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Perses (Titan)

In Greek mythology, Perses (; ) is the son of the Titan Crius and Eurybia, and thus brother to Astraeus and Pallas. Ancient tradition records very little of Perses other than his marriage and offspring, his role largely being purely genealogical, existing merely to provide a parentage for other, more important figures.

Etymology 
His name is derived from the Ancient Greek word perthō ( – "to sack", "to ravage", "to destroy").

Mythology 
Hesiod describes Perses as "eminent among all men in wisdom." He was wed to Asteria, the daughter of Phoebe and Coeus, with whom he had one child, Hecate, honoured by Zeus above all others as the goddess of magic, crossroads, and witchcraft. He might be the Perses that is the father of Chariclo, the wife of Chiron, in some versions.

He was confused with another Perses (the son of the sun god Helios and Perse), who was made the father of Hecate in some versions.

Family tree

See also 
 Athena
 Perses of Colchis

Notes

References 

 Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
 Hesiod, Theogony from The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA.,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.

Titans (mythology)
Destroyer gods
Greek war deities
Greek gods
Wisdom gods
War gods
Rafa

Rafa is a masculine given name, mostly as a diminutive form (hypocorism) of Rafael. It may refer to:

People 
 Rafael Nadal (born 1986), Spanish tennis player
 Rafa (footballer, born 1985), Spanish footballer Rafael López Gómez
 Rafael Benítez (born 1960), Spanish football manager and former player
 Rafa Cabrera-Bello (born 1984), Spanish golfer
 Rafa Gálvez (born 1993), Spanish footballer
 Rafa Gil (born 1975), Spanish football manager
 Rafa Gómez (born 1983), Spanish footballer
 Rafa (footballer, born 1970), Spanish retired football goalkeeper
 Rafa Jordà (born 1984), Spanish footballer
 Rafa Luz (born 1992), Spanish basketball player
 Rafael Márquez (born 1979), Mexican footballer
 Rafa Martínez (born 1982), Spanish basketball player
 Rafa Mir (born 1997), Spanish footballer
 Rafa Navarro (footballer, born 1994), Spanish footballer
 Rafael Páez (born 1994), Spanish footballer
 Rafa Pérez (born 1990), Colombian footballer
 Rafael Ponzo (born 1978), Venezuelan football goalkeeper
 Rafa Rodríguez (born 2003), Spanish footballer
 Rafa Silva (born 1993), Portuguese footballer
 Rafa Soares (born 1995), Portuguese footballer
 Rafa Villar (born 1968), Spanish writer and poet

Fictional characters
 Rafa, in the TV series Royal Pains

Spanish-language hypocorisms
Portuguese masculine given names
Masculine hypocorisms
The Assassination Bureau, Ltd

The Assassination Bureau, Ltd is a thriller novel, begun by Jack London and finished after his death by Robert L. Fish. It was published in 1963. The plot follows Ivan Dragomiloff, who, in a twist of fate, finds himself pitted against the secret assassination agency he founded.

The novel was based on a story idea London purchased from author Sinclair Lewis in early 1910. London wrote 20,000 words of the novel before he gave it up later that same year, saying he could not find a logical way to conclude it. He died in 1916, leaving the book unfinished. The overall concept borrows heavily from G. K. Chesterton's novel The Man Who Was Thursday (1908).

The novel is about a secret organization, The Assassination Bureau, Ltd., that will assassinate evildoers, for example, corrupt police commissioners, legislators, politicians, etc.; but will not act unless convinced that the target truly is worthy of assassination.

In 1963, mystery writer Fish completed the novel based on the unfinished manuscript with additional notes by London and an ending outline done by London's widow Charmian shortly before her death in 1955.

First sentence 

"He was a handsome man, with large liquid-black eyes, an olive complexion that was laid upon a skin clear, clean, and of surpassing smoothness of texture, and with a mop of curly black hair that invited fondling – in short, the kind of a man that women like to look upon, and also, the kind of a man who is quite thoroughly aware of this insinuative quality of his looks."

Film adaptation 

In 1969, The Assassination Bureau, Ltd was made into a film, The Assassination Bureau Limited, starring Diana Rigg, Oliver Reed, Telly Savalas and Curt Jurgens. Directed by Basil Dearden, the film was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 1970 for Best English-Language Foreign Film, and Rigg was nominated for a Golden Laurel Award in 1970 for Female New Face. Whereas London's novel is set in the United States, the film is set in Europe in the 1900s.

See also 
 Assassinations in fiction

1963 American novels
Novels by Jack London
American thriller novels
Novels published posthumously
Unfinished novels
Unfinished literature completed by others
American novels adapted into films
Sinclair Lewis
Fictional vigilantes
Paul Savage (musician)

Paul Savage (born January 1971) is a Scottish musician and record producer, best known for being the drummer in the Scottish indie rock group The Delgados.

Early life
Savage was born in Glasgow in January 1971. As a child, he grew up in the United States before returning to Scotland in 1983.

Career

The Delgados

At school in Motherwell he met Alun Woodward and Stewart Henderson. Early bands including these three were Megan's Frame and Bubblegum. When they were forced out of Bubblegum, they formed their own band with Paul's girlfriend, Emma Pollock, and called themselves The Delgados.

