Metropolitan Intercollegiate Conference

The Metropolitan Intercollegiate Conference was an American intercollegiate athletic conference that existed from 1972 to 1984. The league had members in the state of New York.

Members

  * The following is an incomplete list of the membership of the Metropolitan Intercollegiate Conference.
Institution     Location                 Nickname  Founded  Joined  Left  Conference
                                                                          joined
Wagner College  Staten Island, New York  Seahawks  1883     1972    1977  D-III independent

Football champions

  * 1972 – C. W. Post
  * 1973 – C. W. Post
  * 1974 – C. W. Post
  * 1975 – C. W. Post
  * 1976 – C. W. Post
  * 1977 – Fordham
  * 1978 – Pace
  * 1979 – Pace
  * 1980 – Pace
  * 1981 – St. John's
  * 1982 – St. John's
  * 1983 – St. John's
  * 1984 – St. John's

Football standings


Metropolitan Intercollegiate Conference

1972 Metropolitan Intercollegiate Conference football standings                                                               1973 Metropolitan Intercollegiate Conference football standings          1974 Metropolitan Intercollegiate Conference football standings
  * v                                                                                * v                                                                      * v
  * t                        Conf        Overall                                                                                * t                        Conf        Overall                           * t                        Conf        Overall
  * e                                                                                * e                                                                      * e
Team                         W        L           T      W     L     T                                                        Team                         W        L           T      W      L     T  Team                         W        L           T      W     L     T
C. W. Post $                 3     –  0  –        0      6  –  3  –  0                                                        C. W. Post $                 5     –  0  –        0      10  –  1  –  0  C. W. Post $                 4     –  0  –        0      6  –  4  –  0
Wagner                       2     –  1  –        0      7  –  3  –  0                                                        Hofstra                      4     –  1  –        0      8   –  3  –  0  Merchant Marine              3     –  1  –        0      6  –  3  –  0
Hofstra                      1     –  2  –        0      5  –  6  –  0                                                        Fordham                      2     –  2  –        0      6   –  4  –  0  Seton Hall                   2     –  1  –        0      7  –  2  –  0
Merchant Marine              0     –  3  –        0      5  –  4  –  0                                                        Merchant Marine              1     –  2  –        0      5   –  5  –  0  Wagner                       2     –  2  –        0      5  –  3  –  1
                                                                                Seton Hall                   0     –  2  –        0      3   –  4  –  0  Fordham                      0     –  3  –        1      3  –  5  –  1
  * $ – Conference champion                                                                                Saint Peter's                0     –  2  –        0      0   –  9  –  0  Hofstra                      0     –  4  –        1      1  –  9  –  1
                                                                                Wagner                       0     –  3  –        0      4   –  5  –  0
                                                                                * $ – Conference champion
                                                                                * $ – Conference champion

1975 Metropolitan Intercollegiate Conference football standings                                                               1976 Metropolitan Intercollegiate Conference football standings          1977 Metropolitan Intercollegiate Conference football standings
  * v                                                                                * v                                                                      * v
  * t                        Conf        Overall                                                                                * t                        Conf        Overall                           * t                        Conf        Overall
  * e                                                                                * e                                                                      * e
Team                         W        L           T      W     L     T                                                        Team                         W        L           T      W     L     T   Team                         W        L           T      W     L     T
C. W. Post $                 4     –  0  –        0      9  –  1  –  0                                                        C. W. Post $                 3     –  0  –        0      8  –  2  –  0   Fordham $                    3     –  0  –        0      8  –  2  –  0


Metropolitan Intercollegiate Conference

Merchant Marine              4     –  1  –        0      7  –  2  –  0                                                        Merchant Marine              4     –  1  –        0      8  –  1  –  0   C. W. Post                   3     –  0  –        0      5  –  3  –  1
Wagner                       3     –  2  –        0      6  –  2  –  1                                                        Hofstra                      2     –  3  –        0      4  –  4  –  0   Hofstra                      3     –  2  –        0      6  –  3  –  0
Fordham                      1     –  2  –        1      3  –  5  –  1                                                        Seton Hall                   1     –  2  –        1      3  –  5  –  2   Merchant Marine              1     –  2  –        0      3  –  6  –  0
Hofstra                      1     –  4  –        0      3  –  6  –  0                                                        Fordham                      1     –  2  –        1      5  –  3  –  1   Wagner                       1     –  4  –        0      2  –  7  –  0
Seton Hall                   0     –  4  –        1      2  –  7  –  1                                                        Wagner                       1     –  4  –        0      2  –  7  –  1   Seton Hall                   0     –  3  –        0      3  –  5  –  0

  * $ – Conference champion                                                                                * $ – Conference champion                                                * $ – Conference champion

1978 Metropolitan Intercollegiate Conference football standings                                                               1979 Metropolitan Intercollegiate Conference football standings          1980 Metropolitan Intercollegiate Conference football standings
  * v                                                                                * v                                                                      * v
  * t                        Conf        Overall                                                                                * t                        Conf        Overall                           * t                        Conf        Overall
  * e                                                                                * e                                                                      * e
Team                         W        L           T      W     L     T                                                        Team                         W        L           T      W     L     T   Team                         W        L           T      W     L     T
Pace $                       5     –  0  –        0      6  –  2  –  0                                                        Pace $                       5     –  0  –        0      7  –  1  –  1   Pace $                       5     –  0  –        0      6  –  3  –  0
Brooklyn                     3     –  2  –        0      5  –  4  –  0                                                        St. John's                   4     –  1  –        0      4  –  5  –  1   Iona                         3     –  1  –        1      6  –  4  –  1
Iona                         2     –  2  –        0      5  –  4  –  0                                                        Iona                         3     –  2  –        0      6  –  4  –  0   Saint Peter's                3     –  1  –        1      4  –  4  –  1
Saint Peter's                2     –  2  –        0      5  –  4  –  0                                                        Marist                       1     –  4  –        0      3  –  5  –  0   Marist                       2     –  3  –        0      2  –  7  –  0


Metropolitan Intercollegiate Conference

St. John's                   2     –  3  –        0      5  –  5  –  0                                                        Saint Peter's                1     –  4  –        0      1  –  6  –  0   St. John's                   1     –  4  –        0      3  –  7  –  0
Marist                       0     –  5  –        0      1  –  8  –  0                                                        Brooklyn                     1     –  4  –        0      1  –  8  –  0   Brooklyn                     0     –  5  –        0      1  –  9  –  0

  * $ – Conference champion                                                                                * $ – Conference champion                                                * $ – Conference champion

1981 Metropolitan Intercollegiate Conference football standings                                                               1982 Metropolitan Intercollegiate Conference football standings          1983 Metropolitan Intercollegiate Conference football standings
  * v                                                                                * v                                                                      * v
  * t                        Conf        Overall                                                                                * t                        Conf        Overall                           * t                        Conf        Overall
  * e                                                                                * e                                                                      * e
Team                         W        L           T      W     L     T                                                        Team                         W        L           T      W     L     T   Team                         W        L           T      W     L     T
St. John's $                 4     –  0  –        0      8  –  2  –  0                                                        St. John's $                 4     –  0  –        0      9  –  1  –  0   St. John's $                 4     –  0  –        0      9  –  1  –  0
Pace                         3     –  1  –        0      5  –  5  –  0                                                        Pace                         3     –  1  –        0      5  –  4  –  0   Marist                       3     –  1  –        0      3  –  6  –  0
Brooklyn                     2     –  2  –        0      4  –  6  –  0                                                        Marist                       2     –  2  –        0      2  –  7  –  0   Pace                         2     –  2  –        0      5  –  4  –  0
Marist                       1     –  3  –        0      2  –  7  –  0                                                        Brooklyn                     1     –  3  –        0      3  –  7  –  0   Saint Peter's                1     –  3  –        0      1  –  7  –  0
Saint Peter's                0     –  4  –        0      1  –  8  –  0                                                        Saint Peter's                0     –  4  –        0      1  –  8  –  0   Brooklyn                     0     –  4  –        0      0  –  9  –  0

  * $ – Conference champion                                                                                * $ – Conference champion                                                * $ – Conference champion

1984 Metropolitan Intercollegiate Conference football standings
  * v
  * t                                                                              Conf        Overall
  * e
Team                                                                               W        L           T      W     L     T
St. John's $                                                                       3     –  0  –        0      7  –  2  –  0


Metropolitan Intercollegiate Conference

Pace                                                                               1     –  2  –        0      3  –  5  –  0
Marist                                                                             1     –  2  –        0      2  –  7  –  0
Brooklyn                                                                           1     –  2  –        0      2  –  8  –  0
Saint Peter's                                                                      0     –  0  –        0      0  –  1  –  0

  * $ – Conference champion
  * Saint Peter's cancelled the remainder of their season after their first game.


Metropolitan Intercollegiate Conference

* List of defunct college football conferences


Schwansee

Schwansee is a lake in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany. At an elevation of 789,23 m, its surface area is 42 acres.

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MRPA

MRPA may refer to:

  * Metropolitan River Protection Act, an environmental protection law in Georgia, U.S.
  * Metropolitan Regional Planning Authority, later Western Australian Planning Commission


Namong

Namong is a town in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. The town is known for the Namong Secondary School.second cycle institution.


Riverside Park (Pittsville, Wisconsin)

Riverside Park is an urban park located in and administered by the city of Pittsville, Wisconsin.Yellow River.

Amenities include a disc golf course.

44°26′30″N 90°07′59″W / 44.44167°N 90.13306°W


Stony Clove Creek

Stony Clove Creek is a 10.3-mile-long (16.6 km)Catskill Mountains in New York. It is a tributary of Esopus Creek, which in turn is a tributary of the Hudson River. It joins the Esopus in the village of Phoenicia, and has two smaller tributaries up north of Phoenicia.

Description

The Stony Clove starts near the Stony Clove Notch in Edgewood in Greene County. It originates at Notch Lake, near the Devil's Tombstone Campsite, and flows through the small villages of Edgewood and Lanesville, entering Ulster County at Chichester.

History

Early maps and deeds indicate that the Stony Clove flowed into the Warner Bushkill, or alternatively named, the Barber Bushkill, before flowing into the Esopus. Later cartographers have changed the nomenclature of the streams so that the Barber Bushkill or Warner Bushkill flows into the Stony Clove.

It was formed about 10,000 years ago, during the last Ice age. It was formed when the same meltwater that formed the Stony Clove Notch burst through, and flooded a valley. The water, in turn, started running down through an already gouged-out pass, forming a small river.

Hydrology

Discharge

Graph from Chichester USGS stream gauge showing rise in discharge after Tropical Storm Irene

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) maintains stream gauges along Stony Clove Creek. The station in Chichester in operation since 1997, 1.8 miles (2.9 km) upstream from the Esopus, had a maximum discharge of 14,300 cubic feet (400 m3) per second on August 28, 2011, as Hurricane Irene passed through the area. It had a minimum discharge of 3.1 cubic feet (0.088 m3) per second on October 3, 2014.1.3 miles (2.1 km) upstream from the Esopus, had a maximum discharge of 13,000 cubic feet (370 m3) per second on April 2, 2005, and a minimum discharge of 3.7 cubic feet (0.10 m3) per second from September 20–22, 2002.

