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17329380 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Sorrows%20of%20an%20American | The Sorrows of an American | The Sorrows of an American is Siri Hustvedt's fourth novel. It was first published in 2008 and is about a Norwegian American family and their troubles. The novel is partly autobiographical in that Hustvedt herself is of Norwegian descent and in that passages from her own deceased father's journal about the Depression in America and the Pacific theatre of war during World War II are scattered through the book.
The Sorrows of an American operates on several time levels and depicts the difficult times of four generations of the fictional Davidsen family. At the core of the novel lies a long-kept family secret which the first person narrator, a middle-aged psychiatrist called Erik Davidsen who lives and works in New York, sets out to unearth together with his sister. However, the novel abounds in subplots which focus on the present rather than the past.
Plot summary
On the death of their father Lars, a retired Professor of History, Erik Davidsen and his sister Inga, a philosopher, clean out his home office in rural Minnesota and, while going through his copious papers, find a cryptic note written and signed by someone they do not know called Lisa which suggests to them that as a boy back in the 1930s their father was involved in some illicit act and that he has kept his promise never to tell anyone about it. The siblings decide to investigate the matter further, if only half-heartedly at first. For the time being, Erik Davidsen is preoccupied reading his father's journals, which the latter completed only shortly before his demise. For Erik, all this will mean that in the months to come he will not only be haunted by the ghosts of the present but also of the past.
It has been pointed out that none of the characters in The Sorrows of an American leads a carefree, untroubled existence. The narrator himself suffers from a slight form of depression triggered by his recent divorce, childless state, and subsequent feeling of loneliness but still finds satisfaction in attempting to cure his patients of the complaints he occasionally recognizes in himself. His sister Inga has had absence seizures from childhood and migraines all her adult life. What is more, when the novel opens she is being harassed by a female journalist who states her intention to publicize hitherto unknown facts about Inga's deceased husband, a cult author and filmmaker, and who demands that she be co-operative without telling her what exactly she is aiming at or planning to do. Inga's 18-year-old daughter Sonia suffers from posttraumatic stress disorder, having witnessed, from the windows of her Manhattan school, the September 11, 2001 attacks and the collapse of the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Lars Davidsen, the long-term patriarch of the family, was a fugueur.
But also the characters outside the family show neurological symptoms. Whereas the journalist who is harassing Inga only bears an age-old personal grudge against her (of which the latter is unaware) and is out for straightforward revenge, Erik's friend and colleague Bernard Burton, apart from sweating excessively, has not been able to cope with the fact that Inga is not in love with him and, without her realizing it, has kept a watchful eye on her over the years in a way which might be construed as stalking. Edie Bly, a former actress who is now impoverished, is a recovering substance abuser who has an illegitimate son by Inga's deceased husband and appears to be in an unstable psychological condition. Finally, the real stalker in the novel, a photographer and installation artist called Jeffrey Lane, displays various signs of compulsive behaviour, for example the urge to document virtually everything in his life by taking photos. He crosses the psychiatrist's path while pursuing his former girlfriend, a Jamaican-born beauty who has recently rented, and moved into, the downstairs apartment of Erik's now too large Brooklyn brownstone.
Erik Davidsen is immediately drawn towards Miranda, the young woman from Jamaica, and Eglantine, her pre-school daughter by Jeffrey Lane. He soon falls head over heels in love with the dark-skinned woman while at the same time watching what he perceives to be the slow but steady deterioration of his own self. Gently rejected by Miranda, he has enough willpower left to go on a date with a sexy colleague and, for purely physical reasons, starts an affair with her. As the story progresses, however, he is more and more pulled into the quagmire of events surrounding Miranda, Inga, and himself. At one point he catches a burglar in his empty house at night, is surprised to see it is Lane, confused when the escaping Lane takes a photo of him wearing nothing much but wielding a hammer, and shocked when, months later, he recognizes the image at one of Lane's exhibitions with a caption saying, Head Doctor Goes Insane.
Most of the mysteries are cleared up in the end. Erik and Inga succeed in tracking down the mysterious — and now dying — Lisa, and it turns out that all those years ago a young Lars Davidsen helped her bury her illegitimate, stillborn child, in all secrecy, somewhere on his family's farm. The reputation of Inga's deceased husband is not smeared either when the existence of a batch of letters to Edie Bly can be established without doubt but when it turns out at the same time that they have no sensational value because they belong to the realm of fiction—they are addressed to the character Bly played in one of the author's films rather than Bly the actress and mother of his child. Bernard Burton proves instrumental in procuring the letters without succumbing to the temptation to actually read them, in a chivalric act in which he dresses up as a frightful bag lady in order not to reveal his identity, a scene which also provides some comic relief. The conclusion of the novel is a four-page stream-of-consciousness-like recapitulation of the story's images racing through Erik's mind, and the assurance that the characters' fragmented lives will remain that way.
Reviews
The Sorrows of an American was published to almost unanimously positive reviews. Ron Charles calls it "a radically postmodern novel that wears its po-mo credentials with unusual grace; even at its strangest moments, it never radiates the chilly alienation that marks, say, the work of Hustvedt's husband, Paul Auster." For Sylvia Brownrigg, "the erudite Hustvedt" explores "larger questions of art and madness, mind and spirit, and the construction of the self" through the dialogues of her intellectually minded characters and the interior monologues of her narrator. True, little use is made of the vernacular, which prompts Haley Edwards to state that "Hustvedt writes very well, but her prose has all the flair of your Aunt Olga's dinner rolls. Sometimes Erik says things about the human condition that are wonderfully perceptive and incredibly poignant, but he seems to say them as if he's observing the human condition, rather than experiencing it himself."
What some critics found disappointing is that "the secrets Inga and Erik pursue don't yield the drama or meaning they have hoped for, suffusing the scenes of revelation with an air of anticlimax. This may be intentional—Hustvedt may be warning us of the folly of hoping for neat resolutions in our explorations of past pains—but it means the narrative slackens somewhat toward the end."
External links
A video of Siri Hustvedt's "Meet the Author" session (whose focus was The Sorrows of an American), hosted by J. M. Coetzee, at Adelaide Writers' Week (March 2–7, 2008).
Footnotes
2008 American novels
Novels set in Minnesota
Novels set in New York City
Psychotherapy in fiction |
17329396 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleasant%20View%20School%20for%20the%20Arts | Pleasant View School for the Arts | Pleasant View School for the Arts, frequently referred to as PVSA or simply PV, was a co-educational public magnet school dedicated to the arts in the Plain Local School District in Canton, Ohio. Students from the district's 5 elementary schools were invited to "identify" for the school in the 3rd grade. This "identification" process had students demonstrate their abilities in the four designated Arts: Dance, Music, Drama, and Visual Art. The school accepted an average of 80 students per year, and spanned the 4th-8th grade, though it was technically identified as a middle school.
Kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscope was the school's gifted education program. It accepted an initial class of about 15 students per year, based on district-wide scores on the California Achievement Test. The program would accept 2-3 more students per year, based on test scores and vacancies. Students accepted were in the 99th percentile of test takers.
Closing
When the district restructured in 2006, Pleasant View officially closed its doors. The district claims to be integrating the programs offered through PV into the new middle schools, Glenwood and Oakwood.
The building, which was in notorious disrepair during its later years, was bulldozed in 2007, and the former location, 3000 Columbus Ave. is now an empty lot.
References
External links
Pleasant View Website c.2001 cached by the Internet Archive.
Canton, Ohio
Demolished buildings and structures in Ohio
Educational institutions disestablished in 2006
Educational institutions established in 1987
Defunct schools in Ohio
1987 establishments in Ohio |
17329400 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie%20Cronin | Maggie Cronin | Maggie Cronin is an Irish actress and playwright.
The short film The Shore directed by Terry George, in which she appears with Ciarán Hinds, Conleth Hill and Kerry Condon, won the Academy award in the Short Film, Live Action category at 84th Academy Awards in February 2012.
She appeared in Doctors (BBC1 TV) from 2000–2004 playing the role of Kate McGuire for over 600 episodes. In 2006 she briefly returned when Christopher Timothy's character Brendan "Mac" McGuire left the series. She appeared in My Mother and Other Strangers and The Frankenstein Chronicles.
Background
She trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, which was absorbed into the Central School of Speech and Drama in 2006.
Writing
Her first one-woman show, A Most Notorious Woman directed by Paddy Scully, premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1989 and subsequently toured, over a number of years, through the UK, Ireland and the US, garnering much critical acclaim:
"Cronin is clearly a writer. Her play is intelligent, inventive, playful and blessed with the Irish gift for vividly descriptive language."- Damien Jaques, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. January 1999;
"A brave, bold, free spirited show of enormous dramatic power."- Lyn Gardner, City Limits;
"Cronin has fashioned a play that is delicate, funny and richly textured…With a few simple props – a battered suitcase, a white silk sheet which doubles as a table cloth, a wedding dress and a billowing ship’s sail – Grace’s free spirit is evoked."
– Helen Meany,
Irish Times September 1998
The script won The Stewart Parker Trust/BBC Radio Drama Award for 1995 and was published by Lagan Press in 2004.
Her second one-woman show Greenstick Boy directed by Sarah Tipple, previewed at the Brian Friel Theatre in Belfast in March 2008, and the Assembly Rooms, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, in August 2008. It has been performed at Belfast’s Black Box Theatre (in the Out to Lunch Festival 2010) and Bewley’s Cafe Theatre in Dublin in 2010 in the ABSOLUT Fringe festival.
"Lyrical brilliance... Maggie Cronin paints a deeply poignant picture of a wild love and the throbbing nostalgic pains that survive it.… a lesson in storytelling" **** Junta Sekimori – Fest magazine, Edinburgh.
"Beautifully written and wonderfully performed, this one-woman show was very, very good...This well structured play is funny, fresh, sad and a real delight to watch." THREE WEEKS review Edinburgh
"Maggie Cronin's monologue gets right under the skin of what it was like to be young in London in the days of punk and its aftermath." Thom Dibdin, THE STAGE
She co -wrote, with actress Carol Moore, a dramatised history of the Ulster Suffragettes entitled "Shrieking Sisters"
Maggie has been performing the show, with Carol Moore and Laura Hughes, since February 2013.
Theatre and radio/audio
Selected stage credits
Ma, "The Gift" CahootsNI Theatre Company. Dir: Paul McEneany
Martha "The Kitchen the Bedroom And The Grave" by Donal O'Hagan. Accidental Theatre, Belfast. Dir: Richard Lavery
M, Greenstick Boy, Bozar Theatre Brussels, Bewley's Cafe Theatre Dublin for ABSOLUT Fringe 2010, Dir: Sarah Tipple
Various roles: "Shrieking Sisters" – Belfast City Hall, Island Arts Centre Lisburn, and numerous venues.
Winnie, Happy Days, Dir: Joel Beddows
Nora Ryan, Bruised, Tinderbox, Dir: Anna Newell
Vadoma, Carnival, Kabosh, Dir: Paula McFetridge
M, Greenstick Boy, Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh Greenstick Productions, Dir: Sarah Tipple
Gin, The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek, Prime Cut Productions, Dir: Patrick O'Kane
Marie, "1974– The End Of The Year Show", The Lyric Theatre, Belfast, Dir: Carol Moore
Reta, Unless, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, Dir: Tim Sheader
Daisy, Give Me Your Answer Do!, Belfast Lyric Theatre, Dir: Ben Twist
Joy Gresham, Shadowlands, Belfast Lyric Theatre, Dir: Zoe Seaton
Titania, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Belfast Lyric Theatre, Dir: Robin Midgley
Widow Quin, Playboy of the Western World, Belfast Lyric Theatre, Dir: David Grant
Radio
Maire Nic Shiublaigh, THE WOMEN WHO STAGED THE RISING, BBC Radio 3, Dir: Conor Garrett
Therapist, DEAR BABY MINE, BBC radio 4 Dir: Heather Larmour
Rosamond Lehmann, BOWEN AND BETJEMAN, BBC Radio 4, Dir: Gemma McMullan
Narration, THE BOOK PROGRAMME- BANNED IRISH BOOKS, Radio 4, Dir: Regina Gallen
Narrator/ Helen Waddell, ULSTER'S FORGOTTEN DARLING, BBC Radio 4, Dir: Regina Gallen
Bridget, LOVE'S WORST DAY, BBC Radio 4, Dir: Gemma McMullan
Black/Judge, "Kicking The Air" BBC Radio 4 Dir: Heather Larmour (Zebbie award Winner)
Bertha Mulvihill, Titanic Letters, BBC Northern Ireland/Radio 4, Dir: Ian Dougan
Narrator, The Book Programme, BBC Radio Ulster
Megan/Susan, Some Secluded Glade, BBC Radio 4, Dir: Eoin O'Callaghan
Reader, The Fairy's Curse, BBC Radio 3, Dir: Marie-Claire Doris
Judith, Girl from Mars, BBC Radio 4, Dir: Heather Larmour (Zebbie award winner)
Reader, One by One In the Darkness, BBC Radio 4, Dir: Sara Johnson
Audio/voiceover work
Narrator, Talking to Billy, BBC NI TV, Dir: Clare Delargy
Narrator, Atlantis: The Evidence, BBC Worldwide, Dir: Detlef Siebert
Narrator, Quitting Crime, Crawford McCann for BBC NI, Dir: Kelda Crawford McCann
Narrator, The House on The Hill, Doubleband for BBC Northern Ireland, Dir: Laura Doherty
Series Narrator, The Choirboys, BBC Northern Ireland, Dir: Natalie Maynes
Series Narrator, The Last Resort, Tern TV for BBC NI, Dir: Matt Marsters
Narrator, When the Pope Came to Ireland, BBC1 NI, Dir: Tony Curry
Narrator, Show me the Mummy, BBC1 NI, Dir: Ian Dougan
Series Narrator, Life Inside, BBC1 NI, Dir: Denise O'Connor
Amelia, The Crown Jewel, BBC1 NI, Dir: Clare Delargy
Audio, Narrator, All For You by Sheila O'Flanagan, RNIB Talking Books
Audio, Narrator, Ellis Island by Kate Kerrigan, RNIB Talking Books
Audio, Narrator, Always with you by Gloria Hunniford, RNIB Talking Books
Audio, Narrator, Close to you by Gloria Hunniford, RNIB Talking Books
Audio, Narrator, Veronica Guerin: The Life and Death of a Crime Reporter, by Emily O'Reilly, RNIB Talking Books
Film
Landlady (Mrs Thompson), SHOOTING FOR SOCRATES, New Black, James Erskine
Sinead in A Belfast Story Director: Nathan Todd
Susan in To Lose Control; Directed by Marty Stalker
Alice Weller in 2011's Whole Lotta Sole known as Stand Off in USA Directed by Terry George
Mary in The Shore, directed by Terry George. It won the Academy Award in the 'Short Film, Live Action' Category at 84th Academy Awards in February 2012.
Television
Doctors (2000–2004 and 2006)
She is perhaps best known for her role as Practice Manager Kate McGuire in BBC One's flagship daytime serial, Doctors, produced by Mal Young.
She was a member of the original cast at the 2000 launch of the programme, and remained as a main character until her leaving on 26 May 2006. As the wife of Mac (played by Christopher Timothy, of the TV seriesAll Creatures Great and Small fame), the character was partly responsible for setting up the original practice around which the drama revolved – Riverside Surgery. As Practice Manager, she was involved regularly with the storylines of both patients and the other doctors, and is featured in the majority of the early episodes. During her time in Letherbridge, Kate endured countless trials including a miscarriage, Mac's trial for a patient's murder, an affair with a priest (played by Richard Standing), and the abduction of her and Mac's son, Ciaran.
Other work
Sandra, A Year of Greater Love, BBC Northern Ireland, Dir: Michael McDowell, to be shown 2012
Laura Cross, Marú, Stirling Films for TG4, Dir: Lawrence Gough
Doris Curran, Scapegoat, Waddell Media/BBC NI, Dir: Michael McDowell
Emer O'Callaghan, The Clinic, RTÉ, Dir:Liam Cunningham
Bel Ferris, Holby City, BBC1 TV, Dir: James Strong
Sarah, That's Not Me, BBC NI, Dir: Peter Lawrence
Mrs McGinley, United, BBC NI, Dir: Michael McGowan (Children's BAFTA winner)
The Bill, Dir: David Attwood
References
External links
Welcome
Terry George celebrates Oscar
Spotlight
Irish television actresses
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
20465821 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20GMTV%20presenters%20and%20reporters | List of GMTV presenters and reporters | List of GMTV presenters and reporters shows the on air team for the various shows broadcast by GMTV on ITV between 1 January 1993 and 3 September 2010. At this point GMTV was replaced by ITV Breakfast and Daybreak was launched, with new shows and presenters.
Presenters
Programme presenters
Newsreaders
Weather presenters
Sport presenters
Children's presenters
Guest presenters
Correspondents and reporters
Experts
References
External links
GMTV
itv.com
Presenters
GMTV
fr:GMTV
nl:GMTV |
20465833 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking%20the%20Habit%20%28film%29 | Breaking the Habit (film) | Breaking the Habit is a 1964 American animated short documentary film directed by John Korty about cigarette smoking and lung cancer. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
Content
Two men are discussing about the benefits of giving up smoking, while themselves puffing cigarettes.
Production
Freelance animator Korty moved to Stinson Beach, California, where one day he met sound artist Henry Jacobs who had prepared the soundtrack for a future short film about smoking, sponsored by the California division of American Cancer Society. Korty began work on the film under his own company Korty Films, employing cutout animation, conceptualized the characters and prepared the animation frames in his home studio and finally shooting them using a homemade camera stand. Modern Talking Picture Service distributed the film.
Reception
Described variously as "[d]one in semi-surrealistic style" and having "deadpan dialogue with a minimalist animation style", Breaking the Habit received a nomination at the 37th Academy Awards in the Best Documentary (Short Subject) category but lost to Nine from Little Rock. An article in The Kingston Daily Freeman stated that the film "reveals both the danger and the essential silliness of smoking".
The Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction included Breaking the Habit in its list of prescribed films to be shown in schools to discourage smoking and creating awareness regarding medical issues caused by it. It was also screened at the 1st Chicago Film Festival held in 1965, the following year's Melbourne International Film Festival and won a Silver Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival. The soundtrack of the film was included in the album The Wide Weird World of Henry Jacobs. , the Academy Film Archive was working on restoring the short film.
References
External links
1964 films
1964 documentary films
1964 short films
1960s English-language films
1960s animated short films
1960s short documentary films
American short documentary films
American social guidance and drug education films
Documentary films about cancer
Films directed by John Korty
Smoking cessation
American animated short films
1960s American films |
17329414 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy%20Vear | Percy Vear | Hermann "Percy" Vear (12 July 1911 – 16 March 1983), born in Crossflatts, Bingley, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. He was a British professional boxer during the 1920s and 1930s.
Brought up in Crossflatts during the First World War, Vear lived in Keighley all his adult life.
Boxers are among the most colourful athletes in all of sports, with names like "Hitman", "Bomber" and "Gentleman Jim", so it should come as no surprise that Vear was known as "Percy Vear". It is not known how or who gave Vear his fight name, but in this case it seems likely that "Percy Vear" is a play on the word to "Persevere" (Per·se·vere), which means,
1. to persist in anything undertaken; maintain a purpose in spite of difficulty, obstacles, or discouragement; continue steadfastly.
2. to persist in speech, interrogation, argument, etc.; insist.
–verb (used with object)
3. to bolster, sustain, or uphold: unflagging faith that had persevered him.
Boxing career
Vear was one of the most colourful characters in Keighley's professional boxing scene in the 1920s and 1930s. Vear was one of three fighters under the management of Keighley boxing promoter Sam Scaife during those boxing boom years, who also managed locally based fighters Freddie Irving and Johnny Barrett. Perhaps overshadowed by the other two locally, Vear proved to be a bill topper in his own right in many boxing halls up and down the country.
Boxing first as a flyweight, then bantamweight and later as a featherweight the demand of the boxing boom proved so hectic that going on for 30 fights a year were common (more that a lot of boxers today have in a lifetime).
Vear had 131 bouts (many as a substitute) during his professional career, spanning from February 1929 to November 1934.
Professional debut
His first professional fight aged 17 saw flyweight Vear lose a six round contest on points to (Bradford born) Young Broadley at a packed Drill Hall, Keighley on Monday 11 February 1929.
His second and third professional fights were against Silsden fighter Maurice Emmott, both of which ended in respectful draws for both boxers. The local newspaper, the Keighley News reported "Vear took a lot of punishment in the first two rounds, and had his opponent not been more accurate with his blows Vear would most certainly have been knocked out. As it was, Emmott's methods were very crude, but he did the greater part of attacking. As the fight progressed Vear showed improvement, and the decision of a draw was well received".
His bout with Barrett in Workington was hailed by the local press as the best fight ever seen in the area.
The Big Fight: Vear -v- Irving
Two professional boxers from the same stable (run by Mr Sam Scaife) were both making names for themselves, Percy Vear and Freddie Irving.
In just three weeks during 1932 they both took on a formidable opponent called Young Tucker of Nelson. 17-year-old Irving forced him to a draw at Colne, while Vear brought off a points win in Keighley Drill Hall. These creditable performances by these two stable mates aroused the interest of the boxing public, and this inevitably led to a money-match being staged in the Drill Hall on 11 April 1932.
It was reported at the time "The contest was one of ten 2 minute rounds at 9st, under forfeit. There were side-stakes of £25, plus a substantial purse offered by the promoter".
The match was one of the biggest local attractions Keighley fight fans had even seen for many years. They responded well and there was a capacity crowd of 1,400. The cost per ticket was 2s. 4d. for reserved seats and 1s. 2d for the remainder. Mr Harry Jennings of Bradford refereed the match and held the purse. The local newspaper, the Keighley News, which gave considerable space to boxing, reported, "that it was not until the final two rounds that Vear really came into contention".
Vear had obviously been saving himself, but by the time he had reached the point of wearing down Irving's defence it was too late. Irving took the match and the purse on a points verdict and it was a fitting climax to the 1931–32 fight season.
Other sporting activities outside boxing
Following his boxing career, Vear was involved with his local association football club, Keighley Town.
He offered his services as fitness and exercise coach to the team. He helped structure the training and exercises on training nights and assisted in giving the embrocation muscle rubs before a game and at half-time.
The club played in the Old Yorkshire League for two seasons between 1946–47 and 1947–48 before folding.
The club was subsequently reformed in 1981 by ex-Wales and Bradford City footballer Trevor Hockey.
Personal life
Vear was born 12 July 1911 to parents Frederick Henry Vear & Eliza Vear (nee Heath).
He married Doreen Vear (Nee Grayston) on 16 July 1932 at Holy Trinity Church, Lawkholme, Keighley, West Yorkshire and they had three children, 2 sons, Terence & Leslie & a daughter, Yvonne.
Vear worked as a store keeper in a Bakehouse and later in life as a shot blaster for a local firm in Keighley the "Rustless Iron Company Ltd" now known under the acronym Trico Vitreous Enamel, and moved to the nearby town of Bingley. He worked there until his retirement in the mid 1970s. The sole activity of the company was the vitreous enamelling of metal products and components with the ability to enamel anything from a bath to a cap badge. On 3 January 1974, Vear was presented by the "Rustless Iron Company Ltd" with an analogue "Gold Watch" for 25 years loyal service to the company.
Vear's wife died of cancer in March 1968, and in September 1971 Vear remarried. He lived with his second wife Florence May Vear (Nee Parkin) at Broomfield Road, Keighley. Vear became ill in his late 60s and spent the last year of his life being cared for at Holmewood Residential Home, Fell Lane, Keighley.
On 12 July 2007, 96 years to the day of Vear's birth, his great-grandson, from his youngest son Leslie's line of descendants, was born. He is aptly named Jenson Percy Leslie Vear.
In 2009, Christopher Dunn (illustrator) staged an exhibition of his watercolours entitled "Bingley Secrets". One of his pieces was of boxer Vear sitting on top of Damart UK Headquarters factory chimney overlooking Bingley.
In 2012, a 'Traditional Real Ale' public house was named after Vear in his home town of Keighley in Aireworth Street in honour of his achievements. There is a Pint of real ale beer named after Vear aptly named "Percy’s Pint", which may be found and consumed on the premise. This beer is specially brewed by Empire Brewery in Huddersfield. There is another pub in Leymoor road, Golcar, Huddersfield called Percy Vear.
Career record
|-
|align="center" colspan=8|43 Wins (3 knockouts, 38 decisions, 1 retired, 1 disqualifications), 28 Losses (1 knockouts, 23 decisions, 3 retired, 1 disqualifications), 14 Draws
|-
| align="center" style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Res.
