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Yerranderie

Yerranderie is a ghost town located near Kanangra-Boyd National Park of New South Wales, Australia in Wollondilly Shire.

History
Yerranderie was formerly a silver mining town of 2000 people, but the mining industry collapsed in 1927, and the town was cut off from direct access from Sydney by the establishment of the Warragamba Dam and Lake Burragorang in 1959. Country singer Frank Ifield immortalised the event with his song “Yerranderie”. The Yerranderie Post Office opened on 1 November 1899 and closed in 1958.

The town is now divided into two sections, the residential township adjacent to a private airstrip and the historic site one kilometre further west. The area is surrounded by abandoned mine shafts and mining relics. Accessible mainly by dirt road from Oberon, New South Wales 70 km to the west; another route passes through Oakdale, New South Wales to the east, but that road is closed to public access as it passes through a water catchment area. Aircraft also occasionally fly out from Camden Airport. The township was established on the slopes north of Yerranderrie Peak, which is the remains of a volcanic dyke and the source of the mineral wealth of the area. The name of Yerranderrie is taken from two local Aboriginal words meaning "slope" and "summit".

Yerranderie was caught up in what was, at the time, the world's longest strike, lasting for eighteen months in 1919–1920. The workers of this small mine belonged to the same union as those at Broken Hill. When the Broken Hill mine went on strike, the workers at Yerranderie were required to join that strike by their union. The strike, however, was not about any issue at Yerranderie.

The town was eventually bought by Valerie Anne Lhuede, who developed it as a tourist centre and total environment project. The old post office is now known as The Lodge and serves as a guest house. Other restored buildings include two miners cottages as well as several shops. The caretakers live in Krubi Cottage nearby.

In March 2011, Lhuede announced, "I am donating Yerranderie to the National Parks and Wildlife Service with a list of my wishes for Yerranderie’s future."

Gallery

See also
Blue Mountains

External links
 National Parks and Wildlife Service - Yerranderie Private Town 

 Yerranderie Arts Culture and Community Association

References

Towns in New South Wales
Ghost towns in New South Wales
Wollondilly Shire
Mining towns in New South Wales
W. D. Cocker

William Dixon Cocker (13 October 1882  – 1970) was a Scottish poet who wrote in both Scots and English.

Life
W. D. Cocker was born in Rutherglen to a family of Glasgow merchants, although his family had connections to the rural Drymen area where he learned Scots.

In the First World War, he served with the Highland Light Infantry, and was taken prisoner in 1917. His war poetry is limited in scope, but includes the poems "Up the Line to Poelkapelle", "The Sniper" and a five-part sonnet cycle entitled "Sonnets in Captivity".

After the war Cocker entered the accounts department of the Daily Record, and was the paper's drama critic until his retirement in 1956. He is best known for his humorous poems in Scots, often on Biblical themes, such as "The Deluge", on the story of Noah and the Flood. Books of his poems include "Poems: Scots and English", "Further Poems", "New Poems" and "Random Rhymes and Ballads".

References

1882 births
1970 deaths
20th-century Scottish poets
Scottish male poets
People from Rutherglen
20th-century British male writers
Scottish journalists
Scots-language poets
Writers from Glasgow
Highland Light Infantry soldiers
British Army personnel of World War I
British World War I prisoners of war
Pteriida

The Pteriida are an order of large and medium-sized marine  bivalve mollusks.  It includes five families, among them the Pteriidae (pearl oysters and winged oysters).

2010 taxonomy
In 2010, a new proposed classification system for the Bivalvia was published by Bieler, Carter & Coan, revising the classification of the Bivalvia, including the suborder Pteriida.

Superfamily Ambonychioidea
Family †Alatoconchidae
Family †Ambonychiidae
Family †Lunulacardiidae
Family †Monopteriidae
Family †Myalinidae
Family †Mysidiellidae
Family †Ramonalinidae
Superfamily Pinnoidea
Family Pinnidae
Superfamily †Posidonioidea Neumayr, 1891
Family †Posidoniidae Neumayr, 1891 (Devonian to Cretaceous)
Family †Aulacomyellidae Ichikawa, 1958
Family †Daonellidae Neumayr, 1891
Family †Halobiidae Kittl, 1912 (Devonian to Triassic)
Superfamily Pterioidea
Family †Bakevelliidae (Triassic to Eocene)
Family †Cassianellidae (Middle to Late Triassic)
Family †Kochiidae
Family Malleidae
Family †Pergamidiidae (Triassic to Cretaceous)
Family †Plicatostylidae (Jurassic)
Family †Posidoniidae
Family †Pterineidae
Family Pteriidae
Family Pulvinitidae
Family †Retroceramidae
Superfamily †Rhombopterioidea Korobkov in Eberzin, 1960
Family †Rhombopteriidae Korobkov in Eberzin, 1960 (Silurian to Devonian)
Family †Umburridae P. A. Johnston, 1991 (Silurian)

References 

 
Bivalve orders
Cocker

Cocker may refer to:

