Fouday (; ; ) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

At the start of 1975 Fouday was merged with the neighboring settlements of Waldersbach, Belmont and Bellefosse:  the resulting aggregation was called Ban-de-la-Roche, recalling the historical territory Ban de la Roche.  The Vosgean mountain village recovered its independence at the start of 1992; it has been incorporated into various administrative structures in recent decades and is currently one of 26 communes included in the .

Geography
Fouday lies in the Bruche valley, on the right bank, at the river's confluence with the little river Chirgoutte (or Schirgoutte) surrounded by pastures and forests, and dominated by Mont Saint-Jean.

The village is served by the National Road (Route nationale) 420 which connects Strasbourg with Saint-Dié.  The town is also traversed by the railway line - here just a single track - that connects these two urban centres.   The mountain topography of the region keeps the road and railway running in close parallel along the Bruche Valley.

History
Fouday was part of the ancient lordship of Ban de la Roche along with the surrounding settlements of Waldersbach, Solbach, Belmont and Bellefosse.

The first surviving written record of the village dates from the fourteenth century, when it appeared in the records as Urbach.  However, the village clearly existed by the end of the twelfth century, since the church building dates from that time.

During the late medieval period, the village church was a stage along the pilgrim route to Mont Sainte-Odile in Lorraine across the Vosges Mountains to the west.   Evidence for this comes from the fifteenth century depiction of St. James in the old choir of the church.  The church also contains a carved head of John the Baptist recalling the Baptist's demise: the carved head is the subject of a local pilgrimage tradition which still survives.

Despite the endurance of the pilgrimage tradition, the village joined the Protestant Reformation at the time of Pastor Marmet during the 1570s.  Effectively all the villages within the Ban de la Roche became Protestant when the lands were sold by the Rathsamhausen family to the German Count Palatine, George John of Veldenz in the sixteenth century.

The village was the birthplace of Tommy Fallot (1844–1904), a Lutheran pastor who is considered the founder of Social Christianity in France.

See also
 Communes of the Bas-Rhin department

References

Communes of Bas-Rhin
Bas-Rhin communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Friesenheim (; ) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

Economy
Friesenheim retains a strongly agricultural economy.  The sight of old drying racks for tobacco leaves brings to mind just one of the many crops that flourish in the gently warm climate of the alluvial riverside fields surrounding the village.

See also
 Communes of the Bas-Rhin department

References

Communes of Bas-Rhin
Bas-Rhin communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Pont-Péan (; ; Gallo: Pont-Riaunt) is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department of Brittany in northwestern France.

Population
Inhabitants of Pont-Péan are called pont-péannais in French.

See also
Communes of the Ille-et-Vilaine department

References

External links

Official website Pont-Péan
Pont-Péan over time (an old mining city in Brittany)

Mayors of Ille-et-Vilaine Association

Communes of Ille-et-Vilaine


Frœschwiller (; ; ) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. Of note is Château de Frœschwiller.

The commune lies within the Northern Vosges Regional Nature Park.

Historical vignettes
 In 1552 the Protestant Reformation reached Frœschwiller when Kuno Eckbrecht of Dürckheim ordered the construction of the village's first church on the seigneurial lands.

 On 22 December 1793 republican troops under General Lazare Hoche defeated the Habsburg army under Field Marshal Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser in the Battle of Froeschwiller. This success helped to evict the Austrians from French territory.

 On 6 August 1870, as a result of the Battle of Frœschwiller-Wœrth, the two Alsatian départements (apart from the area that subsequently became the Territory of Belfort) as well as most of the Moselle département were lost. They would remain under German control until 1918.

See also
 Communes of the Bas-Rhin department

References

Communes of Bas-Rhin
Bas-Rhin communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Frohmuhl (; ) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

The commune lies within the Northern Vosges Regional Nature Park.

Geography
A typical valley village set in the pink Lorraine Plateau sandstone, Frohmuhl, like many villages in north-western Alsace, is cut in two by the railway line connecting Strasbourg and Sarreguemines and by the River Eichel.   Road access is provided by the departmental road D919.

Agriculture was abandoned here during the second half of the twentieth and the surrounding hills are newly afforested.   However, Highland Cattle are currently reared in residual open areas at the bottom of the valley.

Adjacent communes are Puberg and Hinsbourg to the east, Struth and Tieffenbach to the south-west and Weislingen to the north-west.

See also
 Communes of the Bas-Rhin department

References

Communes of Bas-Rhin
Bas-Rhin communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Kanchivaram is a 2008 Indian Tamil-language period drama film written and directed by Priyadarshan. The film stars Prakash Raj and Shriya Reddy and has music by M. G. Sreekumar, cinematography by Tirru, editing by Arun Kumar, and art direction by Sabu Cyril. The audiography was done by M. R. Rajakrishnan. The movie depicts the pitiable state of the silk weavers in the town of Kanchipuram as they were unorganized and marginalized to live a perpetual ‘hand-to-mouth’ existence. The movie depicts their struggles and ends with a comment about the cooperative movement that emerged to take care of the interests of the workers.

The film was certified by the censor board in 2007, and opened at the 33rd Toronto International Film Festival on 12 September 2008. It was also shown at the Silk Screen Asian American Film Festival in Pittsburgh. The film eventually went on to receive Best Film and Best Actor for Prakash Raj at the 55th National Film Awards. Priyadarshan won the Zenith Asia Award for best director for this film. The story is set in the silk weavers' town of Kanchipuram, in post-independence India, though the film was shot mainly in Mandya (Melukote Temple) and Mysore.

Plot
Vengadam (Prakash Raj) has been released from jail in 1948. He is only being escorted for two days (the reason not revealed) back to his hometown of Kanchipuram. He is being transported under the custody of two policemen on a bus from the jail. As the journey takes place, Vengadam recalls his past symbolically as several events that occur in the bus remind him of his past.

Vengadam is a silk weaver in the town of Kanchivaram, and has just recently got married (with Sriya Reddy). He had vowed once that he will only wed a woman wearing a silk saree, but had to settle for normalcy as he unable to garner enough savings to buy one.

But soon after, Vengadam's brother-in-law suffers losses in his business, and tells Vengadam that he will have to abandon Vengadam's sister because he wouldn't afford to take care of her. In desperation to preserve his sister's life and dignity, Vengadam hands over his life savings to his brother-in-law, leaving his silk saree ambitions in tatters. A fair happens in the town, Vengadam and his family decide to go but soon Annam (Sriya Reddy) begins to vomit blood. Later that night she dies in Vengadam's arms when he shows her his daughter's silk saree. Soon after, a writer visits the town and asks for a place to stay- which Vengadam arranges in a friend's house. It is slowly revealed that the writer is a communist with an agenda. He promotes the idea of equality to the silk weavers after learning about their poor pay and their inability to access the very product that they make. By time, Vengadam alongside fellow weavers embrace this idea and participate actively in street theatre mocking their Zamindar, who employs all of them. After the writer is hunted down by police and killed (Communism was illegal at that time in India), Vengadam takes control, and under him, the weavers submit a petition demanding pay increase and other initiatives.

However, to his shock, his friend's son (with whom his daughter is in love with) returns from the armed forces one day, and informs that the British are defeating Germans in the war, meaning that relations with the Communists have deteriorated. At the same time, he also wants to marry Vengadam's daughter before he is asked to return to the battlefield, leaving Vengadam perplexed as he has to fulfill the promise of sending her off with a silk saree. With only half of the saree finished so far, he suddenly goes against his own words and asks all weavers to rejoin work immediately, and is branded a traitor. At work, he secretly smuggles strings of silks out of the temple in which he works to help him finish the saree in time. But after a while, he gets caught during smuggling, which causes him to get beaten up and sent to jail.

The story returns to present day, where it is revealed that his daughter has slipped and fell into a well, leaving her paralysed, with nobody to take care of her (Vengadam's wife died due to injuries sustained during a stampede by the villagers to see the zamindar's new motorcar, when his daughter was still young). He asks his sister to take her in, but his brother-in-law says it will hurt his dignity to have a thief's daughter stay in his house. Not knowing what to do, Vengadam poisons his own daughter and she dies shortly thereafter, ending her suffering.

As her dead body lay in front of the house, Vengadam opens up his house and finds the half-woven silk saree he had before. He takes the cloth and uses that silk to cover his dead daughter's body, in resemblance to what Vengadam said at the beginning of the film (at his father's death, Vengadam complained that despite his father being a silk weaver his whole life, he do not have a single silk cloth to cover his body, apart from a small piece tied at his toes as per tradition). He becomes mentally unstable (shown by his attempts at covering his daughter's face and leg with the half-woven silk saree). The films ends with a freeze frame shot of the mentally unstable Vengadam laughing towards the camera after covering his daughter's body with silk, before credits reveal how communism had become a forefront movement in India.

Cast

Production
The film was produced by Shailendra Singh at Percept Pictures and made in 35 days on a budget of ₹1.5 crore (worth ₹4.9 crore in 2021 prices). It was initially announced to be made in Malayalam as Kancheepuram in 2001.

Awards and nominations

Awards
 55th National Film Awards
 Best Film - Shailendra Singh & Bhushan Kumar (Film producers)
 Best Actor - Prakash Raj
 Filmfare Awards South
 Filmfare Award for Best Director in Tamil - Priyadarshan
 Filmfare Award for Best Actor in Tamil - Prakash Raj
 Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress in Tamil - Shammu
  Vijay Awards
 Vijay Award for Best Actor - Prakash Raj
 Vijay Award for Best Debut Actor - Vimal

Release
The Hollywood Reporter gave a favorable review to the film and wrote that "Here is an original story with authentic period details. Meanwhile, doleful musical notes heighten not just the misfortune of the weavers but the sense of distress".

References

External links

2008 films
Films featuring a Best Actor National Award-winning performance
Films scored by M. G. Sreekumar
Best Feature Film National Film Award winners
Films set in Tamil Nadu
2000s Tamil-language films
Films directed by Priyadarshan
Indian drama films
Films shot in Mysore
Kanchipuram


Furdenheim (; ; ) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

See also
 Communes of the Bas-Rhin department
 Kochersberg

References

External links

 Official site

Communes of Bas-Rhin
Bas-Rhin communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Gambsheim is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department and Grand Est region of north-eastern France, in the historical region of Alsace.

