The Celestine Prophecy is a 2006 American film directed by Armand Mastroianni and starring Matthew Settle, Thomas Kretschmann, and Sarah Wayne Callies. The film is based on James Redfield's best-selling novel of the same name. Because the book sold over 23 million copies since its publication and has thus become one of the best-selling books of all time, Redfield had expected the film to be a success. However, the film was widely panned by critics and was a box office failure, with a total worldwide gross of $1.5 million.

Cast
 Matthew Settle as John
 Thomas Kretschmann as Wil
 Sarah Wayne Callies as Marjorie
 Annabeth Gish as Julia
 Héctor Elizondo as Cardinal Sebastian
 Joaquim de Almeida as Father Sánchez
 Jürgen Prochnow as Jensen
 John Aylward as Dobson
 Cástulo Guerra as Father José
 Obba Babatundé as Miguel
 Tequan Richmond as Basketball Player
 Vinicius Machado as Spanish Conquistador (uncredited)

Plot
Having lost his job as a middle school teacher, John Woodson (Matthew Settle) finds himself at a turning point in his life. He takes a vacation to Peru, where he spends his time exploring and searching for the ninth scroll, lost from a set of eight ancient texts, rumored to reveal the future of humanity.

Reception

Box office
The Celestine Prophecy grossed $1.2 million in North America and $286,444 in other countries for a worldwide total of $1.5 million.

Critical response
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 4% based on 23 reviews, with an average rating of 2.4/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Adapted from the bestselling self-help tome, The Celestine Prophesy is indifferently directed and acted, and its plotting is virtually tension-free." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 23 out of 100, based on 10 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".

Film critic Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle called the film "clumsy -- not merely unconventional but awkward in its narrative development and dialogue", and added: "characters are sketched in shallow terms". In his top ten list of the worst films of 2006, LaSalle called it a "misbegotten film, an awkward, undramatic effort", and ranked it third on the list. Mark Olsen of the Los Angeles Times said "the movie is flatly acted and extremely ill-paced, lacking any sense of urgency, momentum or fun".

Bibliography

See also
 Cinema of the United States
 List of American films of 2006

References

External links

2006 films
Films about spirituality
Films based on American novels
Films directed by Armand Mastroianni
Metaphysical fiction films
2000s English-language films


The Rijeka Carnival () is held each year before Lent (between late January and early March) in Rijeka, Croatia. Established in 1982, it has become the biggest carnival in Croatia.

History
About a century ago Rijeka lived its carnival life more intensively than any other town in this part of Europe. Carnival parades were organized as well as carnival balls with the presence of Austrian and Hungarian aristocrats, Russian princesses, German barons, earls and countesses from all over Europe. The rebirth of the Rijeka Carnival started in 1982. It had only three performer groups in its parade and it was neither famous nor popular. The groups were "Lako ćemo", "Pehinarski feštari" and "Halubajski zvončari". All three groups have participated in the carnival each time since the beginning. The largest event happened in 2001 with 144 groups participating. Because of the restrictions that have been made regarding the number of participants in each group, the 2008 carnival had only 99 groups. Nonetheless, 150,000 visitors attended it.

Events
Every year there are numerous events preceding  the carnival itself. First the mayor of Rijeka hands the symbolic key of the city over to Meštar Toni, who is "the maestro" of the carnival, and he in turn figuratively becomes the mayor of the city during the carnival season. The same day, a carnival queen is elected. As all the cities around Rijeka have their own events during the carnival time, the Queen and Meštar Toni would be in attendance at most of them.

Also, every year the Carnival charity ball is held in the Governor's palace in Rijeka. It is attended by politicians, people from sport and media life, as well as a number of ambassadors.

The weekend before the main event there are two other events held. One is Rallye Paris - Bakar. (after the Dakar rallye). The start  is a part of Rijeka called Paris after the restaurant located there, and the end is in city of Bakar, located about 20 km south east. All the participants of the rallye are masked, and the cars are mostly decorated oldtimers. The other event is the children's carnival, held, like the main one, on Rijeka`s main walkway Korzo. The groups that participate are mostly from kindergartens and elementary schools, including groups from other parts of Croatia and neighboring countries.

The main event

The main carnival march is held on the last Sunday before the Ash Wednesday. It usually starts at noon. In the front there are the real mayor of Rijeka, the carnival Queen and Meštar Toni. The route of the march has several stages where the hosts present every group, and the main stage is situated in front of the city hall. The mayor, the queen and Meštar Toni stand in front of this stage and they greet all the groups coming afterward. The queen leaves this position only when the group, which she is originally from, pass the route of the carnival. Spectators usually gather to see the march all along its route. If the weather is good, up to 100,000 spectators may attend the carnival. Traditionally, the last group are Halubajski zvončari, and when they pass the march is over. Depending on the number of participants, this usually happens between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m.

Of course, the march does not mark the end of the carnival. On the same evening, there is an event called the burning of the Pust. Pust is a puppet, that has some satiric name, very often after some politician, and he is blamed for all the bad things that happened in the preceding year. This event is held in Rijeka harbor, and before he is taken to the sea, a reading of charges is held, where a spokesman reads all of his sins. Afterwards, a boat takes the Pust to the sea and it is burned there. This tradition is held in all places around Rijeka, but it is held on Tuesday or Wednesday after the carnival.

In the last few years there are several parties held on various locations in Rijeka, some starting day before the carnival, and end in the night after the carnival. The most known is a carnival party held on Korzo, where various DJs perform.

See also
 Carnival
 Rijeka

References

External links

 Related info and photos on Joobili.com

Carnival
Festivals in Croatia
Recurring events established in 1982
Winter events in Croatia
Festivals in Yugoslavia
Culture in Rijeka


Nuuksuq Glacier is a glacier located on the central coast of Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.

See also
List of glaciers

References

Glaciers of Baffin Island
Arctic Cordillera


The Pacific Coast Amateur is an annual amateur golf tournament. It has been played since 1967 and is organized by the Pacific Coast Golf Association. It is held in various locations in the United States and Canada.

In December 2021, the Pacific Coast Amateur joined with six other tournaments to form the Elite Amateur Golf Series.

Host locations

Winners

2023 Tyson Shelley
2022 James Leow
2021 Devon Bling
2020 Canceled
2019 Quade Cummins
2018 Isaiah Salinda
2017 Doug Ghim
2016 Will Zalatoris
2015 Aaron Wise
2014 Corey Pereira
2013 Tyler Raber
2012 David Fink
2011 Chris Williams
2010 Andrew Putnam
2009 Chan Kim
2008 Jordan Irwin
2007 Mike Knight
2006 Patrick Nagle
2005 Alex Prugh
2004 Michael Putnam
2003 James Lepp
2002 Brock Mackenzie
2001 Corey Prugh
2000 Billy Harvey
1999 Ryan LaVoie
1998 Ben Crane
1997 Jason Gore
1996 Scott Johnson
1995 Birk Nelson
1994 Mark Johnson
1993 Todd Demsey
1992 Todd Fischer
1991 David Berganio Jr.
1990 Terrence Miskell
1989 Randy Sonnier
1988 Billy Mayfair
1987 Billy Mayfair
1986 Brian Henninger
1985 Greg Bruckner
1984 Kurt Bosen
1983 Mike Mathies
1982 Tony Grimes
1981 Ron Commans
1980 Brian Haugen
1979 Curt Byrum
1978 Mike Gove
1977 Lindy Miller
1976 Mike Reid
1975 John Fought
1974 Mark Pfeil
1973 Mike Brannan
1972 Mark Pfeil
1971 Jim McLean
1970 Mike Davis
1969 Mike Davis
1968 Ed Morris
1967 Ed Updegraff

References

External links
Official site
List of winners

Amateur golf tournaments in the United States
Amateur golf tournaments in Canada
Recurring sporting events established in 1967


Art Cohn (April 5, 1909 – March 22, 1958) was an American sportswriter, screenwriter and author. Cohn and Hollywood producer Mike Todd died in a plane crash in New Mexico in 1958.

Career

Sportswriter
Cohn was born in New York City.  Early in his career he wrote for the Long Beach Press-Telegram. From 1936 to 1943, he was a sportswriter and sports editor for the Oakland Tribune, which published his sports column Cohn-ing Tower (wordplay on "conning tower"). He worked as a press correspondent during World War II. In January 1958, after being away from newspaper work for 14 years, Cohn joined The San Francisco Examiner; in his first column there, he wrote, "Things seem to happen where I happen to be."

Cohn was a controversial opinion writer of the time; he "afflicted the sports world with hard questions about racial equality long before the civil rights movement." He was also a boxing fan.

Screenwriter
Cohn was a Hollywood screenwriter on many movies, including:
The Set-Up (1949)
Stromboli (1950)
The Tall Target (1951)
Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951)
Carbine Williams (1952)
Glory Alley (1952)
Red Skies of Montana (1952)
Fatal Desire (1953)
The Girl Who Had Everything (1953)
Tennessee Champ (1954)
Men of the Fighting Lady (1954)
Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957)
The Seven Hills of Rome (1958)

He also wrote teleplays for unsold television pilots Plane for Hire in 1957 and The Celeste Holm Show in 1958.

Author
Cohn was the author of the Joe E. Lewis biography The Joker Is Wild, published by Random House in 1955, on which the movie The Joker Is Wild (1957) was based. At the time of his death, Cohn was writing a biography of Mike Todd, The Nine Lives of Michael Todd, which was finished by Cohn's wife and released by Random House in 1958.

Death
Cohn died on March 22, 1958, in the same plane crash that killed Broadway theatre and Hollywood film producer Mike Todd, pilot Bill Verner and co-pilot Tom Barclay. The twin-engine, 12-passenger Lockheed Lodestar crashed in bad weather in the Zuni Mountains near Grants, New Mexico. Ironically, Todd had named the plane The Lucky Liz after wife Elizabeth Taylor. Cohn, a resident of Beverly Hills, was survived by his wife, Marta, and his two sons, Ian and Ted.

Works

References

Further reading
 Cohn introduction in the Oakland Tribune via newspapers.com (September 5, 1936)
 Cohn-ing Tower first column in the Oakland Tribune via newspapers.com (September 6, 1936)

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American columnists
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20th-century American non-fiction writers
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Sportswriters from California
20th-century American screenwriters
20th-century American Jews


Eagle Hill School is an independently operated, private boarding school serving students in grades 8-12 with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, dyslexia, and other learning disabilities in Hardwick, Massachusetts, which was founded in 1967. Two other schools with the same name are located in Greenwich and Southport, Connecticut.

