Chang Kyou-chul (a.k.a. Chang Sun-gil; June 19, 1946 – April 19, 2000) was an Olympic boxing bronze medalist in South Korea. He renamed his name Kyou-chul to Sun-gil.

Amateur career
Chang won Asian Championship gold medals in flyweight in 1965 and in bantamweight in 1967.

He won the bronze medal in the bantamweight category at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. Chang defeated 1967 European Championship bronze medalist Nikola Savov in the round of 16 and 1959 European Champion Horst Rascher in the quarterfinals. In the semifinals, Chang faced Eridadi Mukwanga of Uganda and knocked him down in the second round but lost by a split decision.

Results

Pro career
Chang turned pro in 1970 but had limited success.

In his third pro bout, Chang received his first loss after facing future two-time World Champion Hong Soo-hwan. In 1971 however, he captured the OPBF Super Bantamweight title with a win over Koichi Okada. In 1973, Chang faced off against WBA Bantamweight World Champion Romeo Anaya in a non-title bout in Tijuana, Mexico but was knocked out in the 8th round. He lost the OPBF champion belt in 1974 to future WBC Super Bantamweight Champion Yum Dong-kyun and retired later that year.

References

External links

1946 births
2000 deaths
Bantamweight boxers
Super-bantamweight boxers
Olympic bronze medalists for South Korea
Boxers at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Olympic boxers for South Korea
Olympic medalists in boxing
South Korean male boxers
Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Seoul


Erkkara Raman Nambudiri (18981983) was a Śrauta High Priest and scholar who helped to revive the ancient Vedam-Yajnam traditions in Kerala, India, that had begun to decline due to the onslaught of Western culture and influence after Indian Independence.

Early life
Erkkara Raman Nambudiri was born on Mithunam 2, 1073 (ME) (June 1898) on Karthika star to Erkkara Vasudevan Somayaajipad and Perindeeri Chennaath "Mahal" Sreedevi Pathinaadi in Kerala, India. After his Upanayanam and basic education under Muriyath Achyutha Varier, he received training under his father in the Rigvedam (the entire text). At the age of 12, the Samavartana ceremony was performed (ritual for completion of Vedic education).

Erkkara continued his studies in Sanskrit, kavyas, Thaithireeyam Bhaasha (on rituals of Yaagam), Brahmanas, Upanishads, Aranyakams, etc., and spent around two years studying shastras (texts) under Neelakandhan Namboodiri in Pakaraavoor Gurukulam. Starting from age 13 and during the rest of his life, he participated in most of the Yaagams performed in Kerala - as Parikarmi, "Rithwik", and in many lead roles.

Vedic wisdom
At the age of 14, Erkkara performed "Aarthwijyam" as "Aagneedhran" (a Rithwik) in a Yaagam in the Thottam Mana of Panjal. Next year at the age of 15, his exemplary and confident performance in the difficult Aarthwijyam of "Aadhwaram" got praise from the greats of the time. Then, when he was 24, he earned accolades in a difficult and mentally and physically tiring Aadhwaram role in a Saagnikamathiraathram in Kavapra Maarath Mana. This was followed by his role as "Sadasyan" - an expert observer/adviser - in the Pakaraavoor and Neddham Yaagams. At the young age of 27 he performed "Pryshaarttham Parayuka", which is reserved for the great Vedic scholars in another Yaagam in Panjal Thottam Mana.

Apart from matters relating to yajna, Erkkara successfully participated in the Vedam test - Anyonyam at Kadavalloor. Erkkara participated in the 1942 - 43 (1118 ME) "Murahomam" at Guruvayur. His knowledge of Sanskrit and Saasthrams was enriched considerably as a result of his close association with the great scholars such as Vidwaan Maanthitta, and Pareekshith Thampuraan.

Erkkara was renowned for his sharp intellect and deep knowledge of the scriptures. Once he recited from memory the entire "Kausheethaka Braahmanam" (a scripture known to some and memorised by few) to Dr E R Sreekrishna Sharma who was in search of its original text. These, as well as his close relations with foreign scholars like Frits Staal and Parpola, elevated him to national and international levels.

Being a renowned scholar, his word was the last on matters relating to Śrauta and Vedic rituals.

Works
After 1970, Erkkara wrote several articles relating to Vedam which got published. He was the founding editor of "Anaadi" monthly which was started in 1973.

Erkkara’s first book "Aamnaaya Mathhanam" got him the Sahitya Akademi Award. His later books "Ekaahaaheena Sathrangal" and "Srouthakarma Vivekam" were well received by scholars.

Personal life
Erkkara was not only a bright scholar and orthodox ritualist, but he managed to look after his family property and family temple in place of his elder brother, who was absorbed in spiritual matters.

Erkkara married Muriyath Parvathy Vaarasyaar when he was 22. They had four sons and five daughters. As was the custom then, he lived with his brother and nephews.

References

See also
Yaagam
Śrauta
Mezhathol Agnihothri

Hindu revivalists
1983 deaths
1898 births


Linja may refer to:
 a Finnish unit of measurement
Linja, a Finnish oil recovery ship
Bandar Lengeh, a city in Iran


Charles Marsh may refer to:
Charles Marsh (American politician) (1765–1849), American congressman from Vermont
Charles Marsh (barrister) (1774–1835), English MP and lawyer
Charles Marsh (railroad builder) (1825–1876), American railroad builder, instrumental in the transcontinental railroad
Charles Carroll Marsh (1829–after 1863), American Civil War Union colonel
Othniel Charles Marsh (1831–1899), American paleontologist
Charles H. Marsh (1840–1867), American Civil War Union soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
Charles Dwight Marsh (1855–1932), American botanist
Charles E. Marsh (1887–1964), founder of the Public Welfare Foundation
Charles Marsh (1893–1953), American actor who appeared in Cloak and Dagger
Charles F. Marsh (1903–1984), American economist and educator
Charles R. Marsh, American professor of religious studies and 2009 recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship

See also
Charles Marsh Schomberg (1779–1835), British naval officer and colonial governor
Charlotte "Charlie" Marsh (1887–1961), English suffragette and organiser


Frederick L. Guy (May 23, 1897 – December 22, 1971) was an American jazz banjo player and guitarist.

Born in Burkeville, Virginia, Guy was raised in New York City. He played guitar and banjo with Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra. In the early 1920s, Guy joined Duke Ellington's Washingtonians, switching from banjo to guitar in the early 1930s. He remained with Ellington's orchestra until 1949. He retired, moved to Chicago, and for twenty years ran a ballroom. In 1971, he committed suicide.

References

External links
 Fred Guy recordings at the Discography of American Historical Recordings.

1897 births
1971 deaths
1971 suicides
20th-century American male musicians
20th-century guitarists
American jazz guitarists
American male guitarists
American male jazz musicians
Duke Ellington Orchestra members
Jazz musicians from Virginia
People from Burkeville, Virginia
Suicides in Illinois


Quincerot is the name of two communes in France:
 Quincerot, Côte-d'Or
 Quincerot, Yonne


Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (13 March 1683 Gardelegen, Germany – 1741), apothecary and botanist, is noted for his creation of the florilegium Phytanthoza iconographia between 1737 and 1745, an ambitious project which resulted in eight folio volumes with more than 1,000 hand-coloured engravings of several thousand plants. The work is thought to have inspired similar works, such as the Japanese medicinal work "Honzo Zufu" (1828) by Iwasaki Tsunemasa, and "Somoku-dzusetsu" (1856) by Yokusai Iinuma.

He was born in Gardelegen son of the barber, Matthias Christian Weinmann. What is known of his early life is that he settled in Regensburg, or Ratisbon as it was known in 1710, and found work as the assistant of an apothecary. Weinmann prospered in Regensburg so that he was able in 1712 to purchase a house and apothecary shop. His wife, Isabella Catharina Fürst, was the daughter of an affluent wine merchant. In 1732, shortly after the death of Isabella, he was married again, on this occasion to Christine Catharina Pfaffenreuther, daughter of a town official. His business acumen was such that he was able to purchase an apothecary which had gone bankrupt, and turn it into a profitable shop.

After his first marriage, Weinmann became embroiled in a drawn-out dispute with local apothecaries and physicians, brought about by his  appointment in 1713 as Hospital Apothecary. The dispute was only resolved in 1715 with the intervention of the Town Council. Weinmann was reprimanded and his adversaries were instructed not to trouble him. Weinmann soon resumed his successful career, becoming a town councillor in 1722, a commercial assessor in 1725, and a city assessor in 1733. His business interests flourished, allowing him the freedom to indulge in his pursuit of botany. He created a botanical garden in Regensburg, published the Catalogus Alphabetico ordine exhibens Pharmaca in 1723 and contributed botanical notes as "Observationes und Anmerkungen" in the "Breslauer Sammlungen".

Weinmann employed the youthful Georg Dionysius Ehret as illustrator, who used a newly developed printing process involving mezzotint, which allowed greater detail and shading, and was finished by hand-colouring. Seuter and Ridinger turned out the first volumes, while Johann Jakob Haid managed the later volumes. Because Phytanthoza iconographia was to become Ehret's first published work, he set about the project with great enthusiasm. After the first 500 plates, Ehret realised that he was receiving a miserly payment and soon found new employment copying plates, while being able to produce other paintings independently.

Johann Georg Nicolaus Dieterichs (1681–1737) wrote the botanical text for the first twenty-five plates, and was succeeded by his son Ludwig Michael Dieterichs (1716–1747). The work was completed after Weinmann's death by Ambrosius Karl Bieler (1693–1747).

Phytanthoza iconographia is highly regarded for the quality of its colour plates, and the accuracy of its images compared with previous herbals. Weinmann was greatly respected for his writings on medicinal plants and herbs, and Phytanthoza iconographia is recognised as the first important botanical work to use colour engraved prints. The plates for this work were by the engravers Bartholomew Seuter, Johann Elias Ridinger (1698–1767), and Johann Jakob Haid (1704–1767), and were printed using a process invented by Seuter. The descriptions for plates 1-73 were provided by Johann Georg Nicolaus Dieterichs (1681–1737), for plates 76-525 by Ludwig Michael Dieterichs (1716–1769) and Ambrosius Karl Bieler. In 1730 Georg Dionys Ehret (1708–1770) added some drawings, while Herman Boerhaave and Johann Burmann compiled an index for the work.

Sources

Missouri Botanical Garden

See also
List of florilegia and botanical codices

Links
Phytanthoza Iconographia online

1683 births
1741 deaths
People from Gardelegen
18th-century German botanists
Pre-Linnaean botanists


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

Helen Martin may also refer to:

Helen Reimensnyder Martin (1868–1939), American author
Helen M. Martin (1889–1973), American geologist
Helen May Martin, American pianist

See also
Helene Chung Martin, Australian journalist active 1968–present


A genderless language is a natural or constructed language that has no distinctions of grammatical gender—that is, no categories requiring morphological agreement for gender between nouns and associated pronouns, adjectives, articles, or verbs.

The notion of a "genderless language" is distinct from that of gender-neutral language, which is neutral with regard to natural gender. A discourse in a genderless language need not be gender-neutral (although genderless languages exclude many possibilities for reinforcement of gender-related stereotypes); similarly, a gender-neutral discourse need not take place in a genderless language.

