Patrol Squadron 92 (VP-92) is a former U.S. Navy Reserve patrol squadron. Established on 1 November 1970, it was disestablished on 17 October 2007. It was the second squadron to be designated VP-92, the first VP-92 was redesignated VPB-92 on 1 October 1944.

History

1 November 1970: VP-92 was established at NAS South Weymouth, Massachusetts, as a naval air reserve land-based patrol squadron flying 12 Lockheed SP-2H Neptunes. The new squadron came under the operational and administrative control of Commander Naval Air Reserve Force and Commander Fleet Air Reserve Wings, Atlantic. VP-92 was established as a result of a major reorganization of Naval Air Reserve that took place in mid-1970. Under the Reserve Force Squadron concept 12 land-based naval reserve patrol squadrons were formed and structured along the lines of regular Navy squadrons with nearly identical organization and manning levels. The 12/2/1 concept had 12 VP squadrons under two commands, COMFAIRESWINGLANT and COMFAIRESWINGPAC. These two commands came under the control of one central authority, Commander Naval Air Reserve.
October 1973: During the Yom Kippur War one VP-92 aircraft was called upon to transport priority parts for A-4 aircraft to the Israeli Air Force. Task Forces 60.1, 60.2, 61 and 62 were placed on full alert for possible evacuation contingencies in the Middle East. On 19 October 1973, 50 A-4 aircraft were flown from the U.S. to Israel to replace heavy losses from ground-to-air missiles.
26 January–24 February 1991: VP-92 became the first reserve patrol squadron to assume all operational commitments at NAS Bermuda rather than just an augment squadron. The change in responsibilities came about as a direct result of the reduced Soviet presence in the North Atlantic, and the reassignment of active duty assets to more critical areas. Seven reserve patrol squadrons trained throughout the year at the naval air station. The squadrons assumed full control from the regular Navy patrol squadrons, including all aspects of supply, maintenance, routine patrol responsibilities and ready alert standby.
17 July–29 August 1993: VP-92 provided four aircrews and a maintenance detachment in support of Adriatic Sea embargo flights for Operation Maritime Guard against the former Republic of Yugoslavia. These were armed flights carrying Rockeye cluster bombs, Harpoon anti-ship missiles and the first highly successful deployment of the Remote Imaging Transmission System. The missions were flown in support of UN operations to enforce the cease-fire between warring factions of Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia, and to prevent outside factions from providing resupply by sea.
8 June 1996: VP-92 relocated with more than 1,000 Naval Reservists from NAS South Weymouth, to NAS Brunswick, Maine following the disestablishment of the NAS South Weymouth facility.

Home port assignments
The squadron was assigned to these home ports, effective on the dates shown:
 NAS South Weymouth, Massachusetts - 1 November 1970
 NAS Brunswick, Maine - 8 June 1996

Aircraft assignment
The squadron first received the following aircraft on the dates shown:
 SP-2H - November 1970
 P-3A DIFAR - April 1975
 P-3B TAC/NAV MOD - 1984
 P-3C UII - July 1991
 P-3C UII.5 - 1996
 P-3C UIII - 1998

See also
History of the United States Navy
List of inactive United States Navy aircraft squadrons
List of United States Navy aircraft squadrons
List of squadrons in the Dictionary of American Naval Aviation Squadrons
South Weymouth Naval Air Station
Brunswick Naval Air Station

References

Patrol squadrons of the United States Navy
Military units and formations in Massachusetts
Military units and formations in Maine
1970 establishments in Massachusetts
Military units and formations established in 1970
Military units and formations disestablished in 2007


Walter George Mitchell,  (May 30, 1877 – April 3, 1935) was a Canadian lawyer and politician.

Early life
Born in Danby, Quebec, the son of William Mitchell, a Canadian senator, and Dora Godard, Mitchell was educated at the Montreal High School, Bishop's College, and McGill University where he received a Bachelor of Civil Law degree in 1901 and was a charter member of The Kappa Alpha Society.

Career
After being called to the Quebec Bar in 1901, he practiced law with the law firm of Greenshields, Greenshields & Heneker. He soon was part of the firm Laflamme, Mitchell and Callaghan and was created a King's Counsel in 1912.

He was acclaimed to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for the electoral district of Richmond in a 1914 by-election called after the death of Peter Samuel George Mackenzie. A Liberal, he was re-elected by acclamation in 1916 and in 1919. He was Treasurer of the Province of Quebec from 1914 to 1921 in the cabinet of Lomer Gouin and Louis-Alexandre Taschereau.

From 1918 to 1921, he was Minister of Municipal Affairs. He resigned in 1921 and was elected to the House of Commons of Canada for the electoral district of St. Antoine. A Liberal, he resigned in May 1924. He ran again in the 1930 election for the electoral district of Richmond—Wolfe but was defeated.

References

See also
List of Bishop's College School alumni

1877 births
1935 deaths
High School of Montreal alumni
Liberal Party of Canada MPs
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec
Lawyers in Quebec
Quebec Liberal Party MNAs
Bishop's College School alumni
Canadian King's Counsel
Anglophone Quebec people
Canadian people of Irish descent
McGill University Faculty of Law alumni


Marie Madeleine de Montaigu (née Le Croix) (1692–1736) was a Danish actor. She was employed first as a court-actor, and later became one of the first female actors to perform on a Public theatre in Denmark.

Biography
Marie le Croix was born in Denmark as the child of parents of French origin. In 1715, she married Rene Magnon de Montaigu (1661–1737), the director of La troupe du Roi de Danemark, the French troupe that performed for the royal court, and the year after, she became a member of the trope and employed as court-actor.

In 1721, the French troupe, which had performed for the royal court in Copenhagen since 1682, fired by the king, who wished to hire an Italian Opera-trope instead. The French actors, who in many cases had lived there for generations, did not all wish to leave Denmark. Rene Magnon and another French immigrant, Etienne Capion, then asked permission to open a Public theatre. They were given royal permission and in 1722, the first Public theatre was opened in Copenhagen on Lille Grönnegade, the first theatre open to the public in the Danish language.

Capion was the director, Magnon was responsible for the actors, and Marie Madeleine became the first actress to have performed for the Danish Public on an official theatre. The female actors were few; among them were also Helene le Coffre, Maren Magdalene Lerche and Marie Madeleines own dotter Frederikke Sophie.

In 1728 the theatre was closed and Madeleine  and her husband lived under difficult circumstances as French language-teachers.

See also
 Lisbeth Cathrine Amalie Rose
 Anine Frölich

References

External links
 Dansk kvindebiografisk leksikon

Danish stage actresses
18th-century Danish actresses
1692 births
1736 deaths
Danish people of French descent


Montclar may refer to the following places:

 Montclar, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, a commune in the department of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France
 Montclar, Aude, a commune in the department of Aude, France
 Montclar, Aveyron, a commune in the department of Aveyron, France
 Montclar, Berguedà, a municipality in the county of Berguedà, autonomous region of Catalonia, Spain
 Montclar d'Urgell, a settlement in the municipality of Agramunt, county of Urgell, autonomous region of Catalonia, Spain
 Montclar-de-Comminges, a commune in the department of Haute-Garonne, France
 Montclar-Lauragais, a commune in the department of Haute-Garonne, France
 Montclar-sur-Gervanne, a commune in the department of Drôme, France

or to the following people:
 Joseph de Montclar (162590), French cavalry general

See also
 Montclair (disambiguation)
 Mont Clare (disambiguation)


ComputorEdge Magazine was first published on May 16, 1983 as The Byte Buyer in San Diego, California. It was one of the first local free distribution magazines in the United States devoted to the microcomputer. In 1988, in a dispute with the now defunct Byte Magazine, the magazine name was changed to ComputorEdge.

In its first years, the magazine published every other week. By the mid-1990s, it was publishing weekly, which led to a situation in which many of the businesses that advertised in ComputorEdge, angered by having to pay more to have their ads in each issue (since there were now twice as many issues per year), encouraged the launch of several competing computer magazines in San Diego. None of them survived.

The first person hired by the publishers to serve as editor was Dan Gookin, who later wrote the best-selling "DOS for Dummies" tutorial books. Another editor was R. Andrew Rathbone, who wrote the "Windows for Dummies" books as Andy Rathbone. Other editors included Ken Layne, later an editor and writer at Gawker Media blogs including Wonkette. Ryan Tate of Wired and Valleywag published his first article in Computor Edge.

Beginning in the late 1980s, the magazine began printing a list of all the public dial-up computer bulletin-board systems, or BBSs, in San Diego County. As the number of BBSs grew, the list was split so that each week only a portion would run.

In the 1990s, ComputorEdge teamed with the San Diego Computer Society to sponsor the San Diego Computer Exposition, which was renamed the California Computer Expo when it moved from Golden Hall to the larger San Diego Convention Center.

After more than 24 years of publishing in San Diego, the last paper issue of the magazine was printed on December 28, 2007. The magazine continued in electronic form until March 27, 2015, when it ceased weekly activity.

References

Notes

 Murphy, Linda, Computer Entrepreneurs: People Who Built Successful Businesses Around Computers, Computer Publishing Enterprises, 1990, Page 101
 The History of Former ComputorEdge Editors
 The Internet Public Library
 ComputorEdge Online: The Last Issue

External links
 ComputorEdge Home Page (now a blog by the former publisher)

Defunct computer magazines published in the United States
Downloadable magazines
Magazines established in 1983
Magazines disestablished in 2007
Magazines published in California
Mass media in San Diego
Weekly magazines published in the United States
Free magazines


Orgères refers to two communes in France:
Orgères, Ille-et-Vilaine
Orgères, Orne


Three Tree Point is a low, gravelly, triangle-shaped spit jutting into the east side of Puget Sound. It is referred to on some navigation charts as "Point Pully", in recognition of crew member Robert Pulley of the Wilkes Expedition.

History

In early years of development on Three Tree Point, a dock was built on the north beach. The area then was primarily used as for resort or summer homes and cabins. As the area grew with more permanent residents, a clubhouse called "The Cove" was built with a tennis court and dance floor area, which was used frequently for events, parties, etc. During the early years of World War II, lookouts would take turns in the light tower, searching the skies for possible enemy planes.

Today, Three Tree Point is a densely populated residential area where much attention has been paid toward tree preservation.  The surrounding waters are popular among scuba divers.

See also
Burien, Washington

References

External links

photos of tug aground at Three Tree Point, also showing area as it was in 1928

Landforms of King County, Washington
Landforms of Puget Sound
Headlands of Washington (state)
Burien, Washington


Travis Norton Denker (born August 5, 1985) is an American former professional baseball infielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Francisco Giants.

