Asco (; , pronounced [ˈaːs.ku]) is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Aschesi.

Geography
Asco is a remote commune high in the mountains some 20 km in a direct line south-east of Calvi and 15 km north-west of Corte. It is a commune which was part of the former Pieve of Caccia: a historic territory, geographically and culturally, which was made up of Niolo,  Giovellina, and the Asco Valley which today is called the High Centre of Corsica. The commune is part of the ten communes in the Canton of Castifao-Morosaglia. It is also located in the Parc naturel régional de Corse (Regional Natural Park of Corsica).

Access to the commune

The main access to Asco is by the D47 (branches from the N197 at a place called Ponte Rossu 1.5 km north of Ponte-Leccia). The D47 is the road to the villages of Moltifao and Castifao however to get to Asco and the upper valley, the D147 branches from the D47 at the Capanacce junction south of Moltifao. From this junction, it is about 12 km to the remote village, crossing the gorges of Asco. The road continues beyond the village and, after passing through the Asco communal forest, it ends in a cul-de-sac at the former ski resort of Haut-Asco, a remote place 14 km south-west of Asco.

To improve traffic circulation, the D147 follows a route around the village. The former road through the village is named D147a and is a way reserved for residents.
There is no public road transport of passengers or goods. The Railways of Corsica line passes through Ponte-Leccia where there is a station.

The nearest airport is the Bastia – Poretta Airport near Bastia and the nearest commercial seaport is that of Bastia.

Relief

Asco is, with Moltifao and Castifao, one of the three communes in the Asco valley. Asco occupies the upper part of the valley which takes its name from the river Asco. The river's Drainage basin is Haut-Asco which is formed by a chain of high mountains including some of the highest peaks on the island: Capu Biancu (2,582 m), Capu a u Verdatu (2,583 m), Punta Selolla (2,592 m), Capu Ciuntrone (2,666 m), Monte Cinto (2,706 m) on the western side where the source of the river is, Pointe des Éboulis (2,607 m), Punta Crucetta (2,499 m), Capu Larghia (2,503 m), Punta Minuta (2,556 m), Capu di a Muvraghia (2,582 m), and Punta Missoghiu (2,201 m). The river flows through the commune to its confluence with the Ruisseau de Cabanne where there is a bridge. Another footbridge was located at the beginning of the Asco gorges but was destroyed by a recent flood.

Hydrography
The main river is the Asco, a tributary of the Golo, which has its source from under the Punta Rossa (or Pic Von Cube) (2,247 m) in the commune as the Ruisseau de Tighiettu and, further downstream, it becomes the Ruisseau de Stranciacone. It leaves the communal territory at the walkway located at the confluence of the Ruisseau de Cabanne in the place called "Gorges of Asco". This walkway is 383 m above sea level and provides access to the existing adventure park for tree climbing, Via ferrata, etc. The Asco has many tributaries: thirteen are listed on the SANDRE website.

A power plant was built upstream of the Asco Genoese bridge.

Less than 400 m in a direct line north-west of Monte Cinto is the Lac d'Argentu (Argentu Lake) (2300 m).

Climate and vegetation

Asco offers a range of extremely rich and varied landscapes of bare rocky mountains in the Gorges of Asco, almost impenetrable scrub above the gorges, and dry and arid with a forest of prickly juniper in the vicinity of the village with thick forests of black pine above the village. Below the ridge lines thick and aromatic Alder bushes grow called u bassu in Corsican: an endemic shrub without a trunk. The remarkable Asco communal forest that covers the upper valley includes the Forest of Vecchietto and the Forest of Carrozzica, which are larger and higher, but both on the Asco slopes. These landscapes are similar to high alpine valleys. The presence of a ski resort (now closed) only reinforces the illusion.

Neighbouring communes and villages

Town planning

Asco village
Asco people live at an average altitude in the village of 600 metres. The village dates from the 11th century. Many older homes have been renovated and are enclosed in the lower part of the village where the parish church of St. Michael the Archangel with its typical bell tower and the War memorial are located.