Genderless languages do have various means to recognize natural gender, such as gender-specific words (mother, son, etc., and distinct pronouns such as he and she in some cases), as well as gender-specific context, both biological and cultural.

Genderless languages are listed at list of languages by type of grammatical genders. Genderless languages include all the Kartvelian languages (including Georgian), some Indo-European languages (such as Bengali, Persian and Armenian), Dravidian languages (such as Kannada and Tamil), all the Uralic languages (such as Hungarian, Finnish and Estonian), all the modern Turkic languages (such as Turkish, Tatar, and Kazakh), Chinese, Japanese, Korean, most Austronesian languages (such as the Polynesian languages), and Vietnamese.

Language contact
Through language contact, some words that are originally part of a genderless system (or a mostly genderless system, such as English, which retains gender in some cases) develop a grammatical gender.

There are two primary ways linguists currently classify and understand this process as occurring: the first is through language contact impacting a language independent of borrowings, and the second is explicitly in the context of loanwords or borrowings.

Language contact
Grammatical gender may arise or be lost due to language contact.

A survey of gender systems in 256 languages around the world show that 112 (44%) have grammatical gender and 144 (56%) are genderless. Since the languages studied in this case were geographically close to each other, there is a significant chance that one language has influenced others. For example, the Basque language is considered a genderless language, but it has been influenced by the Spanish feminine-masculine two-gender system.

Additionally, there are approximately 7,000 languages in the world, thus a sample of 256 languages constitutes roughly 3.7% of all spoken languages. Thus, although this particular survey indicates a high proportion of gender neutrality, it does not take into account the other 96.3% of languages.

Loans from other languages
Some linguists have an interest in studying the development of gender in nouns that have been borrowed from other languages.

For example, while English nouns no longer exhibit gender (with legacy exceptions that are themselves borrowed from gendered languages), loanwords borrowed from English into Italian are assigned grammatical gender, as is required of Italian nouns. Linguists examining this phenomenon have noticed there are five common ways for gender to be assigned to the loanword:
 Using the "natural gender" (i.e., the common association in the culture) so that a word like "girl" is feminine.
 Using phonological similarities between the word as it is heard and the receiving language's associations. For instance, in Boston, an Italian immigrant may hear "freezer" pronounced with a schwa at the end (freezə) and, due to the similarity between the /ə/ and an /a/ (which is feminine in Italian), assign the loanword a feminine gender.
 Using cognates and homonyms in a process called "rhyme analogy". Thus, "quart" (English) becomes "quarto" (masculine) in Italian due to its similarity to the preexisting Italian word for quarter.
 Using native synonyms for gender so that "paint" becomes "la pinta" in Italian, as other Italian words for paint are already feminine.
 Using a default gender. Romance (and some other) languages, like Italian and Spanish, default to the masculine for describing mixed gender groups, for example, and so masculine becomes the default for new nouns that are not easily assigned a gender.

See also
Gender neutrality in genderless languages
Gender neutrality in languages with grammatical gender
Grammatical gender
Gender-neutral pronoun
Lavender linguistics

References

Languages by typology
Gender-neutral language
Grammatical gender


Vikersund Station () is a railway station located at the village of Vikersund in Modum, Norway. At Vikersund there is a junction with the Randsfjorden Line (Randsfjordbane) on which Vy Tog operates some express trains between Bergen and Oslo.

History

The station was opened in 1866, as part of the Randsfjorden Line. In 1872, Vikersund became the terminus of the Krøderen Line (Krøderbanen), a  branch line to the lake of Krøderen.  Passenger services on the Krøderen Line were withdrawn in 1958  and freight traffic in 1985. The rail line was transformed into a heritage railway with outings between Vikersund Station and Krøderen, a distance of about 26 km. The rail lane is operated  by the Norwegian Railway Club and the Krøderbanen Foundation.

References

External links
 Jernbaneverket page on Vikersund
Krøderbanen website

Railway stations in Buskerud
Railway stations on the Randsfjorden Line
Railway stations opened in 1866
1866 establishments in Norway
Railway stations in Norway opened in the 1860s


R29 or R-29 may refer to:

Roads
 R-29 regional road (Montenegro)
 R29 (South Africa)

Other uses
 R29 (New York City Subway car)
 AEKKEA-RAAB R-29, a Greek fighter aircraft
 HMA R.29, an airship of the Royal Air Force
 , a destroyer of the Royal Navy
 R29: Contact with water liberates toxic gas, a risk phrase
 R-29 Vysota, a family of Soviet submarine-launched ballistic missiles
 Refinery29, an American entertainment website
 Renault R29, a Formula One racing car
 Tumansky R-29, a Soviet turbojet engine


Juan Fabila Mendoza (born 5 June 1944) is a Mexican former boxer who a bronze medal in the bantamweight category (– 54 kg) at the 1964 Summer Olympics. After that he turned professional and won his first five bouts in 1964–1971. He then lost twice by knockout and retired in 1973.

1964 Olympic results
Below is the record of Juan Fabila, a featherweight boxer who competed for Mexico in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics:

 Round of 32: defeated Sadegh Aliakbarzadeh (Iran) by decision, 3-2
 Round of 16: defeated Law Hon-Park (Hong Kong) by decision, 5-0
 Quarterfinal: defeated Oleg Grigoryev (Soviet Union) by decision, 3-2
 Semifinal: lost to Chung Shin-Cho (South Korea) by decision, 1-4 (was awarded bronze medal)

References

Boxers from Mexico City
1944 births
Living people
Boxers at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Olympic boxers for Mexico
Bantamweight boxers
Olympic bronze medalists for Mexico
Olympic medalists in boxing
Mexican male boxers
Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
20th-century Mexican people
21st-century Mexican people


Soundarcade is a Latvian progressive rock, post-metal band. The band was formed in 2002 in Riga.

Soundarcade's music features influences ranging from Latvian folk music to spaghetti westerns, and structures of progressive rock music. Raw sound is provided by dark, swirling guitars, angry drumming, dissonant, howling violin and pulsing bass.

The band released its debut album, 12 Songs of the Jackalope, through the independent Latvian label Melo Records”and is now working on new material. Soundarcade represent Latvian music with live performances that are always supplemented by custom-made visuals.

Discography

Studio albums
 12 Songs of the Jackalope (2006)
 Daughters of Molestia (2009)
 Moving the Great Hadron (2012)

Current members
 Martins Abols – vocals
 Lauris Abele – guitar
 Raitis Abele – guitar, mandolin
 Janis Zale – bass
 Gints Spole – drums
 Ingus Kempaus - violin

References

External links
 Official website
 Official MySpace page
 Melo Records

Latvian progressive rock groups
Post-metal musical groups
Latvian post-rock groups
Latvian rock music groups
Latvian heavy metal musical groups
Musical groups established in 2002


The Northeast Amateur is an amateur golf tournament played annually at the Wannamoisett Country Club in Rumford, Rhode Island. It was first played in 1962.

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

Winners

2023 Nick Dunlap
2022 Dylan Menante
2021 Dylan Menante
2020 Canceled
2019 Garrett May
2018 Justin Suh
2017 Collin Morikawa
2016 Fred Wedel
2015 Hunter Stewart
2014 Stewart Jolly
2013 Cory Whitsett
2012 Shin Yong-gu
2011 Peter Uihlein
2010 Joseph Bramlett
2009 Dan Woltman
2008 Brendan Gielow
2007 Dustin Johnson
2006 Carlton Forrester
2005 Kyle Reifers
2004 Anthony Kim
2003 Chris Nallen
2002 Brian Quackenbush
2001 Luke Donald
2000 Luke Donald
1999 Jonathan Byrd
1998 Michael Harris
1997 Brad Elder
1996 Jason Enloe
1995 Notah Begay III
1994 Gary Simpson
1993 Allen Doyle
1992 David Duval
1991 Jay Sigel
1990 Todd White
1989 Jeff Barlow
1988 Brett Quigley
1987 Bob Lewis
1986 Bob Friend
1985 Jay Sigel
1984 Jay Sigel
1983 Bill Hadden
1982 Chris Perry
1981 Dick von Tacky
1980 Hal Sutton
1979 John Cook
1978 John Cook
1977 Scott Hoch
1976 Bob Byman
1975 Rocky Waitt
1974 Bill Hyndman
1973 Ben Crenshaw
1972 Wally Kuchar
1971 Vinny Giles
1970 Allen Miller
1969 Jerry Courville
1968 Pete Bostwick, Jr.
1967 Marty Fleckman
1966 Dick Siderowf
1965 Ronnie Quinn
1964 Ronnie Quinn
1963 Gene Francis
1962 Dick Siderowf

References

External links
Official site
List of winners

Amateur golf tournaments in the United States
Golf in Rhode Island


Noah Parker may refer to:
 Noah Parker (actor) (born 1998), Canadian-New Zealand actor
 Noah Parker (Atomic Betty character), animated character in the TV series Atomic Betty


Maharajadhiraj Mirza Maharao Sri Sir Vijayarajaji Khengarji Sawai Bahadur, GBE (2 September 1885 – 26 February 1948) was the ruling Rao of Kutch from 1942 to his death in 1948.

As Yuvraj, Sir Vijayrajaji worked closely with his father, Khengarji III, and often was left to administer the state during his father's frequent journeys abroad.

He was married on 6 March 1907 to HH Maharani Shri Padmakunwar Ba Sahiba, daughter of HH Maharao Kesari Singhji Bahadur of Sirohi and had several issues.

He built upon his father's reforms, instituting the Kutch High Court, elected village councils and greatly expanded irrigation works and agricultural development in the state during short span of six years of his rule. He took keen interest in irrigation projects and took advice of experts for the matter and it was during his reign the famous Vijaysagar reservoir was built with an irrigation capacity of almost 4047 hectors. A total of 22 dams, mostly earthen, were constructed during his reign of six years, which even today stand to test of time.  Also in his reign Kutch became the third princely state after Hyderabad and Travancore to start its own bus transport services beginning in year 1945. Sir Vijayrajaji was a botanist and ornithologist. In years 1942–45, he funded and facilitated Salim Ali's survey of the birds of Kutch. He enjoyed cricket, football, tennis, sculling and loved going on shikar.

He preferred to live  in the Vijay Vilas Palace at Mandvi, which was built during reign of his father Maharaja Kehngarji, for him in year 1929 and was named after him.

He was awarded Knight Grand Cross of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire by British in 1945.

In year 1947, upon advice of Mahatma Gandhi,  of land was donated by Shri Vijayrajji for re-settlement of refugee Hindu Sindhi community, who had migrated across the border into Kutch from Sindh area of Pakistan upon partition of India. The towns of Gandhidham and Adipur were developed on this land donated by him.

He acceded the Princely State of Cutch to the Dominion of India on 16 August 1947, which thus became the first princely state to accede into India. As he was in London at the time India gained independence, he took a decision from there only and the Instrument of Accession of Kutch was signed on his behalf by his heir & son Meghraji, on his behalf. He died on 26 January 1948, aged  62 and was succeeded by his eldest son and Yuvraj, Meghraji. His youngest son, Himmatsinhji, was also noted and earned a name as ornithologist and served as member of 3rd Lok Sabha for Kutch constituency.

