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Don't Do Me Like That
"Don't Do Me Like That" is a 1979 song by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and is the leading single from their third studio album Damn the Torpedoes. It went to number 3 in Canada, number 10 in the United States (their only top 10 hit) and number 17 in New Zealand. It did not chart in the United Kingdom.
Sergeant
Sergeant is a rank used in most militaries, police forces, and other uniformed organizations around the world. The word comes from the Latin serviens, "one who serves", through the French term Sergent.
A sergeant (Sgt) in the British Army wears three point-down chevrons, or "checks" on their sleeve. They usually serves as a platoon, troop, or group sergeant, or in a specialist position.
A Lance-Sergeant (LSgt) was originally a Corporal doing the work of a Sergeant. The job is now used mostly in the Guards, where it is given to all Corporals. A Lance-Sergeant in the Guards and Honourable Artillery Company wears three chevrons, and is considered senior or higher up to "normal" Corporals. For most purposes, he still remains a Corporal rather than an acting Sergeant (e.g., he will typically command a section). In the Household Cavalry, the same rank is Lance-Corporal of Horse.
The official spelling was Serjeant (Sjt) (still used by The Rifles) until after World War II, although the modern spelling had already been in common use for many years.
A Perfect Couple
A Perfect Couple is a 1979 romantic–comedy movie co-written and directed by Robert Altman and starring Paul Dooley, Marta Heflin, Titos Vandis, Belita Moreno, Dennis Franz and Joel Crothers. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox.
Peter Benchley
Life
He was the son of Marjorie (née Bradford) and author Nathaniel Benchley and grandson of Algonquin Round Table founder Robert Benchley. His younger brother, Nat Benchley, is a writer and actor. Peter Benchley was an alumnus of Allen-Stevenson School or now known as The Allen-Stevenson School, Phillips Exeter Academy, and Harvard University.
Benchley died of pulmonary fibrosis on February 12, 2006 in Princeton, New Jersey.
1990 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 6
The 1990 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 6 was a qualifying group for the 1990 FIFA World Cup. Spain and the Republic of Ireland were the two teams that qualified.
Marco's Pizza
Marco's Pizza, operated under Marco's Franchising, is an American restaurant chain and interstate franchise. It is based in Toledo, Ohio. It does Italian-American cuisine.
As of mid-2017, there are more than 800 franchised Marco's Pizza eateries in 34 U.S. states, India and Puerto Rico.
In 2016 Marco's Pizza was ranked number ten under the Pizza Today list of the Top 100 Pizza Companies of the United States.
The company was founded in 1978 in Oregon, Ohio, which is a suburb of Toledo.
International Music Score Library Project
The International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP), also known as the Petrucci Music Library after publisher Ottaviano Petrucci, is a project for the creation of a virtual library of public domain music scores, based on wikis.
Meerhout
Meerhout is a municipality in the Belgian province of Antwerp.
In 2007, 9463 people lived there.
It is at 51° 07 North, 05° 04 East.
Mentha
Mentha (mint) is a genus of about 25 species (and many hundreds of varieties) of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae (Mint Family). Mint leaves are used for flavoring, such as in mint chocolate chip ice cream, mint chutney, and mint tea.
Gerhard Berger
Gerhard Berger, (born August 27, 1959 in Wörgl) is an Austrian former Formula One racing driver, who used to own 50% of the Scuderia Toro Rosso Formula One team until he sold his share back to energy drink owner Dietrich Mateschitz.
Parves-et-Nattages
Parves-et-Nattages is a commune in the Ain department of east France, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. The municipality started on January 1, 2016. The two old communes Parves and Nattages to make the new commune.
Fandango (wrestler)
Curtis James Hussey (born July 22, 1981) is an American professional wrestler. He currently wrestles for the WWE. He competes under the ring name Fandango. He was also known by the ring name Johnny Curtis when he competed on the fourth season of NXT, which he won. He first competed for Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW), where was a two-time Florida Tag Team Champion with Tyler Reks and Derrick Bateman.
Fleurance
Fleurance is a commune in the Gers department in southwestern France.