Asco was an enclave until the middle of the 20th century and the first road was opened in 1937. The road leading to the gorges was opened in 1968. The old road providing access to Haut-Asco became the D147a - the main street where access is restricted to residents.

Haut-Asco

Haut-Asco is located on the Stagno plateau at 1,422 m altitude. It is served by the D147 road which ends there in a cul-de-sac. The whole road from the junction is narrow, steep, and winding and is prohibited for access by buses over 11 m long.

Until the end of the 20th  century Haut-Asco was still quite popular for its winter ski resort that opened its snowy slopes for short periods. To this end, several permanent chalets were built by individuals on the alignment of the old ski-lift. Since then the ski resort has been dismantled. Haut-Asco attracts many visitors during the summer season: hikers for the PNRC Ascu Stagnu refuge with its cottage and tourists for its attractive and pleasant site. A few shops open during the season (bar-hotel-restaurant).

The ski area re-opened for the 2015/2016 winter season with 1 drag lift and 1 magic carpet. There are proposals to build a fixed 4 seater chairlift and a further drag lift for the 2016/2017 season.

History

Middle Ages
Asco was part of Cachia, a Pieve of about 3,500 inhabitants (including Pietralba). Around 1520 the populated areas were La Petrella, Castifao, La Roma, La Paganosa, Le Piazze, Moltifao, Cheta, Merezoli, Campolato, lo Borgo, Sevola, Asco, Canavaggia, and La Costa.

The commune has long been landlocked and its population lived in autarky. The only existing roads were those since the Middle Ages; rivers were crossed on Genoese bridges called "génois". Cut off from the outside world, people organized themselves into a community with rules of life unique in Corsica. They already elected democratically a wise man responsible for ensuring compliance with the rules of solidarity and equality.

Modern times
 1768 - The island came under French military administration. the Pieve of Caccia retained its name.
 1789 - Corsica belonged to the Kingdom of France. Asco was within the royal jurisdiction of Corte. When the French Revolution came the royal courts were removed. The National Constituent Assembly divided France into 83 departments.
 1790 - The department of Corse was created with Bastia as the prefecture. The island was divided into nine districts (former jurisdictions). Each district was divided into cantons (former Pieves) and the cantons into communes. The former communities or parishes were called communes.
 1791 - Corte became the capital of the department; the seat of the diocese was changed to Ajaccio.
 1793 - Year II. The National Convention, by Decree of 1 July 1793, divided the island into two departments: El Golo (now Haute-Corse) and Liamone (now Corse-du-Sud) were created. Asco was in the canton of Caccia in the district of Calvi and the department of El Golo.
 1801 - Under the French Consulate and the Bulletin des Lois the commune of Asco passed to the Arrondissement of Corte in the department of Golo.
 1811 - The departments of Golo and Liamone were merged to form the department of Corse.
 1828 - The Canton of Caccia became the Canton of Castifao.

Contemporary era
 1937 - The first road was built to open up Asco and the upper valley. The route through the gorges of Asco was opened in 1968.
 1954 - Asco was made part of the Canton of Castifao which is made up of the communes of Asco, Castifao, and Moltifao.
 1973 - The Canton of Castifao-Morosaglia (Capital: Morosaglia) is created with the merger of the former cantons of Castifao and Morosaglia.
 1975 - The island is divided into two departments again: Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud. Asco is in Haute-Corse.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors

Demography
In 2017 the commune had 119 inhabitants.

Economy

The Asco valley is known for its traditional production of very characteristic knives with the tail of the handle representing a stylized head of a dog. Today unfortunately there is no manufacturer of knives in the valley but some famous Corsican knife makers continue to live by the tradition. Asco also produced in furnaces pitch for sealing wooden boats at the time. The pitch was harvested locally from the trunks of the Black pine. This pitch is no longer produced today. Other than pastoralism: honey, cheeses, and Charcuterie are sources of income for some people.

