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Richard Hawley Tucker

Richard Hawley Tucker (October 29, 1859 – March 31, 1952) was an American astronomer.

Biography 
He was born in Wiscasset, Maine, to a ship-owning and seafaring family. After a brief stint at sea starting at age 14, he attended Lehigh University, where he studied civil engineering but became interested in the study of astronomy. He graduated in 1879 and became an assistant at Dudley Observatory. He remained there for four years, and briefly worked with the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.

In 1883 he joined Lehigh as an instructor of mathematics and astronomy. A year later he was offered a position with the Argentine National Observatory, where he would assist in a survey of the southern night sky. He remained there for nine years, then joined the staff of Lick Observatory in 1893. He remained at Lick until 1908, operating the Meridian Circle program to make precise measurements of star positions.

In 1908 he would travel to San Luis, Argentina as part of an expedition to measure the positions of stars in the southern part of the sky. These measurements were to be incorporated into a catalog for Dudley Observatory. During his time there he made 20,800 observations of stars.

After his work in Argentina, he returned to Lick Observatory. In 1914 he married Ruth Standen, a secretary at Lick. He remained at the observatory until he retired in 1926, when he became Astronomer Emeritus. He spent his retirement years in Palo Alto, California.

During his career he published fifty three scientific articles. He was survived by his wife, two daughters and a grandson.

Awards and honors
 Honorary Doctor of Science degree from Lehigh University, 1922.
 The crater Tucker on the Moon is named after him.

References
 Sanford, R. F., 1953, Richard Hawley Tucker, 1859-1952, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 65, No. 382.

External links
 Richard Hawley Tucker, 1859-1952 from Lehigh University
 Photographs of Richard Hawley Tucker from the Lick Observatory Records Digital Archive, UC Santa Cruz Library's Digital Collections

1859 births
1952 deaths
People from Wiscasset, Maine
American astronomers
Lehigh University alumni
Bostel

RTV BosTel or BosTel is a Bosnian language broadcaster in North America serving the Bosnian diaspora.

RTV BosTel's program started airing in September 2001 with a 2-hour program in the Chicago radio market, but has since then expanded into a 24-hour satellite television network throughout North America. RTV BosTel currently airs its channel on EURO World Network's Satellite platform on Galaxy-19 and also available on the NexTV America IPTV platform.

BosTel's viewers are able to get informed about the most recent news and important events that have happened in Bosnia and Herzegovina, along with North American Bosnian communities.

BosTel's mission is to connect the displaced Bosnians with their nation, their main focus is helping the community as much as possible.

External links 
RTV Bostel Homepage 

Television channels and stations established in 2001
Bosnian-American culture in Illinois
Bosnian-language mass media
Television stations in Chicago
Manns Harbor, North Carolina

Manns Harbor is a census-designated place (CDP) in Dare County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 821.

Overview
Before the first settlers arrived in the vicinity of Manns Harbor, the Native American village Dasamongueponke existed on or close to the site.

Located east of the intersection of U.S. Routes 64 and 264, it is nestled along the western bank of Croatan Sound. Before 1957, Manns Harbor used to harbor a ferry that traversed the sound and provided access to Roanoke Island. Today, the William B. Umstead Bridge (completed in 1957) and the four-lane Virginia Dare Memorial Bridge (completed in 2002) link Manns Harbor on the mainland to Manteo on Roanoke Island. The community provides a gateway to North Carolina's Outer Banks.

The residents of Manns Harbor are governed by the Dare County Board of Commissioners.  Manns Harbor is part of District 1, along with Manteo, Roanoke Island, and Wanchese.

In 2013, local resident, Harry C. Mann, was indicted for nearly $334,000 in kickbacks from Chowan County metal recycling companies and others over six years to scrap metal and equipment from the range. Navy and Air Force pilots use the site on mainland Dare County off U.S. 264 south of Manns Harbor for target practice.

Demographics

2020 census

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 790 people, 311 households, and 255 families residing in the CDP.

Airports
The Hyde County Airport and Dare County Regional Airport are the closest airports.

Education
Residents are zoned to Dare County Schools. Zoned schools include Manteo Elementary School, Manteo Middle School, and Manteo High School.

References

Census-designated places in Dare County, North Carolina
Staphyleaceae

Staphyleaceae is a small family of flowering plants in the order Crossosomatales, native to Europe, temperate and tropical Asia and the Americas.  The largest genus Staphylea, which gives the family its name, contains the "bladdernut" trees. The family includes three genera with more than 40 known species.

Genera
Plants of the World Online currently includes:
 Dalrympelea Roxb.
 Staphylea L. (includes Euscaphis)
 Turpinia Vent.

Excluded genera
These two genera, formerly placed here, are now included in the Tapisciaceae (Huerteales) as of the APG III system (2009).
Huertea
Tapiscia

References

 
Rosid families
Yunfei

Yunfei is a transliteration of multiple Chinese given names. Notable people with these names include:

Li Yunfei (李运飞, born 1979), Chinese figure skater
Liu Yunfei (刘云飞, born 1979), Chinese football player
Yunfei (Samurai Shodown), character in the Samurai Shodown video game series
Wang Zuo (王佐, 1898–1930), Chinese bandit chieftain and protégé of Mao Zedonga, also called Wang Yunfei (王雲飛)

Chinese given names
BAPCo consortium

BAPCo, Business Applications Performance Corporation, is a non-profit consortium (founded in 1991) with a charter to develop and distribute a set of objective performance benchmarks for personal computers based on popular software applications and operating systems.

