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2,000 | Polish Philosophical Society | The Polish Philosophical Society is a scientific society based in Poland, founded in 1904 in Lwów, whose statutory goal is to practice and promote philosophy, especially onthology, theory of knowledge, logic, methodology, ethics, history of philosophy as well as the history of social science. The Society has 12 branches (Częstochowa, Gdańsk, Katowice, Kraków, Lublin, Łódź, Olsztyn, Poznań, Szczecin, Toruń, Warszawa, Wrocław, Zielona Góra) and over 800 members. It publishes the quarterly Ruch Filozoficzny. The Polish Philosophical Society (PTF) is a member of the International Federation of Philosophical Societies. The headquarters of the Society is in Warsaw. The current chairman (2010) is Władysław Stróżewski. External links Polish Philosophical Society website Category:Philosophical societies Category:Learned societies of Poland |
2,001 | Lobeck | Lobeck is the surname of: Christian Lobeck (1781-1860), was a German classical scholar Charles O. Lobeck (1852-1920), was a United States Representative from Nebraska |
2,002 | Galoubet A | Galoubet A (1972–2005) was a horse ridden by the French rider Gilles-Bertran de Ballanda, in International show jumping and is a sire of show jumpers. He stood 17.0 hh (173 cm). Galoubet was by the great sire Almé out of Viti a trotter mare. He was retired to stud at 10 y.o. and has since sired many top performers. Galoubet ranked third on the WBFSH standings for 2000/2001, largely on the basis of his son Baloubet du Rouet who won three World Cup Final's in a row (Helsinki 1998, Gothenburg 1999, Las Vegas 2000) as well as team bronze at 2000 Olympics in Sydney. In 2002, Galoubet was the Grand Sire of World Champion - Liscalgot (Ire) at World Equestrian Games in Jerez, Spain through his son Touchdown. In 2004, his son Baloubet du Rouet won the Gold Medal at 2004 Olympics in Athens Also 'Galoubet A has another well known son, Touchdown, dam Lady Willpower. In 1992, Touchdown was the highest placed Irish show jumper at the Barcelona Olympics. Achievements 1979 Won Wiesbaden Grand Prix (at 7 y.o.) 1979 15th European Championships Champion of France in 1977, 1979 and 1982 1980 Winning Nations Cups Teams - in Aachen, Chaudefontaine, Longchamp and Toronto. 1980 8th World Cup Final in Baltimore, U.S.A. 1980 8th Alternative Olympic Games in Rotterdam. 1980/81 Winner of the FEI World Cup Jumping League (Western Europe) 1981 Won three World Cup qualifiers in a row at Antwerp, s’Hertogenbosch and Dortmund. 1982 Team Gold Show Jumping World Championships in Dublin. 1982 5th Individual, at the Show Jumping World Championships External links Galoubet A pedigree Photo of Galoubet A Category:Show jumping horses Category:Sport horse sires Category:1972 animal births Category:2005 animal deaths Category:Individual male horses |
2,003 | Louis XIV (disambiguation) | Louis XIV may refer to: King Louis XIV of France, who reigned 1643–1715 Style Style Louis XIV, of architecture or design Art, entertainment, and media Louis XIV (album), 2003 release by the band Louis XIV Louis XIV (band), rock band from San Diego, California; formed in 2003 Louis XIV (board game), 2005 game See also Louis Quatorze (disambiguation) |
2,004 | Bedari | Bedari, a Pakistani Urdu black and white film, was a classic melodious film of 1956.This film had an identical plot and the songs like Indian film Jagriti (1954), with replacement of some words, and music were taken directly from Jagriti as well. Rattan Kumar (Syed Nazir Ali), who had moved to Pakistan with his family, acted in Bedari also. When 'Bedari' was released in Pakistan in 1956, it too made fabulous business in the first few weeks of exhibition. However, it dawned upon the Pakistani cinemagoers that they were watching a plagiarized film. There was a mass uproar that caused public demonstrations against exhibition of the plagiarized film. The Censor Board of Pakistan immediately put a ban on this film. Music The music of the film was composed by Fateh Ali Khan. The songs were written by Fayyaz Hashmi, and sung by Munawwar Sultana and Saleem Raza. A song which was a straight lift of the 'De Di Humein Azaadi' tune. Startlingly, it was titled Aye Quaid-e-Azam Tera Ehsaan. The lines 'De di humein azaadi bina khadag bina dhal/ Sabarmati ke sant tu ne kar diya kamaal' had been changed to 'De di humein azaadi ki duniya huyi hairaan/ Aye Quaid-e-Azam tera ehsaan hai ehsaan'. In other words, a song celebrating the Indian Father of the Nation had been transposed to eulogize his Pakistani counterpart. , by Munawwar Sultana , by Saleem Raza , by Saleem Raza Highlight of this film was its popular film songs and music. Fateh Ali Khan was the foremost sitar-player at that time in Pakistan and composed the music of this film. Bedari was also a debut film of now renowned Pakistani actor Qazi Wajid who, as a teenage student, played a very funny role of a student with a stammer disorder. References External links Category:Urdu-language films Category:Pakistani films Category:1953 films |
2,005 | Rabbittown | Rabbittown or Rabbit Town may refer to: Rabbittown, St. John's Rabbit Town, Kentucky Rabbittown, a Canadian television comedy special which aired in 2006 |
2,006 | Aloeides kaplani | Aloeides kaplani, the Kaplan's copper, is a species of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is endemic to South Africa, where it is known from the Western Cape. It was discovered and described in 1977. The wingspan is 28–32 mm for males and 30–40 mm females. Adults are on wing from September to December, with a peak in October. There is one generation per year. References Category:Aloeides Category:Butterflies described in 1977 Category:Endemic butterflies of South Africa Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
2,007 | Ottawa, Ivory Coast | Ottawa is a village in southwestern Ivory Coast. It is in the sub-prefecture of Okrouyo, Soubré Department, Nawa Region, Bas-Sassandra District. Ottawa was a commune until March 2012, when it became one of 1126 communes nationwide that were abolished. Notes Category:Former communes of Ivory Coast Category:Populated places in Bas-Sassandra District Category:Populated places in Nawa Region |
2,008 | Amid, North Khorasan | Amid (, also Romanized as Āmīd) is a village in Darband Rural District, Jolgeh Sankhvast District, Jajrom County, North Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its existence was noted, but its population was not reported. References Category:Populated places in Jajrom County |
2,009 | Family Allowances Act 1945 | The Family Allowances Act 1945 (8 & 9 Geo. VI c. 41) was an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom. Enacted in June 1945 when a caretaker Conservative government was in power, it came into operation from August 6, 1946, and was the first law to provide child benefit in the United Kingdom. Family allowances had been one of the items proposed by the Beveridge Report in 1942. The Labour Party briefly debated pressing for allowances during the Second World War, but a party conference resolution to this end was opposed by the trades unions for fear that the amount paid would be taken into account in wage negotiations, leaving workers no better off. As passed, the Act empowered the Minister of National Insurance to pay an allowance of five shillings per week for each child in a family other than the eldest; later Acts increased this sum. It was payable whilst the child was of school age, up to the age of eighteen, if apprenticed or in full-time school education. See also Child benefits in the United Kingdom Notes References Whitaker's Almanack: for the year 1958, p. 1127. J. Whitaker & Sons, London, 1957 Chronological Table of the Statutes 1253-1991. HMSO, London, 1993. Emanuel Shinwell, The Labour Story, p. 167. Macdonald, London, 1963. Category:United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 1945 Category:Social security in the United Kingdom |
2,010 | Shangfeng, Henan | Shangfeng () is a village in Yangce (), Biyang County, Zhumadian, Henan province, China east of the town of Yangce, which it geographically is part of. It has over 1000 residents, and is surrounded on three sides by mountains. Locals primarily rely on agriculture, mainly growing wheat, soybean, sesame, and peanuts. Cattle and goats are also raised in the area. References External links Category:Villages in China |
2,011 | American Beer (film) | American Beer is a 2004 feature-length documentary directed by Paul Kermizian that chronicles and documents the American craft brewing industry. The film was shot in the spring of 2002. Kermizian and a group of four left New York City and traveled by minivan across the United States visiting 38 craft and independent breweries in 40 days. Breweries featured in the film include Dogfish Head Brewery, Shipyard Brewing, Victory Brewing Company, McNeill's Brewery, Climax Brewing, Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, Anchor Brewing Company, New Glarus Brewing Company, New Belgium Brewing Company, Bell's Brewery and others. The film screened at various film festivals throughout 2004 and 2005 and was released on DVD towards the end of 2005. A special edition of the DVD released shortly afterward contains more than 80 minutes of deleted scenes from breweries featured in the film along with other scenes deleted from the original cut. As a result, from their experiences from the film, Paul Kermizian ended up opening Barcade, a chain of hybrid arcade and craft beer bars in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Philadelphia, and Jeremy Goldberg started a brewery called Cape Ann Brewing in Gloucester, Massachusetts. See also Beer Wars References External links Official site Category:2004 films Category:American documentary films Category:Beer journalism Category:2004 documentary films Category:Documentary films about beer Category:American films |
2,012 | Christian Hopkins | Christian "Chris" James Hopkins (born February 26, 1985) is a former American football tight end. He played college football at the University of Toledo and high school football at Hyde Park High School in Chicago. He was signed by the New York Giants as an rookie free agent on July 30, 2011. Hopkins earned a Super Bowl ring as a member of the Giants team who topped the New England Patriots by a score of 21–17 in Super Bowl XLVI on February 5, 2012. References External links Toledo Rockets Bio New York Giants Profile Category:1985 births Category:Living people Category:American football tight ends Category:New York Giants players Category:Players of American football from Illinois Category:Sportspeople from Chicago Category:Super Bowl champions Category:Toledo Rockets football players |
2,013 | 2003 European Athletics U23 Championships – Women's 800 metres | The women's 800 metres event at the 2003 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Bydgoszcz, Poland, at Zawisza Stadion on 18 and 20 July. Medalists Results Final 20 July Heats 18 July Qualified: first 2 in each heat and 2 best to the Final Heat 1 Heat 2 Heat 3 Participation According to an unofficial count, 16 athletes from 9 countries participated in the event. (1) (1) (3) (3) (1) (1) (2) (2) (2) References 800 metres Category:800 metres at the European Athletics U23 Championships |
2,014 | Black tin | Black tin is the raw ore of tin, usually cassiterite, as sold by a tin mine to a smelting company. After mining, the ore has to be concentrated by a number of processes to reduce the amount of gangue it contains before it can be sold. It contrasts with white tin, which is the refined, metallic tin produced after smelting. The term "black tin" was historically associated with tin mining in Devon and Cornwall. References Category:Tin mining Category:Mining in Cornwall |
2,015 | Reid Venable Moran | Reid Venable Moran (June 30, 1916 – January 21, 2010) was an American botanist and the curator of botany at the San Diego Natural History Museum from 1957 to 1982. Moran was the world authority on the Crassulaceae, a family of succulent plants, and in particular the genus Dudleya, the subject of his Ph.D. dissertation. He named at least 18 plants new to science — some in that family and some not — and published many papers elucidating relationships within the Crassulaceae. As a mark of the respect he earned among his peers, more than a dozen plants have been named for him. Jane Goodall described Moran as "a sort of living myth in botanical exploration in Baja California and the Pacific Islands of Mexico," citing specifically his analysis of the environmental impact of introduced species (especially goats) on the flora of Guadalupe Island. Biography Born in Los Angeles, California on June 30, 1916 to Edna Louise Venable and Robert Breck Moran (a petroleum geologist), Moran was raised in Pasadena. He received his B. A. from Stanford University in 1939 and his M. S. from Cornell University in 1942. After service as a navigator in the Army Air Corps from 1942 to 1946, Moran received his Ph.D. in Botany from the University of California, Berkeley in 1951. His doctoral dissertation was titled "A Revision of Dudleya (Crassulaceae)." Moran conducted a botanical survey of the Channel Islands for the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History and performed taxonomic work for the Santa Barbara Botanical Garden and the Bailey Hortorium at Cornell University before joining the San Diego Museum of Natural History as curator of botany, succeeding Ethel Bailey Higgins in 1957. Moran specialized in the systematics of the Crassulaceae (the stonecrop family), and in the floristics of the Baja California peninsula. In addition to a large number of technical research papers, Moran published The Flora of Guadalupe Island and the treatment of the Crassulaceae for the Flora of North America (Vol. 8, published in 2009). He co-authored (with Frank W. Gould) The Grasses of Baja California, Mexico in 1981 and (with Geoffrey A. Levin) The Vascular Flora of Isla Socorro, Mexico in 1989. Among Moran's publications was "Cneoridium dumosum (Nuttall) Hooker F. Collected March 26, 1960, at an Elevation of about 1450 Meters on Cerro Quemazón, 15 Miles South of Bahía de Los Angeles, Baja California, México, Apparently for a Southeastward Range Extension of Some 140 Miles" (1966), a paper which comprised, apart from its title and acknowledgements, just five words and a reference number. Moran died on January 21, 2010, in Clearlake, California. See the list of genera and species described by Moran. References External links Works by Reid Moran at JSTOR Works by Reid Moran at the Biodiversity Heritage Library The San Diego Natural History Museum Research Library houses a significant collection of Reid Moran’s papers and photographs. Finding aid to the Reid Moran Collection, Online Archive of California. Moran's 18 volumes of field notes are digitized and indexed at BajaFlora.org: The Flora of Baja California The University and Jepson |
2,016 | Nowa Dębszczyzna | Nowa Dębszczyzna is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Filipów, within Suwałki County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland. References Category:Villages in Suwałki County |
2,017 | (I Just Want It) To Be Over | "(I Just Want It) To Be Over" is a song by American singer Keyshia Cole. It was written by the singer along with Alicia Keys, Taniesha Smith, and Kerry "Krucial" Brothers for her debut album, The Way It Is (2005). Production on the song was helmed by the latter. Released on April 5, 2005 as the album's second single, "(I Just Want It) To Be Over" became a moderate success on the US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, peaking at number 30. It also reached number one on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart, which acts as an extension to the Hot 100. Music video The music video starts with Cole sitting on a bed, singing the first verse. She tries numerous times to escape the room she is locked in. She then breaks a mirror with a chair and steps through the mirror frame. The next scene shows broken glass on the floor. Cole is then seen wearing a sun dress. As she walks down a hall she sees a man and two women in the room; when she approaches the next room she spots a man and a woman arguing. Cole walks into a nightclub in a black tank top and mini skirt, and performs the song with a band. The video ends by showing a montage of the preceding events. Charts References Category:2005 singles Category:Keyshia Cole songs Category:Music videos directed by Benny Boom Category:Songs written by Kerry Brothers Jr. Category:2005 songs Category:Songs written by Keyshia Cole Category:Songs written by Alicia Keys Category:A&M Records singles |
2,018 | Pneumocystis pneumonia | Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) is a form of pneumonia that is caused by the yeast-like fungus Pneumocystis jirovecii. It is also known as PJP, for Pneumocystis jiroveci Pneumonia. Pneumocystis specimens are commonly found in the lungs of healthy people although it is usually not a cause for disease. However, they are a source of opportunistic infection and can cause a lung infection in people with a weak immune system. PCP is especially seen in people with cancer undergoing chemotherapy, HIV/AIDS cases, and the use of medications that suppress the immune system. Signs and symptoms Signs and symptoms of PCP include fever, nonproductive cough (because sputum is too viscous to become productive), shortness of breath (especially on exertion), weight loss, and night sweats. Usually, not a large amount of sputum is produced with PCP unless the patient has an additional bacterial infection. The fungus can invade other visceral organs (such as the liver, spleen, and kidney), but only in a minority of cases. Complications Pneumothorax is a well-known complication of PCP. An acute history of chest pain with breathlessness and diminished breath sounds is typical of pneumothorax. Also, a condition similar to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) may occur in patients with severe Pneumocystis pneumonia, and such individuals may require intubation. Mechanism The risk of PCP increases when CD4-positive T-cell levels are less than 200 cells/μL. In these immunosuppressed individuals, the manifestations of the infection are highly variable. The disease attacks the interstitial, fibrous tissue of the lungs, with marked thickening of the alveolar septa and alveoli, leading to significant hypoxia, which can be fatal if not treated aggressively. In this situation, lactate dehydrogenase levels increase and gas exchange is compromised. Oxygen is less able to diffuse into the blood, leading to hypoxia, which along with high arterial carbon dioxide () levels, stimulates hyperventilatory effort, thereby causing dyspnea (breathlessness). Diagnosis The diagnosis can be confirmed by the characteristic appearance of the chest X-ray and an arterial oxygen level (PaO2) that is strikingly lower than would be expected from symptoms. Gallium 67 scans are also useful in the diagnosis. They are abnormal in about 90% of cases and are often positive before the chest X-ray becomes abnormal. Chest X-ray typically shows widespread pulmonary infiltrates. CT scan may show pulmonary cysts (not to be confused with the cyst-forms of the pathogen). The diagnosis can be definitively confirmed by histological identification of the causative organism in sputum or bronchoalveolar lavage (lung rinse). Staining with toluidine blue, silver stain, periodic acid-Schiff stain, or an immunofluorescence assay shows the characteristic cysts. The cysts resemble crushed ping-pong balls and are present in aggregates of two to eight (and not to be confused with Histoplasma or Cryptococcus, which typically do not form aggregates of spores or cells). A lung biopsy would show thickened alveolar septa with fluffy eosinophilic exudate in the alveoli. Both the thickened septa and the fluffy exudate contribute to dysfunctional diffusion capacity that is characteristic of this pneumonia. Pneumocystis infection can also be diagnosed by immunofluorescent or histochemical staining of the specimen, and more recently by molecular analysis |