Record producer and engineer
Savage has engineered, mixed and/or produced numerous records, including:
 Broken Chanter - Catastrophe Hits (2021)
 King Creosote - From Scotland with Love (2014)
 King Creosote - That Might Well Be It, Darling (2013)
 Soup - The Beauty of Our Youth (2013)
 King Creosote – Flick the Vs (2009)
 Franz Ferdinand – “Tonight”
 Admiral Fallow - "Boots Met My Face"
 The Phantom Band – Checkmate Savage
 Brakes – "Touchdown"
 Mogwai – Ten Rapid (Collected Recordings 1996-1997)
 Mogwai – Mogwai Young Team
 Arab Strap – The Week Never Starts Round Here
 Malcolm Middleton – 5:14 Fluoxytine Seagull Alcohol John Nicotine
 Malcolm Middleton – Into The Woods
 Sluts of Trust - We Are All Sluts of Trust
 The Delgados – Domestiques
 Arab Strap – Philophobia
 Aereogramme – A Story in White
 Malcolm Middleton – Into the Woods
 Arab Strap – The Last Romance
 Mother and the Addicts - Take the Lovers Home Tonight'
 Various Artists (Vashti Bunyan, King Creosote, Mike Heron, Malcolm Middleton, Aidan Moffatt, Emma Pollock, Trashcan Sinatras, Aereogramme, James Yorkston) – Ballads of the Book Teenage Fanclub – 2 B sides for "Man Made"
 King Creosote – Bombshell The Twilight Sad – Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters Emma Pollock – Watch the Fireworks Mother and the Addicts – Science Fiction Illustrated Camera Obscura – 6 B-sides for Let's Get Out of This Country Franz Ferdinand – All My Friends (cover of LCD Soundsystem)
 Malcolm Middleton – Sleight of Heart Zoey Van Goey – The Cage was Unlocked All Along Wake the President - You Can't Change that Boy Lord Cut-Glass – Lord Cut-Glass Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will Emma Pollock – The Law of Large Numbers Zoey Van Goey – Propellor Versus Wings Deacon Blue -  The Hipsters RM Hubbert - Thirteen Lost & Found Adam Stafford - Build a Harbour Immediately''

References

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Living people
Scottish drummers
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Perses (son of Perseus)

In Greek mythology, Perses (; Ancient Greek: Πέρσης) is the son of Andromeda and Perseus. Perses is left in Cossaei and with the Oceanid, fathers descendants.

Greek mythology identifies Perses as the ancestor of the Persians. Apparently, the Persians knew the story since Xerxes tried to use it to bribe the Argives during his invasion of Greece, but he ultimately failed to do so. The (Pseudo-)Platonic dialogue First Alcibiades (120e), written in the late 4th century BC, identifies him with Achaemenes as the hero founder of the Persái, stating that both Achaemenes and Heracles were sons of Perseus.

Notes

Perseid dynasty
Characters in Greek mythology
Perses of Colchis

In Greek mythology, Perses (; ) is the brother of Aeëtes, Aloeus, Circe and Pasiphaë, which makes him a son of Helios, the god of the sun, by Perse, an Oceanid nymph.

Etymology 
His name is derived from the Ancient Greek word perthō ( – "to sack", "to ravage", "to destroy").

Mythology 
Perses' brother Aeëtes had been warned by an oracle that great peril would come to him if the golden fleece was ever removed from Colchis. Indeed, after Medea helped Jason steal the fleece, Perses usurped the throne of Colchis from his brother, but was subsequently slain by Medea, his paternal niece, who restored her father to the throne,<ref>Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.9.28</ref> as an oracle had once predicted that he would be slain by his own kin.

One tale goes that after Perses seized power, Medea's son by either Aegeus or Jason, Medus, arrived in Colchis and was imprisoned immediately, though under a false identity. Soon after a famine broke out. Medea arrived in Colchis too, claiming to be a priestess of Artemis, and unknowingly, betrayed her son's true identity to Perses. Medea, under the pretext of simply wanting to talk to him, secretly gave Medus a sword, and explained what had happened to his grandfather Aeëtes. Medus then slew Perses.Diodorus Siculus, Historic Library 4.56.1

Although distinct from the Titan known as Perses, who is known for fathering Hecate, the goddess of witchcraft, Diodorus Siculus in his Bibliotheca historica made this Perses the father of Hecate by an unknown mother; Perses' brother Aeëtes then married Hecate and had Medea and Circe by her. Diodorus describes Perses as "exceedingly cruel" and "lawless".

 Genealogy 

 See also 

 Pelias
 Hamlet
 Scar

 Notes 

 References 
 Apollodorus, Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Includes Frazer's notes.
 Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History translated by Charles Henry Oldfather. Twelve volumes. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site 
 Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888-1890. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
 Hesiod, Theogony, in The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White'', Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
 Hyginus, Gaius Julius, The Myths of Hyginus. Edited and translated by Mary A. Grant, Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1960.

Mythological kings of Colchis
Kings in Greek mythology
Children of Helios
Demigods in classical mythology
Fictional people from Georgia (country)
Colchian characters in Greek mythology
Medea
Whitty Street

Whitty Street is a street in Shek Tong Tsui, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. Named after R.C. Whitty, the first manager of Hong Kong and China Gas Company, the street is well known as one of seven terminals of the Hong Kong Tramways. The road starts from Queen's Road West, crossing Des Voeux Road West and ends in Connaught Road West.

