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Benjamin Dean Wyatt [SEP] Wyatt was influential in reviving the Rococo style in England during the mid-1820s. He designed the interiors of Belvoir Castle (1825–30), including the Dining Room, Picture Gallery, Elizabeth Saloon and, in the grounds, a Romanesque-style mausoleum. With his brother, Philip William (d. 1835), he designed Crockford's Club (1827), 50–3 St James's Street, Londonderry House (1825–28) demolished 1964 and the Oriental Club in Hanover Square (1827–1828).
Benjamin Dean Wyatt [SEP] He was the designer of Duke of York Column, erected 1831–34. Also he was the involved in the design of Lancaster House, designing the exterior (the top floor was added by Sir Robert Smirke) and the state rooms. The architect R.L. Roumieu was articled to him until 1831.
Hidemaro Konoye [SEP] Viscount was a conductor and composer of classical music in Shōwa period Japan. He was the younger brother of pre-war Japanese Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe. Konoye was born in Kōjimachi, Tokyo as the younger son of Duke Konoe Atsumaro, scion of one of the Five regent houses of the Fujiwara clan. The Konoe clan traditionally provided "gagaku" musicians to the Imperial Household, and Hidemaro chose to follow the family's musical tradition, whereas his older brother Fumimaro went into politics.
Hidemaro Konoye [SEP] Konoye attended the Gakushuin Peers School, where he became a close friend of Takashi Inukai. In 1913, he entered the Tokyo University of the Arts, where he specialized in the violin. In 1915, he went to Germany briefly to study musical composition. On his return to Japan he became a pupil of Kosaku Yamada. His debut as a conductor was in 1920, with an amateur orchestra led by Tokichi Setoguchi.
Hidemaro Konoye [SEP] Konoye returned to Europe for further studies in 1923 in Paris under Vincent d'Indy and Berlin under Franz Schreker. He also studied conducting under Erich Kleiber, and Karl Muck. In 1924, he conducted at the Berlin Philharmonic, and returned to Japan in the fall of the same year. Konoye co-founded the Japan Symphonic Association in 1925, and the following year became conductor of the orchestra.
Hidemaro Konoye [SEP] Konoe later founded the New Symphony Orchestra of Tokyo (the present day NHK Symphony Orchestra), and helped mold the orchestra over a 10-year period into an ensemble that was praised as competitive with many of the better orchestras in Europe. Today he is remembered for making the première recording of Mahler's "Fourth Symphony", done in May 1930. It was also, aside from a cut in the third movement, the first electrical recording of any complete Mahler symphony.
Hidemaro Konoye [SEP] Additionally, Konoye made numerous guest appearances in Europe and America, conducting some 90 different orchestras in the course of his career including the orchestra of La Scala, Milan and the NBC Symphony Orchestra. He created friendships with Erich Kleiber, Leopold Stokowski, Wilhelm Furtwängler and Richard Strauss. He went to Germany and conducted Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in the second half of the 1930s.
Hidemaro Konoye [SEP] In the early days of the NBC Symphony, he planned an American tour under the supervision of Stokowski, but the project was cancelled due to World War II. Konoye wrote original compositions, but was more deeply interested in arranging existing music, including, for example, Modest Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" and Schubert's "C major Quintet", which he orchestrated.
Scott Totten [SEP] Scott Totten (born in Orange County, California) is an American musician, best known for his work as musical director, singer and guitarist in the current Beach Boys touring band, which features original Beach Boy Mike Love and later addition Bruce Johnston. Totten attended Berklee College of Music, eventually earning a Bachelor of Music degree. Later he was a Broadway and session guitarist. In the 1990s Totten played on albums and sessions by Grandmaster Flash, Angela Bofill, Sybill, Donna Summer and Exposé.
Scott Totten [SEP] He also played on Broadway shows and tours such as "The Who's Tommy", "Les Misérables", "Rent" and "Mamma Mia!". Totten began playing with the Beach Boys touring band on guitar in 2000. He moved to the position of musical director in 2008. In 2011, Totten was confirmed as performing alongside The Beach Boys on their 50th Anniversary Reunion Tour as music director and singer, also playing guitar, ukulele and bass.
Scott Totten [SEP] Totten played on the band's subsequent studio album, "That's Why God Made the Radio" (2012). He also played lead guitar on "Goin' to the Beach" from the "Made in California" box set, and added vocals to the new single version of "Isn't it Time" from the same album. He also performed on Mike Love's solo albums "Unleash the Love" (2017) and "Reason for the Season" (2018).
Jamie Arentzen [SEP] Jamie Arentzen (born November 22, 1970) is a member of the alternative rock band American Hi-Fi and lead guitarist for Miley Cyrus. In the spring of 2009, he also played with Butch Walker's band, Butch Walker and the Let's Go Out Tonites. Arentzen was born in Guilford, Connecticut, where he attended Guilford High School. Thereafter, he studied music and liberal arts at the University of Miami, the University of Connecticut and Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.