Sudan People's Liberation Movement
Sudan's people liberation army (SPLA) and Sudan's people liberation movement is a political party in South Sudan. It was founded as a resistance movement / rebel group in 1963. As Sudan's people liberation army, it fought against the Sudanese government, in the Sudanese Civil War. This war ended in 2005. Officially, the movement wanted to create a free secular Sudan, which it called "New Sudan". In reality, however, many people in the movement wanted to create an independent state, South Sudan. In 2005, there was a peace treaty. From that moment, until 2011, the SPLM was part of the Sudanese government. Since the independence of South Sudan in 2011, the SPLM is de facto the only party in the country. In the south, the SPLA will become the regular army. In the north, the SPLM is still part of the government. In the provinces South Kordofan and Blue Nile, the SPLA is one of the armies fighting the government.
Meeuwen-Gruitrode
Meeuwen-Gruitrode is a former municipality in the Belgian province of Limburg. On 1 January 2019, Meeuwen-Gruitrode and Opglabbeek were merged into the new municipality of Oudsbergen.
In 2007, 12611 people lived there.
Wilna, New York
Wilna is a town in Jefferson County, New York, United States. The population was 6,427 at the 2010 census.
Nancy Grace
Nancy Ann Grace (born October 23, 1959 in Macon, Georgia) is an American TV host, attorney and author. She hosts a celebrity TV show (also titled as Nancy Grace Live). She often discusses issues from what she calls a victim rights' standpoint.
Donkey vote
A donkey vote is when someone puts numbers on an election ballot paper in the same order that the candidates are listed. For example, if a ballot paper had J. Smith on the top line, M. Doe on the middle line and N. Citizen on the bottom line, and the voter put a 1 beside J. Smith, a 2 beside M. Doe and a 3 beside N. Citizen, that would be called a donkey vote. Donkey votes are counted in election results because a person could have wanted to vote in that way, the votes are formal, a number is placed in all boxes.
Collonges-sous-Salève
Collonges-sous-Salève is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in eastern France. It is on the Swiss border.
White Iverson
"White Iverson" is a 2015 debut single by American rapper Post Malone and is the lead single from his debut studio album Stoney. It went to number 14 in the United States, number 41 in Canada, number 71 in Portugal and number 91 in Ireland. It has over one billion views on YouTube.
Grace Andrews
Grace Andrews (May 30, 1869 – July 27, 1951) was an American mathematician.
Andrews got her undergraduate degree from Wellesley College in 1890. She got a master's degree from Columbia University in 1899 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1901. She was one of only two women listed in the first edition of American Men of Science, which appeared in 1906. Charlotte Angas Scott, was the other female mathematician.
She worked as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics for Barnard College from 1900 to 1902. She then worked as accountant to the treasurer for Wesleyan University from 1903 to 1926.
John Charles Haines
John Charles Haines (May 26, 1818 – July 4, 1896) served as mayor of Chicago, Illinois (1858–1860) for the Democratic Party.
Haines was born on May 26, 1818 in Deerfield, New York. Haines died on July 4, 1896 in Waukegan, Illinois, aged 78.
Edward C. Aldridge Jr.
Edward "Pete" Cleveland Aldridge Jr. (born August 18, 1938) is an American politician. He has served in many top U.S. Defense Department and defense industry jobs, including as Under Secretary of the Air Force from 1981 to 1986, Director of the National Reconnaissance Office 1981-1988, and as the Secretary of the Air Force from 1986 to 1988.
Injustice: Gods Among Us
Injustice: Gods Among Us is a fighting video game. It was developed by NetherRealm Studios and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. It is the first main game in the Injustice series based on characters from DC Comics.
Neuenburg am Rhein
Neuenburg am Rhein is a town in Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Daylighting
Daylighting is where natural light comes through windows, skylights and other openings.
Jerry Taft
Jerry Taft (March 14, 1943 – July 23, 2020) was an American meteorologist and weather presenter. He was chief meteorologist for WLS-TV in Chicago. He worked for 34 years with WLS, and for 42 years as a broadcast meteorologist in the Chicago area. He retired in January 2018.
Taft died on July 23, 2020 in Chicago, aged 77.
Augustus Garrett
Garrett was born in 1801 in New York City, New York. He was married to Elize Clark. They had no children. Garrett died on November 30, 1848 in Chicago, Illinois from a heart attack, aged 47.
James Blunt
James Blunt (born James Hillier Blount, 22 February 1974) is an English singer-songwriter whose debut album, Back to Bedlam, and single releases, especially "You're Beautiful", brought him to fame in 2005. His repertoire is a mix of pop, rock and acoustic-tinged soft rock. Recording for Linda Perry's independent American label Custard Records, Blunt won two BRIT Awards and two Ivor Novello Awards, and was nominated for five Grammy Awards in 2006. He released his second album All The Lost Souls, in 2007. James Blunt was also in the British Army until 2002.