Geography
Gambsheim lies adjacent to a river-crossing into Germany that is favoured by southbound traffic on the A35 autoroute wishing to avoid traffic delays around Strasbourg. The crossing coincides with the location of a large river lock which is also the site of one of the Rhine's first fish ladders. The latter was installed to support migratory fish in general and, more specifically, in an attempt to restore the abundant salmon population for which the upper Rhine was famous before the early 20th century, when the installation of a series of locks rendered the river navigable beyond Basel for boats, but blocked it for migrating fish.

Population

Landmarks
 The church of St Nazaire.
 Gambsheim lock gates (Upper Rhine).
 Town hall, built in 1823 to replace an 18th-century building.
 Gambsheim hydroelectrical power plant; established in 1967, it produces 141 MW.

See also
 Communes of the Bas-Rhin department

References

External links

 The Gambsheim fish ladder (In French)

Bas-Rhin communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia
Communes of Bas-Rhin


Geiswiller (; ; Alsatian: Gäiswiller) is a former commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. On 1 January 2018, it was merged into the new commune of Geiswiller-Zœbersdorf.

See also
 Communes of the Bas-Rhin department

References

Former communes of Bas-Rhin
Bas-Rhin communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia
Populated places disestablished in 2018


WNRS (1420 kHz) is an AM radio station broadcasting a Spanish language tropical music format. Licensed to Herkimer, New York, United States, the station serves the Utica area. Owned by Arjuna Broadcasting Corp., the station also simulcasts on translator station W252DO at 98.3 FM.

The format is known as El Zorro 98.3 FM 1420 AM.

History
The station went on the air as WALY in 1956, often programming a full service music format. However, on occasion, it would program other formats like top 40. Eventually, the station settled for beautiful music programming. The station changed callsigns several times in the late 1970s and 1980s, to WKYZ in 1979, WRMV in 1980, and WLIR in 1985. On March 2, 1987, the station changed its call sign to WYUT to match its FM sister WYUT-FM, but signed off in 1991. On July 20, 1994, both WYUT and WYUT-FM returned to the air as WNRS and WXUR, respectively. On June 26, 2009, Arjuna Broadcasting Corp. moved the Imus in the Morning show to WNRS from WXUR, which had just flipped to an active rock format.

On March 4, 2013, WNRS dropped its Premiere and Bloomberg affiliations and affiliated with The True Oldies Channel. Imus in the Morning was once again retained (and would continue on WNRS until the show ended on March 29, 2018). When the True Oldies Channel ended in June 2014, WNRS retained its oldies format and changed its affiliation to Good Time Oldies, which had recently been launched by Westwood One.

On December 1, 2016, WNRS added an FM simulcast at 98.3, to cover areas not served by WNRS' nighttime signal.

November 1, 2020, WNRS dropped its oldies format in favor of Spanish-language tropical music; such a format had never before been heard in Central New York. With the format change came new branding as "El Zorro" - the Spanish word for "Fox".

References

External links

NRS
Radio stations established in 1956
1956 establishments in New York (state)
Tropical music radio stations
NRS (AM)


Gerstheim () is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.

Geography
Situated between the canal that links the Rhône and the Rhine, and the Rhine itself, the little village is situated some  to the south of Strasbourg.

Economy
During the early twentieth century many jobs were provided by the tobacco and sugar industries.   There are currently still a few employment opportunities involving agriculture and tourism in the village.    There is also an EDF hydro-electric installation incorporating a lock and a road crossing on the Rhine.  Some residents work in Strasbourg and many commute across the border to work in Germany.

One of Europe's largest theme parks positioned just across the border provides a large number of mainly seasonal low-paid jobs.

Places to see
 A Jewish cemetery on the edge of the town (abandoned since 1940).
 Twelfth-century castle 'Manoir de Bancalis'.
 Artificial island 'L'île de Gerstheim ' created 1960 as part of the EDF hydro-electric project.  Small nature reserve subject to periodic flooding.

Organ
The Protestant church contains an organ built by the Wetzel brothers around 1870.   In 1917 German troops requisitioned part of the instrument, but it was restored in 1926 by the Strasbourg organ builder Edmond Alexandre Roethinger.   A further restoration took place in 1972.

See also
 Communes of the Bas-Rhin department

References

Communes of Bas-Rhin
Bas-Rhin communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Geudertheim is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

Geography
Geudertheim is a village in the Basse Zorn district, in the heart of the Alsace Asparagus Country, positioned halfway between Haguenau and Strasbourg.   The Rhine and the German frontier are  to the east.  Neighbouring villages are Hœrdt to the south, Bietlenheim to the east, Brumath to the west and Weitbruch to the north.

Notable people
  General Georges Picquart, who played a key role in the Dreyfus Affair, spent his early childhood in Geudertheim. On 13 July 2006, almost a century after the exoneration of Dreyfus, the Place de la Mairie was renamed Place General Picquart in his honour.
 Balthazar Alexis Henri Schauenburg, (also spelled Schauenbourg), (born in Hellimer on 31 July 1748) died in Geudertheim on 1 September 1831) was a French general who served in the wars of the French Revolution and the Empire.

Landmarks
 The Protestant church dates from 1842:  the church tower is from the twelfth century, however.
 The Roman Catholic Church dates from 1900.   Attached to it is the fifteenth-century funerary chapel of the Schauenbourg family along with a fifteenth-century tabernacle considered one of the most beautiful in Alsace.
 Castle Schauenbourg.
 A mill on the river Zorn.

See also
 Communes of the Bas-Rhin department

References

External links
 Official Website of Geudertheim

Communes of Bas-Rhin
Bas-Rhin communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Chakkara Viyugam: The Battle of Brains ( Wheel Strategy) is a 2008 Indian Tamil-language  drama film starring Natarajan Subramaniam, Jayasurya, and Daisy Bopanna. It is directed by Udhayabhanu Maheswaran. The film released in April 2008.

Cast
 Natarajan Subramaniam as Kanna
 Jayasurya as Inspector Sathish Mishra
 Daisy Bopanna as Sandhya
 Anandsami
 Raaghav as Bose
 Vijay Raj
 Nellai Siva as Police officer
 Shankar as Kanna's friend
 K. Subash

Production
Natarajan Subramaniam and the crew of Naalai (2006) collaborated for a second time for this film The film was shot in Chennai and Kolkata. The film is produced by Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision, who previously produced Jab We Met (2007), which featured Subramaniam as the cinematographer. The film ran into issues when Daisy Bopanna would turn up late to the film sets.

Soundtrack
Songs by Karthik Raja and lyrics written by Snehan.
"Idyatha Kaanam" - Bela Shende, Karthik Raja
"Padaithal… Kaathal" - Karthik Raja, Snehan
"Idhu Thaan Chakraviyugam" - Bhavatharini
"Neer Aadiduvoom" - Karthik, Sangeetha Rajeshwaran, Snehan, Kanishka
"Yei… Unnidam" - Saindhavi, Karthik Raja

Release
Sify gave the film a rating of two out of five stars and stated that "No two ways about it, the film is an unmitigated endurance test".

References

External links

2008 films
2008 drama films
Indian drama films
2000s Tamil-language films
Films scored by Karthik Raja


Gingsheim (; Alsatian: Gìngse) is a former commune in the Bas-Rhin department in north-eastern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune Wingersheim-les-Quatre-Bans.

Geography
Gingsheim is positioned between Duntzenheim to the east and Hohatzenheim to the west.

The countryside is gently hilly and is used for agriculture

Population

Points of interest
Altar-piece: Oil painting (1897) of St Nicholas by Carola Sorg.

See also
 Communes of the Bas-Rhin department

References

Former communes of Bas-Rhin
Bas-Rhin communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia
Populated places disestablished in 2016


"Supernatural Superserious" is a song by American alternative rock band R.E.M. It is the first single and third track from the band's fourteenth album Accelerate and premiered on now defunct New York City radio station WRXP on February 5, 2008, without the consent of Warner Bros. Records. The single was first released on February 11, 2008 as an MP3, and February 25, 2008 on CD. Michael Stipe considers the song to be "one of the best things we've ever wrote."

Like most of the songs on Accelerate, it made its debut during the band's "working rehearsals" at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin between June 30 and July 5, 2007, in an unfinished form with the name "Disguised"; the song appears on Live at The Olympia in this form. Its title was changed on the advice of Coldplay frontman Chris Martin.

The song itself proved an early success, entering the UK Singles Chart at number 54 on downloads, before its official physical release, although—unlike most of R.E.M.'s lead singles in the UK—it was not a hit there. It also became R.E.M.'s first song since 2001's "Imitation of Life" to enter more than two charts and to chart on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks, with an entry position of number 36, eventually reaching 21. The other chart that the song charted was the Billboard Hot 100 where it reached number 85. It is also the band's final appearance on the Hot 100 chart. The song reached number one in Norway, becoming the band's only chart-topper there, and also reached the top 30 in several other European countries, including Belgium, Italy, and Sweden.

The song was used by ESPN as part of their coverage of Major League Baseball's 2008 Opening Day. It was also featured in the film He's Just Not That Into You.

A special 7" single was released to commemorate Record Store Day on April 19, 2008, in the US. The single was made available exclusively for participating stores along with special releases from Björk and Death Cab for Cutie.

Music video
The music video was shot by director Vincent Moon in various locations around New York City. On February 12, 2008 the website supernaturalsuperserious.com (no longer available) was launched, containing ten takes of the video available for download in high definition as well as a YouTube page for users to upload their own versions of the video.

Track listing
CD single #1 (UK, Germany) (W798CD), 7" Single (US)
"Supernatural Superserious" – 3:25
"Airliner" – 2:21

CD single #2 (UK) (W798CDX)
"Supernatural Superserious" – 3:25
"Airliner" – 2:21
"Red Head Walking" – 2:11

Personnel
"Supernatural Superserious" written by Peter Buck, Mike Mills, and Michael Stipe.
"Airliner" written by Buck, Mills, Stipe, and Scott McCaughey.
"Red Head Walking" written by Calvin Johnson (Beat Happening cover, from their album Dreamy, 1991).

