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Enver Petrovci

Enver Petrovci (born 28 February 1954 in Pristina) is a Kosovo-Albanian actor, writer and director. He went to high school in Prishtina and completed acting school in Belgrade.

He played as Hamlet, Macbeth, Julius Cesar and other famous Shakespearian characters. He is one of the founders of the Dodona Theatre and the Acting School in Prishtina.

Petrovci provides the voice of Mufasa in the Albanian dub of The Lion King franchise.

Filmography

2013 O sa mirë as Gazmend Berisha (TV series)
2011 Top je bio vreo (post-production) as Sakib
2010 The War Is Over as Principal Milić
2009 Gomaret e kufirit as Border Police Commander
2008 Sekretet as Mero
2006 Anatema as Col. Lilić
2005 Lost Son (short movie)
2004 10 Minuta (short movie) by Burim Haliti
2003 Black Flowers as Nan Golemi
2000 Gorski vijenac (TV movie) as Skender Aga
1998 Tri palme za dve bitange i ribicu as Skočajić
1998 The Hornet as Salih
1994 Nekrologji
1993 Laksi slucaj smrti (TV movie) as Relja's father
1992 Bulevar revolucije
1992 Prokleta je Amerika as Pantić (segment from "Sangarepo, ti ne rastes lepo")
1991 Bolji zivot 2 (TV series) as Florijan Trajković
1991 Krug (short)
1991 Djelidba (TV movie)
1991 Praznik u Sarajevu
1990 Sex-partijski neprijatelj br. 1 as Drndač
1990 Gluvi barut as Uros
1990 Narodni poslanik (TV movie)
1990 Sekulic - Police official
1990 Stanica obicnih vozova
1990 East of East (as Enver Petrović)
1990 Migjeni (TV movie) as Albanian writer Millosh Gjergj Nikolla alias Migjeni
1989-1990 Specijalna redakcija (TV series) as Bekteši
1989 Hajde da se volimo 2 as Omer
1989 Forbidden Sun as Lt. Ionnides
1989 Obicna prica (TV movie)
1989 Sargarepo ti ne rastes lepo (TV movie)
1988 Manifesto as The King
1988 Ortaci as John Smith Fitzgerald Petrovci
1988 The Bizarre Country as the New Police Chief
1988 A Film with No Nam
1988 Decji bic (TV movie) as Rade Pajic 'Pera'
1988 Rojet e mjegulles
1987 Uvek spremne zene as Raša
1987 Zivot u grobljanskoj (TV movie) as Marković (prison educator)
1986 Jugovizija (TV movie) as Host
1986 Vrenje (TV movie)
1985 Rade Vujovic as Liht
1985 Dvostruki udar (TV movie)
1984 Opasni trag as Cemail
1984 Lazar
1983 Stepenice za nebo as Predrag Vučković
1982 Krojaci dzinsa (TV movie)
1981 Sedam sekretara SKOJ-a (TV series) as
Josip Kolumbo
Episode #1.6 (1981) … Josip Kolumbo
Episode #1.4 (1981) … Josip Kolumbo
Episode #1.3 (1981) … Josip Kolumbo
Episode #1.2 (1981) … Josip Kolumbo
1980 Kur pranvera vonohet (TV mini-series)
1979 Kur pranvera vonohet (Movie)
1979 Jutarnji disk dzokej (TV movie)
1979 Slom (TV series) as Slobodan Dimitrijevic
1979 Ti medjutim stojis na velikoj reci (TV movie)

References

1954 births
Living people
Kosovan male actors
Kosovo Albanians
Actors from Pristina
List of highways numbered 108

Route 108 or Highway 108 can refer to multiple roads:

Canada
 New Brunswick Route 108
 Ontario Highway 108
 Prince Edward Island Route 108
 Quebec Route 108

China
 China National Highway 108

Costa Rica
 National Route 108

India
 National Highway 108 (India)

Japan
 Route 108 (Japan)

Philippines
 N108 highway (Philippines)

United States
 Alabama State Route 108
 Arkansas Highway 108
 California State Route 108
 Connecticut Route 108
 Florida State Road 108 (pre-1945) (former)
 Georgia State Route 108
 Illinois Route 108
 Iowa Highway 108 (former)
 K-108 (Kansas highway) (former)
 Kentucky Route 108
 Louisiana Highway 108
 Maine State Route 108
 Maryland Route 108
Maryland Route 108A
Maryland Route 108H
 Massachusetts Route 108
 M-108 (Michigan highway) (former)
 Minnesota State Highway 108
 Missouri Route 108
 Nebraska Highway 108 (former)
 New Hampshire Route 108
 County Route 108 (Bergen County, New Jersey)
 New Mexico State Road 108
 New York State Route 108
 County Route 108 (Cayuga County, New York)
County Route 108A (Cortland County, New York)
County Route 108B (Cortland County, New York)
 County Route 108 (Fulton County, New York)
 County Route 108 (Montgomery County, New York)
 County Route 108 (Niagara County, New York)
 County Route 108 (Onondaga County, New York)
 County Route 108 (Rockland County, New York)
 County Route 108 (Saratoga County, New York)
 County Route 108 (Seneca County, New York)
 County Route 108 (Suffolk County, New York)
 County Route 108 (Sullivan County, New York)
 County Route 108 (Wayne County, New York)
 County Route 108 (Westchester County, New York)
  North Carolina Highway 108
 Ohio State Route 108
 Oklahoma State Highway 108
 Pennsylvania Route 108
 Rhode Island Route 108
 Tennessee State Route 108
 Texas State Highway 108
 Texas State Highway Loop 108
 Texas State Highway Spur 108
 Texas State Highway Spur 108 (1940–1942) (former)
 Farm to Market Road 108
 Utah State Route 108
 Vermont Route 108
 Virginia State Route 108
 Virginia State Route 108 (1923-1928) (former)
 Virginia State Route 108 (1928-1932) (former)
 Washington State Route 108
 Wisconsin Highway 108

Territories
 Puerto Rico Highway 108
 U.S. Virgin Islands Highway 108

See also
108 (number)
A108 road (Great Britain)
B108 road
D108 road (Croatia)
P108
R108 road (Ireland)
Reichmann

Reichmann, Reichman (, ) is a German and Yiddish surname. The name means that somebody is a very wealthy (rich) man; (reich = rich and mann = man) in German.

