The Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Shipbuilding and Logistics) was a civilian office in the United States Department of the Navy. The Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Shipbuilding and Logistics) oversaw the building of ships for the United States Navy and other logistical matters.

The office of Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Shipbuilding and Logistics) was abolished in 1990, when it was merged with the office of Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research, Engineering and Systems) to form the new office of Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research, Development and Acquisitions).


Deudorix jacksoni

Deudorix jacksoni, the Jackson's playboy, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in south-western Uganda, western Kenya, Tanzania (from the north-eastern part of the country to the Usambara Mountains) and north-western Zambia.ecotone between forests and savanna, especially riverine vegetation.

The larvae feed on the young leaves of Loranthus usuiensis, Albizia gummifera, Phragmanthera usuiensis and Erianthemum dregei. They are dark rich brown.

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George Brydges

George Brydges may refer to:

  * George Rodney Brydges (died 1714), MP for Winchester and Haslemere
  * George William Brydges (1678–1751), MP for Winchester and Whitchurch
  * George Brydges, 6th Baron Chandos (1620–1655), supporter of Charles I of England
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  * George Bridges (disambiguation)
  * George Bridge (disambiguation)
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Bohumil Sládek

Bohumil Sládek is a Czechoslovak sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1930s. He won a bronze medal in the C-1 1000 m event at the 1938 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Vaxholm, Sweden.

  * ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007 at the Wayback Machine (archived 2010-01-05)
  * ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 2009-11-09)


Golbahar, Khuzestan

Golbahar (Persian: گلبهار, also Romanized as Golbahār)Howmeh-ye Sharqi Rural District, in the Central District of Dasht-e Azadegan County, Khuzestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 536, in 117 families.


Johann Florian Heller

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Johann Florian Heller

Johann Florian Heller (4 May 1813 – 21 November 1871) was an Austrian chemist who was one of the founders of clinical chemistry.

Heller was born in Vienna, Austria. He studied chemistry in Prague and later with Liebig and Wöhler at Giessen.rhodizonic acid and its potassium salt (1837).

In 1844 Heller established a laboratory of pathological chemistry in Vienna's General Hospital, but his appointment as head of the lab was delayed until 1855 because some of the faculty thought that the position should be occupied by a medical doctor. During that period he studied the chemistry of urine, and he developed the well-known Heller's ring test for albumin in the urine (1852).urostealith, a constituent of certain bladder stones, and developed a treatment based on solutions of sodium carbonate, which were found to dissolve the substance in vitro (1845).

Also in 1844, Heller took over editorship of the recently founded Archiv für Physiologische und Pathologische Chemie und Mikroskopie, the first journal to deal exclusively with pathological chemistry; which stopped publication after six volumes, for lack of articles.

The Austrian Association for Clinical Chemistry (ÖGKC) awards a scientific prize named after him.

An Austrian stamp was issued on 4 September 1981 with his portrait on the face.

Portrait on the Austria 1981 issue for the 11th Congress on Chemical Clinic


Emma Seehofer

Emma Seehofer (before 1854 – 1912) was a German operatic contralto who was a principal artist at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich from 1854 to 1887. She created the roles of Erda in Richard Wagner's Das Rheingold on 22 September 1869 and Schwertleite (one of the Valkyries) in Wagner's Die Walküre on 26 June 1870.Mannheim.


Abdul Dayyan Jaffar

Abdul Dayyan bin Mohamed Jaffar (born 13 September 1993) is a Singaporean archer who participated at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in his home city. He was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the individual event by Gregor Rajh.Begünhan Ünsal of Turkey and won bronze in the mixed team event.

  * Abdul Dayyan Jaffar at the Singapore National Olympic Council


Kindrochit Castle

The ruins of Kindrochit Castle

Kindrochit Castle (/kɪnˈdroʊxɪt/) is a ruined 14th-century fortification in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is located at Braemar, in a strategic position on the banks of the Clunie Water, a tributary of the River Dee. The ruins are protected as a scheduled monument.

Kindrochit was a hunting seat of King Robert II, who issued charters here most years between 1371 and 1388. In 1390 Robert III granted a licence to Malcolm Drummond to build a new tower on the site.19.3 by 13 metres (63 by 43 ft). The site of the earlier royal lodge was excavated in the 1920s and included a hall around 30 by 9 metres (98 by 30 ft), with square towers at each corner.

John Erskine, Earl of Mar showed the ruined castle at Kindrochit to John Taylor when the poet made his Pennyles Pilgrimage to Scotland in 1618. Taylor, who rode with the Earl from Braemar Castle, was told that Malcolm Canmore had built the castle in the 11th century. He thought it remarkable because he did not see another house in the next 12 days of their ride.

C. Michael Hogan has suggested that Kindrochit Castle, as well as Kildrummy and Durris Castles, were likely sited based upon strategic positions relative to the ancient Elsick Mounth trackway, which provided a strategic crossing of the Mounth of the Grampian Mountains.

57°0′16″N 3°23′51″W / 57.00444°N 3.39750°W


Centro Intelligence Interforze

The Centro Intelligence Interforze (CII; Italian for Joint Intelligence Centre) is the military intelligence agency of the Italian Armed Forces.

It was created in 2000 by merging the intelligence and security services of three branches of the Italian Armed Forces (navy, army and air force). Part of the staff also came from the fourth branch (the Carabinieri).

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A Few Days from the Life of I. I. Oblomov

Oblomov (Russian: Несколько дней из жизни И. И. Обломова, translit. Neskolko dney iz zhizni I. I. Oblomov) is a Soviet comedy/drama film directed by Nikita Mikhalkov. It was released by Mosfilm in 1980.Oblomov (Russian: Обломов), written by Ivan Goncharov, which tells the story of Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, a middle-aged nobleman living in 19th century Saint Petersburg. This central character exemplifies the superfluous man concept found in 19th century Russian literature.

Plot

The film begins in 19th century Saint Petersburg, and examines the life of Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, a middle-aged Russian nobleman. Slothful and seemingly unhappy, Oblomov spends much of the beginning of the film sleeping and being attended to by his servant, Zakhar. In an attempt to get him more active, Andrei Ivanovich Stoltz, a Russian/German businessman and close friend, frequently takes Oblomov along with him to social events. Oblomov is introduced to a cultured woman named Olga, a friend of Stoltz. When Stoltz leaves the country, Olga is left with the task of civilizing and culturing Oblomov while he lives nearby. Olga and Oblomov eventually fall in love, but upon Stoltz's return, Oblomov moves back into town, eventually severing ties with Olga. Stoltz and Olga eventually marry, and Oblomov subsequently marries the woman with whom he was living, Agafya Matveyevna Psehnitsyna. The two have a son, and although Agafya has two children from a previous relationship, Oblomov treats them both as if they were his own. Oblomov is satisfied with his life, although it "lack[s] the poetic and those bright rays which he imagined were to be found."

Superfluous Man and Oblomovism


Superfluous Man and Oblomovism

In the Ivan Goncharov novel, Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is considered an excellent example of the "Superfluous Man" concept of 1800s' Russian literature. Alienated and let down by the world around him, the "superfluous man" character is often considered an outsider at odds with society. In both the novel and the film, Oblomov demonstrates this "superfluity" as an ineffective member of Russia's much criticized aristocracy. Goncharov referred to his character's passivity as "Oblomovism," and the term has since been associated with characters who possess Oblomov's apathy and membership in Russia's upper class.

Cast

Actor                  Role
Oleg Tabakov           Ilya Ilyich Oblomov
Yuri Bogatyryov        Andrei Ivanovich Stoltz
Andrei Popov           Zakhar
Elena Solovey          Olga
Avangard Leontev       Alexeyev
Andrei Razumovsky      Ilya as a child
Oleg Kozlov            Stoltz as a child
Yelena Kleshchevskaya  Katya
Galina Shostko         Olga's aunt
Gleb Strizhenov        The Baron
Yevgeny Steblov        Oblomov's father
Yevgeniya Glushenko    Oblomov's mother
Nikolai Pastukhov      Stoltz's father

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  * A Few Days from the Life of I. I. Oblomov at IMDb


Kaindl Hut

The Kaindl Hut (German: Kaindlhütte) is a privately run mountain hut at a height of 1,293 metres (4,242 ft) in the Kaiser mountains in the Austrian state of Tyrol.

Location

The Kaindl Hut lies in the western part of the Kaiser on an Alpine meadow, the Steinbergalm, and at the foot of the Zettenkaiser, Scheffauer and Hackenköpfe mountains. North of the Kaindl Hut is the rather unimpressive Gamskogel (1,448 m) and the wooded ridge of the Brentenjoch. The hut is located in the Wilder Kaiser nature reserve.

Access

  * by car on the A12 (Austria) and A93 (Germany) motorway to the Kufstein Nord exit and then to the valley station of the Kaiser Lift, or to Kufstein Mitterndorf to the car park on the edge of the wood.
  * by rail to Kufstein railway station and then on foot to the start of the trail in Kienbichl.

Approaches

There are several possible approaches to the Kaindl Hut:

  * from the valley station of the chair lift in Kufstein via the Brentenjoch in 2.5 hours.
  * from the "Aschenbrenner" mountain inn in 1.5 hours, also possible by bicycle.
  * from the Hintersteiner See near Scheffau via the Walleralm in 2.5 hours.
  * from Kufstein-Sparchen (Josef Madersperger monument) via the Duxeralm and Gamskogel in 3 hours.

The chair lift to Brentenjoch, from where the hut is reached in 40 minutes with little elevation gain, was closed in 2012 but re-opened in May 2015. The journey takes about 20 minutes and takes passengers to a height of 1,200 m.

Crossings

  * Anton Karg Haus or Hans Berger Haus in the Kaisertal via the Bettlersteig trail, medium difficulty, duration: 2.5 hours.
  * Grutten Hut via the Hochegg, Walleralm and Wilder Kaiser Trail, easy, duration: 5 hours.

Tour options


Kaindl Hut

Tour options

To the north is a gently sloping valley bowl, that is surrounded by rolling grass-covered mountains (‘’Grasbergen’’). Here there are many scenic and easy walks. Destinations, which can be taken in as part of a full day’s round trip, are the Brentenjoch, Gamskogel and Brandkogel. To the south, by contrast, are the jagged rock faces of the Wilder Kaiser.

  * Scheffauer (2,111 m) along the Widauersteig trail in 2.5 hours (UIAA climbing grade I).
  * Zettenkaiser (1,968 m) via the Kleinen Friedhof and the normal route in 2 hours (UIAA II).
  * Hackenköpfe (2,126 m) and Sonneck via the Widauersteig and Scheffauer, difficult ridge crossing.
  * various Alpine climbing routes (some for sport-climbers) on the north faces of the Scheffauer and Zettenkaiser.
  * Climbing garden near the hut.


