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Invergowrie railway station

Invergowrie railway station is a railway station which serves the village of Invergowrie, west of the city of Dundee, Scotland on the north bank of the Firth of Tay. It is the only intermediate station between Dundee and Perth, on the Glasgow to Dundee line, approximately  from Dundee station – and only around  from the city's western boundary – and just over  from Perth. ScotRail, who manage the station, provide all the services.

History 
It was built by the Dundee and Perth Railway, a constituent company of the Scottish Central Railway and later the Caledonian Railway and opened in 1848.  It has been threatened with closure on several occasions since the 1950s, narrowly avoiding the Beeching Axe and being reprieved again by British Rail in 1985 (unlike neighbouring , which closed in September that year).

Transport Scotland announced in March 2016 that Invergowrie would be one of several stations to benefit from a timetable upgrade that will see 200 additional services introduced across the Scotrail network from 2018.

The 1900 footbridge is category C listed.

An accident in October 1979, due to a signal passed at danger, killed five people and injured 59 others.

Facilities 
The station only has very basic facilities. Platform 2 has a small shelter, a bench and a payphone, whilst platform 1 only has a single bench. The only step-free access at the station is between Station Road and platform 2, although the ramp has a moderate gradient. The platforms are linked by a footbridge. As there are no facilities to purchase tickets, passengers must buy one in advance, or from the guard on the train.

Services
As of May 2023, there is a roughly hourly service which calls here to both Glasgow Queen Street and Dundee. A small number of extra trains run at peak times to/from Perth, and there are also a few trains to/from Aberdeen or Arbroath to the east as extensions of the service to Dundee. There is no Sunday service.

References

External links 

 Video footage of the station on YouTube

Railway stations in Perth and Kinross
Former Caledonian Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1847
Railway stations served by ScotRail
1847 establishments in Scotland
Nakorotubu District

Nakorotubu is one of nineteen districts in Fiji's Ra Province. It consists of seven sub-districts or sub-regions: the five villages of Namarai, Nacobau, Nadavacia, Saioko and Verevere.

Nakorotubu also refers to one of the four main traditional regions (with Saivou, Nalawa, Rakiraki) of Ra with the referral traditional title of Gonesau and covers the geographical area of seven of the nineteen districts or sub regions (tikina makawa) of Ra: Nakorotubu, Bureiwai, Kavula, Bureivanua, Nakoilava, Mataso and Navitilevu.

History
Nakorotubu recorded significant tribal war victories around the country that include the Puakaloa or Vuakaloa campaign, the conquer of the chiefly Kedekede fort of the Vuanirewa clan in Lakeba, Lau and the conquer of the whole of Vanua Levu (Cakaudrove, Bua and Macuata) in the' Torotorosila campaign'. 

In the centre of Nabukadra village in Kavula, Nakorotubu is the grave of Ratu Mara Kapaiwai, a high chief of Bau Island, the grandfather of Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna who was killed as a result of intra-family rivalries involving his cousin, the then ruler of the kingdom of Bau, Ratu Seru Cakobau in the early 19th century. Before his death, he came to Nabukadra to request his cousin, Ratu Josua Mara Kapaiwai(1) to ensure that his heart is not eaten when he was hanged by Ratu Cakobau. Their great grandmothers Ofia and Moqei were half sisters, i.e. from same mother and were war tokens from the Puakaloa campaign to Bau and Nakorotubu respectively. The Nakorotubu warriors snatched Kapaiwai's body from Bau and had a proper burial at the center of Nabukadra village before Kapaiwai's heart could be eaten by Cakobau. The grave remains a prominent landmark at the center of Nabukadra village.

References

Districts of Ra Province
Fort Lennox

Fort Lennox is a  National Historic Sites of Canada occupying   most of Île aux Noix, an island in the middle of the Richelieu River in the parish of Saint-Paul-de-l'Île-aux-Noix, Quebec, near the Canada-U.S. border. The fort features restored defence works and stonework buildings, and is surrounded by a star-shaped moat. It is owned by the Government of Canada and  managed by  Parks Canada

The site of Fort Lennox was a strategic location in defending Canada against invasion from the south during colonial times. It was first fortified by the French in 1759 to defend against British invasion during the French and Indian War and the current buildings were built by the British  between 1819 and 1829 to deter a U.S. invasion after the War of 1812. In 1920, it was designated a National Historic Site of Canada.    and is administered by Parks Canada.

As of December 2022, the Fort was undergoing renovation work and closed to the public and slated to be reopened to the public in spring 2023.

History

Built by the British between 1819 and 1829, the fort was designed to protect the colony from possible American invasion.  The fort was named after Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond, who died in 1819 and was Governor General of British North America. An earlier 1760s fort on the same site was originally built by the French during the Seven Years' War.

On 28 June 1985 Canada Post issued 'Fort Lennox, Que.' one of the 20 stamps in the "Forts Across Canada Series" (1983 & 1985). The stamps are perforated  x 13 mm and were printed by Ashton-Potter Limited based on the designs by Rolf P. Harder.

Museum
Visitors can tour the 1820s period officers' quarters. The north magazine features an exhibit about military engineering and restoration work carried out at the fort.

Guided tours are given of the grounds and buildings, which include an ordnance magazine and artillery magazine, a guardhouse, officers' quarters, barracks and casemates. During summer weekends, living history demonstrations focus on fort life in the mid 19th century.

Entry
Admission to the site includes the ferry ride to the island.  The parking lot and visitor reception area are located on the west shore of the river.  Boaters can visit the island directly and pay a separate fee to enter the fort.