| align="center" style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Opponent
| align="center" style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Type
| align="center" style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Rd., Time
| align="center" style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Date
| align="center" style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Location, UK
| align="center" style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Notes
|-align=center
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Young Broadley (Bradford)
|Decision
|6 (6)
|1929-02-11
|align=left|Drill Hall, Keighley
|Handbill misspelt as "Veer"
|-align=center
|Draw
|align=left| Maurice Emmott (Silsden)
|x
|6 (6)
|1929-03-18
|align=left|Drill Hall, Keighley
|Handbill misspelt as "Veer"
|-align=center
|Draw
|align=left| Maurice Emmott (Silsden)
|x
|6 (6)
|1929-04-08
|align=left|Drill Hall, Keighley
|Handbill misspelt as "Veer"
|-align=center
|Draw
|align=left| Dusty Young (Harrogate)
|x
|6 (6)
|1929-08-21
|align=left|In the Woodlands Hotel Gardens, Harrogate
|
|-align=center
|Draw
|align=left| Young Mack (Harrogate)
|x
|6 (6)
|1929-09-11
|align=left|In the Woodlands Hotel Gardens, Harrogate
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Mick Walsh (Harrogate)
|Decision
|6 (6)
|1929-10-21
|align=left|Starbeck Physical Culture Room, Starbeck
|Handbill misspelt as "Vere"
|-align=center
|Draw
|align=left| Young Hargreaves (Dewsbury)
|x
|6 (6)
|1929-10-27
|align=left|Batley Physical Culture Club, Batley
|
|-align=center
|Draw
|align=left| Young Broadley (Bradford)
|x
|6 (6)
|1929-10-28
|align=left|Drill Hall, Keighley
|2nd Fight in two days
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Danny Wakelam (Castleford)
|Decision
|8 (8)
|1929-11-29
|align=left|Gaiety Skating Rink, Castleford
|Handbill misspelt as "Veare"
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Maurice Emmott (Silsden)
|Decision
|6 (6)
|1929-12-09
|align=left|Drill Hall, Keighley
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Teddy Talbot (Warrington)
|Stopped
|8 (8)
|1929-12-25
|align=left|The Rink, Knaresborough
|Handbill marked as A.N.Other
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Danny Wakelam (Castleford)
|Decision
|8 (8)
|1930-01-15
|align=left|The Rink, Batley Carr, Dewsbury
|Handbill misspelt as "Veare"
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Tommy Boylan (Barrow)
|Decision
|8 (8)
|1930-02-17
|align=left|Drill Hall, Workington
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Maurice Emmott (Silsden)
|Decision
|8 (8)
|1930-02-24
|align=left|Drill Hall, Keighley
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Jack Inwood (Birstall)
|Decision
|8 (8)
|1930-03-03
|align=left|Birstall Physical Culture Club, Birstall
|Handbill misspelt as "Veare"
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Dod Lockland (Bradford)
|Decision
|8 (8)
|1930-03-10
|align=left|Horton Green Social Club, Bradford
|Handbill misspelt as "Veare"
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Mick Walsh (Harrogate)
|Decision
|8 (8)
|1930-03-17
|align=left|Ideal Skating Rink, Harrogate
|Handbill misspelt as "Vere"
|-align=center
|Draw
|align=left| Danny Wakelam (Castleford)
|x
|8 (8)
|1930-03-24
|align=left|Drill Hall, Keighley
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Danny Wakelam (Castleford)
|Decision
|8 (8)
|1930-04-06
|align=left|Horton Green Social Club, Bradford
|Handbill misspelt as "Veare"
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Young Broadley (Bradford)
|Decision
|8 (8)
|1930-04-07
|align=left|Birstall Physical Culture Club, Birstall
|Handbill misspelt as "Veare"
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| John Barrett (Keighley)
|Decision
|8 (8)
|1930-05-05
|align=left|Drill Hall, Workington
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Jack White (Bradford)
|Decision
|6 (6)
|1930-06-02
|align=left|Drill Hall, Keighley
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Boy Gibson (Bradford)
|KO
|4 (8)
|1930-06-30
|align=left|The Black Swan, Harrogate
|Vear substitute for Alfred Buck
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Joe Speight
|KO
|8 (8)
|1930-07-15
|align=left|Gomersal
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Jack Smith (Shipley)
|Decision
|8 (8)
|1930-09-01
|align=left|Victoria Hall, Saltaire
|Handbill misspelt as "Veare"
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Tommy Gallagher (Huddersfield)
|Decision
|6 (6)
|1930-09-28
|align=left|Vulcan Athletic Club, Dewsbury
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Freddie Irving (Keighley)
|Decision
|6 (6)
|1930-09-29
|align=left|Drill Hall, Keighley
|Vear substitute for Young Haggas
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Young Kirkley (Leeds)
|Decision
|8 (8)
|1930-11-10
|align=left|The Baths, Normanton
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Young Dudley (Wakefield)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1930-11-16
|align=left|The Premier School of Boxing, Liversedge
|
|-align=center
|Draw
|align=left| Harry Johnson (Macclesfield)
|x
|8 (8)
|1930-11-24
|align=left|Drill Hall, Keighley
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Joe Speight (Birstall)
|Stopped
|4 (6)
|1930-12-08
|align=left|Drill Hall, Keighley
|Vear substitute for Young Ogden
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Eric (Kid) Lawton (Goole)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1930-12-14
|align=left|The Premier School of Boxing, Liversedge
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Kid Close (Holbeck, Leeds)
|Decision
|8 (8)
|1930-12-21
|align=left|The Windsor Stadium, Leeds
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Johnny Parker (Doncaster)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1931-01-18
|align=left|The Premier School of Boxing, Liversedge
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Jim Burrows (Barnsley)
|Decision
|8 (8)
|1931-01-23
|align=left|Drill Hall, Keighley
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Mickey Ryan (Leeds)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1931-03-09
|align=left|Drill Hall, Keighley
|Ryan stand-in for Young Stafford
|-align=center
|Draw
|align=left| Johnny Nolan (Bradford)
|x
|10 (10)
|1931-03-23
|align=left|The New Stadium, Bradford
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Kid Eccles (Leeds)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1931-04-06
|align=left|Drill Hall, Keighley
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Jackie Quinn (Bradford)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1931-05-04
|align=left|The Windsor Stadium, Leeds
|
|-align=center
|Draw
|align=left| Mick Howard (Liverpool)
|x
|10 (10)
|1931-06-03
|align=left|Wigan
|controversial draw, Vear appeared to be easy Winner
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Dickie Inckles (Sheffield)
|Decision
|12 (12)
|1931-06-15
|align=left|Don Road Stadium, Sheffield
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Billy Sullivan (Silsden)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1931-07-05
|align=left|The Picture House, Streethouse, Pontefract
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Jacky Skelly (Barnsley)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1931-07-11
|align=left|The Plant Hotel, Mexborough
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Dickie Inckles (Sheffield)
|Decision
|12 (12)
|1931-07-15
|align=left|Don Road Stadium, Sheffield
|Inckles had verdicts over Jackie Brown (British Champion) & Bert Kirby (Ex-Champion)
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Jackie Webster (Normanton)
|Decision
|12 (12)
|1931-07-29
|align=left|Newhall Sports Ground, Attercliffe, Sheffield
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Billy Gritt (Doncaster)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1931-08-01
|align=left|Open-air boxing at The Plant Hotel, Mexborough
|
|-align=center
|Draw
|align=left| Joe Goodall (Castleford)
|x
|12 (12)
|1931-08-15
|align=left|Newhall Sports Ground, Attercliffe, Sheffield
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Steve Firman (Swinton, Mexborough)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1931-08-23
|align=left|The Brunswick Stadium, Leeds
|
|-align=center
|Draw
|align=left| Steve Firman (Swinton, Mexborough)
|x
|10 (10)
|1931-08-28
|align=left|Denaby, Doncaster
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Young Dandy (Scunthorpe)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1931-09-20
|align=left|The Brunswick Stadium, Leeds
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| George Aldred (Bolton)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1931-10-12
|align=left|Olympia Skating Ring, Wakefield
|Aldred substitute for Joe Speakman
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Dyke Archer (Salford)
|Decision
|12 (12)
|1931-10-22
|align=left|Colne
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Mickey Callaghan (Leeds)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1931-10-25
|align=left|The Brunswick Stadium, Leeds
|Callaghan substitute for Jacky Barber
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Willie Walsh (Oldham)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1931-11-03
|align=left|British Legion Club, Huddersfield
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Seaman Dobson (Leeds)
|Decision
|12 (12)
|1931-11-27
|align=left|Imperial Boxing Hall, Barnsley
|Vear Substitute for Johnny Regan
|-align=center
|Draw
|align=left| Young Creasy (Newark)
|X
|10 (10)
|1931-12-03
|align=left|Victoria Baths, Nottingham
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| George Aldred (Bolton)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1931-12-13
|align=left|The Brunswick Stadium, Leeds
|Handbill misspelt as "Veir"
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Tiny Smith (Sheffield)
|Disqualification
|6 (10
|1931-12-13
|align=left|Rotherham
|
|-align=center
|Draw
|align=left| Young Kilbride (Leeds)
|X
|10 (10)
|1932-01-11
|align=left|Drill Hall, Keighley
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Bob Healey (Bolton)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1932-02-08
|align=left|Skipton
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Jackie Quinn (Bradford)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1932-02-15
|align=left|Drill Hall, Keighley
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Kid Cassidy (Stockton)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1932-02-21
|align=left|The Brunswick Stadium, Leeds
|Handbill misspelt as "Veir"
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Young Tucker (Nelson)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1932-03-21
|align=left|Drill Hall, Keighley
|Tucker substitute for George Taylor
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Tom Goodall (Castleford)
|Decision
|12 (12)
|1932-03-29
|align=left|Drill Hall, Workington
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Freddie Irving (Keighley)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1932-04-11
|align=left|Drill Hall, Keighley
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Billy Shaw (Leeds)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1932-05-14
|align=left|Goit Stock Pleasure Grounds, Bingley
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Tom Cowley (Thurnscoe)
|Decision
|12 (12)
|1932-05-16
|align=left|The Racing Track, Goldthorpe
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Young Kennedy (Maltby)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1932-06-04
|align=left|Drill Hall, Workington
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Billy Smith (Huddersfield)
|Disqualification
|5 (6)
|1932-06-18
|align=left|Drill Hall, Keighley
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Jackie Quinn (Bradford)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1932-07-01
|align=left|The Plant Hotel, Mexborough
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Sid Ellis (Manchester)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1932-07-22
|align=left|Nelson Football Ground, Nelson
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Billy Shaw (Leeds)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1932-08-08
|align=left|Keighley RL Football Ground (Cougar Park), Keighley
|Vear substitute for Freddie Irving
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Billy Shaw (Leeds)
|Decision
|8 (8)
|1932-xx-xx
|align=left|Leeds
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Jackie Quinn (Bradford)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1932-11-07
|align=left|Windsor Hall, Bradford
|Vear substitute for Freddy Irving
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Dick Greaves (Salford)
|Retired
|10 (12)
|1932-11-10
|align=left|Alexandra Stadium, Colne
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Tommy Barber (Bradford)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1932-11-14
|align=left|Olympia, Bradford
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Tommy Barber (Bradford)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1932-11-27
|align=left|Leeds National Sporting Club
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Hyman Gordon (Manchester)
|Retired hurt – burst ear
|9 (10)
|1932-12-01
|align=left|Alexandra Stadium, Colne
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Young Monk (Dinnington)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1933-01-16
|align=left|Drill Hall, Halifax
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Bobby Thackray (Leeds)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1933-02-06
|align=left|Drill Hall, Keighley
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Darkie Carr (Glasgow)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1933-02-10
|align=left|Wakefield Boxing Stadium, Wakefield
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Danny Wakelam (Castleford)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1933-02-24
|align=left|The Gaiety, Castleford
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Charlie Barlow (Manchester)
|Stopped by referee
|1 (10)
|1933-03-03
|align=left|Blackpool Tower Circus, Blackpool
|Barlow current contender for Lightweight Champion of Great Britain
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Mattie Hinds (Durham)
|Decision
|12 (12)
|1933-03-11
|align=left|Theatre Royal, Sunderland
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Jackie Webster (Normanton)
|Stopped by Knockout
|7 (10)
|1933-03-17
|align=left|Drill Hall, Normanton
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Owen Moran (Leeds)
|Decision
|15 (15)
|1933-03-22
|align=left|Winter Gardens, Morecambe
|
|-align=center
|Draw
|align=left| George Stead (Manchester)
|x
|15 (15)
|1933-04-12
|align=left|Winter Gardens,Morecambe
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Jack Clayton (Bradford)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1933-05-01
|align=left|Olympia, Bradford
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Walter (Kid Chocolate) Melgram (Otley)
|Stopped
|x (8)
|1933-05-14
|align=left|Brunswick Stadium, Leeds
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Jack Clayton (Bradford)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1933-06-07
|align=left|Goit Stock, Bingley
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Danny Veitch (Sunderland)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1933-06-24
|align=left|West Hartlepool
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Spud Murphy (Manchester)
|Stopped
|3 (15)
|1933-07-19
|align=left|Winter Gardens,Morecambe
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Jim Driscoll (North Shields)
|Stopped
|7 (xx)
|1933-10-20
|align=left|North Shields Stadium, North Shields
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Bob Caulfield (Manchester)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1933-10-22
|align=left|Brunswick Stadium, Leeds
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Jim Holding (Leeds)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1933-11-03
|align=left|The Picture House, Streethouse, Pontefract
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Walt Jacques (Keighley)
|Decision
|8 (8)
|1933-11-13
|align=left|Drill Hall, Keighley
|Vear & Jacques replaced Williams & Lee on the boxing card
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Jack Crow (Halifax)
|Decision
|6 (6)
|1933-12-08
|align=left|Drill Hall, Halifax
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Bill Lambert (Burnley)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1934-01-11
|align=left|Imperial Ballroom, Nelson
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Young Tucker (Nelson)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1934-02-08
|align=left|Imperial Ballroom, Nelson
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Jack Carrick (Hull)
|Stopped
|3 (10)
|1934-02-26
|align=left|Hull
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Stan Hughes (Huddersfield)
|Stopped
|6 (10)
|1934-11-12
|align=left|Drill Hall, Keighley
|Vear Substitute for Jacques
|
References
Sources
https://web.archive.org/web/20110928165232/http://www.britishboxing.net/boxers_15178-Percy-Vear.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20030929083016/http://www.prewarboxing.co.uk/boxer%20lists/V%20list.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20050216070434/http://www.prewarboxing.co.uk/records/danny%20wakelam.htm
http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=318137&cat=boxer
http://archive.thisisbradford.co.uk/2001/12/14/132340.html
http://archive.cravenherald.co.uk/2001/12/14/132340.html
1911 births
English male boxers
Flyweight boxers
Bantamweight boxers
Featherweight boxers
People from Bingley
Sportspeople from Keighley
1983 deaths
Sport in the City of Bradford |
20465858 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20E.%20David%20Jr. | Edward E. David Jr. | Edward Emil "Ed" David Jr. (January 25, 1925 – February 13, 2017) was an American electrical engineer who served as science advisor to President Richard M. Nixon and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology from 1970 to 1973.
Early life and education
David was born in Wilmington, North Carolina on January 25, 1925. He earned a Bachelor of Science from the Georgia Tech, followed by a Master of Science and Doctor of Science in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1947.
Career
He took a job with Bell Telephone Laboratories and worked there from 1950 to 1970, eventually becoming executive director for communications research. Following the resignation of Lee A. DuBridge, David was appointed as Richard Nixon's science advisor. David resigned in 1973, citing "disappointment that his advice had not been heeded." He then took a position as executive vice president of R&D and planning at Gould Electronics from 1973 to 1977.
He founded consulting group EED, Inc. in 1977, advising industry, government, and universities on technology, research, and innovation management. He was the president of research and engineering at Exxon from 1977 to 1986. In 1983, he was awarded the IRI Medal from the Industrial Research Institute in recognition for his leadership contributions. He joined the Washington Advisory Group in 1997, serving as treasurer until 2004. He also served as director of Ronson.
David was elected to both the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1966. In 1970 he was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences. In 1974, he was elected to the MIT Corporation and as a life member. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1979. He was awarded The Delmer S. Fahrney Medal in 1985.
David was also active in public service to his adopted state, serving on the board of the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology (NJCST) alongside William O. Baker, his former vice president at Bell Labs. In 1982, while still at Exxon, David was appointed by Governor Thomas Kean to the governor's study commission that led to formation of the NJCST. Once the NJCST became a statutory agency with responsibility for the state's programs in science & technology-based economic development in 1985, David was re-appointed to its board and served as chair of its budget committee. During this period, he also chaired the Governor's Roundtable on (High-Temperature) Superconductivity, which was staffed by the NJCST. He left the NJCST board in 1990.
In 2012, David was a co-signatory of an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal questioning the scientific consensus on global warming.
Death
David died at his home in Bedminster, New Jersey on February 13, 2017, aged 92.
References
External links
Edward E. David via Nixon Presidential Library and Museum
Dr. Edward E. David, Jr. via Center for Science and Technology Policy Research
Edward E. David Jr. via MIT Corporation
Biography of Edward E. David Jr. from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
1925 births
2017 deaths
American electrical engineers
Engineers from New Jersey
Engineers from North Carolina
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Nixon administration personnel
Office of Science and Technology Policy officials
People from Bedminster, New Jersey
People from Wilmington, North Carolina
Members of the American Philosophical Society |
17329428 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conanicut%20Battery | Conanicut Battery | The Conanicut Battery is a colonial and 20th century military battery in Jamestown, Rhode Island, west of Beaver Tail Road. The site offers a commanding view of the West Passage of Narragansett Bay.
During the American Revolutionary War, local militia constructed an earthen battery on the site. The British occupied Jamestown later that year and took over the site, occupying the space until August 1778 when the French fleet arrived. Its principal surviving feature is an earthworks measuring about long and wide. The site is marked by a plaque placed by the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1931. During the early 20th century, the U.S. military built large partially underground defensive batteries in the area, notably Fort Getty and Fort Burnside.
The 22-acre site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. It is now owned by the town and operated as Conanicut Battery National Historic Park. The Friends of Conanicut Battery and the Jamestown Historical Society are active in preserving the fort.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Newport County, Rhode Island
References and external links
Conanicut Battery information Spring 2012 (PDF)
Conanicut Battery information Spring 2017 (PDF)
Conanicut Battery at Jamestown Historical Society
Conanicut Battery at American Forts Network
Conanicut Battery at FortWiki.com
Military facilities on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island
Buildings and structures in Jamestown, Rhode Island
Parks in Rhode Island
Conanicut
Conanicut
Conanicut
Protected areas of Newport County, Rhode Island
National Register of Historic Places in Newport County, Rhode Island
American Revolution on the National Register of Historic Places |
17329434 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Gent%20from%20Bear%20Creek | A Gent from Bear Creek | A Gent from Bear Creek is a collection of Western short stories by Robert E. Howard. It was first published in the United Kingdom in 1937 by Herbert Jenkins. The first United States edition was published by Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc. in 1966. The stories continue on from each other, like chapters in a book.
Overview
The stories are humorously written as if told by Breckinridge Elkins, a hillbilly with no schooling. He and his kin live in the Humboldts in Nevada. Elkins is six feet six inches tall, is as strong as a grizzly bear, and he can be just as bad tempered if riled. And there is a lot to rile him, especially his relatives.
Though a dead shot, he prefers to use his fists, feet, teeth, etc. In numerous fights he attacks whole groups of armed men and commits mayhem. No one actually dies but limbs are broken, jaws shattered, faces are trod on, skulls fractured, ribs broken, and so on. Even buildings do not always survive such an attack. He picks up many injuries himself, but being shot, getting many cuts with Bowie knives, head bashed with numerous objects, having his ear chewed, scratched up by a mountain lion he then threw into a room full of feuding men and such are just minor nuisances to him.
He previously rode an old mule called Alexander, the only animal that could carry him till he came across Cap'n Kidd, his equine equivalent, and tamed him. Elkins is the only man tough enough to ride the giant, pugnacious horse. Glory McGraw (a local girl) is his sometimes love interest but he is often too dumb to see it.
Contents
"Striped Shirts and Busted Hearts"
"Mountain Man"
"Meet Cap'n Kidd"
"Guns of the Mountains"
"A Gent from Bear Creek"
"The Feud Buster"
"The Road to Bear Creek"
"The Scalp Hunter"
"Cupid From Bear Creek"
"The Haunted Mountain"
"Educate or Bust"
"War on Bear Creek"
"When Bear Creek Came to Chawed Ear"
References
1937 short story collections
Short story collections by Robert E. Howard |
6902558 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir%20Peter%20Agnew%2C%201st%20Baronet | Sir Peter Agnew, 1st Baronet | Commander Sir Peter Garnett Agnew, 1st Baronet (9 July 1900 – 26 August 1990) was an officer in the Royal Navy and a Conservative Party politician.
Biography
Education and naval career
Agnew was born in Bucklow, Cheshire, a son of C.L. Agnew of Knutsford. Educated at Repton School, he entered the Royal Navy on 25 October 1918, trained at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, and was commissioned as a sub-lieutenant on 15 May 1921.
Receiving promotion to lieutenant on 15 April 1923, he served on the sloop on the China Station from August 1923 until January 1925, before serving on the battlecruiser from March 1926 until July 1927. After a term as Aide-de-camp to the Governor of Jamaica, he was assigned to the battleship in August 1928, transferring to the Royal Yacht in May 1930. On 15 April 1931 he was promoted to lieutenant-commander, but retired from the Navy on 29 May at his own request.
Election to Parliament
Agnew was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Camborne constituency in Cornwall, at the 1931 general election. He served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Walter Runciman, the President of the Board of Trade, in 1935–37, and to Sir Philip Sassoon, First Commissioner of Works, in 1937–39. He was an Assistant Government Whip in May–July 1945, and held the Conservative Whip from August 1945 until February 1950. Agnew held the seat until the constituency's abolition at the 1950 general election. He contested the constituency of Falmouth and Camborne, but lost to Harold Hayman.
World War II
Agnew returned to naval service in August 1939. He was executive officer of the destroyer in March–October 1940, and was promoted to commander on 9 July 1940. He was in command of the destroyer from November 1940 to March 1941, receiving a Mention in Despatches on 1 January 1941. He then served aboard the heavy cruiser from May 1941 until August 1942. From January 1943 until June 1944 he was on the staff of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich.
Return to Parliament
He re-entered the House of Commons at the 1955 general election as MP for South Worcestershire, and was re-elected there until his retirement at the 1966 general election.
Other activities
Agnew was a Member of the House of Laity in the Church of England Assembly, 1935–65, a Church Commissioner for England, 1948–68, and a trustee of the Historic Churches Preservation Trust, 1968-.
He served as chairman of the Iran Society, 1966–73, and received the Order of Homayoun from Iran in 1973.
From 1974 to 1976, Agnew was President of the European Documentation and Information Centre (CEDI), and was awarded the Order of Civil Merit (Orden del Mérito Civil) from Spain in 1977.
Baronetage
He was made a baronet, of Clendry, in the County of Wigtown, in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 31 January 1957. After his death in 1990 at the age of 90, he was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son, Sir Quentin Agnew-Somerville, 2nd Baronet, father of the actress Geraldine Somerville.
Personal life
Agnew was married twice; firstly to Enid Frances Boan, daughter of Henry Boan of Perth, Western Australia, in 1928. They had one son. Enid died in 1982, and in 1984 he married Julie Marie Watson. They were divorced in 1987.
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17329437 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovene%20Society | Slovene Society | The Slovene Society (, also ) is the second-oldest publishing house in Slovenia, founded on February 4, 1864 as an institution for the scholarly and cultural progress of Slovenes.
History
The Slovene Society was founded upon the proposal of several Slovene patriotic associations and individuals from Maribor, who urged the establishment of an institution that would publish advanced scholarly literature in Slovene, foster the expansion of culture among Slovenes, and development of scientific terminology in Slovene. In 1864, the consortium Slovenska matica was founded in Ljubljana. Its work was based on the examples of similar institutions in other Slavic countries, such as the Matica hrvatska in Croatia, Matica srpska in Vojvodina, Matice česká in the Czech Lands, and Matica slovenská in Slovakia. The consortium was established with private capital, as well as with capital of the Duchy of Carniola and several cultural associations. The Austrian Emperor Francis Joseph I also gave a substantial financial contribution for its founding.
The institution reached its peak at the beginning of the 20th century. At that time, it functioned as a regular publishing house on a free market, publishing books for a general public, many of which became bestsellers; at the same time, it also performed the role of an Academy of Sciences, fostering high culture and maintaining close contacts with the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts in Zagreb, the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Belgrade, as well as similar institutions in Prague, Krakow, London and Sankt Peterburg.
During World War I, the SM was closed and its properties confiscated by the Austro-Hungarian authorities. The alleged cause was the publication of the book Gospodin Franjo ("Mister Franjo") by the Slovene author and officer of the Austro-Hungarian Army Fran Maselj (pen name: Podlimbarski), which was a strong satirical critique of the Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
During the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the Slovene Society expanded its publishing work and in 1938 it was one of the co-founders of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. During the Italian occupation in World War II, the leadership of the Slovene Society collaborated with the Liberation Front of the Slovene People. In 1944, it was shut down by the Nazi German authorities. In the late 1945, the communist authorities of the People's Republic of Slovenia allowed the society to be re-established, although its editorial policies were considered "too conservative" by the new regime. Most of its properties were nationalized by the state, but the institution was allowed to continue functioning and later received substantial subsidies.
The work of the institution was reinvigorated again in the 1980s, when it started systemically publishing translations of major Western philosophers and political theorists, including authors regarded as subversive of the official Socialist ideology, such as Heidegger, Machiavelli, Jan Patočka, Unamuno, José Ortega y Gasset, Aurelius Augustinus, and the complete works of Nietzsche.
Chairmen
Since its establishment, the Slovene Society has been headed by important figures from Slovene cultural and public life.
1865: Anton Zois, politician and philanthropist
1865–1869: Lovro Toman, lawyer, author and politician
1869–1875: Etbin Henrik Costa, lawyer and politician
1875–1881: Janez Bleiweis, politician
1881–1882: Josip Marn, literary historian
1882–1885: Peter Grasselli, politician, mayor of Ljubljana
1885–1886: Josip Poklukar, editor
1886–1893: Josip Marn
1893–1907: Fran Levec, literary historian
1907–1914: Fran Ilešič, literary historian
1917: Peter Grasselli
1918–1920: Ivan Tavčar, author and politician, mayor of Ljubljana
1920–1947: Dragotin Lončar, historian and political theorist
1947–1949: Oton Župančič, poet
1950–1966: Anton Melik, geographer
1966–1975: France Koblar, art historian
1975–1978: Fran Zwitter, historian
1978–1987: Bogo Grafenauer, historian
1987–1994: Primož Simoniti, classical philologist, historian and translator
1994–2008: Joža Mahnič, literary historian
since 2008: Milček Komelj, art historian and critic
Editors and chancellors
Many prominent individuals served as editors and chancellors (chief secretaries) of the institution. The most prominent of these were Fran Levstik, Josip Vidmar, Juš Kozak, France Bernik, and Drago Jančar. Several others have collaborated with the institution, including philosophers Ivo Urbančič and Tine Hribar, historian Vasilij Melik and political theorist Albin Prepeluh.
Notes and references
External links
Official site
Learned societies of Slovenia
Organizations established in 1864
Organizations based in Ljubljana
Cultural history of Slovenia
Slovenian culture
Publishing companies of Slovenia
Scientific organizations in Ljubljana |
6902561 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thetford%2C%20Lincolnshire | Thetford, Lincolnshire | Thetford is a hamlet and farm in the civil parish of Baston in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England.
Although Thetford has shrunken to a single farmhouse and associated outbuildings, this was once a manor of Spalding Priory with its own chapel. There are records of ministers being installed in 1529 and 1539. The present house and barn are Grade II listed buildings.
Thetford lies north of the village of Baston and to the south of the River Glen. It is on the line of the Car Dyke, a ditch or catchwater drain dating to the time of the Roman occupation, which is regarded as the western boundary of The Fens. The A15 road, that crosses the Glen at Kate's Bridge, runs less than west of Thetford.
See also
Kate's Bridge
References
External links
Hamlets in Lincolnshire
South Kesteven District |
20465872 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CANUSA%20Games | CANUSA Games | The CANUSA Games are an annual contest, primarily for athletes age 18 and under, between the sister cities of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and Flint, Michigan, United States. The Games are the longest-running amateur sports competition in North America. The games are held in alternate locations, with Hamilton, Ontario, hosting in odd-numbered years.
History
As a result of the Flint Olympian Games held in Flint, Michigan, in July 1957, the Flint officials of the Games wanted a city, of similar size and population, to compete with on a yearly basis. Hamilton was selected, which birthed the "CANUSA" games, whose name was derived from combining the names Canada and United States - CAN/USA.
The Games began in August 1958, and consisted of 200 athletes (from each city) competing in seven different sports. The Games have grown considerably, which is supported by the more than 1,600 athletes from each city competing in 17 different competitive sports, including basketball, baseball, softball, volleyball, darts, golf, track and field, swimming and ice hockey. An estimated 25,000 people have participated in the games in their 50 years.
Opening Ceremonies
The Opening Ceremonies of the CANUSA Games are arguably the most highlighted piece of the weekend. One of these highlights is most certainly the running relay which covers the distance between Flint and Hamilton - 245 miles. Departing the night before from the visiting city, relay runners carry the torch over the border, which is one of the longest international runs in all of North America. The torch is run into the venue in which the opening ceremonies are held, which represents the official start of the Games.
To symbolize the relationship between the sister cities, the national anthems (from both nations) are sung by everyone present at the Opening Ceremonies. The Friendship Trophy is also given by the Mayor of the host city to the Mayor of the visiting city as a symbol of friendship and peace. The Games take the true meaning of friendship to task as each year the visiting country's athletes "billet" or reside with their counterparts during the entire weekend beyond competition. It is considered the signature of the Game's existence.
Editions
References
Canada–United States relations
Multi-sport events in Canada
Multi-sport events in the United States
North American international sports competitions
Recurring sporting events established in 1958
Sport in Hamilton, Ontario
Sports in Flint, Michigan
Tourist attractions in Genesee County, Michigan |
6902568 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agu%C3%A7adoura%20Beach | Aguçadoura Beach | Aguçadoura Beach (Praia da Aguçadoura in Portuguese) is a very wide and extensive white sand beach of Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal. It is located in the parish of Aguçadoura.
Aguçadoura is popular among Northern Portuguese and Northern Spanish surfers and the world's first commercial wave farm is located in front of Aguçadoura beach, at the Aguçadora Wave Park.
The beach is notable for its sand dunes, a reminder of the beaches of the city before the urbanization and farming. The remaining dunes, that are still several, are protected by the city council and Municipal Director Plan (PDM) from further development.
References
External links
Dunes of Portugal
Beaches of Póvoa de Varzim |
20465873 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsgewerkschaftskommission | Reichsgewerkschaftskommission | Reichsgewerkschaftskommission ('Imperial Trade Union Commission', often referred to as the Vienna Commission) was a trade union centre in the Austrian part of Austria-Hungary. The Vienna Commission was formed in December 1893. Anton Hueber was the head of the Commission.
In 1928, the organisation was refounded as the Federation of Free Trade Unions in Austria, on an industrial union basis.
See also
Independent Social Democratic Party (Czech Lands)
References
Trade unions in Austria-Hungary
National federations of trade unions
Trade unions established in 1893
1893 establishments in Austria-Hungary
Trade unions disestablished in 1928 |
17329441 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas%20Jacobsson | Jonas Jacobsson | Jonas Jacobsson (born 22 June 1965) is a Swedish sport shooter who has won several gold medals at the Paralympic Games. He participated in ten consecutive Summer Paralympics from 1980 to 2016, winning a total of seventeen gold, two silver, and nine bronze medals. In 1996, he won two gold medals in the air rifle 3×40 and English match events and a bronze in the air rifle prone at the Atlanta Paralympics. At the 2000 Summer Paralympics, he took two gold medals in the free rifle 3×40 and free rifle prone events and two bronzes in air rifle standing and air rifle prone events. Four years later, at the Athens Games, he competed in the same four events and won the gold medal in all of them.
On 10 September 2008 Jacobsson won his 16th gold medal in the Paralympic Games making him the best performing male Paralympics contestant so far. Later that year, he became the first athlete with a physical disability to receive the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal, Sweden's most significant sports award.
See also
Athletes with most gold medals in one event at the Paralympic Games
References
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1965 births
Living people
Swedish male sport shooters
Paralympic shooters of Sweden
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Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
People from Norrköping
Sportspeople from Östergötland County
20th-century Swedish people
21st-century Swedish people |
20465883 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann%20Michael%20W%C3%A4chter | Johann Michael Wächter | Johann Michael Wächter (2 March 1794 – 26 May 1853) was an Austrian bass-baritone most famous for appearing in the operas of Richard Wagner.
Born in Rappersdorf in Austria, Wächter sang in various church choirs in Vienna, making his stage début in 1819 at Graz as Don Giovanni in Mozart's Don Giovanni. He also appeared at Bratislava, Vienna and Berlin. In 1827 he joined the Dresden Hofoper, where he remained for the rest of his career. Here his roles included Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, and he sang in three Wagner premières, playing Orsini in Rienzi in 1842, the title role in Der fliegende Holländer in 1843, and Biterolf in Tannhäuser in 1845.
Hector Berlioz, who heard The Flying Dutchman in Dresden, considered Wächter's baritone ‘...one of the finest I have ever heard, and he uses it like a consummate singer. It is of that rich and vibrant timbre that has such a wonderful power of expression, provided that the artist sings with soul and feeling, which Wächter does to a high degree’.
Wächter, an old friend of Wagner's, was not equal to the demanding role of the Dutchman. Wagner later wrote:
"His total incapacity in the difficult role of my spectral, suffering mariner dawned on Schröder-Devrient unfortunately only after the rehearsals were too far along to make any change. Wächter's distressing corpulence, particularly his broad, round face and the curious way he moved his arms and legs like shrivelled stumps, sent my Senta in transports of despair."
His wife, the mezzo-soprano Thérèse Wächter-Wittman (31 August 1802 in Vienna – 3 October 1879 in Dresden), also sang at Dresden, creating the role of Mary in The Flying Dutchman. Wächter died in Dresden in 1853.
References
External links
Wächter in the first performance of Tannhäuser
Wächter in the first performance of Der fliegende Holländer
1794 births
1853 deaths
Operatic bass-baritones
19th-century Austrian male opera singers |
20465886 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20P%C3%A9ri | La Péri | La Péri is the title of two ballets:
La Péri (Burgmüller), by Friedrich Burgmüller, Jean Coralli, and Théophile Gautier, first performed in 1843
La Péri (Dukas), by Paul Dukas and Ivan Clustine, first performed in 1912 |
20465891 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revati%20%28disambiguation%29 | Revati (disambiguation) | Revati in Hinduism, is the daughter of King Kakudmi and the wife of Balarama, the elder brother of Krishna.