Turbidity


Stony Clove Creek

Turbidity

Stony Clove Creek is the largest source of turbidity and suspended-sediment concentration in the upper Esopus Creek, accounting for more turbidity than the rest of the upper Esopus watershed combined.

The USGS station along the creek in Chichester collects turbidity data every 15 minutes. The maximum daily SSC mean was 2,860 mg/L on December 1, 2010, and the minimum was under 1 mg/L over many days in late August through September 2014. The maximum daily suspended sediment discharge was 8,860 tons (8,040 t) on September 18, 2012, and the lowest was less than 0.01 tons (0.0091 t) from January 15–17, 2012 and many days in September 2013.

Tributaries

  * Ox Clove Brook
  * Warner Creek
  * Hollow Tree Brook
  * Lanes Hollow Brook
  * Rhine Hollow Brook
  * Fenwick Brook
  * Lanes Hollow Brook
  * Christine Brook
  * List of rivers of New York


Ravenswood (Brentwood, Tennessee)

Ravenswood is a historic property in Brentwood, Tennessee. Ravenswood was built by James Hazard Wilson II between 1821 and 1825. It was named to honor Sam Houston, the best man at Wilson's wedding. Houston was known as "the Raven" to the Cherokee. Ravenswood was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. In 2010, the city of Brentwood acquired the surrounding acreage and created Marcelle Vivrette Smith Park, which in 2014 became the largest park in Brentwood. After creating the park, the city restored the grounds and opened Ravenswood mansion for tours and special events.

The plantation was one of several homes owned by the Wilson family. It comprised more than 1,000 acres and was one of the largest in Williamson County prior to the Civil War.

In 2010, the city of Brentwood purchased Ravenswood and the surrounding 325 acres, agreeing to name the resulting park as Marcella Vivrette Smith Park. In 2013, the city purchased an additional 80 acres to add to the park. It is now the largest park in Brentwood.

The property includes Greek Revival and Federal architecture. When listed on the NRHP, the property included five contributing buildings and three non-contributing buildings on an area of 52 acres (21 ha).

  * Beechwood Hall (the H. G. W. Mayberry House)
  * Pleasant View (the Samuel F. Glass House)


Scandinavian legend

Scandinavian legend may refer to:

  * Scandinavian folklore
  * Scandinavian literature


Paul Joseph Boudier

For others with this surname, see Boudier.

Paul Joseph Boudier (December 1854 in Corgoloin, Côte-d’Or – 8 November 1908 in Corgoloin) was a French civil servant.

Career

  * 1885 Sub-prefect of Saint-Quentin in Saint-Quentin City
  * 1888-1893 Prefect of Yonne in Auxerre
  * 1893-1896 Prefect of Haute-Marne in Chaumont
  * 1896-1897 Prefect of Corsica in Ajaccio
  * 1897-1898 Prefect of Saône-et-Loire in Mâcon
  * 1898-1900 Prefect of Haute-Vienne in Limoges

Honours and awards

  * France: Officier of the Légion d’honneur
  * (in French) René BargetonLes Préfets du 11 ventôse an VIII au 4 septembre 1870 : répertoires nominatif et territorial, Archives Nationales, 423 pages, ISBN 9782860000642
  * (in French) Pierre-François Pinaud, Les trésoriers-payeurs généraux au XIXe siècle : répertoires nominatif et territorial, Paris, 1983.
  * (in French) Christiane Lamoussière, Patrick Laharie, Le personnel de l'administration préfectorale, 1881-1926, vol. 2, p. 184, éd. Archives nationales, 2001, ISBN 2860002901


Tallinna FC Castovanni Eagles

Tallinna FC Castovanni Eagles is an Estonian football club based in Tallinn. Founded in 2010, they currently play in the III Liiga, the fifth tier of Estonian football. Tallinna FC Soccernet is their reserve team.

Players

Current squad

As of 24 July 2017.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.  Pos.  Nation         Player               No.  Pos.  Nation         Player
1    GK    [Estonia] EST  Jaak Paavel          80   DF    [Estonia] EST  Rain Ikla
5    DF    [Estonia] EST  Martin Kivi          92   FW    [Estonia] EST  Mihkel Eimla
7    MF    [Estonia] EST  Kaarel Anton         98   DF    [Estonia] EST  Tarmo Erik Huttunen
8    MF    [Estonia] EST  Rainer Põld          —    MF    [Estonia] EST  Enari Laino
10   FW    [Estonia] EST  Aleksei Naariste     —    MF    [Estonia] EST  Taavi Laja
13   MF    [Estonia] EST  Tanel Joala          —    MF    [Estonia] EST  Jan Lõssanov
17   MF    [Estonia] EST  Rando Hallkivi       —    FW    [Estonia] EST  Karl-Erik Puolokainen
19   DF    [Estonia] EST  Kaupo Tenno          —    MF    [Estonia] EST  Randar Päll
25   FW    [Estonia] EST  Richard Leht         —    DF    [Estonia] EST  Rammo Rannu
39   DF    [Estonia] EST  Timo Erkki Huttunen  —    GK    [Estonia] EST  Hasan Steinberg
50   MF    [Estonia] EST  Lauri Lendsalu       —    GK    [Estonia] EST  Marek Tiido
77   FW    [Estonia] EST  Gerd Ärsis           —    DF    [Estonia] EST  Martin Treufeld

Statistics

League and Cup


Tallinna FC Castovanni Eagles

Statistics

League and Cup

Season  Division     Pos  Teams  Pld  W   D  L   GF  GA  GD   Pts  Top Goalscorer         Estonian Cup  Notes
2010    IV Liiga E   10   12     22   5   4  13  23  78  -55  19   Rasmus Sinivee (8)     Second Round  as Tallinna JK Suema Cargobus
2011    IV Liiga E   10   12     22   6   3  13  31  56  -24  21   Oskar Pedosk (6)       Second Round
2012    IV Liiga E   6    12     22   8   6  8   36  53  -17  30   Oskar Pedosk (10)      First Round
2013    IV Liiga N   3    11     20   13  2  5   64  24  +40  41   Karl Karimõisa (18)    First Round
2014    III Liiga N  7    12     22   9   7  6   43  34  +9   34   Jesper Puusepp (7)     First Round   as Tallinna FC Castovanni Eagles
2015    III Liiga N  4    12     22   12  3  7   70  38  +32  39   Aleksei Naariste (20)  First Round
2016    III Liiga N  5    12     22   12  4  6   45  31  +14  40   Aleksei Naariste (10)  Second Round
2017    III Liiga W  2    12     22   16  2  4   70  33  +37  50   Richard Leht (16)      Second Round


Matthew Byrne

For the Canadian musician, see Matthew Byrne (musician).

Matthew Byrne (born 5 June 1992) is an Australian soccer midfielder last playing with Eastern Suburbs FC.

Career

Born in Brisbane, he played with Mt Gravatt Hawks FC, Capalaba, Brisbane Force and Brisbane Roar youth teamsBrisbane Premier League

In January 2012 he came to Serbia for trials and signed with FK Donji Srem.2012–13 Serbian SuperLiga. Byrne played the first half of the season in the Serbian top tier having played 5 matches, and during the winter break he was loaned to FK Partizan farm club, FK Teleoptik,

In summer 2013 he returned to Australia and joined Olympic FC.

  * Matthew Byrne at WorldFootball.net


Schwanheide

Schwanheide is a municipality in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

History

Between 1945 and 1990 Schwanheide station served as East German inner German border crossing for rail transport. The crossing was open for trains travelling between the Soviet Zone of occupation in Germany (till 1949, thereafter the East German Democratic Republic, or West Berlin and the British zone of occupation (till 1949) and thereafter the West German Federal Republic of Germany. The traffic was subject to the Interzonal traffic regulations, that between West Germany and West Berlin followed the special regulations of the Transit Agreement (1972).


Manse Hotel

The Manse Hotel is a historic place and former hotel in Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, Ohio which was important to the American civil rights movement. The hotel accommodated African American people (including many celebrities) and events (including local, state, and national civil rights groups meetings) during a time when African Americans were not allowed to stay in other Downtown hotels because of racial segregation.The Negro Motorist Green Book from the 1940s through the 1960sNational Register of Historic Places since August 8, 2019.

History

The Negro Motorist Green Book, 1940 edition

Originally a Second Empire-style home built c. 1876 and later a rooming house called the Hotel Terry, the property was purchased in 1931 by African American entrepreneur Horace Sudduth.

The Hotel Manse was founded in 1937The Negro Motorist Green Book, a guide to services and places for African-American roadtrippers during the era of Jim Crow laws, starting in the guide's fourth edition in 1940.YMCA Youth conference moved to the Manse where both black and white youth delegates were welcomed.NAACP National Convention. Notable attendees included future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, boxer Joe Louis and members of the Tuskegee Airmen.

After major renovations, it was renamed the Manse Hotel in 1950. The hotel was expanded to 108 rooms and upgraded with "first-class", modern amenities at the cost of $500,000, which was paid for by Sudduth.Jack and Jill of America. Politician and civil rights activist Marian Spencer attended and was photographed there.

The Manse Hotel Annex in 2019

Musicians and entertainers who stayed in the hotel included Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and James Brown. Brown stayed in the hotel many times in the mid-1950s while recording and for a time may have considered it a second home.Hank Ballard wrote "The Twist" in his hotel room at the Manse.Sammy Davis Jr.Josephine Baker.Hall of Fame baseball players Frank Robinson, Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Hank Aaron, and Willie Mays.Ezzard Charles, the "Cincinnati Cobra", held a press conference at the hotel when he became the world heavyweight champion in boxing in 1950.

Though the Manse Hotel catered mostly to African Americans, it was fully integrated.

Sudduth died in 1957.


Manse Hotel

Sudduth died in 1957.

The Manse Hotel and Manse Hotel Annex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 8, 2019.

As of 2019, plans were in place for a property developer to convert the property into affordable housing apartments for seniors.


Warren (CDP), Massachusetts

Warren is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Warren in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 1,405 at the 2010 census.

Geography

Warren is located at 42°12′46″N 72°11′38″W / 42.21278°N 72.19389°W (42.212986, -72.194094).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 3.3 km2 (1.3 mi2). 3.3 km2 (1.3 mi2) of it is land and 0.78% is water.

Demographics

Historical population
Census                 Pop.   Note  %±
2020                   1,333        —
U.S. Decennial Census

As of the censuspopulation density was 441.4/km2 (1,140.0/mi2). There were 652 housing units at an average density of 198.2/km2 (511.9/mi2). The racial makeup of the CDP was 98.35% White, 0.48% Black or African American, 0.21% Asian, 0.07% from other races, and 0.90% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.83% of the population.

