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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice%20Guillaux
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Maurice Guillaux
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Ernest François Guillaux (24 January 1883 – 21 May 1917), better known by his adopted name Maurice Guillaux, was a French aviator who spent seven months in Australia in 1914. On 16–18 July 1914, he flew Australia's first air mail and air freight flight, from Melbourne to Sydney. During his time in Australia he also gave many aerial displays, was the first person to fly a seaplane in Australia, and was an early user of Ham Common, now RAAF Base Richmond.
Early life
Ernest François Guillaux was born 24 January 1883 in Montoire, France. His father was a wheelwright, and he also worked in this trade; he married Héloïse Anne-Marie Langot, a farmer's daughter, in 1901. Little more is known about him until 1912, when he became well known as a pilot, using the name ‘Maurice’. Nelson Eustis, famous philatelist and amateur historian, made contact in 1964 with a son, Bernard, then about 62 years old.
Career in France
On 19 February 1912, he obtained his pilot's licence, no 749. He became the chief pilot for the firm Caudron de Croty (Somme). From April onwards, he participated in many aviation displays. He was often able to fly in weather that was too severe for other pilots, but did crash on 29 April when his aircraft was caught by a strong wind gust at a display at Montoire. He flew, with a passenger, to England after this.
On his return, in August 1912 he became chief pilot for the Clément-Bayard organisation, flying its all-metal monoplanes made in their factory at Levallois-Perret. From time to time, he held various records, for example at Étampes, on 11 February 1913, when he flew 410 km in 4 hours 10 minutes with a passenger.
He also gained his military flying licence at about this time.
The Pommery Cup was awarded, twice a year, to the airman who flew the greatest distance, measured in a straight line, in one day. On 28 April Guillaux secured the prize by flying from Biarritz to Kollum in the Netherlands, a distance of 1 253 kilomètres.
His main rival was Brindejonc des Moulinais.
In the next competition for the cup, Guillaux had an irregularity in his record-keeping, and as a result was suspended from competition for ten years.
He then purchased a Bleriot XI aircraft, especially prepared for aerobatics, known as a ‘looper’ in which he performed during December and January.
With four companions, listed on the passenger manifest as Messrs Rupeausseu, Maistre, Cominos and du Coque, he then departed on a world tour.
Arrival in Australia
The party arrived in Sydney early in April, and spent the first fortnight assembling the Bleriot. His first flying display was given at Victoria Park, Zetland, Sydney, on 19 April 1914, followed by a display at Newcastle on 25 April. He was immediately received in the highest circles of Australian society, being officially welcomed to Sydney by the Lord Mayor on 28 April.
During May and June he also performed in Melbourne, in regional centres such as Wagga Wagga, Albury, Bendigo, Ballarat, Geelong, and Bathurst and in Adelaide. These displays were hugely successful: hundreds of thousands of people paid to see him fly. He was received at Government House, Melbourne, and actually landed and took off from its grounds.
Seaplane flights
Lebbeus Hordern, a member of the wealthy family which owned the Sydney department store Anthony Horderns, imported a Maurice Farman 'hydro-aeroplane' in 1914. It was the first seaplane in Australia. Its 70-horsepower Renault engine enabled a maximum speed of 60 miles-per-hour. Wingspan was about 57 feet, 17.3 metres, it was about 35 feet, 10.6 metres long, and weighed about 1680 pounds, 760 Kilograms. It could carry ‘two seventeen-stone passengers’ or three passengers of lesser weight.
Lebbeus Hordern enlisted the services of Guillaux and his team to assemble and test fly the aircraft, and on May 8, 1914, Maurice Guillaux flew the Farman for the first time. Over the next few days he made many flights carrying passengers including the owner of the aircraft and Miss Louise Carbasse, then a 19-year-old Australian actress. After the war, she became a well-known Hollywood actress under the name of Louise Lovely.
On 22 May Guillaux and Lebbeus Hordern announced their intention to fly the seaplane from Sydney to Melbourne, but this flight was never attempted. Guillaux also announced his intention to remain permanently in Australia, making his home in Sydney. He had purchased some more aircraft that would arrive in about three months.
Melbourne-Sydney mail flight
On May 13 the American aviator 'Wizard' Stone announced plans to fly mail from Melbourne to Sydney, with a flight date proposed 'on or about' 23 May. This was delayed until June 6, but on June 1 Stone crashed in Rockhampton, Queensland, while racing against an automobile. He was injured and his aircraft was badly damaged.
Guillaux took over the air mail project. He took off on his journey from Flemington showgrounds, Melbourne at 9:12 am on 16 July 1914, and landed in fields at Seymour and Wangaratta before entering New South Wales, reaching Albury racecourse at 12 50 pm. Here he had lunch with compatriot Alderman Frere before flying on to Wagga Wagga and then to Harden at 4 06 pm. Trying to fly on, he was forced back by bad weather. In one day he had flown about 575 kilometres, giving aerobatic displays over each town to entertain the huge crowds that greeted him at every stop.
On 17 July he was again forced to return to Harden because of weather, but on 18 July he was able to move on to Goulburn. This was a freezing winter morning, for which Goulburn is infamous, and when he landed he rushed to the beacon fire to thaw out. He flew on, missing a planned landing at Moss Vale, but landing just behind the main street of Liverpool. After lunch with the locals, he took off in time to arrive at Moore Park, in central Sydney, by 2 50 pm.
Here he was received by a huge crowd, including the Governor-General. A band played the Marseillaise and he handed over his cargo. There were 1785 postcards and special messages such as those from the Governor and the French Consul in Victoria to their counterparts in New South Wales. A packet of Liptons Tea and some OT lemon cordial were also carried; this was Australia's first air freight. This was, at the time, the longest air mail flight anywhere in the world.
After the air mail flight
The flight created a sensation. Huge marketing campaigns were begun by OT juice, by Liptons, and by the manufacturers of Guillaux’ thermos flask.
Guillaux continued to fly, and on August 1 had a serious crash at Ascot Racecourse, now part of Kingsford-Smith airport. He had recovered, and his aircraft had been repaired, by 18 September when he made the first flights from Ham Common, now part of Richmond RAAF base. He and Lebbeus Hordern had intended to expand their fleet and establish a major base here, but the outbreak of war had interrupted all their plans.
Preservation of Guillaux’ aircraft
The Bleriot XI aircraft used by Maurice Guillaux is preserved in the PowerHouse Museum, Ultimo, Sydney.
Return to France
Guillaux left for France on 22 October on SS Orvieto, listed on the embarkation roll as an aviator attached to the 1st Australian Division. Not much is presently known about his subsequent career with the Australian forces, but certainly by 1915 he was a test pilot in France.
Death
Maurice Guillaux died when the prototype Morane-Saulnier aircraft that he was testing crashed at Villacoublay on 21 May 1917. He was buried at Neuilly-sur-Seine.
References
Citations
Bibliography
Eustis, H N, Fifty Years of Australian Airmails, first published 16 July 1964, limited reprint 2013 by Aviation Historical Society of Australia,
Parnell, P and Boughton, N, Flypast, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1988,
1883 births
1917 deaths
French aviation record holders
Australian military personnel of World War I
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caturidae
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Caturidae
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Caturidae is an extinct family of predatory fishes belonging to the order Amiiformes (which contains the modern bowfin). The earliest members of the family appeared in the early Late Triassic, reaching an apex of diversity during the Jurassic. The youngest records of the group date to the Early Cretaceous. Members of the family include Caturus, Strobilodus, Amblysemius, and Catutoichthys.
References
Biolib
Paleobiology Database
Amiiformes
Prehistoric ray-finned fish families
Middle Triassic first appearances
Late Cretaceous extinctions
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co%C5%9Fkun%20Aral
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Coşkun Aral
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Coşkun Aral (born May 1, 1956) is a Turkish war correspondent, photo journalist, television journalist and documentary film producer.
Life and work
Aral was born on May 1, 1956, in Siirt, Turkey. Aral finished the secondary school and the high school in Istanbul. In 1974, he began photo journalism career in the newspapers Günaydın and Gün. He transferred to the daily Ekonomi ve Politika in 1976.
Aral gained recognition by the international press with the photos he shot during the Taksim Square massacre incident occurred on May 1, 1977, the Labour Day in Istanbul. His photos were distributed by the French photo agency Sipa Press and published in the news magazines Time and Newsweek. He became then the Turkish correspondent of the agency while he was serving for the Turkish News Agency and the newspapers Milliyet and Hürriyet as a freelance photographer.
In 1980, Coşkun Aral was tasked by the Sipa Press for the first time abroad Turkey. From then on, he continuously worked in the most conflict-ridden parts of the world such as Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Northern Ireland, Chad and Far East. He covered the 1982 anti-government street demonstrations in Gdańsk, Poland, organized by underground Solidarity. The world's first ever interview with terrorists, who hijacked the airliner on October 14, 1980, he was also on board, brought him domestic and international recognition and awards. Aral was also assigned to Iran and Iraq to take photos during the Iran–Iraq War in 1982. Archived photos of him showing the political violence in Turkey before the 1980 Turkish coup d'état were published in the cover of Newsweek and L'Express as well as in many other news magazines. He continued his profession as a photojournalist, serving the weeklies Time, Newsweek, Paris Match, Stern and Época.
In 1986, Coşkun Aral entered additionally into a career as a television war correspondent taking part in the news show of 32. Gün (The 32nd Day") by Mehmet Ali Birand. The news show Haberci ("The Reporter"), he produces and directs, is broadcast in Turkish and also in international television channels. He is co-founder and the director general of Turkey's first documentary and travel channel İZ TV. Aral continues to film documentaries around the world. Aral exhibited his photos and collected some of them in books published internationally.
Çoşkun Aral is married to Müge Aral. The couple has a daughter named Deniz.
References
1956 births
Living people
People from Siirt
Turkish photojournalists
Turkish war correspondents
Turkish television journalists
Turkish film producers
Turkish non-fiction writers
Hürriyet people
Milliyet people
Günaydın (newspaper) people
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997%20Ms.%20Olympia
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1997 Ms. Olympia
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The 1997 Ms. Olympia contest was an IFBB professional bodybuilding competition was held on November 22, 1997, at the Beacon Theatre in New York City, New York. It was the 18th Ms. Olympia competition held.
Results
Notable Events
Nicole Bass, at , was the heaviest Ms. Olympia competitor to compete by this point.
See also
1997 Mr. Olympia
References
External links
1997 Ms. and Fitness Olympia
1997 Ms. Olympia held in New York City on November 22nd
1997 Ms Olympia Results
Competitor History of the Ms. Olympia
1997 MS. OLYMPIA (DOWNLOAD)
1997 MS. OLYMPIA (DVD)
Ms Olympia, 1997
1997 in bodybuilding
Ms. Olympia
Ms. Olympia
History of female bodybuilding
November 1997 sports events in the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013%20IPP%20Open%20%E2%80%93%20Doubles
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2013 IPP Open – Doubles
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Mikhail Elgin and Igor Zelenay were the defending champions, but Zelenay did not participate that year. Elgin played alongside Michal Mertiňák and they lost in the quarterfinals to Henri Kontinen and Jarkko Nieminen, who won the title, defeating Dustin Brown and Philipp Marx in the final, 7–5, 5–7, [10–5].
Seeds
Draw
References
Draw
IPP Open - Doubles
2013 Doubles
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat%20Bingham
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Pat Bingham
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Pat Bingham (born October 8, 1968) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman. He is currently the president of the Colorado Rampage in the Midwest Elite Hockey League.
Bingham retired as a player in 1996 following a seven-year professional career that included time in the American Hockey League, ECHL, Colonial Hockey League, Sunshine Hockey League, and Southern Hockey League.
Bingham first head coaching position was during the 1999–2000 season with the Huntsville Channel Cats of the Central Hockey League. He has since gained head coaching experience in the United Hockey League, ECHL, and American Hockey League. In the ECHL he won the John Brophy Award as the Coach of the Year for stearing the Wheeling Nailers to a 51-17-4 record during the 2003–04 season.
On September 8, 2012, Bingham announced he was retiring as head coach of the ECHL's Elmira Jackals, and he was introduced as the new head coach for the Colorado Rampage of the U16 AAA Midwest Elite Hockey League.
Career statistics
Awards and honours
References
External links
1968 births
Living people
Binghamton Whalers players
Brantford Smoke players
Canadian ice hockey coaches
Canadian ice hockey defencemen
Hampton Roads Admirals players
Jacksonville Bullets players
Kamloops Blazers players
Lakeland Prowlers players
Nashville Knights players
New Westminster Bruins players
Richmond Renegades players
Ice hockey people from Vancouver
Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline%20M%C3%A9cary
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Caroline Mécary
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Caroline Mécary (born 16 April 1963) is a French lawyer as well as a politician of the Greens party (also known as Europe Écologie Les Verts or EELV) in France. She is also an active member of the Regional council of Île-de-France. A staunch supporter of LGBT rights and gay marriage, Caroline Mécary is also the co-founder of the Copernic Foundation.
She is the NUPES candidate in Paris's 7th constituency in the 2022 French legislative election.
Biography
Born in Paris on 16 April 1963 to Christiane Roux, a painter from a cultured family of Saint-Étienne and Boulos El Mekari, a Maronite Christian who worked as the executive director of a computer company. She acquired his French nationality in 1968. Her father died when she was 13 years old.
Professional career
Having completed law school in Nanterre, Caroline Mécary took up a job at Télédiffusion de France for one year (1988–1989). She then went on to take the bar in Paris, becoming a barrister in 1991. While she specialized in copyrights for writers and artists, she also taught media law at Sorbonne University of Paris I and Paris XII during 1994-1997. In 1993, she established her own law firm. She is a member of the French union of lawyers and was also a member of the Bar association of Paris from 2005 until 2007.
Since 1993, she has been a member of GISTI (groupe d'information et de soutien des immigrés), an association which defends the human rights of immigrants.
Gay marriage
Caroline Mécary has been in favour of marriage of same-sex couples since 1998. In 2004, Noël Mamère, the mayor of Bègles in the suburbs of Bordeaux, disobeyed French law and conducted the first gay marriage as an act of defiance. The Mayor and the gay couple were subsequently sued; Caroline Mécary defended them. The marriage was annulled despite their efforts but they managed to successfully raise the question of gay marriage.
In 2010, along with SOS Homophobie and APGL (Association des parents et futurs parents gays et lesbiens) she represented a lesbian couple before the French constitutional court (which decides if any law is constitutional and in conformity with French law). The couple wished to get married, but under French law they had no legal right to marriage. Their appeal was rejected on 28 January 2011, and the court pointed out that only the French Assembly could rewrite or change the law.
Overseas adoption and recognition of adoption on French territory
In July 2010, a bi-national lesbian couple (French-American) was represented by Caroline Mécary because their child had been conceived through artificial insemination in the U.S., and under American law, the French partner had adopted the child. However, the French partner was not recognized as the legal parent under French law. After a long legal battle, she won the test case for all gay parents who have children overseas.
In February 2011 she won a similar case; this time of a gay couple who had adopted their children under British and Canadian law. However, since they were not married it challenged a 1966 law which allowed joint legal adoption only by married couples
Political commitments
In 2008, Caroline Mécary was elected as the president of the Copernic Foundation, a left-wing think tank. Since 2011 she has co-chaired the Foundation with Pierre Khalfa.
In March 2010, she stood for election and was elected to the regional council of the greater Paris area. She is a permanent member of the council and in charge of the commissions on Environment, Agriculture and Energy, youth, Metropolitan policy and security.
As an elected member of the Greater Paris area, she is also a member of the association which manages regional funds for contemporary and modern art.
In 2012, she endorsed Anne Hidalgo's candidacy for Mayor of Paris.
Books
Caroline Mécary, L’amour et la loi : Homos/hétéros : mêmes droits mêmes devoirs, Paris, Alma, 2012 ()
Laurence Gratiot, Caroline Mécary, Stephen Bensimon, Guy Haarscher et Benoît Frydman, Art et techniques de la plaidoirie,
Paris, Lexis Nexis, coll. « Droit & Professionnels », 2011, 6e éd. (1re éd. 1995) ()
Caroline Mécary, Le Pacs 2010, Paris, Delmas, coll. « Delmas express », 2009, 3e éd. (1re éd. 2006) ()
Caroline Mécary, L’Adoption, Paris, PUF, coll. « Que sais-je ? », 2006 ()
Caroline Mécary et Géraud de La Pradelle, Les Droits des homosexuel/les, Paris, PUF, coll. « Que sais-je ? », 2003, 3e éd. (1re éd. 1998) ()
Flora Leroy-Forgeot et Caroline Mécary, Le Couple homosexuel et le Droit, Paris, Odile Jacob, coll. « Histoire et document », 2001 ()
Caroline Mécary et Flora Leroy-Forgeot, Le PACS, Paris, PUF, coll. « Que sais-je ? », 2001, 2e éd. (1re éd. 2000) ()
Caroline Mécary, Droit et Homosexualité, Paris, Dalloz, coll. « États de droit », 2000 ()
Notes and references
External links
Caroline Mécary blog
1963 births
Living people
French women lawyers
Politicians from Paris
French people of Lebanese descent
Lesbian politicians
French lesbians
French LGBT rights activists
French LGBT politicians
21st-century French women politicians
Councillors of Paris
Paris Nanterre University alumni
21st-century French LGBT people
Candidates for the 2022 French legislative election
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981%E2%80%9382%20Kentucky%20Wildcats%20men%27s%20basketball%20team
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1981–82 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team
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The 1981–82 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team represented University of Kentucky in the 1981–82 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The head coach was Joe B. Hall and the team finished the season with an overall record of 22–8.
References
Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball seasons
Kentucky
Kentucky
Kentucky Wildcats
Kentucky Wildcats
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surround%20Me
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Surround Me
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Surround Me may refer to:
"Surround Me", song by Grant Mclennan from Fireboy
"Surround Me", song by The Stems from Heads Up
"Surround Me", song by Scott Stapp from The Great Divide
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheece%20Evans
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Rheece Evans
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Rheece Evans (born 28 August 1990) is a South African football player who played as a defender and midfielder.
The lanky defender was bought in to bolster an already formidable back four in the winter of 2014 and will look to break into the first XI immediately.
He was brought to Sundowns after having an impressive season at Maritzburg United. He is seen as a very speedy and offensive right back.
References
1990 births
Living people
Soccer players from Durban
White South African people
South African men's soccer players
Men's association football defenders
Men's association football midfielders
Maritzburg United F.C. players
Mamelodi Sundowns F.C. players
Cape Town Spurs F.C. players
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%20Summer%20Universiade
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2019 Summer Universiade
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The 2019 Summer Universiade (), officially known as the XXX Summer Universiade () and also known as Napoli 2019, was held in Naples, Italy, between 3 and 14 July 2019.
It was initially scheduled for Brasília, Brazil in July 2019. However, on 23 December 2014, it was confirmed that Brasília had withdrawn from hosting the event, citing financial problems. International University Sports Federation decided to reopen the bidding process after the withdrawal.
Host selection
First process
On 14 June 2012, the then-Brazilian Minister of Sports, Aldo Rebelo, and the president of CBDU (Confederação Brasileira do Desporto Universitário), Luciano Cabral, announced that after the failed bid by Brazil for the 2017 Summer Universiade, they would bid again for the 2019 Summer Universiade. Brazil's capital Brasília was appointed as the bid city again after it lost in 2017 to Taipei. Brazil previously hosted the Summer Universiade once in 1963 in Porto Alegre.
On 11 December 2012, Azad Rahimov, the Youth and Sports Minister of Azerbaijan, announced that after the country won the rights to host the first European Games in 2015, they would bid to host the 2019 Summer Universiade. The attempt was the first time that Azerbaijan placed a bid for the Universiade. Baku would represent the country as the bid city.
On 31 January 2013, Miklós Tóth, the vice-chairman of the Hungarian Olympic Committee, announced that Hungary would make a bid for the 2019 or 2021 Summer Universiade with the aid of Alfréd Hajós' Plan (Hajós Alfréd Terv). Budapest previously hosted the 1965 Summer Universiade and was confirmed as the bid city on 19 February 2013.
On 3 April 2013, FISU officially confirmed three candidate cities:
Baku, Azerbaijan
Brasilia, Brazil
Budapest, Hungary
On 31 October 2013, Baku officially withdrew from the bidding process for the 2019 Summer Universiade, citing that the city will be busy with other sporting events in the period of 2015–2017 with the 2015 European Games and the 2017 Islamic Solidarity Games. On 8 November 2013, Budapest withdrew because the city could not afford the costs of the event, leaving Brasilia as the only bidding city. On 9 November 2013, FISU nominated Brasilia as host city of the 2019 Summer Universiade. On 5 March 2016, FISU reattributed the 2019 Universiade to Naples, Italy.
Venues
The Organising committee plans to involve already existed sports facilities after their renovation.
Naples venues
Stadio San Paolo – ceremonies and athletics
PalaVesuvio – Artistic gymnastics and Rhythmic gymnastics
PalaBarbuto – Basketball
Mostra d'Oltremare – Diving, Judo and Shooting sports
Ex Born – Rugby sevens
Circolo del Remo and Vela Italia – Sailing
Felice Scandone pool – Swimming
Tennis and Caracciolo boardwalk – Tennis
Avellino venues
Stadio Partenio-Adriano Lombardi – Archery
Palasport Del Mauro – Basketball
Baronissi venues
University Sports Center CUS Salerno – Fencing
Caserta venues
Royal Palace of Caserta – Archery
Stadio Alberto Pinto – Football
Swimming Stadium – Swimming
Eboli venues
PalaSele – Volleyball
Opening ceremony
The opening ceremony was held at Stadio San Paolo and ran from 21:00 to 00:20 Central European Summer Time including a special performance by Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli.
Marketing
Logo
The logo of the games was an image of Mount Vesuvius, a somma-stratovolcano located on the Gulf of Naples which was remodeled into five chromatic trails of both the Olympics and Universiade that resembles a race track. The lines meeting at the top and ending with a puff of multicoloured smoke symbolise different people’s involvement with a unique objective of sharing and contributing to development, progress, solidarity, and coexistence.
Mascot
The mascot of the games was a Siren named "Partenope", which was designed by Melania Acanfora, young Neapolitan student of the “Accademia delle Belle Arti” (Academy of Fine Arts). The Mascot is described as a gymnast with her fish tail that could be transformed into scaly legs which allow her to run, jump, dance, just as a real athlete. In the opening ceremony, Mariafelicia Carraturo interpreted the mascot.
Sports
Aquatics
Artistic gymnastics (14)
Rhythmic gymnastics (8)
Participants
in order of appearance, Parade of Nations:
Schedule
Closing ceremony
The closing ceremony was held on 14 July 2019 at the Stadio San Paolo and ran from 21:00 to 23:20 Central European Summer Time. The closing ceremony featuring the handover of the FISU flag to the Chinese city of Chengdu as the host city of the 2021 Summer Universiade. Along with the FISU, protocol the ceremony had the performances by rapper Clementino, singer and Eurovision Song Contest 2019 runner-up Mahmood and Austrian DJ Sonic Snares.
Medal table
References
External links
Universiade Naples 2019
2019
International sports competitions hosted by Italy
Sports competitions in Naples
Multi-sport events in Italy
Universiade Summer
Universiade Summer
21st century in Naples
July 2019 sports events in Italy
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20House%20of%20Water
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The House of Water
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The House of Water () is a 1983 Venezuelan drama film of the nation's Golden Age directed by Jacobo Penzo. The film was selected as the Venezuelan entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 57th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Plot
A young man, Cruz Salmerón Acosta, from the impoverished village of Manicaure, Araya, rejects the dictatorship of Juan Vicente Gómez. Despite fighting for his ideals, he achieves nothing, returning to Manicaure with few opportunities. He ultimately dies alone of leprosy.
Cast
Franklin Vírgüez as Cruz Elías Salmerón Acosta
Doris Wells as Asunción León Costa
Hilda Vera as Cruz' mother
Alicia Plaza as Consuelo
Elba Escobar as Ana Dolores Ramos
Production
The film was scored by Juan Carlos Núñez, and includes a cameo by film critic Rodolfo Izaguirre playing a priest. It was one of the first films to receive funding from FONCINE.
Analysis
At the Sofía en el cine film website, the film is said to go against traditional modern (particularly American) movie narratives which typically show that destiny is both achievable and aligns with the desires and ideals of the hero. To defy expectations, the film shows Cruz' failure to achieve what he really wants. Sofía en el cine also suggests that the film frames this to suggest that the individual can be brought down by their environment, that misery of nation creates misery of its people even as they try to escape it.
The name of the film is analyzed by Alexis Correia, examining the symbolism through the film that the idea of a house of water relates to; Correia proposes that first, it refers to being in the womb, then a life of false appearances, and then the house where Cruz dies alone. Correia also suggests that water, as vital to life, is not present in the 'house' of Manicaure, which is experiencing drought.
Response
Alexis Correia looks at the characterization of Cruz, suggesting it is mostly enabled by the dialogue written by Tomás Eloy Martínez and actor Franklin Vírgüez' "timeless" appearance; in the film, Cruz cares more about ideals than his art or youthfulness, which Correia believes is captured by the actor and multiple memorable lines. Correia also praises the cinematography, some of which he compares to Eisenstein.
See also
List of submissions to the 57th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
List of Venezuelan submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
References
External links
The House of Water at Cine Mestizo
1983 films
1983 drama films
1980s Spanish-language films
Venezuelan drama films
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20St%20Leonards%20Academy
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The St Leonards Academy
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The St Leonards Academy is a coeducational secondary school with academy status, located in the St Leonards-on-Sea area of Hastings in East Sussex.
The St Leonards Academy was established in September 2011 from a merger of Filsham Valley School and The Grove School. The school operates on the Filsham Valley site on Edinburgh Road, and continues to coordinate with East Sussex County Council for admissions. The school is federated with Hastings Academy in the form of The Hastings Academies Trust.
The school is sponsored by the University of Brighton, British Telecom, and East Sussex County Council, and has specialisms in mathematics and ICT (Information and Communications Technology). It offers GCSEs and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils.
References
External links
The St Leonards Academy official website
Secondary schools in East Sussex
Hastings
Academies in East Sussex
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%20Winter%20Universiade
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2019 Winter Universiade
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The 2019 Winter Universiade (), the XXIX Universiade, was a multi-sport event for student and youth athletes which took place from 2 to 12 March 2019 in the Russian city of Krasnoyarsk. The 2019 Winter Universiade was the third Universiade hosted in Russia and second as an independent country. The first Universiade, when Russia was a Soviet Republic, was hosted by Moscow in 1973, whereas Kazan, capital of the Republic of Tatarstan, hosted the 2013 Summer Universiade. It is the first Winter Universiade hosted by Russia, and the second time that the event was held in a former USSR republic (the other being the 2017 Universiade in Almaty).
Krasnoyarsk was unanimously elected as the host city of the 29th Winter Universiade 2019 by an Executive Committee meeting in Brussels on 9 November 2013. At the Opening Ceremony the fire was lit by two of the event's ambassadors, bandy player Sergey Lomanov and former artistic gymnast Svetlana Khorkina.
For the first time in Universiade history, bandy and ski-orienteering were included as optional sports. Bandy had bigger spectator crowds than any other sport. The budget of the 2019 Universiade in Krasnoyarsk equalled 67.8 billion rubles (1.021 billion US dollars): 43.3 billion rubles from the federal budget, 24.5 billion rubles from the budget of the Krasnoyarsk Krai. Russia won a record of 41 gold and 112 overall medals, while South Korea placed second with 6 and 14, respectively. Japan was third, winning 5 gold and 13 overall medals.
Bidding campaign and host city selection
On 1 September 2012, the bidding campaign for the right to host the 2019 Winter and Summer Universiades was launched. On the same day, the Russian Students Sport Union (RSSU) sent a letter to the President of the International University Sports Federation (FISU), Mr. Claude-Louis Galen, about Krasnoyarsk's intention to apply for the right to host the Winter Universiade 2019. The choice of the city was primarily determined by the desire and capability of the territory of Krasnoyarsk to host the University Games. The capital of the Krasnoyarsk Krai, it is one of the country's student centres with the Siberian Federal University located there.
On 3 April 2013, FISU, officially confirmed two candidate cities:
Krasnoyarsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia
Canton of Valais, Switzerland
During the whole year, each applicant worked on the preparation of application dosier. On 14 September 2013, Krasnoyarsk presented its Bidding Book at the FISU headquarters and received the status of a candidate city. The only competitor at this stage, the Canton of Valais, withdrew from candidacy.
On 9 November 2013, in Brussels, FISU members elected Krasnoyarsk as the host city of the 29th Winter Universiade 2019 by a closed vote.
