Nascentes do Paranapanema State Park

* Alckmin, Geraldo; Covas, Bruno (22 June 2012), "Decreto nº 58.148, de 21 de Junho de 2012", Diário Oficial (in Portuguese), Government of São Paulo, 122 (116)
  * "Caçadores de macacos voltam a agir em parque estadual", UOL notícias (in Portuguese), 31 March 2013
  * Nascentes do Paranapanema (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental
  * Protegendo Nascentes, Cavernas e Ecótonos: Criação e Ampliação de UCs no Corredor Ecológico de Paranapiacaba, SP (in Portuguese), RBMA
  * Tomazela, José Maria (18 June 2012), "Governo de SP cria parque para proteger nascentes do Rio Paranapanema", O Estadão (in Portuguese), Sorocaba


James Hart (police officer)

James Maurice Hart, CBE, QPM, was Commissioner of the City of London PoliceSimon Walsh, and chaired the Force's senior decision-making forum, the Strategic Management Board (SMB). He was Chairman of the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) 'Economic Crime' portfolio and a regular public speaker on matters relating to economic crime and counter terrorism. He has completed the Government Cabinet Office 'Top Management' programme and is a graduate of the FBI National Executive Institute.

Prior to joining the City of London Police as Assistant Commissioner in 1998, his previous police service was with the Surrey and Metropolitan Police Services, and included extensive and varied operational experience in senior posts at Heathrow Airport and Notting Hill, with divisional command positions at Wandsworth and the Diplomatic Protection Group.

At a strategic level he headed the Commissioner's Policy Unit at New Scotland Yard, and was a member of a small team of senior staff implementing a major restructuring of the Metropolitan Police. He was the national co-ordinator of the Operational Policing Review, published in 1990. He was co-author of 'Neighbourhood Policing (1981) which was further developed in his thesis 'The Management of Change in Police Organisations' published in 2004.

As Assistant Chief Constable of the Surrey Police, he initially held the support services portfolio, with responsibility for human resources, finance, information technology and administration of justice. Responsibility for both general and specialist operational matters followed, including management of the territorial divisions, and overall responsibility for partnership activities - working with statutory and voluntary agencies within the County to enhance community safety and crime reduction. His specialist operations role included responsibility for all serious and organised crime investigations, mobile and operational support, forensic science and major incident and emergency response.

He attended the Joint Services Defence Course at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, and the Senior Command Course at the Police Staff College, Bramshill. He holds a B.Sc.(Hons) degree in Systems Science and Management, and a PhD in Systems Science, both from the City University, London. In 2004 he was conferred with the degree of Doctor of Science from the City University, where he is a visiting professor, Chairman of the Alumni Association and a member of the University's advisory board. He is a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute, He was awarded the Queen's Police Medal in the 1999 Queen's Birthday Honours list and a CBE in the 2007 Queens Birthday Honours list.


HD 115088

HD 115088, also known as HIP 64951, is a star located in the southern circumpolar constellation Chamaeleon. It has an apparent magnitude of 6.33,naked eye visibility. Based on parallax measurements from the Gaia spacecraft, the object is estimated to be 412 light years distant.magnitudes due to interstellar dust.

HD 115088 has a stellar classification of B9.5/A0 Vmain sequence star. It has 2.85 times the mass of the Sunradius of the Sun.luminosity of the Sunphotosphere at an effective temperature of 10,950 K,million years old, having completed 52.5% of its main sequence lifetime.


Gregory Orr

Gregory Orr may refer to:

  * Gregory Orr (filmmaker) (born 1954), American writer and director of documentary and fiction films
  * Gregory Orr (poet) (born 1947), American poet


Hornakht (17th Dynasty)

Drawing of Hornakht's rishi coffin

Hornakht was an ancient Egyptian official living at the end of the Second Intermediate Period. His title was royal acquaintance (with right of) access. He is known in Egyptology because his burial was found undisturbed. It was discovered on 21 December 1862 by Luigi Vassalli who worked for Auguste Mariette in Dra' Abu el-Naga' at Thebes. Gaston Maspero published the tomb group in 1892.rishi coffin of Hornakht and a set of objects, some of them inscribed with the names of other officials some of these objects perhaps gifts to Hornakht. There was a throw stick with the name of king Seqenenre Djehuty-aa (Seqenenre Tao of the 17th Dynasty) also inscribed with the name of the king's son Tjuiu. The object provides an idea of Hornakht's dating. A box bears the name of the mayor Minemhat and there was a cosmetic spoon inscribed with the name and title of the mayor of Hierakonpolis Sobeknakht. These people are all most likely contemporary with Hornakht. A vase bears the name of an Idi and dates most likely to the Old Kingdom. Other objects found in the tomb are scarabs, stone vessels, a pair of sandals, a headrest and a gaming board.

Originally, Vassalli assigned the tomb to Tjuiu, but later called the tomb owner Aqhor, as he was reading the name on the coffin. However, most recent scholar read the name on the coffin as Hornakht. Aq is clearly a part of the title and translates as access, while the old reading of the name simply missed the name element nakht.


Rockland Lake

Rockland Lake may refer to:

Places

  * Rockland Lake, a lake in Rockland County, New York
  * The unincorporated hamlet of Rockland Lake, New York, a former populated place located on the shores of Rockland Lake
  * Rockland Lake State Park, a state park near the Hudson River in Rockland County, New York, within which Rockland Lake is located

Other

  * Rockland Lake ice, ice sourced from Rockland Lake largely by the Knickerbocker Ice Company, which dominated ice harvesting and distribution for New York City during the 19th century


Keith Oliver (biathlete)

Keith Oliver (born 27 October 1947) is a British biathlete. He competed at the 1972 Winter Olympics, the 1976 Winter Olympics and the 1980 Winter Olympics.

  * Keith Oliver at Olympedia


Jan Andersson (politician)

For the Swedish politician born 1970, see Jan R. Andersson.

Jan Andersson (born 17 March 1947 in Helsingborg, Scania) is a Swedish politician who has been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 1995. He is a member of the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Sweden, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and is vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs.

He is also a substitute for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, a substitute for the temporary committee on policy challenges and budgetary means of the enlarged Union 2007–2013, and a member of the delegation for relations with Japan.

Career

  * Advanced school-leaving certificate (1967)
  * Intermediate-level teacher (1971)
  * Teacher in Helsingborg (1972–1988)
  * Member of Helsingborg municipal executive board (1982–1988)
  * Chairman of Helsingborg Social Welfare Board (1983–1985, 1990)
  * Member of the Swedish Parliament (1988–1995)
  * Member of the Helsingborg Social Democratic Party executive (1979–1990)
  * co-opted member of Skåne Social Democratic Party executive (since 1995)
  * Co-opted member of the Social Democratic Party executive committee and party executive (since 2000)
  * Member of the European Parliament since 1995
  * European Parliament biography
  * Declaration (PDF) of financial interests (in Swedish)


Schwandorf station

Schwandorf station is the second most important regional transport hub in the Upper Palatinate province of Bavaria after Regensburg Hauptbahnhof, and one of the two working railway stations in the town of Schwandorf. It is classified as a category 3 station by Deutsche Bahn.

History

The station was opened on 12 December 1859 by the Bavarian Eastern Railway Company, when the Nuremberg–Schwandorf–Regensburg route was taken into service. Just under four years later, on 1 October 1863, the Schwandorf–Weiden line was opened and, in 1865, it was extended to Eger. The link to Cham was opened on 7 January 1861 and in autumn of that year the line was opened all the way through to Prague via Furth im Wald and Pilsen. The result was that two lines passed through the town, one in a north-south and one in an east-west direction. These lines still exist, although Schwandorf can no longer be called a "railwayman's town" as used to be the case.

Infrastructure and facilities

The station has eleven main lines of which five are used for passenger services. The home platform and the two island platforms are 38 cm high and do not meet the requirement for barrier-free admission. In the station building, there is a ticket machine, a newsagent, a bakery, and a shop for travellers with a bistro.

Transport links

About a hundred trains runs daily from Schwandorf station. Direct connexions include those to:

  * Furth im Wald (hourly, ALX+RE+RB)
  * Weiden-Hof (hourly, ALX+RE+VBG)
  * Nürnberg (hourly, RE)
  * Regensburg (hourly, ALX+RE+VBG)
  * Munich (every 2 hours, ALX)
  * Prague (4 per day, ALX+RE)
  * Gera (3 per day, RE)

Next to the railway station is a bus station, from which buses depart to all parts of the town and the local area. A Park-and-Ride car park and taxi stand are also available at the station.

Klardorf station


Schwandorf station

Klardorf station

South of Schwandorf in the suburb of Klardorf there is another station at which no passenger trains have stopped since 2 June 1985.

  * Media related to Schwandorf station at Wikimedia Commons
  * Information about Schwandorf station at bahnhof.de
  * Information about Irrenlohe station at bahnhof.de


Sir Robert Price, 2nd Baronet

Portrait of Robert Price

Sir Robert Price, 2nd Baronet (3 August 1786 – 6 November 1857) was a British baronet and Member of Parliament.

Robert Price was the only son of Sir Uvedale Price, the writer on the Picturesque, by Lady Caroline Carpenter, fourth daughter of George Carpenter, 1st Earl of Tyrconnel.

He was MP for Herefordshire from 1818 until 1841.Salisbury and Prebendary of Durham, by his second wife Mary Anne Sanderson. The marriage took place at the house of Barrington Price, then of Haslemere,

Sir Robert stood for election to the constituency of Hereford City in 1845; he was unopposed, and remained the city's MP until January 1857. He was "of Whig principles; in favour of an extension of the franchise and short parliaments".

In 1820, he began buying up leases, leading to the founding of Tondu Ironworks. His Glamorgan Coal and Iron Company prospered during the 1830s and 1840s, but by 1850 it was struggling because of a fall in iron prices and Sir Robert was in danger of bankruptcy until the works were bought in 1854 by John Brogden and Sons.

He died on 5 or 6 November 1857 without issue, whereupon the baronetcy became extinct. His widow died in March 1878.

  * Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
  * Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Sir Robert Price


Grant Young (rugby league)

Grant Edward Youngrugby league footballer who played in the 1990s, as a prop.

Playing career

Young grew up in Wanganui, shifting to Queensland when he was a teenager.Sunshine Coast club, the Beerwah Bulldogs,South Queensland Crushers and made his first grade début in their inaugural season. He made the New Zealand national rugby league team in 1996, playing in the series win over PNG and Great Britain.

In 1997, during the Super League war, Young aligned himself with Super League and signed with the Auckland Warriors. He played only nine games in the Super League competition that year, although he again earned national selection. Alongside fellow international Hitro Okesene Young was released by the Warriors at the end of the year.

Young moved to England in 1998, joining the London Broncos. In 1998 he played 22 games in the Super League competition. However just two games into the 1999 season he broke his leg and was sidelined for the rest of the season.

Instead Young returned home to Queensland and reunited with his junior club, the Beerwah Bulldogs, becoming the player-coach.Ipswich Jets in the Queensland Cup competition.


Hyndland RFC

Hyndland RFC is a rugby union side based in Scotstoun, Glasgow, Scotland.The club was founded in 1933.Scotstoun Stadium.

History

Hyndland RFC has access to training facilities in Glasgow at Scotstoun Stadium, home to Glasgow Warriors.Victoria Park in Scotstoun to train.Waid Academy F.P. to play for a silver chalice.

Hyndland Sevens

The club host an Under-23 Sevens tournament. The entrants play for the Kurt Lief Cup.