The Chhatri of Vijayarajaji, his cenotaph, is located within campus of Vijaya Vilas Palace at Mandavi.

Titles

1885-1942: Maharajkumar Shri Vijayrajsinhji Khengarji, Yuvraj Sahib of Cutch
1942-1945: Colonel His Highness Maharajadhiraj Mirza Maharao Shri Vijayarajji Sawai Bahadur, Maharao of Cutch
1945-1948: Colonel His Highness Maharajadhiraj Mirza Maharao Shri Sir Vijayarajji Sawai Bahadur, Maharao of Cutch, GBE

Honours

Delhi Durbar Medal (Silver) - 1911
King George V Silver Jubilee Medal, 1935
King George VI Coronation Medal, 1937
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE), 1945
Indian Independence Medal, 1947

Political Office

References

Indian Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire
1885 births
1948 deaths
Maharajas of Kutch
Hindu monarchs
Indian royalty
Indian Hindus
Indian ornithologists
Indian naturalists
20th-century Indian botanists
19th-century Indian zoologists
20th-century Indian zoologists
19th-century Indian botanists
Scientists from Gujarat
20th-century Indian philanthropists
20th-century naturalists


The International Sex Worker Foundation for Art, Culture, and Education (ISWFACE) is a California corporation formed as an art and education and resource center for research about prostitution and sex work, and for the collection and preservation of art by and about sex workers.

Information
Its founder and president, Norma Jean Almodovar, is a former LAPD traffic officer, and is also the executive director of COYOTE LA, the Los Angeles chapter of COYOTE. ISWFACE runs the Dumas Brothel Museum in Montana. ISWFACE is a non-profit organization that runs off of donations and sale of the products being created. They want to positively affect the lives of sex workers, and to encourage their artistic work. ISWFACE is a public benefit corporation, organized under the California Non-Profit Public Benefit Corporation Law for public and charitable purposes that is dedicated to offering funding to individuals who have experience with being a sex worker and consider themselves artists.

Works
The organization wants to allow them to create and show their work, such as:
performance art
music
books
documentaries
photos
contributions to cultural heritage of sex workers

Courses
The courses the ICWFACE provides interactive educational courses online that include:
disprove the lies of prostitution
how to exhibit art work
the history of prostitution
AIDS and safe sex
reproductive health and family planning
different countries dealing with prostitution
sex work and the law
communities seeking solutions to public prostitution problems
prostitution in literature
prostitution in film
prostitution and feminism

References

External links

Sex worker organizations


Northwest Omaha is a community area in Omaha, Nebraska. It holds several neighborhoods. The area is loosely bound by West Maple Road to the south, the Douglas-Washington County line to the north, Elkhorn to the west, and McKinley Street, I-680, and 72nd Street to the east.

Neighborhoods
Northwest Omaha's neighborhoods are racially and economically diverse. Bennington, Irvington, sub-divisions along Blair High Road, sub-divisions around Standing Bear Lake, and the Briggs Neighborhood.

Landmarks
Some landmarks of the area are Omaha Northwest High School, the closed roller skating rink in Irvington, Tranquility Park, 20 Grand Movie Theatre, and the new Bennington High School.

See also
 Neighborhoods of Omaha, Nebraska
 Landmarks in Omaha, Nebraska

West Omaha, Nebraska


Brakerøya Station () is a railway station located at the village of Brakerøya in Drammen, Norway on the Drammen Line. The station is served by the Oslo Commuter Rail L13 service with half-hour headway by Vy.

History
The station was opened in 1873, one year after the Drammen Line. It was heavily rebuilt in 1973 when Lieråsen Tunnel was opened and a new double track from Lieråsen Tunnel to Brakerøya was built.

Railway stations in Buskerud
Railway stations on the Drammen Line
Railway stations opened in 1873
1873 establishments in Norway
Railway stations in Norway opened in the 1870s


The Central Railroad of New Jersey Freight Station in Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States, was the western terminus of the Central Railroad of New Jersey line, 192 miles (309 km) from its base of operations in Jersey City, New Jersey. Located on West Lackawanna Avenue, over the Lackawanna River from downtown Scranton, near Steamtown National Historic Site, it is to be distinguished from the other legacy Scranton station, Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Scranton Station, where service persisted to January 6, 1970.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

Additional passenger train stations in Scranton were those of the Delaware and Hudson Railway and the Erie Railroad.

History and architectural features
Built in 1891 in a Romanesque Revival style, it was at first an unusual instance of a freight terminal being more visually striking than its corresponding passenger terminal. The station was a site for trains from the south, from Allentown via Wilkes-Barre and Jim Thorpe. Through trains (such as the Philadelphia Flyer (Scranton-Allentown-Philadelphia) and the Scranton Flyer, making the northbound trip, or connections were available at Allentown for Jersey City and Philadelphia.

Service ended at some point between 1950 and 1954. When the railroad shut down its Pennsylvania operations in 1972, during bankruptcy proceedings, the terminal was closed by the Lehigh Valley Railroad, which took it over, and has remained unused since that time.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

See also
Wilson Brothers & Company
List of stations on the Central Railroad of New Jersey

References

External links

Railway stations in the United States opened in 1891
Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
Former Central Railroad of New Jersey stations
Romanesque Revival architecture in Pennsylvania
Buildings and structures in Scranton, Pennsylvania
National Register of Historic Places in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania
Transportation buildings and structures in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania
Former railway stations in Pennsylvania


Craig Mitchell Handy (born September 25, 1962) is an American tenor saxophonist.

Born in Oakland, California, he attended North Texas State University from 1981 to 1984, and following this played with Art Blakey, Wynton Marsalis, Roy Haynes, Abdullah Ibrahim, Elvin Jones, Joe Henderson, Betty Carter, George Adams, Ray Drummond, Conrad Herwig, Dee Dee Bridgewater, and David Weiss among many others. He is a member of the Mingus Big Band, Mingus Dynasty, and Mingus Orchestra.

Handy plays the role of Coleman Hawkins in the 1996 film Kansas City . He is credited for performing the Cosby Show season 6 theme.

Discography

As leader

As sideman
With Cecil Brooks III
Hangin' with Smooth (Muse, 1990)
With George Cables
The George Cables Songbook (HighNote, 2016)
With Betty Carter
Droppin' Things (Verve, 1990)
With The Cookers
Warriors (Jazz Legacy Productions, 2010)
Cast the First Stone (Plus Loin, 2011)
Believe (Motema Music, 2012)
With Ray Drummond
Excursion (Arabesque, 1993)
1-2-3-4 (Arabesque, 1997 [1999])

With Joe Henderson
Big Band (Verve, 1997)

With Freddie Hubbard
New Colors (Hip Bop Essence, 2001)
On the Real Side (Times Square, 2008)

With Bobby Hutcherson
Acoustic Masters II (Atlantic, 1994)

With Abdullah Ibrahim
Mindif (Enja, 1988)

With Charles Mingus
Epitaph (Columbia, 1990)

With Ralph Peterson
ALIVE At Firehouse 12 Vol. 1—The Unity Project (Onyx, 2013)

With John Scofield
Up All Night (Verve, 2003)

With Charles Sullivan
Kamau (Arabesque, 1995)

With Jack Walrath
Journey, Man! (Evidence, 1995)

References

Further reading
 Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Ninth edition, edited by Laura Diane Kuhn (born 1953), Schirmer Books, New York (2001),
 The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, Second edition, Three volumes, edited by Barry Dean Kernfeld (born 1950), Macmillan Publishers, London (2002),

External links
 Official website

American jazz saxophonists
American male saxophonists
African-American jazz musicians
Jazz musicians from California
Living people
1962 births
University of North Texas College of Music alumni
Arabesque Records artists
21st-century American saxophonists
21st-century American male musicians
American male jazz musicians
Mingus Big Band members
Mingus Dynasty (band) members
The New Jazz Composers Octet members
Okeh Records artists
21st-century African-American musicians
20th-century African-American people


(combination of the words "big" and "globe") is one of the leading internet service providers in Japan.

KDDI acquired the company in January 2017 for 80 billion yen, which made it the second-largest provider of fiber optics internet connections in Japan.

Since its foundation, NEC transferred most of the related PC Engine trademarks, including games published by NEC Home Electronics in Japan to NEC BIGLOBE. As of July 2023, the trademark is jointly owned by BIGLOBE and Konami, who inherited the trademark rights from Hudson Soft before being self-absorbed into Konami themselves in March 2012. This did not include the rights of NEC Avenue and NEC Interchannel games for the system, which was previously owned by Lightweight and is currently owned by M2.

References

Telecommunications companies established in 2006
Japanese companies established in 2006
Shinagawa
Internet service providers of Japan
Former NEC subsidiaries
KDDI
Internet technology companies of Japan


TelevisionWeek was an American trade magazine delivering news, analysis, and data on television and media, owned by Crain Communications Inc. It was founded in 1982 as Electronic Media and published under that title until 2003; the print magazine ceased publication in 2009. The corporate and circulation departments were based at Crain's headquarters in Detroit, with the editorial department in Los Angeles. It was considered a "formidable competitor" to Broadcasting & Cable, the leading trade publication covering the industry.

The magazine was started as the "Electronic Media Edition" of Advertising Age in May 1982 and became its own publication later that year under the name Electronic Media. It covered the broadcasting business more broadly; the moniker was chosen to be flexible depending on the development of the industry. Lee Goldberg, one of its former reporters, noted that it was heavy on coverage of the broadcast syndication market, which also generated much of its advertising. With the retitling as TelevisionWeek, it sought to be a general magazine for television executives, noting that its competitors were either too focused on regulatory matters, catered to cable, or primarily covered film.

Consolidation in television syndication and station ownership lessened the readership and advertising base of the publication in the 2000s. In 2009, Crain shut down print publication of TelevisionWeek, retaining its website in a reduced capacity and spinning out the NewsPro insert as a monthly magazine.

Website
The magazine's website, TVWeek.com, featured a number of blogs; some such as Access Hollywood Confidential, by Access Hollywood producer Rob Silverstein, were created by members of the television community. Among its notable columnists were Inside Edition's Deborah Norville and Pulitzer Prize-winning television critic Tom Shales.

References

External links
 Official website (no content updates since January 2020)
 Archive of Electronic Media/TelevisionWeek at the Internet Archive

Television magazines
Professional and trade magazines
Companies based in Detroit
Magazines established in 1982
Magazines disestablished in 2009
Mass media trade magazines
Weekly magazines published in the United States


Giving Children Hope (GCHope), founded in 1993 by John Ditty and Juliana Reasor, is a faith-based non-profit organization that works to alleviate poverty, both domestically and internationally, through disaster relief, health and community development, vocational training and advocacy. The organization is currently headed by Executive Director Sean Lawrence and the Chairman of the Board Bill Barta.

