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2,300 | Shwegyin | Shwegyin may refer to: Shwegyin (town) in Bago Region, Myanmar Shwegyin, Banmauk, Myanmar Shwegyin, Kalewa, Myanmar Shwegyin Nikaya, a Buddhist order of monks |
2,301 | The Village Schoolmaster | "The Village Schoolmaster", or "The Giant Mole" ("Der Dorfschullehrer" or "Der Riesenmaulwurf") is an unfinished short story by Franz Kafka. The story, written in December 1914 and the beginning of 1915, was not published in Kafka's lifetime. It first appeared in Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer (Berlin, 1931). The first English translation by Willa and Edwin Muir was published by Martin Secker in London in 1933. It appeared in The Great Wall of China. Stories and Reflections (New York: Schocken Books, 1946). Plot introduction The narrator discusses the phenomenon of a giant mole in a far village, and the attempt of the village schoolmaster to bring its existence to the public attention, only to become an object of derision to the scientific community. Without knowing the schoolmaster, the narrator tries to defend him and his honesty in a paper about the giant mole. The narrator's attempts to help, stretched out in an unspecified stretch of years, are even more unsuccessful, only inspiring the teacher's jealousy and bitterness. In an argument during Christmas he and the village schoolmaster reveal the wildly different outcomes they had been hoping for all along. Without being able to finish the conversation, they reach a stalemate and the story ends abruptly. Process of writing Kafka discusses the story in a diary entry from December 19, 1914: Yesterday wrote "The village schoolmaster" almost without knowing it, but was afraid to go on writing later than a quarter to two; the fear was well founded, I slept hardly at all, merely suffered through perhaps three short dreams and was then in the office in the condition one would expect. Yesterday father's reproaches on account of the factory: 'you talked me into it.' Then went home and calmly wrote for three hours in the consciousness that my guilt is beyond question, though not so great as father pictures it. In a January 6, 1915 entry Kafka mentions abandoning the story. References Kafka, Franz (ed. Nahum N. Glatzer). The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka. New York: Schocken Books, 1995. Footnotes Category:1931 short stories Category:Short stories by Franz Kafka Category:Unfinished books |
2,302 | John M. Dunn | John M. "Cockeye" Dunn (August 24, 1910 – July 7, 1949 Ossining, New York) was a New York mobster who was involved in the numbers racket and labor racketeering as a top enforcer for his brother-in-law, Eddie McGrath. He was convicted, together with Andrew "Squint" Sheridan, of the 1947 murder of Greenwich Village hiring stevedore Anthony "Andy" Hintz, and executed by electric chair on July 7, 1949, aged 38. Early life John M. Dunn was the first child born to Irish emigrant parents, Tom and Kitty Dunn, who left Ireland in the early 1900s and settled in Queens, New York City, New York. He was in and out of Catholic reform schools after the death of his father, a sailor in the Merchant Marine who was lost at sea when Dunn was four. Criminal career With arrests for robbery and assault during his teenage years, Dunn was finally convicted of robbing a card game and sentenced to two years imprisonment at Sing Sing Prison. Following his release, Dunn was hired as an enforcer for McGrath who was then a part owner of Varick Enterprises, a front company which made collections for the waterfront dock bosses of Manhattan's West Side. In 1937, he and McGrath were arrested in connection with the death of a trucker but the charges were eventually dismissed for lack of evidence. Later he formed a labor union (Local 21510, Motor and Bus Terminal Checkers, Platform and Office Workers) associated with the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and eventually oversaw waterfront racketeering on Manhattan's Lower West Side by the early 1940s. He established underworld connections including Joseph P. Ryan, who had sponsored him for union membership, and Meyer Lansky who had been in discussions regarding the use of the longshoremen's union to assist in the importation of heroin and cocaine into the United States. The Hintz case At 7:40 a.m. on January 8, 1947, Andrew "Andy" Hintz, hiring boss on Pier Fifty-One, was shot six times on the stairs just outside his apartment when leaving for work. He survived the attack and was taken to St. Vincent's Hospital, where he drifted in and out of consciousness for three weeks before his death on January 29. Before having been taken to the hospital he had told his wife that he had been shot by John Dunn. Dunn was arrested immediately and held as a material witness. On January 11, Hintz identified Dunn, Andy Sheridan and another man as his assailants in a dying declaration. Two days later, he made another dying declaration because in the first one he did not express clearly enough his belief that he was going to die. On January 24, the police arrested Andrew "Squint" Sheridan at his home in Hollywood, Florida. He was transferred to New York by the FBI on a federal charge and later turned over to the New York County District Attorney office. Former prize fighter Danny Gentile turned himself in at the end of March, appearing with his lawyer in Assistant D.A. William J. Keating's office. All three accused men were held |
2,303 | History of the United States National Security Council 1953–1961 | This article is about the history of the United States National Security Council during the Eisenhower Administration, 1953–1961. Under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the National Security Council system evolved into the principal arm of the President in formulating and executing policy on military, international, and internal security affairs. Where Harry S. Truman was uncomfortable with the NSC system and only made regular use of it under the pressure of the Korean War, Eisenhower embraced the NSC concept and created a structured system of integrated policy review. Eisenhower had a penchant for careful staff work, and believed that effective planning involved a creative process of discussion and debate among advisers compelled to work toward consensus recommendations. The genesis of the new NSC system was a report prepared for the President in March 1953 by Robert Cutler, who became the President's Special Assistant for National Security Affairs. Cutler proposed a systematic flow of recommendation, decision, and implementation that he later described as the "policy hill" process. At the bottom of the hill, concerned agencies such as State and Defense produced draft policy recommendations on specific topics and worked for consensus at the agency level. These draft NSC papers went up the hill through the Planning Board, created to review and refine the recommendations before passing them on for full NSC consideration. The NSC Planning Board met on Tuesday and Friday afternoons and was composed of officials at the Assistant Secretary level from the agencies with permanent or standing representation on the Council, as well as advisers from the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Central Intelligence Agency. Hundreds of hours were spent by the Board reviewing and reconstructing proposed papers for the NSC. Cutler resigned in 1958 in exhaustion. The top of the foreign policy-making hill was the NSC itself, chaired by the President, which met regularly on Thursday mornings. The Council consisted of the five statutory members: the President, Vice President, Secretaries of State and Defense, and Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization. Depending on the subject under discussion, as many as a score of other senior Cabinet members and advisers, including the Secretary of the Treasury, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Director of Central Intelligence, attended and participated. The agenda included regular briefings by the Director of Central Intelligence on worldwide developments affecting U.S. security, and consideration of the policy papers advanced by the Planning Board. The upshot of the discussions were recommendations to the President in the form of NSC Actions. The President, who participated in the discussion, normally endorsed the NSC Action, and the decision went down the hill for implementation to the Operations Coordinating Board. President Eisenhower created the Operations Coordinating Board (OCB) to follow up on all NSC decisions. The OCB met regularly on Wednesday afternoons at the Department of State, and was composed of the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Deputy Secretary of Defense, the Directors of the CIA, the United States Information Agency, and ICA, and the Special Assistants to the President for National Security Affairs and Security Operations |
2,304 | Pieter Winsemius | Pieter Winsemius (born 7 March 1942) is a retired Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and businessman. Winsemius worked as a researcher at the Leiden University from February 1966 until October 1970 and as a management consultant at the McKinsey & Company from October 1970 until November 1982. After the election of 1982 Winsemius was appointed as Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment in the Cabinet Lubbers I, taking office on 4 November 1982. After the election of 1986 Winsemius was not giving a ministerial post in the new cabinet. The Cabinet Lubbers I was replaced by the Cabinet Lubbers II on 14 July 1986. Winsemius semi-retired from active politics and returned to the private sector and the public sector and occupied numerous seats as a corporate director and nonprofit director on several board of directors and supervisory boards (World Wide Fund for Nature, Vereniging Natuurmonumenten, Stichting Max Havelaar, European Centre for Nature Conservation, Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP and the Energy Research Centre) and served on several state commissions and councils on behalf of the government (Organisation for Scientific Research, National Insurance Bank, Staatsbosbeheer, Meteorological Institute and the Scientific Council for Government Policy). Winsemius also returned as a senior management consultant of the McKinsey & Company from August 1986 until October 1992 and served as a distinguished professor of Environmental management at the Tilburg University from 1 October 1999 until 1 September 2012. Winsemius was appointed again as Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment in the caretaker Cabinet Balkenende III following the resignation of Sybilla Dekker, taking office on 26 September 2006. The Cabinet Balkenende III was replaced by the Cabinet Balkenende IV on 22 February 2007. Following the end of his active political career, Winsemius again returned to the private sector and the public sector and resumed his previous positions (Vereniging Natuurmonumenten, Energy Research Centre, Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP and the Scientific Council for Government Policy) and as an advocate, lobbyist and activist for Conservation, Environmentalism, Sustainable development and Climate change issues. Political career Winsemius is the son of economist Albert Winsemius. Trained as a physics scientist, and active as partner in the business consultancy firm McKinsey, he was Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (VROM) in the First Lubbers cabinet, on behalf of the VVD. As a young minister, he brought environmental laws to effect, including the rules for environmental impact assessments. After his ministerial period, he became chairman of the Vereniging Natuurmonumenten. On 22 September 2006, he again became minister of VROM, temporarily succeeding Sybilla Dekker during the Third Balkenende cabinet, until a completely new government had been formed on 22 February 2007 and he was succeeded by Jacqueline Cramer. Since 2003 until 21 November 2012, he has been member of the Scientific Council for Government Policy, for which he was awarded the grade of Commander of the Order of Orange-Nassau upon his retirement. Winsemius has written books about management and social issues, including Speel nooit een uitwedstrijd (lit. 'never play away games') (1988), in which he compared managing to |
2,305 | Berthold Woltze | Berthold Woltze (born 24 August 1829 in Havelberg; died 29 November 1896 in Weimar) was a German genre painter, portrait painter, and illustrator. Berthold Woltze was a professor at Weimar Saxon Grand Ducal Art School. In the period from 1871 to 1878 he published numerous of his works in the Gartenlaube newspaper. One of his most famous works is Der lästige Kavalier, translated as "The Irritating Gentleman" or "The Annoying Cavalier." He is the father of the architectural painter Peter Woltze (1860–1925). References External links Category:1829 births Category:Genre painters Category:1896 deaths Category:German painters |
2,306 | 1980 United States presidential election in North Dakota | The 1980 United States presidential election in North Dakota took place on November 4, 1980. All 50 states and The District of Columbia were part of the 1980 United States presidential election. State voters chose 3 electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. North Dakota was won by former California Governor Ronald Reagan (R) by a 38-point landslide. With 64.23% of the popular vote, North Dakota would prove to by Reagan's fourth strongest state after Utah, Idaho and Nebraska. , this is the last election in which Sioux County voted for the Republican candidate. Statewide Results References North Dakota 1980 Category:1980 North Dakota elections |
2,307 | Villeveyrac | Villeveyrac is a commune in the Hérault department in the Occitanie region in southern France. Population See also Communes of the Hérault department References Category:Communes of Hérault |
2,308 | The Raviz Hotel, Kollam | The Raviz Kollam () or The Raviz Ashtamudi is a five-star hotel on the banks of the Ashtamudi lake in Kollam city, India, and owned by the Raviz Hotels & Resorts company and was designed by noted Indian architect Eugene Pandala, an Architect well known for his commitments to environmental sustainability. The Raviz has 90 rooms, suite rooms and cottages, villas with private swimming pools, Ayurvedic Spa and restaurants. Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan and Malayalam actor Mohanlal inaugurated the hotel on 19 August 2011. Gallery See also Kollam Islands of Kollam References External links Category:Buildings and structures in Kollam Category:Hotel buildings completed in 2011 Category:Hotels in Kerala Category:2011 establishments in India |
2,309 | Justo Pastor Lynch | Justo Pastor Lynch (1755–1830), an Argentine landowner, was born in Buenos Aires on the family "estancia", a ranch by the River de la Plata. He was the eldest surviving son of Patrick Lynch of Lydican Castle in Claregalway Ireland, and Rosa de Galaya de la Camera. At times his name was recorded as Pastorin or Pastorino Lynch in reference to the large landowned by his family dedicated to horses. Descendants Justo's fortune was one of the largest of the region, properties and business he received from his family, in addition he married the Spanish heiress Ana Bernardo Roo (d.1836), who doubled the extent and value of his properties; consequently his sons enjoyed a wealthy life like no other Irish immigrants in the region. His eldest son Patricio (Patrick) Lynch, born 1789, set up a shipping company. He owned the frigate, Heroína, which was involved in a claim of possession of the Falkland Islands in 1820. Patricio Lynch is the great great grandfather of Che Guevara. Another son Estanislao Lynch, born 1793, fought in the Argentine independence war with the grade of colonel. On 2 January 1817 the Buenos Aires city council appointed Estanislao as the mayor of Barracas. References Coghlan, Eduardo A., Los Irlandeses en la Argentina: Su Actuación y Descendencia (Buenos Aires, 1987), p. 626. Buenos Aires City Council, Archivo General de la Nación, Series IV, Vol. VII, Sections LXXIV to LXXIX, 1816 and 1817 (Buenos Aires, 1930). Dictionary of Irish Latin American Biography, by Gonzalo Cané Category:People from Buenos Aires Category:Irish expatriates in Argentina Category:1830 deaths Category:1755 births |
2,310 | Resin | In polymer chemistry and materials science, resin is a solid or highly viscous substance of plant or synthetic origin that is typically convertible into polymers. Resins are usually mixtures of organic compounds. This article focuses on naturally occurring resins. Plants secrete resins for their protective benefits in response to injury. The resin protects the plant from insects and pathogens. Resins confound a wide range of herbivores, insects, and pathogens, while the volatile phenolic compounds may attract benefactors such as parasitoids or predators of the herbivores that attack the plant. Composition Most plant resins are composed of terpenes. Specific components are alpha-pinene, beta-pinene, delta-3 carene, and sabinene, the monocyclic terpenes limonene and terpinolene, and smaller amounts of the tricyclic sesquiterpenes, longifolene, caryophyllene, and delta-cadinene. Some resins also contain a high proportion of resin acids. Rosins on the other hand are less volatile and consist, inter alia, of diterpenes. Examples Examples of plant resins include amber, Balm of Gilead, balsam, Canada balsam, Boswellia, copal from trees of Protium copal and Hymenaea courbaril, dammar gum from trees of the family Dipterocarpaceae, Dragon's blood from the dragon trees (Dracaena species), elemi, frankincense from Boswellia sacra, galbanum from Ferula gummosa, gum guaiacum from the lignum vitae trees of the genus Guaiacum, kauri gum from trees of Agathis australis, hashish (Cannabis resin) from Cannabis indica, labdanum from mediterranean species of Cistus, mastic (plant resin) from the mastic tree Pistacia lentiscus, myrrh from shrubs of Commiphora, sandarac resin from Tetraclinis articulata, the national tree of Malta, styrax (a Benzoin resin from various Styrax species), spinifex resin from Australian grasses, and turpentine, distilled from pine resin. Amber is fossil resin (also called resinite) from coniferous and other tree species. Copal, kauri gum, dammar and other resins may also be found as subfossil deposits. Subfossil copal can be distinguished from genuine fossil amber because it becomes tacky when a drop of a solvent such as acetone or chloroform is placed on it. African copal and the kauri gum of New Zealand are also procured in a semi-fossil condition. Rosin Solidified resin from which the volatile terpenes have been removed by distillation is known as rosin. Typical rosin is a transparent or translucent mass, with a vitreous fracture and a faintly yellow or brown colour, non-odorous or having only a slight turpentine odour and taste. Rosin is insoluble in water, mostly soluble in alcohol, essential oils, ether, and hot fatty oils. Rosin softens and melts when heated and burns with a bright but smoky flame. Rosin consists of a complex mixture of different substances including organic acids named the resin acids. Related to the terpenes, resin acid is oxidized terpenes. Resin acids dissolve in alkalis to form resin soaps, from which the resin acids are regenerated upon treatment with acids. Examples of resin acids are abietic acid (sylvic acid), C20H30O2, plicatic acid contained in cedar, and pimaric acid, C20H30O2, a constituent of galipot resin. Abietic acid can also be extracted from rosin by means of hot alcohol. Pimaric acid closely resembles abietic acid into which it passes when distilled in a vacuum; |
2,311 | Fred Chapman | Fred or Frederick Chapman may refer to: Frederick Chapman (British Army officer) (1815-1893), British Army officer and colonial official Frederick Chapman (palaeontologist) (1864–1943), English-born Australian palaeontologist Frederick Chapman (footballer) (1883–1951), English soccer player, 1908 Olympic gold medallist Fred Chapman (baseball) (1916–1997), American baseball player Frederick Chapman (sportsman) (1901–1964), Australian cricketer and Australian rules footballer Frederick Chapman (judge) (1849–1936), New Zealand judge Freddie Spencer Chapman (1907–1971), British Army officer Frederick William Chapman (1806-1876), American minister and genealogist See also Frederick Chapman Robbins (1916–2003), American doctor |
2,312 | Russell Janney | Russell Janney (April 14, 1884 – July 14, 1963) was a theatrical producer and author. He is best known for his 1946 best-selling book and first novel, The Miracle of the Bells, which was made into a film of the same name in 1948. He also produced and co-authored the 1925 musical The Vagabond King, working with Brian Hooker and composer Rudolf Friml. Janney also produced other plays including Marjolaine (1922) (based on Pomander Walk by Louis N. Parker), White Eagle (1927) (based on Edwin Milton Royle's The Squaw Man), June Love, Ballyhoo (1927), and an adaption of The O'Flynn (1934) by Justin Huntly McCarthy. His second novel, So Long As Love Remembers, was published in 1953, and the short novel Curtain Call followed in 1957. Janney was born in Wilmington, Ohio and graduated from Yale University in 1906. While at college, he put on plays for his fraternity, Beta Theta Pi. He died of natural causes at his apartment in New York City on July 14, 1963. Janney also served as a juror in a high-profile 1949 trial, one of the Smith Act trials of Communist Party leaders. Janney married Edith Hulda Cramer in 1907; they later divorced. Their son William Janney was a film actor in the 1930s. References External links Category:People from Wilmington, Ohio Category:1884 births Category:1963 deaths Category:American male novelists Category:Yale University alumni Category:20th-century American novelists Category:20th-century American male writers |
