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20231101.en_13194784_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gung%20Ho%21 | Gung Ho! | Gung Ho! (full title: Gung Ho!: The Story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders) is a 1943 American war film directed by Ray Enright and starring Randolph Scott. The story is based somewhat on the real-life World War II Makin Island raid led by Lieutenant Colonel Evans Carlson's 2nd Marine Raider Battalion. |
20231101.en_13194784_1 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gung%20Ho%21 | Gung Ho! | Lieutenant C.J. Cristoforos announces that the United States Marine Corps is seeking volunteers for a hazardous mission and special unit. Among the volunteers are a hillbilly who, when asked whether he can kill someone, responds that he already has. Other volunteers include Harbison, an ordained minister who wants the most dangerous assignment because that is where he will be needed most; "Pig Iron", a boxer from a background of poverty and hard work; Frankie Montana (from Brooklyn), who resents being called a "no-good kid" who is initially rejected by Cristoforos but wins him over; battling half-brothers Larry O'Ryan and Kurth Richter; a Filipino wishing to avenge his sister, who was caught in Manila by the Japanese, who teaches the Raiders knife fighting; an embittered Marine whose brother was killed at Pearl Harbor; a man who fought against fascism in Spain and Greece; and one Marine who admits, "I just don't like Japs". |
20231101.en_13194784_2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gung%20Ho%21 | Gung Ho! | Sgt. "Transport" Anderof is reunited with the commander of the unit, Lt. Col. Thorwald, with whom he served in China. Thorwald explains that he left the Marine Corps to serve with the Chinese communist Eighth Route Army fighting the Japanese during the Second Sino-Japanese War to find out about them and evaluate their chances. Afterward, Thorwald decided to form a unit using the qualities of Gung Ho or "work together". |
20231101.en_13194784_3 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gung%20Ho%21 | Gung Ho! | Those who make it through the training are sent to Hawaii for further jungle warfare training, where they witness the damage of the attack on Pearl Harbor. In Hawaii they hear a radio bulletin announcing the Battle of Guadalcanal. The Marines are ordered to board two submarines destined for a commando raid on a Japanese-held island. |
20231101.en_13194784_4 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gung%20Ho%21 | Gung Ho! | After a claustrophobic voyage, the Raiders invade the island from rubber boats. The Marine landing is met by fire from snipers hiding in palm trees. The Marines dispose of them, attack the Japanese headquarters, wipe out the garrison, destroy installations with explosives, then board the submarines for their return home. |
20231101.en_13194784_5 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gung%20Ho%21 | Gung Ho! | When producer Walter Wanger acquired the rights to the Makin Island raid and Lt. W.S LeFrançois' story, the United States Navy film liaison Lt. Albert J Bolton insisted that neither Carlson nor his executive officer James Roosevelt be singled out. The screenplay depicted a fictional Lt. Col. Thorwald with no executive officer. The screenplay did include a character played by J. Carrol Naish, a Raider lieutenant of Greek extraction based on Marine Raider Lt. John Apergis as well as Gunnery Sergeant Victor "Transport" Maghakian who served in the raid and survived the war. Though many incidents in the film did not occur in the real Makin Island raid, Carlson wrote of his being pleased with the film to Wanger. |
20231101.en_13194784_6 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gung%20Ho%21 | Gung Ho! | Like many other films about the United States Marine Corps, the movie was filmed at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego and Camp Pendleton with Marine extras and technical advisors including Carlson, Maghakian and Lt. Wilfred Sylvio LeFrancois with all three men being awarded the Navy Cross on the actual raid. The Japanese were played by Chinese and Filipino extras. |
20231101.en_13194784_7 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gung%20Ho%21 | Gung Ho! | The fast-moving film is a template for many war films and other adventure or western films where a group of professional killers and misfits in polite society are handpicked by an inspiring leader, trained to perfection, then use their initiative and skills in marksmanship, combat and knife fighting on an enemy who greatly outnumber them. |
20231101.en_13194784_8 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gung%20Ho%21 | Gung Ho! | Thorwald/Carlson lectures throughout the film that the Japanese have no initiative and cannot think for themselves or deviate from a plan; thus unexpected action pays off. This is demonstrated in several scenes where a Marine defeats his opponent in unarmed combat by spitting tobacco in his eyes, a small but fast runner strips down to his trousers and quickly zig-zags through enemy fire to hurl hand grenades at a machine-gun nest, Marines destroy a Japanese pillbox and its occupants by squashing both with a road construction steamroller, and a speechless Robert Mitchum who has been shot in the throat and is unable to give warning, kills a Japanese infiltrator attempting to kill the battalion surgeon (Milburn Stone) by throwing his knife in the Japanese soldier's back. The climax of the film has the Raiders painting a giant American flag on the roof of a building, then luring the counterattacking Japanese to the area where their own air force bombs and strafes them. |
20231101.en_13194784_9 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gung%20Ho%21 | Gung Ho! | In contrast to the Japanese and the rest of the American military, Thorwald orders that his officers wear no rank insignia and have no special privileges. He tells his Raiders, "I will eat what you eat and sleep where you sleep" and participate in the same training. Thorwald's Marines participate in "Gung Ho Sessions" where they discuss the unit's plans and each man participates without regard to rank. |
