The third season of the American comedy-drama television series Ugly Betty was confirmed by ABC  on February 11, 2008. The season premiere aired on September 25, 2008, while the season ended with a special double episode on May 21, 2009.

In Australia, season 3 premiered on 3 November 2009, as one of the first exclusive premieres on the new digital channel 7TWO, after two years on the Seven Network. Season 3 premiered on Tuesday 13 January 2009 in South Africa  and on Wednesday 24 June 2009 in the UK.

The season would be the first to be produced in the show's actual setting, New York City, in an attempt to take advantage of a credit change.

Cast
Most of the main cast from the show's second season returned for the third season, with former main characters Alexis Meade (played by Rebecca Romijn) and Henry Grubstick (played by Christopher Gorham), becoming recurring characters.

Main Cast
 America Ferrera as Betty Suarez
 Eric Mabius as Daniel Meade' Judith Light as Claire Meade
 Vanessa L. Williams as Wilhelmina Slater
 Becki Newton as Amanda Tanen
 Ana Ortiz as Hilda Suarez
 Ashley Jensen as Christina McKinney
 Tony Plana as Ignacio Suarez
 Michael Urie as Marc St. James
 Mark Indelicato as Justin Suarez

Recurring Cast
 Christine Baranski as Victoria Hartley
 David Blue as Cliff St. Paul
 Grant Bowler as Connor Owens
 Julian de la Celle as Daniel Jr.
 Eddie Cibrian as Coach Tony Diaz
 Val Emmich as Jesse
 Daniel Eric Gold as Matt Hartley
 Christopher Gorham as Henry Grubstick
 Sarah Lafleur as Molly
 Lindsay Lohan as Kimberly ‘Kimmie’ Keegan
 Ralph Macchio as Councilman Archie Rodriguez
 Alec Mapa as Suzuki St. Pierre
 Bernadette Peters as Jodie Papadakis
 David Rasche as Calvin Hartley
 Derek Riddell as Stuart
 Rebecca Romijn as Alexis Meade
 Lauren Vélez as Elena Sanchez

Guest cast
 Nikki Blonsky as Teri O’Shoughnessy
 Barry Bostwick as Roger Adams
 Mark Consuelos as Det. Averaimo
 Rachel Dratch as Penny Meadows & Mindy Meadows
 Max Ehrich as Randy
 Max Greenfield as Nick Pepper
 Cheyenne Jackson as Timothy D’Artagnan
 Mo Rocca as the Kitchen Rumble Host
 Freddy Rodriguez as Giovanni ‘Gio’ Rossi
 Steve Schirripa as Frankie Burrata
 Michael Stuhlbarg as Heinrich
 Heather Tom as Holly Wright

In addition, the season featured cameo appearances by Adele, Mark Badgley and James Mischka, Nigel Barker, Joy Behar and Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Billie Jean King, Adriana Lima, Rachel Maddow, Isaac Mizrahi, Roberta Myers, Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa, Zac Posen, Antonio Sabàto Jr., Liz Smith, Robert Verdi, and Joe Zee as themselves.

Music
 ABC released a promotional video featuring the cast singing "New York, New York".
 Australian singer Lenka made a music video of "The Show" showing never-before-seen footage from the third season of Ugly Betty.
 The iTunes Store provided a free music download of both of these features.
 At the end of episode 3, Two of Cups's "Breathe" was played.
 In episode 10, "Bad Amanda", an unreleased track by Lady Gaga titled "Fashion" can be heard.
 In the episode, "When Betty Met YETI", Lady Gaga's "Poker Face" can be heard.
 In the episode "Curveball", another Lady Gaga song, "The Fame", can be heard.

Production
During production of season 2, the ideas for both a musical episode and a recurring guest role for Lindsay Lohan came up. Both ideas were put on hold due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike and in the end, only Lindsay Lohan's storyline came to fruition, with Lohan making a brief uncredited cameo appearance in the season two finale "Jump", before reprising the role in season 3.

Shooting of the episodes moved from Los Angeles to on-location shooting in New York City, where the show was set. The last time the show was shot in New York was in the pilot episode. In addition, the season had more physical elements, especially for Betty.

In an interview about the new direction the series would be taking, Silvio Horta told E!'s Kristin Dos Santos at an ABC press meeting for its show runners: “This season is going to be about growing up. We aren't going to be doing anymore child-like storylines. It is going to be about moving Betty forward." He then added more details to MediaWeek about the changes: "On Ugly Betty I think we started to veer a little too much into the romantic storyline, where it started to really become the show. And it started to just get away from what I originally wanted to do and where we originally started, which was about a girl making it in the city and her work life. So we're trying to refocus that back. But there's always temptation and you want to explore it. You want to have the opportunity to explore it. And the second you start getting too involved in it, it's like any plot line. You go in; it's very hard to get out and it takes a little longer." He later revealed that the audience would see a more evolving Betty: "Betty will solve a crime. Inject Botox. Get attacked by an animal. Throw a Wilhelmina mannequin down a flight of stairs. And that's just the first three episodes."

Casting changes
It was announced before the season aired that Rebecca Romijn would only be returning as a recurring character because of Romijn's dissatisfaction with the direction in which the writers had taken her character. It was speculated that the move was also, partially, due to Romijn's pregnancy, although TV Guide's Michael Ausiello reported that it might have been a ploy to ask for a salary increase.

Christopher Gorham (Henry Grubstick) revealed to TV Guide that "the show is moving, I am not." On July 11, 2008, TV Guide confirmed that Gorham and Freddy Rodriguez would be moving on from Betty as the two actors would be making their last appearances due to other commitments; especially Gorham, who began working on CBS' Harper's Island. However, in a Q&A submitted to Ausiello at his webpage at Entertainment Weekly, he asked Ferrera about the absence of the two actors after they were no-shows at the Season 3 premiere party in New York City on September 12, 2008: "Betty's decision at the beginning of this season is not an ending to anything," Ferrera insisted. "It's more about huge beginnings for her. Christopher [Gorham], who we love and adore, and Freddy [Rodriguez], who is wonderful and so great on our show, are not gone [forever]. You'll never know when they'll pop in or pop out, but they'll be around."

Episodes

Notes:
 ABC placed Ugly Betty on a temporary hiatus after the March 19, 2009 episode to air Samantha Who? and In the Motherhood in the 8-9PM E/P slot, but returned it after the shows complete their runs. Ugly Betty returned on April 30, 2009 to finish its 3rd season, ending with a 2-hour season finale airing on May 21, 2009.

Webisodes
For the third season, a spin-off online series called Mode After Hours accompanied the main series. The program followed Marc St. James (Michael Urie) and Amanda Tanen (Becki Newton) having fun around the Mode offices when they were not working.ABC.COM LAUNCHES ORIGINAL WEBISODES TODAY FOR "UGLY BETTY" WITH PREMIERE OF "MODE AFTER HOURS" From The Futon Critic (September 24, 2008) Thirteen 5-minute episodes were produced.

September 23, "Guadalaharahh" – Amanda and Marc make fun of Betty and Daniel respectively
September 25, "Friend-iversary VLOG" – It is the "friend-iversary" of when Marc first met Amanda, but Amanda completely forgot about it
October 9, "Bowling for Cliff" – Amanda teaches Marc how to bowl before his bowling date with Cliff
October 16, "Slumber Party Secrets" – Amanda and Marc sleep at Mode, and share some of their secrets.
October 23, "Sommers Seance" – Marc and Amanda organize a seance trying to contact her dead mother Fey
October 30, "Trapped in the Elevator" – Amanda and Marc get locked in the Mode elevator and share their darkest secrets.
October 30, Behind the Scenes Extras and Making of Mode After HoursMarch 19, "Big Package" – Marc and Amanda have their own Christmas with unopened and undelivered office package.
March 23, "April Fools" – Marc and Amanda think of clever ways to trick Betty on April Fools.
March 30, "Roller Girlz" – Marc teaches Amanda how to skate in order to lose weight.
April 8, "Breaking the Band" – Marc and Amanda compete to sing at a local karaoke bar.
April 16, "London Calling" – Marc and Amanda call the Mode UK office for a YETI assignment and end up finding their British counterparts.
April 23, "When Marc Met Mandy" – Marc and Amanda flash back to the first time they ever met.
April 27, "I Spy" – Marc cancels dinner plans with Amanda to spy on his crush, Jake.

DVD release
On March 13, 2009, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment announced that the release date of Ugly Betty Season Three, subtitled "Start Spreading the News", would be September 22, 2009 in the United States and Canada. All 24 episodes were included in the set, along with additional "Betty Bloopers", alternative takes, deleted scenes and a featurette, "Coming Home to New York City", detailing the show's return to the Big Apple after having filmed the pilot there.

Among the features:
 Audio Commentary
 Look Who Keeps Popping Up
 Coming Home to New York City
 Mode After Hours – Webisodes
"Gwadalaharahh"
"The Friend-iversary VLOG"
"Bowling for Cliff"
"Slumber Party Secrets"
"Sommers Seance"
"Trapped in the Elevator"
"I Spy"
"Pank Calls"
 Deleted Scenes
 Betty Bloops

US ratings

UK ratings

* Overnight ratings
Ranks are for Channel 4 and E4 weekly, not for overall TV.
Note: Season 3 of Ugly Betty episodes have now started airing on Wednesday nights on Channel 4 at 10:00 pm instead of the normal Friday night 9:00 pm airing and because of this the E4 first look airing has been moved from Wednesday nights to Tuesday nights. Ugly Betty episodes will not affect or be affected by Big Brother shows/evictions.
Note: As of Monday 12, October 2009 Channel 4's airing of Ugly Betty'' will now be shown on Monday evenings at the normal time of 10:00 pm instead of Wednesday evenings.

References

2008 American television seasons
2009 American television seasons
Ugly Betty


Adriano González León (Valera, Trujillo State, 14 November 1931 - Caracas, 12 January 2008)
was a Venezuelan writer who is known in his country for the novel País Portátil (1968), widely regarded as the premier Venezuelan novel of the latter half of the 20th century, and for his many years of hosting a television program dedicated to promoting literary appreciation among the general public.

González León studied at the Central University of Venezuela (UCV) in Caracas. Politically active in his youth, in the 1950s he fought against the dictatorship of Marcos Pérez Jiménez. In the 1960s, from his position as a coeditor of the magazine Sardio, he supported revolutionary ideals then in fashion. He lectured for brief periods in literature and later economics at UCV, held minor diplomatic posts, edited literary magazines, and promoted literature appreciation through the television program. Near the end of his life, in 2004, PEN Venezuela and other organizations collaborated to pay homage to his opus and the stature he had achieved in the Venezuelan literary world by establishing a biennial literary prize in his name, dedicated to promoting the work of Venezuelan novelists. Honorees have included Milton Quero Arévalo in 2004 and Héctor Bujanda and Héctor Torres in 2006.

