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Barton Academy (Vermont) | 10000230-0 | History
The Academy started in the fall of 1852 in a building on the location now occupied by the school parking lot. There is an early list of students who were enrolled. It was chartered by the legislature in 1854.
A listing of graduates from 1926, lists the first class as 1886.
The cornerstone of the current building is marked "1907." the project was the biggest building project, the town had ever seen. It cost $42,000. An Indian burial ground was discovered during the excavation. There is no record of what happened to those artifacts. The former school was moved across the street in 1909 and later used as a gymnasium and cafeteria. It was torn down in 1980.
In the early 1900s, Barton Academy ranked eighth among all high schools, public and private, in Vermont.
The Academy closed in 1967, replaced by the Lake Region Union High School. The former building, with the name, "Barton Academy and Graded School", carved on a granite slab over the entryway, is used as an elementary school.
An addition was completed in 1979. |
Barton Academy (Vermont) | 10000230-1 | Architecture Principals
Benjamin Hinman Steele, briefly when he was 20 in 1853 or so, a young graduate of Dartmouth and simultaneously studying for the law at the same time! Went on to become a judge on the Vermont Supreme Court and died at the age of 37
George W. Quimby - about 1859 to 1862. Captain in Civil War, 4th Vermont Infantry, Company D. Killed December 13, 1862, at the Battle of Fredericksburg
Emilie M. Gleason - June 1877
Athletics
The Academy fielded Basketball Teams for both boys and girls and a boys baseball team. It fielded a soccer team beginning about 1958. School colors were orange and black. The mascot was the Yellow Peril. The school's main rival was cross-town Orleans High School.
Recognition
State Class C Champions, Baseball 1951
Notable graduates
Lee E. Emerson (1917), Governor of Vermont
Robert Kinsey (1965?) state representative from Craftsbury (1970-2000
Francis W. Nye (1936), Major General commanding the Sandia, NM Atomic Laboratory
Marion Redfield (1907) - elected to state House of Representatives 1956-?
Notable Attendees
Wallace Harry Gilpin attended briefly in the late 1890s. Owned the Orleans County Monitor 1904-1953
Frederick H. Pillsbury representative from Sutton in 1902. Attended BA in early 1890s. |
Walla Walla Council | 10000237-0 | The Walla Walla Council (1855) was a meeting in the Pacific Northwest between the United States and sovereign tribal nations of the Cayuse, Nez Perce, Umatilla, Walla Walla, and Yakama. The council occurred on May 29 – June 11; the treaties signed at this council on June 9 were ratified by the U.S. Senate four years later in 1859.
These treaties codified the constitutional relationship between the people living on the Nez Perce, Umatilla, and Yakama reservations; it was one of the earliest treaties obtained in the Pacific Northwest.
Washington Territory's first governor Isaac I. Stevens secured this treaty, allowing larger portions of the land to be given to the two largest and most powerful tribes: Yakama and Nez Perce; these reservations encompassed most of their traditional hunting grounds. The smaller tribes moved to the smaller of the three reservations. Stevens was able to acquire of land.
The United States government later violated these treaties, first by failing to pay the agreed sum for the ceded land, and later by reducing the Nez Perce reservation by 90% and forcibly removing the Nez Perce from their lands affirmed by the 1855 treaty. |
Rod Rohrich | 10000242-0 | Rod J. Rohrich ( ), F.A.C.S. is a Dallas-based plastic surgeon, author and educator. He is the editor-in-chief of the journal Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and a founding member of the Dallas Plastic Surgery Institute and the Alliance in Reconstructive Surgery. |
Rod Rohrich | 10000242-1 | Early life and education
Rohrich grew up in rural North Dakota. He completed his undergraduate and postgraduate education at North Dakota State University and the University of North Dakota, then earned his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine. After general surgery and plastic surgery residencies at the University of Michigan Medical Center, he did further training in pediatric plastic surgery at Oxford University in England, and a hand and microvascular fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School.
Career
Rohrich joined the Division of Plastic Surgery at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas in 1986 and succeeded Fritz E. Barton as department chair in 1991. In 2003 he was elected president of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons for the year 2004. In 2005, Rohrich was appointed editor-in-chief of the journal, Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery. |
Rod Rohrich | 10000242-2 | He is a clinical professor of plastic surgery at the Baylor College of Medicine and has been the president of the Association of Academic Chairs of Plastic Surgery, The Rhinoplasty Society, the Dallas Society of Plastic Surgeons, the Texas Society of Plastic Surgeons, as well as a chair on the Residency Review Committee for Plastic Surgery and American Board of Plastic Surgery.
Rohrich was recognized as one of the top plastic surgeons in the United States by Castle Connolly's Top Doctor Program for 2019. He is author or coauthor of 900 scientific articles, 50 textbook chapters in plastic surgery, and editor of 5 plastic surgery textbooks or monographs. |
Diablo Valley | 10000244-0 | The Diablo Valley refers to a valley in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area, to the west/northwest of Mount Diablo. The valley contains the cities of Clayton, Concord, Martinez, Pleasant Hill (home to Diablo Valley College), most of Walnut Creek (The southern end is a part of the San Ramon Valley) and the CDP of Pacheco. The Diablo Valley has a diverse population both ethnically, and socio-economically. West of the Diablo Valley lies the Briones Regional Park and the Lamorinda area. |
1622 in music | 10000252-0 | The year 1622 in music involved some significant events.
Events
January 6 (probable) – The Masque of Augurs, written by Ben Jonson and designed by Inigo Jones, is performed at Whitehall Palace, probably to celebrate Twelfth Night. The masque features music by Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger and Nicholas Lanier (but only one song by Lanier will survive). |
1622 in music | 10000252-1 | Classical music
Adriano Banchieri – , Cantatas for five voices and a harpsichord or theorbo, Op. 46 (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni)
Giacinto Bondioli
, Op. 4 (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni for Gardano)
(Sweet flowers cultivated in the pleasant garden), Op. 5 (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni), a collection of sacred music for two voices and continuo
Christoph Demantius
, for six voices (Freiberg: Georg Hoffmann), an epithalamium for the wedding of Matthaeus Heinrich and Justitia
for six voices (Freiberg: Georg Hoffmann), an epithalamium for the wedding of Johann Caspar and Victoria on May 6
Ignazio Donati – Masses for four, five, and six voices (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
Giacomo Finetti – (Mary's Crown) for four voices, book five (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni for Gardano), a collection of motets
Melchior Franck
, parts one to four, for four, five, six, and eight voices (Coburg: Andreas Forckel for Salomon Gruner), a collection of Magnificats in all eight tones
for four voices (Coburg: Andreas Forckel for Salomon Gruner), a collection of quodlibets, both previously published and original
for five voices (Coburg: Andreas Forckel), a funeral motet
for six voices (Coburg: Andreas Forckel), a motet for the funeral of Duke Frederick of Saxe-Weimar |
1622 in music | 10000252-2 | Vinko Jelić – for one, two, three, and four voices or instruments with organ bass, Op. 1 (Strassbourg: Paul Lederz)
Carlo Milanuzzi
for four and eight voices with basso continuo, Op. 5 (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
for five voices and organ bass, Op. 6 (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
First book of for solo voice and accompaniment, Op. 7 (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni)
Second book of for solo voices and accompaniment, Op. 8 (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
Pomponio Nenna – for five voices with organ bass (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti), published posthumously
Salamone Rossi –
Thomas Tomkins – Songs Of 3. 4. 5. and 6. parts
Opera
Francesca Caccini – (The martyrdom of Saint Agata)
Births
date unknown
James Clifford, churchman and musician (died 1698)
Gaspar de Verlit, composer (died 1682)
Alba Trissina, Italian composer.
Deaths
January 1 – Jakob Hassler, composer (born 1569)
February 11 – Alfonso Fontanelli, composer and writer (born 1557)
April 15 – Pietro Pace, composer (born 1559)
October 26 – Sebastián de Vivanco, priest and composer (born c.1551)
November – Giovanni Battista Grillo, organist and composer
date unknown – Giovanni Paolo Cima, organist and composer (born c. 1570) |
Mycolicibacter kumamotonensis | 10000255-0 | Mycolicibacter kumamotonensis (formerly Mycobacterium kumamotonense) is a species of bacteria.
Etymology: kumamotonensis, pertaining to Kumamoto Prefecture in Japan, where the type strain was isolated.
Description
Slowly growing, nonchromogenic.
Pathogenesis
Type strain
First isolated in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan from a clinical specimen. |
Stanley station (North Dakota) | 10000287-0 | Stanley station is a train station in Stanley, North Dakota served by Amtrak's Empire Builder line. The platform, tracks, and wooden depot are owned by BNSF Railway. It was originally a Great Northern Railway station that was a replacement for an earlier one, which is now a private residence. |
Carmovirus | 10000288-0 | Carmovirus was a genus of viruses. The genus was split in 2015 into three genera, each retaining -carmovirus as part of their name:
Alphacarmovirus
Betacarmovirus
Gammacarmovirus
These genera are in the same family, Tombusviridae, as the original genus and are more specifically in the subfamily Procedovirinae. The following species were assigned to Carmovirus and are, as of 2020, placed within Procedovirinae but not assigned to a genus:
Ahlum waterborne virus
Bean mild mosaic virus
Cucumber soil-borne virus |
Barbados Chamber Orchestra | 10000291-0 | The Barbados Chamber Orchestra (formerly the Barbados Symphonia) is a chamber orchestra in Barbados. Its current president is Mike Williams, also a leader in the Barbados Boy Scouts Association. |
Organized crime in Minneapolis | 10000292-0 | Organized crime in Minneapolis refers to the illegal activity of the early 20th century in Minneapolis. This issue was first brought to public attention by Lincoln Steffens in the book The Shame of the Cities which chronicles the widespread corruption in major political parties in the 19th century and the continued efforts to fix this ongoing issue. A. A. Ames was a notable figure who was exposed due to this book, as he and the Minneapolis police force were caught dealing with illegal businesses syndicates. In 1902, Ames fled to Indiana and resigned as mayor on the 6th September.
In his memoir Augie's Secrets, Twin Cities journalist Neal Karlen concedes that the power temporarily wielded in Minneapolis by Jewish-American organized crime figures like Kid Cann and David Berman beginning in the Prohibition-era gave a major boost to local anti-Semitism, for which Minneapolis became infamous nationwide. Karlen further argues, however, that the pervasive criminality during Mayor Ames' last term demonstrates that the city of Minneapolis was even more corrupt when Scandinavians and White Anglo-Saxon Protestants were still running it. |
Kyauktada | 10000299-0 | Kyauktada may refer to:
Kyauktada Township, Yangon, Burma
The fictional setting of the novel Burmese Days by George Orwell |
Real Voice | 10000309-0 | "Real Voice" is the third single from female Japanese artist, Ayaka. The song was used as the ending theme to the J-Drama, Suppli. The single reached a peak of eleven on the Oricon weekly singles chart.