Revati may also refer to:
Revati (raga), a musical scale Carnatic music
Revati (nakshatra), nakshatra or lunar mansion in Vedic astrology, referring to the multiple star system Zeta Piscium
Revati (film), a 2005 Indian film
Revathi Pattathanam, an annual assembly of scholars held in Kerala, India
Revathi (born 1966), award-winning South Indian actress
Revathi Sankaran, Tamil television personality / actress
Revati, the proper name of the brightest component of the multiple star system Zeta Piscium
See also |
20465904 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%20Without | Children Without | Children Without is a 1964 American short documentary film directed by Charles Guggenheim, about a young girl and her brother growing up in the housing projects of Detroit. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short, losing to another film by Guggenheim, Nine from Little Rock. Children Without was preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.
See also
List of American films of 1964
References
External links
1964 films
1964 documentary films
1964 short films
1960s English-language films
1960s short documentary films
Films directed by Charles Guggenheim
Documentary films about children
Films set in Detroit
American short documentary films
1960s American films |
6902572 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useppa%20Island | Useppa Island | Useppa Island is an island located near the northern end of Pine Island Sound in Lee County, Florida, United States. It has been known for luxury resorts since the late 19th century, and it is currently the home of the private Useppa Island Club. On May 21, 1996, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, due to its archaeological significance.
Name
In the early 1830s the island was variously called Caldez's Island, Toampe, and Joseffa. Records indicate that José Caldez, who had operated a fishing rancho on the island, called it Josepha's when he sold it in 1833. The name Useppa first appeared on a hydrological chart of the area in 1855.
Like the nearby islands of Gasparilla, Sanibel, and Captiva, a folk etymology has developed connecting Useppa Island's name to the legendary pirate captain José Gaspar, also known as Gasparilla. A local folk story, extant in at least two versions, tells of Gaspar kidnapping a Spanish princess, with whom he becomes enamored. When she spurns his advances he kills her, but is overtaken by remorse and buries her himself on the beach. One version identifies the princess as Josefa, daughter of Martín de Mayorga, Viceroy of New Spain from 1779 to 1782, and indicates that her burial place of Useppa Island still bears her name in an altered form.
Geology
Useppa Island is long north to south, and up to wide. A ridge, up to high, runs along much of the eastern edge of the island. A ridge up to high is in the middle of the island along the western side. A conical shell midden with ramps is located on the west side of the island towards the southern end. The southern end of the island may have grown by as much as during the 20th century, possibly when a golf course was developed there. The island was part of the Florida mainland during the last glacial period, when the sea level around Florida was or more lower than today. Useppa Island is high ground that became separated from the mainland by a rising sea level around 4500 BCE. This high ground is believed to be stabilized sand dunes formed during a high sea level episode prior to the last glacial episode. During the period from 4500 BCE to 3000 BCE barrier islands formed to the west of Useppa Island, creating Pine Island Sound and protecting Useppa Island from the open Gulf of Mexico.
History
Before Useppa Island separated from the mainland, the area was visited by Paleo-Indians, who were present in Florida by at least 8,000 BCE. Soon after the sea level had risen enough to separate the island from the mainland, around 4500 BCE, Indians of the Archaic period began living on the island for part of the year, primarily during the spring and summer. Oyster shells were deposited in middens from this time. Tools made from seashells during the period from 4500 BCE to 3000 BCE show a cultural affinity with Horr's Island to the south.
After about 3000 BCE bodies were buried on Useppa Island in a flexed position. Steatite stone vessels and fiber-tempered pottery came into use on the island after 2000 BCE. Sand-tempered pottery appeared after 1200 BCE. Seasonal occupation of the island continued through the end of the Archaic period (c. 500 BCE) and into the Caloosahatchee culture period, until about 1200. While the island may have been used occasionally as a fishing camp after that date, there is no known sustained occupation of the island until after 1700. Shortly after 1700, the Calusa people (the people of the Caloosahatchee culture region during the historic period) were killed, carried away to slavery, or driven out of the area by Creek and Yamasee people (who later coalesced into the Seminole.
Later in the 18th century and as late as 1835 Muspa Indians, possibly descendants of people who lived in the Calusa town of Muspa (on or near Marco Island) were reported to be living in the Charlotte Harbor and Pine Island area. Around 1784, Jose Caldez of Cuba began using Useppa Island as the base for his seasonal fishing operations. Caldez employed both Cubans and local Native Americans at this fishing rancho. By 1833 the rancho consisted of close to 20 palmetto-thatched houses and about 60 people.
The Second Seminole War began in late 1835. Henry Crews, the U.S. Customs officer on Josefa Island (Useppa), was killed in late March 1836, possibly by Seminoles or by Indians working at the rancho. Crews had been at odds with the Spaniards at the fishing rancho, believing that they were using fishing as a cover for large scale smuggling. After the death of Crews, the "Americans" living around Charlotte Harbor, which probably included Spaniards and rancho Indians, fled to the rancho operated by William Bunce on Passage Island in Tampa Bay. In late 1836 the ranchos around Charlotte Harbor, including the Caldez rancho on Useppa, were reported to be abandoned and "largely destroyed." Rancho Indians, including those who were married to Cubans or were half-Cuban, were gathered up by the Army and sent west to Indian Territory.
The area around Charlotte Harbor and Pine Island, including Josefa Island, remained sparsely inhabited for several decades. The U.S. Army established Fort Casey on, renamed, Useppa Island early in 1850, but abandoned it before the end of the year. Union troops and refugee Union sympathizers occupied the island in December 1863, and mounted a small raid into Charlotte Harbor and up the Myakka River, which resulted in some skirmishes with Confederate troops and irregulars. The troops on Useppa Island moved to Fort Myers after it was established in January, 1864. The Census of 1870 found two residents on the island. It was reported to be uninhabited in 1885, and to have one family in residence in 1895.
Chicago businessman John Roach built a hotel on Useppa Island in 1896. Barron Collier bought the island in 1911, and developed the resort, enlarging the hotel and adding tennis courts and a 9-hole golf course. Collier made the island his official residence, from which he directed his real estate empire. Collier died in 1939, and the resort was closed during World War II. Hurricanes in 1944 and 1946 damaged the hotel, and it was torn down. The island opened again as a resort in 1946, continuing until 1960. In 1960, Useppa briefly served as a CIA training base for Cuban exiles in preparation for the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
Useppa Island changed hands four times in the 1960s and 1970s, with two short-lived attempts to operate it as a resort. Gar Beckstead bought the island in 1976 and his company, Useppa Inn and Dock Company, has operated it as a private resort since then. Hurricane Charley heavily damaged the island in 2004. The rebuilt Collier Inn was re-opened one year later.
The Useppa Island Historical Society operates the Barbara Sumwalt Museum on the island.
Archaeological investigations
While some archaeologists passed by or visited Useppa Island in the 19th century, the first scientific excavation on the island was by John Griffin and Hale Smith, who collected ceramics from a disturbed midden in 1947. Jerald Milanich and Jefferson Chapman conducted more extensive excavations on Collier Mound and adjacent middens in 1979 and 1980, using a backhoe to dig trenches in mound and middens.
William Marquardt and Michael Hansinger conducted an excavation on Collier Ridge in 1985. Marquardt and Corbett Torrence excavated several locations on the island in 1989. Marquardt excavated a burial on a lot scheduled for construction in 1994. Volunteers associated with the Rendell Research Society, the University of California Los Angeles, and the Useppa Island Historical Society excavated a shell axe workshop on the island in 2006.
Notes
Citations
References
External links
Useppa Island Club website
Florida's Office of Cultural and Historical Programs
Lee County listings
Useppa Island Museum
Archaeological sites in Florida
National Register of Historic Places in Lee County, Florida
Gulf Coast barrier islands of Florida
Islands of Lee County, Florida
Shell middens in Florida |
6902574 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels%20in%20the%20Sky | Angels in the Sky | "Angels in the Sky" is a popular song by Dick Glasser. It was published in 1954 and has been recorded by a number of artists. The first recording was by Glasser himself and was issued on Jack Gale's label, Triple A (#2522), flipped with "Is It Too Late?", another Glasser composition. In 1954, Gale would strike a deal with RCA Victor for the song and it was then recorded and released by Tony Martin on RCA Victor #5757 about August 1954, flipped with "Boulevard Of Nightingales". A part of the deal was that Glasser's recording would be withdrawn from the market.
The biggest hit for the song would happen later in the following year with a version by The Crew-Cuts on Mercury Records #70741. It first reached the Billboard charts on December 17, 1955. On the Disk Jockey chart, it peaked at #16; on the Best Seller chart, at #11; on the Juke Box chart, at #13; on the composite chart of the top 100 songs, it reached #13. The flip side was "Mostly Martha".
Dick Glasser re-recorded the song after having signed with Columbia Records by Autumn 1958. It was released as his third single for the label (#41357) about March 1959, this time flipped with "Get Thee Behind Me".
Recorded versions
Dick Glasser (1953); (1959)
Buddy Cunningham (1954)
Tony Martin (1954)
The Van Cleaf Sisters (1954)
Herb & Kay (1954)
The Crew Cuts (1955)
The Monarchs (1955)
Artie Malvin (1956)
Gene Autry (1956)
Bobby Vee (1960)
Gene McDaniels (1961)
Walter Brennan (1962)
Glen Campbell (1970)
External links
Song lyric
1954 songs
Songs written by Dick Glasser |
6902586 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahiopsis%20parishii | Bahiopsis parishii | Bahiopsis parishii known commonly as Parish goldeneye or shrubby goldeneye, is a North American species of flowering shrubs in the family Asteraceae.
It is native to the southwestern United States, (southern California, southern Nevada, Arizona, and southwestern New Mexico), as well as adjacent parts of northwest Mexico (Baja California, Baja California Sur, and Sonora).
Description
Bahiopsis parishii grows to 2 feet tall, with bright yellow flowers. It is a plant of desert areas, usually associated with creosote bush, and ranges from sea level to in elevation. It blooms after periods of rain, both in spring and in fall, or after the monsoon season in Arizona.
Etymology
The species name honors either of two brothers, Samuel Bonsall Parish (1838–1928) and William Fletcher Parish (1840–1918), both active botanists in southern California. It is closely related to Bahiopsis deltoidea and is sometimes considered a variety of that species.
References
External links
Jepson Manual Treatment
Calphotos Photo gallery, University of California
Heliantheae
North American desert flora
Flora of the Southwestern United States
Flora of Northwestern Mexico
Flora of the California desert regions
Natural history of the Mojave Desert
Plants described in 1882
Flora without expected TNC conservation status |
6902587 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pistou | Pistou | Pistou (Provençal: pisto (classical) or pistou (Mistralian), ), or pistou sauce, is a Provençal cold sauce made from cloves of garlic, fresh basil, and olive oil. It is somewhat similar to the Ligurian sauce pesto, although it lacks pine nuts. Some modern versions of the recipe include grated parmesan, pecorino, or similar hard cheeses.
Etymology and history
In the Provençal dialect of Occitan, pistou means "pounded".
The sauce is similar to Genoese pesto, which is traditionally made of garlic, basil, pine nuts, grated Sardinian pecorino, and olive oil, crushed and mixed together with a mortar and pestle. The key difference between pistou and pesto is the absence of pine nuts in pistou.
Use
Pistou is a typical condiment from the Provence region of France most often associated with the Provençal dish soupe au pistou, which resembles minestrone and may include white beans, green beans, tomatoes, summer squash, potatoes, and pasta. The pistou is incorporated into the soup just before serving.
Gruyère cheese is used in Nice. Some regions substitute Parmesan cheese or Comté. In Liguria, pecorino, a hard sheep's-milk cheese from Sardinia or Corsica is used. Whatever cheese is used, a "stringy" cheese is not preferred, so that when it melts in a hot liquid (like in the pistou soup, for instance), it does not melt into long strands.
See also
Argentine chimichurri, a somewhat similar sauce made with parsley
List of garlic dishes
Persillade
References
External links
Soupe au Pistou, Wolfgang Puck
Soupe au Pistou, Paula Wolfert
French sauces
Cold soups
Garlic dishes
Food combinations |
20465921 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickness%20behavior | Sickness behavior | Sickness behavior is a coordinated set of adaptive behavioral changes that develop in ill individuals during the course of an infection.
They usually, but not always, accompany fever and aid survival.
Such illness responses include lethargy, depression, anxiety, malaise, loss of appetite, sleepiness, hyperalgesia, reduction in grooming and failure to concentrate.
Sickness behavior is a motivational state that reorganizes the organism's priorities to cope with infectious pathogens.
It has been suggested as relevant to understanding depression, and some aspects of the suffering that occurs in cancer.
History
Sick animals have long been recognized by farmers as having different behavior. Initially it was thought that this was due to physical weakness that resulted from diverting energy to the body processes needed to fight infection. However, in the 1960s, it was shown that animals produced a blood-carried factor X that acted upon the brain to cause sickness behavior. In 1987, Benjamin L. Hart brought together a variety of research findings that argued for them being survival adaptations that if prevented would disadvantage an animal's ability to fight infection. In the 1980s, the blood-borne factor was shown to be proinflammatory cytokines produced by activated leukocytes in the immune system in response to lipopolysaccharides (a cell wall component of Gram-negative bacteria). These cytokines acted by various humoral and nerve routes upon the hypothalamus and other areas of the brain. Further research showed that the brain can also learn to control the various components of sickness behavior independently of immune activation..
In 2015, Shakhar and Shakhar suggested instead that sickness behavior developed primarily because it protected the kin of infected animals from transmissible diseases. According to this theory, termed the Eyam hypothesis, after the English Parish of Eyam, sickness behavior protects the social group of infected individuals by limiting their direct contacts, preventing them from contaminating the environment, and broadcasting their health status. Kin selection would help promote such behaviors through evolution. In a highly prosocial species like humans, however, sickness behavior may act as a signal to motivate others to help and care for the sick individual.
Advantages
General advantage
Sickness behavior in its different aspects causes an animal to limit its movement; the metabolic energy not expended in activity is diverted to the fever responses, which involves raising body temperature. This also limits an animal's exposure to predators while it is cognitively and physically impaired.
Specific advantages
The individual components of sickness behavior have specific individual advantages. Anorexia limits food ingestion and therefore reduces the availability of iron in the gut (and from gut absorption). Iron may aid bacterial reproduction, so its reduction is useful during sickness. Plasma concentrations of iron are lowered for this anti-bacterial reason in fever. Lowered threshold for pain ensures that an animal is attentive that it does not place pressure on injured and inflamed tissues that might disrupt their healing. Reduced grooming is adaptive since it reduces water loss.
Inclusive fitness advantages
According to the 'Eyam hypothesis', sickness behavior, by promoting immobility and social disinterest, limits the direct contacts of individuals with their relatives. By reducing eating and drinking, it limits diarrhea and defecation, reducing environmental contamination. By reducing self-grooming and changing stance, gait and vocalization, it also signals poor health to kin. All in all, sickness behavior reduces the rate of further infection, a trait that is likely propagated by kin selection.
Social advantage
Humans helped each other in case of sickness or injury throughout their hunter-gatherer past and afterwards. Convincing others of being badly in need of relief, assistance, and care heightened the chance of survival of the sick individual. High direct costs, such as energy spent on fever and potential harm caused by high body temperatures, and high opportunity costs, as caused by inactivity, social disinterest, and lack of appetite, make sickness behavior a highly costly and therefore credible signal of need.
Immune control
Lipopolysaccharides trigger the immune system to produce proinflammatory cytokines IL-1, IL-6, and tumor necrosis factor (TNF). These peripherally released cytokines act on the brain via a fast transmission pathway involving primary input through the vagus nerves, and a slow transmission pathway involving cytokines originating from the choroid plexus and circumventricular organs and diffusing into the brain parenchyma by volume transmission. Peripheral cytokines are capable of entering the brain directly but are large lipophilic polypeptide proteins that generally do not easily passively diffuse across the blood-brain barrier. They may also induce the expression of other cytokines in the brain that cause sickness behavior. Acute psychosocial stress enhances the ability of an immune response to trigger both inflammation and behavioral sickness.
Behavioral conditioning
The components of sickness behavior can be learned by conditional association. For example, if a saccharin solution is given with a chemical that triggers a particular aspect of sickness behavior, on later occasions the saccharin solution will trigger it by itself.
Medical conditions
Depression
It has been proposed that major depressive disorder is nearly identical with sickness behavior, raising the possibility that it is a maladaptive manifestation of sickness behavior due to abnormalities in circulating cytokines. Moreover, chronic, but not acute, treatment with antidepressant drugs was found to attenuate sickness behavior symptoms in rodents. The mood effects caused by interleukin-6 following an immune response have been linked to increased activity within the subgenual anterior cingulate cortex, an area involved in the etiology of depression. Inflammation-associated mood change can also produce a reduction in the functional connectivity of this part of the brain to the amygdala, medial prefrontal cortex, nucleus accumbens, and superior temporal sulcus.
Cancer side effect
In cancer, both the disease and the chemotherapy treatment can cause proinflammatory cytokine release which can cause sickness behavior as a side effect.
See also
Evolutionary medicine
Proinflammatory cytokines
References
Symptoms
Evolutionary biology
Cytokines |
6902591 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy%20Middleton | Guy Middleton | Guy Middleton Powell (14 December 1906 – 30 July 1973), better known as Guy Middleton, was an English film character actor.
Biography
Guy Middleton was born in Hove, Sussex, and originally worked in the London Stock Exchange, before turning to acting in the 1930s. In his earlier films he often portrayed amiable idiots, scoundrels and rakish bon vivants, but many of his later roles were military officers in the British Army, RAF or Royal Navy. He died in 1973, following a heart attack, aged 66.
Selected filmography
Film
Jimmy Boy (1935) .... The Count
Two Hearts in Harmony (1935) .... Mario
Trust the Navy (1935) .... Lieutenant Richmond
Under Proof (1936) .... Bruce
Fame (1936) .... Lester Cordwell
A Woman Alone (1936) .... Alioshka
The Gay Adventure (1936) .... Aram
Take a Chance (1937) .... Richard Carfax
Keep Fit (1937) .... Hector Kent
Break the News (1938) .... Englishman
The Mysterious Mr. Davis (1939) .... Milton
Goodbye Mr Chips (1939) .... McCulloch (uncredited)
French Without Tears (1940) .... Brian Curtis
For Freedom (1940) .... Pierre
Dangerous Moonlight (1941, also known as Suicide Squadron) .... Shorty
Talk About Jacqueline (1942) .... Captain Tony Brook
The Demi-Paradise (1943) .... Dick Christian
The Halfway House (1944) .... Fortescue
English Without Tears (1944) .... Captain Standish
Champagne Charlie (1944) .... Tipsy Swell
29 Acacia Avenue (1945) .... Gerald Jones
The Rake's Progress (1945, also known as Notorious Gentleman) .... Fogroy
The Captive Heart (1946) .... Capt. Jim Grayson
Night Boat to Dublin (1946) .... Capt. Tony Hunter
A Man About the House (1947) .... Sir Benjamin "Ben" Dench
The White Unicorn (1947) .... Fobey
Snowbound (1948) .... Gilbert Mayne
One Night with You (1948) .... Matty
Once Upon a Dream (1949) .... Major Gilbert
Marry Me! (1949) .... Sir Gordon Blake
No Place for Jennifer (1950) .... Brian Stewart
The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950) .... Victor Hyde-Brown
The Third Visitor (1951) .... Inspector Mallory
Laughter in Paradise (1951) .... Simon Russell
Young Wives' Tale (1951) .... Victor Manifold
Never Look Back (1952) .... Guy Ransome
The Fake (1953) .... Smith
Albert R.N. (1953, also known as Break to Freedom) .... Bongo
Front Page Story (1954) .... Gentle
Conflict of Wings (1954) .... Adjutant
Malaga (1954) .... Soames Howard
The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954) .... Eric Rowbottom-Smith
The Sea Shall Not Have Them (1954) .... Squadron Leader Scott
The Harassed Hero (1954) .... Murray Selwyn
Break in the Circle (1955) .... Maj. Hobart
Make Me an Offer (1955) .... Armstrong
Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955) .... Earl of Wickenware
A Yank in Ermine (1955) .... Bertram Maltravers
Now and Forever (1956) .... Hector
Doctor at Large (1957) .... Major Porter
Let's Be Happy (1957) .... Mr. Fielding
Passionate Summer (1958) .... Duffield
Escort for Hire (1960) .... Arthur Vickers
Waltz of the Toreadors (1962) .... Drunken Fox Hunter (uncredited)
The Fur Collar (1962) .... Resident
What Every Woman Wants (1962) .... George Barker
The Mini-Affair (1967) .... Colonel Highwater
Oh! What a Lovely War (1969) .... General Sir William Robertson
The Magic Christian (1969) .... Duke of Mantisbriar (uncredited)
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer (1970) .... Potter (final film role)
Television appearances
He appeared in a number of television series as a guest character including:
Hancock's Half Hour (broadcast November 4th., 1957) - 'The Regimental Reunion', episode - Ex-Captain - (series 3, episode 6) - (Riverside Studios, Studio 1, Hammersmith) - (This is one of twenty-four missing Hancock television episodes, (to date).
Dixon of Dock Green (1959) - Fred Harper
Doctor Who (1967, Episode: "The Highlanders") - Colonel Attwood
References
Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies; 14th ed (2001) editor John Walker - published by Harper-Collins;
The Film Encyclopedia by Ephraim Katz, Collins;
External links
1906 births
1973 deaths
English male film actors
English male television actors
People from Hove
20th-century English male actors
People from Moreton-in-Marsh |
6902608 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mister%20Blues | Mister Blues | Mister Blues may refer to:
Wynonie Harris (1915–1969) (aka Mister Blues), an American blues shouter and rhythm and blues singer
"Mister Blues", a song bye Moby Grape from their 1967 album Moby Grape
"Mister Blues", Blues Band from Germany. |
20465937 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Pape | Albert Pape | Albert Arthur Pape (13 June 1897 – 18 November 1955) was an English footballer. His regular position was as a forward. Born in Elsecar, West Riding of Yorkshire, he played for several clubs in The Football League, including Notts County, Clapton Orient and Manchester United.
Football career
Born in Elsecar, then in the West Riding of Yorkshire, Pape began his football career with Wath Athletic, a club from the nearby town of Wath-upon-Dearne. Upon the outbreak of the First World War, Pape joined the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and played for the regimental football team, returning to play for Bolton-on-Dearne at the cessation of hostilities. In December 1919, Pape was signed by Rotherham County, who had been elected to the Football League Second Division at the start of the season, and he made a goalscoring debut on 17 January 1920 in a 4–3 win over Coventry City. In four seasons with Rotherham County, Pape scored 41 goals in 113 league appearances, including a spell in the 1922–23 season in which he scored eight goals in five matches.
He signed for Notts County at the end of that season, but made just six appearances in 1923–24 before moving on to Clapton Orient. In eight months with Orient, he scored 11 goals in 24 league matches. In February 1925, Orient travelled to a match against a Manchester United side that had just sold its star striker, Bill Henderson, to Preston North End. United manager John Chapman had telephoned the Orient manager Peter Proudfoot before they left London, and the two clubs agreed a fee of £1,070 for Pape. They met up at Manchester Piccadilly station just after noon, and Pape – who was a friend of the United captain Frank Barson, and had relatives in nearby Bolton – quickly agreed terms. The details were wired to The Football Association and The Football League at around 1:30 p.m., and although Pape had been named in Orient's starting line-up for the match, he was confirmed as a Manchester United player with about an hour left before kick-off. Pape was not only allowed to start the match in the colours of Manchester United, but he also scored the team's third goal in a 4–2 win over his previous employers, as well as hitting the post with a header late in the game. He made 15 further appearances that season, and scored four more goals. He also made two appearances in 1925–26, but he was then sold to Fulham in October 1925. However, he was reluctant to return to London, and only signed with Fulham on the condition that he could continue to live in Bolton and train with Manchester United. Five months later, the two clubs met in the Sixth Round of the FA Cup, and although Pape scored, Manchester United won the match 2–1.
After two seasons with Fulham, in which he scored 12 goals in 42 appearances, Pape dropped out of League football to join North Wales coast side Rhyl Athletic, but he was there for less than six months before joining Hurst back in Manchester for the second half of the 1927–28 season. He scored at a rate of almost one goal a game, and even scored a hat-trick on his debut against Port Vale Reserves in the Cheshire County League. Towards the end of the season, the club suffered a goalkeeping injury crisis, and Pape was forced to play one match in goal. In September 1928, Pape was named as player-coach at Darwen, and was also made club captain. However, five months later, he was signed by Manchester Central, before returning to League football for the start of the 1929–30 season with Hartlepools United. He scored 21 goals in 37 appearances for Hartlepools United in the Football League Third Division North, and was signed by Halifax Town for one final season of League football in July 1930, scoring 15 goals in 25 appearances in 1930–31. He spent time with Burscough Rangers, Horwich RMI and Nelson before retiring from football.
References
General
Specific
External links
Profile at StretfordEnd.co.uk
Profile at MUFCInfo.com
1897 births
1955 deaths
People from Elsecar
English footballers
Association football forwards
Rotherham County F.C. players
Notts County F.C. players
Leyton Orient F.C. players
Manchester United F.C. players
Fulham F.C. players
Rhyl F.C. players
Ashton United F.C. players
Darwen F.C. players
Hartlepool United F.C. players
Halifax Town A.F.C. players
Burscough F.C. players
Leigh Genesis F.C. players
Nelson F.C. players
Manchester Central F.C. players
Sportspeople from Yorkshire
British Army personnel of World War I
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry soldiers |
20465970 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy%20Boyle%20%28footballer%2C%20born%201901%29 | Tommy Boyle (footballer, born 1901) | Thomas Boyle (21 February 1901 – 9 January 1972) was an English footballer who played as an inside right or right half. He played for Sheffield United, Manchester United and Northampton Town, winning the FA Cup with Sheffield United in 1925. He later spent a season as player-manager of Scarborough.
Playing career
Born in Sheffield, Boyle was spotted playing for the Bullcroft Colliery team and signed for Sheffield United in 1921. He initially found it difficult to establish himself in the first team, but over time his form improved, particularly his heading, which was a factor in him being selected for the 1925 FA Cup Final ahead of the more experienced Tommy Sampy. He left the Blades in 1929 after making over 140 appearances and scoring 40 goals.
Boyle signed for Manchester United for £2,000, but failed to settle and spent only one relatively unproductive season at Old Trafford in which he made just 17 starts. He was registered as a player by Macclesfield Town in May 1930 but by July of the same year had left for Northampton Town where he spent a successful five seasons, starting over 140 games for the Cobblers.
In 1935, Boyle was appointed player-manager of non-league Scarborough where he spent a reasonably successful season before retiring.
Personal life
Boyle was the son of Irish international Peter Boyle who had also lifted the FA Cup trophy with Sheffield United in both 1899 and 1902. After leaving Scarborough, Boyle became the licensee of the Plough Inn in nearby Scalby, North Yorkshire.
Honours
Sheffield United
FA Cup: 1924–25
References
External links
Profile at StretfordEnd.co.uk
Profile at MUFCInfo.com
1901 births
1972 deaths
Footballers from Sheffield
English footballers
Association football inside forwards
Bullcroft Main Colliery F.C. players
Sheffield United F.C. players
Manchester United F.C. players
Macclesfield Town F.C. players
Northampton Town F.C. players
Scarborough F.C. players
English Football League players
English football managers
Scarborough F.C. managers
People from the Borough of Scarborough
English people of Irish descent
FA Cup Final players |
20465974 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renos%20Doweiya | Renos Doweiya | Jalon Renos Doweiya (born 16 November 1983) is a Nauruan weightlifter.
At the Commonwealth Games in Manchester in 2002 he finished in third place in the 77 kg weight class. However, this was later upgraded to a silver medal after Indian Satheesha Rai was disqualified due to doping. He also won gold medals at the Oceania Games, in both 2001 and 2002.
References
Nauruan male weightlifters
1983 births
Living people
Commonwealth Games medallists in weightlifting
Weightlifters at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Nauru |
20465983 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo%20Artist%3A%20Kenojuak | Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak | Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak is a 1964 Canadian short,documentary film about Inuk artist Kenojuak Ashevak, directed by John Feeney. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
Regarding the use of the term "Eskimo" in the title, Feeney wrote in 1993 that he had suggested using the now-accepted term "Inuit" in the film, but had been told that it would be confusing for non-Inuit audiences of the day.
Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak found new life again in 1992, when filmmakers Colin Low and Tony Ianzelo combined archival and contemporary footage of Kenojuak in Momentum, Canada's IMAX HD film for Expo '92.
References
External links
Watch the film at NFB.ca
1960s English-language films
1964 documentary films
1964 short films
Canadian short documentary films
Inuktitut-language films
National Film Board of Canada documentaries
Films directed by John Feeney
Documentary films about visual artists
Documentary films about women
Inuit art
Films produced by Tom Daly
National Film Board of Canada short films
Documentary films about Inuit in Canada
Quebec films
1960s short documentary films
Inuit films
Films about Inuit in Canada
1960s Canadian films |
20466001 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C4%83t%C4%83lin%20Anghel | Cătălin Anghel | Cătălin Anghel (born 4 October 1974) is a former Romanian footballer and current assistant coach of Liga I club Farul Constanța.
Club career
Anghel played for his native club Farul Constanța. He joined Ukrainian First League side FC Stal Alchevsk during the 2003–04 season, and helped the club reach the quarter-finals of the Ukrainian Cup. He then moved to Hungary playing for BVSC Budapest and Kaposvári Rákóczi.
Coaching career
After his retirement he worked as head coach for CSO Ovidiu and Viitorul Constanța.