Meise
Meise is a municipality in the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant.
James Blunt
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Arthur Ryan
Arthur Ryan (1935 – 8 July 2019) was an Irish businessman. He was known as the founder of Primark. In 2009, Ryan gave up his day-to-day control of the firm as chief executive but became chairman instead. Ryan was born in Dublin.
Ryan died at the age of 83 following from a short illness in Dublin.
Meise
In 2007, 18545 people lived there.
It is at 50° 56 North, 04° 19 East.
Surah Yusuf
Surah Yusuf (يوسف,Yūsuf); is the 12th surah of the Muslim religious book, the Qur'an, with 111 verses and 12 verses. Surah Yusuf in Makkah Revealed. Although the events of the other prophets are mentioned in different surahs of the Qur'an, only the events of Yusuf are narrated in full continuity in Surah Yusuf of the Qur'an. Between world history and past experience lies a great lesson for the future life of man. The normal response to these teachings is deeper than normal education in the human mind and brain. That is why the Qur'an, sent as the latest guide for the whole human race, contains selected chapters of the history of the nations of the world, which are effective instruments for the present and future correction of mankind.
Gladys Anslow
Gladys Amelia Anslow (1892-1962) was a physicist who worked at Smith College.
Anslow got her undergraduate degree and Master's from Smith College. She then got a Doctor of Philosophy from Yale University in 1924. She got the President's Certificate of Merit for service during World War II.
Kingdom
A kingdom is the most common type of monarchy. This means that the ruler or head of state) of the country is a king. They get their position from inheritance. With some countries a female may become head of state as a queen.
When the current king or queen dies, then their eldest child becomes the new monarch.
For example, the United Kingdom has a king as head of state. His mother Queen Elizabeth II was, at the time of her father's death, his only child.
Not all countries have this system. Many countries today have no royal family. In their case, the head of state is a leading politician.
Andrea Lloyd
Andrea Lloyd (b. August 10, 1971 in Rastatt, Baden-Württemberg, Germany) was in the 1996 Summer Olympics. She won a Bronze medal for Jamaica in the 4 X 100 metres Relay.
Lloyd attended high school in Camperdown. She studied at the University of Alabama. Her personal best is 11.36 seconds in the 100 metres which came in 1996.
Badge
A badge is a device, patch, or accoutrement which is given and/or can be displayed to indicate some feat of service. It can be for a special accomplishment, a symbol of authority granted by taking an oath (e.g., police and fire). It may also be a sign of legitimate employment or student status, or as a simple means of identification. They are also used in advertising and publicity.
Interior point method
Interior point methods are algorithms to solve certain optimization problems. They have been used to find solutions in linear programming and quadratic programming problems. Interior point methods can be used when the solution is a convex set. The problem can then be restated as minimizing or maximizing a linear function over this set of solutions. They are called interior point methods, because they approximate the convex set from the inside. Interior point methods are often used because they have a better runtime behavior than the algorithms commonly used with linear programming. Because the sequence of values will converge towards a barrier, they are also known as barrier methods.
Seed of Chucky
Seed of Chucky is a 2004 American comedy slasher movie. It is the fifth installment of the Child's Play series, and sequel to 1998's Bride of Chucky. The movie was written and directed by Don Mancini, who created the series.
The movie, shot in Romania, continues the series' evolution from horror to a horror-comedy. It was the last Child's Play movie to be released in theaters, with all future installments to be released direct to DVD.
Henry Silva
Henry Silva (September 23, 1926; September 14, 2022) is an American movie and television actor. He is known for his roles as Chunjin in The Manchurian Candidate (1962) and as the voice of Bane in Batman: The Animated Series. Silva died on September 14, 2022, nine days before his 96th birthday, at the Motion Picture & Television Fund home in Los Angeles.
Republican In Name Only
Republican In Name Only or RINO is a word for people who are in the Republican Party of the United States but believe things and want to pass laws that are different from most Republicans. RINO is a pejorative term, meaning it is an insult that other Republicans or conservatives use for people whom they think should not count as Republican. In the 1800s and 1900s people said "republican in name only" when talking about governments of countries that said they let people elect their own leaders, like in a real republic, but really ruled regardless of what the people wanted.
