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76853070 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condylostylus%20nebulosus | Condylostylus nebulosus | Condylostylus nebulosus is a species of fly in the family Dolichopodidae. It is found in eastern, south-eastern and southern Asia.
References
Sciapodinae
Insects described in 1916
Diptera of Asia
Taxa named by Shōnen Matsumura |
76853293 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papelon | Papelon | Papelon (foaled 22 July 2006), also spelled Papelón, is a Chilean Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the Group 1 Clásico Club Hípico de Santiago Falabella four times. He was named a Chilean divisional champion for five years and was considered the 'King of Staying' in Chile during his career.
Background
Papelon is a chestnut stallion with an off-center star and a small strip. Papelon was bred by Haras San Patricio.
Papelon's sire, Monthir, was bred and raced in the United States. Monthir was thought to have promise for the Kentucky Derby as a two-year-old, but he failed to win any stakes races, although he did finish second in the Grade 3 Nashua Stakes and Grade 2 Hutcheson Stakes and third in the Grade 3 Bay Shore Stakes. Monthir was exported to Chile to stand at Haras San Patricio. Papelon was part of Monthir's second crop.
Papelon's dam Encubierta was unraced and had produced two foals before Papelon, of which one was unraced and the other won twice. Encubierta is a full sister to Escania, Chilean Champion 2-Year-Old Dirt Filly and winner of the Group 1 Tanteo de Potrancas, and Eccellenza, Chilean Champion 2-Year-Old Dirt Filly and Champion 3-Year-Old Dirt Filly and winner of the Group 1 Tanteo de Potrancas and Group 1 Mil Guineas.
Papelon was named after an anecdote from Dr. Ignacio Coloma's father.
Papelon was owned by Stud Kekita and trained by Carlos Urbina during his racing career. He specialized in long distance turf races and heavy track conditions.
Racing career
2008/09: Two-year-old season
Papelon ran five times in 2009 as a two-year-old, all in maiden races at Hipódromo Chile on the dirt. He lost all five races, although he did finish third twice and second once.
2009/10: Three-year-old season
Papelon broke his maiden on his seventh try, in his second race as a three-year-old, on July 30, 2009. He won the 1200-meter race at Hipódromo Chile by five and a half lengths. Papelon's connections then pointed him towards stakes races, starting with the Group 2 Clásico Domingo Segundo Herrera Martínez on August 15, run over 1500 meters on the dirt at Hipódromo Chile. Papelon finished fourth, but ran credibly enough that he was next entered in the Group 1 Dos Mil Guineas, a 1600-meter dirt race at Hipódromo Chile. In the Dos Mil Guineas, Papelon performed poorly, finishing second to last in the fourteen horse field, seventeen lengths behind the winner.
Within the month, Papelon raced again, in his first race at a new track, finishing second in the 1700-meter Clásico Criadores F. S. de Carreras S. A., an ungraded stakes race run at Valparaiso Sporting Club. He next ran at the third of Chile's major racetracks, and the track where he would eventually mark his greatest victories: Club Hípico de Santiago. The race, the listed stakes Clásico Preparación Luis Cousiño S., was also his first time running clockwise, on the turf, and at a distance of 2000 meters. Papelon won the race by a head, and was next pointed to the Group 1 Clásico El Ensayo, one of the most important races on the Chilean calendar and first race of the Chilean Triple Crown. In the Clásico El Ensayo, Papelon ran fourth behind Belle Watling, who would go on to be the Chilean Horse of the Year for that season. Papelon faced Belle Watling again in his last race of 2009, the Group 2 Gran Clásico Coronación, finished second to her by two and a quarter lengths.
In January 2010, Papelon ran in the Group 1 Clásico El Derby at Valparaiso Sporting Club and finished sixth. He remained at Valparaiso Sporting Club through March and achieved his first graded stakes victories there, winning the Group 3 Clásico Thompson Matthews and Group 2 Clásico Municipal de Viña del Mar, with the latter being his first race against older horses.
Papelon then returned to Club Hípico de Santiago for the Group 1 Clásico Club Hípico de Santiago Falabella, the most important race in Chile for turf stayers. He was one of three three-year-olds in the race. Papelon won the 2000-meter race by one and a quarter lengths in a time of 1:56.00. With the win, Papelon earned an entry into the Group 1 Gran Premio Latinoamericano, run at Club Hípico de Santiago that year, also over 2000 meters on the turf. The Gran Premio Latinoamericano had originally been slated to be run in March 2010, but was postponed to September due to an earthquake.
In total, Papelon won five of twelve starts and was named the Chilean Champion Three-Year-Old Turf Male for his campaign.
2010/11: Four-year-old season
Papelon's first race as a four-year-old was the ungraded stakes Clásico Estados Unidos de América on July 16, run over 1700 meters on the turf at Club Hípico de Santiago. He won, and headed towards the Gran Premio Latinoamericano on a four-race long win streak, all in stakes races. Papelon finished fourth in the Gran Premio Latinoamericano behind Belle Watling, but acquitted himself well in what was later called "one of the most emotional finishes of the Latinos" by El Turf.
In October 2010, Papelon won the first of an eventual three Group 3 Clásicos Primavera Hernan Braun P. y Carolina Budge de B., and he finished third in the Group 3 Clásico La Copa to finish out 2010. Papelon won the Group 3 Clásico Verano Arturo Cousiño L. in February 2011 before heading outside Chile for the first time to run in the 2011 Gran Premio Latinoamericano, run over 2000 meters on the turf at Hipódromo de San Isidro that year. In the race, he closed late and failed to make up enough ground, finishing fifth.
Papelon returned to Chile to run in his second Clásico Club Hípico de Santiago Falabella in May 2011, his final race as a four-year-old. Despite starting as the favorite, he failed to repeat his previous performance, finishing third behind the three-year-old Sin Respeto.
In total, Papelon won three of seven starts as a four-year-old and was named the Chilean Champion Older Horse for his campaign.
2011/12: Five-year-old season
Papelon didn't return to the racetrack until December 2011, when he won the ungraded stakes Clásico Mega at Club Hípico de Santiago. He next raced in March 2012, taking the Group 2 Clásico Municipal de Viña del Mar, before finishing third in the Group 3 Clásico Otoño Pedro Garcia de la Huerta M. in April.
In late May, Papelon ran in the Clásico Club Hípico de Santiago Falabella for the third time. The turf track was heavy, a condition that Papelon favored, and he won by five lengths, becoming the first horse since 1989 to
He raced once more as a five-year-old, finishing second in the Group 3 Clásico Invierno Sergio del Sante M. as the favorite.
In total, Papelon won three of five starts as a five-year-old, including the Group 2 Clásico Municipal de Viña del Mar and his second Clásico Club Hípico de Santiago Falabella, and was named the Chilean Champion Grass Horse for his campaign.
2012/13: Six-year-old season
In his first start as a six-year-old, Papelon again won the Clásico Estados Unidos de América before finishing fourth in the Group 2 Clásico Copa de Oro. He won his next two starts, the Group 3 Clásico Primavera Hernan Braun P. y Carolina Budge de B. and the ungraded Clásico Raúl Ovalle U., then ran second in the ungraded Clásico Torbita and Group 2 Clásico Verano Arturo Cousiño L. He added a win in the listed Clásico Luis Aldunate C. and a third in the Group 2 Clásico Copa de Oro Viñas de Chile, all run at Club Hípico de Santiago, before heading to Hipódromo Chile for the Group 1 Gran Premio Hipódromo Chile, in which he finished fourth.
In May, Papelon achieved the unprecedented feat of winning a third Clásico Club Hípico de Santiago Falabella when he won the race by four and a half lengths. He closed out his six-year-old season with a win in the Group 2 Clásico Otoño Pedro Garcia de la Huerta M.
In total, Papelon won six of eleven starts as a six-year-old, including the Group 3 Clásico Primavera Hernan Braun P. y Carolina Budge de B., Group 2 Clásico Otoño Pedro Garcia de la Huerta M., and his third Clásico Club Hípico de Santiago Falabella, with the year being regarded as his best. He was named the Chilean Champion Older Horse for his campaign.
2013/14: Seven-year-old season
Papelon won the Group 3 Clásico Invierno Sergio del Sante M. in his first race as a seven-year-old in July 2013 before heading to Hipódromo Chile, where he ran third in the Group 3 Clásico Libertador Bernardo O'Higgens Riquelme. Returning to Club Hípico de Santiago, he won the listed Clásico Carreras del '20 and his third Clásico Primavera Hernan Braun P. y Carolina Budge de B., finished second in the Group 3 Clásico La Copa and Group 2 Clásico Verano Arturo Cousiño L., and third in the ungraded Clásico Tobrita.
Papelon attempted the Gran Premio Hipódromo Chile again in 2014, again finishing fourth, before running in the Clásico Club Hípico de Santiago Falabella for the fifth time and winning it for the fourth.
Following the win, Papelon went to Hipódromo Chile to train, but suffered a significant injury that forced his retirement from racing. According to Dr. Ignacio Coloma of Haras San Patricio, the injury was severe enough to kill most horses.
In total, Papelon won four of nine starts as a seven-year-old, including the Group 3 Clásico Invierno Sergio del Sante M., Group 3 Clásico Primavera Hernan Braun P. y Carolina Budge de B., and his fourth Clásico Club Hípico de Santiago Falabella. He was named the Chilean Champion Older Turf Horse for his campaign.
Papelon retired with earnings of CLP$269,836,129, a record of 21 wins in 49 starts, including four editions of the Group 1 Clásico Club Hípico de Santiago Falabella and five Group 3 and four Group 2 wins, and five Chilean divisional championships.
Race record
An asterisk after the odds means Papelon was the post time favorite.
Stud career
After retiring from racing, Papelon entered stud at Haras San Patricio where he was bred. He has had limited success at stud, with his most successful progeny being the Group 3-placed colt El Mañio.
Pedigree
See also
Repeat winners of horse races
References
Racehorses bred in Chile
Racehorses trained in Chile
2006 racehorse births
Thoroughbred family 6-a |
76853502 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blessing%20Agbebaku | Blessing Agbebaku | Blessing Agbebaku is a Nigerian politician currently serving as speaker of the eighth Edo State House of Assembly. He is a member of the People's Democratic Party representing Owan West Constituency, in the Edo North Senatorial District.
He was nominated for the speakership by Natasha Osawaru of the PDP representing Egor Constituency and the motion was seconded by Addeh Isibor also of the PDP representing Esan North East I. Agbebaku was elected speaker by all 24 members of the house unchallenged.
He was chief of staff to the speaker of the seventh Edo State Assembly Marcus Onobun. Agbebaku was elected to the Edo State House of Assembly in 2007 and served until 2011 when he left the house.
References
Nigerian politicians
Peoples Democratic Party (Nigeria) politicians
Legislative speakers in Nigeria
Edo State politicians |
76853539 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibio%20albipennis | Bibio albipennis | Bibio albipennis is a species of March fly. It native to North America, where it is widespread.
References
Bibionidae
Insects described in 1823
Endemic fauna of North America |
76853542 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glaucopsyche%20astraea | Glaucopsyche astraea | Glaucopsyche astraea is a species of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. The species can be found throughout Turkey. The species has one subspecies:
Glaucopsyche astraea eckweileri Koçak, 1979
References
Glaucopsyche
Butterflies described in 1852
Taxa named by Christian Friedrich Freyer |
76853546 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly%20Wainwright | Holly Wainwright | Holly Wainwright (born December 1971) is an Australian novellist, magazine editor, podcast host, and since 2014, an editor of the Mamamia website.
She was born in Manchester, UK. She came to Australia as a backpacker in 1995 and settled in Sydney. She lived in Coogee for about 20 years.
Career
In Sydney, she worked as a journalist and then editor for travel and celebrity magazines. Among other titles, she worked for Woman's Day.
Wainwright was Deputy Editor for OK! Magazine before joining Mamamias parenting site iVillage Australia as Editor in 2013. The following year, she was appointed Editor of the main Mamamia site itself. She says that the motivation for her transition from print "gossip magazines" to digital (at a substantial pay cut) was driven by the traditional media becoming "meaner. Especially about women, their relationships and their bodies."
In 2016, Mamamia split into two divisions — news and entertainment — with Wainwright appointed editor of the latter. By 2018, she was Head of Content and was co-hosting Mamamia'''s flagship podcast Mamamia Out Loud together with Mamamia founder Mia Freedman and Executive Editor Jessie Stephens.
Wainwright has toured with her Mamamia Out Loud co-hosts as they present live shows in a similar format to the podcast to audiences around Australia. They toured in 2018 (Tamworth, Newcastle, Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney, Dubbo), 2019 (Hobart, Brisbane, Perth, Darwin, Adelaide, Cairns, Orange, Gelong, Sydney), 2022 (Orange, Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne Sydney), and 2024 (Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney). Wainwright has described the live shows as "absolutely one of the best professional experiences I’ve ever had."
Novels
Four of her novels have been published:
The Mummy Bloggers (Allen & Unwin, 2017)
How to be Perfect (Allen & Unwin, 2018)
I Give My Marriage a Year (Pan Australia, 2020)
The Couple Upstairs (Pan Australia, 2022)
Mia Freedman compared the style of her first novel to that of Liane Moriarty and Zoë Foster Blake.
Alicia Franceschini in Glam Adelaide wrote that although the book "does sometimes fall into the trap of painting an almost caricature of women’s experiences of motherhood, it never fails to do so with a light-hearted nature and a tongue in cheek self awareness that is rarely seen in modern literature for women."
Writing for the New Zealand Herald, reviewer Hannah Tunnicliffe praised I Give My Marriage a Year for its "back-story, humour, psychological insight and explanations that deepen your interest and attachment" to the characters depicted. Rosalind Moran, reviewing the same book for ArtsHub, concluded "through investigating the personalities and relationships of her characters with a fine-tooth comb, Wainwright prompts the reader to consider their own life and relationships; how these might be fraying at the seams; and whether they might do better."The Couple Upstairs was listed at #24 on Better Readings list of the "Top 100 Books of 2023". Dee Young in Brisbanista described it as "a novel that delves into the darker side of human nature, relationships, and where they lead. Is there a way of preventing another person from making similar mistakes to those made by oneself in the past? AND, is intervention an option or should one leave well alone?" The Australian Women's Weekly'' called it "an important read."
Wainwright's writer's festival appearances include:
Burdekin Readers and Writers Festival 2018
Northern Beaches Readers Festival 2022
Brisbane Writers Festival 2023
Cairns Tropical Writers Festival 2023
StoryFest (Shoalhaven) 2023
Personal life
Wainwright has a partner and two children. In 2021, she and her family relocated to regional New South Wales, which she describes as a "treechange".
References
Living people
1971 births
Australian columnists
Australian women columnists
Australian women editors
21st-century Australian women writers
21st-century Australian writers
Australian women novelists
Writers from Manchester |
76853646 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie%20Stephens | Jessie Stephens | Jessie Stephens (born 1990) is an Australian writer, editor, novellist, television presenter and podcast host. She is an executive editor for Mamamia's flagship podcast Mamamia Out Loud and co-hosts the show with Mia Freedman and Holly Wainwright.
Stephens majored in Modern History and Gender Studies at the University of Sydney, and has a Master of Research.
She joined the staff of Mamamia as an editorial assistant in 2015.
Stephens has toured with her Mamamia Out Loud co-hosts as they present live shows in a similar format to the podcast to audiences around Australia. They toured in 2018 (Tamworth, Newcastle, Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney, Dubbo), 2019 (Hobart, Brisbane, Perth, Darwin, Adelaide, Cairns, Orange, Geelong, Sydney), 2022 (Orange, Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne Sydney), and 2024 (Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney).
Stephens is also a regular presenter on television current affairs and talk show The Project.
Books
Stephens is the author of two books published by Pan Australia: the non-fiction book Heartsick: Three Stories About Love And Loss, And What Happens In Between (2021) and a novel, Something Bad is Going to Happen (2023).
Heartsick was received very favourably. It was voted #8 in Booktopia's Favourite Australian Book (FAB) award for 2021 and was included in the top 101 recommended books for 2022 by major Australian bookseller Dymocks. It was also shortlisted as general nonfiction book of the year at the Australian Book Industry Awards in 2022. It was published internationally by Pan Macmillan in the UK and by Henry Holt in the US. Reviewer Rebecca Wu in Glam Adelaide highlighted Stephens' "wonderful skill of interweaving seemingly ordinary occasions of life in a way that tells a story without any drudgery. In fact, she makes it enticing." Although Emily Paull's review in The AU Review was generally unfavourable, she acknowledged that "the ideas behind the book are strong, and that there is a need for more books which examine the not so happy endings in life, and don't hold romantic partnerships up to be the thing that completes us as humans."
The enthusiastic reception of the book in the US led Sue Smethurst in The Australian to call Stephens "our [Australian literature's] next big thing".
Something Bad is Going to Happen deals with themes of the mental health of its young protagonists. For this, it has been likened to "a modern-day Bell Jar", and Alexandra Hill in The Australian called it "a very important new release."
Personal life
Stephens' identical twin sister, Clare Stephens, also works for Mamamia. In 2023, Jessie married Luca Lavigne, son of Mamamia founder Mia Freedman. The couple's first child, Luna, was born later that year.
References
Living people
1990 births
Australian columnists
Australian women columnists
Australian television personalities
Australian women editors
21st-century Australian women writers
21st-century Australian writers
Australian women novelists |
76853650 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roderick%20Robinson%20II | Roderick Robinson II | Roderick Quintin Robinson II (born December 30, 2004) is an American football running back for the Georgia Bulldogs.
High school career
Robinson attended Lincoln High School in San Deigo, California. As a junior, he ran for 1,273 yards and 17 touchdowns, before committing to UCLA. The following year in a game against Mater Dei High School, Robinson recorded 476 rushing yards and eight touchdowns, tying local records. Robinson helped lead Lincoln to a state championship, rushing for four touchdowns in the title game victory. He finished his senior season with 2,378 rushing yards and 37 touchdowns, being named the MaxPreps California Player of the Year. A four-star recruit, Robinson flipped his commitment to play college football from UCLA to the University of Georgia.
College career
As an early enrollee, Robinson reportedly impressed both teammates and coaches. In his first two career collegiate games, he rushed for 89 yards and two touchdowns, before being sidelined by an ankle injury. As a freshman, Robinson appeared in five games, recording 23 carries for 196 yards and two touchdowns. Returning as the team's leading rusher as a sophomore in 2024, he is expected to compete with Trevor Etienne for Georgia's starting running back job.
References
External links
Georgia Bulldogs bio
2004 births
Living people
American football running backs
Georgia Bulldogs football players
Players of American football from San Diego |
76853664 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997%20Acropolis%20International%20Basketball%20Tournament | 1997 Acropolis International Basketball Tournament | The 11. Edition of the Acropolis International Basketball Tournament 1997 found between the 12th and 14th. June 1997 in Piraeus. The total of six games were played Stadium of Peace and Friendship.
In addition to the host Greek national team also excluded the national teams Germany, France as well as Italy part. While it was the second participation in the Acropolis tournament for Germany (after 1996) and France, the Italians took part for the seventh time and won the tournament for the first time.
Venues
Participating teams
Standings
|}
Results
Final standings
References
External links
Acropolis Tournament
Basket.gr Acropolis Cup History Search Results
Acropolis International Basketball Tournament
June 1997 sports events in Europe
1996–97 in European basketball
1997 in Greek sport
1997 in French sport
1997 in German sport
1997 in Italian sport |
76853815 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgwarebury%20%28ward%29 | Edgwarebury (ward) | Edgwarebury is an electoral ward in the London Borough of Barnet. The ward was first used in the 2022 elections. It returns two councillors to Barnet London Borough Council.
List of councillors
Barnet council elections
2022 election
The election took place on 5 May 2022.
Notes
References
Wards of the London Borough of Barnet
2022 establishments in England |
76854018 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensoniq%20EPS-16%20Plus | Ensoniq EPS-16 Plus | The Ensoniq EPS-16 Plus is a sampling keyboard produced by Ensoniq starting in 1990. It was the successor to the EPS, one of the first truly affordable samplers on the market. The EPS-16 Plus uses 16-bit samples at seven sample rates ranging from 11.2 kHz to 44.6 kHz and features 13 onboard effects. The unit was available in both keyboard and rackmount versions (EPS-16R). Some versions of the EPS-16 Plus were sold as "Turbo" units, which included an extra 1 MB of flash memory and SCSI upgrades. These units are designated with a "T" after the model number.
The EPS-16 Plus features a mono input and stereo outputs, made useful by the unit's stereo panning and internal effects. It was succeeded in 1992 by the stereo-capable ASR-10.
Notable users
Notable users include Havoc of Mobb Deep, RZA of the Wu-Tang Clan as well as Wu-Tang affiliate True Master, and Speech of Arrested Development.
De facto Wu-Tang Clan leader RZA produced some tracks for Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) on an EPS-16 Plus, including the group's biggest single "C.R.E.A.M.". He then sold the unit to True Master, who used it to produce "Fish" from Ghostface Killah's debut solo album Ironman as well as "Brooklyn Zoo" from Ol' Dirty Bastard's debut solo album Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version. Havoc of Mobb Deep has stated that he produced "Shook Ones, Part II" an EPS-16 Plus.
Notes
References
E
Samplers (musical instrument)
Synthesizers
Keyboard instruments
MIDI instruments
Electric and electronic keyboard instruments
Polyphonic synthesizers |
76854088 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27%20La%20Santa | D' La Santa | D' La Santa is a Mexican restaurant on Seattle's Capitol Hill, in the U.S. state of Washington. Angelica Villasenor opened the steakhouse in 2017. In addition to steak, D' La Santa serves chile en nogada, cochinita pibil, guacamole, and other regional dishes. The restaurant has garnered a positive reception.
Description
The family- and Latin American-owned Mexican restaurant D' La Santa operates on 10th Avenue at Miller, on Seattle's Capitol Hill. The interior features a large driftwood tree with lanterns hanging from the branches, and a wall with numerous decorative crosses.
Menu
The menu focuses on steak and has also included tacos with various meat options such as beef birria, steak rib-eye, or shrimp and garlic butter. The steakhouse has served a 25-day dry-aged New York strip with salsa, as well as the Aguja Norteña, which has wagyu and a cactus salad.
Other menu options are Carne en su Jugo, chile en nogada, cochinita pibil, tostadas, Tomahawk steak, guacamole, and margaritas. Salsas use house-roasted tomatoes.
History
Angelica Villasenor opened the restaurant in October 2017, in a space previously occupied by the restaurant Abay Ethiopian until 2015.
Like many other restaurants, D' La Santa operated via delivery and take-out at times during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Reception
Seattle Weekly Nicole Sprinkle recommended the cochinita pibil in 2017. In 2022, Aimee Rizzo of The Infatuation said the restaurant had Seattle's best Mexican food and opined, "D' La Santa is something you really do need in your life." She and Kayla Sager-Riley also included the business in the website's 2024 overviews of the city's best Mexican restaurants and best restaurants on Capitol Hill. Zuri Anderson ranked D' La Santa second in iHeart's 2022 list of Seattle's best steakhouses based on Yelp.
Allecia Vermillion included D' La Santa in Seattle Metropolitan 2022 lists of the city's "great" tacos and Mexican restaurants, as well as "greatest" steakhouses. The magazine has also said the "companionable spot ... remains an undersung gem". Gabe Guarente and Megan Hill included D' La Santa in Eater Seattle 2022 overview of recommended eateries for steak, and Harry Cheadle and Charlie Lahud-Zahner included the business in the website's overview of sixteen "mouth-watering" Mexican restaurants in the metropolitan area in 2024.
See also
List of Mexican restaurants
List of steakhouses
References
External links
2017 establishments in Washington (state)
Capitol Hill, Seattle
Mexican restaurants in Seattle
Restaurants established in 2017
Steakhouses in Washington (state) |
76854179 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3zsef%20Mics%C3%ADz | József Micsíz | József Micsíz (; born 17 March 1958) is a Serbian politician from the country's Hungarian national minority community. He represented Ada in the Assembly of Vojvodina from 2004 to 2008. Elected as the candidate of a local citizens' group, he later served with G17 Plus.
Private career
Micsíz is a graduated mechanical engineer from Ada. He is a longtime owner and director of the metal industry company Termometal.
Politician
An independent political movement called With Knowledge and Heart for a Successful Municipality won a plurality victory in Ada in the 2004 Serbian local elections, taking eleven out of twenty-nine seats in the local assembly. The movement's leader Ferenc Ürményi became mayor and formed a coalition government with other independent groups and with G17 Plus. Micsíz was elected to the local assembly as one of the movement's candidates. He was also elected to the provincial assembly under the movement's banner in the concurrent 2004 Vojvodina provincial election.
Micsíz chaired Ada's sports and technical committee in the 2004–08 term and was appointed to its security council in 2007. While he was not endorsed by G17 Plus in the 2004 provincial election, he later joined the party's assembly group and became its deputy leader. He served on the Vojvodina assembly's economy committee and the committee for European integration and international regional cooperation.