Jamie Arentzen [SEP] Settling in Boston, Arentzen played in various bands, including the indie band Sky Heroes. While living in Boston, he formed American Hi-Fi with friends Stacy Jones, Brian Nolan, and Drew Parsons. Arentzen currently resides in Los Angeles, CA. Guitars: 1970 Les Paul Deluxe Goldtop, Fender Jazzmaster, Gibson Flying V, 1963 Gibson SG Junior Strings: Ernie Ball
Endcliffe Park [SEP] Endcliffe Park is a large park in the city of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. The park was opened in 1887 to commemorate the Jubilee of Queen Victoria. Endcliffe Park comprises parkland as well as woodland. The portion along Rustlings Road is grassy and used as a recreation whilst the Northern border, separated from the recreation grounds by the Porter Brook, is woodland, and is traversed by many paths. The entrance to the park was a toll bar on the Hathersage Road.
Endcliffe Park [SEP] Next to the entrance is a Grade II listed pavilion. To the left of the park's entrance is the Hallamshire Tennis & Squash Club. The park features two monuments dedicated to Queen Victoria. Near the entrance is a statue of Queen Victoria and midway up the path towards Whiteley Woods is an obelisk also in honour of Queen Victoria. Both originally stood at the top of Fargate in Sheffield city centre. A tree planted by the Lord Mayor of Sheffield to commemorate Queen Victoria's Jubilee stands near her statue.
Endcliffe Park [SEP] There is also a memorial stone marking the crash site of the USAAF B-17 Flying Fortress "Mi Amigo". The park has a playground which was revamped in 2008 which has many attractions for children. The park also includes a parkour training facility which was built in 2014, funded by the Sheffield Parkour Movement group. There is also an outdoor gym area which includes pull up bars and self-weighted machines. All these facilities are currently free to use.
Endcliffe Park [SEP] There is also a family-friendly cafe which is open daily, serving a wide range of food and drinks. There are also toilet facilities and a small children's amusement area next to the cafe. The park often hosts many events in the summer, such as circuses, musical events and a fair; including the Easter duck race event. The Sheffield Hallam Parkrun takes place weekly.
Endcliffe Park [SEP] The Porter Brook, although flowing freely between the many old trees of the park, is dammed and forms two ponds, home of ducks and feral pigeons. The first pond, situated to the West of the park has an island. There is no access to the island. Like all the ponds along the Porter Valley, the ponds in the park are old mill ponds and retain their races that once drove a water wheel. In Endcliffe Park these have been semi-blocked to achieve an attractive waterfall effect.
Endcliffe Park [SEP] Endcliffe Park and many of the other parks and public spaces along the Porter Brook, are a re-claimed, pre-steam-age industrial landscape. These days the ponds act as wildlife refuges, especially the island in the larger pond, with Mallard, Moorhen and Coots resident, joined by a flock of Black-headed gulls each winter. The ponds also enjoy frequent visits from Grey Herons and Kingfishers throughout the year.
Endcliffe Park [SEP] The Porter Brook itself supports many more species, including the territories of Dippers in its higher reaches. Grey Wagtails frequently feed on insects just above the brook all along its length and are usually first glimpsed as a flash of bright canary yellow when strolling along those paths of Endcliffe Park that follow the course of the Brook.
Endcliffe Park [SEP] Courage Above the Clouds: the full true story of B17 Mi-Amigo and the heroes of Endcliffe Park, by Paul Allonby (lulu.com August 2016, 84-pages, illustrated with cover art by Paul Rowland)
Monaco (typeface) [SEP] Monaco is a monospaced sans-serif typeface designed by Susan Kare and Kris Holmes. It ships with OS X and was already present with all previous versions of the Mac operating system. Characters are distinct, and it is difficult to confuse 0 (figure zero) and O (uppercase O), or 1 (figure one), \| (Vertical bar), I (uppercase i) and l (lowercase L).
Monaco (typeface) [SEP] A unique feature of the font is the high curvature of its parentheses as well as the width of its square brackets, the result of these being that an empty pair of parentheses or square brackets will strongly resemble a circle or square, respectively. Monaco has been released in at least three forms. The original was a bitmap monospace font that still appears in the ROMs of even New World Macs, and is still available in recent macOS releases (size 9, with disabled antialiasing).
Monaco (typeface) [SEP] The second is the outline form, loosely similar to Lucida Mono and created as a TrueType font for System 6 and 7; this is the standard font used for all other sizes. There was briefly a third known as MPW, since it was designed to be used with the Macintosh Programmer's Workshop IDE; it was essentially a straight conversion of the bitmap font into an outline font with the addition of some of the same disambiguation features as were added to the TrueType Monaco.
Monaco (typeface) [SEP] The original Monaco 9 point bitmap font was designed so that when a Compact Macintosh window was displayed full screen, such as for a terminal emulator program, it would result in a standard text user interface display of 80 columns by 25 lines.
