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In the early Middle Ages, southern County Antrim was part of the Kingdom of Ulidia.
It was ruled by the Dál Fiatach clans Keenan and MacDonlevy/McDunlavey.
The north was part of Dál Riada, which stretched into what is now western Scotland over the Irish Sea.
Dál Riada was ruled by the O'Lynch clan.
The Dál nAraide and the Cruthin, who were pre-Gaelic Celts and probably related to the Picts of Britain lived in lower County Antrim.
Between the 8th and 11th centuries there were Vikings in Antrim too.
In the late 12th century Antrim became part of the Earldom of Ulster, won by Anglo-Norman invaders.
Edward Bruce fought to restore local, Gaelic, government in 1315.
It left Carrickfergus as the only significant English stronghold.
In the late Middle Ages, Antrim was divided into three parts: northern Clandeboye, the Glynnes and the Route.
The Cambro-Norman MacQuillans were powerful in the Route.
A branch of the O'Neills of Tyrone migrated to Clandeboye in the 14th century, and ruled it for a time.
Their family was called O'Neill Clannaboy.
A Gallowglass sept, the MacDonnells, became the most powerful in the Glynnes in the 15th century.
During the Tudor era (16th century) numerous adventurers from Britain wanted to come and live in the region.
Many Scots settled in Antrim around this time.
In 1588 the Antrim coast was the scene of one of the 24 wrecks of the Spanish Armada in Ireland.
The Spanish vessel La Girona was wrecked off Lacana Point, Giant's Causeway in 1588 with the loss of nearly 1,300 lives.
Historic monuments
The principal cairns are: one on Colin mountain, near Lisburn; one on Slieve True, near Carrickfergus; and two on Colinward.
The cromlechs most worthy of notice are: one near Cairngrainey, to the north-east of the old road from Belfast to Templepatrick; the large cromlech at Mount Druid, near Ballintoy; and one at the northern extremity of Islandmagee.
The mounts, forts and entrenchments are very numerous.
There are three round towers: one at Antrim, one at Armoy, and one on Ram's Island in Lough Neagh.
There are some remains of the religious establishments at Bonamargy, where the earls of Antrim are buried, Kells, Glenarm, Glynn, Muckamore and Whiteabbey.
Carrickfergus Castle, dating from the Norman invasion of Ireland is a well preserved medieval structure.
There are, however, remains of other ancient castles, as Olderfleet, Cam's, Shane's, Glenarm, Garron Tower, Red Bay, and Dunluce Castle, notable for its dramatic location on a rocky hill.
Slemish, about eight miles (13 km) east of Ballymena, is where St Patrick's lived when he was young.
According to tradition Saint Patrick was a slave for seven years, near the hill of Slemish, until he escaped back to Great Britain.
Linen manufacturing was previously an important industry in the County.
At the time Ireland produced a large amount of flax.
Cotton-spinning by jennies was first introduced to Belfast by industrialists Robert Joy and Thomas M'Cabe in 1777; and twenty-three years later it was estimated that more than 27,000 people were employed in the industry within ten miles (16 km) of Belfast.
Famous people from County Antrim
James Adair, (1709–1783), born in County Antrim, explorer, trader, and historian
John Bodkin Adams, (1899–1983), general practitioner born in Randalstown and suspected of killing 163 patients while practising in Eastbourne, England.
William Arthur, (1797–1875), born in Ballymena, noted antiquitarian and Baptist clergyman in the United States.
Joey Dunlop, OBE, (1952–2000), from Ballymoney, five time World Motorcycle Champion.
Sir John Jamison, (1776–1844), physician and naval surgeon from Carrickfergus who became an important pioneering landowner and constitutional reformer in New South Wales, Australia.
George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney (1737–1806), from Ballymoney, first British Ambassador to China in 1772.
Eva McGown, (1883–1972), chorister, pioneer, and hostess in Alaska.
John O'Kane Murray, (1847–1885), born in Antrim, physician and noted author.
James Nesbitt, (1965—), from Broughshane (though he lived near Coleraine for most of his teenage and adult life), notable actor.
Liam Neeson, (1952—), from Ballymena, notable actor.
Tony McCoy, (1974-), from Moneyglass, notable jockey.
The traditional county town is Antrim.
More recently, Ballymena was the seat of county government.
The counties of Northern Ireland ceased to be administrative entities in 1973, with the reorganization of local government.
In Northern Ireland the county structure is no longer used in local government.
Northern Ireland is split into districts.
The majority of County Antrim residents are administered by the following nine councils:
Antrim Borough Council
Ballymena Borough Council
Ballymoney Borough Council
Belfast City Council
Carrickfergus Borough Council
Lisburn City Council
Moyle District Council
Newtownabbey Borough Council
Larne
Lisburn (has city status)
Ballyclare
Greenisland
Jordanstown
Portrush
County Antrim in 1900
Castle FM - County Antrim Radio Station
The Northern Ireland Guide: For information and reviews for locals and tourists alike
Local Antrim Guide
Sarai Gascon Moreno (born November 16, 1992 in Terrassa, Barcelona) is a swimmer from Spain.
She has a disability: she is  an S9 type swimmer.
She was the number two swimmer in the 100 meter butterfly race.
She was the number three swimmer in the 100 meter freestyle race.
My Boss's Daughter is a 2003 romantic comedy movie in which Ashton Kutcher, Molly Shannon and Tara Reid star.
The subject in this romantic comedy is researchers working at a publishing company.
One researcher, Tom, carries a crush on the daughter of the boss.
This movie was released in August 2003.