Micsíz was defeated in his bid for re-election in the 2008 provincial election, finishing third in Ada as a G17 Plus candidate. He also appeared in the second position on a combined list of G17 Plus and Ürményi's movement in the 2008 local elections; the list fell to six seats, and he did not take a mandate afterward in the local assembly.
Electoral record
Provincial (Vojvodina)
References
1958 births
Living people
People from Ada, Serbia
Hungarians in Vojvodina
Members of the Assembly of Vojvodina
G17 Plus politicians |
76854282 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuhiro%20Nakura | Yasuhiro Nakura | is a Japanese animator, illustrator, character designer, and director.
Early life
Nakura was born in Hamakita, Shizuoka, Japan, on January 10, 1959. His parents ran a textile shop.
Career
He enrolled in an animation course offered by Toei Animation that he saw advertised in and moved to Tokyo. After completing the course, he joined Studio Carpenter where he debuted as an in-between animator on Starzinger (1978), and later as a key animator on Dotakon (1981). He worked at Studio Carpenter for about three years and then went freelance, mainly for Toei Animation's works.
His character concepts were used for the 1984 television series Little Memole, which he also worked on as an animation director (his debut in the role). The following year, he was the animation director for Mamoru Oshii's film, Angel's Egg, with designs by Yoshitaka Amano, in which he supervised and corrected drawings to follow Amano's original image boards. In 1987, he served as character designer and animation director to another feature film, The Tale of Genji (1987) with director Gisaburō Sugii. In 1990, he participated in Moomin as the animation character designer, having been a fan of the series prior. He also served as the character designer and chief animation director for Rintaro's Metropolis (2001).
At some point in his career, Nakura began to take on more work as an illustrator, rather than an animator or animation director. While he continued to work on animated series and films, his output in either decreased significantly during the 1990s and 2000s. He was the character designer and chief animation director for the Tenshu Monogatari arc of Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales and was the animation director for Gothicmade in 2012, but contributed in minor key animation roles between them.
In the early 2010s, Nakura developed a relationship with animation studio Shaft as a key animator and animation director on the Monogatari series. His output in the industry increased during this time as he contributed to other Shaft series like Mekakucity Actors (2014) and contributed as a guest director, designer, and animator for an episode of the Bones series Space Dandy (2014). In 2016, Nakura worked as the main layout artist, layout setting designer, and art setting designer for Shaft's adaptation of March Comes In like a Lion. He also regularly contributed to some of the series' ending animation themes, which he storyboarded, directed, and animated on his own.
Style
Director and founder of studio Satelight Tsuneo Maeda, who was the animation technical director for The Tale of Genji, described Nakura as an emotional person, which he called rare among key animators, and that he was slow, which was connected to his tenacity and made his work attractive. Maeda also considered Nakura to not be pattern-based, and thus it was always difficult or mysterious as to how his drawings and work would come out. Although he said that it may be difficult for some of his drawings to be used, Maeda lamented that Nakura was able to create cuts of animation that others could never draw as well.
Works
Teleivison series
Highlights main staff roles.
OVAs/ONAs
Films
Notes
Book citations
References
External links
Japanese animators
Japanese directors
Living people
1959 births
People from Shizuoka Prefecture |
76854359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coober%20Pedy%20Golf%20Club | Coober Pedy Golf Club | Coober Pedy Opal Fields Golf Club is an 18-hole golf course that was constructed in Coober Pedy.
History
The local golf course – mostly played at night with glowing balls, to avoid daytime heat – is completely free of grass, and golfers take a small piece of "turf" around to use for teeing off. As a result of correspondence between the two clubs, the Coober Pedy Opal Fields Golf Club is the only club in the world to enjoy reciprocal rights at The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews.
See also
List of links golf courses
References
External links
1976 establishments in Australia
Sports clubs and teams established in 1976
Sports venues completed in 1976
Golf clubs and courses in South Australia
Far North (South Australia) |
76854396 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021%20Kentucky%20General%20Assembly | 2021 Kentucky General Assembly | The 2021 Kentucky General Assembly was a meeting of the Kentucky General Assembly, composed of the Kentucky Senate and the Kentucky House of Representatives. It convened in Frankfort on January 2, 2021, and adjourned sine die on March 30, 2021. It was the second regular session of the legislature during the tenure of governor Andy Beshear.
Republicans maintained their majorities in both chambers following the 2020 elections for the senate and the house.
Party summary
Senate
House of Representatives
Leadership
Senate
Presiding
President: Robert Stivers (R)
President pro tempore: David P. Givens (R)
Majority (Republican)
Majority Leader: Damon Thayer
Majority Whip: Mike Wilson
Majority Caucus Chair: Julie Raque Adams
Minority (Democratic)
Minority Leader: Morgan McGarvey
Minority Whip: Dennis Parrett
Minority Caucus Chair: Reggie Thomas
House of Representatives
Presiding
Speaker: David Osborne (R)
Speaker pro tempore: David Meade (R)
Majority (Republican)
Majority Leader: Steven Rudy
Majority Whip: Chad McCoy
Majority Caucus Chair: Suzanne Miles
Minority (Democratic)
Minority Leader: Joni Jenkins
Minority Whip: Angie Hatton
Minority Caucus Chair: Derrick Graham
Members
Senate
Senators in odd-numbered districts were elected in 2020, while senators in even-numbered districts were elected in 2018.
1. Jason Howell (R)
2. Danny Carroll (R)
3. Whitney Westerfield (R)
4. Robby Mills (R)
5. Stephen Meredith (R)
6. C. B. Embry (R)
7. Adrienne Southworth (R)
8. Matt Castlen (R)
9. David P. Givens (R)
10. Dennis Parrett (D)
11. John Schickel (R)
12. Alice Forgy Kerr (R)
13. Reggie Thomas (D)
14. Jimmy Higdon (R)
15. Rick Girdler (R)
16. Max Wise (R)
17. Damon Thayer (R)
18. Robin L. Webb (D)
19. Morgan McGarvey (D)
20. Paul Hornback (R)
21. Brandon Storm (R)
22. Tom Buford (R)
23. Christian McDaniel (R)
24. Wil Schroder (R)
25. Robert Stivers (R)
26. Karen Berg (D)
27. Steve West (R)
28. Ralph Alvarado (R)
29. Johnnie Turner (R)
30. Brandon Smith (R)
31. Phillip Wheeler (R)
32. Mike Wilson (R)
33. Gerald Neal (D)
34. Jared Carpenter (R)
35. Denise Harper Angel (D)
36. Julie Raque Adams (R)
37. David Yates (D)
38. Mike Nemes (R)
House of Representatives
All 100 house districts were last up for election in 2020.
1. Steven Rudy (R)
2. Richard Heath (R)
3. Randy Bridges (R)
4. Lynn Bechler (R)
5. Mary Beth Imes (R)
6. Chris Freeland (R)
7. Suzanne Miles (R)
8. Walker Thomas (R)
9. Myron Dossett (R)
10. Josh Calloway (R)
11. Jonathan Dixon (R)
12. Jim Gooch (R)
13. DJ Johnson (R)
14. Scott Lewis (R)
15. Melinda Gibbons Prunty (R)
16. Jason Petrie (R)
17. Steve Sheldon (R)
18. Samara Heavrin (R)
19. Michael Meredith (R)
20. Patti Minter (D)
21. Bart Rowland (R)
22. Shawn McPherson (R)
23. Steve Riley (R)
24. Brandon Reed (R)
25. Jim DuPlessis (R)
26. Russell Webber (R)
27. Nancy Tate (R)
28. Charles Miller (D)
29. Kevin Bratcher (R)
30. Tom Burch (D)
31. Josie Raymond (D)
32. Tina Bojanowski (D)
33. Jason Nemes (R)
34. Mary Lou Marzian (D)
35. Lisa Willner (D)
36. Jerry T. Miller (R)
37. Jeffery Donohue (D)
38. McKenzie Cantrell (D)
39. Matt Lockett (R)
40. Nima Kulkarni (D)
41. Attica Scott (D)
42. Reginald Meeks (D)
43. Pamela Stevenson (D)
44. Joni Jenkins (D)
45. Killian Timoney (R)
46. Al Gentry (D)
47. Felicia Rabourn (R)
48. Ken Fleming (R)
49. Thomas Huff (R)
50. Chad McCoy (R)
51. John Carney (R)
52. Ken Upchurch (R)
53. James Tipton (R)
54. Daniel Elliott (R)
55. Kim King (R)
56. Daniel Fister (R)
57. Derrick Graham (D)
58. Jennifer Decker (R)
59. David Osborne (R)
60. Sal Santoro (R)
61. Savannah Maddox (R)
62. Phillip Pratt (R)
63. Kim Banta (R)
64. Kimberly Poore Moser (R)
65. Buddy Wheatley (D)
66. C. Ed Massey (R)
67. Rachel Roberts (D)
68. Joseph Fischer (R)
69. Adam Koenig (R)
70. William Lawrence (R)
71. Josh Bray (R)
72. Matthew Koch (R)
73. Ryan Dotson (R)
74. David Hale (R)
75. Kelly Flood (D)
76. Ruth Ann Palumbo (D)
77. George Brown Jr. (D)
78. Mark Hart (R)
79. Susan Westrom (D)
80. David Meade (R)
81. Deanna Frazier (R)
82. Regina Bunch (R)
83. Josh Branscum (R)
84. Chris Fugate (R)
85. Shane Baker (R)
86. Tom Smith (R)
87. Adam Bowling (R)
88. Cherlynn Stevenson (D)
89. Robert Goforth (R)
90. Derek Lewis (R)
91. Billy Wesley (R)
92. John Blanton (R)
93. Norma Kirk-McCormick (R)
94. Angie Hatton (D)
95. Ashley Tackett Laferty (D)
96. Patrick Flannery (R)
97. Bobby McCool (R)
98. Danny Bentley (R)
99. Richard White (R)
100. Scott Sharp (R)
Changes in membership
Senate changes
There were no changes in Senate membership during this session.
House of Representatives changes
There were no changes in House of Representatives membership during this session.
Committees
Senate committees
House of Representatives committees
See also
2020 Kentucky elections (elections leading to this session)
2020 Kentucky Senate election
2020 Kentucky House of Representatives election
Notes
References
Kentucky legislative sessions
2021 in Kentucky
Kentucky |
76854443 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swainsona%20plagiotropis | Swainsona plagiotropis | Swainsona plagiotropis, commonly known as red swainsona-pea is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern continental Australia. It is a prostrate or ascending perennial herb with imparipinnate leaves with 13 to 25 narrowly egg-shaped or narrowly lance-shaped leaflets and racemes of 2 to 5 reddish-purple flowers.
Description
Swainsona plagiotropis is a prostrate or ascending perennial herb, that typically grows to a height of up to and sometimes has hairy stems. Its leaves are imparipinnate, mostly long with 13 to 25 narrowly elliptic or narrowly egg-shaped leaflets with the narrower end towards the base, the side leaflets long and wide with broadly egg-shaped stipules mostly long at the base of the petioles. The flowers are reddish-purple, arranged in racemes of 2 to 5, the flowers long, on a hairy pedicel about long. The sepals are joined at the base to form a tube about long, with lobes longer than the tube. The standard petal is long and wide, the wings about long and the keel about long and deep. Flowering occurs from August to November, and the fruit is an oval to oblong pod long and long, with the remains of the strongly curved style long.
Taxonomy and naming
Swainsona plagiotropis was first formally described in 1875 by Ferdinand von Mueller in his Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae from a specimen he collected near the junction of the Murray and Campaspe Rivers.
Distribution
Red swainson-pea grows in grassland, often in table drains in the west of New South Wales and a few places in north-central Victoria, mostly along the upper Murray River.
Conservation status
Swainsona plagiotropis is listed as "vulnerable" under the Australian Government Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 and the Victorian Government, the New South Wales Government Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 and the Victorian Government Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988.
References
plagiotropis
Fabales of Australia
Flora of Victoria (state)
Flora of New South Wales
Plants described in 1875
Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller |
76854446 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night%20Curfew | Night Curfew | Night Curfew is a 2024 Indian Kannada-language crime thriller film directed by Ravindra Venshi and starring Malashri and Ranjani Raghavan. The film is set during the COVID-19 pandemic curfew and was released to mixed-to-negative reviews.
Cast
Reception
A critic from The Times of India rated the film three out of five stars and wrote that "Apart from a few flaws, Night Curfew can be a good one-time watch". A critic from The New Indian Express rated the film two-and-half out of five stars and wrote that "Night Curfew delivers what it sets out to do, even though it only holds up as a one-time watch". A critic from Times Now wrote that "Apart from Malashree and her typical on-screen action, Night Curfew is another ordinary film made against the backdrop of measures imposed to curb the spread of Coronavirus in 2021 and early 2022".
References
External links
Indian crime thriller films |
76854480 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis%20Siim | Dennis Siim | Dennis Michael Siim (born 10 April 1976) is a Danish former footballer who played as a midfielder for AGF.
Early life
Siim was born in 1976 in Denmark. He joined the youth academy of Danish side AGF at the age of five.
Career
Siim started his career with Danish side AGF. In 2001, he signed for Danish side OB. In 2004, he was sent on loan to Danish side Sønderjyske. In 2005, he signed for Icelandic side FH. After that, he signed for Icelandic side Randers. In 2006, he returned to Icelandic side FH. On 10 August 2006, he debuted for the club against Fylkir.
Style of play
Siim mainly operated as a midfielder. He operated as a left-back while playing for Danish side AGF.
Personal life
Siim's family has been based in Aarhus, Denmark. He has a daughter.
References
1976 births
Living people
Men's association football midfielders
Danish men's footballers
Danish Superliga players
Danish expatriate men's footballers
Danish expatriate sportspeople in Iceland
Expatriate men's footballers in Iceland |
76854486 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998%20Acropolis%20International%20Basketball%20Tournament | 1998 Acropolis International Basketball Tournament | The 12. Edition of the Acropolis International Basketball Tournament 1998 found between the 19th and 21st. July 1998 in the suburb Marousi, Athens. The total of six games were played in the Olympic Hall.
In addition to the host Greek national team the national teams from Poland and Japan also took part. The field of participants completed one NCAA-Selection from the United States. For Japan and Poland, the 1998 Acropolis tournament was the first participation in the competition.
Venues
Participating teams
College NCAA DI All Stars
Standings
|}
Results
Final standings
References
External links
Acropolis Tournament
Basket.gr Acropolis Cup History Search Results
Acropolis International Basketball Tournament
July 1998 sports events in Europe
1997–98 in European basketball
1998 in Greek sport
1998 in Japanese sport
1998 in Polish sport
1997–98 in American basketball |
76854509 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickliffe%20Cotton | Wickliffe Cotton | Wickliffe Albert Cotton (February 2, 1843 – March 19, 1912) was an American politician.
Wickliffe Cotton was born in Austintown, Ohio, on February 2, 1843. The Cotton family, including Wickliffe's older brother Aylett, moved to Clinton County, Iowa, the following year.
Wickliffe Cotton became a lawyer in Clinton County. Cotton was elected to a single four-year term on the Iowa Senate in 1881, representing District 22 as a Republican.
Cotton was married to Mary Wallace from September 21, 1870, to her death in 1910. He died in DeWitt on March 19, 1912.
References
1843 births
1912 deaths
19th-century American lawyers
19th-century American legislators
Republican Party Iowa state senators
People from DeWitt, Iowa
People from Austintown, Ohio
Iowa lawyers |
76854585 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%81ukasz%20Prokorym | Łukasz Prokorym | Łukasz Prokorym (born 23 June 1985) is a Polish politician who is serving since May 2024 as Marshal of Podlaskie Voivodeship.
Biography
He was born in Białystok and studied in University of Białystok. In the 2018 Polish local elections he ran in the election with Civic Platform to the Białystok City Council and won there a seat and in addition he was elected as the chairman of that body. In the 2024 Polish local elections he headed the Civic Platform list for the Podlaskie Voivodeship Sejmik and became a deputy. During the first session of the new legislature he was elected the Marshal of Podlaskie Voivodeship after gaining additional votes from two PiS deputies, Wiesława Burnos and Marek Malinowski, ousting the incumbent Marshal, Artur Kosicki.
External links
References
University of Białystok alumni
Politicians from Białystok
Voivodeship marshals of Poland
Living people
1985 births |
76854628 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaji%20bag | Gaji bag | Gaji bags () are large, typically unfastened bags with parallel handles that emerge from the sides of its pouch, often used as reusable shopping bags. Gaji bags originated from the rural village of Jing Liao in the Houbi District of Tainan, Taiwan during the Japanese Colonial Period.
Etymology
The name "Gaji" comes from the Japanese term for bag weaving, .
History
Initially woven by rice farmers seeking extra income, these bags were crafted from Cyperus malaccensis, a plant abundant in nearby marshes. During Taiwan's industrialisation in the 1960s, Gaji bags transitioned from plant to machine-sewn nylon mesh, offering higher durability and affordability. Thus, Gaji bags became popular Taiwanese household items due to their practicality, used by mothers for grocery shopping and farmers for harvests. However, they faced a decline in the 1980s among younger consumers seeking more fashionable alternatives.
The resurgence of Gaji bags began in the early-mid 2000s, after the documentary film Let It Be released in 2004 highlighted the resilience of Jing Liao farmers, while a famous singer adopting the Gaji bag as a logo further boosted its popularity.
Today, Gaji bags have evolved beyond traditional handbags, with designers incorporating the nylon mesh into various products. Available in a range of colours and styles, they appeal to both older generations, valuing heritage, and younger generations appreciating retro-chic aesthetics as well as foreign travellers to Taiwan.
References
External links
Bags (fashion)
Taiwanese fashion |
76854958 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2MASX%20J22550681%2B0058396 | 2MASX J22550681+0058396 | 2MASX J22550681+0058396 or known as PGC 1180817, is a type E-S0 lenticular galaxy located in constellation Pisces. It is located 733 million light-years from the Solar System and has an approximate diameter of 95,000 light-years.
Characteristics
2MASX J22550681+0058396 has an active galactic nucleus (AGN). It is a LINER galaxy whose nucleus presents an emission spectrum characterized by broad lines of weak ion atoms. This is an interesting object since not only it represents the most numerous active galactic nuclei population but the link between normal and active galaxies suggested by low-X-ray luminosity.
Moreover, 2MASX J22550681+0058396 is a post-starburst galaxy which is caused by end product of galaxies that have merged within the past billion years. The merger event had caused the gas to drive up to the center and created an abundance of new stars, of which the brightest are visible in the remanent galaxy's core. This might be due to burst duration increasing with stellar mass, from 120 to 250 Myr, indicating there is enough molecular gas available in close pairs to fuel the burst.
Visible shells and tails surrounding 2MASX J22550681+0058396, are also caused in which the shells are formed through radial merger events while tails are remnants of circular merger infall, suggesting that the orbital angular momentum plays a more crucial role in transforming the host galaxy as expected.
References
2MASS objects
SDSS objects
Principal Galaxies Catalogue objects
Lenticular galaxies
LINER galaxies
Pisces (constellation)
LEDA objects
Starburst galaxies |
76855101 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Duchess%20of%20Coolgardie | The Duchess of Coolgardie | The Duchess of Coolgardie is a 1896 British stage play by
Cyril Clare and Euston Leigh. It has been called an "important play" because of its overseas success.
The play was first produced at Drury Lane Theatre in London, where it was acted during the entire autumn Season of 1896, under the management of John Coleman. This production was backed by West Australian businessmen. The writers had never visited Australia but it was set in Western Australia.
The West Australian said the play "claimed the close attention of an immense audience, and each tableau was cheered with enthusiasm... a complete success, a success which has been generously endorsed by the leading press critics."
The Age called it " a melodrama of the crudest and most conventional type... sheer drivel from beginning to end, and it speaks very little for the common sense of the West Australian ring that they should have found tho money for so ridiculous a melodrama."
The play was presented in Australia in 1898 and 1899 by Alfred Dampier. The Sunday Times said the play is "seemingly, not one of very great merit from a literary standpoint. It is, hotvever.'a
piece full of life and color."
References
External links
The Duchess of Coolgardie at Ausstage
Complete text of play at Project Gutenberg
1896 plays
1890s Australian plays |
76855104 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepp%C3%A4 | Leppä | Leppä is a Finnish surname of Laine type literally meaning "alder". Notable people with the surname include:
Aleksi Leppä
Henry Leppä
, Finnish politician
, Finnish Olympic weightlifter
, Finnish politician
Leo Leppä
Perttu Leppä (born 1964), Finnish film director and writer
Sulho Leppä (1878–1918), Finnish politician
See also
References
Finnish surnames of Laine type |
76855159 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2boys.tv | 2boys.tv | Active since 2001, 2boys.tv (Stephen Lawson and Aaron Pollard) are a Canadian art duo based in Montreal, Quebec. Trained at the National Theatre School of Canada and at Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design and Concordia University, respectively, Lawson and Pollard are also known both as Gigi L’Amour and Pipi Douleur. This creative team and real-life couple work in video-supplemented performance, video itself, and installation and have presented in arts and queer spaces across the Western Hemisphere, Europe and New Zealand. The duo are known above all for extravagant and intense stage spectacles.
Performance studies scholar Peter Dickinson notes their performance work, "supplements a camp aesthetic derived from drag with sophisticated video projections, original and found sound scores, the art of lipsynch and object-oriented and site-based installation (...)". As artists, 2boys.tv are interested in the plasticity of video, often using it in a sculptural way instead of as a large screen.
The name 2boys.tv was in fact a result of looking for a web domain name for the project. "(...) we came across this .tv which both references transvestism and transversalism." the duo told The New York Times in a 2011 interview, "But it's actually the domain of the small island in the South Pacific called Tuvalu. The country sold off its domain name to raise money because it's sinking due to global warming. And, of course, we're two boys."
Selected performance and presentation history
CatoptROMANTICS (2019)
Encuentro - Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics (Mexico City)
The artists set up a seance-like environment for a participatory, bilingual performance that explored who is missing at the table. Language, translation and understanding were important themes and practices at Encuentro, with events in Portuguese, Spanish and English. Canadian Art (magazine) reported that performance studies scholar, Diana Taylor called this piece, 'significant'.
Tightrope (2011 - 2016)
2016 - Operación Queer (Granada, Nicaragua)
2015 - Phenomena Festival at La Sala Rossa (Montreal)
2015 - Bienal de la Habana (Cuba)
2013 - Encuentro - Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics (São Paulo)
2012 - Laboratorio Arte Alameda / International Festival of Cabaret (Mexico City)
2011 - Triennale, Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal (Montreal)
2011 - Buddies in Bad times (Toronto)
Tightrope includes original music by Alexis O’Hara and Radwan Ghazi Moumneh and kaleidoscopic video projections and shadow images by Montreal-based lighting designer, Lucie Bazzo. Taking its inspiration from the stories of the disappeared in South America, Tightrope offers a cast of young, local drag queens recruited from the cities to which the work has toured to channel an historical archive of grief and loss around HIV/AIDS. Together with their collaborators, Lawson and Pollard suit the spectating requirements of the local audiences by adapting the content of the piece, especially the language in which it is presented. Tightrope has been presented in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese, shifting the title of the piece for each location thusly: Tightrope (EN) / Code raide (FR) / Cuerda Floja (SP), Corda Bamba (PT). The show uses site-specificity as a key element. Since the piece debuted at Toronto's Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, every iteration begins outside, leading the audience on a public promenade from a place of local significance in the neighbourhood towards the performance venue. The 2015 version for Phénomena Festival performance processed from parc Lahaie in Montréal's Plateau Mont-Royal to the venue the Sala Rossa with members of Montréal drag troupe "House of Bogue" Judy Virago, CT Thorne, Jamie Ross, and 2Fik leading while O’Hara gave random spectators letters written by the show's creators to read out recounting different scenarios of vigil for the missing.
(re)Generation (2012)
Phenomena Festival at La Sala Rossa (Montreal)
Created to mark the 10th anniversary of 2boys.tv collaboration, (re)Generation pays tribute to the duo's body of cabaret work after Phenomena Festival asked them to produce a retrospective. Thinking with drag culture where knowledge is passed from queen to queen, instead of performing the retrospective themselves 2boys.tv cast favourite local drag artists to learn and embody the performances and, as Lawson says, "perhaps in a way own them afterwards." Lawson and Pollard were onsite, "like mad scientists to bring these Frankensteins to life." Re-performers included favourites of the Anglo-Montreal underground: Jordan Arseneault, Antonio Bavaro, Joshua Pavan, An T Horné, Holly Gaulthier-Frankel.