20231101.en_13194784_10 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gung%20Ho%21 | Gung Ho! | Bosley Crowther in a January 1944 review for The New York Times praised the film, its performances and settings but said "the stabbings and stickings go on Gung Ho! is for folks with strong stomachs and a taste for the submachine gun". |
20231101.en_13194784_11 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gung%20Ho%21 | Gung Ho! | The film was re-released in the early 1950s by Realart Pictures who gave Robert Mitchum second billing on the posters. |
20231101.en_13194785_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%20Fitness | California Fitness | The first California Fitness club was established in 1996 in the business district of Hong Kong near Lan Kwai Fong. There were 16 clubs in Hong Kong, Singapore and China. California Fitness was acquired in 1999 by 24 Hour Fitness Worldwide, which sold it to the Ansa Group in 2012. |
20231101.en_13194785_1 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%20Fitness | California Fitness | California Fitness was the trading name of JV Fitness; it was the second largest gym operator in Hong Kong with nine locations. |
20231101.en_13194785_2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%20Fitness | California Fitness | Central, Causeway Bay, Wan Chai, Tsim Sha Tsui, Mongkok, Whampoa , Tuen Mun, Quarry Bay, Megabox, Leap by California Fitness: One Kowloon |
20231101.en_13194785_3 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%20Fitness | California Fitness | Beginning in 2005, California Fitness partnered with two fitness superstars, Jackie Chan and Yao Ming, to create signature clubs in the region. There were two California Fitness-Yao Ming Sport clubs in Mainland China which were re-branded as normal California Fitness in 2010. Also were four California Fitness-Jackie Chan Sport clubs in Asia (two in Hong Kong and two in Singapore) re-branded as normal California Fitness in 2012. California has chosen Richie Jen as new spokesman since 2012. California Fitness is infamous for having the most number of complaints lodged against them to the Consumers' Association of Singapore (CASE). |
20231101.en_13194785_4 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%20Fitness | California Fitness | The company's business model is based on an entry fee and contracts of variable duration that are tacitly renewed unless one month's notice in writing is given. In addition to cardio and resistance equipment, free weights, group exercise studios, all California Fitness clubs have free internet access (wifi or in-club kiosks). Most of its clubs have steam and sauna rooms and there is an outdoor swimming pool at Megabox Club Kowloon Bay, one of its Hong Kong clubs. |
20231101.en_13194785_5 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%20Fitness | California Fitness | The company took legal action against 522 of its members between 30 March and 15 September 1999 for non-payment of subscriptions. Many of these were in fact members who did not want to renew and had allowed their membership to lapse, or who had not given the required 1-month's notice stipulated in the contract. The judge at the Small Claims Court criticised the company for allowing the credit to roll on for at least one month before taking action. The company argued that its policy was to avoid unilateral termination by them as it would cause members to pay a rejoining fee. |
20231101.en_13194785_6 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%20Fitness | California Fitness | California Fitness clubs in Singapore were hit by a significant number of consumer complaints filed against them with the Consumers Association of Singapore (CASE) between 2011 and 2014. Gripes against California Fitness and a rival True Fitness made up more than three-quarters of 86 complaints involving fitness clubs filed last year with the former receiving 35 complaints against it in 2013. As of April 2014 nine complaints were filed against California Fitness with CASE. |
20231101.en_13194785_7 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%20Fitness | California Fitness | California Fitness centers (CalFit) in Thailand began operating in 2002, were sold (or rebranded) as California WOW Xperience ()in 2005 (CalWow), a totally separate company yet started by people with connections to 24 Hour Fitness founders like Mark Mastrov, with the California Fitness founder Eric Levine as the CEO, bringing in outside investors such as Bank of Ayutthaya. In Thailand this allowed it fund a domestic expansion from 2 to over 13 locations as well as then expanded to many countries, including Korea, outside Thailand as franchise locations. The franchises didn't last more than 2 years in Korea, these franchisees abruptly closed doors on members in Korea by 2006, who had been sold expensive lifetime memberships. The cross-membership agreements between California Fitness and 24 Hour Fitness were rolled into California WOW Xperience, however once financials became worrisome in August 2008, cross-memberships were terminated between CalWow and 24 Hour Fitness (USA), but remained between Asian chains CalWow and CalFit and between CalFit and 24 Hour Fitness. In August 2008, California Fitness and 24 Hour Fitness were terminated. In 2009, Malaysian branches of CalFit were sold to Celebrity Fitness, whose founders also had ties to 24 Hour Fitness. Despite company changes, California WOW Xperience is still frequently confused with California Fitness. |
20231101.en_13194785_8 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%20Fitness | California Fitness | In 2012, California WOW Xperience found itself entangled in a financial dispute and was sued in Thailand's Bankruptcy Court by Bangkok Bank Plc. which sought the repayment of a 72 million baht loan including 4 million baht in interest. As a result, California WOW Xperience shut down seven of its eight branches in Thailand. The company faced much criticism for continuing to sign up customers at the various branches until their date of closing. In August 2012, more than 200 members, many of whom found themselves unable to travel to California WOW Xperience's single remaining Thailand branch to make use of long term or lifetime memberships, filed complaints against the company in hopes of being refunded. The Foundation for Consumers along with 100 former customers have filed a lawsuit against California WOW Xperience which is now awaiting a court order. Incidentally, this was also the very same month 24 Hour Fitness was sold in USA. At roughly the same time, CalFit Taiwan gyms abruptly closed on customers, some who had been sold lifetime memberships, and these became World Gym centers. Membership was honored at the new gym over for a few months and then terminated. |