In the 1970s, there was a plan for an MTR station (named Whitty station) to be built beneath the street for the residents of Shek Tong Tsui. Space is reserved for the exit of the future station. Nonetheless, the plan has never come to fruition. A new plan suggests that a station would be built near the private housing estate The Belcher's instead of on Whitty Street.

These MTR proposals were eventually superseded by the West Island line extension, which opened HKU station just south of Shek Tong Tsui. HKU station's Exit B1 opens directly onto the southern end of Whitty Street.

See also
 List of streets and roads in Hong Kong

References

External links

About the name Whitty (in Chinese)

Shek Tong Tsui
Roads on Hong Kong Island
Sol (band)

Sol was a Canadian indie rock band in the 1990s. From Moncton, New Brunswick, the band consisted of singer and bassist Stacy Ricker, guitarist Robin Anne Ettles and drummer Chris Mersereau.

They released their first indie EP, Small Vacations, in 1996. That same year, they also performed a rendition of "Blue Tattoo" on A Tribute to Hard Core Logo. In 1997, they released their full-length debut, Lucinda.

The band played locally in New Brunswick and toured Canada several times, and had singles on campus and community radio. They won an East Coast Music Award for Best Alternative Artist in 1999, but disbanded due to creative differences the same year. A live album was released in 2000.

All three members continue to make music on their own.

References

External links
Canadian Indie Band Database Sol

Musical groups with year of establishment missing
Musical groups from Moncton
Canadian indie rock groups
Canadian alternative rock groups
1996 establishments in New Brunswick
1999 disestablishments in Canada
Civil War: Young Avengers/Runaways

Civil War: Young Avengers/Runaways (also called Civil War: Young Avengers & Runaways in the collected edition) is a comic book mini-series tie-in to Marvel Comics' Civil War crossover event. The series serves as a team-up between the characters from Young Avengers and Runaways. The series was written by Zeb Wells with art by Stefano Caselli. Young Avengers co-creator Allan Heinberg and Runaways co-creator Brian K. Vaughan served as creative consultants to Wells.

Production history
Civil War: Young Avengers/Runaways bridged the gap between the first and second volumes of the Young Avengers series, which went on hiatus due to writer Allan Heinberg's busy schedule with various television projects and his run on DC's Wonder Woman. It takes place after the events of Runaways v2 #21 and Young Avengers v1 #12, and before Civil War #3

Characters

Plot
The Runaways intervene in a fight between the Flag-Smasher and S.H.I.E.L.D. Cape-Killers, whose agents damage Victor. The Young Avengers see the altercation on television, and something about it causes the Vision to suffer a seizure. The Young Avengers steal a Quinjet and use Wiccan's magic to find the Runaways. Molly attacks the Young Avengers, thinking that they are working with S.H.I.E.L.D., but the team subdues her (when she becomes drowsy as a side-effect of her powers) and enters the Runaways' base to talk to them. The Vision and Victor experience seizures when they are near; the Vision explains that this is most likely ultimately due to their both having been created by Ultron.

Noh-Varr, a brainwashed Kree from an alternate reality, is sent by S.H.I.E.L.D to capture the teenagers. He attacks, breaking Xavin's neck and getting the Vision's phase-shifted lower arm stuck in his torso. Noh-Varr's handlers capture Wiccan, Hulkling, Karolina, and Xavin's body and take them to "The Cube", a high-security metahuman prison. The remaining members of both teams follow and attempt a rescue. The Cube's warden attempts to dissect Hulkling, but his organs shift to avoid damage. Xavin - who possesses similar shapeshifting powers to Hulkling - is able to right his broken neck and attacks the warden. Victor realizes that the Vision's arm, embedded in Noh-Varr's chest, has begun to interface with the alien. Victor overloads him by coming near, as he did with the Vision, and the Vision becomes able to remove Noh-varr's psychological conditioning. The two teams part ways and Noh-Varr takes control of the Cube, claiming it to be the capital of the new Kree empire.

Collected editions
Civil War: Young Avengers & Runaways collects Civil War: Young Avengers/Runaways #1-4 (). This trade paperback also includes Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe biographies of some of the members of the Young Avengers and the Runaways.

The covers of the four issues of the miniseries can be placed side by side to create a large panoramic poster which is included in the collected edition on two separate pages.

References

2006 comics debuts
2006 comics endings
Crossover comics
Avengers (comics) titles
Sarah Minear

Sarah Minear is a former West Virginia state senator  from the 14th district which represents part or all of the following counties: Grant County, Mineral County, Preston County, Taylor County, and Tucker County. She did not seek re-election in 2006.

In 2010, Minear ran for the Republican nomination for the U.S. House in West Virginia's 1st district, but came in third in the primary with 22 percent.

See also

List of members of the 77th West Virginia Senate

References

Living people
Republican Party West Virginia state senators
Women state legislators in West Virginia
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women
Joseph-Charles Taché

Joseph-Charles Taché, (December 24, 1820 – April 16, 1894) was a member of the Taché family, a nephew of Sir Étienne-Paschal Taché. He was a student at the Petit Séminaire de Québec and followed this by a study of medicine, receiving his medical diploma in 1844.

Taché practised medicine in Rimouski, and, at the age of 27, he was unopposed for a seat in the Legislative Assembly. His activity in politics led him into the newspaper business as a writer renowned for his caustic political wit. He worked as a writer and editor until 1859 when he left Le Courrier du Canada to pursue other writing full-time. He returned to public life in 1864 as a senior civil servant in Ottawa for 24 years in literary, cultural, scientific and political areas. He oversaw the 1871 census.

