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Asher Asher

Asher Asher (16 February 1837 – 7 January 1889), born in Glasgow, was the first Scottish Jew to enter the medical profession. He published the book The Jewish Rite of Circumcision (1873). He died in London, England.

Life
Asher Asher was educated at the Royal High School. He was a prominent member of the local Jewish congregation, as its Honorary Secretary. Then, he abandoned for studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh, graduating as Doctor of Medicine in 1856, as the first Jewish doctor of Scotland. He practiced at Glasgow and the nearby Bishopbriggs, a mining town.

In 1862, Asher Asher moved to London and became medical officer of the Jewish Board of Guardians, where he helped providing medical care for poor Jews, beside the founder, Dr. Canstatt. In 1866 was appointed secretary of the Great Synagogue. About this time the idea of a union of the various London synagogues had been put forward, chiefly by Lionel L. Cohen; and Asher devoted himself to the project with intense energy. In March, 1870, he became first secretary of the United Synagogue, contributing largely to the success of that institution — he wrote the introduction to the by-laws of the constituent synagogues, and practically founded its visitation committee. This office he retained until his death.

Owing to Asher's intimate relations with the Rothschilds, in his capacity of medical attendant, unofficial almoner, and personal friend, his advice was generally followed by them in communal matters. He was connected with a large number of institutions in the London community, and may be regarded as one of its organizers. Looking for better conditions for Jewish immigrants, Asher undertook journeys to Palestine, the United States, and Russia, in company of Samuel Montagu. Particularly, Asher was pledged about the Jewish communities of Eastern Europe. After the visit to Palestine he also wrote a report on the condition of affairs in Jerusalem, which effected much good. His sympathetic nature attracted to him most of the young men of ability of the rising generation, and upon them he exerted great influence. Asher wrote much for the Jewish press, chiefly under the pen-name "Aliquis."

Legacy
At the entrance of the Garnethill Synagogue, a plaque remembers Asher Asher.
Since 1910, the University of Glasgow awards the Asher Asher Memorial Medal and Prize, annually for its Ear, Nose and Throat course.
Asher Asher is buried in the Willesden United Synagogue Cemetery, at London.

References

External links
Short biography, at the University of Glasgow
Asher Asher, at Findagrave.com.

1837 births
1889 deaths
Medical doctors from Glasgow
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
People educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh
19th-century Scottish medical doctors
Scottish religious writers
Scottish Jews
Scottish Jewish writers
Burials at Willesden Jewish Cemetery
Jewish physicians
Château de Beaufort

The Château de Beaufort is a ruined castle located along the upper reaches of the river Loire in France. It is near the village of Goudet in the département of Haute-Loire, in the Auvergne region. It was built in the 13th century and modified in the 15th and 16th centuries. Perched on a rocky headland overhanging the granitic rocks of the Margeride, the fortress is today a ruined shell.

Robert Louis Stevenson stopped here on his trip documented in Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879).
"In this pleasant humour I came down the hill to where Goudet stands in a green end of a valley, with Château Beaufort opposite upon a rocky steep, and the stream, as clear as crystal, lying in a deep pool between them."

History
Built for surveillance and domination of the Loire valley, the castle provides an interesting example of how a 13th-century feudal castle could be adapted to the evolution of military construction, notable with the development of artillery. During the Hundred Years' War and the Wars of Religion it was of historical importance but after the French Revolution it fell victim to a gradual abandonment which reduced it to the state of ruin. The site includes an enceinte, partly rebuilt in the 15th century, which surrounded the fortress halfway up the hill.

The castle itself was, right from the start, of square plan with a courtyard occupied on the south by a residence. In the 16th century, Antoine de la Tour added a tower in the north-western corner, a large horseshoe-shaped tower in the south-western corner, and other walls, parts of which remain on the north and south sides, the latter with a corner tower. with turn of angle.

Inside the enceinte, the vestiges on the ground or hidden provide little help to suggest how the inhabited parts were divided. In the north-east, are remnants of an arched room and a chimney. The 15th-century tower was reinforced internally by a second wall and was pierced with holes for archers and cannons.

It has been listed since 1994 as a monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture.

See also
List of castles in France

References

External links
 Chateau Beaufort, includes pictures. Google English translation.

Ruined castles in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Haute-Loire
Monuments historiques of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Robert Louis Stevenson
Athletic Park

Athletic Park can refer to many places, including:

In the United States
Athletic Grounds, Philadelphia
Athletic Park (Buffalo), also known as Luna Park and Carnival Court
Athletic Park (Denver)
Athletic Park (Duluth)
Athletic Park (Greensburg)
Athletic Park (Indianapolis) 
Athletic Park (Kansas City)
Athletic Park (Los Angeles)
Athletic Park (Milwaukee)
Athletic Park (Minneapolis)
Athletic Park (Nashville), also known as Sulphur Dell
Athletic Park (New Orleans)
Athletic Park (Omaha)
Athletic Park (Philadelphia)
Athletic Park (St. Louis)
Athletic Park (St. Paul)
Athletic Park (Syracuse), also known as Star Park
Athletic Park (Washington)
Athletic Park (Wausau)
Cone Athletic Park, Greensboro, North Carolina
Durham Athletic Park, Durham, North Carolina
Durham Bulls Athletic Park, Durham, North Carolina

In New Zealand
Athletic Park, Wellington

In Canada
Athletic Park (Medicine Hat)
Athletic Park (Vancouver)
Daham Najim Bashir

Daham Najim Bashir (; born David Nyaga on 8 November 1979) is a Kenyan-born middle-distance runner now representing Qatar.