Its budget was $14 million; it got back over $18 million.
Reviews, however, were rather substandard.
The original of this movie was rated PG-13, though an R-rated version of this exists.
The top-level-domain of Peru
Pernambuco, one of the states of Brazil
Prince Edward Island, one of the Provinces of Canada
Port Elizabeth, a city in South Africa
The post code for Peterborough, in the United Kingdom
Price–earnings ratio
Science, medicine, and therapy
Penis enlargement
Phenylephrine, a drug
Phosphatidylethanolamine, a class of substances found in cell membranes
Phycoerythrin, a protein
Polyethylene, a common plastic polymer
Present Era, a year numbering system commonly used in archaeology that uses 1950s as the epoch marker
Probability of exceedance, probability calculations in earthquake and disaster hazard analysis
Prolonged exposure therapy, a form of behavior therapy designed to treat posttraumatic stress disorder
Protective earth, a type of electrical protective system
Phenytoin equivalent, used to measure doses of fosphenytoin
pE, the negative logarithm of the electron activity
The Treasury is the government’s economic and finance ministry, maintaining control over public spending, setting the direction of the UK’s economic policy and working to achieve strong and sustainable economic growth.
Originally, a place where money, gold and other treasure is kept.
Today, a government department which deals with money supply, taxation and financial policy.
The treasury as a place to keep the king's (or city's) gold and valuables has a long history.
The winners in a war would take back whatever they wanted, and slaves and booty were top of the list.
The first recorded booty in history is a stele taken during 1160 BC.
"...And there was also silver weighing many thousands of talents and all the royal treasure amounting to a very great sum..." Procopius of Caesarea.
The term treasury was first used in classical antiquity to describe the places built for gifts to the gods.
An example is the Siphnian Treasury in Delphi.
Many similar buildings were put up in Olympia, Greece by city-states hoping to impress others during the ancient Olympic Games.
In Ancient Greece treasuries were almost always inside religious buildings such as temples.
This made state funds sacrosanct, and adding moral constraints to the punishment for thieves.
The sovereigns' treasury in the palace in ancient Jerusalem,was similar in nature to the temple treasury.
Those treasuries had officials, and worked rather like a bank.
"...in fact, practically in every city there are banking places for the holy money..." Philo.
In excavations of Persopolis a text about to the activities of a treasury were discovered.
It dates to the fifth century BC.
The texts were written in the Elamite language.
The ancient Roman word aerarium signified the treasury of the Senate, fiscus was used to indicate the imperial treasury used by Caesar.
They had, as we do, the distinction between a treasury as a store of valuables, and the treasury as an office of finance.
Treasuries in modern government
H.M. Treasury
In the United Kingdom, Her Majesty's Treasury is overseen by the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
The traditional honorary title of First Lord of the Treasury is held by the Prime Minister.
Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs administers the taxation system.
The IRS is the revenue agency of the US Department of the Treasury.
In many other countries, the treasury is called the Ministry of Finance.
Its head is known as the Finance Minister.
Examples include New Zealand, Canada, Malaysia, Singapore, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan,  and Japan.
The government of Poland includes the Ministry of Finance as well as the Ministry of State Treasury, as does the government of the Ukraine.
It was the same in Italy before the creation of the united Ministry of Economy.
St. Nicholas Magazine was a 19th-century American monthly children's magazine.
It was published between 1873 and 1943 by Scribner's & Co. It was directed for 32 years by Mary Mapes Dodge.
Writers published in the magazine include Louisa May Alcott, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and Rudyard Kipling.
It folded in 1943.
Mary Mapes Dodge  (January 26, 1831 – August 21, 1905) was an American writer.
She wrote Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates.
She also edited St. Nicholas Magazine.
A lance is a pole weapon or spear used by a mounted warrior.
The lance is longer, thicker and heavier than an infantry spear, and is not intended for throwing, or for quick thrusting.
Lances did not have tips meant to break off or bend, unlike many throwing weapons of the spear and javelin family.
They often had a vamplate, a small circular plate to prevent the hand sliding up the shaft upon impact.
The lance was longer than a spear, about 9–10 feet long.
When charging the lance was carried under the arm (couched) using the weight of the horse and rider to push the lance tip into its intended target.
It was a medieval shock and awe weapon (caused great fear) to have a number of mounted knights with lances charging towards you.
In may cases it caused panic and the enemy fled the battle.
They were used by European knights, but the use of lances was spread over the Old World wherever horses were available.
The use of the lance was made possible by the use of the stirrup added to saddles.
It allowed the knight to control the horse and stand in the saddle.
As a backup weapon, lancers (one who used a lance) of that period also carried swords, maces (a type of club) or something else suited to hand-to-hand (or close) combat, since the lance was often used only once during an event.
It could not be used once the combatants were close to each other.
Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates (1865) is a book by Mary Mapes Dodge.
It is about a Dutch boy who enters an ice skating race.
The Slave's Friend was a 19th-century American monthly children's magazine.
It was published in New York City, New York by the American Anti-Slavery Society beginning in 1835 and ending some time before 1839.
Thirty-eight issues were published.
Single copies cost 1 cent, but the magazine was made available in public places for free.
The 16-page, tiny magazine (4.5" h x 2.75") was considered dangerous reading by anti-abolitionists.
Copies were destroyed in Charleston, South Carolina and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
True was an American men's magazine.
It was published monthly by Fawcett Publications between 1937 and 1974.
Articles were of interest to men such as sports, adventure, technology, etc.
Use of the term has changed over time.
In the Middle Ages, a squire was the  apprentice of a knight.