Track listing
Charts |
Rick Elice | 10000310-0 | Rick Elice (born Eric S. Elice; November 17, 1956) is a writer and former stage actor.
Life
Work for the stage
Elice with Marshall Brickman wrote the book for the Broadway musical Jersey Boys, which received a Tony Award nomination and a Drama Desk nomination for best book for a musical in 2006. With Roger Rees, he wrote the popular thriller Double Double, which has been translated into 16 languages.
He wrote Leonardo's Ring (London Fringe, 2003) and Dog and Pony (New York Stage and Film, 2003). Elice was creative director at Serino Coyne, Inc. (1982–2000), where he produced advertising campaigns for more than 300 Broadway shows including A Chorus Line and The Lion King. He was a creative consultant for Walt Disney Studios from 1999 to 2009.
In 2008, he co-wrote Turn of the Century with Marshall Brickman. The show was directed by Tommy Tune and premiered at The Goodman Theatre in Chicago in September 2008.
Elice collaborated with Brickman once again, this time writing the book for the musical The Addams Family. After a successful run at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts Oriental Theatre in Chicago, The Addams Family opened on Broadway on April 8, 2010, at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, starring Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth as Gomez and Morticia Addams. |
Rick Elice | 10000310-1 | His most recent collaboration with Brickman was for the film of Jersey Boys, directed by Clint Eastwood and released by Warner Brothers in June 2014. Brickman and Elice wrote the screenplay, adapted from their book for the stage musical.
A new musical, Dog and Pony, with book by Elice and music and lyrics by Michael Patrick Walker, had its world premiere at The Old Globe in San Diego in June 2014, starring Nicole Parker, Jon Patrick Walker, Heidi Blickenstaff, Beth Leavel and Eric William Morris, directed by Rees.
Elice wrote the book for a new musical based on the early life and career of Cher, titled The Cher Show, which opened at the Neil Simon Theatre on Broadway in December 2018, starring Stephanie J. Block, Teal Wicks, Micaela Diamond and Jarrod Spector, directed by Jason Moore. The show received two 2019 Tony Awards, for Best Costume Design (Bob Mackie), and Best Actress in a Musical (Stephanie J. Block). |
Rick Elice | 10000310-2 | In 2019, Disney Theatrical Productions announced that Elice and Tony winner Bob Martin would write the book, and Tony winner David Yazbek would write the score, for a musical adaptation of William Goldman's revered novel and cult film, The Princess Bride, for Broadway.
Awards
Source:
2006 Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical: Jersey Boys (Book by Marshall Brickman & Rick Elice) – Nomination
2006 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical: Jersey Boys (Book by Marshall Brickman & Rick Elice) – Nomination
2006 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical: Jersey Boys (Book by Marshall Brickman & Rick Elice) – Winner
2012 Tony Award for Best Play: Peter and the Starcatcher (Written by Rick Elice) – Nomination
2012 Tony Award for Best Original Score Written for the Theatre: Peter and the Starcatcher (Lyrics by Rick Elice & Music by Wayne Barker) – Nomination
2024 Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical: Water for Elephants (Book by Rick Elice) – Nomination |
Wyllis Cooper | 1000032-0 | Wyllis Oswald Cooper (January 26, 1899 – June 22, 1955) was an American writer and producer.
He is best remembered for creating and writing the old time radio programs Lights Out (1934–1947) and Quiet, Please (1947–1949).
Biography
Born Willis Oswald Cooper in Pekin, Illinois, he attended Pekin High School, graduating in 1916. He soon joined the U.S. Cavalry where, achieving the rank of Sergeant, he spent time on the Mexican border. In 1917, he became a part of the Signal Corps and was sent to France during World War I. While in France he was gassed at the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. He remained on active duty until 1919 when he left to become an advertising writer, though he maintained his reserve status. |
Wyllis Cooper | 1000032-1 | The show would prove to be a long-term success, but in 1936, Cooper capitalized on the fame of Lights Out and resigned from NBC, moving to Hollywood, California, where he worked as a screenwriter for film studios. His screenplay for the 1939 film Son of Frankenstein introduced the much-parodied character of Ygor. He contributed to a few of the Mr. Moto films. At the same time, he continued to provide radio scripts for various series including Hollywood Hotel.
Arch Oboler, who took over the writing of Lights Out when Cooper left, would suggest that Cooper was the first person to create a unique form of radio drama, writing, "Radio drama (as distinguished from theatre plays boiled down to kilocycle size) began at midnight, in the middle thirties, on one of the upper NBC floors of Chicago's Merchandise Mart. The pappy was a rotund writer by the name of Willys (sic) Cooper." |
Wyllis Cooper | 1000032-2 | During World War II, he was made a consultant to the Secretary of War and produced, directed and wrote a weekly news and variety propaganda series entitled 'The Army Hour.
In 1944, Cooper joined the radio department of New York's Compton Advertising, Inc. In 1947, he created what was arguably his finest radio effort, Quiet, Please. It began over the Mutual Broadcasting System network and later moved to ABC. He also wrote and directed a crime anthology for NBC entitled Whitehall 1212, which debuted on November 18, 1951. The series was hosted by Chief Superintendent John Davidson, fictional curator of the Black Museum at Scotland Yard. It featured an allegedly British cast and told stories inspired by artifacts held by the famous London crime museum. Cooper's show competed with a similar program hosted by Orson Welles which ran on Mutual in 1952.
As television became the dominant entertainment medium, Cooper experimented with various programs including Volume One, which he wrote and produced.
Cooper resided in Glen Gardner, New Jersey, and died in High Bridge, New Jersey, on June 22, 1955. |
Juha Lallukka | 10000324-0 | Juha Lallukka (born 27 October 1979 in Kouvola) is a Finnish cross-country skier who competed between 2002 and 2018. He finished 34th in the 15 km event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Lallukka's best finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, was fourth in the 4 × 10 km relay in Oslo in 2011 while, his best individual finish was eighth in the 50 km event at the same championships.
His best World Cup result was a third-fastest stage time in the 15 km pursuit race in Falun in 2009.
On 16 November 2011, it was reported that he had tested positive for HGH. He was banned for two years.
Cross-country skiing results
All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).
Olympic Games
World Championships
World Cup
Season standings
Individual podiums
1 podium – (1 ) |
Williston station | 10000337-0 | With the opening of the Bakken oil fields in the 21st century, many oil production workers now also board and detrain in Williston, adding additional passengers to the route. Many workers from as far as the Pacific Northwest opt to travel to their jobs via the station rather than fly or take the bus. Amtrak conductors frequently let passengers use Williston as an unofficial smoke break or fresh air stop, partly due to delays caused by the sheer volume of passengers boarding and alighting at the station.
Ridership at the station had a particular spike in Amtrak's 2012 fiscal year, when ridership grew by almost 82 percent to 54,324 from 29,920 the year before (though 2011 ridership had been partly degraded due to flooding along the route). This patronage continued even in the wake of terrible delays that plagued the Empire Builder for much of 2013 and 2014 due to increased freight traffic related to the Bakken boom.
As of fiscal year 2018, Williston is North Dakota's second busiest Amtrak station, behind Minot. |
Carlo Ponti | 1000035-0 | Carlo Fortunato Pietro Ponti Sr. (11 December 1912 – 10 January 2007) was an Italian film producer with more than 140 productions to his credit. Along with Dino De Laurentiis, he is credited with reinvigorating and popularizing Italian cinema post-World War II, producing some of the country's most acclaimed and financially-successful films of the 1950s and 1960s. |
Carlo Ponti | 1000035-1 | Early life
Ponti was born in Magenta, Lombardy, where his grandfather had been mayor of the city. Ponti studied law at the University of Milan. He joined his father's law firm in Milan and became involved in the film business through negotiating contracts.
Career
Early films
Ponti attempted to establish a film industry in Milan in 1940 and produced Mario Soldati's Piccolo mondo antico there, starring Alida Valli, in her first notable role. The film dealt with the Italian struggle against the Austrians for the inclusion of northeastern Italy into the Kingdom of Italy during the Risorgimento. The film was successful, because it was easy to see "the Austrians as Germans" during World War II. As a result, Ponti was briefly jailed for undermining relations with Nazi Germany.
Ponti accepted an offer from Riccardo Gualino's Lux Film in Rome in 1941. He made Giacomo the Idealist (1943), A Yank in Rome (1946), To Live in Peace (1947), The White Primrose (1948), Prelude to Madness (1948) andHey Boy (1948). |
Carlo Ponti | 1000035-2 | International breakthrough and Sophia Loren
In 1954 Ponti had his greatest artistic success with the production of Federico Fellini's La strada. However, Fellini denied Ponti's role in its success and said that "La Strada was made in spite of Ponti and De Laurentiis". Along with a Toto comedy The Doctor of the Mad (1954) he and de Laurentiis produced an international film, Mambo (1954) directed by Robert Rossen. There was An American in Rome (1955) with Alberto Sordi and The Gold of Naples (1954) with a young Sophia Loren.
Loren was the female lead in Ponti's Attila (1954), a biopic of Attila the Hun with Anthony Quinn that became a big box office success. Loren was in The Miller's Beautiful Wife (1955), a comedy. |
Carlo Ponti | 1000035-3 | Ponti continued to produce smaller movies for the Italian market such as The Railroad Man (1956), and Guendalina (1957), but his focus was increasingly on bigger budgeted films aimed at the international Market starring Loren: The Black Orchid (1959) with Anthony Quinn, That Kind of Woman (1959) with Tab Hunter, Heller in Pink Tights (1960) with Quinn again, A Breath of Scandal (1960) with John Gavin. Two Women (1960) starring Loren and directed by Vittorio de Sica was a huge success, winning Loren the Oscar.
French films
Ponti produced a series of movies in France: Lola (1961) starred Anouk Aimee, A Woman Is a Woman (1961) directed by Jean-Luc Goddard, Léon Morin, Priest (1961) from Jean Paul Melville starring Jean Paul Belmondo, Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) from Agnes Varda, Le Doulos (1962) with Belmondo, Landru (1962), plus The Carabineers (1963) and Contempt (1963) from Goddard.