Honours

  * Hyndland Sevens
      + Champions: 1961
  * Waid Academy F.P. Sevens
      + Champions: 1986
  * Strathendrick Sevens
      + Champions: 1987
  * Moray Sevens
      + Champions: 1984
  * Official website


Gunther Plaut

Wolf Gunther Plaut, CC OOnt (November 1, 1912 – February 8, 2012) was an American Reform rabbi and writer who was based in Canada. Plaut was the rabbi of Holy Blossom Temple in Toronto for several decades and since 1978 was its senior scholar.

Life and work

He was born in Münster, Germany. His father's name was Jonas and his mother's name was Selma.Nazis and went to the United States. In 1939, he received his ordination as a Rabbi from Hebrew Union College. After receiving his U.S. citizenship on March 31, 1943, he enlisted as a chaplain in the U.S. Army. He was eventually assigned to the 104th Infantry "Timberwolf" Division and served as a frontline chaplain with the 104th in Belgium and Germany. He held pulpits in Chicago, Illinois 1939-49)Mount Zion Temple in St. Paul, Minnesota (1948–1961). He moved to Holy Blossom Temple in 1961, replacing Abraham Feinberg.

He published a volume of commentary on the TorahHaftarah, which has become the standard Humash used by the Reform movement. He was a long-time columnist for the Canadian Jewish News as well as a contributor of opinion pieces to various Canadian newspapers such as The Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star. He was the first recipient of the W. Gunther Plaut Humanitarian Award. In 1978, he was the honoree of the Toronto Jewish National Fund Negev Dinner.

He was president of the Canadian Jewish Congress from 1977 to 1980, and was also vice-chair of the Ontario Human Rights Commission. In 1983, he was elected president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the international association for Reform rabbis.

In 1978 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Companion in 1999. In 1993, he was awarded the Order of Ontario. In 1999, he received the Commander's Cross (Komturkreuz) of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

A number of years ago, Plaut was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, and withdrew from all public activities. In February 2012, he died at Baycrest Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada at the age of 99.


Gunther Plaut

His son, Jonathan V. Plaut, was also a Reform rabbi, who served as rabbi of Temple Beth Israel in Jackson, Michigan.

Selected works


Gunther Plaut

* Die materielle Eheungültigkeit(The material marriage annulment) (doctoral dissertation, 1934)
  * High Holiday Services for Children (1952)
  * Mount Zion – The First Hundred Years (1956)
  * The Jews in Minnesota; the first seventy-five years (1959) 59-14710
  * The Book of Proverbs – A Commentary (1961) 61-9760
  * Judaism and the Scientific Spirit (1962) 61-17139
  * The Rise of Reform Judaism: A Sourcebook of its European Origins. New York: World Union for Progressive Judaism. 1963. OCLC 39869725. 63-13568
  * The Case for the Chosen People – The Role of the Jewish People Yesterday and Today (1965) 65-19869
  * The Growth of Reform Judaism (1965) 65-18555
  * Your Neighbour is a Jew (1967)
  * The Sabbath as Protest: Thoughts on Work and Leisure in the Automated Society (1970)
  * Page Two – Ten Years of "News and Views." (1971)
  * A Shabbat Manual (1972) 72-10299
  * Genesis. The Torah, A Modern Commentary, Vol. I (1974)
  * Exodus. The Torah, A Modern Commentary, Vol. II
  * Time to Think (1977)
  * Hanging Threads: Stories Real and Surreal (1978) ISBN 0-919630-99-5. Published in U.S. as The Man in the Blue Vest and Other Stories (1978) ISBN 0-8008-5093-9
  * Numbers. The Torah, A Modern Commentary, Vol. IV (1979) ISBN 0-8074-0039-4
  * Unfinished business: an Autobiography (1981), ISBN 0-919630-41-3
  * The Torah: A Modern Commentary (1981), ISBN 0-8074-0055-6
  * Deuteronomy. The Torah, A Modern Commentary, Vol. V (1983)
  * Refugee Determination in Canada (1985)


Gunther Plaut

* Refugee Determination in Canada (1985)
  * The Letter (1986) ISBN 0-7710-7164-7
  * A Modern Commentary – Genesis. (1988) (In Hebrew)
  * The Man Who Would Be Messiah: A Biographical Novel (1990), ISBN 0-88962-400-3
  * The Magen David – How the Six-Pointed Star Became an Emblem for The Jewish People (1991) ISBN 0-910250-16-2
  * German-Jewish Bible Translations: linguistic theology as a political phenonomen (1992)
  * The Torah: a Modern Commentary ISBN 0-8074-0055-6
  * Asylum: A Moral Dilemma (1995), ISBN 0-275-95196-0
  * The Haftarah Commentary (1996) ISBN 0-8074-0551-5
  * More Unfinished Business (1997), ISBN 0-8020-0888-7
  * Teshuvot for the Nineties: Reform Judaism’s Answers to Today’s Dilemmas (1997) ISBN 0-88123-071-5
  * The Price and Privilege of Growing Old (2000) ISBN 0-88123-081-2
  * Meyer, Michael A.; Plaut, W. Gunther (2001). The Reform Judaism Reader: North American Documents (PDF). New York: UAHC Press. ISBN 0-8074-0732-1.
  * Die Torah in Jüdischer Auslegung (in German) (1999–2004)
  * The Torah: A Modern Commentary, Revised Edition ( ISBN 0-8074-0883-2)
  * One Voice: The Selected Sermons of W. Gunther Plaut (2007) ISBN 978-1-55002-739-6
  * Eight Decades: The Selected Writings of W. Gunther Plaut (2008) ISBN 978-1-55002-861-4
  * "Canadian Who's Who 1997 entry"


Gunther Plaut

* "Canadian Who's Who 1997 entry"
  * "Government House: Awards to Canadians" (PDF). Canada Gazette Part I. 133 (33). 1999-08-14. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-21.


Gunther Plaut

All of Rabbi Plaut's papers are housed at Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Rabbi Plaut's entire library was donated to York University and is housed at York's Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections.

  * Gunther Plaut Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine at The Canadian Encyclopedia
  * Scholar urged Jews to engage larger world Globe and Mail obituary 14 Feb. 2012


Giovanni II Ventimiglia, 6th Marquis of Geraci

Giovanni II Ventimiglia y Moncada, 6th Marquis of Geraci (died 1533) was a Sicilian aristocrat, a member of the prominent House of Venitmiglia.

Giovanni II Ventimiglia y Moncada, was the son of Simone I Ventimiglia, 5th Marquis of Geraci, (1485–1544). Giovanni II was confirmed as the 6th Marquis in 1545. His grandson, Giovanni III (1559–1619) and former Viceroys of Sicily, is sometimes erroneously as Giovanni II. Giovanni III also served as President of Sicily Kingdom, 1595, 1598 and 1608.

Coat of Arms of Ventimiglia di Geraci.

In 1527 Giovanni married Isabella Moncada y La Grua, niece of the former Spanish Viceroy of Sicily and Naples, and daughter of Hugo's brother, Juan de Moncada y de Tolça, 3rd Count of Marmilia and 1st Count of Aitona.

Origins of the title Marquis of Geraci

In 1436, the first title of Marquis of Geraci was awarded to the 7th Count of Geraci, Giovanni I Ventimiglia, 1st Marquis of Geraci (1383–1475), by the Aragonese Crown, ruling in Sicily since the Sicilian Vespers in 1282. This Giovanni I was also lord of Castelbuono, Tusa, Gangi, San Mauro (San Mauro Castelverde), Pollina, Caronia (from 1412), Cefalù, Sciacca, Termini Imerese; Count of Montesarchio, Bitonto, Casamassima, Serracapriola, Castellamare di Stabia, Orta Nova and Magliano; and finally Baron of Ciminna. Under the Aragonese, Giovanni I served as Grande Ammiraglio del Regno (Grand Admiral of Sicily Kingdom); Viceré di Sicilia (Viceroy of Sicily) from 1430–1432; Governor of Naples Kingdom in 1435; Viceroy of Duchy Athens and Neopatria in 1444; Regent of Naples Kingdom in 1460; and Captain General of the Church in 1445 and 1455. He married a noblewoman from the Moncada family of Spain.


Giovanni married twice: (1) Agata d'Aragona dei Baroni di Caccamo, (2) Isabella Ventimiglia dei Signori di Ciminna.

In 1475, Giovanni I's son by Isabella, Antonio I inherited the title of the 2nd Marquis of Geraci. He served as Grand Admiral and General Captain of Sicily and died in 1480. In 1444, Antonio had married Margherita Guilhem de Clermont-Lodève, sister-in-law of Ferdinand I of Naples and one of the daughters of Tristan de Clermont, the powerful and influential Count of Copertino and Matera. From 1480 to 1490 the 3rd Marquis of Geraci was both a "Ventimiglia - Chiaromonte", namely, Enrico IV. In 1480, he married Eleonora de Luna, born to an influential Spanish family with links to the Aragoese crown. Antonio died in 1493. His son by Eleonora Filippo born after 1480, died however in 1497 before reaching adulthood. The title passed on to Filippo's brother Simone (1485-1544). Simone Ventimiglia served as president of Sicily Kingdom (1516, 1535, 1541) and Treasurer and Comptroller General of Sicily Kingdom (1522-1534). Simone I married Isabella Moncada, from the Counts of Aderno, and the eldest surviving male son was Giovanni II Ventimiglia, who had his succession as Marquis confirmed under Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.

The (Ventimiglia - La Grua - Moncada) families

Hugo of Moncada y de Tolça, (1476 - Naval battle at the Gulf of Salerno, Italy, 28 May 1528), Viceroy of Sicily, 1509–1517, Viceroy of Naples, 1527–1528, was a young brother of Juan de Moncada y de Tolça, 1st count of Aitona.


The family crest of the Aitona Sicilian-Spanish Marquisses, known as "Moncada"´s with the Marquisate Crown, promoted to Counts in the region of Catalunya, Lleida, in 1532 by Charles V, later promoted to the Marquisate of Aitona by king Philip II of Spain in October 1581, awarded to the 2nd count of Aitona, Francisco de Moncada y de Cardona, deceased 1594

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Benedictine monk Maurolico, as his father, and also as was later on Genius of Science Isaac Newton in England, was the head of the Messina mint and for a time was in charge of maintaining the fortifications of the city on behalf of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. He tutored the two sons of king Charles' bureaucrat, viceroy of Sicily, 1547 - 1557, Juan de Vega, and had the patronage of many rich and powerful men. He also corresponded with scholars such as Clavius and Federico Commandino. Between 1548 and 1550, Maurolico stayed at the castle of Pollina in Sicily as a guest of the marquis Giovanni II Ventimiglia, 6th Marquis of Geraci, and utilized the castle tower in order to carry out astronomical observations. Maurolico's astronomical observations include a sighting of the supernova that appeared in Cassiopeia in 1572. Tycho Brahe published details of his observations in 1574; the supernova is now known as Tycho's Supernova. In 1569, he was appointed professor at the University of Messina

The title of Count of Aitona was modified to Marquisate by king Philip II of Spain on 1 October 1581 on behalf of Francisco de Moncada y de Cardona, Count of Ossona, Viscount of Cabrera, Viscount of Bas, Viceroy of Catalonia, 1580–1581, deceased 1594.


Giovanni II Ventimiglia, son in law of Juan de Moncada y de Tolça, 1st count of Aitona, in 1532, deceased after 1536, brother in law of Francisco de Moncada y de Cardona, deceased 1594, was a keen supporter of the mathematical sciences, besides being twice also Viceroy of Sicily, 1595–1598 and 1606–1607. He supported the efforts of scientist Francesco Maurolico, (1494–1575), see above.