Despite the closure of the Asco ski resort at the end of the 20th century, eco-tourism is growing with renewed mountain visits for holidaymakers. A municipal camping ground ("Monte Cintu") has existed for many years in the Forest of Carrozzica along the Ruisseau de Stranciacone. Amid the gorges of Asco an adventure park called "In Terra Corsa" is open for tree climbing, Via ferrata, etc. Hotels and restaurants open in summer to receive, accommodate, and feed the visitors.

Sites and monuments

Civil heritage

Genovese bridge of Asco
The Genovese bridge dates to the 15th century when Corsica was occupied by the Republic of Genoa. It is located at Lamella at an altitude of 535 m below the village.

The bridge is accessible from the D441 road via a tortuous road one kilometre long which terminates at the bridge. The D441 branches from the D147 at the exit to the village towards Asco-Stagnu (14 km distant). It is found on the old lane that linked the valley to Niolo.

Under the bridge the Asco has created a large natural pool which is very popular with locals and tourists in the summer. In mid-June 2010 a water temperature was measured of 13.7 °C when testing the quality of the water.

 Pictures of the Genovese bridge

Other sites
 The War memorial faces the Church of Saint-Michel Archangel.
 The Gorges of Asco. They are a remarkable defile that crosses the D147 road 6 km from the village with a wild landscape of granite rocks and steep cliffs. The Asco river has carved large natural pools in its bed which are popular in summer when motorists ignore the many signs prohibiting parking along the road.
 The Old Ski resort. Since the end of the 20th century nothing remains of the ski lift that was installed there. The Asco Stagnu plateau is the end of the D147 road. The stunning mountain location is popular with locals who come during winter and also with travellers who can see high green mountains close to the sea with its hot and dry coastline.

Religious heritage

The Church of Saint-Michel Archangel with its bell tower and stone walls is located below the inner route serving the village which is closed to traffic except for residents. In the niche above the entrance is a statue of the Archangel Saint-Michel.

The ruined Chapel of Sant'Angelo is located at an altitude of 929 m to the north of the village. It lies on one of the walking trails.

Environmental heritage
Asco is part of the Regional Natural Park of Corsica in its "Territory of life" called Caccia-Ghjunsani.

The Fango Valley, which includes 9 communes including Asco and has an area of 4,416 hectares, has been declared a Biosphere Reserve with the central area called the Fango Valley (FR6300002).

Asco has 8 Natural Zones of Ecological, Faunistic, and Floristic Interest (ZNIEFF) of 2nd generation:
 Oak grove of Vallica (940004205)
 High peaks and slopes of Monte Cinto (940004233)
 Silvo-pastoral basin of Asco(940004188)
 High Forest of Carozzica (940004189)
 Gorges of Asco (940004187)
 Vegetation on the summit of Monte Cinto (940013188)
 Asco bridge (940030398)
 Vallon de la Tassinetta (940004203)

Holidays and leisure activities
Each year on 29 September, the feast day of Saint Michel, the feast is celebrated in the village starting with a Mass in the village church then a procession through the streets and ending with singing and a feast.

Hiking
GR 20. The GR 20 hiking trail passes through the commune between Bocca di Stagnu (1,990 m) and Bocca Tumasginasca (2,183 m) at an altitude of 500 m to the north-west of Punta Minuta (2,556 m) in order to pass the refuge of Asco Stagnu (P.N.R.C.) where it is possible to camp overnight.
A Hiking Trail from the Asco village which enters the Giunssani via Bocca di Laggiarello (1,232 m) crossing the Forest of Tartagine-Melaja along the Tartagine then crossing the Bocca di l'Ondela (1,845 m) following the right bank of the Ruisseau de l'Ondella which lower down changes its name to the Ruisseau de la Tassineta and finally rejoining the D147 at the Maison du Mouflon et de la Nature.

Gallery

Notable people linked to the commune
Jean Maestrali (1903 at Asco 1903 - 1972 at L'Île-Rousse), poet.
Antoine-Léonard Massiani (Novella 1816-1888), Doctor. Published Viaghiu in Ascu in Corsican.
Antoine Trojani (1901 at Asco 1901 - 1991 at Ajaccio), notable Corsican writer. Activist for the unification of writing.