Biography

Early life
At the age of fifteen, González León was an Andean region correspondent for the daily, El Nacional. He earned a law degree from the UCV. During the 1950s he was a leftwing militant in opposition to the dictatorship of Marcos Pérez Jiménez. At 24, while teaching literature at UCV, González, along with Juan Calzadilla, Guillermo Sucre, Edmundo Aray, Rodolfo Izaguirre, Efraín Hurtado, and others founded the group, Sardio, which published a magazine of the same name. The magazine Sardio featured highly politicized writers from a wide variety of backgrounds.

Literary career
His first forays into literature were as a short story writer. In 1956, won second prize in the annual short story competition sponsored by the Caracas daily newspaper, El Nacional for "El Lago" (The Lake). In three subsequent collections of short stories, he described somber, dramatic urban and rural environments.

The 1968 novel, País portátil, is an epic, set in González León's native Trujillo State, of the Barazarte family constructed out of the recollections of its youngest son, Andrés. The work was made into a film in 1979 under the same title (directed by Iván Feo and Antonio Llerandi).

Among the distinctions he was awarded are the Premio Nacional de Literatura (National Award for Literature) in 1980 and an honorary doctorate from Universidad Católica Cecilio Acosta (Unica) in Maracaibo in 2003.

He was a collaborator on the literary magazine, Letra Roja (Red Letter) and in a group of painters, sculptors, and writers, El Techo de la Ballena (The Roof of the Whale).

González León was long active as a popularizer of literature to the Venezuelan public. For 15 years he hosted a television show on literature, Contratema, on the Venezuelan government channel (Televisora Nacional, channel 5). After 2000, he returned to the daily, El Nacional, where he had been a teenage reporter, to write a weekly column. In 2006, he was one of four national authors who offered semester length courses in creative writing to the public, under a project called Escribas (this Spanish word means both "Scribes" and "May you write"). In the 1990s, while a diplomat in Spain, he had been a collaborator and presenter on a television based writing instruction program, Taller Abierto (Open Workshop) of Television Educativa Iberoamericana.

Other activities
In the 1960s, León was appointed the first secretary of the Venezuelan Embassy in Argentina. Upon returning to Venezuela, he worked as a professor in the Economics Department of UCV. In 1986, he played Tío Pancho in the Venezuelan film, Ifigenia. In the mid-1990s, served as a cultural attaché at the Venezuelan embassy in Spain.

Works

Short stories
1957. Las hogueras más altas (The highest bonfires). Buenos Aires: Goyanarte, 1959. Winner of the Premio Municipal de Prosa.
1963. Asfalto-Infierno y otros relatos demoniacos. Caracas: El Techo de la Ballena.
1967. Hombre que daba sed. Buenos Aires: Jorge Álvarez.
1988. Linaje de árboles. Caracas: Planeta.
1998. Crónicas del rayo y de la lluvia. Caracas: Contexto Audiovisual-Pomaire.
1998. Todos los cuentos más Uno. Alfaguara.

Novels
1968. País portátil. Seix Barral. Winner of the Biblioteca Breve prize.
1995. Viejo. Alfaguara.

Poetry
1979. Damas
1980. De ramas y secretos. Caracas: Rayuela.
1997. Hueso de mis huesos (illustrated by Manuel Quintana Castillo). Caracas: Rayuela.

Other
1982. El libro de las escrituras (silkscreens of Marco Miliani); Ediciones de Galería Durban-Arte Dos, Caracas-Bogotá.
1985. Solosolo.
1996. El viejo y los leones (children's story). Caracas: Rayuela.
2001. Viento blanco. Caracas: Rayuela.

See also
Venezuela
Venezuelan literature
Latin American literature

Notes

References
2002. El Tiempo (Venezuela). Adriano González León: Pasión por la Letra 1 Feb 2002. In Spanish
2006. Letralia: Tierra de Letras. An Internet magazine of Hispanoamerican letters. Vol. 6, No. 146, 7 Aug 2006. In Spanish
País Portátil, the movie, in IMDB.com

Further reading
2004. Balderston, Daniel & Mike Gonzalez, eds. Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean literature, 1900-2003. Routledge.
2008. Cruz, Juan.  Obituary of Adriano González León in El País (Madrid), 14 Jan 2008. In Spanish.

People from Valera
Venezuelan novelists
Male novelists
20th-century Venezuelan poets
1931 births
2008 deaths
20th-century novelists
Venezuelan male poets
20th-century male writers
Cultural attachés


The 1937 Ice Hockey World Championships were held between February 17 and February 27, 1937, in London, England. Eleven teams took part in this World Championship. Teams from Austria and Czechoslovakia were supposed to be in attendance as well but had issues travelling, and cancelled.

In the preliminary round, the teams were divided into three groups: two groups of four teams and a group with three teams. The top three teams in the groups with four teams and the top two in the group with three teams advanced to the second round. The second round consisted of two groups of four with the top two teams in each group advancing to the final round. The other four teams in the second round played in the consolation round for places 5-8. The three teams that did not advance to the second round were supposed to play off for places 9-11, but first Romania, then both Sweden and Norway decided not to continue playing.

Canada won its ninth world championship title while the host, Great Britain, won its third European championship. The British team, using many of the players from the previous year's Olympics, won their first seven games by a combined total of forty-five to zero, before losing to Canada. The Swiss team finished third, with their final round losses to Canada and Great Britain both coming in overtime.

First round

Group A

Standings

Group B

Standings

Group C

Standings

Second round

Group A

Standings

Group B

Standings

Consolation Round -- 5th to 8th place

Standings

Poland forfeited their games against Hungary and France, which are officially viewed as five to nothing losses.

Final Round – 1st to 4th place

Standings

Final Rankings – World Championships

Teams

Final Rankings – European Championships

European Champions 1937

Citations

References
Complete results

External links

IIHF Men's World Ice Hockey Championships
International ice hockey competitions hosted by the United Kingdom
Ice Hockey World Championships
International sports competitions in London
Ice Hockey World Championships
1936–37 in British ice hockey


Exploring is a Saturday morning children's educational series in color that appeared on NBC television on Saturday afternoons from October 13, 1962 to April 9, 1966. The NBC News series, which was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1964 and won a Peabody Award in 1963, featured segments about science and the arts. The series was hosted by Dr. Albert Hibbs, a scientist and educator.

Mary Ritts and Paul Ritts were puppeteers on the show; Paul performed Albert, Calvin and Sir Geoffrey, while Mary played Magnolia.

Besides the Ritts puppets, the series also featured short films, animated versions of famous legends, and music Millard Research Associates produced a printed copy of their survey results which found over 600,000 Exploring Teachers Guides were requested for teachers in major school districts all across the country (they were free).  A Millard survey found 86% of the teachers requesting the Guides were assigning the Saturday morning program for family viewing.  This was the first instance of proving you could change ratings with Teachers Guides.  This was done again on CBS with the Teachers Guides to the 21st Century (Young and Rubicon researched this) and later on PBS.

References

External links
 Exploring on the Internet Movie Database

1960s American science fiction television series
1960s American children's television series
NBC News
1962 American television series debuts
1966 American television series endings
American television shows featuring puppetry
American children's education television series
NBC original programming
Science education television series
English-language television shows


Châu Thành can refer to any of these Vietnamese districts:
Châu Thành District, An Giang
Châu Thành District, Bến Tre
Châu Thành District, Đồng Tháp
Châu Thành District, Hậu Giang
Châu Thành District, Kiên Giang
Châu Thành District, Long An
Châu Thành District, Sóc Trăng
Châu Thành District, Tây Ninh
Châu Thành District, Tiền Giang
Châu Thành District, Trà Vinh


Châu Thành is a rural district of Bến Tre province in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam.  the district had a population of 167,472. The district covers an area of 229 km². The district capital lies at Châu Thành.

The district lies to the north of Bến Tre Province, the Tiên River, the towns of Bến Tre and Mỹ Tho and the districts of Châu Thành and Cai Lậy in Tiền Giang province. To the south is the Hàm Luông River and the Chợ Lách and Mỏ Cày districts.

Administrative divisions
The district is divided into one township, Châu Thành (capital), and the following communes:

Tân Phú
Tiên Long
Qưới Thành
Tiên Thủy
Phú Đức

Thành Triệu
Tường Đa
An Hiệp
Sơn Hòa
Tam Phước
An Khánh
Tân Thạch
Phú An Hòa
Qưới Sơn
An Phước
Giao Long
Giao Hòa
An Hóa
Phước Thạnh
Hữu Đinh

References

Districts of Bến Tre province


Ba Tri is a rural district (huyện) of Bến Tre province in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam. As of 2004 the district had a population of 201,802. The district covers an area of 351 km². The district capital lies at Ba Tri. In 2013, the population decreased to 191,097 people with a mean density of 538.3 people per square kilometer.

The district is in the east of Bến Tre Province. It is bordered to the east by the South China Sea, to the north by the Ba Lai River, to the south by the Hàm Luông river and to the west by Giồng Trôm district.

In the capital of Ba Tri lies the final resting place of the famed 19th-century poet Nguyễn Đình Chiểu, known for his patriotic anti-colonial writings. It has been visited by dignitaries including Nông Đức Mạnh.

The commune of Bảo Thạnh is the home of Phan Thanh Giản, a leading mandarin of Tự Đức who was also the first southerner to gain a PhD in the imperial court examinations.

The commune of Bảo Thuận among others is known for tourism.

Administrative divisions
The district is divided into one township, Ba Tri (capital), and the following communes:

An Hòa Tây
An Thủy
Vĩnh An
An Đức
An Bình Tây
An Hiệp
An Ngãi Tây
Tân Hưng
An Ngãi Trung
An Phú Trung
Mỹ Thạnh
Mỹ Nhơn
Mỹ Chánh
Mỹ Hòa
Tân Mỹ
Tân Xuân
Phước Tuy
Bảo Thạnh
Phú Ngãi
Phú Lễ
Vĩnh Hòa
Tân Thủy
Bảo Thuận

Climate

References

Districts of Bến Tre province


The 1938 Ice Hockey World Championships were held between February 11 and February 20, 1938, at Štvanice Stadium in Prague, Czechoslovakia.  It marked the 30th anniversary of the IIHF, and a special celebration was held with famous hockey players from all over Europe in attendance. Also a yearbook was produced for the twenty-two member nations which documented which European country had the most hockey clubs (Czechoslovakia 361) and the most artificial rinks (Great Britain 21).

