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23570604 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love%20and%20How%20to%20Cure%20It | Love and How to Cure It | Love and How to Cure It is a 1937 British comedy film directed by Royston Morley, based on a story by Thornton Wilder and starring Sara Gregory, Louise Hampton, Edward Chapman and Athene Seyler. It was made by the BBC for television, but also shown in cinemas as well.
References
External links
1937 films
1937 comedy films
British comedy films
British black-and-white films
1930s English-language films
1930s British films |
23570607 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Horne | George Horne | George Horne may refer to:
George Horne (bishop) (1730–1792), Church of England bishop
George Horne (ice hockey) (1904–1929), Canadian ice hockey player
George Horne (politician) (1811–1873), politician in the electoral district of Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia
George Horne (rugby union) (born 1995), Scottish rugby union player
See also
George Henry Horn (1840–1897), American entomologist |
20463844 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe%20County%20District%20Library | Monroe County District Library | The Monroe County District Library is a small rural public library in Woodsfield, Ohio, serving a population of 15,180.
The library’s mission statement is as follows: It is the purpose of the Monroe County District Library to create a physical and psychological environment, which is inviting to patrons of all age groups and station and to provide those patrons with the most comprehensive library service possible within the limitations of funds available for service. The Library strives to meet the informational, cultural, educational, recreational, and general needs of the community it serves, and to provide materials that will enable patrons to make intelligent judgments in daily life. To achieve these objectives through the communication of ideas, the library assembles, preserves, and disseminates books, other information media, and related educational and recreational materials such as films.
The library board consists of 7 members who have their regular meeting on the second Tuesday of every month. 9 employees work at the library.
Monroe County Library is a member of SEO, one of the largest Dynix cooperatives in the United States.
Library services
The library’s collection consists of the following:
53,000+ books (fiction, nonfiction, adult, children's, young adult)
CD-ROMs
Videos (adult and juvenile)--in both VHS and DVD,
Books on Cassette (adult and juvenile),Magazines (140+ titles)
Newspapers.
Books on CD (adult)
Large print
If any item is not available, users can also request material from other libraries via Interlibrary loan (ILL).
All residents of Ohio are eligible to get a library card. Monroe County Library has approximately 8,000 card holders.
The library has many other services, most of them free:
Laminator, FAX Service, Copier, Projectors (including LCD, Slide, 16 mm, Overhead), Meeting Room for Rent, Gazebo for Rent, Story Time Programs, Other Various Programs, Tax Forms, Ebooks, Reference, Internet capable computers, WiFi, Genealogy and local history information, Online public access catalog, & Online Databases.
Ohio public library funding
The first financial support of public libraries in Ohio began in 1933 when libraries received revenue from the intangible personal property tax. The intangibles tax was levied on individuals’ holdings of stock and bonds. The revenue was collected in the county of origin and was distributed to libraries based on need.
In 1983, the Ohio General Assembly repealed the intangibles tax and replaced it with the Library and Local Government Support Fund or LLGSF. An amount of the personal income tax equaling 6.3% of Ohio’s personal income tax receipts were earmarked for the LLGSF. This funding was divided using an equalization formula so that underserved areas would receive a guaranteed share.
In 1993, the General Assembly passed legislation reducing the LLGSF from 6.3% to 5.7% of personal income tax. It remained at that level until the 2002-2003 biennium budget called for the funding to be frozen at the same level as July 2000 through June 2001. This was the beginning of a funding freeze which lasted through December 2007.
Beginning with January 2008 distributions, a new funding source was developed. This fund named the Public Library Fund or PLF is 2.22% of the state’s total general tax revenue.
References
External links
Public libraries in Ohio
Education in Monroe County, Ohio
Buildings and structures in Monroe County, Ohio |
17326499 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20of%20Ireland | Climate of Ireland | The climate of Ireland is mild, humid and changeable with abundant rainfall and a lack of temperature extremes. Ireland's climate is defined as a temperate oceanic climate, or Cfb on the Köppen climate classification system, a classification it shares with most of northwest Europe. The island receives generally warm summers and cool winters.
As Ireland is downwind of a large ocean, it is considerably milder in winter than other locations at the same latitude, for example Newfoundland in Canada or Sakhalin in Russia. The Atlantic overturning circulation, which includes ocean currents such as the North Atlantic Current and Gulf Stream, releases additional heat over the Atlantic, which is then carried by the prevailing winds towards Ireland giving, for example, Dublin a milder winter climate than other temperate oceanic climates in similar locations, for example Seattle in the United States.
The prevailing wind blows from the southwest, breaking on the high mountains of the west coast. Rainfall is therefore a particularly prominent part of western Irish life, with Valentia Island, off the west coast of County Kerry, getting almost twice as much annual rainfall as Dublin on the east ( vs. ).
January and February are the coldest months of the year, and mean daily air temperatures fall between during these months. July and August are the warmest, with mean daily temperatures of , whilst mean daily maximums in July and August vary from near the coast, to inland. The sunniest months are May and June, with an average of five to seven hours sunshine per day. Though extreme weather events in Ireland are comparatively rare when compared with other countries in the European continent, they do occur. Atlantic depressions, occurring mainly in the months of December, January and February, can occasionally bring winds of up to to Western coastal counties, with the winter of 2013/14 being the stormiest on record. During the summer months, and particularly around late July/early August, thunderstorms can develop.
Temperature
Ireland experiences a lack of temperature extremes compared to other areas at similar latitudes. There is regional variation, with inland areas being cooler in winter and warmer in summer than their coastal counterparts.
The warmest areas are found along the southwest coast. Valentia Island has the highest average temperature, at 10.9 °C.
The coldest areas are found inland. Mullingar has the lowest average temperature, at 9.3 °C.
The highest temperature ever recorded in Ireland was 33.3 °C at Kilkenny Castle, on 26 June 1887. The lowest temperature was -19.1 °C at Markree Castle on 16 January 1881.
Six of the warmest ten years in Ireland have occurred since 1990. Due to climate change, it is estimated that the temperatures will rise everywhere by up to 3.4 degrees by the end of the century.
Extreme heat and cold are both rare throughout the country. Summer temperatures exceeding 30 °C are rare, usually only occurring every few years (2022, 2021, 2018, 2016, 2013, 2006, 2005, 2003, 1995, 1990, 1989, 1983, 1976 and 1975 are recent examples), although they commonly reach the high 20s most summers. Severe freezes occur only occasionally in winter, with temperatures below -10 °C being very uncommon in the lowlands and temperatures below freezing uncommon in many coastal areas. However, temperatures in the Wicklow Mountains are said to reach -10 °C annually.
Frost
Air frost occurs frequently in the winter, with most areas seeing over 40 days of air frost every year. In northern areas, air frost occurs on average 10.2 days every January, the month in which air frost occurs most frequently. In the Sperrins and the Glens of Antrim air frost occurs around 80 days a year. The pattern is similar with ground frost, with on average around 100 days of ground frost in the lowlands and over 140 in the mountains. The number of frost days in Ireland have declined massively over the past decade. The largest season decrease has been known to take place in winter.
Frost is rarer along the coast, in urban areas and also in western and southern areas.
Roches Point, County Cork receives the fewest days with air frost, with an average of 7.0 days with air frost recorded annually.
Kilkenny, County Kilkenny receives the most days with air frost, with an average of 53.0 days with air frost recorded annually.
In Dublin, Dublin Airport records air frost on average 24.3 days per year, while Casement Aerodrome (which is further inland) records air frost on average 41.3 days per year.
Sunshine
The sunniest months are May and June. During these months sunshine duration averages between 5 and 6½ hours per day over most of the country. The southeast gets the most sunshine, averaging over 7 hours a day in early summer. December is the most overcast month, with average daily sunshine ranging from about 1 hour in the north to almost 2 hours in the southeast. Over the year as a whole, most areas get an average of between 3¼ and 3¾ hours of sunshine each day. Irish skies are completely covered by cloud roughly half of the time.
The sunniest part of the island is the southeast coast. Rosslare, County Wexford was historically the sunniest area, however, the station was closed by Met Éireann in 2007. The sunniest station throughout the 1981 to 2010 period was Ballyrichard HSE in Arklow, County Wicklow, which received an average of 4.41 hours of sunshine per day.
The cloudiest (i.e. least sunny) parts of the island are generally the west and northwest of the country. Over the 1971-2000 averaging period, Claremorris, County Mayo was the cloudiest station, receiving just 1,072 hours of sunshine per year. From 1981 to 2010, Birr, County Offaly, in the Midlands, was the most cloudy (overcast) station, receiving on average 3.2 hours of sunshine per day, considerably less than the stations at Malin Head in the north or Belmullet in the west.
Inland areas tend to receive less sunshine than coastal areas due to the convective development of clouds over land. Cloud develops because of vertical air currents caused by thermal heating of the ground.
Precipitation
Precipitation
Rainfall is the most common form of precipitation on the island, and is extremely common throughout Ireland, although some parts of the west coast receive twice as much rain as the east coast. Rainfall in Ireland normally comes from Atlantic frontal systems which travel northeast over the island, bringing cloud and rain. Most of the eastern half of the country has between of rainfall in the year. Rainfall in the west generally averages between . In many mountainous districts rainfall exceeds per year. The wettest months almost everywhere are December and January. April is the driest month generally, but in many southern parts, June is the driest.
The average number of "wet days" (days with more than of rain) ranges from about 151 days a year along the east and southeast coasts, to about 225 days a year in parts of the west.
The wettest weather station is Glanagimla, Leenane, Co. Galway, which averages rain per year. The wettest synoptic weather station is Valentia Island, which receives of rain per year, on average.
The driest weather station is at Ringsend, Co. Dublin, which receives of rain per year, on average.
The weather station with the highest number of "wet days" is Belmullet, with 193 days per year, while the station with the lowest number of "wet days" is Dublin Airport, with 128 days per year.
Rainfall records
Source:
The driest year recorded in Ireland was 1887, with of rain recorded at Glasnevin, County Dublin.
The longest drought in Ireland occurred in Limerick between 3 April 1938 and 10 May 1938 (37 days).
The greatest monthly total was ; recorded at the Cummeragh Mountains, County Kerry, in October 1996.
The greatest annual total was ; recorded at Ballaghbeena Gap in 1960.
The greatest daily total was ; recorded at Cloone Lake, County Kerry, on 18 September 1993.
Snowfall
Severe cold weather is uncommon in Ireland with the majority of winter precipitation coming in the form of rain, although hills and mountainous regions in the country can commonly see up to 30 days of snowfall annually: the Wicklow Mountains region sometimes experiences 50 or more days of snowfall each year. Most low-lying regions of the island only see a few days of lying snow per year (from December to March inclusive), or may see no snow at all during some winters.
However, there are preparations for snow and ice, including the distribution of grit, salt, and other snow-treatable minerals. In late 2011, the Irish Government set up "Winter-Ready", in order to prepare the country for such severe weather.
Due to its variability (which is mainly because of the influence of the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf Stream and North Atlantic Drift, as well as Ireland's northerly latitude and vulnerability to Siberian/Arctic winds) Ireland's weather during the winter months is difficult to predict. The aforementioned factors make both extremely low temperatures and relatively mild temperatures possible.
The snowiest weather station is Clones, County Monaghan, which receives, on average, 18 days of snow and/or sleet per year. Of these, 6.2 days have snow lying at 09:00. The least snowy weather station is Valentia Island, County Kerry; which receives, on average, 5.6 days of snow and/or sleet per year. Of these, 0.8 days have snow lying at 09:00.
Hail
Hail, like snow and sleet, is also rare in Ireland; however, it can occur at any time of the year. It is most common in spring during thunderstorms.
Malin Head, County Donegal receives the most hail, with an average of 48.4 days per year.
Roche's Point, County Cork receives the least hail, with an average of 8.0 days per year.
Thunderstorms
Thunderstorms are quite rare in Ireland. They are more likely to happen in late spring, although they can occur at any time of the year.
Cork Airport, County Cork experiences the least thunder; receiving it 3.7 days per year on average.
Valentia Island, County Kerry experiences the most thunder; receiving it 7.1 days per year on average.
Wind
Generally, the coast tends to be windier than inland areas, and the west tends to be windier than the east.
The station with the highest mean wind speed is Malin Head, County Donegal, averaging at . Malin Head also receives the most gale-force winds, recording them on average 66.0 days per year.
The station with the lowest mean wind speed is Kilkenny, County Kilkenny; averaging at .
The station that records the lowest number of gale-force winds is Birr, County Offaly; recording them on average 1.2 days per year.
The highest wind speed ever recorded in Ireland was at Fastnet Lighthouse, County Cork on 16 October 2017.
Tornadoes are very rare in Ireland, with around less than ten reported every year - mostly in August.
Fog
Fog is more common inland and on higher altitudes; mainly during winter and during the morning at times of high pressure.
The foggiest station is that at Cork Airport, County Cork, which has 99.5 days of fog per year.
The least foggy station is that at Valentia Island, County Kerry, which has 8.9 days of fog per year.
Visibility
Visibility is generally very good, because of the proximity of industry to the coast, allowing breezes to disperse any smog. Mist and fog often occur, as well as coastal fog in the east, but it is generally not long-lasting. However, in winter, it can be slow to clear.
Climate change
Climate charts
See also
Geography of Ireland
Climate change in the Republic of Ireland
References
External links
Met Éireann
Ireland |
23570612 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goswin%20of%20Anchin | Goswin of Anchin | Goswin was a Benedictine abbot. Born in Douai in 1082, then in the County of Flanders and since 1668 in France, he studied in Paris and afterwards returned to Douai to teach theology. Goswin then entered Anchin Abbey in 1113, in Pecquencourt, near his hometown, and became a Benedictine monk. In 1130 he was made abbot of Anchin Abbey.
Goswin died of natural causes in 1165 at Pecquencourt.
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1165 deaths
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6900422 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois%20Hodoul | Jean-François Hodoul | Jean-François Hodoul (11 April 1765 – 10 January 1835) was a sea captain, corsair, and later merchant and plantation owner in Île de France (now Mauritius).
Origins
Hodoul was born on 11 April 1765 La Ciotat, Provence. His father, Raymond, was a charcutiere; his mother was Geneviève Cauvin. He left for France's colonies in the Indian Ocean at the age of 24, and arrived at Mauritius in 1789, on board Scipion. Other sources state that he arrived there on 12 April 1790, the day after his 25th birthday.
He rapidly became a sea captain. By 1791 he was master of Deux Sœurs. Two years later, he was master of the brig Succès. During this period he transported slaves from Africa to the Indian Ocean colonies of Île de France and Île Bourbon (Réunion).
Privateer
In 1793 the French Revolutionary Wars broke out, and with them a battle in the Indian Ocean between Britain and France. In 1794 the British captured him and his brig Olivette when the British entered Mahé, Seychelles, capturing the colony. The now British colony retained Olivette for its government's purposes.
In June 1794 he married the 16-year old Mairie Corantine Olivette Jorre de St Jorre, daughter of a wealthy local merchant, shortly after he had started his privateering adventures.
In 1796 Hodoul went to sea again as an enseigne de vaisseau aboard the privateer Entreprise. Then he sailed aboard Général Pichegru, a recently captured British schooner previously named Hay, that Captain François Legars of Enterprise had given Jacques François Perroud. Hodoul sailed with Perroud to India. On 17 February 1797 Hodoul arrived at Port Louis with the British vessel Castor, of 150 tons (bm), which Perroud and Général Pichegru had captured in January at Visakhapatnam. She had a cargo of wheat and rice.
In May Hodoul received his first privateer command, Apollon, of ten guns and six obusiers. He sailed on 7 March with 71 men from Port-Louis for the Malabar Coast. There he captured the ship Eliza, of three masts and 350 tons (bm), herself a former French vessel. Six days later he rescued seven slaves aboard a British vessel whose crew had abandoned it after a storm. A few days later, on 17 May, near Masulipatnam, he captured Aydresev, a ship of about 500 tons, sailing under the Maharatta flag. She arrived at Port-Louis on 23 June. The captain of the prize crew, Harel, reported that on 3 May Hodoul had captured a British vessel bound for Tranquebar, then a Danish colony.
On 20 May Hodoul was at Koringa, where he captured Macré (or Macoroy, or Macroy). Her crew escaped in a chaloupe, with Hodoul in pursuit. They landed on a beach and fled inland, abandoning a chest full of pearls.
Maraq, a prize to Apollon, arrived at Port-Louis on 14 July. The captain of the prize crew was Etienne Dupeyré.
On 15 September Hodoul captured Bader Bux as she sailed from Moka towards Surat. She turned out to be his most valuable prize as she was carrying 3732 gold ecus, some piastres, 296 gold sequins, and a quantity of pearls. On 30 October, while sailing back to Mauritius, Hodoul captured Laurel, Fuggo, master. Hodoul's crew was so reduced because of the need to deploy prize crews that he put Laurels crew in irons. On 9 November he captured two vessels of the British East India Company's Bengal Pilot Service: Trayalle (), and . The schooner Harrington arrived at Port Louis on 21 December. The captain of the prize crew was Nicholas Montalent.
Hodoul and Apollon returned to Port Louis on 7 January 1798. He had with him 57 prisoners and 50-60,000 piastres from the Rey, which he had captured off Bengal and then abandoned. On 18 January Loret (probably Laurel), of 400 tons, which Apollon had also captured off Bengal, too arrived at Port-Louis.
The total value of the prizes from Hodoul's cruise on Apollon was 703,479,803 francs.
Hodoul sold his half-share in Apollon to the corsair Le Vaillant. Le Vaillant left Mauritius on 22 August 1798 and captured a valuable Portuguese vessel. However, on 10 November (French records), or 24 October (British records), captured Apollon off Mombasa and carried her crew to the Comoro Islands.
In June 1799 Marie Corantine Olivette gave birth to a son, Raymond. On 28 November the privateer Général Malartic, Jean-Marie Dutertre, master, captured the British vessel Surprise near Madras. He took Surprizes crew to the Seychelles from where Hodoul, in Success, took them to Mauritius; they arrived on 28 January 1800.
Hodoul next purchased Uni, a large vessel armed with eighteen 4-pounder and four 9-pounder guns. She had come from Nantes in 1798 and already had two cruises to her credit, both under the command of François-Thomas Le Même. Hodoul sailed on 15 May 1800 with a crew of 220 men. He reached the Seychelles on the 28th. Off Ste. Anne he captured the British privateer Henriette (or Harriot, from Cape Town), of eight guns under the command of Captain White. On 11 July Hodoul captured Helen, which was carrying 80,000 piastres. Then on 4 August he captured Friendship. However, on 5 August captured Uni and Hodoul after a chase during which Hodoul had almost all of Unis guns thrown overboard in an attempt to lighten her to gain speed. Captain Edward O. Osborne, of Arrogant, reported that Uni had left Mauritius with 250 men, and that she had 216 on board when captured, the rest being away on prizes.
When the British first sighted Uni she had been in company with another ship, and a brig. Osborne set out after the ship, which turned out to be Friendship, and which he recaptured early that night. The brig escaped; she was the Bee, from Madras sailing to Masulipatnam. Hodoul had captured both Friendship and Bee that morning.
The British took their prizes to Madras, where they arrived on 17 August. From there the British transferred Hodoul to Fort William (Calcutta). Hodoul remained a prisoner until the Treaty of Amiens (1802), ended hostilities.
After his release Hodoul settled on Mahe Island of the Seychelles. Here he became a wealthy businessman and plantation owner in the Seychelles, where he introduced cacao cultivation. He was particularly successful in the sugar and rum industries, and in cotton and coffee growing. He did not fully leave the sea as he built and owned several small ships that traded between the Seychelles and Mauritius. He also built the Petit Port and Le Grand Chantier at Mahé.
Hodoul was a man of even-handedness, especially to his daughters and sons in law, and very kind to his slaves. In July 1837 Hodoul's widow received a compensation of at least £7,171 for the liberation of at least 216 slaves who formed part of his estate.
At his wife's behest, Hodoul employed the exiled Jacobin architect Antoine Jean-Baptise Le Franc to build Château Mammelles, which is now the oldest building in the Seychelles. The British Authorities later used Hodoul's second large house, Ma Constance, to house the exiled Sultan of Perak.
Fate
Hodoul died at Mahé on 10 January 1835. His tomb bears the inscription "Il fut juste".
Legacy
Today in the harbor of Victoria, there is a small islet named Hodoul Island in his honor. Legend has it that Hodoul's treasure is buried on Silhouette Island, northwest of Mahé.
Notes, citations, and references
Notes
Citations
References
Epinay, Adrien d'. (1890) Renseignements pour servir à l'histoire de l'Île de France jusqu'à l'année 1810: inclusivement; précédés de notes sur la découverte de l'île, sur l'occupation hollandaise, etc. (Imprimerie Dupuy).
Malleson, George Bruce (1878) Final French Struggles in India and on the Indian Seas: Including an Account of the Capture of the Isles of France and Bourbon, and Sketches of the Most Eminent Foreign Adventurers in India Up to the Period of that Capture : with an Appendix Containing an Account of the Expedition from India to Egypt in 1801. (W.H. Allen).
Thomson, P.A.B. (1997) "Jean François Hodoul, corsair of the Indian Ocean". The Mariner's Mirror, Vol.83, No. 3, pp. 310–317.
Sources
Silhouette Island (Seychelles)
1765 births
1835 deaths
French privateers
French planters
Mauritian slave owners
Mauritian people of French descent |
23570627 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20tropical%20storms%20named%20Soudelor | List of tropical storms named Soudelor | The name Soudelor has been used to name three tropical cyclones in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. The name was contributed by the Federated States of Micronesia and is the name of a legendary chief of the ancient Saudeleur Dynasty in Pohnpei.
Typhoon Soudelor (2003) (T0306, 07W, Egay) – Category 4 typhoon that approached the Philippines, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea
Tropical Storm Soudelor (2009) (T0905, 05W, Gorio) – weak storm that struck southern China
Typhoon Soudelor (2015) (T1513, 13W, Hanna) – Category 5 super typhoon, had severe impacts in the Northern Mariana Islands, Taiwan, and eastern China
The name Soudelor was retired from the Western Pacific naming lists after the 2015 season and replaced with Saudel.
Pacific typhoon set index articles |
20463846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double%20Dealing%20%281932%20film%29 | Double Dealing (1932 film) | Double Dealing is a 1932 British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott and starring Richard Cooper, Frank Pettingell and Sydney Fairbrother. It was made as a quota quickie at Twickenham Studios.
Cast
Frank Pettingell as Rufus Moon
Richard Cooper as Toby Traill
Sydney Fairbrother as Sarah Moon
Zoe Palmer as Dolly Simms
Jill Hands as Betty
Betty Astell as Flossie
Aileen Despard as Rosie
Gladys Hamer as Clara
References
Bibliography
Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.
External links
1932 films
1932 comedy films
British comedy films
1930s English-language films
Films directed by Leslie S. Hiscott
Films shot at Twickenham Film Studios
Quota quickies
British black-and-white films
1930s British films |
17326515 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxine | Maxine | Maxine may refer to:
People
Maxine is a feminine given name.
Maxine Andrews (1916–1995), member of The Andrews Sisters singing trio
Maxine Audley (1923–1992), English actress
Maxine Brown (country singer) (1932-2019), American country music singer
Maxine Brown (soul singer) (born 1939), American soul and R&B singer
Maxine D. Brown, American computer scientist
Maxine Carr, convicted of perverting the course of justice in relation to the Soham murders (not to be confused with Maxine Moore Carr / Maxine Waters below)
Maxine Dexter (1972), American politician
Maxine Elliott (1868–1940), American actress
Maxine Fassberg (born 1953), CEO, Intel Israel
Maxine Hong Kingston (born 1940), Chinese American author and Professor Emerita
Maxine Kumin (1925–2014), American poet and author
Maxine Mawhinney (born 1957), newsreader on the BBC News 24-hour television channel
Maxine McKew (born 1953), Australian politician and journalist
Maxine Medina (born 1990), Filipino model, beauty pageant titleholder, Miss Universe Philippines 2016, and top 6 Miss Universe 2016
Maxine Nightingale (born 1952), British R&B and soul music singer
Maxine Peake (born 1974), English actress
Maxine Reiner (1916–2003), American actress
Maxine Sanders (born 1946), British Wiccan
Maxine Sullivan (born Marietta Williams, 1911–1987), American jazz vocalist/performer
Maxine Waters (born Maxine Moore Carr, born 1938), American politician
Maxine (wrestler) (born 1986), stage name of American former professional wrestler, model, and former WWE Diva Karlee Pérez
Fictional characters
Maxine Peacock, from the British soap opera, Coronation Street
Maxine Chadway, from the television series Soul Food
Maxine Conway, from the Australian drama series, Wentworth
Maxine Minniver, from the British soap opera, Hollyoaks
Maxine Barlow, from the British drama series Waterloo Road
Maxine Mayfield, "Max" or "Madmax", on the Netflix series Stranger Things
Max Caulfield, or Maxine, main character in the video game Life Is Strange
Maxine Shaw, from the American television sitcom Living Single
Maxine, a character in a line of Hallmark Cards
Maxine Guevara, main character of the American TV series Dark Angel
Maxine Baker, daughter of Animal Man (Buddy Baker) in DC Comics
Maxine Tarnow, main character in Thomas Pynchon's novel Bleeding Edge
Other uses
Maxine, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
3977 Maxine, an asteroid, see List of minor planets: 3001–4000
Maxine Virtual Machine, an open source Java virtual machine
Music
"Maxine" (Sharon O'Neill song), a song from Sharon O'Neill
"Maxine", a 2007 reissue bonus track on the album Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1
"Maxine", a song by John Legend from the album Once Again
"Maxine", a song by Donald Fagen from the album The Nightfly
"Maxine", a 1996 rap song by Eminem from the album Infinite
See also
Max (disambiguation)
Maximilian
Maximus (disambiguation)
English feminine given names
Feminine given names |
20463859 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Leonard | Martin Leonard | Martin Patrick Grainge Leonard DSO was an Anglican suffragan bishop from 1953 until his death.
Leonard was born at Torpenhow, near Cockermouth, Cumberland, on 5 July 1889. He was educated at Rossall, Fleetwood, Lancashire and Oriel College, Oxford before embarking on an ecclesiastical career including service as a World War I chaplain. Afterward, Leonard occupied a similar post at Cheltenham College. He spent 14 years with the Toc H organisation. Leonard subsequently became Rector of Hatfield, Rural Dean of Hertford, and Provost of St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow. He was a Bishop of Thetford, and a lifelong supporter of the Boy Scout movement.
He died on 21 July 1963.
References
Works
"A book of Prayers and Hymns Selected for Scouts"; London; C. A. Pearson; 1933.