BAPCo's current membership includes Acer, ARCIntuition, ASUS, Compal, Dell, Dynabook, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, Intel, Inventec, LC Future Center, Lenovo, Pegatron, Quanta Computer, Samsung, Western Digital, Wistron, and others.

Products 
Benchmarks from BAPCo include:

 APPmark® 2018
 MobileMark® 25
 SYSmark® 2018
 SYSmark 25
CrossMark

Controversy 
BAPco has suffered criticism for bias in its benchmarking products. It was found in 2002 that Intel was the sole contributor to a series of CPU tests, tests which heavily favoured their own CPU's vs competitors, where the tests of the year before performed significantly better on non-Intel parts. Intel was investigated by the FTC, and eventually fined for this action, among other anti-competitive measures.

See also
Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation
Benchmark (computing)
Futuremark

References

External links
BAPCo.com
BAPCo - Results Dashboard

Companies based in Missouri
Technology consortia
Computer performance
Evaluation of computers
Kitching

Kitching is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 Alan Kitching (typographic artist) (born 1940), British typographic artist
 Alan Kitching, British graphic designer
 Arthur Kitching (bishop) (1875–1960), Anglican missionary, bishop and author
 Arthur Kitching (politician) (1840–1919), English stockbroker and Liberal politician
 Audrey Kitching (born 1985), American model and fashion designer
 Belinda Kitching (born 1977), Australian footballer
 Christopher Kitching (born 1945), British archivist
 Colin Kitching (1933–2022), Australian soccer player
 Colin Kitching, violinist for English band Centipede
 Fat Kitching (fl. 1938), Australian soccer player
 Fran Kitching (born 1998), English footballer
 Frederick Kitching (1886–1918), British athlete
 Gavin Kitching, British professor of international relations
 George Kitching (1910–1999), Canadian World War II general
 Harold Kitching (1885–1980), British rower
 Harry Kitching (1905–?), English footballer
 J. Howard Kitching (1838–1865), American Civil War Union Army officer
 Jack Kitching (1921–?), British rugby league footballer
 James Kitching (1922–2003), South African vertebrate palaeontologist
 John Alwyne Kitching (1908–1996), British biologist
 John Kitching (athlete), British athlete
 Kimberley Kitching (1970–2022), Australian politician
 Liam Kitching (born 1999), English footballer
 Mark Kitching (born 1995), English professional footballer
 Nigel Kitching (born 1959), British comic book artist
 Phil Kitching (born 1967), English professional footballer
 Theodore Kitching (1866–1930), British officer of the Salvation Army
 Wilfred Kitching (1893–1977), 7th General of the Salvation Army
 William and Alfred Kitching, British locomotive builders

See also
 Kitching Ridge, in Antarctica
 Kitchings, surname

English-language surnames
Nic Clemons

Nic Clemons (born February 3, 1980) is a former American football defensive tackle. He was originally signed by the Washington Redskins as an undrafted free agent in 2003.  He played college football at Georgia.

High school career
Clemons attended Griffin High School, but did not play high school football.  Instead, he was a key player on the basketball team that reached the Class AAA final four.  As a forward, he averaged five points and four rebounds per game.  He is the brother of Chris Clemons of the Seattle Seahawks and nephew of former NFL linebacker Charlie Clemons, who he lists as his role model.

College career
Clemons attended junior college at Georgia Military College where he earned Honorable Mention Junior College All-American in 1999.  He recorded 58.5 tackles, 7.5 sacks, eight pressures, three fumble recoveries and three pass deflections as a sophomore.  Clemons started playing football for the University of Georgia in 2001, where he played a backup role at defensive end and participated in five contests.  He then suffered a hip injury mid-year that ended his season.  He played in only two games during his senior season in 2002 before injury (turf toe) ended his season.

Professional career
Clemons signed with the Redskins as a rookie free agent after the 2003 NFL Draft.  He spent the 2003 and 2004 seasons on the Redskins practice squad.  In 2005, he played in eight games for the Redskins and recorded two tackles.

External links
Just Sports Stats

1980 births
Living people
University of Georgia alumni
Washington Redskins players
American football defensive ends
Atlanta Falcons players
Denver Broncos players
Sportspeople from Griffin, Georgia
Players of American football from Atlanta
Omaha Nighthawks players
Extreme Behavior

Extreme Behavior is the debut studio album by American rock band Hinder. It was released in 2005 by Universal Records to generally negative reviews, before going platinum in September 2006. All songs were co-written by Brian Howes, except for "Shoulda", which was co-written with Brian Howes and Social Code. The song "Running in the Rain" did not make the cut for the album, but has been played at concerts on their North American tour.

Release
The first single (and the song that brought attention to the band) was "Get Stoned". The album also contains Hinder's breakthrough single, "Lips of an Angel" which soared to #1 on the pop charts in 2006. The album's third single was "How Long", which was played on rock stations throughout the US. "Better Than Me" is the fourth single on Extreme Behavior. As of July 11, 2007, the album has sold 2,789,275 copies in the US. Despite not being released as a single, the song "By the Way" also had received airplay from several radio stations.

Cover
The cover art is nearly identical to the cover art of the book How to Tell a Naked Man What to Do: Sex Advice from a Woman Who Knows by Candida Royalle; the only difference is on the book, the model is wearing black lingerie. One of the cover pictures has been altered and the pictures in front of the model have been altered to include the members of Hinder. The alternative album cover has been used in conservative markets like the Philippines and the Middle East. The woman on the front of the original cover is not actress Katherine Heigl, despite common assertion.