Later it meant a leader in an English village or Lord of the manor might be called a squire.
Later still it was used for key public figures such as Justice of the Peace or Member of Parliament.
In modern American usage a squire is the title given to a Justice of the Peace or similar local official.
Squire is a shortened version of the word Esquire.
Sir Arunachalam Mahadeva (5 October 1885 – 8 June 1969) was a Sri Lankan diplomat and legislator.
He was a minister of the Home Affairs of the State Council.
He later served as Ceylon's High Commissioner to India from 1948 to 1950.
Mahadeva is the son of Sir Ponnambalam Arunachalam.
Like his father,  Mahadeva was educated at the Royal College Colombo.
Arunachalam Mahadeva was elected as a member of both the Legislative and State Councils of Ceylon.
He became the Home Minister in 1942, when D. S. Senanayake became Leader of the House of the State Council.
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http://www.newdelhi.mission.gov.lk/envoys.htm Sri Lanka's Envoys to India
Anyone can buy property in Jaffna
Conspiracy charge: no evidence
The PZL 102 Kos is a Polish training and sport light aircraft.
Built in wood and metal, it is a twin-seats single-engine.
Engine is an American-built Continental C90-12F. Only ten examples were built between 1959 and 1962.
The Lockheed L-100 is the civilian variant of the famous military cargo aircraft C-130 Hercules.
It is also used like cargo but generally by airliners.
L-100 are sometimes also named Hercules.
Some are used in Algeria, Canada, France, and the United States.
More the 110 examples were built.
Some are used by air forces in addition of militaries variants.
Few L-100 are used like water bomber, like in the U.S.
L-100
Sir Ponnambalam Arunachchalam (14 September 1853 – 9 January 1924) was a Ceylonese statesman.
He was a member of the Executive Council and the Legislative Council.
His father was Gate Mudaliyar Arunachalam Ponnambalam.
His mother was Sellachchi Ammaiyar.
He was the third son of their parents and the younger brother of Sir Ponnambalam Ramanathan who was another famous Ceylon Tamil leader.
He was educated at the Colombo Academy (Royal College Colombo), Colombo, and at Christ's College, Cambridge.
He was one of the first Ceylonese to enter the Ceylon Civil Service in 1875.
He was appointed General in 1887.
He showed his positive work in all the positions he held.
On his retirement from the Public Service in 1913, he was honored in recognition of his service to the country.
He was also nominated by the Governor to a seat in the Executive Council.
Mercure Hotels is a chain of hotels run by French corporation Accor.
Most Mercure hotels are positioned between Ibis and Novotel in the Accor estate.
RIU Hotels & Resorts is a Spanish hotel chain.
It was founded by the Riu family as a small holiday hotel.
The first hotel was Riu San Francisco in Mallorca.
The RIU Hotels & Resorts chain is owned by the Riu family's third generation.
The RIU Hotels chain now expanded in most Spanish-speaking countries but also others.
Novotel is a hotel chain in the Accor group.
Novotel has almost 400 hotels and resorts in 60 countries, in the business districts and tourist destinations of international cities.
Godey's Lady's Book was a 19th-century American monthly women's magazine.
It began publication in 1830 as The Lady's Book. "
Godey's" was added to the title about 1840.
It was also known as Godey's Magazine.
It was published in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Louis Antoine Godey.
In 1836, Godey bought the Boston-based American Ladies' Magazine, and merged it with his own magazine.
Sarah Josepha Hale became the literary editor.
Contents included recipes, etiquette, health advice, fiction, poetry, fashions, household tips, exercises, moral instruction, etc.
The monthly fashion plates were hand-colored by 150 women.
Unusual for the times, the magazine's contents were copyrighted.
Subscriptions dropped off during the American Civil War, though the magazine was careful not to mention politics, war, or other divisive or controversial topics.
Public interest in the magazine declined after Godey and Hale retired.
The magazine was absorbed by Puritan in 1898.
Godey's Lady's Book: Publication History
Encyclopaedia Britannica: Godey's Lady's Book
Grošek was drafted 145th overall in the 1993 NHL Entry Draft by the Winnipeg Jets.
He played 3 years with the Jets and became the first Czech born player to play for the team.
He then went to the Buffalo Sabres and played 5 seasons with them.
He played 14 games with the Chicago Blackhawks and the played for the New York Rangers.
He played for both the New York Rangers for 2 seasons and their AHL farm team, the Hartford Wolf Pack.
He last played in the NHL for the Boston Bruins for 2 seasons.
He left the NHL and went to play in the National League A with Geneve Servette.
He played 2 seasons with them and decided to play for SKA Saint Petersburg of Russian Superleague.
He only played 13 games with them and returned to the NLA to play for EV Zug.
He last played for the Leksands IF of the Swedish Hockey League.
A women's magazine is a magazine that is mostly for women.
These magazines were started because big newsapers sometimes had parts that were for women.
Sometimes tabloid journalism is also for women.
Unlike tabloids, which are published daily, women's magazines are usually published weekly or monthly.
Margarita Esther Henríquez Rodríguez (born April 17, 1991, Panama) is the winner of the third season of Latin American Idol, which she won on October 9, 2008.
Henríquez became the youngest contestant to win and the third one since Carlos Peña.
Henríquez beat the runner up María José Castillo for the title.
She released her first album under the Sony BMG label on December 1, 2008.
It has been very successful in Panama.
It contains six songs that she performed during the TV Show.
Her song "Vuela" has been successful on Panamanian radio stations.
Frank Ticheli (born January 21, 1958 in Monroe, Louisiana) is an American composer.