Honours
Coach
Viitorul Constanța
Liga III: 2009–10
References
Sportspeople from Constanța
1974 births
Living people
Romanian footballers
Association football midfielders
FCV Farul Constanța players
Budapesti VSC footballers
Kaposvári Rákóczi FC players
FC Stal Alchevsk players
FC Irtysh Pavlodar players
Romanian expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Hungary
Expatriate footballers in Ukraine
Expatriate footballers in Kazakhstan
Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Hungary
Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Ukraine
Liga I players
Nemzeti Bajnokság I players
Romanian football managers
FC Viitorul Constanţa managers
Association football forwards |
20466019 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockport%20Smith | Stockport Smith | William Smith, commonly known as Stockport Smith, was an English footballer. His regular position was as an inside right, but he also played in various other forward positions and even as a wing half on occasion. He played for Stockport County, Manchester City, and Newton Heath. He joined Manchester City from Stockport in 1897 and scored 22 goals in 54 league appearances in three years at the club. He is often confused with another William Smith who played for Manchester City at the same time; because of this, they were known to Manchester City fans by the clubs they were signed from; this William Smith is referred to as "Stockport Smith" and the other as "Buxton Smith".
Smith rejoined Stockport in 1900, but was unable to reproduce his goalscoring feats and moved on to Newton Heath for their final season before they were renamed as Manchester United. He made his Newton Heath debut on 14 September 1901, playing at outside right for a 5–0 defeat away to Middlesbrough. His only goal for Newton Heath may have come on 5 October 1901 in a 3–3 home draw with his former club, Stockport County, although this goal is credited to Alf Schofield by some sources. No record of Smith's football career exists beyond the 1901–02 season.
External links
Profile at StretfordEnd.co.uk
MUFCInfo.com profile
10 Worsley Terrace....The Story of Wigan Town Wigan Observer: 27 December 1905: Page 8, column 3
English footballers
Stockport County F.C. players
Manchester United F.C. players
Manchester City F.C. players
Association football forwards
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing |
20466038 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Mushtare | Robert Mushtare | Robert Mushtare is an American ten-pin bowler from Carthage, New York who is recognized by the United States Bowling Congress (USBC) for having bowled two perfect 900 series, one on December 3, 2005 and the other on February 19, 2006, both at Pine Plains Bowling Center in Fort Drum, New York. He is also said to have rolled another in league play prior to the aforementioned two; that previous 900 series was not officially recognized by USBC because the league in which he was bowling was not properly certified by USBC on the date his 900 series was rolled. Due to the order of USBC certification procedures, it will never be known if it would have been approved even if his league had been certified at the time. The two 900's for which Mushtare was officially recognized came under great scrutiny because they were pre-bowled, meaning he bowled days before his regular league competition, and was sometimes bowling alone. ESPN's Jeremy Schaap did an investigative report on the controversy which was broadcast on the ESPN program Outside the Lines. Glenn Allison, who bowled an uncertified 900 series in 1982, is skeptical of Robert's achievements, as is pro bowler and Team USA coach Tim Mack.
With this recognition, Mushtare is also officially recognized as the first youth bowler to shoot a certified 900 series, the first bowler (youth or adult) to bowl more than one, and the first bowler from New York state to achieve the feat. The ensuing controversy also led to a change in USBC rules; Rule 118e(8) now reads "Unopposed pre or post bowled scores will be eligible for USBC Awards except High Score Awards [such as a 300 game, 800 series, or 900 series award]"; had this rule been in effect for the 2005-2006 bowling season, Mushtare would not have been officially recognized for either of the 900's for which he is now recognized.
Male Youth High Series
900 Robert Mushtare, Fort Drum, N.Y., Dec. 5, 2005
900 Robert Mushtare, Fort Drum, N.Y., Feb. 19, 2006
889 Shane Tetterton, Sinking Springs, Pa., Sept. 24, 2006
888 Brentt Arcement, Kenner, La., Jan. 20, 1990
879 Jacob Peters, Decatur, Ill., April 27, 2005
879 Gary Faulkner Jr., Memphis, June 22, 2008
These scores are from the USBC (United States Bowling Congress) Records and stats page.
Junior Gold Tournament
In 2006, Mushtare did not advance to the semi-finals at the United States Bowling Congress Junior Gold championships. Throughout the tournament, Mushtare managed to have met several PBA players and even some higher level coaches in the sport of bowling. Junior team USA coach Rod Ross had stated, "I was very impressed with his physical game. He throws a phenomenal ball and has a nice loose arm swing. He has a lot of raw talent. He can definitely strike and strike a lot, and there's no doubt in my mind that he shot those 900s." And even though the 900 bowler did not make the first cut, Mushtare said the experience was memorable and that it was a great learning experience for him.
Interviews
In June 2006, Mushtare had a personal interview with Jim King once King was able to contact the 17-year-old bowler. During his interview Mushtare states that he has bowled three 900 series during his league time and he has bowled two 900 series during practice. Now, after 4 months of deliberation, two of Mushtare's 900 series were approved. Mushtare states that the reasons for his pre-bowls were for school functions and a few bowling tournaments that Mushtare was scheduled to participate in. Mushtare also states that his third 900 series bowled was witnessed by personal friend Jamie Grimm. During this time, Mr. Grimm himself bowled his first 300-game and got a 741 series. Jim King also mentions that there were rumors going around that Mushtare's father is the owner of the bowling alley. Mushtare's response was "No. My father does not own it. It is owned by the government and located on a military base."
League History
References
External links
Interview
American ten-pin bowling players
Living people
People from Carthage, New York
Year of birth missing (living people) |
23572836 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002%20Pacific%20Life%20Open%20%E2%80%93%20Women%27s%20singles | 2002 Pacific Life Open – Women's singles | Serena Williams was the defending champion, but she chose not to compete that year.
Daniela Hantuchová won her maiden WTA Tour singles title, defeating Martina Hingis in the final 6–3, 6–4.
This was the first WTA tournament in which future world No. 1 and five-time Grand Slam champion Maria Sharapova competed. She was defeated in the second round by Monica Seles.
Seeds
All seeds received a bye into the second round.
Draw
Finals
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Bottom half
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
Qualifying
Qualifying seeds
Qualifiers
Lucky loser
Samantha Reeves
Qualifying draw
First qualifier
Second qualifier
Third qualifier
Fourth qualifier
Fifth qualifier
Sixth qualifier
Seventh qualifier
Eighth qualifier
Ninth qualifier
Tenth qualifier
Eleventh qualifier
Twelfth qualifier
References
External links
Official results archive (ITF)
Official results archive (WTA)
Women's Singles
2002 WTA Tour |
20466057 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa%20Isabel%20Creek | Santa Isabel Creek | Santa Isabel Creek is a small stream of water located in Webb County, Texas which runs through Laredo, Texas. The creek is formed 32 miles from Callaghan, Texas and runs southwest for until the creek connects to the Rio Grande. The terrain surrounding the creek is mostly clay. The vegetation surrounding the creek is mostly made up of mesquite, cacti, and grasses. Santa Isabel Creek crosses Three major highways in Laredo, Texas among them are: Farm to Market Road 1472, Texas State Highway 255, and United States Route 83.
Coordinates
Source: Webb County, Texas
Mouth: Rio Grande at Laredo, Texas
See also
List of rivers of Texas
List of tributaries of the Rio Grande
References
Tributaries of the Rio Grande
Geography of Laredo, Texas
Rivers of Texas |
23572840 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs%20de%20Winter | Mrs de Winter | Mrs de Winter is a novel by Susan Hill published in 1993. It is the sequel to the novel Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier.
Summary
When Manderley burned, tormented Maxim de Winter and his demure second wife fled the ghosts of a dark, unspoken yesterday and now have come home to England, to bury what was and start anew. But the sensual warmth of a golden autumn cannot mask the chill of a lingering evil. For October's gentle breeze whispers that Rebecca – beautiful, mysterious, malevolent Rebecca – is haunting their lives once more.
Reviews
Critical reviews have been generally bad, stating that this sequel is not really up to the standard set by the du Maurier original. The plot has been regarded as quite dull, without any evolution of the character of Mrs de Winter in spite of the time lapse. In addition it casts the same characters all over again without the narration being intense and engaging enough. "Throughout the media jamboree attending this sequel, Rebecca's remaining lovers will feel like Mrs Danvers – dour, uncomprehending, and dismissive of the newcomer's ineffective attempts to please".
References
Works based on Rebecca (novel)
Novels by Susan Hill
1993 British novels
Sequel novels
Sinclair-Stevenson books |
6902610 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992%20World%20Junior%20Championships%20in%20Athletics | 1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics | The 1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics was the fourth edition of the international athletics competition for athletes aged 19 years or under. It was held in Seoul, South Korea from September 16 to September 20, 1992.
Results
Men
Women
Medal table
Participation
According to an unofficial count through an unofficial result list, 954 athletes from 90 countries participated in the event. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.
See also
1992 in athletics (track and field)
References
External links
Results at GBRathletics.com
Results from World Junior Athletics History (WJAH)
Official results
World Junior
World Junior Championships in Athletics
Athletics 1992
Sport in Seoul
World Athletics U20 Championships |
20466066 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porterhouse%20%28horse%29 | Porterhouse (horse) | Porterhouse (1951–1971) was an American Champion Thoroughbred racehorse.
Background
Bred by Liz Person and raced under her Llangollen Farm banner, Porterhouse was a son of the Argentine-bred Endeavour who also sired Corn Husker, Prove It and Pretense, three top runners who each won the Santa Anita Handicap. His dam was Red Stamp, a daughter of the U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee Bimelech.
Conditioned for racing by Charlie Whittingham, Porterhouse was the forty-year-old trainer's first stakes winner and first Champion.
Racing career
In 1953, Porterhouse won East Coast races including the National Stallion Stakes and the then most important race for his age group, the Belmont Futurity Stakes. Porterhouse also won the 1953 Saratoga Special Stakes but was disqualified and set back to last.
Porterhouse was voted American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt by the Daily Racing Form and the Thoroughbred Racing Association. The rival poll organized by Turf & Sports Digest magazine was topped by Hasty Road.
In 1954, three-year-old Porterhouse had a sub-par year in racing, with his only important win coming in the Old Knickerbocker Handicap. The colt did not run in either of the first two races of the U.S. Triple Crown series and finished ninth in the Belmont Stakes won by High Gun. During the next three years in racing, Porterhouse returned to his winning ways at racetracks in California. He captured several top events, highlighted by his win over future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee Swaps in the 1956 Californian Stakes and the Hollywood Express Handicap in world record time for five and a half furlongs on dirt at Hollywood Park Racetrack.
Stud career
Retired to stud duty, Porterhouse met with reasonable success, siring several good runners including Coaching Club American Oaks winner, Our Cheri Amour, and multiple stakes winners Isle of Greece, Port Wine, and Farwell Party.
Porterhouse died at age twenty in 1971 and was buried a The Stallion Station in Lexington, Kentucky.
References
Porterhouse's pedigree and partial racing stats
October 12, 1953 TIME magazine article on Porterhouse's win in the Belmont Futurity
Article on Porterhouse winning the Knickerbocker Handicap in the May 22, 1954 issue of The New Yorker magazine
1951 racehorse births
1971 racehorse deaths
Racehorses bred in Kentucky
Racehorses trained in the United States
American Champion racehorses
Whitney racehorses
Thoroughbred family 1-w |
23572850 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasteland%20Racers%202071 | Wasteland Racers 2071 | Wasteland Racers 2071 is an arcade-style video game by Triotech that was released on November 20, 2006.
Summary
The simulator takes place in the year 2071 with six race tracks (from Airport Mayhem to the Ruins of Lost Vegas) and five cars (from the Interceptor to the Crusher). If the player finishes first, they will receive a code that unlocks new cars and race courses. Wasteland Racers 2071 is one of the arcade games featured at Chuck E. Cheese's. None of the cars are linked to an actual manufacturer like Chevrolet or Ford; fantasy cars based on futuristic prototypes are used to navigate the post-apocalyptic racing venues. They have the ability to deliver up to 2Gs of acceleration. Because the title has the word "Wasteland" in it, it is assumed that the game is set in a dystopian 21st century.
There are two versions of this arcade game; the standard has a 27" monitor while the deluxe has the 52" monitor.
References
2006 video games
Arcade video games
Arcade-only video games
Science fiction racing games
North America-exclusive video games
Post-apocalyptic video games
Racing video games set in the United States
Video games developed in Canada
Video games scored by Simon Viklund
Video games set in the 2070s
Multiplayer and single-player video games |
6902612 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colourbox%20%281985%20album%29 | Colourbox (1985 album) | Colourbox is the only full-length studio album from Colourbox, released by 4AD in August 1985. CAD 508 is the album's catalogue number, used to distinguish it from the earlier mini-album of the same name. The first 10,000 copies of the vinyl LP came with a bonus LP MAD 509. The CD release included the first side of the bonus LP. The album was preceded by the singles "Say You" in March 1984, "Punch" in June 1984, and "The Moon Is Blue" in July 1985.
Track listing
All songs written by Steve and Martyn Young, except where noted.
"Sleepwalker" – 2:16
"Just Give 'em Whiskey" – 4:19
"Say You" (U-Roy) – 3:58
"The Moon Is Blue" – 4:37
"Inside Informer" – 4:24
"Punch" – 5:01
"Suspicion" – 4:27
"Manic" – 2:26
"You Keep Me Hangin On" (Holland–Dozier–Holland) – 5:38
"Arena" – 4:23
Personnel
All instruments by Steve and Martyn Young.
Vocals by Lorita Grahame.
Guitar solo on "Manic" by William Orbit.
Tablas on "Arena" by Chris Karan.
Produced by Martyn Young, except "Punch" produced by Bob Carter.
Recorded at Palladium, Guerilla, Rooster, and Maison Rouge.
Mixed at Rooster, Guerilla, and Maison Rouge.
"Arena" mixed by Hugh Jones at R.G. Jones.
Engineered by Jon Turner (at Palladium), John Madden (at Rooster), and Rico (at Guerilla).
Sleeve design by Vaughan Oliver.
Colourbox MAD 509
Colourbox MAD 509 is a mini-album by Colourbox. It was released as a free bonus record with the first 10,000 copies of Colourbox's self-titled album. The four tracks on the A-side were included on the CD version of CAD 508, while the three tracks on the B-side were not. The final track, "Sex Gun", is a vocal version of the original album instrumental "Just Give 'em Whiskey".
Track listing
Side A
"Edit the Dragon" – 2:44
"Hipnition" – 3:01
"We Walk Around the Streets" – 0:25
"Arena II" – 5:01
Side B
"Manic II" – 5:54
"Fast Dump" – 5:44
"Sex Gun" – 4:02
References
1985 albums
4AD albums
Colourbox albums |
23572875 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Dahm | Jan Dahm | Jan Dahm (5 April 1921 – 16 February 2013) was a Norwegian resistance member during World War II. He was among the first group of people to be subject to court-martial during the German occupation of Norway, and later initiated and headed the Secret Intelligence Service group Theta, which operated in Bergen from December 1941 to June 1942.
German court-martial
At the German attack on Norway in April 1940 Jahn Dahm was a nineteen-year-old engineering student at Bergens Tekniske Skole. He had been an eager radio amateur and a member of Bergen Radio Relé Liga for years, and at home he also had a workshop for building radios. On 25 June 1940, while he had an examination at the school, he was taken to the Gestapo office in Bergen, where he was confronted with equipment taken from his home and told he would be charged with espionage. On 28 June he was transported by bus from Bergen to Møllergaten 19 in Oslo with ten other arrestees.
The German court-martial started in Oslo on 22 August 1940. The court in Oslo consisted of the 3rd Senate of the Deutsches Reichskriegsgericht (Reich Military Tribunal) in Berlin, and the prosecutor sought the death sentence for the six defendants, according to paragraphs 2 (espionage) and 89 (treason) of the German penal code. On 28 August three of the six defendants, travelling agent Konrad Rendedal, Colonel Gabriel Lund and doctor Odd Solem, were sentenced to death; Jan Dahm and another defendant were set free, as the charges could not be proved; and policeman Erling Staff was sentenced to five years in prison. This was the first court-martial in Norway after the German occupation, and the first death sentences in Norway since 1876. The death sentences were later reduced to five years imprisonment (). Jan Dahm could go back home, but had to report to the Gestapo every second week.
SIS radio station Theta
Dahm continued his studies at Bergens Tekniske Skole, but was under Gestapo supervision. He noticed that he was often observed by unknown persons, but eventually learned how to escape his shadows. He made contacts with undercover resistance members, such as physicist and radio expert Helmer Dahl and Mons Haukeland, the district leader of the Bergen department of Milorg. Along with some friends he also started to prepare a secret room in a building at Bryggen, which could be used as a working room and cover. As the group had expertise in radio transmission, the next step was to establish contact with Allied forces. Group member Bjarne Thorsen travelled by boat to Lerwick and managed to establish contact with the Secret Intelligence Service in London. Thorsen returned to Bergen bringing a radio transmitter, secret codes and schedules.
The station was called Theta, and started operating in December 1941. Among the notable messages transmitted by Theta was a report on the battleship Tirpitz. The Theta group operated until June 1942, when group member Kristian Ottosen was arrested. Following this arrest, Dahm fled to Sweden via Bodø, Fauske and Junkerdalen, together with fellow member Wenche Stenersen. Dahm was further taken to Britain for briefing. He was later trained as radar officer, and eventually served at the naval base in Shetland.
Post-war
Dahm graduated from Bergens Technical School in 1947, and ran an engineering company in Bergen from 1950. He died in February 2013.
References
1921 births
2013 deaths
Norwegian resistance members
Royal Norwegian Navy personnel of World War II
Secret Intelligence Service personnel
Prisoners and detainees of Germany
Norwegian prisoners and detainees
People who were court-martialed
People acquitted of treason
Engineers from Bergen
Military personnel from Bergen
Amateur radio people |
20466069 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Nuttall | Tom Nuttall | Thomas Albert Bradshaw Nuttall (February 1889 – October 1963) was an English professional footballer who played as a forward in the Football League for Southend United, Everton and Manchester United.
Personal life
Nuttall served as a lance bombardier in the Royal Garrison Artillery during the First World War.
Career statistics
References
1889 births
1963 deaths
Footballers from Bolton
English footballers
Association football forwards
Heywood United F.C. players
Everton F.C. players
Manchester United F.C. players
English Football League players
Northwich Victoria F.C. players
Rochdale A.F.C. players
St Mirren F.C. players
Scottish Football League players
Southend United F.C. players
Eccles United F.C. players
Chorley F.C. players
British Army personnel of World War I
Royal Garrison Artillery soldiers
Association football inside forwards
Military personnel from Lancashire |
20466095 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zsolt%20Aubel | Zsolt Aubel | Zsolt Aubel (born 20 May 1972) is a Hungarian footballer who played for BVSC Budapest as striker.
References
Futballévkönyv 1999 [Football Yearbook 1999], Volume I, pp. 78–82, Aréna 2000 kiadó, Budapest, 2000;
Profile, Nela.hu; Retrieved 16 November 2016.
1972 births
Living people
Hungarian people of German descent
Footballers from Budapest
Hungarian footballers
Hungarian expatriate footballers
Association football forwards
III. Kerületi TUE footballers
Budapesti VSC footballers
Expatriate footballers in Switzerland
FC Monthey players
Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland |
6902627 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley%20Byrne | Ashley Byrne | Ashley A Byrne is a radio and television presenter, newsreader and producer. He was born on 13 November 1972 in Doncaster, England. His father is the British artist, Tony Byrne.
He is a regular presenter of the BBC World Service history programmes Witness and Sporting Witness. He was previously presenter of current affairs programme 'Citizen Manchester LGBT' on BBC Radio Manchester and has also presented the news on BBC and commercial radio stations across the North of England and Midlands including Smooth Radio, Century, Lincs FM, TFM, BBC Radio Manchester, BBC North West (radio), Imagine FM, Signal Cheshire and The Pulse of West Yorkshire. He has also presented on BBC Radio 3 and narrated documentaries for ITV.
Byrne is Creative Director of the successful radio production company, Made in Manchester which he set up with business partner James Hickman, the five-times World Butterfly Swimming Champion in May 2005.
Programmes either produced or executive produced by Byrne for Made in Manchester include:
In December 2007, Byrne managed to get Archbishop Desmond Tutu to apologise on behalf of the Anglican Church for the way in which some clergy had treated the world's LGBT community.
In April 2009, Made in Manchester came runner up in the Best Production Company in the North 'How Do' Awards
In May 2009, Byrne's 'Giving Way to a New Era' was nominated for a prestigious Sony Award.
In July 2009, Byrne's 'Gay Life After Saddam' for BBC Radio 5 Live (which also featured actors Samuel Barnett and Paul Kendrick) was described by the press as 'the BBC at its best' after it uncovered a catalogue of murder and torture being carried out against gay and trans Iraqis since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003.
In October 2009, Byrne's company Made in Manchester embarked on a pioneering experiment to promote and premiere new audio drama via The UK's Independent newspaper. Turing's Test (starring History Boys' actor Sam Barnett) rose as high as number 7 in its category on the iTunes downloads chart. Subsequent dramas have included Death in Genoa starring Simon Callow as Oscar Wilde and Suzie Pugh and a Monster Too (a children's drama starring Coronation Street actress Vicky Binns). It's thought more dramas may be on the cards and Byrne has expressed his ambition to create 'a new high-profile platform' for drama and comedy on the web.
Byrne is also a Director of RIG, the Radio Independents Trade Body and has been leading a campaign to persuade the BBC to commission more radio programming from outside London.
References
External links
www.madeinmanchester.tv
British radio personalities
Living people
1972 births |
20466103 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mural%20on%20Our%20Street | Mural on Our Street | Mural on Our Street is a 1965 American short documentary film directed by Dee Dee Halleck. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
See also
List of American films of 1965
References
External links
1965 films
1965 short films
1960s short documentary films
American short documentary films
1960s English-language films
1960s American films |
6902638 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia%20State%20Route%2087 | Virginia State Route 87 | State Route 87 (SR 87) is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia. Known for its entire length as Morehead Avenue, the state highway runs from the North Carolina state line, where the highway continues as North Carolina Highway 14 (NC 14)/NC 87, north to its terminus at U.S. Route 220 (US 220) in Ridgeway in southern Henry County.
Route description
SR 87 begins at the North Carolina state line southeast of Ridgeway. The highway continues southeast as NC 14/NC 87 toward Eden. SR 87 heads northwest to the town of Ridgeway. In the center of town, the state highway intersects US 220 Business, which heads north on Main Street and south on Church Street. SR 87 continues northwest a short distance to its northern terminus at US 220 (Greensboro Road).
History
Route 87 was originally numbered State Route 106. When North Carolina extended NC 87 to the Virginia state line in the 1940 renumbering, SR 106 was renumbered SR 87 for continuity.
Major intersections
References
External links
Virginia Highways Project: VA 87
087
State Route 087 |
6902644 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%20Patrick%27s%20Grammar%20School | St Patrick's Grammar School | St Patrick's Grammar School may refer to:
St Patrick's Grammar School, Downpatrick
St Patrick's Grammar School, Armagh |
20466111 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Vaux%2C%204th%20Baron%20Vaux%20of%20Harrowden | Edward Vaux, 4th Baron Vaux of Harrowden | Edward Vaux, 4th Baron Vaux of Harrowden (13 September 1588 – 8 September 1661) was an English peer. He was the son of George Vaux (1564–1594) and his wife Elizabeth Vaux (daughter of John Roper, 1st Baron Teynham, born about 1564), and the grandson and heir of William Vaux, 3rd Baron Vaux of Harrowden. He succeeded his grandfather as Baron Vaux of Harrowden in August 1595, just before his seventh birthday.
Early life and religion
The Vaux and Roper families were Catholics, and the third Baron Vaux was convicted of recusancy several times during the reign of Elizabeth I. As a minor heir to a barony, Edward Vaux became a ward of the queen on his grandfather's death. His widowed mother, known as the "Dowager of Harrowden" or (incorrectly, as her husband was never Lord Vaux) as the "Dowager Lady Vaux", devastated by the loss of her beloved husband, vowed to never remarry and devoted the rest of her life to religion. During a remodelling of the family estate at Great Harrowden in young Edward's name, she incorporated hidden rooms for the harbouring of Catholic priests including her confessor, the dashing Jesuit John Gerard. Her activities were closely watched by the authorities, and both Edward and his mother were investigated in the aftermath of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Edward felt it prudent to go abroad for some years.
He returned to England in 1611, apparently to intercede for his mother, who had been arrested for recusancy. For refusing to take the 1606 Oath of Allegiance to James I, entailing a denial of the pope's authority over the king, Edward was committed to the Fleet prison. He was sentenced in the Kings Bench to perpetual imprisonment and loss of property on 1 March 1612, but he was transferred to the custody of the Dean of Westminster and had a grant of his forfeited lands in October 1612. He had already saved some of the family estates by conveying them in trust to five of his Protestant neighbours, even though such a transaction was strictly forbidden by law. He was later released on surety of £1000.
Military career
On 3 January 1621, Vaux was summoned to the Parliament which James reluctantly called to raise funds for the military assistance of his son-in-law Frederick V, Elector Palatine. When Parliament instead demanded abandonment of the planned Spanish Match for Charles, Prince of Wales and war with Spain, James dissolved Parliament and pursued the Spanish bride for his son with renewed vigor. The king supported a request by the Spanish ambassador to allow volunteers to be recruited for service in the Spanish Army of Flanders, which relied heavily on foreign mercenaries, and suspended the statute that required volunteers in foreign service to take the Oath of Allegiance before leaving the country. In 1622 Edward Vaux was licensed to raise a regiment of English Catholics for the Spanish service, but at the Siege of Bergen-op-Zoom, he was dismayed to find his regiment facing English Protestant troops despite Spanish promises to the contrary, and many of his men deserted rather than engage their fellow-countrymen.
Vaux paid £300 to purge his personal attendance on Charles I at York in March 1639 for the military expedition into Scotland known as the First Bishops' War.
Marriage and estate
When Edward was seventeen, his mother sought to arrange his marriage to Elizabeth Howard, daughter of Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk, but the marriage negotiations were abandoned as hopeless in the wake of the Gunpowder Plot, and Elizabeth was married to William Knollys, 1st Earl of Banbury who was some 40 years her senior on 23 December 1605. Nevertheless, Edward and Elizabeth Howard seem to have fallen in love, for they were married in June 1632 within five weeks of her first husband's death. The marriage produced no children, but Elizabeth's two sons, Edward (1627–1645) and Nicolas (1631–1674), born in the lifetime of her elderly first husband, were widely presumed to be the illegitimate sons of Edward Vaux. Neither son is mentioned in the earl's will, but in 1641 the law courts decided that Edward was Earl of Banbury, and when he was slain in an argument aged 18 (before June 1645), his brother Nicholas, who had used the surname "Vaux", took the title. On 19 October 1646, Edward Vaux settled the whole of his estates on Nicholas, speaking of him as "now Earl of Banbury, heretofore called Nicholas Vaux" to the total exclusion of his own lawful heirs. However, in the Convention Parliament of 1660 the House of Lords questioned Nicolas's right to the title and through Nicholas and his descendants arose a long contest for the Banbury peerage (see Knollys family).
Edward Vaux's wife Elizabeth died on 17 April 1658, aged 71. Vaux died on 8 September 1661, aged 74. Both were buried at Dorking, Surrey.
On Edward's death without legitimate issue, the Barony of Vaux of Harrowden was inherited by his brother Henry who died without issue in 1663.
In 1632, he added to his property in the area by purchasing the Manor of Little Harrowden from John Sanderson, his wife Cecily and John Sanderson junior.
Notes
References
Fraser, Antonia, Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot, Nan Talese/Doubleday, 1996, .
Kenyon, J.P. The Popish Plot, Phoenix Press, reissue 2000
Manning, Roger B, An Apprenticeship in Arms: The Origins of the British Army 1585–1702, Oxford University Press, 2006, , excerpted at Google Books
1588 births
1661 deaths
16th-century English nobility
17th-century English nobility
17th-century English military personnel
17th-century Spanish military personnel
Barons Vaux of Harrowden
English Roman Catholics
Edward |
23572878 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%20Magic%20%28band%29 | White Magic (band) | White Magic is a psychedelic folk rock group formed in Brooklyn, New York City, and led by singer/guitarist/pianist/composer Mira Billotte. Billotte performs under this moniker both with accompaniment or solo, using a daf, shruti box, and singing a cappella. Invoking both traditional and experimental folk, White Magic's sound ranges from loud psychedelia to meditative trance.
History
White Magic's original lineup was formed in 2003, after Mira Billotte moved to New York City. Billotte composed the songs, sang and played guitar and piano. Miggy Littleton (Blood on the Wall, Ida) played drums, and Andy MacLeod played guitar. Before White Magic, Billotte played drums, sang, and composed with her sister Christina Billotte (Autoclave, Slant 6, Casual Dots) in Quix*o*tic.
The subsequent lineup consisted of Billotte, "Sleepy" Doug Shaw (HighLife, Gang Gang Dance) on guitar, Tim Koh (Ariel Pink) on bass, and alternating drummers Tim Dewitt (Gang Gang Dance, Dutch E. Germ), Jesse Lee (Gang Gang Dance), and Jim White (Dirty Three, Cat Power, Nina Nastasia). Tim Barnes (Silver Jews), Samara Lubelski, and Shahzad Ismaily have also played with White Magic for subsequent recordings and live shows.
White Magic joined the Drag City roster in 2003, and in 2004 releasedThrough The Sun Door EP to general critical praise. They garnered attention when the song “Don't Need” appeared on the compilation The Golden Apples of the Sun (Bastet) curated by Devendra Banhart in 2004. Drag City released the band's debut full-length album Dat Rosa Mel Apibus (The Rose Gives The Bees Honey) -- a reference to the Rose Cross-- in 2006, followed by 2007’s Dark Stars EP, with critical praise from Spin Magazine.
White Magic recorded the song “Long Time Ago” with Hal Willner, Saturday Night Live's musical director, for the compilation Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys produced by Willner and conceived by Johnny Depp and Pirates of the Caribbean Director Gore Verbinski.
In 2007, Mira Billotte recorded Bob Dylan's "As I Went Out One Morning" on the soundtrack album for the Todd Haynes film I'm Not There on Columbia Records. In USA Today, Ken Barnes stated that: "... the soundtrack was a winner, featuring such gems as...Mira Billotte's As I Went Out One Morning and the first official release of Dylan's own, stunning version of the title track.”
