Frances Lewine (January 20, 1921 – January 19, 2008) was an American journalist and White House Correspondent.

Biography

Lewine was born January 20, 1921, in Far Rockaway, Queens. She and her brother spent much of their childhood there in an extended family household which included their first cousins Richard Feynman and Joan Feynman.

Lewine attended Hunter College, where she edited the college newspaper. She worked for the Courier-News in Plainfield, New Jersey before joining the Associated Press's New Jersey bureau.

She joined the Associated Press White House press corps in 1956, "when another woman had reached 55 and had to retire." In March 1962, she traveled with the Kennedys as part of the press contingent on their world tour.

After the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) determined that AP was violating the 1964 Civil Rights Act (only 7% of the AP's reporters were women in 1973), Lewine together with Shirley Christian and five other women reporters filed a complaint with the EEOC. By the time the case was settled in the women's favor in 1983, the seven plaintiffs shared a payout of $83,120 out of AP's $2 million settlement, which also included back pay for other Black and women journalists at AP.

Lewine was also active in the struggle to persuade the National Press Club and the Gridiron Club to open their membership to women reporters. Women were finally admitted to the Press Club starting in 1971; when the Gridiron Club started admitting women in 1975, Lewine and Helen Thomas were the first two women members.

In 1976, Lewine asked President Gerald Ford a two-part question that was later described by Ford's Press Secretary Ron Nessen as "the worst misuse of a question at a presidential news conference to advocate a personal point of view." The Journalism and Women Symposium described her question as follows: Ford treated the question as a joke, and quickly moved on to another reporter, but the White House and Lewine's editors at AP were angry. Lewine speculated that AP took her off their White House team because of that question.

In 1977, after covering the administrations of six presidents, Lewine left the AP, taking a job in Jimmy Carter's administration as the deputy director of public affairs for the Transportation Department. In 1981, she joined CNN as a field producer and assignment editor.

Lewine was president of the Women's National Press Club and advocated for equality for women journalists. She expressed disappointment in her own assignments at the White House, where she reported on social events and stories about the first family, noting that she was not allowed to cover the president as were her male colleagues.

She died in January 2008 of an apparent stroke.

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1921 births
2008 deaths
American newspaper reporters and correspondents
20th-century American journalists
20th-century American women journalists
Hunter College alumni


CEAT Limited (formerly, Cavi Elettrici e Affini Torino) is an Indian multinational tyre manufacturing company owned by the RPG Group. It was established in 1924 in Turin, Italy. It has a presence in global markets. CEAT produces over 165 million tyres a year and manufactures tyres for passenger cars, two-wheelers, trucks and buses, light commercial vehicles, earth-movers, forklifts, tractors, trailers, and auto-rickshaws. The current capacity of CEAT tyres' plants is over 800 tonnes per day.

History

The company was founded as Cavi Elettrici e Affini Torino (Electrical Cables and Allied Products of Turin) by Virginio Bruni Tedeschi in 1924, in Turin, Italy. On 10 March 1958, the company was incorporated as CEAT Tyres of India, in Mumbai. Initially, the company collaborated with the Tata Group. In 1972, the company set up a research and development unit at Bhandup. In 1981, Deccan Fibre Glass Limited was merged with the company.

In 1980, Alberto, son of Virginio, sold the Cavi Elettrici e Affini Torino to investment firm SOFIT, which went on to cut jobs. Oweing to it, in 1981, the company failed in Italy and Pirelli purchased the right to the CEAT name, which it sold to RPG Group in 1983.

In 1982, RPG Group acquired the company, and in 1990, the company was renamed as CEAT. In 1993, the company collaborated with Yokohama Rubber Company, to manufacture radial tyres at their Nashik unit. In 1999, CEAT formed a joint-venture, named as CEAT Kelani, with Asia MotorWorks (AMW) and Kelani Tyres, to manufacture and market  CEAT tyres in Sri Lanka. in 2006, CEAT Kelani commissioned their first Sri Lanka-based radial-tyre manufacturing unit in Kalutara. In 2009, AMW exited the joint-venture.

Products
CEAT manufactures tyres for various types of vehicles like heavy commercial vehicles, light commercial vehicle, off-highway tyres, passenger cars, tractors, motorcycles and scooters, cycles and SUVs. It exports Asia.

Sponsorship
CEAT is the bat sponsor of cricketers,Ajinkya Rahane, Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill, Shreyas Iyer [ and Harmanpreet Kaur. From 2015–present CEAT sponsored the strategic-timeout for the Indian Premier League (IPL).

Anti competition practices
In April 2022, the Competition Commission of India raided the headquarters of CEAT along with other tyre companies like Apollo Tyres, MRF (Madras Rubber Factory) and Continental Tyres at multiple locations. Earlier in February the antitrust watch dog had released a statement about fining these tyre companies a total of Rs 1788 crores (of which CEAT fined Rs 252.16 cr.) for sharing price sensitive information among themselves to manage their cartelization of tyre prices for supplies to the public transport corporation of Haryana state. Earlier the All India Tyre Dealers Federation had complained to the Ministry of corporate affairs about this cartelization of these companies to increase the tyre prices. The ministry had then referred the case to the CCI.

References

Tyre manufacturers of India
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Serule is a village in Central District of Botswana. Serule, with a latitude of -21.95 (21° 56' 60 S) and a longitude of 27.3 (27° 18' 0 E), is a streets, highways, roads, or railroad (railroad siding). The village is located along the road between Francistown and Palapye, and is an important railroad junction with rails leading towards north to Francistown, south to Palapye and east to the mining town of Selebi-Phikwe, 72 km from Palapye north up the A1 road, 88 km from Francistown down south the A1 road and 60 km west of Selibe Phikwe to the T-junction. The location is situated 340 kilometers east (90°) of the approximate center of Botswana and 332 kilometers north east (26°) of the capital Gaborone.

Demographics
The population according to the 2001 census was 2,268 and it is estimated at more than 3000 in the latest 2011 census.
The people of Serule Village comprises different ethnicities namely Bangwato, Bakwena, Batalaote, Bakalanga, Bahurutshe and its six wards are Mothoathubega, Borotsi, Mokwena, Botalaote, Basimaneng and Leupane. A 100 square km area around Serule has an approximate population of 1515 (0.000015 persons per square meter) and an average elevation of 993 meters above the sea.

Politics and government
The chieftaincy of the village is headed by Kgosi Oletile Modisa, a Motalaote who took over in 2001 from the then chief Tau Lesego.  Oletile Modisa is the elder son of the village founding father Kgosi Gabana. Kgosi Modisa is assisted by Kgosi Mmese. The newly formed ward Mothoathubega is developing quite drastically with modern houses being erected. The headman of the ward is Mr Letebele matswelenyane. The ward houses the likes of Tsholofelo Lenyena who is a prominent high school mathematics teacher. The people of Serule are conservative and the majority of the village tend to lean towards the ruling Botswana Democratic Party. The Botswana National Front's presence in the village died following the birth of the Botswana Congress Party which continues to be the other party present in the village although without much following.

The Councillor of Serule is Titty Freddy under the ticket of the main opposition Umbrella for Democratic Change. Former Councillor Seno Fane Mokhondo is a recipient of the 2006 Presidential Certificate of Honour. The Presidential Certificate of Honour is described as “a certificate awarded for long and faithful service to Botswana.” The country's current Minister of Defense, Security and Justice is the village's representative at Botswana National Assembly in the Serowe North East Constituency, under the ruling party. Previous legislators who have represented Serule include former president Festus Gontebanye Mogae and former cabinet minister Lephimotswe Boyce Sebetlela.

Baratiwa Mathoothe of the opposition Botswana Patriotic Front is the Member of Parliament for Serowe North Constituency which covers Serule village. He grabbed the constituency from BDP's Kgotla Kenneth Autlwetse at the October 2019 General Election. It was the first time in history the village fell into opposition leadership.

Infrastructural development
Although Serule is a small village with a small population, over the past decades there have been significant growth in terms of infrastructural development. The housing system is evidently almost at par with urban and modern houses. Much of the amenities that can be seen in other parts of Botswana and urban places are present in Serule. Botswana's Number 10 Police Commanding District is situated in Serule. Also in the village are Little Tomy Day Care Centre, Serule Primary School, Bonwatlou Junior School, Serule Clinic, a post office. Its strategic position along the country's main A1 road has led to the establishment of the WeightBridge for trucks and other big vehicles in the early 2000s. The village also enjoys a significant kilometres of tarred roads within. Also present is the Majoje monument, situated in the Majoje hills which is like a museum of the village.

The village also host the Botswana Animal Information Traceability System (BAITS Cafe) operated by Imparo Holdings, a 100% citizen and youth owned company. It is also host to the Mascom Kitsong Centre which serves as some sort of information and service hub for the communications company Mascom Wireless.

Economy
The people of Serule Village are mostly farmers and depend much on agriculture although there is a significant number of natives who eke out a living from both formal and informal employment  within the village and outside in urban areas. A majority of them are into subsistence farming. They own livestock in cattleposts of Makgorwane, Libu, Xomexhwa, and Seokane. Majoje lands are the most common place for the natives where they until the land for agricultural production.

Small scale manufacturing for household items is also evident as well as traces of handicrafts and wood carvings. There is a high rate of harvesting of the seasonal caterpillar of a Mopane worm known as Phane (scientific name Gonimbrasia belina). Phane is an important source of protein for millions of indigenous Southern Africans and a valuable source of income where it is sold after being harvested, cooked and dried.

In 2007, BSE-listed A-Cap Resources, which has a prospecting licence covering 4, 500 square kilometres in the area, has announced the discovery of new uranium deposits in Serule Village, where drilling began in 2008. The company announced 158 million pounds of uranium in November 2009. Uranium as a low  energy source is currently controversial after the Fukushima disasters.

See also
 Railway stations in Botswana

References

Populated places in Central District (Botswana)
Villages in Botswana


Bessheim is a mountain lodge in Sjodalen and is situated 964 metres above sea level next to Øvre Sjodalsvatnet on the mountain passage between Valdres and Gudbrandsdalen (Riksveg 51 over Valdresflya).  Bessheim consists of 30 buildings and has 150 beds and its own power generator.  In addition to the lodge, which has 65 beds and a dining hall with room for 130 guests, there are cabins, apartments, and a campground.

History

Originally Bessheim was a seter (summer farm) for the farm Nordigard Storvik and started receiving tourists at the end of the 1800s.  The original seter house is still part of the lodge.

Kari Lund and Ragnhild Sjurgard are the current hosts at Bessheim and took over the management of the lodge in November 2004 from their grandparents Kari and Knut Lund who ran the lodge for 50 years. The mountain lodge has been in the family since its inception and has run the lodge without interruption over five generations.

External links

Bessheim's official web site
"Jentene styrer Bessheim-skuta" (Norwegian)

Jotunheimen
Buildings and structures in Oppland
Tourist huts in Norway


Adam Hudspeth (December 8, 1836 – May 12, 1890) was a Canadian lawyer and politician.

