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Indiana State Road 462

State Road 462 is a short three-mile (4.8 km) spur route in southwestern Harrison County, Indiana.

Route description
State Road 462 begins at State Road 62 and runs generally south through heavily wooded country.  It crosses the Blue River just  south of State Road 62 (which follows the line of the river here), and crosses Rock Creek after another .  It terminates at the O'Bannon Woods State Park and Cold Friday Road.

Major intersections

References

462
Transportation in Harrison County, Indiana
Kenneth Webb (director)

Kenneth Seymour Webb (16 October 1885 New York City – 6 March 1966 Hollywood, California) was an American film director, screenwriter, and composer noted for directing a number of films in the early age of the American film industry. He helped write the Gay Divorce along with Samuel Hoffenstein.

Selected songs 
 "You and Me and You" (1919)
 Kenneth Webb (words)
 Roy Webb (music)

Career 
Webb, beginning around 1910, became a sketch writer and director for vaudeville stage.  In 1913, he began writing scenarios for the Vitagraph Company.  From 1918 to 1919, he was a writer and director for Vitagraph.  From 1919 to 1938, Webb was a writer and director, first with the Famous Players Film Company, then with Whitman Bennett (a production company) and Associated First National Theatres, Inc. (Bennett's distributor), then Fox Film Corporation, then Whitman Bennett (production company) and United Artists (Bennett's distributor), then Burr & Company, then Pathe, then Lee de Forest, , Tiffany Pictures, and then FitzPatrick Pictures. Webb wrote for legitimate stage since 1924. Since 1933, Webb was a radio writer and producer with Batten Barton Durstine & Osborn, Inc., and since 1953, was its Western editor.

From 1943 to 1943, Webb was a lecturer at New York University of radio writing and production.

Partial filmography 
As director

Marie, Ltd. (1919)

Will You Be Staying for Supper? (1919)

Sinners (1920)

The Stolen Kiss (1920)

The Master Mind (1920)

The Devil's Garden (1920)

The Truth About Husbands (it) (1920)

The Fear Market (1920)
Realart Pictures Corporation (producer and distributor)

The Great Adventure (1921)
Whitman Bennett (producer)
Associated First National Pictures, Inc. (distributor)

Jim the Penman (1921)

Salvation Nell (1921)

Fair Lady (1922)

 How Women Love (1922)

The Daring Years (1923)

The Beautiful City (1925)

Just Suppose (1926)

Education 
Webb attended The Collegiate School on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.  He went on to study at Columbia University, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1906.

Professional and fraternal associations 
 Society of Cincinnati
 The Lambs, joined 1913
 ASCAP, 1914 charter member
 Songwriters Protective Association
 Actors' Equity Association
 Motion Picture Directors Association (Eastern President 1923–1925; member of council 1935–1950)
 Radio Directors Guild
 Alpha Chi Rho

Family 
Kenneth Webb was one of children born to the marriage of William Edward Webb (1844–1915) and Juliette Seymour Bell (1863–1930). Kenneth Webb married, on September 20, 1920, silent film actress Lorraine Frost (maiden; 1897–1993) in Manhattan, New York.  His brother, Roy Webb, also composer and film director, was one of his chief collaborators.

References

External links

1880s births
1966 deaths
American male screenwriters
American male composers
20th-century American composers
ASCAP composers and authors
Collegiate School (New York) alumni
Columbia College (New York) alumni
Film directors from New York City
Screenwriters from New York (state)
20th-century American male musicians
20th-century American male writers
20th-century American screenwriters
Recto station

Recto station (also known as Rizal Avenue station) is an elevated Manila Light Rail Transit (LRT) station situated on Line 2. Located on Recto Avenue at the district boundary of Santa Cruz and Quiapo in Manila, it is the western terminus of the line. Its convenient location has helped create many businesses in the area, from the number of hotels and motels to restaurants and shops, with a good majority of them being a short walk from the station. It is the busiest station in the rail line.

Nearby landmarks
The station is near popular shopping centers like Isetann Cinerama Recto, Odeon Terminal Mall, QQ Mall Quiapo (with a Puregold branch), Raon Shopping Center, Cartimar Manila Shopping Center (not to be confused with the one in Pasay), and Arranque Market. The famous bargain capital of Divisoria and the old grand central terminal of Tutuban are also within a few minutes' commute from the station. Other nearby landmarks include Nice Hotel, the Manila Grand Opera Hotel, Fabella Memorial Hospital, and Manila City Jail (Bilibid Viejo). Due to its position being near the University Belt, the station is also close to educational institutions such as Far Eastern University, FEU Institute of Technology, Chiang Kai Shek College, Arellano High School, University of the East, Philippine College of Criminology, Philippine College of Health Sciences, STI College Recto, Access Computer College-Manila, and Saint Stephen's High School.

Transportation links
Due to its central location in the shopping and education districts of Manila, Recto station is a major transportation hub. Buses, jeepneys, tricycles, and e-trikes all stop and ply the street level.

Recto station serves as the transfer point for commuters riding the LRT Line 1 via an elevated walkway to Doroteo Jose station.