Reception

Critical reviews of the album were mixed to negative. Extreme Behavior was, according to AllMusic, one of the worst albums of 2005; it was rated two out of five stars. In its review of the album, reviewer Johnny Loftus said that "Hinder are so egregiously dull they appeal not to fans of music, but fans of high fives."

Track listing
All music and lyrics written by Hinder and Brian Howes, apart from lyrics on tracks 1, 2 and 3 by Hinder, Howes and Joey Moi.

Personnel
Austin John Winkler – lead vocals, guitar
Joe "Blower" Garvey – lead guitar, backing vocals
Mark King – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
Mike Rodden – bass guitar, backing vocals
Cody Hanson – drums, backing vocals
Robin Diaz – drums

Production
Brian Howes – producer
Mike Fraser – engineer
Randy Staub - mixing 
Zach Blackstone - assistant mixing engineer
George Marino - mastering at Sterling Sound, New York, NY

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Decade-end charts

Certifications

References

2005 debut albums
Hinder albums
Universal Records albums
Albums recorded at Armoury Studios
Coandă

Coandă may refer to:

Constantin Coandă, Romanian Army general, Prime Minister of Romania during World War I.
Henri Coandă, Constantin's son, aircraft designer and inventor.
The Coandă effect, a phenomenon that causes a fluid to be attracted to another object, named after Henri Coandă.

Romanian-language surnames
Scriptures of the Golden Eternity

Scriptures of the Golden Eternity is a solo album by guitarist Lee Ranaldo, who also performs in rock band Sonic Youth. It was released on vinyl by the Father Yod label, and later reissued on CD by the Drunken Fish label. The cover design is by visual artist Savage Pencil. The album consists of three untitled tracks featuring a solo Ranaldo performing guitar, tape loops, and occasional vocal. The first was recorded on 18 July 1988, and the remaining two were recorded on 28 November 1989.

Unlike his first solo work From Here to Infinity, Scriptures of the Golden Eternity was recorded live at two solo performances Ranaldo gave in New York City, around the same period when Sonic Youth were recording their landmark albums Daydream Nation and Goo. During the first minutes of opening track, Ranaldo relates a story recalled from an episode of The Adventures of Superman (which Ranaldo refers to as "not the cartoon, but the real show") where a kidnapped guest character had left as a clue for Superman two tape loops of a person's voice saying "hello" in an echo chamber and a sound effect of a cannon firing, the clue meaning "Echo Canyon". Echo Canyon would subsequently become the name of Sonic Youth's private studio where several of their later period Geffen Records and SYR Records albums were recorded.

The liner notes state that the album is "Dedicated to the Diamond Sutra and the Spirit of the Eternal Now!".

Track listing
No track titles are given anywhere on the liner notes. Emusic and the iTunes Music Store list the individual song titles on their respective downloading menus as their respective track numbers.
One (22:42)
Two (15:05)
Three (10:28)

Other similarly titled works
 Scriptures of the Golden Eternity is also the title of a short manual written by Jack Kerouac.

References

Lee Ranaldo albums
Scriptures of the Golden Eternity (LP edition)
Drunken Fish Records live albums
Father Yod Records live albums
Nohohon Zoku

are a range of fist-sized bobble head figurines made by the Japanese toy company Tomy. They first went on sale in Japan on July 18, 2002. They are distinguished by a large spherical head with a wide smile and dots for eyes. The purpose of the dolls is stress relief. This has made them popular as novelty items in offices . Nohohon are marketed as Sunshine Buddies in English speaking countries.

Environmental focus
The figurines are intended to be eco-friendly. The Nohohon Cycle rotates from the Earth, to food, people and the environment.

Most Nohohon Zoku are powered by small solar panels, they gently sway their heads until the light source is removed. This is unlike traditional bobble head doll, whose heads wobble when poked or moved. Hanauta no Tami are powered by three triple-A batteries.).

Figurines
The name Nohohon Zoku means "carefree family." The original two lines were the Hidamari no Tami (ひだまりの民 Sunny People) and the Hanauta no Tami (はなうたの民 Humming People). The Hidamari no Tami can hold a business card sized piece of paper, whereas the Hanauta no Tami can sing and dance. Since the original introduction, other lines have been introduced, including a range from Disney and Pingu characters.

The size of the figurines varies with the model, with the Hidamari no Tami measuring about  in width, depth and height. The Hanauta no Tami are slightly taller, at .

Sales
Basic Hidamari no Tami figurines cost about 1000 yen, though the price of Hanauta no Tami is approximately double.

In the United Kingdom, the toys, known as Sunshine Buddies, are sold for about £8 each and are marketed toward women ages 20 to 45 as friendship gifts.

In the U.S. they are usually marketed at 13.99 U.S. dollars.

References

External links
 Official website (Japanese only)

Takara Tomy
Electronic toys
18-Methoxycoronaridine

18-Methoxycoronaridine (18-MC, or MM-110), also known as zolunicant, is a derivative of ibogaine invented in 1996 by the research team around the pharmacologist Stanley D. Glick from the Albany Medical College and the chemists Upul K. Bandarage and Martin E. Kuehne from the University of Vermont. In animal studies it has proved to be effective at reducing self-administration of morphine, cocaine, methamphetamine, nicotine and sucrose. It has also been shown to produce anorectic effects in obese rats, most likely due to the same actions on the reward system which underlie its anti-addictive effects against drug addiction.