2,313 | Roman Catholic Diocese of San Miguel (Argentina) | The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Miguel is a suffragan diocese of the Buenos Aires. It was established by Pope Paul VI on 11 July 1978. Bishops Ordinaries Horacio Alberto Bózzoli (1978–1983), appointed Archbishop of Tucumán José Manuel Lorenzo (1983–1994) Abelardo Francisco Silva (1994–2000) José Luis Mollaghan (2000–2005), appointed Archbishop of Rosario Sergio Alfredo Fenoy (2006–2018), appointed Archbishop of Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz Damián Nannini (2018–present) Coadjutor bishop Abelardo Francisco Silva (1994) Other priest of this diocese who became bishop Nicolás Baisi, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of La Plata in 2010 References Catholic Hierarchy San Miguel San Miguel San Miguel |
2,314 | Alastair Moock | Alastair Moock (born 1973, New York, New York, United States) is a GRAMMY-nominated American folk and family music performer from Boston, Massachusetts. He is known for his gruff voice, playful lyrics, and fingerpicking guitar style. History Moock's interest in traditional music started at a young age when his father took him to see Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie in concert. What he heard and saw that evening affected him strongly. While invigorated by the music, he noticed how the audience became part of the event by joining in the singing. A few years later he discovered Woody Guthrie's Library of Congress recordings. After graduating from Williams College in 1995, Moock moved to Boston and launched his performing career at open mikes and local coffeehouses. In 1997 he released his debut album, Walking Sounds, and followed it with the eight-song mini-album Bad Moock Rising in 1999. By 2002, Moock had traveled extensively throughout the East and Midwest, performing at some of the top listening rooms and outdoor events in the country, including the Newport Folk Festival, the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, the Boston Folk Festival, the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago, The Birchmere in Washington D.C., and the Bluebird Cafe in Nashville. In 2003 he made his first trip to Europe, where he performed at the Bergen Music Fest in Norway. Many more European tours would follow, with performances in Norway, France, Germany, Belgium, Poland, the Netherlands, and the UK. Back in the U.S., Moock won some prestigious songwriting competitions, including those at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, Sisters Folk Festival, and the Great Waters Music Festival. Alastair says that he's always been moved by music "that connects me to progressive issues and social involvement. It's always been a big part of what I've wanted to do as a musician." That social involvement has resulted in Moock often organizing benefits to help those in need. His last adult album, Fortune Street, produced by David "Goody" Goodrich, was released in the United States and Europe by Corazong Records in May 2007. In his review of the album for Sing Out!, Scott Sheldon wrote "There are no simple songs on Fortune Street; each grapples with hard times, deep feelings, or dramatic moments in history." The album includes two historical ballads: "Woody's Lament" exploring Woody Guthrie's internal conflict between his family and the pull of the road, and "Cloudsplitter," a modal mountain dirge based on Russell Banks' novel about the life of abolitionist John Brown. In 2010, Moock began to turn his attention to performing for kids and families. That year, he joined the roster of Young Audiences of Massachusetts to teach programs on music and social change and language arts skills to students. He also released his first album for kids, "A Cow Says Moock." That album and the two he has released since have won critical praise and high honors from NAPPA (The National Parenting Publications Awards) and the Parents' Choice Foundation. But Moock says that his newest album, "Singing Our Way Through: Songs for the World’s Bravest Kids," is the |
2,315 | Anil Mali | Anil Mali is a Member of Legislative assembly from Deodar constituency in Gujarat for its 12th legislative assembly References Category:Living people Category:Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Gujarat Category:Gujarat MLAs 2007–2012 Category:Year of birth missing (living people) |
2,316 | Laura Antoniou | Laura Antoniou (born 1963) is an American novelist. She is the author of The Marketplace series of BDSM-themed novels, which were originally published under the pen name of Sara Adamson. Antoniou is also known for her work as an editor and pioneer on the field of contemporary erotic fiction and in particular as editor of lesbian erotica anthologies including the three volume Leather Women series, Some Women, By Her Subdued, No Other Tribute, and a collection of her own short stories and essays titled The Catalyst and Other Works. In 2011, she won the John Preston Short Fiction award from the National Leather Association for her short story "That's Harsh," published in the e-book edition of The Slave. (She also won the NLA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011.) In 2012 she received the Master Jack McGeorge Excellence in Education Award from the Master/slave Conference. Antoniou's fiction and her essays on alternate views of sexual roles have been cited by writers on the evolution of erotic fiction, and on the social politics of gender roles. Documentary filmmaker and author Tanya Trepanier's described Antoniou as part of a growing trend of novelists exploring hybrid forms of identity, including cultural and sexual identity, that don't fit into simple categories, using narrative storytelling as a way of understanding identities that can't be easily defined in a traditional manner. In an analysis of contemporary novelists in the area of women's erotic fiction, Carolyn Allen cites Antoniou's writings as describing the concept that all relationships between people include elements of power exchange, with one partner taking the more dominant role even in day-to-day interactions. Nikki Sullivan, lecturer in Cultural and Critical Studies at Macquarie University, in her essay Sadomasochism as Resistance? refers to Antoniou's description of sexual roles as a loose structure, due to the many choices available to the participants, with the key element being the choice of which participant guides the activities. Writings by Antoniou are at the Leather Archives and Museum. Partial bibliography Laura Antoniou, writing as Anonymous: Lady F, Masquerade, 1993, (out of print) Laura Antoniou, Looking for Mr. Preston, Richard Kasak Books, 1995, (out of print) Laura Antoniou, writing as Christopher Morgan, Musclebound and Other Stories, Alyson Books, 2002 (previously published by Masquerade Books, 1996) Laura Antoniou, The Marketplace, Circlet Press, 2010 (originally published by Masquerade in 1993 and then Mystic Rose Books in 2000) Laura Antoniou, The Slave, Mystic Rose Books, 2001 (originally published by Masquerade in 1994) Laura Antoniou, The Trainer, Mystic Rose Books 2001 (originally published by Masquerade in 1995) Laura Antoniou, The Academy: Tales of the Marketplace, Ed. Karen Taylor. Mystic Rose Books, 2000 Laura Antoniou, The Reunion, Mystic Rose books, 2002, Laura Antoniou, No Other Tribute: Erotic Tales of Women in Submission, Rhinoceros Books, 1997, Laura Antoniou, Leatherwomen, Rosebud Books, 1998, Laura Antoniou, The Catalyst and Other Works, Mystic Rose Books 2004, (previously published by Masquerade Books, 1991) Laura Antoniou, Lori Selke (Ed.), Tough Girls: Down and Dirty Dyke Erotica, Black Books, 2001, Laura Antoniou, Christina Abernathy, Erotic Slavehood: A Miss Abernathy Omnibus, Greenery Press, 2007, Laura Antoniou, |
2,317 | Radio 2XG | Radio station 2XG, also known as the "Highbridge station", was an experimental station located in New York City and licensed to the De Forest Radio Telephone and Telegraph Company from 1915-1917 and 1920-1924. In 1916 it became the first radio station employing a vacuum-tube transmitter to make news and entertainment broadcasts on a regular schedule, and, on November 7, 1916, became the first to broadcast U.S. presidential election returns by spoken word instead of Morse code. Pre-World War I history Initially all radio stations used spark transmitters, which could only transmit Morse code messages. In 1904, Valdemar Poulsen invented an "arc-transmitter" capable of transmitting full audio, and in late 1906 Lee de Forest founded the Radio Telephone Company and began producing his own "sparkless" arc-transmitters. Between 1907 and 1910 de Forest made a number of demonstration entertainment broadcasts, and even spoke about developing news and entertainment broadcasting stations, but did not establish a regular service at this time. In 1914, de Forest established a laboratory at 1391 Sedgewick Avenue in the Highbridge section of the Bronx in New York City. Vacuum-tube transmitters had recently been developed, which were found to be superior to arc-transmitters for audio transmissions, and the company now concentrated on developing vacuum-tube equipment, including "Oscillion" transmitter tubes. In the summer of 1915, the company received a license for an Experimental station, with the call sign 2XG, located at the Highbridge laboratory. De Forest had suspended broadcasting demonstrations in 1910, however, he decided to showcase the capabilities of the new vacuum-tube transmitters by introducing a "wireless newspaper" making regular broadcasts of concerts and news bulletins. There were no formal government regulations restricting broadcasting at this time, so the company was free to transmit these programs over 2XG. Arrangements were made with the Columbia Gramophone record company to broadcast phonograph records from their offices at 102 West 38th Street in New York City—the phonograph company supplied records in exchange for "announcing the title and 'Columbia Gramophone Company' with each playing". The debut program was aired on October 26, 1916, and it was announced that nightly transmissions of news interspersed with Columbia recordings would be sent from the Highbridge laboratory beginning November 1. 2XG's original audience was mostly amateur radio operators. An early report stated that 2XG was broadcasting on "a wave length of approximately 800 meters" (375 kilohertz). Carl Dreher would later recall: "The quality was quite good, and I used to listen to the station for hours at a time". De Forest initially used these broadcasts to advertise "the products of the De Forest Radio Co., mostly the radio parts, with all the zeal of our catalogue and price list", until comments by Western Electric engineers caused him to eliminate the sales messages. 1916 election night broadcast Some of the programming was oriented toward a more general audience. On the night of the November 7, 1916 Wilson-Hughes presidential election, 2XG, in conjunction with the New York American, broadcast election returns that for the first time were in full audio instead of Morse code. This program featured telephoned bulletins supplied by |
2,318 | Adãozinho | Adão Nunes Dornelles (April 2, 1923 – August 30, 1991), better known as ’’Adãozinho’’, was a Brazilian footballer who played the striker role for the Brazilian team, he started in three matches. He participated at the 1950 FIFA World Cup, without playing a game. Adãozinho was born in Porto Alegre and played for Internacional, until 1950 when a move to Flamengo was agreed. He died in August 1991, aged 68. Clubs Diário Official F. C.: 1932 – 1942 Internacional: 1943 – 1951 Flamengo: 1951 – 1953 XV de Jaú: 1951 – 1953 Honours Campeonato Gaúcho: five times (1944, 1945, 1947, 1948, 1950) Campeonato Carioca: 1953. FIFA World Cup: Runner-up 1950 References Category:1923 births Category:1991 deaths Category:Sportspeople from Porto Alegre Category:Brazilian footballers Category:Association football forwards Category:1950 FIFA World Cup players Category:Clube de Regatas do Flamengo footballers Category:Sport Club Internacional players Category:Esporte Clube XV de Novembro (Jaú) players Category:Brazil international footballers |
2,319 | Mont Ida, Kansas | Mont Ida is an unincorporated community in Anderson County, Kansas, in the United States. History Mont Ida had its start in the year 1880 by the building of the railroad through that territory. A post office was opened in Mont Ida in 1880, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1944. References Category:Unincorporated communities in Anderson County, Kansas Category:Unincorporated communities in Kansas |
2,320 | Blarf | Blarf (stylized in all caps) is a musical side project of American comedian Eric Andre. Blarf was originally a band composed of Andre and other unnamed bandmates, but it quickly disbanded. In 2019, Andre revived the name of the band as a solo act, yet still acting as a band, and released the album Cease & Desist through Stones Throw Records. History After Eric Andre enrolled at the Berklee School of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, he formed the band Blarf. The band's goal was to mimic the styles of Frank Zappa and the Beastie Boys. The band was short-lived because the band's drummer "got married at 18 to an extremely pro-life woman," and Andre had made a song called "I Love Abortions". On December 25, 2014, Andre independently released a collaborative EP with Canadian record producer The First Seed, titled BLARF. On June 6, 2019, it was revealed that a new artist was signed to Stones Throw Records named Blarf and that his debut studio album Cease & Desist would be released on June 26. Blarf was soon rumored to be an alias of Andre, however Blarf denies it. Andre as himself even insists they are not the same person, writing on Twitter "People are confusing this guy BLARF on @stonesthrow for me!". For Blarf's very rare public appearances, he is usually seen wearing a Ronald McDonald costume. The lead single to the album, "Badass Bullshit Benjamin Buttons Butthole Assassin", was released on June 18 with an accompanying music video. Cease & Desist was then released as scheduled on June 26, 2019, through Stones Throw. The album is heavily sample-based and contains elements of plunderphonics and noise music. Music videos for tracks "Banana" and "Boom Ba" were released on July 31 and August 12, 2019, respectively. Andre performed live as Blarf for the first time on July 6, 2019, in Los Angeles with fellow experimental musicians Thundercat, DOMi and JD Beck. Discography Studio albums Cease & Desist (2019) Extended plays BLARF (2014) Singles "Badass Bullshit Benjamin Buttons Butthole Assassin" (2019) "Banana" (2019) "Boom Ba" (2019) References Category:American music |
2,321 | Daniel Mejías | Daniel Mejías Hurtado (born 26 July 1982) is an Andorran international footballer who plays club football for FC Andorra, as a midfielder. He made his international debut for the Andorra national football team in 2010. References External links FAF profile Category:1982 births Category:Living people Category:People from Barcelona Category:Sportspeople from Barcelona Category:Andorran footballers Category:Spanish footballers Category:Catalan footballers Category:Association football midfielders Category:Segunda División B players Category:Tercera División players Category:FC Barcelona C players Category:CF Peralada players Category:Andorra international footballers Category:FC Andorra players |
2,322 | Dror Paley | Dror Paley (born March 25, 1956) is a Canadian-trained orthopedic surgeon, who specializes in limb lengthening and deformity correction procedures. Education Dr. Paley trained in surgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and in orthopedic surgery at the University of Toronto Medical School. He moved to Baltimore to join the University of Maryland in 1987. From 1987 to 2001, Paley worked at the University of Maryland as professor of Orthopedics and chief of Pediatric Orthopedics. Career Paley has been licensed with the Province of Ontario, Canada since 1980, the Maryland Board of Physicians since 1986, and with the Florida department of Health since 2009. In 1991, Paley co-founded the Maryland Center for Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction at James Lawrence Kernan Hospital with Dr. John Herzenberg. In 2001, they formed the International Center for Limb Lengthening at Sinai Hospital. He authored a book, Principles of Deformity Correction () in 2002, that was edited by Herzenberg. Paley was among the first orthopedic surgeons to use the PRECICE intramedullary nail for cosmetic leg lengthening, as well as its second version (PRECICE 2). In 2013, Smith & Nephew released a new Modular Rail System for external fixation and limb deformity correction, in collaboration with Paley. As of 2014 Paley had developed around 100 surgical procedures to reconstruct limbs. Books Personal life Paley lives in West Palm Beach and has three children. He is fluent in six languages and practices cycling, skiing and rock climbing. References External links Paley Institute Category:Canadian orthopedic surgeons Category:1956 births Category:Living people |
2,323 | 1934 Isle of Man TT | For the 1934 Isle of Man TT Races despite the winning of four TT Races in 2 years, Stanley Woods parted with Norton motor-cycles over the issue of prize money and race tactics and joined Husqvarna alongside Ernie Nott. The 1934 Junior TT Race was won by Jimmie Guthrie riding for Norton at an average race speed of 79.16 mph from Jimmie Simpson and Ernie Nott a distant third riding for the Swedish Husqvarna marque. During the first lap of the 1934 Lightweight Race, Syd Crabtree, the winner of the 1929 Lightweight Race crashed at the Stonebreakers Hut on the Mountain Section and was killed. The 1934 Lightweight TT Race was won by Jimmie Simpson riding a Rudge motor-cycle in 3 hours, 23 minutes and 10 seconds at an average race speed of 70.81 mph. The 1934 Lightweight TT Race provided Rudge with another 1-2-3 win since the 1930 Junior TT Race and Jimmie Simpson's only TT Race victory winning from team-mates Ernie Nott and Graham Walker taking 2nd and 3rd places. The 1934 Senior TT Race was led by Stanley Woods riding for Husqvarna but retired on the Mountain Section on the last lap after running-out of fuel. This handed a Junior/Senior double win to Jimmie Guthrie riding the works Norton at an average speed of 78.01 mph from Jimmie Simpson riding a Norton in his last TT Race and Walter Rusk with a Velocette. Senior TT (500cc) 7 laps (264.11 miles) Mountain Course. Junior TT (350cc) 7 laps (264.11 miles) Mountain Course. Lightweight TT (250cc) 7 laps (264.11 miles) Mountain Course. Notes Major alterations to the Snaefell mountain course are carried out for the 1934 TT Races. This includes the removal of the East Mountain sheep-gate. Sources External links Detailed race results Isle of Man TT winners Mountain Course map Isle of Man TT #1934 Isle |
2,324 | Kin, Ye | Kin is a village in Ye Township in Mawlamyine District in the Mon State of south-east Myanmar. It is located on the right bank (northern side) of the Ye River. Notes External links "Kin Map — Satellite Images of Kin" Maplandia World Gazetteer Category:Populated places in Mon State |
2,325 | C High School Jagdishpur | C High School Jagdishpur is a school in Siwan, Bihar, India. The school was established in collaboration between Bihar and central government and is affiliated with the Bihar School Examination Board, Patna. The motto of the school is "Study Before Saty." Location The school has 2 buildings, one for grades 1-6 and another for grades 7-10. The school campus is located in Nautan, Siwan, Bihar, in village Jagdishpur. Cultural events The school hosts many cultural events under another organisation called "Spic Macay". These include the District School Intensive in December 2010, The school hosts football, cricket and basketball championships. Recently the intra-school chess championship was held here. C High School Jagdishpur's cricket team is one of the best cricket teams in Nautan. Games and sports C High School Jagdishpur has many provisions for sports and games, including a badminton arena, a football pitch and a hockey ground. The school has various sports clubs such as football, basketball etc. The school hosts many inter-school sports competitions for Nautan's schools. References Category:High schools and secondary schools in Bihar Category:Siwan district |