1889 births
1963 deaths
People from Cockermouth
People educated at Rossall School
Alumni of Oriel College, Oxford
King's Own Royal Regiment officers
Companions of the Distinguished Service Order
Provosts of St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow
Bishops of Thetford
20th-century Church of England bishops
World War I chaplains
Royal Army Chaplains' Department officers |
20463864 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20FM | Big FM | Big FM may refer to:
Big FM (Indian radio station)
Big FM (German radio station)
Big 106.2 (Big FM), a defunct Auckland, New Zealand radio station |
17326520 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoakim%20Gruev | Yoakim Gruev | Joakim Gruev (, died 1912) was a Bulgarian teacher and translator. He was born on 9 September 1828 in the town of Koprivshtitsa. He was a teacher at the leading Bulgarian high school in Plovdiv. He was the author of a number of textbooks.
References
Bulgarian writers
Bulgarian educators
19th-century Bulgarian people
Members of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
People from Koprivshtitsa
1828 births
1912 deaths
19th-century Bulgarian educators |
6900423 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan%20Millman | Joan Millman | Joan L. Millman (born April 20, 1940) represented District 52 in the New York State Assembly, which consists of the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens, Vinegar Hill, Gowanus, DUMBO, Park Slope, Brooklyn Heights and Prospect Heights.
Chosen in a special election held in 1997, Millman served as the Chairwoman of the Assembly Commission on Government Administration and the Assembly Task Force on Women's Issues, as well as sitting on the Assembly committees on Aging, Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, Corporations, among several other standing committee assignments.
Prior to her election to the Assembly, from 1985 to 1996, Millman served as an educational consultant in several capacities, including as a consultant to former NY City Council President Carol Bellamy and Senator Martin Connor, as well as facilitator for Comprehensive School Development and Planning. She was also a member of the Citywide Advisory Committee on Middle School Initiatives from 1995 to 1996.
Millman holds a B.A. from Brooklyn College, as well as an M.A. in Library Science from the Pratt Institute.
In early 2014, the Assembly member announced that she would retire from the New York State Assembly and not run for reelection
in the same year.
On September 10, 2014, Jo Anne Simon won a 3 way Democratic Primary to succeed Assemblymember Millman. Jo Ann Simon won 5,482 (52.9%) out of 10,371 votes in this September 2014 election.
References
External links
Assemblywoman Joan Millman (D) Official NYS Assembly member website.
Re: Atlantic Yards Arena and Redevelopment Project Draft Scope of Analysis Testimony before the Empire State Development Corporation.
Biography: New York State Democratic Committee
The Daily Gotham, Help Support a Bill that will Protect NYC Children
Millman's response to the 2008 Candidate Questionnaire for State Senate and Assembly from the 504 Democratic Club of New York City
1940 births
Democratic Party members of the New York State Assembly
Living people
Women state legislators in New York (state)
21st-century American politicians
21st-century American women politicians
Brooklyn College alumni
20th-century American politicians
20th-century American women politicians |
20463871 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Man%20in%20Gray | The Man in Gray | The Man in Gray () is a 1961 Italian short documentary film produced by Benedetto Benedetti. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
References
External links
1961 films
1961 documentary films
1961 short films
1960s Italian-language films
1960s short documentary films
Italian short documentary films
1960s Italian films |
20463874 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%20United%20States%20elections | 2000 United States elections | The 2000 United States elections were held on November 7, 2000. Republican Governor George W. Bush of Texas defeated Democratic Vice President Al Gore of Tennessee in the presidential election. Republicans retained control of both houses of Congress, giving the party unified control of Congress and the presidency for the first time since the 1954 elections.
With Democratic President Bill Clinton term-limited, Gore won his party's nomination by defeating Senator Bill Bradley in the Democratic primaries. Bush defeated Senator John McCain in the Republican primaries to win his party's presidential nomination. Bush took 271 of the 538 electoral votes, winning the decisive state of Florida by a margin of 537 votes after a recount was halted by the Supreme Court in the case of Bush v. Gore. Bush was the first winning presidential candidate to lose the popular vote since the 1888 presidential election. This marked the first time since 1988 that the president's party lost seats in both Houses.
Democrats picked up a net of four seats in the Senate, tying Republicans, however Dick Cheney provided the tie-breaking vote as Vice President of the United States. Republicans maintained control of the chamber until June 6, 2001, when Senator Jim Jeffords left the Republican Party and began caucusing with the Democrats. Democrats also picked up a net of one seat in the House, but Republicans retained an overall narrow majority. In the gubernatorial elections, Democrats won a net gain of one seat.
Federal elections
President
In the 2000 presidential election, Republican Texas Governor George W. Bush defeated Democratic incumbent Vice President Al Gore. The election was eye-catchingly close, but was the third straight election where neither party won a majority of the popular vote.
United States Senate
The 33 seats in the United States Senate Class 1 were up for election plus one special election. Democrats picked up net of four seats. Six senators were defeated in the November 2000 election. The five defeated Republicans included Spencer Abraham of Michigan, John Ashcroft of Missouri, Slade Gorton of Washington, Rod Grams of Minnesota, and William V. Roth of Delaware. The single defeated Democrat was Charles S. Robb of Virginia.
The Senate elections left both parties with control of fifty Senate seats. In the subsequent 107th United States Congress, Democrats controlled the Senate from January 3, 2001, to January 20, 2001, when Dick Cheney was sworn in as vice president. Republicans maintained control of the chamber until June 6, 2001, when Senator Jim Jeffords left the Republican Party and began caucusing with the Democrats.
United States House of Representatives
Republicans won the national popular vote for the House of Representatives by a margin of 0.5 points. Republicans lost two seats in the House, while Democrats gained 1 seat and 1 independent, Virgil Goode, was elected. Following the 2000 election, the majority of the House seaters in the South and Midwest were held by the Republican party, while the larger number of seats in the Northeast and West were held by the Democratic party.
State elections
One sitting governor was defeated in the November 2000 general election. Cecil H. Underwood, Republican of West Virginia, concluded the 2000 election with a 47.2 election percentage. Bob Wise, Democrat, was elected to a four-year term.
Local elections
Mayoral elections
Some of the major American cities that held their mayoral elections in 2000 included:
San Diego – Superior Court Judge Dick Murphy (R) was elected to a first term as mayor.
Initiatives and referendums
State constitutional amendments prohibiting same-sex marriage and civil unions is passed in Nebraska and Nevada passes constitutional ban on same-sex marriage only, but it doesn't go into effect because the Nevada Constitution requires two ballot votes for citizen-initiated constitutional amendments.
References
External links
United States Election 2000 Web Archive from the U.S. Library of Congress
2000 elections in the United States
2000 |
17326550 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983%20Calder%20Cup%20playoffs | 1983 Calder Cup playoffs | The 1983 Calder Cup playoffs of the American Hockey League began on April 5, 1983. The eight teams that qualified, four from each division, played best-of-seven series for Division Semifinals and Division Finals. The division champions played a best-of-seven series for the Calder Cup. The Calder Cup Final ended on May 19, 1983, with the Rochester Americans defeating the Maine Mariners four games to zero to win the Calder Cup for the fourth time in team history.
Playoff seeds
After the 1982–83 AHL regular season, the top four teams from each division qualified for the playoffs. The Rochester Americans finished the regular season with the best overall record.
Northern Division
Fredericton Express - 98 points
Nova Scotia Voyageurs - 87 points
Maine Mariners - 86 points
Adirondack Red Wings - 77 points
Southern Division
Rochester Americans - 101 points
Hershey Bears - 85 points
New Haven Nighthawks - 84 points
Binghamton Whalers - 80 points
Bracket
In each round, the team that earned more points during the regular season receives home ice advantage, meaning they receive the "extra" game on home-ice if the series reaches the maximum number of games. There is no set series format due to arena scheduling conflicts and travel considerations.
Division Semifinals
Note: Home team is listed first.
Northern Division
(1) Fredericton Express vs. (4) Adirondack Red Wings
(2) Nova Scotia Voyageurs vs. (3) Maine Mariners
Southern Division
(1) Rochester Americans vs. (4) Binghamton Whalers
(2) Hershey Bears vs. (3) New Haven Nighthawks
Division Finals
Northern Division
(1) Fredericton Express vs. (3) Maine Mariners
Southern Division
(1) Rochester Americans vs. (3) New Haven Nighthawks
Calder Cup Final
(S1) Rochester Americans vs. (N3) Maine Mariners
See also
1982–83 AHL season
List of AHL seasons
References
Calder Cup
Calder Cup playoffs |
6900427 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No%20Greater%20Love%20%28Only%20Fools%20and%20Horses%29 | No Greater Love (Only Fools and Horses) | "No Greater Love" is an episode of the BBC sitcom, Only Fools and Horses. It was the fourth episode of series 2, and was first screened on 11 November 1982.
Synopsis
The Trotters arrive at a London street with camel hair overcoats, and plan to receive payments from Mrs Singh. But when Rodney opens the door to her house, he meets another woman named Irene Mackay, who tells him that Mrs Singh moved away three weeks earlier.
Rodney enters Irene's flat and is instantly smitten with her. Irene tells Rodney that she is aged 40, and married with a teenage son Marcus. She also mentions her husband Tommy Mackay, who is "away working, but will be out in six months". He is actually imprisoned in Parkhurst for committing assault, GBH, and attempted murder.
One week later at Nelson Mandela House, Rodney tells Del Boy and Grandad about Irene, and how she moved away from her husband due to domestic violence. Rodney wants to meet Tommy in person when he is released from prison. This makes Del concerned for his younger brother's safety.
A few days later, at the Nag's Head, Rodney tells Del that he and Irene had broken up earlier in the day. Del consoles Rodney and tells him there are plenty of other women to talk to. But then, Irene's son Marcus enters and tells Rodney that Del told Irene over a drink to break up with Rodney. Rodney, feeling betrayed by Del, leaves.
Later that night, Del is dragged into a dark alley by a thug and confronted by Tommy Mackay, mistakenly believing Del to be Rodney (Del goes along with the mistaken identity to protect Rodney, since he would stand no chance against the intimidating Tommy). Tommy prepares to give him a beating for dating Irene. They let Del take his coat off, but he accidentally throws it into a puddle. Furious that his new coat has been ruined, Del lunges at Tommy, and despite sustaining a few moderate injuries, Del manages to win the fight and limps back to the Nag's Head.
Back at the Nag's Head, Del shows Rodney his injuries, but lies and claims he sustained them falling down the stairs at Monkey Harris' home (despite Harris living in a bungalow). Del also mentions to Rodney that he met Tommy Mackay and made him see the error of his ways, which means that Rodney and Irene can date with no threat from Tommy. But Rodney says that he had an earlier talk with Irene and they agreed that their relationship was never going to work anyway. Plus, Rodney has met another girl, Zoe, from the roller-disco. Zoe arrives, she and Rodney leave, and Del is left alone in the pub, annoyed but happy that he has protected his brother.
Episode cast
Notes
Episode concept
The idea for the script was to demonstrate the brotherly love that Del and Rodney have for each other, even willing to take a beating for his brother. The concept of Del getting beaten up in order to protect Rodney would occur again in "Little Problems" when Del, unbeknownst to Rodney, chooses to take a beating from the Driscoll Brothers after making a promise to him, having forgotten that the money he would use for his wedding gift was also the money which he owed to them.
References
External links
1982 British television episodes
Only Fools and Horses (series 2) episodes |
20463895 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilber-Clatonia%20High%20School | Wilber-Clatonia High School | Wilber Clatonia Public School District is located in Wilber, Nebraska, United States. It was founded in 1970 when Wilber High School and Clatonia High School consolidated, forming the Wilber Clatonia Public School District, which has 530 students (K-12). The high school enrollment is approximately 258 students (grades 7-12).
The Wilber Clatonia Public School District is a consolidated system located in Saline and Gage Counties and covers an area of . It has an assessed valuation of $225,842,971 and provides education to 530 students in kindergarten through grade 12. A $6,125,000 bond passage passed in August 2003 provided for the construction of a Pre-kindergarten to 6th-grade classroom facility with a library, computer lab, and gymnasium. The bond issue also provided for a new running track.
History
The first class graduated from Wilber High School in 1886. A new high school building was built around 1910. In 1930 a new high school building was built to the east of the old building, and the old high school was used for elementary classes. When the new school district was formed in 1970, a new high school building was built on South Franklin Street. The older school building to the west was torn down and became a playground area. The 1930 high school then became the elementary school, providing facilities for the students in the city and students now attending in town because many of the rural school districts were closed as part of the consolidation. In 2005 the elementary school was added to the existing high school and the 1930 building was torn down.
Athletics
The school's rival in sports is Tri-County. The school colors are green and white, and the mascot is the wolverine.
Wilber Clatonia won the Class C State Championship in girls' basketball in 1983, finishing 27-0 in the season. The 1997-98 wrestling team finished the dual season comprising a record of 6-0-1, the lone tie coming to Lincoln Christian. The Wilber girls' basketball team almost beat the consecutive losing record. In the 2016-17 season, they also won the class C2 football championship.
External links
School website
School information
Educational institutions established in 1970
Public high schools in Nebraska
Schools in Saline County, Nebraska
1970 establishments in Nebraska |
17326559 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontline%20%28The%20Bill%29 | Frontline (The Bill) | "Frontline" was a three-part storyline in the long-running police procedural British television series The Bill. Broadcast in 2008, the storyline is significant in the show's history as it was the final plot to feature the death of an on-screen character, PC Emma Keane, which came in the first part of the plot.
Prelude
Unlike storylines during the serialized era of 2002-2005, the Frontline plot did not have multiple, long-running plots in the buildup. However, one ongoing storyline was that of the posse run by Sergeant Callum Stone. While Stone was not borderline corrupt, he used certain methods that were not legal. He was seen as a maverick when he arrived, but one of his biggest secrets came weeks after his arrival in the autumn of 2007; Stone was part of a uniform search for a missing girl, Chloe Parks, but it came to a tragic end when she was found dead at the bottom of a fire escape at a disused hospital. Stone let things get personal when footage emerged of the girl several years earlier stating she was sexually abused by her father Martin (Chris Walker). When he failed to confess in the interview, PC Will Fletcher, Family Liaison Officer for the Parks family in the case of Chloe's death, went after him when he assaulted his wife. Finding Martin atop the fire escape where Chloe committed suicide, Stone forces Fletcher off the negotiation before goading Martin into jumping. Fletcher was mortified, but Stone callously told him "What goes around, comes around". After initial harsh feelings between the two, Fletcher sought Stone's help in the spring of 2008 when PC Sally Armstrong demanded justice for a suspected rapist who attacked the sister of one of Armstrong's friends. Reminding Stone of his "alternative methods", Fletcher got him on his side, and after the man gave evidence against a suspected drug dealer, Stone joined the arrest team before telling the suspect who was responsible for calling the cops. Taking Fletcher, Armstrong, and PC Benjamin Gayle to the home of the suspected rapist, they lay in wait until a group of thugs burst in and savagely assaulted him, responding to the callout and arresting the men responsible. Happy with their alternative justice, the four officers formed a posse. A few weeks later, Armstrong was paired with PC Emma Keane when a burglar was seriously assaulted during a home invasion. Dejected that the victims may end up being prosecuted for defending their home, Armstrong took Keane to Stone to ask if there were any alternatives. Stone was furious that Armstrong asked Keane to get involved, as her father was a DCI at the DPS. Keane, however, thought Stone was harboring a crush on her and began undermining him. After forcing her way onto an undercover operation, Stone laid down the law as she put herself in danger, attempting to kiss him before pulling out as he was drawn in, stating that her suspicions about him fancying her were confirmed.
Synopsis
Part 1: Shockwave
The events of Shockwave take place the day after the undercover operation, Armstrong notices Keane tease Stone as he told her to be careful whilst out on patrol. As Armstrong tried to get Keane to talk about their interaction, an explosion is heard nearby, turning onto a street to witness a second blast take out a street market. As they tended to the casualties, Armstrong called in for assistance. During the rescue efforts, Keane found a man masquerading as a doctor who sexually assaulted a woman trapped in a car during the blast. Keane was then assaulted during her attempts to arrest the man, leaving Stone determined to track the man down, who also gave false medical advice to a victim who was rushed into the hospital unconscious as a result. The relief was left in shock by the events, drawing similarities to the 7/7 attacks 3 years earlier. As the day progressed, Armstrong and Keane paired to track down the phony doctor but ended up arguing when Keane pressed for details on Stone's posse. Splitting up, they found the man and apprehended him, although Stone arrived to witness him assault Keane once again. As they argued about the legality of Stone's actions, Keane accused him of being corrupt and stormed off. Whilst patrolling, Keane discovered smoke pouring from a building and started an evacuation. As she evacuated, DCI Jack Meadows called her to inform her that SO15 (Counter-Terrorism) revealed the bombs that detonated were fertilizer-based. As backup rushed to her aid, Keane came across a man with a suspicious package. As her colleagues closed in, the bomb detonated, finding Keane seriously injured. As Stone battled in vain to save her life, her devastated colleagues watched on as Keane succumbed to her injuries.
Part 2: Aftershock
The events of Aftershock take place the morning after Keane's death. The uniform relief is in shock, none more so than Sergeant Stone and PC Armstrong. Superintendent John Heaton introduces DI Karen Lacy (Liz May Brice) of SO15 to DCI Meadows and the rest of CID, who has been tasked with investigating what was a total of 8 deaths between the first two bombings and the third that killed Keane. The first clue comes in the form of a letter delivered to the station "To the friends and colleagues of PC Keane, wrong place, wrong time". The second was James Marfield (Henry Miller), a friend of the first victim, Michael Gilcrest, whose nightclub was blown up by the first of the two bombs. Discovering a link to a pornography site, it was revealed that Gilcrest had links to the owner of the photocopy shop that was a target of the second bombing. DC Mickey Webb investigated the owner of the business blown up where Keane died, Jeff Bowman (Mark Moraghan), and later discovered he was linked to right-wing extremism, despite his business being an immigration charity, found via a clue from the bomber captioned "Lesson Two: Fascist in Hiding". A note to victim Gilcrist was traced to an internet café, and a suspect was soon arrested, however, Sergeant Stone had to stop an emotional PC Armstrong from attacking the man; later in the day, Stone's own aggressions came to the fore when he tried attacking Sergeant Dale Smith for suggesting he was attracted to Keane. The man arrested was paranoid and twitchy, refusing to comment, and a new clue emerged with a letter pointing them in direction of a delivery made to their suspect's neighbor. However, the house was empty, but they soon realized they had been ambushed when DC Kezia Walker stood on a pressure pad that triggered a bomb. As the bomb squad attended to defuse the device, they discovered the device was meant to frame their man in custody, now revealed to be convicted identity thief Carl Adams (Mark Bagnall). When DC Grace Dasari linked a repeated clue, "The Elvis Four", she realized it was an anagram of the four evils, a belief of the four worst things made more prevalent by the internet (pornography, racism, identity theft, and pedophilia). Realizing 3 of the 4 had been targeted, the investigating officers concluded that the bomber had one more attack planned.
Part 3: End Game
The events of End Game take place a week after Keane's death. With the criminal's ideals identified, DC Dasari invited bomb targets Jeff Bowman and Carl Adams to the station to be questioned about their links, along with Michael Gilcrest's friend James Marfield. Out on the streets, PCs Fletcher, Gayle, and Armstrong attended a break-in at an industrial unit, and when Fletcher tried calling the person who made the report, he unintentionally set off a flour bomb that left Armstrong shaken but unharmed. A memory stick found at the scene was used to tell the investigating team they had four hours to find a bomb before a sex offender would be blown up. Stone, back at work after his attack on Smithy, joined his posse as they investigated a software company that was linked to Bowman and Marfield. A name came from their searches, Colin Moore, and Smithy paired with DC Webb to put surveillance on his brother Bill. As he was arrested, Webb identified Colin Moore as James Marfield, making DCI Meadows realize the prime suspect was under their noses all along. With Colin already gone from the station, the need to find him heightened. The Child Exploitation and Online Protection division sent a list to Sun Hill, which they cross-referenced with Colin Moore's clients, and they discovered the name Peter Waverley on both lists. As his home and business were searched, Bill Moore revealed Colin searched pedophilia online to ensnare sex offenders, but Bill's wife caught him and assumed the wrong thing, and that the last bomb was personal. Waverley revealed his wife had the package and was heading to collect their children from school. Stone ducked out of Keane's funeral to find Mrs. Waverley, and as he and Webb found her car, they worked to rescue her baby from the back seat. As Meadows and Dasari found Colin, they tried to talk him down, but he set the bomb off anyway, however, Stone was able to rescue the baby before Mrs. Waverley's car exploded. Stone then attended Keane's funeral, telling her friends, family, and colleagues that her killer had been brought to justice.
Aftermath
The aftermath of the events lead to two character exits, one immediately after and the other later in the year. PC Reg Hollis was mentioned to have resigned in Lucky Lucky Lucky, the episode that came after Frontline: End Game. Actor Jeff Stewart was due to be written out in 2008 after controversially being axed by show producers, but Stewart was so devastated at losing a role he'd been in for 24 years that he attempted suicide by slitting his wrists on set. While Stewart's last on-screen scene came weeks earlier, his exit was explained away by a decision to resign in the wake of Keane's death. The other exit was that of Inspector Gina Gold; having been a hard-as-nails, iron-fisted manager during her time on the show, the character of Gold began to crumble under pressure out of fear of losing another officer, having been close friends with Keane. This came to light in the episode Lifesaver, in which Sgt. Stone and PC Armstrong rescued a suicidal woman from her car that had crashed into the River Thames, and again in the episode Demolition Girl when Armstrong is almost crushed by the debris of an imploding tower block tried to stop a woman running back into the building. In An Honour to Serve- Part 2, Gold was mortified to think Sergeant Dale Smith, her best friend, was killed in an armed siege. After Smithy was rescued by SO19 to end the siege, Gold handed in her resignation and retired.
Cast
Supt. John Heaton - Daniel Flynn
DCI Jack Meadows - Simon Rouse
Insp. Gina Gold - Roberta Taylor
DI Karen Lacy - Liz May Brice
DI Samantha Nixon - Lisa Maxwell
Sgt. Callum Stone - Sam Callis
Sgt. Dale Smith - Alex Walkinshaw
PC Emma Keane - Melanie Gutteridge
PC Sally Armstrong - Ali Bastian
PC Will Fletcher - Gary Lucy
PC Benjamin Gayle - Micah Balfour
DC Kezia Walker - Cat Simmons
DC Mickey Webb - Chris Simmons
DC Grace Dasari - Amita Dhiri
Colin Moore - Henry Miller
Jeff Bowman - Mark Moraghan
Carl Adams - Mark Bagnall
References
The Bill episodes |
17326562 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibson | Sibson | Sibson may refer to:
Places
Sibson, Cambridgeshire
Sibson, Leicestershire
Peterborough/Sibson Airport, also known as Sibson aerodrome, near Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
People
Gareth Sibson (born 1977), British writer, broadcaster and lawyer
Harry Sibson (1919–2010)
Francis Sibson (1814–1876), British physician and anatomist
John Sibson (1930–2014), Australian politician
Richard B. Sibson (1911–1994), New Zealand ornithologist
Richard H. Sibson (born 1945), New Zealand geologist
Robin Sibson (1944–2017), British mathematician and educator
Tony Sibson (born 1958), British professional boxer
Ray Sibson (1951–Date),English
Anatomy
Sibson's aortic vestibule, the aortic vestibule
Sibson's fascia, the suprapleural membrane
Sibson's aponeurosis, the suprapleural membrane
Sibson's groove, formed by the prominent lower border of the pectoralis major muscle
Sibson's muscle, the scalenus minimus muscle |
20463912 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt%20Kuykendall | Kurt Kuykendall | Kurt Kuykendall is a retired American soccer goalkeeper who played professionally in the North American Soccer League.
Kuykendall attended American University, where he was a 1973 Honorable Mention (third team) All-American soccer player. He was inducted into the American University Eagles Hall of Fame in 1996. In 1974, the Washington Diplomats selected Kuykendall in the first round (second overall) of the North American Soccer League draft. In 1975, he moved to the New York Cosmos for two seasons. In 1978 while working as a real estate broker he made an appearance in an indoor match for the Diplomats giving up 7 goals in two periods of relief for the injured Eric Martin. He finished his professional career with one game with the Rochester Lancers in 1979 as a replacement goalkeeper when the NASL players went on strike.
All five of his children – Kris, Shawn, Jason, Jaime and Samantha – play soccer.
For the Glory, a feature film based on Kurt's career, is scheduled for release in 2011.
References
External links
NASL career stats
For the Glory
1952 births
Living people
American Eagles men's soccer players
American soccer players
American Soccer League (1933–1983) players
California Sunshine players
New York Cosmos players
North American Soccer League (1968–1984) players
North American Soccer League (1968–1984) indoor players
Rochester Lancers (1967–1980) players
Washington Diplomats (NASL) players
Association football goalkeepers |
6900430 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuchyn | Tuchyn | Tuchyn (, , , ) is an urban-type settlement in the Rivne Oblast (province) of western Ukraine. It is located in the Rivne Raion (district) in the historic region of Volhynia, approximately 18 km east from the oblast capital, Rivne.
History
The Polish noble family Siemaszko is rooted in Tuchyn. In 1650 the town was owned by the Daniłłowicz family, then later by the Lubomirski's, and finally by the Walewski's from the 18th century to the outbreak of World War II. The Stanisław Lubomirski foundation erected two wooden churches, cerkwie, in the town in 1711 (Paraskewy) and 1730 (Przemienienia Pańskiego). The Walewski's built a classicist Church in 1796.
A Roman Catholic Parish was founded in Tuczyn in 1590, it included many villages of the surrounding region. In 1938 the Catholic parish numbered 2,660 individuals, almost all of them Poles.
There was a significant German population in the Tuczyn region. They began to arrive in large numbers in the 1860s. The vast majority were German Lutherans, initially served from distant Zhitomir Lutheran Parish. The Lutheran Parish of Tuczyn was established there in 1888. At its peak, prior to World War I, the parish served over 25,000 Germans in more than 80 villages in a region much larger than that covered by the Catholic parish - yet no church building was constructed until 1929. The number of Germans dropped dramatically right before World War I, when many migrated to North America. Only some 6000 or so remained during the inter-war years.
Prior to World War II Tuchyn was a major town in the district and had a large population of Jewish (about 3000), Polish and Ukrainian ethnicity, plus the remnants of the once numerous German population.