Born in Cobourg, Upper Canada, Hudspeth received his education in the Grammar School in Cobourg, under the tutelage of his father, Robert Hudspeth, who was head-master. He studied law and was called to the bar in 1867. A practicing lawyer, he was an unsuccessful candidate to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 1875 election.  He was a bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada and was a deputy judge for the county of Victoria. He was a revising officer under the Electoral Franchise Act, 1885. He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada for the riding of Victoria South in 1887. He was disqualified under the Independence of Parliament Act and resigned as a revising officer. He was re-elected in the resulting 1887 by-election. A Conservative, he served until his death in 1890.

References

1836 births
1890 deaths
Conservative Party of Canada (1867–1942) MPs
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario
People from Cobourg


Young Medardus (German: Der junge Medardus) is a 1923 Austrian silent historical drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Victor Varconi, Egon von Jordan and Agnes Esterhazy. Based on a play with the same name by Arthur Schnitzler, it is set during the 1809 French occupation of Vienna during the Napoleonic Wars.

It was shot at the Schönbrunn Studios in Vienna and on location in the city. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Artur Berger and Julius von Borsody.

Cast
 Victor Varconi as Medardus Klähr
 Egon von Jordan as Etzel
 Agnes Esterhazy as Helene
 Gyula Szőreghy as Eschenbacher
 Karel Lamač as Franz
 Franz Glawatsch as Berger
 Mari Hegyesi as Mrs. Klähr
 Anny Hornik as Agathe
 Josef König as Wachshuber
 Ferdinand Onno as Marquis de Valois
 Ludwig Rethey as Duke of Valois
 Mary Stone as Anna
 Mihail Xantho as Napoleon

See also
 Michael Curtiz filmography

References

Bibliography
 Von Dassanowsky, Robert. Austrian Cinema: A History. McFarland, 2005.

External links

1923 films
1920s historical drama films
Austrian silent feature films
Austrian black-and-white films
Austrian historical drama films
Films produced by Arnold Pressburger
Films set in the 1800s
Films set in Vienna
Films shot at Schönbrunn Studios
Films based on works by Arthur Schnitzler
Films directed by Michael Curtiz
Silent historical drama films
1920s German-language films


The Texas Special was a named passenger train operated jointly by the Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad (also known as the MKT or the Katy) and the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway (the Frisco). It was the flagship of both these lines, operating between St. Louis, Missouri, and San Antonio, Texas, from 1915 until 1959, after which time the Katy changed the northern destination from St Louis to Kansas City after the Frisco discontinued service from St. Louis.

History

Steam Era

In 1915 the Katy began operating the Texas Special from St. Louis to San Antonio via North Jefferson City, Missouri; Parsons, Kansas; McAlester, Oklahoma; Dallas, Fort Worth, and Austin, Texas. This was done to augment the existing Katy Flyer and Katy Limited trains.

Effective March 4, 1917, the Texas Special operated over Frisco line from St. Louis through Springfield, Missouri, to Vinita, Oklahoma, where it met Katy lines.  When the Texas Special changed lines in Vinita, it changed crews as well.  In the early days of joint operations, down the Katy line in Muskogee, Oklahoma, the locomotive was changed also.

The M-K-T began splitting the train at Denison, Texas, with one section serving Dallas, Austin and San Antonio, and the other serving Ft. Worth and continuing over their roundabout route to Houston.  Through Houston service, which was much slower than the Missouri Pacific Railroad's service from St. Louis, was discontinued in the mid 1950s, though a Ft. Worth section continued to split cars out at Denison.

The joint operation created one of the shortest routes connecting Texas financial centers with those in the East. In light of this success the two railroads inaugurated a second train, named the Bluebonnet on December 11, 1927; it operated until May 1, 1948, serving the same route, but terminating in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area.

Through World War II the Texas Special consisted of "heavyweight" passenger cars pulled by Katy Pacific 4-6-2s, Frisco Northern 4-8-4s, or Frisco Mountain 4-8-2s.

Streamlined Diesel

In 1947 the Texas Special was upgraded to a diesel powered streamliner. Katy and Frisco outfitted two complete 14 car trains with EMD E7 locomotives and Pullman rolling stock.  Each train had seven sleepers, three coaches, a coach-buffet-lounge car, a diner, a combination RPO-baggage car, and an observation car (sleeper-lounge-observation car or buffet-lounge-observation car).  In the early years of the streamlined Texas Special all these cars were bright red with shining corrugated aluminum side panels.  The locomotives were painted to match.

With two sets of equipment, the train could run daily from both St. Louis and San Antonio, departing one city in the afternoon and arriving in the other the following afternoon.  Katy took the diesels off the train route in Waco for servicing and again used a Pacific class 4-6-2 steam locomotive, usually their Pacific 383, to take the train into San Antonio.

The Texas Special proved to be so popular that the two railroads soon had to purchase additional equipment.  Two Alco PA-1 diesels were purchased by MKT in 1949.  In some cases, older rail cars were repainted to match the distinctive Texas Special look.  Soon it was not unusual for the Texas Special to run with 20 cars instead of the original 14.  According to a historical pamphlet published by the MKT railroad in 1970, by 1950 the Texas Special was regarded as one of the most profitable streamliners in America. At the height of its popularity the Texas Special also offered through passenger service to New York City with through 14-4 sleeping cars, via the Pennsylvania Railroad.

In the mid-1950s the Katy was taken over by a conglomerate whose focus was freight train profits; they showed little interest in properly maintaining the track and equipment to operate a comfortable passenger streamliner. Trains would run late and passengers soon were finding alternative transportation.  By 1959 conditions had deteriorated so much on the Katy lines that Frisco pulled out of the venture, with the Frisco portion of the Texas Special making its last trip on January 4, 1959.  As a result of this change, Katy moved the northern terminus of the Texas Special from St. Louis to Kansas City, Missouri.  In 1964 Texas Special service was discontinued south of Dallas, Texas.  The last Texas Special ran on July 1, 1965.

Frisco purchased the E7 locomotives and Pullman cars for the Texas Special at the same time as they purchased ones for the Meteor, so the two trains shared the distinctive red and silver look. Frisco bought sets of named cars for each train.

Named cars
Named trains frequently had named Texas Special cars after famous individuals or cities.  Not all cars were named, but the ones that were bore their names prominently on their side panels.  Here is a list of the named cars of the Texas Special.

Note: Williams Electric Trains put the name Lonestar on many of its Texas Special passenger cars.

Note:  The late Pat Neil, owner of Collectible Trains & Toys, a train store formerly located in Dallas, Texas, commissioned a Texas Special train in three-rail 0-Gauge with the firm K-Line.  Although the prototype Texas Special did not have a vista-dome car, he felt that any respectable model of the Texas Special would include a dome car.  So, the K-line model train included such a car, named after his wife, Cheri S.Neil.

Preservation
Although many of the cars from the Texas Special met the scrapper's torch, there still are surviving examples. These include -
J. Pinckney Henderson is owned by a private owner and is an Amtrak certified private car
Eugene Field is currently in the collection of the Arizona Railway Museum in Chandler, Arizona
New Braunfels is owned by the National Railway Historical Society and is located in Houston, Texas
Joseph Pulitzer resides near San Luis Obispo, California

In popular culture
The Texas Special is a popular prototype in Model Railroading.  Texas Special trains have been produced by:
Lionel
MTH
Williams
Kusan
Con-Cor
American Models produced a trainset in S-gauge (1/64) using prototypical car names and E-8 locomotives.
Hallmark Models, Inc., a model train manufacturer has produced E7 diesels in red and silver without lettering, so that modelers can customize them for either a Texas Special or Meteor train.
Hallmark produced a Texas Special train in the Keepsake Ornaments range.
Overland Models an importer of brass trains, also produced the E7 diesels and train cars.

Notes

References
Condren Frisco Pages, Frisco-Katy Streamlined Passenger Equipment. Retrieved February 23, 2012.

Katy Railroad Historical Society, Katy Railroad Passenger Service. Retrieved January 20, 2008.
Museum of the American Railroad, A Brief History of Railroads in Dallas. Retrieved January 20, 2008.

External links

"New Braunfels" coach restoration.
Color Graphic Depiction of Texas Special Trainset
The Texas Special, The Katy's and Frisco's Premier Midwest - Southwest Passenger Train

Named passenger trains of the United States
Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad
Passenger trains of the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway
North American streamliner trains
Night trains of the United States
Railway services introduced in 1915
Railway services discontinued in 1965


Steven Wayne Schrenk (born November 20, 1968) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played two seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphia Phillies.

Career
He was drafted by the Chicago White Sox in the 4th round of the 1987 amateur draft. Schrenk played his first professional season with their Rookie league Gulf Coast League White Sox in 1987, and his last with their Triple-A Charlotte Knights in . He is currently the pitching coach for the Syracuse Mets.

Schrenk won three games in the major leagues, all with the Phillies. On August 4, 1999, he picked up his only major league save during a 4-1 Phillies victory over the Marlins.

He was formerly Pitching Coach for the Gulf Coast League Phillies as well as for the Phillies' Class A affiliate team, New Jersey’s Lakewood BlueClaws, and the Class AA affiliate, the Reading Phillies, and was the manager/coach of the Canberra Cavalry (Canberra, Australian Capital Territory) in the Australian Baseball League for the 2011 season. In 2015, he returned to the Philadelphia Phillies organization as a pitching coach for the High-A Clearwater Threshers. He was promoted back to the AA Reading Phillies for the 2016 season. In early 2017, he helped coach the pitching staff for the Granville Blue Aces, a high school in Granville, Ohio, from January until late February 2017.

Schrenk was named as the pitching coach for the Reading Fightin Phils of the 2018 season.

Steve and his wife, Jennefer, launched their business, Pitching Coach Pro, on July 1, 2017.

References

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1968 births
Living people
Philadelphia Phillies players
Major League Baseball pitchers
Baseball coaches from Illinois
Gulf Coast White Sox players
South Bend White Sox players
Sarasota White Sox players
Birmingham Barons players
Nashville Sounds players
Rochester Red Wings players
Pawtucket Red Sox players
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Red Barons players
Sacramento River Cats players
Charlotte Knights players
People from Great Lakes, Illinois
Baseball players from Lake County, Illinois
Minor league baseball coaches


Motshegaletau is a village in Central District of Botswana. The village is located 80 km west of Palapye, and it has a primary school. The population was 1,194 in 2001 census.

References

Populated places in Central District (Botswana)
Villages in Botswana


Lavey is a former municipality in the district of Aigle in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland.

It was first recorded in year 1016 as A Laver. In 1189 it was known as Laveto.

The municipality contained the villages Lavey-Village and Lavey-les-Bains. It had 138 inhabitants in 1764, which increased to 185 in 1803 and 251 in 1850.

In 1970 the municipality was merged with the neighboring municipality Morcles to form a new and larger municipality Lavey-Morcles.

References

Former municipalities of the canton of Vaud


Mokgware is a village in Central District of Botswana. The village is located 50 km north of Mahalapye, and it has a primary school. The population was 335 in 2001 census.

References

Populated places in Central District (Botswana)
Villages in Botswana


Mike Boyd (born February 6, 1947) is an American basketball coach. He is a former Cleveland State University head coach, and is currently an assistant at East Tennessee State University. Boyd was hired at Cleveland State to replace Kevin Mackey in September 1990, and resigned on March 25, 1996. He has also been an interim head coach at Kent State, and an assistant coach at Kent State, Michigan, and Penn State. At the end of the 2012–2013 school year Boyd retired from coaching.