2,326 | Harold Wood Hospital | Harold Wood Hospital was a hospital in east London, United Kingdom. It was located in Gubbins Lane, Harold Wood in Romford, in the London Borough of Havering. It was managed by Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals NHS Trust. The Havering Campus of London South Bank University, an NHS polyclinic and a long term conditions unit continue to operate at the hospital site, and a residential development by Countryside Properties known as Kings Park is in development. History The hospital was opened in 1909 by West Ham County Borough council, as the Grange convalescent home for children, which operated with the nearby Plaistow fever hospital. The Grange had been a private house, built in 1884 by John Compton, owner of the Gubbins estate. The convalescent home was maintained by the county borough until the Second World War, as an emergency hospital. After the war it became a permanent hospital, and in the 1960s was significantly enlarged. After services relocated to Queen's Hospital and to King George Hospital in Redbridge, the hospital was closed on 13 December 2006. The site vacated by the hospital was earmarked for a 470-home housing development. The original plan to keep certain NHS facilities was superseded and the entire plot was approved for residential development. Local residents opposed the proposal of over 800 dwellings, including a 9-storey block. A residential development by Countryside Properties known as Kings Park is in development. See also Healthcare in London List of hospitals in England References Category:Houses completed in 1884 Category:Hospitals disestablished in 2006 Category:Defunct hospitals in England Category:Health in the London Borough of Havering Category:NHS hospitals in London |
2,327 | Athena (disambiguation) | Athena () is a goddess of wisdom, strategic-war and weaving in Greek mythology. Athena may also refer to: Places Athena, Oregon, a town in northern Oregon People Princess Athena of Denmark (born 2012) Companies Athena (company), a Japanese video game company Athena Eizou, a Japanese adult video company Athena (retailer), a British art retailer famous for its posters Athena Technologies, a Virginia-based company specializing in navigation and control systems for unmanned aerial vehicles athenahealth, a Massachusetts-based Healthcare technology company Media and entertainment Film and television Athena (film), a 1954 MGM musical film starring Jane Powell, Edmund Purdom, Debbie Reynolds, Vic Damone and Louis Calhern Lieutenant Athena, a character in the 1978 television series Battlestar Galactica Sharon "Athena" Agathon, a character in the 2004 re-imagined series Battlestar Galactica, based very loosely on Lieutenant Athena; see Number Eight (Battlestar Galactica) Athena, a fictional character in the TV series Stargate SG-1 Athena: Goddess of War, a 2010 South Korean television drama series about espionage and terrorism Athena Grant, LAPD sergeant on the TV series 9-1-1 Music Athena (singer), a Filipino singer & actress based in Japan Athena (Andreadis), an Anglo-Greek musician Athena (band), a Turkish ska punk band "Athena" (song), the first track on The Who's 1982 studio album, It's Hard "Athena", a song by Tiësto from the album Parade of the Athletes Literature Athena (novel), a 1995 novel by John Banville Comics and animation Athena (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics character and member of the Olympian Gods Thena, another Marvel Comics character who has gone by the name Athena, a member of the Eternals Athena (Saint Seiya), a character based on the goddess in the manga/anime Saint Seiya Tennousu Athena, a character in the manga/anime Hayate the Combat Butler and the eponymous protagonist's first true love Athena, the first opponent of Godou Kusanagi in the manga/anime "Campione!" Video games Athena (arcade game), a 1986 arcade game made by SNK, whose main character is "Princess Athena" Athena: Full Throttle, a 2006 sequel to the arcade game Athena Asamiya, a character in the video game Psycho Soldier and The King of Fighters series, described as a descendant of Princess Athena Athena, an important character in the Sony PlayStation 2 game God of War Athena the Gladiator, an important character from the Borderlands video game series Athena Cykes, a defense attorney from the Ace Attorney franchise Science and technology Athena, the scientific payload on the two rovers of the Mars Exploration Rover mission ATHENA, a CERN antimatter research project ATHENA computer, an early missile guidance computer Athena (rocket family), a series of light rocket boosters from Lockheed Martin Athena I Athena II Athena (spacecraft), a small spacecraft proposed to visit Pallas asteroid Advanced Telescope for High Energy Astrophysics, previously the International X-ray Observatory, a planned space telescope by ESA Advanced Test High Energy Asset, a directed-energy weapon Athena-Fidus, a French-Italian military telecommunications satellite Project Athena, a project to produce a computing environment for educational use X Athena Widgets, X Window System's widget toolkit Ships Athena (yacht), formerly the largest private sailing yacht in the world MS Athena, |
2,328 | Religious Jewish music | This article describes the principal types of religious Jewish music from the days of the Temple to modern times. History of religious Jewish music The history of religious Jewish music is about the cantorial, synagogal, and the Temple music from Biblical to Modern times. The earliest synagogal music was based on the same system as that used in the Temple in Jerusalem. According to the Mishnah, the regular Temple orchestra consisted of twelve instruments, and the choir of twelve male singers. A number of additional instruments were known to the ancient Hebrews, though they were not included in the regular orchestra of the Temple: the uggav (small flute), the abbuv (a reed flute or oboe-like instrument). After the destruction of the Temple and the subsequent diaspora of the Jewish people, music was initially banned. Later, these restrictions would relax, save for the Jews of Yemen who maintained strict adherence to Talmudic and Maimonidean halakha and "instead of developing the playing of musical instruments, they perfected singing and rhythm." (See Yemenite Jewish poetry. For the modern Yemenite-Israeli musical phenomenon, however, see Yemenite Jewish music.) It was with the piyyutim (liturgical poems) that Jewish music began to crystallize into definite form. The cantor sang the piyyutim to melodies selected by their writer or by himself, thus introducing fixed melodies into synagogal music. The music may have preserved a few phrases in the reading of Scripture which recalled songs from the Temple itself; but generally it echoed the tones which the Jew of each age and country heard around him, not merely in the actual borrowing of tunes, but more in the tonality on which the local music was based. Classical Jewish religious music From the time of the Renaissance Jewish communities in western Europe have shown some interest in modernizing the service by introducing composed music on the European model. Salamone Rossi, a composer at the court of Mantua, published a volume of psalm settings in a Baroque style similar to Monteverdi, but this did not become widely popular in synagogue use until revived in the late 19th century. In the 18th century the Venice community commissioned a number of works from non-Jewish composers such as Carlo Grossi and Benedetto Marcello. Already in 1603, the sources tell us that harpsichords were used in the Spanish and Portuguese synagogues in Hamburg. Particularly in the Amsterdam community, but to some degree also in Hamburg and elsewhere, there was a flourishing of classical music in the synagogues in the 18th century. Important composers of the time include Abraham de Casseres, Christian Joseph Lidarti and others. There was formerly a custom in Amsterdam, inspired by a hint in the Zohar, of holding an instrumental concert on Friday afternoon prior to the coming in of the Sabbath, as a means of getting the congregants in the right mood for the Friday night service. In the Ashkenazi world, the main impetus towards composed Jewish music came in early 19th century Vienna, where Salomon Sulzer composed settings for a large part of the synagogue service, reflecting traditional Jewish music but set |
2,329 | USS Folly (SP-1453) | Folly (SP-1453) was a sailing schooner that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel during World War I. Folly served on section patrol duties in the 5th Naval District in a non-commissioned status during the period the United States participated in the war. References SP-1453 Folly at Department of the Navy Naval History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images: U.S. Navy Ships: -- Listed by Hull Number: "SP" #s and "ID" #s -- World War I Era Patrol Vessels and other Acquired Ships and Craft numbered from SP-1400 through SP-1499 NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive Folly (SP 1453) Category:Patrol vessels of the United States Navy Category:World War I patrol vessels of the United States Category:Schooners of the United States Navy Category:1884 ships |
2,330 | Krumen people | The Krumen (also Kroumen, Kroomen) is an ethnic group living mostly along the coast of Liberia and Côte d’Ivoire. Their numbers were estimated to be 48,300 in 1993, of which 28,300 were in Côte d’Ivoire. They are a subgroup of the Grebo and speak the Krumen language. They are also called Kru, and are related to (but distinct from) the Kru people of the Liberian interior. Word Origin There has been much scholarly debate on the origin of the term, since there is little evidence of use of the term outside of the maritime environment in which the Krumen served as sailors, and the fact that many Grebo served in this capacity. Hence the belief that its root was from "crewmen" in English (a pidgin form of which was a lingua franca among them, thanks to their service as on European vessels). One theory, advanced in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica was that it derived from Kraoh, which is the name of one subgroup in their home area. History Origins The coast of eastern Liberia and western Ivory Coast were rarely visited by European vessels until the nineteenth century, and for that reason there are very few written texts that can illuminate its early history or the origin of the Krumen communities there. There has also been very little archaeological work that might illuminate events or societies of the more distant past. For that reason, oral tradition remains the most important key to the origin of the Krumen. Traditions recorded in the mid nineteenth century by James Connelly relate that the Kru communities that lived along the shore of what is today southern Liberia and the reputed core settlement of the Krumen came down to the coast from the interior "some three generations back--say one hundred to one hundred fifty years..." from an original place he called Claho. Coming down the Poor River they "learned the value of salt" and founded the town of Bassa, the subsequently moved again to Little Kroo, and then were subsequently joined by whole communities from the interior. These events likely occurred in the 1770s and are believed to be connected to more intensive European interest in trade in the region at about this time. The original settlers from the interior eventually established five towns, Little Kroo, Setra Kroo, Kroo-Bar, Nana Kroo and King Will's Town, that came to be regarded as their home district, though soon other offshoots developed along the coast, and particularly in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Seafaring From the late eighteenth century onward, Krumen began working on European ships. By the 1790s the inhabitants of their original region were being hired as free sailors on European ships engaged in the slave trade. As the so-called "legitimate trade" replaced the slave trade in the nineteenth century and as trade along the West Africa coast increased, many Krumen signed on to the new vessels as seamen. In the process there developed Krumen communities around all the major trading factories of the coast, from Sierra Leone around to the mouth of the Congo River. A number of Kroomen |
2,331 | Kruskal–Szekeres coordinates | In general relativity Kruskal–Szekeres coordinates, named after Martin Kruskal and George Szekeres, are a coordinate system for the Schwarzschild geometry for a black hole. These coordinates have the advantage that they cover the entire spacetime manifold of the maximally extended Schwarzschild solution and are well-behaved everywhere outside the physical singularity. Definition Kruskal–Szekeres coordinates on a black hole geometry are defined, from the Schwarzschild coordinates , by replacing t and r by a new timelike coordinate T and a new spacelike coordinate : for the exterior region outside the event horizon and: for the interior region . Here is the gravitational constant multiplied by the Schwarzschild mass parameter, and this article is using units where = 1. It follows that on the union of the exterior region, the event horizon and the interior region the Schwarzschild radial coordinate (not to be confused with the Schwarzschild radius ), is determined in terms of Kruskal–Szekeres coordinates as the (unique) solution of the equation: Using the Lambert W function the solution is written as: . Moreover one sees immediately that in region external of the black hole whereas in the internal of the black hole In these new coordinates the metric of the Schwarzschild black hole manifold is given by written using the (− + + +) metric signature convention and where the angular component of the metric (the Riemannian metric of the 2-sphere) is: . Expressing the metric in this form shows clearly that radial null geodesics i.e. with constant are parallel to one of the lines . In the Schwarzschild coordinates, the Schwarzschild radius is the radial coordinate of the event horizon . In the Kruskal-Szekeres coordinates the event horizon is given by . Note that the metric is perfectly well defined and non-singular at the event horizon. The curvature singularity is located at . The maximally extended Schwarzschild solution The transformation between Schwarzschild coordinates and Kruskal–Szekeres coordinates is defined for r > 2GM, and −∞ < t < ∞, which is the range for which the Schwarzschild coordinates make sense. However in this region, r is an analytic function of T and X and can be extended, as an analytic function at least to the first singularity which occurs at . Thus the above metric is a solution of Einstein's equations throughout this region. The allowed values are Note that this extension assumes that the solution is analytic everywhere. In the maximally extended solution there are actually two singularities at r = 0, one for positive T and one for negative T. The negative T singularity is the time-reversed black hole, sometimes dubbed a "white hole". Particles can escape from a white hole but they can never return. The maximally extended Schwarzschild geometry can be divided into 4 regions each of which can be covered by a suitable set of Schwarzschild coordinates. The Kruskal–Szekeres coordinates, on the other hand, cover the entire spacetime manifold. The four regions are separated by event horizons. The transformation given above between Schwarzschild and Kruskal–Szekeres coordinates applies only in regions I and II. A similar transformation can be |
2,332 | Ákos Pauler | Ákos Pauler (1876–1933) was a Hungarian philosopher. He defended metaphysics against logical positivism. As part of this defense, he accounted for a method of determining truths alongside the deductive and inductive methods, one which he called reductive. According to Pauler, the reductive method, unlike induction and deduction, does not determine what entities there are but rather can determine the conditions of possibility of valid thought itself. He also associates the reductive method with Plato's dialectic, even suggesting that reduction can ultimately lead to knowledge of the Form of the Good. References Kövesi, J., "Pauler, Ákos" in Brochert, D. M. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Second Edition, vol. 2 (Thomson Gale, 2006), p. 145. Simon, A. L., "Philosophy" in Made in Hungary: Hungarian contributions to universal culture (Simon Publications, 1999), pp. 180–183. Tamas, G. M., "Hungarian Philosophy" in Honderich, T. (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, New Edition (Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 407–408. Category:1876 births Category:1933 deaths Category:Hungarian philosophers Category:20th-century Hungarian philosophers |
2,333 | 2000 Cheltenham Gold Cup | The 2000 Cheltenham Gold Cup was a horse race which took place at Cheltenham on Thursday 16 March 2000. It was the 73rd running of the Cheltenham Gold Cup, and it was won by Looks Like Trouble. The winner was ridden by Richard Johnson and trained by Noel Chance. The pre-race favourite See More Business finished fourth. It was the second victory in the Gold Cup for Noel Chance, who had won the race three years earlier with Mr Mulligan. The winning time of 6m 30.3s set a new record – the previous best was 6m 30.9s in 1990. Race details Sponsor: Tote Winner's prize money: £162,400.00 Going: Good to Firm Number of runners: 12 Winner's time: 6m 30.3s (new record) Full result * The distances between the horses are shown in lengths or shorter. nk = neck; PU = pulled-up; UR = unseated rider.† Trainers are based in Great Britain unless indicated. Winner's details Further details of the winner, Looks Like Trouble: Foaled: 7 May 1992 in Ireland Sire: Zaffaran; Dam: Lavengaddy (Balgaddy) Owner: Tim Collins Breeder: Stephen Reel References sportinglife.com bbc.co.uk – "Trouble secures Cheltenham Gold" – March 16, 2000. Cheltenham Gold Cup 2000 Cheltenham Gold Cup Cheltenham Gold Cup Category:20th century in Gloucestershire |
2,334 | La Falda | La Falda is a town in the province of Córdoba, Argentina, located from Córdoba and 800 km from Buenos Aires. It had about 15,000 inhabitants at the . La Falda lies at the foot of two small mountains (Cerro El Cuadrado and Cerro La Banderita), and it is part of an important tourist circuit of the province (the Punilla Valley). The Punilla Department includes other tourist sites like Villa Carlos Paz, Los Cocos, La Cumbre and Capilla del Monte. La Falda is home to the historic "Eden Hotel" (now a public part and historic site/museum that does not host hotel guests) which was visited by Albert Einstein. Adolf Hitler was rumored to have stayed here in 1948. The main street and hub of activity for the town is "Avenue Eden". Main sights Attractions in La Falda include the 7 Cascades, a natural park also which hosts a large public swimming pool. "El Silenco" is a colonial castle of the 17th century featuring fishing and observation of trout; it is situated some from La Falda downtown. "Tatu Carreta" is an Ecological Park and Zoo c. 8 km from the downtown on the route toward Córdoba. It is a drive thru "safari" style zoological experience with local and exotic animal species. The area has been used as a special stage for Rally Argentina. Gallery See also List of world's largest cuckoo clocks External links All About La Falda Villa Carlos Paz and Valle de Punilla Ecological Park & Zoo La Falda Tango Festival Information Category:Populated places in Córdoba Province, Argentina Category:Tourism in Argentina Category:Rally Argentina |
2,335 | Louise Revell | Louise Revell is a Roman archaeologist, currently Associate Professor in Roman Studies at the University of Southampton. Revell's research focuses on provincial archaeology of the western Roman empire. Education Revell obtained a BA in Classics from the University of Cambridge, and a MA in Roman Archaeology from Durham University. She completed her PhD in 2000 at the University of Southampton, entitled Exploring Roman Identities : Case-studies from Spain and Britain in the Second century AD. Career Revell's research focuses on the inter linkages between identity, ideology and imperialism, and their expression through material culture. Recent research has looked at Roman imperialism in the Spanish provinces and Britain. Her 2009 monograph Roman Imperialism and Local Identities was described as "refreshing and theoretically informed perspective" and an "important step forward for studies of Romanisation", and was widely reviewed. Revell's 2013 monograph Ways of Being Roman explored the relationship between Roman identities and daily practice as they were experienced through public architecture in the provinces, described as "a valuable overview of current identity studies as applied to the western Roman provinces". Revell's research has also explored gender, family and the life-course within the western provinces. She co-edited the 2016 Oxford Handbook of Roman Britain with Martin Millett and Alison Moore. Revell holds a Getty Fellowship as part of the Arts of Rome's Provinces workshop. She is a trustee of the Roman Research Trust, and a member of the editorial board of Britannia. She has appeared on Time Team. She delivered the keynote lecture at the Crasis Annual Meeting at the University of Groningen in 2019. Selected publications Books Revell, L. (2009). Roman Imperialism and Local Identities. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Revell, L. (2015). Ways of Being Roman: Discourses of Identity in the Roman West. Oxford: Oxbow Books. Millett, M., Revell, L., & Moore, A. (eds) (2016). The Oxford Handbook of Roman Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Articles Revell, L. (2005). The Roman life course: a view from the inscriptions. European Journal of Archaeology 8(1), 43-63. DOI: 10.1177/1461957105058209 Revell, L. (2007). Religion and ritual in the western provinces. Greece and Rome 54, 210-228. Revell, L. (2013). Code-switching and identity in the western provinces. Herom 2(1), 121-139. References External links Category:Academics of the University of Southampton Category:Classical archaeologists Category:Alumni of the University of Cambridge Category:Living people Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Alumni of Durham University |