History
In the early 1960s, Dr. James J.A. Cavanaugh, Director of the Department of Pediatrics at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Brighton, Massachusetts, began to devote his work to children with dyslexia or a specific learning disability. Eagle Hill School in Hardwick is a preparatory college program, which was conceived from Cavanaugh's recognition of the impact of this disability on the growing child and the limited facilities available for remediation.

Joining Dr. Cavanaugh to launch the school were Educational Director Mr. Charles Drake of Brandeis University and Headmaster Mr. Howard Delano, formerly of Fryeburg Academy. Nineteen children were in residence when the school opened its doors on family owned property in September 1967. All of them were housed in the Main House, which now contains the school's administrative offices. By the third year, a dedicated dormitory was constructed and one-hundred children were in residence. In 2009, the boarding enrollment for the school reached approximately 160 students.

On May 9, 2023, head of school Dr. PJ McDonald died. About a month later, Erin Wynne was appointed as the school's 4th head of school.

Program
The school enrolls 220 students in grades 8-12, and features exactly 119 faculty members, a student to teacher ratio of 2.5 to 1, and an average classroom size of 6 to 1.

Teacher Induction Training
Held every summer on the Eagle Hill campus the EHS Institute for Teacher Induction is an induction training program primarily designed for first, second or third year public school teachers or seasoned teachers who are new to an urban district.  Funded mainly by private organizations  the institute was a line budget item in the 2008 Massachusetts state budget.

The STEM Center
In September 2019, the school opened a STEM center to include Makerspaces for academics in the fields of science, math, technology, and engineering.

The Cultural Center
In the fall of 2008, EHS opened a $15,000,000 Cultural Center complete with a new dining hall, classrooms, a black box theatre, and a 500-seat theatre.  Professionals perform at the cultural center during the year and the students use it as well.

Greenwich school
260 students attend Eagle Hill School in Greenwich, Connecticut, who are in grades K-10, and have mild language-processing disabilities. The school consists of 75 teachers, and a student to teacher ratio of approximately 4 to 1. While the Lower School serves elementary school students, the Upper School educates middle and junior high school students.

Founded in 1975, the school is accredited by the Connecticut State Department of Education and Connecticut Association of Independent Schools. They accept students from Fairfield and Westchester counties, as well as from Manhattan in its day program, and children from the tri-state areas of  Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey in its five-day boarding program.

It is also a school for students with learning disabilities.

Southport School
The Southport School, previously known as Eagle Hill Southport School (EHSS), is a co-educational day school in historic Southport village, Connecticut, enrolling children ages 6 to 15. It was founded in 1985 by a group of educators from the Eagle Hill-Greenwich School, including the founding headmaster, Len Tavormina.  EHSS is located in the former Pequot School Building on the same site where Southport's elementary school and community center have stood since 1855. The classic brick building was erected in 1918, replacing an older wooden structure.  Closed as a school in 1972, the historic building was later acquired by the Southport Conservancy as a treasured landmark. The year 1985 saw its rebirth as a school when it was leased to EHSS under the direction of Headmaster Len Tavormina. EHSS holds a 99-year lease on the building.

Extensive renovations throughout the 1990s transformed the building's interior into a model day school environment. Classrooms, tutorial rooms, offices, staff resource center, curriculum center, and spacious common room were all specially adapted to comfortably serve Eagle Hill's unique educational offerings.

Tavormina retired in 2013, making way for EHSS’ second headmaster: Ben Powers, an educator with deep experience in language-based learning differences, like dyslexia, and ADHD and executive functioning differences. Under Powers’ leadership, EHSS has aligned its program with the huge shifts happening in the learning difference community, thanks to burgeoning brain-based research. Since his arrival, EHSS launched an updated middle school program for sixth, seventh, and eighth graders; focused on incorporating assistive technology into the program; integrated a speech and language pathologist into the program; and, instituted an executive function coaching model. In addition, all of the staff is trained and accredited in the Orton-Gillingham approach.

In November 2017, the school changed its name to The Southport School through an all school community event.

References

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Educational institutions established in 1967
Private high schools in Connecticut
Private high schools in Massachusetts
Boarding schools in Massachusetts
Private middle schools in Massachusetts
Schools in Greenwich, Connecticut
Schools in Plymouth County, Massachusetts
Special schools in the United States
Therapeutic boarding schools in the United States


Montreal Island is located in Chantrey Inlet, Nunavut, Canada. The island has an area of  and a perimeter of .

Sir George Back visited the island in 1834 after descending Back River which now bears his name. He left a cache of supplies on the island, which was found in 1839 on a later Arctic expedition by the Scottish explorer Thomas Simpson. Around 1850 some survivors of Franklin's lost expedition probably reached the island. In 1855 James Anderson and James Stewart of the Hudson's Bay Company descended Back River, crossed to the island and found Franklin relics.

The island is not to be confused with the Island of Montreal in southwest Quebec, on which the city of Montreal is located. Coincidentally, the Quebec island is also situated on a river known as the Back River, the colloquial English name for the Rivière des Prairies.

References
Montreal Island at the Atlas of Canada

Uninhabited islands of Kitikmeot Region


Urban legend normally refers to a modern folklore, compelling stories often thought to be factual by those who circulate them.

Urban legend may also refer to:

Films and television
Urban Legend (film), a 1998 film
Urban Legends: Final Cut, a 2000 film, the first sequel to the 1998 Urban Legend film
Urban Legends: Bloody Mary, a 2005 film, the second sequel to the 1998 Urban Legend film
Rudy Giuliani: Urban Legend, a film criticizing former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani
Urban Legends (TV series), a 2007 television series broadcast on the Biography Channel

Music
Urban Legend (album), a 2004 album by rapper T.I.
Urban Legend (musicians), musical artist with members J-Radical and Kool Kojac
Urban Legend, a 2011 psytrance album by Vibe Tribe

See also
Urban Myths
Urban Tales


From March 11 to June 3, 1952, voters and members of the Democratic Party elected delegates to the 1952 Democratic National Convention, partly for the purpose of choosing a nominee for president in the 1952 United States presidential election. Incumbent President Harry S. Truman declined to campaign for re-election after losing the New Hampshire primary to Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee. Kefauver proceeded to win a majority of the popular vote, but failed to secure a majority of delegates, most of whom were selected through other means.

The 1952 Democratic National Convention, held from July 21 to July 26, 1952, in Chicago, was forced to go multiballot. The nomination went to Adlai Stevenson II, the governor of Illinois.

Candidates
The following political leaders were candidates for the 1952 Democratic presidential nomination:

Major candidates
These candidates participated in multiple state delegate election contests or were included in multiple major national polls.

Favorite sons
The following candidates ran only in their home state's primary or caucus for the purpose of controlling its delegate slate at the convention and did not appear to be considered national candidates by the media.

State Attorney General Pat Brown of California
Senator Robert J. Bulkley of Ohio
Mayor Jerome F. Fox of Wisconsin
Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas
Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota
Senator Brien McMahon of Connecticut
Senator James E. Murray of Montana
Senator Matthew M. Neely of West Virginia
Governor G. Mennen Williams of Michigan

Polling

National polling

Before 1951

1951

1952

Primary race
The 1952 primary season was one of only two where a challenge to an incumbent president of either party was successful, the other being 1968. Prior to this, the last incumbent to try and fail to win his party's nomination was Chester Arthur in 1884 on the Republican side, and Andrew Johnson in 1868 on the Democratic.

The decline and fall of President Truman
The expected candidate for the Democratic nomination was incumbent President Harry S. Truman. Though running for a third term, he was grandfathered by the Twenty-second Amendment which exempted Truman from term limits. However, Truman entered 1952 with his opinion poll popularity plummeting. The bloody and indecisive Korean War was dragging into its third year, Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-Communist crusade was stirring public fears of an encroaching “Red Menace”, and the disclosure of widespread corruption among federal employees (including some high-level members of Truman's administration) left Truman at a low political ebb.

Truman's main opponent was populist Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver, who had chaired a nationally televised investigation of organized crime in 1951 and was known as a crusader against crime and corruption. The Gallup poll of February 15 showed Truman's weakness: nationally Truman was the choice of only 36% of Democrats, compared with 21% for Kefauver. Among independent voters, however, Truman had only 18% while Kefauver led with 36%. In the New Hampshire primary Kefauver upset Truman, winning 19,800 votes to Truman's 15,927 and capturing all eight delegates. Kefauver graciously said that he did not consider his victory "a repudiation of Administration policies, but a desire...for new ideas and personalities." Stung by this setback, Truman soon announced that he would not seek re-election (however, Truman insisted in his memoirs that he had decided not to run for re-election well before his defeat by Kefauver).

The rise of Estes Kefauver
With Truman's withdrawal, Kefauver became the front-runner for the nomination, and he won most of the primaries. Nonetheless, most states still chose their delegates at the Democratic Convention via state conventions, which meant that the party bosses - especially the mayors and governors of large Northern and Midwestern states and cities - were able to choose the Democratic nominee. These bosses (including President Truman) strongly disliked Kefauver; his investigations of organized crime had revealed connections between mafia figures and many of the big-city Democratic political organizations. The party bosses thus viewed Kefauver as a maverick who could not be trusted, and they refused to support him for the nomination. Instead, with President Truman taking the lead, they began to search for other, more acceptable, candidates. However, most of the other candidates had a major weakness. Senator Richard Russell of Georgia had much Southern support, but his support of racial segregation and opposition to civil rights for Southern blacks led Northern delegates to reject him as a racist. Truman favored U.S. diplomat W. Averell Harriman of New York, but he had never held an elective office and was inexperienced in politics. Truman next turned to his Vice-President, Alben Barkley, but at 74 he was rejected as being too old by labor union leaders.

Stevenson
One candidate soon emerged who seemingly had few political weaknesses: Governor Adlai Stevenson II of Illinois. The grandson of former Vice-President Adlai E. Stevenson, Stevenson came from a distinguished family in Illinois and was well known as a gifted orator, intellectual, and political moderate. In the spring of 1952 President Truman tried to convince Stevenson to take the presidential nomination, but Stevenson refused, stating that he wanted to run for re-election as Governor of Illinois. Yet Stevenson never completely took himself out of the race, and as the convention approached, many party bosses – as well as normally apolitical citizens – hoped that he could be "drafted" to run.