Gallery

Manila Light Rail Transit System stations
Railway stations opened in 2004
Buildings and structures in Santa Cruz, Manila
Buildings and structures in Quiapo, Manila
Matrimonial website

Matrimonial websites, or marriage websites, are a variation of the standard dating websites.

Matrimonial sites are popular in India and among Indians settled overseas, as an alternative to the traditional marriage broker. According to the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry in India, the online matrimony business is expected to be a $250 Million business by 2017. According to The New York Times, there are over 1500 matrimonial websites in India.

Matrimonial sites register users, after which they are able to upload their profiles onto a searchable database maintained by the website. Those users looking to find suitors search the database with customized searches that typically include nationality, age, gender, availability of photographs, and often religion, geographic location, and caste (mainly for websites based in India).

There have been reports of abuse of information obtained from matrimonial websites.

See also
Arranged marriage
Matchmaking
Online dating service

References

Further reading 
 
 
 
 

Matchmaking
Matrimonial websites
David Wood

David Wood may refer to:

Entertainment
 David Duffield Wood (1838–1910), American composer, educator, and musician
 David Wood (actor) (born 1944), English actor and playwright
 David Wood (New Zealand musician), musician with Straitjacket Fits

Politics
 David Wood (politician) (born 1961), member of the Missouri House of Representatives
 David Wood (environmental campaigner) (1963–2006), executive director of the GrassRoots Recycling Network

Sports
 David Wood (basketball) (born 1964), American professional basketball player
 David Wood (cricketer) (born 1965), English cricketer

Other
 David Wood (British Army officer) (1923–2009), British Army officer
 David Wood (journalist), American journalist
 David Wood (judge) (born 1948), British judge
 David Wood (mathematician) (born 1971), Australian mathematician
 David Wood (philosopher) (born 1946), professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt University
 David Leonard Wood (born 1957), American serial killer
 David Muir Wood (born 1949), author
 David Wood (Christian apologist) (born 1976), American evangelical apologist.

See also
David Woods (disambiguation)
List of people with surname Wood
William Bartholomay

William C. Bartholomay (August 11, 1928 – March 25, 2020) was a successful Chicago business executive, who made his living in the insurance industry. In November 1962 at age 34, he was the leader of a consortium who bought the Major League Baseball (MLB) Milwaukee Braves — a franchise in the organization's National League (NL) — from Lou Perini 

Despite the Braves' success in Milwaukee, where the team had set league attendance records (after the franchise was moved from Boston) during the 1950s, Bartholomay was intent on moving the team to Atlanta, a growing regional center, where there was more television revenue, and where the new, 52,000-seat Atlanta Stadium had recently been built. He wanted to be the first man to bring a baseball team to the Deep South. Bartholomay worked with many civic leaders to help attain his dream. After an extended legal battle with Milwaukee that kept the Braves from moving through the 1965 season, and many death threats, the National League agreed to the shift to Atlanta. The case ultimately led to baseball's guidelines on local ownership.

In 1976, Bartholomay was approached with a business proposition by a friend, Ted Turner: The two knew that a baseball team and network deal would be a good way to market the Atlanta Braves on a national scale and provide programming for Turner's developing (TBS) network. Bartholomay agreed and sold the controlling interest of the team to Turner (of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., and owner of CNN), while retaining his interest as chairman.

Bartholomay was a Life Trustee of Illinois Institute of Technology.

Family
William's father, Henry Bartholomay, was an executive at Alexander & Alexander, one of the largest insurance brokerages in the United States. His mother Virginia (nee Graves) drove for the Army Motor Corps in World War I and was active in the Red Cross during World War II. One of William's great-grandfathers, Henry Bartholomay, emigrated from Germany to Rochester, NY, where he established Bartholomay Brewing Company in 1874. Another great-grandfather, Conrad Seipp, founded the Conrad Seipp Brewing Company in Chicago.

Education 
Bartholomay is an alum of North Shore Country Day School and Lake Forest College.

Death
On March 25, 2020, Bartholomay died in New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York City, of complications resulting from a respiratory illness, subsequent to a bout with pneumonia in December 2019. He was 91 years old.

References

External links
Bill Bartholomay at Baseball America Executive Database

1928 births
2020 deaths
20th-century American businesspeople
American businesspeople in insurance
Atlanta Braves owners
Atlanta Braves executives
Businesspeople from Chicago
Illinois Institute of Technology people
Major League Baseball owners
Major League Baseball executives
Major League Baseball team presidents
Milwaukee Braves owners
North American Soccer League (1968–1984) executives
Victor Skrebneski

Victor Paul Skrebneski (December 17, 1929 – April 4, 2020) was an American photographer born in Chicago to parents of Polish and Russian heritage.  He was educated at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1943 and attended the Illinois Institute of Technology from 1947 to 1949.  He set up his own studio in Chicago in 1952. The Art Institute of Chicago had an exhibit of his work in 1969.

Skrebneski is most known for his fashion photography and his work for the ad campaigns of Estee Lauder, Inc., notably his fifteen-year collaboration (1970-1985) with model Karen Graham creating the portrait portfolio marketing campaign known as 'The Estee Lauder Woman.' The longevity and format of this campaign make it unique in the annals of marketing. A single portrait of Graham was placed in fashion magazines each month depicting an element in the idealized life of 'The Estee Lauder Woman,' often photographed in black and white, an unusual medium for cosmetics, fragrance, and skin care product lines, which commonly rely upon the visual impact of color photography. The focus on this one theme produced approximately 180 portraits of Graham, each remarkably individual yet highly recognizable, an accomplishment few photographers or promotional efforts can be said to have achieved. Their collaboration concluded amicably when Graham retired from the modelling profession.