Green Party Front Bench (Ireland)

The Green Party/Comhaontas Glas is the fourth-largest political party in the Oireachtas.

The party has twelve TDs, four Senators, two MEPs, two MLAs and fifty six members of local government (forty eight in the Republic of Ireland and eight in Northern Ireland).

2020–present

Portfolio                                                 Spokesperson                              Constituency
Party leader                                              Minister Eamon Ryan TD                    Dublin Bay South
Environment, Climate and Communications & Transport
Deputy leader                                             Minister Catherine Martin TD              Dublin Rathdown
Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth     Minister Roderic O'Gorman TD              Dublin West
Land Use and Biodiversity                                 Minister of State, Senator Pippa Hackett  Laois-Offaly
Public Procurement and eGovernment                        Minister of State Ossian Smyth TD         Dún Laoghaire
Community Development and Charities                       Minister of State Joe O'Brien TD          Dublin Fingal
Heritage and Electoral Reform                             Minister of State Malcolm Noonan TD       Carlow–Kilkenny
Social Protection                                         Marc Ó Cathasaigh TD                      Waterford
Finance, Public Expenditure and Health                    Neasa Hourigan TD                         Dublin Central
Transport, Climate Action and Environment                 Brian Leddin TD                           Limerick City
Justice                                                   Patrick Costello TD                       Dublin South-Central
Planning and Local Government                             Steven Matthews TD                        Wicklow
Housing                                                   Francis Noel Duffy TD                     Dublin South-West
Marine                                                    Grace O'Sullivan MEP                      Ireland South
Irish Language                                            Rob O'Donnell                             Tipperary
Education & Higher Education                              Senator Pauline O'Reilly                  Galway West
Foreign Affairs & Defence with responsibility for Brexit  Senator Vincent P. Martin                 Kildare North
Rural Development & Enterprise, Trade and Employment      Senator Róisín Garvey                     Clare

2019–2020


Green Party Front Bench (Ireland)

2019–2020

Portfolio                                                        Spokesperson
Party leader                                                     Eamon Ryan TD
Communications
Deputy leader                                                    Catherine Martin TD
Education and Skills
Environmental Protection, Natural Resources, Marine and Tourism  Grace O'Sullivan MEP
Agriculture, Heritage, Food and Animal Welfare                   Senator Pippa Hackett
Constitutional Reform                                            Cllr. Oliver Moran
Irish Language                                                   Cllr. Peter Kavanagh
Justice                                                          Roderic O'Gorman TD
Finance                                                          Neasa Hourigan TD
Transport                                                        Patrick Costello TD
Children and Youth Affairs                                       Cllr. Pauline O'Reily
Social Protection                                                Marc Ó Cathasaigh TD
Digital                                                          Ossain Smyth TD
Local Government                                                 Malcolm Noonan TD
Water                                                            Steven Matthews TD
Foreign Affairs                                                  Cllr. Vincent P. Martin
Health                                                           Dr. Séamus McMenamin
Climate                                                          Cllr. David Healy
Heritage, Culture and the Arts                                   Cllr. Claire Byrne
Enterprise                                                       Cllr. Hazel Chu
Rural Development                                                Cllr. Roisin Garvey
Equality and Disability                                          Cllr. Una Power
Housing                                                          Cllr. Deidre Ni Fhloinn
Energy                                                           Brian Leddin TD

2016–2019

Portfolio             Spokesperson
Party leader          Eamon Ryan TD
Deputy leader         Catherine Martin TD
Education and Skills
Finance               Cllr. Mark Dearey
Justice               Cllr. Roderic O'Gorman
Transport             Cllr. Ciarán Cuffe
Housing and Planning  Cllr. Francis Duffy
Environment           Cllr. Malcolm Noonan
Local Government
Energy                Gearóid Fitzgibbon
Welfare               Lorna Bogue

2012–2016

Portfolio                                     Spokesperson
Party leader                                  Eamon Ryan
Deputy leader                                 Catherine Martin
Education and Skills
Public Expenditure and Reform                 Ciarán Cuffe
Social Protection                             Roderic O'Gorman
Justice, Equality and Defence                 Joan Campbell
Transport, Tourism and Sport                  Adam Douglas
Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation               Marianne Butler
Health                                        Oisín Ó hAlmhain
European Affairs                              Brian Meaney
Foreign Affairs and Trade                     Niamh Fitzgibbon
Housing and Planning                          Tom Kivlehan
Environment, Community and Local Government   Malcolm Noonan
Communications, Energy and Natural Resources  Ossian Smith
Children and Youth Affairs                    Patrick Costello
Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht              Rian Coulter
Forestry                                      Cathy Fitzgerald
Agriculture, Food and Marine                  Seamus Sheridan
Finance                                       Mark Dearey
Welfare                                       Lorna Bogue

2007–2011

Portfolio                                     Spokesperson
Party leader                                  John Gormley
Deputy leader                                 Mary White
Education                                     Paul Gogarty
Transport
Enterprise, Trade and Employment              Eamon Ryan
Communications, Marine and Natural Resources

2002–2007


Green Party Front Bench (Ireland)

2002–2007

Portfolio                                     Spokesperson
Party Leader                                  Trevor Sargent
Finance
Social and Family Affairs                     Dan Boyle
Community, Rural Development and the Islands
Foreign Affairs
Defence                                       John Gormley
Health and Children
Party Chairman
Environment                                   Ciarán Cuffe (until 2003)

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George Brush

George Brush may refer to:

  * George de Forest Brush (1855–1941), American painter
  * George Jarvis Brush (1831–1912), American mineralogist
  * George W. Brush (1842–1927), American soldier, physician and politician
  * George Bush (disambiguation)


Golbahar-e Yusefabad

Golbahār-e Yusefābād (Persian: گل بهاريوسف اباد)Borborud-e Gharbi Rural District, in the Central District of Aligudarz County, Lorestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 187, in 43 families.


Johann Franz Ermels

Landscape with staffage by Johann Franz Ermels

Johann Franz Ermels (1641 – December 1693), a German painter and engraver, a pupil of Holtzman, was born in Reilkirch. He resided at Nuremberg, and painted for the church of St. Sebald in that city a picture of the Resurrection; he was more successful, however, as a painter of landscapes, in which he imitated the style of Jan Both. He died at Nuremberg, aged 52. In the Städel Gallery at Frankfort is a Landscape by him, with figures by J. H. Roos; and in the Vienna Gallery is a Landscape with Fishermen by him. A Landscape is also in the Milan Gallery. There are by him a few etchings of landscapes, after Waterloo, Breenbergh, etc., executed with spirit and taste.

  * List of German painters
  * [Public Domain] This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Ermels, Johann Franz". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.


Emma Sharp

Emma Sharp (1832–1920) was an athlete famous for her feat of pedestrianism completing a 1000-mile walk in 1000 hours, the event first completed by Robert Barclay Allardice in 1809.

Quarry Gap pub – Dick Lane

She rested in the Quarry Gap pub, in Bradford, UK, in between walking approximately two mile stints every 90 minutes and completing 14,600 laps of 120 yards over the course of 1000 hours.

Sharp is reported to have used the proceeds of the walk, which exceeded £500,Laisterdyke, and to have had a life in business after the event.

Her journey was covered by Horrible Histories and broadcast on children's BBC (CBBC).

Family

She was married to mechanic John Sharp. Her granddaughter Ann Land retained her walking stick as a memento. Her great great granddaughter Kathy Nicol was interviewed on the subject of the 1000 mile walk in 2009.


Ellery (surname)

Ellery is a surname, and may refer to:

People:

  * Christopher Ellery (1768–1840), American politician, Senator from Rhode Island
  * David Ellery, British author and ship historian
  * Georgia Ellery, British musician
  * John Ellery, British radio presenter and programme director
  * Jason Haigh-Ellery, British television director
  * Louise Ellery (born 1977), Australian athlete
  * Paul Ellery, British radio presenter
  * Reginald Spencer Ellery (1897–1955), a pioneer in the practice of psychiatry in Melbourne, Australia
  * Robert L. J. Ellery (1827–1906), Government Astronomer of Victoria, Australia
  * William Ellery (1720–1820), a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and Continental Congressman from Rhode Island
  * Steven Ellery, Australian V8 Supercar racecar driver
  * David Peter Ellery QSM (22/12/1927-22/12/2006) New Zealand
  * Elleray, surname
  * Ellory, surname


Kine Exakta

The Kine Exakta was the first 35mm single-lens reflex (SLR) still camera in regular production. It was presented by Ihagee Kamerawerk Steenbergen GmbH, Dresden at the Leipziger Frühjahrsmesse in March 1936.Exakta name had already been used by Ihagee on a roll film rangefinder RF camera line since 1933, among these the Vest Pocket Exakta Model B from which the Kine Exakta inherited its general layout and appearance. The word Kine (cine, cinema, movie film) never appeared on the camera itself, only in the instruction manuals and advertising to distinguish it from the roll film variants. Several of its features constituted the foundation for the majority of 35mm SLR cameras produced ever since, although at this stage in a relatively primitive state.

The perforated 35mm film had been used in miniature cameras for more than two decades using the 24x36mm negative format. The single lens reflex principle is even older and was widely used in cameras for the medium format plate- and film material. However, several obstacles had to be overcome to devise a useful miniature SLR camera apart from the fact that the film material itself seriously restricted the usefulness of the negative:focus on a ground glass for this format with the naked eye - even with a large aperture lens.Plano-convex magnifying glass with the flat side facing downwards and ground to form a focusing screen visible and magnified in the finder. To further improve focusing accuracy, a small magnifying glass could be swung into place for accurate focusing on a small part of the image. Also to improve focusing accuracy fast lenses were needed, and from the start Carl Zeiss Jena provided the Tessar 1:2.8 f=5cm, soon to be followed by the Biotar 1:2 5cm and the Schneider-Kreuznach Xenar 1:2 f=5cm for the Kine Exakta.

Description


Kine Exakta

Description

The Kine Exakta is made of two major aluminium alloy castings, the outer body shell and the internal frame for the mirror box, the shutter mechanism and the film transport. The latter is inserted into the shell from the top and secured by screws. A fixed finder hood and a separate detachable back cover complete the general layout. The Exakta bayonet lens mount was developed for this camera. The shutter is of the horizontal cloth focal plane type providing exposure times from 12 seconds to 1/1000 second with bipolar flash synchronising contacts on the right-hand camera front.