He writes music for orchestras, choirs, and concert bands, as well as chamber works.
He lives in Los Angeles, California and is a Professor of Composition at the University of Southern California.
Many of the pieces he has written are very famous.
He graduated from L.V. Berkner High School in Richardson, Texas and earned a Bachelor of Music in Composition from Southern Methodist Universitywhere he studied with Donald Erb and Jack Waldenmaier.
He got his master's and doctoral degrees in composition from the University of Michigan, where he studied with William Albright, Leslie Bassett, George Wilson, and William Bolcom.
Later, Ticheli was an Assistant Professor of Music at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.
From 1991 to 1998, Ticheli was composer-in-residence with the Pacific Symphony Orchestra in Orange County, California.
Since 1991, he has been a Professor of Composition at the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music.
Ticheli has won many awards.
Many organizations, orchestras, and universities have paid him to write music.
Ticheli's works are published by Manhattan Beach Music, Encore Music Publishers, and Hinshaw Music, and are recorded on the labels of Albany, Chandos, Clarion, Delos, Equilibrium, Klavier, Koch International Classics, Mark, Naxos, Reference, and others.
For orchestra
Riffs for Steven (2010)
An American Elegy (2008)
Angels in the Architecture (2009)
Shooting Stars (2004)
Blue Shades (2002)
Radiant Voices (1993)
On Time's Stream (1995)
Postcard (1995)
Pacific Fanfare (1995)
Images of a Storm (1983)
For solo with orchestra
Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra (2011)
1 (solo tenor or baritone in mvt.
4 only) (2001)
An American Dream (with solo soprano) (1998)
Playing With Fire (for seven-piece jazz band and orchestra) (1992)
Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra (1990)
For chorus and orchestra
The Shore, a choral symphony on four poems of David St. John (2013)
For chorus
Constellation: Three Poems of Sara Teasdale (2010)
Earth Song (2007)
The Song Within (2004)
There Will Be Rest (2000)
For concert band/wind ensemble
Korean Folksongs from Jeju Island (2013)
First Light (2013)
Songs of Love and Life, for soprano and 18 players (2012)
Concerto for Clarinet and Concert Band (2011)
San Antonio Dances (2011)
Rest (2011)
Amen! (
The Tyger (2008)
1 (transcribed by Gary Green)
Wild Nights! (
Nitro (2006) - commissioned by the Northshore Concert Band
Sanctuary (2006)
Abracadabra (2005)
Joy Revisited (2005)
Joy (2005)
2 (2004) - winner of the 2006 NBA/William D. Revelli Memorial Band Composition Contest
Ave Maria (2004)
A Shaker Gift Song (2004)
Pacific Fanfare (2003)
Loch Lomond (2002)
Simple Gifts: Four Shaker Songs (2002)
An American Elegy (2000)
Vesuvius (1999)
Shenandoah (1999)
Blue Shades (1997)
Sun Dance (1997)
Cajun Folk Songs II (1997)
Postcard (1994)
Gaian Visions (1994)
Amazing Grace (1994)
Cajun Folk Songs (1990)
Fortress (1989)
Portrait of a Clown (1998)
Music for Winds & Percussion (1988)
Concertino for Trombone and Band (1987)
For chamber ensemble
Concerto for Clarinet (2011)
Out of the Blue (2004)
Songs of Tagore (1992)
Back Burner (1989)
Here We Stand (1989)
Concertino for Trombone (1987)
The First Voice (1987)
String Quartet (1986)
Fantasy (1984)
Two Songs of Loss (1983)
Humouresque (1980)
Poltergeists (1980)
No Time (1980)
Three Movements (1979)
Trio for Brass (1978)
"An Interview with Frank Ticheli", Band Director
The Music of Frank Ticheli Frank Ticheli's official website by Manhattan Beach Music
Composition Faculty  The Thornton School of Music's faculty biographies
"Frank_Ticheli", Wind Repertory Project
Composer's Collection: Frank Ticheli
Louis Antoine Godey (June 6, 1804 – November 29, 1878) was founder and publisher of the 19th-century women's magazine, Godey's Lady's Book.
He was born in poverty in New York City, New York.
His parents were survivors of the French Revolution.
He was mostly self-educated.
Godey went to work as a paperboy at age 15, moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and went to work for the Daily Chronicle.
Within a few years, he began publishing his own magazine, The Lady's Book.
Contributors included Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edgar Allan Poe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Godey also published The Young People’s Book in 1841, and the Lady’s Musical Library in 1842.
On August 31, 1833, Godey married Maria Duke.
He  retired to St. Augustine, Florida.
He died after a short illness in Philadelphia in 1878.
Godey, Louis Antoine
Michael "Mike" Leighton (born May 19, 1981 in Petrolia, Ontario) was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender that played for the Rockford IceHogs of the American Hockey League (AHL).
He also played for the Chicago Blackhawks, Nashville Predators, Philadelphia Flyers, and Carolina Hurricanes.
He started his career with the Windsor Spitfires of the Ontario Hockey League.
He played 3 seasons and during that time he was named the All-star Team West Goalie in 2000.
He started his NHL career with the Blackhawks and during that time he became the first Blackhawks player to record a shutout in his debut.
He competed with Craig Anderson for back-up duties and never really got to spend a complete season in the NHL during his time with Chicago.
On October 4, 2005, he was traded to the Buffalo Sabres in exchange for Milan Bartovic.
He didn't appear in a game with the Sabres however and played the season with their AHL affiliate, the Rochester Americans.
The Sabres didn't tender him a qualifying offer in the off-season which made him an unrestricted free agent.