Prior to playing professional baseball, Denker attended Brea Olinda High School.

Professional career

Los Angeles Dodgers
Originally drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 21st round of the 2003 Major League Baseball Draft, Denker signed and started his professional career that very same year. He split time between the South Georgia Waves and GCL Dodgers, combining to hit .264 with three home runs and 14 RBI in 46 games.

Denker spent the entire 2004 season with the Ogden Raptors, with whom he hit .311 with 12 home runs and 43 RBI in 57 games. In 2005, he split time between the Columbus Catfish and Vero Beach Dodgers, combining to hit .281 with 23 home runs and 77 RBI in 132 games. He split time again between the two teams in 2006, hitting .247 with 16 home runs and 70 RBI in 129 games. He also walked 89 times and struck out 73 times.

San Francisco Giants
He spent most of the 2007 season with the Inland Empire 66ers until the Dodgers traded him to the Giants on August 25, 2007, as the PTBNL from a trade for Mark Sweeney on August 9, 2007. Denker finished the season playing for the Giants High-A affiliate, the San Jose Giants and helped lead them to the California League championship. For the year, Denker hit .300 with 11 home runs and 66 RBI in 118 games.

Denker was called up on May 12, , and got his first major league hit against the Florida Marlins on May 25, 2008, which was a double down the third base line. He hit his first home run against Scott Schoeneweis of the New York Mets on June 3, 2008.

San Diego Padres/Boston Red Sox
After spending the rest of the 2008 season in the minor leagues, Denker was claimed off waivers by the San Diego Padres.  He appeared in only one game for the AA San Antonio Missions.

On April 14, 2009, the Boston Red Sox claimed Denker off waivers from the Padres. He appeared in 117 games for the Pawtucket Red Sox, hitting .238.

Los Angeles Dodgers
He signed a minor league contract with Seattle Mariners for 2010 season, but he was released April 24, 2010 after only 7 games with the Tacoma Rainiers and signed by the Los Angeles Dodgers on May 4.

In 2010, he played in 74 games for the Inland Empire 66ers of San Bernardino, 16 games for the Chattanooga Lookouts and 13 games for the Albuquerque Isotopes.

In 2011, he was in 55 games for the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes and 66 for the Lookouts. Combined he hit .274 with 25 home runs and 81 RBI. In 2012, he continued with the Lookouts, appearing in 64 games and hitting only .228. He was released on July 27.

Independent leagues
Denker signed with the Lancaster Barnstormers on August 4, 2012. He played with them through 2013 and then signed with the Laredo Lemurs of the American Association of Independent Professional Baseball.

He led the American Association in home runs while with the Laredo Lemurs.

Arizona Diamondbacks
On June 11, 2016, Denker signed a minor league contract with the Arizona Diamondbacks organization. On June 12, he was assigned to the Double–A Mobile BayBears. During the 2016 offseason, Denker signed a new minor league contract with the Diamondbacks.

Denker spent the 2017 season with the Double–A Jackson Generals, logging a .296/.399/.468 batting line with 7 home runs and 28 RBI. He elected free agency following the season on November 6, 2017.

References

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Living people
Albuquerque Isotopes players
American expatriate baseball players in Mexico
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All Saints Church is in the village of Thelwall, Cheshire, England.  The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.  It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Great Budworth.

History
The origins of a church or chapel at Thelwall are unclear.  It has been thought that a chapel was built by Richard Brooke of Norton Priory but a legal suit in 1663 suggests that there was a chapel on the site before this date.  At this time Thelwall was in the parish of Runcorn.  In 1663 the chapel on the site was restored by Robert Pickering.  After this the chapel fell into disrepair.  It was restored again and re-opened in 1782.  By the following century the church was too small for its congregation and in 1843 a new church was built and consecrated. This consisted of a nave which was designed by James Mountford Allen.  In 1856 the chancel was built at the expense of James Nicholson and the nave was extended by one bay.  In 1890 Henry Stanton commissioned a new north aisle, a new baptistry with a new font, and a new vestry.  The aisle and vestry, together with a north porch, were designed by William Owen.

Architecture
The church is built in sandstone with steeply pitched slate roofs.  Its plan consists of a nave of six bays, a chancel of two bays, a north aisle and a west porch.  A west bellcote has one bell.

The chancel has a floor of marble and coloured glazed tiles.  The reredos has two panels of Biblical scenes in marble which are separated by plaster angels.  In the church is a memorial to Edward the Elder who founded Thelwall in 923.  This is dated 1907 and is by Eric Gill.  The frame of the memorial is by F. C. Eden and Helfar Bros.   From around 1884 the organ used had been built by Gray and Davidson, and in 1964 it was rebuilt by Jardine.  By the 21st century the electrical control system had deteriorated and this was replaced in 2005 by a solid-state system made by John Lifton.

External features
The churchyard contains war graves of three soldiers of World War I.

See also

Listed buildings in Grappenhall and Thelwall

References

Church of England church buildings in Cheshire
Grade II listed churches in Cheshire
Churches completed in 1890
Gothic Revival church buildings in England
Gothic Revival architecture in Cheshire
Diocese of Chester


Montclar () is a commune in the Aude department in southern France.

See also
Communes of the Aude department

References

Communes of Aude
Aude communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Maly Kundysh (, Izi Kundyš, , literally Little Kundysh) is a river in Mari El, Russia, a left tributary of the Malaya Kokshaga. It is 107 km long, its drainage basin is 1310 km².

References

 Агроклиматический справочник по Марийской АССР, 1961

Rivers of Mari El


In physical oceanography and fluid dynamics, the wind stress is the shear stress exerted by the wind on the surface of large bodies of water – such as oceans, seas, estuaries and lakes. Stress is the quantity that describes the magnitude of a force that is causing a deformation of an object. Therefore, stress is defined as the force per unit area and its SI unit is the Pascal. When the deforming force acts parallel to the object's surface, this force is called a shear force and the stress it causes is called a shear stress. When wind is blowing over a water surface, the wind applies a wind force on the water surface. The wind stress is the component of this wind force that is parallel to the surface per unit area. Also, the wind stress can be described as the flux of horizontal momentum applied by the wind on the water surface. The wind stress causes a deformation of the water body whereby wind waves are generated. Also, the wind stress drives ocean currents and is therefore an important driver of the large-scale ocean circulation. The wind stress is affected by the wind speed, the shape of the wind waves and the atmospheric stratification. It is one of the components of the air–sea interaction, with others being the atmospheric pressure on the water surface, as well as the exchange of energy and mass between the water and the atmosphere.

Dynamics

Wind blowing over an ocean at rest first generates small-scale wind waves which extract energy and momentum from the wave field. As a result, the momentum flux (the rate of momentum transfer per unit area and unit time) generates a current. These surface currents are able to transport energy (e.g. heat) and mass (e.g. water or nutrients) around the globe. The different processes described here are depicted in the sketches shown in figures 1.1 till 1.4. Interactions between wind, wind waves and currents are an essential part of the world ocean dynamics. Eventually, the wind waves also influence the wind field leading to a complex interaction between wind and water whereof the research for a correct theoretical description is ongoing.  The Beaufort scale quantifies the correspondence between wind speed and different sea states. Only the top layer of the ocean, called the mixed layer, is stirred by the wind stress. This upper layer of the ocean has a depth on the order of 10m.

The wind blowing parallel to a water surface deforms that surface as a result of shear action caused by the fast wind blowing over the stagnant water. The wind blowing over the surface applies a shear force on the surface. The wind stress is the component of this force that acts parallel to the surface per unit area. This wind force exerted on the water surface due to shear stress is given by:

Here, F represents the shear force,  represents the air density and  represents the wind shear stress. Furthermore, x corresponds to the zonal direction and y corresponds to the meridional direction. The vertical derivatives of the wind stress components are also called the vertical eddy viscosity. The equation describes how the force exerted on the water surface decreases for a denser atmosphere or, to be more precise, a denser atmospheric boundary layer (this is the layer of a fluid where the influence of friction is felt). On the other hand, the exerted force on the water surface increases when the vertical eddy viscosity increases. The wind stress can also be described as a downward transfer of momentum and energy from the air to the water.

The magnitude of the wind stress () is often parametrized as a function of wind speed at a certain height above the surface () in the form

Here,  is the density of the surface air and CD is a dimensionless wind drag coefficient which is a repository function for all remaining dependencies. An often used value for the drag coefficient is .
Since the exchange of energy, momentum and moisture is often parametrized using bulk atmospheric formulae, the equation above is the semi-empirical bulk formula for the surface wind stress. The height at which the wind speed is referred to in wind drag formulas is usually 10 meters above the water surface. The formula for the wind stress explains how the stress increases for a denser atmosphere and higher wind speeds.

When the wind stress forces, that were given above, are in balance with  the Coriolis force, this can be written as:

where f is the Coriolis parameter, u and v are respectively the zonal and meridional currents and  and  are respectively the zonal and meridional Coriolis forces. This balance of forces is known as the Ekman balance. Some important assumptions that underlie the Ekman balance are that there are no boundaries, an infinitely deep water layer, constant vertical eddy viscosity, barotropic conditions with no geostrophic flow and a constant Coriolis parameter. The oceanic currents that are generated by this balance are referred to as Ekman currents. In the Northern Hemisphere, Ekman currents at the surface are directed with an angle of ° to the right of the wind stress direction and in the Southern Hemisphere they are directed with the same angle to the left of the wind stress direction. Flow directions of deeper positioned currents are deflected even more to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the Southern Hemisphere. This phenomenon is called the Ekman spiral.

The Ekman transport can be obtained from vertically integrating the Ekman balance, giving:

where D is the depth of the Ekman layer. Depth-averaged Ekman transport is directed perpendicular to the wind stress and, again, directed to the right of the wind stress direction in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left of the wind stress direction in the Southern Hemisphere. Alongshore winds therefore generate transport towards or away from the coast. For small values of D, water can return from or to deeper water layers, resulting in Ekman up- or downwelling. Upwelling due to Ekman transport can also happen at the equator due to the change of sign of the Coriolis parameter in the Northern and Southern Hemisphere and the stable easterly winds that are blowing to the North and South of the equator.

Due to the strong temporal variability of the wind, the wind forcing on the ocean surface is also highly variable. This is one of the causes of the internal variability of ocean flows as these changes in the wind forcing cause changes in the wave field and the thereby generated currents. Variability of ocean flows also occurs because the changes of the wind forcing are disturbances of the mean ocean flow, which leads to instabilities. A well known phenomenon that is caused by changes in surface wind stress over the tropical Pacific is the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO).

