Fabio Ribotta

Fabio Ribotta (born 3 December 1998 in Pinerolo, Italy) is an Italian curler, a 2018 European bronze medallist,Italian men's champion.

Personal life

Ribotta works in the tire business.

Teams

Season                 Skip                  Third             Second            Lead                Alternate          Coach                                      Events
2014–15                Amos Mosaner          Sebastiano Arman  Carlo Gottardi    Fabio Ribotta       Eugenio Molinatti  Gianandrea Gallinatto                      WJCC 2015 (8th)
Joël Retornaz          Simone Gonin          Fabio Ribotta     Lorenzo Maurino
2016–17                Joël Retornaz         Amos Mosaner      Daniele Ferrazza  Andrea Pilzer       Fabio Ribotta      Jean-Pierre Rütsche                        ECC 2016 (7th)
Joël Retornaz          Simone Gonin          Fabio Ribotta     Lorenzo Maurino
Marco Onnis            Fabio Ribotta         Lorenzo Maurino   Marco Vespia      Davide Forchino     Lucilla Macchiati  WJCC 2017 (8th)
Simone Gonin           Fabio Ribotta         Alessio Gonin     Lorenzo Maurino   Fabio Cavallo       Lucilla Macchiati  IMCC 2017 [2nd place, silver medalist(s)]
2017–18                Joël Retornaz         Simone Gonin      Fabio Ribotta     Lorenzo Maurino                        Lucilla Macchiati                          IMCC 2018 [3rd place, bronze medalist(s)]
Amos Mosaner (fourth)  Joël Retornaz (skip)  Andrea Pilzer     Daniele Ferrazza  Fabio Ribotta       Sören Grahn        WCC 2018 (8th)
2018–19                Joël Retornaz         Amos Mosaner      Sebastiano Arman  Simone Gonin        Fabio Ribotta      Sören Grahn                                ECC 2018 [3rd place, bronze medalist(s)]
Joël Retornaz          Simone Gonin          Fabio Ribotta     Lorenzo Maurino                                          IMCC 2019 [1st place, gold medalist(s)]
2019–20                Fabio Ribotta         Giovanni Tosel    Davide Forchino   Fabrizio Gallo
2021–22                Fabio Ribotta         Fabrizio Gallo    Giovanni Tosel    Davide Forchino
2022–23                Fabio Ribotta         Alberto Pimpini   Fabrizio Gallo    Francesco Vigliani  Stefano Gilli


Fabio Ribotta

* Fabio Ribotta at the World Curling Federation
  * Fabio Ribotta - Atleta - FISG - Federazione Italiana Sport del Ghiaccio (in Italian) (curler profile - Italian Ice Sports Federation)
  * Fabio Ribotta Archivi - FISG - Federazione Italiana Sport del Ghiaccio (in Italian)
  * Fabio Ribotta – OA Sport (in Italian)
  * Risultati della ricerca per “Fabio Ribotta” – Sporting Club Pinerolo (in Italian)
  * Fabio Ribotta on Facebook
  * Fabio Ribotta on Instagram


Arnold Richardson

For the Australian scientist and science administrator, see A. E. V. Richardson.

Arnold W. Richardson (born October 2, 1928) is a Canadian curler. He played third for the "World famous Richardsons", which won four Briers and four World Curling Championships.

The team consisted of two brothers (skip Ernie and Garnet and their two cousins, Arnold and Wes.) They won the 1959, 1960, 1962 and 1963 Briers as well as their corresponding Scotch Cups (the World Championship at the time).

Arnold lives with his wife Lilian, in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.

  * Arnold Richardson at the World Curling Federation
  * Arnold Richardson at Canada's Sports Hall of Fame
  * Arnold Richardson on the CurlingZone database
  * Arnold Richardson – Curling Canada Stats Archive
  * The Curling Richardsons - The Team
  * Classic Curler: Ernie Richardson | Curling Canada


Arnold Robert McGill

Arnold Robert McGill OAM (1905–1988) was a Sydney-based Australian businessman and amateur ornithologist. He was President of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU) 1958–1959, and elected a Fellow of the RAOU in 1965. He was Assistant Editor of the RAOU journal, the Emu 1948-1969 and compiled indexes to it until his death. He coauthored, with Keith Hindwood, The Birds of Sydney (1958). He was a recipient of the Medal of the Order of Australia.

  * Arnold Robert McGill, Australian Dictionary of Biography
  * Robin, Libby. (2001). The Flight of the Emu: a hundred years of Australian ornithology 1901-2001. Carlton, Vic. Melbourne University Press. ISBN 0-522-84987-3


Arnold Quainoo

Lieutenant General Arnold Quainoo is a Ghanaian former military officer and served as the Chief of Defence Staff of the Ghana Armed Forces from August 1983 to September 1989.Flight Lieutenant J. J. Rawlings and handed over to Lieutenant General Winston Mensa-Wood. Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group (ECOMOG) which intervened in Liberia to help end the civil war.Armed Forces Revolutionary Council which overthrew the Supreme Military Council. He was replaced when the Limann government was elected. He was however re-appointed as Chief of Army Staff following the coup by the Provisional National Defence Council

In 2014, Quainoo denied any responsibility for the death of Liberian President Samuel Doe.


Arnold Rikli

Arnold Rikli (13 February 1823 – 30 April 1906) was a Swiss naturopath. Rikli was notable for his natural healing regimens and for his role in making the town of Bled, Slovenia into a health tourism destination in the latter part of the 19th century. Rikli was also a supporter of the so-called Lebensreform (life reform) social movement.

History

Rikli was born into a wealthy Swiss family as one of three sons. His father was involved with politics and had his own factory. His father's wish was that his sons would inherit his knowledge and ambitions; therefore, he sent Rikli and his brother Karl to the village of Seebach near Spittal, Austria. There, they built a new factory for leather dyeing. Rikli became very unwell with diarrhea, and he blamed his illness on exposure to chemicals. For purposes of rest and recuperation, he went to Bled in Slovenia in 1852 for the first time. He thrived there. After two years, he developed centres for helio-hydroscopic treatment.sun tanning, it was preferable for these therapies to be done while naked. His healing was founded on swimming in cold water, sun tanning, and walking. His famous quote was: "Water is good, air is better and most of all the sunlight".ski, walking, trim, and skeleton areas). Rikli was not very popular among the people in his local area;


Arnold Rikli

Rikli created baths, walking paths, hiking paths and housing in Bled. In the year 1895, he built a wooden house and baths in Swiss style and a hospital with his own examination office. Because the word spread across Europe about Rikli's activities, a larger swimming area was constructed in 1899. Besides the people who were looking for healing, Bled started to attract people who wanted to spend their holidays in a healthy and clean environment. The number of visitors started to rise in 1870, after a railway station was built in Lesce. In 1903, Bled was awarded with a gold medal at an international fair of healing places in Vienna. In 1906, Bled was classified among the best tourist destinations in Austro-Hungarian Empire. The healing place was operating until the First World War, but was later abandoned. Rikli received a statue at his 50th healing anniversary. Every year, starting with July, Bled organizes Rikli's sport days and hiking on Rikli's paths. At that time, hikers walk, run and climb on the hills above Bled. Rikli's Villa is under the cultural guidance. As of 2010, the owner of the building is Nicholas Oman.

Arnold Rikli Award

Since 2016, the Jörg Wolff Foundation in Germany, has awarded annually the Arnold Rikli Prize, endowed with 10,000 euros, for photobiological research in relation to the human organism; the award is under the patronage of the European Society for Photobiology (ESP).

From 1989, the Light Symposium Foundation in Atlanta (USA), awarded the Arnold Rikli Prize, until the foundations' dissolution in 2005, recognizing work that deals with the biological effects of light on humans.

Rikli's books discussed the theory and practical methods of healing with air, sun and steam baths. The books show a broad spectrum of natural healing places in Bled. Five of the books from the years 1872–1894 are held by the National and University Library of Slovenia. All the books are made out of wooden paper. The National and University Library of Slovenia is the only library which keeps the original books.

Rikli's books are:


Arnold Rikli

* Arnold Rikli: Rikli‛s Bett - und Theildampfbäder, 3. verbesserte Auflage, 1872
  * Arnold Rikli: Rikli‛s Bett - und Theildampfbäder, 4. verbesserte Auflage, 1889
  * Arnold Rikli: Die Grundlehren der Naturheilkunde (first title "Allgemeine Curregeln") mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der atmosphärischen Cur, verbesserte Aufl., 1890
  * Arnold Rikli: Die atmosphärische Kur oder das Lichtluftbad und das Sonnenbad und die Sonne der schärfste Diagnostiker und prognostiker, 4. verbesserte Auflage, 1894
  * Arnold Rikli: Die atmosphärische Cur oder die Sonne der schärfste Diagnostiker und Prognostiker. Special Print from "Zeitschrift für Gesundheitspflege und Naturheilkunde", Berlin.
  * Naturism
  * Robert Jütte. Geschichte der alternativen Medizin: Von der Volksmedizin zu den unkonventionellen Therapien von heute.Verlag C. H. Beck, München 1996 (in German)
  * Brian English, Ruth West. Alternativna medicina: Najobsežnejši izbor naravnih načinov zdravljenja. Mladinska knjiga 1988 (in Slovene)
  * Lidija Vinkovič. Voda je dobra, zrak boljši, sonce pa najboljše; oglasna priloga FInance. četrtek, 24. junij 2004. stran 33(in Slovene)
  * The Environmental Agency of the Republic of Slovenia (Tanja Cegnar. Klimatska terapija: Klimatska zdravilišča in zdravilni učinki klime. 2003) (in Slovene)


Arnold Rikli

* Vlasta Gjura Kaloper. Sončna svetloba je vir življenja in zdravja; članek iz revije Sladkorna.Glasilo Zveze društev diabetikov Slovenije. številka 64. April 2006. stran 13 (in Slovene)
  * Hydro therapy (in Slovene)
  * National Library Silver Group (in Slovene)
  * The Slovene uninon of naturists clubs
  * Naturism - Oblečeni v sonce (in Slovene)
  * Zdravstveni turizem in Arnold Rikli (in Slovene)
  * Media related to Arnold Rikli at Wikimedia Commons


Eucithara diaglypha

Eucithara diaglypha is a small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.

Description

The length of the shell attains 6 mm, its diameter 3 mm.