2,336 | McXtrace | McXtrace is an open source software package for performing Monte Carlo simulations of X-ray scattering experiments. While its chief objective is to aid in the optimization of beamlines at e.g. synchrotrons, it may also be used for data analysis and at laboratory sources and beamlines. McXtrace is free software released under the GNU GPL. McXtrace was first spun off as a sister project to the well known and proven neutron ray-tracing package McStas in a project funded jointly by: DTU Physics at The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) (http://www.esrf.eu) Niels Bohr Institute at University of Copenhagen (KU) The Danish Strategic Research Council under the NaBiIT program SAXSLAB ApS. aka. JJ-XRay Systems (http://www.jjxray.dk) Description McXtrace works in the way that a user describes his/her beamline in a special file. This file is the analyzed by the system and converted into a c-file which may be compiled on the target computing system where the simulation is to be run. The beamline file generally contains relative coordinates of the devices present in the beamline. References External links McXtrace website Shadow/XOP site at the ESRF DTU Physics Niels Bohr Institute Category:Free simulation software |
2,337 | South Fork Wenaha River | The South Fork Wenaha River is a tributary of the Wenaha River in the U.S. state of Oregon. The river begins in the Blue Mountains south of Bone Spring in Wallowa County near its border with Union County. From there it flows generally northeast through the Wenaha–Tucannon Wilderness of the Umatilla National Forest to meet the North Fork Wenaha River. The combined forks form the main stem Wenaha, a tributary of the Grande Ronde River. Named tributaries of the South Fork Wenaha from source to mouth are Milk and Trapper creeks followed by Cougar Canyon. Then come Jaussard and Elk creeks. Recreation The main path along the South Fork is the Wenaha River Trail, a route with trailheads at Troy and Timothy Springs. It runs parallel to the main stem between Troy and Wenaha Forks and roughly parallel to the South Fork upstream of the confluence. This trail connects to other wilderness paths: Elk Flat, Hoodoo, and Cross Canyon trails. The trail system is used by hikers, backpackers, and horse riders. It offers panoramic views, access to fishing, and suitable spots for dispersed camping. It is also remote, involves significant elevation changes, can be extremely hot in summer, and is frequented by rattlesnakes. See also List of rivers of Oregon References Category:Rivers of Wallowa County, Oregon Category:Rivers of Oregon |
2,338 | İkinci Ağalı | İkinci Ağalı (also, Agaly Vtoryye) is a village in the Zangilan Rayon of Azerbaijan. References Category:Populated places in Zangilan District |
2,339 | Waltham, Lincolnshire | Waltham is a large village and civil parish in North East Lincolnshire, England. It is south of Grimsby close to the suburb of Scartho and to the smaller villages of Brigsley, Barnoldby-le-Beck, and Holton le Clay. Less than to the east-north-east is the village of New Waltham. In the 2001 census, Waltham had a population of 6,420, reducing slightly to 6,413 at the 2011 census. History There was a substantial Saxon settlement on the site of the first village, and artifacts show earlier Roman occupation. The Waltham name is of Saxon origin: Walt refers to woodland or an area of high forest and Ham to either an estate or a village. Saxons may have changed the name from the Old English 'Wealdhant' which had the same meaning; the first part Ald, prefixed by We, meant "settlement", and Hant a "wooded estate". Elizabeth Shaw, who is said to have lived to age 117, was born on 22 April 1683 at Waltham. A life portrait of her by R. Sheardown was published in 1800. Governance Waltham is part of the Cleethorpes parliamentary constituency, and has been represented by Martin Vickers of the Conservative Party since 2010. Waltham Ward is part of North East Lincolnshire Council, and covers the villages of Waltham, Brigsley and Ashby-cum-Fenby. It is one of the safest Conservative wards on the council and has been represented by Conservative councillors since the ward's creation in 2003. Current elected councillors: Cllr Nick Pettigrew Cllr Philip Jackson Landmarks Waltham's landmarks include Waltham Windmill, which is used as the symbol for the village's Infant and Junior schools. The windmill was originally built in 1666, but was blown down several times. It was last re-built in 1873. The village has three public houses, The Kings Head, the Tilted Barrel and the Tea Gardens. A branch of the Royal British Legion is also based in Waltham. There is a cenotaph where a remembrance service is held each Remembrance Sunday. Nearby is the former Second World War bomber airfield RAF Grimsby, which was originally Grimsby Municipal Airport. After the start of the Second World War the airport was re-constructed by the Air Ministry and became home to 142 Squadron, and later to 100 and 550 Squadrons, before closing in 1945. A museum at the Waltham Windmill houses a section dedicated to RAF Grimsby. There was once a Waltham railway station (actually in New Waltham) on the East Lincolnshire Railway line (now closed) between Grimsby and Louth. Notable people Joanne Clifton, professional dancer on BBC TV's Strictly Come Dancing, and her brother and fellow pro Kevin Clifton Paul Moorby O.B.E., (b. 1964) was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire on 29 December 2018 for services to promoting the UK Technology Sector Abroad References External links Category:Villages in Lincolnshire Category:Borough of North East Lincolnshire Category:Civil parishes in Lincolnshire |
2,340 | Urar mouse-like hamster | The Urar mouse-like hamster or Azerbaijani mouse-like hamster (Calomyscus urartensis) is a medium-sized mouse-like hamster from Nakhichevan, Azerbaijan and northwestern Azarbaijan Province, Iran. It is among the better studied representatives of this poorly known genus. The initial species description was based on a unique chromosome number (2n=32; FNa=42) called a karyotype. The species status has been confirmed with other chromosomal studies and morphometric studies. The species description by Vorontsov et al. and subsequent prompted elevation of several subspecies of Calomyscus bailwardi to species status. References Category:Mouse-like hamsters Mouse-like Hamster, Urar Mouse-like Hamster, Urar Mouse-like Hamster, Urar Mouse-like Hamster, Urar Category:Mammals described in 1979 |
2,341 | Felicja Blumental | Felicja Blumental (28 December 1908 – 31 December 1991) was a Polish pianist and composer. "She was one of the relatively few women born in the first quarter of the twentieth century to have achieved an important career as a concert pianist." Early life Felicja Blumental was born in Warsaw, Poland, into a Jewish musical family, daughter of a violinist. She began piano lessons at the age of five, and made her debut at the age of ten. She studied at the National Conservatory in Warsaw, taking piano lessons from Zbigniew Drzewiecki (who founded the International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition) and composition lessons from the composer Karol Szymanowski. She later studied privately in Switzerland with Józef Turczyński, a noted Chopin interpreter and scholar. Personal life In 1938, she and her husband Markus Mizne moved first to Nice, then to Brazil to escape the growing anti-semitism in Europe. She became a Brazilian citizen, and for the rest of her life championed the music and composers of her adopted country. Her subsequent career saw her settling in Milan in 1962, then in 1973 in London. Musical career Blumental's repertoire was wide and adventurous, ranging from the Portuguese baroque to South American contemporary works. Her numerous recordings also included many forgotten concertos by composers such as Carl Czerny (Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.214), Ferdinand Ries (Piano Concerto in C-sharp minor, Op.55) and John Field. Heitor Villa-Lobos wrote his Piano Concerto No. 5 for her; she was soloist at the world premiere on 8 May 1955, at the Royal Festival Hall, London, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Jean Martinon, and she also recorded the concerto in Paris, under the baton of the composer. Krzysztof Penderecki dedicated his Partita for harpsichord and orchestra to her. Her recording of this work won a Grand Prix du Disque of the Charles Cros Academy of France in 1975. Among her recordings was a boxed set of Beethoven's complete works for solo piano and orchestra, including two early works without opus number, as well as Beethoven's own arrangement for piano of his violin concerto. It is, however, her Chopin playing for which she will be most remembered. A pianist of considerable power, despite her diminutive size, her recordings of the Chopin mazurkas, in particular, are considered landmark interpretations. She died in 1991 in Israel, on one of her many concert tours of the country. She is buried in Tel Aviv's Kiryat Shaul Cemetery. Her daughter, the singer Annette Céline, was one of the organizers of the annual Felicja Blumental International Music festival until her death on 3 June 2017. Many of Blumental's recordings have been restored on Brana Records, and all CD covers feature the art prints of her husband Markus Mizne. References External links Portuguese Piano Music - Claudio Records Review/Information Brana Records Category:Brazilian classical pianists Category:Brazilian female pianists Category:Polish classical pianists Category:Polish women pianists Category:Jewish classical pianists Category:Brazilian Jews Category:Naturalized citizens of Brazil Category:Jews who emigrated to escape Nazism Category:1908 births Category:1991 deaths Category:Polish emigrants to Brazil Category:20th-century classical pianists Category:20th-century women musicians Category:Women classical pianists |
2,342 | Holly Walker (comedian) | Holly Walker is an American comedian, actress, and writer known for her role as a correspondent and staff writer on The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore. Prior to working on The Nightly Show, she toured with The Second City comedy group, performing in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Las Vegas. Walker got her first taste of performing when she was eight years old and was cast in a production called "For Spring is the Season of Happiness," playing Mother Nature. As an adult, she performed with Boom Chicago in Amsterdam and The Second City across the United States. Filmography References Category:African-American comedians Category:21st-century American comedians Category:American women comedians Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Living people |
2,343 | Vlaicu | Vlaicu is a Romanian surname. Notable people with the surname include: Aurel Vlaicu (1882–1913), Romanian engineer, inventor and aviator Florin Vlaicu (born 1986), Romanian rugby union player Sorin Vlaicu (born 1965), Romanian footballer as a given name, it may refer to: Vlaicu Bârna (1913-1999), poet Category:Romanian-language surnames |
2,344 | Brian Smyth (Gaelic footballer) | Brian Smyth (24 March 1924 – 16 March 2016) was an Irish Gaelic footballer and hurler who played as a centre-forward for the Meath senior team. Born in Batterstown, County Meath, Smyth had his first involvement with Gaelic football and hurling against Boy Scouts from Dublin, who used to come to the local area on weekend camps. He fielded with local club Batterstown in both codes but when the club was unable to muster enough players, he lined out with Flathouse with whom he won a junior championship medal in hurling. He also played both codes with Ratoath before lining out with Oberstown in hurling and Skryne in Gaelic football, helping the latter to five championship victories. He finished his hurling career with Dunboyne. Smyth made his debut on the inter-county scene when he first linked up with the Meath junior hurling team in 1944. An All-Ireland medal winner in this code, he joined the Meath senior football team for the 1946 championship. Smyth went on to play a key role during a hugely successful era, and won two All-Ireland medals, four Leinster medals and one National League medal. The All-Ireland-winning captain of 1949, Smyth was also an All-Ireland runner-up on two occasions. Smyth was a member of the Leinster inter-provincial team on a number of occasions, however, he never won a Railway Cup medal. He retired from inter-county football following the conclusion of the 1957 championship. In retirement from playing, Smyth became involved in team management and administration. His involvement as a trainer was short-lived, however, he guided Drumree to championship success in the junior grade in 1959. Smyth became involved in administrative affairs as a teenager when he took over as secretary of the Batterstown club. He was secretary of the Meath Hurling Board on two occasions, before serving as chairman of the Meath County Board between 1979 and 1985. Honours Skryne Meath Senior Football Championship (5): 1944, 1945, 1947, 1948, 1954 Meath All-Ireland Senior Football Championship (2): 1949 (c), 1954 Connacht Senior Football Championship (4): 1949 (c), 1951, 1952, 1954 National Football League (1): 1950-51 References Category:1924 births Category:2016 deaths Category:Skryne Gaelic footballers Category:Meath inter-county Gaelic footballers Category:Leinster inter-provincial Gaelic footballers Category:People by city or town in County Meath Category:Winners of two All-Ireland medals (Gaelic football) |
2,345 | Samuel Heinicke | Samuel Heinicke (10 April 1727 – 30 April 1790), the originator in Germany of systematic education for the deaf, was born in Nautschutz, Germany. Entering the electoral bodyguard at Dresden, he subsequently supported himself by teaching. Around 1754, he took his first deaf pupil. His success in teaching this pupil was so great that he determined to devote himself entirely to this work. Heinicke promoted a chiefly oral/aural method of instruction, though he did use some form of a manual alphabet. He believed a spoken language to be indispensable to a proper education, and that it formed the basis for reasoning and intellectual thought. He died before his contributions to Deaf education became widespread, but John Baptist Graser (1766-1841) and Frederick Maritz Hill (1805-1874) continued to espouse the oral method. The outbreak of the Seven Years' War upset his plans for a time. Taken prisoner at Pirna, he was brought to Dresden, but soon made his escape. In 1768, when living in Hamburg, he successfully taught a deaf boy to talk, following the methods prescribed by Amman in his book Surdus loquens, but improving on them. Recalled to his own country by the elector of Saxony, he opened the first deaf institution in Leipzig, Germany, in 1778. He directed this school until his death. He was the author of various books on the instruction of the deaf. References Category:German educational theorists Category:18th-century German educators Category:1727 births Category:1790 deaths |
2,346 | Heriot, New Zealand | Heriot is a small settlement in West Otago, in the South Island of New Zealand. It is located 20 kilometres southwest of Raes Junction and 15 kilometres north of Tapanui. The township is likely not to have been named after the Scottish border town of Heriot (unlike other local towns named after Borders places, such as Kelso and Roxburgh), but may have been named for from the maiden name of the wife of early settler William Pinkerton. The main economic activities in Heriot are related to livestock and forestry. References Category:Populated places in Otago |
2,347 | David Ducourtioux | David Ducourtioux (born 11 April 1978) is a French former professional footballer who played as a defender. References External links Category:1978 births Category:Living people Category:Association football defenders Category:French footballers Category:Ligue 1 players Category:Ligue 2 players Category:Toulouse FC players Category:SC Bastia players Category:Stade de Reims players Category:CS Sedan Ardennes players Category:Valenciennes FC players Category:Gazélec Ajaccio players |
2,348 | CyanogenMod | CyanogenMod ( ; CM) is a discontinued open-source operating system for mobile devices, based on the Android mobile platform. It was developed as free and open-source software based on the official releases of Android by Google, with added original and third-party code, and based on a rolling release development model. Although only a subset of total CyanogenMod users elected to report their use of the firmware, on 23 March 2015, some reports indicated that over 50 million people ran CyanogenMod on their phones. It was also frequently used as a starting point by developers of other ROMs. In 2013, the founder, Steve Kondik (now Stefanie Kondik), obtained venture funding under the name Cyanogen Inc. to allow commercialization of the project. However, the company did not, in his view, capitalize on the project's success, and in 2016 he left or was forced out as part of a corporate restructure, which involved a change of CEO, closure of offices and projects, and cessation of services, and therefore left uncertainty over the future of the company. The code itself, being open source, was later forked, and its development continues as a community project under the LineageOS name. CyanogenMod offered features and options not found in the official firmware distributed by mobile device vendors. Features supported by CyanogenMod included native theme support, FLAC audio codec support, a large Access Point Name list, Privacy Guard (per-application permission management application), support for tethering over common interfaces, CPU overclocking and other performance enhancements, unlockable bootloader and root access, soft buttons, status bar customisation and other "tablet tweaks", toggles in the notification pull-down (such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS), and other interface enhancements. CyanogenMod did not contain spyware or bloatware, according to its developers. CyanogenMod was also said to increase performance and reliability compared with official firmware releases. The name CyanogenMod derived from cyanogen (the name of a chemical compound adopted as a nickname by Kondik) + Mod (a term for user-developed modifications, known as modding). History and development Soon after the introduction of HTC Dream (named the "T-Mobile G1" in the United States) mobile phone in September 2008, a method was discovered to attain privileged control (termed "root access") within Android's Linux-based subsystem. Having root access, combined with the open-source nature of the Android operating system, allowed the phone's stock firmware to be modified and re-installed onto the phone. In the following year, modified firmware for the Dream was developed and distributed by Android enthusiasts. One, maintained by a developer named JesusFreke, became popular among Dream owners. After Google issued its Android RC30 over-the-air update in November 2008 that fixed the bug that had previously been used for root access, he began offering modified versions that restored root access and gradually expanded them. In August 2009, JesusFreke stopped work on his firmware and suggested users to switch to a version of his ROM that had been further enhanced by developer Cyanogen (the online name used by Stefanie Kondik, a Samsung software engineer) called "CyanogenMod" (user adaptations being often known as modding). CyanogenMod grew in popularity, and a community of |