On July 13, 2006, he signed as a free agent with the Anaheim Ducks.
He played for the Ducks' farm team, the Portland Pirates.
The Ducks called Leighton up when both their goalies Ilya Bryzgalov and Jean-Sébastien Giguère got injured but Leighton was claimed off waivers by the Nashville Predators before he could play.
He only played 20 minutes of one game with the Predators and he was placed on waivers again.
On January 11, 2007, he was claimed by the Philadelphia Flyers.
After playing 4 games with the Flyers, he was placed on waivers and picked up by the Montreal Canadiens but didn't play a game with them because he had already finished the season.
He first played for their farm team, the Albany River Rats but was called up to the NHL when John Grahame got sent down after he got placed on waivers.
Leighton played 3 games and was sent back down to the River Rats.
During his time with the River Rats he set an AHL record by making 98 saves on 101 shots, in a playoff game that went to 5 overtimes which was also an AHL record.
He played as the Hurricanes' backup goaltender, behind Cam Ward, during the 2008–09 NHL season.
He played 19 regular season games but he didn't play in the playoffs, when the team advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals.
Ward suffered a leg injury in November 2009 and missed a month of play.
The Hurricanes signed goaltender Manny Legace, who became the backup when Ward returned.
On December 15, 2009, Leighton was brought back to the Flyers when they claimed him off waivers to back up Brian Boucher while Ray Emery recovered from injury.
On December 21, Leighton was given a starting role when Boucher suffered an injury.
On January 1, 2010, he started in goal for the Flyers for the 2010 Winter Classic.
During a playoff game against the Boston Bruins, Leighton stepped in for an injured Boucher to play in his first ever NHL playoff game where he helped keep Boucher's shutout in a 4-0 win.
During the 2010 Eastern Conference Finals against the Montreal Canadiens, he only let in 7 goals in five games and recorded 3 shutouts as the Flyers advanced to the Stanley Cup Finals to face the Chicago Blackhawks.
Leighton started all six games of the Finals but struggled where he recorded a goals against average of 3.96 and a save percentage of 0.876.
Leighton was the losing goalie in game 6 when the Blackhawks defeated the Flyers four games to two which ending with an overtime goal by Patrick Kane.
On June 30, 2010, he re-signed with the Flyers with a two-year deal.
On January 3, 2011, the Flyer placed Leighton on waivers.
He cleared waivers the next day and was assigned to the Adirondack Phantoms.
He rejoined the Flyers three months later after he cleared re-entry waivers.
On July 1, 2012, he re-signed with the Flyers with a one-year contract and was announced as Ilya Bryzgalov's backup.
He only played one game for the Flyers during the 2012–13 season and was traded along with a 2015 third-round draft pick to the Columbus Blue Jackets for Steve Mason.
AHL First All-Star Team (2007-08)
Aldege "Baz" Bastien Memorial Award (2007-08)
AHL All-Rookie Team (2001-02)
OHL All-star Team West Goalie (2000)
Retro Studios is a video game developer and a part of Nintendo.
The company was started in 1998.
They are most famous for the Metroid Prime and Donkey Kong Country series.
Retro Studios' website
Missile Command is an arcade video game released by Atari in 1981.
In this game, the player has to defend six cities from falling missiles.
The player does so by hitting the missiles with their own counter-missiles.
The player moves a crosshair to launch missiles.
When a missile hits the crosshair, it creates a fireball that stays for a few seconds and destroys any missiles that hit it.
The player has three batteries with ten missiles each.
When a battery has no more missiles left or it is destroyed, the player can no longer use it.
The game is played as a series of levels, each having a higher difficulty.
A level ends if all of the player's cities are destroyed, or all of the falling missiles are destroyed.
If a player runs out of missiles, they no longer have control in the level they are playing on.
At the end of a level, the player gets extra points for cities that have not been destroyed and missiles they did not use.
Missile Command at the Killer List of Video Games
Missile Command at the Arcade History database
Grand Forks is a city in the Canadian province of British Columbia.
Grand Forks is in Boundary Country near the Canada–United States border.
The population of Grand Forks was 3,985 in 2011.
The mayor of Grand Forks is Frank Konrad.
The city started in the late 19th century when copper mining was popular in both the Boundary and Kootenay regions of British Columbia.
It officially became a city on April 15, 1897.
In both 1908 and 1911, fires destroyed the downtown core because of the large number of wood frame buildings and stores.
Grand Forks has an ice hockey team, the Grand Forks Border Bruins which play in the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League.
[[File:Learjet 45 (8372953863).jpg|thumb|''Learjet 45s Business Jet.]]
A business jet''' is an aircraft designed and built for transporting a small group of passengers, between four and twenty people.
Generally it is a twin-turbojet aircraft, but some are tri-jet (such as Falcon 50), or four-engine (like the Jetstar).
In some cases it is even airliners that have been turned into this kind of aircraft, like Airbus A320CJ or Boeing 737BJ.
Some business jets are used by air forces for priority and VIP transport.
Prestige,Flexibility and Comfort are Featured aspects of Jet travel, Considering these wonderful aspects some of the Companies like XOJet,JetSuite are Offering Private Jet Facilities For  Business or Private Trips.
Twin-engine aircraft
Bombardier Challenger 300
Cessna CJ-1
Embraer Phenom
Hawker-Siddeley HS-125
IAI Astra
Tri-jet aircraft
Dassault Falcon 900
Four-engine aircraft
Lockheed Jetstar
Stewart Wilson, Airliners of the world, Aerospace Publications Australia, 1999.