Brands
Logo
In accordance with the requirements of the International University Sports Federation (FISU), the logo of the Winter Universiade 2019 was made based on the Latin letter "U" – the first letter of the word "Universiade", with the city name in English and the year the Games take place – Krasnoyarsk 2019, the sequence number and the name of the event in English – 29th Winter Universiade, as well as 5 stars in blue, yellow, black, green and red colors – elements of the FISU logo.
The "U" letter in the logo of the Winter Universiade Krasnoyarsk 2019 symbolizes the ice block, the irregular facets of which demonstrate the severe character of Siberian nature, peaks of rocks and snow-covered slopes.
Slogans
The main slogan of the Games was or "Real Winter," revealing the essence of the Winter Universiade 2019 idea. It is not accidental that the first Winter Universiade in Russia took place in 2019 in Krasnoyarsk – the geographical center of Siberia. Russia is the biggest country in the world by area, with long and severe winters on the most part of its territory. Foreigners often associate Russia with "frost" and "winter."
Two additional slogans were officially used: or "100% Winter," which was used together with any of the slogans or independently as a chevron, stripe or patch on clothes; and or "Welcome to Winter!," which was used in advertising campaigns.
Mascot
The official mascot of the Winter Universiade 2019 is "U-Laika", a Siberian dog of the Laika breed, the symbol of loyalty, friendliness, joy and unbridled energy. Laika is a friend always ready to help in hard times and support in striving to any, even the most trying goal.
Countdown Clock
On 5 June 2016, the countdown clock of the Winter Universiade 2019 was launched on the Yenisei river embankment in Krasnoyarsk. The countdown started from 1,000 days. The screen shows the exact number of days, hours, minutes and seconds before the official opening ceremony of the Games in Krasnoyarsk.
On 18 October 2017, 500 days until the start of the Winter Universiade 2019, the countdown clock of the University Games was unveiled with the participation of Russian Minister of Sport Pavel Kolobkov, acting Chairman of the Regional Government Viktor Tomenko, Director General of the Executive Directorate of the 29th Winter Universiade 2019 Maxim Urazov, and Ambassadors of the Winter Universiade 2019 Svetlana Khorkina, Ilia Averbukh and Zlata Demyanova. The clock became the second art object of the Winter Universiade 2019 in Krasnoyarsk, and a new attraction site of the Funpark Bobrovy Log.
Preparation
The management system of the Winter Universiade 2019 consists of four main levels: Organising Committee, Executive Directorate, Supervisory Board, Coordinating Council.
The budget of the 2019 Universiade in Krasnoyarsk equalled 67.8 billion rubles (1.021 billion US dollars): 43.3 billion rubles from the federal budget and 24.5 billion rubles from the budget of the Krasnoyarsk Krai.
Organising Committee
The Organising Committee for the preparation and delivery of the 2019 Winter Universiade was created by the Resolution of the Government of the Russian Federation from 18 February 2014, No. 219.
Initially the Organising Committee was headed by the Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Vitaly Mutko. He was replaced by Olga Golodets in December 2018.
The Organising Committee was formed by representatives of the state authorities of the Russian Federation and the Krasnoyarsk Krai. The Organizing Committee made important decisions regarding the Universiade organization and preparation; it approved the plan of organizational measures and the list of the Winter Universiade 2019 venues.
The organizational and technical support of the Organising Committee was entrusted to the Ministry of Sport.
Venues
The list of main venues was approved by the Organizing Committee of the Winter Universiade 2019.
Universiade Village
The Universiade Village located on the territory of the campus of the Siberian Federal University, close to Nikolayevskaya Sopka and most alpine skiing venues:
The Universitetsky Residential Complex allows more than 3,000 beds to be placed on the territory of the Universiade Village for athletes and accredited persons, taking into account the pre-existing housing infrastructure of University campus.
The FSAEI HPO Siberian Federal University multifunctional center consists of a training block and sports block with a food production facility, gymnastic training halls with transportable stands for spectators with up to 200 seats each, with the possibility of transforming one gym into a dining room for 700 seats. In addition, there is a sports hall for athletes to train and warm-up at the venue.
The Perya Residential Complex accommodates more than 1,700 beds for volunteers and support personnel close to the Universiade Village.
Sports venues
Sports
There were events in eleven sports. Athletes competed for 76 sets of awards in 11 sports: alpine skiing, bandy, biathlon, cross-country skiing, curling, figure skating, freestyle skiing, ice hockey, short track, ski orienteering, snowboarding.
For the first time in Universiade history, bandy and ski-orienteering were included as optional sports. Freestyle skiing was another optional sport at this Universiade.
Schedule
Participating nations
58 national university sports federations sent at least an athlete for the 2019 Winter Universiade. The Philippines and the United Arab Emirates made their debut in Winter Universiade while Ukraine boycotted the event due to the Ukrainian government refusal to fund Ukrainian athletes competing in tournaments being held in Russia.
Medal table
Russia won a record of 41 gold and 111 overall medals, while South Korea placed second with 6 and 14, respectively. Japan was third, winning 5 gold and 13 overall medals.
Dedicated stamps
On 2 March 2018 four postage stamps from the "29th Winter Universiade 2019 Krasnoyarsk. Sports venues" series were issued by the Russian Post. In addition to sports arenas, each stamp depicts the emblem of the Winter Universiade 2019.
Opening ceremony
The Opening ceremony was held at Platinum Arena and ran from 20:19 to 22:47 pm local time (Krasnoyarsk Time). It was officially opened by President of Russia Vladimir Putin.
The opening ceremony featured scenes with paintings of Vasily Surikov, who was born in Krasnoyarsk. In one of those his "Capture of a Snow Town" was used. The folk song "Valenki" was performed by Nyusha for the upcoming Maslenitsa. Then, singer Zara sang a lullaby on a golden moon. Also in the ceremony famous Siberians such as writer Viktor Astafyev, painter Andrey Pozdeyev and opera singer Dmitry Khvorostovsky were mentioned. The final part featured figure skater Alexei Yagudin.
The fire was lit via a bandy ball, for the first time in history.
Closing ceremony
The closing ceremony was held at the Platinum Arena from 20:00 to 21:30 pm local time (Krasnoyarsk Time) on 12 March 2019 which handed over the FISU flag to the next host city of Lucerne, Switzerland for the next edition in 2021.
See also
References
External links
2019
Universiade Winter
2019 in Russian sport
International sports competitions hosted by Russia
Winter multi-sport events in Russia
Sport in Krasnoyarsk
Winter Universiade
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th%20Division%20%28Syria%29
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17th Division (Syria)
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The 17th Reserve Division is a formation of the Syrian Army responsible for north-eastern Syria. It is one of two autonomous reserve divisions of the Syrian Arab Army, the other being the 18th Armoured Division.
Command structure
As of 2019, the Division is an autonomous unit of the Syrian Army's 3rd Corps structure, and is composed of 137th Mechanized Brigade, the 93rd Armoured Brigade, the 121st and 123rd Artillery Regiments. Later reports state that two battalions from the 54th Special Forces Regiment serve within the 17th Division.
The Division is one of the Syrian Army's 2 Specialised divisions, which unlike the Army's conventional divisions include both brigades and maneuver regiments.
Combat history
Role in the civil war
The 17th Reserve Division was active in Deir ez-Zor province throughout 2012.
The division's 93rd Brigade left Idlib to secure Raqqa Governorate in early 2012.
In November 2012 the Free Syrian Army claimed that elements of the 17th Division were in Rastan, thereby raising the possibility that elements of the Division withdrew from the east as the Syrian Government lost positions there.
Following the reported capture of Raqqa on 3–6 March 2013, elements of the 17th Division remained under siege to the north of the city in October 2013.
Following the fall of the Menagh airbase, the remaining troops of the defeated 17th Division sought refuge with Kurdish forces. The Kurds, however, turned over the senior officers to al-Nusra in exchange for Kurdish prisoners and the Islamists promptly killed the handed over officers, including Colonel Naji Abu Shaar.
In July 2014, ISIL captured the division's and 93rd's Brigade headquarters in the 2014 Eastern Syria offensive.
In February 2016, the 137th Brigade was reported to be controlling airdropped UN aid supplies in Deir ez-Zor city.
On 15 October 2016, the 137th Brigade attacked the southern outskirts of their former HQ that was occupied by ISIS in Deir ez-Zor. They killed several militants and destroyed three armored vehicles.
In June 2017, the Syrian Democratic Forces and other allied forces, aided by US airstrikes, captured the main base/headquarters of the division, located in the outskirts of Raqqa from ISIS after clashes between the two forces occurred as part of the Battle of Raqqa.
Major General Nizzar Khaddour, who hails from Republican Guard, is the current commander of the 17th Reserve Division.
References
Infantry divisions of Syria
Raqqa Governorate
Military units and formations established in 1970
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolbabria%20Cove
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Bolbabria Cove
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Bolbabria Cove (, ‘Zaliv Bolbabria’ \'za-liv bol-'ba-bri-ya\) is the 2 km wide cove indenting for 1.85 km the west coast of Liège Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. It is entered north of Disilitsa Point and south of the westerly offshoot of Beaumont Hill, and has its head fed by Zbelsurd Glacier.
The cove is named after the ancient Thracian settlement of Bolbabria in Western Bulgaria.
Location
Bolbabria Cove is located at . British mapping in 1978.
Maps
British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 62. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, UK, 1980.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
References
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
Bolbabria Cove on AADC website
Bolbabria Cove. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
External links
Bolbabria Cove. Copernix satellite image
Coves of Graham Land
Bulgaria and the Antarctic
Liège Island
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik%20Jan%C5%BEa
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Erik Janža
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Erik Janža (born 21 June 1993) is a Slovenian professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Górnik Zabrze and the Slovenia national team.
Career statistics
International
Scores and results list Slovenia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Janža goal.
Honours
Maribor
Slovenian Championship: 2014–15
Slovenian Cup: 2015–16
References
External links
Erik Janža profile at NZS
1993 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Murska Sobota
Slovenian men's footballers
Men's association football fullbacks
Slovenia men's youth international footballers
Slovenia men's under-21 international footballers
Slovenia men's international footballers
Slovenian expatriate men's footballers
ND Mura 05 players
NK Domžale players
NK Maribor players
FC Viktoria Plzeň players
Pafos FC players
NK Osijek players
Górnik Zabrze players
Slovenian Second League players
Slovenian PrvaLiga players
Czech First League players
Cypriot First Division players
Croatian Football League players
Ekstraklasa players
Slovenian expatriate sportspeople in the Czech Republic
Expatriate men's footballers in the Czech Republic
Slovenian expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus
Expatriate men's footballers in Cyprus
Slovenian expatriate sportspeople in Croatia
Expatriate men's footballers in Croatia
Slovenian expatriate sportspeople in Poland
Expatriate men's footballers in Poland
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980%E2%80%9381%20Kentucky%20Wildcats%20men%27s%20basketball%20team
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1980–81 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team
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The 1980–81 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team represented University of Kentucky in the 1980–81 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The head coach was Joe B. Hall and the team finished the season with an overall record of 22–6.
References
Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball seasons
Kentucky
Kentucky
Kentucky Wildcats
Kentucky Wildcats
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998%20Ms.%20Olympia
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1998 Ms. Olympia
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The 1998 Ms. Olympia contest was an IFBB professional bodybuilding competition was held on October 24, 1998, in Prague, Czech Republic. It was the 19th Ms. Olympia competition held.
Prize money
1st $50,000
Results
1st - Kim Chizevsky-Nicholls
2nd - Yolanda Hughes
3rd - Vickie Gates
5th - Lesa Lewis
5th - Laura Creavalle
6th - Andrulla Blanchette
7th - Jitka Harazimova
8th - Eva Sukupova
9th - Chris Bongiovanni
10th - Yaxeni Oriquen-Garcia
11th - Gayle Moher
12th - Valentina Chepiga
13th - Zdenka Tvrda
14th - Dayana Cadeau
15th - Jackie DeGennaro
16th - Beate Drabing
17th - Sipka Berska
Scorecard
See also
1998 Mr. Olympia
References
External links
Ms. Olympia held in Prague, Czech Republic on October 25th
1998 Ms Olympia Results
Competitor History of the Ms. Olympia
1998 MS. OLYMPIA – 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION (DOWNLOAD)
1998 MS. OLYMPIA – 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION (DVD)
Ms Olympia, 1998
1998 in bodybuilding
Ms. Olympia
Ms. Olympia
History of female bodybuilding
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20End%20of%20the%20War
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The End of the War
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The End of the War () is a 1984 Yugoslav war film directed by Dragan Kresoja. The film was selected as the Yugoslav entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 57th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Plot
At the end of World War II, a Serbian man takes his son to find and kill five members of the Croatian Ustaše militia who tortured and killed his wife and mother.
Cast
Bata Živojinović as Bajo Lazarević
Marko Ratić as Vukole Lazarević
Gorica Popović as Milka Lazarević
Neda Arnerić as Nadica Vukelić
Aleksandar Berček as Bora Živaljević
Radko Polič as Kristijan
Miroljub Lešo as Jozo
Bogdan Diklić as Alojzije Zadro
Josif Tatić as Hasko
Miloš Kandić as Vijuk
Milivoje Tomić as Old Man
See also
List of submissions to the 57th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
List of Yugoslav submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
References
External links
1984 films
1980s war films
Yugoslav war drama films
Yugoslav World War II films
Serbian war drama films
1980s Serbian-language films
Serbian World War II films
Films about revenge
Films set in Yugoslavia
Films shot in Serbia
War films set in Partisan Yugoslavia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeki%20Ayvaz
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Zeki Ayvaz
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Zeki Ayvaz (born 1 October 1989) is a Turkish footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for TFF Third League club Muş 1984 Muşspor.
External links
1989 births
Footballers from Trabzon
Living people
Turkish men's footballers
Turkey men's youth international footballers
Men's association football goalkeepers
Trabzonspor footballers
1461 Trabzon footballers
Balıkesirspor footballers
Akhisarspor footballers
Kartal S.K. footballers
Denizlispor footballers
Ankara Demirspor footballers
Tarsus İdman Yurdu footballers
Gümüşhanespor footballers
Süper Lig players
TFF First League players
TFF Second League players
TFF Third League players
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Military%20Antiques
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International Military Antiques
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International Military Antiques, Inc is an American seller of military collectibles and memorabilia, based in Gillette, New Jersey. It was founded in 1981 by Christian Cranmer. His son Alex joined him in 2004.
The National Geographic Channel has created a television series about the company titled Family Guns.
Some of the world's prominent museums contain items from IMA, including the National World War II Museum, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, and West Point Museum.
They have also supplied the films Saving Private Ryan and the television series Band of Brothers with some of their movie props.
Gurkha collection
In 2004 Christian Cranmer completed his 35-year-long attempt to convince the Nepal government to sell him over 50,000 antique firearms. These weapons were part of the arsenal of the Royal Nepalese Gurkha Army, and had been sealed away in the Lagan Silekhana Palace since 1839. He has published a book and made a DVD documentary about this, titled Treasure is Where You Find It.
References
External links
Official website
Militaria
American antiques experts
Companies established in 1981
Companies based in Morris County, New Jersey
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mishev%20Bluff
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Mishev Bluff
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Mishev Bluff (, ) is the mostly ice-covered bluff rising to 600 m in Brugmann Mountains on Liège Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. It has precipitous and partly ice-free southwest slopes, and surmounts Zbelsurd Glacier to the north and Pleystor Glacier to the south.
The feature is named after Emil Mishev, geologist at St. Kliment Ohridski base in 2004/05 and subsequent seasons, and base commander during part of the 2006/07 season.
Location
Mishev Bluff is located at , which is 1.42 km west of Pavlov Peak, 2.34 km east by north of Polezhan Point and 1.93 km east-southeast of Disilitsa Point. British mapping in 1980.
Maps
British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 62. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, UK, 1980.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
References
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
Mishev Peak. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
External links
Mishev Bluff. Copernix satellite image
Mountains of the Palmer Archipelago
Bulgaria and the Antarctic
Liège Island
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa%20requirements%20for%20Andorran%20citizens
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Visa requirements for Andorran citizens
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Visa requirements for Andorra citizens are administrative entry restrictions by the authorities of other states placed on citizens of Andorra. As of 2 July 2019, Andorran citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 166 countries and territories, ranking the Andorran passport 21st in terms of travel freedom according to the Henley Passport Index.
Visa requirements map
Visa requirements
Dependent, disputed, or restricted territories
Visa requirements for Andorran citizens for visits to various territories, disputed areas, partially recognized countries and restricted zones:
Non-visa restrictions
See also
Visa policy of Andorra
Visa policy of the Schengen Area
Andorran passport
Foreign relations of Andorra
Notes
References
Andorra
Foreign relations of Andorra
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNCB%20Type%2026
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SNCB Type 26
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The NMBS/SNCB Type 26 was a class of steam locomotives built between 1945 and 1947. Originally commissioned as part of an order for 200 DRB Class 52 Kriegslokomotiven placed by the Deutsche Reichsbahn (DRG) with Belgian locomotive manufacturers in 1943, the 100 members of the Type 26 class were completed for the National Railway Company of Belgium (NMBS/SNCB) following the liberation of Belgium late in 1944.
No members of the class have been preserved. However, the railway preservation organisation TSP-PFT acquired a similar loco in Poland, restored it to resemble its Type 26 counterparts, numbered it 26.101, and now uses it to haul special trains for enthusiasts.
See also
History of rail transport in Belgium
List of SNCB/NMBS classes
Rail transport in Belgium
References
2-10-0 locomotives
Cockerill locomotives
26
Railway locomotives introduced in 1945
Steam locomotives of Belgium
Freight locomotives
Standard gauge locomotives of Belgium
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somalis%20in%20Pakistan
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Somalis in Pakistan
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Somalis in Pakistan are residents of Pakistan who are of Somali ancestry. They are a small community of mainly students as well as some secondary migrants, most of whom arrived after the start of the civil war in Somalia in the early 1990s.
Demographics
The Somali community in Pakistan is very small, comprising around 2,500 immigrants as of late 2012. It comprised 4,000 to 8,000 migrants only a few months earlier, but steadily shrunk in size as Somali immigrants effected a secondary migration to other countries. The majority of Somalis are students pursuing education in various universities across the country.
Besides the majority students, 535 refugees and 37 asylum-seekers were at the time also legally registered with the UNHCR in Islamabad. Almost half of them arrived during the height of Somalia's Islamist insurgency between 2006 and 2009. 10 percent were young children and teenagers, and two percent were born in Pakistan. They formed the largest refugee group in Pakistan after Afghans.
Most Somalis in Pakistan are concentrated in major urban centers like Islamabad and Karachi. A few hundred live in Lahore. Islamabad's G-10 sector is home to several Somali businesses and residents, and is known as "Somali Street".
Community
The Somali community in Pakistan mainly consists of students, as well as some secondary migrants who arrived after the civil war in Somalia broke out in the early 1990s. They are generally a young, educated community, supported by their parents who are based in the Middle East. Others receive remittances directly from relatives in Somalia.
The secondary migrants moved to Pakistan with the ultimate aim of emigrating to North America, Europe and Australia. As of mid-2012, most of the former were legally registered with the UNHCR in Islamabad. The agency offered skills-training programs in English, primary education courses, as well as provisions to cover basic amenities and living expenses. Members of the community sought to improve the quality and consistency of these services by raising their concerns with the relevant authorities. Additionally, the UNHCR issued Proof of Registration (POR) Cards to the secondary migrants in conjunction with NADRA. Others wielded a National Aliens Registration Authority (NARA) Card. A section of the younger generation among this group was born and raised in Pakistan. The expiration of the POR Cards in December 2012 saw a more expedited movement of the transient migrants from Pakistan to other countries.
Somali pupils in Pakistan mostly study engineering, medicine and pharmacy. They typically return to Somalia after having completed their studies due to a lack of employment opportunities for migrants in Pakistan, as well as a desire to contribute to the post-conflict reconstruction process in their home country. Others have moved on to other nations, drawn by the possibility of better work options.
Somali students pursue higher studies in Pakistan due to entry restrictions and the higher cost of education in the Western world. They often do so through the auspices of the local Somalia embassy. The embassy provides scholarship opportunities to the pupils, particularly those in the field of engineering. Students studying medicine pay tuition costs ranging from $1,500 to $3,000 for a five-year term.
A third tier of Somali pupils arrived through individuals and private offices, like many other foreigners. These parties specialize in visa requirements, processing them for a small fee.
Additionally, other Somali students and foreigners in general travel to Pakistan for Tabligh purposes. They mainly migrate for da'wah and receiving religious instruction. Most such students attend local Islamic universities or seminaries with free tuition or low instruction fees.
Organizations
Somalis in Pakistan are diplomatically represented by the Somalia embassy in Islamabad.
Various Somali-run organizations also serve the community. Among these are the Somali Students Union and the Somali Forum.
See also
Pakistanis in Somalia
Pakistan–Somalia relations
References
Immigration to Pakistan
Pakistan
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Mend%20%28film%29
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The Mend (film)
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The Mend is an American comedy-drama film written and directed by John Magary. The film stars Josh Lucas, Stephen Plunkett, Mickey Sumner and Lucy Owen. It premiered at South by Southwest on March 9, 2014, and opened in selected theaters on August 21, 2015.
Plot
The film opens to a seemingly domestic scene involving Mat (Josh Lucas), his girlfriend Andrea (Lucy Owen) and her son from a previous relationship. After a fiery breakup with his girlfriend, Mat is seen wandering the streets of New York with apparently nowhere to go. Meanwhile, Alan (Stephen Plunkett) and his girlfriend Farrah (Mickey Sumner) are caught up in conversation in the aftermath of an ill-fated sexual encounter, preparing for a house party in their small Harlem brownstone apartment. The guests include friends of Farrah from her job working at a New York modern dance company as well as Alan's co-workers from his job as a legal aid lawyer. In the midst of the party, as Farrah tends to guests, she spots Mat seated in the living room and Alan and Mat make eye contact linking the two seemingly separate story lines.
At the party, Alan informs Mat that he is about to leave the next morning with Farrah for a vacation to Quebec, where he intends to propose to his girlfriend. Later in the evening, Earl (Austin Pendleton), a friend of Mat and Alan's father, arrives at the party escorted by a significantly younger, attractive Korean filmmaker. Earl regales the party guests with stories of his adventures in the late 1970s along with Mat and Alan's father including a threesome sexual encounter. The party winds down early the next morning and Farrah awakens to realize that she and Alan are late for their flight. As Alan and Farrah hurry to the airport, Mat awakens in the empty apartment.
Expecting his brother to be gone for two weeks, Mat settles into the apartment making himself at home. Mat explores his new surroundings venturing briefly out into the neighborhood before retreating to his brother's apartment. After injuring his foot on the broken shards of a jar he had dropped earlier, summons his girlfriend Andrea and the two apparently reconcile as she tends to his injury. Andrea, who has been displaced from her apartment as a result of a bed bug infestation brings her son Ronnie (Cory Nichols) to Alan's apartment and the three of them set up house. Mat and Ronnie locate an abandoned television (Alan had previously not had a television in the apartment) on the street and set it up in the apartment shortly before Alan's apartment begins experiencing intermittent power outages.
Alan returns from his vacation alone and much earlier than expected to find his brother and several other guests sleeping in his apartment. Rather than confronting his unexpected guests, Alan passively accepts the presence of the unwanted guests. After Ronnie goes to stay with his father, Mat, Andrea and Alan spend a tumultuous evening together. The next day while walking through Riverside Park, Alan breaks down and confides in Andrea that Farrah had left him during their vacation and he had not been able to propose. Alan also reveals that he is very sad and angry although these attributes are often repressed. Mat grows frustrated by the deepening bond between Alan and Andrea and provokes a confrontation with Andrea that results in her angrily leaving the apartment. Alan restrains Mat who wants to continue berating Andrea as she leaves the apartment.
Later that evening, Alan ventures downtown where he wanders through the Feast of San Gennaro. On his way to meet Mat at a bar with some old friends, Alan gets involved in a fight with three rowdy men on the street. Alan arrives at the bar with a noticeable bruise on his face. The evening descends into drunken and drug-fueled debauchery. Mat and Alan traipse through St. Nicholas Park, stumbling on a film crew producing what appears to be a 19th-century period piece. The two brothers harass a member of the crew and steal his walkie-talkie before finally making it back to the apartment. Beginning to sober, Alan wonders aloud whether Farrah will return.
The next morning Mat and Alan begin to reach their respective boiling points. Unable to open a locked bathroom door, the brothers begin stabbing at the door with a kitchen knife before turning their aggression on each other. Alan various problems overflow and he briefly sees a visage of his infirmed father before confronting Mat. As Mat and Alan's confrontation is about the come to a head, the door to the apartment opens and Farrah returns. As she talks to Alan, Mat leaves the apartment seemingly without any destination. The film closes and we see that Alan and Farrah are continuing to live together several months later however their interactions appear icy and distant. The film ends with the various characters never having fully resolved the myriad issues in their complex lives that had seemed to be promised by the title of the film.
Cast
Josh Lucas as Mat
Stephen Plunkett as Alan
Mickey Sumner as Farrah
Lucy Owen as Andrea
Cory Nichols as Ronnie
Louisa Krause as Elinor
Austin Pendleton as Earl
Sarah Steele as Sarah
Samantha Sherman as Jodi
Production
Filming for The Mend was completed on location in New York City during October 2013.
The Mend marks the feature film directorial debut of John Magary. Magary had previously directed the 2008 short film The Second Line, which was an official selection at the Sundance Film Festival.
Reception
The Mend was one of 8 films selected from among 1,324 submissions to premiere at the SXSW Film Festival in March 2014.
It has a score of 78% on Rotten Tomatoes and a score of 76 out of 100 on Metacritic. The film was profiled by Time as one of top 10 films at the 2014 SXSW Film Festival and received a series of favorable reviews from critics. The film's script is noted for its "good ear for conversational dialogue [and] a real knack for creating a lived-in vibe".
The Hollywood Reporter called the film "a convincing and refreshingly indirect examination of handed down emotional flaws" and noted that "Josh Lucas offers one of his strongest performances to date." Also held out for praise was the film's "edgy vibe enhanced by the string section performing Judd Greenstein and Michi Wiancko's modernist score."
References
External links
The Mend (Facebook)
2014 films
Films shot in New York City
2014 comedy-drama films
American comedy-drama films
2014 directorial debut films
2010s English-language films
2010s American films
English-language comedy-drama films
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highpoint%20%28film%29
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Highpoint (film)
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Highpoint is a Canadian 1982 action comedy-thriller film directed by Peter Carter and starring Richard Harris, Christopher Plummer and Beverly D'Angelo.
The film was shot on location in Montreal and Toronto, and is perhaps best remembered for its climax atop CN Tower, in which stuntman Dar Robinson (doubling for Plummer) makes the 700-foot jump in freefall, protected only by a hidden parachute.
The film underwent a lengthy and troubled post-production period. Originally filmed in 1979 as a comedic thriller in the vein of North by Northwest, the film was shelved for two years during which extensive reshoots took place. The film was given a limited release in Europe in 1982. Due to negative critical and audience reception concerning its convoluted plot and poor pacing, the film was heavily re-edited by North American distributor New World Pictures, removing much of the comedy and replacing John Addison's original score with one by Christopher Young. This version was released in theaters in 1984, and provided the basis for future home video releases.
Plot
Lewis Kinney is an accountant who goes to work for a wealthy family, the Hatchers. James Hatcher has embezzled $10 million from the mafia and the CIA, and now they are both seeking him. Kinney falls for James' sister Lise and is pursued by two bumbling henchman, Centino and Falco. He eventually outwits them.
Cast
Richard Harris as Lewis Kinney
Christopher Plummer as James Hatcher
Beverly D'Angelo as Lise Hatcher
Kate Reid as Mrs. Hatcher
Peter Donat as Maronzella
Robin Gammell as Banner
Saul Rubinek as Centino
Maury Chaykin as Falco
George Buza as Alex
Production
The film was based on a script by Richard Guttman, who was a partner in a Hollywood public relations film. It was originally to star Richard Harris and Katherine Ross. Ross was replaced by Beverly D'Angelo.
Filming started 30 July 1979. The movie was financed by Canadian money, raised under tax concessions which led to the Canadian film boom at the time.
The movie was reportedly so bad that another $2 million was spent on re-editing.
Proposed Follow Up
Harris and Plummer were to appear in another Canadian film, The Burning Book but only $3 million of the $7 million budget could be raised.