Notable people 
Notable people with the surname include:

 Adva Reichman, Israeli writer and director
 Eva Gabriele Reichmann (1897 - 1998), a German Jewish historian and sociologist
 Frieda Fromm-Reichmann (1889 - 1957), a German Jewish psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
 Gisela Reichmann, an Austrian figure skater
 Helmut Reichmann (1941 - 1992), a German glider pilot
 Jean-Luc Reichmann (born 1960), a French radio- and television host
 Josh Reichmann, a Canadian indie rock singer-songwriter
 Michael Reichmann (1944 - 2016), a Canadian photographer and entrepreneur
 Tobias Reichmann (born 1988), a German handball player
 Reichmann family, a Hungarian-Austrian Jewish family best known for controlling the Olympia and York business empire
 Edward Reichmann (1925 - 2005; )
 Albert Reichmann (1929 – 2022; )
 Paul Reichmann (1930 - 2013) (), a Canadian businessman

Reichman 

 Harry Richman (born Harold Reichman)
 Marek Reichman (born 1966), an English automotive designer
 Rabbi Hershel (Zvi) Yosef Reichman (), a US Orthodox rabbi
 Uriel Reichman (, born 1942), Israeli professor of law, politician, and founder of Reichman University

See also 
 Rajchman (Polonised from)
 Richman
 Reich, Rajch, etc.

Surnames of Jewish origin
German-language surnames
Yiddish-language surnames
Richman

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

 Adam Richman (born 1974), American actor and TV host
 Adam Richman (singer) (born c.1983), American indie pop singer-songwriter
 Alfred A. Richman (c.1892–1984), American orthopedic surgeon
 Boomie Richman (1921–2016), American saxophone player
 Caryn Richman (born 1956), American actress
 Chaim Richman, rabbi in Israel
 Charles Richman (actor) (1865–1940), American film actor
 Charles Richman (commissioner), American community affairs worker
 David Richman (born 1978), American basketball head coach
 Douglas Richman (born 1943), American medical virologist
 Frank Richman (1881–1956), Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court
 Harry Richman (1895–1972), American entertainer
 Ike Richman (1913–1965), American attorney and sports executive
 Jeffrey Richman, American writer, producer and actor
 John Henry Richman (1791–1864), South Australian lawyer
 Jonathan Richman (born 1951), American indie musician
 Josh Richman (born 1965), American actor and director
 Keith Richman, American politician from California
 Larry L. Richman (born 1955), American author on project management and social media strategist
 Peter Mark Richman (1927–2021), American actor
 Simon Richman (born 1990), English footballer

See also
 Richman (series), a computer board game series
 Reichmann
 Richmond (surname)

Surnames of Jewish origin
Rajchman

Rajchman is a surname; it is a Polish respelling of the German Reichmann, typically used by Jews in Congress Poland, while those in Galicia and Prussian Poland were more likely to use the original German spelling. Notable people with the surname include:

 Aleksander Rajchman (1890-1940), Polish mathematician
 Jan A. Rajchman (1911-1989), Polish-American electrical engineer and computer pioneer
 John Rajchman (born 1946), American philosopher of art history, architecture, and continental philosophy
 Ludwik Rajchman (1881-1965),  Polish bacteriologist and one of the founders of UNICEF

See also 
 Reichmann
 Richman

Polish-language surnames
Surnames of Jewish origin
Germanic-language surnames
Yiddish-language surnames
Los del Mar

Los del Mar (Spanish for those from the sea, referring to Marbella) was a short-lived Canadian music duo, best known for their 1995 cover version of the Los del Río 1993 song "Macarena", which was included on their album Macarena: The Hit Album. 

The main member, Pedro Castaño, is still touring with this song. Although it just missed the Top 40 in the UK Singles Chart (peaking at number 43 while the Los Del Río version reached number 2), it was included in the game Samba de Amigo.

They are specialized in Andalusian folk music, especially sevillanas, the most typical light music of Andalusia.

Discography

References

Musicians from Andalusia
Spanish musical groups
Jeep Jamboree: Off Road Adventure

Jeep Jamboree: Off Road Adventure is a Game Boy racing video game that involves Jeep Wrangler vehicles. This game was later recycled for use in the video game Race Days (also for the Game Boy).

Gameplay

A first person perspective is used like in the game Test Drive and its sequels.

There are several options in the game including: difficulty level, whether to race in MPH or KM/H, steering ability, whether or not to have a track map, chevrons, and position flashing. The object is to race laps around a muddy race track while trying to get first place. There are twenty tracks to race in, each with a timer that forces the player to race fast. There is an option to either do a single race or a multi-race tournament against a computer opponent or through a human playing while using the Game Boy link cable and another copy of the video game. Items in the background like electric lines and rocks help provide a road-like feeling to the races.

In a single-player race, the player will race to the finish line against a field of approximately nineteen other drivers.

Reception
Allgame gave this video game a rating of 3 stars out of 5 in their review.

References

External links

1992 video games
Game Boy-only games
Gremlin Interactive games
North America-exclusive video games
Off-road racing video games
Video games scored by Tommy Tallarico
Virgin Interactive games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Game Boy games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Faruk Begolli

Faruk Begolli (14 February 1944 – 23 August 2007), was a prominent Yugoslavian and Kosovan actor.

Early life
Begolli attended high school in Pristina and graduated from the Academy of Film in Belgrade (1966).

Career
Begolli played in more than 60 films, starting with Veljko Bulajić's Pogled u zenicu Sunca (1966). He cooperated with director Puriša Đorđević in his films Podne (Noon), Jutro (The Morning), and San (The Dream), and his notable roles include Bitka na Neretvi, Čuvar plaže u zimskom periodu and Derviš i Smrt (The Dervish and Death).