Release history

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

External links
Music video

R.E.M. songs
2008 singles
Number-one singles in Norway
Songs written by Peter Buck
Songs written by Mike Mills
Songs written by Michael Stipe
Warner Records singles
Song recordings produced by Jacknife Lee
Song recordings produced by Michael Stipe
Song recordings produced by Mike Mills
Song recordings produced by Peter Buck
2008 songs
Films directed by Vincent Moon


Willard Sebastian Scissum (born October 28, 1962) is American football coach and former player who played as a tackle in the National Football League (NFL) for the Washington Redskins in the 1987 NFL season. He played college football at Alabama.

Before his stint with the Redskins, he was signed as a free agent by the Denver Broncos and played in the Canadian Football League (CFL) with the Calgary Stampeders and BC Lions. He served as the head football coach at Morehouse College from 2002 to 2004, and was last an assistant coach at Savannah State University.

In 2018, Scissum was awarded a Super Bowl ring for playing for the Redskins in 1987, the year they won Super Bowl XXII.

Head coaching record

References

External links
 Alabama State profile

1962 births
Living people
American football offensive tackles
Alabama A&M Bulldogs football coaches
Alabama Crimson Tide football coaches
Alabama Crimson Tide football players
Alabama State Hornets football coaches
Alcorn State Braves football coaches
BC Lions players
Berlin Thunder coaches
Calgary Stampeders players
Clark Atlanta Panthers football coaches
Fort Valley State Wildcats football coaches
Morehouse Maroon Tigers football coaches
Morris Brown Wolverines football coaches
Savannah State Tigers football coaches
Washington Redskins players
People from Guntersville, Alabama
Players of American football from Huntsville, Alabama
African-American coaches of American football
African-American players of American football
African-American players of Canadian football
21st-century African-American people
20th-century African-American sportspeople


Gœrlingen (; ) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

History
There is evidence of the site having been occupied by a leading family during the Gallo-Roman period.   By the thirteenth century Gœrlingen (albeit not spelled according to twenty-first century spelling) was numbered among the parishes under the archpriests of Bockenheim, the village being under the county of Sarrewerden to which the tithe was paid.   In 1314 Gœrlingen was listed among the assets of the Abbey of Lixheim, but by 1542, when fears of a further Turkish attack on Vienna prompted a general census of assets in the empire, Gœrlingen  had disappeared from the Lixheim records.

In 1557 the County of Nassau-Sarrewerden allocated seven deserted villages, of which Gœrlingen was one, to Huguenot recusants from Normandy, Lorraine and elsewhere.   The wars of the seventeenth century forced the citizens to flee towards the Palatinate or the Bischwiller district.   The church was destroyed in 1685.   Subsequent repopulation was achieved through the arrival of Swiss refugees from Calvinist extremism.   In 1793 the county found itself annexed to the new French Republic, but this time was spared the violent upheavals characteristic of the revolutionary period in other parts of France.   The nineteenth century was relatively tranquil for Gœrlingen, though the commune shared in full the sacrifice of young lives in support of the wars of 1871, 1914 and 1939, during which period Gœrlingen would find itself tossed backwards and forwards between France and Germany.

See also
 Communes of the Bas-Rhin department

References

Communes of Bas-Rhin
Bas-Rhin communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Gœrsdorf (; ) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. The commune merged with Mitschdorf at the start of 1973.

Gœrsdorf is part of the Northern Vosges Regional Nature Park.

Notable people
Author and priest Joseph Kuntz was born at Gœrsdorf on 25 July 1850: he died on 7 January 1892.  Between those dates he founded the journal "l'Elsässer" with his sponsor, Abbot Muller-Simonis.   (The German language name of the journal recalls the fact that between 1871 and 1918 Alsace was part of Germany).

See also
 Communes of the Bas-Rhin department

References

Communes of Bas-Rhin
Bas-Rhin communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Gougenheim (; ) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. Between 1 February 1973 and 1 January 1986 Rohr was merged with Gougenheim. The Guggenheim family is named after Gougenheim.

Location
The village lies on the departmental roads RD25 and RD31, between Rohr and Schaffhouse-sur-Zorn.

Vanished castle
The bell tower of the parish church was formerly the dungeon of a castle which appears to have been built in the twelfth century and which disappeared probably in the late medieval period or as a result of the destructive wars of the seventeenth century.

Between 1147 and 1359 the castle was inhabited by the family of a senior functionary (famille de ministériels) employed by the Bishop of Strasbourg.   In the thirteenth century five knights were assigned to defend the bishop's castle.   By 1525 the castle was the seat of the bishops' bailiff, and in that year it played a role in suppressing the Peasants' Revolt, being the location chosen for an episcopal tribunal.   It is believed that a gallows was erected, possibly at the spot called "Galgenberg" (German and Alsatian for "Gallows Hill"), on the high ground between Gougenheim and Mittelhausen.

See also
 Communes of the Bas-Rhin department
 Kochersberg

References

Communes of Bas-Rhin
Bas-Rhin communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Poligné (; ) is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department of Brittany in northwestern France.

Geography
The river Semnon forms all of the commune's southwestern border.

Population
Inhabitants of Poligné are called polinéens in French.

See also
Communes of the Ille-et-Vilaine department

References

External links

Mayors of Ille-et-Vilaine Association

Communes of Ille-et-Vilaine


Grandfontaine (; ; ) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. In the German dialect of the region it is called Grosbrun.

Name
For many centuries the names Grandfontaine and Framont were used interchangeably.   The name Grandfontaine and its Alsatian equivalent, Grosbrun, both describe an abundant water spring. The name Framont comes from the name of the mountain that overlooks the village, derived from the latinate name Ferratus mons (Iron-rich mountain) recorded in 1261.   Today the name Framont is used only for a small site at the bottom of the valley where metal based industries grew up.

Geography
The village is positioned in the south of the Bas-Rhin département and on the departmental boundary with the Moselle département.   west of Molsheim, Grandfontaine stretches out beside several mountain streams which feed into the river Bruche at Schirmeck  to the east. This is a mountain village, with most of the buildings at between 400 and 700 meters above sea level, and the rest of the territory being occupied almost entirely by the forest.  Surrounding peaks include the Donon (1008m), the Tête des Blanches Roches (916 m), the Corbeille (899 m), the Maxe (863 m), the Rond Perthuis (849m), the Tête Mathis (838 m) and the Haut de la Charaille (758 m).

Following the boundary changes of 1872 (see below) whereby the land imputed to Alsatian Grandfontaine was expanded to include forests which, formerly, had been part of Lorraine, two rivers that flow through Lorraine, the Plaine and the White Sarre, both have their source in the commune.

By road Grandfontaine is accessible using the departmental road RD 392 which runs from Schirmeck a short distance to the south-east through Grandfontaine to the Donon Pass (718 m) which is where the road leaves Alsace and enters Lorraine.   The nearest railway station, at Schirmeck, is on the regional Strasbourg-Molsheim-Saales-Saint-Dié-Épinal  line.

Adjacent communes
Wisches lies to the north-east, Schirmeck to the south-east, Moussey to the south-west, and Vexaincourt, Luvigny, Raon-sur-Plaine and Raon-lès-Leau are all over the mountains to the west. Turquestein-Blancrupt is to the north-west.

History
For a more detailed political history of the district, please refer to the entry on Salm-en-Vosges (currently only available in French).

The history of Grandfontaine is closely linked to the exploitation of the iron deposits in the adjacent hills, which predates written records and probably dates back to antiquity, but was certainly the defining activity of the community during the later Middle Ages and, above all, between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.  The first surviving mention of the metal extraction arises in connection with the troubled the thirteenth century when the area found itself caught between the expansionist ambitions of the Counts of Salm and the wish of the Bishop of Metz, Jacob of Lorraine, to limit the power of the major secular land owners.   The resulting struggles dislocated the metallurgy businesses of "Ferratus Mons" (the Iron Mountain).   The industry appears to have been restored by the sixteenth century when mining and the associated iron works reached a hitherto unprecedented scale, marked in the middle of the century by the introduction of modern blast furnaces which were able to last for several years and, weather permitting, produce Cast iron blocks.   These more robust and profitable furnaces were introduced to Grandfontaine by Thierry Buron from Varennes-en-Argonne, site of another booming iron business a hundred or so kilometres to the west.   The exercise involved transferring a successful technology from the iron works controlled by the Counts of Salm to an iron area on the frontiers of Lorraine and Alsace.   The resulting climate of exceptional prosperity together with the monopoly over iron production in the region enjoyed by the Salm family were lost following the destruction inflicted by the Thirty years War, and the subsequent warring between France and  The Empire which continued until after the death of Louis XIV, by which time Alsace was becoming accustomed to being part of France.

After 1715, the focus of French expansionism moved increasingly overseas: the death of the Sun King triggered a return to prosperity for the iron foundries of Grandfontaine.   Under the dynamic leadership of a new director named Pierre Launay the Forges of Framont quickly regained their reputation:  in 1720 the Duke of Lorraine looked no further for the iron castings needed for the construction of his new château at Lunéville.  Along with the rest of Alsace, the community experienced a prolonged period of prosperity through the rest of the eighteenth century.

By the middle of the nineteenth century it was becoming more difficult to provide cast iron product of consistent quality, the best veins of ore having by now been exhausted.   Recovering the remaining ore became more expensive and the economics of the smelting process were adversely affected by the increasing cost of charcoal.   The loss of profitability prompted several attempts to reorganise the business, but the best years were clearly over and on April 7, 1863 the forges were closed.

In 1871 Grandfontaine benefited from a last minute renegotiation following the surrender of Alsace and Lorraine to Germany.   France was keen to retain a railway line of which, under the terms originally imposed, six kilometres near Avricourt would have ended up in Germany.   The Germans were however persuaded to return the small amount of land involved to France in return for a large area of woodland surrounding the nearby communes of Raon-sur-Plaine and Raon-lès-Leau in Lorraine.   The woodland provided excellent scope for profitable forestry and contributed to the prosperity of Grandfontaine (now in Germany).   After 1919 and again in 1944, when Alsace and Lorraine were transferred back to France, there was no appetite for returning to the pre-1871 frontier between Alsace and Lorraine:  the lucrative forests remain in Alsace and the Grandfontaine commune has retained them, notwithstanding the protests from Raon across the mountains in Lorraine.

Notable people
British author Nicolas Freeling died at his home in Grandfontaine on July 20, 2003.

Points of interest
Les Minières is a nineteenth-century iron ore mine restored to operational status by the local commune, complemented by a small museum retracing the operation of the mine over the centuries and displaying some of mineralogical riches of the region.

