known as LaserPerformance.

Sailing Community
LaserPerformance is very active in the sailing community and was a major sponsor of the Intercollegiate Sailing Association until 2022. The ICSA is the organization that governs college sailing in North America. Most colleges and universities sail fleets of 420s, Flying Juniors or Vanguard 15s. Additionally, LaserPerformance is a sponsor of many adult and junior sailing regattas.

See also
 LaserPerformance
 List of sailboat designers and manufacturers

References

External links
Company website

Vanguard Sailboats
Vanguard 15

The Vanguard 15 is an American planing sailing dinghy that was designed by Bob Ames as a one-design racer and first built in 1992.

Production
The design was built by Team Vanguard in the United States and later by LaserPerformance, but is no longer in production.

Design
The Vanguard 15 is a recreational sailboat, built predominantly of fiberglass. It has a fractional sloop rig with aluminum spars, a raked stem, a vertical transom, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and a retractable daggerboard. It displaces  and is capable of planing upwind.

The boat has a draft of  with the daggerboard extended and  with it retracted, allowing beaching or ground transportation on a trailer or car roof rack.

For sailing the design is equipped with a boom vang and the mainsail and jib have windows for improved visibility. The halyards are external and the mast is of a non-tapered design. The boat is normally raced with a crew of two sailors.

The design has a hull speed of .

Operational history
In a 1994 review Richard Sherwood wrote, "the Vanguard 15 is designed for college/yacht club racing fleets. Rig is simple, and the boat is a strict one-design. The deck is rounded, for easy hiking ... With the daggerboard and light weight, the boat may be easily dry sailed — often helpful for fleet sailing."

A 2013 review in Sail1Design noted "the Vanguard 15 boasts one of the strongest class associations of any one-design fleet, running hundreds of events each year. With fleets located across the country, there are opportunities to get involved from the club level to championship regattas. The V15 is a popular club level fleet racer as well as team racer."

In 2014, a Vanguard 15 one-design racer, John Storck III, reported that the boat was falling out of favor with college sailors and that attendance at regattas was declining.

See also
List of sailing boat types

References

External links

Dinghies
1990s sailboat type designs
Sailboat type designs by Bob Ames
Sailboat types built by Team Vanguard
Sailboat types built by LaserPerformance
St. Mary's Bay, Devon

St. Mary's Bay is a sand and shingle beach located near the fishing town of Brixham, Devon, England. It was originally called Mudstone Bay because of the local mudstone bedrock of the cliffs. It has footpath access from a car park and can be reached as a detour from a walk along the coast path. There is a viewpoint on Sharkham Point above the beach. Fossils can be found here.

References

External links
Heritage Coasts
South Devon - Area of Outstanding Beauty

Bays of Devon
Beaches of Devon
Brixham
Golden Globe Award for Best Documentary Film

The Golden Globe Award for Best Documentary Film is a Golden Globe Award that was introduced for the 11th Golden Globe Awards, followed by the 30th Golden Globe Awards before discontinuation after the 34th Golden Globe Awards. The award was first given to A Queen is Crowned (1953), which details the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. It was last given to Altars of the World (1976).

Winners and nominees

1953
A Queen is Crowned

1972
Elvis on Tour
Walls of Fire 
Marjoe 
Russia
Sapporo Orinpikku (Sapporo Winter Olympics)

1973
Visions of Eight
Love
The Movies That Made Us
The Second Gun
Wattstax

1974
Animals Are Beautiful People
Birds Do It, Bees Do It 
Hearts and Minds 
I Am a Dancer
Janis

1975
Youthquake!
Brother Can You Spare a Dime?
The Gentleman Tramp
Mustang: The House That Joe Built
The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir 
UFOs: Past, Present, and Future

1976
Altars of the World
People of the Wind 
The Memory of Justice
Wings of an Eagle
That's Entertainment, Part II

See also
Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature

References

External links
 30th Golden Globe Awards
 31st Golden Globe Awards
 32nd Golden Globe Awards
 33rd Golden Globe Awards
 34th Golden Globe Awards

Documentary Film
American documentary film awards
Awards established in 1953
Zetland (lifeboat)

The Zetland is the oldest surviving lifeboat in the world. It is currently in a free museum in Redcar, England. The name Zetland comes from the local Lord of Manor, the Marquess of Zetland. The Zetland is on the National Register of Historic Ships, as part of the National Historic Fleet.