20231101.en_13194785_9 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%20Fitness | California Fitness | In 2016, CalFit itself abruptly closed doors on members in Hong Kong and Singapore, some who had been sold lifetime memberships. |
20231101.en_13194785_10 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%20Fitness | California Fitness | In April 2016, Consumer Council censured California Fitness for intimidation and misleading sales practices. The council said complaints regarding California Fitness had increased continuously in the previous few years, from 227 cases in 2013 to 296 cases in 2015, despite the council having already given several warnings. In 2015, California Fitness represented more than half of the complaints regarding fitness centres, and the value involved reached to 8.5 million Hong Kong dollars. The council had met with company management in January, and made its censure public after the situation failed to improve. In most of the cases, The sales use "free trial" or "free gift" as excused to attract new customers to enter their centre and collect identity card and credit card from the customers, then convince, mislead and force them to sign the contracts and pay for membership, as well as training courses. Some of the sales even force the customers to take a picture with smiling face to prove the contracts are based on their own willing. Some of the cases involve persons with intellectual disability. |
20231101.en_13194785_11 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%20Fitness | California Fitness | Two members of staff were arrested by customs officers on 18 May after a customer claimed she had been coerced into paying for private training classes after her credit card was charged HK$140,000 without her consent. The two staff at the Causeway Bay branch of the gym operator chain were accused of violating the unfair trade practice provision under the Trade Descriptions Ordinance. |
20231101.en_13194785_12 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%20Fitness | California Fitness | JV Fitness, the company that operates the chain, were reported in July 2016 to be owing some HK$130 million for rents and other operating costs in Hong Kong. A number of landlords and building contractors had filed writs with the High Court for debts owed to them. A petition to wind up the company was lodged with the court in early July 2016, and creditors including prepaid members and staff have been coming forward. Five of its outlets had shut as of 7 July; one branch in Beijing was closed from 8 July for "internal reorganisation". All outlets owned and operated by JV Fitness, the holding company, were officially closed on 12 July, and two senior executives were being interrogated by the Customs and Excise on suspicion of violating trade description law. On 20 July it was announced that all its gyms in Singapore would also close. |
20231101.en_13194787_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheiranthera | Cheiranthera | Cheiranthera is a genus of ten species of flowering plants in the family Pittosporaceae and are all endemic to Australia. The following is a list of species accepted by the Australian Plant Census as at April 2020: |
20231101.en_13194804_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hern%C3%A1n%20Medina%20Calder%C3%B3n | Hernán Medina Calderón | Hernán Medina Calderón (born August 29, 1937 in Yarumal, in the Antioquia Department, Colombia) is a retired Colombian road racing cyclist who won the Vuelta a Colombia in 1960 and the Vuelta a Guatemala in 1958. He also finished as runner up in the Vuelta a Colombia in 1959 and 1961. He competed in the individual road race and team time trial events at the 1960 Summer Olympics. |
20231101.en_13194827_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldfarb%20School%20of%20Nursing%20at%20Barnes-Jewish%20College | Goldfarb School of Nursing at Barnes-Jewish College | Goldfarb School of Nursing at Barnes–Jewish College is a college of nursing located in St. Louis. It has one campus: located at Washington University's Medical School and Barnes-Jewish Hospital campus. |
20231101.en_13194827_1 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldfarb%20School%20of%20Nursing%20at%20Barnes-Jewish%20College | Goldfarb School of Nursing at Barnes-Jewish College | The college was founded in 1902 as Jewish Hospital School of Nursing and was the first school in the nation accredited by the National League of Nursing. |
20231101.en_13194827_2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldfarb%20School%20of%20Nursing%20at%20Barnes-Jewish%20College | Goldfarb School of Nursing at Barnes-Jewish College | Barnes Hospital School of Nursing was founded in 1955 after Washington University closed its affiliated nursing program. The school later lent its name to the University of Missouri - St. Louis becoming Barnes College of Nursing at University of Missouri - St. Louis. |
20231101.en_13194827_3 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldfarb%20School%20of%20Nursing%20at%20Barnes-Jewish%20College | Goldfarb School of Nursing at Barnes-Jewish College | In 2005, Barnes College merged with Jewish Hospital School of Nursing to become Barnes-Jewish College of Nursing and Allied Health. A private donation from Alvin Goldfarb, in 2007, began a new era in nursing education at Barnes-Jewish College. Goldfarb School of Nursing at Barnes-Jewish College, in 2011, opened a second location on the Missouri Baptist Medical Center campus which was closed in 2023. |
20231101.en_13194827_4 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldfarb%20School%20of%20Nursing%20at%20Barnes-Jewish%20College | Goldfarb School of Nursing at Barnes-Jewish College | Goldfarb has a nationally recognized educational facility with advanced technology in classrooms, lecture halls and simulation labs. |