See also
 Communes of the Bas-Rhin department
Grandfontaine official website

References

Communes of Bas-Rhin
Bas-Rhin communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia
Salm-Salm


WCIH (94.3 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Christian radio format. Licensed to Elmira, New York, United States, the station serves the Elmira-Corning area. The station is currently owned by Family Life Ministries, Inc.

History
The station was signed on by Frank Saia on August 1, 1966, as WEHH-FM, a sister station of WEHH. It was Chemung County's first FM station. The station broadcast mainly easy listening and classical music along with a bit of country in the mornings, "The Ralph Emery Show". In the 1970s, WEHH-FM broadcast Elmira City Council meetings live, with Tony Volino handling the remote duties from the Council Chambers.

In 1976, Saia sold the station to Condit Communications, then-owner of crosstown rival WELM. Condit changed the call sign to WLVY on March 3, 1976, and the format changed to AOR. The station first was known as "Y94", but later rebranded as "Love Rock", presumably because of the existence of Y94 in relatively nearby Syracuse. Eventually, the station came to be known simply as "94 Rock".

In the early to mid-1980s, the station's programming evolved into more of a Top 40/CHR format first with a rock, new wave/modern rock, and heavy metal emphasis first and then with a dash of bubblegum pop, dance, R&B, freestyle, and hip-hop emphasis to the mix.

Since the 1980s, 94 Rock had been consistently among the market leaders in the Arbitron ratings.

On October 3, 2022, Tower Broadcasting, LLC filed paperwork with the FCC to transfer the license of WLVY to the Family Life Network, a large regional Christian radio operator out of nearby Bath, in exchange for the license to translator W293CE and $450,000.

On January 2, 2023, it was announced that the station's format would move to WEHH and WELM. The sale to Family Life Ministries was consummated on January 5, and the station changed its call sign to WCIH on January 14, 2023.

Translators
WCIH recently obtained the frequency 93.7 for Waverly listeners. The 120-watt translator improves the station's signal in "The Valley," which consists of Waverly and South Waverly, Sayre and Athens in Bradford County, Pennsylvania. It can be received in an area roughly bounded by Southport, Van Etten and Owego in New York and Towanda, Pennsylvania.

The station has a 50-watt translator on 93.7 in Corning. It can be received roughly between Big Flats, Lindley, Addison, Campbell and the Schuyler County line in and around the Meads Creek Valley.

References

External links
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Christian radio stations in New York (state)
Radio stations established in 1966
1966 establishments in New York (state)


Grassendorf (; ) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

History
Following the Thirty Years War which badly depleted population levels in much of Alsace, a large number of immigrants arrived from the Thiérache region of Picardy during the middle of the seventeenth century.

In the local language the inhabitants of Grassendorf are known as "Welschguller" which means something along the lines of "foreign turkeys".   Until the 1990s the spire of the parish church was topped off by the carving of a turkey rather than of the Gallic rooster which is more normally found on the tops of church spires in rural France.

See also
 Communes of the Bas-Rhin department

References

Communes of Bas-Rhin
Bas-Rhin communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Grendelbruch ( or ) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

Geography
Grendelbruch is a mountain village set in the forested region to the west of Obernai.

Surrounding communes
 Bœrsch, Mollkirch, Rosheim, Muhlbach-sur-Bruche, Barembach, Natzwiller and Russ.

History
The first surviving written mention of Grendelbruch appears in a papal bull dated November 28, 1049, wherein the pope confirms that the Abbey of Altdorf may receive the tithes from "Grundelbac".   Bac is an old Germanic word for a brook (Modern German: Bach), and Grendelbruch is one of a number of place names formed between the fifth and eighth centuries (when Germanic dialects predominated in the region) ending in a form of this word.

Grendelbruch was liberated from German occupation on November 26, 1944 by the Second Battalion of the Thirtieth Infantry Regiment of the US Army.   Under the command of Lt Col Frederick R Armstrong the battalion engaged in fierce house to house fighting through the night.   Significant further fighting took place in the forest surrounding the village.

See also
 Communes of the Bas-Rhin department

References

Communes of Bas-Rhin
Bas-Rhin communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Gresswiller (;  or ) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in northeastern France.

Geography

Adjacent communes
Mollkirch, Rosenwiller, Dinsheim-sur-Bruche, Heiligenberg, and Mutzig.

Notable people
Auguste Dubois, painter and engraver (1892–1973) was born at Gresswiller.  Between 1920 and 1922 he worked closely with Ettore Bugatti whose automobile factory was located at nearby Molsheim.

Landmarks

Unusually, Gresswiller has its own orrery.

See also
 Communes of the Bas-Rhin department

References

Communes of Bas-Rhin
Bas-Rhin communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Gries () is a commune in the Bas-Rhin département in Grand Est in north-eastern France. It lies 7 km to the south-southeast of Haguenau.

Etymology
The first document mentioning the name of the village is dated 13 March 826. Gries is mentioned for the first time under the name Gerareshusa. By 830, it is called Gerireshusa.

According to the pastor Guggenbühl the name comes from the given name Gerhard. The name of the village would therefore be in modern standard High German Gerhardshausen, which suggests that it was owned by a certain "Gerhard", whose identity so far has not been discovered.

A document from 974 uses the name Grioz which more closely resembles the current name of the village. Guggenbühl explains that name change as follows: very fast the suffix -hausen of Gerireshausen has been abandoned, the resulting Gerires being transformed over the years first to Grioz, then to Grieze and finally to current Gries.

History
Belonging to the landgraves of Lower Alsace until 1332, the town passed subsequently to Lichtenberg and then to Zweibrücken-Bitsch, before belonging to the count of Hanau-Lichtenberg who introduced the Reformation. Thus its population became Protestant by virtue of the principle cujus regio, ejus religio. In 1622 – during the Thirty Years War – Gries was completely destroyed by the troops of Mansfeld upon which its inhabitants fled to Strasbourg.

To repopulate the region, settlers from Switzerland (Swiss German) came to the town. The landgraves of Hesse-Darmstadt were the last masters of the village from 1736 until the French Revolution, when it was annexed by France. The landgraves contributed significantly to its development.

Sights

Southeast of the village is a mound, the only remains of an ancient castle, the residence of the bishop of Strasbourg, which remained occupied until the late fifteenth century, when it was destroyed.

Organ
The Protestant church contains an organ built by Johann Andreas Silbermann in 1781.

Administration
The present mayor is Éric Hoffstetter, elected in 2020. He succeeded Claude Kern, who was in office from 2001 until 2020.

Demographics

Sports

The Espace Sport La Foret is one of the home arenas for the basketball team Alliance Sport Alsace (ASA) of the LNB Pro B.

Notable people
 Andreas Thurman (born 1591 in Gartz, Pomerania, died 6 February 1672 in Gries) was pastor in Gries, Kurtzenhausen, Weitbruch and Geudertheim in 1628–1672. He was also deacon and schoolmaster in Westhoffen in 1622–27, and a preacher of the ducal court in Bischwiller from 1633. He married Maria Pfau, daughter of a brewer, on 28 April 1623 in the Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune Church in Strasbourg. Widowed, he married Anna Barbara Dannhauer on 14 March 1642 at Schiltigheim, becoming the brother-in-law of the theologian Johann Conrad Dannhauer.

Twin towns – sister cities
Gries is twinned with:
 Gries, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany since 20 May 1979

This other Gries lies in the west of the Palatinate about 20 km west of Kaiserslautern. Since the 1979 establishment of the partnership, it has been well developed. The relatively short distance between Gries and Gries – only about 110 km – has made private contacts easy. Even a Palatine-Alsatian marriage, complete with children, has sprung from this partnership. There are regular visits back and forth by each municipality's councils.

See also
Communes of the Bas-Rhin department

References

External links

 Official Website of Gries

Communes of Bas-Rhin


WOKN (99.5 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a country music format. Licensed to Southport, New York, United States, the station serves the Elmira-Corning area. The station is currently owned by Tower Broadcasting LLC and features programming from Westwood One.

FM Translator
WOKN also simulcasts from an FM translator in Corning, New York.

References

External links

OKN
Country radio stations in the United States
Waypoint Media


is a Japanese writer and poet from Osaka. Her work has won prestigious Japanese literary awards in several genres, including the 138th Akutagawa Prize for her novella Chichi to ran (乳と卵) (Breasts and Eggs), the 2013 Tanizaki Prize for her short story collection Ai no yume to ka (愛の夢とか) (Dreams of Love, etc.), and the 2008 Nakahara Chūya Prize for Contemporary Poetry for Sentan de, sasuwa sasareruwa soraeewa (先端で さすわ さされるわ そらええわ). Kawakami's works have been translated into several languages and distributed throughout the world.

Early life
Kawakami was born in Osaka on August 29, 1976.

Career
Kawakami worked as a hostess and bookstore clerk, before embarking on a singing career. Kawakami released three albums, but she quit her musical career in 2006 to focus on writing.

Subsequently, Kawakami made her literary debut as a poet in 2006, and she published her first novella, My Ego, My Teeth, and the World, in 2007. Before winning the Akutagawa Prize in 2008 for Breasts and Eggs, Kawakami was known in Japan primarily as a blogger. At its peak, her popular blog received over 200,000 hits per day.

In 2010, Kawakami's first full-length novel, Heaven, won the Murasaki Shikibu Prize for Literature. In 2012, an English translation of her short story "March Yarn" appeared in March was Made of Yarn, which is a collection of essays and stories about the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.

From 2015 to 2017, Kawakami conducted a series of interviews with Haruki Murakami, in which she notably asked him about women and sexualization in his novels. The edited volume of these interviews, titled  was published in 2017. During this same period, Kawakami was selected as a 2016 Granta Best of Young Japanese Novelists for her short story "Marie's Proof of Love."

Kawakami's novel, Ms Ice Sandwich, made the shortlist of the 2018 edition of the Grand Prix of Literary Associations. In 2019, Kawakami published Summer Stories, a considerably expanded version of her novella Breasts and Eggs and received the 73rd Mainichi Publication Culture Award.

In 2020, the English translation of Summer Stories was published by Europa Editions. The New York Times ran a review by Katie Kitamura on the day of publication, in which she observes, "Mieko Kawakami writes with a bracing lack of sentimentality, particularly when describing the lives of women."

Her 2022 book, All the Lovers in the Night, was a finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction.