References
External links
IMDB
1982 films
1980s action comedy films
Canadian action comedy films
1980s comedy thriller films
English-language Canadian films
Films directed by Peter Carter
Films scored by John Addison
Films scored by Christopher Young
New World Pictures films
1982 comedy films
1980s English-language films
1980s Canadian films
English-language action comedy films
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martinsville%20Novelty%20Corporation%20Factory
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Martinsville Novelty Corporation Factory
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The Martinsville Novelty Corporation Factory is a historic factory complex located at Martinsville, Virginia. The main factory was built in 1929, and is a long, three-story, brick building that was constructed for the purpose of manufacturing small pieces of furniture called "novelty" pieces in the furniture trade. Associated with the main factory are the contributing wood storage area and the kilns where the wood was dried; a long, metal Quonset hut; a railroad spur and trestle; a long concrete-block and frame storage building; and a small, rectangular, brick building that at one time housed a restaurant that served the employees of Martinsville Novelty and W. M. Bassett Furniture factory. The Martinsville Novelty Corporation was the last significant furniture concern established in Martinsville before the Great Depression. The factory closed in 1995.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.
References
Defunct furniture manufacturers
Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
Industrial buildings completed in 1929
Buildings and structures in Martinsville, Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Martinsville, Virginia
Furniture companies of the United States
Defunct manufacturing companies based in Virginia
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41041783
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo%20Capezzi
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Leonardo Capezzi
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Leonardo Capezzi (born 28 March 1995) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for club Carrarese.
Club career
Capezzi is a youth exponent from Fiorentina. He made his professional debut at 7 November 2013 in a Europa League game against Romanian side CS Pandurii Târgu Jiu. He replaced defender Facundo Roncaglia after 80 minutes and helped Fiorentina come back from 0–1 to a 2–1 away win. On 1 September 2014, he moved on loan to Varese. On 26 June 2015, he returned to Fiorentina.
On 18 August 2015, he moved on loan to Crotone with option to ransom and against ransom for Fiorentina. The following year Sampdoria bought him, but he rejoined Crotone on loan.
On 3 August 2018, Capezzi joined to Empoli on loan until 30 June 2019.
On 2 September 2019, Capezzi joined Spanish side Albacete on loan with an option to buy. On 30 January 2020, Sampdoria terminated the loan to Albacete and sent him on loan to Salernitana.
On 29 September 2020, he joined Salernitana on permanent deal.
On 30 January 2023, Capezzi signed with Perugia until the end of the 2022–23 season, with an option to extend for two more years.
International career
Capezzi made his debut with the Italy U21 side on 2 June 2016, in a friendly match against France.
References
External links
1995 births
Living people
Men's association football midfielders
Italian men's footballers
Italy men's under-21 international footballers
Italy men's youth international footballers
Serie A players
Serie B players
Segunda División players
ACF Fiorentina players
SSD Varese Calcio players
UC Sampdoria players
FC Crotone players
Empoli FC players
Albacete Balompié players
US Salernitana 1919 players
AC Perugia Calcio players
Carrarese Calcio players
Italian expatriate men's footballers
Italian expatriate sportspeople in Spain
Expatriate men's footballers in Spain
Footballers from the Metropolitan City of Florence
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir%20Cosse
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Vladimir Cosse
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Vladimir Cosse (born 30 September 1967) is a former Moldovan international footballer, retired in 2002.
International goals
References
External links
Profile at scoreshelf.com
1967 births
Living people
People from Chernogorsk
Moldovan men's footballers
Soviet men's footballers
Moldova men's international footballers
Moldovan people of Greek descent
Ukrainian emigrants to Moldova
Men's association football forwards
PFC CSKA Moscow players
FC Lokomotiv Moscow players
FC Zirka Kropyvnytskyi players
MFC Mykolaiv players
SC Tavriya Simferopol players
CS Tiligul-Tiras Tiraspol players
Moldovan Super Liga players
FC Tobol players
FC Spartak Vladikavkaz players
FC Shinnik Yaroslavl players
FC Presnya Moscow players
FC Avangard Kursk players
FC Salyut Belgorod players
Sportspeople from Khakassia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WJZS
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WJZS
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WJZS (106.1 FM) is a Fox Sports Radio–affiliated sports–formatted
radio station licensed to Live Oak, Florida, United States, and also serving nearby Lake City. The station is owned by Southern Stone Communications as part of a conglomerate with Live Oak–licensed News Talk Information station WQHL (1250 AM), Live Oak–licensed country music station WQHL-FM (98.1 FM) and Five Points–licensed hot adult contemporary station WCJX (106.5 FM). WJZS is also sister to two Lake City–licensed stations, News Talk Information WDSR (1340 AM) and classic hits WNFB (94.3 FM) through a local marketing agreement with their owner Newman Media, Inc.
History
The station went on the air as WLVO on September 6, 1991. On August 31, 2004, the station changed its call sign to DWLVO, and on August 2, 2007, back to WLVO. The station, which at the time broadcast a classic hits format, quit on January 14, 2012, after station owner Leon Pettersen, due to illness, was not able to operate the station to FCC requirements.
On January 4, 2013, WLVO returned to the air with a contemporary Christian format. On October 1, 2013, the station changed its call sign to the current WJZS. Effective October 1, 2014, WJZS was sold to Newman Broadcasting, Inc. for $2,500.
Effective February 1, 2018, Newman Broadcasting sold WJZS to current owner Southern Stone Communications for $5,000.
WJZS previously broadcast a News Talk Information format in simulcast with Lake City–licensed and Fred Dockins–owned WJTK (96.5 FM). That has since been swapped for a sports radio format.
Programming
WJZS is primarily an affiliate of Fox Sports Radio, airing many of its programs, including The Dan Patrick Show and The Herd with Colin Cowherd. The station also airs a regional sports morning show, Miller and Moulton, from the Florida Sports Network. WJZS also airs Jacksonville Jaguars NFL games via the Jaguars Radio Network and Florida State Seminoles football games from the Seminole Sports Network.
References
External links
JZS
Sports radio stations in the United States
Fox Sports Radio stations
Radio stations established in 1991
1991 establishments in Florida
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bledjan%20Rizvani
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Bledjan Rizvani
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Bledjan Rizvani (born 2 July 1985 in Durrës) is an Albanian professional footballer who most recently played as a goalkeeper for Albanian club Erzeni Shijak.
Club career
Teuta Durrës
Rizvani was promoted to Teuta Durrës in the second part of 2002–03 season, failing to make a professional debut. In the next two seasons, he was sent on loan at Erzeni Shijak where he made 42 league appearances. Rizvani returned to Teuta in the summer of 2005 but made his debut only in the 2008–09 season where he collected 4 league appearances. He had his breakthrough season in 2009–10 season where he was the starting keeper, playing 16 matches and keeping 5 clean sheets.
Rizvani was distinguished for his performances in the 2011–12 season, as Teuta lost the championship to Skënderbeu Korçë for only one point. In July 2012, he was able to make his European debut as he played in both matches of 2012–13 UEFA Europa League first qualifying round against Metalurgi Rustavi as Teuta was eliminated 9–1 on aggregate.
In 2013 he was named the new captain of the team, replacing Arjan Sheta.
Bylis Ballsh
On 16 January 2017, Rizvani, after serving for 11 years, terminated his contract with Teuta and on the same day signed with Bylis Ballsh. The main reason of his departure was the limited time of playing he got in the recent seasons after losing his spot to Shpëtim Moçka.
Erzeni Shijak
In July 2017, Rizani returned to Erzeni Shijak but this time on permanent transfer. His made his first appearance of the season on 16 September in the 4–1 home win over Korabi Peshkopi, suffering an injury in the 61st minute which required substitution as he was unable to continue to play.
Personal life
Rizvani married his partner Marsida in May 2014.
Honours
Club
Teuta
Albanian Superliga: Runner-up 2006–07, 2011–12
Albanian Cup: Runner-up 2006–07
Individual
Albanian Superliga Player of the Month: October 2013
References
External links
1985 births
Living people
Footballers from Durrës
Albanian men's footballers
Men's association football goalkeepers
KF Teuta Durrës players
KF Erzeni players
KF Bylis players
Kategoria Superiore players
Kategoria e Parë players
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WLVO
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WLVO
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WLVO may refer to:
WLVO (FM), a radio station (95.5 FM) licensed to serve Providence, Rhode Island, United States
WLVO-LD, a low-power television station (channel 26, virtual 21) licensed to serve Cumming, Georgia, United States
WKHW (FM), a radio station (88.5 FM) licensed to serve Halifax, Pennsylvania, United States, which held the call sign WLVO in 2017
WFFY, a radio station (98.5 FM) licensed to serve San Carlos Park, Florida, United States, which held the call sign WLVO from 2014 to 2017
WJZS, a radio station (106.1 FM) licensed to serve Live Oak, Florida, which held the call sign WLVO from 1991 to 2013
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41041819
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scuffle%20Hill
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Scuffle Hill
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Scuffle Hill is a historic home located at Martinsville, Virginia. It was built between 1917 and 1920, and it occupies the shell of an earlier house, built in 1905, which was gutted by fire in 1917. It is a two-story, brick mansion with a gable roof with dormers, two-story polygonal window bays, a poured concrete foundation, and granite belt courses. The front facade features a Doric order portico in the Colonial Revival style. The original house was built by tobacco magnate Col. Pannill Rucker and rebuilt and later owned by the Rives Brown family, and subsequently by the Pannill family, owner of Pannill Knitting. The home later became the parish house of Christ Episcopal Church. The home is named for the first plantation in Henry County, Virginia of Revolutionary War hero General Joseph Martin, who called his first acreage "Scuffle Hill," as he said he had to scuffle to come up with the money for it.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. It is located in the East Church Street-Starling Avenue Historic District.
References
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
Houses completed in 1920
Colonial Revival architecture in Virginia
Houses in Martinsville, Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Martinsville, Virginia
Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in Virginia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunbeam%20%28band%29
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Sunbeam (band)
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Sunbeam is a German electronic music project. The band consists of Florian Preis (born 1972 in Bensheim) and Michael Gerlach (born 1973 in Tehran). Since 1992 they have made progressive dance/trance-productions and remixes.
Their biggest hit "Outside World" (1994) is a hard trance track containing two vocal samples from the anime film Akira ("You know we aren't meant to exist in the outside world" and "I came to get you").
Discography
1994
E.P. of High Adventure (CD)
Outside World E.P. (vinyl/single)
Outside World (Mixes) (vinyl/single)
Sunbeam EP (vinyl in Italy)
1995
Love is Paradise (vinyl/single)
Out of Reality (CD/album - USA only)
1996
Arms Of Heaven (vinyl/single)
1997
Dreams (vinyl/single)
Out of Reality (US-album)
1998
Lost In Music (promo-vinyl)
1999
Outside World (vinyl/single)
2000
Versus (Tomcraft vs. Sunbeam) (vinyl/single)
Wake Up (vinyl/single)
2001
Do It (vinyl/single)
One Minute In Heaven (vinyl/single)
Lightyears (album)
2003
Watching the Stars (vinyl)
2004
Low Gravity (vinyl)
2019
Outside World (with Le Shuuk)
References
External links
Official Website
Artist-Site Kontor Records
German trance music groups
Musical groups established in 1992
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fufu%20machine
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Fufu machine
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A fufu machine is a kitchen appliance used to pound cooked starchy vegetables, particularly cassava, plantains, or yams, into the West and Central African staple food fufu.
Fufu machines can achieve the fine, dough-like, pasty texture of fufu in about one minute; traditional hand-pounding methods generally required at least 30 minutes for the same result.
Development
The first fufu machine was developed in 2004 by Ghanaian electrical-equipment dealer Fadegnom Charles, who produced small numbers of electric fufu machines for local consumption. A mass-marketable design by a team led by Professor Kwadeo Kesse, Dr Lawrence Ansong and R.E Doddoo at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) was released shortly thereafter. The machine saw significant adoption in both homes and small businesses in Accra by 2014.
In 2017, a Togolese entrepreneur named Logou Minsob successfully invented the model Foufoumix which allows for efficient mixing of the fufu into a well-set texture and consistency.
References
Cooking appliances
Ghanaian cuisine
Togolese cuisine
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Brakey
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Eric Brakey
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Eric Brakey (born August 8, 1988) is an American politician in the U.S. state of Maine.
Brakey was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and grew up in the greater suburb of Shaker Heights, Ohio before attending Ohio University, where he studied theater performance. After college, he moved to New York City and worked as a professional actor. A supporter of Congressman Ron Paul, Brakey took a job on his 2012 presidential campaign and moved to Maine.
Brakey was elected to the state senate for district 20 in 2014; the district includes Auburn, New Gloucester, Poland, Minot, and Mechanic Falls. He was re-elected in 2016. Brakey served as chairman of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee.
Brakey was Maine state director for the 2012 Ron Paul presidential campaign; he led Ron Paul's supporters to win a majority of Maine delegate seats to the 2012 Republican National Convention, and won key seats on the Maine Republican state committee and national committee. After working for Paul's 2012 presidential campaign, Brakey led Defense of Liberty PAC, a libertarian political action committee in Maine.
Brakey was the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in 2018, losing to incumbent Senator Angus King with 35% of the vote in a three-way race. In 2020, Brakey sought the Republican nomination for Maine's 2nd congressional district, but placed third in the Republican primary election behind state representative Dale Crafts and Adrienne Bennett. Later that year, he was selected as the Republican candidate for Secretary of State of Maine.
In 2022, Brakey won a third term in the Maine State Senate after four years out of office. He defeated former Maine State Representative Bettyann Sheats.
Ron Paul 2012 presidential campaign
Brakey served as the Maine state director for the 2012 Ron Paul presidential campaign during the events of the 2012 Maine Republican Convention, in which Ron Paul supporters elected a majority of Maine delegates to the Republican National Convention, and took over many key positions in the Maine Republican Party. Bill Nemitz of the Portland Press Herald called this event "the most successful political coup in recent Maine history."
Defense of Liberty PAC
In June 2012, Brakey founded the Defense of Liberty PAC, a libertarian political action committee in Maine. In 2013, the group assigned grades to lawmakers based on their votes on bills they supported (such as legislation to make it legal for Maine residents to carry concealed firearms without a permit) and on bills they opposed (such as legislation to increase the minimum wage). The group designated 10 Republican legislators as "Honor Roll" members for positions aligned with the group, and deemed 21 Democratic legislators and independent Representative Joseph E. Brooks "constitutional threats" for positions opposed to the group.
2014 Maine State Senate campaign
Brakey announced his campaign for Maine state senate in July 2013. His campaign chairman was former State Senator Lois Snowe-Mello. In January 2014, Brakey visited Bitcoin Center NYC to raise money and became "the first candidate in his state to accept campaign donations in bitcoins."
Vita CoCo commercial
In August 2013, during his campaign for the state senate, Brakey gained attention for a commercial he acted in for Vita CoCo coconut water several years earlier. The commercial featured men dancing in Brazilian bathing suits.
Attention to this commercial began when Mike Hein (a former employee of the Maine Christian Civic League) sent video of the commercial to major news outlets in Maine, as well as to Eric Brakey's pastors at East Auburn Baptist Church. In his message, Hein describes Brakey as "dancing around in his underwear in his bedroom, as though he were demon-possessed." Brakey responded, "That's my background, and I'm still doing a lot of acting. I'm an actor, and when I was working professionally in New York City this was a real fun, wonderful opportunity doing a commercial for a national brand." At the time of the controversy, Brakey noted that he was working as an actor with the Lewiston/Auburn Community Little Theatre in an upcoming production of Monty Python's Spamalot, also a comedic piece. Maine political commentator Matthew Gagnon wrote that the incident boosted Brakey's State Senate campaign by providing "free publicity" and "an opportunity to show his personality and good nature to the voters."
State senate tenure (2014–2018)
The American Conservative Union ranked Brakey's voting record as the most conservative in the Maine Senate in 2015 2016, and 2017.
In 2015, Brakey sponsored legislation that eliminated Maine's requirement to obtain a permit to carry a concealed firearm "for legal gun owners who are age 21 or older, and for all military servicemen or servicewomen over 18 years old." The legislation won broad bipartisan support in the House and Senate and was signed into law by Governor Paul LePage. The legislation was supported by the National Rifle Association and the Maine State Police, and opposed by Everytown for Gun Safety, the Maine Chiefs of Police Association, and the Maine Sheriffs' Association.
In 2016, as senate chairman for the Health and Human Services Committee, Brakey negotiated welfare reform legislation, which banned the use of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) funds on purchases of tobacco, liquor, gambling materials, lottery tickets, bail, firearms, vacations, adult entertainment, and tattoos. To enforce this prohibition, penalties for making prohibited welfare purchases include required restitution for intentional violations and suspensions of benefits ranging up to three months on the first offense and up to 24 months of suspended benefits on third and subsequent offenses.
Brakey, as chair for the Health and Human Services Committee, was the lead senate sponsor of state "right to try" legislation in 2016, which guarantees terminally ill patients the right to use investigational drugs, treatments, and medical devices that have not yet been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The legislation passed the Maine House and Senate and Governor Paul LePage signed the legislation into law on March 30, 2016, making Maine the 25th state in the nation (and the first in New England) to pass right-to-try legislation.
Brakey was the sole "no" vote in the senate against the creation of the Maine Capital Investment Fund; in floor speeches, he opposed the fund, which directed public funds for a loan program to incentivize large, out-of-state businesses to relocate to Maine.
Brakey has sponsored legislation to eliminate Maine's business income tax, while also eliminating 47 state tax credits or exemptions enjoyed by a number of industries. Brakey referred to these credits and exemptions as "carve-outs" and "corporate welfare"; the measure was opposed by the Maine State Chamber of Commerce.
In 2015, Brakey sponsored legislation to repeal state restrictions on patient access to medical marijuana in hospital and nursing home settings. Brakey also supports the legalization of marijuana for adult use. He supported the Maine Marijuana Legalization (Question 1), a ballot question on the Maine 2016 ballot that legalized adult use marijuana in the state.
Brakey has opposed Medicaid expansion in the Maine senate, questioning the future "solvency of the federal government."
In 2017, Brakey sponsored legislation to increase access to birth control by making it easier for persons with "an outdated birth-control prescription to get the medication as long as certain conditions are met."
He "declined to say whether he would support allowing women who may become eligible under any expansion of Medicaid in Maine to have access to reproductive health services including abortions." This issue has been a contentious one among Maine state legislators, dividing conservative Republicans and Democrats.
Brakey is an opponent of civil asset forfeiture, saying, "The idea that the government can take property from you without trial or due process of law and that you might never be charged or convicted flies in the face of everything this country stands for." He introduced legislation that would have required the owner of a property to be convicted of a crime before the government can forfeit that property; the bill did not pass.
In 2015, Brakey introduced legislation to eliminate cash bail in Maine and replace it with a risk-assessment system that would allow defendants not determined to be a flight risk to be released pending trial. Brakey said that such a policy would save taxpayer funds and protect the civil liberties of defendants; Brakey noted, "about 69 percent of the inmates in Maine jails are those who have yet to go to trial and are unable to post bail."
Brakey has also sponsored legislation to allow the expungement of certain nonviolent criminal records five years after the completion of the sentence, citing legislation signed into law by Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin as his model.
Brakey initially declined to say for who he voted in the 2016 presidential election, saying only that he did not vote for Hillary Clinton. In April 2018, however, Brakey tweeted saying he "proudly voted for Donald Trump and the foreign policy he advocated."
2016 Republican national platform
At the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, Brakey represented Maine on the National Platform Committee. Brakey sponsored several amendments to the platform that were successfully adopted, including a measure that declared support for "Right To Try" legislation, which would allow terminally ill patients to try investigational medicines not approved by the FDA, as well as measures supporting an audit of the Pentagon, the abolishment of the IRS and development of thorium nuclear power. Brakey also sponsored several amendments that were voted down, including a measure that would have declared support for medical marijuana, and another measure that would have condemned U.S. military intervention in Libya and called the "deposing of secular dictators in the Middle East" a "failed policy" that should be ended.
2018 U.S. Senate campaign
In April 2017, Brakey announced his intention to run for U.S. Senate in 2018 against incumbent independent Senator Angus King, who caucuses with the Democrats in the Senate. During the campaign, Brakey sought to appeal to both Trump supporters and to libertarians. King was favored throughout the race, and defeated Brakey by a wide margin in the November election. King received 344,575 votes (54%); Brakey received 223,502 votes (35%), and Democratic nominee Zak Ringelstein received 66,268 votes (10%).
2020 U.S. House campaign
In September 2019, Brakey announced his candidacy for Maine's second district of the United States House of Representatives against incumbent Democrat Jared Golden. Brakey earned early endorsements from several Republicans in Maine's state legislature as well as endorsements from conservative organizations such as Club for Growth and FreedomWorks. He finished with the fewest votes of the 3 Republican primary candidates.
References
External links
Appearances on C-SPAN
1988 births
Living people
21st-century American politicians
21st-century Baptists
American libertarians
American male musical theatre actors
Baptists from Maine
Candidates in the 2018 United States Senate elections
Republican Party Maine state senators
Male actors from Maine
Non-interventionism
Politicians from Auburn, Maine
Politicians from Shaker Heights, Ohio
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeo%20Ro.35
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Romeo Ro.35
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The Romeo Ro.35, IMAM Ro.35 was a single-seat glider built in Italy in 1933.
Design and development
Nicola Romeo was a 20th-century industrialist, remembered mostly through the Alfa-Romeo marque. In the early 1930s his aircraft were manufactured by Meridionali / IMAM - Industrie Meccaniche e Aeronautiche Meridonali, the aeronautical branch of Officine Ferroviarie Meridionali () in Naples; the Ro.35 was constructed by the Officine Mecchaniche Romeo (Mechanical Workshops Romeo).
The Ro.35 was a cantilever high-wing monoplane with the wing mounted on top of the fuselage without dihedral. The one piece wing was built around a single spar and was plywood skinned forward of the spar forming a torsion-resistant D-box. The rest was fabric-covered. In plan the wing was straight-tapered and had rounded tips.
The Ro.35 had a simple rectangular cross-section, wooden framed fuselage, skinned with plywood forward and fabric aft. At the nose the sides curved around but the upper and lower surfaces did not meet, giving the Roma a square nosed side view. The open cockpit was set into the wing leading edge, the pilot protected by a small windscreen. Its rear fuselage tapered in plan to the tail, where a short, narrow fin supported a very curved, tall rudder. The tailplane was mounted on the fuselage at the foot of the fin. It too was narrow and with its elevator was straight-tapered and round tipped. The horizontal surfaces were fabric-covered; all the control surfaces were unbalanced. The curved lower rudder edge left clearance for elevator movement.
The glider was unusual in having the option of a fixed, narrow track wheeled undercarriage, with a steel axle passing through the lower fuselage. This could be discarded in favour of a more conventional skid. There was a small tail skid for use with either option.
The Ro.35 first flew in 1933 and the sole example was used by the Naples gliding club, operating from Capodichino. It also visited Poggio Renatico near Bologna.
Specifications
References
Romeo
1930s Italian sailplanes
Glider aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1933
High-wing aircraft
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41041876
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glums%C3%B8
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Glumsø
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Glumsø is a railway town, with a population of 2,114 (1.January 2023), located on the southern part of Zealand in Denmark. Until 1.January 2007 it was the seat of Suså Municipality.
Glumsø Station is located in Glumsø, serving the Sydbanen line. The station was heavily redesigned in late 2009. Before being redesigned it used to serve German ICE trains on the Copenhagen-Hamburg line, although ICE trains now just pass through.
Landmarks
Local landmarks include Glumsø Church, the heritage listed Glumsø Rectory and the manor house Næsbyholm.
Notable people
Christian Frederik Bielke (1670-1709) a Danish military officer, from 1673 to 1709 the owner of Næsbyholm
Mikkel Bech (born 1994 in Næstved) a Danish speedway rider, raised in Glumsø.
References
Cities and towns in Region Zealand
Næstved Municipality
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41041887
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese%20Gold%20and%20Silver%20Exchange%20Society
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Chinese Gold and Silver Exchange Society
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The Chinese Gold and Silver Exchange Society (CGSE; ) is an organisation of gold trading firms in Hong Kong who are participants of the Chinese Gold and Silver Exchange, the first exchange in Hong Kong.
The Chinese Gold and Silver Exchange was established in 1910 and has a history of more than 110 years. CGSE is amongst the few Exchange in the world that has both an open outcry and an electronic precious metals trading platform. It is Hong Kong's only physical Gold and Silver Exchange approved by the government under the Laws of Hong Kong in Article 3(d) of Chapter 82.
The CGSE has 171 corporate members from the precious metals industry representing key stakeholders, which include banks, large jeweler groups, bullion merchants, gold refineries, and financial institutions. The role of CGSE is to provide its members with a venue to facilitate precious metal trading activities and member advisory.
History
The CGSES was formally established as an organisation in 1910. Its founders were immigrants from mainland China. It eventually stopped trading silver, but gold trading saw significant growth after 1974 when the government loosened legal restrictions, and by 1979 trading volume was roughly one million ounces per day, making it one of the world's four largest gold trading centres along with London, New York City, and Zurich.
The history of CGSE has been a long and intriguing, dated back to 1910 when it was called the "Gold and Silver Exchange Company" and rename as Chinese Gold and Silver Exchange Society (“CGSE”) in 1918. In the formative years, a group of banks, notable mentions, Hang Seng Bank Limited and Tai Seng Bank Limited, assembled a place to provide trading for precious metals and foreign currencies, then later fundraised to build a recognized Exchange that outgrowth the money industry in Hong Kong.
Besides its principal business of trading gold and silver, CGSE concurrently engaged in dealing of 89 fine gold, silver dollar in pre-WWII time, and US Dollar, Japanese Yen, Vietnamese Dong, Filipino Peso and Mexican gold nugget in post-WWII time. Slowly with the development and progress of times, it has evolved into gold products with higher fineness standards, such as 99 Gold.
CGSE experienced ups and downs, such as unstable war times, political riots, and fluctuating gold prices, yet the sheer strength was displayed since the 19th century. Noteworthy mentioned was, in January 1980, during the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. The one-day high and low gold prices reached a difference of HK$1,200.00. That day, major gold markets in the world were all suspended, but CGSE was the only gold market in the world that remained open.
A similar situation arises in early February of 1983, during the plummeting oil prices, tightening of the US Federal Reserve's monetary policy, and rising interest rates, and highly volatile gold prices, ultimately leading to the suspension of gold trading in the US and Singapore markets, yet CGSE was still opened.
CGSE has a long tradition of donations and charity services dated back to 1940s. It started in 1948 where the Exchange constructed of a Kam Ngan Swimming Shed for the industry workers and public use, which was closed during the government land reclamation, a few years later. A school was founded in 1949 that offers complimentary educational services for children, including complete subsidies of school tuitions, book supplies, stationeries and lunch meals.
In March 1967, it was approved by the Department of Education and transferred to a government-subsidized school called Po Leung Kuk Gold and Silver Exchange Society Pershing Tsang School. Later in 1952, a clinic called The Chinese Gold & Silver Exchange Society Clinic was founded to provide outpatient healthcare services. Until today, the clinic provides gynaecology and night clinics, dentistry, X- rays, various pathological analysis and laboratory tests, electrocardiogram electrotherapy machines and other types of equipment to its members. CGSE has always worked together with the Government and community partners to improve the quality of life for the people of Hong Kong and provide relief to those in need.
Until today, the Hong Kong Government and CGSE have maintained a mutually respectful and cooperative relationship. CGSE is also the sole exchange in Hong Kong which trades physical gold and silver and operates in pursuance of section 3 of Chapter 82 of Laws of Hong Kong, under which its operation as a commodity exchange is legally exempted.
In politics
Members of the CGSES entitled to vote at its general meetings are one of two categories of persons eligible to register as Financial Services functional constituency electors, the other being exchange participants of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing. This gives them the right to elect a representative to the Legislative Council, as well seats in the Election Committee.
CGSE Accomplishments
CGSE has set up a modernized assay centre that meets international standards and requirements of precious metal industry - "Hong Kong Precious Metals Assay Centre” (HKPMAC). This an independent, wholly-owned laboratory by the Exchange obtained the qualification of the "Hong Kong Laboratory Accreditation Scheme" (HOKLAS) per the internationally recognized ISO/IEC17025 standard. It is an accredited laboratory under the Hong Kong Accreditation Service of the Hong Kong Government.
CGSE is a self-regulated market that regularly reporting to Hong Kong Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau (FSTB). CGSE facilitated the implementation of “Practitioners’ Registration System” and has conducted a course on “Certificate in Gold and Silver Markets” in collaboration with the Hong Kong Securities Institute (HKSI). A "Study Learning Manual" was published to enhance practitioner’s professional knowledge about precious metals markets and reinforced the importance of practitioner’s integrity.
CGSE Mission
CGSE exists to provide investors and gold merchants a gold market with Continuity, Liquidity and Depth that allow full use of gold as an object of investment, speculation, hedging and arbitrage.