Phobophilia (2008, 2009, 2011)
2011 - Under the Radar Festival (NYC)
2009 - National Review of Live Art (Glasgow)
2008 - Studio 303 (Montreal)
date unknown - (Chile)
date unknown - (Argentina)
Designed as a meditation on fear following the Abu Ghraib photography torture scandal, Phobophilia (meaning 'arousal from fear') is a 1-hour, multimedia production performed for very small audiences, i.e.: 20 - 25 people at a time. Participants are blindfolded and led "in a human chain of trusting hands on shoulders" to a second location into the near-darkness of a small room to observe what Lawson calls "a peculiar interrogation". Canadian performance studies scholar Peter Dickinson notes, "In this piece a pop-up book is transformed into a scale-model theatre, which Lawson’s projected shadow self navigates in a way that contrasts with our initial glimpse of his live body: perched precariously on a box, arms outstretched, head hooded by a paper bag (...)." Projection and shadow are used in this very dark, surreal, highly visual and sonic piece referencing the poetic and cinematographic World War II era work of Jean Cocteau. The piece examines the line between fear, torture, their sexualization, and pop culture's voyeurism of both. "It is a project specifically designed to address fear, as an emotional but also as a political weapon" Pollard told Le Devoir.
Zona Pellucida (2009)
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre (Toronto)
The title, Zona Pellucida refers to the translucent protective material around a human egg. This 45-minute performance that Toronto's NOW magazine called, "Queer film theory meets stylish techno-savvy (...)" works with multiple, small format projection and frequent audio samples of Vincenzo Bellini's opera La Sonnambula and Bing Crosby's Just One More Chance to create a dreamlike, filmic puzzle. An interrupted fairy tale allegory is re-played via projection on a succession smaller and smaller miniature proscenium stages in what scholar Dickinson suggests is a mise en abyme of each previous version. Lawson plays a gothic drag queen who communicates mainly through classic lines of film dialogue, invoking many campy screen heroines from cult movies, such as Anne Baster from All About Eve, Gene Rowlands from Opening Night and Elizabeth Taylor from Suddenly, Last Summer. These lip synchings convey a sense of alienation and distance exploring themes of victimization, internal struggle with sexuality, and guilt. Critics have compared the effect to the works of film maker David Lynch and Quebec Playwrights, Marie Brassard and Robert Lepage.
Battle Hymn (2002, 2013)
2013 - Dixon Place (NYC)
2002 - Club Plastic, Festival Mix Milano (Milan)
Installation
ARCADE series (2009, 2011)
2011 - darlingARCADE - Darling Foundry / Urban Occupations Urbaines
2009 - boutiqueARCADE - Festival Les Escales Improbables
An ongoing work for the duo, the 2011 variation collaborated with an artist-run centre and Shauna Janssen's curatorial collective Urban Occupations Urbaines, creating a site-based installation in Griffintown, one of Montreal's many historically working-class and rapidly gentrifying neighbourhoods. Collaborators from the Montreal art scene were hired to produce short audio narratives with diorama's contained in shoeboxes which were animated by Lawson & Pollard when visitors selected a corresponding shoe from display on the walls of the venue. Laura Levin writing for Canadian Theatre Review remarked, "Soon, I had toured a dozen shoeboxes on my own, experiencing memetic, fantastical, strange, and celebratory performances."
Persephone (2007)
La Biennale de Montréal
In this new-genre cabaret performance and installation moving beyond cross-dressing and gender-bending, the duo collapses linguistic distinctions, bridges the divide between stage, gallery and street, and operates as actor, director, and audience to produce an incessant relocation of boundaries.
Selected film and video
Teddy Bears’ Picnic (2001)
15 Questions (Something Blue) (2002)
Publications
Lawson, Stephen. "Emcee Etiquettes: Experts Weigh In on How to Host the Perfect Cabaret Night." Canadian Theatre Review, vol. 177, 2019, p. 67-72.
Pollard, Aaron and Stephen Lawson. "Bonus Insert." Canadian Theatre Review, vol. 150, 2012, p. 1-17.
Pollard, Aaron and Stephen Lawson. "Tightrope, Translation and Transformation." Performance Research, vol. 21:5, 2016, p. 131-133.
Prizes and awards
2009 Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award for outstanding achievement by a mid career artist working in the Interdisciplinary Arts, Canada Council for the Arts
References
External links
Official website
Art duos
Canadian performance artists
Canadian video artists
Canadian queer artists
Living people
20th-century Canadian LGBT people
21st-century Canadian LGBT people
Canadian drag performers
Canadian LGBT artists
Canadian artist groups and collectives |
76855252 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Containbow | The Containbow | The Containbow is a sculpture located on Canning Highway towards Fremantle. It depicts 9 containers all depicted with the colours corresponding to the Rainbow and all of the 9 containers were recycled sea containers promoting the environmental friendly campaign. The sculpture has became a prominent landmark in Fremantle over the years and is also known to be a Fremantle icon.
The sculpture is situated overlooking the Swan River and Fremantle Port and right next to Canning Highway making it easy for tourist to capture images while driving past.
Tourism
The sculpture over time has became a popular tourism landmark in Perth and received widespread popularity on Instagram with multiple popular social media icons posing in front of the sculpture.
References
2016 sculptures
Tourist attractions in Perth, Western Australia
Public art in Western Australia
Sculptures in Australia |
76855290 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish%20Film%20Academy | Swedish Film Academy | The Swedish Film Academy (), formerly the Swedish Film Society (Svenska Filmsamfundet), is a Swedish association that promotes film in artistic, cultural, and technical terms. It is located in Stockholm, and awards the annual Kurt Linder Scholarship to young filmmakers who have made significant contributions to the Swedish film industry.
History
Like the Swedish Film Institute, the origins of the Swedish Film Academy (Svenska Filmakademin) are in the Swedish Film Society (Svenska Filmsamfundet), which was established in October 1933 by filmmakers and writers Bengt Idestam-Almquist, Arne Bornebusch, Artur Lundkvist, Gustaf Molander, Per-Axel Branner, and others. Writer Eyvind Johnson was also a member.
The society created a film archive and museum, which later achieved independence as Filmhistoriska samlingarna, and was in 1964 donated to the newly-formed Swedish Film Institute.
The other activity of the society was organising and hosting debates and lectures, and awarding scholarships for filmmaking. In 1967, the Swedish Film Association transformed itself into the Swedish Film Academy, and continued these activities. Director Gösta Werner was the inaugural president of the new academy.
Functions
The Swedish Film Academy continues to promote film in artistic, cultural, and technical terms.
Governance and membership
The Swedish Film Academy is governed by a board comprising eight people, known as the Presidium. New members can be proposed by the Presidium, and need to be elected to the academy. the president is Bo-Erik Gyberg.
the academy has around 140 members, who pay an annual fee of 300 Swedish krona after being elected.
Scholarships and other awards
Kurt Linder Scholarship
The academy has awarded the Kurt Linder Scholarship, also known as Kurt Linder Memorial Fund Grant, almost every year since 1969, when the inaugural scholarship was awarded to cinematographer Jörgen Persson. Kurt Linder (1912−1955) was chairman of the student film studio from 1939 to 1945, and later worked on a volunteer basis in the library of the Swedish Film Society. He also wrote articles, and was employed from 1938 until his death as advertising manager at Columbia Film AB in Stockholm.
Eligibility is limited to people under 35 who have made significant contributions to Swedish film. the scholarship is worth 20,000 krona.
Silver Plaquette
The Swedish Film Academy's Silver Plaquette (Svenska Filmakademins silverplakett) was awarded to filmmakers in some years between 1968 and 1994, when at least five were awarded. The award itself was a silver disc of diameter, featuring a naked man with a laurel in one hand, and embossed with the words "Svenska Filmakademin".
References
External links
Film organizations in Sweden
1933 establishments in Sweden |
76855307 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC%203683 | IC 3683 | IC 3683 known as PGC 1637726, is a barred spiral galaxy with a ring structure located in Coma Berenices. It is located 853 million light-years from the Solar System and has an apparent dimension of 0.30 x 0.2 arcmin. IC 3683 was discovered by Max Wolf on January 27, 1904.
References
IC objects
Barred spiral galaxies
Principal Galaxies Catalogue objects
LEDA objects
Coma Berenices
Astronomical objects discovered in 1904
Discoveries by Max Wolf |
76855361 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listed%20buildings%20in%20Burton-on-Yore | Listed buildings in Burton-on-Yore | Burton-on-Yore is a civil parish in the former Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England. It contains ten listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, four are listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish does not contain any settlements, and the listed buildings consist of houses, farmhouses and associated structures.
Key
Buildings
References
Citations
Sources
Lists of listed buildings in North Yorkshire |
76855423 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonaly | Sonaly | The Sonaly () is a river in the Nura District, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan. It has a length of and a drainage basin of .
It is the second most important tributary of the Kulanotpes. Sonaly village is located upriver from its mouth.
Course
The Sonaly river originates in the Amantau (Амантау), a small massif of the Kazakh Uplands. Its source is in the southeastern slopes, to the NNW of lake Shoshkakol. It heads first southwestwards and describes a wide arch bending westwards and northwestwards while still in its upper reaches. Then it heads roughly northwards all along its course. In its last stretch it bends northwestwards and joins the left bank of the Kulanotpes. The border of Korgalzhyn District, Akmola Region, stretches along the opposite bank.
The river valley is wide and its channel is bound by steep banks. In the summer the Sonaly usually stops flowing and splits into disconnected pools.
See also
List of rivers of Kazakhstan
References
External links
The Great Silk Road in Central and Eastern Kazakhstan
Karaganda Region
Rivers of Kazakhstan
Kazakh Uplands
Tengiz basin |
76855425 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khatgavhan | Khatgavhan | Khatgavhan is village in Majalgaon taluka of Beed district, situated on the banks of Godavari river.
Administration
As per the Constitution of India and Panchayat Raj Act, the village is administered by Sarpanch under Beed Zilla Parishad.
Demographics
According to the 2011 census of India, there are 1072 people living in the village with 242 families.
2021 protests
The protests in Khatgavhan have been sparked by the failure of the 'Agriculture Insurance Company of India' to provide farmers with the insurance compensation they were promised. Despite receiving a total insurance amount of 860 crores from both central and state governments, farmers have only received a fraction of it, amounting to just 13 crores. This disparity has led to widespread discontent among farmers, prompting strikes and hunger strikes organized by the Shetkari Sangharsha Samiti (Farmers' Struggle Committee) under the leadership of Gangabhishan Thaware. The protests have seen active participation from various farmers, demanding fair compensation for their losses.
References
Villages in Beed district
Villages in Maharashtra
Gram Panchayats in Maharashtra
Places situated on the banks of the Godavari river |
76855460 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC%204588 | IC 4588 | IC 4588 is a type E elliptical galaxy located in the constellation Serpens. It is located 729 million light-years from the Solar System and has a dimension of 0.30 x 0.3 arcmin meaning its diameter is 64,000 light-years across. IC 4588 was discovered by Stephane Javelle on July 15, 1903.
Supernova
One supernova has been discovered in IC 4588 so far: SN 2023ifv.
SN 2023ifv
SN 2023ifv was discovered on May 13, 2023 by ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) which was developed by the University of Hawaii. It was reported by multiple astronomers from University of Hawaii, South African Astronomical Observatory, ESO, UAI Obstech, Oxford/QUB, Queen's University Belfast, Oxford and Harvard; via a cyan-ATLAS filter which was taken using ATLAS Haleakala telescope. The supernova reached a magnitude of 18.
On May 19, 2023, C. Fremling, D. Neill, and Y. Sharma on the behalf of the SDEM Team from Caltech and the Zwicky Transient Facility, confirmed SN 2023ifv to be a Type Ia supernova. The supernova probably resulted from the destruction of a white dwarf in a binary system.
References
IC objects
Serpens
Elliptical galaxies
2MASS objects
SDSS objects
Principal Galaxies Catalogue objects
LEDA objects
Astronomical objects discovered in 1903 |
76855478 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odontoptera%20toulgoeti | Odontoptera toulgoeti | Odontoptera toulgoeti is a species of South American lanternfly.
Identification
Like other Odontoptera, this species has a green body, an elongate cephalic process, and an apically oblique wing. It is distinguished from Odontoptera spectabilis by the cephalic process apically lifted, the eyespot on the tegmen distinct, the anal angle not falcate and the browning on the tegmen covering the entire apical third of tegmen but gradiented from the green basal two thirds. The last feature also distinguishes it from Odontoptera carrenoi.
References
Fulgorinae
Insects described in 2004
Hemiptera of South America |
76855491 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StickyLock | StickyLock | StickyLock B.V. (trade name: StickyLock or StickyLock Games or StickyLock Studios) is an independent game development studio and publisher based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The studio was founded in 2018 and as of 2024 it has more than 50 employees. The studio is also known for its projects in Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and serious games.
Projects
Histera
Histera is an upcoming multiplayer first-person shooter with a "Glitch" mechanic that transforms sections of the play area in real-time during the game, with scenery from one time period changing to scenery from a different period. StickyLock is developing and publishing the game. The game is scheduled for Early Access release on Steam on May 16, 2024.
A game demo was available to play during Steam Next Fest in October 2023.
Woven
Woven is a single-player third-person adventure game developed by Alterego Games and published by StickyLock. It was released on Android, iPad, iPhone, Steam, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox One on November 15, 2019. Woven invites players to embark on a journey through a world of fabric, filled with puzzles and exploration.
The game received a 63 "Mixed or Average" rating on Xbox One, and didn't earn enough reviews to receive a rating on other platforms. On Steam it has a "Mostly Positive" rating. It was nominated for Best Narrative Design at the Gamebakery Awards in 2020.
Sanity of Morris
Sanity of Morris is a psychological thriller developed by Alterego Games and published by StickyLock, offering players a mystery narrative set in the town of Morris.
Shadows's Edge
Shadow's Edge is a mobile game created by Digging Deep and co-developed by StickyLock and Little Chicken Game Company. The game is available on iOS and Android. It was released on October 16, 2017. The game is designed to help young people cope with chronic illness. Shadow's Edge combines gameplay with therapeutic storytelling, providing players with a safe and supportive environment to express themselves and explore their emotions.
Spark - Albert Cuypgarage VR
Spark - Albert Cuypgarage VR is a virtual reality (VR) experience developed by StickyLock in collaboration with local authorities. This project offers users a unique perspective on urban planning and infrastructure, allowing them to explore the Albert Cuypgarage in VR and gain insights into its design and impact on the surrounding environment. The Albert Cuypgarage is an underground parking garage seen as innovative due to its being the first parking garage to be built under an existing canal in the Netherlands.
References
External links
Video game companies of the Netherlands
2018 establishments in the Netherlands |
76855532 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stian%20Kristiansen%20%28film%20director%29 | Stian Kristiansen (film director) | Stian Kristiansen (born 9 August 1972) is a Norwegian film director.
Born in Stavanger, he was educated at Stavanger University College as well as Lillehammer University College's film institute. For the film The Man Who Loved Yngve, Kristiansen won three Amanda Awards for Best Film, Best Youth Film and Best Direction. Kristiansen followed up this adaption of a Tore Renberg novel with other adaptations of Renberg's work, I Travel Alone (2011) and Videogutten (2013, a short film based on Renberg's novella). Kristiansen also directed the youth movie Kiss Me You Fucking Moron (2013).
In 2019 in Sola he married actress Eili Harboe, 22 years his junior.
References
1972 births
Living people
People from Stavanger
University of Stavanger alumni
Lillehammer University College alumni
Norwegian film directors |
76855595 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAA%20Training%20Aviation%20Academy | BAA Training Aviation Academy | BAA Training Aviation Academy is a global aviation training center founded in 2006 with offices in Spain, France, Lithuania and Vietnam. It offers a wide range of programs, including Ab Initio, Type Rating, Cabin Crew, Ground Handling, and Flight Dispatcher training. BAA Training Aviation Academy operates 12 flight simulation training devices (FSTDs), including 4 full flight simulators (FFSs) at their training center in Vilnius, Lithuania, 2 FFSs in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 3 FFSs and 2 FTDs in Barcelona, Spain, as well as 2 FFSs in Paris, France. Through an extensive partnership network of 69+ FFS in 29+ locations, BAA Training Aviation Academy is well-equipped to provide aviation training worldwide for various aircraft types. Based at Lleida-Alguaire International Airport in Spain, the Ab Initio school operates with a fleet of 9 aircraft.
In 2023, the company expanded its fleet of pilot training aircraft by purchasing 48 Cessna 172 Skyhawk aircraft from Textron Aviation, making the largest pilot training base in Europe (in Spain).
History
In 2006, the flyLAL Training Centre was established, fully owned by flyLAL Group. It provided training for B737CL and SAAB 2000 pilots and cabin crew.
In 2009, the academy changed its name to Baltic Aviation Academy as part of a new business strategy.
In 2012, Intelligent business management software, MOMook, designed specifically for aviation training centers, was introduced.
In 2015, Baltic Aviation Academy became BAA Training Aviation Academy. In 2016, the academy purchased an Airbus A320 touch screen trainer, enhancing flight training preparation on the full flight simulator and the first cadet program was launched. In 2018, BAA Training Aviation Academy purchased an Airbus A320 Door and Slide Trainer for cabin crew and pilot training. A BAA Training Vietnam training center in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, was established. BAA Training Aviation Academy opened a new flight base in Lleida-Alguaire International Airport.
In June 2020, BAA Training and China's state-owned Henan Civil Aviation Development opened a second Asia-Pacific pilot training center in China, having invested 53 million euro. In 2021, the company opened a training facility in Spain and established an MRO in Spain called Avia Repair Co. It also secured €31 million financing was secured for global expansion. In the same year, the academy launched a new Boeing 737 MAX Type Rating Program, virtual reality-based pilot training and signed a long-term agreement with Bamboo Airways on full flight simulator leasing.
In 2022, the academy launched a new pilot training program in cooperation with ENAC and a new cadet program with a pilot job guarantee. BAA Training Aviation Academy also signed a contract to provide Air France with Airbus A320 Type Rating services.
Cadet Programs
As of 2023, BAA Training Aviation Academy offered cadet programs with the following airlines: SmartLynx, Avion Express, Vueling, and its own BAA Training Aviation Academy cadet program with a job guarantee. It also has a history of cadet programs with other operators, such as LOT Polish Airlines, Wizz Air, and Turkish Airlines. The vast majority of Wizz Air and Turkish Airlines cadets (182 in total) were employed by the respective airlines after the training.
Locations
A flight base at Lleida-Alguaire International Airport in Spain ensures all-year-round student training.
BAA Training Aviation Academy Lithuania is the academy's headquarters, a pilot ground school and a training center with four full flight simulators.
The subsidiary in Asia operates two full flight simulators along with other advanced training equipment, serving students from Vietnam and neighboring countries, such as Thailand, Cambodia and Malaysia.
BAA Training Aviation Academy Spain training center near Barcelona-El Prat Airport is home to 3 full flight simulators and two flight training devices.
BAA Training Aviation Academyopens a subsidiary near Paris-Orly Airport in France in Q3 of 2023. By the end of the year, it will operate four full flight training devices.
References
Aviation schools
Organizations based in Vilnius
Educational organizations based in Lithuania |
76855619 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998%20Central%20American%20Championships%20in%20Athletics | 1998 Central American Championships in Athletics | The 13th Central American Championships in Athletics were held at the Estadio Mateo Flores in Guatemala City, Guatemala, between 26 and 28 November 1998.
A total of 42 events were contested, 21 by men, 21 by women.
Medal summary
Men
Women
Medal table (unofficial)
References
Central American Championships
Central American Championships in Athletics
Central American Championships in Athletics
International athletics competitions hosted by Guatemala |
76855690 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%20Society%20%22O%C5%9Bwiata%22 | Polish Society "Oświata" | The Polish Society "Oświata" (also known as the Society "Oświata" and "Oświata") was a Polish social organization founded in 1905, operating in Minsk and in the Minsk Governorate of the Russian Empire. Until 1907, its activities were carried out clandestinely, legally from 1907 to 1909, and then again clandestinely. The society aimed to educate the inhabitants of the Minsk region, especially children, in the spirit of Polishness, as well as to disseminate Polish culture, language, and strengthen national consciousness in these lands. The organization was persecuted, and during its legal activity, it was treated with hostility by the Russian authorities because strengthening Polish identity in the annexed lands contradicted the state administration's strategy of Russification and assimilation.
Poles in Minsk and Minsk Governorate
At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the Polish-speaking population and/or those declaring Polish nationality constituted a significant minority in Minsk and the Minsk Governorate. According to the census organized in 1897 in the Russian Empire, in the city of Minsk, people considering Polish as their native language accounted for 11.4% of the population, being the third largest linguistic group after those speaking Yiddish (51.2%) and Russian (25.5%). In the entire Minsk Governorate, according to the same census, people considering Polish as their native language constituted 3% of the population, trailing behind Belarusian (76%), Yiddish (16%), and Russian (3.9%). In absolute numbers, according to the census, there were 10,369 Polish-speaking individuals in Minsk and 64,617 in the Minsk Governorate. According to the census conducted in December 1919 in the territories administered by the Civil Administration of the Eastern Lands (the temporary Polish administration during the Polish–Soviet War), Poles constituted 18.3% of the population in Minsk, being the third ethnic group after Jews (44.9%) and Belarusians (22.9%). In the entire Minsk District, according to the same census, Poles constituted 14.6% of the population, second only to Belarusians (64.5%). In absolute numbers, there were 18,713 Poles in Minsk and 159,706 in the Minsk District.
Circumstances of creation
On 12 December 1904, with the advent of the so-called "liberal times" in the Russian Empire, a tsarist decree was issued partially lifting restrictions on the teaching of the Polish language. It allowed for its instruction in Russian elementary and secondary schools as an optional subject, conducted outside of mandatory class hours, for an additional high fee. This fee was higher the fewer parents expressed a desire to send their children to such classes. Such conditions did not meet the educational needs of the Polish community residing in the Minsk Governorate. They expected not only the teaching of the native language to their children but also education in a Polish patriotic spirit. Therefore, efforts were made to establish educational institutions with a purely Polish character.
In mid-1905, the illegal Polish Society "Oświata" was established in Minsk. Its founders were Father Kazimierz Mikołaj Michalkiewicz, Jan Offenberg, Michalina Łęska, and Mieczysław Porowski. The society's activity mainly involved coordinating and expanding Polish clandestine education, which, according to reports from the tsarist police, was widespread in the Minsk Governorate. On 4 March 1906, a decree facilitating the establishment of social organizations was issued. In connection with this, Polish educational activists in Minsk decided to engage in public activities, which in their opinion could bring much better results. The Polish Society "Oświata" was officially registered by the Russian authorities on 11 January 1907. On March 12, a founding meeting took place, during which, according to witnesses, there was a general excitement and eagerness to work. The organization's statute was adopted, and the first board was elected. It included: president – Father Kazimierz Mikołaj Michalkiewicz, vice president – doctor Jan Offenberg, secretary – doctor Czesław Grabowiecki, treasurer – lawyer Zygmunt Węcławowicz. After Father Michalkiewicz left Minsk in 1908, the position of president remained vacant, and his duties were performed by the then vice president Mieczysław Porowski. The Society's Council also included priests: Kazimierz Bukraba, Adam Lisowski, and I. Krukowski.
Program
According to the statute, the organization's program aimed at the intellectual and moral upliftment of all layers of the Polish society in the Minsk Governorate. Its implementation was to take place through comprehensive cultural and educational activities, including the establishment of Polish schools, running a library, organizing lectures, and summer camps for children. However, in practice, the intention to open Polish schools could not be realized because it required the approval of the Russian authorities each time. Throughout the entire period of the society's legal operation, Russian officials never once granted permission to open a Polish school in the Minsk region and in other territories of the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth to the east of Minsk.
Structure and operations
The society had its main headquarters in Minsk and five provincial branches: in Mazyr, Pinsk, Uzda, Novogrudok, and Rakaw. It was divided into sections dealing with various areas of activity: elementary education, adult literacy education, teacher training seminars, summer camps, lectures, libraries, book lending, and financial:
The section for elementary education focused on teaching children in secret classes. This was illegal activity. The education had a coordinated character and was based on a uniform curriculum. Due to the conditions of secrecy, its exact scope is not known. According to Mieczysław Porowski, there were approximately half a thousand children taught in 32 groups in Minsk. In the initial period of the society's existence, this work was not heavily pursued by the authorities. However, in 1911, with the increasing effectiveness of police repression, the number of students decreased, for example, in Minsk to around 400.
The section for adult literacy education taught illiterate adults reading and writing skills, and introduced them to social work. In Minsk, about 180 people were taught with its help, mainly craftsmen.
The teacher training seminar section focused on preparing female teachers for educational work among the people. This activity was significant because the expansion of educational activities created a significant demand for female teachers, and at the same time, few candidates had suitable qualifications, especially in terms of proficiency in the Polish language. Therefore, the section aimed to conduct fast training courses. From the beginning to the end of its existence, it operated illegally. It was led by Michalina Łęska and Anna Czekotowska. Initially, in December 1905, there were six-month courses for female teachers opened in Minsk. Soon, the illegal Polish Society "Oświata" took over the supervision, gradually transforming them into teacher training seminars. It had two departments – completing the higher one gave the title of a people's teacher, while the lower one – so-called "rural" teacher. The most involved person in this venture was Michalina Łęska, who dealt with organizational matters of the seminar, conducted classes, and helped weaker students. The teacher training courses included subjects strictly related to promoting Polishness (Polish language, history and literature, Catholic religion) as well as other disciplines: nature, arithmetic, singing, children's games, pedagogy, and methodology. Participants also familiarized themselves with popular publications. However, Belarusian and Russian issues were treated in a specific way. Although Belarusian and Russian languages were taught, support for the Belarusian national movement was not provided. Teachers expressing opinions that schools should be non-denominational or conducted in the Belarusian language were sidelined from work. The seminar ceased its activities in 1911 due to the intensified fight against illegal Polish education by the Russian police.