Second World War
After hearing of the annihilation of the Jewish ghetto in Rivne, the Jewish leaders decided that they would resist the Nazis. On the evening of Wednesday, September 23, 1942, a blockade was mounted against the ghetto of Tuczyn. The leaders of the uprising declared a full alert; the fighting groups took up positions. On the dawn of September 24, German forces and Ukrainian auxiliaries advanced toward the ghetto fences. When the resistance forces gave the signal, the buildings of the ghetto and the German warehouses at its edge were set ablaze. The fighting groups opened fire, broke through the ghetto fence, and urged the population to escape. Under cover of smoke and gunfire, some 2,000 people--about two-thirds of the ghetto population, including women, children, and the elderly--fled into the forest. The flames continued to burn for the rest of that day and part of the next; the gunfire continued as well. Several Germans and Ukrainian auxiliary police were killed. One-third of the ghetto population fell, including almost all the fighters. The uprising ended on Saturday, September 26 when the lead resisters turned themselves into the Germans, unable to withstand the conditions in the nearby forests. The escapees fared very badly. Half of them were captured and murdered within three days. About 300 women, clutching infants, unable to withstand the conditions of the forest, returned to Tuczyn and were shot. Many of the remainder died; others were turned in or murdered by peasants in the vicinity. Some young people joined the partisans and were killed in combat. Of the 3,000 Jews of Tuczyn, only 20 were still alive on January 16, 1944, when the town was liberated.
Notable people
(b. 9 July 1924 in Tuchyn, d. 23 August 2000 in Fürstenfeldbruck), Bishop of Hamburg (1983-1992)
References
External links
Tuchin at Yad Vashem
Tuczyn Lutheran Parish History
Description of events in Tuczyn during World War II
Tuchin at KehilaLinks
1923 Tuczyn Business directory at KehilaLinks
Tuczin-Kripa, Wolyn; In Memory of the Jewish Community
Urban-type settlements in Rivne Raion
Shtetls
Holocaust locations in Ukraine |
6900443 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Story%20Untold | A Story Untold | "A Story Untold" is a song, originally written as a doo-wop song by Leroy Griffin, but adapted to the pop music genre in 1955.
The original recording was by Griffin's group, The Nutmegs. The recording peaked at #2 on the R&B chart.
The most popular recording was by The Crew-Cuts. This recording was released by Mercury Records as catalog number 70634. It first reached the Billboard magazine charts on June 25, 1955, and spent a total of 7 weeks there. It peaked at #16 on the Best Seller chart.
References
1955 singles
Mercury Records singles
The Crew-Cuts songs
Year of song missing |
6900447 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebra%20bullhead%20shark | Zebra bullhead shark | The zebra bullhead shark (Heterodontus zebra) is a bullhead shark of the family Heterodontidae found in the central Indo-Pacific between latitudes 40°N and 20°S, from Japan and Korea to Australia. It is typically found at relatively shallow depths down to , but off Western Australia, it occurs between . It can reach a length of . The reproduction of this bullhead shark is oviparous.
References
Heterodontidae
Fish described in 1831
Taxa named by John Edward Gray |
20463917 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge%20Gonz%C3%A1lez%20Camarena | Jorge González Camarena | Jorge González Camarena (24 March 1908 – 24 May 1980) was a Mexican painter, muralist and sculptor. He is best known for his mural work, as part of the Mexican muralism movement, although his work is distinct from the main names associated with it (Rivera, Orozco and Siqueiros). His major works include the mural on the main administration building of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Studies and a mural created for the Universidad de Concepción in Chile. He also created easel works, one of which, La Patria, was well known in Mexico as it was used on the cover of free textbooks from the 1960s into the 1970s. Recognitions for his work include the Premio Nacional de Arte, membership in the Academia de Artes and the Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana, grade Commendatore from the Italian government.
Life
González Camarena was born in Guadalajara to Arturo González and Sara Camarena, both of whom were originally from Arandas. His was an artistic and cultural family as his father was a photographer. He had seven siblings, and his brother Guillermo invented the color television set. From childhood, Jorge showed interest in art. When he visited his aunt Esther, he spent long hours watching her paint while the other children ran in the garden. This inspired him to not only draw, but to also create works in pumice stone, pebbles and clay. He also created his own comic strip called Los Chiquinitos, which he sold to classmates.
In 1919, he moved to Mexico City with his family, where he began drawing lessons with a painter named Francisco Zeteno. Seeing González Camarena's talent, the teacher suggested enrolling him in the Academy of San Carlos. González Camarena entered the school at age fifteen, just after his father died and his family was taken in by his grandparents.
He studied at the Academy intermittently from 1922 to 1930. He was interested in both traditional academic painting and newer trends that were forming. At this time, there was an anti-academic feeling among many younger painters. One result was the establishment of alternate schools called “open air schools” that focused on spontaneity, light and everyday topics and González studied at one of these schools as well. Another effect was the establishment of a student movement at the Academy of San Carlos to modernize its teaching and to bring Diego Rivera to teach at the institution. During his school years, his principle teachers included Mateo Herrera and Francisco Díaz de León, working in various media such as fresco, oil on fabric, vinylite, ship paint, tempera, mosaics and ceramics.
González Camarena began his career before leaving school, working with Dr. Atl. In 1930, Dr. Atl gave him his own studio on top of the former monastery of San Juan de Letrán. Here he not only painted but also researched music and led discussions on the arts.
In 1934, he married Jeannie Barré de Saint-Leu with whom he had four children. His new familial responsibilities pushed him to find more work, leading to contacts that began his career as a muralist. His family life affected his painting with his children and even his dog appearing in his artwork.
During González Camarena's career he was also involved in a number of social causes. During his stay in Veracruz to paint a mural, he became involved in an effort in 1953 to save and restore the then crumbling San Juan de Ulúa fort, which was set to be destroyed to build new warehouses and a dock. In 1966 he became a formal member of the Seminario de Cultura Mexicana. In 1979, he participated in the IX Congress of the Association of Artists of UNESCO in Stuttgart, Germany.
González Camarena died in 1980 of a brain hemorrhage. His funeral was at the Palacio de Bellas Artes as a national homage and buried at the family crypt in the Panteón de Dolores. The government has suggested that the body be moved to the Rotunda de Personas Ilustres, but the family has refused. There was a dispute for the remaining paintings in the artist's possession at the time of his death. His will stated they should be distribute among family members but this was challenged on court by critic Antonio Luna Arroyo, who even involved UNAM over the disposition of twenty two paintings.
Career
González Camarena began his career working as an assistant to Dr. Atl, coloring the images of church in the book Las iglesias de México. Dr. Atl became one of González Camarena's mentors until his death.
After he finished with school, González Camarena first became noted for his work in publicity. In 1929, at age 21, he worked writing and drawing for publications such as Revista de Revistas and Nuestro México. He also worked into the 1930s creating images for calendar for the Editorial Casa Galas, along with calendars for Cemento Cruz Azul.
In 1933, painter Jorge Enciso, then director of the Dirección de Monumentos Coloniales, commissioned him to restore the 16th-century frescos on the walls of the former monastery of Huejotzingo, Puebla. The project took two years and the project made him sensitive to the area's indigenous people and Mesoamerican art. He used some of the money he earned from the project to research indigenous painters, especially Marcos Cipactli, identifying him not only as one of the contributors to the original Huejotzingo work but also as the painter of the original image of the Virgin of Guadalupe. The latter assertion caused him some controversy. He also did a study on the presence of demon and devil images in Mexican art and folklore.
González Camarena began creating mural works in 1939, with twenty six of the works still remaining. The first was created in the town of Zimapan, Hidalgo at the Hotel Fundación called Alegoría de Zimapán. At the time, the town was a crossroads for traffic between Tamaulipas and Nuevo León, but a new highway changed that later. The hotel was abandoned but the mural remains in good condition.
His second mural was a pair of oil an wax panels on stone for the Guardiola Building in 1941 called La vida, la mujer y el hombre (Live, woman and man), commissioned by friend and colleague Carlos Obregón Santacilia. The work was controversial because the images of the man and woman were nudes, considered immoral by the bankers that sponsored the work. As a response, González Camarena founded the first Mexican Nudist Society to promote the use of nudes in artwork. The work remained on the building until 1957, when the earthquake of that year caused damage to the piece, and instead of being rescued, it was demolished. In response, muralists from Mexico and other countries founded the Commission of Mural Painting of INBA to protect murals and other art under censorship threat. INBA also proposed that González Camarena replace the work with a mural at the Palacio de Bellas Artes. This resulted in a mural called Liberación de la humanidad, finished in 1963.
Other of González Camarena's early murals include Águila en Vuelo for the Banco de México building in Veracruz and the La Purísma Church.
In 1950 and 1951 he created murals and sculptures for the Instituto Mexicano de Seguro Social building on Paseo de la Reforma in Mexico City. The mural is done in vinylite, and is accompanied by two groups of sculptures called El Trabajo and Maternidad. He worked on this project with architect Obregón Santacila, with whom he also founded a movement called Artistic Integration, with the aim of strengthening ties between builders and artists on architectural projects.
In 1954, the founder of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Studies, Eugenio Garza Sada, commissioned González Camarena to create a mural for what is now the main administration building for the university system. The project consisted of applying Italian mosaic on a relief. This project had him spent much time in Monterrey, and become involved in the artist community there, leading to the creation of the Arte, A.C. cultural group. This mural remains today as a symbol of the institution, even reproduced on class rings.
In 1959 Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta commissioned him to decorate the facade of Televicentro, today Televisa, resulting in a 900m² mural called Frisos de la television. This outside wall was later damaged, requiring the building to be remodeled.
In 1965, he was commissioned by the Mexican government to create a mural for the city of Concepción, Chile, even though the project was threatened by a boycott by artists affiliated with the Generación de la Ruptura. The resulting mural was a gift to the people of that region in southern Chile who had suffered a major earthquake in 1960. The resulting work was 300m² on a wall of the Casa de la Cultura José Clemente Orozco at the Universidad de Concepción. For the university's 75th anniversary, the image was reproduced on a Chilean stamp and in 1996, it was named the most beautiful mural in the world at an event in Vienna . The work was damaged during another earthquake, this time in 2010, but restored in 2012 in a joint Mexican-Chilean effort.
Other notable murals during González Camarena's career include La erupción de Xitle (an oil/wax work) at the Cuicuilco site. Monumento a la Independencia in Dolores Hidalgo, Belisario Dominguez at the Mexican Senate and Las Razas at the Museo Nacional de Antropología e Historia, which was used on a Mexican stamp in 1992 to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Columbus's arrival to the Americas. His last mural was created in 1978, two years before his death and called Trilogía de Saltillo, in the municipal building of Saltillo, Coahuila.
While best known for his mural work, González Camarena also produced over 2,000 easel work and some sculpture. His best known work of this type is La Patria, an image of a woman with national symbols to represent the country of Mexico. It is well known because from the 1960s into the 1970s, this image was used on the cover of free textbooks produced by the Secretaría de Educación Pública. These include over 350 titles totaling over 523 million copies. The image has reappeared sporadically on books produced by the government entity since. At the end of the 1970s, the Mexican government commissioned him to create a painting for the Bulgarian people of Saint George. He was invited to Bulgaria to unveil the painting. In appreciation, the Bulgarian government sponsored a European tour of Gonzalez Camarena's work which ended up in the Museo de Arte Moderno in New York. Most of his easel work is in the hands of private collectors in both Mexico and abroad. These include the Museo Soumaya, the collection of the Carso Foundation, the collection of José López Portillo and the estate of Henry Ford. Some are in the Museo de Arte Moderno. Very little of the artist's work are in the family as the rest were sold.
By the 1940s, González Camarena's work began to draw serious attention from art critics and win awards. In 1966 the Palacio de Bellas Artes organized and anthological exhibition in his honor. In 1967, he received the Order of Merit, grade Commendatore from the Italian government for a portrait of Michelangelo he created for the Italian artist's house in Caprese. He received the Premio Nacional de Artes in 1970 and in 1972 was accepted as a member of the Academia de Artes. He was also a member of the Asociación Mexicana de Artes Plásticas and the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana. For the 2008 100th anniversary of his birth, institutions such as the Museo Soumaya, the Instituto Politécnical Nacional, the Mexican Senate and the Instituto Mexicano de Seguro Social held exhibitions and homage to his work and life.
Artistry
González Camarena was a major figure in the Mexican muralism movement. His work was distinguished early through his use of clear lines and texture. He worked with various styles, textures and techniques, ranging from Surrealism to Cubism to Magical Realism, and most of his paintings contains social and mystical motifs. As a painter, he is best known for his depictions of people, especially portraits of women. In the last year of his life, he painted a work called Las razas. This work contains images of four women, Asian, African, European and Native American.
In the med 1930s, he developed his own personal method of composition which he called “cuadratismo” or “harmonic geometry.” It was developed from this work with the Huejotzingo restoration project, drawing from Mesoamerican and early colonial mural painting. From then on, it was the main guide for the compositions of his work. Mauricio Gómez Mayorga stated that “His faith in geometry and form, that is, in space and matter, make him a constructor, a builder of plane and mass.”
Although part of the Mexican muralist movement, his work is distinct from the three main names associated with it (Rivera, Orozco and Siqueiros). His pre-1949 work was different from that of others in the Mexican muralism movement as they did not deal with topics related to the Mexican Revolution the rescue of Mexico's past or the struggle for social equality. Although Diego Rivera called him “the most Mexican of all,” José Clemente Orozco did not like his preference for archeology and Mexico's past, feeling that Gonzalez Camarena squandered his talent by not expressing what he felt.
However, González Camarena began to conform to more of the movement's social and political themes starting in 1949, when he painted the work La vida y la industria for the Cervecería Modelo brewery in Mexico City. Here did incorporate elements common to Mexican muralism by representing the preparation of beer in a Mesoamerican scene. In the interpretation of Mexican history, Gonzalez Camarena believed that neither the country's indigenous or Spanish cultural background should be denigrated in favor of the other. He also believed that the Mexican Revolution should be honored by working towards social justice. In the work Cristo en la Cruz, the face of Christ has indigenous characteristics. He gave his depictions of Mesoamerican deities mythological qualities similar to the treatment of ancient Greek gods. The Monterrey Institute mural represents the triumph of civilization and culture over the forces of stagnation, apathy and darkness, with the first represented by Quetzalcoatl and the latter by Tezcatlipoca.
He also created portraits and self-portraits. Notable examples of these include those of his sister Susana, Francisco Díaz de León, Rosa Luz Alegría and Guillermo Soberón. In his self-portraits, his eyeglasses generally dominate the composition.
Works
La Vendimia Nacional (1946)
Autorretrato (1946)
Las Razas (1964)
Presencia de América Latina (1965)
Milagro del Tepeyac (c 1947)
Trilogía de Saltillo (1978)
El abrazo (1980)
References
1908 births
1980 deaths
20th-century Mexican painters
Mexican male painters
Mexican muralists
Artists from Guadalajara, Jalisco
20th-century Mexican sculptors
20th-century Mexican male artists |
6900456 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guruceta%20Trophy | Guruceta Trophy | In Spanish football, the Guruceta trophy is awarded by Spanish sports newspaper MARCA to the best referee for each season. It is named in honour of the famous Spanish referee, Emilio Guruceta.
Rules
After every match the MARCA journalist covering the match will evaluate the referees performance with a score out of 3 - 3 being the best and 0 the worst. At the end of the season a coefficient will be calculated between the number of matches refereed and the number of points awarded. The referee with the highest coefficient wins the trophy.
Winners
La Liga
Segunda División
External links
MARCA website
La Liga trophies and awards
Segunda División trophies and awards
Spanish football trophies and awards |
23570631 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haywards%20Heath%20East%20%28electoral%20division%29 | Haywards Heath East (electoral division) | Haywards Heath East is an electoral division of West Sussex in the United Kingdom, and returns one member to sit on West Sussex County Council.
Extent
The division covers the eastern part of the town of Haywards Heath.
It comprises the following Mid Sussex District wards: Haywards Heath Bentswood Ward and Haywards Heath Franklands Ward; and of the eastern part of the civil parish of Haywards Heath.
On 31 October 2013 John de Mierre died, this necessitated the holding of a bye-election, which was held on 19 December 2013
Election results
2013 Bye-election
Results of the bye-election held on 19 December 2013:
2013 Election
Results of the election held on 2 May 2013:
2009 Election
Results of the election held on 4 June 2009:
2005 Election
Results of the election held on 5 May 2005:
References
Election Results - West Sussex County Council
External links
West Sussex County Council
Election Maps
Electoral Divisions of West Sussex
Haywards Heath |
17326580 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recount%20%28film%29 | Recount (film) | Recount is a 2008 political drama television film about Florida's vote recount during the 2000 United States presidential election. Written by Danny Strong and directed by Jay Roach, the television film stars Kevin Spacey, Bob Balaban, Ed Begley Jr., Laura Dern, John Hurt, Denis Leary, Bruce McGill, and Tom Wilkinson. It premiered on HBO on May 25, 2008. The television film was nominated for eleven Primetime Emmy Awards, winning three for Outstanding Made for Television Movie, Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special (for Roach), and Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Miniseries or a Movie (for Baumgarten). It was also nominated for five Golden Globe Awards and winning Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film (for Dern).
Plot
Recount chronicles the 2000 U.S. presidential election Bush v. Gore case between Governor of Texas George W. Bush and U.S. Vice President Al Gore. It begins with the election on November 7 and ends with the Supreme Court ruling, which stopped the Florida election recount on December 12.
Key points depicted include: Gore's retraction of his personal telephone concession to Bush in the early hours of November 8; the decision by the Gore campaign to sue for hand recounts in Democratic strongholds where voting irregularities were alleged, especially in light of the statistical dead heat revealed by the reported machine recount; Republican pressure on Florida's Secretary of State Katherine Harris in light of her legally mandated responsibilities; the attention focused on the hand recounts by media, parties, and the public; the two major announcements by Florida Supreme Court spokesman Craig Waters extending the deadline for returns in the initial recount (November 21, 2000) and ordering a statewide recount of votes (December 8, 2000), and later overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court; and finally the adversarial postures of the Supreme Courts of Florida and the United States, as well as the dissenting opinions among the higher court's justices.
Cast
Kevin Spacey as Ron Klain
John Hurt as Warren Christopher
Laura Dern as Katherine Harris
Tom Wilkinson as James Baker
Denis Leary as Michael Whouley
Ed Begley, Jr. as David Boies
Bob Balaban as Ben Ginsberg
Bruce McGill as Mac Stipanovich
Paul Jeans as Ted Olson
Bruce Altman as Mitchell Berger
Alex Staggs as Craig Waters
Doug Williford as Mark Fabiani
Gary Basaraba as Clay Roberts
Stefen Laurantz as Joe Allbaugh
Mitch Pileggi as Bill Daley
Jayne Atkinson as Theresa LePore
Marcia Jean Kurtz as Carol Roberts
Mary Bonner Baker as Kerey Carpenter
Bob Kranz as Bob Butterworth
Raymond Forchion as Jeff Robinson
Steve DuMouchel as John Hardin Young
Marc Macaulay as Robert Zoellick
Antoni Corone as Tom Feeney
Matt Miller as Jeb Bush
Terry Loughlin as William Rehnquist
Judy Clayton as Sandra Day O'Connor
William Schallert as John Paul Stevens
Bruce Gray as Anthony Kennedy
Michael Bryan French as David Souter
Howard Elfman as Stephen Breyer
Jack Shearer as Antonin Scalia
Benjamin Clayton as Clarence Thomas
Bradford DeVine as Charles T. Wells
Candice Critchfield as Judge Myriam Lehr
Annie Cerillo as Barbara Pariente
Brewier Welch as Harry Lee Anstead
Derek Cecil as Jeremy Bash
Robert Small as George J. Terwilliger III
Patricia Getty as Margaret D. Tutwiler
Christopher Schmidt as John E. Sweeney
Olgia Campbell as Donna Brazile
James Carrey as Chris Lehane
Brent Mendenhall as George W. Bush
Grady Couch as Al Gore
David Lodge as Joe Lieberman
Carole Wood as Tipper Gore
Mark Lamoureux as Reporter
Tom Hillmann as Brad Blakeman
Adam LeFevre as Mark Herron
Production
Director
In April 2007, it was announced that Sydney Pollack would direct the film. By August, weeks away from the start of principal photography, Pollack withdrew from the project due to a then-undisclosed illness, and was replaced by Jay Roach. Pollack died of cancer on May 26, 2008, one day after Recount premiered on HBO.
Casting
On September 24, 2007, it was announced that Kevin Spacey would star as Ron Klain.
Filming
Recount was shot in Jacksonville and Tallahassee, Florida.
Reception
Reviews
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 78%, based on 18 reviews, and an average rating of 6.4/10. On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 66 out of 100, based on 25 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Mark Moorman of Het Parool, gave the film a rating of four stars on a scale of five, calling Recount an "amazing and funny reconstruction".
Response to fictionalization
Some critics have made charges of bias against the film. Entertainment Weekly wrote, "Recount may not be downright blue, but it's not as purply as it wants to appear. Despite its equal time approach, Recount is an underdog story, and thus a Democrat story." Film critic Roger Ebert disputed claims of bias in his review of the film, stating, "You might assume the movie is pro-Gore and anti-Bush, but you would not be quite right."
In an interview with CNN's Reliable Sources, director Jay Roach responded that the film, "wasn't 100 percent accurate, but it was very true to what went on. ... That's what dramatizations do: stitch together the big ideas with, sometimes, constructs that have to stand for a larger truth." Roach cited All the President's Men as an example. Jake Tapper, an ABC newscaster who was a consultant for the film also stated in response that the film is "a fictional version of what happened" and "tilts to the left because it's generally told from the point of view of the Democrats." The Washington Post further stated that Tapper noted that "while some scenes and language are manufactured, 'a lot of dialogue is not invented, a lot of dialogue is taken from my book, other books and real life.' "
Florida Supreme Court spokesman Craig Waters agreed that the script departed from the actual statements he made on live television from the courthouse steps in the fall of 2000. "But the words spoken by the actor who played me [Alex Staggs]," Waters said, "are accurate paraphrasis of the things I actually said or of the documents released by the court at the time."
Warren Christopher, who was sent by Gore to supervise the recount, has objected to his portrayal in the film. According to the San Jose Mercury News, Christopher: Baker agreed that the film exaggerated his rival's stance: "He's not that much of a wuss," said Matea Gold of the San Jose Mercury News.
Democratic strategist Michael Whouley has objected to the amount of swearing he does in the film, and was also uncomfortable with a scene involving a broken chair.
In contrast, Bush legal advisers James Baker and Benjamin Ginsberg have largely given the film good reviews; Baker even hosted his own screening of it, though he does refer to the film as a "Hollywood rendition" of what happened.
Awards and nominations
Gallery
References
External links
2008 television films
2008 films
2008 drama films
2000 United States presidential election in Florida
2000s English-language films
2000s political drama films
American films based on actual events
American political drama films
Drama films based on actual events
American drama television films
Films about the 2000 United States presidential election
Films directed by Jay Roach
Films scored by Dave Grusin
Films shot in Jacksonville, Florida
Films with screenplays by Danny Strong
HBO Films films
Political films based on actual events
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Made for Television Movie winners
Television films based on actual events
2000s American films |
6900464 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara%20%28Israel%29 | Tara (Israel) | Tara () is an agricultural cooperative (co-op) in Israel specializing in milk and dairy products. It is the leading private dairy producer in Israel and the second largest dairy processor after Tnuva.
Tara was created in 1942 by dairy farmers from the Tel Aviv neighbourhood of Nahalat Yitzhak and the surrounding area, in order to unite under one organization that would represent them with regard to the British mandatory authorities and concentrated purchasing of fodder rations as well as selling the agricultural produce. The name apparently was decided by the British clerk when the co-op representative came to register the firm did not have a name. A warehouse for fodder as well as a refrigeration room to keep milk on the Shabbat was built on a half-dunam (500 m²) plot of land. The increase in productivity as well as quantities of milk provided a surplus that led the co-op to begin producing cream and cheeses.
With the establishment of the State of Israel, a dairy department was created in the new Ministry of Agriculture, and with it new regulations with regard to production including required pasteurization, a standard 3.5% level of fat, and that dairy farmers work from concentrated areas and independently. This led to more dairy farmers to join from Giv'atayim, Jaffa, and Petah Tikva as well as production expanding to hard cheeses.
At the beginning of the 1960s, during the period that Moshe Dayan was Minister of Agriculture, the government decided to change the zoning of the Nahalat Yitzhak neighbourhood from agricultural to urban-industrial. Subsequently, the local farmers were forced to move their enterprises elsewhere. The elimination of its main source of milk required Tara to purchase milk from new farmers as well as Tnuva.
Until the late 1990s, Tara was still run by representatives of the original owners. In 1997, it was decided to hire 'professional' management. In 2004, the Central Bottling Company Ltd., the local licensee of Coca-Cola, purchased the company for $39 million.
In 2006, Tara signed a licensing and know-how deal with Müller of a European dairy product manufacturer based in Germany.
As of 2006, Tara employs over 360 workers and produces about 135 million liters of milk yearly, which is about 450,000 liters of milk daily on average, with a market share of 10-13%. Estimated revenues in 2005 were 500 million NIS, with a loss of about $10 million.
In August 2007, the Gilead Dairy owned by Tara, acquired Tzuriel Farm for under NIS 20 million. The 'Tzuriel Farm' dairy, specializing in hard-cheese, goat-cheeses, and other semi-firm cheeses was established in 1986 and since 1999 has operated a unique line of soy-based products.
References
External links
Official web site
Dairy products companies of Israel
Israeli brands |
23570633 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body%20Language%20%28Jesse%20McCartney%20song%29 | Body Language (Jesse McCartney song) | "Body Language" is Jesse McCartney's fourth and final single from his album Departure and his second and final single from Departure: Recharged.
Release
It has been officially announced by McCartney during his tour that this would be his next single during this summer as a follow up to the successful hit "Leavin'" which was released the previous summer as well as the previous singles, "It's Over" and "How Do You Sleep?". It was released as a remix featuring T-Pain.
Release and composition
The single version featuring T-Pain became available as a digital download on September 8, 2009. It was sent to U.S. radio on the same day.
Versions
"Body Language (without T-Pain)" – 3:39
"Body Language (feat. T-Pain)" – 3:42
Body Language (Element Club - No Rap) 6:35
Body Language (Element Club) [feat. T-Pain] 6:55
Body Language (Bimbo Jones Dub) 6:40
Body Language (Element Extended Radio Edit - No Rap) 4:53
Body Language (Element Radio Edit) 4:34
Body Language (Element Extended Radio Edit) [feat. T-Pain] 5:22
Body Language (DJ Mike Cruz Tribal Vox Mix [No Drop]) 8:31
Body Language (DJ Mike Cruz Tribal Vox (No Drop Mix)) 8:16
Body Language (DJ Mike Cruz Dubamental) 8:31
Body Language (DJ Mike Cruz Radio Edit) 4:31
Body Language (with T-Pain) (Video) - 3:50
Music video
The music video was released on September 8, 2009.
The video shows 4 different shots:
First- McCartney & T-Pain on the studio, recording the song.
Second- McCartney performing the song on his show.
Third- Shots of women walking on a beach.
Fourth- Shots of McCartney on roller coasters and other rides at Six Flags in Maryland.