See also
Gold as an investment
Silver as an investment
References
External links
The Hong Kong Securities and Investment Institute (HKSI Institute):https://www.hksi.org/en/qualification/practising-qualifications/
Po Leung Kuk Gold & Silver Exchange Society Pershing Tsang School : http://www.plkgspts.edu.hk
Gold in China
Silver
Business organisations based in Hong Kong
Organizations established in 1944
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41041906
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey%20Sumner
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Mickey Sumner
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Brigitte Michael "Mickey" Sumner (born 19 January 1984) is an English actress best known for her film roles as Sophie Levee in Frances Ha (2012) and Farrah in The Mend (2014) and her television roles as Katia on Low Winter Sun (2013) and Bess Till on Snowpiercer (2020). She also portrayed Patti Smith in CBGB (2013).
Sumner is the daughter of actress Trudie Styler and rock musician Sting.
Early life
Sumner was born at Portland Hospital in London, the oldest daughter of musician Sting (born Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner) and actress Trudie Styler. Sumner is the older sister of musician Eliot Sumner and the younger half-sister of musician Joe Sumner.
Career
Sumner began her acting career in 2006 with roles in a series of short films. In 2011, she landed the role of Francesca on the Showtime series The Borgias appearing in four episodes. Sumner garnered significant attention for her role as Sophie Levee, starring opposite Greta Gerwig, in 2012's Frances Ha.
In 2013, Sumner portrayed Patti Smith in CBGB. She also made her official off-Broadway debut opposite Carol Kane in the Atlantic Theater Company's The Lying Lesson in April 2013.
Sumner was featured as Katia on the AMC Network series Low Winter Sun. In 2013, Sumner acted in a series of films including Half the Perfect World, The Mend and Anesthesia.
Sumner starred in the independent film The Mend, alongside Josh Lucas and Stephen Plunkett. The film premiered at the SXSW Film Festival in March 2014.
Personal life
She became engaged to Chris Kantrowitz in June 2016, and they married in Tuscany in July 2017. As of 2019 they have one son, Akira Rogue Kantrowitz (born 31 December 2016). As of 2022, they are formally separated.
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
1984 births
Living people
Actresses from London
21st-century English actresses
English film actresses
English television actresses
Mickey
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41041907
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sepsi
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Sepsi
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Sepsi may refer to:
László Sepsi (born 1986), Romanian footballer of Hungarian descent
Sepsi-78, a football club from Seinäjoki, Finland
ACS Sepsi SIC, a women's basketball club from Sfântu Gheorghe, Romania
Sepsi OSK, a football club from Sfântu Gheorghe, Romania
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41041918
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listed%20buildings%20in%20Audlem
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Listed buildings in Audlem
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Audlem is a civil parish in Cheshire East, England. It contains 25 buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as designated listed buildings. Of these, two are listed at Grade I, the highest grade, one is listed at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II. The major settlement in the parish is the village of Audlem. In the village the listed buildings include churches and cemetery chapels, a former grammar school, a hotel, houses, and a memorial lamp standard. In the surrounding countryside the listed buildings include country houses, farmhouses, farm buildings, and a road bridge. Running through the parish is the Shropshire Union Canal, and the listed structures associated with this are bridges, mileposts and a lock keeper's cottage.
Key
Buildings
See also
Listed buildings in Hankelow
Listed buildings in Buerton
Listed buildings in Adderley
Listed buildings in Dodcott cum Wilkesley
Listed buildings in Newhall
References
Citations
Sources
Listed buildings in the Borough of Cheshire East
Lists of listed buildings in Cheshire
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41041929
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amir%20Mehdi
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Amir Mehdi
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Amir Mehdi (sometimes spelled Amir Mahdi, and also known as Hunza Mehdi; 1913–1999) was a Pakistani mountaineer and porter known for being part of the team which managed the first successful ascent of Nanga Parbat in 1953, and of K2 in 1954 with an Italian expedition. He, along with the Italian mountaineer Walter Bonatti, are also known for having survived a night at the highest open bivouac - - on K2 in 1954.
Nanga Parbat (1953)
In July 1953 a German-Austrian team went for expedition to Nanga Parbat. The expedition was organized by the half-brother of Willy Merkl, Karl Herrligkoffer from Munich, while the expedition leader was Peter Aschenbrenner from Innsbruck, who had participated in the 1932 and 1934 attempts. Hermann Buhl, one of team member made it to the top and became first person to reach the summit. He was assisted by two high altitude porters from Hunza, Amir Mehdi and Haji Baig. They later helped Buhl during his descent, when he was caught by frostbite and lost his crampon.
K2 (1954)
During the Italian expedition, he and Walter Bonatti were stranded by Achille Compagnoni and Lino Lacedelli, who wanted to prevent Bonatti from reaching the summit, and were forced to huddle on an ice ledge overnight at , the highest ever open bivouac at the time. As Mehdi was wearing standard army boots, he lost all his toes to frostbite and spent 8 months in hospital recovering from the ordeal.
It was later revealed that Compagnoni had deliberately moved the camp because he wanted to prevent Bonatti and Mehdi from joining the summit bid. Compagnoni apparently feared that Bonatti, who was younger and fitter, was going to steal the limelight, perhaps by climbing without supplemental oxygen. Compagnoni intended for Mehdi and Bonatti to see that the bivouac tent was out of reach, and return to a lower camp, but night fell, and Mehdi was in no condition to climb back down, so the two had to dig into snow for shelter.
Unlike his Italian colleagues, Mehdi hadn't been given proper high-altitude snow boots. He was wearing regular army boots - according to some reports, they were two sizes too small for him. He developed severe frostbite, and was unable to walk by the time he reached base camp. He had to be carried on a stretcher to a hospital in the town of Skardu, where he was given first aid, and transferred from there to a military hospital in Rawalpindi. Doctors had no choice but to amputate all his toes to prevent gangrene from spreading. He was not released from the hospital until eight months later.
When he finally returned home to his village in Hunza, Mehdi put away his ice axe and told his family he never wanted to see it again.
Life and career
Mehdi left mountaineering after the K2 attempt. The Italian government claimed it awarded him a pension, but his son denied this. Amir served briefly as a government servant of Pakistan, before living out the rest of his modest life in his hometown Hassanabad.
Mehdi died of old-age in 1999, in Hunza.
Awards and titles
The Italian government awarded him the rank of cavaliere.
Mehdi also received Italian civilian medal, Al Valor Civile.
Mehdi was given the title of 'Hunza Tiger' for the services rendered during the ascent of Nanga Parbat in 1953.
See also
Nazir Sabir
Ashraf Aman
Samina Baig
Meherban Karim
Hunza Valley
References
Pakistani mountain climbers
1913 births
Place of birth missing
1999 deaths
People from Hunza
People from Gilgit-Baltistan
Ismailis
Pakistani amputees
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41041935
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013%20Red%20Bull%20BC%20One
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2013 Red Bull BC One
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This page provides the summary of Red Bull BC One World Finals South Korea 2013.
On November 30, 2013, the world’s 16 best B-Boys will go head to head in Seoul’s Jamsil Arena to compete for the opportunity to be crowned the Red Bull BC One World Champion in its milestone 10th Anniversary year. After nine months of intense one-on-one battles across six continents, in a record 53 countries, more than 2,000 B-Boys competed to secure a place in the World Final alongside the past eight champions.
In 2013, Red Bull BC One held Cyphers, Regional Finals as well as the World Final. Winners of country Cyphers got the chance to compete in one of six global qualifiers in an attempt to reach the World Final. Following the global Cyphers, the Regional Final season ran from mid-July to mid-September, culminating in the Tenth World Final in late November. Regional Finals were held for the Americas in USA; Eastern Europe in Ukraine; Western Europe in Italy; Latin America in Colombia; Asia Pacific in Japan; and Middle East & Africa in Egypt.
Regional Finals
RBBC1 Latin American 2013 results
Location: Bogota, Colombia
Arex will represent Colombia and the Latin America Region at the World Finals.
RBBC1 North American 2013 results
Location: Houston, United States
Gravity will represent USA and the North American Region at the World Final.
RBBC1 Middle East Africa 2013 results
Location: Amman, Jordan
Lil Zoo will represent Morocco and the Middle East Africa Region at the World Final.
RBBC1 Western European 2013 results
Location: Naples, Italy
Froz will represent Italy and the Western European Region at the World Final.
Menno will represent Netherlands as a Wild Card.
RBBC1 Eastern European 2013 results
Location: Kyiv, Ukraine
Robin will represent Ukraine and the Eastern European Region for the World Finals.
RBBC1 Asia Pacific 2013 results
Location: Fukuoka, Japan
Nori will represent Japan and the Asia Pacific Region for the World Finals.
Taisuke will also represent Japan as a Wild Card.
World Finals
Red Bull BC One will take place in Seoul, Korea on November 30, 2013
Judges
Poe One (Style Elements, USA)
El Niño (Floor Lords, USA)
Ducky (Drifterz, South Korea)
Storm (Germany)
Lamine (Vagabonds, France)
DJ
DJ Lean Rock (USA)
Emcee
Jay Park (South Korea)
2013 Main Event Competitor List
Red Bull BC One 2013 results
Location: Seoul, Korea
Hong10 became the winner of the 10th anniversary of the Red Bull BC One.
References
External links
Red Bull BC One Asia Pacific Finals 2013
Red Bull BC One
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41041941
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nand%20Kishore%20Garg
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Nand Kishore Garg
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Dr. Nand Kishore Garg (born 26 January 1949) is a senior social worker and was MLA of Delhi from Trinagar constituency. He is a National Executive of Bhartiya Janta Party.
Political career
He was elected the Municipal Councillor for Karam Pura Constituency, New Delhi (1983-1989). In 1997, he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary by Delhi's Chief Minister Shri. Saheb Singh Verma. In 1993, he was elected as the MLA from Trinagar constituency, New Delhi. He is recognized and known among the masses for his selfless efforts done for the betterment of the society.
Positions held
Member: -National Executive (Shri L.K. Advani Ji as President, Sh Nitin Gadgari as President, Sh. V. Naidu as president).
Ex. Parliamentary Secretary:- Chief Minister, Govt. of NCT Delhi (1997-1998)
Member Delhi Vidhan Sabha:- Represented Tri Nagar Constituency (Chandni Chowk) in Legislative Assembly, Delhi for 10 years (1993-2003).
Chief Whip BJP:- BJP Legislative Party, Delhi Vidhan Sabha (1998-2003)
Municipal Councillor:- Represented Karam Pura Constituency in Municipal Corporation of Delhi (1983-1990)
President:- Bhartiya Janta Party Delhi, Sadar District (1991). Sh. Vijay Goel worked as Gen. Secretary in his team.
Ex. General Secretary:- Bhartiya Janta Party, Delhi Pradesh for two years.
Former Vice President:- BJP Delhi Pradesh
Convenor:- Delhi BJP Campaigning Committee in 1999 and helped in winning all seven seats for the 1st time.
Ex. Member:- Delhi Vidyut Board (formerly DESU)
Social work
Nand Kishore Garg is a notable social worker and has many noble deeds attached to his name. He held prominent positions in renowned organisations.
Director:- Bharat Prakashan Ltd. (Publisher of Panchjanya and Organiser Weekly)
Founder:- Bharat Lok Shiksha Parishad, (WHICH IS RUNNING OVER 1000 EKAL VIDYALAYS ESPECIALLY IN TRIBAL AREAS OF J&k, H.P. AND U.P.)
Chancellor- Maharaj Agrasen University.
Active Member:- Samkalp (Training for IAS, IPS, IRS etc.).
Founder Chairman:- Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology (Affiliated to GGSIP University)
Founder Chairman:- Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Management Studies
Founder Chairman:- Maharaja Agrasen University, Baddi, H.P.
Founder Chairman:- Shree Agrasen Urban Cooperative T & C Society Ltd. (Having more than 15000 members).
Founder & Chief Patron:- Maharaja Agrasen Hospital, Punjabi Bagh, New Delhi.(360 Beds Ultra Modern Hospital having more than 1100 Trustees).
Vice Chairman:- Maharaja Agrasen Medical College, Agroha, Haryana.
Secretary:- Mukherjee Nyas (Regd.).
Vice- President:- Hindu Shiksha Samittee, Delhi Pradesh.
Trustee:- Shri Bhao Rao Devras Sewa Trust, Lucknow U.P. (Shri A.B. Vajpayee Ji is Founder President of this Trust).
Member Executive:- P.P.J. Saraswati Vihar Residential School, Nainital (Vidyabharti)
Founder & Chairman:- Teerth Vikas Trust, Delhi (Engaged in upkeeping of Goverdhan Parikarma since 1997)
Ex. Member:- Delhi Vidyut Board (formerly DESU)
Ex. Chairman:- Delhi College of Arts & Commerce (D.U.) and Deen Dayal Upadhaya College (D.U.)
References
External links
About Nand Kishore Garg
Nand Kishore Garg on Facebook
1949 births
Living people
Delhi MLAs 2013–2015
Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Delhi
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41041945
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20E.%20Franklin%20%28lawyer%29
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Thomas E. Franklin (lawyer)
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Thomas Emlen Franklin (April 20, 1810 – November 28, 1884) was an American lawyer from Pennsylvania who served two terms as state attorney general.
Personal life and career
Franklin was born in Philadelphia, the son of Walter Franklin and Anne Emlen. His father at the time was serving as state attorney general, and upon his father's appointment to a judgeship in 1811, the family moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Franklin graduated from Yale College in 1828 and was admitted to the bar in 1831, opening an office in Lancaster, where he resided for the rest of his life.
In 1837, he married Serena A. Mayer. They had 11 children. Two sons became lawyers, and two daughters married lawyers.
Franklin was twice appointed attorney general for the state. He was a delegate to U. S. presidential nomination conventions three times (1844, Henry Clay; 1848, Zachary Taylor; 1864, Abraham Lincoln). He declined all offers to be further involved in politics.
In local business, he was a founding director for the Lancaster, Portsmouth, and Harrisburg Railroad Company (later part of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company), a director of the Farmers' National Bank, and president of the Lancaster Fire Insurance Company.
Franklin was active in Episcopalian Church affairs, and in his later years served as chancellor of the diocese for central Pennsylvania.
References
Further reading
External links
1838 portrait by Jacob Eichholtz.
1810 births
1884 deaths
Pennsylvania Attorneys General
Pennsylvania lawyers
Yale College alumni
19th-century American politicians
19th-century American lawyers
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41041994
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumkil%20Church
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Jumkil Church
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Jumkil Church () is a medieval Lutheran church near Uppsala in the Archdiocese of Uppsala in Uppsala County, Sweden.
History and architecture
Jumkil church was built at the beginning of the 14th century, and still retains much of the appearance it received then. Externally, only the Brick Gothic church porch is of later date, being added in the 16th century. Internally, the church received brick vaults in the 15th century, of which those in the choir are decorated with frescos by an unknown medieval master, depicting (among other motifs) the Coat of arms of Sweden and that of Jakob Ulvsson and Sten Sture the Elder.
Several medieval furnishings have been preserved in the church. The oldest is the baptismal font, dating from the late 12th century and thus pre-dating the church itself. It was probably made on Gotland by the master stonemason sometimes referred to as Master Semi-Byzantios. The altarpiece of the church dates from the 1470s. In addition, there are several wooden sculptures of saints housed in the church, including depictions of Mary and Saint Olaf. The triumphal cross dates from circa 1500. The church has a rich collection of church silver, the oldest object dating from the 14th century and including a wine chalice donated to the church by the congregation in gratitude for the peace with Russia in 1721.
The church has an external, wooden bell tower dating from the 18th century.
References
External links
Official site (in Swedish)
Church frescos in Sweden
14th-century churches in Sweden
Churches in Uppsala County
Churches in the Diocese of Uppsala
Churches converted from the Roman Catholic Church to the Church of Sweden
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41041996
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluny%20Castle
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Cluny Castle
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Cluny Castle was originally built c.1604 as a Z-plan castle replacing either a house or small peel tower. Sited in the parish of Cluny, it is south of Monymusk and north of Sauchen in Aberdeenshire, north-east Scotland. Owned by three separate branches of Gordon families over the centuries, it was used to shelter Jacobite rebels in the mid-18th century. Extensive additions were made in 1820 to the design of architect John Smith when it was in the ownership of Colonel John Gordon. Two wings of the castle and the adjoining private chapel were destroyed by fire in 1926, but the damage was restored.
It is a Category A listed building and has been used as a film setting. The grounds are included on the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland and are described as 'Outstanding' in their Artistic and Historical Interest by Historic Scotland.
it remains privately owned by Linzee Gordon family who have employed craftsmen to complete extensive renovations. It is not open to the public but corporate events are hosted there and weddings are held in the chapel.
History
On an unknown date prior to 1325, King Robert the Bruce granted the lands of Cluny (Gaelic meaning meadow or "meadows interspersed with rising grounds") to his sister Mary's husband, Alexander Fraser. The lands passed down through the family, via Adam Gordon of Huntly and the Earls of Huntly, to John Gordon, a younger son of the 3rd Earl. His son Sir Thomas Gordon (d. 1607) built the castle to replace an earlier house or peel tower. The lands were inherited by his son, Alexander Gordon, who became the fourth laird of Cluny. By 1636 the cost of building the castle combined with other financial difficulties caused ownership of the lands to be transferred. The castle had various owners, probably creditors, until 1680, when it became the property of Robert Gordon, of the Gordonstoun branch of the family. It remained in the hands of this family until the mid-18th century.
The Gordons of Cluny were implicated in the Jacobite rising of 1745, and had also incurred debts. This resulted in the castle passing to a third branch of the Gordon family around 1753, although the exact date is unknown. The new proprietor John Gordon (1695–1769) was of obscure origins. He was an Edinburgh merchant as well as a factor to Cosmo Gordon, 3rd Duke of Gordon. John Gordon's son was also named Cosmo Gordon (1736–1800) and he inherited the estate on his father's death in 1769. He was a politician and co-founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He did some work at the castle, although records give no indication of what was involved. Plans for a redesign were commissioned from Robert Adam in 1790 and from his business partner and younger brother James in 1793, though this work was never carried out. Predeceased by his wife, Mary Baillie, Cosmo Gordon died without issue in 1800 and was succeeded by his brother Charles, described by architectural historian H. Gordon Slade as "eccentric and excessively penurious". When Charles died on 8 May 1814, various bequests were made to his children; his eldest son John, later an army colonel and a member of Parliament, inherited Cluny and the remainder of the properties plus £30,000. No money had been spent on the estate during the years it was owned by Charles Gordon.
It was under the ownership of Colonel Gordon that extensive additions were made to the castle, commencing around 1820. He had previously inherited the estates of his uncle, a merchant in West India, and the Colonel continued to extend his fortune, purchasing additional lands including North and South Uist, Benbecula and Barra. The Colonel died in 1858; a description included in his obituaries was "the richest commoner in the northern part of the kingdom." In The Times dated 23 July 1858, his assets were estimated at between £2–3 million and it stated he was "without doubt the richest commoner in Scotland." He was unmarried but had four illegitimate children; all bar his eldest son John (c.1820–1878) predeceased him. Despite a series of litigations lasting 20 years, in 1858 the estates were inherited by his natural son John, who became an Aberdeenshire Militia captain from 29 March 1852. The captain continued the castle renovations and improved the general policies by additions of artificial lakes and woodland.
Captain Gordon also died without issue in 1878. Emily Pringle, his second wife, married Sir Reginald Cathcart becoming Lady Cathcart. The estates were overseen by a trust set up by Colonel Gordon (the Cluny Trust). In September 1926 a fire started in the Servants' Hall kitchens causing extensive damage to two wings of the castle and destroying the private chapel. After Lady Cathcart's death in 1932, the estate passed to Captain Gordon's cousin, Charles Arthur. He adopted the name Linzee Gordon to comply with a stipulation made by Colonel Gordon in a codicil added to his will on 21 June 1852. In an earlier legal document dated 5 October 1835, the Colonel had declared that he wished his illegitimate children to inherit, but he did not intend to marry to facilitate it. The codicil ensured the family name was continued by mandating that any heirs to the estates "shall be bound and constantly obliged to bear, use and retain the surname of 'Gordon' and arms and designation of 'Gordon of Cluny' in all time after their succession to, or obtaining possession of, my said lands and estates, as their proper surname, arms and designation."
Historic Scotland listed the castle as a Category A listed building in April 1971.
Architecture
Construction of the original Z-plan castle was completed in 1604; there is a commemorative stone inscribed "Thom. Gordon a Cluny miles me fecit 1604". The Master Mason Ian (John) Bell (Bel) is attributed with the construction of the original Cluny Castle and nearby Castle Fraser. MacGibbon and Ross attributed Cluny to a date earlier than 1604 and suggested it was similar in design to Claypotts Castle and would date from about the same time.
The Aberdeen City Architect, John Smith was commissioned to undertake an extensive redesign of the castle in the 1820s. Completion of the construction work spanned several years and meant the castle was unsuitable for residential use until 1832. It took until the early 1840s for the work to be finished.
The old castle was cocooned in granite so it blended with the new extensions and its first floor hall became the principal dining room. A clone of the old castle was built towards the east and the two were conjoined by a new building housing the entrance hall, main stairway and gallery corridor. The drawing room and morning room were on the first floor of the replica wing. The ground fell away at the rear of the buildings and an extra basement level was added there. Circular towers arched windows with hood moulds and crenellated parapets above bold corbelling were all incorporated into the design. The pre-existing tower on the west elevation was considerably heightened by the addition of a further tall square tower above it.
Significant parts of the castle were gutted by fire in September 1926. The main house was not damaged but two wings and the chapel were consumed by flames. Restoration work was promptly undertaken – a report in the Aberdeen Journal estimated repairs would be between £60,000 to £70,000. The chapel was reconstructed to resemble its former state and some remodelling of the courtyard wings was carried out.
The later extensions were initially described by architectural historian H. Gordon Slade in 1978 as "the most shocking misuse of architectural effort and granite in the north-east of Scotland." However, in 1981, he amended his opinion stating: "The architectural qualities of the castle as John Smith redesigned it becomes much more apparent and impressive as one becomes better acquainted with them, and – once regret at the loss of the old Cluny is set aside – it is possible to accord the new Cluny the approbation that it merits." A respected archaeologist, Ian Shepherd, characterised it "As fantastical a baronial pile as can be found in eastern Scotland".
Twenty-first century
The castle remains privately owned and was inherited by Cosmo Linzee Gordon, when he reached 18 years of age in 2010.
Some scenes for the film The Queen, starring Helen Mirren, were recorded at the castle, and it has also featured on a variety of UK national television programmes. It is not open to the public although some corporate events, political gatherings, and conferences are catered for. In addition, it can be used as a wedding venue with the ceremony taking place in the private chapel, which can seat up to 100 guests. Overnight accommodation is available for the main guests at weddings.
From 2006, the policies were listed on the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland by Historic Scotland. It is assessed as "outstanding" in the work of art category and receives a high rating in the horticultural, arboricultural and silvicultural categories due to the Wellingtonia trees planted in the 19th century.
During 2016 and 2017, substantial renovations were undertaken: the chapel was repainted; the roof and ceiling above the main staircases in the castle were replaced; turrets redecorated and drainage systems overhauled. Refurbishment work is ongoing but the majority of the restoration has been completed. The renovations have all been funded by the family estate.
References
Notes
Citations
Bibliography
External links
Castles in Aberdeenshire
Category A listed buildings in Aberdeenshire
Listed castles in Scotland
Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FF%20med%20Bert
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FF med Bert
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FF med Bert (Föräldrafritt med Bert, FF, Berttidningen), was a Swedish comic book published between the years of 1993 and 2002. The main comics, Berts dagbok, were created by Johan Unenge and Måns Gahrton, and are based on the Bert Diaries by Anders Jacobsson and Sören Olsson. Bert Ljung's look is similar to the one of the books. Even comic albums were published. In the year 2000 the title was shortened to Bert, and the number of comics increased. Bert Ljung debuted as a comic character in 1993, as a guest comic in the Fantomen (Phantom) comic book.
Even other comics did guest appearances. Except for comics, reports aimed at young people (like interviews with sportspeople or pop and rock stars) were published.
References
Swedish comics
1993 comics debuts
2002 comics endings
1993 establishments in Sweden
2002 disestablishments in Sweden
Comics based on novels
Gag-a-day comics
Fictional diaries
Comics set in Sweden
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41042012
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition-Saving
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Partition-Saving
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Partition-Saving is a disk imaging utility for Linux, Windows and DOS environments that can save disk partitions in one of the several supported disk image formats.
This utility was originally called Savepart but was renamed to avoid conflict with a similarly named OS/2 utility.
Common uses
Some common uses for Partition-Saving are as follows:
Backup of individual disk partitions. Volume backups are very useful for recovery in the case of a disk failure or data corruption
Correction of boot parameters as boot sector content or Windows boot configuration
Features
Partition-Saving has following features:
Backup of any partition types (sector by sector)
Backup of FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, Ext2, Ext3, Ext4 (not all options), NTFS partitions with only occupied sectors (not a file by file backup, but similar in size with keeping disk organization)
Backup of Master boot record, partition table (both MBR and GPT format), FAT boot sector content and superblock
Compression of data
Saving a partition over itself (in case there is only one partition on the disk)
Mount a backup file to extract only some files
Modification of the Windows Registry to force partition drive letter
Modification of some filesystem content: boot sector, Windows multi-boot boot sector, Windows boot configuration, boot sector and superblock backup, bad clusters list
It can be used either through command line, text based or batch processing mode.
Limitations
Partition-Saving has following limitations:
Backup of a running OS is not possible (less for DOS): that means it needs to boot from another OS or from a Live CD (a FreeDOS one is provided) to backup Linux or Windows system partition
When a full backup is performed, restoration can only be done on partition of same size and at same place on disk. You can use Chunauti option to workaround this, but no correction will be done on partition content to reflect this incompatibility (as FAT boot sector content)
When only occupied sectors are saved, restoration can be done on a partition of different size but with limitations on this size
Creating backup files on NTFS drive from DOS (and Linux one if your Linux does not know how to write on NTFS drive) is not available, but modifying an existing file can be used. So if you need it, you can create dummy files from Windows, then use them from DOS to perform the backup
See also
List of disk cloning software
References
External links
Disk images
Disk cloning
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eileen%20Rubery
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Eileen Rubery
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Eileen Doris Rubery CB QHP FRCR FFPHM FRCPath (née McDonnell, born 16 May 1943) is a British academic who has worked in such diverse fields as medical research (at one point Senior Principal Medical Officer of the Department of Health), business and management studies, and presently, art history and history.
She was appointed CB in 1998.
She is a fellow of Girton College, Cambridge.
References
1943 births
Living people
Companions of the Order of the Bath
Fellows of Girton College, Cambridge
Administrators in the National Health Service
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Tante%20DC10%20Restaurant
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La Tante DC10 Restaurant
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La Tante DC10 Restaurant, known locally as The Green Plane, is a public–private partnership restaurant established in Accra. This operates from the defunct Ghana Airways McDonnell Douglas DC-10, which had been in operation as a passenger jet between 1983 and 2005. The restaurant serves staple Ghanaian dishes. The restaurant has been well received locally.
Description
La Tante DC10 Restaurant is a restaurant located inside a converted McDonnell Douglas DC-10 formerly used by the defunct Ghana Airways. Formerly flying 380 passengers, it has been converted into a 118-seat restaurant with large numbers of the seats removed in order to provide adequate space for patrons and for the installation of dining tables. An annex was attached to the right side of the fuselage to accommodate the kitchen.
The airplane itself has been moved to Airport City Accra, a suburb of Accra near to Kotoka International Airport and opposite Marina Mall Accra, with people entering and exiting the plane/restaurant via a covered staircase from ground level. They enter through the former first class seating area, which has been converted into a waiting area. Separate bathrooms have been installed for male and female diners and the restaurant is air-conditioned throughout.
Menu
The restaurant serves Ghanaian cuisine. These include staples such as spiced tilapia, served with banku, a type of maize-based porridge. Other dishes include Jollof rice with chicken, and "red red" black-eyed pea stew with fish. While the prices at La Tante DC10 Restaurant are higher than those normally seen in the local area, the restaurant prices itself lower than the upmarket restaurants elsewhere in Accra.
History
The DC-10 used as the restaurant was formerly owned and operated by Ghana Airways on routes between Ghana and both Europe and the United States. Ghana Airways ordered a DC-10-30 in 1976, with it arriving on 24 February 1983. During July 1985, it was used to fly United Nations troops in and out of Beirut, Lebanon. In January the following year the plane was used under contract from Caribbean Airlines to fly passengers from Europe to the Caribbean twice weekly.
In June 2002, the plane was impounded at London Heathrow Airport, United Kingdom, following unpaid debts of £4 million owned by the national carrier to parts supplier AJ Walters Aviation, causing services between Accra, the UK and Italy to be temporarily suspended. The airline went bankrupt in 2005. Following this, the plane was abandoned and left at Kotoka Airport; over the course of the following years, various parts were sold for scrap, including the three engines.