2,019 | Romain Leleu | Romain Leleu (born 7 November 1983) is a French classical trumpeter. He is the elder brother of tuba player Thomas Leleu. Life Born in lille, Leleu waselectedrévélation soliste instrumental by the Victoires de la Musique Classique in 2009. Trained by Éric Aubier, he entered the Conservatoire de Paris at age 15, and received in 2003 a First Prize for trumpet with "very good" mention, followed by the Chamber Music prize, unanimously. He then improved his skills with Reinhold Friedrich at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe. With a wide repertoire, from Baroque Concertos to the creation of new works, he performs as a soloist in France and abroad, with notably the Orchestre National de Lille, the , the Orchestre d’Auvergne, the , the , the Orchestre symphonique et lyrique de Nancy, the Orchestre de chambre de Paris, the Orchestre Régional de Cannes, the French Republican Guard Band, the , the Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa, the Orquesta Sinfonica de Mineria - Mexico... Leleu is a regular guest at French and international festivals: Festival de La Roque-d'Anthéron, , , Festival de Radio France et Montpellier, , Folle Journée de Nantes, etc. Many contemporary creators call on him, as do Martín Matalon (premiere of Trame XII for trumpet and orchestra), Philippe Hersant (Création de Folk Tunes for solo trumpet), Karol Beffa (premiere of the Concerto for trumpet and orchestra, Subway for trumpet and piano and Buenos Aires for brass quintet)… In chamber music, Romain Leleu performs regularly with Thierry Escaich, Olivier Vernet, Ghislain Leroy, Laurent Lefèvre, Igor Tchetuev, the Convergences ensemble, the Kheops Ensemble… Leleu has been nominated "classic revelation" of the (2005), winner of the Lyon International Chamber Music Competition (2005), of the International competition "Lieksa Brass Week" in Finland, of the Groupe Banque Populaire (2009) foundation, of the SAFRAN for music foundation (2010), and of the Del Duca foundation prize of the Académie des Beaux Arts (2011). Leleu regularly leads master classes in France as well as abroad (Académie Internationale de Courchevel, Seoul National University, Tokyo College of Music, - Mexico, University of Cincinnati – College-Conservatory of Music - USA, Tbilissi Conservatory of music - Georgia…). Leleu is a laureate of the Del Duca foundation of the Académie des Beaux Arts. He is also a Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres, January 2016 class. Leleu has been teaching trumpet at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon since 2018. Discography Trumpet concertos (Aparté/Harmonia Mundi) (2015), works by Jolivet, Delerue, Beffa, Robin, Matalon, with the Orchestre d'Auvergne Sur la route (Aparté/Harmonia Mundi), works by Bartók, Piazzolla, Tchaikovsky, Bellini, Michel Legrand, Nino Rota... with the Convergences Ensemble (April 2013 (AP052) Trumpet concertos (Aparté/Harmonia Mundi), Concertos by Haydn, Hummel, Neruda. Baltic Chamber Orchestra - Emmanuel Leducq-Barôme. Cadences by Stockhausen and Penderecki. Famous trumpet sonatas: Romain Leleu/Julien Le Pape, works by Brandt, Enescu, Raymond Gallois-Montbrun, Beffa, Escaich... (Indésens/codaex) Slavonic Spirit: Romain Leleu/Julien Le Pape, works by Bohme, Glazunov, Rachmaninov, Arutunian, Rimsky-Korsakov... (2010) (Aparté/Harmonia Mundi) Les Vents français (Compilation Sony) References External links Romain Lelue (France Musique) Discography (Discogs) Romain Leleu (Ensemble Calliopée) Romain Leleu (Conservatoire de |
2,020 | Sucun Township, Henan | Sucun Township () is a township under the administration of Lingbao, in western Henan province, China, located south of downtown Lingbao in the Qin Mountains. As of 2011, it has 32 villages under its administration. References External links Category:Township-level divisions of Henan |
2,021 | Pacific Coast Borax Company | The Pacific Coast Borax Company (PCB) was a United States mining company founded in 1890 by the American borax magnate Francis "Borax" Smith, the "Borax King". History The roots of the Pacific Coast Borax Company lie in Mineral County, Nevada, east of Mono Lake, where Smith, while contracting to provide firewood to a small borax operation at nearby Columbus Marsh, spotted Teels Marsh while looking westward from the upper slopes of Miller Mountain where the only nearby trees were growing. Eventually, to satisfy his curiosity, Smith and two assistants visited Teels Marsh and collected samples, that proved to assay higher than any known sources for borate. Returning to Teels Marsh, Smith and his helpers staked claims and laid the foundation for his career as a borax miner. With the help of his older brother, Julius, who came west from the family home in Wisconsin, and financial support from the two Storey brothers, operations began in 1872 under the name, Smith and Storey Brothers Borax Co. When the Storey brothers' interests were subsequently acquired in 1873, the name was shortened to Smith Brothers Borax Co. A few years later (circa 1884) it was changed again to Teel's Marsh Borax Co. In 1880, the separate and previously existing Pacific Borax Company (with no "Coast" in the name) was acquired by Smith. Frank Smith also developed holdings with his business associate William Tell Coleman at the Harmony Borax Works as well as the Meridian Borax Company, which were subsequently combined to form the Pacific Borax, Salt & Soda Company in 1888. The Pacific Coast Borax Co. name was not adopted until Smith acquired all of Coleman's borax interests in central Nevada and California, after Coleman's bankruptcy, and incorporated them all under the new company name in 1890. Death Valley The Harmony Borax Works were part of what was acquired from Coleman by Smith in 1890. The borax was shipped via the Death Valley Railroad that the company built to the east, from Ryan, California to Death Valley Junction, California. It then transferred to the narrow gauge Death Valley Railroad to meet up with the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad (T&T) which ran from the Amargosa Valley south to the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway railhead in Ludlow, California. The Borax Museum, located in Death Valley National Park, has a locomotive on display from the Death Valley Railroad. Other mines As Death Valley mining ran down, Smith developed new mines in the Calico Mountains near Yermo, California, and built the Borate and Daggett Railroad to haul product to the railhead in Daggett, California. Later, the company developed methods to process material from Searles Lake in the Searles Valley, building the company town of Westend and a siding on the Trona Railway for shipping to the railhead at Searles, California. One of the earliest reinforced concrete buildings constructed in the United States was the Pacific Coast Borax Company's refinery in Alameda, California, designed by Ernest L. Ransome and built in 1893. It was the first to use ribbed floor construction as well as concrete columns. Christian Brevoort |
2,022 | South Broadway Neighborhood District | The South Broadway Neighborhood District is a historic residential area and historic district located near downtown Georgetown, Kentucky. The neighborhood was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1991. It is in size. It includes the 149 contributing buildings, 67 contributing structures, and a contributing site. It includes four separately NRHP-listed properties: Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Branham House, Cantrill House, and Garth School. References Category:National Register of Historic Places in Scott County, Kentucky Category:Geography of Scott County, Kentucky Category:Georgetown, Kentucky Category:Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Kentucky |
2,023 | Ardozyga chenias | Ardozyga chenias is a species of moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1904. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from New South Wales and Victoria. Characteristics The wingspan is about 16 mm. The forewings are fuscous, sprinkled with whitish and sometimes with dark fuscous, towards the costa posteriorly much suffused with white. There is a small dark fuscous spot on the base of the costa and a white mark from the base in the middle, as well as narrow very oblique dark fuscous marks from the costa at one-fifth, and before and beyond the middle, with patches of ferruginous suffusion beneath them. A streak of ferruginous suffusion, including some black scales, is found in the disc from one-fourth to three-fourths, and another on the fold. There is also a series of blackish marks beneath the posterior third of the costa and along the termen, preceded by a rather broad ferruginous suffusion. The hindwings are pale grey, darker posteriorly. References Category:Ardozyga Category:Moths described in 1904 Category:Moths of Australia |
2,024 | United Democratic Party (UK) | The United Democratic Party (UDP) was a minor political party in the United Kingdom. It was formed in 1974 by a group of Independent Conservatives disaffected with Edward Heath's leadership of the Conservative Party During the February 1974 general election a number of unofficial and independent Tories had stood against the official party candidates. A number of these joined together after the election when it became clear that a second vote would be needed, forming the UDP as a right-wing alternative. The new party did not have an overall policy although it was generally to right of the Conservative Party and for some candidates, although not invariably, stressed opposition to the European Economic Community. Boosted by some new members joining from the fading Independent Democratic Alliance, the UDP contested 13 seats in the October general election. Led by James Tippett, the party's candidates were all based in the south of England and all failed to gain election. The party's best result was in Cambridge where they won 885 votes (1.7% share), a result influenced the candidate C.J. Curry being a well-known local business figure. The party disbanded soon after the general election with a single member continuing as a regular by-election candidate, albeit under the Independent banner. A "United Democratic Party" candidate in the 1983 Bermondsey by-election had no connection to the earlier group. References Category:Defunct political parties in the United Kingdom Category:Political parties established in 1974 |
2,025 | Earthworks (song) | "Earthworks" is a song by Kerbdog and their first single released in 1993 on Vertigo Records. The title track was recorded by Simon Vinestock on 12 December 1992, while tracks 2 and 3 were recorded at Sound Studios in Dublin by Pat Dunne between 29 and 30 June 1992. All songs on the single were later re-recorded for Kerbdog's self titled debut album. The single was released on CD and 7" vinyl. There was also a promo only 12" vinyl. Track listing All formats of the single contain three tracks: "Earthworks" "Cleaver" "Scram" Category:1993 singles Category:Kerbdog songs Category:1993 songs Category:Vertigo Records singles Category:Songs written by Cormac Battle |
2,026 | Francis Palmes | Lieutenant-General Francis Palmes MP (died 1719) was a noted favourite general of the Duke of Marlborough. Early life Palmes was the second son of Francis Palmes of Carcraig and Elizabeth Taylor, daughter of Thomas Taylor of Ballyport, County Limerick. The Palmes family of Carcraig was a cadet branch of the Palmes family of Naburn. Military career Palmes began a lengthy military career shortly after the Revolution, being granted a captain's commission in the regiment of the eldest son of the Earl of Devonshire in 1688. He served in Ireland through the 1690s and rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel. He saw service during the War of the Spanish Succession. Battle of Blenheim Palmes assumed command of his regiment at the Battle of Blenheim. Reports from the battle state that 'hardly anyone was more instrumental to the success of that day' than Palmes, and his endeavours appear to have attracted the attention of the Duke of Marlborough. The Duke of Marlborough recommended Palmes for appointment to the rank of brigadier general. In August he was promoted to this rank and commissioned as brevet colonel of horse. Marlborough's patronage of a similar note was also received by two other Irishmen, the Earl of Cardogan and Thomas Meredyth in the mid-1700s. Palmes was closely associated with the two. The Duke of Marlborough was accused as having Brigadier Cadogan, Brigadier Palmes and Brigadier Meredith as his favourites. A poem from 1707 recognised this close relationship between Palmes and the Duke of Marlborough and states that 'Palmes was to marry Marlborough's illegitimate daughter and receive a portion of £10,000'. He was promoted to major-general in 1707. Political positions Palmes stood at the by-election on 23 January 1707 for West Looe and was successful. He did not stand for re-election in 1708. Diplomatic missions From February 1708 Palmes travelled extensively, undertaking mission to the United Provinces, Hanover, Prussia, Vienna and Savoy in order to concert measures with the allies. He was promoted to lieutenant-general in the Army in 1709 and became envoy to Poland in 1718. References External links Sir Guy Palmes, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain, John Burke, 1835 Appointment of Palmes in Rutland, Record Office Catalog, Leicestershire County Council Parliamentary Pardon of Guy Palmes, British History Online Palmes-Lindley family memorial, Otley, Yorkshire, Flickr.com Category:Year of birth unknown Category:1719 deaths Category:British Army generals Category:Members of the pre-1707 English Parliament for constituencies in Cornwall Category:English MPs 1705–1707 Category:Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for constituencies in Cornwall Category:British MPs 1707–1708 Category:British military personnel of the War of the Spanish Succession Category:Ambassadors of Great Britain to the Holy Roman Emperor |
2,027 | C. L. Max Nikias | Chrysostomos Loizos "Max" Nikias (; born September 30, 1952) is a Cypriot-American academic, and served as the 11th University of Southern California president, a position he held from August 3, 2010, to August 7, 2018. He holds the Malcolm R. Currie Chair in Technology and the Humanities and is president emeritus of the university. He had been at USC since 1991, as a professor, director of national research centers, dean, provost, and president. He also served as chair of the College Football Playoff (CFP) Board of Managers (2015-2018) as chair of the board of the Keck Medical Center at USC (2009-2018), as member of the board of directors of the Alfred Mann Institute for Biomedical Engineering (2001-2018), and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Chadwick School, an independent school in Palos Verdes Peninsula, Calif. (2001-2010). He is currently a tenured professor in electrical engineering with a secondary appointment in classics, and the director of the USC Institute for Technology Enabled Higher Education. In May 2018, 200 tenured USC professors (out of 4,604 university faculty) demanded Nikias's resignation for how his administration dealt with nearly 300 incidents of sexual assault and sexual misconduct allegations over 27 years against a longtime student health center gynecologist, George Tyndall. He and the board of trustees agreed to an orderly transition to a new president on May 25, 2018, and he stepped down on August 7, 2018. Following this, Nikias was named president emeritus and a life trustee of the university. The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Right's independent investigation concluded with a report published in February 2020 and did not implicate Nikias in any wrongdoing. The report stated that Nikias had no knowledge of "the possibility of physical misconduct" by the student health center gynecologist. As soon as Nikias was made aware of the gynecologist situation, the report stated that "he had identified the matter to be of such significance that he directed the general council to brief the University's Board of Trustees" in March of 2018; and on May 15, 2018, he informed all USC students and alumni worldwide about the matter in advance of the Los Angeles Times article. Early life Nikias was born on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. There, he graduated with honors from the Famagusta Gymnasium, a school that emphasizes sciences, history, and Greco-Roman classics. He married his wife, Niki, in 1977, and the couple have two daughters, Georgiana and Maria. He received a degree in electrical and mechanical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in 1977, and has an academic interest in Athenian drama and democracy. Nikias earned a master's degree in 1980 and a Ph.D in 1982 in electrical engineering at the State University of New York at Buffalo. His predecessor as USC president, Steven Sample, was likewise an electrical engineer, and served as president of SUNY-Buffalo from 1982 to 1991. Career Associate Dean and Center Director in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering (1991–2001) Nikias served as founding director of the school's Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC) from 1996 to |
