Fritz Fend

Messerschmitt, needing products to build to keep his factories working, accepted the Fend 150, which was still being developed,

KR175

Main article: Messerschmitt KR175

The development of the Fend 150 led to the production of the Messerschmitt KR175, which began in February 1953. Development continued after production began, resulting in 70 modifications of the design by June 1953.

KR200

Main article: Messerschmitt KR200

In 1955, Messerschmitt replaced the KR175 with the KR200. Apart from a larger engine, the KR175 was almost completely re-engineered to produce the Kr200,new suspension(introducing shock absorbers to the design), new floor construction,improved engine mounting, larger tires, improved controls, and a means by which to reverse the car. Reverse was accomplished not by including a reverse gear in the transmission but by reversing the rotation of the engine itself.

KR200 production expanded to three models in 1957 with the introduction of the "Kabrio" convertible and the KR201 Roadster.

Production of the KR200 was heavily reduced in 1962 and ceased in 1964

FMR

FMR Mokuli 130

In 1956, Messerschmitt was allowed to manufacture aircraft again and lost interest in Fend's microcars. Messerschmitt sold the Regenburg works to Fend, who, with brake and hub supplier Valentin Knott, formed Fahrzeug- und Maschinenbau GmbH, Regensburg (FMR) to continue production of the KR200 and his other vehicles.Morocco.130 kg (287 lb) later versions thereof had stronger and smaller front wheels and either 200 or 250 kg (441 or 551 lb) capacities. The name is a portmanteau of moped and kuli (coolie).

Tg500

Main article: FMR Tg500

FMR Tg500


Fritz Fend

FMR Tg500

Fend developed the four-wheeled, twin-cylinder FMR Tg500 from the platform that had begun with the KR175. The front suspension, monocoque, and bodywork ahead of the rear sub-frame were derived from the KR200, but the rear sub-frame bore a newly designed suspension and drivetrain with twice the number of wheels and an engine with twice the number of cylinders and more than twice the displacement. The Tg500 was aimed primarily at sporting enthusiasts and was built from 1958 to 1961.

After FMR

Fritz Fend left FMR after they stopped building the KR200.

Last project and death

In the 1990s, Fend began working on the F2000, a modern low-weight low-drag vehicle reminiscent of the Kabinenroller. The project had reached the prototype stage, and a four-wheeled vehicle was built. The project ended when Fend died on 22 November 2000 after a massive stroke.


Fritz Fend

Citations
Sources
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  * "Bruce Weiner Microcar Museum: 1954 Messerschmitt 175". The Bruce Weiner Microcar Museum Inc. 2007
  * "The Bruce Weiner Microcar Museum – 1959 F. M. R. Tg-500". The Bruce Weiner Microcar Museum Inc. 2007
  * Bernstein, Michael (2003-02-16). "Achim Lüdecke – Hobby und Beruf – Mokuli – Vom Lastenroller zu 3 starken Typen – Der Typ 250". http://www.mokuli.de/mokuli/index.htm (in German). Archived from the original on 2003-02-22 {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
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  * PyttiPanna Moped Museum – Obituary notice (in German)
  * Achim Lüdecke – Hobby und Beruf (in German)


Barbariga, Lombardy

Barbariga is a comune in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy.


Frances Dewey Wormser

Frances Dewey Wormser (June 23, 1903– January 28, 2008

Personal life

Frances Dewey was born in New York City on June 23, 1903,California artist who was considered the "dean" of an early art colony in Sierra Madre, California.painting herself.

Dewey married her first husband, Orin Zoline, in the later 1930s, approximately the same time that she retired from entertaining.Sarasota, Florida, for over 25 years.tennis player and supporter of the sport.Martina Navratilova lived with Frances and Morton when she first arrived in the United States in the early 1970s.

Frances and Morton Wormser traveled "around the world" on their honeymoon.Maui when she was 100 years old.

Career

Dewey spent more than a decade in showbusiness during the 1920s and 1930s.Sally, Irene & Mary.The Girl Friend in 1926, which caught the attention of producer Lew Fields.Dewey and Gold Revue, specifically for Dewey and her professional performing partner, Al Gold.Good Boy in 1929.

Wormser also performed with Cary Grant (who was still using his name of Archie Leach) and Jeanette MacDonald in an out-of-town tryout of Boom Boom in late 1928,Shoot the Works, a 1931Heywood Broun.Leonard Sillman's New Faces in 1934.New Faces introduced audiences to new up-and-coming Broadway actors, such as Wormser. The 1934 first edition of New Faces also included Henry Fonda and Imogene Coca. Coca became a lifelong friend of Frances Wormser,Leo Lerman, the former editor of Vogue Magazine and editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair, to be her professional "soul mate". He died in 1994.

Dewey officially retired from the entertainment industry during the 1930s.buyer for Jane Engel, a women's clothing company, around this time.

Death

Frances Dewey Wormser died on January 28, 2008, from natural causes in Santa Paula, California. She was 104 years old. She had no children.

  * Frances Hewey Dunsworth at IMDb
  * Frances Dewey Wormser at the Internet Broadway Database
  * Santa Paula Times: Frances Dewey Wormser: 1903 - 2008


Jakob Guttmann

Jakob Guttmann may refer to:

  * Jakob Guttmann (rabbi) (1845–1919), German rabbi
  * Jakob Guttmann (sculptor) (1811–1860), Hungarian Jewish sculptor


Cathaoirleach (disambiguation)

Cathaoirleach is the Irish word for chairperson.

In particular it may refer to:

  * Cathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann, the Irish Senate
  * In local government in the Republic of Ireland, the Cathaoirleach or Mayor of a council
  * In the structure of the Gaelic Athletic Association, the Cathaoirleach of a board, council, or club


Frank Mdlalose

Frank Themba Mdlalose (29 November 1931 – 4 April 2021) was the first Premier of the newly renamed KwaZulu-Natal province in South Africa, after the African National Congress (ANC) won the country's first all-inclusive general election on 27 April 1994, while the Inkatha Freedom Party won a majority in the KwaZulu-Natal provincial legislature.

Early life

Mdlalose was born on 29 November 1931 in Nquthu, northern Natal to Jaconia Mdlalose, a general dealer and Tabitha Mthembu, a tutor. He was educated at St Francis High School, Mariannhill, outside Durban. He then attended the Fort Hare University - (alongside future Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi, to whom he is distantly related) - where he obtained a diploma. Mdlalose continued his studies at the University of Natal and in 1958 he obtained his MB Ch B degree and became a resident doctor at Durban's King Edward Hospital. Representing the students at the segregated medical school in Durban, established by Jan Smuts for Black and Indian students, he attended the only conference of the Association of Medical Students of South Africa attended by students from one of the Afrikaans-medium medical schools. They had hitherto refused to attend if Black students were present. One of the Afrikaner students said, as the conference finished, "I thank the Chair for having organised this conference. This is the first time I have met a black man with an intelligence equal to, or superior to, my own.” To which Frank responded, “I, too, thank the Chair for having organised this conference. This is the first time I have met an Afrikaner with an intelligence equal to, or superior to, my own." -I was that Chairman-. Subsequently he became a GP in Atteridgeville near Pretoria and Steadville and Madadeni in northern Natal.


Frank Mdlalose

Between 1950 and 1953 Mdlalose was the branch president of the ANC Youth League. He joined the IFP at its launch in 1975. In 1978 he was appointed Minister of the Interior in the KwaZulu Legislative Assembly in Ulundi, a position he held until 1983, when he was appointed Minister of Health and Welfare, which he remained until 1990, whereupon he became national chairman of the IFP. In 1991, with Jacob Zuma, then an ANC party chairperson for southern Natal, he set up the Peace and Reconstruction Foundation to rebuild the devastation that political violence had wrought in the province of Natal. Following the ANC's landslide election victory, he was premier of KwaZulu-Natal from May 1994 until March 1997 and was one of only two non-ANC provincial premiers at the time, (the other being the Western Cape's Hernus Kriel). During this time, in 1996, he had a meeting with the controversial leader of the Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan, who was on a high-profile visit to South Africa. In April 1998 he was appointed South Africa's ambassador to Egypt. After which he retired from the IFP in 2005.

He was married to Eunice Nokuthula Sikhosane. In late 2001 his son, Mandlenkosi, who had just recently qualified as a physician, was killed in a car accident, not long after one of his other sons, Thabo, had also died in a similar incident. They were survived by one other brother, [name?] and two sisters, Kosi and Jummy.

He died from complications of COVID-19 on 4 April 2021.

  * sahistory.org.za


C26H36N2O3

The molecular formula C26H36N2O3 (molar mass: 424.576 g/mol) may refer to:

  * Devapamil
  * Sergolexole (LY-281,067)


Espluga Freda

Espluga Freda or Esplugafreda is a locality located in the municipality of Tremp, in Province of Lleida province, Catalonia, Spain. As of 2020, it has a population of 0.

Geography

Espluga Freda is located 105km north-northeast of Lleida.


Bremer Kaffeehaus-Orchester

The Bremer Kaffeehaus-Orchester is a German musical ensemble of classically trained musicians that was founded in Bremen on 30 April 1990 and has played in an unchanged line-up ever since. They play a style commonly referred to as coffeehouse music or salon music.

The ensemble consists of Constantin Dorsch (violin Klaus Fische (flute, piccolo, saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet, moderation), Johannes Grundhoff (piano), Anselm Hauke (double bass) and Gero John (violoncello). In their performances, which are presented in a humorous way, they also use rather rare instruments such as a reception doorbell or a vuvuzela.

The repertoire includes, among others. Works by Johann Pachelbel, Antonio Vivaldi, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Robert Schumann, Giuseppe Verdi, Johann Strauss II, Johannes Brahms, Georges Bizet, Edvard Grieg, Erik Satie, Paul Lincke, Franz Lehár, Carlos Gardel, Felix Bernard, Duke Ellington, Aram Khachaturian, Glenn Miller, Sonny Burke, Henry Mancini, The Beatles, Deep Purple, Sting, Seal and increasingly their own compositions.

The group regularly gives concerts in the Bremen concert hall Die Glocke, but also throughout Germany and neighbouring countries.

Since 1995, numerous recordings of music by the Bremen Coffee House Orchestra have been available.