Monaco (typeface) [SEP] With the August 2009 release of Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard", Menlo was introduced as the default monospaced font instead of Monaco in Terminal and Xcode, However, Monaco remains a part of OS X. Monaco is the default font in the current Python IDLE when used on a Mac running OS X El Capitan.
Chan Wai Ho [SEP] Chan Wai Ho (born ) is a Hong Kong professional footballer who currently plays as a centre-back for Hong Kong Premier League club Dreams. He was a member of the Hong Kong East Asian Games football team in 2009 which won the East Asian Games gold medal. Chan is sometimes referred to as Tai Ho (Traditional Chinese: 大豪) as a nickname for him and to distinguish him from fellow former Hong Kong international, Lee Chi Ho.
Chan Wai Ho [SEP] Chan Wai Ho lived in Lok Wah Estate, Ngau Tau Kok when he was young and he graduated in Maryknoll Vocational Evening Secondary School. He moved to player hostel of Hong Kong Rangers in Boundary Street when he was a vocational apprenticeship of Rangers. His father decided that he would join Rangers (HKG) to be a vocational apprenticeship when Chan Wai Ho was 16 years old. He stayed at Rangers for some months on trial for a professional contract.
Chan Wai Ho [SEP] However, Rangers only gave him a contract after several twists and turns. Eventually, he appeared for the first team a few times in this season. In 1999–2000 season, Yee Hope chairman Joe Chan invited Chan Wai Ho to join his team. Chan really started his professional career in this season. His number of appearances did not increase after he joined the team, but Arie van der Zouwen thought Chan Wai Ho was one of the best centre-back in Hong Kong and selected him for Hong Kong.
Chan Wai Ho [SEP] In March 2004, Chan Wai Ho was suspended for 12 games after fighting along with four other Rangers players against players in a league match in Dongguan on 7 March 2004. The match was suspended and never completed. In 2006, it was rumoured that he had had a trial with English Premiership Club Reading and would play at the Madejski Stadium in the English Premiership.
Chan Wai Ho [SEP] And in 2007, it was rumoured that he would join Birmingham City after Hong Kong businessman Carson Yeung became the chairman and executive director of the club. Chan Wai Ho's transfer fee to South China from Rangers (HKG) was HK$400,000, which broke the record of the highest local transfer fee and highest transfer fee in Hong Kong First Division League. The highest local transfer fee record was kept by Tam Ah Fook when he moved to Ernest Borel from Happy Valley by HK$140,000 in 1992.
Chan Wai Ho [SEP] The highest overall transfer fee was originally kept by Cheng Siu Chung Ricky when he moved from LD Alajuelense in Costa Rica to South China in 1994–95 season for a fee of US$30,000 (about HK$234,000). But there was rumour in the media that the record has been broken by Chan Siu Ki's 2008 transfer from Kitchee to South China, which cost the Caroliners HK$800,000. The actual fee has not been disclosed.
Chan Wai Ho [SEP] On 19 April 2007, it was revealed on HKFA webpage that Chan transferred to South China from Rangers (HKG). His registration was just in time for him to represent the team to compete in the Hong Kong FA Cup 2006-07. Chan was described by South China convenor Steven Lo to be the best Chinese centre back in Hong Kong. He made his debut for South China on 20 April 2007 in the Hong Kong FA Cup First Round match against Tai Po. Chan Wai Ho wears no.
Chan Wai Ho [SEP] 15 at South China AA to commemorate his former Rangers FC teammate Cheung Yiu Lun, who died in October 2003 in a traffic accident. He was not able to wear no. 15 at Rangers because the number was retired after Cheung's death. It is confirmed that he will join Fourway Rangers on 20 July 2010. But rumours said that he would return to South China in January 2011. Chan Wai Ho re-joined South China in the January 2011 transfer window.
Chan Wai Ho [SEP] He felt his form dropped as he also had to work as a coach at Fourway Rangers. He signed a one and a half-year contract. Chan Wai Ho scored the opening goal in the 2010-11 Hong Kong FA Cup final against Tai Po. Following South China's decision to self relegate, Chan terminated his contract with the club. He was announced as a player and captain of rebranded Dreams on 26 July 2017.
Chan Wai Ho [SEP] On 8 June 2018, Chan confirmed that he had renewed his contract for the following season. On 26 May 2019, Chan accepted another renewal of his contract. Arie van der Zouwen selected him in Hong Kong national football team in 2000. In June 2011, Chan Wai Ho was made captain of Hong Kong national football team for the 2014 FIFA World Cup Asian qualification matches against Saudi Arabia.