The section for summer camps was created for the poorest children from cities, e.g., from Minsk. It organized summer camps for them on the estates of landowners, e.g., in Sawicz, Ustronie, Nacza, and Ihnatycze. Their aim was the mental and physical development of the children educated. Jadwiga Kostrowicka, the sister of Edward Woyniłłowicz, was the initiator of running camps in Sawicz.
The lecture section aimed to disseminate Polish culture through presentations, lectures, and popular talks. Its activities began on 29 April 1907. It was led by Jan Offenberg, and provincial branches of "Oświata" took an active part in it. For example, the Pinsk branch dealt exclusively with organizing lectures on Polish literature and vocabulary, which, according to a report by the Russian police, contributed to the growth of Polish national consciousness. Events organized by the lecture section were highly popular among the audience.
The library and book lending section were established with the permission of the Russian authorities on 22 December 1907 for the establishment of a Polish library by "Oświata" in Minsk. This facility was officially opened on 4 May 1908. At the time of its launch, it had 700 books, most of which were donated by Józef Tyszkiewicz from Lahoysk, while the rest were purchased from the bookstore of Wacław Leon Makowski. Despite giving permission for the opening of this facility, the Russian authorities consistently rejected similar requests from provincial branches of the society. For example, on 14 October 1908, a request from the Pinsk branch was rejected. In 1915, the Minsk library was located in the rectory of the Church of Saints Simon and Helena. It was initiated by Jadwiga Kostrowicka.
The financial section was responsible for collecting funds for the society's activities and educational work. Membership fees were collected, but they were not enough to meet the needs. Polish education faced constant financial problems, often relying on a foundation of debts and hopes. With the aim of acquiring other sources of funding, concerts, lectures, annual balls were organized, which were popular and brought significant income. "Oświata" was also supported by donors. Significant donations for its activities were made by, among others: Father Kazimierz Mikołaj Michalkiewicz, Wilhelm Jelski, Marian Obiezierski, and Konstanty Prószyński from Ustronie. The society announced its budgetary data, including expenditure data, for the needs of the authorities, but the values provided were often fictitious because the management concealed funds spent on secret Polish schools.
Pogoń magazine project
On 17 October 1907, the Polish Society "Oświata" presented a project for the publication of a Polish magazine titled Pogoń in Minsk. The intention was for it to be a weekly publication featuring texts on religion, history, social and political matters, literature, and specialized topics. The request for permission to publish it was made to the authorities by Włodzimierz Dworzaczek, the former editor-in-chief of the Kiev weekly Kresy, with the support of the society. On 18 January 1908, the Russian authorities responded positively. The idea generated significant interest among the Polish community. Discussions were held, including in the pages of the Vilnius Polish press, regarding the nature of the future publication. There were debates about whether Pogoń should be a daily or a weekly for the people. Ultimately, although the magazine project was well thought out, it was not realized. It was not possible to gather the required number of 4,000 subscribers, which would guarantee the cost recovery of the publication.
Working conditions of teachers
The Polish Society "Oświata" oversaw a network of illegal Polish schools. Graduates of the teacher training seminars run by the society were directed to work in these schools. The conditions of their work were harsh. They received symbolic remuneration, barely enough to survive, and it was often withheld during the summer break. This was particularly problematic in rural areas, where due to agricultural work, the school year lasted from October 1 to April 1, or sometimes even shorter. Often, the main factor determining the continuation of educational work was the gratitude and attachment of the children.
Attitude of the population
The attitude of the indigenous population of the Minsk Governorate towards the educational activities of the Polish Society "Oświata" was generally positive. Parents willingly sent their children to learn in illegal Polish schools, despite the risk of punishment if the practice was discovered by the Russian police. Occasionally, there were cases of reporting the rural teachers to the authorities. Sometimes, even Catholic priests and landowners, traditionally associated with Polish culture in these lands, were involved in such reports. They were likely motivated by fear of repression or enlightenment among the lower social classes, which landowners might have perceived as unfavorable to their interests. However, these were isolated cases. Sometimes, peasants justified sending their children to Polish schools because that's what the landlord wanted.
Some Russian organizations, including members of the so-called Black Hundreds, protested against the development of Polish education. From 28 to 31 August 1908 in Minsk, a congress of the "Orthodox Brotherhood" took place, where a resolution was adopted demanding stricter punishment for clandestine teaching. Negative opinions were also expressed in the Russian press.
Attitude of Russian authorities
From its founding in 1905 until its registration in 1907, the Polish Society "Oświata" operated clandestinely and illegally. Its activities were monitored by the Russian authorities and opposed, although not very intensively. In January 1907, the society was legalized. However, this did not mean that efforts to strengthen Polish identity would be tolerated. The authorities believed that such efforts hindered the assimilation of the Polish element by the Russian and, in various ways, obstructed the activities of "Oświata" and similar organizations in the western part of the Russian Empire. Continuous and detailed inspections were conducted to find any violations of the statutes, which could serve as grounds for its closure. In the spring of 1909, the governor of Minsk assessed that closing "Oświata" would be difficult because it did not violate the law, and its members generally did not establish schools or officially finance them.
In 1909, the chief of police of Mozyrsky Uyezd issued a report stating that the local branch of the Society "Oświata" was illegally operating five schools there. This served as the basis for the organization's disbandment. Consequently, and also because the Russian authorities had previously disbanded similar organizations in Kyiv and Vilnius, the general assembly of the Minsk "Oświata" on 5 December 1909 decided to self-dissolve the organization. In reality, the society returned to clandestine activities.
From 1909 onwards, there was a significant intensification of the fight against illegal Polish education. These actions proved effective and led to the restriction of the Polish educational network. To reduce the risk of discovering clandestine schools, in 1911, the leadership of "Oświata" instructed that secret classes should consist of no more than four children. This significantly reduced the number of students but also led to the creation of more clandestine schools and increased involvement in Polish education among the Minsk bourgeoisie.
Termination of operations
Under the increasing pressure from the Russian authorities, the activities of "Oświata" gradually dwindled. As late as October 1911, the police received reports that Mieczysław Porowski and Father Kazimierz Bukraba were organizing illegal Polish education in Minsk. Illegal gatherings of Polish teachers were also organized every year. The situation only changed in 1917. The liberalization in education following the February Revolution allowed for the resumption of legal activities in this field. On April 20 (May 3), 1917, the Polish Educational Society of the Minsk Region was established, with its board including creators and leading activists of the former "Oświata," such as Mieczysław Porowski, Michalina Łęska, and Zygmunt Węcławowicz.
References
Bibliography
Education in Minsk
Organizations established in 1905
Organizations disestablished in 1909
History of Minsk
Minsk Governorate |
76855696 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne%20Austin%20%28writer%29 | Anne Austin (writer) | Anne Austin (September 13, 1895 – ?) was an American journalist and writer of romance and mystery novels.
Biography
Anne Austin was born in Waco, Texas. She married Charles Benson in 1912, whom she divorced soon after the birth of their child, Ellen Elizabeth. In 1922, she married Stewart Edmund Book (whom she also divorced). From 1912 to 1914 she attended Baylor University. Her first occupation was as a high school teacher in Marfa and Moody, Texas. She then worked as a feature and fiction writer and a dramatic critic for the Waco Morning News, the Kansas City Post, and other periodicals. From 1926 to 1930, she wrote for Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA Service), where she produced several serialized romance novels that were later published as books. In 1934, one of them was turned into the movie A Wicked Woman.
In 1929, Austin's first mystery novel The Black Pigeon was serialized in newspapers and subsequently published as a book. The story, written in the heyday of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, was a success and translated into several languages (e.g., German and French), which led to five more mystery novels featuring the investigator James "Bonnie" Dundee.
Starting in 1933, Austin was under contract as a writer at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios; in 1939, she was living in Hollywood, California. After the 1930s, she published no more books and seems to have disappeared entirely from the public; nothing is known about her further life.
Mother of child prodigy
Austin's only child, Ellen Elizabeth Benson (born 1913 in Waco, Texas), was measured with an I.Q. of 214 at the age of 8, then the highest ever recorded, and became a celebrity. At 13, during her sophomore year at Barnard College in New York City, she published a book of her own, The Younger Generation. In a series of newspaper articles, Austin described how she managed to support her child while being a single working mother, unusual at the time.
Publications
Mystery novels
The Black Pigeon, New York: Greenberg (1929); previously serialized in newspapers in 1929
The Avenging Parrot, New York: Greenberg (1930); previously serialized in newspapers in 1929. This novel introduced the investigator James "Bonnie" Dundee, who was also featured in the following mysteries.
Murder Backstairs, New York: The Macmillan Company (1930); previously serialized in newspapers in 1930
Murder at Bridge, New York: The Macmillan Company (1931); previously serialized in newspapers in 1930
One Drop of Blood, New York: The Macmillan Company (1932)
Murdered, But Not Dead, New York: The Macmillan Company (1939)
Resurrected Press reissued all of Austin's mystery novels between 2012 and 2015.
Other novels
Jackson Street, New York: Greenberg (1927)
Daughters of Midas, Chicago: The White House (1929)
The Penny Princess, Chicago: The White House (1929)
Girl Alone, Chicago: The White House (1930)
Rival Wives, Chicago: The White House (1930)
A Wicked Woman, New York: The Macmillan Company (1933)
Saint and Sinner (1936)
References
1895 births
American women novelists
American women mystery writers
Year of death missing |
76855797 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petras%20Kirlys | Petras Kirlys | Petras Kirlys (9 July 1891 – 28 July 1940) was a Lithuanian military officer and head of the Lithuanian intelligence services, periodically serving from 1923 to 1930.
Biography
Petras Kirlys was born on 9 July 1891 in the village of Bogušiškiai (modern-day Kamajai area) in the Kovno Governorate of the Russian Empire to Juozapas Kirlys and Karolina Smalskytė. He studied at the Imperial Moscow University from 1913 to 1915. After being mobilized into the Russian Imperial Army's 45th Infantry Division's 178th Infantry Regiment in the wake of the First World War, Kirlys graduated from the Moscow War School. After returning to Lithuania, on 21 July 1921 he was mobilized into the Lithuanian Army and appointed interrogator of the legal division of the intelligence department of the General Staff. On 3 September he was made Senior lieutenant. On 1 December he was made an official of the 12th reconnaissance unit, and unit assistant on 1 January 1922. On 1 May Kirlys was promoted to captain, and Mayor on 1 December 1923. After the reorganization of the intelligence department into civilian and military intelligence, Kirlys stayed in civilian intelligence. Kirlys assisted the creation of criminal police. On 23 January 1924 he was appointed officer correspondent to the Minister of National Defense. On 1 January 1926 he was appointed as A special affairs officer at the Ministry of National Defense. On 16 February 1928 he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel. On 8 March 1929 Kirlys was transferred to the second information unit of the army's supreme board. In 1930 he graduated from Vytautas Magnus University with a law degree. On 1 October 1932 he was again made special affairs officer, and on 1 August 1935 was made the deputy of the head of intelligence and counter-intelligence. After the Soviet Union occupied Lithuania, Kirlys was discharged from the army on 19 June 1940. He was arrested on 18 July and imprisoned in Kaunas. On 23 July, he was transferred to a Lefortovo prison in Moscow. On 28 July 1940, he was executed in the Butyrka prison.
Petras Kirlys married Nadiežda Kirlienė in 1922. Their descendants live in Australia.
Awards
Kirlys received the following awards:
Lithuanian Independence Medal (1928)
Latvian War of Independence 10 Year Anniversary Commemorative Medal (1929)
Order of Vytautas the Great, 4th degree (1930)
Order of Vasa, 3rd degree (1933)
Order of the Three Stars, 3rd degree (1935)
Order of Gediminas, 3rd degree (1939)
References
1891 births
1940 deaths
Lithuanian military personnel |
76855832 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial%20Marketing%20Management | Industrial Marketing Management | Industrial Marketing Management is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering the field of marketing, business-to-business, and industrial marketing. It is published by Elsevier and the editors-in-chief are Adam Lindgreen (Copenhagen Business School) and Anthony Di Benedetto (Temple University). The journal was established in 1971 with R. Derek Medford founding editor-in-chief. The journal was associated with research from the Industrial Marketing and Purchasing Group, an European research initiative in the field of industrial marketing. From 1994 to 2016 Peter LaPlaca served as editor-in-chief.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in Scopus and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2022 impact factor is 10.3.
References
External links
Elsevier academic journals
English-language journals
Marketing journals
Academic journals established in 1971
8 times per year journals |
76855881 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That%20Girl%20from%20Ipanema | That Girl from Ipanema | That Girl from Ipanema is the eleventh studio album by Brazilian singer Astrud Gilberto, released in 1977 by Image Records. The album features a large number of songs written by Gilberto herself. The influence of disco music is also noticeable on the record. Subsequently, the album was reissued many times with different covers and a mixed track list.
Critical reception
Billboard magazine wrote that the Brazilian singer has not lost her appeal at all, despite a long break in the release of vinyl. Record World noted that the new disco version of "The Girl from Ipanema" sounds great.
Track listing
References
External links
1977 albums
Astrud Gilberto albums |
76855929 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akwal | Akwal | Akwal (Urdu:اکوال ) is a village and one of the 23 union councils of Talagang District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan. it is part of Talagang Tehsil. It is located 04 km away from Talagang.its population is 9,847
References
Populated places in Talagang District
Talagang District |
76855939 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawfik%20Alzaidi | Tawfik Alzaidi | Tawfik Alzaidi (Arabic: توفيق الزايدي, born 1982 in Medina, Saudi Arabia) is a Saudi screenwriter and film director. His movies have won several accolades, including his first short film, Perfect Crime, which won the best editing award at the 2007 Jeddah Film Festival, and his film Norah, which won the Best Saudi Feature Film award at the 2023 Red Sea International Film Festival.
Career
He started making his own films in 2006. He participated in various global and Arab festivals under the name of Saudi Arabia. His films have received several local and Arab awards.
In 2009, he wrote and directed the movie The Silence, which won the Gulf Short Film Award at the Muscat International Film Festival. It premiered in over twenty countries worldwide and was chosen by a US organization to screen as part of their private library.
In 2010, he wrote and directed the movie Exit, which won two awards at the Saudi Film Festival and the Golden Creativity Award at the 2011 Lebanon Festival.
In 2015, he wrote and directed the film The Other, which embodies an initiative by the Prince Mohammed bin Salman Foundation (Misk) to nurture and empower talents. It won the Best Short Film Award at the 2016 Riyadh Film Festival. The same year, he wrote and directed the film Four Colors.
In 2023, his film Norah received the Best Saudi Feature Film Award at the 3rd edition of the Red Sea International Film Festival.
In May 2024, the film Norah was selected for screening at the Cannes Film Festival as part of the Un Certain Regard section. The film was funded by the Daw Film Competition, an initiative launched by the Saudi Film Commission under the Saudi Ministry of Culture and supported by the Red Sea International Film Festival and Film AlUla.
Filmography
2006 – Together for Peace (Documentary film)
2007 – Perfect Crime (Documentary film), Winner of Best Editing Award at Jeddah Film Festival
2009 – Silence (Short Feature Film), Winner of Gulf Short Film Award at Muscat Film Festival
2010 – Exit (Short Feature Film), Winner of the Saudi Films Festival award and Golden Creativity Award at the 2011 Lebanon Festival.
2015 – The Other, Winner of the Best Short Film Award at the 2016 Riyadh Film Festival.
2015 – Four Colors (Short Film)
2023 – Norah, Winner of Best Saudi Feature Film at the 2023 Red Sea International Film Festival (3rd edition) and selected for screening at the Cannes Film Festival as part of the Un Certain Regard section in May 2024.
References
Living people
1982 births
Saudi Arabian male actors |
76855942 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Linn | O'Linn | O'Linn is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Bryan O'Linn (1927–2015), Namibian jurist, politician, lawyer and author
Sid O'Linn (1927–2016), South African sportsman |
76855944 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1912%20SEGAS%20Championship | 1912 SEGAS Championship | The 1912 SEGAS Championship was the eighth championship organized by SEGAS.
Overview
Goudi Athens won the championship.
Teams
References
Panhellenic Championship seasons
Greece
1911–12 in Greek football |
76855950 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juletr%C3%A6et%20med%20sin%20pynt | Juletræet med sin pynt | Juletræet med sin pynt is a popular Danish Christmas song, written by Mogens Lorentzen in 1939. The tune was composed by Egil Harder. The song is included in the 19th edition of the Danish Folk High School Songbook'' as No. 259.
References
1939 songs
Danish Christmas songs |
76855990 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantey | Cantey | Cantey is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Charlsie Cantey (born c. 1946), American sportscaster
James Cantey (1818–1874), American lawyer, slave owner, politician, and Confederate Army brigadier general
James Willis Cantey (1794–1860), American brigadier general and politician
Wilbert Cantey (d. 2008), one of the four people who discovered Blackjack's Basic Strategy
Places
Cantey, South Carolina, an unincorporated community
Zachariah Cantey House, South Carolina
See also
Zachariah Cantey Deas, American cotton broker and Confederate Army brigadier general |
76855994 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail%20Bozenenkov | Mikhail Bozenenkov | Mikhail Georgievich Bozenenkov (; 21 January 1921 – 10 January 1994) was a Soviet football manager.
Early life
Bozenenkov was born in 1921 in Roslavl. He suffered a football playing career-ending injury at the age of eighteen.
Career
In 1952, Bozenenkov was appointed manager of Spartak Minsk. In 1956, he was appointed manager of Belarusian SSR team for the 1956 Spartakiad. In 1958, he returned to Spartak Minsk. In 1961, he was appointed manager of the Burma national football team. He helped the team achieve second place at the 1961 SEAP Games.
Personal life
Bozenenkov was nicknamed "Pirate". He served in the Soviet military.
References
External links
1921 births
1994 deaths
Soviet expatriate football managers
Soviet football managers
Expatriate football managers in Myanmar
FC Dinamo Minsk managers |
76856016 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1946%20Dutch%20cabinet%20formation | 1946 Dutch cabinet formation | A process of cabinet formation took place following the Dutch general election on 16 May 1946. This resulted in the formation of the First Beel cabinet on 3 July 1946. The coalition was formed by the Catholic People's Party (KVP) and the Labour Party (PvdA).
Background
Schemerhorn-Drees cabinet
After the liberation from the German occupation in the Netherlands in 1945 , queen Wilhelmina appointed the Schermerhorn-Drees cabinet, consisting of the Roman Catholic State Party (RKSP), the Social Democratic Worker's Party (SDAP) and the Free-thinking Democratic League (VDB). This cabinet was tasked with getting the government back in order after the occupation and prepare for elections.
Election
Formateur Beel
The KVP wanted one formateur to be appointed from their party. The PvdA wanted their leader Willem Drees to be appointed as co-formateur. Because the PvdA objected to KVP leader Carl Romme, Romme proposed appointing KVP Minister of the Interior Louis Beel as formateur, despite objection from Beel himself. Wilhelmina accepted this advice and appointed Beel on 27 May. His assignment was to form a cabinet "that can be expected to have the confidence of the House of Representatives".
Beel wrote an extensive program, which he discussed with Romme on 31 May. On 3 June, he then discussed the program with PvdA parliamentary leader Marinus van der Goes van Naters. Van der Goes van Naters objected to involing parties in the coalition other than KVP and PvdA. Other parliamentary leaders Beel spoke to refused as well to participate, because they disagreed with too many points in the program, including on Indonesia. On 17 June, the KVP and PvdA reached an agreement on the program.
Beel wanted to obtain additional information about the policy regarding Indonesia. Together with Drees, he traveled to London on 22 June to speak with the diplomats Alidius Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, Edgar Michiels van Verduynen and Eelco van Kleffens. They recommended that the matter be dealt with in the United Nations. Against their advice, Beel and Drees continued to send troops and wanted the British to mediate.
On 1 July, the constitutive deliberation took place and two days later the ministers were sworn in.
Sources
References
Cabinet formation in the Netherlands |
76856040 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffridge | Suffridge | Suffridge is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Bob Suffridge (1916–1974), American football player
James Suffridge (1909–2001), American labor unionist |
76856055 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timote%20Tavalea | Timote Tavalea | Timote Fomonga Tavalea (born 20 March 1972) is an Australian former professional rugby union player.
A mobile hooker and flanker of Tongan origin, Tavalea played his rugby in Australia, making appearances in the Super 12 for the ACT Brumbies, NSW Waratahs and Queensland Reds. He was with the Tongan national team in 1995 and featured at the Super 10 competition, but missed selection for that year's World Cup in South Africa.
Tavalea works at John Paul College in Brisbane, where he is a former first XV coach. His son, also named Timote, is a past pupil and plays professional rugby in Japan after moving there for his studies.
References
External links
1972 births
Living people
Australian rugby union players
Tongan rugby union players
ACT Brumbies players
New South Wales Waratahs players
Queensland Reds players
Australian sportspeople of Tongan descent
Rugby union hookers
Rugby union flankers |
76856064 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio%20Grande%20do%20Sul%20floods | Rio Grande do Sul floods | Rio Grande do Sul floods may refer to:
2023 Rio Grande do Sul floods
2024 Rio Grande do Sul floods |
76856072 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wat%20Mahawan | Wat Mahawan | Wat Mahawan is a Buddhist temple in Chiang Mai, Thailand. It is located on the eastern periphery of the old city of Chiang Mai in Thaphae Road.
History
Wat Mahawan was founded during the Burmese occupation of Chiang Mai during the 17th century by Burmese engaged in the teak trade in northern Thailand, possibly on the site of a former temple. The current structures of the temple date from the 19th century or later.
Highlights
Wat Mahawan is noted for its mixture of Burmese and Lanna architectural styles. The assembly hall by the west wall dating from the 19th century shows strong Burmese influence, as does its principal Buddha image known as Phra Chao To. The square shaped, whitewashed pagoda, the wooden scripture repository, which serves as the abbot's living quarters, and the archways and guardian lions in the compound, are all typically Burmese.
The Lanna style can be seen in the large assembly hall and the adjacent ordination hall on the eastern side of the temple. The assembly hall was constructed around 1865 and renovated in 1957. Inside are murals depicting the Vessantara Jātaka and scenes from the Buddha's enlightenment. One of the bronze Buddha images made in Lanna dates from the late 15th to early 16th century.
References
Buddhist temples in Chiang Mai
Thai Theravada Buddhist temples and monasteries |
76856114 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepeha | Pepeha | A pepeha is a traditional oral recitation given by a person when introducing themselves in the Māori culture of New Zealand.
A pepeha is given in the form of a list, telling a story of a person's connection with the land and with the people on it (a reflection of the Māori people's name for themselves), Tangata whenua (literally "people of the land). Pepeha are often given on formal occasions, such as at a hui. It is possible for one person to have more than one pepeha, especially if they are linked to more than one iwi.
Typical format
Most pepeha follow a ritual format, starting with a greeting, then listing personal connections to the land — a personal mountain and river — before listing iwi affiliation, family, place of residence, and name.
A typical pepeha may take the following form. This pepeha is for a person called Tīpene, from the Kāi Tahu iwi and living in Dunedin (Ōtepoti):
Tēnā koutou katoa (greetings to all of you)
Ko Kirimoko te māunga (my mountain is Kirimoko)
Ko Waitati te awa (my river is the Waitati)
Ko Tākitimu te waka (my ancestral canoe is the Tākitimu)
Ko Kāi Tahu tōku iwi (my tribe is Kāi Tahu)
Ko Kāti Huirapa tōku hapū (my sub-tribe is Kāti Huirapa)
Nō Ōtepoti ahau (I am from Dunedin)
Ko Tīpene tōku ingoa (My name is Tīpene)
Tēnā tātou katoa (greetings to all of us)
Use by non-Māori
While the use of a standard pepeha by pākehā and other non-Māori is acceptable, some authorities suggest an amended form of the pepeha in those instances where one is needed. One such formulating begins with the greeting followed by "[name of country] is my ancestry, but [place] is where I grew up", followed by the usual formulation.
See also
Māori culture
Whakapapa
References
Māori culture
Māori words and phrases
Greetings |
76856124 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra%20Peterson%20filmography | Cassandra Peterson filmography | Cassandra Peterson is an American actress best known for her portrayal of the horror hostess character Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. Peterson gained fame on Los Angeles television station KHJ-TV in her stage persona as Elvira, hosting Elvira's Movie Macabre, a weekly B movie presentation. Peterson has made Elvira and non-Elvira appearances in a number of films and television programs.