The small shell has an oval shape with a very short turriculated spire. The crystalline shell is thickened. It shows flexuous longitudinal ribs. These are numerous, low, with a rounded ridge, joining to their extended base. They are transversally surmounted by high, numerous, rounded, fairly strong cords. These are polished and shiny, which give them a tuberculous appearance. Between these the surface of the costulae and their intervals is remarkably covered with very fine transverse striations, flowing like wavy lines and latticed by the growth lines. The coloring is a very bright yellow in the interstices of the high ribs, presenting a tuberculate projection of a bright hyaline white. The yellow color tends to disappear on the upper whorls and at the base of the latter. The shell consists of 6 to 7 (?) whorls. The fractured apex did not allow the study of the embryonic whorls. The upper convex whorls are distinctly cone shaped and are very short by a subcanaliculate suture. The body whorl, exceeding 2/3 of the height of the shell, is swollen in its upper part, and its convexity, barely depressed below the middle, advances regularly attenuated to the base. The oblique aperture is narrowly elongated. The continuous peristome forms over all the length of its insertion on the columellar lip one rounded, rather prominent small ridge. The convex outer lip is thickened, with a crenate, sharp margin and shows a series of 7 denticles. The slightly round sinus is lodged a little below the suture, notched in the thickening of the outer lip.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands


Eucithara diaglypha

This marine species occurs off New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands

  * Bouge, L.J. & Dautzenberg, P.L. 1914. Les Pleurotomides de la Nouvelle-Caledonie et de ses dependances. Journal de Conchyliologie 61: 123-214
  * Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
  * "Eucithara dealbata". Gastropods.com
  * Virginie, et al. "Mollusca of New Caledonia." Compendium of marine species of New Caledonia. Documents Scientifiques et Techniques II7, 2nd edn. IRD, Nouméa (2007): 199-254
  * Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris : Mangilia dealbata


Eucithara brocha

Eucithara brocha is a small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.

Description

The length of the shell attains 10 mm, its diameter 4.5 mm.

(Original description) The solid shell has a biconical shape. It contains 6 rounded whorls. Its colour is cinnamon, with several narrow zones of buff. The aperture is pale buff. The interior is ochraceous orange. Sculpture:—The ribs are slender, fiexuous, fifteen to a whorl, spaced by more than their breadth, alternating from whorl to whorl, not rising above the suture, but extending thence to the base. The intercostal spaces are crossed by fine engraved striae. Aperture :—The mouth is linear, fortified by a thick broad varix, both sides beset with stout external denticules—ten on the left, nine on the right side.

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off (Queensland)

  * Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
  * Powell, A.W.B. 1968. The Turrid shellfish of Australian waters. Australian Natural History 1 16: 1-6


Eucithara ella

Eucithara ella is a small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Eastern Africa.

Description

  * Thiele J., 1925. Gastropoden der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition. In:. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer “Valdivia” 1898-1899 II. Teil, vol. 17, No. 2, Gustav Fischer, Berlin
  * Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295


Eucinostomus argenteus

Eucinostomus argenteus, the spotfin mojarra or silver mojarra,Gerreidae. The name spotfin mojarra is descriptive of the black spot that appears on the anterior part of the dorsal fin.

Description

Mojarras are silvery in color and fairly diamond-shaped. They have smooth scales, anal spines, and forked tails. Mojarras have a single dorsal fin, with spines of decreasing length along the fin. The dorsal and anal fins have scaly sheaths at their bases. A unique feature of the family Gerreidae to which it belongs is the mouth, as the upper jaw extends downward when the mouth is opened and forms a tube. When the mouth is closed, the lower jaw is concave, providing another distinctive feature. The spotfin mojarra has a black spot on the anterior part of the dorsal fin. This species also has a groove on the top of its snout that lack scales, and generally has a more slender body than other species of mojarras. On the upper part of the body, faint, irregular bars are visible.

Distribution and habitat

Mojarras are tropical species, but a small number of juvenile fish have been found in the Lower Hudson at Bowline Pond and Indian Point.

Taxonomy

Eucinostomus argenteus was first formally described in 1855 by Spencer Fullerton Baird and Charles Frédéric Girard with the type locality given as Beesley's Point, New Jersey.type species of the genus Eucinostomus as the genus was monotypic when Baird and Girard named it.

Wheeler, A. Fishes of the World. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc. 1975, pp. 196


Eucirroedia

Eucirroedia is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae.

Species

Eucirroedia pampina

  * Eucirroedia pampina (Guenée, 1852)
  * Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
  * Eucirroedia at funet


Edgar Babou

Edgar Babou (born 4 June 1970) is an Ivorian rugby union player. He played as a prop and as a hooker.

Babou has been playing in France in the most recent years. He played more recently at Union Bordeaux Bègles, for the Pro D2, from 2005/06 to 2006/07. Since then, he has been playing at the Fédérale 1, for Bobigny, in 2007/08, Genevilliers, from 2008/09 to 2009/10, Suresnes, in 2010/11, and Boulogne-Billancourt, since 2011/12.

Babou plays internationally for Ivory Coast, being also their captain.2011 Rugby World Cup qualifyings. He was one of the oldest players involved in the qualification, at the age of 38. He still plays for Ivory Coast for the 2015 Rugby World Cup qualifyings in 2012, aged 42 years old.

He also played for the African Leopards, in a 20–10 win over the British Army Senior XV, at 23 November 2006, at the Aldershot Military Stadium, in Aldershot.

  * Edgar Babou Data


Ann Tottenham

Ann Elizabeth Tottenham (born July 21, 1940) is a retired bishop of the Anglican Church of Canada.

She is the oldest child of Charles Tottenham, 8th Marquess of Ely who emigrated to Ontario, Canada. Although entitled to the style Lady Ann Tottenham, she does not use this. Her brother is John Tottenham, 9th Marquess of Ely.

Tottenham was the second Anglican woman to be elected as a bishop in Canada, in the Diocese of Toronto. She served until her retirement in 2005.

Teacher

She was educated at the University of Toronto, Trinity College, Toronto and a seminary in New York. In the late 1960s she became an Anglican nun for three years before becoming a teacher.Bishop Strachan School, a private school with Anglican links, in Toronto from 1981 to 1995.

Religious life

Tottenham was ordained in 1983 and, after leaving teaching, was the incumbent priest in two parishes, St. George's, Newcastle, and St. Saviour's, Orono, Ontario.suffragan bishop with responsibility for the Credit Valley area of the Diocese of Toronto. She was the second woman to be elected an Anglican bishop in Toronto and Canada. She succeeded the first Canadian Anglican woman to become a bishop, Victoria Matthews, as Credit Valley area bishop.

She retired in 2005, but in 2007 was appointed Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Niagara and served part-time in this role until the retirement of Bishop Ralph Spence in 2008.


Ann Thwaytes

Ann Thwaytes (2 October 1789 – April 1866), known to contemporaries as Mrs Thwaytes, was the wealthy and eccentric English widow of grocer William Thwaytes, owner of Davison, Newman & Co. She became the benefactress to many causes and funded the construction of the Clock Tower, Herne Bay.

Youth and marriage

Mrs Thwaytes's mother (d.1803) called herself Mrs Hook, but had no husband.Islington or near Balls Pond Road, Hackney: Sarah in 1788 and Ann on 2 October 1789.Davison, Newman & Co. and a wealthy grocer and tea merchant.

On 19 May 1816 Sarah Hook married Alfred Tebbitt, Thwaytes's chief clerk, at St Martin's in the Fields, Westminster. In 1817 at the age of 28 years Ann married William Thwaytes (1749–1834) who was aged 67.poison her with mercury. In 1832, during her husband's last illness, Ann developed a mental disorder which began with "low fever" (a 19th-century term for murine typhus) and a subsequent nervous state in which she remained for ten weeks facing the wall whilst believing she was blind.Trinity," and that she and the couple's family doctor John Simm Smith (1793–1877) had "important work to do."Guy's Hospital Simm Smith had studied alongside John Keats and had known him well, and was to be the grandfather of Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Widowhood


Ann Thwaytes

Widowhood

Ann's sister Sarah's husband Mr Tebbitt died in 1833, leaving her unsupported with seven children. Ann's husband died some months later in 1834 aged 85 years, leaving her a fortune of around £500,000 (equivalent to £51,125,937 in 2021) and no children.executrix and main beneficiary" and describes her as his "beloved wife" in spite of her earlier suspicion that he was poisoning her. Ann soon became "very close" to her London surgeon Simm Smith. After her husband died, she paid Smith £2,000 (equivalent to £204,504 in 2021) per year and a total of £50,000 (equivalent to £5,112,594 in 2021) in gifts to temporarily give up his London medical practice to manage her business affairs.equivalent to £306,756 in 2021) which Ann paid.

Clapham, Finsbury and Herne Bay

Hyde Park Gardens, 2007

Ann bought Cottage House at Clapham Common for herself, her sister Sarah Tebbitt and Sarah's children. She then moved to Finsbury Circus where she lived with her companion Louisa Little between August 1835 and January 1838.equivalent to £3,142,949.31 in 2021),Herne Bay.

Her town house, Paddington

In 1840 she bought her town house, 17 Hyde Park Gardens, Paddington. The drawing room was furnished lavishly in preparation for the Second Coming which she believed would take place there.1851 Census finds her at age 63 staying at her town house with her Charmandean lodger Samuel Smith, a butler, footman, three housemaids, a cook and a kitchen maid.

Her country house, Broadwater, Sussex

Charmandean, 1842

In 1841 she acquired her country house and estate, Charmandean at Broadwater, West Sussex.St. Mary's Church, Broadwater during repairs, and in her chapel-room she fitted a stained-glass window from the same church.wrought iron entrance-gates made as replicas of the former Buckingham Palace gates. The western gates were requisitioned in World War II. The eastern iron gates remained in Charmandean Lane for some years but are now gone, leaving only the carved gateposts.


Ann Thwaytes

Family rifts

During the 1840s, Ann offered to pay for a cadetship for one of Sarah's sons, but the offer was rejected. Sarah was called to Charmandean and told that Ann had been "advised by friends" to end their connection. A few years later, Ann was visited by one of Sarah's daughters who was received politely, but also told never to return. In 1850 Mrs Cook, another of Sarah's daughters, visited Ann and a friendship began. Ann bought this niece a house in Broadwater, but Mrs Cook too was rejected by Ann due to a financial disagreement, and cut off with a comfortable £450 (equivalent to £51,194.16 in 2021) per annum.

Death and contested will

Charmandean, 19th century

She died aged 76 at her London town house in 1866, and was buried on 13 April in a vaulted grave at Broadwater and Worthing Cemetery, in plot C4.1–4.10–13, near the North Chapel.equivalent to £39,423,121 in 2021). £45,000 (equivalent to £4,435,101 in 2021) was left to her nieces and nephews, but there was no legacy for her sister Sarah Tebbitt. She left £5,000 (equivalent to £492,789 in 2021) to Dr Collett who attended her last illness, and generous legacies to servants and acquaintances. One account says that she left the remainder of the estate, plus £30,000 (equivalent to £2,956,734 in 2021) and Charmandean her country house, to Simm Smith. His brother inherited the other half of the residue, and was to inherit Charmandean after Simm Smith's death.equivalent to £17,740,405 in 2021).


