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17325143 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacinto-class%20patrol%20vessel | Jacinto-class patrol vessel | The Jacinto-class patrol vessels currently in service with the Philippine Navy are three ships formerly belonging to the Royal Navy's Hong Kong Squadron as Peacock-class corvettes until 1997. The ships have undergone combat, electronics, weapon, propulsion and hull upgrades, with the most recent upgrade completed in August 2019. These increased their capabilities compared to the original Peacock-class vessels.
History
Launched as a series of five patrol vessels, the were originally part of the Hong Kong Squadron of the Royal Navy. The ships were built by Hall Russell in the United Kingdom and were commissioned into Royal Navy service from 1983 to 1984. The class was designed specifically for patrol duties in Hong Kong waters. As well as "flying the flag" and providing a constant British naval presence in the region, they could also undertake a number of different roles including seamanship, navigation and gunnery training. In addition, they performed search-and-rescue duties for which they had facilities to carry divers (including a decompression chamber) and equipment to recover vessels and aircraft. They also worked with the Marine Department of the Hong Kong Police and with Customs & Excise in order to prevent the constant flow of illegal immigrants, narcotics and electronic equipment into the Colony.
Three of these ships – HMS Peacock (P239), HMS Plover (P240), and HMS Starling (P241) – were sold to the Philippines as a sign of goodwill, and were officially turned over to the Philippine Navy on 1 August 1997 when the sovereignty of Hong Kong was transferred from the United Kingdom to the People's Republic of China.
Technical details
The ships under this class are characterized by a low freeboard, an Oto Melara 76 mm gun turret located forward, a large single funnel stack amidships, and a crane and two rigid-hulled inflatable boats (RHIB) aft.
For the BRP Emilio Jacinto (PS-35), the ship has the Saab 9LV Mk4 Compact Combat Management System (CMS), which allows the integration of the ship's navigation, surveillance and combat systems. Meanwhile the BRP Apolinario Mabini (PS-36) and BRP Artemio Ricarte (PS-37) do not have a CMS although both ships use a Fire Control System from Ultra Electronics.
The Oto Melara 76 mm Compact DP (Dual Purpose) gun is the primary weapon and is mounted in a turret forward of the bridge. It has a range of up to and can be used against ships, aircraft or ground targets. It is remotely controlled from within the Combat Information Center by the gunnery officer and has no crew within the turret itself. The gun can fire 80 rounds in 60 seconds from its ready magazine, and the ships can carry a total of 450 rounds.
The secondary weapon (located at the stern) is a M242 Bushmaster 25 mm cannon in an MSI Defense System DS-25 Seahawk A1 mount.
Both guns are automated and are integrated with the Saab 9LV CMS and Saab EOS-500 Electro-optical tracking system (EOTS) on PS-35, or the Ultra Electronics C2 and FCS, and Series 1700 EOTS on PS-36 and PS-37.
The Saab EOS-500 and Ultra Electronics Series 1700 EOTS replaced the Radamec 1500 Series 2500 installed by the PN in 2005, which in turn replaced the older GSA7 Sea Archer Mk 1 electro-optical director with a GEC V3800 thermal imager added in 1987.
In addition to the abovementioned guns, these ships also carry two 12.7 mm 50 caliber heavy machine guns at the bridgewings, two 20 mm Mark 16 guns on Mk.68 mounts at midships, and two 50 mm rocket flare projectors.
The ships are powered by two APE-Crossley SEMT-Pielstick diesels (14,188 bhp combined) driving two three-bladed propellers. It has a drop down loiter engine with a shrouded prop of used to keep station and save fuel. The main engines can propel the 664 ton (712 tons full load) ship at over , with a sustained speed of . Its range is at .
These patrol vessels were specifically designed for Asian service, having air-conditioned crew spaces and have been designed to stay at sea during typhoons and other strong weather anomalies common to Asian seas. The ships were modified soon after entering the Royal Navy service with deeper bilge keels to alleviate a propensity to roll during moderate and heavy seas.
Each ship carries two Avon Searaider , , 10-man RHIB.
Upgrades
Upon entry with the Philippine Navy, additional refits were made to replace the four (4) 7.62mm machine guns with two (2) .50 caliber heavy machine guns and two 20 mm Mk.16 cannons. There are plans to add anti-ship missiles to the ships, but due to top-weight problems, it would have to be a lightweight system such as Sea Skua, although no missiles have been ordered to date.
Phase 1 involves the upgrade of the ship's command & control, surveillance, and fire control systems, and was awarded to British defense contractor QinetiQ. It involved the installation of a new MSI Defence DS-25 Seahawk A1 AUTSIG mount with M242 Bushmaster 25mm naval gun, a new Fire Control System and Radamec's 1500 Series electro-optical tracking system (EOTS), Raytheon gyro compass, Sperry Marine Naval BridgeMaster E Series Surface Search Radar, GPS, anemometer, and EM logs. All these were integrated with the ship's existing systems. The Phase 1 upgrade was completed in 2005.
Phase 2 is the Marine Engineering Upgrade Program, which includes the repair and remediation of the hull, overhaul and improvement of the main propulsion including control and monitoring systems, electrical plant, auxiliary systems, outfitting and hull furnishings and training the crew in the operation and maintenance of the new plant.
Phase 3 was originally a Service Life Extension Program (SLEP). But this was later changed to Combat System Alignment project to improve the combat capability of the patrol vessels. It involves replacing the existing EO/IR and fire control system with a newer system and a Command and Control (C2) module, repairing the 76mm Oto Melara Compact and 25mm Bushmaster gun on MSI Defence Seahawk mount, and other relevant upgrades.
The project was divided to Phase 3A involving 2 ships (PS-35 and PS-36, later changed to PS-36 and PS-37) and the refurbishment of 3 MSI Seahawk gun mounts, while Phase 3B involves 1 ship (PS-37, later change to PS-35).
The Phase 3A Combat Systems Alignment project was awarded to Ultra Electronics, which installed the Ultra Electronics Fire Control System and Series 1700 electro-optical targeting system, and the Kelvin Hughes Sharpeye X-band surface search surveillance radar.
The Phase 3B Combat Systems Alignment Project was awarded to Propmech Corporation-Saab AB Joint Venture, which installed the Saab 9LV Mk.4 Compact Combat Management System (CMS), Saab EOS-500 electro-optical targeting system and the GEM Elettronica Sea Eagle X-band surface search surveillance radar.
Ships in class
Gallery
References
External links
Philippine Navy Official website
Philippine Fleet Official Website
Jacinto Class Patrol Vessel threads @ Philippine Defense Forum
Hazegray World Navies Today: Philippines
Naming and Code Designation of PN Ships
Ships of the Philippine Navy
Patrol boat classes
Corvette classes |
17325174 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vy%20bus4you | Vy bus4you | Vy bus4you, formerly Nettbuss Bus4You, is a Swedish long distance bus brand that began operations in 2007, in competition with Swebus Express. The service is operated by Vy Travel, a Swedish subsidiary of Norwegian bus operator Vy Buss.
Vy bus4you operates routes between Stockholm and Gothenburg with stops in Norrköping, Linköping, Mjölby, Jönköping, Borås and Landvetter Airport, between Oslo and Copenhagen with stops in Moss, Sarpsborg, Tanumshede, Uddevalla, Gothenburg, Helsingborg, Lund, Malmö and Kastrup Airport, between Oslo and Stockholm with stops in Karlstad, Karlskoga, Kristinehamn, Örebro, Västerås and Arlanda Airport, and between Ludvika and Arlanda Airport with stops in Smedjebacken, Söderbärke, Fagersta and Stockholm.
Between December 2011 and August 2015 Nettbuss in Norway also operated a Bus4You route between Sandnes, Stavanger, Haugesund and Bergen.
References
External links
Bus4you in Sweden
Vy Buss
Bus transport in Sweden
Bus routes in Norway
Swedish companies disestablished in 2007 |
20462830 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagadusheth%20Halwai%20Ganapati%20Temple | Dagadusheth Halwai Ganapati Temple | The Dagadusheth Halwai Ganapati temple is a Hindu Temple located in Pune and is dedicated to the Hindu god Ganesh. The temple is visited by over hundred thousand pilgrims every year. Devotees of the temple include celebrities and chief ministers of Maharashtra who visit during the annual ten-day Ganeshotsav festival. The main Ganesh idol is insured for sum of . The Temple is 130 years old. It celebrated 125 years of its Ganapati in 2017.
History
Shrimant Dagadusheth Halwai and his wife Laxmibai was a trader and sweet maker settled in Pune. His original halwai shop still exists under the name "Dagdusheth Halwai Sweets" near Datta Mandir in Pune. Eventually he became a successful sweet seller and a rich businessman. In the later 1800s, they lost their only son in a plague epidemic. They were approached by a compassionate sage who advised them to build a Ganesha temple in Pune.
Later, as they did not have any heir, Dagdusheth adopted his nephew Govindsheth (born 1865) who was 9 years old at the time of their death. Govindsheth was born in 1891 in Pune. He replaced the first Ganesh idol by a new one, with the first one still being present at Akra Maruti Chowk. A kind-hearted and generous man, he established one more Ganesh idol in wrestlers training center, which is called Jagoba Dada Talim. This talim was owned by Dagdusheth as he was also a former wrestling trainer. One of the chowk (area) in Pune is named Govind Halwai Chowk, after him. Along with his mother, Govindsheth handled all the programmes like Ganesh Utsav, Datta Jayanti and other festivities. The residence where they resided is now known as Laxmibai Dagdusheth Halwai Sansthan Datta Mandir Trust. Laxmi Road in Pune is named after Laxmibai Dagdusheth halwai. Govindsheth died in 1943. His son Dattatray Govindsheth Halwai, born in 1926, was the one who established the third Ganesh idol replacing the second. This idol, known as Navasacha Ganpati, is the one that is present today in the Dagdusheth temple. It proved to be an epoch-making event in Indian history.
Temple
The temple is a beautiful construction and boasts a rich history of over 100 years. Jay and Vijay, the two sentinels made of marble catch the eye of all at the outset. The construction is so simple that all the proceedings in the temple along with the beautiful Ganesh idol can be seen even from outside. The Ganesh idol is 2.2 metres tall and 1 metrewide. It is adorned with nearly 40 kilos of gold. The devotees of Ganesh offer Him gold and money and with every offering the Lord gets richer and richer. Moreover, heaps of coconuts offered to the deity are yet another feature of the temple. Daily pooja, abhisheka and the arti of Ganesh are worth attending. The lighting of the temple during the Ganesh festival is marvelous. Shrimant Dagdusheth Ganpati Trust looks into the maintenance of the temple. The temple is situated in the centre of city, local shopping market is also the nearby temple. Various cultural activities like music concerts, bhajans, and Atharvasheersh recitation are organized by the trust.
Shri Datta Mandir placed in Budhwar Peth, Pune was their residential Building. Dagduseth's grandson govindseth was also famous for his kindness and generosity. In Pune, govind halwai chowk is famous by his name.
He later established the Halwai Ganapati Trust. Bal Gangadhar Tilak, during the British Raj, gave a public form to the Ganesh festival celebrations as a way of getting around an order that barred public meetings.
Temple Trust
The Shrimant Dagadusheth Halwai Ganapati Trust carries out philanthropic work from the donations received, and is one of the richest in Maharashtra. The trust operates an old age home called Pitashree at Kondhwa in Pune. The home was built at a cost of and opened in May 2003. In the same building the trust provides housing and education for 400 destitute children. Other services provided by the trust include ambulance service for poor and health clinics in tribal belts of Pune District.
Ganesh festival, Gudhi Padwa till Ram Navami are the festivals celebrated by Dagadusheth halwai Ganapati Trust, Pune.
Covid-19
With rise in the number of COVID-19 cases in the State, the State government has introduced restrictions in temples for the safety of devotees and employees. Temple to remain closed in till 9 April 2021. After more than a year, Maharashtra's religious institutions reopen their doors in October 2021.
See also
Culture of Pune
Pune
List of roads in Pune
References
External links
Official website
Ganesha temples
Buildings and structures in Pune
Hindu temples in Pune
Culture of Pune
Tourist attractions in Pune |
6899850 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sick%20Puppies | Sick Puppies | Sick Puppies is an Australian alternative metal band formed in Sydney, New South Wales in 1997. After releasing their debut album Welcome to the Real World in 2001, the band rose to prominence in 2006 when their song "All the Same" was uploaded, along with a video, to YouTube. The video supported the Free Hugs Campaign, which was launched in Sydney, and has since received over 78 million views on the website. This success was followed up with their second studio album, Dressed Up as Life in 2007, which entered the Billboard 200 at number 181. Their third studio album, Tri-Polar, came out on 14 July 2009. The band's fourth studio album, Connect was released on 16 July 2013. They released their fifth studio album, Fury on 20 May 2016 with new vocalist Bryan Scott after Shimon Moore was fired from the band in October 2014.
History
Early career (1997–1999)
The band was formed by singer/lead guitarist Shimon Moore and bassist Emma Anzai in the music room of Mosman High School in 1997, when they double-booked the room and bickered over who would get to practice. They soon bonded over their love of Silverchair. Initially with Shimon on drums and Emma on guitars, the duo would frequently meet up to play Green Day, Rage Against the Machine, and Silverchair songs, and eventually felt compelled to write their own material. When Chris Mileski joined the band to play drums, Emma switched to bass and Shimon to guitar and vocals, and they became Sick Puppies.
There are two stories as to how the band name originated. The official version is that Shimon Moore thought of the name himself when the band members were brainstorming, and then came home a few days later to find his father Phil reading the book Sick Puppy by Carl Hiaasen. The alternate version is that a neighbor's dog entered the garage during a rehearsal and vomited on their equipment. An early fan made the comment, "That's one sick puppy", and the name stuck.
Emma Anzai took up a job as a telemarketer and Shimon took a job holding a sandwich board in the Pitt Street Mall in Sydney. Through their own financing and with help from Shimon's father (a musician and producer), the band released their debut EP Dog's Breakfast.
Initial success (2000–2008)
The band entered the Triple J Unearthed band competition in 2000 with a demo of their song, "Nothing Really Matters", and went on to co-win the Sydney-region along with Blue and Ariels.Spans.Earth., which led to a management deal with Paul Stepanek Management. This deal enabled the band to release their debut studio album, Welcome to the Real World in 2001, and their second EP, Fly in 2003. The band decided they needed a fresh start when the record label they had signed a contract with folded and their drummer Chris Mileski left the band. They decided to move to Los Angeles when rock photographer Robert Knight, who would later co-star in a documentary called Rock Prophecies with the band, said to their manager, "You should move the band over here, I really think they will do well". As they were without a drummer, the band posted an ad on Craigslist, where they found their current drummer Mark Goodwin.
In 2007, Sick Puppies released their second album, Dressed Up As Life. The album came after the huge success of the "Free Hugs Campaign", and featured their breakout single "All the Same". The song reached number eight on the U.S. Modern Rock chart and is also featured in the video for the Free Hugs Campaign, which won YouTube video of the year in 2006. They followed up the single with "My World", which peaked at No. 20. The band also released "Pitiful" and "What Are You Looking For" as singles in 2008.
Tri-Polar and related releases (2009–2012)
Sick Puppies went into the recording studio in December 2008 to write, record, and produce their next studio album, which was released on 14 July 2009. They also wrote a song for Capcom's video game Street Fighter IV called "War", and it has been used in the advertisements and promotion for the game. It also reached the top 40 on the iTunes top rock songs. "War" was used during the Washington Capitals 2009 Stanley Cup playoffs introduction video. The song was also included as the first track on Tri-Polar. Their first single off Tri-Polar, "You're Going Down", reached No. 1, and was used as the theme song for the WWE pay per view Extreme Rules in June 2009. It was also used in SmackDown vs. Raw 2010, the My Soul to Take (2010) movie trailer, and in the trailer and opening credits of Tekken. The second single from the album, "Odd One", hit radio on 10 November.
Sick Puppies released a new song called "That Time of Year" on NCIS: The Official TV Soundtrack – Vol. 2 and through their MySpace page for the holidays. The third single from the album, "Maybe", hit radio stations on 22 June. "Maybe" peaked at No. 1 on Billboard Heatseekers, No. 15 on Rock, and No. 6 on Alternative. It is the first Sick Puppies song to be on the Hot 100 chart, making it the band's most successful song. The album's fourth single, "Riptide", was released in February 2011, and peaked at number 6 on the Billboards Rock Chart. Tri-Polar was released in the UK on 4 April 2011.
On 14 August 2009, Sick Puppies made their film debut in Rock Prophecies, a documentary about the career of acclaimed music photographer Robert Knight. This award-winning film features his life as he started out filming music greats such as Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix, and his current mission to find today's up-and-coming bands and help them become tomorrow's top rock acts. This includes him convincing Sick Puppies to leave their homes to pursue success in the American music industry in Los Angeles.
According to bassist Emma Anzai, "(Robert Knight) was like, 'Hey I want to put you in my film', so we were like, 'All right, cool.' So now it's two years later and he documented when we did the first album, the first show, all that kind of stuff. It was really cool. He wanted a new band to . . . develop." During the process, the band was filmed for a few days at a time, and said that they would forget the cameras were there and act accordingly, so this film captures them and their true interactions out of the spotlight. It was partly due to their involvement in this project and Mr. Knight's endorsement that they were able to acquire their first American record deal with RMR/Virgin/EMI. This record deal then led to the first U.S album, Dressed Up as Life. Rock Prophecies was nationally aired on PBS and became available on DVD on 14 September 2010.
On 7 April 2010, Sick Puppies released an acoustic EP titled Live & Unplugged, featuring three tracks from their Tri-Polar album and one B-Side from that album. The versions of "Odd One", "So What I Lied", and "The Pretender" were recorded in a studio, while "You're Going Down" was recorded live in a Chicago radio station during an interview. To promote the EP, Sick Puppies offered a merchandise package that included Tri-Polar and Live & Unplugged with a limited edition lithograph; this package was sold at their concerts. On 1 March 2011, Sick Puppies released their all-acoustic seven-track EP Polar Opposite, which includes acoustic versions of "Riptide", "Don't Walk Away", and more. It was recorded in studio, along with string ensemble accompaniment. Anzai also contributes more major lead vocals on the record.
Later albums and Shimon Moore's departure (2013–present)
Sick Puppies released the follow-up album to Tri-Polar on 16 July 2013. The band originally stated on UStream that the working title was Under the Black Sky and that there would be a song by the same title. They later confirmed that the album name had changed, and officially announced the title of the album to be Connect, and its lead single, "There's No Going Back" was released on 20 May 2013. The second single off the album, "Gunfight", was released on 13 October 2013. Connect was released in Europe on 31 March 2014. The album's third single, "Die to Save You", was released on 29 April 2014. The album's fourth single, "Connect", was released on 19 July 2014. In October 2014, American musician Blue Stahli announced that Anzai had worked on the track "Not Over 'Til We Say So" for his upcoming album The Devil.
On 20 October 2014, it was announced that frontman Shimon Moore had left the band and that the remaining two members would continue on without him. This left bassist Emma Anzai as the only original member remaining in the band. It was later alleged that Moore was fired after he attempted to dissolve the band through a lawyer. Moore stated he was kicked out while out of town and he had no knowledge of it beforehand. He said he was sad and that he wished the band well.
On 15 December 2015, the band teased their upcoming music. They also signed on to play tours including Rock on the Range. On 8 February 2016, they revealed their new vocalist, Bryan Scott, who previously played with Glass Intrepid and Dev Electric, and briefly toured as a vocalist for Atlantic Records rock act Emphatic in 2011, while previewing a new single called Stick to Your Guns. On 31 March 2016, Sick Puppies released their single "Stick to Your Guns". The album Fury was released in May 2016. In May 2022, Anzai joined Evanescence to fill that band's vacant bassist position, but she remains with Sick Puppies.
Band members
Current members
Emma Anzai – bass, backing vocals (1997–present)
Mark Goodwin – drums, backing vocals (2003–present)
Bryan Scott – lead vocals, guitars (2016–present)
Former members
Chris Mileski – drums, backing vocals (1997–2003)
Shimon Moore – lead vocals, guitars (1997–2014)
Timeline
Discography
Welcome to the Real World (2001)
Dressed Up as Life (2007)
Tri-Polar (2009)
Connect (2013)
Fury (2016)
Awards and nominations
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|rowspan="2"| 2001 || Nothing Really Matters || Triple J Unearthed Competition ||
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|| Sick Puppies || Australian Live Music Awards' "Best Live Act" ||
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|| 2003 || Sick Puppies || The National Musicoz Awards' "Best Rock Artist" ||
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|| 2006 || Free Hugs (All the Same) || YouTube Video of the Year' "Inspirational" ||
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|| 2007 || Sick Puppies || Yahoo! Music's "Who's Next" award ||
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|| 2011 || Sick Puppies || Bandit Rock Awards' "International Breakthrough Award" ||
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|| 2012 || Maybe || BMI Pop Award ||
References
External links
1997 establishments in Australia
Australian hard rock musical groups
Australian post-grunge groups
Australian nu metal musical groups
Musical groups established in 1997
Musical groups from Sydney
Australian musical trios
Pew Fellows in the Arts
Virgin Records artists
Australian alternative rock groups |
20462848 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auburn%20Tunnel | Auburn Tunnel | Auburn Tunnel was a 19th-century canal tunnel built for the Schuylkill Canal near Auburn, Pennsylvania. It was the first transportation tunnel in the United States.
The tunnel was deliberately added to the canal as a novelty, as the hill it was bored though could have easily been bypassed. It became a major attraction, with people traveling over upriver from Philadelphia to see it. It was periodically shortened, and in 1857 was daylighted to become an open-cut.
See also
Montgomery Bell Tunnel – a slightly earlier aqueduct tunnel in the United States
Staple Bend Tunnel – the first railroad tunnel in the United States
References
Canals in Pennsylvania
Transportation buildings and structures in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
Tunnels in Pennsylvania
Schuylkill River
Tunnels completed in 1821
Canal tunnels in the United States
Water transportation in Pennsylvania
1821 establishments in Pennsylvania |
20462852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Hurst | Daniel Hurst | Daniel James Hurst (2 October 1876 – 1961) was an English footballer. Born in Workington, Cumberland (now Cumbria), his regular position was as an outside left. He began his football career with local club Black Diamonds, but joined Lancashire side Blackburn Rovers in 1897 at the age of 20, along with left half Peter Chambers. After three years with Blackburn, during which time he scored 17 goals in 53 league games and was selected for a Football League XI, Hurst returned to Cumberland in 1900 to join his hometown club, Workington. A year later, he re-entered the Football League with Manchester City, playing 15 times in his season there, before joining the newly renamed Manchester United in 1902. He made his debut for Manchester United away to Gainsborough Trinity on 6 September 1902, before then scoring in three consecutive games, against Burton United, Bristol City and Glossop. His only other goal for the club came in a 3–1 win over Lincoln City on 8 November 1902. He left Manchester United at the end of the 1902–03 season, before retiring from football.
Hurst married Emily Borthwick Cretney in Workington on 18 December 1898. They had three children: Catherine Hurst (born c. 1899–1900), Daniel James Hurst Jr. (born c. 1902–03) and Mary Millington Hurst (born c. 1907–08). After his retirement from football, Hurst worked as an engineman on a blast furnace.
References
External links
Profile at StretfordEnd.co.uk
MUFCInfo.com profile
1876 births
1961 deaths
Sportspeople from Workington
English footballers
Association football wingers
Black Diamonds F.C. players
Blackburn Rovers F.C. players
Workington A.F.C. players
Manchester City F.C. players
Manchester United F.C. players
English Football League players
English Football League representative players
Footballers from Cumbria |
20462864 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alia%20carinata | Alia carinata | Alia carinata, common name the carinate dove shell, is a species of very small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails.
Distribution
This species is found in the Eastern Pacific, from Alaska to Baja California, Mexico.
Description
The adult size of the shell of this species of dove snail can be between 6 mm and 10 mm in length. The body whorl is sometimes carinate (having a pronounced keel), sometimes less so, and sometimes not at all. The shell color is quite variable; it can also be one uniform color or patterned with two shades of color.
References
External links
Hinds R. B. (1844-1845). Mollusca. In: The zoology of the voyage of H. M. S. "Sulphur", under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, R. N., C. B., F. R. G. S., etc., during the years 1836-42. London: Smith, Elder and Co. v + 72 pp., 21 pls. [Pp. 1-24, pls. 1-7, July 1844; pp. 25-48, pl. 8-14, October 1844; p. i-v, 49-72, pl. 15-21, January 1845. ]
Dall W.H. (1919). Descriptions of new species of Mollusca from the North Pacific Ocean in the collection of the United States National Museum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 56: 293-371
Gould, A.A. & Carpenter, P.P. (1857 ["1856"). Descriptions of shells from the Gulf of California and the Pacific coasts of Mexico and California. Part II. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 24: 198-208]
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30680230
Reeve L.A. (1858–1859) Monograph of the Genus Columbella. In: Conchologia Iconica, vol. 11, pl. 1-37 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London. [stated dates: pl. 1, May 1859; pl. 2-8, January 1858; pl. 9-12, April 1858; pl. 13-18, October 1858; pl. 19-23, November 1858; pl. 24-25, February 1859; pl. 26-37, April 1859 ]
deMaintenon M.J. (2019). The columbellid species of the northeast Pacific coast from the Aleutian Islands to Cedros Island, Baja California (Neogastropoda: Columbellidae). Zoosymposia. 13: 160-183
Columbellidae
Gastropods described in 1844
Taxa named by Richard Brinsley Hinds |
6899856 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapter%20II%3A%20Family%20Reunion | Chapter II: Family Reunion | Family Scriptures Chapter II: Family Reunion is the second studio album by American hip hop collective Mo Thugs. It was released on May 26, 1998 via Mo Thugs/Relativity Records, serving as a sequel to the group's 1996 album Family Scriptures. Recording sessions took place at Studio 56 and at Private Island Trax in Los Angeles, at Audio Vision Studios and at H&N Studios in Miami, and at G.T.R. Media Studios. Production was handled by Krayzie Bone and Layzie Bone, who also served as executive producers, Archie Blaine, Damon Elliott, "Disco" Rick Taylor, Michael Seifert, MT5, Paul "Tombstone" O'Neil, Romeo Antonio, Skant Bone and Souljah Boy.
It features contributions from Flesh-n-Bone, II Tru, Ken Dawg, Krayzie Bone, Layzie Bone, Poetic Hustla'z, Souljah Boy, The Graveyard Shift, as well as Cat Cody, Felecia, MT5, Potion, Powder, Skant Bone, Thug Queen, Wish Bone and 4-U-2-Know. The album is dedicated to the Graveyard Shift member Paul "Tombstone" O'Neil, who died in 1997.
The album peaked at number 25 on the Billboard 200 and number 8 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums in the United States. On July 8, 1998, it received Gold certification status by the Recording Industry Association of America for selling 500,000 copies. It spawned two singles "Ghetto Cowboy" and "All Good". Its lead single, "Ghetto Cowboy", peaked at number 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 and later was certified Gold by the RIAA.
Track listing
Sample credits
Track 15 contains replayed elements from "Let's Get It On" written by Ed Townsend and Marvin Gaye and performed by Marvin Gaye
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
References
External links
1998 albums
Sequel albums
Mo Thugs albums
Relativity Records albums |
17325181 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC%20Touch%20Diamond | HTC Touch Diamond | The HTC Touch Diamond, also known as the HTC P3700 or its codename the HTC Diamond, is a Windows Mobile 6.1-powered Pocket PC designed and manufactured by HTC. It is the first device to feature TouchFLO 3D - a new version of the TouchFLO interface, unique to the Touch family. The HTC Touch Diamond was first available in Hong Kong in late May 2008. It was available across all major European carriers in June 2008, and later in the year in other parts of the world. The American Touch Diamond was launched on September 14, 2008 on the Sprint network, and April 10, 2009 on the Verizon Wireless network. The European release date was slightly delayed by a last-minute ROM update. The carrier bound names for this phone include T-Mobile MDA Compact IV, O2 XDA Diamond and O2 XDA Ignito. It is the official successor of the HTC Touch.
The successor to the Touch Diamond - the HTC Touch Diamond2 - was announced in February 2009 for Q2 2009 release outside the US and Q4 release estimated for North America.
Hardware
HTC opted for resistive technology for the touchscreen. The reason cited by Horace Luke, HTC's Chief Innovation Officer, was that the resistive touch screen is better for Asian character recognition. However, the buttons beneath the screen, as well as being pressable buttons, have capacitive touch sensitivity. This feature is used by the camera application to auto-focus the camera as a finger approaches to press the button that will take a picture.
Luke also noted that this is the thinnest device that HTC has designed to date.
Some people find that the Touch Diamond's battery life is too short. Consequently, batteries offering double the capacity of the included battery are being sold by third parties and HTC itself sells an extended battery with 50% extra capacity.
The screen turns itself off when a person is on a call. This is to prevent the screen accepting unwanted inputs from the user's face when they are making a call, but it also requires the user to turn the screen back on if they want to use the screen. Removing the stylus when in a phone call both turns on the screen and starts up the notes application (if so selected as an option by the user).
Software
In addition to the standard features of Windows Mobile, the following additional software is included on the Diamond:
TouchFLO 3D
The Touch Diamond uses HTC's unique TouchFLO 3D user interface. This interface makes it easier for users to accomplish common tasks using their fingers rather than a stylus. TouchFLO 3D consists of tabs, and the user switches between tabs by sliding their finger along the row of tabs at the bottom of the screen.
Opera
The Touch Diamond uses Opera Mobile as its default Web browser, though Internet Explorer, a standard part of Windows Mobile, is also included. It offers features such as tabbed browsing, improved zoom features, and text reflow. The browser can change the orientation of the page between portrait and landscape modes depending on the way the accelerometer senses the device is being held (not in Internet Explorer). Opera is also capable of downloading any file directly to the device, as long as the device's internal storage has enough free space.
YouTube
The Touch Diamond includes a YouTube program that allows users to search for videos, maintain a list of their favorite videos, and view featured videos.
Teeter
Teeter is a videogame utilizing the accelerometer of the Touch Diamond in which the player guides a ball to a target by tilting the device, avoiding obstacles such as walls and holes. The device vibrates when the ball hits a wall, giving the illusion that a real ball is inside the device.
Android
The XDAndroid project makes it possible to run Android on HTC Windows Mobile phones, including the Touch Diamond.
Sales
Over one million units were shipped in six weeks, compared to the HTC Touch, which took 5 months to reach the same milestone. HTC consequently raised its sales projection for 2008 from two to three million units. HTC said in 2009 that the sales projection was met.
See also
TouchFLO
TouchFLO 3D
HTC Touch Family
Information appliance
Technological convergence
Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1
References
External links
HTC Touch Diamond overview
HTC Touch Diamond specification
HTC Touch Diamond performance tweaks
Image of HTC phone
Touch Diamond
Windows Mobile Professional devices
Mobile phones with user-replaceable battery |
6899858 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Banquet%20%282006%20film%29 | The Banquet (2006 film) | The Banquet (Chinese: 夜宴), released on DVD in the United States as Legend of the Black Scorpion, is a 2006 Chinese wuxia drama film. The film was directed by Feng Xiaogang and stars Zhang Ziyi, Ge You, Daniel Wu and Zhou Xun. It is a loose adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet and Henrik Ibsen's play Ghosts, featuring themes of revenge and fate. It is set in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period in 10th century China.
Plot
At the end of the Tang dynasty, China is divided. The Crown Prince, Wu Luan, is deeply in love with the noblewoman Little Wan. However, his father, the Emperor, decides to marry her. Wu Luan, deeply hurt, flees to a remote theater to study music and dance. Meanwhile, the Emperor is murdered by his brother, Li, who takes the throne. He also dispatches riders to assassinate Wu Luan, who survives the attack. Returning to court, Wu Luan is met by Empress Wan and her lady-in-waiting Qing Nu who is officially still engaged to him.
The tension in the Imperial Court is high, and when a palace official greets Empress Wan as 'Empress Dowager', he and his family are sentenced to a violent death. With his death, Minister Yin's son, General Yin Sun, is sent to fill the position in a distant province, greatly weakening Yin Taichang's position in the court. Wu Luan is asked by the Emperor to perform a brief swordplay ceremony, to practice for the Empress' upcoming coronation. While practicing, the Imperial Guard suddenly produce sharpened swords and attempt to kill Wu Luan and make it look like an accident. The ceremony is stopped by the Empress. Later in his chambers, a scroll is mysteriously delivered to Wu Luan, depicting his father being murdered by his uncle. Wu Luan enquires at an apothecary, who reveals that the poison used for the murder is made from Arsenic trioxide and black scorpions. Nothing on earth is more deadly except for "the human heart".