Chart performance
The song debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 chart of September 19, 2009, at number 84. On October 24, 2009, the song re-entered at number 71, and eventually peaked at number 35 on the chart and becoming 5th top 40 song in the country.
Charts
References
2009 singles
Jesse McCartney songs
T-Pain songs
Hollywood Records singles
Songs written by Jesse McCartney
2008 songs
Song recordings produced by the Movement (production team) |
23570643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%20Ain%27t%20No%20Justice | There Ain't No Justice | There Ain't No Justice is a 1939 British sports drama film directed by Pen Tennyson and starring Jimmy Hanley, Edward Chapman and Edward Rigby. The film is based on the 1937 novel of the same name by James Curtis.
Plot summary
Tommy Mutch (Jimmy Hanley) is a garage mechanic and small-time boxer. With his family in financial difficulty he needs to find money in a hurry. As luck would have it he meets boxing manager Sammy Sanders (Edward Chapman). Sammy assures Tommy he can get him lucrative main event bouts.
Tommy is promoted as the next boxing star which is reinforced with a series of convincing wins. However, Tommy discovers that the bouts were fixed by a gambling syndicate. He realises now that he has been set up by his manager and is expected to take a fall.
He has little choice but to go-ahead but needs to come up with a plan. One that will guarantee a financial return for his family while also hitting the syndicates in the pocket.
Cast
Jimmy Hanley as Tommy Mutch
Edward Rigby as Pa Mutch
Mary Clare as Ma Mutch
Phyllis Stanley as Elsie Mutch
Edward Chapman as Sammy Sanders
Jill Furse as Connie Fletcher
Nan Hopkins as Dot Ducrow
Richard Ainley as Billy Frist
Gus McNaughton as Alfie Norton
Sue Gawthorne as Mrs. Frost
Michael Hogarth as Frank Fox
Michael Wilding as Len Charteris
Richard Norris as Stan
Al Millen as Perce
John Boxer as Mr Short
James Knight as Police Constable
Production
James Curtis adapted his own novel, There Ain't No Justice to provide the screenplay for the film. He had done so the year before for one of his own novels, They Drive By Night, for the film of the same name. As with that adaptation he found himself having to remove areas of dialogue and story that would not get by the censors of the time. Many of these would be depictions of graphic violence against men rather than the sexual nature of his previous novel.
This was the first film directed by Pen Tennyson, who had served as Assistant Director to Alfred Hitchcock from 1934. He would go on to direct two further films before being killed during World War II.
The film features an uncredited role by real life boxer Bombardier Billy Wells, best remembered as one of the gongmen featured in the Rank Organisation films logo.
Release and reception
It was released theatrically in the UK with the slogan "Real people, Real problems, a human document". Due in part to its distinctive realistic portrayal of the boxing world it became a critical success.
However, the author Graham Greene, having praised the previous year's James Curtis adaptation (They Drive by Night), was not convinced. He considered the film to be timid and too refined in its depiction of the subject matter.
It is available on DVD in the UK on Volume Eight of Network's Ealing Studios Rarities Collection. It is often shown at film revivals in both the US and UK and was shown in May 2010 as part of BFI Southbank's "Capital Tales" season. It was also shown on the London Live television channel on Sunday 13th Sept 2015.
References
External links
There Ain't No Justice at BFI Film Database
1939 films
1930s sports drama films
British sports drama films
British crime drama films
Films based on British novels
1939 crime drama films
British black-and-white films
British boxing films
Films set in London
Ealing Studios films
1939 directorial debut films
Films directed by Pen Tennyson
Films with screenplays by Pen Tennyson
1930s English-language films
1930s British films |
23570649 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preshute | Preshute | Preshute is a civil parish immediately west and northwest of Marlborough in Wiltshire, England. Unusually for a Wiltshire parish, it does not take its name from any town or village. The population at the 2011 census was 193.
The River Kennet and the A4 road cross the parish; the boundary between Marlborough and Preshute is beyond Manton, about along the A4 from the centre of Marlborough.
The parish is almost entirely downland and farmland. The settlements are Manton House (with Manton Stables, where racehorses are trained) and the hamlet of Clatford.
History
In the 12th or 13th century the boundary between Preshute and Marlborough was immediately west of Marlborough Castle and the parish included the villages of Manton and Clatford. In 1925 an eastern section, including Preshute church. was transferred to Marlborough and in 1934 the Marlborough boundary moved further west to include Manton.
Church
The Anglican Church of St George is at about west of the centre of Marlborough, beyond Marlborough College and just south of the Kennet. It has a 15th-century tower and was restored in 1854 by T.H. Wyatt; it is Grade II* listed and forms part of the Marlborough Benefice.
This area was identified as Preshute as recently as the 1961 (7th series) Ordnance Survey map but on current maps and road signs it is part of Manton.
School
Preshute Primary School is in Manton, outside the parish.
See also
Marlborough White Horse
References
External links
Civil parishes in Wiltshire |
23570657 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Nichols | George Nichols | George Nichols or Nicholls may refer to:
Artists
George Nichols (actor and director) (1864–1927), American actor and director
George Nicholls Jr. (1897–1939), American director and editor
Politicians
George Nichols (Australian politician) (1809–1857), New South Wales politician
George Nicholls (British politician) (1864–1943), British Member of Parliament for North Northamptonshire, 1906–1910
George Nichols (American politician) (1827–1907), Vermont physician, politician, and educator
George Nicolls (also spelled Nicholls; c.1884–1942), Sinn Féin politician in the Irish revolutionary period
Sports
George Nichols (cricketer) (1862–1911), Gloucestershire and Somerset first-class cricketer
George Nichols (boxer) (1907–1986), light heavyweight boxer
George Nicholls (rugby league) (born 1944), English rugby league footballer
George Nicholls (footballer) (b. 1890), English footballer, played for Chelsea, Southend Utd, Ton Pentre, Rochdale, Leyton and Walthamstow Grange
Others
George Nichols (martyr) (c. 1550–1589), English Catholic martyr
George Nicholls (commissioner) (1781–1865), British Poor Law Commissioner
George Elwood Nichols (1882–1939), American botanist
George Ward Nichols (1831–1885), American journalist
See also
George Nicol (disambiguation) |
6900467 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivers%20Access%20Campaign | Rivers Access Campaign | The Rivers Access Campaign is an ongoing initiative by the British Canoe Union (BCU) to open up the inland waterways of England and Wales to the public. Under current English and Welsh law, public access to rivers is restricted, and only 2% of all rivers in England and Wales have public access rights.
Current access situation
There are of inland river and canal in England and Wales with navigation rights, and over of inland rivers with no access.
England and Wales are unusual in the level of restriction upon their waterways and are considered two of the most difficult places in the world to gain access to rivers. The Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 grants a "Right to Roam" specifically to areas of open land comprising:
mountain (land over 600 metres)
moorland
heathland
downland
registered common land
In England and Wales there is no blanket right of access to non-agricultural land, unlike Scotland, where the Scottish Parliament passed the 2003 Land Reform (Scotland) Act granting access for both land and inland waterways to the public.
The UK government has encouraged canoeists to seek negotiations and create access agreements for privately owned water with land owners throughout England and Wales. For over 50 years both the BCU and WCA have been working to seek these agreements for access, which has resulted in , a total 4% of all privately owned linear waterways in England and Wales being opened up with some form of public access agreement.
The Welsh Canoeing Association estimate that there are around 300 rivers in Wales suitable for kayaking, only 13 of which have any form of legal access agreement.
Most of these agreements permit access only on certain days of the year or for short sections of the river. The government has decided to pursue further agreements in 4 study areas, over a 2-year trial period. However, there is no guarantee that this trial will grant further access, with recent government studies showing that access agreements are unlikely to be able to provide the necessary resources needed for water sports.
The law
Legally the water itself is not owned, but ownership of the lands include stream bed ownership. Under common law, the presence of water does not provide a right to use the space occupied by, or immediately above the water. This is a civil offence , and may incur a fine or possibly a court injunction to prevent further trespassing. This applies to any member of the public, be they canoeists, rowers, swimmers, or anglers.
It has been suggested that a "common-law" right of navigation exists on any navigable water in England and Wales: however, this has been refuted by legal experts.
The only arrestable offence is aggravated trespass, under the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, where a criminal offence is committed whilst trespassing. There must also be intent to disrupt or intimidate those engaged in lawful activities.
References
External links
British Canoe Union website
Welsh Canoeing Association website
River Access for All
Canoeing in the United Kingdom
Freedom to roam |
23570673 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%20Square | America Square | America Square is a street and small square in London, off Crosswall and located near Minories. The square was built in about 1760 and dedicated to the American colonies.
America Square was developed as part of Square, Crescent and Circus under plans by George Dance the Younger in 1768–1774. The Crescent was built at the expense of Sir Benjamin Hammet, who is commemorated by the name of another street in the area. He was a partner in the City bank of William Esdaile and was also alderman for the ward of Portsoken.
Nathan Meyer Rothschild lived at No. 14 in the 19th century. The square was bombed in 1941, and Rothschild's house was demolished.
Today, America Square is occupied by offices, restaurants and a gymnasium. The nearest London Underground stations are Tower Hill (to the south) and Aldgate (to the north), and the nearest Docklands Light Railway station is Tower Gateway, on Minories. Also nearby is Fenchurch Street station, a mainline railway terminus with services towards east London and south Essex.
References
Streets in the City of London |
23570677 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haywards%20Heath%20Town%20%28electoral%20division%29 | Haywards Heath Town (electoral division) | Haywards Heath Town is an electoral division of West Sussex in the United Kingdom, and returns one member to sit on West Sussex County Council.
Extent
The division covers the central part of the town of Haywards Heath.
It comprises the following Mid Sussex District wards: Haywards Heath Ashenground Ward and Haywards Heath Heath Ward; and of the central part of the civil parish of Haywards Heath.
Election results
2013 Election
Results of the election held on 2 May 2013:
2009 Election
Results of the election held on 4 June 2009:
2005 Election
Results of the election held on 5 May 2005:
External links
West Sussex County Council
Election Maps
Electoral Divisions of West Sussex
Haywards Heath |
6900474 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange%20City%20Fire%20Department | Orange City Fire Department | The Orange Fire Department (OFD) provides fire protection and emergency medical services for the city of Orange, California. The department is responsible for a population of approximately 140,000 people spread across . Along with their standard firefighting apparatus, the department also has a Swiftwater rescue team that is available for deployment anywhere in Orange County.
History
The Orange Fire Department came into existence on December 14, 1905 at a meeting between the city's Fire and Water Committees. Twenty-nine men signed up to join the all volunteer fire department. New volunteers were required to purchase shares of the "Company" for $100. The volunteers were paid 50 cents a call if they didn't have to use water, $1 if they did and were also paid $1 per false alarm. Early on, there were often fights between the volunteers when an alarm went off, as they battled to see which would be the ones to pull the ladder wagon or hose cart to the fire, thus earning the pay for the call.
In 1906, the volunteers repurposed an 1874 building that had been moved rearward off Glassell Street in 1905, during construction of the Edwards Block Building. That old building would serve as the volunteers first fire hall from 1906 to 1910 and was located in the northeast corner of Plaza Square. The little fire hall had a 30-foot tower with a fire bell adjacent to the building to sound fire alarms. The original apparatus was a hand-drawn hook and ladder wagon and two-hand drawn carts. In July 1910 the volunteers moved to their first purpose-built fire station at 122 south Olive Street. The total cost of the new fire station was $465, including lumber, plumbing, fixtures and nails. It wasn't until 1912 that the department acquired its first motor-driven equipment, a Seagrave fire truck and chemical engine.. The first paid firefighter, William Vickers, was hired by the Department in 1914 and he lived upstairs at the fire hall for an $8-a-month rent. This Fire Hall acted as OFD's headquarters until March 1935, when the department moved into another facility across the street on Olive. Incidentally, that 1935 facility eventually burned down.
An American LaFrance fire truck capable of pumping 1,000 gallons a minute was purchased for $13,000 in 1921, making the Orange Fire Department the first firefighting agency in Orange County to purchase and utilize a motorized fire engine.
By 1966 the department had fully transitioned from a volunteer department, to full-time career.
In 1973, the department became one of the first in Orange County to provide paramedic rescue service.
On October 6, 2022, the Grand Opening of the department's latest headquarters was held at 1176 East Chapman Avenue. The structure sits on a 1.5 acre, city-owned site on East Chapman Avenue at Water Street. The new building replaces a 50-year-old fire headquarters at 176 south Grand Street. The new facility provides for increased administrative and training space, as well as increased room for fire apparatus. The total cost of the project, including design, construction, and outfitting, is estimated at 24.9 million USD$.
Stations and apparatus
The department has 8 stations spread across the city. There are 2 Engine Companies at Stations 1 and 7.
Metro Cities Fire Authority
The Orange City Fire Department is part of the Metro Cities Fire Authority which provides emergency communications for multiple departments in and around Orange County. The call center, known as Metro Net Fire Dispatch, is located in Anaheim and provides 9-1-1 fire and EMS dispatch to over 1.2 million residents covering an area of . Other departments included in Metro Net include Anaheim Fire & Rescue, Brea Fire Department, Fountain Valley, Fullerton Fire Department, Huntington Beach Fire Department, and Newport Beach Fire Department.
References
Fire departments in California
Emergency services in Orange County, California
Ambulance services in the United States
Medical and health organizations based in California
1905 establishments in California |
23570683 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoita%20strobilina | Hoita strobilina | Hoita strobilina is a rare species of legume known by the common name Loma Prieta leatherroot, or Loma Prieta hoita. It is endemic to California, where it is known from occasional occurrences in the San Francisco Bay Area. It grows in chaparral and woodland habitat in the local mountains, often on serpentine soil. This is a perennial herb growing erect, approaching a meter in maximum height. The large leaves are divided into three leaflets each up to 8 centimeters long and lance-shaped to nearly round. The herbage is generally glandular and hairy. The inflorescence is a raceme up to 13 centimeters long containing many pealike flowers. Each flower is purple, sometimes with white parts, and one to two centimeters long. The fruit is a dark brown or black, hairy, veiny legume pod.
References
External links
Jepson Manual Treatment
USDA Plants Profile
Local Plant Profile
Photo gallery
Psoraleeae
Flora of California |
17326591 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huo%20Jianqi | Huo Jianqi | Huo Jianqi (; born January 20, 1958) is a Chinese film director. Like the cinematographer turned director Gu Changwei, Huo Jianqi began his cinematic career in the art department. Nearly all of Huo's films have been written by his wife and collaborator, Qiu Shi, who works under the name "Si Wu." Unlike many of his contemporaries (and predecessors), Huo rarely has had issues with the Chinese government regarding his films, leading some western critics to label him the "darling director of China's film bureaucracy."
Career
Huo attended the Beijing Film Academy in the early 1980s as part of the "Fifth Generation" (which also included directors like Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige). After graduation, he worked as an art director, including on films such as Tian Zhuangzhuang's The Horse Thief (1986). Huo's own career as a director did not begin, however, until 1995 with The Winner and would not achieve true international success until his 1999 film, Postmen in the Mountains. The simple tale of a father and son traveling through the mountains of Hunan delivering mail proved a success in both China, where it eventually won the Golden Rooster for best film, best director, and best actor Teng Rujun, and abroad in foreign festivals. Upon its release in the United States, the film was praised by critics for its sincerity, critic Roger Ebert noted that the film was "so simple and straightforward that its buried emotions catch us a little by surprise." Huo repeated that film's success with his subsequent project, including 2000's A Love of Blueness and 2002's Life Show (which won the Golden Goblet for best film at the Shanghai International Film Festival).
Huo scored another success with his adaptation of author Mo Yan's The White Dog and the Swing, entitled Nuan. The film, starring Guo Xiaodong and Li Jia in the titular role, won the Grand Prix at the Tokyo International Film Festival, as well as another best picture Golden Rooster.
Filmography
References
External links
Huo Jianqi at the Chinese Movie Database
Huo Jianqi at Cinemasie
Film directors from Beijing
Beijing Film Academy alumni
Art directors
1958 births
Living people |
23570692 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westland%20F.7/30 | Westland F.7/30 | The Westland F.7/30 (or Westland PV.4) was a British fighter prototype. A single prototype was built in 1934, but the type was not put in production because its performance fell far below the RAF's requirements. The Gloster Gladiator won the F.7/30 competition.
Development
The Westland F.7/30 was designed in response to Air Ministry Specification F.7/30, which was formally issued in October 1931 and subsequently amended many times. It called for a day and night fighter with an armament of four .303-in (7.7-mm) machine guns, a top speed of at least 195 mph (314 km/hr), a high rate of climb, and a low landing speed. Although the specification did not request the use of the Rolls-Royce Goshawk evaporatively-cooled engine, the Air Ministry informally expressed a strong preference for its use and all of the design proposals selected by them for building as prototypes used it. The specification stressed the importance of a good "fighting view" from the cockpit and suggested a low-wing monoplane design as one possible solution to this problem. Another idea suggested was a pusher configuration
The designer of the Westland F.7/30, Arthur Davenport, initially opted for a monoplane with the engine buried in the fuselage over the wing centre section, driving a tractor propeller through a long extension shaft. This put the pilot in front of and slightly above the engine, so that he also had an excellent forward view. Concerns about a possibly high landing speed resulted in the conversion of the design to a biplane with a gull wing configuration for the upper wing.
In this form the F.7/30 was completed in 1934. It was an elegant, if unconventional biplane. The gulled upper wing and the straight lower wing were connected by N struts and braced by wires. The landing gear was fixed, with main wheels covered by spats. From his high position the pilot had an excellent view forwards, upwards and to the sides, as the cockpit was ahead of the wing leading edge. Initially the cockpit was open, but in two stages this was converted into a fully enclosed cockpit. The machine guns were installed in the cockpit's side walls, two on each side.
The initial tail configuration was unusual, the rudder hinge line being vertical when the aircraft was on the ground rather than when in flight. It was hoped that this would improve its effectiveness on the ground, but after testing the aircraft received a larger tailfin of more conventional design.
The engine was a Rolls-Royce Goshawk III or IIS, cooled by a radiator that was installed ventrally, aft of the legs of the fixed undercarriage. The position of the engine put the exhausts between the wings, behind and below the cockpit.
The performance of the Westland F.7/30, first flown from RAF Andover, fell far short of the F.7/30 specifications: A figure is often given of 185 mph (298 km/hr) at 15,000 feet (4,572 meters) but flight test data of July 1935 revealed that the top speed was a disappointing 146 mph (235 km/hr) at 10,000 feet (3,050 m), nearly 100 mph (160 km/h) slower than the Gloster Gladiator that emerged as the winner of the F.7/30 competition. It also needed 18.8 minutes to reach 20,000 feet (6,100 m), and in view of these disappointing performance figures the type was abandoned.
Specifications
See also
References
1930s British fighter aircraft
F.7 30
Cancelled military aircraft projects of the United Kingdom
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Biplanes
Gull-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1934 |
6900492 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBL%20Pipeline | BBL Pipeline | The BBL Pipeline (Balgzand Bacton Line, BBL) is a natural gas interconnector between the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
History
Laying the pipeline between the compressor station at the Balgzand Gas Plant at Grasweg in Anna Paulowna (province of North Holland) and Bacton Gas Terminal started on 14 July 2006. The pipeline became operational on 1 December 2006.
Technical description
The overall length of pipeline is of which around is offshore. The pipeline's diameter is and working pressure is . The initial capacity is 16 billion cubic meters (bcm) per year, which will be increased to 19.2 bcm by the end of 2010 by installing a fourth compressor at the compressor station at Anna Paulowna. The pipeline has a regulatory exemption from the two-ways gas flow until October 2018. Until this, the direction of gas flow is from the Netherlands to the UK. The overall cost of the project was around €500 million.
Operating company
The BBL was developed and operated by the BBL Company. The main shareholder of the company is Gasunie with 60% of the shares, and Uniper (through Uniper Ruhrgas BBL B.V.) and Fluxys both own 20%. Russian Gazprom had an option for 9%, in exchange for a 9% share of Nord Stream AG. The BBL Pipeline would allow Gazprom to supply additional gas to the British market through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline.
See also
Interconnector (North Sea)
References
External links
BBL Company website
Energy infrastructure completed in 2006
Natural gas pipelines in the Netherlands
Natural gas pipelines in the United Kingdom
Netherlands–United Kingdom relations
North Sea energy
Pipelines under the North Sea
Uniper
2006 establishments in England
2006 establishments in the Netherlands |
17326609 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%20Steinberg | Roman Steinberg | Roman Steinberg (after 1938, Roman Kivimägi; 5 April 1900 – 30 May 1939), was an Estonian Greco-Roman wrestling bronze medal winner in middleweight class at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. Steinberg was also three times Estonian wrestling champion 1921–1923, coached by Robert Oksa.
He died after contracting tuberculosis, age 39, and was buried at Alexander Nevsky Cemetery, Tallinn.
See also
Estonia at the 1924 Summer Olympics
References
External links
Picture of Roman Steinberg at the Estonian Olympic Committee webpage
GBR Athletics
FILA Wrestling Database
1900 births
1939 deaths
People from the Governorate of Estonia
Olympic wrestlers of Estonia
Olympic bronze medalists for Estonia
Wrestlers at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Estonian male sport wrestlers
Olympic medalists in wrestling
Medalists at the 1924 Summer Olympics
People from Lääneranna Parish
Tuberculosis deaths in Estonia
20th-century deaths from tuberculosis
20th-century Estonian people |
23570708 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%20Want%20to%20Walk%20You%20Home | I Want to Walk You Home | "I Want to Walk You Home" is a July 1959 R&B/pop single by Fats Domino. The single would be the last of Domino's releases to hit number one on the R&B chart. "I Want to Walk You Home" stayed at the top spot for a single week and also peaked at number eight on the Billboard Hot 100.
Cover versions
In 2007, the song was covered by Paul McCartney who sung it, and Allen Toussaint playing the piano, as their contribution to Goin' Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino (Vanguard).
References
1959 singles
Fats Domino songs
1959 songs
Songs written by Fats Domino
Imperial Records singles |
17326611 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%20Barker%20House | Benjamin Barker House | The Benjamin Barker House was a historic house on Main Road in Tiverton, Rhode Island. Built c. 1850, it was a two-story wood-frame structure with an impressive Greek Temple front, with full-height fluted Ionic columns supporting a full triangular pediment. The pediment (as did the gable at the opposite end of the house) had an astylistic triple window in it. The roof was topped by an octagonal cupola with belvedere, with two narrow chimneys piercing the ridge line. It is possible the house was designed by Russell Warren, who is documented to have designed a number of other high-style Greek Revival houses in the region. The purchaser is believed to be Benjamin Barker, a lumber merchant operating in nearby Fall River, Massachusetts.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, after it was extensively destroyed by fire. It was demolished in 1981. The property it stood on, at the northwest corner of the junction of Main Road and Rhode Island Route 24, was associated with The Coachman, a restaurant, and is now the site of an assisted living facility.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Newport County, Rhode Island
References
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island
Houses completed in 1850
Buildings and structures in Tiverton, Rhode Island
Houses in Newport County, Rhode Island
Burned houses in the United States
1980 fires in the United States
National Register of Historic Places in Newport County, Rhode Island
Greek Revival houses in Rhode Island
Demolished buildings and structures in Rhode Island
Buildings and structures demolished in 1981 |
23570725 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhola%20Monastery | Gandhola Monastery | Gandhola Monastery (Gaṅdolā, also called Gondla, Gondhla, Kundlah, or Guru Ghantal Gompa) is about before Keylong in Lahaul and Spiti district, Himachal Pradesh, India on the road from Manali, Himachal Pradesh. It is located on a hill above Tupchiling Village at the sacred junction of the Chandra and Bhaga rivers, which together form the Chandrabhaga or Chenab River. The village is at 3,160 m (10,370 ft) and is famous for its 7-storey tower fort.
History
The monastery is said to have been founded by Padmasambhava in the 8th century. It is now connected with the Drukpa Lineage of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism, but its history long precedes the formation of that sect. According to local tradition and also the terma, the Padma bka'i thang, discovered in 1326 in the Yarlung Valley by Urgyan Lingpa, the site was associated with Padmasambhava. But the site was a Buddhist establishment even earlier than that:
A chased copper goblet dated to the first century BCE was found here in 1857 by a Major Hay and is considered to be evidence of Buddhist monks' cells being located in a cave monastery at that time. The frieze on the vase denotes a chariot procession and is considered one of the oldest examples of metalwork to be decorated in this way in India. Known as the Kulu Vase, it is now kept in the British Museum. A damaged marble head of Avalokiteśvara also found here, is kept in the Guru Ghantal Monastery itself, and is claimed to date back to the time of Nagarjuna in the second century. This seems to be the only monastery in the region other than Sani Monastery in Zanskar which has a history which is claimed to go back to the era of the Kushan Empire.
There is also a black stone image of the goddess Vajreśvarī Devī (), and a wooden statue of the Buddha said to have been installed by the monk Rinchen Zangpo (958-1055), a famous lotsawa (translator of Sanskrit Buddhist texts).
The monastery was originally probably a larger complex of purely Indian style of which nothing now remains. The present structure is two-storied, 17.3 x 11.6 metres facing the northwest. The Assembly Hall or is on the ground floor. In 1959 the monastery underwent extensive repairs and a small pagoda roof of Kangra slates was added in a rather haphazard manner, which is surrounded by the mud roof which covers the monks' cells and kitchen on the second floor.
The monastery has distinctive wooden (as opposed to clay) idols of Padmasambhava, Brijeshwari Devi and several other lamas.
Gandhola, like all the Drukpa monasteries in Ladakh and Lahaul and Spiti, owes allegiance to the 12th Gyalwang Drukpa, abbot of Hemis Monastery in Ladakh, who, in turn, owes allegiance to the head of the order in Bhutan.
Gandhola is also famous for its seven story fort with alternating layers of stone and timber, which was once the seat of the local ṭhākur or chieftain, but is no longer occupied. It is a walk from the village of Tupchilling, in which the monastery is set. it was built by Raja Man Singh, the ruler of the Kulu Kingdom in the early 1700s as a castle for the local ṭhākur.
Gallery
Footnotes
References
Handa, O. C. (1987). Buddhist Monasteries in Himachal Pradesh. Indus Publishing Company, New Delhi. .
Kapadia, Harish. (1999). Spiti: Adventures in the Trans-Himalaya. Second Edition. Indus Publishing Company, New Delhi. .
Janet Rizvi. (1996). Ladakh: Crossroads of High Asia. Second Edition. Oxford University Press, Delhi. .
Cunningham, Alexander. (1854). LADĀK: Physical, Statistical, and Historical with Notices of the Surrounding Countries. London. Reprint: Sagar Publications (1977).
Francke, A. H. (1977). A History of Ladakh. (Originally published as, A History of Western Tibet, (1907). 1977 Edition with critical introduction and annotations by S. S. Gergan & F. M. Hassnain. Sterling Publishers, New Delhi.