Skrebneski also photographed various celebrities, including Cindy Crawford (whose first notable photos he took), Oprah Winfrey, Audrey Hepburn, Diana Ross, Hubert de Givenchy, Diahann Carroll and François Truffaut.

He created numerous other ad campaigns.  Skrebneski's black-and-white poster images shot for the Chicago International Film Festival often featured nude models and have become collectible over the years. Skrebneski died of cancer in Chicago on April 4, 2020, at the age of 90.

References

External links
 Official site SkrebneskiPhotographs.com

1929 births
2020 deaths
Photographers from Chicago
American people of Polish descent
American people of Russian descent
Fashion photographers
School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni
Illinois Institute of Technology alumni
20th-century American photographers
Willans Hill Miniature Railway

Willans Hill Miniature Railway is a rideable miniature railway located in Wagga Wagga Botanic Gardens in the suburb of Turvey Park in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia.

The railway was established in 1978 by Raymond Catts, who advertised for interested persons to form a club for the display and use of models. It took from 1978 until 1980 to get the numbers to start a Technical Education course in workshop practice which was in fitting and machining, from this course the numbers grew and land was found to establish what is to-day. It is operated by the Wagga Wagga Society of Model Engineers. It includes  of a combined  and  track, two stations, two tunnels, three bridges, four buildings, 6 locomotives owned by the club and a number of personally owned locomotives.

An annual Invitational Run has been held every year since 1988 on the first weekend of November. Miniature trains from all over Australia converged here for two days of train running. Traditionally, the Saturday is for club members only and the Sunday event is open for public running.

The first 24-hour run, called Railway for Life, was held 15–16 September 2007 in aid of the Cancer Council.

There are currently three routes in use. 
The main line which is a shorter route that runs within the boundaries of the botanical gardens itself. 
The museum line which takes the trains under Lord Baden Powell Drive over to the loop next to Museum of the Riverina car park. 
The spiral line which runs around a spiral and then returns via either the museum line or the main line. This principle is embodied in the Bethungra Spiral between Wagga Wagga and Cootamundra on the Main Southern line.

The latest addition to the club is the locomotive T387 which was purchased from Adelaide for $28,000. This locomotive had its maiden run on the tracks in October 2018.

External links

 Wagga Wagga Society of Model Engineers website
 Willans Hill Miniature Railway facebook page

Wagga Wagga
Miniature railways in Australia
Entertainment venues in New South Wales
Tourist attractions in New South Wales
World of Warcraft: Rise of the Horde

World of Warcraft: Rise of the Horde is a novel by Christie Golden set in the Warcraft Universe. It was published in December 2006. Golden also has a commitment with Blizzard Entertainment and Simon & Schuster to write a StarCraft trilogy. Originally presumed to be the sequel to her previous 2001 book, Warcraft: Lord of the Clans, it depicts the draenei's escape from Argus and the rise of the Horde, following their shift from a shamanic race to a warmongering one. The book features major Warcraft characters, such as Durotan, Ner'zhul, Gul'dan, Orgrim Doomhammer, Kil'jaeden, and Velen. The story tells of how the orc clans and the noble draenei slowly become enemies due to deception and arrogance, and shows the downward spiral into which the orcs are thrown, and explores the role that demonic forces play in the Horde. It also expands on the origin of the Burning Legion, and the events preceding the first game of the Warcraft series.

The entire novel appears to be told from the viewpoint of Thrall, son of Durotan, and every chapter features a diary entry. Thrall himself was not alive during these events, as he himself is learning them from Drek'Thar, an elder farseer.

The book could be considered a sequel of Lord of the Clans, but an equally strong case could be made for Rise of the Horde being a prequel.

Plot
The novel explores the events in the orc world before the Orcish corruption. The story is set before the events of Warcraft: Orcs & Humans. The novel details the union of the orc clans into a single horde under Gul'dan and Blackhand, the corruption of the orcs and the destruction of the Draenei by the orcish horde.

Within World of Warcraft

In the expansion pack to World of Warcraft, the Burning Crusade, the land of Draenor became available to be explored. Since the events of Rise of the Horde the world has changed greatly, demonic forces have ripped the world apart, however the Draenei temples of Shattrath, and Karabor (what is now the Black Temple), are found within the game. According to the book, they are mere ruins of what they once were. The area of Nagrand is also present, and contains the surviving members of the orc clans, now led by the Mag'har clan, and the surviving Draenei of the massacre.

References

External links 
 
 Rise of the Horde at Amazon.com

2006 American novels
Rise of the Horde
American fantasy novels
Novels by Christie Golden
Osta

Osta or OSTA may refer to:

People
 Benedict John Osta (1931–2014), Indian Roman Catholic archbishop
 Clairemarie Osta, French ballet dancer
 Eduardo Osta (born 1959), Spanish tennis player 
 Jean d'Osta (1909–1993) Belgian writer, journalist, and humorist
 Pavlina Osta (born 1997), American radio personality

Acronym
Ontario Student Trustees' Association
Optical Storage Technology Association

See also
ÖStA (Österreichisches Staatsarchiv, National Archives of Austria)

Occupational surnames
Munduruku language

Munduruku is a Tupi language spoken by 10,000 people in the Tapajós River basin in north central Brazil, of which most of the women and children are monolingual.