Recording (selection)

  * Die Erste (1995)
  * Die Zweite (1996)
  * Die Dritte (1997)
  * Weihnachtsstimmung (1998)
  * Lieben Sie Strauß? (Sony Musik Entertainment, 1999)
  * Rendezvous im Kaffeehaus (Sony Musik Entertainment, 2000)
  * Winter Wonderland (Gero John, 2003)
  * Träumerei im Kaffeehaus (2004)
  * Best of Kaffeehaus (2005)
  * Weihnachten im Kaffeehaus (2006)
  * Café Espressivo (2009)
  * Bremer Weihnacht (2011)
  * Opus 12 (Gero John, 2012)
  * Black Coffee (2015)
  * Literature by and about Bremer Kaffeehaus-Orchester in the German National Library catalogue
  * Official website
  * On Discogs


Kateryna Kasper

Kateryna Kasper (born 1986) is a Ukrainian operatic soprano. A member of the Oper Frankfurt, she has appeared in major international opera houses. She has performed in recitals and recordings. Her broad repertory includes works from Cavalieri's Spiel von Seele und Körper to the premiere of Der goldene Drache by Péter Eötvös.

Career

Kasper studied voice at the Prokofiev State Music Academy in Donetsk. After her bachelor exam, she continued her studies on a scholarship by the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst at the Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg with Edith Wiens. When Wiens moved to New York City, Kasper completed her studies at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt with Hedwig Fassbender, graduating in 2014 with a master's degree and the concert exam. She made her debut at the Oper Frankfurt as Waldvogel in Wagner's Siegfried in 2012, in a production of the Ring cycle that was recorded.Spiel von Seele und Körper, and a reviewer noted the lyrical quality of her voice.

Kasper has been a member of the Oper Frankfurt from the 2014/15 season, coming from the company's opera studio. She has performed there roles such as Tigrane in Handel's Radamisto, Susanna in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, Zerlina in his Don Giovanni, Nannetta in Verdi's Falstaff, Gretel in Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel, and Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss.Der goldene Drache by Péter Eötvös, with the composer conducting the Ensemble Modern. A reviewer noted that she mastered long lines bordering on the ecstatic, but also cat-like sounds when suffering from toothache, combined with lively acting.Los Angeles Opera as Belinda in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas that year, staged by Barrie Kosky, alongside Paula Murrihy as Dido and Liam Bonner as Aeneas.Iwan Sussanin in a production staged by Harry Kupfer. A reviewer wrote that she presented her first aria, longing for her beloved, with vocal intensity and convincing acting.


Kateryna Kasper

She was awarded first prize at the Mirjam Helin International Singing Competition in Helsinki in 2014.St John Passion live with Raphaël Pichon conducting the Ensemble Pygmalion, Julian PrégardienEvangelist and Tomáš Král as the vox Christi.

  * Official website
  * Kateryna Kasper on Operabase
  * Kateryna Kasper Bach Cantatas Website


Australian emerald

The Australian emerald (Hemicordulia australiae) is a species of dragonfly in the family Corduliidae.Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island, Lesser Sunda Islands and New Zealand.

The Australian emerald appears similar to the tau emerald (Hemicordulia tau).

Gallery

  * [In flight]
    In flight
  * [Female]
    Female
  * [Female]
    Female
  * [Female detail]
    Female detail
  * [Male]
    Male
  * [Female wings]
    Female wings
  * [Male wings]
    Male wings
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Barbarofusus

Barbarofusus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Fasciolariidae, the spindle snails, the tulip snails and their allies.

Species

Species within the genus Barbarofusus include:

  * † Barbarofusus barbarensis (Trask, 1855)
  * Barbarofusus guadalupensis Callomon & Snyder, 2017
  * Barbarofusus kobelti (Dall, 1877)
Species brought into synonymy
  * Barbarofusus chocolatus Okutani, 1983: synonym of Fusinus chocolatus (Okutani, 1983)
  * Snyder M.A. (2003). Catalogue of the marine gastropod family Fasciolariidae. Academy of Natural Sciences. of Philadelphia, Special Publication. 21iii + 1–431


Liaoximordella

Liaoximordella hongi is a species of beetle in the family Mordellidae, the only species in the genus Liaoximordella.


Devon and Somerset Railway

The Devon and Somerset Railway (D&SR) was a cross-country line that connected Barnstaple in Devon, England, to the network of the Bristol and Exeter Railway (B&ER) near Taunton. It was opened in stages between 1871 and 1873 and closed in 1966. It served a mostly rural area although it carried some through services from east of Taunton to the seaside resort of Ilfracombe.

From 1988 onwards the route of the line west of South Molton was redeveloped to form the part of the North Devon Link Road.

History

Railways around Barnstaple
- Black lines: in use
- Grey lines: closed and lifted

The Act of Parliament that authorised the D&SR received assent on 29 July 1864. Eugenius Birch was appointed as Engineer, but he was replaced by Richard Hassard in 1870. The first 7+1⁄4-mile (11.7 km) section of the line was opened on 8 June 1871, from Watchet Junction (later Norton Fitzwarren) to Wiveliscombe on the edge of Exmoor. The remaining 35+3⁄4 miles (57.5 km) to Barnstaple opened on 1 November 1873. The line used its own station at Barnstaple (later to be named Victoria Road), some distance from the rival station at Barnstaple Quay.

The line was built as 7 ft 1⁄4 in (2,140 mm) broad gauge and operated by the B&ER. The last broad gauge train ran on 14 May 1881, after which the line was converted to 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge and reopened on 18 May.

In 1884 the Tiverton and North Devon Railway opened from a junction on the D&SR to Tiverton. The Tiverton services started from Dulverton and ran over the D&SR as far as Morebath Junction where they diverged southwards, and that line was later extended to Exeter.

In 1890 the GWR appointed a Mrs Towns as signalwoman at Morebath Junction. She is the only recorded example of a signalwoman on any railway in Britain in the 19th century. In October 1913 the Railway Magazine reported that she was "very proud" of her job after 23 years service and hoped to continue indefinitely.


Devon and Somerset Railway

Conversion to standard gauge enabled a connection to the London and South Western Railway at Barnstaple. This was opened on 1 June 1887, after which GWR trains ran through to Ilfracombe via Barnstaple and the LSWR.

The GWR acquired the Devon and Somerset Railway in 1901.token equipment was installed to allow trains to pass token exchange points at higher speeds.

In 1937 the junction at Norton Fitwarren was modified to allow an easier route from the main line, and the single track as far as Milverton was doubled.

On 1 January 1948 the GWR was nationalised to become part of British Railways. The D&SR station was named Barnstaple Victoria Road from 26 September 1949 to distinguish it from Barnstaple Junction and Barnstaple Town railway stations, the former Southern Railway stations. Victoria Road station closed to passengers on 12 June 1960, after which all through trains ran directly to Barnstaple Junction. On 1 October 1966 the last train ran on the line; Victoria Road remained open for freight traffic, served from Barnstaple Junction, until 30 May 1970.

Engineering

The pillars of Castle Hill Viaduct have been reused for the North Devon Link road (A361)

The line featured steep gradients; 16.75 miles (26.96 km) were at 1 in 60 (1.7%) or steeper, and much of the rest was steeper than 1 in 140 (0.7%).

  * Waterrow Viaduct, Venn Cross: a wrought iron viaduct 162 yards (148 m) long and 101 feet (31 m) above the valley floor
  * Castle Hill (or Filleigh) Viaduct, Filleigh, a stone-pillared cast-iron viaduct 232 yards long and 94 feet (29 m) high. The pillars have been reused for the North Devon Link road.
  * Bathealton Tunnel, 440 yards (400 m) long
  * Venn Cross Tunnel, 246 yards (225 m) long
  * Nightcote Tunnel, 44 yards (40 m) long, near Dulverton
  * Castle Hill Tunnel, 317 yards (290 m) long

Stations


Devon and Somerset Railway

Stations

  * v
  * t
  * e
Devon and Somerset Railway

             GWR to Bristol

        0¾   Taunton

        2¾   Norton Fitzwarren

             West Somerset Railway
             to Minehead

             GWR to Exeter

        6½   Milverton

        9½   Wiveliscombe

             Bathealton Tunnel

             Waterrow Viaduct
             over River Tone

             Venn Cross Tunnel

        14¼  Venn Cross

        17¾  Morebath

             Exe Valley Railway
             to Exeter St Davids

        19¼  Morebath Junction Halt

        21¾  Dulverton

             Nightcote Tunnel

        24¾  East Anstey

        26½  Yeo Mill Halt

             Bishops Nympton
        30¾  and Molland

        34¼  South Molton

             Castle Hill Tunnel

             Castle Hill Viaduct

        37½  Filleigh

        40¾  Swimbridge

             Barnstaple
        44¾  Victoria Road

             (GWR)
             River Taw

             Tarka Line
             to Exeter St Davids

        45¾  Barnstaple Junction

             North Devon Railway
             to Bideford

             Ilfracombe branch line

             Ilfracombe

The first section of the line from a junction west of Taunton to Wiveliscombe opened on 8 June 1871; there was one intermediate station, at Milverton. A station was opened at the junction on the main line on 1 June 1873; it was named at Norton Fitzwarren. The section from Wiveliscombe to Barnstaple opened on 1 November 1873 with nine new stations, but two more were added later, one in 1928 and the other in 1932.

The stations are described here from east to west. Unless otherwise stated, each opened with its respective section of line; goods services were withdrawn from 6 July 1964, and the stations closed after the passage of the last passenger train on 1 October 1966.

Norton Fitzwarren

Main article: Norton Fitzwarren railway station

The Bristol and Exeter Railway (B&ER) was opened through Norton Fitzwarren, 2 miles (3 km) west of Taunton, in 1843. The West Somerset Railway (WSR) was opened from Norton Junction to Watchet in 1862, and when the D&SR opened in 1871 it made a connection to the WSR just west of the original Norton Junction. A station was opened on the main line on the east side of the junction on 1 June 1873 to serve all three routes.

The station was closed for passenger traffic on 30 October 1961, and public goods traffic on 6 July 1964.

Milverton


Devon and Somerset Railway

Milverton

The station at Milverton in Somerset was initially just a single platform on the south side of the line with a brick building. A passing loop and second platform were installed in 1880; the line east to Norton Fitzwarren was doubled on 7 February 1937. The station had a signal box on the westbound platform and a small goods yard to the west of the station on the same side of the line. Goods traffic was withdrawn from 30 September 1963. The route of the line to the west is now part of the B3227 road.