References

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1820 births
1894 deaths
Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from Canada East
Ulysses Grant Groff

Ulysses Grant Groff (29 October 1865 – 15 October 1950) was a large landowner and philanthropist noted for substantial donations to the City of Amherst, Massachusetts and to Amherst College.

He was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania to plantation owner John Groff and Susan Beaver (née Susan de Bouvoir) and married Julia Page Quick, the daughter of the Anglican Bishop of Philadelphia in Germantown, Pennsylvania on 14 March 1888.

In 1890 during a period of strong industrial growth, he relocated to Amherst, Massachusetts in order to develop what was at the time a large-scale farming enterprise. Despite the Great Depression, his enterprise fared exceptionally well compared to others, and he soon became a major landowner in Amherst. Upon reaching retirement age, he downscaled his holdings and donated large portions to the Town of Amherst and to Amherst College.

Ulysses Grant Groff died in an automobile accident in Massachusetts two weeks before his 85th birthday.

He was the father of real estate developer and businessman Charles Wister Groff.

References

 Best, Jane Evans. The Groff Book. Masthoff Press, Pennsylvania, 1997.
 The McKouwn Almanac. Sept McKouwn. Dublin 2005 (National Library of Ireland).

1865 births
1950 deaths
American real estate businesspeople
American philanthropists
American people of Swiss descent
People from Amherst, Massachusetts
People from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Road incident deaths in Massachusetts
Charles Pooter

Charles Pooter is a fictional character, the supposed author and leading character of George and Weedon Grossmith's comic novel The Diary of a Nobody (1892). Pooter is a middle-aged and middle-class clerk in the City of London, with ideas above his station. Apart from taking himself very seriously, he is an extreme example of self-importance, with the unhappy result that he is much snubbed by those he considers beneath him. He has a wife called Carrie and a son called Lupin, the latter unsuitably engaged to the distressingly inferior Daisy Mutlar.

The Pooters live at The Laurels, Brickfield Terrace, Holloway, London, in a nice six-roomed residence, not counting basement, with a front breakfast-parlour, a little front garden, and a flight of ten steps up to the front door. A nice little back garden runs down to the railway, which causes no nuisance, other than the cracking up of the garden wall. The exact location of the real "Laurels" had always been a subject of speculation, but in 2008 journalist Harry Mount claimed to have found the original in Pemberton Gardens, a road that cuts from Upper Holloway Road to Junction Road in Archway. Pooter's intimate friends Cummings and Gowing always let themselves in at the side entrance, thus saving the housemaid the trouble of going to the door. He sometimes drinks Madeira.

The character has spawned the word Pooterism (Pooterish, Pooteresque), which means taking oneself far too seriously: believing that one's importance or influence is far greater than it really is.

A 1984 edition of The Diary of a Nobody published by Elm Tree Books included new illustrations by artists Paul Hogarth and Philip Hood, the latter providing a colour caricature of Pooter in the style of the Victorian publication Vanity Fair at the suggestion of the publisher. This showed Pooter in a typical pose carrying business documents while painting the bath with red enamel paint. Based on the illustrations by Weedon Grossmith, Hood's was the first attempt by an artist to create a detailed and realistic portrait of Charles Pooter.

Portrayals
 Arthur Lowe: audio version
 Bryan Pringle: film by Ken Russell (1964)
 Terrence Hardiman: television adaptation (1979)
 Michael Williams: Garrick Theatre (1986); BBC Radio World Service version (1990)
 Hugh Bonneville: BBC Four version (2007)
 Johnny Vegas: BBC Radio 4 (2012)

References

Comedy literature characters
Literary characters introduced in 1892
Male characters in literature
Fictional people from London
Literary archetypes
Fictional diarists
Characters in British novels of the 19th century
Jon Blair Hunter

Jon Blair Hunter was a Democratic West Virginia state senator from the 14th district, which represents Barbour County, Preston County, Taylor County, Tucker County and parts of Grant County and Monongalia County. He served from 1996 until 2008.  As a legislator he has been a voice for environmental issues and has sponsored legislation to stop Mountain Top Removal mining in West Virginia.

He retired having not sought re-election in 2008.

References

External links
 http://blogs.wvgazette.com/coaltattoo/2009/09/09/manchin-appoints-hunter-to-wva-surface-mine-board/
 http://mywvhome.blogspot.com/2007_11_11_archive.html

People from Mineral County, West Virginia
Democratic Party West Virginia state senators
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American politicians
Þrúðvangr

In Norse mythology, Þrúðvangr (plural: Þrúðvangar; Old Norse: , "power-field", sometimes anglicized as Thrudvang or Thruthvang) is a field where the god Thor resides. The field is attested in the Prose Edda and in Heimskringla, both written by Snorri Sturluson in the 13th century.

In the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning, the enthroned figure of High tells Gangleri (King Gylfi in disguise) about the god Thor. Among other details, High mentions that Thor's realm is Þrúðvangr and that Thor owns the hall Bilskírnir, the largest of all buildings ever erected. Further in Gylfaginning, High mentions that Thor returned to Þrúðvangr after Útgarða-Loki's fortress disappeared. In the Prose Edda book Skáldskaparmál, Thor's battle with Hrungnir is recounted. The narration details that, after defeating Hrungnir and left with a whetstone lodged in his head, Thor returned to Þrúðvangr, where the völva Gróa unsuccessfully attempted to remove the stone.