Castle of Castelbuono, province of Palermo, Sicily, a fief of the House of Ventimiglia family, now with some 10,000 inhabitants, near the sea. Construction of the Castle began in 1316, by order of Count Francesco I of Ventimiglia, over the ruins of the ancient Byzantine town of Ypsigro, high on the San Pietro hill


* https://sites.google.com/a/centrostudiventimigliani.com/www-centrostudiventimigliani-com/
  * http://www.grandesp.org.uk/historia/gzas/aitona.htm
  * GIOVANNI EVANGELISTA DI BLASI E GAMBACORTA - "Storia cronologica dei Viceré, Luogotenenti e Presidenti del Reyno de Sicilia", 4 vols. (1790), facsimile edited by the Government of Sicily, 1974.
  * Storia cronologica dei vicerè, luogotenenti, e presidenti del regno di Sicilia. Seguita da un'appendice sino al 1842 [by P. Insenga]. by Giovanni Evangelista di Blasi e Gambacorta, Pompeo Insenga, (1842), 876 pages, Palermo, dalle Staperia Oretea. Available at the Monaco Royal Library, but fortunately, made available through Google 12 million books, by now, Program on Uncopyrighted and Old Books: https://books.google.com/books?id=_t4ahpdB9BgC&pg=RA1-PA864
  * http://www.bestofsicily.com/index.htm
  * http://www.bestofsicily.com/history2.htm
  * http://www.bestofsicily.com/history3.htm
  * http://www.bestofsicily.com/roadmap.htm
  * Compendio dela Storia di Sicilia by Niccolo Maggiore, (1840), bought by Harvard College Library 1912, available through Google Uncopyrighted and Old Books program: https://books.google.com/books?id=I_8KAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA255


Hornbarger Store

Hornbarger Store is a historic general store located at Vicker, Montgomery County, Virginia. It was built in 1910–1911, and is a two-story, three-bay, rectangular brick commercial building. It has a parapet shed roof, segmentally arched one-over-one double-hung sash windows, and wood bracketed cornices. Also on the property is a contributing board-and-batten hipped roof outbuilding.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.


Kyoto Shiyakusho-mae Station

Kyoto Shiyakusho-mae Station (京都市役所前駅 Kyōto shiyakusho-mae eki) is a stop on the Tozai Line of Kyoto Municipal Subway in Kyoto, Japan. It is in Nakagyo-ku. With the station number designation T12, its station color is kara kurenai.Kawaramachi Oike.

The station has one island platform serving two tracks. Most trains of the Keihan Railway Keishin Line make their last stop at Kyoto Shiyakusho-mae before reversing direction.

The station, the name of which means "in front of City Hall," is the closest to the offices of Kyoto's city government. The Honnō-ji was rebuilt nearby, rather than at its original location, following the Incident at Honnōji. Also in the vicinity is the Kyoto office of the Bank of Japan.

History

The Kyoto Shiyakusho-mae Station opened on October 12, 1997, date when the Tōzai line initiated operations between Daigo Station and Nijō Station.

Layout

Kyoto Shiyakusho-mae Station has an island platform with two tracks under Oike Dori and Kawaramachi Dori.

1  ■ Tōzai Line  for Karasuma Oike and Uzumasa Tenjingawa
2  ■ Tōzai Line  for Misasagi, Rokujizō and (Keihan Railway Keishin Line) Hamaōtsu

  * [Ticket gates]
    Ticket gates
  * [Platform]
    Platform

Surroundings

  * Kyoto City Hall
  * Kyoto City Fire Department
  * Honno-ji
  * Bank of Japan Kyoto Office
  * Zest Oike
  * the site of the Ikedaya Inn
  * The Kyoto Hotel Okura
  * Kyoto Royal Hotel & Spa (Ishin Hotels Group)
  * Hotel Ritz-Carlton Kyoto
  * Teramachi Dori
  * Shikyogoku Shopping Arcade
  * Shimadzu Memorial Hall
  * Kyoto Shiyakusyo-mae Station map


Keith O'Neill

Keith O'Neill may refer to:

  * Keith O'Neill (drummer), drummer with the band Cast
  * Keith O'Neill (footballer) (born 1976), footballer who represented the Republic of Ireland
  * Keith O'Neill (fiddler), Irish-American fiddler
  * Keith O'Neil (born 1980), American football linebacker


Jan Amos Comenius (film)

Jan Amos Comenius Czech: Putování Jana Amose, literally The Wanderings of Jan Amos) is a 1983 Czechoslovak historical film directed by Otakar Vávra. It tells story of John Amos Comenius a Czech philosopher, pedagogue and theologian who is considered the father of modern education.

Cast

  * Ladislav Chudík as Jan Amos Comenius
  * Jana Březinová as Dorota
  * Marta Vančurová as Jana Gaiusová
  * Zuzana Cigánová as Magdaléna
  * Jiří Adamíra as Dr. Tupl
  * Jan Amos Comenius at IMDb


Schwanenburg Castle

The Schwanenburg Castle (English: Swan Castle), in North Rhine-Westphalia, where the Dukes of Cleves resided, was founded on a steep hill. It is located at the northern terminus of the Kermisdahl where it joins with the Spoykanal, which was previously an important transportation link to the Rhine.

History

It is already conceivable that in Roman times there was a military base at this point, high above the Rhine, halfway between Xanten and Nijmegen.

The Swan Castle was first mentioned in 1020 in the monastery annals. The Swan Tower collapsed on 7 October 1439. "300 years before God's birth Caesar has built this". This can be read on an inscription above the entrance of the Swan Tower, which was installed by Adolph I, Duke of Cleves after the tower was rebuilt.

The knight's hall, built around 1170, stood where today the car park surrounded by lime trees is located in the outer courtyard. Remains of the richly decorated hall have been excavated in the courtyard of the castle and can be seen today.

Gate 1664

In 1663, the Stadtholder of the Great Elector; John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen approved a renovation of the Schwanenburg in the Dutch Baroque style by architect Pieter Post and commissioned the construction of extensive gardens that greatly influenced European landscape design of the 17th century. Significant amounts of his original plan for Kleve were put into effect and have been maintained to the present, a particularly well-loved example of which is the Forstgarten.

In the middle of the 18th century, the building was reduced by collapse and demolition to its present size. Since then, the judicial authorities are located at the castle, and today the castle is the seat of the district and district court of Kleve. In the Swan Tower, a small geological museum is located.

On 7 October 1944, Kleve was subjected to a huge bombardment. These attacks resulted in huge damage to the town. The bombardment destroyed the historic centre of Kleve, including the Swan tower. The castle was rebuilt between 1948 and 1953.

Swan tower


Schwanenburg Castle

Swan tower

The old castle has a massive tower, the Schwanenturm (Swan tower) 180 feet (55 m) high, that is associated in legend with the Knight of the Swan, immortalized in Richard Wagner's Lohengrin.

Lohengrin first appears as "Loherangrin", the son of Parzival and Condwiramurs in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival. Wolfram's story is a variation of the Knight of the Swan tale, previously attached to the Crusade cycle of medieval literature. Loherangrin and his twin brother Kardeiz join their parents in Munsalväsche when Parzival becomes the Grail King; Kardeiz later inherits their father's secular lands, and Loherangrin remains in Munsalväsche as a Grail Knight.

Swan tower

Members of this order are sent out in secret to provide lords to kingdoms that have lost their protectors and Loherangrin is eventually called to this duty in Brabant,

From Dutch legends of the Swan knight we read that Dietrich, Count of Cleves, Lohn in Westphalia and Teisterbant died in 713 and his daughter Beatrix had to succeed him. Pepin of Herstal, duke of Brabant, who could have helped her, also died (714). In 715 Beatrix was attacked from all sides. She fled to her castle in Nijmegen (Valkhofburcht). Then Elias Lohengrin appears, with a golden sword, silver shield with a double, golden cross, a hunting horn and a beautiful ring with a diamond. He defeats the besiegers, marries Beatrix, and becomes king of Francia. They have three sons: Diederik, Godfrey, and Konrad.

Afterwards Beatrix lives in a tower on the river close to Kleve. She died young and was later remembered as the ‘White Woman of the Swan Tower’. Diederik inherited the golden sword and silver shield and succeeded his father in the county of Cleves. Godfrey became count of Lohn and inherited the hunting horn. And the youngest, Konrad, became ancestor of the counts of Hessen and inherited the ring with the diamond. Lohengrin was told that he had fought the Moors with Charles Martel.

The legend in historical context


Schwanenburg Castle

The legend in historical context

There is almost no reliable information about the local power relations in the area of "Kleve" in the early Middle Ages. The few statements by some historians are also controversial. According to one of these sources to 711, a daughter of a noble family named Beatrix married a Count Aelius (or Helios) Gralius, who was a follower of Charles Martell. This count had possessed areas in the area of Teisterbant as a fief. The son of this marriage had been known as Theodoric I from 742 both Count of Teisterbant and the first Earl of Cleves. Among his descendants, the counties Teisterbant and Cleves were divided. The last descendant of this noble family in Cleves was Count Nufried, after his death in 1008 this family line has died out.

A "Beatrix" from a noble house is also mentioned in a legend or fairy tale as the ancestor of the Counts of Cleves, who married a swan knight Elias. At least since the 15th century, the Counts and Dukes of Cleves derived their origin from this swan knight Elias (Aelius = Elias), who is related to the figure of Lohengrin.

About Beatrix of Cleves, Countess of Teisterband

Walter, Count of Teisterbant, in the Dukedom of Gelre, District of the Betuwe, died either 724 or 742 (Oudheusden). His daughter and heiress Beatrix, Countess of Teisterbant, married around 711 Theodoric, Stadtholder and Lord of Cleves. Their daughter and heiress Beatrix, Countess of Teisterbant, got married after the death of both her parents to Elias, Aelius, or Elius Grail, Gralius, Graielis, or Grajus, a great hero, Stadtholder of Nijmegen and (purely legendary) first Count of Cleves. She died 734.

Gallery


Schwanenburg Castle

Gallery

  * [Schwanenburg castle seen from the south. 1758]
    Schwanenburg castle seen from the south. 1758
  * [Schwanenburg castle. entrance. 1758]
    Schwanenburg castle. entrance. 1758
  * [Coat of arms Counts of Cleves]
    Coat of arms Counts of Cleves
  * [Outer court]
    Outer court
  * [Schwanenburg 1897]
    Schwanenburg 1897
  * [Kermisdahl and Schwanenburg castle]
    Kermisdahl and Schwanenburg castle
  * Duchy of Cleves
  * Anne of Cleves


Sir Robert Newman, 1st Baronet

Sir Robert William Newman, 1st Baronet (18 August 1776 – 24 January 1848)Whig politician.Members of Parliament (MPs) for Bletchingley at a by-election in December 1812.

He held that seat until the 1818 general election, when he was returned for Exeter,1826 general election, which he did not contest.

He was created a baronet of Stokeley and of Mamhead in the County of Devon in 1836.Mamhead House, which he had built in the 1820s, employing Anthony Salvin as architect.battle of Inkerman.

  * Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Robert Newman


Monumento a la Madre

Monumento a la Madre may refer to:

  * Monumento a la Madre, Guadalajara, Jalisco
  * Mother's Monument, Mexico City


Hyndford Quarry

Hyndford Quarry is an aggregates quarry in Lanark, South Lanarkshire operated by Cemex UK.Hyndford and has an entry on the register of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland.River Clyde, to the west by Robiesland Farm, to the north by Lanark Racecourse and to the east by Hyndford. The quarry is a restricted area, but can be viewed from the road to New Lanark through Robbiesland Farm, which runs in parallel to Hyndford Quarry's west boundary.

Extension Plans

In 2010, the operators announced controversial plans to extend Hyndford Quarry into the Buffer Zone of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of New Lanark and the Falls of Clyde Designed Landscape.