18-MC was in the early stages of human testing by the California-based drug development company Savant HWP before being acquired by MindMed, a Canadian pharmaceutical company newly listed on the NASDAQ in April 2021. In 2002 the research team began raising funds for human trials, but were unable to secure the estimated $5 million needed. In 2010, Obiter Research, a chemical manufacturer in Champaign, Illinois, signed a patent license with Albany Medical College and the University of Vermont, allowing them the right to synthesize and market 18-MC and other congeners. In 2012 the National Institute on Drug Abuse gave a $6.5 million grant to Savant HWP for human trials.  In 2017 it went into Phase-II trials in Brazil for treatment of Leishmaniasis at the Evandro Chagas Institute, but not for approval for use as a treatment for drug addiction. A phase 2a study of MM-110 treatment in patients experiencing opioid withdrawal is set to commence in Q2 2022.

Pharmacology 
18-MC is a α3β4 nicotinic antagonist and, in contrast to ibogaine, has no affinity at the α4β2 subtype nor at NMDA-channels nor at the serotonin transporter, and has significantly reduced affinity for sodium channels and for the σ receptor, but retains modest affinity for μ-opioid receptors where it acts as an agonist, and κ-opioid receptors. The sites of action in the brain include the medial habenula, interpeduncular nucleus, dorsolateral tegmentum and basolateral amygdala. (±)-18-MC competitively inhibits α9α10 nAChRs with potencies higher than that at α3β4 and α4β2 nAChRs and directly blocks CaV2.2.

Chemistry

Derivatives
A number of derivatives of 18-MC have been developed, with several of them being superior to 18-MC itself, the methoxyethyl congener ME-18-MC being more potent than 18-MC with similar efficacy, and the methylamino analogue 18-MAC being more effective than 18-MC with around the same potency. These compounds were also found to act as selective α3β4 nicotinic acetylcholine antagonists, with little or no effect on NMDA receptors.

See also 
 Coronaridine
 Ibogaine
 Noribogaine
 Voacangine

References 

Drug rehabilitation
Iboga
Nicotinic antagonists
NMDA receptor antagonists
Kappa-opioid receptor agonists
Mu-opioid receptor antagonists
Opioid modulators
Spatial cutoff frequency

In optics, spatial cutoff frequency is a precise way to quantify the smallest object resolvable by an optical system.  Due to diffraction at the image plane, all optical systems act as low pass filters with a finite ability to resolve detail.  If it were not for the effects of diffraction, a 2" aperture telescope could theoretically be used to read newspapers on a planet circling Alpha Centauri, over four light-years distant.  Unfortunately, the wave nature of light will never permit this to happen.

The spatial cutoff frequency for a perfectly corrected incoherent optical system is given by

 
where  is the wavelength expressed in millimeters and  is the lens' focal ratio.  As an example, a telescope having an  objective and imaging at 0.55 micrometers has a spatial cutoff frequency of 303 cycles/millimeter.  High-resolution black-and-white film is capable of resolving details on the film as small as 3 micrometers or smaller, thus its cutoff frequency is about 150 cycles/millimeter. So, the telescope's optical resolution is about twice that of high-resolution film, and a crisp, sharp picture would result (provided focus is perfect and atmospheric turbulence is at a minimum).

This formula gives the best-case resolution performance and is valid only for perfect optical systems.  The presence of aberrations reduces image contrast and can effectively reduce the system spatial cutoff frequency if the image contrast falls below the ability of the imaging device to discern.

The coherent case is given by

See also 
 Modulation transfer function
 Superlens

References

Goodman, J.A., Introduction to Fourier Optics, McGraw Hill, 1969.

Optical quantities
Curious Punishments of Bygone Days

Curious Punishments of Bygone Days is a history book published in 1896.  It was written by Alice Morse Earle and printed by Herbert S. Stone & Company. Earle was a historian of Colonial America, and she writes in her introduction:

In ransacking old court records, newspapers, diaries and letters for the historic foundation of the books which I have written on colonial history, I have found and noted much of interest that has not been used or referred to in any of those books. An accumulation of notes on old-time laws, punishments and penalties has evoked this volume.

As the title suggests, the subject of the chapters is various archaic punishments.  Morse seems to make a distinction between stocks for the feet, in the Stocks chapter, and stocks for the head, described in the Pillory article- which itself clashes with the modern day understanding of a pillory as a whipping post.

Table of contents
Foreword
The Bilboes
The Ducking Stool
The Stocks
The Pillory
Punishments of Authors and Books
The Whipping Post
The Scarlet Letter
Branks and Gags
Public Penance
Military Punishments
Branding and Maiming

References

External links

 Text of Curious Punishments of Bygone Days; public domain

Non-fiction crime books
Torture
1896 non-fiction books
Penology
Al-Dana (vessel)

The al-Dana was a motorised Arabic dhow or passenger ferry. It was sailing off Manama, Bahrain, when it capsized in the Persian Gulf on March 30, 2006.  As of March 31, 67 out of the 150 people on board had been rescued, and 58 have been confirmed dead. Around 40 more are missing. The confirmed dead include 17 Indians and 12 Britons.

Most of the passengers were foreigners from the Nass-Murray & Roberts joint venture construction company who were celebrating completion of part of the Bahrain World Trade Centre towers. Ten of the dead were employed by the South African construction company Murray & Roberts Limited; four of these were South African employees, two were Indian, one was from Pakistan  and another was a South African partner. SABC has reported that a sixth South African died in the tragedy.

Bahrain's coastguard service was involved in an immediate rescue operation, reaching minutes after the disaster. The United States Navy's Fifth Fleet helped with the rescue effort with divers and small naval craft.