Gomes (2006) points out that Munduruku is one of the languages of the Tupian family and constitutes, together with Kuruaya, the Munduruku linguistic branch [...] The Portuguese language has made significant inroads among the Munduruku. Some loss of the Munduruku language is occurring among those who live in the area of the Madeira River and in the outskirts of the towns next to the Tapajós River; however, the situation is not as bad as it seems, as even here, the language of the majority of is Munduruku, and bilingualism only takes place after Munduruku has already been acquired (around 10 years of age), usually as a result of learning Portuguese at school.

Those who live in the villages of the Tapajós River valley speak only Munduruku, even in the presence of non-indigenous people. There are elementary schools located in almost all villages, and courses promoted by the Brazilian government have turned over education to the Mundurukú, who are starting to take control of their own formal education."

Phonology

Phoneme inventory

Consonants

Vowels

Syllable structure 
The syllable in Munduruku is made up of an obligatory vocalic nucleus and one of four phonemic accents (three of pitch and one of laryngealization). It may also have an onset or coda. No consonant clusters are permitted. Thus, the permissible syllables are CV, CVC, V, and VC (with V being the most rare).

Onset 

The onset in this language may be any one of the 16 consonant phonemes which contrast as to the manner and point of articulation: (1) voiceless stops /p, t, k, tʃ, k, ʔ/; (2) Voiced stops /b, dʒ/; (3) Fricatives /s, ʃ, h/, (4) nasals /m, n, ŋ/, (5) Sonorants /w, y, r/

Coda 
The only segment not allowed in the coda is /tʃ/. Observe that CVj and CVw and not CV.V ones are considered CVC syllables for a variety of reasons; one is that it would require positing a new syllable pattern limited to CVu and CVi with no other vowels occurring in coda position. There is also a phonetic contrast between /i, u/ as vowel nuclei and /y, w/ as codas, the former being distinctly vocalic and the latter consonantal.

Nucleus 
The syllabic nucleus is limited to only one vowel.

Accent 
Accent is considered a feature of the entire syllable rather than of the nucleus only. One accent occurs with each syllable. Note that the functional load of accent is light—only some 40 lexical pairs with contrastive accents have been found, and few grammatical contrasts are marked by accent alone.

Syntax 
Munduruku is an OV language.

See also
 Munduruku people

References

External links 
 
Mundurukú (Intercontinental Dictionary Series)
 TuLaR (Tupian Languages Resources)

Languages of Brazil
Indigenous languages of South America
List of Norwegian writers

This is a list of Norwegian literature authors in the order of their year of birth. The century assignment is the period of their most significant works.

17th century
Dorothe Engelbretsdotter (1634–1713)
Petter Dass (1647–1707)

18th century

19th century

20th century

21st century
Carl Frode Tiller (born 1970)
Ari Behn (1972–2019)
Bertrand Besigye (born 1972)
Pedro Carmona-Alvarez (born 1972)
Henrik H. Langeland (born 1972)
Tore Renberg (born 1972)
Matias Faldbakken (born 1973)
Gunnhild Øyehaug (born 1975)
Ingeborg Arvola (born 1975)
Endre Lund Eriksen (born 1977)
Mette Karlsvik (born 1978)
Johan Harstad (born 1979)
Helga Flatland (born 1984)
Karoline Brændjord (born 1990)
Bente Lyon

See also
List of Norwegian women writers

Norwegian writers

Writers
President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service

Established by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on 27 June 1957 by , the President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service was created to allow the President to recognize civilian officers or employees of the federal government who have made contributions "so outstanding that the officer or employee is deserving of greater public recognition than that which can be accorded by the head of the department or agency in which he is employed." 

President John F. Kennedy in  directed that potential recipients of the award are recommended to the President by the Distinguished Civilian Service Awards Board, who also had responsibility for recommending people to be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. , by Jimmy Carter, abolished the Distinguished Civilian Service Awards Board and turned over the responsibility for recommending recipients to the Chairman of the United States Civil Service Commission. This executive order was subsequently modified again by Jimmy Carter in  which named the Director of the Office of Personnel Management as the person responsible for making recommendations to the President.

The President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service is the highest honorary award that the Federal Government can grant a career civilian employee. President Kennedy limited the award to only five people per year.

See also 
Awards and decorations of the United States government

References 

Recipients of the President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service
Civil awards and decorations of the United States
Awards established in 1957
Niagara Falls High School

Niagara Falls High School is a public high school located at 4455 Porter Road in Niagara Falls, New York, United States. It  was established and dedicated on September 1, 2000 and opened 5 days later, becoming the city's only public high school, with the merging of the original Niagara Falls High School and the former LaSalle Senior High School. The school's graduation rate is 71%, slightly below the state average.