The application was submitted to South Lanarkshire Council in November 2012, and included a proposal for two extensions: a Southern Extension which lay outside the Buffer Zone, and a Western Extension that would have entered the Buffer Zone.

Opposition to the Western Extension was led by a local group called Save Our Landscapes

The local authority Planning Committee approved the application in December 2013, after an amendment moved by an SNP councillor was defeated. A campaign then followed to have the application called-in by Scottish Ministers. They took the unusual decision (in the circumstances) to do this at the end of January 2013.

The principal opponents of the quarry united to form a single umbrella group called the New Lanark and Falls of Clyde Working Group, and were represented by John Campbell QC. The matter was considered by Reporters at a hearing held in Lanark in August 2014. The Reporters issued a report supportive of the application in February 2015, but Ministers issued a notice of intent in June 2015 indicating that they would reject the Western Extension (but allow the Southern Extension).


Gunther Park

Gunther Park (now Chase Park) was a semi-professional baseball park in Chicago, Illinois. The field site was a large block bounded by Clark Street (east), Leland Avenue (south) and Ashland Avenue (west), and was built in 1905.Wrigley Field.,

A handful of local amateur football and baseball games were played at the location in late autumn of 1904, the first being held on November 2.[Chicago Tribune, November 3, 1904, p. 8] The venue was initially called "Gunther's Park".

After housing the Gunther Nine of the Chicago City LeagueChicago Green Sox of the outlaw and short-lived United States Baseball League, as well as many other local amateur sporting events, the site was redeveloped in 1920. It was converted into a recreational park for the benefit of the Ravenswood district, with tennis courts, basketball courts, playgrounds, baseball fields, soccer fields, and pools. It was renamed in honor of Salmon P. Chase.[Chicago Tribune, December 9, 1920, p. 17]


Giovanni II Valente

Giovanni II Valente (Genoa, 1280 – Genoa, 1360) was the third doge of the Republic of Genoa. His time in office was marked by the crushing defeat of the city against the Venetians at the naval Battle of Alghero. Giovanni had already asked to succeed the first doge of the Republic in December 1345 but had turn down the responsibility.

A doge at war

After the death of his predecessor, Giovanni I da Murta, a short crisis of succession ensued. The popolani supported Luchino Fieschi while the patricians and the partisans of the late doge backed his son, Tommaso da Murta. Giovanni Valente finally emerged as a candidate of compromise and was elected on January 9, 1350.

When Valente abandoned the careful foreign policy of his predecessor and tried to expel entirely the Venetians from the Black Sea,Byzantium and the kingdom of Aragon, forcing the Genoese to seek the support of the Ottomans. On November 17, 1350, to pay for the expenses of the war, the Republic had to levy a forced-loan of 300,000 lire at an interest of 10% from an association of creditors known as the Compera imposita per gerra Venetorum.

On March 9, 1352, the Genoese fleet under the command of Paganino Doria won a naval victory against the coalition near Constantinople. The following year, in August, near Alghero, on the island of Sardinia, the Genoese navy, under Antonio de' Grimaldi was crushed by the Venetians.

Resignation

Confronted with the threat of a new civil war breaking out in the city and the prospect of foreign invasion, the council had to call for the support of the Visconti of Milan. The doge lost any executive power and Giovanni Valente had to resign from the dogate on October 8, 1353, and the position became vacant.

Grosso of Genoa bearing the initials of Giovanni Valente.

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Horn of Plenty (Warren Vaché album)

Horn of Plenty is an album by cornetist Warren Vaché which was recorded in 1993 and released on the Muse label the following year.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source         Rating
AllMusic

The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow stated "Warren Vache is in excellent form throughout this interesting set ... Throughout, Vache is heard at the top of his game, adding a swing sensibility to music ranging from dixieland to hard bop. Recommended".

Track listing

 1. "Eternal Triangle" (Sonny Stitt) – 4:44
 2. "Struttin' with Some Barbecue" (Lil Hardin, Don Raye) – 6:08
 3. "Long Ago (and Far Away)" (Jerome Kern, Ira Gershwin) – 7:57
 4. "Nancy's Fancy" (Buck Clayton) – 3:52
 5. "All Blues" (Miles Davis) – 6:02
 6. "Bix Fix" (Joe Puma) – 5:08
 7. "Joy Spring" (Clifford Brown) – 5:21
 8. "Buddy Bolden's Blues" (Jelly Roll Morton) – 2:49
 9. "Swing Samba" (Puma) – 5:36
10. "I Can't Get Started" (Vernon Duke, Ira Gershwin) – 6:32
11. "Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away)" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Gus Kahn) – 3:26

Personnel

  * Warren Vaché – cornet
  * Houston Person – tenor saxophone (tracks 1, 2, 5 & 7)
  * Joe Puma – guitar (track 8)
  * Joel Helleny – trombone (tracks 1, 2, 5, 9 & 11)
  * Richard Wyands – piano (tracks 1–5, 7 & 9–11)
  * Michael Moore – bass (tracks 1–5 & 7–11)
  * Billy Hart – drums (tracks 1–5, 7 & 9–11)


Kyoto box

The Kyoto Box is a solar cooker constructed from polypropylene with an acrylic plastic cover. The oven traps the sun's rays, creating enough heat to boil water or cook food.

Construction and use

Two nested cardboard or polypropylene boxes form the oven structure. Temperatures inside the box can quickly reach 80 degrees Celsius (176 degrees Fahrenheit)

Solar cookers are being used by hundreds of thousands of people throughout the world. Solar cookers can also pasteurize or sterilize water to provide safe drinking water without using or collecting firewood. Kyoto Box is based on the original "Hot box" solar cooker, invented by De Sasseur in 1767.

Updated design

After the award of the Financial Times Climate Change Challenge 2009 the design of the Kyoto Box was modified from the original cardboard to polypropylene, boosting the cooking performance. A further innovation was the use of a white reflector instead of one covered with aluminum foil or Mylar

Inventor

The Norwegian inventor, Jon Bohmer, made the first model of the Kyoto Box with his daughters then aged 10 and 5 years old. It later won the FT Climate Change Challenge award, placing first in the competition.

  * CooKit
  * Solar cooker
  * Official Website
  * Inventor turns cardboard boxes into eco-friendly oven (CNN)
  * Jon Bohmer's solar project under compulsory liquidation


Keith Parkinson (footballer)

Keith James Parkinson (born 28 January 1956) is an English former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He played in the Football League for Leeds United, Hull City and Doncaster Rovers.


Jan Aqa

Jan Aqa (Persian: جان اقا, also Romanized as Jān Āqā)Ajorluy-ye Gharbi Rural District, Baruq District, Miandoab County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 273, in 66 families.


Schwanitz

Schwanitz is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  * Christina Schwanitz (born 1985), German shot putter
  * Wolfgang Schwanitz (1930–2022), last head of the Stasi, the East German secret police
  * Wolfgang G. Schwanitz (born 1955), German-American Middle East historian


Lolobo, Yamoussoukro

Lolobo is a town in central Ivory Coast. Since 2009, it has been one of two sub-prefectures of Attiégouakro Department, Yamoussoukro Autonomous District.

Lolobo was a commune until March 2012, when it became one of 1126 communes nationwide that were abolished.

Villages in the sub-prefecture include Ouffouédiékro.


Monumento El Cacahual

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Monumento El Cacahual

Monumento El Cacahual, situated south of Santiago de las Vegas and north of Bejucal in Cuba is a monument to and the resting place of the remains of Antonio Maceo, second-in-command of the Cuban Army of Independence, and his aide-de-camp Francisco Gómez Toro. The present monument, the third on the site, was started in 1944 and completed in 1951.


Hynden

Hynden may refer to:

  * Hynden Walch, voice actress
  * John Hynden, politician


Memphis Tennessee Garrison

Memphis Tennessee Garrison (March 3, 1890- July 25, 1988) was an activist for African Americans and young women during the Jim Crow Era in rural West Virginia. Garrison was a McDowell County teacher and community mediator, famous for organizing West Virginia's third chapter of the Gary Branch of the NAACP in 1921. Additionally, from 1931 to 1946, Garrison was the community mediator for U.S. Steel Gary Mines. Some of Garrison's other notable achievements range from establishing the Gary Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, to organizing Girl Scout troops for African American girls, to creating a breakfast program from impoverished students during the Great Depression and finally to creating the "Negro Artist Series."

Early life and education

Memphis Tennessee Carter was born in Hollins, Virginia on March 3, 1890, to Cassie Thomas Carter and Wesley Carter. Both her parents were former slaves, and later her father became a coal miner. Memphis was the youngest of two children and due to her father's profession, her family spent her childhood in the Southern West Virginia coalfields.segregated West Virginia public schools. Later in life, Memphis went on to marry William "Melvin" Garrison, an electrician and coal company foreman from Gary, McDowell County of West Virginia, on October 5, 1918. Memphis and Melvin never had any children, though if she had it is likely her career would have been shortened due to open discouragement of employing teachers with children in West Virginia schools during this time.Bluefield State CollegeOhio University.

Jobs

Garrison began her career as a teacher at a public school in McDowell County in 1908 and remained there until the early 1950s when she retired. Although she dreamed of becoming a lawyer, she could not afford the required training.

She was also a big influence in the politics of her area. As secretary of the Gary Branch of the NAACP, she carried out many projects and campaigns against racism towards colored people. One of her most famous campaigns was the Christmas seal campaign during the late 1920s and early 1930s. This project emphasized “Justice for All.” It collected large amounts of money for the main office of NAACP and produced widespread support for the organization. Her work in the NAACP also helped pass an anti-lynching bill in West Virginia.


Memphis Tennessee Garrison

She dedicated her later life to civic service and took leading roles in many different organizations for the improvement of her state and nation. She was later rewarded with multiple honors for her dedication and service in the Civil Rights area and her constant battles for alleviation of class and gender racism.

Legacy

While Garrison contributed greatly toward the bettering of race relations during a time of immense segregation, she did not always escape repercussions.Christian faith.

Garrison's house in Huntington, West Virginia was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.civil rights movement. According to Owens Brown, current President of the West Virginia State NAACP, Garrison's house is an institution that commemorates Huntington's black community and serves as a remembrance of Garrison's work and activism.


Giovanni K. Tuck

Giovanni K. Tuck is a retired United States Air Force lieutenant general who last served as the director for logistics of the Joint Staff. In his position, he integrates logistics planning and execution in support of global operations and assists the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in fulfilling his responsibilities. Prior to that, he was commander of the Eighteenth Air Force.

In July 2020, Major General Sam C. Barrett, who replaced him as commander of the 18th Air Force, was nominated to succeed him as director for logistics of the Joint Staff.

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Habenaria chlorosepala

Habenaria chlorosepala, commonly known as the green-hooded rein orchid,orchid that is endemic to a small area in far north Queensland. It has two or three leaves at its base and up to twenty small green and white flowers.

Description

Habenaria chlorosepala is a tuberous, perennial herb with two or three bluish-green, erect leaves, 20–60 mm (0.8–2 in) long and 6–10 mm (0.2–0.4 in) wide. Between eight and twenty green flowers with a white labellum, 8–10 mm (0.3–0.4 in) long and 5–6 mm (0.20–0.24 in) wide are borne on a flowering stem 200–530 mm (8–20 in) tall. The dorsal sepal and petals overlap at their bases and form a hood over the column. The sepals and petals are about 5 mm (0.2 in) long and 3 mm (0.1 in) wide, the lateral sepals spread widely apart from each other. The labellum is 4.5–5 mm (0.18–0.20 in) long and 8–10 mm (0.3–0.4 in) wide with three lobes, the side lobes arranged at about 90° to the middle lobe. The labellum spur is white, 7–8 mm (0.28–0.31 in) long, about 1 mm (0.04 in) wide and curves forward. Flowering occurs between January and April.