Ann Thwaytes

From 26 April to May 1867, The Times reported the case of Smith and Others v Tebbitt and Others, in which Sarah Tebbitt and two nieces contested her Will "on the grounds of undue execution, incapacity and undue influence." At the hearing, the legatees declared Ann sane whereas those left out of the Will, led by Ann's nephew, recounted her religious delusions. It was during this case that the unmarried situation of Ann Thwaytes's mother came to light, because illegitimacy might put Sarah Tebbitt's position of rightful heir in doubt.monomania as her illness, and found that she was of unsound mind when signing her Will, thus making it invalid. He said, however, that if she had been found to have been in sound mind, there remained the question of possible undue influence by the Smith brothers, putting the validity of the Will doubly in doubt.

Religious delusions

Sussex Pad Inn, before 1905

These delusions appear to have started in 1832 with the "low fever" and the conviction that she was part of the Trinity, and they continued for the rest of her life. During the full moon at Broadwater she was observed by worried neighbours to dress in white and to drive the same route in her yellow carriage ritually: past the old Sussex Pad Inn (now replaced with a hotel), over Old Shoreham Bridge, and back home again."Bride of Christ and that Judgement Day would occur in her lavishly-prepared Hyde Park drawing room. She would talk to her friend Louisa Little, her niece Mrs Cook who noted Ann's sayings in a diary, and to servants and tradesmen, about her religious beliefs, but would close the discussion if rebuffed.vault at Broadwater and Worthing Cemetery for the interment of Simm Smith and herself.

Gifts and donations

Motivations for philanthropy

Working class Londoners, 1877. Ann Thwaytes could not hide her humble origins


Ann Thwaytes

Besides straightforward compassion for the poor, there are two other possible motivations for Mrs Thwaytes's philanthropy. Firstly there was the 19th-century progress of Evangelicalism, which encouraged good works from those with religious sensibility and social pity. Secondly, following the expansion of the middle classes in the 18th and 19th centuries, beneficence was "an avenue for entry into elite society for women and gave them a sense of place and direction outside the home."elite society was based in the popular imagination upon elegant culture, not money or good deeds, and Herne Bay Clock Tower's opening ceremony drew mockery from the Figaro in London of 6 October 1836, in which she was called a Cockney and her clock, celebration and philanthropy laughed at.

Herne Bay area

Main article: Clock Tower, Herne Bay

Clock Tower in 1895

Between 1834 and 1840 she visited Herne Bay regularly with friends, staying at 30 Marine Terrace on Central Parade, and became an established town benefactor of Herne Bay.Sir Henry Oxenden, and her friend Simm Smith was head of the trustees for the church.equivalent to £500,749 in 2021),

. . . Grecian temple, 70 feet high, on the top of which is to be fixed a clock . . . the fabric will be of quadrangular form, supported at each corner by pillars of the Corinthian order. At the top will be a cupola or dome, immediately beneath which the clock, with four illuminated dials, will be placed. Kentish Gazette, 23 August 1836

Clock Tower, 1899–1905

In the address which was read to her when she laid the foundation stone, some of her good deeds were enumerated:

The poorer inhabitants, the labourers and mechanics especially, will gratefully acknowledge that to your unexampled liberality they are indebted for many of their past comforts, for their present employment and for the education of their children. Mr George Rohrs, secretary to the Clock Tower trustees, 3 October 1836

On the opening day of the Clock Tower, 2 October 1837, there was a festival, followed by annual commemoration festivals which may also have been funded by Mrs Thwaytes.blue plaque, recording that she funded the Clock Tower, at Central Parade, Herne Bay.


Ann Thwaytes

According to the late Herne Bay historian, Harold Gough, Mrs Thwaytes suddenly "took a huff" and left Herne Bay. After the Clock Tower had been opened, builder George Burge began work on the old St John's Church in Brunswick Square. Eventually the money ran out; Burge ran out of bricks and had to delay completion. Around 1839 to 1840, Burge informed Mrs Thwaytes that if the Clock Tower's bricks had been available for the building of the church, St John's would have been completed "long before." In response, Mrs Thwaytes left Herne Bay, never to return.

Broadwater area

St Marys, renovations 1866

One of Ann's first good works at Charmandean was to give coal to the poor. A Broadwater coal distribution society was formed; she supported this and continued to distribute coal regularly. She contributed generously to a subscription appeal for a new infirmary at Broadwater. This project was started by her friend and consulting surgeon Dr Frederick Dixon who had founded the local Worthing Dispensary in 1829 and treated poor patients for free. Dixon was an amateur geologist who died young, and Ann funded his book, The Geology of Sussex when it was published posthumously. She became financially involved in the 1853–1855 restoration of St. Mary's Church, Broadwater, contributing to chancel repairs, giving £100 (equivalent to £10,765.9 in 2021) towards a new organ and committing to the payment of £40 (equivalent to £4,306.36 in 2021) per year to the organist. She contributed towards one of the new stained glass windows which was dedicated to the late Reverends Peter Wood and William Davison.


Ann Thwaytes

* Bundock, Mike (2000). Herne Bay Clock Tower: A descriptive history. Herne Bay: Pierhead Publications. ISBN 9780953897704.
  * Bundock, Mike (February 2011). Victorian Herne Bay. Herne Bay Past. Vol. 6. Herne Bay: Pierhead Publications. ISBN 9781904661160.
  * Smail, Henfrey (1950). Notable Houses of Worthing: Offington, Broadwater Manor & Charmendean. Vol. 2. Aldridge Bros.
  * Snewin, Edward; Smail, Henfrey (1945). Glimpses of Old Worthing. Aldridge Bros. Introduced and annotated by Henfrey Smail. With illustrations, including portraits and the Worthing Pageant.
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  * Charmandean History website with photos


Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management and Comptroller) (abbreviated ASA(FM&C)) is a civilian office in the United States Department of the Army.

The office of Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management and Comptroller) grows out of a reorganization of the Department of the Army initiated in 1954 by United States Secretary of the Army Robert T. Stevens and largely designed by United States Under Secretary of the Army John Slezak.

The mission of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management and Comptroller) is to formulate, submit, and defend the United States Army's budget to the United States Congress and the American public; to oversee the proper and effective use of appropriated resources to accomplish the Army's assigned missions; to provide timely, accurate, and reliable financial information to enable leaders and managers to incorporate cost considerations into their decision-making; to provide transparent reporting to Congress and the American public on the use of appropriated resources and the achievement of established Army-wide performance objectives; and manage and coordinate programs for the accession, training, and professional development of Army resource managers.

The Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management and Comptroller) is Caral Spangler since August 17, 2021.

List of Assistant Secretaries of the Army (Financial Management and Comptroller), 1954—present (incomplete)

Name                 Assumed office     Left office       President appointed by                Secretary served under
George H. Roderick   9 February 1954    25 August 1954    Dwight D. Eisenhower                  Robert T. Stevens
Charles C. Finucane  26 August 1954     8 February 1955
Chester R. Davis     10 March 1955      15 December 1956  Robert T. Stevens, Wilber M. Brucker
George H. Roderick   1 March 1957       20 January 1961   Wilber M. Brucker
William F. Schaub    2 March 1961       31 December 1962  John F. Kennedy                       Elvis Jacob Stahr Jr., Cyrus Vance
Edmund T. Pratt Jr.  23 March 1963      25 November 1964  John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson    Cyrus Vance, Stephen Ailes
Michael P. W. Stone  27 May 1986        12 May 1988       Ronald Reagan                         Frank Carlucci
Kenneth B. Kramer    14 October 1988    1989
Douglas A. Brook     28 February 1990   1992              George H. W. Bush                     Michael P. W. Stone
Helen T. McCoy       January 1994       January 2001      William J. Clinton                    Togo D. West Jr, Louis Caldera


Sandra L. Pack       November 2001      December 2003     George W. Bush                        Thomas E. White
Valerie L. Baldwin   July 2004          2006              Francis J. Harvey
Nelson M. Ford       October 2006       December 2007     Francis J. Harvey, Pete Geren
Mary Sally Matiella  16 February 2010   27 February 2014  Barack Obama                          John M. McHugh
Robert M. Speer      20 November 2014   19 January 2017
John E. Whitley      26 September 2018  28 May 2021       Donald Trump                          Mark Esper, Ryan McCarthy
Caral Spangler       17 August 2021     present           Joe Biden                             Christine Wormuth

Deputy Assistant Secretaries

One Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army and three Deputy Assistant Secretaries of the Army roles reporting to the Assistant Secretary (ASA(FM&C)):

  * Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Financial Management & Comptroller (PDASA-FM&C) – (non-career appointment)
      + Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Financial Operations & Information (DASA-FOI)
      + Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Cost & Economics (DASA-CE)
      + Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Budget (DASA-BU)

A Military Deputy also reports to the Assistant Secretary, with the grade of lieutenant general.

[Public Domain] This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Army.


A Fellow on a Furlough

A Fellow on a Furlough is a World War II song written by Bobby Worth in 1943 and published by House of Melody.

The chorus states, "He's just a fellow on a furlough / Whose hopes have all come true / The girl of his furlough dream is you."

The song is performed by Bob Crosby in the 1944 film Meet Miss Bobby Socks.

  * Holloway, Diane, and Bob Cheney. American History in Song: Lyrics from 1900 to 1945. San Jose: Authors Choice Press, 2001. ISBN 9780595193318 OCLC 49622031
  * Smith, Kathleen E. R. God Bless America: Tin Pan Alley Goes to War. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2003. Print. ISBN 0-8131-2256-2 OCLC 50868277


A Feast for the Fallen

A Feast for the Fallen is the debut album by English band Send More Paramedics, it was released in 2002.

Track listing

 1. "The Hordes" - 3:52
 2. "The Pain of Being Dead" - 1:19
 3. "Cannibal" - 2:50
 4. "Brains" - 0:11
 5. "Resurrection Cemetery" - 2:03
 6. "Kingdom of the Undead" - 2:49
 7. "Epulum" - 0:47
 8. "Necromancer" - 2:25
 9. "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes" - 1:47
10. "Zombie Sweetheart" - 1:58
11. "Aim for the Head" - 0:08
12. "Zombified" - 2:22
13. "Untitled track" - 24:14

Samples and references

  * The chorus from the track "The Hordes" ("When there's no room left in hell, the dead will walk the Earth") is a reference to Dawn of the Dead
  * The title of "The Pain of Being Dead" is a reference to what Ernie is told by the 1/2 Woman Corpse in the 1985 Dan O'Bannon film The Return of the Living Dead, a movie of which the band is named after.
  * The sample used during the introduction to "Cannibal" is taken from the 1985 George A. Romero film Day of the Dead; specifically the death scene of the character Rickles.
  * The sample used as the introduction to "Brains" is taken from the film Return of the Living Dead Part II.
  * The sample used as the introduction to "Kingdom of the Undead" is taken from the 1968 George A. Romero film Night of the Living Dead.
  * "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes" uses theme music from the film The Return of the Living Dead.


Anton Franz de Paula Graf Lamberg-Sprinzenstein (1740 – 1822) was an Austrian diplomat and art collector.