A water bomber is an aircraft dedicated to firefighting, and in particular for forest fires.
It can be a helicopter or a sea plane.
Generally it is a conversion of a former military or cargo aircraft, but some were designed and built at the beginning like water bombers.
It is the case of Canadian Canadair CL-215.
Water bombers are used both by air forces, administrations, and private societies.
Sarah Josepha Hale (October 24, 1788 – April 30, 1879) was a 19th century American writer and magazine editor.
She wrote the poem "Mary Had a Little Lamb".
She campaigned to make Thanksgiving a national holiday, to make Mount Vernon a national shrine, and raised funds to complete the Bunker Hill monument.
Hale was born in Newport, New Hampshire to Gordon Buell, a Revolutionary War captain, and his wife, Martha (Whittlesay) Buell.
Sarah married lawyer David Hale in 1813, and bore him five children.
Widowed in 1822, Hale entered the literary field in order to support her children.
In 1827, she published Northwood: A Tale of New England.
It was one of the first novels to be published by an American woman.
She edited Ladies' Magazine in Boston, Massachusetts, then moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1837 to edit Godey's Lady's Book, the premiere woman's magazine in America.
She edited the magazine until 1877.
She died in 1879.
Hale raised funds for the completion of the Bunker Hill Monument.
She urged the Federal government to make Mount Vernon a national shrine, and to declare Thanksgiving a national holiday.
City of Joy is a 1985 book by French author and journalist Dominique Lapierre.
It was made into a 1991 movie by Roland Joffe.
It is based on the lives of people in a slum in Kolkata.
The slum is called "City of Joy".
A Polish Catholic priest and a rickshaw driver are two of the main characters.
City of Joy Aid
"Mary Had a Little Lamb" (originally, "Mary's Lamb") is a poem by Sarah Josepha Hale.
It was published in her Poetry for Children in 1823.
It tells of a lamb who follows his little mistress to school.
In the 1830s, Lowell Mason set the poem to music.
In 1877, Thomas Edison recited "Mary Had a Little Lamb" for the first recording of the human voice.
Codell is an unincorporated community in Rooks County, Kansas, United States.
It is south of the city of Stockton (the county seat of Rooks County).
It is near the southeastern corner of Rooks County.
The nearest city, Plainville, is about  northwest by road.
On May 20 in 1916, 1917, and 1918, Codell was hit by tornadoes.
The 1918 tornado was the worst.
It killed ten people and did a lot of damage.
Pictures of Codell
Codell history
Newspaper article about the 1918 tornado
Unincorporated communities in Kansas
Shakespeare's Sonnets is the title of a collection of 154 sonnets written by William Shakespeare.
The collection was first published in 1609 by Thomas Thorpe.
In general, each sonnet is  in iambic pentameter, and consists of three quatrains followed by a concluding couplet.
The sonnets are about love, death, jealousy, procreation, beauty, etc.
Poems by William Shakespeare
"Death Be Not Proud" is a poem written by John Donne about 1610.
It was published in 1663, after his death.
Shakespeare's birthplace is a house in Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England.
It is the birthplace of William Shakespeare, and one of several sites in Stratford associated with him.
New Place is a site in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England where a house once stood belonging to William Shakespeare.
He retired to the house following his career in the London theatres.
Many years after his death in 1623, the house became a tourist attraction.
A neighbor, weary of constant visitors, bought the house and tore it down.
Holy Trinity Church is a church in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England.
William Shakespeare is buried beneath the stones of the floor.
It is one of several sites in Stratford associated with the poet.
These sites include his birthplace in Henley Street and New Place, the site of his house.
Venus and Adonis is a long poem by William Shakespeare.
It was published in 1593.
It tells of Venus' love for Adonis, a mortal man.
Aubrey Plaza (born 26 June 1984, Wilmington, Delaware) is an American actress and comedian.
She performs in movies and television.
She starred as April Ludgate in the NBC television showParks and Recreation.
She acted as Claire in Monsters University and as Darius in Safety not Guaranteed.
Plaza played Karen Barclay in the 2019 horror movie Child's Play.
Plaza acts the speaking voice of Grumpy Cat in the Lifetime TV network movie Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever.
It was first shown on November 29, 2014.
comedians from Delaware
The Rape of Lucrece is a long poem by William Shakespeare.
It was first published in 1594.
It tells of the rape of Lucretia by Tarquin and her suicide.
Big Brother is a reality television game show.
It is based on an originally Dutch language TV series of the same name which was created by John de Mol in 1997.
The show follows a group of House Guests living together 24 hours a day in the "Big Brother" house.
They are isolated from everyone outside of the house.
They are videotaped with no privacy for three months.
Since its US television start in 2000, Big Brother has continue airing with at least one season of the show on CBS each year.
It is currently the second longest version of the show to have done so, after the Spanish version.
On September 19, 2012, CBS announced that Big Brother was renewed for its 15th season in summer 2013.
The 15th season began on June 26, 2013.
The HouseGuests compete for the chance to win $500,000.
They must try to avoid weekly eviction, until the last HouseGuest remains.
The American series is hosted by television personality Julie Chen.
It is produced by Allison Grodner and Rich Meehan for Fly On The Wall Entertainment.
It currently airs in the United States on CBS and in Canada on Global.
Eviction night are hosted by television personality and news anchor, Julie Chen.
She is the wife of CBS President Les Moonves and co-host of the network's The Talk.
Chen was a former co-host of CBS's The Early Show.
Television critics gave Chen negative reviews during her first season (2000).
Many critics did not like that she was very stale when presenting.
