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Preston B. Plumb

Preston Bierce Plumb (October 12, 1837December 20, 1891) was a United States senator from Kansas, as well as an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Biography
Born in Delaware County, Ohio, at 9 his family removed to Marysville, Ohio, where he flourished in the local schools.  At 11 he attended Kenyon College, a preparatory school and learned the trade of printing.  After 3 years there, he returned to Marysville where he worked for the local paper, The Tribune, and afterwards purchased and edited the Xenia News.

He moved to Lawrence, Kansas in 1856, to support the "Free-State" movement. He was one of the founders of Emporia, Kansas, where he established the Kansas News in 1857. He was secretary of the Free-State convention in 1857 and a member of the Leavenworth constitutional convention in 1859. Plumb studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1861. He was elected to the Kansas House of Representatives in 1862 and was a reporter for the Kansas Supreme Court.

During the Civil War, Plumb entered the Union Army in 1862 as a second lieutenant in the 11th Kansas Infantry, which was redesignated as the 11th Kansas Cavalry in August 1863 in Kansas City. He served successively as captain, major, and lieutenant colonel of the regiment. He was on duty on the eastern border of Kansas until October 1864, helping fight pro-Confederacy Missouri partisans and raiders under William Quantrill, as well as serving in Nebraska against Indians. Starting in October, Plumb and his regiment fought against the Confederates in several battles during Price's Raid. He was mustered out September 26, 1865.

He was a member of the State House of Representatives in 1867 and 1868, and also served as speaker in the latter year. He was prosecuting attorney of Lyon County and was president of the Emporia National Bank in 1873.

In 1877, Preston Plumb was elected as a Republican to the U.S. Senate; he was reelected in 1883 and 1888 and served from March 4, 1877, until his death. While in the Senate, he was chairman of the Committee on Public Lands (Forty-seventh through Fifty-second Congresses). He died in Washington, D.C., in 1891, and was buried in Maplewood Cemetery in Emporia.

In popular culture
The lead character in the popular 1890 play The Senator was modeled after Plumb.

See also
List of United States Congress members who died in office (1790–1899)

Notes

References

1837 births
1891 deaths
People from Delaware County, Ohio
American newspaper editors
Kenyon College alumni
Republican Party members of the Kansas House of Representatives
Union Army officers
People of Kansas in the American Civil War
Republican Party United States senators from Kansas
People from Emporia, Kansas
19th-century American journalists
American male journalists
19th-century American male writers
19th-century American politicians
Journalists from Ohio
People from Marysville, Ohio
Kolding Stadium

Kolding Stadion, known as Autocentral Park for sponsorship purposes, is a multi-purpose stadium in Kolding, Denmark.

It consists of an old wooden stand (west), a 700-seater, a larger more modern east stand, with room for a sitting crowd of 1,517 (after the 2006 rebuild), plus a round southern stand. There are four athletics running lanes (six for sprint distances up until 110 metres), and facilities for pole vaulting, high jumping, hammer throwing, shot putting and long jumping.

History
In 1898, Kolding Fodsports Klub (literally: Kolding Footsports' Club, later Kolding IF) left Staldgården, near Koldinghus because of a new arena being built there. In 1913 they took over the area Olympia in Kolding and the pitch there. The poor conditions of the playing field, though, made the city council of Kolding finance a new stadium there, which was opened in 1931.

In 1972 the old building and main stand was demolished, to make room for a new one.

The American singer Whitney Houston  performed a concert at the stadium  on August 15, 1993,  during The Bodyguard World Tour.

The ground has been used for three matches for the Denmark women's national football team, and several matches for various Danish national youth teams, latest matches for the Danish under-17 men's side and the women's under-19 team in 2007.

More recently, on July 6, 2007, the ground was used for a Bryan Adams concert.

2006 rebuild 

A slight rebuild was made in 2006, in order to make a new VIP-section on the east stand. The section has room for 140 dining guests, and a separate seating section with 40 seats. A direct entrance to the stadium from the cafeteria was also built, and the entrances (in the southwest corner and to the north) were renovated to Superliga-standards.

References

External links and references
 Kolding Stadion from stadions.dk
 Photos, also from stadions.dk
 Further photos of the stadium from Kolding FC's fanclub-homepage
 Kolding Idræts Forening in the Kolding Leksikon at Kolding Municipality's homepage

Athletics (track and field) venues in Denmark
Football venues in Denmark
Sport in Kolding
Kolding IF
Eiken, Norway

Eiken is a former municipality in the old Vest-Agder county, Norway.  The municipality existed from 1916 until its dissolution in 1963.  It was located in the northern half of the present-day municipality of Hægebostad in what is now Agder county. The administrative centre was the village of Eiken where Eiken Church is located.  The municipality included the far northern end of the Lyngdalen valley from the lake Lygne to the mountains in the north.

History
The municipality of Eiken was established on 1 January 1916 when the municipality of Hægebostad was divided into two separate municipalities: Eiken (population: 932) and Hægebostad (population: 867). During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee. On 1 January 1963, the two municipalities were reunited and together formed the municipality of Hægebostad. Before the merger the population of Eiken was 784.

Name
The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Eiken farm (). The name is the plural genitive case of the word  which means "oak tree".

Government
While it existed, this municipality was responsible for primary education (through 10th grade), outpatient health services, senior citizen services, unemployment, social services, zoning, economic development, and municipal roads. During its existence, this municipality was governed by a municipal council of directly elected representatives. The mayor was indirectly elected by a vote of the municipal council.