The Kine Exakta controls are somewhat different from those found on most later 35mm SLR film cameras: the finder hood in its collapsed state automatically blocks the shutter release. The film is transported towards the left, leaving the exposed frames the other way round on the filmstrip. The wind-on lever on the left-hand top plate is operated by the left hand thumb and it requires a single 300-degree movement. This advances the film one frame, cocks the shutter, and increments the manual reset frame counter. The lift, turn and set shutter speed dial on the left-hand top plate provides exposure times from 1/25 to 1/1000 second, plus B and Z (time). For double exposures, the shutter may be cocked again by turning the shutter speed dial itself. On the right-hand top plate sits a separately wound dual purpose dial, featuring long time exposure and delayed action shutter release. This works at the shutter setting B and is only settable after the shutter is cocked. Slow speeds are selected by the lift, turn and set procedure against a small index dot. The long exposures times, without delay, are marked in black numerals all the way to 12 seconds, while slow speeds with delayed action are in red numerals to 6 seconds. This is the extent of self-timer release available. All functions are activated by the left-hand front located threaded shutter release button. A film-cutting device is located inside the camera. It enables a partially exposed film to be removed from the camera in daylight for processing provided the left-hand take-up spool was placed in a cassette. A small milled knob at the base is unscrewed and pulled out to cut the film close to the unexposed film cassette.


Kine Exakta

The primary function of the collapsible finder hood is to shield the focusing screen from outside stray light, but by lowering the hinged magnifying glass into the finder for critical focusing, it also becomes a direct vision frame finder. By looking into the rectangular opening at the back of the hood, it provides the field of view of a 50mm lens, a useful feature since the focusing screen image is laterally reversed, which makes it less useful as an action finder. Pushing a small notch to the side at the lover right on the rear finder hood panel, flips the lowered magnifying glass up and away. The finder panels are stowed away one by one, sides first, and covered by the front lid, which is held down by a hook at the back. The hook is furnished with a release button to erect the hood. A small sector lever close to the shutter dial, with R and V engraved next to it in the top plate, controls the film transportation, R for rewind and V for advance, for rückwärts and vorwärts in German. A knob on the left-hand edge of the body slides downwards to release the back, which is not hinged, only hooked onto the right-hand edge just before closing by a firm pressure on the left-hand back.

Variants


Kine Exakta

Variants

Only a few significant changes were made to the original Kine Exakta (version 1) during its production run until it was replaced by the model II in 1948: Within a few months the circular focusing loupe, visible on top of the collapsed finder hood, was replaced by a rectangular one covering about 50% of the ground glass image (version 2). This version also appeared on the North American market as Exacta, spelled with a c (version 3). About a year later, a threaded hole was added at the right-hand front above the flashbulb synchronising contacts for securing the flashgun to the camera (version 4). After the Second World War production of the Exacta version slowly resumed, but with several minor changes to the camera body. Among these are: the Ihagee logo no longer appears in relief on the rectangular back door leather patch; the carrying strap eyelets on either side of the top edge of the camera are inserted between two small protrusions and riveted in place, and the right-hand shutter dial is milled without a groove along the middle of the edge.


Harington Telford

Harington Telford (born 24 August 1966) is a Canadian luger. He competed at the 1988 Winter Olympics and the 1992 Winter Olympics.

  * Harington Telford at Olympics.com
  * Harington Telford at Olympedia
  * Harington Telford at the Canadian Olympic Committee


A Few Best Men (soundtrack)

A Few Best Men: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Remixes is the sixth soundtrack album by British-Australian singer Olivia Newton-John, released on 20 January 2012 by Universal Records in Australia.comedy film, A Few Best Men.

The soundtrack basically consists on old pop hits sung by Newton-John and remixed by producers like Chew Fu, Roulette and Archie. The film's director, Stephan Elliott, invited Newton-John in person for the project, and also work as music producer. Some tracks are performed by session musicians credited as "The Wedding Band". Newton-John also recorded a new original track from the soundtrack, "Weightless" (written by her long-time collaborator, John Farrar, and his son, Max

The lead single is a cover of Toni Basil's "Mickey", released to radio 9 January 2012.music video was released, without Newton-John appearing. The song "Weightless" also has a music video that was made with clips from the film.

Background and development

When Stephan Elliott and Warren Fahey approached me with the idea of re-recording all of the songs featured in the film, I thought it would be fun as I was familiar with the songs from the 70s and 80s. Stephan and I had great fun recording in Los Angeles. Not only is he a great film director but a very talented music producer - full of fun, energy and musical vision. Having never done a dance and club album before, I was excited to hear what the remixers have done with these songs to make them so clever and different from the originals.

— Newton-John talking about the offer to work on the soundtrack of A Few Best Men

In August 2011, the blog The Randy Report published a notice that Newton-John was producing a dance track with John Farrar and Marius de Vries.A Few Best Men.


A Few Best Men (soundtrack)

The film's director and soundtrack producer, Stephan Elliott, told that his goal is to bring the famous voice of Newton-John together with sharp edged 21st century music style, creating a winning mix. His long-time collaborator, the music composer Guy Gross, produced the songs performed by The Wedding Band and wrote a new original track, "Wankered". Newton-John songs are produced by several well-known remixers. Elliott also co-produced every track of the album. About the first single, Newton-John comments: "For 'Mickey', my sister Rona and I sang the chorus together and, I never realized how cheeky the words were until I read them! My vocal coach, Steve Real, kept my voice alive that day and also added his beautiful voice to the background vocals. The genius remixers worked magic!"

The only Newton-John soundtrack track to actually appear in the film is "Weightless", which is featured in the closing credits. All other songs featured are performed by "The Wedding Band", which includes its soundtrack songs, all the covers performed by Newton-John on the soundtrack album and the unreleased songs "The Ballroom Blitz", "Skippy", "Howzat!", "Falling in Love Again", "Rock and Roll (Part I & II)", "Freeze Frame", "I'm Walking", "The Chicken Dance", "The Twist", "Y.M.C.A." and "Some Girls". The score was composed by Gross and also was not fully commercially released but received an indication for the AACTA Award for Best Original Music Score in 2013.

Promotion

Newton-John with Stephan Elliott at the premiere of A Few Best Men

The promotion of the film and the soundtrack included the participation of Newton-John in several Australian television shows such as The Project and The Circle.

A medley named "A Few from A Few Best Men" (Mirror Ball remix) with the songs "Mickey", "Weightless" and "I Think I Love You" was made for the promotion of songs at dance clubs and video ads. Newton-John sang another medley with the songs "Daydream Believer" and "Weighless" at her performance in 2012 AACTA Awards on 31 January at the Sydney Opera House.

A Summer Night with Olivia Newton-John


A Few Best Men (soundtrack)

A Summer Night with Olivia Newton-John

Main article: A Summer Night with Olivia Newton-John

A Summer Night with Olivia Newton-John to promote A Few Best Men soundtrack is the eighteenth worldwide concert tour by Newton-John. The tour first leg began in February 2012, in Australia. Newton-John also performed in Asia, North America and Europe, making this tour her largest since the Heartstrings World Tour, which was finished in 2005.

A medley featuring the songs "Mickey", "Daydream Believer", "I Think I Love You" and "Sugar, Sugar" was added to the setlist for some legs. "Weightless" also was added, performed after the medley. Newton-John performed "Weightless" for the first time on her 2011 United States Tour.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source         Rating
Allmusic
Herald Sun

Cameron Adams of Herald Sun gave the soundtrack a negative review, criticizing the album production. About the song "Daydream Believer", Adams says the remixer Pablo Calamari puts Newton-John's vocal in a sonic blender, "turning her into a drowning robot". While some songs like "Georgy Girl" and "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad" have not been criticized, he questions "why does half this record try to turn her into LMFAO?".

Allmusic's Jon O'Brien did a mixed review, also criticizing the auto-tuned production and the vocal performances of "The Wedding Band" musicians. He ends: "Newton-John would have perhaps been better off saving the best songs for a new studio album rather than frittering them away on a mixed bag of a soundtrack which makes the fatal mistake of being more fun to record than to listen to".

Track listing


A Few Best Men (soundtrack)

Track listing

No.  Title                                                  Writer(s)                       Producer(s)                       Length
1.   "Weightless"                                           John Farrar, Max Farrar         Stephan Elliott, Marius de Vries  3:28
2.   "The Rain, The Park & Other Things" (Lo Five remix)    Arthur Kornfeld, Steven Duboff  Lo Five, Elliott                  2:27
3.   "The Nips Are Getting Bigger[A]"                       Martin Murphy                   Guy Gross, Elliott                2:30
4.   "Daydream Believer" (Chew Fu Fix)                      John C. Stewart                 Chew Fu, Elliott                  3:16
5.   "The Pushbike Song" (Pablo Calamari remix)             Evan Jones, Idris Jones         Pablo Calamari, Elliott           4:57
6.   "Wankered[A]"                                          Gross                           Guy Gross, Elliott                1:57
7.   "Afternoon Delight[A]"                                 Bill Danoff                     Gross, Elliott                    2:21
8.   "A Beautiful Morning[A]"                               Eddie Brigati, Felix Cavaliere  Gross, Elliott                    2:54
9.   "Brand New Key" (Archie remix)                         Melanie Safka                   Archie, Elliott                   3:35
10.  "The Love Boat" (Roulette remix)                       Paul Williams, Charles Fox      Roulette, Elliott                 3:36
11.  "Live It Up[A]"                                        Greedy Smith                    Gross, Elliott                    2:23
12.  "Sugar, Sugar" (Chew Fu Fix)                           Jeff Barry, Andy Kim            Chew Fu, Elliott                  3:25
13.  "Living in the 70's[A]"                                Greg Macainsh                   Gross, Elliott                    2:26
14.  "Devil Gate Drive" (Chew Fu & PVH Night Fever remix)   Nicky Chinn, Mike Chapman       Chew Fu, PVH, Elliott             2:57
15.  "Georgy Girl" (Roulette remix)                         Tom Springfield, Jim Dale       Roulette, Elliott                 4:20
16.  "I Think I Love You" (Chew Fu & PVH Love Hurts remix)  Tony Romeo                      Chew Fu, PVH, Elliott             3:12
17.  "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad" (Lo Five remix)           Jim Steinman                    Lo Five, Elliott                  5:17
18.  "Mickey" (Chew Fu Fix)                                 Chinn, Chapman                  Chew Fu, Elliott                  3:25
19.  "Weightless" (Punk Ninja remix)                        John Farrar, Max Farrar         Archie, Elliott                   3:27

  * A^ Tracks performed by "The Wedding Band".