Niagara Falls City School District
Niagara Falls High School is operated under the supervision of the Niagara Falls City School District. It is the only high school in the district since the merger of the original Niagara Falls High School and LaSalle Senior High School. The high school is fed by two preparatory schools, Gaskill Prep and LaSalle Prep, which host grades 7 and 8.

Notable alumni
 Jermaine Crumpton - Professional basketball player for T71 Dudelange
 Jonny Flynn - Former professional basketball player
 Paul Harris - Former professional basketball player
 Sal Maglie - Professional baseball player
 Rick Manning - Professional baseball player
 James Starks - Former Green Bay Packers running back
 Tommy Tedesco - Guitarist and studio musician
 Jane Bryant Quinn - Financial journalist

References

External links
Niagara Falls High School website

Buildings and structures in Niagara Falls, New York
Schools in Niagara County, New York
School buildings completed in 2000
Public high schools in New York (state)
2000 establishments in New York (state)
Will Longstaff

William Frederick Longstaff (25 December 1879 – 1 July 1953) was an Australian painter and war artist best known for his works commemorating those who died in the First World War.

Birth and education
Born in Ballarat, Victoria, Longstaff was educated at Grenville College, Ballarat, studying art at the Ballarat School of Mines and privately before joining the military and serving in the Boer War as a member of the South African Light Horse. He was the cousin of portrait painter Sir John Longstaff.

Career and the First World War

Upon returning to Australia, Longstaff continued to paint and teach art.  He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force at the outbreak of the First World War and was injured in the Gallipoli campaign.  In October 1915 he joined a remount unit and served in France and Egypt before being evacuated to England in 1917.  In England, he began drawing again and was trained in the art of camouflage. During his time in Egypt, Longstaff had made images of the ANZAC Mounted Division and the other units.  Upon his appointment as an Official War Artist in 1918 he produced numerous works during the final campaigns of the Western Front.

Post-war
After the war, Longstaff continued his art, turning many of his sketches into paintings.  Even after leaving the military, he remained in England, eventually settling in Sussex. Beginning the late-1920s, he made return trips to the battlefields of Belgium and France and painted haunting images in a spiritualist style. Among these later works is Menin Gate at Midnight (1927), arguably his most famous, which depicts the ghostly figures of soldiers marching past the monument. The painting toured Australia in 1928–29. It was viewed by record crowds.

The painting is housed in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra. In December 2000 Menin Gate at Midnight left the War Memorial on loan to the National Gallery of Australia, the first time it had left the memorial since its installation there in 1941.

Death
He died in 1953.

Select works

8 August 1918, 1918–19
Breaking the Hindenburg Line, 1918–19
Menin Gate at Midnight (Ghosts of Menin Gate), 1927
Immortal shrine (Eternal silence), 1928
The rearguard (The spirit of ANZAC), 1928
Ghosts of Vimy Ridge (Canadian National Vimy Memorial), 1931
Carillon, 1932
Drake's Drum, 1940
The Battle of El Alamein, 1942 (National Army Museum), 1942
Portrait of Ivy Tresmand, in MuseuMAfricA, Johannesburg, South Africa
Portrait of John Anderson Gilruth, veterinary scientist and administrator, in the Australian Animal Health Laboratory in Geelong

See also
 Australian official war artists

References

External links

Biography
Profile at the Australian War Memorial

1879 births
1953 deaths
20th-century Australian painters
Modern painters
Australian war artists
South African Light Horse officers
World War I artists
People from Ballarat
Artists from Victoria (state)
Military personnel from Victoria (state)
Australian military personnel of the Second Boer War
Australian military personnel of World War I
Francis X. King

George Francis King (10 January 1934 – 8 November 1994), known as  Francis X. King, was a British occult writer and editor from London who wrote about tarot, divination, witchcraft, magic, sex magic, tantra, and holistic medicine. He was a member of the Society of the Inner Light, an offshoot of the Alpha et Omega, which in turn was an offshoot of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.

Controversy 

King's 1973 publication of The Secret Rituals of the O.T.O. infuriated their order head Grady McMurtry, because the fraternity's secrets were being revealed in 1820.  In an O.T.O newsletter, McMurtry stated their policy at the time: "We do not endorse the publication of this material because the so called 9th degree section does not include the paper (titled IX degree Emblems and Modes of Use) which Aleister Crowley handed me at 93 Jermyn St circa 1943-44 e.v. without which the whole thing is nonsense."  Francis King is thought to have been given the rest of the rituals (sans the missing one) by Gerald Yorke.