Wiveliscombe

Wiveliscombe station was in Somerset and acted as the temporary terminus of the line from 8 June 1871 until 1 November 1873. During this time it had a turntable for turning the locomotives, but this was moved to Barnstaple when the line was extended there. Trains could pass at Wiveliscombe and two platforms were provided. The main stone-built offices and signal box were on the eastbound platform while a waiting shelter was provided on the opposite platform. The goods yard and brick goods shed were behind the station buildings and accessed from the line to the east of the station. Goods traffic ceased from 6 July 1964. The main station building and goods shed remain as part of an industrial estate that has built up on the site.

Venn Cross

A single platform and siding were provided on the southern side of the line at the western end of the Venn Cross tunnel. The station's location, in a cutting 666 feet (203 m) above sea level, meant that it was prone to being blocked by snow.

Morebath

View in 2001 NE on station approach road, towards Taunton


Devon and Somerset Railway

View in 2001 NE on station approach road, towards Taunton

The next station was two miles east of the village of Morebath in Devon. When opened it was known as 'Morebath and Bampton', but from 1 August 1884 Bampton was served by its own station on the new Tiverton and North Devon Railway and the D&SR station became just 'Morebath'. The station originally had a single platform on the south side of the line, but a second track and platform were added in 1876. The loop was lengthened westwards from 6 June 1937 and the platforms were extended in wood. The goods yard was to the south of the original platform and accessed from the eastern end. The 1876 signal box was on the north side of the line at the west end of the station, but a new box was provided as part of the 1937 alterations and situated at the west end of the main station building on the south side of the line. The goods yard was closed from 3 June 1963 and the passing loop and signal box were taken out of use at the same time. The station building and goods shed are both now used as houses.

Morebath Junction Halt

Main article: Morebath Junction railway station

The Tiverton line joined the D&SR at Morebath Junction but its trains continued to Dulverton, the next station towards Barnstaple. A small, unstaffed station was opened at the junction on 1 December 1928. Trains on both lines called there, so it had a more frequent service than at Morebath station, and the halt was much nearer the village, but could be reached only by an often muddy footpath across fields.

Dulverton

Dulverton station as it is today

This the largest intermediate station on the Devon and Somerset line was situated about two miles south of the town it served, to which it was connected by bus for many years. It was also close to the small village of Brushford. Although it was in Somerset, the stations on either side were in Devon.Tiverton which from 1 May 1885 ran through to Exeter St Davids.


Devon and Somerset Railway

Dulverton was a passing place for trains from the outset. The main buildings, including a house for the station master, were on the eastbound platform. This was connected by a covered footbridge to the westbound platform. A second track was added on the south side for the Tiverton service in 1902; initially a terminal track, it became a loop line in 1910. The goods shed was in a small yard on the north side of the line, but further sidings were added on the south side of the station, where there was also a small turntable. The first signal box was at the west end of the south-side sidings; it was replaced in 1908 by one on the eastbound platform next to the goods shed. Goods traffic ceased from 6 July 1964. The signal box was closed on 31 July 1966 and the old eastbound platform was then used for trains in both directions for the remaining two months before the line closed. The station buildings survived as part of the Caernarvon Arms Hotel.

East Anstey

East Anstey goods shed in 1969

The station at East Anstey in Devon was built with just a single platform on the south side of the line. A passing loop and second platform were brought into use in 1876 and extended in 1910 and again in 1937. It is the highest point of the D&SR line, nearly 800 feet (240 m) above sea level. The goods shed and small goods yard were at the west end of the platform. A crossing loop was installed with a second platform in 1876, the signal box being built on the original platform.

The station was used as a location setting for the Ealing Studios 1944 film The Halfway House.

The station was host to a GWR camp coach from 1936 to 1939.Western Region in 1952, 1953 and 1955.

Goods traffic ceased from 30 September 1963. Both the station building and the goods shed have been converted into houses.

Yeo Mill Halt

Yeo Mill Halt the last station to be built on the D&SR route, opening on 27 June 1932. It had a single wooden platform and waiting shelter on the north side of the single track. It was unstaffed and managed from East Anstey station, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) to the east. It was demolished after the line was closed.

Bishops Nympton and Molland


Devon and Somerset Railway

Bishops Nympton and Molland

Bishop's Nympton and Molland in 1964

A single platform was provided on the south side of the line two miles south-west of the village of Molland in Devon. A passing loop and second platform were added in 1876. From March 1876 the name was changed from 'Molland' to 'Bishops Nympton and Molland'; the village of Bishops Nympton was three miles south-west of the station.

A small goods yard with a goods shed was provided on the south side of the station, with rail access from the west end. The signal box was on the south side of the line, initially towards the east end of the platform. In 1902 the loop and platforms were lengthened westwards and a new signal box was provided in the goods yard. The loop was again extended in 1937, this time eastwards, and a larger signal box was built at the east end of the platform.

Goods traffic was retained until 3 August 1964. Since being closed both the station building and the goods shed have been converted into houses and the eastbound platform remains within the station house's garden.

South Molton

The passing loop at South Molton in Devon was the most westerly passing place on the D&SR line when it opened. Being close to the town centre it was much more convenient than South Molton Road which had opened on the North Devon Railway in 1854 but was 8 miles (13 km) away. The station had a large building on the westbound platform comprising a station master's house and waiting rooms, a booking hall and offices. The up platform had only a small wooden shelter and there was no footbridge. There was also a goods yard to the west of the station, with a 60-foot (18 m) goods shed and cranes. The passing loop was lengthened eastwards in 1907 and westward in 1937. The signal box was on the westbound platform, initially at the west end but this was replaced by one at the east end.

Goods traffic was withdrawn on 3 August 1964; the former goods shed is in industrial use. The station building survived until about 2003 but was then demolished. The railway route west of this point now forms the majority part of the North Devon Link Road.

Filleigh

Filleigh station in 1971


Devon and Somerset Railway

Filleigh

Filleigh station in 1971

This station was opened as "Castle Hill", being named after a local mansion owned by Earl Fortescue. A single platform was provided on the north side of the line with passenger facilities in a stone building. A small goods yard and goods shed were at the west end of the station. It was renamed 'Filleigh' on 1 January 1881 after the nearby village so as to avoid confusion with Castle Hill station in London (which itself has since been renamed West Ealing).

It remained a single-platform station through 1876 and 1902 capacity improvements along the line, but on 20 June 1937 was given a passing loop and second platform, although no shelter was provided for this. The original signal box at the east end of the original platform was replaced at the same time by one in the goods yard. The goods yard was closed from 3 August 1964 and the signal box and loop likewise on 6 September 1964. After closure to passengers the station building was used as a house until it was demolished when the North Devon Link Road was built through the site.

Swimbridge

This station served the village of Swimbridge in Devon. It had just a single platform on the south side of the line until a second platform and passing loop were provided from 19 February 1904. The goods shed was on a loop line opposite the original platform so from 1904 was behind the westbound platform. The original small signal box was at the east end of the original platform, but was replaced by one in the middle of that platform when the loop was lengthened. Goods traffic was withdrawn from 3 August 1964. The site is now been taken over by the North Devon Link Road.

Barnstaple

Main article: Barnstaple Victoria Road railway station

The D&SR terminus was on the eastern side of Barnstaple in Devon. The long single platform was on the north side of the line; the track on the south side of this was mainly used for the arrivals while a shorter track on the north side used for departures. The passenger building was wooden. An extensive goods yard with a large stone goods shed was on the south side of the station, while at the eastern end of this was the small locomotive shed and turntable.


Devon and Somerset Railway

The station was known simply as 'Barnstaple' by the GWR but from 26 September 1949 became 'Barnstaple Victoria Road' to differentiate it from the other stations in the town: Barnstaple Junction and Barnstaple Town. All passenger services were diverted to Barnstaple Junction from 13 June 1960, but Victoria Road remained open for freight traffic until 1970. The station buildings have now been demolished and the site is part of an industrial estate, however, the goods shed survives and is used as a church.

Motive power

In the 1890s most trains were operated by 455 'Metro' Class 2-4-0T locomotives, along with some 0-6-0 tender locomotives such as the 388 Class. These were later supplemented by 517 Class 0-4-2Ts, 3300 'Bulldog' Class 4-4-0s and 806 Class 2-4-0s. In the 1930s the regular locomotives were 'Bulldogs', 4300 Class 2-6-0s, 3200 Class 0-6-0s and, on lighter trains, 4575 Class 2-6-2Ts.6300 Class 2-6-0s sometimes worked to Barnstaple but they had to go to Barnstaple Junction to be turned as they were too large for the turntable at the D&SR terminus.

Services

Five passenger and two goods trains were scheduled to operate daily in the October 1880 timetable, as they still were immediately before World War I. By 1898 through coaches were detached from trains from London Paddington and the North of England at Taunton then conveyed over the line to Barnstaple Junction and Ilfracombe attached to local trains. Through trains from Paddington to Ilfracombe were running in the summer by 1905.World War II the passenger service had increased to seven trains.

The following example timetable shows the weekday passenger services in October 1920 (there was no service on Sundays).


Devon and Somerset Railway

Down trains                                           Up trains
Taunton            08:00  10:40  13:30  17:30  19:55  Ilfracombe         –      –      09:25  11:40  16:40
Norton Fitzwarren  08:06  10:46  13:36  17:36  20:02  Barnstaple         07:00  08:50  11:00  15:00  18:00
Milverton          08:16  10:56  13:46  17:46  20:12  Swimbridge         07:10  09:00  11:08  15:16  18:11
Wiveliscombe       08:25  11:05  13:55  17:55  20:21  Filleigh           07:19  09:09  11:17  15:25  18:23
Venn Cross         08:37  11:17  14:07  18:07  20:33  South Molton       07:29  09:24  11:27  15:38  18:38
Morebath           08:46  11:26  14:16  18:16  20:42  Bishop's Nympton   07:38  09:33  11:39  15:49  18:50
Dulverton          08:56  11:37  14:27  18:27  20:53  East Anstey        07:49  09:46  11:50  16:04  19:03
East Anstey        09:06  11:51  14:37  18:37  21:03  Dulverton          07:58  09:55  12:01  16:16  19:16
Bishop's Nympton   09:15  12:00  14:46  18:48  21:12  Morebath           08:07  10:04  12:10  16:26  19:24
South Molton       09:25  12:10  14:56  19:00  21:23  Venn Cross         08:16  10:13  12:19  16:36  19:33
Filleigh           09:35  12:20  15:06  19:10  21:33  Wiveliscombe       08:28  10:23  12:29  16:47  19:44
Swimbridge         09:44  12:29  15:16  19:19  21:43  Milverton          08:35  10:23  12:29  16:47  19:44
Barnstaple         09:50  12:35  15:23  19:25  21:50  Norton Fitzwarren  08:45  10:40  –      17:07  20:01
Ilfracombe         11:17  14:10  16:36  20:35  –      Taunton            08:50  10:45  12:48  17:12  20:05


Devon and Somerset Railway

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Cathalán ua Corcráin

Cathalán ua Corcráin, Irish Abbot, died 1001.