20231101.en_13194827_5 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldfarb%20School%20of%20Nursing%20at%20Barnes-Jewish%20College | Goldfarb School of Nursing at Barnes-Jewish College | Goldfarb School of Nursing at Barnes-Jewish College partners with top health care and educational institutions within the BJC HealthCare system and beyond to support its mission of advancing learning and innovation within the healing profession. |
20231101.en_13194827_6 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldfarb%20School%20of%20Nursing%20at%20Barnes-Jewish%20College | Goldfarb School of Nursing at Barnes-Jewish College | Barnes-Jewish College and the Goldfarb School of Nursing are fully accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) and by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA). It also has approval from the Missouri Coordinator Board for Higher Education (MCBHE). |
20231101.en_13194828_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Sladk%C3%BD%20Kozina | Jan Sladký Kozina | Jan Sladký Kozina (10 September 1652 in Újezd – 26 November 1695 in Plzeň) was the Czech revolutionary leader of the Chodové peasant rebellion at the end of the 17th century. |
20231101.en_13194828_1 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Sladk%C3%BD%20Kozina | Jan Sladký Kozina | Jan Sladký Kozina was first named Rosocha, after Rosoch Farm (U Rosochů), which from 1632 had belonged to his grandfather, and on which he was born and grew up. In 1670 his father Jan Sladky bought the farm "At Kozinas" (U Kozinů). All those originating from this farm were thereafter called Sladky-Kozina. On 9 May 1678, aged 25, he married Dorota Pelnářová, took over the ancestral farm U Kozinů, and took his place in the middle yeomanry. They seem to have gone on to live as a quiet, god-fearing couple. They had 6 sons but only one - Adam - had descendants. |
20231101.en_13194828_2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Sladk%C3%BD%20Kozina | Jan Sladký Kozina | He could neither read nor write, but made his name by his speeches, in which he drew attention to the abuses of the time, and became the spokesman for farmers' woes. He defended the rights of the Chodové people and demanded justice for the country people. This culminated in disagreement with the local magnate Wolf Maximilian Laminger von Albenreuth, also known as "Lomikar". Kozina was judged responsible for the peasant rebellion, arrested and executed in Plzeň on 28 November 1695. |
20231101.en_13194828_3 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Sladk%C3%BD%20Kozina | Jan Sladký Kozina | He was immortalised as a figure of resistance in the stories of Alois Jirásek and Božena Němcová. In Újezd u Domažlic a memorial to him was set up; his place of execution is marked by a plaque just inside what is now the main entrance to the Pilsner Urquell brewery in Plzeň. |
20231101.en_13194828_4 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Sladk%C3%BD%20Kozina | Jan Sladký Kozina | Alois Jirásek wrote the book Psohlavci (The Dogheads), which was about the Chodové peoples and young Jan's struggles; this was later turned into an opera of the same name by Karel Kovařovic. |
20231101.en_13194828_5 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Sladk%C3%BD%20Kozina | Jan Sladký Kozina | In 1918, the newly formed 10th Infantry Shooting Regiment of the newly formed 3rd Division of the Czechoslovak Legions in Russia was named "Regiment Jan Sladký Kozina's of Hrádek". |
20231101.en_13194842_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epimedium%20grandiflorum | Epimedium grandiflorum | Epimedium grandiflorum, the large flowered barrenwort, or bishop's hat, is a species of flowering plant in the family Berberidaceae, native to Japan and Korea. |
20231101.en_13194842_1 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epimedium%20grandiflorum | Epimedium grandiflorum | It is a deciduous perennial growing to , with bright red stems with green heart-shaped leaves (copper-tinged when young) which are slightly hairy on the bottom. In spring it produces pink, white, yellow or purple long-spurred flowers. The Latin specific epithet grandiflorum means large-flowered. |
20231101.en_13194842_2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epimedium%20grandiflorum | Epimedium grandiflorum | Numerous cultivars have been selected for garden use, of which the following have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit: |
20231101.en_13194842_3 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epimedium%20grandiflorum | Epimedium grandiflorum | It is commonly packed in a capsule with other ingredients or sold as herbal flakes or powder with the name "horny goat weed". |
20231101.en_13194847_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malva%20thuringiaca | Malva thuringiaca | Malva thuringiaca (previously known as Lavatera thuringiaca), the garden tree-mallow, is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family |
20231101.en_13194847_1 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malva%20thuringiaca | Malva thuringiaca | Malvaceae, native to eastern Europe and southwestern Asia, from southern Germany south to Italy, and east to southern Russia, Kazakhstan, and Turkey. |
20231101.en_13194847_2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malva%20thuringiaca | Malva thuringiaca | It is a herbaceous perennial plant growing to 1.8 m tall. The leaves are up to 9 cm long and broad, palmately lobed with three or five lobes, and downy with greyish hairs. The flowers are pink, 3–6 cm diameter, with five petals; they are produced throughout the summer. |
20231101.en_13194847_3 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malva%20thuringiaca | Malva thuringiaca | Malva thuringiaca subsp. thuringiaca – Most of the species' range, except as below, Upper leaves bluntly lobed |
20231101.en_13194847_4 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malva%20thuringiaca | Malva thuringiaca | Malva thuringiaca subsp. ambigua (DC.) Valdés – southern France, Italy, western Balkans, Upper leaves acutely lobed |
20231101.en_13194847_5 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malva%20thuringiaca | Malva thuringiaca | Most of the popular shrubby garden cultivars traditionally listed under this species are actually hybrids between it and Malva olbia; these hybrids are now named Malva × clementii. The following cultivars have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit:- |
