Crewe railway station is a railway station in the town of Crewe in Cheshire, England. It opened in 1837 and is one of the most significant train stations in the world. It has twelve platforms and a modern passenger entrance containing a bookshop and ticket office. It is a major junction on the West Coast Main Line and acts as a rail gateway for North West England. It is a Grade II listed building.
The station is managed by Avanti West Coast, who also provide the majority of trains that stop there. Northern Trains, East Midlands Railway, West Midlands Trains and Transport for Wales also provide regular trains from the station. CrossCountry provide one early morning train a day.
Crewe's location was chosen after fellow Cheshire towns Winsford and Nantwich had rejected a proposal for the station to be built there.
As a result of the station's significance, the town of Crewe is now famous for its railways and railway infrastructure. The town's football club, Crewe Alexandra, are nicknamed ""The Railwaymen"" in reference.
Ichnogenus
An ichnogenus is a trace fossil. The names are a category of taxonomy for fossil traces whose origin is not exactly known. They are a part of taxonomy called ichnology.
Very common trace fossils are dinosaur trackways and fossil burrows of worm-like creatures in ancient sea floors.
José Gea Escolano
José Gea Escolano (14 June 1929 – 6 February 2017) was a Spanish Roman Catholic bishop. He was born in El Real de Gandia, Community of Valencia.
Gea Escolano became a priest in 1953. He served as the Bishop of Ibiza from 1976 to 1987. He was later the Bishop of Mondoñedo-Ferrol from 1987 until his retirement in 2005.
Gea Escolano died on 6 February 2017 in Valencia, at the age of 87.
Roger Walkowiak
Roger Walkowiak (2 March 1927 – 6 February 2017) was a French road bicycle racer. He was a professional rider from 1950 until 1960. He won the 1956 Tour de France. He was born in Montluçon, Allier.
Walkowiak died on 6 February 2017 in Vichy, Allier, at the age of 89.
Subgenus
A subgenus is a category in taxonomy which is not often used. In biological classification. It is a group above species, but below the genus.
Ritchie Yorke
Ritchie Yorke (12 January 1944 – 6 February 2017) was an Australian writer, broadcaster, historian and music journalist. He was born in Brisbane, Queensland. He worked for publications such as "Rolling Stone", "The Sunday Mail" and "Billboard". He was well known for his work in the United Kingdom and Canada. In 1969, he was at the Bed-In of John Lennon and Yoko Ono in Montreal, Quebec.
Yorke died from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on 6 February 2017 in Brisbane. He was 73.
Vanessa (butterfly)
Vanessa is a genus of brush-footed butterflies. It has an almost world-wide distribution.
It includes the famous red admiral species, and the painted ladies of the subgenus "Cynthia".
Klagenfurt
Klagenfurt (am Wörthersee) (, Southern Austro-Bavarian: "Klognfuat") is a city in Austria. It is the capital of Carinthia. It is also a district of Carinthia. About 99,000 people lived there in 2016.
Wilhelm Eduard Weber
Wilhelm Eduard Weber (24 October 1804 – 23 June 1891) was a German physicist. He and Carl Friedrich Gauss invented the first electromagnetic telegraph.
Eisenstadt
Eisenstadt (Hungarian: "Kismarton", Austro-Bavarian: "Eisnstod", Croatian: "Željezno") is a city in Austria. It is the capital and a district of Burgenland. About 14,000 people are living there (2016).
It is situated near the Hungarian border.
Sankt Pölten
Sankt Pölten or St. Pölten (Austro-Bavarian: "St. Pödn") is a city in Austria. It is the capital and a district of Lower Austria. About 53,000 people lived there (2016). It lies in the Mostviertel region.
Tyrol (region)
"For other uses, see Tyrol."
Tyrol (German: "Tirol", Italian: "Tirolo", Ladin: "Tirol") is a (historical) region in the Alps, consisting of the very northern part of Italy and a neighbouring western part of Austria.
It borders to the Italian region of Lombardy, the Swiss canton of Graubünden and the Austrian state of Vorarlberg in the west, the German state of Bavaria in the north, the Austrian states of Salzburg and Carinthia in the east, and the Italian region of Veneto in the south.
The region of Tyrol is similar to the former County of Tyrol. This county was part of Austria-Hungary till 1919. After World War I it was divided between Austria (North Tyrol) and Italy (South Tyrol). Nowadays these expressions have different meanings (see below).
It is split up into:
A. Tyrol (state) (a state of Austria):
B. Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol (a region of Italy):
Since 1996 the region of Tyrol has been a Euroregion, called Tyrol-South Tyrol-Trentino Euroregion (German: "Europaregion Tirol-Südtirol-Trentino", Italian: "Euregio Tirolo-Alto Adige-Trentino").
The region of Tyrol is also divided into three languages. In East and North Tyrol German is spoken. South Tyrol is primarily German with a little Italian and Ladin, Trentino is primarily Italian with a little German and Ladin.
The region of Tyrol is a very mountainous area. It belongs to three ranges of the Eastern Alps. A great part of the Southern Limestone Alps (among them the Dolomite Alps) and also a southern part of the Central Eastern Alps cover the Italian part of Tyrol, whereas the middle of the Central Eastern Alps and a great part of the Northern Limestone Alps (among them the southern Allgäu Alps) cover the Austrian part of Tyrol.
Several well-known geographical locations lie in Tyrol. For example the Brenner Pass, a mountain pass on the border of Austria and Italy, Lake Garda, the biggest lake of Italy and partially situated in Tyrol, and various places, in the state of Tyrol: Innsbruck (its capital) and Lienz, and in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol: Trento (its capital), Bolzano / Bozen and Merano.
Iran Air Flight 655
Iran Air Flight 655 was an Iranian passenger flight from Tehran to Dubai. The aircraft was an Airbus A300 with 274 passengers and 16 crew members on-board. On July 3, 1988 the plane was shot down by the USS Vincennes in the Persian Gulf during the Iran–Iraq War. At the time the Vincennes was exchanging fire with small Iranian gunboats. During the skirmish, flight 655 took off from Bandar Abbas International Airport. The airport was used by both civilian and military flights.
The Vincennes mistook the civilian aircraft for an Iranian Air Force Grumman F-14 Tomcat fighter on an attack run. The Vincennes attempted to warn the aircraft several times but received no reply. However, the warnings were sent on a military frequency to a non-existent F-14 Tomcat. The Airbus crew did not have access to those channels and would not have heard the warnings. The Vincennes fired two missiles which both struck the fuselage of the plane. All 290 occupants on-board were killed.
Boy Asistio
Macario "Boy" Asistio Jr. (April 6, 1936 – February 6, 2017) was a Filipino politician. He served as the Mayor of Caloocan, a city in Metro Manila region of Philippines, from 1980 to 1986. He was reelected for the port in 1988 till 1995. Asistio unsuccessfully ran as mayor in the elections again in 2013 and 2016.
Asistio died on 6 February 2017 at the age of 80 at the Metro Antipolo Hospital and Medical Center in Antipolo, Philippines. He was in coma and admitted to the intensive care unit.
Hans Rosling
Hans Rosling (27 July 1948 – 7 February 2017) was a Swedish medical doctor, academic, statistician, and public speaker.
He was the Professor of International Health at Karolinska Institutet and was the co-founder and chairman of the Gapminder Foundation. He helped develop the Trendalyzer software system. He rose to international fame after producing a TED Talk in which he promoted the use of data to explore development issues.
Rosling died on 7 February 2017 in Uppsala, Sweden from pancreatic cancer, aged 68.
Smail Hamdani