Early life

Anton Frazn was born in Vienna as the eldest son of Count Franz de Paula Anton Flavius von Lamberg-Sprinzenstein (1707-1765) and his second wife, Countess Maria Josefa Eleonora Esterházy von Galántha (1712-1756).

Biography

During his diplomatic career he spent six years in Naples where he collected over 500 ancient Greek vases that he later donated in 1815 to the Cabinet of Antiquities in Vienna (now part of the Kunsthistorisches Museum there).Titian, Velasquez, Guardi, Rembrandt, Jan van Goyen, Jacob van Ruisdael, and many others. Today his collection forms the main component of the Picture Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

Lamberg-Sprinzenstein died in Vienna. He has never married and didn't have children.


Anton Gala

Anton Gala (12 March 1891, Kunovice, Moravia – 29 August 1977, Bratislava) was a Slovak university professor and scientist specializing in ophthalmology.

Gala graduated from secondary school at Uherské Hradiště in 1910, then studied medicine at the Charles University in Prague, graduating in 1916. During World War I he served on a hospital ship. From 1919 to 1961 he worked at the faculty of medicine of Comenius University in Bratislava; from 1931 as professor, in 1937/38 as dean of the faculty.

  * (in Slovak)


Anton Formann

Anton K. Formann (August 27, 1949, Vienna, Austria – July 12, 2010, Vienna) was an Austrian research psychologist, statistician, and psychometrician. He is renowned for his contributions to item response theory (Rasch models), latent class analysis, the measurement of change, mixture models, categorical data analysis, and quantitative methods for research synthesis (meta-analysis).

Biography

Anton K. Formann studied psychology with statistics and anthropology (individual curriculum approved by the university) at the University of Vienna, Austria, where he received his PhD in psychology in 1973 under the supervision of Gerhard H. Fischer at the university's Department of Psychology. He worked as a post doc researcher and Assistant Professor at Fischer's division until 1985, when he earned his postdoctoral professorial qualification (habilitation in psychology) and became Associate Professor at the University of Vienna. He also studied statistics at Sheffield Hallam University (UK) where he graduated (MSc with distinction) in 1998. In 1999, he gained his second postdoctoral professional qualification (habilitation in applied statistics). In 2004, after being substitute chair holder for 5 years, he became full professor for psychological methods at the University of Vienna, succeeding the chair of mathematical psychology of Gerhard H. Fischer. From 2005 onwards, Formann was Vice Head of the Department of Basic Psychological Research within the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Vienna, and during 2006-08 additionally Vice Dean of the Faculty.

Scientific Work

Formann led long-standing research collaborations with colleagues in the statistical, medical, and psychological sciences. His substantial research activities in all these fields are documented in numerous books and more than 50 publications in prestigious high-impact journals, including Biometrics,Journal of the American Statistical Association,British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology,Psychometrika.

Item response theory (Rasch models)

Formann was one of the first researchers who documented problems with Rasch model tests, in particular with Andersen's likelihood-ratio test which arise under certain conditions if it is employed conventionally.EM estimation of the two-parameter logistic model is not influenced by initial values is incorrect.

Viennese Matrices Test


Anton Formann

Viennese Matrices Test

Formann was probably the first researcher to practically apply Fischer's linear logistic test model (LLTM) for test development. The LLTM is a special case of the Rasch model, which allows the construction of items with item difficulties based on the user's demand. This resulted in the development of a Rasch-scaled abstract reasoning testRaven's matrices test) which has since been widely used in research and practice. A revised version of this language-free intelligence test that has been calibrated against large contemporary samples of men and women is forthcoming.

Latent Class Analysis

For his first habilitation (in psychology), Formann published a comprehensive monograph on latent class analysis

Quantitative Methods for Research Synthesis (Meta-Analysis)

In his later research, Formann addressed, among other things, the problem of publication bias in meta-analytic research. He introduced a novel method that allows estimating the proportion of studies missing in meta-analysis due to publication bias based on the truncated normal distribution.Mozart effect as a myth.

Other

Newcomb-Benford Law

Formann provided an alternative explanation for the Newcomb-Benford law – a formalisation of the remarkable observation that the frequencies with which the leading digits of numbers occur in large data sets are far away from being uniform (e.g., the leading digit 1 occurs in nearly one third of all cases). In addition to the prevailing explanations based on scale- and base invariance, Formann directed the attention to the interrelation between the distribution of the significant digits and the distribution of the observed variable. He showed in a simulation study that long right-tailed distributions of a random variable are compatible with the Newcomb-Benford law, and that for distributions of the ratio of two random variables the fit generally improves.

Piaget's Water Level Task


Anton Formann

Piaget's Water Level Task

The water-level task refers to a task developed by Jean Piaget where bottles filled with different levels of water are presented in different angles of orientation. It is used to assess the level of mental development of spatial abilities (e.g., recognition of the invariance of horizontality). Formann criticized the established method of dichotomizing water-level responses by the subjects into "right" versus "wrong" – he showed that this method was inappropriate because it ignored the heterogeneity of the task difficulties - and instead recommended using latent class models or Rasch models.unidimensional scale and, by employing the linear logistic test model, that the task difficulty could be attributed to a single parameter associated with the angle of inclination of the bottle.elderly and found that there was an age-associated non-linear decline of performance.

Misconception of Probability

Formann compared the performance in the classic birthday problem (i.e., guessing the probability P for any coincidence among N individuals sharing the same birthday) and the birthmate problem (i.e., guessing the probability P for the specific coincidence among N individuals of having a birthday today) in psychology undergraduates, casino visitors, and casino employees. Psychology students and women did better on both task types, but were less confident about their estimates than casino visitors or personnel and men. Higher confidence ratings were related to subjective estimates that were closer to the solutions of birthday problems, but not of birthmate problems.

Parallel Analysis in Retrieving Unidimensionality in the Presence of Binary Data

Formann provided both theoretical and empirical evidence that the application of the parallel analysis for uncovering the factorial structure of binary variables is not appropriate. Results of a simulation study showed that sample size, item discrimination, and type of correlation coefficient considerably influence the performance of parallel analysis.

Selected publications

Papers


Anton Formann

* Formann, A. K. (1978). Note on parameter-estimation for Lazarsfeld latent class analysis. Psychometrika, 43, 123-126.
  * Formann, A. K. (1985). Constrained latent class models: Theory and applications. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 38, 87-111.
  * Formann, A. K. (1986). A note on the computation of the 2nd-order derivatives of the elementary symmetrical functions in the Rasch model. Psychometrika, 51, 335-339.
  * Formann, A. K., & Rop, I. (1987). On the inhomogeneity of a test compounded of 2 Rasch homogeneous subscales. Psychometrika, 52, 263-267.
  * Formann, A. K. (1988). Latent class models for nonmonotone dichotomous items. Psychometrika, 53, 45-62.
  * Formann, A. K. (1989). Constrained latent class models: Some further applications. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 42, 37-54.
  * Formann, A. K. (1992). Linear logistic latent class analysis for polytomous data. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 87, 476-486.
  * Formann, A. K. (1993). Fixed-distance latent class models for the analysis of sets of two-way contingency tables. Biometrics, 49, 511-521.
  * Formann, A. K. (1994). Measurement errors in caries diagnosis: Some further latent class models. Biometrics, 50, 865-871.
  * Formann, A. K. (1994). Measuring change in latent subgroups using dichotomous data: Unconditional, conditional, and semiparametric maximum-likelihood-estimation. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 89, 1027-1034.
  * Formann, A. K., & Kohlmann, T. (1996). Latent class analysis in medical research. Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 5, 179-211.


Anton Formann

* Formann, A. K., & Kohlmann, T. (1998). Structural latent class models. Sociological Methods and Research, 26, 530-565.
  * Formann, A. K. (2001). Misspecifying latent class models by mixture binomials. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 54, 279-291.
  * Formann, A. K., & Ponocny, I. (2002). Latent change classes in dichotomous data. Psychometrika, 67, 437-457.
  * Formann, A. K. (2003). Latent class model diagnosis from a frequentist point of view. Biometrics, 59, 189-196.
  * Formann, A. K. (2003). Modeling data from water-level tasks: A test theoretical analysis. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 96, 1153-1172.
  * Voracek, M., & Formann, A. K. (2004). Variation in European suicide rates is better accounted for by latitude and longitude than by national percentage of Finno-Ugrians and Type O blood: A rebuttal of Lester and Kondrichin (2004). Perceptual and Motor Skills, 99, 1243-1250.
  * Formann, A. K. (2006). Mixture analysis of longitudinal binary data. Statistics in Medicine, 25, 1457-1469.
  * Formann, A. K. (2006). Testing the Rasch model by means of the mixture fit index. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 59, 89-95.
  * Formann, A. K. (2007). Mixture analysis of multivariate categorical data with covariates and missing entries. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 51, 5236-5246.
  * Formann, A. K. (2008). Estimating the proportion of studies missing for meta-analysis due to publication bias. Contemporary Clinical Trials, 29, 732-739.


Anton Formann

* Formann, A. K., & Böhning, D. (2008). Re: Insights into latent class analysis of diagnostic test performance. Biostatistics, 9, 777-778.
  * Tran, U. S., & Formann, A. K. (2008). Piaget's water-level tasks: Performance across the lifespan with emphasis on the elderly. Personality and Individual Differences, 45, 232-237.
  * Voracek, M., Tran, U. S., & Formann, A. K. (2008). Birthday and birthmate problems: Misconceptions of probability among psychology undergraduates and casino visitors and personnel. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 106, 91-103.
  * Tran, U. S., & Formann, A. K. (2009). Performance of parallel analysis in retrieving unidimensionality in the presence of binary data. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 69, 50-61.
  * Formann, A. K. (2010). The Newcomb-Benford law in its relation to some common distributions. PLoS ONE, 5, e10541.
  * Voracek, M., Gabler, D., Kreutzer, C., Stieger, S., Swami, V., & Formann, A. K. (2010). Multi-method personality assessment of butchers and hunters: Beliefs and reality. Personality and Individual Differences, 49, 819-822.
  * Voracek, M., Tran, U. S., Fischer-Kern, M., Formann, A. K., & Springer-Kremser, M. (2010). Like father, like son? Familial aggregation of physicians among medical and psychology students in Austria. Higher Education, 59, 737-748.
  * Pietschnig, J., Voracek, M., & Formann, A. K. (2010). Mozart effect––Shmozart effect: A meta-analysis. Intelligence, 38, 314-323.