The lifeboat was stationed at Redcar in 1802, built by Henry Greathead of South Shields.

Not all rescue attempts were successful. On Christmas Day 1836, a crewman was washed from the Zetland and drowned during a vain attempt to save the crew of the Danish brig Caroline. The man, William Guy, was a Tees pilot, and it is said that he left a service in chapel to take his place in the lifeboat.

During 1858 the Tees Bay Lifeboat Society decided to hand over the administration of their boats to the RNLI. On 17 February 1864, the Zetland sustained damage whilst rescuing the crew of seven from the brig Brothers. The RNLI considered the old boat no longer fit for service and supplied a new self-righting lifeboat named Crossley. Arrangements were made to have the Zetland broken up and a local carpenter was employed to carry out the task. An angry crowd prevented the work commencing and, after negotiation, the boat was given to the townspeople providing it would not 'compete' with the new RNLI lifeboat.

In 1872, the Zetland was repaired following fundraising which totalled £100. In 1880, it was launched with two other Redcar lifeboats (the Crossley and the Emma) and saved seven sailors' lives from the brig Luna.

The boat was the centrepiece of 1963 International Lifeboat Conference in Edinburgh. Listed as part of the National Historic Fleet, the Zetland lifeboat remains fully preserved and open for public visits in the Zetland Lifeboat Museum, which is a listed building on the Esplanade, Redcar, just a few hundred yards from the present Redcar Lifeboat Station.

References

Further reading

External links 
 Zetland Lifeboat Museum

Greathead-class lifeboats
Museum ships in the United Kingdom
Sea rescue in England
Ships and vessels of the National Historic Fleet
Redcar
Ships built on the River Tyne
Samandar

Samandar may refer to:

 Samandar (city), a city in Khazaria on the western edge of the Caspian Sea, south of Atil and north of the Caucasus
 Samandar, Iran, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
 Samandar, Afghanistan, a settlement in Maidan Wardak Province, Afghanistan (34, 21, 0,N, 68, 35, 0,E)
 Kázim-i-Samandar, one of the Apostles of Bahá'u'lláh, and a prominent teacher of the Bahá'í Faith, known as Samandar
 Samandar (TV series), a 1995–1996 Indian television series about Indian naval personnel that aired on Doordarshan
Kázim-i-Samandar

S͟hayk͟h Káẓim-i-Samandar (; died 1918), known as Samandar, was an eminent follower of Baháʼu'lláh, the founder of the Baháʼí Faith.  He was born to a prominent Baháʼí family of Qazvin of Bábí and Shaykhi background. Favored by Baháʼu'lláh, he was identified as one of his nineteen Apostles.

Early life 

Samandar was born Muhammad Kázim Qazvíní in February 1844 in Qazvin, the eldest surviving son of Shaykh Muhammad Qazvíní. Shaykh Muhammad was an early Bábí and later accepted the Baháʼí Faith. His father was bastioned in Qazvín and attained the presence of the Báb who was then imprisoned in Máh-Kú. Later Shaykh Muhammad was entitled Nabil by Baháʼu'lláh. He was named after Siyyid Kázim whom his family had close connections with. His mother was a disciple of Táhirih. Samandar was of a wealthy mercantile family, and Shaykh Muhammad Qazvini had made a success of the business. From an early age he was a devout Baháʼí, and clearly remembered the days of persecution as a little boy.

Prominence 

Samandar was living in Qazvin when a group of very active Azalis begun disputing Baháʼu'lláh and his claims. Samandar studied the writings of both Azali and Baháʼu'lláh. He subsequently became a staunch believer in Baháʼu'lláh, and wrote a pamphlet denouncing the Azali's and stating they based their claims on nothing. The document was read widely, and reduced influence of the Azali's in Qazvin.