Credits and personnel


A Few Best Men (soundtrack)

Credits and personnel

  * Archie – producer, remix
  * Jeff Barry – songwriter, instrumentation
  * Steeve Body – mixing
  * Andy Bradfield – mixing
  * Eddie Brigati – songwriter, instrumentation
  * Pablo Calamari – producer
  * Felix Cavaliere – songwriter, instrumentation
  * Mike Chapman – songwriter
  * Nicky Chinn – songwriter
  * Jim Dale – songwriter, instrumentation
  * Bill Danoff – songwriter
  * Debaser – booklet art
  * Steven Duboff – songwriter
  * Stephan Elliott – producer, production coordinator
  * Warren Fahey – production coordinator
  * John Farrar – songwriter, instrumentation
  * Max Farrar – songwriter, instrumentation
  * Jason Fernandez – sound engineer
  * Lo Five – producer, additional producer
  * Charles Fox – songwriter, instrumentation
  * Chew Fu – producer, mixing, instruments, programming
  * Quentin Gilkey – sound engineer
  * Guy Gross – producer, songwriter, instrumentation
  * Joe Helson – additional producer, additional programming
  * Evan Jones – songwriter
  * Idris Jones – songwriter
  * Andy Kim – songwriter, instrumentation
  * Arthur Kornfeld – songwriter
  * Greg Macainsh – songwriter
  * Laurence Malkin – executive producer
  * Tony Mott – photography
  * Martin Murphy – songwriter
  * Olivia Newton-John – vocals
  * PVH – producer, mixing, instruments, programming
  * Steve Real – vocal coach
  * Tony Romeo – songwriter
  * Roulette – producer
  * Melanie Safka – songwriter
  * Alexis Smith – additional producer, additional programming
  * Greedy Smith – songwriter
  * Tom Springfield – songwriter, instrumentation
  * Jim Steinman – songwriter, instrumentation
  * John C. Stewart – songwriter
  * Marius de Vries – producer
  * The Wedding Band – vocals
  * Paul Williams – songwriter, instrumentation
  * Darren Ziesing – mastering engineer

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.

Release history

Country         Date             Label                      Format
Australia       20 January 2012  Universal Music Australia  CD, digital download
United States   31 January 2012  Universal Music Australia
                                 (import)
United Kingdom


Kainakary South

For the nearby village in the same Alappuzha district, Kerala, see Kainakary North.

Kainakary South is a village in Alappuzha district in the Indian state of Kerala.

Demographics

As of the 2001 Indian census, Kainakary South had a population of 16961 with 8218 males and 8743 females.


Battle of the Pips

The Battle of the Pips is the name given to an incident on 27 July 1943, part of the Aleutian campaign of World War II. In preparation for the amphibious assault on the island of Kiska planned for August 1943, the U.S. Navy formed Task Group 16.22 (TG 16.22)battleships Mississippi and Idaho.

Radar contact

On 27 July, 80 mi (70 nmi; 130 km) west of Kiska, TG 16.22 began to pick up a series of unknown radar contacts. The order was given to open fire, and 518 14 in (360 mm) shells were fired from both battleships, but there were no hits.

Radar was still a new and unreliable technology at that time, and weather conditions around the Aleutians were characteristically bad, with the very poor visibility normal for the area. No Japanese surface warships were actually within 200 mi (170 nmi; 320 km). Author Brian Garfield surmises, based on analysis by modern Aleutian fishing-boat captains, that the pips were rafts of sooty or short-tailed shearwaters, species of migratory petrel that pass through the Aleutians in July every year.

  * Fog of war
  * Stern, Robert C. US Battleships in Action Part 1. Vol. 1. Carrollton, Texas: Squadron/Signal Publications, Inc., 1980. 10–11.
  * Garfield, Brian (1969). The Thousand-Mile War: World War II in Alaska and the Aleutians. Fairbanks, Alaska, USA: University of Alaska Press. pp. 357–372. ISBN 0-912006-83-8.
  * Garfield, Brian (1969). The Thousand-Mile War: World War II in Alaska and the Aleutians. Fairbanks, Alaska, USA: University of Alaska Press. pp. 417–419. ISBN 0-912006-83-8.


George Bryan Polivka

George Bryan Polivka (born July 26, 1957) is an American writer, producer, and author. He is best known for his faith-based fantasy books, notably The Trophy Chase trilogy and its prequel Blaggard’s Moon.Emmy Award for writing the sports documentary, "A Hard Road to Glory," with Arthur Ashe. Polivka was a 2009 Christy Award "Visionary" finalist.Baltimore, Maryland, with his wife and children.

Documentaries

  * A Hard Road to Glory

Novels

  * The Legend of the Firefish
  * The Hand that Bears the Sword
  * The Battle for Vast Dominion
  * Blaggard’s Moon

Awards

  * 1986 Emmy Award for writing, A Hard Road to Glory
 1. FictionDB http://www.fictiondb.com/author/george-bryan-polivka~41957.htm
 2. Emmy Awards http://www.emmyonline.tv/files/Bryan_Polivka.pdf%5B%5D
 3. Christy Awards https://web.archive.org/web/20120124031909/http://www.christyawards.com/ca_new/images/stories/client_pdf/00-10_WinnersFinalists.pdf
 4. Publishers Weekly http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-7369-1956-2
 5. Publisher's Marketplace https://web.archive.org/web/20150903194727/http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/Bookman/
 6. WorldNews Network http://article.wn.com/view/2011/03/08/Trophy_Chase_Trilogy_by_George_Bryan_Polivka/
 7. News Release Today http://www.newreleasetoday.com/bookdetail.php?book_id=2126


Epicephala strepsiploca

Epicephala strepsiploca is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Karnataka and Maharashtra, India.


Johann Frank Kirchbach

Johann Frank Kirchbach
(date unknown)

The Abduction of Ganymede; an engraving of Kirchbach's painting, by an unknown artist

Johann Frank Kirchbach (2 June 1859, London – 19 March 1912, Schliersee), was a German historical-, portrait-, genre- and landscape-painter; who also operated as a graphic designer and illustrator.

Biography

His father was the artist, Ernst Kirchbach, who was in exile at the time of his birth. He received his first education at the Dresden Academy (1878) then, as a student of the Munich Academy, exhibited for the first time in 1881, in Munich and Berlin. In 1882, He won first prize for his painting "Duke Christoph the fighter, on the corpse of the last Abensberger"

When he returned, he took part in the painting of the Schloss DrachenburgNibelungenlied. The primary image, "The Quarrel of the Queens"

He then studied in Paris, with Mihály Munkácsy, and created a monumental painting of "Ganymede". Between 1884 and 1886, he was in Munich and created the colossal painting, "Christ Drives the Money Changers Out of the Temple."Goethe and Paul Heyse, Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, The Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, and various youth literature.

In 1889 he was appointed as Head of Department at the Städelschule (Institute of Frankfurt), where he worked seven years before returning to Munich in 1896 as a teacher of life drawing at the Munich Academy. In his last years, he painted mostly portraits.

  * Frank Church Bach . In: Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, General Encyclopedia of Artists of the antiquity to the present, Volume 20, EA Seemann, Leipzig, 1927, pg.348
  * Hans Ries: Illustrations and illustrators of children's book in German-speaking 1871-1914, Osnabrück 1992, pp. 635 et seq ISBN 3-87898-329-8

Media related to Frank Kirchbach at Wikimedia Commons


Fabio Santus

Fabio Santus (born Clusone, May 26, 1976) is an Italian cross country skier who has competed since 1995. His best World Cup finish was second in a 4 x 10 km event in Switzerland in 2007 while Santus's best individual finish was fifth in a 15 km + 15 km double pursuit event in Sweden in 2004.

Competing in two Winter Olympics, he earned his best finish of 16th in the 15 km + 15 km double pursuit event at Turin in 2006. Santus's best finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was 19th in the 50 km event at Val di Fiemme in 2003. He also won the 2010 American Birkebeiner setting a record time of 1:56:58.2.

Cross-country skiing results

All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).

Olympic Games

Year  Age  15 km  Pursuit  30 km  50 km  Sprint  4 × 10 km  Team
                                                 relay      sprint
2002  25   —      —        —      26     —       —          —
2006  29   33     16       —      19     —       —          —

World Championships

Year  Age  15 km  Pursuit  30 km  50 km  Sprint  4 × 10 km  Team
                                                 relay      sprint
2003  26   —      —        —      19     —       —          —
2005  28   —      —        —      35     —       —          —
2007  30   30     —        —      DNF    —       —          —

World Cup

Season standings

Season   Age       Discipline standings  Ski Tour standings
Overall  Distance  Long Distance         Middle Distance     Sprint  Nordic   Tour de  World Cup
                                                                     Opening  Ski      Final
1997     20        NC                    —                   NC      —        —        —          —   —
1998     21        NC                    —                   NC      —        —        —          —   —
1999     22        NC                    —                   NC      —        —        —          —   —
2000     23        111                   —                   78      65       NC       —          —   —
2001     24        NC                    —                   —       —        NC       —          —   —
2002     25        115                   —                   —       —        NC       —          —   —
2003     26        102                   —                   —       —        NC       —          —   —
2004     27        28                    19                  —       —        —        —          —   —
2005     28        58                    36                  —       —        —        —          —   —
2006     29        36                    23                  —       —        —        —          —   —
2007     30        115                   66                  —       —        —        —          —   —
2008     31        57                    41                  —       —        NC       —          23  20
2009     32        105                   61                  —       —        NC       —          —   31
2012     35        146                   91                  —       —        —        —          —   —
2014     37        NC                    NC                  —       —        —        —          —   —

Team podiums


Fabio Santus

Team podiums

  * 1 podium – (1 RL)
No.  Season   Date             Location                          Race                 Level      Place  Teammates
 1   2006–07  4 February 2007  [Switzerland] Davos, Switzerland  4 × 10 km Relay C/F  World Cup  2nd    Checchi / Di Centa / Piller Cottrer

  * Fabio Santus at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation
  * Fan club site (in Italian)


Ellerton Abbey House

Ellerton Abbey House is an historic building and estate in Ellerton Abbey, North Yorkshire, England. It was built around 1830 for the Fore Erle-Drax family, and has been designated a Grade II listed building by Historic England.450 feet (140 m) southwest of Ellerton Priory, now ruined.

As of 2021, the building is occupied by Ellerton Abbey Antiques and Mrs Pumphrey's Tearoom, the latter in reference to the character in the original version of the BBC television series All Creatures Great and Small who lived there with her spoiled Pekingese dog Tricki-Woo. Filming took place inside the house, which was named Barlby Grange in the series,

Drax family

Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries the Priory became the property of a series of people until it was purchased in the 1690s by Col. Henry Drax, a wealthy slave owner and sugar planter, of Drax Hall in Barbados, who was looking for an English estate which would produce £10,000 per annum.Henry Drax (c.1693–1755), a Member of ParliamentCharborough House in Dorset, which today remains the residence of his descendant Richard Drax, MP.