2,028 | Asiagomphus yayeyamensis | Asiagomphus yayeyamensis is a species of dragonfly in the family Gomphidae. It is endemic to Japan. References Category:Insects of Japan Category:Gomphidae Category:Insects described in 1926 Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
2,029 | Milton P. Webster | Milton Price Webster (1881-1965) was an American trade unionist, best remembered as a top leader of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP). As lead official for the union in contract negotiations, Webster was influential in securing a collective bargaining agreement with the Pullman Company — the first national contract won by any black-led American trade union. During the years of World War II Webster was a member of the Fair Employment Practice Committee and its successor organization, attempting to end racial discrimination in the defense industry. Webster also later served as a member of the International Board of the American Federation of Labor. Biography Early years Milton Price Webster was born on April 23, 1881, in Clarksville, Tennessee. His father, Willis, was a barber and owned land in Clarksville with a small farm. Willis had been enslaved as a young man and purchased his freedom. His mother Mary was the daughter of freed black Tennesseans (Julia (Donaldson) and Robert Fogg). Both of Mary’s parents attended a fledgling Fisk University at its inception, and her father fought for the Union Army in the Civil War. Webster moved with his family from Tennessee to the booming metropolis of Chicago as a child. His family was of humble beginnings but very close. His mother Mary and father Willis, along with his maternal grandmother Julia Donaldson Fogg and his siblings, moved to a segregated south side of Chicago. It was a large close family of which Milton was the third youngest. One of Milton’s earliest memories was of his witnessing of the Pullman Strike in 1894 first hand from his parents tenement apartment window, as white railroad strikers where beaten and shot by US Marshals and US Army Troops. This affected Milton immensely. In later years he would lament that if US troops would treat white union organizers so heinously, he could only imagine what they would do to black union men. Although Milton was an excellent student and a voracious reader, with a desire to pursue the study of law, the family did not have the resources to send him to the University. He had may odd jobs, eventually obtaining work as a Pullman porter, a job which he held for nearly 18 years. He left the job in April 1924 following a dispute with an official of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad, for which he worked. As a porter Webster appreciated first hand the injustices levied upon the worker, the excessive work days on the rail, poor pay, burdensome tolls and fees, undue and uneven disciplinary actions against porters and maids, the weeks and months of being on the rail with no time off, the unsafe work conditions, the lack of any workers rights or advocacy, and the overt racism faced day in and day out by fellow porters and maids. While still employed as a porter, Webster decided that a Labor Union was what was needed for black workers and he, with a few others, began organizing. The Pullman company got wind of his actions and began citing him for disciplinary actions, |
2,030 | The Savage (1952 film) | The Savage is a 1952 Technicolor Western film directed by George Marshall. The film stars Charlton Heston, Susan Morrow, and Peter Hansen. Much of The Savage was shot in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The film is based on L. L. Foreman's novel, The Renegade, first published in 1949 by Pocket Books. Plot synopsis A young boy, Jim Aherne Jr., is the only survivor of a raid on a wagon train by Crow Indians. He is rescued by a group of Sioux Indians and is raised by Chief Yellow Eagle as a Sioux and renamed War Bonnet. Jim grows to maturity, but soon his loyalties between his tribe and his white heritage are questioned. Gold is discovered in the Black Hills and the Sioux expect the sovereignty of their territory to be respected because of an earlier treaty. War Bonnet is sent to Fort Duane to determine whether the U.S. government intend to honor the treaty. On his way, he helps save a party of U.S. cavalry, led by Lt. Hathersall, from an attack by Crow Indians. He then introduces himself as Jim Aherne and telling them he is taking some ponies to the fort to sell, insinuating that he is merely a local trapper. Because of his actions, he is received warmly by Col. Robert Ellis at the fort. The Colonel has Lt. Hathersall take care of Jim while he is their guest and Hathersall's sister, Tally, takes an instant liking to him, seeing him as rugged, mysterious, and handsome. Capt. Vaughant has his eye on Tally and doesn't agree with Jim having dinner with them. She asks him to leave and on his way out he calls Jim a savage, inciting Jim to attack him briefly. After several days, War Bonnet is leaving the fort to go on a picnic with the Hathersall siblings when he sees smoke signals in the distance. Not disclosing its meaning to them, he leaves and discovers dead soldiers in the hills. Out of the woods comes his friend from the tribe, Long Mane, who tells him that the soldiers were killed by a party of Crow and that Jim's sister, Luta, was taken captive. She had been with the soldiers as she was traveling to the fort to find Jim. War Bonnet leads a party of Sioux on a raid on the Crow camp and rescues his sister. On the ride back, they encounter Capt. Vaughant and some soldiers who have discovered the soldiers that were killed by the Crow. During the brief encounter, Luta is killed as the troops attack them without provocation. Taking her body back to his tribe, War Bonnet is now convinced that the whites will not honor the treaty and agrees to go back and lead the soldiers at Fort Duane into an ambush. Meanwhile, Col. Ellis has received orders from Washington that all the Indians are to be moved to reservations, by force if necessary. Returning to the fort as a scout, War Bonnet leads Vaughant's men to a Crow camp instead of the Sioux. They send |
2,031 | List of people who died climbing Mount Everest | Mount Everest, at , is the world's highest mountain and a particularly desirable peak for mountaineers, but climbing it can be hazardous. More than 300 people have died attempting to reach the summit. The last year without known deaths on the mountain was 1977, a year in which only two people reached the summit. Most deaths have been attributed to avalanches, falls, serac collapse, exposure, frostbite, or health problems related to conditions on the mountain. Not all bodies have been located, so details on those deaths are not available. The upper reaches of the mountain are in the death zone. The death zone is a mountaineering term for altitudes above a certain point – around , or less than of atmospheric pressure – where the oxygen level is not sufficient to sustain human life. Many deaths in high-altitude mountaineering have been caused by the effects of the death zone, either directly (loss of vital functions) or indirectly (unwise decisions made under stress or physical weakening leading to accidents). In the death zone, the human body cannot acclimatize, as it uses oxygen faster than it can be replenished. An extended stay in the zone without supplementary oxygen will result in deterioration of bodily functions, loss of consciousness, and death. Background The most popular routes are the South Col route from the Nepalese side and the North Col route from the Tibetan side. The first recorded deaths on the mountain were seven porters who perished in an avalanche in the 1922 British Mount Everest Expedition. George Mallory, who was present, blamed himself for the deaths. During the 1921 British Reconnaissance Expedition there were two deaths en route to the mountain, an unidentified porter as well as heart attack victim Dr. A. M. Kellas. Babu Chiri Sherpa had climbed the mountain 10 times and spent 20 hours on the summit of Everest in 1999, then a new record. He also climbed to the summit twice in two weeks and held the record climbing time from base camp to summit of 16 hours and 56 minutes. He died in 2001 from a fall near Camp II. Experienced guide Rob Hall died on Everest shortly after becoming the first non-Sherpa to have summitted five times (1996). One of the most infamous tragedies on the mountain was the 1996 Mount Everest disaster on May 11, 1996, during which eight people died while making summit attempts. In that season, 15 people died trying to reach the summit, making it the deadliest single year in the mountain's history to that point. Two books detailing the disaster, Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer and The Climb by Anatoli Boukreev, both written by mountaineers who were on Mount Everest at the time, give conflicting accounts of the events. Statistically, 1996 was a safe year for Everest climbers. Before 1996, one in four climbers died making the ascent, while in 1996, one in seven died. In the 2014 and 2015 seasons, tragedies killed more than a dozen people. There were few summits from the south in 2014 and none in 2015. On April |
2,032 | Laksevåg (municipality) | Laksevåg is a former municipality in the old Hordaland county in Norway. The municipality was located on the western part of the Bergen Peninsula. The administrative centre of the municipality was the village of Loddefjord. The municipality, which existed from 1918 until 1972, was a located a short distance west of the city of Bergen, and today it makes up the borough of Laksevåg which is part of the city of Bergen in Bergen Municipality which is now in Vestland county. The municipality was located along the Byfjorden, north of the Grimstadfjorden, and west of the Fyllingsdalen valley. History The municipality of Laksevåg was established on 1 July 1918 when it was separated from the municipality of Askøy. Initially, the municipality had 6,957 residents. On 1 July 1921, the village area of Gyldenpris (population: 1,734) was transferred from Laksevåg to the growing city of Bergen, located to the east. On 1 January 1972, the city of Bergen was expanded and the four surrounding municipalities of Laksevåg (population: 24,672), Arna, Fana, and Åsane, were all merged with Bergen to form one large urban municipality with over 200,000 residents. Municipal council The municipal council of Laksevåg was made up of 41 representatives that were elected to four-year terms. The party breakdown of the final municipal council was as follows: See also List of former municipalities of Norway References Category:Geography of Bergen Category:Former municipalities of Norway Category:1918 establishments in Norway Category:1972 disestablishments in Norway |
2,033 | Pilawa | Pilawa is a town in Garwolin County, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland, with 4,121 inhabitants (2004), 59 km southeast of Warsaw. Previously it was situated in Siedlce Voivodeship (1975–1998). Transport Pilawa is important railway node, it is directly connected to many cities: Pilawa-Warsaw Pilawa-Dęblin-Lublin Pilawa-Mińsk Mazowiecki (inactive) Pilawa-Skierniewice (inactive) Pilawa-Łuków (inactive) The 805 road runs through city, there is also 17 road situated 2 km from city. Category:Cities and towns in Masovian Voivodeship Category:Garwolin County |
2,034 | 1931 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 12 | The 1931 Tour de France was the 25th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Tour began in Paris with a flat stage on 30 June, and Stage 12 occurred on 13 July with a flat stage to Marseille. The race finished in Paris on 26 July. Stage 1 30 June 1931 - Paris to Caen, Stage 2 1 July 1931 - Caen to Dinan, Stage 3 2 July 1931 - Dinan to Brest, Stage 4 3 July 1931 - Brest to Vannes, Stage 5 4 July 1931 - Vannes to Les Sables d'Olonne, Stage 6 5 July 1931 - Les Sables d'Olonne to Bordeaux, Stage 7 6 July 1931 - Bordeaux to Bayonne, Stage 8 7 July 1931 - Bayonne to Pau, Stage 9 8 July 1931 - Pau to Luchon, Stage 10 10 July 1931 - Luchon to Perpignan, Stage 11 12 July 1931 - Perpignan to Montpellier, Stage 12 13 July 1931 - Montpellier to Marseille, References Category:1931 Tour de France Category:Tour de France stages |
2,035 | V. Chinniah | V. Chinniah, also spelled V. Chinnaiah, is an Indian politician and was a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu. He was elected to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly as a Tamil Maanila Congress (TMC) candidate from Thirumayam constituency in the 1996 election. References Category:Living people Category:Members of the 11th Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly Category:Tamil Maanila Congress politicians Category:Year of birth missing (living people) |
2,036 | Vĩnh Tiến | Vĩnh Tiến may refer to the following places in Vietnam: Vĩnh Tiến, Vĩnh Bảo District, Hải Phòng Vĩnh Tiến, Kim Bôi District, Hòa Bình Vĩnh Tiến, Tràng Định District, Lạng Sơn Vĩnh Tiến, Vĩnh Lộc District, Thanh Hóa |
2,037 | 2017 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group I – Pool A | Pool A of the 2017 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group I was one of two pools in the Asia/Oceania zone of the 2017 Fed Cup. Three teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top team and the bottom team proceeding to their respective sections of the play-offs: the top team played for advancement to the World Group II Play-offs, while the bottom team faced potential relegation to Group II. Standings Standings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-team ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-team ties, (a) percentage of sets won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (b) percentage of games won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (c) Fed Cup rankings Round-robin Kazakhstan vs. South Korea Thailand vs. South Korea Thailand vs. Kazakhstan References External links Fed Cup website Category:2017 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone |
2,038 | Aaron Royle | Aaron Royle (born 26 January 1990) is an Australian triathlete. Youth career He is a former under-23 world champion. 2014 season Royle took third at the event in Auckland in the 2014 ITU World Triathlon Series. He won a bronze in the mixed relay at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. 2015 season Royle took third at the event in Stockholm in the 2015 ITU World Triathlon Series. 2016 season Royle took third at the event in Leeds in the 2016 ITU World Triathlon Series. He competed at the 2016 Olympics where he finished 9th. References External links Category:1990 births Category:Living people Category:Australian male triathletes Category:Triathletes at the 2016 Summer Olympics Category:Olympic triathletes of Australia Category:Commonwealth Games medallists in triathlon Category:Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Australia Category:Triathletes at the 2014 Commonwealth Games |
2,039 | Norbert Niță | Norbert Sorin Niță (born 14 January 1972) is a former Romanian football player and currently a coach. References Category:1972 births Category:People from Gorj County Category:Living people Category:Romanian footballers Category:FC Farul Constanța players Category:FC Elista players Category:Romanian expatriate footballers Category:Expatriate footballers in Russia Category:Russian Premier League players Category:Association football defenders |
2,040 | More of Tom Lehrer | More of Tom Lehrer was the second studio album recorded by musical satirist Tom Lehrer. The LP contains the same songs (in the same sequence) as the live album An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer, which was recorded and released earlier in the same year. The album was recorded and mixed in a single three-hour session at the RCA Studios in New York on July 8, 1959. When Reprise Records took over the distribution of Lehrer's works in the 1960s, they chose to represent Lehrer's 1959 material with the live versions of An Evening Wasted, and as a consequence More of... remained out of print for several decades. It was eventually reissued by Rhino Records as part of the 1997 album Songs & More Songs by Tom Lehrer and in the 2000 box set The Remains of Tom Lehrer. Although More of... was originally released in monophonic and stereo versions, the producers of the Rhino releases opted for the mono mix. Track listing Side 1 "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park" "Bright College Days" "A Christmas Carol" "The Elements (song)" (music by Arthur Sullivan) "Oedipus Rex" "In Old Mexico" Side 2 "Clementine" "It Makes a Fellow Proud to Be a Soldier" "She's My Girl" "The Masochism Tango" "We Will All Go Together When We Go" References Category:1959 albums Category:Tom Lehrer albums Category:1950s comedy albums Category:Self-released albums |