Cathalán bore a suffix that in his or the next generation became the surname Ó Corcrán, a surname held by two at least two unrelated families. One was a Brehon family from County Fermanagh, a second were situated in Munster. Cathalán probably belonged to the Fermanagh family, as he his obit in the Annals of the Four Masters state he was abb Daimhinsi or Abbot of Devenish Island upon his death.

  * Brian Ó Corcrán
  * Felimidh Ó Corcrán
  * Fláithrí Ó Corcrán
  * http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100005D/
  * http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/surname/index.cfm?fuseaction=Go.&UserID=%5B%5D


Bloody Waters

Blood Waters may refer to:

  * Bloody Waters, a 1996 novel by Carolina Garcia-Aguilera
  * "Bloody Waters", a 2018 song by Ab-Soul, Anderson Paak, and James Blake from the Black Panther soundtrack
  * "Bloody Water", a 2021 song by H.E.R. and Thundercat from the album Back of My Mind
  * Blood and Water (disambiguation)
  * Blood in the Water (disambiguation)


C26H32F2O7

The molecular formula C26H32F2O7 (molar mass: 494.52 g/mol, exact mass: 494.21161) may refer to:

  * Diflorasone diacetate
  * Fluocinonide


Leo F. Forbstein

Leo Frank Forbstein (October 16, 1892 – March 16, 1948) was an American film musical director and orchestra conductor who worked on more than 550 projects during a twenty-year period.

Early years

Forbstein was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He was attracted to music as a child, learning the violin at the age of four. As a conductor at the Royal Theater in St. Joseph, he synchronized the orchestra with the action in silent films; he then became principal conductor at the Newman Theatre in Kansas City, where the organist was future Warner Bros. colleague Carl W. Stalling. In the mid-1920s, Forbstein relocated to Hollywood to head the symphony orchestra at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre.

Joins Warner Bros.

He signed with Warner Bros. as one of the directors of its Vitaphone Orchestra, alongside Erno Rapee (then Warners' general music director), Louis Silvers, and David Mendoza; Forbstein's first screen credit was The Squall in 1929. In 1931, Warners dismissed Rapee and Mendoza in a consolidation and economy move and Forbstein became the company's general music director.

Oscar nominations and win

Leo Forbstein conducts Dick Powell as Joan Blondell looks on in Broadway Gondolier (1935).

In 1936, musical director Forbstein and composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold were write-in candidates for the Academy Award for Best Scoring for their work on Captain Blood, a score composed by Korngold but for which Forbstein received recognition as head of the Warner Brothers music department under Academy rules in place at the time. The following year, Forbstein received nominations as head of the Warner Brothers music department for the nominated scores The Charge of the Light Brigade (composed by Max Steiner) and Anthony Adverse (composed by Korngold), winning for the latter. The award for Anthony Adverse was originally a plaque that was later replaced with an Academy Award statuette in 1946. He was nominated as head of the department again in 1938 for The Life of Emile Zola (composed by Steiner).

Personal life


Leo F. Forbstein

Personal life

Forbstein was married to the former Bess Gallas from October 16, 1914 until his death from a heart attack in Los Angeles, California. They had one daughter, Harriett (born 1915).Lou Forbes was Leo's younger brother. Leo Forbstein was entombed in the Corridor of Immortality at Home of Peace Cemetery.

Selected film credits


Leo F. Forbstein

Selected film credits

  * The Squall (1929)
  * The Widow from Chicago (1930)
  * The Maltese Falcon (1931)
  * The Millionaire (1931)
  * Bought! (1931)
  * The Star Witness (1931)
  * The Heart of New York (1932)
  * Union Depot (1932)
  * The Man Who Played God (1932)
  * The Cabin in the Cotton (1932)
  * I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
  * 42nd Street (1933)
  * Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
  * Footlight Parade (1933)
  * The Working Man (1933)
  * Ex-Lady (1933)
  * Bureau of Missing Persons (1933)
  * British Agent (1934)
  * Fog Over Frisco (1934)
  * The Big Shakedown (1934)
  * Jimmy the Gent (1934)
  * Fashions of 1934 (1934)
  * Broadway Hostess (1935)
  * Front Page Woman (1935)
  * The Girl from 10th Avenue (1935)
  * Special Agent (1935)
  * Times Square Playboy (1936)
  * The Golden Arrow (1936)
  * It's Love I'm After (1937)
  * Jezebel (1938)
  * Dark Victory (1939)
  * The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
  * The Letter (1940)
  * Footsteps in the Dark (1941)
  * Meet John Doe (1941)
  * Sergeant York (1941)
  * The Maltese Falcon (1941)
  * Kings Row (1942)
  * Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
  * Now, Voyager (1942)
  * Casablanca (1942)
  * Destination Tokyo (1943)
  * Mr. Skeffington (1944)
  * To Have and Have Not (1944)
  * The Corn Is Green (1945)
  * Mildred Pierce (1945)
  * The Big Sleep (1946)
  * The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
  * Winter Meeting (1948)
  * Rope (1948)
  * Johnny Belinda (1948)
  * Leo F. Forbstein at IMDb (Date of death, February 12, 1948, on IMDB is incorrect.)
  * Leo F. Forbstein at Find a Grave
  * The Royal Theatre in St. Joseph, Missouri.
  * Newman Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri (changed to Paramount Theatre in 1947).


Bremer Klaben

Bremer Klaben, or just Klaben, is a type of Stollen from Bremen, Germany. This celebrated bread, famous in Northern Germany,Christmas season. It is said that Bremer Klaben tastes especially good when it is baked two weeks before serving.

Appearance

This pastry has more raisins than an ordinary fruit cake.bread of sorts made with dried fruit (especially raisins), flour, butter, sugar, orange and lemon peel, rum, almonds, yeast and salt, though many variations exist. A feature that distinguishes it from Stollen is that it is not dusted with powdered sugar after baking.

History

The earliest known document mentioning Klaben is from 1593.

Since December 2009 it has a protected designation of origin. The bread- shaped cake joined the select ranks of food that enjoy protected geographical indications under EU law, such as Aachener Printen gingerbread and lebkuchen from Nuremberg. The Commission Regulation of the European Union released the announcement through its Official Journal.


Kontias

Kontias (Greek: Κοντιάς) is a village on the Greek island of Lemnos, North Aegean. It is the seat of the municipal unit Nea Koutali. In 2011 its population was 572. Kontias is situated in the southwestern part of the island, 2 km west of Tsimandria, 3 km southwest of Portianou and 8 km east of the island capital Myrina

Population

Year  Population
1920  1,272
1940  1,500
1981  549
1991  551
2001  628
2011  572

History

Byzantine period

The village was first mentioned as "the old castle of Konteas" in a census document of the Great Lavra monastery, of which it was a dependency. This castle had probably been built during the Venetian rule of the island (1207–76). According to local legends, the village was originally located near the sea, and it was resettled to the present inland location due to pirate raids. The original location was probably the small port of Agios Giannis, where ruins of a castle still remain.

Ottoman period

The bay of Kontias was mentioned by the Turkish naval sailor Piri Reis in 1521 as "Qondia Körfezi". Ships awaited favourable conditions to enter the Hellespont straits there. Piri Reis mentioned a castle at the bay, but no village. In the following ages, the port was mentioned by several travellers in the area. In 1770, during the Orlov Revolt, part of the Russian Navy fleet anchored in the port of Kontias, when they besieged Myrina.


Kontias

The first mention of the village in the present location was in 1785, by Choiseul-Gouffier. Kontias was an organized settlement and one of the largest villages on the island. In 1856 it had 290 men who paid 9,280 piatres to avoid conscription. It had 176 families in 1863, and 187 in 1874. In the same year the municipality of Kontias was mentioned, consisting of the villages Kontias, Tsimandria, Portianou, Agkariones, Pesperago (now Pedino), Sarpi (now Kallithea) and Livadochori. This corresponds with the present municipal unit Nea Koutali. It was a rich village, because besides the agricultural activities there were many sailors and shipowners, including Papagiannis with 60 boats. The village school was first mentioned in 1873. A new school building was built in 1880. In 1910 two fountains were built: Tsikoulas and Kali Vrysi.

Modern period

Kontias joined the rest of Greece after the Balkan Wars in 1913. It became an independent community in 1918 named Kondias, which was changed into Kontias in 1940. During the years between the world wars, it had a remarkable growth in economy and population. In 1920 it had 1,272 inhabitants, making it the third largest village in Lemnos. In 1940 it had 1,500 inhabitants, making it the second village in population, after Myrina. A refugee settlement was built in 1926. Cotton production on Lemnos began from Kontias. After World War II, the population decreased due to internal and external migration. The population was 551 in 1991.


Kontias

* List of settlements in the Lemnos regional unit
  * Tourptsoglou-Stefanidou Vassiliki, 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 Kontias, Limnos p 452 (21-3-2007)
  * Kontias at the GTP Travel Pages


Fritz Ewert

Fritz Ewert (9 February 1937 in Düsseldorf – 16 March 1990 in Heimerzheim) was a German football player.Bundesliga with 1. FC Köln. He represented Germany in four friendlies.

Honours

  * Bundesliga champion: 1963–64
  * Bundesliga runner-up: 1964–65
  * Fritz Ewert at fussballdaten.de (in German)


ArmCosmos

ArmCosmos, commonly known as the Armenian Space Agency (Armenian: Հայկական տիեզերական գործակալություն), is an Armenian private agency responsible for the development of Armenia's commercial space industry, coordinating domestic activities, identifying opportunities and facilitating international space engagement, on behalf of the Government of Armenia. Its headquarters are located in Yerevan, Armenia.

History

In 2013, Gagik Grigorian, head of the Ministry of Transport and Communication announced the creation of ArmCosmos, a company to facilitate launching Armenia's first commercial satellite, named ArmSat,Earth's orbit.

The government first announced plans to launch an Armenian satellite in April 2012 when senior officials from Russia's Federal Space Agency, also known as Roscosmos, visited Yerevan and met with Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan. A government statement announced that the two sides expressed readiness “to take necessary measures to put the project into practice.”