Ponti continued to make movies in Italy, notably Boccaccio '70 (1962), Redhead (1962), The Empty Canvas (1962), Break Up (1965) and two with Loren, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963) and Marriage Italian Style (1964). |
Carlo Ponti | 1000035-4 | MGM He made The 10th Victim (1965), and some films for Paramount, Smashing Time (1967) Diamonds for Breakfast (1968).
Later career
Ponti's later movies included The Priest's Wife (1970) with Loren, What? (1972) from Roman Polanski, Giordano Bruno (1973), Torso (1973) a gallo with Suzy Kendall, Dirty Weekend (1973) with Oliver Reed, Mr. Hercules Against Karate (1973), Flesh for Frankenstein (1974), The Voyage (1974) with Loren, Sex Pot (1975) with Loren and Mastroinanni, L'Infermiera (1975) with Ursula Andress, and Down and Dirty (1977),
His final credits included The Cassandra Crossing (1977), an international co production starring Loren, and A Special Day (1977) with Mastroianni and Loren.
Personal life
Marriages
In 1946, he married Giuliana Fiastri with whom he had a daughter, Guendalina, in 1951, and a son, Alex, in 1953. While serving as a judge in a beauty contest in 1951, Ponti met a minor actress named Sofia Lazzaro (real name Sofia Villani Scicolone). He subsequently cast her in films such as Anna (1951). In 1952, his friend Goffredo Lombardo, head of production at Titanus, changed Lazzaro's name to Sophia Loren. |
Carlo Ponti | 1000035-5 | Ponti co-produced several films in Hollywood starring Loren, establishing her fame. In 1960, he and Loren returned to Italy and when summoned to court, denied being married. In 1962, they had the marriage annulled, after which Ponti arranged with his first wife, Giuliana, that the three of them move to France (which at that time allowed divorce) and become French citizens. In 1965, Giuliana Ponti divorced her husband, allowing Ponti to marry Loren in 1966 in a civil wedding in Sèvres. They later became French citizens after their application was approved by then-French President Georges Pompidou.
Ponti and Loren had two sons:
Carlo Ponti Jr. (born 29 December 1968)
Edoardo Ponti (born 6 January 1973)
Their daughters-in-law are Sasha Alexander and Andrea Meszaros. They have four grandchildren.
Loren remained married to Ponti until his death on 10 January 2007 of pulmonary complications.
Kidnapping attempts
Two unsuccessful attempts were made to kidnap Ponti in 1975, including one involving an attack on his car with gunfire. |
Carlo Ponti | 1000035-6 | Smuggling charges Art collection
Ponti owned works by, among others, Picasso, Georges Braque, Renoir, René Magritte (including his Lumière du pole from 1927), Salvador Dalí, Henry Moore (including his Figure from 1933), Barbara Hepworth, Giorgio de Chirico and Canaletto. His collection was renowned for containing ten works by Francis Bacon. These included examples from his early Van Gogh series, triptychs, self-portraits and pope paintings, which were rarely publicised or lent to public exhibitions. In 1977 the Bacon paintings, then valued at an estimated $6.7 million, were seized and turned over by the Italian government to the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan; thirty-three sketches by George Grosz went to a museum in Caserta. When Ponti reached a deal with the Italian government and was cleared of the charges brought against him in 1990, he regained possession of 230 confiscated paintings. At some point, the collection is said to have been split between Ponti and Loren. |
Carlo Ponti | 1000035-7 | Death
Ponti died in Geneva, Switzerland, from pulmonary complications on 10 January 2007. He was survived by his daughter Guendalina (b. 1951), and his son Alessandro (b. 1953) from his first marriage; and by his second wife, Sophia Loren, and their sons Carlo (b. 1968) and Edoardo Ponti (b. 1973).
His body rests in the family tomb in Magenta, Lombardy.
Filmography
Piccolo mondo antico (1940)
Giacomo the Idealist (1943)
A Yank in Rome (1946)
To Live in Peace (1947)
The White Primrose (1947)
Prelude to Madness (1948)
Hey Boy (1948)
Alarm Bells (1949)
The White Line (1950)
Her Favourite Husband (1950)
Figaro Here, Figaro There (1950)
A Dog's Life (1950)
The Knight Has Arrived! (1950)
Toto the Third Man (1951)
The Steamship Owner (1951)
Europa '51 (1952)
Brothers of Italy (1952)
The Piano Tuner Has Arrived (1952)
Toto in Color (1952)
Lieutenant Giorgio (1952)
Easy Years (1953)
Le infedeli (1953)
Carosello napoletano (1954)
La strada (1954)
The Doctor of the Mad (1954) |
Carlo Ponti | 1000035-8 | Mambo (1954) L'oro di Napoli (1954)
Attila (1954)
The Miller's Beautiful Wife (1955)
War and Peace (1956)
Il ferroviere (1956)
Guendalina (1957)
The Black Orchid (1958)
That Kind of Woman (1959)
Heller in Pink Tights (1960)
A Breath of Scandal (1960)
Two Women (1960)
Lola (1961)
A Woman Is a Woman (1961)
Léon Morin, prêtre (1961)
Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)
Boccaccio '70 (1962)
Le Doulos (1962)
L'isola di Arturo (1962)
Redhead (1962)
The Empty Canvas (1963)
Landru (1963)
Les Carabiniers (1963)
Contempt (1963)
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963)
Marriage Italian Style (1964)
Break Up (1965)
Operation Crossbow (1965)
The 10th Victim (1965)
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Closely Watched Trains (1965, uncredited)
Blowup (1966)
The Firemen's Ball (1967, uncredited)
Smashing Time (1967, uncredited)
La Ragazza e il Generale (1967)
Ghosts – Italian Style (1968)
Diamonds for Breakfast (1968)
Zabriskie Point (1970)
The Priest's Wife (1971)
Oasis of Fear (1971)
What? (1972)
Giordano Bruno (1973)
Torso (1973)
Dirty Weekend (1973)
Mr. Hercules Against Karate (1973)
Flesh for Frankenstein (1973)
Gawain and the Green Knight (1973)
The Voyage (1974)
The Passenger (1974)
Sex Pot (1975)
L'infermiera (1975)
Brutti, sporchi e cattivi (1976)
The Cassandra Crossing (1976) |
Suess | 1000038-0 | Suess may refer to:
Süß, a German surname transliterated as Suess
C. J. Suess (born 1994), American hockey player
Eduard Suess (1831–1914), an Austrian geologist
Mount Suess, a mountain in Antarctica named for the geologist
Suess (lunar crater), named for the geologist
Suess (Martian crater), named for the geologist
Suess Glacier, a glacier in Canada named for the geologist
Suess Land, in Greenland named for the geologist
12002 Suess, asteroid named for his son Franz Eduard
Hans Suess (1909–1993), an Austrian born American physical chemist, nuclear physicist and grandson of the geologist Eduard Suess
Suess cycle, a cycle present in radiocarbon proxies of solar activity
Suess effect, a change in the ratio of the atmospheric concentrations of heavy isotopes of carbon noted by the chemist
Hans Suess, known as Hans von Kulmbach, 16th century German artist
Randy Suess (1945–2019), American programmer, co-founder of CBBS, the first bulletin board system
Ray Suess (1903–1970), American football player
Suess., the author abbreviation of German botanist Karl Suessenguth (1893–1955) |
Acrimony (band) | 10000383-0 | Acrimony was a Welsh heavy metal band from Swansea who was active during the 1990s. Releasing their debut album in 1994, they are regarded as the pioneers of stoner metal in the United Kingdom, and an important influence upon the scene. Although the band never achieved mainstream success, during their career they received much critical acclaim – they were nominated for the Kerrang! Best Newcomer award and earned top review ratings. Acrimony have maintained a cult following in the British metal scene, their records reportedly selling for vast sums as collectors items. AllMusic described their musical style as a "powerful blend of Black Sabbath’s heavy metal riffery, Hawkwind's space rock excursions, and Blue Cheer's fuzzed-out psychedelic feedback." In 2019, Kerrang! listed Acrimony as part of "20 bands who didn't get the respect they deserved". |
Acrimony (band) | 10000383-1 | Present day In November 2019, Acrimony's three albums, Hymns to the Stone, Tumuli Shroomaroom and Bong On - Live Long! were reissued in 3CD digipack and remastered edition by the Dutch music label Burning World Records.
Band members
Dorian "Dexter" Walters – vocals
Stuart O'Hara – guitar
Matthew Lee "Roy" Davies – guitar
Paul "Mead" Bidmead – bass
Darren Ivey – drums
Former members
David "Dai" Jones – Bass
Discography
Albums
EPs and Singles
Compilation appearances
1996 – "Earthchild Inferno" on Dark Passages Volume II, later included on Bong On - Live Long!
1997 – "Bud Song" on Burn One Up
1998 – "Find The Path" on Stoned Revolution
1998 – "O Baby" on Peaceville X, later included on Bong On - Live Long!
1999 – "Tumuli Shroomaroom" on Rise 13: Magick Rock Volume 1
2001 – "Satellite 19" on 21st Century Media Blitz Volume II |
James Fiennes, 1st Baron Saye and Sele | 1000044-0 | James Fiennes, 1st Baron Saye and Sele (22 September 1395 – 4 July 1450) was an English soldier and politician. He was born at Herstmonceux, Sussex, the second son of Sir William Fiennes (1 August 1357 – 18 January 1402) and his wife Elizabeth Batisford (Wartling, Sussex, 1363 - Herstmonceux, 18 January 1405).
Fiennes fought in the Hundred Years' War and served as High Sheriff of Kent in 1436 and High Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex in 1438. He was Constable of Dover Castle and Warden of the Cinque Ports from 1447 to 1450, and Lord High Treasurer of England from 1449 to 1450. Fiennes' tenure as Lord High Treasurer occurred during the Great Bullion Famine and the Great Slump in England. |
James Fiennes, 1st Baron Saye and Sele | 1000044-1 | After Suffolk's deposition and murder in 1450, Fiennes was imprisoned in the Tower with his son-in-law William Cromer, deputy-sheriff of Kent. Having been released from the tower and handed over to the rebels as a placatory gesture by the King, Baron Saye was brought to Guildhall for a sham trial. Upon being found guilty of treason, he was paraded through part of London and beheaded by a mob of the rebels in London under Jack Cade at the Standard in Cheapside on 4 July 1450.
His son-in-law was also executed by the rebels outside the city walls on the same day. The heads of the two men were put on pikes and unceremoniously paraded through the streets of London while their bearers pushed them together so that they appeared to kiss. Fiennes was subsequently buried in the Franciscan church at Newgate. Shortly after the burial, English settlers dispossessed from their property in Bayeux and Caen (who had recently arrived in London) removed his coat of arms from the pillar by his grave and reversed it - an act intended to dishonour the dead. .He was succeeded in the barony by his son William.