References

 Parks Canada, Fort Lennox National Historic Site brochure, 2005.

External links

 Fort Lennox National Historic Site

National Historic Sites in Quebec
Museums in Montérégie
Military and war museums in Canada
Military forts in Quebec
Buildings and structures in Montérégie
History of Montérégie
History museums in Quebec
Le Haut-Richelieu Regional County Municipality
Anyue County

Anyue () is a county under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Ziyang in southeastern Sichuan province, China, located in between the Fu and Tuo Rivers. Its area is about  with a population of 1,538,400. Anyue is famous for its lemon plant and Buddhist stone carvings.

The Grove of the Reclining Buddha (Wofo Yuan 臥佛院) contains the largest single collection of Buddhist texts carved in stone as well as artwork from the Tang dynasty. Texts are located in a series of caves

Climate

References

External links
 Official website of Anyue

County-level divisions of Sichuan
Ziyang
William McCormick (diplomat)

William (Bill) P. McCormick (born August 18, 1939, in Providence, Rhode Island) is an American businessman and diplomat. He served as the United States ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa from October 21, 2005, until January 10, 2009. He is married and has six children.

McCormick attended Roger Williams University and Boston University while serving in the United States Army Reserve Military Police until he was honorably discharged in 1963. He then moved to northern California and worked in the brokerage office of Connecticut General Life Insurance Companyin San Francisco until 1965. It was at this time that he became a partner in the Refectory Steak House Restaurant chain. By the early 1970s McCormick had moved further north to Portland, Oregon, and sold his interest in the Refectory Restaurants.

In 1971, he purchased the restaurant Jake's Famous Crawfish and within the year had partnered with Doug Schmick. While growing the restaurant company, he attended the Harvard Business School, Executive Management Program, in 1979. At that time, there were 60 McCormick & Schmick's Seafood Restaurants in 22 states employing over 8,000 people. McCormick and Schmick's is owned by Landry's, Inc.

Throughout his business career McCormick's civic and charitable involvement was far-reaching. For example, he has provided thousands of pounds of food for the Pasadena, California, food bank and 11,000 books for disadvantaged children in Los Angeles County. He began the Shamrock Run twenty-seven years ago for the benefit of many service organizations in Portland, Oregon. McCormick was awarded the Secretary's Award by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs for his contributions to, and recognition of, the nation's veterans. Each year McCormick & Schmick Seafood Restaurants provides over 17,000 complimentary meals to veterans visiting any McCormick & Schmick Restaurant on Veterans Day.

As co-chair of the Portland Opera Foundation, he was successful in raising $24 million to help sustain that organization in the future. Under President George W. Bush, McCormick served on the President's Committee of the Arts & Humanities, whose Honorary chairman is First Lady of the United States, then Laura Bush.

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1939 births
Living people
Ambassadors of the United States to New Zealand
American restaurateurs
Boston University alumni
Businesspeople from Oregon
Harvard Business School alumni
Businesspeople from Providence, Rhode Island
Roger Williams University alumni
United States Army soldiers
Ambassadors of the United States to Samoa
20th-century American businesspeople
21st-century American businesspeople
21st-century American diplomats
Jean-Luc Brassard

Jean-Luc Brassard (born August 24, 1972) is a Canadian freestyle skier, winning the gold medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics.  Brassard has been credited with popularizing the wearing of bright knee pads to show off absorption and leg position for mogul skiers to best show judges how smoothly the athlete is taking the turns. He was born in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Quebec. In his other Olympic appearances, Brassard placed 7th in 1992, 4th in 1998 and 21st in 2002.

In 2005 he became the spokesman of Le Massif.

In 2012, Brassard was inducted into the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame.

Brassard served as an assistant chef de mission for Canada at the 2014 Winter Olympics.

In late 2014, the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) appointed Brassard as chef de mission for Canada at the 2016 Summer Olympics. In October 2015, following the resignation of COC President Marcel Aubut over multiple allegations of sexual harassment of staff, Brassard became vocal about the COC's failure to properly examine the issue when allegations were made in 2008. In April 2016, Brassard resigned as chef de mission, later replaced by Curt Harnett.

Brassard is currently a radio commentator and also the narrator of the French version of the television documentary program How It's Made.

References

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1972 births
Canadian male freestyle skiers
Living people
Sportspeople from Salaberry-de-Valleyfield
Olympic medalists in freestyle skiing
Sportspeople from Quebec
Medalists at the 1994 Winter Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Canada
Freestyle skiers at the 1992 Winter Olympics
Freestyle skiers at the 1994 Winter Olympics
Freestyle skiers at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Freestyle skiers at the 2002 Winter Olympics
New Symphony Orchestra

The New Symphony Orchestra is one of the best-known orchestras in Bulgaria.

History
The New Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1991 in Sofia, Bulgaria by the music critic Julia Hristova as an alternative to the existing Bulgarian musical institutions (which had been financially supported and controlled by the state until the fall of Communism in 1989). Since its inception, the New Symphony Orchestra has produced a cultural model of its own and has created a Society of Friends, dedicated to the welfare of this cultural institution, which is unique in Bulgaria. The Julia Hristova Concert House, which opened in 1990, serves as a home for the Orchestra. This House had its own unique system of organizing and financing the orchestra and working with its young musicians. According to the words of its founder, Julia Hristova, "We worked not to survive but to create."