People
Anne Cocker (1920–2014), Scottish rose breeder from Aberdeen
David Cocker (b. 1955), New Zealand fencer
Edward Cocker (1631–1676), English engraver, who also taught writing and arithmetic
Edwin Cocker (b. 1980), New Zealand rugby union player
James Cecil Cocker, Tongan politician
Jarvis Cocker (b. 1963), English musician, frontman of Pulp
Joe Cocker (1944–2014), English rock/blues singer
 Cocker, his 1986 album
John Cocker (1815–1885), Anglo-Australian cricketer
Jonny Cocker (b. 1986), British racing driver
Les Cocker (1924–1979), English professional football player and coach
Les Cocker (1939–2017), English professional football player
Linzey Cocker (b. 1987), English actress
Mac Cocker (1941–2016), English-born Australian radio announcer
Mark Cocker (b. 1959), British author and naturalist
Mark Cocker (b. 1982), British freestyle wrestler, Ju-Jitsu and Judo player
Norman Cocker (1889–1953), English organist and composer for the organ
Ryan Cocker (b. 1992), New Zealand rugby union player
Syl Cheney-Cocker (b. 1945), Sierra Leonean poet, novelist, and journalist
W. D. Cocker (1882–1970), Scottish poet

Other 
Abbreviation of Autococker, a paintball marker.
Cocker, one who follows the sport of cockfighting
Cocker Spaniel, a dog
James Cocker & Sons, a nursery business located in Aberdeen, Scotland
River Cocker, Cumbria, a river in the English county of Cumbria
River Cocker (Lancashire), a river in the English county of Lancashire

See also 
 

English-language surnames
Emu Creek

Emu Creek is the name of:

Creeks
 Emu Creek (Broken River), tributary of Broken River in Queensland, Australia
 Emu Creek (Brisbane River), a tributary of the Brisbane River in Queensland, Australia
 Emu Creek (Condamine River), a tributary of the Condamine River in Queensland, Australia
 Emu Creek (Lynd River), tributary of Lynd River in Queensland, Australia
 Emu Creek (Morehead River), tributary of Morehead River in Queensland, Australia
 Emu Creek (Kennedy River), tributary of Kennedy River in Queensland, Australia
 Emu Creek (Suttor River), tributary of Suttor River in Queensland, Australia
 Emu Creek (Walsh River), tributary of Walsh River in Queensland, Australia

Places
 Emu Creek, Queensland, a locality in the Toowoomba Region, Australia
 Emu Creek Station, a pastoral lease in Western Australia
 Emu Creek, Victoria a locality in the City of Greater Bendigo

See also
Aurukun, Queensland
Ladies of the Mob

Ladies of the Mob (1928) is a 1928 American silent crime drama film directed by William A. Wellman, produced by Jesse L. Lasky and Adolph Zukor for Famous Players–Lasky, and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film is based on a story by Ernest Booth. This gangster-themed romantic thriller about a criminal's daughter who tries to reform a petty crook whom she loves featured Clara Bow, Richard Arlen, Mary Alden and Helen Lynch.

No copies of this film are known to survive, and it is listed by most sources as a lost film.

The women's costumes were designed by Travis Banton and Edith Head, both of whom had long, distinguished careers in Hollywood.

Cast
 Clara Bow as Yvonne
 Richard Arlen as Red
 Helen Lynch as Marie
 Mary Alden as Soft Annie
 Carl Gerard as Joe
 Bodil Rosing as The mother
 Lorraine Rivero as Little Yvonne
 James Pierce as The officer

See also
List of lost films

References

External links

Ladies of the Mob at SilentEra

Poster for Ladies of the Mob

1928 films
American silent feature films
American crime drama films
Lost American films
Paramount Pictures films
Films directed by William A. Wellman
American romantic drama films
1928 crime drama films
American black-and-white films
American romantic thriller films
Lost crime drama films
1928 lost films
1928 romantic drama films
1920s American films
Silent romantic drama films
Silent thriller films
Silent American drama films
1920s English-language films
Douglas Water (hamlet)

Douglas Water is a hamlet in Lanarkshire, Scotland. Named after the Douglas Water, the river which flows through the hamlet, local mining operations provided employment to local people, and the hamlet was bolstered by the Coltness Iron and Coal Company establishing an operation nearby. Three haulage companies that operated from the hamlet also provided a source of employment.

There was for many years a junior football team that played in the hamlet, known as Douglas Water Thistle, but they became defunct some time ago.  Several of their players have gone on to enjoy careers as professional footballers.

There was also a train station servicing Douglas Water, but it stopped being a working station around the time of the Beeching cuts.  The station platform still exists.

When the last coal mine in the hamlet closed in 1967 the hamlet lost much of its population, as people left for other areas in search of employment.  This was the beginning of the decline for Douglas Water as after then the local amenities, football club, train station and much of the other services in the hamlet closed. The hamlet today is a shadow of its former self, with many streets lying totally empty where the houses that once stood there having long since been demolished. The hamlet that was once a hustling mining town now has a population of less than 50 people, a shadow of its former self. It is impossible to now vision Douglas Waters importance in coal mining however a key reference point is that Rigside (a village less than 1 mile away) was first built to accommodate the overflow of workers from the pits and open casts of Douglas Water. 

Douglas Water was the site for the performance of a play called "The Disinherited" by local people in the 1930s that had been written by the socialist writer and activist, Edward Hunter.

See also
 :Category:People from Douglas Water

References

External links
 Website

Hamlets in Scotland
Villages in South Lanarkshire
Pteriidae

Pteriidae, also called the feather oysters, is a family of medium-sized to large saltwater oysters. They are pearl oysters, marine bivalve mollusks in the order Pteriida.

Some of the species in this family are important economically as the source of saltwater pearls.