2,041 | MMA gloves | MMA gloves or grappling gloves are small, open-fingered gloves used in mixed martial arts bouts. They usually have around 4–6 oz of padding and are designed to provide some protection to the person wearing the glove, but leave the fingers available for grappling maneuvers such as clinch fighting and submissions. History Small, open-fingered gloves were first mandatory in Japan's Shooto promotion and were later adopted by the UFC as it developed into a regulated sport. Gloves were introduced to protect fighters' fists from injuries, as well as reduce the number of facial lacerations (and stoppages due to cuts) that fighters experienced without gloves. The introduction of gloves was also intended to encourage fighters to use their hands for striking to allow more captivating matches for fans. There are some similarities to the wrist-supporting, closed-thumb, broken-knuckle kempo gloves popularized by Bruce Lee's 1973 movie Enter the Dragon. Types and use Competition gloves - Most professional fights have the fighters wear 4 ounce (110 g) gloves, whereas amateurs may wear a slightly heavier 6 ounce (170 g) glove for increased protection. According to the rules, UFC allows gloves between 4-6 ounces, and even heavier for certain larger sized gloves, e.g. 2 XL – 4 XL. Sparring gloves - Generally speaking MMA sparring gloves weight is usually 7 ounces. When sparring there is obviously a lot of punching involved, from working the bag to actual sparring with a partner. Both of these require that your knuckles are adequately protected and cushioned from the forces put upon them. The 7oz refers to the weight of the padding inside the gloves and not the overall weight. Grappling gloves - Otherwise known as hybrid or training gloves these are used mainly for clinch work/grappling.This type of glove has less padding than sparring or competition gloves. In addition each finger can be moved independently allowing for more gripping ability. Impact of gloves on safety and injuries The impact of gloves on the injuries caused during a fight is a controversial issue, mostly looked at in relation to boxing. The use of padded gloves in fights protect the fists of the wearer but don't prevent brain injury unless they are so large that they become difficult to use. These gloves protect the fists of the wearer and allow stronger punches than in bare-knuckle fights, and it is the changes in acceleration to the head as a whole that tears the blood vessels, not the impact with the glove. See also Cestus Boxing glove Types of glove References Category:Mixed martial arts MMA gloves MMA gloves Category:Sports gloves |
2,042 | Tsumkwe | Tsumkwe (Juǀ'Hoan: Tjumǃkui) is a settlement in the Otjozondjupa Region of Namibia and the district capital of the Tsumkwe electoral constituency. Nature and wildlife The area associated with Tsumkwe exhibits notable vegetation and wildlife. Particularly within the Khaudom Game Reserve (Kaudwane in Tswana), lions, cheetahs, hyenas and other large mammals can be found. The African wild dog has notable packs within the area. References Category:Populated places in the Otjozondjupa Region |
2,043 | Monodontides apona | Monodontides apona is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found on Mindanao in the Philippines. References , 1983. Blue Butterflies of the Lycaenopsis Group: 1-309, 6 pls. London , 1910. Neue Cyaniris-Rassen und Übersicht der bekannten Arten. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 71 (1909): 282-305. , 1917. Revision der Lycaenidengattung Lycaenopsis. Arch. Naturgesch. 82 (A) (1) (1916): 1-42, 2 pls. , 1927b-1928: Eine Revision der javanischen, zu Lycaenopsis und verwandten Genera gehörigen Arten. Tijdschrift Voor Entomologie 70: 232-302, 1pl., 27 figs; ibid. 71: 179-265, 1 pl., 29 figs. Category:Monodontides Category:Butterflies described in 1910 |
2,044 | Reubke | Reubke is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: Adolf Reubke, German organ builder, father of Julius Reubke Julius Reubke, German composer, son of Adolf Reubke Category:German-language surnames |
2,045 | Lara Grice | Lara Grice (born August 11, 1971) is an American actress known for The Mechanic (2011), The Final Destination (2009) and Déjà Vu (2006). She was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Grice began her career studying at the University of Dallas, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in acting. She has appeared in movies with WWE stars John Cena, Rob Van Dam and Paul Wight (aka The Big Show). Filmography Film Television References External links Category:1971 births Category:Living people Category:21st-century American actresses Category:Actresses from New Orleans Category:People from New Orleans Category:American film actresses Category:American television actresses Category:University of Dallas alumni |
2,046 | Senator Innes | Senator Innes may refer to: Charles Hiller Innes (1870–1939), Massachusetts State Senate Charles John Innes (1901–1971), Massachusetts State Senate Daniel Innis (born 1963), New Hampshire State Senate |
2,047 | Li Chunjian | Li Chunjian (; ; born 3 April 1996) is a Chinese bobsledder. He competed in the two-man event at the 2018 Winter Olympics. References Category:1996 births Category:Living people Category:Chinese male bobsledders Category:Olympic bobsledders of China Category:Bobsledders at the 2018 Winter Olympics Category:Place of birth missing (living people) |
2,048 | Embassy of the United States, Dhaka | The Embassy of the United States of America in Dhaka is the diplomatic mission of the United States in Bangladesh. The embassy has 400 staff led by the US Ambassador to Bangladesh. History The United States established its consulate-general in Dacca in 1949, when the city was the capital of East Bengal in the Dominion of Pakistan. During the independence of Bangladesh, it was the site of the famous Blood Telegram sent by then-Consul-general Archer Blood detailing atrocities committed by the Pakistani Army during Operation Searchlight. The United States recognized the independence of Bangladesh on 4 April 1972. Herbert D. Spivack was the principal American diplomatic officer in Dhaka at the time. Four days later, the United States and Bangladesh agreed to establish diplomatic relations at the embassy level. The consulate-general was officially upgraded to an embassy on 18 May 1972. The present embassy buildings opened in 1989. Architecture The US Embassy complex is inspired by Mughal Bengali architecture. The exterior surface walls are composed of terracotta brick tiles. A lawn filled with palm trees and a moat surrounds the main building. The complex is sometimes nicknamed as the "Red Fort". It was designed by the Boston architectural firm of Kallmann, McKinnell and Wood. Branches Archer K Blood American Library, Dhaka Edward M Kennedy Centre for Public Service and the Arts, Dhaka American Corner, Chittagong American Corner, Jessore American Corner, Rajshahi American Corner, Sylhet See also Bangladesh-United States relations References Dhaka Category:Foreign relations of Bangladesh United States Category:Bangladesh–United States relations |
2,049 | Spring River Bridge | The Spring River Bridge, is a historic bridge carrying Riverview Drive over the Spring River south of Mammoth Spring, Arkansas. The bridge is a concrete girder structure with five spans, and a total length of . The bridge is about wide, with simple cast concrete guard rails. The bridge rests on concrete abutments and piers. The bridge was built in 1916 by H. B. Walton as part of a county effort to improve its road infrastructure and is a well-preserved local example of early concrete bridge construction. The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Fulton County, Arkansas List of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas References Category:Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas Category:Bridges completed in 1916 Category:Buildings and structures in Fulton County, Arkansas Category:National Register of Historic Places in Fulton County, Arkansas Category:Road bridges in Arkansas Category:Girder bridges in the United States Category:Concrete bridges in the United States |
2,050 | Greenwood Avenue Historic District | The Greenwood Avenue Historic District in Bethel, Connecticut is a historic district representing the commercial and civic center of that town. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999 and includes 29 contributing buildings, 5 non-contributing buildings, and the town green, P. T. Barnum Square. It includes the Bethel Public Library, a former railroad station converted into a brewery, and a World War I Doughboy bronze statue sculpted by Ernest Moore Viquesney in P. T. Barnum Square. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Fairfield County, Connecticut References Category:Buildings and structures in Bethel, Connecticut Category:National Register of Historic Places in Fairfield County, Connecticut Category:Italianate architecture in Connecticut Category:Greek Revival architecture in Connecticut Category:Historic districts in Fairfield County, Connecticut Category:Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut |
2,051 | Zalog, Kranj | Zalog (; ) is a small settlement in the hills north of Kranj in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia. It includes the hamlet of Svarje. Name Zalog is a relatively common place name in Slovenia. It is a fused prepositional phrase that has lost case inflection, derived from za 'behind' + log '(wet) partially wooded meadow near water' or 'woods (near a settlement)'. The name therefore originally refers to the settlement's location in relation to a local geographical feature. Nearby Mount Zalog (, ), also known as Fat Peak (Tolsti vrh), is named after Zalog. History In the past, Zalog was an important center of hog farming. Pigs from Zalog were sold as far away as Carinthia. In the 20th century many vacation houses were built in the area by residents of Kranj, Ljubljana, and Zagreb. Church The local church is dedicated to Saint Lambert. It is a late Gothic structure that was first mentioned in written sources in 1493 and was once a pilgrimage destination. References External links Zalog at Geopedia.si Category:Populated places in the City Municipality of Kranj |
2,052 | Moheli Marine Park | Moheli Marine Park in the Mozambique Channel is the first protected area in the Comoros. It was established on 19 April 2001. Most notable feature of the park is the population of coelecanths, and the park is home to varieties of sharks and humpback whales. References Category:Protected areas of the Comoros |
2,053 | Epimactis talantias | Epimactis talantias is a moth in the family Lecithoceridae. It was described by Meyrick in 1908. It is found in Sri Lanka and Taiwan. The wingspan is 14–19 mm. The forewings are white, in males thinly and in females more closely irrorated with fine fuscous or pale fuscous specks. The stigmata are black, the plical obliquely beyond the first discal. There is a row of black dots immediately before the margin around the apical portion of the costa and termen to the tornus. The hindwings are grey-whitish, the apex slightly greyer. References Category:Moths described in 1908 Category:Epimactis |
2,054 | Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana | Jefferson Davis Parish () is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2010 census, the population was 31,594. The parish seat is Jennings. Jefferson Davis Parish is named after the president of the Confederacy during the American Civil War, Jefferson Davis. It is located in southwestern Louisiana and forms a part of the Acadiana region. In 2005, the parish was damaged significantly by Hurricane Rita, which caused much wind damage and flooding in the western part of the parish. The storm also caused Lacassine National Wildlife Refuge to be affected by saltwater intrusion. History Jefferson Davis Parish was one of the last parishes to be organized in the state of Louisiana. It was originally a part of Imperial Calcasieu Parish, which contributed to five other parishes as the population increased in the area. The bill creating Jefferson Davis Parish was passed by the state legislature in 1912 but did not take effect until 1913. Jefferson Davis Parish is part of the large, 22-county Acadiana region of Louisiana, which is influenced by a large Francophone population. It was named after Jefferson Davis, a prominent planter and the President of the Confederate States of America. The first oil in Louisiana was drilled in 1901 in Evangeline, Acadia Parish, by W. Scott Heywood, who in 1932 was elected to the Louisiana State Senate. The oil field was known as the Jennings Oil Field because Jennings was the nearest railroad stop to the oil field. Geography According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the parish has a total area of , of which is land and (1.1%) is water. Jefferson Davis Parish comprises five incorporated towns including Elton, Fenton, Jennings, Lake Arthur, and Welsh. There are also many unincorporated areas that add to the interest and economic structure of the parish including Barnsdall, Buller, China, Coverdale, Edna, Fontenot, Foreman's Hall, Hathaway, Illinois Plant, Lacassine, Lauderdale, Panchoville, Pine Island, Raymond, Roanoke, Silverwood, Thornwell, Topsy, Verret, and Woodlawn. Interstate 10 runs east and west through the center of the parish, providing access to local markets. Additionally, the Union Pacific Railroad is centrally located within the parish and the Mermentau River, which connects to the Intracoastal Waterway and has a channel depth of nine feet, provides access to the Port of Mermentau. The Jennings Airport, with a runway length of , is capable of landing a small jet and is located next to Interstate 10. Jefferson Davis Parish also attracts sportsmen to the Lacassine National Wildlife Refuge. Adjacent parishes Allen Parish (north) Evangeline Parish (northeast) Acadia Parish (east) Vermilion Parish (southeast) Cameron Parish (south) Calcasieu Parish (west) Beauregard Parish (northwest) Transportation Major highways Interstate 10 U.S. Highway 90 U.S. Highway 165 Louisiana Highway 14 Louisiana Highway 26 Louisiana Highway 97 Louisiana Highway 99 Louisiana Highway 101 Louisiana Highway 102 Louisiana Highway 380 Louisiana Highway 382 Louisiana Highway 395 Airports Jennings, (3R7) Welsh Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 31,435 people, 11,480 households, and 8,529 families residing in the parish. The population density was 48 people per square mile (19/km²). There were 12,824 |
2,055 | Geography of Krasnodar | Krasnodar is a city in Southern Russia. It has a total area of . It is the largest city and capital of Krasnodar Krai by population and the second-largest by area. It is the 17th-largest city in Russia as of 2010. It is located on the right bank of the Kuban River. It is cvt|1300|km}} south of the Russian capital and largest city Moscow. The Black Sea is just 120 km west of it. Along with surrounding areas it forms the Krasnodar City District. It is also referred to the "Southern Capital of Russia". Overview Krasnodar is located in the southern part of the East European Plain in the Prikubanskaya Plain at the center of the Krasnodar Krai, in the southern part of the Prikubanskaya Plain, in the valley of the Kuban River (on the right bank), that is, geomorphologically – on the West Kuban alluvial and proluvial plain, on the second terrace above the floodplain. The elevation of Krasnodar is low, with an even slope to the north-west. The elevation is 19 metres above sea level. The latter has a sublime hollow-relief relief and is dissected by numerous left-bank channels of the Kuban River. The Kuban itself bends around the city from the south and southwest, forming a wide (up to 15 km) trapezoidal shape at this place; the right bank is steep and high (up to 12 m), the left one is low and sloping. The width of the Kuban riverbed within the city is about 150 meters, the depth is from 1.5 to 6.5 metres. Geographical coordinates: 45 ° 02 ′ north latitude, 38 ° 59 ′ east longitude. From north to south (within the city limits) Krasnodar stretches for 20.6 km, and from east to west for 30.1 km. Krasnodar is located in a zone of seismic activity. Often the epicenter of the earthquake is located in the Black Sea, and seismic waves reach the coastal cities and even Krasnodar. The entire history of observations of strong earthquakes in the city was not recorded, however, in 1978 and 2002, earthquakes with an intensity of 4 to 5 points were observed. Time zone Krasnodar comes under the Moscow Time (MSK), UTC+03:00. Climate Average annual temperature: 12 °C Maximum temperature: 40.7 °C Minimum temperature: -32.9 °C Rainfall, mm: 735 Average wind speed: 2.4 meter per second Air humidity: 72% Sunshine hours: 2,139 General Characteristics The climate of Krasnodar is transitional, from temperate continental (Dfa according to the Köppen climate classification) to dry subtropical (Cfb according to the Köppen classification). The climate is similar to cities such as Paris, Milan and New York, with mild winters without steady snow cover and hot summers. Summer in Krasnodar is the longest season and lasts for 5 months (May–September). Winter in Krasnodar is short, with an average duration of 40 days, from about mid-January to late February. The shortest seasons are autumn and spring. Temperature The average air temperature in Krasnodar, according to many years of observations, is +12.0 °C (in the last 10 years, the average annual temperature has been kept at 13.3 |
2,056 | List of countries by coffee production | The following list of countries by coffee production catalogues sovereign states that have conducive climate and infrastructure to foster the production of coffee beans. Many of these countries maintain substantial supply-chain relations with the world's largest coffeehouse chains and enterprises. These coffeehouses play a prominent role in supporting developing economies by waging a variety of coffee wars to gain market share. Often these coffeehouse chains pay a premium above market price in order to alleviate fair trade and sustainable farming concerns. Developing countries that participate in the coffee market wield considerate influence on global coffee economics. Main exporters by country in 2019 According to the World Atlas, the main exporters of coffee beans as of 2019 are: See also Coffee wars List of coffeehouse chains Coffee production in Colombia Coffee production in Brazil Coffee production in Ethiopia Coffee production in Guatemala Coffee production in Kenya Coffee production in Hawaii Coffee production in Mexico Coffee production in the Philippines References Coffee |