In the Heimskringla book Ynglinga saga, the field is again mentioned, yet in euhemerized context; here Thor is a temple priest, and given Þrúðvangr, a location in Sweden, by Odin, here described as a powerful king.

See also
Fólkvangr, the afterlife field of the goddess Freyja
Þrúðr, daughter of Thor

Notes

References

Faulkes, Anthony (Trans.) (1995). Edda. Everyman. 
Hollander, Lee Milton. (Trans.) (2007). Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway. University of Texas Press. 
Simek, Rudolf (2007) translated by Angela Hall. Dictionary of Northern Mythology. D.S. Brewer. 

Locations in Norse mythology
Thor
The Dream Life of Balso Snell

The Dream Life of Balso Snell is a 1931 novel by American author Nathanael West.  West's first novel, it presents a young man's immature and cynical search for meaning in a series of dreamlike encounters inside the entrails of the Trojan Horse.

Plot summary
Balso, the protagonist, comes across the Trojan Horse in the tall grass around Troy and promptly seeks a way to get in: “the mouth was beyond his reach, the navel provided a cul-de-sac, and so, forgetting his dignity, he approached the last. O Anus Mirabilis!” The literary critic Leslie Fiedler reads much into this and sees the whole novel as “a fractured and dissolving parable of the very process by which the emancipated Jew enters into the world of Western Culture.”  Inside the Trojan Horse Balso encounters an array of odd characters who, he realizes, are all “writers in search of an audience”. These characters also represent various religious and artistic ideals. Balso hears their stories systematically, only to discard them one by one, in a strictly nihilist fashion.

Literary significance and criticism
The novel's lack of a coherent plot structure, along with its juvenile humor and abundant scatological details, are all intended to aggravate, perplex and annoy readers. The desired result, according to West, is a book that is “a protest against writing books”. The juvenility and incoherence of the novel have prompted critics to disregard it as “a sneer in the bathroom mirror at Art” (Alan Ross), “squalid and dreadful” (Harold Bloom) and “a hysterical, obscure, disgusted shriek against the intellect” (James F. Light). Nonetheless, by its complete and disgusted rejection of all religious, political and artistic ideals The Dream Life of Balso Snell foreshadows the nihilism of West’s subsequent novels.

Publication history
West began developing material for The Dream Life of Balso Snell as early as 1924; he worked on the novel during his stay in Paris in 1926 and finished a complete draft in New York City between 1927 and 1929, under the title The Journal of Balso Snell. The manuscript was rejected twice before finally getting accepted, largely due to a favorable appraisal by William Carlos Williams. The book was published in New York City by the Paris-based Contact Editions in August 1931 in an edition of 500 copies. There were no other printings during West’s lifetime. After West became famous (years after his death) for Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust, Balso Snell was reprinted in a single volume edition of his complete novels, as well as in the Library of America edition of West's collected works.

Footnotes

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Frederick William Cumberland

Frederick William Cumberland (10 April 1821 – 5 August 1881) was a Canadian engineer, architect and politician. He represented the riding of Algoma in the 1st and 2nd Ontario Parliaments, and he served in the House of Commons of Canada from 1871 to 1872.

Life and career 
Cumberland was born in London, England, and grew up in Rathmines, Dublin, where his father was employed at Dublin Castle. His mother died there. The family returned to London in the mid-1830s, where he studied at King's College School and apprenticed as a civil engineer. Starting in 1843, he was employed with the engineering department of the British Admiralty, working on the construction of dry docks and fortifications.

In 1845, Cumberland married Wilmot Mary Bramley, whose sisters had married prominent men in the city of Toronto, and he came to that city with his wife in 1847. He worked there as a surveyor and as an engineer for the united counties of York and Peel.

In partnership with architect Thomas Ridout, he designed the Cathedral Church of St. James and School, the York County Court House, and a post office. Later, with William George Storm, Cumberland designed other important public buildings in Toronto.

At the University of Toronto, he designed University College, the Provincial Magnetic Observatory (1853–55) and the Director's Residence (1858; demolished in 1901), as well as major additions and reconstruction of the Centre Block (1856–59) of the Osgoode Hall law courts.

Cumberland designed residences for prominent people living in Toronto. He also designed the Queen Street Wesleyan Chapel (1856), which was demolished c. 1980. He built several public buildings in Hamilton.

During the 1850s, Cumberland became involved in railway management at the Ontario, Simcoe and Huron Railroad Union Company (later the Northern Railway Company), as well as other railway and related companies of the time. From 1868, Cumberland served as a director of the Rama Timber Transport Company. As was common at the time, he used railway money to gain the support of Members of Parliament and to help elect candidates favourable to their cause. After Cumberland's death, the Northern Railway Company was absorbed by the Grand Trunk Railway. He was also director of a number of banks and a member of the Toronto Board of Education.

Cumberland helped establish a new battalion in the local militia during the 1860s. He was a member of the senate of the University of Toronto. He was also a freemason, becoming deputy grand master for the Toronto district. He died in Toronto in 1881.