Head coaching record

References

External links
 East Tennessee State profile

1947 births
Living people
Cleveland State Vikings men's basketball coaches
East Tennessee State Buccaneers men's basketball coaches
Kent State Golden Flashes men's basketball coaches
Michigan Wolverines men's basketball coaches
Northern Michigan Wildcats men's basketball players
Penn State Nittany Lions basketball coaches
American men's basketball players


Lavey-Village is a village in the district of Aigle in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland.

The village was first recorded in the year 1016 as A Laver. In 1189 it was known as Laveto.

Lavey-Village is located in the former municipality Lavey. In 1852, Lavey municipality merged with its neighbor to form a new and larger municipality Lavey-Morcles.

References

Villages in Switzerland


Lavey-les-Bains is a village in the district of Aigle in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland.

Lavey-les-Bains is located in the former municipality Lavey. In 1852 Lavey municipality merged with its neighbor to form a new and larger municipality Lavey-Morcles.

References

Villages in Switzerland


The WWP Heavyweight World Championship was a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship in the South African professional wrestling promotion World Wrestling Professionals (WWP), contested exclusively among Heavyweight (>=) wrestlers. It was created in April 2004 when WWP debuted its television show, WWP Thunderstrike. Tornado has had the longest reign.

Title history

See also

World Wrestling Professionals

References

External links

World Wrestling Professionals championships
World heavyweight wrestling championships


Kingfisher Airlines flew to 25 destinations as of 30 September 2012, the day it operated its last flights.

Notes

References

Lists of airline destinations


Morcles is a village and former municipality in the district of Aigle in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland.

It was first recorded in year 1043 as Morcles.

The municipality had 66 inhabitants in 1764, which increased to 84 in 1803 but went back down to 68 in 1850.

In 1852 the municipality was merged with the neighboring municipality Lavey to form a new and larger municipality Lavey-Morcles.

References

Villages in the canton of Vaud
Former municipalities of the canton of Vaud


Martin Beattie Fisher (January 2, 1881 – December 17, 1941) was a Canadian politician.  He was a Member of the provincial legislature in Quebec.

Background

He was born in Hemmingford, Montérégie on January 2, 1881.

Member of the legislature

He successfully ran as a Conservative candidate and won a by-election in 1930 in the district of Huntingdon.  Fisher was re-elected in 1931, 1935 and was re-elected as a Union Nationale candidate in 1936.

Cabinet Member

He was appointed to the Cabinet in 1936 and served as Treasurer.

Legislative Councillor

Not long before the 1939 election, Fisher was appointed to the Legislative Council of Quebec by Premier of Quebec Maurice Duplessis and served in that function until his death.  He represented the division of Inkerman.

Death

He died on December 17, 1941.

Footnotes

1881 births
1941 deaths
Union Nationale (Quebec) MLCs
Conservative Party of Quebec MNAs
Union Nationale (Quebec) MNAs
People from Montérégie
Anglophone Quebec people


Mogome is a village in Central District of Botswana. The village is located locate along the road connecting Palapye and Mahalapye, approximately at a distance of 50 km from either town. Mogome has a primary school, and the population was 371 in 2001 census.

References

Populated places in Central District (Botswana)
Villages in Botswana


Seán MacSwiney (19 March 1878 – 22 January 1942) was an officer in the Irish Republican Army and Sinn Féin politician.

He was born at 23 North Main Street, Cork city to John McSwiney, a tobacco manufacturer, and Mary Wilkinson. He was the brother of Terence MacSwiney and Mary MacSwiney.

In 1914, he was in Canada, where spent time in custody as a result of his activities against conscription when it was introduced during World War I.

During the Irish War of Independence, he served as an officer in Cork No 1 Brigade.

Terence, then a Sinn Féin Teachta Dála (TD) and the Lord Mayor of Cork, died on hunger strike in 1920. He was elected at the 1921 elections for the Cork Mid, North, South, South East and West constituency and became a member of the Second Dáil. His sister Mary was elected for the Cork Borough constituency at the same election.
Captured in 1921, he was sentenced to death, later commuted to 15 years' penal servitude. A few months into his sentence, in April 1921, he escaped from Spike Island.

He opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty and voted against it (as did his sister Mary). During the Irish Civil War, he was quartermaster for the 1st Southern Division of the anti-Treaty IRA and served on the IRA executive. He evaded capture until after the IRA called a ceasefire, and in November 1923 he was arrested in Kerry and interned.

He was defeated at the 1922 general election. In 1933, standing on a Republican ticket, he was elected to Cork Corporation.
In 1936 MacSwiney and Tomás Mac Curtain's son Tomas Og were imprisoned in Arbour Hill.

He died, aged 63, at Glenvera private hospital, Cork.

See also
Families in the Oireachtas

References

1878 births
1942 deaths
Early Sinn Féin TDs
Irish Republican Army (1919–1922) members
Irish Republican Army (1922–1969) members
Members of the 2nd Dáil
People of the Irish Civil War (Anti-Treaty side)
Politicians from County Cork
Sean


Inferno (1902–1919) was a Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse. He has been called "Canada's first great racehorse" by the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame.

Background
He was owned and bred by distilling magnate Joseph E. Seagram and Member of the Canadian Parliament who in 1906 was voted president of the Ontario Jockey Club.

Inferno was out of the mare Bon Ino, who was owned and raced by Seagram and had won the 1898 Queen's Plate. Inferno's sire was Havoc, a stallion who ended his career as the sire of four King's Plate winners. Havoc was a son of Himyar, the Champion Sire in North America in 1893 who notably also produced U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee Domino. Inferno was a very raucous horse and reported to be a danger to his handlers.

Racing career
He was conditioned for racing by New Jersey-born trainer Barry Littlefield. In 1905, the three-year-old Inferno won Canada's most prestigious race, the King's Plate. That year, he also  finished second in both the Toronto Autumn Cup and the King Edward Gold Cup. In 1906, he was again second in the Toronto Autumn Cup but won the Durham Cup Handicap and the first of three consecutive King Edward Gold Cups. The following year, Inferno won his second King Edward Cup plus the Toronto Autumn Cup, and in 1908 he won his second Durham Cup and made it three wins in a row in the King Edward Gold Cup. In addition, his owner joined the Whitney family and other wealthy American elite in bringing horses to compete during the fashionable summer racing season at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York. Inferno raced until age six and was part of Joseph Seagram's stable to race at Saratoga, where he won two important handicaps.

Stud career
Retired to stud duty at Seagram's stud farm in Waterloo, Ontario, Inferno was not successful as a sire.

On its formation in 1976, the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame inducted Inferno as part of its inaugural class.

References

1902 racehorse births
1919 racehorse deaths
Racehorses bred in Ontario
Racehorses trained in Canada
King's Plate winners
Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame inductees
Thoroughbred family 40


Jeffrey William Schwarz (born May 20, 1964) is an American former professional baseball pitcher.

Early life and family
Schwarz was born in Fort Pierce, Florida, and graduated from Fort Pierce Central High School in Fort Pierce.

Schwarz has four children, two of which are student-athletes at the University of Florida. His daughter Taylor plays first base on the Gators' softball team that won the national title in 2015 and was a member of the class of 2016, while his son J.J., born March 28, 1996, in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, was drafted by the Milwaukee Brewers in the 17th round in 2014, but chose not to sign. He played his first season for the Florida Gators baseball team as a catcher in 2015, and set the single-season program record for home runs by a freshman, with 18.

Playing career
He played during two seasons at the major league level for the Chicago White Sox and California Angels. He also played one season in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Yokohama BayStars. Schwarz was drafted by the Chicago Cubs in the 24th round of the 1982 amateur draft. Schwarz played his first professional season with their Rookie league Gulf Coast Cubs in  and his last with the Atlanta Braves' Triple-A Richmond Braves in .

Coaching career
He is currently a pitching coach for the GCL Marlins.

References

External links

Baseball Almanac
Japan Central League
Retrosheet
The Baseball Gauge
Venezuela Winter League

1964 births
Living people
American expatriate baseball players in Canada
American expatriate baseball players in Japan
Baseball coaches from Florida
Baseball players from Florida
Birmingham Barons players
California Angels players
Chicago White Sox players
El Paso Diablos players
Gulf Coast Cubs players
Hagerstown Suns players
Leones del Caracas players
American expatriate baseball players in Venezuela
Major League Baseball pitchers
Minor league baseball coaches
Nashville Sounds players
Nippon Professional Baseball pitchers
People from Fort Pierce, Florida
Peoria Chiefs players
Pikeville Cubs players
Pittsfield Cubs players
Quad Cities Cubs players
Richmond Braves players
Rochester Red Wings players
Stockton Ports players
Vancouver Canadians players
Winston-Salem Spirits players
Yokohama BayStars players
American expatriate baseball players in Italy
Rimini Baseball Club players


Radisele is a village in Central District of Botswana. The village is located along the road connecting Palapye and Mahalapye, approximately in the middle of both villages (about 37 km from either village). The population was 2,741 in 2001 census.

References

Populated places in Central District (Botswana)
Villages in Botswana


"Baby Workout" is an R&B song by Jackie Wilson from the album of the same name. The track is about Wilson urging a girl to dance (work out) all night with him. It was Wilson's biggest hit of his singles that charted on both the Billboard Hot 100 and the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. It was his fifth and penultimate #1 R&B song. It was his second highest-charting song on the pop charts, peaking at #5.  It was written by Wilson and good friend Alonzo Tucker, an original member of the famed 1950s Doo Wop group, the Midnighters.

George Benson covered the song for his 1990 album Big Boss Band. It was also released as a single.

References

External links
 List of cover versions of "Baby Workout" at SecondHandSongs.com

1963 singles
Jackie Wilson songs
1963 songs
Brunswick Records singles
Songs about dancing


Gamabuo is a village in Central District of Botswana. The village is located 50 km south-west of Serowe, and the population was 605 in 2001 census.

References

Populated places in Central District (Botswana)
Villages in Botswana


Moiyabana is a village in Central District of Botswana. The village is located 50 km south-west of Serowe, and it has primary and secondary schools and a health clinic. The population was 2,619 in 2001 census.

References

Populated places in Central District (Botswana)
Villages in Botswana


Freaky Girl or Freaky Girls may refer to:
"Freaky Girl", a song by Mad Professor from the album Dub Maniacs on the Rampage
"Freaky Girl", a song by Shaggy from the album Hot Shot
"Freaky Gurl", a song by Gucci Mane first released in 2006 on his album Hard to Kill
"Freaky Girls", a song by Megan Thee Stallion featuring SZA from the album Good News
"10 Freaky Girls", a song by Metro Boomin featuring 21 Savage from the album Not All Heroes Wear Capes

See also
"I Love It" (Kanye West and Lil Pump song), which was released in a "Freaky Girl Edit"


VSS Unity (Virgin Space Ship Unity, registration: N202VG), previously referred to as VSS Voyager, is a SpaceShipTwo-class suborbital rocket-powered crewed spaceplane.  It is the second SpaceShipTwo to be built and is part of the Virgin Galactic fleet. It first reached space as defined by the United States (above 50miles or 80.5km) on 13December 2018, on the VP-03 mission.