Partial bibliography

 Ritual Magic in England (1887 to the Present Day) (1970) (see also 1989)
 The Rites of Modern Occult Magic (American edition, 1971)
 Sexuality, Magic and Perversion (1971)
 Astral Projection, Ritual Magic and Alchemy (1972)
 The Secret Rituals of the O.T.O. (1973)
 Crowley on Christ (1974)
 Magic: The Western Tradition (1975)
 Satan and Swastika (1976)
 Techniques of High Magic, with Stephen Skinner (1976)
 The Magical World of Aleister Crowley (1977)
 Tantra: A Practical Guide to its Teachings and Techniques
 The Cosmic Influence (1976)
 Christopher Isherwood (1976)
 The Rebirth of Magic (1982)
 The Unexplained File Cult And Occult (1985) Orbis Publishing 
 Tantra For Westerners: A Practical Guide to the Way of Action (1986)
 Rudolf Steiner and Holistic Medicine (1987)
 The Encyclopedia of Fortune-Telling (1988)
 Modern Ritual Magic: the rise of western occultism. Bridport: Prism, 1989   (previous ed. Ritual Magic in England, 1970)
 Tarot (1990)
 Witchcraft and Demonology (1991)
 Mind & Magic - An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Mysterious and Unexplained (1991)
 The Flying Sorcerer: Being the Magical and Aeronautical Adventures of Francis Barrett (1992)
 Nostradamus: Prophecies Fulfilled and Predictions for the Millennium and Beyond by Francis X. King (1993) With Stephen Skinner
 The Complete Fortune-Teller with Paul Cooper (1994)
 Encyclopedia of Mind, Magic, and Mysteries (1995)
 The Hamlyn Encyclopedia of Fortune-Telling: Predict the Future and Plan Your Life with This Practical Guide to Techniques (1997)
 The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Fortune-Telling (2001)

Notes 

1934 births
1994 deaths
English occult writers
English Thelemites
20th-century poets
Writers from London
Davis Elkins

Davis Elkins (January 24, 1876 – January 5, 1959) was a United States senator from West Virginia.

Biography
Born in Washington, D.C., he attended the Lawrenceville School, Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts and Harvard University. During the Spanish–American War he enlisted as a private in the First West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, becoming assistant adjutant general in 1898.

Elkins was an industrialist with interests in railroads, banking, utilities, and coal mining; he was appointed as a Republican to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father, Stephen Benton Elkins, and served from January 9 to January 31, 1911, when a successor was elected. During World War I he served as a major with the 7th Division of the United States Army in France, 1917–18. He was then elected to the U.S. Senate and served from March 4, 1919, to March 3, 1925; he was not a candidate for renomination in 1924. While in the Senate he was chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Commerce (Sixty-sixth Congress).

From 1936 to 1956 he was owner of the Washington and Old Dominion Railroad Company. Davis Elkins died in Richmond, Virginia in 1959; interment was in Maplewood Cemetery, Elkins, West Virginia.

Davis Elkins' father, Stephen B. Elkins, and his grandfather, Henry Gassaway Davis, were both U.S. senators from West Virginia. He was married to Mary Reagan Elkins and had 3 children. His sister Katherine Hallie "Kitty" Elkins (Jan. 14, 1886 – Sept. 3, 1936) was engaged for some time to Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi (1873–1933), a cousin of the king of Italy.

See also

 List of United States senators from West Virginia

References

  Retrieved on 2008-04-04

External links
 

1876 births
1959 deaths
Military personnel from Washington, D.C.
American military personnel of the Spanish–American War
United States Army personnel of World War I
20th-century American railroad executives
Davis and Elkins family
Harvard University alumni
Lawrenceville School alumni
Politicians from Washington, D.C.
Phillips Academy alumni
Republican Party United States senators from West Virginia
United States Army officers
West Virginia Republicans
Tom Hendricks

Tom Hendricks is an American Dallas-based musician, painter, writer, and creator of a zine called Musea.

Musea
Hendricks is the creator of the Musea zine which has been published since 1992 and currently has 196 issues.  It includes reviews, art discussions, and often, articles about the problems with music and other forms of art being controlled by large corporations or institutions.  Musea generally favors independent, local music and art.  The zine is little known outside of the 'zine' community or his hometown, Dallas, Texas.

Music
Hendricks records music under the name Hunkasaurus and His Pet Dog Guitar, and he performed concerts from 1996 to 2014 in the box office at the Inwood Theatre, a well-known Dallas arthouse theatre where he was working.  Minor publicity for these unusual performances was mentioned in January '06 Texas Monthly Magazine and in the May '04 Dallas Observer.  Hendricks' music for the most part is standard rock, blues, and folk on his Silvertone Standard guitar, but in his zine, on Usenet, and on the jackets of his self-released CDs, Hendricks complains that "bands" (meaning groups using standard rock instrumentation) are derivative and that it's time for a new form of post-rock-band music he calls "Postism." In 2015 Hendricks released a 150-song, 9-CD boxed set titled Hunkasaurus and His Pet Dog Guitar Outside the Box Set.

Other activities
Hendricks is also a poster to Usenet with thousands of posts, which are often taken from or related to Musea.  He is regularly accused of trolling and starting flame wars with his rants about the arts and music business.  His posts are sometimes a bit off-topic. In Feb. 2015, Hendricks released on the net a short novel called Library Planet.

Hendricks was the "Cultural Affairs" editor of the Underground Literary Alliance, a reviewer for Zine World, and has written an article for the David Darling science website.