Chan Wai Ho [SEP] On 22 March 2013, Chan Wai Ho scored the winner for Hong Kong against Vietnam national football team in the 2015 AFC Asian Cup qualification match. After the match, acting Hong Kong national football team coach Kim Pan Gon said Chan is a top Asian level central defender. Chan played his farewell match for the representative team on 7 June 2017 against Jordan. Chan Wai Ho scored twice in the 2009 East Asian Games, against South Korea in a group game and against North Korea in the semi-final.
Chan Wai Ho [SEP] In the penalty shoot-out against North Korea, Chan Wai Ho also scored his penalty. Chan Wai Ho scored the winning goal for Hong Kong national under-23 football team against Uzbekistan national under-23 football team in the 2010 Asian Games. Hong Kong won the match 1:0. Chan Wai Ho became a father on 9 August 2010 when his wife gave birth to a son. He accompanied his wife in the hospital in the morning, then attended the Hong Kong national football team training in the afternoon.
Russian cruiser Rurik (1892) [SEP] Rurik () was an armoured cruiser built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the early 1890s. She was named in honour of Rurik, the semi-legendary founder of ancient Russia. She was sunk at the Battle of Ulsan in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05. The Imperial Russian Navy, by the end of the 19th century required a cruiser capable of undertaking long cruises into foreign waters for the purpose of destroying commercial vessels, especially if war was to occur between Russia and the United Kingdom.
Russian cruiser Rurik (1892) [SEP] Russian admiral Ivan Shestakov submitted the design of "Rurik" to the Baltic Works at St. Petersburg for construction, bypassing the normal procedure of submitting the design to the Naval Technical Committee (MTK). The original specifications for the vessel, as submitted by Shestakov, are currently lost, but presumably Shestakov intended the ship to be able to travel from "the Baltic to Vladivostok without recoaling en route".
Russian cruiser Rurik (1892) [SEP] It appears that Shestakov wanted a design similar to and such a design was submitted via a constructor from the Baltic Works to the MTK. That design, a 9,000-ton, 8 inch belted cruiser, was rejected by the MTK. It is more likely that the design was rejected because of tension between Shestakov and the MTK and the General Admiral of the Navy, Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich, rather than technical issues with the design.
Russian cruiser Rurik (1892) [SEP] The submitted design called for a long warship (over ) and had a design endurance of . Shestakov was unable, however, to fight for the submitted design, as he died in December 1888. Shestakov's successor, Chikhachev, had excellent relations with the MTK board, and the Baltic Works design was quickly rejected. The MTK design which followed was a 10,000-ton vessel with a 10 inch belt and with an operational speed and range of and respectively. " Rurik" would also sport a complete barque rig.
Russian cruiser Rurik (1892) [SEP] Construction began in 1890 after powerplant issues were solved by the technical designers at the Baltic Works. As plans and designs of "Rurik" were being finalised, rumours began floating as to the exact nature of the vessel. In particular, Britain became extremely nervous about the new cruiser, fearing greatly for her large commercial fleet which she depended on. The British press "fuelled anxiety to the point where it approached paranoia."
Russian cruiser Rurik (1892) [SEP] As it turned out, the Royal Navy grossly overestimated the threat posed by "Rurik" and built the cruisers specifically designed to counter the "Rurik." Two of the first ones were the "Powerful" and "Terrible". The British cruisers turned out to be much faster, easily making 22 knots compare to the "Rurik"'s top speed of . The British cruisers were using the watertube, or coil, boilers that later were proved superior and became a standard on all new warships of that time.
Russian cruiser Rurik (1892) [SEP] While there was a heavy armament of four guns and 16 guns, along with a quartet of torpedo tubes, the armour for "Rurik" was light, with only an average 2.5 inches on the decks and an average 10 inches on the sides using nickel steel plate. After her commissioning, "Rurik" headed for the Russian Pacific Fleet based at Vladivostok.
Russian cruiser Rurik (1892) [SEP] Admiral Fyodor Dubasov, who commanded the Pacific Squadron, recommended various modifications to the ship after a short period of service, including reboilering and the removal of the ship's rigging. The reboilering project never got off the ground, but the amount of rigging was cut down significantly.
Russian cruiser Rurik (1892) [SEP] When the Russo-Japanese War broke out in 1904, "Rurik" and the other cruisers of the Pacific Squadron, , , and , were all charged with seeking out and destroying Japanese merchant vessels in the Sea of Japan and along the coasts of the Japanese home islands. By August 1904, only one ship had been sunk and the Imperial Japanese Army had moved siege artillery close enough to shell the main Russian port in the Pacific, Port Arthur.
Russian cruiser Rurik (1892) [SEP] The siege of Port Arthur kept most of the Russian naval vessels assigned to the Pacific Squadron inside the port, despite several failed attempts at breakout. On 14 August, three of the four Vladivostok-based cruisers sortied towards Port Arthur ("Bogatyr" having received damage due to grounding ) in an attempt to assist in lifting the Japanese blockade. They were met by a squadron of Japanese warships commanded by Vice Admiral Kamimura Hikonojō in the Tsushima Strait between Korea and Japan, which resulted in the Battle off Ulsan.