2,349 | J. Neil Garcia | J. Neil C. Garcia earned his AB Journalism, magna cum laude, from the University of Santo Tomas in 1990; MA in Comparative Literature in 1995, and PhD in English Studies: Creative Writing in 2003 from the University of the Philippines Diliman. He is currently a Professor of English, creative writing and comparative literature at the College of Arts and Letters, University of the Philippines Diliman, where he also serves as an Associate for Poetry at the Likhaan: U.P. Institute of Creative Writing. Garcia is the author of numerous poetry collections and works in literary and cultural criticism, including Closet Quivers (1992), Our Lady of the Carnival (1996), The Sorrows of Water (2000), Kaluluwa (2001), Slip/pages: Essays in Philippine Gay Criticism (1998), Performing the Self: Occasional Prose (2003), The Garden of Wordlessness (2005), and Misterios and Other Poems (2005). Garcia's groundbreaking study, Philippine Gay Culture: The Last Thirty Years (1996), was awarded a National Book Award by the Manila Critics Circle in 1996. An editor of the famous Ladlad series of Filipino gay writing, Garcia also edited for the Likhaan, the following anthologies: The Likhaan Book of Philippine Criticism (1992–1997) and The Likhaan Book of Poetry and Fiction (1998 and 2000). Garcia's latest critical work, Postcolonialism and Filipino Poetics: Essays and Critiques, is a revised version of his very provocative Ph. D dissertation. The book examined Filipino poetics from the perspective of post-colonialism consisting of the author's own critical and personal reflections on poetry-both as he "reads" and "writes" it. Garcia sought to answer a specific and difficult question: just how do the dominant poetic theories in the Philippines address the problems and debates of postcolonialism? This inquiry led Garcia to confront the issue of Filipino nationalism. Garcia addressed the assumptions and consequences of Filipino nationalism then engaged with the poetics of National Artist Virgilio Almario and eminent poet-critic Gemino Abad, whom Garcia referred to as "the foremost commentators on Filipino poetics." Garcia is currently working on a full-length book, a post-colonial survey and analysis of Philippine poetry in English. Professor Garcia has won several literary awards including the Palanca and the National Book Award from the Manila Critics Circle. He has also received grants and fellowships to deliver lectures in Taipei, Hawaii, Berkeley, Manchester, Cambridge, Leiden and Bangkok. Works Poetry Closet Quivers, 1992 Our Lady of the Carnival, 1996 Sorrows of Water, 2000; Kaluluwa: New and Selected Poems, 2001 The Garden of Wordlessness, 2005 Misterios and Other Poems, 2005 Cultural Criticism Philippine Gay Culture: The Last Thirty Years, 1996 Slip/pages: Essays in Philippine Gay Criticism, 1998 Postcolonialism and Filipino Poetics: Essays and Critiques, 2004 Creative Non-Fiction Closet Queeries, 1997 Myths and Metaphors, 2002 Performing the Self: Occasional Prose, 2003 Anthologies (as editor)Ladlad, 1994;Ladlad 2, 1996;The Likhaan Book of Philippine Criticism, 1992–1997The Likhaan Book of Poetry and Fiction, 1998 & 2000Bongga Ka 'Day: Gay Quotes to Live by, 2002Ladlad 3'', 2007 Honors and awards British Council Fellowship Grant to Cambridge British Academy Fellowship Taipei International Artist-in-Residence Visiting ICOPHIL Fellow at the International Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden, the Netherlands Procyon Poetry Prize National |
2,350 | Omaha Sessions | Omaha Sessions is an album released by 311 that was sold only through their website in October 1998. The album contains re-masterings of highlights from their three independent albums: Dammit!, Hydroponic, and Unity. The majority of these songs predate S.A. Martinez's full-time membership in the band; as such, he does not appear as frequently as on later albums. Track listing Personnel Nick Hexum - guitar, vocals Tim Mahoney - guitar S.A. Martinez - vocals P-Nut - bass Chad Sexton - percussion, drums Jim Watson - guitar on This Too Shall Pass Production Producer: Tracks 1-8 produced by 311 & J.E. Van Horne Track 9 produced by 311 & Tom Lippold Mixing and Recording: Tracks 1-8 by 311 & J.E. Van Horne at Rainbow Recording Studios, Omaha, NE www.rainbowmusicomaha.com Track 9 by 311 & Tom Lippold at IEV Studios, Omaha, NE Tracks 1, 2, 3, and 9 re-mixed by Scotch Ralston Re-Mastering: Joe Gastwirt at Oceanview Art direction & design: Pawn Shop Press Photography: Nils Anders Erickson President:Rainbow Recording Studios www.rainbowmusicomaha.com Category:311 (band) albums Category:1998 albums |
2,351 | The Machine (film) | The Machine is a 2013 British science fiction thriller film directed and written by Caradog W. James. It stars Caity Lotz and Toby Stephens as computer scientists who create an artificial intelligence for the British military. Plot In the future, at an underground subterranean base, the United Kingdom only has a couple of weeks before the city of Taipei, Taiwan falls to the Chinese. The British need soldiers who are both fluent in Chinese dialect as well as ruthless killers. Scientists employed by Britain's Ministry of Defence produce a cybernetic implant that allows brain-damaged soldiers to regain lost functions. Scientist Vincent McCarthy sets up a cognitive test for soldier Paul Dawson, a recipient of the cybernetic implant to rehabilitate his left hemispherectomy. Upset with Dawson's inability to remember anything about his past and apparent lack of empathy, McCarthy ignores Dawson's requests to see his mother. Dawson turns hostile, kills a scientist and wounds McCarthy, before apologizing and being shot. Afterwards, Dawson's mother regularly stays on the road to the entrance of the secret base, though McCarthy denies that her son was ever there. McCarthy's research leads to a series of more stable cyborgs. Although they lose the capability for human speech, the cyborgs develop a highly efficient method of communication that they keep secret. When researcher Ava demonstrates her latest work in artificial intelligence, McCarthy recruits her by promising her unlimited funds for her research. Thomson, the director, is suspicious of Ava's countercultural politics and sympathy for Dawson's mother but he relents when McCarthy insists that she is the only one who can provide the necessary programme for their latest project, a self-aware and conscious android. McCarthy plans to use this technology to help his daughter Mary, who suffers from Rett syndrome, a neurological disorder. When she finds out, Ava volunteers to help and McCarthy maps her brain. During a demonstration of cybernetic arms that provide superhuman strength, amputee soldier James whispers a cry for help to Ava, who becomes suspicious of the treatment of the wounded soldiers. After she goes exploring in the base, McCarthy sternly warns her to avoid causing trouble. The warning comes too late and Thomson arranges to have her murdered by a Chinese MSS agent, who impersonates Dawson's mother. Grieved by the loss of Ava, McCarthy insists that they use her brain scan and likeness for the new project, whom they dub Machine. Machine turns out to be more human than they expected or even wanted; she shows regret when she accidentally kills a human and refuses orders that violate her sense of morality. As Thomson's demands on her grow more at odds with her morality, Machine becomes increasingly distressed and asks McCarthy to protect her. An antagonism grows between Thomson and McCarthy; Thomson promises that he will relent if McCarthy can prove that Machine is sentient. After Mary dies, Thomson uses her brain scans as leverage against McCarthy, threatening to destroy the scans, unless McCarthy excises Machine's consciousness. Machine, who has come to love McCarthy, offers to sacrifice herself for Mary and he removes a chip |
2,352 | Siegfried Reischies | Siegfried Reischies (10 July 1909 – 12 December 1982) was a German basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1936 Summer Olympics. References Category:1909 births Category:1982 deaths Category:German men's basketball players Category:Olympic basketball players of Germany Category:Basketball players at the 1936 Summer Olympics Category:People from Königsberg |
2,353 | Consideration in English law | Consideration is an English common law concept within the law of contract, and is a necessity for simple contracts (but not for special contracts by deed). The concept of consideration has been adopted by other common law jurisdictions, including the US. Consideration can be anything of value (such as an goods, money, services, or promises of any of these), which each party gives as a quid pro quo to support their side of the bargain. Mutual promises constitute consideration for each other. If only one party offers consideration, the agreement is a "bare promise" and is unenforceable. Value According to Currie v Misa , consideration for a particular promise exists where some right, interest, profit or benefit accrues (or will accrue) to the promisor as a direct result of some forbearance, detriment, loss or responsibility that has been given, suffered or undertaken by the promisee. Forbearance to act amounts to consideration only if one is thereby surrendering a legal right. "Past consideration is no consideration": consideration must be "executory" or "executed", but not "past"; that is, consideration must be supplied in the present or in the future, but things done beforehand cannot be good consideration. ex nudo pacto actio non oritur Dyer's case (1414) 2 Hen. 5, 5 Pl. 26 Lucy v Walwyn was an early case on the doctrine of consideration, concerning an executory contract where the plaintiff recovered damages for the loss of a bargain. Thomas v Thomas. was a case where £1 was seen to be good consideration for a widow to continue to live in her house after her husband's death. White v Bluett: Bluett, when sued by his father’s executors for an outstanding debt to his father, claimed that his father had promised to discharge him from it in return for him stopping complaining about property distribution. The Court held that the cessation of complaints was of no economic value; thus, Bluett’s father had received no real consideration for the promise, and the debt was enforceable at law. Currie v Misa Lush J. referred to consideration as consisting of a detriment to the promisee or a benefit to the promisor: "... some right, interest, profit or benefit accruing to one party, or some forbearance, detriment, loss or responsibility given, suffered or undertaken by the other." Bolton v Madden Blackburn J, "The general rule is that an executory agreement, by which the plaintiff agrees to do something on the terms that the defendant agrees to do something else, may be enforced if what the plaintiff has agreed to do is either for the benefit of the defendant or to the trouble or prejudice of the plaintiff." Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Co Ltd v Selfridge & Co Ltd: Lord Dunedin quotes the definition of Sir Frederick Pollock, "An act or forbearance of one party, or the promise thereof, is the price for which the promise of the other is bought and the promise thus given for value is enforceable." Adequacy For consideration to be good consideration, it must be of some value, even if it is minimal value. There is |
2,354 | Harlem riot of 1964 | The Harlem riot of 1964 occurred between July 16 and 22, 1964. It began after James Powell, a 15-year-old African American, was shot and killed by police Lieutenant Thomas Gilligan in front of Powell's friends and about a dozen other witnesses. Immediately after the shooting, about 300 students from Powell's school who were informed by the principal rallied. The shooting set off six consecutive nights of rioting that affected the New York City neighborhoods of Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant. In total, 4,000 New Yorkers participated in the riots which led to attacks on the New York City Police Department, vandalism, and looting in stores. Several protesters were severely beaten by NYPD officers. At the end of the conflict, reports counted one dead rioter, 118 injured, and 465 arrested. Background In the early 1900s appeared the first signs of resurgence in the north of Manhattan. After the construction of new subway routes that go as far as 145th street, speculators and real estate agencies took advantage of this opportunity and invested large sums of money in what is now called Harlem. Houses were bought and then sold over and over to a much higher price, upbringing the neighborhood for high-income households. By the year 1905, too many habitations had been constructed and many stayed uninhabited which led landlords to compete with each other lowering rents. To avoid the upcoming total financial destruction of the area, many housing buildings opened up to Black Americans. The next step to the creation of a black neighborhood was strengthened by the ever-increasing migration of blacks from southern states which resulted in the founding of the Afro-American Realty Company opening more and more homes for the black community. The "Negro" churches took over Harlem's development after the fall of the Afro-American Realty, being the most stable and prosperous black institutions of the now segregated area. They made their profit by selling properties at high price while relocating the neighborhood uptown. Consequently, the Church is the reason why Harlem was so prolific in the 20th century. In the early 1920s, many black American institution such as NAACP, Odd Fellows, and The United Order of True Reformers started moving their headquarters to Harlem which, with the continuous migration of blacks, received the name of "Greater Harlem". The cultural aspect of Harlem was predominated by jazz music and a very envious nightlife reserved for whites. Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong were part of "Greater Harlem" at the time. With its saturated concentration of Afro-American, public figures like Father Divine, Daddy Grace and Marcus Garvey started spreading their ideas of salvation for the negro community. After World War II, the rich portion of the "Harlem Negroes" moved to the suburbs. Tension within the neighborhood raised year after year between residents, welfare workers and policemen. In daylight, the neighborhood was quite charming, the architecture added a high-class cachet and children looked joyful playing in the streets. At night, it was quite the opposite. Homicides were six times more frequent than the average of New York City. Prostitution, junkies and muggers were part of Harlem's |
2,355 | Arem-arem | Arem-arem is an Indonesian-Javanese snack made of compressed rice cake in the form of a cylinder wrapped inside a banana leaf, filled with diced vegetables, tempeh or oncom, sometimes also filled with minced meat or abon (beef floss), and eaten as snack. Arem-arem is often described as a smaller size lontong snack with fillings, thus sometimes also called lontong isi (lit. "filled lontong"). It is a common snack in Java, and commonly found in Indonesian marketplaces as jajan pasar ("market munchies") as a type of kue (snack) offered there. Arem-arem is often served as traditional ceremony, family gathering, birthday, office meetings, and often presented in a snack box. It is quite similar to lemper, but use common rice instead of sticky rice lemper. Variants and fillings The rice is flavored with coconut milk, and stuffed with diced vegetables (carrot, common bean and potato), cooked minced meat (beef or chicken), abon (beef floss), or tofu, oncom and tempeh. There is a lot of arem-arem variants, mostly differ according to its fillings, the availability of ingredients, and also creativity of the creator. Arem-arem is usually uses thin young banana leaf as wrapper, a thin light yellow-green colored banana leaf. Lontong on the other hand, usually uses thicker mature banana leaf. The texture of arem-arem snack is usually softer compared to those of common lontong or sticky lemper, due to thinner banana leaf, addition of coconut milk and prolonged steaming or boiling period. See also Pastil Bakchang Burasa Lemper Lepet Tamale Onigiri References External links 15 variations of Arem-arem recipes (In Indonesian) Category:Javanese cuisine Category:Indonesian cuisine Category:Indonesian snack foods Category:Indonesian rice dishes |
2,356 | Christ Church Boys' Senior Secondary School | Christ Church Boys' Senior Secondary School(Estt 1870) is a private school in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India. It is an English medium school. The school has about 3000 students. The school functions under the Diocese of Jabalpur (Church of North India). History The Christ Church School had its beginnings in the vestry of Christ Church in 1870, and was then known as Christ Church School. The school was founded on 1 November 1876 by Rev. Drawridge. The school started with three students and now there are over 3,000 students at the school, and 101 members on the teaching and office staff.Mahant Swami Maharaj, the current president and the spiritual guru of [[BAPSSchool Web Site Swaminarayan Sanstha]] is a notable alumni of Christ Church Boys' Senior Secondary School. The school has a separate branch for girls, named as Christ Church Girls' Senior Secondary School. These two schools are located on the opposite side of the same road. Earlier, the school delivered co-education, but later, it was split up into Boys' and Girls' school, both being affiliated to Central Board of Secondary Education now. Earlier the school was affiliated to MPBSE (MP Board) and CISCE. ICSE is now functions as a separate wing named ICSE wing (Christ Church School for Boys and Girls) which delivers co-education. Sports and cultural activities The school has a special type of physical exercise termed as torchlight is a special highlight of the school. Since 1904 CE it is included in the annual sports in which burning torches are used to perform a scenic synchronised exercise. In 1928 D.V. Beatson added the Beatson exercise. Notable Alumni Kenneth Sturgeon ,John Buchanan,Mann Singh,David Devadasan. References External links {Schools Website} Category:Church of North India schools Category:Christian schools in Madhya Pradesh Category:High schools and secondary schools in Madhya Pradesh Category:Education in Jabalpur |
2,357 | De la fontaine | De la fontaine, De Lafontaine or Delafontaine may refer to: Mademoiselle De Lafontaine, also known as La Fontaine, (1655–1738), French ballerina regarded as the first female professional ballet dancer Agathe de La Fontaine (born 1972), French actress Benoît Mottet de La Fontaine (1745–1820), French officer in the navy and colonies ministry Christophe de la Fontaine (born 1976), industrial designer working and living in Germany Edmond de la Fontaine (1823–1891), Luxembourgian jurist, poet, and lyricist Gaspard-Théodore-Ignace de la Fontaine (1787–1871), Luxembourgish politician and jurist Jacques de Lafontaine de Belcour (1704–1765), French entrepreneur involved in various business ventures in New France Jean de La Fontaine (1621–1695), French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century Léon de la Fontaine (1819–1892), Luxembourgish lawyer, politician and botanist Marc Delafontaine (1837–1911), Swiss chemist who in 1878, along with Jacques-Louis Soret, first observed holmium spectroscopically Nicholas de la Fontaine, Protestant refugee in Geneva and secretary of John Calvin Pierre-Maximilien Delafontaine (1777–1860), French painter Robert le Maçon, Sieur de la Fontaine (c. 1534–1611), French Reformed minister and diplomat. See also Château de la Fontaine (disambiguation) |
2,358 | Christiane Mercelis | Christiane Mercelis (born 5 October 1931) is a Belgian former tennis player active in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1949, Mercelis won the Girls' Singles of the Wimbledon Championships. She competed every year at Wimbledon between 1951 and 1968, and at the French Open between 1952 and 1965. In the French Open, she reached the quarter-finals in 1957. Mercelis played for Belgium in the Federation Cup from 1963 to 1964 and from 1966 to 1969, losing all five singles matches, and winning two of her eight doubles matches. She is the oldest player to have played for Belgium at 37 years 231 days in her last doubles match against South Africa on 24 May 1969, which she won partnering Michele Kahn. In the Belgian Tennis Championships. she won 13 singles titles, 14 women's doubles titles, and 16 mixed doubles titles, of which 13 were partnering Jacky Brichant. Titles Mercelis won 17 singles and 17 doubles titles in official tournaments. Singles 1956: Nice 1957: Cannes, Nice, Aix-en-Provence 1959: Cologne, Moscow, Brussels 1960: Brussels, Kent 1961: Cannes, Brussels, Knokke, Hilversum) 1963: Le Touquet 1964: Brussels, Knokke 1965: Brussels Doubles 1955: Rome 1957: Nice, Antwerp 1960: Knokke, Gstaad 1961: Brussels, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Hilversum) 1962: Bremen, Cannes, Nice 1963: Ostend 1964: Knokke, Menton 1965: Knokke 1968: Oostende External links Category:1931 births Category:Living people Category:Belgian female tennis players Category:Grand Slam (tennis) champions in girls' singles Category:Place of birth missing (living people) Category:Wimbledon junior champions |
2,359 | Automaniac | Automaniac was a TV show hosted by former professional wrestler Bill Goldberg. In each episode, Goldberg told the story of a particular type of vehicle: its origins, its designers, etc. The show aired on Wednesdays at 11 PM EST/10 PM CST on The History Channel and was canceled in August 2005. External links The History Channel page for Automaniac Category:Automotive television series Category:History (American TV channel) original programming |