Municipal council
The municipal council  of Eiken was made up of representatives that were elected to four year terms. The tables below show the historical composition of the council by political party.

See also
List of former municipalities of Norway

References

Hægebostad
Former municipalities of Norway
1916 establishments in Norway
1963 disestablishments in Norway
Tõnu Õim

Tõnu Õim (born 16 June 1941) is an Estonian grandmaster of correspondence chess, most famous for being the first to have won the ICCF World Championship twice, in 1983 and 1999. In 1991 he won the Axelson Memorial. In  play, he was awarded the Soviet Master title in 1966. He does not hold a FIDE title for over-the-board play; however, his peak FIDE rating of 2410 indicates a player of International Master strength.

Notable games
 Tonu Oim vs. Grigory Konstantinovich Sanakoev, 50th World Champions Jubilee Tournament 2003, Sicilian Defense: Najdorf Variation, English Attack (B90), 
 Tonu Oim vs. Juan Sebastian Morgado, 14th CC World Ch Final 1994, Four Knights Game: Scotch Variation. Accepted (C47), 1–0

Notes

References

External links
 
 
 

1941 births
Living people
Correspondence chess grandmasters
World Correspondence Chess Champions
Estonian chess players
Soviet chess players
People from Raasiku Parish
Evergreen Hills Plantation

Evergreen Hills Plantation was a large cotton plantation of 6700 acres (27 km2) located in eastern Leon County, Florida, United States established by Green H. Chaires.

Location
Evergreen Hills was located in 2 tracts. The first tract was bordered Joseph John Williams' La Grange Plantation on the north and the Francis Eppes Plantation to the east.

The second tract was at the east end of Lake Lafayette, Florida and bordered a 2nd tract of Chemonie Plantation on the east. Green's Evergreen Hills Plantation, with Benjamin's Vendura Plantation and Thomas Peter's Woodlawn Plantation, would form the community hub of Chaires, Florida. In 2000 the community of Chaires was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Today the Chaires-Capitola Community Park, the neighborhoods around Chaires Cross Road, Green Oak Drive, Boykin Road, Boyette Lane, Bucklake Road, Farraway Farms and others occupy the land.

Plantation specifics
The Leon County Florida 1860 Agricultural Census shows that the Evergreen Hills Plantation had the following:
 Improved Land: 3600 acres (15 km2)
 Unimproved Land: 3100 acres (13 km2)
 Cash value of plantation: US$53,600
 Cash value of farm implements/machinery: $900
 Cash value of farm animals: $11,460
 Number of persons enslaved: 135
 Bushels of corn: 6000
 Bales of cotton: 350

The owner
Green Hill Chaires' brother was Benjamin Chaires who laid out and named the area of Jacksonville in 1822. Green Hill Chaires had a son named Green Averitt Charles.   Chaires is also listed as a voter in First Florida Election of 1845.

During Florida's Territorial Period (1821–1845). Green Hill Chaires along with brothers Benjamin of Vendura Plantation and Thomas Peter of Woodlawn Plantation
moved to Leon County establishing very large plantations. Green Hill Chaires' first plantation started large and eventually grew to 20,000 acres (80 km2) and had a large home on Lake Lafayette. During the Second Seminole War of 1835–1842, Chaires' wife and two of his children along with several slaves were massacred and the home was destroyed.

Aside from being a plantation owner, Green Chaires built the state's first plank road, which connected Leon County plantations to the Gulf Coast shipping communities of Newport and St. Marks. Also on the transportation end, Chaires was on the 1861–1865 Board of Directors of the Tallahassee Railroad.

References
Rootsweb Plantations
Largest Slaveholders from 1860 Slave Census Schedules
1845 voters
Paisley, Clifton; From Cotton To Quail, University of Florida Press, c1968.

Seminole Wars
Plantations in Leon County, Florida
Cotton plantations in Florida
Asahigaoka Station (Toyama)

is a city tram station on the Takaoka Kidō Line located in Takaoka, Toyama Prefecture, Japan.

References

Railway stations in Toyama Prefecture
Finsland

Finsland or Finnsland is a village in Kristiansand municipality in Agder county, Norway. The village is located about  northwest of Nodeland and about  southeast of the village of Bjelland. The village is very small and it is located in a very rural area, but it is the site of Finsland Church, the main church for the northern half of Songdalen municipality. The village was the administrative centre of the old municipality of Finsland which existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1964.

Name
The municipality (originally the parish) was named Finsland. The name comes from the old "Finsland" farm which is situated by the river Finnsåna, which flows into the Mandalselva. There are also farms nearby called Finsdal and Finsådal. The first element is the word finne means "wilderness" or "remote". The second element land is the same as the word for "land".

References

External links
Weather information for Finsland 

Villages in Agder
Geography of Kristiansand
Percival Spencer Umfreville Pickering

Percival Spencer Umfreville (Spencer) Pickering (6 March 1858 – 5 December 1920) was a British chemist and horticulturist.

Born to Anne Maria Spencer-Stanhope and her husband Percival Pickering, Pickering grew up in a wealthy family, and was able to start a career in science by building his own laboratory in his private house. In 1881, he took up a position as lecturer at Bedford College, where he stayed until 1887. After losing an eye in a serious accident in his lab, his health waned and he moved to the countryside to the village of Harpenden. Among the residents of the village were already four fellows of the Royal Society, and Pickering was to become the fifth by 1890. 