Meanwhile, the Empress Wan is to have a new coronation ceremony. As a special treat, Wu Luan is required to perform a swordplay ceremony. Instead, as an accomplished singer and dancer, Wu Luan stages a masked mime play that exposes his uncle as his father's murderer. The Emperor is notably shaken, but manages to conjure a plan to remove Wu Luan. Rather than kill the prince and risk alienating Empress Wan, he decides Wu Luan would be traded as a hostage for the prince of a neighbouring kingdom, the Khitans, although it is known that the neighbour prince is an imposter. An ambush by the emperor's men is set up the snowy border with the Khitans' kingdom in the north, but Yin Taichang's son Yin Sun, following the Empress's command, saves the prince.
Believing that his nephew is dead, and power is firmly in his grip, the Emperor calls for a grand banquet. The Empress comments that it would be bad luck to organise such an auspicious occasion on their 100th day of knowing each other, but the Emperor claims he does not surrender to superstitions. The Empress then decides to poison him, with a poison made from Arsenic trioxide and black scorpions. All goes according to plan until Qing Nu takes to the stage, claiming to have planned another performance for the occasion, and in tribute to her fiancé, she wears her theatre mask. The scheme to poison the emperor fails as the cup he was to drink out of is instead given to Qing Nu out of respect and partly of pity for her. During the dance, Qing Nu falls down dead on stage, and Wu Luan reveals himself to comfort her in her dying moments. The Emperor realises in horror that the Empress had plotted his death. After a confrontation with Wu Luan, the Emperor commits suicide by drinking the rest of the poisoned wine. The Empress proclaims Wu Luan the new Emperor. However, Yin Sun, enraged by his sister's death, attempts to kill the Empress to avenge his sister. His blade is stopped by the hand of Wu Luan. However, the knife is poisoned. The Empress stabs him through the neck, killing him instantly, while Wu Luan lays dying. Empress Wan is proclaimed Empress Regnant by the Lord Chamberlain.
Empress Wan speaks of the "flames of desire" that she has satiated by taking the throne. While celebrating, she is suddenly pierced by a flying blade. As she is dying, she turns around to face her assailant. Her confusion shifts to horror and anguish, as she is quickly murdered. At the end, the audience remains unsure of who the mysterious assailant was.
Interpretations of the ending
The ambiguity of the ending can produce many interpretations of who the assailant may be. Asian film critic, Bey Logan, makes a claim that the film makers initially planned for the maid, Ling, to be the mysterious assailant, and the current version of the film still shows more shots of Ling than would be normally expected of such a minor non-speaking character. A popular interpretation is that it is a manifestation of the previous Emperor, exacting revenge and justice.
When paired with the film's sung theme, the ending most likely references Louis Cha's wuxia novella Sword of the Yue Maiden. In Sword of the Yue Maiden, the tale concludes with the beautiful female clutching her waist in pain with an expression "so beautiful that it will take away the soul of any man who looks upon her", similar to Empress Wan's final expression.
Cast
Zhang Ziyi as Empress Wan
Ge You as Emperor Li
Daniel Wu as Crown Prince Wu Luan
Zhou Xun as Qing
Ma Jingwu as Minister Yin Taichang
Huang Xiaoming as General Yin Sun
Zhou Zhonghe as Lord Chamberlain
Zeng Qiusheng as Governor Pei Hong
Xu Xiyan as Ling
Liu Yanbin as messenger
Ma Lun as pharmacist
Xiang Bin as imperial guard
Cheng Chun-yue as imperial guard
Liu Tieyong as court secretary
Wang Yubo as red-faced dancer
Cheung Lam as joker
Bo Bing as executioner
Zhao Liang as dancer
Cui Kai as dancer
Fei Bo as dancer
Du Jingyi as dancer
Ou Siwei as dancer
Toyomi Yusuke as dancer
Takita Atsushi as dancer
Production
Actress Shao Xiaoshan said she substituted for Zhang Ziyi in some bathing and sex scenes. However, she is not listed in the credits. "I don't care whether my name is on the credits but I just want to tell the public that I did the nude scenes," Shao said on her blog. At Cannes film festival, Zhang Ziyi told the media that she did not appear nude in the movie, indirectly confirming that she had a stand-in for the nude scenes.
Reception
On Rotten Tomatoes, it has a 36% score based on 11 critics, with an average rating of 4.48/10.
Festivals and awards
The Banquet had its international premiere at the Venice Film Festival, where it received the Future Film Festival Digital Award. Parts of the film had been previewed by film buyers during the 2006 Cannes Film Festival in May, where a promotional event for the film was hosted.
The film was screened at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival on the same day it opened to wide release in China. It received the People's Choice Award at the 4th World Film Festival of Bangkok, where it was screened two weeks before its wide release in Thailand.
The Banquet was chosen as Hong Kong's entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, while China's entry was Zhang Yimou's Curse of the Golden Flower.
The Banquet won two awards out of five nominations at the 43rd Golden Horse Awards in Taiwan. Art Director Tim Yip won for both Best Art Direction and Best Make up and Costume Design. The 3 other nominations were Best Cinematography (Li Zhang), Best Original Score (Dun Tan), and Best Song (Jane Zhang). Co-star Xun Zhou, who plays Qing Nu, (Best Actress) and Stunt Choreographer Jyun Woping (Best Stunt Choreography) won awards for other films.
References
External links
2006 films
Wuxia films
Chinese historical films
Films based on Hamlet
Films set in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period
Films directed by Feng Xiaogang
2000s Mandarin-language films
Huayi Brothers films
Films scored by Tan Dun |
6899863 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Ghost%20of%20Blackwood%20Hall | The Ghost of Blackwood Hall | The Ghost of Blackwood Hall is the twenty-fifth volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series. It was first published in 1948 under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. The actual author was ghostwriter Mildred Wirt Benson.
Plot summary
Nancy Drew's jeweler's customer Mrs. Putney asks Nancy and her friends to help recover her stolen jewels. The search for the thieves takes Nancy, Bess, and George to New Orleans. Mrs. Putney's odd behavior and two young women involve Nancy in a case involving a cruel hoax being perpetrated at the abandoned Blackwood Hall. Nancy's father, Carson Drew, also helps solve this mystery by contacting his workers, and helping him find the man that is connected to this mysterious affair.
References
External links
1948 American novels
1948 children's books
Children's mystery novels
Grosset & Dunlap books
Nancy Drew books
Novels set in New Orleans |
6899869 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stark%20Naked%20and%20Absolutely%20Live | Stark Naked and Absolutely Live | Stark Naked and Absolutely Live is the first official live album by German band Alphaville. While the Dreamscapes compilation featured a full CD of live material, its tracks were culled from many different concerts. The tracks on Stark Naked and Absolutely Live were recorded specifically for the purpose of creating the album. The final listed track, Apollo, is followed by a hidden track: an acoustic version of "Dance with Me".
Track listing
Personnel
Marian Gold - lead vocals
Martin Lister - keyboards, backing vocals
Rob Harris - guitar, backing vocals
Shane Meehan - drums, percussion
References
Alphaville (band) albums
2000 live albums |
17325195 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incredible%20%28Clique%20Girlz%20album%29 | Incredible (Clique Girlz album) | Incredible is the first and only studio album by girl group Clique Girlz. In promotion of the upcoming album, an EP entitled Clique Girlz was released in April 2008. The band also released "Incredible," a single available for digital download on iTunes and other online music stores. They also released another EP entitled Smile to iTunes. Their last release was an EP called Incredible.
Promotion
The album features the singles: "Then I Woke Up", "Incredible," and "Smile." "Then I Woke Up" and "Smile" both reached #2 on the US Hot Singles Sales chart. It also includes many other songs that have been released before by the Clique Girlz, such as "Smile" and "The Difference In Me" from their debut EP, Clique Girlz.
Incredible was supposed to come out in the summer of 2008, but the album was pushed back several times until its eventual cancellation.
The Clique Girlz have filmed music videos for "Then I Woke Up", "Incredible" and "You Think". The videos are all available on iTunes. The official Vevo however only has "Then I Woke Up" and "Incredible".
The group toured extensively throughout 2008, and performed "Incredible" on The Today Show on June 17, 2008. The Clique Girlz touring consisted of many other promotional appearances opening for artists such as: Demi Lovato, the Jonas Brothers, The Cheetah Girls and the Backstreet Boys.
Track listing
Release history
References
2008 debut albums
Clique Girlz albums
Interscope Records albums |
17325203 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Dangerous%20Flirt | The Dangerous Flirt | The Dangerous Flirt (also released as A Dangerous Flirtation) is a 1924 American melodrama directed by Tod Browning and starring Evelyn Brent and Edward Earle.
Plot
As described in a review in a film magazine, Sheila Fairfax (Brent), reared by a puritanical aunt, is stupidly old-fashioned. Captain Ramon Jose (Gendron) inveigles her into becoming engaged to him but she breaks it. Dick Morris (Earle), a mining engineer, gallantly whisks her away and they are married. Sheila’s puritanical training makes her an easy prey to fears on her wedding night. Dick misunderstands her timidity for disgust and leaves her. She follows him to South America and they become the guests of Don Alfonso, uncle of Ramon Jose. The Don and Jose vie for her regard and in a fight Jose is killed by his uncle. Dick faces a firing squad under the Don’s orders but Sheila saves him by a ruse and they escape, happily reunited.
Cast
Evelyn Brent as Sheila Fairfax
Edward Earle as Dick Morris
Sheldon Lewis as Don Alfonso
Clarissa Selwynne as Aunt Prissy
Pierre Gendron as Captain Jose Gonzales
Preservation
With no prints of The Dangerous Flirt located in any film archives, it is a lost film.
See also
List of lost films
References
External links
1924 films
1924 lost films
1924 romantic drama films
American romantic drama films
American silent feature films
American black-and-white films
Films directed by Tod Browning
Film Booking Offices of America films
Lost American films
Lost romantic drama films
Melodrama films
1920s American films
Silent romantic drama films
Silent American drama films
Films with screenplays by Richard Schayer |
17325223 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House%20Office%20Building%20Commission | House Office Building Commission | The House Office Building Commission is an entity within the House of Representatives of the United States that oversees the various functions of the House and its office buildings. These buildings are part of the overall United States Capitol Complex and house the offices of Members of Congress, the Committees of the House, garages, cafeterias, a power plant and a dorm for Congressional pages, among many others that serve various functions.
The Commission oversees the operations of these buildings and from time to time issues regulations. While the Superintendent of the House and the Architect of the Capitol handle the day-to-day operations, rules and regulations must be approved by the Commission.
It is composed of the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and two other members of Congress, generally the House Majority Leader and the House Minority Leader.
From the House Rules Manual:
"The commission also issues regulations governing the House Congressional office buildings, House garages, and the Capitol Power Plant (see regulations promulgated December, 1995). The commission is composed of the Speaker and two Members of the House (traditionally the Majority and Minority Leaders) (40 U.S.C. 175)."
Recently the HOBC approved a new policy related to the hallways in House Office Buildings: Previously, offices were allowed to set out displays, in particular pictures of troops killed in battle in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also things like debt clocks and indications of levels of deficits.
The new policy prohibits such displays. The role of the HOBC was to approve a policy proposed by the Architect of the Capitol and recommended by various other agencies, such as the Committee on House Administration of the House.
References
Agencies of the United States Congress
United States Capitol |
17325234 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirill%20Yevstigneyev | Kirill Yevstigneyev | Kirill Alekseyevich Yevstigneyev (; – 29 August 1996) was a Soviet fighter pilot and one of the top Soviet aces of World War II. During his career he claimed 53 solo and 3 shared aerial victories flying the Lavochkin La-5 and La-7 fighters.
Early life
Yevstigneyev was born into a Russian peasant family on in the village of Khokhly, Chelyabinsky Uyezd, Orenburg Governorate, in what is now the Shumikhinsky District of Kurgan Oblast, in Russia's trans-Urals. He completed seven grades of schooling in 1935 before moving on to vocational school. He trained as a fitter-turner and upon graduation in 1936 moved to work at the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant, where he joined the local aeroclub which he graduated from in 1938.
Early military career
In September 1938 Yevstigneyev entered the Red Army. After completing initial training in 1939, he was stationed at a base in the Russian Far East until April 1940. In January 1941, he graduated from the Birm Military School of Pilots in the Amur region, after which he became a flight instructor on the I-16. In late October 1942 he was reassigned to Moscow to become acquainted with foreign-made fighters. While in Moscow, he and fellow sergeant Ivan Kozhedub came to the attention of I. S. Soldatenko, the commander of the 240th Fighter Aviation Regiment. Soldatenko selected them for his regiment in November, and by March 1943 they were deployed to the front.
World War II combat service
On 28 March 1943, during his first dogfight, near the village of Urazovo in the Belgorod province, he shot down a Messerschmitt Bf 109 and gained shared shootdown of a Junkers Ju 88 after engaging a group of nine Ju 88.
On 5 August 1943, flying a close air-support sortie on the approach to Belgorod, Yestigneyev was shot down by friendly fire. After barely managing to parachute out of his burning plane he had to be taken to a field hospital due to the extent of wounds in both his feet. There he had to repeatedly dissuade surgeons from amputating his left foot, but ended up escaping after nine days and traveling 35 km to the nearest airfield on crutches. He found his way back to his airfield to finish his recovery there. Not long after being wounded and still on crutches, he flew his next combat sortie. That month he was appointed commander of the second squadron, and gained his tenth solo victory on 16 August 1943. Between March and November 1943, he completed 144 combat sorties, gaining 23 solo and three shared victories, for which he was nominated for the title Hero of the Soviet Union. He received it on the 2nd of August, 1944.
He was again awarded title on 23 February 1945 while he was a captain and squadron commander. In July 1944, the 240th Fighter Regiment was honored with the guards designation and renamed to the 178th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment.
Yevstigneyev scored his last aerial victory on 26 March 1945 when he shot down an Fw 190 over Budapest. At the end of the war he was a Major; over the course of the war, he flew 283 combat missions, engaged in 119 dogfights, and gained 53 solo and three shared aerial victories. He flew in a variety of major battles including the ones for a Kursk, Kharkov, Belgorod, the Dnieper, Dresden, Budapest, Vienna, Bratislava, and Prague.
Postwar
In 1949 he finished several Tactical Aviation Courses, and by 1955 served at the Military Aviation Academy. By 1960 he was on the Military Academy of General Staff. He then became Major General of aviation in 1966, from 1972 he served in the reserve. After retirement he lived in Moscow, where he died on 29 August 1996. He is buried at the Kuntsevskoe cemetery in Moscow. A bronze bust of him stands in Shumikha, Kurgan province, near the village of his birth.
Awards and decorations
Twice Hero of the Soviet Union (2 August 1944 and 23 February 1945)
Order of Lenin (2 August 1944)
Four Order of the Red Banner (11 October 1943, 26 October 1943, 22 February 1945, and 22 February 1968)
Order of Suvorov 3rd class (2 October 1943)
Order of the Patriotic War 1st class (11 March 1985)
Order of the Patriotic War 2nd class (30 April 1943)
Order of the Red Star (3 November 1953)
Order of the British Empire (1943)
campaign and commemorative medals
References
Bibliography
1917 births
1996 deaths
People from Kurgan Oblast
People from Chelyabinsky Uyezd
Communist Party of the Soviet Union members
Soviet major generals
Soviet Air Force generals
Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union alumni
Soviet World War II flying aces
Heroes of the Soviet Union
Recipients of the Order of Lenin
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner
Recipients of the Order of Suvorov, 3rd class
Members of the Order of the British Empire
Burials at Kuntsevo Cemetery |
6899870 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recover%20%28song%29 | Recover (song) | "Recover" is the debut and fourth single by Welsh rock band The Automatic, taken from their debut album Not Accepted Anywhere. Originally released on 21 November 2005 as a limited 7" vinyl, CD single and digital download, it was re-released on 18 September 2006 as the band's record labels, B-Unique & Polydor, believed it could perform better and reach a larger audience after the band's success with previous single "Monster".
Origins and recording
The track was originally recorded in 2005 at the Elevator Studios in Liverpool, with Ian Broudie as producer; this version was featured on the 21 November 2005 release, as well as on the Raoul EP and the UK version of Not Accepted Anywhere. The re-recording of "Recover" took place in Monnow Valley Studio in Monmouth, with Richard Jackson as producer. Both recordings were mixed by Stephen Harris. For the USA release of Not Accepted Anywhere the Ian Broudie mix was used, but it was remastered by Leon Zervos at Sterling Sound in New York City, and re-mixed by Mark Needham.
Release
The song was performed live on The Friday Night Project's third season, making The Automatic the first band to make a return performance after they performed their single "Raoul" the season before.
For the original 2005 release artwork by Antar was used on the CD and vinyl. In 2006 artist Dean 'D*Face' Stockton created two new separate artworks, which would be used for two CD singles and a 7" vinyl.
Reception
Music videos
Three music videos were ultimately made for "Recover".
Original
The original video for "Recover" was first released on 7 November 2005. The video features footage from live performances, as well as a small white room where all the bandmates are singing and jumping around. The video was rarely aired, however is available on The Automatic's website, as well as YouTube. The music video was directed by Phaelon Productions
Second version
A second video was also released which received airplay on MTV2 and other music stations, the video features live footage, and shots from the original video. This version cuts out all of the previous scenes with the large mouths instead of heads on the band members, as well as cutting out all scenes of the women who pass out in the park.
Re-release (third)
The latest version of The Automatic's video for "Recover" released on 1 September 2006 and directed by Up the Resolution, is based around a wrestling match, where the band are dressed as several different people each, both spectators and other various people, whilst they perform on the stage/ring. Whilst this is going on the 'fight' is also happening; however, the camera switches to and from the fight, and the band playing on the same ring.
Track listing
References
External links
Behind the scenes video shoot photos by Peter Hill
The Automatic songs
2005 debut singles
2005 songs
2006 singles
Songs written by James Frost
Songs written by Iwan Griffiths
Songs written by Robin Hawkins
Songs written by Alex Pennie |
20462866 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niall%20Gilligan | Niall Gilligan | Niall Gilligan (born 12 August 1976) is an Irish hurler who usually played as a right corner-forward for the Clare senior team.
Born in Sixmilebridge, County Clare, Gilligan first played competitive hurling whilst at school in St. Flannan's College. He arrived on the inter-county scene when he first linked up with the Clare under-21 team. He made his senior debut in the 1997 championship. Gilligan went on to play a key part for Clare for fourteen seasons, and won one All-Ireland medal and two Munster medals. He was an All-Ireland runner-up on one occasion.
As a member of the Munster inter-provincial team on a number of occasions, Gilligan won four Railway Cup medals. At club level he won one All-Ireland medal, one Munster medal and three championship medals with Sixmilebridge.
Gilligan's career tally of 20 goals and 197 points marks him out as Clare's top championship scorer.
Throughout his career Gilligan made 56 championship appearances, marking him out as Clare's most "capped" player of all-time. He announced his retirement from inter-county hurling on 5 January 2010.
Even during his playing days Gilligan became involved in team management and coaching. He has been a selector with the Sixmilebridge senior, under-21 and under-15 teams, while he was manager of the Sixmilebridge under-21 team that claimed championship honours in 2013.
Gilligan retired from hurling on 3 November 2019, as Sixmilebridge were defeated by Ballygunner in the 2019 Munster Senior Club Hurling Championship.
Playing career
Club
Gilligan plays for Sixmilebridge. He helped the club to an All Ireland Club title in 1996, where he appeared as a substitute. He won further Clare titles in 2000 and 2002, and a Munster Senior Club Hurling title in 2002. In 2013 after and 11-year gap he added a 4th title to his collection. In 2015, he won his 5th county title after a 1-21 to 0-15 win against Clonlara in the final.
Inter-county
Gilligan made his debut for Clare in 1997, helping Clare to their 3rd All Ireland title. He won another Munster medal in 1998, and contested the Munster final in 1999 and 2008. He also won an All Star in 1999. In January 2010, Gilligan announced his retirement from inter-county hurling.
In 2011, Gillgan played with the Clare Intermediate team in the Munster Intermediate Hurling Championship where he scored 1-5 against Cork in the semi-final. He later helped Clare to their first ever Munster title when they beat Limerick in the final. In the semi final Clare overcame Galway helped by 0-08 from Gilligan. They went on to win a first All-Ireland Intermediate Hurling Championship when they beat Kilkenny in the final, he scored 0-03 in the game.
Career statistics
Honours
Clare
All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship (1) : 1997
Munster Senior Hurling Championship (2) : 1997, 1998
Munster Intermediate Hurling Championship (1) : 2011
All-Ireland Intermediate Hurling Championship (1) : 2011
Interprocincial
Interprovincial Championship (3): 1997, 2005, 2007
Sixmilebridge
Clare Senior Hurling Championship (7) : 1995, 2000, 2002, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019
Munster Senior Club Championship (2) : 1995, 2000
All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship (1) ; 1996
Clare County Hurling Leagues (4): 2000, 2004, 2010, 2013
Individual
Awards
All-Star Award (1) : 1999
References
1976 births
Living people
Sixmilebridge hurlers
Clare inter-county hurlers
Munster inter-provincial hurlers
All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship winners
Hurling managers
Hurling selectors |
17325239 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1904%E2%80%9305%20Southern%20Football%20League | 1904–05 Southern Football League | The 1904–05 season was the 11th in the history of Southern League. Bristol Rovers won Division One for the first time and Fulham reserves finished top of Division Two. Division Two club Clapton Orient were the only Southern League club to apply for election to the Football League, and were successful after a decision was made to expand the League to 40 clubs.
Division One
A total of 18 teams contest the division, including 17 sides from previous season and one new team. Watford returned to Division after one season of absence.
Teams promoted from Division Two:
Watford
Division Two
A total of 12 teams contest the division, including 8 sides from previous season and four new teams, three of which were reserve teams.
Newly elected teams:
Clapton Orient
Brighton & Hove Albion II
Watford II
West Ham United II,
Football League elections
Only one Southern League club, Clapton Orient of Division Two, applied for election to Division Two of the Football League. Although they were not elected in the first round, it was later agreed to expand the
Football League from 36 to 40 clubs and all the unsuccessful candidates except Doncaster Rovers were elected.
* Chelsea had played no games, nor had any players when they were elected. Hull City had been formed in 1904, but had only played friendly matches during the 1904–05 season.
References
External links
Southern League First Division Tables at RSSSF
Southern League Second Division Tables at RSSSF
1904-05
1904–05 in English association football leagues |
20462879 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty%20Charter%20High%20School | Liberty Charter High School | Liberty Charter High School is located in the city of Lemon Grove, in the Greater San Diego area of San Diego County, California, United States. It is authorized by the San Diego County Board of Education.
It opened to freshman students in August 2008 and added a new class each school year. It is the first start-up charter school authorized by San Diego County Board of Education, and will eventually enroll over 450 students.
A new campus was scheduled to be constructed in Santee, California, but after the recession started, the campus construction was put on hold due to lack of financing. During the 2009–2010 school year, Liberty was on the campus of its parent school, Literacy First Charter School. Liberty consisted of freshmen and sophomore's. Currently, LCHS is in the process of developing a new high school site in East County.
The high school is part of a K-12 program that is run by the non-profit Literacy First Schools K12.
References
External links
High schools in San Diego County, California
Charter high schools in California
Lemon Grove, California
La Mesa, California
Educational institutions established in 2008
2008 establishments in California |
6899878 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecsek | Mecsek | Mecsek (; ; Serbian: Meček or Мечек; ) is a mountain range in southern Hungary. It is situated in the Baranya region, in the north of the city of Pécs.
Etymology
The Hungarian toponym "Mecsek" derives from the sobriquet version of the name Mihály (Michael). Originally applied only to the hills adjacent to Pécs, the name Mecsek was first mentioned in 16th century.
Geography
The mountains cover an area of approximately 500 km2. The highest peak in the mountain range is Zengő (literally translates to 'resonant'), which has an elevation of 682 metres (2238 feet). The Mecsek Hills consist of plateau-like block mountains of a broken, folded structure. Its basis is crystalline rock of Variscan origin surmounted by Triassic and Jurassic limestone and dolomite and Tertiary formations that form the main block. The mountains are divided by a structural fault running NW to SE. The eastern part consist mainly of high ridges of sedimentary rock. The west has extensive limestone plateaux and areas dominated by sandstones of the Permian-Triassic period. There are important karst phenomena to be found on the limestone plateaux. Mecsek is rich in minerals (including uranium) compared to other territories of Hungary. The climate is mixed and represents elements of the mediterranean and continental climate. The territory gives home to 20-30 plant species which are unknown in other parts of the Carpathian Basin.
Highest peaks
Political and cultural history
Due to their relative small size and medium height, the hills of Mecsek were always politically and economically connected with the neighboring lowlands of Baranya and Tolna, serving primarily as a source of wood. The forested hills also offered substantial protection against the possible enemies.
The first significant political centre of the region was formed on the top of Jakab-hegy during the Iron Age which was later captured and developed into an oppidum by the Celts in the 2nd century BC. After the Roman conquest of Pannonia the settlement's population, like in the similar cases of Bibracte or Entremont was probably forced to move to the southern slopes of the Mecsek, where Sopianae, the predecessor of Pécs emerged.
Throughout the Hungarian Middle Ages the valleys of the Mecsek became more densely populated, providing raw materials for the thriving episcopal city of Pécs. The castles of Szászvár, Márévár and Kantavár were built in the era as residencies of nobles or the Church. The Order of Saint Paul the First Hermit partially stemmed from the hermit communities of the Mecsek, whom the Bishop of Pécs founded a monastery at Jakab-hegy in 1225. The significant Pécsvárad Abbey also controlled substantial areas in the region.
Due to the Ottoman occupation of Hungary and the following wars, raids and over-taxation the population growth stagnated, however the everyday and religious life of the locals didn't change much. The region was protected by its remoteness. After the Treaty of Karlowitz, the local nobles invited German settlers to the region. The territories east of Mecsek became a part of the German ethnic island commonly referred to as Swabian Turkey.
Significant amounts of black coal were discovered in the 19th century, the strategic resource greatly advanced the industrialization of the region. Mines were opened in Pécs, Szászvár and Komló which were all subsequently connected to the Hungarian economy with railways. In the aftermath of World War I and the collapse of Austria-Hungary, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes occupied the region, but the Treaty of Trianon eventually left the area in the possession of Hungary.
A huge part of the German-speaking population of the area was expelled from Hungary after World War II, although many German communities lingered. The socialist Hungary further developed the coal mines of Pécs and Komló. Uranium was also discovered and mined near Kővágószőlős from the 1950s.
The Mecsek Hills were the scene of pitched battles during the Hungarian Revolution in November 1956 between Hungarian units dubbed "the Mecsek Invisibles" and the invading Soviet forces.
After the fall of communism in Hungary, the economically unsustainable mines were closed. The Mecsek now serves mostly as a recreational area with moderate forestry activities.
Parts
Mecsek is divided to two parts:
Eastern Mecsek
Western Mecsek
Settlements
Gallery
See also
Komlosaurus carbonis
Geography of Hungary
References
External links
Mecsek-1956-History
Mountain ranges of Hungary
Pannonian island mountains |
20462881 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyl%20and%20District%20RFC | Rhyl and District RFC | Rhyl and District Rugby Football Club (Welsh: Clwb Rygbi y Rhyl A'r Cylch) is a rugby union club in Rhyl, North Wales. Rhyl and District RFC is a member of the Welsh Rugby Union and is a feeder club for the Llanelli Scarlets.
The club fields Senior and Second men's teams, a women's team; as well as a full range of mini and junior squads (from under 7 to under 16), a Youth team and the "Mini Dragons" from age 5+.
References
Welsh rugby union teams
Rhyl |
6899888 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Clue%20of%20the%20Leaning%20Chimney | The Clue of the Leaning Chimney | The Clue of the Leaning Chimney is the twenty-sixth volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series. It was first published in 1949 under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. The actual authors were ghostwriters George Waller, Jr. and Harriet Stratemeyer Adams.
Nancy Drew and her friend Bess discover that a rare and valuable Chinese vase has been stolen from the pottery shop of Dick Milton, a cousin of Bess. Dick had borrowed the vase from his Chinese friend, elderly Mr. Soong, and he is determined to repay Mr. Soong for the loss. He tells Nancy that if he can find “the leaning chimney,” he will be on the track of a discovery which will solve his financial problems. Nancy finds the leaning chimney, but it only leads her into more puzzles. Can there be any connection between the vase theft – one of a number of similar crimes – and the strange disappearance of the pottery expert Eng Moy and his daughter Lei?
External links
1949 American novels
1949 children's books
Children's mystery novels
Grosset & Dunlap books
Nancy Drew books |
20462886 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Hodges%20%28footballer%29 | Frank Hodges (footballer) | Frank Charles Hodges (26 January 1891 – 5 June 1985) was an English footballer. His regular position was as a forward. He was born in Nechells, Birmingham. He played League football for Birmingham, Manchester United, Wigan Borough and Crewe Alexandra, and also made wartime guest appearances for St Mirren.
References
External links
Profile at StretfordEnd.co.uk
1891 births
1985 deaths
Footballers from Birmingham, West Midlands
English footballers
Association football outside forwards
Birmingham City F.C. players
Manchester United F.C. players
Wigan Borough F.C. players
Crewe Alexandra F.C. players
Stalybridge Celtic F.C. players
Sandbach Ramblers F.C. players
Manchester North End F.C. players
English Football League players
St Mirren F.C. wartime guest players |
17325258 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bede%20Wing | Bede Wing | The Bede Wing was an inflated hang glider, designed in the 1970s by aeronautical engineer Jim Bede. Intended as a safer alternative to conventional hang gliders, it resembled an early ram-air parachute, but instead was an inflatable structure, that could be filled with air for gliding, or with helium to act as a gas balloon.
The aspect ratio of the Bede Wing was low, in the area of 1.8. Fitted with unusually long suspension lines, the Bede Wing had almost no dihedral. It was also reported to have a lower sink rate than conventional hang gliders of the time.
Although Bede intended to start full production of the Bede Wing, the project came to nothing. However, it foreshadowed the introduction of ram-air inflated paragliders in the mid-1980s.
See also
References
Wing
Inflatable aircraft
Balloons (aeronautics)
Hang gliders
Parafoils |
20462887 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feel%20Alright | Feel Alright | "Feel Alright" is a hip-hop song by Kardinal Offishall. It was the third single from his third album Fire and Glory. A music video, directed by RT!, was released for the single.
Track listing
12" single
A-side
"Feel Alright" (Clean)
"Feel Alright" (Main)
"Feel Alright" (Instrumental)
B-side
"E.G.G." (Clean) (featuring Vybz Kartel)
"E.G.G." (Main) (featuring Vybz Kartel)
"E.G.G." (Instrumental)
Chart positions
References
External links
"Feel Alright" music video
2005 songs
2006 singles
Kardinal Offishall songs
Songs written by Kardinal Offishall |
17325260 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob%20Kardashian | Rob Kardashian | Robert Arthur Kardashian (born March 17, 1987) is an American television personality. He is known for appearing on Keeping Up with the Kardashians, a reality television series that centers on his family, as well as its spin-offs. In 2011, Kardashian also competed in the thirteenth season of ABC's Dancing with the Stars, during which he placed second.
Early life
Robert Arthur Kardashian was born March 17, 1987 in Los Angeles, California, to attorney Robert Kardashian and wife Kris. He has three older sisters, Kourtney, Kim, and Khloé. His parents divorced in 1991, and his mother married Olympic decathlete Caitlyn Jenner the same year. Through their marriage, Kardashian gained step-brothers Burton "Burt", Brandon, and Brody; step-sister Casey; and half-sisters Kendall and Kylie Jenner. His father, Robert Kardashian, died in September 2003 from esophageal cancer.
Kardashian graduated from the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business in 2009.