Genera
Genera in the family Pteriidae include:
 Crenatula Lamarck, 1803
 Electroma Stoliczka, 1871
 Pinctada Röding, 1798
 Pteria Scopoli, 1777 - winged oysters
 Vulsella Röding, 1798

References

 Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 

 
Bivalve families
Samuel Casey (Upper Canada politician)

Samuel Casey (August 14, 1788 – December 19, 1857) was a farmer and political figure in Upper Canada.

He was born in Adolphustown Township in Upper Canada in 1788, the son of Willet Casey. He served in the local militia during the War of 1812, becoming lieutenant in 1823 and captain of cavalry in 1834. He represented Lennox & Addington in the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada from 1820 to 1824. He was named justice of the peace in the Midland District in 1829.

References 
Becoming Prominent: Leadership in Upper Canada, 1791-1841, J.K. Johnson (1989)

1788 births
1857 deaths
Members of the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada
Canadian justices of the peace
Hoop-La

Hoop-La is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by Frank Lloyd, and starring Clara Bow (in her final film role), Preston Foster, Richard Cromwell and Minna Gombell also in the cast. The film is based on the play The Barker by Kenyon Nicholson, which was also filmed in 1928 under the same title as the play.

A version restored by the Museum of Modern Art was shown at the 2011 Classic Film Festival in Hollywood during the spring.

Synopsis
When the sheltered and educated Chris Miller (Richard Cromwell) who is the son of Nifty Miller (Preston Foster), manager of a travelling circus, shows up unexpectedly to visit his dad, Nifty wants him to turn around and go back to school. Nifty is reluctant to let him be around the circus folk. However, he is allowed to stay and work for a while; however, this means some things have to change—like Nifty and his paramour Carrie (Minna Gombell) have to cool it for a while. Carrie doesn't take that at all well, and in anger pays worldly Hoochie coochie dancer Lou (Clara Bow) to seduce Chris and lure him away from his dad. Lou tries her best, and sometimes shocks the naive Chris, like when she goes skinny dipping in a pond.

However, instead of taking him for a chump, she ends up falling in love and comes clean with him; he proposes marriage. Lou thinks she's not good enough for Chris, and so does Nifty. Then Chris and Lou sneak off and get married. Needing money to leave the circus, Lou hits up Carrie for the rest of the money she promised, threatening to tell Nifty if she doesn't pay. They gather enough money to leave, but not before an angry Nifty can throw them out and tell them never to come back. Lou and Chris head for the Chicago and the World's Fair where Lou dances and Chris works in a law office. Having fallen on hard times, Lou secretly arranges for Nifty to be the barker for her dancing act. Lou knows Chris won't be happy until he makes up with his father. Nifty isn't happy; Chris explains that Lou has been making it possible for him to learn the law while she supports them with her dancing. In the end, Nifty realizes Lou is okay and forgives them both.

Cast
Clara Bow as Lou
Preston Foster as Nifty Miller
Richard Cromwell as Chris Miller
Herbert Mundin as Hap Spissel
James Gleason as Jerry
Minna Gombell as Carrie
Roger Imhof as Colonel Gowdy
Florence Roberts as Ma Benson

unbilled
Erville Alderson as The Sheriff
Otis Harlan as Town Councilman, Side Show Customer
Frank Mills as Barker
Frank Moran as Side Show Craps Player
Charles Sellon as The Colonel, Billy's Father

Reception
The film was a box office disappointment for Fox.

Remake
The same story was remade in 1945 as Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe starring Betty Grable.

References

External links

 

1933 films
1933 drama films
American black-and-white films
American drama films
Remakes of American films
American films based on plays
Circus films
1930s English-language films
Films directed by Frank Lloyd
Fox Film films
Sound film remakes of silent films
1930s American films
A2030 road

The A2030 is a road in Hampshire.  The road starts off at junction 5 of the A3(M), near the village of Bedhampton.  The road then runs west along the base of Portsdown Hill, following the old route of the A27 into Portsmouth until it reaches the Drayton area.  This section of road is called Havant Road.

It then turns sharply south directly between Drayton and Farlington, and begins to run down towards the main areas of Portsmouth on Portsea Island.  Just before crossing onto Portsea Island is a busy junction with the current A27.  The road then continues along the east coast of the island before bearing right coming to a junction with Milton Road.  This section of the road is known as Eastern Road, apart from the southernmost 100 m which is called Velder Avenue.

From here it winds its way across Portsmouth, changing names a number of times, before terminating at a junction with the A3 in Portsmouth City centre.

Being one of only three roads between Portsea Island and the mainland, it is always busy and often becomes congested during rush hours.

See also
Great Britain road numbering system

Roads in England
Transport in Hampshire
Lučenec District

Lučenec District (okres Lučenec) is a district in the Banská Bystrica Region of south-central Slovakia. Until 1918, most of the district belong to the Novohrad county, with a small area around the villages of Šíd, Čamovce and Šurice in the east belonging to the Gemer a Malohont county.

The district is situated in the Southern Slovak Basin, in the broad valley of the Ipeľ River.
The two towns—Lučenec and Fiľakovo—comprise nearly 54% of the population of the district, the remainder living in the 55 surrounding villages.

The district lies on the E571 route (Route 50 in Slovak numbering) from Bratislava to Košice, and on one of the train lines connecting the two cities. Train services also run to Budapest via Fiľakovo. There is a small aerodrome at Boľkovce.