Anton Formann

* Pietschnig, J., Voracek, M., & Formann, A. K. (2010). Pervasiveness of the IQ rise: A cross-temporal meta-analysis. PLoS ONE, 5, e14406.
  * Nader, I. W., Tran, U. S., & Formann, A. K. (2011). Sensitivity to initial values in full non-parametric maximum-likelihood estimation of the two-parameter logistic model. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 64, 320-336.
  * Pietschnig, J., Voracek, M., & Formann, A. K. (2011). Female Flynn effects: No sex differences in generational IQ gains. Personality and Individual Differences, 50, 759-762.
  * Stieger, S., Formann, A. K., & Burger, C. (2011). Humor styles and their relationship to explicit and implicit self-esteem. Personality and Individual Differences, 50, 747-750.
  * Stieger, S., Voracek, M., & Formann, A. K. (2012). How to administer the Initial Preference Task. European Journal of Personality, 26, 63-78.
  * Preinerstorfer, D., & Formann, A. K. (2012). Parameter recovery and model selection in mixed Rasch models. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 65, 251-262.
  * Holling, H., Böhning, W., Böhning, D., & Formann, A. K. (2013). The covariate-adjusted frequency plot. Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 25, 902-916.


Anton Formann

Books

  * Formann, A. K., & Piswanger, K. (1979). Wiener Matrizen-Test. Ein Rasch-skalierter sprachfreier Intelligenztest [Viennese Matrices Test: A Rasch-scaled culture-fair intelligence test]. Weinheim: Beltz.
  * Formann, A. K. (1984). Latent Class Analyse: Einführung in die Theorie und Anwendung [Latent class analysis: Introduction to theory and application]. Weinheim: Beltz.
  * Formann, A. K., Waldherr, K., & Piswanger, K. (2011). Wiener Matrizen-Test 2 (WMT-2): Ein Rasch-skalierter sprachfreier Kurztest zur Erfassung der Intelligenz [Viennese Matrices Test 2: A Rasch-scaled language-free short test for the assessment of intelligence]. Göttingen: Hogrefe.
  * Literature by and about Anton Formann in the German National Library catalogue
  * Anton K. Formann Memorial Pages
  * Memorial Book for Anton K. Formann (1949-2010)
  * Official Website of the Department of Basic Psychological Research (University of Vienna)
  * Official obituary of the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Vienna by Weber G., Leder H., & Voracek, M. (German)
  * Obituary in Biometric Bulletin by Voracek, M.
  * Obituary in Psychological Test and Assessment Modeling by Böhning, D., Holling, H., & Kubinger, K. D.
  * Gerhard H. Fischer
  * Item response theory (Rasch models)
  * Latent class analysis
  * Mixture model
  * Categorical data analysis
  * Quantitative methods for research synthesis (meta-analysis)
  * Publication bias
  * Newcomb-Benford law
  * Mozart effect
  * University of Vienna


Arturo Lanteri

Arturo Lanteri (1891–1975) was an Argentine cartoonist and film director.Les Aventuras de Negro Raúl, Don Pancho Talero and Anacleto.

Filmography

Director
  * Pancho Talero en Hollywood (1931)
  * Pancho Talero en la prehistoria (1930)
  * Las aventuras de Pancho Talero (1929)
Writer
  * Pancho Talero en Hollywood (1931)
  * Pancho Talero en la prehistoria (1930)
  * Las aventuras de Pancho Talero (1929)
Producer
  * Pancho Talero en Hollywood (1931)
  * Pancho Talero en la prehistoria (1930)


Arturo Malaquias

Arturo Malaquias (born 1975) is a Mexican long-distance runner. He was born in Toluca.Mexico in marathon at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, finishing in 70th place.

  * Arturo Malaquias at World Athletics
  * Arturo Malaquias at Olympedia


Family Friendly Programming Forum

The Family Friendly Programming Forum is a coalition of over 40 advertisers, all of whom belong to the Association of National Advertisers. They seek to increase the amount of "family-friendly" programming on U.S. television.

They define family-friendly programming as:

It is relevant to today's TV viewer, has generational appeal, depicts real life and is appropriate in theme, content and language for a broad family audience. Family friendly programs also embody a responsible resolution. Family friendly programs may include movies, dramas, situation comedies and informational programs.

The FFPF supports various programs and initiatives:

  * Script Development Fund
  * Student Scholarship Program
  * Annual Symposium
  * Family Television Awards

Projects that the script-development fund has helped reach the pilot stage include:

  * Gilmore Girls
  * Life Is Wild
  * The 2007 reboot of Bionic Woman
  * Chuck
  * Ugly Betty
  * Friday Night Lights
  * Brothers & Sisters
  * Everybody Hates Chris
  * Notes from the Underbelly
  * Runaway
  * Commander in Chief
  * The New Adventures of Old Christine
  * Related
  * Complete Savages
  * Clubhouse
  * 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter
  * American Dreams
  * Big Time

The fund has no influence on the direction of the show further than the pilot.

  * Official homepage


Family Game (2007 film)

Family Game is a 2007 Italian drama film directed by Alfredo Arciero.

Cast

  * Sandra Ceccarelli as Lisa
  * Stefano Dionisi as Vittorio
  * Fabio Troiano as Andrea
  * Mattia Cicinelli as Mattia
  * Elena Bouryka as Martina
  * Manuela Spartà as Valeria
  * Eros Pagni as the father
  * Family Game at IMDb


Family Glide Hockey

Family Glide Hockey (Okiraku Air Hockey Wii in Japan) is an air hockey video game developed by Arc System Works for WiiWare. It was released in Japan on October 21, 2008,

Gameplay

Similar to Family Table Tennis, players control a member of a family, including a mother, father, son (Billy), and daughter (Sarah), to play against another in a game of air hockey. The player can choose up to five settings, including a gymnasium, a forest park, a beach, an amusement park, and an arctic aquarium.

The game also features three minigames that involve the player trying the slam the puck into the goal while faced with different objectives, such as hitting targets or solving math problems.

Reception

IGN summed up Family Glide Hockey as "a dull, awkwardly controlling air hockey game", but felt the minigames were marginally more fun than the core game.

  * Okiraku Air Hockey Wii Official Website (Japanese)


Fangs of Destiny

Fangs of Destiny is a 1927 American silent Western film directed by Stuart Paton and written by George Morgan and Gardner Bradford. The film stars Dynamite the Dog, Edmund Cobb, Betty Caldwell, George Periolat, Carl Sepulveda and Al Ferguson. The film was released on December 4, 1927, by Universal Pictures.

Cast

  * Dynamite the Dog as Dynamite
  * Edmund Cobb as Jerry Matthews
  * Betty Caldwell as Rose Shelby
  * George Periolat as Colonel Shelby
  * Carl Sepulveda as Hank Mitchell
  * Al Ferguson as Thomas Shields
  * Joan Hathaway as Sally Ann
  * Brick Cannon as Sheriff Canby
  * Fangs of Destiny at IMDb


Fangyuan

23°55′30″N 120°18′57″E / 23.92500°N 120.31583°E

Fangyuan Township (Chinese: 芳苑鄉; pinyin: Fāngyuàn Xiāng) is a rural township in Changhua County, Taiwan.

History

People have been immigrated from Fujian to the area since around 1640 CE, where they practiced fishing and traded with people in Fujian. The area was then known as Fanzaiwa. The place was then renamed Sunayama Village during the Japanese rule of Taiwan because of the sand dunes of the area. After the handover of Taiwan from Japan to the Republic of China in 1945, it became part of Taichung County. It was later renamed as Fangyuan Township and became part of Changhua County.

Geography

Fangyuan has been assigned the postal code 528. With a total area of 91.38 square kilometers (35.28 sq mi), the township is the second largest in Changhua County after Erlin Township. As of January 2023, there were 31,572 people in 10,129 households. The population density was 372 inhabitants per square kilometer (960/sq mi).

Administrative divisions

The township comprises 26 villages: Boai, Caohu, Dingbu, Fangyuan, Fangzhong, Furong, Hanbao, Heping, Houliao, Jianping, Lunjiao, Luping, Lushang, Minsheng, Renai, Sancheng, Sange, Wanggong, Wenjin, Wujun, Xinbao, Xingren, Xinjie, Xinsheng, Xinyi and Yongxing.

Tourist attractions

  * Fangyuan Lighthouse
  * Fuhai Temple
  * Wanggong Fishing Port
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fangyuan Township, Changhua.


Fangyan, Zhejiang

Fangyan (Chinese: 方岩; pinyin: Fāngyán) is a town under the administration of Yongkang, Zhejiang, China.As of 2020, it administers the following two residential neighborhoods and 24 villages:

Neighborhoods

  * Fangyan
  * Paixi (派溪)

Villages

  * Chenglu Village (橙麓村)
  * Yanhou Village (岩后村)
  * Yanshang Village (岩上村)
  * Yanxia Village (岩下村)
  * Xi Village (西村)
  * Dayuan Village (大园村)
  * Houshantou Village (后山头村)
  * Changkeng Village (长坑村)
  * Guzhufan Village (古竹畈村)
  * Xianyan Village (仙岩村)
  * Liangtoumen Village (两头门村)
  * Paixi Village (派溪村)
  * Xianpen Village (先盆村)
  * Tongkeng Village (铜坑村)
  * Xianghuli Village (象瑚里村)
  * Dusong Village (独松村)
  * Xiazhai Village (下宅村)
  * Wenlou Village (文楼村)
  * Shangliye Village (上里叶村)
  * Chengliwang Village (橙里王村)
  * Jinzhu Village (金竹村)
  * Houqian Village (后钱村)
  * Xiangmotang Village (象陌堂村)
  * Sanchuan Village (三川村)


Diana Clapham

Diana Clapham (born 8 June 1957) is a British equestrian. She was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She won a silver medal in team eventing at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

  * Diana Clapham at Olympedia


Bruno Taut

Bruno Julius Florian Taut (4 May 1880 – 24 December 1938) was a renowned German architect, urban planner and author of Prussian Lithuanian heritage ("taut" means "nation" in Lithuanian).Weimar period and is known for his theoretical works as well as his building designs.

Early life and career

Taut was born in Königsberg in 1880. After secondary school, he studied at the Baugewerkschule. In the following years, Taut worked in the offices of various architects in Hamburg and Wiesbaden. In 1903, he was employed by Bruno Möhring in Berlin, where he acquainted himself with Jugendstil and new building methods combining steel with masonry. From 1904 to 1908, Taut worked in Stuttgart for Theodor Fischer and studied urban planning. He received his first commission through Fischer in 1906, which involved the renovation of the village church in Unterriexingen.

In 1908, he returned to Berlin to study art history and construction at the Royal Technical Higher School of Charlottenburg (Königlich Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg), now the Technical University of Berlin. A year later, he established the architecture firm Taut & Hoffmann with Franz Hoffmann.

Taut's first large projects came in 1913. He became a committed follower of the Garden City movement, evidenced by his design for the Falkenberg Estate.

Taut adopted the futuristic ideals and techniques of the avant-garde as seen in the prismatic dome of the Glass Pavilion, which he built for the association of the German glass industry for the 1914 Werkbund Exhibition in Cologne. His aim was to make a whole building out of glass instead of merely using glass as a surface or decorative material.utopian visionary, and he is classified as a Modernist and in particular an Expressionist. Much of Taut's literary work in German remains untranslated into English.