External links
The Musea website
Tom Hendricks music website
The Musea blog

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Zines
American rock musicians
Anti-corporate activists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Methyl bisulfate

Methyl bisulfate is a chemical compound with the molecular formula .  This compound is the mono-methyl ester of sulfuric acid. The significance of methyl bisulfate is that it is an intermediate in the hydrolysis of the important reagent dimethyl sulfate, (CH3)2SO4:
(CH3)2SO4  +  H2O  →  (CH3)HSO4  +  CH3OH

Methyl bisulfate is a strong acid:
(CH3)HSO4   →  (CH3)SO4−  +  H+

Methyl bisulfate came into the public view in 1993 with the discovery that certain mercury compounds catalyze the conversion of methane to methylbisulfate in good yields with excellent selectivity in concentrated sulfuric acid. However, because of the toxicity and concerns with the use of mercury it wasn't until 1998 when platinum complexes were found that catalyze the reaction of CH4 by SO3 and O2 that it came into the limelight:

CH4  +  SO3 + 1/2 O2  →  (CH3)HSO4
This discovery pointed to a possible method for upgrading inexpensive and abundantly available methane (natural gas) into methanol, which is both a more useful chemical and more easily shipped than methane.  The process is proposed to proceed via an intermediate containing the Pt-CH3 group.

Methyl bisulfate's conjugate base is used as a counterion in the formulation of some pharmaceutical drugs, where it is typically referred to as metilsulfate.

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Methyl esters
Sulfate esters
Svend Grundtvig

Svend Hersleb Grundtvig (9 September 1824, Copenhagen – 14 July 1883, Frederiksberg) was a Danish literary historian and ethnographer. He was one of the first systematic collectors of Danish traditional music, and he was especially interested in Danish folk songs. He began the large project of editing Danish ballads. He also co-edited Icelandic ballads. He was the son of N. F. S. Grundtvig.

Biography

His father arranged his education, employing a series of home tutors to teach him Icelandic, Latin, Danish and Anglo-Saxon while personally instructing him in Nordic mythology, Saxo Grammaticus and folkloric ballads. When he was 14, his father bought him a 1656 manuscript of an old ballad, triggering his interest in further exploring the history of Danish folk music which was to be his life's work.

When 19, after his father accompanied him on a study tour to England, Grundtvig published Danish translations of English and Scottish ballads before devoting his life to the collection and study of Danish folk tales and ballads. In a manifesto in 1844, he encouraged Danish men and women to record national ballads still in popular usage. He was the first editor of the multi-volume Danmarks gamle Folkeviser, whose mantle was taken up by other editors. Gruntvig also encouraged the Faroese V. U. Hammershaimb to gather ballads of his native land; Hammershaimb after making several publications eventually turned over the collection to Grundtvig, who with Jørgen Bloch co-edited the Føroya kvæði: Corpus Carminum Færoensium (1876).

In 1854, he extended this call to all types of folklore, building up a nationwide network of collaborators, soon resulting in his three-volume work Danske Minder (1854–61). In 1876, he published Danske folkeæventyr, the first of three volumes of Danish folk tales.

Own works
Grundtvig's published works, all in Danish, include:
 Engelske og skotske folkeviser, 1842–1846
 Gamle danske minder i Folkemunde, 1854–61
I Know What I Have Learned
 Danske Kæmpeviser, 1867
 Danske Folkeæventyr, 1876–83
 Danmarks Folkeviser i Udvalg, 1882

References

Literature
Grundtvig, Sven, Jesse Grant Cramer (translator): Danish Fairy Tales. Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1912, 118 p.
Grundtvig, Sven, Gustav Hein (translator): Danish Fairy Tales. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1914, 219 p.

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1824 births
1883 deaths
Danish literary historians
Danish folk-song collectors
Danish ethnographers
Danish folklorists
Collectors of fairy tales
19th-century musicologists
Box Hill & Westhumble railway station

Box Hill & Westhumble is a railway station in the village of Westhumble in Surrey, England, approximately  north of Dorking town centre.  Box Hill is located approximately  to the east. It is  down the line from . Train services are operated by Southern who manage the station, and South Western Railway.
 
The station is the end point for the Thames Down Link long-distance footpath from Kingston upon Thames, and lies close to the midpoint of the Mole Gap Trail between Leatherhead and Dorking. The station is within  of the North Downs Way.

History

The station was constructed at the insistence of Thomas Grissell the owner of Norbury Park, in part compensation for the railway cutting across his land to the north of the village.  The main building was designed by Charles Henry Driver in the Châteauesque style and included steeply pitched roofs with patterned tiles and an ornamental turret topped with a decorative grille and weather vane. The building is currently in use as a private dwelling and commercial premises and is protected by a Grade II listing.

Grissell also obtained the right from the LBSCR to stop any train on request, a privilege subsequently exercised by Leopold Salomons, who purchased Norbury Park in 1890.  This concession was legally abolished by the Transport Act of 1962, however there is no evidence to suggest that it was regularly used after 1910.

The name of the station has changed many times over the years with "Box Hill" & "Boxhill" and "Westhumble" & "West Humble" used in varying combinations for signs, timetables and railway maps, with many inconsistencies. In 2006, after consultation with local residents, the station's name was changed to "Box Hill and Westhumble" from "Boxhill and Westhumble".

Services

Services at Box Hill & Westhumble are operated by Southern and South Western Railway using  and   EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:
 1 tph to  via 
 1 tph to  via 
 2 tph to  of which 1 continues to 

On Saturday evenings (after approximately 18:45) and on Sundays, there is no service south of Dorking to Horsham.