20231101.en_13194851_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chodov%C3%A9 | Chodové | The Chodové (Chods, "Walkers", "Patrollers" or "Rangers") are an ethnic group living in western Bohemia. Today, the Chodové live in an arc of villages near the western border of the Czech Republic, including major population centers in Domažlice, Tachov and Přimda (together called the Chod region, , ). |
20231101.en_13194851_1 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chodov%C3%A9 | Chodové | During the medieval period, the monarchy of the Kingdom of Bohemia recruited the ancestors of the Chodové from ethnic enclaves within the western Carpathian Mountain region near the borders of what is today Slovakia, Poland, and southwestern Ukraine (possibly including Silesia), relocating these communities to serve as guards along the borders between Bohemia and Bavaria from possible Germanic expansion into Bohemia. These relocations occurred even as the Bohemian monarchy invited selective immigration of Bavarian craftspeople into certain settlements of western Bohemia to assist in the economic and technological development within their Kingdom. |
20231101.en_13194851_2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chodov%C3%A9 | Chodové | As a condition of their relocation, the ancestral Chodové were made direct servants of the king, with significant privileges that differentiated them from other subjects - including the right of unrestricted movement within the Bohemian Forest region, access to the resources of the forest, and the right to own large dogs forbidden to ordinary Bohemian peasantry. In 1325, the King of Bohemia, John of Luxembourg, acknowledged the rights of the Chodové people to use the woods of western Bohemia, provided that they also protected the borders along them. The Chodové bred special dogs to help accomplish this goal - especially the Bohemian Shepherd (or Chodský pes) which some sources suggest is ancestral to the modern German Shepherd. Chodové traveled widely throughout the mountains of western Bohemia as part of their unique charge and rare freedom, often using special walking staffs, boots, and wide-brimmed hats especially suited to long-distance travel in the mountain forests. Reflected in their ethnonym, implying "walkers," "rangers" or "patrollers," they represent a rare example of a professional identity coming to define a group's overall ethnic designation. |
20231101.en_13194851_3 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chodov%C3%A9 | Chodové | For over three and a half centuries, the terms of the Chodové agreement with the Bohemian monarchy held until the late 17th century when a local aristocrat of German origin, W. M. Laminger von Albenreuth, declared the agreement void - seeking to contain and undermine the autonomy of Chodové and other Czech peasants. The Chodové revolted in 1695, but were unsuccessful. Many persisted as independent ethnic enclaves in the mountains of western Bohemia, while others were fully or partially assimilated into Czech-speaking or occasionally German-speaking communities of Czech and/or German ethnicity in the adjacent countryside. As Czech nationalism arose through the 19th century, Chodové cultural became emblematic of Slavic resistance to German cultural influence in Czech popular culture - shaping perceptions of Chodové people both within and beyond western Bohemia, and reasserting their identity in opposition to ethnically German Bohemians in spite of a long and complex history linking the two groups. |
20231101.en_13194851_4 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chodov%C3%A9 | Chodové | The events of World War II, including the brutal occupation of the Chod region as part of Nazi Germany's Sudetenland annexation, followed by the disorderly and brutal expulsion by the Czechs of German-speakers from western Bohemia at the war's end, contributed to a significant decline in the scale and distribution of the Chodové population within western Bohemia. Still, up to 11 villages of Chodové persist, and many still live in the countryside near towns such as Domažlice. They speak the Chod dialect, a separate dialect of Czech, enjoy unique and strong traditions such as the use of special folk costume and musical instruments; they maintain a strong sense of identity that is linked to the Bohemian Forest and their role as defenders of the western Bohemian borderland. |
20231101.en_13194851_5 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chodov%C3%A9 | Chodové | The Chodové have been the focus of art and literature, much of it tied to Czech romanticist and nationalist themes. The Czech painter Jaroslav Špillar lived among them for many years, capturing scenes from their daily life. |
20231101.en_13194859_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC%20Cymru%20Wales%20Sports%20Personality%20of%20the%20Year | BBC Cymru Wales Sports Personality of the Year | The BBC Cymru Wales Sports Personality of the Year is a televised sporting competition, broadcast on BBC Two every year; and the most prestigious annual sport award in Wales. It was first awarded in 1954, and is currently organised by BBC Cymru Wales. Following a trial in 2002, the competition has been open to public voting, rather than a decision being made within the competition prior to this. It later reverted to being chosen by an expert panel of judges. |
20231101.en_13194944_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso%20Fl%C3%B3rez%20Ortiz | Alfonso Flórez Ortiz | Alfonzo Flórez Ortiz (November 5, 1952 – April 25, 1992) was a Colombian road racing cyclist who was a professional from 1985 to 1987, where he rode for the Colombian professional cycling team Café de Colombia team. |
20231101.en_13194944_1 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso%20Fl%C3%B3rez%20Ortiz | Alfonso Flórez Ortiz | Born in Bucaramanga, Santander Flórez Ortiz won the most important race in Colombia, the Vuelta a Colombia in 1979 and 1983. He frequently rode for the Colombian national cycling team and won the Tour de l'Avenir in 1980. Flórez made history when he captained the first Colombian cycle team in the Tour de France in 1983. |
20231101.en_13194964_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glischrocaryon | Glischrocaryon | Glischrocaryon (Common name: Golden pennants) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Haloragaceae, endemic to Australia. Species occur in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia include: |