From 1894 on, he was director of the Woburn Experimental Fruit Farm, a private establishment by Pickering and the Duke of Bedford, where he worked to improve horticultural techniques.

In 1907, he discovered the phenomenon that emulsions can be stabilised by small particles instead of emulsifiers, nowadays referred to as Pickering stabilization, although the effect was already recognized by Walter Ramsden in 1903.

Literature
E.J. Russell, "Obituary notice: Percival Spencer Umfreville Pickering", Biochemical Journal 15, 1–3 (1921).  
S.U. Pickering, "Emulsions", Journal of the Chemical Society 91, 2001-2021 (1907).
W. Ramsden, Proceedings of the Royal Society (London) B 72, 156-164 (1903).

1858 births
1920 deaths
English chemists
Fellows of the Royal Society
Greipstad

Greipstad is a former municipality in the old Vest-Agder county, Norway.  The  municipality existed from 1913 until its dissolution in 1964 when it became part of Songdalen municipality.  The administrative centre of the municipality was the village of Nodeland where the Greipstad Church is located. The municipality is located in the northern part of the present-day municipality of Kristiansand in Agder county.

History
The municipality of Greipstad was established on 1 July 1913 when it was separated from the municipality of Søgne to form a municipality of its own. Initially, the municipality had a population of 822 residents. During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee.  On 1 January 1964, the municipality of Greipstad (population: 2,061) was dissolved and it was merged with most of the neighboring municipality of Finsland, excluding the area around Kleveland bru, (population: 797) and with the Eikeland area of Øvrebø municipality (population: 39) to form the new municipality of Songdalen.

Name
The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Greipstad farm () since the first Greipstad Church was built there. The first element is the old male name . The last element is the plural form of  which means "place" or "abode".

Government
While it existed, this municipality was responsible for primary education (through 10th grade), outpatient health services, senior citizen services, unemployment, social services, zoning, economic development, and municipal roads. During its existence, this municipality was governed by a municipal council of directly elected representatives. The mayor was indirectly elected by a vote of the municipal council.

Municipal council
The municipal council  of Greipstad was made up of representatives that were elected to four year terms. The tables below show the historical composition of the council by political party.

See also
List of former municipalities of Norway

References

External links
1960 census and map of the municipality 

Songdalen
Former municipalities of Norway
1913 establishments in Norway
1964 disestablishments in Norway
Ejiri Station

is a city tram station on the Takaoka Kidō Line located in Takaoka, Toyama Prefecture, Japan.

Surrounding area
JUSCO Takaoka

Railway stations in Toyama Prefecture
TV Heaven, Telly Hell

TV Heaven, Telly Hell is a comedy television show on Channel 4, presented and produced by Sean Lock. The format is similar to Room 101, with guests discussing their likes and dislikes of items on television.

The show also allows the guest to reconstruct any moment in television history in the way they wanted it to happen, in a short sketch shown at the end of the show usually parodying a clip discussed earlier.

Guests

Series 1

Series 2

External links

2006 British television series debuts
2007 British television series endings
2000s British comedy television series
Channel 4 original programming
Channel 4 comedy
Television series by All3Media
English-language television shows
Haggs Castle

Haggs Castle is a 16th-century tower house, located in the neighbourhood of Pollokshields, in Glasgow, Scotland. The richly decorated building was restored in the 19th century, and today is once more occupied as a residence.

History
The carved stone above the door records that Haggs was built in 1585 by Sir John Maxwell of Pollok and his wife Margaret Conyngham (Cunningham). It was built to replace the Maxwells' former residence, the Laigh Castle, a 14th-century building which stood to the west. Although built as the Maxwells' main residence, it was later used as a jointure house, or dower house, being occupied by the lord's widow. The Maxwells, a covenanting family, were fined for nonconformist activities, although the change of government resulting from the revolution of 1688 saved them from paying up. In 1753 Haggs in turn was replaced as a residence and abandoned when Pollok House was completed.

The castle basement was later used as a smithy. In the 1850s the remains were consolidated, and in the 1860s the castle was restored for the Maxwells' factor. Further restorations and additions were undertaken by Sir John Stirling-Maxwell in 1899–1900. A renovation scheme was prepared by architects MacGibbon and Ross, although their plans for a faithful restoration were not followed.

In 1943 the castle was requisitioned by the military, and was later divided into flats. In 1972 the Glasgow Corporation bought the castle, converting it to serve as the Museum of Childhood. When this closed in 1998, the house once more became a private dwelling.

Architecture

Haggs Castle is an altered L-plan tower, of 4 storeys. The main block measures around 17 m by 7.2 m. The ground floor contained two chambers and a kitchen with a large fireplace. The main stair led up to the first floor, where a private room was located behind the main hall. Smaller corbelled stairs led to the upper storeys, which included a square cap house above the stair tower. Square and round gun loops were located around the tower. The most striking feature is the carved decoration, including cable-moulded string courses, moulded corbels, and the carving over the door.

In the 19th century, the upper parts of the walls were rebuilt with larger dormer windows. Other windows were also enlarged, and the stair wing was rebuilt. Most obviously, a new entrance and stair were added to the south, and a new wing to the north.