Baháʼu'lláh then renamed Muhammad Kázim Qazvíní as Samandar a Persian word meaning phoenix.  Baháʼu'lláh also sent Samandar numerous tablets and prayers in his honour, much of which is still extant. The most famous is perhaps Lawh-i-Fu'ád (tablet of Fuʼád) which was addressed to Samandar. He worked tirelessly teaching the faith in Persia. He traveled all around Iran teaching people of the Baháʼí Faith and its principles. ʻAbdu'l-Bahá also kept in regular correspondence with him.

He had many children; a mixture of boys and girls of whom all married into prominent Baháʼí families of Persia.  His most famous child is possibly Tarázʼu'lláh Samandarí, a Hand of the Cause of God. In Acre Samandar's daughter Thurayyá Khánum was married to Baháʼu'lláh's younger son Mírzá Ḍíyáʼu'lláh. She later became a covenant breaker devastating Samandar. He made two pilgrimages to ʻAkká to visit Baháʼu'lláh and the Baháʼí holy family (ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, Ásíyih Khánum, Bahíyyih Khánum and Munírih).

Death 

Samanadar died February 5, 1918. Shoghi Effendi described him a “flame of the love of God” and identified him as one of the Apostles of Baháʼu'lláh. His memoirs Tárikh-i-Samandar was regularly referred to and seen a source of valuable Baháʼí history. His relatives are known by the surname Samandarí.

Notes

References 

Apostles of Baháʼu'lláh
Iranian Bahá'ís
Year of birth unknown
19th-century Bahá'ís
20th-century Bahá'ís
Becontree Heath

Becontree Heath (also spelt Beacontree Heath) is an open space in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. The name has also been applied to the local area, in particular to the RM8 postal district.

History
Becontree Heath functioned as the ancient meeting place for Becontree hundred, which covered much of what is now East London. In 1465, the hundred lost territory in the east and the meeting place became located on its fringe.<ref name=becontree_victoria>The hundred of Becontree: Introduction', A History of the County of Essex: Volume 5 (1966). Date accessed: 11 January 2008.</ref> When it was still a rural parish, Becontree Heath was a hamlet in Dagenham.

Geography
It is the location of Dagenham Civic Centre, a grade II listed, 1930s art deco building designed by Ernest Berry Webber and the former town hall of Dagenham Borough Council.

It is also the location of the high density Becontree Heath Estate, built by Barking Borough Council from 1966 to 1970.

Crowlands Heath Golf Club can be found there, along with Becontree Heath Leisure Centre.

EducationLocal education is listed on the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham article''.

Transport

Becontree Heath is served by the Becontree Heath Bus Station. The former station served route 150 (towards Chigwell Row) since 19 March 2016 by BRT East London Transit route EL2 (towards Dagenham Dock). The station has been replaced at present by new bus stops along the nearby road while the local council undertakes a construction project involving the building of 170 homes, a pharmacy and a new replacement bus station.

Gallery

References

Areas of London
Parks and open spaces in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham
Districts of the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham
Electron User

Electron User was a magazine targeted at owners of the Acorn Electron microcomputer. It was published by Database Publications of Stockport, starting in October 1983 and ending after 82 issues in July 1990.

Initially it was included as a 16-page pullout supplement to The Micro User but after four such editions it became a standalone title and within a year had grown to an average length of around 64 pages. The focus was news stories, type-in programs and software reviews. It also contained cheat codes and a long-running column on adventure games initially by "Merlin" in a column entitled "Merlin's Cave" and subsequently by "Pendragon".

Its advertisers included the top BBC/Electron games distributors of the day, such as Acornsoft and Superior Software.