20231101.en_13194968_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier%20Su%C3%A1rez%20%28cyclist%29 | Javier Suárez (cyclist) | Javier Amado Suárez Cueva (born 3 November 1943) is a retired Colombia road racing cyclist. He won the Vuelta a Colombia in 1965 and the Clásico RCN in 1965 and 1966. His nickname was El ñato. |
20231101.en_13194968_1 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier%20Su%C3%A1rez%20%28cyclist%29 | Javier Suárez (cyclist) | He also competed in the team time trial at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo as part of the Colombian team. |
20231101.en_13194971_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle%20Borth | Michelle Borth | Michelle Borth is an American actress who has portrayed characters on The Forgotten and the HBO series Tell Me You Love Me. Borth played Catherine Rollins on the CBS crime-drama Hawaii Five-0. |
20231101.en_13194971_1 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle%20Borth | Michelle Borth | Borth was born and grew up in New York City. Her mother is of Italian origin, and owns a home improvement business. She has two younger brothers. She aspired to become a gymnast but later discovered acting at a camp. She matriculated at Pace University, receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theater and Art History in 2001. |
20231101.en_13194971_2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle%20Borth | Michelle Borth | Borth's previous credits include the films Wonderland, Trespassers, The Sisterhood, Silent Warnings, Rampage: The Hillside Strangler Murders, and Komodo vs. Cobra; and guest appearances on the Supernatural episode "What Is and What Should Never Be" and the Law & Order: SVU episode "Trade". She also appeared in Burger King's "Lunch Break" advertising campaign. She was also featured in John Mayer's "Bigger Than My Body" video. |
20231101.en_13194971_3 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle%20Borth | Michelle Borth | In 2008, she wrapped the independent film TiMER with Emma Caulfield and Desmond Harrington, and appeared in the Endgame Productions comedy film, A Good Old Fashioned Orgy with Leslie Bibb, Lake Bell, and Jason Sudeikis. In 2009, she was a cast member of ABC's The Forgotten, appearing in 17 episodes, including part of the 2010 season. In 2010, she also guest starred on the TNT TV series Dark Blue double-episode season finale. |
20231101.en_13194971_4 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle%20Borth | Michelle Borth | In 2010 Borth appeared in the 2010 version of Hawaii Five-0 on CBS where she appeared as on and off Steve McGarrett's girlfriend, Lt. Catherine Rollins, a Navy Lieutenant. On March 26, 2012, CBS announced that Borth would become a cast regular on Hawaii Five-0 for seasons 3 & 4. On March 27, 2014, it was announced that she would not be returning for the fifth season, with the reason for her departure left unknown. However, she would return in the show's 5th-season finale as a guest star. In July 2015 it was announced that Borth would have a recurring role in the first three episodes of the show's 6th season. On September 8, 2016, it was announced that Borth would be returning as a guest for the show's 150th episode. On March 19 2018, it was announced that Borth would once again be returning to the series as a guest star for the eighth season's twentieth episode. |
20231101.en_13194971_5 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle%20Borth | Michelle Borth | Borth starred as Canadian Forces surgeon Major Rebecca Gordon on Global's 2011 Canadian drama television series Combat Hospital, which was cancelled after its first season. She appears in the 2019 film Shazam! playing the adult version of Mary Bromfield. |
20231101.en_13194979_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro%20Julio%20S%C3%A1nchez | Pedro Julio Sánchez | Pedro Julio Sánchez (born 8 April 1940) is a retired Colombian road racing cyclist who won the 1968 Vuelta a Colombia. He also competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics and the 1968 Summer Olympics. |
20231101.en_13194995_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leona%20Kvasnicov%C3%A1 | Leona Kvasnicová | Leona "Qaša" Kvasnicová (born 1972) is a Czech dancer, choreographer and dance teacher. A sister of DJ Lucca (DJ). |
20231101.en_13194995_1 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leona%20Kvasnicov%C3%A1 | Leona Kvasnicová | Kvasnicová was born in 1972 in Brno. As a child she was interested in gymnastics. She studied at JAMU in Brno. She also studied in Amsterdam Jazzshowmusical school and Rotterdamse Dansacademie in the Netherlands. |
20231101.en_13194995_2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leona%20Kvasnicov%C3%A1 | Leona Kvasnicová | In 1987 she joined a dancing group P-4. She established her own club called Crazy Dancers in 1989. Together with Michal Popelka she discovered the Belgium style called New beat as a predecessor of disco. In the early 1990s she danced with a professional group UNO in ABC Theatre in Prague and went on tour in Germany. In 1992 she danced in the project Cutting the diamonds by the Swiss choreographer Parwin Hadinia in Basel. She won a first post for Discodance formation in Prostějov and six years later she was nominated the best dance-director in Olomouc. She took part in the dance movie Šakalí léta of the director Jan Hřebejk. In 1996 she started her second dance group called Freedance Group. She became a member of Bratislava dance theater and Balet Praha. She acted in Paris in 2001 and after she returned to Prague, she danced in several projects of Jan Kodet, Lenka Ottová and several commercial choreographers. In 2003 she started her third dance group called IF. |
20231101.en_13194995_3 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leona%20Kvasnicov%C3%A1 | Leona Kvasnicová | She made choreography for her dance groups, for tens of movies and TV shows. She was a choreographer for Miss ČR 1994 and 2008, the TV Nova‘s 10th anniversary celebration (2004), Česko hledá SuperStar II and III, and Sazka 50th anniversary. |