Career
Kardashian was a contestant on season 13 of Dancing with the Stars in 2011. He was paired with two-time champion Cheryl Burke and made it further than his sister Kim did during her appearance in the seventh season. Kardashian was almost eliminated in the fourth week. During the season, Kardashian became the most improved dancer, advancing with his partner Cheryl Burke to the finals, her fifth time doing so. The pair ended up in second place against J.R. Martinez and Karina Smirnoff.
Kardashian has also taken on several business ventures working with PerfectSkin, Rival Spot, the BG5 and working on his own sock line. Kardashian was one of the final judges of Miss USA 2012.
Kardashian announced in August 2012 that he would return to the University of Southern California and study law later in the year. USC's Gould School of Law, however, denied this, and stated via its Twitter account that Kardashian had not even applied to the school.
In 2012, Kardashian participated in Fox's dating game show The Choice. That same year, he launched his sock line titled Arthur George.
The reality series Rob & Chyna premiered on September 11, 2016. It followed Kardashian's relationship with model Blac Chyna as they prepared to welcome their first child. Six hour-long episodes were ordered, excluding a television special featuring the birth of Kardashian and Chyna's newborn. The show concluded that December.
Personal life
Kardashian dated actress Adrienne Bailon from 2007 until 2009. Their relationship was documented on the family reality show Keeping Up with the Kardashians. In 2012, he dated singer Rita Ora.
In December 2015, it was reported that Kardashian was hospitalized after falling ill and diagnosed with diabetes.
In January 2016, Kardashian began dating model Blac Chyna. On April 5, 2016, Kardashian and Chyna announced their engagement via Instagram after three months of dating. In May 2016, it was reported that the couple were expecting their first child together. Their daughter, Dream Renée Kardashian, was born on November 10, 2016. On December 17, 2016, the couple announced their split on social media after Chyna's Instagram account was hacked. Kardashian told his Snapchat followers that his fiancée left him, moved out of their home and took their month old daughter with her. However, the couple reconciled as the split was revealed to be done in the "heat of the moment." On December 28, 2016, Kardashian was hospitalized again for diabetes, however, he left the hospital the next day.
On July 5, 2017, Kardashian made a series of Instagram posts accusing Chyna of infidelity and posted explicit pictures of her. He was later banned from Instagram for posting revenge porn, but an official account managed by Jenner Communications is active.
Notes
References
External links
1987 births
Male models from California
American socialites
American people of Armenian descent
Armenian Apostolic Christians
Rob
Living people
People with diabetes
Marshall School of Business alumni
Participants in American reality television series
Models from Los Angeles |
17325265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003%20Men%27s%20European%20Water%20Polo%20Championship | 2003 Men's European Water Polo Championship | The 2003 Men's European Water Polo Championship was the 26th edition of the event, organised by the Europe's governing body in aquatics, the Ligue Européenne de Natation. The event took place in the Aquatic Centre in Kranj, Slovenia from June 6 to June 15, 2003.
There were two qualification tournaments ahead of the event, held from April 9 to April 13, 2003 in Kyiv, Ukraine (with Belarus, Spain, Germany, Netherlands, France and Ukraine competing) and Bratislava, Slovakia (Greece, Slovakia, Romania, Poland, Malta and Turkey).
Teams
GROUP A
GROUP B
Preliminary round
GROUP A
GROUP B
Quarterfinals
Thiursday June 12, 2003
Semifinals
Friday June 13, 2003
Finals
Sunday June 15, 2003 — Bronze Medal
Sunday June 15, 2003 — Gold Medal
Final ranking
Individual awards
Most Valuable Player
Best Goalkeeper
Topscorer
— 24 goals
References
Results
Men
2003
International water polo competitions hosted by Slovenia
European Championship
Water polo |
17325354 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific%20Airways | Pacific Airways | Pacific Airways may refer to:
Pacificair (Pacific Airways Corporation), an airline in the Philippines
Pacific Airways Inc., a small airline that operates DHC-2 Beaver float planes in Ketchikan, Alaska, United States
Pacific Airlines may refer to:
Canadian Pacific Airlines (also known as CP Air), a defunct (1942–1987) airline, later known as Canadian Airlines and now forming part of Air Canada
Pacific Airlines an airline in Vietnam
See also
Cathay Pacific Airways |
17325363 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torneo%20Rep%C3%BAblica | Torneo República | The Torneo República (Republic Tournament) is a defunct official football tournament from Paraguay. The competition was held at the beginning of the year and its purpose was to integrate teams from the Asunción area with teams from other departments in order to give teams from all over the country a chance to qualify for international CONMEBOL tournaments.
Finals
*undefeated
References
Bibliography
Corporación Deportiva Fénix (ed.) Campeones Oficiales. (In Spanish) Retrieved Nov 8, 2012.
Torres, Carlos (Oct 30, 2012) D10 (ed.) «Los equipos "campesinos" en la Primera División». (In Spanish) Retrieved Dec 20, 2012.
Defunct football competitions in Paraguay
1990 in Paraguayan football
1991 in Paraguayan football
1992 in Paraguayan football
1993 in Paraguayan football
1995 in Paraguayan football |
17325370 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbia%20Zijin%20Bor%20Copper | Serbia Zijin Bor Copper | Serbia Zijin Bor Copper, formerly known as RTB Bor, is a copper mining and smelting complex located in Bor, Serbia.
History
Formation and expansion
The first geological explorations of copper ore in Bor area were conducted in 1897 and covered the area at the time called "Tilva Roš". The explorations were performed by the Serbian industrialist Đorđe Vajfert, who later provided investments of capital from France and set up a company called the "French Society of the Bor Mines, the Concession St. George". The company, with its headquarters in Paris, started operations on 1 June 1904. The French capital remained in Bor until the end of the World War II.
1951–1988: SFR Yugoslavia
In 1951, the company's assets were nationalized by the Government of SFR Yugoslavia. Since then, the company Bor was in the state ownership.
From 1951 until 1988, the company has changed its organizational structure, from the "organization of associated labor" to state-owned enterprise "RTB Bor".
1990s–2000s
During 1993, following the breakup of SFR Yugoslavia and the outbreak of the Yugoslav Wars, RTB Bor made various investments which further initiated opening of the new mining operations such as new pit mine called "Cerovo".
Since the mid-1990s and during the time of sanctions on the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, production in the RTB Bor dropped significantly from the very prosperous 1970s and 1980s. This has been due to both diminishing reserves and the inability to obtain new equipment that would most efficiently gather the remaining ore, which is no longer of such a high grade. Copper mining as the key basis of Bor's economy had significant effects on Bor's inhabitants due to decreased production during the 1990s and 2000s.
2007–2008 failed purchases
In March 2007, the Government of Serbia sold RTB Bor to the Romanian Cuprom for a sum of US$400 million. Cuprom pledged to modernize the production facilities in RTB Bor and Majdanpek mine, in order to improve the productivity levels. However, due to Cuprom's failure to meet a deadline regarding the financing, the Government of Serbia had cut the deal and the complex was put up for privatization once again.
In February 2008, following the second tender, RTB Bor was sold to the Austrian A-TEC for a sum of $466 million plus obligation to invest $180.4 million in facilities.
After the signing of the contract was made, the first $150 million was delivered by A-TEC. However, the problems arose after A-TEC missed its deadline for the second payment at $230 million, due to A-TEC's trouble to secure bank guarantees due to the global recession caused by the financial crisis of 2007–2008. A-TEC was not permitted to see returned the $150 million it had already paid. The Government of Serbia later voted to scrap the contract and offer Oleg Deripaska's Strikeforce Mining and Resources (SMR) as the second ranked bidder a chance to purchase RTB Bor. However, after a set of negotiations, SMR decided not to increase their first offer and the second tender had officially failed.
2008–2017
For more than two decades, RTB Bor has been among the most unprofitable Serbian companies, with the accumulated debt of more than 1 billion euros. However, the Government of Serbia kept investing hundreds of millions euros in new production facilities, and even wrote off company's debts worth 1 billion euros to the government-owned companies such as Elektroprivreda Srbije.
Even with high copper prices on global markets, RTB Bor continued with financial losses. For calendar year 2015 net loss was around 110 million euros and for 2016 it amounted to 42 million euros.
In 2017, Greek Mytilineos Holdings won a multi-year trial against RTB Bor before the Geneva Arbitration Tribunal, seeking $40 million for failure to fulfill the contract and subsequent financial losses. During the 1990s, RTB Bor imported the copper concentrate from Mytilineos, processed it, but never sent back 4,000 tonnes of processed copper to the Greek company. Mytilineos has also launched several other lawsuits against RTB Bor over the non-fulfilled contracts signed during the 1990s.
In 2017, according to the general director Spaskovski, RTB Bor had a positive net result after years of net losses, with $306 million (€255 million) of revenues and $73 million (€61 million) of EBITDA. For 2017, around 18 million tonnes of ore was mined, of which 235,000 tonnes of concentrate was processed and finally, 43,000 tonnes of copper, 5 tonnes of silver and 700 kilograms of gold was obtained. Around 75% of the processed copper is exported, while the rest is being further processed by domestic copper companies "Valjaonica bakra Sevojno" and "Pometon".
2017–present
In 2017, the Government of Serbia was obliged to find a strategic partner or buyer by March 2018, in a memorandum with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The sale was later postponed until June 2018. Three companies - Zijin Mining from China, Diamond Fields International from Canada and U Gold from Russia - placed bids in a tender for a strategic partner. The Serbian government has chosen the Chinese Zijin Mining Group as its strategic partner for the copper mining and smelting complex, RTB Bor.
On 31 August 2018, Chinese mining company Zijin Mining took over 63% of shares of the company, in a $1.26 billion deal with the Government of Serbia. On 18 December 2018, Zijin Mining formally took over the company under new name "Zijin Bor Copper". Later, it was announced that suffix "Serbia" will be added. For 2018 calendar year, Zijin Bor Copper had net income of around 760 million euros, with most of it coming from debts conversion into shares.
Organization
RTB Bor Group is composed of the following subsidies:
RBB – Copper Mine Bor
RBM – Copper Mine Majdanpek
TIR – Smelter and Refinery
The ledges of the Zijin Bor Copper are located in the southwestern part of the Carpathian Mountains and are mostly of porphyry type within the Upper Bor District eruptive area. The currently undeveloped underground site "Borska Reka", located within the Jama mine, represents a very significant potential mineral resource.
The overview of total resources:
Criticism
Air pollution
Several protests has been held in Bor in eastern Serbia over excessive air pollution that has been intensified since Zijin took over copper miner Rudarsko-Topioničarski Basen (RTB) in late 2018. Since January 2019, Bor has been struggling with excessive air pollution, with sulfur dioxide (SO2) levels topping 2,000 micrograms per cubic meter, up from the maximum allowed 350. Protesters demanded that the city government urgently adopt a plan so that the line ministry and state inspectorates can react to the alarming pollution levels in Bor. As early as April 2019, the inspector had ordered the company to take action against air pollution of the environment, human health and the environment, because it emitted excessive SO2. Zijin then explained in a letter to the Ministry of Environment that the power outage had caused pollution. However, control a few months later, in August, showed another omission – Zijin did not have a system for wet dust removal during the transportation of tailings on the Bor mine, which also threatened human health and the environment. Zijin was ordered to solve the problem, and the company later told the Ministry that a dust suppression system had been installed, which was put to trial. In November 2019, CINS sought an interview with Zijin on the topic of air pollution, to which the company responded with a press release. It says that by the end of the year, the company will have a total of five SO2-neutralized dust spray machines. Documentation obtained by CINS shows that by that time, two of the machines purchased had been in operation for about two months, but pollution data showed that it had no significant effect on the reduction of sulfur dioxide.
Gallery
See also
List of copper production by company
Valjaonica bakra Sevojno
Bor mine
Borska Reka mine
Dumitru Potok mine
Mali Krivelj mine
Majdanpek mine
Veliki Krivelj mine
References
External links
Rudnik dugova at insajder.net
Bor, Serbia
1904 establishments in Serbia
2003 mergers and acquisitions
2018 mergers and acquisitions
Companies based in Bor
Copper mining companies of Serbia
D.o.o. companies in Serbia
Energy companies of Serbia
Metal companies of Serbia
Non-renewable resource companies established in 1904
Serbian brands
Smelting
Companies of Yugoslavia
Smelters of Yugoslavia
Smelters of Serbia
Copper smelters |
17325393 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk%20Stocking%20Sal | Silk Stocking Sal | Silk Stocking Sal is a 1924 American drama film directed by Tod Browning and starring Evelyn Brent.
Plot
As described in a review in a film magazine, member of an underworld gang Sal (Brent), while robbing a safe in a house, is surprised by the owner Bob Cooper (Ellis), who falls for her story and gives her enough money to go straight. She laughs at him, but her mother's sympathy makes an impression on her so she takes a job at Bob's office. Bob's partner is murdered, and Bob is convicted and sentenced, based upon circumstantial evidence, to death in the electric chair. Sal is so sure that Bull Reagan (Metcalfe), leader of a gang, is the murderer that she rejoins the gang. At the last minute, she taunts a confession out of him. Bob is saved and finds happiness with Sal.
Cast
Promotion
A theater in Waterloo, Iowa, reportedly handed out a pair of silk stockings as a promotion to viewers.
Preservation
With no prints of Silk Stocking Sal located in any film archives, it, as with most FBO films of the mid-1920s, is a lost film.
References
External links
1924 films
American silent feature films
American black-and-white films
1924 drama films
Films directed by Tod Browning
Lost American films
Silent American drama films
Film Booking Offices of America films
1924 lost films
Lost drama films
1920s American films
Films with screenplays by Richard Schayer |
6899898 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony%20Casso | Anthony Casso | Anthony Salvatore Casso (May 21, 1942 – December 15, 2020), nicknamed "Gaspipe", was an American mobster and underboss of the Lucchese crime family. During his career in organized crime, Casso was regarded as a "homicidal maniac" in the Italian-American Mafia. He is suspected of having committed dozens of murders, and had confessed to involvement in between 15 and 36 murders. Government witness Anthony Accetturo, the former caporegime of The Jersey Crew, once said of Casso, "all he wanted to do is kill, kill, get what you can, even if you didn't earn it". In interviews, and on the witness stand, Casso confessed involvement in the murders of Frank DeCicco, Roy DeMeo, and Vladimir Reznikov. Casso also admitted to several attempts to murder Gambino family boss John Gotti.
Following his arrest in 1993, Casso became one of the highest-ranking members of the Mafia to turn informant. After taking a plea agreement, he was placed in the witness protection program, however, in 1998, it was rescinded and Casso was dropped from the program after several infractions. Later that year, a federal judge sentenced him to 455 years in prison for racketeering, extortion, and murder.
Casso died in prison custody from complications related to COVID-19 on December 15, 2020.
Early life
Casso was born on May 21, 1942, in South Brooklyn, in New York City, the youngest of the three children to Michael and Margaret Casso (née Cucceullo). Casso's grandparents had immigrated to the United States from Campania, Italy in the 1890s. His godfather was Salvatore Callinbrano, a made man and caporegime in the Genovese crime family, which maintained a powerful influence on the Brooklyn docks. Casso dropped out of school at 16 and got a job with his father as a longshoreman. In his youth, he became a crack shot, firing pistols at targets on a rooftop which he and his friends used as a shooting range. Casso also made money shooting predatory hawks for pigeon keepers.
Personal life
Casso married fellow South Brooklyn native Lillian Delduca on May 4, 1968. They had a daughter and son.
Prior to his marriage to Lillian, Casso had a serious relationship with fellow South Brooklyn native Rosemarie Billotti, whose parents hoped he would marry. Without Lillian's knowledge, for decades after their wedding, Casso secretly kept Billotti as his mistress and set her up in a house in Mount Olive, New Jersey.
During his marriage, Casso also committed many other infidelities. In an interview with biographer Philip Carlo, Casso recalled, Most all men in my life, everyone I know, had girlfriends. It goes with the territory. Women are drawn to us, the power, the money, and we're drawn to them. But only in passing. Some guys treated their mistresses better than their wife, but that's a fuckin' outrage. No class. Only a cafone does that. I never loved any woman but Lillian. She and my family always came first.
In reality, following his arrest inside the house in Mount Olive by the FBI in 1993, Lillian Casso, "was incensed, and felt betrayed - violated - used", when she learned that her husband had secretly continued his relationship with Rosemarie Billotti. Even though she eventually agreed to visit her husband in Federal prison, for the rest of her life, Lillian Casso, according to Philip Carlo, "could not understand how Anthony could be so deceitful, duplicitous, - such a two faced pig."
Lucchese crime family
Early criminal career
Casso was a violent youth, and member of the infamous 1950s gang, the South Brooklyn Boys. In 1958, he was arrested after a "rumble" against Irish-American gangsters. Casso later told Carlo that his father visited him at the police station and tried in vain to scare his son straight. He soon caught the eye of Christopher "Christie Tick" Furnari, the capo of the "19th Hole Crew" in the Lucchese family. Casso started his career in the Mafia as a loan shark. As a protégé of Furnari, he was also involved in gambling and drug dealing. He was arrested for attempted murder in 1961, but was acquitted when the alleged victim refused to identify him.
19th Hole Crew
In 1974, at age 32, he became a made man, or full member, of the Lucchese family. Casso was assigned to Vincent Foceri's crew that operated from 116th Street in Manhattan and from Fourteenth Avenue in Brooklyn. Shortly after becoming made, Casso became close to another rising star in the family, Victor Amuso, and began a partnership that would last for two decades. They committed scores of crimes, including drug trafficking, burglary and the murders of informants.
Casso later began reporting to Christopher Furnari, alias "Christie Tick", the caporegime of "the 19th Hole Crew".
Within Furnari's "19th Hole Crew" both Casso and Amuso led a burglary ring known as "The Bypass Gang", which included expert locksmiths, safe crackers, and experts in security alarm systems. The Bypass Gang is still suspected of committing burglaries in banks and jewelry stores throughout New York City and Long Island. Authorities estimated the Bypass gang stole more than $100 million from safety deposit boxes and vaults during the 1970s and 1980s.
When Furnari was promoted to the Lucchese family's consigliere, he asked Casso to take over the 19th Hole Crew. However, Casso declined, suggesting that Amuso be promoted instead. Casso remained Amuso's aide.
In December 1985, Casso was approached by caporegime Frank DeCicco regarding a planned coup in the Gambino crime family. Gambino captain John Gotti, whose crew had worked with Casso in multiple drug deals, and other captains, were planning to kill crime boss, Paul Castellano. Gotti and DeCicco were looking for support among the other Four Families affected by the Mafia Commission Trial. According to Sammy Gravano, another of Gotti's co-conspirators, DeCicco returned from the meeting saying that Casso had offered the conspirators his unconditional support. According to Casso, DeCicco alleged during their meeting that Castellano's carelessness in allowing his own house to be bugged was reason enough to kill him. Casso later told Carlo, however, that he tried to talk DeCicco out of killing a boss without first asking for The Commission's permission. Otherwise, he said, killing Castellano would be a cardinal violation of the rules and all the participants would have to be murdered by the other Four Families. Castellano's murder went ahead anyway on December 16, 1985. Casso would later denounce Gotti's actions to Carlo as "the beginning of the end of our thing."
As Casso had warned, Lucchese boss Anthony Corallo and Genovese boss Vincent Gigante decided to kill Gotti, DeCicco, and every other conspirator in Castellano's murder. Amuso and Casso were chosen to handle the assassinations, and were instructed to use a car bomb to try and shift suspicion to Sicilian mobsters, or Zips, related to Castellano. While New York City mafiosi had long been (officially) banned from using bombs due to the risk of collateral damage, Sicilian mafiosi and members of the Cleveland crime family were notorious for blowing up their targets. Amuso and Casso made one attempt on the lives of Gotti and DeCicco, planting a bomb in DeCicco's car when the two were scheduled to visit a social club on April 13, 1986. Gotti cancelled at the last minute, however, and the bomb instead only killed DeCicco and injured a passenger they had mistaken for Gotti.
Taking over the family with Amuso
In November 1986, Lucchese family boss Anthony Corallo sensed that the Commission Trial would result in a guilty verdict that would ensure the entire Lucchese leadership would die in prison. Corallo wanting to maintain the family's half-century tradition of a seamless transfer of power called both Casso and Amuso to Furnari's Staten Island home. Casso turned down the promotion to boss and instead suggested that Amuso become the new boss. Amuso formally took over the family in 1987 and Casso succeeded Furnari as consigliere. Casso later took over as Underboss in 1989 after Mariano Macaluso retired.
While at the top of the Lucchese family, Amuso and Casso shared huge profits from their family's illegal activities. These profits included: $15,000 to $20,000 a month from extorting Long Island carting companies; $75,000 a month in kickbacks from eight air freight carriers that guaranteed them labor peace and no union benefits for their workers; $20,000 a week in profits from illegal video game machines; and $245,000 annually from a major concrete supplier. Amuso and Casso also split more than $200,000 per year from the Garment District rackets, as well as a cut of all the crimes committed by the family's soldiers.
In one instance, Casso and Amuso split $800,000 from the Colombo family for Casso's aid in helping them rob steel from a construction site at the West Side Highway in Manhattan. In another instance, the two bosses received $600,000 from the Gambino family for allowing it to take over a Lucchese-protected contractor for a housing complex project on Coney Island. Casso also controlled Greek-American crime boss George Kalikatas, who gave Casso $683,000 protection money in 1990 alone to operate a loan sharking, extortion, and illegal gambling organization in Astoria, Queens.
Eastern European connections
Casso had a close alliance with Russian boss Marat Balagula, who operated a multibillion-dollar gasoline bootlegging scam in Brighton Beach. Balagula, a Soviet Jewish refugee from Odessa, had arrived in the US under the Jackson-Vanik Amendment. After Colombo capo Michael Franzese began shaking down his crew, Balagula approached Christopher Furnari, consigliere for the Lucchese crime family, and asked for a sit-down at the 19th Hole Crew's social club in Brooklyn. According to Casso, Furnari declared,
Here there's enough for everybody to be happy...to leave the table satisfied. What we must avoid is trouble between us and the other families. I propose to make a deal with the others so there's no bad blood...Meanwhile, we will send word out that from now on you and your people are with the Lucchese family. No one will bother you. If anyone does bother you, come to us and Anthony will take care of it.
Street tax from Balagula's organization was not only strategically shared, but also became the Five Families' biggest moneymaker after drug trafficking. According to Carlo,
It didn't take long for word on the street to reach the Russian underworld: Marat Balagula was paying off the Italians; Balagula was a punk; Balagula had no balls. Balagula's days were numbered. This, of course, was the beginning of serious trouble. Balagula did in fact have balls—he was a ruthless killer when necessary—but he also was a smart diplomatic administrator and he knew that the combined, concerted force of the Italian crime families would quickly wipe the newly arrived Russian competition off the proverbial map.
Shortly afterward, Balagula's rival, a fellow Russian immigrant named Vladimir Reznikov, drove up to the former's office building in the Midwood section of Brooklyn. Sitting in his car, Reznikov opened fire on the building with an AK-47. One of Balagula's close associates was killed and several secretaries were wounded. Then, on June 12, 1986, Reznikov entered the Rasputin nightclub in Brighton Beach and placed a 9mm Beretta against Balagula's head, demanding $600,000 in exchange for not pulling the trigger. He also demanded a percentage of everything Balagula was involved in. After Balagula promised to get the money, Reznikov threatened him and his family.
Shortly after Reznikov left, Balagula suffered a massive heart attack. He insisted on being treated at his home in Brighton Beach, where he felt it would be harder for Reznikov to kill him. When Casso arrived, he listened to Balagula's story and seethed with fury. Casso later told Carlo that, to his mind, Reznikov had just spat in the face of the entire Cosa Nostra. Casso told Balagula, "Send word to Vladimir that you have his money, that he should come to the club tomorrow. We'll take care of the rest." Balagula responded, "You're sure? This is an animal. It was him that used a machine gun in the office." Casso responded, "Don't concern yourself. I promise we'll take care of him...Okay?" Casso then requested a photograph of Reznikov and a description of his car.
Following the meeting, Casso and Amuso received Furnari's permission to have Reznikov killed. The following day, Reznikov returned to the nightclub, expecting to pick up his money. Upon realizing that Balagula wasn't there, Reznikov launched into a barrage of profanity and stormed back to the parking lot. There, DeMeo crew veteran Joseph Testa walked up behind Reznikov and shot him dead. Testa then jumped into a car driven by Anthony Senter and left Brighton Beach. According to Casso, "After that, Marat didn't have any problems with other Russians."
Cementing power
In 1988, Caporegime Paul Vario died in Federal Prison, and Amuso promoted Alphonse D'Arco to capo of The Vario Crew. In 1990, Amuso selected D'Arco to organize a "Lucchese construction panel". A committee of Lucchese family members, the panel would oversee the Lucchese-controlled unions and construction companies and co-ordinate joint business ventures with the other Five Families of the New York City Cosa Nostra.
Many years later, D'Arco explained his role under Amuso and Casso's leadership of the Lucchese family, "When a job needed to be done, whenever they needed to do something unpleasant to someone, I was the prick chosen by them."
For example, in the infamous "whack Jersey order", Amuso and Casso ordered Al D'Arco and the Vario Crew to murder the Lucchese family's entire Jersey Crew, after caporegime Anthony Accetturo refused a direct order to increase the family's share of their profits. Acceturo was particularly enraged that Casso and Amuso also had ordered the assassination of his wife. Casso alleged during interviews with Philip Carlo that Accetturo had involved his wife in the running of the Jersey Crew and that therefore Accetturo alone was responsible for the contract put on her. Accetturo, however, considered the contract on his wife a violation of the American Mafia's longstanding rule against killing mobsters' relatives who are not involved in the life and he chose accordingly to break his blood oath and cooperate with the Feds.
Fugitive
In January 1991, Casso received an early warning, from a secret law enforcement source he referred to as his, "crystal ball", about an upcoming federal indictment. Shortly before he and Amuso both went into hiding, Casso summoned Alphonse D'Arco, the caporegime of The Vario Crew, to a meeting at the Rodman gun at John Paul Jones Park, in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Casso gave D'Arco a list of phone booth numbers and secret addresses and informed D'Arco that he was in charge of the Lucchese crime family until further notice.
D'Arco would meet with Casso and Amuso twice in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and several times at safe houses in Brooklyn.
In early 1991, Amuso and Casso ordered the murder of made man and caporegime Peter Chiodo, a fellow Windows Case defendant who had pleaded guilty without asking their permission. Casso assigned the murder to acting boss Alphonse 'Little Al' D'Arco. The order shocked D'Arco, who knew that Chiodo had been a close friend and confidant of Casso for years.
On May 8, 1991, two Lucchese shooters ambushed Chiodo while he was working on a car at a gas station in Staten Island. Chiodo received 12 bullet wounds in the arms, legs, and torso, but survived the attack. Doctors credited Chiodo's obesity with saving his life, as none of the slugs penetrated a vital organ or artery. However, he sustained several abdominal wounds and permanent damage to his right arm.
Following the unsuccessful assassination attempt, Casso delivered a blunt threat through Chiodo's lawyer that, if Chiodo testified, his wife would be murdered. Despite being common practice in the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta, Casso's threat was a violation of a longstanding American Mafia rule against killing mobsters' relatives who are not involved in, "The Life". While Chiodo had angrily refused every previous offer to flip, Casso's threat to kill his wife was the last straw. He broke his blood oath and become a government witness, by his own account, to protect his family.
Meanwhile, Alphonse D'Arco knew that Amuso and Casso blamed him for having failed to murder Peter Chiodo and grew certain that they were planning to kill him. In July 1991, in a Staten Island meeting, Amuso and Casso replaced D'Arco as acting boss with a four-man panel of capos. While D'Arco was named to this panel, he remained certain that Amuso and Casso no longer trusted him.
On July 29, 1991, due to a tipoff from an unidentified Lucchese insider, Amuso was arrested and Casso was secured the de facto boss of the family. It has been speculated that Casso himself was the source for the leak, as only a few people were privy to Amuso's location. This theory is contradicted, however, by Carlo, who states that Casso was not only determined to find out who betrayed Amuso and kill them, but that Casso also immediately sent the $250,000 that was due to Amuso to his wife in a shoe box. Casso, according to Carlo, had no desire to be boss of the Lucchese family and attempted to arrange for Amuso's escape from federal custody after his arrest. To the disappointment of Casso and the Lucchese capos, Amuso refused to leave prison out of fear for his life. As a result, the Lucchese capos asked Casso to take over as acting boss. Casso reluctantly accepted.
By September 21, 1991, Alphonse D'Arco was certain that Amuso and Casso had marked him and his family for death. That afternoon, D'Arco telephoned the suburban Connecticut home of FBI Agent Robert Marston. D'Arco explained that his life was in danger and that the Lucchese family had started killing the entire families of suspected informers, which had never previously been allowed. After some hesitation, D'Arco finally told Agent Marston that he and his family were in hiding at his mother's house in Long Island. Later that night, D'Arco and his family entered WITSEC.
The defections of both D'Arco and Chiodo opened the door for new murder indictments against Amuso and Casso.
In a further violation of the Mafia's code, Chiodo's extended family in Brooklyn soon suffered retaliation from Amuso and Casso. On March 10, 1992, Vario Crew enforcer Michael Spinelli shot Chiodo's sister, Patricia Capozallo, while she was driving in Bensonhurst. Capozallo sustained bullet wounds in the arm, back and neck but survived.
Also in 1993, Casso ordered George Zappola, Frank "Bones" Papagni, and Lucchese consigliere Frank Lastorino, to murder the Lucchese family's Bronx capo, Steven Crea.
Meanwhile, investigators from the Brooklyn District Attorney's office were using new technology to trace the location of cell phones. Frank Lastorino, they found, was regularly calling a cell phone near Budd Lake, New Jersey. The DA's Office informed FBI Agent Richard Rudolph, who arranged for a Federal warrant allowing Lastorino's phone to be tapped. As FBI Agents listened in, they recognized Casso's voice. On January 19, 1993, Casso was arrested while coming out of the shower at the house he shared with his mistress, Rosemarie Billotti, in Mount Olive, New Jersey.
As FBI Agents searched the house, they found a rifle, $340,000 in cash, a stack of FBI reports that had been provided to Amuso's defense attorneys, and meticulous paperwork about the inner workings of the Lucchese family.
The paperwork included monthly tabulations of how much money Casso and Amuso had received from each of their criminal operations. Casso had also written down a detailed list of the Christmas tribute money he and Amuso had received from each Lucchese crew. There was also a neatly typed list of proposed made men, which was disguised as a list of wedding guests.
Incarcerated boss
Casso was held at New York's Metropolitan Correctional Center pending trial. Facing charges that would have all but assured he would die in prison, he continued ordering hits outside, but also began making escape plans. One plan almost succeeded when a bribed guard cleared him through security; Casso nearly walked out of jail, but was spotted by another guard and thwarted at the last minute. Afterwards, Casso began making plans for Lucchese members to find out what prison buses would be transporting him and arrange an ambush, as well as assassinating the presiding judge, Eugene Nickerson, to buy himself more time.
On February 2, 1993, the body of Frank Signorino, Peter Chiodo's uncle, was found frozen solid in the trunk of a car in East New York. Signorino had been slain by multiple gunshot wounds to the head, which was wrapped in a black plastic bag.
On February 12, 1993, the Lucchese family burned down the garage of Annette Signorino, Peter Chiodo's 95-year-old grandmother, in Gravesend, Brooklyn. Chiodo later told the FBI, that he, "couldn't believe someone would try to harm an old woman."
However, Casso's power came undone when Amuso not only stripped Casso of his title of underboss, but declared that all Lucchese mafiosi should consider him a pariah—in effect, banishing Casso from the family. Amuso had long been suspicious of Casso's failure to use his law enforcement contacts to find out who had betrayed him, and finally concluded Casso did it himself to take control of the family.
The two lead prosecutors on the case, Charles Rose and Gregory O'Connell, later told Jerry Capeci that they had hoped to use Sammy Gravano as a witness against Casso. Gravano, however, refused, as he reportedly feared that Casso would start killing members of his extended family.
Alphonse D'Arco, however, was reportedly very eager to testify against his former friend. According to FBI Agent Lucien Gandolfo, "He thought he was standing for what was right, but also for the old values that had been abandoned by the mob."