Filmography
Film
Television
Video Games
Music videos
Footnotes
External links
Peterson, Cassandra
Peterson, Cassandra |
76856175 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night%20Dancer%20%28novel%29 | Night Dancer (novel) | 'Night Dancer' is a 2012 novel by Chika Unigwe. The novel follows a character Mma, who, after burying her mother, inherits both her possessions and her troubled past. Determined to uncover her family's secrets and her own identity, Mma embarks on a quest for truth. Set in Nigeria over fifty years, the novel explores themes of family, duty, and the enduring bond between mothers and daughters, offering exploration of belonging and resilience.
Plot summary
Night Dancer a novel set nearly over fifty years, avoiding the overwhelming backdrop of the Biafran War. Mma, a conflicted character, longs for her absent father, leading to strained relations with her mother. Ezi, another character, offers a smoother narrative, sparking curiosity about the author's nonfiction work. Mike's charm(Ema's father) is overshadowed by questions of authenticity or ingrained entitlement. Madam Gold's enigmatic presence contrasts with Rapu, a compelling villainess.
Characters
Mma: The protagonist, characterized by inner conflict and a longing for her absent father, leading to strained relations with her mother.
Ezi: Another character, whose narrative provides a smoother reading experience, sparking curiosity about the author's nonfiction works.
Mike: A lovable character with passionate traits, but whose authenticity comes into question, possibly reflecting societal expectations of African masculinity.
Madam Gold: An enigmatic character who serves as a maternal figure, contrasting with Rapu's villainous personel.
Themes
Identity and Family: The novel delves into questions of identity, particularly through the lens of family dynamics. Mma's search for her father and her conflicted relationship with her mother highlight the complexities of familial bonds and the impact of absent parents on one's sense of self.
Mother-Daughter Relationships: The relationship between mothers and daughters is a central theme, explored through Mma's feelings of longing, resentment, and curiosity towards her mother. This theme delves into the nuances of maternal love, intergenerational conflict, and the search for understanding.
Masculinity and Expectations: The character of Mike raises questions about masculinity and societal expectations. His charming demeanor is juxtaposed with doubts about his sincerity, prompting reflection on the pressures and stereotypes faced by African men.
Villainy and Morality: The presence of Rapu as a compelling villainess suggests themes of morality and the complexities of human nature. Readers are invited to question their perceptions of good and evil, and to explore the motivations behind Rapu's actions.
Cultural Identity and History: Set against the backdrop of Nigeria over fifty years, the novel likely explores themes of cultural identity and historical context. The avoidance of the Biafran War and references to Igbo culture hint at a broader exploration of Nigerian history and its impact on individual lives.
References
Postcolonial novels
2012 Nigerian novels
Novels set in nigeria |
76856180 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western%20Plains%20Football%20League | Western Plains Football League | The Western Plains Football League was an Australian rules football League based in Victoria.
History
The Western Plains Football League started in 1920, with precursor league the Lismore District Football Association finishing. The league continued until 1998 when it merged with the Lexton Football League to create the Lexton Plains Football League.
Some notable players from the Western Plains are Carji Greeves, Reg Hickey, Allan Everett, John Northey and Gerard FitzGerald.
Clubs
Final Clubs in 1998
Previous clubs
References
1920 establishments in Australia |
76856198 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Convention%20on%20the%20Legal%20Status%20of%20Children%20born%20out%20of%20Wedlock | European Convention on the Legal Status of Children born out of Wedlock | The European Convention on the Legal Status of Children born out of Wedlock is a treaty ( No. 85) adopted in 1975 under the auspices of the Council of Europe to harmonise the legal status of children born out of wedlock, and promote their equality with children born in wedlock, in the relevant legislation of the Contracting Parties. Accession is open to CoE Member States. As of 2024, it has been signed by 26 countries, and ratified by 23 countries. The Convention imposes an obligation on the Member States to eliminate discriminatory treatment of children born out of wedlock. The Council purposefully uses the term children born out of wedlock instead of illegitimate children. Historically, it is the first adopted multilateral treaty of this type.
Background
The status of children born outside of wedlock is, indirectly, or directly, also treated in provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights (Articles 8, 12 and 14), the European Social Charter (Articles 16, 17), the and the European Convention on Nationality (Articles 5, 6).
The convention is one of the early, significant instruments in family law, especially on matters involving children, of the Council of Europe. The convention is a part of a set of other Council Treaties on matters involving children: the European Convention on the Adoption of Children, the European Convention on Recognition and Enforcement of Decisions Concerning Custody of Children and on Restoration of Custody of Children, the European Convention on the Exercise of Children's Rights, the Convention on Contact concerning Children, the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse. The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, and the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, have also adopted a slew of recommendations. Three committees deal with the legal protection of children, in part or in full: Committee of Experts on Family Law (CJ-FA) – the most relevant – Convention Committee on the Custody Convention (T-CC), and the Committee of Experts on Nationality (CJ-NA) Other bodies of the Council concerned with this area of the law are the Conference of European Ministers of Justice, and the European Conference on Family Law. Additionally, some of the council's Colloquies on European law have been devoted to family law.
History
European jurisdictions had recognised the concept of legitimate and illegitimate children, who had different legal status, and rights. This started to change through the rulings of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), and the legislative work of the council. This occurred concurrently with national reforms intended to reduce or eliminate inequalities between children born out of wedlock and children born in wedlock, and to abolish the distinction between legitimate and illegitimate children.
Germany adopted the Law on the Legal Status of Children Born out of Wedlock/Children Born outside Marriage (Legal Status) in 1969, or Non-marriage Law, for short. The Law on Family Matters of 16 December 1997 further enhanced the legal protections, but a disadvantage remained with regard to illegitimate children born before 1949. Even if recognized, those children could not be their statutory heirs. This led to the case Brauer v. Germany in 2009, which overturned this inequality.
Less expansive measures were also introduced by the Law of January 3, 1972 on Filiation in France, which allows mothers to recognise children born out of wedlock, although it required a legal formality. Only in the 21st century was the principle of equality fully upheld (through Act no. 2002-305 of 4 March 2002, removing mention of illegitimacy – filiation légitime and filiation naturell; and through Law no. 2009-61 of 16 January 2009). In 2001, France was forced in Mazurek v. France by the ECHR to change several laws that were deemed discriminatory, and in 2013 the Court ruled in Fabris v. France that these changes must also be applied to children born before 2001.
In the United Kingdom, discriminating treatment regarding illegitimate children by the common law progressed for a long time. Under English law, the child was considered filius nullius, that is, noone's child, and a bastard. As a result, the United States, Canada and Australia followed suit. In time, the traditional rule concerning these children was discarded, but an unmarried father could only acquire parental rights through specific means enumerated by Children Act 1989. These means were, basically, marriage or a court order.6 Eventually, with the Children Act 2004, parental responsibility was given to all those unmarried fathers who registered the birth of their children on the basis of a formal agreement with the mother.
Originally, because of the stigma related to birth outside of wedlock, the was not interpreted in such a way to protect the rights of children born outside of wedlock, but this changed through landmark decisions of the Court, beginning in 1979 with the case Marckx v. Belgium. The illegitimate child was Alexandra Marckx, daughter of Paula Marckx. The Belgian Civil Code recognised no legal bond between an unmarried woman and her child from the mere fact of the birth. Article 8 of the EConvHR makes no distinction between legitimate and illegitimate children. This confirmed that that the protection of family life out of marriage had to be extended so as to give children born out of wedlock the same inheritance rights, between parents and child, involving other relatives, and between grandparents and grandchildren.
In 1970, the question of legal status was discussed by the Committee of Ministers in the Intergovernmental Work Programme of the Council of Europe. This was recommended by the European Committee on Legal Co-operation (CCJ), and noted improvements in legislation. The Committee adopted Resolution (70) 15 on 15 May 1970, on the social protection of unmarried mothers and their children, which touched upon some legal aspects of the protection of children born out of wedlock. The Committee opened the convention to signature at their 249th meeting, of October 1975.
Core normative provisions
The Convention seeks to assimilate the status of children, and to contribute to the harmonisation of the laws. However, Article 14 provides for a system of reservations enabling gradual implementation. The convention's main provisions relate to paternal and maternal affiliation, recognition, denial and contesting of paternity, the assignment of parental responsibilities, and children's succession rights. Under this convention, both parents have the same obligation to maintain their children as if these children were born in wedlock. Children have the same right of succession in the estate of their parents and a member of their parent's family as if they had been born in wedlock.
However, Article 14 provides for a system of reservations similar to the European Convention on Adoption, requiring reservations to be re-examined every five years, for States who cannot immediately implement certain provisions. The convention also does not cover all questions, such as whether retrospective effect should be applied after the establishment of parental affiliation, or the child's legitimation by marriage.
The Convention sets off some basic principles dealing with the establishment of children's status, as follows:
Article 2
The maternal affiliation of every child born out of wedlock shall be based solely on the fact of the birth of the child. Where the mother is unknown, the maternal affiliation would only come into full effect when the identity becomes known. In some States, maternal affiliation is established when further information is included about the mother in the relevant documents, and they may make reservations. The International Commission of Civil Status (ICCS) relating to the establishment of maternal affiliation of natural children of 12 September 1962 can only be an intermediate stage in relation to the convention. This holds the principle of mater semper certa est to be absolute.
Article 3
The paternal affiliation of every child born out of wedlock may be evidenced or established by voluntary recognition or by judicial decision. The internal law shall determine the form of voluntary recognition. This can be a declaration on the birth certificate or other official document.
Article 4
The voluntary recognition of paternity may not be opposed or contested, unless the person seeking to recognise or having recognised the child is not the biological father.
Article 5
Scientific evidence which may help to establish or disprove paternity shall be admissible.
Article 6
The parents of a child born out of wedlock shall have the same obligation to maintain the child. The content, the extent, the duration, of this obligation are left to the internal law establishing the rules likewise for children born in wedlock.
Article 7
Where the affiliation to both parents has been established, parental authority may not be attributed automatically only to the father. This provision does not prevent the parental authority from being attributed jointly, or to a third party, or to take away parental authority from one of the parents.
Article 8
Where a parent does not have parental authority over or the custody of the child, that parent may obtain a right of access to the child in appropriate cases. The exercise of this right to access would be granted or refused by a judicial or administrative authority.
Article 9
A child born out of wedlock shall have the same right of succession, as if it had been born in wedlock.
Article 10
The marriage between the father and mother of a child born out of wedlock shall confer on the child the legal status of a child born in wedlock. It was agreed that this assimilation need not be automatic but could be subject to a judicial or administrative authority establishing that the conditions have been fulfilled. It was understood that the Convention does not forbid a Contracting Party from providing, by its internal law, a single legal status for all children and also does not forbid this party from taking special measures of protection for those children who do not live with their parents.
Status
As of 2024, these are the Parties to the convention within the CoE:
Impact
Rulings of the European Court of Human Rights
The court determined in the case of Inze v. Austria, in 1987, that the applicant, who is a child born out of wedlock, must be legally heir to his mother's farm, on which he had worked until the age of 23. A violation of Article 14 of the EconvHR, and Article 1 of the Additional Protocols was found. Austria's reservation was determined to not be relevant to the case, as it only applied to the estate of the father and the father's family.
Further developments
The 6th Conference on Family Law took place in Strasbourg on 14 and 15 October 2002 on the theme of “The legal protection of the family in matters of succession”. The legal protection is important due to various reservations made by States to Article 9.
In 2011, a Draft Recommendation on the rights and legal status of children and parental responsibilities was written.
Notes
References
External links
International Conventions in the Field of Family Law
Council of Europe Achievements in the Field of Law: Family Law and the Protection of Children
Council of Europe treaties
Treaties concluded in 1975
Treaties entered into force in 1978
Legitimacy law |
76856302 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.%20E.%20Lane | C. E. Lane | Charles Edward William Lane (29 October 1786 – 18 February 1872) was a British general in the Indian army.
Biography
Lane was the son of John and Melissa Lane. He was born 29 October 1786, and was baptised at St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, London, in November the same year. He was nominated to a cadetship in 1806, and passed an examination in Persian and Hindustani, for which he was awarded a gratuity of twelve hundred rupees and a sword. His commissions in the infantry were: ensign 13 August 1807, lieutenant 14 July 1812, captain (army 5 February 1822) 30 January 1824, major 30 April 1835, lieutenant-colonel 26 December 1841, colonel 25 May 1852. He became major-general in 1854, lieutenant-general in 1866, general in 1870. He shared the Deccan prize as lieutenant 1st Bengal native infantry for ‘general captures.’ He sought permission in 1824 to change his name to Mattenby, but the request was refused as beyond the competence of the Indian government. He served with the 2nd native grenadier battalion in Arracan in 1825, was timber agent at Naulpore in 1828, and was in charge of the commissariat at Dinapore in 1832. As major he commanded his regiment in Afghanistan under Sir William Nott in 1842, and commanded the garrison of Candahar when, during the temporary absence of Nott, the place was assaulted on 10 March 1842 by an Afghan detachment, which was repulsed with heavy loss (see London Gazette, 6 Sept. 1842). Lane received the medal for Candahar and Cabul, and was made C.B. 27 December 1842. He died in Jersey 18 February 1872, aged 85.
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76856362 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Matthias%20Weguelin%20%28East%20India%20Company%20officer%29 | Thomas Matthias Weguelin (East India Company officer) | Thomas Matthias Weguelin (died 23 May 1828) was an English soldier.
Biography
Weguelin born at Moorfields in London. He was the eldest son of John Christopher Weguelin by his second wife, Elizabeth. He was appointed a cadet in the East India Company's service in March 1781 on the Bengal presidency. He arrived in Calcutta in April 1782, having previously been promoted to an ensigncy on 16 June 1781. He joined the third European regiment at Burhánpur, and received a lieutenant's commission on 22 September 1782. In November he was removed to the first battalion of the 22nd native infantry, at the frontier station of Fatehgarh in the dominions of the nawáb of Oudh. In March 1783 he proceeded to the Farukhábád district, where he took part in some petty operations, and in 1796, when his regiment was incorporated with the 2nd native infantry, he received the brevet rank of captain. He served against Tipú Saib from 1790 to 1792 with Lieutenant-colonel John Cockrell's detachment. He took part in the battle of Seringapatam on 13 May 1791, in the assault on the enemy's entrenched camp on 6 February 1792, and in the siege of the city. In December 1797 he was transferred to the first battalion of the 13th native infantry, which he commanded in 1799 during the deposition of the nawáb of Oudh, and shortly after joined the 1st European regiment at Cawnpur, removing with it to Dinápur at the close of the year. On 10 August 1801 he received the regimental rank of captain, and in September 1803 he proceeded in command of the flank companies of his regiment to join the army under Lord Lake, then engaged with the Marattas in the north-west, where he took part in the siege of Gwalior. In September 1804 he accompanied Lake's army in the capacity of judge-advocate-general in the field provinces north and west of Allahábád, and took part in the siege of Bhartpur. He continued to hold the post until his appointment to a majority on 3 March 1808. In June he was nominated to command an expedition for the defence of the Portuguese of Macao against any French attempt, receiving the local rank of colonel. On his return to Bengal in February 1809 he received the thanks of the governor-general for his conduct. On the establishment of the commissariat in Bengal on 1 February 1810 Weguelin was appointed deputy commissary-general. He accompanied Major-general Sir John Abercromby in the expedition against Mauritius in 1810 as head of the commissariat department, and after the reduction of the island was appointed by the governor, Sir Robert Townsend Farquhar, commissary-general of Mauritius, Bourbon, and their dependencies. He returned to Bengal in March 1812 with a letter from Farquhar to the governor in council expressing his approbation of his services. On 1 July 1812 he was nominated commissary-general of Bengal with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, attaining the regimental rank on 16 March 1814. He discharged the duties of commissary-general through the two wars with Nepál between 1814 and 1816, and that with the Pindáris from 1816 to 1818, conducting the business of his office with so much ability that the extra expenses of the wars did not exceed the comparatively small sum of 600,000l. Being obliged by private affairs to return to England, he resigned his office at the close of 1820, embarking in January 1822. He received the rank of colonel commandant on 20 July 1823, and died in London at Montagu Square on 23 May 1828. He was twice married. By his first wife he had a son and a daughter, and by his second wife three sons.
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76856395 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperula%20libanotica | Asperula libanotica | Asperula libanotica is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae. It was first described in 1849 and is endemic to Lebanon, Syria and Palestine.
Description
The plant is multi-stemmed, glabrous, with filiform, soft, ascending stems, somewhat scabrous (rough to the touch), and typically grows to a height of 20–60 cm. Its leaves are arranged in whorls of six, ovate-oblong, somewhat acute, with three veins and scabrous margins. The flowers are terminal, arranged in fasciculate-capitate clusters. The bracts numbering 6–12, and are elliptic, lanceolate, unequal, and glabrous, being shorter than the corolla. The corolla is white, with a tube that gradually widens above the limb, reaching twice the length of the limb. The corolla lobes are ovate and somewhat acute. The stamens are linear and black. The style is long, and bipartite. It flowers from April till June.
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Flora of Lebanon
Flora of Syria
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76856420 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%20Futsal%20Africa%20Cup%20of%20Nations%20squads | 2024 Futsal Africa Cup of Nations squads | The following is a list of squads for each national team which competed at the 2024 Futsal Africa Cup of Nations. The tournament took place in Morocco, between 11 and 21 April 2024. It was the eighth competition organised by the Confederation of African Football.
The eight national teams involved in the tournament were required to register a squad of maximum 14 players, minimum two of whom must be goalkeepers. Only players in these squads were eligible to take part in the tournament. CAF published the final lists with squad numbers on their website on 8 April 2024.
The full squad listings are below. The age listed for each player is on 11 April 2024, the first day of the tournament. The nationality for each club reflects the national association (not the league) to which the club is affiliated. A flag is included for coaches who are of a different nationality than their own national team.
Group A
Angola
The final squad was announced on 31 March 2024.
Head coach: Marcos Antunes
Ghana
Head coach: Philip Boakye
Morocco
The final squad was announced on 29 March 2024.
Head coach: Hisham Al-Dakik
Zambia
The final squad was announced on 2 April 2024.
Head coach: Andrea Cristoforetti
Group B
Egypt
The final squad was announced on 2 April 2024.
Head coach: Gehad Arafa
Libya
Head coach: Ricardo Iñiguez
Mauritania
Head coach: Abdallah Selami
Namibia
The final squad was announced on 4 April 2024.
Head coach: Ryan Jago
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76856459 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Paterson%20%28British%20Army%20officer%29 | Thomas Paterson (British Army officer) | Thomas Paterson (1780 – 13 June 1856) was a Scottish lieutenant-general.
Biography
Paterson was the son of Robert Paterson of Plewlands, Ayrshire. He entered the royal artillery as second lieutenant 1 December 1795. After serving in Canada and the West Indies from 1796 to 1804, and becoming second captain 19 July 1804, he took part in the expedition to Copenhagen under Lord Cathcart in 1807. He was attached to Baird's division, and after the army had landed it fell to him to keep the Danish gunboats in check with his 9-pounders, while batteries were being thrown up for the bombardment. He became captain 1 February 1808, and in the following year he served in the Walcheren expedition. He was given a brevet majority 4 June 1814, and became lieutenant-colonel in the regiment 6 November 1827, and colonel 10 January 1837. In 1836 he was made superintendent of the Royal Military Repository at Woolwich. He was promoted major-general 9 November 1846, and lieutenant-general 30 June 1854, having become a colonel-commandant of the royal artillery 15 August 1850. He died at Woolwich on 13 June 1856.
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76856510 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Fretcheville%20Dykes%20Donnelly | John Fretcheville Dykes Donnelly | Sir John Fretcheville Dykes Donnelly (2 July 1834 – 5 April 1902) was a British major-general and royal engineer.
Biography
Donnelly was born in the Bay of Bombay on 2 July 1834. He was the only child of Lieutenant-colonel Thomas Donnelly (1802–1881), at one time deputy adjutant-general of the Bombay army, and from 1851 staff captain and afterwards staff officer at the East India Company's military college at Addiscombe until the closing of the college in 1861 (see Vibart's Addiscombe, with portrait). His mother was Jane Christiana, second daughter of Joseph Ballantine Dykes of Dovenby Hall, Cumberland. Educated at Highgate School (1843–8), he entered the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich at the head of the list after a year's private tuition in August 1849, passed out first, and received a commission as second-lieutenant in the royal engineers on 23 June 1853, and after professional instruction at Chatham was promoted first-lieutenant on 17 February. Going out to the Crimea in June, Donnelly joined his corps on its march to Balaklava on 23 September, and next month was detailed for duty with the left attack on Sevastopol. He was present at the battle of Inkerman on 5 November, and subsequently worked in the trenches before Sevastopol with an energy to which Sir John Burgoyne called Lord Raglan's attention (21 November). Through the severe weather of the winter of 1854-5 he was on duty in the trenches forty-one times by day and forty-three times by night. On the day after the abortive assault on the Redan (18 June), when he was with the second column, he by his promptitude and zeal obtained a substantial lodgment in the Russian rifle pits at the Little Mamelon. Donnelly was mentioned in Lord Raglan's despatches for this service. Soon after the fall of Sevastopol in September during which he was thrice in all mentioned in despatches (London Gazette, 18 December), he was appointed aide-de-camp to Colonel E. T. Lloyd on 12 November 1855, the commanding royal engineer in the Crimea, and accompanied him home in June 1856. He received the Crimea medal with clasps for Inkerman and Sevastopol, the Turkish medal, and the 5th class of the legion of honour. He had been recommended for the Victoria Cross without result, and received no promotion nor British distinction.
Joining the London military district in 1856, he was placed in command of a detachment of royal sappers and miners employed in preparing for building purposes the ground purchased at South Kensington out of the surplus funds of the Great Exhibition of 1851. It was intended to erect there a permanent museum and centre of science and art. Sir Henry Cole, the director of the scheme, secured Donnelly's services on 1 April 1858 in reorganising at South Kensington the science and art department, which was controlled by the privy council's committee of education. On 1 October 1859 he was appointed inspector for science in connection with the department. He had been promoted second captain on 1 April 1859, and was now seconded in his corps for ten years. But he did not return to regimental duty, and the rest of his career was identified with South Kensington. In 1869 he was allowed two and a half years' special leave, and in 1872 was placed on the reserve list. His promotion continued, as he was still liable for emergency service, and he became lieutenant-colonel on 1 October 1877 and brevet-colonel on 1 October 1881, retiring with the honorary rank of major-general on 31 December 1887.
The success of the scheme for national instruction in science and art was largely due to Donnelly, although some of his methods came to be reckoned reactionary. In agreement with a much controverted principle he arranged (by minute of 1859) that grants should be made to certificated teachers on the results of the examinations of their pupils. Prizes were at the same time to be awarded to successful students, whether trained in recognised schools or otherwise. He obtained due recognition for drawing and manual training as class subjects, and having induced the Society of Arts, which he joined in 1860, to form a class in wood-carving, he procured from City companies and other sources funds to carry it on as the School of Art Wood-carving, which is now located in Thurloe Place, South Kensington.
In 1874 his title at South Kensington became 'Director of Science,' and his duties included the supervision not only of the science schools and classes throughout the country but of other important scientific institutions like the Government School of Mines, the Museum of Practical Geology, the Royal College of Chemistry, the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art, and the Museum of Irish Industry, which developed into the Royal College of Science for Ireland. In 1868, as a member of a commission appointed to consider the question, he had drafted a report adverse to the establishment of a separate department of science and art for Ireland. In 1881 he was appointed in addition assistant secretary of the science and art department, and in 1884 secretary and permanent head of the department. Joining the council of the Society of Arts in 1870, he was mainly responsible in 1871 for the society's scheme of technological examinations, out of which by his advice the City Guilds Institute for technical education was developed. As chairman of the council of the Society of Arts in 1894 and 1895, he led the society to organise the International Congress on Technical Education in 1897.
For many years the museums of science and art at Kensington had been housed in temporary and straggling makeshift galleries and sheds, and Donnelly was untiring in his efforts to secure parliamentary grants for the erection of permanent buildings. In 1896 the House of Commons appointed a select committee on whose report in 1899 a sum of 800,000l. was voted to complete the museums. In the course of the inquiry Donnelly's administration was called in question (see Report and Evidence of Committee of House of Commons on the Museums of the Science and Art Department, 1899). Whatever the defects of the educational policy pursued, the study of science grew immensely under Donnelly's direction. In 1859 the total number of science students was under 400; ten years later there were over 1400 classes comprising 25,000 students, while at the time of Donnelly's death these numbers were increased eight-fold. In accordance with the civil service rule he retired on 2 July 1899 on attaining the age of sixty-five. A minute of the privy council dated the following day animadverted on the committee's Report, stating that the sole responsibility lay on their lordships for the administration of the Science and Art Department, wluch had been loyally carried out by Colonel Donnelly and his staff, in whom they retained the fullest confidence. Sir John Gorst, vice-president of the committee of council on education, when presenting Donnelly with a testimonial from 500 of the South Kensington staff (29 November), warmly defended him from adverse criticism, and Sir John presided at a complimentary dinner given by his old colleagues (12 December).