They also appeared on The Wire magazine's "Wire Tapper" compilation along with The Slits' “Earthbeat.” White Magic was named a 'best new band' by The Village Voice in 2008.
They toured extensively headlining in the U.S., UK and Europe, and opening for like-minded musicians including Animal Collective, Sonic Youth, Joanna Newsom, and Will Oldham. White Magic performed at many music festivals, including five of the ATP (All Tomorrow’s Parties) festivals, each curated by artists, Sonic Youth, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Stephen Malkmus, Slint and Dirty Three.
In 2012, White Magic performed at both the New Folk Festival at Zorthian Ranch in Los Angeles, and at the Quiet Festival in Portland, Oregon. In 2013, Mira Billotte performed for the live score of Jem Cohen’s film, "We Have an Anchor", singing her own compositions at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, along with members of Godspeed You Black Emperor, Guy Picciotto (Fugazi), and Jim White of Dirty Three. This performance was repeated in March 2015 at both the Barbican Theater in London and the Sonic Protest Festival in Paris.
In July, 2015, White Magic released “I'm Hiding My Nightingale” EP on Leaving Records. Ariel Pink played guitar accompaniment for the title track, a cover of an early Can song . Billboard Magazine reviewed the track favorably, saying ”White Magic is a lot of things -- dark, hopeful, mystical, yearning -- but it's never not lovely....” Interview Magazine reviewed the track and its music video the month of its release.
Discography
Albums
Dat Rosa Mel Apibus (2006, Drag City)
Extended plays
Through The Sun Door EP (2004, Drag City)
Songs of Hurt and Healing split EP with American Analog Set (2005, Ouch!)
Dark Stars EP (2007, Drag City)
I’m Hiding My Nightingale EP (2015, Leaving Records)
Singles
"Katie Cruel" single (2006, Drag City)
"New Egypt" 1-song release, limited to 1000 cds (2008, Southern)
"White Widow" single (2011, The Mysteries)
"Out Beyond The Moon" on LAMC#6 split 7" with Cass McCombs (2013, Famous Class Records)
Compilation appearances
The Golden Apples of the Sun compilation (Bastet)
Wire Tapper compilation (2004, The Wire Magazine)
They Keep Me Smiling compilation (2004, United Acoustic Recordings)
"Long Time Ago" on the Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys compilation (2006, Anti)
References
External links
White Magic on Myspace
PUNKCAST#335 Live video from Knitting Factory NYC, Sep 27 2003. (RealPlayer)
Stone's Throw
Drag City press page for White Magic
2002 establishments in New York City
American folk rock groups
Drag City (record label) artists
Musical groups established in 2002
Musical groups from Brooklyn
Rock music groups from New York (state) |
6902653 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaston%20Calmette | Gaston Calmette | Gaston Calmette (30 July 1858 – 16 March 1914) was a French journalist and newspaper editor, whose death was the subject of a notable murder trial.
Biography
Calmette was born in Montpellier. He was educated at Nice, Bordeaux, Clermont-Ferrand and Mâcon, and afterwards entered journalism. In 1884 he joined the staff of Le Figaro, and in 1894 became its editor. In January 1914, Calmette launched a campaign against Minister of Finance Joseph Caillaux, who had introduced progressive taxation and was known for his pacifist stance towards Germany during the Second Moroccan Crisis, in 1911. Almost every day Le Figaro produced evidence of a damaging sort against the minister with the object of proving that he used his official position to facilitate speculation on the Paris Bourse. The attitude of Caillaux in the Rochette case of 1911, in which it was alleged by Le Figaro that the director of public prosecutions had been influenced by the ministry to delay the course of justice, was brought forward, and a newspaper campaign of extraordinary violence was the result. Caillaux was urged by some of his colleagues to take legal proceedings against his accusers, but declined.
Assassination
At 6:00 p.m. on 16 March 1914, Calmette entered the offices of Le Figaro in the company of his friend, the novelist Paul Bourget. Caillaux's second wife Henriette was waiting for him, wearing a fur coat and with her hands in a fur muff. To Bourget's surprise, Calmette agreed to see her in his office.
There, Madame Caillaux exchanged a few words with him, then pulled out a .32 Browning automatic pistol she had been concealing within the muff and fired six shots. Calmette was hit four times and was critically wounded, dying six hours later. Caillaux made no attempt to escape and newspaper workers in adjoining offices quickly summoned a doctor and the police. She refused to be transported to the police headquarters in a police van, insisting on being driven there by her chauffeur in her own car, which was still parked outside. The police agreed to this and she was formally charged upon reaching the headquarters.
During the campaign against Joseph Caillaux, which was orchestrated by Louis Barthou and Raymond Poincaré, Le Figaro published several letters from the Minister's private correspondence. Madame Caillaux's motive was fear that the newspaper would also make public a love letter that showed how her husband was already having a relationship with her during his first marriage.
Joseph Caillaux had to resign his post the next day, but during a spectacular trial later that year his wife was acquitted.
Other interests
Calmette was well known for his interest in art, and possessed a fine collection of caricatures and engravings of the First Empire.
Popular culture
Robert Delaunay used an illustration of the assassination as the basis for his 1914 painting Political Drama.
Marcel Proust dedicated Swann's Way, the first volume of his novel In Search of Lost Time, to Calmette 'as a testimony of deep and affectionate recognition'.
Calmette was the brother of the bacteriologist Albert Calmette.
Notes
References
Bibliography
Berenson, Edward The Trial of Madame Caillaux (Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, c1992, 1993).
Kershaw, Alister Murder in France (London: Constable & Company, Ltd., 1955), 90-117.
External links
Biography
Mme Caillaux tire sur Gaston Calmette
Une épouse outragée
1858 births
1914 deaths
Writers from Montpellier
Assassinated French journalists
French newspaper editors
Burials at Batignolles Cemetery
French male non-fiction writers
Deaths by firearm in France
Le Figaro people |
20466124 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiolestes | Zodiolestes | Zodiolestes is a genus of mustelids, now extinct, which existed during the Miocene period.
The genus was first described in 1942, by E. S. Riggs, who identified the sister genus Promartes at the same time, and assigned to the family Procyonidae. In 1998 it was assigned to the subfamily Oligobuninae of the family Mustelidae. Two species have been identified in the genus: Z. daimonelixensis and Z. freundi.
Z. daimonelixensis showed digging adaptations, and one fossil was found curled up in the "corkscrew" burrow of the Miocene beaver, Palaeocastor. Zodiolestes was most likely a predator of these fossorial beavers.
This situation was analogous to the modern day prairie dog (genus Cynomys) and its predator the black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes).
References
Prehistoric mustelids
Miocene mustelids
Prehistoric mammals of North America
Prehistoric carnivoran genera |
6902671 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%20Glasser | Dick Glasser | Richard Eugene Glasser (December 8, 1933 – July 10, 2000) was a singer, songwriter, and record producer.
Biography
Glasser was born in Canton, Ohio, the third of eleven children and the oldest of five boys: subsequent to graduating Minerva High School he served in the navy. His biggest hit as a songwriter was "Angels in the Sky," which he recorded and released on Jack Gale's Triple-A label in early 1954. RCA Records subsequently made an offer to Gale for the song and gave it to their singer Tony Martin that same year. The deal also involved Gale pulling the Glasser original off the market. The following year, the song was revived by The Crew-Cuts on Mercury and their version sold a million copies.
Glasser went on to release many excellent recordings during the mid to late 50s on Dot, Argo, then Columbia, before moving to Liberty in 1960 where he was appointed head of Metric Music—Liberty's song publishing arm. In January 1961 Gene Vincent recorded the Glasser song "Teardrops," and released it on Capitol. Aside from running Metric, Glasser also released eight singles for the label, the pick being "Handsome Guy," a 1962 recording produced by Snuff Garrett and written by P.J. Proby under his real name, James Marcus Smith. The record was a top 10 hit for him that year in Australia. He also did session work for the label as a guitarist.
Also in 1962, Glasser produced a record by an instrumental band called The Fencemen, composed of Oklahoma expatriates Chuck Blackwell, David Gates, and Leon Russell. Although the musicians went on to individual fame and success,"Swingin' Gates" (written by David Gates and Cliff Crofford) b/w "Bach n' Roll" (written by Leon Russell [as Russell Bridges]) failed to chart. The Fencemen released a second single in early 1963, "Sunday Stranger" (written by Billy Strange) b/w "Sour Grapes" (written by David Gates), which also went nowhere.
From January 1964 Glasser was general manager of Liberty's Dolton label where he produced recordings for such acts as Vic Dana, the Fleetwoods, and the Ventures, including Dana's original version of "I Will" a much-recorded Glasser composition.
In June 1965 Glasser assumed A&R directorship at Warner Bros. Records, producing a number of recordings by the Everly Brothers, including their Two Yanks in England album, as well as Freddy Cannon. March 1968 saw the launch of Dick Glasser Productions whose output included successful recordings by Gary Puckett and the Union Gap, the Vogues, and Andy Williams. Glasser also established his own music publishing company: Richbare Music, in 1968.
During the mid-1970s Glasser was director of MGM Records' country music division in Nashville, producing C. W. McCall's worldwide 1975 hit "Convoy," and also Eddy Arnold and Hank Williams Jr.
Among artists who recorded his songs were Bobby Vee, PJ Proby, Chet Atkins ("I Will"), Walter Brennan, Glen Campbell, Billy Fury, Johnny Cash ("That's All Over"), Dean Martin ("I Will"), Buddy Greco, The Kingston Trio, The Ventures ("Bluer Than Blue"), and Ruby Winters ("I Will"). Deana Martin recorded her own version of her father, Dean Martin's, recording on her 2009 album “Volare.”
Glasser died of lung cancer in Thousand Oaks, California at the age of 66.
References
External links
1933 births
2000 deaths
Musicians from Canton, Ohio
Songwriters from Ohio
Record producers from Ohio
RCA Victor artists
Deaths from lung cancer
20th-century American singers
20th-century American businesspeople
20th-century American male singers
American male songwriters |
20466146 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Lovely%20House | The Lovely House | "The Lovely House" is a gothic short story and weird tale by American writer Shirley Jackson, first published in 1950. The story features several overtly gothic elements, including a possibly haunted house, doubling, and the blurring of real and imaginary. It appeared under the title "The Visit" in New World Writing, No. 2, 1952.
The story was later reprinted in Jackson's posthumous collection Come Along With Me in 1968 (published by Viking Press and reprinted by Penguin Classics in 2013) under the title "A Visit." It was also reprinted in the anthology American Gothic Tales, edited by Joyce Carol Oates, in 1996.
American literary critic S.T. Joshi claims that "The Lovely House" exemplifies the "'quiet weird tale' at its pinnacle" in its embodiment of "the manner in which a house can subsume its occupants."
Plot summary
"The Lovely House" consists of three main parts. In part one, the main character Margaret starts her summer vacation with her friend Carla Montague. The Montagues' home is a huge and beautifully decorated house that is set among lavish grounds. The house has many themed rooms; for example, there is a fan room, a painted room, and a room with a tile mosaic on the floor. Every room contains one or more tapestries with a picture of the house on it. In the room with the tiles, there's a mosaic of a girl, with the words "Here is Margaret, who died for love."
In part two, Carla's long-anticipated brother arrives with a friend. Paul, the Captain, Carla, and Margaret pass time in various parts of the grounds. Margaret and Paul often separate from the other two, which seems to disturb Carla. One afternoon when Margaret and Paul are looking at the river, they discuss the tower and Paul tells Margaret that there is an old lady, an Aunt or a Great Aunt or a Great-Great Aunt, that hides away in the tower because she hates the tapestries. Eventually Margaret ascends the tower and meets the old lady, whose name is also Margaret. The encounter goes strangely and Margaret leaves in a hurry.
In part three, the Montagues say farewell to their son by hosting a ball. The old lady shows up at the ball to see and reminisce with Paul. Margaret overhears part of a strange conversation between the two that implies they were young together even though now they appear to be quite different ages. After the ball, the Captain points out the many ways in which the house needs repair. The family immediately become defensive and the meal ends. After breakfast, Margaret and Paul are in the drawing room. Paul becomes defensive about the state of the house, then abruptly takes his leave of Margaret. The family then says goodbye to the Captain. It is at this point in the story that the story makes clear that the Captain is Carla's brother. The story leaves ambiguous what the relationship is between Paul, Margaret, and the elderly Margaret.
Main themes
Familial relations
When Carla's brother, the Captain, comes home, the family seems to the reader to be complete once again.
Psychological ambiguity
Carla is always saying that Margaret is acting odd. Margaret believes that she's interacting with Paul, but Carla apparently can't see or hear Paul, so she sees Margaret as spending time by herself.
Gothic architecture
The tower is old and ruined; this symbolizes Margaret's death and her never-dying love for Paul.
References
Oates, Joyce Carol. American Gothic Tales. New York NY: The Ontario Review, 1996.
http://www.courses.vcu.edu/ENG-jkh/
http://www.classicauthors.net/jackson/
http://frank.mtsu.edu/~saw2z/gothicfictionweb/tradamgothic.htm
1950 short stories
Short stories by Shirley Jackson
Gothic short stories
Weird fiction |
6902673 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yours%20truly | Yours truly | Yours truly is a form of valediction, especially at the end of a written communication.
Yours truly may also refer to:
Yours truly, a humorous alternative to the pronoun 'I' or 'me' – referring to oneself
Yours Truly (band), an Australian pop-punk band formed in 2016
Yours Truly (2018 film), an Indian romantic drama film
Yours Truly (2019 film), a documentary about the Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei
Yours Truly (Snow Crash), a character in the novel Snow Crash
"Yours Truly" (song), by Blindspott
See also
Yours Truly Theatre, Bangalore, a theatre group in India
Albums
Yours Truly (Air Supply album), 2001
Yours Truly (Ariana Grande album), 2013
Yours Truly (Rick Braun album), 2005
Yours Truly (Sick of It All album), 2000
Yours Truly (Sublime with Rome album), 2011
Yours Truly, a 1991 album by Earl Thomas Conley |
23572882 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spathularia | Spathularia | Spathularia is a genus of fungi in the family Cudoniaceae. Species in the genus are found in coniferous forests around the bases of conifers or near rotting logs. The genus name is Latin for 'broad sword'.
Spathularia flavida
Spathularia flavida, like other members of the family Cudoniaceae, is distinguished by having long, needle-like spores. A common name for Spathularia flavida is yellow Earth tongue. The spores are tightly packed side by side in the asci. The fruit body of S. flavida is a light yellowish-brown color and rarely of a brown color. The stipe grows to about eight centimeters in length and one centimeter in girth, and the flattened head grows on the sides of the stipe. It has a fairly smooth head and stipe, and has no odor. Several specimens were recovered in two expeditions to Sichuan Province, China, in 1997 and 1998. The habitat ranges across continents, mainly the coniferous forests of the United States and Europe. It can be found near the bases of coniferous trees in ring shaped clusters; however, sightings are rare and infrequent.
Spathularia neesii
Spathularia neesii is similar to S. flavida''' it is roughly the same size and shape, up to 8 centimeters in length and 1 centimeter in stipe width. Their colors are also similar–both are of a pale yellow but S. neesii tends to have a pale brown, tan, color, unlike the yellow of S. flavida. When dried both specimens look identical and is almost impossible to tell a difference with the naked eye. The distinguishing feature of S. neesii is the spores that measure 60 to 80 mic. long, around 20 mic. longer than that of S. flavida''.
References
Helotiales genera
Helotiales |
23572883 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C4H8N2O2 | C4H8N2O2 | {{DISPLAYTITLE:C4H8N2O2}}
The molecular formula C4H8N2O2 (molar mass: 116.12 g/mol) may refer to:
N-Acetylglycinamide
Dimethylglyoxime
HA-966
Molecular formulas |
6902690 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CEN | CEN | Cen or CEN may refer to:
People and language
Cen language
Cen (rune) (ᚳ), a rune of the Anglo-Saxon fuþorc
Cen (surname) (岑), a Chinese second name
Acronym
Certified Emergency Nurse
Childhood emotional neglect
Cambridge Evening News, former name for the Cambridge News
Center for Electron Nanoscopy, an institute at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
Central European News, a news distributor
European Committee for Standardization (Comité Européen de Normalisation)
SCK•CEN, Belgian nuclear research institute (Centre d'Étude de l'énergie Nucléaire)
Abbreviation or code
Centaurus, the constellation
Centaur (minor planet)
Centralia, Illinois (Amtrak station)
Central Region, Scotland, Chapman code
Central station (MTR), Hong Kong
Ciudad Obregón International Airport (IATA code: CEN) in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, Mexico
See also |
23572889 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%20magic%20%28disambiguation%29 | White magic (disambiguation) | White magic is magic used for benevolent purposes.
White Magic may also refer to:
White Magic (band), an American rock band
White Magic, a 2010 album by Swedish musician ceo
Kirk Stevens, a snooker player nicknamed "white magic"
Lacey, a professional wrestler who has also performed under the ring name White Magic
WhiteMagic, a display technology
Mephedrone, a drug also known as "white magic" |
20466147 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deer%20Lick%20Nature%20Sanctuary | Deer Lick Nature Sanctuary | Deer Lick Nature Sanctuary is a protected forest and gorge in Cattaraugus County, New York. The preserve is within Zoar Valley near Gowanda, and is managed by The Nature Conservancy.
History
Deer Lick Nature Sanctuary was created by a donation from Miss Evelyn Alverson to The Nature Conservancy in 1960 with a further donation of Deer Lick Falls by Herbert F. Darling. It was designated a National Natural Landmark in November 1967 for its mature hardwood forest and its gorges which highlight the Onondaga Escarpment.
As of 2005, the preserve covered , of which contain old-growth forest. The south fork of the Cattaraugus Creek runs alongside part of the preserve. In 2006 the preserve expanded via grants and purchases. There are of hiking trails open to the public.
See also
List of National Natural Landmarks in New York
References
External links
The Nature Conservancy: Deer Lick Conservation Area
National Natural Landmarks in New York (state)
Nature Conservancy preserves in New York (state)
Nature reserves in New York (state)
Protected areas of Cattaraugus County, New York |
23572891 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-aided%20inspection | Computer-aided inspection | Computer-aided inspection (CAI) is the use of software tools to assess manufactured objects. It is closely related to computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided manufacturing (CAM). Its primary purpose is to allow engineers to more quickly and precisely assess the physical properties of manufactured objects. These properties can include dimensions, material consistency, roughness and roundness.
Uses
CAI has applications in industries ranging from food production to aerospace, commonly being used in the quality assurance step of the manufacturing process. It involves comparing manufactured objects with a CAD model, technical drawing or data sheet to ensure that the finished product is within specification and meets design intent.
Technologies
CAI machines can use a variety of technologies depending on the material of the product to be inspected, the properties to be measured, and the precision required.
Digital Cameras
Digital cameras are frequently used in situations where the shape or colour of an object needs to be analysed. Using machine vision, the CAI program can make decisions about objects by comparing them to a master photo or data array.
Laser Scanning
Laser scanning CAI machines use point clouds to generate a 3D model which is compared to the required specification. Laser scanners are generally used to check the external geometry of parts with low reflectivity and translucence.
Structured Light Scanning
Structured light scanners use projected light patterns and digital cameras to analyse the geometry of an object. As with laser scanning, objects with high reflectivity and translucence can cause problems but temporary coatings can be applied to prevent this.
CT Scanning
Industrial CT scanners use X-rays to image an object from many angles, building up a 3D image to compare to a specification. CT scans can be used to analyse the internal geometry of parts because the X-rays penetrate the object being scanned. Higher resolution CT scans can also check for cavities, cracks, and other undesirable features inside parts.
See also
Computer-aided design
Computer-aided manufacturing
Coordinate-measuring machine
References
Computer-aided design
Metrology |
20466151 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levente%20Bozsik | Levente Bozsik | Levente Bozsik (born 22 April 1980) is a Hungarian former professional footballer who played for several clubs in Europe as a striker.
Career
Bozsik played for BVSC Budapest in Hungary, 1. FC Union Berlin, SC Fortuna Köln and FC Carl Zeiss Jena in the German Regionalliga and FC KooTeePee in the Finnish Veikkausliiga.
References
1980 births
Living people
Hungarian footballers
Hungarian expatriate footballers
Association football forwards
Nemzeti Bajnokság I players
Regionalliga players
Veikkausliiga players
Cypriot First Division players
Budapesti VSC footballers
1. FC Union Berlin players
SC Fortuna Köln players
FC Carl Zeiss Jena players
FC KooTeePee players
Anagennisi Deryneia FC players
Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in Germany
Expatriate footballers in Germany
Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in Finland
Expatriate footballers in Finland
Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus
Expatriate footballers in Cyprus
Footballers from Budapest |
23572896 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chautauqua%20Lake%20Yacht%20Club | Chautauqua Lake Yacht Club | The Chautauqua Lake Yacht Club (CLYC) is a private yacht club located in Lakewood, New York, on the south shore of Chautauqua Lake.
Fleets
The club was a powerhouse of the Snipe International Class, and still holds number 124 in the listing of Snipe fleets around the world. In that class, CLYC hosted the world championship in 1946, the North Americans in 1979, and the Nationals in 1949, 1958 and 1966, while producing two SCIRA Commodores: Harold Griffith (1949) and Edward "Red" Garfield (1960).
CLYC is now home of the following fleets:
E-Scow
Laser
Optimist
Sailors
Leslie Larson won the 1959 Snipe Junior National Championship along with his crew, Jim Lenna, and the National Championship in 1962 with his father Victor Larson (who had been second himself in 1946).
References
External links
Official website
1894 establishments in New York (state)
Buildings and structures in Chautauqua County, New York
Sailing in New York (state)
Yacht clubs in the United States |
6902697 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattillo%20Higgins | Pattillo Higgins | Pattillo Higgins (December 5, 1863 – June 5, 1955) was an American businessman and a self-taught geologist. He earned the nickname the "Prophet of Spindletop" for his endeavors in the Texas oil business, which accrued a fortune for many. He partnered to form the Gladys City Oil Gas and Manufacturing Company, and later established the Higgins Standard Oil Company.
Early life
Pattillo Higgins was born to Roberto James and Sarah (Raye) Higgins on December 5, 1863, in Sabine Pass, Texas. His family moved to Beaumont when he was six years old. He attended school until he reached the fourth grade, after which he apprenticed as a gunsmith under his father’s direction. In his youth, he was a violent troublemaker, pulling pranks and harassing African Americans.
When he was seventeen, he pulled a prank on a black Baptist church that got the attention of a sheriff's deputy. The deputy fired a warning shot over Higgins' head, after which Higgins fired back and delivered what would later turn out to be a fatal hit. The wounded deputy managed to fire again, striking Higgins in his lower left arm. Higgins' arm would later become severely infected, requiring amputation from the elbow down. Higgins was put on trial for the murder of the deputy, but he would be found not guilty by a jury that perceived his act as self-defense. After his acquittal, he worked as a logger along the Texas-Louisiana border, apparently unhindered by his lack of an arm.
It was in 1885 that he attended a Baptist revival meeting where he made the decision to become a Christian. Realizing that the lumber camps were not the ideal place to maintain a good morality, he decided to return to Beaumont, Texas to establish himself as a businessman.
Venture into business
Higgins ventured into real estate at first, and with the money that he saved as a logger, he started the Higgins Manufacturing Company to manufacture bricks. The business sparked his interest in oil and gas, as he used it for his kilns to burn the bricks evenly. He decided to travel to Pennsylvania to learn about these fuels and study the geographical features that give signs to the presence of underground oil. Studying geology on his own, he dedicated himself to finding these clues by reading all the United States Geological Survey reports and books that he could find. The details he learned reminded him of what some Beaumont locals back home referred to as "Sour Hill Mound", a place where he frequently brought his Sunday school students for outings. This mound was described as "sour" due to the unpleasant sulfur smell that came out of the springs around it. Convinced that this salt dome mound had oil below it, Higgins first partnered with George O'Brien, George Carroll, Emma John, and J.F. Lanier to form the Gladys City Oil, Gas, and Manufacturing Company in 1892. It was during this time that other formally trained geologists dismissed the idea of finding oil along the gulf coast region of the United States. Higgins' personal integrity was even challenged by the local newspaper. However, his informal training in geology influenced his belief that the Spindletop field contained oil below due to the presence of mineral water and gas seepage, and he managed to convince the partners to proceed with the venture. Work began the following year, but all three of the shallow drilling attempts failed to locate oil due to the shifting sands and unstable clay under the hill. Higgins resigned from the company, sold his stock, and purchased 33 acres compromising the summit of Sour Spring Mound.
Partnership with Anthony Lucas
Unwilling to give up hope of striking oil, Higgins placed numerous ads in industrial magazines and trade journals in an effort to spark others' interests in the prospect of hitting a successful well at the site. Only one man responded to the ads, a Croatian-American named Anthony Francis Lucas. Lucas signed agreements with the Gladys City Company and also with Higgins in 1899, and in June of the following year, he began to drill. The first well Lucas made with his light equipment collapsed after reaching . This failure exhausted the partners' finances, so Lucas turned to John H. Galey and James M. Guffey in Pittsburgh for backing. The terms set forth by Guffey (who held and controlled the funds) limited Lucas’ percentage cut to a small amount, and eliminated Higgins and cut him completely from the deal.
The Lucas Gusher at Spindletop
In late October 1900, with the help of the experienced crew of Al and Curt Hamill from Corsicana, drilling began again. This time, the drilling would be done using a newer, heavier, and more efficient rotary type bit. Over the next several months, work was difficult maintaining the drilling through the underground sands. On January 10, 1901, the six tons of four-inch (102 mm) drilling pipe began to shoot up out of the hole, sending the roughnecks fleeing for safety. The geyser shot oil over high and flowed an estimated .
The well was at a depth of , and as it turns out, was at the precise location as initially predicted by Higgins. The well would not have struck oil if it had been drilled just 50 feet (15 m) to the south. The well, which was dubbed "Lucas 1", had an initial flow rate greater than all of the oil wells in the United States combined in that day. The Spindletop oilfield churned out over the first year of operation, and over the following year. This effectively brought an end to John D. Rockefeller’s world monopoly.
Lawsuit against Lucas and the Gladys City Company
Higgins sued Lucas and Gladys City Oil, Gas and Manufacturing Company for royalties, using the basis that the second lease was invalid because the first lease had not yet expired when the second was enacted. After the parties settled out of court, Higgins formed the Higgins Oil and Fuel Company located at the center of Spindletop. This company was vulnerable to takeover bids due to Higgins' over-zealous land prospecting, which enabled the lumber baron and businessman John Henry Kirby to overtake his ownership in 1902 by purchasing his shares of the company for $3 million. Higgins maintained his leasing rights to his land, and would establish the Higgins Standard Oil Company. He later established other wells with various investors, with an eccentric habit of pulling his interests out, leaving the majority of the profits for others.
Later life and death
Higgins' lifestyle was varied in interests and occupations. Along with working as a wildcatter, his diverse activities involved drafting, work as an inventor, an artist, as well as an engineer to name a few. His religious beliefs kept him away from public entertainment and resorts, as well as maintaining a strong belief against the selling of alcohol. In addition to residing in Beaumont, he owned estates in Houston and San Antonio. He remained a bachelor until the age of 45. In 1905, he adopted a young woman named Annie Jahn, who at the time was fifteen. Three years later Higgins married her, and later had three children with her, despite the scandal. Higgins died in San Antonio on June 5, 1955.
On December 4, 1955, six months after Higgins' death, he was dramatized by the actor Robert Bray in the CBS history series You Are There in the episode entitled "Spindletop - The First Great Texas Oil Strike (January 10, 1901)". Mike Ragan was cast as Marion Fletcher; Parley Baer as Captain Lucas, Jean Byron as Caroline Lucas, DeForest Kelley as Al Hammill, Tyler McVey as Mayor Wheat, and William Fawcett as a farmer.
Higgins World's Oil Company
From the Prescott Evening Courier – Dec 23, 1905:
Articles of Incorporation for the "Higgins World's Oil Company"
References
Further reading
East Texas Historical Association, "A self-taught Texas wildcatter: Pattillo Higgins and the Hockley Oil Field", by Ronald H. Limbaugh, East Texas Historical Journal, Vol 34 No. 1, 1996, Nacogdoches, Tx 75962
External links
Spindletop History and Biographies
1863 births
1955 deaths
American geologists
American businesspeople in the oil industry
Wildcatters
Businesspeople from Texas
Texas Oil Boom people
People from Port Arthur, Texas
People born in the Confederate States |
6902698 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mostly%20Martha | Mostly Martha | Mostly Martha can refer to:
Mostly Martha (Bella Martha), a 2001 German film
"Mostly Martha", a popular version of Friedrich von Flotow's aria M’apparì tutt’amor, recorded by The Crew-Cuts |
23572897 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%20magic | White magic | White magic has traditionally referred to the use of supernatural powers or magic for selfless purposes. Practitioners of white magic have been given titles such as wise men or women, healers, white witches or wizards. Many of these people claimed to have the ability to do such things because of knowledge or power that was passed on to them through hereditary lines, or by some event later in their lives. White magic was practiced through healing, blessing, charms, incantations, prayers, and songs. White magic is the benevolent counterpart of malicious black magic.
History
Early origins
In his 1978 book, A History of White Magic, recognised occult author Gareth Knight traces the origins of white magic to early adaptations of paleolithic religion and early religious history in general, including the polytheistic traditions of Ancient Egypt and the later monotheistic ideas of Judaism and early Christianity.
In particular, he traced many of the traditions of white magic to the early worship of local "gods and goddesses of fertility and vegetation who were usually worshipped at hill-top shrines" and were "attractive to a nomadic race settling down to an agricultural existence". He focuses in particular on the nomadic Hebrew-speaking tribes and suggests that early Jews saw the worship of such deities more in terms of atavism than evil. It was only when the polytheistic and pagan Roman Empire began to expand that Jewish leaders began to rally against those ideas.