They also did not like her "weak" interviews with evictees during the live program.
They also did not like Chen's phrase "But first...", they believed she used it too much.
Many fans of the show began calling her "the Chenbot".
Chen later stated that she knows about this and accepts it.
There was an announcer during the first season.
The announcer introduced every scene.
As the show progressed, the announcer only came on during the opening and closing of each episode.
There have been several different announcers throughout the years.
Past announcers include Dave Walsh (season and episode 2 of season two), Chuck Riley (season two), and Phil Proctor (seasons 3-6).
The current announcer is Clayton Halsey and has been the announcer since season seven.
The format for the first season is very different than the following seasons.
The first season was very similar to international versions of Big Brother.
Each HouseGuest would individually go to the Diary Room and nominate two fellow HouseGuests for banishment.
The term "eviction" was not used until the second season.
The two or more HouseGuests with the most nominations are then revealed to the House and were "Marked for Banishment".
The public were invited to vote for who they wish to evict by calling a premium rate telephone number.
The HouseGuest who received the most public vote was evicted.
When there were three HouseGuests left, the public would vote for the winner.
Starting with the second season, the HouseGuests compete to become Head of Household or HoH. The Head of Household is responsible for nominating two HouseGuests for eviction.
During the Live Eviction show, HouseGuests individually go into the Diary Room and vote on who they wish to evict.
Julie then reveals the results of the vote to the House.
She then tells the evicted HouseGuest that s/he only has a few moments to leave the house.
In the event of a tie, the HoH will be the deciding vote.
When two HouseGuests remain, the evicted HouseGuests voted for the winner.
However, if there were a tie the public would vote.
In Big Brother 3 (2002), a new power was introduced called the Power of Veto (PoV).
The Power of Veto winner can choose to veto one of the Head of Household's nominations.
When this happens, the HoH chooses someone else to replace that nominee.
The winner is also protected from becoming a replacement nominee for the week.
At first, the Power of Veto was silver and if a nominee won the Power of Veto the nominee could not save themselves.
The "Golden" Power of Veto was introduced in the last veto competition in season three.
If a nominee won it, they could save themselves.
The "Crystal" Power of Veto was introduced in the final veto competition of Big Brother 4 (2003).
It could only be used by a nominee.
If anyone else won it, it could not be used.
The Golden Power of Veto is now the standard veto since season four.
The fourth season also started the Big Brother Jury or sometimes called the "Jury of Seven".
The Jury is made up of the final seven evicted HouseGuests.
Each member of the Jury are isolated in a different house.
The Jury members are not allowed to watch the show except for small parts such as the nominations and the Power of Veto ceremonies.
They are not allowed to see any Diary Room interviews or any footage involving strategy or twists to the game.
The Big Brother Jury votes to determine the winner of Big Brother each season.
Ten years later, Big Brother 15 (2013) raised the number of nominees from two to three a week.
This is similar to the French Canadian version of the show.
In addition, a new weekly power called the Most Valuable Player (MVP) will give this HouseGuest a special power.
The MVP will have the ability to nominate the 3rd nominee, without anyone knowing who the MVP was.
Live show
Live shows have been broadcast on Thursday nights in every season.
However, the first, fourth, ninth and the fifteenth seasons were not broadcast on Thursday nights.
The fourth, ninth and fifteenth seasons were instead on Wednesday nights.
Later in the season, there would be live shows on other days.
These examples were for double evictions.
From the second season through the ninth season, Chen presented the live show in an empty studio next to the house.
Starting with the tenth season, the live shows once again had an audience.
Season details
2010s American reality television series
"To Helen" is a poem by Edgar Allan Poe.
The poem was first published in 1831 in Poems of Edgar A. Poe.
It was republished in 1836 in the Southern Literary Messenger.
Poe's inspiration was Jane Stith Stanard, the mother of his childhood friend Robert Stanard.
The poem consists of three stanzas of five lines each.
The rhyme scheme is irregular: the first stanza is ABABB, the second is ABABA, and the third is ABBAB.
The poem includes the well known lines, "... the glory that was Greece / And the grandeur that was Rome".
Analysis: "To Helen"
A surcoat, or surcote, was an outer garment commonly worn in the Middle Ages by men.
About 100 years later, women started to wear surcoats.
It can either mean a coat worn over other garments or the outer garment commonly worn over armour.
The name comes from the French meaning "over the cotta", a long, wide coat reaching down to the feet without sleeves.
Starting about the 12th century, knights wore long and flowing surcoats over their armour.
They would often show the coat of arms of the wearer.
A knight's surcoat reached almost to the ankles.
It had slits (cuts) in the bottom front and back so a wearer could sit.
It also had no sleeves.
One purpose for the surcoat was to protect armour from the rain.
Another use was during the Crusades to keep the armour cooler in the sun.
By the middle of the 14th century the long surcoat was replaced with the "Jupon" (or "Gipon").
This was a much shorter garment, which was often padded for extra protection.
Once suits of plate (solid) armour became common, the surcoat was no longer used.
Tabard
"The Gold-Bug" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe.
It was first published in Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper in June 1843.
Alexéy Leonídovich Pájitnov (born April 16, 1955) is a Russian computer engineer who lives in the United States.
He is best known for creating the popular video game Tetris.
He was born in Moscow, USSR.
Pajitnov created Tetris in 1985.
The game was first sold in the Soviet Union.
In 1986, the game began being sold in the West.
Since then, it has become a very successful series.
In 1996, he started The Tetris Company, which owns the trademark to Tetris.