At the 2005 Bislett Games he set a new Asian record over one mile with 3:47.97 minutes. In 2006 he won a silver medal in 1500 metres at the 2006 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships before taking the gold medal at that distance at the 2006 Asian Games. He represented Qatar at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics and the 2008 Summer Olympics, finishing tenth both times.

References

External links
 

1979 births
Living people
Qatari male middle-distance runners
Kenyan male middle-distance runners
Olympic athletes for Qatar
Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
Athletes (track and field) at the 2006 Asian Games
World Athletics Championships athletes for Qatar
Kenyan emigrants to Qatar
Naturalised citizens of Qatar
Qatari people of Kenyan descent
Asian Games gold medalists for Qatar
Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games
Rick Miller (baseball)

Richard Alan (Rick) Miller (born  April 19, 1948) is an American former outfielder in Major League Baseball from 1971 to 1985. Miller attended Union High School (Grand Rapids, Michigan) and was a star athlete in the Grand Rapids City League before playing collegiate ball for the Michigan State Spartans.  On September 4, 1971, Miller, at the age of 23, broke into the big leagues with the Boston Red Sox. He spent 12 of his 15 seasons as a member of the Red Sox, he also played with the California Angels. Miller was an accomplished fielder who won a Gold Glove in 1978 for his play in center field.

He was traded along with Carney Lansford and Mark Clear from the Angels to the Red Sox for Rick Burleson and Butch Hobson on December 10, 1980.

In a 15-year career covering 1482 games, Miller compiled a .269 batting average (1046-for-3887) with 552 runs, 28 home runs and 369 RBI. Defensively, he recorded a .986 fielding percentage at all three outfield positions and first base. In the postseason, in the 1975 World Series and 1979 American League Championship Series, he batted .222 (4-for-18) with 2 runs scored.

In 2007, Miller was named as the manager of the Nashua Pride of the Canadian American Association of Professional Baseball, a team he managed through the end of the 2008 season. In 2012, he was named the manager of the New Bedford Bay Sox of the New England Collegiate Baseball League.

Miller is the brother in law of former teammate Carlton Fisk, having married Fisk's sister Janet.

References

External links

Rick Miller at SABR (Baseball BioProject)

1948 births
Baseball players from Grand Rapids, Michigan
Boston Red Sox players
California Angels players
Gold Glove Award winners
Living people
Louisville Colonels (minor league) players
Major League Baseball center fielders
Michigan State Spartans baseball players
Minor league baseball managers
Pawtucket Red Sox players
Pittsfield Red Sox players
M58 MICLIC

The M58 Mine Clearing Line Charge (MICLIC) is a rocket-projected mine-clearing line charge used to provide a "close-in" demining capability for maneuver forces of the United States Army and Marine Corps. First entering service with United States Army Europe and Africa in 1988, it is effective against conventionally fuzed land mines and, when detonated, it provides a lane 8 meters by 100 meters (8.75 yards by 109 yards).

Technical specification 
The MICLIC system consists of an M353 3½ ton (3,175 kg) or M200A1 2½ ton (2,268 kg) trailer (or M200 tracked trailer) chassis, a launcher assembly, an M147 firing kit, an M58A3 line charge and a 5-inch (127mm) MK22 Mod 4 rocket. The line charge is 350 feet (107 meters) long and contains 5 pounds (2.27 kg) per linear foot of C-4 explosive. In the event a MICLIC fails to detonate normally, it can be manually activated by time-delay fuses every few feet along the length of it. The M147 Firing Kit can also be employed from other combat engineer vehicles, namely the M60 AVLB and the M1150 Assault Breacher Vehicle.

The M58 MICLIC unit cost to procure in FY2018 was approximately $83,600.

Use 
On September 15, 2022, the United States Department of Defense announced the U.S. would supply mine clearing equipment, including the M58 MICLIC, as part of a security assistance package to Ukraine during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In November 2022, the Armed Forces of Ukraine showcased a photo of their forces using the M58 MICLIC.

References

Mine warfare countermeasures
Weapons countermeasures
United States Marine Corps equipment
Military equipment introduced in the 1980s
Half Tree Hollow

Half Tree Hollow is the smallest by area of the eight districts of the island of Saint Helena, part of the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is a suburb of Jamestown and is situated at the top of Ladder Hill which forms the southern side of the James Valley, at the base of which sits Jamestown. The hill was fortified in the late 1700s and Ladder Hill Fort was subsequently built. The village grew during the 1960s because the James Valley lacked any room for expansion.

Description
The district is bounded by the contours of Ladder Hill and is essentially a flat plateau.
Half Tree Hollow is the largest settlement in Saint Helena, with a population exceeding that of the territory's capital of Jamestown. Its population has fluctuated from 901 in 1998 to 1,140 in 2008 and 1,034 in 2021.