2,360 | Sekiyado Castle | is a Japanese castle located in Noda, northwestern Chiba Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Sekiyado Castle was home to the Kuse clan, daimyō of Sekiyado Domain. History Sekiyado is located at the confluence of the Tone River and the Edogawa River, and was thus a strategic location controlling river traffic in the northern Kantō region, as well as the northeastern approaches to Edo. A fortification was built on this location in the early Muromachi period by either Yadoya Mitsusuke (1395-1438) or Yadoya Shigesuke (d. 1512). It was destroyed during a campaign by the Later Hōjō clan of Odawara to conquer the Kantō region from 1565-1574. After the Hōjō clan was destroyed in the Battle of Odawara, they were supplanted by Tokugawa Ieyasu, the castle was reconstructed by Matsudaira Yasumoto in 1590. Under the Tokugawa Shogunate, the course of the Tone River was diverted in 1654 to prevent flooding in Edo. The new mouth of the Tone River was moved from Edo Bay to north of the Bōsō Peninsula, which greatly hindered river transportation. The daimyō of Sekiyado Domain, Itakura Shigetsune, took advantage of this situation to construct a canal joining the Tone River with the Edogawa River at Sekiyado, which greatly shortened the voyage and enhanced the revenues of his domain. When the castle was reconstructed in 1671, the new donjon was constructed as a copy of the three-story Fujimi Yagura of Edo Castle. With the Meiji Restoration, the new Meiji government ordered the destruction of all former feudal fortifications. The outer buildings of the castle had already been lost in a fire in 1870, and the remaining structures were abandoned in compliance with this directive in 1872, and pulled down by 1875. The current donjon was reconstructed in 1995 to boost local tourism and to function as an annex to the local Sekiyado Castle Museum. However, the reconstructed buildings are not on the original foundations, nor are the buildings historically accurate, as they have been modeled on “typical” examples from other castles. Literature External links Sekiyado Castle Jcastle Profile Sekiyado Castle Museum home page Category:Castles in Chiba Prefecture Category:Museums in Chiba Prefecture Category:History museums in Japan Category:Historic Sites of Japan Category:Former castles in Japan Category:Ruined castles in Japan |
2,361 | Kreis Wirsitz | Kreis Wirsitz was one of 14 or 15 Kreise (English: counties) in the northern administrative district of Bromberg, in the Prussian province of Posen. The county existed with essentially the same boundaries beginning in 1815 as a German Kreise then from 1919 as a Polish Powiat until 1975. Its administrative center was the town of Wyrzysk (Wirsitz). The county contained additional municipalities such as Bialosliwie, Lobzenica (Lobsens), Miasteczko Krajeńskie (Friedheim), Mrocza (Mrotschen), Nakło nad Notecią (Nakel), Sadki and Wysoka (Wissek) plus over 100 villages. Many villages that had Germanic names were changed to completely different Polish names following World War II, such as Radzicz (formerly Hermannsdorf). In 1954 the central government abolished the commune (Polish: gmina) as the smallest unit of government, dividing the county into 28 clusters. In 1973 municipalities were restored. After the administrative reform of 1975, the territory of the county was divided between the new (lower) region of Bydgoszcz and the region Piła. The territory of the defunct county was annexed by Naklo County, Kujawy-Pomerania Province and Pila County, Wielkopolska Province. The county was not restored in the year 1999 and Wyrzysk was incorporated into Pila County. History The area around the town of Wyrzysk, then part of the Duchy of Warsaw, became part of the Grand Duchy of Posen on May 15, 1815 as accorded at the Congress of Vienna. The rather titulary Grand Duchy of Posen, held by the Hohenzollern, the ruling family in the Kingdom of Prussia, was in fact an autonomous province within Prussia, but not belonging to those territories covered by the loose league called the German Confederation. Its constitutional peculiarity had been abolished on December 5, 1848 when it was converted into the Prussian Province of Posen, by way of which it was transformed into one of Prussia's regional subdivisions, but still no part of the German Confederation. On July 1, 1816 the county of Wyrzysk (German: Kreis Wirsitz) was formed. After a territorial reorganisation within the Kingdom of Prussia the borders of the Kreis Wirsitz were partly redrawn so that by January 1, 1818 the municipality of Kcynia (German: Exin) became a part of the neighbouring county of Schubin (Polish: Szubin). The town of Wyrzysk (German: Wirsitz) domiciled the county administration. Being an administrative unit of the Kingdom of Prussia the Kreis Wirsitz joined the newly founded North German Confederation in July 1867, becoming thereby for the first time part of a German commonwealth. By way of unification of German states the North German Confederation had been enlarged by southern German states and constitutionally reinforced to become a united Germany on January 18, 1871 with Kreis Wirsitz being part of it. The members of the German parliament (German: Reichstag) forming the Polish National Democratic Party (Polish: Stronnictwo Narodowo-Demokratyczne), led by Władysław Taczanowski (1825–1893), protested on April 1, 1871 in the parliament of the newly founded united Germany against Prussia joining with all her provinces united Germany. On December 27, 1918 the Uprising of Greater Poland started and involved most of the Prussian Province of Posen, where Germans, identifying themselves as being |
2,362 | Pioner, Amur Oblast | Pioner () is a rural locality (a selo) in Daktuyskoye Rural Settlement of Magdagachinsky District, Amur Oblast, Russia. The population was 30 as of 2018. Geography The village is located on north-east of the Amur–Zeya Plain, 30 km from Daktuy and 10 km from Aprelskoye. References Category:Rural localities in Amur Oblast Category:Rural localities in Magdagachinsky District |
2,363 | J.M. Olds Collegiate | J.M. Olds Collegiate is a high school located in Twillingate, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It currently has an enrollment of approximately 110 students and 12 teachers. It operates under the Newfoundland & Labrador English School District, formerly the Lewisporte-Gander School District. History The school is named after Dr. John McKee Olds who was born on March 27, 1906 and died September 6, 1985. Mr. Olds practiced medicine in the town of Twillingate for over 49 years. The school was originally called Central High but was renamed to J.M. Olds Collegiate on March 22, 1980. Derrick Dalley was the principal of the school for years but when he was elected as the MHA for The Isles of Notre Dame district in the 2007-2008 school year, former vice-principal Randy Pond took the temporary position of principal while French teacher Sheena Mills took the position of vice-principal. In the 2008-2009 school year, Paula Sweetapple is the principal and Randy Pond is the vice-principal again. Academics J.M. Olds Collegiate follows the standard Newfoundland and Labrador curriculum, offering both basic, or general courses and academic courses in senior high. The standard junior high curriculum includes English, Mathematics, General Science, French, German, Physical Education, Social Studies, Art and Music classes as well as other electives like Industrial Arts and Home Economics. The academic senior high school curriculum offers English, Math (academic and advanced), Canadian Geography, World Geography, Communications Technology, General Science, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, French, Art and Design, Fabrication, Human Dynamics, Applied Music and other electives. Athletics The school has a junior and senior volleyball, basketball, softball and hockey team, the Combines. The boys softball team has won two provincial banners and the boys volleyball team won a provincial banner at the school in 2008. The girls 3A Softball team won a provincial banner in 2008 in St. Mary's. Former student Travis Randell was drafted by the Halifax Mooseheads in Drummondville, Quebec in 2007. The school also has a weight room with free weights (dumbbells, barbells), machines and cardio equipment for strength and conditioning. See also Twillingate Island Elementary Twillingate NLESD References External links J.M. Olds Collegiate Category:High schools in Newfoundland and Labrador |
2,364 | 1854 in Wales | This article is about the particular significance of the year 1854 to Wales and its people. Incumbents Prince of Wales – Albert Edward Princess of Wales – vacant Events Late August Third cholera pandemic in Cardiff. 31 October — David Davies (Dai'r Cantwr) receives a conditional pardon for his role in the Rebecca Riots. 5 November — At the Battle of Inkerman, Hugh Rowlands carries out the actions that lead to his becoming the first Welshman to win the Victoria Cross. 11 November — In Australia, Welsh-born John Basson Humffray is elected the first president of the Ballarat Reform League. Betsi Cadwaladr volunteers to serve as a nurse in the Crimean War. Love Jones-Parry is High Sheriff of Caernarvonshire. The Telegraphic Despatch is published in Swansea, the first newspaper in Wales to come out more than once a week. A penny newspaper, the Herald Cymraeg, is founded at Caernarfon, with James Evans as editor. John Williams (Ab Ithel) becomes editor of the Cambrian Journal. Arts and literature New books English language Thomas Prichard — The Heroines of Welsh History Samuel Prideaux Tregelles — Account of the Printed Text of the New Testament Welsh language John Edwards (Eos Glan Twrch) — Llais o'r Llwyn: sef Barddoniaeth, ar Amryfal Destynau Samuel Evans (Gomerydd) — Y Gomerydd Owen Wynne Jones — Fy Oriau Hamddenol William Thomas (Islwyn) — Barddoniaeth Music David Richards — Y Blwch Cerddorol (collection of hymns and anthems) Births 1 January — Peter Morris, baseball player (died 1884 in the United States) 8 April — Robert Arthur Williams (Berw), clergyman and poet (died 1926) 17 April — Sir John Eldon Bankes, judge (died 1946) 30 April — William Critchlow Harris, Welsh-Canadian architect (died 1913) 10 July — John Lloyd Williams, botanist and composer (died 1945) 22 September — John Fox Tallis, mining engineer (died 1925) 16 December — J. D. Rees, colonial administrator (died 1922) Deaths 14 January — Charles Rodney Morgan, politician, 25 3 April — Edward Lloyd, 1st Baron Mostyn, politician, 85 10 April — William Edward Powell, politician, 66 29 April — Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, soldier and politician, 85 24 May — John Rowlands of Y Llys, alleged father of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, 39 12 November — Charles Kemble, actor, 79 28 December — Rowland Williams, clergyman and writer, 75 References Wales Category:1854 in Wales |
2,365 | Revolt of the Three Feudatories | The Revolt of the Three Feudatories, () also known as the Rebellion of Wu Sangui, was a rebellion in China lasting from 1673 to 1681 in the Qing dynasty (1644–1912) during the early reign of the Kangxi Emperor (r. 1661–1722). The revolt was led by the three lords of the fiefdoms in Yunnan, Guangdong and Fujian provinces against the Qing central government. These hereditary titles had been given to prominent Han Chinese defectors who had helped the Manchu conquer China during the transition from Ming to Qing. The feudatories were supported by Zheng Jing's Kingdom of Tungning in Taiwan, which sent forces to invade Mainland China. Additionally, minor Han military figures like Wang Fuchen and the Chahar Mongols also revolted against Qing rule. After the last remaining Han resistance was put down, the former princely titles were abolished. Background In the early years of the Qing Dynasty during the reign of the Shunzhi Emperor, central government authority was not strong and the rulers were unable to control the provinces in southern China directly. The government initiated a policy of "letting the Han Chinese govern the Han Chinese" (以漢制漢), which allowed some generals of the former Ming Dynasty who had surrendered them to help them govern the provinces in the south. This originated from the crucial contributions these generals had made in the decisive moments during the conquest of China. For instance, navy of Geng Zhongming and Shang Kexi brought about quick capitulation of Joseon in 1636, allowing rapid advance into Ming territories without worrying about what is behind. Defection and subsequent cooperation of Wu Sangui allowed swift capture and settlement of the Ming capital Beijing. In return, the Qing government had to reward their achievements and acknowledge their military and political influence. In 1655, Wu Sangui was granted the title of "Pingxi Prince" (平西王; "West Pacifying Prince") and granted governorship of the provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou. Shang Kexi and Geng Zhongming were granted the titles of "Pingnan Prince" and "Jingnan Prince" (both mean "South Pacifying Prince") respectively and were put in charge of the provinces of Guangdong and Fujian. The three lords had great influence over their lands and wielded far greater power than any other regional or provincial governors. They had their own military forces and had the authority to alter tax rates in their fiefs. The Three Feudatories In Yunnan and Guizhou, Wu Sangui was granted permission by the Shunzhi Emperor to appoint and promote his own personal group of officials, as well as the privilege of choosing warhorses first before the Qing armies. Wu Sangui's forces took up several million taels of silver in military pay, taking up a third of the Qing government's revenue from taxes. Wu was also in charge of handling the Qing government's diplomatic relationships with the Dalai Lama and Tibet. Most of Wu's troops were formerly Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong's forces and they were well-versed in warfare. In Fujian province, Geng Jingzhong ruled as a tyrant over his fief, allowing his subordinates to extort food supplies and money from the common people. |
2,366 | Harold Deeton | Harold Chester Deeton (July 16, 1882 – July 5, 1969) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and curler who was active in the early 1900s. Deeton played professional hockey for the Edmonton Professionals, a team that operated within the Alberta Professional Hockey League for the 1907–08 season and challenged twice for the Stanley Cup. Deeton was born in Plattsville, Ontario and died in Camrose, Alberta. Curling career Deeton won the Macdonald Brier in 1933, playing third for the Alberta team, skipped by Cliff Manahan. Ice hockey career Deeton played with the Edmonton Professionals in the APHL in the 1907–08 season and scored 18 goals and 25 points in 10 games that season. Late in December in 1908, prior to the start of the 1909 season, Edmonton Professionals challenged the reigning Stanley Cup champion Montreal Wanderers of the ECHA for the Cup. Edmonton called in a record number of six ringers for the two game series, amongst them Lester Patrick, Tommy Phillips and Didier Pitre, which forced all team regulars except Fred Whitcroft to the bench for the first game. Edmonton dropped the first game with a score of 3-7, and for the second game the club replaced two of its ringers with regulars Harold Deeton and Jack Miller. Deeton and Miller responded with three and two goals respectively and Edmonton won the second game 7-6, with Deeton scoring the game-winning goal on a rebound from a shot from teammate Steve Vair, but lost the Stanley Cup on total goals aggregate. In January 1910 the Edmonton Professionals again challenged for the Stanley Cup, this time against the Ottawa Senators of the newly formed NHA. Edmonton lost both games, 4-8 and 7-13, with a total score of 11-21. Deeton netted three of Edmonton goals in the series. Statistics Statistics from SIHR at sihrhockey.org References Notes Category:1882 births Category:1969 deaths Category:Canadian ice hockey forwards Category:Curlers from Ontario Category:Curlers from Alberta Category:Ice hockey people from Alberta Category:Ice hockey people from Ontario Category:People from Oxford County, Ontario Category:Canadian male curlers |
2,367 | Seol Ye-eun | Seol Ye-eun (born August 26, 1996 in Seoul, South Korea) is a South Korean curler from Uijeongbu. She currently plays lead for the South Korean National Women's Curling Team skipped by Gim Un-chi. Career Seol joined the Gim Un-chi rink in 2017. They didn't play that many events during the 2017–18 season but still found success finishing runner-up at the Prestige Hotels & Resorts Curling Classic to Rachel Homan and qualifying for the quarterfinals at the Colonial Square Ladies Classic, Karuizawa International and the Glynhill Ladies International. The team had a full schedule for the 2018–19 season with more than ten events and qualifying for the playoffs in five of them. They finished runner-up at the Gord Carroll Curling Classic and even played in the 2018 Tour Challenge Tier 2, losing out in the quarterfinals. In summer 2019, Team Gim would win the 2019 Korean National Curling Championship after stealing two in the tenth end of the final against Kim Min-ji. To start their tour season, her team had a quarterfinal finish at the 2019 Cameron's Brewing Oakville Fall Classic. They followed this by missing the playoffs at the 2019 Stu Sells Oakville Tankard, a semifinal finish at the 2019 AMJ Campbell Shorty Jenkins Classic and winning the 2019 KW Fall Classic posting a perfect 7–0 record en route to capturing the title. They missed the playoffs at their next two events, the 2019 Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic and the 2019 Canad Inns Women's Classic. At the 2019 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships, Seol and her team had a disappointing finish. After going 6–1 in the round robin, they lost the semifinal to China's Han Yu. This performance meant they didn't qualify Korea for the 2020 World Championship through the Pacific region and would have to play in the World Qualification Event for their spot in the World's. Next Team Gim competed in the 2019 Boundary Ford Curling Classic where they lost in the final to Kim Min-ji. Two weeks later, they played in the Jim Sullivan Curling Classic in Saint John, New Brunswick. It was another successful run for the rink as they went 7-0 through the tournament to capture the title. The Gim rink went undefeated at the World Qualification Event, going 7–0 in the round robin and defeating Italy in the 1 vs. 2 playoff game to qualify South Korea for the World Championship. The team was set to represent South Korea at the 2020 World Women's Curling Championship before the event got cancelled due to the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic. The World Qualification Event would be their last event of the season as the remaining two events (the Players' Championship and the Champions Cup Grand Slam events) were also cancelled due to the pandemic. Personal life Her twin sister Seol Ye-ji is the alternate on her team. Teams References External links Category:1996 births Category:Living people Category:Sportspeople from Seoul Category:Sportspeople from Gyeonggi Province Category:People from Uijeongbu Category:South Korean female curlers |
2,368 | Lisia Góra | Lisia Góra may refer to the following places: Lisia Góra, Lesser Poland Voivodeship (south Poland) Lisia Góra, Lubusz Voivodeship (west Poland) Lisia Góra, Kartuzy County in Pomeranian Voivodeship (north Poland) Lisia Góra, Słupsk County in Pomeranian Voivodeship (north Poland) Lisia Góra, West Pomeranian Voivodeship (north-west Poland) |
2,369 | Parish of Meringo (Narromine County) | Meringo is a civil parish of Narromine County in central New South Wales. The nearest town is Trangie. Meringo is on the Main Western railway line, New South Wales between Cathundral and Myall Mundi railway sidings. References Category:Central West (New South Wales) Category:Parishes of Narromine County |
2,370 | Turbo Ocho | Turbo Ocho is the fifth studio album released by Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers. It was released on April 29, 2008. Background January 4, 2008, Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers started an eight consecutive day audio/video chronicle. A revolutionary reality-recording experiment where the band and crew set up a studio in a seaside home in Rocky Point, Mexico and broadcast daily audio and video episodes of a song a day to thousands of fans back home in the United States. They created and shared, from inspiration to the final mix, 8 songs in 8 days. Three more fan favorites were added to the song lineup for the final physical release two months later. Track listing "I Speak Your Language" - 2:58 "State of the Art" - 3:50 "I Know You Know" - 2:45 "Summer Number 39" - 3:25 "Mercy" - 3:24 "I Can Drink the Water" -6:02 "I Do" - 3:40 "Persephone" - 3:22 "Manana" - 3:47 "Captain Suburbia" - 4:06 "Mexicosis" - 3:51 Category:2008 albums Category:Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers albums |
2,371 | Dainius Šuliauskas | Dainius Šuliauskas (born 27 August 1973) is a retired Lithuanian football defender, who last played for FK Sūduva during his professional career. He obtained a total number of nine caps for the Lithuania national football team, scoring one goal. Honours Lithuania Baltic Cup: 1991, 1997 Žalgiris Vilnius A Lyga: 1991–92 Lithuanian Cup: 1992–93, 1993–94, 1996–97 FBK Kaunas A Lyga: 1999 References Category:1973 births Category:Living people Category:Lithuanian footballers Category:Lithuania international footballers Category:Lithuanian expatriate footballers Category:FK Žalgiris players Category:FBK Kaunas footballers Category:GKS Bełchatów players Category:FK Inkaras Kaunas players Category:FK Sūduva Marijampolė players Category:FC Vilnius players Category:A Lyga players Category:Ekstraklasa players Category:Expatriate footballers in Poland Category:Lithuanian expatriate sportspeople in Poland Category:Association football defenders |