Democratic National Convention

The 1952 Democratic National Convention was held in the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, the same venue where the Republicans had gathered two weeks earlier. The primary season had been decisively in Kefauver's favor and he had momentum coming in, but President Truman was still angry at "Cow-Fever's" defeat of him in New Hampshire, and the Tennessee Senator was unable to get enough delegate strength to win the nomination outright due to the delegate selection processes in most of the states at the time. The convention itself would prove, in retrospect, the last of its kind.

See also
1952 Republican Party presidential primaries

References


Michael John Sutton (5 October 1944 – 26 December 2020) was an English professional footballer. He played in the Football League for three clubs. Two of his sons, Chris and John, have also played professionally.

Playing career
Sutton began his career in his home city of Norwich with Norwich City, with whom he turned professional in September 1962. He made more than 50 league appearances over the next five years and then joined Chester. This followed successful efforts by Chester manager Peter Hauser to persuade a disillusioned Sutton not to go ahead with his plans to quit football. Sutton played in all league games over the next three seasons (including one substitute appearance) before moving to Carlisle United for £10,000 at a time when Chester were in financial difficulties.

Unfortunately, Sutton was forced to retire from playing professional football two years later due to injury. Sutton then spent four years studying physical education and biology at Loughborough University and became a teacher at Hellesdon High School, in Norwich. He returned to football by playing for Great Yarmouth Town for eight years and became involved in coaching youngsters at Norwich City.

Sutton was also actively involved with Drayton Cricket Club for many years, including a spell as club chairman from 2003 to 2005.

Death
Sutton died on 26 December 2020, aged 76. He had suffered from dementia for the past decade. His son Chris Sutton had spoken about his father's condition as part of a campaign to persuade football authorities to do more to protect players from the effects of repeated heading of the ball.

External links
Drayton Cricket Club profile

References

1944 births
2020 deaths
Footballers from Norwich
English men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
English Football League players
Norwich City F.C. players
Chester City F.C. players
Carlisle United F.C. players
Great Yarmouth Town F.C. players
Alumni of Loughborough University
Schoolteachers from Norfolk
People from Horsford


George Edmund Reindorp (11 December 1911– 20 April 1990) was an Anglican bishop.  He was the 5th Bishop of Guildford in the Church of England and subsequently the 75th Bishop of Salisbury.

Reindorp was educated at Felsted School and Trinity College, Cambridge. After a curacy in Kensington and wartime service in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve his ministry positions included the incumbency of St Stephen's with St John's, Westminster and Provost of Southwark Cathedral before his consecration to the episcopate. On Lady Day 1961 (25 March) at Southwark Cathedral, he was consecrated a bishop by Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, to serve as Bishop of Guildford. In 1973, he was installed as the Bishop of Salisbury. One of his first actions was summarily to determine (without interview) the licences of eight clergy who were either divorced and remarried or married to a spouse who had been previously divorced.

Reindorp married a South African doctor qualified in surgery, Alix Edington, in South Africa following the end of the Second World War. The Reindorps gained a reputation as public speakers on the British lecture circuit. Their clerical and medical backgrounds earned the couple the nickname "Body and Soul". Reindorp had four children with Alix. Two of his sons, David and Julian, have been ordained in the Church of England. Reindorp's only daughter, Fiona, married Baronet Sir Richard Baskerville Mynors. Reindorp's youngest son, Richard, became a teacher in the East End of London before moving into the Civil Service.  After the death of his first wife in 1987, Reindorp married Lady Bridget Mullens (30 March 1918–25 January 1991). The service was conducted by his eldest son, Julian.

A prolific author and broadcaster he died in retirement three years after his first wife Alix. Reindorp has 10 surviving grandchildren, the eldest of whom, Nicola Reindorp, is the head of Oxfam International in the United States.

A biography of Reindorp was written but not published in full.  Parts of his life were edited and published in a shortened form. This was privately circulated and focussed mainly on his time as a parish priest. He was  mainly remembered for his sense of humour and sermons built around three key words, e.g. "launch", "nevertheless", "partners".

For many years in Guildford, Surrey, he had a school named after him.  In 2003 Bishop Reindorp Secondary school was demolished  and a new building built in its place, Christ's College, Guildford, as a "Christian college".

References

1911 births
People educated at Felsted School
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve personnel of World War II
Bishops of Guildford
Bishops of Salisbury
20th-century Church of England bishops
1990 deaths
Holders of a Lambeth degree
Provosts and Deans of Southwark
Royal Navy sailors


Michael Willis, (born October 4, 1949), is an American television and movie character actor. Willis' credits include movie roles in Pushing Tin and Men in Black, and several episodes of Law & Order.

Willis was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He was a seven-year veteran of the U.S. Air Force from 1970 to 1976, serving during the Vietnam War. After completing his service, Willis turned to theater acting with the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. Critical acclaim of Willis' stage work lead to the actor pursuing a movie and television career.

A Calvert County, Maryland resident, Willis has been involved in numerous Maryland-based film and television projects, including films by Barry Levinson and John Waters, and recurring roles on Homicide:Life on the Street (as Darin Russom) and HBO's The Wire (as Andy Krawczyk).

Willis is married to his wife Lori, and the couple has three children.

References

1949 births
Living people
Male actors from Maryland
American male film actors
American male television actors
Actors from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
People from Calvert County, Maryland
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20th-century American male actors
21st-century American male actors
American male stage actors
United States Air Force personnel of the Vietnam War


Sullivan is a crater on Mercury. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 1976, and is named for the American architect Louis Sullivan.

Sullivan is west of the smaller but younger Futabatei crater.

References

Impact craters on Mercury


Old Court may refer to the following:

Old Court Road, a major road in Baltimore County, Maryland
Old Court Metro Subway Station, one of 14 stops on the Baltimore Metro Subway
Old Court Savings and Loans, a bank that collapsed during the 1980s
Old Court-New Court controversy, a political controversy in Kentucky
Old Courthouse (disambiguation)


The Diocese of Brno () is a Latin diocese located in the city of Brno in the ecclesiastical province of Olomouc in the Czech Republic.

History
 1296: A collegiate (latter the cathedral) chapter established in Brno
 1625: A collegiate chapter established in Mikulov
 1777, December 5: The Diocese established from a part of the Diocese of Olomouc
 1780s: As a consequence of the Edict on Idle Institutions (by Joseph II) some ancient monasteries and convents abolished
 1783: Territory (substantially) extended
 1807: A seminary established
 1909: The first diocesan synod was held
 1934: The second diocesan synod was held
 1938-1945: Substantial southern part of the diocese (under the rule of Nazi Germany) administered separately by vicar general in Mikulov
 1945-1946: German population expelled from the diocese
 1950: The seminary abolished due to the Communist rule
 1950-1968: Communists prevented Bishop Karel Skoupý from tenure of office
 1972-1990: Sede vacante due to the Communist rule
 1999: Administrative reorganisation: number of deaneries reduced from 37 to 20

Special churches
 Basilica of the Assumption (Bazilika Nanebevzetí Panny Marie) in Staré Brno
 Basilica of Our Lady of the Assumption and St. Nicholas in Žďár nad Sázavou
 St. Wenceslas Collegiate Church in Mikulov

Bishops of Brno
 Mathias Franz Chorinsky von Ledske (1777–1786)
 Johann Baptist Lachenbauer, OCr (1786–1799)
 Vinzenz Joseph Franz Sales von Schrattenbach (1800–1816)
 Wenzel Urban von Stuffler (1817–1831)
 Franz Anton Gindl (1831–1841)
 Anton Ernst von Schaffgotsche (1841–1870)
 Karl Nöttig (1870–1882)
 František Saleský Cardinal Bauer (1882–1904)
 Pavel Huyn  (1904–1916)
 Norbert Johann Klein, OT (1916–1926)
 Josef Kupka (1931–1941)
 Karel Skoupý (1946–1972)
 Vojtěch Cikrle (since 1990)

Saints connected with the diocese
 St. Peter and Paul, patron saints of the diocese
 St. Zdislava, born 1220s in Křižanov
 St. Clement Hofbauer, born 1751 in Tasovice
 Blessed Maria Restituta, born 1894 in Husovice (now part of Brno)
 Jan Bula, a Catholic priest executed by the Communist regime in 1952. The Diocese has been processing his beatification since 2004.

See also
Roman Catholicism in the Czech Republic

References

 Katalog brněnské diecéze. Neproměnná část. Brno 2007.
 GCatholic.org
 Catholic Hierarchy
 Diocese website

Roman Catholic dioceses in the Czech Republic
Religious organizations established in 1777
Dioceses established in the 18th century
Brno
1777 establishments in the Holy Roman Empire
1777 establishments in the Habsburg monarchy
18th-century establishments in Bohemia


The Fiat 70 was a car produced by Italian car manufacturer Fiat between 1915 and 1920. The 70 used a 2-liter straight-four engine producing 21 hp and capable of a top speed of . Around a thousand of this model were produced, with almost all going to the Italian army.
The car was quite advanced for its time, featuring a complete electrical system.

The 70 was replaced by the Fiat 501.

References

70
Cars introduced in 1915
1920s cars


Southcoates railway station was a railway station on the North Eastern Railway's Victoria Dock Branch Line in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It was opened by the York and North Midland Railway on 8 May 1848. The station was closed in November 1854 and reopened on 1 June 1864 before final closure on 19 October 1964. It served the suburb of Southcoates.

Since closure the station has been completely demolished.

References

Disused railway stations in Kingston upon Hull
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1848
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1964
Former York and North Midland Railway stations
Beeching closures in England
Hull and Holderness Railway


The New York Institute of Finance (NYIF) is an American Education Company that was founded by the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in 1922.

The institute provides continuing education to professionals in the finance Industry and corporations worldwide. The institute owns the trademark "Where Wall Street Goes to School".

History

“In 1921 it became evident that, for the sake of the business itself and for the sake of the thousands of young men and women employed by the Exchange and by its member firms, some method should be devised whereby they might learn the fundamentals; the reasons why they did the things which occupied their working days…”

“This was the inspiration behind the establishment of the Stock Exchange Institute. The growth of this Institute has demonstrated that it fills a real need. Through Institute classes and lectures in New York, and through Correspondence Courses available to those at a distance, instruction is furnished in all important phases of the security business.  Through these facilities, any young man or woman may, while working, obtain an education in finance and allied subjects.”