Global wind stress patterns

The global annual mean wind stress forces the global ocean circulation. Typical values for the wind stress are about 0.1Pa and, in general, the zonal wind stress is stronger than the meridional wind stress as can be seen in figures 2.1 and 2.2. It can also be seen that the largest values  of the wind stress occur in the Southern Ocean for the zonal direction with values of about 0.3Pa. Figures 2.3 and 2.4 show that monthly variations in the wind stress patterns are only minor and the general patterns stay the same during the whole year. It can be seen that there are strong easterly winds (i.e. blowing toward the West), called easterlies or trade winds near the equator, very strong westerly winds at midlatitudes (between ±30° and ±60°), called westerlies, and weaker easterly winds at polar latitudes. Also, on a large annual scale, the wind-stress field is fairly zonally homogeneous. Important meridional wind stress patterns are northward (southward) currents on the eastern (western) coasts of continents in the Northern Hemisphere and on the western (eastern) coast in the Southern Hemisphere since these generate coastal upwelling which causes biological activity. Examples of such patterns can be observed in figure 2.2 on the East coast of North-America and on the West coast of South-America.

Large-scale ocean circulation
Wind stress in one of the drivers of the large-scale ocean circulation with other drivers being the gravitational pull exerted by the Moon and Sun, differences in atmospheric pressure at sea level and convection resulting from atmospheric cooling and evaporation. However, the contribution of the wind stress to the forcing of the oceanic general circulation is largest. Ocean waters respond to the wind stress because of their low resistance to shear and the relative consistence with which winds blow over the ocean. The combination of easterly winds near the equator and westerly winds at midlatitudes drives significant circulations in the North and South Atlantic Oceans, the North and South Pacific Oceans and the Indian Ocean with westward currents near the equator and eastward currents at midlatitudes. This results in characteristic gyre flows in the Atlantic and Pacific consisting of a subpolar and subtropical gyre. The strong westerlies in the Southern ocean drive the Antarctic Circumpolar Current which is the dominant current in the Southern Hemisphere whereof no comparable current exists in the Northern Hemisphere.

The equations to describe large-scale ocean dynamics were formulated by Harald Sverdrup and came to be known as Sverdrup dynamics. Important is the Sverdrup balance which describes the relation between the wind stress and the vertically integrated meridional transport of water. Other significant contributions to the description of large-scale ocean circulation were made by Henry Stommel who formulated the first correct theory for the Gulf Stream and theories of the abyssal circulation. Long before these theories were formulated, mariners have been aware of the major surface ocean currents. As an example, Benjamin Franklin already published a map of the Gulf Stream in 1770 and in European discovery of the gulf stream dates back to the 1512 expedition of Juan Ponce de León. Apart from such hydrographic measurement there are two methods to measure the ocean currents directly. Firstly, the Eulerian velocity can be measured using a current meter along a rope in the water column. And secondly, a drifter can be used which is an object that moves with the currents whereof the velocity can be measured.

Wind-driven upwelling

Wind-driven upwelling brings nutrients from deep waters to the surface which leads to biological productivity. Therefore, wind stress impacts biological activity around the globe. Two important forms of wind-driven upwelling are coastal upwelling and equatorial upwelling.

Coastal upwelling occurs when the wind stress is directed with the coast on its left (right) in the Northern (Southern) Hemisphere. If so, Ekman transport is directed away from the coast forcing waters from below to move upward. Well known coastal upwelling areas are the Canary Current, the Benguela Current, the California Current, the Humboldt Current, and the Somali Current. All of these currents support major fisheries due to the increased biological activities.

Equatorial upwelling occurs due to the trade winds blowing towards the west in both the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere. However, the Ekman transport that is associated with these trade winds is directed 90° to the right of the winds in the Northern Hemisphere and 90° to the left of the winds in the Southern Hemisphere. As a result, to the North of the equator water is transported away from the equator and to the South of the equator water is transported away from the equator. This horizontal divergence of mass has to be compensated and hence upwelling occurs.

Wind waves

Wind waves are waves at the water surface that are generated due to the shear action of wind stress on the water surface and the aim of gravity, that acts as a restoring force, to return the water surface to its equilibrium position. Wind waves in the ocean are also known as ocean surface waves. The wind waves interact with both the air and water flows above and below the waves. Therefore, the characteristics of wind waves are determined by the coupling processes between the boundary layers of both the atmosphere and ocean. Wind waves also play an important role themselves in the interaction processes between the ocean and the atmosphere. Wind waves in the ocean can travel thousands of kilometers. Swell consists of wind waves that are not affected by the local wind and have been generated elsewhere. A proper description of the physical mechanisms that cause the growth of wind waves and is in accordance with observations has yet to be completed. A necessary condition for wind waves to grow is a minimum wind speed of 0.05 m/s.

Expressions for the drag coefficient

The drag coefficient is a dimensionless quantity which quantifies the resistance of the water surface. Due to the fact that the drag coefficient depends on the past of the wind, the drag coefficient is expressed differently for different time and spatial scales. A general expression for the drag coefficient does not yet exist and the value is unknown for unsteady and non-ideal conditions. In general, the drag coefficient increases with increasing wind speed and is greater for shallower waters.
The geostrophic drag coefficient is expressed as:

where  is the geostrophic wind which is given by:

In global climate models, often a drag coefficient appropriate for a spatial scale of 1° by 1° and a monthly time scale is used. In such a timescale, the wind can strongly fluctuate. The monthly mean shear stress can be expressed as:

where  is the density,  is the drag coefficient,  is the monthly mean wind and U' is the fluctuation from the monthly mean.

Measurements
It is not possible to directly measure the wind stress on the ocean surface. To obtain measurements of the wind stress, another easily measurable quantity like wind speed is measured and then via a parametrization the wind stress observations are obtained. Still, measurements of the wind stress are important as the value of the drag coefficient is not known for unsteady and non-ideal conditions. Measurements of the wind stress for such conditions can resolve the issue of the unknown drag coefficient. Four methods of measuring the drag coefficient are known as the Reynolds stress method, the dissipation method, the profile method and a method of using radar remote sensing.

Wind stress on land surface
The wind can also exert a stress force on land surface which can lead to erosion of the ground.

References

Fluid dynamics
Physical oceanography


The Harris Girls' Academy East Dulwich (formerly Waverley School) is a secondary school and sixth form with academy status in the East Dulwich area of the London Borough of Southwark, England. The school converted to academy status in September 2006 and is part of the not-for-profit Harris Federation.

Description
The academy is part of the Harris Federation, having joined in September 2006. It is a single-sex school and is smaller than most secondary schools.  The catchment the academy serves is a disadvantaged area and the proportion of students eligible for free school meals is more than twice the national average. Around 85% of students are from minority-ethnic groups; the largest group having Black Caribbean or Black African heritages. Half the students speak English as an additional language. The proportion of disabled students and those with special educational needs is above average. A broadly average proportion have a statement of special educational needs with behavioural, emotional, social or moderate learning difficulties There were new buildings and extensive refurbishments around 2010. The sixth form is part of the Harris Federation joint sixth form provision. The academy's specialisms are sport and fitness, enterprise, and health sciences. Ofsted inspected the school in 2012 and judged it outstanding, which has exempted it ever since from Section 5 inspections.

Governance
The school has a joint local governing body with Harris Boys' Academy East Dulwich. The Academy is a member of the Harris Federation. Ultimate responsibility for the Academy rests with the Board of Trustees of the Federation.  Much of the work is delegated to the Local Governing Body which includes governors appointed by the trustees and others who are elected by parents and by staff.

See also
 Harris Boys' Academy East Dulwich

References

External links
Harris Girls' Academy website

Academies in the London Borough of Southwark
Girls' schools in London
Dulwich
Secondary schools in the London Borough of Southwark
East Dulwich Girls'
Educational institutions established in 2006
2006 establishments in England


Mount Starr King is a symmetrical granite dome in Yosemite National Park, whose highest point is  above sea level.

Climbing Starr King's dome requires technical skills or equipment, and the easiest routes are rated low class 5 in the Yosemite Decimal System.

It was named for Thomas Starr King, a Unitarian preacher and political activist. It has historically been known by various names including Kings Peak, See-wah-lam, South Dome, and Tis-sa-ack.

See also
 Mount Starr King, a New Hampshire mountain named for Starr King

References

External links

Granite domes of Yosemite National Park
Mountains of Mariposa County, California
Hills of California


Bolshoy Kundysh (, Kugu Kundyš, , literally Great Kundysh) is a river in Kirov Oblast and Mari El, Russia, a right tributary of the Bolshaya Kokshaga. It is 173 km long, its drainage basin is 1710 km². Bolshoy Kundysh flows across the fen of the Mari Depression. Kilemary settlement is placed on Bolshoy Kundysh. The river is feed mostly by snow.

References
 Агроклиматический справочник по Марийской АССР, 1961

Rivers of Mari El


The Australian state of Tasmania has one of the longest traditions of cricket-playing in the southern hemisphere.  Cricket is recorded as having first been played in Tasmania very shortly after the arrival of British settlers on the island on 12 September 1803, however it wasn't until nearly fifty years later that First-class cricket was to be played there.

Despite the long wait since the foundation of the colony, Tasmania played in the first ever first-class cricket match in Australia, which was played on 11 February and 12 February 1851, against Victoria, with Tasmania emerging victorious by 3 wickets. For that first match, Tasmania was captained by John Marshall.

Following that first ever First-class match Tasmania endured a long period of isolation, in which the island's cricketers had to content themselves with occasional First-class matches against other colonies, primarily Victoria, and touring or representative sides.

Australia's elite First-class cricket competition, the Sheffield Shield was established in 1892, however Tasmania was not invited to participate in that elite competition until 1977, and even then, their first four seasons were on a limited fixture list.

These are lists of the men who have been the official Tasmanian captains in First-class, List A and Twenty20 domestic matches.
Where a player has a dagger (†) after his period of captaincy, that denotes that player deputised for the appointed captain. The dagger classification follows that adopted by Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.

First-class captains
This is a list of cricketers who have captained the Tasmanian cricket team for at least one First-class match. It is complete up to the 2018/19 season.