Germany

In 1910 after training in Berlin, working for Theodor Fischer's firm in Stuttgart, and establishing his own firm in Berlin, the experienced architect Hermann Muthesius suggested that Taut visit England to learn the garden city philosophy. Muthesius also introduced him to some of the Deutscher Werkbund group of architects, including Walter Gropius. Taut had socialist sympathies, and before World War I this hindered his advancement.


Bruno Taut

Taut's practical activity changed with World War I. He became a pacifist and so avoided military service. He began to write and sketch, less to escape from the brutalities of war than to present a positive utopia in opposition to this reality. Taut designed an immense circular garden city with a radius of about 7 km (4.3 mi) for three million inhabitants. The "City Crown" was to be in the very center. "Mighty and inaccessible", it would have been the culmination of a community and cultural center, a skyscraper-like, purpose-free "crystal building". "The building contains nothing but one beautiful room which can be reached by either of two staircases to the right and to the left of the theatre and the little community center. How can I even begin to describe what it is only possible to construct!", said Taut of the City Crown.

Interior of the Glass Dome

Taut completed two housing projects in Magdeburg from 1912 through 1915, which were influenced directly by the humane functionalism and urban design solutions of the garden city philosophy. The reform estate, created for a housing trust, was built in 1912–15 in the southwest of Magdeburg. The estate consists of one-story terrace houses and was the first project in which Taut used colour as a design principle. The construction of the estate was continued by Carl Krayl. Taut served as a city architect in Magdeburg from 1921 to 1923. During his time a few residential developments were built, one of which was the Hermann Beims estate (1925–28) with 2,100 apartments. Taut designed the exhibition hall City and Countryside in 1921 with concrete trusses and a central skylight.

Color variations of doors and entrances in the Hufeisensiedlung in Berlin (1925–1933)

Onkel-Toms-Hütte, Wilskistrasse, Berlin


Bruno Taut

A lifelong painter, Taut was distinguished from his European modernist contemporaries by his devotion to color. As in Magdeburg, he applied lively, clashing colors to his first major commission, the 1912 Gartenstadt Falkenberg housing estate in Berlin, which became known as the "Paint Box Estates". The 1914 Glass Pavilion, an illustration of the new possibilities of glass, was also brightly colored. The difference between Taut and his Modernist contemporaries was never more obvious than at the 1927 Weissenhofsiedlung housing exhibition in Stuttgart. In contrast to the pure-white entries from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius, Taut's house (Number 19) was painted in primary colors. Le Corbusier is reported to have exclaimed, "My God, Taut is colour-blind!"

During the November Revolution of 1918, Taut was involved in the Arbeitsrat für Kunst, an association of revolutionary artists based on council democracy. The group assumed the "primacy of architecture", demanded the demolition of all war memorials and saw art as a means of revolutionizing society. From March 1919, Taut belonged to their three-man management team, along with Adolf Behne, César Klein and Walter Gropius. The group disbanded in 1921.

In 1924 Taut was made chief architect of GEHAG, a Berlin public housing cooperative, and was the main designer of several successful large residential developments ("Gross-Siedlungen") in Berlin, notably the 1925 Hufeisensiedlung ("Horseshoe Estate"), named for its configuration around a pond, and the 1926 Onkel-Toms-Hütte development ("Uncle Tom's Cabin") in Zehlendorf, named for a local restaurant and set in a thick grove of trees. Both of these constructions became prominent examples of the use of colorful details in architecture.

Taut worked for the city architect of Berlin, Martin Wagner, on some of Berlin's Modernist Housing Estates, now recognized as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The designs featured controversial modern flat roofs; access to sunlight, air, and gardens; and generous amenities like gas, electric light, and bathrooms. Political conservatives complained that these developments were too opulent for 'simple people'. The progressive Berlin mayor, Gustav Böss, defended them: "We want to bring the lower levels of society higher."


Bruno Taut

Between 1924 and 1931, Taut's team completed more than 12,000 dwellings. In tribute to Taut, GEHAG incorporated an abstracted graphic of the Horseshoe Estate in its logo. This state housing association was sold by the Senate of Berlin in 1998; its legal successor is Deutsche Wohnen.

Japan

Being of liberal political sympathies, Taut fled Germany when the Nazis gained power.USSR in 1932 and 1933 but was obliged to return to Germany in February 1933 to a hostile political environment.

Later in the same year, Taut fled to Switzerland. Then, with an invitation from Japanese architect Isaburo Ueno, he traveled to Japan via France, Greece, Turkey and Vladivostok, arriving in Tsuruga, Japan, on May 3, 1933.Takasaki, Gunma, where he produced three influential book-length appreciations of Japanese culture and architecture, comparing the historical simplicity of Japanese architecture with modernist discipline. For a time Taut worked as an industrial design teacher, and his models of lamps and furniture sold at the Miratiss shop in Tokyo.

Taut was noted for his appreciation of the stark, minimalist vein of Japanese architecture found at the Ise Shrine and the Katsura Imperial Villa in Kyoto. He was the first to write extensively about the architectural features of the Katsura Imperial Villa from a modernist perspective. Contrasting it with the elaborately decorated shrines of shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu at Nikkō, Tochigi, he famously said that "Japan's architectural arts could not rise higher than Katsura, nor sink lower than Nikko".Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius.

The only extant Taut-designed architectural work in Japan is the extension to the Hyuga Villa at Atami in Shizuoka. Built-in 1936 on a site below the original villa owned by businessman Rihei Hyuga, and part modern and part traditional Japanese in style, the three rooms provided additional space for social events and views over nearby Sagami Bay.

Turkey


Bruno Taut

Turkey

Offered a position as Professor of Architecture at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Istanbul (currently, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University), Taut relocated to Turkey in 1936. In Ankara he joined other German wartime exiles, including Martin Wagner and Taut's associate Franz Hillinger, who arrived in 1938. Some of Taut's work was received unfavorably, however, and labeled as "cubic". In a letter to a Japanese friend he wrote, "They gave me a great opportunity in that they gave me freedom for my craft. I will make a building that is not 'cubic'; they are calling all modernism cubic. For this building, I am thinking of using some Turkish motifs."Ortaköy neighborhood, bridging the architectural traditions of his exile existence. His studio resembled that of the Einstein Tower in Potsdam, while the front view recalled a Japanese pagoda.

After leaving Germany, Taut gradually moved away from modernism. A colleague

Before his death in 1938, Taut wrote at least one more book and designed a number of educational buildings in Ankara and Trabzon under commissions from the Turkish Ministry of Education. The most significant of these buildings were the Faculty of Languages, History and Geography at Ankara University, Ankara Atatürk High School and Trabzon High School. His last building project, the Cebeci School, was left unfinished. Taut's final work, one month before his death, was the catafalque that was used for the official state funeral of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk on 21 November 1938 in Ankara. It was a simple design, consisting of large wooden columns and a flag that covered the coffin.

Taut died on 24 December 1938 and was laid to rest at the Edirnekapı Martyr's Cemetery in Istanbul as its first and only non-Muslim.


Bruno Taut

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  * Deutscher Werkbund, Winfried Brenne (2008): Bruno Taut: Master of colorful architecture in Berlin, Verlagshaus Braun, ISBN 978-3-935455-82-4
  * Markus Breitschmid (2012): "The Architect as 'Molder of the Sensibilities of the General Public'": Bruno Taut and his Architekturprogramm, in: The Art of Social Critique. Painting Mirrors of Social Life, Shawn Chandler Bingham (ed.) Lanham: Lexington Books of Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 155–179, ISBN 978-0-7391-4923-2


Bruno Taut

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  * A Comparative Study On The Works of German Expatriate Architects In Their Home-Land And In Turkey During The Period of 1927-1950 / Yüksel Zandel Pöğün / IYTE
  * Architectural Theory / Edited by Harry Francis Mallgrave and Christina Contandriopoulos
  * Architectural Theory From The Renaıssance to The Present / Bernd Evers
  * Modern ve Sürgün – Almanca Konuşan Ülkelerin Mimarları Türkiye’de / Yüksel Zandel Pöğün


Bruno Taut

Gallery

  * [Horseshoe Estate (Hufeisensiedlung), built in 1925, in Britz, Berlin]
    Horseshoe Estate (Hufeisensiedlung), built in 1925, in Britz, Berlin
  * [Worpsweder Käseglocke, built in 1926]
    Worpsweder Käseglocke, built in 1926
  * [Bruno Taut, "Red Front" building, Horseshoe Estate, Britz, Berlin]
    Bruno Taut, "Red Front" building, Horseshoe Estate, Britz, Berlin
  * [Monument to Taut at the Uncle Tom's Cabin Estate, Berlin-Zehlendorf]
    Monument to Taut at the Uncle Tom's Cabin Estate, Berlin-Zehlendorf
  * [Faculty of Languages, History and Geography of Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey]
    Faculty of Languages, History and Geography of Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey
  * [Interior design of the private accommodation "Tautes Heim" located in the Hufeisensiedlung, Berlin-Britz]
    Interior design of the private accommodation "Tautes Heim" located in the Hufeisensiedlung, Berlin-Britz
  * [Hermann Gieseler Gymnasium, interior, Magdeburg, Taut and John Göderitz]
    Hermann Gieseler Gymnasium, interior, Magdeburg, Taut and John Göderitz
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bruno Taut.
  * Bruno Taut at archINFORM
  * Britz/Hufeisensiedlung in Berlin by Bruno Taut & Martin Wagner (with drawings and photos)
  * Museum of Architecture biography of Taut


Hohenfreyberg Castle

The inner courtyard

The main tower

Hohenfreyberg Castle (German: Burg Hohenfreyberg), together with Eisenberg Castle directly opposite, forms a castle group in the southern Allgäu that is visible from a long way off. It is located about four kilometres north of Pfronten in the county of Ostallgäu. The late mediaeval hilltop castle was abandoned during the Thirty Years’ War and set on fire. From 1995 to 2006 the former aristocratic seat was comprehensively made safe and conserved as part of a closely observed "example of renovation".

Location

The ruins are situated at 1,040.8 m above sea level (NN) on a twin-topped, rocky ridge in front of the Tannheim Mountains. In the local vicinity there are many other castles, ruins, castle sites and fortresses on either side of the Austro-German border, including the famous Neuschwanstein Castle.

History

The castle was one of the last great castles of the German Middle Ages. Its lord based it consciously on the – actually anachronistic – design of a high medieval hill castle whilst, in other places, the first castles had been abandoned or converted into schloss-like country houses.

Construction on the fortress was started in 1418 by Frederick of Freyberg zu Eisenberg, the eldest son of the eponymous lord of Eisenberg Castle. The work lasted until 1432, the funding coming from the income of the little barony that surrounded it, which the lord had bequeathed in advance of his death.

The walls of the inner bailey with its bergfried-like main tower and large sections of the walls of the outer bailey go back to this first construction phase. The first castle gave the impression of a high medieval hilltop castle about 200 years older with an impressive bergfried and two palases. At a time when the nobility were waning and the bourgeois classes were in the ascendancy, Frederick of Freyberg clearly wanted to create a symbol of unbroken aristocratic power. He certainly was certainly influenced by the size and appearance of his ancestral castle which was only a five-minute walk away.


