Rottumeroog is an uninhabited small island of the province of Groningen, the Netherlands. It belongs to the municipality of Het Hogeland. It covers an area of 2.5 km².
Rottumeroog makes part of the West Frisian Islands (Dutch: "Waddeneilanden"). It is the most eastern island.
It lies west of the German island of Borkum and east of the small island of Rottumerplaat.
Medgar Evers
Medgar Wiley Evers (July 2, 1925June 12, 1963) was an American civil rights activist from Decatur Mississippi. He is best known for his work to overturn racial segregation in the United States in the 1950s and early 1960s. He was a World War II veteran. He became a field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). After the 1954 ruling of the United States Supreme Court in "Brown v. Board of Education" that segregated public schools were unconstitutional, Evers worked to get African Americans admitted to the all-white University of Mississippi. He also worked for other changes in the nation's then-segregated society, such as voting rights and registration, economic opportunity, and access to public facilities for African Americans.
Evers was assassinated by Byron De La Beckwith, a member of the “White Citizens' Council, a group formed in 1954 to resist integration of schools and civil rights activity in America. His murder and the resulting trials led to many civil rights protests. An all-white jury failed to convict De La Beckwith in his first two trials. He was finally convicted, however, 30 years later in a new state trial in 1994 that was based on new evidence. Evers’ wife Myrlie Evers, later became a noted activist in her own right, serving as national chair of the NAACP. His brother Charles Evers became the first African-American mayor elected in the state of Mississippi in 1969 in Fayette, Mississippi.
Evers was the third of the five children born to Jesse (Wright) and James Evers. The family included his father Jesse's two children from a previous marriage. The Evers family owned a small farm, and his father also worked at a sawmill. Evers walked twelve miles to attend segregated schools, and earned his high school diploma. Evers served in the United States Army during World War II from 1943 to 1945. He fought in the Battle of Normandy in June 1944. After the end of the war, Evers was honorably discharged as a sergeant.
In 1948, Evers enrolled at Alcorn College, now Alcorn State University majoring in business administration. He also competed on the debate, football, and track teams, sang in the choir, and was junior class president. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in 1952. He married classmate Myrlie Beasley in 1951 while they were still in college. Together they had three children: Darrell Kenyatta, Reena Denise, and James Van Dyke Evers.The couple moved to Mound Bayou, Mississippi, a town that was founded by African Americans. There Evers became a salesman for T. R. M. Howard's Magnolia Mutual Life Insurance Company. In 1954, Evers applied to the segregated University of Mississippi Law School as a test case for the NAACP, but his application was rejected because of his race. In late 1954, Evers was named the NAACP's first field secretary for Mississippi. In this position, he helped organize boycotts and set up new local chapters of the NAACP. He was involved with James Meredith's efforts to enroll in the University of Mississippi in the early 1960s. Evers also helped Dr. Gilbert Mason, Sr., organize the Biloxi, Mississippi wade-ins, protests against segregation of public beaches on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Evers' civil rights work and leadership made him a target of white supremacists. His public investigations into the 1955 lynching of teenager Emmett Till had made him a prominent black leader. On May 28, 1963, a Molotov cocktail was thrown into the carport of his home.
On June 12, 1963, Evers pulled into his driveway after returning from a meeting with NAACP lawyers. As he was getting out of his car he was shot in the back and the bullet passed through his heart. He was taken to a hospital in Jackson, Mississippi where he was first refused entry because of his race. After his family explained who he was, the hospital went on and admitted him. He died in the hospital about 50 minutes later.As a veteran, Evers was buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery.
Saint-Jean, Switzerland
Saint-Jean is a village and former municipality in the district of Sierre in the canton of Switzerland.
On 1 January 2009 the former municipalities of Saint-Jean, Ayer, Chandolin, Grimentz, Saint-Luc and Vissoie merged into the new municipality of Anniviers.
Noorderhaaks
Noorderhaaks or "Razende Bol" is an uninhabited small island of the province of North Holland, the Netherlands. It belongs to the municipality of Texel. It covers an area of 4 km².
Noorderhaaks makes part of the West Frisian Islands (Dutch: "Waddeneilanden"). It is the most western island.
It lies southwest of the island of Texel.
Saint-Léonard, Switzerland
Saint-Léonard is a municipality of the district of Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. The Saint-Léonard underground lake situated there is a tourist attraction.
Saint-Luc, Switzerland
Saint-Luc is a village and former municipality of the district of Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
On 1 January 2009 the former municipalities of Saint-Luc, Ayer, Chandolin, Grimentz, Saint-Jean and Vissoie merged into the new municipality of Anniviers.
West Frisian Islands
The West Frisian Islands (Dutch: "Waddeneilanden", West Frisian: "Waadeilannen") make part of the Frisian Islands. They lie in the North Sea and are situated in the northern part of the Netherlands.
They consist of the following:
1. Five big islands:
2. Five small and uninhabited islands:
3. Various sandbars:
The majority of the islands and sandbars lie in the province of Friesland.
Exceptions are:
Venthône
Venthône is a municipality of the district Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
Rod Carew
Rodney Cline "Rod" Carew (born October 1, 1945) played Major League Baseball for the Minnesota Twins and California Angels. He is a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Carew made the All-Star Game eighteen years in a row, from his rookie season of 1967 to 1984. He retired after the 1985 season.
Piave
The Piave () is a river in northern Italy. It begins in the Alps and flows southeast for more of into the Adriatic Sea near the city of Venice. It is the longest river of the Veneto region.
The Piave river has a length of , and a drainage basin with an area of approximately . It is the fifth river of Italy for length among those which flow directly into the sea.
Its average yearly discharge (volume of water which passes through a section of the river per unit of time) is at Nervesa della Battaglia in the Treviso province.
The Piave river starts on the Eastern Alps (the Carnic Alps), on the southern slopes of the Monte Peralba, in the comune of Sappada, province of Belluno, at an elevation of about , near the border with the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region.
The river flows only through the Belluno, Treviso and Venice provinces in the Veneto region and flows into the Adriatic Sea to the northwest of Venice, next to the port of "Cortellazzo", between the "comuni" of Eraclea and Jesolo. To the left of the mouth, there is a lagoon called "Laguna del Mort" formed by an old branch of the river.
After flowing, from northeast to southwest, through the Belluno province, the Piave flows through the following "comuni":
Province of Treviso:
Metropolitan City of Venice:
The main tributaries of the Piave river are:
Left tributaries:
Right tributaries:
There was an important battle in 1809 along the river during the Napoleonic Wars where the Franco-Italian army fought against Austrian troops.