Taxonomy and naming

Habenaria chlorosepala was first formally described in 1998 by David Jones from a specimen collected near Cooktown by Lewis Roberts in 1993 and the description was published in The Orchadian.specific epithet (chlorosepala) is derived from the Ancient Greek word chloros meaning "green"Neo-Latin word sepalum meaning "a leafy division of the calyx".

Distribution and habitat

The green-hooded rein orchid has a narrow distribution south of Cooktown where it grows with low plants in summer-wet woodland.


Kyoya Yamada

Kyoya Yamada (山田 恭也, Yamada Kyoya, born 29 July 2001) is a Japanese footballer currently playing as a midfielder for Fagiano Okayama.

Career statistics

Club

As of 8 May 2021. Club             Season  League     National Cup  League Cup  Other  Total
Division         Apps    Goals      Apps          Goals       Apps   Goals  Apps  Goals  Apps  Goals
Fagiano Okayama  2021    J2 League  1             0           0      0      0     0      0     0      1  0
Career total     1       0          0             0           0      0      0     0      1     0

Notes
  * Kyoya Yamada at J.League (archive) (in Japanese)


Keith Osmond

Percy Ernest Keith Osmond (26 January 1899 – 8 March 1969) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond and Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Family

The son of Ernest John Osmond (1869-1951),Sale, Victoria on 26 January 1899.

He married Isabella Small Walker (1894-1981) in 1938.

Football

Richmond (VFL)

Recruited from the Richmond United Football Club in 1919. In his six seasons with the Richmond Football Club he played in 12 games with the First XVIII, and in 62 games with the Second XVIII (scoring 9 goals), including the 1923 Second XVIII Grand Final team that lost to Geelong 5.10 (40) to 9.12 (66), in which he was one of Richmond's best players.

Hamilton Y.M.C.A.

In 1925 he was appointed coach of the Hamilton Y.M.C.A. Football Club in the Hamilton and District Football Association.

Collingwod (VFL)

In May 1926 he was cleared to play with Collingwood.

Death

He died at the Austin Hospital, in Heidelberg, Victoria on 8 March 1969.

  * Hogan P: The Tigers Of Old, Richmond FC, (Melbourne), 1996. ISBN 0-646-18748-1
  * Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  * Keith Osmond's playing statistics from AFL Tables
  * Keith Osmond at AustralianFootball.com
  * Keith Osmond's profile at Collingwood Forever.


Inside Nazi Germany

Inside Nazi Germany is a 1938 short documentary film about Nazi Germany directed by Jack Glenn. It is an episode of the newsreel series The March of Time.

In 1993, Inside Nazi Germany was deemed "culturally significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Inside Nazi Germany.
  * Inside Nazi Germany at IMDb
  * Genzlinger, Neil, "'March of Time' Documentary Series Is Revisited"; The New York Times, September 2, 2010
  * Inside Nazi Germany at the Library of Congress
  * "Movie of the Week: The March of Time — Inside Nazi Germany; Life, January 31, 1938


Schwanefeld

Schwanefeld is a village and a former municipality in the Börde district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Since 1 January 2010, it is part of the town Oebisfelde-Weferlingen.


Lolohun

In this Manchu name, the given name is Lolohun. In accordance with Manchu custom, it should be used alone or with titles but not with the clan name Aisin Gioro.

Lolohun (羅洛渾;1 April 1623 – 11 September 1646) was Qing dynasty imperial prince as the first son of Yoto, Daišan's grandson and Nurhaci's great grandson. Lolohun was the second holder of the Prince Keqin of the Second Rank peerage and the sole holder of prince Yanxi of the Second Rank title. After his death, the peerage was renamed to Prince Ping of the Second Rank.

Life

Lolohun was born on 1 April 1623 to lady Hada Nara, daughter of Urgudai and princess Mangguji, Nurhaci's third daughter.

Military and political career

Yoto was granted a title of prince of the Third Rank in 1638, shortly after father's deathJirgalang to Xingshan, where accepted submission to Qing by indigenous leaders Subandai (苏班岱) and Arbadai (阿尔巴岱).Battle of Song-Jin under the command of Dodo, Hooge and Hong Taiji, where he captured and forced to surrender Ming dynasty general Hong Chengchou.mang dragon pattern as a reward.

In 1643, Lolohun did not wear mourning garment during the funeral of Primary Consort Minhui Gonghe which resulted in deprivation of his title.Shunzhi Emperor took the oath while claiming Mandate of Heaven.

As a commander of Bordered Red Banner forces, Lolohun belonged to the most influential Qing dynasty princes, including Prince Regent Dorgon, Prince Zheng of the First Rank Jirgalang, Prince Ying of the First Rank Ajige and Prince Yu of the First Rank Dodo.Hooge in the conquest of Sichuan.

Death and succession

Yoto died during conquest of Sichuan on 11 September 1646Ping of the Second Rank. In 1671, Kangxi Emperor added a character "jie" (介) to Lolohun's title, so the full posthumous title sounded: "Prince Yanxijie of the Second Rank" (多罗衍禧介郡王, meaning: "uniting those overflowing with happiness").

Family


Lolohun

Family

Lolohun was married to lady Tunggiya, daughter of Tong Yangxing (佟养性, d.1632), eminent general of the early Qing dynastyEmpress Xiaokangzhang.

Consort and issue:

  * Primary consort, of the Tunggiya clan (嫡福晋佟佳氏)
      + Prince Pingbi of the Second Rank Luokeduo (多罗平比郡王罗科铎, 10 August 1640-14 August 1682), first son
      + Bahata (巴哈塔, 23 October 1642 - 4 September 1651), second son
      + Prince of the Third Rank Nuoni (多罗贝勒诺尼, 4 February 1643 - 9 February 1701), third son


Monumento a la Raza (Seville)

The Monumento a la Raza is an outdoor marble monument in the city of Seville, Andalusia, Spain. It is installed along María Luisa Park. It was inaugurated on 12 October 1929—the Día de la Hispanidad (Columbus Day). It has written part of the 1905 poem "Salutación del optimista", written by Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío (1867–1916).

History and construction

[A sketch of María Luisa Park]

The monument location within María Luisa Park (far left, No. 41)

The Ibero-American Exposition of 1929's organisers came up with the idea for the Monumento a la Raza.100 metres (330 ft) high concrete columnin Seville's Triana neighbourhood. He intended to build restaurants and a viewing platform on top, both of which would have lifts access.

Santiago Martnez created the final project and it was inaugurated on 12 October 1929—the Día de la Hispanidad (the Spanish-speaking version of Columbus Day).María Luisa Park, near the north tower of the Seville's Plaza de España.

In the middle of 2018, the Seville Urban Planning Management Agency restored the monument.

Description

The Monumento a la Raza is a marble stele.

Poem

[Close-up of the monument featuring the Spanish-language text.]

Detail of the poem

The poem "Salutación del optimista" (1905), written by Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío (1867–1916), is inscribed in bronze across the monument as a salutation to Hispanic Americans.

Inscription (in Spanish)

Ínclitas razas ubérrimas,
sangre de Hispania fecunda,
espíritus fraternos,
luminosas almas, ¡salve!

Inscription (in English)

Illustrious, most fruitful races,
fecund blood of Hispania,
fraternal spirits,
lumious souls, greetings!

  * Media related to Monumento a la Raza at Wikimedia Commons


Hymus House

Hymus House is a State Register of Heritage Places-listed Victorian bungalow style house in East Rockingham, Western Australia.

The building is part of the East Rockingham Heritage Precinct, which also includes other State Register of Heritage Places, like the Chesterfield Inn, Day Cottage and the Bell Cottage ruin.

History

The Hymus family were among the first settlers in East Rockingham in the 1850s. Daniel Hymus (1835-1920) and his wife Fanny (nee Bell) (1848-1913) were involved in the establishment and running of the Rockingham Hotel, then named the Port Hotel. The couple purchased the land on which Hymus House now stands in 1878 and lived in an earlier building at the site.

The current house was built in 1895 by their son Daniel (1876-1932) and the property stayed in the family until 1935, when it was sold to farmer Joseph Stokes, who converted it to a dairy.

The farmland around Hymus House was subdivided in 2007, under the condition that the building was to be restored. The house now functions as the landowning company’s administrative office.

Heritage listing

The cottage is part of the East Rockingham Heritage Precinct, which also includes other State Register of Heritage Places, like the Chesterfield Inn, Day Cottage, Bell Cottage ruin and the Mead Homestead as well as heritage listed places on the municipal inventory like the East Rockingham Cemetery.

The listing is based on the fact that it has not been significantly altered since the 1930s and is demonstrative of the design of homesteads in rural Western Australia in the late 19th and early 20th century.

  * Hymus House Conservation Plan (1999)


Melville Richards

Grafton Melville Richards (1910-1973) was a Welsh scholar in the field of Welsh language and literature and Celtic studies.

Early life

He was born on 29 September 1910 as the third son of William and Elizabeth Richards (his father was a railway foreman) in Ffair-fach, Llandybie, Llandeilo, Carms. Grafton Melville Richards married Ethyn Anne Bowen in Llanelli in July 1939Swansea University) starting in 1928 and finishing in 1931.

Academic beginnings

In 1933, he gained a research M.A. with distinction. Following on from that, he was elected to a University Fellowship in 1934 which enabled him to continue his studies in Dublin with the scholars, Osborn Bergin, Myles Dillon and Gerard Murphy, as well as in Paris with Joseph Vendryes, Antoine Meillet and Émile Benveniste. In October 1936, he was given the position of Research Assistant Lecturer in Welsh at Swansea University and later became Assistant Lecturer in April 1937. This followed the dismissal of Saunders Lewis following the Tân yn Llŷn,Henry Lewis.

War service at Bletchley Park

During the Second World War, Melville Richards was attached to Bletchley Park. His name is listed on the Bletchley Park roll of honour with the grade of FO (Foreign Office) civilian; he served at Bletchley Park between 1941-1945 in Hut 9A, Elmers School, Hut 18 and Block G, ISOS (Illicit Service Oliver Strachey.Abwehr communications using manual codes and ciphers.Y Gelyn Mewnol (The Enemy Within), an espionage story set in West Wales which won the Bangor National Eisteddfod thriller novel competition in 1943. The novel tells the story of a British Secret Service operation to frustrate a fictitious German Fifth Column action in West Wales. The plot involves a Welsh-speaking British Secret Service agent with a background somewhat similar to Melville Richards himself. It features documents recovered from a U-boat sunk by the RAF in Cardigan Bay and the solution of a cryptogram intercepted by MI5. The novel was published in book form by Llyfrau'r Dryw in 1946.

Post-war academic career


Melville Richards

Post-war academic career

After the end of the war, he returned to Swansea University where he was appointed Lecturer (where he stayed until 1947), then he became Reader and Head of Celtic Studies Department in Liverpool University. From there, he was elected to the Chair of Welsh at the University College of North Wales, Bangor in 1965. He gained a PhD from Liverpool 1965.

Celtic studies and Welsh syntax

Melville Richard's first areas of interest in his research were Celtic studies and Welsh syntax. In his early research, he published Llawlyfr Hen Wyddeleg in 1935 which was a handbook based on Rudolf Thurneysen's magisterial 'Grammar of Old Irish'. In 1938, he published Cystrawen y Frawddeg Gymraeg which is a clear guide to the syntax of the sentence in modern Welsh. However, it was unfavourably reviewed by T. J. Morgan in Y Llenor.Breuddwyt Ronabwy (The Dream of Rhonabwy) (1948).