Often the April-dated edition of the magazine included an April Fools' Day joke, generally consisting of a short machine code type-in listing which claimed to do something extremely useful and of wide interest but which in fact printed April Fool on the screen.  Examples included:
a program to predict what text the user would type next
a program to compile BASIC programs directly into machine code leveraging the machine's BASIC interpreter
a program to display colours on a monochrome screen by rapidly modulating the pixels (citing a recent Tomorrow's World)

See also
 Acorn User
 The Micro User / Acorn Computing
 Archive
 BEEBUG / Disc User

References

External links
 Acornmags Electron User section
 Archived Electron User Magazines on the Internet Archive

Home computer magazines
Defunct computer magazines published in the United Kingdom
Magazines established in 1983
Magazines disestablished in 1990
Monthly magazines published in the United Kingdom
Magazines published in Manchester
William Duff

William Duff may refer to:

 William Duff, 1st Earl Fife (1696–1763), Scottish peer
 William Duff (cricketer) (1890–1953), South African soldier and cricketer
 William Duff (writer) (1732–1815), historically influential Scottish writer on genius and creativity
 William E. Duff, author
 William J. Duff (1856–1922), American football player
 William Duff (Canadian politician) (1872–1953), merchant and politician in Nova Scotia, Canada
 William Duff (Newfoundland politician) (1842–1913), Newfoundland merchant and politician
 William Duff (dentist) (born 1962), Scottish dentist
 Willie Duff (1935–2004), Scottish footballer
 William Duff (Arabist) (1922–2014) Scottish Arabist and banker, known to be one of the architects of modern Dubai
 Bill Duff (born 1974), NFL footballer
The Black Waltz

The Black Waltz is the fourth full-length studio album by the Finnish melodic death metal band Kalmah and their first with keyboard player Marco Sneck. This album has them gravitating more towards thrash metal, which has often been cited as the Kokko brothers' primary musical influence. The vocals have changed to lower death vocals, compared to their higher pitched growls in previous albums.

The instrumental "Svieri Doroga" is a combination of the name of their first demo Svieri Obraza and a track on that demo entitled "Vezi Doroga". The name of the title track and album comes from a song originally recorded ten years earlier when the band was still named "Ancestor".

The video for "The Groan of Wind" shows the band members playing inside a cave, with alternating shots of a young boy and girl running from their possessed family members. They are later rescued by a disfigured old man, the Swamplord (Odin), whose picture is on the cover of the album.

The album ranked in the top three melodic death metal/Gothenburg albums in 2006. The album peaked at number 48 on the national Finnish album charts.

Track listing

Track 11 length is 4:35 on the Japanese edition.
All lyrics are written by Pekka Kokko, except track 10 (P. Kokko and A. Kokko)

Credits

Band members
 Pekka Kokko − guitars, vocals
 Antti Kokko − guitars
 Marco Sneck − keyboard
 Timo Lehtinen − bass
 Janne Kusmin − drums

Production and other
 All guitar solos performed by Antti Kokko
 Choirs on "Defeat" and "To The Gallows" performed by The Official Kalmah Pig Unit
 Recorded and mixed at Tico-Tico studios in November 2005 by Ahti Kortelainen
 Mastered at Finnvox studios in December 2005 by Mika Jussila
 All music arranged and produced by Kalmah
 Cover artwork, layout and photography by Vesa Ranta

References

External links
 Kalmah official website

Kalmah albums
2006 albums
Harestua

Harestua is a town in Lunner kommune, Viken county, Norway. It has 2318 inhabitants. Harestua is located 46 kilometeres north of Oslo, and functions as a commuter town to the capital. It is served by Harestua Station on the Gjøvik Line. 

Harestua maintains 6 neighbourhoods; Gamlefeltet, Nyfeltet, Vestbygda, Bjørgeseter, Haneknemoen, Haganskogen and Stryken. Harestua has a small town centre with services such as a petrol station, grocery stores and fast food outlets. 

Harestua also has a combined elementary- and junior high school. The school has approximately 400 pupils.

The Harestua Solar Observatory is located nearby. 

During the 1940 German invasion of Norway, Harestua was the location of several skirmishes between German and Norwegian forces.

References

Villages in Oppland
Villages in Viken (county)
Seleucia-on-the-Hedyphon

Seleucia-on-the-Hedyphon (, also transliterated as Seleuceia, Seleukeia; formerly Soloke or Soloce, Sodome, and Sele, also Surak) was an ancient city on the Hedyphon (now called the Karkheh River) in Susa (earlier Elam), east of Mesopotamia, currently the site of Ja Nishin, Khuzestan province, Iran.