Notes:
 Where there are periods of time in which it appears there is no captain, it is because prior to Tasmania's entry into the Sheffield Shield they often went for periods in which the state played no first class cricket.
 Jack Simmons captained Tasmania to their first ever win in a Sheffield Shield match in against Western Australia, who they beat by 4 wickets on 30 January 1979.
 Whilst Ricky Ponting was in effect the Tasmanian cricket captain from 2001/02 until he announced he was standing down on 21 November 2007, this was primarily a ceremonial appointment in order to have the Australian captain as Tasmanian captain as well. In effect Daniel Marsh, his Vice-Captain, has performed the captaincy duties on most occasions, and was appointed outright following Ponting standing aside.
Daniel Marsh captained Tasmania to their first ever Pura Cup title in 2006/07, when they beat the New South Wales Blues by 421 runs in the final on 23 March 2007.
Source: Cricinfo Australian Domestic Seasons

List A captains
Despite not participating in the Sheffield Shield at that time, Tasmania was included in the inaugural List A cricket competition in Australia that began in 1969/70, and has participated in every subsequent season.
This is a complete list of every man who has captained the Tasmanian Tigers in List A cricket.

Notes:
Source: Cricinfo Australian Domestic Seasons
All statistics correct as of 19 October 2016.

Twenty20 captains

Tasmania played their first Twenty20 cricket match against the Queensland Bulls on 6 January 2006, however the match ended with no result. Below is the record of all the men who have captained Tasmania in Twenty20 cricket matches.

Notes:

Source: Cricinfo Australian Domestic Seasons

All statistics correct as of 1 February 2011.

See also
List of Tasmanian representative cricketers
Tasmanian Tigers

References
Cricinfo Australian Domestic Seasons

Tasmania
Cricket captains
Tasmania captains


Roniel Iglesias Sotolongo (born 14 August 1988) is a Cuban boxer, best known for winning the junior world title at lightweight in 2006, a bronze medal  at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and a gold at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. He went on to add to his already impressive Olympic resume by winning another gold medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo at 33-years-old.

Career
In 2005, Iglesias won the national (senior) flyweight title as a 16-year-old when Olympic champion Yuriorkis Gamboa was out injured.  He beat future two-time champ Yoandri Salinas and then Karel Luis in the final.  However, the more experienced Andry Laffita who had competed at junior flyweight was sent to the world championships.

In 2006, he competed in January at the national (senior) championships at bantamweight and lost in the semifinal to Idel Torriente, in September he had put on 6 more kilograms and won the 2006 world title at lightweight in Agadir, Morocco. In the quarterfinals he beat Éverton Lopes and then Kazach Azamat Smagulov in the final.

In 2008 he won the junior welter national senior championship, he beat Richard Poll 12:9 in the final and was sent to the Olympic qualifier in Trinidad where he beat another teenager Javier Molina in the semifinal to qualify for the 2008 Summer Olympics where he lost his semi to defending champion Manus Boonjumnong.

In the 2012 Olympic Games in London, Iglesias won the gold medal by defeating Denys Berinchyk from Ukraine by a score of 22-15.

He later moved up to welterweight, which was the weight division he competed in at the 2016 Summer Olympics. In the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Iglesias won a gold medal by defeating Pat McCormack from Great Britain by a score of 5–0.

Results
Beijing 2008 Olympic results
Defeated Mahaman Smaila (Cameroon) 15-1
Defeated Driss Moussaid (Morocco) 15-4
Defeated Gennady Kovalev (Russia) 5-2
Lost to Manus Boonjumnong (Thailand) 5-10
London 2012 Olympic results
Defeated Cesar Villarraga Aldana (Colombia) 20-9
Defeated Everton Dos Santos Lopes (Brazil) 18-15
Defeated Uktamjon Rahmonov (Uzbekistan) 21-15
Defeated Vincenzo Mangiacapre (Italy) 15-8
Defeated Denys Berinchyk (Ukraine) 22-15
Rio 2016 Olympic results
Defeated Vladimir Margaryan (Armenia) TKO
Lost to Shakhram Giyasov (Uzbekistan) 3-0
Tokyo 2020 Olympic results
Defeated Sewon Okazawa (Japan) 3–2
Defeated Delante Johnson (USA) 5–0
Defeated Andrey Zamkovoy (Russia) 5–0
Defeated Pat McCormack (Great Britain) 5–0

References

External links

 Nationals 2008, Spanish

1988 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Pinar del Río
Cuban male boxers
Olympic boxers for Cuba
Olympic bronze medalists for Cuba
Olympic medalists in boxing
Olympic gold medalists for Cuba
Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Boxers at the 2011 Pan American Games
Boxers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Boxers at the 2015 Pan American Games
Boxers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Boxers at the 2019 Pan American Games
Boxers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Pan American Games gold medalists for Cuba
Pan American Games silver medalists for Cuba
Pan American Games medalists in boxing
Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Cuba
Competitors at the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games
Competitors at the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games
AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists
Welterweight boxers
Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in boxing
Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games
Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games
Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games
21st-century Cuban people


Kundysh River may refer to several places:

Bolshoy Kundysh River, a river in Kirov Oblast and Mari El, Russia
Maly Kundysh River, a river in Mari El, Russia


Jason James Doering (born April 22, 1978) is a former American football defensive back in the National Football League (NFL) for the Indianapolis Colts and Washington Redskins.  He played college football at the University of Wisconsin and was drafted in the sixth round of the 2001 NFL Draft.

References

1978 births
Living people
People from Rhinelander, Wisconsin
Players of American football from Wisconsin
American football defensive backs
Wisconsin Badgers football players
Indianapolis Colts players
Washington Redskins players


Ruth Simon (born c. 1962) is an Eritrean journalist.

Early life
Simon worked with the Eritrean People's Liberation Front during the Eritrean War of Independence, heading its secret publications. She also served as editor-in-chief of the Association for the Reintegration of Eritrean Women Guerrilla Fighters magazine Bana.

After the war, she was arrested on 25 April 1997 by the Eritrean government while working as a correspondent for Agence France-Presse (AFP). The US-based Committee to Protect Journalists stated that she had been arrested for reporting an alleged statement by President Isaias Afewerki that Eritrean soldiers were fighting together with Sudanese rebel groups. The People's Front for Democracy and Justice, Afewerki's party, released a statement the day after her report calling it a "gross distortion" and stating that Eritrean forces were not participating in the Second Sudanese Civil War. Simon was the first journalist to be arrested in Eritrea since its independence four years before.

Simon was held without trial until May 1998, when Afewerki announced that the reporter would face trial and that Eritrea would sue AFP for spreading false information through a "so-called agent". The Paris-based Reporters Without Borders appealed on her behalf, as did the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and CPJ. In November of that year, Simon was awarded a CPJ International Press Freedom Award in absentia, the first Eritrean to win the award. On 29 December 1998, Simon was released without ever having been tried.

Simon is divorced and has three children.

References

1960s births
Eritrean journalists
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Eritrean women writers
Eritrean women journalists


Guns Up is the famous slogan and hand signal of Texas Tech University. The slogan and hand signal are used by students and alumni as a school-spirited greeting. It is also used as a celebratory sign during athletic events.

The gesture

The gesture is made from a closed hand by extending the index finger forward and the thumb up. It is meant to resemble the shape of a gun, like those carried by the university's mascots, The Masked Rider and Raider Red. The idea is that the Red Raiders will figuratively shoot down their opponents.

History

Hand signals were an important part of the traditions of the schools in the Southwest Conference. Invention of "Guns Up" is attributed to 1961 Texas Tech alumnus, L. Glenn Dippel. Living in Austin with his wife Roxie, Dippel created "Guns Up" as a way to counter the "Hook 'em Horns" handsign he saw each day from fans of the Texas Longhorns.

Dippel experimented some before looking to the Raider Red mascot for inspiration. In 1971, he and some other Tech fans made decals with the phrase "Gun 'em Down". Shortly thereafter, Dippel shared the idea with the Saddle Tramps spirit organization who began using the hand signal immediately.

According to Southeastern Louisiana University Athletic Director Jay Artigues, the "Guns Up" cheer and gesture are the inspiration for the "Lion Up" cheer and gesture adopted in 2014 by the Southeastern Louisiana Lions.

See also
Finger gun

References

Hand gestures
Texas Tech Red Raiders


The Lake Street Elevated Railroad was the second permanent elevated rapid transit line to be constructed in Chicago, Illinois. The first section of the line opened in November 1893. Its route is still used today as part of the Green Line route of the Chicago "L" system.

History

The Lake Street Elevated Railway Company was chartered on February 7, 1888, and granted a 25-year franchise by the city council to build an elevated railroad above Lake Street from Canal Street to the city limits. It was originally planned that the line would use a steam-powered monorail system that had been developed by Joe Meigs in Cambridge, Massachusetts, however the company eventually chose to use more traditional steam locomotives.

Construction of the line began in 1889. Potential investors found the franchise too restrictive and a new 40 year franchise was awarded by the city council in November 1890, that allowed the railroad to extend to Market Street in downtown Chicago. By 1892 the company had debts of $17 million. It was sold to new owners, renamed the Lake Street Elevated Railroad Company, and a new charter was granted on August 24, 1892.

The first section, running from the downtown terminal at Market Street and Madison to California Avenue opened to the public in October 1893. The line was completed to 52nd Avenue (Laramie)—a total length of —in April 1894. Service was extended to Austin Avenue in (what was then) the suburb of Austin via a section of track built at-grade in April 1899.

References

External links
Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. IL-3, "Lake Street Elevated Railway Interlocking Tower, Pulaski Road, Chicago, Cook County, IL"

Railway lines in Chicago
History of Chicago
Rapid transit in Illinois
Defunct Illinois railroads


Pregame may refer to:

 Pre-game show, a television or radio presentation that occurs immediately before the live broadcast of a major sporting event
 Pregaming, the process of getting drunk prior to going out socializing


Sami Taha (, 1916 – September 12, 1947) was the main Palestine Arab labor leader in Palestine during the British rule.

Early life
Taha was born in Arraba in 1916, a town near Jenin. He had completed primary school but, through independent study, he became fluent in English and acquired a good knowledge of labour law. His family later moved to Haifa, where he lived during his teenage years, in the early 1930s. There he came to the attention of a very influential man in the city named Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim, who employed Taha to work in the Arab Chamber of Commerce. In 1937, during the 1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine, he was detained by British forces for six months without trial under the Defence (Emergency) Regulations.

Labor leader
Taha became important figure in Palestine and the leader of the Palestinian Arab labor movement after organizing an Arab labor movement similar to the Jewish Histadrut. Taha joined the Palestine Arab Workers Society (PAWS) — which was established in 1925 — where he was employed as a low level clerk then a secretary. He worked his way up the organization and in 1937, he was appointed its general-secretary.