From the very beginning, the idea of the New Symphony Orchestra was to be both a school and an institution taking care of young, talented musicians who had no experience on the stages of concert halls, but who had the strong desire to work and perfect themselves. Over eight hundred musicians have played for the Orchestra. (The average age of these musicians is 26.) Graduates of the School of the New Symphony Orchestra are now members of the biggest Bulgarian orchestras and opera houses, and of orchestras in the United States, Latin America, South Africa, Western and Central Europe.

The leading principles in the work with the young musicians, most of whom are still students, is respect for one's personal opinions, equal opportunities and flexibility in the system of work.
Since 1992 the New Symphony Orchestra had been conducted by Maestro Rossen Milanov, associate conductor of The Philadelphia Orchestra, who became its Music Director in 1997. Petko Dimitrov has served as the orchestra's Music Director since 2013.

Music Directors
 Alexey Izmirliev (1991–1992)
 Eraldo Salmieri (Italy) (1992–1995)
 Rossen Milanov (1997–2013)
 Petko Dimitrov (2013–present)

See also
List of symphony orchestras in Europe

External links 

 New Symphony Orchestra website

Musical groups established in 1991
Bulgarian orchestras
1991 establishments in Bulgaria
Benjys

Benjys was the first low priced chain of sandwich shops in the United Kingdom.

The first branch of Benjys was opened in 1989 in Islington by Paul Benjamin. The Benjamin family expanded the company offering low priced takeaway food, until it was sold for around £40 million in Aug 2000.

The range of products included  salads, yoghurts, hot food (such as hot sandwiches, jacket potatoes, pies and paninis), fresh fruit, Weight Watchers products, wraps, pastries, tea and coffee, an Atkins followers low-carb range, soft drinks, snack foods, and a  range of bread products, including sandwiches, rolls, torpedoes and paninis. 
All Benjys products were produced at a central production unit based in 90 Monier Road, Bow, East London which was opened in 1999. They employed approximately 200 staff at the unit.

Benjys was awarded Sandwich Retailer of the Year, Sandwich Manufacturer of the Year and Marketeer of the Year by the British Sandwich Association in 2003 and Workplace Sandwich Supplier of the Year in 2005.
Benjys Van Franchise ("Vanchise") business, Benjys Delivered, was launched in Sept 2003. The launch went public in September 2003 at the National Franchise Exhibition, held at the NEC. By 2007 there were 100 vans in operation.

In a backed venture capital buyout, the company expanded through franchising. Most of the sixty company branches were located in London and the South East of England, with franchises in major cities outside the South East, such as Leeds, Manchester and Birmingham. The new management expanded turnover further by selling via van-operators in business parks.

By 2006 the chain had 60 stores in London and the South East employing over 650 people.

In 2006, the company went into a pre-packaged administration at the request of Barclays Bank and backers ECI Ventures, and was sold by Deloitte to James Caan-backed Hamilton Bradshaw. Administrators were appointed in February 2007, when the company finally collapsed. At the time, Benjys employed over 650 people.

External links

References

Fast-food chains of the United Kingdom
British companies established in 1989
Restaurants established in 1989
Fast-food franchises
Electric company

Electric company may refer to:

Electrical power industry
Electric Company (band), an electronic music project of Brad Laner
Electric Company (football)
The Electric Company, a 1971 TV series
The Electric Company (2009 TV series), the 2009 reboot
Ira Louvin

Ira Lonnie Loudermilk (April 21, 1924 – June 20, 1965), known professionally as Ira Louvin, was an American country music singer, mandolinist and songwriter. He was a cousin of songwriter John D. Loudermilk.

Biography
Ira Louvin was born in Section, Alabama, and played together with his brother, Charlie, in the close harmony tradition as the Louvin Brothers. They were heavily influenced by the Delmore Brothers and Monroe Brothers. Ira played mandolin with Charlie Monroe, guitar player of the Monroe Brothers in the early 1940s. The Louvin Brothers' songs were heavily influenced by their Baptist faith and warned against sin.

Ira was notorious for his drinking and short temper. He married four times, his third wife having shot him multiple times in the chest and hand after he allegedly beat her. He died on June 20, 1965, when a drunken driver struck his car in Williamsburg, Missouri. At the time, a warrant for Louvin's arrest had been issued on a DUI charge.

References

External links

Artist Bio by Kim Summers @ AllMusic
Alabama Hall of Fame inductees – Louvin Brothers
Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee – Ira Louvin

The Louvin Brother's lives from 1927 to 1963, and Ira's brother Charlie's life to the present on Raised Country! 

1924 births
1965 deaths
Grand Ole Opry members
Road incident deaths in Missouri
American country singer-songwriters
American mandolinists
20th-century American singer-songwriters
American country mandolinists
Country musicians from Alabama
Singer-songwriters from Alabama
Archibald Paton Thornton

Archibald Paton Thornton (1921 – 19 February 2004) was an academic and historian. He was the author of the seminal history of the British Empire, The Imperial Idea and its Enemies: A Study in British Power (St. Martin's Press, 1959).  He was professor of history at University College, University of Toronto.

Born in Glasgow, Scotland, he attended Kelvinside Academy from 1929 to 1939.  During the Second World War, he served in the British Army, attaining the rank of captain in the East Riding Imperial Yorkshire Yeomanry. He attended the University of Glasgow, where he received a Master of Arts degree in 1947. He received a D.Phil. from Trinity College, Oxford in 1952. After the war, he was a lecturer in modern history at Trinity College, Oxford from 1948 to 1950. From 1950 to 1957, he was a lecturer in Imperial history at the University of Aberdeen. From 1957 to 1960, he was a professor and chairman of history and dean of arts at the University College of West Indies. In 1960, he was made a professor of history at the University of Toronto and was chairman of the department from 1967 to 1972.  He was attached to University College at the University of Toronto and retired in 1987.