References

External links
Hazlitt, Classical Gazetteer, "Seleucia"

Seleucid colonies
Former populated places in Iran
History of Khuzestan Province
Goggle eye

Goggle eye or goggle-eye may refer to:

Common wood-nymph (Cercyonis pegala), a butterfly
Priacanthus blochii, a marine fish also known as Bloch's bigeye, blotched bigeye, paeony bulleye, and other names
Priacanthus hamrur, a marine fish also known as the lunar-tailed bigeye or moontail bullseye
Rock bass (Ambloplites rupestris), a freshwater fish
Warmouth (Lepomis gulosus), a freshwater fish found in the Mississippi and other waters of the United States
Yellow moray

The yellow moray (Gymnothorax prasinus) is a moray eel of the genus Gymnothorax, found in southern Australia and between North Cape and the Māhia Peninsula on the North Island of New Zealand.

References
 
 
 Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand,  (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) 

yellow moray
Marine fish of Southern Australia
Fish of the North Island
yellow moray
Karen Ritscher

Karen Ritscher is an American violist and academic.

She is on the faculties of the Manhattan School of Music, New York University and Boston University. She has performed and taught in the United States, Asia and Europe. She is a certified 5Rhythms® Movement teacher, she has led workshops and clinics, often combining the exploration of movement with the art of self-expression as a musician.

Ritscher served as the Principal Violist for both the Dallas Opera and the Houston Grand Opera and the Assistant Principal for the American Composers Orchestra. She has performed with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Houston Symphony, New York City Ballet Orchestra and the New York City Opera Orchestra. She has been a member of the Aureus Piano Quartet the Azure Ensemble as well as playing in many other chamber music ensembles and festivals. She has commissioned and performed  new works by composers such as by Chen Yi, Bruce Adolphe and Gabriela Lena Frank.

Ritscher has served on the faculties of Rice University, the Mannes College of Music, Oberlin Conservatory and the Eastman School of Music. She has served on the faculty of the Karen Tuttle Coordination Workshop since its inception. She was the string consultant for Madeline Bruser's book, "The Art of Practicing; A Guide to Making Music from the Heart."

References 

American classical violists
American women violists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Manhattan School of Music faculty
Place of birth missing (living people)
A World Without Dave

A World Without Dave is an EP by Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine. It was the group's only EP release of original material and was their first release after signing for Cooking Vinyl in 1997.

A World Without Dave was released as an EP to reduce the retail price compared to a full-length album, with the intention of generating higher sales.  The album was also the first recorded with bass player Salv and guitarist Steve, each of whom would remain part of Carter until the group's demise.  The album reached number 73 in the UK Albums Chart.

Track listing 
 "Broken Down in Broken Town"
 "A World Without Dave"
 "Before the War"
 "Nowhere Fast"
 "Johnny Cash"
 "And God Created Brixton"
 "Stand Up and Be Counted" (U.S & German release and 2018 vinyl release only)
 "Negative Equity" (U.S & German release and 2018 vinyl release only)
 "Road Rage" (U.S & German release and 2018 vinyl release only)
 “Elvis Lives and Carterbreakamerica” (2018 vinyl release only)

 The U.S version and the German version contain 9 tracks rather than just the first six due to Cooking Vinyl's American arm asking for more tracks.
 The EP was included in the 2018 vinyl box set “The Studio Recordings 1988-1998”, and featured the U.S. and Germany track listing plus one additional track, making it the length of a full studio album.

Personnel
Recorded at The House in the Woods, Notice Studios and Chateau Fruitbat
Engineering by Simon Milton and Simon Painter
A sleeve called Dave by Jim Bob
Carter are: Jim Bob, Fruitbat, Wez, Salv, Steve and Ben
All songs written by Morrison/Carter and published by Island Music Ltd.

1997 debut EPs
Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine albums
Cooking Vinyl EPs
Beaver Bridge (Ohio River)

The Beaver Bridge is a rail bridge spanning the Ohio River between Monaca and Beaver, Pennsylvania. It consists of two spans: a southern cantilever through truss of  with  anchor arms; and a northern camelback through truss of . The bridge currently carries two tracks of CSX Transportation.