Additional information
 The Gulf Daily News has reported that the vessel was licensed as a floating restaurant and that it was supposed to remain berthed at the quay.

External links
 BBC
Beeld, South Africa
Bahrain ferry disaster kills 48; 63 rescued from Fox News Channel
Report from Al Jazeera
Many die in Bahrain boat disaster from BBC

Maritime incidents in 2006
2006 in Bahrain
Persian Gulf
Transport disasters in Bahrain
Shipwrecks in the Persian Gulf
Nongjungjo

NongJungJo (농중조, Nongjungjo) is a 1926 Korean film. Future writing/directing/acting star Na Woon-gyu appeared in this film just before his breakthrough in Arirang (1926). Kato Kyohei served as director of photography both for this and other well-known Korean movies of the 1920s.

Plot summary
The story is a melodrama concerning two lovers who are kept apart by the woman's strict parents, who lock her in her house.

References

Pre-1948 Korean films
Korean black-and-white films
Korean silent films
Mohammed Al-Hamad Stadium

Mohammed al-Hamad Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Hawally, Kuwait.  It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 22,000.

The stadium is the home of Al Qadsia Kuwait.

Name
The name of the stadium is in honour of first manager for the club and one of the club's founders Mohammed Al-Hamad. The stadium was named after his death in 1980.

See also
 List of football stadiums in Kuwait

References

Football venues in Kuwait
Multi-purpose stadiums in Kuwait
1960 establishments in Kuwait
Sports venues completed in 1960
Magdalo Mussio

Magdalo Mussio (Volterra, 23 July 1925 – Civitanova Marche, 12 August 2006) was an Italian writer, artist, film animator and magazine editor.

Biography
Mussio was born in Volterra, Tuscany. After graduating at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, in the late 1960s he served as editor of several Italian cultural publications, including the magazine Marcatrè. He also worked as creative director and animator for a number of films, including Reale dissoluto, I ragazzi di Theresi, Il potere del drago and Umanomeno.

Mussio has authored several books uniting his own creative writings with what has been described as 'an archaeology of images in a sweetly melancholic mixture'. Among his best-known titles are In practica, Praticabili per memoria concreta and Il fastidio delle parole.

As a visual artist, Mussio was associated with Gruppo 63. He had his first solo show at Galleria L'Indiano in Florence in 1963. Giuseppe Ungaretti wrote the catalogue essay.

Mussio died at 81 after a long illness.

Further reading

 

1925 births
2006 deaths
People from the Province of Pisa
Italian male writers
Italian experimental filmmakers
Italian animators
Italian editors
Italian magazine editors
Italian contemporary artists
Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze alumni
Thai-Japanese Stadium

The Thai-Japanese Stadium (Japanese: タイ・ジャパニーズ・スタジアム; ), also called Thai-Japanese Bangkok Youth Center (, is a multi-purpose stadium in Din Daeng, Bangkok, Thailand.  It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Bangkok United of the Thai Premier League.  The stadium holds 6,600 spectators

It is one of the more substantial stadiums in Bangkok. On one side is a - barely - covered stand fitted with red seats. 'B M A' (Bangkok Metropolitan Administration) is picked out in white seats (The BMA own the stadium). The rest of the stadium is a continuous ring with seats fitted throughout (unusual in Thailand). The word 'BANGKOK' has been picked out with white seats in the stand opposite the main stand. This stand also has an insignificant cover. Unusually for a Thai stadium there is a perimeter fence on three sides separating the stands from the pitch.

Other stadiums in Bangkok include the Thai Army Sports Stadium, National Stadium, Rajamangala National Stadium and Chulalongkorn University Stadium.

Most recently the stadium hosted the 2018 Youth Olympic Games Asian Area Qualification trials in early July.

References

Football venues in Thailand
Sports venues in Bangkok
Multi-purpose stadiums in Thailand
Din Daeng district
Venues of the 1998 Asian Games
Asian Games football venues
Thammasat Stadium

Thammasat Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in the city of Rangsit, Pathum Thani, Thailand.  It is currently used mostly for football matches.  The stadium holds 25,000. It is on Thammasat University's Rangsit campus. It is located close to Bangkok.

History 
It was built for the 1998 Asian Games by construction firm Christiani & Nielsen, the same company that constructed the Democracy Monument in Bangkok.

Its appearance resembles a scaled-down version of Rajamangala Stadium. The tribunes form a continuous ring that is quite low behind each goal but rises up on each side. Unlike Rajamangala though, Thammasat has a roof covering both side tribunes. Most striking about this stadium are the floodlights. Thai architects usually favor concrete pylons but these are the steel variety. As viewed from the exterior of the stadium the base of each pylon seems to grip the outside of the stadium and they dramatically lean over the tribunes so as to better illuminate the playing area.

Thammasat was going to be used for PEA FC's match against Singapore Armed Forces FC in an Asian Champions League qualifier in February 2009. Still, the pitch was deemed unplayable and the match was switched to Rajamangala.

Facilities 
The Stadium
Thammasat Water Sport Center
Gymnasium 1
Gymnasium 2
Gymnasium 3
Gymnasium 4
Gymnasium 5
Gymnasium 6
Gymnasium 7

Historical tenants

Tenants of Thammasat stadium have been Thai professional football clubs as follows.
 PEA in 2001–2002
 INSEE Police F.C. in 2011–2014
 Dome in 2015–present
 Bangkok United in 2016–present

International football matches

Football at the 1998 Asian Games – Women's tournament

2020 AFC U-23 Championship

2022 AFF Championship

2023 AFC U-17 Asian Cup

References

External links
Christiani & Nielsen site

Football venues in Thailand
Sports venues in Pathum Thani Province
Venues of the 1998 Asian Games
Asian Games athletics venues
Asian Games football venues
Multi-purpose stadiums in Thailand
Sports venues completed in 1998
1998 establishments in Thailand
Asian Games water polo venues
Surakul Stadium

Surakul Stadium (; ) is a multi-purpose stadium in Phuket Province, Thailand.  It is currently used mostly for football matches.  The stadium holds 15,000 and was built in 1959.