The main industries are food processing and building materials.

Municipalities

Sources 
Lučenec—ideal place for investment, published by Lučenec Town Council, Novohradská 1, 98401 Lučenec (Slovakia).

References

External links 
 Official site

Districts of Slovakia
Geography of Banská Bystrica Region
Samuel Casey

Samuel Casey may refer to:
 Samuel Casey (silversmith) (1723/4–1773), silversmith from Rhode Island
 Samuel Casey (Upper Canada politician) (1788–1857), political figure in Upper Canada
 Samuel L. Casey (1821–1902), U.S. Representative from Kentucky
 Samuel K. Casey (1817–1871), American politician
 Samuel B. Casey Jr. (1927–2006), president of Pullman Company
Enemies of Women

Enemies of Women is a 1923 American silent romantic drama film directed by Alan Crosland and starring Lionel Barrymore, Alma Rubens, Gladys Hulette, Pedro de Cordoba, and Paul Panzer. The film was produced by William Randolph Hearst through his Cosmopolitan Productions. Pre-fame actresses Clara Bow and Margaret Dumont have uncredited bit roles.

The film is based on the novel of the same title by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez.

Plot
As described in a film magazine review, Alicia, an adventuress, has occasion to befriend a Russian prince with whom she flees to France. They are happily living together when the Prince sees her with her young son and, knowing nothing of his existence, mistakes him for a youthful lover and quits her. He and several friends form a club known as the "Enemies of Women" and plan to have nothing more to do with them. However, circumstances finally  reunite Alicia and the prince and they find happiness together.

Cast

Preservation
A print of the film at the Library of Congress is believed to be incomplete, missing reels 3 and 9 of 11 total.

See also
List of partially lost films
Lionel Barrymore filmography

References

External links

Still with Lionel Barrymore choking Alma Rubens
Still with Gladys Hulette, Lionel Barrymore, and Pedro de Cordoba (Wayback Machine)
Still with Lionel Barrymore (bare chested on right) and adversary in dueling scene 
Mike Mashon (January 2, 2019), "Welcoming Two “New” Films to the Public Domain", Library of Congress. Copy of partially restored Enemies of Women ("work in progress").

1923 films
1923 romantic drama films
American silent feature films
American black-and-white films
Films based on Spanish novels
Films based on works by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Films directed by Alan Crosland
Goldwyn Pictures films
1920s American films
Silent American romantic drama films
1920s English-language films
English-language romantic drama films
Michael Deane (chef)

Michael Deane (born 19 March 1961) is a chef from Lisburn, Northern Ireland.

Deane started his career at Claridge's in London. In 1993 he moved back to Northern Ireland and opened Deane's on the Square with his cousin, Haydn Deane in Helen's Bay, County Down. It was there he won his first Michelin Star.

In 1997 he opened a two-storey establishment in Belfast's city centre on Howard Street. It included Deane's Brasserie on the ground floor and Restaurant Michael Deane on the first floor. In the same year the restaurant was awarded a Michelin Star. In 2007 the name of the restaurant was changed to the simpler Deanes. It held this for 13 years, making it the longest running and only Michelin Star holder in Northern Ireland however lost this accolade in 2011, because of a 4-month closure due to frost damage and severe flooding. Deanes has also been awarded four Automobile Association Rosettes. The Brasserie held a Bib Gourmand from Michelin. Deane now owns Deanes Meatlocker, Deanes Love Fish and Deanes Eipic, all of which are located on the ground floor of the Howard Street building with a private function room on the first floor. He also owns Deanes Deli on Bedford Street, located close to the BBC NI headquarters, Deanes at Queens in the Queens University area and Deane and Decano on the Lisburn Road, both in the South of the city.

Achievements
In 2010 Deane joined the University of Ulster as a visiting professor. At the 2017 Catey Awards in London's Grosvenor House Hotel, Deane was shortlisted for Restaurateur of the Year.

Personal
In 1997 Deane married UTV Live presenter Kate Smith in a private ceremony in Scotland. They have one son, Marco.

References

Living people
Businesspeople from Lisburn
Male chefs from Northern Ireland
Place of birth missing (living people)
1961 births
Head chefs of Michelin starred restaurants
Killer rabbit

Killer rabbit may refer to:

 Rabbit of Caerbannog, a fictional beast from the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail
 Jimmy Carter rabbit incident, a 1979 incident involving a swamp rabbit trying to board President Jimmy Carter's fishing boat
 The creatures from the 1972 horror film Night of the Lepus

See also 
 The Killer Rabbits, a 20th-century comedy rock band
 White Rabbit (comics), a fictional character who sometimes employs killer rabbits
Precinct of the Savoy

The Precinct of the Savoy, also known as Savoy St John the Baptist, was a component of the Liberty of the Savoy in the county of Middlesex, England, located between the Strand and the River Thames. Formerly extra-parochial, it was a civil parish between 1866 and 1922. It now forms part of the City of Westminster in Greater London.

Geography
The area was occupied by the Savoy Palace, the Savoy Hospital and the Queen's Chapel of the Savoy.

To the south it had a boundary with the River Thames, to the east with the parish of St Mary le Strand, to the west and north with the parish of St Clement Danes. The boundary in the north was formed by the Strand. It was within the Savoy ward of the Liberty of the Savoy.