The bridge was designed by Albert Lucius and built by McClintic-Marshall Company of Pittsburgh between March 1908 and May 1910 for the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad.  The bridge is notable in that the railroad proceeded with the cantilever design despite the collapse of the Quebec cantilever bridge during construction in 1907.  The Beaver bridge replaced a single-track bridge built in 1890,  downstream from the current bridge's position, which itself replaced an 1878 wrought iron bridge at the same location.

See also 
List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Pennsylvania
List of crossings of the Ohio River

References

External links 

Monaca-Beaver Railroad Bridge at Bridges & Tunnels

Old photos of Beaver Bridge

Bridges completed in 1910
Bridges over the Ohio River
CSX Transportation bridges
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1910 establishments in Pennsylvania
YAB

YAB or yab may refer to:

 Arctic Bay Airport
 Yamaguchi Asahi Broadcasting, A television station in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan
 Yann Arthus-Bertrand (b. 1946), a French photographer
Lord Lieutenant of the Western Isles

This is a list of people who have served as 
 Maj. Samuel Longbotham 13 April 1975 – 1983
 Granville Leveson-Gower, 5th Earl Granville 14 April 1983 to 7 December 1993
 John Morrison, 2nd Viscount Dunrossil 7 December 1993 – 22 March 2000
 Alexander Matheson 27 April 2001 – 16 November 2016
  Donald Martin 20 December 2016 – 21 March 2022
 Iain Macaulay 21 March 2022 – present

References
 

Western Isles
 
Outer Hebrides
Politics of the Outer Hebrides
Chrysler ME Four-Twelve

The ME Four-Twelve is an American high-performance concept car that was engineered, developed and produced by Chrysler in 2004. The name is a combination of the Mid-Engine with Four turbochargers on a Twelve cylinder engine.

Background
There were two ME Four-Twelve vehicles produced. The first was an auto show version using performance expertise from Daimler, but with limited operational capabilities. It was designed behind-the-scenes during 2003 by a small team. The auto show vehicle, unveiled at the 2004 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit, took less than one year for design and development. The exterior design was done by American Brian Nielander.

Chrysler announced at the 2004 NAIAS that the ME Four-Twelve was a full running prototype. At the time, key personnel within the Street & Racing Technology group at Chrysler directed by Dan Knott (also responsible for the Dodge Viper, SRT production adaptations such as the Dodge Neon SRT-4 and Dodge Ram SRT-10, Dodge Motorsports, and Mopar performance parts) were alerted that another project was being considered; to design and build a fully engineered and functional prototype demonstration vehicle capable of achieving the published performance claims and being available for media track evaluation by the summer of 2004.

Design
The chassis tub of the ME Four-Twelve is carbon-fiber and aluminum honeycomb. It uses a 4130 steel rear subframe and aluminum castings. The body is lightweight carbon fiber. The low profile of the vehicle contributes to its aerodynamics, while multiple air-intakes enhance cooling. The car uses 265/35ZR19 tires in the front and 335/30ZR20 tires in the rear (on 19- and 20-inch cast-aluminum wheels, respectively). The brakes are six-piston-calipers with 16-inch discs at the front and back.

The modified 6.0 L aluminum Mercedes-Benz M120 V12 engine featured a newly developed cylinder head, special intake and exhaust manifolds, as well as forged internals such as pistons and crankshaft to accommodate the forced induction system (i.e., four turbochargers), which brought the output of the engine to . This would have made it the most powerful, as well as the fastest, road-going production vehicle at the time.  The seven-speed transmission is a dual-clutch automatic transmission, with the capability of shifting gears in 200 milliseconds. Claimed acceleration from 0-60 mph is 2.9 seconds, and 0-100 mph in 6.2 seconds. It can cover a quarter mile in 10.6 seconds, with a trap speed of . Estimated top speed was claimed to be .

The ME 412's interior features leather seats, a carbon fiber dashboard, and a chrome-covered center console with a leather tilt steering wheel, and gunmetal gauges. Other features include dual-zone climate control, a premium audio system, keyless access, and a push-button start system. The roof is made of glass.