Writing style
Kawakami's writing often employs Osaka dialect, which is a distinctive Japanese dialect spoken in Osaka and surrounding cities. She also incorporates experimental and poetic language into her short stories and novels, citing Lydia Davis and James Joyce as literary influences. Her writing is known for its poetic qualities and its insights into the female body, ethical questions, and the dilemmas of modern society.

Japanese author, Haruki Murakami, called her his favorite young novelist and has described her writing as "ceaselessly growing and evolving".

Awards and recognition
In addition to the awards noted above, Kawakami has also received the following:
 2007 Tsubouchi Shoyo Prize for Young Emerging Writers for Watakushi ritsuin hā, mata wa sekai (My Ego Ratio, My Teeth, and the World)
 2008 Chūya Nakahara Prize for Sentan de, sasuwa sasareruwa sora eewa
 2008 Akutagawa Prize for Breasts and Eggs
 2010 Murasaki Shikibu Prize for Heaven
 2013 Tanizaki Prize for Ai no Yume toka (Dreams of Love, etc.)
 2016 Watanabe Junichiro Prize for Akogare (Yearning)
 2019 Mainichi Publication Culture Award for Summer Stories

Bibliography

Books in Japanese
 Watakushi ritsu in ha, mata wa sekai (わたくし率 イン 歯一、または世界, My Ego Ratio, My Teeth, and the World), Kodansha, 2007,
 Chichi to ran (乳と卵, Breasts and Eggs), Bungeishunju, 2008,
 Sentan de, sasuwa sasareruwa soraeewa(先端で、さすわ さされるわ そらええわ), Seidosha, 2008,
 Hevun (ヘヴンHeaven), Kodansha, 2009,
 Subete mayonaka no koibito tachi (すべて真夜中の恋人たち, All the Lovers in the Night), Kodansha, 2011,
 Ai no yume to ka (愛の夢とか, Dreams of Love, etc.), Kodansha, 2013,
 Akogare (あこがれ, Yearning), Shinchosha, 2015
 Wisteria to sannin no onna tachi (ウィステリアと三人の女たち, "Wisteria and Three Women"), Shinchosha, 2017,
 Natsu monogatari (夏物語, "Summer Stories"), Bungeishunju, 2019,
 Haru no kowai mono (春のこわいもの, "The Fears of Spring"), Shinchosha, 2022,

Selected work in English
 "From Breasts and Eggs," trans. Louise Heal Kawai, Words Without Borders, 2012
 "March Yarn," trans. Michael Emmerich, March was Made of Yarn: Reflections on the Japanese Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Meltdown, 2012
 "Where Have All the Sundays Gone?", trans. Hitomi Yoshio, Words Without Borders, 2015
 "About Her and the Memories That Belong to Her", trans. Hitomi Yoshio, Granta 132, 2015
 "Strawberry Fields Forever and Ever," trans. Hitomi Yoshio, Pleiades: Literature in Context, 2016
 "The Flower Garden," trans. Hitomi Yoshio, Freeman's: The Future of New Writing, 2017
 Ms. Ice Sandwich, trans. Louise Heal Kawai, Pushkin Press, 2018,
 "How Much Heart," trans. David Boyd, Granta Online, 2018
 Breasts and Eggs, trans. Sam Bett and David Boyd, Europa Editions, 2020,
"The Flowers Look More Beautiful Now Than Ever," trans. Hitomi Yoshio, Granta Online, 2020
"Shame", trans. Louise Heal Kawai and Hitomi Yoshio, Granta Online, 2020
 Heaven, trans. Sam Bett and David Boyd, Europa Editions, 2021, p. 192.
 All the Lovers in the Night, trans. Sam Bett and David Boyd, Europa Editions, 2022, p. 224.

Personal life
Kawakami lives in Tokyo, Japan.

References

External links
 Official website

1976 births
Living people
Japanese writers
Akutagawa Prize winners
Writers from Osaka
Singers from Osaka
21st-century Japanese singers
21st-century Japanese women singers


Griesheim-sur-Souffel is a commune in the Bas-Rhin département in Grand Est in north-eastern France. It is positioned about 8 kilometers to the northwest of the city centre of Strasbourg.

Griesheim-sur-Souffel is one of the 23 member communes of the Community of Communes of the Kochersberg.

Griesheim-sur-Souffel should not be confused with Griesheim-près-Molsheim, a slightly larger village positioned, as its name indicates, a short distance from Molsheim. The two Griesheims are less than twenty kilometres (twelve miles) apart.

The Souffel stream runs by the village's border with its neighbour village of Dingsheim.

See also
 Communes of the Bas-Rhin department
 Kochersberg

References

External links

Official site

Communes of Bas-Rhin
Bas-Rhin communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Erik Sökjer-Petersén (4 December 1887 – 17 April 1967) was a Swedish sport shooter who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics and in the 1920 Summer Olympics.

In 1912 he finished seventh in the individual running deer, double shots competition and eleventh in the individual running deer, single shots event. Eight years later he won the bronze medal as member of the Swedish team in the team clay pigeons competition. He also participated in the individual trap event but his result is unknown.

References

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1887 births
1967 deaths
Swedish male sport shooters
Olympic shooters for Sweden
Shooters at the 1912 Summer Olympics
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Olympic medalists in shooting
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Gumbrechtshoffen () is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France, approximately 18 kilometres (eleven miles) northwest of Haguenau.

On 1 September 1945 the villages of Gumbrechtshoffen-Oberbronn (Obergumbrechtshoffen in Alsatian) and Gumbrechtshoffen-Niederbronn (Niedergumbrechtshoffen) merged:  Gumbrechtshoffen was the result.

Geography
The commune is positioned between Niederbronn and Haguenau, a couple of kilometres to the west of the main road that connects the two. It is traversed by the river River Zinsel.

See also
 Communes of the Bas-Rhin department

References

Communes of Bas-Rhin
Bas-Rhin communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Gundershoffen () is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

History

Archaeological finds such as coins, pottery and statues from the third century testify to the presence of a settlement here in the Gallo-Roman period.

The earliest surviving written record of the place dates from 1232, where the name used for the settlement is Guntershoven, a name which endured at least until the seventeenth century.

The village was at one stage owned by the Dukes of Lorraine.   Like many villages in Alsace, Gundershoffen was ravaged by the Thirty Years War with savage depopulation resulting:  it was subsequently repopulated by families from Switzerland.

In 1940 the Germans recovered Alsace and the little town suffered badly from the fighting of the Second World War.   Liberation appeared in the form of the US Army on December 3, 1944, but the area was recaptured by German troops.   Only in March 1945 were the German fighters finally expelled.

Landmarks
Gundershoffen possesses an eighteenth-century Protestant church and a modern Catholic one.

The Jewish cemetery dates from the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century, and continues to be used by Gundershoffen and by the neighbouring commune of Reichshoffen.

See also
 Communes of the Bas-Rhin department

References

Communes of Bas-Rhin
Bas-Rhin communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Gungwiller () is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

Geography
Positioned to the north-west of Phalsbourg on the road towards the Saarland, Gungwiller is a one-street village surrounded by farmland.

See also
 Communes of the Bas-Rhin department

References

Communes of Bas-Rhin
Bas-Rhin communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Gunstett is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

Geography
The village is positioned slightly to the east of the Departmental Road RD27, a short distance north of Haguenau. The surrounding countryside is dominated by arable agriculture: the soil type is alluvial, reflecting the proximity of the river Rhine to the east.

Neighbouring villages are Oberdorf to the north, Biblisheim to the south-east, Durrenbach to the south, Morsbronn-les-Bains to the south-south-west and the formerly independent commune of Eberbach-Woerth to the West.

Points of interest
The Pear Conservation Orchard comprises 300 trees of 250 different varieties.
St Michael's Church contains an organ built in 1857 by Seltz organ builder Joseph Stiehr.
Public wash house.

See also
 Communes of the Bas-Rhin department

References

Communes of Bas-Rhin
Bas-Rhin communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


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| image           = Maria Holic vol 01.jpg
| caption         = Maria†Holic'''s first manga volume cover featuring Mariya Shidō.
| ja_kanji        = まりあ†ほりっく
| ja_romaji       = Maria†Horikku
| genre           = Romantic comedy
}}

 is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Minari Endō, the author of Dazzle. The manga was first serialized in the Japanese seinen manga magazine Monthly Comic Alive on June 27, 2006, and is published by Media Factory. The manga was initially licensed by Tokyopop in North America and picked up by One Peace Books in 2016 after Tokyopop lost the license in 2011. It has also been released digitally by BookWalker, Kadokawa's online digital shopfront. The first anime adaptation animated by Shaft aired in Japan between January and March 2009. A second anime season, Maria†Holic: Alive, premiered on April 8, 2011. Both seasons of the anime series have been licensed by Sentai Filmworks.

PlotMaria†Holic revolves around a high school girl named Kanako Miyamae, who due to a childhood incident is scared of boys and breaks out in hives if a boy touches her. During her second year of high school, she enrolls in an all-girls school hoping to find a female romantic partner. However, her ideal candidate, Mariya Shidō, turns out to be a sadistic cross-dressing boy.

Characters

Kanako is the protagonist of the story. She is a second year high school transfer student to Ame no Kisaki, a Catholic-based all-girls academy. Kanako has an inherent fear of men which began in elementary school when a piece of her recorder and P.E. uniform were stolen. When coming into physical contact with any man, she instantaneously breaks out in hives. This has significantly contributed to her fear of boys. Kanako is almost solely interested in girls in regards to her ideal romantic relationships. She instantly and constantly suffers from nosebleeds—a visible indication of sexual perverseness frequently used in anime and manga. Her reason for transferring to Ame no Kisaki is to look for her one true love. Kanako begins her reflections on her situation with the phrase "Dear mother in heaven." Kanako is also quite tall (standing at 175 cm or 5'9"), making her height (and her weight) emotional weak spots. She also takes constant verbal abuse from Mariya and his maid, Matsurika. She is often called a 'pervert', or 'lesbian', or other nicknames they happen to give her.