Fourteen teams participated in this World Championship. It was first divided into three preliminary round groups — two groups of five and a group with four teams. In the preliminary round, the top three teams in each group advanced to the second round. The nine teams advancing to the second round were divided into three groups of three teams each. The three group winners and the best second-place team advanced to the semifinals.

The Canadians won the World Championship title for the tenth time beating Great Britain 3-1 in the final, leaving the British with their fourth European Championship title (the third in a row). In the bronze-medal game, Czechoslovakia defeated Germany 3-0, and in a match for fifth place Sweden defeated Switzerland 2-0. The Swiss were very unhappy with the IIHF's decision to pick Germany as the fourth semi-finalist, as the two of them, and Sweden, finished the second round in an absolute tie. The decision was made to advance Germany because they had lost to Canada, so they were the best European nation in their group.

World Men's Hockey Championships (in Prague, Czechoslovakia)

First round

Group A

Standings - Group A

Group B

Standings - Group B

Group C

Standings - Group C

Second round

Group A

Standings - Group A

Group B

Standings - Group B

Group C

Standings—Group C

+ Germany, Switzerland and Sweden ended with identical records. The Organizing Committee awarded the semifinal position to Germany because it had to play Canada.

Consolation round 5–6 place

Final round

Final Rankings – World Championships

World Champion 1938

Members of team
Sudbury Wolves

Final Rankings – European Championships

European Champion 1938

Citations

References
Complete results

IIHF Men's World Ice Hockey Championships
International ice hockey competitions hosted by Czechoslovakia
1937–38 in Czechoslovak ice hockey
February 1938 sports events
Sports competitions in Prague
1930s in Prague


Bình Đại is a rural district of Bến Tre province in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam. As of 2003 the district had a population of 131,813, growing from 129,446 in 2001. The district covers an area of 381 km². The district capital lies at Bình Đại.

Administrative divisions
The district is divided into one township, Bình Đại (capital), and the following communes:

Tam Hiệp
Long Định
Long Hòa
Phú Thuận
Châu Hưng
Vang Quới Tây
Vang Quới Đông
Thới Lai
Phú Vang
Lộc Thuận
Định Trung
Phú Long
Bình Thới
Thạnh Trị
Đại Hòa Lộc
Bình Thắng
Thạnh Phước
Thừa Đức
Thới Thuận

References

Districts of Bến Tre province


Chợ Lách is a rural district (huyện) of Bến Tre province in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam.

As of 2018, the district had a population of 147,289. The district covers an area of 189 km2. The district capital lies at Chợ Lách.  The district capital lies on Provincial Highway 57 and is 45 km west of Bến Tre and 20 km east of Vĩnh Long.

The district capital was formed by Decree No. 41/HĐBT on March 14, 1984 by the Vietnamese Cabinet. The capital comprises the following hamlets: Sơn Quy, two thirds of Bình An and one sixth of Phụng Châu of Sơn Định commune. Chợ Lách's name means "Lách Market", and is derived from the presence of a market in the area in the vicinity of many "lau lách" trees.

References

Districts of Bến Tre province


Giồng Trôm is a rural district of Bến Tre province in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam. As of 2003 the district had a population of 186,719. The district covers an area of 311 km2. The district capital lies at Giồng Trôm.   This district is the home country of Phan Văn Trị. The commune Mỹ Thạnh has the famous speciality: Mỹ Lồng rice paper.

The district includes one township, Giồng Trôm (capital), and the following communes: Bình Hòa, Bình Thành, Châu Bình, Châu Hòa, Hưng Lễ, Hưng Nhượng, Hưng Phong, Long Mỹ, Lương Hòa, Lương Phú, Lương Quới, Mỹ Thạnh, Phong Nẫm, Phước Long, Sơn Phú, Tân Hào, Tân Lợi Thạnh, Tân Thanh, Thạnh Phú Đông and Thuận Điền.

References

Districts of Bến Tre province


Mỏ Cày is a former rural district (huyện) of Bến Tre province in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam. As of 2003 the district had a population of 274,265. The district covers an area of 370 km². The district capital lies at Mỏ Cày.   It is famous for its coconut candy.

In late March 2009, Mo Cay was split in into Mỏ Cày Bắc district (North Mỏ Cày) and Mỏ Cày Nam district (South Mỏ Cày).

References

Former districts of Vietnam


Thạnh Phú is a rural district of Bến Tre province in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam. As of 2003 the district had a population of 131,964. The district covers an area of 401 km². The district capital lies at Thạnh Phú.

The district is in the southeast of the province. To the north is the Hàm Luông River and Ba Tri district, to the south is the Chiên River and Trà Vinh province, to the west is Mỏ Cày district and to the east is the South China Sea.

The district capital is on National Highway 57 and is around 45 km southeast of Bến Tre.

Divisions
The district is divided into the following communes:

An Thạnh
An Thuận
Tân Phong
Thuận Phong
An Quy
Hòa Lợi
Thới Thạnh
Mỹ Hưng
Mỹ An
An Điền
An Nhơn
Thạnh Hải
Đại Điền
Bình Thạnh
Phú Khánh
Giao Thạnh
Quới Điền

References

Districts of Bến Tre province


From March 8 to June 7, 1960, voters and members of the Democratic Party elected delegates to the 1960 Democratic National Convention through a series of caucuses, conventions, and primaries, partly for the purpose of nominating a candidate for President of the United States in the 1960 election. The presidential primaries were inconclusive, as several of the leading contenders did not enter them, but U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts emerged as the strongest candidate and won the nomination over Lyndon B. Johnson at the convention, held from July 11 to 15 at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena.

Recalling the experience of 1928 Democratic nominee Al Smith (who was Catholic), many wondered if anti-Catholic prejudice would affect Kennedy's chances of winning the nomination and the election in November. To prove his vote-getting ability, Kennedy challenged U.S. senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota, a liberal, in the Wisconsin primary. Although Kennedy defeated Humphrey in Wisconsin, his reliance on heavily Catholic areas left many party bosses unconvinced. Kennedy thus faced Humphrey in the heavily Protestant state of West Virginia. Humphrey's campaign was low on money and could not compete with the well-organized, well-financed Kennedy team. Kennedy's siblings combed the state looking for votes, leading Humphrey to complain that he "felt like an independent merchant running against a chain store." On primary day, Kennedy crushed Humphrey with over 60% of the vote, and Humphrey withdrew from the race.

Although Kennedy won the popular contests by comfortable margin, his main opponent, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson, did not participate (except as a write-in candidate). Johnson had a very strong base in the party establishment and gained the support of many delegates chosen through caucus and convention selection processes. In the months leading up to the Democratic Convention, Kennedy traveled around the nation persuading delegates from various states to support him. However, as the Convention opened, Kennedy was still a few dozen votes short of victory.

Several major candidates served as Democratic Party nominees, with John F. Kennedy serving as the nominee for 1960, Johnson in 1964, and Humphrey in 1968.

Background

1952 and 1956 elections
After controlling the White House for five consecutive terms from 1933 through 1953, the Democratic Party had been defeated in two consecutive elections. Both times, popular World War II general Dwight D. Eisenhower defeated Adlai Stevenson II.

At the 1956 Democratic National Convention, Stevenson surprisingly left the choice of his vice-presidential running mate to the delegates. Following his nomination in Chicago, Stevenson made a brief appearance before the convention. He told the delegates he had decided "to depart from the precedents of the past" and that "the selection of the Vice Presidential nominee should be made through the free processes of this convention." With one day's notice, the candidates scrambled to assemble campaigns for delegate support. The leaders were Estes Kefauver, who had run two populist campaigns for the presidency but lost the nomination each time to Stevenson, and John F. Kennedy, a relatively unknown United States Senator from Massachusetts but a scion of the powerful Kennedy family. Kennedy surprised observers by surging into the lead on the second ballot and falling only 39 votes short of the nomination, but on the third ballot, several favorite son candidates threw their delegations' support to Kefauver, and he prevailed. Kennedy gave a gracious concession speech, raising his national profile within the party.

1958 midterm elections
In the 1958 elections, the Republican Party suffered heavy losses due to a nationwide economic recession, the launch of Sputnik by the Soviet Union, and the galvanized opposition of organized labor following the passage of strengthened labor restrictions.  Kennedy was re-elected in a historic landslide; the gain of ten Senate seats also buttressed the political power of Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson, who had won the regional support of some Southern delegations in 1956.

"Democrats won seats in the Senate in California, Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, Ohio, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming." Democrats conceded no seats they had obtain in previous years.

Candidates
The following were candidates for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination:

Major candidates
These candidates were included in multiple major national polls.

Favorite sons

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

Governor Ross Barnett of Mississippi
Governor Pat Brown of California (pledged support to Kennedy)
Governor Michael DiSalle of Ohio (pledged support to Kennedy)
Governor Herschel Loveless of Iowa
George H. McLain of California
Albert S. Porter of Ohio
Senator George Smathers of Florida

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

Senator Joseph Clark of Pennsylvania
Former Governor Frank G. Clement of Tennessee
Governor Orval Faubus of Arkansas
Senator Albert Gore of Tennessee
Former Governor W. Averell Harriman of New York
Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee
Governor Edmund Muskie of Maine
Governor G. Mennen Williams of Michigan

Polling

National polling

Two-way races
Kennedy v. Kefauver

Kennedy v. Johnson

Kennedy v. Stevenson

Johnson v. Symington

Statewide polling

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Schedule and results

States by winner

Primary race
From the outset of the campaign, Kennedy's religion played a major role. Happy Chandler, the governor of Kentucky and a major power broker in the party, emphatically stated that Kennedy could not win Kentucky due to his Catholicism.

New Hampshire: March 8
Kennedy faced trivial opposition in the neighboring state of New Hampshire and won overwhelmingly. While campaigning in Madison, Wisconsin, Kennedy expressed enthusiasm: "I'm very happy about it; we did better than I thought we would."

Wisconsin: April 5
The first sharply contested popular primary was in Wisconsin, where Kennedy faced Humphrey on April 5.

Kennedy had begun building campaign operations in the state as early as June 1959, when he hired Jerry Bruno, the organizer behind William Proxmire's election to the Senate, and laid the groundwork for a campaign headquarters in Milwaukee. Kennedy formally announced his intention to run in Wisconsin on January 21, intending to show popular support for his campaign. The wealthy Kennedy was far better funded than Humphrey, a man of relatively modest means. Kennedy was also supported by his wealthy and glamorous extended family and friends; in his memoirs, Humphrey later lamented that "Muriel and I and our 'plain folks' entourage were no match for the glamour of Jackie Kennedy and the other Kennedy women, for Peter Lawford ... and Frank Sinatra singing their commercial 'High Hopes'. Jack Kennedy brought family and Hollywood to Wisconsin. The people loved it and the press ate it up." Humphrey nevertheless believed that by beating Kennedy in Wisconsin, he could blunt the latter's momentum and overtake him in later primaries.