Governance
The precinct of the Savoy formed part of the Liberty of the Savoy and was part of the Duchy of Lancaster.

The parish was effectively merged with St Mary le Strand from 1564 to 1727 when the inhabitants shared the Savoy Chapel, becoming known as "St Mary Savoy" and appearing in the bills of mortality from 1606. In the early 18th century an attempt was made to formally combine the parishes. This was opposed and never carried out. The parishioners of St Mary le Strand were made to renounce their claim before they were permitted to use the Savoy Chapel again. The matter was finally resolved when a new church of St Mary le Strand was constructed. "Precinct of the Savoy" appears in the bills of mortality from 1728.

In 1855 the precinct of the Savoy was included within the area of the Strand District and became part of the Metropolitan Borough of Westminster in 1900. It was abolished as a civil parish in 1922.

It now forms part of the City of Westminster in Greater London.

References

History of the City of Westminster
Parishes united into districts (Metropolis)
Former civil parishes in London
Bills of mortality parishes
29th Armoured Brigade (United Kingdom)

The 29th Armoured Brigade was a Second World War British Army brigade equipped with tanks that formed the armoured component of the 11th Armoured Division.

History 
Created in 1940 it served mainly with the 11th Armoured Division, notably in the Battle of Normandy and the campaign in Western Europe. It played a significant role stopping the progress of  during the Battle of the Bulge on 25 and 26 December 1944. The  had penetrated the furthest during the last German offensive in the West.

Order of battle
The 29th Armoured Brigade was constituted with three armoured regiments and one infantry battalion during the war:
 22nd Dragoons - from 30 December 1940 until 8 January 1941 transferred to 30th Brigade
 24th Lancers - from 30 December 1940 until 6 February 1944 transferred to 8th Armoured Brigade
 23rd Hussars - from 8 January 1941. Sherman tank and Sherman Firefly. Re-equipped with Comet tanks at end of 1944.
 2nd Fife and Forfar Yeomanry - from 7 June 1941
 3rd Royal Tank Regiment - from 6 February 1944, with Sherman and Sherman Firefly tanks. Re-equipped with Comet tanks.

The brigade's motorized infantry element at formation was 2nd Battalion, London Rifle Brigade (transferred from 5th London Brigade) which in January 1941 was renamed the 8th Battalion, Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own).

See also

 British Armoured formations of World War II
 List of British brigades of the Second World War

Notes

References

Bibliography

External links
 

Armoured brigades of the British Army
Military units and formations established in 1940
Armoured brigades of the British Army in World War II
Military units and formations disestablished in 1946

29th Armoured Brigade War Diary
https://sites.google.com/view/11th-armoured-division/29th-arm-brigade
Chopwell

Chopwell is a village in the Gateshead district, in the county of Tyne and Wear, England,  west of Rowlands Gill and  north of Hamsterley. At the 2011 Census, it had a population of 9,395.

In 1150, Bishop Pudsey granted the Manor of Chopwell to the first Abbot of Newminster.  Newminster Abbey retained possession of the manor until the dissolution of the Monasteries in 1536.

Traditionally an area of coal mining, Chopwell was nicknamed "Little Moscow" because of the strong support for the Communist Party. Chopwell counts "Marx Terrace" (after Karl Marx) and "Lenin Terrace" (after Vladimir Lenin) among its street names, and during the 1926 General Strike the Union Flag at the council offices was taken down and replaced with the Soviet flag. Another notable street, site of the former Chopwell Junior School, "Fannybush Lane", was renamed "Whittonstall Road" by the local authority in the 1990s after its street sign was repeatedly stolen.

In 1974, Chopwell became part of the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear and the metropolitan borough of Gateshead, after previously being part of the administrative county of Durham.

Civil parish 
Chopwell was formerly a township in the parish of Winlaton, from 1866 Chopwell was a civil parish in its own right, on 1 April 1937 the parish was abolished to form Blaydon. In 1931 the parish had a population of 9784.

See also
Chopwell Colliery

References

External links

Villages in Tyne and Wear
Former civil parishes in Tyne and Wear
Communism in the United Kingdom
Gateshead
United States of Matsya

The United States of Matsya, also called Matsya Union or Matsya Sangh, was a State of India which was formed on 18 March 1948 by the merger of four erstwhile princely states, Alwar, Bharatpur, Dholpur, and Karauli after accession. Shobha Ram Kumawat of Indian National Congress was the first and last chief minister of the State from 18 March 1948 till 15 May 1949. Maharaja of Dholpur became its Rajpramukh.

On 15 May 1949, the Matsya Union was merged with Greater Rajasthan, to form the United State of Rajasthan, which later became the state of Rajasthan on 26 January 1950.

References

History of Rajasthan (1947–present)
1948 establishments in India
Political integration of India
Historical Indian regions
States and territories disestablished in 1949
States and territories established in 1948
1949 disestablishments in India
Amélie Linz

Amélie Linz (1824–1904) was a German author who wrote books for children and adults.

Biography
She was born at Bamberg.  She married an officer of engineers and four years after his death (1870) settled in Munich.  Her literary work, largely under the influence of Paul Heyse, published under the name Amélie Godin, includes the novels Eine Katastrophe (1862), Frauenliebe und Leben.. (1874), Gräfin Lenore (1882), Freudvoll und Leidvoll (1883), Fahre wohl (1886), Mutter und Sohn  (1897), and Dora Reval (1901).  She wrote collections of fairy tales, such as Märchen von einer Mutter erdacht (fourth edition, 1860), Slavische Märchen (1879), Polnische Volksmärchen (1880), Grosses Märchenbuch (fourth edition, 1886), Märchenkranz, and others.