Notes

References
"Haggs Castle and its story", in Alison, Robert The Anecdotage of Glasgow, 1892 
Coventry, Martin The Castles of Scotland (3rd Edition), Goblinshead, 2001
Mason, Gordon The Castles of Glasgow and the Clyde, Goblinshead, 2000
Salter, Mike The Castles of South West Scotland, Folly Publications, 1993
Williamson, E, Riches, A and Higgs, M The Buildings of Scotland: Glasgow, Penguin, 1990
Historic Scotland Listed Building Report 
National Monuments Record of Scotland Site Reference NS56SE 41.00 

Castles in Glasgow
Category B listed buildings in Glasgow
Listed castles in Scotland
Country houses in Glasgow
Clan Maxwell
Lowland castles
Pollokshields
Dower houses
Tower houses in Scotland
Sardis Lake (Mississippi)

Sardis Lake is a  reservoir on the Tallahatchie River in Lafayette, Panola, and Marshall counties, Mississippi. Sardis Lake is impounded by Sardis Dam, located  southeast of the town of Sardis. It is approximately an hour drive from Memphis, Tennessee. The dam is  long, has an average height of , and a maximum height of .

History
Sardis Dam was the first of the Yazoo River headwaters projects to be built by the federal government for flood control. Authorization for the project came when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Flood Control Act of 1936. Construction took four years and required thousands of men to clear  along the Tallahatchie River, which was characterized by dense woods and undergrowth, and meandering sloughs.

The dam was constructed using a "hydraulic fill" technique that required soil to be dredged from below the dam site and pumped to form the earth fill, which forms the majority of the dam. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built and operated the "Pontotoc", a special dredge powered by two  electric motors to accomplish this task. The  "Lower Lake" on the downstream side of Sardis Dam was created by the dredging operation. It has numerous recreation facilities, including John W. Kyle State Park. Mississippi Highway 315 splits while crossing the dam, with one route crossing the top and the other half crossing the base.

Sardis Lake has a maximum storage capacity of  of water. The lake is gradually drawn down during the fall and winter months to a "conservation pool" of . This permits spring rains across the lake's  watershed to fill the reservoir without flooding downstream. Since the dam became operational, the dam's emergency spillway has been overtopped only three times by high water - in 1973, 1983 and 1991. The lake's typical "recreation pool" is .

The lake is popular with anglers and has a reputation for its abundant bass and crappie. Other recreation activities include hunting, camping, boating, skiing, swimming and picnicking.

Marina
The Sardis Lake Marina services the lake with access to fuel docks, 140 wet slips (both covered and uncovered), a restaurant, and a ship store. The Marina offers rental boats as well as rental skis, tubes, and knee/wake boards.

Fish
The main fish that live in the lake are Largemouth bass, Spotted bass, Blue catfish, Channel catfish, Flathead catfish, Black crappie, White crappie, Bluegill, Redear sunfish, White bass.

External links

Sardis Lake and Dam (Official Website), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
http://sardis.uslakes.info/FishingChart.asp

References

Protected areas of Lafayette County, Mississippi
Protected areas of Marshall County, Mississippi
Protected areas of Panola County, Mississippi
Reservoirs in Mississippi
Dams in Mississippi
United States Army Corps of Engineers dams
Landforms of Lafayette County, Mississippi
Landforms of Marshall County, Mississippi
Landforms of Panola County, Mississippi
James M. Harvey (politician)

James Madison Harvey (September 21, 1833 – April 15, 1894) was a United States senator from Kansas and fifth Governor of Kansas.

Born near Salt Sulphur Springs, Virginia (now West Virginia), Harvey attended common schools in Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa.  He married Charlotte Richardson Cutter and they had nine children.

Harvey became a civil engineer and headed west as a prospector to Pike's Peak in 1859 as a Fifty-Niner.  After meeting several discouraged miners along the way, Harvey decided to settle instead in Kansas Territory, so he acquired a plot of land in Riley County near Fort Riley and engaged in agricultural pursuits. From 1861 to 1864, he served with the Union Army during the Civil War, advancing to the rank of captain in the 4th Kansas Infantry, which failed to complete organization and was consolidated with other recruits to form the 10th Kansas Infantry.  He attained the rank of captain, commanding the 14th Regiment, Kansas State Militia.

Harvey was elected to the Kansas House of Representatives, 1865–1866, and then elected to the Kansas Senate in 1867–1868. He was Governor of Kansas for two terms, serving from 1868 to 1872, and then elected as a Republican to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Alexander Caldwell, where he served from February 12, 1874, to March 3, 1877.

After his U.S. Senate term, Harvey worked as a government surveyor in New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, and Oklahoma, before returning to Kansas in 1890 to resume agricultural pursuits. Harvey County, Kansas, was named for him.

Harvey died near Junction City, Kansas, in 1894. Interment was in Highland Cemetery, Junction City.

References

External links

 Retrieved on 2008-02-14
Governor's papers
James Madison Harvey biography from "Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc.", 1912
James Madison Harvey biography from "A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans", 1918

National Governors Association
The Political Graveyard
Publications concerning Kansas Governor Harvey's administration available via the KGI Online Library

1833 births
1894 deaths
People from Monroe County, West Virginia
Union Army officers
Republican Party members of the Kansas House of Representatives
Republican Party Kansas state senators
Republican Party governors of Kansas
Republican Party United States senators from Kansas
19th-century American politicians
Cirrocumulus undulatus

Cirrocumulus undulatus is a variety of cirrocumulus cloud. The name cirrocumulus undulatus is derived from Latin, meaning "diversified as with waves". They have a rippled appearance due to wind shear and usually cover only a small portion of the sky. They appear in bands as small patches or layers. Occasionally, they comprise two or more wave forms superposed upon one another. The individual cloudlets can either be circular or elongated in the direction of the rows.