He was the author of West-India Policy under the Restoration (1956), The Imperial Idea and its Enemies (1959), Doctrines of Imperialism (1965), The Habit of Authority (1966), For the File on Empire (1968), and Imperialism in the 20th Century (1978).

He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

References
 Canadian Who's Who 1997 entry
 Oxford University Gazette, 23 June 2006: Colleges, Halls, and Societies

External links 

 A. P. Thornton archival papers held at the University of Toronto Archives and Records Management Services

1921 births
2004 deaths
People educated at Kelvinside Academy
Academics of the University of Aberdeen
Alumni of the University of Glasgow
Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford
British Army personnel of World War II
Canadian male non-fiction writers
Canadian Presbyterians
Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
Fellows of Trinity College, Oxford
Writers from Glasgow
Academic staff of the University of Toronto
Academic staff of the University of the West Indies
20th-century Canadian historians
British expatriates in Jamaica
British emigrants to Canada
Poldertoren

The Poldertoren is a water tower at the town center of Emmeloord, Netherlands. The Dutch name Poldertoren could be translated as Polder Tower. The 65-meter tower was built in 1959 and has a large carillon. The tower is no longer in use as a water tower. The owner of the tower was the water company, Vitens, but since 2005 the municipality of Noordoostpolder has owned the tower.

A replica  of this watertower exists in Japan.

Details 
The tower measures 65.3 meters in height with a weather vane on top bringing the total height to 70.5 meters. Visitors can climb the 243 steps up to a height of 43.4 meters. The Poldertoren has a 13.4 meter diameter. The water storage capacity is 1.850 m3. Building materials for the tower included 1,220 m3 of concrete, 185 metric tons of steel, 600,000 bricks, 624 metric tons of cement and 7,200 drainpipes.

Architects 
 J.W.H.C. Pot (Architectenbureau Pot en Pot-Keegstra) (1955–1959)
 H. van Gent (1950–1959)

History 
In an early design of Emmeloord it was decided to build a tower at the central square of the town. The tower in the heart of the Noordoostpolder symbolizes unity of the Noordoostpolder and can be seen from all locations in the Noordoostpolder. The tower is not related to any church, because churches could dominate the others with this tower.

The idea to build a tower originates in the need of a water tower in the Noordoostpolder. The water company of Overijssel decided to offer a prize for the best design of a new water tower in December 1950. The tower had to include a carillon and a visitor platform. The tower had to symbolize unity of the new Noordoostpolder and it had to emphasize Emmeloord as the central town. The design  Utillis of the Amsterdam architect H. van Gent was chosen. J.W.H.C. Pot helped him to develop the detailed design.

The carillon 
A.D. van Eck had dedicated himself to placing a carillon in the new tower. The result of a fundraising campaign among the Noordoostpolder population was a ring of 48 bells. Every village offered its own bell. The heaviest bell is 2382 kilograms, the lightest weighs 9.9 kilograms.

All bells have inscriptions:

Juliana Regina (Juliana of the Netherlands) (the heaviest bell)
Lely; Fait ce que dois, advienne que pourra
A.D. van Eck, bouwmeester NOP; Facta non Verba
De Arbeid; Ora et Labora
De Vrede; Post Secundum Anno Tertio Decimo
Concordia Res Parvae Crescunt
Ratio Omnia Vincit

References

External links 

 
 Emmeloord.info
 The Poldertoren on Twitter

Bell towers in the Netherlands
Towers in Flevoland
Carillons
Noordoostpolder
Towers completed in 1959
Water towers in the Netherlands
ARccOS protection

ARccOS (Advanced Regional Copy Control Operating Solution) is a copy-protection system made by Sony that is used on some DVDs. Designed as an additional layer to be used in conjunction with Content Scramble System (CSS), the system deliberately creates corrupted sectors on the DVD, which cause copying software to produce errors (see bad sector). The corrupted sectors are in areas of the disk that most DVD players do not access, but most copying software does.

Despite being promoted as "fully compatible with available DVD players and drives," some DVDs with ARccOS cannot be played on some DVD players:  Sony DVPCX995, Toshiba SD4700, Harman Kardon DVD101, Microsoft Xbox and others.  Sony has announced a future firmware update for their players to fix this incompatibility issue. One revision of the ARccOS scheme used by Sony was incompatible with a higher number of players than average.  Sony has offered to replace those discs for owners having problems; the replacement discs will have a newer version of ARccOS coding on them, which Sony claims is more compatible. Some DVD rental companies have warned users that the Sony DVDs in question may not play on their machines. Many DVD rippers have been designed to overcome ARccOS protection; it is also naturally overcome by using ddrescue, a Linux utility designed to copy images with errors.

See also
 Compact Disc and DVD copy protection
 Content Scramble System

References

Compact Disc and DVD copy protection
Sony products
Alexander Kozulin

Alexander Kozulin or Aleksandr Kozulin or Alyaksandr Kazulin may refer to the following notable people:
Alyaksandr Kazulin (born 1955), Belarusian politician
Alexander Kozulin (pianist) (born 1955), Ukrainian pianist and composer
Mahmud Muhtar Pasha

Mahmud Muhtar Pasha (; 1867 – 15 March 1935), known as Mahmut Muhtar Katırcıoğlu since 1934, was an Ottoman-born Turkish military officer and diplomat, the son of the Grand Vizier Ahmed Muhtar Pasha.