There were 601 households, out of which 31.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 40.1% were married couples living together, 16.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 38.3% were non-families. 31.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 14.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.40 and the average family size was 2.96.

In the CDP, the population was spread out, with 26.8% under the age of 18, 8.4% from 18 to 24, 28.4% from 25 to 44, 21.6% from 45 to 64, and 14.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females, there were 87.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 84.2 males.


Warren (CDP), Massachusetts

The median income for a household in the CDP was $29,057, and the median income for a family was $37,019. Males had a median income of $32,174 versus $25,069 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $15,959. About 8.8% of families and 10.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 10.7% of those under age 18 and 5.1% of those age 65 or over.


Sanaksar Monastery

Sanaksar monastery, 2008

The Sanaksar Monastery of the Nativity of the Mother of God is located in the Russian Federation, in the Temnikov district of Republic Mordovia.

The monastery was founded in 1659. It was returned to the Russian Orthodox church in 1991.

The relics of the patron of the Russian Navy and of the Russian nuclear-armed strategic bombers, Admiral Fyodor Ushakov is enshrined in the monastery.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sanaksarsky Monastery.
  * Official website (in Russian)

54°39′11″N 43°09′56″E / 54.65306°N 43.16556°E


Smert

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Prior to 1920 in country music

Events

1900

  * April 23 – The word hillbillie is printed for the first time in the New York Journal.

No dates

  * Several train crashes, all occurring between 1890 and 1903, occur throughout the country, inspiring several early country music recordings. These include the wreck of the C&O in 1890 ("Engine 143" by the Carter Family), train 382 near Vaughn, Mississippi (which inspired "Casey Jones") and train 97 near Danville, Virginia (bearing "Wreck of the Old 97"). The resulting themes are tales of tragedy, bravery and triumph.
  * "Rube" comedy and long country dialect tales, such as the "Uncle Josh" series of songs from Cal Stewart, become popular in the first decade of the 1900s and first part of the 1910s.

Notable recordings of the pre-1920s era

1917

  * "Till the Clouds Roll By" – Vernon Dalhart

1919

  * "Till We Meet Again" – Vernon Dalhart and Gladys Rice

1912

  * "Ragtime Cowboy Joe" – Bob Roberts

Births

1848

  * Uncle Jimmy Thompson – first person to appear on the Grand Ole Opry (d. 1931).

1868

  * March 23 – Fiddlin' John Carson, one of radio's first country music stars, recorded "The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane" (d. 1949).

1870

  * October 7 – Uncle Dave Macon, "The Dixie Dewdrop" and country music pioneer who combined banjo playing, singing and comic talents to be one of the Grand Ole Opry's first stars (d. 1952).

1883

  * April 6 – Vernon Dalhart, early 1900s singer whose "The Prisoner's Song" became country music's first million-selling single in 1925 (d. 1948).

1885

  * June 6 – Gid Tanner, old-time fiddler and leader of the Skillet Lickers, which became one of the first major country music bands (d. 1960).

1887


Prior to 1920 in country music

1887

  * November 20 – A.C. "Eck" Robertson, fiddle player whose "Sally Gooden" became the first recording in the country music genre (d. 1975).

1889

  * October 19 – Arthur E. Satherley, pioneering music executive (d. 1986).

1891

  * August 25 – Tom Darby, singer, guitar player and partner of Jimmie Tarlton (as Darby and Tarlton) (d. 1971).
  * December 15 – A. P. Carter, member of the legendary and original "Carter Family" (d. 1960).

1892

  * March 22 – Charlie Poole, singer, banjo player and leader of the "North Carolina Ramblers" (d. 1931).
  * April 6 – Henry Whitter, singer and one of the first recorded country musicians (d. 1941)
  * May 8 – Jimmie Tarlton, singer, steel guitar player and partner of Tom Darby (as Darby and Tarlton) (d. 1979).
  * May 22 – Ralph Peer, talent scout and pioneering recording executive and producer (d. 1960).

1893

  * May 25 – Ernest "Pop" Stoneman, singer, multi-instrumentalist and country musician (d. 1968).

1894

  * May 7 – Riley Puckett, singer, guitarist and member of the "Skillet Lickers (d. 1946).

1895

  * January 5 – Elizabeth Cotten, left-handed guitarist and folk musician (d. 1987).
  * May 10 – Carl T. Sprague, "The Original Singing Cowboy" (d. 1979).
  * July 13 – Bradley Kincaid, early country musician and folk singer (d. 1989)
  * September 29 – Clarence Ashley, banjoist, guitarist and early country musician (d. 1967).
  * November 9 – George D. Hay, "The Solemn Old Judge", legendary announcer, first on WLS and later on WSM Grand Ole Opry (d. 1968).

1896

  * August 23 – Wendell Hall, "The Red Headed Music Maker", early country music singer (d. 1969).

1897


Prior to 1920 in country music

1897

  * March 20 – Frank Hutchison, early country blues singer and slide guitar player. (d. 1945).
  * September 8 – Jimmie Rodgers, "The Singing Brakeman", "America's Blue Yodeler", legendary country singer famous for his "Blue Yodels" (d. 1933).

1898

  * February 7 – Dock Boggs, old time country singer (d. 1971).
  * July 20 – J. E. Mainer, old time fiddle player of The Mountaineers and brother to Wade Mainer. (d. 1971).
  * July 21 – Sara Carter, member of the legendary and original "Carter Family". (d. 1979).
  * August 24 – Fred Rose, songwriter (including "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain") founder of Acuff-Rose Music publishing (d. 1954).

1899

  * September 11 – Jimmie Davis, pop- and gospel-styled singer of the 1930s and 1940s ("You Are My Sunshine"), who later served as governor of Louisiana (d. 2000).
  * December 14 – DeFord Bailey, harmonicaist and first African American performer on the Grand Ole Opry (d. 1982).

1900

  * January 26 – Clayton McMichen, pioneering fiddle player and member of the Skillet Lickers (d. 1970).
  * April 15 – J.L. Frank, music executive (d. 1952).

1901

  * May 12 – The Duke of Paducah, comedian and star of the Grand Ole Opry (d. 1986).

1902

  * December 24 – Don Law, music executive (d. 1982).

1903

  * September 15 – Roy Acuff, pioneering singer-songwriter of the 1930s onward, founder of Acuff-Rose Music publishing, longtime member of the Grand Ole Opry (d. 1992).
  * December 6 – Hugh Farr, member of the Sons of the Pioneers (d. 1980).

1905

  * January 12 – Tex Ritter, singing cowboy and actor, father of actor John Ritter (d. 1974).
  * March 6 – Bob Wills, western swing pioneer, frontman of the Texas Playboys (d. 1975).

1907


Prior to 1920 in country music

1907

  * September 29 – Gene Autry, singing cowboy and star of big-screen westerns; introduced Christmas standards including "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" (d. 1998).

1908

  * April 1 – Bob Nolan, member of the Sons of the Pioneers (d. 1980).
  * June 4 - Texas Ruby (Ruby Agnes Owens), American pioneering country music female vocalist and musician (d. 1963).
  * July 13 – Tim Spencer, member of the Sons of the Pioneers (d. 1974).
  * October 20 - Stuart Hamblen, one of radio's first singing cowboys in 1926 (d. 1989).
  * October 30 – Patsy Montana, early female solo star best known for "I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart" (d. 1996).
  * November 10 – Paul Cohen, record producer, primarily with Decca Records (d. 1970)
  * December 19 – Bill Carlisle, singer-guitarist and comedian, longtime member of the Grand Ole Opry (d. 2003).
  * December 25 – Alton Delmore, one half of the Delmore Brothers (d. 1964).

1909

  * March 29 - Moon Mullican (nicknamed "King of the Hillbilly Piano Players"), American country and western singer, songwriter, and pianist (d. 1967).
  * April 17 - Tex Fletcher, Country singer and actor (d. 1987).
  * April 29 – Karl Farr, member of the Sons of the Pioneers (d. 1961).
  * May 09 - Don Messer, Canadian Country musician, band leader, radio broadcaster (d. 1973).
  * May 10 – "Mother" Maybelle Carter, member of the original Carter Family in the 1920s and 1930s, and reformed group from the 1940s onward (d. 1978)
  * November 8 - Scotty (Scott Greene Wiseman), part of the duo Lulu Belle und Scotty (d. 1999).

1910


Prior to 1920 in country music

1910

  * June 17 – Red Foley, guitarist and songwriter, one of country music's top stars of the 1940s and 1950s (d. 1968).
  * August 22 – Rod Brasfield, comedian and star of the Grand Ole Opry (d. 1958).
  * November 9 - Curly Fox, old-time and country fiddler, singer and country musician. Part of the Comedy-Oldtime-Country-Duo "Curly Fox and Texas Ruby" (d. 1995).

1911

  * January 19 – Ken Nelson, American record producer and music executive; associated with acts including Merle Haggard, Buck Owens and Hank Thompson (d. 2008).
  * February 12 – Stephen H. Sholes, record producer and executive with RCA Records (d. 1968).
  * February 28 – Jim Denny, recording executive (d. 1963).
  * September 13 – Bill Monroe, influential bluegrass singer and musician (d. 1996).
  * November 5 – Roy Rogers, singing cowboy and actor who starred in many westerns; member of the Sons of the Pioneers (d. 1998).

1912

  * May 17 – Grant Turner, announcer of the Grand Ole Opry (d. 1991).
  * October 25 – Minnie Pearl, comedian and star of the Grand Ole Opry and television's Hee Haw (d. 1996).
  * December 8 – Jack Stapp, influential country music manager (d. 1980).

1913

  * October 20 – Grandpa Jones, "old-time" country singer, banjo player and comedian, star of television's Hee Haw (d. 1998).

1914


Prior to 1920 in country music

1914

  * February 9 – Ernest Tubb, the "Texas Troubadour", singer-songwriter and one of the pioneers of the honky tonk sound of country music (d. 1984).
  * February 18 – Pee Wee King, singer-songwriter, best known for writing "The Tennessee Waltz" (d. 2000).
  * May 13 – Johnnie Wright, singer-songwriter and husband of Kitty Wells (d. 2011).
  * May 14 – Hank Snow, Canadian-born honky-tonk and western singer (d. 1999).
  * June 19 – Lester Flatt, one half of the bluegrass duo Flatt and Scruggs (d. 1979).
  * August 22 – Connie B. Gay, music executive (d. 1989).
  * November 5 – Roy Horton, music executive (d. 2003).
  * December 8 – Floyd Tillman, early honky-tonk singer of the 1940s (d. 2003).

1915

  * June 1 – Johnny Bond, singer of the 1940s through 1960s, best known for his novelty songs about drunkenness (d. 1978)
  * June 9 – Les Paul, one of the most important persons in the development of modern electric instruments (the electric guitar) and recording techniques (multitrack recording), which came into extensive use in country music starting in the 1950s. (d. 2009).
  * July 16 – Speck Rhodes, comedian and musician best known for his work on The Porter Wagoner Show (d. 2000).
  * October 21 – Owen Bradley, influential record producer of the 1940s through 1970s, primarily at Decca Records (d. 1998).