Russian cruiser Rurik (1892) [SEP] The Japanese force had four modern armored cruisers, , , , and . Early in the engagement, "Rurik" (the rear ship of the Russian formation) was hit by Japanese fire three times in the stern, flooding her steering compartment so that she had to be steered with her engines. Her speed was decreased, splitting it from the rest of the Russian ships, further exposing her to Japanese fire, and her steering jammed to port.
Russian cruiser Rurik (1892) [SEP] The Russian Admiral Karl Jessen attempted to provide cover for the ship, but was pushed back by the Japanese cruisers. As the Russian ships withdrew, "Rurik" was set upon by several Japanese cruisers. Rather than surrender the ship to the Japanese, the senior surviving officer, one Lieutenant Ivanov, ordered the ship to be scuttled. The Japanese picked up about 625 survivors, the rest perishing in the engagement. The remaining two Russian cruisers escaped back to Vladivostok.
Russian cruiser Rurik (1892) [SEP] Despite her obsolete physical appearance, with the barque rigging and unprotected guns, "Rurik" performed surprisingly well at Ulsan. The ship was quite possibly responsible for the escape of the other two Russian cruisers, though that can also be attributed to the Japanese indecisiveness at the battle. While "Rurik"s presence was decisive at Ulsan, the Russians subsequently wasted the second chance they had at using "Rossia" and "Gromoboi". "
Russian cruiser Rurik (1892) [SEP] Rossia" joined "Bogatyr" with grounding damage and "Gromoboi" never sortied for the rest of the war.
Trypaea [SEP] Trypaea australiensis, known as the ("marine") "yabby" or "ghost nipper" in Australia, or as the "one-arm bandit" due to their occasional abnormally large arm, and as the "Australian ghost shrimp" elsewhere, is a common species of mud shrimp in south-eastern Australia, the only species in the genus Trypaea. " T. australiensis" is a popular bait used live or frozen by Australians targeting a range of species.
Trypaea [SEP] It grows to a length of and lives in burrows in mudflats or sandbanks, especially in or near estuaries.
Vingt Cinq [SEP] Vingt Cinq (French for "Twenty five") is the capital of the Agaléga Islands, two islands in the Indian Ocean, governed by Mauritius. It is located on the North Island, near a small airfield. In the town, there is a church, a school, and a hospital. The name, Vingt Cinq, comes from the 25 lashes that rebellious slaves received on the island.
Tinsley Park Cemetery [SEP] Tinsley Park Cemetery is one of the city of Sheffield's many cemeteries. It was opened in 1882, and covers . The cemetery is still open to burials, and since the first burial on 2 June 1882 over 59,000 burials have taken place. There are buried in the cemetery 42 Commonwealth service personnel from World War I and 32 from World War II. The entranceway to the cemetery is flanked by a pair of Grade II listed Gothic style chapels, where services can be held prior to the burial.
Tinsley Park Cemetery [SEP] Other listed structures in the cemetery include the lodge, gateway and boundary wall and a war memorial, 250m east of the chapel.
Giovanni dalle Bande Nere [SEP] Lodovico de' Medici, also known as Giovanni dalle Bande Nere (5 April 1498 – 30 November 1526) was an Italian condottiero. Giovanni was born in the Northern Italian town of Forlì to Giovanni de' Medici (also known as "il Popolano") and Caterina Sforza, one of the most famous women of the Italian Renaissance. From an early age, he demonstrated great interest and ability in physical activity, especially the martial arts of the age: horse riding, sword-fighting, etc.
Giovanni dalle Bande Nere [SEP] He committed his first murder at the age of 12, and was twice banished from the city of Florence for his unruly behavior, including involvement in the rape of a sixteen-year-old boy, Giovanni being about thirteen at the time. He had a son, Cosimo (1519–1574), who went on to become the Grand Duke of Tuscany.
Giovanni dalle Bande Nere [SEP] Giovanni became a "condottiero", or mercenary military captain, in the employ of Pope Leo X (Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici) and on March 5, 1516 led the war against Francesco Maria I della Rovere, Duke of Urbino. He thenceforth formed a company of his own, mounted on light horses and specializing in fast but devastating skirmishing tactics and ambushes. In 1520 he defeated several rebel barons in the Marche.
Giovanni dalle Bande Nere [SEP] The following year Leo X allied with Emperor Charles V against King Francis I of France to regain Milan, Parma and Piacenza; Giovanni was called in under the command of Prospero Colonna, defeating the French at Vaprio d'Adda in November. As a symbol of mourning for the death of Pope Leo X (1 December 1521), Giovanni added black stripes to his insignia, whence comes his nickname, Giovanni dalle Bande Nere (or Giovanni of the Black Bands).