History
Ladder Hill was initially known as Fort Hill, even though it was not initially fortified. It was first used by the East India Company as an execution ground with the gibbet visible from Jamestown for the moral edification of the population. The first road to Ladder Hill was completed in 1770 and construction of fortifications on the seaward side of the hill began around 1790. Additional works were built over the next several decades and the complex was known as Ladder Hill Fort by 1815. The fort was reinforced and expanded while Napoleon was in exile in St Helena (1815–21) and the 20th Regiment of Foot is known to have been garrisoned there in 1819. Additional barracks and officer's quarters were built during the 1820s.

A funicular was built to connect Jamestown and the fort in 1829. The cars and rails were removed in 1871 and it was converted into a staircase, commonly known as Jacob's Ladder.

References

Bibliography

External links
A view of Jamestown showing Half Tree Hollow

Districts of Saint Helena
Populated places in Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
Steve Firth

Steven Mark Firth (born 1 February 1965 in Halifax, England) is the bass guitarist for the English band Embrace.

He studied art at Liverpool University, and also completed a psychology degree.

Firth admitted that he only found out about Embrace by chance, as he was looking in the music adverts section of a local paper as an old habit and had temporarily given up due to several failures in bands. He replaced the band's original bass player J Senior in 1995. 

In spite of the band's affiliation with football through the release of the 2006 World Cup song, Steve is believed to be the only member of the band who is largely interested, and supports Leeds United. He also holds an affinity for Leicester City

Firth is also a founding member and bassist of Land Sharks, formed in 2018. The band also features Embrace drummer Mike Heaton.

In 2018, Steve Firth joined forces with Preston-based songwriter, Mark Whiteside [Evil Blizzard] to record album “Between Light and Space” under Mark’s pre-existing solo project, One Sided Horse. Embrace members Richard McNamara, Mike Heaton and Mickey Dale also featured on the album which was also produced by Mickey Dale and released on UK Independent Label, Butterfly Effect.

References

 

1965 births
Living people
Musicians from Halifax, West Yorkshire
English bass guitarists
English male guitarists
Male bass guitarists
Lenham Heath

Lenham Heath is a hamlet in Kent situated on the southern edge of the North Downs, halfway between Maidstone and Ashford. .

The road through Lenham Heath runs parallel, and close to High Speed 1 and the  M20 motorway. The Stour Valley Walk passes through the community.

Hamlets in Kent
List of The Unit episodes

The Unit is an American drama television series. It began airing on CBS on March 7, 2006, in the United States, as a mid-season replacement. Created by David Mamet, The Unit follows a top-secret United States Army special forces team and their missions abroad, in addition to the effect their careers have on their wives and girlfriends. The Unit began its first season on March 7, 2006 and concluded on May 16, 2006; the second season debuted on September 19, 2006 and completed on May 8, 2007. The third season started on September 25, 2007, with a hiatus occurring after the 11th episode due to 2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike. The show was picked up for a fourth season by CBS on May 12, 2008. The fourth season began on September 28, 2008 and ended on May 10, 2009, which was also the series finale as the show was not renewed for a fifth season. A total of 69 episodes of the series aired.

The first three seasons have been released to Region 1 DVD by 20th Century Fox in the form of individual season box sets, which include deleted scenes, behind-the-scenes featurettes, and commentaries. 20th Century Fox has also released both sets to Region 2 DVD in the United Kingdom. Season four was released to Region 1 on September 29, 2009 and was released on February 22, 2010 in Region 2.

Series overview

Episodes

Season 1 (2006)

Season 2 (2006–07)

Season 3 (2007)

Season 4 (2008–09)

Explanatory notes

References

External links 
 
 
 
 

Lists of American action television series episodes
The Unit
Mickey Dale

Michael William Dale (born 22 March 1968) is the keyboardist for the English rock indie band, Embrace. He grew up in the Heaton area of Bradford, West Yorkshire.

He officially joined the band in October 1998, just after the release of their first album, The Good Will Out.  Dale had been playing live and on record with the rest of the band beforehand, but was an 'unofficial member'. He composed all of the string arrangements for The Good Will Out.

Prior to joining Embrace, he had previous experience with local bands Poppy Factory, Kitsch, Copingsaw, Lazer Boy and more famously Cud, who enjoyed moderate success themselves, including three Top 40 singles.

As well as his continuing work as a member of Embrace, Dale is currently working as a producer, making records with bands such as Glass Mountain, LELO, Marsicans, Talkboy and Faux Pas. He also owns and runs his own studio, known as 'The Cellar Of Dreams'.

In 2018, Dale produced an album with One Sided Horse entitled, “Between Light and Space” which was released via UK Independent Butterfly Effect Label.

One Sided Horse began as a side project of Preston-based singer-songwriter, Mark Whiteside (Evil Blizzard). Dale also performed on the album alongside fellow Embrace members, Steve Firth, Mike Heaton and Richard McNamara.

In early 2019, Dale and some close friends set up a label called 'the boy who left home to learn fear'. Run as a collective of filmmakers, visual artists and musicians, the label released two singles on 7 June 2019:
LFR1 - LELO - "About A Journey" (digital and 7" coloured vinyl
LFR2 - Glass Mountain - "Autumn Jam" (digital only)

References

1968 births
Living people
English rock keyboardists
English rock guitarists
English male guitarists
English multi-instrumentalists
English male songwriters
English music managers
Musicians from Bradford
Ahuru

The ahuru (Auchenoceros punctatus) is a species of morid cod found in waters off the eastern coast of New Zealand and to the south as well as in the Cook Strait.  It is found at depths from .  This species grows to  in total length.  It is the only known species of its genus.