In 1964, Senator Barry Goldwater refused to run for President as a moderate because "Extremism in the pursuit of justice is no vice and moderation in the service of conscience is no virtue."
Biochar
Carbon sink
Biochar is made from organic material known as biomass. Biomass is mostly made from carbon. Carbon in biomass is captured from carbon dioxide in the air by plants. This means that when biochar is made carbon that was once in the air is made into a solid material. Biochar can last a very long time in soil and even longer in containers.
Republican In Name Only
In 1976, Ronald Reagan challenged President Gerald Ford for the nomination of the Republican Party to run for President and insisted on a conservative platform instead of Ford's moderate position.
Biochar
Carbon sink
Some people propose making biochar to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas that traps heat in the atmosphere, causing climate change. If a lot of biochar were made then there would be less carbon dioxide in the air, meaning less heat would be trapped. This is known as a carbon sink, because the carbon is sunk or put into a long lasting material instead of floating in the air.
Republican In Name Only
In 1993, an article in a newspaper claimed that President Bill Clinton should be pleased that the United States Congress was being won by Democrats and RINOs.
Biochar
Soil amendment
When biochar is made the biomass it is made from has most of its material removed. This means that biochar is very light and filled with tiny holes. These holes can hold water and nutrients which act as food for plants growing in biochar. Biochar can be soaked in nutrients to "charge" it which makes it a very good soil additive or fertilizer. The holes in biochar can also trap toxins which make water unsafe.
Biochar was used by people in the Amazon to make their poor quality soil better for growing food. This made the soil very dark and the dark soil can still be seen today.
Slash-and-char
In some rainforest places the forests are cleared for farming. When the forests are cleared they are usually cut down and burned. This process is called slash-and-burn and doesn't leave very many nutrients in the soil. If the forests were cleared and turned into biochar rather than burned the soil would have more nutrients. This is known as slash-and-char and would make the soil better for farming.
Eran Zahavi
Eran Zahavi (or Zehavi, ערן זהבי; born 25 July 1987) is an Israeli professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or as a striker. He plays for Dutch club PSV Eindhoven and the Israel national team.
Biochar
Commercial sector
Biochar is mainly sold by fertilizer companies to people who grow plants. This may change. There are many tons of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere which is causing climate change. Many countries have agreed that this is a problem. In the future it may cost money to release carbon dioxide. If people who remove carbon dioxide are paid then there could be businesses which remove carbon dioxide for money. One way a business like that could remove carbon dioxide is by growing plants and turning them into biochar. This removes a large amount of carbon dioxide and could be very profitable in the future.
Lamiales
The order Lamiales is a taxon in the asterid group of dicotyledonous flowering plants. It includes about 11,000 species divided up into about 10 families. A few well-known members of this order are the lavender, the lilac, the olive, the jasmine, the ash tree, the teak, the snapdragon, and a number of table herbs such as mint, basil, and rosemary.
Eran Zahavi
Zahavi won Israeli Footballer of the Year twice (2013 and 2014), and finished as the top goalscorer of the Israeli Premier League for three seasons in a row (2013–14 29 goals, 2014–15 27 goals and 2015–16 35 goals, all-time league record). In 2016, he broke the Israeli league sixty-year-old record, scoring the most goals in a single season, beating the 1954–55 record. He was named the 2017 Chinese Super League MVP, and broke the league's single-season scoring record in 2019. Zahavi has played for the national team since 2010, earning over 65 caps.
Club
Hapoel Tel Aviv
Maccabi Tel Aviv
Motukarara
Motukarara is a settlement in the Selwyn District and Banks Peninsula. It is located on State Highway 75 and on the northeast of Lake Ellesmere/Te Waihora. It has a Racecourse for horse racing.
Linked list
In computer science, a linked list is a data structure that is a linear collection of items whose order is not given by their physical placement in memory. Instead, each item links to the next item. The last item links to a terminator used to mark the end of the list.
Singly linked list
A singly linked list whose items have two fields: a value and a link to the next item
Doubly linked list
A doubly linked list whose items have three fields: a value, the link forward to the next item, and the link backward to the previous item
Circular linked list
A circular linked list
Valérie Cornetet
Valérie Cornetet is a French General officer. From July 2022 to May 2023, she is the director-general of the Institut Polytechnique des Sciences Avancées (French private aerospace university).