Giovanni dalle Bande Nere [SEP] In August 1523 he was hired by the Imperial army, and in January 1524 he defeated the French and the Swiss at Caprino Bergamasco. In the same year another Medici, Giulio di Giuliano, became Pope, and took the name of Clement VII. The new Pope paid all of Giovanni's debt, but in exchange ordered him to switch to the French side of the ongoing conflict.
Giovanni dalle Bande Nere [SEP] He did not take part in the battle of Pavia, but was soon severely wounded in a skirmish and later had to move to Venice to recuperate from his wounds. In 1526, the War of the League of Cognac broke out. The League's captain general, Francesco Maria I della Rovere, abandoned Milan in the face of the overwhelming superiority of the Imperial army led by Georg von Frundsberg. Giovanni was able to defeat the Landsknechts rearguard, at the confluence of the Mincio with the Po River.
Giovanni dalle Bande Nere [SEP] On the evening of 25 November he was hit by a shot from a falconet in a battle near Governolo. According to a contemporary account by Luigi Guicciardini, the ball shattered his right leg above the knee and he had to be carried to San Nicolò Po, near Bagnolo San Vito, where no doctor could be found. He was taken to Aloisio Gonzaga's palace, marquis of Castel Goffredo, in Mantua, where the surgeon Abramo, who had cared for him two years earlier, amputated his leg.
Giovanni dalle Bande Nere [SEP] To perform the operation Abramo asked for 10 men to hold down the stricken "condottiero". Pietro Aretino, eyewitness to the event, recalled in a letter to Francesco Albizi: Despite the surgery Giovanni de' Medici died five days later, supposedly of sepsis, on 30 November 1526. Giovanni's body was exhumed in 2012 along with that of his wife to preserve the remains, which were damaged in the 1966 flood of the Arno river, and to ascertain the cause of his death.
Giovanni dalle Bande Nere [SEP] Preliminary investigation revealed that his leg was amputated below the knee. No damage was found to the thigh, where the shot supposedly hit. The tibia and fibula, the bones of the lower leg, were found sawed off from the amputation. There was no damage to the femur. It is now thought that de' Medici may have died of gangrene.
Giovanni dalle Bande Nere [SEP] Giovanni's premature death metaphorically signaled the end of the age of the "condottieri", as their mode of fighting (which emphasized armored knights on horseback) was rendered practically obsolete by the introduction of pike armed infantry. He is therefore known as the last of the great Italian "condottieri".
Giovanni dalle Bande Nere [SEP] His lasting reputation has been kept alive in part thanks to Pietro Aretino, the Renaissance author, satirist, playwright and "scourge of the princes", who was Giovanni's close friend and accompanied him on some of his exploits.
Philip Giraldi [SEP] Philip Giraldi (born c. 1946) is a former counter-terrorism specialist and military intelligence officer of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and a columnist and television commentator who is the Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest.. As an author and analyst, Giraldi writes a regular column for the alternative media outlet Unz Review.
Philip Giraldi [SEP] He is especially controversial for the many articles he has written denouncing Judaism and Jews whom he has compared to "a bottle of rat poison" and for his denial of the Nazi Holocaust. He gained a Bachelor of Arts with Honors from the University of Chicago and a MA and a Ph. D from the University of London in European History. According to his official biography, Giraldi worked for the CIA for 18 years.
Philip Giraldi [SEP] Since 1992, Giraldi has been a consultant; he is president of the consulting firm San Marco International and a partner in Cannistraro Associates, another security consultancy. Giraldi has written columns on terrorism, intelligence, and security issues for "The American Conservative", "The Huffington Post", and Antiwar.com and op-ed pieces for the Hearst Newspaper chain.
Philip Giraldi [SEP] He has been interviewed by "Good Morning America", "60 Minutes", MSNBC, Fox News Channel, National Public Radio, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the BBC, al-Jazeera, al-Arabiya, Iran Daily Russia Today, "Veterans Today", Press TV and other outlets. During the 2008 presidential primaries, Giraldi was a foreign policy adviser to Ron Paul.
Philip Giraldi [SEP] In 2004, with his partner Vincent Cannistraro, a retired CIA counterterrorism chief, Giraldi wrote that Turkish sources had reported that Turkey was concerned by Israel's alleged encouragement of Kurdish ambitions to create an independent state and that Israeli intelligence operations in the area included anti-Syrian and anti-Iranian activity by Kurds. They predicted this might lead to a new alliance among Iran, Syria, and Turkey which have Kurdish minorities.
Philip Giraldi [SEP] In August 2005, Giraldi wrote that US Vice President Dick Cheney had instructed STRATCOM to prepare "a contingency plan to be employed in response to another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States... [including] a large-scale air assault on Iran employing both conventional and tactical nuclear weapons ... not conditional on Iran actually being involved in the act of terrorism directed against the United States."