John Samuel Wanley Swabridge Erle-Drax built the house for his wife, Jane Frances, around 1830.

Gallery

  * [The rear of the estate from the hills to the north, near Marrick]
    The rear of the estate from the hills to the north, near Marrick
  * [The estate's gated entrance and driveway]
    The estate's gated entrance and driveway
  * [A view of the building from Ellerton Scar, near Stainton, to the east]
    A view of the building from Ellerton Scar, near Stainton, to the east
  * Listed buildings in England


Edwin Henry Staples Hamilton

Edwin Henry Staples Hamilton (1885–1964) of Christchurch was appointed a member of the New Zealand Legislative Council on 22 June 1950.

He was appointed as a member of the so-called "suicide squad" nominated by the First National Government in 1950 to vote for the abolition of the Council. Most of the new members (like Hamilton) were appointed on 22 June 1950, and served until 31 December 1950 when the Council was abolished.


Hariobaudes

Hariobaudes (German: Hariobaud) was an Alemannic petty king in the 4th century AD. The Roman writer Ammianus Marcellinus reports that Julian crossed the Rhine at Mainz in 359 and concluded a peace treaty with the Alemannic kings Hariobaud, Macrian, Urius, Ursicinus, Vadomarius and Vestralpus after they agreed to return all prisoners.

  * Hermann Reichert: Hariobaudus. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2. Auflage. Band 14, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1999, ISBN 3-11-016423-X, S. 10–12.
  * Dieter Geuenich: Geschichte der Alemannen (Kohlhammer-Urban-Taschenbücher. 575). 2., überarbeitete Auflage. Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-17-018227-7.


A Few Days with Me

A Few Days with Me (original title: Quelques jours avec moi) is a 1988 French film directed by Claude Sautet. It received three César Award nominations at the 1989 César Awards.

Plot

Martial (Daniel Auteuil) is discharged from a mental institution where he spent a few years due to a serious nervous breakdown. During his hospitalization, he ceases to speak with everyone, including his wife Régine (Thérèse Liotard), whom he had encouraged to find a new partner soon after entering the clinic. Upon his return, he finds his mother (Danielle Darrieux), a busy business woman who owns a supermarket chain. She is convinced that her son, who by now hardly talks to anyone after his experience, will be able to find himself again if tasked with some responsibilities.

Soon enough, Martial is sent to Limoges on a business trip to check on one of their stores in the hope of reinvigorating its failing business. Once he arrives, Martial is faced with responsibilities he had never imagined, including dealing with the store's personnel. Due to his lack of people skills, this job is a difficult task. Meantime, as instructed by his mother, he checks on the accounting handled by the manager, Mr. Fonfrin (Jean-Pierre Marielle), and he soon realizes that the reason for the branch's close-to-failure status is that Fonfrin is padding the books. Due to his inability to take charge for anything in life, Martial fails to perform his duties and instead befriends the crooked manager, who invites the naive heir to join him and his wife (Dominique Lavanant) for dinner one night. He immediately falls in love with Francine (Sandrine Bonnaire), the maid, an eccentric young woman with whom he has a brief relationship.

Martial unconditionally showers Francine with many gifts, as this is the first time in several years that he feels close to someone; it is a short episode that makes his dejected life momentarily look brighter. He lets his work fall behind for her but, unfortunately, the romance does not last long and, upon his return to Paris, he is deemed incompetent and re-admitted to the hospital.

Cast


A Few Days with Me

Cast

  * Daniel Auteuil as Martial Pasquier
  * Sandrine Bonnaire as Francine
  * Danielle Darrieux as Madame Pasquier — Martial's mother
  * Jean-Pierre Marielle as Mr. Fonfier
  * Dominique Lavanant as Mrs. Fonfier
  * Thérèse Liotard as Régine — Martial's wife
  * Vincent Lindon as Fernand
  * Jean-Pierre Castaldi as Max
  * Gérard Ismaël as Rocky
  * Tanya Lopert as Madame Maillotte
  * Philippe Laudenbach as Monsieur Maillotte
  * Dominique Blanc as Georgette
  * Élisa Servier

Reception

New York Times' Vincent Canby described Claude Sautet as an artist who often uses his films to lambast bourgeoisie's hypocrisy, a trait that is seen in this and other movies he directed. In Quelques jours avec moi, he uses Martial's character to counter the above, as he represents its antithesis.Le Figaro, Nicolas Jouenne notes his perception of the film as a comedy at first, rather hilarious, that swerves onto a tragedy toward the end.

Accolades

Organization             Category              Recipients and nominees  Result
César Awards             Best Actor            Daniel Auteuil           Nominated
Best Supporting Actor    Jean-Pierre Marielle  Nominated
Best Supporting Actress  Dominique Lavanant    Nominated

  * A Few Days with Me at IMDb


Kainan, Tokushima

Kainan (海南町, Kainan-chō) was a town located in Kaifu District, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan.

As of 2003, the town had an estimated population of 5,967 and a density of 28.52 persons per km². The total area was 209.22 km².

On March 31, 2006, Kainan, along with the towns of Kaifu and Shishikui (all from Kaifu District), was merged to create the town of Kaiyō.

  * Kaiyō official website (in Japanese)


Battle of the North Foreland

Two naval battles of the Anglo-Dutch Wars are called the Battle of the North Foreland after the cape on the Kent coast of England:

  * The Battle of the Gabbard, June 12 to June 14, 1653, in the First Anglo-Dutch War.
  * The St. James's Day Battle, August 4 to August 5, 1666, in the Second Anglo-Dutch War.

There was also a Battle of South Foreland fought between English and French fleets in 1217.


George Brudenell-Bruce

George Brudenell-Bruce may refer to:

  * George Brudenell-Bruce, 2nd Marquess of Ailesbury (1804–1878)
  * George Brudenell-Bruce, 4th Marquess of Ailesbury (1863–1894)
  * George Brudenell-Bruce, 6th Marquess of Ailesbury (1873–1961)
  * Brudenell-Bruce
  * George Brudenell (disambiguation)
  * George Bruce (disambiguation)


Epicephala scythropis

Epicephala scythropis is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from India and Myanmar.

The larvae feed on Phyllanthus species. They probably mine the leaves of their host plant.


Contributions directes

The contributions directes were a system of four taxes, also known as the quatre vieilles, set up under the French Revolution. They were all direct taxes, willingly voted into existence by vote of the deputies, by contrast with the Ancien Régime, which mainly relied on indirect taxes.

Three of them were set up in 1790 by the National Constituent Assembly:

  * the contribution foncière, on all lands ;
  * the contribution mobilière, on all income not derived from commerce or 'land' (with the latter including rent and industry)
  * the patente, which taxed the professions according to their external signs

The fourth, the impôt sur les portes et fenêtres (comparable to the British window tax) was set up in 1798 by the French Directory. This one was not called a contribution, and was progressive.

Until the First French Empire, these for direct taxes raised enough for the state budget, but the Napoleonic Wars led to the re-establishment of indirect taxation.


Fabio Reato

Fabio Reato (born 20 March 1993) is an Italian former professional footballer who plays as a defender.

Career

Born in L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Reato started his career at Lombard club A.C. Milan. In 2010–11 season he was a member of Berretti under-18 team. In 2011, he was signed by Pavia. In 2012, he was signed by Serie B club Cesena on a co-ownership deal with Pavia, for €150,000 transfer fee (César Meza Colli plus €75,000). He signed a 3-year contract.

Reato also returned to Pavia on a temporary deal in 2012–13 and 2013–14 Lega Pro Prima Divisione seasons. Cesena team-mate Matteo Zanini also joined Pavia along with Reato. In 2013

In 2014, he left for Forlì along with L.Arrigoni, T.Arrigoni, N.Capellini, and M.Đurić.Caio De Cenco outright.

  * AIC profile (data by football.it) (in Italian)


Ellert en Brammert (museum)

Ellert en Brammert is an open-air museum in Schoonoord expositing the way people lived in Drenthe at the time of the peat digging. It was named after a myth about the two giants Ellert and Brammert who prowled around the Ellertsveld.

  * [House]
    House
  * [House]
    House
  * [House]
    House
  * [Peat digging]
    Peat digging
  * [Protestant church]
    Protestant church
  * [Village prison]
    Village prison
  * [Hunebed]
    Hunebed
  * [School interior]
    School interior
  * Ellert en Brammert, official website of the museum


Edwin Hill-Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor

Arms of 1st Baron Trevor impaling Curzon. St.Mary's Church, Chirk, Wales

Arthur Edwin Hill-Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor (4 November 1819 – 25 December 1894), styled as Lord Edwin Hill until 1862 and as Lord Edwin Hill-Trevor from 1862 to 1880, was a long-standing Anglo-Irish Conservative Member of Parliament.

Hill-Trevor was the third son of Arthur Hill, 3rd Marquess of Downshire, and his wife Lady Maria (née Windsor). He was elected to the House of Commons for County Down in 1845, a seat he held for the next 35 years.

In 1862, on the death of their kinsman Arthur Hill-Trevor, 3rd Viscount Dungannon (on whose death the viscountcy became extinct) this branch of the Hill family succeeded to the Trevor and Dungannon estates. By arrangement parts of the estates, including Brynkinalt in Wales, passed to Lord Edwin, who assumed by Royal licence the additional surname of Trevor. In 1880 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Trevor, of Brynkinalt in the County of Denbigh.

As Lord Edwin Hill-Trevor, Lord Trevor was a Captain in the North Shropshire Yeomanry Cavalry, promoted Major in 1862, but retired from the regiment prior to its amalgamation into the unified Shropshire Yeomanry regiment in 1872.

Lord Trevor married, firstly, Mary Emily, daughter of Sir Richard Sutton, 2nd Baronet, in 1848. After her death in 1855 he married, secondly, the Hon. Mary Catherine, daughter of Reverend the Hon. Alfred Curzon, in 1858. Trevor died in December 1894, aged 75,

  * Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
  * CricketArchive: Lord Edwin Hill
  * Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Edwin Hill-Trevor
  * Photo of Edwin Hill-Trevor at National Portrait Gallery


Chen Yu (badminton)

In this Chinese name, the family name is Chen.

Chen Yu (born 8 May 1980) is a former Chinese badminton player from Nanning, Guangxi.