In 1924, 205 graduated from the New York Stock Exchange Institute. The following year, the institute introduced the “Mock Market”, a trading simulation on the floor of the NYSE after hours becoming an integral part of the one-year training program for new employees of the exchange. By 1930 courses of the institute were extended to employees of member firms of the Exchange.

The first record of “The New York Institute of Finance” appears in the minutes of the NYSE Board of Governors meeting, October 8, 1942: “Permission has been granted to the New York Institute of Finance to use the Board of Governors meeting room for a lecture course and a portion of the Exchange Floor, after hours, for drill purposes, in connection with a course in military training which is being organized.” The New York Institute of Finance is headed by Albert P. Squier, who had been Associate Director of the Stock Exchange Institute for many years.

The New York Institute of Finance was sold from the New York Stock Exchange to Prentice-Hall in 1960. Via an acquisition of Prentice-Hall by Pearson plc, ownership and management of the New York Institute of Finance moved to Pearson plc, which owns both the New York Institute of Finance and Prentice-Hall. In 2008 the Institute opened its Beijing office. In 2013 ownership of the Institute was transferred to a Pearson company, the Financial Times Group. The Institute's head office is based in Manhattan New York. It teaches a curriculum of professional workplace skills-training in over 120 different financial training courses and offers its own qualifications and Professional Certificates. In 2015 the Institute had over 35,000 students in more than 120 countries, the majority studying via its e-learning library. In 2017, the NYIF was sold by the Financial Times Group and is now an independent company, after its purchase by a consortium of other companies instead along with Pearson PLC.

Accreditations

The New York Institute of Finance works with several associations and organizations to complement their educational programs including:
 National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA)
 CFA Institute
 Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards (CFP Board)
 CMT Association
 The Institute of Certified Bankers (ICB)
 Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS)
 Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore (ICPAS)
 Chartered Investment Banking Analyst
 Financial Data Scientist
 Project Management Institute (PMI)
 International Association for Continuing Education and Training
 Global Association of Risk Professionals
 FutureLearn
 New York State Education Department (NYSED)
 edX

Past delegates include
Warren Buffett - In 1947, Buffett entered the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Warren studied there for two years and joined the Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity. He then transferred to the University of Nebraska where at 19, he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. After being rejected by Harvard Business School, Buffett enrolled at Columbia Business School of Columbia University upon learning that Benjamin Graham taught there. He earned a Master of Science in Economics from Columbia in 1951. After graduating, Buffett attended the New York Institute of Finance.

See also
Professional certification in financial services
Swiss Finance Institute
Amsterdam Institute of Finance
The London Institute of Banking & Finance

References

External links
 Official website

New York Stock Exchange
Securities (finance)


From March 12 to May 17, 1940, voters of the Republican Party chose delegates to nominate a candidate for president at the 1940 Republican National Convention. The nominee was selected at the convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from June 24–28, 1940.

The primaries were contested mainly by Manhattan District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey and Senators Robert A. Taft and Arthur Vandenberg, though only a few states' primaries featured two or more of these men.

By the start of the convention, only 300 of the 1,000 convention delegates had been pledged to a candidate, far fewer than was necessary to determine a victor. Estimates of delegate loyalty placed Dewey first, Taft second, and Wendell Willkie, an internationalist businessman, third. Late momentum following the escalation of World War II allowed Willkie to take the nomination on the sixth ballot at the convention.

Background

1936 presidential election

In 1936, Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated Alf Landon in a historic landslide; his party expanded its majority in both houses of Congress. The result left the Republican Party at its lowest point since its founding: diminished, leaderless, and unpopular. Following two successive landslide defeats, the party was bereft of potential candidates for President in 1940.

1938 midterms

In the wake of his historic victory, Roosevelt overplayed his hand. He attempted to expand his formal powers dramatically (as in the proposed Judicial Procedures Reform Bill and Reorganization Bill) and informally purge his party of its conservative elements, angering allies and the public. The country also suffered an economic recession, further damaging Roosevelt's popularity. The 1938 elections were thus a massive victory of the Republican Party. The results reinvigorated Republicans and halted the growth of Roosevelt's New Deal.

New York was a notable exception to the Republican gains. Young prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey had made a national name for himself as a "Gangbuster" after his convictions of numerous American Mafia figures, including Lucky Luciano and Waxey Gordon. However, in one of the most watched races of the year, he narrowly failed to unseat Governor Herbert Lehman.

Dewey had made major improvements on the disastrous performance of Robert Moses in the 1936 race and elevated his status to that of a national politician. William Allen White compared his loss favorably to that of Abraham Lincoln in 1858: a prelude to the presidency. A poll by Gallup, Inc. shortly after his loss showed Dewey as the leading Republican candidate for the presidency with 33 percent of the popular vote.

Pre-campaign maneuvering

As the presidential field shaped up, Republican candidates were largely focused on opposition to President Roosevelt's involvement in European affairs. Among the leaders in their cause was Robert A. Taft, the newly elected Senator from Ohio and the son of a former president himself. Though Taft struggled to develop a popular following equal to that of Dewey's, he was positioned as a natural heir to his father's conservative, Midwestern base. Arriving in Washington as a young member of a party lacking in leaders, Taft was immediately lauded as a presidential contender.

Meanwhile, Dewey set to work expanding and strengthening the New York Republican Party and continued in his role as Manhattan District Attorney. His conviction of Tammany Hall leader James Joseph Hines won him further national praise, especially from Republicans eager to tie Hines to the Roosevelt administration. A Gallup poll following the verdict showed him with a majority of the Republican vote (well ahead of Taft and Senator Arthur Vandenberg) and leading President Roosevelt, 58–42. In December, he delivered an anti-New Deal speech to a capacity crowd in Minneapolis.

As Dewey resolved to seek the presidency, he made overtures to the conservative wing of the national party, including former President Herbert Hoover. These efforts simultaneously alienated New York County party chair Kenneth F. Simpson, an avowed liberal Dewey ally and Hoover critic; instead of supporting Dewey's campaign, Simpson joined with Russell Davenport to support a Democratic businessman for the nomination: Wendell Willkie, president of a utilities holding company and an eloquent critic of the New Deal.

From the start, Dewey engaged in a popular campaign designed to secure the nomination through a show of overwhelming support in the primary elections, whereas Taft and Vandenberg (who avoided making any formal commitment to running) pursued victory through the backroom convention and caucus processes.

Candidates
The following political leaders were candidates for the 1940 Republican presidential nomination:

Major candidates
These candidates participated in multiple state primaries or were included in multiple major national polls.

Competing in primaries

Bypassing primaries
The following candidates did not actively campaign for any state's presidential primary, but may have had their name placed on the ballot by supporters or may have sought to influence to selection of un-elected delegates or sought the support of uncommitted delegates.

Favorite sons
The following candidates ran only in their home state's primary or caucus for the purpose of controlling its delegate slate at the convention and did not appear to be considered national candidates by the media.

 Governor Harland Bushfield of South Dakota
 Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas
 Ryan N. Davis of West Virginia
 House Minority Leader Joseph W. Martin of Massachusetts
 Governor Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota
 Senate Minority Leader Charles L. McNary of Oregon
 Charles Montgomery of Ohio
 State Senator Jerrold L. Seawell of California

Declined to run
The following persons were listed in a major national poll or were the subject of media speculation surrounding their potential candidacy, but declined to actively seek the nomination.

 Governor George Aiken of Vermont (ran for U.S. Senate)
Representative Bruce Barton of New York (ran for U.S. Senate) (endorsed Willkie)
Senator William Borah of Idaho (died January 19, 1940)
Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio
 Representative Hamilton Fish III of New York (withdrew from consideration February 25, 1940)
Businessman Henry Ford of Michigan
Former University President Glenn Frank of Wisconsin (ran for U.S. Senate and died September 15, 1940)
 Mayor Fiorello La Guardia of New York (endorsed President Roosevelt)
Former Governor Alf Landon of Kansas
 Aviator Charles Lindbergh of New Jersey
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. of Massachusetts
Senator Hiram Johnson of California
Publisher Frank Knox (appointed as Secretary of the Navy on July 11, 1940)
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. of New York
Mayor Pratt C. Remmel of Little Rock, Arkansas
Governor William Henry Vanderbilt III of Rhode Island (endorsed Willkie)
Representative James W. Wadsworth Jr. of New York

Polling

National polling

State polling

Illinois

Massachusetts

Michigan

Ohio

Wisconsin

Statewide contests

March 12: New Hampshire
The New Hampshire primary was the first in the nation and widely considered one of the most notable at the outset of the process. The state elected four delegates at-large and two from each of the state's two congressional districts.

Though all delegates were formally uncommitted, J. Howard Gile of Nashua announced his intention to vote for Thomas Dewey — against the Dewey campaign's wishes. The Dewey campaign asked Gile to withdraw from the race; it was assumed Dewey had bypassed New Hampshire in respect and recognition of favorite-son presidential candidate Senator Styles Bridges, who ran as a delegate at-large.

In the Second Congressional District, James P. Richardson expressed his support of Dewey but did not formally pledge himself to any candidate. Most of the elected delegates expressed a non-binding preference for Senator Bridges.

April 2: Wisconsin
The first competitive race was between Dewey and Vandenberg in Wisconsin. The state was expected to be favorable to Vandenberg, the Senator from neighboring Michigan. Vandenberg was also an opponent of expanded trade agreements, a supporter of dairy and beet farmers, an isolationist, and a supporter of the St. Lawrence Waterway project — all positions expected to gain him strong support in the state. It was also said that Vandenberg had the stronger, more popular slate of delegates. He was also seen to have the support of the state's many Progressive Party voters as against Dewey, but may have been hurt by those voters' last-second swing to support President Roosevelt in the Democratic primary.

Dewey gained support from voters and political leaders by announcing his support for the expansion of the St. Lawrence Waterway. After his endorsement, many of the state's Congressmen opted not to take sides in the race. Dewey also took a hit when the leadership of the state's active Progressive Party objected to a Dewey supporter's use of "Progressive" in campaign material.