Philip Giraldi [SEP] The reason cited for the attack to use mini-nukes is that the targets are "hardened or are deep underground" and would not be destroyed by non-nuclear warheads. In 2005, Giraldi also wrote that the Italian Niger/yellowcake documents claiming an Iraqi interest in purchasing uranium from Niger were forgeries created by former CIA officers and Michael Ledeen. ( See Niger uranium forgeries.)
Philip Giraldi [SEP] Giraldi also wrote that officials in the Office of Special Plans working for Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith had forged the "Habbush letter" allegedly written by Saddam Hussein's intelligence director regarding shipping the uranium. In 2009, Giraldi wrote that unnamed intelligence sources had told him that a document published by the London "Times", which allegedly described an Iranian plan to experiment on a "neutron initiator" for an atomic weapon, was in fact a fabrication, which Giraldi speculated was created by the State of Israel.
Philip Giraldi [SEP] He claimed that Rupert Murdoch publications regularly disseminate false intelligence from the Israeli and sometimes the British government. Further disclosures by "The Times" undermined the document's veracity. In August 2010, Giraldi wrote that unnamed "sources in the counterintelligence community" had told him that agents of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency were posing as American intelligence agents and visiting Arabs and Muslims in New York and New Jersey.
Philip Giraldi [SEP] This was allegedly done to help agents gain information about Iran, which they believed would not be forthcoming to known Israeli agents. The Israeli embassy, the United States Department of Justice, and Giraldi all declined to comment for an article on the allegations in the biweekly New York Arab-community newspaper "Aramica". In April 2011, Giraldi wrote in opposition to the Libya intervention and was critical of humanitarian intervention in foreign countries.
Philip Giraldi [SEP] He wrote that "the problem with humanitarian intervention as a concept is that it opens the door to more of the same wherever there are violations of fundamental rights" and that "there are a whole lot of countries that are ripe for a little humanitarian intervention and even regime change in the more obdurate cases, but there are a couple of good reasons not to do so.
Philip Giraldi [SEP] First is the ethical consideration that interventions might be grounded in good intentions but they are generally based on inaccurate or even false information about the situation on the ground, which renders suspect the humanitarian aspect itself. Second, whenever a humanitarian intervention takes place it often produces a bad result."
Philip Giraldi [SEP] In September 2017, Valerie Plame encountered much criticism on Twitter when she retweeted Giraldi's "Unz Review" column "America's Jews are Driving America's Wars", and it was pointed out she had retweeted his previous column "Why I Dislike Israel" among other articles he has written critical of Israeli influence in American foreign policy.
Philip Giraldi [SEP] In the article, Giraldi ties certain Jewish media figures and lobbying organizations to increased calls for military interventions in the Middle East, including Iraq and Iran, which he believes pose no direct threat to the U.S., but are viewed by Israel and its allies as enemies. In the article, Giraldi also accused Jews of controlling the American media and said they should be labelled as Jews when appearing on television,"like a warning label on a bottle of poison".
Philip Giraldi [SEP] In April 2018, Giraldi wrote that "Israel's fingerprints are all over American interventionism, reflecting Jewish power in the United States and the presence of a plethora of well-funded Israel-centric lobbies, think tanks and media outlets" and that "Israel is not at all shy about what it wants to happen, namely a war in Syria targeting both Damascus and Tehran, leading to a much bigger war with the Iranians."
Philip Giraldi [SEP] Giraldi writes that Israel was involved as a perpetrator of the 9/11 attacks, concluding that "Why would the Israelis do it? [...] To be sure, 9/11 was a gift to Israel and it is a gift that keeps on giving. America is at war in a number of Muslim countries and its troops blanket the Middle East, to include a base in Israel dedicated to the defense of that country. It is all a result of the Global War on Terror and the GWOT started with 9/11.
Philip Giraldi [SEP] And just maybe it was a fire that was ignited by Israel."
Philip Giraldi [SEP] Giraldi believes that America's support for Israel is a result of Jewish power, writing: "The Israel-thing is Jewish in all ways that matter and its sanitized Exodus-version that has been sold to the public is essentially a complete fraud nurtured by the media, also Jewish controlled, by Hollywood, and by the Establishment... Sure, Congressmen will continue to be bought and sold and Jewish money and the access to power that it buys will be able to prevail in the short term in a conspiratorial fashion.
Philip Giraldi [SEP] But, in the long run, everyone knows deep down that loyalty to Israel is not loyalty to the United States." Giraldi is a founding member of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity. In September 2015 Giraldi and 27 other members of VIPS steering group wrote a letter to the President challenging a recently published book, that claimed to rebut the report of the United States Senate Intelligence Committee on the Central Intelligence Agency's use of torture.
Salvia lyrata [SEP] Salvia lyrata (lyre-leaf sage, lyreleaf sage, wild sage, cancerweed), is a herbaceous perennial in the family Lamiaceae that is native to the United States, from Connecticut west to Missouri, and in the south from Florida west to Texas. It was described and named by Carl Linnaeus in 1753. "Salvia lyrata" forms a basal rosette of leaves that are up to long, broadening toward the tip.