In Wisconsin, Kennedy won with the support of Catholic voters, including some Republican Catholics who voted in the Democratic primary. Days before the primary, Kennedy said it had been the "toughest, closest, most meaningful". However, some observers found his margin of victory unexpectedly narrow and attributed it solely to Catholic support, while Protestants had backed Humphrey, leaving questions about Kennedy's ability to carry the convention or the election in the fall. Humphrey remained in the race, setting up a second popular showdown in the more heavily Protestant state of West Virginia.

The Wisconsin race was covered in the documentary film Primary.

West Virginia: May 10
In West Virginia, Kennedy sought to show that he could win the support of Protestant voters and to remove Humphrey from the race, securing the party's liberal wing and setting up a showdown with Johnson for the nomination. Humphrey had high expectations, given that the state's population was rural, working class, ninety-five percent Protestant, and its delegates had backed him against Kennedy in the vice presidential contest four years prior.

Kennedy met the religious issue head-on, hoping to redefine the race as one of "tolerance against intolerance," rather than Catholic against Protestant. He also brought Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. to campaign in the state; Roosevelt then raised the issue of Humphrey's failure to serve in World War II. Though Humphrey had tried and failed to serve due to physical disability, Roosevelt attacked his lack of service record, publicly telling audiences, "I don't know where [Humphrey] was in World War Two," and distributing flyers that accused him of draft dodging. After the primary was over, Roosevelt apologized to Humphrey and retracted the claims, which he later called his greatest political regret.

Kennedy continued to outspend Humphrey heavily in West Virginia; though he publicly claimed expenditures of $100,000, later estimates placed his family's overall spending at $1.5 million, dwarfing Humphrey's $23,000. Humphrey traveled the state in a rented bus, while the Kennedys used a family-owned airplane. Humphrey later wrote of the West Virginia campaign, "as a professional politician I was able to accept and indeed respect the efficacy of the Kennedy campaign. But underneath the beautiful exterior, there was an element of ruthlessness and toughness that I had trouble either accepting or forgetting."

On May 4, 1960, Humphrey and Kennedy took part in a televised one-on-one debate at WCHS-TV in Charleston, West Virginia, ahead of the state's primary.

Kennedy defeated Humphrey soundly in West Virginia, and Humphrey announced his withdrawal from the race that night.

Convention

Presidential nomination

Presidential tally:

 John F. Kennedy: 806 (52.89%)
 Lyndon B. Johnson: 409 (26.84%)
 Stuart Symington: 86 (5.64%)
 Adlai Stevenson: 80 (5.25%)
 Robert B. Meyner: 43 (2.82%)
 Hubert Humphrey: 42 (2.76%)
 George Smathers: 30 (1.97%)
 Ross Barnett: 23 (1.51%)
 Herschel C. Loveless: 2 (0.13%)
 Pat Brown, Orval E. Faubus, Albert Dean Rosellini: each 1 vote

Vice-presidential nomination

Kennedy announced Lyndon B. Johnson as his choice of running-mate on the afternoon following his nomination. Johnson was nominated by acclamation that evening.

See also
 1960 Republican Party presidential primaries

Notes

References


Migmacastor is an extinct member of the beaver family, Castoridae, known from a single species, Migmacastor procumbodens. Only a single specimen has been reported, a skull from the late Oligocene or early Miocene of Nebraska. Features of the incisor teeth of Migmacastor indicate they were used to dig. Other extinct beavers, including the better-known Palaeocastor, were also fossorial (digging), but Migmacastor may have become a burrower independently.

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An Lão is a district (huyện) of Bình Định province in the South Central Coast region of Vietnam. Having a population of 27,837 (2019), 24,200 (2009) and in 2003 the district had a population of 24,091. The district covers an area of 690 km². The district capital lies at An Lão.

The Battle of An Lão

The Battle of An Lão occurred in December 1964, ending as a tactical victory for the Việt Cộng, by wresting temporary control of the District Headquarters from the South Vietnamese forces.

References

Districts of Bình Định province


An Nhơn () is a district-level town of Bình Định Province in the South Central Coast region of Vietnam. As of 2003 the district had a population of 187,737. The district covers an area of 255 km². The district capital is Bình Định. It has a population density of 779 people per km², and they are distributed unevenly, with high concentrations in the wards of Bình Định and Đập Đá. 55.50% of the population in the district are of working age.

An Nhơn district lies on a plain at 13°49'N and 109°18'E. It is located along the National Route 1 20 km from the city of Quy Nhơn. The north of the district borders Phù Cát, the east of the district borders Tuy Phước, the west borders Tây Sơn, and the south-west borders the mountainous district of Vân Canh.

Administrative divisions
The district includes 10 communes and 5 wards:

Bình Định (ward)
Đập Đá (ward)
Nhơn Thành (ward)
Nhơn Hưng (ward)
Nhơn Hòa (ward)
Nhơn Mỹ
Nhơn Hạnh
Nhơn Phong
Nhơn Hậu
Nhơn An
Nhơn Phúc
Nhơn Khánh
Nhơn Lộc
Nhơn Thọ
Nhơn Tân

History
During the period 938-1470, An Nhơn was in the heartland of the Champa kingdom, with the capital at Đồ Bàn (now in Nhơn Hậu). In 1470, An Nhơn was in Tuy Viễn district. In 1602, Nguyễn Hoàng changed the name from Hoài Nhơn to Quy Nhơn. In 1778, the Tây Sơn dynasty settled and developed An Nhơn into the emperor's fortress. In May 1799, after accounting for the stronghold, Nguyễn Ánh changed its name to Bình Định. In 1832, Minh Mạng created the district of An Nhơn in its current form.

References

Districts of Bình Định province
County-level towns in Vietnam
Populated places in Bình Định province


Timber is an unincorporated community in Washington County, Oregon, United States. Timber's population is 131, its ZIP code is 97144, it has 59 housing units and its land area is , with a population density of .

The town is connected to the coast and Portland by US-26 to the north and Oregon Highway 6 to the south. Both highways are served by Timber Road which runs mainly north-south through the center of town.

Climate
This region experiences warm (but not hot) and dry summers and chilly, wet winters, with no average monthly temperatures above 71.6 °F.  According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Timber has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate, abbreviated "Csb" on climate maps. Timber also sits in a prominent local frost hollow, and is capable of recording sub-32 temperatures any month of the year.

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External links

Nature of Timber vicinity

Unincorporated communities in Washington County, Oregon
Unincorporated communities in Oregon


Hoài Ân is a district (huyện) of Bình Định province in the South Central Coast region of Vietnam. The district capital is at Tăng Bạt Hổ.

References

Districts of Bình Định province


Hoài Nhơn is a district-level town (thị xã) of Bình Định province in the South Central Coast region of Vietnam. The town seat lies at Bồng Sơn.

Geography and infrastructure
Hoài Nhơn has a varied topography with coastline of around 20 km, lowlands and hills along its borders with Quảng Ngãi province to the north, Phù Mỹ District to the south and Hoài Ân and An Lão districts to the west. The district's highest elevation is on the border with An Lão at 682m.

Hoài Nhơn is located along National Road 1, Vietnam's most important road. Road 630 and Road 629 both lead to Hoài Ân District and An Lão District from the south of the district (south of Bồng Sơn).

Administrative divisions
The district includes 15 communes and 2 townships:

Bồng Sơn (township)
Tam Quan (township)
Hoài Châu
Hoài Châu Bắc
Hoài Đức
Hoài Hải
Hoài Hảo
Hoài Hương
Hoài Mỹ
Hoài Phú
Hoài Sơn
Hoài Tân
Hoài Thanh
Hoài Thanh Tây
Hoài Xuân
Tam Quan Bắc
Tam Quan Nam

Climate

History
Hoài Nhơn was the site of an uprising against French colonialism in 1945 (in Bồng Sơn), involving around 8000 people and led by Trịnh Hồng Kỳ.

As much of Bình Định Province, it was the site of severe fighting during the Vietnam War and a major battle in 1966.

In 2019, Hoài Nhơn experienced its most severe drought over the past 15 years along with other districts of Bình Định, with Mỹ Bình Lake reaching dead levels, or having a quantity too low for proper usage.

References

Districts of Bình Định province
County-level towns in Vietnam
Populated places in Bình Định province


Phù Cát is a district (huyện) of Bình Định province in the South Central Coast region of Vietnam.

The district capital lies at Ngô Mây.

The district is also home to Phu Cat Airport.

References

Districts of Bình Định province


Michael Lee Zentic (born November 22, 1963) is a former American football center in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys. He played college football at Oklahoma State University.

Early years
Zentic attended Lincoln East High School, where he was coached in football by his father Lee. He received All-conference honors as a senior. He enrolled at Division II Northwest Missouri State University, where he was named a starter at center.

He transferred to Oklahoma State University after his third year. As a senior, he was named the starter at offensive tackle in the fifth game of the season against the University of Nebraska, after not being able to beat Tony Wilkins for the starting center position.

Professional career

Dallas Cowboys
Zentic was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Dallas Cowboys after the 1987 NFL Draft. He was waived on September 1.

After the NFLPA strike was declared on the third week of the 1987 season, those contests were canceled (reducing the 16 game season to 15) and the NFL decided that the games would be played with replacement players. He was re-signed to be a part of the Dallas replacement team that was given the mock name "Rhinestone Cowboys" by the media. He started 3 games at center. He was cut on October 20, at the end of the strike.

Kansas City Chiefs
On July 11, 1988, he was signed as a free agent by the Kansas City Chiefs. He was released on August 22.

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1963 births
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Players of American football from Lincoln, Nebraska
American football centers
Northwest Missouri State Bearcats football players
Oklahoma State Cowboys football players
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National Football League replacement players


Phù Mỹ is a district (huyện) of Bình Định province in the South Central Coast region of Vietnam. The district capital is Phù Mỹ.

Geography
Phù Mỹ borders Hoài Nhơn and Hoài Ân to the north, Phù Cát to the south, and the South China Sea to the east.

Transport and economy
Most of the communes of Phù Mỹ district lie on National Route 1 that runs through the province from north to south.

References

Districts of Bình Định province


Tuy Phước is a rural district (huyện) of Bình Định province in the South Central Coast region of Vietnam. The district capital lies at Tuy Phước. The district has 13 administrative units, including two towns, Diêu Trì and Tuy Phước, and 11 communes: Phước Thắng, Phước Hưng, Phước Hoà, Phước Quang, Phước Sơn, Phước Hiệp, Phước Lộc, Phước Thuận, Phước Nghĩa, Phước An and Phước Thành.