Taha, conservative in policies, and was rivaled by the left or communist-leaning factions of the PAWS. By his late twenties, Taha dominated PAWS by being its spokesman and worked to enlarge the organization in membership and stature. In 1944, Arab and Jewish workers went on strike in Haifa led by PAWS and the Histadrut. The strike was favored by the leftist factions of PAWS, but Taha, not interested in a long politically risky strike, vouched for Arab workers to end it.

In 1946, Jamal al-Husayni appointed Taha as the labour representative of the Arab Higher Committee (AHC). Tensions between Taha and the al-Husayni members and loyalists in the AHC who dominated that organization became increasingly high in 1947 as the Husaynis became angered at Taha's refusal to obey AHC demands. Some of these deviations included Taha's refusal to allow the PAWS to endorse a day-long strike called by the AHC to protest the anniversary of the 1917 Balfour Declaration, as well as the PAWS adoption of socialist guiding principle going against the communist-led AHC. Taha was also accused of willing to compromise with the Jews and was perceived as "not anti-Zionist and anti-British enough." By August 1947, newspapers politically aligned with the AHC began publishing these and other allegations against Taha.

On September 12, 1947, Taha was assassinated outside his Haifa home. The assailant was not apprehended, but it is known that he was killed on the orders of Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and leader of the Palestine Arab Party.

References

Bibliography

External links
 A list of documents which mention or discuss this person

1916 births
1947 deaths
People from Arraba, Jenin
Arab people in Mandatory Palestine
Assassinated Palestinian politicians
1940s assassinated politicians


The discography of rapper Flesh-n-Bone of Cleveland rap group Bone Thugs-n-Harmony.

Albums

Compilations

EPs

Guest appearances

Albums with Bone Thugs-N-Harmony

References

Hip hop discographies
Discographies of American artists


Lasse Boesen (born 18 September 1979) is a retired Danish team handball player. He is European Champion by winning the 2008 European Men's Handball Championship with the Danish national handball team.   He received a bronze medal at the 2007 World Championships.

References

External links
 Lasse Boesen on the website of SG Flensburg-Handewitt Player profile

1979 births
Living people
People from Kolding Municipality
Danish male handball players
Olympic handball players for Denmark
Handball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Handball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
SG Flensburg-Handewitt players
SDC San Antonio players
KIF Kolding players
Handball players from the Region of Southern Denmark


The Trey o' Hearts is a 1914 American 15-chapter action film serial directed by Wilfred Lucas and Henry MacRae. It was written by Allan Dwan and Bess Meredyth, based on a story of the same name by Louis Joseph Vance. The first chapter ran 3 reels, while the others were two-reelers. The film is currently considered to be lost. Some sources list Lon Chaney in the cast (uncredited), but this is disputed and unconfirmed.

Plot
An evil young woman named Judith Trine and her father are plotting to destroy Alan Law, because for many years her father hated Alan's father, and now they have transferred that hatred onto Alan himself. Judith's twin sister Rose (also played by Cleo Madison) is in love with Alan. As the serial progresses, Alan manages to survive a number of life-threatening events. Over time, Judith finds herself falling in love with Alan. On the day of their wedding in a chapel, Rose and Alan are struck by lightning. Rose is killed, and Alan is badly injured. Unbeknownst to Alan, Judith takes Rose's place and nurses him back to health.

Cast
 Cleo Madison as Rose Trine / Judith Trine
 George Larkin as Alan Law, the hero
 Edward Sloman as Seneca Trine, the father
 Tom Walsh as Barcus
 Roy Hanford as Marrophat, the villain
 Charles Brinley
 Doris Pawn

Chapter titles
Flower o' Flames (released August 4, 1914)
White Water (August 11)
The Sea Venture (August 18)
Dead Reckoning (August 25)
The Sunset Tide (September 1)
The Crack o' Doom (September 8)
The Stalemate (September 15)
The Mock Rose (September 22)
As the Crow Flies (September 29)
Steel Ribbons (October 6)
The Painted Hills (October 13)
The Mirage (October 20)
The Jaws of Death (October 27)
The First Law (November 3)
The Last Trump (November 10)

See also
 List of film serials
 List of film serials by studio
 List of lost films

References

External links

1914 films
1914 lost films
American silent serial films
American black-and-white films
Universal Pictures film serials
Films based on American novels
Lost American films
Films directed by Henry MacRae
Films directed by Wilfred Lucas
Films with screenplays by Bess Meredyth
1910s action adventure films
American action adventure films
1910s American films
Silent adventure films


The works of J. M. Barrie about Peter Pan feature many characters. The numerous adaptations and sequels to those stories feature many of the same characters, and introduce new ones. Most of these strive for continuity with Barrie's work, developing a fairly consistent cast of characters living in Neverland and the real-world settings of Barrie's stories.

Major publications and films

This article covers the characters appearing in the canonical works of Barrie, the official books and plays, the major motion pictures and television series based on them, and the major prequels/sequels (authorised and not):

Characters in Barrie's works

A number of characters appear throughout J. M. Barrie's works, including the play Peter Pan, the novel Peter and Wendy, and the novel Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens.

Major characters
Peter Pan is a free spirited and adventurous young boy who would not grow up. He can fly, and lives on the island called Neverland. He is described as "a lovely boy, clad in skeleton leaves and the juices that ooze out of trees". It is also stated that he still has all his baby teeth
Tinker Bell is a tinker fairy and Peter Pan's companion at the time of his adventures with Wendy Darling and her brothers. She is known for her loyalty to Peter but is very jealous of Wendy and Tiger Lily. In the original play, she is portrayed by a darting light and voiced by a tinkling bell
Wendy Moira Angela Darling is a young girl, the eldest child of the Darling family, who is befriended by Peter Pan and flies away to Neverland to be a mother to him and the Lost Boys and share their adventures
Captain Hook is a pirate and captain of the Jolly Roger. He is Peter Pan's archenemy and is determined to get revenge on Peter for cutting off his right hand in a battle and feeding it to a crocodile
Mr. Smee is the Irish bo'sun, the only non-conformist in Hook's crew. One of two pirates to survive the final battle and "henceforth wandered around the world in his spectacles, making a precarious living by saying he was the only man that Jas. Hook had feared."
John Napoleon Darling is the middle child, named after Jack Llewelyn Davies
Michael Nicholas Darling is the youngest of the three children. In an early draft of the play, the character's name was "Alexander" or "Alex", but was renamed after Michael Llewelyn Davies and Nicholas Llewelyn Davies, who were both born during the play's development

Minor characters

The Darling family
George Darling: the father of Wendy, Michael and John. He is a bank clerk and is named after George Llewelyn Davies
Mary Darling: the mother of Wendy, John and Michael and wife of George Darling. She is named after Mary Ansell, Barrie's wife
Nana: the Newfoundland acting as the Darling children's nanny. She was based on Barrie's own Newfoundland, Luath
Jane: (surname is not given) the daughter of the adult Wendy Darling who appears briefly in Barrie's An Afterthought and the final chapter of Peter and Wendy
Margaret: Jane's daughter, mentioned at the end of the story as the one who will go back to Neverland with Peter for spring cleaning

The Pirates
Gentleman Starkey: once an usher in a public school "and still dainty in his ways of killing". He and Smee are the sole survivors of the final battle, although he got captured by the Piccaninnies, "who made him nurse for all their papooses"
Bill Jukes: used to be on the Walrus under Captain Flint, and is heavily tattooed
Cecco: a very handsome Italian fellow who was said to have his name in letters of blood on the back of the governor of the prison at Gao"
Cookson: he is said to be the brother of real-life pirate Black Murphy, but this was never proved
Noodler: not much is known about him, except for the fact that his hands are fixed on backwards, and he is superstitious, like all sailors
Skylights (Morgan's Skylights): he is killed off early on the novel "to show Hook's method"
Black Pirate: it is only stated that he is gigantic and has had many names that still terrify children on the banks of the Guadjo-mo
Alf Mason: one of the pirates killed in mortal combat with Lean Wolf early on in the battle between the pirates and Tiger Lily's braves
Robert Mullins: he is killed by Peter in the final battle with the pirates
George Scourie: another casualty in the battle
Chas. Turley ("Chay Turley" in the play): he is said "to laugh with the wrong side of his mouth (having no other)"; another casualty in battle by the Piccaninnies
Foggerty: an Alsatian who also died in the above battle
Whibbles: he wears an eye patch and is the first casualty in the final battle
 Ed Teynte: the quartermaster in the novel (but not mentioned in the play), was the first killed in the last battle (instead of Whibbles)
Black Gilmour (only in play): killed in battle by the Piccaninnies
Alan Herb (only in play): "still remembered at Manaos for playing skittles with the mate of Switch for each other's heads"; killed in battle by the Piccaninnies
Canary Robb (only in play): killed in the above battle

Other characters
Lost Boys: a gang of young boys who fell out of their prams and were not claimed by their parents, so Peter brought them to the Neverland. It is implied there has been a succession of lost boys over time, but the boys in Barrie's work are Tootles, Nibs, Curly, Slightly, and The Twins. Additional or different Lost Boys appear in sequels, prequels and adaptations
Great Big Little Panther: the Chief of the Piccaninny tribe and the father of Tiger Lily

Tiger Lily: the chief's daughter, often described as a princess (in her own right), who is captured by the Pirates and left to drown on Marooners' Rock before being rescued by Peter Pan
Crocodile (Tick-Tock in Disney's movie): Hook's other nemesis and the only thing which he fears. It ate Hook's hand when Peter cut it off in battle and craves for the rest of him. The clock swallowed by the crocodile warns Hook of its proximity. In Peter and Wendy, the crocodile is briefly referred to by the feminine pronoun "she", a point overlooked in subsequent adaptations
Mermaids are half woman and half fish; they live in the sea but are often seen in the Mermaids' Lagoon in Neverland. They're vain, unfriendly and care for their looks and good appearance. They can be dangerous creatures (especially at night) who dislike all humans (except Peter Pan) and act very spitefully towards Wendy
 Liza: the maid in the Darling household
Maimie Mannering : a little girl who is helped and befriended by Peter Pan in Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, and considered to be Wendy's literary predecessor. Although enjoying Kensington Gardens and her friendship with Peter when she stays behind one day after Lock Out time, she comes to realise that her mother is very worried about her so she must return. When she grows up, she continues to think of Peter, dedicating presents and letters to him. To remember Maimie, Peter rides the imaginary goat she created for him

Characters from Disney's Peter Pan-Tinker Bell franchise

Return to Never Land

Jane: Wendy's daughter. She is portrayed as a cynical, no-nonsense, down-to-earth girl who tries to act very grown up. She refuses to believe her mother's stories about Peter Pan. Unlike Wendy, she is not interested in playing "mother" for the Lost Boys and spends most of her time in Neverland just wanting to leave
Danny: Danny is Jane's little brother. He believes entirely in his mother's stories about Peter Pan and is very similar to his uncle Michael (from the original Disney film adaptation), even to wearing footed-pajamas
Edward: Edward is Wendy's husband and the father of Jane and Danny. He is called to serve in the British army during World War II, and returns at the end of the film. He is depicted as a warm and caring man
Nana II: a St. Bernard owned by Jane's family who could be a descendant of the original Nana
The Octopus: a gigantic orange octopus who replaces the Crocodile for some unknown reason as Captain Hook's enemy who wants to eat him because he enjoys his taste. He makes "plip-plop" noises with his eyes and suckers reminiscent of the Crocodile's ticking. In the end, he sinks Hook's ship and chases Hook and his crew (whom he mistakes for fish) into the distance.