Currently, six of the 15 Post-Soviet republics have launched their own satellites since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Budget

See also: Satellite § Planned first satellites

The initial cost for Armenia's space program was US$250 million, with part of the sum to come from private investors, as announced by government officials.

Goals

See also: List of government space agencies § Expected and proposed future space agencies

Armenia currently has the right for two orbital positions for telecom satellites in the Geostationary orbit allocated to Armenia.UN's International Telecommunication Union (ITU) to plan for the prospective launch of Armenia's first satellite. Once negotiations are completed with the ITU, talks will be conducted with respect to the designing and construction of the satellite.

Cooperation

Artistic rendition of the ArmCosmos satellite, ArmSat.

Armenia is a member of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization, the European Telecommunications Satellite Organization, and has ratified the Convention Relating to the Distribution of Programme-Carrying Signals Transmitted by Satellite.


ArmCosmos

In July 2013, Armenian Transport Minister Gagik Beglaryan, visited Canada and met with the president of the Canadian Space Agency, Gilles Leclerc, and senior official from the Canadian Export Development Agency, John Miller, to discuss the possibility of Canadian participation in Armenia's space program.MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA), a Canadian aerospace technology company. MDA President Mag Iskander advised Beglaryan that the MDA will help Armenia launch its first communications satellite.

In September 2013, Armenian government officials met with German Ambassador Rainer Morel. The Ambassador stated that, "We are ready to cooperate not only in communications but also other fields related with the project" and expressed hope that German companies will also show interest in the satellite program.

In 2014, China announced its interest in developing the ArmSat satellite. Transport Minister Gagik Beglaryan met with representatives of the China Great Wall Industry Corporation and the China Academy of Space Technology. The vice president of the China Great Wall Industry Corporation, Zhao Chun Chao, stated that the Chinese side is ready to engage in the design of ArmSat, construction, launching and servicing, as well as training of Armenian specialists.

The American University of Armenia announced its interest in the program and launched the Armenian Student Aerospace Team (ArmSat) student club. The ArmSat student club is working on developing both hardware and software systems.

In 2017, India announced its intentions to build an Earth observation satellite for Armenia, as well as train Armenian scientists in the use of the system and handling and interpreting its data. An agreement was finalized following former Indian Vice-President Hamid Ansari's meeting with former President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan.

In October 2019, government ministers from Armenia and Georgia met to discuss a range of economic and technical cooperation proposals, among them satellite communications. Both Caucasus countries acknowledged that there is “untapped potential” and pledged to collaborate on ambitious projects.

Cooperation with the Eurasian Union

The Eurasian Union announced plans to create a joint remote earth sensing system by integrating space and ground-based capabilities of its member states, to include Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. The project involves the creation of a commercial company that will integrate both space and ground-based systems and provide satellite imaging to global customers by 2019.

Cooperation with the European Space Agency


ArmCosmos

Cooperation with the European Space Agency

See also: Enlargement of the European Space Agency § Possible future cooperation

Armenia also cooperates and participates in certain programs of the European Space Agency (ESA). In 2016, Armenia joined the ESA's Earth Observation for Eastern Partnership initiative. This move brought new perspectives to develop cooperation opportunities between the ESA and the EU's Eastern Partnership countries. The project aims to achieve an increase in the uptake of satellite-based environmental information and promotes regional cooperation and knowledge exchange. The project is further endorsed by the World Bank and the European Investment Bank.

Recent developments

In October 2019, the Government of Armenia approved a bill on creating a national law on space activities. The bill will provide companies with tax privileges until 2030, will encourage space activities to be developed in Armenia and will enable Armenia to carry out its own space programs, including launching Armenian spacecraft and satellites into space.

On 26 March 2020, the Government of Armenia signed into law a package of space activity legislation called "Advanced Tomorrow", or ATOM, which will promote educational and economic development and will expand both state and commercial space activities.

In August 2020, the President of Armenia, Armen Sarksyan, announced that Armenia will host the sixth Starmus Festival from September 5 to 10, 2022. The event was sponsored by the President himself, as well as, the Ministry of Education and Science. The event brought together world-class scientists, artists, astronauts, and the general public to celebrate science communication and to share latest discoveries in a number of scientific fields. The main focus of the sixth Starmus Festival was on the exploration of Mars.

On 27 April 2021, the Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia, Armen Grigoryan met with the General Director of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin in Moscow. The parties discussed the prospects for the development of space activities in Armenia. Rogozin praised Armenian-Russian cooperation in the field of space monitoring. He proposed to expand cooperation between Russia and Armenia in the framework of space technology, design and development. The parties also agreed to set up a space activities working group between Armenia and Russia.


ArmCosmos

On 15 June 2021, the Minister of High-Tech Industry, Hayk Chobanyan, participated in the Global Space Exploration Conference (GLEX 2021) in Saint Petersburg. He attached importance to cooperation with key players in the field and participation in international events and stated that Armenia is a country with great ambitions and potential in the field of space research. Chobanyan stressed that taking into account that space exploration is accompanied by technological progress, the Armenian government is investing in the development of this direction. “We strive to work with the world’s leading countries to use space for peaceful purposes and to engage in other global projects,” the Minister said.

On 25 May 2022, Armenia launched an observation satellite in cooperation with SpaceX. The Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan stated, "On May 25, 2022, at 22:35 Yerevan time, the first satellite of the Republic of Armenia was launched into orbit from the space station at Cape Canaveral, USA."

  * List of companies of Armenia
  * List of government space agencies
  * Soviet space program
  * Science and technology in Armenia
  * Telecommunications in Armenia


Liaoning Ruixiang RX1E

The Liaoning Ruixiang RX1E is a Chinese two-seat electric aircraft, designed by the Liaoning General Aviation Academy at Shenyang Aerospace University and manufactured by the Liaoning Ruixiang General Aviation Manufacture Company Limited of Shenyang.

The aircraft was first shown at the Zhuhai China Airshow, in November 2012 and in 2015 at the AERO Friedrichshafen show in Germany.

Design and development

The result of a three-year development process started in June 2012, the RX1E is an electric powered, two-seat side-by-side configuration, carbon fibre composite construction aircraft with a T-tail and tricycle landing gear and is one of the first electric airplanes in production. The company said in April 2015 that they had 28 orders for the design.

The manufacturer claims that the aircraft conforms to US Light-sport Aircraft requirements and has a Type Design Approval from the Civil Aviation Administration of China, issued in 2015. As of September 2016 it does not appear on the US Federal Aviation Administration list of approved LSAs and, in fact, the category excludes electric-powered aircraft and requires a single reciprocating engine.

The first two customer aircraft were delivered in June 2015. The launch customer was the Liaoning Ruixiang General Aviation Co., which will employ the aircraft in the flight training role.

An improved version, the RX1E-A, was first flown in November 2017 and features a two-hour endurance and a new ballistic parachute design. The original RX1E has a 45-minute endurance.

Specifications (RX1E)

Data from Tacke

General characteristics

  * Crew: one
  * Capacity: one passenger
  * Length: 6.58 m (21 ft 7 in)
  * Wingspan: 14.5 m (47 ft 7 in)
  * Height: 2.45 m (8 ft 0 in)
  * Wing area: 12 m2 (130 sq ft)
  * Empty weight: 270 kg (595 lb)
  * Gross weight: 500 kg (1,102 lb)
  * Propellers: 2-bladed wooden fixed pitch

Performance


Liaoning Ruixiang RX1E

Performance

  * Cruise speed: 110 km/h (68 mph, 59 kn)
  * Stall speed: 73 km/h (45 mph, 39 kn)
  * Never exceed speed: 160 km/h (99 mph, 86 kn)
  * Endurance: 60 minutes
  * Service ceiling: 1,400 m (4,600 ft)
  * Wing loading: 41.7 kg/m2 (8.5 lb/sq ft)
  * Aero Electric Sun Flyer
  * Pipistrel Alpha Electro
  * YouTube Video
  * Photo


Devon station (Ontario)

Devon station is a Via Rail flag stop station located in Devon, Ontario (south of Chapleau, Ontario) on the Sudbury – White River train.

Devon, Ontario (most likely named for Devon, England) was first developed by Biglow Lumber which cut railway ties for CP Rail in the 1930s. The railway once had tracks that came off the main line to the Biglow Mill for shipping and receiving purposes. The tracks were removed in the 1990s but much of the rail bed still can be located. Oliver Korpela owned much of the land after the Biglow Lumber company went out of business. Ownership of the lands that were not sold has since been passed to his son Richard. Situated on the south west end of Borden Lake, it primarily serves as a bedroom community to Chapleau. Approximately 25 homes are located in the hamlet. Two businesses are located in the area while Chapleau Lodge is accessed through Devon. The community has electrical, phone and a surfaced road controlled by the Local Road Board. There is no fire protection services. It continues to be a whistle stop for the Via Rail Budd Car service. There is no station building or shelter.

  * Via Rail page for Devon train station


Cathar yellow cross

In the Middle Ages, the Cathar yellow cross was a distinguishing mark worn by repentant Cathars, who were ordered to wear it by the Roman Catholic Church.

Background

Catharism was a religious movement with dualistic and Gnostic elements that appeared in the Languedoc region of France around the middle of the 12th century. Cathars were dualist in their beliefs, and the Catholic symbol of the crucifix was, to the Cathars, a negative symbol. In the words of one 14th century Cathar Perfect Pierre Authié:

...just as a man should with an axe break the gallows on which his father was hanged, so you ought to try and break crucifixes, because Christ was suspended from it, albeit only in seeming.

The Albigensian Heresy and the Inquisition

The office of the Inquisition was formulated in response to Catharism, and a crusade was ultimately declared against Catharism.

Repentant first offenders (who admitted to having been Cathars), when released on licence by the inquisition were ordered to:

...carry from now on and forever two yellow crosses on all their clothes except their shirts and one arm shall be two palms long while the other transversal arm shall be a palm and a half long and each shall be three digits wide with one to be worn in front on the chest and the other between the shoulders.

In addition they were ordered "...not to move about either inside or outside" their houses and were required to "...redo or renew the crosses if they are torn or are destroyed by age."

At the time these crosses were known locally as "las debanadoras" - which in Occitan literally meant reels or winding machines. It is thought that this name is derived from the fact that the Cathars compared the cross to a reel and line to which the wearer was tied, and by which the wearer could be reeled in at any time, for a second offense meant the death penalty.