References

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

Moridae

Endemic marine fish of New Zealand
Fish described in 1873
HM (magazine)

HM Magazine is a monthly, digital and print on demand publication focusing on hard music and alternative culture of interest to Christians. It is headquartered in Houston, Texas. The magazine states that its goal is to "honestly and accurately cover the current state of hard music and alternative culture from a faith-based perspective."

History 

In 1985, Doug Van Pelt started Heaven's Metal as a fanzine. It was Van Pelt's friend who would later place a classified ad in the 100th issue of Kerrang!, a British magazine focused on covering rock musicians and bands. During that time, Christian metal as a genre began to gain more attention, with Heaven's Metal profiting from this as the only publication exclusively covering that genre. Soon, Heaven's Metal achieved more popularity and became an official publication, with five full-time journalists working for the magazine. Around this time, Heaven's Metal achieved a regular subscription base of 15,000 readers.

During the 1990s, HM sealed a distribution deal with a major magazine wholesaler that immediately increased its print-run from 13,000 to 22,000 copies, and it allowed Van Pelt and his co-workers to double ad rates, making HM a stable business enterprise. Later, it would be two specific articles that would cement HM'''s mainstream popularity: the first was the band King's X's vocalist Doug Pinnick using an interview with HM'' to talk about his sexuality, and the second being Alice Cooper's interview in 2002 about his spiritual beliefs.

In February 2013, Van Pelt sold the magazine to current editor David Stagg under undisclosed terms.

References

Further reading 

Austin Chronicle: HM Editor/Publisher Doug Van Pelt's Hard-Rocking Christian Empire  August 7, 2000
 Phantom Tollbooth: Heaven's Metal Re-launches As A Fanzine October 4, 2004

External links 
 

1985 establishments in Texas
2011 disestablishments in Texas
Christian magazines
Christian metal
Defunct magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 1985
Magazines disestablished in 2011
Magazines published in Texas
Mass media in Houston
Monthly magazines published in the United States
Online music magazines published in the United States
Online magazines with defunct print editions
Catholic Church in Cyprus

The Catholic Church in Cyprus is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome.

Description
There are around 10,000 Catholic faithful in Cyprus, corresponding to just over 1% of the total population. Most Catholic worshippers are either Maronite Cypriots, under the pastoral care of Joseph Soueif, Archeparch of the Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Cyprus, or Latins, under the pastoral care of the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, with a Patriarchal Vicar General. The Roman catholic community of Cyprus (Latinoi, Λατίνοι) is of the three recognised religious minorities of Cyprus, together with the Armenians and Maronites, according to the 1960 constitution, and is represented in the Cypriot parliament.

The Latin Patriarchal Vicariate for Cyprus has four parishes:

 The Holy Cross church in Nicosia, with a dependent mission at the St. Elizabeth Catholic Church in Kyrenia, Northern Cyprus.
 The St. Mary of Graces Church in Larnaca.
 The St. Catherine Catholic Church in Limassol.
 The St. Paul Catholic Church in Paphos.
 
The Sisters of St. Bruno and Bethlehem have a small convent at Mesa Chorio served by the parish priest of Paphos. A recently constructed hospice provides palliative care, regardless of nationality or religious persuasion.

There is also a Catholic presence through chapels and chaplains serving British military personnel, staff and dependents in the Sovereign Base Areas of the island that were established in 1960.

Sacred sites in Cyprus

Many of the religious sites in Cyprus can be traced to early Byzantine foundations, built before the East-West Schism between Rome and Constantinople in the 11th century. Their architecture and iconography reveal a profound influence on ecclesial building traditions still in use in the Cypriot Orthodox Church. In the Middle Ages, Cyprus was ruled by a Frankish aristocracy, the Lusignan dynasty. They favoured the Gothic style when establishing cathedrals and monasteries. The former Catholic Augustinian Cloister of Bellapais near Kyrenia was transferred to Orthodox Church authorities when the Ottomans conquered Cyprus at the end of the 16th century. Other Gothic churches were converted to mosques, for example Saint Sophia Cathedral, now Selimiye Mosque (Nicosia), and Saint Nicholas Cathedral in Famagusta, now the Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque.

See also
Religion in Cyprus
Christianity in Cyprus

References

External links
 The Latin Catholic Church of Cyprus
 The Maronite Eparchy of Cyprus
 The Holy Cross Church in Nicosia

 
Cyprus
Cyprus
Claude Lapointe

Claude Lapointe (born October 11, 1968) is a Canadian former ice hockey player. He played in the National Hockey League for the Quebec Nordiques, Colorado Avalanche, Calgary Flames, New York Islanders, and Philadelphia Flyers between 1991 and 2004.

Early life
Lapointe grew up in the city of Lachine, Quebec. It was playing in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. He was offered a scholarship by the University of Michigan but he refused it.