2,057 | Lowell Milken | Lowell Jay Milken (born November 29, 1948) is an American businessman, philanthropist, and co-founder and chairman of the Milken Family Foundation. He is also the founder of the TAP System for Teacher and Student Advancement as well as co-founder of Knowledge Universe, a provider of early childhood education. Milken is a former senior vice-president in the junk bond-trading operation of Drexel Burnham Lambert, headed by his brother Michael Milken. Lowell Milken has founded several more nonprofit organizations, including the Lowell Milken Family Foundation and the Lowell Milken Center. In 2000, he was named one of America's most generous philanthropists by Worth magazine. As chairman of the Milken Family Foundation, he presents of the Milken Educator Awards several times each year. Early life Lowell Jay Milken was born on November 29, 1948, in Los Angeles and grew up in Encino, California. He is the second son of Bernard and Ferne Milken; his older brother Michael was born in 1946 and a sister Joni born in 1958. The family moved to the San Fernando Valley in 1953, where Lowell attended schools in the California public school system including Hesby Elementary School in Encino, Portola Junior High School in Tarzana, and Birmingham High School in Van Nuys. Milken graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude from the University of California, Berkeley. He earned a J.D. degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif honor society and an editor of the UCLA Law Review. Milken graduated in the top ten percent of his class at UCLA School of Law. Business career After graduating from UCLA Law, Milken joined the law firm of Irell & Manella, where he specialized in business and tax law. He spent four years working as an associate at the Los Angeles-based firm. Milken particularly enjoyed and excelled at the tax-study lunches at Irell & Manella, where a senior attorney at the firm presented a complicated case and the lawyers in attendance attempted to come up with unique solutions. In 1979, he joined Drexel Burnham Lambert's High Yield and Convertible Bond Department, also known as the "junk bond" department. His brother Michael Milken had moved the operation to Los Angeles the year before, and he hired Lowell to serve as a departmental senior vice-president until he resigned in 1989. His duties were reported to be "mostly administrative", but he also provided financial analysis of companies. Lowell was most interested in bankruptcies and distressed finances where he was able to utilize his tax policy experience from Irell & Manella. He was not a registered representative with any securities exchange. In March 1989, after a long investigation, the government indicted Michael with 98 counts of racketeering and fraud. The indictment also named Lowell in two charges of racketeering and 11 counts of fraud. Michael pleaded guilty and went to prison. As part of that deal, the government dropped charges against Lowell Milken, but in March 1991, he was barred from working in the securities industry as part of a settlement with the Securities |
2,058 | Brachiacantha stephani | Brachiacantha stephani, or Stephan's lady beetle, is a species of lady beetle in the family Coccinellidae. It is found in North America. References Further reading Category:Coccinellidae Category:Articles created by Qbugbot Category:Beetles described in 1985 |
2,059 | Slow television | Slow television, or slow TV (Norwegian: Sakte-TV), is a term used for a genre of "marathon" television coverage of an ordinary event in its complete length. Its name is derived both from the long endurance of the broadcast as well as from the natural slow pace of the television program's progress. It was popularised in the 2000s by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK), beginning with the broadcast of a 7-hour train journey in 2009. Background An early example of extended length cinematography was artist Andy Warhol's 1964 film Sleep, which showed poet John Giorno sleeping for five hours and twenty minutes. Warhol's production process involved splicing and looping of film that he had originally shot in 3-4 minute lengths. The concept was adapted to slow television on local TV broadcast in 1966 by WPIX, to VHS video tape in 1984 by the British company Video125, to satellite TV in 2003 by Bahn TV, and to live TV in 2011 by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK). The latest evolution of the concept started with the NRK's coverage of the longest driver's eye view at that time, showing the complete 7-hour train ride along the Bergen Line () on 27 November 2009. It was followed by the live coverage of the Hurtigruten ship during its 134-hour voyage from Bergen to Kirkenes starting on 16 June 2011. Both events received extensive attention in both Norwegian and foreign media, and were considered a great success with coverage numbers exceeding all expectations and record ratings for the NRK2 channel. Earlier examples The Yule Log Beginning in Christmas 1966, New York City television station WPIX showed a film of a yule log burning in a fireplace, accompanied by classic Christmas music playing in the background and broadcast without commercial interruption. It does not, however, strictly qualify as slow television because it was made artificially long by looping the original film. Night Walk/Night Moves/Night Ride Another early foray into slow television was Night Walk, Night Ride and Night Moves, a trio of late night programs which aired on the Global Television Network in Canada in the 1980s and early 1990s. Airing in the overnight hours when most television stations would have been running a test pattern, the three programs each depicted a different first-person view of a walking or driving trip through a part of downtown Toronto, with a mellow jazz soundtrack. Only two episodes of Night Walk and one episode of the others were ever actually produced, although they were rerun every night from their debut in 1986 to their cancellation in 1993. Fishcam NRK (Norway) Starting in 2009 NRK, Norway's public service broadcaster, has produced several slow television programs that have gained high ratings. () was named Word of the Year in Norway in 2013. 2009: Bergensbanen – minutt for minutt NRK's first foray into slow television was the program Bergensbanen minute by minute – train journey across Southern Norway, which depicted the 7-hour train journey from Bergen to Oslo along the Bergen Line (). It was aired on NRK2 on 27 November 2009 and came to |
2,060 | Bruce Waibel | Bruce Kenneth Waibel (July 9, 1958 – September 2, 2003) was an American musician who played for several artists and bands. He was last remembered for playing bass guitar and touring with rock band FireHouse. He died in 2003 and his death was ruled a suicide. Biography Bruce Waibel was born on July 9, 1958, in Livingston, New Jersey. When he was still a child, he moved to Florida. He started playing guitar when he was 9 years old. In 1982, Waibel joined the Gregg Allman band as a roadie. Eventually he started playing guitar but switched to bass guitar during his last seven years with the band. He recorded three albums with them, earning two gold records. Waibel also performed with Marshall Tucker, Captain Beyond, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Rick Derringer and others. He met guitarist Bill Leverty (guitarist of FireHouse) in 2000 and was invited to audition for the band that year. He played with them for three years, recording one album (O2). He left the band in 2003 because he wanted to spend more time with his family. He also played bass on Leverty's first solo album, Wanderlust. On September 2, 2003, Waibel was found dead at a friend's home in Florida. He had two children: Max Waibel (born in 1998) and Kimmerly Waibel. References Category:1958 births Category:2003 deaths Category:People from Dover, New Jersey Category:American rock bass guitarists Category:American male bass guitarists Category:American rock guitarists Category:American male guitarists Category:FireHouse (band) members Category:American musicians who committed suicide Category:Suicides in Florida Category:20th-century American bass guitarists Category:Male suicides Category:20th-century American guitarists |
2,061 | Samy Shoker | Samy Shoker (born 1987) is an Egyptian chess grandmaster. Chess career Born in 1987, Shoker earned his international master (IM) title in 2006 and was awarded the title of grandmaster (GM) by FIDE in 2014. He played in the Chess World Cup 2013, where he was defeated in the first round by Shakhriyar Mamedyarov. He represented his country at the 2014 Chess Olympiad, scoring 4½/9 (+4–4=1). References External links Samy Shoker chess games at 365Chess.com Category:1987 births Category:Living people Category:Chess grandmasters Category:Egyptian chess players |
2,062 | Reading, New York | Reading is a town in Schuyler County, New York, United States. The Town of Reading is in the northern part of the county and is east of Bath, NY. History The first pioneers arrived around 1798. The first tavern opened in 1801. The town was formed from the Town of Wayne in 1806 while still part of Steuben County. Part of Reading was used to form the Town of Starkey (now in Yates County) in 1824. Reading became part of Steuben County's contribution to the newly formed Schuyler County in 1854. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all of it land. The north town line is the border of Yates County, New York. The town is northwest of Watkins Glen. New York State Route 14 is a major north-south highway that parallels nearby Seneca Lake, which marks the eastern town line. New York State Route 14A intersects New York State Route 226 in the northwest part of the town at Coles Corners. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 1,786 people, 700 households, and 520 families residing in the town. The population density was 65.6 people per square mile (25.3/km²). There were 868 housing units at an average density of 31.9 per square mile (12.3/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 97.26% White, 0.90% African American, 0.39% Native American, 0.39% Asian, 0.06% Pacific Islander, 0.06% from other races, and 0.95% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.50% of the population. There were 700 households out of which 29.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 62.1% were married couples living together, 8.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 25.7% were non-families. 20.9% of all households were made up of individuals and 9.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.55 and the average family size was 2.94. In the town, the population was spread out with 23.7% under the age of 18, 6.8% from 18 to 24, 25.1% from 25 to 44, 27.9% from 45 to 64, and 16.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 41 years. For every 100 females, there were 99.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 96.1 males. The median income for a household in the town was $38,618, and the median income for a family was $43,681. Males had a median income of $32,963 versus $22,404 for females. The per capita income for the town was $17,814. About 4.2% of families and 7.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 12.3% of those under age 18 and 1.4% of those age 65 or over. Notable people John T. Andrews, former US Congressman Ralph Henry Gabriel, historian and writer Elijah Mattison Sharp, former Wisconsin State Assemblyman Communities and locations in Reading Chapmans Corners – A location in the western part of the town at the junction of County Roads 23 |
2,063 | Millicent Carey McIntosh | Millicent Carey McIntosh (November 30, 1898 – January 3, 2001) was an educational administrator and American feminist who led the Brearley School (1930–1947), and most prominently Barnard College (1947–1962). The first married woman to head one of the Seven Sisters, she was "considered a national role model for generations of young women who wanted to combine career and family," advocating for working mothers and for child care as a dignified profession. Early life McIntosh was born in Baltimore, Maryland on November 30, 1898 to Anthony Morris Carey and Margaret Cheston Thomas, both active Quakers. Her mother was a member of Bryn Mawr College's first graduating class (1889). Her aunt, M. Carey Thomas, also a leader in women's education, founded the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore. McIntosh attended Bryn Mawr College for her undergraduate, majoring in Greek and English and graduating in 1920 magna cum laude . McIntosh studied economics at Cambridge University, and earned an English Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University with a dissertation on 14th century mystery plays. After graduating with her Ph.D. in 1926, McIntosh became an assistant professor of English at Bryn Mawr College. Shortly afterward, we was appointed dean of freshman and then acting dean of the college. Later, she headed the Brearley School for seventeen years, where she pioneered a sex education class for sixth grade students. Her husband was the pediatrician Rustin McIntosh, with whom she had five children. Barnard career McIntosh became Dean of Barnard College in 1947, and became the institution's first President in 1952. She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1966. After Barnard, she helped to found Kirkland College in the 1960s. References Category:1898 births Category:2001 deaths Category:American centenarians Category:American feminists Category:Presidents of Barnard College Category:Barnard College faculty Category:Bryn Mawr College faculty Category:Bryn Mawr College alumni Category:Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Category:Johns Hopkins University alumni Category:People from Baltimore Category:Bryn Mawr School people Category:Women centenarians |
2,064 | The Ball State Daily News | The Ball State Daily News is the student newspaper of Ball State University, located in Muncie, Indiana. The print edition of the newspaper is published every Thursday during the academic year except during exams or vacations. During summer sessions the paper is published Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. The newspaper is available free to students at various locations on the university campus. The paper has a circulation of 8,000.The Daily News also produces podcasts which have earned recognition from U.S. News and World Report's The Paper Trail, a blog that tracks national campus news. The Paper Trail listed the Daily News' podcasts among the best alternative media outlets in its Best of College Newspapers 2007 poll. Students are also responsible for maintaining the up-to-the-minute Web version of the paper. The Ball State Daily News traces its roots to 1922, when the paper first published under the name The Easterner. References External links Ball State Daily News archive, currently including digitized editions from 1922 to 1989 Daily News Category:Student newspapers published in Indiana Category:Publications established in 1922 |
2,065 | Józef Skrobiński | Józef Skrobiński (born 26 January 1910 in Wólka near Mława, died on 22 January 1979 in Łódź) was a Polish film director and painter. Biography Józef Skrobiński was born on 26 January 1910 in Wólka near Mława (now Mława) in Poland. In 1930–1934 he studied mathematics at the Warsaw University and painting in professor W. Witwicki's class. In 1946 he started his work at the Animated Film Studio and then in Education Film Studio. Skrobiński was a specialist in animated films. Starting in 1951, he made his own films as a director. The subjects of his films were astronomy, mathematics, and physics. He also made some films at Studio of Animated Films in Łódź. Skrobiński directed or produced over 40 animated and popular science films or films for schools. Skrobiński as a painter belonged to the ‘realism school' in paintings. His paintings were presented at national and regional painting exhibitions in Poland and abroad in the period 1946 - 1979. He was a member of the Association of Polish Artists. In 1979 the city of Łódź recognized him with a lifetime achievement award in painting. References External links Józef Skrobiński at the Artnet.com Józef Skrobiński - biography at the website of the city Mława Category:1910 births Category:1979 deaths Category:20th-century Polish painters Category:Polish film directors |
2,066 | Gençosman, Aksaray | Gençosman, Aksaray is a village in the District of Aksaray, Aksaray Province, Turkey.The village is at Aksaray centrum is only to the south. Altitude of the village is . References Category:Populated places in Aksaray Province Category:Aksaray District Category:Villages in Turkey |
2,067 | Fall of Kismayo | The Fall of Kismayo occurred on January 1, 2007, when the troops of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and Ethiopian forces entered the Somali city of Kismayo unopposed. It came after the Islamic Courts Union's forces faltered and fled in the Battle of Jilib, abandoning their final stronghold. Background The city of Kismayo had been the capital of the autonomous state of Jubaland under the administration of the Juba Valley Alliance (JVA) since the late 1990s. The JVA suffered the loss of Kismayo in September 2006 to an array of ICU forces with 130 technicals. Course of events In December 2006, after the Fall of Mogadishu, much of the ICU forces began a retreat towards Kismayo. But when the Battle of Jilib began on December 31, 2006, clan elders within Kismayo demanded the ICU leave the city. Mohammed Arab, a clan leader said "We told them that they were going to lose, and that our city would get destroyed." After the ICU refused, sporadic gun battles broke out between the local clans and the ICU. The Battle of Jilib saw the ICU frontlines collapse during the night to artillery fire, causing the ICU hardliners, known as Al-Shabaab (literally "The Youths" or "Young Men"), to once again go into retreat, this time towards the Kenyan border. TFG and Ethiopian forces entered the town on January 1, 2007. With the Kenyan border blocked, the ICU remnants were described as holding up in Badhadhe district, either in the hills of the Buur Gaabo area, or in the village of Ras Kamboni along the coast near the border. Aftermath In August 2008, Al-Shabab retook the city during the Battle of Kismayo (2008). In September 2012, the Somali National Army assisted by AMISOM troops and Raskamboni militia re-captured Kismayo from the insurgents in the Battle of Kismayo (2012). References Further reading Stig Jarle Hansen, Al-Shabaab in Somalia: The History and Ideology of a Militant Islamic Group 2005-12, Hurst & Co., 2013, 39-40. Category:2007 in Ethiopia Category:2007 in Somalia Kismayo Kismayo Category:Kismayo Kismayo Category:January 2007 events in Africa |
2,068 | Ectopatria paurogramma | Ectopatria paurogramma is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in all of mainland Australia. External links Australian Faunal Directory Category:Moths of Australia Category:Noctuinae Category:Moths described in 1902 |