Economy
Long Mỹ Industrial Zone (Khu Công Nghiệp Long Mỹ) and smaller industrial concentrations (cụm công nghiệp) are in the district. The former is a major centre of wood processing and furniture manufacturing, second only to Phu Tai Industrial Zone.
Phước An Industrial Concentration (Cụm Công Nghiệp Phước An) is located in Phước An commune to the west of Diêu Trì. By September 2010, 11 companies had invested there and employed around 3,000 workers in the wood product, granite processing, incense powder, and plastic industries.

References

Districts of Bình Định province


Tây Sơn is a district (huyện) of Bình Định province in the South Central Coast region of Vietnam. It is known for being the birthplace of the Tây Sơn dynasty.

The district capital lies at Phú Phong.

Geography
Tây Sơn borders Gia Lai province to the west, the districts of An Nhơn and Phù Cát to the east, Vĩnh Thạnh to the north and Vân Canh to the south.

Transport and economy
Most of the communes of Tây Sơn District lie on provincial road 19 between An Nhơn and Gia Lai province.

References

Districts of Bình Định province


Vân Canh is a rural district (huyện) of Bình Định province in the South Central Coast region of Vietnam. The district capital is Vân Canh. Vân Canh is a mountainous district, located in the southwest of Bình Định Province, and is relatively sparsely populated.

Geography
Vân Canh borders Đồng Xuân district of Phú Yên province to the south, the districts of An Nhơn, Tây Sơn and Tuy Phước to the north, and Kông Chro district of Gia Lai province to the west.

Hà Thanh River's source is within the district and flows through it.

Administrative divisions
There is one town, Vân Canh, and six communes: Canh Hòa, Canh Thuận, Canh Hiệp, Canh Hiển, Canh Vinh and Canh Liên.

Demography
There are three ethnic groups living in the district: Kinh, Cham people and Ba Na. The Cham are mainly concentrated in Canh Hoà, and the Ba Na in Canh Liên, Canh Thuận and Canh Hiệp, where they exceed 40% of the total population.

The Cham people settled in the mountainous area along with the indigenous tribes after the kingdom of Champa was dismantled in 1471. As a result, the Cham have adopted many facets of Ba Na culture.

Transport and economy
Most of the communes of Vân Canh District lie on provincial road 638 between Diêu Trì and Phú Yên province. Transport facilities have improved in recent years, allowing increasing economic activity and development. However, infrastructure in the remote Canh Liên commune in the west of the district is still primitive.

Vietnam's North–South Railway passes through this district. However, there is no railway station.

The standard of living is low, and the poverty rate high. The land is rather infertile and a lack of irrigation water compounds the poor productivity. In recent years, the sugar cane industry has developed substantially, and the sugar cane factory of Bình Định has grown, producing more economic opportunities. The area has a lot of idle grassland that can be exploited for grazing. The area has abundance of natural forests as well as planted ones.

References

Districts of Bình Định province


Jana Galíková (née Hlaváčová) (born 22 January 1963 in Brno) is an orienteering competitor who competed for Czechoslovakia. She received two silver medals and four bronze medals at the 1987, 1989 and 1991 World Orienteering Championships.

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Sportspeople from Brno
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Female orienteers
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Ben Cat is a district-level town located in the north of Bình Dương province in the urban area of Ho Chi Minh City, 50 km north of Ho Chi Minh City.

Ben Cat is a grade 3 urban area under Binh Duong province, with a total natural area of 234.35 km², a population of 355,663 people and a population density of 1,518 people/km² divided into 5 wards (Chánh Phú Hòa, Hòa Lợi, Tân Định, Thới Hòa, Mỹ Phước) and 3 communes (An Điền, An Tây, Phú An), Mỹ Phước ward is considered the cultural, economic and political center of Bến Cát town.

Ben Cat town borders Bau Bang district to the north, Dầu Tiếng district to the west, Tân Uyên city and Phú Giáo district to the east, Thủ Dầu Một city and Củ Chi district of Ho Chi Minh city to the south.

Ben Cat is in the transition zone from the Trường Sơn range in the north of the central highland to the southern plain, so the general topography of the whole town is relatively high from 30 to 35m above sea level in the north and lower to the south. In the south, the climate belongs to the tropical savanna region, there is little flooding and the average annual rainfall is about 1,500-2,500mm, the average monthly temperature is 32°C during the day and 23°C at night, the hottest month is 36 °C and the coldest month is 16°C. In mid-December, the town often has dense fog in the early morning and ends at 7-8am.

Ben Cat is considered the southern key economic region, the industrial capital of Binh Duong province. In the whole area of Ben Cat town, there are many industrial parks built as models with complete infrastructure, built in the direction of focusing on environmental protection, creating a green and clean industrial park according to the model. Forming a modern industrial and urban city towards long-term and sustainable development in the north of Binh Duong province.

Currently, Ben Cat has many industrial parks, which have been deployed to phase 5 and have attracted 380 investment projects from 24 countries and territories with a total estimated capital of nearly 7.8 billion USD. Countries and territories with high investment rates in industrial parks are the United States, Taiwan, China, South Korea, Japan, etc. Focusing on the following fields: electrical, electronic, mechanical industry manufacturing, food processing, wood industry and interior decoration, garment, supporting industries. The favorable geographical position has made industrial parks in Ben Cat an ideal place for investors to produce goods for domestic consumption as well as for export. Income per capita: 6,500 USD/year.

References

Districts of Bình Dương province
County-level towns in Vietnam


The EWF Cruiserweight Championship was a professional wrestling title for the cruiserweight division (220 lbs. and under) in the Southern California-based Empire Wrestling Federation independent promotion. It was established in 2004, with Liger Rivera as the first champion, who defeated Kid Karnage,  Ryan Taylor and Jung Lee to win it. There have been a total of 14 recognized champions who have had a combined 19 official reigns.

Title History

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Cruiserweight wrestling championships
Empire Wrestling Federation championships


The Scroafa () is a left tributary of the river Târnava Mare in Romania. It discharges into the Târnava Mare near Mureni. Its length is  and its basin size is .

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Rivers of Brașov County
Rivers of Romania


Dầu Tiếng is a rural district of Bình Dương province in the Southeast region of Vietnam. As of 2003, the district had a population of 92,592. The district covers an area of 720 km2. The district capital lies at Dầu Tiếng township.

The district had a base with the same name during the war in Vietnam. Dầu Tiếng Base Camp played a prominent role in the fighting around northern III Corps.  On 23 February 1969, the NVA launched a large scale attack on the base to coincide with their Tet 1969 campaign.

See also
Dau Tieng Solar Power Project

References

Districts of Bình Dương province


Phú Giáo is a rural district of Bình Dương province in the Southeast region of Vietnam. As of 2003 the district had a population of 67,252. The district covers 541 km2. The district capital lies at Phước Vĩnh.

Administrative divisions
The district contains one township, Phước Vĩnh, and the following communes: Tân Long, Tam Lập, An Long, An Bình, Tân Hiệp, An Linh, Phước Sang, Vĩnh Hòa, Phước Hòa and An Thái.

References

Districts of Bình Dương province


Tân Uyên is a provincial city of Bình Dương Province in the Southeast region of Vietnam, about 20 miles northwest of Ho Chi Minh City.

As of 2021, the city had a population of 466,053, covering an area of 192.5 km2. The capital lies at Uyên Hưng.

The area has been an important local centre since the Nguyễn dynasty and French periods. It is a center of pottery production.

Administrative divisions
Tân Uyên City is divided into 10 wards (Hội Nghĩa, Khánh Bình, Phú Chánh, Tân Hiệp, Tân Phước Khánh, Tân Vĩnh Hiệp, Thái Hòa, Thạnh Phước, Uyên Hưng, Vĩnh Tân) and 2 communes (Bạch Đằng, Thạnh Hội).

References

Districts of Bình Dương province
County-level towns in Vietnam


Thuận An is a city of Bình Dương Province in the Southeast region of Vietnam. It is situated about  northeast of the centre of Ho Chi Minh City. As of November 3, 2021 the city had a population of 618,984. The town covers an area of 83.7 km². The center of this town - Lái Thiêu - is famous for its ceramic and fruits.

Administrative divisions
Thuận An has nine wards (Lái Thiêu, An Thạnh, Vĩnh Phú, Bình Hòa, Bình Chuẩn, Thuận Giao, An Phú, Hưng Định and Bình Nhâm) and one rural commune (An Sơn).

Geography
Thuận An Dĩ An to the east, Thủ Dầu Một to the north. District 12, Ho Chi Minh City to the west and Thủ Đức to the south.

References

Populated places in Bình Dương province
Districts of Bình Dương province
Cities in Vietnam


“Give the World a Smile” was the theme song for the Stamps Quartet, and probably the first Southern gospel song to become a “gold record.”

Composition

According to Otis Deaton, in November 1924, he and M. L. Yandell were students at the Stamps School of Music in Jacksonville, Texas. Yandell wrote a tune and asked James Rowe if he would write words for it. Rowe was not able to come up with suitable words, so Yandell asked Deaton, and Deaton wrote lyrics called “Keep the Song Wave Rolling On,” but when they showed this song to V. O. Stamps, he pointed out that there was already a similar song by H. W. Elliott. Deaton then wrote the lyrics for “Give the World a Smile.” V. O. paid each of them $5.00 cash for the song.

In about 1954, Mr. Deaton taught a singing school in the Mt. Zion community, which is about 5 miles east of Commerce, Texas on state Highway 11 in the Rae's Chapel Methodist Church building. At that time he told the group that he and Mr. Yandell were each paid $9.00 for the song.

Mr. Deaton also told an interesting story about giving piano lessons to a young Marion Snyder, who came for his lessons riding a spotted pony. Marion Snyder's playing of "Give the World a Smile" is the quintessential rendition of that song in the minds of many in the Southern Gospel field.

First recording

Deaton’s recollection concludes, “So I never sold the words nor assigned them to anyone. I gave V. O. permission to print the song. The next year, 1925, the Stamps Quartet recorded it on Victor label, and that’s how ‘Give the World a Smile’ was born. The Stamps Quartet was the first Gospel Quartet to record on Victor Label, which became RCA Victor label.   The Stamps Quartet  recorded 'Give The World A Smile' and the recording sold over one million records.  www.thestampsquartet.com
'Give The World A Smile'.

Lyrics

The basic lyrics for the chorus are:

Give the world a smile each day

Helping someone on life's way

From the paths of sin bring the wanderers in

To the master's home to stay

Help to cheer the lone and sad

Help to make some pilgrim glad

Let your life so be that all the world might see

that you are serving Jesus with a smile.