2,372 | Marloes Mere | Marloes Mere is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (or SSSI) in Pembrokeshire, South Wales. It has been designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest since November 1985 in an attempt to protect its fragile biological elements. The site has an area of 17.17 hectares and is managed by Natural Resources Wales. Type This site is notable for its wet acidic vegetation. It lies in a hollow on the Marloes peninsula lined with glacial silt and clay and each winter the pasture floods. Such pasture is rare in West Wales. Scarce plants occur and the shallow winter waters and ponds are frequented by waterfowl. The mere was common land until 1811; at that time Richard Fenton mentioned that it abounded in medicinal leeches (Hirudo medicinalis), from which the villagers derived a considerable trade. Rare species Rare plants include: three-lobed crowfoot (Ranunculus tripartitus) tubular water-dropwort (Oenanthe fistulosa) growing on the margins of the ditches, reservoirs and pools wintering wildfowl include wigeon, shoveler, pintail, teal and mallard the great green bush-cricket (Tettigonia viridissima), and the marsh fritillary butterfly (Euphydryas aurinia) six dragonflies including the emperor dragonfly (Anax imperator). See also List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Pembrokeshire References External links Natural Resources Wales website Category:Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Pembrokeshire |
2,373 | Ingain language | Ingain is an extinct Ge language of Brazil. Kimda may have been a dialect. Related "South Kaingáng" languages were: Guayana / Wayana / Gualachí / Guanhanan - extinct language once spoken between the Uruguay River and Paraná River, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Amhó or Ivitorocái - extinct language from Riacho Ivitoracái, Paraguay. Listed as separate from the Ingain cluster by Mason (1950). See also Kaingang language References Category:Jê languages Category:Extinct languages of South America Category:Languages of Brazil Category:Languages extinct in the 20th century |
2,374 | Rajakumari (TV series) | Rajakumari () is a 2013 Tamil soap opera that aired on Sun TV from 28 January 2013 to 7 June 2013 for 94 episodes. The show premiered on Monday January 2013. It aired Monday through Friday at 8:30pm IST. The show starring by Ramya Krishnan, Sarath Babu, Geetha, Nalini and Menaka. The show Directed by Raja, writer by S. Ashok Kumar and screenplay by R. Vijay. The show last aired on 7 June 2013 and ended with 94 episodes. It was also aired in Sri Lanka Tamil Channel on Vasantham TV. Plot Nilampari (Ramya Krishnan) wants to lead a simple and peaceful life. But people around her are having different motives. This causes lots of problems to her and she faces them with her positive energy and support from few faithful friends and relatives. Cast Ramya Krishnan as Nilambari Sarath Babu as Sivalingam Raja Krishnamoorthy as Mahalingam "Oorvambu" Lakshmi as Selvi Geetha as Lakshmi Mahalingam Nalini as Malliga Menaka as Durga Sivalingam Afser babu as Shankar Latha Rao as Manju Sidharath as Sanjay Ramesh as Kutty Pooja as Sujatha Bhuvana (Bhavana) as Prithi Sathish as Sathish Karthi as Pradeep Venkat as Kathirava Kaviya as Nandhini Ashritha Kingini as Deepa Nathan Shyam as Mahesh Vetrivel as Ramesh T.T.V.Ramanujam as Sami gurukal --as Rajagopal Lenin Anpan International broadcast The Series was released on 28 January 2013 on Sun TV. The Show was also broadcast internationally on Channel's international distribution. It airs in Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia, South East Asia, Middle East, United States, Canada, Europe, Oceania, South Africa and Sub Saharan Africa on Sun TV. The show's episodes were released on Vision Time Tamil YouTube channel from 19 May 2016. In Sri Lanka Tamil Channel on Vasantham TV. It aired Monday through Friday at 11:00AM SST. See also List of programs broadcast by Sun TV References External links Official Website Category:Sun TV television series Category:Tamil-language television soap operas Category:Tamil Nadu drama television series Category:2013 Tamil-language television series debuts Category:Tamil-language television programs Category:2013 Tamil-language television series endings |
2,375 | CD137 | CD137 is a member of the tumor necrosis factor (TNF) receptor family. Its alternative names are tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily member 9 (TNFRSF9), 4-1BB and induced by lymphocyte activation (ILA). It is of interest to immunologists as a co-stimulatory immune checkpoint molecule. Expression CD137 can be expressed by activated T cells, but to a larger extent on CD8 than on CD4 T cells. In addition, CD137 expression is found on dendritic cells, B cells, follicular dendritic cells, natural killer cells, granulocytes and cells of blood vessel walls at sites of inflammation. Specific effects on cells The best characterized activity of CD137 is its costimulatory activity for activated T cells. Crosslinking of CD137 enhances T cell proliferation, IL-2 secretion, survival and cytolytic activity. Further, it can enhance immune activity to eliminate tumors in mice. Interactions CD137 has been shown to interact with TRAF2. As a drug target Utomilumab Utomilumab (PF-05082566) targets this receptor to stimulate a more intense immune system attack on cancers. It is a fully human IgG2 monoclonal antibody. It is in early clinical trials. 5 clinical trials are active. See also 4-1BB ligand Urelumab References External links Further reading Category:Oncology Category:Immunology |
2,376 | Morris Mohawk Gaming Group | The Morris Mohawk Gaming Group (MMGG) is a business-to-business organization which concentrates particularly on the indigenous population of North America by providing technology services to Native-owned Casino industry in the region. A private company, the MMGG is headquartered in the Mohawk Territory of Kahnawake in Quebec, Canada – part of the seven communities that make up the Mohawk Nation. The MMGG operates pursuant to a remote gaming license issued by the Kahnawake Gaming Commission, and is authorized by that license to offer gaming services worldwide. The MMGG is led by its CEO Alwyn Morris, a member of the Mohawk nation in Kahnawake, and recipient of Order of Canada, the highest order that can be bestowed upon a Canadian civilian. According to a 2009 interview with CEO Alwyn Morris, following the passage of anti-online gambling legislation by the United States Congress in 2006, the original, Antigua-based Bodog gaming enterprise resolved to withdraw from the United States market. Seizing upon the opportunity, the MMGG then approached Bodog and negotiated an exclusive license to use the brand for the purposes of marketing the MMGG's online gaming services within that region. In July, 2011, Bodog Brand issued a press release announcing that the brand license arrangement with the MMGG would be terminated effective December 31, 2011. On December 14, 2011, the MMGG announced that it would no longer operate any Bodog-branded websites and transitioned all customers to its new site. Domain Names The MMGG originally licensed the www.bodog.com domain from Bodog as an element of their brand license arrangements, but this domain name was seized in September 2007 during a patent dispute between one of Bodog’s domain management suppliers and a company named 1st Technology LLC. In April 2009, the Morris Mohawk Gaming Group, though not a party to the litigation, settled the case with 1st Technology, acquired all of the seized domains, and returned its website to the original www.bodog.com domain. On May 23, 2011 the group announced its intention to allow its license agreement with BodogBrand.com for the Bodog.com domain to expire and that it had migrated its services to www.Bodog.eu. Alwyn Morris commented on the transition to the new domain, indicating that the .EU domain would "appeal more directly to the new markets we plan to enter". In December 2011, the group ceased operations of any Bodog-branded websites. In 2013, Alwyn stepped away from his role as an operator to focus solely on consulting and advising those looking to end in the newly regulated US gaming market. After more than eight years in the Kahnawake region of Quebec in Canada, the group terminated its operations in October 2015. References Category:Defunct gambling companies Category:Defunct poker companies Category:Gambling companies established in 2006 Category:Gambling companies disestablished in 2015 |
2,377 | PhiU53 holin family | The Firmicute Phage φU53 Holin (φU53 Holin) Family (TC# 1.E.13) consists of putative holins that range in size from 117 to 124 amino acyl residues (aas) in length and exhibit 3 transmembrane segments (TMSs) found in Firmicute phage. While annotated as holins, it appears as though many members of the φU53 holin family are not yet functionally characterized. A representative list of homologues can be found in the Transporter Classification Database. See also Holin Lysin Transporter Classification Database Further reading Chandry, P. S.; Moore, S. C.; Boyce, J. D.; Davidson, B. E.; Hillier, A. J. (1997-10-01). "Analysis of the DNA sequence, gene expression, origin of replication and modular structure of the Lactococcus lactis lytic bacteriophage sk1". Molecular Microbiology 26 (1): 49–64. . . Saier, Milton H.; Reddy, Bhaskara L. (2015-01-01). "Holins in Bacteria, Eukaryotes, and Archaea: Multifunctional Xenologues with Potential Biotechnological and Biomedical Applications". Journal of Bacteriology 197(1): 7–17. . . . . Wang, I. N.; Smith, D. L.; Young, R. (2000-01-01). "Holins: the protein clocks of bacteriophage infections". Annual Review of Microbiology 54: 799–825. . . . References Category:Protein families Category:Membrane proteins Category:Transmembrane proteins Category:Transmembrane transporters Category:Transport proteins Category:Integral membrane proteins Category:Holins |
2,378 | Dismorphia lewyi | Dismorphia lewyi is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found from Venezuela to Bolivia. The wingspan is . Subspecies The following subspecies are recognised: Dismorphia lewyi lewyi (Colombia) Dismorphia lewyi nasua (C. & R. Felder, 1861) (Venezuela) Dismorphia lewyi leonora (Hewitson, 1869) (Ecuador) Dismorphia lewyi boliviensis Röber, 1909 (Bolivia) Dismorphia lewyi dolorita Fassl, 1910 (Colombia) Dismorphia lewyi rebecca Lamas, 2004 (Peru) References Category:Dismorphiinae Category:Butterflies described in 1852 Category:Pieridae of South America |
2,379 | Taishan | __NOTOC__ Taishan may refer to: Mount Tai or Taishan (), Shandong, China Taishan, Guangdong (), a county-level city of Jiangmen, Guangdong, China Greater Taishan Region (), a region in Guangdong consisting of the cities of Taishan, Kaiping, Xinhui, Jiangmen, Enping and Heshan Taishan District, Tai'an (), a district in Tai'an, Shandong, China Taishan District, New Taipei (), a district in New Taipei, Taiwan Subdistricts in China Taishan Subdistrict, Nanjing (), in Pukou District, Nanjing, Jiangsu Taishan Subdistrict, Xuzhou (), in Quanshan District, Xuzhou, Jiangsu Taishan Subdistrict, Jilin City (), in Fengman District, Jilin City, Jilin Province Towns in China Taishan, Henan (), in Huojia County, Henan Taishan, Baicheng (), in Da'an, Jilin Townships in China Taishan Township, Gansu (), in Liangdang County, Gansu Taishan Township, Jiangxi (), in Anfu County, Jiangxi See also Daishan County, Zhejiang, China Taishanese, a dialect of Yue Chinese and a sister dialect of Guangzhou Cantonese Taishanese people, the people who reside in or have ancestry in the Greater Taishan Region Shandong Luneng Taishan F.C., a Chinese football club based in Jinan, Shandong Taishan Commandery, historical commandery of China Tai Shan (disambiguation) Taishang (disambiguation) |
2,380 | Al Khari | Al Khari is the name of a settlement in Ras Al Khaimah, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Category:Villages in the United Arab Emirates Category:Populated places in Ras Al Khaimah |
2,381 | Deirdre O'Connell (actress) | Deirdre O'Connell (born December 30, 1951) is an American character actress who has worked extensively on stage, screen, and television. O'Connell began her career at Stage One, an experimental theatre at the Boston Center for the Arts. She made her Broadway debut in the 1986 revival of The Front Page, and was nominated for the 1991 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in the off-Broadway production Love and Anger. She is the recipient of two Drama-Logue Awards and a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for her stage work in Los Angeles. O'Connell made her screen debut in Tin Men. Additional film credits include State of Grace, Straight Talk, Leaving Normal, Fearless, City of Angels, Hearts in Atlantis, Imaginary Heroes, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Wendy and Lucy, What Happens in Vegas, Secondhand Lions, and Synecdoche, New York. O'Connell's first television credit was Fernwood 2 Night in 1977. She was a regular on L.A. Doctors and has made numerous guest appearances on series such as Kate & Allie, Chicago Hope, The Practice, Six Feet Under, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and Nurse Jackie. From 1994-2010, O'Connell appeared on six episodes of Law & Order, four of them as Dr. Valerie Knight, Anita Van Buren's oncologist in Season 20. Awards and nominations Ovation Awards 2010: Won the award for Featured Actress in a Play for the role of Judy in the Center Theatre Group production of "The Wake" Filmography Film Television References External links Deirdre O'Connell at the Lortel Archives Category:1951 births Category:Living people Category:American stage actresses Category:American film actresses Category:American television actresses Category:Place of birth missing (living people) Category:21st-century American actresses Category:20th-century American actresses |
2,382 | 1 FTS | 1 FTS may refer to: 1st Flying Training Squadron, United States No. 1 Flying Training School RAF, United Kingdom No. 1 Flying Training School RAAF, Australia |
2,383 | George Ward (priest) | George Herbert Ward (1862–1946) was Archdeacon of Wisbech from 1924 to 1945. Ward was educated at Malvern and Hertford College, Oxford and became an Assistant Master at St Paul's School, London. He was ordained Deacon in 1893 and Priest in 1894; and served as Curate of St Matthias, Earl's Court until 1898. He was Headmaster of All Saints’ School, Bloxham from 1898 to 1914 when he became Rector of Hilgay. He was Proctor in Convocation for the Diocese of Ely from 1922 to 1935. He died on 1 May 1946. Notes Category:1862 births Category:People educated at Malvern College Category:Alumni of Hertford College, Oxford Category:Archdeacons of Wisbech Category:1946 deaths |
2,384 | Encyclopaedia Cambrensis | The Encyclopaedia Cambrensis or Y Gwyddoniadur Cymreig was the most ambitious encyclopedia in the Welsh language. It was published in ten volumes between 1854 and 1879 by Thomas Gee on his press in the town of Denbigh, Gwasg Gee. The general editor was John Parry, Gee's brother in-law and lecturer at the College of Bala. It remains the largest paper publication in Welsh today. The project cost for Gee was about £20,000 which was equivalent to £1,000,000 in 2009. Description The Encyclopaedia Cambrensis includes nearly 9,000 pages in double columns. While the number of articles relating to the Bible and theology is significantly higher than expected in such a reference work today, it also includes a large number of biographical articles, articles on Welsh history and literature, science, geography and other Celtic nations. Among the numerous contributors were Owen Morgan Edwards and John Morris-Jones. The article that the latter contributed on the Welsh language was used as a basis for his A Welsh Grammar, Historical and Comparative. References Category:1854 books Category:Welsh-language encyclopedias Category:19th-century encyclopedias Category:National encyclopedias |
2,385 | NGC 2506 | NGC 2506 is a mildly-elongated open cluster of stars in the equatorial constellation of Monoceros, located at a distance of from the Sun near the Galactic anti-center. It was discovered by William Herschel in 1791. The cluster lies around from the Galactic Center and about above the Galactic plane. It is of intermediate age, estimated at around two billion years. The cluster has an angular radius of and a core radius of . At least 94 probable members have been identified within the field of NGC 2506 based upon their radial velocities. Compared to the Sun, the cluster is moderately metal-poor with an iron abundance of [Fe/H] = –0.3 dex. It shows indications of mass segregation, with the lower mass members being more likely to be in the outer parts of the cluster. This is the result of exchange of kinetic energy during encounters between the members. Twelve blue straggler stars have been located in the cluster, with three of them showing short-period oscillation. Fourteen Gamma Doradus variables have been found, as well as two detached eclipsing binaries, and three Delta Scuti stars. References External links NGC 2506 NGC 2506 2506 054 Category:Astronomical objects discovered in 1791 |
2,386 | Asshole (album) | Asshole, the second solo album by Kiss's Gene Simmons, was released in 2004 on Sanctuary Records. Its controversial title does not appear on the front cover. On the side of the CD case the title reads "asshole". "It's just another way of me saying, 'I don't care what anyone says about me," he declared. "I'm preempting what people say and therefore diffusing the power of my detractors." The album contains songs by Simmons based on work by Bob Dylan and Frank Zappa, among others. Dave Navarro plays guitar on the Prodigy cover "Firestarter". Production "Black Tongue" was based on an unfinished song of the same name composed by Frank Zappa. Simmons licensed a recording of Zappa playing the initial riff and built a new composition around it, with playing by Dweezil Zappa and backup vocals by Dweezil, Ahmet Zappa, Moon Unit Zappa and Frank Zappa's widow, Gail. Track listing The Japanese edition featured two bonus tracks: Everybody Knows and You're My Reason For Living. Personnel Gene Simmons, vocals. Rhythm guitars and bass on track 3, bass on tracks 1, 7, 10, 11 Mark Addison, drums, bass, keyboards, guitar, background vocals on track 5 Michelle Casio, background vocals on track 8 Dan Cuprier, drums on track 8 Jeff Diehl, keyboards on track 7 Zachary Grant, background vocals on track 7 Richie Kotzen, guitars on tracks 10, 11 Bruce Kulick, guitars on tracks 1 & 3 Brian LeBarton, piano on track 8 Hollad McRae, lead guitar on track 8 Dave Navarro, guitar on track 2 Kylie O'Brien, background vocals on track 7 Chris Parrish, background vocals on track 11 Steve Parrish, background vocals on track 11 Thomas Ruud, lead guitar, rhythm guitar on track 6 Eric Singer, drums on tracks 1 & 3 Nina Singh, drums, guitar, percussion, background vocals on track 5 Frank Albin Tostrup, drums, bass, rhythm guitars, percussion on track 6 Louise Tweed, background vocals on track 8 Shannon Tweed, background noise on track 8 Nick Tweed Simmons, background vocals on track 11 Sophie Tweed Simmons, background vocals on track 7 Nira Weiss, background vocals on track 8 Dave Williams, background vocals on track 8 Ahmet Zappa, background vocals on track 10 Dweezil Zappa, guitar solo, background vocals on track 10 Frank Zappa, guitars, voice on track 10 Moon Zappa, background vocals on track 10 Gail Zappa, background vocals on track 10 Charts References Category:Gene Simmons albums Category:2004 albums Category:Sanctuary Records albums Category:Albums produced by Gene Simmons |