20231101.en_13194995_4 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leona%20Kvasnicov%C3%A1 | Leona Kvasnicová | She made a lot of theatre musicals choreographies: Galileo, Excalibur, Elixír života in Prague, Kabaret in Plzeň, Balada pro banditu in Brno. |
20231101.en_13195000_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixodia%20%28plant%29 | Ixodia (plant) | Ixodia is a small genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. It is endemic to Australia, ranging from South Australia to western Victoria. |
20231101.en_13195000_1 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixodia%20%28plant%29 | Ixodia (plant) | The following species and subspecies are accepted by the Australian Plant Census as at January 2021: |
20231101.en_13195018_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tillamook%20County%20Transportation%20District | Tillamook County Transportation District | The Tillamook County Transportation District (TCTD), branded as The Wave, is a provider of local and intercity bus transportation services in Tillamook County, Oregon, United States. The district was created by the county, with borders contiguous with those of the county, though it is organizationally independent. |
20231101.en_13195018_1 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tillamook%20County%20Transportation%20District | Tillamook County Transportation District | TCTD was created by the Tillamook County Board of Commissioners in 1997, the transportation district's first board of directors was elected in November 1997, and had its first meeting the following month. |
20231101.en_13195018_2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tillamook%20County%20Transportation%20District | Tillamook County Transportation District | TCTD was created at the request of the county's Transportation Advisory Committee (Friends of the Wave) one year into a transportation demonstration project sponsored by the State of Oregon. The project, nicknamed "The Wave" early on, had been instituted using two borrowed buses to offer limited local bus service within Tillamook County, and limited intercity service to Hillsboro, Beaverton and Portland. Various studies and growing ridership on the new services suggested that a tax-supported bus system might be viable in the coastal county. |
20231101.en_13195018_3 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tillamook%20County%20Transportation%20District | Tillamook County Transportation District | Though the transportation district had been established by the county commissioners, it lacked any substantial source of funding beyond that offered by the state for the demonstration project. The newly elected board of directors asked voters to approve a property tax levy of twenty cents per thousand assessed valuation in the spring of 1998. This initial ballot measure failed. The same measure was again put to the voters in November of the same year, however, passing with a margin of over 60% the second time around. |
20231101.en_13195018_4 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tillamook%20County%20Transportation%20District | Tillamook County Transportation District | Once a source of funding had been secured through the voter-approved tax levy, TCTD began work to improve its services. In 1999, a new general manager was hired, and improvements were made in the district's route system. The fare system was redesigned and simplified, making travel on the system more economical for its riders. New vehicles were put into service to replace the aging borrowed buses, and service frequencies were improved. |
20231101.en_13195018_5 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tillamook%20County%20Transportation%20District | Tillamook County Transportation District | Eventually, service to Portland was streamlined to cut travel times, and connections were improved with TriMet services, Amtrak (at Union Station) and Greyhound Lines to make regional travel more convenient. The changes were greeted with substantial ridership increases, as TCTD provided more and more services to both the north and south portions of Tillamook County, and in the city of Tillamook itself. Dial-A-Ride services, initially provided by volunteer drivers and now supplemented with some paid drivers, made TCTD services available to all areas of the county. |
20231101.en_13195018_6 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tillamook%20County%20Transportation%20District | Tillamook County Transportation District | In September 2011, TCTD began providing public transportation services seven days a week (Sunday through Saturday). TCTD also provides Intercity bus services to Portland providing two trips seven days a week. TCTD also operates service north from Tillamook County into Cannon Beach in Clatsop County in cooperation with the Sunset Empire Transportation District. In February 2012, TCTD began providing public transportation service between Tillamook and Lincoln City in cooperation with Lincoln County Transportation Service District. |
20231101.en_13195032_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter%27s%20Knight | Winter's Knight | Winter's Knight is the third album by gothic duo Nox Arcana. The album peaked at #8 on Billboard Magazine's Music Charts for Top Holiday Albums of 2006 and 2007. |
20231101.en_13195032_1 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter%27s%20Knight | Winter's Knight | The soundtrack is predominantly instrumental with a few traditional holiday songs performed with a darker medieval flair. The music is accented with Gregorian chanting, pipe organs, violins, and acoustic guitar. Some of the tracks contain vocals, such as the minstrel's rendition of "Past Time With Good Company". Other songs feature narration describing a tale of a ghostly knight who wanders the ruins of a haunted cathedral at wintertime. The story is set in the mythical Ebonshire forest. The booklet is decorated to look like an Illuminated manuscript and features the artwork of Joseph Vargo. |
20231101.en_13195032_2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter%27s%20Knight | Winter's Knight | Nox Arcana, already popular in the gothic music genre, wanted to carry the gothic mood into the Christmas season, along the lines of Dickens' classic ghost story, A Christmas Carol. |