His last major lead role was in Ekrem Kryeziu's Dashuria e Bjeshkëve të Nemuna (The Love of the Accursed Mountains, 1997), and his work was Etjet e Kosovës (Kosovo's Thirsts, 2006), for which he co-wrote the script. One of h last film appearances was in the short 10 Minuta (2004), directed by Burim Haliti.

Personal life
In the late 1980s, Begolli returned from Belgrade to Kosovo, where he worked as a professor at the Faculty of Drama of the University of Pristina.

Begolli died in 2007 after a long battle with cancer.

Selected filmography

Pogled u zjenicu sunca (1966)
The Dream (1966) - Petar
Deca vojvode Smita (1967) - Mirko
The Morning (1967) - Rus Miska
Uka i Bjeshkëve të nemura (1968) - Partizan
Brat doktora Homera (1968) - Seljak / peasant
Podne (1968) - Rus Misko
Operacija Beograd (1968) - Jasa
Sarajevski atentat (1968) - Nedeljko Cabrinovic
Battle of Neretva (1969) - Stevo
Moja strana svijeta (1969)
Rekvijem (1970)
Draga Irena! (1970) - Misko
Prva ljubav (1970)
Si të vdiset (1972)
Walter Defends Sarajevo (1972) - Branko
SB zatvara krug (1974) - Agent Stipe
Dervis i smrt (1974) - Mula Jusuf
Crveni udar (1974) - Slikar
Pavle Pavlovic (1974) - Student preprodavac
Cuvar plaze u zimskom periodu (1976) - Draganov prijatelj
Vrhovi Zelengore (1976) - Rajko
Stici pre svitanja (1978) - Doktor
Sudbine (1978)
Zestoke godine (1978) - Aleksandar Dragovic
Lyubov i yarost (1978)
Kur pranvera vonohet (1979)
Partizanska eskadrila (1979) - Porucnik Begovic
Përroi vërshues (1981)
13. jul (1982) - Partizan Meho
Timocka buna (1983) - Potpukovnik
Dih (1983) - Djordje
Idi mi, dodji mi (1983) - Marijin kolega I
Mahovina na asfaltu (1983)
Opasni trag (1984) - Inspektor Ramiz
Proka (1985)
Kuca pored pruge (1988) - Hasan
Azra (1988) - Osman
The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway (1989)
Noc u kuci moje majke (1991) - Kum Radovan
Srcna dama (1991) - Azem
Cartier Project (1991) - Selim
Bulevar revolucije (1992) - Clan komisije na ispitu
10 Minuta (2004), directed by Burim Haliti
Etjet e Kosovës (2006) - Old Albanian (final film role)

References
 
Preminuo Faruk Begoli bituary, Dnevnik  
Kosovo Actor Faruk Begolli Dies, Balkan Investigative Reporting Network

External links

1944 births
2007 deaths
People from Peja
Kosovan male actors
Yugoslav male film actors
Kosovo Albanians
Academic staff of the University of Pristina
Yugoslav film directors
Yugoslav Albanians
High Stakes Gambling

High Stakes Gambling is a Game Boy casino video game that takes place during the Great Depression in the 1930s.

Summary

An FBI agent named Pete Rosetti, who is going undercover as an intrepid gambler, must turn the Mafia from filthy rich to dirt poor in a series of gambling games in order to arrest them.

In each of the game's five missions, the player competes against a different Mafia member of increasing difficulty in four rounds of casino games. The three preliminary rounds are blackjack, slot machines, and video poker; with the final confrontation being five-card draw poker. The player is provided with ten thousand dollars in his bank account at the start of each round. Each preliminary round awards the winner with a bonus of ten thousand dollars and five draw poker points to be used in the final round; the loser receives no money and two points.

The game's practice mode also includes craps, though it never appears in the game's missions.

For a price, players can buy a variety of special cheating tools in the hopes of making a profit off the gangsters, who often use cheating methods of their own. When running low on cash, the gangsters increase the frequency of their cheating in an attempt to regain their cash from the player.

Reception
Nintendo Power magazine gave High Stakes Gambling a 3.4 out of 5 rating in its March 1992 issue. The independent video gaming magazine Allgame gave High Stakes Gambling an overall score of 3.5 stars out of 5.

References

External links

1992 video games
Casino video games
Electro Brain games
Game Boy-only games
North America-exclusive video games
Organized crime video games
Video games set in the 1930s
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Game Boy games
Video games about police officers
Video games developed in the United States
Emma Bossons

Emma Bossons, born in 1976 in Congleton, Cheshire, is a ceramic artist and designer for Moorcroft Pottery.

Life
Bossons' childhood years were spent living on a dairy farm where she developed a keen interest in watercolour painting. Self-taught with no formal art training, Bossons managed to exhibit her work in art exhibitions, including the British Society of Painters Exhibition in Yorkshire, around the country and won an award for watercolour painting.

Bossons' was a guest judge in the 2023 semi final of The Great Pottery Throw Down, the semi-final aired on 5 March 2023.

Career
Bossons' career began as a painter or ceramic painter at Mason's Ironstone, a subsidiary of Wedgwood, in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent. This was as part of a £40 per week government training scheme and involved painting the company’s designs onto their pottery.

Moorcroft
In 1996 Bossons moved to Moorcroft, again as a painter. In 1998 Bossons was promoted to their Moorcroft Design Studio and became their youngest designer. Her first range for Moorcroft, Hepatica, was completed in 2000. Her following range, Queen's Choice, became Moorcroft's best seller for 2001.

Following advice from their bankers, Moorcroft insured Bossons for a widely publicised £1.5 million. Moorcroft Chairman Hugh Edwards described Bossons as "a phenomenon who has helped us in a difficult economic environment" and noted that Bossons' designs were responsible for 40% of the company's £6 million annual sales. Some of her work has sold for more than £11,000; as of 2018 one of her Queen's Choice vases was  priced at £12,220.