Recordings

The song, as sung by the Corley Family (in a style that might be called "folk-primitive")can be heard on-line. More recently it has been recorded by a number of different Gospel quartets, and it is still the theme song of the Stamps Quartet.

A version of the song was recorded in 2000 by James Blackwood.

References

Gospel songs
Southern gospel songs


Avant que l'ombre... à Bercy was Mylène Farmer's 2006 concert tour in support of her sixth studio album, Avant que l'ombre.... It was the fourth tour of the singer. Unlike her previous tours, all 13 concerts took place at Palais Omnisports de Bercy in Paris; "Avant que l'ombre" can therefore be considered as a concert residency rather than a fully fledged tour.

More than 169,000 tickets were sold about a year before the concerts.

Set list

Act I
 Ouverture
 "Peut-être toi"
 "XXL"
 "Dans les rues de Londres"
 "California"
 "Porno graphique" + Outro
Act II
  "Sans contrefaçon"
 "Q.I"
 "C'est une belle journée" + Outro
Act III
  "Ange, parle-moi..."
 "Redonne-moi"
 "Rêver"
 "L'Autre" (Replaced by Ainsi-soit je... on the first 2 dates)
 "Désenchantée"
 "Nobody Knows" + Outro
Act IV
  "Je t'aime mélancolie"
 "L'amour n'est rien..."
 "Déshabillez-moi"
 "Les Mots" (duet with Abraham Laboriel Jr.)
 "Fuck Them All"
Final
  "Avant que l'ombre..."

Additional notes
"Ainsi soit je" was performed on January 13 and January 14 instead of "L'Autre"

Tour dates

There were a total of 13 shows, from January 13 to January 29, 2006.

Credits and personnel

 Production: Thierry Suc
 Editions: Paul Van Parys for Requiem Publishing
 Design entertainment: Laurent Boutonnat and Mylène Farmer
 Set designer: Mark Fisher (Stufish Co)
 Costumes designed by: Franck Sorbier
 Make-up: Carole Lasnier
 Hair: John Nollet
 Lighting design: Fred Peveri
 Sound: Stéphane Plisson for MAW Society
 Images: Alain Escalle
 Production images: Cheval de Troie
 Musical director: Yvan Cassar
 Vocal coaching: Malcom Walker

 Management: Thierry Suc with de Thomas Blanc
 Musicians: Yvan Cassar, Eric Chevalier (keyboards), Peredur ap Gwynedd (guitar), Milton McDonald (guitar), Paul Bushnell (bass), Nicolas Montazaud (percussions), Abraham Laboriel Jr. (drum kit)
 Choristers: Esther Dobong'Na Essienne, Johanna Manchec
 Choreographies: Mylène Farmer  Except : "C'est une belle journée": Mylène Farmer and Christophe Danchaud; "Fuck Them All": Mylène Farmer and Los Vivancos.
 Dancers: Ayo Berner Jackson, Christine Dejesus, Khetanya Jati Henderson, Tiffany Howard, Sharaya Howell, Edara Johnson, Christianna Toler, Naimah Willoughby, Los Vivancos
 Photos: Claude Gassian
 First part of the show: The shortfilm "Le conte du monde flottant" by Alain Escalle

Further reading

 Julien Wagner, Jean-François Kowalski, Marianne Rosenstiehl, Claude Gassian, Mylène Farmer: Belle de scène (book on Farmer's tours), K&B Ed, 27 April 2007 ()

References

2006 concert tours
Mylène Farmer concert tours


Pomonkey Junior-Senior High School was an all-black high school located in Indian Head, Maryland. From 1966 to 1969, it began to be integrated with the all white schools, Henry E. Lackey High School and La Plata High School. The old Pomonkey High School building was then re-opened as a public middle school in 1970, it was rededicated in 1970 as Matthew Henson Middle School.

See also
Matthew Henson Middle School

Defunct schools in Maryland


Jeffrey Alan Zimmerman (born January 10, 1965) is an American former college and professional football player who was an offensive lineman in the National Football League (NFL) for four seasons during the late 1980s and early 1990s.  He played college football for the University of Florida, and was twice recognized as an All-American.  The Dallas Cowboys selected him in the third round of the 1987 NFL Draft.

Early years

Zimmerman was born in Enid, Oklahoma in 1963. He attended Maynard Evans High School in Orlando, Florida, where he played as an offensive tackle and was named high school All-American in 1982.

College career

He accepted a football scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he played for coach Charley Pell and coach Galen Hall's Florida Gators football teams from 1983 to 1986.

As a freshman, he was a backup at guard behind John Hunt. The next year, he became the starter a right guard.

In 1985, although he lost two weeks due to a right knee injury he suffered against Rutgers University, he became the first Gators lineman to be named to an All-American team as an underclassman.

He was nicknamed "One Man Gang" by his teammates and was a two-year starter at right guard, until his senior season when he was moved to right tackle. He excelled at pass protection, despite suffering a pulled groin in mid-season.

Zimmerman was one of the members of the Gators' outstanding offensive line of the mid-1980s known as the "Great Wall of Florida," which included Phil Bromley, Lomas Brown, Billy Hinson and Crawford Ker. Behind their blocking, the Gators' quarterback Kerwin Bell, fullback John L. Williams and halfback Neal Anderson led the Gators to identical 9–1–1 overall win–loss records and best-in-the-SEC records of 5–0–1 and 5–1 in 1984 and 1985, respectively.

Professional career

He was selected by the Dallas Cowboys in the third round (68th overall) of the 1987 NFL Draft. He was part of a change in the offensive line philosophy, when the team started to value size and strength over speed and athletic ability.  Although he was initially projected as a first-round draft choice, the weight problems he displayed as a senior and in the post-season dropped his value.

As a rookie, he was a backup at left guard behind Nate Newton. His only recognition came from knocking All-Pro Lawrence Taylor unconscious during a blitz, in a game against the New York Giants September 20. On October 1, he made his first career start against the Philadelphia Eagles at left guard.

In 1988, a dislocated shoulder he suffered in training camp limited his playing time to one game. He was placed on the injured reserve list on September 23, after re-injuring in the third week of the season.

In 1989, he was able to play in his only full season, becoming a key backup at guard and tackle, on an offensive line that limited opponents to a then franchise record low 30 sacks. On December 16, he lined up at right tackle to make his second NFL start. He also was used as the third tight end in short yardage situations.

In 1990, he started the first 9 weeks of the year on the injured reserve list with a sprained knee injury he suffered in training camp. He was reactivated on November 7. After sitting out the San Francisco game, he saw action in the final six contests of the season as a backup guard. He also was used as the third tight end in short yardage situations.

During the 1991 off-season without any previous notice, he chose not to attend the Cowboys' conditioning program nor training camp, and was placed on the reserve/did not report list. He announced his retirement from pro football at a later time, after the problems he experienced controlling his weight hampered his performance and cut his career short.

See also
 List of Dallas Cowboys players
 List of Florida Gators football All-Americans
 List of Florida Gators in the NFL Draft
 List of University of Florida alumni

References

Bibliography

 Carlson, Norm, University of Florida Football Vault: The History of the Florida Gators, Whitman Publishing, LLC, Atlanta, Georgia (2007).  .
 Golenbock, Peter, Go Gators!  An Oral History of Florida's Pursuit of Gridiron Glory, Legends Publishing, LLC, St. Petersburg, Florida (2002).  .
 Hairston, Jack, Tales from the Gator Swamp: A Collection of the Greatest Gator Stories Ever Told, Sports Publishing, LLC, Champaign, Illinois (2002).  .
 McCarthy, Kevin M.,  Fightin' Gators: A History of University of Florida Football, Arcadia Publishing, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina (2000).  .
 Nash, Noel, ed., The Gainesville Sun Presents The Greatest Moments in Florida Gators Football, Sports Publishing, Inc., Champaign, Illinois (1998).  .

External links

1965 births
Living people
American football offensive guards
American football offensive tackles
Dallas Cowboys players
Florida Gators football players
All-American college football players
Sportspeople from Enid, Oklahoma
Players of American football from Orlando, Florida


Robert Bagg (born 1935, New Jersey) is an American poet and translator.  He has published several volumes of poetry and has authored critical studies of Sappho and Catullus. He graduated from Amherst College in 1957, received an M.A. from the University of Connecticut in 1961 and a Ph.D. from the same institution in 1965.

In addition to his other literary work, Bagg taught English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (1965–1996), serving as Department Chair (1986–92).

Translations
 Hippolytus by Euripides (1973)
 The Bakkhai by Euripides (1978)

References

External links
 Robert Bagg: Poet and Translator of Euripides and Sophocles
 Robert Bagg (AC 1957) Papers at the Amherst College Archives & Special Collections

1935 births
Living people
American humanities academics
Poets from New Jersey
American translators
University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty
American male poets
20th-century American poets
Translators of Ancient Greek texts
20th-century American male writers

Amherst College alumni


Terry Lee Cox (born March 30, 1949, in Odessa, Texas) is a former professional baseball player who played one season for the California Angels of Major League Baseball.

References

Major League Baseball pitchers
California Angels players
Baseball players from Texas
Hawaii Islanders players
Salt Lake City Angels players
1949 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Odessa, Texas
Carlsbad High School (Carlsbad, New Mexico) alumni


Klepp Station () is a railway station in the municipality of Klepp in Rogaland county, Norway.  The station is located in the village of Klepp stasjon, about  east of the municipal centre of Kleppe.  The station on the Sørlandet Line. The station is served by the Jæren Commuter Rail between Stavanger and Egersund. The station is  south of the city of Stavanger.

References

Railway stations on the Sørlandet Line
Railway stations in Rogaland
Railway stations opened in 1878
1878 establishments in Norway
Klepp
Railway stations in Norway opened in the 1870s


Niels Andersen (14 May 1867 – 9 October 1930) was a Danish sport shooter who competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics and the 1912 Summer Olympics.

In 1908 he finished fourth with the Danish team in the team free rifle competition and eighth in the team military rifle event. Four years later he won the bronze medal as member of the Danish team in the team free rifle competition. In the team military rifle event he finished eighth.