References
 

German children's writers
1824 births
1904 deaths
German women novelists
People from Bamberg
German women children's writers
19th-century German novelists
19th-century German women writers
Daniel Hagerman

Daniel Hagerman (1794 – June 30, 1821) was a lawyer and political figure in Upper Canada.

He was born in Adolphustown Township in 1794, the son of Nicholas Hagerman, a United Empire Loyalist. He studied law with his father and practiced law in Kingston and later Bath. He served as quartermaster in the local militia during the War of 1812. He was named registrar in the Surrogate Court of the Midland District in 1814. Hagerman was one of the members of the establishment who argued with Robert Gourlay when Gourlay held meetings in Kingston. In 1820, he was elected to represent Lennox & Addington in the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada. He died at Bath in 1821.

His older brother Christopher served as attorney general for Upper Canada.

References 
Becoming Prominent: Leadership in Upper Canada, 1791-1841, J.K. Johnson (1989)

1794 births
1821 deaths
Members of the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada
Technoclash

Technoclash is an action RPG created by Electronic Arts in 1993 for the Mega Drive/Genesis.

Story
A world populated by wizards is invaded by a race of machines, causing havoc. Ronaan, a wizard, embarks on a journey after a magical staff is stolen from his homeland. Ronaan, Farrg and Chaz must prevent the destruction of their world as they travel through Las Vegas, a junkyard, a desert and the heart of the Machine Empire.

Gameplay
At the beginning of each level, players choose the magic apprentice Chaz or the mercenary Farrg as their partner.

Reception
The four reviewers of Electronic Gaming Monthly gave the game a 6.5 out of 10, deeming it "a poor man's Gauntlet". They commented that the variety of weapons and spells is good but that the game is hard to the point where it is impossible to derive enjoyment out of it, particularly criticizing that the backgrounds make it hard to see enemies and other hazards.

Ove Kaufeldt reviewed Technoclash for Swedish magazine Datormagazin in 1994. Kaufeldt felt that neither the graphics nor sound were great, the game was still really fun, and enjoyed the assortment of weapons.

References

1993 video games
Action games
Electronic Arts games
Role-playing video games
Sega Genesis games
Sega Genesis-only games
Video games set in the Las Vegas Valley
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Rothschild's birdwing

Rothschild's birdwing (Ornithoptera rothschildi) is a large birdwing butterfly, endemic to the Arfak Mountains in Western New Guinea.

What was originally described as Ornithoptera akakeae, is a supposed natural hybrid between Ornithoptera rothschildi and Ornithoptera priamus poseidon.

History

This species was first recognized by entomologist Charles Edgar Pratt and described by George Kenrick in 1911. It was named in honour of Lord Walter Rothschild who financed most of the expeditions of the naturalist Antwerp Edgar Pratt (1850-1924) and his two sons, Carl Brenders Pratt and Felix Biet Pratt, to British New Guinea from 1902–1903 and to the Arfak Mountains of Dutch New Guinea from 1909–1910.

Description
The females can reach a wingspan up to . The forewings are dark brown to blackish brown with creamy white to greyish spots. The hindwings rimmed with black scales and have a central patch of golden with black tips. The abdomen has hairy black rings. The wingspan of the males is approximately  and the body length up to . The forewings of the males are surrounded with black scales and in the central area with blackish, yellowish-green and yellow scales. The hindwings have black scales on the edge. The central patch is yellow with black tips abutting with smaller spots which are coloured lime green. The abdomen is golden.

Rothschild's Birdwing has the most restricted distribution of all birdwings. Its habitat are flowering meadows in an altitude of  above sea level.

References

D'Abrera, B. (1975) Birdwing Butterflies of the World. Country Life Books, London.
Haugum, J. & Low, A.M. 1978-1985. A Monograph of the Birdwing Butterflies. 2 volumes. Scandinavian Press, Klampenborg; 663 pp.
Deslisle, G. (2004) A taxonomic revision of the “birdwing butterflies of paradise”, genus Ornithoptera based on the adult morphology (Lepidoptera, Papilionidae). Lambillionea, 104 (4): 1 - 151.

Gallery

External links

Butterflycorner.net (English/German)
Blue Ornithoptera
Arkive - Rothschild's Birdwing
Entry at Nagypal.net
Consortium for the Barcode of Life Barcode of Life
Pteron Images
Northwestern portion of the island of New Guinea montane rainforest ecoregion

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Lepidoptera of New Guinea
Insects of Western New Guinea
Endemic fauna of Indonesia
Vulnerable fauna of Oceania
Butterflies described in 1911
Pat Upton (politician)

Pat Upton (1 September 1944 – 22 February 1999) was an Irish Labour Party  politician and vet.

Early life
He was born in Kilrush, County Clare and educated at St Flannan's College in Ennis, at University College Galway, and at University College Dublin (UCD) where he received a doctorate in veterinary medicine. He then worked as a lecturer.

Political career
Upton was first elected to public office as a Labour Party member of Dublin County Council for Terenure at the 1991 local elections, where he served until the Council's abolition in 1994, and then as a member of South Dublin County Council until 1999.