Ancestry
Family and legacy |
James Fiennes, 1st Baron Saye and Sele | 1000044-2 | He married twice. Elizabeth (died 1475), who married three times. First, her stepmother's brother William Cromer (died 1450), of Tunstall, murdered like her father by Jack Cade's rebels; secondly Alexander Iden, of Westwell, Jack Cade's capturer, and lastly Sir Lawrence Raynsford (died 1490). Both her first two husbands had been a High Sheriff of Kent and her last was a High Sheriff of Essex and of Wiltshire.
William (born about 1428), who became 2nd Baron Saye and Sele and was killed in 1471 during the Battle of Barnet.
Before 1441, he married as second wife Emmeline (died 5 January 1452), daughter of Sir William Cromer, twice Lord Mayor of London. They may have had two daughters.
Fiennes appears as a named character in the play Henry VI, Part 2 by William Shakespeare, while the Battle of Barnet at which his son William died is referenced in the next play of the trilogy, Henry VI, Part 3.
His elder brother, Roger Fiennes (1384–1449) married Elizabeth Holland (daughter of John Holland (Duke of Exeter, half-brother of Richard II, son of Thomas Holland and Joan "the fair" of Kent) and Elizabeth of Lancaster (daughter of John of Gaunt and Blanche of Lancaster)) |
Midaq Alley (novel) | 10000450-0 | Plot introduction
Mahfouz plays on the cultural setting. The novel is introduced with description of the Arab culture. It centers around the list of characters described below. The novel takes place in the 1940s and represents standing on the threshold of a modern era in Cairo and the rest of the nation as a whole.
Characters
Each character is expressed like a caricature in which one quality or trait is over-emphasized. Mahfouz is not satirizing the individual character – he is satirizing the character type.
Kirsha, a café owner who illegally sells and uses hashish and has a predilection for young boys
Mrs. Kirsha, infamous for her temper
Uncle Kamil, good-hearted, bachelor sweets-seller, famously bloated and sleepy
Abbas, a young, kindly barber who wants to get married, joins the British army to make money to be able to marry Hamida.
Salim Alwan, the lustful, wealthy businessman who competes with Abbas for the love of Hamida. After surviving a heart attack, he becomes embittered, preventing him from marrying Hamida
Dr. Booshy, the self-proclaimed dentist who sells false teeth at dirt-cheap prices by stealing them off dead bodies
Sanker, the waiter at Kirsha's café |
Midaq Alley (novel) | 10000450-1 | Radwan Hussainy, a landlord who beats his wife and failed his al-Azhar exams, yet is revered for his high degree of education and devotion to God. He has lost all of his children.
Hussain Kirsha, son of the café owner who works for the British. He marries a woman of lower class and returns home with her and her brother.
Saniya Afify, widowed landlady who desires to remarry. Umm Hamida sets her up with a younger man named Ahmed Effendi Talbat
Umm Hamida, the neighborhood matchmaker and bath attendant; Hamida's foster mother
Hamida, a beautiful young woman who dreams of a better life and has a distinctly self-centered personality, but is easily persuaded by wealth or power.
Husniya, the bakeress who beats her husband with her slipper
Jaada, Husniya's husband
Zaita, the cripple maker who lives outside the bakery and aids Dr. Booshy in his theft of false teeth.
Ibrahim Farhat, a politician
Ibrahim Faraj, a pimp who tries to seduce Hamida into working for him
The Poet, who is replaced by a radio and is barred by Kirsha (only appears in the first chapter) |
Korczowa | 10000462-0 | Korczowa is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Radymno, within Jarosław County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland, close to the border with Ukraine.
The village lies approximately east of Radymno, east of Jarosław, and east of the regional capital Rzeszów.
Before World War II the settlement was a farmstead in Gnojnice which were a suburb of nearby Krakowiec.
The Korczowa-Krakovets road border crossing with Ukraine is located nearby. As Poland became part of the Schengen Area on 21 December 2007, this border crossing is a Schengen external border. The European route E40 crosses the border here. The eastern terminus of Poland's A4 motorway and National Road 94 are located at Korczowa. |
Greater Western Victoria Rebels | 10000466-0 | The Greater Western Victoria Rebels is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Talent League, the statewide under-18s competition in Victoria, Australia. |
Greater Western Victoria Rebels | 10000466-1 | This was to help aid in player development and the process of the AFL draft, which allows U18 players the opportunity to be selected by AFL clubs.
Greater Western Victoria has produced many notable AFL players including Adam Goodes, Drew Petrie, Troy Chaplin, Jed Adcock, Tim Notting, Shannon Watt, James Walker and Shane O'Bree.
Honours
Premierships (1): 1997
Runners-up (0): Nil
Minor Premiers (3): 2006, 2012, 2015
Wooden Spoons (1): 2013
Draftees
1994: Brad Cassidy, Mark Orchard, Tony Bourke, Ross Funcke, Gerard Jess
1996: Brent Tuckey, Tim Notting
1997: James Walker, Shane O'Bree, Shannon Watt, Adam Goodes, Marcus Picken, Sam Cranage
2000: Drew Petrie, Jeremy Humm
2002: Luke Brennan, Tristan Cartledge
2003: Jed Adcock, Troy Chaplin, Adam Campbell
2004: Matt Rosa
2005: Stephen Owen
2006: Nathan Brown, James Frawley, Mitchell Brown, Shaun Grigg, Tim Houlihan, Matt Tyler
2007: Clayton Hinkley, Kyle Cheney, Matt Austin
2008: Nick Suban, Jordan Roughead, Tim Ruffles, Will Young
2009: David Astbury, Matthew Dea, Josh Cowan
2010: Lucas Cook, Tom McDonald, Ben Mabon
2011: Sebastian Ross, Rory Taggert, Tom Downie, Nick O'Brien, Brad Crouch*, Kurt Aylett+, Jeremy Cameron+ |
Greater Western Victoria Rebels | 10000466-2 | 2013: Matt Crouch, Louis Herbert, Dallas Willsmore
2014: Oscar McDonald, Dan Butler, Jesse Palmer
2015: Jacob Hopper, Daniel Rioli, Darcy Tucker, Yestin Eades
2016: Hugh McCluggage, Jarrod Berry, Cedric Cox, Willem Drew, Tom Williamson, Jamaine Jones
2017: Lloyd Meek, Flynn Appleby
2018: Tom Berry
2019: Jay Rantall
2020: Harry Sharp, Nick Stevens
2021: Josh Gibcus, Sam Butler
2022: Aaron Cadman, James van Es, Hugh Bond
Notes:
* Denotes being selected in Greater Western Sydney Mini-Draft (2011)
+ Denotes player was pre-listed by Greater Western Sydney (2011)
† Denotes player was pre-listed and on-traded by Greater Western Sydney (2012)
Sources:1994-2009: AFL Record Season Guide 2010
Team of the Year
1993: -
1994: Shane Snibson, Brad Cassidy
1995: Julian Field
1996: Brent Tuckey, Shane O'Bree
1997: James Walker, Winis Imbi
1998: Marc Greig
1999: Jeremy Clayton
2000: Shane Hutchinson, Drew Petrie
2001: Justin Perkins
2002: Adam Fisher
2003: Jed Adcock, Matt Sharkey
2004: Matt Rosa
2005: Bill Driscoll, Steve Clifton
2006: Nathan Brown, James Frawley, Shaun Grigg, Lachlan George
2007: Kyle Cheney, Nick Suban
2008: Andrew Hooper, Jordan Roughead, Nick Suban
2009: Andrew Hooper
2010: Lucas Cook
2011: Brad Crouch, Nick O'Brien
2012: Nick Rippon, Matt Crouch, Jake Lloyd |
Teemu Kattilakoski | 10000489-0 | Teemu Kattilakoski (December 16, 1977 in Kannus) is a Finnish cross-country skier who has been competing since 1996. His best finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was sixth in the 4 × 10 km relay in 2007 while his best individual finish was eighth in the 50 km event in 2003.
Kattilakoski's best individual finish at the Winter Olympics was 27th in the 15 km event at Vancouver in 2010.
He has a total of four individual victories at various levels all at 10 km from 1998 to 2005.
He made an appearance in a commercial for Tide, playing one of the background civilians.
Cross-country skiing results
All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).
Olympic Games
World Championships
1 medal – (1 bronze)
World Cup
Season standings
Team podiums
1 victory – (1 )
3 podiums – (2 , 1 ) |
Atocha station memorial | 10000495-0 | The tall cylinder stands above Atocha station, the destination of the four trains that were attacked. Texts composed of hundreds of expressions of grief sent in the days after the attack from all over the world are printed on a clear colourless membrane that is inflated by air pressure, rising balloon-like inside a cylinder. That structure is composed of glass blocks and sits on a platform or terrace overhead. The light in the empty blue room below comes from this source alone. At night the cylinder is illuminated by lamps within its base and can be seen throughout the station neighborhood.
King Juan Carlos, Queen Sofia and Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero attended a ceremony at the site on the third anniversary of the bombings, 11 March 2007. Wreaths were laid at the foot of the tower and mourners observed three minutes of silence. |
Ellet J. Waggoner | 10000498-0 | Biography
Waggoner was born in Baraboo, Wisconsin on January 12, 1855, to Joseph Harvey and Maryetta Hall Waggoner. He was the sixth of ten children.
His father had joined an Advent group in 1852, which would later become the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Soon thereafter he became a preacher and writer, and remained active until his death in 1889. He was on the committee that adopted the official name – Seventh-day Adventist – that is still in use today.
Ellet Waggoner attended Battle Creek College (now Andrews University) and later graduated as a physician from Bellevue Medical College in New York City. For some time he served on the staff of the Battle Creek Sanitarium. During this time, he married Jessie Moser, whom he had met at Battle Creek College. Jessie and Waggoner had two daughters, Bessie and Pearl. They moved to California about 1880, where he served as manager of the St. Helena Hospital in Saint Helena, California.
In 1883, Waggoner stopped practicing medicine and became the assistant editor for the Signs of the Times – an official paper presenting the stands and views of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. His father, J. H. Waggoner was then the editor. |
Ellet J. Waggoner | 10000498-1 | In 1892 Waggoner went to England where he became the editor of The Present Truth magazine. He remained there for ten years, working with W. W. Prescott in the training school in England, and continuing in his writing and studies on Christ and His righteousness.