References

External links
profile

1867 births
1930 deaths
Danish male sport shooters
ISSF rifle shooters
Olympic shooters for Denmark
Shooters at the 1908 Summer Olympics
Shooters at the 1912 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for Denmark
Olympic medalists in shooting
Medalists at the 1912 Summer Olympics


Michael Fitzgerald may refer to:

Arts
Michael C. FitzGerald (born 1953), art historian and Picasso scholar
Michael G. Fitzgerald (1950–2006), American film historian and author
Michael J. Fitzgerald (writer) (born 1957), American writer
Michael O. Fitzgerald (born 1949), American author

Religion
Michael J. Fitzgerald (bishop) (born 1948), American Catholic bishop
Michael Fitzgerald (cardinal) (born 1937), British Catholic cardinal

Sports
Michael Fitzgerald (footballer) (born 1988), association football player for New Zealand
Michael Fitzgerald (hurler), Irish hurler
Michael Fitzgerald (rugby union) (born 1987), New Zealand rugby union footballer
Mick Fitzgerald (born 1970), Irish jockey

Other
Michael Fitzgerald (Iowa politician) (born 1951), State Treasurer of Iowa
Michael Fitzgerald (Irish republican) (1881–1920), Irish Republican Army member, died on hunger strike
Michael Fitzgerald (psychiatrist), Irish psychiatrist and professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at Trinity College, Dublin
Michael W. Fitzgerald (born 1959), judge for the United States District Court for the Central District of California

See also
Mike Fitzgerald (disambiguation)


Larch Mountain is a mountain in the Northern Oregon Coast Range in Washington County, Oregon, United States. It is the second highest peak in the county with an elevation of 3,452 ft (1,052 m.) It is located near Timber, on Oregon Route 6.

References

External links

Mountains of the Oregon Coast Range
Landforms of Washington County, Oregon


Charles Lee Young (born October 13, 1952) is a former American football running back in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys. He was drafted in the first round (22nd overall) of the 1974 NFL Draft. He played college football at North Carolina State University.

Early years
Following a standout high school sports career at William G. Enloe High School, in 1970, Young and Willie Burden became the first African-Americans recruited to the North Carolina State University football team. He also was a part of the track team.

As a sophomore in 1971, he was second on the team behind Burden with 85 carries for 385 yards (4.5-yard avg.) and 2 rushing touchdowns.

In 1972, when Lou Holtz arrived as the new head coach at North Carolina State University, he implemented split-back veer offense to take advantage of the talent at running back, that included Young, Burden, Stan Fritts and Roland Hooks. At the time, this was arguably the best group of running backs in the nation, they were known as "The Four Stallions" and everyone of them went on to play in a professional football league. He was second on the team behind Fritts with 118 carries for 611 yards (5.2-yard avg.) and 7 rushing touchdowns.

In 1973, he was part of the Atlantic Coast Conference championship team as the starting fullback. He was third on the team behind Burden and Fritts, with 114 carries for 661 yards (5.8-yard avg.) and 7 rushing touchdowns.

Young finished his college career with 317 carries for 1,657 rushing yards, 17 touchdowns and averaged 5.2 yards per carry. He played in the 1973 East–West Shrine Game.

Professional career
In the 1974 NFL Draft, the Dallas Cowboys had two first round draft choices. With the first one they selected Ed "Too Tall" Jones. The team was targeting Lynn Swann with their second first-round pick, but selected Young instead, after Swann was taken by the Pittsburgh Steelers. He was considered a prospect at both fullback and halfback, because of his 4.6 speed. As a rookie he saw most of his playing time at fullback, running for 205 yards on 33 carries, with a 6.2-yard average and a 53-yard run against the Houston Oilers, which was the team's longest of the year.

In 1975, he competed with Doug Dennison for the starting halfback job left vacated by Calvin Hill. He ended up in a reserve role, moving from halfback to fullback during the first half of the season. He experienced foot problems, but was able to focus on the halfback position at the end of the year. He registered 225 rushing yards and 2 touchdowns.

In 1976, he earned the starting halfback job during the pre-season, but after registering a total of 57 rushing yards in the first 2 games, he gave way in the lineup to Dennison. He posted 208 rushing yards rushing (4.3-yard average), 12 receptions for 134 yards and his only touchdown.

Young suffered a torn medial collateral ligament in his left knee during the 1977 training camp and was placed on the injured reserve list on August 11. He returned in 1978 and was released on August 24.

References

1952 births
Living people
Track and field athletes from Raleigh, North Carolina
Players of American football from Raleigh, North Carolina
American football running backs
William G. Enloe High School alumni
NC State Wolfpack football players
NC State Wolfpack men's track and field athletes
Dallas Cowboys players


Joske's Thumb is a precipitous volcanic plug that rises in the skyline to the west of Suva, Fiji. It is located 15 kilometers west of Suva and its base is accessible from Naikorokoro Road, which connects Naikorokoro Village to Queens Road. Other sources note that Naikorokoro Road, the road toward Joske's Thumb, intersects on the north side of Queens Road,  west of the Lami Bay Hotel outside Lami.

Sir Edmund Hillary, the mountaineer made famous for being the first climber (with his Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay) confirmed as having reached the summit of Mount Everest in Nepal, was defeated in his first attempts to reach the peak of Fiji's Joske's Thumb. Sir Hillary was conscripted into the Royal New Zealand Air Force during World War II. He served as a navigator aboard Catalina flying boats in New Zealand's No. 5 Squadron based at the flying boat base in the Suva Point neighborhood, currently the location of the University of the South Pacific's Lower Campus. He made two attempts to climb Joske's Thumb, the first of which ended before reaching the base of the mountain, due to heavy undergrowth. In his autobiography, Sir Hillary wrote about his second attempt to climb Joske's Thumb while stationed in Suva: "We had come up the wrong side — underneath the ball of The Thumb.... Bitterly disappointed at being rebuffed I was much too conscious of the  drop below me to take any more risks — and I hadn't much confidence in our length of clothes line. The Thumb had beaten us again." In 1983, 30 years after his successful Everest expedition, he reached the summit of Joske's Thumb along with several members of the Fiji Rucksack Club.

The peak takes its name from Paul Joske, one of Suva's pioneer settlers, who came with the Australian-based Polynesia Company in 1870. Joske and his son, Adolf Brewster-Joske, later known as Adolf Brewster Brewster, established Fiji's first sugar mill, importing machinery and beginning the country's sugar industry. The mill, which operated between 1873 and 1875, was on the site where Fiji's Parliament Building currently stands. The mill ultimately failed, owing to the poor crop from shallow soil in the Suva area. Later in life, Paul Joske devoted much of his time to designing and establishing Suva as Fiji's new capital.

Prior to Paul Joske's arrival in Fiji, the mountain was known as "Rama" and Devil's Thumb, because "the locals say looks like a man trying to claw his way out of hell." When Paul Joske committed suicide after allegations of incest, his descendants changed their names to Brewster, Joske's wife's maiden name, but the Devil's Thumb was commemorated with Joske's name, due to his demise.

Today, the mountain and the area around Joske's Thumb are known as a habitat for many species of birds. Among the species that live near Joske's Thumb are many birds that are endemic to Fiji, including the masked shining parrot, the giant forest honeyeater, and the pink-billed parrotfinch, although parrotfinch sightings have declined significantly since the area was logged in the early 1980s. Joske's Thumb is also a historical nesting site for Falco peregrinus nesiotes, Fiji's endemic peregrine falcon.

Along with the Grand Pacific Hotel in Suva, Joske's Thumb is featured on the reverse side of the 2007 and 2012 series of Fiji's ten dollar bill.

References

External links
Trip Report
University of the South Pacific journal
Fiji Panorama's summary and pictures of Joske's thumb

Landforms of Fiji
Volcanic plugs of Oceania


Jens Madsen Hajslund (29 May 1877 – 28 August 1964) was a Danish sport shooter who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.

In 1912 he won the bronze medal as member of the Danish team in the team free rifle competition. In the team military rifle event he finished eighth. He also participated in the 300 metre free rifle, three positions but did not finish the contest.

References

External links
profile

1877 births
1964 deaths
Danish male sport shooters
ISSF rifle shooters
Olympic shooters for Denmark
Shooters at the 1912 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for Denmark
Olympic medalists in shooting
Medalists at the 1912 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from the Central Denmark Region


Ernest Arthur Douglas Eldridge (18 July 1897 – 27 October 1937) was a British racing car driver who broke the world land speed record in 1924. His was the last land speed record set on an open road.

Early life
Eldridge was born on 18 July 1897 at Hampstead, London to a wealthy family. His father was a successful bill discounter. Educated at Harrow School he quit while in the 6th form to go to the Western Front, in the First World War. Eldridge joined  the British Red Cross Society and Order of St John of Jerusalem, possibly as an ambulance driver. He may have also served in the French Artillery.

He married Majorie M. Tooth in 1915 at Brentford, Middlesex; she died before the Second World War. He married second, in 1925, a French woman named Marie whom he had "married" while still married to Marjorie

Not much is known about the years between 1918 and 1921 when he reappeared at Brooklands. There are unconfirmed myths about him flying with Count Zborowski. He was a pilot, surviving a crash in a B.E.2e at Brooklands in September 1922. He learned to fly in a Sopwith Grasshopper at Brooklands and finally received his pilot's licence (Number 7944) on 21 August 1923 at Stag Lane Aerodrome, Edgware. His licence lists his profession as Automobile Engineer.

Racing career
The early part of his racing career is littered with failures of large, often aero engined, racing cars. His first racing appearance was in 1921 with a rare chain-driven Isotta Fraschini which was lapping at more than 90 mph.

In 1922 Eldridge startled the Brooklands crowd by appearing with a  Maybach aero engine in his 1907 Isotta Fraschini chassis, which had been stretched to accommodate the giant power plant. This 20-litre racer had a tiny two-seater body made by Jarvis of Wimbledon and caused something of a sensation, even when monstrosities were not uncommon in motor racing circles. It won its first race at more than  but over all was not terribly successful. He sold it to another British racing driver, L C G M Le Champion.

Eldridge then turned to a 10-litre Fiat, which he drove with some success. With the proceeds he bought Mephistopheles, and embarked on his famous escapades. In October 1923 at Brooklands: "E. A. D. Eldridge set up new figures for the half-mile (standing start) world's record by covering the distance in 23.17secs. (77.68 miles an hour) on his giant 350 horse-power F.I.A.T."  and taking the World Land Speed Record on 12 July 1924 at Arpajon, France, at an average of  over the flying kilometre. In October 1924, at Montlhéry: "Mr. Eldridge covered 210 kilometres 230 metres in the hour, and at one time attained 218 kilometres (over 136 miles) an hour. This is claimed to be a world's record."

In 1925 he sold Mephistopheles to Le Champion and decided to enter the world of Grand Prix Motor Racing with cars of his own design, the Eldridge Specials. Based on Amilcar chassis with Anzani engines, these cars were entered at many races for the 1925 and 1926 seasons including the Brooklands 200, The San Sebastian, the L'ACF and the Italian GPs. He also entered two cars in the 1926 Indy 500, no doubt tempted by the prize money. He drove one car with Douglas Hawkes in the other.