Donnelly was made C.B. in 1886 and K.C.B. (civil) in 1893. In 1888 he was elected a member of the Athenaeum under Rule II. He was no mean artist, and from 1888 to 1901 he exhibited water-colour paintings and etchings at the Royal Academy or the New Gallery. In 1888 he took part in the formation of the committee for the preservation of the monuments of ancient Egypt. He wrote two pamphlets, on 'The Employment of Iron Shields in Siege Operations' (1868), and on 'Army Organisation' (1869) in which he advocated personal service.
He died on 5 April 1902 at his residence, 59 Onslow Gardens, London, and was buried at Brompton cemetery.
A portrait in oils by H. T. Wells, R.A. (exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1901), and a charcoal head by Sir E. J. Poynter, P.R.A., were in Lady Donnelly's possession. Donnelly was twice married : (1) at Bridekirk, Cumberland, on 5 January 1871, to his first cousin Adeliza (d. 1873), second daughter of Fretcheville Lawson Ballantine Dykes of Dovenby Hall, Cumberland; by her he had two daughters; (2) at Neuchatel, Switzerland, on 17 December 1881, to his first wife's elder sister, Mary Frances Dykes; by her he had two sons, Thomas and Gordon Harvey, both lieutenants in the royal garrison artillery, and a daughter.
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76856519 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie%20Lennon%20%28English%20footballer%29 | Charlie Lennon (English footballer) | Charlie Lennon (born 9 April 2006) is an English footballer who plays as a winger for club Middlesbrough.
Early life
Born in Spennymoor, Lennon attended St John's Catholic School in Bishop Auckland, achieving eight GCSEs.
Career
Lennon joined the Middlesbrough academy at under-nine level, signing a first professional two-year contract in March 2024.
On 27 April 2024, Lennon made his professional first-team debut from the bench in a 4–1 thrashing of Cardiff City.
International career
Having previously represented England at both Under-15 and Under-16 levels, Lennon was called up to the under-17 squad at the 2022 Nordic Cup.
Career Statistics
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Middlesbrough F.C. players
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76856578 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornubian%20Massif | Cornubian Massif | The Cornubian Massif was an upland area and source of sediment in southwest England during parts of the Late Permian to Early Cretaceous period and through most of the Cenozoic. In extent it covered approximately the current area of Devon and Cornwall.
History
The Cornubian Massif is underpinned by the extensive granitic Cornubian batholith that was intruded into Variscan thrust sheets of low-grade metamorphic rocks over a period of about 25 million years, between 300 and 275 Ma (million years ago), during the Early Permian. Related volcanism produced both acid and basic lavas, although only the latter are partly preserved within the lowermost parts of the Exeter Group, with the acid lavas only found as clasts in younger rocks, apart from one small exposure near Kingsand.
The unroofing of the batholith had already started in the Late Permian, as shown by the presence of granitic clasts in the St. Cyres beds. During the later Permian to Triassic the massif was bordered by a set of rift basins. To the north lay the Bristol Channel Basin, extending westwards into the South Celtic Sea Basin, to the east the precursor to the Wessex Basin and to the south the Plymouth Bay Basin. It is unclear to what extent the higher parts of the massif were covered by Permo-Triassic deposits. Latest Triassic to Lower Jurassic times saw a regional marine transgression, that may have covered much of the massif, although an emergent "spine" of land was probably still present.
During the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous, rifting restarted in the basins surrounding the massif. Particularly the development of thick growth sequences in the Wealden Group show that the rifting reached a maximum at this time. The massif was actively uplifting during this period providing a source for coarse clastic sediments as seen in the Wessex Basin.
During the Late Cretaceous, rifting stopped and sea levels rose, clastic sediments were cut off as the fine-grained Chalk Group was deposited. To the east of the massif there is evidence of progressive westward onlap of the Upper Cretaceous sequence onto the older rocks and it is thought likely that the whole of the massif was eventually submerged.
During the latest Cretaceous, southern Britain was affected by the early stages of the Alpine orogeny. This is marked by some indications of basin inversion and regional uplift, as shown by a lack of Maastrichtian (uppermost Cretaceous) and Danian (lowermost Paleocene) strata onshore. The opening of the North Atlantic Ocean at the start of the Eocene was accompanied by the development of the North Atlantic Igneous Province. In western Britain this caused uplift, possibly due to underplating, as shown by Apatite fission track analysis with up to 300 m of uplift in western Cornwall, reducing to 50 m in south Devon. The main phase of Alpine deformation occurred during the Oligocene to Miocene, when structures such as the Portland-Wight Monocline and the Wealden Dome were formed.
As shown by the current form of the southwestern peninsula, the area of the massif remains mostly a relatively uplifted region, shedding sediment into the surrounding basinal areas. The current topography is thought to represent an amalgamation of erosion surfaces of varying origin acquired during its Cenozoic history.
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Geology of Cornwall |
76856622 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorai%20Maliach | Yorai Maliach | Yorai Maliach (born 26 March 1998) is an Israeli professional footballer who plays as a right back for Israeli Premier League club Hapoel Jerusalem.
Personal life
Born and raised in Jerusalem, Israel, Maliach has a dual citizenship of Israel and Finland. He is of Yemeni descent on his father's side. His maternal grandmother is Finnish and his maternal grandfather is French of Polish descent, who had moved to Israel when six months old.
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1998 births
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Agudat Sport Nordia Jerusalem players
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Israeli people of Finnish descent
Israel men's youth international footballers
Israeli people of Yemeni descent
Israeli people of French descent
Israeli people of Polish descent
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76856625 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Grant%20%28Royal%20Engineers%29 | Robert Grant (Royal Engineers) | Sir Robert Grant (10 August 1837 – 8 January 1904) was a British lieutenant-general and royal engineer.
Biography
Grant was born at Malabar Hill, Bombay, on 10 August 1837, was younger son of Sir Robert Grant, governor of Bombay, and was nephew of Lord Glenelg. His mother was Margaret (d. 1885), only daughter of Sir David Davidson of Cantray, Nairnshire, N.B., who married as her second husband Lord Josceline William Percy, M.P., second son of George fifth duke of Northumberland.
Robert was educated at Harrow with his elder brother Charles [see below]. When he was seventeen he passed first in a public competitive examination for vacancies in the royal artillery and the royal engineers caused by the Crimean war, and was gazetted second lieutenant in the royal engineers on 23 October 1854, becoming first lieutenant on 13 December of the same year. After six months' training at Chatham Grant was sent to Scotland. In February 1857 he was transferred to the Jamaica command in the West Indies, and at the end of 1858 he served on the staff as fort adjutant at Belise in British Honduras. He passed first in the examination for the Staff College, just established; but after a few months there (Jan.–May 1859) he was aide-de-camp to Lieut.-general Sir William Fenwick Williams, the commander of the forces in North America for six years. On 8 August 1860 he was promoted second captain. He was at home for the final examination at the Staff College, in which he again easily passed first, despite his absence from the classes, and from January to June 1861 he was attached to the cavalry and artillery at Aldershot.
Finally returning from Canada in June 1865, Grant did duty at Chatham, Dover, and Portsmouth, and was promoted first captain on 10 July 1867 and major on 5 July 1872. From 1 January 1871 to 1877 he was deputy assistant adjutant-general for royal engineers at the war office, and from 1877 was in command of the royal engineers troops, consisting of the pontoon, telegraph, equipment and depot units at Aldershot. He was promoted lieut.-colonel on 1 July 1878. In May 1880 he was appointed commanding royal engineer of the Plymouth subdistrict, and on 31 December 1881 commanding royal engineer of the Woolwich district. He was promoted colonel in the army on 1 July 1882, and a year later was placed on half pay. He remained unemployed until 5 May 1884, when he was given the R.E. command in Scotland, with the rank of colonel on the staff.
On 20 March 1885 he left Edinburgh suddenly for Egypt to join Lord Wolseley, who had telegraphed for his services, as colonel on the staff and commanding royal engineer with the Nile expeditionary force. He served with the headquarters staff and afterwards in command of the Abu Fatmeh district during the evacuation, but he was taken seriously ill with fever and was invalided home in August. For his services he was mentioned in despatches of 13 June 1885 (Lond. Gazette, 25 August 1885). Not anticipating so speedy a termination to the campaign, the authorities had filled up his appointment in Scotland and he had to wait nearly a year on half pay.
On 1 July 1886 Grant was appointed deputy adjutant-general for royal engineers at the war office. On 25 May 1889 he was created C.B., military division, and on 23 October made a temporary major-general. Before he had quite completed his five years as deputy adjutant-general Grant was appointed to the important post of inspector-general of fortifications (18 April 1891), with the temporary rank of lieut.-general, dated 29 April 1891. He succeeded to the establishment of major-generals on 9 May 1891, and became lieut.-general on 4 June 1897. As inspector-general of fortifications Grant was an ex-officio member of the joint naval and military committee on defence, and president of the colonial defence committee. During his term of office important works of defence and of barrack construction were carried out, under the loan for defences and military works loan. His services were so highly valued that they were retained for two years beyond the usual term. He was promoted K.C.B. on 20 May 1896. On leaving the war office (17 April 1898) Grant's work was highly commended by the secretaries of state for war and the colonies, and he was awarded a distinguished service pension of 100l. a year. He was given the G.C.B. on 26 June 1902, and retired from the service on 28 March 1903. His health was failing, and he died on 8 January 1904 at his residence, 14 Granville Place, Portman Square, London, and was buried in Kensal Green cemetery.
Always cool and self-contained, Grant was gifted with a sure judgment and a retentive memory. A portrait in oils by C. Lutyens, painted in 1897, hangs in the R.E. officers' mess at Aldershot, and a replica was in Lady Grant's possession. She also had a portrait in oils of Sir Robert Grant by Henty, painted in 1887. He married in London, on 24 November 1875, Victoria Alexandrina, daughter of John Cotes of Woodcote Hall, Shropshire, and widow of T. Owen of Condover Hall in the same county. There were three children of the marriage, a daughter who died young, and twin sons, both in the army, of whom the younger, Robert Josceline, was killed at Spion Kop on 24 January 1900.
Sir Charles Grant (1836–1903), elder brother of Sir Robert Grant, was born in 1836, and educated at Harrow, Trinity College, Cambridge, and at Haileybury. He entered the Bengal civil service in 1858, was appointed a commissioner of the central provinces in 1870, and acting chief commissioner in 1879, when he became an additional member of the governor-general's council. In 1880 he was acting secretary to the government of India for the home, revenue, and agricultural departments, and in 1881 was appointed foreign secretary to the government of India. He was created C.S.I. in 1881, and in 1885 K.C.S.I. on retirement. He died suddenly in London on 10 April 1903. He married: (1) in 1872 Ellen (d. 1885), daughter of the Rt. Hon. Henry Baillie of Redcastle, N.B.; and (2) in 1890 Lady Florence Lucia, daughter of Admiral Sir Edward Alfred John Harris, and sister of the fourth earl of Malmesbury. She was raised to the rank of an earl's daughter in 1890. Sir Charles Grant edited the 'Central Provinces Gazetteer' (2nd edit. 1870).
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Burials at Kensal Green Cemetery |
76856737 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkland%20College | Parkland College | Parkland College may refer to:
Parkland College (United States), an American community college in Champaign, Illinois
Parkland College (Canada), a post-secondary educational institution in Saskatchewan, Canada |
76856790 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Henderson%20%28British%20Army%20officer%29 | George Henderson (British Army officer) | George Henderson (4 June 1783 – 21 April 1855) was a Scottish lieutenant-colonel and royal engineer.
Biography
Henderson was the son of Captain Henderson of the 4th royals. He was born on 4 June 1783 at Newton, his father's property, on the banks of the Dee, Aberdeenshire. He passed through the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and obtaining a commission in the corps of Royal Engineers joined at Portsmouth as second lieutenant in March 1800. He was promoted lieutenant the following year, and in 1803 was sent to Ceylon, where he served for nine years. He returned to England in August 1812 with the rank of captain, and in September was sent to Spain to join the Duke of Wellington's army operating in the Peninsula. He distinguished himself at the Siege of San Sebastián, for which he was mentioned in despatches and received the gold medal; he also took part in the battles of the Nive, Nivelle and Orthez, for which he received the war medal with two clasps. At the close of the war he was stationed in Ireland and, after his marriage, in Canada till 1819, when he returned to England. He attained the rank of lieutenant-colonel on 30 December 1824, and retired from the service on 9 April 1825. In 1830 he devoted himself to the formation of the London and South Western Railway Company, and was connected with that line, first as general superintendent, and subsequently as director, from its commencement until his death in Southampton on 21 April 1855. In May 1837 he was elected an associate of the Institution of Civil Engineers. For some years prior to his death he was chairman both of the London Equitable Gas Company and of the Southampton Gas Company.
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76856797 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunpyeong%20A | Eunpyeong A | Eunpyeong A () is a constituency of the National Assembly of South Korea. The constituency consists of parts of Eunpyeong District, Seoul. As of 2024, 219,044 eligible voters were registered in the constituency. The constituency was created in 1988 from the Seodaemun–Eunpyeong constituency.
History
Since its establishment, Eunpyeong A has elected members of the Democratic Party and predecessor parties in all but two elections and is thus regarded as a stronghold for the Democratic Party.
Oh Yu-bang of the right-wing Democratic Justice Party was the first member to represent the constituency, narrowly defeating Cho Dong-hoe of the Peace Democratic Party. Oh was succeeded by Son Sae-il of the centrist-liberal Democratic Party after losing re-election in the 1992 election. Son won re-election in 1996, defeating Kang In-sop of the centre-right Grand National Party. Son was defeated by Kang In-sop in the following election by a margin of around 5,000 votes, marking the last time a conservative party candidate won in Eunpyeong A. In the 2004 election, Lee Mi-kyung of the liberal Uri Party won the seat, securing 51.79% of the vote. Lee won re-election in 2008 and 2012, receiving 45.82 and 49.05% of the vote respectively.
Ahead of the 2016 South Korean legislative election, the Democratic Party then led by Kim Chong-in, did not re-nominate incumbent Lee Mi-kyung for the Eunpyeong A constituency. The party instead nominated lawyer Park Joo-min as its candidate on March 20, 2016. Park went on to win the general election with 54.93% of the vote, defeating opponents Choi Hong-jae and Choi Sang-hyeon of the Saenuri Party and Labor Party respectively. Park won re-election in a landslide in 2020, securing 64.29% of the vote and defeating United Future Party opponent Hong In-jung. The 2024 election saw rematch between incumbent Park Joo-min and Hong In-jung; Park won re-election with 60.78% of the vote.
Boundaries
The constituency consists of the neighborhoods of Nokbeon-dong, Yeokchon-dong, Jeungsan-dong, Sinsa-dong, Eungam-dong, Susaek-dong. It borders the constituencies of Eunpyeong B to the north, Goyang B to the west, Mapo B to the southwest, Seodaemun B to the south, and Jongno to the east.
List of members of the National Assembly
Election results
2024
2020
2016
2012
2008
2004
2000
1996
1992
1988
See also
List of constituencies of the National Assembly of South Korea
References
Constituencies of the National Assembly (South Korea)
1988 establishments in South Korea
Constituencies established in 1988 |
76856807 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choma%20Solar%20Power%20Station | Choma Solar Power Station | The Choma Solar Power Station is a solar power plant, under development in Zambia, with generation capacity of 60 megawatts and an attached 20 MWh battery energy storage system (BESS). The privately owned solar farm is being developed by a joint venture company, comprising "YEO Teknoloji Enerji ve Endustri AS" (YEO), a Turkish energy company and "GEI Power Limited", a Zambian independent power producer (IPP). The off-taker is ZESCO (Zambia Electricity Supply Corporation Limited), the national electricity utility, under a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA).
Location
The power station would located in Choma District, in the Southen Province of Zambia. Choma, the district headquarters is located approximately , southwest of Lusaka, the national capital and the largest city in the country.
Overview
This solar farm is the first grid-ready photovoltaic solar installation with an attached BESS in the country. The design calls for a ground-mounted solar panel layout, with maximum generation capacity of 60 megawatts. An attached 20 MWh BESS, based on lithium-battery technology will be incorporated in the design to allow the station to supply power even when sun is not up.
Developers
The developers/owners of this power station have formed a special purpose vehicle (SPV) company to own, design, develop, construct, operate and maintain this power station. The name of the SPV company is Choma Solar Power Plant Limited. The ownership of the SPV company is as outlined in the table below.
Construction costs and timeline
The construction costs for the power station are reported as US$65 million. Construction is expected to begin in 2024, with commercial commissioning expected in September 2025. As of May 2024, the necessary feasibility, grid impact and environmental impact assessment studies had been concluded.
Other considerations
As of April 2024, Zambia had installed generation capacity of 3,030 MW, of which 2,393 MW (79 percent) was derived from hydroelectric sources. Due to severe drought in the sub-region in recent months, the river levels are low and Zambian electricity output is low. As of February 2024, Zambia was grappling with a 500 MW deficit in electricity supply. This solar farm is expected to help to partially mitigate that shortage.
See also
List of power stations in Zambia
Zambia Riverside Solar Power Station
Itimpi Solar Power Station
References
External links
Zambia-Turkey partnership kicks off sustainable energy revolution: GEI Power and YEO to build $65 million solar power plant
Solar power stations in Zambia
Choma District
Southern Province, Zambia
2020s establishments in Zambia |
76856812 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sewellia%20elongata | Sewellia elongata | Sewellia elongata is a species of fish in the genus Sewellia. The fish is found in the Se Kong River and is long (SL).
References
Gastromyzontidae
Fish of Asia
Fish described in 1998
Taxa named by Tyson R. Roberts |
76856825 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilberte%20Montavon | Gilberte Montavon | Gilberte Montavon de Courgenay (20 March 1896 – 2 May 1957) was a Swiss waitress who became a national symbol of spiritual national defense during World War I and World War II. She entertained Swiss Army troops at the Hôtel de Gare in Courgenay, which was owned by her family, and became popular with the soldiers. In 1917, the composer and folklorist Hanns In der Gand gave a concert at the hotel and performed his new song La petite Gilberte, written about Montavon. The song was adopted by the army to boost morale throughout the war. Montavon inspired Rudolph Bolo Mäglin's 1939 novel Gilberte de Courgenay and his play of the same name. Two films, August Kern's Marguerite et les soldates in 1940 and Franz Schnyder's Gilberte de Courgenay in 1941, were based on her life.
Early life
Montavon was born on 20 March 1896 in Courgenay to Gustave Montavon, a watchmaker and hotelier, and Lucine Laville. She was born on the first floor of her family home on Fontaine-Allée. She had two older sisters, Fernande and Camille, and two younger brothers, Gustave and Paul.
Montavon was sent to a boarding school in German-speaking Alemania for her education. In 1914, Montavon returned from school, due to the war, and began working as a waitress at her parent's hotel, the Hôtel de Gare.
National symbol
During World War I, she entertained Swiss Army soldiers who were stationed in Ajoie, including many Swiss-German speakers. She was fluent in Swiss-French and Swiss German and would serve as a translator between the German-speaking troops and the French-speaking municipal officials. She would also repair uniforms and play the piano for soldiers visiting the hotel.
In 1915, the composer and folklorist Hanns In der Gand visited Courgenay to collect popular songs to pass on to the troops. On 11 October 1917, In der Gand gave a concert at the Hôtel de Gare where he performed his song about Montavon titled Le petite Gilberte de Courgenay in German and French. The song was adopted by the Swiss Army to boost morale throughout the war.
In 1939, Rudolph Bolo Mäglin wrote a novel based on Montavon, titled Gilberte de Courgenay, and a stage play of the same name that was performed at the Schauspielhaus Zürich and in Basel. In 1940, August Kern produced the film Marguerite et les soldates, loosely based on Montavon. In 1941, the filmmaker Franz Schnyder made a film, Gilberte de Courgenay, based on Mäglin's novel. She was portrayed by Anne-Marie Blanc in the film.
Personal life
In 1923, Montavon married Louis Schneider, a businessman from St. Gallen, in a Catholic ceremony at Mariastein Abbey in Metzerlen-Mariastein. The couple moved to Zürich, where they lived at Bergstrasse 122. Gilberte gave birth to a daughter, Jeanne. The family moved to another house, located at Bionstrasse 10, where they settled permanently.
Death and legacy
Montavon died in Zürich on 2 May 1957 and was buried at the Friedhof Nordheim.
A street and a bus station in Courgenay are named after her. In 1995, the filmmaker Jacqueline Veuve dedicated an episode of her television series, Ma rue histoire, to Montavon.
References
1896 births
1957 deaths
20th-century Swiss women
Deaths from cancer in Switzerland
Folk saints
Historiography of Switzerland
Liberty symbols
National symbols of Switzerland
People from Porrentruy District
Restaurant staff
Swiss-French people
Swiss Roman Catholics
Women in World War I
Women in World War II |
76856843 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m%20Starting%20Again | I'm Starting Again | I'm Starting Again is the third album by the British singer Grace Kennedy, released in 1981.
The track I'm Starting Again reached the top 30 in the US chart.
Her interpretation of Love Is A Serious Business turned into a Northern soul alternative female version of the Alfie Davidson classic, with a separate rare Canadian Rio Records release in the same year, as it was typical of many Northern soul records.
The album was digitalized in 2021.
Credits
Arranged and conducted by John Coleman and Richard Hewson
Bass – Dave Olney, Luís Jardim, Paul Westwood
Drums – Dave Mattacks, Graham Jarvis
Guitar – Ray Russell
Keyboards – Graham Todd, John Coleman, Pete Wingfield, Richard Hewson
Percussion – Luís Jardim
Producer – Phillip Swern
Track listing
References
1981 albums
Grace Kennedy albums |
76856852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalita%20Nakadomari | Thalita Nakadomari | Thalita Santos Nakadomari (born 11 May 1985) is a retired Brazilian rhythmic gymnast. She is a three time Pan American Games gold medalist.
Biography
Thalita began practicing gymnastics at the age of seven, after her teacher saw her playing and noticed her abilities for the sport. By age 14 she was part of the Brazilian national team.
She was selected to compete at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney in the group competition alongside Natália Scherer, Flávia de Faria, Alessandra Ferezin, Dayane Camilo and Camila Ferezin. They placed 7th in the qualifying round and 8th in the final. This was the first time Brazil's group qualified for the Olympics.
In 2003, she was part of the group that repeated the gold medal in the All-Around at the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, adding another two in the finals with 5 ribbons and 3 hoops & 2 balls. She competed in the 2003 World Championships in Budapest, where Brazil took 9th place, one position below the spot for the Olympic Games, but the country secured classification based on the technical index.
Although she was a starter in the group, she chose not to compete in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and retired from competitive sport at the age of 18. After leaving competitions, she graduated in physical education.
References
1985 births
Living people
20th-century Brazilian sportswomen
21st-century Brazilian sportswomen
Brazilian rhythmic gymnasts
Gymnasts at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Gymnasts at the 2003 Pan American Games
Olympic gymnasts for Brazil
Pan American Games competitors for Brazil
Pan American Games gold medalists for Brazil
Pan American Games medalists in gymnastics
People from Londrina |
76856912 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darren%20Goldie | Darren Goldie | Air Marshal Darren James Goldie, (born 1975) is a senior officer in the Royal Australian Air Force. He joined the RAAF through the Australian Defence Force Academy in 1993 and gained his pilot's wings in 1997. He has deployed on operations to East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan, and has commanded No. 37 Squadron RAAF (2012–15) and No. 92 Wing RAAF (2017–18). He was Air Commander Australia from April 2022 to June 2023, and served as the inaugural National Cyber Security Coordinator from July to November 2023.
Early life
Goldie was raised on the Gold Coast of Queensland and educated at The Southport School, where he was a member of the Australian Air Force Cadets.
RAAF career
Goldie entered the Australian Defence Force Academy as a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) officer cadet in 1993. He graduated from the academy with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Studies in 1995 and was posted for flying training, gaining his pilot's wings in 1997. He was then appointed to No. 37 Squadron RAAF, operating the Lockheed C-130 Hercules, and flew on operations in East Timor. After serving as aide-de-camp to the Chief of the Defence Force from 2000 to 2001, Goldie returned to No. 37 Squadron as a flight commander and served on operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Goldie was appointed the Air Force Pilot HR Manager in 2007 and then, in 2008, became Staff Officer VIP Operations, responsible for the air transport of royalty, visiting dignitaries and government officials, including the prime minister and governor-general. For his "outstanding achievement" in this role, Goldie was awarded the Conspicuous Service Cross in the 2012 Australia Day Honours. He graduated with a Masters of Management from the University of New South Wales in 2010 and a Masters of Strategic Studies from the USAF Air War College in 2012, before being appointed commanding officer of No. 37 Squadron in July that year. Goldie's squadron oversaw 650 personnel and a fleet of twelve C-130J Hercules aircraft, which were engaged in domestic and overseas operations and included a detachment posted to the Middle East Area of Operations. In January 2013, as pilot of a C-130J, Goldie was involved in the successful search-and-rescue of French yachtsman Alain Delord, who was located approximately south of Tasmania. Goldie and his crew received a Chief of Joint Operations Gold Commendation for their role in the rescue. In recognition of both his command of the squadron and "exceptional service ... in airlift operations", Goldie was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2015 Australia Day Honours.