GCHope has delivered aid, set up medical clinics and micro-enterprises, all over the world including: South Africa, Cameroon, Ghana, Liberia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Guatemala, Argentina, Peru, Indonesia, Russia, India, Bangladesh, Ukraine, Australia, Bosnia, Iraq, Pakistan, Lebanon, Tajikistan, Dominican Republic, Haiti and United States.  Giving Children Hope is involved in the reconstruction of many clinics in Iraq (see Reconstruction of Iraq).  Giving Children Hope is involved in serving homeless children in Orange County, California who have been identified as being chronically hungry through the provision of food.

In 2008, the organization was involved in the relief efforts of both the Cyclone Nargis in Burma and the Sichuan earthquake in China.  In November Giving Children Hope began shipping cholera medicines to Zimbabwe for the outbreak.  In 2009 Giving Children Hope equipped a clinic in Northern Thailand in partnership with Not For Sale for children rescued from human slavery.  The funding for the clinic was raised by the film, Call + Response.  In January 2010 Giving Children Hope began responding to the 2010 earthquake striking Haiti.

On January 5, 2015, the organization's website was hacked by the Team System Dz organization, which is an Islamic State group sympathizer.

References

External links
Organization website
Myanmar frustrates Orange County aid agencies, The Orange County Register
Buena Park group sending help to cyclone victims, MSNBC
Following earthquake relief in Peru, setting up medical clinic in Zimbabwe, California charity partners with pastor to bring development to Cameroon, West Africa, ASSIST News Service (ANS)
From O.C. to Africa: Help on the way, The Orange County Register
Looking for a ride, The Orange County Register
Campus Food Drive Program Provides Weekend Meals for OC Children, California State University, Fullerton, Inside Magazine
Another team leaves Buena Park for Haiti, The Orange County Register
Giving Away Homes, The Orange County Register
Locals Takes On Global Causes, The Laguna Beach Independent
Haiti Earthquake Hits Home In O.C., The Orange County Register
Haiti Earthquake Aftermath: How To Help, Fox News
Chaparosa Grill plans Haiti fundraiser, The Orange County Register
Thousands use holiday to serve King, Daily Pilot
Former resident aids in Haiti relief efforts, The Porterville Recorder
Ashtel Dental and 7 Day Dental send toothbrushes to Haiti, Dental Tribune
Another Team Leaves Buena Park For Haiti, The Orange County Register
Disaster Relief For Haiti, Garden Grove TV3
Real Orange, Idaho Public Television
O.C. charities split between Chile, Haiti, The Orange County Register
The Real News- Local Community Gives to Haiti, La Habra Journal
Snapshots: Shopper generate money for Haiti, The Orange County Register
All About Survival, Huntington Beach Independent
Bringing Help to Haiti, Westmont Magazine
The Cupcake Showdown, OC Weekly

Children's charities based in the United States
Charities based in California


Montot is the name of the following communes in France:

 Montot, Côte-d'Or, in the Côte-d'Or department
 Montot, Haute-Saône, in the Haute-Saône department
 Montot-sur-Rognon, in the Haute-Marne department


André Chevrillon (3 May 1864 – 9 July 1957) was a French writer, a nephew of Hippolyte Taine, who chose England and the Orient as objects of study.

Chevrillon was born at Ruelle (Charente), and educated at the University College School (London), the École alsacienne (Paris), the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, and the University of Paris. He was a professor of English at the École Navale of Brest in 1887–1888, and from 1889 to 1894 was Maître de conférences at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lille. He was with the British Army at the front during the War, and afterward (1921) was received in the Académie française. His writings fall into two distinct classes: impressions of travel, and critical essays on England and English literature.

Besides many articles in the Revue de Paris and the Revue des deux mondes his works include:
 Dans l'Inde (1891; English translation, Romantic India)
 Sydney Smith et la renaissance des idées libérales en Angleterre au 19e siècle (thesis, 1894)
 Terres mortes (1897)
 Études anglaises (1901)
 Un Crépuscule d'Islam (1906)
 La Pensée de Ruskin (1909)
 Nouvelles études anglaises (1910)
 L'Angleterre et la guerre (1917; English translation, Britain and the War, with a preface by Rudyard Kipling)
 Près des combattants (1919)
 Marrakech dans les palmes (1920)
 Les Américains à Brest (1920; with a preface by Owen Wister)
 Trois études de littérature anglaise (Kipling, Shakespeare, Galsworthy) (1921; English translation, 1923)
 La Mer dans les bois (1928)
 André Dauchez (1955)

References

External links

1864 births
1957 deaths
People from Charente
People educated at University College School
Academic staff of the University of Lille Nord de France
Members of the Académie Française
French people of World War I
French male writers


Sepermeru (or Spermeru) was a town in Ancient Egypt, located roughly between Heracleopolis to the north and Oxyrhynchus to the south in what was considered the XIX Upper Egyptian nome.

During the Ramesside Period of Pharaohs, Sepermeru enjoyed some prominence as both a largely populated religious, military, and administrative center for the XIX Nome. The latter district was situated near the Bahr Yusuf canal, which connected the Nile with the Fayyum region. The meaning of the town's name ("near to the desert") signifies its status as a frontier community and was thus a suitable cult center for the god Seth.

According to the Wilbour Papyrus, by Dynasty XIX there existed two land-owning temple institutions within the main Seth-enclosure at Sepermeru. The larger of these two institutions was the "House of Seth, Lord of Sepermeru," and the smaller a temple dedicated to his consort, Nephthys, and called the "House of Nephthys of Ramesses-Meriamun." It is not known how long the temple of Seth had been established in Sepermeru before Dynasty XIX, but it is evident that the temple of Nephthys was a specific foundation (or refurbishment) of Ramesses II, which dates this particular institution to that Pharaoh's reign (1279-1213 BCE).

Both temples (and their respective land-holdings) were apparently under separate administration; the Prophet Huy administered the House of Seth in Dynasty XIX and XX.  Yet, as Katary notes, "What cannot be established from the evidence of P. Wilbour is the authority of any particular prophet of the House of Seth over the House of Nephthys," and: "Although Huy may have been the chief administrator of the House of Nephthys as well as his own temple, he was most certainly not in charge of the administration of the...fields of the House of Nephthys, such fields being the responsibility of two prophets of Nephthys, Merybarse...and Penpmer."

There were at least two more subsidiary shrines in Sepermeru in Dynasties XIX and XX: a sanctuary called the "House of Seth, Powerful-is-His-Mighty-Arm," and a cult-place called "The Sunshade of Re-Horakhte". Like the Nephthys temple, these smaller shrines were considered affiliations or dependencies "within the House" (or primary temple enclosure) of Seth, who was supreme "Lord" of the town.

Sepermeru is perhaps of most interest to modern Egyptologists because of its status as one of the chief ancient Egyptian cult centers of Seth, along with the cities of Ombos, Nagada, and Avaris. It is thought that the cult of Seth waned considerably after Dynasty XX, due to the increasing "demonization" of this deity and his association with territories and priorities increasingly considered foreign to the general interests of Egypt. Religious and administrative prominence in Nome XIX was duly shifted south to Oxyrhynchus after this time. We know, however, that Seth continued to be the object of veneration in cult centers on the outskirts of Egypt well into Roman times, especially at Deir el-Hagar (Dakhla Oasis), Kellis, Mut, and Kharga. It may be that Seth's cult survived in some form at Sepermeru, long after Sepermeru's decline as a religious center. Indeed, a late inscription in the Ptolemaic temple of Horus at Edfu makes reference to "Seth of Sepermeru," albeit with an insulting caveat that the god's canals in this district had become "dried-up and useless".

The foundations of both the Seth and Nephthys temples at Sepermeru were excavated and identified in the 1980s. Therefore, the site is also of some interest for boasting remnants of the only surviving temple of Nephthys, along with her temple at Komir, near the ancient site of Esna.

References

Bibliography

Cities in ancient Egypt
Lost ancient cities and towns
Archaeological sites in Egypt


Lier Station () is located at the village of Lier, Norway on the railway Drammen Line. The station is served by the Oslo Commuter Rail L13, service with half-hour headway by Vy. The station is served by line L1, with one departure at 01:54 to Drammen.

History
The station was opened in 1973 as Tuverud. The station is located just outside the mouth of Lieråsen Tunnel, and the station was opened as part of it. The former Lier Station was located on the track that is now part of the Spikkestad Line.

Railway stations in Buskerud
Railway stations on the Drammen Line
Railway stations opened in 1973
1973 establishments in Norway
Lier, Norway
Railway stations in Norway opened in the 1970s


Gabriel Emerson Olds is an American actor and writer. He is the son of poet Sharon Olds.

Acting career
Olds began acting at age 15 at The Public Theater in New York, in a performance of Measure for Measure in 1987. Soon after, he was cast in 14 Going on 30 (ABC, 1988), a two-part Disney Sunday Movie with an age-shifting plot, similar to Big. In 1992, Olds was hired by Dick Wolf for an episode of Law & Order called "Pride and Joy", in which Olds played an ambitious student who murders his father.

In 1993, Olds made his Broadway debut with the drama Any Given Day, a prequel to the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Subject Was Roses. Olds took time off from Yale University to perform in the show. Soon after, Olds was cast in the Penny Marshall-produced film Calendar Girl, a nostalgic take on the teen road trip. Back at Yale, Olds starred in and directed the Shakespearean drama Richard II, to positive notices. More work followed, with a supporting role in John Frankenheimer's Civil War prison camp miniseries Andersonville (TNT), and work on Party of Five (Fox), Sisters (NBC), and a well-reviewed appearance in Charmed.

Olds then went back to Broadway, co-starring in Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge at the Roundabout Theater, which won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play. Olds was well received as Rodolpho, an illegal immigrant who stays with Eddie Carbone (Anthony LaPaglia, Tony-winner for this performance) and falls in love with Catherine (Brittany Murphy, in her Broadway debut).

Olds also took a supporting role opposite Billy Crudup in the track and field-themed Steve Prefontaine biopic Without Limits. In 2000, Law & Order producer Dick Wolf, who'd worked with Olds before, offered him the lead role in The WB's political drama, D.C. The actor was hired to play Mason Scott, a privileged idealist with a pragmatic roommate (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) and a flaky twin sister (Jacinda Barrett).

Olds then went on to playing a deluded actor in the independent drama Urbania (2000).  Other credits include E-Ring, Commander in Chief, Six Feet Under, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Cold Case, Numb3rs, Medium, Franklin & Bash and Private Practice. Olds also played the role of "Ed" in the Tommy Lee Jones film The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (winner of two awards at the Cannes Film Festival, 2005), though his scenes were deleted.

In 2007, Olds filmed two television pilots, Conspiracy (Lifetime), and Winters (NBC).  The latter was executive produced by David Shore, creator of House.  In the same year, Olds starred in the LA stage production of the two-person play Tryst, at the Black Dahlia Theater, which got him rave reviews, 6 nominations, and 2 wins for Best Actor, from LA Weekly Theater Awards and the LADCC.

Olds did voiceover work for playing psychopath Paul Carson in Capcom's video game Dead Rising, and other characters in Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, and Dishonored: Death of the Outsider.