Informant
Facing the prospect of a trial at which D'Arco, Acceturo, and Chiodo were due to be star witnesses against him, as well as spending the rest of his life in prison, Casso reached out to FBI Agent Richard Rudolph and offered to turn informant. Casso was immediately moved to the Federal Prison at La Tuna, near El Paso, Texas and housed in the famous "Valachi Suite" as he debriefed.
At the beginning of the first session, Casso joked, "Every time I stepped out of the house I committed a crime. You expect me to remember all of them?" The agents urged Casso to start by revealing his "crystal ball."
In response, Casso disclosed that decorated NYPD Detectives Stephen Caracappa and Louis Eppolito had been on his payroll and had committed eight murders under his orders. Casso further explained that Detectives Carracappa and Eppolito, who had also served on the Federal Organized Crime Strike Force, had also leaked the names of both Police and FBI informants, which had resulted in many other murders.
Federal Prosecutors Charles Rose and Gregory O'Connell flew from New York City to Texas as the debriefing continued. Casso named scores of other mobsters he had conspired with, including Genovese boss Vincent Gigante. Casso also confessed to having sent hitmen to Federal Prosecutor Charles Rose's home with the intention of having him murdered. Casso also admitted to having plotted the assassination of Federal Judge Nickerson in order to delay his own trial.
Casso initially confessed to twelve murders, but when pressed for details, he admitted to a further twenty-four. At the same time, though, Casso was found to have lied about how much money he possessed. He also denied all involvement in the murder of Peter Chiodo's uncle or in the arson at the home of Chiodo's elderly grandmother. Increasingly sceptical, the FBI Agents made Casso take a lie detector test, which he failed.
Gregory O'Connell later told Jerry Capeci that the decision not to use Casso as a witness was made in the Valachi Suite, while Casso, "with apparent delight", gleefully laughed as he described how he buried alive a young drug smuggling associate in the Florida Everglades.
As Casso spoke, Federal Prosecutors O'Connell and Rose, "read each other's thoughts. The story would probably not go over well with a jury." Both prosecutors flew back to New York City convinced that Casso's knowledge of Mafia secrets did not matter. O'Connell later told Capeci, "It gets to a point where somebody is just too evil to put on the stand."
Casso finalized a plea agreement at a hearing on March 1, 1994, where he pleaded guilty to 70 crimes, including racketeering, extortion and 15 murders. The two lead prosecutors on the case, Charles Rose and Gregory O'Connell, later said they'd feared Casso could be acquitted at trial, since they did not have any taped conversations as evidence. However, with Casso's guilty plea, O'Connell said they had Casso "tied up six ways to Sunday." While remaining in prison, Casso was placed in the witness protection program.
According to Carlo, when Casso revealed that he also had an FBI Agent on the payroll, prosecutors ordered him to keep quiet. Casso alleges that he further enraged the US government by accusing Gambino turncoat Sammy Gravano, who had denied ever having dealt in drugs, of buying large amounts of cocaine, heroin, and marijuana from Casso over two decades. However, Casso was vindicated to some extent when Gravano pleaded guilty in 2000 to operating a massive narcotics ring, which included selling ecstasy to adolescents. He was the second confessed underboss of a New York crime family to break his blood oath and turn informer, after Gambino underboss Gravano.
In 1998, Casso was removed from the witness protection program after prosecutors alleged numerous infractions, in 1997, including bribing guards, assaulting other inmates and making "false statements" about Gravano and D'Arco. Casso's attorney tried to get Judge Frederic Block to overrule federal prosecutors in July 1998, but Block refused to do so. Shortly afterward, Judge Block sentenced Casso to 455 years in prison without possibility of parole—the maximum sentence permitted under sentencing guidelines. Casso later told The New York Times organized-crime reporter Selwyn Raab that, before turning informer, he was seriously considering a deal that would have allowed him the possibility of parole after 22 years. "I help them and I get life without parole," he said. "This is really a fuckin' joke". Casso lost two subsequent appeals to get his sentence reduced.
In a 2006 letter to Carlo, Casso declared, I am truly regretful for my decision to cooperate with the Government. It was against all my beliefs and upbringing. I know for certain, had my father been alive, I would never have done so. I have disgraced my family heritage, lost the respect of my children and close friends, and most probably added to the sudden death of my wife and confidant for more than 35 years. I wish the clock could be turned back only to bring her back. I have never in my life informed on anyone. I have always hated rats and as strange as it may sound I still do. I surely hate myself, day after day. It would have definitely been different if the Government had honest witnesses from inception. I would have had a second chance to start a new life, and my wife Lillian would still be alive. It seems that the only people the Government awards freedom to are the ones who give prejudiced testimony to win convictions. "The truth will set you free", means nothing in the Federal courts. Even at this point in my life, I consider myself to be a better man than most of the people on the streets these days.
Incarceration and death
Casso began serving his sentence at the supermax prison ADX Florence in Florence, Colorado. According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Casso was transferred to the Federal Medical Center (FMC) at the Federal Correctional Complex in Butner, North Carolina, for the treatment of prostate cancer in March 2009. He was returned to ADX Florence in July 2009. By 2013, Casso had been transferred to the Federal Residential Reentry Management Office in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This is not a prison facility, but rather an administrative designation for inmates assigned to home confinement, "halfway houses", or state and county correctional facilities. As of May 2018, he had been transferred to the United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners, an administrative security/medical prison in Springfield, Missouri. He was later transferred to USP Terre Haute. From March 25, 2020, he was serving his sentence at USP Tucson, a high security prison in Arizona. In his later years, Casso had developed complications related to prostate cancer, coronary artery disease, kidney disease, hypertension, bladder disease and lung issues from years of smoking.
On November 5, 2020, Casso tested positive for COVID-19, amid its pandemic in Arizona, while incarcerated; he was placed in medical isolation USP Tucson. On November 9, he was transported to a local hospital due to respiratory distress, and on November 17, 2020, was put on a ventilator. His lawyers requested compassionate release, but that motion was rejected on November 28. Casso died from complications related to COVID-19 on December 15, 2020, at the age of 78.
References
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External links
Anthony Casso – Biography.com
The Lucchese Family – TruTV Crime Library
Federal Bureau of Prisons Inmate Locator: Anthony Casso (Life)
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6899903 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Secret%20of%20the%20Wooden%20Lady | The Secret of the Wooden Lady | The Secret of the Wooden Lady is the twenty-seventh volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series. It was first published in 1950 under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. The actual author was ghostwriter Margaret Scherf.
Adventure abounds on the Bonny Scot in Boston Harbor as Nancy Drew helps Captain Easterly uncover the mystery of his ghostly visitors. From the moment the clever young detective and her friends, Bess and George, take up residence on the old clipper ship they are confronted with fire, theft, and other dangerous situations. Nancy faces an additional challenge: to find a clue to the clipper’s missing figurehead. If she is successful, it will help her lawyer father to trace the history of the Bonny Scot and establish a clear title to the ship for Captain Easterly. But strangely there are no records of the Bonny Scot’s past. Why? And why has the prime suspect in the recent robbery at Bess Marvin’s home followed the three girls to Boston?
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17325396 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff%20Bates%20%28technologist%29 | Jeff Bates (technologist) | Jeff Bates, also known as hemos, is the co-founder of Slashdot along with Rob Malda ("CmdrTaco").
Biography
Bates graduated from Holland Christian High School in 1994 and received a Bachelor's degree in History and Biology from Hope College in 1998.
Malda and Bates created Slashdot in 1997, while undergraduates at Hope College. In 1999 they sold the site to Andover.net, which was acquired by VA Linux Systems in 2000 (which became SourceForge, Inc. in 2007, then Geeknet, Inc. in 2009).
Bates served as Director of Media Operations for Geeknet from May 2001 through July 2004, when he became Vice President of Editorial Operations and Executive Editor of Slashdot. In February 2008 he became Geeknet's Vice President of Platform and headed the core engineering and product teams for Slashdot, freshmeat, and SourceForge.
In August 2011, Bates joined Google. He worked at Google as Chief of Staff for the CIO, and as of 2019, is the Chief of Product Operations.
Slashdot
Bates and Malda founded Slashdot in July 1997 under the name "chips and dips", renamed in September 1997. Slashdot was a technology-related news website, which features user-submitted and evaluated news stories about science and technology related topics.
In 2012, Slashdot had around 3.7 million unique visitors per month and received over 5300 comments per day. The site has won more than 20 awards, including People's Voice Awards in 2000 for Best Community Site and Best News Site. Occasionally, a story will link to a server causing a large surge of traffic, which can overwhelm some smaller or independent sites. This phenomenon is known as the Slashdot effect.
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6899907 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paley%20construction | Paley construction | In mathematics, the Paley construction is a method for constructing Hadamard matrices using finite fields. The construction was described in 1933 by the English mathematician Raymond Paley.
The Paley construction uses quadratic residues in a finite field GF(q) where q is a power of an odd prime number. There are two versions of the construction depending on whether q is congruent to 1 or 3 (mod 4).
Quadratic character and Jacobsthal matrix
Let q be a power of an odd prime. In the finite field GF(q) the quadratic character χ(a) indicates whether the element a is zero, a non-zero perfect square, or a non-square:
For example, in GF(7) the non-zero squares are 1 = 12 = 62, 4 = 22 = 52, and 2 = 32 = 42. Hence χ(0) = 0, χ(1) = χ(2) = χ(4) = 1, and χ(3) = χ(5) = χ(6) = −1.
The Jacobsthal matrix Q for GF(q) is the q×q matrix with rows and columns indexed by finite field elements such that the entry in row a and column b is χ(a − b). For example, in GF(7), if the rows and columns of the Jacobsthal matrix are indexed by the field elements 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, then
The Jacobsthal matrix has the properties Q QT = q I − J and Q J = J Q = 0 where I is the q×q identity matrix and J is the q×q all 1 matrix. If q is congruent to 1 (mod 4) then −1 is a square in GF(q)
which implies that Q is a symmetric matrix. If q is congruent to 3 (mod 4) then −1 is not a square, and Q is a
skew-symmetric matrix. When q is a prime number and rows and columns are indexed by field elements in the usual 0, 1, 2, … order, Q is a circulant matrix. That is, each row is obtained from the row above by cyclic permutation.
Paley construction I
If q is congruent to 3 (mod 4) then
is a Hadamard matrix of size q + 1. Here j is the all-1 column vector of length q and I is the (q+1)×(q+1) identity matrix. The matrix H is a skew Hadamard matrix, which means it satisfies H+HT = 2I.
Paley construction II
If q is congruent to 1 (mod 4) then the matrix obtained by replacing all 0 entries in
with the matrix
and all entries ±1 with the matrix
is a Hadamard matrix of size 2(q + 1). It is a symmetric Hadamard matrix.
Examples
Applying Paley Construction I to the Jacobsthal matrix for GF(7), one produces the 8×8 Hadamard matrix,
11111111
-1--1-11
-11--1-1
-111--1-
--111--1
-1-111--
--1-111-
---1-111.
For an example of the Paley II construction when q is a prime power rather than a prime number, consider GF(9). This is an extension field of GF(3) obtained
by adjoining a root of an irreducible quadratic. Different irreducible quadratics produce equivalent fields. Choosing x2+x−1 and letting a be a root of this polynomial, the nine elements of GF(9) may be written 0, 1, −1, a, a+1, a−1, −a, −a+1, −a−1. The non-zero squares are 1 = (±1)2, −a+1 = (±a)2, a−1 = (±(a+1))2, and −1 = (±(a−1))2. The Jacobsthal matrix is
It is a symmetric matrix consisting of nine 3×3 circulant blocks. Paley Construction II produces the symmetric 20×20 Hadamard matrix,
1- 111111 111111 111111
-- 1-1-1- 1-1-1- 1-1-1-
11 1-1111 ----11 --11--
1- --1-1- -1-11- -11--1
11 111-11 11---- ----11
1- 1---1- 1--1-1 -1-11-
11 11111- --11-- 11----
1- 1-1--- -11--1 1--1-1
11 --11-- 1-1111 ----11
1- -11--1 --1-1- -1-11-
11 ----11 111-11 11----
1- -1-11- 1---1- 1--1-1
11 11---- 11111- --11--
1- 1--1-1 1-1--- -11--1
11 ----11 --11-- 1-1111
1- -1-11- -11--1 --1-1-
11 11---- ----11 111-11
1- 1--1-1 -1-11- 1---1-
11 --11-- 11---- 11111-
1- -11--1 1--1-1 1-1---.
The Hadamard conjecture
The size of a Hadamard matrix must be 1, 2, or a multiple of 4. The Kronecker product of two Hadamard matrices of sizes m and n is an Hadamard matrix of size mn. By forming Kronecker products of matrices from the Paley construction and the 2×2 matrix,
Hadamard matrices of every allowed size up to 100 except for 92 are produced. In his 1933 paper, Paley says “It seems probable that, whenever m is divisible by 4, it is possible to construct an orthogonal matrix of order m composed of ±1, but the general theorem has every appearance of difficulty.” This appears to be the first published statement of the Hadamard conjecture. A matrix of size 92 was eventually constructed by Baumert, Golomb, and Hall, using a construction due to Williamson combined with a computer search. Currently, Hadamard matrices have been shown to exist for all for m < 668.
See also
Paley biplane
Paley graph
References
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6899918 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Yearly%20Meeting%20of%20Friends | Central Yearly Meeting of Friends | Central Yearly Meeting of Friends is a yearly meeting of Friends churches located in Indiana, North Carolina, Arkansas and Ohio. Central Yearly Meeting of Friends is part of the Conservative Holiness Movement, and originated in the Gurneyite wing of the Orthodox branch of Quakerism. Meeting for worship is programmed and led by pastors. It is an independent yearly meeting of Quakers, not affiliated with any broader associations.
Central Yearly Meeting of Friends was founded in 1926 by several meetings in eastern Indiana which were concerned that other yearly meetings of the Religious Society of Friends were trending towards liberalism in theology and practice.
Central Friends is associated with Union Bible College. Missionary work is sponsored in Bolivia.
An annual camp meeting is held near Muncie, Indiana, every August.
Members of the Central Yearly Meeting of Friends practice the traditional Quaker teaching of plain dress, part of the Quaker testimony of simplicity.
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17325401 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teoc%2C%20Mississippi | Teoc, Mississippi | Teoc is an unincorporated community in Carroll County, Mississippi and is part of the Greenwood, Mississippi micropolitan area approximately northeast of Greenwood on Teoc Road along Teoc Creek.
History
Located about eight miles northwest of North Carrollton, Teoc is probably the oldest settlement in Carroll County. The community takes its name from Teoc Creek.
A post office operated under the name Teoc from 1860 to 1907.
William Alexander McCain, great-great grandfather of Arizona former senator John McCain, purchased Teoc Plantation in 1851 and owned at least 52 slaves there. He died in 1863, fighting for the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Bill McCain, a descendant and cousin of Senator McCain, still owns 1500 of the plantation's former . Since 2003, black and white descendants of the community at Teoc have attended family reunions organized by the black McCains, descended from two of the plantation's slaves, Isom and Lettie, and Henderson McCain. After the Civil War, the blacks remained closely entwined with Teoc, remaining as tenants of William Alexander's son, John Sidney McCain, and adopting the McCain surname.
Black people surnamed McCain in Teoc, organizers of schooling for African-American children in the 1880s, were local leaders in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
Notable people
William Hemingway, mayor of Jackson, Mississippi from 1901 to 1905 and member of the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1920.
Blues singer Mississippi John Hurt was born in Teoc.
George Redditt, member of the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1916 to 1920
References
Unincorporated communities in Mississippi
Unincorporated communities in Carroll County, Mississippi
Greenwood, Mississippi micropolitan area |
17325431 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Col%C3%A1iste%20Chroabh%20Abhann | Coláiste Chroabh Abhann | Coláiste Chraobh Abhann [English: The College of a Branch over a River] is a community secondary school situated in Kilcoole, County Wicklow, Ireland. It is owned and run by the Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board. It was built in 2003 and reached its capacity of 560 students in 2009.
Students at the school sit the Junior Certificate syllabus for their first three years at the school, and the Leaving Certificate syllabus for their last two, with the option of Transition Year between.
References
External links
http://www.colaisteca.ie/
Secondary schools in County Wicklow
2003 establishments in Ireland
Educational institutions established in 2003 |
6899927 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleialf%20transmitter | Bleialf transmitter | Bleialf transmitter is a facility of the Deutsche Telekom AG on the Black Man mountain at Bleialf, Germany for FM- and TV-broadcasting. It uses as antenna tower a 224 metre tall guyed steel-tube mast.
References
External links
https://maps.google.com/maps?t=k&ie=UTF8&z=18&ll=50.254722,6.359167&spn=0.001468,0.003616&om=1
Radio masts and towers in Germany
Communication towers in Germany |
6899929 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Clue%20of%20the%20Black%20Keys | The Clue of the Black Keys | The Clue of the Black Keys is the twenty-eighth volume in the Nancy Drew mystery series. It was first published in 1951 under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. The actual authors were ghostwriters Wilhelmina Rankin and Harriet Stratemeyer Adams.
Plot summary
Professor Terence Scott travels to River Heights to consult with Carson Drew about the disappearance of another professor, Dr. Joshua Pitt. Mr. Drew recommends he discuss the matter with Nancy, as it seems to be more of a mystery than a legal matter. Terry Scott reveals that while on an archaeology expedition in Mexico, he, Dr. Pitt, and two other professors, Dr. Anderson and Dr. Graham, found a clue to an ancient treasure. They discovered three black keys made of obsidian and a stone tablet with a cipher engraved on it. The items and Dr. Pitt both disappeared the next morning. Only a broken half of one of the keys was left behind. Terry suspected foul play by a couple who had been working near the excavation site because they vanished at the same time.
While Nancy and Terry are at the airport, someone tries to steal the half-key from Terry's coat pocket. A Sergeant Malloy helps them identify the thief, Juarez Tino, but not until after he escapes on a plane to Florida.
Nancy asked her father's advice, and he suggests she talk to the other expedition members. Mr. Drew had drawn up Dr. Pitt's will and he confidentially tells her Terry is the sole heir, as elderly Dr. Pitt was unmarried. Out of caution, they want to be sure Terry is trustworthy. That night, a burglar breaks into the Drew home but is scared off. The black key, which Terry had entrusted to Nancy, remained safe in its hiding place.
Nancy and George meet with Dr. Graham, who clears away any suspicion by emphatically averring the integrity of the four expedition members, despite professional jealousies that might arise. Nancy learns that the evening of the attempted burglary at her home, Terry was knocked out in his hotel room and most of the documents from the Mexican expedition were stolen.
Ned Nickerson calls Nancy about attending a dance at Emerson College and asks if she could bring a fraternity brother of his who is scheduled to give a lecture at the college. Ned gives his name as Terence Scott and believes him to be about 60, when in fact he is only 25 and very handsome. Nancy thinks it's a good joke and doesn't reveal the truth to Ned. While en route to Emerson, Nancy and Terry stop for lunch and notice two men observing them intently. As they continue on their way, they round a bend and the car overturns when they hit a deep ditch. Someone had removed the warning signs from the road. After arriving at Emerson, Terry goes to the college president's home and Nancy asks Ned to ensure he is invited to the dance. Ned does so and is surprised when he meets Terry at the dance. Later Nancy learns that the morning of the accident, Bess and George had trailed a suspect named Wilfred Porterly and overheard a telephone conversation indicating plans to harm Nancy.
While at Emerson, Nancy takes a side trip and meets with Dr. Anderson, who tells her Juarez Tino came to see him a while back and offered to reveal the location of the cipher and Dr. Pitt for a price. Angry, Dr. Anderson threw him out of the office.
Nancy and Ned attend Terry's lecture on his Mexican expedition, which is very well-received by the Emerson students.
When Terry returns to River Heights, he is hired to translate an old diary as he is fluent in Spanish and Mexican dialects. The woman who hired him, Lillian Wangell, said the diary belonged to her sea captain grandfather. Due to its subject matter, Terry thinks the diary could yield clues to the ancient treasure connected with the cipher. Knowing of a past charge of fraud against Mrs. Wangell and her husband, Nancy consults a local genealogist who has records of many families in town. She confirms that neither of Mrs. Wangell's grandfathers followed the sea. Nancy urges Terry to be cautious and not to accept the invitation to stay at the Wangells' home. Mrs. Wangell had insisted the diary must remain at her home, so Terry uses a tiny camera Nancy lent him to photograph some of its pages.
Nancy makes tracings of some of the unusual drawings in the diary, and by overlaying them she discovers they form a picture of palm trees, a body of water, and a trail of footsteps.
Carson Drew receives a letter from a Caswell P. Breed in Baltimore claiming to be a relative of Dr. Pitt and demanding part of his estate. Carson Drew has other business to conduct in Baltimore and while there, he and Nancy visit Mr. Breed. They discover he did not send the letter; someone used his name as a ruse to get them out of town. When Nancy returns, she is unable to reach Terry at his hotel, and fearing foul play, goes directly to the Wangell home. The house is boarded up and while she is there, the Wangells depart in a taxi. Nancy circles the home and sees a distress signal of a handkerchief waving from an attic ventilator. The police arrive and they discover Terry imprisoned in the attic. He relates that Mrs. Wangell and Mrs. Porterly are sisters and are connected to the mystery.
Terry departs for Mexico to continue searching for Dr. Pitt. Nancy believes Juarez Tino and his wife and the Wangells are in Florida. She makes to plans to join a group of students Dr. Anderson is taking to Miami for a field trip to study the Indian tribes in that area. But Dr. Anderson tells her she must pass the same test his students are taking in order to go. Nancy studies diligently and answers all the essay questions except one. She is uncertain whether she will receive a passing grade. While awaiting the news, Nancy and Hannah hear fire engine sirens and discover a house two doors down is filling with acrid smoke. Nancy courageously ventures inside to search for a missing three-year-old. She rescues him and returns to the Drew home to find Juarez Tino leaving her bedroom with the black half-key. He had been responsible for instigating the neighbors' plight as a diversion. Nancy is able to wrest the key away from him but he overpowers her and gets it back, then trusses her up. As he pulls a handkerchief from his pocket to gag her, Nancy sees the key fly out but he doesn't notice it. He escapes as Hannah returns and finds Nancy. They search for the key to no avail. George and Bess arrive and George finds the key in the navy blue blanket Tino had used to further bind Nancy. The ringing telephone brings the good news that Nancy passed the test.
As the plane containing the students and Dr. Anderson nears Miami, it loses altitude and exhibits other warning signs after narrowly avoiding another plane that buzzed right by it. Miraculously, the pilot is able to land on an island. It is discovered that a cable broke during the dodging maneuver, and this jeopardized the plane's operation. The group later learns that the perpetrators expected this to happen and had deemed it a better method of attack than directly tampering with the plane.
Dr. Anderson give Nancy permission to work on a special assignment with a student named Fran Oakes: to look for a Florida Key known as Black Key. Fran's cousin, Jack Walker, has a motorboat and he takes them to visit a man named Two Line Parker, who knows the history of the Florida Keys. The fisherman tells them of the sinking of a ship called the Black Falcon near one of the keys. Nancy believes that is the right island but they know only its general location.
While investigating a vacant home the Porterlys had rented in South Florida, Nancy finds partially burned letters in an incinerator in the back yard. A scrap contains a mention of her name and the date of the 15th. It is currently December 13.
While motorboating among the Keys, the group sees Juarez Tino in a speedboat but they lose his trail. Nancy decides to return to the vicinity the next day. Dr. Anderson isn't able to go, but Terry Scott has arrived and he joins the expedition with Nancy, Fran, and Jack.
Making use of another clue she had found early, Nancy consults a local fisherman and learns of a group of five islands near a group of seven islands and a single island set apart. They head to the single island and while traversing it a plane flies overhead. The group fears they had been seen. They discover a hut in which Dr. Pitt is imprisoned but no one else is present. Jack and Fran leave to summon the police. Dr. Pitt tells Nancy and Terry the criminals had set a deadline of December 15 (the next day) for him to give them information. While they are talking, the Tinos and the Wangells arrive, having been alerted by the pilot. Mrs. Tino snatches the half-key Nancy is wearing around her neck after overhearing her say she has it. The criminals force Dr. Pitt to reveal information about the treasure by threatening to harm Nancy if he doesn't. He tells them it is in remote part of a jungle in Mexico.
Juarez Tino and Earl Wangell immediately depart with Dr. Pitt to travel to Mexico and search for the treasure, leaving Nancy and Terry in the custody of their wives. Nancy learns Mrs. Wangell is afraid of her husband and had been coerced into criminal activity. The police soon arrive and free Nancy and Terry, who set out for Mexico also, hoping to arrive before the others. Dr. Anderson and Dr. Graham accompany them, and they enlist the help of some Mexican policemen. The information from the diary helps them locate the trail leading to the treasure site. They stop and wait on the trail, and soon the other party arrives, with elderly Dr. Pitt nearly exhausted. They proceed on and Tino and Wangell are commissioned to dig at the site. A box is unearthed and the three keys fit the locks. Inside the box are several jewel-encrusted frogs made of silver, and a larger silver frog that contains an ancient green powder. Dr. Pitt declares the treasures belong to the government of Mexico. However, he fearfully believes the green substance is destructive and could wipe out civilization. Terry's research instead suggests that it has healing properties. Dr. Pitt listens to Terry's reasoning and agrees with his opinion. The four scientists are excited to announce their discovery to the world.
Characters
Nancy Drew- An 18-year-old girl that does the sleuthing in The Clue of the Black Keys.
Carson Drew- a lawyer, and Nancy Drew's father.
Terence Scott- also known as "Terry". Young Archaeology Professor of Keystone University that joined the exploring expedition in Mexico.
Dr. Joshua Pitt- One of the four members of the exploring team in Mexico
Dr. Graham- one of the members that were exploring in Mexico
Dr. Anderson- A Professor in Geology at Clifton Institute that also joined the exploring expedition in Mexico
Mr. & Mrs. Juarez Tino- A Mexican couple posing as scientists who witness the excavation of the cipher stone.
Mr. Wilfred Porterly- the Tino's helpers, they help torture Terry and Nancy.
Mrs. Irene Porterly- Wife of Wil Porterly and also known as Irene Webster, sister of Mrs. Lillian Wagnell
Mr. Earl Wangell- also helped the Tinos to threatened Nancy and Terry
Mrs. Lillian Wangell- wife of Mr. Earl Wangell, she was formerly Lillian Webster. She asked Terry to decipher or translate the old diary for her. (diary was stolen)
Ned Nickerson- a very supportive boyfriend of Nancy Drew.
Bess Marvin- friend of Nancy Drew, Cousin of George Fayne
George Fayne- friend of Nancy Drew, Cousin of Bess Marvin.
Mrs. Hannah Gruen- The Drews' housekeeper.
Mrs. Presscott- has records of the history of the families of River Heights. She helped Nancy and Terry trace disprove Lillian Wangell's claim that her grandfather was a sea captain
Caswell P. Breed- a man in Baltimore whose name was used to lure the Drews away from River Heights
Sergeant Malloy- police officer at the River Heights that helps Nancy and Terry
Officer Riley- an officer at the River Heights that help Nancy and Terry to find the Wagnells
Frances Oakes- also known as Fran. She is a student of Dr. Anderson.
Marilyn Maury- a student of Dr. Anderson and friend of Frances Oakes who joins the educational trip in Florida.
Grace James- a student of Dr. Anderson and friend of Frances Oakes who joins the educational trip in Florida.
Jack Walker- cousin of Frances Oakes in Florida that owned a motorboat, which they use for searching in Keys.
Mrs. Young- owner of rest house in Florida where Nancy and friends stayed.
Two Line Parker- a fisherman who knows about the narrow channels of Florida Keys and some of its stories and treasure.
References
External links
1951 American novels
1951 children's books
Children's mystery novels
Grosset & Dunlap books
Nancy Drew books
Novels set in Florida |
17325448 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Werewolf%20of%20Ponkert | The Werewolf of Ponkert | The Werewolf of Ponkert is a collection of two horror short stories by H. Warner Munn. It was published in book form with its sequel in 1958 by The Grandon Company in an edition of 500 copies. The edition was reissued as a hardback book by Centaur Books of New York in 1971, and as a paperback edition in 1976.
The first story, "The Werewolf of Ponkert" arose from a comment by H.P. Lovecraft suggesting a story written from the werewolf's point of view.
The stories, from Munn's Tales of the Werewolf Clan series (collected in book form, 2 vols., 1979), first appeared in the magazine Weird Tales. The first story was originally published in Weird Tales magazine, Vol. 6, No. 1, Issue 22, July 1925. The sequel, "The Werewolf's Daughter" (in abridged form) was published in Weird Tales, Vol. 12, No. 4, No. 5 & No. 6 (Issues 61, 62 & 63) in October 1928, November 1928 & December 1928.
Contents
"The Werewolf of Ponkert"
"The Werewolf's Daughter"
References
Sources
1958 short story collections
Horror short story collections
Werewolf written fiction
Works originally published in Weird Tales |
6899932 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCI | TCI | TCI may refer to:
Locations
Tenerife Airport (disambiguation), airport code of Tenerife International Airport (1964–1978), still used as a code for the island of Tenerife in general
Turks and Caicos Islands
Medicine
Target controlled infusion, a method of administering general anaesthesia
Psychology
Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) of personality traits
Theme centered interaction, a method for social learning in groups
Therapeutic Crisis Intervention, protocol used in residential childcare facilities
Religion
Taoist Church of Italy, a confessional religious body of Taoism in Italy
Technology
Tag Control Information, a data field in IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagging
Organizations and companies
Tall Clubs International, organization of clubs of tall people in North America
Tele-Communications Inc., former US cable television company
Telecommunication Company of Iran
Televisione Cristiana in Italia, an Italian religious television channel
Telus Communications Inc., a Canadian telecommunications subsidiary of Telus Corporation
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company, former steel manufacturer, Alabama, USA
Texas Correctional Industries, division of Texas Department of Criminal Justice, USA
The Children's Investment Fund Management, UK hedge fund management
Thistletown Collegiate Institute, a school in Toronto, Canada
Touring Club Italiano
Toyota Canada Inc.
Transport Corporation of India Ltd
Transportation and Climate Initiative, a proposed interstate compact |
17325461 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana%20McIntosh | Diana McIntosh | Diana McIntosh (born March 4, 1937 in Calgary, Alberta) is a contemporary Canadian composer and pianist who is based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Hailed by the Canadian Encyclopedia as "a champion of 20th-century Canadian music", she has premiered piano works by such Canadian composers as Peter Allen (Logos, 1977), Norma Beecroft (Cantorum Vitae, 1981), Robert Daigneault (Corridors, Reminiscences, 1977), Alexina Louie (Pearls, 1980), Marjan Mozetich (Apparition 1985), Boyd McDonald (Fantasy, 1974), Jean Papineau-Couture (Les Arabesques d'Isabelle, 1990), Ann Southam (Four Bagatelles, 1964 & Integruities, 1973 & Inter-views, 1975), Robert Turner (Homage to Melville, 1974), and John Winiarz (Vortices, 1977). In 1977, she and Southam co-founded Music Inter Alia (MIA), a concert series of "contemporary music for people who don't like contemporary music". She served as the MIA's director until 1991.
McIntosh earned an associate degree from The Royal Conservatory of Music in 1957 and a Licentiate in Music in 1961. While there she was a pupil of Boris Roubakine. In 1972, she received a Bachelor of Music from the University of Manitoba where she was a pupil of Alma Brock-Smith and Robert Turner. She also studied with Adele Marcus at the Aspen Music Festival and School and privately in New York City. Her other teachers included Gladys Egbert (studies in Calgary), Leonard Isaacs (studies in Winnipeg), and Michael Colgrass (studies in Toronto).
Works
Diana McIntosh Catalogue of Works
References
External links
Official Website of Diana McIntosh
1937 births
Living people
Aspen Music Festival and School alumni
Canadian women pianists
Musicians from Calgary
The Royal Conservatory of Music alumni
University of Manitoba alumni
Women classical pianists
21st-century Canadian composers
21st-century Canadian pianists
21st-century women composers
Canadian women composers
21st-century Canadian women musicians
21st-century women pianists |
20462893 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM%20U-20%20%28Austria-Hungary%29 | SM U-20 (Austria-Hungary) | SM U-20 or U-XX was the lead boat of the of submarines or U-boats built for and operated by the Austro-Hungarian Navy ( or ) during the First World War. The design for U-20 was based on that of the submarines of the Royal Danish Navy's Havmanden class (which had been designed by Whitehead & Co. in Fiume), and was largely obsolete by the beginning of the war.