The stadium co-hosted the 2008 AFF Suzuki Cup. The use of the Surakul Stadium for this tournament had to be hastily arranged. Stadiums in Bangkok were intended to be used but because of the airport takeovers in Bangkok by the PAD the AFF in consultation with the FAT decided to switch venues. Despite better stadiums being available in Nakhon Ratchasima (5th December Stadium); Chiang Mai (700th Anniversary Stadium) and Songkhla (Tinsulanon Stadium); the Surakul Stadium was chosen as all the teams could fly directly into Phuket.

The stadium also played host to the 2009 King's Cup which included a notorious game involving Thailand and Lebanon where the latter walked off the pitch during the game as they became incensed by what they saw as biased refereeing.

The stadium will be used by Phuket F.C. for the 2009 season in the newly formed Division 2 Southern Region of the Thailand Division 2 League.

The finals of the well-known Rugby tens, Phuket International Rugby 10's in June 2009 are also played there.

Stadium and locations

International football matches

Football venues in Thailand
Buildings and structures in Phuket province
Multi-purpose stadiums in Thailand
Sports venues completed in 1959
1959 establishments in Thailand
Tinsulanon Stadium

Tinsulanonda Stadium (, ) is a multi-purpose stadium in Songkhla, Thailand. Named after the Songkhla-born former Thai Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda, it is used mostly for football matches.

The stadium has a capacity of 20,000 but just 2,000 of those spaces are covered in a small single-tiered stand along one touchline. The rest of the stadium is a continuous curving tier. The stadium hosted one of the semi-finals in the 1998 Asian Games men's football tournament.

History
In the early 1970s, the Sports Authority of Thailand has a project to build a stadium in the region in Songkhla. The stadium name is "District 9 Stadium", located in Bo Yang Subdistrict, Mueang District, Songkhla Province, with the support of the construction budget from the Government Lottery Office.

In 1989, Songkhla has been selected to host the National Games causing District 9 stadium to undergo major renovation including changing the stadium name from "District 9 Stadium" to "Tinsulanon Stadium" since that change Tinsulanon Stadium has become an important stadium in the southern region of Thailand to organize sporting events in various categories.

In 1998 Tinsulanon Stadium get the opportunity to host the largest event, such as the 13th Asian Games, 1998, hosted by Thailand at Tinsulanon Stadium. Therefore, a major improvement is needed again because the stadium has been selected to be the competition field for football.

Later in 2014, the Sports Authority of Thailand transferred the field supervision to the Provincial Administrative Organization of Songkhla and use a budget of 200 million baht to renovate football fields and other fields by increasing the stadium capacity from 35,000 seats to 45,000 seats and changing into all seats and renovate the grandstand side of the stadium to be a 2-level grandstand with 10,000 seats in order to support the Thailand National Games at Songkhla in 2017.

In 2019, Tinsulanon Stadium has undergone major renovations to accommodate the hosting 2020 AFC U-23 Championship.

International football matches

2020 AFC U-23 Championship

References

External links
Stadium profile and photos

Football venues in Thailand
Multi-purpose stadiums in Thailand
Buildings and structures in Songkhla province
Sport in Songkhla province
Buildings and structures completed in 1995
1995 establishments in Thailand
Hick Cady

Forrest Leroy "Hick" Cady (January 26, 1886 – March 3, 1946) was a backup catcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Boston Red Sox (1912–17) and Philadelphia Phillies (1919). Cady batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Bishop Hill, Illinois.

In a seven-season career, Cady was a .240 hitter with one home run and 74 RBI in 355 games played.

Cady managed in the minors in 1922 and 1924.

Cady died in a hotel fire in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, at the age of 60.

References

External links

 Baseball Almanac
 

1886 births
1946 deaths
People from Bishop Hill, Illinois
Boston Red Sox players
Philadelphia Phillies players
Major League Baseball catchers
Baseball players from Illinois
Accidental deaths in Iowa
Deaths from fire in the United States
Minor league baseball managers
Kewanee Boilermakers players
Ottumwa Packers players
Evansville River Rats players
Newark Indians players
Sacramento Senators players
Vernon Tigers players
Augusta Tygers players
Danville Veterans players
Columbus Senators players
Kazım Karabekir Stadium

Kazım Karabekir Stadium () is a multi-purpose stadium in Erzurum, Turkey. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Erzurumspor F.K. The stadium currently holds  21,374 people.

The name of the stadium was changed to Kazim Karabekir Stadium on August 10, 2012.

References

Football venues in Turkey
Kazim Karabekir
Multi-purpose stadiums in Turkey
Buildings and structures in Erzurum
Erzurumspor
Süper Lig venues
World War II Combat: Road to Berlin

World War II Combat: Road to Berlin, also known as Battlestrike: Secret Weapons, is a budget-priced first-person shooter, developed by Direct Action Games and published by Groove Games. It was panned by reviewers as having shoddy control, and a rushed, unfinished feel. The game was followed by World War II Combat: Iwo Jima, which released a few months later.