Alexey Pajitnov  profile at MobyGames
Tetris - From Russia with Love , BBC documentary
Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicitas Freifrau von Suttner (; ; 9 June 184321 June 1914) was an Austrian novelist.
She was the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Suttner wrote a novel called Die Waffen nieder!.
This means "Lay Down Your Arms!"
Citations and notes
"The Gift of the Magi" is a short story by O. Henry.
It was published in The New York Sunday World on December 10, 1905.
Pole Position is an arcade racing video game released by Namco in 1982 and designed by Toru Iwatani.
In this game, the player controls a Formula One race car.
The player completes a time trial lap to be able to compete in an F1 race at the Fuji Racetrack.
After completing the time trial race, the player races against other cars in a championship race.
The player has to complete the race in the time allowed.
They have to avoid crashing into the other cars and objects along the side of the track.
The game was the highest selling arcade game of 1983 in North America.
It sold over 21,000 machines for $61 million.
It has been released for many video game consoles as part of Namco game collections, including the PlayStation, Nintendo 64, Nintendo GameCube, and Xbox.
In 1983, a sequel called Pole Position II was released.
It features three new tracks in addition to the one from the first game.
Pole Position at the Killer List of Videogames
Pole Position at the Arcade History database
"The Open Boat" is a short story by Stephen Crane.
It was first published in the June 1897 issue of Scribner's Magazine.
"Young Goodman Brown" is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
It was first published in the April 1835 issue of New England Magazine.
"Rappaccini's Daughter" is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
It was first published in United States Democratic Review in December 1844.
It was reprinted in Hawthorne's collection of short stories and sketches, Mosses From an Old Manse in 1846.
The story has been adapted to many media including opera and movies.
Jean Henri Dunant was a Swiss businessman and social activist.
A book he wrote influenced the International Committee of the Red Cross to be formed in 1863.
The 1864 Geneva Convention was based on Dunant's ideas.
In 1901 he received the first Nobel Peace Prize together with Frédéric Passy.
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is a novella (short novel) by Stephen Crane.
The story is about a young  prostitute in New York City.
Frédéric Passy (May 20, 1822 – June 12, 1912) was a French economist.
In 1901 he received the first Nobel Peace Prize together with Henry Dunant.
Passy wrote and talked to others about free trade.
He followed the ideas of Richard Cobden.
Saint Irenaeus (130 AD - 202) was a Roman Catholic Bishop of Lyon, France.
He is a Church Father.
He is known for his Christian writings.
He is remembered on the 28 June.
St. Irenaeus at the Catholic Encyclopedia
202 deaths
The Church Fathers are ancient and influential Christian theologians, some of whom were great teachers or bishops.
Only early teachers of Christianity are seen as Fathers by the Western Church.
However, the Orthodox Church honors many more recent saints as "Fathers".
Western Church: Ambrose (340-397), Jerome (347-420), Augustine (354-430) and Saint Gregory the Great (540-604)
Eastern Church: Basil (c.329-379), Athanasius (c.296-373), Gregory of Nazianzus (329-c.389) and John Chrysostom (347-407)
Brenda Holloway (born 21 June 1946, California) is an American singer-songwriter.
Her genre is R&B. She covered the songs When I'm Gone, You've Made Me so Very Happy and many others.
She worked for Motown Records in the 1960s.
The Cessna Citation X is a twin-turbojet business jet designed and built in the United States.
It can carry between eight and twelve passengers.
It is a swept-wing aircraft built entirely of metal.
Its first flight was in 1996.
The Vought F7U Cutlass is a navalized fighter aircraft that served in the U.S. Navy.
It was used for the Cold War, from American aircraft carriers.
None were sold to other countries.
Some Vought F7U Cutlass were modified for aerial reconnaissance as F7U-3P. It was used by the Blue Angels in 1953.
The UTVA Model 75 is a training single-engine aircraft that was designed and built in Yugoslavia.
It is also used as civilian sport light aircraft.
Apart from former Yugoslavian countries, this aircraft was sold to Sudan.
Madylin Sweeten (June 27, 1991, Brownwood, Texas) is an American actress who performs on television.
She played Ally Barone in the 1996-2005 television series Everybody Loves Raymond.
Andrea Laura Barber (born July 3, 1976) is an American former child actress who acts mainly in TV.
She played Kimmy Gibbler in the sitcom Full House.
Before that, she played Carrie Brady in the soap opera Days of our Lives.
Barber was born in Los Angeles.
Bridgette Andersen (July 11, 1975 - May 18, 1997) was an American actress.
She acted mostly on television.
She acted in Family Ties and Remington Steele.
She also did Pepsi commercials.
Kary Banks Mullis (December 28, 1944 – August 7, 2019) was an American biochemist.
In 1993, he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Michael Smith for his role in discovering the development of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR).
The process of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was first described by Kjell Kleppe and 1968 Nobel laureate H. Gobind Khorana.
It allows specific DNA sequences to be amplified (multiplied hugely).
Mullis greatly improved the technique, and it became a standard tool in DNA research.
In 1983, Mullis was working for Cetus Corp. as a chemist.
That spring, according to Mullis, he was driving his vehicle late one night, when he had the idea to use a pair of primers to bracket the desired DNA sequence and to copy it using DNA polymerase.
This would allow a small strand of DNA to be copied almost an infinite number of times.
Cetus took Mullis off his usual projects to concentrate on PCR full-time.
Mullis succeeded in demonstrating PCR on December 16, 1983.
Scientists from North Carolina
A Sulfonamide (or sulphonamide) is a kind of drug.
It is a man-made antibiotic.