1916

  * December 3 – Rabon Delmore, one half of the Delmore Brothers (d. 1952).

1917

  * January 29 – Lloyd Perryman, member of the Sons of the Pioneers (d. 1977).
  * March 1 – Cliffie Stone, record producer and publisher who was pivotal in the development of California’s thriving country music scene (d. 1998).
  * November 29 – Merle Travis, singer-songwriter of the 1940s (d. 1983).

1918


Prior to 1920 in country music

1918

  * February 11 – Wesley Rose, music publisher and executive of Acuff-Rose Music (d. 1990).
  * May 15 – Eddy Arnold, the "Tennessee Plowboy"; a pioneer in crossover music, his recording career spanned from the 1940s through 1990s (d. 2008).
  * July 20 – Cindy Walker, songwriter whose hits spanned the 1940s through 1980s (d. 2006).
  * October 16 – Stoney Cooper, bluegrass and gospel singer who best known for his series of recordings with wife, Wilma Lee (as Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper), from the 1940s through early 1960s. (d. 1977)

1919

  * February 13 – Tennessee Ernie Ford, singer and television star who enjoyed his greatest fame in the 1950s (d. 1991).
  * August 30 – Kitty Wells, "The Queen of Country Music;" first major female country star, best known for "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" (d. 2012).
  * December 25 – Curly Seckler, American bluegrass musician (Foggy Mountain Boys, Nashville Grass). (d. 2017)
  * 1920 in country music
  * List of years in country music
  * Kingsbury, Paul, "Vinyl Hayride: Country Music Album Covers 1947–1989," Country Music Foundation, 2003 ( ISBN 0-8118-3572-3)
  * Millard, Bob, "Country Music: 70 Years of America's Favorite Music," HarperCollins, New York, 1993 ( ISBN 0-06-273244-7)
  * Whitburn, Joel. "Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890–1954: The History of American Popular Music," Record Research Inc., Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, 1986 ( ISBN 0-89820-083-0).


Scandinavian Western Shooters

Scandinavian Western Shooters (SWS), founded 1 October 1997,cowboy action shooting under the Single Action Shooting Society. The association seeks to promote safe shooting competitions incorporating facts and fiction from the "old west",

Cowboy action shooting in Norway emerged towards the end of the 1990s

  * List of shooting sports organizations

Other shooting sport organizations in Norway

  * Det frivillige Skyttervesen
  * Norwegian Shooting Association
  * Dynamic Sports Shooting Norway
  * Norwegian Association of Hunters and Anglers
  * Norwegian Benchrest Shooting Association
  * Norwegian Black Powder Union
  * Norwegian Biathlon Association
  * Norwegian Metal Silhouette Association


Paul Jones (film producer)

Paul Jones (1901–1968) was an American film producer. His major work was done for Paramount Pictures.

Career

Jones produced films directed by Preston Sturges and those featuring Bob Hope, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. He also produced the Red Skelton comedy A Southern Yankee (1948) for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

  * Paul Jones at IMDb


Mark Ellison

For the Australian rugby league player, see Mark Ellison (rugby league).

Mark Ellison KC is a British barrister and member of QEB Holllis Whiteman chambers.

Career

Having gained his LLB at the University of Wales,Gray's Inn in 1979. Specialising in fraud, he acted for both defence and prosecution in a number of high-profile serious fraud cases, including the Guinness share-trading fraud and Blue Arrow; and corruption involving North Sea oil and Channel Tunnel contracts.

In 1994 he was invited to become an HM Treasury counsel,Iraq War.General Medical Council.

Notable cases

Stephen Lawrence

Main article: Murder of Stephen Lawrence

In 2012, Ellison successfully led and secured the first convictions of any of Stephen Lawrence's murderers, through the convictions for murder of Gary Dobson and David Norris. Despite inquiries by both Scotland Yard and the Independent Police Complaints Commission ruling that there was no new evidence to warrant further investigation, after discussions with Dame Doreen Lawrence, Home Secretary Theresa May commissioned Ellison to review Scotland Yard's investigations into alleged police corruption.

The report, was presented to Parliament by May on 6 March 2014. Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police said the report, which has prompted an inquiry into undercover policing, was "devastating".private investigator Daniel Morgan.

Notable appointments

Ellison was appointed Queen's Counsel in 2008.Bar Council's remuneration and terms of work committee, and a Bar Council member of the Criminal Justice Council.

  * Stephen Lawrence Independent Review


Lúcia Braga

Ana Lúcia Navarro Braga (13 December 1934 – 8 May 2020), better known as simply Lúcia Braga, was a Brazilian politician, social worker and lawyer from the state of Paraíba.

Life

Before pursuing a career in politics, Braga graduated in two majors, social work from 1955 to 1959 and law from 1969 to 1973.

In 1982, Braga's husband Wilson Braga was elected Governor of Paraíba. Therefore, Lúcia held the role of First Lady of Paraíba from 1983 to 1987.

In 1986, she was elected Member of the Chamber of Deputies representing her birth state of Paraíba. She remained in power from 1987 to 1995.

In 1994, she decided to run at the 1994 Paraíba state elections, aiming to become Paraíba's next Governor, but failed to win.

In 1998, she was elected Member of the Legislative Assembly of Paraíba and held the post from 1999 to 2003.

In 2002, Braga was again elected as a Member of the Chamber of Deputies for Paraíba. This time she remained in power from 2003 to 2007.

Personal life

Braga, was married to Wilson Braga, a politician, who also held multiple political posts, such as Governor of Paraíba (1983–1987); Member of the Chamber of Deputies from Paraíba (1967–1982; 1995–2003 and 2007–2011); Mayor of João Pessoa (1989–1990) among others.

Death

On May 8, 2020, Braga died at the age of 85 after being hospitalized in João Pessoa.COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil after a positive test result was released post mortem.


Schwantes

Schwantes is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  * Athos Schwantes (born 1985), Brazilian fencer
  * Marlon Schwantes (born 1984), Brazilian footballer
  * Martin Heinrich Gustav Schwantes (1891–1960), German archaeologist and botanist
  * Will Schwantes (born 2004),

Inde-Pop Multi Instrumentalist and Vocalist


Social media use in African politics

Since the Egyptian Revolution in 2011 and the Tunisian Revolution, social media, especially Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, has started to gain traction as a political tool in Africa.2014 Burkinabé uprising. Meanwhile, extremist organizations can use social media to further their propaganda and recruitment.

Due to low-entry barriers and user-based content, social media creates a platform where people of different social classes can engage and converse with one another.

State actors

Promoting political discourse

Through social media, the government and its citizens can discuss policy ideas, policy implementation, and political actions.

Campaigning

Political parties also use social media for political campaigns during election periods.

Censorship & Surveillance

While state actors can use social media to encourage their party or discourse, social media can be used to censor and surveil citizens.

Non-state actors

Civil society organizations (CSOs)

Civil society organizations have also used social media networks in an effort to recruit supporters and communicate with the public.

Opposition forces against the government

Social media is also used by the public or opposition forces against the government. Through horizontal social media, organizing can lead to street protests and revolutions, some of which are successful. For instance, during the Egyptian revolution of 2011, "The Day of the Revolution Against Torture, Poverty, Corruption, and Unemployment" and "We Are All Khaled Said" gathered support against President Hosni Mubarak.Tunisian Revolution, or the Jasmine Revolution, mobilized through Facebook and Twitter.

Due to social media's low entry barrier, opposition forces against the government can facilitate political discourse that can lead to accountability.#RhodesMustFall to push the issue of colonialism and racism at the forefront of the public.

Extremist organizations

Social media is easily accessible and created by user-based content.#BringBackOurGirls.

Challenges

Although social media can be used as a political tool, it faces challenges in Africa. Due to low literacy rates in Africa, social media networks exclude many of the population members.

  * Social media use in politics
  * Arab Spring
  * Tunisian Revolution
  * 2014 Burkinabé uprising
  * #RhodesMustFall


Warren Abstract Machine

In 1983, David H. D. Warren designed an abstract machine for the execution of Prolog consisting of a memory architecture and an instruction set.Warren Abstract Machine (WAM) and has become the de facto standard target for Prolog compilers.

Purpose

The purpose of compiling Prolog code to the more low-level WAM code is to make subsequent interpretation of the Prolog program more efficient. Prolog code is reasonably easy to translate to WAM instructions, which can be more efficiently interpreted. Also, subsequent code improvements and compilations to native code are often easier to perform on the more low-level representation.

In order to write efficient Prolog programs, a basic understanding of how the WAM works can be advantageous. Some of the most important WAM concepts are first argument indexing and its relation to choice-points, tail call optimization, and memory reclamation on failure.

Memory areas

The WAM has the following memory areas:

  * The global stack or heap, used to store compound terms
  * The local stack for environment frames and choice-points
  * The trail to record which variables bindings ought to be undone on backtracking

Example

Here is a piece of Prolog code:

 girl(sally).
 girl(jane).

 boy(B) :- \+ girl(B).

A WAM-based Prolog compiler will compile this into WAM instructions similar to the following:

 predicate(girl/1):
    switch_on_term(2,1,fail,fail,fail),
 label(1): switch_on_atom([(sally,3),(jane,5)])
 label(2): try_me_else(4)
 label(3): get_atom(sally,0)
           proceed
 label(4): trust_me_else_fail
 label(5): get_atom(jane,0)
           proceed

 predicate(boy/1):
    get_variable(x(1),0)
    put_structure(girl/1,0)
    unify_local_value(x(1))
    execute((\+)/1)])


Warren Abstract Machine

An important characteristic of this code is its ability to cope with the various modes in which the predicates can be evoked: any argument might be a variable, a ground term, or a partly instantiated term. The "switch" instructions handle the different cases.


Sanam Chai Road

Sanam Chai road outside of Wat Pho

Sanam Chai Road (Thai: ถนนสนามไชย, RTGS: Thanon Sanam Chai, pronounced [tʰā.nǒn sā.nǎːm t͡ɕʰāj]) is a historic street in Bangkok's Phra Nakhon District. It continues from Ratchadamnoen Nai Road at the northeastern corner of the Grand Palace, and runs south to meet Rachini and Maharat roads near the mouth of the old city moat, a short distance of 1.1 kilometres (0.68 mi). The Grand Palace, Wat Pho, Museum Siam, and Phra Ratchawang Police Station are located on the west side of the road, while on the east side are the Ministry of Defence headquarters, Saranrom Palace, Saranrom Park, the Territorial Defense Command headquarters and Wat Rajabopit School. The Sanam Chai Station of the underground MRT's Blue Line is located beneath the road's final stretch.