See also
List of cloud types

References

External links
International Cloud Atlas – Cirrocumulus undulatus

Cirrus
Cumulus
Shimin Byōin-mae Station (Toyama)

The  is a city tram station on the Takaoka Kidō Line located in Takaoka, Toyama Prefecture, Japan.

Surrounding area
Shimin Byōin (Shimin Hospital or Takaoka Municipal Hospital)
Hello Work Takaoka

Railway stations in Toyama Prefecture
Nanjung ilgi

Nanjung ilgi () or the War Diary of Yi Sun-sin is the personal diary of Admiral Yi Sun-sin, a Korean naval commander who lived during the Joseon Dynasty. It was written between January 1, 1592, and November 17, 1598, a first person narrative of the admiral's perspective on the Japanese invasions of Korea in the late 16th century.

It is the 76th national treasure of Korea and listed in UNESCO's Memory of the World registry.

Contents

The original Nanjung ilgi consists of 205 folio pages divided into 7 volumes. Entries detail the admiral's daily life in a military camp, his strategies, his naval campaigns, the names and dispositions of various military officers and civil officials with whom Admiral Yi interacted, geographic and atmospheric details, and his personal observations and commentary on the events and circumstances of his military command. These entries are not continuous: there are breaks in the narrative throughout the diary, representative of periods of time in which Admiral Yi was unable to maintain daily entries. There is also some overlap between Volumes 5 and 6, where Admiral Yi apparently later revised earlier entries.

Volume 1
Volume 1 consists of 27 folio pages, covering the entries from the 1st of 5th moon 1592 to the 22nd of 3rd moon 1593.

Volume 2
Volume 2 consists of 30 folio pages, covering the entries from the 1st day of 5th moon 1593 to the 15th day of 9th moon 1593.

Volume 3
Volume 2 consists of 50 folio pages, covering the entries from the 1st day of 1st moon 1594 to the 28th day of 11th moon 1594.

Volume 4
Volume 4 consists of 41 folio pages, covering the entries from the 1st day of 1st moon 1596 to the 11th day of 10th moon 1596.

Volume 5
Volume 5 consists of 27 folio pages, covering the entries from the 1st day of 4th moon 1597 to the 8th day of 10th moon 1597.

Volume 6
Volume 6 consists of 20 folio pages, covering the entries from the 4th day of 8th moon 1597 to the 4th day of 1st moon 1598.

Volume 7
Volume 7 consists of 8 folio pages, covering the entries from the 15th day of 9th moon 1598 to the 7th day of 10th moon 1598.

References

Sources

External links
The War Diary of Yi Sun-sin
 이충무공 난중일기 부서간첩 임진장초 - 문화재청

Joseon dynasty works
Military books
Yi Sun-sin
1590s books
Korean non-fiction books
National Treasures of South Korea
Memory of the World Register
Chinese-language literature of Korea
Billy Jo Robidoux

William Joseph Robidoux (born January 13, 1964) is an American former professional baseball player, primarily at first base, but also occasionally played in the outfield and as a designated hitter.

Career
Drafted by the Milwaukee Brewers in the 6th round of the 1982 Major League Baseball Draft. Robidoux would make his Major League Baseball debut with the Milwaukee Brewers on September 11, 1985, playing with them until 1988, then signing as a free agent for the 1989 season with the Chicago White Sox. After one season with the White Sox he signed with the Boston Red Sox for the 1990 season. He appeared in his final game on September 17, 1990.

Robidoux now umpires high school baseball games in Western Massachusetts.

External links

1964 births
Living people
Águilas Cibaeñas players
American expatriate baseball players in the Dominican Republic
American expatriate baseball players in Canada
Baseball players from Massachusetts
Beloit Brewers players
Boston Red Sox players
Chicago White Sox players
Denver Zephyrs players
El Paso Diablos players
Major League Baseball designated hitters
Major League Baseball first basemen
Milwaukee Brewers players
Pawtucket Red Sox players
People from Ware, Massachusetts
Pikeville Brewers players
Stockton Ports players
Vancouver Canadians players
Mount Dingjun

Mount Dingjun () is a mountain in the Mian County of Hanzhong, Shaanxi, China. It is situated across Tiandang Mountain, separated by the Han River, and is near the old Yangping Pass.

The mountain is famous for the battle which took place there in the Three Kingdoms period, when Huang Zhong of Shu defeated and killed Xiahou Yuan of Wei. According to Sanguo Zhi, Shu prime minister Zhuge Liang wished to be buried on Mount Dingjun, so a tomb was built for him there.

The Battle of Mount Dingjun is dramatised in the historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Later in the novel, the general Zhong Hui marches through Mount Dingjun, where he is visited by the spirit of Zhuge Liang.

References

Dingjun
Henschel Hs 294

The Henschel Hs 294 was a guided air-to-sea missile developed by Henschel Flugzeug-Werke AG in Germany during World War II.