Playing career
He was drafted by the Nordiques in the 12th round of the 1988 NHL Draft, with the 234th overall pick. Lapointe spent most of his NHL career with the New York Islanders. He was there from the 1996–97 season to the 2002–03 season. While with the New York Islanders, he received many honors such as many NYI Fan club MVP awards and three Bob Nystrom awards, which is awarded to  the player who most exemplifies leadership, hustle, and dedication. He also received awards for reaching the 800 game mark, and for scoring over 100 goals. Other achievements include being named assistant captain with the Islanders, ranking among the top 3 in the NHL for face-off win percentage for 15 years consecutively, spanning entire career. Similarly, Lapointe was among the league's elite in terms of physical conditioning. In 1999, he represented Canada at the 1999 World Championships. He retired in 2004

Personal life
Lapointe has two sons: Kirk and Kody. He coaches and trains hockey players both on ice and off ice.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

External links
 

1968 births
Living people
Calgary Flames players
Canadian ice hockey centres
Colorado Avalanche players
French Quebecers
Halifax Citadels players
Ice hockey people from Montreal
Laval Titan players
New York Islanders players
People from Lachine, Quebec
Philadelphia Flyers players
Philadelphia Phantoms players
Quebec Nordiques draft picks
Quebec Nordiques players
Saint John Flames players
SC Bern players
Trois-Rivières Draveurs players
Utah Grizzlies (IHL) players
Régis Sénac

Régis Sénac, famous French fencer and instructor, was the father of Louis Senac.

Sénac was an instructor of fencing for many years in the French army (Maître d'Armes in the Grande Impériale of France) before emigrating to the United States in 1872. He established a fencing school in 1874 in Broadway near Forty-third St., the "Salle d'Armes", in which his son Louis later succeeded him as director.  On April 10, 1876 he won the fencing championship of America in a contest held at Tammany Hall, New York, along with 500 dollars.

In addition to his wide experience as an instructor, in France he participated in three duels and in each encounter was victorious, escaping without a single scratch, while each of his opponents was seriously disabled.

In his 1879 travel journal, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, Robert Louis Stevenson mentions eating at an inn in Goudet, France where there is a portrait of Sénac, the host's nephew, billed as “Professor of Fencing and Champion of the Two Americas”.

References
"The Other Wild West: Fencing in New York in the 1880s and After", by Ken Mondschein
Senac, Regis and Louis (1930), The Art of Fencing, New York: American Sports Publishing Company (Spalding's Athletic Library).

French male fencers
French emigrants to the United States
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
First Flight

First Flight may refer to:
 Maiden flight, the first flight of a new aircraft type

 First Flight Airport, in North Carolina, United States
 First Flight High School, in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina
 First Flight (sculpture), a sculpture in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

 First Flight (horse)
 First Flight Handicap, a horse race 
 First Flight Tournament, a golf tournament in Japan

 First Flight (Star Trek: Enterprise), an episode of the television series
 First Flight (film), an animated short film
 Green Lantern: First Flight

 First Flight (novel), a novel by Chris Claremont
 First Flight: Maiden Voyages in Space and Time, a collection of short-stories

 Magik One: First Flight, a music compilation 

It may also refer to: 
 The first recorded powered, controlled flight of a heavier-than-air craft 
 First solo flight
 First aerial circumnavigation
Albert Edwards

Albert Edwards may refer to:
Albert Edwards (footballer) (flourished 1910s, died 1918), English footballer
Albert Gallatin Edwards (1812–1892), American businessman and Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury
Turk Edwards (Albert Glen Edwards, 1907–1973), American football tackle and coach

See also
Al Edwards (disambiguation)
Bert Edwards (disambiguation)
Hudson River Way

The Hudson River Way is a 2002 pedestrian bridge that links Broadway in downtown Albany, New York with the Corning Preserve on the bank of the Hudson River. The bridge crosses Interstate 787.

History 
The Hudson River Way was intended to spark downtown and riverfront growth in Albany.  The bridge's 8.5 million dollar cost was covered by the municipal government, the New York State Department of Transportation ($3.3 million including an Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act grant), and over 11,000 individuals, businesses, and other organizations who purchased personalized bricks to support the bridge's construction, which started in April 2001.  These bricks now pave the structure.  The grand opening was on August 10, 2002.

Murals 
The bridge has thirty concrete nine-foot obelisk-lampposts that feature trompe-l'œil still-life paintings by AlbanyMural Ltd .  The Hudson River Way paintings were awarded the Americans for the Arts Public Art Network Award in 2004 for exceptional quality.

Sponsored by individuals and organizations, each mural depicts a historical period or event in Albany's history, from prehistoric times to the present. Many of the paintings are based on archaeological artifacts in area museums. Research for the composition of the paintings took 18 months and involved dozens of experts and historians from across the Capital District. The paintings themselves took two years to complete and were executed by principal artist Jan-Marie Spanard  and assistant artist Koren Lazarou.

The paintings are made of a permanent pigment called potassium silicate. This same material has been used on exterior architecture in Western Europe since the mid-19th century and around the world in the past half-century. Very few American artists create paintings with potassium silicate mineral coatings, but these are the only pigments that can be applied to a stone or concrete substrate that will last indefinitely without fading or lifting from the surface. The Potassium silicate paints used on the Hudson River Way were produced by a German company called Keimfarben. By 2018, however, many of the murals had faded.

External links

Hudson River Way at albany.org

Buildings and structures in Albany, New York
Transportation in Albany, New York
Pedestrian bridges in New York (state)
Arch bridges in the United States
Bridges in Albany County, New York
William Brown (clergyman)

William Brown (1766–1835) was a Scottish clergyman.