Career

Chen had joined the Guangxi team in 1993, and was selected to join the national team in 1998.Chinese National Championships in 2002 and 2003. On the international badminton circuit he won the 2006 Thailand Open by defeating two fellow countrymen (and two fellow "Chens"), Chen Hong in the semifinals, and Chen Jin in a very close final. Outside of that victory he has had trouble breaking through, but has been runner-up in the Denmark (2003, 2006), Singapore (2003, 2007), and German Opens (2007), and at the prestigious All-England Championships in 2007. He was also part of the national men's team that won the 2001 Asia Cup, and at the Thomas Cup in 2004 and 2008.China Open badminton event in Shanghai, November 23, 2008. The then 27-year-old veteran would become a coach of the national Chinese men's team.

Achievements

World Championships

Men's singles

Year  Venue                                         Opponent                      Score                Result
2007  Putra Indoor Stadium, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia  [Indonesia] Sony Dwi Kuncoro  21–18, 13–21, 15–21  [Bronze] Bronze

World Cup

Men's singles

Year  Venue                        Opponent         Score                Result
2006  Olympic Park, Yiyang, China  [China] Lin Dan  19–21, 21–19, 17–21  [Silver] Silver

Asian Championships

Men's singles

Year  Venue                                     Opponent                    Score         Result
2006  Bandaraya Stadium, Johor Bahru, Malaysia  [Thailand] Boonsak Ponsana  22–24, 13–21  [Bronze] Bronze

World Junior Championships

Boys' singles

Year  Venue                                            Opponent                 Score         Result
1998  Sports and Aquatic Centre, Melbourne, Australia  [Malaysia] Yeoh Kay Bin  12–15, 12–15  [Bronze] Bronze

Asian Junior Championships

Boys' doubles


Chen Yu (badminton)

Asian Junior Championships

Boys' doubles

Year  Venue                                         Partner            Opponent                              Score       Result
1999  National Indoor Stadium – 1, Yangon, Myanmar  [China] Sang Yang  [Indonesia] Hendri Kurniawan Saputra  15–6, 15–2  [Gold] Gold
                                                                       [Indonesia] Wandri Kurniawan Saputra

Mixed doubles

Year  Venue                                                   Partner             Opponent                    Score       Result
1998  Kuala Lumpur Badminton Stadium, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia  [China] Jin Beilei  [Malaysia] Chan Chong Ming  5–15, 5–15  [Bronze] Bronze
                                                                                [Malaysia] Joanne Quay

BWF Superseries

The BWF Superseries, launched on 14 December 2006 and implemented in 2007,Badminton World Federation (BWF). BWF Superseries has two level such as Superseries and Superseries Premier. A season of Superseries features twelve tournaments around the world, which introduced since 2011,

Men's singles

Year  Tournament        Opponent                    Score         Result
2007  Singapore Open    [Thailand] Boonsak Ponsana  17–21, 14–21  [2nd place, silver medalist(s)] Runner-up
2007  All England Open  [China] Lin Dan             13–21, 12–21  [2nd place, silver medalist(s)] Runner-up

BWF Superseries Finals tournament BWF Superseries Premier tournament BWF Superseries tournament

BWF Grand Prix

The BWF Grand Prix has two levels: Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. It is a series of badminton tournaments, sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007. The World Badminton Grand Prix sanctioned by International Badminton Federation (IBF) since 1983.

Men's singles


Chen Yu (badminton)

Men's singles

Year  Tournament      Opponent           Score                Result
2007  German Open     [China] Lin Dan    Walkover             [2nd place, silver medalist(s)] Runner-up
2006  Denmark Open    [China] Chen Hong  18–21, 18–21         [2nd place, silver medalist(s)] Runner-up
2006  Thailand Open   [China] Chen Jin   21–17, 21–23, 22–20  [1st place, gold medalist(s)] Winner
2003  Denmark Open    [China] Lin Dan    4–15, 6–15           [2nd place, silver medalist(s)] Runner-up
2003  Singapore Open  [China] Chen Hong  15–11, 8–15, 4–15    [2nd place, silver medalist(s)] Runner-up

  * Profile at InternationalBadminton.org at the Wayback Machine (archived 2007-10-26)
  * CHEN Yu at BWF.tournamentsoftware.com (alternate link)
  * CHEN Yu at BWFbadminton.com


A Few Cubic Meters of Love

A Few Cubic Meters of Love (Persian: چند متر مکعب عشق, Chand Metre Moka'ab Eshgh) is a 2014 Iranian-Afghanromance film directed by Jamshid Mahmoudi. It was selected as the Afghan entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards, but was not nominated.

Plot

Abdul Salam is an Afghan immigrant. He is working and living with her daughter Marvena in a workshop.

Cast

  * Hasiba Ebrahimi as Marvena
  * Saed Soheili as Saber
  * Nader Fallah
  * Masoud Mirtaheri
  * Alireza Ostadi
  * List of submissions to the 87th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
  * List of Afghan submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
  * A Few Cubic Meters of Love at IMDb


Karezat

Karezat is a large tehsil of Karezat District. Karezat is in the north east of Pishin, Pakistan. In Karezat, the largest city is Khanozai Bazar.

Karezat is a tehsil and sub-division of the Karezat District of Balochistan Province, Pakistan.

The name Karezat refers to the karezes, underground channels with vertical access shafts, used to transport water from an aquifer under a hill, in the villages of the tehsil. Only Two karezes remains in the village Khushab, and the other is in Village Newkarez Murgha, all are no longer usable, due to drought.

It comprises many large villages which have large populations of the Kakar tribe; residents' livelihoods are based on agriculture. In early times, farms were irrigated by the karezes, which were the major source of water in the area.


Battle of the Noris

The Battle of the Noris was a battle fought between 11 and 14 December 1952 during the Korean War between South Korean and Chinese forces on two adjacent hills known as Big Nori and Little Nori.

Background

In early December 1952 the Republic of Korea Army (ROK) 1st Infantry Division occupied defensive positions on the double horseshoe bend of the Imjin River. On the west bank of the river, as it began its first horseshoe turn, lay a low hill complex known as Nori; Big Nori formed the western half of the ridge and Little Nori the eastern half. The ROK 15th Regiment maintained outposts on these hills and also on Hill Betty, about 0.75 miles (1.21 km) south of Little Nori, and on Hill 105, approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) southwest of Little Nori. The Chinese People's Volunteer Army (PVA) controlled outposts on the terrain to the north and west of Nori, but had remained fairly inactive in that sector in early December.

Battle

On 11 December two battalions of the 420th Regiment, 140th Division, 47th Army, closely followed 800 rounds of artillery and mortar fire in an attack upon the ROK outposts on Little Nori, Betty, and Hill 105. The main weight fell on Little Nori as two PVA companies sought to dislodge the men of the ROK 15th Infantry. After a bitter 3-hour exchange at close range, the ROK defenders were ordered to pull back to Hill 69, 300 yards (270 m) to the east of Little Nori. After regrouping, the ROK 15th launched two counterattacks, but the two platoons committed failed to drive the PVA off the heights. The PVA waited until the attack forces neared their defensive positions, then hurled hand grenades and loosed a withering artillery, mortar, and small arms fire. Later in the morning, however, a small force from the ROK 11th Regiment, which had relieved the 15th Regiment, reoccupied Little Nori without opposition. In the meantime, the ROK units on Betty had held, but those on Hill 105 had to fall back temporarily. Evidently the PVA movement against Hill 105 was only a diversion, for they left shortly thereafter and the ROK forces reoccupied the positions without incident.


Battle of the Noris

On the night of the 11th, the PVA first launched a two-company drive against Little Nori, then increased the attacking force to a battalion, and the ROK again withdrew to Hill 69. Air support was called in and six B-26's dropped over one hundred 260-pound fragmentary bombs on the hill. Twelve battalions of artillery poured a continuous hail of shells on the PVA, but four counterattacks by the ROK 11th Regiment on 12 December failed. Despite the punishment administered by large and small arms and the mounting toll of losses, the PVA held the hill.

The artillery concentrations went on during the night of 12-13 December and when morning arrived, a battalion from the ROK 11th Regiment moved in with two companies in the attack. Fighting steadily forward, they won their way back to Little Nori, but met with little success in their efforts to clear Big Nori. On the evening of the 13th, the ROK dug in and awaited the expected PVA counterattacks. Two PVA companies vainly attempted to penetrate the ROK positions during the night and as the morning of 14 December dawned, the contest resolved itself into a stalemate.

Aftermath

The entire action on Big and Little Nori took place in an area 300 yards (270 m) wide and 200 yards (180 m) deep. During the engagement the UN artillery fired 120,000 rounds, and the mortar crews over 31,000 while tanks added over 4,500 90mm shells. Supporting aircraft flew 39 missions of 177 sorties to bomb and strafe the PVA positions with Napalm, high explosives, and rockets. In return the ROK received over 18,000 rounds of mixed artillery and mortar fire from PVA guns.

The ROK suffered about 750 casualties including 237 dead, while the estimated total for the PVA ranged between 2,290 and 2,732. According to a deserter from the Chinese 420th Regiment in January, the regiment was removed from the line because of the heavy casualties it took in the battle and placed in reserve.


Battle of the Noris

Action in the Nori sector settled down to patrols and raids during January 1953. The PVA dispatched two platoon-sized probes during the month and on 23 January the ROK 11th Regiment sent a three-platoon raiding party against Big Nori. Air strikes, artillery, and mortar fire, and fire from twelve supporting tanks enabled the raiders to gain the crest, destroy PVA bunkers and then withdraw safely.

38°08′46″N 126°57′36″E / 38.146°N 126.96°E


Battle of the Retiro

Battle of the Retiro (Spanish: Combate del Retiro) was a battle produced during the second British Invasion of the Río de la Plata, between the Spanish troops, led by Santiago de Liniers, and the British forces under John Whitelocke.

History

The combats took place on July 5, 1807, in the Plaza de Toros del Retiro, current Plaza San Martín (Buenos Aires). The Spanish forces had fighters belonging to the Spanish Navy, commanded by the Captain Juan Gutiérrez de la Concha, and the Lt. Juan Ángel Michelena.Regiment of Patricians, and Grenadier Corps of the Third of Galicia, commanding Jacobo Adrián Varela.Samuel Auchmuty and William Lumley, who advanced towards the Plaza de Toros on July 4, 1807.

The Battle of the Retiro was the bloodiest battle produced during the English Invasions,British Army, who won the battle after 3 hours of fighting.


Epicephala squamella

Epicephala squamella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Vietnam.


Inland Revenue Staff Federation

The Inland Revenue Staff Federation (IRSF) was a trade union in the United Kingdom.