Olds was in NBC's The Event, and NBC's Heroes where he plays a shape-shifted version of Sylar.  Olds can be seen in the CBS dramas Criminal Minds and The Mentalist,  and in the Bruce Willis action film Surrogates, in which he plays a cyborg cop.  Olds had a recurring part on HBO's Boardwalk Empire, and has appeared on all of CBS's NCIS franchise shows, including, NCIS (TV series), NCIS: New Orleans, and NCIS: Los Angeles.  Olds played Crowley on SEAL Team (TV series), and William in Amazing Stories (2020 TV series).

Olds' indie film, Apartment 407 won best picture at the San Diego International Film Festival in 2017, and he plays a young Pat Robertson in The Eyes of Tammy Faye.

Writing career
Olds writes screenplays and freelance journalism for Condé Nast Publications and salon.com.  He has written about flying after 9/11 and plastic surgery in Los Angeles.

References

External links

 Demo Reel (acting) on YouTube
 Now Casting – Gabriel Olds Pics and Bio
 Article for salon.com

1972 births
American male film actors
American male screenwriters
American male stage actors
Living people
Male actors from New York (state)
Yale University alumni
Screenwriters from New York (state)


Louis Dufour de Longuerue (1652, Charleville-Mézières, Ardennes) – 22 November 1733), abbé of Sept-Fontaines (from 1674) and of Saint-Jean-du-Jard near Melun (from 1684), known simply as the abbé de Longuerue, was an antiquarian, a linguist and historian, a child prodigy who became the protégé of Fénelon; in his turn Longuerue encouraged the Abbé Alary and the young cartographer-to-be, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (1697–1782), perhaps the greatest geographical author of the eighteenth century. As a philologist, he remarked on the astonishing progress the French language had made, in its refinement and conscious purification from 1630 to 1670. The abbé was a free-thinker, for a man ostensibly of the cloth: Helvétius quoted his remark that, if all the good and all the evil done in the name of religion were weighed together, the evil would preponderate.

His great work was his Description de France, one of the secondary sources used by Edward Gibbon for his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

Louis was born in Charleville-Mézières, the son of Pierre Dufour, seigneur de Longuevue et Goisel, a Gentilhomme de Normandie and governor of Charleville. His elder brother, who had been expected to succeed to the title and was already a field marshal awarded the Order of St. Louis, was killed at the battle of Ramillies, 1706.

After his death in Paris a volume of Longueruana was published, based on the recollections of a devoted amanuensis who had transcribed Longuerue's savant conversations. In 1769 a further selection of fugitive pieces from among his papers was published.

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18th-century French historians
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John William Walmsley (22 April 1903 – 1970) was an English professional association footballer who played predominantly as a wing half. Born in Accrington, Lancashire, he initially played Sunday league football for St Paul's and Accrington St Peter's. Walmsley started his senior playing career in Non-League football with Bacup Borough before joining Football League Third Division North side Nelson in 1921. He played just one match for Nelson, appearing at centre-half in the 2–4 defeat to Wrexham on 26 November 1921.

Walmsley left the club at the end of the 1921–22 season to join Barnoldswick Town. After spending two years with Barnoldswick, he moved back into the Football League, signing for Accrington Stanley in the summer of 1924. He made nine league appearances for the side in his first season as the team finished 17th in the division. The following campaign, he played eight times in the league as Accrington achieved an 18th-placed finish. He left the club at the end of the 1925–26 season, and subsequently had spells with Barnoldswick Town, Great Harwood and Horwich RMI before moving into local amateur football in the early 1930s.

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1903 births
1970 deaths
Footballers from Accrington
English men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
Bacup Borough F.C. players
Nelson F.C. players
Accrington Stanley F.C. (1891) players
Barnoldswick Town F.C. players
English Football League players
Great Harwood F.C. players
Leigh Genesis F.C. players


Kafr Qaddum () is a Palestinian town in the northern West Bank, located 13 kilometers west of Nablus and 17 kilometers east of Qalqilya in the Qalqilya Governorate. Surrounding towns include Jit to the east and Hajjah to the south. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town had a population of 3,280 inhabitants in 2017.

Kafr Qaddum's total land area consists of nearly 19,000 dunams (about 8,000 under Palestinian civil administration and 11,000 under complete Israeli control). Its built-up area consists of 529 dunams. Olive groves make up 80% of the remaining land, 15% is used for vegetation purposes, and 5% are planted crops. Israel has expropriated roughly 2,500 dunams (618 acres) for the use of settlements nearby

Since 2011, residents have regularly protested the Israeli blockade of their village, and through to 2020, 100 members of the community, including 6 minors, have been shot and wounded by Israeli troops. 170 villagers have been arrested by the IDF and constrained by military courts to pay fines collectively amounting to US$74,200.

Location
Kafr Qaddum is located 17.32 km north-east of Qalqiliya. It is bordered by Jit village to the east, Immatain to the south, Kur and Hajja village to the west, and Beit Lid, Qusin and Deir Sharaf to the north.

History

Ancient period
According to archaeological evidence, Kafr Qaddum has been inhabited since the Early Bronze Age. On the hill south of the village is the archeological site of Khirbet 'Asafeh, which was part of one settlement that spread over several hills in the area. In 1979, an archaeological excavation was conducted at the site and remains from the Bronze Age, Iron Age, Persian and Hellenistic periods were discovered. Moreover, remains from the Roman period were discovered at the site, including several structures and a kokhim-style tomb.

In the second century, a large Samaritan settlement was built on the site, which existed for centuries. It was mainly stone-built dwellings, according to Roman building tradition. Its inhabitants engaged in agriculture, mainly growing olives for oil. Three ancient olive presses were discovered near the village. A destruction layer found in a number of buildings from the end of the fifth century is probably related to the Samaritan revolts. The settlement continued to prosper until the early Islamic period, and it seems that its Samaritan residents were forced to convert to Islam, and in part the settlement has survived continuously since.

Ottoman era
Kafr Qaddum appeared in 1596 Ottoman tax registers as being in the Nahiya of Jabal Qubal of the Liwa of Nablus. It had a population of 19 households and 2 bachelors, all Muslim. The villagers paid taxes on wheat, barley, summer crops, olives, and goats or beehives, and a press for olives or grapes; a total of 4,700 Akçe.

In 1838, Kefr Kaddum was noted as a village located in the District of Jurat 'Amra, south of Nablus.

In 1852, it was by noted Biblical scholar Edward Robinson on his travels in the region,

In 1870/1871 (1288 AH), an Ottoman census listed the village with a large population of 198 households in the nahiya (sub-district) of Jamma'in al-Awwal, subordinate to Nablus and in 1882 the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) the village (called Kefr Kaddum) was described as "A good-sized village on low ground, with wells and olives; it has a watch-tower on the side of the chalk hill rising over it on the east, and is supplied by wells; the houses are of stone."

British Mandate period
In a 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Kufr Qaddum had a population of 874 inhabitants, all Muslims, increasing in the 1931 census to 963, again all Muslim, in 234 houses.

In the 1945 statistics the population was 1,240, all Muslims, with 18,931 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 2,945 dunams were for plantations or irrigated land, 7,184 for cereals, while 69 dunams were built-up (urban) land.

Jordanian era
In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Kafr Qaddum came under Jordanian rule.

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 1,701 inhabitants.

1967–present

Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Kafr Qaddum has been under Israeli occupation.

After the 1995 accords, 44.6% of village land was classified as Area B, while the remaining 55.4% was classified as Area C. Up until 2013 Israel had confiscated 2,031 dunums of village land for the Israeli settlements of Kedumim Zefon, Jit (Mitzpe Yishai), and Giv'at HaMerkaziz; presently all part of Kedumim.

Since 2003, the road between Kafr Qaddum and Nablus is blocked thus elongating the travel distance by 14 km. Since July 2011, weekly demonstrations have been held in a demand to re-open the road.

Land issues
In the Mitzpe Yishai neighborhood of Kedumim, there are accusations that the Israelis have improperly taken control of private Palestinian land. The Israeli Civil Administration calls it "theft", though it occurred in an "orderly manner", but without any official authorization.

Main entrance
In 2003, the Israeli military closed the main entrance of the village that connects it to Nablus with a permanent roadblock, in addition, a dirt mound was put one kilometer before the roadblock, isolating one family house which made it unreachable by vehicles. In 2010, after waiting for five years for an Israeli court decision, it was ruled that the roadblock is illegal, but the court also stated that the road is "too dangerous to travel" so the road remained blocked.

The roadblock makes it difficult for people to reach their farmlands because they are prohibited from driving, so they must walk on foot and carry their equipment and harvest. It also delays the fifteen minute journey to Nablus to forty minutes.

Events
In 2012, an Israeli soldier was under investigation for the theft of a large sum of money and gold from during a raid against a resident of Kafr Qaddum.
On 2 January 2014, 85-year-old Saeed Jaser Alim became the "first Palestinian casualty of conflict with Israel in 2014; he died following a clash with Israeli soldiers at Kafr Qaddum near Nablus". Villagers say Israeli soldiers fired teargas canisters at them, one of which entered his home, and he subsequently died.
In January 2014, a large force of Israeli soldiers entered the village in the middle of the night, seeking "two wanted men", who turned out to be two boys, aged 11 and 13. As they were leaving, they threw stun grenades into the yards of the homes they passed.
In December 2014, Bashar Saleh was shot in the leg while standing with his camera in a group of journalists.
In October 2015 Ahmed Tala’at, a photographer, was shot in the backside while standing with a group of journalists, armed only with his cameras and a gasmask.
Muayyed Shteiwi, a nurse, who brandishes a Palestinian flag at demonstrations,  was shot near the groin and in the back when, hearing noises of confrontation, he left the yard of a mosque to observe what was happening.
In March 2016 an Israeli border policeman shot Khaled Shteiwi/Shatawi (11) in the leg. When an adult villager came to assist him, he too was shot by another soldier.
On 12 July 2019, Abd el-Rahman Shatawi,  aged 9, was shot in the head with a live bullet by an Israeli sniper posted 100 metres away while watching a demonstration that was taking place 200 metres from his friend's home. He has since been confined to a wheelchair.
30 January 2020 No demonstrations took place that day when Mohammed Shteiwi/Shatawi (14), hiding in a grove when soldiers arrived, took a head shot from a soldier firing a plastic-coated metal bullet at close range.  He had peeked out to check out what was going on, and now lies in a vegetative state.
In August 2020, Israeli placed three boxes containing explosive devices in the village. One of them was found by a child and lightly injured an adult when he shook it. An army source said that the boxes were placed "for deterrence".

Economy
Prior to the Second Intifada, about 50% of the Kafr Qaddum's economy depended on work in Israel as the primary source of income, 20% depended on agriculture and animal raising, while 30% depended on jobs in private and public sectors. After 2002, over 75% of the population became jobless as business became the only other alternative for income generation. Emigration has registered a record level during the past two years, ranging between 10-15% of the total population.