Life
Brown was licensed by the presbytery of Stirling in 1791, was minister to the parish of Eskdalemuir Scotland, presented by  Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch, and served from 1792 to 1835.

Works
He was the author of Antiquities of the Jews Carefully Compiled from Authentic Sources, and Their Customs Illustrated from Modern Travels, in two volumes, with a map showing the ground-plan of the Temple (London, 1820; 2nd edition, Edinburgh, 1826). The work was compiled mostly from Latin, French, and English sources, such as Arias Montano's Aaron, Calmet's dictionary, Goodwin's Moses and Aaron, Owen's Exercitation on the Hebrews, Johannes Buxtorf's De Synagoga Judaica, and Jacob Christian Basnage's history. He borrowed much from Lightfoot's Prospect of the Temple and Temple Services, but states in the preface of his work that he takes "a wider range than Dr. Lightfoot, who professes to despise rabbinical learning."

For the improvements in the second edition Brown used the Latin translation by Surenhusius (Willem Surenhuys) of the Mishnah and several additional treatises by Maimonides and Abravanel, also from Latin translations; for his familiarity with Hebrew seems to have been  limited.

Family
In 1797, he married Margaret Moffat; they had three children.

Notes

References
 
 

Christian Hebraists
1766 births
1835 deaths
18th-century Scottish clergy
19th-century Scottish clergy
Libsigc++

libsigc++ is a C++ library for typesafe callbacks.

libsigc++ implements a callback system for use in abstract interfaces and general programming. libsigc++ is one of the earliest implementations of the signals and slots concept implemented using C++ template metaprogramming.  It was created as an alternative to the use of a meta compiler such as found in the signals and slots implementation in Qt.  libsigc++ originated as part of the gtkmm project in 1997 and later was rewritten to be a standalone library. Each signal has a particular function profile which designates the number of arguments and argument type associated with the callback.  Functions and methods are then wrapped using template calls to produce function objects (functors) which can be bound to a signal.  Each signal can be connected to multiple functors thus creating an observer pattern through which a message can be distributed to multiple anonymous listener objects.  Reference counting based object lifespan tracking was used to disconnect the functors from signals as objects are deleted.  The use of templates allowed for compile time typesafe verification of connections. The addition of this strict compile time checking required the addition of template typecasting adapters which convert the functor callback profile to match the required signal pattern.  

libsigc++ was a natural expansion of the C++ standard library functors to the tracking of objects necessary to implement the observer pattern. It inspired multiple C++ template based signal and slot implementations including the signal implementation used in the boost C++ libraries. 

libsigc++ is released as free software under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).

References

External links 
 

C++ libraries
Herman of Hauteville

Herman of Hauteville (Ermanno in Italian) ( 1045 – 1097) was the younger son of Humphrey, count of Apulia and Calabria (1051–1057), and his Lombard wife, Gaitelgrima of Salerno, also known as Altrude. His older brother Abelard was supposed to inherit their father's lands, but Robert Guiscard, their uncle, who was elected count on Humphrey's death, confiscated them.

In 1064, Abelard was at the head of a revolt of the barons against the Guiscard. Robert put it down, but Herman was given as a hostage to the Greek catepan of Italy, Apochara, to ensure Abelard's continued loyalty. Upon his release, he went to Trani and held it during the revolt of 1071, when he lent his assistance to the rebels (including Abelard). In 1073, he was finally captured, by Guy, Duke of Sorrento, the constant ally of the Norman leadership in the Mezzogiorno. He was first imprisoned in Rapolla (at Melfi) and then taken to Mileto, then under Roger, Robert's brother.  Eventually released, he travelled far away, to Constantinople. During Guiscard's Byzantine expedition of 1081–1082, he returned to the peninsula and took Cannae, which he held as count for over a decade before joining the Army of Bohemond, Robert's disinherited eldest son, on the First Crusade, where he was present at and died during the Siege of Antioch.

References
Norwich, John Julius. The Normans in the South 1016–1130. London: Longmans, 1967.

1040s births
1097 deaths
Italo-Normans
Norman warriors
Christians of the First Crusade
Herman
Wijdefjorden

Wijdefjord is the longest fjord in Norway's Svalbard archipelago. Wijdefjord is located in the northern portion of the island of Spitsbergen, which lies in the Arctic Ocean about midway between Norway and the North Pole, and is the largest island in the archipelago. The fjord is  long. Opening on Spitsbergen's north coast, it runs roughly southwards into the interior, separating Andrée Land in the west from Margaretas Land in the east. The southern half of the fjord is part of Indre Wijdefjorden National Park.

External links
 A detailed map of Svalbard with Wijdefjord clearly labeled 

Fjords of Spitsbergen
Llaqtapata

Llaqtapata (Quechua) llaqta place (village, town, city, country, nation), pata elevated place / above, at the top / edge, bank (of a river), shore, pronounced 'yakta-pahta', Hispanicized Llactapata) is an archaeological site about  east of Machu Picchu. The complex is located in the Cusco Region, La Convención Province, Santa Teresa District, high on a ridge between the Ahobamba and Santa Teresa drainages.

Discovery and mapping 
It appears to be the site originally reported by Hiram Bingham as having this name. Although the site was little explored by Bingham, it was more extensively explored and mapped by the Thomson and Ziegler expedition of 2003.