History

The Union was born in the late 19th century, when a group of tax clerks met together to fight for higher pay, higher status and better conditions. At that time clerks were hired by surveyors of taxes, they were usually employed on a temporary basis, paid low wages and denied sick leave, holidays or promotion. Clerks who asked for better conditions were branded as agitators and sacked.

So it took courage when a group of clerks met on 8 January 1892 and agreed a draft constitution to set up the Association of Tax Clerks another of the Federation's parent unions.

The Federation was founded on 1 January 1936 with the merger of the Association of Officers of Taxes, the National Association of the Taxes Assessing and Collecting Services and the Valuation Office Clerical Association. Its Assistant Secretary from 1936 until World War II was future Prime Minister of the United Kingdom James Callaghan.

In 1937, the Federation, which represented taxes and collection staff, was joined by valuation staff. The roots of the Federation go back to 1883 and the founding of the London Association of Assessors and Collectors, but only after 1937 did it fully represent all staff grades at the Inland Revenue.

In 1938, the Inland Revenue Minor Establishments' Association joined the union. The union initially operated on a federal basis but, in 1939-40, it became a single organisation.

At the 1986 Jubilee Celebration, the IRSF was described as a modern efficient organisation, with a high profile in the trade union movement, with a membership of 55,000.

In 1996, the IRSF merged with the National Union of Civil and Public Servants to form the Public Services, Tax and Commerce Union.

Only two people held presidency of the union twice, those being G B Walker and William Robert Roy Skinner. The first female president of the Federation was Winifred Mary Kidd in 1956.

General Secretaries

  * 1936: Douglas Houghton
  * 1960: Cyril Plant
  * 1976: Tony Christopher
  * 1988: Clive Brooke

Presidents


Inland Revenue Staff Federation

Presidents

  * 1936–1937 John Roughton Simpson
  * 1937–1938 David Thomson
  * 1938–1941 William Thomas Seddon
  * 1941–1944 James Cyril Jagger
  * 1944–1946 William Frederick Botterill Smith
  * 1946–1949 Reginald George Cox
  * 1949–1951 Gerald Benjamin Walker
  * 1951–1953 Richard Henry LeFevere
  * 1953–1955 William Robert Roy Skinner
  * 1955–1957 Winifred Mary Kidd
  * 1957–1958 Gerald Benjamin Walker
  * 1958–1960 William Robert Roy Skinner
  * 1960–1962 J. V. Boyle
  * 1962–1964 G. W. Davies
  * 1964–1966 J. G. C. Hopkins
  * 1966–1968 W. G. Lloyd
  * 1968–1970 J. Bibby
  * 1970–1972 W. Wilson
  * 1972–1974 D. L. Thomas
  * 1974–1976 W. Bartlett
  * 1976–1978 T. I. McKeon
  * 1978–1980 S. C. Walters
  * 1980–1982 T. T. Bagguley
  * 1982–1984 C. H. Boote
  * 1984–1986 C. Salt
  * 1986 - F. R. Winrow

  * Catalogue of the IRSF archives, held at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick


Arnold Rowntree

Arnold Stephenson Rowntree (28 November 1872 – 21 May 1951) was a Quaker and Liberal MP for York, England.

Background

He was the son of John Stephenson Rowntree and Elizabeth Hotham of York. He was the nephew of Joseph Rowntree (1836–1925), philanthropist and chocolate manufacturer. He was educated at Friends' School, Bootham, York. He married in 1907, Mary Katharine Harvey of Leeds. They had three sons and three daughters.

Politics

He was Honorary Secretary of the National Adult School Council. He was elected to Parliament at the January 1910 United Kingdom general election as a member for York. As a Quaker he opposed war and early in the First World War was involved in the Union of Democratic Control, a British anti-war group, which he left in response to pressure from the Liberal Party. He was also associated with fellow Liberal MP Thomas Edmund Harvey in an amendment to the provision for conscientious objectors in the Military Service Act 1916. The same year, he took up the cause of the Richmond Sixteen, a group of conscientious objectors who were sent to France after refusing to undertake even non-combatant duties.

Rowntree was defeated in the 1918 post-war election, and thereafter concentrated on his business. However, he was President of the York Liberal Association and also President of the Educational Centres Association.

Business

He was a Director of the family chocolate business, Rowntree and Co. (Limited), cocoa manufacturers. He was a Director of North of England Newspaper Co. (Limited), The Nation, the Westminster Press and Associated Papers.

He was one of the original directors of the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust, from 1904 to 1951, and the Chair of the trust 1925–1938, following Joseph Rowntree and succeeded by Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree.

  * "Archival material relating to Arnold Rowntree". UK National Archives.
  * Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Arnold Rowntree
  * The Rowntree Society


Ellert and Brammert

Ellert and Brammert

Ellert and Brammert are legendary giants from Dutch folklore who supposedly robbed travellers in Drenthe, Netherlands.

The Ellert en Brammert museum is named after them.


Kateryna Karsak

Kateryna Karsak (born December 26, 1985) is a discus thrower from Ukraine.

She finished 4th in the discus final at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg with a throw of 62.45m.Debrecen, Hungary in July 2007 with a throw of 64.40m.

Competition record

Year                  Competition                 Venue                  Position  Notes
Representing Ukraine
2004                  World Junior Championships  Grosseto, Italy        30th (q)  39.29 m
2005                  European U23 Championships  Erfurt, Germany        3rd       56.81 m
2006                  European Championships      Gothenburg, Sweden     4th       62.45 m
2007                  European U23 Championships  Debrecen, Hungary      1st       64.40 m
World Championships   Osaka, Japan                16th (q)               59.46 m
2008                  Olympic Games               Beijing, China         21st (q)  58.61 m
2009                  Universiade                 Belgrade, Serbia       3rd       60.47 m
World Championships   Berlin, Germany             27th (q)               56.79 m
2010                  European Championships      Barcelona, Spain       15th (q)  55.41 m
2011                  World Championships         Daegu, South Korea     20th (q)  58.27 m
2012                  Olympic Games               London, Great Britain  28th (q)  58.64 m


House of Pešinoski family

The House of Pešinoski family, or House of Pešinovci is a house in the village of Vevčani, Vevčani Municipality, North Macedonia. The house belongs to the Pešinoski family and the building is registered as a Cultural Heritage of North Macedonia.

History

The house was built in 1927 year before the old House of Pluškoski family from the XVIII-XIX century, which forms an architectural complex.

Architecture

The building is a tall house with a ground floor and two upper floors. It contains a two-level porch and a double central veranda with a distinctly differentiated winter apartment in the mezzanine and summer apartment on the first floor.stone, leveled with wooden sashes in dry masonry. There are brick decorations above the first floor windows. The third floor to the east and west is of stone, and the rest of the walls are of solid brick. Above the wooden windows there is an arched brick decoration. The mezzanine construction is made with beams of chestnut wood. The roof is multi-pitched, it is also made of chestnut beams, with tiles on a canvas of boards. The wooden roof structural beams, which form the eaves, end with decorations. The internal doors, floors, as well as the mezzanine pillar are made of chestnut wood.

  * House of Kostojčinoski family - a cultural heritage site
  * House of Duckinoski family - a cultural heritage site
  * House of Korunoski family - a cultural heritage site
  * House of Ḱitanoski family - a cultural heritage site
  * House of Pluškoski family - a cultural heritage site
  * House of Kalajdžieski family - a cultural heritage site
  * House of Gogoski family - a cultural heritage site
  * House of Daskaloski family - a cultural heritage site
  * House of Poposki family - a cultural heritage site
  * Kostojčinoski fulling mill and gristmill - a cultural heritage site


A Few Images (Algumas Imagens)

A Few Images (Algumas Imagens) is the 2014 album by the Lebanese musician Tania Saleh.crowdfunded using Zoomaal.Kirkelig Kulturverksted and Valley Entertainment.

Track listing

No.  Title                                          Length
1.   "Beirut Windows (As Janelas De Beirute)"       4:03
2.   "She Doesn't Love You (Ela Não Te Ama)"        4:15
3.   "A Few Images (Algumas Imagens)"               3:50
4.   "Every Time You Go (Toda Vez Que Você Vai)"    4:11
5.   "A Day Is Gone (O Dia Se Foi)"                 4:00
6.   "Reda"                                         2:48
7.   "Those Eyes (Esses Olhos)"                     3:29
8.   "No Problem at All (Não Tem Problema Algum)"   5:13
9.   "Hushed Scat (Silêncio)"                       2:40
10.  "The Road To Love (A Estrada Para Amor)"       3:32
11.  "A Day Is Gone (O Dia Se Foi) [Instrumental]"  2:55

  * Valley Entertainment (western release)
  * Kirkelig Kulturverksted (eastern release)


Karfaleh, Lorestan

Karfaleh (Persian: كرفله, also known as Karfaleh-ye Yek, Karfaleh-ye ‘Olyā, and Kerfeleh-ye ‘Olyā)Shurab Rural District, Veysian District, Dowreh County, Lorestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 75, in 20 families.


Gnila (Tutin)

Gnila is a village in the municipality of Tutin, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 14 people.

42°56′37″N 20°20′50″E / 42.9436°N 20.3472°E

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Gnila (Tutin).


Battle of the Raz de Sein

The Battle of the Raz de Sein was a single-ship naval engagement of the blockade of Brest during the French Revolutionary Wars between a French and Royal Navy ships of the line on 21 April 1798. The British blockade fleet under Admiral Lord Bridport had sailed from St Helens on 12 April and on the morning of 21 April was crossing the Iroise Passage when sails were spotted to the east. Three ships were detached in pursuit, led by the 74-gun ship of the line HMS Mars under Captain Alexander Hood. As the British ships approached their quarry a third sail was sighted to the southeast close to the coastline and moving north towards Brest.

This ship was the 74-gun Hercule under Captain Louis Lhéritier, newly commissioned at Lorient and sailing to Brest to join the main French fleet and the British squadron immediately changed direction to intercept the new target. Facing overwhelming odds L'Héritier attempted to escape through the narrow Raz de Sein passage, but found the tide against him and so anchored at the mouth of the passage to await the British attack. At 21:15 Mars reached Hercule, coming under heavy fire as Hood manoeuvred into position, bringing his ship crashing alongside the French vessel. For more than an hour the ships fired directly into one another, so close that their guns could not be run out but had to be fired from inside the ships. Damage and casualties were severe on both sides, the latter including Hood who was mortally wounded at the height of the engagement.

Ultimately Hercule was forced to surrender after attempts to board Mars failed. Both ships were battered and burnt, with the French suffering at least 290 casualties and the British 90. Hercule was conveyed to Britain in the aftermath and later repaired and served in the Royal Navy until 1810. Both L'Héritier and the deceased Hood were highly praised for their conduct during the battle, which is noted as being a very rare example during this period of an action between two ships of approximately equal strength without any external influence.