U-20 was just over long and was armed with two bow torpedo tubes, a deck gun, and a machine gun. U-20 had no wartime successes and was sunk in early July 1918 by the Italian submarine F-12. The wreck of U-20 was located in 1962 and salvaged. A portion of her conning tower is on display in a military museum in Vienna.
Design and construction
When it became apparent to the Austro-Hungarian Navy that the First World War would not be a short war, they moved to bolster their U-boat fleet by seizing the plans for Denmark's Havmanden class submarines, which had been designed by Whitehead & Co. in Fiume, who had built three units. Although the Austro-Hungarian Navy was not happy with the design, which was largely obsolete, it was the only design for which plans were available and which could be begun immediately in domestic shipyards. The Austro-Hungarian Navy unenthusiastically placed orders for U-20 and her three sister boats on 27 March 1915.
U-20 was one of two boats of the class to be built at the Pola Navy Yard. Due to demands by the Hungarian government, subcontracts for the class were divided between Hungarian and Austrian firms, but this politically expedient solution worsened technical problems with the design and resulted in numerous modifications and delays for the class in general.
U-20 was a coastal submarine that displaced surfaced and submerged and was designed for a complement of 18. She was long with a beam of and a draft of . For propulsion, she featured a single propeller shaft, a single diesel engine for surface running, and a single electric motor for submerged travel. She was capable of while surfaced and while submerged. Although there is no specific notation of a range for U-20, the Havmanden class, upon which the U-20 class was based, had a range of at , surfaced, and at submerged.
U-20 was armed with two torpedo tubes located in the front and carried a complement of two torpedoes. She was also equipped with a deck gun and an machine gun.
U-20 was laid down on 29 September 1915, six months after she was ordered, and was launched on 18 September 1916.
Service career
Upon completion, U-20 began diving trials. On her 15 March 1917 trial, she was accidentally rammed by in the Fasana Channel. The collision with the Austro-Hungarian light cruiser twisted U-20s periscope, extensively damaged the conning tower, and knocked off her deck gun. After seven months of reconstruction, U-20 was commissioned into the Austro-Hungarian Navy on 20 October.
After initially operating out of Pola, U-20 was transferred to Trieste in February 1918. Over the next three months, the U-boat patrolled in the northern Adriatic between the Tagliamento estuary and Venice. U-20 had an encounter with an enemy submarine on 7 April but was not able to successfully launch an attack.
On 3 July, Linienschiffsleutnant Ludwig Müller sailed U-20 out from Trieste for the Gulf of Venice. A day later, U-20 was spotted by the Italian submarine F-12, which was on patrol in the northern Adriatic. F-12 initially pursued U-20 underwater, and then on the surface. At a range of , F-12 torpedoed U-20 at position , sinking her with all hands. There was no wreckage on the surface, only an oil slick. Like all of her sister boats, U-20 had no wartime successes.
In mid 1962, the wreck of U-20 was discovered in the northern Adriatic. Italian salvage crews raised the boat's rear portion on 22 July and her front section on 21 November. The conning tower and a small midships section of U-20 were donated to the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum in Vienna, where they are on display, while the rest of the boat was scrapped. The remains of the crewmen were buried on the grounds of the Theresian Military Academy at Wiener Neustadt.
Notes
References
Bibliography
U-20-class submarines
U-boats commissioned in 1917
Maritime incidents in 1918
U-boats sunk in 1918
World War I shipwrecks in the Adriatic Sea
Ships sunk by Italian submarines
U-boats sunk by Italian warships
1916 ships
Ships built in Pola
World War I submarines of Austria-Hungary
Ships lost with all hands |
6899950 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%20Railroad%20Depot | Lloyd Railroad Depot | The Lloyd Railroad Depot (also known as Bailey's Mill Station or Number Two Station) is a historic depot building in Lloyd, Florida in the United States. Built in 1858 by the Pensacola and Georgia Railroad, it is the oldest brick railroad station in Florida and one of only three surviving railroad depots in the state built prior to the start of the American Civil War. The Seaboard Air Line Railroad operated a local New Orleans - Jacksonville train on the line, making flag stops at the station, while the better known Gulf Wind passed through without stopping.
The building closed in 1966 after its owner at the time, the Seaboard Air Line Railroad, discontinued that local service and donated it to the Jefferson County Historical Society. A few years later, ownership was transferred to the Gulf Wind Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society, who own it to this day. On December 2, 1974, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. The structure is located near the junction of SR 59 and Lester Lawrence Road. It is currently used as a post office.
See also
Old Gainesville Depot
Tallahassee station
References
External links
Places in Jefferson County at Jefferson County, Florida
National Register of Historic Places in Jefferson County, Florida
Railway stations closed in 1966
Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Florida
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1858
Seaboard Air Line Railroad stations
Vernacular architecture in Florida
Transportation buildings and structures in Jefferson County, Florida
1858 establishments in Florida
1966 disestablishments in Florida |
6899952 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Mystery%20at%20the%20Ski%20Jump | The Mystery at the Ski Jump | The Mystery at the Ski Jump is the twenty-ninth volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series. It was first published in 1952 under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. The actual author was ghostwriter Alma Sasse.
Plot
Nancy, Bess, and George follow the trail of fur thieves to New York and into Canada. While trying to catch the thieves, Nancy must catch a woman named Mitzi Channing who is using Nancy's identity. Nancy finds out that everyone who has been buying from Mitzi is in a dreadful trap.
External links
1952 American novels
1952 children's books
Grosset & Dunlap books
Nancy Drew books
Children's mystery novels |
6899963 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War%20canoe | War canoe | A war canoe is a watercraft of the canoe type designed and outfitted for warfare, and which is found in various forms in many world cultures. In modern times, such designs have become adapted as a sport, and "war canoe" can mean a type of flatwater racing canoe.
History
War canoes were used in Africa, Austronesia, Americas and Europe to transport troops and supplies, and engage targets onshore. While documentation of canoe versus canoe battles on the open ocean is rare, records from the 14th century mention various peoples of West Africa using huge fighting canoes in inland waters, some up to and carrying over 100 men. Construction of the war canoe was typically from one massive tree trunk, with the silk cotton tree being particularly useful. The inside was dug out and carved using fire and hand tools. Braces and stays were used to prevent excessive expansion while the fire treatment was underway. Fire also served to release sap as a preservative against insect pests. Some canoes had of width inside, accommodating benches for rowers, and facilities such as fireplaces and sleeping berths.
Warriors on board were typically armed with shield, spear and bow. In the gunpowder era, small iron or brass cannon were sometimes mounted on the bow or stern, although the firepower delivered from these areas and weapons was relatively ineffective. Musketeers delivering fire to cover raiding missions generally had better luck. The typical tactic was to maneuver close to shore, discharge weapons, then quickly pull out to open water to reload, before dashing in again to repeat the cycle. Troop and supply transport were the primary missions, but canoe versus canoe engagements in the lagoons, creeks and lakes of West Africa were also significant.
Canadian sport war canoes
War canoe is largely a Canadian sport, with some teams coming from the northwestern United States as well; it is not sanctioned by the International Canoe Federation but is nonetheless an important part of most Canadian canoe club racing programs. The term 'war canoe' is derived from large indigenous peoples' canoes intended for war, and war canoeing was in fact a popular sport in Vancouver, British Columbia before large gatherings of indigenous people were outlawed in 1922. War canoeing among indigenous communities is enjoying a revival today, although there as yet has been little interaction with non-indigenous teams.
A war canoe holds 15 paddlers including one coxswain, or cox, for steering. War canoe is sometimes referred to as C-15 on regatta schedules, with the 'C' standing for 'canoe'. The paddlers, 7 to a side and slightly offset from one another, kneel on one knee while paddling. The coxswain stands with their calves braced between a yoke on the back of the boat. Paddlers on the left will kneel on their left knee and vice versa, as in a Sprint canoe, and the foremost paddler, whether on the right or left, will set the stroke. Boats are most often constructed of wood, although some newer boats will be made of fiberglass. Races will typically be of 500 m or 1000 m. The paddles used can be made of wood, but carbon fibre paddles are becoming standard, as their reduced weight leads to improved performance.
War canoe is seen as a prestige event at regattas where it is held, as it allows a significant portion of a club's racing members to be in the boat at once and compete together. It is a large team event in a sport that typically focusses on individual achievements. Crews will be taken from the appropriate age range (e.g. Bantam, junior, masters, etc.), and races are held for men's, women's, or mixed crews.
Typically, a war canoe will be faster than a dragon boat over any given distance, because of a better hull shape (narrower and without the characteristic 'w' shape of dragon boat hulls), lighter construction, and the kneeling position allowing for a fuller, more powerful stroke than the sitting position used in dragon boats.
See also
Tomako
Pacific Northwest Canoes
Dragon boat
Sprint canoe
Canoe racing
Waka
Kakap
Swan boat (racing)
Nouka Baich
Chundan vallam
References
External links
Tomako - War Canoe - Solomon Islands
Canoes
Canoeing in Canada
First Nations culture
Native American culture
Polynesian culture |
20462894 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo%20Cardascio | Carlo Cardascio | Carlo Cardascio (born 6 November 1979 in Bari, Italy) is an Italian footballer who currently plays as a midfielder for Italian club Bisceglie in Serie D.
References
External links
Profile at Lega-Calcio.it
1979 births
Living people
Italian footballers
Italy youth international footballers
Serie A players
Serie B players
Serie C players
Serie D players
Belgian First Division A players
A.S. Lodigiani players
S.S. Fidelis Andria 1928 players
U.S. Catanzaro 1929 players
Palermo F.C. players
R.A.E.C. Mons players
S.S.C. Bari players
A.S.D. Martina Calcio 1947 players
A.S. Bisceglie Calcio 1913 players
Expatriate footballers in Belgium
Italian expatriate footballers
Italian expatriate sportspeople in Belgium
Association football midfielders |
17325491 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/See%20You%2C%20See%20Me | See You, See Me | See you, See me is an Educational programme set in Scotland. It aired on BBC2 for several series between 1993 and 2005. The equivalent programme broadcast from London was Zig Zag, as both series focused on the 7 – 9 age group. Some early episodes were 15 minutes in length, while most programmes were 20 minutes. Grant Stott and Wilma Kennedy were the presenters from the beginning until the 2000s. Three series involved exploring Scottish Physical Features which saw the arrival of Goggs the Alien and Tess McCalli. Tess had a call from an American man called Mr Penneny who lived in New York City. Mr Penneny wanted to find out about the Central Lowlands
where See you, See me is filmed. Series 4 was Aired in 2005 and starred Katrina Bryan and Gavin Mitchell. The latest series was presented by James MacKenzie who explored the geography and the history of Scotland.
Episodes
First broadcast in 1994 episodes:
Romans in Scotland (15 minute episodes) (repeated in 2000)
Programme 1 Frontier people
Programme 2 Home
Programme 3 Food
Programme 4 Health
Programme 5 Trade
First broadcast in Autumn 1995 episodes:
1960's
Programme 1 Entertainment
Programme 2 Home life
Programme 3 School life
Programme 4 Shops and money
Programme 5 Transport
First broadcast in 1997 episodes:
Health
1. Food Is Fun
2. Food Is Fuel
3. Feeling Fine
4. Breathe Easy
5. Being Different
Maps
1. Landscape
2. Symbols
3. Farm And Croft
4. Towns
5. Transport
Scotland (broadcast Spring 1997)
1. Hill
2. Glen
3. River
4. Moor
5. Sea Loch
Weather
1. Weather: Rain And Snow
2. Weather: Sun And Wind
3. Weather Music
4. Weather: Art
5. Weather: Movement
First broadcast in 1998 episodes:
Vikings
1. Sea (12,13 January 1998)
2. Invaders (19, 20 January 1998)
3. Home And Settlements (26, 27 January 1998)
4. Women And Girls (2, 3 February 1998)
5. Trade And Crafts (9, 10, 16, 17 February 1998)
Design
1. Designing Your Clothes (23, 24 February)
2. Designing Your Place (2, 3 March)
3. Designing Your Environment (9, 10 March)
4. Designing To Tell (16, 17 March)
5. Designing To Entertain (23, 24 March)
Networks
1. Getting Around Town
2. Getting Out of Town
3. Goods on the Move 1
4. Goods on the Move 2
5. Eurolinks
Castles
1. Building A Castle
2. Living in a Castle
3. Castle Under Siege
4. Castle Banquet
5. Castle at Leisure
First broadcast in 1999 episodes:
Money
1. What Is Money?
2. What Is A Bank?
3. Money at Work
Where We Live
1. Falkirk And Stromness 1
2. Falkirk And Stromness 2
First broadcast in 2000 episodes:
Farming
1. On The Farm
2. Farmer's Year
Space
1. Solar System
2. Sun And Moon
3. Space Quest
Scotland's Inventors
1. Communication – John Logie Baird
2. Transport – James Watt
3. Medicine – Alexander Fleming
Cycle into Europe
1. Good Cycling
2. In The Town
3. In The Country
Buildings of Faith
1. Christian Church
2. Jewish Synagogue
3. Moslem Mosque
4. Sikh Gurdwara
Autumn 2001
1 Money
Programme 1. What Is Money?
Programme 2. What Is A Bank?
Programme 3. Money at Work
2 Picts and Scots
Programme 1 The Picts
Programme 2 The Scotti
Programme 3 The New Scots
3 Transport Networks
Programme 1 Getting around town
Programme 2 Getting out of town
Programme 3 Goods on the move I – rail and sea links
Programme 4 Goods on the move II – road links
Programme 5 Euro links
Spring 2002
1 The Vikings
Programme 1 The sea
Programme 2 Invaders
Programme 3 Homes
Programme 4 Women and girls
Programme 5 Trade and crafts
Autumn 2002
1 Scotland's Inventors
2 Weather – People and Place
Spring 2003
1 Are you eco-friendly?
Programme 1 The seashore
Programme 2 The river
Programme 3 The town
Programme 4 The forest
Programme 5 The mountain
2 Castles
Programme 1 Building a castle
Programme 2 Living in a castle
Programme 3 Castle under siege
Programme 4 A castle banquet
Programme 5 A castle at leisure
Autumn 2003
1 Buildings of Faith
Programme 1. Christian Church
Programme 2. Jewish Synagogue
Programme 3. Moslem Mosque
Programme 4. Sikh Gurdwara
2 Cycle into Europe
Programme One Safe cycling
Programme Two in town
Programme Three The countryside
Autumn 2004
1 Scotland's Inventors
Programme 1 Communication
Programme 2 Transport
Programme 3 Medicine
2 Skara Brae
Programme 1 The evidence
Programme 2 The discovery
4 Farming
5 Space
Programme 1. Solar System
Programme 2. Sun And Moon
Programme 3. Space Quest
Spring 2005
1 Scottish physical features part 2 – The Central Lowlands
Programme 1 Powerful Places
Programme 2 Restless Rivers
Programme 3 Volcanic Scotland
2 Weather – People and place
Programme 1. Rain and Snow 17 January: 1030–1050
Programme 2. Sun and Wind 17 January: 1050–1110
Autumn 2005
1 Citizenship: making decisions
Programme 1 at home with decisions
Programme 2 Out and about with T.O.P.S.
2 Are you eco-friendly?
Programme 1 The seashore
Programme 2 The river
Programme 3 The town
Programme 4 The forest
Programme 5 The mountain
3 Money
Programme 1 What is money?
Programme 2 What is a bank?
Programme 3 Making and spending money
Spring 2006
1 Scottish physical features part 3 – The Southern Uplands
2 Risk
Programme 1 Living dangerously
Programme 2 Stick to your guns
Autumn 2006
1 Castles
Programme 1 Building a castle
Programme 2 Living in a castle
Programme 3 Castle under siege
Programme 4 A castle banquet
Programme 5 A castle at leisure
2 The Highlands and Islands
Programme 6 The Grampian Tour
Programme 7 The Northern Tour
Programme 8 The Island Tour
3 Farming
Programme 9 on the farm
Programme 10 The farmer's year
Spring 2007
Vikings in Scotland
Programme 1 The coming of the Norse
Programme 2 The success of the Norse
Programme 3 The legacy of the Norse
Financial capability – Treasure!
Programme 4 The bounty and the budget
Programme 5 Debts and doubloons
Autumn 2007
Buildings of Faith
Programme 1 The Jewish Synagogue (15 October)
Programme 2 The Sikh Gurdwara
Programme 3 The Christian Church (12 November)
Programme 4 The Islamic Mosque (19 November)
Spring 2008
1 Skara Brae
Programme 1 The evidence (10 January)
Programme 2 The discovery (17 January)
2 Birds
Programme 1 Urban birds (24 January)
Programme 2 Rural birds (31 January)
Programme 3 Coastal birds (7 February)
3 Central lowlands
Programme 1 Powerful Places (28 February)
Programme 2 Restless Rivers (6 March)
Programme 3 Volcanic Scotland (13 March)
4 Cycle into Europe
Cycle into Europe
Programme One Safe cycling (29 February)
Programme Two in town (7 March)
Programme Three The countryside (14 March)
Autumn 2008
Financial Capability
Mondays 11:40
3 November 2008 The Bounty and the Budget
10 November 2008 Debts and Doubloons
The Romans
Fridays 11:40
7 November 2008 Programme 1
14 November 2008 Programme 2
Vikings in Scotland
Fridays 11:40
21 November 2008 The Coming of the Norse
28 November 2008 The Success of the Norse
5 December 2008 The Legacy of the Norse
BBC Scotland Education Teacher Notes 2001 – 2008
Series One 1993
Historic Scotland 1 – 4 September 1993
Historic Scotland 2 – 11 September 1993
Historic Scotland 3 – 18 September 1993
Series Two 1999
Finding out 1 – 1 January 1999
Finding out 2 – 8 January 1999
Finding out 3 – 15 January 1999
Series Three 2004
Decisions 1 – 22 March 2004
Decisions 2 – 29 March 2004
Decisions 3 – 5 April 2004
Series Four 2005
Powerful places – 7 January 2005
Restless Rivers – 14 January 2005
Volcanic Scotland – 21 January 2005
Series Five 2007 –
The Vikings of Scotland – 30 March 2007
The history of Loch-ness – 20 April 2007
Roman Scotland – 27 April 2007
Celtic Scotland – 4 May 2007
Scottish cooking – 11 May 2007
Scottish Castles – 18 May 2007
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HEALTH AND SAFE LIVING
Look out for yourself
Making friends
In touch ok/not ok
BBC Television shows
Scottish television shows |
6899964 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redonda%20Beach | Redonda Beach | Redonda Beach or Praia Redonda in Portuguese, meaning Round, is a beach on the southwestern coast of Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, bordering the Atlantic Ocean. It is adjacent to Passeio Alegre, in Póvoa de Varzim City Center. The Avenida dos Banhos runs alongside the beach, and the Diana Bar beach library, a nightclub and Café Guarda-sol are located on the beach.
The beach has medium sand and little granitic gneiss, typical rocky outcrops on Póvoa de Varzim coastline, the largest concentration is Carvalhido outcrop, which serves as the north limit of the beach. Salgueira Beach is located to the North and the Port of Póvoa de Varzim to the south. These beaches have a specific climate, by showing low diurnal temperature variation, just 4 °C (= 7.2 °F). Compared with the rest of the territory, rainfall is significantly lower and solar irradiation higher. These are subject to the prevailing northern winds which arise in the summer after midday; hence mornings are significantly less windy.
History
The beach is historically known as Praia de Banhos, Portuguese for Bathing Beach, contrasting with the Fisheries Beach (used for fishing and with very fine sand), currently the Port of Póvoa de Varzim. it is the historical bathing beach of Póvoa de Varzim, that in the 19th century became the most popular tourist destination in Northern Portugal. Ramalho Ortigão, in the book As Praias de Portugal (The Beaches of Portugal), states that Póvoa de Varzim is the great hostel for the inhabitants of the Minho province, for sea bathing or breathing the Sea air, as the marine layer is occasionally propelled to the beach by the south and western maritime winds during summertime, leaving an intense aroma. Ortigão states that in that time no other beach had such diversity and popularity.
In 1844, the chapel of Saint Joseph was built in there, and there was a street known as Rua da Areosa. The street was enlarged and became the Passeio Alegre square and the chapel demolished by beautification of the beaches square. A new chapel was built on Avenida Mousinho de Albuquerque to replace it. However, in the 1930s, beach bars were constructed in the location of the chappel: Diana Bar and Café Guardassol, the later was, at first, a famed 1920s wooden building, causing local debate. In the 1970s, Café Enseada was built and, in the 21st century, a new wooden building, the Maresia Café.
References
Beaches of Póvoa de Varzim |
17325502 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capetus%20%28amphibian%29 | Capetus (amphibian) | Capetus is an extinct genus of temnospondyl from the Upper Carboniferous of the Czech Republic. It reached a length of 150 cm.
References
Sequeira, S. E. K. & Milner, A. R. 1993. The temnospondyl amphibian Capetus from the Upper Carboniferous of the Czech Republic. Palaeontology 36, 657–680.
Steyer, J. S., Damiani, R., Sidor, C. A., O'Keefe, R., Larsson, H. C. E., Maga, A. & Ide, O. 2006. The vertebrate fauna of the Upper Permian of Niger. IV. Nigerpeton ricqlesi (Temnospondyli: Cochleosauridae), and the edopoid colonization of Gondwana. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26, 18–28.
Carboniferous temnospondyls of Europe
Temnospondyls
Prehistoric amphibian genera |
6899966 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum%20City | Maximum City | Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found is a narrative nonfiction book by Suketu Mehta, published in 2004, about the Indian city of Mumbai (also known as Bombay). It was published in hardcover by Random House's Alfred A. Knopf imprint. When released in paperback, it was published by Vintage, a subdivision of Random House.
Awards
Maximum City was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2005, and won the Kiriyama Prize, an award given to books that foster a greater understanding of the nations and peoples of the Pacific Rim and South Asia. It won the 2005 Vodafone Crossword Book Award. The Economist named Maximum City one of its books of the year for 2004. It was shortlisted for the 2005 Samuel Johnson Prize.
Adaptation
In August 2019, it was reported that Anurag Kashyap will be the showrunner of franchise films based on the book. It will be produced by Ashok Amritraj.
References
External links
Suketu Mehta's official website
Publisher Random House website
Interview with the Wall Street Journal
Lettre Ulysses Award Biography Page on Suketu Mehta
2004 non-fiction books
Books about India
Novels set in Mumbai
Indian biographies
Mumbai in fiction
21st-century Indian books |
6899971 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSOP | SSOP | SSOP may refer to:
Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures
Shrink Small-Outline Package |
6899985 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forever%20Pop | Forever Pop | Forever Pop is a collection of new (at the time) remixes of older Alphaville songs and singles. The people responsible for some of the remixes include notables such as Paul Van Dyk, Mark Plati, and De-Phazz.
Reviews
One reviewer had positive things to say about the collection, noting that most of the remixes "maintain the beauty of the original music," although one mix (the Eiffel 65 mix) is an exception: it strays "too far away from the original song while not adding anything interesting to win over the listener." Overall, the collection was referred to as "refreshing" and "stunning."
Track listing
"Forever Young (F.A.F. mix (album version))" – 4:58
"Dance with Me (Paul van Dyk mix)" – 3:54
"Big in Japan (Roland Spremberg mix)" – 3:42
"Romeos (Rewarped mix)" – 4:34
"Summer Rain (De-Phazz mix)" – 4:21
"Jerusalem (Georg Kaleve mix)" – 4:39
"Summer in Berlin (Cristian Fleps mix)" – 3:45
"Sounds Like a Melody (Staggman mix)" – 7:52
"Lassie Come Home (@home mix)" – 4:54
"Jet Set (Saunaclub mix)" – 4:55
"A Victory of Love (JAB mix)" – 4:30
"Red Rose (Mark Plati mix)" – 5:40
"Big in Japan (Eiffel 65 mix)" – 5:00
The F.A.F. mix is denoted as the "album version" to differentiate it from the "Diamonds in the Sun" mix, which was released exclusively to fans in the "Forever Young 2001 (Fan Edition)" release
The promotional-only single "Dance with Me 2001" was also released to accompany the album
Notes
1.http://www.answers.com/topic/forever-pop-1, All Music Guide
Alphaville (band) albums
2001 remix albums
Warner Music Group EPs |
6899996 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JDS%20%C5%8Cshio | JDS Ōshio | JDS Ōshio (SS-561) was a submarine in service with Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force. Ōshio was planned and built to replace the aging JDS Kuroshio.
Background
In 1955, the Maritime Self-Defense Force received a loan from the US Navy for the Gato-class submarine USS Mingo and recommissioned it as the first JDS Kuroshio to begin the development (reconstruction) of the submarine force. Subsequently, by building the first Oyashio in the 1956 plan, domestic construction of submarines was resumed. In the subsequent First Defense Build-up Plan, from the perspective of arranging the numbers, the development of a small submarine (SSK) for local defense, which was modeled after the Barracuda class of the US Navy, will be promoted, and the plan for 1959. Then, the Yashio type, the Natsushio type was built in the 1960 plan.
However, these small submarines have serious restrictions on their snorkeling and surface navigation capabilities, especially in stormy weather, which has become a serious problem in submarine operations in the waters near Japan. In addition, since the US Navy had changed its policy to develop a large submarine such as the Tang-class submarine, the Maritime Self-Defense Force also decided to build a larger submarine (SSL) with excellent seakeeping. Based on this, first, as a substitute ship for JDS Kuroshio, only one ship was built in the plan of 1958.
Design
The design of this ship uses the same technology as SSK, and is expanded to almost the same size as the original Kuroshio.
Her ship type is an underwater high-speed nautical submarine similar to SSK. The hull structure is also based on the same double-shell type as SSK, but for slimming down, the rear part is a single-shell type and is a partial single-shell type. As for the material of the pressure hull, NS46 tempered high-strength steel (yield strength 46 kgf / mm2 / 451MPa), which was limited only to the frame in 35SSK, was fully adopted.
The propulsion system was a diesel-electric system, the propulsion device was a two-axis system, and the basic configuration was the system since 31SS. As a diesel engine, two V-type 16-cylinder Kawasaki / MAN V8V 24 / 30m MAL were installed. This is based on the 31SS V8V 22 / 30m MAL, with the bore (piston diameter) expanded to increase the output, and has since been followed up to the Yuushio type (50SS). [6].
For electric propulsion, two Fuji Electric SG-3 traction motors (1,200 kW) and two Fuji Electric SM-3 traction motors (1,450 horsepower on water / 3,150 horsepower underwater), and 480 SCB-47W main storage batteries (120). Group x 4 groups) was installed. The SCB-47W main storage battery is a water-cooled agitated fiber-clad lead battery similar to SSK (excluding Natsushio), but its life is longer and its discharge capacity is lower than before.
The propeller is the same 5-sho screw propeller (453 rpm) as before, but the airfoil has been improved and the material has been changed to aluminum bronze.
Equipment
The sonar arrangement is similar to the Natsushio-class, but for the hearing device (passive sonar), the JQO-3 is located at the bottom of the bow and the JQO-4 is located inside the dome at the front end of the sail. ing. As an active sonar, the JQS-3 was mounted on the bottom of the ship below the command post in a hanging manner, similar to the 35SSK. The periscope used to be a 10-meter type, but has been increased to a 13-meter type since the ship.
Six torpedo tubes were placed on the bow and two on the stern. All of these have a 533mm caliber, but the one on the bow side is the hydraulically fired HU-601, while the one on the stern side is the swimout type HU-201, which is used to protect the ship when evacuating. It was envisioned to launch a Mk.37 mod.0-N short torpedo (483mm diameter). However, this equipment method was evaluated as having limited effectiveness, and it is said that it was never used. The number of torpedoes installed was 18 for Mk.54 torpedoes and Mk.37 mod.0-N, and 6 torpedoes were installed at the rear.
Construction and career
Ōshio was laid down on 29 June 1963 and launched on 30 April 1964 by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Kobe Shipyard. She was commissioned on 31 March 1965 and incorporated into the 1st Submarine Group 2nd Submarine.
On 8 April 1967, while moored in Kure, a short circuit occurred in the rear control panel room while charging the storage battery, and a fire broke out from a large discharge. At this time, the inner shell was partially melted and after that, it was operated with a limit on the dive depth.
From 25 January to 14 April 1969, she participated in Hawaii dispatch training.
On 26 January 1970, while she was surfacing in Hiroshima Bay, she came into contact with a small tanker (186 tonnes) and broke two propeller shafts.
From 22 September to 10 December 1971, she participated in Hawaii dispatch training.
She was decommissioned on 20 August 1981 and dismantled in March 1982. She allowed the media to film her inside the ship before dismantling.
See also
Citations
Submarines of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
Ships built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
1964 ships |
6899999 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Ringmaster%27s%20Secret | The Ringmaster's Secret | The Ringmaster's Secret is the thirty-first volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series. It was first published in late 1953 under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. The actual author was ghostwriter Harriet Stratemeyer Adams.
Plot summary
1953 Edition: Nancy's Aunt Eloise, aware of her niece's current interest in learning horseback riding stunts, sends her a second-hand golden bracelet bearing charms of horses in all five gaits; a sixth charm is missing. Coincidentally, the Sims Circus, former employer of Nancy's equestrian instructor, is coming to town. Nancy investigates the link between the unhappy circus star, young aerialist, Lolita, and her bracelet. Lolita is the adopted daughter of the acting manager, Ringmaster Kroon, and his wife. Pietro, the young, handsome clown, tells Nancy Lolita has the missing charm from her bracelet. Nancy's regular appearances at the circus, and her detective reputation brings the ire of Kroon. When a bareback rider is injured, Nancy is asked to join the show as her replacement. Bess Marvin stands in at an interview with Kroon, and agrees to audition later, while Nancy lightens her hair and cuts it to resemble her friend. Nancy's travels with the circus come to an abrupt end when she and George are kidnapped and left aboard the car of a freight train. After their escape, Nancy continues following up on clues, including a mysterious woman in England linked to both the bracelet and Lolita! In the climax of the story, Nancy is rescued by Ned when Kroon tries to imprison her in the lion's cage, and all is revealed.
Commentary
This is the first volume that Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, manager and co-owner of The Stratemeyer Syndicate, is credited with writing in full.
1974 Edition: the story is a shortened and abridged version of the original, lacking detail in the subplots, and quickening the pace. Nancy uses a wig to resemble Bess, as well, since her hair is titian in the revision. The story is basically a simplified version of the original.
Book Club Edition
In 1959, this volume was the second in a series released as part of the Nancy Drew Reader's Club, nicknamed by adult collectors as "Cameos," so named in reference to the jacket and cover design elements of Nancy on a cameo pendant. Nancy is illustrated as mature, dressed in tailored clothes, in this series of book club editions with illustrations by Polly Bolian. The books featured eight internal illustrations on double pages, and a color frontispiece, which was also reproduced as the cover art on a paper dust jacket. The books removed prior- and next-book notices and promotions, and all other details that would serve to sequence the books. Nancy is shown as willowy, with short, wavy hair, and a more mature appearance than her counterpart in the regularly issued series of books.
Critiques
Adult book collectors and enthusiasts discuss and review Nancy Drew plot elements online. The premise of this volume is sometimes discussed regarding suspension of disbelief that Nancy is as skilled as a high-grade circus performer, and can easily enter the circus as a replacement performer. The original art was executed in 1953 by illustrator Rudy Nappi, and shows a poised and polished Nancy in a typical 1950s shirtdress with Lolita as Kroon discovers their escape. Artist Polly Bolian illustrated the same cover scene for her 1959 book club dust jacket and frontispiece, correcting the time of day to sunrise, and featuring Nancy in a smart suit with matching pumps and bag. In 1974, Nappi updated his art to a collage of the ringmaster and Nancy as a bareback rider in costume. An unknown artist executed less artistic internal illustrations showing Nancy and her friends wearing mostly bell-bottom jeans and t-shirts for the updated edition. This is the cover and text in print currently by Simon and Schuster.
References
External links
Nancy Drew books
1953 American novels
1953 children's books
Circus books
Grosset & Dunlap books
Children's mystery novels |
20462914 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam%20Blott | Sam Blott | Samuel Prince Blott (19 June 1886 – 31 January 1969), sometimes known as Prince Blott, was an English professional football forward who played in the Football League for Manchester United and Newport County. He also played in the Southern League for Plymouth Argyle, Southend United and Bradford Park Avenue.