Unity is able to reach space as defined by the U.S. Air Force, NASA, and the FAA, by going over 50miles (80.5km) above sea level. However, it is unable to go above the Kármán line, the FAI's defined space boundary of 100km (62.1miles).

VSS Unity was rolled out on 19February 2016
and completed ground-based system integration testing in September 2016, prior to its first flight on 8September 2016.

Overview
VSS Unity, the second SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane for Virgin Galactic, is the first SpaceShipTwo built by The Spaceship Company. The ship's name was announced on 19 February 2016.  Prior to the naming announcement, the craft was referred to as SpaceShipTwo, Serial Number Two. There was speculation in 2004 that Serial Number Two would be named VSS Voyager, an unofficial name that was repeatedly used in media coverage. The name Unity was chosen by British physicist Stephen Hawking. Hawking's eye is also used as the model for the eye logo on the side of Unity.

History

The manufacture of Unity began in 2012. The spacecraft's registration, N202VG, was filed in September 2014. As of early November 2014, the build of Unity was about 90 percent structurally complete, and 65 percent complete overall.

As of April 2015, ground tests of Unity were projected to be able to begin as early as late 2015,
after being projected as early as mid-2015 as of November 2014.
On 21 May 2015, Unity reached the milestone of bearing the weight of the airframe on its own wheels.
The spaceship was unveiled on 19 February 2016, as Virgin Galactic founder Sir Richard Branson had projected in November 2015; ground and flight testing commenced thereafter.

VSS Unity is the second SpaceShipTwo to be completed; the first, VSS Enterprise, was destroyed in a crash in late October 2014.

After rollout and unveiling, a phase of testing called "Integrated Vehicle Ground Testing" began on VSS Unity in February 2016.

Test flight program

VSS Unity will undergo a test regimen similar to VSS Enterprise, then will embark on testing beyond what Enterprise experienced. The test flights are expected to be fewer, as Enterprise has already tested the design's responses under numerous conditions.  For each flight test, the White Knight Two aircraft carries Unity to altitude.  Testing began with captive carry flights, in which Unity was not released from its carrier aircraft.  Testing then progressed to free-flight glide testing, and will continue with powered test flights. It is possible that only two or three flights under each regime previously tested will be performed, instead of the five or ten that Enterprise performed.

On 8 September 2016, Virgin Galactic commenced flight testing of Unity with a captive-carry flight.
On 1 November 2016, Virgin Galactic conducted another captive-carry flight of Unity but cancelled the glide portion of the flight because of wind speed. On 3 November and 30 November, additional captive-carry flights took place.

In July 2017, Richard Branson suggested that the craft was to begin powered tests at three-week intervals.  In September 2017, CEO George Whitesides suggested that engine testing was complete, and that only a "small number of glide flights" remained before VSS Unity would begin powered test flights. The first powered flight test took place on 5 April 2018 when a 30-second rocket firing accelerated Unity to a speed of Mach 1.87 and an altitude of .  The first powered test flight of Unity exceeded the altitude of all powered test flights of its predecessor, Enterprise.

VSS Unity VP-03, the first suborbital spaceflight of VSS Unity was successfully completed on 13 December 2018, surpassing the  altitude considered the boundary of outer space by NASA and the United States Air Force.

Following its February 2019 flight to space, VSS Unity began to undergo modifications including installation of the commercial cabin, and changes to cockpit displays.  Upon completion of these modifications, VSS Unity along with its carrier craft, VMS Eve, were moved to Spaceport America in New Mexico in February 2020. After completing two additional glide tests in New Mexico in May and June 2020, VSS Unity underwent final modifications to the commercial cabin and in July 2020, Virgin Galactic first publicly showed the interior of the space craft.

Full list of test flights

See also

 Space tourism

Notes

References

External links
 N202VG Virgin Galactic 1 Flight tracking history log

Virgin Galactic
Crewed spacecraft
Unity
Rocket-powered aircraft
Individual spaceplanes
Space tourism
Suborbital spaceflight
Aircraft first flown in 2016
Glider aircraft


Thabala is a village in Central District of Botswana. The village is located 35 km west of Serowe, and it has a primary school. The population was 2,284 in 2001 census.

References

Populated places in Central District (Botswana)
Villages in Botswana


Hornosteipel (or Hornisteipol) is the name of a Hasidic dynasty founded by Rebbe Yaakov Yisroel Twerski. Hornosteipel (Yiddish: הארנאסטייפל ) is the Yiddish name of Hornostaypil, a town in present-day Ukraine.

It is a branch of the Chernobyl and Anipoli dynasties dating back to  the 19th century.

Lineage
Rebbe Yaakov Yisroel Twerski, founder of the Hornosteipel dynasty, was the third son of the Chernobler Maggid - Rebbe Mordechai Twersky. Rebbe Mordechai's father, Rebbe Menachem Nachum Twersky of Chernobyl (author of Meor Einayim and founder of The Chernobyl Hasidic dynasty), was a disciple of the Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidism. Rebbe Yaakov Yisroel Twerski later moved to the city of Cherkasy, Ukraine, leaving the leadership of the city of Hornostaypil with his grandson, Rebbe Mordechai Dov.  The main bases of Hornosteipel Hasidim are in Midwood ("Flatbush"), Milwaukee, and Beitar Illit. There are also communities with direct ties to Hornosteipel in Chicago, Toronto, Baltimore, and Beit Shemesh, Israel. There was formerly a Hornosteipel community in Denver.

Rebbe Yaakov Yisroel had four daughters and no sons.

Rebbe Yaakov Yisroel Twerski of Cherkas  (1794–13 Elul 1876) – son of the Maggid of Chernobyl
Rebbe Mordechai Dov Twerski of Hornosteipel (1839– 23 Elul 1903), author of "Emek Sheilah" – grandson of the Rebbe Yaakov Yisroel Twerski and great-great-grandson of Rebbe Zishe of Anipoli.
Rebbe Chaim Moshe Tzvi Twerski of Hornosteipel-Rachmastrivka (1866– 1933) - son of the Rebbe Mordechai Dov. Son-in-law of Rebbe Nuchum of Rachmastrivka of the Chernobal dynasty
Rebbe Ben Tzion Yehuda Leib Twerski  of Hornosteipel-USA (1867–28 Shevat 1951) – son and successor of Rebbe Mordechai Dov.  He later lived in Antwerp, in Israel, and in Chicago.
Rabbi Menachem Nuchim Twerski son of Rebbe Ben Tzion Yehuda Leib (d. 19 Kislev) – son of Rebbe Ben Tzion Yehuda Leib - son-in-law of Rebbe Yosef Zvi Kalish of Skernovitz-Bnei Braq (Vorka dynasty) was very knowledgeable in Torah and chassidus. Young and old would flock to his shul in Tel-Aviv and hear words of Torah and stories of tzadddikim.  He wrote a sefer called "Medor L'dor" documenting his pedigree charts, Yichus book and the biography of his ancestors.
Rebbe Yaakov Yisroel Twerski of Hornosteipel-Milwaukee (1898–10 Av 1973)  - son of Rebbe Ben Tzion Yehuda Leib - son-in-law of Rebbe Ben Zion Halberstam of Bobov.
Rebbe Ben-Tzion Chaim Shloime Meshulam Zusia Twerski Rebbe of Hornosteipel-Denver (1923–23 Tishrei 1981) - son of Rebbe Yaakov Yisroel of Milwaukee
Rebbe Shulem Shachna Friedman, Rebbe of Hornosteipel-Eretz Yisroel, son-in-law and successor of Rebbe Shloime of Denver. Rebbe of the growing Hornosteipol community and Shul in Beitar Illit (formerly in Yerushalayim/Jerusalem). Known for his "Hachnasas Orchim" (hospitality) and teaching Chassidus of many varieties in both Yiddish and English, as well as helping to bring passion, inspiration, and dedication into the religious lives of his Chasidic followers.
Rebbe Mordechai Dov Ber Twerski, Rebbe of Hornosteipel-Denver (b. 1949), in Flatbush, Brooklyn - only son of Rebbe Shloime of Denver
Rebbe Mordechai Dov Ber Twerski (1924–1998), son of Rebbe Yaakov Yisroel of Milwaukee
Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski, M.D., son of Rebbe Yaakov Yisroel of Milwaukee
Rabbi Aaron Twerski, son of Rebbe Yaakov Yisroel of Milwaukee (b.  1939), the Irwin and Jill Cohen Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, as well as a former Dean and professor of tort law at Hofstra University School of Law
Rebbe Yechiel Michel Twerski of Hornosteipel-Milwaukee (b. 1939) - son of Rebbe Yaakov Yisroel of Milwaukee -He has a devoted following of Chasidim.  He and his Rebbitzin Feigy have brought hundreds of Jews back to Judaism. The Rabbi also composed over seventy songs and many can be found on records in Music stores or on twerskitorah.com
Rabbi Chaim Aharon Twerski – son of Rebbe Ben Tzion Yehuda Leib - son-in-law of Rebbe Yaakov Yisroel Dovid Hager of Strozhnits

See also
Chernobyl (Hasidic dynasty)

External links
 hornisteipol.com

References

Chernobyl (Hasidic dynasty)
Jews and Judaism in Wisconsin
Orthodox Judaism in Baltimore
Hasidic Judaism in New York City
Ukrainian-Jewish culture in Baltimore
Ukrainian-Jewish culture in New York City


Mogorosi is a village in Central District of Botswana. The village is located 20 km west of Serowe, and it has a primary school. The population was 2,033 in 2001 census.

References

Populated places in Central District (Botswana)
Villages in Botswana


William R. Robb (20 March 1895 – 18 February 1976) was a Scottish footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He played in the English Football League for Birmingham and Aldershot, and in the Scottish League for Third Lanark, Rangers and Hibernian. He won two full caps for the Scotland national team.

Career

Club
Robb was born in Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire, and as a teenager played for clubs including juniors Kirkintilloch Rob Roy before moving to England, where he turned professional with Second Division club Birmingham. He made his debut in a 3–1 defeat at Bury on 24 February 1914 while still only 18, and played in every match of Birmingham's 1914–15 season. He returned to Scotland when English football was suspended for the First World War and played for a variety of clubs, including two seasons with Third Lanark.

Robb was signed to Rangers by Bill Struth in 1920 and stayed there for six years, making 251 appearances. He made his debut against Ayr United on 13 April 1920, starting in a 2–1 win for Rangers. From the end of the 1919–20 season until midway into the 1925–26 season, Robb played in every league and Scottish Cup match that Rangers were involved in; this run came to an end on 31 October 1925, after 241 consecutive matches.

Robb left Ibrox in 1926 to move to Hibernian. He won a second Scotland cap with Hibs and made 137 appearances, but lost his place in the team in 1930 after dislocating a finger.

Returning to England, Robb joined Southern League champions Aldershot Town. He contributed to their gaining election to the Football League in 1932, and played 177 matches for them in that league, before playing two seasons for Guildford City, whom he helped win the championship of the Southern League. He retired in 1939 at the age of 44.

International
Robb gained two Scotland caps during his career, both coming against Wales, in 1925 and 1927. He made his debut on 31 October 1925 and kept a clean sheet in a 3–0 win at Ninian Park, Cardiff. He was also capped twice for the Scottish League representative side.