Montaillou


Cathar yellow cross

Montaillou

An example of this type of punishment is to be found in the French village of Montaillou, one of the last bastions of the Cathar belief; here the local Bishop and future Pope, Jacques Fournier launched an extensive inquisition which involved dozens of lengthy interviews with the locals, which were all faithfully recorded. When Fournier became Pope he brought the records with him and they remain to this day in the Vatican Library.

Examples of residents from Montaillou being forced to wear the cross include:

  * Béatrice de Planisoles
  * Raymonde Arsen
  * Cross of Toulouse, sometimes incorrectly known as the "Cathar Cross"
  * Yellow badge
  * The Yellow Cross - the story of the last Cathars 1290 - 1329. René Weis . Penguin Viking 2000. ISBN 0-14-027669-6
  * Limborch - Historica Inquisitionis 1692


Bispham, Lancashire

Bispham, Lancashire may refer to:

  * Bispham, Blackpool
  * Bispham, a civil parish containing the village of Bispham Green, West Lancashire


Carrefour Gros Chaudiere

Carrefour Gros Chaudiere is a village in the Tiburon commune of the Chardonnières Arrondissement, in the Sud department of Haiti.

  * Bon Pas
  * Conete
  * Dalmate
  * Galette Sèche
  * Perion
  * Plansinte
  * Tiburon


Lee Collins (footballer, born 1974)

Lee Collins (born 3 February 1974 in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire) is a Scottish former professional footballer.

Collins began his professional career in his native land with Albion Rovers. After two years, 45 league appearances, and one goal for the club, he moved south of the border to join English club Swindon Town. He remained at the County Ground for five years, making 64 appearances and scoring two goals. He won the Division Two championship with them in 1995–96.

In 2000, Steve McMahon, Collins' former manager at Swindon, signed him for Blackpool. Collins remained at Bloomfield Road for three years, making 66 appearances and scoring two goals. He won promotion via the Division Three play-offs in his first season with the club. In 2002 he started the final as Blackpool won the 2001–02 Football League Trophy.

In 2003, he was loaned to non-league Morecambe, and he went on to make the move permanent after negotiating a pay-off deal with Blackpool chairman Karl Oyston.

Collins returned to Scotland in 2004 with Stenhousemuir. He remained with the club for two years.

Honours

Swindon Town

  * Division Two champions: 1995–96

Blackpool

  * Division Three play-off winners: 2000–01
  * Football League Trophy winner: 2001-02

Specific

General

  * Lee Collins at Soccerbase
  * Lee Collins at Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Player's Database


Building at 106–108 Inman Street

The Building at 106–108 Inman Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts is one of a series of well-preserved Greek Revival duplexes on Inman Street. This house was built in 1845, and features very straightforward Greek Revival styling, most notably in the pilasters that run the full two story height of the building, separating each of the front facade's bays. The building has a later Italianate porch sheltering the centered entrances.

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

  * Building at 102–104 Inman Street
  * Buildings at 110–112 Inman Street
  * National Register of Historic Places listings in Cambridge, Massachusetts


Kontar

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

  * Hassan Al Kontar, Syrian refugee who was stranded at Kuala Lumpur International Airport
  * Zoltán Kontár, Slovak professional footballer
  * Samir Kontar, Lebanese politician
  * Kuntar
  * Kantar (disambiguation)


Eşme (disambiguation)

Eşme can refer to:

  * Eşme
  * Eşme, Silvan
  * Eşme, Sungurlu


Bill Edmonds

For other people named William Edmonds, see William Edmonds (disambiguation).

William Frederick Edmonds (23 October 1903 – 24 November 1968) was an Australian politician and trade unionist from Queensland. He served briefly as state president of Australian Workers' Union (AWU) before his election to the House of Representatives at the 1946 federal election. He represented the Australian Labor Party (ALP) in the seat of Herbert until his defeat in 1958.

Early life

Edmonds was born in Charters Towers, Queensland,Western Queensland from the age of nine. He worked in the copper mines of Kuridala, Mount Elliott and Mount Cuthbert, and later on the construction of the railway between Dajarra and Camooweal. In 1921, Edmonds moved to the coast, where he worked variously as a storeman, truck driver, railway worker, grocer, builder's labourer, and sugar worker.

Union career

In 1939, Edmonds began working as an organiser for the Australian Workers' Union (AWU), based in Townsville. He was elected secretary of the union's northern district in June 1943, and in January 1945 was elected state president.

Politics

Edmonds was elected to the House of Representatives at the 1946 federal election. He had earlier defeated the sitting member, George Martens, for ALP preselection.maiden speech he "launched a bitter attack on the Australian Communist Party".

In 1949, Edmonds proposed abolishing the Stevedoring Industry Commission and returning control of maritime industrial relations to the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration.

After the 1954 election, Edmonds was the Labor Party's candidate for Speaker of the House of Representatives, losing by nine votes to the incumbent Liberal speaker Archie Cameron.1958 election to John Murray, who had the endorsement of both the Liberal Party and Country Party but sat as a Liberal in parliament.

Personal life

Edmonds had twin sons with his wife Evelyn. He was widowed in September 1945.


Little Grassy Lake

Little Grassy Lake may refer to:

  * Little Grassy Lake (Illinois)
  * Little Grassy Lake (Florida)


Joint Planning and Development Office

The United States Congress established the Joint Planning and Development Office (JPDO) in 2003 to plan and coordinate the development of the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen). The JPDO is a multi-agency public/private initiative to include: United States Department of Transportation, United States Department of Defense, Department of Commerce, Department of Homeland Security, Federal Aviation Administration, National Aeronautics and Space Administrations, and White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Congress ended funding for JPDO in 2014.

Profile

The NextGen portfolio includes large-scale investments, research, and operational changes that will profoundly impact the capabilities of the nation’s air transportation system. This includes developments in air traffic control, airspace management, satellite-based navigation, security (both at the airport and in the air), digital communications, net-centric operations, and changes in the way aviation weather information is gathered and disseminated throughout the system.

With this in mind, and given the broad impact of these changes, the concept of a joint office, one that can manage the development of the NextGen architecture and integrated work plan, has become especially important.

Since its inception, the JPDO has been in the development of a framework for planning NextGen, identifying and prioritizing key multi-agency concerns, and driving consensus in the development of investment choices and decisions.

The JPDO is governed by a Senior Policy Committee (SPC) that is made up of Cabinet-level representatives from each of the JPDO’s government partners. The SPC is chaired by the Secretary of Transportation.

The scope of the JPDO’s planning is broad. It engages the collaborative energies of the departments and agencies, the academic community, research, and private sectors. It covers a time span of nearly two decades and calls for a unique level of integration in the planning and budgeting of critical investments in the national transportation system. This approach is representative of a new paradigm in the way government pursues large-scale transformational initiatives, particularly those that encompass a broad range of mission areas, agencies, and the private sector.


Joint Planning and Development Office

The JPDO’s Joint Planning Environment (JPE) is a key tool in these planning efforts. Through its Enterprise Architecture (the architectural blueprint), Concept of Operations, and Integrated Work Plan (all publicly accessible on the Internet), the JPE offers a level of transparency and accountability that the Federal Government expects. This kind of access is unprecedented. The concept is a critical part of implementing a Federated Enterprise Architecture.

A New Paradigm in Government Management

The JPDO mission, and what the organization is intended to achieve, has at times been called “an experimental concept” in government management. NextGen involves a wide range of carefully timed and integrated activities, and while having significant benefits in the near- and mid-terms, it is also heavily focused on the long-term development of America’s aviation infrastructure. This kind of challenge necessitates an entirely new paradigm in the way government functions to include the way it plans, makes decisions, resources, budgets, and in the way it reacts to opportunities and challenges.

Drivers for Change

America’s air transportation system is responsible for over 5% of the nation’s GDP and has created 11 million jobs. Operationally, it is the safest system in the world and handles over 750 million passengers each year. However, the critical infrastructure supporting the system is facing significant limitations.

The system relies on radar and point-to-point beacons to control and manage the flow of air traffic. These are all World-War-II-era technologies that make it difficult for the system to expand or to adjust to changes in system operations. If the aviation infrastructure is going to be able to meet the needs expected in the 21st century, it needs to be sufficiently scalable to support additional demand, and flexible enough to accommodate changes in the aviation industry as well as the introduction of new aircraft. Further, NextGen, through improved operations, new aircraft designs, and more efficient routes, will be able to recognize significant benefits in terms of reduced environmental impact. That, in a nutshell, is the objective of NextGen.


Joint Planning and Development Office

The JPDO’s role in this change environment is to develop the multi-agency planning and implementation structure to make NextGen a reality. This includes outlining the key tasks and enablers needed to develop and implement satellite-based control of aircraft, net-centric digital communications, advanced weather applications, new concepts in airspace management, and more efficient and effective security management.

These changes and new technologies will be the basis for a transformation of this critical component of America’s transportation infrastructure.

The Joint Planning Environment

One of the most critical objectives for the JPDO has been to develop the multi-agency planning structure. The framework for this work is the Joint Planning Environment (JPE). The JPE brings together the key planning tools that define NextGen. This includes the Concept of Operations (ConOps), the Enterprise Architecture, and the Integrated Work Plan (IWP). The ConOps is the description of how the NextGen system will work. The Enterprise Architecture provides a view of how NextGen will function and what capabilities need to be developed. In addition, it provides data from which analysis and modeling can be performed to assess options for determining the best business case for each set of investments and solutions.

This structure then informs the key how-to component of the JPE, the IWP. The IWP, driven by the ConOps and the Enterprise Architecture, along with the collaborative involvement of each government partner and with significant private sector input, lays out each of the operational improvements and enablers necessary to make NextGen a reality, across bands of functional/operational segments. The IWP outlines the work of each partner agency, the timing for these efforts, the key research, policy, and implementation objectives, and defines how they fit together.


Joint Planning and Development Office

In order to build collaboration and to demonstrate transparency, the JPE is publicly available at https://web.archive.org/web/20090108030528/http://jpe.jpdo.gov/ee/ or through the JPDO’s Web site https://web.archive.org/web/20080509140423/http://www.jpdo.gov/. The JPE, through a series of over 40 different reports, allows users to study the NextGen planning tools in terms of linkages, respective departmental and agency responsibilities, and timelines. This provides the user with the opportunity to see how NextGen development might be impacted by changes in schedule, funding, or relative priorities.