Terrier tank engine

A Terrier tank engine, built by the LBSCR in 1880, was named Boxhill after the station. It was used to haul commuter trains in South London and Surrey until the 1920s, when it was moved to become a shunting engine at Brighton. Unlike other engines of its class, its smokebox was not modified in the early 20th century, and it was restored by the Southern Railway in 1947 to its original condition and painted in its original Stroudley yellow ochre livery. It is now preserved at the National Railway Museum in York.

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Former London, Brighton and South Coast Railway stations
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WSKY-FM

WSKY-FM (97.3 MHz) is a commercial radio station licensed to Micanopy, Florida, and serving the Gainesville-Ocala radio market.  The station airs a talk radio format and is owned by Audacy, Inc.

WSKY carries a local weekday morning talk and information show, followed by nationally syndicated talk programs.  They include Brian Kilmeade, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Ben Shapiro, Coast to Coast AM with George Noory and This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal.   Weekends feature shows on money, health, real estate, law, gardening, horses, computers and cigars, some of which are paid brokered programming.  Hosts include Kim Komando, Bill Handel, Clark Howard and Bill Cunningham.  Most hours begin with world and national news from ABC News Radio.

History 
On September 7, 1985, the station first signed on at 97.7 FM as WGLV, an adult contemporary music station known as "Gainesville's Love 98."  WGLV was co-owned with WGGG, a longtime legendary Top 40 station in the market, and tried to take advantage of the connection by hiring legendary WGGG personality "Boomer" Hough as its first morning show host.  However, Hough's show lasted only a few months.  WGLV tried to further bank on the legendary WGGG call sign in 1987 by adopting a 1970s-based oldies format as WGGG-FM and declaring "The Legend is Back!"  This, too, proved short-lived. After WGGG-AM-FM were sold in 1989, WGGG-FM became WLCL, a soft AC station branded as "Clear FM".

From 1993 until the debut of WSKY in 1998 (except for a brief period during which it programmed oldies as WGGO "Go 97.7"), the station was known as WRRX "97-X".  At that time, the station featured an adult album alternative format which was partially programmed via satellite from an outside provider, and locally in certain dayparts, featuring an eclectic variety of music.  97-X had a small yet loyal following in the local Gainesville music scene.

97-X was sold to Entercom in March 1998, for a price tag of $2.8 million.  Entercom switched the call letters to WSKY-FM and changed frequencies to 97.3 MHz on June 7, 1998, boosting the signal to 13,500 watts from its previous 2,600 watts.  The antenna height was nearly doubled to 948 feet from its previous 495-foot tower.  This gave WSKY better coverage of the Gainesville-Ocala radio market, putting a high-quality signal over both cities.  The station also switched to its current talk radio format. WSKY has since boosted its power to 50,000 watts effective radiated power (ERP) but reduced its height above average terrain (HAAT) to 492 feet.

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SKY-FM
News and talk radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1985
Audacy, Inc. radio stations
1985 establishments in Florida
18th station

18th is an 'L' station on the CTA's Pink Line. It is located at 1710 West 18th Street in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The station is decorated with colorful murals painted by local artists from Pilsen.

History

18th station opened on April 28, 1896, as part of the Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad's Douglas Park branch. From May 1991 until March 1993, the original station was demolished and rebuilt. On June 25, 2006, the 18th station, along with all other stations on the 54th/Cermak branch of the Blue Line, became part of the Pink Line. Rather than continuing east on the Blue Line through the Dearborn subway to O'Hare north of the Polk station, trains run north over a section of track on Paulina Avenue and then run on the same tracks as the Green Line west of the Ashland station before circling clockwise around the Loop and returning to 54th/Cermak via the same route.

In 2016, the Chicago Central Area Commission's proposed the construction of the Connector Transitway which would terminate at 18th.

In 2020, parts of the 1998 murals created by local artists were removed after they had been vandalised, after which the CTA has worked with the local community to restore the murals.

Bus connections
CTA
  18 16th/18th

References

External links

18th station page at CTA official website
18th Street entrance from Google Maps Street View

CTA Pink Line stations
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1896
Railway stations in Chicago
Lower West Side, Chicago
Smart mine

Smart mine refers to a number of next-generation land mine designs being developed by military forces around the world. Many are designed to self-destruct or self-deactivate at the end of a conflict or a preset period of time.  Others are so-called "self-healing" minefields which can detect when a gap in the field has been created and will direct its mines to reposition themselves to eliminate that gap, making it much more difficult and dangerous to create a safe path through the minefield. The development of smart mines began as a response to the International Campaign to Ban Landmines as a way of reducing non-combatant and civilian injury.  

Critics claim that new technology is unreliable, and that the perception of a "safe mine" will lead to increased deployment of land mines in future conflicts. Current guidelines allow for a 10% failure rate, leaving a significant number of mines to pose a threat. Additionally, in the case of self-destructing mines, civilians still are at risk of injury when the mine self-destructs and are denied access to land which has been mined.

As mines are inherently non-discriminate weapons, even smart mines may injure civilians during a time of war. Many critics believe this to be unacceptable under international law. The human security paradigm is outspoken on the issue of the reduction in the use of land mines due to the extremely individual nature of their impact - a facet that is ignored by traditional security concerns which focus on military and state level security issues.

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See also
Land mine

Smart devices
Land mines