2,069 | Italian Fascism | Italian Fascism (), also known as Classical Fascism or simply Fascism, is the original fascist ideology as developed in Italy by Giovanni Gentile and Benito Mussolini. The ideology is associated with a series of three political parties led by Benito Mussolini, namely the Revolutionary Fascist Party (PFR) founded in 1915, the succeeding National Fascist Party (PNF) which was renamed at the Third Fascist Congress on 7–10 November 1921 and ruled the Kingdom of Italy from 1922 until 1943 and the Republican Fascist Party that ruled the Italian Social Republic from 1943 to 1945. Italian Fascism is also associated with the post-war Italian Social Movement and subsequent Italian neo-fascist movements. Italian Fascism was rooted in Italian nationalism, national syndicalism, revolutionary nationalism and the desire to restore and expand Italian territories, which Italian Fascists deemed necessary for a nation to assert its superiority and strength and to avoid succumbing to decay. Italian Fascists also claimed that modern Italy is the heir to ancient Rome and its legacy and historically supported the creation of an Italian Empire to provide spazio vitale ("living space") for colonization by Italian settlers and to establish control over the Mediterranean Sea. Italian Fascism promoted a corporatist economic system whereby employer and employee syndicates are linked together in associations to collectively represent the nation's economic producers and work alongside the state to set national economic policy. This economic system intended to resolve class conflict through collaboration between the classes. Italian Fascism opposed liberalism, especially classical liberalism that Mussolini and Fascist leaders denounced as "the debacle of individualism", but rather than seeking a reactionary restoration of the pre-French Revolutionary world which it considered to have been flawed, it had a forward-looking direction. Fascism was opposed to Marxist socialism because of the latter's typical opposition to nationalism, but it was also opposed to the reactionary conservatism developed by Joseph de Maistre. It believed the success of Italian nationalism required respect for tradition and a clear sense of a shared past among the Italian people, alongside a commitment to a modernised Italy. Originally, Italian Fascists were very opposed to National Socialism as fascism in Italy did not espouse Nordicism and did not initially espouse some antisemitism inherent to Nazi ideology, although some fascists held racist ideas in their thoughts and created few racial policies in the beginning of Fascist rule of Italy. As Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany grew politically closer in the latter half of the 1930s, Italian laws and policies became explicitly antisemitic due to extreme pressure from Nazi Germany (even though antisemitic laws were not commonly enforced in Italy), including the passage of the Italian Racial Laws. When the Fascists were in power, they also persecuted some linguistic minorities in Italy (a phenomenon historically registered also in democratic states). Principal beliefs Nationalism Italian Fascism is based upon Italian nationalism and in particular seeks to complete what it considers as the incomplete project of Risorgimento by incorporating Italia Irredenta (unredeemed Italy) into the state of Italy. The National Fascist Party (PNF) founded in 1921 declared that the party was to serve as |
2,070 | Health Hazard Evaluation Program | The Health Hazard Evaluation (HHE) program is a workplace health program administered by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). NIOSH developed the HHE program to comply with a mandate in the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to investigate workplace health hazards reported by employers and employees. According to Section 20(a)(6) of the Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services is authorized "following a written request by any employer or authorized representative of employees, to determine whether any substance normally found in the place of employment has potentially toxic effects in such concentrations as used or found." Employees, employers, and labor unions can request assistance from the HHE program at no cost to them. The HHE program responds to requests through a variety of methods, including telephone consultations and field investigations. For field investigations, NIOSH provides a report detailing the hazards found and outlining remediation recommendations. NIOSH does not have the authority to force the employer to comply with these recommendations. The report is given to the requestor, the employer, employee representatives, OSHA, and other appropriate agencies; most reports are posted on the NIOSH website. Requests NIOSH recommends requesting an HHE if employees are sick and the cause is unknown or the number of illnesses or injuries is higher than expected in a group of employees. Requests should also be made when employees are exposed to a new hazard or a hazard unregulated by OSHA or when employees are experiencing ill health when their exposure to an agent is below the occupational exposure limits. If multiple hazardous agents or conditions are present in the workplace, an HHE request can be beneficial. Common hazards evaluated include chemicals, particulates, noise, radiation, biological agents, ergonomics, heat stress, and occupational stress. An HHE can be requested by current employee(s) of the workplace, a management official on behalf of the employer, or a labor union representing employees at the workplace. For workplaces with more than three employees, an employee request must be supported by the signatures of three employees. If the workplace has three or fewer employees, only one employee signature is required. The Occupational Safety and Health Act gives NIOSH the authority to conduct HHEs in the private sector and federal workplaces. When the workplace is part of a state or local government, NIOSH authority is more limited and the employer's cooperation may be necessary before NIOSH can do an evaluation. HHE process NIOSH typically initially contacts the requestor within 30 days to discuss the request. How the request is addressed largely depends on the nature of the request. In most cases, NIOSH responds with a telephone consultation to discuss the problems and how to correct them. For other requests, NIOSH visits the workplace to learn more about the health hazards present. In a small number of cases, NIOSH refers the request to a more appropriate agency. On-site workplace evaluations are coordinated with the employer; NIOSH does not usually make unannounced visits. At the conclusion of an initial site visit, NIOSH reports its preliminary findings verbally to the employer, employees, and |
2,071 | Tinus peregrinus | Tinus peregrinus is a species of nursery web spider in the family Pisauridae. It is found in the United States and Mexico. References Category:Pisauridae Category:Articles created by Qbugbot Category:Spiders described in 1924 |
2,072 | Betty Loren-Maltese | Betty Loren-Maltese is the former town president of Cicero, Illinois. She is a member of the Republican Party and received national attention for her role in an insurance scam which robbed the town of $12 million. Biography Loren-Maltese was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, but she was raised in the Chicago area. After working as a waitress, realtor, and newspaper publisher, she became active in the politics of Cicero, a suburb adjacent to the west side of Chicago. Her husband, Frank Maltese, was the Cicero township assessor and mid-level mobster; among other duties, he was the driver for Cicero town president Henry Klosak. Frank Maltese was also a bookmaker for the mob and died in 1991. In 1993, Loren-Maltese was appointed president by her husband after Klosak died and Frank Maltese began to serve time. Loren-Maltese was well liked by many white residents for her attempts at "community improvement," much of which was aimed at segregating, evicting, and persecuting Mexican-American citizens. She was particularly well known for her efforts in helping senior citizens with free services, ordering false arrests of Hispanic residents, and implementing policies that discriminated against minorities. In 2002 she was found guilty of helping to steal $12 million of the city's funds in an insurance scam. She was sentenced to eight years in a federal prison in California, and designated Prisoner #13706-424. Her term was started two months early, in order to prevent further embezzling in the interim between sentencing and serving the sentence. She was released on February 26, 2010. References External links This American Life: Cicero Category:Cicero, Illinois Category:Living people Category:Politicians convicted of racketeering Category:Politicians convicted of mail and wire fraud Category:Illinois politicians convicted of crimes Category:American people of Lithuanian descent Category:Year of birth missing (living people) |
2,073 | William Verbeck | William Verbeck (January 18, 1861 - August 24, 1930) was a Dutch–American educator and soldier. He served as head of the St. John's Military Academy in New York. He also served as Adjutant General of New York, commander of the New York National Guard from June 1, 1910, to January 1, 1913, and was given the rank of Brigadier General. Early life and education Verbeck was born in Nagasaki, Japan, on January 18, 1861, the son of Guido Verbeck and Maria Verbeck (née Manion). His father worked in Nagasaki as a missionary and educator for the Dutch Reformed Church. He was one of six brothers and three sisters. His brother was the cartoonist, Gustave Verbeek. In 1879, at the age of 18, Verbeck emigrated to the United States. He enrolled in the California Military Academy. He served in the Fifth California Infantry, rising to the rank of major. Career Following in his father's footsteps, Verbeck began teaching at the Saint Matthew's Hall, in San Mateo, California, where he taught for two years. He moved to New York state to work with C.J. Wright at the Cayuga Lake Military Academy and the Peekskill Military Academy. He moved to St. John's Academy, where he became its president, serving there until he became the Adjutant General of New York. He served as Adjutant General of New York, commander of the New York National Guard, from June 1, 1910, to January 1, 1913, and was given the rank of Brigadier General. Verbeck led the National Scouts of America, running summer camps for boys at Camp Massawepie in conjunction with the Manlius School. Upon the merger of the NSA with the Boy Scouts of America he briefly served as a National Commissioner of the Boy Scouts of America. Personal life He married Katherine Jordan on July 28, 1886. They had three children: Guido Fridolin, Karl Heinrich Willem and William Jordan. In 1927, Verbeck was made a Commander of the Order of the Crown of Italy. He was granted American citizenship on June 9, 1929, in an Act of Congress. He died on August 24, 1930, of heart disease at his home in Manlius. References Category:1861 births Category:1930 deaths Category:New York National Guard personnel Category:Adjutants General of New York (state) Category:People from Nagasaki Category:People associated with the Boy Scouts of America |
2,074 | USS Raby (DE-698) | USS Raby (DE/DEC-698) was a for the United States Navy. She was named for Rear Admiral James Joseph Raby (1874–1934). Raby was laid down on 7 June 1943 at the Defoe Shipbuilding Company, Bay City, Michigan, Rear Admiral Raby's home town. The ship was named Raby on 22 June 1943, and launched on 4 September 1943, sponsored by Mrs. James Joseph Raby, the Admiral's widow. She was commissioned on 7 December 1943 at New Orleans, Louisiana, with Lieutenant Commander J. Scott II, in command. Service history World War II, 1943–1945 After shakedown off Bermuda, Raby sailed from Norfolk, Virginia on 10 February 1944 via the Panama Canal for Nouméa, arriving on 11 March. She then escorted fast convoys from Guadalcanal as far as Manus Island, in the Admiralties. Raby was engaged in hunter-killer activities in the Solomons during the early spring. On 16 May, she sailed from Florida Island, in the Solomons, in a hunter-killer group with and on what was to become one of the most successful anti-submarine actions in the Pacific war. During this patrol from 19 to 31 May, the three-ship team sank six Japanese submarines (, , , , , and ) in waters north of the Bismarck Archipelago. Raby resumed convoy escort missions at the end of June, remaining in the Solomons until 26 October when she got underway for Manus for similar duty in the Admiralties. In December, she shifted to Ulithi. On the evening of 21 January 1945, a plane spotted a Japanese submarine on the surface 18 miles due west of Ulithi. The alarm brought a hunter killer team composed of DEs Raby, and steaming quickly from Uithi. The three ships conducted an expanding search that lasted all day and night on the 22nd. Early in the morning of the 23rd, radar contact was made. After the submarine submerged, sonar contact was established. Several attempts with hedgehog mortars resulted in the destruction of Japanese submarine . At the end of January, Raby proceeded to Guam where she served as escort and patrol ship into June. Between 22 June and 31 August, she completed two slow tows to Okinawa, and on 13 September, she steamed for Pearl Harbor and the United States. Post-war activities, 1946–1953 Remaining in California waters through the winter, she underwent a conversion where the three-inch guns were replaced by two single 5-inch guns and a hedgehog anti-submarine launcher. She reported to the 7th Fleet for duty in the Far East on 6 April 1946, rescuing on the same day the crew of a downed B-29 bomber. She subsequently put into Hong Kong, Kiirun, Shanghai, and Tsingtao, reaching Okinawa on 26 June. She operated out of Okinawa, China, and Japan until returning to San Diego on 9 April 1947. She was assigned to Task Force 15 and made two runs from the west coast to Pearl Harbor before getting underway on 7 December for Eniwetok, Kwajalein, and Bikini where she arrived on 1 May 1948. She returned to Pearl Harbor on 27 May and to San Diego on 28 January 1949. She |
2,075 | Vanja Rupena | Vanja Rupena (born ) is a Croatian model. She won the 1996 Miss Croatia beauty pageant and represented Croatia in the Miss World 1996 pageant in Bangalore, India. She appeared on the cover of the Croatian edition of Elle magazine in July 2006, July 2009 and November 2010. In May 2010 she became host of RTL's reality documentary series Hrvatski Top Model, the Croatian edition of America's Next Top Model. References External links Vanja Rupena at the Fashion Model Directory Category:1978 births Category:Living people Category:People from Koper Category:Miss World 1996 delegates Category:Croatian female models Category:Croatian beauty pageant winners Category:Slovenian people of Croatian descent |
2,076 | Joyce Lomalisa | Joyce Lomalisa Mutambala (born 18 June 1993) is a Congolese footballer who currently plays as a defender for the Belgian club Royal Excel Mouscron, on loan from the Congolese club AS Vita Club. International career Lomalisa made his first senior international appearance in a friendly in and against Zambia on 6 November 2015, in which he played the entire match. Honours Vita Club Linafoot (1): 2015 References External links Category:1993 births Category:Living people Category:Democratic Republic of the Congo footballers Category:Association football defenders Category:Democratic Republic of the Congo international footballers Category:2017 Africa Cup of Nations players |
2,077 | Saint-Placide | Saint-Placide may refer to: Saint-Placide, Quebec Saint-Placide (Paris Metro) Saint Placidus |
2,078 | Texas Tech University College of Human Sciences | Texas Tech University College of Human Sciences is a college at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. It was founded in 1925 as the College of Home Economics, one of the four original colleges of Texas Tech. Academic departments Department of Community, Family, and Addiction Sciences Department of Design Department of Family and Consumer Sciences Education Department of Hospitality and Retail Management Department of Human Development and Family Studies Department of Nutritional Sciences Department of Personal Financial Planning Research centers Center for Financial Responsibility Center for Early Head Start Center for the Study of Addiction & Recovery Child Development Research Center Curriculum Center for Family and Consumer Sciences Skyviews Restaurant Texas Wine Marketing Research Institute Women's Studies Notable people Former Students Faculty References External links Category:Educational institutions established in 1925 Human Sciences |
2,079 | Sarcy | Sarcy is a commune in the Marne department in north-eastern France. See also Communes of the Marne department Montagne de Reims Regional Natural Park Category:Communes of Marne (department) |
2,080 | Monument to Commemorate Chinese Victims of the Atomic Bombing | The is in Nagasaki Peace Park in Nagasaki, Japan. During WWII, at least 40,000 Chinese laborers were forcibly brought to Japan from China to make up for a nationwide labor shortage. There were about 1,000 Chinese laborers forced to work in mines in Nagasaki. During the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, 32 of those Chinese laborers died. The Nagasaki memorial commemorates those 32 Chinese, brought to Japan as forced labourers and made to work as coal-miners, who were in Urakami Prison and died in the atomic bombing of the city on August 9, 1945, during World War II. The monument was unveiled on July 7, 2013. According to the Japan Times, there were 33 Chinese prisoners in jail for various charges, which included spying. There was one survivor from among the prisoners, who later died under interrogation. References Category:World War II memorials in Japan Category:Monuments associated with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