At the time it was purchased by the wife of the Togolese Minister in 2011, there had been preparations to salvage the plane for its aluminium. The plane was converted and re-opened as a restaurant on 11 November 2013 as a public-private partnership between the Ghana Airport Company Limited and Vindira Company Limited. It is the first time that a plane based restaurant has opened in Africa.
Reception
The restaurant has proved popular with diners; manager Indira Shiyam explained in an interview with BBC News in 2014 that "At first, people wanted to have a feel of restaurant in a plane but surprisingly they keep coming". Some of the diners eat in the restaurant because they have never been inside a plane before, while others were curious about eating in a plane based restaurant.
Ask the Pilot columnist Patrick Smith visited the restaurant in 2016; his review was later published in Business Insider. He said it was cheap and good, but not exceptional. He criticised the "lack of context" given to the restaurant, as he would have enjoyed seeing photos of the plane when it was in use as a passenger jet. Smith said "Many restaurants have long and storied histories, but usually just in one place! Here's a restaurant that has literally been everywhere."
Notes
References
External links
Accra
Companies based in Accra
Ghanaian companies established in 2013
Individual aircraft
Restaurants established in 2013
Restaurants in Ghana
2013 establishments in Ghana
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KNFL
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KNFL
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KNFL may refer to:
KNFL (AM), a radio station (740 AM) licensed to serve Fargo, North Dakota, United States
KNFL (Utah), a defunct radio station (1470 AM) formerly licensed to serve Tremonton, Utah, United States
KDBI (AM), a defunct radio station (730 AM) formerly licensed to serve Boise, Idaho, United States, which held the call sign KNFL from 2013 to 2017
Naval Air Station Fallon (ICAO code KNFL)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20W.%20Todd%20House
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Albert W. Todd House
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The Albert W. Todd House is a historic house at 41 Church St., Charleston, South Carolina. It was built in November 1909 by architect Albert Wheeler Todd for his own family's residence. At the time, Todd was living nearby at 50 Church St., and he was attracted to the lot. Local lore says that he built his house on a dare, challenging the proposition that a house could not be built on a lot 150 feet deep but only 25 feet wide. Although the odd location of the garage entry on the ground floor through the base of the chimney is cited as proof of the tale, Todd's widow denied ever having heard of such a dare. The house is an early example of stucco over wood construction in Charleston.
References
Houses in Charleston, South Carolina
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omid%20Ahangar
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Omid Ahangar
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Omid Ahangar (Persian: امید آهنگر) is an Iranian actor and film director. He is mostly known for his role as "Ali Kouchlou" (Ali the Little) in the 1983 animation for children under the same title.
Omid Ahangar was born on 25 September 1978 in Tehran. He studied literature of drama at Azad University of Arak.
Filmography
Director
TAVAN (2010)
Entezar (2011)
JUST A WISH (2012)
Last Station (2013)
Safe House (2014)
Painting (2015)
Swamp (2015)
Behtarin baba-ye donya (1991)
Ali va ghool-e jangal (1990)
Harim-e mehrvarzi (1984)
Tohfeha (1984)
Sharayete eyny (1985)
Raze cheshmeye sorkh (1992)
gobare marg (1985)
Ali Kocholo (1982)
Eyd Didany (1981)
Baftehaye ranj (acor)
Bache mardom (1981)
ASlahe chobi (1984)
Gole yas (1985)
Hamsayeha (1986)
Medad pakkon
Do Morghabi Dar Meh
Khatereh ha
Gaz
Etefagh
Zire gonbade kabod
Shab Cheragh
Mah O Khorshid
Hampeyman
Topoli
Cheshm cheshm do abro
Aziz khanom
Majara
KHastegary Por Majara
Rozhaye akhar
Aks daste jami
Zawiye
Tope gerd
Khaneye mehr
Paeez laleha
Mosafere zaman
Dayere tardid
Fasle zard
Ahoye Mahe nohom
Razo NIaz
Panjomin Nafar
Vapasin Koch
Sere Eshgh
Botimar
Ayeneh
Aftabe Sard
Game Akhar
Hozor
Golestane jang
Eynam ye Joreshe
Khat shekan
Dehkhoda
Sisakht
Shibe Tond
Shabe Sarbaz
Khate Barik
Daftar Dar
Tolo
Dena
Ta Hozor
Bazgasht
Neshani
References
External links
Interview with Omid Ahangar, 2005 (IRIB)
Persian Star is in Netherlands as an asylum seeker
Jomhouriat Interview with Omid Ahangar (in Persian)
1978 births
Male actors from Tehran
Iranian male television actors
Iranian male film actors
Living people
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert%20%28TV%20series%29
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Bert (TV series)
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Bert is a Swedish television series with 12 episodes, based on the Bert Diaries by Anders Jacobsson and Sören Olsson, and originally airing over SVT each Saturday evening during the period of 1 October-17 December 1994. It was directed by Tomas Alfredson and Svante Kettner. The theme song was performed by Lill-Babs, and called "Älskade ängel". Another song regaining revival with the TV series was Sven-Olof Sandberg's 1938 success "Är det så här när man är kär".
The plot is based on the Bert Diaries, but just like in the comics, the story opens in the 6th grade, not the 5th like in the books.
Episodes
Närkontakt i sjätte klassen
Den ohyggligt fule
Erik the Great
Det viktiga är inte att kämpa väl utan att vinna
Min älskling du är som en tulipan
Fega pojkar får ibland kyssa vackra flickor
Sjön suger
Hjärnsläpp
Fina, fina Paulina
Klimpen, min allra bästa vän
Sådan far, sådan son
Ett långt och lyckligt liv
Home video
The series was released to VHS in 1995 on six VHS tapes by Sandrew film consisting of two episodes on each tape, and by Sandrew in 1999 to DVD with three discs each one consisting of four episodes, and in 2011 the entire series was released on one single DVD disc.
The home video release saw much of the music being replaced because of high costs for the rights to many of the songs.
Video releases
VHS
DVD
About the series
The square often seen in the series is in real life Central Årsta in Southern Stockholm, while the apartment buildings were shot in Hagalund. When the Heman Hunters perform, Martin Andersson (portraying Bert) sings in-universe, while the recorded voice is from Oliver Loftéen (portraying Åke) . A minor role was played by Sarah Dawn Finer.
Lill-Erik was originally intended to domesticate an elk in the episode "Fina, fina Paulina" , but when domesticated elk was around, he instead domesticate an elephant on the run from a circus.
References
External links
The show at SVT's open archive
1994 Swedish television series debuts
1994 Swedish television series endings
Swedish children's television series
Television shows based on children's books
Television shows set in Sweden
1990s Swedish television series
Television shows filmed in Sweden
Television series about teenagers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Leigh%20Murray
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Henry Leigh Murray
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Henry Leigh Murray (1820–1870) was an English actor.
Early life
Murray was born in Sloane Street, London, 19 October 1820, with the surname Wilson. While a clerk in a merchant's office he made a start on amateur acting, in a small theatre in Catherine Street, Strand, his first appearance being about 1838 as Buckingham in King Richard III. Other Shakespearean parts followed, and on 2 December 1839, under Hooper, manager of the York circuit, he made his professional debut at Kingston upon Hull, playing Ludovico in Othello. On 17 September 1840, as Leigh (perhaps to avoid confusion with his manager) he appeared at the Adelphi Theatre, Edinburgh, under William Henry Murray, as Lieutenant Morton in The Middy Ashore by William Bayle Bernard. Occasionally visiting other Scottish towns, he remained in Edinburgh, at the Theatre Royal or the Adelphi, till the spring of 1845. Among the characters he played were Dr. Caius, Jan Dousterswyvel in The Lost Ship by William Thompson Townsend, Hotspur, and Mark Antony as his farewell to the Edinburgh stage.
The London stage
Murray's first appearance in London took place at the Princess's Theatre under J. M. Maddox on 19 April 1845, as Sir Thomas Clifford in The Hunchback by Sheridan Knowles, with Lester Wallack in the lead, Charlotte Cushman as Julia and Walter Lacy playing Lord Tinsel. He played Bassanio, Orlando, and Leonardo Gonzaga, and was the original Herman Lindorf in James Kenney's Infatuation, and Malcolm Young in James White's King of the Commons. He was also Icilius to William Charles Macready's Virginius, in the Virgilius of Knowles, and De Mauprat to his Richelieu, in the Richelieu of Bulwer Lytton.
With Macready, Murray went, in the autumn of 1846, to the Surrey Theatre, where he played secondary characters in Shakespeare and Loveless in The Relapse. On the recommendation of Charles Dickens he was chosen at the Lyceum Theatre to play Alfred Heathfield in Albert Richard Smith's adaptation of The Battle of Life. At the Lyceum he remained under the Keeley and the Mathews managements. His Marquis de Volange in the Pride of the Market (James Robinson Planché) won recognition.
In Dublin in 1848 Murray supported Helen Faucit. Leaving the Lyceum for the Olympic Theatre, he became stage-manager under Joachim Hayward Stocqueler, and then under Spicer and Davidson. There he played character parts in pieces then in vogue, such as Time Tries All (John Courtney), and His First Champagne (William Leman Rede). In the theatricals given during 1848 and 1849 at Windsor Castle he played Lorenzo in the Merchant of Venice, Laertes, Octavius in Julius Caesar, and Gustavus in Charles XII (James Robinson Planché). Murray accompanied William Farren, whose stage-manager he became, to the Strand Theatre, and back to the Olympic. He supported Gustavus Vaughan Brooke as Iago, and Wellborn in A New Way to pay Old Debts.
Murray accompanied Benjamin Webster to the Adelphi Theatre, where on 1 April 1853 he played in Mark Lemon's farce Mr. Webster at the Adelphi, and made an impression, 10 October 1853, in Webster's Discarded Son, the first of many adaptations of Un Fils de Famille (Bayard and De Bieville). On 20 March 1854 he was Sir Gervase Rokewode in Two Loves and a Life, by Tom Taylor and Charles Reade, and on 31 May was first Raphael Duchatelet in the Marble Heart, Charles Selby's adaptation of Les Filles de Marbre (Théodore Barrière and Lambert-Thiboust). In September he left the Adelphi, and the next year was at Sadler's Wells Theatre.
On 4 November 1856 Murray reappeared at the Adelphi as Sir Walter Raeburn in the Border Marriage (Un Mariage à l'Arquebuse, by Léon Guillard). On 8 March 1858 he was, at Drury Lane Theatre, the first M. Bernard in Stirling Coyne's Love Knot. As John Mildmay in Still Waters run deep (Tom Taylor) he reappeared at the Lyceum on 7 August 1859, and played subsequently M. Tourbillon in To Parents and Guardians (Tom Taylor), and Claude Melnotte (in The Lady of Lyons by Bulwer Lytton). On 9 November he enacted at St James's Theatre the original Harrington in James Kenney's London Pride, or Living for Appearances.
Later life
A benefit was given for Murray at Drury Lane on 27 June 1865, when he was in failing health. Representations were given by various London actors, Murray and his wife delivering a duologue written by Shirley Brooks.
Murray died 17 January 1870 and was buried in Brompton cemetery. He was a member of the Garrick Club.
Family
Murray married in 1841 Elizabeth Lee, a member of the Edinburgh company, and the second daughter of Henry Lee; she later appeared as Mrs. Elizabeth Leigh Murray, and died in 1892.
Murray's younger brother, Gaston Murray (1826–1889), real name Garstin Parker Wilson, first appeared in London at the Lyceum on 2 March 1855 as Tom Saville in Used Up, played in various theatres, and tried some of his brother's parts. He died 8 August 1889. His wife, Mary Frances, known as Mrs. Gaston Murray, daughter of Henry Hughes, of the Adelphi Theatre, also acted. On 24 May 1889, at the opening of the Garrick Theatre, she was the original Mrs. Stonehay in Arthur Pinero's The Profligate. She died on 15 January 1891.
Notes
Attribution
1820 births
1870 deaths
Male actors from London
English male stage actors
19th-century English male actors
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern%20Great%20Lakes%20forests
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Southern Great Lakes forests
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The Southern Great Lakes lowland forests is a temperate broadleaf and mixed forest ecoregion of North America, as defined by the World Wildlife Fund. Located near the Great Lakes, it lies mostly in the central northeastern United States and extends into southeast central Canada. In modern times, little of it remains intact due to land use, including agriculture and urban uses.
Setting
This area includes the southern half of Michigan's Lower Peninsula, and much of Indiana and Ohio. It also extends through the southern half of Southwest Ontario from Windsor to Toronto and into Pennsylvania and New York on the southern rims of lakes Erie and Ontario.
This region is characterized by warm-to-hot summers and mild-to-cold, snowy winters.
Flora
This ecoregion is associated with the temperate deciduous forest to the south and thus contained a variety of habitats including freshwater marshes, dunes, bogs, fens, and hardwood and conifer swamps.
Fauna
The Southern Great Lakes forests were very rich in wildlife. Birds include cardinals, downy woodpecker, wood duck and eastern screech owl. Large mammals including American black bear (Ursus americanus), moose (Alces alces), Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis), cougar (Puma concolor), caribou (Rangifer tarandus), elk (Cervus canadensis) and eastern wolf (Canis lycaon) have been mostly or completely extirpated from this ecoregion; remaining mammals include white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), coyote (Canis latrans), snowshoe hare (Lepus americanus), eastern chipmunk (Tamias striatus), American red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) and eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis).
Threats and preservation
Because of extensive urbanization and agricultural use very little of this habitat remains intact.
See also
List of ecoregions in Canada (WWF)
List of ecoregions in the United States (WWF)
References
External links
Central U.S. hardwood forests images at bioimages.vanderbilt.edu
Southern Great Lakes forests
Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests in the United States
Ecoregions of the United States
Flora of the Great Lakes region (North America)
Plant communities of New York (state)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Organization%20of%20Russian%20Muslims
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National Organization of Russian Muslims
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The National Organization of Russian Muslims (NORM) is an organization of the Russian Muslims, founded in 2004 on the basis of Russian Muslim communities of Moscow (Banu Zulkarnain), Yoshkar-Ola (Tsaryovokokshaysk Community of Russian Muslims), Omsk and Almaty.
History
On 11–13 June 2004 in Omsk the first founding congress was held with the initiative of Vadim Sidorov (Harun ar-Rusi). Abu Talib (Anatoliy Stepchenko) from Omsk, who converted to Islam in 1990, was elected as a chairman.
In 2005 the Russian Muslims’ communities of Saint-Petersburg and Rostov-on-Don also merged with THE NORM. The members of the Organization created the Cultural-educational center “Proponents of Tradition and Unity”, which aimed to increase Dawah among ethnic Russians and interactions with other ethnic-national Muslim communities.
There was a shift from acute controversy to cooperation with the former priest of Russian Orthodox Church, now well-known Islamic scholar Vyacheslav Polosin.
At the same time the interactions with Geydar Dzhemal, whom the opponents of the Organization were usually referring as the founder of the NORM, were stopped.
In 2006 in the next congress of the NORM it was decided that Shias cannot be members of the Organization and it was offered to all Shia members to accept Orthodox Islam or to leave the Organization. No exceptions were made even for some executives of the NORM. It was decided to transfer the infrastructure of the Cultural-educational center “Proponents of Tradition and Unity”, to Azerbaijani Sunni community.
In 2007 there was the first contact between the NORM and Murabitun World Movement and its leader Abdalqadir as-Sufi. The representatives of the NORM visited Cape Town. In 2007 Russian Muslims’ community of Kirov also entered to the Organization.
Until 2008 the NORM was the proponent of the Salafi theology. In 2008 it was decided to shift to the classical Ashari School of Theology and Maliki madhab. The contacts with the Murabitun World Movement were widened. The leaders of the German and Spanish Muslim communities visited Moscow. Some changes were made in the Articles of association of the Organization — individual membership to the NORM changed to the collective membership.
In 2010 the delegation of the NORM took part in the Musamma (annual conference) of the Abdalqadir as-Sufi’s students in Cape Town, also held Shura (Conference) there. Some changes were made in the National Council of the NORM.
In 2011 the Organization became an international NGO. All activity in the previous format was stopped. Some communities, leaders and members of the NORM took part in Russian Islamic Movement.
In 2012 communities of the NORM in Moscow and Saint-Petersburg actively took part in Russian opposition protests.
Despite the effort of some opponents to link the activity of the NORM to the extremist activity of some newly converted Russian Muslims, the National Organization of Russian Muslims, its leaders and members have never been accused of extremism, never been sued or wanted for such allegations.
NORM positions itself as a base for creation of a new sub-ethnic group — Russian Muslims.
References
Islamic organizations based in Russia
2004 establishments in Russia
Islamic organizations established in 2004
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal%20Agency%20on%20Atomic%20Energy%20%28Russia%29
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Federal Agency on Atomic Energy (Russia)
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Ministry for Atomic Energy of the Russian Federation and Federal Agency on Atomic Energy (or Rosatom), were a Russian federal executive body in 1992–2008 (as Federal Ministry in 1992–2004 and as Federal Agency in 2004–2008).
The Ministry for Atomic Energy of the Russian Federation (), or MinAtom (), was established on January 29, 1992 as a successor of the Ministry of Nuclear Engineering and Industry of the USSR.
On March 9, 2004, it was reorganized as the Federal Agency on Atomic Energy.
According to the law adopted by the Russian parliament in November 2007, and signed by the President Putin in early December, the agency was transformed to a Russian state corporation (non-profit organisation), the Rosatom Nuclear Energy State Corporation.
Heads
Viktor Mikhaylov (1992-1998)
Yevgeny Adamov (1998-2001)
Alexander Rumyantsev (minister) (2001-2005)
Sergey Kiriyenko (2005-2007)
See also
Ministry of Medium Machine Building of the USSR, Soviet ministry in charge of civil nuclear activities in the USSR
Nuclear power in Russia
Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics
Institute for High Energy Physics
Atomenergoprom, civil nuclear activities including Tekhsnabexport (fuel/uranium exporter), Energoatom
Energy policy of Russia
References
External links
Official website of the Federal Agency for Atomic Energy
Nuclear energy in Russia
Nuclear technology in Russia
1992 establishments in Russia
2004 establishments in Russia
Defunct government agencies of Russia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20Tigre%20Airport
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El Tigre Airport
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El Tigre Airport is an airport serving El Tigre, a town in the state of Anzoátegui in Venezuela. The airport is south of the town.
Destines
. Barcelona (Venezuela)
. Maiquetía
See also
Transport in Venezuela
List of airports in Venezuela
San Tomé Airport
References
External links
OpenStreetMap - El Tigre
Airports in Venezuela
Buildings and structures in Anzoátegui
El Tigre
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh%20Warrington
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Josh Warrington
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Josh Warrington (born 14 November 1990) is an English professional boxer. He is a two-time world featherweight champion, having held the International Boxing Federation (IBF) title twice between 2018 and 2022. At regional level, he held the British, Commonwealth and European featherweight titles between 2013 and 2017. He made history in 2018 with his win over Lee Selby, making him the first male boxer from Leeds to win a major world title. As of October 2021, he is ranked as the world's fourth-best active featherweight by The Ring, fifth by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board and seventh by BoxRec.
In 2018, a documentary style movie filmed over two years called 'Fighting for a City' premiered. The film follows Warrington during his pursuit of winning the IBF title in his home town at Elland Road Stadium, the home of Leeds United.
Professional career
Early career
Warrington turned professional in 2009 and won on his professional debut against Wolverhampton's Delroy Spencer (11-89-3) in October before defeating Latvia's Pavels Senkovs (2-10-2), winning both four-round contests by 40-36 points decision.
In 2010, Warrington won all three of his fights, defeating Danny McDermid (0-1), John Riley (0-0) and Youssef Al Hamidi (7-27-2), winning all of his four-round contests by points decision.
By the end of 2011, Warrington maintained his undefeated record with wins over Steve Gethin (11-56-3), Chris Riley (3-3-2), Marc Callaghan (19-21-1), Dougie Curran (5-8-1) and Ian Bailey (7-8), all by points decision.
In the first half of 2012, Warrington defeated Dan Naylor (1-8) and Ibrar Riyaz (4-34-1) by points decision.
In November, Warrington won his first professional title after he defeated the previously unbeaten Dudley-born prospect Chris Male (11-0) by unanimous decision in a ten-round contest to win the vacant English featherweight title. The fight took place at the Venue in Dudley on 9 November.
Warrington vs. Speight
On 22 March, Warrington made the first defence of his English featherweight title against former Southern Area super featherweight champion Jamie Speight (11-4). He won by unanimous decision over 10 rounds (scorecards of 100–91, 100–91, 100-90) when headlining a show at the Town Hall in Leeds.
Warrington vs. Bailey
On 27 September, Warrington made the second defence of his English featherweight title after he defeated Southern Area featherweight champion Ian Bailey (9-14) by unanimous decision over 10 rounds. The scorecards read 100–91, 98–92, 100–90 in Warrington's favour. The fight took place at the Banqueting Suite at the Elland Road Stadium in Leeds.
Warrington vs. Mouneimne
On 2 November, Warrington won the vacant Commonwealth featherweight title after he defeated the previously undefeated Hull-born prospect Samir Mouneimne by 12th-round stoppage in a 12-round contest. The fight took place at the Ice Arena in Hull and was Warrington's first fight on a Matchroom Boxing show.
2014
Warrington vs. Munroe
In early April, it was announced that Warrington would make the first defence of his Commonwealth featherweight title against former super-bantamweight world title challenger Rendall Munroe (28-4-1) on 19 April. The fight would take place at the Manchester Arena on the undercard to Scott Quigg vs Tshifhiwa Munyai.
Warrington won by technical knockout in the seventh-round after Munroe's corner threw in the towel. Later that month, Munroe announced his retirement from boxing.
Warrington vs.Lindsay
On 28 April, Matchroom Boxing announced that Warrington would make the second defence of his Commonwealth featherweight title and fight for the vacant British featherweight title against former British champion Martin Lindsay (21-2) at the First Direct Arena in Leeds on 21 May.
Warrington won by unanimous decision over twelve rounds with all three judges scoring the fight 119–110.
Five-fight Matchroom deal
On 27 August, Matchroom Boxing announced that Warrington had signed a five-fight deal with the promotional company. Speaking of the deal, Warrington said: "It’s great to have signed the deal so that I know that there’s going to be more big nights in Leeds in the next year."
Promoter Eddie Hearn said: "Josh is the biggest ticket seller in the country right now, and we have an opportunity to do something very big in Leeds. We dipped our toe in the water in May and now we’re diving in headfirst. It’s a huge opportunity for Josh and I think we could see one of the most memorable atmosphere in a British arena for some time."
Warrington vs. Dieli
On 4 October, Warrington won the vacant EBU European featherweight title after he defeated Italy's Davide Dieli (15-3) by fourth-round stoppage in a twelve-round contest. The fight took place at the First Direct Arena in Leeds.
2015
Warrington vs. Tellez
On 15 December, Matchroom Boxing announced that Warrington would fight on the undercard to Arthur Abraham vs Paul Smith in Berlin on 21 February, his first fight of the year.
Later it was confirmed that Warrington would fight Nicaragua's Edwin Tellez (9-11-5) in an eight-round contest.
Prior to the fight, Warrington told the Yorkshire Evening Post: "Even though he's not got an excellent record, he's a fighter that I cannot take lightly."
Warrington won by fifth-round stoppage
Warrington vs. Tubieron
On 7 January, Matchroom Boxing announced that Warrington would fight Philippines' Dennis Tubieron (19-3-2) in a WBC world title eliminator and for the vacant WBC International featherweight title. The fight would headline a show at the First Direct Arena in Leeds on 11 April.
Warrington was accompanied by former Leeds United footballer Vinnie Jones during his ringwalk.
Warrington won by unanimous decision over twelve rounds, with all three judges scoring the fight 119–109.
After the fight, he admitted that he wasn't at his best, telling Sky Sports: "Looking back, I don’t think it was my best performance, but it’s all about learning. Maybe if I’d listened to my instructions a little bit more, I’d have got him out of there, but it’s all about experience. I can take so much from that fight."
Later that month, Warrington vacated his EBU European featherweight title after suffering a slight injury.
Warrington vs. Brunker
On 22 June, Matchroom Boxing announced that Warrington would defend his WBC International and Commonwealth featherweight titles against Australia's Joel Brunker (28-1) at the First Direct Arena in Leeds on 5 September.
Warrington won by unanimous decision over twelve rounds, with all three judges scoring the fight 120–108.
2016
Warrington vs. Amagasa
On 15 February, Matchroom Boxing announced that Warrington would make the second defence of his WBC International featherweight title against Japan's Hisashi Amagasa (30-5-2), a former world title challenger at super-bantamweight. The fight would headline the show at the First Direct Arena in Leeds on 16 April.
Promoter Eddie Hearn said of the fight: "Josh is hunting a summer clash with IBF champion Lee Selby, so he cannot afford any slip-ups against Japanese banger Amagasa."
Warrington won by unanimous decision over twelve rounds, with the scorecards reading 117–111, 118-111 and 120–107.
Warrington vs. Hyland
On 14 June, Matchroom Boxing announced that Warrington would make the third defence of his WBC International featherweight title against Patrick Hyland (31-2), headlining a show at the First Direct Arena in Leeds on 30 July.
The WBC International featherweight title wasn't on the line for Hyland as he came in 2lbs and 6oz over weight at the weigh-in.
Warrington won by ninth-round technical knockout after he knocked Hyland down once in round eight and again round nine.
Leaving Matchroom and joining Frank Warren
On 2 December 2016, Matchroom Boxing announced that Warrington's promotional contract with them had expired. Warrington's promoter and Matchroom managing director Eddie Hearn said in a statement "we did not share the same plans as his team and decided not to make any further offers."
After much speculation, Warrington officially signed for rival British promoter Frank Warren in a "long-term promotional deal" later in December. Warren said he was confident of delivering a first world title shot for Warrington as well as a number of shows in Leeds in 2017.
2017
Warrington vs. Martinez
In February, Warren announced that Warrington would be making his return to the ring on 13 May at the First Direct Arena in Leeds. It was initially announced that Warrington would fight WBO Inter-Continental champion Marco McCullough. However, it was since announced that Warrington would not fight McCullough and would instead fight former IBF super-bantamweight world champion Kiko Martinez (36-7-1).
Warrington defeated Martinez by a majority decision over 12 rounds, with scorecards of 116-112 (twice) and 114–114, in the third defence of his WBC International title.
Warrington vs. Ceylan
In August, it was announced that Warrington would fight the undefeated EBU European champion Dennis Ceylan (18-0-2) in an IBF world title final eliminator, to the title held by champion Lee Selby, at the First Direct Arena in Leeds on 21 October.
Commenting on the fight, Warrington said: "With Selby not taking a fight with me, it’s left me annoyed and even more hungry to produce a massive performance on October 21."
Warrington defeated Ceylan by tenth-round technical knockout after twice knocking down Ceylan in the same round.
Speaking of Lee Selby, Warrington told BT Sport in his post-fight interview that: "I want to get the Welshman up here. If we can make it at Elland Road, let's have it. I've waited so long and now I'm there."
2018
World title shot
Warrington vs. Selby
On 23 January, it was confirmed that Warrington would fight IBF world champion Lee Selby (26-1) in his first world title fight on 19 May. On 30 January Elland Road Stadium was confirmed as the venue for the fight.
Warrington commented on the fight: "By winning this fight, not only do I get my hands on a world title, but it’s a chance to show everyone that I’m the best featherweight in the UK and propel myself onto the world level." Warrington was accompanied to the ring by ex Leeds United player Lucas Radebe whilst band Kaiser Chiefs performed live.
Warrington secured a split-decision victory over Selby by thoroughly outworking him for the majority of the twelve rounds to claim the title, and hand Selby his second career loss.
Warrington vs. Frampton
A fight between Warrington and Carl Frampton had been scheduled for 22 December the same day as when Dillian Whyte fought Derek Chisora but that match was in the o2 The Warrington vs. Frampton match was in Manchester. In a fight that people thought was the fight of the year Warrington beat Frampton by Unanimous Decision after 12 rounds with two judges scoring the fight 116-112 and the third scoring it 116–113.
2019
Warrington vs. Takoucht
On 7 August, it was confirmed that Warrington would defend the IBF featherweight championship for the third time against Sofiane Takoucht. The fight took place on 12 October, at the First Direct Arena in Leeds, England. This was the 13th time Warrington fought as a professional in his hometown of Leeds. In a one sided fight Warrington beat Takoucht by TKO in the second round.