References

External links
Moorcroft's Emma Bossons designer range

British designers
1976 births
Living people
People from Congleton
List of highways numbered 109

Route 109 or Highway 109 can refer to multiple roads:

Canada
  New Brunswick Route 109
  Prince Edward Island Route 109
  Quebec Route 109

China
  China National Highway 109

Costa Rica
 National Route 109

India
 National Highway 109 (India)

Israel
 Route 109 (Israel)

Philippines
 N109 highway (Philippines)

United States
  U.S. Route 109 (former)
  Alabama State Route 109
  Arkansas Highway 109
  California State Route 109
  Colorado State Highway 109
  Connecticut Route 109
  Florida State Road 109
  Georgia State Route 109
  Illinois Route 109
  Indiana State Road 109
  Iowa Highway 109
  Kentucky Route 109
  Louisiana Highway 109
  Maine State Route 109
  Maryland Route 109
  Massachusetts Route 109
  M-109 (Michigan highway)
  Minnesota State Highway 109
  County Road 109 (Hennepin County, Minnesota)
  County Road 109 (Pine County, Minnesota)
  Missouri Route 109
  Nebraska Highway 109
  Nebraska State Spur 109 (former)
  New Hampshire Route 109
  New Hampshire Route 109A
  New Jersey Route 109
  County Route 109 (Bergen County, New Jersey)
  County Route S109 (Bergen County, New Jersey)
  County Route 109 (Ocean County, New Jersey)
  New Mexico State Road 109
  New York State Route 109
  County Route 109 (Cortland County, New York)
  County Route 109A (Cortland County, New York)
  County Route 109 (Erie County, New York)
  County Route 109 (Fulton County, New York)
  County Route 109 (Madison County, New York)
  County Route 109 (Montgomery County, New York)
  County Route 109 (Onondaga County, New York)
  County Route 109A (Onondaga County, New York)
  County Route 109 (Rockland County, New York)
  County Route 109 (Sullivan County, New York)
  County Route 109 (Tompkins County, New York)
  North Carolina Highway 109
  North Carolina Highway 109A (Thomasville) (former)
  North Carolina Highway 109A (Troy) (former)
  Ohio State Route 109
  Oklahoma State Highway 109
  South Carolina Highway 109
  South Dakota Highway 109
  Tennessee State Route 109
  Texas State Highway 109 (former)
  Texas State Highway 109 (1939) (former)
  Texas State Highway Loop 109
  Farm to Market Road 109
  Utah State Route 109
  Vermont Route 109
  Virginia State Route 109
  Virginia State Route 109 (1923-1928) (former)
  Virginia State Route 109 (1928-1933) (former)
  Virginia State Route 109 (1933-1946) (former)
  Washington State Route 109
  Wisconsin Highway 109

Territories
  Puerto Rico Highway 109

See also
A109
B109 road
D109 road
P109
R109 road (Ireland)
NWSS

NWSS may refer to:

New Westminster Secondary School
Native Woodland Survey of Scotland
National Water Services Strategy, part of the Kenyan government's strategy for water supply and sanitation in Kenya
North West Surrey Synagogue
Nuclear War Survival Skills, a civil defense manual in the United States
 Navy WWMCCS Standard Software
Cordis

Cordis, Latin for of the heart, may refer to:

 Cordis (band), an American chamber music group
 Cordis (medical), a medical device company
 Cordis, Auckland, a hotel in New Zealand
 Cordis Hong Kong, a hotel
 Community Research and Development Information Service (CORDIS)
 Lyria cordis, a sea snail of family Volutidae

See also
 
 Cordish (disambiguation)
Mario Pelchat

Mario Pelchat (born 1 February 1964) is a Canadian Francophone singer from Quebec. He received the Felix Award in 1990 and 1992.

Biography
Pelchat was born in Dolbeau-Mistassini, Quebec and has performed since 1973. His first 45 RPM single was released in September 1981. His early albums include 1982's Je suis un chanteur (I Am a Singer) and Tu m’as fait mal (You hurt me) the following year. His 1988 self-titled album and 1990's Couleur Passion (The Color of Passion) attained gold record sales status. His 1992 double-platinum album Pelchat on the Sony label included a duet with Céline Dion. He also recorded with Belgian singer Maurane on his Pelchat 2002 album. He also recorded How Do You Keep The Music Playing with Dionne Warwick on his 2009	Album - Mario Pelchat chante Michel Legrand	- Album Produced/Arranged and Piano played by Michel Legrand.

Pelchat has performed in various theatrical productions. He played the title role in a 1998 musical on the artist Picasso during a European tour. He portrayed Quasimodo in a production of Notre Dame de Paris, Moses in a production of The Ten Commandments and Don Carlos in Don Juan.

He earned ADISQ's Félix Awards for Male Singer of The Year in 1990 and Album of the Year for 1992's Pelchat. He also earned a Jazz album Félix for the 2009 collaborative album Mario Pelchat-Michel Legrand. Besides touring in Canada, Pelchat has performed in Europe, the Middle East and the United States.

Discography

Studio albums

Live albums

Compilation albums

References

External links
  Mario Pelchat Official Website
  Quebec Info Musique: Mario Pelchat

1964 births
Living people
People from Dolbeau-Mistassini
Singers from Quebec
Canadian male singers
Canadian pop singers
French Quebecers
French-language singers of Canada
Chris Corchiani

Christopher Corchiani Sr. (born March 28, 1968) is an American-Italian former professional basketball player he played at the point guard position.

High school
Born in Coral Gables, Florida, Corchiani attended Miami's Kendall Acres Academy, and Hialeah-Miami Lakes High School, in Hialeah, Florida.

College career
Corchiani's college basketball career lasted from 1988 to 1991, at North Carolina State University, where he played with the NC State Wolfpack. Corchiani was the first NCAA Division I player to record 1,000 assists in a career. In the 1990–91 season, he led the nation in assists per game average, at 9.7 per game. At the time he finished his career, he was in 5th place on the NCAA's all-time steals list.

Professional career
Corchiani was selected by the Orlando Magic, with the 9th pick of the 2nd round (36th overall), of the 1991 NBA draft. In addition to the Magic, he played with two other NBA teams, the Boston Celtics and the Washington Bullets. He also played professionally in Italy, Turkey, Spain, and Germany. He was a member of the Bayer Leverkusen team, which captured the German Bundesliga title in 1996 under the guidance of coach Dirk Bauermann. In 2002, he won the Spanish national championship with Tau Cerámica, alongside players like Elmer Bennett, Luis Scola and Andrés Nocioni, coached by Duško Ivanović.