Early origins of white magic can also be traced back to the Cunning Folk.
During the Renaissance
By the late 15th century, natural magic "had become much discussed in high-cultural circles". "Followers" of Marsilio Ficino advocated the existence of spiritual beings and spirits in general, though many such theories ran counter to the ideas of the later Age of Enlightenment. While Ficino and his supporters were treated with hostility by the Roman Catholic Church, the Church itself also acknowledged the existence of such beings; such acknowledgement was the crux of campaigns against witchcraft. Ficino, though, theorised a "purely natural" magic that did not require the invocation of spirits, malevolent or malicious. In doing so, he came into conflict with Johannes Trithemius who refused to believe in Ficino's theory but created spells and incantations of his own related to beneficial communication with spirits. His works, including the Steganographia, were not published until the 17th century and were then immediately placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum where they remained until the 20th century. Trithemius' "disciple" Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa was responsible for publishing some of his work and in turn created his own. His work included the De occulta philosophia libri tres which contained an outline of, among other things, classical elements, numerology, astrology and kabbalah and detailed ways of utilizing these relationships and laws in medicine, scrying, alchemy and rituals and ceremonies. Giambattista della Porta expanded on many of these ideas in his Magia Naturalis.
It is the coming-together of these ideas - early "natural" religions and later philosophical thinking - that Knight suggests is "at the root of the Western tradition of white magic". Also at the root of white magic are symbols and religious symbolism in particular. The star, Knight gives as example, was of critical importance to Jewish tradition and then to early Christians (like the Star of David) and to later Masonic tradition and Neo-paganism. It continues to be of importance of white magic practitioners in the form of the pentagram and night-time ritual.
Zambelli goes further and suggests that white magic, though then not specifically distinct from its counterpart black magic, grew as the more acceptable form of occult and pagan study in the era of the Inquisition and anti-witchcraft sentiment. If black magic was that which involved Trithemius' invocation of demons, Ficino's "purely natural" white magic could be framed as the study of "natural" phenomena in general with no evil or irreligious intent whatsoever. Zambelli places academics like Giordano Bruno in this category of "clandestine" practitioners of magic.
Modern interpretations
In his 2009 book, Magic and Alchemy, Robert M. Place provides a broad modern definition of both black and white magic, preferring instead to refer to them as "high magic" (white) and "low magic" (black) based primarily on intentions of the practitioner employing them. His modern definition maintains that the purpose of white magic is to "do good" or to "bring the practitioner to a higher spiritual state" of enlightenment or consciousness. He acknowledges, though, that this broader definition (of "high" and "low") suffers from prejudices as good-intentioned folk magic may be considered "low" while ceremonial magic involving expensive or exclusive components may be considered by some as "high magic", regardless of intent.
According to Place, effectively all prehistoric shamanistic magic was "helping" white magic and thus the basic essence of that magic forms the framework of modern white magic: curing illness or injury, divining the future or interpreting dreams, finding lost items, appeasing spirits, controlling weather or harvest and generating good luck or well-being.
Goddess worship
Though not exclusively a female pursuit, modern white magic is often associated with stereotypically feminine concepts like that of a Mother goddess, fae, nature spirits, oneness with nature and goddess worship. In modern stories or fairy tales, the idea of "white witchcraft" is often associated with a kindly grandmother or caring motherly spirit. The link between white magic and a Mother Earth is a regular theme of practitioner Marian Green's written work.
See also
Gray magic
Renaissance magic
Theurgy
References
Western esotericism |
23572899 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old%20Blues | Old Blues | Old Blues may refer to the following:
Former pupils of Bluecoat schools including:
Christ's Hospital, Horsham, West Sussex, United Kingdom - see List of people educated at Christ's Hospital & :Category:People educated at Christ's Hospital
Reading Blue Coat School - see :Category:People educated at Reading Blue Coat School |
23572907 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentleman%20and%20Ladies | Gentleman and Ladies | Gentleman and Ladies is a novel by English author Susan Hill, published in 1968, runner-up for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. It is notable in exploring themes of death, mental health, and elderly well-being, despite Hill's relative youth at the time of writing.
Plot reception
The story begins at a funeral in the village of Haverstock and ends at a wedding. A stranger appears at the funeral of Faith Lavender, holding stolen snowdrops. Faith's two sisters and neighbours are perplexed by the man, and soon 'undercurrents of fierce emotion, that until now have been suppressed, reach the surface while the tensions rise'.
Reception
In The New York Times, Hill's style is "Briskly impressionistic is better than its substance. Bits and pieces of life among these English senior citizens are sharply illuminated, but the book as a whole has the texture of a soap opera".
Adaptation
BBC Radio 4 produced an adaptation of a radio play in January 1993 featuring Patricia Hayes, Stephanie Cole, Sian Phillips, Gwen Watford and Anna Cropper.
References
Novels by Susan Hill
1968 British novels
Hamish Hamilton books
Novels set in Warwickshire
Works about old age |
6902699 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennies%20from%20Heaven%20%281981%20film%29 | Pennies from Heaven (1981 film) | Pennies from Heaven is a 1981 American musical romantic drama film directed by Herbert Ross, based on the 1978 BBC television drama of the same name. Dennis Potter adapted his screenplay from the BBC series for American audiences, changing its setting from London and the Forest of Dean to Depression-era Chicago and rural Illinois.
The film stars Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Christopher Walken and Jessica Harper. Choreographed by Danny Daniels, the film includes musical numbers consisting of actors lip-syncing and dancing to popular songs of the 1920s–30s, such as "Let's Misbehave", "Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries", "Let's Face the Music and Dance" and the title song.
While positively received by critics, it was a box office bomb, grossing just a fraction of its budget. Potter received a nomination for the 1981 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, but lost to On Golden Pond.
Plot
In 1934, Chicago sheet-music salesman Arthur Parker (Steve Martin) is having a hard time, both in his business and at home with his wife Joan. His business and marriage are failing, and Joan (Jessica Harper) refuses to give him the money she inherited from her father to start his own business.
Arthur's dream is to live in a world that is like the songs he tries to sell. He is refused a bank loan, although he fantasizes that he gets it. In his travels, Arthur meets schoolteacher Eileen (Bernadette Peters) and falls in love with her instantly. They embark on a short affair, but Arthur leaves her and returns to Joan, who is desperate to keep him and agrees to give him the money he wanted. Arthur denies having an affair, though Joan is sure he is lying.
Eileen gets pregnant by Arthur and is fired. With nowhere to go, she takes up with stylish pimp Tom (Christopher Walken). Eileen is attracted to Tom's "badness", and he arranges for her to have an abortion.
When Arthur meets Eileen again, she is now a prostitute calling herself "Lulu". They resume their romance, and Eileen leaves Tom and her sordid life. Impulsively, Arthur convinces her to run away with him. Having failed to sell his business, Arthur and Eileen break into the store one night and trash it, smashing its phonograph records (except for "Pennies from Heaven"). To supplement their income, Eileen keeps prostituting in spite of Arthur's objections.
A blind girl whom Arthur knew superficially is raped and murdered by an accordion-playing hobo to whom Arthur had given a ride earlier in the film. The police's suspicions are confirmed by Joan, who reveals to them Arthur's sexual predilections to get back at him for cheating on her. The police find Arthur trying to leave town with Eileen, and arrest him for murder; he is soon convicted and sentenced to death. At the gallows, he recites the lyrics from the song "Pennies from Heaven". In one final fantasy, Arthur and Eileen are reunited, with Arthur saying, "We couldn't have gone through all that without a happy ending. Songs ain't like that, are they?"
Cast
Steve Martin as Arthur Parker
Bernadette Peters as Eileen ("Lulu")
Jessica Harper as Joan Parker
Vernel Bagneris as Accordion man
John McMartin as Mr. Warner
John Karlen as Detective
Jay Garner as Banker
Robert Fitch as Al
Tommy Rall as Ed
Eliska Krupka as blind girl
Christopher Walken as Tom
Raleigh Bond as Mr. Barrett
Nancy Parsons as The Old Whore
Duke Stroud as Counterman
Will Hare as Father Everson
Production
Pennies from Heaven was Martin's first dramatic role in a film. He had watched the original miniseries and considered it "the greatest thing [he'd] ever seen." He trained for six months learning to tap dance, while Christopher Walken, who had trained as a dancer as a young man, was able to use his dancing skills in the film.
According to a 1990 article in The Times, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer had Potter rewrite the script 13 times and required him to buy back his copyright from the BBC, for which he paid the BBC "something over $100,000". In addition, MGM prohibited broadcast of the BBC's original production for 10 years. Around 1989, at the prompting of Alan Yentob, the controller of BBC2, producer Kenith Trodd was able to buy back the rights from MGM for "a very inconsiderable sum." In February 1990, the BBC rebroadcast the original Pennies from Heaven serial for the first time since 1978.
In the same Times article, Trodd stated that Bob Hoskins and Cheryl Campbell, the stars of the original series, "were terribly upset that they weren't considered for the film. I think they still blame Dennis and me in some way, but there was no way to argue the point with MGM."
The style of the movie balances the drab despair of the Depression era and the characters' sad lives with brightly colored dream-fantasy lavish musical sequences. The characters break into song and dance to express their emotions. For example, Eileen turns into a silver-gowned torch singer in her school-room, with her students lip-synching and dancing ("Love Is Good for Anything That Ails You"). Tom seduces Eileen with a tap dance/striptease routine on top of a bar ("Let's Misbehave"). Arthur and Eileen go to a film (Follow the Fleet) and wind up dancing in formal wear, first with, then in, a Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musical number from the film, "Let's Face the Music and Dance". All the songs are lip-synched, except Martin singing/speaking the title song at the end, but Arthur, Tom, and Eileen dance.
Four paintings are recreated as tableaux vivants in the film: Hudson Bay Fur Company and 20 Cent Movie by Reginald Marsh, and New York Movie and Nighthawks by Edward Hopper. Three of the four were painted after 1934, when the movie takes place, and all depict scenes in New York City rather than the Chicago setting of the movie.
Reception and legacy
Box office
The film was a commercial failure, grossing slightly more than $9 million at the box office against a budget of $22 million.
When asked in Rolling Stone about the film's box office failure, Martin said: "I'm disappointed that it didn't open as a blockbuster and I don't know what's to blame, other than it's me and not a comedy. I must say that the people who get the movie, in general, have been wise and intelligent; the people who don't get it are ignorant scum."
David Begelman head of MGM called it "the most daring film we made. It took all these different textures and molded them... I didn't make that picture because I enjoy walking a tightrope. I made that picture because with every honest conviction you can bring to bear, I believed that film could become a film of such incredible celebrity it would enjoy very wide success. I was wrong. I was completely wrong."
It was Martin's second starring role in a film, following 1979's comedy hit The Jerk, and fans were confused to see Martin in a serious role. "You just can't do a movie like Pennies from Heaven after you have done The Jerk," Martin said in a BBC interview.
"Everything I had done until that time had been wildly successful," he recalled in 1987, "so that the commercial failure of the film caught me by surprise. I still think artistically it's a very good film. I've rarely seen a role that showed that kind of vulnerability in a man. It's a special film to me, and if I had to find fault, it would be that I think some of the music could have included more popular songs of the period."
Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes the film holds an approval rating of 82% based on 28 reviews, with an average rating of 7/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "A complicated little musical, Pennies from Heaven is a dazzling, tragic spectacle."
The film was given a rapturous review by Pauline Kael in The New Yorker, writing "Pennies from Heaven is the most emotional movie musical I've ever seen. It's a stylized mythology of the Depression which uses the popular songs of the period as expressions of people's deepest longings—for sex, for romance, for money, for a high good time...there was never a second when I wasn't fascinated by what was happening on the screen." Kael further noted that "The dance numbers are funny, amazing, and beautiful all at once; several of them are just about perfection." Gary Arnold of The Washington Post called it "a rejuvenating, landmark achievement in the evolution of Hollywood musicals, and certainly the finest American movie of 1981. A brilliantly enhanced distillation of a 1978 British television play, 'Pennies' blends the astringent with the poignant and the fanciful. It appears as a belated Hollywood counterpart to Brecht and Weill's 'Three Penny Opera.'"
Other contemporary reviews were less positive. Roger Ebert gave the film two stars out of four and called it "all flash and style and no heart." Vincent Canby of The New York Times reported that he watched the film "with what might best be described as baffled interest." He wrote that "All of the musical numbers are good, and a couple are great...The movie, though, is not easy to respond to. It's chilly without being provocative in any intellectual way." Todd McCarthy of Variety wrote "'Pennies From Heaven' is one of the most hopelessly esoteric big-budget Hollywood pictures ever made, a lugubrious, neo-Brechtian musical exercise of notable pretension and virtually no artistic payoff...In short, it's 'Penny Gate.'" Dave Kehr of The Chicago Reader wrote that "ironic, alienating musicals have been tried before, but never with such lofty contempt for the form. [The film] drips with a sense of anger and betrayal that seems wildly out of scale to its cause - the discovery (less than original) that musicals don't reproduce social reality." Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of four and wrote that "Martin ruins what could have been one of the year's freshest and most innovative films. With Martin hamming it up, 'Pennies From Heaven' is full of socko moments, but the entire film doesn't hold together." Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times wrote that "it is like no other period musical. It is so far out, so unexpected, that it might well be described as experimental...As such, it's likely to elicit deeply divided reactions: Audiences will either love it or hate it."
Peters won the Golden Globe as Best Motion Picture Actress in a Comedy or Musical for her role as Eileen Everson, a schoolteacher turned prostitute. A review of the DVD reissue asserted, "Peters brought a cocky attitude and a sexy exuberance to the musical numbers."
Fred Astaire, who was powerless to prevent the reuse of the footage from his film Follow the Fleet, detested Pennies from Heaven: "I have never spent two more miserable hours in my life. Every scene was cheap and vulgar. They don't realize that the '30s were a very innocent age, and that [the film] should have been set in the '80s – it was just froth; it makes you cry it's so distasteful."
The film was nominated by the American Film Institute for its 2006 list of Greatest Movie Musicals.
Awards and nominations
Academy Awards
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium – Dennis Potter (nominated)
Best Costume Design – Bob Mackie (nominated)
Best Sound - Michael J. Kohut, Jay M. Harding, Richard Tyler and Al Overton Jr. (nominated)
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards
Best Cinematography – Gordon Willis (won)
Golden Globe Awards
Best Motion Picture Actress, Comedy/Musical – Bernadette Peters (won)
Best Motion Picture, Comedy/Musical (nominated)
Best Motion Picture Actor, Comedy/Musical – Steve Martin (nominated)
National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA
Best Cinematography – Gordon Willis (won)
References
External links
Turner Classic Movies article
1981 films
1980s English-language films
1980s musical drama films
1981 romantic drama films
American musical drama films
American romantic drama films
American romantic musical films
Adultery in films
Films about banking
Films about prostitution in the United States
Films based on television series
Films directed by Herbert Ross
Films featuring a Best Musical or Comedy Actress Golden Globe winning performance
Films produced by Rick McCallum
Films set in Chicago
Films set in Illinois
Films set in the 1930s
Films set in 1934
Great Depression films
Jukebox musical films
Films with screenplays by Dennis Potter
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films
United Artists films
1980s American films |
6902707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gao%20Hongmiao | Gao Hongmiao | Gao Hongmiao (born 17 March 1974) is a Chinese race walker.
International competitions
References
1974 births
Living people
Chinese female racewalkers
Olympic athletes of China
Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
World Athletics Championships athletes for China
Asian Games gold medalists for China
Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
Athletes (track and field) at the 1994 Asian Games
Medalists at the 1994 Asian Games
Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
Universiade gold medalists for China
World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships winners
Medalists at the 2001 Summer Universiade |
17329459 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960%20United%20States%20presidential%20election%20in%20California | 1960 United States presidential election in California | The 1960 United States presidential election in California took place on November 8, 1960 as part of the 1960 United States presidential election. State voters chose 32 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
California voted for the Republican nominee, Vice President Richard Nixon, over the Democratic nominee, Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy. Although California was Nixon's home state, which he represented in the House and Senate, and initial political base, his margin of victory over Kennedy turned out to be extremely narrow; in fact, it was the closest of the states that Nixon won and the fourth closest state in the election after Hawaii, Illinois and Missouri. On the morning of November 9, the NBC victory desk erroneously projected California to Kennedy.
Nixon would later win California again against Hubert Humphrey in 1968 and then against George McGovern in 1972.
Primaries
Democratic primary
Running unopposed, California governor Pat Brown won the state's Democratic primary as a favorite son.
While the primary itself was straightforward, the developments surrounding the primary were far more complex.
Kennedy had not come easily to his decision not to compete in the California primary, and had at one point tentatively filed to run in the primary.
Kennedy had begun to contemplate the state's primary at an early stage in the development of his campaign.
By early 1958 Kennedy's team had recognized the state to be a Democratic target for the midterm elections, since economic woes had weakened the Republican Party's strength in the state. This meant that the 1958 midterm election would serve to gauge the prospect of Democrats winning the state in the 1960 presidential election. In February 1958, Ted Sorensen spent $1,500 in order to commission a survey in California that would be conducted that March, coinciding with a two-day visit by Kennedy to the state. The survey showed Kennedy winning 55 to 45% in a then-hypothetical general election race against Nixon. The survey also demonstrated Kennedy to have a strong lead in California among Catholics, who constituted one-fifth of the state's populace.
Kennedy, however, remained undecided as to whether or not he would compete in the state's primary.
In November 1958, the midterm elections delivered encouraging signs for Democratic prospects of carrying the state in 1960. Pat Brown had defeated the Nixon-backed Republican candidate, outgoing U.S. Senate Minority Leader William Knowland, in the state's gubernatorial election and Democrat Clair Engle defeated the Nixon-backed Republican candidate, outgoing governor Goodwin Knight, in the race for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Knowland.
California was one of several large state delegations to the Democratic National convention whose support the Kennedy campaign came to believe was integral when they mapped-out his path to secure the nomination.
The Kennedy campaign was concerned that Brown might run against Kennedy as a favorite son in the primary. Brown saw himself as a potential running mate on the Democratic ticket. However, he recognized that his chances of being selected would disappear if Kennedy were the presidential nominee, as Brown and Kennedy were both Catholics and a ticket composed of two Catholics was improbable. Thus. Brown recognized that he would need for Kennedy to lose the nomination if he were to stand a chance at securing the vice-presidential nomination for himself.
California's Democratic Party landscape at the time, stood largely divided between Brown loyalists and Adlai Stevenson supporters (many of whom had hopes of nominating Stevenson a third consecutive time).
Kennedy's campaign began to consider the possibility of pursuing a compromise with Brown in which he would run as a favorite candidate committed to Kennedy. Such a compromise would have granted Brown the profile and ego boost of winning the state's primary. It would have allowed Kennedy to eschew a scenario in which he could underperform or be defeated in one of the last primaries, which would weaken the momentum he needed to have heading into the convention. It would also have avoided the risk of dividing the state party, which was important since a divided state party would have decimated any chance Kennedy stood of carrying the state in the general election. At the same time, such a compromise would still have secured the support of California's delegation for Kennedy. Kennedy's campaign decided that, so long as their candidate still had momentum from having won primaries in other key states, there would be no problem in having Brown run as a surrogate candidate in California. To help persuade Brown to be inclined towards such an agreement, Larry O'Brien met with Brown on behalf of the campaign and showed him polling that Louis Harris had conducted for them which showed Kennedy winning the state 60% to 40% in a two-way race against Brown and was also beating him in a three-way matchup featuring Humphrey, polling 47% against Brown's 33% and Humphrey's 20%. The campaign ultimately reached an informal agreement with Brown to have him run, pledged to Kennedy, as a favorite son.
Despite their informal agreement with Brown, Kennedy's campaign continued to possess worries about the state's primary. They were uncertain as to what degree Brown was intent on honoring their agreement. They also recognized that there was a potential that Stevenson might run in the state's primary. Another concern involved the candidacy of Hubert Humphrey. Kennedy's team believed that there was a possibility that Humphrey might file to run in the state. While Kennedy's campaign strategy aimed to have killed Humphrey's candidacy well in advance of the California primary by dealing him critical defeats in earlier primaries, they were still somewhat concerned about a potential scenario in which Kennedy would have failed to knock Humphrey out of the race and Humphrey ran in the California primary. They were worried that, in such an instance, Brown might prove to be a much less effective an opponent to Humphrey than Kennedy himself would be.
To precautionarily leave open the campaign's options, on the March 9 deadline to file for the primary, Kennedy filed his own slate of prospective delegates which would be, at least tentatively, registered to run against Brown's slate. Humphrey filed a slate of his own later that day. This blindsided Brown, who believed that he had secured promises from both candidates that neither of them would run against him in the California primary.
By the time of the California primary, Humphrey had already ended his campaign. Since he had only filed as a precaution for the possibility of Humphrey competing in California, Kennedy attempted to make peace. Kennedy withdrew, granting Brown the opportunity to run unopposed.
Feeling betrayed by Kennedy, Brown did not publicly endorse him, much to the chagrin of the Kennedy campaign. Brown, ultimately, held weak control over a fractious state delegation, whose ranks included a number of Stevenson loyalists, and Stevenson had left open the possibility of being drafted as a candidate at the convention. After failing to secure a public endorsement from Brown ahead of the convention, Kennedy and his team ultimately resorted to courting individual members of its delegation for their support.
Republican primary
Nixon won California's Republican primary, in which he was unopposed.
General election
Hand counting of ballots in Los Angeles County delayed certification of results. This lead Secretary of State Frank M Jordan to champion legislation mandating that counties use voting machines. Although he was a California native, Richard Nixon won California by an incredibly narrow margin, throwing the official election outcome into uncertainty for a number of weeks, although Nixon conceded the next day.
Results
Results by county
References
California
1960
1960 California elections |
6902725 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effie%20Waller%20Smith | Effie Waller Smith | Effie Waller Smith (January 6, 1879 – January 2, 1960) was an African-American poet of the early twentieth century. Her published output consisted of three volumes of poetry: Songs of the Month (1904), Rhymes From the Cumberland (1904), and Rosemary and Pansies (1909). Her poetry appeared in the publication Harper's Weekly and various regional newspapers.
Early life and education
Effie Waller was born to former slaves in the rural mountain community of Chloe Creek in Pike County, Kentucky, on a farm located a few miles from Pikeville. Her father, Frank Waller, migrated to the East Kentucky mountains sometime after the Civil War, having spent most of his early life as a laborer on a Virginia plantation. Her mother, Sibbie Ratliff, was born and raised in East Kentucky and met the former Virginia slave in the early 1870s. Effie was the third of their four children.
Frank Waller established himself as both a blacksmith and a real estate speculator soon after his arrival in the Chloe Creek community. This mountain community was unique in comparison to other communities of the time in that it was racially integrated. This condition, coupled with Waller's early training as a blacksmith while still a slave, helped him to become financially successful and to win the respect of his neighbors, both white and black. The Wallers, realizing the hardships caused by their own limited education, decided that their children would receive the best quality education available to them at the time.
Effie completed eighth grade at a local school, as her older siblings Alfred and Rosa had done, then attended Kentucky Normal School for Colored Persons in Frankfort, and from 1900 to 1902 trained to be a teacher, after which she is known to have taught school off and on for several years, in Kentucky and in Tennessee. That same year she married a man called Lyss Cockrell but the marriage did not last long, ending in her divorcing him. In 1908 she married again, to Deputy Sheriff Charles Smith, but this union was also short-lived. He was killed in 1911 while serving a warrant.
Career
Some of her verse appeared in local papers, and she published her first collection, Songs of the Months, containing 110 poems, in 1904. In 1909 Effie Smith had published two further collections, Rhymes From the Cumberland and Rosemary and Pansies, and in 1917, her sonnet "Autumn Winds" was published in Harper's Magazine, but she appears to have stopped writing that year, when she was 38.
Effie Smith left Kentucky for Wisconsin in 1918. She died on January 2, 1960 and is buried in the city of Neenah.
Bibliography
Songs of the Month (New York: Broadway Publishing Company, 1904)
Rhymes From the Cumberland (New York: Broadway Publishing Company, 1909)
Rosemary and Pansies (1909)
References
External links
Works by Effie Waller Smith at the Internet Archive
Effie Waller Smith, "Preparation", Academy of American Poets.
"Effie Waller Smith" at PoemHunter.com.
1879 births
1960 deaths
African-American poets
American poets
Writers from Kentucky
Kentucky State University alumni
American women poets
20th-century African-American women
20th-century African-American writers
African-American women writers |
17329484 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Democratic%20Association | Central Democratic Association | The Central Democratic Association, also known as the Democratic Association or the Democrats, was a political party of Chartists which was prominent in Sheffield, England in the mid-nineteenth century.
Establishment
Sheffield Town Council was constituted in 1843. While the town had one of the less restrictive electoral franchises, only ratepayers of three years standing were permitted to vote. Tenants of cottages, including many workers in the city, typically paid their rates indirectly through their landlords and were therefore not permitted to vote. This set-up had been unproblematic until the Council was founded, but was now of concern, as the registered voters were generally the wealthier residents. In 1843, only 5,584 people were registered to vote, and this had risen to 8,000 in 1845.
In 1846, a committee of Chartists in the city met to discuss the problem of voter registration. They decided to focus their campaign for registration by putting up two candidates in the November elections: Thomas Briggs, a farmer, in Brightside in the annual election, and Isaac Ironside, an accountant and former support of Robert Owen, in Ecclesall in a by-election held soon afterwards. Briggs was easily elected, while Ironside won narrowly on a record turnout: 397 votes to 317 for his Liberal rival. Voter registration was also up, reaching 11,500 people.
The Liberals dominated the council, and portrayed the Chartists as socialists, and Ironside as a demagogue. The Liberal press in the shape of the Sheffield Independent was initially supportive, but as the group gain success, became increasingly hostile.
In 1847, Ironside was re-elected in Ecclesall, along with another Chartist councillor. Other Chartists were elected in Brightside, St George's, St Philip's and Nether Hallam wards, and by the end of the year they formed a group of nine councillors. In addition, Richard Otley was elected in Ecclesall, but was unseated because he failed to meet the property qualification. This required councillors to have resources worth £1,000 or to occupy property with a rental value above £30 a year. As a result, the Chartist councillors were mostly shopkeepers and craftsmen, with a couple of surgeons and a farmer. This was not representative of their electorate.
The Chartists joined a campaign against Wilson Overend, a local magistrate accused of anti-trade union bias, and later in the year, initiated a campaign in support of former police constable George Bakewell who had been banished from the town by his superintendent after being accused of stealing a pair of trousers. This campaign was supported by Liberal members of the Watch Committee, annoyed that they had not been consulted.
Policies and organisation
Chartist candidates had to give their broad support to Chartist goals, and in particular had to support universal male suffrage. The group was lightly whipped, a situation much criticised by the Sheffield Independent. Its main planks of policy were opposition to high civic salaries, and opposition to the Sheffield City Police, criticising its organisation and calling for a lower police rate. This was supported by the group's efficient administration of the Ecclesall board of highway surveyors.
In 1848, the Chartists won four of the six wards they contested, and by the end of the year had fifteen councillors. This rose to 22 the following year. They still opted not to run in the Park ward as they lacked registered supporters, but as the voter registration drive gained successes, in 1851 they came a close second to the Liberal, and in 1852 the Liberal association decided to avoid a repeat by adopting the Democrat candidate as official.
By this time, Ironside had become recognised as the leader of the group, and had persuaded the council to set up a health committee and to set up a model farm at Hollow Meadows.
The Chartists set up ward committees which met regularly and were responsible for selecting candidates, canvassing for them and for encouraging supporters to vote. These committees, known as "wardmotes" and open to all "burghers" (loosely defined as the skilled working classes), were inspired by Joshua Toulmin Smith's ideas. In 1851, Ironside formalised the network by launching the Sheffield Free Press as a party newspaper, followed by the Central Democratic Ward Association to co-ordinate the ward committees and decide borough-wide strategy. The Liberals largely failed to imitate these structures.
The Association allowed the wardmotes to select any candidate they chose, and while many were active Democrats, other radicals and independent Chartists were sometimes elected on to their slate. Ironside also saw the wardmotes as a venue for the resolution of local grievances. For example, they took up complaints against pollution and inadequate street maintenance, and even petty crimes. On one occasion, Ironside found five youths disturbing the peace and a wardmote passed a resolution calling for their parents to bring them before the body. When one youth attended the next meeting, he was reprimanded, while the body pressed for summons for the others. Members of the police force and other relevant bodies were also free to attend the wardmotes to justify their actions, and the Democrats were not universally critical of their actions.
By the 1840s, there was a general consensus in the city that a new Act of Parliament was needed to replace the Sheffield Improvement Act 1818. The council opposed the Public Health Act 1848 as centralising, adding expense and placing local boards under central governmental rather than local democratic control. The Chartists also opposed the additional property qualifications it introduced for voters and members of local boards, noting this would disenfranchise many of their supporters.
In 1851, Ironside seconded a council motion to call a public meeting to decide whether a local bill should be applied for that year. The meeting was little-attended, but supported the proposal. The bill claimed for Sheffield a wide range of powers, which would include the absorption of the Church Burgesses and the Town Trustees. These two measures were later dropped in order to minimise Parliamentary opposition. A public meeting was held in December and was dominated by Chartists. They opposed it on the grounds that it did not introduce a universal male franchise for the council, and that it would for the first time impose rates on housing with a rateable value of £7 or less per year. The meeting rejected the bill. Ironside also moved to oppose it, but his change in position alienated both colleagues in favour of it and members who had opposed it from the start.
Later activities
By 1852, the group was sufficiently successful that six of their candidates were elected without opposition, and a further four in contests, giving the group a total of twenty-six councillors. However, not all councillors stuck to the party line, and as a result, a non-Democrat Mayor of Sheffield was elected.