He had unsuccessfully contested the Dublin South-Central constituency at the 1989 general election. However, he was then elected to the 19th Seanad on the Agricultural Panel, and became the Labour Party's leader in Seanad Éireann.

At the 1992 general election, he stood again in Dublin South-Central, and in Labour's "Spring Tide" surge at that election, Upton topped the poll with nearly 12,000 first-preference votes, a remarkable 1.48 quotas. He was re-elected at the 1997 general election with a considerably reduced vote.

In the 28th Dáil he was appointed as Labour's spokesperson on Justice, Equality and Law Reform. A leading critic of Labour's 1999 merger with the Democratic Left, he nonetheless became the party's spokesman on communications and sport after the merger.

He was a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in 1994–1995.

Death
He died suddenly of a heart attack on 22 February 1999 at the UCD veterinary school, where he was still an occasional lecturer, and was survived by his wife and their four children. Politicians of all parties paid glowing tributes to him an outspoken but "erudite and incisive" contributions to politics and to Irish culture.

The by-election for his Dáil seat in Dublin South-Central was held on 27 October 1999, and won for the Labour Party by his sister Mary Upton.

Honours
Following his death, the University College Dublin branch of the Labour party was named in his honour due to his involvement with the college. It has since been renamed to honour the Spanish Civil War veteran Charlie Donnelly.

References

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Teacher's Aide (The Twilight Zone)

"Teacher's Aide" is the first segment of the seventh episode from the first season (1985–86) of the television series The Twilight Zone. In this segment, a high school teacher begins picking fights with disruptive students after she is exposed to a mystic gargoyle.

Plot
Miss Peters is an English teacher at a gang-infested high school where fights between different gangs are the norm. Trying to stop one of these clashes, she sees a gargoyle on the rooftop of the school's main entrance which appears to be watching over her. After this incident, Miss Peters begins to exhibit aggressive behavior, starting physical confrontations with students who misbehave. At home, her dog barks at her for no apparent reason, and she wakes up one morning to find shred marks in her mattress. She suspects there is something wrong with her, but decides against looking into it.

Miss Peters's aggression draws the ire of the gang members. After she crushes the boom box of a gang member nicknamed Wizard with her bare hands, he plans to beat her to death with a baseball bat when the school building is empty. He follows her into a storage room. Miss Peters emerges resembling a gargoyle and throws Wizard to the floor. As she is getting ready to kill him, she sees herself in a mirror and recoils. Lightning repeatedly strikes the gargoyle on the rooftop, destroying it, as Miss Peters backs into a power box, knocking her out cold. Wizard thanks Miss Peters, now returned to her normal self, for sparing his life. The two leave the storeroom.

External links
 

1985 American television episodes
The Twilight Zone (1985 TV series season 1) episodes

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Coat of arms of San Marino

The coat of arms of San Marino probably originated in the fourteenth century. The official establishment took place on 6 April 1862 by a Decree of the Supreme Council; the same act introduced the crown on top of the shield.

There is little evidence regarding the official design until the mid-20th century. "The Flag Bulletin" vol. III, no. 2 from the winter of 1963–64 is reproducing on page 31 an "official plate showing the flag and arms of San Marino, [which] was a gift of the Sammarinese government, through its Consul in New York City." This plate was previously published in an official guide of the republic, from March 1963. In 2011, a new Law on the flag and coat of arms of San Marino presented a slightly simplified design, the main changes being that the branches have no more ramifications, the towers are square instead of round, and the gates are oriented now towards sinister.

The coat of arms of San Marino adorns among other things the flag of the country and the logo of the San Marino Football Federation.

History
The oldest surviving examples of the coat of arms of San Marino come from seals dated to 14th and 15th centuries and conserved in the State Archive. These seals already show the three towers topped with feathers on top of a mountain. A seal from 1560 is the first instance showing the coat of arms topped by a crown.

Description

The official description of the coat of arms is:

The components of the coat of arms are in detail:

In the blue shield there are three green mountains with three silver towers, each decorated with a weather vane consisting of a silver ostrich feather. The towers symbolize the three citadels of San Marino (La Guaita, La Cesta and La Montale), while the hills represent the three summits of Monte Titano.
The motto "LIBERTAS" (Lat. freedom). It possibly refers to the taking in of victims of political persecution in the earlier years of San Marino, and to the amazing maintenance of independence in the midst of many larger states.  The motto could also have developed from the alleged last words of the founder Marinus: "Relinquo vos liberos ab utroque homine" (Lat. "I leave you free from both men").
An oak and laurel branch, which surrounds the coat of arms are symbols for the stability of the republic and the defense of the liberty.
A crown, which serves as symbol of sovereignty.

Notes and references

See also
 Saint Marinus
 Flag of San Marino
 The Three Towers of San Marino

External links
Law on the flag and coat of arms of San Marino

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Les Cannon

Sir Leslie Cannon CBE (21 February 1920 – 9 December 1970) was a prominent British trade union official and served as General President of the Electrical Trades Union from 1963 to 1970. He was born in Wigan, the son of a coal miner, and became a Communist activist, and trade union leader; member of Electrical Trades Union Executive Council, North Lancashire and Merseyside, 1948–1954. He left the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1956. In 1961 he uncovered an ETU ballot rigging scandal, and successfully sued the union. Cannon became president of the ETU in September 1963, a post left vacant by disgraced former president Frank Foulkes.