Biography 

He was of Turkish origin. He was born in Constantinople and returned to the city in 1893 after seven years' military education in Germany. He was a participant in the Greco-Turkish War of 1897, in spite of the prohibition by the Sultan Abd-ul-Hamid II. In 1910, he became Minister of the Navy in Ibrahim Hakki Pasha's cabinet and arranged the construction of the first Turkish dreadnought. He married Princess Nimetullah Khanum Effendi, a daughter of Isma'il Pasha and they had five children.

At the outbreak of the First Balkan War in 1912, he went to the front, commanded the III Corps in the Battle of Kirk Kilisse , Battle of Lule Burgas and was severely wounded in the First Battle of Çatalca He wrote an account of his experiences in the Balkan War titled Why We Lost Rumelia (), of which German and French versions appeared in 1913. He later fought in the Turkish War of Independence where he joined the forces of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

On 30 May 1929, Mahmud Muhtar Pasha was put on trial before the Supreme Court (formerly , today ) on charges of damnifying the state treasury by remitting 20,000 pounds without security to the British Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company in conjunction with works for the Anatolian Railway Company. On 3 November 1929, he was sentenced to making a payment of 22,000 Turkish gold coins discounted by five percent.

See also
 List of Turkish diplomats

Sources 

1867 births
1935 deaths
Ottoman Military Academy alumni
Ottoman Military College alumni
Ottoman Army generals
Pashas
Ottoman military personnel of the Greco-Turkish War (1897)
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Ottoman governors of Aidin
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Prokhorovka, Belgorod Oblast

Prokhorovka () is an urban locality (a settlement) and the administrative center of Prokhorovsky District of Belgorod Oblast, Russia, along the Psyol River southeast of the city of Kursk. Population:

History
The first mention of the populated area in historical documents dates back to the second half of the 17th century. Polish nobleman Kiril G. Ilyinsky and his son Sava left during the Russian-Polish war of 1654–67 in Poland under the Belgorod, where they founded the suburb Elias. In 1860 Elias Sloboda was renamed in honor of the reigning Emperor Alexander II in the village of Alexandrov. In the 1880s west of the village passed a line of the Kursk-Kharkov-Azov railway. At the same time Prokhorovka station was built, named after the railway engineer V. I. Prokhorov responsible for its construction.
In the summer of 1943, Prokhorovka was the site of the Battle of Prokhorovka, a major armored confrontation during the Battle of Kursk of World War II. In July 2013, Vice Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin offered to establish by 2015 a museum commemorating the battle. The display of armored vehicles will be permanent and the technologies shown there will bring up recollections of the events of World War II.

Transportation
Prokhorovka serves as a railway station on a major railway linking Moscow and the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.

Gallery

References

Urban-type settlements in Belgorod Oblast
Populated places in Prokhorovsky District
Skala, Cephalonia

Skala (Greek: Σκάλα) is a village located in the municipal unit of Eleios-Pronnoi, some 39 km south from the island's main town of Argostoli and 14 km SW of Poros, in the south of Cephalonia, one of the Ionian Islands of Greece.

During the summer, Skala becomes a popular holiday destination.

Villages

The community of Skala consists of the following villages:
Skala, pop. 760
Aleimmatas, pop. 20
Ratzakli, pop. 117
Fanies, pop. 25

History
The current village was built in 1956 and replaces the old village which was levelled during the 1953 Ionian earthquake, killing 36 and injuring hundreds of villagers. The original village was located on the hill behind the present one, as many of the island's were, in order to avoid invasion from raiders and pirates during the previous centuries. The name 'Skala' originates from the Greek word for stairs. It was given this name because when it was in its original place, the houses seemed to ascend almost as though they were a set of stairs.

On the edge of the present village is the remains of a 3rd-century Roman villa with some remarkably well preserved mosaics.  Visitors can visit the site for a small fee to see the mosaic flooring in three rooms, which were excavated in 1957.

Three kilometres along the beach road towards Poros is the site of a 7th-century Temple dedicated to the god Apollo. Here are the foundation stones and parts of three Doric columns.

During the months of April through to October, Skala becomes a popular tourist resort. With beaches, hotels and many restaurants, the town’s population quadruples during the summer months.

Agriculture
Skala was a farming community up until the onset of tourism in the late 20th century.  Most families had and still have fields or small holdings on which they grow summer and winter vegetables. They also have excellent wine producing vineyards, and olive trees which provide Greece's elixir of life, olive oil. Orange, lemon, walnut, almond and fig trees have been planted throughout the area.

Herds of goats, sheep and cows freely roam the hillsides around Skala.  
Multi coloured beehives can be seen dotted around the fields and hillsides, producing Cephalonia's thyme flavoured honey.

Transport
Buses link Skala with the island's main town Argostoli, twice in the morning during the summer months - this reduces to a single service during the winter.  Only one bus returns to Skala in the afternoon once the shops in Argostoli close at 2pm.  There is also a bus connecting Skala to Poros.

External links

Skala Beach | Tourist Guide KefaloniaVisit.com
Skala community (Elios-Pronnoi Municipality) website #1]
Skala community (Elios-Pronnoi Municipality) website #2
Street View Virtual Tour of Skala
Official guide to Skala Kefalonia - Island of Dreams

References

Populated places in Cephalonia
Atlantic City Diablos

The Atlantic City Diablos were an American soccer team based in Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 2007, the team played in the National Premier Soccer League (NPSL), a national amateur league at the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, until 2008, when the franchise folded and the team left the league.