Personal life
Blott served as a private in the Army Veterinary Corps during the First World War.
Career statistics
References
1886 births
1969 deaths
English footballers
Bradford (Park Avenue) A.F.C. players
Manchester United F.C. players
Southend United F.C. players
Plymouth Argyle F.C. players
Newport County A.F.C. players
Brentford F.C. wartime guest players
Royal Army Veterinary Corps soldiers
British Army personnel of World War I
English Football League players
Southern Football League players
Dartford F.C. players
Association football forwards |
6900001 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photochemical%20and%20Photobiological%20Sciences | Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences | Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all areas of photochemistry and photobiology. It is published monthly by Springer Nature and is the official journal of the European Photochemistry Association, European Society for Photobiology, Asia and Oceania Society for Photobiology, and the Korean Society of Photoscience. The editors-in-chief are Dario Bassani and Santi Nonell. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2015 impact factor of 2.235.
Owner societies
The journal is co-owned by the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology, and is affiliated with the Asia and Oceania Society for Photobiology and the Korean Society of Photoscience.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
Chemical Abstracts Service
PubMed/MEDLINE
Science Citation Index
Scopus
See also
Chemical biology
References
External links
European Photochemistry Association
European Society for Photobiology
Asia and Oceania Society for Photobiology
Korean Society of Photoscience
Chemistry journals
Biology journals
Royal Society of Chemistry academic journals
Publications established in 2002
Monthly journals
English-language journals |
17325553 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Marvel%201602%20characters | List of Marvel 1602 characters | Marvel 1602 is an eight-issue comic book limited series published in 2003 by Marvel Comics. The limited series was written by Neil Gaiman, penciled by Andy Kubert, and digitally painted by Richard Isanove; Scott McKowen illustrated the distinctive scratchboard covers.
The eight-part series takes place in a timeline where Marvel superheroes are members of Elizabethan society. The characters are mainly from Marvel's 1960s period and include Nick Fury, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, Doctor Doom and Magneto. Spider-Man also features, though he appears much younger than the 1960s version and does not have any superpowers.
Other popular characters, such as Wolverine and Storm, were not added, because of Gaiman's vision to address the heroes of the 1960s. "The territory doesn't go much further than 1969 in terms of the characters that I picked to use," Gaiman noted. "I couldn't get everybody in because there are an awful lot of Marvel characters."
Historical figures
Elizabeth I of England - Her history is essentially unchanged from the real-world version. She is assassinated by Count Otto von Doom (see below), a year before she should have died of natural causes.
James VI of Scotland and I of England - His history is also largely unchanged. He keeps his firm belief in the Divine Right of Kings and his loathing of the witchbreed (this reality's version of mutants) mirrors the real-life James' view of Catholics. James later took the throne of Elizabeth I following her death and conspired with the Grand Inquisitor to eliminate the Witchbreed. When Javier criticizes Fury for smoking a pipe, Fury remarks that James once made similar reproaches. James was indeed critical of smoking and even wrote A Counterblaste to Tobacco on the subject. On the other hand, he was also a heavy drinker, and he is seldom shown without a cup of wine in his hand. There are also hints towards his homosexuality in this timeline, as there was some suggestion that he was in real life. He was later killed by the Hulk as revealed in Hulk: Broken Worlds #2. He was also later revealed to be this world's version of Wolverine in a later storyline.
Virginia Dare - The first English child born in the Americas. In this world, the Roanoke Colony did not disappear in the 1580s. Inspired by a legend that Virginia was killed in the shape of a white deer, Gaiman gives his version shapeshifting powers. She is able to become any real animal (e.g., a wolf and a white deer), dinosaurs that in this timeline still survive in America (e.g., a Tyrannosaurus), and mythological creatures (like a griffin and a sphinx). She was later killed by Master Norman Osborne. Gaiman has stated that he created Virginia Dare without a previous Marvel character basis in order to provide a unique and fully American character in the 1602 universe.. However, her aspect and powers resemble the ones of the Canadian superhero Snowbird.
William Shakespeare - A playwright who served the court of Elizabeth I and James I. While working on the scripts for Macbeth, he is kidnapped by the Vulture-Fliers and forced by Otto Von Doom to chronicle his journeys to the advanced city of Bensaylum (this reality's Atlantis) in Marvel 1602: Fantastick Four.
Heroes
Sir Nicholas Fury - The Queen's Intelligencer. The 1602 world's version of Nick Fury is in the position of Sir Francis Walsingham, one of the great spymasters of the time who obtained the evidence that led to the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, and vital information that helped defeat the Spanish Armada. When she introduces him to Strange, Queen Elizabeth tells Fury not to give his official title since he will "tell us we do not pay you enough". In fact Elizabeth was extremely cautious with money and Walsingham's secret service got very poor financial support from the state. Dedicated to protecting the realm from threats both inside and out, Walsingham himself got into debt employing agents who have been described as "spies on a shoestring" budget.
Doctor Stephen Strange - The Queen's physician who is also an alchemist and magician. Strange's interests and skills mirror some of those of the Queen's contemporary John Dee, a mathematician, astrologer, and geographer who was also interested in conjuring. Strange works from his mansion in the then-village of Greenwich outside London (a play on the "real" Doctor Strange's mansion in Greenwich Village, New York City).
Peter Parquagh - Sir Nicholas' apprentice. He is this world's Spider-Man (Peter Parker), although without the powers, but with a keen interest in spiders. A running plot thread is that Peter is constantly being prevented from being bitten by spiders, which is how his mainstream counterpart obtained his powers. When Rojhaz climbs up a tower to fetch Virginia, Peter timidly and ironically says "I can't climb." He is however bitten by a spider caught in the closing timestream rift and later develops powers similar to those of the mainstream Spider-Man, adopting the alias of "the Spider". There are hints of a budding romance between Peter and Virginia Dare, who resembles the ill-fated Gwen Stacy. This is further implied by Virginia's murder at the hands of Norman Osborne. In a lead-up to the Spider-Verse storyline, Peter Parquagh was killed by Morlun.
Matthew Murdoch - A blind Irish minstrel and freelance agent who occasionally works for Sir Nicholas. Matthew acquired heightened senses from a mysterious substance he encountered as a child, and is this world's Daredevil (a.k.a. Matt Murdock). He shows a lot of the quick wit and humour that Daredevil displayed before Frank Miller turned him into a more serious and moody character.
Clea Strange - Dr. Strange's wife and assistant. Clea comes from another dimension (in which she used to be a Queen) and is herself a sorceress. She is this world's version of Clea.
Rojhaz (pronounced "Ro-gers") - Virginia's blonde-haired, blue-eyed Native American bodyguard. The colonists assume him to be a product of congress between Indians and Welsh traders (see Welsh Indians). In fact he is actually Steve Rogers a.k.a. Captain America. Imprisoned in a dystopian future ruled by a President-for-Life and sent back in time, Rogers, and the hole his passage has left in time, serves as the trigger for the warping of history that introduces the other Marvels. He also changes history more directly by helping the Roanoke Colony through the winter.
Carlos Javier - A Spaniard living in England where he runs a College for the Sons of Gentlefolk. He is a witchbreed, a being born with special powers (i.e. mutants). But unlike the Inquisitor (see below), he believes in a future of peace between witchbreed (which he calls mutantur or changing ones) and normal humans (the mondani). He is this world's Professor X.
Carlos Javier's students - This world's version of the original X-Men. They are:
Roberto Trefusis (Robert "Bobby" Drake, Iceman) - A nephew of Sir Francis Drake.
Scotius Summerisle (Scott Summers, Cyclops) - He wears a visor made of rubies, and has a branded X on his shoulder which was put there when he was found to be a witchbreed in Scotland.
Hal McCoy (Hank McCoy, the Beast) - A student with a grotesque appearance. He also escaped from James' Scotland.
"John" Grey (Jean Grey) - "John" Grey is in fact a young woman (a reference to Shakespeare's plays in which young men often dress up women: As You Like It and Twelfth Night).
Werner (Warren Worthington III, the Angel) - He was rescued from the Inquisition. His friendship with "Master John" causes jealous resentment on the part of Scotius Summerisle, though Werner is unaware of "John's" true sex. In fact he implies some homosexual feelings towards "Master John", which contrasts with the 1960s version of the Angel who was portrayed as a womanizing playboy. However, it also pays tribute to the love triangle between Jean, Scott, and Warren in the '60s.
Uatu the Watcher - He knows that all these heroes and villains are not due for another 350 years and is tempted to break the rules of the Watchers and interfere (albeit not for the first time). The other Watchers see his actions as being for the greater good since the destruction of this universe could result in that of others, leaving them with nothing to watch. Thus they interfere as minimally as possible and Uatu is ultimately rewarded with a gift: the seed of this universe preserved rather than altered by Captain America's return to the future.
The Four from the Fantastick - A famous group of heroes who feature in Murdoch's favourite ballad (which Gaiman has written a full version of, although only snippets appear in the comic). They were all transformed when their sailing ship, the Fantastick, encountered a wave of energy from the Sargasso Sea. Trapped under the castle of Count Otto von Doom, they remain in imprisonment until rescued by Sir Nicholas Fury and Carlos Javier. They are this world's Fantastic Four. Gaiman makes the interesting observation that their bodies reflect the four elements that alchemists believed made up all things. They consist of:
Captain Benjamin Grimm - The captain of the Fantastick. Grimm's body becomes solid rock
Sir Richard Reed - The explorer and genius who convinced the others to go on the voyage. Reed's flesh becomes pliable like water.
Susan Storm - Reed's fiancé. Unlike her 616 counterpart, she is permanently invisible. Susan's body becomes weightless and invisible like air
Master Jonathan Storm - He retains his hot-headed and sarcastic personality, as well as his rivalry with Ben Grimm, but appears to be several years older than in the 616 continuity; in the original comics, Johnny was a teenager and the same age as Peter Parker, while in 1602 he seems to be an adult. John's body becomes living fire.
Donal the Ancient One - A Knight Templar who is entrusted with taking the "Templar Treasure" to Sir Stephen Strange. This proves to be the hammer Mjolnir, disguised as a simple walking stick. Donal is forced to use the hammer to become Thor, a pagan god who according to Donal's religion should not even exist. This act of blasphemy turns him to drink. He is this world's version of Donald Blake, a.k.a. the Mighty Thor. In a clever conceit, while the Marvel Universe Thor has Shakespearean speech patterns, the 1602 version speaks in Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse, and the calligraphy-style lettering in his speech bubbles is replaced with a rune-like font.
Henri Le Pym - Henri Le Pym is a philosopher who Victor Octavius blackmailed into helping to find a cure for him at the time he was trying to cure his shrunken wife. When his wife was covered in a spilled elixir he was working on, he licked it off her resulting in him becoming a giant. He is this reality's version of Henry Pym.
Janette Le Pym - Janette is Henri's wife who was shrunken by accident. After being hit by a spilled elixir, she became a human/wasp hybrid. She is this reality's version of Wasp.
Supporting Characters
Captain Nelson - A seaman who regularly takes Matthew Murdoch across the English Channel. He is suspicious of the blind minstrel who suggests with a smile that he should keep his thoughts to himself. Nelson is this world's Foggy Nelson.
Dougan - The second-in-command of Fury's armies. He is very loyal to Fury and goes with him to Count Otto Von Doom's castle and the New World, where he stays and becomes the head of the police force, becoming a friend to Dare, as seen in 1602: New World. He is this world's Dum Dum Dugan.
Jonah Jameson - An Irish-accented newspaper owner in the New World. He is almost exactly like his Marvel Universe counterpart including his dislike of people with "powers". His newspaper is called the Daily Trumpet which is this reality's version of the Daily Bugle.
Rhodes - Rhodes is Lord Iron's Moorish engineer. His Marvel Universe counterpart is James Rhodes (a.k.a. War Machine).
Captain Ross - He is the English captain of the vessel that transports Lord Iron to the New World. He is the 1602 manifestation of Marvel's General Ross, since both men were charged with subduing the Hulk and his human counterpart.
Richard and Mary Parquagh - The parents of "The Spider". They were mentioned to have worked for Sir Nicholas Fury. They are this reality's versions of Richard and Mary Parker.
Numenor - He is the ruler of Bensaylum (this reality's Atlantis). He is this reality's version of Namor.
Rita - She is the cousin of Numenor. She is this reality's version of Namorita.
Lord Wyatt Wingfoot - A lord who is a rival to the Human Torch for the affection of Doris Evans.
Steve Rogers - About more than 300 years in the present Earth-311, an ill Steven Rogers was injected with a version of the super-soldier serum based on one of Henri Le Pym's preserved vial containing the Spider's blood. This allowed him to become this universe's modern Captain America.
Marioac - She is the leader of the local Native Americans who are feuding with the colonists. Marioa becomes a sort of friend to both Peter and Banner, and is portrayed as a little magical or supernatural. She is not based on a character in the traditional Marvel Universe.
Governor Dare - He is the governor of the colony and a wise and heroic man, although not based on a Marvel character.
Villains
Please note: among the characters classed as villains (i.e., enemies of the main protagonists) are characters who in the mainstream Marvel universe are actual heroes (e.g., Hulk), or villains-turned-heroes (e.g., Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, and the Black Widow).
"Brotherhood Of Those Who Will Inherit The Earth" - A secret society formed by Enrique, the Spanish Inquisitor who is actually one of the so-called Witchbreeds that the Inquisition has sworn to destroy. The society's name is a biblical allusion: "those that wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the earth." (King James Bible Psalm 37:9). Among its members are:
Grand Inquisitor Enrique - Born a Jew, he was taken in by a Christian priest and baptized (and also implied to have been molested). The Christians later refused to let him be returned to his Jewish family, saying that giving him back to the 'Christ-killers' would damn his soul to Hell. As an adult, he leads the Spanish Inquisition which he oversees from Domdaniel. Although ordered to execute the witchbreed, he hides those whom he can pass off as normal with him being secretly a witchbreed himself. He is this world's Magneto.
Sister Wanda and Petros - The Inquisitor's assistants. They are also his children, a fact he has kept from them. They are this world's Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver (Wanda and Pietro Maximoff).
Toad - He is Enrique's spy in the Vatican. Though his long tongue and ability for climbing walls are plainly visible, he manages to hide for an undisclosed, but lengthy amount of time. Gaiman also plays with other cold-blooded characteristics, such as a pronounced sleepiness at low temperatures.
David Banner - An advisor to King James, who replaces Sir Nicholas Fury when James takes the English throne. He is then sent to Roanoke with orders to kill Fury. Towards the end of the story, he is caught in the energies of the Anomaly and becomes a brutish monster. He is this world's Hulk.
Natasha - A freelance spy and "the most dangerous woman in Europe". She is partnered with Murdoch by Sir Nicholas, but betrays him and Donal to Count Otto. She is this world's Black Widow (who is one of Daredevil's regular on-off girlfriends).
Count Otto von Doom - The ruler of Latveria, known as Otto the Handsome and he is indeed a good-looking man. A long-time enemy of Sir Richard Reed, he is responsible for the Four from the Fantastick's disappearance by the story's start. He is this world's version of Doctor Doom, though his face-scarring injuries come after rather than before the Four from the Fantastick acquire their powers.
Master Norman Osborne - He wants to trick the Native Americans into selling the island of Roanoke. However, they have been educated in the English language by 'Rojhaz' (Captain America from the future) and see the flaw in his contract. Norman seeks to turn the colony against the natives, because he believes that the natives are hiding something of great value. He is this world's Green Goblin.
Lord Iron - A Spaniard weaponeer who was famous for his inventions. Lord Iron was captured during the war against England and was tortured by David Banner for weeks in order to manufacture new and deadly weapons. He has since built a suit of armor powered by electricity and harbors a grudge against Banner. Despite his allegiance, he has no special loyalty towards King James, and merely seeks revenge on Banner and by association the Hulk. He is this world's Iron Man.
The Vulture-Fliers - They are Count Otto von Doom's flying warriors, based on the Spider-Man villain the Vulture.
The Assassins are sent by Count Otto von Doom to murder Sir Nicholas Fury, Virginia Dare, and Queen Elizabeth:
The first assassin does not appear to have a definitive counterpart in the regular Marvel Universe.
The second is a Vulture-Flier.
The third is a booby-trapped musical machine.
Baron Victor Octavius - An Italian nobleman and brilliant scientist living in exile in France who suffered from the bubonic plague. Octavius attempted to cure himself by using the blood of octopi which worked, but also slowly transformed him into a human/octopus hybrid. He is this reality's version of Doctor Octopus.
Curtis Connors - A philosopher who was infected with the bubonic plague. He created an elixir that transformed him into a reptilian creature that resembled a velociraptor, but retained his mind. He worked with Baron Victor Octavius to capture the Spider. He is this world's Lizard.
Four Who Are Frightful - Four Jacobean hired by Otto Von Doom to find the Lost City of Bensaylum. They are this reality's version of the Frightful Four. Among its members are:
Wizard - A magic-user who is the leader of the Four Who Are Frightful. He is this reality's version of Wizard.
Medusa - Medusa is the lover of the Wizard. She has snakes for hair and needs to wear a veil to prevent her gaze from turning men to stone. Though she has snakes for hair, she is still depicted as this reality's version of Medusa.
Marko - An Albino who can conjure up dreams and nightmares. He can also induce sleep and waking dreams by blowing sand on people. Despite the difference, he is this reality's version of Sandman. He appears to be partially based on Gaiman's other character known as the Sandman (who appeared in DC comics).
Trapster - A skilled huntsman. He is this reality's version of Trapster.
The King's Pin - Wilson Fiske is a pirate captain of the H.M.S. Vanessa and was known to have never spare any survivors he attacks. He is this reality's version of Kingpin.
Bull's Eye - He is an assassin and the second mate to Wilson Fiske.
The future President-For-Life - He assumes power in a 20th or 21st century America and rounds up and jails many aging heroes. He is also responsible for shunting Captain America, a living symbol of freedom, into the past. His dark-purple face on a poster (in contrast to the lighter pink of the other characters seen in flashback) implies that he is the Purple Man at the summit of his powers of persuasion.
References
External links
1602: Fantastick Four on Marvel.com
1602 Timeline entry on Uncannyxmen.net
Marvel 1602 characters |
17325576 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%20Day | Barry Day | Sir Barry Stuart Day OBE (born 12 June 1953) was the chief executive of the Greenwood Dale Foundation Trust (GDFT). He was formerly headteacher of the Greenwood Dale School.
Day was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2007 Birthday Honours and knighted in the 2014 Birthday Honours for services to education. He was appointed one of the National College for School Leadership's National Leaders of Education in October 2007.
In 2008, Day received an honorary degree of Doctor of Education from Nottingham Trent University in recognition of his work to raise the aspirations and attainment of young people in the city of Nottingham, reflecting not only his success in transforming the Greenwood Dale School in Nottingham, but also his broader influence in raising educational standards nationally.
Footnotes
1953 births
Knights Bachelor
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Schoolteachers from Nottinghamshire
Living people
People from Stevenage
Alumni of Loughborough University |
20462936 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean%20Institute | Ocean Institute | The Ocean Institute is an ocean education organization located in Dana Point, California. Founded as the Orange County Marine Institute in 1977, it offers ocean science and maritime history programs for K–12 students and their teachers. Over 100,000 students and 8,000 teachers from Orange County and the surrounding counties participate yearly in immersion-style programs in the institute's oceanfront labs and abroad.
The institute is open to the general public on weekdays, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., and weekends, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.; visitors can see marine animals and ocean-themed exhibits. While creating the Nickelodeon animated television show SpongeBob SquarePants, biologist and cartoonist Stephen Hillenburg drew inspiration from his time teaching at the Ocean Institute.
Moored at the institute is its 70-foot marine science research vessel, the R/V Sea Explorer, used for student programs and to take visitors on trips to see marine wildlife, including whale watching on weekends. The institute also partners with the Lazy-W Ranch, a camp located in the Cleveland National Forest where students study the ecosystem and California history. It provides outreach programs via a mobile laboratory provided by the "Ocean in Motion" van and distance learning via video conference.
Other facilities
Ecology Learning Center – for grades K–3, includes marine life tanks, wet-tables with video-microscopes, a digital imaging lab and an interactive children's theater.
Marine Life Refuge – Eight acres of beach and tidepools just to the north of the facility; used for walking tours.
Maritime Center – Used for teaching maritime history.
Packard At-Sea Learning Center –For grades 4–6, houses marine life including jellyfish at various stages of development.
Surfscience Learning Center, Sleeping Deck – Houses teaching exhibits such as an oceanography test tank, wave tank, shark & ray pool, and a shipboard research station. Students on overnight programs can sleep upstairs on the sleeping deck. The deck also houses a National Weather Service Coastal Observation Station.
Samueli Lecture Hall and Conference Center – The central meeting facility of the institute, used for educational presentations and special events.
Student and Teacher Services Building – The main administration building; a two-story open lobby serves as the main entry for visitors. Exhibits on the first floor.
Center for Cooperation in Research and Education – Integrates ocean research into Ocean Institute programs
Maddie James Seaside Learning Center - A learning center with a biological diversity lab that serves as a transition zone for new animals and a citizen science lab for the study of invasive species.
Laurena G. Chambers Gallery and Gift Store – Offers educational materials and ocean and maritime-themed gift items.
Tall Ships: Pilgrim and Spirit of Dana Point
The institute maintains two tall ships, the Pilgrim, a 130-foot vessel used in overnight and dockside programs, and the Spirit of Dana Point, a 118-foot topsail schooner. The Pilgrim is a replica of the tall ship that Richard Henry Dana Jr. sailed onboard into Dana Point in the 1830s. Tall ship programs simulate the experience of a sailor in the 1830s.
The Pilgrim and Spirit of Dana Point are showcased at the institute's largest annual event, the Toshiba Tall Ships Festival, held in September. It draws seven or eight tall ships from up and down the coast, and features pirates, singing, cannon battles, and a chance to sail on a tall ship.
The replica of the Pilgrim was demolished in April 2020 after sinking.
Annual budget
The Ocean Institute has an annual budget of $6 million, and employs 100 full and part-time staff members, as well as utilizing the services of hundreds of volunteers. Professional partners include the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the National Science Foundation and Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Supporters include the Swenson Family Foundation, the Henry Samueli Foundation, Quiksilver, and KOCE, among others. Wendy Marshall serves as the institute's president and CEO. It is funded through school visitations, state and city grants, as well as gifts from local philanthropists. The watershed education program is funded by MyOcean and the Surf Industry Manufacturers Association.
The institute's largest annual fundraiser is its Laguna Beach Million Dollar Home Raffle, which began in 2005.
References
External links
Maritime museums in California
Oceanographic organizations
Education in Orange County, California
Museums in Orange County, California
Natural history museums in California
Dana Point, California |
6900002 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Ryder | Paul Ryder | Paul Anthony Ryder (24 April 1964 – 15 July 2022) was an English musician. He was a bass player and a founding member of the Manchester band Happy Mondays with his brother Shaun Ryder.
Early life
Paul and Shaun are the two sons of Derek Ryder, a postman, and his wife Linda, a nurse.
Happy Mondays
Ryder was an active member of the band through most of its history from its inception in 1983 through to his death. His bandmates include his brother Shaun, Gary Whelan, Mark "Bez" Berry, Paul Davies and Mark Day. It was during his tenure with the band that it had its biggest successes with albums such as Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches which sold more than 400,000 copies in the UK. The Ryder brothers fell out in the 1990s as Paul struggled with heroin addiction, but he rejoined the band for their 2012 comeback.
Acting
Ryder appeared in the films The Ghosts of Oxford Street, Losing It, and 24 Hour Party People, where he played the part of a gangster.
Other projects
Ryder left Happy Mondays to write music for several television shows, and formed a new band, Big Arm, who released an album in 2008 titled Radiator.
Ryder lived in Los Angeles where he continued to write music. He supported Tom Tom Club on two of the dates on the North America tour in October 2010, playing gigs in San Francisco and Los Angeles. He was joined by Eddy Gronfier, Neo Garcia on drums and Matt Cheadle on guitar.
Death
Ryder was found dead in his bed by his mother on 15 July 2022, aged 58, the day before the band were due to play at a festival in Sunderland. He had been reporting headaches after arriving in Salford after flying from his home in Los Angeles.
The family later said that the Coroner had said that Ryder died as a result of Ischaemic heart disease and diabetes, but they were waiting for the full Coroner's Report to be released.
References
External Links
1964 births
2022 deaths
English rock bass guitarists
Male bass guitarists
Happy Mondays members
People from Salford |
20462954 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferroxyl%20indicator%20solution | Ferroxyl indicator solution | Ferroxyl indicator is a solution containing potassium hexacyanoferrate(III) and phenolphthalein. It turns blue in the presence of Fe2+ ions, and pink in the presence of hydroxide ions. It can be used to detect metal oxidation, and is often used to detect rusting in various situations.
It can be prepared by dissolving 10g sodium chloride and 1g potassium hexacyanoferrate(III) in distilled water, adding 10 cm3 phenolphthalein indicator, then making up to 500 cm3 with distilled water.
References
Chemical tests
Corrosion |
6900013 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Scarlet%20Slipper%20Mystery | The Scarlet Slipper Mystery | The Scarlet Slipper Mystery is the thirty-second volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series. It was published in 1954 by Grosset & Dunlap and written by Charles S. Strong under the house pseudonym Carolyn Keene.
Plot
Nancy meets Helene and Henri Fontaine, refugees from Centrovia who run a dancing school in River Heights. Strange circumstances have brought the brother and sister to United States. When they receive an anonymous note threatening their lives, Nancy offers her help.
But she encounters nothing but puzzles. Are the Fontaines involved with the Centrovian underground? Have they been threatened by their own countrymen? Why? Is a series of paintings by Henri Fontaine being used for a sinister purpose?
Suddenly the Fontaines disappear. Have they been kidnapped? Nancy and her friends pursue the trail relentlessly, even though danger lurks around every corner. They are trapped by their enemies, and escape seems impossible. But Nancy's quick wit finally enables her to solve this intriguing and intricate mystery.
References
Nancy Drew books
1954 American novels
1954 children's books
Grosset & Dunlap books
Children's mystery novels |
20462957 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron%20Ferrier | Ron Ferrier | Ronald Johnson Ferrier (26 April 1914 – 11 October 1991) was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Manchester United in the 1930s, and later for and Oldham Athletic. He played for Plymouth Argyle as a wartime guest, and also represented Grimsby Town and Lincoln City before retiring as a player in 1947.
He also played/ and scored once as a guest player for Mossley in the 1939–40 season whilst stationed with the army at Ladysmith Barracks.
He died in October 1991 at the age of 77. He could play at centre and inside forward.
References
External links
MUFCInfo.com profile
1914 births
1991 deaths
People from Cleethorpes
English footballers
Association football forwards
Grimsby Town F.C. players
Manchester United F.C. players
Oldham Athletic A.F.C. players
Plymouth Argyle F.C. wartime guest players
Lincoln City F.C. players
English Football League players
Mossley A.F.C. players |
6900014 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege%20of%20Shigisan | Siege of Shigisan | The 1577 was one of many sieges during Oda Nobunaga's campaigns to consolidate his power in the Kansai area.
The castle was held by Matsunaga Danjo Hisahide and his son Kojirō, both of whom committed suicide upon their defeat.
Supposedly, following his father's seppuku, Kojirō leapt from the castle walls, with his father's head in his hand, and his sword through his own throat.
Hisahide, a master of tea ceremony is also said to have smashed his favorite tea bowl so that it would not fall into the hands of his enemies.
In Popular Culture
In the 2020 Taiga drama, Kirin ga Kuru, Matsunaga Hisahide is played by actor Kōtarō Yoshida. This Taiga's narrative was that Hisahide left his alliance with Nobunaga after Tsutsui Junkei, his rival, was chosen as protector of the Yamato Province. Nobunaga's son, Oda Nobutada, with Akechi Mitsuhide, would defeat Hisahide at the Siege of Shigisan. If Hisahide had surrendered, Nobunaga would have given him a small fiefdom.
References
1577 in Japan
Akechi clan
Shigisan
Conflicts in 1577
Izumi-Hosokawa clan
Oda clan
Shigisan |
20462962 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akama%20Shrine | Akama Shrine | is a Shinto shrine in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. It is dedicated to Antoku, a Japanese emperor who died as a child in the Battle of Dan-no-ura (aka Dannoura), which occurred nearby in 1185. This battle was important in the history of Japan because it brought an end to Genpei War in which the Minamoto clan defeated the rival Taira clan, and ended the Taira bid for control of Japan.
The shrine is situated on the waterfront of the Kanmon Strait, between the centre of Shimonoseki and the tourist restaurants of Karato, Kanmon Wharf. The bright red main gate makes it a very visible sight.
Description
The colours and style of the gate are inspired by Ryūgū-jō, according to the Shimonoseki Tourist Guidebook published by the Shimonoseki City Tourism Department. This source states that Antoku's grandmother, Nii-no-Ama, who drowned with Antoku, wished for their palace to be created underwater as she jumped into the sea. Ryūgū-jō is a mythical underwater palace, belonging to the dragon god of the sea. In the Tale of Heike, Nii-no-Ama told Antoku, before jumping, that they would go to an underwater palace, without referring to Ryūgū-jō. Then, Antoku's mother (Kenreimon-In, aka Taira no Tokuko) had a dream, in which they were living in Ryūgū-jō.
Inside, in the Hoichi Hall, is a statue of Hoichi the Earless, one of the characters in a traditional ghost story which was made known in the west by Lafcadio Hearn.
The grounds also contain the Nanamori-zuka (seven mounds), which represent the Heike warriors also lost in the Battle of Dan-no-Ura.
Kanpei-sha
In 1871, the identified the hierarchy of government-supported shrines most closely associated with the Imperial family. The kampeisha were shrines venerated by the imperial family. This category encompasses those sanctuaries enshrining emperors, imperial family members, or meritorious retainers of the Imperial family. Up through 1940, the mid-range of ranked Imperial shrines or included the shrine; and it was then known as Akama-gū In 1940, Akama's status was changed , which is the highest rank; and since then, it has been known as Akama jingū.
See also
List of Jingū
Modern system of ranked Shinto Shrines
Notes
References
Japan National Tourist Organisation (note that the information that Emperor Antoku was three years old when he died is contradicted by other sources, which say that although he was a young child, he was a few years older than that. See the Wikipedia page for Antoku)
Ponsonby-Fane, Richard Arthur Brabazon. (1959). The Imperial House of Japan. Kyoto: Ponsonby Memorial Society. OCLC 194887
___. (1962). Studies in Shinto and Shrines. Kyoto: Ponsonby Memorial Society. OCLC 399449
___. (1963). The Viciissitudes of Shinto. Kyoto: Ponsonby Memorial Society.
Kanpei-taisha
Jingū
Shinto shrines in Yamaguchi Prefecture
Beppyo shrines |
6900019 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20Bacteria%20Vacuum | Red Bacteria Vacuum | Red Bacteria Vacuum (レッドバクテリアバキューム) is an all-girl Japanese punk band from Osaka formed in 1998 consisting of Ikumi (guitar/vocals), Kassan (bass/vocals, also formerly known as RanRan), and Jasmine (drums/vocals). The band relocated to Tokyo in 2000.
They have gone through numerous member changes, notably with the major problem of filling in for the departing Akeming, their original drummer who left the band when pregnant with her first child. Katsu was later found to be the new drummer, but later left early 2009. By April 2009, Jasmine became their permanent drummer, appearing in their new album and touring with them for Japan Girls Nite.
The band performed in US numerous times throughout the years, usually as part of Benten Label's Japan Nite, an annual tour promoting Japanese indie bands in America. As part of their 2009 American tour, they played at the opening of New People, a building dedicated to Japanese culture in San Francisco. The group released their album, "Dolly Dolly, Make an Epoch" in October 2009. The band toured in the US once again in March 2010, appearing at SXSW as well as participating in the Japan Nite tour once again. Red Bacteria Vacuum appear in the 2009 documentary Live House, including live performances and interview with the band and its past members. In April 2011 it was announced that Red Bacteria Vacuum would open for A Perfect Circle on all their non festival 2011 tour appearances.