Salvia lyrata [SEP] The leaves have irregular margins and are typically pinnately lobed or cut, looking somewhat like a lyre. The center vein is sometimes dark wine-purple. A hairy stem up to long grows from the rosette, with uneven whorls of two-lipped lavender to blue flowers. Flowering is heaviest between April and June, though sparse flowering can happen throughout the year. The leaves were once thought to be an external cure for cancer, thus one of the common names "Cancerweed". "
Salvia lyrata [SEP] Salvia lyrata" grows in full sun or light to medium shade, with native stands found on roadsides, fields, and open woodlands. "Salvia lyrata" is sometimes grown in gardens for its attractive foliage and flowers, though it can prolifically seed, easily becoming a lawn weed. Several cultivars have been developed with purple leaves. ' Burgundy Bliss' and 'Purple Knockout' are two cultivars with burgundy leaves that are deeper in color than the species.
Salvia lyrata [SEP] Native Americans used the root as a salve for sores, and used the whole plant as a tea for colds and coughs.
Carleton's Prize [SEP] Carleton's Prize is a small rock island in the Vermont waters of Lake Champlain, in Crescent Bay off the southwestern tip of South Hero. Rising from water's edge to a plateau, situated between Stave and Providence Islands, it has been called Carleton's Prize since the American Revolutionary War when Sir Guy Carleton brought it to notoriety in 1776, the morning after the Battle of Valcour Island.
Carleton's Prize [SEP] Local lore has it that it was very foggy on the lake as Benedict Arnold escaped from behind Valcour Island with what was left of his small fleet. Not believing the Americans could have slipped by in the dark (which they had), the British searched to the north and east. In the heavy fog they sighted what they thought was a ship and summarily pounded it with their cannons, smoke from the black powder adding to the lack of visibility.
Carleton's Prize [SEP] After up to an hour without return fire, either a breeze came up or the fog burned off, and the British realized they had not been firing on a ship. This distraction allowed Arnold to escape down the lake to Addison, Vermont, where he burned his remaining fleet to prevent capture. Local lore goes further to say that local Islanders had hoisted logs on the island to look like masts. Rust marks from fired cannon shot are still visible on the rock.
Russian cruiser Rurik (1906) [SEP] Rurik () was an armoured cruiser built for the Imperial Russian Navy in 1906. During World War I, the ship saw service with the Baltic Fleet. She was scrapped in 1930. "Rurik" is unusual in that she was built by Vickers in Barrow in Furness, England. She was laid down in August 1905, launched on 4 November 1906, and completed in July 1909. The Russian Navy was not usually a customer of British shipyards.
Russian cruiser Rurik (1906) [SEP] She was named in honour of Rurik, the semi-legendary founder of ancient Russia. Unlike her previous namesake, , she has been described as one of the best armoured cruisers built, with advanced sprinkler protection for the magazines. She was designed by KA Tennison and AP Titov, and the contract was arranged by Basil Zaharoff. The ship had a prolonged work-up while defects were rectified.
Russian cruiser Rurik (1906) [SEP] There was a plan to build two more ships in Russia, but this was cancelled after the first battlecruiser, , entered service. The main armament consisted of four guns in two turrets, and the secondary armament consisted of eight guns in four twin turrets located at the corners of the superstructure. These guns were built by Vickers. The anti-torpedo boat armament comprised twenty 50-caliber Pattern 1905 guns in casemates. There were also four guns and two torpedo tubes.
Russian cruiser Rurik (1906) [SEP] Gunnery trials revealed that the fastenings on the 10-inch and 8-inch barbettes were insufficiently strong and were deformed during firing. Vickers was forced to reinforce the turrets. The work was done in Kronstadt after delivery. All plate was Krupp armour made by Vickers. The 10-inch gun turrets were protected by plate, and the 8-inch gun turrets were protected by plate. The main belt was long and extended to below mean water line. There was also an upper belt, thick, which extended to the 4.7-inch gun battery.
Russian cruiser Rurik (1906) [SEP] Each 4.7-inch gun had armour screens and was separated by 1-inch armour from neighbouring guns. The forward conning tower was protected by armour, and the after conning tower was protected by armour. The power plant consisted of two four-cylinder triple-expansion steam engines and twenty-eight Belleville type boilers. On trials at the Skelmorlie mile she reached , developing . "Rurik" was commissioned in 1908.
Russian cruiser Rurik (1906) [SEP] She carried out a deployment to the Mediterranean in company with the battleships and , where she represented Russia at the coronation of King Nicholas of Montenegro. She was the flagship of the Baltic Fleet during World War I and saw much action, being damaged by mines on several occasions. On 19 November 1916, she was damaged after striking a mine in the Baltic Sea off Hochland, laid by SM UC-27. Her crew survived, and she was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.