Cornetet graduated from the ENSTA Paris in 1990 and École Polytechnique in 2006. She started as Product Development Manager for Saint-Gobain. In 2011, she is nominated Head of Innovation Management and Intellectual Property for Siemens. Then, she became Product Manager for Mov'eo, the INRETS and Sopemea. In 2020, he joined higher education as deputy head of Institut Polytechnique des Sciences Avancées. In July 2020, she became head of the College.
Stephen Bathory
Stephen Báthory (27 September 1533 – 12 December 1586) was a Hungarian Prince of Transylvania (1571–1586), then King of Poland (1576–1586) and Grand Duke of Lithuania (1576–1586).
Gourgen Yanikian
Kourken Megerdich Yanigian (Գուրգեն Մկրտիչ Եանիկեան, December 24, 1895, Erzurum, Ottoman Armenia - March 27, 1984, USA) was an Armenian terrorist who killed two Turkish consular officials in California in 1973. His stated purpose was "to demand justice" for the Armenian Genocide.
He was sentenced to life in prison in July 1973 and paroled in 1984, over the objection of the Turkish government.
After Yanigian's death, District Attorney David D. Minner wrote: "Looking back, I regret that I did not allow the genocide to be proven. Not because Yanigian should have gone free, but because history's darkest chapters - its genocides - should be exposed, so their horrors are less likely to be repeated".
Savoureuse
The Savoureuse is a river in eastern France; it is the principal river running through the Territoire de Belfort.
Geography
The Savoureuse has a length of 41.2 km, and a drainage basin with an area of approximately 248 km2.
Its average yearly discharge (volume of water which passes through a section of the river per unit of time) has been measured in three places:
Kevin McCarthy
Kevin Owen McCarthy (born January 26, 1965) is an American politician. He is the 55th and current Speaker of the House of Representatives since 2023. He is a member of the Republican Party. Before becoming speaker, he was the House minority leader of the United States House of Representatives from 2019 to 2023. He is the U.S. representative for California's 23rd District.
Bab Mansour
Bab Mansur al-'Alj or Bab Mansour (also variously spelled as Bab Mansour al-'Ilj, Bab Mansour al-Eulj, Bab el-Mansour, Bab Mansur, etc)  (also known as Bab Mansour Laleuj) is the main gate of the Old Town of Meknes in Morocco. It is one of the largest and most impressive gates in the country. Together with the "outer square (El Hedim Square)", it is considered the country's business card. The gate is located in front of El Hedim Square which is considered to be the most popular square in Morocco.
Savoureuse
Course
The Savoureuse starts on the Ballon d'Alsace, southern Vosges Mountains, in the commune of Lepuix, Territoire de Belfort department, at an elevation of about 1190 m.
Kevin McCarthy
2015 speaker campaign
On September 25, 2015, John Boehner announced his intention to resign as speaker of the House effective October 30, 2015. Many media outlets speculated that McCarthy would likely replace him. He was the presumptive successor to Speaker John Boehner.
Savoureuse
Course
It flows from north to south through the Territoire de Belfort department. At Nommay, the river gets into the Doubs department where it joins, in the commune of Étupes near the city of Sochaux, the Allaine river, a tributary of the Doubs river at about 317 m of altitude. The Savoureuse flows through one region (Bourgogne-Franche-Comté), 2 departments and 18 communes:
Main tributaries
The main tributaries of the Savoureuse river are:
Bab Mansour
History
The door was designed by a Christian who converted to Islam whose name was "Mansur". Hence the gate's name: "Mansur Gate". The gate structure has been part of the Meknes protected heritage since 1914 and since 1996 has been used as a World Heritage Site along with the Old Town of Meknes.
Hohentengen am Hochrhein
Hohentengen am Hochrhein is a municipality in Waldshut in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Shaheen falcon
It is a non-migratory subspecies of the peregrine falcon found mainly in hilly and mountainous regions of the Indian subcontinent and the nearby island of Sri Lanka. In Pakistani literature, the shaheen has a special association with the poetry of the country's national poet, Allama Muhammad Iqbal. The Pakistan Air Force has as a symbol and in Gilgit-Baltistan it is the unofficial bird of the region.
Russell A. Alger
Russell Alexander Alger (February 27, 1836 – January 24, 1907) was an American politician and businessman. He served as the 20th Governor of Michigan, U.S. Senator, and U.S. Secretary of War. He was also a army officer, financier, lumber baron and railroad owner.
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Russell A. Alger
Childhood
Russell Alexander Alger was born on February 27, 1836, in Lafayette, Ohio. His parents were Russell and Caroline Alger (née Moulton).