Upon his return to the United States, he joined the faculty of Emmanuel Missionary College (now Andrews University). Because of a divorce and his subsequent remarriage, he separated from denominational employment. He spent the last years of his life employed by the Battle Creek Sanitarium.
Waggoner experienced a stroke in his sleep and died at home in Battle Creek on Friday, May 28, 1916.
Publications
Some of his better known writings include
The Glad Tidings (1900 Original)
The Everlasting Covenant (1896)
The Gospel in Creation (1895)
The Gospel in Galatians (1887)
Waggoner on Romans (1896)
Sermons on Romans (1891)
Christ and His Righteousness (1889)
The Fathers of the Catholic Church
Also: |
Grebe | 100005-0 | Grebes () are aquatic diving birds in the order Podicipediformes (). Grebes are widely distributed freshwater birds, with some species also found in marine habitats during migration and winter. Most grebes fly, although some flightless species exist, most notably in stable lakes. The order contains a single family, the Podicipedidae, which includes 22 species in six extant genera. |
Grebe | 100005-1 | Etymology
The word "grebe" comes from the French , which is of unknown origin and dating to 1766. It is possibly from the Breton "krib" meaning 'comb', this referring to the crests of many of the European species. However, was used to refer to gulls. The appearance of "grebe" in the English language was introduced in 1768 by the Welsh naturalist Thomas Pennant when he adopted the word for the family. Some of the smaller species are often referred to as "dabchick", which originated in the mid 16th century English as they were said to be chick-like birds that dive. The clade names "Podicipediformes" and "Podicipedidae" is based on the genus Podiceps which is a combination of Latin of ("rear-end" or "anus") and ("foot"), a reference to the placement of a grebe's legs towards the rear of its body.
Field characteristics
Grebes are small to medium-large in size ranging from the least grebe (Tachybaptus dominicus), at and , to the great grebe (Podiceps major), at and . Despite these size differences grebes are a homogenous family of waterbirds with very few or slight differences among the genera. |
Grebe | 100005-2 | Anatomy and physiology The leg bones (femur and tarsometatarsus) are equal in length, with the femur having a large head and the presence of long cnemial crests in the tarsometatarsus. The patella is separate and supports the tarsometatarsus posteriorly which greatly helps with the contraction in the muscles. They swim by simultaneously spreading out the feet and bringing them inward, with the webbing expanded to produce the forward thrust in much the same way as frogs. However, due to the anatomy of the legs, grebes are not as mobile on land as they are on the water. Although they can run for a short distance, they are prone to falling over, since they have their feet placed far back on the body. |
Grebe | 100005-3 | Bills vary from short and thick to long and pointed depending on the diet, and are slightly larger in males than in females (though the sizes can overlap between younger males and females).
Feathers
Grebes have unusual plumage. On average grebes have 20,000 feathers, the highest among birds. The feathers are very dense and strongly curved. In the larger species feathers are more dense but shorter, while the opposite is true in smaller species where the feathers are longer but less dense. |
Grebe | 100005-4 | Systematics
The grebes are a radically distinct group of birds as regards their anatomy. Accordingly, they were at first believed to be related to the loons, which are also foot-propelled diving birds, and both families were once classified together under the order Colymbiformes. However, as early as the 1930s, this was determined to be an example of convergent evolution caused by the strong selective forces encountered by unrelated birds sharing the same lifestyle at different times and in different habitat. Grebes and loons are now separately classified orders of Podicipediformes and Gaviiformes, respectively.
Recent molecular studies have suggested a relation with flamingos while morphological evidence also strongly supports a relationship between flamingos and grebes. They hold at least eleven morphological traits in common, which are not found in other birds. Many of these characteristics have been previously identified in flamingos, but not in grebes. For the grebe-flamingo clade, the taxon Mirandornithes ("miraculous birds" due to their extreme divergence and apomorphies) has been proposed. Alternatively, they could be placed in one order, with Phoenocopteriformes taking priority. |
Grebe | 100005-5 | Fossil record True grebes suddenly appear in the fossil record in the Late Oligocene or Early Miocene, around 23–25 mya. There are a few prehistoric genera that are now completely extinct. Thiornis and Pliolymbus date from a time when most if not all extant genera were already present. Because grebes are evolutionarily isolated and they only started to appear in the Northern Hemisphere fossil record in the Early Miocene, they are likely to have originated in the Southern Hemisphere.
Genus Aechmophorus Coues, 1862
†Aechmophorus elasson Murray, 1967 (Piacenzian stage of western United States)
Genus †Miobaptus Švec, 1982
†Miobaptus huzhiricus Zelenkov, 2015 (Burdigalian to the Langhian ages of East Siberia)
†Miobaptus walteri Švec, 1982 [Podiceps walteri (Švec, 1984) Mlíkovský, 2000] (Aquitanian age of Europe)
Genus †Miodytes Dimitreijevich, Gál & Kessler, 2002
†Miodytes serbicus Dimitreijevich, Gál & Kessler, 2002 (Langhian age of Serbia)
Genus †Pliolymbus Murray, 1967 [Piliolymbus (sic)] |
Grebe | 100005-6 | Genus Podiceps Latham 1787
†Podiceps arndti Chandler, 1990 (Piacenzian stage of North America)
†Podiceps csarnotanus Kessler, 2009 (Piacenzian stage of Europe)
†Podiceps discors Murray, 1967 (Piacenzian stage of North America)
†Podiceps dixi Brodkorp, 1963 (Chibanian to the Tarantian stages of Florida, United States)
†Podiceps howardae Storer, 2001 (Zanclean age of North Carolina, United States)
†Podiceps miocenicus Kessler, 1984 (Tortonian age of Moldova)
†Podiceps oligoceanus (Shufeldt, 1915) (Aquitanian age of North America)
†Podiceps parvus (Shufeldt, 1913) (Gelasian to the Calabrian stages of North America)
†Podiceps pisanus (Portis, 1888) (Piacenzian stage of Italy)
†Podiceps solidus Kuročkin, 1985 (Zanclean age of Western Mongolia)
†Podiceps subparvus (Miller & Bowman, 1958)
Genus Podilymbus Lesson 1831
†Podilymbus majusculus Murray 1967 (Piacenzian stage of Idaho, United States)
†Podilymbus wetmorei Storer 1976 (Chibanian to the Tarantian stages of Florida, United States)
Genus †Thiornis Navás, 1922
†Thiornis sociata Navás, 1922 [Podiceps sociatus (Navás, 1922) Olson, 1995] (Tortonian age of Spain)
A few more recent grebe fossils could not be assigned to modern or prehistoric genera:
Podicipedidae gen. et sp. indet. (San Diego Late Pliocene of California) – formerly included in Podiceps parvus
Podicipedidae gen. et sp. indet. UMMP 49592, 52261, 51848, 52276, KUVP 4484 (Late Pliocene of WC USA) |
Grebe | 100005-7 | Phylogeny
To date there is no complete phylogeny of grebes based on molecular work. However, there are comprehensive morphological works from Bochenski (1994), Fjeldså (2004) and Ksepka et al. (2013) that have been done on the grebe genera.
Bochenski (1994)
Fjeldså (2004)
Ksepka et al. (2013)
Recent species listing
Natural history
Habitat, distribution and migration
Grebes are a nearly cosmopolitan clade of waterbirds, found on every continent except Antarctica. They are absent from the Arctic Circle and arid environments. They have successfully colonized islands such as Madagascar and New Zealand. Some species such as the eared grebe (Podiceps nigricollis) and great crested grebe (P. cristatus) are found on multiple continents with regional subspecies or populations. A few species like the Junin grebe (P. taczanowskii) and the recently extinct Atitlán grebe (Podilymbus gigas) are lake endemics. During the warmer or breeding seasons, many species of grebes in the northern hemisphere reside in a variety of freshwater habitats like lakes and marshes. Once winter arrives many will migrate to marine environments along the coastlines. Grebes are most prevalent in the New World with almost half of the world's species native there. |
Grebe | 100005-8 | Feeding ecology Breeding and reproduction
Grebes are perhaps best known for their elaborate courtship displays. Most species perform a duet together and many have their own synchronized rituals. Some, like those species in the genus Podiceps do a "penguin dance" where the male and female stand upright, breast posturing out and run along the water's surface. A similar ritual in other species is the "weed dance" in which both partners hold pieces of aquatic vegetation in their bills and are positioned upright towards each other. There is also the "weed rush" in which partners swim towards each other, necks stretched out with weeds in their bill, and just before colliding position themselves upright and then swim in parallel. |
Grebe | 100005-9 | Parasitology
249 species of parasitic worms have been known to parasitize the intestinal region of grebes. The amabiliids are a family of cyclophyllid cestodes that are almost all grebe specialists. The life cycle of these tapeworms begins when eggs are passed through the feces, where they are picked by intermediate hosts, which include corixid bugs and the nymphs of Odonata. These aquatic insects are eventually be consumed by grebes, where the lifecycle begins again. Another grebe specialist family of internal parasites are the Dioecocestidae. Other families such as Echinostomatidae and Hymenolepididae also contain several cestode species that are grebe specialists. |
Grebe | 100005-10 | Conservation
Thirty percent of the total extant species are considered to be threatened species by the IUCN. The handful of critically endangered and extinct species of grebe are lake endemics and nearly all of them are or were flightless. The three recently extinct species consist of the Alaotra grebe, the Atitlán grebe, and the Colombian grebe. These species went extinct due to anthropogenic changes, such as habitat loss, the introduction of invasive predatory fishes, and the use of fishing nets that tangled birds in the lakes they once existed in. Similar issues are befalling the Colombian grebe's closest relatives, the Junin grebe and hooded grebe, along with climate change. |
Christopher Bernau | 1000050-0 | Christopher Bernau (born Herbert Augustine Bernau, June 2, 1940 – June 14, 1989) was an American actor.
Filmography
Dark Shadows (1969–1970) (Phillip Todd/Opening Voiceover)
Broadway on Showtime (1980) (Dracula)
Guiding Light (1977–1988) (Alan Spaulding)
Life and career
Bernau was born in Santa Barbara, California to Herbert Bernau, a physiotherapist, and Emma Bernau (nee Vercellino), a homemaker. Bernau showed a love for the theatre at an early age, and was frequently cast in high school plays. |
Christopher Bernau | 1000050-1 | His most famous role, however, was that of villain Alan Spaulding on the soap opera Guiding Light, a role he played from 1977 to 1984 and again from 1986 until 1988. He left the show due to illness shortly before his death in 1989.
Though his famous character was portrayed as a habitual womanizer, Bernau is considered to be one of the only truly "out" soap opera actors, as it was fairly well known by both the actors he worked with and the soap press at large that he was gay.