Francke, A. H. (1914, 1926). Antiquities of Indian Tibet. Two Volumes. Calcutta. 1972 reprint: S. Chand, New Delhi.
Rose, H. A., et al. (1911). Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North West Frontier Province. Reprint 1990. Asian Educational Services. .
Sarina Singh, et al. India. (2007). 12th Edition. Lonely Planet. .
Buddhist monasteries in Himachal Pradesh
996 establishments
Drukpa Kagyu monasteries and temples
Buddhism in Lahaul and Spiti district
10th-century establishments in India
Buildings and structures in Lahaul and Spiti district |
6900512 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlene%20Croce | Arlene Croce | Arlene Louise Croce (born May 5, 1934) founded Ballet Review magazine in 1965. She was a dance critic for The New Yorker magazine from 1973 to 1998.
Career
Prior to Croce’s long career as a dance writer, she also wrote film criticism for Film Culture and other magazines. The keynote of her criticism can be grasped from her ability to evoke kinesthetic movement and expressive images in her writing. Although she considers ballet to epitomize the highest form of dance, she has also written extensively on the topic of popular and filmed dance, and is a recognized authority on the Astaire and Rogers musical films.
In 1994, she courted controversy with her stance on Bill T. Jones's Still/Here, a work about terminal illness. In an article called "Discussing the Undiscussable," she dubbed the work "victim art" and refused to attend any performances, claiming that it was "unreviewable." The article was reprinted in her 2000 book, Writing in the Dark.
Her writings on dance are available in several books, and a sampling of her film criticism can be found in the anthology American Movie Critics: An Anthology From the Silents Until Now. A review of her The Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers Book can be found in Pauline Kael's collection of movie reviews, Reeling.
Bibliography
Incomplete - to be updated
Books
The Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers Book (1972)
Afterimages (1978)
Going to the Dance (1982)
Sight Lines (1987)
Writing in the Dark, Dancing in 'The New Yorker''' (2000)American Movie Critics: An Anthology From the Silents Until Now (2006), edited by Phillip Lopate — contains her reviews on the films Pather Panchali and Aparajito as well as a selection from The Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers Book.
Articles
Gail Conrad and The Tap Dance Theatre; American Ballet Theatre's performance of Field, Chair and Mountain by David Gordon.
About Arlene Croce (in Spanish). La crítica en la danza. "Discussing the indiscussable". By Patricia Roldán
The Dance Criticism of Arlene Croce'' (2005) by Marc Raymond Strauss, McFarland & Co,
References
External links
1934 births
Living people
American dance critics
The New Yorker people
Dance writers
American women journalists
American women critics
20th-century American journalists
20th-century American women
21st-century American women |
6900520 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendragon%20Records | Pendragon Records | Pendragon Records was a short-lived American industrial and electronic music record label that was founded in 1997 by Irish expatriate Colm O'Connor. The label was based out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Pendragon released a total of 25 albums from artists based in the United States, Canada, and Germany. Notable bands signed to Pendragon included Haujobb, Gridlock, Velvet Acid Christ, and Xorcist.
Its first release, PEN100, was Haujobb's Homes and Gardens. The label was bought out by Metropolis Records in 1999 shortly after it released Halo_Gen's self-titled album as PEN125. When Metropolis Records bought Pendragon, they continued to sell Pendragon's backstock. Some of the bands that had been signed to Pendragon, such as Haujobb and Imperative Reaction, continued to release music on Metropolis Records. Others, such as Gridlock, moved to other labels after the acquisition.
Bands on Pendragon Records
Fektion Fekler
Fracture
Gridlock
Halo_Gen
Haujobb
Imperative Reaction
Individual Totem
Kalte Farben
La Floa Maldita
Neutronic
THD
Velvet Acid Christ
Wave Workers Foundation
Xorcist
See also
Metropolis Records
List of record labels
External links
Discogs label summary and complete discography
Record labels established in 1997
Record labels disestablished in 1999
American independent record labels
Electronic music record labels
Industrial record labels |
23570740 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20colonial%20governors%20of%20Sierra%20Leone | List of colonial governors of Sierra Leone | This is a list of colonial administrators in Sierra Leone from the establishment of the Province of Freedom Colony by the Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor which lasted between 1787 and 1789 and the list of colonial administrators of the Colony of Sierra Leone and the settlement of Freetown established by the Sierra Leone Company in March 1792 until Sierra Leone's independence in 1961.
Administrator (1787) of the Granville Town Settlement
On 14 May 1787, the Province of Freedom was founded by the Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor for freed slaves.
B. Thompson (14 May – September 1787)
Governor (1787–1789) of the Granville Town Settlement
On 22 August 1788, the Province of Freedom and land along the Freetown peninsula was granted to Captain John Taylor of . In 1789, it was abandoned.
John Taylor (August 1788 – 1789)
Agent (1791–1792) of the new Granville Town Settlement
In January 1791, the Granville Town was restored by the St. George Bay Company.
Alexander Falconbridge (January 1791 – March 1792)
Superintendent (1792) of the Colony of Sierra Leone and settlement of Freetown
In 1792, Freetown was founded as the main town of the newly established Colony of Sierra Leone
John Clarkson (March – July 1792)
Governors (1792–1827) of the Colony of Sierra Leone
John Clarkson (July – 31 December 1792)
William Dawes (31 December 1792 – March 1794) (1st time)
Zachary Macaulay (March 1794 – 6 May 1795) (1st time)
William Dawes (6 May 1795 – March 1796) (2nd time)
Zachary Macaulay (March 1796 – April 1799) (2nd time)
John Gray (April – May 1799) (1st time)
On 5 July 1799, the Province of Freedom was renamed Sierra Leone.
Thomas Ludlam (May 1799 – 1800) (1st time)
John Gray (1800 – January 1801) (2nd time)
William Dawes (January 1801 – February 1803) (3rd time)
William Day (February 1803 – 1803) (1st time)
Thomas Ludlam (1803–1805) (2nd time)
William Day (1805 – 4 November 1805) (2nd time)
On 1 January 1808, Sierra Leone (including coastal area) becomes Crown colony of the United Kingdom, and Sierra Leone Company rule was ended.
Thomas Ludlam (1806 – 21 July 1808) (3rd time, acting to 1 January 1808)
Thomas Perronet Thompson (21 July 1808 – 12 February 1810)
Edward H. Columbine (12 February 1810 – May 1811)
Robert Bones (May – 1 July 1811) (acting)
Charles William Maxwell (1 July 1811 – July 1815)
Charles MacCarthy (July – December 1814) (1st time, acting for Maxwell)
J. Mailing (December 1814 – January 1815) (acting for Maxwell)
R. Purdie (January – March 1815) (acting for Maxwell)
William Appleton (March – June 1815) (acting for Maxwell)
Captain Henry Barry Hyde (June – July 1815) (acting for Maxwell)
Charles MacCarthy (from 1820, Sir Charles Macarthy) (July 1815 – July 1820) (2nd time, acting to 1 January 1816)
Sir Alexander Grant (28 July 1820 – 1 February 1821) (1st time, acting)
E. Burke (1 February 1821 – 4 February 1821) (acting)
On 17 October 1821, Sierra Leone territory becomes part of British West African Territories. Its Governorship was held simultaneously by Governor (from 1827 until 1837 Lieutenant governor) of Sierra Leone.
Sir Alexander Grant (4 February 1821 – 28 November 1821) (2nd time, acting)
Sir Charles MacCarthy (November 1821 – 21 January 1824) (3rd time)
Daniel Molloy Hamilton (21 January – 5 February 1824) (acting)
Major-General Sir Charles Turner (5 February 1824 – 7 March 1826)
Kenneth Macaulay (colonialist) and Samuel Smart (1st time) (8 March – August 1826) (acting)
Sir Neil Campbell (August 1826 – December 1827)
Lieutenant governors (1827–1837) of the Colony of Sierra Leone
Hugh Lumley (December 1827 – 1828) (1st time)
Dixon Denham (1828 – 8 May 1828)
Hugh Lumley (9 June – July 1828) (2nd time)
Samuel Smart (July – November 1828) (2nd time, acting)
Major Henry John Ricketts (November 1828 – 1829) (acting)
Augustine Fitzgerald Evans (1829–1830) (acting)
Alexander Maclean Fraser (1830) (acting)
Alexander Findlay (1830 – July 1833)
Michael Linning Melville (July – December 1833) (acting)
Octavius Temple (December 1833 – 1834)
Thomas Cole (1834 – February 1835) (1st time, acting)
Henry Dundas Campbell (February 1835 – 1837)
Thomas Cole (1837) (2nd time, acting)
Governors (1837–1961) of the Colony of Sierra Leone
Richard Doherty (1837–1840)
John Jeremie (1840 – April 1841)
John Carr (April – September 1841) (acting)
William Fergusson (September 1841 – January 1842) (1st time, acting)
George Macdonald (January 1842 – July 1844)
William Fergusson (July 1844 – 1845) (2nd time)
On 13 January 1850, the British West African Territories was dissolved and Sierra Leone again becomes a separate crown colony.
Norman William MacDonald (1845–1852)
Sir Arthur Edward Kennedy (13 September 1852 – 1854) (1st time)
Robert Dougan (1854) (1st time, acting)
Sir Stephen John Hill (1854–1855) (1st time)
Robert Dougan (1855) (2nd time)
Sir Stephen John Hill (1855–1859) (2nd time)
Alexander Fitzjames (1859–1860)
Sir Stephen John Hill (1860–1861) (3rd time)
William Hill and T. H. Smith (1861–1862) (acting)
Samuel Wensley Blackall (1862–1865) (1st time)
William John Chamberlayne (1865 – 19 February 1866) (acting)
On 19 February 1866, Sierra Leone territory becomes part of the British West African Settlements. Its Governorship was held simultaneously by Governor of Sierra Leone.
Samuel Wensley Blackall (19 February 1866 – 1867) (2nd time)
Gustavus Nigel Kingscote Anker Yonge (1867) (acting)
Samuel Wensley Blackall (1867–1868) (3rd time)
John Jennings Kendall (1868–1869) (1st time, acting)
Sir Arthur Edward Kennedy (1869–1871) (2nd time)
John Jennings Kendall (1871) (2nd time, acting)
Ponsonby Sheppard (1871) (acting)
Sir Arthur Edward Kennedy (1871 – January 1872) (3rd time)
John Jennings Kendall (January – February 1872) (3rd time, acting)
John Pope Hennessy (February 1872 – 7 March 1873)
Robert William Keate (7–17 March 1873)
Alexander Bravo and Robert William Harley (17 March – 2 October 1873) (acting)
Sir Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley (2 October 1873 – 4 March 1874)
George Berkeley (4 March – 17 December 1874)
On 17 December 1874, British West African Settlements was renamed British West Africa Settlements.
George French (17 December 1874 – 1875) (acting)
Cornelius Hendricksen Kortright (1875) (1st time)
Sir Samuel Rowe (1875–1876) (1st time)
Cornelius Hendricksen Kortright (1876–1877) (2nd time)
Horatio James Huggins (1877) (acting)
Sir Samuel Rowe (September 1877 – 1880) (2nd time)
William Streeten (1880–1881) (acting)
Sir Samuel Rowe (1881) (3rd time)
Francis Frederick Pinkett (1881) (1st time, acting)
Arthur Elibank Havelock (1881–1883) (1st time)
Francis Frederick Pinkett (1883) (2nd time, acting)
Arthur Elibank Havelock (1883–1884) (2nd time)
Arthur M. Tarleton (1884) (acting)
Francis Frederick Pinkett (1884–1885) (3rd time, acting)
Sir Samuel Rowe (1885–1886) (4th time)
Sir James Shaw Hay (1886–1887) (1st time, acting)
Sir Samuel Rowe (1887–1888) (5th time)
John Meredith Maltby (1888) (1st time, acting)
On 28 November 1888, the British West Africa Settlements was dissolved and Sierra Leone again becomes a separate crown colony.
Sir James Shaw Hay (1888–1889) (2nd time, acting to 24 November 1888)
William Gordon Patchett and Sydney Francis Foster (1889) (acting)
John Meredith Maltby (1889–1890) (2nd time)
Sir James Shaw Hay (1890–1891) (3rd time)
John Joseph Crooks (1891–1892) (acting)
William Hollingworth Quayle Jones (1892) (1st time, acting)
Francis Fleming (1892–1893) (1st time)
William Hollingworth Quayle Jones (1893) (2nd time, acting)
Francis Fleming (1893–1894) (2nd time)
William Hollingworth Quayle Jones (1894) (3rd time, acting)
Frederic Cardew (1894–1895) (1st time)
J. E. Caulfield (1895 – 24 August 1895) (1st time, acting)
On 24 August 1895, hinterland of Sierra Leone becomes British protectorate, and crown colony was renamed Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate.
Frederic Cardew (from 22 June 1897, Sir Frederic Cardew) (24 August 1895 – 1897) (2nd time)
James Cassamaijor Gore (1897) (acting)
J. E. Caulfield (1897) (2nd time, acting)
Sir Frederic Cardew (1897–1899) (3rd time)
Matthew Nathan (1899) (acting)
Sir Frederic Cardew (1899–1900) (4th time)
Caulfield (1900 – 11 December 1900) (3rd time, acting)
Sir Charles King-Harman (11 December 1900 – 3 October 1904)
Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Thomas Henstock (1902) (acting while King-Harman was in the UK)
Colonel John Willoughby Astley Marshall (18 September 1902 – 4 October 1902) (acting while King-Harman was in the UK)
Colonel Francis John Graves (4 October 1902 – ) (acting while King-Harman was in the UK)
Sir Leslie Probyn (3 October 1904 – 1910)
Sir Edward Marsh Merewether (1910–1913) (1st time)
Claud Hollis (1913) (acting)
Sir Edward Marsh Merewether (1913–1916) (2nd time)
Sir Richard James Wilkinson (9 March 1916 – 1921) (1st time)
John C. Maxwell (1921) (acting)
Sir Richard James Wilkinson (1921 – 4 May 1922) (2nd time)
Alexander Ransford Slater (from 1924, Sir Alexander Ransford Slater) (4 May 1922 – 24 September 1927)
Sir Joseph Aloysius Byrne (24 September 1927 – 1929) (1st time)
Mark Aitchison Young (1929–1930) (acting)
Sir Joseph Aloysius Byrne (1930 – 23 May 1931) (2nd time)
Sir Arnold Wienholt Hodson (23 May 1931 – 17 July 1934)
Sir Henry Monck-Mason Moore (17 July 1934 – 21 May 1937)
Sir Douglas James Jardine (21 May 1937 – 5 July 1941)
Sir Hubert Craddock Stevenson (5 July 1941 – September 1947)
Sir George Beresford-Stooke (September 1947 – December 1952)
Sir Robert de Zouche Hall (December 1952 – 1 September 1956)
Maurice Henry Dorman (from 2 January 1957, Sir Maurice Henry Dorman) (1 September 1956 – 27 April 1961)
In 1961, Sierra Leone achieved independence from the United Kingdom. After independence, the viceroy in Sierra Leone was the Governor-General of Sierra Leone.
See also
History of Sierra Leone
President of Sierra Leone
List of heads of state of Sierra Leone
List of heads of government of Sierra Leone
References
Worldstatesmen.org: Sierra Leone
Guinness Book of Kings, Rulers & Statesmen, Clive Carpenter, Guinness Superlatives Ltd
African States and Rulers, John Stewart, McFarland
Sierra Leone
British West Africa
History of Sierra Leone
Political office-holders in Sierra Leone |
23570742 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%20Johnson%3A%20Third%20Cowboy%20on%20the%20Right | Ben Johnson: Third Cowboy on the Right | Ben Johnson: Third Cowboy on the Right is a 1996 documentary film about the life of actor Ben Johnson. The film was directed by Tom Thurman and written by Thurman and Tom Marksbury.
External links
Ben Johnson: Third Cowboy on the Right at the Internet Movie Database
1996 films
American documentary films
Documentary films about actors
1996 documentary films
1990s English-language films
1990s American films |
23570743 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS%20Express%20%281940%29 | SS Express (1940) | SS Express was a Type C3-E cargo ship of American Export Lines that was sunk by in June 1942 in the Indian Ocean. The ship, built in 1940 by Bethlehem Shipbuilding in Quincy, Massachusetts, was one of eight sister ships built for the United States Maritime Commission on behalf of American Export Lines. Out of a total of 55 men aboard the ship at the time of her torpedoing, 13 were killed; most of the other 42 landed on the coast of Mozambique six days after the sinking.
Career
SS Express was a cargo ship laid down (yard no. 1477) by Bethlehem Shipbuilding of Quincy, Massachusetts, for the United States Maritime Commission on behalf of American Export Lines. The ship, one of eight sister ships built for American Export by Bethlehem Shipbuilding, was launched (ship) on 9 March 1940, and delivered to American Export on 18 April.
The ship, registered at , was in length, abeam, and drew, . She had three decks, and could accommodate a crew of 10 officers and 35 men. To move her at her reported top speed of , Express was equipped with two steam turbines, both also built by Bethlehem Shipbuilding. At some point near when the United States entered World War II in December 1941, the ship was armed with one deck gun and four machine guns, and carried a complement of ten Naval Armed Guardsmen to man them.
On 18 June 1942, Express sailed from Bombay, India, for Cape Town, South Africa, with a cargo of manganese ore, jute, leather, and other goods. At 00:30 on 30 June, while navigating almost due south on a zig-zag course near position , a star shell fired by illuminated the sky at almost the same time that two torpedoes from the same submarine hit their mark on Express. The first torpedo struck the cargo ship at waterline on the starboard side near the no. 7 hatch. The second torpedo, which hit five seconds after the first, hit at the no. 5 hatch. The explosions blew off the hatch covers, knocked out the guns, and destroyed the radio, preventing a distress call. The ship began sinking by the stern almost immediately, and the officers, crew, and Naval Armed Guard detachment took to the lifeboats. Because Express was still underway even while sinking, two of the three boats launched were swamped; the thirteen men aboard the no. 1 boat, one of the pair swamped, all drowned. The no. 2 boat, with 41 men aboard, made landfall on the coast of Mozambique six days after the sinking. Another crewman—who had originally been on a life raft, but moved to a water-filled lifeboat—was rescued by a Dutch tanker and landed at Cape Town.
Notes
References
Type C3-E ships
Ships built in Quincy, Massachusetts
1940 ships
World War II merchant ships of the United States
Ships sunk by Japanese submarines
World War II shipwrecks in the Indian Ocean
Maritime incidents in June 1942 |
23570755 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crosswall | Crosswall | Crosswall is a street in the City of London.
At its western end, the street begins at a junction with Crutched Friars and Cooper's Row. At its eastern end, the street is a turn off Minories. It is home to America Square, the City of London Medical Centre, and a number of bar-restaurants and offices.
Crosswall was named as it crossed the old Roman wall, which was discovered after the bombing of 1940. Previously the street had been named John Street, after King John.
The nearest mainline railway station is Fenchurch Street, and the nearest London Underground station is Tower Hill.
References
Streets in the City of London |
23570779 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s%20Government | People's Government | People's Government might refer to:
Central People's Government (since 1949), the central government of the People's Republic of China
New People's Government (1929–1931), a Korean anarchist organization in Manchuria
Fujian People's Government (1933–1934), anti-Kuomintang government in the Fujian Province of the Republic of China
People's Government of Lithuania (1940), Soviet-backed government to legitimize the Soviet occupation of Lithuania
Azerbaijan People's Government (1945–1946), Soviet-backed client state in northern Iran
People's Revolutionary Government (1979–1983), government of Grenada after a revolution by New Jewel Movement
The People's Government (2019–2022), a name for the Second Johnson ministry used by Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative government of the United Kingdom after the 2019 UK general election. |
23570781 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitebrook%20Halt%20railway%20station | Whitebrook Halt railway station | Whitebrook Halt was a request stop on the former Wye Valley Railway. It was opened in 1927 to serve the village of Whitebrook. It was closed in 1959 when passenger services were withdrawn from the Wye Valley Railway. The station came too late to make full use out of the village's industry. Whitebrook had once been home to three paper mills. However, paper making ceased in Whitebrook in the early 1880s, only four years after the line opened in 1876. The halt was not built until long after the closure of the paper mills.
References
Disused railway stations in Monmouthshire
Transport in Monmouthshire
History of Monmouthshire
Former Great Western Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1927
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1959 |
23570784 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henfield%20%28electoral%20division%29 | Henfield (electoral division) | Henfield is an electoral division of West Sussex in the United Kingdom and returns one member to sit on West Sussex County Council. The current County Councillor, Lionel Barnard, is also Deputy Leader of West Sussex County Council.
Extent
The division covers the town of Henfield; and the villages of Cowfold, Dial Post, Partridge Green, Shermanbury and West Grinstead.
It comprises the following Horsham District wards: Cowfold, Shermanbury & West Grinstead Ward and Henfield Ward; and of the following civil parishes: Cowfold, the northern part of Henfield, Shermanbury and West Grinstead.
Election results
2013 Election
Results of the election held on 2 May 2013:
2009 Election
Results of the election held on 4 June 2009:
2005 Election
Results of the election held on 5 May 2005:
References
Election Results - West Sussex County Council
External links
West Sussex County Council
Election Maps
Electoral Divisions of West Sussex |
23570790 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondo%20libro%20di%20toccate%20%28Frescobaldi%29 | Secondo libro di toccate (Frescobaldi) | Il secondo libro di toccate ("The Second Book of Toccatas") is a collection of keyboard music by Girolamo Frescobaldi, first published in 1627. A work of immense historical importance, it includes the first known chaconne and passacaglia, as well as the earliest set of variations on an original theme (i.e. not a popular song, as in all earlier music). Il secondo libro di toccate is widely regarded as a high point in Frescobaldi's oeuvre.
History
Like Frescobaldi's first book of toccatas (1615), Il secondo libro di toccate contains compositions in various forms:
11 toccatas
6 canzonas
4 hymns
3 Magnificats
5 gagliarde (galliards)
6 correntes
4 partitas
Accordingly, the full title of the collection is Il secondo libro di toccate, canzone, versi d'hinni, Magnificat, gagliarde, correnti et altre partite d'intavolatura di cembalo et organo. It was first published in Rome in 1627, when Frescobaldi worked as organist of St. Peter's Basilica. The print was engraved by Nicolò Borbone, musician and instrument builder with whom Frescobaldi had worked since at least 1613. The composer dedicated the book to Monsignor Luigi Gallo, Bishop of Ancona and nuncio of Savoy, a skilled keyboard player who may have been one of his pupils. A second printing appeared in 1637, identical to the first, except without the ostinato variations.
Il secondo libro di toccate introduces two important deviations from Frescobaldi's usual practice. First and foremost, it contains several liturgical pieces, the composer's first forays into the field of sacred keyboard music (although he did compose sacred vocal music: two collections of motets, one of which is lost, were published in late 1620s, and standalone motets survive in manuscripts; Frescobaldi would later publish a large volume of liturgical organ pieces, Fiori musicali, one of his most highly regarded and influential works). Secondly, the book contains Frescobaldi's only known intabulation (of Jacques Arcadelt's madrigal Ancidetemi, pur), perhaps included as a homage to one of the oldest forms of keyboard music.
Notes
References
Alexander Silbiger. "Girolamo Frescobaldi", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy, grovemusic.com (subscription access).
External links
Compositions by Girolamo Frescobaldi
Compositions for keyboard
Fresccobaldi
1627 in music |
23570796 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steen%20Pade | Steen Pade | Steen Pade (born 1956) is a Danish composer. He studied composition with Ib Nørholm, Per Nørgård, and Karl Aage Rasmussen.
From 1992 to 2007 he was director (principal) of the Royal Danish Academy of Music.
External links
Biography of Pade at naxos.com
Article on Pade in Den Store Danske (in Danish)
Living people
1956 births
Danish classical composers
Danish male classical composers
20th-century classical composers
21st-century classical composers
Royal Danish Academy of Music faculty
Place of birth missing (living people)
Pupils of Per Nørgård
20th-century Danish male musicians
21st-century male musicians |
20463927 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20M.%20G.%20Le%20Cl%C3%A9zio%20bibliography | J. M. G. Le Clézio bibliography | This is a list of works by J. M. G. Le Clézio, the French Nobel Laureate.
Novels
Children's books
Short stories
La Fièvre
Translated by Daphne Woodward in 1966 as "The Fever"
Mondo et autres histoires
La ronde et autres faits divers
"La ronde et autres faits divers" was translated into English as "The Round & Other Cold Hard Facts" by C. Dickson.
Printemps et autres saisons
Awaité Pawana
La Fête chantée et autres essais de thème amérindien
Cœur brûle et autres romances
Tabataba suivi de pawana
Essays
Travel diaries
Voyage à Rodrigues
Raga. Approche du continent invisible
Collection translations
Les Prophéties du Chilam Balam
Translated by the Author into French
Relation de Michoacan
Translation of "Relación de Michoacan" from medieval Spanish into French. This codex, copied in the years 1539–1540, contains the narration of a Franciscan friar, whom the American historian Dr. Benedict Warren identified as Fray Gerónimo de Alcalá.
Sirandanes
Translated by the Author into French
Petit lexique de la langue créole et des oiseaux
References
External links
Bibliographies by writer
Bibliographies of French writers
Children's literature bibliographies |
23570803 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesuits%2C%20etc.%20Act%201584 | Jesuits, etc. Act 1584 | An act against Jesuits, seminary priests, and such other like disobedient persons, also known as the Jesuits, etc. Act 1584, (27 Eliz.1, c. 2) was an Act of the Parliament of England passed during the English Reformation. The Act commanded all Roman Catholic priests to leave the country within 40 days or they would be punished for high treason, unless within the 40 days they swore an oath to obey the Queen. Those who harboured them, and all those who knew of their presence and failed to inform the authorities, would be fined and imprisoned for felony, or if the authorities wished to make an example of them, they might be executed for treason.
Anyone who was brought up as a Jesuit overseas (i.e. if they were educated abroad in a Jesuit seminary) had to return to England within six months, and then within two days of arriving swear to submit to the Queen and also take the oath required by the Act of Supremacy 1558. Failure to do so was treason. Any person who did take the oath was forbidden from coming within 10 miles of the Queen for 10 years unless they had her personal written permission. Again, failure to observe this requirement was treason.
Enforcement of the Act
Under Elizabeth I
The Act was enforced with great severity in the last decades of Elizabeth's reign. It may well be that at first the English Government believed that deporting priests would be an adequate solution to the Catholic problem (this was certainly to be King James I's view later): if so they quickly decided that harsher measures were necessary. About 200 English Catholics perished between 1584 and 1603, of whom the great majority were priests, despite the Government's protests that no one was being persecuted solely on account of their religion. The justification for rigorous enforcement of the statute was that during the war with Spain, the loyalty of all English Catholics, and especially priests, must be regarded as suspect. However, the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 did not, as might have been expected, lead to relaxation of the persecution, as the war with Spain dragged on into the next reign.