Warrington vs. Galahad
On 15 June 2019, Warrington had his second title defense against domestic rival and IBF #1 contender Kid Galahad in his hometown of Leeds. In a messy bout, with a lot of holding and clinching from both sides, Warrington proved to be the aggressor more often than his counterpart, which was sufficient to edge the victory and retail his world title. The scorecards read 116-113 and 116-112 in favor of Warrington, while the third judge scored the fight 115-113 for Galahad.
2021
Warrington vs. Lara
Warrington faced Mauricio Lara, a relatively unknown 22-year-old Mexican prospect, on 13 February after over a year of inactivity. No title was on the line as Warrington had vacated his IBF featherweight title a month prior. Warrington started off the fight slower than usual, and in the fourth round, he was hurt by a left hook before ultimately being knocked down. Despite getting up, Warrington never regained his legs, though he was able to land a few effective combinations on Lara in the subsequent rounds. In the ninth round, Lara once again knocked Warrington down with a left hook, and the fight was immediately called off by the referee, handing Warrington his first career loss. Lara's victory was considered a major upset, as he had been rated as an 11/1 (+1100) pre-fight underdog, compared to Warrington having been rated as the 1/33 (-3300) betting favourite. The Ring magazine opined that the result was an early candidate for its Upset of the Year award.
Warrington vs. Lara II
It was announced on 14 July 2021 that Warrington and Lara would face each other in a rematch on 4 September at Emerald Headingley Stadium in the former's hometown of Leeds. The fight ended in a technical draw after 2 rounds, after Lara was badly cut above his left eye due to a head clash.
Team
Warrington was signed to Eddie Hearn's Matchroom Boxing in the early stages of his career. He split from Matchroom to join Frank Warren's Queensberry Promotions in 2016, before rejoining Matchroom in February 2020. He is trained by his father, Sean O'Hagan. He is managed by Steve Wood, from VIP Boxing, who also manages former WBO lightweight world champion Terry Flanagan.
Personal life
Warrington and his wife Natasha have twin daughters. He was excluded from John Smeaton Academy and didn't achieve the grades he needed to continue his education. He re-sat his exams on the advice of his father, Sean O'Hagan. He subsequently attended University of Leeds and gained a degree in 2013.
Professional boxing record
References
External links
Josh Warrington - Profile, News Archive & Current Rankings at Box.Live
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English male boxers
Living people
Martial artists from Leeds
World featherweight boxing champions
Alumni of the University of Leeds
International Boxing Federation champions
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Calculation of buoyancy flows and flows inside buildings
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Buoyancy force is the defined as the force exerted on the body or an object when inserted in a fluid. Buoyancy force is based on the basic principle of pressure variation with depth, since pressure increases with depth. Hence buoyancy force arises as pressure on the bottom surface of the immersed object is greater than that at the top.
Flow problems in buildings were studied since 700 B.C. Recent advancements in CFD and CAE have led to comprehensive calculation of buoyancy flows and flows in buildings.
Calculation of buoyant flows and flow inside buildings
Since there is natural driven ventilation resulting from the difference in temperature inside the buildings hence flows inside buildings fall under buoyancy force category. The momentum equation in the direction of gravity should be modeled for buoyant forces resulting from buoyancy. Hence the momentum equation is given by
∂ρv/∂t + V.∇(ρv)= -g((ρ-ρ°) - ∇P+μ∇2v + Sv
In the above equation -g((ρ-ρ°) is the buoyancy term, where ρ° is the reference density.
On discretizing the above equation several instabilities are obtained during the solution process. Hence we use a transient approach as several relaxations are often required in obtaining a steady state solution.
When applied to turbulent flows some additional modifications are to be applied to the calculation of buoyant flows. Hence an additional term is added, as recommended by Rodi(1978) in the k equation of the k- ε model is used below in modelling turbulent buoyant flows. Therefore, the k-equations takes the form
∂ρk/∂t + ∇(ρku)= -g((ρ-ρ°) - ∇(τ∇×k) + G + B - ρε
Where
G= Usual Production or generation term = 2µE.E
B = Generation term related to buoyancy
Also B = βgi (μ/σ) ∂T/∂xi
Where,
T = Temperature
gi = Gravitational acceleration in x-direction
β = Volumetric expansion coefficient = -(1/ρ) ∂ρ/∂T
Hence for turbulent kinetic energy the modeled transport equation is given as
∂ρε/∂t + ∇(ρεu) = ∇(τ∇×k) + C1ε (ε/k)(G+B)(1+C3 Rf ) - C2 ε ρ(ε2/k)
Where,
Rf = Flux Richardson number.
C3 = Additional model constant.
Flux Richardson number as defined by Hossain and Rodi (1976) is Rf = -B/G.
As C3 is close to unity in vertical buoyant shear layers and close zero in horizontal shear layers hence a single value of C3 cannot be used as Rf.
Rf = - Gl/2(G+B)
Where,
Gl = Buoyancy production in lateral energy component.
If we consider the horizontal shear layer where the lateral flow velocity component is in the direction of gravity, the production of buoyancy is given as
Gl = 2B
If we consider the vertical shear layer then the direction of gravity and the lateral component are normal to each other. Hence Gl = 0. Therefore, we obtain
Rf = - B/(B+G) ------------ For horizontal layers
Rf = 0 ------------- For vertical layers
Finally in a given flow if vertical shear stresses are dominant then we can set Rf equal to zero and take C3 = 0.8.
Uses
Buoyancy flow calculation and force calculations are used in successfully predicting the effect of various natural calamities upon buildings, ships, aircraft and other commercial and non-commercial vehicles. They are also used in locating a prominent location for placing the exhaust chimney for the large scale industries. Also the shape of the chimney is obtained keeping in mind the above calculations. They are also used in planning of buildings in coastal area such that the structure is able to sustain floods and strong currents that arise at the coast.
See also
References
Computational fluid dynamics
Buoyancy
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Vanhoffen
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Vanhoffen (or Vanhöffen) may refer to:
Ernst Vanhöffen (1858–1918), German zoologist
Vanhoffen Bluff, a feature of Heard Island in the Antarctic, named for Ernst Vanhöffen
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Bagrationi (daughter of Demetrius I of Georgia)
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Bagrationi was a 12th–13th century Georgian princess of the royal Bagrationi dynasty. She was a daughter of King Demetrius I of Georgia, sister of the kings David V and George III and Princess Rusudan. She was a paternal aunt of the famous Queen Tamar of Georgia.
She was a wife of Iziaslav II of Kiev.
Her first name as her later life is unknown.
References
Bagrationi dynasty of the Kingdom of Georgia
Princesses from Georgia (country)
12th-century births
13th-century deaths
Grand Princesses consort of Kiev
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Sarah Cheng-De Winne
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Sarah X. Miracle (previously known as Sarah Cheng-De Winne) () (born 2 December 1987) is a Singaporean soul-pop singer, songwriter, and musician. In 2013, she was named Winner at the 12th Independent Music Awards for her song, "Love-Shape Void" in the Contemporary Christian/Gospel song category. She was also nominated in the R&B/Soul Song category for her song "Diagonal Rain".
She has released two albums, Let's Pretend (2010) and Brand New (2012).
Winne is also recognized for her portrait photography work, her portfolio having been featured on numerous photography blogs. Winne was previously a Radio DJ at MediaCorp's 938LIVE from 2011 to 2012.
Discography
Let's Pretend (2010)
Brand New (2012)
Candle (2015)
看见 (2017)
Don't Say It (2020)
Awards
Winner, Contemporary Christian/Gospel Song Category, 12th Independent Music Awards 2013 for "Love-Shape Void"
Nominated, R&B/Soul Song Category, 12th Independent Music Awards 2013 for "Diagonal Rain"
References
External links
sarah.com.sg Sarah Cheng-De Winne Official Website]
instagram.com/sarahxmiracle Sarah Cheng-De Winne Instagram]
1987 births
Living people
21st-century Singaporean women singers
Singaporean singer-songwriters
Singaporean women singer-songwriters
Singaporean composers
Singaporean women composers
Singaporean people of Chinese descent
Singaporean Christians
Anglo-Chinese Junior College alumni
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is a 2014 Japanese film based on the
manga series of the same name, and serves as the second installment of the Rurouni Kenshin film series', following the first film Rurouni Kenshin (2012). The film was followed by a direct sequel, Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends, which takes place immediately from the ending of Kyoto Inferno.
On June 21, 2016, Funimation announced that they acquired the rights to the Rurouni Kenshin live-action trilogy for US distribution. Kyoto Inferno was released subtitled in US theaters in September 2016. A home video and video on demand release followed shortly after.
Plot
In Settsu Mine, Hyōgo Prefecture, Saitō Hajime leads the Japanese police in tracking Shishio Makoto, a notorious renegade who was betrayed by the government after he had helped them defeat the Tokugawa shogunate during the Battle of Toba–Fushimi. However, Shishio's men ambush and massacre the police in the mine; Sishio tells Saitō his plan to conquer Japan before leaving.
After the events of the first film, Himura Kenshin continues to live in the kenjutsu dojo of Kamiya Kaoru alongside Myōjin Yahiko, Sagara Sanosuke, and Takani Megumi. He is called by a government official, Ōkubo Toshimichi, to track down Shishio, who is terrorizing Kyoto and its surroundings. Though he declines the request at first, he relents when the official is murdered by Seta Sōjirō, Shishio's underling. Just after Kenshin's departure, an individual arrives at Tokyo and searches for him, beating Sanosuke along the way.
While on the way, Kenshin meets with Makimachi Misao, who attempts to steal his sakabato. While the two converse, they are alerted by a boy to the plight of his parents and brother, all of whom are killed by Shishio's men for trying to report their atrocities to their village to the authorities. Kenshin beats Shishio's men, though his identity as Hitokiri Battōsai is revealed. Kenshin is taken to Shishio himself, the latter ordering Sōjiro to duel Kenshin, which ends with Sōjiro breaking Kenshin's sakabato. As he leaves the scene, Kenshin urges the villagers, including the orphaned boy, not to take their revenge against Shishio's men.
Arriving at Kyoto, Kenshin is asked by Misao, who is impressed by his words, to take shelter at an inn run by Kashiwazaki Nenji, actually a semi-retired ninja called Okina once employed by the Tokugawa shogunate known as the Oniwabanshu who were previously employed by the Tokugawa shogunate; Misao herself is also an aspiring ninja. Okina warns Kenshin that a lieutenant of his, Shinomori Aoshi (the one who beat Sanosuke previously), has made it his life goal to kill the strongest man in Japan - Kenshin.
Meanwhile, Kaoru decides to follow Kenshin to Kyoto, accompanied by Yahiko and Sanosuke. At the same time, Kenshin discovers to his dismay that the person who made his sakabato, Arai Shakku has died years before. His son, Seiku, initially refuses Kenshin's plea for another sakabato, but when Shishio's elite warrior, Sawagejō Chō, kidnaps his baby, Seiku asks Kenshin to defeat him. Seiku gives him a twin of the previous sakabato, which Kenshin uses to defeat Chō. By interrogating Chō, the government learns that Shishio plans to raze Kyoto to the ground that night. The government police, together with Kenshin, the Oniwabanshu ninja, and the newly-arrived Kaoru, Yahiko, and Sanosuke, battle Shishio's men, while to prevent Aoshi from interfering Kenshin, Okina challenges his former pupil into a duel, which ends in his defeat. However, Kenshin realizes that Shishio's main goal is to set fire not to Kyoto, but Tokyo.
Kenshin discovers Shishio's ship about to set sail to the capital after learning that Sōjirō has kidnapped Kaoru. There, he has an inconclusive battle with Shishio, which ends when Kaoru is thrown over board. Kenshin jumps into the sea, but is unable to locate her. The film ends with a mysterious man finding Kenshin's unconscious body washed up on the beach and carries him away.
Cast
Principal cast list as presented on the Funimation Films website in Western name order:
Takeru Satoh as Kenshin Himura
Emi Takei as Kaoru Kamiya
Munetaka Aoki as Sanosuke Sagara
Yū Aoi as Megumi Takani
Kaito Oyagi as Yahiko Myojin
Yōsuke Eguchi as Hajime Saito
Tatsuya Fujiwara as Makoto Shishio
Ryunosuke Kamiki as Sojiro Seta
Maryjun Takahashi as Yumi Komagata
Ryosuke Miura as Cho Sawagejo
Tao Tsuchiya as Misao Makimachi
Min Tanaka as Okina
Masaharu Fukuyama as Seijuro Hiko
Yūsuke Iseya makes his first appearance in the film series as Aoshi Shinomori.
Miyazawa Kazufumi as Ōkubo Toshimichi, one of historical Three Great Nobles of the Restoration
Production
The film was shot in a variety of locations around Japan, including Tokyo, Kyoto, Nagano, Ibaraki, and Kanagawa. Over 5000 extras were hired for the production, and filming wrapped on December 27, 2013.
For the Kyoto duology films, director Keishi Ōtomo said he did not have to put much advice to Takeru Satoh as his acting in the first film attracted multiple positive reactions by the staff and the audience. He then stated "Even without saying this or that from the side, he created an image of Kenshin, including his behavior, swordplay, and speech, through the necessary preparation and hard work. So I didn’t worry at all".
Due to the Kyoto films showing a darker characterization of Kenshin as he struggles against different strong rivals, Satoh also said his work became more challenging. Still, he found it interesting. A scene that Satoh enjoyed was Kenshin's fight against Sawagejō Chō due to the fact Kenshin is forced to attack his enemy even though he does not know his weapon is deadly which goes against his morals; as a result, Satoh briefly showed Kenshin's hitokiri side for a brief moment. The actor said he discussed this scene with the director who pleased with the result.
Release
The film was released on Blu-ray and DVD on December 17, 2014 in Japan.
The film was released on Blu-ray and DVD by Funimation on December 6, 2016 in North America which includes an English dubbed version of the film, with TV-MA rating.
Reception
Box office
At the box office the movie earned a total of internationally. The film also held the top spot at the box office in Japan during its first week. It was the third highest-grossing film of 2014 at the Japanese box office with . The film made its United States premiere at LA EigaFest 2014.
Critical reception
The film received positive reviews from critics, with widespread praise regarding the film's action direction and fight choreography conducted by Kenji Tanigaki. Christopher O'Keeffe of TwitchFilm declared that the film "Delivers grand thrills" and "Satisfies with its mix of character drama and sword fights as it leads up to an intense battle on the streets of ancient Kyoto. By the time the sea-set finale roles around, everything is left in balance for what promises to be an epic ending to this thrilling tale." Marcus Goh of Yahoo! praised the film, stating that "Kyoto Inferno is a wonderfully executed adaptation that manages to wield together all the highlights of the manga and anime, while still fully utilising the film medium to tell its tale. Despite being the first part of a two-part sequel, it manages to be a self-sufficient, coherent story – not an easy feat for a two-part sequel."
Remy Van Ruiten praised the film, stating that "Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno is a fantastic movie" and goes on to say "Even in the age of a high budget Marvel Cinematic Universe, Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno is a very rare treat. As there aren’t as many of these movies being made based on anime of this caliber and the few that do get made avoiding sticking to the same formula, both overall and for the choreography during the battles, the experience still manages to feel fresh. Especially compared to the current comic book movies from the west recently. Not to knock them, but I’m definitely feeling comic book movie fatigue, and the very different cinematographic style of the Kenshin movies doesn’t make me feel the same way about them at all."
Mikhail Lecaros of GMA News Online stated "Ohtomo presents Kyoto Inferno with deliberate pacing, making the most of his now-extended runtime (Kyoto Inferno and The Legend Ends were filmed simultaneously), wisely giving the film moments to breathe. When the prerequisite sword fights and various punch-ups do show up, they are pitch-perfect live action extrapolations of the hand-drawn scenes that have enthralled fans for the past fifteen years."
Jahanzeb Khan of Snap Thirty awarded the film an "A" rating, and goes on to describe how "Kyoto Inferno does an excellent job of setting the scene for the epic conclusion that follows in The Legend Ends, and without this methodological build up the grand finale in the third film would not have the same weight to it at all. Kyoto Inferno does an apt job of establishing Shishio and his minions as a force to be reckoned with, a legitimate threat to the vulnerable Japanese society that is still struggling to transition into the Westernized values of the new government."
Accolades
Sequel
Music
One Ok Rock's song "Mighty Long Fall" from their seventh album, 35xxxv, is featured in the movie.
References
External links
2014 films
Funimation
2010s Japanese-language films
Japanese sequel films
Jidaigeki films
Live-action films based on manga
Rurouni Kenshin films
Samurai films
Warner Bros. films
Films directed by Keishi Ōtomo
Films shot in Kyoto Prefecture
Films shot in Tokyo
2010s historical adventure films
Historical action films
Films set in the 19th century
Films set in the Meiji period
Films scored by Naoki Satō
Japanese historical adventure films
2010s Japanese films
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Charlotte Johnson Wahl
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Charlotte Johnson Wahl (née Fawcett; 29 May 1942 – 13 September 2021) was a British artist. She was the mother of politician Boris Johnson, as well as the journalist Rachel Johnson and the politician Jo Johnson.
Early life and education
Johnson Wahl was born Charlotte Maria Offlow Fawcett in Oxford on 29 May 1942. Her father was English barrister James Fawcett and her mother was Frances Beatrice Fawcett (née Lowe). Frances was the daughter of Lithuanian-American palaeographer Elias Avery Lowe and American translator and writer Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter, along with Frances's four siblings (including journalist and author Edmund Fawcett). James was the son of English clergyman Joseph Fawcett and Edith Fawcett (nee Scattergood).
In 1961, Johnson Wahl began studying English at Lady Margaret Hall, a college within Oxford University. She took her finals in 1965, the first year the college granted permission for married undergraduates to sit them. She obtained a second-class honours degree.
Paintings
Johnson Wahl was a professional portrait painter for Crispin Tickell, Joanna Lumley, Jilly Cooper, Simon Jenkins, and others. She painted children with their toys and dogs. Additionally, she painted landscapes and still lives. Jonathan Jones of The Guardian described her paintings as influenced by Vorticism.
Johnson Wahl held exhibitions: at the Maudsley Hospital, London, in 1974; in Brussels in 1970s; and at the Gavin Graham Gallery in London in 2004. A retrospective exhibition of her work was displayed at Mall Galleries, London, in 2015. The documentary Painting the Johnsons for Sky Arts follows her career.
In 1997, Johnson Wahl painted for a fellowship in Bogliasco, Italy. Her paintings sold for £1,000 to £5,000. Two of Wahl's paintings are in the collection of the Bethlem Museum of the Mind; another two are in the collections of Oxford University colleges.
Personal life
She met Stanley Johnson at an All Souls lunch hosted by her father to celebrate Johnson's Newdigate Prize for poetry. They married in 1963 and lived in England, the United States and Brussels. In 1974, Johnson Wahl was treated in Belgium for phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder and anxiety around her children, which she said her husband was unsympathetic to. In 1979, the couple divorced. Their four children are: former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, life peer Jo Johnson, journalist Rachel Johnson, and PwC manager Leo Johnson.
In 2020, Johnson Wahl told the biographer Tom Bower that Stanley Johnson hit her "many times, over many years". Johnson Wahl said that the abuse originated from his jealousy when she saw her friends. She stated that Johnson broke his nose, which family friends of his corroborated. On one occasion, he abandoned her without a car.
In 1988, Johnson Wahl married Nicholas Wahl, an American academic who studied French politics. They had met at a dinner party of Tickell in Brussels. They lived together in Washington Square, New York. Wahl died of cancer in 1996.
Johnson Wahl was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease at the age of 40. On 13 September 2021, Johnson Wahl died at St Mary's Hospital in London, at the age of 79.
Political views
In 2015, the Evening Standard referred to Johnson Wahl as "left-wing", with her daughter Rachel stating that her father Stanley "tends to marry socialists". Johnson Wahl said in 2015 that she never voted for the Conservative Party and supported Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of the Labour Party. Rachel commented that her mother was "the only red in the village when we lived on Exmoor". In October 2019, during Boris Johnson's speech to the Conservative Party conference, he said that his mother voted for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union in the 2016 referendum.
References
External links
1942 births
2021 deaths
20th-century English painters
20th-century English women artists
21st-century English painters
21st-century English women artists
Alumni of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
Artists from Oxford
English people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent
English people of Russian-Jewish descent
English portrait painters
English women painters
Parents of prime ministers of the United Kingdom
People with Parkinson's disease
Charlotte
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Henry Murray (1893–1988) was an American psychologist.
Henry Murray may also refer to:
Henry Murray (Australian politician) (1844–1927)
Henry Murray (playwright), American playwright
Henry Murray (British politician) (1767–1805), Scottish soldier and administrator
Henry Murray (British Army officer) (1784–1850), English officer who fought in the Napoleonic Wars
Henry Leigh Murray (1820–1870), English actor
Henry Murray (athlete) (1886–1943), New Zealand athlete and architect
Henry Murray (VC), Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross
Henry Murray (taxidermist), British taxidermist
See also
Henry Murray-Anderdon (1848–1922), English cricket administrator
Harry Murray (disambiguation)
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Zbelsurd Glacier (, ) is the 2.25 km long and 1.6 km wide glacier on the west side of Brugmann Mountains on Liège Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. It is situated southwest of Sigmen Glacier and north-northeast of Pleystor Glacier, draining the northwest slopes of Pavlov Peak and the north slopes of Mishev Bluff, and flowing northwestwards into Bolbabria Cove.
The glacier is named after the Thracian god Zbelsurd.
Location
Zbelsurd Glacier is centred at . British mapping in 1978 and 1980.
See also
List of glaciers in the Antarctic
Glaciology
Maps
British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 60. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, UK, 1978.
British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 62. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, UK, 1980.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
References
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
Zbelsurd Glacie. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
External links
Zbelsurd Glacier. Copernix satellite image
Glaciers of the Palmer Archipelago
Bulgaria and the Antarctic
Liège Island
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Petter Pettersson
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Petter Pettersson (born 21 May 1939 in Molde, Norway) is a Norwegian writer and cultural worker, trained in Oslo, Borås and London. Lately he has been active in journals on topics such as music, fly fishing and tourism as well as providing contributions to various books on various topics.
He has been part of Moldejazz since 1963 and earlier with the 'Storyville Jazz Club' and led the club dixieland orchestra. Nationally, he has been a director and deputy chairman of the Norwegian Jazz Federation and editor of the magazine 'Jazznytt' and later the 'Norwegian Jazz Forum'. He has also been engaged in business with offices in local and national organizations.
Honors
2003: Buddyprisen honorary award
2004: Norwegian King's Medal of Merit in gold, awarded during the Moldejazz
References
1939 births
Norwegian journalists
People from Molde
Living people
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is a 2014 Japanese jidaigeki action film directed by Keishi Ōtomo and based on the manga series Rurouni Kenshin. It serves as a direct sequel to Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno (2014), taking place immediately after as Kenshin recovers following losing Kaoru at sea.
On June 21, 2016, Funimation announced that they acquired the rights to the Rurouni Kenshin live-action trilogy for US distribution. The film was released subtitled in US theaters in October 2016. A home video and video on demand release followed shortly after.
Two further installments in the film series were released in 2021; Rurouni Kenshin: The Final, a sequel to The Legend Ends, and Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning, a prequel to the entire series.
Plot
In a flashback, Hiko Seijūrō finds young Shinta digging graves for bandits and slavers killed in battle. Shinta explains that all people are only bodies after death. Hiko decides to take Shinta as his student and names him "Kenshin". Himura Kenshin wakes up at Master Hiko's home, and asks if his friend (Kaoru) was also washed up. He has been unconscious for three days, and Master Hiko tells him that his friend is most likely dead. Kenshin asks to learn the final Hiten Mitsurugi technique, "Amakakeru Ryu no Hirameki", in order to defeat Shishio Makoto and prevent his onslaught. Hiko agrees, and the two engage in a duel to start his training.
Shishio appears off the Tokyo coast in a large black iron-clad battleship, and demands that the home minister, Ito Hirobumi, visit him to discuss the situation. After inviting the ministers to join him for food, one of them loses his temper, and is killed by one of Shishio's men. The prime minister tries to restore order and decorum, but Shishio takes them prisoner when they try to leave - killing all the government men apart from the prime minister. Shishio demands that Battousai be brought to him, otherwise he will bring down the government by making public all the killings and murders that were undertaken by the current government. Saito Hajime also known as Fujita is still searching for Battousai, and is disgusted with the way the government is handling the matter by giving in to blackmail from Shishio.
Yahiko Myojin finds a poster demanding "Battousai" Kenshin be arrested, which he and Sagara realise suggests that Kenshin must still be alive, and they leave for Tokyo and the Kamiya Dojo with Misao to find him and search for Kaoru Kamiya. A young woman approaches them with a scarf as they are leaving, which Misao recognises as the one she bandaged Kaoru with and they rush off. They appear outside a hospital and enter to find Kaoru unconscious and alive.
Kenshin learns through his training from Hiko that he had thrown away his will to live during his time as the assassin Battōsai, and as he has no intention of coming out alive he will be unable to defeat Shishio. Hiko also points out that Kenshin has lost his killer instinct with his oath to not kill and his ridiculous" sword, after all it is the strong who survive and the weak who die. That night, Hiko says that something is missing in Kenshin, and that he will be given the night to think about it. If he cannot figure out what it is, he will die the next day. The next morning, Kenshin is still unable to understand what is missing in himself. So Hiko reveals his final task as Master to Kenshin - without realising what is missing, Kenshin will return to his old ways - and so Hiko has to kill Battōsai. When Hiko attacks him, Kenshin realises that he is trembling. It is not from fear of his master but from fear of death itself and instinctively uses his sword to protect himself as he does not want to die. Kenshin listens as he is told by his master that he cannot learn the secret until he realises that the will to live is paramount, that his life is just as worthy as others and so he has learned the secret of Amakakeru.
Kaoru awakes from her coma, and reunited with Yahiko and Sanosuke they return to Tokyo. As Kenshin concludes his training and is about to depart, Makimachi Misao arrives with the news that Kaoru is alive. She also tells Kenshin that he has been branded a wanted criminal throughout Japan for his work as Battōsai during the Bakumatsu era. Knowing that Shishio intends to take Tokyo next, Kenshin intends to return home by a secret route given to him by the Oniwabanshu at the Aoiya Inn. They discover that Kashiwazaki Nenji (also known as Okina) has gone on ahead and encountered Shinomori Aoshi, who was lying in wait for Kenshin on that route. Kenshin and Misao arrive and Kenshin duels with Aoshi, during which Okina dies of his wounds. Back at the Aoiya, Misao tends to Aoshi and convinces him to return to the Oniwabanshu. On Shishio's battleship, Shishio, his partner Yumi, and one of his men Hori, discover that because of Shishio's inability to sweat, he can only fight for fifteen minutes without putting his health at risk.
Kenshin arrives back at the Kamiya Kashin dojo. Takani Megumi, who has been looking after the dojo in Kaoru's absence, welcomes him back, but shortly after his arrival police arrive to apprehend him. Wishing to prevent further violence, he surrenders, and is taken to the Home Ministry head, Ito Hirobumi. Ito explains that he had tried to talk Shishio into abandoning his plan to overthrow the Meiji government, but the negotiations had ended in disaster and Shishio, still bitter about his cruel treatment by the new government (being burned alive), would only leave the government be for the time being if Kenshin were arrested and executed. Otherwise, he intends to attack Tokyo. Kenshin convinces Ito that he can defeat Shishio if Ito helps him. Ito seemingly decides to go through with the execution anyway. Kaoru, Sano and Yahiko return to Tokyo soon after and, to their horror, discover that Kenshin is to be executed the same day. Shishio's men attend the execution to ensure that Ito carries through with the negotiations.
The execution, however, is merely staged, and Kenshin is freed and assisted in defeating the men by Hajime Saito. Sano joins them, and the three are rowed to Shishio's battleship. While searching for Shishio, Kenshin meets Seta Soujiro again and the two rematch. Kenshin comes out victorious, and Soujiro, who originally believed Kenshin to be weak, is crushed and confused. Kenshin finally finds Shishio, Yumi and Hori waiting in the ship's hold. A duel ensues between Kenshin and Shishio, who easily overpowers Kenshin. Saito arrives immediately after, followed by Sano and Aoshi, who followed them from Kyoto, but even the four together are no match for Shishio. Shishio hits his limit of 15 minutes and Yumi attempts to shield him from Kenshin while Shishio stabs both of them, killing her. Meanwhile, Ito's men begin firing at the ship, intending to sink it and drown both Shishio and Kenshin inside. Shishio condemns Kenshin for helping such a government. Kenshin agrees that the new Meiji government is faulty, but argues that the age of assassins like himself and Shishio is over and that there should be no more violence. He manages to defeat Shishio using Amakakeru, though not physically harming him. Shishio, who has long hit his limit and whose body has become overheated, catches fire and burns to death before the group's eyes.