Bingham first discovered Llaqtapata in 1912. "We found evidence that some Inca chieftain had built his home here and had included in the plan ten or a dozen buildings." 
Bingham locates the site "on top of a ridge between the valleys of the Aobamba and the Salcantay, about 5,000 feet above the estate of Huaquina." "Here we discovered a number of ruins and two or three modern huts. The Indians said that the place was called Llacta Pata."
Bingham did not investigate the ruins thoroughly, however, and they were not studied again for another 70 years.

Role as a roadside shrine 
A mid-2003 study of the site conducted by Hugh Thomson and Gary Ziegler concluded that the location of Llaqtapata along the Inca trail suggested that it was an important rest stop and roadside shrine on the journey to Machu Picchu. This and subsequent investigations have revealed an extensive complex of structures and features related to and connected with Machu Picchu by a continuation of the Inca Trail leading onward into the Vilcabamba. Llaqtapata may have been a member of the network of interrelated administrative and ceremonial sites which supported the regional center at Machu Picchu. It probably played an important astronomical function during the solstices and equinoxes.

References and notes 

1912 archaeological discoveries
Inca
Archaeological sites in Peru
Archaeological sites in Cusco Region
Solstices
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Domenico Pellegrini

Domenico Pellegrini may refer to:

 Domenico Pellegrini (painter) (1759–1840), painter in Milan
 Domenico Pellegrini Giampietro (1899–1970), fascist academic in Italy
XHTIM-FM

XHTIM-FM is a commercial radio station in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. Broadcasting on 90.7 FM, XHTIM is owned by MVS Radio and carries the La Mejor Regional Mexican format.

History
XHTIJ-FM 97.7 received its concession in July 1990 but signed on in 1998. It was owned by Carlos Armando Madrazo y Pintado and was eventually sold to Sociedad Mexicana de Radio de Baja California, which in turn sold the station to MVS. It originally broadcast as Estéreo Amistad, broadcasting pop music in Spanish, later rebranding as Sí FM. In 1998, the station flipped to pop music as Pulsar FM, and the next year it became XHTIM-FM with a Regional Mexican format, first as X97.7 and later as La Mejor. (XHTIM-FM had been the call sign of 91.7 FM, which at that time became XHGLX-FM.)

In 2010, MVS took advantage of the move of XHLNC-FM to 104.9 and took over the 90.7 frequency on higher power. The transmitter was also moved from the MVS studios in the Agua Caliente area to Cerro Colorado.

References

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Radio stations in Tijuana
Regional Mexican radio stations
Radio stations established in 1990
MVS Radio
1990 establishments in Mexico
Josef Božek

Josef Božek (Polish: Józef Bożek) (28 February 1782 in Biery – 21 October 1835 in Prague) was an engineer and inventor from Cieszyn Silesia, labelled by various sources as Czech or Polish. The area was part of the Austrian Empire during much of his life. He is considered one of founders of Czech mechanics. He put into operation one of the first steam engines in the Czech lands. His sons, František and Romuald, also became accomplished engineers.

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Steam engine engineers
Engineers from the Austrian Empire
Inventors from the Austrian Empire
Czech engineers
Polish engineers
Czech inventors
Polish inventors
Czech mechanical engineers
Polish mechanical engineers
1782 births
1835 deaths
People from Cieszyn Silesia
People from Cieszyn County
Steven Doyle

Edward Steven Doyle (born 1959) was President of the United States Chess Federation from 1984 to 1987, the youngest person ever to be elected to that position. He is a chess tournament organizer, who is best known for organizing the annual U.S. Amateur Team East Championship which is held every February in Parsippany, New Jersey and is the biggest single-section tournament held in the US.

Steve also served for twenty years as an officer of the New Jersey State Chess Federation. He is Past President. 

In addition, Steve authored a weekly chess column for the Newark Star Ledger for thirty years. 

From 1996 to 2006 he was Vice President of FIDE. He is the only living American to be an Honorary Member of FIDE. 

In the non chess world he holds an MBA and has been a senior officer at two fortune 50 companies. From Chief Financial Officer to President of a major division at both Prudential and Aetna. 

Steve also is very Philanthropic and serves on many charitable boards from the Island Heights Sailing Foundation to the Peto Museum. He supports the visual and performing arts throughout New Jersey and New York City. 

He was the founding President of the US Chess Hall of Fame and Museum located in St Louis.

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1959 births
Living people
American chess players
Chess officials
Abyssal rattail

The abyssal rattail, Coryphaenoides murrayi, is a species of rattail found around southern Australia, Fiji, and the east coast of New Zealand at depths of between .  Its reaches a length of  TL.

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

Macrouridae
Fish described in 1878
Taxa named by Albert Günther
Hot House (British band)

Hot House (also billed as "Hot!House") were an English soul music band featuring Heather Small, Martin Colyer and Mark Pringle, who first came to the attention of the British Music Press (Record Mirror etc.) in January 1987. This was when they released the ballad "Don't Come To Stay"  on the deConstruction Records label (then named as "De Construction").

The record failed to reach the UK Top 40, peaking at #74 in the UK Singles Chart in February 1987, however the record earned the band acclaim and they recorded tracks for their debut album at Muscle Shoals Sound Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.