2,081 | USS Rochambeau (AP-63) | USS Rochambeau (AP-63) was a transport ship that saw service in the United States Navy during World War II. She was the only U.S. Naval vessel to be named for the French nobleman, Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau (1725–1807), who commanded the French troops in Washington's army during the American Revolutionary War. History French ownership Rochambeau was originally built as Marechal Joffre in 1931 by the Societe Provençale de Constructions Navales of La Ciotat, France for the Societe des Services Contractuels des Messageries Maritimes. Manned by Vichy French Forces after the fall of France in 1940, Marechal Joffre was in the Philippines when the United States entered World War II. She was taken over by a crew of downed US Navy fliers from Patrol Wing 10 and with the help of some of the French sailors who were not supportive of the Vichy government sailed on the 18th for Balikpapan, whence she proceeded to Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. She arrived at San Francisco with a cargo of wool and zircon sand on 19 April 1942. US Navy use The following day, she was taken over by the United States Maritime Commission and transferred to the Navy. Commissioned 27 April 1942 with Lieutenant Thomas G. Warfield in command, she was renamed Rochambeau and designated AP-63 on the 29th. Rochambeau, converted for use as a casualty evacuation ship, departed Oakland, California on 20 October for her first operation, under the U.S. flag. With replacements and reinforcements for the Guadalcanal campaign embarked on her westward passage, she made Nouméa; disembarked her passengers; replaced them with casualties from hospitals there, at Suva, and at Bora Bora; and returned to San Francisco on 3 December. At the end of December, she sailed west again. Extending her range to New Zealand and Australia on that voyage, she limited her next run, 9 to 27 March, to New Caledonia and the New Hebrides. On that trip she carried Lieutenant (j.g.) John F. Kennedy to Espiritu Santo where he was transferred to LST-449 and taken to the Solomons. During May, Rochambeau remained in waters off California, then, on 5 June, resumed her passenger/casualty runs to the south and southwest Pacific. Continuing those runs well into 1944, she added ports in New Guinea to her stops in September 1943 and the central Solomons in the spring of 1944. On her last run, 16 November 1944 – 17 January 1945 she brought back casualties from hospitals on Eniwetok, Guam, and Kwajalein in the company of the and . Decommissioning On 9 February, Rochambeau headed for New York City. Arriving on the 25th, she was decommissioned and transferred to the U.S. Maritime Commission's War Shipping Administration (WSA) on 17 March. Her name was struck from the Naval Vessel Register at the end of the month. Then she was returned to her French owners Messageries Maritimes and resumed the name Marechal Joffre and, operating for WSA, was used to transport American troops from Europe to the United States. The hull was repainted black with a white superstructure and From |
2,082 | Sidi Semiane | Sidi Semiane is a town and commune in Tipaza Province in northern Algeria. References Category:Populated places in Tipaza Province Category:Communes of Algeria |
2,083 | Orona | Orona atoll, also known as Hull Island, is one of the Phoenix Islands in the Republic of Kiribati. It measures approximately by , and like Kanton, is a narrow ribbon of land surrounding a sizable lagoon with depths of . Numerous passages connect the lagoon to the surrounding ocean, only a couple of which will admit even a small boat. Total land area is , and the maximum elevation is nine metres. Kiribati declared the Phoenix Islands Protected Area in 2006, with the park being expanded in 2008. The 164,200-square-mile (425,300-square-kilometer) marine reserve contains eight coral atolls including Orano. Although occupied at various times during the past, including as late as 2004, Orona is uninhabited today. Flora and fauna Like Manra, Orona is covered with coconut palms (mostly on the western side), towering above the surface. The remainder of the atoll is covered with scrub forest, herbs, and grasses, with a maximum height of . Feral cats exist on the island, together with rats, pigs, and dogs. Ducks and chickens were raised by the former inhabitants, but it is unknown whether any remain. Orona also boasts three species of lizards, land and hermit crabs, together with approximately fifty species of insects. Turtles are also known to use the island as a nesting area. Unlike Manra, whose lagoon is too salty for marine life, Orona's lagoon teems with fish and giant clams. A survey of Orona carried out in 2006 did not detect rats. However, Polynesian rats were located on the island in 2009, as well as more than 20 cats. History Like Manra, Orona contains evidence of prehistoric Polynesian inhabitation. An ancient stone marae stands on the eastern tip of the island, together with ruins of shelters, graves and other platforms. No one is certain who discovered Orona or when, but history shows that it was named "Hull Island" in honor of Commodore Isaac Hull, USN by Commander Charles Wilkes of the USS Vincennes when he visited the island on 26 August 1840 in the United States Exploring Expedition. It continued to be generally known by this name until the Republic of Kiribati was granted independence in 1979, when its name was changed to the I-Kiribati Orona. Unlike Manra, Orona does not seem to have been worked for guano, and was apparently not claimed (unlike the other Phoenix Islands) by American guano diggers. The British flag was raised there on 11 July 1889, and the island became part of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands colony. Orona was leased in 1916 to a Captain Allen of the "Samoan Shipping and Trading Company", and became a copra plantation. Allen's lease was bought out by the British government in 1938. It was one of the islands involved in the Phoenix Islands Settlement Scheme, the final colonial expansion of the British Empire. Residents were evacuated in 1963, due to persistent drought and the declining copra market. Photos of the abandoned settlement, Arariki, circa 1967, may be seen here. Hull Island Post Office opened on 1 January 1939 and closed around January 1964. After being abandoned, the |
2,084 | HMS Rippon (1812) | HMS Rippon was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 8 August 1812 at Bursledon. She was broken up in 1821. Career Capture of Weser: On 30 September 1813, the , under the command of capitaine de vaisseau Cantzlaat, Chevalier de l'Ordre Impérial de la Réunion, sailed from the Texel for the North Sea. There she captured two Swedish ships before a gale on 16 October took away her main and mizzen mast. Two days later , Commander Colin Macdonald, captain, encountered her 60 leagues west of Ushant, making her way towards Brest under jury main and mizzen masts. Rather than engage her and risk being crippled and so unable to follow her given the weather, Macdonald decided to follow her. Fortuitously, on 20 October, , Commander J.J. Gordon Bremer, captain, arrived and Macdonald and Bremer decided to attack Weser. They engaged her for about an hour and a half before they had to withdraw to repair their rigging. At about this time a third British vessel, Rippon, Captain Christopher Cole, came up. Bremer joined Cole and informed him of the situation while Scylla remained with Weser. The next morning, as Rippon and Royalist sailed towards Scylla to renew their attack, Weser sailed towards Rippon and struck, after first firing two broadsides towards Scylla. Scylla suffered only two men wounded in the entire engagement. Royalist suffered more heavily, having two men killed and nine wounded. Weser lost four men killed and 15 wounded. Rippon took Wesers crew on board as prisoners and towed her into port. The Royal Navy took her into service as HMS Weser. In 1814 Rippon sailed with troops to North America. Fate Rippon was paid off into Ordinary in August 1814. Two years later she was roofed over. She was broken up in March 1821. Notable crew members John Septimus Roe, midshipman Notes, citations, and references Notes Citations References Category:Ships of the line of the Royal Navy Category:Vengeur-class ships of the line Category:1812 ships Category:Ships built on the River Hamble |
2,085 | Duke of York's Royal Military School | The Duke of York’s Royal Military School, more commonly called the Duke of York’s, is a co-educational Academy (for students aged 11 to 18) with military traditions in Dover, Kent. Since becoming an Academy in 2010, the school is now sponsored by the MOD, and accepts applications from any student wishing to board. Before 2010, only those students whose parents were serving or had served in the armed forces were eligible. With the transition to Academy status, the school became a state boarding academy (and is both a member of the State Boarding Forum and Boarding Schools Association) and oversight transferred from the Ministry of Defence to the Department for Education. The Duke of York’s has many traditions and rich history, which includes ceremonial parades and uniforms, a monitorial style of education modelled on the English public school system. This rich history includes a long line of notable alumni, known as Dukies, including senior generals (such as Sir Archibald Nye, Gary Coward and David Mark Cullen), famous musicians (such as Henry Lazarus), sportsmen (like Maurice Colclough), many leading academic scientists (including Professors Paul Shaw, Timothy Foster and Mark Gardiner) and clergymen (James Jones and Bill Ind) and a long list of decorated armed forces personnel. History Founded in 1803 by act of Royal Warrant dating from 1801, the school was until 1892 called the Royal Military Asylum. The school’s primary purpose was to educate the orphans of British servicemen killed in the Napoleonic Wars of 1793-1815. Between 1803 and 1909 the Royal Military Asylum was located at what is now known as the Duke of York's Headquarters in Chelsea, London. The school was co-educational; making the Duke of York's the second co-educational boarding school in the United Kingdom. The first co-educational institution was the Royal Hibernian Military School in Dublin, which was relocated and merged with Duke of York's after Ireland declared independence. Today the Chelsea site is home to the Saatchi Gallery. The school adopted the "Madras system of education" developed by Dr. Andrew Bell, to which Joseph Lancaster made certain improvements. In 1812, three African youths attended the school as teachers for several months thanks to the intervention of the Duke of Gloucester. They were then sent by the African Institution to Sierra Leone, where they were employed as teachers by the Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, the Earl of Liverpool. Between 1816 and 1840, the Asylum had a branch in Southampton which provided schooling for up to 400 military orphans and children of serving soldiers of both sexes until 1823, when the boys were transferred to Chelsea, with Southampton taking more girls. A decline in the school numbers resulted in its closure in 1840. From 1841, the buildings were taken over by the Ordnance Survey. One of the more notable Commandants of the Royal Military Asylum was Major General Peter Brown. A veteran of the Napoleonic Wars Brown was unusual in that he was promoted whilst in post (from colonel to major general), which was highly unusual given the post was not an active command and |
2,086 | Harry Pearce | Sir Henry James "Harry" Pearce, KBE (born 1 November 1953) is a fictional character, head of the counter-terrorism department ("Section D") of MI5 as featured in the British television series Spooks. He was played by Peter Firth during the whole run of the series from 2002 to 2011, and reprised for the 2015 film, Spooks: The Greater Good. Career Prior career After attending the University of Oxford, Pearce went to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst before joining the Light Blue Dragoons. Upon leaving the army, he joined MI5, where he completed his training in June 1977. His first assignment at the service was to A Section, in Northern Ireland, where he was an agent handler during the Provisional IRA's campaign against the British state, until his close colleague Bill Crombie was kidnapped and killed in August 1978. Pearce was then seconded to the Secret Intelligence Service (aka MI6), where he was stationed in Paris, under Juliet Shaw. During this time he worked in Iran, where he had an affair with Shaw. His wife Jane's discomfort in Paris led the couple to move to Cologne before the end of February 1979. In Cologne, he worked against the left-wing terrorists the Red Army Faction, and undertook a black op with only C's knowledge, before his secondment ended in November 1979. On his return to MI5, Pearce was assigned to Section D, the counter-terrorism department (then at Gower Street), where he was a junior field officer. During his time as an officer, he saved the lives of two Prime Ministers (Thatcher and Major). Pearce was promoted to senior field officer between October 1986 and December 1988, and appointed to his current role in January 1994 As Head of Section D In Episode 2 of Series 7, Harry, through Lucas North, manages to frame Arkady Kachimov, the FSB resident in London, as an MI5 mole. Under cover of providing him protection, Harry and Ros meet with him, but Harry shoots Kachimov in revenge for the death of Adam Carter. In Episode 3 of Series 7, Harry learned from Lucas North that Russian intelligence interrogated him about an operation called Sugarhorse. Harry contacts his mentor, Bernard Qualtrough, a retired spy to consult him about who could have been a mole within this highly classified operation. In Episode 8 of Series 7, after negotiating with the head of FSB operations in London to not kill his officers as they attempt to defuse a nuclear bomb about to obliterate central London, he is captured and shown with his mouth taped and being zipped up in a body bag, with a helicopter in the background. In Episode 1 of Series 8, Harry is being held by a group of Russians who plan to sell him to a group of rogue elements of the Indian Secret Service, of the CIA and of MI6. The Russians are killed by the rogue officers and Harry is also apparently killed. The team find a video of his killing on the Internet but refuse to believe he is dead. Harry is interrogated by the officers |
2,087 | 75–300mm lens | 75–300mm is a common focal length for camera lenses. Multiple articles exist about such lenses: Canon EF 75–300mm lens Minolta AF 75-300mm f/4.5-5.6 lens |
2,088 | Joe Palooka in the Counterpunch | Joe Palooka in the Counterpunch is a 1949 American film directed by Reginald Le Borg. It was one in the series of Joe Palooka films for Monogram starring Leon Errol. It was co-written by Cy Endfield. Cast Leon Errol as Knobby Walsh Joe Kirkwood, Jr. as Joe Palooka Elyse Knox as Anne Howe Marcel Journet as Anton Kindel Sheila Ryan as Myra Madison Frank Sully as Looie Ian Wolfe as Prof. Lilliquist Walter Sande as Austin Douglass Dumbrille as Capt. Lance Douglas Fowley as Thurston Eddie Gribbon as Canvasback Ralph Graves as Dr. Colman= Roland Dupree as Bellboy Gertrude Messinger as Nurse Pedro de Cordoba as Museum Caretaker External links Joe Palooka in the Counterpunch at IMDb Joe Palooka in the Counterpunch at TCMDB Category:1949 films Category:1940s sports films Category:American black-and-white films Category:American films Category:American boxing films Category:Films directed by Reginald Le Borg Category:Monogram Pictures films Category:Films based on American comics |
2,089 | Martin Shaw | Martin Shaw (born 21 January 1945) is an English actor. He is known for his roles in the television series The Professionals, The Chief, Judge John Deed and Inspector George Gently. He has also acted on stage and in film, and has narrated numerous audiobooks and presented various television series, including the 2006 series Martin Shaw: Aviators. Early life Shaw was born in Birmingham. His childhood was spent in Alleyne Grove in Erdington and Sutton Coldfield. Shaw attended Great Barr School, where he excelled in English literature and drama lessons. At sixteen, he was offered a scholarship to a Birmingham drama school but declined. In his youth, Shaw was involved in a drunken brawl with a friend, suffering broken teeth, injuries to his face and a fractured skull, and needed cheekbone surgery. At age eighteen, Shaw moved to London to attend the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He served his apprenticeship in repertory as an assistant stage manager at the Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch and the Bristol Old Vic. Stage Shaw took key roles in the first revival of Look Back in Anger (Royal Court/Criterion, 1968); in the National Theatre's Saturday, Sunday, Monday opposite Laurence Olivier (1973); and in A Streetcar Named Desire presented by the Piccadilly Theatre in 1974. He later acknowledged the role of Stanley Kowalski in 'Streetcar' as a point of breakthrough in his career. In 1985, Shaw played Elvis Presley in Alan Bleasdale's critically acclaimed Are You Lonesome Tonight?. It told the story of Presley's last few hours. After a long run in London, the production visited Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide in Australia. Shaw's portrayal of Lord Goring in An Ideal Husband on Broadway earned him a Tony Award nomination and a Drama Desk award. After filming finished on the TV series Judge John Deed, Shaw took the role of Thomas More in Robert Bolt's play A Man for All Seasons. Shaw's daughter, Sophie, played opposite him as More's daughter, Margaret. The production toured Britain's cities before a run in London at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. In 2013 a new production of the classic play Twelve Angry Men at the Garrick Theatre London, Shaw played the part of the dissenting juror (identified as juror number 8.) In 2016 Shaw toured and hit the West End again with a lively production of Hobson's Choice at the Vaudeville. After completing filming the final episode of George Gently, Shaw again toured in 2017 with the U.K. premier of Gore Vidal's 1960 political piece: The Best Man. Shaw played the part of William Russell, former US Secretary of State. Television Shaw began television work in 1967. Parts in one-off plays for Granada Television led to his playing hippy student Robert Croft, Lucile Hewitt's boyfriend, in Coronation Street. Another early role was booze and football-loving Welsh medical student Huw Evans in the television comedy series Doctor in the House. He later guest-starred, playing the same role, in the follow-up series Doctor at Large, now a nervous expectant father in the episode "Mother and Father Doing Well". Shaw appeared with future co-star Lewis |