Death
Bernau was diagnosed with HIV but continued to work on Guiding Light. He left the show in the summer of 1988, when he became too ill to show up at work, with his role being recast with Daniel Pilon.
Bernau died of a heart attack brought on by complications from AIDS on June 14, 1989, at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital (now Mount Sinai West) in New York City at the age of 49. At first, Bernau's AIDS diagnosis was kept private, with his death certificate listing 'natural causes' as the cause of his death.
He is buried at Santa Barbara Cemetery, Santa Barbara, California. |
William Hauptman | 10000511-0 | William Hauptman (born 1942) is an American writer. Born in Texas, he received a BFA from the University of Texas Drama Department and later traveled to San Francisco and New York. A graduate who received an MFA from the Yale School of Drama, he is the author of plays and fiction. |
William Hauptman | 10000511-1 | Career Big River (1985), his adaptation of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, written in collaboration with composer Roger Miller, won seven Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Book of a Musical when it opened on Broadway. It has proven very popular in stock and amateur theatrical productions. Hauptman joined the project after being approached by former Yale classmate Rocco Landesman.
Hauptman is also a writer of fiction. His first published story, Good Rockin' Tonight, about an Elvis impersonator, made The Best American Short Stories Collection of 1982. Later, Hauptman wrote a screenplay of this story for 20th Century Fox, going on to write several other screenplays for the studios, including Amblin Entertainment and Merchant Ivory Productions.
Bantam published his collection of short stories, including Good Rockin' Tonight and Other Stories (1988). Larry McMurtry gave him this quote: "William Hauptman, for my money, is the most promising young fiction writers to come out of the Southwest in a long time." This collection won the Jesse Jones Award for Best Work of Fiction given by the Texas Institute of Letters in 1989, along with an award for Best Short Story, which was given to Moon Walking. |
William Hauptman | 10000511-2 | His most recent novel, about his experiences in the 60s, is called Journey to the West (2017) which has been described by James Magnuson, director of the Michener Center at the University of Texas as "by turns hilarious, sweet, and harrowing...It deserves to be a classic."
Big River was also produced by the Deaf West Company in both Los Angeles (2002) and New York, (2003) at the American Airlines Theater, and received a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical. Big River was also produced as part of the Encores Series at City Center Theater in New York in 2017. Program Notes: From Playbill of Encores Production of Big River, 2016: "It was a time when everybody played by the rules of Satchel Paige: Don't worry about the things you can't do nothing about, dance like nobody's watching, and love like you can't get hurt."
He has also contributed articles to The Atlantic Monthly, Texas Monthly, and The New York Times Sunday Magazine. Teaching Experience—Yale School of Drama; the Michener Center for writers at the University of Texas in Austin; and Brooklyn College.
Big River
Heat
Comanche Cafe
Domino Courts |
William Hauptman | 10000511-3 | Gillette The Storm Season
Journey to the West
Awards
1979 NAACP Freedom Foundation Award - PBS teleplay Denmark Vesey, starring Ned Beatty and Yaphet Kotto, - Winner
1985 *Tony Award for Best Musical - Big River - Winner
1986 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, Gillette - Winner
1988 Jesse Jones Award for Best Book from the Texas Institute of Letters for Good Rockin' Tonight -- Winner
2003 *Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical by the Deaf West Company of Los Angeles, Big River, at the American Airlines Theatre in New York. - Winner
Grants: National Endowment Grant, Rockefeller Grant, Guggenheim Grant Honors: The Author has also been included in the exclusive Texas Writer's Collection at Texas State University.
Personal life
Hauptman is married to Marjorie Erdreich and lives in Brooklyn. His daughter, Sarah, is employed by the State Department and their son, Max, is a captain in the United States Army. "I live in Brooklyn because, for all its faults, I like it better than the town where I was born. My days are calm and predetermined. I watch my children grow up and hope they will do well." -Journey to the West |
Rhosgoch | 10000516-0 | Rhosgoch (; meaning: 'red moor') is a small village in the north of the island of Anglesey, Wales, about to the south-west of Amlwch. It is in the community of Rhosybol.
A short distance to the west of the village is the small lake Llyn Hafodol and a mile to the south is Anglesey's largest body of water the reservoir Llyn Alaw (Water Lily Lake).
The village once had a station on the Anglesey Central Railway. Although the tracks still exist, no train has run on them since 1993. Also connected to the railway, was a short south-west facing spur that led to an oil terminal. This was linked to a floating dock in the sea off of Amlwch, where super-tankers could dock in all tides and feed oil via Rhosgoch and a pipeline to Stanlow oil refinery. This operation lasted for 16 years between 1974 and 1990.
The first tornado of the record-breaking 1981 United Kingdom tornado outbreak, an F1/T2 tornado, touched down close to Rhosgoch at around 10:19 local time on 23 November 1981. |
Face transplant | 1000053-0 | of a field called "Vascularized Composite Tissue Allotransplantation" (VCA) it involves the transplantation of facial skin, the nasal structure, the nose, the lips, the muscles of facial movement used for expression, the nerves that provide sensation, and, potentially, the bones that support the face. The recipient of a face transplant will take life-long medications to suppress the immune system and fight off rejection.
The world's first partial face transplant on a living human was carried out in France in 2005. The world's first full face transplant was completed in Spain in 2010. Turkey, France, the United States, and Spain (in order of total number of successful face transplants performed) are considered the leading countries in the research into the procedure.
Beneficiaries of face transplant
People with faces disfigured by trauma, burns, disease, or birth defects might aesthetically benefit from the procedure. Professor Peter Butler at the Royal Free Hospital first suggested this approach in treating people with facial disfigurement in a Lancet article in 2002. This suggestion caused considerable debate at the time concerning the ethics of this procedure. |
Face transplant | 1000053-1 | History
Self as donor ("face replant")
The world's first full-face replant operation was on 9-year-old Sandeep Kaur, whose face was ripped off when her hair was caught in a thresher. Sandeep's mother witnessed the accident. Sandeep arrived at the hospital unconscious with her face in two pieces in a plastic bag. An article in The Guardian recounts: "In 1994, a nine-year-old child in northern India lost her face and scalp in a threshing machine accident. Her parents raced to the hospital with her face in a plastic bag and a surgeon managed to reconnect the arteries and replant the skin." The operation was successful, although the child was left with some muscle damage as well as scarring around the perimeter where the facial skin was sutured back on. Sandeep's doctor was Abraham Thomas, one of India's top microsurgeons. In 2004, Sandeep was training to be a nurse.
In 1996, a similar operation was performed in the Australian state of Victoria, when a woman's face and scalp, torn off in a similar accident, was packed in ice and successfully reattached.
Partial face transplant |
Face transplant | 1000053-2 | France at the age of 49 following cancer from medications.
A 29-year-old French man underwent surgery in 2007. He had a facial tumor called a neurofibroma caused by a genetic disorder. The tumor was so massive that the man could not eat or speak properly.
In March 2008, the treatment of 30-year-old Pascal Coler of France, who has neurofibromatosis, ended after he received what his doctors call the world's first successful almost full face transplant. The operation, which lasted approximately 20 hours, was designed and performed by Laurent Lantieri and his team (Jean-Paul Meningaud, Antonios Paraskevas and Fabio Ingallina). |
Face transplant | 1000053-3 | China Turkey
Selahattin Özmen performed a partial face transplant on 17 March 2012 on Hatice Nergis, a twenty-year-old woman at Gazi University's hospital in Ankara. It was Turkey's third, the first woman-to-woman and the first three-dimensional with bone tissue. The patient from Kahramanmaraş had lost her upper jaw six years prior in a firearm accident, including her mouth, lips, palate, teeth and nasal cavity, and was since then unable to eat. She had undergone around 35 reconstructive plastic surgery operations. The donor was a 28-year-old Turkish woman of Moldavian origin in Istanbul, who had died by suicide. Nergis died in Ankara on 15 November 2016 after she was hospitalized two days prior complaining about acute pain. |
Face transplant | 1000053-4 | Belgium Italy
In September 2018, a 49-year-old woman affected by Neurofibromatosis type I received a partial face transplant from a 21-year-old girl at Sant'Andrea Hospital of Sapienza University in Rome. The procedure took 27 hours and was carried out by two teams led by Fabio Santanelli di Pompeo and Benedetto Longo. The patient had a complication and after two days the surgeons had to replace the facial graft with autologous tissue. The patient is still alive and waiting for a second face transplantation.
Canada
In May 2018, the first Canadian complete face transplant was performed under the leadership of plastic surgeon Daniel Borsuk at the Hopital Maisonneuve Rosemont, in Montreal, Quebec. The transplant took over 30 hours and replaced the upper and lower jaws, nose, lips and teeth on Maurice Desjardins, a 64-year-old man that shot himself in a hunting accident. At that time, Mr. Desjardins was the oldest person to benefit from a face transplant.
Full face transplant
On 20 March 2010, a team of 30 Spanish doctors led by plastic surgeon Joan Pere Barret at the Vall d'Hebron University Hospital in Barcelona carried out the world's first full face transplant, on a man injured in a shooting accident. |
Face transplant | 1000053-5 | In March 2011, a surgical team, led by Bohdan Pomahač at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, performed a full face transplant on Dallas Wiens, who was badly disfigured in a power line accident that left him blind and without lips, nose or eyebrows. The patient's sight couldn't be recovered but he has been able to talk on the phone and smell.
In April 2011, less than one month after the hospital performed the first full face transplant in the country, the Brigham and Women's Hospital face transplant team, led by Bohdan Pomahač, performed the nation's second full face transplant on patient Mitch Hunter of Speedway, Indiana. It was the third face transplant procedure to be performed at BWH and the fourth face transplant in the country. The team of more than 30 physicians, nurses, anesthesiologists and residents worked for more than 14 hours to replace the full facial area of the patient, including the nose, muscles of facial animation and the nerves that power them and provide sensation. Hunter had a severe shock from a high voltage electrical wire following a car accident in 2001. |
Face transplant | 1000053-6 | Poland Seven months later, on 4 December, the same Polish medical team in Gliwice transplanted a face onto a 26-year-old female patient with neurofibromatosis. Two months after the operation, she left the hospital.