Honours
Rangers
 Scottish Football League: 1920–21, 1922–23, 1923–24, 1924–25
 Scottish Cup runner-up: 1920–21, 1921–22

Guildford City
 Southern League champions: 1937–38
Runners-up: 1938–39

References

External links

 London Hearts Scotland profile

1895 births
Footballers from Rutherglen
1976 deaths
Scottish men's footballers
Scotland men's international footballers
Men's association football goalkeepers
Kirkintilloch Rob Roy F.C. players
Birmingham City F.C. players
Royal Albert F.C. players
Vale of Leven F.C. players
Third Lanark A.C. players
Armadale F.C. players
Rangers F.C. players
Hibernian F.C. players
Aldershot F.C. players
Guildford City F.C. players
English Football League players
Scottish Football League players
Southern Football League players
Scottish Football League representative players
Scotland men's wartime international footballers


Arnold Pressburger (27 August 1885 – 17 February 1951) was an Austrian Jewish film producer who produced more than 70 films between 1913 and 1951. Pressburger was born in Pressburg, Austria-Hungary (now Bratislava, Slovakia) and died in Hamburg, Germany from a stroke.

In 1932, he set up the production company Cine-Allianz with Gregor Rabinovitch. The company enjoyed commercial success, but was subsequently expropriated from them by the Nazi government of Germany as part of the anti-Jewish policy. He was not related to the Hungarian British filmmaker Emeric Pressburger.

Partial filmography

 Martyr of His Heart (1918)
 The Other I (1918)
 Gypsy Love (1922)
 Masters of the Sea (1922)
 Children of the Revolution (1923)
 Young Medardus (1923)
 Miss Madame (1923)
 Avalanche (1923)
 Nameless (1923)
 Moon of Israel (1924)
 The Revenge of the Pharaohs (1925)
 One Does Not Play with Love (1926)
 Unmarried Daughters (1926)
 The Famous Woman (1927)
 Ghost Train (1927)
 Odette (1928)
 The Wrecker (1929)
 Land Without Women (1929)
 Three Days Confined to Barracks (1930)
 The Singing City (1930)
 Twice Married (1930)
 Dolly Gets Ahead (1930)
 The Virtuous Sinner (1931)
 My Cousin from Warsaw (1931)
 Calais-Dover (1931)
 No More Love (1931)
 Danton (1931)
 City of Song (1931)
 In the Employ of the Secret Service (1931)
 Berlin-Alexanderplatz (1931)
 No Money Needed (1932)
 Tell Me Tonight (1932)
 The Song of Night (1932)
 Spies at Work (1933)
 Her Highness the Saleswoman (1933)
 A Song for You (1933)
 All for Love (1933)
 My Heart Calls You (1934)
 So Ended a Great Love (1934)
 My Heart Is Calling You (1934)
 The Divine Spark (1935)
 My Heart is Calling (1935)
 The Blonde Carmen (1935)
 Conquest of the Air (1936)
 Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1937)
 Conflict (1938)
 The Lafarge Case (1938)
 Love Cavalcade (1940)
 The Shanghai Gesture (1941)
 Hangmen Also Die! (1943)
 It Happened Tomorrow (1944)
 A Scandal in Paris (1946)
 The Lost One (1951)

References

External links

1885 births
1951 deaths
Jewish emigrants from Austria after the Anschluss to the United Kingdom
20th-century Austrian people
Austrian film producers
German film producers
Hungarian film producers
Hungarian Jews
Film people from Bratislava


Carolina Crossroads is a  planned entertainment development near Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina located near the intersection of I-95 and US 158. The development was hoped to bring new jobs to the area which had been affected in recent years as textile mills closed and jobs moved out of the area.  Government officials hoped that Carolina Crossroads would lead the area from a manufacturing based economy to one based in tourism.  Modeled loosely on the success of Branson, Missouri, the complex was intended to draw performers and tourists to the area.  Planners noted location approximately halfway between New York and Florida and its proximity to I-95 and location between Raleigh, North Carolina, Richmond, Virginia, and the Hampton Roads, Virginia areas.

The complex was to feature an indoor theater, an outdoor amphitheater, an RV park, an aquarium, water park, retail shops, and hotels. A Black Widow Billiards Center was also announced by Jeanette Lee.

A rock-and-roll-themed amusement park was also planned for the site.  Carolina Crossroads bought the second oldest wooden rollercoaster, the Zippin Pippin, after its former home at Libertyland in Memphis, Tennessee had closed.  Plans for the amusement park never materialized, and Carolina Crossroads later donated nearly all of the coaster back to Libertyland.  Carolina Crossroads kept one car from the roller coaster and maintained that there are still plans to build a replica of the famous coaster.

By the summer of 2008, only the indoor theater, amphitheater, RV park, and one hotel (a Hilton Garden Inn) had been completed. The theater, cornerstone of the entire development, was long mired in political, financial, and legal controversy.

Initial plans
The city of Roanoke Rapids borrowed $21.5 million to build the theater and signed a deal worth $1.5 million per year  with Randy Parton, brother of country music star Dolly Parton, to perform in and manage the theater. In addition to the $1.5M salary, the city of Roanoke Rapids was also to provide Parton with an "acceptable" home and car. When the theater opened on November 11, 2005, it was named the Randy Parton Theater.  Soon after opening, the theater which is several hours from population centers in Raleigh, North Carolina and Norfolk, Virginia, struggled to attract customers.  The break even point was reported to be 1500 paying customers per show but performances averaged only a few hundred.

As a part of the deal, Randy Parton was provided access to nearly $3 million with little oversight but reportedly was using the funds for personal travel and entertainment.  In late December 2007 Roanoke Rapids Mayor Drewery N. Beale confronted Parton in his dressing room before a performance.   An intoxicated Parton was driven home by police but not before giving a profanity-laced interview to a waiting TV crew.   Parton was also questioned by city leaders for unauthorized events held at the theater including a wedding reception for his daughter along with details about who would be marketing the theater.

Management and ownership changes
The local government in Roanoke Rapids, the North Carolina Local Government Commission, and North Carolina Treasurer Richard H. Moore (chair of the commission) at that time were questioned about their decision making surrounding the project.  Questions remain on why they allowed the project to go forward and bonds be issued to finance the project based on assurances that any revenue shortfalls could be covered by sales taxes.  Critics say that the commission failed to completely consider the study which relied on 2 hotels and a retail shopping facility be completed by the time the publicly funded theater was to open, which did not happen.

In November 2007 the city took control of the theater from Parton and gave it to UGL Unicco, hired to run the theater under a short term contract. By early January 2008, more than 30 acts had been booked in the first half of 2008. During that time the theater produced its first profit of $17,000. Previously it had lost more than $1 million under Parton's management.

On January 8, 2008, the city of Roanoke Rapids terminated Randy Parton's contact and renamed the theater the Roanoke Rapids Theater.  Scheduled performances continued, with disappointing ticket sales.  Some details of contracts between the city, performers and other employees remained secret until local media obtained them via the Freedom of Information Act.  Some who worked for the group responsible for bringing the theater to the area later worked for the theater and were paid hundreds of thousands in salary which some employees said was unearned.  Several thousand dollars in "Memorandum of Understanding" payments to Parton's daughters have also been questioned.  Scandal extended outside the project when a NCDOT official representing the area resigned after questions arose concerning fund raising efforts targeted at officials associated with the Carolina Crossroads project.

On February 18, 2008, UGL Unicco terminated its contract with the city of Roanoke Rapids citing repeated missed payments of over $100,000. Thereafter the city itself managed the theater until it closed in the summer of 2008. In December 2009, the city announced that it was selling the theater to Lafayette Gatling of Chicago, Illinois. It reopened and was renamed the Roanoke Rapids Theatre. However, in April 2010 the city announced it was terminating the contract with Gatling due to late payments. In June 2010, the city filed suit to evict Gatling from the theater; in August 2010, a court ordered Gatling to hand over the premises to the city. The city signed a new management contract and two events were held at the theatre in 2011.

Separately, the amphitheater operated briefly as the Atlantic One Amphitheater. The last event at the amphitheater under that branding was in July 2009. It was purchased by a new owner, Carolina Dirt, and rebranded as The Festival Park at Carolina Crossroads with an event scheduled for June 2011.

In November 2011, the city agreed to sell the theater outright to Gatling in an effort to reduce the city's debt from the project. However, this deal was not consummated. In September 2012, the city leased the theater to HSV Entertainment, an Arkansas company, which renamed it the Royal Palace Theatre. Events were announced for October 2012, and the city also announced that electronic gaming would be available at the theater.

In May 2015 the city terminated HSV's lease of the theater following a no-prosecution agreement between HSV and the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina.

In 2016, the city announced an auction of the theater. The auction was unsuccessful, and the city retained ownership. Finally, on July 23, 2018, the City sold the theater.

The theater remains open intermittently, but not the amphitheater.

In 2019 the North Carolina General Assembly considered legislation to bail out the city from its remaining debt obligations for the theater.

Future development
The future of Carolina Crossroads remains uncertain. On January 23, 2008, a groundbreaking ceremony was held next to the theater for a retail development to include a restaurant and eight retail shops; however, no construction actually ensued. The remainder of the property remains undeveloped.

See also
 List of contemporary amphitheatres

References

External links
The Roanoke Rapids Theatre
RV Resort
WRAL Randy Parton coverage archive
Hilton Garden Inn Roanoke Rapids

Buildings and structures in Halifax County, North Carolina
Landmarks in North Carolina


Aaron Bridgers (January 10, 1918 – November 3, 2003) was an American jazz pianist who moved to Paris, in 1947. Bridgers was jazz composer Billy Strayhorn's lover from 1939 until Bridgers's move to France.

Bridgers is featured in the Paul Newman film Paris Blues (1961).

References

External links

 *See Jazz in Paris with Aaron Bridgers and Art Simmons in The Living Room

1918 births
2003 deaths
American jazz pianists
American male pianists
African-American LGBT people
American gay musicians
20th-century American pianists
LGBT people from North Carolina
20th-century American male musicians
American male jazz musicians
20th-century American LGBT people
21st-century American LGBT people
20th-century African-American musicians


Brè-Aldesago is a quarter of the city of Lugano, in the Swiss canton of Ticino.

It occupies the slopes and summit of Monte Brè, and contains the mountain villages of Brè, to the east of the summit, and Aldesago, to the west. It has an area of  and, in 2011, it had a population of 1,055.

Historically, Brè-Aldesago was an independent municipality, known simply as Brè until 1953. The municipality had 178 inhabitants in 1591, which increased to 244 in 1801, 378 in 1850, 393 in 1900, 400 in 1950 and 411 in 1970. It was incorporated into Lugano in 1972.

Brè was first recorded in 1280 as de Bre, and for most of its history has lived by agriculture and livestock. Until 1912, the only access to the village was on foot or by mule, but in that year Brè was reached by a road from Lugano via Aldesago, and the Monte Brè funicular was opened between Lugano and the summit of Monte Brè. Subsequently, Brè-Aldesago has become a resort and residential suburb.

The Brè-Aldesago quarter is accessed by a steep and winding road from Lugano. This first climbs to Aldesago village, before crossing the southern slopes of Monte Brè to reach Brè village. A further road ascends from near Brè village to near the summit of Monte Brè. Trasporti Pubblici Luganesi (TPL) bus route 12 operates from Lugano city centre to Brè village via Aldesago village, with one or two buses per hour. The Monte Brè funicular connects the Lugano suburb of Cassarate, itself served by frequent city buses, to the summit of Monte Brè, running every half-hour.