2,090 | List of public administration scholars | This list of public administration scholars includes notable theorists, academics, and researchers from public administration, public policy, and related fields such as economics, political science, management, administrative law. All of the individuals in this list have made a notable contribution to the field of public administration. O. P. Dwivedi Graham T. Allison Paul Appleby Walter Bagehot Chester Barnard Reinhard Bendix James M. Buchanan Lynton K. Caldwell Michel Crozier Robert A. Dahl A.V. Dicey Anthony Downs - Had a major influence on the public choice school of political economy. Peter Drucker Patrick Dunleavy - Originated the bureau-shaping model of bureaucracy. Dorman Bridgman Eaton David John Farmer - Author of The Language of Public Administration, listed as one of the candidate books for “great books of public administration, 1990-2010” (Meier & O’Toole, 2012, p. 890). Henri Fayol James W. Fesler Mary Parker Follett H. George Frederickson Louis C. Gawthrop Robert T. Golembiewski Frank J. Goodnow - Father of American Public Administration. Charles Goodsell Luther Gulick Friedrich Hayek - Thought that socialism required central economic planning and that such planning in turn had a risk of leading towards totalitarianism. Hugh Heclo E. Pendleton Herring Otto Hintze Marc Holzer - Founding Dean School of Public Affairs and Administration, Rutgers University-Newark, New Jersey. Board of Governors Distinguished Professor Ralph P. Hummel Patricia Ingraham Barry Dean Karl V.O. Key, Jr. Gyula Koi Harold Laski Harold Lasswell Charles E. Lindblom - One of the early developers and advocates of the theory of incrementalism in policy and decision-making. Michael Lipsky - Did research on the phenomenon of street-level bureaucracy. Norton E. Long Theodore J. Lowi Niklas Luhmann James March - One of the developers of the systemic-anarchic perspective of organizational decision making known as the Garbage Can Model. Roscoe C. Martin Karl Marx - Believed that government is controlled by those with the most influence on the economy. Renate Mayntz Howard E. McCurdy Kenneth J. Meier Robert K. Merton Henry Mintzberg Mark H. Moore Frederick C. Mosher R. E. Neustadt Felix A. Nigro W. A. Niskanen - Founded the rational choice stream of analysing bureaucracy. Rosemary O'Leary Johan Olsen - One of the developers of the systemic-anarchic perspective of organizational decision making known as the Garbage Can Model. Elinor Ostrom C. Northcote Parkinson - Author of Parkinson's Law, a book that satirizes government bureaucracies and explains the inevitability of bureaucratic expansion. James L. Perry Gerrit van Poelje - Founder of the science of public administration in the Netherlands. Jack Rabin Hal G. Rainey Ken Rasmussen Emmette Redford R. A. W. Rhodes Norma M. Riccucci John A. Rohr David H. Rosenbloom Philip James Rutledge S.N. Sadasivan Allen Schick Philip Selznick Patricia M. Shields Herbert A. Simon Theda Skocpol Stephen Skowronek Lorenz von Stein - Founder of the science of public administration in Europe. Richard J. Stillman II Camilla Stivers Joseph R. Strayer Frederick W. Taylor Alain Touraine Thomas Frederick Tout Paul P. Van Riper David M. Van Slyke Dwight Waldo Gary Wamsley Kenneth F. Warren Max Weber - Did research on bureaucracy. Leonard D. White Aaron Wildavsky William F. Willoughby James |
2,091 | Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts | Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts (abbreviated CoH:OF) is the stand alone expansion pack to Company of Heroes, a real-time strategy game for computers running the Windows operating system. It was announced on April 5, 2007. Opposing Fronts was developed by Canadian-based RTS developer Relic Entertainment, and published by THQ. The game was released on September 25, 2007 in the US and September 28 in Europe. Another standalone expansion to the CoH series, Tales of Valor, was released in April 2009. Gameplay Dynamic Environmental Effects System Opposing Fronts implements a Dynamic Weather Effects system consisting of real time weather effects and day-to-night time transitions. In addition to these enhancements, particular birds sing at various times of the day and during specific weather patterns. Although Relic had initially indicated otherwise, the Dynamic Weather Effects system has no tactical impact on the battlefield. New Single-Player Campaigns Opposing Fronts introduces two new single player campaigns. The campaigns feature gameplay from the British perspective and the German perspective. The British campaign is based on the Liberation of Caen. It features nine missions focusing on the attack by British and Canadian forces from Sword, Gold, and Juno Beaches to the city of Caen. The German Panzer Elite's campaign is based on driving back Allied forces during Operation Market Garden. It features eight playable missions following a Panzer Elite Kampfgruppe in occupied Netherlands that is bracing itself for one of the largest airborne invasions in history. Compatibility Company of Heroes players are able to play against Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts users. Those who own both games can either play as the Americans or the British against the Wehrmacht or the Panzer Elite. Those who own only Company of Heroes can play only as the American or Wehrmacht armies. Factions British 2nd Army The British are the new Allied army in the series. Their primary advantages are defensive. A greater number of static defences can be built, such as slit trenches and anti-tank emplacements. These emplacements have an associated population and manpower cost to prevent the map being overrun with defences. Their standard unit, the Infantry Section, has stances that alters their speed and reactions. Though more effective than their American counterparts, most British infantry move slower in neutral or hostile territory unless led by a Lieutenant or Captain, which are extremely expensive. The British mainly rely on officers, such as the Captain, Lieutenant and the Cromwell Command Tank, to improve effectiveness. British bases can be packed up and redeployed at different positions, but at the cost of freezing resource income during the move. Veterancy for the British is also unique. Only officers can become veterans. As they gain rank, they gain new abilities and benefits for their soldiers. Infantry units can become more mobile if mounted in the Bren Gun Carrier, and engineers get support from the fast moving Stuart tank early in the game. The command trees for the British army in the game are based on famous branches of British and Commonwealth armed forces. The three trees are: Royal Canadian Artillery: this heavy-artillery based regiment allows |
2,092 | Camila Carvalho | Camila Carvalho (born 30 May 1981) is a Brazilian rower. She competed in the women's lightweight double sculls event at the 2008 Summer Olympics. References Category:1981 births Category:Living people Category:Brazilian female rowers Category:Olympic rowers of Brazil Category:Rowers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Category:Sportspeople from Brasília |
2,093 | Shannon Roberts | Shannon Roberts may refer to: Shannon Roberts (musician), professor of music theory at Dixie State College in St. George, Utah Shannon Roberts (politician), the 2010 democratic candidate for Florida's District 15 seat in the U.S. House of Representatives |
2,094 | Koitjärve | Koitjärve is a village in Kuusalu Parish, Harju County in northern Estonia. Category:Villages in Harju County |
2,095 | Lopra | Lopra () is a village on the island of Suðuroy in the Faroe Islands, with the postal code FO 926. In 2009 its population was 96. It is located in the Municipality of Sumba along with the villages of Akrar, Sumba and Víkarbyrgi (now deserted), constituting the southernmost settlements in the Faroe Islands. The name Lopra may have its origin in the gaelic word "lobar" which translates into English as leprosy, and Lopra may be a pre-Norse settlement of Gaelic hermits from c. 6th to c. 8th century AD. During the 1980s and 1990s there were attempts at drilling for oil and gas in Lopra, without success. Lopranseiði and Lopransholmur Lopranseiði and Lopransholmur are beautiful sights near Lopra. Turn left just before you enter the village, if you come from Vágur, and go by foot towards west. Be careful not to fall over the edge, when you come to Loprans Eiði. From Lopranseiði you can see Beinisvørð towards south and almost half of the west coast of Suðuroy. Westerbeek went shipwreck south of Lopranseiði A Dutch ship named SS Westerbeek was shipwrecked near Lopranseiði on 2 September 1742. 80 men survived the accident, one died in the attempt to climb the steep cliff of Lopranseiði, 10 men lost their lives while still on board, they were ill and stayed in bed when the accident took place. Three of the survivors were allowed to leave the Faroe Islands a short time after the accident, with Danish ships which were in Tórshavn at that time. But the captains of these two ships refused to take all 80 men with them to Denmark. So 77 of the survivors had to live in the Faroe Islands for 9 months, before they could go back to the Netherlands and to the other countries where they came from. The Whaling Station in Lopra In 1901 the company Suderø, founded by the Norwegian Peder Olsen Bogen, built a whaling station in Lopra, this station, like so many others had been located in Finnmarken, Norway before being dismantled and transported across the sea. After ten years, Suderø would become probably the largest whaling company in the country. Bogen was one of the great influences on commercial whaling in Norway, Faroe Islands and the great seas, before he died in 1914 (born 1861) he had founded seven whaling companies, and was director of five land based whaling stations, four factory ships, three cargo ships and 18 whaling boats. And was a knight of the 1st order, of St. Olav. Suderø, previously named Thekla in Norway, had one whaling boat Thekla which was included in the transfer to the Faroes, in 1902 the company built a new boat named Suderø, and almost every year until 1916 the station was the most productive of the stations in the country, best results were in 1909 and 1915, with 3100 and 4230 barrels of whale oil. The result for the individual boat however, never reached the levels that the stations at Gjánoyri and Norðdepil got in 1900. The station at Lopra became the most productive, |
2,096 | William Douglas McHugh | William Douglas McHugh (September 10, 1859 – December 26, 1923) was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska. Education and career Born in Galena, Illinois, McHugh read law in 1883 and was in private practice in Galena from 1883 to 1888, and in Omaha, Nebraska from 1888 to 1896. Federal judicial service McHugh received a recess appointment from President Grover Cleveland on November 20, 1896, to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska vacated by Judge Elmer Scipio Dundy. He was nominated to the same position by President Cleveland on December 8, 1896, who subsequently withdrew the nomination on February 1, 1897. McHugh's service terminated on March 3, 1897, with the sine die adjournment of the United States Senate of the 54th United States Congress and the end of Cleveland's Presidency. Later career and death Following his departure from the federal bench, McHugh resumed private practice in Omaha from 1897 to 1920. He was general counsel to the International Harvester Corporation in Chicago, Illinois from 1920 to 1923. He died on December 26, 1923, in Chicago. References Sources Category:1859 births Category:1923 deaths Category:People from Galena, Illinois Category:Illinois lawyers Category:Lawyers from Omaha, Nebraska Category:Judges of the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska Category:Unsuccessful recess appointments to United States federal courts Category:United States federal judges appointed by Grover Cleveland Category:19th-century American judges Category:United States federal judges admitted to the practice of law by reading law |
2,097 | Henicjapyx | Henicjapyx is a genus of diplurans in the family Japygidae. Species Henicjapyx indosinensis Silvestri, 1948 References Category:Diplura |
2,098 | Computer mouse | A computer mouse (plural mice or mouses) is a hand-held pointing device that detects two-dimensional motion relative to a surface. This motion is typically translated into the motion of a pointer on a display, which allows a smooth control of the graphical user interface of a computer. The first public demonstration of a mouse controlling a computer system was in 1968. Mice originally used a ball rolling on a surface to detect motion, but modern mice often have optical sensors that have no moving parts. Originally wired to a computer, many modern mice are cordless, relying on short-range radio communication with the connected system. In addition to moving a cursor, computer mice have one or more buttons to allow operations such as selection of a menu item on a display. Mice often also feature other elements, such as touch surfaces and scroll wheels, which enable additional control and dimensional input. Naming The earliest known publication of the term mouse as referring to a computer pointing device is in Bill English's July 1965 publication, "Computer-Aided Display Control" likely originating from its resemblance to the shape and size of a mouse, a rodent, with the cord resembling its tail. The plural for the small rodent is always "mice" in modern usage. The plural of a computer mouse is either "mouses" or "mice" according to most dictionaries, with "mice" being more common. The first recorded plural usage is "mice"; the online Oxford Dictionaries cites a 1984 use, and earlier uses include J. C. R. Licklider's "The Computer as a Communication Device" of 1968. The term computer mouses may be used informally in some cases. Although the plural of a mouse (small rodent) is mice, the two words have undergone a differentiation through usage. History The trackball, a related pointing device, was invented in 1946 by Ralph Benjamin as part of a post-World War II-era fire-control radar plotting system called Comprehensive Display System (CDS). Benjamin was then working for the British Royal Navy Scientific Service. Benjamin's project used analog computers to calculate the future position of target aircraft based on several initial input points provided by a user with a joystick. Benjamin felt that a more elegant input device was needed and invented what they called a "roller ball" for this purpose. The device was patented in 1947, but only a prototype using a metal ball rolling on two rubber-coated wheels was ever built, and the device was kept as a military secret. Another early trackball was built by Kenyon Taylor, a British electrical engineer working in collaboration with Tom Cranston and Fred Longstaff. Taylor was part of the original Ferranti Canada, working on the Royal Canadian Navy's DATAR (Digital Automated Tracking and Resolving) system in 1952. DATAR was similar in concept to Benjamin's display. The trackball used four disks to pick up motion, two each for the X and Y directions. Several rollers provided mechanical support. When the ball was rolled, the pickup discs spun and contacts on their outer rim made periodic contact with wires, producing pulses of output with each movement of the |
2,099 | Des Allemands, Louisiana | Des Allemands is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Lafourche and St. Charles parishes in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Louisiana. The population was 2,505 at the 2010 census. The town, known as the "Catfish Capital of the Universe", is along the Bayou des Allemands, which is the boundary of Lafourche and St. Charles parishes. Lac des Allemands is located northwest of the town. The ZIP code for Des Allemands is 70030. The St. Charles Parish portion of Des Allemands is part of the New Orleans Metropolitan Statistical Area, while the Lafourche Parish portion is part of the Houma–Bayou Cane–Thibodaux Metropolitan Statistical Area. History Des Allemands was settled in 1721 by immigrants to the colony of Louisiana from Alsace and Lorraine under the control of John Law and the Company of the Indies. Des Allemands means "of the Germans" (partitive case) in French. The German Louisiana colony was originally up the Mississippi River at the Arkansas Post. But they experienced hostility from the Native Americans in that area, and moved to a location much closer to the colonial capital of New Orleans. Geography Des Allemands is located in southern St. Charles Parish and northeastern Lafourche Parish at (29.825570, -90.469163). It is bordered to the north by the Paradis CDP and to the southeast by the Bayou Gauche CDP. U.S. Route 90 crosses Bayou des Allemands at this point; the four-lane highway leads northeast to New Orleans and west to Morgan City. Bayou Des Allemands runs northwest to Lac des Allemands and southeast to Lake Salvador. According to the United States Census Bureau, the Des Allemands CDP has a total area of , of which are land and , or 18.68%, are water. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 2,500 people, 943 households, and 714 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 287.6 people per square mile (111.1/km²). There were 1,020 housing units at an average density of 117.3 per square mile (45.3/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 86.88% White, 10.44% African American, 0.28% Native American, 0.16% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 0.84% from other races, and 1.36% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.48% of the population. There were 943 households out of which 32.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 58.4% were married couples living together, 11.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 24.2% were non-families. 20.1% of all households were made up of individuals and 8.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.65 and the average family size was 3.03. In the CDP, the population was spread out with 26.0% under the age of 18, 8.6% from 18 to 24, 28.4% from 25 to 44, 23.8% from 45 to 64, and 13.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females, there were 95.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94.0 |
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