Mariya is the title character of the story. He is a cross-dressing boy who attends Ame no Kisaki as a girl as a means to win the chairmanship of both the all-male and all-female schools where his late grandmother served as the ex-chairman for both. He deeply respects and loves his grandmother and does not care about actually winning chairmanship. He simply wishes to honor his grandmother's request. He appears to genuinely care about others though this facade is often hidden through some excuse he has crafted for himself. When Kanako first meets Mariya, she is instantly attracted to his playful femininity and kindness. He often teases Kanako by playing with his long blonde hair, speaking in a soft voice, and smiling sweetly. However, Mariya turns out to be quite sadistic in nature and generally adjusts his personality to reflect whatever situation he is in. Mariya's beauty and feminine gestures are so convincing that the entire school, including the faculty, have no idea of his true gender. Mariya is quite short, reaching at most up to the height at the tip of Kanako's nose (160 cm or 5'3"), and shorter than Matsurika. Because of the switching with his sister his original name was Shizu instead.

Matsurika is Mariya's maid. She is generally silent but is usually quite rude when she chooses to speak. She delivers the vast majority of her lines with almost no facial expressions. The majority of her insults are directed at Kanako and Mariya. She refers to Kanako by such names as "Ms. Pig," "Eiffel Tower" and "Tokyo Tower" due to Kanako's tall stature. When speaking to Mariya, Matsurika often delivers sharp remarks in regards to his cross-dressing tendencies or sexual perversions. Matsurika also attends classes with Mariya. She also stays hidden from the rest of the students, and follows Mariya's orders when told.

Nanami is an aloof and bespectacled student at Ame no Kisaki. Although she appears quite cold and dispassionate on the surface, she is actually a very caring and helpful personality. At the bequest of the teacher, she helps Kanako to overcome her initial troubles at the school, to the extent that she is willing to put her own reputation at stake by pretending to be Kanako's lover; so as to avoid trouble from Ryūken's fans. She eventually becomes very close friends with Sachi.

Sachi is a bright and cheerful girl, quickly becoming friends with the newcomer, Kanako. She has orange hair, commonly tied in pigtails. She is good friends with Yuzuru. She seems to have access to hammer space, as she pulls numerous things out from her pockets, even things that would not fit.

Yuzuru is a demure and friendly girl who has long been friends with Sachi. She is fairly shy and has some self-esteem issues. Kanako sees Inamori as a more elegant girl and is intrigued by her surprisingly large breasts. She is the best archer in the school's archery club, of which Mariya is also a member.

Ryūken is the star of Ame no Kisaki, due to her tall stature, good looks, kindness, and generally tomboyish nature. She is a member of the Drama Club, and has played several male roles. She has a great number of fans and her own fan club. Mariya himself is actually quite jealous of her popularity. She was supposed to be Kanako's roommate at the dormitories only to be run out the first night by Mariya so that Mariya could keep a close eye on Kanako. Ryūken's fans cause mischief for Kanako because they are jealous of her friendship with Ryūken.

The Dorm Leader is an unusual young girl with cat ears who looks after Dorm No. 2 which Kanako is assigned to. She is addressed as "Miss Dorm Leader" by all the students. When Kanako met her, and tried to make small talk and ask casual questions the Dorm Leader looped back to the first question to say that she might also be addressed as 'Boss' or 'God'. Kanako took this as a hint to ask no more questions. The students do not dare disobey her for fear of vague, yet frightening threats. She has a pet dog, Yonakuni, who helps her take care of the place. Her rule of the dorm extends to manhandling Father Kanae after repeatedly demanding bribes so that he can see Kanako. She has an idiosyncratic speech pattern which makes her speak in a rather languid fashion and insert wherever grammatically possible the phrase 'desu yo'. Whenever seen in the anime alone with Yonakuni, the Dorm Leader can be seen regularly singing disturbing songs about the act of devouring meat, or other strange subjects.

Ayari runs the school's student council. She is Mariya's and Shizu's cousin, and has a standing rivalry with Mariya. She calls him 'Flat Chest', as he calls her 'Fat Ass'. Apparently, the cause of the animosity between Mariya and Ayari happened because of a childhood incident where she had her dress ripped open supposedly by Mariya (and her underwear exposed). Because of that incident, she got called "Panda-Chang" after the mascot character printed on her underwear and all sorts of nicknames related to pandas. She blames Mariya for this incident and therefore holds a grudge on him for that. Ayari and Mariya look much alike and are about the same height.

Maki is the vice president of Ame no Hisaki's student council. Father Kanae happens to have a crush on her.

Shizu is Mariya's twin sister. She attends an all-boys school which was also run by the ex-chairman. She has a similar hatred/fear of males, and had similar experiences as Kanako, who she affectionately calls 'Kana-chan'. Unlike Mariya, she appears to actually be the kind, innocent girl that Mariya attempts to portray. She is also quick to get her feelings hurt, as well. The agreement for the competition was the loser would be chosen if someone found out from either school; Kanako, thinking Shizu was Mariya, mentioned Mariya's touching her, which revealed to Shizu that Kanako knew Mariya's gender, thus defining Mariya as the loser. Shizu had only gone into the school to switch with Mariya for their schools' physical examinations. However, because Kanako found out Mariya's secret before she began attending the school, it was null, and because Kanako knew Shizu's true gender, ordinarily, Mariya would've been claimed victor. But out of generosity, Mariya chose to overlook it in favor of his twin sister. The only way to distinguish between Shizu and Mariya is by the mole under their eyes; Mariya's is under his left eye, while Shizu's is under her right eye. Because of the switching with her brother her original name was Mariya instead. She is 160.3 cm (equal to 5'3") tall, which makes her marginally taller than Mariya, and happens to be a sore point for him. The two siblings regularly compete, not just in height and weight, but in studies as well.

Kanae is the priest of the school Ame no Kisaki. He is the teacher for Modern Japanese and is very popular among the students because of his good looks. He gets a crush on every beautiful girl he sees and is currently "in love" with Mariya, Matsurika, Maki, and Ayari. He seems to be concerned about Kanako because of her strange behavior in his eyes. She is also the only one who failed in the Modern Japanese exams. Because of Mariya making up a story about how Kanako's elder brother died and that he resembles her brother, he desperately wants to help her. He is similar to Kanako because he begins his sentences sometimes with "Skipped, Dear mama in heaven..." and is also prone to having long internal monologues (and generally looking too deeply into the most trivial of matters) and occasionally, fantasies. He also thinks much about what a person could mean when they are saying something. The similarity between Kanako and him is also that they both like beautiful girls. He is half-French.

Honoka is a fan of Ryūken Ishima. She is a second-year high school student at Ame no Kisaki. She hates Kanako because she was Ryūken's roommate. Honoka and her friends (who are Ryūken's fans too) had terrorized roommates of Ryūken earlier, which is why nobody wanted to live with her. Honoka has envied Kanako and terrorized her too, such as placing seafood in Kanako's desk or in her pencil case.

Kumagai is the homeroom teacher for Kanako, Nanami, Sachi and Yuzuru. She is a graduate of Ame no Kisaki and remembers Kanako's mother Professor Miyamae. She had met Kanako herself when she was very young. She tells Kanako that everyone calls her "Miss Teddybear".

Rindō is Matsurika Shinōji's twin brother. However, Rindō and Matsurika have almost no similarities in looks and/or personalities. One of the only things similar is their eye color and how cruel they can be. Rindō is Shizu Shidō's butler and is in a similar situation as Matsurika is in. He is one of the few people in the series who know of Shizu and Mariya Shidō's true genders and identities. He loves to set up traps around the Shidō residence, trying to ensnare Mariya since they were children.

Media

MangaMaria†Holic is written and illustrated by Minari Endō. It started serialization in Media Factory's seinen manga magazine Monthly Comic Alive on June 27, 2006. The manga concluded on November 27, 2014. 14 tankōbon volumes have been released in Japan, with the final volume being released on January 23, 2015. The manga was licensed by Tokyopop, and the first volume was available in September 2009. However, they only managed to publish the first six volumes before they lost the license. Kadokawa has released the entire series digitally in English via their website BookWalker. In 2016, One Peace Books started releasing a 3-in-1 omnibus version as well as individual volumes from volume seven onwards in English.

Drama CDs
A drama CD was released on July 25, 2008 and was produced by Frontier Works. A drama CD was also bundled with the limited edition of volume five of the manga.

Anime

An anime adaptation directed by Akiyuki Shinbo and Yukihiro Miyamoto and produced by Shaft aired in Japan between January 5 and March 23, 2009 on Chiba TV, containing twelve episodes. The first episode of the anime was aired as a special broadcast on Animate TV from December 26, 2008 to January 4, 2009 and on AT-X on December 30, 2008. The anime series has been licensed by Sentai Filmworks and is being distributed by Section23 Films. The complete collection was released on DVD, February 23, 2010. Sentai Filmworks re-released the first season on DVD and Blu-ray with an English dub (produced at Seraphim Digital) on January 28, 2014. The opening theme is "Hanaji" by Yū Kobayashi, and the ending theme is a cover version of Yellow Magic Orchestra's 1983 single  performed by Asami Sanada, Marina Inoue, and Yū Kobayashi, the voice actresses of the main characters.

A second anime season titled Maria†Holic: Alive, under the direction of Akiyuki Shinbo and Tomokazu Tokoro, began airing on April 8, 2011. The first BD/DVD volume for Maria†Holic: Alive, which contains unaired bonus footage, was released on July 27, 2011. Sentai Filmworks has licensed the second season and simulcasted the series on the Anime Network video website. The anime opening themes for Maria†Holic: Alive'' are  by Tomokazu Sugita (episodes 1 through 4) and  by Yū Kobayashi, and the ending theme is a cover version of Linda Yamamoto's song  by Ame no Kisaki Gasshōdan. There is also a special ending song for episode 12, sung by Yū Kobayashi, titled  and was released on the same single as the other theme songs of the anime.

Reception
Theron Martin of Anime News Network called the anime "pure comedy than a romantic comedy," including a "love-obsessed lesbian" and young man who has to "pass for a female in an all-girl's school."  Martin said that it adds in new twists on "stock characters in lesbian girl's school series." While he said that some of the series is funny, at other times it is "outright weird," even as has developed artistry, a strong musical score. He concluded that the series does not have "a meaningful plot" and is more of a "stand-alone sketch comedy than anything."

References

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WHGL-FM (100.3 MHz) is a radio station broadcasting a country music format. Licensed to Canton, Pennsylvania, United States, the station serves the Elmira-Corning, NY and Troy-Canton, PA areas. The station is currently owned by Cantroair Communications Inc. and features programming from CBS News Radio.