The summit of Monte Brè is a significant tourist attraction, with expansive views over Lake Lugano and the Alps, and several restaurants. Brè village is the home of the Wilhelm Schmid Museum, which contains a collection of works by Wilhelm Schmid (1892–1971), together with an artistic trail that includes the works of 20 nationally and internationally acclaimed artists.

References

External links

  Site of Lugano Monte Brè
 Brè-Aldesago pages on City of Lugano web site (in Italian)

Districts of Lugano
Former municipalities of Ticino
Lugano


Mmashoro is a village in Central District of Botswana. It is located 80 km north-west of Serowe. and the population was 1,543 in 2001 census. Mmashoro People did their shopping at serowe village.

References

Populated places in Central District (Botswana)
Villages in Botswana


Brè () is a village on the eastern slopes of the mountain of Monte Brè, in the Swiss canton of Ticino. Politically the village forms part of the Brè-Aldesago quarter of the city of Lugano, although until 1972 Brè-Aldesago was an independent municipality, known simply as Brè until 1953.

The village of Brè was first recorded in 1280 as de Bre, and for most of its history has lived by agriculture and livestock. Until 1912, the only access to the village was on foot or by mule, but in that year Brè was reached by a road from Lugano, and the Monte Brè funicular was opened between Lugano and the summit of Monte Brè. Subsequently Brè has become a resort and residential suburb.

Brè is accessed by a steep and winding road from Lugano. This first climbs to the village of Aldesago, before crossing the southern slopes of Monte Brè to reach Brè village. Trasporti Pubblici Luganesi (TPL) bus route 12 operates along this road from Lugano city centre to Brè village, with one or two buses per hour. The Monte Brè funicular, which connects the Lugano suburb of Cassarate, itself served by frequent city buses, to the summit of Monte Brè, serves a stop known as Brè Villagio, although this is a  walk from the village itself. The funicular runs every half-hour.

The Wilhelm Schmid Museum, in the village, is the former residence of Wilhelm Schmid (1892–1971) and today contains a collection of his works. Schmid was the only Swiss painter of the northern Magical Realism style. The village is also home to an artistic trail that includes the works of 20 nationally and internationally acclaimed artists.

The parish church of Saints Simon and Fedele is first mentioned in 1591, in an account of a visit by Feliciano Ninguarda, then bishop of Como. It is believed, however, to date back to medieval times, and the tower, located in the southeast corner of the basilica, has Romanesque blind arches on its base. The church contains artistic works from different eras, including 17th-century frescos and 20th-century paintings by Jozeph Birò, a Hungarian painter and one-time resident of the village.

References

External links

 Brè-Aldesago pages on City of Lugano web site (in Italian)

 Site of Brè Village

Lugano
Villages in Ticino


Tshimoyapula is a village in Central District of Botswana. The village is located 45 km north-east of Serowe, and it has a primary school. The population was 1,467 in 2001 census.

References

Populated places in Central District (Botswana)
Villages in Botswana


Voitures automobiles Decauville was a French automobile maker, a subsidiary of Société Decauville, a company already famous for producing locomotives, located at Petit-Bourg, near Corbeil.

Established by Paul Decauville, the company was registered as Société des Voitures Automobiles Decauville in 1897 and the factory started producing automobiles in 1898. The first car was designed by Messrs Joseph Guédon and Gustave Cornilleau and the design was purchased for 250,000 French francs. Cornilleau was also taken on as chief engineer.

The car, a tiller-steered three-seater in the voiturette (cyclecar) class, was called a voiturelle. It had a peculiar structure, it featured independent suspension by transverse spring and two single-cylinder air-cooled engines produced by De Dion-Bouton sharing a common crankcase. The  engine, allegedly producing , was mounted under the seat and drove the back axle through an unlubricated two-speed transmission. It had an advanced sliding-pillar front suspension, but no suspension at all in the rear.

Like many pioneer marques, including Napier and Bentley, Decauville entered motor races, winning the voiturette class of the 1898 Paris–Amsterdam–Paris Trail. Works drivers M. Gabriel and Léon Théry came first and second, with another Decauville third, in the voiturette class of the 1899 Tour de France Automobile. This was followed with class wins in the 1900 Bordeaux-Biarritz and Paris-Rouen-Paris rallies. The marque also took the Daily Mail prize in the 1900 English Thousand Miles Trial.

This car sold well, supplying 107 cars by 1898 and 350 by 1904. Beginning in 1899, it was being sold in England by R. Moffat Ford, and being built under licence by Automobilwerk Eisenach (as the Wartburg) in Germany and Orio and Marchand in Italy.

The original model was joined in 1900 by a  water-cooled model and shortly an  twin with "horseshoe-shaped dashboard radiator and a bullet-nosed bonnet". In 1901, a 3-liter four (two  twins mounted in tandem) was offered.

In 1902, the voiturelles were dropped and a   sidevalve twin debuted, featuring engine, gearbox, and clutch cast as a unit. One of these, purchased by Henry Royce, inspired his design for the first Rolls-Royce.

From 1905, the company produced larger models with four-cylinder engines. The customer could choose the engine type from 2.7 to 9.2 litres. A range of trucks and buses was also made.

By 1906, the company offered five distinct models, all fours: 12/16 (which actually produced ), 16/20, 24/28,  (also producing more than its rated tax horsepower), and  (with chain drive, at a cost of £1020 ready to run).

Demand for its cars fell, and in 1907, Decauville dropped the 12/16 and 16/20. Sales fell still further, and Decauville was forced to close its automobile factory in 1911. The parent company, Société Decauville continued to produce locomotives.

Surviving cars

 A Decauville Voiturelle from 1898 may be seen in the Musée Automobile de Vendée in Talmont-Saint-Hilaire, France
 A Decauville Voiturelle Vis-à-Vis from 1899 is in the Musée Henri Malartre in Rochetaillée-sur-Saône, France
 A Decauville from 1900 is in the Aalholm Automobile Museum in Nysted, Denmark (this museum closed in 2008)
 A Decauville 10 HP Tonneau belonging to the National Motor Museum in Beaulieu, Hampshire, United Kingdom, has been a regular participant at the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run, last attending in 2010 (No. 143)
 Another Decauville Voiturelle, ca. 1899, from Belgium, participated in the 2010 London-Brighton Run (No. 35)

See also
Three pictures of Decauville locomotives

References

External links
 1901 Decauville (box six)
 Decauville mentioned in world history

Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1897
Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of France
Cyclecars


Paje is a village in Central District of Botswana. It is located 20 km north-east of Serowe, and the population was 2,088 in 2001 census.

References

Populated places in Central District (Botswana)
Villages in Botswana


Delpha Sauvé (June 12, 1901 – October 2, 1956) was a Canadian politician.  He was a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec.

Background
He was born near Beauharnois, Montérégie on June 12, 1901.

Political career
Sauvé successfully ran as a Conservative candidate in the district of Beauharnois in the 1935 provincial election.  He was re-elected as a Union Nationale candidate in the 1936 and 1939 elections, but was defeated by Bloc populaire canadien candidate Albert Lemieux in the 1944 election.

Death
He died on October 2, 1956, in Montreal.

References

1901 births
1956 deaths
People from Montérégie
Conservative Party of Quebec MNAs
Union Nationale (Quebec) MNAs


"In Our Lifetime" is a song by Scottish pop rock band Texas. The first single from their fifth studio album, The Hush (1999), it was released on 12 April 1999 in Europe and on 19 April 1999 in the United Kingdom. The song peaked at number four on the UK Singles Chart and became the band's second number one on the Scottish Singles Chart. It was also included on the soundtrack of the 1999 romantic comedy Notting Hill.

Content
Texas lead singer Sharleen Spiteri commented on the song:

Critical reception
A reviewer from Daily Record viewed the song as "brilliant". In his review of The Hush, Stephen Dalton from NME wrote that "these 12 tracks perform their ear-soothing job with ruthless efficiency", noting the "opulent swingbeat trundle" of "In Our Lifetime". Sunday Mercury described it as a "great Hong Kong Garden pastiche".

Track listings

 UK CD1 (MERCD 517)
 "In Our Lifetime"
 "In Our Lifetime" (Jules' Disco Trip Mix)
 "In Our Lifetime" (Return To Tha Dub Mix)

 UK CD2 (MERDD 517)
 "In Our Lifetime" (enhanced version)
 "Love Dream #2"
 "In Our Lifetime" (Aim Mix)
 "In Our Lifetime" (enhanced version video)

 UK cassette single (870 918-4)
 "In Our Lifetime"
 "Love Dream #2"

 European and Australian CD single (870 079-2)
 "In Our Lifetime"
 "Love Dream #2"
 "In Our Lifetime" (Jules' Disco Trip Mix)
 "In Our Lifetime" (Return To Tha Dub Mix)

 German CD single (562 055-2)
 "In Our Lifetime" – 4:10
 "In Our Lifetime" (Jules' Disco Trip Mix) – 6:32
 "Say What You Want" – 3:50
 "I Don't Want a Lover" – 5:00

Credits and personnel
Credits are lifted from The Hush album booklet.

Studios
 Recorded at Shar's house and Park Lane (Glasgow, Scotland)
 Mixed at the Mix Suite, Olympic Studios (London, England)

Personnel
 Texas – all instruments, programming
 Johnny McElhone – writing, production (as Johnny Mac)
 Sharleen Spiteri – writing
 Eddie Campbell
 Ally McErlaine
 Kenny MacDonald – additional programming
 Mark "Spike" Stent – mixing

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

Release history

References

1999 singles
1999 songs
British pop rock songs
Mercury Records singles
Number-one singles in the Czech Republic
Number-one singles in Scotland
Songs written by Johnny McElhone
Songs written by Sharleen Spiteri
Texas (band) songs
Universal Records singles


Topisi is a village in Central District of Botswana. The village is located 55 km north of Palapye, along the Palapye–Francistown road, and the population was 1,289 in 2001 census.

References

Populated places in Central District (Botswana)
Villages in Botswana


Ambrosio de Letinez is an early Texan novel believed written by Anthony Ganilh, a Catholic missionary and Frenchman by birth. It was first issued in 1838 as Mexico versus Texas, a Descriptive Novel, most of the Characters of which are Living Persons.(Ambrosio de Letinez, v)

Question of authorship
The title page of the first edition gave the author as only "By a Texian". The second edition states the author to be one "A.T. Myrthe", with the copyright held by Anthony Ganilh. However, there is no historical record of anyone by the name of A.T. Myrthe, and the writing has been attributed to Ganilh. (Ambrosio de Letinez, v - vii)

References

External links
Online book
Mention of character in another book
Review by New York Public Library
Texas literature


Andrew W. Troelsen is currently a technology manager at Thomson Reuters in the Enterprise Content Platform (ECP - Big Data) division.  He is an author of several books in the Microsoft technology space including books on Microsoft (D)COM, ATL, .NET, C#, VB (4.0 - modern) and COM & .NET Interoperability. His latest edition of his C# book covers the .NET Core platform and each C# 7.0 update. He has over 18 years experience authoring software development (3-5 day) workshops for engineers on MS platform technologies.