During the 1850s, the Democrats were easily the main opposition on the council. Under their influence, from 1854 to 1857, the council annually voted a petition for parliamentary reform, and also petitioned the monarch on taxation, the Poor Law and county administration. Ironside was the chair of the city's Highways Board from 1852 to 1854, and led a campaign of street paving and laying deep sewers.
Ironside attempted to get Toulmin Smith to stand for the Parliamentary seat of Sheffield at the 1852 general election, but Smith refused. Ironside also became a shareholder in the Sheffield Consumers Gas Company, which engaged in a rivalry with the established Sheffield Gas-Light Company. Disputes over these actions led some former allies to turn against him. In 1853, two former allies organised a campaign against Ironside, and he lost his seat in Ecclesall. He subsequently took a seat in St George's, but in 1854, only two of the nine Democrat candidates were successful, and Ironside again lost his seat.
The Democrats lost influence on the council, but remained influential on the highway and vestry boards. In 1858, they opposed a new bill, sponsored by George Calvert Holland, essentially a more limited version of the 1851 proposal. Ironside's support for former diplomat David Urquhart lost him further support, and by the 1860s, the group was defunct.
References
See also
London Democratic Association
Political parties established in 1846
Politics of Sheffield
1846 establishments in England |
17329496 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic%20Association | Democratic Association | Democratic Association may refer to:
Central Democratic Association
London Democratic Association |
17329502 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vallcarca%20i%20els%20Penitents | Vallcarca i els Penitents | Vallcarca i els Penitents is a neighbourhood in the northernmost part of Gràcia, a district of Barcelona. Locked between two hills, Putget and El Coll, it grew out of a few scattered settlements, namely L'Hostal de la Farigola, Can Falcó, Can Mas and Can Gomis.
The Parish Church, Virgen de Gracia y San José, popularly known as the “Josepets,” is the location of a Traditional Latin Mass, authorised by bishop Reig Casanova in 2021.
Transportation
Barcelona Metro stations Vallcarca and Penitents, both on L3.
See also
Urban planning of Barcelona
Gràcia
Neighbourhoods of Barcelona |
17329535 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook%E2%80%93Bateman%20Farm | Cook–Bateman Farm | The Cook–Bateman Farm is a colonial-era farmstead located at the intersection of Fogland, Puncatest Neck (or Neck) and Pond Bridge Roads in Tiverton, Rhode Island. The property was initially purchased in 1700 and reached its largest size, , in the last 25 years of the 18th century. It currently encompasses of rolling farmland.
The focal point of the farmstead is the 2 1/2 story house,, the oldest portion of which dates to c.1730–48, while the north kitchen was constructed or rebuilt c.1812-20. Both are now covered by the Second Empire high mansard rook, which was added c.1870. Also on the property is a gambrel-roofed frame barn dating from the late 19th or early 20th century; a two-story hip-roofed frame structure which might be the oldest building in the farmstead, possibly a heabily-altered original farm building from c.1700; a "farmers house"; and a number of other smaller outbuildings.
The property, which has evidence of earlier Native American occupation, including arrowheads and stone tools found in the fields, was purchased by John Cook in 1700, and remained in the hands of just two families for more than 200 years, until 1977.
The farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Newport County, Rhode Island
References
External links
Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island
Houses in Newport County, Rhode Island
Buildings and structures in Tiverton, Rhode Island
National Register of Historic Places in Newport County, Rhode Island |
17329548 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holger%20Nikelis | Holger Nikelis | Holger Nikelis (born 15 January 1978) is a German table tennis player. He won a gold medal in the singles event and a bronze in the team event at the 2004 Summer Paralympics. He has also won other medals and championships in disabled table tennis. He was world number one in his category in September 2013.
References
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1978 births
Living people
German male table tennis players
Paralympic table tennis players of Germany
Paralympic gold medalists for Germany
Paralympic bronze medalists for Germany
Paralympic medalists in table tennis
Table tennis players at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
Table tennis players at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
Sportspeople from Cologne
20th-century German people |
17329552 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%20gunboat%20Marques%20del%20Duero | Spanish gunboat Marques del Duero | Marques del Duero was a of the Spanish Navy which fought in the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish–American War.
Technical characteristics
Marques del Duero was a first-class gunboat, or "aviso", built by La Seyne in France. She was laid down on 20 January 1875, launched on 3 May 1875, and completed the same year. She was designed to fight against the Carlists in the Mediterranean and the Bay of Biscay during the Third Carlist War, patrolling off Carlist ports to intercept contraband and blockade the ports, and also providing despatch services between Spanish Navy forces operating off various ports, hence her Spanish designation of aviso, meaning "warning." She had an iron hull with a very prominent ram bow, was coal-fired, was rigged as a schooner, and could carry 89 tons of coal. She was reclassified as a third-class gunboat in 1895.
Operational history
The Spanish took delivery of Marques del Duero from her French builders at Marseilles, France. She set out on her first operational deployment from Marseilles on 27 July 1875, heading for San Sebastián Bay in northern Spain for blockade, patrol, and despatch duty. She served there beyond the end of the Third Carlist War on 27 February 1876, finally leaving after Spanish naval forces there began to leave for postwar duties after 5 April 1876.
On 29 July 1876, Marques del Duero departed Spain for the Philippines, where she was based at Zamboanga, assigned to the South Division of the Asiatic Squadron.
On 24 July 1880, Marques del Duero left Philippine waters for courtesy visits to the kings of Siam and Annam at Saigon and Singapore.
On 27 September 1895, Marques del Duero captured several pirate launches manned by Moros in Borneo. She later attacked a group of Moro and Tagalog pirates, killing 18 and wounding 30.
Marques del Duero was the oldest member of Rear Admiral Patricio Montojo de Pasaron's Pacific Squadron at Manila in the Philippine Islands when the Spanish–American War broke out in April 1898. She was anchored with the squadron in Cañacao Bay under the lee of the Cavite Peninsula east of Sangley Point, Luzon, eight miles southwest of Manila, when, early on the morning of 1 May 1898, the United States Navy's Asiatic Squadron under Commodore George Dewey, found Montojo's anchorage and attacked. In the resulting Battle of Manila Bay, the first major engagement of the Spanish–American War, Marques del Duero took one , one , and about three other shell hits, which wrecked her bow gun, a side gun, and an engine. Her crew scuttled her in shallow water; part of her upper works remained above water, and a boarding crew from the gunboat went aboard and set these on fire at the end of battle.
After the war, a U.S. Navy salvage team raised and repaired Marques del Duero. She served briefly in the U.S. Navy as USS P-17, but was decommissioned and scrapped in 1900.
Notes
References
Chesneau, Roger, and Eugene M. Kolesnik, Eds. Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. New York, New York: Mayflower Books Inc., 1979. .
Nofi, Albert A. The Spanish–American War. Conshohocken, Pennsylvania: Combined Books Inc., 1996. .
External links
The Spanish–American War Centennial Website: Marques del Duero
Gunboats of Spain
Ships of the Spanish Navy
1875 ships
Ships built in France
Spanish–American War gunboats of Spain
Maritime incidents in 1898
Scuttled vessels
Shipwrecks of the Spanish–American War
Shipwrecks in the South China Sea
Shipwrecks of the Philippines |
6902736 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20defunct%20NASCAR%20teams | List of defunct NASCAR teams | The following is a list of notable NASCAR teams that have officially closed down, with their last team name and driver. The list does not contain teams that have temporarily suspended operations. For those, see List of NASCAR teams. Some teams that are listed here no longer run that particular series, but may still be active in another series.
NASCAR Cup Series
Xfinity Series
AP Performance Racing
A.J. Foyt Racing
Alumni Motorsports
Andy Petree Racing
BACE Motorsports
Bang! Racing
BLV Motorsports
Bost Motorsports
Carroll Racing
Chance 2 Motorsports
Chip Ganassi Racing
Clay Andrews Racing
Dale Earnhardt, Inc.
DF2 Motorsports
Doug Taylor Motorsports
Emerald Performance Group
FILMAR Racing
Ginn Racing
Glynn Motorsports
Hendrick Motorsports
Hensley Motorsports
Hillin Racing
Herzog Motorsports
Hispanic Racing Team
Innovative Motorsports
J&J Racing
JG Motorsports
Jim & Judie Motorsports
Joe Bessey Racing
Keith Coleman Racing
Kevin Harvick Incorporated
Labonte Motorsports
Larry Hedrick Motorsports
Lockamy Racing
Marsh Racing
Michael Waltrip Racing
Moy Racing
NorthStar Motorsports
Parker Racing
Precision Performance Motorsports
Roush Fenway Racing
Second Chance Motorsports
Shoemaker Racing
Spencer Motor Ventures
Team Bristol Motorsports
Washington-Erving Motorsports
Whitaker Racing
Xpress Motorsports
Gander Outdoors Truck Series
Addington Racing
Andy Petree Racing
Bang! Racing
BKR Racing
Brad Keselowski Racing
Clean Line Racing
CJ Racing
Dale Earnhardt, Inc.
Faith Motorsports
Fiddleback Racing
Germain Racing
Glynn Motorsports
Hendrick Motorsports
Joe Gibbs Racing
Kevin Harvick Incorporated
Impact Motorsports
Innovative Motorsports
Joe Gibbs Racing
JR Motorsports
MacDonald Motorsports
Mansion Motorsports
McGlynn Racing
Petty Enterprises
Phelon Racing
Red Horse Racing
Richard Childress Racing
Richardson Motorsports
Roadrunner Motorsports
Roehig Racing
Roush Fenway Racing
South Point Racing
Spears Motorsports
Sutton Motorsports
Tagsby Racing
Team EJP Racing
Team Rensi Motorsports
TKO Motorsports
Ultra Motorsports
Ware Racing Enterprises
Woodard Racing
Victory in Jesus Racing
Other series
Brad Jones Racing
Garry Rogers Motorsport
NASCAR teams, defunct
NASCAR teams |
17329566 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995%20NHK%20Trophy | 1995 NHK Trophy | The 1995 NHK Trophy was the final event of five in the 1995–96 ISU Champions Series, a senior-level international invitational competition series. This was the inaugural year of that series. It was held in Nagoya on December 7–10. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 1995–96 Champions Series Final.
Results
Men
Ladies
Pairs
Ice dancing
External links
1995 NHK Trophy
Nhk Trophy, 1995
NHK Trophy |
17329587 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleotide%20universal%20IDentifier | Nucleotide universal IDentifier | The nucleotide universal IDentifier (nuID) in molecular biology, is designed to uniquely and globally identify oligonucleotide microarray probes.
Background
Oligonucleotide probes of microarrays that are sequence identical may have different identifiers between manufacturers and even between different versions of the same company's microarray; and sometimes the same identifier is reused and represents a completely different oligonucleotide, resulting in ambiguity and potentially mis-identification of the genes hybridizing to that probe. This also makes data interpretation and integration of different batches of data difficult. nuID was designed to solve these problems. It is a unique, non-degenerate encoding scheme that can be used as a universal representation to identify an oligonucleotide across manufacturers. The design of nuID was inspired by the fact that the raw sequence of the oligonucleotide is the true definition of identity for a probe, the encoding algorithm uniquely and non-degenerately transforms the sequence itself into a compact identifier (a lossless compression). In addition, a redundancy check (checksum) was added to validate the integrity of the identifier. These two steps, encoding plus checksum, result in an nuID, which is a unique, non-degenerate, permanent, robust and efficient representation of the probe sequence. For commercial applications that require the sequence identity to be confidential, encryption schema can also be added for nuID. The utility of nuIDs has been implemented for the annotation of Illumina microarrays, which can be downloaded from Bioconductor website . It also has universal applicability as a source-independent naming convention for oligomers.
The nuID schema has three significant advantages over using the oligo sequence directly as an identifier: first it is more compact due to the base-64 encoding; second, it has a built-in error detection and self-identification; and third, it can be encrypted in cases where the sequences are preferred not to be disclosed. For more details, please refer to the nuID paper. The implementation nuID encoding and decoding algorithms can be found in the lumi package or at
See also
Illumina Inc. and its beadArray technology
lumi Bioconductor package of processing Illumina expression microarray
References
External links
nuID annotation website
Official Lumi Website
Official Bioconductor Website
Microarrays |
6902741 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Son | European Son | "European Son" is a song written and performed by the American experimental rock band The Velvet Underground. It appears as the final track on their 1967 debut album The Velvet Underground & Nico. It is also the album's longest track at more than seven and a half minutes.
The song could be seen as a precursor to the band's next album White Light/White Heat and certainly to the song "Sister Ray", a seventeen-minute-long rock improvisation.
Composition
"European Son" is dedicated by the band to Delmore Schwartz, the poet who had been literary mentor of singer Lou Reed at Syracuse University. Wanting to dedicate a song to Schwartz, "European Son" was chosen because it had the fewest lyrics (rock-and-roll lyrics being something Schwartz abhorred). The first pressing of The Velvet Underground & Nico referred to the song as "European Son (to Delmore Schwartz)".
The song was recorded in April 1966, and Schwartz died alone in Manhattan three months later on July 14. According to musicologist Richard Witts, the song "reads like little more than a song of loathing" to Schwartz, who refused to see Reed while living out his last days in seclusion at a rundown midtown New York hotel. Witts highlighted obscure personal details in lyrics such as "You made your wallpapers green" and found the Dylanesque "hey, hey, bye bye bye" lyric to bid "a malicious farewell to its subject".
Recording
The song begins with two stanzas of lyrics sung by Lou Reed over a D major chord and walking bass line, then after the first minute or so a loud crash is heard (caused by John Cale hitting a stack of plates with a metal chair). There follows a six-minute instrumental improvisation, making use of distortion and feedback.
Personnel
Lou Reed – vocals, guitar, sound effects
John Cale – bass, sound effects
Sterling Morrison – guitar
Maureen Tucker – percussion
Covers
Half Japanese on their 1984 album Our Solar System.
Thurston Moore on the 1988 compilation album The End of Music as We Know It.
Gary Lucas on his 2000 album Street of Lost Brothers.
Iggy Pop and Matt Sweeney on the 2021 compilation tribute album I’ll Be Your Mirror
Other information
The song inspired the German experimental rock band Can. Its influence can especially be heard in the song "Father Cannot Yell", the lead track of Can's 1969 album Monster Movie, in which Holger Czukay plays a similar bassline.
A slowed-down version of the song's bassline (originally played by John Cale) appears on "Moby Octopad" by Yo La Tengo.
Simple Minds recorded a song entitled "European Son" on a demo tape, which was released on CD on The Early Years: 1977-1978. The band Japan also recorded a song with the title "European Son". Both these bands titled the song in tribute to the Velvet Underground song, and have covered other songs by the band (both covering "All Tomorrow's Parties", for one), but neither "European Son" is a cover of the Velvet Underground song.
References
The Velvet Underground songs
Songs written by Lou Reed
Experimental rock songs
Songs written by John Cale
1966 songs |
6902752 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27ll%20Be%20Your%20Mirror | I'll Be Your Mirror | "I'll Be Your Mirror" is a song by the Velvet Underground and Nico. It appeared on their 1967 debut album The Velvet Underground & Nico. It also surfaced as a single a year earlier with "All Tomorrow's Parties" in 1966.
Lou Reed wrote the song for Nico, who provides lead vocals. According to biographer Victor Bockris, inspiration for the song came about after Nico approached Reed after a show in 1965 saying, "Oh Lou, I'll be your mirror." The song was a favorite of Reed's and The Velvet Underground & Nico engineer, Norman Dolph.
Mark Deming of AllMusic described "I'll Be Your Mirror" as an "understated love song."
Recording
"I'll Be Your Mirror" was the most difficult for Nico to record, as the band wanted her to provide slender, delicate vocals for the song, yet she would sing louder, more aggressive vocals take after take. Sterling Morrison described the ordeal in an interview:
The members of the band enjoyed her particular performance on the song so much that after she left the band in late 1967, live vocals for the song were done imitating Nico's accent.
Mentor and manager Andy Warhol suggested that the album have a built-in scratch in it so the line "I'll be your mirror" would repeat infinitely on a record player until the listener moved the needle themself, but nothing ever came of this idea.
Personnel
Nico – lead vocals
Lou Reed – lead guitar
John Cale – bass guitar
Sterling Morrison – lead guitar
Maureen Tucker – tambourine
Alternate versions
Scepter Studios, April 1966
A different mix of the song appears on the acetate cut of the Scepter Studios session, with an alternate track of more aggressive lead vocals by Nico. She also sings "to show that you're home" at the end of the second verse rather than "so you won't be afraid". The backing vocals that sing "reflect what you are" also are almost inaudible on this version of the song, and the guitar is louder.
Single version, July 1966
A 45 rpm single version of the song was released in July 1966 with "All Tomorrow's Parties". The single is identical to the album cut except that it does not fade out at the end. Instead, it goes on for about five seconds ending with a guitar chord. This version of the song later became available in 2002 on the "Deluxe Edition" of The Velvet Underground & Nico.
References
1966 songs
The Velvet Underground songs
Nico songs
Psychedelic songs
Songs written by Lou Reed
1966 singles
Verve Records singles |
6902758 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%20She%20Goes%20Again | There She Goes Again | "There She Goes Again" is a song by The Velvet Underground. It first appeared on their 1967 debut album, The Velvet Underground & Nico. The syncopated guitar riff is taken from the 1962 Marvin Gaye song "Hitch Hike". Guitarist Sterling Morrison has stated:
Metronomically, we were a pretty accurate band. If we were speeding up or slowing down, it was by design. If you listen to the solo break on "There She Goes Again," it slows down—slower and slower and slower. And then when it comes back into the "bye-bye-byes" it's double the original tempo, a tremendous leap to twice the speed.
Other artists have recorded the song, including R.E.M., who recorded it as a B-side on their 1983 single "Radio Free Europe" (and appeared on their B-side compilation Dead Letter Office in 1987). It was also included as a bonus track on the 1993 re-release of R.E.M.'s 1983 album Murmur.
Personnel
Lou Reed – lead vocals, lead guitar
John Cale – bass, backing vocals
Sterling Morrison – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
Maureen Tucker – percussion
References
1966 songs
The Velvet Underground songs
Songs written by Lou Reed
R.E.M. songs
Jangle pop songs |
17329600 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronautalis | Astronautalis | Charles Andrew Bothwell (born December 13, 1981), better known by his stage name Astronautalis, is an American alternative hip hop artist currently based in Brooklyn, New York.
History
After gaining some recognition in local circles in Jacksonville, Florida and competing at Scribble Jam, Astronautalis self-released his debut album, You and Yer Good Ideas, in 2003. He eventually signed with Fighting Records and the record was re-released in 2005, followed by his second album, The Mighty Ocean and Nine Dark Theaters, in 2006. He released the third album, Pomegranate, on Eyeball Records in 2008. In winter 2009, he toured with the Canadian indie rock band Tegan and Sara through Europe, and supported them again through the spring of 2010 in Australia. His fourth album, This Is Our Science, was released on Fake Four Inc. in 2011. His latest release, Cut the Body Loose, was released in 2016.
Astronautalis is a descendant of James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, which is one of the reasons why his lyrics often deal with historical fiction.
Style
Astronautalis has been described as "if Beck were a decade or so younger and had grown up more heavily immersed in hip-hop," with his rapping style noted for "blending styles of indie rock, electro, and talkin’ blues" with hip-hop. He has described himself as "historical fiction hip-hop."
During live performances, Astronautalis often performs a freestyle rap based on topics chosen by members of his audience.
Controversies
In June 2020 Astronautalis was accused of sexual assault and physical abuse by a number of accounts on Instagram and Twitter. Astronautalis released a response admitting to this abuse and has since deleted all of his tweets and made his account private.
Discography
Studio albums
You and Yer Good Ideas (self-released, 2003; Fighting, 2005)
The Mighty Ocean & Nine Dark Theaters (Fighting, 2006)
Pomegranate (Eyeball, 2008)
This Is Our Science (Fake Four Inc., 2011)
Cut the Body Loose (SideOneDummy, 2016)
Collaborative albums
6666 (with P.O.S, as Four Fists) (2018)
De Oro (Totally Gross National Product, 2014) (with S. Carey, Ryan Olson & Justin Vernon, as Jason Feathers)
Mixtapes
Dancehall Horn Sound!! (2010) (with DJ Fishr Pryce)
EPs
Meet Me Here (2004)
Texas Kinda Rhymes With Sexist (2005)
A Round Trip Ticket to China (2006)
Split EP (2006) (with Babel Fishh)
Gold Bones (2007)
Dang! Seven Freestyles in Seven Days (2008)
The Unfortunate Affairs of Mary and Earl (2008)
The Young Capitalist's Starter Kit (2008)
Daytrotter Sessions (2011)
This City Ain't Just a Skyline (2013)
SIKE! (2016)
Singles
"This Is the Place" (2013) (with Sims)
"The Rainmakers" b/w "Fallen Streets" (2013) (with Rickolus)
"MMMMMHMMMMM" b/w "Please Go" (2013) (with P.O.S, as Four Fists)
"The Dirt Bike" (2017)
"Sick" (2017)
"These Songs" (2017)
"Bella Ciao" (2020)
Vinyl releases
You and Yer Good Ideas (2003) [Dual 12' Vinyl: Black]
Split Series Vol. 2 (2006) (with BabelFishh]) [12' Vinyl: 500 Black]
Pomegranate (2008) [12' Vinyl: Black, Ltd: White]
This Is Our Science (2011) [12' Vinyl: Black]
Astronautalis & Rickolus (2013) (with Rickolus) [1st Pressing: 100 Mixed Color (Hand-Numbered), 150 Red, 150 White, 250 Black; 2nd Pressing: 175 Lavender, 175 Blue]
Four Fists (2013) (with P.O.S) [500 Clear, 500 Red, 500 White, 500 Blue]
Double Exposure Vol 3. (2013) (with Chuck Ragan) [100 Blue, 200 White, 300 Red, 400 Black]
The Mighty Ocean & Nine Dark Theaters (2015) [Dual 12' Vinyl: 500 Swirled blue/white/clear]
Guest appearances & production credits
Guest appearances
Scott Da Ros - "They Made Me Do It" (2005)
Brzowski - "Roll My Bones" from Maryshelleyoverdrive (2005)
Input - "Now and Never More" from Elusive Candor (2006)
Noah23 - "They Made Me Do It" from Cameo Therapy (2007)
P.O.S - "Hand Made Hand Gun" from Never Better (2009)
Otem Rellik - "Warm Pockets" from Chain Reaction Robot (2008)
Oskar Ohlson - "Sea of Grass" from Honk, Bang, Whistle and Crash (2008)
Sole and the Skyrider Band - "A Sad Day for Investors" from Sole and the Skyrider Band Remix LP (2009)
Sole - "Swagger Like Us" & "Juicy" from Nuclear Winter Volume 1 (2009)
Ceschi – "No New York" from The One Man Band Broke Up (2010)
Zoën - "Be Careful What You Wish For" from One Night Between (2010)
Mild Davis - "Prince of Mayport" from Bro-Sesh: Volume 1 (2010)
Andrre - "Learn to Listen" and "Keeping Memory Alive" from Learn to Love (2011)
The Hood Internet - "Our Finest China" from FEAT (2012)
Bleubird - "Hello Hollow" from Cannonball!!! (2012)
Marijuana Deathsquads - "Top Down" from Tamper Disable Destroy (2012)
P.O.S - "Wanted Wasted" from We Don't Even Live Here (2012)
Input & Broken - "When Darkness Looms" from Never Heard of Ya (2012)
Myka 9 & Factor - "Bask In These Rays" from Sovereign Soul (2012)
Culture Cry Wolf - "That's the Breaks" from The Sapient Sessions EP (2013)
Factor - "Let It Go" from Woke Up Alone (2013)
Sadistik - "Exit Theme" from Flowers for My Father (2013)
Giant Gorilla Dog Thing - "Bandaids Over Bulletholes" from Horse (2014)
Noize MC - "Hard Reboot" from Hard Reboot (2014)
P.O.S. - "Sleepdrone/Superposition" from "Chill, dummy" (2017)
Factor Chandelier - "Scratch-Off Lotto Tickets" from "Wisdom Teeth" (2018)
Ceschi - "Any War" from "Sad, Fat Luck" (2019)
Hurricane Party - "Kon@" from "Juice" (2019)
Production credits
Bleubird – Cannonball!!! (2012)
Videography
Trouble Hunters (2009)
The Wondersmith and His Sons (2010)
Contrails (2011)
This Is Our Science (2012)
Dimitri Mendeleev (2013)
SIKE! (2016)
Running Away From God (2016)
Kurt Cobain (2016)
Forest Fire (2017)
References
External links
Featured on MN Original Program from St. Paul, MN PBS Station: MN Original Video
21st-century American singers
1981 births
American hip hop record producers
American male rappers
Living people
Musicians from Jacksonville, Florida
Rappers from Florida
Rappers from Minneapolis
Underground rappers
21st-century American rappers
21st-century American male singers |
17329612 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Arbuthnot | Michael Arbuthnot | Michael Alexander Arbuthnot (born 9 June 1970) is an archaeologist, instructor and archaeological filmmaker.
Education and awards
Michael A. Arbuthnot received his bachelor's degree in Philosophy and minor in Anthropology from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1996. He holds a master's degree in Anthropology from Florida State University. He specialized in underwater archaeology and graduated magna cum laude.
Arbuthnot is an active member in many professional organizations, including: the Registry of Professional Archaeologists (RPA); the Florida Archaeological Council (FAC); the Southeastern Archaeological Conference (SEAC); the Florida Anthropological Society (FAS); the American Academy of Underwater Sciences (AAUS); and the St. Augustine Archaeological Association (SAAA).
In addition to being the author of many published articles and papers, Arbuthnot is considered an authority on submerged prehistoric sites. He focused his thesis on paleo-environmental change and the impact it has on archaeological sites in the Gulf of Mexico.
Arbuthnot's research has been presented at many conferences, including the Society for American Archaeology, the Northeast Florida Symposium on Underwater Archaeology, the annual meeting of the Florida Anthropological Society, and the Southeastern Archaeological Conference. The results of his research in the Caribbean are now exhibited at the George Town Museum on Grand Cayman Island.
Titanic
Michael Arbuthnot is currently a faculty member at Flagler College, located in historic downtown St. Augustine, Florida. There, he teaches his students about the fascinating world of archaeology, which included a field expedition to the RMS Titanic. He hopes to set aside the boring impression people have of archaeology, saying, “People have this idea of archaeologists sitting there with a brush and a toothpick, but it can be exciting.”
Arbuthnot's trip to the Titanic took him 12,600 feet below the ocean's surface. James Cameron, the producer, writer, and director of the movie “Titanic” recruited Arbuthnot in 2005 to work on the first systematic archeological survey of Titanic's internal bow structure. Findings from this survey were shown in the Discovery Channel special “Last Mysteries of the Titanic” and will exhibited as part of the Titanic Legacy Database Project presently in development with the non-profit digital historic preservation organization, CyArk.
Team Atlantis
Arbuthnot founded Team Atlantis Productions in 1996. The name, of course, is a play on the mythical underwater city of Atlantis. Arbuthnot defines Team Atlantis, saying, “TA is a multi-disciplinary outfit whose mission is to explore archeological mysteries with an emphasis on those enigmas associated with underwater contexts.” Because underwater archeological sites usually have some connection with sites on land, Team Atlantis is not restricted to only underwater locations.
Team Atlantis has explored and surveyed many sites around the world, including:
Egypt (1996): Here, Arbuthnot and his team traveled extensively along the Giza Plateau. Arbuthnot developed his Orion Pyramid Theory while in Egypt.
Grand Cayman Island, Caribbean (1997): Arbuthnot participated in the mapping of the remains of the Geneva Kathleen, a schooner that sank in 1930.
Yonaguni, Japan (1998): In Japan, Arbuthnot organized an expedition that examined the Yonaguni Monument and created a film documentary of the experience.
Cat Island, Bahamas (2000): Team Atlantis journeyed to the Bahamas to explore the possibility of ancient shorelines submerged in the shallow water of the Great Bahama Bank.
The Gulf of Mexico (2000): Arbuthnot and other members of Florida State University's Program in Underwater Archaeology excavated submerged prehistoric sites and shipwrecks under the direction of Dr. Michael Faught.
Yucatán, Mexico (2000): Team Atlantis explored Mayan ruins at Tulum and Chichen Itza and digitally documented their trip.
La Jolla in San Diego, California (2005): Underwater artifacts were first discovered here in the early 1900s. Team Atlantis decided to make a trip to California to investigate. The team discovered a total of six artifacts, including a stone bowl, dated 4000 to 7000 years ago. This contributes to the already over 2000 artifacts recovered in this area of at least 34 submerged sites.
More about La Jolla
Team Atlantis Productions plan to open the eyes of the public to archaeological mysteries off the coast of San Diego through their show, “La Jolla’s Sunken City.” Michael Arbuthnot, the Writer/Producer of the show, paired with Director/Editor David Faires, to take underwater cinematography to new depths.
“Not only is Mike Arbuthnot the Writer/Producer, but he is rapidly becoming one of the most recognizable archaeologists in the United States. As a young professional archaeologist and former college professor, Arbuthnot has been featured on ABC, Discovery Channel and the Learning Channel. Most recently Arbuthnot conducted the first archaeological survey of the famous shipwreck R.M.S. Titanic with film maker and explorer James Cameron on Discovery Channel’s televised event, Last Mysteries of the Titanic. He continues to excite audiences and historians alike by blending ancient history and archaeology with filmmaking.”
As stated previously, artifacts were first found in the early 1900s. Children would return to the shore from playing in the shallow water with small stone bowls. Scuba diving became increasingly popular in the 1950s, leading to more exploring around La Jolla. Due to this exploration, more than 2000 artifacts have been recovered. Some date to more than 5000 years ago. At least 34 submerged sites have been discovered in places as deep as 30 meters. Some scientists believe that La Jolla is an entire sunken village. In “La Jolla’s Sunken City,” Arbuthnot and Faires explore several hypotheses concerning how these objects were originally deposited, and they reveal never before seen artifacts.