20231101.en_13195053_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes%20Potten%20and%20Joan%20Trunchfield | Agnes Potten and Joan Trunchfield | Agnes Potten and Joan Trunchfield (both d. Ipswich, Suffolk, 19 February 1556) were two English Ipswich women who were imprisoned and burned at the stake during the Marian persecutions: both are commemorated among the Ipswich Martyrs. Their arrest followed immediately after the burning of Robert Samuel. |
20231101.en_13195053_1 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes%20Potten%20and%20Joan%20Trunchfield | Agnes Potten and Joan Trunchfield | Agnes Potten and Joan Trunchfield were two married townswomen of Ipswich of the artisan class, the husband of one being a shoemaker and the other a brewer. Joan's husband Michael Trunchfield, and also John Trunchfield, both of St Leonard's, Ipswich, were at some time under condemnation to be burnt, but it is not recorded that the sentences were carried out. (St Leonard's is not known: this may be a copyist's error for St Laurence.) At the time of the death of Queen Mary I in November 1558 no fewer than seventy-seven people in Ipswich and the neighbourhood lay under condemnation. |
20231101.en_13195053_2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes%20Potten%20and%20Joan%20Trunchfield | Agnes Potten and Joan Trunchfield | After the mandate against the married clergy, Robert Samuel, the displaced minister of East Bergholt, sent his wife to live in Ipswich. After Samuel's arrest, Mrs. Potten and Mrs. Trunchfield incurred the penalty of their own arrest and imprisonment by giving him aid and succour in the Ipswich town jail where he was first imprisoned. The Ipswich jailer John Bird had been sympathetic, and it was probably there, when Samuel was in company with other prisoners who belonged to the reformed faith, that Agnes and Joan ministered to him. |
20231101.en_13195053_3 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes%20Potten%20and%20Joan%20Trunchfield | Agnes Potten and Joan Trunchfield | After Samuel's arrest, a friend named Rose Nottingham urged the ladies to escape from Ipswich while there was still time to do so. However one of them (it is not known which) replied "I know well that it is lawful enough to fly away; which remedy you may use if you list. But my case standeth otherwise. I am tied to a husband, and have besides a sort of young children at home... Therefore I am minded, for the love of Christ and His truth, to stand to the extremity of the matter." |
20231101.en_13195053_4 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes%20Potten%20and%20Joan%20Trunchfield | Agnes Potten and Joan Trunchfield | While he was in prison in Norwich, and was both tortured and starved, Robert Samuel experienced various visions and dreams. In a certain dream which he related to his friends, he seemed to see "three ladders set up toward heaven, of the which there was one somewhat longer than the rest, but at length they became one, joining (as it were) all three together." When he dreamed this, the two ladies were still at liberty. |
20231101.en_13195053_5 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes%20Potten%20and%20Joan%20Trunchfield | Agnes Potten and Joan Trunchfield | Robert Samuel was burned at Ipswich on 31 August 1555, and on the following day, 1 September 1555, the women were arrested and imprisoned in the town jail. They remained in prison for five and a half months, during which Agnes Potten was at times "cast into marvellous great agonies and troubles of mind," but she remained "ardent and zealous" in her chosen course. |
20231101.en_13195053_6 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes%20Potten%20and%20Joan%20Trunchfield | Agnes Potten and Joan Trunchfield | The execution was carried out on 19 February 1556, in the presence of a crowd of people at the Cornhill in Ipswich. As they prepared themselves for the stake Joan Trunchfield 'much exceeded the other in joy and comfort.' They urged the bystanders 'to lay hold on the Word of God, and not upon man's devices and inventions.' Then, reciting words from the Scriptures, they were bound to the stake together, and when the fire was lit they held up their hands in the flames while they called upon God for help. |
20231101.en_13195053_7 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes%20Potten%20and%20Joan%20Trunchfield | Agnes Potten and Joan Trunchfield | Expenses for the case of Agnes Potten and Joan Trunchfield, from accounts of Robert Sparrow and Jeffery Carr, Borough Chamberlains, for the Bailiffs William Rainbald and Robert Barker, in the third and fourth years of King Philip and Queen Mary. |
20231101.en_13195053_8 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes%20Potten%20and%20Joan%20Trunchfield | Agnes Potten and Joan Trunchfield | To Holmes the Sargeant for riding twice to Sir Clement Heigham's - 5s 4d. (Holmes was one of the four Sergeants at the Mace 1529–1557. Sir Clement Heigham was MP for Ipswich, and Speaker of the House of Commons, and lived at Barrow.) |
20231101.en_13195053_9 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes%20Potten%20and%20Joan%20Trunchfield | Agnes Potten and Joan Trunchfield | To Edward Balham (Sergeant) for carrying a letter to William Foster at the Bailiffs' instructions - 4d. (William Foster of Copdock was the Justice involved in the condemnation of Rowland Taylor and Robert Samuel) |
20231101.en_13195053_10 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes%20Potten%20and%20Joan%20Trunchfield | Agnes Potten and Joan Trunchfield | To Robert Barne, for riding to Needham Market for a hue and cry - 10d. (Robert Barne was one of the Sergeants in 1552.) |
20231101.en_13195053_11 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes%20Potten%20and%20Joan%20Trunchfield | Agnes Potten and Joan Trunchfield | Charges for carrying four prisoners to Bury St Edmunds who were committed to perpetual prison - 15s 10d. |
20231101.en_13195053_12 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes%20Potten%20and%20Joan%20Trunchfield | Agnes Potten and Joan Trunchfield | For two loads of brushwood and a load of broom, and for cartage of them into the Town House - 8s 3d. |
20231101.en_13195059_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular%20Front%20of%20the%20Canary%20Islands | Popular Front of the Canary Islands | The Popular Front of the Canary Islands () or FREPIC-AWAÑAK is a marginal leftist political party seeking independence from Spain for the Canary Islands. |