In his time as leader of the ETU, he took part in a merger with the plumbers' union to create the EETPU.

Cannon died from cancer, aged 50.

External links
Biography
Catalogue of Cannon's papers at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick

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Buy side

Buy-side is a term used in investment firms to refer to advising institutions concerned with buying investment services. Private equity funds, mutual funds, life insurance companies, unit trusts, hedge funds, and pension funds  are the most common types of buy side entities.

In sales and trading, the split between the buy side and sell side should be viewed from the perspective of securities exchange services. The investing community must use those services to trade securities. The "Buy Side" are the buyers of those services; the "Sell Side", also called "prime brokers", are the sellers of those services.

Sell side brokerages are registered members of a stock exchange, and are required to be market makers in a given security. Buy side firms usually take speculative positions or make relative value trades.  Buy side firms participate in a smaller number of overall transactions, and aim to profit from market movements and accruals rather than through risk management and the bid–offer spread. The 2010 Thomson Reuters Extel/UKSIF Survey shows that buy-side firms are placing more emphasis on sustainability issues in the research and advisory services they receive from brokers.

Typically buy side firms do not provide custody services.

Buy side can also refer to real estate. There is a sell side and a buy side in every transaction. While most real estate technology currently focuses on the sell side, there are a few companies that are developing tools for the buy-side.

Challenges facing buy-side
Globally buy-side asset managers are looking at increased regulation in regards to their use of financial index and benchmark data, including adhering to IOSCO Principles. This is expected to increase cost and time for the buy-side in managing their data.

References

Stock market
Investment funds
Giuli Alasania

Giuli Alasania (, , born 11 November 1946 in Tbilisi) is a Georgian historian and public figure. Her publications include 130 papers and 10 monographs. She is the mother of the third president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili.

Biography
She graduated from the Faculty of Oriental Studies of the Tbilisi State University (1969) and in 1973 received a Ph.D. degree in History. In 1987 she received a degree of a Doctor of Historical Sciences.

She has been head of the Department of Source Studies, Javakhishvili Institute of History and Ethnology (1989–2006), Professor of the Tbilisi State University (since 1990), Vice-Rector of the International Black Sea University (2000–2014), and founder and President of the University of Georgia (since 2004).

Research Manager at the American University, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (2005–2008), fellowship at the University of Mississippi (1996), fellowship at the University of Maryland, College Park in the Center for International development and Conflict Management (1996–1996), fellowship at Central European University (CEU) (2000), facilitator of the program of the School principles (Partners in Education), organized by ACTR/ACCELS, Washington, D.C., Bozeman, Montana (2003).

Her publications include 130 papers and 10 monographs in the fields of the source studies of history of Georgia and the Caucasus, history of the Middle East, history of Turks and Turkey, relations of Georgians and Turks, history of the Georgian culture, and national self-determination.

She is a member of the Commission on the Sources of the History of Georgia of the Presidium of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences, member of the editorial board of the international journal Central Asia and the Caucasus (Sweden); member of the board of Romulado Del Bianco Foundation.

She has organized a number of international conferences and has participated in international scientific conferences.

Awards 
Prize for young scholars (1980), Prize for the contribution to Turkish-Studies. Turkish linguistic society (2004), “Golden wing” (2007), For the contribution to the Turkish culture (2012), I Javakhishvili prize of Georgian Academy of Sciences (2012), Medal of Del Bianco Foundation (2013).

References

Sources

 Alasania Giuli, The Encyclopedia "Sakartvelo" ("Georgia"), vol. I, Tbilisi, 1997, p. 90 (in Georgian).

1946 births
Living people
20th-century historians from Georgia (country)
Soviet historians
21st-century historians from Georgia (country)
Academic staff of Tbilisi State University
Soviet women historians
Possum

Possum may refer to:

Animals
 Phalangeriformes, or possums, any of a number of arboreal marsupial species native to Australia, New Guinea, and Sulawesi
 Common brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula), a common possum in Australian urban areas, invasive in New Zealand
 Common ringtail possum (Pseudocheirus peregrinus), also common in Australian urban areas, absent from New Zealand
 Phalangeridae (possums and cuscuses), a family of marsupials native to Australia and New Guinea containing most of the species referred to as "possums" in Australia
 Opossum, or possum, an order (Didelphimorphia) of marsupials native to the Americas
 Common opossum, native to Central and South America
 Virginia opossum, native to North America

People with the name
 Possum Bourne (1956–2003), New Zealand rally car driver
 George Jones (1931–2013), known as "The Possum", American country music singer
 Possum Jones (1934-1997), American NASCAR driver
 Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri (1932–2002), Indigenous Australian painter
 Possum Whitted (1890–1962), American baseball player

Arts and entertainment

Film and television
 Possum (film), a 2018 British psychological horror film
 Possums (film), a 1998 sports comedy film
 "The Possum", an episode of Parks and Recreation

Music
 "Possum", a 1987 song written by Jeff Holdsworth on Trey Anastasio's 1987 album The Man Who Stepped into Yesterday
 "Possum", a 1989 song by feedtime from Suction
 "Possum", a 1995 song by Juned
 "The Possum", a 2015 song by Sun Kil Moon from Universal Themes

Other uses
 POSSUM or  Patient Operated Selector Mechanism, communications device for people with disabilities

See also
Opossum (disambiguation)

Animal common name disambiguation pages