In September 1987, the band released "The Way That We Walk". However even with a number of magazine interviews the record failed to reach the UK chart. In fact the band would not enter the chart again until a re-issue of "Don't Come To Stay", re-issued via deConstruction's deal with RCA Records (BMG), eclipsed the original peak by four places in September 1988.

Mark Pringle and Martin Colyer are now directors of Rock's Backpages, an online library of music journalism. Heather Small went on to greater success with M People.

Discography

Singles
"Don't Come To Stay" (De Construction - CHEZ 1) - January 1987 - UK #74
"The Way That We Walk" (De Construction - CHEZ 2) - September 1987
"Crazy" (De Construction - PD 42114) - July 1988
"Don't Come To Stay" (reissue) (De Construction - PB 42233) - September 1988 - UK #70
"Hard As I Try" (De Construction - PB 42657 - March 1989)
"Everything You Said" (De Construction - PB 42845 - May 1989)
"Lose the Feeling" (De Construction - 1990)

Albums
South (1988)
Movers and Shakers (1990)

References

Record Mirror - 12 September 1987

Musical groups from Manchester
English house music groups
British contemporary R&B musical groups
Vilém Gajdušek

Vilém Gajdušek (1895–1977) was Czech optician and prominent telescope designer.

Asteroid 3603 Gajdušek is named for him.

References

See also
List of astronomical instrument makers

Czech scientists
1895 births
1977 deaths
Eggardon Hill

Eggardon Hill is a prehistoric hillfort on a hill in Dorset, England. It is located on chalk uplands approximately four miles to the east of the town of Bridport.

The Hill 
Eggardon Hill stands  above sea level and is classified as a Hump (hill of any height with a drop of 100 metres or more on all sides). The highest point is to the east of the hillfort, (some sources give a height of 254m). The hill provides extensive views of the surrounding countryside and the English Channel to the south. The southern half of the hill is owned and maintained by The National Trust (which permits free public access throughout the year) with the northern part in private ownership.

Prehistory 
The earliest archaeological features on the hill are linear earthworks which cross the interior. These were partially excavated during 1963-6 and found to be Bronze Age. There are also two bowl barrows within the area of the hillfort that were dated to the Middle Bronze Age. There are also three further bowl barrows and a disc barrow on the top of the hill outside of the area of the hillfort.

The large multivallate hillfort dates from the Iron Age. The surviving earthworks enclose an area of approximately 21ha in total. The defences consist of three ramparts with two medial ditches with additional outer banks to the north-west and east. Ditches and counterscarp banks provide additional protection at the staggered entrances and to the south west where there is an additional outwork.

Later history 
The Hundred of Eggardon is first documented in the Domesday Book of 1086.

The name Eggardon is derived from an Old English place name, meaning the hill belonging to Eohhere.

The smuggler Isaac Gulliver (1745-1822) (who owned Eggardon Hill Farm) is reputed to have planted a stand of pine trees on Eggardon Hill, to provide an aid to navigation for his ships as they approached the Dorset coast. Although the trees were later felled on government orders, the octagonal earthworks used to protect them from the elements is still visible today and marked on Ordnance Survey maps of the area.

Preservation 

The Hillfort and the two bowl barrows within it are a scheduled monument. The group of three bowl barrows and the disc barrow outside of the hillfort are scheduled separately.

The southern half of the hill is owned and maintained by The National Trust (which permits free public access throughout the year) with the northern part in private ownership.

References

External links
 
 Eggardon Hill's property page on the National Trust's site

Hill forts in Dorset
Hills of Dorset
National Trust properties in Dorset
Sutton railway station (Ireland)

Sutton railway station () is a railway station in Fingal, Ireland that serves the village and district of Sutton, and is also accessible from Baldoyle.

History
The station opened on 30 July 1846. The Howth tram ran between here and Howth railway station until 1959.

The station is on the coastal road from Sutton to Baldoyle, near Sutton Golf Club. The ticket office is open from 05:45 to 20:00, Monday to Sunday.

See also
 List of railway stations in Ireland

References

External links

 Irish Rail Sutton Station Website
 Eiretrains - Sutton & Baldoyle Station

Sutton, Dublin
Baldoyle
Iarnród Éireann stations in Fingal
Railway stations in Fingal
1846 establishments in Ireland
Buildings listed on the Fingal Record of Protected Structures
Railway stations in the Republic of Ireland opened in 1846
Knut Eilevsson Steintjønndalen

Knut Eilevsson Steintjønndalen (c. 1850 – December 2, 1902) was a Norwegian Hardanger fiddle maker from Bø in Telemark, Norway.

Knut Eilevsson Steintjønndalen continued the Steintjønndal tradition when his brother Jon Eilevsson Steintjønndalen left. He married and bought the Langkås farm in the Folkestad neighbourhood, and he founded a workshop there.

He experimented with making the tone more powerful by increasing the thickness of the soundboard and bottom. This feature created quite a demand for his fiddles. However, his greatest reputation came from the exquisite ornamentation on his instruments. Knut used a river pearl mussels from the river in Bø to decorate both the grip board and the tailpiece. Both the varnishing and the rose decorations had not been seen before or since.

At the end of the 1800s he was considered the leading violin maker. The musicians that he created instruments for included Nils Tjoflot. He died at age 57.

See also 
 The Helland fiddle maker family

References

External links 
The Helland fiddle maker family

1850s births
1902 deaths
Norwegian musical instrument makers
Fiddle makers