References

Bibliography

External links
Kafr Qaddum, ISM
 Kufr Qaddum, IWPS
Welcome To Kafr Qaddum
Survey of Western Palestine, Map 11:    IAA, Wikimedia commons
 KAfr Qaddum Village (Fact Sheet),  Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem (ARIJ)
 Kafr Qaddum Village Profile, ARIJ
  Kafr Qaddum, aerial photo, ARIJ
 Development Priorities and Needs in Kafr Qaddum, ARIJ
  New Colonial Activity in Kafr Qadoom Village – Qalqilyia District, March 14, 2000,  POICA
  Violations during the olive picking season are continuing 21, October, 2009, POICA
Several injured in Friday West Bank demonstrations, Mar.16, 2012 Haaretz
IDF using dogs to police anti-fence protests in West Bank Officer from Oketz canine unit let his dog loose on protesters in Kfar Kadum, near Nablus, Mar.19, 2012, Haaretz

Qalqilya Governorate
Towns in the West Bank
Municipalities of the State of Palestine
Ancient Samaritan settlements


Alamitos Heights is a neighborhood in the south-east portion of the city of Long Beach, California, United States.

The neighborhood is bounded by the Pacific Coast Highway on the north, Colorado Street on the south, Park Avenue on the west, and Bellflower Boulevard on the east.

Surrounding neighborhoods include University Park Estates to the east, Park Estates to the north, and Belmont Heights to the west. Alamitos Bay is located on the south of this neighborhood, and Recreation Park is found to the west.

Alamitos Beach, several miles southwest near downtown, is not contiguous; the Alamitos Heights neighborhood gained its name from Alamitos Bay, not the beach.

From 1904 to 1950, the neighborhood was served by the Pacific Electric Balboa Line.

Architecture

See also
Neighborhoods of Long Beach, California

References

External links
Official Alamitos Heights Improvement Association Website
Map of Alamitos Heights area

Neighborhoods in Long Beach, California


Let It Loose is the tenth studio album by Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine, released in 1987. It is the first studio album to feature a specific credit for Estefan, but is her 10th album overall including her work with Miami Sound Machine. Initially gaining little attention in Europe, the success of the single Anything for You led to the album being re-released under that name, and with a different cover art, across Europe, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand from October 1988 to early 1989. It is Miami Sound Machine's most commercially successful album, being certified triple-platinum by the RIAA and peaking at number six on the Billboard 200.

Track listing

Personnel

Gloria Estefan –  lead and backing vocals
John De Faria –  all guitars
Clay Ostwald, Jim Trompeter –  keyboards
Jorge Casas, Will Lee –  bass
Emilio Estefan, Rafael Padilla –  percussion
Enrique Berro "Kiki" Garcia –  drums
Randy Barlow, Teddy Mulett –  trumpet
Clarence Clemons –  sax solos on track 2
Ed Calle –  saxophone
Paquito Hechavarría –  piano solos on tracks 5 & 7

Production
Emilio Estefan – producer
Lawrence Dermer – producer
Rafael Vigil – producer
Jorge Casa  – producer (track 6)
Clay Ostwald  – producer (track 6)
John Haag – engineer
Teresa Verplanck – engineer
Eric Schilling – mixing

Chart positions

Year-end charts

Certifications

Release history

Let It Loose

Anything For You

References

External links

1987 albums
Miami Sound Machine albums
Gloria Estefan albums
Albums produced by Emilio Estefan
Epic Records albums


Federico Arístides Soto Alejo (June 30, 1930 – February 4, 2008), better known as Tata Güines, was a Cuban percussionist, bandleader and arranger. He was widely regarded as a master of the conga drum, and alongside Carlos "Patato" Valdés, influential in the development of contemporary Afro-Cuban music, including Afro-Cuban jazz. He specialized in a form of improvisation known as descarga, a format in which he recorded numerous albums throughout the years with Cachao, Frank Emilio Flynn, Estrellas de Areito, Alfredo Rodríguez and Jane Bunnett, among others. In the 1990s he released two critically acclaimed albums as a leader: Pasaporte and Aniversario. His composition "Pa' gozar" has become a standard of the descarga genre.

Life and career

Early years
Arístides Soto was born in Güines, a town east of Havana in the former province of Havana in Cuba, on June 30, 1930. He grew up with his parents and his seven siblings, leaving school after year 4 to work as a shoeshiner and paperboy. His mother, María de los Ángeles Soto, took care of the house, while his father José Alejo Vasallo "Joseíto" was a cane worker. He was exposed to music from a young age; Joseíto played the tres in the Sexteto Partagás and used to jam with Arsenio Rodríguez, who lived nearby. Tata made his first bongó-like drums out of a sausage jar and a carton of milk in order to join them on percussion. He taught himself the conga by listening to recordings on the radio and playing at concerts, balls and jam sessions as an amateur. He played in his father's group, as well as in Las Estrellas Nacientes, directed by his uncle Dionisio. He considered Chano Pozo el maestro (the master) and had the opportunity to play with him; Chano encouraged him and Tata never forgot the experience.

Success
In 1946, Arsenio offered him the opportunity to move to Havana to join Estrellas Juveniles, his side-project. Tata accepted and very soon found himself playing in other bands such as Sonora Matancera and Conjunto Jóvenes del Cayo. He made his first recordings in 1951 as part of Estrellas Juveniles. In 1953, he joined Fajardo y sus Estrellas. He began playing two congas instead of one, an innovation he devised with fellow conguero Carlos "Patato" Valdés, who played with the Conjunto Casino at the time. With Fajardo, Tata played in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1956. The next year he took part in the recording of Cachao's Cuban Jam Sessions in Miniature; he even doubled on bass on one track with Cachao on piano. He then moved to New York City for two years, performing at the Waldorf Astoria and various nightclubs including Birdland, where he shared the stage with jazz musicians such as Dizzy Gillespie, Maynard Ferguson and Miles Davis. He also played with Josephine Baker and Frank Sinatra.

Güines returned to Cuba in 1959 after Fidel Castro came to power in the Cuban Revolution which he helped fund by contributions from his earnings as a musician. He then joined the Quinteto Instrumental de Música Moderna, a pioneering jazz combo founded by drummer Guillermo Barreto and pianist Frank Emilio Flynn. He remained a member of Flynn's band for many years, under the name Los Amigos. In the 1960s, Güines recorded several sessions as a leader for EGREM under the monikers Tata Güines y sus Tatagüinitos, and Tata Güines y sus Ases del Ritmo. His first hit with the Tatagüinitos was "Perico, no llores más". He also backed Merceditas Valdés throughout the 1960s and later in the 1980s. In 1979, he took part in the Estrellas de Areito sessions and in the recording of Intercambio cultural by Típica 73. In 1981, he recorded an LP entitled Descarga featuring Bobby Carcassés, as well as Descarga en Kawama.

Later years
In the 1990s, he toured internationally and recorded with many artists including pianist Alfredo Rodríguez, Peruchín Jr., Orlando "Maraca" Valle, Jesús Alemañy's Cubanismo and Hilario Durán. He recorded with the young conguero Anga Díaz, considered one of his main disciples, on the 1994 record Pasaporte, which won the EGREM Album of the Year award. On 1994 he recorded Aniversario as a leader. He collaborated with Jane Bunnett on Chamalongo (1997) and Cuban Odyssey (2002), and appeared on the documentary Spirits of Havana, which chronicles the recording of Cuban Odyssey. In 2003 he played on the Latin Grammy-winning Lágrimas negras with pianist Bebo Valdés and Spanish flamenco singer Diego El Cigala. In 2006, he was awarded the Premio Nacional de Música, the highest honor given to musicians in Cuba.

In 2007, he recorded Piano y ritmo with Cuban Jazz Legends; the album was released posthumously in 2010. Tata Güines died in Havana on February 4, 2008.

Influences
When asked about his teachers, Tata always responded that he "had no teachers, only the streets to learn, and the radio". He claimed that his biggest influence was Chano Pozo.

Discography
1981: Descarga (Discos Fuentes)
1994: Pasaporte (EGREM) – with Angá Díaz
1995: Aniversario (EGREM)

References

External links
The Independent: Tata Güines: Cuban 'King of the Congas'

1930 births
2008 deaths
Conga players
Rumba musicians
Afro-Cuban jazz percussionists
People from Güines
Musicians from Havana


The 18th New Brunswick Legislative Assembly represented New Brunswick between June 24, 1857, and May 14, 1861.

The assembly sat at the pleasure of the Governor of New Brunswick John Henry Thomas Manners-Sutton.

James A. Harding was chosen as speaker for the house. In 1859, John M. Johnson was chosen as speaker after Harding resigned his seat.

List of members

References
Journal of the House of Assembly of ... New Brunswick from ... June to ... July, 1857 ... (1857)

Terms of the New Brunswick Legislature
1860 in Canada
1861 in Canada
1857 in Canada
1858 in Canada
1859 in Canada
1857 establishments in New Brunswick
1861 disestablishments in New Brunswick


Stanislavsky Award (Full title of the prize: "I Believe. Konstantin Stanislavski") is a special prize awarded since 2001 at the Moscow International Film Festival for the outstanding achievement in the career of acting and devotion to the principles of Stanislavski's school ("For Conquering the Heights of Acting and Faithfulness" as it is traditionally formulated).

Winners
 2001 — Jack Nicholson (United States)
2002 — Harvey Keitel (United States)
2003 — Fanny Ardant (France)
2004 — Meryl Streep (United States)
2005 — Jeanne Moreau (France)
2006 — Gérard Depardieu (France)
2007 — Daniel Olbrychski (Poland)
2008 — Isabelle Huppert (France)
2009 — Oleg Yankovsky (Russia), posthumously given to his son Filipp
2010 — Emmanuelle Béart (France)
2011 — Helen Mirren (United Kingdom)
2012 — Catherine Deneuve (France)
2013 — Kseniya Rappoport (Russia)
2014 — Inna Churikova (Russia)
 2015 — Jacqueline Bisset (United Kingdom)
 2016 — Marina Neyolova (Russia)
 2017 — Michele Placido (Italy)
2018 — Nastassja Kinski (Germany)
2019 — Ralph Fiennes (United Kingdom)
2020 — Svetlana Kryuchkova (Russia)
2021 — Sergei Nikonenko (Russia)
2022 — Konstantin Khabensky (Russia)
2023 — Irina Kupchenko (Russia)

References

External links
 Moscow International Film Festival

Moscow International Film Festival
Awards established in 2001
Lifetime achievement awards
Russian film awards


Ahmad Akbarpour () Ahmad Akbarpūr , born July 31, 1970, in Chah Varz, Lamerd, Fars Province, is a novelist and author of short stories and children's books.

Biography
Ahmad Akbarpour was born on 31 July 1970 in Chah Varz. He got his BA in psychology from Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran.

Ahmad Akbarpour has started his literary career at the age of 24 by composing poetry. He published his first and only collection of poetry, People of the Thursday Evening, in 1993.

A student of Reza Barahani and Houshang Golshiri, he soon started writing fiction for adolescents, adopting a postmodern style of writing.

Books
That Night’s Train, published in 1999, received the Book of the Year award from Iran's Ministry of Culture. The novel narrates the story of a little girl who recently lost her mother and meets with a teacher during a train trip. This short novel was adapted as a TV film by Hamid Reza Hafezi and later as a movie by Hamid Reza Ghotbi.

Published in 2002, Good Night Commander was financially supported jointly by UNICEF and Iran's Children’s Book Council. This children's anti-war book tells the story of a maimed child who meets with an enemy toy soldier in his dreams.