Bab Mansour
Geography
The gate structure separates the outer square called Al-Hadim Square. It is adjacent to the Old City wall of Meknes, from the inner square called Lela Awda Square. It served as the "Royal Order Ground". Next to the gate within the walls are the Royal Order Stables, the Royal Prison, and the Meknes City Museum. It is decorated with green ceramics designed with Islamic motifs. The white pillars are columns that used to stand in the Roman city: "Volibilis", which is about 30 km north of the city.
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Russell A. Alger
Childhood
His parents died in 1848, leaving Russell the oldest of three orphan children, without money and with a brother and sister to care for and support. He got used to working for the neighbors for a small quantity of resources or a few pennies a day even before the death of his parents, who were very poor.
Early career
He now found homes for his brother and sister and secured work for himself on a farm, his remuneration being his board, clothes and the privilege of attending school three months out of the year. He attended Richfield Academy in Summit County, Ohio, and taught country school for two winters.
Kevin McCarthy
2015 speaker campaign
On September 28, McCarthy formally announced his candidacy for Speaker of the House. Having held congressional office for less than nine years, McCarthy would have been the least experienced Speaker since 1891. On October 8, 2015, McCarthy dropped out of the race for Speaker of the House.
Meix-devant-Virton
Meix-devant-Virton is a municipality in the Belgian province of Luxembourg.
Savoureuse
Main tributaries
Left tributaries:
Right tributaries:
Meix-devant-Virton
In 2007, 2675 people lived there.
It is at 49.605°N, 5.48°W.
Dowry
A dowry (also known as trousseau or tocher) is the money, goods, or estate that is given to a woman at the time of her marriage. A dowry creates a fund for her support in case her husband dies. The dowry eventually goes to her sons and daughters of this marriage. At different times in history, a dowry was needed to prove that the marriage was real. Sometimes the woman controlled her dowry throughout her life. Other times, her husband took control of the dowry.
Dowry started as gifts that were handed out to the bride at the time of marriage to make her stay at in-laws place more comfortable. It has hence taken an ugly turn, many parts of India still have a high incidence of dowry demands. Dowries have been illegal in India since 1961, but 90% of Indian marriages still have them. Many people still continue dowry system for their own uses. Some states with a very poor reputation with regards to dowry are - Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, and Tamil Nadu. This is a sad reality in Indian marriages and has gone unchecked. 35,493 brides were killed in India between 2017 and 2022 for bringing in insufficient dowry.
Russell A. Alger
Early career
He studied law in Akron, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar in March 1859. He first began to do law in Cleveland. In 1860, he moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan and engaged in the lumber business.
American Civil War
Alger enlisted as a soldier in the American Civil War on September 2, 1861. He served as a captain and major in the 2nd Michigan Cavalry Regiment. In three years, he served in 66 different battles and skirmishes
Battle of Boonville
On July 11, 1862, at the Battle of Boonville, Alger tried to attack the Confederate rear with ninety men but he was wounded and taken prisoner, but escaped the same day and the Confederate forces were soundly defeated.
On October 16, he was made lieutenant colonel of the 6th Michigan Cavalry.
1863 and 1864
On February 28, 1863, he was made colonel of the 5th Michigan Cavalry. His command was one of the very first to enter Gettysburg on June 28.
On July 8, 1864, Alger was severely wounded while chasing the Confederates at Boonesborough, Maryland.
Alger participated in General Sheridan's Valley Campaigns of 1864 in Virginia. On June 11, 1864, at Trevillian Station, he captured many Confederate soldiers with his cavalry charge.
Brevet
Alger left the army on September 20, 1864. On January 13, 1866, President Andrew Johnson made Alger a brevet brigadier general on June 11, 1865, and the U.S. Senate confirmed the award on March 12, 1866. On February 28, 1867, President Johnson nominated Alger for the award of the grade of brevet major general of volunteers to rank from June 11, 1865, and the U.S. Senate confirmed the award on March 2, 1867.
Grand Army of the Republic
In 1868, he was elected the first commander of the Michigan department of the Grand Army of the Republic. In 1889, he became the Grand Army's National Commander-in-Chief. He was also a member of the Michigan Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States.
Lumber baron
After the American Civil War, Alger lived in Detroit as head of Alger, Smith & Company and the Manistique Lumbering Company. His holdings included a great pine forest on Lake Huron covering over 100 sqmi and producing more than 75000000 board feet of lumber by the year.