The team played its home games in the athletic stadium at St. Augustine College Preparatory School in nearby Richland, New Jersey. The team's colors were blue, gold, and white.

The Diablos were owned by Team Dynamics LLC, a highly successful organization dedicated to soccer education and player development at all age levels. Team Dynamics LLC also maintained a team in the Women's Premier Soccer League (WPSL), also called the Atlantic City Diablos.

History

Players

2008 roster

Year-by-year

Head coaches
  Matt Driver (2007)
  Greg Ruttler (2008)

Stadia
 Stadium at St. Augustine College Preparatory School; Richland, New Jersey (2008)

Logos

External links
Team Dynamics

 
National Premier Soccer League teams
Soccer clubs in New Jersey
2007 establishments in New Jersey
2008 disestablishments in New Jersey
Sports in Atlantic City, New Jersey
Geralyn Dawson

Geralyn Dawson (also known as Emily March) is a USA Today bestselling author of romance novels. She is a graduate of Texas A&M University, and has written thirty-five novels and contributed two novellas to anthologies, one of which was on The New York Times Best Seller list. In 1996 her novel The Wedding Raffle was named as one of the "Best Romances of 1996" by the Detroit Free Press. She has also been awarded the Romantic Times Magazine's career achievement award. She lives in Texas with her husband and three children.

Bibliography

As Geralyn Dawson 

 The Texan's Bride (1993)
 Capture The Night (1993)
 Tempting Morality (1995)
 The Bad Luck Wedding Dress (1996)
 The Wedding Raffle (1996)
 The Wedding Ransom (1998)
 The Bad Luck Wedding Cake (1998)
 The Kissing Stars (1999)
 Simmer All Night (1999)
 Sizzle All Day (2000)
 The Bad Luck Wedding Night (2001)
 The Pink Magnolia Club (2002)
My Big Old Texas Heartache (2003)
 My Long Tall Texas Heartthrob (2004)
 Her Bodyguard (2005)
 Her Scoundrel (2005)
 Her Outlaw (2007)

Anthologies 

 Under The Boardwalk, Castaway (1999)
 A Season In The Highlands, Cold Feet (2000)

As Emily March

Eternity Springs 

 Angel's Rest (2011)
 Hummingbird Lake (2011)
 Heartache Falls (2011)
 Lover's Leap (2011)
 Nightingale Way (2012)
 Reflection Point (2013)
 Miracle Road (2013)
 Dreamweaver Trail (2014)
 Teardrop Lane (2015)
 Heartsong Cottage (2015)
 Reunion Pass (2016)
 Christmas in Eternity Springs (2016)
 A Stardance Summer (2017)
 The First Kiss of Spring (2018)
 The Christmas Wishing Tree (2018)
Jackson: The McBrides of Texas (2019)
Tucker: The McBrides of Texas (2020)
Boone: The McBrides of Texas (2020)

References 
 Romance Author Geralyn Dawson

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Al-Hilal Club (Omdurman)

Al Hilal Sports Club (), known as Al Hilal S.C or simply Al Hilal, is a Sudanese professional football club based in Omdurman that competes in the Sudan Premier League.

Name and history
The name Hilāl is the Arabic word for crescent – a name chosen on a night when the crescent of the moon was visible in Omdurman. Also it is the first club in the world to be named (AL- HILAL). The motto for Al-Hilal is Allah – AlWatan – Al-Hilal. It is translated to English as "God – The Nation – Al-Hilal".

Players

Out on loan

 (on loan) Haidoub SC (Until June 2024)
 (on loan) Al-Dahra FC (Until June 2024)

Honours

National titles
Sudan Premier League: 29 (Record)
Champion: 1965, 1967, 1970, 1973, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2020–21, 2021–22 

Sudan Cup: 8
Champion: 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2009, 2011, 2016, 2021–22

African titles
 CAF Champions League
Runner-up: (2) 1987, 1992

Arab titles
 Arab Cup Winners' Cup
Runner-up: (1) 2002

References

External links
 Official website 

 
Hilal
Association football clubs established in 1930
Omdurman
1930 establishments in Sudan
Tha Blue Herb

Tha Blue Herb is a Japanese alternative hip hop trio based in Sapporo, Hokkaido. They formed in 1997 and now consist of three members: Boss the MC a.k.a. Ill-Bosstino (MC), O.N.O. (producer, formerly live DJ until DJ Dye joined Tha Blue Herb in 1999) and DJ Dye (live DJ). They also run a record label called Tha Blue Herb Recordings.

James Hadfield of The Japan Times described Tha Blue Herb as "the Company Flow of Japanese hip-hop."

Beside releasing several albums and singles as the group, O.N.O. also released solo works, while Ill-Bosstino participated in Herbest Moon (with producer Wachall) and Japanese Synchro System (with producer Calm) and also worked with DJ Krush and Audio Active amongst others.