Dewey, unlike Vandenberg, personally campaigned in Wisconsin. He held a barnstorming tour across the state in the final week of March. Although internal polling showed him winning easily, the Dewey campaign took an intentionally modest stance, expressing worry over the result and offering to split the delegation with Vandenberg.

Although Wisconsin held a delegate election and a preference poll on primary day, Dewey's name was not entered the latter; his campaign opted only to run a slate of delegates. His slate won 61.8% of the vote, carried all but four of Wisconsin's counties, and swept its 24 delegates.

April 9: Illinois and Nebraska
The Illinois primary was initially expected to be one of the more competitive votes of the process. Congressman Hamilton Fish III filed to run as an isolationist candidate, but later withdrew his name. Mayor of New York Fiorello La Guardia was also submitted as a candidate without his knowledge, but did not sign a statement of candidacy necessary to appear on the ballot and declined to be considered. Regardless of who else appeared on the ballot, Dewey was considered the heavy favorite; he ultimately went unopposed. None of the state's delegates, who were elected separately, were bound by the "advisory" result.

Instead, most focus was on Nebraska, where Vandenberg made his last stand against Dewey. With the support of the party's Old Guard, including fellow Senators Arthur Capper, Charles McNary and Gerald Nye, the Vandenberg campaign argued that Dewey was unsound on agricultural issues. The campaign was in vain; Dewey won the state as easily as he had Wisconsin, effectively eliminating Vandenberg from contention. Sensing Dewey's popular momentum, Senator Taft withdrew from the Maryland and New Jersey primaries rather than face a likely popular defeat.

April 23: Pennsylvania

April: Massachusetts and Pennsylvania
In Massachusetts, all delegates were as a rule formally uncommitted, but could pledge themselves to a candidate if they wished. In general, the division was not based on any presidential candidacy but was between an establishment Republican slate and an insurgent Townsendite slate supporting the institution of an old-age pension. Two delegates from Springfield, Dudley Wallace and Clarence Brooks, attempted to pledge themselves to Dewey but were not granted the privilege.

The establishment slate listed as delegates at-large Governor Leverett Saltonstall, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., U.S. House Minority Leader Joseph W. Martin Jr., and State Treasurer John W. Haigis. The insurgent slate listed William McMasters, Byron P. Hayden, Harry P. Gibbs, and Seldon G. Hill.

May: War and momentum for Willkie
The May primaries largely went for local favorites. Dewey's name was entered in only three: New Jersey and Maryland, where he was unopposed, and Oregon, where he was soundly beaten as a write-in candidate in favor of Senator Charles McNary. However, Wendell Willkie received a strong 5.55% of the vote as a write-in candidate in New Jersey.

In May, Germany invaded the Low Countries and France in a major escalation of World War II. The events shook the primary race by ensuring the re-enlistment of President Roosevelt as a candidate for re-election to an unprecedented third term and refocusing the election on foreign policy. Dewey, until then the favorite for the nomination, began to struggle as he attempted to chart an inconsistent path between Vandenberg's isolationism and Roosevelt's aggressive involvement. Advised by John Foster Dulles, he was convinced that American involvement was unnecessary or futile.

On May 10, the night of the invasion of the Netherlands, Ed Jaeckle privately told the Dewey campaign that his chances of being nominated were slim, but he should continue through the convention to ensure control of the New York party and his election as governor in 1942. Taft and Dewey began to diverge on their attacks against the Roosevelt administration; Taft maintained strict opposition to American involvement in the war, while Dewey accepted American support for the Allies as inevitable and criticized the President's failure to ensure military preparedness in case of German aggression.

The political benefits of the invasion went to Wendell Willkie over the two young favorites; an independent petition drive to nominate the businessman, led by Oren Root, gathered 4.5 million signatures. Willkie, who Alice Roosevelt Longworth has derided as having grassroots support "in every country club in America," began to attract popular audiences, and Willkie for President clubs sprouted across the country.

Post-primary events and Convention

By mid-June, little over one week before the Republican Convention opened, the Gallup poll reported that Willkie had moved into second place with 17%, and that Dewey was slipping. Fueled by his favorable media attention, Willkie's pro-British statements won over many of the delegates. As the delegates were arriving in Philadelphia, Gallup reported that Willkie had surged to 29%, Dewey had slipped 5 more points to 47%, and Taft, Vandenberg and former President Herbert Hoover trailed at 8%, 8%, and 6% respectively. Hundreds of thousands, perhaps as many as one million, telegrams urging support for Willkie poured in, many from "Willkie Clubs" that had sprung up across the country. Millions more signed petitions circulating everywhere.

At the 1940 Republican National Convention itself, keynote speaker Harold Stassen, the Governor of Minnesota, announced his support for Willkie and became his official floor manager. Hundreds of vocal Willkie supporters packed the upper galleries of the convention hall. Willkie's amateur status, his fresh face, appealed to delegates as well as voters. The delegations were selected not by primaries but by party leaders in each state, and they had a keen sense of the fast-changing pulse of public opinion. Gallup found the same thing in polling data not reported until after the convention: Willkie had moved ahead among Republican voters by 44% to only 29% for the collapsing Dewey. As the pro-Willkie galleries repeatedly yelled "We Want Willkie", the delegates on the convention floor began their vote. Dewey led on the first ballot but steadily lost strength thereafter. Both Taft and Willkie gained in strength on each ballot, and by the fourth ballot it was obvious that either Willkie or Taft would be the nominee. The key moments came when the delegations of large states such as Michigan, Pennsylvania, and New York left Dewey and Vandenberg and switched to Willkie, giving him the victory on the sixth ballot. The voting went like this:

Willkie's nomination is still considered by most historians to have been one of the most dramatic moments in any political convention. Having given little thought to who he would select as his vice-presidential nominee, Willkie left the decision to convention chairman and Massachusetts Congressman Joe Martin, the House Minority Leader, who suggested Senate Minority Leader Charles L. McNary of Oregon. Despite the fact that McNary had spearheaded a "Stop Willkie" campaign late in the balloting, the candidate picked him to be his running mate.

See also
1940 Democratic Party presidential primaries

Notes

References

Further reading


The Diocese of Ostrava-Opava () is a suffragan Latin diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of Olomouc in Moravskoslezský kraj, Moravia, in the Czech Republic.

The cathedral episcopal see is Katedrála Božského Spasitele, dedicated to the Divine Saviour, in Ostrava, and it also has
 a Co-Cathedral, the Co-Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Opava
 a Minor Basilica: Basilica of the Visitation of Our Lady in Frýdek-Místek

History
 Established on May 30, 1996 as Diocese of Ostrava–Opava / Ostravien(sis)–Opavien(sis) (Latin), on territory split off from its Metropolitan, the Archdiocese of Olomouc, which territory was part until 1978 of the then Diocese of Wrocław (Poland) while that comprised all Silesia.

Statistics
As per 2014, it pastorally served 429,300 Catholics (32.7% of 1,314,000 total) on 6,150 km² in 276 parishes and a mission with 247 priests (188 diocesan, 59 religious), 30 deacons, 218 lay religious (76 brothers, 142 sisters) and 8 seminarians.

Episcopate
(all Roman rite)

Suffragan Bishops of Ostrava-Opava
 František Václav Lobkowicz, Norbertines (O. Praem.) (30 May 1996 – 17 February 2022), a Prince (by birth) of the Lobkowicz family, Vice-President of Czech Bishops' Conference (2005-01 – 2010-04-21); previously Titular Bishop of Catabum Castra (1990-03-17 – 1996-05-30) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Praha (Prague, Czech Republic) (1990-03-17 – 1996-05-30)
 Martin David (2023-07-04 – ...); previously auxiliary bishop (2017-04-07 – 2023-07-04), Titular Bishop of Thucca in Numidia (2017-04-07 – 2023-07-04).

See also
 List of Catholic dioceses in the Czech Republic
 Roman Catholicism in the Czech Republic

Sources
 GCatholic.org, with Google mapa & satellite photo - data for all sections
 Catholic Hierarchy
 Diocese website

Roman Catholic dioceses in the Czech Republic
Christian organizations established in 1996
Ostrava
Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 20th century


Farid Sabry Mansour () (14 August 1933 – 16 September 2012) was an
Egyptian businessman who founded PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in Egypt. Born to an Austrian Mother and an Egyptian father. He was also a Rotarian, and Chairman of the Quseir Heritage Preservation Society. President of the Islamic and Coptic Museum in Egypt, heading the renovation and restoration.

References

1933 births
2012 deaths


The Northern Arctic Ecozone, as defined by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), is a Canadian terrestrial ecozone which includes most of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, the Boothia and Melville Peninsulas of Nunavut, and the northwestern tip of Quebec. Its marine borders are with the Arctic Archipelago Marine Ecozone, and it is adjacent to the mainland Southern Arctic Ecozone.

Sparsely populated, it is home to 15,000 inhabitants, approximately 80% of whom are Inuit. The largest settlement is Iqaluit. The cold winters are very dark, typically having no daylight for weeks or even months north of the Arctic Circle.

Geography
Palaeozoic and Mesozoic sedimentary rock forms the western portion of the ecozone, whereas Precambrian granite is the dominant feature in the east. Broad flat plains are common on the coastlines, and extend inland up to  in some parts. In the east, plateaus and rocky hills merge into the foothills of the Arctic Cordillera. The west is characterised by glacial deposits and "frost-shattered limestone" and sandstone.

A permanent layer of permafrost may be up to one kilometre thick, and lies under a shallow stratum of waterlogged active soils that cyclically freeze and thaw, creating patterned ground. Its features are similar to the badlands found in the southwestern United States.

Ecoprovinces
This ecozone can be further subdivided into seven ecoprovinces:
Baffin Uplands
Boothia-Foxe Shield
Ellesmere Basin
Foxe-Boothia Lowlands
Parry Channel Plateau
Sverdrup Island
Victoria Lowlands

Climate
The region is extremely cold, with temperatures rising above the freezing point only in July and August. Short, cold summers give way to bitterly cold, dark winters with mean January temperatures less than −30 °C in the northern islands. Little precipitation falls here, with a typical annual total of 250 mm, but may exceed 500 mm in its extreme southeastern extent. Snowfall may occur at any time, and snow cover persists from September to June.

Despite the low precipitation, the permafrost's ability to prevent water from draining through the soil, and the abundant snow and ice cover throughout the zone ensure that the climate is usually moist.