Arbuthnot had trouble at the beginning of the expedition, but was eventually successful in finding artifacts at La Jolla. According to the CineForm article on La Jolla:
Their success was aided by the help of a small octopus. A diver was tracking it, when the octopus stopped behind a round stone. This ‘stone’ turned out to be a beautiful stone bowl, which eventually led the team to discovering a total of six artifacts in 20 feet of water. Arbuthnot speculates that these ancient finds date to between 4,000 and 7,000 years ago!
Currently
Arbuthnot has worked on underwater archaeology projects in Florida, North Carolina, Georgia, and the Caribbean since 1997. He has surveyed, mapped, excavated, interpreted and analyzed artifacts, and published reports on a variety of diverse archaeological sites. He continues his work, based mainly in Florida. He also functions as Newsletter Editor for the Florida Archaeological Council.
Arbuthnot presently serves as a Senior Project Manager for SEARCH, a leading cultural resource company based in Florida.
Arbuthnot is working with the Discovery Channel to create the television show "America's Lost Vikings", about the location of the mythical Viking Vinland, and where they may have settled along Canada and the United States.
Secret Worlds with Michael Arbuthnot
Arbuthnot's documentary Secret Worlds with Mike Arbuthnot began airing on the travel channel in 2010.
Family
Born in Oakland, California, son of Robert Murray Arbuthnot, Michael is married to Serena Lynn Conrad who had two sons by her first marriage. They live in St Augustine, Florida.
References
1974 births
Living people
American archaeologists
American underwater divers
People from Oakland, California
Underwater archaeologists
University of California, Santa Barbara alumni
Florida State University alumni |
17329625 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monna%20Bell | Monna Bell | Ana Nora Escobar (January 5, 1938 – April 21, 2008), known professionally as Monna Bell, was a Chilean singer who enjoyed a successful career in Spain, Mexico and other parts of Latin America. She was reportedly one of Juan Gabriel's muses. Bell was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1938. In the mid-1950s, she was barely in her teens when she won a talent contest held at Radio Mineria in Santiago, one of the most popular radio stations, and became a regular at the station's live broadcasts. Her voice caught the attention of band leader Roberto Inglez who, in 1956, hired her as a vocalist for his group and took her on a three-week gig at New York's Waldorf Astoria. They went over so well that the band and its brand new singer stayed for a year. Next they toured Europe and in Madrid Monna had such a phenomenal reception that she decided to go solo becoming a big sensation at the Pasapoga, the city's most fashionable night club.
In 1959 she performed a jazzy novelty tune titled "Un Telegrama" at the First Benidorm International Song Festival. The song won all the top awards and became an international major hit when Monna recorded it for the Hispavox label. It was the first of many hits that made her a recording sensation both in Europe and Latin America. She toured the world and decided to settle down in Mexico where she branched out into films and married cinematographer Alex Phillips Jr. It was not an enduring marriage but it produced daughter Jennifer and son Alex III who is currently a rock musician.
In the late 1960s she continued recording highly successful albums for the Musart label and did a lot of television work in Mexico and abroad. In the 1970s she signed with Orfeon and her recordings began suffering due to mediocre material and backing, however she continued touring on the strength of her old hits. By the 1980s her career was over and she decided to retire. Singer-composer Juan Gabriel tried to remedy the situation by writing and producing Monna Bell Ahora, an album released in 1993 by Sony which went nowhere. Monna went back to retirement and in the 2000s moved next to her daughter in Tijuana, Baja California.
Diehard fans kept waiting for a successful return but their hopes where crushed when the singer died of cardiac arrest after a successful colon cancer surgery on April 21, 2008. After her death many of her old recordings were released in CD format and are the best witness of Monna Bell's greatness as one of the most creative Latin singers in history. Pedro Almodóvar used one of Bell's songs, "Estaba Escrito", in his 1980 film, Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls on the Heap (Pepi, Luci, Bom Y Otras Chicas Del Monton).
Death
Monna Bell died of a stroke on April 21, 2008, in Tijuana, Mexico, at the age of 70.
References
External links
Chilean Singer Monna Bell, Dead at 70
El Economista: Monna Bell, muse of Juan Gabriel, dies
A Tribute to Monna Bell
1938 births
2008 deaths
People from Santiago
People from Tijuana
20th-century Chilean women singers |
17329694 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wreck%20Sites%20of%20HMS%20Cerberus%20and%20HMS%20Lark | Wreck Sites of HMS Cerberus and HMS Lark | The Wreck Sites of HMS Cerberus and HMS Lark are located in the waters of Narragansett Bay on the west side of Aquidneck Island near South Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
History
HMS Cerberus was a frigate of the Royal Navy built in 1758 and carrying 28 guns. HMS Lark, also a frigate, was built in 1762 and carried 32 guns. Cerberus had been stationed off Rhode Island as part of a blockade of its ports since April 1776, and was joined by Lark in February 1777. Upon the arrival of a large French fleet off Narragansett Bay in late July 1778, the two ships were among the twenty British vessels in the bay which were then tasked to defend British-occupied Newport. Stationed in the northern stretch of the East Passage (separating Aquidneck and Conanicut Islands), the two ships were ordered to Newport, with instructions to not surrender to the enemy. While en route to Newport on August 5, the two ships were sighted by French ships of the line. On 8, the 64-gun Fantasque and the frigates Aimable, Chimère and Engageante, under Pierre André de Suffren, entered the Bay. Rather than engage on a lopsided battle that would have ended in their surrender, the two captains decided to scuttle their ships. Captain Symonds ran Cerberus aground, put the crew ashore, and set fire to the ship, while Captain White did the same with Lark. Two other British frigates, Orpheus and Juno, suffered the same fate. When Larks gunpowder magazine was reached by the flames, it exploded, sending debris flying for miles around.
The wrecks of all four ships lay essentially undisturbed until the 1970s, when an archaeological team located portions of Lark, Cerberus, and Orpheus. As of 2008, the full extent of the wreck sites has not been established, and only fragmentary evidence of the ships has been recovered.
The site of the wrecks of Cerberus and Lark was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Newport County, Rhode Island
Other military sites associated with the 1778 French expedition to Newport:
Battle of Rhode Island Site
Conanicut Battery
Fort Barton
References
References
Bibliography
Shipwrecks of the Rhode Island coast
Portsmouth, Rhode Island
Maritime incidents in 1778
Shipwrecks on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island |
17329709 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982%20Calder%20Cup%20playoffs | 1982 Calder Cup playoffs | The 1982 Calder Cup playoffs of the American Hockey League began on April 7, 1982. The eight teams that qualified played best-of-five series for Division Semifinals and best-of-seven series for Division Finals. The division champions played a best-of-seven series for the Calder Cup. The Calder Cup Final ended on May 10, 1982, with the New Brunswick Hawks defeating the Binghamton Whalers four games to one to win the Calder Cup for the only time in team history.
Playoff seeds
After the 1981–82 AHL regular season, the top four teams from each division qualified for the playoffs. However, since the fifth-placed team of the Southern division (Adirondack) earned more points than the fourth-placed team in the Northern division (Springfield), Adirondack played in the Northern division portion of the bracket in place of Springfield. The New Brunswick Hawks finished the regular season with the best overall record.
Northern Division
New Brunswick Hawks - 107 points
Maine Mariners - 101 points
Nova Scotia Voyageurs - 80 points
Southern Division
Binghamton Whalers - 98 points
Rochester Americans - 89 points
New Haven Nighthawks - 86 points
Hershey Bears - 78 points
Adirondack Red Wings - 77 points (Played in the Northern division part of the bracket in place of Springfield due to earning more points during the regular season.)
Bracket
In each round, the team that earned more points during the regular season receives home ice advantage, meaning they receive the "extra" game on home-ice if the series reaches the maximum number of games. There is no set series format due to arena scheduling conflicts and travel considerations.
Division Semifinals
Note 1: Home team is listed first.
Note 2: The number of overtime periods played (where applicable) is not indicated
Northern Division
(N1) New Brunswick Hawks vs. (S5) Adirondack Red Wings
(N2) Maine Mariners vs. (N3) Nova Scotia Voyageurs
Southern Division
(S1) Binghamton Whalers vs. (S4) Hershey Bears
(S2) Rochester Americans vs. (S3) New Haven Nighthawks
Division Finals
Northern Division
(N1) New Brunswick Hawks vs. (N3) Nova Scotia Voyageurs
Southern Division
(S1) Binghamton Whalers vs. (S2) Rochester Americans
Calder Cup Final
(N1) New Brunswick Hawks vs. (S1) Binghamton Whalers
See also
1981–82 AHL season
List of AHL seasons
References
Calder Cup
Calder Cup playoffs |
20466156 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%20Campeonato%20Ecuatoriano%20de%20F%C3%BAtbol%20Serie%20A | 2009 Campeonato Ecuatoriano de Fútbol Serie A | The 2009 Campeonato Ecuatoriano de Fútbol de la Serie A was the 51st season of the Serie A, Ecuador's premier football league. The season began on January 31 and ended on December 7. Deportivo Quito successfully defended their title for their fourth overall.
Owing to a change in sponsorship from Pilsener to Credife, the tournament will be called the Copa Credife Serie A for the next three years until 2011.
Format
For 2009, a new format was introduced and approved by Ecuadorian Football Federation. The new tournament was divided into four stages, as opposed to the usual three. All matches were scheduled to be played on Sundays, but some were moved at the clubs' requests.
The First Stage was a double round-robin tournament in which the twelve teams played against each other teams twice: once at home and once away. At the end of the stage, the top-four teams with the most points qualified to the Third Stage; the top three earned bonus points (3, 2, & 1 respectively). The top-two teams also qualified to the 2009 Copa Sudamericana.
In the Second Stage, the teams were divided into two groups of six. Groups were formed by draw, but did not have no more than one team from each provincial organization (the exception being Pichincha). The teams played within their groups in a double round-robin tournament and in a local derby (). The derbies were played on the third and seventh match day of the stage.
Clásicos
Pichincha team 1 vs. Pichincha team 3
Pichincha team 2 vs. Pichincha team 4
Guayas team 1 vs. Guayas team 2
Manabí team 1 vs. Manabí team 2
Tungurahua team 1 vs. Tungurahua team 2
Azuay team vs. Chimborazo team
At the end of this stage, the two-top teams from each group qualified to the Third Stage; the top team in each group earned one bonus point for the Third Stage. The two teams with the fewest points in the First and Second Stage aggregate table were relegated to the Serie B for the next season.
In the Third Stage, the eight qualified teams were placed into two groups of four depending on their position on the aggregate table.
Group 1: 1st, 4th, 5th, 8th
Group 2: 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 7th
The top two teams from each group will advance to the Fourth Stage.
The Fourth Stage will consist of two head-to-head match-ups: one by the top-finisher of each group in the Third Stage, and the other by the runners-up. The match between the top finishers in the Third Stage will determine the national champion; the other will determine who finished third and fourth. The national champion, runner-up, and third-place finisher will each have a berth in the 2010 Copa Libertadores. The Ecuador 1 berth will go to the national champion, Ecuador 2 will go to the runner-up, and Ecuador 3 to the third-place finisher.
Teams
Twelve teams competed in the 2009 Serie A season, ten of whom remained from the 2008 season. Deportivo Azogues and Universidad Católica were relegated last season to the Serie B after accumulating the fewest points in the First and Second Stage aggregate table. They were replaced by Manta and LDU Portoviejo, the 2008 Serie B winner and runner-up, respectively. This was Manta's second spell and second season in the Serie A, having previously played in the 2003 season. LDU Portoviejo were playing in their 22nd season in the league. Their last appearance was in 2001.
Managerial changes
First stage
The first stage ran from January 31 to July 12. The top-two teams qualified to the 2009 Copa Sudamericana. The top-four teams qualified to the Third Stage.
Standings
Results
Second stage
The Second Stage began on July 19 and ended on October 3. The top-two teams from each group qualified to the Third Stage.
Group 1
Standings
Results
Group 2
Standings
Results
Inter-group clásicos
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Source:1. The match was played at Estadio Monumental Banco Pichincha in Guayaquil.Colours: Blue=home team win; Yellow=draw; Red=away team win.
Aggregate table
Third stage
The Third Stage began on October 16 and is scheduled to end on November 22. The winners of each group will advance to the Fourth Stage to contest the national title. Both teams will have earned a berth to the 2010 Copa Libertadores and enter in the Second Stage of the competition (their exact berths will be determined in the Fourth Stage). The group runners-up will also advance to the Fourth Stage to contest the third-place match.
Group 1
Standings
Results
Group 2
Standings
Results
Fourth stage
The Fourth Stage will consists of two playoffs. The legs of the playoffs will be played on November 29 and December 7.
Third-place playoff
The third-place playoff will be contested between the runners-up of each Third Stage group for a berth in the 2010 Copa Libertadores First Stage.
Championship playoff
The championship playoff will be contested between the winners of each Third Stage group for the national title. Both teams will have already earned a berth in the 2010 Copa Libertadores Second Stage, but their exact berth will be determined here.
Top goalscorers
Awards
The awards were selected by the Asociación Ecuatoriana de Radiodifusión.
Best player: Marcelo Elizaga (Emelec)
Best goalkeeper: Marcelo Elizaga (Emelec)
Best defender: Marcelo Fleitas (Emelec)
Best midfielder: Giancarlo Ramos (Deportivo Cuenca)
Best striker: Claudio Bieler (LDU Quito)
Best young player: Joao Rojas (Emelec)
Best manager: Paúl Vélez (Deportivo Cuenca)
Best Ecuadorian playing abroad: Antonio Valencia (Manchester United)
Best referee: Carlos Vera
Statistics
Statistics were compiled by Quito-based newspaper El Comercio.
See also
2009 in Ecuadorian football
2009 Copa Libertadores
2009 Copa Sudamericana
2009 Recopa Sudamericana
References
External links
Official website
2009
Ecu
Football |
20466189 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enco%20%28brand%29 | Enco (brand) | Enco (an acronym for 'ENergy COmpany') was a secondary retail brand name for products of the Humble Oil Corporation (who had been acquired by the Standard Oil of New Jersey in 1959) in certain parts of the United States from 1960 to 1977. It was used on service stations operated by Humble in states where they were not permitted to use the Esso brand under conditions set by the court-ordered breakup of Standard Oil in 1911.
After Humble Oil and Standard Oil of NJ merged to form Exxon in 1973, the brand was discontinued.
History
Beginning
Because Humble Oil was not the first to register "Enco" in all 50 states, it was forced to drop the name in deference to Earl Nunneley Company (also known as "Enco") of Texas.
Founder Earl Nunneley's famous quote on the name dispute was "It cost Humble more money to change all of their stationery letterheads than it would have if they'd simply bought my firm."
The Enco brand first appeared on gasoline and motor oil products of Jersey Standard affiliates, including Carter Oil in the Northwestern U.S., as well as Pate Oil and Oklahoma Oil in the Midwest during the summer and fall of 1960, shortly after the parent company reorganized all its domestic marketing and refining operations to former Texas-based subsidiary Humble Oil and Refining Company. In 1961, the Enco brand was introduced at Humble stations in Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona – both for the stations and gasoline/oil products, as was the case in California and some other western states where Humble opened stations for the first time. The Enco brand was also rolled out for gasoline/oil products at Humble's Texas stations, which retained Humble as the station brand until that was converted to Enco in 1962. However, one state, Ohio, used "Humble" because Standard Oil of Ohio (Sohio) refused to allow use of the Enco name, due to its similarity to "Esso"
Humble's advertisements promoted the Enco brand as short for "ENergy COmpany." From 1961 to 1972, Enco advertising and promotional efforts were the same as Esso's in the eastern U.S. including the use of the Humble name in advertisements along with the "Happy Motoring!" tagline used by Esso for decades, and the "Put A Tiger In Your Tank" ad campaign introduced nationwide in 1964. Logotypes for Enco and Esso were identical ovals with blue outer edge and red lettering with white background.
Discontinuation
Despite Humble's attempts to tie Enco and Esso brands together as a nationwide gasoline marketer during the 1960s, the company was not wholly successful at competing with truly national brands such as Texaco which was then the only oil company selling its gasoline under the same brand name in all 50 states, and Shell, as Humble's strongest markets remained the Esso territory in the eastern U.S. and the former Humble home territory in Texas. Despite these challenges, Humble was the most successful of several U.S. oil companies to expand marketing and refining operations to California and West Coast states as most other "newcomers" entering that region during the 1950s and 1960s such as Gulf Oil, Phillips 66, Amoco, Conoco and others enjoyed less than stellar results, and each would pull out of California and surrounding states during the 1970s.
In 1967, Humble further expanded its California presence when it purchased a large number of service stations from Signal Oil (a Chevron subsidiary) and converted them to the Enco brand, which joined a large number of stations Humble had already built from scratch or bought from other oil companies. That was followed by the construction and opening of an oil refinery in 1969. Humble also expanded the Enco brand to Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, and Mississippi after the Supreme Court ruled that Humble's use of the Esso trademark in those states violated Standard Oil of Kentucky's use of the name "Standard Oil". Kentucky Standard was almost completely dependent upon Esso for its products from 1911 until 1961, when it became a part of Standard Oil of California, now Chevron.
As early as 1966, Humble realized that it needed a single brand name it could use nationwide but faced a dilemma as Esso could not be used in other Standard Oil territories and Enco had a Japanese translation as "stalled car." In late 1971, Humble rolled out the Exxon brand name at rebranded Enco and Esso in several test markets throughout the U.S. Following successful results of the Exxon brand in those areas, Humble/Jersey Standard officials in May 1972 announced that Exxon would become the company's sole gasoline brand in the U.S. later that year – replacing both Esso and Enco at service stations and on gasoline, motor oil and lubricant products nationwide (Esso was retained outside the U.S. where Standard Oil stipulations by the U.S. Justice Department did not apply). Also, the corporate name Standard Oil of New Jersey was changed to Exxon Corporation, the U.S. refining/marketing division, Humble Oil and Refining Co., was renamed Exxon USA, and the Enjay Chemicals division would be renamed Exxon Chemicals.
While the Enco brand largely disappeared after 1973, the name survived in the Midwest (an area controlled by Amoco, which unlike Ohio, didn't object to Enco) until 1977, since the Midwest was one of Humble's weaker markets. Exxon sold the last remaining Enco stations to Cheker Oil Co. in 1977 as part of its withdrawal from the Midwest outside Southern Ohio, retiring the Enco brand permanently. Cheker was later acquired by Marathon Petroleum subsidiary Speedway. In 2021, 7-Eleven acquired Speedway. Although Marathon will continue to supply fuel at Speedway locations, as 7-Eleven partners with Exxon at some locations, the deal brought the legacy Enco sites in the Midwest full circle.
References
ExxonMobil brands
Automotive fuel retailers |
17329712 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo%20Aguilar%20%28footballer%2C%20born%201987%29 | Pablo Aguilar (footballer, born 1987) | Pablo César Aguilar Benítez (born 2 April 1987) is a Paraguayan professional footballer who plays as a centre-back.
From March to July 2017, Aguilar served a ten-match suspension after head-butting a referee.
Club career
Early career
Aguilar won the Paraguayan Primera División title with his first club, Sportivo Luqueño, in 2007. He then transferred to Argentine Primera División side Colón de Santa Fe, where he played for one year. Subsequently, Aguilar played for San Luis of the Mexican Primera División, before joining Argentine Primera's side Arsenal de Sarandí.
Tijuana
In 2012, Aguilar was sent on loan to Club Tijuana. He started in 20 matches for the club during the Apertura tournament, which Tijuana won, defeating Toluca in the final, even scoring one of the goals himself.
América
On 18 December 2013, it was announced that Aguilar was transferred to Club América, with the announcement being made on the club's Twitter account.
On 8 March 2017, during the Copa MX round-of-16 match against Tijuana, Aguilar headbutted referee Fernando Hernández. Despite initially being given a ten-game suspension, a strike by the referee's association protesting the punishments of Aguilar and Enrique Triverio of Toluca ultimately led to a revised year-long ban for Aguilar from any official football activity. On 31 March, it was reported that both Aguilar and Triverio would appeal their bans to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Cruz Azul
In the summer of 2018, Aguilar officially became a player for Cruz Azul. On 21 July 2018, Aguilar debuted in a 3–0 victory against Puebla and played the 90 minutes.
International career
As of 3 June 2015, Aguilar has played in 22 games with the Paraguay national team, scoring four times. He scored his first goal on 17 October 2012 in the 1–0 victory against Peru.
International goals
Scores and results list Paraguay's goal tally first.
Personal life
In 2015, Aguilar became a naturalized Mexican citizen.
Honours
Sportivo Luqueño
Primera División: Apertura 2007
Tijuana
Liga MX: Apertura 2012
América
Liga MX: Apertura 2014
CONCACAF Champions League: 2014–15, 2015–16
Cruz Azul
Liga MX: Guardianes 2021
Copa MX: Apertura 2018
Campeón de Campeones: 2021
Supercopa MX: 2019
Leagues Cup: 2019
Individual
Liga MX Defender of the Year: 2018–19
Liga MX Best XI: Guardianes 2021
Liga MX All-Star: 2021
See also
Players and Records in Paraguayan Football
References
External links
Pablo César Aguilar – Argentine Primera statistics at Fútbol XXI
1987 births
Living people
Paraguayan footballers
Paraguayan expatriate footballers
Paraguay international footballers
Sportivo Luqueño players
Club Atlético Colón footballers
San Luis F.C. players
Club Tijuana footballers
Club América footballers
Arsenal de Sarandí footballers
Paraguayan Primera División players
Argentine Primera División players
Liga MX players
Expatriate footballers in Argentina
Expatriate footballers in Mexico
Paraguayan expatriate sportspeople in Argentina
Paraguayan expatriate sportspeople in Mexico
2015 Copa América players
Sportspeople from Luque
Association football central defenders
Naturalized citizens of Mexico
Cruz Azul footballers |
20466192 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Parkinson%20%28footballer%29 | Bob Parkinson (footballer) | Robert Parkinson (27 April 1873 – after 1901) was an English footballer. His regular position was as a forward. He was born in Preston, Lancashire. He played for Preston Ramblers, Preston Athletic, Fleetwood Rangers, Rotherham Town, Luton Town, Blackpool, Warmley, Nottingham Forest, Newton Heath, Watford and Swindon Town.
Blackpool
Parkinson was a member of the Blackpool line-up for their first-ever match in the Football League, on 5 September 1896. He played up front alongside his namesake, Jack Parkinson. He went on to make a further seven league appearances in the 1896–97 season, scoring one goal – in a 4–2 defeat at Woolwich Arsenal on 19 December.
Parkinson's final appearance for the club occurred on 23 January, in a 3–1 home defeat by Small Heath. Shortly after this, he joined Nottingham Forest.
References
General
MUFCInfo.com profile
Specific
1873 births
Year of death missing
Footballers from Preston, Lancashire
English footballers
Association football forwards
Fleetwood Rangers F.C. players
Rotherham Town F.C. (1878) players
Luton Town F.C. players
Blackpool F.C. players
Warmley F.C. players
Nottingham Forest F.C. players
Manchester United F.C. players
Watford F.C. players
Swindon Town F.C. players
English Football League players |
6902768 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida%20East%20Coast%20153 | Florida East Coast 153 | Florida East Coast 153 is a historic Florida East Coast Railway 4-6-2 ALCO steam locomotive located in Miami, Florida, USA.
History
The locomotive served on the Florida East Coast Railway from 1922 to 1938, and pulled a train carrying President Calvin Coolidge to Miami in 1928. In 1935, when she was in use on the run between Miami and Key West, #153 was one of the last engines to reach Miami before the hurricane that year destroyed the bridges to the Florida Keys.
After 1938, #153 was used as an industrial switcher by the United States Sugar Corporation of Clewiston, Florida. In 1956, she was donated to the University of Miami.
From March 1957 until November 1966, she operated a train called Gold Coast Special in Miami every Sunday. In 1966, she received a major overhaul, after which she was inspected and subsequently certified by the Interstate Commerce Commission.
For pulling the "rescue train" out of Marathon before the Labor Day Hurricane, #153 was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on February 21, 1985. Due to age and damage by Hurricane Andrew in 1992, she's been out of service since. It is located at the Gold Coast Railroad Museum, 12400 Southwest 152nd Street, Miami, FL.
See also
U.S. Sugar 148
References
Miami-Dade County listings at National Register of Historic Places
Florida's Office of Cultural and Historical Programs
Dade County listings
Florida East Coast Railway Locomotive #153
How to Boot a Steam Locomotive, Phil Jern 1990.
External links
National Register of Historic Places in Miami
Individual locomotives of the United States
Railway locomotives on the National Register of Historic Places
ALCO locomotives
4-6-2 locomotives
Locomotive 153
Rail infrastructure on the National Register of Historic Places in Florida
Standard gauge locomotives of the United States
Railway locomotives introduced in 1922
Preserved steam locomotives of Florida |
6902779 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entering%20a%20New%20Ride | Entering a New Ride | Entering a New Ride is the ninth and final album by Big Audio Dynamite (aka BAD), recorded in 1999. Radioactive Records declined to release the album, so in 2001 the band decided to post the tracks on its website. In this way, the album is one of the earliest internet-distributed albums. To support this self-release by the band many fans and media creators became involved centered upon a discussion board on the BAD website. Among these was filmmaker and interactive media producer Krishna Stott, who created the interactive film NTR, a noir-ish story written by Tim Birch, starring actor Wayne Simmonds, and featuring three of the albums tracks. This guerrilla film was distributed using the then new technology of CD-ROM.
Track listing
Disc one
"Man That Is Dynamite" – 6:23
"BAD and the Night Time Ride" – 4:55
"Sunday Best" – 4:20
"Must Be the Music" – 6:08
"Taking You to Another Dimension" – 6:49
"Sound of the BAD" – 6:20
"Cozy Ten Minutes" – 8:11
"Get High" – 5:01
"Bang Ice Geezer" – 4:33
"On the Ones and Twos" – 4:59
"Nice and Easy" – 6:53
Disc two
"Go with the Flow" – 11:12
"Sound of the Joe" – 6:21
"Man That Is Dynamite" (mix) – 5:21
"Sunday Best" (Christmas 99 mix) – 6:01
"Sunday Best" (extended mix) – 7:27
"Sunday Best" (remix) – 7:12
"BAD And The Night Time Ride " (Remix) – 7:54
Personnel
Big Audio Dynamite
Mick Jones - vocals, guitar, producer
Ranking Roger - vocals
Nick Hawkins - guitar
André Shapps - keyboards, drum programming, producer
Daryl Fulstow - bass
Bob Wond - drums
Michael Custance/Lord Zonka - vocals, DJ, songwriter, producer
DJ Joe Attard - vocals, MC , songwriter, producer
NTR interactive film (2001)
The album was released online during the early days of the internet on the Big Audio Dynamite website, with fans and media creators becoming actively involved in promoting the self-release. Activities centred upon the BAD website discussion board, with fans, creators, and band-members cooking up plans. The most significant outcome of these activities was initiated by filmmaker and interactive media producer Krishna Stott who created the interactive film NTR (2001). Written by Tim Birch and starring the actor Wayne Simmonds, it was a film noir-ish story of Rude Boy - a character created by Simmonds, and the film used a collage of clips from Simmonds’ own video art projects to create the narrative. The film featured three tracks from the album: 'Man, That Is Dynamite!', 'Taking You To Another Dimension', and 'Get High'. Burnt onto the then new but increasing popular technology of CD-ROM, this guerrilla film was distributed to promote the album amongst fans and the media.
References
External links
YouTube stream
1999 albums
Big Audio Dynamite albums
Albums free for download by copyright owner |
6902781 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Patrick%27s%20Grammar%20School | St. Patrick's Grammar School | St. Patrick's Grammar School may refer to:
St Patrick's Grammar School, Armagh, Armagh, Northern Ireland
St Patrick's Grammar School, Downpatrick, Downpatrick, County Down, Northern Ireland |
6902794 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu%20Guohui | Yu Guohui | Yu Guohui (; born April 30, 1977 in Qingdao) is a retired male Chinese race walker.
Achievements
References
1977 births
Living people
Athletes (track and field) at the 1998 Asian Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Chinese male racewalkers
Olympic athletes of China
Athletes from Qingdao
Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
Asian Games gold medalists for China
Medalists at the 1998 Asian Games |
6902795 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara%20Cogan | Sara Cogan | Sara Cogan is a British television and theatre actress, based in London.
She graduated from The Academy of Live and Recorded Arts in 2003, after a three-year acting course.
She went on to appear in 2003's sixth run of The Newsrevue, the longest-running theatrical comedy show in the United Kingdom, appearing alongside James Shakeshaft, Paul Millard and Sarah Mae.
She has had television roles in Doctors, playing Gemma Bullock, The Walk, playing Beverley and Footballers' Wives, playing a hotel receptionist.
Her most recent role was as a midwife named Cheryl in EastEnders, alongside Emma Barton (Honey Mitchell) and Perry Fenwick (Billy Mitchell), in a storyline about Down syndrome.
References
External links
British television actresses
British stage actresses
British soap opera actresses
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
6902800 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santo%20Andr%C3%A9%20Beach | Santo André Beach | Santo André Beach (Praia de Santo André in Portuguese, lit. "Saint Andrew Beach") is an extensive and wide maritime beach of Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal. It is located in Santo André, between the A Ver-o-Mar and Aguçadoura. It borders Cape Santo André to the south.
This beach is very beautiful. It has flowers and pretty skies and an ocean.
Beaches of Póvoa de Varzim |
6902815 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLEAN | CLEAN | CLEAN may refer to:
Component Validator for Environmentally Friendly Aero Engine
CLEAN (algorithm), a computational algorithm used in astronomy to perform a deconvolution on dirty images
Commonwealth Law Enforcement Assistance Network, a system used by law enforcement and other criminal justice agencies in Pennsylvania which interfaces NCIC, Penndot and other sources beneficial to law enforcement personnel. Operated by the Pennsylvania State Police.
Cryogenic Low-Energy Astrophysics with Noble gases, a liquid argon dark matter detector under construction at SNOLAB. |
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