Design

The Hs 294 was a further development of the Henschel Hs 293, but was of an elongated, more streamlined shape. When launched from an aircraft, it was guided to its target with the same Kehl-Straßburg remote control system as both the Hs 293 and unpowered Fritz X armored precision-guided munition systems used for their MCLOS guidance needs. Just before it reached its target, it was guided into the water whereupon its wings would break off and then it then would run like a torpedo, propelled by its remaining kinetic energy; it would explode below the waterline of the vessel. The proximity fuze was that of a regular German torpedo.

See also 
 List of German guided weapons of World War II
 Ruhrstahl X-4 - Max Kramer's air-to-air guided missile
 Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka
 Project Pigeon
 LBD-1 Gargoyle
 GB-1
 GB-4
 GT-1 (missile)

References

World War II guided missiles of Germany
Guided bombs
Anti-ship missiles of Germany
The Guru (1969 film)

The Guru is a 1969 film by Merchant Ivory Productions, with a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and James Ivory.

Plot
A rock star, Tom Pickle (Michael York), travels to India to learn to play the sitar with the great musician Ustad Zafar Khan (as George Harrison did when he studied under Ravi Shankar). Khan (Utpal Dutt) is not happy with his disciple but still takes him to Benares to meet his own guru.

Cast

Rita Tushingham as Jenny
Michael York as Tom Pickle
Utpal Dutt as Ustad Zafar Khan
Madhur Jaffrey as Begum Sahiba
Barry Foster as Chris
Aparna Sen as Ghazala
Zohra Sehgal as Mastani
Saeed Jaffrey as Murad

Box office
According to Fox records, the film required $1,675,000 in theatrical rentals to break even. By 11 December 1970, it had only made $625,000 in rentals, causing the studio to take a loss. This was equivalent to estimated box office gross receipts of approximately .

References

External links
 
Merchant Ivory overview

1969 films
Films about Indian Americans
English-language Indian films
Merchant Ivory Productions films
Films directed by James Ivory
Films with screenplays by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Films scored by Vilayat Khan
Films with screenplays by James Ivory
Fairweather Range

The Fairweather Range is the unofficial name for a mountain range located in the U.S. state of Alaska and the Canadian province of British Columbia. It is the southernmost range of the Saint Elias Mountains. The northernmost section of the range is situated in Tatshenshini-Alsek Provincial Park while the southernmost section resides in Glacier Bay National Park, in the Hoonah-Angoon Census Area. In between it goes through the southeastern corner of Yakutat Borough.
Peaks of this range include Mount Fairweather (the highest point in British Columbia) and Mount Quincy Adams .

The range is home to the Fairweather Fault, an active geologic transform fault of the larger Queen Charlotte Fault along the boundary between the Pacific and North American plates.

Mountains
Mount Crillon
Mount Fairweather
Mount La Perouse
Mount Orville
Mount Quincy Adams
Mount Wilbur

Panorama

See also
Alsek Ranges - mountain range to the east
Centennial Range - mountain range to the northwest

References

 

Landforms of Hoonah–Angoon Census Area, Alaska
Mountains of Unorganized Borough, Alaska
Mountains of Yakutat City and Borough, Alaska
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Mountain ranges of Alaska
Felice Casson

Felice Casson (born 5 August 1953 in Chioggia, Province of Venice) is an Italian magistrate and politician, who discovered the existence of Operation Gladio, a "stay-behind" NATO anti-communist army during the Cold War, while investigating the  Peteano bombing in 1972, for which two neo-fascists were convicted; the explosives used in the attack supposedly came from a NATO arms cache. 622 Gladio members, including two people who served as prime minister and president, were exposed in the course of the investigation.

Felice Casson is a Member of the Senate of the Italian Republic.

He obtained a law degree from Padua University and entered the magistracy in 1980 as an investigating magistrate. He was subsequently appointed as responsible for preliminary investigations and was public prosecutor in Venice from 1993 to 2005.

He has been on leave since 2006 following his election to the Italian Parliament. In 2008 he was re-elected to the Senate and elected Vice President of the Democratic Party Group. As a magistrate, among the many investigations conducted by Casson - especially in the field of terrorism, the fight against corruption, environmental security, and the protection of workers and citizens from exposure to carcinogenic agents - are those on the Peteano massacre, disloyalty of the intelligence service and the State apparatus, terrorism and radical right-wing and international subversive organisations, global trade in warfare material, the GLADIO case, political corruption in the Veneto region, the fire of La Fenice Theatre in Venice, the trials over deaths from VCM, PVC and asbestos in Marghera, investigations into environmental pollution, disorders caused by depleted uranium and radio spectrum pollution.

As a Senator, he was a member of the following committees: Committee on Elections and Parliamentary Immunity, Committee on the Prosecution of Government Members, Standing Commission on the Justice, Committee of Inquiry into Depleted Uranium and the Committee on Workplace Deaths.

In particular, he introduced and promoted bills on the fight against corruption and organized crime, the streamlining of civil and criminal law proceedings, safety and prevention measures for workers exposed to genotoxic, carcinogenic substances such asbestos and VCM, environmental crime, population safety and the protection of crime victims.

He taught Environmental Law at the Venice Istituto Universitario di Architettura and the Università telematica internazionale Uninettuno.

He is a member of the scientific board of the Venice International Academy of Environmental Sciences (IAES).

Casson features in the 2009 documentary :de:Plastic Planet, directed by :de:Werner Boote.