NextGen Institute

The JPDO is focused on establishing a new level of collaboration with other government departments and agencies, but it also has a mission to develop a strong relationship with the private sector. To this end, the JPDO created an entirely new organization called the NextGen Institute (http://www.ncat.com/ngats/index.html). The Institute provides the mechanism for industry to participate on an equal footing with their Federal counterparts in developing NextGen products and providing input on important policies. Currently the Institute has over 230 members.

The principal involvement for industry is through a series of joint, public/private sector Working Groups. Each group covers a specific subject area that is important to NextGen’s development. In addition, each group has an industry and government co-chair, and has been tasked with providing extensive input into the NextGen planning process, as well as developing important products for use in future planning and implementation efforts.

Data-Driven Decision Making

NextGen represents a series of long-term investments in the national air transportation system, as well as a continuing long-term research commitment. It also requires a significant level of investment on the part of the private sector. To guide this investment the JPDO is developing a business case that will provide an investment analysis framework for future decision making and prioritization.


Joint Planning and Development Office

Key to this work has been an extensive modeling and simulation effort aimed at developing critical information on the structure of future NextGen costs and the expected benefit from NextGen improvements. This structure creates a “series of trade spaces” where alternatives and various scenarios can be explored, analyzed, and compared. The objective is to develop a long-term, NextGen decision making model that is linked to the JPE and is heavily data-driven.

Environmental Benefits

NextGen offers a new approach to managing the environmental impact of aviation. Several air traffic procedures currently in use provide more efficient aircraft trajectories that reduce the amount of fuel aircraft burn during flight. These directly reduce emissions and noise. Over the longer term, gains provided by satellite-based navigation systems will offer more efficient routes that reduce the amount of time aircraft spend in flight. Engine plant and aircraft design are other aspects of the work being undertaken by the JPDO partner agencies. For instance, NASA, through its research work on engine plant design is developing lighter and more efficient engines that will lead to a substantial reduction in the output of pollutants.

Some Examples of Ongoing Multi-Agency Initiatives

The JPDO, working closely with its government partners, has identified several valuable opportunities to leverage technology, expertise, and ongoing research to foster collaboration on key NextGen issues. Some ongoing examples of this work include:

Net-Centric Operations

One of the most critical challenges to NextGen is to develop a net-centric capability for the national airspace system that will provide advanced exchange of operational data. This includes not only the exchange of information between aircraft and the ground, but also between aircraft in flight. The Department of Defense has a long-standing commitment to net-centric technology, and now through the JPDO is developing the initial operating concept and key references for advanced network connectivity to support NextGen. This kind of leveraging of existing technologies and capabilities is one of the JPDO’s most important objectives.

Integrated Surveillance


Joint Planning and Development Office

Integrated Surveillance

Another key JPDO contribution to the development of NextGen involves integrated surveillance. Integrated surveillance is the integration of cooperative and non-cooperative surveillance data in a user-defined environment. As NextGen initiatives, such as Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B), a satellite-based navigation system, become available, it will be important to determine the optimum mix between cooperative surveillance capabilities like ADS-B and non-cooperative radar surveillance-based capabilities.

At an inter-agency surveillance summit in December 2008, the JPDO was asked to develop a concept of operations and architecture for integrated national aviation surveillance. The work will include development of a funding profile and a long-term recommendation regarding future system governance.

Weather

Improved weather information is essential for NextGen to recognize some of its most important benefits. However, the challenge for the JPDO has been to organize the weather research, dissemination, and forecasting work of several different agencies into a cohesive national aviation weather strategy. This effort represented a considerable undertaking and one that involved extensive outreach and collaboration to achieve. The result, under the leadership of the Department of Commerce, and with the active involvement of the Department of Defense, the FAA, and NASA, is an agreement to develop a 4-D Weather Cube. This concept represents a major change in the way aviation weather information is managed. Using the 4-D concept, weather information will be shared with all system users, and will include probabilistic forecasts of expected weather conditions.

Research Coordination

NASA is the principal source of air traffic and aviation research. Historically, one of the most challenging aspects of this work has been the coordination of NASA’s efforts with the operational needs of the FAA. This concern is only heightened by the expanded needs of NextGen. With this in mind, and working with both agencies, the JPDO has established a series of Research Transition Teams to coordinate the development of key research requirements and to better coordinate the evolution of research into operational improvements and new capabilities.

Challenges


Joint Planning and Development Office

Challenges

The Joint Planning and Development Office represents a substantial cultural change in the way government plans, coordinates, and budgets for a large-scale initiative. Rather than relying on coordination or cooperation on a situation-by-situation basis, the JPDO has brought together all of the government partners to work collaboratively in planning, designing, and implementing the NextGen initiative. However, working with so many different organizations has been a challenge. Each government department and agency has its own unique organizational culture which is reflected in its decision making processes, structure, planning process, and budgeting. Managing this challenge has required an extensive level of outreach, information sharing, collaboration, and negotiation.

One of the challenges in this undertaking has been in maintaining the “honest broker” status that is critical to this change-oriented approach to managing a large-scale initiative. It is important that the JPDO is organizationally positioned in a way that allows it to have sufficient latitude, under the direction of its SPC, to carry out its mission.

  * jpdo.gov - Official Joint Planning and Development Web Site
  * JPE - Joint Planning Environment
  * The Vision 100 – Century of Aviation Reauthorization Act - Official Legislation for the Vision 100 Act
  * Executive Order: Transformation of the National Air Transportation System


Hugh C. Brooks

Hugh C. Brooks (June 19, 1922 – October 8, 2008) was an American economic geographer, author, educator, and historian who specialized in the history and political economy of Africa.

Life and career

Brooks was born in Seattle, Washington, on June 19, 1922. He served in the US Army (1941-1946), where he was a member of Regimental HQ Company, 310th Infantry, 78th Division, and received the Bronze Star, Purple Heart, and Silver Star for his service in the European Theater.University of Washington in Seattle, where he received the B.A. in 1947, and then the M.A. from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva in 1948. Brooks began teaching Geography at Oregon State University in Corvallis (1950-1951), and then taught at Teachers College, Columbia University, where he received the M.A. (1952) and Ed.D. (1954). His dissertation topic was "Directed Studies in Introductory College Geography." He also taught at Hunter College, 1952-1954.

A Fulbright award enabled Brooks to lecture at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa from 1955-1957, where he worked under Dr. John Wellington, before he began teaching at Newark State College as an Associate Professor of Geography, 1957-1961.St. John's University in 1961 as Associate Professor of Geography and Director of their Institute of African Studies, to "prepare students to work in Africa, or for organizations working within the continent.Royal Geographical Society (London) in 1965.Marquette University and Boston College, and Peter DiMeglio, who taught at the University of Wisconsin.

Brooks' first wife, Savina Vicini, died in 1994. They had two children, Robert and Alison. (Robert "Bobby" Brooks was an entertainment agent who died in the same helicopter crash with Stevie Ray Vaughan.)

Scholarship


Hugh C. Brooks

Scholarship

Brooks co-authored a textbook (with George T. Renner), Directed Studies in Introductory College Geography (1958), as well as (with Bertrand P. Boucher) Field Trips in New Jersey (1962), and (with Richard Keppel) Effective Teaching With Aero-View Transparencies: A Comprehensive Visual Presentation of the Geography, History and Economic Assets of the United States of America (1964). While consulting with McGraw-Hill, Sadlier, and Grolier in the late 1960s, he developed several textbooks for younger students, including Africa: A High School Geography (1966), Africa: A Junior High School Geography (1966), and The Old World: Africa (1968). He co-authored several books on African geography and culture: (with Michael G. Mensoian) Arab World, New Africa (1969); (with Yosef ben-Jochannan and Kempton Webb) Africa: Lands, Peoples, and Cultures of the World (1969); and (with William Norris, and David Dicker) The People of New Africa (1972).

Brooks also produced three books with colleagues from St. John's: (co-editor with Yassin El-Ayouty) Refugees South of the Sahara: An African Dilemma (1970); (co-editor with Yassin El-Ayouty) Africa and International Organization (1974); and (with Francis A. Lees) The Economic and Political Development of the Sudan (1977). He also contributed articles on seven African countries to Grolier's Lands and Peoples reference set, which was first published in 1972 but subsequently went through over ten editions. Brooks worked with the Image Bank in the late 1980s to select photographs for a projected coffee-table book, Africa: The Land and the People, but it was never published.

  * "Bobby Brooks Service to Be Held Thursday," Los Angeles Times, August 29, 1990.
  * "PFC Hugh C Brooks," Find A Grave website, 19 January 2020.
  * "Hugh C. Brooks," Contemporary Authors Online, Detroit: Gale, 2001, Literature Resource Center, Web. 19 December 2014.
  * "Obituary of Hugh Campbell Brooks," New York Times, October 11, 2008.


Bisphams Mill Creek

Bisphams Mill Creek is a 5.9-mile-long (9.5 km)tributary of Greenwood Branch in the southern New Jersey Pine Barrens in the United States.

  * List of rivers of New Jersey

39°55′41″N 74°35′36″W / 39.92794°N 74.59341°W


Helen Maolo

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Maolo and the second or maternal family name is Gosalvez.

Helen Mayerlin Maolo Gosálvez (born 23 December 1988) is a Bolivian footballer who plays as a centre back for Mundo Futuro. She was a member of the Bolivia women's national team.

Early life

Maolo is originally from the Beni Department and moved to the Santa Cruz Department.

International career

Maolo played for Bolivia at senior level in the 2014 Copa América Femenina. She also played a friendly against Brazil in 2017.


Le Mesnil-Rainfray

Le Mesnil-Rainfray (French pronunciation: [lə mɛnil ʁɛ̃fʁɛ]) is a former commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Juvigny les Vallées.

  * Communes of the Manche department
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Le Mesnil-Rainfray.


Building at 1707–1709 Cambridge Street

The Building at 1707–1709 Cambridge Street is an historic multifamily house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Built in 1845, it is one of two identical surviving rental properties built by a local developer (out of four originally built). The survival of their original building contracts provides an important window into the understanding of 19th century building practices. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

Description and history

1707-09 Cambridge Street is located a short way east of Harvard Square, on the north side of Cambridge Street, opposite its junction with Felton Street and just east of 1715–17 Cambridge Street, its virtual duplicate. It is a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, with a side-gable roof and clapboarded exterior. The roof is pierced by four dormers with fully pedimented gable fronts, their windows flanked by small pilasters rising to entablatures. The building corners are also pilastered, rising to an entablature that encircles the building. The side gables are also fully pedimented. A single-story porch extends across the front, with Doric columns supporting an entablature and hip roof. The facade is six bays wide, with entrances in the two center bays.