Themes
During his career, Akbarpour discussed such topics as fear, loneliness, and peace. In some of his works as If I Were a Pilot, Good Night Commander, and Emperor of Words he shows his disdain for the destructive impact of war on children.

Translations
Good Night Commander and That Night’s Train (illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault) have been published in English by Groundwood Books in the United States and Canada in 2010 and 2012 respectively.

Bibliography

Poetry

Youth books

Short Story

Awards
 Honor list of IBBY 2006: The Emperor of Words

References

Iranian male novelists
Iranian novelists
Iranian male short story writers
Iranian children's writers
People from Fars Province
1970 births
Living people


Benjamin Walsh may refer to:
 Benjamin Dann Walsh (1808–1869), American entomologist
 Benjamin Walsh (politician) (c.1775–c.1818) British Member of Parliament for Wootton Bassett from 1808 until expelled in 1812


Martin Starkie (25 November 1922 – 5 November 2010) was an English actor, writer and director for theatre, radio and television. The Oxford University Poetry Society administers the annual Martin Starkie Prize in his honour.

Early life
Martin Starkie was born in Burnley and educated at Burnley Grammar School and Exeter College, Oxford, under critic Nevill Coghill. In 1946 he founded the Oxford University Poetry Society, and with Roy McNab edited the Oxford Poetry magazine in 1947.

Career
He made his name in the BBC's The Third Programme and on television in the 1950s. He went on to write with Nevill Coghill and composers Richard Hill and John Hawkins, and to produce and direct Canterbury Tales, based on Coghill's translation of the original, first in Oxford, then in the West End, on Broadway and in Australia.

He founded the Chaucer Festival in 1986 which ran annual events in Southwark and London for a number of years and later set up the Chaucer Centre in Canterbury. He is represented, as the character of Geoffrey Chaucer, by a bas-relief image on the plinth of the Chaucer statue in Canterbury which is situated at the junction of Best Lane and the High Street.

References

External links

Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford
People educated at Burnley Grammar School
English theatre directors
People from Burnley
2010 deaths
1922 births
English male dramatists and playwrights
20th-century English dramatists and playwrights
20th-century English male writers


Jamalpur () is a Union Council of Hasilpur Tehsil, Bahawalpur District, Punjab, Pakistan. The Sutlej River flows through it. Main crops grown here are cotton, wheat, sugarcane and also animal rearing.

References

Populated places in Bahawalpur District


Herbert Lee "Peanuts" Holland (February 9, 1910 – February 7, 1979) was an American jazz trumpeter best known for his contributions in swing jazz.

Early life
Born in Norfolk, Virginia, Holland learned to play trumpet at the Jenkins Orphanage.

Career
Holland played and recorded with Alphonse Trent's band between 1928 and 1933, and played with Al Sears (1932), the Jeter-Pillars Orchestra, Willie Bryant, Jimmie Lunceford, and Lil Armstrong's band (1935–36). He also occasionally led his own band.

In 1939, Holland moved to New York City, playing in big bands led by Coleman Hawkins and Fletcher Henderson. From 1941 to 1946, he played with Charlie Barnet. He and Don Redman toured Europe in 1946, and during this tour Holland elected to remain there, living in Paris, France, and then Sweden. He recorded there until 1960, releasing some 46 records for European labels.

Personal life
Holland died in Stockholm.

Discography

As sideman (alphabetical order)
 Charlie Barnet, Hop on the Skyliner (Decca, 1955)
 Charlie Barnet, On the Air (Sandy Hook, 1983)
 Charlie Barnet, Drop Me Off in Harlem (GRP, 1992)
 Don Byas, Don Byas in Paris (Prestige, 1968)
 Buck Clayton, Club Session (Le Club Francaise, 1955)
 Guy Lafitte, Blue and Sentimental (Le Club Francaise, 1955)
 Mezz Mezzrow, A La Schola Cantorum (Ducretet-Thomson, 1956)
 Bud Powell, Parisian Thoroughfares (Pablo, 2003)
 Don Redman, For Europeans Only (SteepleChase, 1983)
 Stuff Smith, Hot Jazz Violin 1930–1940 (Jazz Legends, 2005)
 Kay Starr, For Real (Proper, 2003)

References

1910 births
1979 deaths
American jazz trumpeters
American male trumpeters
20th-century American musicians
20th-century trumpeters
20th-century American male musicians
American male jazz musicians
Jeter-Pillars Orchestra members


Events from the year 1194 in Ireland.

Incumbent
Lord: John

Events
Drogheda is chartered as a town.
Simon Rochfort (also Simon de Rupeforti; died 1224) was the first English Bishop of Meath.

Births

Richard Mor de Burgh (died 1242)  was the eldest son of William de Burgh and founder of the towns of Ballinasloe, Loughrea and Galway.

Deaths
Domnall Mór Ua Briain, King of Thomond

References


Amr Adel (; born 5 December 1980) is an Egyptian football defender. He currently plays for Egyptian club Al-Ittihad Al-Sakndary, having previously played for Zamalek, El Geish and Wadi Degla. Amr plays across the back three, four or five, but is usually centre-back. He is known for his no-nonsense style of defending.

References

1980 births
Living people
Egyptian men's footballers
Wadi Degla S.C. players
Men's association football defenders


The ancient Egyptian Panehsy was Prophet of Amenhotep (I) of the Forecourt, during the reign of Ramesses II. Panehsy was buried in a tomb, TT16, in the Dra' Abu el-Naga' area of the Theban Necropolis.

References

Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt


Cedarcroft, also known as Bayard Taylor House, is a historic house on Gatehouse Drive in Chester County, Pennsylvania near Kennett Square. It was built in 1859 for writer Bayard Taylor (1825–1878), and is a good local example of Italianate architecture. It remained Taylor's home until 1874, and is where he wrote some of his well-known works. It has been a private residence for most of its existence, spending a few years in the early 20th century as a private boys' school. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1971 for its association with Taylor.

History
Taylor built the mansion he named Cedarcroft near Kennett Square, Pennsylvania in 1859–1860. He personally supervised its construction, including its two-foot walls and tall tower, and later wrote a series of articles about it. He also owned the surrounding 200 acres of land which he had spent several years acquiring. He described the building's design as "large and stately, simple in its forms, without much ornament... expressive of strength and ornament." He lived here with his wife Marie Hansen, the daughter of the Danish/German astronomer Peter Andreas Hansen, whom he married in 1857. Several of Taylor's writings were either written at Cedarcroft or reference it, including his 1863 book The Poet's Journal, which he dedicated to his wife as "the Mistress of Cedarcroft".

Taylor pushed to complete the new home shortly after the birth of his daughter Lilian in 1858 and increased his writings for periodicals and offered several lectures to acquire the necessary revenue. Taylor laid the cornerstone for the house's tower on June 9, 1859, with a hidden time capsule. That zinc box, he wrote, contains coins, a newspaper, a copy of his book Views Afoot, as well as "an original poem by me, to be read five hundred years hence by somebody who has never heard of me."

Upon moving into the home in 1860, Taylor's family performed a farcical play co-written with Richard Henry Stoddard. In addition to Stoddard, Cedarcroft hosted several other literary figures, including George Henry Boker, Edmund Clarence Stedman, James Russell Lowell, James T. Fields, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Outside the house, Taylor planted a number of fruits and vegetables, including Latakia tobacco and melons. Plants included a giant sequoia from California, ivy, Dutchman's pipe, Virginia creeper, wisteria, and trumpet flower. After visiting the house, Sidney Lanier wrote a poem called "Under the Cedarcroft Chestnut" about a tree there that was alleged to be 800 years old. The first work which Taylor himself wrote while living in Cedarcroft was his semi-autobiographical poetic series The Poet's Journal, written within a month after moving in, though not published until 1862.

The construction of the home cost $15,000 by February 1860, which was $5,000 more than anticipated and left Taylor in debt. His life in Kennett Square was further complicated by the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861. As he wrote to Stoddard in April, "Everything here is upside down. We live almost in a state of siege, with the rumors of war flying about us. At present we don't know what is going on. We have reckless secessionists within twelve miles of us." Out of precaution, Taylor acquired weapons and buried his manuscripts before leaving the country and visiting Europe.

Because of financial and political issues, Taylor only spent four out of the first eight summers at Cedarcroft. Instead, he traveled, gave lectures, and continued his literary work in New York. In the spring of 1862, he was chief war correspondent for the New York Tribune and visited the army at the lines in Virginia and reported on Congress in Washington, D.C. Later that year, he took a diplomatic job as chargé d'affaires at Saint Petersburg in Russia. The job was short-lived, however, and his financial problems continued. Further, Taylor had some difficulty with his neighbors, mostly conservative Quakers, who disapproved of his use of alcohol and cigars as well as his late-night gatherings.

By 1870, Taylor complained to his mother, "If I had known, in 1859, how prices were to change, and labor to be dear and unreliable, and the neighborhood to go backwards instead of forwards, I never should have built [Cedarcroft] at all." Further, he admitted he wanted to live in New York and considered his experiment at a country life combined with literature was "a dead failure, and I have been carrying it on now for several years... out of stubborn unwillingness to admit that I was mistaken." By 1875, he left the home to the care of his parents, sister and brother-in-law.

After Taylor

Taylor died in Germany on December 19, 1878. The home remained in the Taylor family until 1882, when his widow Marie and daughter Lilian sold the house and the 116 acres that remained from the original estate to Isaac Warner Jr. for $14,050.

In September 1905, the home, along with a new 3-story building behind it, was opened as a private preparatory school for boys. The first class included seven boys under the leadership of Principal Jesse Evans Philips, though later years saw between 32 and 40 enrolled for each class. Among the school's students was future professional baseball player Herb Pennock. At 18 years old, Pennock was signed to the Philadelphia Athletics in 1912; he was later traded to the Boston Red Sox and then the New York Yankees. Pennock, nicknamed "The Squire of Kennett Square", was posthumously inducted into the baseball hall of fame in 1948.

The Cedarcroft School lasted until 1917 when it was absorbed by St. Luke's Academy on the Main Line outside of Philadelphia. In the same year, the house and estate was purchased by James Bachelor Dowsland Edge (1875-1939). Born in England, he came to America where he rose to become Vice-President of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. James Edge had the funds and vision necessary for him and his wife, Anna Baily (1877-1964), to restore the house, carriage house, barn, swimming pool and gardens to their former glory. Aside from their three children, James' only brother, Francis Edge, also lived here, making his home in the fourth and fifth floors of the tower from which back then it was said the Delaware River could be seen.

In 1971 the Bergo family purchased Cedarcroft and began a multi-year restoration of the house, inside and out, over a 15 year period, while living in and enjoying this unique house. The house was declared a National Historic Landmark and placed on the National Register in 1972. Today, Cedarcroft stands surrounded by suburban subdivision neighborhood of mostly single-story tract housing built in the 1950s and 1960s, at the junction of Gatehouse Drive and Potter Drive.