Background


Battle of the Raz de Sein

Background

During the French Revolutionary Wars the Royal Navy had exerted dominance at sea over its continental rivals, most immediately the French Navy with its principal fleet based at Brest on the Breton coast of the Bay of Biscay. To contain this fleet the British practiced a close blockade strategy; maintaining a fleet off Brest whenever weather conditions permitted to prevent the French fleet from breaking out into the Atlantic Ocean.Battle of Groix in the approaches to the port of Lorient,action of 13 January 1797 the independently sailing 74-gun ship of the line Droits de l'Homme was driven ashore and destroyed in the approaches to Brest by two frigates of the blockade squadron.

On 12 April 1798 the British blockade fleet under the command of Admiral Lord Bridport sailed from its winter anchorage at St Helens on the Isle of Wight for the Breton coast. Bridport mustered ten ships of the line to maintain the watch on Brest, although detachments of the fleet had been cruising in the region since 25 January and with notice he could call on 28 ships of the line.Glorious First of June in 1795 and more were wrecked during the failed Croisière du Grand Hiver operation of 1795 and the Expédition d'Irlande in 1796.Hercule, a 74-gun ship of 1,876 tons burthen launched in July 1797 and commanded by the experienced Captain Louis L'Héritier, veteran of the Glorious First of June, and with a crew of 680, 20 short of a full complement.

Pursuit

On 20 April L'Héritier was ordered to take Hercule on her maiden voyage, the short journey northwest along the coast to join the main fleet under Vice-Admiral Morard de Galles at Brest, where the crew would be augmented to reach the full complement. On board were surplus naval supplies, including a full set of rigging for a ship of the line, from the destroyed ship Quatorze Juillet which had caught fire at Lorient earlier in the month.Point Penmarc'h and the Pointe du Raz however sails were sighted to the northwest.


Battle of the Raz de Sein

These sails belonged to three ships of Bridport's fleet. At 11:00 on 21 April the British fleet had been cruising in the Iroise Passage when two sails were sighted approximately 12 nautical miles (22 km) to the east. Bridport ordered his three most easterly ships to detach and investigate the sails: the 74-gun ships of the line HMS Mars under Captain Alexander Hood, HMS Ramillies under Captain Henry Inman and the 38-gun frigate HMS Jason under Captain Charles Stirling.15 nautical miles (28 km) to the southeast, sailing close to the shore.

This new sail was much larger than the others sighted earlier in the day, and the detached squadron abandoned their former pursuit and turned towards the new arrival, Hercule. By 17:45, L'Héritier was in full flight with the British force strung out behind him, the rest of Bridport's fleet far to the west.Jason had the lead with Mars shortly behind, although Inman on Ramillies had lost his fore topmast and had dropped back.Lord Hood, pressed his ship forwards and gradually gained on both Jason and Hercule.Raz de Sein,Île de Sein and the Pointe du Raz: during the Expédition d'Irlande the French ship of the line Séduisant had been wrecked in the Raz de Sein with 680 lives.

As Hercule approached the channel, Hood put Mars on the starboard tack, overtaking Jason and bearing down on the French ship.Hercule to successfully navigate the Raz de Sein and instead anchored at the mouth of the channel with a spring on his cable, a system of attaching the bow anchor that increased stability and allowed L'Héritier to swing his broadside to face the enemy while stationary,2 nautical miles (3.7 km) southwest of Pointe de Raz and about 21 nautical miles (39 km) from his destination at Brest.

Battle

The Action between HMS Mars and Hercule on the Night of the 21st. April 1798. To the Memory of The Intrepid Captn. Alexr. Hood, by Nicholas Pocock.


Battle of the Raz de Sein

At 20:45, with Jason far behind in the darkness, Mars hauled up and Hood attempted to manoeuvre into an effective position from which to attack the waiting Hercule. The vagaries of the current in the Raz de Sein passage prevented Hood from handling his ship effectively however and instead he resolved on bringing Mars directly alongside and fighting broadside to broadside.Mars was in range and L'Héritier opened fire, Hood replying immediately. For ten minutes, the masts and rigging of Mars came under fire, with damage to the bowsprit and foremast, as Hood continued to attempt to hold his firing position against the current before pulling slightly ahead of Hercule at 21:25 and dropping anchor.Hercule and the British ship was swung violently into the French ship, the force of the collision unhinging four of the gunports on Mars.

Thus locked together, both captains ordered their ships to pour fire into the other. So closely aligned were they that many cannon on both ships could not be run out, and instead had to be fired from inside the ships.roundshot smashed gaping holes in the sides of each ship: during the combat the ragged holes torn in the side of Hercule were so extensive that the planking between the gunports was torn away, leaving wide scars along the ship's sides.musket ball struck Hood in the thigh, severing his femoral artery. Fatally wounded and bleeding profusely, Hood was carried below and command passed to Lieutenant William Butterfield. The French casualties were significantly higher than the British, a result of the much higher rate of fire achieved by Hood's well-trained crew.

Aware that his ship was suffering the worst of the casualties, L'Héritier ordered his men to attempt to board the British ship of the line, but first one and then another attempt to do so was driven back with heavy casualties.Hercule had gone out at the beginning of the engagement, leaving her crew confused, and as a result, only around 40 men answered when L'Héritier ordered the boarding;pike, while leading the assault.Hercule's hull had been torn open, five guns were dismounted with others damaged and more than two fifths of the crew killed or wounded.Jason was approaching fast and the rest of Bridport's fleet was close enough to see the muzzle flashes from the battle.

Aftermath


Battle of the Raz de Sein

Aftermath

Death of Captain Alexander Hood, 1798, by Henry Singleton.

L'Héritier submitted his sword to Butterfield in surrender and it was presented to the dying Hood, who accepted it before expiring.Jason arrived and Stirling took charge of removing prisoners from Hercule and began the long process of extricating the two battered ships of the line from the dangerous Raz de Sein channel.Mars nor Hercule were in a condition to survive a storm, and with great care Hercule was brought into Plymouth on 27 April and repairs were begun with the intention of restoring the ship to active service condition. The cost of these repairs totaled £12,500 (the equivalent of £1,399,900 as of 2023),Hercule was ultimately commissioned into the Royal Navy and served until 1810.

Historian Robert Gardiner has noted that this "classic fight" was unusual in being fought between two single ships of the line of equal force and size without an external influence,Edward Pelham Brenton wrote in 1823 that "The meeting of two ships of the line is a circumstance of rare occurrence, and its decision in our favour a brilliant ornament to our naval history": he could only identify three other such incidents in British naval history. lbs on Mars to 985 lbs on Hercule; Hercules at 1,876 tons burthen measured only 34 tons more than Mars,Hercule's understrength crew of 680 was still 46 more than on board MarsSpithead Mutiny in 1797, during which Hood had been temporarily deposed as captain.Hercule only 24 hours at sea while Mars was the nameship of the 1794 Mars class built at the start of the French Revolutionary Wars.William James indicates that the greater experience of Hood's crew and the nearby presence of other British ships gave Mars a slight advantage, but that "the action of the Mars and Hercule was one that, in the conduct of it throughout, reflected about an equal share of credit upon both the contending parties."

Although some British histories reported that L'Héritier died of his wounds in the aftermath of the action,exchange, L'Héritier faced a court martial for the loss of his ship and was honorably acquitted and received a letter of praising his resistance from Minister of Marine Rear-Admiral Étienne Eustache Bruix.commander,Butleigh, Somerset under a monument provided by his family.


Battle of the Raz de Sein

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Epichilo parvellus

Epichilo parvellus is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Émile Louis Ragonot in 1889. It is found in India.


Delaware Tennis Club Tournament

The Delaware Tennis Club TournamentWilmington, Delaware, United States and was discontinued.

History

In 1885 the Delaware Field Club was founded.Charles Belmont Davis who defeated Gustavus Remak Jr. in four sets.

Finals

Men's singles

(Incomplete roll)

Year  Champions                              Runners-up                         Score
1886  [United States] Charles Belmont Davis  [United States] Gustavus Remak jr  6–4, 6–4, 3–6, 6–2.


Arnold Rodgers

Arnold William Rodgers (5 December 1923 – October 1993) was an English professional footballer who made over 230 Football League appearances in the years after the Second World War in a career for Huddersfield Town, Bristol City and Shrewsbury Town.

Rodgers had initially played for Huddersfield as a guest in 1942,Somerset where he was manager for non-league clubs Welton Rovers, which he helped to two losing first round appearances in the FA Cup (in 1964-65 and 1967-68), and Bath City from 1967 to 1971.

Following retirement from football he ran a business in Bristol as a florist for 37 years until he died of a heart attack in October 1993, aged 69.

  * Ian Thomas & others (2007). 99 Years & Counting - Stats & Stories - Huddersfield Town History. Huddersfield Town Football Club. ISBN 978-0-9557281-0-5.


Ecological impact of explosives

Ecological impacts of explosives are the effects that both unexploded explosives and post-explosion by-products have on the environment.contaminants may have adverse effects on the environmental as well as human health.

In addition to their military use in warfare, explosives are also used in construction and demolition. Of greatest concern to the environment are secondary explosives, such as TNT, RDX, and HMX because they are produced and used in the greatest quantities.

Explosives and their residual post explosion products can partition between multiple environmental compartments including aquatic, soil, atmosphere, and the biosphere.

Magnitude of exposure

Explosives have important applications in the military and in both mining and construction work. In fact, the manufacture of explosives comprises a large amount of the chemical industry.mechanical processes or dissolved or volatilized and partially converted to secondary products.soil and groundwater.United States Army had estimated that over 1.2 million tons of soils have been contaminated with explosives on their training grounds alone. In the year 2004, it was estimated that 2,520,000 metric tons of explosive agents were sold for consumption in the United States alone.

Generally, explosives are dispersed mainly when used in combat. Most explosives are used as warfare agents by militaries globally. However, modern uses for 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) are associated with construction and demolition, rather than combat. Because of its use in construction and demolition, it has become perhaps the most widespread explosive, and thus its toxicity is the most characterized and reported. The concentration of TNT in contaminated soil can reach 50 g kg−1 of soil, where the highest concentrations can be found on or near the surface. In the last decade, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) has declared TNT a pollutant whose removal is priority.

Degradation

Explosives and their post-explosion by-products may be degraded by abiotic processes that include hydrolysis, oxidation, or photolysis. Explosives may also be broken down through metabolism by microorganisms.

  * Environmental impact of war
  * Formerly Used Defense Sites
  * Biodegradation
  * Advanced oxidation process
  * TNT § Ecological impact


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