After retiring from basketball, he settled in Raleigh, North Carolina, working as a realtor, then as the owner of a mortgage bank. In 2007, he founded a title insurance agency.

See also
 List of NCAA Division I men's basketball players with 20 or more assists in a game
 List of NCAA Division I men's basketball career assists leaders
 List of NCAA Division I men's basketball season assists leaders
 List of NCAA Division I men's basketball career steals leaders

References

External links 
 College & NBA stats @ basketball-reference.com
 What the Hell Happened to...Chris Corchiani? @ celticslife.com
 Euroleague.net Profile
 Italian League Profile 
 Spanish League Profile 

1968 births
Living people
All-American college men's basketball players
American expatriate basketball people in Germany
American expatriate basketball people in Italy
American expatriate basketball people in Spain
American expatriate basketball people in Turkey
American men's basketball players
Anadolu Efes S.K. players
Basketball players from Miami-Dade County, Florida
Basket Rimini Crabs players
Bayer Giants Leverkusen players
Boston Celtics players
CB Girona players
Italian men's basketball players
Liga ACB players
McDonald's High School All-Americans
Mens Sana Basket players
NC State Wolfpack men's basketball players
Orlando Magic draft picks
Orlando Magic players
Pallacanestro Treviso players
Parade High School All-Americans (boys' basketball)
Point guards
Rapid City Thrillers players
Saski Baskonia players
Sportspeople from Coral Gables, Florida
Washington Bullets players
United States men's national basketball team players
Pictou County Crushers

The Pictou County Crushers (also commonly known as Weeks Jr. A Crushers due to a sponsorship deal with Weeks Construction) are a Canadian junior ice hockey team based in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia.  They are in the Maritime Junior Hockey League's Eastlink South Division along with five other Nova Scotia clubs. The Crushers play their home games at the Pictou County Wellness Centre.

History
The Crushers originated in Halifax. The franchise, under various names in Nova Scotia's capital city, holds the MHL (formerly the MJAHL) record for most championships with 10. As the Halifax Oland Exports, they captured the 2002 Royal Bank Cup on home ice. Due to financial reasons, the team's name was changed to Halifax Team Pepsi for the 2003-2004 campaign.

In the spring of 2004, the Weeks Hockey Organization bought the club, moved it to New Glasgow and renamed it the Pictou County Weeks Crushers. The team's name and logo are tied to its founding sponsor, Weeks Construction.

After struggling to attract fans in Halifax's crowded hockey market, the Crushers soared up the attendance ladder in New Glasgow and are now one of the league's top draws at the gate.

The Crushers hosted the 2005 MJAHL All-Star Game and the 2006 MJAHL Entry Draft.

In April 2008, the Crushers were the Fred Page Cup host team. They shocked everyone as the underdogs defeated the defending FPC champion Pembroke Lumber Kings 4-1 in the championship game. With the victory, the Crushers advanced to their first ever Royal Bank Cup, in Cornwall, Ontario. They went 1-4 at the RBC, losing the semifinal game 3-0 to the Camrose Kodiaks.

In November 2012, the Crushers moved out of their former home John Brother MacDonald Stadium that they used from 2004 to 2012 and into the new Pictou County Wellness Center.

The Crushers won their first Kent cup in 2016 defeating the Dieppe Commandos in the final, they have also come close back to back years (2010,2011)
by making it to the finals but they lost both times. In 2010 they lost to the Woodstock Slammers 4-1 and, in 2011 they lost to the Summerside Western Capitals 4-0.

Season-by-season record

Fred Page Cup
Eastern Canada Championships
MHL - QAAAJHL - CCHL - Host
Round robin play with 2nd vs 3rd in semi-final to advance against 1st in the finals.

Notable alumni
 Derrick Walser (NHL, KHL, NLA, DEL)

See also
List of ice hockey teams in Nova Scotia

References

External links
Official Crushers Website
Official MHL Website

Ice hockey teams in Nova Scotia
Maritime Junior Hockey League teams
New Glasgow, Nova Scotia
1967 establishments in Nova Scotia
Ice hockey clubs established in 1967
Missionary religious institutes and societies

A missionary order is a Catholic religious order devoted to active missionary work. No Catholic religious order was founded for that purpose, but all the mendicant orders have been active in this field and others too, in particular the Jesuits, whose members include outstanding missionaries such as Saint Francis Xavier and Matteo Ricci. Even monastic orders have engaged and still engage in missionary endeavours, as did, for instance, the Benedictines whom Pope Gregory the Great sent to evangelize the Angles.  

A missionary congregation is a religious congregation devoted to active missionary work. Some, as that of the Marist Fathers, have that field of work as the purpose for which they were founded.

A Catholic missionary society is a society of apostolic life devoted to active missionary work. Orders and congregations are classes of religious institutes, but societies of apostolic life, while similar, are of distinct character in that their members do not take religious vows. Missionary societies include the Paris Foreign Missions Society, the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions, the Missionaries of the Precious Blood, the Missionary Society of St. Columban, and the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America.

See also
 Ad gentes
 Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples
 Jesuit China missions
 Society for the Propagation of the Faith

External links
 Congregation of the Missionary Benedictines website
 St Columbans Mission Society website
Tharawal languages

Tharawal, also spelt Thurawal and Dharawal, is a small family of extinct Australian Aboriginal languages once spoken along the South Coast of New South Wales.