Disney Fairies

Gwendolyn Carlisle
Gwendolyn Jane Mary Darling Carlisle is a human girl whom Peter Pan brings to Never Land, and a descendant of Wendy Darling. She lives with her parents and grandmother in the same house that Wendy had lived in so long ago. She appears in the book "Fairies and the Quest for Never Land".

Jake and the Never Land Pirates

Characters from other works

Steven Spielberg's Hook

The Banning family
Peter Banning is Peter Pan, grown up. When he fell in love with Moira, he abandoned his eternal youth. He was adopted by an American couple named Hank and Jane Banning, and forgot about his life as Peter Pan. He is played by Robin Williams
Moira Banning – Moira is Wendy Darling's granddaughter and Peter Banning's wife. She is played by Caroline Goodall
Jack Banning – Jack is Peter and Moira Banning's son, Maggie's older brother and Wendy's great-grandson. Nearing his teen years, Jack is often frustrated by his father's repeated broken promises and absences that he turns towards Hook for a father figure. However, after watching Rufio die, he turns his back on Hook and regains his trust in Peter. Jack is played by Charlie Korsmo
Maggie Banning – Maggie is Peter and Moira Banning's daughter, Jack's younger sister and Wendy's great-granddaughter. Sweet and imaginative, she is captivated by stories of Peter Pan. Maggie is the only one who retains faith in Peter and mistrusts Hook. When she learns that her father is the famous Peter Pan, Maggie accepts him and tells Hook off, saying that he's the one who needs a mother to straighten up his bad attitude. She is played by Amber Scott

Lost Boys
Rufio is the leader of the Lost Boys and Peter's successor who was hand-chosen by him when he chose to leave Neverland for good. He is the anti-hero for the film's first two acts, initially refusing to believe that Peter Banning is Pan grown up. After Peter regains the power of flight, the two reconcile their differences when Rufio acknowledges Peter's identity as the true Pan. Rufio fights beside him in the final battle against Hook's pirates but is slain by Hook. He dies in Peter's arms after admitting that his one wish was to have a father like Peter, he was avenged when the temporary reanimated crocodile ate Hook. He was played by Dante Basco
Thud Butt is a member of the Lost Boys who accepts the possibility that Peter Banning may be Peter Pan from the start, and strikes up a friendship with him. At the end of the film, with Rufio having been slain by Hook before he got eaten by a temporary revived crocodile, Peter chooses Thud Butt as the Lost Boys' new leader. He is played by Raushan Hammond
The remaining Lost Boys consist of:
Ace (Jasen Fisher)
Don't Ask (James Madio)
No Nap (Ahmad Stoner)
Pockets (Isaiah Robinson)
Latchboy (Alex Zuckerman)
Too Small (Thomas Tulak)
twins Sooner (Brian Willis) and Later (Brett Willis)

Peter Pan (2003)

 Aunt Millicent: the Darling children's maternal aunt, a stuffy character who wants Wendy to leave her childhood world and grow up. She softens at the end of the film, and adopts Slightly

Peter and the Starcatchers

Aster family
Leonard and Louise Aster: Molly Aster's parents. Leonard is an ambassador for the King to Rudoon. In Peter and the Shadow Thieves, Louise is taken captive by the Others.

Molly Aster is one of the main characters of the four Starcatchers novels. She is the daughter of famous Starcatcher Leonard Aster and his wife, Louise Aster, and is therefore a Starcatcher by blood and very wealthy. Her relationships with Peter, George Darling, Tinker Bell, and the mermaids are all consistent with her being Wendy's mother, a conclusion hinted at but not confirmed until the fourth book, Peter and the Sword of Mercy. It is implied throughout the books that she has romantic feelings for Peter, which is confirmed in Peter and the Secret of Rundoon where they share a kiss before parting ways. Because Peter wishes to stay on Mollusk Island (also known as Neverland) to stay young, she marries George Darling, a childhood friend for whom she also formed romantic feelings. She is called "Molly" rather than "Mary", but "Molly" is a traditional nickname for "Mary".

Tribes
Mollusk Tribe: a tribe of Native Americans
Fighting Prawn: Chief of The Mollusk Tribe that live on Peter's Island and father of the adventurous Shining Pearl
Scorpion Tribe: a dangerous group in Peter and the Secret of Rundoon, who use poison as their main weapon and are the most feared tribe of them all

Other characters
Lord Ombra: a shadow creature from Peter and the Shadow Thieves and Peter and the Secret of Rundoon
Captain Nerezza: a cruel captain lacking a nose who is often employed by the "Others".
King Zarboff III – the King of Rundoon and one of the "Others"
Mr. Grempkin: second in Command at St. Norbert's Home For Wayward Boys
The Headmaster's Daughter: an awful girl who likes to drop spiders on the boy's heads
Prentiss: a new boy at St. Norbert's
James: a boy closer to Peter than any other at St. Norbert's. In Sword of Mercy, he becomes James Smith and works for Scotland Yard
Tubby Ted: a boy who is always hungry
Thomas: a boy from St. Norbert's
William Slank: an evil man who was second in command on the ship known as "The Never Land". He is presumed dead after Peter and the Shadow Thieves
Little Richard: a huge giant of a man who is very handy with a whip. He is eaten alive by Slank so that he could live
Mr. Grin: the crocodile
 Alf: an elderly sailor aboard the Never Land who befriends the Lost Boys
 Magill: a Starcatcher who can talk to bears and wolves and is a loyal ally of the Aster's
 Hurky: a pirate who serves as Smee's second-in-command during Hook's absence in Secret of Rundoon. In the tie-in novel Cave of the Dark Wind, he mentions that he grew up on a dairy farm
 Boggs: pirate scout who can only count as high as thirty-nine
 Preston and Harbuckle: two overweight pirates who Hook sets adrift to lighten his ship. Harbuckle is quite intelligent, while Preston is fairly dimwitted and went to sea to get away from an unhappy marriage
 Bakari: a Starcatchers operating in the Middle East who had a run in with Lord Ombra prior to Shadow Thieves and assists the main characters in their adventures in Rundoon in Secret of Rundoon
 Crenshaw: a pirate scout featured in the first two books
 Eagle-Eye Davis: a pirate lookout who can spot a lizard scratching from over half-a-mile away
 McGuinn: a senior Starcatcher and family friend of the Asters
 Storey: Black Stache's crew chief in the first book
 Captain Scott: the resourceful captain of the Wasp, a ship targeted by pirates in the first book because it is transporting Leonard Aster
 George Darling: an upper-class boy with a crush on Molly, who he eventually marries
 The Skeleton: a mysterious minion of Lord Ombra who can inflict pain with a touch
 Cheeky O'Neal: a spy posing as a castaway who helps Nezerra attack Mollusk Island in Sword of Mercy
 Crankins:: a pirate who leads a short-lived mutiny against Hook in Sword of Mercy

Peter Pan in Scarlet

Fireflyer: a silly blue fairy born out of a baby's first laugh. Like most fairies he's conceited and self-centered, but he's a devoted friend to the lost boy Slightly
Ravello: a mysterious circus owner who is revealed to be Captain Hook

Peter Pan and the Pirates

Hard-to-Hit: the prince of the tribe of Native Americans living on the island of Neverland, Great Big Little Panther's son and Tiger Lily's younger brother. He was voiced by Aaron Lohr
Girl in the Moon: a girl who is responsible for bringing the night by replacing the sun that appears during the day with the moon at the normal time
King Kyros: the Ice King of Neverland who owns a giant ice cave and has elves as his subworkers. Peter entered into conflict with the king when he entered the king's home without permission and took away a crystal claiming it as his own
Crooked Tail: a mermaid who was once beautiful, but conceited and haughty until a potion meant to enhance her beauty went horribly awry and turned her into a green-skinned hag. She helped Peter Pan rescue Wendy from two mermaids who tried to turn Wendy into a mermaid
Short Tom: Captain Hook's mischievous one-eyed pet parrot; is capable of speech, though extremely limited. He constantly tries to warn the pirates when Peter Pan steals aboard, but usually fails
Captain Patch: Captain Hook's late brother (whose real name is Jasper Hook), who also had been a pirate; so-called because Hook once took out his eye in a sword fight long ago. Appears as a vengeful ghost in two episodes. He was voiced by Ed Gilbert who also voiced Smee
Olook: a grumpy giant troll

Peter Pan: The Animated Series

Sinistra: the evil Queen of Darkness, the main antagonist. She is a witch who attempts to destroy Neverland
Luna: Sinistra's granddaughter and a powerful Princess of Light, with a dark and powerful alter ego. She is destined to become Sinistra's successor, but does not want to destroy Neverland. She befriends Peter Pan, Wendy and her brother, and the Lost Boys
Rascal: a raccoon who often visits Peter Pan's house and spends a lot of time in Michael's company
Penelope: an infant flower fairy who is unable to fly after her mother died. The other fairies have to leave her behind because otherwise they will all die. Peter and Wendy have to teach her how to fly
Don Malaprop: a brave knight who rides a wooden horse
Memory Bird: a wise bird who knows almost everything about Neverland

Neverland miniseries

Aaya: is Tiger Lily
Kaw Tribe: the Native American tribe
Captain Elizabeth Bonny: the previous captain of the pirate ship
Fox: a lost boy that was killed by Captain Bonny
The Twins: instead of two twins in the Lost Boys, there is one boy known as Twins for unknown reasons

The New Adventures of Peter Pan

The Darling children - three siblings who live in 21st century London. They are descended from the original Wendy Darling who are named after her and her brothers.