Of the laity who suffered under the Act of 1584, probably the best known is Margaret Clitherow of York. Charged in 1586 with harbouring priests, (among them Francis Ingleby) she refused to plead to her indictment (probably to shield her children from being interrogated or tortured), and was executed by the gruesome process of peine forte et dure (being pressed to death). Such severity towards a lay person, especially a woman, was unusual. For example, there is no record of any legal proceedings being taken against Anne, Lady Arundell, widow of Sir John Arundell of Lanherne, for harbouring the Catholic martyr Father John Cornelius, who was executed in 1594: Lady Arundell retrieved his body to give him a proper burial.
After Elizabeth I
After the death of Elizabeth I in 1603 the statute gradually fell into disuse. The Stuart dynasty which succeeded her was in general disposed to religious toleration, and the Treaty of London of 1604 which ended the Anglo-Spanish War removed one obvious justification for persecution, as it could no longer be argued that English Catholics were potential agents for a hostile foreign power.
Although James I felt it politically prudent to give his assent to the Act of 1604, which strengthened the statute of 1584, and as a result, a number of priests were put to death, of whom probably the best known is Father John Sugar, the King by his own admission was opposed to the execution of priests. There was a brief revival of anti-Catholic sentiment caused by the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605, but it seems to have largely died away by 1612. Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, the dominant figure in the English government from 1603 to 1612, detested the Jesuits, but admitted that he had qualms about enforcing the statute of 1584 against other priests, most of whom he thought were loyal enough at heart. King James shared these scruples, saying that he thought banishment a sufficient punishment.
Prosecutions of members of the Catholic laity for harbouring priests ceased after about 1616. Protestant sheriffs and justices of the peace were notably unwilling to enforce the law against their Catholic neighbours, even in such blatant cases as the Welsh squire Thomas Gunter of Gunter Mansion, Abergavenny, who, in 1678, told the local vicar cheerfully that "he had kept a priest in Oliver Cromwell's time, and would keep one now". This tolerant attitude made it impossible to enforce the Penal Laws against the upper classes: in 1613 the justices of the peace of Northamptonshire remarked casually that due to their high regard for Sir Thomas Brudenell (later the 1st Earl of Cardigan), they had repeatedly dismissed charges of recusancy against him and numerous members of his family.
No priests were executed in the period 1618-1625, only one was executed in the period 1625-1640, and after a brief revival of stringent persecution during the English Civil War, only two more were executed between 1646 and 1660.
The Popish Plot
Following the Restoration of Charles II, under the tolerant rule of a monarch who was himself inclined to the Catholic religion, the Government was content to periodically issue orders for all priests to leave England, without any expectation that the orders would be complied with. The statute of 1584 was regarded as effectively a dead letter, until the outbreak of the Popish Plot in the autumn of 1678 led to its unexpected revival. Despite the King's known Catholic sympathies, the public atmosphere of hysteria was such that he had no choice but to revert to strict enforcement of the Penal Laws. Under a Proclamation of 20 November 1678 all priests were to be arrested. They were to be denied the usual 40 days of grace to leave the country: instead, they were to be held in prison "in order to their trial". As J.P. Kenyon remarks, these five simple words launched a vicious pogrom against the Catholic priesthood which continued for the next two years. Priests who had been working undisturbed in England for decades suddenly found themselves facing the death penalty.
In theory, Scots and Irish priests were exempt from the statute, if they could show that their presence in England was temporary. Even during the Popish Plot, a number of priests were acquitted on that ground, although the Irish Franciscan Father Charles Mahoney was executed in 1679, despite his plea that at the time of his arrest he was passing through England on his way to France. An Irish priest might also be able to plead that he had signed the Remonstrance of 1671, by which he gave his primary allegiance to the King, not the Pope. These priests, known as the Remonstrants, were left in peace even at the height of the Plot hysteria.
Although it was not technically a defence under the statute of 1584, a priest who could prove that he had taken the Oath of Allegiance to the Crown was unofficially entitled to a reprieve: Charles Carne, Andrew Bromwich and Lionel Anderson were among those who successfully pleaded that they had taken the Oath. During the Plot pleas for clemency were generally rejected out of hand, but in a few cases, such as David Kemiss and William Atkins, the accused was spared the death penalty on the grounds of extreme old age. Even the vehemently anti-Catholic Lord Chief Justice Sir William Scroggs approved of the Crown showing mercy in such cases, in order "that the world may not say that we are grown barbarous and inhumane".
No serious effort was made to revive prosecutions of the laity for harbouring priests. The Government did issue two proclamations reminding the public that this was a felony which in theory rendered them liable to the death penalty, but no action was taken against those laymen, like Thomas Gunter, Gervaise Pierrepont, Sir John Southcote and Sir James Poole, 1st Baronet, in whose houses priests were arrested.
Anti-Catholic sentiment gradually died away, more speedily in the provinces where many of the priests who died were venerable and respected local figures. In June 1679 the King issued an order that all priests condemned under the statute of 1584 after 4 June should be reprieved until his further will was known. Kenyon suggests that the Government at this point simply had no idea what to do next. In the event, the reprieve for priests condemned after that date became permanent. This however was too late to save those already condemned, and over the summer of 1679, despite mounting public unease, at least fourteen priests were executed or died in prison. Persecution continued to wane in 1680: at least ten more priests were prosecuted under the statute of 1584, but it seems that all of them were acquitted or reprieved.
After the Plot
Under the openly Catholic King James II, all persecution of Catholics ceased early in 1685. A revival of anti-Catholic feeling after the Glorious Revolution of 1688 caused the Government to pass one final Penal Law, the Popery Act 1698. This sought to strengthen the statute of 1584 by providing that anyone who apprehended a Catholic priest should receive a reward of £100: in effect, this was a bounty for catching priests. The severity of this provision was mitigated by Section III, commuting the death sentence for priests to perpetual imprisonment.
There is little evidence that the 1698 Act was enforced strictly. Kenyon suggests that the obvious decline in numbers of the English Catholic community in the eighteenth century was due to financial penalties, such as the double land tax imposed on Catholics in 1692, rather than to overt persecution.
The end of the Penal Laws
The "bounty" provisions of the 1698 Act were repealed by the first Catholic relief measure, the Papists Act 1778. However, the 1778 Act produced a revival of anti-Catholic feelings which erupted in the Gordon Riots of 1780, in which hundreds of people died. This reaction may have delayed further relief measures, but by 1791 the Government felt it safe to finally legalise the Catholic priesthood. Under the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1791 the Elizabethan Laws were repealed, and it became lawful, although under strictly controlled conditions, to act as a priest in England and to celebrate Mass.
1995 court case
The execution of a Catholic priest under the Act in 1594 became the subject of a court case 401 years later. In 1995 a church applied to the consistory court in Durham for a faculty (planning permission) to display a memorial plaque on the church door, in memory of the dead priest. Even though the 1584 Act had been repealed long ago, the priest's conviction had not been quashed, and so the court could not permit it:
In 2008 the Oxford Consistory Court (presided over by the same judge) declined to follow that case as a precedent, on the grounds that "that decision had failed to take account of the commemoration of English saints and martyrs of the Reformation era in the Church of England's calendar of festivals. As such a commemoration was permitted in an authorised service, it would have been inconsistent not to permit commemoration of similar persons by a memorial."
See also
High treason in the United Kingdom
Religion Act 1580
Safety of the Queen, etc. Act 1584 (27 Eliz.1, c. 1)
Penal law (British)
References
External links
Acts of the Parliament of England concerning religion
1584 in law
1584 in England
Treason in England
Anti-Catholicism in England |
23570809 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean%20Lake%20%28Annapolis%29 | Dean Lake (Annapolis) | Dean Lake Annapolis is a lake of Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
See also
List of lakes in Nova Scotia
References
National Resources Canada
Lakes of Nova Scotia |
23570810 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folly%20Lake%20%28Annapolis%20County%29 | Folly Lake (Annapolis County) | Folly Lake is a lake of Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
See also
List of lakes in Nova Scotia
References
National Resources Canada
Lakes of Nova Scotia |
23570813 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Cranberry%20Lake%20%28Annapolis%29 | Little Cranberry Lake (Annapolis) | Little Cranberry Lake, Annapolis is a lake of Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
See also
List of lakes in Nova Scotia
References
National Resources Canada
Lakes of Nova Scotia |
23570824 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth%20Phase | Fourth Phase | Fourth Phase (Quarta Fase, QF) is a faction within the Democratic Party (PD), a political party in Italy.
The name of the faction was chosen to identify the new stage of left-wing Catholics in Italian politics, the first three being within the Italian People's Party (1919–1926), the Christian Democracy (1943–1994) and the Italian People's Party respectively, and the fourth the current one, with the Democratic Party, a party in which Catholics are a minority. This phase, according to the faction's website, started with the foundation of Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy (DL), that put together Populars with people coming from different political traditions.
The heirs of the left-wing of the late Christian Democracy and later the Italian People's Party (1994–2002), a Christian-democratic party of the Christian left, organized themselves within DL as The Populars. Between 2002 and 2007 the Populars, led by Franco Marini and Ciriaco De Mita, within DL. In the 2007 Democratic Party primary election around 600 Populars were elected to the party Constituent Assembly.
As the Populars failed to find a common ground in the new party, they split in different groups. The bulk of the faction (Marini, Dario Franceschini, Giuseppe Fioroni, Antonello Soro and Pierluigi Castagnetti) supported Walter Veltroni as leader of the party. Rosy Bindi and Enrico Letta ran against Veltroni and set up their factions, Democrats Really and 360 Association respectively. Another leading member, Ciriaco De Mita, abandoned the PD over disagreements with Veltroni in early 2008. The failure of The Populars to be a united faction led Fioroni, Franceschini and Soro, backed by Marini, to set Fourth Phase.
As of January 2009 the organization of the new faction was completed: Antonello Giacomelli was elected president of the faction, which counts almost 90 Democrat MPs. However also Franceschini and Fioroni, who is the real leader of the group and the heir of Marini, had their differences, the first being a keen supporter of Walter Veltroni and the second more interested in unifying former Christian Democrats and Catholics in general within the party, including the Teodems, the Olivists, the followers of Bindi, the Lettiani and the Social Christians.
After the resignation of Veltroni as party secretary and its replacement with Franceschini, Fourth Phase chose to support Franceschini in the 2009 Democratic Party leadership election. Franceschini lost to Pier Luigi Bersani but the Populars of Fourth Phase, who constituted about the 60% of the members elected to the party's national assembly by the Franceschini list, were not eager to oppose Bersani, while Franceschini was more combative. They however joined AreaDem, the united minority faction led by Franceschini.
Things turned upside down in mid 2010 when Franceschini started to re-approach with Bersani and Fioroni became very critical of the party's political line instead. When Veltroni organized a "movement" outside Democratic Area, it was joined by Fioroni and 35 Populars around him. This caused a split between this group and the Populars loyal to Franceschini. The future of Fourth Phase, which is however in the hands of Fioroni, is thus unclear.
References
External links
Fourth Phase
Democratic Party (Italy) factions |
23570833 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortimer%20Forest | Mortimer Forest | Mortimer Forest is a forest on the Shropshire/Herefordshire border in England, near the town of Ludlow. It covers hilly terrain, including the marilyn of High Vinnalls, rising to .
History
Mortimer Forest was an ancient hunting forest, similar to areas including Bircher Common. According to Forestry England, it is a remnant of the ancient Saxon hunting forests of Mocktree, Deerfold and Bringewood. Remains of this 'ancient battleground' include a castle mound that was owned by powerful Marcher lords, who had considerable fortified bases at Wigmore and Ludlow. The name of the forest derives from the Mortimers, who were Marcher lords.
Natural history includes very old limestones and shales laid down by the sea some 400 million years ago.
Location
Mortimer Forest is located on the county boundary of Shropshire and Herefordshire, in the West Midlands region of England. The OS positioning is: SO480730, it is near the town of Ludlow, which is on the A49 road.
Climate
Mortimer Forest has typical forest climate, with lower-than-average light levels and a slightly cooler temperature. It is also in a hilly part of England, meaning it has a damp climate.
Geology
The limestones and shales of Mortimer Forest are around 400 million years old, making them round the Silurian/Ordivician age. Fossils are common in the Mortimer Forest, especially corals, trilobites and shells. This indicates that at one time the area of Mortimer Forest was underwater.
Tourism
Mortimer Forest is owned by Forestry England, which has done a number of things to facilitate tourists, including a website, signage, picnic tables, car parks, and laying out walking tracks for different fitness abilities.
National Cycle Network route 44 passes through, en route between Ludlow and Leominster. Also passing through the area is the Mortimer Trail, a long-distance footpath.
References
External links
Forestry England's page on The Mortimer Forest
Forests and woodlands of Shropshire
Forests and woodlands of Herefordshire
Ludlow |
23570838 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Lake%20%28Nova%20Scotia%29 | North Lake (Nova Scotia) | North Lake (Nova Scotia) is a lake of Antigonish County, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is fed by the North Lake stream and exits into George's Bay in the Atlantic Ocean.
See also
List of lakes in Nova Scotia
References
National Resources Canada
Lakes of Nova Scotia |
23570840 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20Lake%20%28Antigonish%29 | South Lake (Antigonish) | South Lake, Antigonish is a lake of Antigonish County, in the north of Nova Scotia, Canada. Its outflow is direct into the ocean waters separating the mainland from Cape Breton Island.
See also
List of lakes in Nova Scotia
References
National Resources Canada
Lakes of Nova Scotia |
20463938 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaudesert%20railway%20line | Beaudesert railway line | The Beaudesert railway line (also known as the Upper Logan railway line) is a disused branch railway in South East Queensland, Australia. The first section opened in 1885, the line was completed in 1888 and operated as a Queensland Government Railways (QGR) line until 1996 (Passenger service ceased in 1961). A heritage operation was undertaken for a short period in 2003. The Canungra railway line connected at Logan Village between 1915 and 1955, and the Beaudesert Shire Tramway connected with the terminal between 1903 and 1944. A study was undertaken in 2010 by the Queensland government concerning a potential Salisbury-to-Beaudesert rail corridor as a long-term potential proposal.
Route
The 43 kilometre-long line commenced at Bethania railway station () south of Brisbane. It branches off the Beenleigh Line at a triangular junction immediately south of Bethania station () then progresses generally south-west to Jimboomba and then generally south to its terminus at Beaudesert, on the following route.
History
In 1877, a line was proposed from Wacol to Logan Village, Beaudesert and Tamrookum. A trial survey was taken around 1881 with the route commencing from Goodna. This line proposed 1-in-30 (~3.3%) grades, the steepest on the QGR system at the time, as well as requiring a bridge over the Logan River.
The line as built commenced at Bethania on the Beenleigh railway line, south of the Logan River and had the advantage of being a shorter distance of new construction. The section from Bethania to Logan Village was opened on 21 September 1885, with the Logan Village to Beaudesert section opened on 16 May 1888.
Initially trains were 'mixed' (i.e. consisting of both passenger carriages and goods wagons) until 1929, from when passenger services used rail motors.
Use of the passenger services declined with the increasing ownership of cars following World War II, leading to the termination of the passenger services in 1961. However the Beaudesert abattoir and the dairy farmers continued to use the freight services on the line until freight services terminated on 20 May 1996.
The line was unused until Beaudesert railway enthusiasts obtained an Australian Government grant to establish Beaudesert Rail to operate the line as a heritage tourism service.
Beaudesert Rail
In 2001, a grant provided by the federal government was given to a local group of Beaudesert people who traded as Beaudesert Rail (BR). The group set about acquiring rolling stock and locomotives. The line was upgraded to C17 use. When QGR services still operated on the Beaudesert Branch, only PB15's, B13's, B15's and 60t diesels were used. In order for Beaudesert Rail to commence steam services on the line, they needed to upgrade their track to carry the weight of their C17. The first Beaudesert rail service was held on 18 December 2002 with a run from Beaudesert to Logan Village and return. On 8 March 2003, Beaudesert Rail commenced steam-hauled services. Beaudesert Rail's steam locomotive was an ex-QR C17 #967. Built by Walkers Limited in Maryborough, 967 was in service for 19 years before being placed in a park at Caloundra. In 1985, the Ghan railway bought 967 as a gate train. In 2000, 967 was purchased and road-hauled to Beaudesert. Beaudesert rail then commenced services to Bethania on 4 April 2003. The last service to Bethania took place on 28 June 2003. On that date, Beaudesert Rail's ex-Emu Bay diesel 1105 derailed about south of Bethania, between the Dairy Creek Road and Easterly Street level crossings. Beaudesert rail experienced financial problems and the group disbanded in 2005. In 2006, the Zig Zag Railway acquired the former Beaudesert Rail carriages for use on their Blue Mountains system.
Remains
Whilst the track has not been substantially removed, many level crossings have been removed and paved over. The corridor is overgrown and many sections are utilised for livestock grazing. At Logan Village, only the platform remains and is covered with growth, the station area is rarely mown and fences have collapsed. At the Waterford - Tamborine road crossing the signals and signage have recently been removed after intersection upgrades. At Jimboomba, all that remains is the track. An attempt to remove the section of line here was made, but not completed. At Beaudesert the station building, water tower stand and the floor of the goods shed remains. Immediately south of the station building, the line has been covered with dirt and is now a car park. However, the station building has been repainted and a new station nameboard installed.
Proposed Salisbury - Beaudesert line
In 2010 a Queensland Government study proposed a new passenger rail line to Beaudesert utilising (and potentially duplicating and electrifying) the dual gauge line from Salisbury to Kagaru, then a new alignment to Veresdale, where the final ~9 km original alignment to Beaudesert would be utilised.
In November 2019 the Queensland Government and Australian Government agreed to fund a $10M business case to investigate construction of two electrified narrow-gauge passenger tracks from Salisbury to Beaudesert and two dual-gauge freight tracks between Acacia Ridge and Kagaru, a corridor which is being proposed for the Inland Rail project.
See also
Rail transport in Queensland
References
External links
Railway lines opened in 1888
Closed railway lines in Queensland
Logan City
3 ft 6 in gauge railways in Australia
1888 establishments in Australia
Scenic Rim Region
1996 disestablishments in Australia
Railway lines closed in 1996
2003 establishments in Australia
2004 disestablishments in Australia |
23570844 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulls%2C%20etc.%2C%20from%20Rome%20Act%201571 | Bulls, etc., from Rome Act 1571 | An Act against the bringing in and putting in execution of bulls writings or instruments and other superstitious things from the See of Rome, also known as Bulls, etc., from Rome Act 1571, (13 Eliz. 1, c. 2) was an Act of the Parliament of England during the English Reformation. The Act punished with high treason those who published papal bulls and Roman Catholic priests and their converts. This Act was a response to Pope Pius V's Regnans in Excelsis.
Breaching the Act ceased to be a crime in 1846, but remained unlawful until the Act was repealed.
In 1911, Pope Pius X excommunicated Arnold Mathew from the Catholic Church. The Times reported on this excommunication and included an English language translation of the Latin language document which described Mathew, among other things, as a "pseudo-bishop". Mathew's attorney argued, in the 1913 trial Mathew v. "The Times" Publishing Co., Ltd., that publication of the excommunication by The Times in English was high treason under this law. The trial was, according to a 1932 article in The Tablet, the last time this principle was invoked and the judge, Charles Darling, 1st Baron Darling, "held that it was not unlawful to publish a Papal Bull in a newspaper simply for the information of the public."
Notes
External links
Text of the Act, Danby Pickering, The Statutes at Large, 1763, vol. 6, pp. 257 (from Google Book Search)
Acts of the Parliament of England concerning religion
1571 in law
1571 in England
Papal bulls |
20463950 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norm%20Wingert | Norm Wingert | Norman "Norm" Wingert (born April 18, 1950) is an American former professional soccer player who played as a goalkeeper. He played in the North American Soccer League between 1973 and 1975 for the Philadelphia Atoms. His son Chris is also a professional footballer.
Wingert attended Hartwick College where he played soccer from 1969 to 1971. He then played for the Philadelphia Atoms of the North American Soccer League from 1973 to 1975. In 1976, he played for the New York Apollo of the American Soccer League.
Norm is the father of Chris Wingert who played as a defender for Real Salt Lake.
References
External links
NASL career stats
American soccer players
American Soccer League (1933–1983) players
Hartwick Hawks men's soccer players
New York Apollo players
North American Soccer League (1968–1984) players
Philadelphia Atoms players
1950 births
Living people
Association football goalkeepers |
23570871 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syzygium%20ingens | Syzygium ingens | Syzygium ingens, commonly known as red apple, is a species of flowering plant that is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a medium-sized to tall rainforest tree with narrow elliptic to oblong leaves and panicles of white flowers on the ends of branchlets, followed by spherical red berries.
Description
Syzygium ingens is a tree that typically grows to a height of up to with a dbh of up to . It has a smooth, straight, greyish or fawn-coloured trunk that is buttressed at the base of older specimens. The leaves are arranged in opposite pairs, narrow elliptic to oblong, long and wide on a reddish petiole long. The upper surface of the leaves is glossy green and the lower surface is paler with a raised mid-rib. The flowers are borne in panicles on the ends of branchlets, the panicles shorter than the leaves. The five sepals are fused at the base forming a bell-shaped floral cup about in diameter with rounded lobes. The five petals are white, more or less oblong and long with irregular edges. Flowering occurs from November to December and the fruit is a dark pink to red, spherical to oval berry, long, in diameter containing a single seed surrounded by white flesh.
Taxonomy
Red apple was first formally described in 1861 by Charles Moore in Catalogue of the Natural and Industrial Products of New South Wales, exhibited in the School of Arts by the International Exhibition Commissioners and was given the name Nelitris ingens from an unpublished description by Ferdinand von Mueller. In 1988, Gordon P. Guymer and Bernard Hyland changed the name to Acmena ingens in the journal Muelleria, a name that is accepted by the National Herbarium of New South Wales.
In 2006, Lyndley Craven and Edward Sturt Biffin changed Moore's name Nelitris ingens to Syzygium ingens in the journal Blumea, the name accepted by the Australian Plant Census
Distribution and habitat
Red apple grows on volcanic soil from near Gympie in south eastern Queensland to Casino in northern New South Wales.
Ecology
Birds seen eating the fruit of this species include wompoo fruit dove, green catbird, eastern rosella, pied currawong and topknot pigeon.
Use in horticulture
Germination is assisted by removing the seed from the flesh, and soaking for a day or two to kill any insect larvae. Germination is swift and reliable. Cuttings also strike well.
References
Myrtales of Australia
Trees of Australia
Flora of New South Wales
Flora of Queensland
Myrtaceae
Taxa named by Bernard Hyland |
23570872 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hog%20Lake | Hog Lake | Hog Lake may refer to the following bodies of water:
Canada:
Hog Lake, Argyle, Nova Scotia
Hog Lake, Region of Queens Municipality, Nova Scotia
Hog Lake, near Kearney, Ontario
United States:
Hog Lake, near Dales, California
Hog Lake (Florida)
Hog Lake, Santa Fe Township, Clinton County, Illinois
Hog Lake, LaPorte County, Indiana
Hog Lake, Jamestown Township, Steuben County, Indiana
Hog Lake, near Sumner, Missouri, drained in 1911
Hog Canyon Lake, also known as Hog Lake, Spokane County, Washington |
20463958 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copa%20Petrobras%20Asunci%C3%B3n | Copa Petrobras Asunción | The Copa Petrobras Asunción is a tennis tournament that was held in Asunción, Paraguay from 2006 to 2010. The event is part of the ATP Challenger Tour and was played on outdoor clay courts.
Past finals
Singles
Doubles
External links
ITF search
ATP Challenger Tour
Tennis tournaments in Paraguay
Clay court tennis tournaments |
23570877 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocarpha%20heermannii | Holocarpha heermannii | Holocarpha heermannii is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name Heermann's tarweed. It is endemic to California.
Distribution
Holocarpha heermannii grows in the hills, mountains, and valleys of the central and southern part of California. It is most common in the Inner Coast Ranges in the eastern San Francisco Bay Area, the southern Sierra Nevada foothills, and the Tehachapi Mountains. It is also found in the Southern Outer California Coast Ranges and western Transverse Ranges.
Description
Holocarpha heermannii is an annual herb growing mostly erect from to over in height. The stem is densely glandular and coated in short and long hairs. The leaves are up to long near the base of the plant and those along the stem are smaller.
The inflorescence is a spreading array of branches bearing clusters of flower heads. Each flower head is lined with phyllaries which are coated in large bulbous resin glands. They are hairy and sticky in texture. The head contains many yellow disc florets surrounded by three to 10 golden yellow ray florets.
The ray and fertile disc florets produce achenes of different shapes.
References
External links
Jepson Manual Treatment: Holocarpha heermannii
CalFlora Database: Holocarpha heermannii (Heermann's tarweed)
USDA Plants Profile: Holocarpha heermannii (Heermann's tarweed)
Holocarpha heermannii— U.C. Photos gallery
Madieae
Endemic flora of California
Flora of the Sierra Nevada (United States)
Natural history of the California chaparral and woodlands
Natural history of the California Coast Ranges
Natural history of the Transverse Ranges
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Flora without expected TNC conservation status |
20463967 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken%20Fran%C3%A7aise | Chicken Française | Chicken Française (or Chicken Francese) is an Italian-American dish of flour-dredged, egg-dipped, sautéed chicken cutlets with a lemon-butter and white wine sauce. The dish is popular in the region surrounding Rochester, New York, where it is known as Chicken French, to the point that some have suggested the dish be called Chicken Rochester. When Italian immigrants arrived in Rochester, they brought their recipes with them, including veal francese, but they substituted chicken for the more expensive veal.
Another source says that Veal Francese had been popular in the region since the 1950s, but when consumers boycotted veal in the 1970s, area chefs like James Cianciola of the Brown Derby Restaurant successfully substituted chicken. Cianciola credits chefs Tony Mammano and Joe Cairo with bringing the dish from New York City.
Despite being such a well-known dish in Italian-American culture, francese is not a classical dish or sauce. There are no written recipes that mark the origin of this dish.
Artichokes French is a common variation using artichoke hearts instead of chicken. Artichokes French is often served as an appetizer.
See also
Piccata
List of chicken dishes
Italian-American cuisine
References
French
Italian-American cuisine
Culture of Rochester, New York
Cuisine of New York (state) |
23570884 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley%20McDonald | Stanley McDonald | Stanley B. McDonald (October 13, 1920 – November 20, 2014) was the founder of Princess Cruises, one of the largest cruise lines in the World.
Career
Born in Alberta, Canada and educated at Roosevelt High School in Seattle and the University of Washington, Stan McDonald joined the United States Navy Air Corps.