The road is named after Sanam Chai ("field of prosperity"), a field formerly located in front of Saranrom Palace and used for military exercises. The field, together with Sanam Luang, was named by King Mongkut (Rama IV) in 1855, in order to follow the naming previously used in Ayutthaya. Sanam Chai is overlooked by the Grand Palace's Sutthaisawan Prasat Hall, which is used by the king for public appearances.

In terms of politics, Sanam Chai Road during the 1960s and 1970s was often used as a keynote address for various political parties in each election. Most often start the campaign at Sanam Luang and ends at Sanam Chai.

13°44′52″N 100°29′39″E / 13.74778°N 100.49417°E


Smermesnil

Smermesnil (French pronunciation: [smɛʁmenil]) is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France.

Geography

A farming commune created from three ancient parishes and situated at the 2nd highest point in the department, between the valleys of the Yères and the Eaulne rivers in the Pays de Bray. The commune is about 17 miles (27 km) southeast of Dieppe at the junction of the D920, D14 and D59 roads.

Population

Historical population
Year           Pop.  ±% p.a.
1968           446   —
1975           285   −6.20%
1982           267   −0.93%
1990           218   −2.50%
1999           250   +1.53%
2007           366   +4.88%
2012           421   +2.84%
2017           407   −0.67%
Source: INSEE

Places of interest

  * The château, built with stone from the ancient abbey de Foucarmont.
  * The church of St. Martin, dating from the thirteenth century.
  * The church of St. Jean, dating from the sixteenth century.
  * The church of St. Madeleine, dating from the sixteenth century.
  * Communes of the Seine-Maritime department
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Raffaele de Courten

Raffaele de Courten (Milan, 23 September 1888 – Frascati, 23 August 1978) was an Italian admiral. He was the last Chief of Staff of the Regia Marina.

Life

Raffaele de Courten was born in Milan in 1888. He joined the Naval Academy of Leghorn in 1906 and graduated in 1910. He served on the battleships Vittorio Emanuele and Benedetto Brin, before joining the naval air arm just before World War I. In May 1915, during a bombardment of Pula on board the airship Città di Jesi, he was captured when the airship was shot down and remained prisoner of the Austro-Hungarian Army till June 1917. After the war, he was assigned to the Naval Staff, commanded flotillas of destroyers and submarines, and from 1933 to 1936 he was naval attaché in Germany. He was promoted Rear admiral in 1938.

When Italy joined the war on 10 June 1940, Courten first commanded from August 1941 to March 1942 the 7th Division, in which he participated to the First Battle of Sirte. He then commanded the 8th Division, and participated in the successful contrast to Operation Vigorous. He was decorated with a Silver Medal of Military Valor.

When Benito Mussolini was deposed, Courten was chosen to become Minister of the Navy, while subsequently replacing Arturo Riccardi as Chief of Staff of the Italian Navy. When the Armistice of Cassibile was announced, he convinced the fleet commander Carlo Bergamini to comply with the clauses and not to scuttle the ships (in fear that they would be given up to the Allies); afterwards, he joined the King and the Prime Minister Badoglio in their flight to Brindisi.

On 23 September Courten and Admiral Andrew Cunningham met at Taranto and reached the so-called Gentlemen's Agreement, which defined the collaboration of the Regia Marina with the Allies. He remained Minister until July 1946 and Chief of Staff until December 1946, when he resigned to protest the clauses of the Paris Peace Treaties.

From 1952 to 1959 Courten was president of the Lloyd Triestino. He died at Frascati on 23 August 1978.

  * "Treccani"


Scandinavian ballad tradition

Carl Michael Bellman

The Scandinavian ballad tradition is the tradition of Scandinavian poetic singer-songwriters. Within the tradition, the Swedish ballad tradition has been particularly influential, but the tradition also exists in the other Scandinavian countries. This visa tradition should not be confused with traditional "medieval" Swedish ballads (medeltida ballader), which are representative of a typical tradition of Scandinavian ballads.

Tradition

The Scandinavian ballad tradition today is both a respected art form and an important basis of the popular Scandinavian sing-along tradition. The song type is typically known as visa in Swedish or vise in Norwegian, and troubadours in the genre are called vissångare in Swedish or visesanger in Norwegian. In context, the Swedish word "ballad" is a subtype of "visa" that tells a story in many verses, similar to the medieval ballads, as opposed to for instance lyrical songs about the beauty of nature. The Swedish ballads can be performed to a big orchestra but are often sung to fairly simple accompaniment on guitar, or other instruments such as piano or accordion.

Sweden

Evert Taube

The genre started with Carl Michael Bellman in the late 18th century. In the 19th century, poetic songwriting fell into decline in favour of academic student choirs, until it was revived in the 1890s by Sven Scholander. Poets increasingly continued the tradition of having their poetry put to music to give it a wider audience. In the early 1900s, a lot of poetry of the 90s poets Gustaf Fröding and Erik Axel Karlfeldt had been put to music, and the popularity of those poets largely depended on the troubadours.

Birger Sjöberg (1885–1929) was one of the early popular troubadours. Sjöberg published the poetry collection Frida's Book (Fridas bok, 1922), a light and humorous story of the young Frida. In 1926, he reinvented himself with Kriser och kransar (Crises and garlands), a much darker collection of poetry. It is regarded as the foremost collection of Swedish poetry of the 1920s.


Scandinavian ballad tradition

One of the most renowned Swedish troubadours of the 20th century was Evert Taube (1890–1976). He established himself as a performing artist in 1920 and toured Sweden for about three decades. He is best known for songs about sailors, ballads about Argentina, and songs about the Swedish countryside.

Ole Paus

A poet who is known for songs is Nils Ferlin (1898–1961) who published six collection of poetry between 1930 and 1957. Ferlin melancholic but with a stinging irony,

Other well-known singer-songwriters in the Swedish ballad tradition after Evert Taube were Olle Adolphson (1934–2004) and Cornelis Vreeswijk (1937–1987). Vreeswijk's songs were initially leftist protest songs where he took upon himself to speak for the weaker men of society. After his death, Vreeswijk also gained appreciation for his poetic qualities.

A Swedish contemporary troubadour is Lars Winnerbäck, whose folk-rock ballads, often infused with a poetic quality, mix a Christian socialist political message with a typically Swedish sensitivity to nature in the spirit of Vreeswijk, making him one of Sweden's most popular currently active musicians.

Norway

The contemporary Norwegian ballad tradition, known as the "ballad wave" (Norwegian: visebølgen), started as a cultural movement in the 1960s, greatly inspired by the Swedish ballad tradition and its modern representatives such as Olle Adolphson and Cornelis Vreeswijk. Some of its prominent representatives are Ole Paus, Lillebjørn Nilsen and Finn Kalvik; Alf Prøysen was also called a visesanger, and influenced but in many ways preceded the Norwegian "ballad wave."

Notes and references

Literature

  * Lönnroth, L., Delblanc S., Göransson, S. Den svenska litteraturen (ed.), 3 volumes (1999)


Paul Jones (horse)

Paul Jones (1917–1930) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse that was the sixth gelding to win the Kentucky Derby. Paul Jones was foaled in the same year as Man o' War, winner of the 1920 Preakness and Belmont Stakes and one of the most influential sires of the 20th century. Man o' War was not entered in the 1920 Kentucky Derby because it was thought that a race so early in the season would be too taxing for him.Upset, the only horse ever to defeat Man o' War, did make it to the Derby.

Background

Paul Jones was foaled in Lexington, Kentucky at Hamburg Place, the stud farm of John E. Madden.Hamburg bred mare, May Florence.John Paul Jones and a popular brand of whiskey at the time.

Racing career

The 1920 Kentucky Derby was run on an overcast day on a slow track with a field of seventeen horses. Ridden by Ted Rice, he won the race by a nose after staving off Upset, who showed impressive speed on the home stretch, and On Watch, who was a close third.

Paul Jones proved his Derby win was not a fluke by winning the 1920 Suburban Handicap. Paul Jones raced for a total of five years and, being a gelding with no career at stud, was given to his trainer, William Garth, for use as an exercise pony.Pimlico Race Course and was entered in a number of steeplechase races in the late 1920s under the name of Garth's son-in-law, Dr. John Paul Jones.fox hunts.

Retirement

In 1929, Paul Jones was pensioned by Garth to live the remainder of his life at the Inglecress Farm near Charlottesville, Virginia, also the final home of 1911 Kentucky Derby winner Meridian.

Paul Jones was euthanized in April 1930 due to physical infirmities and was buried at Dr. John Paul Jones's Inglecress Farm near Charlottesville, Virginia.


Mark Ericks

Mark Lloyd Ericks (born July 24, 1951) is a retired United States Marshal and former Washington State Representative.


Lúcio de Castro

Lúcio de Castro (1 October 1910 – 20 May 2004) was a Brazilian athlete. He competed in the men's pole vault at the 1932 Summer Olympics.


Livadotopi

Livadotopi (Greek: Λιβαδοτόπι, before 1928: Όμοτσκο - OmotskoKastoria Regional Unit, Macedonia, Greece.

In 1923, there were 6 Muslim families (30 people) in Omotsko.


Spruce Knob–Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area is a national recreation area in the Monongahela National Forest of eastern West Virginia.

The national recreation area protects three prominent West Virginia landmarks:

  * Spruce Knob, the highest point in West Virginia (and the highest of the Allegheny Mountains) with a summit elevation of 4,863 feet (1482 m).
  * Seneca Rocks, a 900-foot (270 m) high quartzite crag popular with rock climbers.
  * Smoke Hole Canyon, a canyon along the South Branch Potomac River.

Spruce Knob–Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area was established by an act of the U.S. Congress on September 28, 1965, as the first national recreation area in a United States National Forest, so it is administered by the U.S. Forest Service.

  * Ketterman, West Virginia
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area.
  * Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area official site


Warrior Run

Warrior Run may refer to:

  * Warrior Run, Pennsylvania
  * Warrior Run School District
  * Warrior Run Generating Station
  * Warrior Run Presbyterian Church
  * Warrior Run (West Branch Susquehanna River)


Rückersbach

Rückersbach is a small river of Bavaria, Germany. It is a right tributary of the Haggraben near Kleinostheim.

  * List of rivers of Bavaria


Smerinthus szechuanus

Smerinthus szechuanus, the Sichuan eyed hawkmoth, is a moth of the family Sphingidae.Benjamin Preston Clark in 1938. It is known from Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan and Hunan in China.


Raffaella Brutto

Raffaella Brutto (born 10 January 1988 in Genoa) is an Italian snowboarder, specializing in snowboard cross.

Brutto competed at the 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics for Italy. In 2010, she was 17th in the qualification round of the snowboard cross, not advancing. In the 2014 snowboard cross, she was 19th in the seeding round, and then 4th in her quarterfinal, not advancing and ending 16th overall.

As of September 2014, her best showing at the World Championships is 6th, in 2013.

Brutto made her World Cup debut in January 2006. As of September 2014, she has two World Cup podium finishes, with her best a silver at Montafon in 2012–13. Her best overall finish is 7th, in 2012–13.