Story
World War II Combat: Road to Berlin takes place during the final days of World War II. The Germans have been developing secret long-range rockets (called "Vengeance Weapons") that they could use to attack opposing countries. Joseph Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union at the time, wanted to get hold of these rockets in his attempt to dominate the western world. The Soviet Union joined Britain's battle. This meant that the Allies could not battle the Soviets to prevent them from getting hold of the Vengeance Weapons, but rather, they had to race against them to make sure that the weapons did not fall into Stalin's hands. Players take control of Lieutenant Stephen Moore, an officer of the OSS (Office of Strategic Services), a precursor to the CIA. The events that take place in this game are invented, bearing in mind that this storyline is completely fictitious and the "weapons", if any, truly did fall into Soviet hands.

Reception

The game received "generally unfavorable reviews" on both platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.

See also
World War II Combat: Iwo Jima

References

External links
World War II Combat: Road to Berlin - Official website

2006 video games
Unreal Engine games
Video games developed in the United States
Windows games
World War II first-person shooters
Xbox games
Groove Games games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Kamil Ocak Stadium

Kamil Ocak Stadium () was a multi-purpose stadium in Gaziantep, Turkey. It was used mostly for football matches and was the home ground of Gaziantepspor until 2017. The stadium hold 16,981 people. It was named after the Turkish politician Mehmet Kamil Ocak.

References

External links
Venue information
The Stadium Guide – Kamil Ocak Stadium

1974 establishments in Turkey
Football venues in Turkey
Gaziantepspor
Multi-purpose stadiums in Turkey
Sports venues completed in 1974
Süper Lig venues
Gresham Professor of Physic

The Professor of Physic (the term for medicine at the time the post was created in 1597) at Gresham College in London, England, gives free educational lectures to the general public on medicine, health and related sciences. The college was founded to give public lectures in 1597 (New Style). Professors of Physic and more recently visiting Professors have been giving public lectures on major topics in medicine in London since 1597; recently these have also been put on line as a free resource for a wider public including outside the UK. Gresham Professors have included some of the leading scientists in Britain including Sir Christopher Wren and Robert Boyle. Gresham Professors of Physic listed below included leaders in medicine, public health, surgery and clinical science. In addition eminent medical scientists and physicians were Gresham Professors of other disciplines, such as Sir William Petty, one of the founders of demography (Gresham Professor of Music from 1651).

The Professor of Physic is always appointed by the Mercers' Side of the Joint Grand Gresham Committee, a body administered jointly by the Worshipful Company of Mercers and the City of London Corporation.

List of Gresham Professors of Physic

References
Gresham College old website, Internet Archive List of professors

Notes

Further reading
 

Physic
1596 establishments in England
KAIM-FM

KAIM-FM (95.5 MHz "95.5 The Fish") is a Contemporary Christian radio station based in Honolulu, Hawaii. The Salem Media Group outlet broadcasts with an ERP of 100 kW.  Its studios are in Honolulu's Kalihi district, and its transmitter is near Akupu, Hawaii.

History

KAIM was the first commercial FM radio station in Hawai'i. It went on the air November 1, 1953, having narrowly been beaten out by KVOK-FM for the distinction of being the first FM on the islands. The Christian Broadcasting Association, owned by the Reverend Billy Graham, owned KAIM and broadcast from studios and a transmitter on 12th Avenue in the Kaimuki neighborhood, which gave rise to its callsign. An FM suffix was added in 1956 to coincide with the launch of KAIM on 870 AM; that station is today KHCM 880.

Even though KAIM has been a Contemporary Christian outlet since 1992, it wasn't until after Salem bought the station in 2000 that it adopted "The Fish" moniker and slogan.

References

External links
 KAIM official website

Christianity in Honolulu
AIM-FM
AIM-FM
Radio stations established in 1978
1978 establishments in Hawaii
Salem Media Group properties
Contemporary Christian radio stations in the United States
Estadio Guillermón Moncada

Estadio Guillermón Moncada is a multi-use stadium in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. It is the second largest baseball stadium in Cuba and comfortably seats 25,000 spectators. The stadium was inaugurated on February 24, 1964. It is a project of the Architect Emilio Castro.

The stadium is named after the Cuban patriot Guillermón Moncada, the "Ebony Giant", who was one of the 29 Generals of the Wars of Independence. Born in Santiago de Cuba, he participated in the three wars against Spain. He died in 1896 of tuberculosis in this city.

In its environs there is also a softball stadium, an athletics track, soccer field and a gym for weights and judo.

This stadium is the home of the Avispas de Santiago de Cuba.

References

Baseball venues in Cuba
Buildings and structures in Santiago de Cuba
Softball venues
Sports venues completed in 1964
20th-century architecture in Cuba
Estadio Pedro Marrero

Estadio Nacional de Fútbol Pedro Marrero, the former home of CF Ciudad de La Habana, is a multi-purpose stadium in Havana, Cuba.  It is now used primarily for football matches.  The stadium holds 30,000 and was built in 1929.

History
Originally named Gran Stadium Cervecería Tropical (or familiarly, La Tropical), it hosted the 1937 Bacardi Bowl and many Cuban League baseball games.  After the revolution, it was renamed for Pedro Marrero, a young man who died in the attack on the Moncada Barracks.

Geography
The stadium is located in the ward of Ceiba, part of the municipal borough of Playa; next to the borders with Nuevo Vedado, borough of Plaza de la Revolución.