Bibliography 
Lo stato violato (1985 - "The Raped State")
Servizi segreti e il segreto di stato (1992 - "Secret Services and State Secret")
La fabbrica dei veleni (2007 - "The poison factory")

References

1953 births
Living people
People from Chioggia
Politicians of Veneto
Democratic Party (Italy) politicians
21st-century Italian politicians
Operation Gladio
Years of Lead (Italy)
20th-century Italian judges
21st-century Italian judges
Shikino Chūgakkō-mae Station

The  is a city tram station on the Takaoka Kidō Line located in Takaoka, Toyama Prefecture, Japan. The station is sometimes called  because it's closer to the city offices than Honmaru Kaikan-mae Station.

Surrounding area
Takaoka City Offices

Railway stations in Toyama Prefecture
R. James Harvey

Russell James Harvey (July 4, 1922 – July 20, 2019) usually known as James Harvey, was a United States representative from Michigan and an inactive Senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.

Education and career
Harvey was born in Iron Mountain; his mother and paternal grandparents were immigrants from England. He enrolled in the University of Michigan in 1940, but interrupted his studies in 1942 to serve in the United States Army Air Forces for three years. He earned a Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School in 1948, was admitted to the bar, and commenced the practice of law in Saginaw, Michigan in 1949. He was assistant city attorney from 1949 to 1953, a city councilman and a member of the Saginaw County board of supervisors from 1955 to 1957. He was mayor of Saginaw from 1957 to 1959.

Congressional service
In 1960, with the help of campaign manager Emil Lockwood, Harvey was elected as a Republican from Michigan's 8th congressional district to the 87th United States Congress. He was subsequently re-elected to the six succeeding Congresses, serving from January 3, 1961 to January 31, 1974. He resigned on January 31, 1974.

Federal judicial service
Harvey was nominated by President Richard Nixon on December 5, 1973, to a seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan vacated by Judge Ralph M. Freeman. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on December 13, 1973, and received his commission on December 19, 1973. He assumed senior status due to a certified disability on March 31, 1984. He took inactive senior status in 2002.

Harvey died in Naples, Florida on July 20, 2019, aged 97.

See also
 List of United States federal judges by longevity of service

References

Sources
 
 
 
 

1922 births
2019 deaths
People from Iron Mountain, Michigan
Judges of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
United States district court judges appointed by Richard Nixon
20th-century American judges
20th-century American politicians
American people of English descent
University of Michigan Law School alumni
County commissioners in Michigan
Mayors of Saginaw, Michigan
Michigan city council members
Military personnel from Michigan
United States Army Air Forces soldiers
United States Army personnel of World War II
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Michigan
The Twenty-Seven Points

The Twenty-Seven Points: Live 92–95 is a double album by the Fall, released in 1995. The album consists of live recordings made in various locations between 1991 and 1995, but also contains interludes and two previously unheard studio tracks. Credits on the album are sketchy but the front cover lists the cities in which the tracks were recorded; Prague, Tel Aviv, London, Glasgow, New York City and Manchester.

Critical reception
Trouser Press wrote: "Composed of live tracks, rough demos and random interpolations from Glasgow, London, Manchester, New York, Prague and Tel Aviv, the 28-track, two-CD set is frustratingly uneven but ultimately captures the Fall live experience, complete with onstage disasters."

Track listing
Titles are given exactly as listed on the original sleeve.

Disc one

Note
Tracks 10 and 11 are listed on the cover as one track but indexed as 2 on the actual disc.

Disc two

Note
Tracks 15 and 16 are listed as one track but indexed as two on the disc.

2006 reissue 
The album was reissued by Castle Music in May 2006 in a remastered edition but with no additional material. However, as the release was mastered from the original vinyl, the original CD-only bonus tracks "Three Points" and "Up Too Much" are missing from this new version, despite being listed on the sleeve.

Personnel 
Adapted from the album liner notes.

The Fall
Mark E. Smith - vocals, tapes (etc)
Simon Wolstencroft - drums
Craig Scanlon - guitar
Steve Hanley - bass guitar, backing vocals
Karl Burns - drums, guitar, vocals
Brix - guitar, bass guitar, vocals
Julia Nagle - keyboards
Additional personnel 
Dave Bush - keyboards on "Big New Prinz", "Paranoid Man In Cheap Sh..t Room" and "Bounces - Leeds"
Kenny Brady - fiddle on "Prague 91/Mr Pharmacist"
Simon Rogers - machines on "Noel's Chemical Effluence"
Robert Gordon - bass and keyboards on "Cloud of Black"
Rex Sargeant - mix, compilation
Andy Bernstein - sound on tracks 8-23
Anthony Frost - art 
Claus Castenskiold - art 
Pascal Le Gras - art
Lucy Rimmer - layout
Valerie Philips - photography
there is also an additional credit which appears to read Andy: Rime Time Studios, Ancoats, M/C

Notes

References

The Fall (band) live albums
1995 live albums
Hirokōji Station (Toyama)

The  is a city tram station on the Takaoka Kidō Line located in Takaoka, Toyama Prefecture, Japan. The station was renamed from Izumi-chō on May 7, 1958.

Surrounding area
Takaoka Police Station
Takaoka City Agricultural Cooperative
Takaoka Commerce Building

Railway stations in Toyama Prefecture
Battle of Middlewich

There were two Battles of Middlewich during the First English Civil War
 First Battle of Middlewich,  13 March 1643
 Second Battle of Middlewich, 26 December 1643

Middlewich
Thomas Flanagan (writer)

Thomas Bonner Flanagan (November 5, 1923 – March 21, 2002) was an American university professor at the University of California at Berkeley and a novelist.