Wendy III - the oldest of the siblings and the closest to Peter. She is the most mature among all the children and often takes on the role of mother
John - the middle child and the oldest son. He is very well read and always has the Great Book of Neverland with him, which he regularly consults when faced with problems in Neverland
Michael - the youngest in the family, who is often inattentive and naive and usually acts rashly, which can have dire consequences for everyone

Lost Kids - six children who do not know life in the real world and live with their leader Peter Pan in Neverland, because they, like him, have decided never to grow up. They are each very different and unique, and unlike most adaptations include girls.

Chubs - a medium-sized fat boy who is skilled at cooking and loves to eat
 Cynthia - a tall blonde girl with bright blue eyes. She is talented and inventive, and often deals a lot with construction and the processing of various mixtures
Meera - a friendly and calm girl of Indian origin
Stringbean - a tall and nerdy boy. He is the most well-read of them all and has the largest vocabulary, which sometimes rivals John
Maya - a very sporty and agile girl who uses her acrobatic tricks for fun as well as for fighting with pirates. She has tanned skin and red curly hair
Baby - a little blond boy with big blue eyes. He is the youngest in the group and is thus close to Michael. He is very good with a slingshot, his best weapon

The Pirates - a gang of six pirates who live on the Jolly Roger with their captain, Hook. They often become discontent with their captain's obsession with Peter Pan, though most times he manages to win their favour with rumours of gold and treasure. They all come from different backgrounds and cultures.

Jack Sorrow - a medium-sized, slender pirate, with black hair and a pink suit. He is very conceited and claims to be the most talented at everything. He uses his sword as a weapon for fighting
Asbjoern - a tall man of Nordic descent. He is a sturdy build, has blonde hair and often wears a large Viking helmet . He uses a large hammer as a weapon for fighting
Dagan - a young pirate of medium height. Despite his great fondness for food, he looks quite thin, wears a large hat and an eye patch. His intellect and reasoning are on a very low level, so it is not difficult to outsmart him and ask him to do something. He is also very childish and playful
Shaloon - a great pirate of mature age, with tanned skin. His greatest strength is muscle strength. However, he is very scared and is mostly afraid of his own shadow, which exceeds all of his strengths

Other characters
Cleo, Chloe and Zoe - three mermaids who live in Mermaid Lagoon. They don't make friends with anyone else and spend their time alone. The water in which they live is enchanted and would turn any who touch it evil. They care deeply about their home but have a great desire to rule all of Neverland
Loki - is a demon who takes the form of a small boy. He was locked away in a special box in a cave on Neverland when Captain Hook found it. Hook thinking it a treasure chest, he opens it and releases Loki. Peter Pan, along with the Darling siblings, the Lost Kids and with the help of the Indian tribe, managed to defeat him and lock him back into his box
The Sylphies - a group of lively flowers that have large heads and collars in the shape of a blossom and give off pollen, who live in a secret garden in Neverland. They talk incessantly to whoever would listen to them and shower them with questions, which is why most of Neverland avoids them
Swamp Monster - a large female creature that resembles a snake and a lizard and lives in the haunted swamp
The Chumbas - a group of warlike creatures that live in a golden temple. Their greatest treasure is a thick purple egg which allows anyone who holds it to control the Chumbas
Captain Muscles - a fictional character from a movie in the real world
Synapse - the villain from same movie as Captain Muscles. He was a fictional character, but due to a technical error combined with the magic of Neverland, he escaped the movie and entered Neverland
Armus - a former friend of Peter who was once a Lost Kid, but turned against him when he mistakenly thought Peter abandoned him. He has weak eyes that cannot stand the daylight
Sienna - a very agile girl who only appears in the second season. She was once a Lost Kid, but she left and has been a loner ever since. She is a skilled thief and is interested in various valuable or magical objects, as well as Smee's food which she often steals

The Flower Ladies
These four human-sized fairies are the guardians of nature in Neverland. They are also the forgotten godmothers of Tinker Bell. They each represent a season and together maintain the balance of nature's life cycle.
Poppy - summer fairy, has black hair and wears a red dress
Iris - fairy of autumn, has light brown hair and wears an orange dress
Petunia - fairy of winter, has pale skin, blonde hair and wears a blue-white dress
Daisy - spring fairy, has curly brown hair and wears a light green dress

References

External links

Peter Pan


The 1972 Brazilian Grand Prix was a Formula One non-championship race held at Interlagos on 30 March 1972. It was the inaugural Brazilian Grand Prix.

This race was held because at that time the FIA regulations required a demonstration race to be held as a quality check, before a Grand Prix was admitted as a championship race.

Classification

Notes
 Fastest lap: Emerson Fittipaldi – 2:35.2

References

Brazilian Grand Prix
Brazilian Grand Prix
Grand Prix
Brazilian Grand Prix


Ignatius Jerome Strecker (November 23, 1917 – October 16, 2003) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas from 1969 to 1993.  He previously served as bishop of the Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau in Missouri from 1962 to 1969.

Biography

Early life
Ignatius Strecker was born on November 23, 1917  in Spearville, Kansas, to William and Mary (Knoeber) Strecker. He was baptized at St. John the Baptist Church, where his parents were also the first couple to be married. He had a brother, Henry; and five sisters, Agnes, Catherine, Mary, Elizabeth, and Wilhelmina.

Strecker attended Maur Hill High School and St. Benedict's College, both in Atchison, Kansas.  He then went to Kenrick Seminary in St. Louis.

Priesthood
Strecker was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Wichita by Bishop Christian Winkelmann on December 19, 1942, celebrating his first Mass in his native Spearville two days later. He then studied canon law at the Catholic University of America, and was later made chancellor of the Diocese of Wichita in 1948.

Bishop of Springfield-Cape Girardeau
On April 7, 1962, Strecker was appointed the second Bishop of Springfield-Cape Girardeau, Missouri, by Pope John XXIII. He received his episcopal consecration on June 20, 1962, from Archbishop Edward Hunkeler, with Bishops Charles Helmsing and Marion Forst serving as co-consecrators, in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception.  From 1962 to 1965, Strecker attended the Second Vatican Council in Rome.

Archbishop of Kansas City
Pope Paul VI named Strecker as the second archbishop of the Archdiocese of Kansas City, Kansas on September 4, 1969. At age 51, Strecker was the second youngest prelate of that rank in the United States. He was elected president of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference twice.

Widely known as an advocate for small family farms, as well as the poor in the inner city and Hispanics, Strecker urged Congress to work toward a comprehensive food and agricultural policy. He testified before the House Agriculture Committee in 1984, during hearings in preparation for comprehensive farm policy legislation, and stated, "The fate of our family farmers is not an abstract concern...what happens to them will determine whether or not a land-owning elite will increasingly control our food and the price of that food."In 1990, Strecker established background and reference checks for all persons working with children - including employees and volunteers, at the archdiocese as part of a policy to combat sexual abuse of minors.

In 1992, Strecker denounced the pro-choice views of then-State Representative Kathleen Sebelius.  He accused Sebelius, a Catholic,  of leading "the death-march of the unborn to the abortion clinics in the House of Representatives" and "attempting to make the 'death-marches' to the abortion clinics as legal as the death-marches to the gas chambers of the World War II Holocaust."

Retirement and legacy
After reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75, Strecker resigned his post as Archbishop on June 28, 1993, following twenty-three years of service. During that time, he earned the nickname of "Gracious Ignatius".

After a series of strokes and a fall, Ignatius Strecker died in Kansas City, Kansas, on October 16, 2003, at age 85.

References

External links
Catholic-Hierarchy
Diocese of Dodge City
National Catholic Reporter

1917 births
2003 deaths
People from Ford County, Kansas
Roman Catholic Diocese of Wichita
20th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in the United States
Participants in the Second Vatican Council
Catholic University of America alumni
Roman Catholic bishops of Springfield–Cape Girardeau
Roman Catholic archbishops of Kansas City in Kansas


Windrose can refer to:

 Wind rose, a meteorologist's graphic tool
 Compass rose, a compass subdivision
 Compass rose network, a network composed by a group of Compass roses emerging from hexadecagon vertices
 Maupin Windrose, an American glider design
 Windrose 5.5, an American sailboat design
 Wind Rose Aviation, a Ukrainian airline


The Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology (WFVZ) is a non-profit charitable organization based in Camarillo, California focused on research and education on bird conservation. It hosts a natural history collection of over 200,000 sets of bird eggs representing approximately 4,000 species, around 20,000 nests, and over 56,000 bird study skins from around the world.

It publishes a journal, the Proceedings of the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology ().

See also
John R. Cruttenden

References

External links
 WFVZ website

501(c)(3) organizations
Non-profit organizations based in California
Natural history museums in California


The Kerr Community Center, originally called Kerr Hall, is a community center located in Bastrop, Texas, United States. The hall was a gathering spot for the African-American community of Bastrop during the time of racial segregation in the United States. The structure was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on December 22, 1978.

Kerr Community Center is a two-story wood-frame structure built in 1914 by Beverly and Lula Kerr on a lot directly behind their own home. The center hosted social events and artistic performances by black artists such as master blues pianist Roosevelt Williams, known to his fans as "Grey Ghost." During World War II, the structure served as a USO post for the black soldiers assigned to Camp Swift.

Beverly Kerr died in 1941 and Lula Kerr died in 1944. In 1946, some local citizens formed the Kerr Center Association and purchased the building from the Kerr estate. The center had an official dedication in 1952. The building received major renovations that were completed in 2007 including a small park and playground.

See also

National Register of Historic Places listings in Bastrop County, Texas

References

External links

Texas Historic Sites Atlas
"Holiday Homes Tour". The Bastrop Advertiser, December 1, 2007. pp 14A.

African-American history of Texas
National Register of Historic Places in Bastrop County, Texas
Buildings and structures in Bastrop County, Texas
Clubhouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Texas


Dave Shondell (born January 17, 1958) is the head women's volleyball coach at Purdue University.

Shondell was raised in Muncie, Indiana.  He began his career at Daleville High School in Daleville, Indiana, just outside Muncie.  After his tenure there, he then moved to Muncie Central High School, in Muncie.  While at Muncie Central and Daleville, he earned about 600 wins with roughly a .850 winning percentage, 4 state championships, and a mythical national runner-up.  He was also recognized as the 2002 National Coach of the Year by Prepvolleyball.com. He took over as director the Munciana Volleyball Club while at Muncie Central.  Munciana earned almost 20 national championships under Shondell's direction. It is still known as one of the premier volleyball clubs in the country.  In 2003, he accepted the Women's Volleyball coaching job at Purdue University. In his seventeen years at Purdue, Shondell has accumulated over 370 victories, fourteen NCAA Tournament berths, eight trips to the Sweet Sixteen, and two trips to the Elite Eight.