WHGL has one sister station: WTZN, 1310 "The Zone".

References

External links

HGL-FM
Country radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1975


Handschuheim is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

It lies a few kilometres to the west of Strasbourg along the old national road RN4.

See also
 Communes of the Bas-Rhin department
 Kochersberg

References

External links

 official site

Communes of Bas-Rhin
Bas-Rhin communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Hangenbieten is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department and Grand Est region of north-eastern France.

The name is a contraction of the former Hangenbietenheim.

Geography
Hangenbieten lies 2 km north of Strasbourg Airport and 10 km west of central Strasbourg. The village is traversed by the Canal de la Bruche, built by Vauban following King Louis XIV of France's annexation of the Prince-Bishopric of Strasbourg in 1681. The canal connects Strasbourg to Molsheim and is followed by a cycle path.

See also
 Communes of the Bas-Rhin department

References

Bas-Rhin communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia
Communes of Bas-Rhin


Harskirchen () is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department and Grand Est region of north-eastern France.

Location
Harskirchen lies in the valley of the River Saar in the extreme northwest of the cultural and historical region of Alsace. The Canal des houillères de la Sarre, which connects the Canal de la Marne au Rhin in Gondrexange to the canalized Sarre in Sarreguemines, passes through the commune, west of the village centre.

Churches
Like many communities in French Alsace and the German upper Rhineland, Harskirhen has both a Lutheran and a Catholic church. The Lutheran church dates from the eighteenth century and is decorated in the Baroque style, while the nineteenth-century Catholic church is distinguished by its neo-Gothic tower.

Population

See also
 Communes of the Bas-Rhin department

References

Communes of Bas-Rhin
Bas-Rhin communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Hatten (; ) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France, some fifteen kilometres (nine miles) to the south of Wissembourg.

Geography
Positioned at the northern edge of the Forest of Hagenau, the village is on the edge of the Alsace Plain, although the agricultural landscape surrounding this village and its immediate neighbors is one of rolling hills.

History

Second World War

In 1939, because Hatten was on the Maginot Line, the authorities had arranged for the town's 1,500 inhabitants to be evacuated to Châteauponsac in the Limousin region, six hundred kilometers to the southwest. Evacuees had been restricted to one suitcase per person, and so were obliged to leave behind most of their possessions. However, after July 1940, the village had survived the invasion of France undamaged; therefore, the residents were able to return to Hatten, since the whole of Alsace had then reverted to its pre-1919 status as a part of Germany. On December 13, 1944, after four years of occupation, the village had been liberated without any fighting by the Americans and the residents looked forward to the resumption of peace.

However, in January 1945, the Germans had launched one of their final counter-offensives under the name of Operation North Wind, with the intention of retaking Strasbourg. Hatten was on the route of the German columns and thus, the village had found itself at the heart of the battle. During the fierce tank battles between the Germans and the Americans that had taken place over the course of twelve days in the middle of January, 350 of the 365 houses which had inhabited the village had been destroyed. Along with 2,500 military deaths, 83 civilians in Hatten had perished. Many US or other allied troops were stationed there and counterattacked the Germans. Many call this part of Battle Of The Bulge. Many of the Allied troops stationed there were not prepared for war. They thought that the front lines would be in Strasbourg and they were just peacekeeping.

The village was rebuilt after the war.

See also
 Communes of the Bas-Rhin department

References

Communes of Bas-Rhin
Bas-Rhin communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Poilley (; ) is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department of Brittany in northwestern France.

Population

See also
Communes of the Ille-et-Vilaine department

References

External links

Mayors of Ille-et-Vilaine Association

Communes of Ille-et-Vilaine


Hegeney (also spelled Hégeney) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

Geography
Hégeney is positioned to the north of Haguenau approximately halfway to Wœrth along the departmental road RD27.   The landscape is of gently rolling hills, with the topography becoming more uneven towards the Vosges Mountains some twenty kilometres (twelve miles) to the west, and the land becoming eventually a little flatter towards the River Rhine some twenty kilometres (twelve miles) to the east.   To the south and south-west Hégeney is bordered by the little River Eberbach, a tributary of the Sauer.

History
The earliest archaeological find here is a large Bronze Age axe, weighing half a kilogramme (one pound).   Found at the edge of the commune, it is now on display at a museum in Haguenau.  Coins and other artefacts from the second and third centuries have also been found at the adjacent hamlet known as Wasserrut, beside the known route of a Roman age road that connected  Morsbronn with Laubach.

The Abbey of Wissembourg, founded around 660, enjoyed the support of the Merovingian kings and received grants of land from a number of districts.   In 742 it is recorded that Duke Liutfrid of Alsace donated to the abbey four farms at Heconheim (modern Hégeney).   In 786 the site appears under the patronage of Aginoni Villa (the farm of Aginon)

In 1280, with the establishment of the Imperial Bailiwick of Haguenau, the settlement of Heckenheim, which found itself within the Imperial Bailiwick, gained the rights and privileges of an imperially dependent village, together with the neighbouring village of Eschbach in the provostship of Forstheim.

There is a record of the town of Haguenau having confiscated the villagers' horses and cattle on Friday, 11 August 1368.

During the Thirty Years' War, the village was torched by Swedish troops.   After the end of the war, the French state progressively tightened its control over the Imperial Bailiwick.   In due course the lands were granted in fief to the Duke of Mazarin (not to be confused with Cardinal Mazarin whose niece the duke had married).   The royal village of Hégeney thereafter belonged to the duke's heirs right up till the end of the ancien regime.

Landmarks
 The church of Saint Margaret dates from 1769.   The organ casing is the work of Messrs Moeller,  organ builders of Oberbronn.  The windows date from 1949 and were among the first works of master craftsman Tristan Ruhlmann.
 The public fountain in the village square was originally sourced using a 350 m channel of hollowed out tree trunks running beside the street.
 the 'Lion Head' sculpture found at the edge of the Roman period road, thought originally to have come from the old Villa Aginoni, has been incorporated into the wall of a stone barn at Rue du Verger No. 8.

See also
 Communes of the Bas-Rhin department

References

Communes of Bas-Rhin
Bas-Rhin communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Heidolsheim () is a commune in the extreme south of the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.

Geography
Heidolsheim is positioned to the south-east of Sélestat, slightly more than half way towards Marckolsheim across the rich alluvial farmland that in eastern Alsace fringes the left bank of the Rhine.   Adjacent communes include Hessenheim to the north-east and Ohnenheim to the south.

History
Celtic tombs containing items of prehistoric jewelry such as bronze bracelets have been found nearby.

From the early years of recorded history, the name Hodulsesheimen was used to identify the settlement in 747 and Haidulfesheim in 801.

Personalities
The Anabaptist preacher Jakob Ammann, whose name was adopted by the Amish fellowships, lived in Heidolsheim between 1693 and 1695.

See also
 Communes of the Bas-Rhin department

References

Communes of Bas-Rhin
Bas-Rhin communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


WHWS-LP (105.7 FM) is a low power FM (LPFM) radio station operated by Hobart and William Smith Colleges and broadcasting to Geneva, New York.  It is primarily staffed by the students of HWS.  The station was first owned by the Finger Lakes Regional Arts Council which manages The Smith Opera House in Geneva. The license was transferred to Hobart and William Smith Colleges on April 24, 2015.  Hobart and William Smith Colleges also holds the license for WEOS in Geneva, which is primarily an NPR news/talk station operated in conjunction with the WXXI Public Broadcasting Council.

History
WHWS-LP was originally applied for as WSAC-LP as a LPFM (low powered FM) license and had a variety of different, sporadic, shows. Eventually the station was organized around having Radio Bilingüe as its core programming, and began continuous operations as such towards the end of 2007.   In January 2008, a fully functional studio was brought on-line in conjunction with WEOS and full operations commenced with HWS student programming intermixed with Radio Bilingüe.

The call letters were still WSAC-LP ("Smith Arts Council") in early 2008 due to some minor bureaucratic delays; the "WHWS" call letters were originally assigned by the FCC, via the US Coast Guard, to a defunct World War II naval vessel.  But in mid-May 2008, the change to WHWS-LP became official.

Programming

Radio Bilingüe

From midnight until 10am weekdays, and all day Saturday and Sunday, WHWS-LP is an affiliate station of the satellite service Radio Bilingüe, which is primarily based in Fresno, California.

Local programming

From 10am to midnight weekdays (and some other times), WHWS-LP broadcasts a medley of local programming, from rock/alternative, hip-hop, modern rock, classic rock, CHR, jazz, world and other genres.  Programming at the discretion of the DJ, who is often a HWS student.  If no live DJ is present, an Enco DAD automation system plays from the latest selection of music that the station receives from a variety of music labels.

WHWS also has specialty programming, such as Fridays at the Scandling Cafe, a two-hour live broadcast every Friday at lunchtime from the HWS Scandling Center.  A rotating staff of student DJ's man this shift.

Throughout the school year, WHWS broadcasts a variety of live sports programming featuring Hobart Statesmen and William Smith Herons' lacrosse, football, basketball, soccer, field hockey and ice hockey teams.

Additionally, the WHWS studios are the home of HermitRadio, which produces and syndicates the weekly shows Stuck in the Psychedelic Era and Rockin' in the Days of Confusion to dozens of stations nationwide.

WHWS also broadcasts Geneva community events, like Candidate's Forums and City Council meetings.

Rebroadcast
WHWS occasionally rebroadcasts some special programming that WEOS has previously aired, including:
 The Fisher Center Lecture Series
 President's Forum
 The President's Radio Show
 HWS Commencement

Special days
WHWS also sometimes switches formats for special days, such as HWS Orientation Weekend in late August each year, when WHWS becomes a quasi-highway advisory radio station, broadcasting a loop of scheduled events, weather and driving directions for incoming first-year students and their parents. (informing the local community, as well)

References

External links
WHWS official website
List of Radio Bilingue affiliates

HWS-LP
Geneva, New York
Ontario County, New York
HWS-LP
Radio stations established in 2003
2003 establishments in New York (state)
Hobart and William Smith Colleges


Pocé-les-Bois (; ) is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department of Brittany in northwestern France.

Population
Inhabitants of Pocé-les-Bois are called in French pocéens.