Biography
Flanagan was born in 1923 in Greenwich, Connecticut, to a homemaker mother and a dentist father. All of his grandparents had come to the United States from County Fermanagh, Ireland. He served in the United States Army during World War II. He graduated from Amherst College in 1945. He received his Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Columbia University. From 1960 to 1978 he was Professor of English Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, specializing in Irish literature. He was a tenured Full Professor in the English Department at the Stony Brook University until his retirement.

Flanagan was also a successful novelist. His first novel, The Year of the French, won the National Book Critics Award for fiction in 1979 and was adapted into a TV series, which was broadcast in Ireland in 1982.

Personal life
In 1949, he married Jane Parker, a nurse; they had two children, writer Caitlin Flanagan and Ellen Flanagan Klavan. His son-in-law is writer Andrew Klavan.  He and his wife spent much of their time in Ireland. They lived in East Setauket, Long Island.

He died on March 21, 2002, at the age of 78 in Berkeley.

Works

Historical novels
 The Year of the French (1979);  (2004)
The Tenants of Time (1988)
The End of the Hunt (1995)

Non-fiction work
The Irish Novelists 1800–1850 (1958)

Legacy

The Archives and Special Collections at Amherst College holds his papers.

References

Sources
Thomas Flanagan on Irish writers website page

External links
 Thomas A. Flanagan (AC 1945) Papers at the Amherst College Archives & Special Collections

1923 births
2002 deaths
20th-century American novelists
Columbia University alumni
Amherst College alumni
Writers from Greenwich, Connecticut
University of California, Berkeley faculty
Writers from California
American historical novelists
American male novelists
American people of Irish descent
20th-century American male writers
Novelists from Connecticut
American atheists
United States Army personnel of World War II
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Torrey's Topical Textbook is a reference book or concordance for topics found in the Holy Bible.  It contains subject index guides to topics found throughout the scriptures.  The work contains 628 entries and over 20,000 scripture references.

It was published long enough ago that the original edition is believed to be out of copyright, but the exact year of publication is not known from sources cited here.

Reverend R.A. Torrey was known for his prolific writings on religious subjects including Methods of Bible Study.

It is currently available in print from Sword of the Light Publishers, where it has . Due to the text not being under copyright, it is also popular for inclusion on CD-ROMs such as Cokesbury's Bible Discovery Library CD-ROM, .

Title Statement from library record: The New topical text book : a Scripture text book for the use of ministers, teachers, and all Christian workers / with introduction on methods of Bible study by R.A. Torrey ; with an appendix of outline of the fundamental doctrine of the Bible by David Allen Reed.
Published: Chicago : Revell, c1897.
Call Number: MAIN BS 432 .N4 1897

External links
 Torrey's Topical Textbook Searchable Online

Textbooks
Bible concordances
James Wilder Sr.

James Curtis Wilder Sr. (born May 12, 1958) is an American former professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL) for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Washington Redskins, and the Detroit Lions.

High school career
Wilder played high school football at Sikeston High School where he set school records in career rushing yards and single season rushing yards.  He led the Bulldogs to an undefeated season in 1976, his senior year with the team.

College career
Wilder played at Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College in Miami, Oklahoma, then attended and played college football at the University of Missouri where he led the Tigers to three bowl games and became known as the "Sikeston Train" and one of the most popular players for the program.

Professional career
Wilder was drafted by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the second round of the 1981 NFL Draft.  After he shared the backfield as a rookie with Jerry Eckwood in 1981, the Buccaneers released Eckwood in favor of Wilder prior to the 1982 season.  He played for most of his career with Tampa Bay, and was a Pro Bowl selection in 1984.  Wilder almost set an NFL record that season for combined rushing and receiving yards in a season finishing 16 yards short with 2,229.  In an attempt to give Wilder one more chance to break the record in the final minute of the final game of the 1984 season against the New York Jets, head coach John McKay (in what would be his final game as the Buccaneers head coach) ordered his defense to let the Jets score, so that the Bucs could go back on offense. This resulted in one of the strangest plays in NFL history where the Tampa Bay defense simply stood still as the Jets ran the ball into the end zone; McKay was given a large fine from the league for that stunt.

He ranks first in Buccaneer history in rushing yards, rushing attempts and receptions (later broken by Mike Evans) and even set an NFL record with 43 carries in a single game in 1984 (since broken). Also in 1984, he set NFL records for carries (407) (later broken by Jamal Anderson then Larry Johnson) and touches (492) in a single season.

Lawrence Taylor has stated that Wilder was one of the toughest running backs that he played against during his career.

Personal life
Wilder's son, James Wilder Jr., is a professional football player who is currently signed with the Edmonton Elks of the CFL. He played football for Florida State and was a part of their 2013 National Championship winning team, and the 2017 Grey Cup winning team.  Coincidentally, Marc Trestman, who was a Buccaneers assistant coach during the senior Wilder's career, was the junior Wilder's head coach.
Wilder's daughter, Courtney Wilder, played running back on the Tampa Breeze during the 2011–12 LFL season.

References

External links
 Bucpower page (James Wilder)
 Bucpower page (Jerry Eckwood)

1958 births
Living people
American football fullbacks
Detroit Lions players
Missouri Tigers football players
National Conference Pro Bowl players
People from Sikeston, Missouri
Tampa Bay Buccaneers players
Washington Redskins players