Place names of Wales

He single-handedly produced an historical archive of place-names in Wales and made clear their meaning and significance in a comprehensive Welsh onomasticon. His research was conducted in a range of fields of study which are: settlement patterns and demography, the history of governance and administration, legal custom and structures, toponyms as well as the more strictly linguistic area. Melville Richards did not succeed in publishing his place-names research as he intended but his archive of 300,000 slips, which is held by the Archives and Special Collections at Bangor University Library, has been edited and is available online


Melville Richards

Melville Richards published a translation of Llyfr Blegywryd,The Laws of Hywel Dda (1954), Cyfraith Hywel and an edition of the manuscript Jesus College LVII (1957), Welsh Administrative and Territorial Units (1969) as well as editing Atlas Môn, an Atlas of Anglesey in Welsh and English in 1972. He also published important articles explaining the significance of place-names and laying out the methodology and scholarly standards in a hazardous area of academic study. Some of his research and work brought him international recognition. For example, 'his contributions to the Batsford The names of towns and cities in Britain (1970), as a member of the council of the English Place-Name Society, a member of the International Committee on Onomastic Sciences and chairman of the Council for Name Studies of Great Britain and Ireland...'

End of life

Around 1970, his health deteriorated. He died unexpectedly at home in Benllech, Anglesey on 3 November 1973. His funeral service was held in Colwyn Bay Crematorium on 8 November.


Mongrel (film)

This article is about the 1982 film. For the 2012 film, see The Mongrel.

Mongrel is a 1982 American horror film written and directed by Robert A. Burns. This is the only feature film Burns directed.

  * Mongrel at IMDb
  * Mongrel at AllMovie


Habenaria praecox

Habenaria praecox, commonly known as the early rein orchid,orchid that is endemic to the north coast of Queensland. It has between two and four narrow, upright leaves at its base and up to thirty five small white flowers with a green dorsal sepal.

Description

Habenaria praecox is a tuberous, perennial herb with between two and four upright leaves, 50–100 mm (2–4 in) long and 4–6 mm (0.16–0.24 in) wide. Between three and thirty five green and white flowers, 8–10 mm (0.3–0.4 in) long and wide are borne on a flowering stem 200–500 mm (8–20 in) tall. The dorsal sepal is green, about 4 mm (0.2 in) long, 2.5 mm (0.1 in) wide and forms a hood over the column. The lateral sepals are about 5 mm (0.2 in) long, 1.4 mm (0.06 in) wide, curved and spread apart from each other. The petals are about 4 mm (0.2 in) long and 2.5 mm (0.1 in) wide. The labellum has three lobes. The side lobes are tapered, 4.5–5.5 mm (0.18–0.22 in) long with their tips curved upwards and the middle lobe is about 4 mm (0.2 in) long. The labellum spur curves forwards and is 7–9 mm (0.3–0.4 in) long. Flowering occurs from December to January.

Taxonomy and naming

Habenaria praecox was first formally described in 1999 by Bill Lavarack and Alick Dockrill from a specimen collected near Cardwell and the description was published in Austrobaileya.specific epithet (praecox) is a Latin word meaning "early ripe" or "premature".

Distribution and habitat

The early rein orchid grows with grasses and sedges in forests between Coen and Proserpine.


Kyoyasai

Kyōyasai is the term for heirloom vegetables originating in Japan's Kyoto Prefecture. According to the research of the Laboratory of Health and Environment of Kyoto, Kyoyasai have more minerals, fibers and vitamins than many other vegetables. According to research, Kyoyasai have more nutrients that repair DNA than other vegetables.

Use

Kyo-yasai are eaten mostly in the home or in upscale restaurants. They play an important role in Kyo-ryori, the traditional cuisine of Kyoto.

Kyo-ryori does not employ seasoning. Traditionally, Kyo-yasai are prepared without seasoning because of their rich flavor.

Kyo-yasai are also used for Italian, French and other cuisines in Kyoto.

History

Agriculture began in Kyoto some twelve thousand years ago. It was the ancient capital of Japan and the home to the aristocracy. They supported a market for high-grade food. Kyoto is surrounded by mountains, making it difficult to transport seafood to the area. Instead, people cultivated the most delicious vegetables possible. The climate and soil quality contributed to making delicious vegetables.

In the Kamakura period, Zen Buddhism became popular. At that time Kyoto hosted many temples. Many practiced syōjin ryōri, a Buddhist vegetarian diet. This improved the quality of vegetables and preparation methods.

In 1960 the name Kyō-yasai was adopted.

Kyoto-area growers improved their products so that people could easily cook them. They made them smaller without losing flavor and spread new methods of cooking. Administrative organizations cooperated with agricultural and distribution organizations, attempting to increase sales of Kyō-yasai. In 1989, they started to certify Kyō-yasai as name-brand products. They also promoted Kyō-yasai to other cities.

Definition

The most general definition covers all vegetables grown in Kyoto prefecture.Meiji period and were grown throughout Kyoto. Bracken, springs[?], extinct species and bamboo are also included according to the agricultural cooperative JA Kyoto. In this sense they are a type of heirloom vegetable

Nineteen species are included.

Marketing by A-Coop Kyoto and JA Kyoto


Kyoyasai

Marketing by A-Coop Kyoto and JA Kyoto

A-Coop Kyoto and JA Kyoto made efforts to build a commercial market around Kyo-yasai,Kyoto City government started promoting the foods in 1998 followed shortly by Kyoto Prefecture also promoting Kyo-yasai foods in 1999.

Kyoto City appoints following 41 products as “Kyo-no-shunyasai (Kyoto vegetables in season):”

  * Tomatoes
  * Kyo temari
  * Eggplants
  * Kamo eggplant
  * Cucumbers
  * Green soybeans
  * Sando beans
  * Takagamine pepper
  * Green pepper
  * Bamboo
  * Strawberries
  * Garden peas
  * Fruit garden peas
  * Sweet corn
  * Leaf peppers
  * Sobana
  * Long Japanese radishes
  * Turnips
  * Big turnips
  * Spinach
  * Garland chrysanthemums
  * Brassica campestris
  * "Kujo" Welsh onions
  * "Horikawa" Great burdock
  * Hatakena
  * Sugukina
  * Kintoki carrots
  * Chaste[?]
  * Kyo java water dropworts
  * Brassica nipposinica
  * Mibuna
  * Winter cabbage
  * Spring cabbage
  * Cauliflower
  * Broccoli
  * Chinese cabbage
  * "Arrowhead", which may be Sagittaria sagittifolia
  * Taro-like tubers
  * Saya Japanese radish
  * Hanana.

These are cultivated in Kyoto City.

Kyoto's main purpose for doing this is to popularize Kyo-yasai and to boost the competitiveness of agricultural products. Kyoto Prefecture appoints 21 products as “Brand products of Kyoto:”

  * Brassica nipposinica
  * Mibuna
  * Kujo Welsh onion
  * Japanese yam
  * Fushimi pepper
  * Manganji pepper
  * Kyo yamashina eggplant
  * Shikagatani pumpkin
  * Kamo eggplant
  * Kyo tango pear
  * Murasakizukin
  * Shogoin Japanese radish
  * Arrowhead
  * Hanana
  * Taro-like tuber
  * Kintoki carrot
  * Horikawa burdock
  * Tanba Japanese chestnut
  * Azuki beans
  * Black soybean
  * Kyo bamboo

The Kyo-yasai market is working on circulating Kyo-yasai across Japan by setting up satellite shops.

  * Japanese cuisine


Keith P. Williams

Keith Parker Williams was a Republican member of the North Carolina General AssemblyOnslow county. A real estate broker and developer from Hubert, North Carolina, Williams served one term (2003-2004 session) in the state House.


Inside Monkey Zetterland

Inside Monkey Zetterland is a 1992 independent comedy film directed by Jefery Levy and written by Steve Antin. The film follows Monkey Zetterland, a former child actor turned aspiring screenwriter and the goings-on with his eccentric family and friends. The story uses voiceover narration and is interspersed with fantasy sequences.

Plot

Monkey Zetterland is a struggling screenwriter and a former child actor who is working on a historical script based on the defunct Red Car subway of Los Angeles. He lives in a building owned by his neurotic mother Honor Zetterland, who is a famous soap opera star. While secretly hoping there is a future in acting for Monkey, she attempts to turn her other son, hairdresser Brent, into a film star.

Honor shows up at Monkey's apartment to borrow his epsom salts at the same time that his disagreeable girlfriend, Daphne, arrives. His sister Grace arrives in tears to reveal that her lesbian girlfriend, Cindy, has become pregnant from a one-night stand in an attempt to bring the two of them closer. Honor rents the basement apartment to Sasha and Sofie, a gay man and lesbian posing as husband and wife while publishing an underground newsletter that outs closeted gay people in the entertainment industry.

As if this were not enough, a creepy woman, Bella, shows up with a fan letter for Honor, and another strange lady, Imogene, begins openly pursuing Monkey's attention. After a series of confrontations with Monkey, Daphne moves out. At around the same time, his estranged father Mike, who was absent for long periods of time throughout the Zetterlands’ lives, surfaces in time for Thanksgiving.

While everyone busies themselves with their personal issues, Grace discovers that Sasha and Sofie are in fact terrorists who intend to bomb a local insurance agency that is denying medical coverage to people with HIV and AIDS. Sofie comes up with a plan to send Grace into the agency with a bomb, which Grace and Sasha believe is set up to give Grace enough time to escape before it detonates. It is not, and Grace dies in the explosion.


Inside Monkey Zetterland

This event pulls everyone out of their own selfish interests and forces them to reexamine their lives and the people around them. The patriarch of the family disappears again, Cindy and her newborn baby are taken in by the family, and Monkey decides to let Imogene get closer to him. Then, just as things are starting to fall into place, Monkey comes home to find his apartment ransacked and his finally finished script, of which was his only copy, stolen.

Later that evening, Bella, who left a fan letter for Honor, arrives with Monkey's stolen script and a gun. She tries to shoot Honor, but hits the family dog instead. She is taken down, but the ensuing drama pulls the remaining emotional conflicts of the family into place. Honor accepts that Monkey is never going to become a famous actor. Instead of pushing him into acting, she uses her industry connections to have his script produced into a film starring Brent.

Cast

  * Steve Antin as "Monkey" Zetterland
      + Nicholas Matus as Young "Monkey" Zetterland
  * Patricia Arquette as Grace
  * Sandra Bernhard as Imogene
  * Sofia Coppola as Cindy
  * Tate Donovan as Brent Zetterland
  * Rupert Everett as Sasha
  * Katherine Helmond as Honor Zetterland
  * Bo Hopkins as Mike Zetterland
  * Ricki Lake as Bella, The Stalker
  * Debi Mazar as Daphne
  * Martha Plimpton as Sofie
  * Robin Antin as Waitress In Canters
  * Frances Bay as Grandma
  * Luca Bercovici as Boot Guy
  * Chuck Grieve as Guy At Taco Stand
  * Lance Loud as The Psychiatrist
  * Chris Nash as Policeman
  * Lou Pearlman as The Warden / Observation Psychiatrist (as Louis J. Pearlman)
  * Blair Tefkin as Brent's Assistant
  * Marc Lafia as Observation Psychiatrist
  * Melissa Sullivan as Observation Psychiatrist (as Melissa Lechner)
  * Lauren Zuckerman as Observation Psychiatrist

Production

The inspiration from the script came from Steve Antin’s own background, as he himself started out as a child actor before getting into writing.Campfire Stories.The Accused, Jodie Foster asked to read some of Antin's stories, after which she suggested he turn the stories into a film script.