The northern waters are permanently frozen, but coastal areas in the south may open in the summer, though numerous large ice floes persist.

Conservation
A number of protected areas have been established to protect representative and/or significant portions of this ecozone. These include Aulavik National Park, Auyuittuq National Park, Sirmilik National Park, Qausuittuq National Park, Quttinirpaaq National Park, and Ukkusiksalik National Park.

References

Ecozones and ecoregions of Nunavut
Ecozones and ecoregions of the Northwest Territories
Ecozones and ecoregions of Quebec
Geography of the Arctic


Second Skin is a 2008 American documentary film that follows the lives of seven people as they delve into the world of MMORPGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games). The film was directed by Juan Carlos Piñeiro Escoriaza and produced by Victor Piñeiro Escoriaza and Peter Brauer.

Second Skin premiered to positive reviews and sold-out crowds at the South by Southwest film festival in 2008. It became the No. 1 movie on online streaming site Hulu.com, before completing a limited theatrical run. The film was released on DVD August 25, 2009. It is frequently included in lists of the all-time best video game documentaries.

Summary

Synopsis
Second Skin examines people whose lives have been transformed by virtual worlds in online games such as World of Warcraft, EverQuest, EverQuest II and Second Life. The documentary follows a group of online gamers whose lives are intensely woven together inside and outside the virtual worlds, a couple whose lives have changed since meeting online, and an avid player whose life spins out of control due to his addiction to playing MMOs. It also presents disabled players who have been given voice and mobility in the virtual world and explores the controversial world of Chinese gold farming and presents facts about online gaming.

Cast
The film follows three distinct stories involving seven people:
Heather Cowan, an EverQuest II player that lives in Florida;
Kevin Keel, an EverQuest II player from Texas develops an in-game relationship with Heather that moves from an online status to a physical relationship;
Matt Ellsworth and Chris Mitchell, housemates in Fort Wayne, Indiana who play World of Warcraft and other MMOs for over 40 hours a week;
Anthony Cronin, a housemate with Matt and Chris whose life changes by getting married;
Andy Belford, a World of Warcraft player (who moved to Ft. Wayne from California to be closer to Anthony, Matt, and Chris) and his wife Karalee, and the changes in their lives after Karalee becomes pregnant;
Dan Bustard, a World of Warcraft player whose addiction to the game cost him his relationship, his business, his health and his home. He connects with OLGA (Online Gamers Anonymous) during his attempt to kick his addiction to gaming.

Other players, doctors, and the founder of OLGA appear.

Distribution
Second Skin made its world premiere at the South By Southwest film festival, showcased as a Spotlight Premiere.

Second Skin was available for free viewing on Hulu between August 7 and August 13, 2009, courtesy of Honda.

Reception
The film has received critical acclaim from both the cinematic and gaming communities. When it premiered at the SXSW Film Festival in 2008, Ain’t It Cool News said that it was “by far the best documentary of the online gaming phenomenon known as MMORPGs out there. The filmmakers touch on just about every angle of these online games as they could." The Austin Chronicle reported that "Mixing expert opinion with amazingly true testimonials, Second Skin might just be the most accurate and entertaining glimpse of the economy and psychology of technology since Tron."

Online game magazine The Escapist sums the film up in this way: "Documentary nuts walk away having seen a window into yet another strange world. And gamers walk away feeling like they had seen their life story, with slick editing, a peppy soundtrack, and the seductive polish of an Apple commercial." Richard Garriott, creator of the successful Ultima and Tabula Rasa MMO’s, cited the film as "A superb documentary unveiling a digital subculture that has bridged the gaps of time, distance and humanity."

References

External links

2008 films
American documentary films
Documentary films about video games
2000s American films


The Beach School was a democratic free school in Toronto based on the Sudbury principles of education. The model has two basic tenets: educational freedom and democratic governance. Small and independent, The Beach School was a community of self-motivated learners, aged 4–19, who determined their own curriculum, and each had an equal voice in school governance. Located at 42 Edgewood Ave near Kingston Road and Dundas Street East, the school opened in the fall of 2003 and closed in June 2008 owing to a shortage of students. The Beach School was incorporated as a co-operative and, at the time of closing, was one of two Sudbury schools in Canada; the only one in Ontario.

Some participants of The Beach School are part of a group attempting to open a similar school called Reach Sudbury School of Toronto.

Philosophy
Modelled after the Sudbury Valley School in Massachusetts, which opened in 1968, The Beach School community believed that learning which is initiated and pursued by the learner happens naturally, meaningfully, and enduringly. As such, there was no set curriculum at the school; instead individual curiosity and self-initiation directed learning. Beach School students were trusted with their own education and were free to draw from the school's resources as much or as little as they saw fit. The Beach School encouraged self-evaluation; there were no grades, tests, or assignments unless desired. This educational approach was based on the Sudbury belief that everyone is instinctively curious; therefore, when trusted to do so, they will discover independently the knowledge and experiences they need, becoming self-aware and resourceful in the process.

Tuition

Because the Ontario Ministry of Education does not fund independent schools, The Beach School charged tuition in order to fund the basic operations of the school. The decision on what amount to charge was made each year by the assembly. The Beach School was recognized by the Children's First Foundation through the Fraser Institute, which provides grants for education to disadvantaged families.

See also
 List of Sudbury schools
 Education reform
 Free school (disambiguation)
 Alternative Education

References

External links

 The Beach School official website
 Sudbury Valley School official website
 List of Sudbury Schools worldwide
 The Ontario Cooperative Association
 The Sudbury Model
 Indigo Sudbury School
 Free Schooling
 John Taylor Gatto
 The Fraser Institute
 Daniel Greenberg

Elementary schools in Toronto
High schools in Toronto
Private schools in Toronto
Democratic free schools
Sudbury Schools
Educational institutions established in 2003
Educational institutions disestablished in 2008
2003 establishments in Ontario
2008 disestablishments in Ontario
Defunct schools in Canada


David Hughes is an artist and illustrator.

Biography
David Hughes, born in Twickenham (in 1952? ') describes himself as "a graphic designer who happens to illustrate."
He studied at Twickenham Technical College in the early 1970s. Towards the very end of his course, he discovered an interest in etching and produced "a small series of etchings based on a piece of jazz by Charlie Parker."

After leaving college, he produced his first commissions for The Daily Expresss cookery page, but became frustrated and disillusioned by the lack of creativity involved. A lack of "sympathetic advice" saw him abandon drawing for "a year or so," to become a postman. During this time (mid-1970s), he was re-inspired by a Post Office colleague to take up life drawing again, and eventually became aware (through the work of "amongst others, Ian Pollock, Russell Mills and Chloe Cheese") that there was a market for his talents.

Granada TV and The Observer
In 1980 he was given a job at Granada TV, Manchester as a graphic designer, giving him the financial security of paid employment to experiment artistically. This led to a freelance commission from David Pocknell to "produce 40 black and white pencil and charcoal illustrations" for Eric Morecambe's book "On Fishing," which ultimately inspired Hughes to leave Granada in 1985 to become a full-time illustrator – a decision that some found hard to understand:
"I was in a well-paid job and people felt that I was mad to leave, but I felt a compulsion to be an illustrator."

Another key moment occurred in 1988, when, having long been working on Strat and Chatto by Jan Mark he found that after his "early drawings in pencil/charcoal [were] rejected as too sophisticated," and he felt that pencil-work often suffered from printing techniques he experimented in improving his pen and ink style. "Submitt[ing] a rough pen and ink drawing to Pentagram", he found that they "chose to use it as a finished piece" as the cover to a book by Don Marquis entitled "Archy and Mehitabel". In late 1989, "he was invited by The Observer magazine to produce drawings for a topical weekly medical column, "A Doctor Writes" by Dr. John Collee," first as one of a number of rotating artists, but soon as the solo, regular weekly artist. Describing his aversion to roughing out his work, Hughes notes the immediacy and challenge of producing full work as tending to allow an artist to produce better work:
"Roughs are the kiss of death. I hate doing roughs. . .I don't rough anything out in pencil, it's always pen and ink.., it's the moment; it's the difference between the practice run and the actual reality, it lifts your game. It's really demanding. Pencils easier, lovely, for me it's almost like relaxing."

Spoleto festival
In 1991, Gian Carlo Menotti, director of the Spoleto festival in Italy and his son Francis Menotti, invited Hughes to produce poster designs to advertise the 1992 festival, having seen his work in The Observer. Hughes also "mounted a major exhibition of his work as part of the festival," which subsequently transferred to the Charleston Festival in South Carolina in 1993.

Hughes was also asked by the Menottis to design an operatic version for their 1993 season of The Rake's Progress, a task he was wary of taking "because of Hockney's famously lauded version". In late 1992, Hockney's opera was staged in Manchester, and Hughes attended, leaving with the opinion that:
"It was very clever, but there was only one scene where I thought 'I can't top that, that's fantastic.'"
Attempting to 'update the biting satire of Hogarth's etchings', Hughes took a satirical approach to 'give the work a contemporary relevance,' utilising all manner of historical styles and imagery associated with sports and gambling, as well as indulging in 'appropriately playful bawdyness'. Hailed by Italian critics as a complete success, Hughes feels in retrospect that its biggest help to himself was that it "made [him] think about colour more, and form."

Today and beyond
After the "adrenalin-fuelled team work of opera", Hughes was 'kept sane' by creating press adverts for American Express as well as being given carte blanch (in 1993) by journalist Christopher Wilson to draw "weekly portrait drawings" for the newspaper Today's "Poison Pen" gossip column.

He was subsequently invited to design another opera for Spoleto - The Cunning Little Vixen for their 1998 season, considering it:
"... totally simplified in comparison. I went the other way, which was good, I'd got all the ornate crap out in Rakes Progress."
His work on The Cunning Little Vixen included 3-dimensional sculptural collages "with letterforms and fiat colour",
Ian Massey suggests that Hughes "uses collage elements as accents or as punctuation," and he concurs, noting that he has used simple collage elements from some of his earliest work. Hughes particularly favours the use of postage stamps in his work, not just because of what they evoke:
"... you look at old letters, people write beautifully, and you see the stamps, the seal, the frank mark," but also because he is an avid collector - "cigarette cards, bubble gum cards, stamps, matchbox labels, beermats ..." and the like.