After World War II, Stan McDonald founded Air Mac, a material handling business. Air Mac provided all the ground transportation equipment for the World's Fair in Seattle: McDonald also chartered a ship to bring visitors to the Fair.
In 1965, based on his experience from the World's Fair, he founded Princess Cruises which he expanded into one of the largest cruise lines in the World.
He merged Air Mac into RCA Corporation in 1969 and sold Princess Cruises to Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company in 1975: he remained Chairman of the latter business until 1980.
In 1977, together with two other partners, he purchased the real estate assets of Chrysler Corporation and subsequently formed Stellar International, a real estate business.
Personal life
McDonald married Barbara in 1944: together they went on to have one son and one daughter. He died November 20, 2014, in Seattle, aged 94.
References
University of Washington alumni
1920 births
2014 deaths
Canadian emigrants to the United States
Canadian company founders
United States Navy personnel of World War II |
20463995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down%20by%20the%20Station | Down by the Station | "Down by the Station" (also known as "Down at the Station") is a popular song written by Paul Mills and Slim Gaillard and first recorded by The Slim Gaillard Trio in 1947. The song was most famously recorded by Tommy Dorsey in 1948.
Background
The song remains popular today as a children's music standard. The opening lines of the song are: Down by the station, early in the morning, see the little pufferbellies all in a row. It is a simple song about a railroad station master seeing the steam locomotives off to work. The song itself is much older than 1948; it has been seen in a 1931 Recreation magazine.
Whether deliberately copied or not, the tune is very closely related to the chorus of the French-Canadian folk song "Alouette". Although the first line is similar to "Alouette", it is more closely related to the tune of "The Itsy-Bitsy Spider," with the first two lines being similar. The third line of "Down By the Station" is higher in pitch than the second, and the fourth line returns to the pitch of the first line (except for a higher pitched or onomatopoetic "Toot! Toot!").
Other versions
The Four Preps recorded a version of "Down By the Station" in 1959, featuring an entirely different set of lyrics by group members Bruce Belland and Glen Larson. It peaked at #13 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Popular culture
Reverend Wilbert Awdry may have been inspired by the words of the song to write his first Railway Series story, Edward's Day Out.
See also
List of train songs
References
1948 songs
1959 singles
Children's songs
Tommy Dorsey songs
Songs about trains
Songs written by Slim Gaillard |
23570885 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver%20Lake%20%28Shelburne%29 | Beaver Lake (Shelburne) | Beaver Lake Shelburne is a lake of Municipality of the District of Barrington, in Nova Scotia, Canada.
See also
List of lakes in Nova Scotia
References
National Resources Canada
Lakes of Nova Scotia |
20464002 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bardowiek | Bardowiek | Bardowiek () is an abandoned village in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It lies in the territory of the municipality Selmsdorf.
History
The earliest surviving record of Bardowiek is in the Ratzeburger Hufenregister and dates from 1292. The town was virtually destroyed during the Thirty Years War, but was rebuilt after the war’s end in 1648.
During the early years of the German Democratic Republic there were still approximately forty residents. However, Bardowiek found itself in the five kilometre wide closed zone, a strip of land cleared by the government directly to the east of the Inner German border. In 1960, all the farmsteads were incorporated into the farming collective of Palingen. Destruction of the former farms began in 1977 and was completed only in 1989. After the reunification, surviving former residents sought to rebuild the village. However, their aspirations have been thwarted by a succession of legal disputes.
Context of Bardowiek's destruction
In the district of North-west Mecklenburg alone, no fewer than thirteen separate villages were destroyed during the later decades of the East German state in order to clear a strip of land beside the Inner German border. This was done to create a larger territory of a "no-go area" closest to the border to West Germany after the east became concerned about the extent of emigration to the western state. Other nearby destroyed villages included Lenschow, Wahlstorf (Lüdersdorf), Lankow (Mustin) and Neuhof (Gadebusch).
References
Former populated places in Germany
Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz |
23570887 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion%20Act%201580 | Religion Act 1580 | The Religion Act 1580 (23 Eliz.1 c. 1) was an Act of the Parliament of England during the English Reformation.
The Act made it high treason to persuade English subjects to withdraw their allegiance to the Queen, or from the Church of England to Rome, or to promise obedience to a foreign authority.
The Act also increased the fine for absenteeism from Church to £20 a month or imprisonment until they conformed. Finally, the Act fined and imprisoned those who celebrated the mass and attended a mass.
See also
Praemunire
High treason in the United Kingdom
Notes
External links
Acts of the Parliament of England concerning religion
1580 in law
1580 in England
Treason in England
1580 in politics
1580 in religion
1580 in Christianity |
20464034 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BigFM | BigFM | Big FM is a German radio network that consists of three regional radio stations: bigFM Der Neue Beat in Baden-Württemberg, bigFM Hot Music Radio in Rhineland-Palatinate and bigFM Saarland in Saarland. The format is Rhythmic CHR, and the network specialises in pop, rock, dance, hip-hop and rap. Talk shows are also featured late at night that mainly focuses on young people's issues and stories, and broadcast weeknights from midnight - 2 am (Nightlounge) and Sunday from 10:45 pm - midnight (Night Talk).
Frequencies
Today bigFM is the biggest private radio station for young people in Germany with 2.5 million weekly listeners. In addition, 11 million people are aware of the station's existence.
FM Stuttgart: 89.5
FM Rottweil: 99.0
FM Villingen-Schwenningen: 99.5
FM Cologne: 104.9
FM Frankfurt: 104.5
FM Koblenz: 104.0
FM Trier: 106.4
FM Eifel: 106.6
FM Karlsruhe: 105.2
FM Kaiserslautern: 107.6
FM Saarburg: 96.5
FM Pirmasens: 96.7
FM Baden-Baden: 103.8
FM Mannheim: 87.8
FM Heidelberg: 90.9
FM Sinsheim: 97.2
FM Ulm: 99.7
FM Freiburg: 102.8
FM Tübingen: 89.7
FM Heilbronn: 104.7
FM Aalen: 105.1
FM Göppingen: 100.3
FM Ludwigshafen: 106.7
FM Saarbrücken: 94.2
FM Merzig: 92.6
FM St. Ingbert: 96.8
Controversy
The creators of bigFM had always been using practices that were rated by observers as nonsense or meaningless. In one case in 2016 this also led to a criticism of the national institute for communication Baden-Wuerttemberg at the marketing practice of the transmitter.
One of the station's most controversial actions took place in summer 2017. Breakfast DJ Rob Green attempted to send a WhatsApp message to Marlen Gröger, who he expected to be a newsreader for DASDING. Its content stated that if she could leave the studio immediately even when she was reading out the news on that station, she would get a job on "Germany's biggest morning show". That message was finally sent at 7:31am that day.
The message was as follows (originally in German):Hey Marlen, wenn du jetzt LIVE während deiner Nachrichten hinschmeißt, hab ich nen Job für dich in Deutschlands biggster Morningshow auf BigFM! Wir hören dich gerade!It turned out that the person who read the newscast at the time on DASDING was Athene Pi Permantier, not Marlen. In addition, Marlen had already finished her contract with DASDING for quite some time and was now working at BigFM.
The radio station's production team posted an image of the act as its proof, however it caused some major backlash, with Facebook users calling the act "fake news", "scam" and questioning the station's journalistic ethic. Moreover, Baden-Württemberg Foundation decided to cancel the media partnership with BigFM for an event against fake news, false reports and fake information. The radio station later issued an apology saying they were sorry for this cancellation, but assured it was completely about "introducing a new good journalist" alone, and argued that the term of "fake news" was highly questionable, since Rob Green's show was entertainment-oriented, not hard news-oriented. In the comment section under some of the event's reports, some users said the action was not good, but described the excitement as "exaggerated." It was also noted that Marlen Gröger could not read Rob's message whatsoever during the live newscast. After investigating this view was confirmed by the Landesanstalt für Kommunikation Baden-Württemberg (LFK). There is also no violation of the state media law. The LFK accused the media criticism website Übermedien.de for "mistakenly" reporting about the bigFM action.
Webradios
In addition to the four main BigFM streams, BigFM also provides 22 webradios including:
BigFM Charts
BigFM Hip-Hop
BigFM Dance
BigFM Mashup
BigFM Rock am Ring
BigFM Sunset Lounge
BigFM US Rap & Hip-Hop
BigFM Oldschool Rap & Hip-Hop
BigFM Deutschrap
BigFM Deutscher Hip-Hop Charts
BigFM Oldschool Deutschrap
BigFM Groovenight
BigFM Urban Club Beats
BigFM World Beats
BigFM NitroX EDM & Progressive
BigFM NitroX Deep & Tech House
BigFM Latin Beats
BigFM Dancehall & Reggae Vibez
BigBALKAN
BigSES Türkei
BigRUSSIA
BigORIENT
References
External links
Official bigFM cityclubbing Website
bigKARRIERE - Job Information Board of BigFM (German)
Radio stations in Germany
Radio stations established in 2000 |
23570891 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haluk%20Piyes | Haluk Piyes | Haluk Piyes (born March 30, 1975) is a Turkish-German actor.
Filmography
Television
Awards
2004 Locarno International Film Festival, Bester Film: En Garde
2008 International Film Fest Bukarest, Best Film: "Asyl"
References
External links
1975 births
German people of Turkish descent
German male film actors
German male television actors
Living people |
23570900 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary%20Robson | Gary Robson | Gary Robson is the name of:
Gary Robson (darts player) (born 1967), English darts player
Gary Robson (footballer) (born 1965), English footballer
Gary D. Robson (born 1958), American author |
23570923 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ash%20Lake%20%28Clare%29 | Ash Lake (Clare) | Ash Lake, Clare is a lake of Clare municipality, in Nova Scotia, Canada.
See also
List of lakes in Nova Scotia
References
National Resources Canada
Lakes of Nova Scotia |
23570928 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrille%20dress | Quadrille dress | A Quadrille dress is a bespoke dress worn by women in Caribbean countries. The quadrille dress is the folk costume of Jamaica, Dominica and Haiti. It is known by a different name in each country. The dress is particularly worn during the quadrille dance, but also other occasions.
Jamaica
In Jamaica, the quadrille dress is made of cotton. It's called a bandana skirt. The skirt is worn with a ruffled sleeve blouse and a matching head tie.
The quadrille is only danced in Jamaica and Trinidad today as a shows
The bush jacket is hardly traditional. It was introduced for political reasons in the 1970s.
One would not expect to see the folk costume at a wedding. The groom would wear a conventional suit, the bride a fashionable white grown.
The only occasion where a man would wear a madras shirt and white trousers would be if he were performing on the stage, either singing traditional folk songs or some sort of calypso or mento in the tourist circuit.
Haiti
In Haiti, the quadrille dress is called the karabela dress in Haitian creole. Traditional male attire for dances, weddings, and other formal wear is the linen shirt jacket.
Saint Lucia
In Saint Lucia, the name of the dress is spelled Kwadril dress.
See also
Bush jacket
Kariba suit
Madras (costume)
National costume
References
Caribbean clothing
Jamaican culture
Haitian culture
Caribbean culture
Dresses
Folk costumes
Gowns |
23570930 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear%20Lake%20%28Colchester%20County%2C%20Nova%20Scotia%29 | Bear Lake (Colchester County, Nova Scotia) | Bear Lake, Nova Scotia is a lake of Colchester County, in Nova Scotia, Canada.
See also
List of lakes in Nova Scotia
References
National Resources Canada
Lakes of Nova Scotia |
23570931 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean%20Lake%20%28Colchester%29 | Dean Lake (Colchester) | Dean Lake is a lake of Colchester County, in Nova Scotia, Canada.
See also
List of lakes in Nova Scotia
References
National Resources Canada
Lakes of Nova Scotia |
20464056 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renee%20Godfrey | Renee Godfrey | Renee Godfrey (born Renee Vera Haal; September 1, 1919 – May 24, 1964) was an American stage and motion picture actress and singer.
Early life
Godfrey was born September 1, 1919, in New York, with Dutch and French ancestry as the daughter of Emil Haall, a Dutch diamond merchant, and his wife.
Career
Beginning at age 11, she worked as a model, and as a sophomore in high school she switched to night classes so that she could model during the day. She posed for artist John La Gatta and photographers Edward Steichen, Victor Keppler, John Hutchins, and others. She appeared in advertisements that were published nationally, and she had the most-photographed hands and legs in New York. When a film executive saw her image on a billboard, that led the way to her work in motion pictures.
Godfrey was featured on both radio and television programs in Britain. She initially entered films at RKO, working as Renee Haal, and made her début in Sam Wood's Kitty Foyle (1940). Also in 1940, she was selected by RKO as that studio's actress most likely to succeed in a film career.
Her next movie, Unexpected Uncle (1941), was directed by Peter Godfrey, who also directed her in the romantic thriller Highways by Night in 1942. Her work in Unexpected Uncle resulted in her signing a long-term contract with RKO early in 1942. She began working as Renee Godfrey in Up in Arms (1944).
During World War II, she and her husband entertained troops with amateur magic shows that they put on through the USO. She continued working in small roles, such as Vivian Vedder in Terror by Night (1946), in which she sported a particularly unconvincing English accent, and Mrs. Stebbins in Stanley Kramer's Inherit the Wind. She worked into the 1960s, appearing in Can-Can and Tender Is the Night.
For the most part, however, Godfrey was out of view. Her director-husband, who had flourished on 50s TV, was in ill health by the end of the decade. Taking secretarial and real estate classes to help support the family income, Godfrey tried making a comeback of sorts, finding bit roles in the films. She was also a guest player on such shows as Perry Mason, Hazel, The Donna Reed Show and Wagon Train.
Personal life
In 1938, she went to London for a singing engagement and met the actor/director/screenwriter Peter Godfrey, whom she married on August 6, 1941. He was almost 20 years her senior. With primary focus on raising her three children (which included a set of twins), she was seen only sporadically on TV during the 1950s with guest roles on programs hosted by Loretta Young and Jane Wyman.
Death
She died in Los Angeles, California, on 24 May 1964 from the effects of cancer. She was 44 years old. Her final performance in the film, Those Calloways was released posthumously. Her body was buried at Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery.
Filmography
Films roles
Kitty Foyle (1940) - Shopgirl in Elevator (uncredited)
Let's Make Music (1941) - Helen, Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Citizen Kane (1941) - Nurse (uncredited)
Hurry, Charlie, Hurry (1941) - Josephine Whitley (as Renee Haal)
Unexpected Uncle (1941) - Carol West (as Renee Haal)
Wedded Blitz (1942) - (as Renee Haal)
Framing Father (1942) - Mary Adams (as Renee Haal)
Highways by Night (1942) - Ellen Cromwell
Up in Arms (1944) - Goldwyn Girl (uncredited)
Bedside Manner (1945) - Stella Livingston
Terror by Night (1946) - Vivian Vedder
Winter Wonderland (1947) - Phyllis Simpson
Down Missouri Way (1946) - Gloria Baxter
French Leave (1948) - Mimi
The Decision of Christopher Blake (1948) - Sheila, Actress in Play (uncredited)
Can-Can (1960) - Dowager (uncredited)
Inherit the Wind (1960) - Mrs. Stebbins
Tender Is the Night (1962) - Nurse (uncredited)
Those Calloways (1965) - Sarah Mellott (uncredited) (final film role)
Television roles
Duffy's Tavern (1 episode, 1954) - Renee
Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal (1 episode, 1955) - Nurse
The Star and the Story (1 episode, 1956) - Miss Harrington
Buffalo Bill, Jr. (2 episodes, 1956) - Linda Abbott
Letter to Loretta (1 episode, 1956) - Andree Chartaud
Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre (2 episodes, 1957) - Dorothy / Mrs. Dioso
Zane Grey Theater (2 episodes, 1960) - Alicia
The Ann Sothern Show (1 episode, 1961) - Martha Newton
Frontier Circus (1 episode, 1962) - Stella
Hazel (1 episode, 1962) - Miss Lewis
The Donna Reed Show (1 episode, 1962) - Gloria
Perry Mason (2 episodes, 1960–1962) - Lady Librarian / Miss Winslow
General Electric Theater (1 episode, 1962) - Ethel
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1 episode, 1962) - Hartman's Secretary
References
External links
Renee Godfrey at weblo.com
Biography at New York Times online
1919 births
1964 deaths
Deaths from cancer in California
Actresses from New York (state)
Singers from New York (state)
American stage actresses
American television actresses
American film actresses
20th-century American actresses
20th-century American singers
20th-century American women singers
Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) |
23570934 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popish%20Recusants%20Act%201592 | Popish Recusants Act 1592 | The Popish Recusants Act 1592 (35 Eliz. I, c. 2) was an Act of the Parliament of England. The Act forbade Roman Catholic recusants from moving more than five miles from their house or otherwise they would forfeit all their property.
Notes
Acts of the Parliament of England concerning religion
1592 in law
1592 in England
Religion and politics
Anti-Catholicism in England
1592 in Christianity |
23570937 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folly%20Lake%20%28Colchester%20County%29 | Folly Lake (Colchester County) | Folly Lake is a lake of Colchester County, in Nova Scotia, Canada.
See also
List of lakes in Nova Scotia
References
National Resources Canada
Lakes of Nova Scotia |
20464072 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredensborg%20BI | Fredensborg BI | Fredensborg Boldklub og Idrætsforening (), known as Fredensborg BI, is a Danish association football club located in the municipality of Fredensborg, which plays in the Zealand Series. Founded on 6 June 1908, it is one of the oldest clubs in Danish football. It competed in the 2003 and 2009 Danish Cup tournaments.
Stadium
The stadium is used by Fredensborg BI and Fredensborg Atletik Forening og Pedalatleterne, the Fredensborg Athletes' and Cyclists Society. It holds 2,000 spectators, 100 of which are provided with seats. As of late 2008, the maximum number of spectators at one match has been 1,516 people.
Trainers
Chief trainer
Benny Johansen
Assistant trainer
Freddi Kairies
Records
Best national ranking: finished 4th in the 1987 Denmark Series
External links
FBI-Bold, official website
Fredensborg BI at Danish Football Association
Football clubs in Denmark
Fredensborg Municipality
Association football clubs established in 1908
1908 establishments in Denmark |
17326614 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How%20Do%20You%20Solve%20a%20Problem%20Like%20Maria%3F%20%28Canadian%20TV%20series%29 | How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? (Canadian TV series) | How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? was a Canadian reality competition television series that aired on CBC Television. It premiered on June 15, 2008 at 8pm EDT, and concluded on July 28, 2008. The show is based on the series of the same name which aired on BBC One in the United Kingdom in 2006. The Canadian version was cancelled after one season.
The premise of the contest was to find a musical theatre performer to play the lead role of Maria von Trapp in the 2008 Andrew Lloyd Webber and David Mirvish revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music at the Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto. Initial auditions were held in seven Canadian cities. The show was hosted by Gavin Crawford and featured Simon Lee, Elaine Overholt, and John Barrowman as the judges for the show.
The first episode of the show featured the top 50 auditioners at the show's Maria School being cut to 20. The second episode had the Marias performing in front of Lloyd Webber in London, and then the 20 were cut to 10 with his input. Beginning June 22, the Marias performed live in Toronto every Sunday night with a live orchestra. The voting results aired on the following night.
Finalists
Ten contestants made it through the audition rounds and performed during the live shows.
* at the start of the contest
Results summary
Live shows
The live shows saw the finalists eliminated one by one following both individual and group performances. Once eliminated, the leaving contestant ended the program by leading a performance of "So Long, Farewell" from The Sound of Music with the remaining contestants.
Week 1 (June 22, 2008)
Following the first week of the competition, Alison was the first Maria to be eliminated from the competition. The show performances were:
Group performances:
"How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?" (from the musical The Sound of Music)
"I Have Confidence" (from the musical The Sound of Music)
Sing-Off
Week 2 (June 29, 2008)
As the mission for this week, the potential Marias had to prove how fit they are by taking part in a thorough workout.
For their individual performances, the contestants sang songs by Canadian artists to celebrate Canada Day.
The show performances were:
Group performances:
"My Favorite Things" (from the musical The Sound of Music)
"Ain't No Mountain High Enough" (Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell)
Sing-Off
Week 3 (July 6, 2008)
For their individual performances, the contestants sang songs from the musicals.
The show performances were:
Group performances:
"Do-Re-Mi" (from the musical The Sound of Music)
"Seasons of Love" (from the musical Rent)
Sing-Off
Week 4 (July 13, 2008)
As the mission for this week, the contestants act with the children to help separate between the potential Marias.
The show performances were:
Group performances:
"The Lonely Goatherd" (from the musical The Sound of Music)
"Don't Rain on My Parade" (from the musical Funny Girl)
Sing-Off
Week 5 (July 20, 2008)
This week, just like the British version, the mission was a chemistry test with John Barrowman, which involved his giving the Marias a surprise kiss.
The show performances were:
Group performances:
"I Have Confidence" (from the musical The Sound of Music)
"It's a Grand Night for Singing" (from the musical State Fair)
"Sway" (The Pussycat Dolls)
Sing-Off
Week 6 (July 27, 2008)
For their individual performances, the contestants sang songs by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
The show performances were:
Group performances:
Finalists: "Anything You Can Do" (from the musical Annie Get Your Gun)
Finalists: "My Favorite Things" (from the musical The Sound of Music)
Finalists and former Marias: "How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?" (from the musical The Sound of Music)
Elicia and Janna: "The Sound of Music" (from The Sound of Music)
After being announced as the season winner, Elicia concluded the season with a performance of "The Sound of Music".
After the show
Elicia MacKenzie won the most votes, as announced prematurely on the Canadian Press wire at 7:30pm, July 28, half an hour before the show aired in the Toronto area.
On August 14, 2008 it was announced that runner-up, Janna Polzin, had been cast as an "alternate Maria" for the Toronto stage production. Janna played Maria twice a week (Wednesday evenings and Saturday matinees), while Elicia will perform the role six times weekly (Tuesday evenings, Wednesday matinees, Thursday through Saturday evenings and Sunday matinees).
Some viewers of the show have claimed that the panel and Lloyd Webber favoured Janna over the other performers in the competition. However, Elicia MacKenzie ended up beating Janna in the final.
References
External links
Official Program Website at cbc.ca
TV, eh?
2000s Canadian reality television series
2008 Canadian television series debuts
2008 Canadian television series endings
CBC Television original programming
Music competitions in Canada
Singing talent shows
The Sound of Music
Television series by Temple Street Productions |
23570938 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20School%20in%20the%20Netherlands | British School in the Netherlands | The British School in the Netherlands (BSN) is an IB-classified group of independent schools situated in The Hague area. There are five campuses that together form one school: BSN Senior School Voorschoten, BSN Junior School Leidschenveen, BSN Junior School Vlaskamp, BSN Junior School Diamanthorst and opened up in September 2018: Senior School Leidschenveen. Over 2300 students from over 80 nationalities are enrolled.
The school is open to students from 3 to 18 years of age, and also offers day care for 0-3s and after school care on its Junior School Leidschenveen campus through Zein International Childcare.
The schools all follow the English curriculum, which means that students take GCSEs in Years 10 and 11 (age 15 and 16), entering the Sixth Form in Years 12 and 13 (age 17 and 18) where students may choose to take examinations in either British A-Levels or the IB Diploma Programme.
The School was founded in The Hague in 1931 by Gwen Brunton-Jones, and was called The English School - it has continued to grow and has become Europe's largest international school with students from over 80 nationalities represented.
Schools
The British School in the Netherlands is currently arranged across 5 sites, based in and around The Hague and Voorschoten. The three junior schools accommodate children from 3 to 11, while the Senior Schools are for children from 11 to 18.
Junior School Diamanthorst
Junior School Diamanthorst accommodates around 400 children aged 3 to 11. It is situated in the Mariahoeve area of The Hague. The current head is Christopher Wathern.
Junior School Leidschenveen
Junior School Leidschenveen is a campus in the Leidschenveen area of The Hague, providing 470 places for children aged 3 to 11 years. It was opened in 2010 by Princess Maxima. The campus includes facilities for out of school care, a day care centre for 0- to 3-year-olds and a sports and community centre. The current head is Karren van Zoest.
Junior School Vlaskamp
Junior School Vlaskamp provides accommodation for approximately 500 children aged 3 to 11. This award-winning building was opened in 1997. The current head is Claire Waller.
Senior School Voorschoten
Situated in Voorschoten, just outside The Hague, the BSN Senior School has capacity for up to 1,100 students from all over the world. The Senior School has sports fields, hockey pitches and tennis courts. The classrooms include specialist areas such as design and technology; ICT; food technology; art and music; and the three sciences. Students are able to study French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Chinese and other languages as part of the native speaker programme. There is a library and resources area, a school hall with stage and professional theatrical lighting; a cafeteria and sports hall. The current head is Patrick Heuff.
Senior School Leidschenveen
The British school in the Netherlands have opened a new senior school on the same location as the Junior school in Leidschenveen, operating similarly to their other secondary school. The current head is James Oxlade.
School organisation
The BSN is a non-profit organisation entirely dependent on fee income and receives no subsidy from either the Dutch or British governments. The school is managed by a board of management, chaired by the principal and composed of senior managers within the school’s teaching and support staff. This board is answerable to the board of governors, which is responsible for strategic supervision and, in turn, reports to the School Association.
History
The school was founded in The Hague in 1931 by a New Zealander, Gwen Brunton-Jones, and was called The English School. There were four teachers and about 20 pupils and they were accommodated in a school on the van Diepenburchstraat. The school closed in 1940 with the invasion of the Netherlands and was re-opened in 1948 by Nancy Macdona, a previous member of staff. Two rooms were rented in the Jan van Nassaustraat: 12 pupils and 4 teachers formed the foundations of the present British School.
By 1952 numbers had reached 60 and new premises were found on the Adriaan Goekooplaan. Expansion continued and Miss Macdona recruited a co-principal, Phyllis Donaldson, to take responsibility for the growing number of older children. In 1953 there was another move to Doornstraat, and then in 1954 the School was merged with the American and French Schools as part of the International School project. This turned out to be a catastrophe and the school soon withdrew from it. That meant that with about 80 children and half a dozen teachers they had no premises. The chaplain of the Anglo-American Church allowed them to move into his church hall on the Riouwstraat, where they remained until 1959. In that year, at last, the school bought its own property, ‘Duinroos’ on the Tapijtweg.
With expansion continuing, a Senior Division was opened in 1966 in Parkweg and, four years later, a Middle Division in van Stolklaan. By 1972 the School had grown to over 500 pupils. The Senior Division broadened the programme of studies on offer and began to enjoy significant success at Advanced Level with the result that more and more pupils stayed on into the Sixth Form after O-levels, instead of returning to boarding school in the UK. The school was renamed The British School in the Netherlands in 1976.