Turkey
On 21 January 2012, Turkish surgeon Ömer Özkan and his team successfully performed a full face transplant at Akdeniz University's hospital in Antalya. The 19-year-old patient, Uğur Acar, was badly burnt in a house fire when he was a baby. The donor was 39-year-old Ahmet Kaya, who died on 20 January. The Turkish doctors declared that his body had accepted the new tissue. |
Face transplant | 1000053-7 | On 16 May 2012, surgeon Ömer Özkan and his team at the Akdeniz University Hospital performed the country's fourth and their second full face transplant. The face and ears of 27-year-old patient Turan Çolak from İzmir were burnt when he fell into an oven when he was three and half years old. The donor was Tevfik Yılmaz, a 19-year-old man from Uşak who had attempted suicide on 8 May. He was declared brain dead in the evening hours of 15 May after having been in intensive care for seven days. His parents donated all his organs.
On 18 July 2013, the face of a Polish man was successfully given to a Turkish man in a transplant performed by Özkan, at Akdeniz University hospital following a 6.5-hour operation, making it the fifth such operation to take place in the country. It was the 25th face transplant operation in the world. The donor was Andrzej Kucza, a 42-year-old Polish tourist who was declared brain dead following a heart attack on 14 July while swimming in Turkey's sea resort Muğla. The 27-year-old patient Recep Sert came immediately from Bursa to Antalya for the surgery in late July 2017. |
Face transplant | 1000053-8 | On 30 December 2013, Özkan and his team conducted their fifth and Turkey's seventh face transplant surgery at the hospital of Akdeniz University. The nose, upper lip, upper jaw and maxilla of brain dead Ali Emre Küçük, aged 34, were successfully transplanted to 22-year-old Recep Kaya, whose face was badly deformed in a shotgun accident. While Kaya was flown from Kırklareli to Antalya via Istanbul in four hours, the donor's organs were transported from Edirne by an ambulance airplane. The surgery took 4 hours and 10 minutes.
United Kingdom
In October 2006, surgeon Peter Butler at London's Royal Free Hospital in the UK was given permission by the NHS ethics board to carry out face transplants. His team will select four adult patients (children cannot be selected due to concerns over consent), with operations being carried out at six-month intervals. As of 2022, neither Butler nor any other UK surgeon has performed a face transplant.
United States
In 2004, the Cleveland Clinic became the first institution to approve this surgery and test it on cadavers. |
Face transplant | 1000053-9 | The second partial face transplant in the US took place at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston on 9 April 2009. During a 17-hour operation, a surgical team led by Bohdan Pomahač, replaced the nose, upper lip, cheeks, and roof of the mouth – along with corresponding muscles, bones and nerves – of James Maki, age 59. Maki's face was severely injured after falling onto the electrified third rail at a Boston subway station in 2005. In May 2009, he made a public media appearance and declared he was happy with the result. This procedure was also shown in the eighth episode of the ABC documentary series Boston Med.
The first full face transplant performed in the US was done on a construction worker named Dallas Wiens in March 2011. He was burned in an electrical accident in 2008. This operation, performed by Bohdan Pomahač and BWH plastic surgery team, was paid for with the help of the US defense department. They hope to learn from this procedure and use what they learn to help soldiers with facial injuries. One of the top benefits of the surgery was that Dallas has regained his sense of smell. |
Face transplant | 1000053-10 | 57-year-old Charla Nash, who was mauled by a chimpanzee named Travis in 2009, after the owner gave the chimp Xanax and wine. She underwent a 20-hour full face transplant in May 2011 at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Nash's full face transplant was the third surgery of its kind performed in the United States, all at the same hospital. |
Face transplant | 1000053-11 | In September 2014, another face transplant was performed by the Cleveland Clinic group. The patient had had complex trauma that masked the development of a rare type of autoimmune disease (granulomatosis with polyangiitis and pyoderma gengrenosum) affecting the face. It was the first face transplant in a patient with an autoimmune disease involving the craniofacial region. Prior to surgery, an analysis of renal transplant outcomes in granulomatosis with polyangiitis was conducted to evaluate allograft outcomes in these cohorts. That literature established feasibility and encouraged the Cleveland Clinic team to proceed with the surgery. The intervention was reported successful up to three years post-transplantation.
In August 2015, a face transplant was completed at the NYU Langone Medical Center under the leadership of the chair of plastic surgery Eduardo D. Rodriguez and his team. A 41-year-old retired fireman named Patrick Hardison received the face of cyclist David Rodebaugh. |
Face transplant | 1000053-12 | In a 31-hour operation starting on 4 May 2017, surgeons at the Cleveland Clinic transplanted a face donated from Adrea Schneider, who had died of a drug overdose, to Katie Stubblefield, whose face had been disfigured in a suicide attempt by rifle on 25 March 2014. , Katie is the youngest person in the United States to have had a face transplant, age 21 at the time. Surgeons originally planned to leave her cheeks, eyebrows, eyelids, most of her forehead, and the sides of her face alone. However, because the donor face was larger and darker than Katie's, they made the decision to transplant the donor's full face. This holds the risk that in case of acute rejection in which the face must be removed, she would not have enough tissue for reconstructive surgery. Katie was featured on the cover of National Geographic in September 2018 for an article entitled "The Story of a Face." |
Face transplant | 1000053-13 | Combined procedures
A number of combined VCA procedures, such as bilateral hand transplants, have been described in the literature and media sources. These combined procedures also include attempts at triple-limb and quadruple-limb transplants, however, only three face transplants have been attempted in combination with other allografts.
France
In 2009, Laurent Lantieri and his team attempted a face and bilateral hand transplant on a 37-year-old man who sustained extensive injuries during a self-immolation attempt one year prior. The patient ultimately died of anoxic brain injury two months after his initial transplant during surgical management of infectious and vascular complications. Autopsy revealed no signs of rejection in any of the allografts. |
Face transplant | 1000053-14 | United States Charla Nash's face transplant, described above, also initially included bilateral hands from the same donor. Circulation to Nash's transplanted hands was compromised after she was started on vasopressors as part of treatment for sepsis. The hands were ultimately amputated, however the patient survived, as did her facial allograft.
In May 2023, a team of 140 doctors at NYU Langone Health successfully conducted the first combination eye transplant and partial face transplant. The patient, a 46-year-old linesman, was electrocuted by high voltage wires in 2021 causing the loss of the lower portion of his face and his left eye. The eye, while not restoring vision to the patient, has successfully received blood flow to the retina.
Ethics, surgery and post-operation treatment
The procedure consists of a series of operations requiring rotating teams of specialists. With issues of tissue type, age, sex, and skin color taken into consideration, the patient's face is removed and replaced (sometimes including the underlying fat, nerves, blood vessels, bones, and/or musculature). The surgery may last anywhere from 8 to 36 hours, followed by a 10- to 14-day hospital stay. |
Face transplant | 1000053-15 | After the procedure, a lifelong regimen of immunosuppressive drugs is necessary to suppress the patient's own immune systems and prevent rejection. Long-term immunosuppression increases the risk of developing life-threatening infections, kidney damage, and cancer. The surgery may result in complications such as infections that could damage the transplanted face and require a second transplant or reconstruction with skin grafts. |
Dettmar Cramer | 10000548-0 | Career
Known as the "Football Professor", because of his attention to detail and also as "Napoleon" because of his diminutive 1.61 meter stature, Cramer began his career at Viktoria Dortmund and Germania Wiesbaden. The beginning of his managerial career led him to clubs such as Teutonia Lippstadt, VfL Geseke, FC Paderborn, and TuS Eving-Lindenhorst. At the turn of the year 1948–49, Cramer found himself in the service of the German Football Association (DFB) for the first time. Until 1963 he served with the designation as Head Coach for Western Germany under the DFB in Duisburg.
Little known, Cramer attempted to make the jump into a career in journalism at this point. He became lead editor for sports for West German television station ZDF. Feeling largely isolated from the football world, Cramer decided to call it quits after only six months on the job. Afterward he was sent by the DFB to Japan to serve as a football instructor. |
Dettmar Cramer | 10000548-1 | On 1 January 1964, Cramer returned to West Germany to serve as an assistant to West German national coach Helmut Schön. In this capacity he was a part of the coaching staff at the World Cup in 1966, where West Germany lost in the final to England. His talents were highly regarded by FIFA (Federation Internationale de Football Association), which contracted him as a coach from 1967 to 1974 and sent him on a tour of the globe. During this time, Cramer also ran the 1st FIFA Coaching Course in Japan in 1969, and sowed the seeds for a coach training structure in Japan. Additionally, on 1 August 1974, Cramer was selected by the United States Soccer Federation to become the head coach of the United States national team. |
Dettmar Cramer | 10000548-2 | Cramer led Bayern to victory in the 1975 and 1976 European Champions Cup, in addition to capturing the World Club Cup in 1976. The 1976 Bundesliga season, however, saw Bayern unable to recapture their form and, after a season that saw them fail to defend their domestic title, Cramer was forced to resign his position. Cramer was involved in a trade between Bayern and Eintracht Frankfurt, which saw him take the top spot at Frankfurt, while Frankfurt coach Gyula Lóránt made his way to Bayern. Neither club was happy with the trade, as Bayern finished a club worst 12th in the table, while Frankfurt's results were mediocre at best. As a result, the club parted ways with him on 30 June 1978. |
Dettmar Cramer | 10000548-3 | Personal life
Cramer served in World War II as a Senior Lieutenant with a German paratrooper division. For his international achievements, Cramer was awarded two honorary doctorates in addition to being presented with the Bundesverdienstkreuz (Federal Cross of Merit) in Germany. In 1971, Emperor Hirohito also personally presented him with membership in the Order of the Sacred Treasure for his service to Japan. Furthermore, Cramer was an honorary chieftain in the Native American Sioux and Mohican tribes. Cramer died at the age of 90 on 17 September 2015.
Honours
Egypt
Palestine Cup of Nations: 1972
African Games bronze medal: 1973
Africa Cup of Nations third place: 1974
FC Bayern Munich
European Cup: 1974–75, 1975–76
Intercontinental Cup: 1976
Individual
France Football 40th Greatest Manager of All Time: 2019
Inducted into Japan Football Hall of Fame |
Katha, Myanmar | 10000591-0 | Katha (, , sometimes also spelled Kathar,) (Shan: ၵၢတ်ႇသႃႇ) is a town in Sagaing Region, Myanmar, on the west side of the Irrawaddy River on a bluff with an average elevation of . Most of the town is more than above the river. Katha is known for having inspired Kyauktada, the fictional setting of George Orwell's Burmese Days.
Location
Katha is 12 hours by rail north of Mandalay through the railroad junction town of Naba which is to the west of Katha. A small branch of railway runs east from Naba to Katha. Katha can also be reached by ferries that run on the Irrawaddy River between the upstream town of Bhamo down to Mandalay. There is also direct bus service from Mandalay to Katha, but it is a bumpy ride.