World Cup Podiums

Date             Location   Rank                             Event
7 December 2012  Montafon   [2nd place, silver medalist(s)]  Snowboard cross
15 March 2014    La Molina  [3rd place, bronze medalist(s)]  Snowboard cross


List of LGBT organizations that affiliate with political parties

Part of a series on
LGBT organizations
By country or region
  * Singapore
LGBT rights
  * Bisexual organizations and conferences
  * Transgender rights
  * In the United States
Medical

Political party affiliates

Religious

Student
  * Student center
  * LGBT and LGBT-friendly
    fraternities and sororities
Military and veterans

Community centers
  * Community centers in the US
  * v
  * t
  * e

This is a list of LGBT organizations affiliated with political parties. For groups whose primary purpose is campaigning for the legal rights of LGBT people, please see List of LGBT rights organizations.

France

  * GayLib (Union for a Popular Movement)
  * Homosexualités et Socialisme (Socialist Party)

New Zealand

  * Rainbow Labour (New Zealand Labour Party)

The Philippines

  * Ladlad

Sweden

  * Open Moderates (Moderate Party)

United Kingdom

  * LGBT+ Conservatives (Conservative Party)
  * LGBT+ Liberal Democrats (Liberal Democrats)
  * LGBT+ Labour (Labour Party)

United States

  * Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club (Democratic Party)
  * GOProud (Republican Party)
  * Harvey Milk Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Democratic Club (Democratic Party)
  * Log Cabin Republicans (Republican Party)
  * National Socialist League
  * National Stonewall Democrats (Democratic Party)
  * Republican Unity Coalition (Republican Party)


Paul Jones (sportscaster)

Paul Jones (born 1958) is a Canadian sportscaster. He previously served as the colour analyst on Raptors radio broadcasts, a role he had during the Raptors' inaugural season in 1995, with play-by-play man Mike Inglis on CFRB 1010. Currently, he serves as the Raptors' radio play-by-play announcer on Fan 590, alongside colour analyst Eric Smith.

In addition to those duties, Jones appears on a weekly basketball show hosted by Smith on the Fan 590, Hoops, which is simulcast on Raptors NBA TV. Jones and Smith also appear together on another show on Raptors NBA TV, Double Dribble.

Jones has also served as studio analyst and sideline reporter for the Raptors on TSN, CTV, and Rogers Sportsnet. He can now be seen regularly throughout Canada on various programs and networks such as The Grill Room (SUN TV), Off the Record (TSN), and Full Court Press (Raptors NBA TV).

As a basketball player, Jones won three provincial titles (1978, 1980–81) as a member of York University's basketball team. He was a two-time conference All-Star, and was awarded the Kitch McPherson Trophy as Most Valuable Player of the Ontario championship game in 1981. A two-time Ontario All-Star (1980–81), he participated in the CIAU national championship tournament four times and won two bronze medals (1978–79). In 1983, he won a silver medal as a member of the team that represented Canada in the Commonwealth Basketball Tournament in New Zealand. He also coached at the high school and provincial team levels, and served as an assistant coach with the University of Western Ontario for three years.

Jones' migrated with his parents from Jamaica to Canada when he was four months old. He also worked with the Toronto District School Board for 22 years, eventually working his way up to become a school principal for Walter Scott Public School and Roselawn Public School in Richmond Hill.

Jones' younger brother is Mark Jones, a sportscaster with ESPN and ABC.

On June 15, 2020, Jones & Eric Smith became co-hosts of a new afternoon sports talk show on Sportsnet 590, Smith & Jones".

  * Sportsnet blog page
  * Smith & Jones Sportsnet page
  * Paul Jones on Twitter


Sorawıl

Sorawıl (Tatar: Соравыл, romanized: Sorawıl) is a rural locality (a selo) in Qaybıç District, Tatarstan. The population was 221 as of 2010.

Geography

Sorawıl is located 34 km northwest of Olı Qaybıç, district's administrative centre, and 142 km southwest of Qazan, republic's capital, by road.

History

The earliest known record of the settlement dates from 1710.

From 18th to the first half of the 19th centuries village's residents belonged to the social estate of state peasants.

By the beginning of the twentieth century, village had a literacy school, 2 mills, a grain scourer, 2 blacksmith shops and 2 small shops.

Before the creation of the Tatar ASSR in 1920 was a part of Çuyıl Uyezd of Qazan Governorate. Since 1920 was a part of Chuvash Autonomous Oblast; since ́1921 in Tatar ASSR's Bua (1921–1922) and Zöyä (1922–1927) cantons; after the creation of districts in Tatar ASSR (Tatarstan) in Qaybıç (Ölcän in 1927) (1927–1944), Külle İl (1944–1956), Qaybıç (1956–1963), Bua (1963–1964), Apas (1964–1991) and Qaybıç districts.

  * "Соравыл". tatarica.org (in Tatar)


Lúcás Ó Dalláin

Lúcás Ó Dalláin (fl. 14th century) was an Irish historian.

Lúcás Ó Dalláin is credited with compiling a 14th-century version of Senchus Fer n-Alban, originally compiled in the 10th century. Now referred to as Ms. H.2.7 and held by Trinity College Dublin, it is the most important of a number of manuscripts of the Senchus. Ó Dalláin is believed to have written the text while working with Seán Mór Ó Dubhagáin (died 1372). It was preserved and used by Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh, and subsequently Edward Lhuyd.

Little else appears to be known of Ó Dalláin himself.

  * The Celebrated Antiquary, Nollaig Ó Muraíle, Maynooth, 1996.


Livadochori, Lemnos

For other uses, see Livadochori.

Livadochori (Greek: Λιβαδοχώρι) is a village and a community in the Greek island of Lemnos, part of the municipal unit Nea Koutali. In 2011 its population was 237 for the village, and 373 for the community, which includes the village Poliochni. km northwest of Kallithea, 2 km north of Nea Koutali, 7 km northwest of Moudros and 12 km northeast of Myrina. The Lemnos International Airport is 3 km east.

Population

Year  Settlement population  Community population
1928  516                    -
1951  604                    -
1981  266                    -
1991  155                    -
2001  210                    474
2011  237                    373

History

A street

Under the name Livadochorion or Livatochorion it was first mentioned in 1355 in a document of the Philotheou monastery, Mount Athos. Since then it has repeatedly been mentioned under the same name in maps (including Buondelmonti's map in 1418) and books, suggesting continuous existence of the village. During the years under Ottoman rule, it was one of the main villages on the island. It was populated by Greeks and agas who supervised their agricultural estates. In 1548, when Belon visited the island, the village was fortified and the seat of the voivode of the island. The revolutionary leaders Pantelis Marinakis and Apostolis Limnios came from the village, and took part in the battles in Arcadia and Niokastro in 1824 and 1825 under Vasos Mavrovouniotis.

When the German archaeologist Conze visited the village in 1858, it was still a large village that was partly ruined. At that time Greek shipowners and immigrants began to buy the Ottoman estates and the Ottoman landowners began to settle in the capital Kastro. According to the communal archives from 1854, the village had 62 enlisted men that paid 989 piastres to avoid conscription. It had 45 Christian families in 1863 and 55 in 1874, it had 59 houses in the same year. The village was part of the municipality (koli) of Kontias and its inhabitantas sent a representative to the Lemnos provincial assembly.


Livadochori, Lemnos

A school was founded by Doukas Palaiologos in nearby Sarpi in 1868. In 1894 a school was established in Livadochori. In 1910 a dedicated school building was built by Egyptian-Greeks Sarantis and Palaiologos from Kornos and the school was community-run. It ran up to the 1980s and closed due to a student population decline.

After Livadochori and the island joined the rest of Greece as a result of the Balkan Wars, it became an independent community in 1918, in which it was united for some years with the settlements of Strati (repealed in 1928) and Kourouni (since 1940 a part of the community of Lera).

In the years between the two World Wars, the village saw a small growth. It built an aqueduct and a fountain in 1922, donated for 200,000 drachmas by the brothers Nikolaos and Komninos Halamandaris. It had 516 inhabitantas in 1928, among whom were many refugees from Minor Asia, employed mainly in the agriculture and animal husbandry. In its fields, it produced 480,000 tons of wheat and 30,000 tons of cotton. It had a flour mill and a cotton factory.

After the Second World War, the village declined dramatically due to emigration. It had 604 inhabitants in 1951, it fell to 266 in 1981 (of which 63 were inhabitants of neighboring Poliochni). Together with Poliochni, Livadochori had 373 inhabitants in 2011. In 1989, the Livadochori High school was opened which serves students from central Lemnos.

Poliochni


Livadochori, Lemnos

Poliochni

Poliochni is a village on a low hill northeast of Livadochori. It takes its name from this hill, and is not related to the archaeological site Poliochne in eastern Lemnos. In the Middle Ages, a village called Agiopavlitiko was situated on the site of present Poliochni. In a document dated 1796, this village was mentioned under the name Ligkouli or Likoli. By then, it was already abandoned and ruined. In 1881 the place was mentioned as Polichni, which was changed into Poliochni after the discovery of ancient Poliochne near Kaminia. It was settled again in the early 20th century, and since in 1981 it is an official settlement of the community Livadochori.

  * List of settlements in the Lemnos regional unit
  * Tourptsoglou-Stefanidou Vasiliki, Voyages and Geographical Sources From Lemnos Island (15th-20th Centuries) (Ταξιδιωτικά και γεωγραφικά κείμενα για τη νήσο Λήμνο (15ος-20ος αιώνας))
  * Belitsos, Theodoros, Lemnos and its villages, 1994.
  * Lemnos Province CD ROM (Cdrom Επαρχείου Λήμνου): Lovable Lemnos
  * Belitsos, Theodoros: Historic route in Lemnos: Livadochori, Lemnos Newspapers, p 531 (June 10, 2008).
  * Livadochori at the GTP Travel Pages


Maestrazgo, Aragon

For the Valencian comarca, see Maestrat.

Sierra de Gúdar landscape near Fortanete

The town of Cañada de Benatanduz.

Maestrazgo (Aragonese: Mayestrato) is a comarca in southeastern Aragon, Spain. Its names derives from the Maestrat/Maestrazgo mountain massif that extends to the east to the Comarques of the Valencian Community Alt Maestrat and Baix Maestrat. The most important town is Cantavieja. It is bordered by the Aragonese comarcas of Andorra-Sierra de Arcos, Cuencas Mineras, Comunidad de Teruel and Bajo Aragón, in the north and in the west and Gúdar-Javalambre in the south, as well as with the Castellón Province (Ports (comarca), Alt Maestrat Alcalatén) in the east. Some municipal terms of this comarca are part of the historical region of Lower Aragon.

This comarca has a dry, continental climate, with extreme seasonal changes, and even daily temperatures. Summers are hot and relatively short compared with the long, cold winters.