Discography

Albums
 Stilling, Still Dreaming (1998)
 Sell Our Soul (2002)
 Life Story (2007)
 Total (2012)

EPs
 Underground vs. Amateur (2000)
 Front Act (2002)
 The Future Is in Our Hands (2003)
 The Way Hope Goes (2005)
 Phase 3 (2007)

Singles
 "The Shock-Shine Revolt" (1998)
 "The Ring of Wisdom / The Wind Blows from the North" (1998)
 "Underground vs. Amateur" (1999)
 "Times Are Changing" (2000)
 "Trans-Sapporo Express" (2000)
 "Annui Dub: Thank You Very Much My Friend" (2000)
 "3 Days Jump" (2001)
 "Front Act" (2002)
 "The Future Is in Our Hands" (2003)
 "Roads of The Underground" (2004)
 "Chie no Dub / Pusher on the Street" (2005)
 "My Work / My Faith" (2006)
 "Phase 3" (2007)
 "The Suburbs of Hip Hop / A Special Night" (2007)
 "Straight Years" (2009)

Soundtracks
 Heat: Original Soundtrack (2004) a soundtrack album for Heat

DVDs
 Enbu (2007)
 That's the Way Hope Goes (2007)
 Straight Days (2009)

References

External links
 

Japanese hip hop groups
Japanese pop music groups
Musical groups established in 1997
Musical groups from Hokkaido
List of schools in Honduras

This is a list of schools found in the various departments of Honduras.

San Pedro Sula, Cortés
 Escuela Internacional Sampedrana
 Western International School
Aurora Bilingual School 
 EuropaSchule
 Santa María del Valle
 Our Second Home
 Holy Family Bilingual School
 Seran Bilingual School
 Escuela e Instituto Bilingue Valle de Sula.

La Ceiba, Atlántida
La Ceiba Bilingual School
Mazapán School
Saint Theresa Bilingual School
Palmeras Bilingual School

Tegucigalpa, Francisco Morazán
 Academia Los Pinares
Shadai School
 American School of Tegucigalpa
Dowal School
 Lycée Franco-Hondurien
La Estancia School
Elvel School
Macris School
Centro Escolar Antares
Centro Escolar Aldebarán
 Nashville School Tegucigalpa
 Summer Hill School
 Skills World School
 DelCampo International School
 International School of Tegucigalpa 
 The Mayan School
 Instituto Evangelico Francisco G. Penzotti
 Instituto Evangélico Virginia Sapp
 Columbus American School
 Instituto Salesiano San Miguel
 England School

Valle de Ángeles
 Nashville School Valle de Angeles
 Liquidambar School

Olancho
 Centro Escolar Bilingue Santa Clara 
 Instituto Bilingue Santa Clara

See also

References

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Schools
Schools
Schools
Honduras
Neston railway station

Neston railway station serves the town of Neston, Cheshire, England. It is the southernmost station on the English part of the Borderlands Line before it reaches Wales. The station is 8¾ miles (14 km) south of Bidston.

History

There was once a substantial station building on the Bidston bound platform. This fell into disrepair in the late 1990s though, and was finally demolished when the station was modernised for Disability Discrimination Act compliancy in 2003.

Future

Long standing plans to electrify the Borderlands Line have been put on hold due to the prohibitive cost of installing third rail electrification. This has led Merseytravel to look at other options for the line, including the possibility of overhead lines.

Facilities

The station is unstaffed and only 'bus shelter' type structures offer passengers any protection from the elements. Bus interchange is available from the stop on Ladies Walk adjacent the Bidston bound platform. This is also from where rail replacement services leave. The station has a small car park next to the Wrexham bound platform and a larger car park on the opposite side of the line, both owned and operated by the local council.

Services

The station is served by an hourly service on weekdays (two-hourly in the evening and on bank holidays) southbound to Wrexham Central and northbound to Bidston for connections to Liverpool via the Wirral Line. Services are provided by Transport for Wales' fleet of Class 150 diesel multiple units.

On Sundays there are departures approximately every 90 minutes in each direction.

References

Bibliography

External links

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DfT Category F2 stations
Former Great Central Railway stations
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Railway stations served by Transport for Wales Rail
Neston
Cardinal Manning

Cardinal Manning may refer to 

 Henry Edward Manning (1808–1892), English cardinal and Archbishop of Westminster
 Timothy Manning (1909–1989), American cardinal and Archbishop of Los Angeles
List of trade magazines

This is an incomplete list of trade magazines (or trade journals) which are notable.

Advertising
 Advertising Age
 Ad Week

Aerospace industry
 Aviation Week & Space Technology
 SpaceNews

Amusement industry 

 Amusement Today
 Funworld Magazine

Arts and cultural industries
 TradeArt

Computer industry
 see: List of computer magazines

Construction industry
 Cranes Today

Consumer electronics
 Popular Mechanics
 Twice

Electronics
 EDN
 EE Times
 Electronic News

Fashion industry
 Women's Wear Daily

Film industry
 American Cinematographer
 BackStage
 Boxoffice Magazine
 CinemaEditor
 Creative COW
 Film International
 Filmmaker
 fps magazine
 Film Comment
 Film Daily
 Film Quarterly
 Harrison's Reports
 The Hollywood Reporter
 indieWire
 MovieMaker
 Playback
 Variety

Financial services industry
 Citywire
 Financial Adviser
 Global Banking And Finance Review
 Investment Adviser
 Investment Week
 Money Management
 Money Marketing
 Professional Pensions

Floor Covering
 FloorDaily
 Floor Focus

Food and drink
 Australian Dairy Foods
 Food Engineering
 Restaurant Magazine

Fresh produce
 Eurofruit

Gaming industry
 Coinslot
 Game Industry Report Magazine

Law
 Law Practice Magazine
 Legal Week

Media
 Campaign
 MediaWeek
 New Media Age
 Revolution

Manufacturing trades
 Advanced Manufacturing
 Pulp and Paper
 Surplus Record Machinery & Equipment Directory