Release

The film had its world premiere at the 1992 Seattle International Film Festival on June 5, 1992.Toronto Festival of Festivals on September 12, 1992,


Inside Monkey Zetterland

Home media

It was released in 1994 on VHS and in 1995 on Laserdisc. The film was released on DVD on February 6, 2007.

Critical reception

On review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes, Inside Monkey Zetterland has an approval rating of 71% based on 7 reviews.

Emanuel Levy of Variety said the film "is funny, sharp-tongued and devious, but never wicked or nasty. Its resonant comedy is so attuned to the Zeitgeist that any urban dweller will find something relevant in it."The Austin Chronicle gave it three stars, writing, "These actors all create riveting snapshots of oddballs in action," but also noting the film has a "rambling storyline".

Negative reviews criticized the story and characterization. Desson Howe of The Washington Post wrote, "After the characters have taken up most of the movie airing their idiosyncrasies, they undergo melodramatic fates that reveal little more than Antin's recession of an imagination."TV Guide gave a mixed review, praising the film for "inescapably [capturing] the LA attitude", but noting "it has no real center, a point underlined by frequent scenes in which characters drift not only out of the frame, but into different rooms."The Godfather Part III.The New York Times praised the ensemble cast and said the film "flaunts a number of audacious cinematic tricks", but disliked the film's "mood of manic chaos".

Accolades

Tate Donovan was nominated for Best Supporting Male at the 1994 Independent Spirit Awards.Sundance Film Festival.

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Sergei Galmakov

Sergei Georgiyevich Galmakov (Russian: Серге́й Георгиевич Гальмаков; Ukrainian: Сергій Григорович Гальмаков - Serhiy Hryhorovych Halmakov; born 16 March 1971) is a former Russian professional footballer. He also holds Ukrainian citizenship.

Club career

He made his professional debut in the Ukrainian Second League in 1992 for FC Zirka Kirovohrad.

  * Sergei Galmakov at UAF and archived FFU page (in Ukrainian)


Loloma Livingston

Loloma Irene Livingston (1920 – 23 July 2010) was a Fijian artist and politician. Alongside Irene Jai Narayan and Losalini Raravuya Dovi, she was one of the first female members of the Legislative Council.

Political career

A fourth-generation European Fijian,1966 elections as the Alliance Party candidate, and was elected with a majority of over 1,000.

Livingston was a motoring enthusiast and was a member of the North West Car Club.

She died in Queensland, Australia in July 2010.


Mousley

Mousley is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  * Bradley Mousley (born 1996), Australian tennis player
  * George Mousley Cannon (1861 – 1937), first president of the Utah State Senate
  * Kay Mousley (born ?), Electoral Commissioner for the Electoral Commission of South Australia


New Catalan Left

New Catalan Left (Catalan: Nova Esquerra Catalana, NECat) was a Catalanist and pro-independence political party founded in December 2012 as a split from the Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC) by Ernest Maragall, brother of former Catalan president Pasqual Maragall.Left Movement (MES).

History

Following the 11 September 2012 independence demonstration, in which many high-ranking members from the Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC) participated—such as Ernest Maragall, Antoni Castells, Marina Geli, Àngel Ros, Laia Bonet or Joan Ignasi Elena, among othersmanifesto signed by 145 members of the party's Catalanist faction in favour of a self-determination referendum and the establishment of a Catalan state,asymmetric federalism within Spain.regional education minister between 2006 and 2010 and brother of former Catalan president Pasqual Maragall, understood the manifesto as an attempt to open up a debate on the establishment of a new political space.2012 Catalan regional election,party discipline throughout the legislature in favour both of President Artur Mas's proposal of a fiscal agreement with Spain on 25 July 2012,

On 11 October 2012, Maragall announced his intention to leave the PSC and resume the Catalan Party of Europe, and old party founded in 1998 by his brother Pasqual, with the aim of putting together a strong leftist, Catalanist and sovereignist force, joined by other members from the PSC and from the late Citizens for Change platform that supported Pasqual Maragall and later José Montilla's bids in 1999, 2003 and 2006.Esquerra i País slogan (English: "Left and Country") and attended, among others, by Maragall himself, former Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) leader Josep Lluís Carod-Rovira, Initiative for Catalonia Greens (ICV) MEP Raül Romeva and secretaries-general from ERC and ICV Marta Rovira and Joan Herrera, where there was a vindication for creation of a political project uniting the Catalan left—in a similar fashion to The Olive Tree coalition in Italy—following the 25 November regional election.

Maragall's new party was publicly presented on 15 December under the "New Catalan Left" name as a "genuinely" Catalan left-from-centre alternative, articulated around social democracy and the right to decide.2014 European Parliament election.


New Catalan Left

In February 2014, Maragall stepped down from the party's presidency in favour of a collective leadership.The Left for the Right to Decide,Popular Unity Candidacy (CUP).2015 Spanish local elections.Left Movement on 30 November 2014—being formed by NECat and Moviment only.

Electoral performance

European Parliament

European Parliament
Election             Votes        %       #  Seats                    +/–  Leading candidate
2014                 Within EPDD  1 / 54  1  Josep Maria Terricabras


Hazeezat

Hazeezat is a 2014 Nigerian drama film directed by Kabat Esosa Egbon, starring Mike Ezuruonye, Mary Njoku, Segun Arinze and Alex Ekubo. It was released in December 2014 on Irokotv website.

Plot


Hazeezat

Plot

The film starts with Hazeezat (Mary Njoku) leaving the hospital unhurt to the residence of her former love interest, Roberto (Mike Ezuruonye). Roberto happily accommodated her, to the distaste of his friend and house owner, Osita (Alex Ekubo). Osita and Hazeezat do not have a smooth relationship while at the university. Hazeezat's friend, Tamara (Mary Lazarus) visits her in front of Osita's home at the request of Hazeezat, and she began questioning her PIMP on the location of Alhaji (Segun Arinze), explaining that she had an unfinished business with him. It was revealed that Alhaji and Hazeezat has a fling that resulted to a pregnancy and he wanted the child aborted. Roberto expresses his renewed interest in Hazeezat, who declined on the premise that he isn't financially capable of taking care of her, however, Roberto accepted his fate but continued to show her love and promised to do more to secure a better job. Osita attempts to woo Hazeezat. Hazeezat reveals to Roberto that she's pregnant, this prompted him to increase the intensity of his job hunt. Hazeezat began living with Alhaji whose wife, Zainab (Sophia Muhammed) has gone abroad to deliver her child. Roberto continues to inquire about her whereabouts. On knowing that his wife, Zainab was expecting a female child, Alhaji started showing resentment towards his wife and favoured Hazeezat more, since she made him understand that she was having a male child. Due to the emotional trauma she faced from her husband and Hazeezat, Zainab lost her pregnancy and got separated from Alhaji. Hazeezat returns to Roberto, who is now employed and living in a house of his own. Alhaji's driver who took Hazeezat to the hospital for abortion disclosed that she didn't make it out of theater alive after his return from leave. They all arrived Roberto's home to inquire about Hazeezat, who was later revealed to have died about two months ago. Everyone present reflect on previous experiences they've had that suggests her supernatural nature through flashbacks.

Cast


Hazeezat

Cast

  * Mary Njoku as Hazeezat
  * Mike Ezuruonye as Roberto
  * Segun Arinze as Alhaji
  * Alex Ekubo as Osita
  * Mary Lazarus as Tamara
  * Sophia Muhammed as Zainab

Reception

Talk African Movies commended the engaging nature of the film, particularly plot twists that contradicts previous parts in the film. It went further to state that "...took us on a curious ride of conspiracy and then suddenly dropped us off…at their destination not ours...". The acting and chemistry from Mike Ezuruonye and Mary Njoku was also praised as high-points in the film.Naij.com described the film as "amazing".


Mongriot

Mongriot is a village situated in the Sudhanoti district of Pakistan, about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) east of Pallandri

Weather

The weather of this village is cold

Culture

Most of the houses are made of mud. People wear the regional dress which is shalwr and qameez. People speak the native language, Pahari. People eat simple food like vegetables, ghee, and butter, which they produce themselves.

Occupation

Mostly people are related with agricultural production. But some people are related with teaching field and some people join army.


Habenaria medusa

Habenaria medusa is a species of orchid endemic to Java, Sumatra, Sulawesi and Borneo.

  * IPNI Listing
  * Media related to Habenaria medusa at Wikimedia Commons


Kyoto shogi

Kyoto shogi with initial setup

Kyoto shogi (京都将棋, kyōto shōgi, "Kyoto chess") is a modern variant of shogi (Japanese chess). It was invented by Tamiya Katsuya c. 1976.

Kyoto shogi is played like standard shogi, but with a reduced number of pieces on a 5×5 board. However, the pieces alternately promote and demote with every move, and the promotion values are entirely different from standard shogi.

Rules of the game

Game equipment

Two players play on a board ruled into a grid of 5 ranks (rows) by 5 files (columns). The squares are undifferentiated by marking or color.

Each player has a set of 5 wedge-shaped pieces, of slightly different sizes. From largest to smallest (most to least powerful) they are:

  * 1 king
  * 1 gold general
  * 1 silver general
  * 1 tokin
  * 1 pawn
Piece                  Kanji  Rōmaji
White king             王将     ōshō
Black king             玉将     gyokushō
Rook/pawn              飛歩     hifu
Silver-general/bishop  銀角     ginkaku
Gold-general/knight    金桂     kinkei
Lance/tokin            香と     kyōto

The names of the pieces combine their promoted and unpromoted values, and are puns in Japanese for words with the same pronunciations but different kanji. For example, the lance/tokin is homonymous with the name of the city 京都 Kyoto, and provides the name of the game.

Setup

Setup

5  4  3  2  1       5  4  3  2  1
歩  金  王  銀  と  一    P  G  K  S  T  a
               二                   b
               三                   c
               四                   d
と  銀  玉  金  歩  五    T  S  K  G  P  e

Each side places his pieces in the positions shown below, pointing toward the opponent.

  * In the rank nearest the player:
      + The king (K) is placed in the center file.
      + The gold general (G) is placed in the adjacent files to the right of the king.
      + The silver general (S) is placed in the adjacent files to the left of the king.
      + The tokin (T) is placed in the left corner.
      + The pawn (P) is placed in the right corner.


Kyoto shogi

That is, the first rank is:

T  S  K  G  P

Promotion

There is no promotion zone in Kyoto shogi. Every time a piece makes a move it alternately promotes and reverts to its unpromoted state. Promotion is effected by turning the piece over after it moves, revealing the name of its promoted rank; demotion is effected by turning the piece back.

The promotion rules and values are reminiscent of microshogi and entirely different from standard shogi:

  * A king cannot promote: K
  * A tokin (T) promotes to a lance and vice versa: T ↔ L
  * A silver general promotes to a bishop and vice versa: S ↔ B
  * A gold general promotes to a knight and vice versa: G ↔ N
  * A pawn promotes to a rook and vice versa: P ↔ R

Movement and capture

A piece is allowed to move, capture or be dropped in a manner that will prevent it from moving on a subsequent turn, which is illegal in standard shogi. For example, a rook can move onto the farthest rank, becoming a pawn and unable to move further. Such pieces may be captured as any other.

Drops

A captured piece may be dropped with either side facing up. There are no restrictions on where pieces can be dropped, other than that the square must be empty. So unlike in regular Shogi, pieces can be dropped in places where they can never move again, pawns can be dropped in files that already contain a pawn, and checkmate can be delivered through a pawn drop.

Repetition

The original rules states that a third repetition would end the game as a draw, but kept open the possibility that this should be changed if playing experience would reveal it as undesirable. An alternative would be to declare a loss for the player repeating a position too many times, except in cases of perpetual check, where the checker would lose.