In order to transport the lumber, Alger led his company to create the Detroit, Bay City and Alpena Railroad, of which Alger served as president.
At the turn of the 20th century, he and Florida landowner Martin Sullivan established the Alger-Sullivan Lumber Company, which milled lumber in Foshee, Alabama and Century, Florida.
Political life
Alger was active in politics as a Republican. In 1866, he was a delegate to the party's Wayne County convention and its state convention. In the late 1860s, Alger was a leader of the Boys in Blue, an organization of veterans made to support Republican policies and candidates. In October 1872, Alger was a vice president of the assembly that organized a Republican event which featured a speech by James G. Blaine and served as the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
In early June 1880, Alger was a delegate to a huge meeting of Union veterans which met in Chicago to make a plan for supporting Republican candidates in that year's elections. In mid-June, he presided over the Republican meeting in Detroit which was organized to approve the results of the 1880 Republican National Convention, which had been held earlier in the month.
Governor of Michigan
In 1884, Alger was elected Governor of Michigan and served from January 1, 1885, to January 1, 1887. Highlights of his term included creation of the state board of pardons, the founding of a veterans home in Grand Rapids, the creation of two new counties (Alger and Iron), and creation of the Michigan College of Mines. Alger declined renomination in 1886.
Alger's name was placed in nomination for president at the 1888 Republican National Convention. He got 142 votes, with 416 necessary to win, but Benjamin Harrison got the nomination and then became president. After the election, Alger served as a presidential elector for Harrison.
Secretary of War
On March 5, 1897, Alger was appointed Secretary of War in the Cabinet of President William McKinley.
As Secretary, Alger wanted pay increases for military personnel serving at foreign embassies and legations, legislation to authorize a Second Assistant Secretary of War, and a constabulary force for Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines.
Spanish–American War
He was criticized for the poor preparation and inefficient operation of the department during the Spanish–American War, especially for making William R. Shafter the leader of the Cuban expedition. "Algerism" became an epithet to describe the claimed incompetence of the army, especially as compared to the more stellar performance of the navy.
Alger left at President McKinley's request, August 1, 1899. He published a personal history of the war, titled The Spanish–American War, in 1901.
Rivalry with John S. Mosby
John Singleton Mosby accused Alger of placing a feud against him during Alger's tenure as War Secretary. Mosby had been a Confederate soldier during the American Civil War. After that, he became a Republican and supported Presidents Ulysses S. Grant and Rutherford B. Hayes. In 1878, Hayes appointed Mosby to Hong Kong, where Mosby served until 1885.
Mosby supported William McKinley for president in 1896, and was assured by members of Congress close to McKinley that he could expect appointment to a career in Asia or South America. When there wasn't any appointment, Mosby concluded that Alger was blocking his return to his job and claimed that Alger was placing a feud. According to Mosby, because during the war Mosby had ordered the execution of soldiers under Alger's command who were accused of looting and destroying the property of supporters of the Confederacy in 1864.
U.S. Senator
On September 27, 1902, Alger was appointed by Michigan Governor Aaron T. Bliss to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James McMillan. He was elected to the seat by the Michigan State Legislature in January 1903.
Alger was chairman of the Senate Committee on Pacific Railroads during the 59th Congress.
Personal life
Alger was the founder of a prominent family, many of whom became involved in 20th century Michigan politics and active in the Republican Party.
The Algers had a home in Black River, Alcona Township, Michigan, from which Alger oversaw his lumbering operations.
On April 2, 1861, he married Annette Huldana Squire Henry of Grand Rapids. They had six children; Henrietta, Caroline, Frances, Russell Jr., Frederick, and Allan.
Frederick graduated from Harvard in 1899, served as a lieutenant colonel with the American Expeditionary Force in France during the First World War, and was awarded the French Legion of Honor.
Russell Jr. was instrumental in persuading the Packard Motor Car Company to move to Michigan from Ohio. He built a palatial Italian Renaissance style estate, "The Moorings," in Grosse Pointe. It was donated in 1949 and became the Grosse Pointe War Memorial.
Death
He died in Washington, D.C., in 1907. He was buried at Elmwood Cemetery in Detroit, Michigan.
Legacy
In a memorial address, Senator John Spooner of Wisconsin said of Alger, "No man without noble purpose, well-justified ambitions, strong fiber, and splendid qualities in abundance could have carved out and left behind him such a career."