Music industry
 Billboard
 CashBox Magazine
 Music Week
 Radio & Records

Packaging
 Packaging Digest
 Packaging Machinery Technology
 Packaging World

Publishing and book trade
 Booklist
 The Bookseller
 The Hard Copy Observer
 Library Journal
 Publishers Weekly
 School Library Journal

Retailing
 Private Label

Technical trades
 BioTechniques
 Genetic Engineering News
 Imaging Technology News

U.S. Politics
 Congressional Quarterly
 The Hill (newspaper)
 National Journal
 Roll Call

See also
 List of academic journals
 Reed Business Information, containing a partial list of business and trade magazines from this publisher
Charles Kassler

Charles Kassler Jr (September 9, 1897, Denver, Colorado — April 3, 1979, San Diego, California) was a painter, printmaker, and lithographer.

Early life
He lost a hand during a high school chemistry experiment. He studied art and architecture at Princeton University and the Chicago Art Institute.

Career
From 1925 to 1932 Kassler continued his studies while living at various times in New Mexico, Europe, and North Africa. While in France, he apprenticed himself to a well-known fresco painter.  After moving to Los Angeles in 1933, he painted the two largest frescoes done under the WPA. The Bison Hunt for the Central Library in Downtown Los Angeles was destroyed by weather damage. Luisa Espinel was a model for the mural Pastoral California at the Plummer Auditorium in Fullerton, in Orange County, California. She became his second wife in 1935. The Pastoral California mural was painted over in 1938 by the school district, just four years after Kassler completed it. It was restored in 1997 after spending almost 60 years hidden from view. Kassler was also commissioned by the WPA to paint eight fresco lunette murals for the Beverly Hills, California post office funded by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. The murals depict the history of the Pony Express, postal service, and the daily life of the common American family. The post office is now home to the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. After creating murals for the WPA, Kassler taught at Chouinard Art Institute and later worked as a designer in the aerospace industry.

References

20th-century American painters
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1979 deaths
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Drumry railway station

Drumry railway station serves the Drumry and Linnvale area of Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. The railway station is managed by ScotRail and is served by trains on the Argyle Line and North Clyde Line.

Drumry station was opened in 1953 to serve two of the new housing schemes that were built post World War II on the northern edges of the Burgh of Clydebank. To the north of the line is the area known as South Drumry and to the south of the line is the area of Linnvale which is bounded by the Great Western Road to the east, the railway line to the north and the Forth and Clyde Canal to the south.

Facilities

The station has car parking facilities, and has ten cycle stands available.  It is staffed from Monday to Saturday.

Work to replace the platform surfaces will start in January 2022, and is expected to continue until June.

Services

There is a basic 15-minute service frequency in each direction throughout the day (Mon-Sat), provided by North Clyde Line and Argyle Line services.  The  to  via Queen Street call, along with Argyle Line trains between  and Central Low Level.  These originate at  or  northbound but run to  via  southbound.  On Sundays, there is a half-hourly service each way, provide by the Edinburgh to  trains.

References

Sources
 
 

Railway stations in West Dunbartonshire
Railway stations opened by British Rail
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1953
SPT railway stations
Railway stations served by ScotRail
Clydebank
Hillfoot railway station

Hillfoot railway station is a railway station in Bearsden, East Dunbartonshire near Glasgow, Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and is served by their trains on the Argyle and North Clyde Lines. It is sited between Milngavie and Bearsden,  from Glasgow Queen Street, measured via Maryhill.

History 
It was opened on 1 May 1900, after the Milngavie branch was double tracked.

Facilities

The station has a small car park but no ticket office or ticket machine. As there are no facilities to purchase tickets, passengers must buy one in advance, or from the guard on the train. Both platforms have shelters, help points and benches, and there are bike racks adjacent to platform 1. Both platforms have step-free entrances, but the footbridge only has steps.

Passenger volume 

The statistics cover twelve month periods that start in April.

Services

On weekdays and Saturdays, trains run every 30 minutes northbound to Milngavie, and southbound to Springburn, via Glasgow Queen Street (low level). In the evenings and on Sundays, trains run southbound to Motherwell, via Hamilton Central, at the same twice-hourly frequency.

Cultural references 
The station is used in the BBC comedy series Burnistoun.

References

External links

Video footage of Hillfoot Station on YouTube

Railway stations in East Dunbartonshire
Former North British Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1900
SPT railway stations
Railway stations served by ScotRail
Drumchapel railway station

Drumchapel railway station serves the Drumchapel, Blairdardie and Old Drumchapel areas of Glasgow, Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and is served by trains on the Argyle Line and North Clyde Line.

The station is situated on Garscadden Road. It has a car park facility as well as a bus terminus.

Facilities
The station has a small car park with an assortment of spaces (including a car parking block) and a staffed ticket office with usual operating hours. There is also a bus stop for the number 3 (formerly along with the number 16) operated by First Glasgow with services to Govan.

Services 
On Mondays-Saturdays, trains between  &  stop each way every 30 minutes. In addition to these North Clyde Line services, there are two Argyle Line trains per hour between  and  (Low Level) – these come from  or  northbound but run southbound to . Sundays see a half-hourly service to Edinburgh via Airdrie and to .

The station is situated on the suburban Glasgow portion of the West Highland Line. However, none of these services stop here.

References

Sources 
 
 

Railway stations in Glasgow
Former North British Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1890
SPT railway stations
Railway stations served by ScotRail
Drumchapel