References

ME Four-twelve
Rear mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive vehicles
Pelham Humfrey

Pelham Humfrey (Humphrey, Humphrys) (1647 in London – 14 July 1674 in Windsor) was an English composer. He was the first of the new generation of English composers at the beginning of the Restoration to rise to prominence.

Life and career
Pelham Humfrey was born in 1647. By the age of seventeen Humfrey's anthems were evidently in use and he was sent by the King to study in Paris, probably in January 1665 where he was greatly influenced by music at the French Court. On the basis of the music he wrote on his return, he also assimilated the more expressive vocal style of Carissimi. He later succeeded Henry Cooke (his father-in-law) as Master of the Children of the Chapel Royal and also became composer to the Court.

Humfrey died at the age of 27, but along with Matthew Locke exerted a strong influence on his peers even at his young age, including William Turner, Henry Purcell, and John Blow. At his early death he had already produced several works of great poignancy and expressive power including the Verse Anthem O Lord my God.

Samuel Pepys has mentioned about Humfrey's dress sense and general demeanour in his diary. He states, "Little Pelham Humphreys is an absolute monsieur as full of form and confidence and vanity, and disparages everybody's skill but his own. The truth is, every body says he is very able, but to hear how he laughs at all the King's musick here, as Blagrave and others, that they cannot keep time nor tune, nor understand anything; and that Grebus, the Frenchman, the King's master of the musick, how he understands nothing, nor can play on any instrument, and so cannot compose: and that he will give him a lift out of his place; and that he and the King are mighty great! and that he hath already spoke to the King of Grebus would make a man piss."

One of Humfrey's best-known compositions is his setting of the poem "A Hymn to God the Father", by John Donne.

Humfrey died on 14 July 1674.

References

Bibliography

Further reading
 

 
 
Wood, Bruce. "Humfrey, Pelham", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (accessed April 12, 2006), grovemusic.com (subscription access).

External links

composers-classical-music.com

English classical composers
English Baroque composers
Gentlemen of the Chapel Royal
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1674 deaths
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Cape Columbia

Cape Columbia is the northernmost point of land of Canada, located on Ellesmere Island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut. It marks the westernmost coastal point of Lincoln Sea in the Arctic Ocean. It is the world's northernmost point of land outside Greenland. The distance to the North Pole is .

As the northernmost point of Canada, Cape Columbia is exposed to the ice drift of the Arctic pack ice. The approximately  thick pack ice of the Arctic Ocean moves several hundred meters per day from east to west. As a result, mighty ice pressure ridges can be piled up at Cape Columbia.

History

In 1876, Pelham Aldrich was the first European to reach Cape Columbia. He was a lieutenant with the expedition (1875-76) of British explorer George Nares.

Peary 
Robert Peary chose the Cape as the location for the northernmost depot of his final attempt to reach the Pole (1909), not only for its proximity but because it is located far enough west to be out of the ice current setting down Robeson Channel. From Cape Columbia his party planned to strike straight north over the ice of the Arctic Sea. His winter camp and ship the Roosevelt were situated some  southeast, at Cape Sheridan near Alert.

Peary's sledge divisions left the Roosevelt from February 15 to 22, 1909, rendezvoused at Cape Columbia, and on March 1 the expedition left Cape Columbia, heading across the Arctic Ocean for the Pole. The 84th parallel was crossed on March 18, the 86th on March 23.  Peary returned to land at Cape Columbia again on April 23. Peary's claim to have reached the North Pole has long been subject to doubt. While some polar historians believe that Peary honestly thought he had reached the pole, others have suggested that he was guilty of deliberately exaggerating his accomplishments.

References

Columbia
Extreme points of Canada
Ellesmere Island
David Arkin

David George Arkin (December 24, 1941 – January 14, 1991) was an American actor, known for his numerous supporting appearances in the films of Robert Altman. These roles were part of Altman's frequent ensemble and included Staff Sergeant Vollmer in M*A*S*H (where he also wrote and voiced the PA announcements), Harry in The Long Goodbye (1973), Norman in Nashville (1975), and The Mailman/The Police Officer in Popeye (1980).