  * Shogi variant
  * Whale shogi
  * Minishogi
  * Judkins shogi
  * Microshogi
  * Cannon shogi
  * Yari shogi
  * Shogi Net
  * Benri Shogi (in Chinese)
  * Shogi: Japanese Chess


Quantum Detectors

Quantum Detectors Limited is a spin-out company from the Diamond Light Source and Science and Technology Facilities Council,European Synchrotron Radiation Facility.

Quantum Detectors is based at the Harwell Science and Innovation CampusOxford in the United Kingdom (UK). The company was founded in 2007

History

Quantum Detectors was originally a spin out from the Synchrotron Radiation Source at Daresbury. The SRS being one of the first synchrotrons used for beamline users,ESRF,SPring-8Photon Factory.

Given the history of the Detector Group at Daresbury to develop detectors with a demand around the globe, spinning out a company to optimise this process was a logical step. The company was thought up independently a number of times by people in the management at Daresbury, but finally in 2005 the company was incorporated and domain name purchased and in 2007 the project was funded, in mid 2008 it gained the first employee.

Diamond opened in January 2007 and the SRS closed in August 2008, leading to the relocation of Quantum Detectors to Harwell to stay with the UK's Synchrotron Facility. 10% of Quantum Detectors shares were then purchased by Diamond, who then elected a Director to the Quantum Detectors Board. The remaining 90% of the shares belong to STFC.

  * http://www.quantumdetectors.com
  * https://web.archive.org/web/20090220205830/http://www.stfc.ac.uk/About/Find/RAL/Introduction.aspx
  * http://www.stfcinnovations.co.uk/Spinouts/17902.aspx


Inside My Kitchen

Inside My Kitchen is the debut extended play (EP) by Australian three-piece folk group Tiddas. The EP was released in October 1992.

In 2018, Lou Bennett said of the title track "I wrote “Inside My Kitchen” after my partner at the time had a psychotic episode. It was one of my first compositions and it helped me cope with this new and traumatic experience. Then a few years later I recorded it with Amy and Sal on our first EP. It was an important song in the lifetime of Tiddas. It became one of our main signature songs and still is today. We created many of our songs around the kitchen table together and after an eight-year spell, it gives me great pleasure to come back to the stage with Amy and Sal to perform it again."

At the ARIA Music Awards of 1993, the EP received two nominations; ARIA Award for Best New Talent and ARIA Award for Best Indigenous Release.

Track listing

No.  Title                        Writer(s)                      Length
1.   "My Brother"                 Frank Cleary, Sally Dastey     2:06
2.   "Koori Woman"                Lou Bennett                    3:18
3.   "Spirit of the Winter Tree"  Bennett, Kym Walker            3:36
4.   "Inside My Kitchen"          Bennett                        3:27
5.   "Happy Earth"                Bennett, Dastey, Amy Saunders  2:34
6.   "Things I Can't Undo"        Bennett, Dastey, Saunders      1:39

Release history

Region     Date          Format(s)     Label              Catalogue
Australia  October 1992  Compact disc  Black Heart Music  ID 0002-2


Sergei Gennadyevich Yegorov

Sergei Gennadyevich Yegorov (Russian: Серге́й Геннадьевич Егоров; born 26 October 1983) is a former Russian professional football player.

Club career

He played 9 seasons in the Russian Football National League for 7 different clubs.

  * Sergei Gennadyevich Yegorov at FootballFacts.ru (in Russian)


Social facilitation in animals

Lovebirds are well known for mirroring the behaviour of their cage-mates, a form of social facilitation

Social facilitation in animals is when the performance of a behaviour by an animal increases the probability of other animals also engaging in that behaviour or increasing the intensity of the behaviour.

Social facilitation occurs in a wide variety of species under a range of circumstances. These include feeding,dustbathing.Agelaia pallipes, social facilitation is used to recruitment to food resources. By using chemical communication, A. pallipes pool the independent search efforts to locate and defend food sources from other organisms.

Social facilitation is sometimes used to develop successful social scavenging strategies. Griffon vultures are highly specialized scavengers that rely on finding carcasses. When foraging, griffon vultures soar at up to 800 m above the ground. Although some fresh carcasses are located directly by searching birds, the majority of individuals find food by following other vultures, i.e. social facilitation. A chain reaction of information transfer extends from the carcass as descending birds are followed by other birds, which themselves cannot directly see the carcass, ultimately drawing birds from an extensive area over a short period of time.

Moller used a play-back technique to investigate the effects of singing by the black wheatear (Oenanthe leucura) on the behaviour of both conspecifics and heterospecifics. It was found that singing increased in both groups in response to the wheateater and Moller suggested the conspicuous dawn (and dusk) chorus of bird song may be augmented by social facilitation due to the singing of conspecifics as well as heterospecifics.

  * Behavioral contagion
  * Social facilitation


Moussa Bezaz

Moussa Bezaz (Arabic: موسى بزاز) (born 30 December 1957) is a French-Algerian former footballer and football manager. His nephew is the Algerian footballer Yacine Bezzaz.

Career

Born in Algeria, Bezaz spent his whole career in France, playing as a defender for Sochaux, Rennes, ÉpinalChaumont, where he began his coaching career.

He also played several times for the France national youth football team,Algeria.

Coaching career

Bezaz coached Chaumont, Charleville, Épinal and Nancy in France.Palestine national football team manager in July 2009.

  * Barreaud, Marc (1998). Dictionnaire des footballeurs étrangers du championnat professionnel français (1932-1997). L'Harmattan, Paris. ISBN 2-7384-6608-7.


New Centre, Gauteng

New Centre is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.


Hazel Adair (novelist)

Hazel Iris Addis, née Wilson (30 May 1900 – 1 October 1990), was a British writer of over 20 novels from 1935 to 1953, under the pseudonyms Hazel AdairA. J. Heritage.H. I. Addis, she also published works relating to Cub Scouts.

Biography

Hazel Iris Wilson was born on 30 May 1900 in Norwich, Norfolk, England, daughter of Annie Margaret and Cecil Wilson.Peter Drax) in 1926.Royal Navy.Oxshott, Surrey.World War II ended.

Adair wrote over twenty novels, mostly under the pseudonym Hazel Adair. A review of her first book, published in 1935, said that she was "plucky .. set[ting] out to make a novel from a happy marriage!"Times Literary Supplement reviewer wrote of The Heritage (1939) that it presented "a splendid tangle of events that all resolve themselves most satisfactorily",

She was also active in the Boy Scouts Association.Gilwell Park, England, for several years before WWII, and was awarded the Boy Scouts Association Medal of Merit for the work she did in New Zealand during WWII.Wolf Cubs,9th World Scout Jamboree, 1957, she was the women's Indaba chief.Silver Wolf Award in recognition of services of "most exceptional character" over 26 years.Cub Scouts, including a book of play scripts.

She died on 1 October 1990 in Stowmarket.Books Ireland in 1976.

As Hazel Adair

  * Wanted, A Son (1935)
  * Mistress Mary (1936)
  * A Torch is Lit (1936)
  * All the Trumpets (1937)
  * Red Bunting (1937)
  * Over the Stile (1938)
  * Sparrow Market (1938)
  * Bendix and Son (1939)
  * The Heritage (1939)
  * Cockadays (1940)
  * Mahogany and Deal (1940)
  * The Lady of Garth House (1941)
  * John Manifold (1942)
  * Escape to Peril (1944)
  * The Enamelled Bird-Cage (1945)
  * Quoth the Raven (1947)
  * Mistress of One (1948)
  * Challenge to Seven (1949)
  * The Gentle Vagabond (1950)
  * We Only Wanted Peter (1952)
  * No Bells Rang (1953)

As H. I. Addis


Hazel Adair (novelist)

As H. I. Addis

  * New Plays for Wolf Cubs (1935) (with V. V. Vanston)
  * Crime Within Crime (1937)
  * Duty to God in the Wolf Cub Pack (1951)
  * Training Yarns for Akela (1963)
  * Programme Planning in the Cub Scout pack (1975)

As A. J. Heritage

  * The Happy Years (1938)

References and sources

  * HOME by Hazel Addis (nee Wilson) (memoir of her early life)


Mongoose R.I.P.

Mongoose R.I.P. is a 1988 Blackford Oakes novel by William F. Buckley, Jr. It is the eighth of 11 novels in the series.

Plot

CIA agent Blackford Oakes is sent to Cuba to determine the feasibility of overthrowing Fidel Castro, following the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1963.


Habenaria harroldii

Habenaria harroldii, commonly known as the southern rein orchid,orchid that is endemic to the Fraser Coast region of Queensland. It has up to five leaves at its base and up to twenty five white flowers with reduced side lobes on the labellum.

Description

Habenaria harroldii is a tuberous, perennial herb with between three and five upright, dark green leaves at its base, the leaves 30–100 mm (1–4 in) long and 7–16 mm (0.3–0.6 in) wide. Between three and twenty five lightly scented white flowers, 9–11 mm (0.35–0.43 in) long and 12–15 mm (0.5–0.6 in) wide are borne on a flowering stem 150–450 mm (6–20 in) tall. The dorsal sepal is 6.5–8.5 mm (0.26–0.33 in) long and about 5 mm (0.2 in) wide, overlapping with the base of the petals to form a hood over the column. The lateral sepals are 7–9 mm (0.3–0.4 in) long, about 5 mm (0.2 in) wide and spread widely apart from each other. The petals are 6–8 mm (0.2–0.3 in) long and about 4 mm (0.2 in) wide. The labellum is 8–10 mm (0.3–0.4 in) long, about 5 mm (0.20 in) wide and usually undivided. The nectary spur is 2.5–12 mm (0.1–0.5 in) long and more or less straight. Flowering occurs from January to March.

Taxonomy and naming

Habenaria harroldii was first formally described in 1998 by David Jones from a specimen collected near Tewantin and the description was published in The Orchadian.specific epithet (harroldii) honours Arthur George Harrold who collected the type specimen.

Distribution and habitat

The southern rein grows with low shrubs and grasses in woodland between Tewantin and Maaroom.


Kyou no Hi wa Sayounara

Kyou no Hi wa Sayounara (今日の日はさようなら, Farewell for Today) is a Japanese drama special, directed by Shintaro Sugawara, part of Nippon TV's annual 24 Hour Television: "Love Saves the Earth" telethon. It received a viewership rating of 23.4%.

Plot

Kouta Fujioka is a 29-year old man who has a good family, including his father who always supports him, his mother who enjoys cooking, and his older sister with her bright personality. He also has a girlfriend named Etsuko Tanebe. Kouta wants people to eat delicious foods made by him and begins a job as an apprentice chef at a restaurant. One day, Kouta suddenly passes out and is sent to the hospital, where he is diagnosed with malignant lymphoma, completely changing his life. Given three months left to live, Kouta makes up his mind, with the support of his family and those he meets at the hospital, to accept his fate and "face a proper death".

Cast

  * Satoshi Ohno as Kouta Fujioka
  * Tomokazu Miura as Kenjirou Fujioka
  * Kayoko Kishimoto as Yasuko Fujioka
  * Mimura as Koharu Fujioka
  * Kyoko Fukada as Yuriko Ohkubo
  * Fumino Kimura as Etsuko Tanebe
  * Ryosuke Yamada as Harada
  * Kyūsaku Shimada as Hiroki Murayama
  * Ken Mitsuishi as Tetsuo Machida
  * Rio Tanaka as Kouta Fujioka (child)
  * Hana Ikeda as Koharu Fujioka (child)
  * Official website (in Japanese)
  * Kyou no Hi wa Sayounara at IMDb