In May 1898, the War Department established Camp Russell A. Alger on a farm near Falls Church and Dunn Loring, Virginia. Faced with a typhoid fever epidemic, it was abandoned the month at the war's end in August 1898 and sold the following month. In its brief existence, 23,000 men trained there for service. It is known by an official Virginia historical marker.
Monuments
In 1909, a monument to Alger was erected on the William G. Mather Building in Munising, Michigan. It consists of a bronze bust of Alger on a stone pedestal, and was sculpted by Detroit sculptor Carlo Romanelli with funds provided by the heirs of Alger and by the Board of Education of the Munising Township Schools.
In 1921, a memorial fountain to Alger was built in Grand Circus Park, Detroit by sculptor Daniel Chester French and architect Henry Bacon.
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Alexei Shirov
Career
Shirov became the World Champion (under 16) in 1988, and achieved the title of grandmaster in 1990. He is the winner of numerous international tournaments.
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Alexei Shirov
Career
In 1998 Shirov's ranking rose to number four in the world. On the basis of his rating, he was invited to play a ten-game match against Vladimir Kramnik to select a challenger for World Champion Garry Kasparov. Shirov won the match with two wins, no losses and seven draws. However the plans for the Kasparov match fell through when funds could not be raised. When Kasparov played Kramnik for the world title in 2000, Shirov maintained that the match was invalid and he was the rightful challenger.
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In May/June 2007 he played in the Candidates Tournament of the FIDE World Chess Championship. He won his first round match against Michael Adams (+1-1=4, won in rapid playoff), but was eliminated when he lost his second round match to Levon Aronian (+0-1=5). In November/December 2007 Shirov played in the Chess World Cup. He lost in the final 2.5-1.5 to Gata Kamsky.
In May 2009, Alexei Shirov achieved the greatest triumph of his career by placing 1st in the high Category 21 M-Tel Masters 2009 tournament, a double round tournament held in Sofia, Bulgaria. He was undefeated, and scored 6.5/10—seven draws and three victories, two against Vassily Ivanchuk and the other against Magnus Carlsen in the final round. By this success he was given entry to the Grand Slam Chess Final 2009 in Bilbao where he met Levon Aronian, Sergey Karjakin (winner of Corus 2009), and Alexander Grischuk (winner of Linares 2009).
Personal life
In 1994 Shirov married, and later divorced, Verónica Alvarez, moved to Tarragona, and became a citizen of Spain. He married, then later divorced, Lithuanian IM/WGM Viktorija Čmilytė from 2001 to 2008. Although he still plays for Spain, he now lives in Latvia.
Playing style
Shirov is noted for his attacking style and for seeking complications, a tendency which has led to comparisons with fellow Latvian and former world champion, Mikhail Tal, under whom he studied in his youth.
Sample game
During the 1998 Linares chess tournament Shirov played black against future FIDE world champion Veselin Topalov and won with a piece sacrifice in a bishop and pawn ending.
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.e4 Nxc3 6.bxc3 Bg7 7.Bb5+ c6 8.Ba4 O-O 9.Ne2 Nd7 10.O-O e5 11.f3 Qe7 12.Be3 Rd8 13.Qc2 Nb6 14.Bb3 Be6 15.Rad1 Nc4 16.Bc1 b5 17.f4 exd4 18.Nxd4 Bg4 19.Rde1 Qc5 20.Kh1 a5 21.h3 Bd7 22.a4 bxa4 23.Ba2 Be8 24.e5 Nb6 25.f5 Nd5 26.Bd2 Nb4 27.Qxa4 Nxa2 28.Qxa2 Bxe5 29.fxg6 hxg6 30.Bg5 Rd5 31.Re3 Qd6 32.Qe2 Bd7 33.c4 Bxd4 34.cxd5 Bxe3 35.Qxe3 Re8 36.Qc3 Qxd5 37.Bh6 Re5 38.Rf3 Qc5 39.Qa1 Bf5 40.Re3 f6 41.Rxe5 Qxe5 42.Qa2+ Qd5 43.Qxd5+ cxd5 44.Bd2 a4 45.Bc3 Kf7 46.h4 Ke6 47.Kg1 Bh3!! (see diagram) 48.gxh3 Kf5 49.Kf2 Ke4 50.Bxf6 d4 51.Be7 Kd3 52.Bc5 Kc4 53.Be7 Kb3 0-1
Chess books
Shirov has written two books of his best games:
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