Books
 Developer's Workshop to Com and Atl 3.0 (Andrew Troelsen (2000))
 C# and the .NET Platform (Andrew Troelsen (2001))
 COM and .NET Interoperability (Andrew Troelsen (2002))
 Visual Basic .NET and the .NET Platform: An Advanced Guide (Andrew Troelsen (2002))
 C# and the .NET Platform, Second Edition (Andrew Troelsen (2003))
 Exploring .Net (Andrew Troelsen, Jason Bock (2003))
 Pro C# 2005 and the .NET 2.0 Platform, Third Edition (Andrew Troelsen (2005))
 Pro VB 2005 and the .NET 2.0 Platform, Second Edition (Andrew Troelsen (2006))
 Expert ASP.NET 2.0: Advanced Application Design (Dominic Selly, Andrew Troelsen, Tom Barnaby (2006))
 Pro C# 2008 and the .NET 3.5 Platform, Fourth Edition (Andrew Troelsen (2007))
 Pro C# with .NET 3.0, Special Edition (Andrew Troelsen (2007))
 Pro VB 2008 and the .NET 3.5 Platform (Andrew Troelsen (2008))
 Pro VB 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform (Andrew Troelsen, Vidya Vrat Agarwal (2010))
 Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform, Fifth Edition (Andrew Troelsen (2010))
 Pro Expression Blend 4 (Andrew Troelsen (2011))
 Pro C# 5.0 and the .NET 4.5 Framework, Sixth Edition (Andrew Troelsen (2012))
 C# 6.0 and the .NET 4.6 Framework, Seventh Edition (Andrew Troelsen, Philip Japikse (2015))
 Pro C# 7: With .NET and .NET Core, Eighth Edition (Andrew Troelsen, Philip Japikse (2017))
 Pro C# 8 with .NET Core 3: Foundational Principles and Practices in Programming, Ninth Edition (Andrew Troelsen, Phil Japikse (2020))
 Pro C# 9 with .NET 5: Foundational Principles and Practices in Programming, Tenth Edition (Andrew Troelsen, Phillip Japikse (2021))
 Pro C# 10 with .NET 6: Foundational Principles and Practices in Programming, Eleventh Edition (Andrew Troelsen, Phil Japikse (2022))

References

 http https://www.linkedin.com/in/awtroelsen/

Computer programmers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)


The McLemore Site, designated by the Smithsonian trinomial 34WA5, is a prehistoric archaeological site of the Southern Plains villagers located near Colony in Washita County, Oklahoma. It is the site of a prehistoric Plains Indian village, dating from AD 1330-1360, during the Washita River phase.  The site is of historic importance for being a key element helping determine the chronology of prehistoric cultures in the region.  It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1964.

Description
The McLemore Site is located on a terrace overlooking Cobb Creek outside the town of Colony in central western Oklahoma.  The first major archaeological investigation took place in 1960 under the auspices of Dr. Robert E. Bell of Oklahoma State University.  Three sections of the site were excavated: an area of cache and refuse pits, an area once containing a structure, and a cemetery with 48 burial sites.  Artifacts found include pottery vessel fragments, a clay human effigy vessel, and stone tools and tool-making debitage.  Also found were tools fashioned out of bone and shell beads.

The site finds show evidence of a common grouping of features related to a hunter-gatherer culture called the Washita River Focus  (named after the Washita River in which watershed it is located), but with undisputed radiocarbon dates from an unusually early period.  It was also the most westerly find of this culture to date, and set off a debate concerning its relationship with a similar complex of features called the Custer River Focus.

Clay figurines from the site suggest widespread tattooing by the residents of this site. Perforated bone pendants, used either in necklaces or ear ornaments, were also found at the site.

Status
The site is on private property, about  southeast of Colony on State Highway 4.Public access is not allowed.

See also
List of National Historic Landmarks in Oklahoma
National Register of Historic Places listings in Washita County, Oklahoma

References

National Historic Landmarks in Oklahoma
Geography of Washita County, Oklahoma
Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Oklahoma
National Register of Historic Places in Washita County, Oklahoma
Plains Village period


Éléonore Desmier d'Olbreuse (3, 7 or 9 January 1639 – 5 February 1722), was a French noblewoman, who became firstly the mistress and later wife of George William of Brunswick, Duke of Lauenburg and Prince of Celle. She was the mother of Sophia Dorothea of Celle, who was the wife of George I of Great Britain. Thus she is the maternal grandmother of George II.

Life
Éléonore Desmier d'Olbreuse was probably born at the Castle of Olbreuse in what is now Deux-Sèvres near Niort, France, into a Huguenot family of lower nobility. Her parents were Alexandre Desmier, seigneur d'Olbreuse, and Jacquette Poussard du Bas-Vandré.

In 1661 she went to the royal court in Paris as a lady-in-waiting in the service of Marie de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duchess of Thouars, whose son Henri Charles de La Trémoille had married Emilie, daughter of William V, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel in 1648. In winter 1664 Emilie visited her relatives in Kassel, where she was accompanied by Éléonore, whose remarkable beauty attracted many suitors. It was in the court of Kassel that Éléonore met George William of Brunswick, Prince of Calenberg, who immediately fell in love with her, and they began a love affair.

At first, Éléonore could only aspire to being a mere mistress, but George William was determined to marry her, despite the previous arrangement made by him and his other brothers that none of them could marry (except Ernest Augustus) in order to avoid further divisions on their domains. Finally, in 1665 George William abdicated all his rights over the Principality of Calenberg (giving it to his brother John Frederick) and to his recently inherited Principality of Lüneburg (giving it to his brother Ernest Augustus) and entered into a secret morganatic marriage with Éléonore, who received the title of "Lady of Harburg" (Frau von Harburg); however, George William managed to keep the Principality of Celle as his personal domain during his lifetime; in addition a ducal order dated 15 November 1665 guaranteed a dower for Éléonore in case George William died. One year later, on 15 September 1666, Éléonore gave birth a daughter, Sophia Dorothea.

Éléonore and George William enjoyed an almost bourgeois and very happy marriage. Since she had no official status in the first years of her marriage, she was able to personally raise her daughter, who was very similar to her, more than other upper-class women of her time. Being raised in the Huguenot faith, Éléonore founded a reformed church (Reformierte Kirche) in Celle and maintained it with her own resources. She also managed to arrange good marriages to her sisters: the older, Angélique (died 5 October 1688) married Count Henry V Reuss of Untergreiz (1645-1698) in 1678, while the younger, Marie, became the wife of Olivier de Beaulieu-Marconnay (1660-1751), also from a Huguenot noble family, who held high-ranking court office in Hanover.

Despite the fact that George William not only secured a dower for Éléonore but also bequeathed all of his private fortune to her and undertook to take care of her impoverished relatives, she wanted to be recognized as a Duchess of Brunswick with full rights. By Imperial order dated 22 July 1674 and in recognition to the military assistance given to Emperor Leopold I, her husband obtained for Éléonore and their daughter the higher title of "Countess of Harburg and Wilhelmsburg" (Gräfin von Harburg und Wilhelmsburg) with the allodial rights over the domains.

By that time, it had become quite clear that among the four brothers (George William and three others), only the youngest, Ernest Augustus, had produced any heirs male, and that the entire duchy of Lüneburg was likely to be united under Ernest Augustus's eldest son George Louis. George William therefore wanted George Louis to marry his daughter Sophia Dorothea, whose marriage prospects were otherwise not bright, given the circumstances of her birth. To George William's annoyance, George Louis and his parents refused the proposal on the grounds of precisely the birth status of the intended bride.

After the rejection of his daughter, George William decided to improve definitively the status of Éléonore and Sophia Dorothea: by contract signed on 22 August 1675 and in open violation of his previous promise, George William declared that his marriage to Éléonore was not morganatic but valid to both church and state, with a second wedding ceremony being held at Celle on 2 April 1676. George William's younger brother Ernst August and specially his wife Sophia of the Palatinate demonstratively stayed away from this second wedding. Twenty-two days later, on 24 April, the second marriage was made public and Éléonore officially addressed as Duchess of Brunswick and their daughter declared legitimate.

This development greatly alarmed his relatives, as it threatened to hinder the contemplated union of the Lüneburg territories. Indeed, if George William had had a son, a serious succession crisis could have arisen. No son however was born, as Éléonore’s next two pregnancies, in 1671 and August 1676, produced only short-lived daughters. Once it became clear that George William wouldn't have male heirs, his brothers relented: by family agreement signed on 13 July 1680, Éléonore was finally recognized by her husband's family as Duchess of Brunswick and, most importantly, Sophia Dorothea was declared Princess of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Celle with all appertaining rights of birth. Also, George Louis' parents finally agreed to the proposed marriage with Sophia Dorothea as a way of avoiding uncertainty and inheritance disputes. The wedding took place on 21 November 1682 but since the beginning the union was a complete failure: the feelings of hatred and contempt that Sophia of the Palatinate had over her daughter-in-law were soon shared by her son George Louis, who was oddly formal to his wife. Sophia Dorothea was frequently scolded for her lack of etiquette, and the two had loud and bitter arguments. Nevertheless, they managed to have two children in quick succession: George Augustus (born 30 October 1683 and future King George II of Great Britain) and Sophia Dorothea (born 16 March 1687 and by marriage Queen consort in Prussia and Electress consort of Brandenburg).

Éléonore still experienced first-hand the catastrophic course of her daughter's marriage. When Sophia Dorothea began a relationship with Count Philip Christoph von Königsmarck and threatened with the scandal of an elopement, the Hanoverian court, including not only George Louis's brothers and mother but also Éléonore, urged the lovers to desist, but to no avail. On the morning of 2 July 1694, after a meeting with Sophia Dorothea at the Leineschloss castle, von Königsmark was seized and disappeared, being presumed murdered at the instigation of George Louis, and his body thrown into the Leine river. Sophia Dorothea was placed under house arrest, and her marriage was dissolved on 28 December 1694 under the grounds of desertion. At the request of her former husband and with the consent of her own father, she was forbidden to see her children again and imprisoned for life in the Castle of Ahlden. Devastated by the fate of her daughter, Éléonore tried by all means to obtain her release, without success.

When George William was on his deathbed in 1705, he wanted to see his daughter one last time to reconcile with her, but his Prime Minister, Baron Andreas Gottlieb von Bernstorff raised objections and claimed that a meeting would lead to diplomatic complications with Hanover; the ailing duke no longer had the strength to prevail against him.

After the death of her husband, Éléonore received Lüneburg Castle as her widow's seat. Sophia Dorothea unsuccessfully asked her former husband one last time that he should let her leave Ahlden to live with her mother in complete seclusion, but her request was denied.

Éléonore spent the last years of her life caring for her daughter and trying to obtain her release. She even turned to King Louis XIV of France, who had once driven her and her Huguenot family out of France. The French monarch was not averse to accepting her and her daughter, but Eléonore did not want to meet the condition of converting to Catholicism.

Éléonore died on 5 February 1722, nearly blind, in Celle Castle, Celle. She mentioned 342 persons in her will. She was buried in the Fürstengruft at the Stadtkirche St. Marien (town church of St. Mary) in Celle.