Climate
Katha has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen climate classification Aw) bordering on a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cwa). Temperatures are very warm to hot throughout the year, with milder winter months (December–February). There is a winter dry season (November–March) and a summer wet season (April–October). |
Katha, Myanmar | 10000591-1 | Economy Setting of George Orwell's Burmese Days
Katha is known in literature as the real place underlying the fictional Kyauktada, setting of George Orwell's first novel Burmese Days (1934). Orwell himself served at Katha in 1926-27 in the Indian Imperial Police. The British Club (including active tennis court), police station, and town jail are locations mentioned in the novel that can still be visited today. More accounts on this section is readable in Emma Larkin's "Finding George Orwell in Burma". Katha has links with prominent Burmese writers such as Shwe U Daung, Thaw Tar Swe, Theik-Pan Muu Tin, and AFPFL leader Kyaw Nyein.
In September 2019, the Katha Heritage Trust opened a museum at the house that Orwell lived in during his time in Katha. The two-story wooden building had been an attraction for Western tourists. The museum features portraits and a picture of Orwell, and a painting of the house. One stated aim of the trust was to cooperate with the Orwell Trust in the United Kingdom to restore momentos of Orwell's time in Katha. |
PSR B1919+21 | 1000060-0 | PSR B1919+21 is a pulsar with a period of 1.3373 seconds and a pulse width of 0.04 seconds. Discovered by Jocelyn Bell Burnell on 28 November 1967, it is the first discovered radio pulsar. The power and regularity of the signals were briefly thought to resemble an extraterrestrial beacon, leading the source to be nicknamed LGM, later LGM-1 (for "little green men"). |
PSR B1919+21 | 1000060-1 | Discovery
In 1967, a radio signal was detected using the Interplanetary Scintillation Array of the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory in Cambridge, UK, by Jocelyn Bell Burnell. The signal had a -second period (not in 1967, but in 1991) and 0.04-second pulsewidth. It originated at celestial coordinates right ascension, +21° declination. It was detected by individual observation of miles of graphical data traces. Due to its almost perfect regularity, it was at first assumed to be spurious noise, but this hypothesis was promptly discarded. The discoverers jokingly named it little green men 1 (LGM-1), considering that it may have originated from an extraterrestrial civilization, but Bell Burnell soon ruled out extraterrestrial life as a source after discovering a similar signal from another part of the sky.
The original signal turned out to be radio emissions from the pulsar CP 1919, and was the first one recognized as such. Bell Burnell noted that other scientists could have discovered pulsars before her, but their observations were either ignored or disregarded. Researchers Thomas Gold and Fred Hoyle identified this astronomical object as a rapidly rotating neutron star immediately upon their announcement. |
PSR B1919+21 | 1000060-2 | We did not really believe that we had picked up signals from another civilization, but obviously the idea had crossed our minds and we had no proof that it was an entirely natural radio emission. It is an interesting problem – if one thinks one may have detected life elsewhere in the universe[,] how does one announce the results responsibly? Who does one tell first?
Nobel Prize controversy
When Antony Hewish and Martin Ryle received the Nobel Prize in physics in 1974 for their work in radio astronomy and pulsars, Fred Hoyle, Hewish's fellow astronomer, argued that Jocelyn Bell Burnell should have been a co-recipient of the prize.
In 2018, Bell won the $3-Million Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for her work.
Cultural references
The English post-punk band Joy Division used an image of CP 1919's radio pulses on the cover of their 1979 debut album, Unknown Pleasures.
German-born British composer Max Richter wrote a piece inspired by the discovery of CP1919 titled Journey (CP1919).
The English indie rock band Arctic Monkeys used a sound based on the pulses in their music video for "Four Out of Five." |
Stadium at Olympia | 10000605-0 | The stadium at the archaeological site of Olympia, Greece, is located to the east of the sanctuary of Zeus. It was the location of many of the sporting events at the Ancient Olympic Games.
History
During the 2004 Summer Olympics, it hosted the shot put events.
Features
The physical landmarks of the stadium are long and wide, and it served mainly for running races that determined the fastest person in the world. The track was made of hard-packed clay to serve as traction for the contestants in the running events. As in current day athletics, a white block was placed on one end of the track where the athletes would line up to place their feet and got ready to start of the race. The white block was used to align all the athletes so they would all run the same distance. |
Frequency scanning interferometry | 10000631-0 | Frequency scanning interferometry (FSI) is an absolute distance measurement technique, for measuring the distance between a pair of points, along a line-of-sight.
The power of the FSI technique lies in its ability to make many such distance measurements, simultaneously.
For each distance to be measured, a measurement interferometer is built using optical components placed at each end of a line-of-sight.
The optical path of each measurement interferometer is compared to the optical path in a reference interferometer, by scanning the frequency of a laser (connected to all interferometers in the system) and counting fringe cycles produced in the return signals from each interferometer.
The length of each measurement interferometer is given in units of reference length by the ratio of measurement interferometer to reference interferometer fringes.
To give an example: A frequency scan might produce 100 fringe cycles in the measurement interferometer and 50 in the reference interferometer. The measured interferometer is therefore twice the length of reference interferometer, to first order (ignoring systematic errors - see below). |
Trivial Act | 10000633-0 | History
Trivial Act was formed in 1993 by the guitarists B. Andreassen and H. Salvesen in Arendal, Norway. On October 27, 1997, they released Mindscape which was praised in 2006 as "a classic release in Norwegian Metal" by Scream magazine. A month later, Erik Wroldsen left the band for personal reasons and was later replaced by the drummer Stian Kristoffersen of Pagan's Mind. A year later, Sven Ole Heggedal left the band for the same reasons and replacing him was bass guitarist Steinar Krokmo, also of Pagan's Mind. A month after Steinar joined, Håkon Salvesen left the band. In 2001, they recorded a 3-song demo, Thoughts in Lyrics, and then temporarily broke up. After a long break, the band started recording the follow-up to Mind Scape. In November 2008, Kim Isaksen left and the band is currently searching for a new vocalist to replace him.
Band members
Bjørn Andreassen – guitar
Håkon Salvesen – guitar
Former members
Steinar Krokmo – bass guitar
Stian Lindaas Kristoffersen|Stian Kristoffersen – drums
Erik Wroldsen – drums
Svend Ole Heggedal – bass guitar
Kim Werner Isaksen
Discography
Mindscape - album, Face Front, 1997 |
Gone till November | 10000649-0 | "Gone till November" a song by Haitian rapper Wyclef Jean, released as the third single from debut solo album, The Carnival (1997). The song was released on 25 November 1997 by Columbia and Ruffhouse, and peaked at number three on the UK Singles Chart, becoming Jean's highest-charting solo hit in the UK alongside 2000's "It Doesn't Matter". In the United States, the song peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It also reached number four in both Canada and New Zealand
The album version differs noticeably from the more-familiar pop version found on the single and used in the video. The album version has a different bass line and more, different, voiceover. The pop version is more recognizable due to radio play but is not found on the actual album. Both album and pop versions differ from the "remix" version.
Composition
The orchestral accompaniment, which was arranged and conducted by Sonny Kompanek, was performed by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. |
Gone till November | 10000649-1 | Chart performance Critical reception
British magazine Music Week wrote, "This laidback ode to a footloose lifestyle by the Fugees rapper is desperately catchy and features pleasing arrangements, but somehow seems a bit lifeless."
Remix
The remix of "Gone till November" features R. Kelly and Canibus, with backing vocals by Destiny's Child, and contains interpolations of the songs "Michelle" by the Beatles and "Karma Chameleon" by Culture Club. A separate music video was also made for the remix version.
Music video
The music video for "Gone till November", directed by Francis Lawrence, was filmed at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on 20 November 1997, and released in December 1997. It features a cameo appearance by Bob Dylan when Wyclef sings, "knockin' on heaven's door like I'm Bob Dylan." Canibus and Destiny's Child also make appearances respectively, but R. Kelly does not.
Track listings
US CD and cassette single; UK cassette single
"Gone till November" (pop version) – 3:27
"Gone till November" (The Makin' Runs remix) – 4:05
US maxi-CD single
"Gone till November" (The Makin' Runs remix) – 4:05 |
Gone till November | 10000649-2 | "No Airplay" – 4:42 "No Airplay" (instrumental) – 4:38
"Gone till November" (pop version) – 3:27
US 12-inch single
A1. "Gone till November" (The Makin' Runs remix) – 4:05
A2. "No Airplay" – 4:42
A3. "Gone till November" (LP version) – 3:27
B1. "Gone till November" (The Makin' Runs remix instrumental) – 3:42
B2. "No Airplay" (instrumental) – 4:38
B3. "Gone till November" (The Makin' Runs remix a cappella) – 4:58
European CD single
"Gone till November" (radio edit) – 3:16
"Gone till November" (The Makin' Runs remix) – 4:05
UK CD1
"Gone till November" (album version) – 3:28
"Gone till November" (pop version) – 3:27
"No Airplay" – 4:42
"Bubblegoose" (Bakin' Cake version) – 3:30
UK CD2
"Gone till November" (The Makin' Runs remix) – 4:05
"Gone till November" (The Makin' Runs remix instrumental) – 3:42
"Guantanamera" (Roxanne, Roxanne / Oye Como Va remix) – 4:17
"No Airplay – Men in Blue" (featuring Youssou N'Dour) – 4:46
Australian CD single
"Gone till November" (radio edit) – 3:16
"Gone till November" (The Makin' Runs remix) – 4:05
"No Airplay" – 3:42
"Gone till November" (The Makin' Runs remix instrumental) – 3:42
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications |
Splenocyte | 1000067-0 | Splenocytes consist of a variety of cell populations such as T and B lymphocytes, dendritic cells and macrophages, which have different immune functions.
Overview
Splenocytes are spleen cells and consist of leukocytes like B and T cells, dendritic cells, and macrophages. The spleen is split into red and white pulp regions with the marginal zone separating the two areas. The red pulp is involved with filtering blood and recycling iron, while the white pulp is involved in the immune response.
The red pulp contains macrophages that phagocytose old or damaged red blood cells.
The white pulp contains separate compartments for B and T cells called the B cell zone (BCZ) and the T cell zone (TCZ). B cells make antibodies to fight off bacterial, viral, and fungal infections, and T cells are activated in response to antigens.
The marginal zone (MZ) separates the red and white pulp regions and contains macrophages, B cells, and dendritic cells. MZ macrophages remove some types of blood-borne bacteria and viruses. MZ B and dendritic cells are involved in antigen processing and presentation to lymphocytes in the white pulp. |