Hohenfreyberg Castle

The construction and huge maintenance costs forced his sons, George and Frederick of Freyberg-Eisenberg zu Hohenfreyberg, and their cousin, George of Freyberg-Eisenberg zu Eisenberg, who also owned estates of the Barony of Hohenfreyberg, to sell the castle in 1484 to Archduke Sigmund of Austria; they also lacked a male heir. The successor to the Archduke, later Emperor Maximilian I, enfeoffed Hohenfreyberg in 1499Augsburg merchant, Georg Gossembrot, the Pfleger of the nearby Tyrolean castle of Ehrenberg. He invested heavily in the fortress: the site was fortified militarily and modernised. Gossembrot married his daughter Sibylle to Lutz of Freyberg zu Öpfingen-Justingen, a relative of the Freybergs at the neighbouring castle of Eisenberg.

In 1502 Gossembrot died and his widow, Radegunda Eggenberger, gave the fief of Hohenfreyberg back to Austria in an agreement dated 9 May 1513. She stated her late husband had spent 17,000 to 18,000 florins for its purchase and construction.

The modernization of the fortifications by the castle's vassal lords paid off in 1525 during the German Peasants' War. The Austrian Pfleger was able to ward the rebels off successfully after he had requested reinforcements and soldiers (Kriegsknechte) from Innsbruck.

In 1646, towards the end of the Thirty Years' War, the Austrian outposts of Hohenfreyberg, Eisenberg and Falkenstein were set on fire on the orders of the Tyrolean state government. The fortresses were not to fall intact into the hands of the approaching Protestants. However, the attackers changed their line of advance, so their destruction was needless. Since that time, all three castles have remained uninhabited ruins.

After the Battle of Austerlitz, Austria had to cede its Allgäu possessions to Bavaria. The Kingdom of Bavaria sold Hohenfreyberg in 1841 back to the Lords of Freyberg, to whom the castle still belongs today.


Hohenfreyberg Castle

In 1995, an extensive renovation started on the castle which had hitherto been left to decay unhindered. The Alp Action Foundation under the patronage of Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan enabled the start of the safety work that ended in 2006 for financial reasons. The aim of these measures was a historically faithful preservation of the state at the start of restoration, additions and larger archaeological intervention was excluded. The internationally acclaimed "conservation example" is a role model for similarly innovative historical monument projects across Europe.

As part of the expansion of the Allgäu Castle Region, in 2004 two educational displays and several information boards were put up at the castle. The planning concept of the Allgäu Castle Region is an extension of the cross-border East Allgäu-Außerfern Castle Region, which includes the spectacular fortress ensemble at Ehrenberg Castle near Reutte in Tyrol's Außerfern.

Current owner is Baron Ernst von Freyberg-Eisenberg.

Construction phases

Information board by the entrance with details of the dates of construction

View into the northeast zwinger with its flanking tower

The large battery tower in the southwest (outer bailey)

Educational motif of an arquebusier in the northwest of the outer bailey

The castle was built mainly in three large construction phases. The original castle (1418–32) was somewhat smaller than the surviving ruins. It consisted of two angled residential buildings in the courtyard, a bergfried-like main tower in the east and a chapel tower. This inner bailey was surrounded by a short enceinte. The crenellated wall of the outer bailey was much lower than today. On the plateau of this outer ward were almost certainly a number of wooden domestic and residential buildings. The original gate of the outer ward was slightly wider, but situated on the same spot as the present entrance. Originally the castle track led around the north and east sides of the castle and met the one coming from the gate in the outer bailey. The gate of the inner ward was originally in the south wall. The outer wall guarded the main entrance in the manner of a gateway zwinger.


Hohenfreyberg Castle

In 1456 the two gateways were reinforced. On the west side of the inner bailey a low artillery hut was built, from which an attacking enemy could be fired upon with light firearms. The main gate was expanded into a massive gateway structure.

Between 1486 and 1502 the castle was fundamentally remodelled and strengthened. At the southwest corner of the outer ward the mighty artillery roundel was built. The height of the enceinte was increased and designed with embrasures for arquebuses. The large battery tower guarded the new approach way, which was now on the southern side. The gateway to the inner bailey was moved to the west side and was given a new gate tower. This required the demolition of the northern half of the great west residence or palas, whose rubble was distributed to a deputy of a metre in the inner courtyard. As a consequence even the smaller palas had to be remodelled. To the north and east the mighty zwinger systems were built with a semi-circular flanking tower in the far northeast.

Description

The main castle and inner gateway

Access to the castle site today is through the gate in the outer bailey on the western side. The gate and enceinte belong to the first phase of construction (1418/32). To the right rises a mighty artillery roundel (built in 1501, but later increased in height), that was added under Gossembrot. After about 30 metres the main gate of the inner bailey is reached, in front of which wings were later added. The original entranceway was, however, in the middle of the southern side. Here, there is a gateway in front, which was subsequently converted into a cistern tower. Nessler claims wrongly that this gateway is the remnant of the bergfried. This gateway/tower lost its function when the castle entrance was moved under Gossembrot from the north to the south side of the castle and guarded by the aforementioned artillery roundel.

The impressive zwinger system was built around the castle in 1486 under the vassal lord, Gossembrot.


Hohenfreyberg Castle

Around 1540, the western front of the inner bailey was reinforced by an artillery platform. The conception of this castle element was based on Albrecht Dürer's 1527 tractate, "Some Lessons in Fortifying the City, Palace and Town" ("Ettliche underricht zu befestigung der Stett, Schloß und flecken"). The gun platform was made accessible again during the general renovation of the castle. The neighbouring castle of Eisenberg was also strengthened in the 16th century on the recommendations of Dürer.

Two domestic buildings stood in the castle courtyard, which were joined together forming an angle with one another. The square walls of the smaller one have partially survived, the outer wall of the larger building was also the enceinte of the original castle, but the east wall has disappeared. At the southwest corner the round, vaulted, chapel tower has survived.

The bergfried forms the eastern enclosure of the inner bailey with its balcony in front. The zwinger wall makes an acute angle around the eastern end of the inner bailey. In the northeast of the zwinger a round defensive tower rises from the line of the wall.

The whole castle was built of limestone blocks. The construction material came from several small quarries in the immediate and near vicinity of the castle.

Together with the surrounding palaces and fortifications the site offers an overview of the history of mediaeval fortifications over the last thousand years in what is known as the East Allgäu-Außerfern Castle Region (Burgregion Ostallgäu-Außerfern). Numerous artefacts from Hohenfreyberg Castle are on display in the castle museum in the village of Eisenberg-Zell.

Gallery


Hohenfreyberg Castle

Gallery

  * [The ruins ca. 1830 (Domenico Quaglio)]
    The ruins ca. 1830 (Domenico Quaglio)
  * [The bergfried from the southwest (Domenico Quaglio, around 1830)]
    The bergfried from the southwest (Domenico Quaglio, around 1830)
  * [Part of the outer ward looking west]
    Part of the outer ward looking west
  * [Educational representation of a medieval mason on the north wall of the inner ward]
    Educational representation of a medieval mason on the north wall of the inner ward
  * [The western part of the inner bailey with its artillery platform and entranceway]
    The western part of the inner bailey with its artillery platform and entranceway
  * [The bergfried from the east]
    The bergfried from the east
  * [The northeastern zwinger tower]
    The northeastern zwinger tower
  * [View of neighbouring Falkenstein Castle and the Tannheim Mountains]
    View of neighbouring Falkenstein Castle and the Tannheim Mountains

Literature


Hohenfreyberg Castle

Literature

  * Klaus Leidorf, Peter Ettel: Burgen in Bavaria. 7000 Jahre Burgengeschichte in der Luftbild. Theiss, Stuttgart, 1999, ISBN 3-8062-1364-X, pp. 154–155.
  * Toni Nessler: Burgen in the Allgäu. Vol. 2: Burgruinen im Westallgäu und im angrenzenden Vorarlberg, im württembergischen Allgäu, im nördlichen Allgäu um Memmingen, im nordöstlichen Allgäu um Kaufbeuren und Obergünzburg sowie im östlichen Allgäu und im angrenzenden Tyrol. Allgäuer Zeitungsverlag, Kempten, 1985, ISBN 3-88006-115-7, pp. 232–242.
  * Joachim Zeune: Burgenführer Ostallgäu and Außerfern, Tyrol. Bergvesten und Talsperren Burgenregion Ostallgäu-Außerfern. Tourismusverband Ostallgäu, Marktoberdorf, 1998.
  * Joachim Zeune: Burgenregion Allgäu. Ein Burgenführer. Zeune u. Koop, Eisenberg-Zell, 2008.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hohenfreyberg Castle.
  * Ruins of Hohenfreyberg at the home page of the House of Bavarian History (plans, history, construction, condition)


Borowy Młyn, Greater Poland Voivodeship

For other places with the same name, see Borowy Młyn.

Borowy Młyn [bɔˈrɔvɨ ˈmwɨn] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Sieraków, within Międzychód County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.


Biju

For the film director, see Dr. Biju.

Biju (Malayalam: ബിജു) is a popular male name in India, especially in Bengal, Orissa, Kerala, and Bangladesh.

Biju is derived from the similar rhyming name Viju. It is highly likely that Viju is an affectionate version of the name Vijaya, which means Victory in Sanskrit and several Indian languages. It has a similar meaning in Chinese as well. Biju is associated with Arjuna, the great warrior hero of the Mahabharatha.

In Kerala, the name Biju is used by all communities: Hindus, Christians, and Muslims, and thus is a secular name, although many have added suffixes which indicate their caste or community. For example, Biju Cheriya Othayoth Eramala (ബിജു ചെറിയ ഒതയോത് ബാലകൃഷ്ണൻ ഏറാമല ), in which ബിജു is the first name, ബാലകൃഷ്ണൻ is the first letter of father's name and ചെറിയ ഒതയോത് is the house name.

This name also may have derived from the French word "bijou" (pronounced "bizhu"), meaning "jewel."

People with the given name

  * Biju Mathew (fl. 1998–present), American Marxist intellectual
  * Biju Menon (b. 1970), Indian film actor
  * Biju Narayanan (fl. 1992–present), Indian playback singer
  * Biju Patnaik (1916-1997), Indian politician, founder of Biju Janata Dal party
  * Biju Phukan (fl. 1970–present), Indian Assamese actor
  * Biju Toppo (fl. 1995–present), Indian documentary filmmaker
  * Biju Viswanath (fl. 1998–present), Indian film director
  * Bijukumar Damodaran, known as Dr. Biju (born 1971), Indian film director
  * Appi Biju , famous movie character played by Kottayam Nazir

, Indian film actor

People with the surname

  * Sathyabhama Das Biju (b. 1963), Indian biologist


George Westinghouse Jones House

George Westinghouse Jones House, also known by the Welsh name of Caermarthen, is a historic home located in the Town of Niskayuna in Schenectady County, New York. It was built about 1900 and designed by the architectural firm of Rutan & Russell. It is a rambling, 2+1⁄2-story gable-roofed frame residence in the Shingle Style. it features a high stone foundation, steeply pitched gable roof, a wraparound verandah, hipped roof dormers, and five tall brick chimneys. Its original owner was George Westinghouse Jones, who was a cousin of industrialist George Westinghouse and business administrator for the firm's Schenectady interests.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.