Early life and education

Arkin was born in Los Angeles, California.  He graduated from University High School and later UCLA with a major in Theater Arts.

Career
Arkin had an "introducing" credit in I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (1968) and brief appearances in Valley of the Dolls (1967), All the President's Men (1976), and Cannonball (1976).

His television credits include Hawaii Five-O, Whitney and the Robot, and a season-long appearance as the character Gabriel Kaye in the CBS television series Storefront Lawyers, co-starring Robert Foxworth and Sheila Larken.  He also appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and on the Joey Bishop and the Steve Allen late night shows with the Hollywood Sunset Strip improvisational comedy troupe The Session (which included Richard Dreyfuss, Rob Reiner, Larry Bishop, Bobbie Shaw-Chance, Marj Dusay, and Phil Mishkin); he later performed with The Second City touring troupe. 
 
Arkin wrote Human Cargo: Great Escapes, which his wife Anne E. Curry later produced with their company Old Dime Box Productions for the Showtime television network as Escape: Human Cargo; it starred Treat Williams and was filmed in Israel.  She also produced and directed One Man's Opinion, a politically incorrect take on newly released films; it starred Arkin and Professor Tyrone Shaw, now on the faculty of journalism at Johnson State College in Vermont.

Personal life and death
Arkin was married three times, the last time to actress Anne E. Curry at the time of his death in 1991.

David Arkin was not related either to the actor Alan Arkin or Alan's son Adam Arkin (also an actor).  Alan's father was David I. Arkin.

Arkin was known among his friends and colleagues for having introduced his friend Arnold Schwarzenegger (then Arnold Strong) to Altman, at the time The Long Goodbye was being cast.  This began Schwarzenegger's career in film.

On January 14, 1991, he died by suicide in Los Angeles, California at the age of 49.

Filmography

Notes

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Roger Lobo

Sir Rogério Hyndman Lobo, CBE, JP (15 September 1923 – 18 April 2015), generally known as Roger Lobo, was a British Hong Kong businessman, philanthropist and politician.

He was a member of the Urban Council, Executive Council and Legislative Council. He was famous for his Lobo Motion in Legislative Council of Hong Kong during the negotiation of the future of Hong Kong between the United Kingdom and the PRC in early 1980s.

Early life
Lobo was born in September 1923 of Hong Kong-Macanese, Portuguese and Scottish descent. His father, Pedro José Lobo, had moved from Portuguese Timor to Macau between late 19th century and early 20th century. He settled in Macau and married Branca Hyndman, the great-granddaughter of Scottish-born Colonel Henry Hyndman, who served in the British East India Company at Bengal and whose son Henrique settled in Macau either in the late 18th or early 19th century. Pedro José Lobo was a famous and important businessman, politician and philanthropist of Macau. He studied in the Lyceum in Macau and La Salle College in Hong Kong. After his study, Lobo joined his father's business in 1945.

Political life
Lobo was appointed as a member of the  Urban Council on 1 April 1965. He was a member of the Executive Council between 1967 and 1985, the Legislative Council between 1972 and 1985 (the Senior Unofficial Member between 1980 and 1985) and the Urban Council between 1965 and 1978.

On 14 March 1984, Lobo tabled the famous Lobo Motion in the Legislative Council:

Other public services
Lobo participated in many public services in Hong Kong, including the Civil Aid Service, of which he became the commissioner in 1977, and was also appointed as the head of Hong Kong Broadcasting Authority.

Personal life
Rogério Lobo married Margaret Mary Choa; they had five sons and five daughters, as well as 28 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren.

Honours and awards
Lobo was appointed an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1972 and a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1978. He was knighted as a Knight Bachelor in 1984.

He was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws honoris causa by The University of Hong Kong in 1982.

References

Sources
 Urban Council, Urban Council Annual Report, 1974
 Forjaz, Jorge. Familias Macaenses. Macau: Instituto Portugues do Oriente, 1996; .

External links
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