Ancestry

References

Bibliography

 Andreas Flick: „Der Celler Hof ist ganz verfranzt“. Hugenotten und französische Katholiken am Hof und beim Militär Herzog Georg Wilhelms von Braunschweig-Lüneburg (in German). In: Hugenotten. 72nd year, N° 3, 2008, , S. 87–120 (PDF; 2,2 MB).

 Elisabeth E. Kwan und Anna E. Röhrig: Frauen vom Hof der Welfen. (in German) MatrixMedia, Göttingen 2006, pp. 53–63 and 115–126,

 Luise Marelle: Eleonore d’Olbreuse, Herzogin von Braunschweig-Lüneburg-Celle. Die Großmutter Europas (in German). Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 1936.
 Pierre-Henri Mitard: Éléonore Desmier d’Olbreuse. ‘La Grand’Mère de l’Europe‘ (1639–1722) In: Bulletin de la Société Historique et Scientifique des Deux-Sèvres. Deuxième série (in French). vol. 23, N° 1. Niort, 1990,  pp. 35–38.

 Dorothea Nolde: Eléonore Desmier d’Olbreuse (1639–1722) am Celler Hof als diplomatische, religiöse und kulturelle Mittlerin (in German). In: Dorothea Nolde, Claudia Opitz (ed.): Grenzüberschreitende Familienbeziehungen. Akteure und Medien des Kulturtransfers in der frühen Neuzeit. 1st edition, Böhlau, Köln [u. a.] 2008, , pp. 107–120 (excerpt)
 Michael Sikora: Dynastie und Eigensinn. Herzog Georg Wilhelm von Celle, Eleonore d’Olbreuse und die Spielregeln des Fürstenstandes. In: Heiko Laß (ed.): Hof und Medien im Spannungsfeld von dynastischer Tradition und politischer Innovation zwischen 1648 und 1714 (= Rudolstädter Forschungen zur Residenzkultur, vol. 4). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2008, pp. 19–30.

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1722 deaths
Mistresses of German royalty
People from Niort
French duchesses
Eleonore
Duchesses of Saxe-Lauenburg
Huguenots


The following article presents a summary of the 1945 football (soccer) season in Brazil, which was the 44th season of competitive football in the country.

Campeonato Paulista

São Paulo declared as the Campeonato Paulista champions.

Campeonato Carioca

Vasco da Gama declared as the Campeonato Carioca champions.

State championship champions

Brazil national team
The following table lists all the games played by the Brazil national football team in official competitions and friendly matches during 1945.

References

 Brazilian competitions at RSSSF
 1945 Brazil national team matches at RSSSF

Seasons in Brazilian football
Brazil


Ágnes Esterházy (born Ágnes Jósika de Branyitska, 15 January 1891 – 4 April 1956) was a Hungarian film actress who worked mainly in Austria and Germany. She appeared in 32 films between 1918 and 1943.

Biography
Ágnes Esterházy was born on 15 January 1891, the daughter of Count Jósika von Branyitska and Countess Ágnes Esterházy.

Ágnes Esterházy married actor Fritz Schulz in 1910; he was 14 and she was 19. After World War I, the two moved to Budapest, where Esterházy took acting lessons from Ilka Pálmay and worked for Városi Színház, the local theater.

Esterházy made her film debut in Palika (1918), followed by Lila test, sárga sapka (1918), and A szerelem mindent legyöz (1921). In 1923, after receiving an offer from Sascha-Film, she left to Vienna, where she starred in Young Medardus (1923). In Berlin, she acted in Nanon (1924) with Harry Liedtke and Hanni Weisse, and Two People (1924) opposite Olaf Fjord.

Esterházy appeared in silent classics such as Joyless Street (1925), starring Asta Nielsen and a pre-Hollywood fame Greta Garbo, and The Student of Prague (1926), starring Conrad Veidt.

Although Esterházy was known for playing supporting roles throughout her career, she did play as the lead in films such as The Beggar Student (1927) and Chance the Idol (1927), both with Harry Liedtke.

Under the direction of Karl Grune, she acted in the historical drama Spy of Madame Pompadour (1928) with Liane Haid.

The arrival of sound film ended Esterházy's career. Her final film appearance was in Gabriele Dambrone (1943), which credited her as Agnes von Esterhazy.

Shortly after the Anschluss, Esterházy's husband Fritz Schulz was arrested for "racial reasons" and presumably detained in the Rossauer Lände police prison in Vienna. It was only through the efforts of Esterházy that Schulz was released in late May or early June 1938.

Ágnes Esterházy died on 4 April 1956 at 65 years old.

Selected filmography

 Young Medardus (1923)
 Nanon (1924)
 Two People (1924)
 The Voice of the Heart (1924)
 The Flight in the Night (1926)
 The Student of Prague (1926)
 The Wooing of Eve (1926)
 Wrath of the Seas (1926)
 Two and a Lady (1926)
 The Beggar Student (1927)
 Chance the Idol (1927)
 The Transformation of Dr. Bessel (1927)
 Spy of Madame Pompadour (1928)
 His Majesty's Lieutenant (1929)
 Father Radetzky (1929)
 The Man Without Love (1929)
 Love and Champagne (1930)
 Gabriele Dambrone (1943)

References

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1898 births
1956 deaths
Actors from Cluj-Napoca
20th-century Hungarian actresses
Hungarian film actresses
Hungarian silent film actresses
Romanian people of Hungarian descent
Agnes
Hungarian nobility


Malatswai is a village in Central District of Botswana. The village is located 110 km north-west of Serowe, and it has a primary school. The population was 872 in 2001 census.

References

Populated places in Central District (Botswana)
Villages in Botswana


On Any Sunday: Motorcross, Malcolm, & More is a 2001 documentary film directed by Dana Brown of Step Into Liquid and Dust to Glory fame. The film is about one of the most famous films about motorcycle sport, On Any Sunday (1971), which was directed by Brown's father Bruce Brown.

External links
 Official site

 Monterey Media

Documentary films about auto racing
Films directed by Dana Brown
2001 films
2001 documentary films
American auto racing films
American sports documentary films
Motorcycle racing films
2000s English-language films
2000s American films


Castagnola is a village on the northern shore of Lake Lugano, below the mountain of Monte Brè, in the Swiss canton of Ticino. Politically the village forms part of the Castagnola-Cassarate quarter of the city of Lugano, although until 1972 Castagnola-Cassarate was an independent municipality under the name Castagnola.

Castagnola was first recorded in 1335 as Castigniola.

Amongst its notable residents is the artist Angela Lyn. and Latvian poet couple Rainis and Aspazija, who lived here from 1905–20.
Carlo Cattaneo, Italian writer and philosopher, died here in 1869.

References

Villages in Ticino
Lugano
Populated places on Lake Lugano


The WWP World Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling championship in the South African professional wrestling promotion World Wrestling Professionals, contested among tag teams of any weight. It was created in April 2004 when WWP debuted its television show, WWP Thunderstrike.

Title history

See also

World Wrestling Professionals

References

External links

Tag team wrestling championships
World Wrestling Professionals championships


William Devaughn Stumpf (born February 27, 1982) is a Filipino-American commercial model and actor.

Biography
He entered the Pinoy Big Brother house, during its Celebrity Edition 2, and became the fourth big placer of that season. He arrived in the Philippines in 2004 without knowing a single word of Tagalog. His biological father is of mixed Filipino and African American lineage while his mother is of German descent.

He was a former talent of ABS-CBN and in 2010. He moved to GMA Network until 2013 but he decided to quit from show business as a contract of Sparkle (formerly GMA Artist Center) then returned in 2017 via Trops and My Love from the Star.

He is now a father to a baby boy named Magnus Orion. His first child with Filipina-Dutch girlfriend international emcee Cay Kuijpers was born on November 9, 2019.

Filmography

Films

Drama series

TV series

MV appearance
 MasaRap! (Schizophrenia, 2013)

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1982 births
Filipino male film actors
Filipino male models
Pinoy Big Brother contestants
Star Magic
Living people
People from Büdingen
Filipino people of African-American descent
ABS-CBN personalities
GMA Network personalities
Converts to evangelical Christianity
Filipino Christians
Filipino evangelicals
Filipino male television actors


Caprino is a village on the southern shore of Lake Lugano in the Swiss canton of Ticino, to the east of the Italian exclave of Campione d'Italia and below the summit of Sighignola. Some  east of Caprino village is Cantine di Caprino, a smaller settlement. Politically both form part of the Castagnola-Cassarate quarter of the city of Lugano, although until 1972 Castagnola-Cassarate was an independent municipality under the name Castagnola.

Caprino has no direct road connection with rest of the city of Lugano, or indeed the bulk of its quarter of Castagnola-Cassarate, which lie on the other side of Lake Lugano. An indirect road connection can be made via Arogno, Maroggia and the Melide causeway, but by this route Castagnola is some  distant, compared to under  across the lake. Cantine di Caprino has no road access, although it is linked to Caprino village by a footpath.

Boats of the Società Navigazione del Lago di Lugano (SNL) provide several crossings a day to central Lugano. Boats call at San Rocco landing stage in Caprino village and at Cantine di Caprino. Water taxis are also available.

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Villages in Ticino
Lugano


Ornithothoraces is a group of avialans that includes all enantiornithes ("opposite birds") and the euornithes ("true birds"), which includes modern birds and their closest ancestors. The name Ornithothoraces means "bird thoraxes". This refers to the modern, highly advanced anatomy of the thorax that gave the ornithothoracines superior flight capability compared with more primitive avialans. This anatomy includes a large, keeled breastbone, elongated coracoids and a modified glenoid joint in the shoulder, and a semi-rigid rib cage. In spite of this at least the sternum seems to have developed convergently rather than being a true homology.

The earliest known members of the group are the enantiornitheans Protopteryx fengningensis, Eopengornis martini, and Cruralispennia multidonta, as well as the euornithine Archaeornithura meemannae, all from the Sichakou Member of the Huajiying Formation in China, which has been dated to 130.7 million years old. At least one other enantiornithean, Noguerornis gonzalezi, may be even older, at up to 145.5 million years ago, though its exact age is uncertain.

Classification
In 1994, Chiappe and Calvo established a phylogenetic definition of the group. They defend Ornithothoraces as a node-based clade, the common ancestor of Iberomesornis romerali and modern birds, and all of its other descendants. In 1998, Paul Sereno defined Ornithothoraces in the same way, but used Sinornis santensis instead of Iberomesornis romerali.

The cladogram below follows the results of a phylogenetic analysis by Wang et al., 2016:

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Avialans
Taxa named by Jorge O. Calvo
Taxa named by Luis M. Chiappe


Cassarate is a village on the northern shore of Lake Lugano, to the east of the outfall of the Cassarate River, in the Swiss canton of Ticino. Politically the village forms part of the Castagnola-Cassarate quarter of the city of Lugano, although until 1972 Castagnola-Cassarate was an independent municipality under the name Castagnola.

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Villages in Ticino
Lugano
Populated places on Lake Lugano


Bourlon's genet (Genetta bourloni) is a genet species native to the Upper Guinean forests. It is known from only 29 zoological specimens in natural history museum and has been described as a new Genetta species in 2003.
It is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List as the global population is estimated at less than 10,000 mature individuals.

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Genets (animals)
Carnivorans of Africa
Mammals described in 2003