See also
Communes of the Ille-et-Vilaine department

References

External links

Mayors of Ille-et-Vilaine Association

Communes of Ille-et-Vilaine


The Curtis House, also known as the Howze-Culpepper House, is a historic house in Demopolis, Alabama, United States.  It is a brick structure that was built in 1840 by Samuel Curtis, a Revolutionary War veteran who was born in Queen Anne's County, Maryland in 1751 and died in Marengo County, Alabama in 1846. The house was built in the Federal style, with the later addition of a Greek Revival influenced portico.  It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on 11 April 1977.

References

National Register of Historic Places in Marengo County, Alabama
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Alabama
Houses in Demopolis, Alabama
Federal architecture in Alabama


Heiligenberg () is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. Its name means mountain of the saints in German.

Geography
The village is positioned approximately ten kilometres (six miles) to the west of Molsheim, on high ground overlooking the Bruche valley.   To the west is the great domainal forest of Haslach.

Unusually in Alsace, this is one village not traversed by a numbered departmental road:  it does, however, overlook the former Route Nationale N420 in the valley below, a long distance road rendered less important in recent years by the development of the autoroute network: in 2006 this stretch of road was formally downgraded to become the Route Departmentale RD 420.

History
The villagers rescued the mail and the crew of a Montgolfier balloon after it escaped the Siege of Paris on October 25, 1870.   The balloon's anchor has been kept.

See also
 Communes of the Bas-Rhin department

References

Communes of Bas-Rhin
Bas-Rhin communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Hengwiller (; ) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

Geography
Much of the village economy is agriculture based, and most of the surrounding land is used for arable cultivation and fruit orchards.

The village is positioned not far from the Reutenburgerkopf (586 m), some ten kilometres (six miles) to the east of the panoramic Rocher de Dabo, although the distance by road is much greater because the roads necessarily take a snaking route avoiding the steepest slopes.   The nearest big city is Strasbourg, some 35 kilometres (22 miles) to the east.  Communes surrounding Hengwiller are Dimbsthal and Salenthal to the north-east, Birkenwald to the south-east, Obersteigen to the south-west and Reinhardsmunster to the north-west.

The village has no real main street, being rather the crossroads of several minor roads.

See also
 Communes of the Bas-Rhin department

References

Communes of Bas-Rhin
Bas-Rhin communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Pleurtuit (; ) is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department of Brittany in northwestern France.

Population
Inhabitants of Pleurtuit are called in French pleurtuisiens.

See also
 Dinard - Pleurtuit - Saint-Malo Airport
Communes of the Ille-et-Vilaine department

References

External links

Official website of Pleurtuit

Mayors of Ille-et-Vilaine Association

Communes of Ille-et-Vilaine


Herbitzheim () is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

Herbitzheim is one of 45 member communes of the Communauté de communes de l'Alsace Bossue.

Location
The village is located in the north west of Alsace, on the Canal de la Sarre at the point where the little river Eichel flows into the Saar.

Surrounding communes are Siltzheim to the north, Oermingen in the south-east and Keskastel to the south.   To the west the commune is on the border with Sarreguemines in the adjacent Moselle département.

Notable people

 Thomas Voeckler, cyclist, grew up in Herbitzheim

See also
 Communes of the Bas-Rhin department

References

Communes of Bas-Rhin
Bas-Rhin communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Herbsheim is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

Geography
The village is positioned to the north-east of Sélestat on the strip of rich alluvial farm land between the main north-south routes and the river Rhine. The village's main street is part of the departmental route D5 which connects Benfeld with the riverbank and the ferry crossing into Germany at Rhinau.

See also
 Communes of the Bas-Rhin department

References

Communes of Bas-Rhin
Bas-Rhin communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Herrlisheim is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. The town dates from the 8th century. Herrlisheim was the scene of very heavy fighting during Operation Nordwind, an offensive launched by the German Army during World War II that inflicted considerable damage to the town.

Geography
Herrlisheim is positioned on the rich alluvial farmland to the west of the River Rhine, north of Strasbourg. The town is part of the canton of Bischwiller and the district of Haguenau and is located on the road from Strasbourg to Lauterbourg along the A35 motorway .

Herrlisheim is bordered by the towns of Rohrwiller to the northwest, Drusenheim to the northeast, Gambsheim to the southwest and Offendorf to the southeast. The area is crossed by the Zorn, Moder and Kleinebach Rivers.

Economy
The local economy is based on agriculture.   The village promotes itself as the local potato capital, and a Potato Festival is organised annually.

History
Herrlisheim (Herlesheim) was first mentioned in a deed dated 15 February 743, gifting a village called Hariolfesvilla (Hariolf’s Farm) to the Weissenburg Abbey, Alsace. The village may owe its name to Hariolf, an Alsatian who signed as a witness to a document dated 780. Another charter dated 1 March 775 mentioned the land of Hariolueshaim, also referring to Herlesheim, as being owned by the Abbey.

In 1251, the village known now as Herlosvesheim was owned by the Counts of Oettingen, Landgraves of lower Alsace. In 1332, control of the town was passed to the Barony of Lichtenberg, then in 1480 to the Count of Deux-Ponts (German: Zweibrücken-Bitsch). The Lichtenberg line passed to the Hanau family, who became the Counts of Hanau-Lichtenberg in 1570. From 1736 until the French Revolution, the town was controlled by the House of Hess-Darmstadt, and after 1803 due to territorial reforms following the revolution, the former county of Hanau-Lichtenberg was divided and Herrlisheim was attached to the Bailiwick of Offendorf. In 1871, it was annexed to the German imperial province of Elsass-Lothringen (German: Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen) after its victory in the Franco-Prussian War.

Jewish community
The earliest mention of a Jewish community in Herrlisheim dates from 1349 when persecutions occurred during  the Black Plague. A 1752 inventory notes thirteen Jewish families living there since 1693. Records mention "the Jew Läwel" who had to pay two florins of tax for protection in 1714. Village census records from 1821 and 1842 showed 198 Jewish residents, and in 1890, 202 Jewish residents. By 1936, the Jewish community in Herrlisheim numbered only 80 people. In 1940 under the German occupation, the remaining Jewish population in Herrlisheim were deported to the south of France. At least eleven of them were murdered.  A monument with the names of the victims was erected in the Jewish cemetery of the town.  After 1945, some of the former Jewish inhabitants returned; in 1953 there were 36 Jewish residents and 27 in 1956.

The community had a synagogue prior to the 18th century, which was demolished in 1805 and replaced with another building, which was then replaced with a new building in 1850. This synagogue was vandalized during World War II; only walls remained. The adjacent small prayer house was entirely destroyed. The synagogue and prayer house were rebuilt in the 1950s. The synagogue was closed in 1969.

Until 1870, Jewish residents of Herrlisheim were buried in the cemetery of Haguenau, along with Jewish residents of Hattstatt. After the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, the towns of Herrlisheim and Offendorf opened a Jewish cemetery in 1886 on the Rue d'Offendorf, directly at the end of the village of Herrlisheim. The cemetery now contains about 250 burials. Several times in the past decades since the end of World War II, the graves were vandalized. In 2004, on the anniversary of Adolf Hitler's birthday, pro-Nazi and anti-Semitic slogans were discovered on 127 graves of the burying ground, and cemetery signs were defaced.

World War II
Herrlisheim was the scene of intense fighting in January 1945 between the 553rd Volksgrenadier Regiment, the 35th, 119th and 2nd Panzer Grenadier Regiments, 10th SS Division and elements of the United States 12th Armored Division of the Seventh Army. The fighting began as part of Operation Nordwind which was the last offensive by German troops on the Western front in the war and was focused on the recapture of Strasbourg.  The 553rd Volksgrenadier crossed the Rhine River and established a bridgehead around Gambsheim on January 5.  Three days later, the 12th Armored Division started to attempt the reduction of the bridgehead and attacked Herrlisheim directly on January 16.

In the second day of fighting, elements of 10th SS Panzer Division joined in the attack and inflicted very heavy casualties, virtually wiping out the 714th Tank Battalion and the 56th Armored Infantry Battalion of the 12th Armored Division, who suffered 1,250 casualties (out of a Division strength of 10,000 men) and lost 70 combat vehicles. The next day as 10th SS Panzer attempted to exploit its victory to the west of the town, it was their turn to take heavy losses as the US forces slowly withdrew.  The badly battered town was finally liberated on January 31 by the United States Army as the Germans retired after the overall failure of their offensive.

Heraldry

See also
 Communes of the Bas-Rhin department
 Operation Nordwind
 12th Armored Division (United States)

References

Communes of Bas-Rhin


Hessenheim () is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.

Geography
Hessenheim lies just over twelve kilometres (eight miles) to the southeast of Sélestat. To the south is the commune of Heidolsheim; Marckolsheim is across the canal to the east. On the eastern side, the commune's territory is bordered by the Rhône-Rhine Canal, which here runs parallel with but approximately four kilometres to the west of the river Rhine itself and the German frontier.

The economy is based on agriculture: an important ingredient in that is livestock rearing.  To the north of the village is the so-called Hessenheimer Pasture land, though most of this is within the adjacent commune of Mussig.

See also
 Communes of the Bas-Rhin department

References

Communes of Bas-Rhin
Bas-Rhin communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Torrecilla or Torrecillas may refer to:

Places

Puerto Rico
 Torrecilla Alta, Canóvanas, Puerto Rico, a barrio
 Torrecilla Alta, Loíza, Puerto Rico, a barrio
 Torrecillas, Morovis, Puerto Rico, a barrio

Spain

 La Torrecilla, a mountain in Andalusia
 Torrecilla de la Abadesa, a town in the province of Valladolid, Castile and León
 Torrecilla de Alcañiz, a town in the province of Teruel, Aragon
 Torrecilla sobre Alesanco, a village in the province La Rioja
 Torrecilla de los Ángeles, a town in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura
 Torrecilla de la Jara, a town in the province of Toledo, Castile-La Mancha
 Torrecilla en Cameros, a village in the province La Rioja
 Torrecilla del Monte, a town in the province of Burgos, Castile and León
 Torrecilla de la Orden, a town in the province of Valladolid, Castile and León
 Torrecilla del Pinar, a town in the province of Segovia, Castile and León
 Torrecilla del Rebollar, a town in the province of Teruel, Aragon
 Torrecilla de la Torre, a town in the province of Valladolid, Castile and León
 Torrecillas de la Tiesa, a town in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura

People

 Rubén Torrecilla (born 1979), a Spanish footballer