Number of languages in the group

According to Bob Dixon (2002), four Tharawal languages are attested, though he does not accept them as related:

Tharawal
Dhurga 
Dyirringanj 
Thawa
Claire Bowern (2011) lists three, among the Yuin languages:
 Dharawal

 Dhurga

 Thawa

Speakers
Peoples who spoke these languages include:

Clans and Families of The Northern Dharawal
Noron-Geragal
Targarigal
Goonamattagal
Wodi Wodi
Gweagal (Geawegal)

New South Wales south coast group
Dharawal
Dhurga or Thurga (Thoorga, Durga)
Dyirringanj (Djirringanj)
Thaua (Thawa)

References

 
Yuin–Kuric languages
Extinct languages of New South Wales
Mischa Mischakoff

Mischa Mischakoff (Ukrainian: Міша Мішаков; April 16, 1895 – February 1, 1981) was an outstanding violinist who, as a concertmaster, led many of America's greatest orchestras from the 1920s to the 1960s.

Mischakoff was born in Proskuriv (today Khlmelnytskyi), Ukraine as Mischa Fishberg.  In 1921 he escaped from Russia with, among others, his friend and colleague, cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, with whom he had played in the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.  Mischakoff emigrated to the United States later that year, becoming a naturalized citizen in 1927.

He led the string sections of the St. Petersburg Conservatory Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Moscow Bolshoi Theatre, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, then, after his arrival in the United States, the New York Symphony under Walter Damrosch (1924–1927), the Philadelphia Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski (1927–1930), the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Frederick Stock (1930–1937), the NBC Symphony Orchestra under Arturo Toscanini (1937–1952), the Detroit Symphony Orchestra under Paul Paray (1952–1968), as well as, in retirement, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.

Mischa Mischakoff also led the Mischakoff String Quartet in the various cities where he lived, and between 1940 and 1952 he taught at the Juilliard School in New York. He then taught at Wayne State University in Detroit between 1952 and about 1980.

Mischakoff died on February 1, 1981, in Petoskey, Michigan. He owned four Stradivari violins, on which he appeared as soloist and recitalist, as well as a number of other fine violins by old and contemporary makers.

Acclaim and criticism

In 1951, Joseph Wechsberg wrote in Holiday Magazine that for a mythical dream orchestra composed of America's major orchestral leaders, Mischakoff would be the pick among concertmasters for head of first violins.

Private life
Mischakoff was survived by his wife, Hortense, their two sons, Paul and Matthew and their daughter,
Anne Mischakoff Heiles.  Anne played in the Detroit Symphony Orchestra with her father.  She later wrote his biography, published in 2006.

Notes 

The biography of Mischa Mischakoff does not include his long association as concertmaster of the Chautauqua Symphony at Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua NY.  There, Mischakoff also led the Mischakoff String Quartet which gave weekly recitals during the summer season.

References

1895 births
1981 deaths
Musicians from Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine
People from Proskurovsky Uyezd
Ukrainian Jews
20th-century Ukrainian musicians
Jewish classical musicians
American classical violinists
Male classical violinists
American male violinists
Ukrainian classical violinists
Concertmasters
Concertmasters of the Philadelphia Orchestra
Musicians of the Philadelphia Orchestra
Juilliard School faculty
American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent
20th-century classical violinists
20th-century American male musicians
Ukrainian SSR emigrants to the United States
20th-century American violinists
Morgan Dennis

Morgan Dennis (1892 – October 22, 1960) was an American illustrator and author known primarily for his paintings of dogs. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and grew up in Long Island, New York. He studied art with William Harry Warren Bicknell. He was commissioned by the Black and White Scotch Whiskey Company to illustrate the "Black and White Scotties", a successful ad campaign used over many years. One of his murals, "The Dog House", is in the bar and lounge of the Sheraton Russell Hotel in New York. He also competed in art competitions at the 1936 Summer Olympics, but did not win a medal.

Bibliography 
Crazy Dog - 1944
Burlap (Houn' Dog Extraordinary) – 1945
The Dog Next Door – 1950
Himself and Burlap on TV – 1954
Kitten On The Keys – 1961
Lost Dog Jerry – 1952
The Morgan Dennis Dog Book (With Some Special Cats) – 1946
Pete (Airedale Terrier) – 1941
The Pup Himself – 1943
The Sea Dog – 1958
Skit And Skat – 1951
Every Dog Has His Say – 1947
"Pure Breeds" – 1954

References 

Morgan Dennis artwork can be viewed at American Art Archives web site
Morgan Dennis' profile at Sports Reference.com

External links 
 
 

1892 births
1960 deaths
American illustrators
Writers from Boston
People from Long Island
Olympic competitors in art competitions
20th-century American male writers
Miramichi Timberwolves

The Miramichi Timberwolves are a Junior "A" hockey team based in Miramichi, New Brunswick.  They play in the Maritime Junior A Hockey League. The team was founded in 2000 and plays their home games at the Miramichi Civic Centre.

History 
The Miramichi Timberwolves joined the Maritime Junior A Hockey League in 2000 and did not enjoy regular season success for three seasons. After the third season they acquired former NHLer Bill Riley as head coach, and the team reached third overall in the league and headed to their first post season.

The first playoff series ever for the Timberwolves was against the Charlottetown Abbies. The "T-wolves", (as they are known to fans) swept the Abbies four games to none. The Timberwolves progressed to the division finals but lost to the Campbellton Tigers in six games.

The Timberwolves have never won a Maritime Junior A Championship. They have reached the league final once and the division finals three times. Playoff disappointments have pushed the Timberwolves to do better in the regular season where in 2007–08 they put together their best to date. Finishing with 42 wins and 87 points good for first in the Meek division, the third time they had won the division in five years.

After another playoff disappointment behind them the T-Wolves started the 2008–2009 season looking to take the next step and win the Kent Cup. They finished second in the Meek Division, five points behind first place Summerside and just one point ahead of third place Woodstock. In the first round the T-Wolves and the Slammers showed why they were so close in the standings. The series went seven games, the first seven-game series that the Timberwolves had ever been a part of in their nine years in the league. The T-Wolves came out on top winning the deciding game 3-2 thanks to Andrew White, who scored all three of the Timberwolves goals. Miramichi moved on to face Summerside in the division final. Summerside was riding high having just swept the Dieppe Commandos, and they swept the series on their way to winning the Kent Cup, making it the second straight season that the Timberwolves were beaten in the Meek Division final (the previous year they were defeated by the Woodstock Slammers in six games.)