His Graphic Novel Walking The Dog, was published in 2009 to critical claim. The Observer wrote - On the outside, Walking the Dog looks like the kind of hardback a certain kind of man leaves on his coffee table so everyone can see how eclectic he is: expensive, colourful, mildly quirky. Open it up, however, and anarchy reigns.

2015 saw the publication of his net Graphic Novel, The Pillbox. Neil Mukherjee wrote in The New Statesman, Hughes has captured something ineluctably English in the combination of seediness, violence, sensationlism and humour; the book's biggest effect, however is the resonance of the present-day story, which will leave at least one haunting question ringing in your head.
Hughes Was commissioned by The Folio Society(2015) to illustrate Ken Kesey's novel One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.

Style and other credits
His work incorporates aspects of illustration, graphic design, photography and animation, and his satirical drawings (often on the themes of "war, politics and social crisis"), have appeared in Punch, The Observer and The New Yorker, as well as being exhibited internationally. Hughes states that he rarely uses references, favouring "develop[ing] forms through drawing":
"You don't think of ideas.., you know, sometimes an idea pops into your head but rarely for me. ideas come through drawing."

His work has also appeared in the Evening Standard, GQ, Esquire, Today, The Washington Post and The New Yorker, while Hughes has also produced work for UK TV station Channel 4. His design work for the stage includes two operatic productions at Spoleto, in 1993 and 1998.

Widely acclaimed as a children's book illustrator, Hughes also writes some of the books he illustrates, as well as illustrating the work of others. In autumn 2006, he provided the illustrations of Jan Needle's retelling of Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.

Awards and nominations
Strat and Chatto (by Jan Mark), won Hughes the Mother Goose Award for "most exciting newcomer to British children's book illustration" in 1990.
Bully was shortlisted for the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize in 1993.
Little Robert was selected by the Association of Illustrators in 1997 for Image 22, and was subsequently exhibited at the Royal College of Art, and later touring.
In 1999 he received a D&AD Silver Award for his illustrations of Othello.

Partial bibliography
Mark, Jan, Strat and Chatto (1990) Walker Books
Bully (1992) Walker Books
Little Robert (1996) Alibaba Verlag
Shakespeare's Othello. Alibaba Verlag 1998
Silent Night, author Sandy Turner. Atheneum (USA) Walker Books (GB) 2000
David Hughes: Drawings (Kerber Verlag 2003)
Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame, adapted by Jan Needle Walker Books 2006
Walking The Dog. Jonathan Cape, 2009
The Pillbox. Vintage/Jonathan Cape 2015

References

Living people
English illustrators
British children's book illustrators
People from Marple, Greater Manchester
Year of birth missing (living people)


KAYL may refer to:

 KAYL (AM), a radio station (990 AM) licensed to Storm Lake, Iowa, United States
 KAYL-FM, a radio station (101.7 FM) licensed to Storm Lake, Iowa, United States

See also

 Kayl, a town in Luxembourg
Karyl


KBKB may refer to:

 KBKB (AM), a radio station (1360 AM) licensed to Fort Madison, Iowa, United States
 KBKB-FM, a radio station (101.7 FM) licensed to Fort Madison, Iowa, United States


KBOE may refer to:

 KBOE-FM, a radio station (104.9 FM) licensed to Oskaloosa, Iowa, United States
 KMZN, a radio station (740 AM) licensed to Oskaloosa, Iowa, which held the call sign KBOE from 1950 to 2014
 Kilo barrel of oil equivalent (kBOE), a commonly used multiple of the barrel of oil equivalent (BOE)


The Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum is a general interest museum within historic Roscoe Village, a restored Ohio & Erie Canal town in Coshocton, OH.  It has four permanent themed exhibits within five galleries, including a Native American Gallery, Historic Ohio, Asian (Japanese and Chinese), and 19th and 20th Century Decorative Arts.   There are more than 17,000 items in its collections.

History

The museum is the legacy of John and David Johnson, two brothers who grew up in Coshocton in the mid 19th century and traveled the world collecting regional and cultural artifacts from the places they visited. They bequeathed their personal collections of over 15,000 objects, to their home town with the request that a museum be formed in honor of their parents, Joseph Johnson and Mary Susan Humrickhouse. The Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum opened to the public on May 8, 1931. The brother's original collections included American Indian basketry and bead work, pre-Columbian clay figurines from Mexico, Japanese ceramics, woodblock prints and Samurai swords, Chinese lacquer ware, textiles, ceramics and wood carvings, and American and European ceramics, glassware, and textiles.  JHM's collections have grown from private donations, primarily in areas of local history and pre-historic Ohio Indian tools and points.

Permanent Exhibits

I.  Native American Gallery

JHM's Native American gallery includes a wealth of stone tools and points from Ohio's earliest pre-historic peoples through the Adena and Hopewell periods.  Of notable interest is the Rothenstein Cache, a collection of 342 blades found in 1963 when a plumber discovered a cache of prehistoric points while laying pipe for a house in Coshocton. The find consisted of 330 points packed side by side on their edges with twelve lying flat on top. The unfinished blades, composed of Coshocton black flint, ranged in length
from 2.5 to 8.5 inches. They date back to the Adena culture, about 2,000 years old.

The gallery displays pottery, bead and quill work, carvings, and garments from various regions and tribes during the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.

II.  Historic Ohio

This gallery includes a mock-up of a typical pioneer cabin and features the various tools, furnishings, and longrifles from Ohio's settlers of the late 18th through 19th centuries.  The center piece of this gallery is a showcase of various 18th century longrifles, including smooth bore flintlocks, and 19th century rifles, muzzle loaders, percussion cap, and breech loading rifles.

Coshocton is also the birthplace of advertising art.  In 1886, newspaper owner Jasper Meek used his printing press to advertise a shoe store on the surface of burlap school bags. After Meek established the first advertising art company, many start-ups followed. Most of the advertising was printed on metal trays and signs.  Coca-Cola trays are the most common. It is believed that during the first decade of the 20th century, Coshocton had more artists in residence than any other city except New York City. Visitors can view Jasper Meek's 1830 model Washington Press and many examples of Coshocton advertising art.

III.  Golden Gallery – The Golden Gallery features a Victiorian nook with 18 & 19th Century European & American furniture, textiles and decorative arts. Half of the gallery space is devoted to temporary displays.

IV.  Asian:  Chinese & Japanese 18 & 19th Century Arts & Weaponry. Japanese and Chinese artifacts, including Jade, porcelain, cloisonne, embroidery, lacquer ware, theater masks, intricate ivory and wood carvings, samurai armor, and samurai swords.

V.  Special Exhibit - Gallery display five changing exhibits each year, and they vary from contemporary quilts, fine art and craft to World War II posters and traveling exhibits.

Newark Holy Stones

The JHM houses the original and controversial Newark Holy Stones, composed of four objects: the Keystone, the Decalogue Stone, a two-piece box made to house the Decalogue Stone, and a bowl.  Both the Keystone and Decalogue Stone are inscribed in Hebrew, and the Decalogue Stone also bears an image of Moses. Uncovered in the Newark earthworks in the 1860s, the context suggested a link with the Hopewell Indian culture, which thrived between 100 BC and 500 AD.

Notes of Interests

The Historic Ohio Gallery displays 19th and early 20th century tools, firearms and furnishings, most of which were donated to the museum in 1946 by a local family. Their descendants were Nicholas Miller and Mary Darling, Ohio pioneers.  Nicholas came to what is now Coshocton County in 1802 with $36 and two axes.  During his first winter he slept in a cave with his dog, which subsequently was killed by a bear.  Nicholas used the money he earned surveying the land to purchase property. Meanwhile, the Darling family migrated from Virginia to the area in 1806.  Eighteen-year-old Mary drove the four-horse team that pulled the covered wagon.  She had eleven brothers and sisters who also made the journey.  Nicholas and Mary married and their great-grandchildren were the donors.  The museum displays the tar bucket that the Darlings used to grease their wagon wheels.  A cave has also been constructed for children to climb into in memory of Nicholas and his dog.

References

The Newark "Holy Stones": The Social Context of an Enduring Scientific Forgery Written by Bradley T. Lepper, Ohio Historical Society and Jeff Gill, Newark Earthworks OHS Site

External links
JHM webpage

Museums in Coshocton County, Ohio
Decorative arts museums in the United States
Native American museums in Ohio
History museums in Ohio
Museums established in 1931
1931 establishments in Ohio
Coshocton, Ohio


Oxon Cove Park and Oxon Cove Farm is a national historic district that includes a living farm museum operated by the National Park Service, and located at Oxon Hill, Prince George's County, Maryland. It is part of National Capital Parks-East. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

The park provides an excellent resource for environmental studies, wildlife observing, fishing, and other recreational activities made possible by easy access to the Potomac River. Fourteen buildings and two structures are located in the historic district and associated with the property's sequential development as a plantation, an institutional agricultural complex, and a farm museum.

History
Oxon Cove Park was formed in 1967 when the land was transferred to the National Park Service for educational purposes, before that it moved through several owners.

Before European settlers arrived, the Piscataway Indian people were farming land along the Potomac River in the area. From the late 17th Century to the early 19th Century, the farm was owned by John Addison and his descendants who grew tobacco, oats and corn on the land using enslaved people to do so. Part of the estate was known as Oxon Hill Manor at the time. In the early 19th Century, Dr. Samuel DeButts, a native of Ireland bought part of the Addison property and renamed it Mount Welby in honor of his wife's family and he held onto the land until 1843. During the rest of the 19th Century the land changed hands many times until the federal government bought it, and an adjoining 100 acres, in 1891 as a farm to provide food for patients at nearby St. Elizabeths Hospital. Farming ended in the 1950's and the land was then transferred to the NPS in 1967. For some time it was known as the Oxon Hill Children's Farm.

In the 1990's the Park service built a 3.9 mile paved trail around the park and connected to DC via a bridge across Oxon Creek built in the 1980's.

Oxon Hill Farm
The Oxon Hill Farm includes the Mount Welby home, Farm Museum, barns, a stable, feed building, livestock buildings and a visitor activity barn.  Farm animals include cows, horses and chickens.  Visitors can view the animals up close daily and learn about the workings of a farm.  The Farm Museum building displays historical farm equipment dating from the late 19th century.