While in the United States, he tried a Miller 122, and was so impressed he ran it at Salem-Rockingham, Atlantic City and Altoona before returning to Europe to break records at Montlhéry. Whilst attempting speed records over the Christmas Holidays the front axle disintegrated, the car somersaulted, and Ernest was left with serious head injuries and the loss of an eye.

Once recovered, he continued to take records with other cars, including a Chrysler at Montlhéry, and then became the "Record Attempt Manager" for Capt Eyston.

In 1929, they meant to co-operate in a joint assault on the 750cc world records with a French-built Ratier. When it was ready for testing at Montlhéry, with Eyston away racing, Eldridge took the wheel. As Eyston recalled in his book Flat Out, "I heard afterwards what a comic sight this had been. Ernest is by no means slim, and here he was sitting in a little bucket seat on the bare chassis, the wind ballooning his trousers and coat. He, I was told, looked like a true 'Bibendum' as he manipulated the chassis round Montlhéry."

The Ratier project was scrapped, though, as the two friends became involved with the first-ever MG record car EX120. With Eyston at the wheel, it was the first 750cc car in the world to set records at more than 100 mph.  Eldridge played an important part in the development of the pioneering EX120. He designed a counterbalanced crankshaft as part of the tuning work on the engine, before EX120's first visit to Montlhéry in December 1930. It took several records at speeds up to . Eldridge told Cecil Kimber of MG that the car would have to be supercharged, if it were to have any chance of heading off a rival 100 mph attempt by Malcolm Campbell in a blown Austin Seven.

Kimber agreed, and Eldridge supervised the work as the engine was fitted with one of Eyston's Powerplus superchargers. And he was there at Montlhéry as Eyston's signaller, "Uncle Ernest stood out in the middle of the straight opposite the timekeepers' box with a little flag in his hand. He would raise or lower it in accordance with the lap speed I was putting up."

Eyston had also been successful attacking records over longer distances with Hotchkiss and Panhard machinery, as well as the Rolls-Royce-engined,  Speed of the Wind record breaker, that Eldridge helped design and went to Bonneville to manage the record attempt.
It was whilst returning from a trip to Bonneville to supervise the record attempts that Eldridge contracted the pneumonia that he subsequently died from in Kensington. He was 40 years old.

Ernest was considered a colourful character. He spent the family fortune on gambling, racing and flying. He once lost £60,000 playing "chemmy", in Monte Carlo in 1922, on the turn of one card.

World Land Speed Record 1924
 Speed over 1 km −146.01 mph 234.98 km/h
 Speed over 1 mile −145.89 mph 234.79 km/h
 Driver – Ernest A. D. Eldridge.
 Car – FIAT Special Mephistopheles II (Mefistofele)
 Date – 12 July 1924.
 Place – Arpajon, France.
 Engine – Fiat A.12
 This was the last land speed record set on a public road.

Indianapolis 500 results

See also
 Land speed record

Notes

References
 HistoricRacing.com
 Mephistopheles Returns. by Ross Finlay (15 Jun 1)
 Land Speed Record List at LandRacing.com

External links
 1/12 scale model information and reference photos at BigScaleModels.com

1897 births
1937 deaths
People educated at Harrow School
English racing drivers
Indianapolis 500 drivers
Land speed record people

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Clara Adams (born Clara Grabau; 1884 – 1971), known as the "first flighter" and the "maiden of maiden flights," was an aircraft passenger and enthusiast who set a variety of flying records. She helped popularize air travel and was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic as a passenger aboard the Graf Zeppelin.

Personal life
Adams was born in 1884 in Cincinnati, Ohio to German parents as Clara Grabau. She later studied music in Leipzig.

Adams was married to George Adams, who was affluent and served as president of the American Leather Tanning Company.

Flying
In March 1914, Adams embarked on her first flight in Florida on a Thomas flying boat. The flight was piloted by Walter E. Johnson, who would become a captain in the U.S. Army, and reached an altitude of 700 feet, "a daring height in those pioneer days." The flight would spark her interest in aviation.

She was the first passenger on round-trip commercial flights across the Pacific, between New York and Bermuda, and between San Francisco and New Zealand.  She is remembered primarily as the first woman to fly across the Atlantic as a ticketed passenger aboard the Graf Zeppelin on its return flight from New York in October 1928. The journalist Grace Marguerite Hay Drummond-Hay flew across the Atlantic, on the outbound flight of the same journey. Adams also was the first woman to fly aboard the Dornier Do X between New York and Rio de Janeiro and she was one of 11 women aboard the maiden flight of the Hindenburg. Despite the end of public interest in airships due to the Hindenburg disaster, Adams remained eager to fly on airships.

In 1939, Adams set the unofficial record for passenger travel around the world via commercial air travel. The trip lasted sixteen days and nineteen hours and covered 24,609 miles.  She departed from New York on the first flight of the Dixie Clipper across the Atlantic.  According to a New York Times reporter, she returned to Newark, NJ, "clad in a tan-plaid tailored suit, made of Chinese silk, purchased in Hong Kong, and wearing a tan Panama straw hat, purchased in Rangoon."  She described the journey around the globe as "beautiful beyond description and sublime beyond the most vivid imagination of the human mind."

Legacy
Although Adams was not a pilot, her activities did much to popularize air travel.  According to Adams, her journey around the world had demonstrated that air travel was "perfectly safe."  She corresponded with the famous female pilot Alys McKey Bryant.  The historian Tom Friedman described Adams as "the Forrest Gump of aviation history."

References

External links
 Clara Adams photographs and biography
 Clara Adams Takes Flight from Engines of our Ingenuity

Archival holdings
The following collections contain documents or photographs relating to Clara Adams:
 Alys McKey Bryant Papers at Wichita State University.
 Other Collections – OTH 5:1-3 Box 4 at Liberty University.
 Photograph "First Paying Passengers of the Pan American Hawaii Clipper" at Hawaii State Archives.
 Photograph "First Paying Passengers of the Pan American Hawaii Clipper" at Hawaii State Archives.

1884 births
1971 deaths
American people of German descent
People from Cincinnati
Aviators from Ohio
American aviation record holders
American women aviation record holders
LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin


Bryne Station () is a railway station in the town of Bryne in Rogaland county, Norway.  The station is located along the Sørlandet Line and it is served by the Jæren Commuter Rail between Stavanger and Egersund as well as regional trains between Stavanger and Kristiansand. The station is located  south of the city of Stavanger.  The station has a staffed ticket window during weekdays.  It also has vending machines for food and drink.

History
The station was first opened in 1878 as Thime station.  Around the year 1883, the spelling was changed to Time.  On 1 February 1921, the station was renamed Bryne station.

References

Railway stations on the Sørlandet Line
Railway stations in Rogaland
Railway stations opened in 1878
1878 establishments in Norway
Time, Norway
Railway stations in Norway opened in the 1870s


Betty Warren Herzog (January 6, 1920 – November 8, 1993) was an American portrait artist.  She was known for her bright colorist portraits and was one of the top paid female portraitists of the 20th century. Her last formal portrait was of Governor Hugh Carey for the State of New York in 1991.

Biography
Warren was born in New York City.  She was the daughter of illustrator Jack A. Warren, the co-creator of Pecos Bill.

At the age of 16, her father convinced her to become an artist like him.  She studied art with her father, as well as Henry Hensche in Provincetown, and at the National Academy of Design. Hensche painted a portrait of Warren as a young woman.

Warren was the youngest woman to be given a solo exhibit at a major United States Museum (Berkshire Museum 1940), when she was twenty years old.  She became nationally known as a portraitist by the 1980s.

She started an art school at Malden Bridge, New York.

In 1987, the Albany Institute feature a major retrospective of four decades of her work.

Personal life
She was married to Stuart Lancaster; they had  two sons, John Lancaster (now known as Guruatma S. Khalsa) and Michael Lancaster, and later divorced.

During her later life she was married to Jacob Herzog, a prominent attorney in Upstate New York, for over 25 years they mostly wintered in Mexico. and Warren painted some of her most acclaimed paintings there. She died in Albany in 1993, at the age of 73.

Notable works
Warren's work was realistic, described by the Albany Times-Union as "traditional, even academic", in contrast to the more popular abstract expressionism of her time.  Notable works by Warren include:
 Her portrait of Governor Carey hangs in the second floor gallery, the "Hall of Governors", of the New York State Capitol.
 She painted long-time Albany, New York mayor Erastus Corning II twice.
 She got a commission for her portrait of Norman Rice, an art historian and the curator of the Albany Institute of History and Art.
 Warren's Under Canvas is in the permanent collection of the Albany Institute.
 She painted portraits of some of the associate justices of New York's highest court, which remain on display at the New York Court of Appeals courthouse.
 Her portrait of "Mrs. Charlie", the wife of circus legend Charles Ringling, was the centerpiece of a special exhibit on the circus, and is owned by The Ringling Museum in Sarasota, Florida.

Notable students
Warren's legacy includes the many students to whom she taught art at her own school in Malden Bridge, as well as her classes at the Albany Institute.

Lorraine Lans was one of her students.  Philip Gianni studied two summers, under a scholarship, with Warren at Malden Bridge.  Norman Rice considered her a dear friend and worked with her.  Rob Longley, an art teacher at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, was also a student of hers.  Nelson Shanks, noted portrait painter was her student. Susan Goetz, and Maryanna Goetz also studied with her. Both are noted painters. Barbara Harnack studied with Betty Warren and eventually Harnack married Warren's son Michael Lancaster.

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1920 births
1993 deaths
20th-century American painters
American women painters
20th-century American women artists
Painters from New York City
National Academy of Design alumni


Doug Van Gundy is a poet and musician from Elkins, West Virginia. His first book of poems, A Life Above Water, was published by Red Hen Press in 2007. He also plays fiddle, guitar, mandolin, and banjo in the old-time string band, Born Old.

In August 1999, Van Gundy was a contestant of ABC's Who Wants to be a Millionaire, and became the first contestant to win $250,000 on the show. On the $100 question he used the Ask the Audience lifeline, but the question was later deemed ambiguous, and his lifeline was returned to him. He would later win $64,000 without using another lifeline. The $125,000 question asked where Oswald was arrested for Kennedy's assassination—answer, a movie theater. He asked the audience and got the correct answer. On the $250,000 question, he was asked where the Iditarod Dogsled race ends. He used the 50/50, and then called his friend Ross, and also got the correct answer, Nome.

References

External links
 Web site of Doug Van Gundy

American male poets
Contestants on American game shows
Living people
Musicians from West Virginia
People from Elkins, West Virginia
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
Poets from West Virginia
1966 births