Goldie was made Director Military Strategic Commitments in 2015, Officer Commanding No. 92 Wing RAAF in 2017, and Director General Air Combat Capability in 2018. In 2020 he was seconded to the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, serving as Assistant Secretary of Global Interests in the International Division and providing strategic advice on foreign policy to the Australian government. Goldie returned to the RAAF in 2022 and succeeded Air Vice-Marshal Joe Iervasi as Air Commander Australia that April, with responsibility for the training and operational preparedness of 12,000 personnel in the operational arm of the RAAF. Goldie handed over the role to Air Vice-Marshal Glen Braz in June 2023.
In July 2023 Goldie was promoted to air marshal and appointed the inaugural National Cyber Security Coordinator. The role was created in the Department of Home Affairs to oversee Australia's cyber security policy and to coordinate the government's strategic response to cyber security threats. Goldie served in the role for only four months. He was recalled to the Department of Defence in November "to deal with a workplace matter" arising from "a complaint concerning [Goldie's] alleged past behaviour" in the RAAF. The Deputy Secretary of Cyber and Infrastructure Security, Hamish Hansford, was appointed acting National Cyber Security Coordinator in the interim, until Goldie was formally replaced by Lieutenant General Michelle McGuinness in February 2024.
Personal life
Goldie is married to Kirsty, a nurse in the RAAF, and has two children.
References
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1975 births
Air War College alumni
Australian aviators
Australian military personnel of the Iraq War
Australian military personnel of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
Graduates of the Australian Defence Force Academy
Living people
Members of the Order of Australia
People educated at the Southport School
People from the Gold Coast, Queensland
Recipients of the Conspicuous Service Cross (Australia)
Royal Australian Air Force air marshals
University of New South Wales alumni |
76856922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One%20Voice%20%28Grace%20Kennedy%20album%29 | One Voice (Grace Kennedy album) | One Voice is the fourth album of the British singer Grace Kennedy. It was released in 1981, under the label BBC Records. Music from this album featured in the Saturday night prime time entertainment show, The Grace Kennedy Show, which ran for six series between 1981–1983 and won a BAFTA award.
The tracks were orchestrated by John Coleman and produced by Philip Swern. The album was digitalized in 2021.
Track listing
References
1981 albums
Grace Kennedy albums |
76856928 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niagara%20Falls%20Cataracts | Niagara Falls Cataracts | The Niagara Falls Cataracts were a Canadian minor professional ice hockey team located in Niagara Falls, Ontario. The franchise played for four seasons with the first three coming in the Canadian Professional Hockey League. In 1929, the league was reformed as the International Hockey League.
History
Niagara was one of the founding members of the CPHL in 1926 which consisted entirely of Canadian teams from southern Ontario. The team was rather unsuccessful, finishing last in the league in two out of three seasons. Despite their struggles, the Cataracts joined the rest of the league members in 1929 by dissolving the CPHL and reforming in the International Hockey League. Niagara once again finished last in the standings and decided to call it quits after the season.
During their final season, tragedy befell a member of the team when Edward Baker was fatally injured during a game. On January 9, against the Buffalo Bisons, Baker collided with his teammate, Lloyd Gross and suffered a skull fracture as a result. Baker remained conscious and skated off of the ice under his own power. He was later taken to a local hospital where he died the following morning at the age of 26. His death was ruled to have been accidental and no inquest was held.
Former NHL star and Hockey Hall of Famer Newsy Lalonde coached Niagara Falls during the 1928–29 season.
Season-by-season record
References
External links
The Internet Hockey Database
International Hockey League (1929–1936) teams
Defunct ice hockey teams in Ontario
Ice hockey clubs established in 1926
Ice hockey clubs disestablished in 1930
1926 establishments in Ontario
1930 disestablishments in Ontario |
76856967 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuyuki%20Kawahigashi | Yasuyuki Kawahigashi | Yasuyuki Kawahigashi (河東 泰之, born 1962), formerly known as Yasuyuki Asano, is a Japanese mathematician and a professor at the Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, the University of Tokyo. His primary area of expertise is operator algebra theory.
Career
Born in Ōta, Tokyo, Kawahigashi was raised in a family where his father worked for an oil company and his mother was a teacher at a Kumon learning centre. Kawahigashi graduated from Azabu High School in 1981, where he was classmates with Hiraku Nakajima. He matriculated at the University of Tokyo in 1981. During his years as an undergraduate, he worked for ASCII and authored several bestselling software books, supporting himself through royalties.
Kawahigashi completed his undergraduate degree at UTokyo's Department of Mathematics in 1985. He then went on to study at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1985 under the supervision of Masamichi Takesaki, a proponent of the Tomita–Takesaki theory. he earned his master's degree from UCLA the following year. He earned his first Ph.D. from UCLA in 1989 and the second from UTokyo in 1990. He has held various academic positions at various institutions before attaining his current role.
Major Contributions
According to Kawahigashi, his most notable achievement so far is the completion of the classification theory for local conformal nets with central charge less than one, co-authored with Italian mathematician Roberto Longo in 2004.
Supervision
Kawahigashi has supervised Narutaka Odaka as a doctoral candidate. Although educated at the Department of Physics of UTokyo, Yoshiko Ogata joined Kawahigashi's seminar as a student, and she worked with him at the Department of Mathematics at the university for more than a decade.
Kawahigashi believes that one should never stop questioning, researching, or consulting others until complete understanding is achieved, asserting that 'It is absurd for someone who cannot do this to be in a doctoral programme.
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Living people
1962 births
University of Tokyo alumni
Academic staff of the University of Tokyo
Japanese mathematicians
Operator algebras
People from Ōta, Tokyo |
76856990 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortezza%20Firmafede | Fortezza Firmafede | The fortezza Firmafede, also named La Cittadella or Fortezza di Sarzana, is a military fortification in Sarzana, in the Province of La Spezia, Liguria, Italy.
History
The Citadella was the town's first military fortification; along with the city walls it was built with the help of the town's Pisan allies. Important changes and improvements to its defensive systems were made in 1324 by Castruccio Castracani, but the Florentines, led by Lorenzo de' Medici, destroyed it in 1487. It was rebuilt between 1487 and 1492, on top of the ruins of the first Cittadella (on orders of de' Medici himself), with a round, central tower, of the kind that half a century later came to be replaced by angled bastions. Florentine military architects were involved in the process: Giuliano da Sangallo, Francesco di Giovanni, and Luca del Caprina.
When Charles VIII of France sold Sarzana to the Bank of Saint George in 1496, this included the fortress; in 1562, the Republic of Genoa, which had acquired ownership of the town, completed the fortress.
In 1815 the fortress was used as a police barracks, and until the end of the 1970s it was a prison. Starting in 1985 work began on restoring the fortress and opening it to the public. The fortress is now owned by the Ministry of Culture and is used as a venue for cultural events and exhibitions.
Description
The main building with its quadrilateral plan has a central keep inside, and is surrounded by a moat and a system of defensive walls. The main access is via a path and a stone bridge that leads to the main door, which opens onto the courtyard, lateral to the central body.
See also
Luni
Castruccio Castracani
Sarzana
Provincia della Spezia
References
External links
National museums of Italy |
76857052 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistislaw | Mistislaw | Mistislaw, also known as Mstislav (d. after 1018), was an Elbe Slavic prince of the Nakonid lineage and ruled over the Obotrites in what is now Mecklenburg and eastern Holstein from 990/995 to 1018.
The Nakonids were among the most powerful Christian Slavic princes in the second half of the 10th century. In the retinue of the Saxon Duke Bernhard I, Mistislaw participated in Otto II's campaign against the Saracens in southern Italy in 982, from which he returned with only a few survivors. In the subsequent Slavic revolt of 983, the Nakonids relinquished their sovereignty over several Obotrite branches to the victorious Lutici. Upon the death of his father, Mstivoj, in 990 or 995, Mistislaw attempted to establish royal rule over the remaining peoples. While he managed to secure the support of the Church and the Empire, the opposition within the Obotrites joined forces with the Lutici. From 1003 onwards, Mistislaw's ability to secure Saxon support was eroded by Henry II's alliance with the Lutici against the Polish prince Boleslaw I. This ultimately resulted in Mistislaw's inability to assert his authority. In February 1018, the Lutici invaded the Obotrite kingdom, incited unrest among the population, and compelled Mistislaw to seek refuge in the Saxon Bardengau.
The majority of recent research views Mistislaw as a Christian Slavic prince with close ties to the Holy Roman Empire. This research suggests that his attempt to reorganise the Obotrite kingdom from a personal state to a territorial state failed, despite the support of the Church and the Saxon duchy.
Life
Origin and family
Mistislaw, also known as Mistizlavus and Missizla in historical sources, was the son of the Obotritic sovereign (Samtherrscher), Mstivoj. He had two sisters, Tove and Hodica. A marriage to the niece of the Saxon Duke Bernhard I was unsuccessful in 983 due to the opposition of Dietrich of Haldensleben. Mistislaw had a son, Pribignew, with an unknown wife, who assumed control of the confederation around 1020 with the support of Danish and Saxon forces.
Campaign against the Saracens in southern Italy
Before assuming the role of ruler, Mistislaw participated in Emperor Otto II's Italian campaign in 982 as a representative of the Nakonid family. At the head of a delegation of Obotrite armoured horsemen, he crossed the Alps in 981/982 in the wake of the Saxon Duke Bernhard I to reinforce the imperial army in the southern part of the empire. At this juncture, the emperor initiated a military campaign against the Saracens, who had advanced from Sicily to the southern Italian mainland under the leadership of their emir Abu al-Qasim. The contingent led by Mistislaw is said to have consisted of 1,000 armoured horsemen. By medieval standards, this number is hardly believable, particularly when one considers that the emperor had only requested a total of 2090 armoured riders from the northern part of the empire in his call-up order. Nevertheless, the number of Obotrite warriors must have been exceptionally high, as Bernhard I promised the marriage of his niece to Mistislaw in return for their participation in the campaign, thus creating a dynastic connection between the two princely houses. While Bernhard I was compelled to return to the north at an early stage due to an invasion by the Danes, the vast majority of the Abodrites perished in Italy. Although their ultimate fate remains unknown, it seems likely that they participated in the Battle of Cape Colonna, in which the imperial army was decisively defeated on 15 July 982.
Mistislaw returned to Mecklenburg with the few survivors. Upon demanding the fulfilment of the marriage promise, Count Dietrich von Haldensleben refused to provide him with the bride, stating that a duke's blood relative should not be given to a dog. It seems probable that Dietrich's reasons for opposing a dynastic union between the Billungers and the Nakonids were power-political. As Margrave of the Nordmark, he competed with the Billungers and Nakonids for influence in the Circipanian territory, which was traditionally subject to Obotrite rule. Conversely, it seems unlikely that Dietrich's ethnic reservations about a marriage between the Slavic prince's son and the Saxon princess were a significant factor in his opposition to the union. Such unions were not uncommon at the time. In 978, Dietrich himself had sponsored the marriage of his eldest daughter Oda to the Polish prince Mieszko I, and his other daughter Mathilde had married the Hevelli prince Pribislaw. Mistislaw's father, Mstivoj, was married to the sister of the Oldenburg bishop, Wago, and a relative of the Saxon duke, Bernhard I, Weldrud, had been given in marriage to the Wagrian prince, Sederich.
Sovereignty
As the sovereign of the Obotrite confederation, Mistislaw ruled over the eponymous Obotrite branch on both sides of Lake Schwerin and the princes of the various branches. They owed him military allegiance and tribute.
Accession to power
The date of Mistislav's accession to power is uncertain. The majority of research has concentrated on the years 990 and 995. Christian Lübke has proposed that a significant shift in Obotrite policy could be identified from 990 onwards, which would indicate a change in leadership. In contrast, Peter Donat and Jürgen Petersohn propose that a friendly visit by King Otto III to Mecklenburg in September 995 could have taken place on the occasion of Mistislav's enthronement.
Exercise of power
As his father Mstiwoj had done before him, Mistislaw also used Mecklenburg Castle as a central seat of power and place of representation. This is evidenced by the official residence of the Oldenburg bishops Reginbert (991/992-1013/1014) and Bernard (1013/1014-1023), who resided at Mecklenburg Castle during Mistislaw's reign. Additionally, a nunnery was situated either on or close to Mecklenburg Castle. Following the Saxon model, this nunnery may have been established to provide accommodation for the daughters of the nobles of the Obotrite lands, to foster a sense of local loyalty among the noble families, binding them to location of the rulers seat. This is at odds with the account in Thietmar of Merseburg, which states that Mistislaw was imprisoned and besieged in Schwerin Castle in 1018. Nils Rühberg does not perceive any inconsistency in this account; rather, he suggests that Mistislaw had fled from Mecklenburg to Schwerin Castle.
The question of which of the Obotrite branches Mistislaw ruled over remains unresolved. It is assumed that he ruled over the Polabians to the west and the Kessinians to the east of Lake Schwerin, as well as the Linones to the south, who later emerged with their own tribal princes. The extent of his influence on the most significant branch besides the Obotrites, the Wagri in eastern Holstein, remains uncertain. The majority of scholars today assume that the ecclesiastical structures were permanently abolished in 990 and that Mistislaw still held at most a loose overlordship over the Wagrian prince Sederich. However, Thietmar of Merseburg expressly described him as the ruler of the Obotrites and Wagri in 1018. However, it is certain that the Circipania people along the Lower Peene were not under Mistislaw's rule. It is evident that the Circipanians had already allied themselves with the victorious Lutici, either concurrently or shortly after the Slavic uprising of 983.
Mistislaw sought to establish a form of autocracy within his territory, akin to that of a king. In Obotrite society, the ruler was not the sole bearer of political will. Rather, the lower nobility possessed a range of ancestral rights, including the independent administration of their castle districts and the installation and removal of the ruler. Mistislav's attempt to disempower the lesser nobility led to their opposition to him. The opposition nobles found allies in the pagan priesthood, whose influence Mistislaw sought to eliminate by expanding the Christian church organisation and the associated missionary work among the population. The veracity of reports by the Bosau priest Helmold in his Chronica Slavorum from around 1167 that Mistislaw had turned against the Christian church and dissolved the nunnery on Mecklenburg Castle is increasingly being questioned by researchers. This is particularly the case given that these reports contradict older reports that Bishop Bernhard's missionary endeavours among the Slavs were very successful and that Mistislaw remained a Christian until the end of his life.
Alliance policy
Mistislaw renewed his alliance with the Saxon Duke Bernhard I, to whom the Nakonids had been obliged to follow the army and pay tribute as vassals, at least under Mistislaw's father Mstivoj. King Otto III's friendly visit to Mecklenburg in the autumn of 995 was also an expression of cordial relations with the royal court, which had its roots in the common enmity with the Lutici. Consequently, no attacks by the Obotrites on Saxon territory are recorded during the tenure of Otto III as emperor (996-1002).
Downfall
The death of Emperor Otto III marked the beginning of Mistislaw's political decline. Initially, his allies, the Saxon Billungers, lost their royal proximity in the empire with the accession of Henry II. The primary cause of this was the conflict that erupted in Merseburg in the summer of 1002 between Henry II and the Polish ruler Bolesław I, with whom both the Nakonids and the Billungers were closely aligned. Subsequently, Henry II concluded an alliance with the pagan Lutici, Mistislaw's enemies, in Quedlinburg at Easter 1003. The altered political landscape resulted in a significant reduction in Saxon support for Mistislaw against the Liutizen and the inner-Abodrite opposition. The pagan priesthood and the lower nobility found a natural ally in the Lutici, whose constitution, without a monarchical leadership, was attractive to the nobles due to its "freedom in the manner of the Lutici". In February 1018, Mistislaw's position in the Obotrite kingdom became untenable. The accusation that Mistislaw had refused to join their army in the campaign against Boleslaw in autumn 1017 was used as a pretext for the Lutici to invade the Abodrite kingdom with an army, stir up the population and besiege Mistislaw in Schwerin Castle. From this point onwards, he and the princely family were able to flee to the Bardengau, probably to Lüneburg, the residence of the Saxon Duke Bernhard II. In the meantime, the rebels proceeded to destroy the Christian institutions in the Obotrite kingdom. Upon learning of the events in his diocese, Bishop Bernhard expressed his profound concern to Emperor Henry II, though he "sighed heavily, but postponed a decision until Easter in order to resolve the unfortunate web of conspiracy according to a well-considered plan". Nevertheless, the emperor refrained from intervening on behalf of the Church or reinstating Mistislav. In the year 1018, Mistislav died in exile in Saxony. No surviving memorial entries commemorate him.
Availability of sources
The availability of historical sources is adverse, as there are no surviving written sources from the Obotrites. The existence and rule of Mistislaw are attested exclusively by Saxon reports, for the first time in 1018 in the chronicle of Thietmar of Merseburg, written between 1012 and 1018. In his Hamburg Church History, written around 1070, Adam of Bremen reports learning of a Slavic prince named Mistislaw, under whom peace had reigned in the territory of the Obotrites. However, chronologically, Adam places Mistislaw before his father Mstivoj and confuses the two when he has Mstivoj flee from an uprising in 1018. In Helmold of Bosau's Slavic Chronicle, Mistislaw, the son of an otherwise completely unknown Billug, ultimately becomes a "furious hater of Christians" who plots against his Christian stepmother until his father disowns her, raids and plunders Christian institutions and finally dissolves the convent on Mecklenburg Castle out of anti-Christian sentiment to marry the nuns to his warriors and his sister Hodica to a Boleslaw.
Research history
Previous research on Mistislaw was primarily genealogical and church historical in nature. Confusion between Mistislaw and his father Mstivoj by Adam of Bremen and Helmold of Bosau led to ambiguities that hindered historians' attempts to establish a lineage of the Nakonids. Since Bernhard Schmeidler's investigation in 1918, Mistislaw's descent from Mstivoj has been generally recognised. As Helmold depicts Mistislaw as a vehement opponent of Christianity, in contrast to Adam, interest in ecclesiastical history was directed towards the question of whether Mistislaw actually adhered to the Christian faith until 1018. This question was finally answered by Albert Hauck.
In contrast, more recent research on the history of the Elbe Slavs has focused on the failed nation-building of the Obotrites and their relations with the neighbouring Saxons.
In 1960, Wolfgang H. Fritze, in his foundational work on the challenges of Obotritic tribal and kingdom governance, classified Mistislaw's rule during the partial tribal state as a form of authority over an association of individuals. Fritze's assessment has recently been contradicted by the archaeologist Fred Ruchhöft, who recognises the beginnings of nation-building under Mistislaw in particular. This involved a shift in Mistislaw's rulership from the "accumulation of a princely rule over several tribal princes" to a "territorial rule of followers". Previously, various historians had posited that Mistislaw had endeavoured to establish a royal-like rule based on territorial succession by eliminating the hereditary rights of the lower nobility.
The relationship between Mistislaw and the Saxon dukes and Otto III is also viewed differently by scholars. Mistislaw's flight to the Bardengau has consistently led historians to posit an alliance with the Saxon dukes. In order to consolidate his authority, he was compelled to consent to the permanent incorporation of the Obotrite settlement area as the Mark of the Billunger into an Ottonian system of marks. Mistislaw's role has been variously characterised as that of a governor and "tax collector" of the Billungers. This interpretation has been subject to criticism on several occasions, as it is incompatible with the otherwise strong and independent position of the Obotrite ruler. Finally, the reassessment of Otto III's visit to Mecklenburg in 995 as a friendly visit by the royal patron represents a departure from previous research findings. In contrast, Christian Lübke categorised Mistislaw as an enemy of the Saxons and the empire. During his tenure, the Obotrites devastated Northern Albingia, incinerated Hamburg, and destroyed the diocese of Oldenburg. This was followed by a series of military confrontations between the Obotrites and the Saxons, which culminated in the king's conquest of Mecklenburg in September 995 and the subjugation of Mistislaw.
Sources
Thietmar of Merseburg (1935). Holtzmann, Robert (ed.). Die Chronik des Bischofs Thietmar von Merseburg und ihre Korveier Überarbeitung. Thietmari Merseburgensis episcopi chronicon. Monumenta Germaniae Historica Scriptores. 6: Scriptores rerum Germanicarum (in German). Vol. 9. Berlin: Weidmann.
Adam of Bremen (2000). "Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum". In Buchner, Rudolf (ed.). Quellen des 9. und 11. Jahrhunderts zur Geschichte der Hamburgischen Kirche und des Reiches. Ausgewählte Quellen zur deutschen Geschichte des Mittelalters. Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gedächtnisausgabe (in German). Vol. 11 (6 ed.). Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft. pp. 137–499.
Helmold of Bosau (1973). Helmoldi Presbyteri Bozoviensis Chronica Slavorum. Ausgewählte Quellen zur deutschen Geschichte des Mittelalters. Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gedächtnisausgabe. (in German). Vol. 19 (2 ed.). Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.
Literature
Hoffmann, Erich (1998). "Beiträge zur Geschichte der Obotriten zur Zeit der Nakoniden". In Hübner, Eckhard; Klug, Ekkehard; Jan, Kusber (eds.). Zwischen Christianisierung und Europäisierung. Beiträge Zur Geschichte Osteuropas in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit. Festschrift für Peter Nitsche zum 65. Geburtstag. Quellen und Studien zur Geschichte des östlichen Europa (in German). Vol. 51. Stuttgart: Steiner. pp. 23–51.
Petersohn, Jürgen (2003). "König Otto III. und die Slawen an Ostsee, Oder und Elbe um das Jahr 995. Mecklenburgzug – Slavnikidenmassaker – Meißenprivileg". Frühmittelalterliche Studien. 37: 99–139.
References
Obotrites
Obotrite princes
10th-century births
11th-century deaths
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76857177 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilberte | Gilberte | Gilberte is a name of French-Norman origin. It is the feminine version of the name Gilbert.
Notable people
Gilberte Brossolette (1905–2004), French politician and journalist
Gilberte Champion (1913–2020), French radio operator in the French Resistance
Gilberte H. Dallas (1918–1960), French poet
Gilberte Géniat (1916–1986), French actress
Jill Gilberte Khawam (born 1975), Lebanese-American philanthropist
Gilberte Marin-Moskovitz (1937–2019), French politician
Gilberte Montavon (1896–1957), Swiss waitress and the inspiration of the film Gilberte de Courgenay
Gilberte Mortier (1907–1991), French swimmer
Gilberte Périer (1620–1687), French biographer
Gilberte Roca (1911–2004), French politician and member of the French Resistance
See also
Gilbertese language
Gilberte de Courgenay
Gilberta
British Isles given names
French feminine given names
German feminine given names |
76857185 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress%20of%20Sarzanello | Fortress of Sarzanello | The fortress of Sarzanello is a military fortification on the Sarzanello hill, near Sarzana, in province of La Spezia, Italy, above the Val di Magra. Since December 2014 it is managed by the Ministry of Culture.
Description
The fortress has "three squat circular towers" that do not come up higher than the walls, a "central square tower, and a triangular protobastion".
Two distinct building elements are visible:
the castle proper, the main part of the fortification, has a triangular plan with three bastions at the top;
a huge ravelin in the form of a triangular fortified embankment, opposite the castle to which it is connected by a bridge.
Access to the fortress is by crossing the stone bridge, which crosses the wide and deep fortified moat.
History
As early as the 4th century Luni had begun declining, and its inhabitangs began migrating to the surrounding hills for safety. This expanded existing villages and started new villages (Nicola, Ortonovo, Castelnuovo Magra, Ameglia); the Sarzanello hill itself was populated by exiles who settled there around the Bishop's residence. A military structure on the hill is mentioned for the first time in 963, in a document from the Emperor Otto I; it grants the possession of six castra, including that of "de Sarzano", to the Diocese of Luni.
Between 1076 and 1080 it is referenced as the curtis of the emperor Frederick Barbarossa, and in 1191 as the curtis of Henry VI.
From Castruccio Castracani to the Genoese Republic
Between 1314 and 1328 the imperial vicar Castruccio Castracani was plenipotentiary of the area; he supposedly was the model for Niccolò Machiavelli "Prince". Any changes he made to the structure can no longer be discerned. In 1421 the Genoese Tomaso Fregoso ordered changes and restorations to the fortress; more were done until the Florentines took over.
Lorenzo de' Medici had the city fortified and erected the citadel--after first destroying it--updating the structure for modern warfare. After having fortified the city, erecting the Fortezza Firmafede (the city's citadel), having previously destroyed it, the Medici decided to transform the old fortress on the hill and adapt it to the new war needs. The architects Francesco di Giovanni and Luca del Caprina designed the new structure which completely replaced the previous one. It was not yet finished when in 1494, two years after the death of Lorenzo, his son Piero the Unfortunate handed it over to the French.
Once the construction of the fortress with its three roundels was completed, construction of the ravelin began, which probably incorporated the ancient tower of the castrum. This new structure protected the entrance to the fortress and prevented this side from being hit by artillery from the hill to the south-east, a place called the Fortino, where another line of defense was soon set up. When that was done the fortress reached its current state.