The district also includes a hexagonal frame outbuilding; c. 1830 brick root cellar; c. 1973 frame hog house; c. 1890 frame horse and pony barn; c. 1991 frame chicken house; c. 1970 steel-frame implement shed; c. 1980 frame visitor barn; c. 1970 steel-frame windmill; c. 1940 frame hay barn; c. 1890 frame feed building; c. 1830 brick stable; c. 1970 frame tool shed; c. 1980 frame "sorghum sirip" shed; and a c. 1980 frame dairy barn, and c. 1940 tile silo. From the 1890s to 1950s, under the ownership of St. Elizabeth's Hospital, the site was used as a therapeutic treatment center for the mentally ill known as Godding Croft. The Oxon Cove Farm historic district is located on the crest of a ridge overlooking the Potomac River, north of I-95 and very close to National Harbor.

Mount Welby
The principal dwelling, known as "Mount Welby," is a c. 1807-1811 two-story three-bay brick structure laid in Flemish bond with Italianate detailing and sheltered by a shed roof, and visible to motorists crossing the interstate Woodrow Wilson Bridge. The house was built by Irish immigrant Dr. Samuel DeButts. It was entrusted to the National Park Service in 1959 in order to protect its resources from increased development.  From 1891 to 1950, the property was used as a therapeutic farm by St. Elizabeths Hospital, and was known as Godding Croft.

The house is operated as a historic house museum, with exhibits about period life in the early 19th century for the owners and slaves on the plantation.  Other exhibits focus on the home's role at Godding Croft.

Gallery

See also
 Open-air museum

References

External links
 National Park Service, National Capital Parks - East, Oxon Cove Park and Oxon Hill Farm website
 , including photo in 1988, at Maryland Historical Trust website
 M-NCPPC Inventory of Historic Sites (Prince George's County); Mount Welby, entry 76A-013, p. 118
 The Historical Marker Database, Oxon Cove Park and Oxon Hill Farm entry

Parks in Prince George's County, Maryland
Farm museums in Maryland
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland
Museums in Prince George's County, Maryland
Protected areas established in 1959
Italianate architecture in Maryland
National Park Service areas in Maryland
National Capital Parks-East
Houses in Prince George's County, Maryland
1959 establishments in Maryland
Houses completed in 1811
National Register of Historic Places in Prince George's County, Maryland
Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland
Oxon Hill, Maryland
Southeast (Washington, D.C.)


Elsing is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is located  north-east of Dereham and  north-west of Norwich, close to the River Wensum.

History
Elsing's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the Old English for the settlement of Elesa's people.

In the Domesday Book, Elsing is listed as a settlement of 20 households in the hundred of Eynesford. In 1086, the village was part of the East Anglian estates of William de Warenne.

Elsing Hall was built in the late-Fifteenth Century as a fortified manor house for the Hastings family of Gressenhall. The agricultural land surrounding the hall has yielded many Medieval artefacts including a pilgrim's badge, a French jeton and parts of a crossbow, with a good example of a Sixteenth Century priest hole inside. The hall was heavily restored in the mid-Nineteenth Century by Thomas Jeckyll.

Some sources suggest that Medieval Elsing had a large population with its own marketplace and guildhall.

Elsing Mill was first built in 1809 and operated as a paper mill until 1818. The mill subsequently reopened in 1854 as a grain mill and remained open until 1970. Today, the mill is a private residence.

Geography
In the 2011 Census, Elsing has a population of 244 residents living in 125 households. Furthermore, the parish has a total area of .

Elsing falls within the constituency of Mid Norfolk and is represented at Parliament by George Freeman MP of the Conservative Party. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of Breckland.

St. Mary's Church

Elsing's parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary and was built in the Fourteenth Century, largely as a mausoleum for Sir Hugh Hastings, who is depicted in the stained-glass of St. Mary's alongside Saint George and King Edward III.

Amenities
The Mermaid Inn pub dates from the mid-Sixteenth Century and is now closed.

Notable Residents
 Bob Simpson (1944-2006)- BBC journalist

War Memorial
Elsing's war memorial takes the form of stone column topped with a Celtic cross with the names of the fallen inscribed on a small plinth below, located inside St. Mary's Churchyard. The memorial was unveiled in August 1921 by a party of local dignitaries led by Bertram Pollock, Bishop of Norwich and lists the following names for the First World War:
 Rgt-Sgt.Maj. Harry J. Mason (1872-1918), Royal Norfolk Regiment
 Sgt. Donald W. Kerrison (d.1918), 7th Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment
 Cpl. Charles Candy (d.1917), 50th Company, Machine Gun Corps
 L-Cpl. John W. Kendall (1893-1917), 8th Battalion, Border Regiment
 Pvt. Walter G. Isbell (1896-1917), 10th Battalion, Essex Regiment
 Pvt. S. William Rix (1898-1918), 2nd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers
 Pvt. John C. Dack (d.1916), 1st Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment
 Pvt. Benjamin R. Wire (1894-1916), 1st Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment
 Pvt. Matthew E. Bowes (d.1918), 7th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment
 Pvt. George Rix (1885-1916), 7th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment
 Pvt. E. William Dack (d.1917), 7th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment
 Harry Lawrence

And, the following for the Second World War:
 Sgt. Keith S. Bushell (1919-1940), No. 206 Squadron RAF
 Pvt. Gordon R. Isbell (1920-1944), East Surrey Regiment

References

External links

Elsing Mill

Villages in Norfolk
Civil parishes in Norfolk
Breckland District


KBVU may refer to:

 KBVU (TV), a television station (channel 28) licensed to Eureka, California, United States (satellite station of KCVU channel 20 in Chico, California)
 KBVU-FM, a radio station (97.5 FM) licensed to Alta, Iowa, United States
 KBVU (AM), a defunct radio station (1540 AM) licensed to Bellevue, Washington in the 1960s.
 the ICAO code for Boulder City Municipal Airport


The Mother Goose Award was an award annually presented to "the most exciting newcomer to British children's book illustration."

It was inaugurated in 1979 and last awarded in 1999. Sponsored by Books for Children booksellers, award winners received £1,000 and a gilded goose egg.

Winners

Twenty illustrators were recognised in 21 years.

Primary sources
Records of the Mother Goose Award from 1978 to 1986 are held in the archives of the Institute of Education, University of London.

See also

 Kate Greenaway Medal
 Kurt Maschler Award
 Gelett Burgess Children's Book Award

References

British children's literary awards
Illustrated book awards
Awards established in 1979
1979 establishments in the United Kingdom
Awards disestablished in 1999
1999 disestablishments in the United Kingdom


KCHA may refer to:

 KCHA (AM), a radio station (1580 AM) licensed to Charles City, Iowa, United States
 KCHA-FM, a radio station (95.9 FM) licensed to Charles City, Iowa, United States
 the ICAO code for Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport


KCHE may refer to:

 KCHE (AM), a radio station (1440 AM) licensed to Cherokee, Iowa, United States
 KCHE-FM, a radio station (92.1 FM) licensed to Cherokee, Iowa, United States


The N13 road is a national highway (Route nationale) in Morocco linking Taouz near Merzouga close to the Algerian border  with Azrou, Meknes and other northern locations.  North of Meknes there are views of the Zerhoun Mountains and along the N13 is the ancient Roman and Carthaginian settlement of Volubilis, the westernmost provincial capital of the Roman Empire.  This Roman city overlies one of the earliest archaeologically recorded Neolithic settlements in Morocco.

See also
Barbary ape

References

Roads in Morocco


KCOB may refer to:

 KCOB (AM), a radio station (1280 AM) licensed to Newton, Iowa, United States
 KCOB-FM, a radio station (95.9 FM) licensed to Newton, Iowa, United States


The 2008 Northern Mariana Islands Republican presidential caucuses took place on February 23, 2008.   John McCain won all 6 pledged (and the support of 3 unpledged delegates) at the commonwealth's convention.

Results

See also
 Republican Party (United States) presidential primaries, 2008
 Republican Party presidential debates, 2012
 Republican Party presidential primaries, 2012
 Results of the 2012 Republican Party presidential primaries

References

Republican caucuses
Northern Mariana Islands
2008


From March 11 to June 5, 1956, voters of the Democratic Party chose its nominee for president in the 1956 United States presidential election. Former Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson was selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections and caucuses culminating in the 1956 Democratic National Convention held from August 13 to August 17, 1956, in Chicago, Illinois. This was the party's second consecutive nomination of Stevenson.

Primary race
Estes Kefauver sought the Democratic presidential nomination, as he had in 1952. Initially, he again won some Democratic Party presidential primaries. In the March 13, 1956 New Hampshire presidential primary, Kefauver defeated Stevenson, his only formidable opponent for the nomination, by a margin of 21,701 to 3,806. A week later, Kefauver  defeated Stevenson in the March 20, 1956 Minnesota presidential primary, winning 245,885 votes compared to Stevenson's 186,723 votes. Kefauver was also victorious in the Wisconsin presidential primary.

By April 1956, "it appeared that Kefauver was on his way to a primary sweep matching the spectacular performance in 1952." Stevenson, however, was able to defeat Kefauver in the 1956 Oregon, Florida and California primaries and, overall, ultimately won more primary votes than Kefauver before being re-nominated as the Democratic presidential nominee at the 1956 Democratic national convention.

Candidates

Debates

Televised Kefauver-Stevenson debate
One of the first televised United States presidential debates was held as an hour long one-on-one debate between the party's top-two contenders, Kefauver and Stevenson. The debate was held in Miami, Florida ahead of the state's primary.

Russell Baker of The New York Times  wrote that the two contenders took near-identical stances on most of the issues discussed in the debate.

Polling

National polling

See also
1956 Republican Party presidential primaries

References


KDHK (100.5 FM) is a mainstream rock radio station in Decorah, Iowa. KDHK is also the home for the Iowa Hawkeyes, broadcasting Iowa Hawkeyes football and basketball. Weekend programming includes Dee Snider's House of Hair, LA Lloyd's Rock 30 and Sammy Hagar's Top Rock Countdown.

History
The station's original call letters were KRDI-FM, assigned in 1986. On May 1, 2009, KDEC-FM began streaming online at kdecradio.net.

On October 1, 2019, KDEC-FM changed their format from adult album alternative to mainstream rock, branded as "Hawk Rawk" under new KDHK calls and began streaming online at hawkrawk.com.

On May 8, 2021, KDHK starting broadcasting in HD Radio

HD Radio sub-channels

References

External links

DHK
Radio stations established in 1986
1986 establishments in Iowa