In early 2013 Red Bacteria Vacuum released their third full-length album, Hey! Peeps
Discography
Albums
2000: Such a Scream
2004: Killer Dust
2009: Dolly Dolly, Make a Epoch
2013: Hey! Peeps
EPs
2005: Roller Coaster
DVDs
2006: Panic Junky Special Live
References
External links
Official Japanese Site
Sister Benten English Site
Myspace Site
RED BACTERIA VACUUM SUMMER 2011 TOUR
All-female punk bands
Japanese rock music groups
Japanese punk rock groups
Musical groups from Osaka |
6900026 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault%20Nepta | Renault Nepta | The Renault Nepta was a concept grand tourer made by Renault which was presented at the Mondial de l'Automobile 2006. It was designed by Patrick le Quément and was unusual for Renault in that it was rear-wheel drive with a large petrol engine.
Technical details
It is equipped with a direct injection twin turbo 3.5 L petrol V6 producing and was coupled to a paddle-shift seven-speed automatic gearbox. The Nepta could accelerate to 62 mph in 4.9 seconds.
References
External links
Nepta
Cars introduced in 2006
Rear-wheel-drive vehicles
Grand tourers
Convertibles
Automobiles with gull-wing doors |
20462965 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown%20Sugar%20%281931%20film%29 | Brown Sugar (1931 film) | Brown Sugar is a 1931 British romance film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott and starring Constance Carpenter, Francis Lister, Allan Aynesworth and Helen Haye. It was largely filmed at Twickenham Studios in west London. It was produced by Julius Hagen as a quota quickie for distribution by the American company Warner Brothers. Local gentry disapprove when Lord Sloane chooses an actress for a wife.
Cast
Constance Carpenter as Lady Stella Sloane
Francis Lister as Lord Sloane
Allan Aynesworth as Lord Knightsbridge
Helen Haye as Lady Knightsbridge
Cecily Byrne as Lady Honoria Nesbitt
Eva Moore as Mrs. Cunningham
Chili Bouchier as Ninon de Veaux
Gerald Rawlinson as Archie Wentworth
Alfred Drayton as Edmondson
Wallace Geoffrey as Crawbie Carruthers
References
Bibliography
Chibnall, Steve. Quota Quickies: The Birth of the British 'B' Film. British Film Institute, 2007.
External links
1931 films
1930s English-language films
Films directed by Leslie S. Hiscott
1930s romance films
Films shot at Twickenham Film Studios
British films based on plays
British black-and-white films
British romance films
Quota quickies
1930s British films |
20462966 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20J.%20Higginson | William J. Higginson | William J. Higginson (December 17, 1938 – October 11, 2008) was an American poet, translator and author most notable for his work with haiku and renku, born in New York City. He was one of the charter members of the Haiku Society of America, and was present at its formation meeting in 1968.
Life
Higginson attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology, then joined the United States Air Force, and was sent by them to study Japanese at Yale University, where his interest in haiku began.
Career
He served for two years at Misawa Air Base in Japan in the early 1960s. Upon return to the US he completed his undergraduate studies, obtaining a BA in English at Southern Connecticut State College in 1969. He edited Haiku Magazine from 1971 to 1976, and ran the literary From Here Press, which published titles by several well-known authors, including Allen Ginsberg, Elizabeth Searle Lamb, and Ruth Stone.
Legacy
Higginson's experience in Japan led him to conclude "the 17 sound structure of Japanese haiku did not translate into 17 syllables in English" and in his translations therefrom stressed more upon "the order of images, the grammar between them (or lack thereof) and the psychological effect of the poems". Higginson's aim was to "bring haiku, full bore into the heat of our own time and place" and make it "a contemporary living art" whilst still remembering that "in Japan they talk of composing haiku rather than writing them".
The primary purpose of reading and writing haiku, Higginson thought, "was in sharing moments of our lives that have moved us, pieces of experience that we offer or share as gifts".
Major works
His three major works, The Haiku Handbook (1985), Haiku World (1996), and The Haiku Seasons (1996), all continue to sell well with internet booksellers, while The Haiku Handbook is one of the most widely read English-language haiku books.
Bibliography
Itadakimasu: Essays on haiku and senryu in English. J & C Transcripts, 1971
Cycing Paterson: a Haiku / Senryu Sequence. Seer Ox, 1974
Christmas night in Paterson. From Here Press, 1975
Don't you build your highway here. From Here Press, 1975
Thistle Brilliant Morning: Translations from the Japanese (translator). From Here Press, 1975
Eastrie. From Here Press, 1975
Used poems (with Penny Harter). Winter Solstice, 1978
Union County literature today (with Penny Harter). From Here Press, 1980
Death Is & Approaches to the Edge. From Here Press, 1981
Paterson Pieces: Poems 1969-1979. Old Plate Press, 1981
The big waves : Meisetsu, Shiki, Hekigotō, Kyoshi, Hakyō (translator). Fanwood, 1989
The Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Share, and Teach Haiku (with Penny Harter). McGraw-Hill, 1985
The Healing. From Here Press, 1986
Ten years' collected haiku : volume 1. From Here Press, 1987
Seasoned haiku : a report on haiku selected by the seasons for publication in Frogpond in 1990, with an invitation to participate. Fanwood, 1990
Wind in the Long Grass: A Collection of Haiku (an anthology for children). Simon & Schuster, 1991
Met on the Road: A Transcontinental Haiku Journal. Press Here, 1993
Haiku Compass: Directions in the Poetical Map of the United States of America. Haiku International Association, 1994
Haiku World: An International Poetry Almanac. Kodansha, 1996
The Haiku Seasons: Poetry of the Natural World. Kodansha, 1996
The seasons in haikai. Irvington Press, 1996
Red Fuji: Selected Haiku of Yatsuka Ishihara (translator with Tadashi Kondō). From Here Press, 1997
Over the Wave: Selected Haiku of Ritsuo Okada (translator). From Here Press, 2001
Kiyose: Seasonword Guide. From Here Press, 2005
A Summer Surgery / Waiting (with Penny Harter). From Here Press, 2005
Sixty instant messages to Tom Moore (with Paul Muldoon and Lee Gurga). Modern Haiku Press, 2005
Butterfly Dreams: The Seasons through Haiku and Photographs CD-ROM with photographs by Michael Lustbader, 2006
Surfing on Magma. From Here Press, 2006
4 Sequences. From Here Press, 2007
Grants, awards, and other recognitions
Member, Selection Committee for the Masaoka Shiki International Haiku Awards in International Haiku, Ehime Prefecture Culture Foundation, Japan (2000, 2002, 2004).
Honorary Curator, American Haiku Archive, California State Library, Sacramento, California, USA (2003–2004).
Haiku Society of America Merit Book Award for translation (with Tadashi Kondō), for Red Fuji: Selected Haiku of Yatsuka Ishihara (1998).
Translation Grant, Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry (1994).
Inducted into the New Jersey Literary Hall of Fame (1989).
Member, Governor's Task Force on Literacy in the Arts, a New Jersey Educational Commission (1987–1989).
Haiku Society of America Merit Book Award for Textbook/Scholarly Work (with Penny Harter), for The Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Share, and Teach Haiku (1986).
Writing Fellowship in Poetry, New Jersey State Council on the Arts (1977).
Haiku Society of America Merit Book Award for critical writing, for Itadakimasu: Essays on Haiku and Senryu in English (1974, one of the first Merit Book Awards).
Prize for Best Haiku of the Meeting, Haiku Society of America (May 1969):
The clock
chimes, chimes and stops,
but the river . . .
See also
Monostich
Haiku
Haiku in English
References
Autobiographical notes
Higginson's interview with Amazon.com
External links
'From one-line poems to haiku'
Higginson's Renku Home website
Higginson's Haikai Home website
Finding aid to William J. Higginson papers at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
1938 births
2008 deaths
20th-century American poets
English-language haiku poets
Poets from New Jersey
Japanese–English translators
American Japanologists
21st-century American poets
20th-century American translators
21st-century American translators
American male poets
20th-century American male writers
21st-century American male writers
20th-century American non-fiction writers
21st-century American non-fiction writers
American male non-fiction writers |
6900027 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adnan%20%C4%8Custovi%C4%87 | Adnan Čustović | Adnan Čustović (born 16 April 1978) is a Bosnian professional football manager and former player, currently managing Kortrijk.
Club career
Čustović started his career at local side Velež Mostar in 1991, before joining Slovenian Second League team Triglav Kranj in 1996. He later moved to France, where he played for Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 teams Le Havre, Laval and Amiens. On 21 December 2005, after three years, he left Mouscron and moved to Gent.
In 2010, Čustović joined Germinal Beerschot, who loaned him out to the successor of his previous club Mouscron, namely Mouscron-Péruwelz in 2012. After the loan, he left for Belgian Second Division team Tournai. Čustović finished his playing career at Tournai in 2014, retiring at the age of 36.
International career
Čustović made his debut for the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team against Norway on 24 March 2007. On 2 June 2007, he experienced his first notable moment for the national team by scoring his first international goal when he headed the winner over Turkey from a corner kick taken by Mirko Hrgović.
He has earned a total of 5 caps, scoring 1 goal. His final international was a September 2007 European Championship qualification match against Moldova.
International goals
Managerial career
Early career
Right after finishing his playing career, Čustović started his managerial career. From 2014 to 2015, he was the assistant manager at Kortrijk and then from 2015 to 2017, Čustović was assistant at Oostende.
Oostende
In September 2017, Yves Vanderhaeghe, Oostende manager at the time, was sacked after a poor start to the season when the club collected only one point in seven games and were bottom of the league. Čustović was named interim manager of Oostende, but after two wins and one draw in three games, thus collecting seven points in those three games, he was given a full contract, which was to last until the end of the season. At the end of the season, the club avoided relegation and Čustović was praised by fans as a result. He left the club after the end of the season.
Waasland-Beveren
On 17 November 2018, Čustović was appointed as the new manager of Waasland-Beveren. His first match in charge was a league game at home to Royal Excel Mouscron on 24 November 2018, which ended in a 1–2 loss. Čustović's most memorable moment at the club was a 2–1 victory over league champions Club Brugge on 7 December 2018. Following a bad start to the 2019–20 season, he was relieved of his duties on 26 August 2019.
Bosnia and Herzegovina
On 25 January 2020, Čustović was named as an assistant of Bosnia and Herzegovina national team head coach Dušan Bajević.
Return to Oostende
On 4 March 2020, Čustović was once again appointed as the manager of Oostende. After only one game as Oostende's manager, he was released by the club on 7 June 2020.
Managerial statistics
Honours
Player
Triglav Kranj
Slovenian Second League: 1997–98
Gent
Belgian Cup: 2009–10
Mouscron-Péruwelz
Belgian Third Division A: 2011–12
References
External links
1978 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Mostar
Association football forwards
Bosnia and Herzegovina footballers
Bosnia and Herzegovina international footballers
NK Triglav Kranj players
Le Havre AC players
Stade Lavallois players
Amiens SC players
Royal Excel Mouscron players
K.A.A. Gent players
Beerschot A.C. players
R.F.C. Tournai players
Slovenian Second League players
Ligue 1 players
Ligue 2 players
Belgian First Division A players
Belgian First Division B players
Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Slovenia
Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate sportspeople in Slovenia
Expatriate footballers in France
Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate sportspeople in France
Expatriate footballers in Belgium
Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate sportspeople in Belgium
Bosnia and Herzegovina football managers
K.V. Oostende managers
S.K. Beveren managers
K.V. Kortrijk managers
Belgian First Division A managers
Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate football managers
Expatriate football managers in Belgium
Shanghai Port F.C. non-playing staff |
6900039 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Hidden%20Window%20Mystery | The Hidden Window Mystery | The Hidden Window Mystery is the thirty-fourth volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series. It was first published in 1956 under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. The actual author was ghostwriter Harriet Stratemeyer Adams.
Plot
Nancy and her friends, Bess and George travel to Charlottesville, Virginia in search for a missing stained-glass window. They also visit Richmond, Virginia, and the church where Patrick Henry gave his "Give me liberty or give me death" speech. The girls stay with Nancy's cousin Susan. Nancy discovers someone is trying to keep her away from Charlottesville. The mansion they are staying at is said to be haunted by a mysterious ghost. Also Nancy's new neighbors' brother, Alonzo Rugby, is in Charlottesville and is a major suspect in this mystery.
Nancy Drew books
1956 American novels
1956 children's books
Novels set in Virginia
Grosset & Dunlap books
Children's mystery novels |
6900061 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Secret%20of%20the%20Golden%20Pavilion | The Secret of the Golden Pavilion | The Secret of the Golden Pavilion is the thirty-sixth volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series. It was first published in 1959 under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. The actual author was ghostwriter Harriet Stratemeyer Adams.
Plot summary
Nancy, Bess, and George travel to Hawaii to solve an interesting puzzle involving an old golden pavilion. They are then set to find a trio of art thieves. They help find a Chinese man's treasure.
Carson Drew is asked by Mr. Sakamaki to solve the mystery of the estate, Kaluakua, that he inherited from his grandfather. The estate is located in Hawaii and has a secret. Sakamaki was warned never to sell the estate until he learns its secret.
Complicating the situation, a brother and sister have suddenly appeared, claiming to be heirs to the estate. Also, somebody has been hacking at the floor of the Golden Pavilion, which is a circular open building on the estate.
References
Nancy Drew books
1959 American novels
1959 children's books
Novels set in Hawaii
Grosset & Dunlap books
Children's mystery novels |
20462972 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Higginson | Bill Higginson | Bill Higginson may refer to:
William J. Higginson (1938–2008), American poet, translator and author
Bill Higginson (cricketer) (born 1936), English cricketer |
6900065 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauricio%20Gomes | Mauricio Gomes | Maurício Motta Gomes (born 25 July, 1955), also known as Maurição, is a practitioner of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu holding the rank of 8th degree white and red belt. The founder of the first Gracie Barra franchise in the United Kingdom, Gomes has been training and teaching BJJ for over 50 years, one of only six people promoted to black belt by legendary Rolls Gracie. Gomes is the father of Roger Gracie, one of the most accomplished jiu-jitsu competitors of all time.
Career
Maurício Motta Gomes started training Brazilian jiu-jitsu aged four, after his father, a BJJ brown belt, took him to classes at João Alberto Barreto's academy. As a teenager, Gomes began training with the legendary Rolls Gracie. Under Gracie's guidance, he became a highly successful competitor winning the absolute division of the Rio de Janeiro State Championships in 1981. Shortly after this victory Gracie awarded Gomes his black belt in November 1981. Gomes continued training with Gracie until his tragic death in 1982.
Gomes opened the first Gracie Barra school in 1997 in Tokyo and was the first Brazilian to be invited to Japan to teach. After staying there for a year, he returned to Brazil before accepting a position in England. Gomes set up Gracie Barra UK, teaching at Birmingham London, Edinburgh and Belfast. Gomes brought over Felipe Souza, Braulio Estima, and his son Roger Gracie to help with the teaching in England. Estima later become the main instructor at Gracie Barra Birmingham. In 2000 Gomes was invited to lead the BJJ class at the Budokwai in London. In 2004 his son opened the Roger Gracie Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Academy where he joined the teaching staff. In 2005 Gomes promoted his first UK students to black belt Jude Samuel, the first home-grown British black belt, Rick Young, and Marc Walder. In 2020 together with his son, Gomes established the first Gracie Barra Jiu Jitsu School in Shanghai, China. Because of his efforts to grow the sport in the country, Gomes is affectionately known as the ‘Godfather of British Jiu-Jitsu’.
Personal life
Through his close ties with the Gracie family, Gomes met Reila Gracie, the daughter of Carlos Gracie Sr. They married in 1979 and had a son, Roger. Roger Gracie would go on to become a ten-time World Champion, opting to use the Gracie name from his mother's side. Gomes and Reila Gracie divorced, and Gomes now lives in the UK with his wife Natalie Day, a jiu-jitsu brown belt.
Instructor lineage
Kano Jigoro → Tomita Tsunejiro → Mitsuyo "Count Koma" Maeda → Carlos Gracie, Sr. → Helio Gracie → Rolls Gracie → Mauricio Motta Gomes
Notes
References
External links
Mauricio Gomes Black Belt List
Jiu Jitsu
Gracie Barra
Roger Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Academy
European Fight Network
Interview with Mauricio Motta Gomes
Brazilian practitioners of Brazilian jiu-jitsu
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in England
Living people
Sportspeople from Rio de Janeiro (city)
People awarded a coral belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu
1960 births |
20462984 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawakaze-class%20destroyer | Kawakaze-class destroyer | The were a class of two destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The class is sometimes referred to as the Tanikaze class in some sources; however, Tanikaze was launched and commissioned later than Kawakaze.
Background
Construction of the new Kawakaze-class destroyers was authorized as part of the Imperial Japanese Navy's 8-4 Fleet Program in fiscal 1915. A large destroyer with long range, capable of providing escort to the new battleship and the two s were considered a part of this reduced spending naval program from the previous Eight-eight fleet project..
Although funding was authorized for only one destroyer, Tanikaze, the Italian government unexpectedly refunded Japan for its down payment of 870,000 Yen on the , which had been transferred to the Royal Italian Navy before completion in England during World War I. These funds were used to complete a second vessel, which was also named Kawakaze.
Design
Initially conceived of as a follow-on version of the earlier s, however, it was the first to use the new Type 3 120 mm 45 caliber naval guns that were to be used many subsequent classes of Japanese destroyers. In addition, given the experience with deployment of Japanese destroyers for extended periods overseas in World War I, the hull and bow needed to be reinforced to handle heavy seas. Furthermore, the navy wanted to add the latest technologies in terms of the new 533 mm torpedoes in three double launchers.
It was furthermore decided to use the same Brown-Curtis heavy fuel oil fired geared steam turbine engines as on the Tenryū-class cruisers. The result was a ship was much more powerful that the earlier Isokaze class, and capable of high speed operation.
Operational history
The Kawakaze-class destroyers served during the interwar period. Kawakaze was retired on 1 April 1934 and Tanikaze a year later.
List of ships
References
Notes
Books
External links
Destroyer classes |
6900087 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Hawthorne | James Hawthorne | James Burns Hawthorne (27 March 1930 - 7 September 2006) was BBC Controller in Northern Ireland for 10 years from 1979 to 1989 and as such was the senior editorial figure in the organisation throughout a decade of the Northern Ireland Troubles.
Early life and education
Hawthorne, one of identical twins was born on 27 March 1930 in Balfast, he was educated at the Methodist College Belfast and Queen's University Belfast. He began work in Belfast in 1951 as a maths teacher at Sullivan Upper School and joined BBC Northern Ireland as a radio producer in the Schools Department in 1960.
Work with the BBC
He was deeply involved in the fight to preserve the editorial independence of the BBC in Northern Ireland after the so-called "Real Lives" controversy when Margaret Thatcher's cabinet called for a current affairs programme to be pulled from the schedule. Hawthorne's stance in standing up to government pressure, at no small cost to himself, makes him one of the most significant figures in the story of UK broadcasting in the latter half of the twentieth century. His background in education was apparent in his time as Controller of BBC Northern Ireland, where he expanded education and drama, and encouraged local dramatists to create work about Northern Ireland for international audiences. He also introduced Irish-language broadcasts, reversing a BBC Dominions Office ban from the 1930s on Gaelic broadcasting in the UK.
Retirement and death
After his retirement he remained in Northern Ireland where he held the chair of the Community Relations Council, Health Promotion Agency, Prison Arts Foundation and instigator and mainstay of the Ulster History Circle.
He died on 7 September 2006 after a short illness. BBC NI Controller Anna Carragher said she was deeply saddened by the death of Dr. Hawthorne who led the BBC in some of the most trying years of The Troubles. "He had an enormous dedication and commitment to the BBC."
References
Guardian obituary for James Hawthorne
1930 births
2006 deaths
BBC people
Mass media people from Belfast
Alumni of Queen's University Belfast
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
People educated at Methodist College Belfast |
6900102 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Clue%20of%20the%20Dancing%20Puppet | The Clue of the Dancing Puppet | The Clue of the Dancing Puppet is the thirty-ninth volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series. It was first published in 1962 under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. The actual author was ghostwriter Harriet Stratemeyer Adams.
Plot
At the Van Pelt estate, home of a local acting troupe, a mysterious dancing puppet haunts the grounds. Nancy, Bess, and George are asked to solve the case, but it will be a dangerous-yet-rewarding one when an old family mystery comes to light. From the moment Nancy, Bess and George arrive at the mansion, the dancing puppet mystery is further complicated by the Footlighters’ temperamental leading lady and a Shakespearean actor. Nancy's search of the mansion's dark, musty attic for clues to the weird mystery and an encounter with two jewel theft suspects add perplexing angles to the puzzle. This book is the original text. A revised text does not exist.
External links
1962 American novels
1962 children's books
Children's mystery novels
Grosset & Dunlap books
Nancy Drew books
Novels about actors
Puppetry |
20462997 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%20Gardner | Dick Gardner | Charles Richard Gardner (22 December 1913 - 1997) was an English footballer. His regular position was as an inside right. Born in Birmingham, Gardner played for Evesham Town, Notts County, Stourbridge, Sheffield United, and Manchester United.
References
External links
MUFCInfo.com profile
1913 births
1997 deaths
Date of death missing
Footballers from Birmingham, West Midlands
English footballers
Association football inside forwards
Notts County F.C. players
Stourbridge F.C. players
Manchester United F.C. players
Sheffield United F.C. players |
6900114 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Moonstone%20Castle%20Mystery | The Moonstone Castle Mystery | The Moonstone Castle Mystery is the fortieth volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series. It was first published in 1963 under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. The actual author was ghostwriter Harriet Stratemeyer Adams.
Plot
Nancy receives a moonstone as a gift from an unknown person; she is amazed yet puzzled. She then finds herself involved in a case involving the Bowens and their missing granddaughter, Joanie Horton. Clues lead Nancy, Bess, and George to the haunted Moonstone Castle along the Deep River.
External links
Nancy Drew books
1963 American novels
1963 children's books
Children's mystery novels
Grosset & Dunlap books |
6900115 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Journal%20of%20Political%20Theory | European Journal of Political Theory | The European Journal of Political Theory is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the field of political theory and philosophy. The editors-in-chief are Enzo Rossi (University of Amsterdam) and Robin Douglass (King's College London). It was established 2002 and is published by Sage Publications.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences, Scopus, and Worldwide Political Science Abstracts.
External links
SAGE Publishing academic journals
English-language journals
Political philosophy journals
Publications established in 2002
2002 establishments in the United Kingdom |
6900122 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Clue%20of%20the%20Whistling%20Bagpipes | The Clue of the Whistling Bagpipes | The Clue of the Whistling Bagpipes is the forty-first volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series. It was first published in 1964 under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. The actual author was ghostwriter Harriet Stratemeyer Adams.
Plot
Nancy finds mystery in everything she does. In the novel Nancy and her friends along with her father head to Scotland on family business and to solve the mystery of the missing heirloom. Nancy is warned not to go to Scotland, but she ignores the warning. Nancy finds strange things in Scotland like the people. She and her friends, Bess and George, visit Nancy's great-grandmother from her mother's side (who Nancy's never met) at an estate in the Scottish Highlands. While there, Nancy becomes involved in the mystery of missing flocks of sheep and a mysterious bagpiper has been spotted. Clues leading to a discovery in an old castle and a prehistoric fortress lead to the mystery's solution.
Adaptation
The 29th installment in the Nancy Drew point-and-click adventure game series by Her Interactive, named Nancy Drew: The Silent Spy, is loosely based on the novel.
External links
1964 American novels
1964 children's books
Grosset & Dunlap books
Nancy Drew books
Novels adapted into video games
Novels set in Highland (council area)
Children's mystery novels |
6900130 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klocwork | Klocwork | Klocwork is a static code analysis tool owned by Minneapolis, Minnesota-based software developer Perforce. Klocwork software analyzes source code in real time, simplifies peer code reviews, and extends the life of complex software.
Overview
Klocwork is used to identify security, safety and reliability issues in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript and Python code. The product includes numerous desktop plug-ins for developers, metrics and reporting.
History
Originally Klocwork’s technology was developed to address requirements for large-scale source code analysis to optimize software architecture for C code inside Nortel Networks and spun out in 2001.
In January 2012, Klocwork Insight 9.5 was released. It provided on-the-fly static analysis in Visual Studio, like a word processor does with spelling mistakes.
In May 2013, Klocwork Cahoots peer code review tool was launched.
Awards and recognition
In 2007, Klocwork was awarded the 2007 InfoWorld Technology of Year award for best source code analyzer.
In May 2014, Klocwork won the Red Herring Top 100 North America Award, in the software sector.
Original developer
Klocwork was an Ottawa, Canada-based software company that developed the Klocwork brand of programming tools for software developers. The company was acquired by Minneapolis-based application software developer Perforce in 2019, as part of their acquisition of Klocwork's parent software company Rogue Wave. Klocwork no longer exists as a standalone company, but Perforce continues to develop Klocwork branded static code analysis software.
Company history
The company was founded in 2001 as a spin-out of Nortel Networks. Its initial investors were Firstmark Capital, USVP, and Mobius Ventures.
In January 2014, the company was acquired by Rogue Wave Software.
In January 2019, Rogue Wave was acquired by Minneapolis-based application software developer Perforce.
References
External links
Static program analysis tools
Development software companies
Software companies established in 2001
2014 mergers and acquisitions |
6900131 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBASIC | CBASIC | CBASIC is a compiled version of the BASIC programming language written for the CP/M operating system by Gordon Eubanks in 1976–1977. It is an enhanced version of BASIC-E.
History
BASIC-E was Eubank's master's thesis project. It was developed in PL/M by Eubanks for Gary Kildall's new CP/M operating system while both men were at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. BASIC-E was based on a BASIC compiler originally written by Gary Kildall in 1974.
Because it was developed at public expense, BASIC-E is in the public domain and could not be marketed exclusively. Seymour Rubinstein, the marketing director of IMSAI contacted Eubanks and asked him to create a saleable version under contract for the IMSAI 8080 microcomputer. Eubanks developed CBASIC in his spare time while he was still a naval officer stationed on the submarine USS George Washington at Vallejo, California. He retained joint ownership of the program with IMSAI, and sold the program through his own company, Compiler Systems, until it was acquired by Digital Research in 1981.
CBASIC COMPILER VER 2.07
CRUN VER 2.38 / COPYRIGHT 1981 COMPILER SYSTEMS INC.
Features
BASIC-E and early versions of CBASIC compiled source code into an intermediate p-code file, which was then executed by a separate run-time interpreter program. CBASIC could execute in a minimum of 24 KB of memory. Line numbers in the program source were optional, unless needed as a label for a program jump. CBASIC proved very popular because it incorporated 14-digit binary-coded decimal (BCD) math which eliminated MBASIC's rounding errors that were sometimes troublesome for accounting.
CBASIC2 adds the following features:
Integer variables
Chaining with common variables
Additional pre-defined functions
Cross reference capability
Reception
InfoWorld in 1980 described CBASIC as the "primary language for the development of commercial CP/M applications", because of developers' widespread familiarity with BASIC and ability to distribute royalty-free binaries without source code to CBASIC owners. The magazine stated that the language had become popular "despite serious drawbacks", including the required preprocessor for interpreted source code making debugging difficult, slow speed, and incompatible changes. Jerry Pournelle said in May 1983 that Digital Research had "practically ruin[ed]" Eubanks' CBASIC manual after acquiring his company, but that the new edition was much better.
References
External links
Gordon Eubanks own story of BASIC-E and CBASIC, Computer World oral history transcript, November 2000
BASIC-E Reference Manual (December 1976)
CBASIC 2 Reference Manual (Table of contents on p. 115) November 1981
Another CBASIC description
cbc – a CBASIC to C converter
Interpreter in 6502 assembler
CBASIC 2.8 = CBASIC-86 1.00 Posting by Emmanuel Roche
BASIC interpreters
BASIC compilers
CP/M software
Programming languages created in 1977
BASIC programming language family |
6900133 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Phantom%20of%20Pine%20Hill | The Phantom of Pine Hill | The Phantom of Pine Hill is the forty-second volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series. It was first published in 1965 under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. The actual author was ghostwriter Harriet Stratemeyer Adams.
Plot
Nancy Drew, along with her friends arrive for the Emerson University June Week celebration. There is a mix-up with the motel reservations, but Ned comes to the rescue. Afterward, Ned and Nancy go to a dance, where a young waiter, Fred, spills drinks on Nancy's dress. After cleaning up, Nancy realizes that her pearl necklace is missing, leading her to a baffling mystery. John Rorick, a descendant of the early settlers of the town, invites the three girls as his guests at his historic mansion on Pine Hill.
After they arrive, he tells them of the phantom who haunts the mansion's library. John also relates the weird family saga of a lost French wedding gown and of valuable gifts and gold coins that were lost in the sinking of the 'Lucy Belle' one hundred years ago. After discovering a secret passage to the library from the chimney and a secret shack, the suspicion turns on Fred and his father.
In between enjoying the university's June Week, river pageant, and fraternity dances, Nancy and her friends work diligently to solve the mystery of Pine Hill and locate the long-lost wedding treasures.
References
External links
Nancy Drew books
1965 American novels
1965 children's books
Grosset & Dunlap books
Children's mystery novels |
20463026 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western%20Antique%20Aeroplane%20%26%20Automobile%20Museum | Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile Museum | The Western Antique Aeroplane and Automobile Museum (WAAAM) is located in Hood River, Oregon, United States, adjacent to the Ken Jernstedt Memorial Airport. WAAAM is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization committed to the preservation of, and education about aviation, automobile, and other historic transportation-related relics.
WAAAM is open to the public every day 9:00-5:00 except Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years. WAAAM has special activities the second Saturday of every month. The museum features flying demonstrations, auto demonstrations, and restoration demonstrations, though events vary month to month. The museum's biggest event is the annual Hood River Fly-In held the first weekend after Labor Day every year, and features antique aircraft and automobiles from throughout North America.
History
The museum was formed as a 501(c) organization in 2006, by collector Terry Brandt and opened in 2007, in a building. The museum was started with 42 airplanes donated by Brandt and 20 automobiles. As of September 2010, the museum totaled 75 airplanes and in excess of 100 automobiles. About 55 of the airplanes were still able to fly at that time. In 2009, a second hangar was added to display the collection, and a third was built in 2013. A fourth addition was added November 2016. The collection in 2016 totals over 315 vehicles.
Collections
Antique airplanes
WAAAM boasts a large flying collection of OX-5-powered airplanes, and the largest collection of three-cylinder, radial-powered airplanes. The collection is mainly focused on aircraft in the period 1903–1941, but also includes light World War II Army, Army Air Corps, and naval aircraft.
Aircraft include:
Cutiss headless pusher- 1912
Curtiss JN-4D "Jenny" OX-5 N1282 - 1917
Waco 9 - 1925
Stearman C2 - 1927
American Eagle A-1 OX-5 NC7157A - 1928
Boeing 40C N5339
Lincoln Page LP-3 OX-5 NC136W - 1928
Monocoupe 70 - 1928
Stearman C3B Wright J-5 NC8830 - 1928
Swallow - 1928
Travel Air 4000 - 1928
WACO ATO "Taper Wing" N6714 -1928
WACO Ten OX-5 NC6513 - 1928
Ford Trimotor - 1929
Arrow Sport Pursuit N853H - 1929
Brunner-Winkle Bird OX-5 - 1929
Brunner-Winkle Bird A NC945V - 1929
Brunner-Winkle Bird CK NC933V - 1929
Command-Aire 3C3-T OX-5- 1929
Curtiss Robin B N8332 OX-5 - 1929
St. Louis C2 Cardinal N31H -1929
Stearman M-2 Speedmail - 1929
WACO CTO "Taper Wing" -1929
WACO CSO Wright J-6 -1929
WACO DSO N605N - 1929
Davis D-1-K - 1929. NC151Y. This aircraft appeared in the 1958 film The Tarnished Angels starring Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone.