From Napoleon to today
In 1747, during the War of the Austrian Succession, the soldiers of Maria Theresa of Austria led by German general Wocter, unsuccessfully tried to take the fortress. Since the nearby town of Sarzanello had provided aid to the Austrians, the government of Genoa ordered the demolition of the 120 houses that made up the village, including the ancient church. In 1748, the inhabitants were forced to move to the southernmost area, the new Sarzanello.
Access
There is a third access road and is represented by a pedestrian walkway called the "Montata di Sarzanello", recommended to tourists for its scenery. The hill can be walked from Via San Francesco.
Bibliography
References
National museums of Italy |
76857217 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agathe%20Dronne | Agathe Dronne | Agathe Dronne is a French actress and film director.
Career
Her credits include roles in more than 20 films and 10 TV projects, as well as multiple theatre performances.
She presented her short La Vallée des larmes at 2013 Conti Film Festival where the film won the Audience Award.
Selected filmography
Actress
2007 — The Vanishing Point, dir. Laurent de Bartillat;
2013 — My Soul Healed by You, dir. Francois Dupeyron;
2015 — Les Cowboys, dir. Thomas Bidegain;
2017 — Espèces menacées, dir. Gilles Bourdos.
2018 — Marche ou crève;
2021 — Full Time, dir. Eric Gravel.
Director
2012 — La Vallée des larmes'' short.
References
Sources
French film actresses
French women film directors
Living people
21st-century French actresses |
76857219 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More%20Direct%20Democracy | More Direct Democracy | More Direct Democracy (MDD) is a Dutch political party that has been represented in the European Parliament since its establishment in 2021.
The party was founded by Dorien Rookmaker, who has been a member of the European Parliament since February 12, 2020; initially representing Groep Otten, and then as an independent. Rookmaker is also the chair of the party. Since December 8, 2021, the party has been part of the faction of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECH).
The party does not have its own election manifesto, but rather is a platform for representatives who each make their own choices. The party has indicated that it will participate in the European elections in June 2024.
MDD was a member of the European Alliance for Freedom and Democracy (EAFD), a European party that focused on anti-corruption and support for the rule of law. The EAFD was disbanded in 2023.
References
2021 establishments in the Netherlands
Direct democracy parties
Political parties established in 2021 |
76857260 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverside%20Consolidated%20School | Riverside Consolidated School | Riverside Consolidated School is a historic Canadian public consolidated school located in Riverside-Albert (now part of Fundy Albert), Albert County, New Brunswick. Built in 1905, the schoolbuilding is three-storeys tall and is made from wood. It is recognized as a Provincial Heritage Building, and continues to operate.
History
Schools in rural Canadian areas had a growing trend of becoming consolidated in the early 1900s, with New Brunswick supporting the creation of them through 1903 legislation. $5,000 in funding for the school was provided by Abner Reid McClelan, a former Senator and Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick, with additional funding being provided by the province and through taxes. Riverside Consolidated School was built in 1905, designed by architect Watson Elkinah Reid. H. Copp and Dixon, contractors from Sackville, were hired by Reid for the construction. The wooden building, measuring three storeys tall, sits next to the Shepody River. Succeeding the Grammar School for Albert County, the school opened in September 1905 with an initial enrollment of 275 students, serving grades 1–11 at the time. On June 15, 1906, the school's opening ceremony began. Established as a consolidated school, it previously served high school-level students.
On May 27, 1997, the school was recognized as a Provincial Heritage Place under New Brunswick's Heritage Conservation Act. In 2015, the Anglophone East School District held a council meeting addressing the potential closure for the school, which local residents campaigned against citing concerns such as the lengthy busing distance to the closest alternative in Hillsborough. The council unanimously voted to continue running the school. Riverside Consolidated School still features a distinctive escape chute on the schoolbuilding.
References
External links
Riverside Consolidated School
Schools in Albert County, New Brunswick
Educational institutions established in 1905
1905 establishments in New Brunswick
Historic buildings and structures in New Brunswick |
76857303 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parque%20Espa%C3%B1a | Parque España | Parque España may refer to:
Parque de España
Parque España (Mexico City)
Shima Spain Village |
76857379 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabel%20Rehnfeldt | Mabel Rehnfeldt | Mabel Rehnfeldt (born 1964) is a Paraguayan reporter and editor for ABC Digital–ABC Color.
Her investigations into corruption and human rights abuses in her country have made her the target of violent threats. In 2004, she received the Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women's Media Foundation.
Early life and education
Mabel Rehnfeldt was born in Villarrica, Paraguay, in 1964.
She first sought out a career in journalism in the early 1980s, studying communications and later working as a press consultant for the Universidad Católica "Nuestra Señora de la Asunción".
Career
When dictator Alfredo Stroessner was overthrown in 1989, Rehnfeldt began working at the independent newspaper ABC Color's weekly magazine Dominical. After becoming an investigative reporter in 1991, in 1994 she was named the head of ABC Color's investigative unit, as well as its website. Decades later, she continues to work as an investigative reporter and editor at ABC Digital–ABC Color, where she is considered one of the publication's most prominent journalists.
At ABC, Rehnfeldt covers human rights abuses and government corruption. She investigated illegal tobacco trafficking as part of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists' 2007–2008 "Tobacco Underground" project and has also collaborated on other ICIJ projects, including the 2020 FinCEN Files.
For over two decades starting in 1998, Rehnfeldt also hosted a daily radio program on Radio Primero de Marzo. She served as the founding president of the Forum for Paraguayan Journalists (FOPEP), and she teaches journalism at the Universidad Americana in Asunción.
Rehnfeldt has faced significant pushback against her investigations. In 1989, she was attacked by an unknown assailant after investigating police corruption. She has also been the target of personal harassment and blackmail, as well as legal battles and further threats on her life. In 2003, unknown attackers attempted to kidnap her daughter as she returned from school, after Rehnfeldt published investigations into the Paraguayan Catholic Church's handling of sexual abuse.
In 2004, she received the Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women's Media Foundation, becoming the first winner from Paraguay. The following year, she was awarded Columbia University's Maria Moors Cabot Prize.
References
1964 births
Paraguayan women journalists
Paraguayan women radio presenters
Investigative journalists
Living people |
76857385 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seahouses%20Lifeboat%20Station | Seahouses Lifeboat Station | Seahouses Lifeboat Station is located in the village of Seahouses, in the county of Northumberland.
A lifeboat was first stationed here by the Crewe Trustees in 1827. The station was taken over by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) in 1859. Originally known as North Sunderland Lifeboat Station, the name was formally changed to Seahouses Lifeboat Station in 1999.
The station currently operates a All-weather lifeboat 13-36 John and Elizabeth Allan (ON 1343), and a Inshore lifeboat Grace Darling (D-828).
History
When a harbour was created near the village of North Sunderland in Northumberland, it gradually developed to become the separate village of Seahouses. Over the years, the two villages grew in size, and have now effectively merged.
A new lifeboat station was established in North Sunderland in 1827 by the Crewe Trustees, a charitable organisation founded by Nathaniel Crewe, Bishop of Durham in 1704. A stone-built boathouse was constructed, and a lifeboat transferred here from Holy Island, a 31-foot 10-oared boat, built by Henry Greathead in 1802. There are no records of any service by this lifeboat, which was replaced in 1838 by a 27-foot lifeboat, designed by Capt. John Foulerton, RN, and built by Shore.
On 7 September 1838, the paddle steamer Forfarshire ran aground on the Farne Island Rocks and broke in two. Much is available to read of the subsequent heroism of Grace Darling and her father William Darling. The North Sunderland lifeboat did not launch to the wreck, the coxswain instead opting for a small coble that he believed more suited to effect a rescue around the rocks. One of the seven crew was William Darling, brother of Grace. They battled to arrive at the wreck, only to find the rescue had been completed, but unable to return home due to the weather, they then spent 2 days seeking shelter in a disused building, all other 'accommodation' at the Farne Island Lighthouse being full.
When the 1838 lifeboat was deemed unfit for service in 1851, an order was placed with Forrestt of Limehouse, London for a 30-foot 'Self-righting', similar in design to the James Beeching lifeboat, which had won the prize awarded by the president of the Royal National Institute for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck (RNIPLS), Algernon Percy, 4th Duke of Northumberland.
In 1859, the secretary of the Crewe Trustees requested that the RNLI take over the management of the North Sunderland Lifeboat Station, for which the trustees would give a grant of £30 per annum to the RNLI. The existing 30-foot lifeboat was never launched on service for the RNLI, who in 1865 decided to replace it. A 33-foot 10-oared self-righting 'Pulling and Sailing' (P&S) lifeboat, (one using oars and sail), was built by Forrestt of Limehouse, London, costing £274-19s-3d, and a new launch carriage cost a further £102-11s-0d. The lifeboat and carriage were transported to North Sunderland free of charge by the Great Northern and North Eastern railway companies. At a ceremony on 12 June, the boat was named Joseph Anstice by the donor, Mrs Anstice of Tynemouth.
Thomas Pringle retired in May 1886 after serving as Coxswain for 21 years. As was common practice, he was awarded the RNLI Silver Medal in recogniton of his many service calls. Only 17 months later, he would drown in a boating accident on 6 October 1887.
North Sunderland would receive their first motor-powered lifeboat in 1936, the non-self-righting lifeboat, with a 35 hp petrol engine, delivering a speed of 7.47 knots. A new boathouse nearer the harbour was constructed. Previously, P&S lifeboats had cost a few hundred pounds. Costing £3,447, the cost was met from the combined funds of three legacies, and the boat was in effect given three names, The William and James, the Ridge Matthews, and the Abigail Gardiner, each chosen by the donor. At a ceremony on 5 September 1936, the boat was formally named W.R.A. (ON 781) by Helen Percy, Duchess of Northumberland. Each name was inscribed on a plaque inside the boat.
A Inshore lifeboat would be stationed at North Sunderland in 1964. The rise in leisure activity at the coast demanded a quick response vessel, and these boats would quickly show their value. In the first 35 years on station to 1999, the inshore boats would launch just over 300 times, saving 85 lives.
In 1991, a new boathouse was constructed to house the lifeboat 12-16 Grace Darling (ON 1173) and Talus launch tractor, with improved crew facilities, and storage for the .On 9 April 1999, on the request of station personnel, the RNLI agreed that North Sunderland station be formally renamed Seahouses Lifeboat Station with immediate effect.
For two years, the station had the unusual occurrence of having two lifeboats with the same name, the new also being named Grace Darling (D-828) in 2018.
After 29 years on station, lifeboat 12-16 Grace Darling (ON 1173) was retired in 2020, and sold to the ADES Uruguay lifeboat service. She was renamed ADES 28 Grace Darling, based in Colonia del Sacramento. She would be replaced by 13-36 John and Elizabeth Allan (ON 1343), a 25 knot Water-jet powered lifeboat, costing over £2 million. The boat was funded by the late professor James Allan, and named after his parents.
Station honours
The following are awards made at North Sunderland / Seahouses
RNLI Gold Medal
Lt. John Brunton, RN, H.M. Coastguard - 1828
Gold medallion, awarded by the Royal Humane Society
William Darling, Lighthouse Keeper - 1838
Grace Horsley Darling - 1838
Silver Medal, awarded by the Glasgow Humane Society
Grace Horsley Darling - 1838
Silver Medal, awarded by the Edinburgh and Leith Humane Society
Grace Horsley Darling - 1838
RNLI Silver Medal
William Darling, Lighthouse Keeper - 1838
Grace Horsley Darling - 1838
John T Knight, Boatman, H.M. Coastguard - 1853
Thomas Pringle, Coxswain - 1886
James Robson, Coxswain - 1908
Silver Medal awarded by The King of Norway
James Robson, Coxswain - 1909
RNLI Bronze Medal
Thomas Dawson, Coxswain - 1959
The Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum
Rev. F. R. Simpson, Honorary Secretary - 1876
Thomas Hall and the crew of the Golden Horn - 1932
George Dawson, Coxswain - 1943
Stephen Priestley, Helmsman - 1996
Vellum Service Certificate
Darren Shell - 1996
Member, Order of the British Empire (MBE)
Thomas Dawson, Coxswain
Robert Heslop Reay - Honorary Secretary - 1991
British Empire Medal
Robert Charles Dawson Douglas, Coxswain - 1992
North Sunderland / Seahouses lifeboats and tractors
All-weather lifeboats
Inshore lifeboats
Launch and recovery tractors
See also
List of RNLI stations
Royal National Lifeboat Institution
Royal National Lifeboat Institution lifeboats
Notes
References
External links
RNLI Official Site
Maritime Coastguard Agency
Lifeboat stations in England
Lifeboat stations in Northumberland |
76857412 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20John%20Lake | Edward John Lake | Edward John Lake CSI (19 June 1823 – 7 June 1877) was a British major-general in the Royal Engineers.
Biography
Lake born at Madras on 19 June 1823. He was the son of Edward Lake (d. 1829), major in the Madras engineers, who served with distinction in the Mahratta war of 1817, and was author of ‘Sieges of the Madras Army.’ Sent to England with a sister at an early age, Edward was left an orphan when six years old by the foundering at sea of the ship Guildford, in which his parents with their four younger children were on passage home. He was brought up by his grandfather, Admiral Sir Willoughby Lake, who placed him at a private school at Wimbledon. He afterwards entered the military college of the East India Company at Addiscombe, and passed through the course in three terms instead of the usual four. He obtained a commission as second lieutenant in the Bengal engineers on 11 June 1840. After a year at the royal engineers' establishment at Chatham, he went to India, and was posted to the Bengal sappers and miners at Delhi.
Shortly after his arrival at Delhi, Lake was sent with a company of sappers to suppress an outbreak at Kythul, near Kurnaul. He there made the acquaintance of Henry and John Lawrence, and was employed for a time in road-making under the former. He was promoted lieutenant on 19 February 1844. During the autumn of 1845 he served as a settlement officer in the Umballa district under Major Broadfoot. On the outbreak of the Sikh war in the same year he was ordered to the Sutlej, and joined Lord Hardinge in time to be present at the battle of Moodkee on 20 December, when he had a horse shot under him and was himself severely wounded in the hand. After the battle he was sent to the frontier station of Loodiana, where he strengthened the defences and forwarded troops and supplies to the army in the field. When Sir Harry Smith's camp equipage fell into the hands of the enemy just before the battle of Aliwal, Lake was able to replace it, and received the commendation of the governor-general for his zeal and promptness. He was present at the battle of Aliwal, and received a medal and clasp for his services in the campaign.
On the restoration of peace in March 1846, the trans-Sutlej territory of the Jalundhur Doab was made over to the British as a material guarantee. John Lawrence was appointed commissioner for the newly acquired territory, and Lake was nominated one of his assistants and placed in charge of the Kangra district, with headquarters at Noorpoor, whence he was soon moved to Jalundhur.
In May 1848, when Sir Henry Lawrence, the commissioner of the Punjab, had left India on furlough to England, open hostility was manifested by Mulraj, governor of Mooltan, and his turbulent Sikhs; Patrick Alexander Vans Agnew and Lieutenant Anderson were foully murdered, and the Punjab was in a blaze. Herbert Edwardes, who was in political charge of the Dera Ismail Khan district and nearest to Mooltan, hastily collected a body of Pathans and managed to hold his own against Mulraj. Lake was specially selected as political officer to the nawab of Bahawalpoor, a friendly Mahometan chief, whose territories adjoined the Punjab, and in virtual command of the nawab's troops he co-operated with his old friend Edwardes. He took part on 1 July in the second battle of Suddoosam, close to Mooltan, and for seven months was engaged in the operations for the reduction of Mooltan before it fell. During these stirring times Lake, then only a lieutenant like Edwardes, was in fact commander-in-chief of the Davodpootra army, and although directed to co-operate with Edwardes, and in no way under his orders, he nevertheless magnanimously subordinated himself, and was content to do his utmost to further his friend's plans (Edwardes, A Year in the Punjab). On the fall of Mooltan, Lake was again in the field, and took part in the final victory of Gujerat on 21 February 1849. He accompanied General Gilbert to the Indus in his pursuit of the Afghans, and was present at Rawul Pindee when the Sikh army laid down its arms. The war over, Lake received a medal and two clasps. Going to Batala, he next had charge, under John (afterwards Lord) Lawrence, for two years of the northern portion of the country between the rivers Beas and Ravee. In 1852 he went home on furlough, travelling through Russia, Prussia, Norway, and Sweden. He returned to India in 1854, having been promoted captain on 21 August, and a brevet-major on 22 August for his services in the Punjab campaign. He took up his old charge in the trans-Sutlej province at Kangra as deputy-commissioner. In 1855 he was appointed commissioner of the Jalundhur Doab. When the mutiny broke out in 1857, Lake occupied and secured the fort of Kangra against the rebels, and held it until the mutiny was suppressed. His calmness and resource were a tower of strength to the government throughout the crisis.
In 1860 his health failed, and he was obliged to go to England. He was promoted lieutenant-colonel on 18 February 1861, and in July married the youngest daughter of T. Bewes, esq., of Beaumont, Plymouth. He returned to his post at Jalundhur in the same year. In 1865 he was appointed financial commissioner of the Punjab, and the following year was made a companion of the Star of India. In 1867 ill-health again compelled him to go to England, and subsequently to decline Lord Lawrence's offer of the much-coveted appointment of resident of Hyderabad. He had been promoted colonel on 31 December 1868, and on 1 January 1870 he retired on a pension with the honorary rank of major-general. After he left India the ‘Lake Scholarship’ was founded by public subscription in January 1870 in his honour at the Lahore High School.
About 1855 Lake had come under deep spiritual impressions, and was thenceforth earnestly religious. At home he became honorary secretary of the East London Mission Relief Fund in 1868, and worked hard between 1869 and 1876 as honorary lay secretary of the Church Missionary Society. From April 1871 to June 1874 he was sole editor of the ‘Church Missionary Record,’ and contributed articles to the ‘Church Missionary Intelligencer,’ the ‘Sunday at Home,’ &c. In the summer of 1876 lung disease made it necessary for him to remove from London to Bournemouth, and in the following spring he went to Clifton, where he died on 7 June 1877. He was buried on 13 June 1877 in Long Ashton churchyard, near Clifton. In 1873 he edited the fifth edition of the ‘Church Missionary Atlas,’ and was engaged on another edition at the time of his death. Lake was a man of slight and delicate frame, but of a very cheery and lovable disposition. He had great aptitude for business, and remarkable tact in the management of natives, by whom he was known as Lake Sahib, and was much beloved. Lord Lawrence, Sir Robert Montgomery, and other great Indian administrators had a very high opinion of him. Sir R. Montgomery wrote: ‘The names of Herbert Edwardes, Donald McLeod, and Edward Lake will ever be remembered as examples of the highest type of public servants and devoted friends.’
References
1823 births
1877 deaths
19th-century British Army personnel
Royal Engineers officers
People from Chennai
British East India Company people
Companions of the Order of the Star of India |
76857432 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet%20Secretary%20for%20Finance | Cabinet Secretary for Finance | Cabinet Secretary for Finance may refer to:
Cabinet Secretary for Finance (Wales), a Welsh Government position
Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government, a Scottish Government position
See also
Finance secretary (disambiguation)
Financial secretary (disambiguation) |
76857450 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936%20Sale%20Municipal%20Borough%20Council%20election | 1936 Sale Municipal Borough Council election | Elections to Sale Council were held on Monday, 2 November 1936. One third of the councillors were up for election, with each successful candidate to serve a three-year term of office. Independents retained overall control of the council.
Election result
Full council
Aldermen
Councillors
Ward results
Central
East
Mersey
North
St. Martin's
St. Mary's
South
West
References
1936 English local elections
Sale Council elections |
76857488 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign%20in%20Hell | Reign in Hell | Reign in Hell may refer to:
Reign in Hell (comics), a 2008-2009 comic book miniseries
Reign in Hell (novel), a 1997 novel by William Diehl |
76857505 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris%20Lojkine | Boris Lojkine | Boris Lojkine (born July 24, 1969) is a French film director.
Early life and education
Lojkine was born in Paris and studied at the École normale supérieure.
Career
Prior to his film career, Lojkine taught philosophy at Aix-Marseille University. His first film projects were documentaries inspired by his time in Vietnam
Lojkine's narrative feature debut, Hope, screened at the Critics' Week section of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. His second narrative feature, Camille, won the Audience Award at the 2019 Locarno Film Festival.
In 2024, Lojkine's feature The Story of Souleymane was selected to screen in the Un Certain Regard portion of the 77th Cannes Film Festival.
Filmography
Awards and nominations
References
External links
1969 births
French film directors
Aix-Marseille University
Living people |
76857530 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaunax%20suttkusi | Chaunax suttkusi | Chaunax suttkissi, the pale-cavity gaper, spotted frogmouth, spotted gaper or Sutkus sea toad, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Chaunacidae, the sea toads. This species is found in the Atlantic Ocean.
Taxonomy
Chaunax suttkisi was first formally described in 1989 by the American ichthyologist John H. Caruso with its type locality given as off Venezuela in the Caribbean Sea at 11°40'N, 62°33'W, at a depth of . Within the genus Chaunax this species is placed in the Chaunax fimbriatus species group. The genus Chaunax is one of two genera classified by the 5th edition of the Fishes of the World within the family Chaunacidae, the sea toads. The sea toads are placed within the monotypic suborder Chaunacoidei within the anglerfish order Lophiiformes.
Etymology
Chaunax, the genus name, means "one who gapes", from chanos meaning "to gape", an allusion to the large, wide mouths of these fishes. The specific name suttkusi, honours Royal D. Suttkus, an ichthyologist at Tulane University for his contributions to ichthyology and the extensive collection of fish specimens he collated during his career at the university.
Description
Chaunax suttkusi has a globular, slight compressed body which tapers to a small, rounded caudal fin. The large head is somewhat cuboid with small eyes which are covered in transparent skin. The large, oblique mouth is equipped with many small, thin, sharp vertical teeth and the gill opening is small. Of the three dorsal spines, two are embedded in the skin on the nape and only the first, the illicium is visible. The illicium is tipped with a lure, or esca which is a mop-like tuft of filaments. The illicium is lowered into a flat, concave depression on the snout when not being used to attract prey. The dorsal fin is on the rear of the body and contains between 10 and 12 soft rays while the anal fin has 6 or 7 soft rays. The loose, flabby skin has a dense covering of robust denticles. The lateral line is open and runs from from the caudal peduncle to the head, with obvious canals connecting to branches under the eye, on the chin and along the lower flanks. The main part of the lateral line on the upper body contains between 29 and 42 pores with between 11 and 13 pores on the head. The overall colour is pale pink to rosy pink, with red on the top and sides of the head and fins and the undersides of both the head and body are whitish. The cavity on the snout for the illicium is pale while the illicium and esca are uniform in color, varying from pale through to dusky with the filaments of the esca being black. This species has a maximum published total length of and a maximum published weight of .
Distribution and habitat
Chaunax suttkusi is found in the Atlantic Ocean. In the eastern Atlantic it occurs from Ireland south as far as Angola, its range includes the Azores, while in the western Atlantic it can be found from South Carolina as far south as the Rio Grande Rise. It has also been found in the Mediterranean Sea. The range of this species is thought to be extending northwards due to increasing temperatures as a result of climate change.This is a bathydemersal species found at depths between on soft bottoms on the continental shelf.
References
sutkisi
Fish of the Atlantic Ocean
Taxa named by John H. Caruso
Fish described in 1989 |
76857569 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angkara%20Cinta | Angkara Cinta | Angkara Cinta () is a 2020 Malaysian television series based on Philippine drama Tayong Dalawa, directed by Hadith Omar, starring Hun Haqeem, Meerqeen and Wanna Ali. It was aired on Astro Prima, on November 2, 2020, every Monday to Friday at 18:00 (MST).
Synopsis
Angkara Cinta tells the story of two men have the same name but different lives. Destiny finds two to be good friends. Apparently, Luqman and Haqeem share the same father. The situation becomes more conflicting when they share the same interest in one woman.
Cast
Main
Hun Haqeem as Luqman
Syed Irfan sebagai Luqman (young)
Meerqeen as Haqeem
Gen Darwish as Haqeem (young)
Wanna Ali as Adira
Nur Auni Zahra as Adira
Supporting
Yuna Rahim as Jijie
Syazwan Zulkifly as Remy
Azhar Amir as Razlan
Nina Juren as Mariani
Sharifah Shahora as Indah
Normah Damanhuri as Nek Milah
Ku Faridah as Puan Liza
Hamidah Wahab as Puan Ramlah
Lydiawati as Laila
Jalaluddin Hassan as Tuan Saddam
Alif Muhaimin as Dino
Roy Azman as Atan
Alif Hadi as Leo
Nasz Sally as Linda
Razman Mahayuddin as Bob
Asha Merican as Azura
Fad Anuar as Helmi/Wira
Nabil Aqil as Haris Ryan
Shyrim Husni as Mohzan
Special appearances
Sahim Wafiy as Faizul
Ohsin Ahmad as Alisa
Fiffy Afrina as Suri
Faha Azha as Nico
Hadith Omar (director) as Black
Naiem Anuar as Adib
References
Malaysian television series
Television series about families |