Notable works

See also 
List of oldest buildings and structures in Toronto

References

External links 
 
 
 Historic Places in Canada

1821 births
1881 deaths
People educated at King's College School, London
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario
Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario MPPs
Conservative Party of Canada (1867–1942) MPs
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19th-century Canadian architects
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Oshkosh West High School

Oshkosh West High School is a public high school in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and part of the Oshkosh Area School District. As of 2019, the school has 1,691 students in grades 9 through 12. Originally known as Oshkosh High School when the building was opened in 1961, its name was changed when Oshkosh North High School was built in 1972. The facility holds a swimming pool and two gyms, as well as the Alberta Kimball Auditorium.

Extracurricular activities
As of the 2018–2019 school year, Oshkosh West has 53 student clubs and 23 sports, 11 for males and 12 for females, all participating in the Fox Valley Association. The Oshkosh West Boys Basketball team was undefeated in 2006 and 2007, and won the state Division 1 championship both years. The Oshkosh West Girls Basketball team was the state champion for Division 1 in 2003 and 2004.

Miscellaneous
The school mascot is the Wildcat, as depicted in the school logo, in which a feline paw slashes through the capital letter "W".  The school song is "On Wisconsin". 
Prior to 2001, the school mascot was the Indian. However, because of controversy about Native American mascots, OWHS changed its mascot to the Wildcat, which was selected in a student vote.
Every November the band goes to the Oshkosh holiday parade

References

External links 
School website
School district website

Public high schools in Wisconsin
Buildings and structures in Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Educational institutions established in 1869
Schools in Winnebago County, Wisconsin
1869 establishments in Wisconsin
Breakthrough Entertainment

Breakthrough Entertainment (formerly Breakthrough Films & Television) is a Canadian production company founded in 1986 by Peter Williamson and Ira Levy. It produces famous Canadian TV shows such as Jimmy Two-Shoes and Atomic Betty.

On July 10, 2018, 9 Story Media Group acquired Breakthrough Entertainment's kids and family library and development slate.

Somewhere in 2023, Breakthrough Entertainment was acquired by Shadow Pines Studios. This means that employees at the company will be shifting to new positions at Shadow Pines Studios, and that they will also manage Breakthrough's existing catalogue.

Information
Based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Breakthrough Entertainment produces a variety of programming, including primetime comedy and drama series, factual entertainment, documentaries, television movies, feature films, family entertainment and children's animation. The company has licensed programs to major broadcasters in over 200 territories, handling worldwide pre-sales, co-productions, and third-party acquisitions.

Films and series
 The Adventures of Dudley the Dragon (1993-1997)
 The Adventures of Napkin Man! (2015-2017)
 Atomic Betty (2004-2007)
 Battlefields Mysteries (2013)
 Between The Sheets With Rebecca Rosenblat! (2017-present)
 Bite (2013)
 Blood and Water (2014-2016)
 Bruno & Boots (2016-present)
 Captain Flamingo (2006-2007)
 Children of Chelm (2011-2012)
 Class Act (2016)
 Crash Canyon (2011-2012)
 Design Match (2013)
 The Edge of Extinction (2013)
 Exchanging Vows (2013)
 Face to Face (2014)
 Faking a Murderer (2020)
 The Family Dance (2014)
 Femme Fatale (2015)
 For King and Country (Dec 20, 2015)
 For King and Empire (Dec 26, 2015)
 I Love Mummy (2014-present)
 In Korea With Norm Christie (2016)
 Inside the Parole Board (2015)
 It Seems Like Yesterday (2014)
 Jenny and the Queen of Light (2016)
 Jimmy Two-Shoes (2009-2012)
 Kenny vs. Spenny (2003-2010)
 KidsWorld Sports (2005)
 Less Than Kind (2011-2013)
 Life's Little Miracles (1999)
 L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables
 Lost Battlefields (2016)
 The Manic Organic (2017)
 Med Students (2015)
 Medical Maverick (2013)
 Miss BG (2005)
 Mr. Men (1995-1997)
 Max & Shred (2014-2016)
 My Big Big Friend (2009-2014)
 Out in Black (2015)
 Paradise Falls (2015)
 Patient Files (2015-present)
 Pirate Express (2015)
 Please Kill Mr. Know It All (2010)
 Producing Parker (2008-2011)
 Real Men (2012)
 Ride (2016-Apr 14, 2017)
 The Riot At Christie Pitz! (2016)
 Rocket Monkeys (2012-2016)
 The Secret Liberators (2017)
 Shadow Lake (2016)
 Shaye: This Is It (2016)
 Situation Critical (2016)
 Skooled (2016)
 Star Falls (2018)
 Stories of Mothers & Daughters (2017)
 Streets of the World! (2012)
 Striking Back! (2013)
 Swap TV (2014)
 Tooned! (2008-2009)
 The Toronto Show (2016-present)
 Vandits (2022)
 Wandering Wenda! (2017)
 War of the Wheels (2015)
 Zerby Derby (2018)

References

External links
 Official website

Canadian animation studios
Film production companies of Canada
Television production companies of Canada
Entertainment companies established in 2001
Malcolm Struan Tonnochy

Malcolm Struan Tonnochy (Chinese: 杜老誌) (5 December 1841 – 14 December 1882) was an Indian colonial major official serving in British India and in Hong Kong. He was acting Governor of Hong Kong in March 1882.