Saito, Aoshi, Sano and Kenshin escape from the ship before it sinks and are brought back to shore, where Kaoru, Yahiko, Misao and the Home Ministry are waiting. Ito acknowledges Kenshin as Himura Kenshin for the first time while declaring Battōsai dead, and his men salute the group as heroes. Aoshi and Misao return to Kyoto, and Kaoru, Kenshin, Yahiko and Sano return to the dojo. Kaoru notes the change of season, as well as the end of Kenshin's life as Battōsai. Kenshin expresses his desire to continue living at the dojo and to move forward into the new era, and invites Kaoru to move forward with him.
Cast
Principal cast list as presented on the Funimation Films website in Western name order:
Takeru Satoh as Kenshin Himura
Emi Takei as Kaoru Kamiya
Munetaka Aoki as Sanosuke Sagara
Yū Aoi as Megumi Takani
Kaito Oyagi as Yahiko Myojin
Yusuke Iseya as Aoshi Shinomori
Yōsuke Eguchi as Hajime Saito
Tatsuya Fujiwara as Makoto Shishio
Ryunosuke Kamiki as Sojiro Seta
Maryjun Takahashi as Yumi Komagata
Tao Tsuchiya as Misao Makimachi
Min Tanaka as Okina
Masaharu Fukuyama as Seijuro Hiko
Yukiyoshi Ozawa as Ito Hirobumi
Production
Otomo said the final fight scene was the most difficult scene to shoot, mainly due to how Satoh and Fujiwara did not use stunts. Nevertheless, the director found it as an "epic" scene.
Release
The Blu-ray and DVD was released on January 21, 2015 in Japan.
The film was released on Blu-ray and DVD by Funimation on January 3, 2017 in North America which includes an English dubbed version of the film, with a TV-MA rating.
Reception
Box office
The film debuted at the Japanese box office in second place, earning . In its fourth weekend, it ranked first and earned . It was number-one for four weeks. It was one of the top five films of 2014 at the Japanese box office (below Kyoto Inferno at number three), grossing () in Japan. Overseas, it grossed () in South Korea, and $2,484,963 in other territories, for an international total of .
Critical reception
The film received largely positive reviews from critics, once again receiving widespread recognition for its ground-breaking fight choreography and action direction coordinated by Kenji Tanigaki.
Gareth Evans, director of The Raid and The Raid 2, shared high praise for the live-action Rurouni Kenshin trilogy from director Keishi Ōtomo, Studio Swan and WB Japan. Through a series of Tweets and Instagram posts, Evans stated "Goddamn the action in Rurouni Kenshin is [frick]ing beautiful. Huge tip of the hat to choreographer Kenji Tanigaki" and went on to commend the third act of the film, specifically the final battle between Seta Sōjirō and Himura Kenshin. "Piled through the trilogy on a flight. Sojiro vs. Kenshin is poss one of the best sword fights I’ve seen. Must buy, must rewatch, must study!" as well as "Revisiting the Rurouni Kenshin films and f--k me this is such a beautifully complex shot. Pure action cinema, all about the rhythm and energy."
Roxy Simmons of Eastern Kicks described "The challenge with adapting any popular media is striking a balance that caters to fans of the source material but also allows the film to stand alone for the average viewer. This film does exactly that. The Legend Ends beautifully ties up the story begun in Kyoto Inferno, the second installment, delivering a fiery climax that melts into the sweetest of endings. — As an adaptation, the film is one that does deviate in places from its source material, though the approval of the manga artist, Nobuhiro Watsuki, is a clear indicator of how well these were done, and fans of the anime and manga will definitely be pleased with the near perfect execution of scenes that are practically lifted off the page. The acting has consistently been good in these Kenshin movies, and the cast delivered solid performances once again. Tatsuya Fujiwara, in particular, was finally able to spread his wings in this, and was fantastic as the antagonist Makoto Shishio, portraying a nuanced version of his character and vulnerabilities that made his end all the more satisfying."
Lito B. Zulueta of Philippine Daily Inquirer praised the film, declaring that "The Legend Ends" has "restored the samurai genre", and goes on to commend various aspects of the film. "Legend ends in a duel to the death of the two swordsmen. Needless to say, the fight is a spectacle to end all fight spectacles. Directed by Keishi Ohtomo, the Rurouni Kenshin movies are fabulous spectacles that deny itself the usual Hollywood gloss and over-the-top CDG tricks to achieve its epic look and proportion. It instead relies on good old classic filmmaking. The production design and art direction are first-rate. The two-part sequel, for instance, begins and ends in spring, and the production so evokes beautifully the season that viewers may be driven to tearful exaltation. The "Rurouni" movies are in the tradition of classic Japanese photography. Moreover, the production is driven by a gripping storyline and very compelling characters. For example, Kenshin and Shishio are totally engaging and, in their own terms of twisted motivation and mission, credible characters."
Derek Elley of Film Business Asia awarded the film an 8 out of 10, praising its "reflective lead-up to a humdinger finale." and commended the film's action direction "the mammoth duel on the villain's iron battleship, staged by action director Kenji Tanigaki in a way that shows a return to his Hong Kong training visible in the first movie in the series. Instead of the bloodless slash-and-bustle sword fights that dominated Kyoto, the finale is more mano a mano, contact fighting, in a virtual arena in the bowels of the battleship. There's also an intriguing hint that there's not that much difference between the villain and his opponents — all are basically dinosaurs from a now-outmoded warrior culture."
In a mixed review, Clarence Tsui of The Hollywood Reporter criticized the film's two hour length, as well as its expository first act, and choreography, labeling it "riveting" but the climax of the four against Shishio "po-faced absurdity." and goes on to comment "Characters talk in glib soundbites offering cod philosophy: Himura's mentor and friends harp on about the importance of self-respect, while Shishio — all bandaged up because of the burns he suffered at the hands of his erstwhile government employers — taunts his foes for their warped morals and failure to see that there's profit to be had in fearmongering." Tsui states later in the review that "The Legend Ends offers a type of wide-screen, cinematic entertainment that most Japanese film adaptations — of TV series or comics — now lack. The proper way forward — for its producers or its international distributors, is to combine (the more engaging) Kyoto Inferno and (the more socially conscious) The Legend Ends into one, so as to give Rurouni Kenshin — whether it's Watsuki's source material or Otomo's films — a compact, satisfactory finale."
Music
One Ok Rock's song "Heartache" from their album 35xxxv is featured in the film.
Accolades
Sequels
Plans for another sequel had been revealed by Daily.co.jp on September 4, 2017, in connection the main actress Emi Takei's breach of contract due to her marriage with Exile band member Takahiro, as well as her pregnancy. Takei had agreements with up to 10 companies for commercials, including JTB and Yōfuku no Aoyama, and it was reported that her agreement with SSP might be terminated, with her commercial agreements with other companies being affected. Oscar Promotion, Takei's agency, apologized to its clients, and was negotiating penalties for breach of contract. The penalty for her breach of contract could have reached up to 1 billion yen (about US$9.11 million). On April 12, 2019, it was announced that two new live-action films will premiere in summer 2020; Rurouni Kenshin: The Final was slated to premiere on July 3 and Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning on August 7. Both films were delayed to 2021 due to COVID-19.
References
External links
2014 films
Funimation
Japanese sequel films
Live-action films based on manga
Rurouni Kenshin films
Samurai films
Warner Bros. films
Films directed by Keishi Ōtomo
2010s historical adventure films
Historical action films
Films set in the 19th century
Films set in the Meiji period
Films scored by Naoki Satō
Japanese historical adventure films
2010s Japanese films
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Esiliiga B
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The Esiliiga B is the third division in the Estonian football league system. The Esiliiga B is ranked below the Esiliiga and above the II liiga. As in most countries with low temperatures in winter time, the season starts in March and ends in November.
Competition format
The league consists of 10 clubs, all teams play each other four times. Both the winning team and the runners-up are promoted to the Esiliiga directly, whereas the third place club will participate in a two-legged play-off with the 8th place club of the Esiliiga for the spot in next year's competition. Same way the 2 bottom placed teams are relegated to the II liiga. The third bottom team can avoid relegation by winning a two-leg play-off against the II Liiga play-off round winners.
Clubs
Current clubs
The following clubs are competing in the Esiliiga B during the 2023 season.
a – never been relegated from Esiliiga B
b – never played in Esiliiga
c – reserve teams are ineligible for promotion.
Champions
All-time Esiliiga B table
The table is a cumulative record of all match results, points and goals of every team that has played in the Esiliiga B since its inception in 2013. The table that follows is accurate as of the end of the 2022 season. Teams in bold play in the Esiliiga B 2022 season. Numbers in bold are the record (highest) numbers in each column.
In this ranking 3 points are awarded for a win, 1 for a draw, and 0 for a loss. Promotion matches and relegation matches involving clubs of higher or lower leagues are not counted.
The table is sorted by all-time points.
League or status at 2023:
Notes
See also
Meistriliiga
Esiliiga
Estonian Cup
References
External links
Esiliiga B
2013 establishments in Estonia
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Estonian Football Championship
Third level football leagues in Europe
Sports leagues established in 2013
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Abu Mansur Faramurz (Persian: ابو منصور فرامرز), mostly known as Faramurz, was the Kakuyid Emir of Isfahan. He was the eldest son of Muhammad ibn Rustam Dushmanziyar. In 1051, He was defeated by Tughril, sultan of the Seljuk Empire, and became his vassal. Faramurz later died after 1063, probably in the 1070s.
Reign
Independent rule
In 1037, Muhammad ibn Rustam strengthened the defenses of Isfahan to protect it from the plundering Turkmen nomads from Khorasan. In 1041, after the defeat of the Ghaznavids by the Seljuqs at the battle of Dandanaqan, the Seljuqs became neighbors with the Kakuyids. After defeating the Ghaznavids, their leader, Tughril, made Ray the capital of his kingdom.
Four years later, Faramurz succeeded his father, Muhammad, in Isfahan, while Muhammad's younger son Garshasp I took power in Hamadan as a vassal king of his brother. The third son of Muhammad, Abu Harb, however, rebelled against his older brother and called upon help from the Buyids of Fars. The rebel brother was, however, defeated by Faramurz.
Relations with Faramurz and Tughril had high importance. It seems that Faramurz was present with the Seljuqs at the battle of Dandanaqan against the Ghaznavids. When Faramurz ascended to the Kakuyid throne, Tughril secured his allegiance by sending a tribute of payment to Faramurz. However, neither Faramurz nor his brother Garshasp I were willing to turn to the side of Seljuqs.
In 1044, Faramurz conquered a few cities in Kirman from the Buyid Abu Kalijar, but he shortly made a counter-attack against him, reconquering parts of Kirman and capturing Abarquh. The next year, the Dailamites and Kurds of Jibal made a stand together to resist the advance of the Turkmens from Khorasan. The following year Tughril arrived to Isfahan. Faramurz then submitted himself to the Seljuqs. Around 1045–46, after Tughril's return to Khorasan, Faramurz declared himself independent of Seljuq rule, and submitted to the Buyids, forcing Tughril to return to Isfahan, where he defeated the Kakuyids, and made Faramurz his vassal once again.
In 1050, Tughril laid siege to Isfahan. The people of Isfahan defended the city bravely against the Seljuqs but after a year they finally surrendered. The walls of Isfahan were razed, and Tughril then made the city his capital.
Seljuq suzerainty
Faramurz was then appointed as the ruler Yazd and Abarkuh in compensation for the loss of Isfahan. Both of these towns which he controlled, had already been under Kakuyid control. Although he lost almost all power, Faramurz was highly respected at the Seljuq court, where he was awarded with the title of "Shams al-Mulk" (Sun of royalty) twice in 1061 and 1063. During this period, he was part of the Seljuq delegation to Baghdad, where he went with the Seljuq vizier Al-Kunduri and Tughril himself to organize the wedding of the Seljuq king with the daughter of Abbasid Caliph Al-Qa'im. After that, nothing more is known about Faramurz, and he probably died soon after. He was succeeded by his son Ali ibn Faramurz, who later married one of Chaghri Beg's daughters.
References
Bibliography
Janine and Dominique Sourdel, Historical Dictionary of Islam, Éd. PUF, , article Kakuyids, pp. 452–453.
1070s deaths
11th-century monarchs in the Middle East
Date of birth unknown
Kakuyids
11th-century Iranian people
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Grand Texas Theme Park
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Grand Texas Theme Park is a theme park currently planned near Houston, Texas, in the United States. It will be located within the Grand Texas Sports and Entertainment District in New Caney, Montgomery County at Interstate 69 (US Highway 59) and SH 242. in Patton Village. Site work began in July 2013, and groundbreaking was in December 2017. It will feature seven theme areas related to Texas history and culture.
Description
The park will have seven theme areas related to Texas history and culture. It is managed by Innovative Leisure Partners.
Construction
Site work began in July 2013. Brae Burn Construction Company, based in Houston, served as the contractor for the first phase of construction. Dallas-based GHA Architects designed the park. Groundbreaking was scheduled to begin in the fall of 2013. It was announced that construction on the Grand Texas Theme Park would begin once the construction of Big Rivers was in operations. On December 14, 2017, the groundbreaking ceremony for Big Rivers Waterpark and Gator Bayou Adventure Park was held.
The Big Rivers and Gator Bayou Adventure Park were originally scheduled to open on June 29, 2018 but have been delayed because of inclement weather during construction. Big Rivers and Gator Bayou Adventure Park opened to the public on May 25, 2019.
References
Amusement parks in Texas
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Leshko Point
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Leshko Point (, ‘Nos Leshko’ \'nos 'le-shko\) is the point on the north side of the entrance to Beripara Cove on the southeast coast of Liège Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica.
The point is named after the settlement of Leshko in Southwestern Bulgaria.
Location
Leshko Point is located at , which is 8.95 km southwest of Neyt Point and 2.45 km north-northeast of Balija Point. British mapping in 1978.
Maps
British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 60. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, UK, 1978.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
References
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
Leshko Point. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
External links
Leshko Point. Copernix satellite image
Headlands of the Palmer Archipelago
Bulgaria and the Antarctic
Liège Island
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All Bad
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"All Bad" is a single by Canadian singer Justin Bieber. It was released on November 11, 2013, The song is the sixth in Bieber's series Music Mondays, the first five being "Heartbreaker" (October 7, 2013), "All That Matters" (October 14), "Hold Tight" (October 21), "Recovery" (October 28) and "Bad Day" (November 4). Bieber released a new single every week for 10 weeks from October 7 to December 9, 2013. The song has been subject to controversy due to interpretations of it being a diss track towards American singer Taylor Swift.
Track listings
Charts
References
2010s Island Records singles
2013 singles
Justin Bieber songs
2013 songs
Songs written by Andre Harris
Songs written by Justin Bieber
Songs written by Poo Bear
Songs written by Ryan Toby
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Audlem Baptist Church is in Woore Road, Audlem, Cheshire, England. It is an active Baptist church, and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.
History
The church was built in 1840, and at a later date a baptistry was added on the north side.
Architecture
The church is constructed in red brick with a slate roof, and is in one storey. The south front has five bays divided by rendered brick pilasters. Each bay contains a round-arched window, and above the central window is a rectangular date stone. At the east end are three blind bays divided by pilasters without rendering. The west end is the entrance front, and is in three bays separated by rendered pilasters. A flat-roofed porch projects from the central bay. The lateral bays each contains a round-headed window with two lights and a round light above. The baptistry is lower than the church. Its entrance front is also in three bays with brick pilasters. It has a central flat-roofed porch supported by slender cast iron Tuscan pillars.
See also
Listed buildings in Audlem
Notes and references
Notes
Citations
Grade II listed churches in Cheshire
Baptist churches in Cheshire
Churches completed in 1840
1840 establishments in England
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1962 All-Pro Team
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The following is a list of players that were named to the Associated Press All-Pro Team in 1962. Players from the first and second teams are listed, with players from the first team in bold, where applicable.
Teams
References
Pro-Football-Reference.com
All-Pro Teams
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Bert: The Last Virgin () is a Swedish film which was released to cinemas in Sweden on 25 December 1995, based on the Bert Diaries by Anders Jacobsson and Sören Olsson. It introduces new characters to the Bert Universe and uses actors like Martin Andersson and Cajsalisa Ejemyr.
Plot
In contemporary Öreskoga, Sweden lives 15 years old Bert Ljung. He attends the 9th grade at school in Sweden and only "thinks of girls", and thinks most of his friends have "done it".
Production
The film was recorded between 27 March - 2 June 1995 in Solna, Vällingby and Kärrtorp Secondary School in Kärrtorp.
Reception
The film was rated 7 in Sweden
It was the second highest-grossing Swedish film for 1996, behind The Hunters, with a gross of $2,603,905.
Home video
The film was released to VHS in 1996 and DVD in 2008.
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External links
1995 films
1995 comedy films
Swedish comedy films
1990s Swedish-language films
Films based on works by Anders Jacobsson and Sören Olsson
Films directed by Tomas Alfredson
1995 directorial debut films
1990s Swedish films
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Xinjiangtitan () is an extinct genus of mamenchisaurid sauropod that lived during the Middle Jurassic of what is now Xinjiang, northwestern China. Its type and only species is Xinjiangtitan shanshanesis (), known from a single incomplete skeleton recovered from the Qiketai Formation. The holotype preserves one of the most complete vertebral columns of any sauropod found in Asia, and has the longest complete neck known for any animal.
Discovery
The type specimen of Xinjiangtitan shanshanesis was discovered by a joint expedition of Jilin University, Shenyang Normal University, and Xinjiang Geological Survey Institutute in 2012, from a quarry south of Qiketai, Xinjiang. In 2013, before the specimen had been fully excavated, Wu Wen-hao, Zhou Chang-fu, Oliver Wings, Toru Sekiha and Dong Zhiming described it as a new genus and species, Xinjiangtitan shanshanesis. The generic name is derived from Xinjiang, and from titan, giant in Greek mythology. The specific name, shanshanesis, is derived from an alternative name for the county where it was found, Shanshan, named after the ancient Shanshan Kingdom. The specific name is occasionally misspelled as "shanshanensis" or "shashaensis", which are invalid spellings even though the correct form would indeed have been "shanshanensis" rather than shanshanesis, as the Latin suffix "-ensis" meaning "from", was used to create the name. Continued excavation of the type specimen revealed that the neck and tail were nearly complete.
Fossils
Xinjiangtitan shanshanesis is known from a single specimen, the holotype SSV12001, which consists of a nearly complete vertebral column preserved in articulation, as well as a partial skull, partial pelvis, and most of the left hind limb. The neck, of which all 18 vertebrae are present, is nearly 15 meters long and is the longest complete neck ever discovered of any animal. The vertebral column is overall among the most complete of any sauropod specimen from Asia. The cervical and dorsal vertebrae have been described in detail. The specimen was originally reported as being from the Qigu Formation (Late Jurassic), but it was subsequently considered to be from the Qiketai Formation (Middle Jurassic).
Description
Xinjiangtitan was one of the longest known sauropods, with a long neck measuring at least in length. It is estimated to have measured in total body length, in body mass and in height. Xinjiangtitan was diagnosed based on the following traits: the presence of a ventral keel on the penultimate cervical centrum that forms a small semicircular process under the distal articular facet; both cervical vertebrae are relatively elongated; the sacricostal yoke except the first sacral rib; and an extremely robust femur. The series of dorsal vertebrae has a length of . The thighbone is long, and the tibia is long.
Phylogeny
Among sauropods, a phylogenetic analysis places Xinjiangtitan as the sister taxon of Mamenchisaurus, the only other mamenchisaurid included. Xinjiangtitan shares several derived characters with diplodocids, including prominent ambiens process of pubis, relatively short hind limb and fourth trochanter on the femur that is caudomedially developed.
References
Middle Jurassic dinosaurs of Asia
Fossil taxa described in 2013
Mamenchisaurids
Paleontology in Xinjiang
Taxa named by Dong Zhiming
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1965 Iowa Hawkeyes football team
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The 1965 Iowa Hawkeyes football team represented the University of Iowa in the 1965 Big Ten Conference football season. Led by Jerry Burns in his fifth and final season as head coach, the Hawkeyes compiled an overall record of 1–9 with a mark of 0–7 in conference play, placing last in the Big Ten. The team played home games at Iowa Stadium in Iowa City, Iowa.
Schedule
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Iowa
Iowa Hawkeyes football seasons
Hawkeyes
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Beripara Cove (, ) is the 2.45 km wide cove indenting for 1.8 km the southeast coast of Liège Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. It is entered north of Balija Point and south of Leshko Point.
The cove is named after the ancient Thracian settlement of Beripara in Northern Bulgaria.
Location
Beripara Cove is located at . British mapping in 1978.
Maps
British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 60. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, UK, 1978.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
References
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
Beripara Cove. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
External links
Beripara Cove. Copernix satellite image
Coves of Graham Land
Bulgaria and the Antarctic
Liège Island
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Martinsville Historic District is a national historic district located at Martinsville, Virginia. It encompasses 94 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 3 contributing structures in the central business district of Martinsville. The buildings range in date from the early-19th century through the mid- 20th century and include notable examples of the Romanesque, Federal, and Colonial Revival styles. Notable buildings include the Henry County Courthouse (1824), People's Bank (1891), Globman's Department Store (c. 1915), Ford Building (1908), U.S. Post Office (1939), the Masonic Temple, the Henry Hotel (1921), the Martinsville Hotel (c. 1930), First National Bank Building (1925), the Knights of Pythias Building (1922), Oakley Apartment / Office Building (1935), the Chief Tassel Building (1930), First United Methodist Church of Martinsville (1922), Richardson's Motor Co. (c. 1918), Gravely Pin Factory (1907), and Sale Knitting Plant (1937).
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
References
External links
Henry County Courthouse, 1 East Main Street, Martinsville, Martinsville, VA: 1 photo and 1 photo caption page at Historic American Buildings Survey
Historic American Buildings Survey in Virginia
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
Federal architecture in Virginia
Romanesque Revival architecture in Virginia
Colonial Revival architecture in Virginia
Buildings and structures in Martinsville, Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Martinsville, Virginia
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Bimbisula ("dawn booby") is an extinct genus of sulid bird known from fossils discovered in Pliocene rocks of South Carolina, United States. The type and only named species is B. melanodactylos. The genus name is a combination of the Gullah name "Bimbi", meaning dawn, with "sula", an Icelandic word for "fool" that has been used to describe boobies (Sulidae, Sula) in general. The species name is Greek for "black-fingered", referring to the iron staining that darkened the bones of the type specimen. Bimbisula melanodactylos is based on Charleston Museum PV2818, a partial skeleton including fragments of the skull, shoulder girdle, left upper arm, right hand, and fused hip vertebrae, and much of the right leg. It was collected in 1980 by James Malcolm from a locality along the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad in Charleston County in the vicinity of the Dorchester Road overpass. A second specimen assigned to the species, Science Museum of Minnesota P90.38.8, consists of a cranium discovered in October 1990 by Bruce Erickson near the Wando Terminal. Both specimens were found in the Goose Creek Limestone, of middle Pliocene age. The type specimen comes from the upper part of the formation, which is approximately 3.6 to 3.5 million years old. The exact stratigraphy of the second specimen is uncertain, and it may be anywhere from 3.9 to 3.5 million years old. Bimbisula was a large sulid, comparable in size to smaller species of gannets, and its skeleton shows a combination of booby-like and gannet-like characteristics.
References
Sulidae
Pliocene birds
Pliocene birds of North America
Fossil taxa described in 2013
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At the 1999 Pan Arab Games, the athletics events were held at the Prince Hasan Youth City Stadium in the Al Hasan Sport City Complex in Irbid, Jordan from 11 to 14 August.
The athletics events were held before the official opening ceremony of the games on 18 August due to their proximity to the 1999 World Championships in Athletics, also held that month.
A total of 45 events were contested, of which 23 by male and 22 by female athletes (the men's programme featured a steeplechase event). The women's road events were shorter than the men's, having a half marathon compared to the men's marathon and a 10 km walk compared to a 20 km walk.
The competition was affected by the highest profile doping incident of the games. Siham Hanafi originally won three sprinting gold medals for Morocco, taking the women's 100 metres, 200 metres and 4×100 metres relay titles. She lost all three after testing positive for nandrolone (a banned steroid) and the Moroccan relay team was entirely disqualified. Discus throw bronze medallist Karima Shaheen, also of Morocco, was another athlete whose result was annulled due to a drug test failure, again for nandrolone.
The electronic timing system at the event failed during the competition and as a result some of the races were hand-timed. In the men's 110 metres hurdles fifteen-year-old Nassim Qarbani Ibrahim of Qatar ran a hand-timed 13.9 in the preliminary round before running an electronic 14.17 seconds as runner-up in the final – these were the best ever times for the event by an athlete his age.
Medal summary
Men
Women
Morocco's Siham Hanafi was the initial winner in 11.48 seconds, before her disqualification for doping
Morocco's Hanafi was the initial winner in 24.34 seconds, before her disqualification for doping
Morocco was the initial winner in 46.89 seconds, before Hanafi's disqualification for doping
Morocco's Karima Shaheen was the initial bronze medallist with 49.91 metres, before her disqualification for doping
Medal table
See also
1999 Arab Athletics Championships
References
Results
Pan Arab Games champions. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2013-11-09.
Résultats des Jeux panarabes d'Amman . Al-Ahram. Retrieved on 2013-11-09.
IAAF 1999 Top Lists. IAAF. Retrieved on 2013-11-09.
1999 Arab Games
Pan Arab Games
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Petr Pavlensky
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Pyotr (or Petr) Andreyevich Pavlensky (; born 8 March 1984) is a Russian contemporary artist. He is known for his controversial political art performances, which he calls "events of Subject-Object Art" (previously "events of political art"). His work often involves nudity and self-mutilation. Pavlensky makes the "mechanics of power" visible, forcing authorities to take part in his events by staging them in areas with heavy police surveillance. By doing so, "the criminal case becomes one of the layers of the artwork" and the government is "[drawn] into the process of making art".
Early life and education
Born in Leningrad in 1984, Pavlensky studied monumental art at the Saint Petersburg Art and Industry Academy. During his fourth year in the Academy, he took additional training at St. Petersburg Pro Arte Foundation for Culture and Arts (:ru:Про Арте).
Pavlensky's "events" are inspired in part by Pussy Riot, as demonstrated in Seam, and follow in the tradition of artists such as Chris Burden, the Viennese Actionists, and Moscow Actionists Oleg Kulik and Alexander Brener, Fluxus and Joseph Beuys.
Career
Pavlensky and Oksana Shalygina founded an independent online newspaper Political Propaganda in 2012, which was dedicated to contemporary art in political contexts, "overcoming cultural chauvinism, implemented by the government", feminism and gender equality.
Seam (2012)
Pavlensky first became known for sewing his mouth shut in political art event against the incarceration of members of the Russian punk group Pussy Riot. On 23 July 2012 Pavlensky appeared at Kazan Cathedral, St. Petersburg with his lips sewn shut, holding a banner that stated, "Action of Pussy Riot was a replica of the famous action of Jesus Christ (Matthew 21:12–13)". Police called an ambulance and sent him for a psychiatric examination; the psychiatrist declared him sane and released him shortly after the incident. The artist stated that he was highlighting the lack of regard for artists in contemporary Russia, saying: "My intention was not to surprise anyone or come up with something unusual. Rather, I felt I had to make a gesture that would accurately reflect my situation".
Seam is said to reference David Wojnarowicz's actions in Rosa von Praunheim's documentary Silence = Death (1990), in which Wojnarowicz had sewn his own lips shut in protest of the Reagan administration's lack of action against the AIDS epidemic.
On 14 November 2012 Reuters published its list of the 98 best photos of the year which included Seam.
Carcass (2013)
On 3 May 2013 Pavlensky held a political art event in which he wanted to show the existence of a person inside a repressive legal system. This event was called Carcass. His assistants brought him naked, wrapped in a multilayered cocoon of barbed wire, to the main entrance of the Legislative Assembly of Saint Petersburg.<ref name="VideoOfAction">''Petr Pavlensky // Escapist. – 2013. – July, 10.</ref>Own korr. Activists explained of the naked man action near the Legislative Assembly building // www.mr7.ru. – 2013. – May, 3. The artist remained silent, lying still in a half-bent position inside the cocoon, and did not react to the actions of others until he was released by the police with the help of garden clippers. This performance was awarded the Alternative Prize for Russian Activist Art in the category Actions Implemented in Urban Space in 2013.
Pavlensky made the following comment about his art work: "A series of laws aimed at suppressing civic activism, intimidation of the population, steadily growing number of political prisoners, the laws against NGOs, the 18+ laws, censorship laws, activity of Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media, "promotion of homosexuality" laws – all these laws aren't aimed against criminals, but against the people. And at last the Blasphemy law. That is why I organized this action. The human body is naked like a carcass, there is nothing on it except the barbed wire, which by the way was invented for the protection of livestock. These laws like the wire, keep people in individual pens: all this persecution of political activists, "prisoners of May, 6", governmental repressions is the metaphor of the pen with the barbed wire around it. All this has been done in order to turn people into gutless and securely guarded cattle, which can only consume, work, and reproduce."