See also
List of National Historic Landmarks in Pennsylvania
National Register of Historic Places listings in Chester County, Pennsylvania

References

External links

Historic Homes of Unionville, Pennsylvania: Bayard Taylor & Cedarcroft Mansion
"Cedarcroft: Bayard Taylor House", Living Places Website, with excerpt from 1971 nomination to National Register of Historic Places

Historic American Buildings Survey in Pennsylvania
Houses completed in 1859
Houses in Chester County, Pennsylvania
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
National Historic Landmarks in Pennsylvania
National Register of Historic Places in Chester County, Pennsylvania


Events from the year 1661 in Ireland.

Incumbent
Monarch: Charles II

Events
April 23 – Charles II of England, Ireland and Scotland receives his second crowning, in Westminster Abbey.
The Earldom of Drogheda is created in the Peerage of Ireland.
The Bishopric of Limerick in the Church of Ireland is combined with Ardfert and Aghadoe to form the united bishopric of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe, Edward Synge being the first bishop.
The Book of Kells is presented to Trinity College Dublin.
Dromore Cathedral is rebuilt.
 The witch trial against Florence Newton.

Births

Deaths

References

1660s in Ireland
Ireland
Years of the 17th century in Ireland


William G. Tucker  (born 28 February 1935) is a modernist British sculptor and modern art scholar.

Biography
Tucker was born to English parents on 28 February 1935 in Cairo, Egypt. In 1937, his family returned to England, where Tucker was raised. At the University of Oxford he studied history from 1955 to 1958. He moved to London and studied sculpture both at the Central School of Art and Design and at Saint Martin's School of Art, where Anthony Caro was teaching.

In 1961, while at Saint Martin's, Tucker edited the second issue of the student magazine First. Tucker's issue included answers to a survey of British sculptors regarding the nature of their practices, as well as an editorial outlining themes that would reoccur throughout his writings on sculpture, especially his belief that 'sculpture is another poetry, not painting's poor relation'. It also cites The Human Condition by philosopher Hannah Arendt, which became a frequent point of reference for the artist.

In 1965 he was one of nine sculptors included in the important exhibition New Generation: 65 at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, and one of seven from that exhibition whose work was included in the Primary Structures: Younger American and British Sculptors exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York in the following year.

Tucker spent two years as a Gregory Fellow at the Fine Arts Department of the University of Leeds (1968–70) and represented Britain at the 1972 Venice Biennale. In 1974 he published The Language of Sculpture (Thames & Hudson, London), which was released in the United States in 1978 as Early Modern Sculpture (Oxford University Press.

He moved to New York in 1978 and taught at Columbia University and at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship for sculpture in 1981 and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in 1986. Tucker became an American citizen in 1985. He served as co-chairman of the Art Program at Bard College.

He was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in 1992.

In 2010, Tucker was a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture award of the International Sculpture Center.

In 2011, Tucker was elected an honorary National Academician, National Academy Museum, New York.

Recent one-person museum exhibitions included Tucker: Mass and Figure at the Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao in 2015, and William Tucker at the Kunstmuseum Winterthur in Switzerland in 2016.

Footnotes

Further reading
 Arts Council of Great Britain, The condition of sculpture, a selection of recent sculpture by younger British and foreign artists [introduction by William Tucker], London, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1975.
 Brooklyn Museum, Working in Brooklyn, sculpture: Donald Lipski, Chris MacDonald, John Monti, Tom Otterness, Judy Pfaff, Ray Rapp, Alan Saret, Art Spellings, William Tucker, Christopher Wilmarth, Brooklyn, N.Y., Brooklyn Museum, 1985.
 Elderfield, John, Against the grain, contemporary art from the Edward R. Broida collection, New York, Museum of Modern Art, 2006.
 Lynton, Norbert, William Tucker, sculptures, London, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1977.
 Rosenfield Lafo, Rachel, William Tucker, Horses, Lincoln, MA, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, 2006.
 Sleeman, Joy, The sculpture of William Tucker, Aldershot, Hampshire [England], Lund Humphries, 2007.
 Tucker, William, William Tucker, Gods: five recent sculptures, London, Tate Gallery, 1987.
 Tucker, William, William Tucker, sculpture 1970-73, London, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1973.
 Tucker, William, William Tucker, the American decade, 1978-88, Mountainville, N.Y., Storm King Art Center, 1988.

British sculptors
British male sculptors
20th-century American sculptors
Modern sculptors
American art educators
Alumni of Saint Martin's School of Art
1935 births
Living people
Royal Academicians
21st-century American sculptors


The Merry Gentleman is a 2008 drama film directed by Michael Keaton (in his directorial debut), and starring Keaton and Kelly Macdonald. It is about a woman who leaves an abusive relationship to start a new life in Chicago, where she forms a friendship with a hitman who is undergoing his own emotional crisis.

Plot synopsis
The Merry Gentleman is the story of Kate, a young woman who flees her abusive policeman husband, moving to Chicago.  In her new life, she befriends a co-worker but otherwise generally keeps to herself, due to her embarrassment over a black eye left over from her husband's latest attack. Most everyone she encounters is of low character, which reinforces her feelings of loneliness and reclusion.

One night, she is seen in an office window through the rifle scope of professional hit man Frank Logan, who is on the roof of the opposite building, as he prepares to shoot the occupant on another floor.  Afterwards, rather than leaving, he removes his hat and steps out on to the ledge as he apparently prepares to jump. As Kate steps out onto the sidewalk, she looks up at the falling snow and sees Frank on the ledge. She cries out, startling him into safely falling backward onto the roof.

She decides to bring a small bit of joy to her life by buying a Christmas tree. Later that night, she encounters Frank at her apartment building.  She doesn't recognize him as the man on the roof, and he helps her carry the big Christmas tree to her apartment.  He later returns to meet with her, but collapses from pneumonia before he can reveal why he's there.  Kate rushes him to the hospital, and despite the awkwardness of their conversation there, they develop a friendship that has hints of romance. Some time after his release, she mentions the old hat that he wears and wonders about "the things it has seen," unknowingly referring to the many men that Frank has murdered. Meanwhile, Kate also becomes the romantic interest of Murcheson, the detective investigating Frank's latest murder.  Murcheson asks Kate out to dinner, but she mistakes the date for a meeting about the investigation, and cuts the date short when she realizes Murcheson's romantic interest.

Initially, the police remain oblivious to the fact that Frank is a professional killer, due to his framing the murder on another man, who he then killed in a manner to make the police suspect suicide.  However, complications arrive when Kate's husband, Det. Michael Elkhart, tracks her down and breaks into her apartment.  Michael swears he has become a safe and spiritual man, but the encounter leaves Kate badly shaken.  She turns to Murcheson for help, but before he can intervene, Frank fatally shoots Michael in his motel room and makes it look like a suicide.  The police begin to suspect that Frank may be behind all three deaths.

Murcheson asks Kate out on a second date, which she reluctantly accepts. The date turns horribly awkward, however, when he reveals that he suspects Frank to be a killer. Feeling guilty about her dead husband and disturbed by Murcheson's suspicions, she visits a church. Frank finds her there, but she is not comforted by his promise never to hurt her.  Frank leaves the church and quietly walks out of her life, choosing not to subject her to the fear of knowing a professional killer.

The exact details of Frank's departure remain ambiguous. Apparently considering suicide, he drives to a high bridge over a forest and tosses his hat into the river far below. Then another car arrives and a man comes out. We later see Frank retrieve his hat from the water. Unsatisfied with his dreary day job as a tailor, having left behind the only pleasant aspect of his life, and placing the familiar symbol of his sinister side back on his head, he walks off into the woods.

Cast
Michael Keaton as Frank Logan
Kelly Macdonald as Kate Frazier
Tom Bastounes as Murcheson
Bobby Cannavale as Michael
David Dino Wells Jr. as Passerby
Darlene Hunt as Diane
Guy van Swearingen as Goldman
William Dick as Mr. Weiss

Production notes
Ron Lazzeretti had planned on directing the projected film, and was in discussion with Michael Keaton regarding Keaton's playing one of the lead roles.  A few days before production was scheduled to begin, Lazzeretti suffered a ruptured appendix and underwent extensive treatment.  As it became evident that the project would either wither or be completely canceled, Keaton suggested that he would direct it if the producers desired (he had been looking for a project with which to make his directorial debut). They agreed, but a dispute soon arose between the producers and Keaton on his alleged lack of effort in cutting and promoting the movie. They sued for breach of contract, leading to Merry Gentleman, LLC v. George & Leona Prods., Inc.

The movie was filmed in Chicago, Illinois, in 26 days from early March thru mid-April 2007.  Many of the producers, principals, supporting actors and tradespeople involved with the film were residents of Chicago.

Other parts of the movie were also filmed in Bourbonnais, Illinois and at the Kankakee River State Park.

Critical reception
The film was presented at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, and released to theatres on May 1, 2009, to positive reviews. , the film holds a 65% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 77 reviews with an average rating of 5.91/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "Michael Keaton's directorial debut, The Merry Gentleman, is a slow character study aided greatly by the performances of Keaton and Kelly MacDonald." Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly wrote of the film, "This Debbie Downer of a drama is a bitter slug".

References

External links

 The Merry Gentleman at Rotten Tomatoes

2008 films
2008 drama films
Films directed by Michael Keaton
Films set in Chicago
Films shot in Chicago
Films shot in Illinois
2008 directorial debut films
American drama films
2000s English-language films
2000s American films
English-language drama films


The unitar is a one-string electric guitar. Although rare, the one-string guitar is sometimes heard, particularly in Delta blues, where improvised folk instruments were popular in the 1930s and 1940s.

History
Eddie "One String" Jones had some regional success with a Mississippi blues musician, Lonnie Pitchford, who played a similar homemade instrument. In a more contemporary style, Little Willie Joe Duncan, the inventor of the Unitar, had a considerable rhythm and blues instrumental hit in the 1950s with "Twitchy", recorded with the Rene Hall Orchestra.

Design
The home-made unitar often has a piezoelectric sensor as a pick-up, requiring an external amplifier to be attached to produce a satisfactory sound. PVC piping is a common neck material. As with a normal electric guitar, the unitar does not require a reverberating body like an acoustic guitar.

Notable players
Seasick Steve
Brushy One String

See also
Diddley bow
Ektara
Whamola

References

Guitars


William J. Walsh may refer to:

 William Walsh (archbishop of Dublin) (William Joseph Walsh, 1841–1921), Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin
 William J. Walsh (politician) (William Joseph Walsh, 1880–1948), politician in Newfoundland
 Billy Walsh (curler) (William James Walsh, 1917–1971), Canadian curler


Portland Lutheran School was a private Lutheran school in Portland, Oregon, United States. It had been accredited by the Northwest Association of Accredited Schools since 1948. The school permanently closed in 2015

The school was originally part of Concordia College, which was founded in 1905. In 1977, the high school was separated from the college and named Portland Lutheran High School. In 1986, classes for pre-K through 8th grade were added, and the name was changed to Portland Lutheran School.

References

High schools in Portland, Oregon
Educational institutions established in 1905
Private middle schools in Oregon
Defunct Christian schools in the United States
Defunct Lutheran schools
Schools accredited by the Northwest Accreditation Commission
Private elementary schools in Oregon
Private high schools in Oregon
1905 establishments in Oregon
Schools affiliated with the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod
2015 disestablishments in Oregon
Educational institutions disestablished in 2015