2,387 | List of forestry universities and colleges | This is a list of tertiary educational institutions around the world offering bachelor's, master's or doctoral degrees in forestry or related fields. Where noted, the country's accreditation board standard has been used and cited. They are grouped by continent. (For educational institutions with forestry technician or professional certificate programs see: List of forestry technical schools.) Africa Algeria Abou Bark Belkaïd University - Tlemcen Benin Faculty of Agronomic Sciences, National University of Benin National School of wildlife and Protected Areas Management of Kandi, University of Parakou Burkina Faso Institute of Rural Development (IDR), Polytechnic University of Bobo-Dioulasso Life and Earth Sciences (UFR/SVT), University of Ouagadougou Cameroon The National Forestry School of Cameroon, location: Mbalmayo, the centre region of Cameroon French Abbre.: Ecole Nationale des Eaux et Forêts de Mbalmayo Côte d'Ivoire College of Agronomy, Félix Houphouët-Boigny National Polytechnic Institute, Yamoussoukro Egypt Forestry and Wood Technology Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Alexandria University. Ethiopia Burie College of Forestry, Debremarkos University Haramaya College of Forestry, Haramaya University Wollo University Wondo Genet College of Forestry and Natural Resources, Hawassa University Ghana Department of Renewable Natural Resources, University for Development Studies Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Faculty of Forest Resources Technology Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources Department of Wood Science and Technology School of Natural Resources, University of Energy and Natural Resources, Guinea Higher Institute of Agronomy and Veterinary Studies, Faranah Kenya Department of Forestry, University of Eldoret Kenya Forestry College (Londiani) Kenya Forestry Research Institute Madagascar Department of Water and Forests, School of Agronomy, University of Antananarivo Malawi Malawi College of Forestry and Wildlife ( Certificate and Diploma Program) Bunda College of Agriculture, University of Malawi Department of Forestry, Mzuzu University Morocco National School for Forest Engineers (ENFI Rabat-Salé) Mozambique Department of Forestry Eduardo Mondlane University Nigeria Department of Forestry and Wildlife Resources Management, Cross River University of Technology Department of Forestry and Wildlife, Delta State University, Abraka Department of Forest Resources and Wildlife Management, Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti Department of Forestry Technology, Federal College of Forestry, Ibadan Department of Forestry and Wood Technology, Federal University of Technology Akure Department of and Wildlife Technology, Federal University of Technology, Owerri Department of Forestry and Environmental Management, Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike Department of Forestry and Wildlife Management, University of Agriculture, Abeokuta Department of Forest Production and Products, University of Agriculture, Makurdi Department of Forestry and Wildlife, University of Benin Department of Forestry and Wildlife Resources Management, University of Calabar, Calabar Department of Forest Resources Management, University of Ibadan Department of Forest Resources Management, University of Ilorin Department of Forestry and Wildlife, University of Maiduguri Department of Forestry and Wildlife Management, University of Port Harcourt Forestry and Wildlife, University of Uyo Forestry and Wildlife, Uthman dan Fodiyo University, Sokoto Senegal Institute of Environmental Sciences, Cheikh Anta Diop University Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Agriculture de Thiès (ENSA), University of Thiès, Thiès South Africa Department of Forest and Wood Science, Faculty of AgriSciences, University of Stellenbosch Department of Forestry, Fort Cox College of Agriculture and Forestry, King William's Town Department of Forestry, School of Agriculture, University of Venda, |
2,388 | Joanne Weaver | Joanne Weaver [″Joltin' Jo″] (December 19, 1935 – March 19, 2000) was a right fielder who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at , 142 lb., she batted and threw right-handed. Overview profile One of the most talented hitters in AAGPBL history, Joanne Weaver was the youngest of three sisters to play for the Fort Wayne Daisies in the final years of the league. Weaver often outdid her renowned sister, Betty Weaver Foss, as a power hitter, winning three consecutive batting titles and setting several all-time records. At this point, the Weaver-Foss duet led the AAGPBL in most major offensive categories between 1952 and 1954. A three-time All-Star, Joanne earned Player of the Year honors in 1954, when she hit a .429 average to set an AAGPBL single-season record. Besides this, her .429 mark was the highest Professional American Baseball batting average collected by any player in a single season in a minimum of 300 at-bat appearances. Early life A native of Metropolis, Illinois, Joanne Weaver was the daughter of minor league pitcher Lloyd Weaver and Elsie (Dummeier) Weaver. At the age of 11, she began playing softball with her sisters Betty and Jean. Their father tried to get them to play on a local boys' baseball team, with little success, until he managed to insert them into the Magnavox team of the Chicago industrial league, a successful fastpitch softball squad in which they finally started to play regularly. In 1950, Betty rejected a contract offer from the Chicago White Sox minor league system and opted to sign with the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Betty was allocated to the Fort Wayne Daisies and her sisters joined her on the team a year later. AAGPBL career Joanne Weaver debuted at third base with the Daisies in the 1951 season. She hit .276 in 53 games, showing a smooth, quick swing with good speed and above average base running instincts. Her fielding was the only skill lacking. Meanwhile, her sister Betty won batting titles in back-to-back seasons in 1950 and 1951, helping Fort Wayne to make the playoffs in these years. Weaver's performance exploded in her second season. After moving to right field in 1952, she led all hitters with a .344 average, surpassing her sister Betty (.331), who led five offensive categories and earned the Player of the Year Award, while Joanne did not rank high in any other category. Both sisters were selected for the All-Star Team and helped Fort Wayne advance to the playoffs. Weaver improved her fielding considerably in 1953, when she finished the year with a .952 average. Her hitting stayed about the same, which was good enough to win another batting title with a .346 average, ending second to Betty in total bases (187) and hits (142, two behind). Joanne also finished third in runs (79), stolen bases (70), and runs batted in (76). Fort Wayne added another playoff trip, and she made the All-Star Team again. During the 1954 midseason the AAGPBL reduced the ball from 10.00 inches to the major |
2,389 | Ukrainian school | In Polish poetry, the Ukrainian school were a group of Romantic poets of the early 19th century who hailed from Ukraine, on the southeastern fringes of the Polish-inhabited lands of the time (this period followed the partition of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth). The poets—Antoni Malczewski, Józef Bohdan Zaleski, Tomasz Padura and Seweryn Goszczyński—produced a distinct style of Polish Romanticism through the incorporation of Ukrainian life, landscapes, history, political events, and folklore into their works. They in turn influenced both Lithuanian and Ukrainian Romantic poetry, and, along with other Polish poets, constituted a link between the various literatures of the post-partition Commonwealth. References External links Ukrainian School in Polish literature at the Encyclopedia of Ukraine Category:Polish poetry Category:19th century in Poland * Category:Poland–Ukraine relations Category:Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria Category:Poetry movements Category:Romantic nationalism Category:19th-century literature |
2,390 | Presidency Council of Iraq | The Presidency Council of Iraq was an entity that operated under the auspices of the "transitional provisions" of the Constitution of Iraq and previously under the Transitional Administrative Law. The Presidency Council functioned in the role of the President of Iraq until one successive presidential term after the ratification of the Constitution and a government was seated. The Presidency council consisted of one President and two deputies, or Vice-Presidents, and the Presidency Council must have made all decisions unanimously. The members of the Presidency Council were elected with "one list" by a two-thirds majority in the Iraqi Council of Representatives. The Presidency Council had the right to veto legislation passed by the Council of Representatives which may have overrode the veto with a three-fifths supermajority. Under the TAL the override required a two-thirds supermajority. History The first Presidency Council was elected by the National Assembly on 6 April 2005, after more than two months of negotiations between the United Iraqi Alliance and Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan political factions. Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani became President, with Shi'ite UIA and SCIRI member Adil Abdul al-Mahdi and outgoing Sunni President Ghazi al-Yawar as his deputies. The second Presidency Council, the first under the new Constitution of Iraq, consisted of President Jalal Talabani, and Vice Presidents Adil Abdul al-Mahdi and Tariq al-Hashimi. References See also President of Iraq Category:Politics of Iraq Category:Government of Iraq |
2,391 | Araldo Caprili | Araldo Caprili (10 September 1920 – 9 January 1982) was an Italian professional football player. References External links Profile at Enciclopediadelcalcio.it Category:1920 births Category:1982 deaths Category:People from Viareggio Category:Italian footballers Category:Serie A players Category:Juventus F.C. players Category:S.S.D. Lucchese 1905 players Category:Spezia Calcio players Category:U.S. Città di Pontedera players Category:Association football defenders |
2,392 | Midlothian Coalfield | The Midlothian Coalfield is a coalfield in southeast Scotland situated immediately to the east and southeast of Edinburgh. It is geologically continuous with the East Fife Coalfield beneath the Firth of Forth though the undersea coal reserves have only been partly exploited. There were undersea workings extending from Prestonlinks Colliery. The sulphur content of the majority of Midlothian coals is less than 1% making it especially suitable for modern requirements. Geology The following seams were worked. They are shown in rough stratigraphical order thought not all seams are present throughout the coalfield. Those shown in bold were worked to the greatest extent: Within the Scottish Coal Measures Group (Middle and Lower Coal Measures): Clayknowes Coal (Musselburgh) Splint Coal (Musselburgh) Rough Coal Beefie Coal Musselburgh Jewel Coal Golden Coal Little Splint Coal Cowpits Five Foot Coal Glass Coal Salters Coal Musselburgh Nine Foot Coal Musselburgh Fifteen Foot Coal Pinkie Six Foot Coal Musselburgh Seven Foot Coal Eskmouth Extra Coal Within the Upper Limestone Formation: South Parrot Coal Within the Limestone Coal Formation: Great Seam Coal Gillespie Coal Blackchapel Coal Kittlepurse Coal Peacock Coal South Bryans Splint Coal Stony Coal Ball Coal Loanhead No 1 Coal Corbie Coals Andrews Coal South Coal North Coal Stairhead Coal Within the Lower Limestone Formation North Greens Coal Within the West Lothian Oil-Shale Formation Houston Coal various oil-shale horizons Monktonhall Colliery was abandoned in 1997 and Blinkbonny mine adit was sealed in 2003 so bringing to an end a long history of deep-mining of coal within the coalfield. Opencasting has continued at various sites since then including Blinkbonny, Oxenfoord, Gourlaw and Newbigging Farm. References Category:Coal mining regions in Scotland Category:Geography of Midlothian |
2,393 | 2006 Football League Championship play-off Final | The 2006 Football League Championship play-off Final was an association football match played at the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff on 21 May 2006. It determined the third and final team in the 2005–06 football season to be promoted to the Premier League, the highest division in the English football league system. It was the last play-off final to be held at the Millennium Stadium, as the new Wembley Stadium was completed in time for the 2007 final. The final featured Watford, who had finished third in the Championship, and Leeds United, who finished fifth. In the semi-finals, Leeds and Watford defeated Preston North End and Crystal Palace respectively. Watford won the match 3–0, with opening goalscorer Jay DeMerit named man of the match. Leeds goalkeeper Neil Sullivan scored an own goal to make the score 2–0 to Watford after 60 minutes, and the final goal was a penalty kick scored by Darius Henderson which assured Watford promotion to the Premier League. Route to the final Watford finished the 2005–06 Football League Championship in third place with 81 points, two places and 3 points above Leeds. In the play-off semi-finals, Watford faced Crystal Palace, who had finished in sixth position. The first leg was held at Crystal Palace's ground, Selhurst Park, on 6 May 2006. Goals from Watford players Marlon King, Ashley Young and Matthew Spring gave them a 3–0 win. The second leg at Watford's Vicarage Road stadium finished 0–0, thus giving Watford a 3–0 aggregate victory and a place in the final. Leeds' semi-final opponents were Preston, who had finished the Championship season in fourth position. Leeds hosted the first leg, but it was Preston who took the lead with a goal from David Nugent in the 48th minute. Eddie Lewis equalised for Leeds in the 74th minute to salvage a 1–1 draw. In the second leg, at Preston's home Deepdale, Rob Hulse and Frazer Richardson scored for Leeds, handing them a 2–0 win on the day and a 3–1 aggregate victory. Match Details Statistics References 1 Category:EFL Championship play-off finals Playoff Final 2006 Playoff Final 2006 play |
2,394 | International Indian School, Al-Jubail | International Indian School, Al-Jubail (IISJ ), formerly known as the Embassy of India School, is an Indian international school in Al-Jubail. It was established on 30 November 1987. See also Jubail List of international schools Indians in Saudi Arabia References External links Category:Indian international schools in Saudi Arabia |
2,395 | Pillbox | Pillbox may refer to: Pill organizer, a container for medicine Pillbox hat, a woman's hat with a flat crown, straight upright sides, and no brim Pillbox (military), concrete dug-in guard posts Pillbox affair, a 1939 British political and military controversy |
2,396 | Emmi (Finnish singer) | Emmi is a Finnish singer-songwriter who sings in English. She was born on October 10, 1979 in Vilppula, Finland. She became famous thanks to her single Breakable, which was released in February 2001. In May 2001 her second single Crashing Down and her debut album Solitary Motions were released. Two other quite well known songs from that album are Green Car and Solitary Motions. She was nominated as the Best Nordic Act by MTV Europe Music Awards in 2001. However, the award was won by the Danish band Safri Duo. There are two versions of Emmi's second album No Nothing. The first one was released only for Finnish market in October 2002. The second one was released for international as well as Finnish market in early 2003. The differences between the versions are the order of songs and the fact that the second version contains two tracks that are not contained in the first version, namely Into The World and World Is Crazy. Conversely, the song Toss Me Down is contained in the first version but not in the second one. The single Eileen was released in 2005. On October 5, 2005, Emmi's third album Can Full of Joy was released. References External links The official site of Emmi (in Finnish only) Category:1979 births Category:Living people Category:People from Mänttä-Vilppula Category:Finnish female singers Category:Finnish pop singers Category:Finnish songwriters Category:21st-century Finnish singers Category:21st-century women singers |
2,397 | John Harvey (ironfounder) | John Harvey was a Cornishman whose career started as a blacksmith and engineer at Carnhell Green near Hayle, in west Cornwall. In 1779 he established a foundry and engineering works at Hayle called Harvey & Co. By 1800 the company employed more than 50 people and continued to grow as Harvey worked with many of the great Cornish engineers and entrepreneurs of the day. These included Richard Trevithick, William West, and, more importantly, Arthur Woolf. In 1797, Harvey's daughter, Jane, married Richard Trevithick. Harvey & Co. built up a reputation for world class stationary beam engines designed to pump water out of the deep Cornish tin and copper mines. The Cornish beam engine became world-famous and was exported overseas, and remains the largest type of beam engine ever constructed; the largest of all, with a cylinder which powered eight separate beams, was used to drain the Haarlemmermeer in the Netherlands—it is preserved in the Museum De Cruquius. Harvey's also produced a range of products, from hand tools to ocean-going ships including the . The company was expanded by John's son, Henry, in collaboration with Arthur Woolf, who was the chief engineer. At that time it was the main mining engine foundry in the world, with an international market served through their own port at Foundry Town, Hayle. Harvey's of Hayle reached their peak in the early- to mid-19th century and then, along with the Cornish mining industry in general, suffered a gradual and slow decline. Harvey's acquired the Cornish Copper Company in 1875. The engineering works and foundry were closed in 1903, although the company continued to trade as a general and builders merchant, eventually merging with UBM to become Harvey-UBM in 1969. List of ships See also Mining in Cornwall and Devon Hayle and Bristol Steam Packet Company References Edmund Vale The Harveys of Hayle. Truro: D. B. Barton, 1966 External links Harvey's of Hayle Category:1730 births Category:Cornish inventors Category:Cornish engineers Category:People from Hayle Category:Year of death unknown Category:Year of birth unknown |
2,398 | List of German consuls in Jerusalem, Jaffa, Haifa and Eilat | List of Consuls in Jerusalem, Jaffa, Haifa and Eilat from German states. Prussia, the North German Confederacy and thereafter Germany maintained diplomatic missions in the Holy Land. The Jerusalem consulate was based on 57 Street of the Prophets at the corner with Wallenberg Street, Jerusalem. The Consulate also had affiliated vice-consulates in Jaffa and Haifa. The aim of the consulates was to represent the respective German states in the Holy Land or parts thereof. After Nazi Germany started the Second World War the consulates closed. In 1965 official diplomatic relations were established between the 1948 founded Israel and the 1949 founded West Germany. Since there is a German embassy in Tel Aviv, and later, as its affiliates, honorary consulates opened in Haifa and Eilat. List of consuls in Jerusalem as of 1842 Prussian consuls Before being elevated to a consulate of its own in 1845, the Prussian diplomatic mission in Jerusalem was a vice-consulate affiliated to the Prussian consulate in Ottoman Beirut. Occasionally consuls were personally ranked as consul general. 1842–1845: 1845–1851: as consul of Jerusalem 1852–1867: Dr. Georg Rosen 1867–1869: Prof. Julius Petermann North German consul In 1869 the Prussian consulate was taken over by the newly founded North German Confederacy. 1869–1871: (till 21 June 1871 for the North German Confederacy), personally ranked consul general German consuls and consuls general On 22 June 1871 the North German consulate was taken over by the newly founded Germany. In 1872 the consular ambit comprised the Ottoman districts of Akka, Balqa-Nablus and Jerusalem. Consuls were occasionally personally ranked as consul general, however, only in 1913 the Jerusalem consulate was elevated to consulate general.<ref name="Löffler 2008 127">Roland Löffler, Protestanten in Palästina: Religionspolitik, sozialer Protestantismus und Mission in den deutschen evangelischen und anglikanischen Institutionen des Heiligen Landes 1917-1939, (=Konfession und Gesellschaft; vol. 37), Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2008, p. 127. </ref> After the British conquest of Jerusalem in 1917 and the German defeat in 1918 only in 1926 the consulate general reopened. 1871–1873: Georg Friedrich August von Alten (since 22 June 1871 for Germany), personally ranked consul general 1873–1874: Chancellor Otto Kersten, per pro 1874–1881: (1835–1909) 1881–1885: Dr. Julius Reitz 1886–1899: Dr. Paul Andreas von Tischendorf (1847–1914), as of 1898 personally ranked consul general 1899–1900: Dr. Friedrich Rosen 1901–1916: Edmund Schmidt (1855–1916), as consul general since 1914 1916–1917: Dr. Johann Wilhelm Heinrich Brode (1874-1936) as consul general 1917–1926: The Spanish consulate took care of the German citizens 1921–1925: Karl Kapp (1889-1947) as German vice-consul attached to the Spanish consulate, 1936-1941 consul in Cleveland 1925–1932: Dr. Erich August Karl Nord (1889-1935) as consul general 1933–1935: 1936–1939: (1884-1945), as consul general 1939–1945: The Swiss consulate took care of the German citizens List of consuls in Jaffa as of 1872 Before the formal establishment of a vice-consulate, affiliated to the Jerusalem consulate, there were consular agents, affiliated to the consulate in Beirut. In 1872 the mission in Jaffa was elevated to a vice-consulate, advancing again in 1914 to consulate, remaining throughout affiliated to the Jerusalem consulate (general; as of 1913). With the British conquest of Jaffa in 1917 the consulate closed. |
2,399 | Dudley Southern By-Pass | The Dudley Southern By-Pass is a major road located in Dudley, a large town in the West Midlands of England. It was first proposed in 1987 due to growing traffic congestion in Dudley town centre, but the go-ahead was not given until 1993, with preliminary work beginning in 1994 with the clearance of land to make way for the new road, with a targeted completion date of 1998. The clearance scheme to make way for the by-pass saw the demolition of two houses and the bus garage on Birmingham Road, a public house on Hall Street, Goodyear's factory on Oakeywell Street, and two houses on Stourbridge Road. The Dudley Southern By-Pass was opened on 15 October 1999. It runs from Castle Gate island to Stourbridge Road in the Holly Hall area of the town, and forms part of the A461 road between Stourbridge and Lichfield. The road became Duncan Edwards Way in 2008, in memory of the local football legend who died in 1958 as a result of injuries sustained in the Munich air disaster. Category:Transport in Dudley Category:Roads in the West Midlands (county) |
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