Mountains and rivers

The Maestrazgo is in a very mountainous region located at the eastern end of the Iberian System. The main range in this comarca is the Sierra de Gúdar located roughly in the center. Other important ranges are Sierra de la Lastra, Sierra de Garrocha, Sierra de Caballos, Sierra de la Cañada, Sierra Carrascosa and Sierra del Rayo. The summits of the highest mountains, like Peñarroya (2,019), Alto del Pobo (1,770 m) and Tarayuela (1,738 m) are frequently covered with snow in the winter.

The most important river draining the area is the Guadalope River. River Mijares marks the southern limits of the comarca and Alfambra River the western.


Maestrazgo, Aragon

* Ports (comarca)
  * Comarcas of Aragon
  * Mountains of Aragon
  * Iberian System
  * Comarca del Maestrazgo Official site
  * La Serrania del Maestrazgo Comarca turística - Aragón
  * Pasture improvement in the Maestrazgo
  * CAI Tourism Aragon Guide - Cariñena Wine & Wineries
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40°30′N 0°24′E / 40.500°N 0.400°E


Nyaungyan

Nyaungyan (Burmese: ညောင်ရမ်းမြို့) is a town in Mandalay Region, Myanmar.


Rückersdorf, Brandenburg

Rückersdorf is a municipality in the Elbe-Elster district, in Lower Lusatia, Brandenburg, Germany.

History

From 1815 to 1947, Rückersdorf was part of the Prussian Province of Brandenburg. From 1952 to 1990, it was part of the Bezirk Cottbus of East Germany.

Demography

Development of Population since 1875 within the Current Boundaries (Blue Line: Population; Dotted Line: Comparison to Population Development of Brandenburg state; Grey Background: Time of Nazi rule; Red Background: Time of Communist rule)

Rückersdorf: Population development within the current boundaries (2013)
Year  Population  Year  Population  Year  Population  Year  Population
1875       1 274  1981       2 034  1997       1 980  2007       1 678
1890       1 186  1985       2 077  1998       1 965  2008       1 683
1910       1 312  1989       2 183  1999       1 926  2009       1 624
1925       1 283  1990       2 098  2000       1 889  2010       1 613
1933       1 290  1991       2 034  2001       1 898  2011       1 520
1939       1 357  1992       2 062  2002       1 857  2012       1 476
1946       1 812  1993       2 012  2003       1 815  2013       1 466
1950       1 850  1994       1 952  2004       1 780  2014       1 469
1964       1 793  1995       1 973  2005       1 737  2015       1 466
1971       1 888  1996       1 952  2006       1 694  2016       1 392


St. Patrick's Market

The second and current St. Patrick's Market building built in 1912. This picture was taken in 1971 when the building was occupied by A. Stork & Sons.

St. Patrick's Market is one of three public markets created in Toronto in the 19th century along with St. Lawrence Market and St. Andrew's Market. The current structure on the lot was built in 1912 and was designated a heritage site by the City of Toronto in 1975.

From market to slaughterhouse

The original St. Patrick's Market building in 1885. This building was erected in 1854 and burned down in 1912.

The lot at what is now 238 Queen Street West (at John Street) was designated for a public market for St. Patrick's Ward in 1836 when D’Arcy Boulton bequeathed the property to the city with the express provision that it was to be used forever as a public market.Italianate architecture structure with a tower, was built in 1854.

The current single story Neo-Georgian/Colonial Revival structure was built in 1912,

In 1909, 1911, and again in 1939, the city petitioned the province's estate commissioners to free it from the obligation to operate the property perpetually as a market, but had its attempt to obtain unrestricted ownership of the property rejected.

Leasing agreement with Market Inc.

Stork & Sons closed after the mid -1980s and, in 1988, the city signed a 50-year lease with Market Inc. to host an "exciting retail mini food market"St. Lawrence Market",

The leasing agreement proved controversial, as the company that won the contract and rebranded the building "the Queen Street Market" for several years, operated it more along the lines of a food court, with tenants that included various take out stands and, at one point, a Ben & Jerry's.

By 2011, Friedman was promising to turn the market into a food court, to be called "The Grove", focusing on healthy organic food with a policy requiring vendors to refrain from using "artificial flavours, colouring and hormones," renting to a variety of vendors who would offer unprepared food as well as those offering take-out, and to run an open air farmer's market in the space behind the building.


St. Patrick's Market

However, by 2015, the venue, now called the Queen Street Live Fresh Food Market, was largely empty aside from a tea shop, the BakeryHaus bakery, the Jerk Joint which was a jerk chicken take out stand, and a dessert shop specializing in chocolate and baklava.

The market was forced to close temporarily in July 2017 by the department of public health after mice were found eating baklava in one of the stalls after dark.

In 2018, the now empty building again underwent renovations, this time to rebrand it as "Queen Street Eats". The leaseholder promised there would be seven vendor stalls, washrooms, upgraded kitchens, a graffiti wall, and a seating area for guests – which, the city had not previously permitted.

Termination of lease and future of the market

In the fall of 2019, the city filed an application in superior court to terminate the lease alleging breaches of the agreement by the leaseholder, including failing to operate a food market and to provide audited financial statements.John Tory said after the ruling that "Now is the beginning of a new process because of the court decision that will allow to have all options on the table. I hope it will be something that will involve a clever use that attracts the community in that might involve artists and retailers, and others... The bottom line is we want to bring that space alive because it has been in a dormant state for far too long and I am just happy the legal system saw our way of looking at that and allows us now to get on with some very exciting plans for a very exciting part of that community."

  * St. Lawrence Market
  * St. Andrew's Market and Playground

43°39′01″N 79°23′26″W / 43.65025°N 79.39047°W


Raffaele Ulisse Barbolani

Coat of arms of the Barbolani family of Montauto

Count Raffaele Ulisse Barbolani (Chieti, April 30, 1818 – Palena, October 17, 1900) was an Italian diplomat and journalist, Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1867–1869) and passionate about Japanese Culture.

Biography

Barbolani diplomat of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and liberal journalist

Descending from a branch of the Tuscan family Barbolani di MontautoAbruzzo, Raffaele Ulisse Barbolani entered the diplomacy of Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in 1847;Il Nazionale , a newspaper founded in February 1848 by Silvio Spaventa.

The diplomatic career for the Kingdom of Italy

At the fall of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (1860), Barbolani, a charge d'affaires in Rio de Janeiro, was placed at the disposal of the Garibaldi dictatorial government.Kingdom of Italy and takes up service in Turin, at Ministry of Foreign Affairs.Montevideo. From 1867 to 1869 Ulisse Barbolani was appointed Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairsprime minister and interim minister Luigi Federico Menabrea;third Menabrea Cabinet took office, however, he was alternated in the office by Alberto Blanc. Subsequently Barbolani was extraordinary envoy and plenipotentiary minister to Constantinople and Petersburg (1870–1876).Colledimacine - where his family owns an Ancient palaceSofia Eugenia Giustina Teti.

Barbolani in Japan


Raffaele Ulisse Barbolani

Barbolani in Japan

In 1877, Raffaele Ulisse Barbolani was sent as plenipotentiary minister to Tokyo, where he remained for about four years. Barbolani manages with intelligence and skill the visit of the prince Thomas to the emperor Meiji, winning the trust of the Japanese government and the sympathy of the imperial court , so much so that, a few years later, a Japanese minister declared that "in classifying the European powers in relation to the sympathy they enjoy in Japan, Italy occupied the first place, Russia the second and Germany the third".Pescara and published by the Japanese publishing house Heibonsha 平凡 社. The collection, found among the diplomat's papers, is presented as a complete photographic record of the whole country. The album collects 1268 photographs, distributed throughout Japan and perfectly ordered by regions, cities and neighborhoods, with the indication written in Japanese and French, for each photograph. The images have effectively returned to a period in which the greatest changes that the Japanese history had known and which, otherwise, would have been without documentation ended his diplomatic career as plenipotentiary minister in Munich.

  * Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Italy)
  * Foreign relations of Italy
  * Marisa Di Russo, Raffaele Ulisse Barbolani. Un diplomatico abruzzese nel Giappone di fine Ottocento, in: Oggi e Domani, CCLXX, 1999, 10, p. 11.


List of busiest railway stations in Russia

This is a list of the busiest railway stations in Russia sorted by the average number of passengers boarding daily in 2019, statistics and data are collected by Russian Railways. Ridership numbers are for Russian Railways only, other rail transport like subway, and stations of Crimea Railway are not included.

List

Train stations with more than 2.5 million passengers per year are shown.

Rank  Railway station      Passengers (millions per year)  City  Photograph
Sum   Commuter             Long distance
1     Moscow Yaroslavsky   78.6                            71.8  6.8         Moscow
2     Moscow Kursky        71.1                            58.3  12.8        Moscow
3     Moscow Kazansky      49.9                            33.5  16.4        Moscow
4     Moscow Leningradsky  39.7                            27.6  12.1        Moscow
5     Moscow Kiyevsky      29.0                            25.2  3.8         Moscow
6     Moscow Belorussky    26.9                            22.7  4.2         Moscow
7     Moskovsky            25.1                            8.5   16.6        Saint Petersburg
8     Moscow Paveletsky    21.8                            18.1  3.7         Moscow
9     Tsaritsyno           16.2                            16.2  0.0         Moscow
10    Moscow Savyolovsky   15.1                            15.1  0.0         Moscow
11    Finland              13.7                            13.0  0.7         Saint Petersburg
12    Nizhny Novgorod      13.0                            8.2   4.9         Nizhny Novgorod
13    Baltiysky            12.8                            12.1  0.7         Saint Petersburg
14    Yekaterinburg        10.1                            4.8   5.2         Yekaterinburg
15    Vitebsky             9.8                             8.6   1.2         Saint Petersburg
16    Adler                6.7                             2.9   3.8         Sochi
17    Samara               6.5                             3.5   3.0         Samara
18    Tver                 6.0                             5.2   0.8         Tver
19    Ladozhsky            5.9                             1.4   4.5         Saint Petersburg
20    Rostov-Glavny        5.6                             2.1   3.5         Rostov-on-Don


21    Krasnodar-1          5.5                             1.1   4.4         Krasnodar
22    Sochi                5.2                             2.6   2.7         Sochi
23    Barnaul              4.9                             4.1   0.8         Barnaul
24    Perm II              4.6                             2.7   1.9         Perm
25    Kazan                4.4                             1.8   2.6         Kazan
26    Tyumen               4.3                             0.9   3.4         Tyumen
27    Novosibirsk          4.1                             0.0   4.1         Novosibirsk
28    Saratov-1            3.9                             1.1   2.9         Saratov
29    Krasnoyarsk          3.8                             1.5   2.4         Krasnoyarsk
30    Voronezh-1           3.7                             1.5   2.2         Voronezh
31    Kirov                3.6                             1.4   2.2         Kirov
32    Bryansk-Orlovsky     3.4                             1.1   2.3         Bryansk
33    Yaroslavl-Glavny     3.3                             0.5   2.7         Yaroslavl
34    Vladimir             3.2                             1.7   1.5         Vladimir
35    Volgograd            3.2                             1.0   2.2         Volgograd
36    Irkutsk              3.1                             1.2   1.9         Irkutsk
37    Moscow Rizhsky       3.1                             2.7   0.3         Moscow
38    Vladivostok          2.8                             2.0   0.8         Vladivostok
39    Ufa                  2.8                             0.8   1.9         Ufa
40    Tula                 2.7                             1.6   1.1         Tula

41    Omsk                 2.7                             0.0   2.7         Omsk
42    Khabarovsk           2.7                             0.4   2.3         Khabarovsk
43    Anapa                2.6                             0.0   2.6         Anapa
44    Vyborg               2.6                             1.5   0.1         Vyborg
45    Dzerzhinsk           2.6                             2.2   0.4         Dzerzhinsk


P. Rathinavelu Thevar

P.Rathinavelu Thevar (1888–1948) was an Indian politician who served the Chairperson of the Trichinopoly Municipality from 1924 to 1946. He was the Vice-President of the Justice Party, before joining the Indian National Congress.