See also
Estadio Panamericano
Estadio Latinoamericano

References

External links

Football venues in Cuba
Sports venues in Havana
Multi-purpose stadiums
Defunct college football venues
1929 establishments in Cuba
Sports venues completed in 1929
American football venues in North America
20th-century architecture in Cuba
Estadio La Barranquita

Estadio La Barranquita is a multi-use stadium in Santiago, Dominican Republic.  It is currently used mostly for football matches.  The stadium holds 20,000.

External links
Stadium information

Football venues in the Dominican Republic
Athletics (track and field) venues in the Dominican Republic
Buildings and structures in Santiago Province (Dominican Republic)
Santiago de los Caballeros
Estadio Rommel Fernández

The Estadio Olímpico Rommel Fernández Gutiérrez, named after the Panamanian football star Rommel Fernández (1966–1993), is a multi-purpose stadium in Panama City. It is used for different sports, but mainly football (soccer) games. It was inaugurated February 6, 1970, and was designed to accommodate the XI Central American and Caribbean Games in 1970. Through further reforms, the stadium reached its current capacity of 32,000 spectators all seated, the largest stadium in Panama. It is part of Sports City Irving Saladino.

History

Early history
On April 4, 1976, it marked the debut of the Panama national team to make the run to the 1978 FIFA World Cup in Argentina. In Estadio Revolución, they took on Costa Rica and won surprisingly 3–2, with two goals from Agustin Sanchez and one from Luis Tapia. The most memorable ANAPROF match was the final match played in the stadium in 1996, when more than 25,000 fans watched San Francisco F.C. take on Plaza Amador.

The original name of the stadium was Estadio Revolución (meaning "Revolution Stadium"), but in 1993, it changed its name to Estadio Rommel Fernández in honour of Rommel Fernández Gutiérrez, a Panamanian soccer player who died in a car accident in Albacete, Spain, on May 6 of that year. At that time, the stadium had a capacity of 22,000. The stadium is often used by LPF, Liga Panameña de Futbol.

Recent history
In 2009, the stadium was totally renovated; its shape and facade were changed completely, more seats were installed as well as a new giant screen and a new athletics track, and it is fully air conditioned with modern equipment. It was the spearhead for IX Central American Sports Games 2010, in which the stadium was reopened in the opening ceremony of these games.

International Soccer Matches

References

External links

Football venues in Panama City
Athletics (track and field) venues in Panama
Multi-purpose stadiums in Panama
American football venues in North America
1970 establishments in Panama
Sports venues completed in 1970
Lady Elizabeth Cavendish

Lady Elizabeth Georgiana Alice Cavendish  (24 April 1926 – 15 September 2018) was a British noblewoman who was a childhood friend of Queen Elizabeth II and a lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret from the late 1940s until the latter's death in 2002.

Lady Elizabeth was the daughter of Edward Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire, and his wife, the former Lady Mary Gascoyne-Cecil. She was born three days after Elizabeth (II), in 1926.

It has been suggested that Lady Elizabeth introduced her friend Princess Margaret to Antony Armstrong-Jones in 1951, and although she herself never married, she did form a close romantic relationship with the writer and future poet laureate John Betjeman that same year. Betjeman's daughter Candida Lycett Green had called her her father's "beloved other wife". Lady Elizabeth was one of the godparents of David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon. By royal permission, Lady Elizabeth spoke on the record to HM the Queen's official biographer, Ben Pimlott.

When Betjeman died in Cornwall on 19 May 1984, Lady Elizabeth was at his side.

Cavendish was appointed Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO) in 1976 and Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) in 1997. Lady Elizabeth was a Justice of the Peace in Inner London for many years where she served as a chairman of both the juvenile and adult courts.

Cavendish died on 15 September 2018, at the age of 92. Lady Sarah Chatto represented Queen Elizabeth at her funeral.

Notes

References
Who's Who 2009

1926 births
2018 deaths
Commanders of the Royal Victorian Order
Daughters of British dukes
British ladies-in-waiting
Elizabeth
English justices of the peace
J11

J11 may refer to:

Vehicles

Aircraft 
 Fiat J 11, an Italian sesquiplane fighter in service with the Swedish Air Force
 Junkers J 11, a German ground-attack aircraft
 Shenyang J-11, a Chinese jet fighter

Automobiles 
 James Comet J11, an English motorcycle
 Nissan Qashqai J11, a Japanese SUV

Locomotives 
 GSR Class J11, an Irish steam locomotive
 LNER Class J11, a class of British steam locomotives

Ships 
 , a Halcyon-class minesweeper of the Royal Navy
 , a Visby-class destroyer of the Swedish Navy

Other uses 
 County Route J11 (California)
 DEC J-11, a microprocessor chip set
 Gyroelongated pentagonal pyramid, a Johnson solid (J11)

See also 
 JII (disambiguation)
The Problem of Aryan Origins

The Problem of Aryan Origins is a book by K.D. Sethna. The first edition was published in 1980. A second enlarged version (with five supplements) was published in 1992. (Delhi: Aditya Prakashan, 1992.)

The book questions the validity of the Aryan Invasion Theory. 

The first supplement contains a criticism of the first edition of the book and Sethna's reply. The fifth supplement is a detailed survey in over 200 pages of Asko Parpola's study "The Coming of the Aryans to Iran and India and the Cultural and Ethnic Identity of the Dasas".

The book had a considerable influence on later writers on this subject. A particularity of the book is that Sethna often refers to Sri Aurobindo's interpretation of the Rig Veda.

External links 

Review by Pradip Bhattacharya
Review by N.S. Rajaram
Problem of Aryan Origins
Indigenous Aryanism