2003 Rwandan presidential election

Politics of Rwanda

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  * President Paul Kagame
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Presidential elections were held in Rwanda on 25 August 2003.Rwandan Civil War and the first multi-party presidential elections in the country's history. Paul Kagame of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) was elected to a seven-year term with 95% of the vote.

The results were disputed by Faustin Twagiramungu, the main opposition candidate, who argued that "People were controlled, people were forced to vote. It’s not possible that we in the opposition got only 3.7% of the vote. There is something wrong."Filip Reyntjens, "reinforced the RPF in its conviction that things would blow over, which they did." In Reyntjens' view, "after failing Rwanda in 1994, the international community did so again in 2003 by allowing a dictatorship to take hold."

Background

Prior to the elections a campaign was launched by the RPF to ban the Democratic Republican Movement (MDR), which was charged with "divisionism". This move was criticized by Human Rights Watch, which stated "If the MDR is dissolved, conditions for the elections will change even more dramatically. As the only party outside of the RPF with any substantial support, the MDR would be the only one able to seriously contest at least the legislative if not the presidential elections."Faustin Twagiramungu was forced to run as an independent.

Results


2003 Rwandan presidential election

Results

Candidate                           Party                       Votes                    %
                                    Paul Kagame                 Rwandan Patriotic Front  3,544,777  95.05
                                    Faustin Twagiramungu        Independent              134,865    3.62
                                    Jean-Népomuscène Nayinzira  Independent              49,634     1.33
Total                               3,729,276                   100.00

Valid votes                         3,729,276                   97.82
Invalid/blank votes                 83,291                      2.18
Total votes                         3,812,567                   100.00
Registered voters/turnout           3,948,749                   96.55
Source: African Elections Database


Biju (footballer)

In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is de Souza and the second or paternal family name is Silva.

André Luiz de Souza Silva or simply known as Biju (born September 17, 1974) is a Brazilian former football player. His nickname is "Biju" because it was the name of a vegetable dish he often ate as a child.

After playing professionally in his native Brazil for three years, Biju joined the J2 League at Consadole Sapporo in 1999. In 2002, he moved to Kyoto Purple Sanga, and then Sagan Tosu. From 2006 he played for Ventforet Kofu. He joined Mito mid-season of 2007 on a 6-month contract.Zweigen Kanazawa in Japanese Regional Leagues.

Club statistics

Club performance  League              Cup               League Cup    Total
Season            Club                League            Apps          Goals  Apps  Goals  Apps  Goals  Apps  Goals
Japan             League              Emperor's Cup     J.League Cup  Total
1999              Consadole Sapporo   J2 League         19            2      3     1      0     0      22    3
2000              33                  6                 4             1      1     0      38    7
2001              J1 League           24                1             1      0     2      0     27     1
2002              26                  1                 1             0      0     0      27    1
2003              Kyoto Purple Sanga  J1 League         13            1      1     0      0     0      14    1
2004              J2 League           14                1             0      0     -      14    1
2005              Sagan Tosu          J2 League         22            2      1     0      -     23     2
2006              Ventforet Kofu      J1 League         26            1      1     1      4     0      31    2
2007              Mito HollyHock      J2 League         22            0      2     0      -     24     0
2008              22                  0                 1             0      -     23     0
2009              Zweigen Kanazawa    Regional Leagues  13            1      2     0      -     15     1
Total             234                 16                17            3      7     0      258   19

Personal life

  * Biju's wife is Japanese.
  * Biju at J.League (archive) (in Japanese)


Benjamin Bradley

Benjamin Bradley may refer to:

  * Benjamin Bradley (inventor) (1830–1904), American inventor
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  * Ben Bradley (politician) (born 1989), British Conservative Party politician
  * Ben Bradley (Hollyoaks), a fictional character from the British soap Hollyoaks
  * Ben Bradley (philosopher) (born 1971), American philosopher
  * Ben Bradlee (1921–2014), Washington Post editor
  * Ben Bradlee Jr. (born 1948), Boston Globe journalist and editor, son of Ben Bradlee
  * Benjamin Braidley (1792–1845), English writer


Cordell Hull Bridge

The Cordell Hull Bridge is a bridge over the Cumberland River in the U.S. state of Tennessee that connects the towns of Carthage and South Carthage.

History

The bridge was built by the Vincennes Bridge Company. Surveys began in 1933, construction started in December 1934, and the bridge was opened to traffic on May 14, 1936.Cordell Hull, who served as the 47th United States Secretary of State from 1933 to 1944.Tennessee State Route 25 to its southern terminus at US 70N in South Carthage until 1990 when the route was realigned to a bypass around the northern and eastern edge of town. It was restored in the 2010s, and rededicated on July 2, 2012.

It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since November 20, 2009.

It was closed indefinitely on June 8, 2022 after a routine inspection revealed a 24 inch long crack in the truss.

Media related to Cordell Hull Bridge at Wikimedia Commons


Fangxiang Township

Fangxiang Township (simplified Chinese: 方祥乡; traditional Chinese: 方祥鄉; pinyin: Fāngxiáng Xiāng) is a township in Leishan County, Guizhou, China.As of 2020, it administers the following seven villages:

  * Pingxiang Village (平祥村)
  * Tixiang Village (提香村)
  * Shuizhai Village (水寨村)
  * Douzhai Village (陡寨村)
  * Queniao Village (雀鸟村)
  * Getou Village (格头村)
  * Maoping Village (毛坪村)


Diana C. Zollicoffer

Diana C. Zollicoffer (born 1977), is a black female filmmaker. She was raised in the Washington, DC. Seychellois filmmaker and actress particularly active in Indie film industry.Schmoolie the Deathwatcher, Bridget and Iain and Forgotten Bayou.

Career

She has graduated from Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Washington DC.

Filmography

Year  Film                                     Role                                                   Genre              Ref.
1998  Celebrity                                Actress: Newscaster                                    Film
2002  All My Children                          Actress: Doctor                                        TV Series
2003  What Should You Do?                      Actress: Alita BaconPrison Guard                       TV Series
2004  Stop Thief!                              Actress: Prison Guard                                  Stage
2005  The War at Home                          Actress: Keisha                                        TV Series
2005  Untold Stories of the ER                 Actress: Reenactment / Tonya Jenkins                   TV Series
2006  Doggie Bag                               Executive producer, assistant director, makeup artist  Short film
2008  Single Serving                           Co-producer, assistant director                        TV series
2008  Q: Secret Agent                          Producer                                               Short film
2009  B-Girl                                   Actress: Eunice                                        Film
2010  I Love You Daddy                         Actress: Head Nurse                                    Stage
2012  Ten Men on the Field                     Actress: Executive Assistant 7                         Stage
2013  Bloomers                                 Associate producer                                     TV series
2013  Queen Cake                               Co-producer                                            Short film
2014  My Way                                   Producer                                               Short film
2014  Fade to Black                            Director, producer, writer                             Short film
2015  The Dinner Bash                          Director, producer, writer                             TV series
2015  Schmoolie the Deathwatcher               Producer                                               Short film
2016  Monster in the Bayou                     Producer                                               Documentary short
2016  Forgotten Bayou                          Producer, writer, writer                               Documentary
2017  Bridget and Iain                         Producer                                               Short film
2019  Dreamer                                  Director, producer                                     Short film
2019  Annny Minute Now                         Director, writer, actress: Mrs. Driver                 TV series
2019  Honey and Clover: A Recipe for Disaster  Producer                                               Short film
2019  Throw Like a Girl                        Producer                                               Short film
2019  Untitled Ben Brown Documentary           Director, producer, writer                             Documentary
TBD   Morning                                  Director, producer, writer, actress: Sharon            Short film
TBD   Only the Lonely Sleeps                   Director, producer, writer                             Film
TBD   FU: A Love Story in Reverse              Director, producer, writer                             Film

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Caderzone Terme

Caderzone Terme (Cadärción or Cadarciùn in local dialect) is a comune (municipality) in Trentino in the northern Italian region Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, located about 30 kilometres (19 mi) west of Trento.

Caderzone borders the following municipalities: Pinzolo, Giustino, Spiazzo, Strembo, Carisolo, Massimeno, and Bocenago.

Twin towns

  * [Austria] Weißbach bei Lofer, Austria
  * [Italy] Sassofeltrio, Italy
  * Val Rendena


Charitar 373

Part of a series on the
Dasam Granth
ਦਸਮ ਗ੍ਰੰਥ

Main compositions
  * Jaap Sahib
  * Akal Ustat
  * Bachitar Natak
  * Chandi Charitar 1
  * Chandi Charitar 2
  * Chandi Di Var
  * Gian Parbodh
  * Chaubis Avatar
  * Brahma Avtar
  * Rudra Avtar
  * Shabad Hazare
  * 33 Swayyae
  * Khalsa Mahima
  * Shastar Nam Mala
  * Charitropakhyan
  * Zafarnama
  * Hikaaitaan
Other compositions
  * Ardas
  * Asfotak Kabits
  * Bhagauti Astotar
  * Chandd
  * Chaupai Sahib
  * Deh Shiva Bar Mohe Eha
  * Lakhi Jungle Khalsa
  * Paranath Avtar
  * Sahansar Sukhmana
  * Sri Kaal Chopai
  * Tavparsadi Savaiye
  * Ugardanti
  * Vaar Malkauns Ki
  * Fatehnama
Various aspects
  * Idolatry prohibition
  * History
  * Sodhak Committee
  * Raga
  * Gurbani
  * Appellations for God
  * Language
  * Das Granthi
  * Nitnem
Poetical metres and rhythms
  * Salok
  * Savaiya
  * Vaar
  * Pādi
  * Mantar
  * Pauri
  * Shabad
  * Chhant
  * Hikayat
  * Chaupai
  * Sikh scriptures
  * v
  * t
  * e

Charitar 373 is one of 404 tales presented in Sri Charitropakhyan composition present in Dasam Granth. This tale is also called "Katha Hingal Devi"rape of the King's younger wife by Prince Hanuvant Singh.

The tale condemns the concept of religious miracles. The tales is told in 24 stanzas with 4 Chopais and 3 Adil and 1 Dohra.

Synopsis

The primary character is Aftab Devi, named Hingula Devi who had debate and discourse with the King and religious priests. King Bikat Singh lived in Dalautabad with his beautiful queen Bhan Manjari. Trader Bheem Sen also lived there with his beautiful wife Aaftaab Devi.