Early years

Tonnochy was born in Bengal, India in December 1841 to Thomas Tonnochy (a colonial collector in Bulundshahr) and Caroline Kemball. He was of Scottish and Indian extraction: his paternal grandfather was a Scot (Bengal Army Sergeant Major Thomas Tonnochie) and his paternal grandmother, Catharine, was probably Indian. His maternal grandfather was a Conductor of Ordnance and maternal grandmother most likely Indian too.
He was sent to England for education at Blackheath Proprietary School followed by Trinity College, Cambridge.

Colonial Service in Hong Kong
It seems that Tonnochy did not complete his studies at Cambridge, choosing instead to try for a new cadetship in the Hong Kong Civil Service, by competitive examination in 1862. In this he was successful, along with fellow candidates Cecil Clementi Smith and Walter Meredith Deane, the three of them comprising the first appointments on merit in a service that was beginning to modernise. Tonnochy worked his way up to hold many posts including Coroner, Assistant Harbour Master, Police Magistrate, acting Colonial Treasurer (when James Russell was absent), acting Colonial Secretary and as judge in the Royal Navy's Vice Admiralty Court of Hong Kong from 1879 to 1882. From 1876 to 1882 he was Superintendent of Victoria Gaol (under Hong Kong Police 1876-1879 and Hong Kong Correctional Services from 1879 to 1882). He was acting Administrator (i.e. Governor) for two short periods, in 1881 during the absence of Sir John Pope Hennessy in Peking, and in 1882 after Hennessy left office.

Death
Tonnochy was unmarried and died aged 41 after serving as acting Administrator of Hong Kong in early 1882. Tonnochy is buried at Hong Kong Cemetery.

Honours

Unlike most colonial officials in Hong Kong at the time, Tonnochy was never honoured with any titles. The only place that bears his name is Tonnochy Road in Wan Chai. Club Tonnochy and Tonnochy Night Club are named and located on the street named for him.

See also
 Francis Henry May Superintendent of Victoria Gaol from 1896-1902

References

External links
 Tonnochy

|width="30%" align="center"|Preceded by:Sir John Pope Hennessy
|width="40%" align="center"|Governor of Hong Kong (Administrator)7–28 March 1882
|width="30%" align="center"|Followed by:Sir William Henry Marsh

Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Hong Kong Government
Chief Secretaries of Hong Kong
Governors of Hong Kong
Indian people of Scottish descent
1841 births
1882 deaths
Bengali politicians
Colonial Administrative Service officers
British people of Indian descent
Anglo-Indian people
Hong Kong Police Force
Simeiz

Simeiz (, , ) is a resort town, an urban-type settlement in Yalta Municipality in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, a territory recognized by a majority of countries as part of Ukraine and incorporated by Russia as the Republic of Crimea. Its name is of Greek origin (σημαία 'flag' + -εις, a plural suffix). The town is located by the southern slopes of the main range of Crimean Mountains at the base of Mount Kosh-Kaya,  west from Yalta. Population:

History
There are prehistoric dolmens and fortifications nearby; in the Middle Ages the area was under the control of the Byzantine Empire, which built a fortified monastery in the vicinity (and may have given the town its name). As the Byzantine power weakened, the area fell under the control of Genoa, which in its turn gave way to the Ottoman Empire; under the Ottomans the village was ruled from Mangup. By 1778, with the departure of the Christian population, the village was depopulated.

In 1828 Simeiz came into the ownership of Ivan Akimovich Maltsov, who planted grapevines and fruit orchards; at the start of the 20th century his descendants created a resort, Novy Simoiz, which quickly became one of the most prestigious resorts in the Crimea. This period saw the construction of a park and a number of villas which remain to this day. In 1912 Nicholas II visited with his family. After the October Revolution, Simeiz was nationalized and public sanatoriums were created, mainly specializing in tuberculosis. In 1927 Simeiz was visited by around 10,000 people.

During World War II the Germans occupied Simeiz, causing much death and destruction; the town was liberated by the Red Army on April 16, 1944. On May 18 of that year the local Crimean Tatars were exiled to Central Asia. After the war, the resort experienced a rebirth, and the ruins were gone by 1955. Since the end of the Soviet Union, however, it has seriously deteriorated.

Demographics
The population has risen from 622 in 1926 (431 Crimean Tatars, 119 Russians, 31 Greeks, 25 Ukrainians) to 3,501 in 2001.

Famous residents
 Dmitry Milyutin

Gallery

Climate

See also
 Simeiz Observatory

References

External links
 
 Simeiz.net
 Pictures of Simeiz
 Simeiz - Climbing/Topo (PL)

Urban-type settlements in Crimea
Seaside resorts in Ukraine
Seaside resorts in Russia
Yalta Municipality
Baiqi

Baiqi may refer to:

Places 
Baiqi (), town in Shulan, Jilin, China
Baiqi (), town in Fengcheng, Liaoning, China
Baiqi (), township in Chongli District, Zhangjiakou, Hebei, China
Baiqi Hui Ethnic Township (), Hui'an County, Fujian, China

People 
Bai Qi (died 257 BC), military general of Qin state during the Warring States period of China
Silu

Silu may refer to:
 Silu (film)
 Silu (song)
 Silu, Iran (disambiguation)
 Zhan Silu, Chinese prelate
Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard



The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard (also called the Parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard or the Parable of the Generous Employer) is a parable of Jesus which appears in chapter 20 of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. It is not included in the other canonical gospels. It has been described as a difficult parable to interpret.