  * Saqaf, Syed Muthathar (28 January 2007). "A tribute long overdue". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 25 January 2013.


Sorata

For other uses, see Sorata (disambiguation).

Sorata (Aymara: Surat'a) is a small town in the La Paz Department in the Bolivian Andes, northwest of the city of La Paz and east of Lake Titicaca. It is the seat of the Larecaja Province and the Sorata Municipality. At the time of census 2001 it had a population of 2,217.hikers. It includes several small hotels, including a converted Italian mansion.

History

In colonial days, Sorata provided a link to the Alto Beni goldfields and rubber plantations, and a gateway to the Amazon Basin. In August 1781 it was the site of an unorthodox siege by the nephew of Tupac Amaru, Andres, and his 16,000 soldiers. They constructed dikes above the town, and when these had been filled with runoff from the slopes of the nearby peak Illampu, they opened the floodgates and the town was washed away.oil reserves.

Cityscape

Sorata is no longer a major commercial center, as there is now a more direct route to the Yungas from La Paz. Today it is best known to foreign tourists, trekkers, and climbers, who visit this formerly little-known destination. The main square, Plaza General Enrique Penaranda, is Sorata's showcase. It is graced by towering date palms and immaculate gardens. The main town fiesta is held on September 14. Of note is Casa Gunthere, a historic mansion that now houses the Residencial Sorata. It was built in 1895 as the home of the Richters, a quinine trading family.

Sorata is located at the base of the mountains Illampu, 6,368 m (20,892 ft), and Janq'u Uma, 6,427 m (21,086 ft), which are the northern anchors of the Cordillera Real. By the most reliable figures, Janq'u Uma is 11 m (36 ft) lower than Illimani, near La Paz, but surveys in the area are imperfect, and there is much debate between the citizens of both areas as to which mountain is higher.

Climate

Sorata features an unusual subtropical highland climate, with oceanic elements and high levels of diurnal temperature variation.


Sorata

Climate data for Sorata, Bolivia, elevation: 3,650 m, 1981–2010 normals, extremes 1945–present)
Month                                                                                Jan     Feb     Mar     Apr     May     Jun     Jul     Aug     Sep     Oct     Nov     Dec     Year
Record high °C (°F)                                                                              26.5    25.5    26.0    25.0    25.0    23.0    23.1    24.3    26.6    26.5    27.1    27.2    27.2
                                                                                (79.7)  (77.9)  (78.8)  (77.0)  (77.0)  (73.4)  (73.6)  (75.7)  (79.9)  (79.7)  (80.8)  (81.0)  (81.0)
Average high °C (°F)                                                                             18.5    18.7    18.9    19.2    19.1    17.8    17.4    18.4    19.0    19.8    20.4    20.0    18.9
                                                                                (65.3)  (65.7)  (66.0)  (66.6)  (66.4)  (64.0)  (63.3)  (65.1)  (66.2)  (67.6)  (68.7)  (68.0)  (66.0)
Daily mean °C (°F)                                                                               12.9    13.0    13.0    12.7    11.8    10.5    10.1    11.0    11.9    13.0    13.7    13.7    12.3
                                                                                (55.2)  (55.4)  (55.4)  (54.9)  (53.2)  (50.9)  (50.2)  (51.8)  (53.4)  (55.4)  (56.7)  (56.7)  (54.1)
Average low °C (°F)                                                                              7.4     7.3     7.2     6.3     4.6     3.3     2.8     3.7     4.8     6.2     7.0     7.5     5.7


Sorata

(45.3)  (45.1)  (45.0)  (43.3)  (40.3)  (37.9)  (37.0)  (38.7)  (40.6)  (43.2)  (44.6)  (45.5)  (42.3)
Record low °C (°F)                                                                               1.5     2.0     1.1     0.6     −2.0    −6.0    −2.8    −5.0    −0.8    0.0     0.5     1.0     −6.0
                                                                                (34.7)  (35.6)  (34.0)  (33.1)  (28.4)  (21.2)  (27.0)  (23.0)  (30.6)  (32.0)  (32.9)  (33.8)  (21.2)
Average precipitation mm (inches)                                                                202.8   178.0   132.9   95.4    46.2    37.5    42.4    35.2    55.4    66.0    87.1    137.8   1,116.6
                                                                                (7.98)  (7.01)  (5.23)  (3.76)  (1.82)  (1.48)  (1.67)  (1.39)  (2.18)  (2.60)  (3.43)  (5.43)  (43.96)
Average precipitation days                                                                       21.3    17.0    15.4    8.6     3.5     2.2     2.1     3.9     6.7     10.7    11.4    16.1    119.0
Average relative humidity (%)                                                                    72.0    72.2    70.5    66.2    54.8    48.3    50.4    52.0    58.1    56.5    58.8    64.3    60.0
Mean monthly sunshine hours                                                                      145.4   158.4   167.9   187.6   245.7   238.3   240.9   250.1   232.0   215.5   181.5   171.2   2,434.5
Mean daily sunshine hours                                                                        5.0     5.9     5.9     6.6     8.2     8.2     8.8     8.5     8.2     7.4     6.8     6.0     7.1


Sorata

Source: Servicio Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología de Bolivia


Sorata

15°46′24″S 68°38′53″W / 15.77333°S 68.64806°W


The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture is a nonfiction book written by David Brion Davis, originally published by Cornell University Press in 1966,Oxford University Press.Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1967National Book Award finalist.

  * New York Times book review
  * Wall Street Journal book review


Livartzi

Livartzi (Greek: Λιβάρτζι) is a mountain village and a community in the municipal unit of Aroania, Achaea, Greece. In 2011, it had a population of 164 for the village and 211 for the municipal district, which includes the villages Livadi and Livartzino. Livartzi is situated at 850 m above sea level, in the southeastern foothills of Mount Erymanthos. It is 4 km southwest of Lechouri, 6 km north of Psofida and 21 km southwest of Kalavryta. It is not known when Livartzi was founded, but it existed before the Ottoman rule. In the 19th century, refugees from Mystras settled the area and the population rose to around 3,000 people.

Population

Year          Population village  Population community
19th century  around 3,000        -
1991          289                 -
2001          303                 422
2011          164                 211

People

  * Andreas Papagiannakopoulos (1845–1911), politician
  * List of settlements in Achaea
  * Livartzi at the GTP Travel Pages


Sokkia

Sokkia level

Sokkia Co., Ltd. was founded in 1920 as Sokkisha in Japan. It makes measurement instruments for the surveying, construction and industrial measurement industries. In 2008 Sokkia was acquired by Topcon, but still maintains a separate brand.

History

In the beginning, the company was called Sokkisha Company and was founded by a group of 13 people. It started with manufacturing transits in a small workshop in Tokyo in 1920, At first limited to the Japanese market, Sokkisha began to develop precision measuring instruments and quickly became a popular manufacturer in Japan. The worldwide expansion started with the United States. The American company Lietz became the exclusive distributor for Sokkisha instruments in the 1970s. In 1984 Sokkisha took over Lietz and becoming the world's largest manufacturer of surveying and measuring instruments.

In the early 1990s, Sokkisha started a corporate identity project to improve and expand the company's global marketing. The result of this project was a new brand name: Sokkia. In 2008, Sokkia became a fully wholly owned subsidiary of Topcon.

Achievements

The company's major achievements include the development and production of Japan's first automatic levels, theodolite and coaxial total station. In 1964, Sokkisha developed the company's patented magnetically damped compensator for automatic levels, which quickly became the world standard.

Products

Products for Surveying from Sokkia are GNSS systems, robotic total stations, reflectorless total stations, automatic / digital levels, field / desktop software etc.

Products for Construction from Sokkia are rotating lasers, line lasers, machine control receivers, levels, theodolites, total stations etc.

Products for Industrial from Sokkia are industrial total stations, 3-DIM industrial software, special magnetic targets, dedicated business partner alliance with German industrial applications specialists.


Sokkia

* Total station EDM
  * Sokkia Social Support Group for Land Surveyors (Global) Support hub for land surveyors who use Sokkia equipment at work.
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  * Total Station Software
  * Total Station demo
  * https://www.si.edu/object/total-station%3Anmah_1441119
  * http://www.mecinca.net/manuales/catalog3.pdf


Nyavirus

Nyavirus is a genus of negative-strand RNA viruses in the family Nyamiviridae. Ticks and birds serve as natural hosts. There are four species in this genus.

History

Nyamanini nyavirus (NYMV) and Midway nyavirus (MDWV) were first isolated in 1957 and 1966 respectively. NYMV has been isolated from cattle egrets (species Bubulcus ibis) and ticks (species Argas walkerae) in Egypt, India, Nigeria, South Africa, and Thailand. MDWV has been isolated from tick of the genus Ornithodoros collected in Midway, Kure and Manana islands and northern Honshu, Japan. Antibodies to this virus have been found in the black-tailed gulls (species Larus crassirostris) and black-crowned night herons (species Nycticorax nycticorax).

Structure

Nyaviruses are enveloped, with spherical geometries. The diameter is around 100 to 130 nm. Genomes are linear, nonsegmented, and around 11.6 kbp in total length. The genome codes for 6 proteins.open reading frames. Of these, only two have been assigned a function: the putative nucleocapsid protein and RNA-dependent RNA polymerase.

Life cycle

Viral replication is nuclear. Entry into the host cell is achieved by attachment of the viral GP glycoproteins to host receptors, which mediates clathrin-mediated endocytosis. Replication follows the negative stranded RNA virus replication model. Negative stranded RNA virus transcription, using polymerase stuttering is the method of transcription. Progeny viruses are released by budding off from the host cell wall. Ticks and birds serve as the natural host.

Taxonomy

The genus has four species:

  * San Jacinto nyavirus
  * Midway nyavirus
  * Nyamanini nyavirus
  * Sierra Nevada nyavirus
  * Jeremy Point nyavirus
  * Viralzone: Nyavirus
  * ICTV