This house, the one next door, and two others since demolished, were all built in 1845 as speculative rental property for Royal Richardson, a prominent local real estate developer. When completed, the four identical buildings would have presented a striking appearance on the north side of Cambridge Street. The survival of the contracts for their construction adds to their importance in understanding 19th century building practices, which lacked plans but included detailed specifications that mentioned existing buildings whose features and elements were to be copied.

  * National Register of Historic Places listings in Cambridge, Massachusetts


Konter

Look up Konter in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Konter may refer to:

People

  * François Konter (1934–2018), Luxembourgian football player
  * Lucien Konter (1925–1990), Luxembourgian footballer
  * Richard W. Konter (1882–1979), radioman in the U.S. Navy

Others

  * Konter a Matt, Luxembourgish card game
  * Konter Cliffs, line of cliffs in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica
  * Kanter, surname


Eşmetaş, Solhan

Eşmetaş (Kurdish: Wesmerg) is a village in the Solhan District, Bingöl Province, Turkey.Kurds of the Çolemêrgî tribe and had a population of 410 in 2021.

The hamlets of Aslanlar, Kartal and Şenova are attached to the village.


Bill Durham

William Durham is an Australian former professional tennis player. He was a junior doubles champion at the 1972 Australian Open.

Durham reached a career high ranking of 202 while competing on the professional tour and made regular Australian Open appearance in the 1970s. He also qualified for the main draw of the 1973 Wimbledon Championships, where he had a first round win over Soviet Davis Cup player Sergei Likhachev, before losing his next match in five sets to Russell Simpson.

  * Bill Durham at the Association of Tennis Professionals
  * Bill Durham at the International Tennis Federation


Little Green Valley (California)

Little Green Valley is a valley in the San Bernardino Mountains, of San Bernardino County, California. Its mouth lies southwest of Crafts Peak at an elevation of 6,972 feet / 2,125 meters. Its head is at 34°14′19″N 117°02′52″W / 34.23861°N 117.04778°W at an elevation of 7500 feet. Deep Creek has its source at the head of this valley.

34°13′50″N 117°03′17″W / 34.23056°N 117.05472°W


Joint Navigation Warfare Center

The Joint Navigation Warfare Center (JNWC) is a subordinate center of United States Space Command's Combined Force Space Component Command. It is responsible for planning and coordinating navigation warfare operations. The JNWC is located at Kirtland Air Force Base.

Mission

The Joint Navigation Warfare Center plans, tasks, integrates, provides C2, and supports integrated Navigation Warfare (NAVWAR) worldwide.

Navigation warfare means the use of the "Air Force Global Positioning System satellite navigation system by the Department of Defense and its allies, and attempts to disrupt the system by adversaries."

Command and control is conducted day-to-day, through reachback capabilities and deployable subject matter experts, in support of combatant commanders (CCDRs). Assistance is provided via the JNWC NAVWAR support cell, coordination cells, and deployable theater coordination cells. CCDR requests for NAVWAR capabilities are supported by United States Space Command components after deconfliction and prioritization of ongoing missions.

History

Established on 1 October 2004, the Joint Navigation Warfare Center was initially under the office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration, but in October 2007 was moved under the Joint Functional Component Command for Space, which evolved into United States Space Command.


Hugh Calder

Hugh Alfred Calder (December 25, 1872– August 6, 1964) was a real estate developer and politician in Alberta, Canada. He served as an alderman on Edmonton City Council between 1912 and 1916 and was a principle founder of the Village of West Edmonton.

Early life

Calder was born in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia in 1873, and grew up there before moving to Labrador, where he started its first lumber company. In 1902, he moved to Edmonton, where he spent five years scouting suitable timber for ties for the Grand Trunk Railway. In 1907 he co-founded Foster and Calder, one of the city's first real estate firms, which developed the Village of West Edmonton, much of what is now the Calder neighbourhood in Edmonton. He also, as a member of the United Church of Canada, helped construct the first building to house the Knox United Church.

Politics

Calder's first bid for political office took place during the February 1912 municipal election, when he ran to fill one of ten aldermanic seats available on Edmonton City Council. He finished eleventh of eighteen, but the terms of the just-effected merger between Edmonton and Strathcona stipulated that at least three of the aldermen come from the south side of the North Saskatchewan River. Only two of the top ten (John Tipton and Thomas J. Walsh) were, so Calder was elected to the third spot instead of the tenth place D. B. Campbell. Because of the amalgamation, an entire new council was being elected (Edmonton's councils were normally elected five members at a time for two year terms) and the five councillors with the fewest votes were only elected to one year terms, meaning that Calder had to seek re-election in December of that year. He finished eighth of seventeen candidates; only five councillors were to be elected, but Calder benefited again from the provision requiring south side representation; since none of the candidates to finish ahead of him were from the south side, Calder was re-elected.

He was up for re-election again in the 1914 election, in which there were six, rather than five, seat available due to the resignation of Alexander Campbell. Calder finished sixth, good enough to win Campbell's seat and serve the remaining year in his term; however, Calder was instead elected to a two-year term as the top finishing south side candidate. He did not seek re-election at the conclusion of this term.


Hugh Calder

Post-political career

In 1916 he went to Scotland as a Major in the 19th Alberta Dragoons, where he commanded a Canadian Forestry Battalion. Upon his return, he retired to his farm in south Edmonton. He died in Vancouver August 6, 1964, survived by three daughters and one son.

Hugh Calder was involved in Edmonton Exhibition Board and the Masonic Lodge.

  * Edmonton Public Library Biography of Hugh Calder
  * City of Edmonton biography of Hugh Calder
  * Real Estate Weekly review of Naming Edmonton, which credits Calder with founding the neighbourhood for which he was named


Bispehaven

Bispehaven (English: The Bishop Garden) is a housing project and the largest department of the housing cooperative Østjysk Bolig in Aarhus, Denmark. The project is located in the western suburb of Hasle and mostly consists of concrete apartments, but with small two-story attached town houses, too. The buildings were thoroughly renovated in 2004–07.

Bispehaven has c. 2,500 inhabitants, with a high percentage of 1st- and 2nd-generation immigrants (approximately 70%).Aarhus V). The crime and the unemployment rate is high compared to other areas of Aarhus and in 2014 the district was placed on the official Danish ghetto list by authorities.

As a government response to the urban decay, it was decided by the Aarhus City Council in 2018 that 3 buildings part of a public housing complex with 318 apartments were to be demolished. The inhabitants are now forced to move with new private properties for ownership and business to be built instead.

Sources and external links

  * Bispehaven i Aarhus V Det Boligsociale Fællessekretariat (in Danish)
  * Marwan Official homepage
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bispehaven.

56°10′01″N 10°09′18″E / 56.167°N 10.155°E


Helen Martin (disambiguation)

Helen Martin (1909–2000) was an American actress.

Helen Martin may also refer to:

  * Helen Reimensnyder Martin (1868–1939), American author
  * Helen M. Martin (1889–1973), American geologist
  * Helen May Martin, American pianist
  * Helene Chung Martin, Australian journalist active 1968–present


Estonian Native

The Estonian Native, (Estonian: Eesti hobune, or Klepper), is an Estonian breed of small horse. It is strong and is resistant to disease.Tori and the Estonian Draft, both of which derive from it.Latvian Warmblood,Vyatka and the extinct Obva in Russia.endangered breed;

History

During the eleventh century, the chronicler Adam of Bremen considered the Estonians to be rich in gold and good horses.

Estonian horses were exported to Russia through Novgorod in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

The first documented attempts to improve the Estonian Native date from after the foundation in 1856 of the Tori stud farm in Tori, in Pärnu County in south-western Estonia, where the original native was selectively bred. It was also cross-bred with light draught and riding horse breeds, which led to the creation of the Tori.

After the First World War a breeding program was created to help preserve the breed whose numbers had fallen quite a lot during the war. "Estonian Native Horse Breeders Society" and an Estonian Horse studbook were founded in 1921. By 1937, only 13 stallions had been used, and the Estonian horse was becoming inbred due to the scarcity of strains. This led to horses reaching maturity later, and slowed down the development of the breed. With the mechanisation of transport and agriculture, horses became obsolete and the breed nearly died out, excluding the islands of Saaremaa and Hiiumaa. With a few animals left on the mainland, the breed was eventually revived with the help of a new breeding program, and the breed's population has now reached circa 1000 animals in Estonia. The breed has recently been crossbred with Finnhorses to enhance its size.

In 1992 the association started anew after having been down for the 1980s. In 2000, an association was founded to preserve the breed.

It is believed that the breed became mixed with the now extinct Öland Horse, as large numbers of Öland Horses were exported to Estonia at one point. Tests authorised by associations dedicated to the Öland Horse have revealed that these two breeds have a genetically similar background. In 2005, 25 animals of the breed were imported to Sweden to recreate the genetically closely related, extinct Öland Horse. The new Öland horse is not called that, however, but the "Estonian Bush Pony".

Characteristics


Estonian Native

Characteristics

It is small horse, standing 135 to 147 centimetres (13.1 to 14.2 hands) at the withers. It is strong, yet not heavily built. The most common colourations are black, bay, chestnut, and grey. The breed is a tireless and powerful puller, and is well suited to agricultural work with its easy temperament. This has contributed for the breed's use as a children's riding horse, a major reason for why the breed was able to survive.

Most breeders let their herds live under natural pasture conditions except during wintertime, and the breed lives well on forage alone. This has made the breed healthy and durable with hard feet. Their appearance is not exceptional. The head is small with straight profile and primitive facial features. The breed is willing and easy to handle, inexpensive to keep, and often long-lived. The breed is nowadays used for tourist rides. Finland has a breed association for the Estonian Horse.

  * Den estniska hästen (in Swedish)
  * Fakta om den estniska hästen
  * Estnisk häst hos Breeds of Livestock


The Building at 130–132 North Riverview Street is a historic commercial building located in Bellevue, Iowa, United States. It is one of over 217 limestone structures in Jackson County from the mid-19th century, of which 20 are commercial buildings. The 2½-story structure was built around 1855 to house retail establishments, which have included dry goods, a grocery, clothing and footwear stores, and a tavern. The double storefront building features three bays on both sides. The stone blocks used in its construction vary somewhat in shape and size, and they were laid in courses. It also features dressed stone lintels. The storefronts were altered in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but they retain their original limestone piers. What differentiates this building from the others is the gable roof.National Register of Historic Places in 1991.