Text

Interpretations

The parable has often been interpreted to mean that even those who are converted late in life earn equal rewards along with those converted early, and also that people who convert early in life need not feel jealous of those later converts. An alternative interpretation identifies the early laborers as Jews, some of whom resent the late-comers (Gentiles) being welcomed as equals in God's Kingdom. Both of these interpretations are discussed in Matthew Henry's 1706 Commentary on the Bible. 

An alternative interpretation is that all Christians can be identified with the eleventh-hour workers. Arland J. Hultgren writes: "While interpreting and applying this parable, the question inevitably arises: Who are the eleventh-hour workers in our day? We might want to name them, such as deathbed converts or persons who are typically despised by those who are longtime veterans and more fervent in their religious commitment. But it is best not to narrow the field too quickly. At a deeper level, we are all the eleventh-hour workers; to change the metaphor, we are all honored guests of God in the kingdom. It is not really necessary to decide who the eleventh-hour workers are. The point of the parable—both at the level of Jesus and the level of Matthew's Gospel—is that God saves by grace, not by our worthiness. That applies to all of us."

Some commentators have used the parable to justify the principle of a "living wage", though generally conceding that this is not the main point of the parable. An example is John Ruskin in the 19th century, who quoted the parable in the title of his book Unto This Last. Ruskin did not discuss the religious meaning of the parable but rather its social and economic implications.

Parallels
Many details of the parable, including when the workers receive their pay at the end of the day, the complaints from those who worked a full day, and the response from the king/landowner are paralleled in a similar parable found in tractate Berakhot in the Jerusalem Talmud.

See also

 Life of Jesus in the New Testament
 Ministry of Jesus

References

Workers in the Vineyard, Parable of the
Gospel of Matthew
Alice Moore Hubbard

Alice Moore Hubbard (June 7, 1861 – May 7, 1915) was a noted American feminist, writer, and, with her husband, Elbert Hubbard was a leading figure in the Roycroft movement – a branch of the Arts and Crafts Movement in England with which it was contemporary. Moore Hubbard served as the general manager for the collective, along with managing the Roycraft Inn. She was also the principal of Roycroft School for Boys.

Born Alice Luann Moore in Wales, New York to Welcome Moore and Melinda Bush, she was a schoolteacher before meeting her future husband, the married soap salesman and philosopher Elbert Hubbard whom she married in 1904 after a controversial affair in which she bore an illegitimate child, Miriam Elberta Hubbard (1894–1985).

On March 3, 1913, Hubbard marched in the first Washington, D.C. suffragist parade.

The couple perished in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania during the First World War while on a voyage to Europe to cover the war and ultimately interview Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany.

Selected works
 Justinian and Theodora, 1906; with Elbert Hubbard
 Woman's Work, 1908
 Life Lessons, 1909
 The Basis of Marriage, 1910, includes an interview with Hubbard by Sophie Irene Loeb
 The Myth in Marriage, 1912

See also

Bertha Crawford Hubbard
East Aurora, New York

References

External links

 
 
 Alice Hubbard's biography at The Lusitania Resource1

1861 births
1915 deaths
American art
American women's rights activists
Arts and Crafts movement
Emerson College alumni
Deaths on the RMS Lusitania
Writers from New York (state)
People from Wales, New York
American suffragists
Ula (dance)

The ula (dance) is an ancient Tongan group dance, already reported by early European navigators like captain Cook. It is also known as fahai-ula (split dance), which may be degenerated to fahaiula. Traditionally it is performed after an ʻotuhaka. It is still danced nowadays, although less popular than its descendant the tauolunga.

Lyrics

The oldest parts seem to be from Samoan origin:

 Oiau, sia langi ula; i iē
 fai mai sia tauolunga. io!
 
 Tulopa he iau moe; io ē!
 vasaleva iau moe; io!
 
 Sina vai tava ā ē
 he iē, ā ē.
 
 Sina vai tafe lou lonā.
 io, io, he lou lonā.
 
 Tunotuna oe Ale-le-sā,
 manuia oe saualuma.
 
 Laulau tui Vaea ē,
 Vaea lau mānaia.

These parts are from the beginning of the 20th century:

 Tonga, Tonga ē,
 tulituli faiva, he tuli faiva ē
 pei kau mua pei kau mai
 ke tau kalofi kuo tau e langi
 tulituli faiva, he tuli faiva ē.
 
 Tonga, Tonga ē,
 tulituli faiva, he tuli faiva ē
 ko e faiva ni ko hoto kakala
 o lau taanga pea fola haka
 tulituli faiva, he tuli faiva ē.
 
 Tonga, Tonga ē,
 tulituli faiva, he tuli faiva ē
 kuo ke meai sioto founga
 fiemālie tuku ke u ula
 tulituli faiva, he tuli faiva ē.

And then there are still more variants.

Execution
The name split dance comes from the habit that the performers split up in two (or more) groups, one entering the stage from the left, the other from the right, until the two meet in the centre and merge into one or more rows. The performers are always girls, it is rare that boys will join.

The dance movements are in essence very simple and limited. Most of the work, making supple, beautiful postures, is done by the hands and the head. The body remains quite stiff, and except for an occasional step or a kneeling, the legs are not much used either.

The dress of the girls is like that of the tauolunga, although the red dress is here most popular.

References

Dances of Tonga
Group dances