The Wolves reached the Kent Cup final during the 2016–17 season, their best in franchise history. They lost to the Truro Bearcats in seven games.

Early in the 2022-23 season, after a few years of futility, the Wolves parted ways with head coach and general manager Rob MacDonald, who had been with the team since the 2011-12 campaign. The team ended up having its best regular season since 2016-17 after naming Kory Baker as his replacement, but fell to the Edmundston Blizzard in the Eastlink North Division semifinals.

Season-by-season record

See also 
 List of ice hockey teams in New Brunswick
 Maritime Junior A Hockey League
 Timberwolves Webpage

References 

Maritime Junior Hockey League teams
Ice hockey teams in New Brunswick
Sport in Miramichi, New Brunswick
Commentary on the Water Classic

The Commentary on the Water Classic (), or Commentaries on the Water Classic,  commonly known as Shui Jing Zhu, is a work on the Chinese geography in ancient times, describing the traditional understanding of its waterways and ancient canals, compiled by Li Daoyuan during the Northern Wei Dynasty (386-534 AD). The book is divided into sections by river, each described with its source, course, and major tributaries, including cultural and historical notes. 

The work is much expanded from its source text, the older (and now lost) Water Classic (Shuijing 水經). The original text described 137 different rivers in China and was traditionally credited to Eastern Han scholar and geographer Sang Qin (桑钦) during the Three Kingdoms Period (220-280 AD).  Qing dynasty scholars gave it a later date (during the Three Kingdoms Period) because of the names of the counties and commanderies.  Its authorship was then attributed to Jin dynasty scholar Guo Pu. Li Daoyuan's 40-volume, 300,000-character version includes 1252 rivers.

Although very thorough for its time, it did repeat the earlier mistake of the "Tribute of Yu" in viewing the Min river of Sichuan as the headwaters of the Yangtze. It was not until the Ming dynasty that Xu Xiake correctly listed the Jinsha as the principal source.

See also
Yang Shoujing and Xiong Huizhen, authors of the 19th-century annotation Shui Jing Zhu Shu (水經註疏)

References

Further reading
Needham, Joseph (1986). Science and Civilization in China: Volume 3. Taipei: Caves Books, Ltd.
Strassberg, Richard E.: Inscribed Landscapes: Travel Writing from Imperial China. University of California Press, Berkeley, Calif. 1994 
Cihai, Shanghai cishu chubanshe, Shanghai 2002,

External links

"Chinese Literature: Shuijingzhu 水經注 "Commentary to the River Classic" " at China Knowledge
"Unter dem Himmel" 

Chinese literature
Geographic history of China
Chinese geography texts
Cheryl Blaylock

Cheryl Blaylock (also known as Cheryl Blalock; born 1953) is an American puppeteer who performed the title character on Eureeka's Castle from 1989 to 1991. Blaylock is originally from Kalamazoo, Michigan. Before she starred in the title role on Eureeka's Castle, she performed on Sesame Street and in The Muppets Take Manhattan. After Eureeka's Castle, Blaylock played characters on other projects like Oobi, The Adventures of Timmy the Tooth, The Reunion, and Blue's Room.

Filmography
 Sesame Street – Mona Monster, Blue Honker, Forgetful Jones' cousin, Forgetful Jones's mother, Princess Katie, additional Muppets
 The Muppets Take Manhattan – additional Muppets
 Eureeka's Castle – Eureeka
 The Adventures of Timmy the Tooth – Bubbles Gum
 Muppet Classic Theater – additional Muppets
 Little Muppet Monsters — Cow, Raggmopp 
 Oobi  – Frieda the Foot
 Blue's Room  Frederica "Fred"
 The Planet Matzah Ball – Tina

References

External links
 

American puppeteers
Living people
Sesame Street Muppeteers
People from Kalamazoo, Michigan
1953 births
Female puppeteers
Conjugacy-closed subgroup

In mathematics, in the field of group theory, a subgroup of a group is said to be conjugacy-closed if any two elements of the subgroup that are conjugate in the group are also conjugate in the subgroup.

An alternative characterization of conjugacy-closed normal subgroups is that all class automorphisms of the whole group restrict to class automorphisms of the subgroup.

The following facts are true regarding conjugacy-closed subgroups:

 Every central factor (a subgroup that may occur as a factor in some central product) is a conjugacy-closed subgroup.
 Every conjugacy-closed normal subgroup is a transitively normal subgroup.
 The property of being conjugacy-closed is transitive, that is, every conjugacy-closed subgroup of a conjugacy-closed subgroup is conjugacy-closed.

The property of being conjugacy-closed is sometimes also termed as being conjugacy stable. It is a known result that for finite field extensions, the general linear group of the base field is a conjugacy-closed subgroup of the general linear group over the extension field. This result is typically referred to as a stability theorem.

A subgroup is said to be strongly conjugacy-closed if all intermediate subgroups are also conjugacy-closed.

Examples and Non-Examples

Examples
Every subgroup of a commutative group is conjugacy closed.

Non-Examples

External links
 Conjugacy-closed subgroup at the Group Properties Wiki
 Central factor at the Group Properties Wiki

Subgroup properties
Maharashtra Day

Maharashtra Day, commonly known as Maharashtra Din (Marathi: महाराष्ट्र दिन) is a state holiday in the Indian state of Maharashtra, commemorating the formation of the state of Maharashtra in India. from the division of the Bombay State on 1 May 1960. Maharashtra Day is commonly associated with parades and political speeches and ceremonies, in addition to various other public and private events celebrating the history and traditions of Maharashtra. It is celebrated to commemorate the creation of a Marathi speaking state of Maharashtra.

Background
The States Reorganisation Act, 1956 defined boundaries for the states within India on the basis of languages. The Bombay State that was formed as a consequence of this act, however, was composed of different areas where different languages were spoken; Marathi, Gujarati, Kutchi and Konkani. The Sanyukta Maharashtra Samiti was at the forefront of the movement to divide the Bombay State into two states; one composed of areas where people primarily spoke Gujarati and Kutchi and the other where people primarily spoke Marathi and Konkani.