Fixation (2013)
On 10 November 2013, while sitting naked on the stone pavement in front of Lenin's Mausoleum on the Red Square, Moscow, Pavlensky hammered a large nail through his scrotum, affixing it to the stone pavement. His political art event coincided with the annual Russian Police Day. When the police arrived, they covered him with a blanket and later arrested him.
"A naked artist, looking at his testicles nailed to the cobblestone is a metaphor of apathy, political indifference, and fatalism of Russian society.
Freedom (2014)
On 23 February 2014 Pavlensky organized an event called Freedom inspired by Maidan and the 2014 Ukrainian revolution. The artist and his friends built an imitation barricade on Tripartite Bridge in Saint Petersburg, burned tires, and beat drums. The event was interrupted by Saint Petersburg police who arrested Pavlensky and his colleagues.
On 25 February 2014 Dzerzhinsky Criminal Court stopped the administrative case against Pavlensky on the accusations of hooliganism, and released him from custody. An investigation into Pavlensky's alleged violation of the regulations on political meetings continued. He was charged with vandalism due to the tire burning. During the investigation, Pavlensky secretly recorded his interrogation sessions with Pavel Yasman, the main investigating officer, and involved him into a discussion on the nature and meanings of political art. Yasman then quit his job at Russia’s Investigative Committee and began preparing to become a lawyer in order to defend Pavlensky. The transcript of the conversations was published as the Dialogues on art in several countries.
Segregation (2014)
On 19 October 2014 Pavlensky cut off his earlobe with a chef's knife while sitting naked on the roof of the infamous Serbsky Center to make visible political abuse of psychiatry in Russia. This art event was an homage to Van Gogh.
Threat (2015)
Pavlensky came to the first entrance of the Lubyanka Building, which is the headquarters of the Russian Federal Security Service, on 9 November 2015 at 1:15 a.m. Moscow time, doused the front door with gasoline, and set fire to it with a cigarette lighter. The doors of the building were partially burnt. Pavlensky stood and waited to be arrested, was detained after 30 seconds without resistance, and was charged with debauchery. A few hours after the event, a video appeared on the Internet with an explanation of the meaning of the burning.
The criminal case against Pavlensky was opened on 9 November 2015 under the "vandalism" section of Article 214 of the Russian criminal code. He was held in a psychiatric ward for a few weeks, and spent seven months in prison waiting for his trial.
According to gallerist Marat Gelman, the action shows Pavlensky's "obvious symbolism". "The Lubyanka door is the gate of hell, the entrance into the world of absolute evil. And against the backdrop of hellfire is a lonely artist, waiting to be captured ... Pavlensky's figure at the door of the FSB in flames - very important symbol for today's Russia, both political and artistic."
On 8 June 2016, the Moscow criminal court declared Pavlensky guilty of vandalism and sentenced him to a fine of 500,000 rubles, which Pavlensky refused to pay.
On 13 August 2016, Pavlensky gave a lecture in Odesa, Ukraine which ended with the inebriated Ukrainian journalist and screenwriter Vladimir Nestrenko instigating a fight that ended with his stabbing one of two security guards who tried to subdue him. The second of the two security guards suffered a fatal heart attack after the incident.
Lighting (2017)
On 16 October 2017, in his first political art event outside of Russia, Pavlensky was arrested in Paris after setting fire to the street-level windows of an office of the Bank of France, located on the Place de la Bastille in Paris. He was charged with property damage, together with his accomplice Oksana Shalygina. He was initially detained in a psychiatric unit, until a judge ordered him to be placed in pretrial detention at Fleury-Mérogis Prison. Pavlensky went on two dry hunger strikes while imprisoned in protest at “lack of transparency” over legal process. He served eleven months in pretrial detention.
On 10 January 2019, Pavlensky was sentenced to three years in prison; his pre-trial detention was counted as time served and the remaining two years were suspended. Shalygina was sentenced to two years in prison, of which 16 months were spent on probation. In addition, the convicts are obliged to pay the Bank of France €18,678 as compensation for material damage and €3,000 for moral damage. According to the newspaper Le Matin, Pavlensky in response shouted in Russian "Never!". Pavlensky dedicated his trial to the Marquis de Sade.
Pornopolitics (2020)
In 2020, Pavlensky innovated with a new political art event called "Pornopolitics" for which he launched a website presented as "the world's first porn ressource to involve politicians or elected and appointed government officials". This event aims to expose the lies of civil servants, politicians, representatives of power who "impose puritanism on society while despising it".
On February 12, the artist published intimate videos and sexually connoted messages sent by the deputy and Paris mayoral candidate Benjamin Griveaux to a woman. Pavlensky explained that this material demonstrates "the hypocrisy" of the candidate who campaigned by putting forward "traditional family values". Benjamin Griveaux then withdrew from the mayoral elections. Pornopolitique.com was censored three days after the beginning of the event.
Pavlensky was arrested and placed in police custody with his partner Alexandra De Taddeo who was the recipient of the sexually explicit content. He was tried on June 28, 2023. He invited art historians to testify, as well as actors to perform Moliere’s Tartuffe in court. The prosecution has called for him to be handed down a six-month prison sentence and a fine of €50,000.
Pavlensky explained that this artwork was “entirely based on playing with aesthetic categories” with the high style being juxtaposed to the low style : "Essentially, it was the same as taking a portrait of a politician, made according to the rules of the high style and displayed for everyone to see, and adding to it a drawing of male genitalia". He also declared : “Everything that we have seen from the moment I have presented Pornopolitics to the public was in fact only one of the many episodes of the eternal collision between art and power. However, the fact that aesthetic categories continue to mean so much in today’s world is a real surprise to me”.
Subject-Object Art
Sometimes considered as a representative of the third wave of Russian actionism or a political artist, Pavlensky says he has abandoned those terms and theorised his own art practice which he calls Subject-Object Art.
Subject-Object Art is based on the existence of the phenomenon of power and the interaction between those who govern (subjects of power) and those who are governed (objects of power). Pavlensky explains that Subject-Object Art is about arranging a certain combination of circumstances, thereby forcing officials to proceed to exercise their powers of authority and thus realise the artist’s idea, that is : making power work for art. "Through that, a subject of power becomes an object of art, and what turns them into an object is their own power of authority".
Pavlensky also distingues photo documentation of "events" from "precedents" which are aesthetically valuable images and texts produced by officials during administrative and judicial proceedings that are selected by the artist, exhibited in art spaces, published as books or put on plays and films.
Exhibitions
In 2012, Pavlensky participated in the alumni and students art exhibition Oculus Two organized by the Pro Arte Foundation.
In 2013, in front of the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, he organized a street art exhibition titled Ghosts of Identity, which came as a project of his Political Propaganda periodical.
In 2017, Pavlensky participated in Art Riot at the Saatchi Gallery in London. This exhibition ranks among the top 10 of most popular contemporary art exhibitions of the year.
In 2017, he also participates in Beyond the pleasure principle at Zachęta National Gallery of Art.
In 2018, his work is exposed as part of the exhibition Us or Chaos at BPS22 and Talking about a revolution at 22Visconti.
In 2018, Pack gallery presents his work as part of the exhibition 439754, his prison number at Fleury-Mérogis Prison, where he is detained.
In 2019, ART4.RU Contemporary Art Museum exposes the Archives of Pyotr Pavlensky.
In 2022, his works are exhibited as part of the Politics in Art exhibition at MOCAK in Krakow. The decision to use his work Seam as promotional material for the exhibition was highly criticized by activists who demanded the work to be replaced by that of a Ukrainian artist. A petition signed by more than a hundred Ukrainian and Polish artists led the director of MOCAK, Maria Anna Potocka, to publicly defend her choice: "When we selected the works for the exhibition, we were looking for artists who express themselves on political matters and, at the same time, whose works have great artistic value”.
In 2022, Pavlensky presents Pornopolitics and Other Precedents, his first solo show in the UK. The exhibition, held at the London-based organisation a/political, is backed by Babestation. This exhibition of "precedents" unveils Pavlensky's theoretical framework, which he terms Subject-Object Art.
In 2022, his artworks Seam, Pornopolitics and Fixation were presented as parts of the Milky Way exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum of Vojvodina, Serbia.
In 2023, his artwork Lighting is part of the Someone is getting rich exhibition at the TropenMuseum in Amsterdam.
Controversies
Sexual assault allegations
In the beginning of 2017, Pavlensky received asylum in France, after he fled Russia with his partner Oksana Shalygina and their children amid allegations of sexual assault against the couple. Media in Russia reported that a young actress from Moscow theatre Teatr.doc, Anastasia Slonina, had accused Pavlensky and Shalygina of sexually assaulting her and then threatening her. Pavlensky and Shalygina denied the allegations and said the investigation was politically motivated; similarities have been noted with the accusations against Russian historian Yury A. Dmitriev. The couple moved from Russia to France in response. In 2017, they were granted political asylum in France.
Invasion of privacy
In February 2020, Benjamin Griveaux, a former government minister, lodged a legal complaint following the release of videos of him performing a sex act on himself. Petr Pavlensky and his girlfriend are suspected of invasion of privacy and “broadcasting images of a sexual nature without the permission of the person involved”. Pavlensky allegedly admitted to releasing the video on his website as part of his Pornopolitics event, saying he wanted to expose the minister's “hypocrisy”. Pavlensky was arrested on 14 February 2020 for allegedly stabbing two people in a Paris flat during a New Year's Eve party, allegation which he denies. The police were looking for him since then.
Intimate partner violence allegation
In November 2020 Pavlensky’s ex-partner Oksana Shalygina released a book and gave an interview to the website Wonderzine. She recounted experiencing severe physical abuse and sexual violence from Pavlensky. Pavlensky's partner, Alexandra De Taddeo, declared that she read those allegations "with utter bewilderment... Pyotr never showed disrespect to his ex-girlfriend and never even said a bad word about her" and that, in her own experience, "Pavlensky never ever resorted to violence".
In 2022, Pavlensky declared that Shalygina's "book was built on lies, interpretations and understatements... But I do not want to comment on this situation in more detail, so as not to violate the author's intention of Shalygina".
Awards
He was awarded the Václav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent in 2016. The Prize was later withdrawn after Pavlensky announced his intention to dedicate it (and its monetary award) to an insurgent group and then explicitly endorsed the use of violence as a valid method to combat government oppression.
Pavlensky was also nominated for Russia's "Innovation" art prize in 2016, but was later barred by the National Centre for Contemporary Art on the grounds that he had broken the law, prompting four members of the jury to leave in protest.
Bibliography
Павленский П. А. О русском акционизме / Пётр Павленский. — М.: АСТ, 2016. — 288 с. — (Ангедония. Проект Данишевского). —
Pjotr Pawlenski. Pjotr Pawlenski Aktionen / Pjotr Pawlenski. — B.: CiconiaXCiconia, 2016. — ISBN
Pawlenski P.A. Pjotr Pawlenski: Der bürokratische Krampf und die neue Ökonomie politischer Kunst / Pjotr Pawlenski. — B.: Merve, 2016. — 127 с. —
Pawlenski P.A.Wladimir Velminski. Gefängnis des Alltäglichen / Pjotr Pawlenski, Wladimir Velminski. — B.: Matthis & Seitz, 2016. — 135 с. —
Pawlenski P.A. PAWLENSKI / Piotr Pawlenski. — W.: Krytyka Polityczna, 2016. — 291 с. —
Pavlenski P.A. Théorème / Piotr Pavlenski, Mariel Primois-Bizot. — P.: Editions Exils, 2020. — 180 с. —
Павленский П. А. Столкновение. — Городец, 2021. — 272 c. —
Piotr Pavlenski. Collision. — Au Diable Vauvert, 2022. — 336 c. —
Translations
Pavlenski P.A. LE CAS PAVLENSKI/ La politique comme art / Piotr Pavlenski. — P.: Louison editions, 2016. — 262 с. — (French)
Petr Pavlenskij. Nudo con filo spinato - ilSaggiatore, 2019 - (Italian)
Pëtr Pavlenskij. Collisioni - Suddenthoughts, 2023 - (Italian)
Further reading
Sven Spieker. Destruction — Whitechapel Gallery/MIT Press, 2017 — 240 c. —
Pierre Bergounioux. Russe — Fario, 2021 - 48 c. —
Michaël La Chance. Les inventeurs de vacarmes : Théorie et pratiques de la performance — Presses du réel, 2021 —
Sandra Frimmel. Art Judgments : Art on Trial in Russia after Perestroika — Vernon Press, 2022 — 320 c. —
Pedro Alberto Cruz Sanchez. Arte y Performance. Una historia desde las vanguardias hasta la actualidad — AKAL, 2022 — 672 c. —
Jenny Doussan, Boris Groys, Michael La Chance, Victor Misiano, Daniel Neofetou, Pyotr Pavlensky, Julian Stallabrass, Sarah Wilson. Pornopolitics and Other Precedents — MOTHER, 2022 — 104 c. —
Alexandra De Taddeo. L’Amour — Privé/Michel Lafon, 2023 — 368 c. —
Copy cat performance
On 5 November 2020, outside of the Federal Security Service (FSB) Pavel Krisevich "replicated the crucifixion of Jesus Christ while other activists in raincoats labeled “FSB” doused the surrounding area with a harmless burning liquid and scattered folders signifying criminal cases".
References
External links
Political Propaganda, online magazine, in Russian.
Video of the action Carcass TV Channel Rain, 5 March 2013, in Russian.
One hour broadcast They with Petr Pavlensky TV Channel, Echo of Moscow, in Russian.
D. Zykov. Video of action Nail. Artist Petr Pavlensky nailed his testicles to the cobblestone of Red Square'', Grani.ru, 11 October 2013.
Severed earlobe is merely latest scandalous art stunt by Pyotr Pavlensky, Russia Beyond the Headlines
Jan Machonin Too Creative Dissident online magazine A2 16/ 2016
1984 births
Living people
Artists from Saint Petersburg
Russian performance artists
Russian contemporary artists
Political artists
Prisoners and detainees of Russia
Russian prisoners and detainees
Riots and civil disorder in Russia
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Polezhan Point
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Polezhan Point (, ‘Nos Polezhan’ \'nos po-le-'zhan\) is the rocky point on the west coast of Liège Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica projecting 750 m northwestwards and forming the south side of the entrance to Vapa Cove.
The point is named after Polezhan Peak in Pirin Mountain, Bulgaria.
Location
Polezhan Point is located at , which is 2.36 km north-northeast of Garbel Point and 1.65 km south-southwest of Disilitsa Point. British mapping in 1980.
Maps
British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 62. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, UK, 1980.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
References
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
Polezhan Point. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
External links
Polezhan Point. Copernix satellite image
Headlands of the Palmer Archipelago
Bulgaria and the Antarctic
Liège Island
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agn%C3%A8s%20Soral
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Agnès Soral
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Agnès Soral (born 8 June 1960) is a Franco-Swiss actress, comedian and writer.
Early life
Her family settled in Meudon in the 1960s before the expropriation by the state of forest land owned by her father, who works as a legal adviser.
Personal life
The family settled in Grenoble. She is the younger sister of essayist Alain Soral. She avoided him for years and in January 2014, denounced his political positions to the press and television. When her brother began his writing career, Agnès Soral authorized him to use her notoriety by appropriating her pseudonym, something she since regretted.
Theatre
Filmography
References
External links
1960 births
Living people
People from Aix-les-Bains
French film actresses
20th-century French actresses
21st-century French actresses
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birches%20%28poem%29
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Birches (poem)
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"Birches" is a poem by American poet Robert Frost. First published in the August, 1915 issue of The Atlantic Monthly together with "The Road Not Taken" and "The Sound of Trees" as "A Group of Poems". It was included in Frost's third collection of poetry Mountain Interval, which was published in 1916. Consisting of 59 lines, it is one of Robert Frost's most anthologized poems. Along with other poems that deal with rural landscape and wildlife, it shows Frost as a nature poet.
Text
Birches
Summary
When the speaker (the poet himself) sees a row of bent birches in contrast to straight trees, he likes to think that some boy has been swinging them. He then realizes that it was not a boy, rather an ice storm that had bent the birches. On a winter morning, freezing rain covers the branches with ice, which then cracks and falls to the snow-covered ground. The sunlight refracts on the ice crystals, making a brilliant display.
When the truth strikes the speaker, he still prefers his imagination of a boy swinging and bending the birches. The speaker says he also was a swinger of birches when he was a boy and wishes to be so now. When he becomes weary of this world, and life becomes confused, he would like to go toward heaven by climbing a birch tree and then coming back again, because earth is the right place for love.
Analysis
This poem is written in blank verse, with a particular emphasis on the "sound of sense". For example, when Frost describes the cracking of the ice on the branches, his selections of syllables create a visceral sense of the action taking place: "Soon the sun's warmth makes them shed crystal shells / Shattering and avalanching on the snow crust — / Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away..."
Originally, this poem was called "Swinging Birches", a title that perhaps provides a more accurate depiction of the subject. In writing this poem, Frost was inspired by his childhood experience with swinging on birches, which was a popular game for children in rural areas of New England during the time. Frost's own children were avid "birch swingers", as demonstrated by a selection from his daughter Lesley's journal: "On the way home, i climbed up a high birch and came down with it and I stopped in the air about three feet and pap cout me."
In the poem, the act of swinging on birches is presented as a way to escape the hard rationality or "Truth" of the adult world, if only for a moment. As the boy climbs up the tree, he is climbing toward "heaven" and a place where his imagination can be free. The narrator explains that climbing a birch is an opportunity to "get away from earth awhile / And then come back to it and begin over." A swinger is still grounded in the earth through the roots of the tree as he climbs, but he is able to reach beyond his normal life on the earth and reach for a higher plane of existence.
Frost highlights the narrator's regret that he can no longer find this peace of mind from swinging on birches. Because he is an adult, he is unable to leave his responsibilities behind and climb toward heaven until he can start fresh on the earth. In fact, the narrator is not even able to enjoy the imagined view of a boy swinging in the birches. In the fourth line of the poem, he is forced to acknowledge the "Truth" of the birches: the bends are caused by winter storms, not by a boy swinging on them.
Significantly, the narrator's desire to escape from the rational world is inconclusive. He wants to escape as a boy climbing toward heaven, but he also wants to return to the earth: both "going and coming back". The freedom of imagination is appealing and wondrous, but the narrator still cannot avoid returning to "Truth" and his responsibilities on the ground; the escape is only a temporary one.
The poem is full of ambiguity and it has got a very aesthetic sense to it.
Overview
Written in conversational language, the poem constantly moves between imagination and fact, from reverie to reflection. In the opening, the speaker employs an explanation for how the birch trees were bent. He is pleased to think that some boys were swinging them when he is suddenly reminded that it is actually the ice-storm that bends the trees. Thus, the poem makes some shift of thought in its description. An abrupt shift occurs when the speaker yearns to leave this earth because of its confusion and make a heaven-ward journey. But the speaker does not want to die by leaving earth forever. He wants to come back to this earth, because to the speaker, the earth is, though not perfect, a better place for going on. The speaker is not one who is ready to wait for the promise of afterlife. The love expressed here is for life and himself. This shows Frost's agnostic side where heaven is a fragile concept to him. This becomes clear when he says, "the inner dome of heaven had fallen."
Rich metaphoric thinking and imagery abound in the poem, where Frost presents some sharp descriptions of natural phenomena.
Form
The poem is written in blank verse. The language is conversational (use of first person "I" and second person "You".)
References
External links
"Birches" at Academy of American Poets
"Birches" at Poetry Foundation
"Birches" at LibriVox (12 free readings, downloadable)
Robert Frost
1915 poems
1900s poems
Poetry by Robert Frost
Poems about trees
American poems
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idas%20sommarvisa
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Idas sommarvisa
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"Idas sommarvisa" or "Du ska inte tro det blir sommar" is a song with a summertime theme. Astrid Lindgren wrote the lyrics and Georg Riedel composed the music. The song's three verses were performed by Lena Wisborg (as Ida) in the 1973 film Emil and the Piglet.
"Idas sommarvisa" has three verses, and is often sung during graduations, where it has been seen as a popular non-religious alternative to "Den blomstertid nu kommer" and "I denna ljuva sommartid". However, some people believe that the lyrics "ifall inte nån sätter fart" ("if nobody kicks off") may refer to God.
An early recording was done in 1976 by Thor-Erics. A 1979 recording called "Jag gör så att blommorna blommar" by the Small Town Singers charted at Svensktoppen for 10 weeks during the period of 15 July-16 September 1979, peaking at 2nd position.
References
1973 songs
Swedish songs
Swedish-language songs
Songs with lyrics by Astrid Lindgren
Songs with music by Georg Riedel (jazz musician)
Songs about flowers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sizwe%20Zakho
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Sizwe Zakho
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Sizwe Zako is a South African born music producer, he is known for producing artists like Rebecca Malope, Israel Mosehla and worked with a whole host of other gospel. He also traveled around the continent of Africa hosting workshops on gospel music. Zako's distinct style of producing has seen a massive turnaround in the South African gospel scene in such a way that many upcoming musicians aspired to work with him.
References
South African record producers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis%20Bachurin
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Denis Bachurin
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Denis Dmitrievich Bachurin (; born June 7, 1991) a Russian professional ice hockey defenceman who currently plays for HC Almaty of the Kazakhstan Hockey Championship.
References
External links
1991 births
Living people
Russian ice hockey defencemen
Nomad Astana players
Barys Nur-Sultan players
Sibirskie Snaipery players
Snezhnye Barsy players
HC Almaty players
HC Astana players
Sportspeople from Novosibirsk
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20H.%20Jones%20%28American%20politician%29
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John H. Jones (American politician)
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John H. Jones (February 18, 1836 – March 19, 1875) was an American lawyer and politician.
Born in Center Lisle, Broome County, New York, he studied law in Coudersport, Pennsylvania and was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar. In 1857, he moved to Sheboygan, Wisconsin where he practiced law. Jones also served as District Attorney of Sheboygan County, Wisconsin 1862–1870. He then served in the Wisconsin State Senate as a Republican 1871–1872. He died in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
Notes
1836 births
1875 deaths
People from Broome County, New York
People from Potter County, Pennsylvania
Politicians from Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Pennsylvania lawyers
Wisconsin lawyers
Republican Party Wisconsin state senators
19th-century American politicians
19th-century American lawyers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fayette%20Street%20Historic%20District
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Fayette Street Historic District
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Fayette Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Martinsville, Virginia. It encompasses 116 contributing buildings, in a traditionally African-American section of Martinsville. It includes a variety of commercial, religious, educational and residential buildings dating from the late-19th century through the mid- 20th century. Notable buildings include the Dennis Hairston House (c. 1910), community Market (1925), Mt. Carmel Church, Grace United Presbyterian Church (c. 1918), Albert Harris Intermediate School, Alex Hairston House (c. 1923), Baldwin Block, Watkins-Hairston Funeral Home (1931), Gordon Building (1941), and the Imperial Savings and Loan (1953).
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
References
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
African-American history of Virginia
Buildings and structures in Martinsville, Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Martinsville, Virginia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reticulariaceae
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Reticulariaceae
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Reticulariaceae is a family of slime molds recognized by the Integrated Taxonomic Information System and is composed of the genera Dictydiaethalium, Enteridium, Lycogala, Reticularia, and Tubifera.
However, other classifications place Dictydiaethalium in the family Dictydiaethaliaceae and the other genera above in the family Tubiferaceae.
References
Myxogastria
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964%20Iowa%20Hawkeyes%20football%20team
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1964 Iowa Hawkeyes football team
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The 1964 Iowa Hawkeyes football team represented the University of Iowa in the 1964 Big Ten Conference football season. Led by fourth-year head coach Jerry Burns, the Hawkeyes compiled an overall record of 3–6 with a mark of 1–5 in conference play, tying for ninth place in the Big Ten. The team played home games at Iowa Stadium in Iowa City, Iowa.
Schedule
References
Iowa
Iowa Hawkeyes football seasons
Iowa Hawkeyes football
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann-Katrin%20Berger
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Ann-Katrin Berger
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Ann-Katrin Berger (born 9 October 1990) is a German professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Women's Super League club Chelsea and the Germany national team.
Early life
At the age of four, Berger began playing football in the KSG Eislingen. As a teenager, she moved to FV Faurndau. She played as a striker, midfielder and defender and only switched to the goal at the age of 16, because she became "lazy to run," and "has grown" again.
Club career
In 2007, she moved up to the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg. A year later, Berger moved to second division side, VfL Sindelfingen. In the summer of 2011, Berger signed a three-year contract with 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam in the Frauen-Bundesliga, the top division in Germany. She made her debut for the club on 21 August 2011 and shut out Hamburger SV 4–0. She made five appearances for the club during the 2011/2012 season playing a total of 450 minutes. Potsdam finished first in the league with an 18–2–2 record. She was the starting goalkeeper in three of Potsdam's 2011–12 UEFA Women's Champions League matches helping the squad earn shut-outs against Þór Akureyri and Glasgow City F.C.
Berger signed with Paris Saint-Germain in June 2014, playing 22 matches in all competitions during her two-year spell with the club. In June 2016, she joined Birmingham City.
In November 2017, Berger was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. She made a full recovery. During her battle with cancer, she had a desire to continue playing football. On 4 February 2018, she made her first appearance since being diagnosed with cancer in the Fourth Round of the 2017–18 FA Women's Cup in an away match against Reading. Birmingham won 1–0. With her strong determination she had a brilliant season, and as a result she won the PFA Team of the Year Award.
Berger continued her strong return in 2018, helping Birmingham City to a fourth-place standing after midway point of the 2018–19 FA WSL season. Having run down her contract at Birmingham City and rejected a new offer, she joined reigning champions Chelsea on 4 January 2019. Chelsea manager Emma Hayes signed her as part of the team rebuild even though Chelsea had three other goalkeepers on their roster.
In April 2021, Berger made title winning saves away against Manchester City in a 2–2 draw, as Chelsea fought to preserve their lead at the top of the table. Chelsea and manager Emma Hayes later won their 4th WSL title, the most by any WSL team, by 2 points on the final day of the 2020–21 season with a 5–0 victory over Reading. Chelsea broke the records for most wins (18) and most points (57) in a season, and became just the third team to defend the League title after Liverpool and Arsenal. Berger registered the most clean sheets (12), winning the Golden Glove. On 23 August 2022 Berger announced, that she was suffering from thyroid cancer again. A little over a month later, on the 25 September, Berger made her comeback against Manchester City. In March 2023, Berger made the decisive save on Lindsay Horan's shot in the penalty shootout with Lyon, to take Chelsea to the semi-finals in the Women's Champions league.
International career
Berger received her first call-up to the Germany national team in November 2018.
She was named in the squad for UEFA Women's Euro 2022, but did not play, as Germany finished as runners-up. In July 2023, she was named in the squad for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup. She made no appearances and for the first time ever, Germany got knocked out after the group stage.
Personal life
Berger is openly lesbian, and in a relationship with her Chelsea teammate Jess Carter.
Berger is an Ambassador and co-founder of the Judan Ali Football Academy known as JAFA based in London and founded in 2019.
Career statistics
Club
International
Honours
1. FFC Turbine Potsdam
Bundesliga: 2011–12
DFB-Hallenpokal for women: 2014
Birmingham City
Women's FA Cup: runner-up: 2016–17
Chelsea
FA Women's Super League: 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23
FA Women's League Cup: 2019–20, 2020–21
Women's FA Community Shield: 2020
Women's FA Cup: 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23
UEFA Women's Champions League: Semi-finals 2018–19, Runners up 2020—21
Germany
UEFA Women's Championship runner-up: 2022
Individual
Women's Super League Golden Glove: 2020–21
FA WSL PFA Team of the Year: 2017–18, 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22
The Best FIFA Goalkeeper: 3rd in 2021 3rd in 2022
References
External links
FFC Turbine Potsdam player profile
PSG player profile
Living people
1990 births
Women's association football goalkeepers
1. FFC Turbine Potsdam players
Paris Saint-Germain Féminine players
German expatriate sportspeople in France
Expatriate women's footballers in France
German women's footballers
German expatriate women's footballers
Expatriate women's footballers in England
German expatriate sportspeople in England
Women's Super League players
Birmingham City W.F.C. players
Division 1 Féminine players
Chelsea F.C. Women players
Frauen-Bundesliga players
German LGBT footballers
German lesbians
Lesbian sportswomen
Germany women's international footballers
21st-century German LGBT people
People from Göppingen
Footballers from Stuttgart (region)
UEFA Women's Euro 2022 players
2023 FIFA Women's World Cup players
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