Two years later, the Senior School moved to Voorschoten, into purpose-built premises opened by the Duke of Gloucester. The Junior School remained at Tapijtweg and the Infant School had to move to rented classrooms in a Dutch school in Leidschendam. By now, the school had taken over the management of a small ‘dépendance’ in the northern town of Assen where a number of English-speaking Shell families lived.
Although the school was called the British School, it had an international pupil population with children from some 50 different countries. In 1985 the provision for Teaching English as a Second Language was extended to the Senior School, and the BSN was now able to accept children of twelve and thirteen years of age who were unable to speak English on arrival and successfully take them through GCSE and A-level examinations. This further increased numbers, and by the late 1980s there were over 1200 pupils within the whole School. In 1990, a large piece of farmland with an 18th-century farmhouse, adjacent to the Senior School, was purchased. This made possible the addition of two sports fields, a cricket pitch, tennis courts, a dance/drama studio and a home for the Principal. Prinses Margriet opened a new Science, Technology and Music Building in 1992.
In September 1997 a new, award-winning Junior School building opened its doors to 700 children aged 3 to 11 years of age. The completion of this building allowed the BSN to combine the Nursery, Infant and Junior Schools on one site in The Hague. The new school was officially opened by Prins Willem Alexander in November 1997.
The notion of bringing these three schools together permanently on one site was not to last, however. The popularity of the new Junior School, along with the buoyant Dutch economy, led to a significant increase in pupil numbers in The Hague and two major new developments were embarked upon: firstly, in July 1999, a three-storey school building just a couple of minutes’ walk from the Junior School, was purchased and, after extensive refurbishment, became a new Foundation School, which opened in September 1999. The second development was in 2003 when the opportunity arose to take over an unused Dutch school on the Diamanthorst nearby, making it possible to have two separate Junior Schools.
Meanwhile, the Senior School in Voorschoten was having its own problems with space, and some very difficult decisions needed to be confronted. The new Science, Technology and Music block was only seven years old, but in order to put the Senior School in a position where it could truly keep up with the projected growth of the future, Trevor Rowell, the Principal, and the school board took the decision that an entirely new Senior School needed to be built. And so in June 2001 work started on this project. The new buildings were opened by Queen Beatrix in October 2003.
Following the opening of the new Senior School the BSN continued to keep its eyes open for future expansion, and managed to acquire a large plot of land in the new Leidschenveen area of The Hague where it opened a new campus in January 2010, together with Day Care for the 0–3s and After School Care.
In the more recent past, a new iPad 1-to-1 program was introduced with mixed opinions across the board. Also, the school continues to support a 'student council' and an environmental committee which has built a large garden to win the 'Green flag' award.
Notable alumni
Konrad Bartelski, former British ski racer, attended the BSN between 1960 and 1972.
Anna Bentley, Olympic fencer and 3 times national champion, left the BSN in 1999.
Jonathan Brittain, playwright and director, attended the BSN from 2000 to 2005.
Victoria Hollins, BBC London journalist, attended the BSN between 1989 and 1991.
Joseph O' Neill, novelist and non-fiction writer, attended the BSN from 1970 to 1981.
Robert Senior, CEO of Saatchi and Saatchi, attended the BSN from 1977 to 1981.
Anna Walker, English television presenter, attended the BSN from 1979 to 1981.
Briony Monroe, actress, attended the BSN from 2001 to 2008
References
Joseph Brannan 1966 to 1970
External links
Official website
Schools in The Hague
International schools in the Netherlands
International Baccalaureate schools in the Netherlands
1931 establishments in the Netherlands
Educational institutions established in 1931
Netherlands
Voorschoten |
23570943 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson%20Lake%20%28Colchester%29 | Nelson Lake (Colchester) | Nelson Lake Colchester is a lake of Colchester County, in Nova Scotia, Canada.
See also
List of lakes in Nova Scotia
References
National Resources Canada
Lakes of Nova Scotia |
23570947 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield%20Lake%20%28Annapolis%29 | Springfield Lake (Annapolis) | Springfield Lake is a lake of Annapolis County, in Nova Scotia, Canada.
See also
List of lakes in Nova Scotia
References
National Resources Canada
Lakes of Nova Scotia |
23570952 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage%20Gardens | Savage Gardens | Savage Gardens is a minor street in the City of London, connecting Crutched Friars in the north to Trinity Square in the south, crossing Pepys Street. It was part-pedestrianised in 2011, with the carriageway remaining between Pepys Street and Trinity Square.
The house of Sir Thomas Savage was here in the 17th century, after whom the street is named.
The nearest London Underground station is Tower Hill. A mainline terminus is also close by at Fenchurch Street, as is a Docklands Light Railway station at Tower Gateway.
References
Streets in the City of London |
23570953 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevens%20Lake | Stevens Lake | Stevens Lake may refer to:
A lake in Colchester County, Nova Scotia
Stevens Lakes (Idaho), a chain of lakes
A lake in Florida, one of the sources of Black Creek |
20464080 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%20Republic%20of%20the%20Congo%20presidential%20election | 2009 Republic of the Congo presidential election | Presidential elections were held in the Republic of the Congo on 12 July 2009. Long-time President Denis Sassou Nguesso won another seven-year term with a large majority of the vote, but the elections were marred by accusations of irregularities and fraud from the opposition; six opposition candidates chose to boycott the elections.
Background
In April 2009, a forum called Republican Dialogue was held to prepare for the election. A coalition of about 20 opposition parties called the United Front of Opposition Parties (FUPO) decided to boycott the forum. Pascal Tsaty-Mabiala, the Secretary-General of UPADS and spokesman for FUPO, condemned the preparations for the election, saying that "conditions such as transparency, the revision of lists, and respect for the opposition are not created for this election; it will be neither free nor transparent, and we will contest that."
Sassou Nguesso signed a decree on 8 May 2009 (which was announced on 11 May) setting the election date as 12 July 2009. The National Elections Organisation Committee (CONEL) oversaw the election; the opposition criticized it for allegedly favoring the government.
Candidates
Ange Edouard Poungui, who was Prime Minister from 1984 to 1989, was chosen as the candidate of the largest opposition party, the Pan-African Union for Social Democracy (UPADS), while Mathias Dzon, who was Minister of Finance from 1997 to 2002, was chosen as the candidate of the Alliance for the Republic and Democracy (ARD), a coalition of opposition parties. The incumbent President, Denis Sassou Nguesso of the Congolese Party of Labour (PCT), was widely expected to run; he eventually announced his candidacy at a rally in Brazzaville on 6 June 2009.
On 23 February 2009, the formation of an alliance between the PCT and the opposition Rally for Democracy and Development (RDD) was announced. The parties agreed to present a single candidate in the 2009 presidential election, and the RDD agreed to join the government if their joint candidate (presumed to be Denis Sassou Nguesso) won the election.
Ange Edouard Poungui was chosen as the UPADS candidate by the party's National Council in a primary election on 30 November 2008. His sole rival for the nomination, Joseph Kignoumbi Kia Mboungou (who was the UPADS candidate in the 2002 presidential election), withdrew from the vote, complaining of "lack of transparency in the process", and Poungui, as the only candidate, received about 85% of the vote.
A total of 17 candidates submitted applications to run, and the Constitutional Court approved 13 of them on 18 June. Four candidacies were rejected: those of Poungui, Marcel Guitoukoulou, Rigobert Ngouolali, on the grounds that they had failed to establish their continuous residency in Congo-Brazzaville for at least two years, and that of UPADS dissident Christophe Moukoueke, on the grounds that he exceeded the 70-year age limit for candidates. UPADS spokesman Jean-Claude Ivouloungou denounced the exclusion of Poungui's candidacy and claimed that it was politically motivated, arguing that "over the last two years, all the candidates moved around, to visit family abroad, to fine-tune their plans". By rejecting Poungui's candidacy, the Constitutional Court's decision removed a key opposition candidate from the election and left Matthias Dzon as the main opposition candidate.
Conduct
On 10 July, six candidates—Dzon, Guy Romain Kinfoussia, Clement Mierassa, Bonaventure Mizidy Bavoueza, Jean-Francois Tchibinda Kouangou, and Marion Matzimba Ehouango—called for the election to be delayed, claiming that the electoral lists were deeply flawed and included people who were not eligible to vote, as well as people who did not exist at all. At an opposition rally later on the same day, Dzon, Kinfoussia, Mierassa, and Bavoueza called for the people to boycott the election. Tchibinda Kouangou and Ehouango were not present at the rally, but Kinfoussia said that they also backed the call for a boycott. Dzon declared on the occasion that "for us, the election is not taking place on July 12 ... It will take place on the day the Congolese people are given a real choice."
Roger Bouka Owoko, the head of the Congolese Observatory for Human Rights (OCDH), criticized the electoral lists as "grotesque" on 11 July, saying that it was impossible that there could be so many people who were entitled to vote. Congo's population was estimated at about 3.6 million, and 2.2 million people were officially registered to vote; however, Bouka Owoko said that an extrapolation of statistics from other countries would predict only about 1.6 million registered voters in a population of 3.6 million.
Sassou Nguesso, who was expected to win the election easily in the absence of any serious competitors, cast his vote early in the day in northern Brazzaville. CONEL President Henri Bouka claimed a "massive vote in the interior" and said that, contrary to the opposition's claims, the electoral lists were "mostly honest".
The six boycotting candidates released a statement on election day asserting that over 90% of eligible voters had not participated in the election. According to the statement, "by this strong rate of abstention, the Congolese who love justice and peace have expressed their rejection of this totalitarian, arrogant and corrupt regime." The statement also urged "national and international opinion to acknowledge the illegitimacy of Denis Sassou Nguesso", and it called for the organization of a new election "with the agreement of all political forces in the country". Meanwhile, the news agency Agence France-Presse reported comments from heads of polling stations in which they described turnout as very low, and it quoted an election observer as stating that "there are more observers than voters."
Late on election day, Alain Akouala Atipault, the Minister of Communication, dismissed the opposition claims as "incorrect" and said that the presence of 170 international observers disproved the accusations of fraud. He dismissed the opposition's claim that turnout was less than 10% as "ludicrous", asserting that turnout was strong outside of Brazzaville. The African Union and the Economic Community of Central African States, both of which had observer teams present, endorsed the election as "regular, free and transparent" in a joint statement, and they praised the "calm and serene atmosphere" in which the campaign took place.
Results
Provisional results were initially planned for release on 14 July, but Minister of Territorial Administration Raymond Mboulou announced that they would be delayed to 15 July because full results from some polling stations had not yet been received.
Mboulou announced the provisional results on 15 July. These results showed Denis Sassou Nguesso winning the election with 78.61% of the vote, while Joseph Kignoumbi Kia Mboungou (who had unsuccessfully sought the UPADS nomination and then ran as an independent) placed second with 7.46% and Liberal Republican Party candidate Nicephore Fylla de Saint-Eudes placed third with 6.98%. Having called on his supporters to boycott, Dzon received 2.30% of the vote. Mboulou said that voter turnout was 66.42%. Sassou Nguesso gave a victory speech at his campaign headquarters, declaring that "in peace, freedom and transparency, in the presence of international observers, you have with the 12 July vote renewed your confidence in me". He also said that the country was "not celebrating the victory of one faction over another, of one Congo over another Congo", but rather "the victory of democracy in peace and harmony".
Aftermath
Kignoumbi Kia Mboungou accepted the results; although he said there might have been shortcomings, he also noted the peaceful atmosphere that was maintained during the election. With regard to turnout, he said that the boycott might have affected it, as well as voter apathy. Kinfoussia, however, described the official turnout rate as "totally false". Ehouango also rejected the results and said that the opposition could potentially take the matter to the Constitutional Court, although he said that the Court was controlled by Sassou Nguesso. The OCDH claimed that turnout was no higher than 20%, and OCDH head Bouka Owoko argued that the low turnout called Sassou Nguesso's legitimacy into question.
At a news conference on 17 July, Dzon and four other candidates alleged that the official results were a fraudulent invention; on the same day, Herve Ambroise Malonga, acting as a lawyer for Dzon, filed an appeal at the Constitutional Court seeking the cancellation of the election on the grounds of alleged electoral fraud.
Kignoumbi Kia Mboungou met with Sassou Nguesso on 17 July; afterwards he said that they discussed how to move forward, improve government, and satisfy the wishes of the people, and he said that the people had expressed confidence in Sassou Nguesso through the election. Two minor independent candidates, Bertin Pandi Ngouari and Anguios Nganguia Engambé, recognized Sassou Nguesso's victory and congratulated him.
In a statement on 18 July, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said that several international journalists had been mistreated by the police during an opposition protest on 15 July. Speaking for the government, Akouala Atipault denied this, saying that the international press was welcome; he observed that the journalists were present "at the heart of a demonstration where some material damage was caused. One might think that some unidentified individuals were behind these acts." He was also critical of the French-language media's coverage of the election, saying that it "seemed disappointed by the fact that this election took place in calm and serenity."
Reports published in the independent Congolese press after the election alleged that young men were observed in Brazzaville prior to election day with multiple voter cards, claiming that they intended to cast several votes each.
The Constitutional Court confirmed the results on 25 July, ruling that Sassou Nguesso had won the election with 78.61% of the vote (1,055,117 votes). Akouala Atipault said that Sassou Nguesso would be sworn in for his new term on 14 August 2009.
Sassou Nguesso was sworn in at a ceremony in Brazzaville on 14 August; various African leaders were present for the occasion. He said that his re-election meant continued "peace, stability and security", and he called for an end to "thinking like ... freeloaders" in reference to international aid received by the country. Sassou Nguesso also made an important announcement at his inauguration, saying that he would set in motion an amnesty bill to pardon Pascal Lissouba, who was President of Congo-Brazzaville from 1992 until being ousted by Sassou Nguesso in 1997; after Lissouba was ousted, he went into exile and was convicted of crimes in absentia. Sassou Nguesso said that he wanted the amnesty bill to be presented to Parliament by the end of 2009.
References
Congo
Presidential election
Presidential elections in the Republic of the Congo |
17326619 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabendu%20Ghosh | Nabendu Ghosh | Nabendu Ghosh (27 March 1917 – 15 December 2007) was an Indian author in Bengali literature, and screenwriter. He has written screenplays of classic Bollywood movies like, Sujata, Bandini, Devdas, Majhli Didi, Abhimaan and Teesri Kasam. He has written stories for movies like Baap Beti, Shatranj, Raja Jani. He has also acted briefly in Do Bigha Zameen, Teesri Kasam and Lukochuri. Later in his career, he directed four movies as well.
Biography
Nabendu Ghosh was born 27 March 1917 in Dhaka (presently in Bangladesh). At the age of 12 he became a popular actor on stage. As an acclaimed dancer in Uday Shankar style, he won several medals between 1939 and 1945. Ghosh lost a government job in 1944 for writing Dak Diye Jaai, set against the Quit India Movement launched by Indian National Congress. The novel catapulted him to fame and he moved to Calcutta in 1945. He soon ranked among the most progressive young writers in Bengali literature.
After partition, Urdu was declared the state language of East Pakistan; thereby banning all Bengali literature and films. It was this political division that prompted Nabendu Ghosh to join Bimal Roy in 1951, when he left New Theatres in Kolkata, to make films for Bombay Talkies. Others in the team who also shifted were Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Asit Sen, Paul Mahendra, Kamal Bose and later Salil Chaudhury. After Bimal Roy's death, Ghosh worked extensively with Hrishikesh Mukherjee.
Nabendu Ghosh has written on all historical upheavals of 1940s – famine, riots, partition – as well as love. His oeuvre bears the distinct stamp of his outlook towards life. His literary efforts are 'pointing fingers.' There is a multi-coloured variety, a deep empathy for human emotions, mysterious layers of meaning, subtle symbolism, description of unbearable life. Love for humanity is also reflected in his writings. He has to his credit 26 novels and 14 collections of short story. He directed the film Trishagni (1988), based on Saradindu Bandopadhyay's historical short story Maru O Sangha.
He died on 15 December 2007. He is survived by two sons, Dr Dipankar and filmmaker Shubhankar, and daughter Ratnottama Sengupta (film festival curator, author, and former The Times of India film journalist). His wife Kanaklata had died in 1999. His autobiography, Eka Naukar Jatri was published in March 2008. His daughter-in-law, Dr Soma Ghosh is an acclaimed classical vocalist, and was conferred with the Padma Shree award in 2016.
To commemorate his birth centenary, an English translation of his science fiction novel, Aami o Aami (1999), was released on 25 March 2017. He had worked on the translation with his grandson, Devottam Sengupta. The book is known as Me and I in English.
Filmography
Screenwriter
Parineeta (1953)
Biraj Bahu (1954)
Baadbaan (1954)
Aar Paar (1954)
Devdas (1955)
Yahudi (1958)
Insan Jaag Utha (1959)
Sujata (1959)
Bandini (1963)
Teesri Kasam (1966)
Majhli Didi (1967)
Sharafat (1970)
Lal Patthar (1971)
Abhimaan (1973)
Jheel Ke Us Paar (1973)
Do Anjaane (1976)
Ganga Ki Saugandh (1978)
Krodhi (1981)
Director
Parineeta (1953) (Assistant director)
Trishagni (1988)
Netraheen Sakshi (1992)
Ladkiyaan (1997)
Anmol Ratan: Ashok Kumar (Documentary/ 1995)
Awards
Literary awards
Bankim Puraskar from the Bangla Academy, Govt. of West Bengal
Haraprasad Ghosh Medal from Bangiya Sahitya Parishad
Bibhuti Bhushan Sahitya Arghya
Bimal Mitra Puraskar
Amrita Puraskar
Film awards
1997: Honoris Causa conferred by Film and Television Institute of India for his "Significant Contribution to Indian Cinema"
1988: National Film Award for Best First Film of a Director – Trishagni
1969: Filmfare Best Screenplay Award, Majhli Didi (1969)
BFJA Award for Best Screenplay: Majhli Didi (1969)
BFJA Award for Best Screenplay: Teesri Kasam (1967)
Film World Award for Best Screenplay (Do Anjaane)
References
Mukul (2010), 20-minute documentary by Subhankar Ghosh.
External links
Nabendu Ghosh profile at Upperstall
1917 births
2007 deaths
Bengali-language writers
People from Dhaka
Bengali novelists
Bengali writers
Indian male screenwriters
Filmfare Awards winners
Bengal Film Journalists' Association Award winners
Indian autobiographers
Hindi-language film directors
Bangladeshi screenwriters
20th-century Bangladeshi writers
20th-century Indian dramatists and playwrights
20th-century Indian film directors
20th-century Bangladeshi male writers
Novelists from West Bengal
Screenwriters from Kolkata
20th-century Indian novelists
Film directors from Kolkata
Director whose film won the Best Debut Feature Film National Film Award
Producers who won the Best Debut Feature Film of a Director National Film Award
20th-century Indian screenwriters |
23570955 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor%20Jackson%20%28diver%29 | Trevor Jackson (diver) | Captain Trevor Jackson (born 26 November 1965) is an Australian technical diver, shipwreck researcher, author and inventor. In 2002 he staged what became known as the "Centaur Dive", which subsequently led to the gazetted position of the sunken Hospital Ship AHS Centaur being questioned. Jackson is the inventor of the 'Sea Tiger' lost diver location system, and an author on the subject of wreck diving.
Centaur dive
Jackson had doubted the accuracy of the Australian Government's original findings for some time before he and New Zealand diver, Dr Simon Mitchell, supported by a team of 15 back-up divers, staged a world record scuba dive to investigate the site. The dive took place near Brisbane on 14 May 2002, after nearly a year of planning. At a depth of , the dive was the deepest scuba dive to a wreck undertaken at the time, a world record which held for several years. A camera was taken to the bottom by Jackson but pressure related equipment difficulties meant that no usable footage was retrieved. Despite the lack of conclusive proof, the pair remained adamant for several years that the wreck they had seen on the dive was too small to be the Centaur. Jackson was quoted on the 60 minutes current affairs program: "this wasn't a wreck of the dimensions that the Centaur was which, you know, was 100m long. It was a much smaller thing".
They suspected that the wreck was a small freighter called the Kyogle, sunk in 1951 by the Royal Australian Air Force. Eventually their insistence prompted investigations by the media and the Royal Australian Navy. It was subsequently shown that the Centaur was not where it had been assumed. In 2009 the Queensland Government approved funding for a renewed search for the lost hospital ship. The true resting place of the Centaur was discovered in December of that year.
Shipwreck discoveries
Between 1998 and 2004 Jackson was directly responsible for the initial discovery of at least 19 shipwrecks in the Coral Sea. These ships included the Dutch dredger Kaptajn Nielsen, the USNS Dolphin, the SS Dover, and the SV Missie. The latter contained a vast collection of 19th century glassware and is now a declared historic shipwreck. Most of these wrecks lay in depths well beyond the normal limits for recreational scuba diving. In 2005 he won the OZTek Technical Diver of the Year award for his services to wreck exploration. Jackson's research into the exact position and depths of shipwrecks is currently being utilized by the Australian Hydrographic Office for new editions of admiralty charts for Queensland. The Australian Hydrographic Office also removed the protected zone from around the 'old' Centaur position.
In January 2009 Jackson was involved in the Australian National Maritime Museum's discovery and initial survey dives of the 19th century historical Australian shipwreck, HMCS Mermaid [1829], and the Queensland Museum's discovery of the SV Waverley [1889] near Thirsty Sound, Qld, in March later that year.
Author
Captain Jackson is the author of two books on the subject of wreck diving: Wreck Diving in Southern Queensland and Diveabout: Wrecks in Northern Queensland. He is an active writer for several dive publications and websites.
Lost diver buoys
During 2009, Jackson patented a system of using specially designed buoys to locate divers lost on the surface. The system has been adopted by dive operators in the US, New Zealand and Australia.
The system draws upon the 'deliberate error theory', utilized by US Navy pilots during World War II to relocate their aircraft carriers. More significantly, it involved the development of buoys tested and weighted to exactly replicate the drift characteristics of non-swimming divers on the surface of the ocean, and the use of timed and measured vessel manoeuvres.
References
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20090911230537/http://www.diveoztek.com.au/speakers.html
http://www.undercurrent.org/UCnow/articles/FindLostDivers200905.shtml
https://web.archive.org/web/20091015051554/http://www.diveoz.com.au/regular_articles/author.asp?author=3
https://web.archive.org/web/20091207204101/http://www.trimixdivers.com/Navigate.do?tableName=main&code=articles
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,24186666-5017790,00.html
Other media
1965 births
Living people
Australian explorers
Australian non-fiction writers
Australian underwater divers
Place of birth missing (living people) |
20464091 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS%20Discovery%20%281874%29 | HMS Discovery (1874) | HMS Discovery was a wood-hulled screw expedition ship, and later storeship, formerly the sealing ship Bloodhound built in 1873 in Dundee. She was purchased in 1874 for the British Arctic Expedition of 1875–1876 and later served as a store ship. Discovery was sold in 1902, reverting to the name Bloodhound and her previous sealing trade. The ship was wrecked in Newfoundland in 1917.
Design and Construction
The steam barque Bloodhound was built as Yard No.53 in their Panmure shipyard at Dundee by Alexander Stephen & Sons for Newfoundland sealing operations. She was launched on 2 August 1872 and completed in March 1873. She measured and , and was in length, beam and depth. The ship was rigged as a 3-masted barque and her Greenock Foundry Company auxiliary compound steam engine generated 312 indicated horsepower and drove a single screw propeller.
Newfoundland sealing
Bloodhound was launched for Bain & Johnston of Greenock, whose previous Bloodhound had recently been lost near Labrador in the ice in April 1872. She was registered on 12 March 1873 at St John's, Newfoundland in the ownership of Walter B. Grieve of that port.
Royal Navy
British Arctic Expedition
In 1874, the Admiralty were seeking a suitable exploration vessel for the 1875 British Arctic Expedition, and considered Bloodhound ideally suited. She was purchased on 5 December 1874 and converted for exploration, commissioning as HMS Discovery on 13 April 1875.
Captain George Strong Nares was placed in command of the 1875 British Arctic Expedition, which aimed to reach the North Pole via Smith Sound, the sea passage between Greenland and Canada's northernmost island, Ellesmere Island. Contemporary geographers proposed that there could be an Open Polar Sea, and that if the thick layer of ice surrounding it were overcome, access to the North Pole by sea might be possible. Ever since Edward Augustus Inglefield had penetrated Smith Sound in 1852, it had been a likely route to the North. Nares commanded the converted sloop HMS Alert, and with him went Discovery, commanded by Captain Henry Frederick Stephenson. HMS Valorous carried extra stores and accompanied the expedition as far as Godhavn.
Despite finding heavier-than-expected ice, the expedition pressed on. Leaving Discovery to winter at Lady Franklin Bay, Alert carried on a further through the Robeson Channel, establishing her winter quarters at Floeberg Beach. Spring 1876 saw considerable activity by sledge charting the coasts of Ellesmere Island and Greenland, but scurvy had begun to take hold, with Alert suffering the greatest burden. On 3 April, the second-in-command of Alert, Albert Hastings Markham, took a party north to attempt the Pole. By 11 May, having made slow progress, they reached their greatest latitude at 83° 20' 26"N. Suffering from snow blindness, scurvy and exhaustion, they turned back.
The expedition returned to the UK in Autumn 1876 and was well rewarded; Nares was knighted, Markham was promoted to captain. The geography of northern Canada and Greenland is littered with the names of those connected with the expedition; Cape Discovery () on the northern edge of Ellesmere Island is named for the ship.
Storeship at Portsmouth
The Discovery saw no further seagoing service after her return from the Arctic. She was employed as a storeship in Portsmouth Harbour from 1880, probably up until the time of her final disposal.
Disposal
Discovery was sold to D Murray in February 1902.
Legacy
[[File:RRS Discovery.jpg|thumb|right|Discovery'''s namesake, RRS Discovery open to the public in Dundee.]]
The 1901 research vessel, built for the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901–1904), incorporated many of the features of Discovery, as well as taking her name. RRS Discovery was commanded by Robert Falcon Scott and took part in the Discovery Investigations from 1924 to 1931. She is now on permanent display at Dundee.
Subsequent Royal Research Ships, launched in 1929 and 1962, have also borne the name, as has Space Shuttle Discovery.
Bibliography
Narrative of a voyage to the Polar Sea during 1875–76 in H.M. ships ‘Alert’ and ‘Discovery’'', by Captain George Strong Nares, in two volumes, London 1878; online book Volume 1 & Volume 2
References
External links
1872 ships
Arctic exploration vessels
Ships built in Dundee
Survey vessels of the Royal Navy
Victorian-era auxiliary ships of the United Kingdom |
23570958 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderson%20Lake%20%28Upper%20Hammonds%20Plains%29 | Anderson Lake (Upper Hammonds Plains) | Anderson Lake is a lake of Halifax Regional Municipality, in Nova Scotia, Canada.
See also
List of lakes in Nova Scotia
References
National Resources Canada
Lakes of Nova Scotia |