The state of Maharashtra and Gujarat were formed as a result of this movement according to the Bombay Reorganisation Act, 1960 enacted by the Parliament of India on 25 April 1960. The act came into effect on 1 May 1960, hence the reason of annual celebration.

Observance
Every year the Government of Maharashtra issues a notification declaring 1 May to be a public holiday to be celebrated as Maharashtra Day. This holiday applies to all the schools, offices and companies under the jurisdiction of the State and Central Government celebrate this day by organising various programmes.

Customs
Every year a parade is held at Shivaji Park where the Governor of Maharashtra makes a speech.

Liquor sales to Indians are prohibited on this day across Maharashtra, excluding foreigners.

Unique or historical celebrations
The Golden Jubilee celebrations for Maharashtra Day were conducted on 1 May 2011 across Maharashtra.

Inaugurations and launching of new projects and schemes
In Maharashtra state government and private sector inaugurates and launches various new projects and schemes on 1 May. Annual celebrations of such institutions and projects are also held on Maharashtra Day.

The Marathi language Wikipedia was started on 1 May 2003.

References

Culture of Maharashtra
May observances
Indian state foundation days
Edmundston Blizzard

The Edmundston Blizzard are a junior ice hockey  team from Edmundston, New Brunswick, Canada. They play in the Maritime Junior Hockey League.

History

Moncton Beavers and also as Richview Junior Canucks and Moncton Hawks were members in the now defunct Nova Scotia Senior Hockey League (1958-1965) from 1961 to 1965.

The Moncton Hawks were New Brunswick Junior Hockey League Junior A champions in 1981, 1982, and 1983.

In 1983, the Moncton Hawks abandoned the faltering New Brunswick Junior Hockey League and joined the Metro Valley Junior Hockey League which until then was a Nova Scotia-based league.

In the summer of 2008, the Moncton Beavers moved to neighbouring Dieppe and became the Commandos.  The Commandos played host to the 2009 Fred Page Cup.

The Commandos lost their first game after moving to Dieppe on September 13, 2008 2-1 to the Yarmouth Mariners.

On November 2, 2016 it was announced that Dieppe could not support a Jr. A team and that the franchise would be relocating to the city of Edmundston, New Brunswick for the start of the 2017-18 season. On February 8, 2017 it was announced that they would become the Edmundston Blizzard, beginning at season end.

In their first season in Edmundston, the Blizzard won the divisional season championship, finished first overall and won the league playoffs.

Season-by-season record

Fred Page Cup
Eastern Canada Championships
MHL - QAAAJHL - CCHL - Host
Round robin play with 2nd vs 3rd in semi-final to advance against 1st in the finals.

Notable alumni
Ryan Clowe
Sid Veysey
Don Wheldon
Patrice Cormier

See also
List of ice hockey teams in New Brunswick

References

External links
Blizzard homepage

Maritime Junior Hockey League teams
Ice hockey teams in New Brunswick
Edmundston
1959 establishments in New Brunswick
Ice hockey clubs established in 1959
Motofumi Kobayashi

is a Japanese manga artist. His works include military comics such as Panzergrenadier (装甲擲弾兵), Warrior in Flames -Jochen Peiper (炎の騎士　ヨーヘン・パイパー戦記) & Unternehmen Blau (ブラウ作戦).

Works
Works about World War II:
The Black Knight Story  (黒騎士物語), 1985
Panzer Vor!  (パンツァーフォー！), 1986
Panzergrenadier  (装甲擲弾兵), 1987
Panzer Krieg  (パンツァークリーク), 1988
Death of the Steel  (鋼鉄の死神), 1989 - The biography of Michael Wittmann.
Warrior in Flames - Jochen Peiper  (炎の騎士　ヨーヘン・パイパー戦記), 1990 - The biography of Jochen Peiper.
Kampfgruppe Zbv  (カンプグルッペZbv), 1993
Happy Tiger  (ハッピータイガー), 1993
Japanisch Frw. Bataillon der Waffen SS  (東亜総統特務隊), 1995. - 'Japanese foreign legion of the Waffen-SS.'  It's a comedy.
Unternehmen Barbarossa  (バルバロッサ作戦), 2001. - Operation Barbarossa
Unternehmen Taifun  (タイフーン作戦), 2002. - Operation Typhoon
Unternehmen Blau  (ブラウ作戦), 2003. - Operation Blue
Unternehmen Zitadelle  (ツィタデル作戦), 2005. - Operation Zitadelle
Deutschland Afrika Korps  (アフリカ軍団), 2006. - Afrika Korps and the biography of Erwin Rommel.
Samland 1945  (ザームラント1945), 2007. - Battle of Sambia.

Works about the Vietnam War:
Cat Shit One (キャットシットワン), 1998
Vietnam War  (ヴェトナムウォー), 1999

Alternate history:
World War III  (第3次世界大戦), 1988
Battle over Hokkaidō  (バトルオーバー北海道), 1989 - Set in 1995, Soviet hardliners assassinate Mikhail Gorbachev and launch a war against NATO and Japan. In the Far East, the Soviet military fights the JSDF in a battle over control of Hokkaidō.
Raid on Tokyo/Tokyo Wars  (トウキョウウォーズ), 1991 - This is a story of the JSDF fighting against the Soviet Army in Tokyo and Niigata.
Korean War II  (第2次朝鮮戦争 ユギオII), 1996
Samurai Soldier  (サムライ・ソルジャー), 1999
Omega 7  (オメガ7), 2002
Omega J  (オメガJ), 2003

Science Fiction:
Gatse  (ワンマン・アーミー　ゲイツ), 1987
The Time Troopers  (タイム・トルーパー), 1989
HYDT  (士官候補生ハイト), 1989

American comic books:
Psychonauts (with writer Alan Grant, 4-issue mini series, Epic Comics, 1993–1994)

Video games:
Accele Brid (Character Designer)

References

Motofumi Kobayashi at Lambiek's Comiclopedia

External links
 

Living people
1951 births
Manga artists from Fukuoka Prefecture
Japan Self-Defense Forces in fiction