Head coaching record
Throughout his career at Purdue University, Shondell has gradually enhanced the program's Big Ten standings.

Sources:

Family
Shondell is part of possibly, the most well-known family in volleyball.

Shondell is the son of Dr. Don Shondell.  Shondell's brother is Steve Shondell, former head women's volleyball coach at Ball State University.  Shondell's other brother, John, is one of his assistants at Purdue.  Shondell's youngest child Kyle is the head coach at Indiana Tech.

References

Living people
1958 births
American volleyball coaches
Volleyball coaches from Indiana
Sportspeople from Muncie, Indiana
Purdue Boilermakers women's volleyball coaches
Ball State Cardinals men's volleyball coaches
Sigma Alpha Epsilon members


Laval Graf Nugent von Westmeath (3 November 1777 – 21 August 1862) was a soldier of Irish birth, who fought in the armies of Austria and the Two Sicilies.

Biography
Born at Ballinacor House, Ireland, Nugent was the son of Count Michael Anton Nugent von Westmeath, Governor of Prague.

In 1793, he joined the Austrian Army, becoming Colonel in 1807, and Chief of Staff of the Army Corps of Archduke Johann of Austria in 1809. In 1813, he led the campaign against Viceroy Eugène de Beauharnais, separating French units in Dalmatia and simultaneously joining the British fleet, thus conquering Croatia, Istria and the Po valley. In 1815, during the Neapolitan War, he commanded the right wing of the Austrian Army in Italy, liberated Rome, and defeated Joachim Murat at the Battle of Ceprano and the Battle of San Germano.

In 1816, Nugent was given the title of prince by Pope Pius VII. In 1817, he entered the service of King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies. He married Countess Giovannina Riario-Sforza who owned property in the small town of Montepeloso (Irsina), in Basilicata. After the outbreak of the Carbonari rebellion in 1820, he returned to serve in the Austrian Army. In 1848, he led an Army Corps under Joseph Radetzky von Radetz against the Piedmontese, in the course of the First Italian War of Independence, and also against the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. He received the title of Field Marshal in 1849.

In recognition of his achievements, he was created in addition to a Roman Prince (above), an Austrian Imperial Count and a Knight of the Golden Fleece. Later, in 1860, he was appointed titular Prior of Ireland of the Sovereign Military Order of St. John of Jerusalem of Rhodes of Malta.

Nugent died on 22 August 1862 in the Bosiljevo Castle, near Karlovac, and his body was later transferred to a sarcophagus in the Doric temple "Peace for the Hero", in Trsat above Rijeka, next to the sarcophagus of his wife.

An exhibition of his life in terms of his art collecting as well as his military career was curated at the University of Galway in 2019 here.

See also
 Irish military diaspora
 Irish regiments

Sources
Laval, Graf Nugent von Westmeath. In Meyers Konversations-Lexikon. 5. Auflage, 1896.
Nugent, Laval Graf von. In ADB. Band 24. Duncker & Humblodt, Leipzig 1875-1912. Online:
Nugent-Westmeath, Laval Graf. In Constantin von Wurzbach, Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich. 20. Band. Wien 1869. Online:

References

Field marshals of Austria
Immigrants to the Austrian Empire
1777 births
1862 deaths
18th-century Irish people
19th-century Irish people
People from County Westmeath
Knights of the Golden Fleece of Austria
Commanders Cross of the Military Order of Maria Theresa
Honorary Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath
Knights Grand Cross of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus
Irish soldiers in the Austrian Army
People of the First Italian War of Independence
Wild Geese (soldiers)


Legends of Hockey is a Canadian ten-part/ten-hour mini-series released in 2001 profiling the history of ice hockey.

The Legends of Hockey features the following people:

Series one

Episode One - Lord Stanley's Legacy
 Dan Bain
 Hobey Baker
 Frank Fredrickson
 Ambrose O'Brien
 Frank Patrick
 Lester Patrick
 Art Ross
 Lord Stanley
 Cyclone Taylor
 Georges Vezina

Episode Two - The New Era
 Bobby Bauer
 King Clancy
 Woody Dumart
 Foster Hewitt
 Red Horner
 Busher Jackson
 Howie Morenz
 Joe Primeau
 Milt Schmidt
 Eddie Shore
 Conn Smythe
 Nels Stewart

Episode Three - Men Of Steel
 Andy Bathgate
 Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion
 Gordie Howe
 Ted "Teeder" Kennedy
 Ted Lindsay
 Jacques Plante
 Chuck Rayner
 Henri Richard
 Maurice "The Rocket" Richard

Episode Four - The Glory Years
 Jean Beliveau
 Johnny Bower
 Johnny Bucyk
 Gerry Cheevers
 Bobby Hull
 Red Kelly
 Frank Mahovlich
 Stan Mikita
 Bobby Orr

Episode Five - The Modern Era
 Bobby Clarke
 Marcel Dionne
 Guy Lafleur
 Lanny McDonald
 Brad Park
 Gilbert Perreault
 Larry Robinson
 Darryl Sittler
 Vladislav Tretiak

Series two

Episode One -  Passing The Torch
 Glenn Hall
 Dave Keon
 Dickie Moore
 Marcel Pronovost
 Terry Sawchuk
 Norm Ullman
 Gump Worsley

Episode Two -  The Path To Glory
 Yvan Cournoyer
 Alex Delvecchio
 Ken Dryden
 Emile Francis
 Eddie Giacomin
 Rod Gilbert
 Tim Horton

Episode Three - More Than A Game
 Mike Bossy
 Mario Lemieux
 Denis Potvin
 Billy Smith
 Bryan Trottier

Episode Four - Character And Courage
 Scotty Bowman
 Michel Goulet
 Wayne Gretzky
 Glen Sather
 Peter Šťastný

Episode Five - On To Greatness
 Bill Barber
 Phil Esposito
 Tony Esposito
 Bob Gainey
 Guy Lapointe
 Serge Savard
 Steve Shutt

Recognition
The series has been awarded and nominated multiple times. It was the winner of the Gemini Award for Best Sports Program or Series in 2000 and a Gemini nomination for Best Direction in a Documentary Series and winner of two CAN PRO awards for Best Mini-feature (telecast outside daily newscast) and Best Sports Series. It also received honourable mention Banff Film Festival.

External links

2001 Canadian television series debuts
2000s Canadian documentary television series
2000s Canadian sports television series
A-Channel original programming
2000s Canadian television miniseries


USS Hollis (DE-794/APD-86) was a Buckley-class destroyer escort in service with the United States Navy from 1944 to 1947 and from 1951 to 1956. She was scrapped in 1975.

History
Hollis was launched by the Consolidated Steel Corporation of Orange, Texas, on 11 September 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Hermione C. Hollis, widow of Ensign Hollis; and commissioned on 24 January 1944 at Orange.

Battle of the Atlantic
Following shakedown in the Atlantic, Hollis made two escort voyages along the East Coast and then reported to Quonset Point, R.I., to assist in sonic research. The aim was to find countermeasures for the German acoustic torpedo, and the destroyer escort remained on this important duty until 28 May, when she sailed to Casablanca in an aircraft carrier screen. Returning to New York on 17 June, Hollis was soon at sea again, this time as part of an escort and hunter-killer unit. She operated from July to mid-August escorting convoys in the Mediterranean, and escorted a convoy to the southern France invasion area on 15 August as Allied troops stormed ashore. In the months that followed, as the offensive gained momentum, Hollis continued to act as an escort in the Mediterranean, ensuring the flow of vital supplies and men. She sailed for the United States on 28 December, and arrived on 18 January to undergo conversion to a high-speed transport at Philadelphia Navy Yard.

Pacific War
Fitted out to carry amphibious assault troops, Hollis was reclassified APD-86, on 24 January 1945, and conducted her shakedown in April and May off the Atlantic coast. Sailing from Miami, Florida on 10 May, the ship transited the Panama Canal and sailed for Pearl Harbor and the Pacific War. She arrived on 30 May and immediately began training with Underwater Demolition Teams, the Navy's famed "frogmen", on Maui island. Converted to a UDT flagship, Hollis sailed to Eniwetok and Guam as the Japanese were accepting surrender terms, arriving Apra Harbor on 23 August 1945.

Hollis, now flagship for Pacific UDT forces, sailed to Tokyo Bay to assist in the occupation, arriving on 1 September. There she witnessed the formal surrender ceremonies of the Japanese Empire the next day. Following occupation duties the ship sailed for San Diego California, where she arrived on 23 October, and thence via the Panama Canal to Boston. Arriving on 15 February 1946, the transport spent four months at Charleston, S.C., before arriving at Green Cove Springs, Florida, on 13 October 1946. Hollis decommissioned on 5 May 1947 and entered the Atlantic Reserve Fleet.

Cold War
With the increase in fleet strength brought about by the Korean War, Hollis recommissioned on 6 April 1951 and conducted shakedown training out of Norfolk, Virginia. The ship sailed from her home port at Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek, Virginia, on 8 October to take part in amphibious exercises in the Caribbean and on the coast of North Carolina, returning 20 November.

For the next five years Hollis continued to participate in amphibious exercises, antisubmarine training, and maneuvers. In 1954 and 1955 she served briefly as school ship for Fleet Sonar School, Key West, Florida. In 1954 she took part in a North Atlantic cold weather exercise off Labrador, and in 1955 her schedule included a month of training of Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps midshipman training.

Decommissioning and fate
Hollis arrived Green Cove Springs, Florida (USA), on 17 July 1956, and decommissioned there 16 October 1956. Stricken from the Navy Register on 15 September 1974, Hollis was sold for scrap on 1 July 1975.

Namesake
Ralph Hollis was born on 10 September 1906 in Crawfordville, Georgia. He served in the navy from 1923 to 1926. From 1926 to 1933, he was driver-pump operator with the Palm Beach Fire Dept, then became a lieutenant in the Palm Beach Police Department in charge of radio communications. He was appointed Ensign in the United States Naval Reserve on 21 November 1934 and was called to active duty in May 1941. After attending a special course in communications, Ensign Hollis reported to battleship  in September and was promoted to Lieutenant (Junior Grade) on 15 November. Serving as communications officer on board the Arizona, Lt. Hollis was killed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941.

Awards
Hollis received one battle star for World War II service.

References

External links

      navsource.org: USS Hollis
   hazegray.org: USS Hollis

Buckley-class destroyer escorts
Charles Lawrence-class high speed transports
Ships built in Orange, Texas
1943 ships