Fleet Model 7 -1930
Henderson Longster N10115 - 1930
WACO Primary Glider - 1930
Aeronca C-3 -1931
American Eagle Eaglet B-31 N595Y - 1931
Buhl Bull Pup LA-1 NC365Y - 1931
Curtiss-Wright Junior CW-1 NC671V - 1931
Curtiss-Wright Travel Air 12-W N11715 - 1931
Franklin Sport 90 - 1931
Spartan C2-60 N11016 - 1931
Stinson model W - 1931
Stearman 4 Jr. Speedmail - 1931
Taylor Cub E-2 -1931
WACO RNF - 1931
Aeronca C-3 N13000 - 1932
Fairchild 22 C7B NC12454 - 1932
Pietenpol Sky Scout N1933A - 1932
Waco UBA - 1932
WACO UBF -1932
Fairchild 22 C7A N2816 -1933
Stearman Model 70 N571Y -1933
Waco UIC - 1933
Curtiss Pusher -1934 (1910-replica) OX-5
Franklin PS-2 Glider - 1935
WACO YPF - 1935
Arrow Model F NC17093 - 1936
Stinson SR-8B Reliant - 1936
Taylor J-2 Cub -1936
Aeronca LC NC17442 - 1937
Mcclish Funk B - 1937
Rearwin 9000-W "Sportster" -1937
Aeronca K KCA "Chief" - 1938
Dart G - 1938, N20993. This aircraft also appeared in The Tarnished Angels.
Piper J-3 Cub 1st Edition - 1938
Piper J-3P Cub - 1938
Rearwin 6000-M "Speedster" -1938
Taylor J-3 Cub First Edition -1938
Taylorcraft BC-65 -1938
Porterfield CP-50 Collegiate - 1939
Slingsby T.6 Kirby Kite - 1939
Slingsby T.13 Petrel -1939
Cessna C-165 Airmaster - 1940
Fairchild (24) R40) UC-86 NC4841 - 1940 military variant
Naval Aircraft Factory N3N Navy training floatplane N45042 - 1940
Piper J-3 Cub -1940
Piper J-3 Cub on Floats -1940
Piper J-4A - 1940
Piper J-5A - 1940
Rearwin 8135 Cloudster - 1940
Boeing-Stearman IB75A N57444 - 1941 *not currently on display*
Aeronca 65-TAL Defender - 1941
Culver LCA Cadet NC34785 - 1941
Piper J-4 Cub Coupe NC21867 - 1941
Ryan PT-22 Recruit - 1941
Taylorcraft BC-12 NC29840 - 1941
Piper L-4A - 1942
Schweizer TG-3 - 1942 Last known flying example of its kind
Stinson L-5 Sentinel - 1942
Taylorcraft TG-6 Glider - 1942
Aeronca L-3B - 1942
Cessna UC-78 Bobcat N58542 - 1943
Fairchild PT-19 N56268 - 1943 On loan
Interstate L-6 - 1943
Moswey III Glider - 1943
Piper HE-1 - 1943
Taylorcraft L-2M Grasshopper N3072Z - 1943
Aeronca 7AC Champion -1945 On loan
Piper L-4J - 1945
Commonwealth Skyranger 185 -1946
Piper TG-8
Luscombe 11A Sedan -1948
Boeing-Stearman PT-17 Kaydet - 1946
Alfaro PTG-2 Primary Glider
Bowlus Baby Albatross BA-100 - 1948
Aeronca 15AC Sedan - 1951
Dittmar Condor IV - 1951
Beechcraft Super 18D N18BY - 1954 (on loan)
Callair A-6 - 1959
American Junior Target Drone - 1941-1945 (on loan)
Oberlerchner Mg 23 SL Glider -1963
Schleicher Ka7 Glider - 1964
Schweizer SGS 2-33A - 1969
Schleicher Rhönbussard 35
WAAAM is a living museum with several aircraft that are flown regularly, also a number of these aircraft are on loan and are frequently taken to fly-ins.
Other notable aircraft not on display but in the WAAAM Collection:
Dickenson Bathtub 101 - 1924
Waco GXE - 1927
Waco BSO - 1929
Stinson Model R -1932
Antique automobiles
WAAAM's antique cars were built between 1909 and the 1960s, and are still in running condition. There are over 175 autos on display. Most are from the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. The oldest car on display is a 1909 Franklin Model D.
Automobiles include:
American Austin Coupe 1930
Auburn Touring Car 1912
Autocar Truck 1925
Avanti Motor Corp Avanti II 1981
Brush Runabout 1910
Buick 4-door Sedan 1929
Buick Super Eight 4-door Sedan 1941
Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz 1956
Chevrolet Model 490 Touring Car 1918
Chevrolet Model 490 Touring Car 1921
Chevrolet "Outlaw" Dirt Track Racer 1927
Chevrolet Imperial Landau Sedan "Barn Find" 1927
Chevrolet 2-door Sedan 1931
Chevrolet Phaeton 1931
Chevrolet Master Deluxe 1937
Chevrolet Master Deluxe Business Coupe 1941
Chevrolet Town Sedan 1942
Chevrolet Tank Truck 1953
Chevrolet Custom Pickup Truck 1954
Chevrolet Bel Air 1957
Chevrolet Cameo Pickup Truck 1957
Chevrolet Bel Air 1964
Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray 1966
Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray Convertible 1966
Chevrolet Custom Pickup Truck 1969
Chrysler Model E-80 Imperial Cabriolet 1927
Chrysler Model 65 Coupe 1929
Chrysler New Yorker 1948
Citroen DS 1971
Cord 810 Westchester Sedan 1936
Crosley Model CD Sedan 1950
DeSoto (automobile) Model CF Deluxe 4-door Sedan 1930
DeSoto Deluxe 4-door Sedan 1948
Detroit Electric Car Model 63 1914
Diamond T Flatbed Truck 1949
Dodge Flatbed Fire Truck 1932
Dodge WF-34 Flatbed Truck 1947
Dodge C-800 Truck 1966
Dodge Charger R/T 1968
Dodge Brothers Roadster 1916
Dodge Brothers Coupe 1926
Dodge Brothers Victory 6 Deluxe Sedan 1928
Federal Flatbed Truck 1917
Ford Model T Touring Car 1913
Ford Model T Depot Hack 1914
Ford Model T Touring Car 1914
Ford Model T Runabout 1915
Ford Model T Army Ambulance 1919
Ford Model T Quick Build Car 1919
Ford Model T Speedster 1919
Ford Model T Roadster Pickup Truck 1921
Ford Model T 3-door Sedan 1923
Ford Model T Pickup Truck 1925
Ford Model T Roadster Runabout 1925
Ford Model TT Truck 1925
Ford Model T Coupe 1926
Ford Model T Sport Roadster 1927
Ford Model T Speedster 1927
Ford Model TT Truck 1924
Ford Model TT Truck 1925
Ford Model A 2-door Sedan 1928
Ford Model A Deluxe Coupe 1930
Ford Model A Standard Coupe 1930
Ford Model A Standard Coupe 1930
Ford Model A Standard Sedan 1930
Ford Model A Deluxe 2-door Sedan 1931
Ford Model A Roadster 1931
Ford Deluxe 4-Door Sedan 1940
Ford Deluxe Business Coupe 1940
Ford Thunderbird 1956
Ford Thunderbird Convertible 1962
Ford Thunderbird 1966
Ford Thunderbird Town Landau 1966
Franklin Model D 1909
Franklin Model 135 135 1929
Graham-Paige Model 612 1929
HMV Freeway 1981
Honda N600 2-door Sedan 1972
Hudson Super 8 1930
Hudson Terraplane 3-passenger Coupe 1937
Hudson Hornet 1951
Hummer 1997
International Model SPD Truck 1926
Hupmobile Model R-12 Touring Car 1924
Jensen Interceptor MkIII 1976
Jensen-Healey Convertible Coupe 1974
Kaiser Virginian 1950
Kaiser Manhattan 1953
Lincoln-Zephyr 1941
Locomobile Model 48 Sportif 1923
Maxwell Truck 1918
Mercury 4-door Convertible Sedan 1940
Mercury 2-door Sedan 1954
Mini Coupe 1959
Nash Motors Model 4145 Business Coupe 1941
Oldsmobile Futuramic 88 Holiday Coupe 1950
Oldsmobile 442 1970
Overland Model 49 Touring Car 1911
Overland Model 82 Touring Car 1915
Packard Model 626 Sport Coupe 1929
Packard Model 640 Super 8 Phaeton 1929
Packard Model Twelve Coupe Convertible 1935
Packard Model 120 1941
Pierce Arrow Model 41 Limousine 1931
Plymouth Model PB 1932
Plymouth 2-door Coupe 1936
Plymouth Custom Coupe 1936
Plymouth 2-door Coupe 1939
Plymouth Barracuda Convertible 1968
Pontiac 4-door Sedan 1932
Pontiac Catalina Star Chief 1955
Pontiac Chieftain 1955
Pontiac Catalina Custom Coupe 1960
Pontiac GTO 1968
Rambler Classic 770 1966
REO the Fifth 1913
Republic Model 19 Flatbed Truck 1919
Stanley Model 735B Steam Car 1918
Studebaker Commander 8 1929
Studebaker State Commander 1938
Studebaker Commander Starlight Coupe 1947
Studebaker -ton Flatbed Truck 1950
Studebaker Champion 1951
Studebaker Golden Hawk 1957
Studebaker Lark VIII Convertible 1960
Studebaker Lark VIII Station Wagon 1960
Trumbull Model 15B Roadster 1915
Velie Model 58 5-Passenger Touring Car 1922
Volkswagen Beetle 1964
Volkswagen Super Beetle 1971
Volkswagen Thing Custom 1974
Willys-Overland Whippet 1928
Motorcycles
Motorcycles include:
1912 Indian Model D
1918 Harley-Davidson 18J
1923 Douglas
1923 Henderson Model K Deluxe
1924 AJS
1927 Harley-Davidson JD
1933 Harley-Davidson VLE
1937 Harley-Davidson UL
1938 BMW R71 BY DT
1938 Indian Four
1942 Harley-Davidson WLA
1947 Indian Chief
1948 Schwinn Whizzer
1950 Velocette MAC
1954 Cushman Eagle with Sidecar
1957 Vincent Series "C" Comet
1958 Cushman 721/28
1958 Cushman 765 Eagle
1959 Cushman Super Eagle
1963 Honda CA-110
1964 Velocette Vogue
1971 Velocette LE Mark III
1975 Moto Guzzi 850-T
See also
List of aerospace museums
References
External links
2007 establishments in Oregon
Aerospace museums in Oregon
Automobile museums in Oregon
Buildings and structures in Hood River, Oregon
Museums in Hood River County, Oregon |
20463033 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico%20International%20University | Mexico International University |
History
The Universidad México Internacional (UMI) is a private university located in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico. It is focused on business and communication degrees. Their mission is to train leaders for the future. The university has specifically worked with companies like," Grupo Michelín, Coca-Cola, Grupo Dispamocusa and Grupo de Banqueros del Noroeste," to create certification and training processes to best serve students.
Core Values
The university values are leadership, wisdom, creativity, innovation, respect, affection for art, humility, social sensitivity, love for family, and entrepreneurial spirit.
View(s)
"To be a leading national institution for the contribution of its research to the social, cultural and economic development of Mexico, the professional quality of its graduates and capable of attracting the best professors from our country and abroad."
Academics
UMI offers bachelors degrees in:
Arts
Communication Sciences
Global Commerce
Business Management
Industrial Engineering and Administration
Marketing and Advertising
Along with a master's in business management.
Specialized Certificate's in:
Oral Communication
Art and Integral Design
Oral Communication and Business Presentations
3D Digital Design and Postproduction
And a specialized seminar in oral communication (Children).
References
External links
Universidad Mexico Internacional website
Private universities and colleges in Mexico |
20463044 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe%20Abruzzese | Giuseppe Abruzzese | Giusepe Abruzzese (born 17 May 1981) is an Italian footballer who plays as a defender for Audace Cerignola.
Biography
Andria
Born in Andria, the Province of Bari, Abruzzese started his career at hometown club Fidelis Andria. Abruzzese made his professional debut on 17 January 1999, started the match against Torino, which the team lost 0–2 in the away match of Serie B. The team relegated at the end of season, and Abruzzese was loaned from Serie C1 to Serie C2 side Tricase. On 1 July 2000 Abruzzese returned to Andria but tasted relegation again, this time to Serie C2 at the end of 2000–01 Serie C1 season.
Lecce
In July 2002, he left for Serie B side Lecce in co-ownership deal for undisclosed fee. Andria also signed Stefano Morello and Carmine Nuzzaci as part of the deal for undisclosed fees. In the first season, he played 26 Serie B matches and was selected to Italy under-21 Serie B representative team and won Belgium U21 2–1. Lecce finished as the third and promoted to Serie A.
Abruzzese made his Serie A debut on 31 August 2003 against Lazio, the opening match of 2003–04 Serie A. He made 26 league appearances that season.
In the next season he lost his place both in starting line-up and often as unused substitute, under new coach Zdeněk Zeman who replaced Delio Rossi. After playing 5 league matches for Lecce in 2005–06 Serie A season (all due to the absence of Erminio Rullo), he left for Serie B struggler Avellino in January 2006.
In 2006–07 Serie B season, he left on loan to fellow Serie B team Triestina near the end of transfer window. He started 24 times for the Serie B struggler.
Grosseto
In July 2007, he was signed by Serie B newcomer Grosseto, which he immediately secured a place in starting line-up. Grosseto finished in the mid-table that season and entered the promotion playoffs in next season, which lost to Livorno in the first round/semi-final. Livorno eventually the playoffs winner.
Crotone
In August 2009, he was signed by Serie B newcomer Crotone. The team made a break through which finished at the 8th (Deducted 1 point, if included, finished the 7th, ahead Grosseto by head to head), just few points away to qualify for the promotion playoffs (the 3rd to the 6th place).
References
External links
Football.it Profile
La Gazzetta dello Sport Profile (2006–07 season)
La Gazzetta dello Sport Profile (2007–08 season)
La Gazzetta dello Sport Profile
Italian footballers
Serie A players
Serie B players
S.S. Fidelis Andria 1928 players
U.S. Lecce players
U.S. Avellino 1912 players
U.S. Triestina Calcio 1918 players
F.C. Grosseto S.S.D. players
F.C. Crotone players
Association football fullbacks
Association football central defenders
People from Andria
1981 births
Living people
Virtus Francavilla Calcio players
Footballers from Apulia
Sportspeople from the Province of Barletta-Andria-Trani |
6900137 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annalena%20Tonelli | Annalena Tonelli | Annalena Tonelli (2 April 1943 – 5 October 2003) was an Italian lawyer and social activist. She worked for 33 years in East Africa, where she focused on tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, campaigns for eradication of female genital mutilation, and special schools for hearing-impaired, blind and disabled children. In June 2003, Tonelli was awarded the Nansen Refugee Award, which is given annually by the UNHCR to recognize outstanding service to the cause of refugees. In October 2003, she was killed inside her hospital by two gunmen. She is a candidate for sainthood within the Catholic Church in Somalia
Biography
Annalena Tonelli was born in 1943 in Forlì, Italy. She studied Law, becoming a lawyer after graduation.
After "six years of service to poor people of the suburbs, to orphan children, mentally or physically disabled or abused kids" of her own town, in 1969, the then 25-year-old Tonelli went to Africa supported by the Committee Against World Hunger of Forlì, that she had helped to start its activity.
Kenya
Wajir
In 1969, Tonelli moved to Kenya, where she began working as a teacher at Wajir Secondary School. After some years studied to be a nurse to and spent over a decade in the town of Wajir caring for the destitute and ill.
Already in 1976, Tonelli became responsible for a World Health Organization (WHO) pilot project for treating tuberculosis in nomadic people. Tonelli invited nomadic tuberculotic patients to camp in front of the Rehabilitation Centre for Disabled she was running with other female volunteers who joined her to serve poliomyelitic, blind, deaf-mute, and disabled people. This approach guaranteed patients' compliance in taking the therapy over the needed six-month treatment, and it was adopted by WHO as DOTS (Directly Observed Therapy Short).
Tonelli also created a deaf school in Wajir whose graduates have gone to other parts of Somali-speaking Africa to start schools. At this Wajir deaf school was born Somali Sign Language for the first time.
In 1984, following political and inter-clan clashes, the army of Kenya started a repression campaign against the Degodia Somali clan in the Wajir area known as the Wagalla Massacre. The Degodia were suspected of being Shifta or bandits along the roadways. The Kenyan military rounded up 5000 men and boys and brought them to the Wagalla Airstrip and forced them to lie on the stomachs naked for 5 days. Possibly a thousand were shot, tortured or died of exposure. Annalena brought a couple lorries and her Toyota Serf to the Wagalla Airstrip and attempted to collect the bodies and treat the wounded but was refused. Later she followed the tracks of the military vehicles who were dumping the bodies outside the Wagalla Airstrip. Some were not dead and she rescued them. She brought a journalist to photograph the genocide. She smuggled the photos out with Barbara Lefkow, the wife of an American diplomat to put pressure on the international community. The public denunciation by Annalena Tonelli helped to stop the killings but not before thousands died. The Wagalla Massacre is Kenya's worst human rights violation in its history. Arrested and taken in front of a martial court she was told that the fact she escaped two ambushes was not a guarantee to survive a third one. Due to Tonelli's vehement protests over the Kenyan military's use of violence against the Wajir community, the Kenyan authorities refused to extend her work permit. Tonelli subsequently relocated to Somalia.
Somalia and Somaliland
Tonelli first settled in the southern port town of Merca, which during the colonial period was part of Italian Somaliland. She later moved to Borama in the northwestern Awdal region, a town in the former British Somaliland protectorate. Tonelli would spend the next 19 years working in Somalia.
In Borama, Tonelli founded a tuberculosis hospital on the grounds of a colonial period facility. Her family and friends in Italy helped finance the hospital, contributing $20,000 a month for maintenance.
In October 2003, Tonelli was assassinated at the tuberculosis hospital she started in Borama by unknown gunmen. There are several rumors about why she was killed. The most plausible is that she was killed by a group who protested her bringing HIV/AIDS patients into Borama. In November, 2002 hundreds of protesters marched in front of her Borama hospital throwing stones and shouting "Death to Annalena." They felt she was spreading the disease in their city. Other rumors say she was killed by a disgruntled former worker who felt she owed him a job or that she was killed by men belonging to Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya.
Two weeks after Tonelli's assassination, Dick and Enid Eyeington were murdered in their flat at the SOS Sheikh Secondary School in the town of Sheekh, situated in northwestern Somaliland The assassins possibly belonged to the same terror cell. They were reportedly arrested in 2004, tried and sentenced to death under a local court.
Awards
In June 2003, Tonelli was presented the Nansen Refugee Award. The prize is given annually by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to recognize outstanding service to the cause of refugees.
References
External links
Riportiamo la testimonianza della donna che ha operato per lunghi anni in Somalia al servizio dei più bisognosi by Annalena Tonelli
Stronger than Death: How Annalena Tonelli Defied Terror and Tuberculosis in the Horn of Africa, by Rachel Pieh Jones
1943 births
2003 deaths
People from Forlì
Italian activists
Assassinated activists
Assassinated Italian people
Italian people murdered abroad
Italian Servants of God
21st-century venerated Christians
21st-century Roman Catholic martyrs
Italian women lawyers
20th-century Italian lawyers
21st-century Italian lawyers
HIV/AIDS activists
20th-century women lawyers
21st-century women lawyers
October 2003 crimes
October 2003 events in Africa
Nansen Refugee Award laureates |
20463067 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centerview%20%28Lynchburg%2C%20Virginia%29 | Centerview (Lynchburg, Virginia) | Centerview is a historic home located at Lynchburg, Virginia. It is a two-story brick house completed in 1871 in the Greek Revival style. The dependency, which is similar in construction and detail to the main house but which may date to 1861, is a one-stay gabled brick building and originally served as a summer kitchen and cook's dwelling among other functions. The house and dependency were rehabilitated in 1999–2000 as law offices. Robert Withers Morgan and his family were long resident in the house; one of his six children was the painter Georgia Weston Morgan, who resided there until 1923.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
References
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
Houses completed in 1871
Greek Revival houses in Virginia
Houses in Lynchburg, Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Lynchburg, Virginia
1871 establishments in Virginia |
20463071 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis%20Schneider | Denis Schneider | Denis Schneider is a French painter born in Metz in 1946.
Biography
Denis Schneider studied at the famous School of Beaux-Arts in Paris and started exhibiting in 1967 on the Parisian’s art market. In 1970, he took the decision to leave Paris to free himself from any restraints and dedicate himself to his art. Since then, he has been creating his works of art in seclusion.
Denis Schneider started exhibiting again in 1998. During that year, a Strasbourg gallery provided him an exclusive platform to display his paintings. As a result, his talent was discovered by Ineke Voorsteegh, former curator of the Department of Modern Art and Education in Dordrecht Museum and presently owner of the In-Vorm Gallery in Dordrecht –Netherlands. She offered him the opportunity to join her newly opened gallery to which belonged several other selected artists like Mark Brusse, Rein Dool, Hanskop Jansen, Peter Royen, Gerard Verdijk, Albert Verkade and others.
In 2001, Denis Schneider exhibited his paintings alongside Mark Brusse’s sculptures at the In-Vorm Gallery. He has since been exhibiting regularly in that gallery – on his own or with other artists.
In 2002 and 2003, Schneider exhibited his large scale paintings at the Gérard Philipe Theatre of St Denis. He was also responsible for illustrating the theatre’s various publications and playbills, including the one for Strindberg’s play "Sonate des spectres". He has been living in Ardèche since 1980 and has regularly exhibited in France and abroad.
Publications
Book : "Denis Schneider Paintings" published by MAJE - 1999. (68 pages with 32 pictures of his paintings). Postscript by Daniel Jeanneteau.
CD-ROM released in 2001 by the Dordrecht Museum (Netherlands) to mark an exhibition on the topic "The Greek Gods and Heroes in Rubens and Rembrandt’s time". Two contemporary paintings had been chosen to illustrate this theme: "ORPHEUS" by Cy Twombly and "ORPHEE" by Denis Schneider
Sources
Gérard Philipe Theatre (under Alain Ollivier's direction)
The In-Vorm Gallery
Denis Schneider' website
Denis Schneider's page on the French National Library's website
External links
Denis Schneider's Official Website
French artists
1946 births
Living people |
20463073 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biswamohan%20Pani | Biswamohan Pani | Biswamohan Pani is a former design engineer at Intel. In November 2008 he was charged with stealing $1 billion worth of trade secrets from Intel while he worked for its main rival, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). The information he allegedly obtained was believed to be related to Intel's then next-generation Itanium microprocessor. The incident shed light, according to BusinessWeek, on the vulnerability of Intel, one of the world's biggest and most sophisticated technology companies. On April 6, 2012, Biswamohan Pani pleaded guilty to five counts of wire fraud before U.S. District Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV for accessing Intel systems and downloading Intel secret documents between May 8, 2008, and June 10, 2008, valued by Intel between $200 million and $400 million.
On 8 August 2012 he was sentenced to three years in federal prison and given a fine of US$17,500.
See also
AMD v. Intel
References
External links
Former Intel Employee Indicted for Stealing More than $1 Billion of Trade Secrets at the U.S. Department of Justice (November 5, 2008)
Advanced Micro Devices people
Intel people
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
6900141 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Jefferys | Thomas Jefferys | Thomas Jefferys (c. 1719 – 1771), "Geographer to King George III", was an English cartographer who was the leading map supplier of his day. He engraved and printed maps for government and other official bodies and produced a wide range of commercial maps and atlases, especially of North America.
Early work
As "Geographer to the Prince of Wales", he produced A Plan of all the Houses, destroyed & damaged by the Great Fire, which began in Exchange Alley Cornhill, on Friday March 25, 1748. He produced The Small English Atlas with Thomas Kitchin, and he engraved plans of towns in the English Midlands.
Maps of North America
In 1754, Jefferys published a Map of the Most Inhabited Part of Virginia which had been surveyed by Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson in 1751. The next year he published a map of New England surveyed by John Green, and in 1768 he published A General Topography of North America and the West Indies in association with Robert Sayer. In 1775, after his death, collections of his maps were published by Sayer as The American Atlas and The West-India Atlas. The American Atlas was reissued in 1776, expanded in response to growing hostilities between the British and the Americans; it contains maps by Joshua Fry, Peter Jefferson, Lewis Evans, and others.
In 1754, Jefferys took a robust and public stance in the controversy with the French on the boundary of Nova Scotia and Acadia, which arose in the time and context of Father Le Loutre's War, which is commonly held to have begun in 1749 and ended with the expulsion of the Acadians in 1755.
Jefferys posthumously lent his name in 1776 to The American Atlas: Or, A Geographical Description Of The Whole Continent Of America. It contains works by, amongst others, Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson.
Maps of English counties
Jefferys commissioned surveys and published maps of several English counties. These were large-scale maps with several sheets for each county; in the case of Bedfordshire and Huntingdonshire the scale was two inches to one mile (1:31680).
Bedfordshire, surveyed 1765 by Scots cartographer John Ainslie, published 1765, reprinted 1983
Huntingdonshire, surveyed 1766, published 1768
Oxfordshire, surveyed 1766-67, published (by Andrew Dury) 1767
County Durham, published 1768
Buckinghamshire, surveyed 1766-68 by John Ainslie, published 1770, reprinted 2000
Westmoreland, surveyed 1768, published 1770
Yorkshire, surveyed 1767-70 by John Ainslie, published 1771-72
Cumberland, surveyed 1770-71, published 1774
Northamptonshire, survey (originally by Thomas Eyre) revised 1771, published 1779
After the death of Jefferys, these maps were re-issued by other map publishers such as William Faden.
See also
Sea of the West
References
1719 births
1771 deaths
English cartographers
18th-century geographers
18th-century English people
18th-century cartographers |
6900142 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragosa%20Beach | Fragosa Beach | Fragosa Beach (Praia da Fragosa in Portuguese) is an extensive maritime beach of Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal. It is located in the parish of A Ver-o-Mar. The beach is popular in the summer, but very calm during winter. The beach has white sand and no or very few rocks.
In front of the beach there's Forcado Islet, small and rocky, the islet has the shape of a camel's double hump.
External links
Fragosa Beach in Google Maps
Beaches of Póvoa de Varzim |
20463076 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20people%20from%20Lahijan | List of people from Lahijan | This is a List of people from Lahijan, Gilan province, Iran who have been born in, raised in, lived in or who died in Lahijan, Gilan, Iran. Individuals are listed by field in which they are best known:
Scientists
Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi Gilani - Founder of Sharif University of Technology and Director of Alborz High School.
Poets and writers
Bijan Najdi - Poet and Writer
Hazin Lahiji - Iranian Poet and Scholar
Abd al-Razzaq Lahiji
Sportspeople
Farshid Karimi, football player
Politicians
Hassan Zia-Zarifi - Iranian intellectual and one of the founders of the communist guerrilla movement in Iran
Reza Qotbi - Head of Iranian National TV
Artists
Ghasem Hajizadeh, pioneering painter in Iranian Pop art
Ardeshir Mohassess, painter and cartoonist
Parviz Sayyad, one of the leading Iranian actors in 1960's
Religion
Sheikh Zahed Gilani - Grandmaster of the famed Zahediyeh Sufi Order at Lahijan
References
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6900143 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Mystery%20of%20the%2099%20Steps | The Mystery of the 99 Steps | The Mystery of the 99 Steps is the forty-third volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series. It was first published in 1966 under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. The actual author was ghostwriter Harriet Stratemeyer Adams.
Plot summary
Nancy looks for a flight of the 99 steps in France to solve the mystery of a friend's strange dream. Before Nancy, Bess, and George leaves the United States for France, a person calling himself Monsieur Neuf warns Nancy not to pursue her mission.
The girls arrive in Paris and join Nancy’s father, who is trying to find out who or what is causing wealthy financier Monsieur Leblanc to selling large amounts of securities.
Nancy determines that the case she is investigating involving the 99 steps is linked to the case her father is following. Nancy thinks that Monsieur Leblanc could be being blackmailed.
Startling discoveries convince the youn that Mr. Drew's case and her own mystery are linked by the 99 steps, and that a mysterious Arab has a strong hold over Leblanc. Nancy thinks it could be blackmail.
Nancy goes to an area in the Loire Valley to look for more clues, and Nancy, Bess, and George wind up in danger.
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20463081 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosewood%2C%20Humboldt%20County%2C%20California | Rosewood, Humboldt County, California | Rosewood (formerly, Stumpville) is an unincorporated community in Humboldt County, California. It is located 1 mi (1.6 km) south of Eureka, at an elevation of 131 feet (40 m).
The Stumpville post office opened in 1930, changed its name to Rosewood in 1941, and closed for good in 1955. The entire area became part of unincorporated Eureka, California
References
Eureka, California
Unincorporated communities in Humboldt County, California
Unincorporated communities in California |
6900144 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20medium%20is%20the%20message | The medium is the message | "The medium is the message" is a phrase coined by the Canadian communication theorist Marshall McLuhan and the name of the first chapter in his Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, published in 1964. McLuhan proposes that a communication medium itself, not the messages it carries, should be the primary focus of study. He showed that artifacts such as media affect any society by their characteristics, or content.
McLuhan's theory
McLuhan uses the term 'message' to signify content and character. The content of the medium is a message that can be easily grasped and the character of the medium is another message which can be easily overlooked. McLuhan says "Indeed, it is only too typical that the 'content' of any medium blinds us to the character of the medium". For McLuhan, it was the medium itself that shaped and controlled "the scale and form of human association and action". Taking the movie as an example, he argued that the way this medium played with conceptions of speed and time transformed "the world of sequence and connections into the world of creative configuration and structure". Therefore, the message of the movie medium is this transition from "lineal connections" to "configurations." Extending the argument for understanding the medium as the message itself, he proposed that the "content of any medium is always another medium" – thus, speech is the content of writing, writing is the content of print, and print itself is the content of the telegraph.
McLuhan frequently punned on the word "message", changing it to "mass age", "mess age", and "massage". A later book, The Medium Is the Massage was originally to be titled The Medium is the Message, but McLuhan preferred the new title, which is said to have been a printing error.
Concerning the title, McLuhan wrote: The title "The Medium Is the Massage" is a teaser—a way of getting attention. There's a wonderful sign hanging in a Toronto junkyard which reads, 'Help Beautify Junkyards. Throw Something Lovely Away Today.' This is a very effective way of getting people to notice a lot of things. And so the title is intended to draw attention to the fact that a medium is not something neutral—it does something to people. It takes hold of them. It rubs them off, it massages them and bumps them around, chiropractically, as it were, and the general roughing up that any new society gets from a medium, especially a new medium, is what is intended in that title".
McLuhan argues that a "message" is, "the change of scale or pace or pattern" that a new invention or innovation "introduces into human affairs".
McLuhan understood "medium" as a medium of communication in the broadest sense. In Understanding Media he wrote: "The instance of the electric light may prove illuminating in this connection. The electric light is pure information. It is a medium without a message, as it were, unless it is used to spell out some verbal ad or name." The light bulb is a clear demonstration of the concept of "the medium is the message": a light bulb does not have content in the way that a newspaper has articles or a television has programs, yet it is a medium that has a social effect; that is, a light bulb enables people to create spaces during nighttime that would otherwise be enveloped by darkness. He describes the light bulb as a medium without any content. McLuhan states that "a light bulb creates an environment by its mere presence". Likewise, the message of a newscast about a heinous crime may be less about the individual news story itself (the content), and more about the change in public attitude towards crime that the newscast engenders by the fact that such crimes are in effect being brought into the home to watch over dinner.
In Understanding Media, McLuhan describes the "content" of a medium as a juicy piece of meat carried by the burglar to distract the watchdog of the mind. This means that people tend to focus on the obvious, which is the content, to provide us valuable information, but in the process, we largely miss the structural changes in our affairs that are introduced subtly, or over long periods of time. As society's values, norms, and ways of doing things change because of the technology, it is then we realize the social implications of the medium. These range from cultural or religious issues and historical precedents, through interplay with existing conditions, to the secondary or tertiary effects in a cascade of interactions that we are not aware of.
On the subject of art history, McLuhan interpreted Cubism as announcing clearly that the medium is the message. For him, Cubist art required "instant sensory awareness of the whole" rather than perspective alone. In other words, with Cubism one could not ask what the artwork was about (content), but rather consider it in its entirety.
See also
Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
Hyperreality
Philosophy of technology
Post-structuralism
Technology and society
Amusing Ourselves to Death
References
External links
MediaTropes eJournal A scholarly journal, Vol. 1, Marshall McLuhan's "Medium is the Message": Information Literacy in a Multimedia Age
Guardian Big Ideas podcast by Benjamen Walker
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