See also
 Communes of the Haute-Corse department

Notes

References

External links
 Asco on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website

Communes of Haute-Corse


The Arctic Archipelago Marine Ecozone, as defined by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), is a marine ecozone in the Canadian Arctic, encompassing Hudson Bay, James Bay, the internal waters and some shores of the islands in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, and the shores of the territories, northern Ontario and western Quebec. Early exploration of these waters by Europeans were conducted to find a passage to the Orient, now referred to as the Northwest Passage.

It is inextricably tied to the terrestrial ecozones of the Arctic Cordillera, Northern Arctic, Southern Arctic, Hudson Plains, Taiga Shield, Taiga Plains, and Taiga Cordillera, as well as the marine ecozones of the Arctic Basin Marine and Northwest Atlantic Marine.

Climate
It is characterised by frigid, windy winters with average temperatures below -30 degrees Celsius, and summer temperatures typically near 10 degrees. The thick ice which cover the ecozone in the winter connect the islands and continental land with a continuous sheet that prevents navigation, but allows the migration of various animals. The ice partially melts  during the summer, though ice floes are numerous in some parts. Polynyas may occur throughout the ecozone, but are most common near the Nares Strait in northern Baffin Bay.

Geography
Primarily in the arctic with the exception of a portion of its southern extent in Hudson Bay and James Bay, the Arctic Archipelago is a vast marine ecozone with average water depths of 150 to 500 metres. It contains all of James Bay, Hudson Bay, the Foxe Basin, Queen Maud Gulf, Baffin Island Shelf, Lancaster Sound, the waters within the Arctic Archipelago, and most of the Beaufort Sea.

Hudson Bay and James Bay
James Bay and parts of Hudson Bay are the only constituents of this ecozone south of the arctic region, and exhibit greater biodiversity. The most southerly reach, to the shores of northeastern Ontario and northwestern Quebec, includes areas used for staging, nesting and breeding by numerous species of birds. This area covers Southern James Bay, which includes migratory bird sanctuaries at Hannah Bay and the mouth of the Moose River, and Akimiski Island.

This portion of the ecozone abuts the Hudson Plains, which contains the world's "largest continuous wetlands" due to poor drainage of the ecozone. The resultant wetlands and bogs form the interface between the Hudson Plains and Arctic Archipelago ecozones, as typified by Southern James Bay.

Territorial shoreline
Covering the entire Canadian northern continental shoreline, this marine ecozone is adjacent to a number of territorial ecozones. The Taiga Shield connects the Hudson Plains from the Manitoba shoreline to the Southern Arctic ecozone in Nunavut, which also extends along most of the continental shoreline of the Northwest Territories. The Taiga Plains ecozone forms the remaining Northwest Territories shoreline connection to the Arctic Archipelago ecozone, covering much of the western portion of the Northwest Territories and small portions of northern Alberta and British Columbia. The Yukon shoreline connects the Arctic Archipelago marine ecozone with the Taiga Cordillera, a mountainous region covering most of northern and eastern Yukon, and parts of the western Northwest Territories.

The northeastern Nunavut continental landmass is within the Northern Arctic ecozone, as is most of the land of all the islands in the Arctic Archipelago.

Ecology
Biological activity in this ecozone is greatest during late summer, during which sufficient portions of ice have melted to allow photosynthesis by phytoplankton, the most significant food source in the ecozone. The southern intertidal zones also support kelp forests. These provide food for shorebirds and waterfowl, whose populations can increase dramatically during the fall and spring migrations. Moreover, the polynyas that form during the winter provide access to food for various species, including polar bears. Summer thaw results in plentiful ice margins along which birds and other animals can fish.

Arctic cod, found throughout the ecozone, is an important food source for seals, beluga whales and narwhals. Polar bears and ringed seals are found throughout the ecozone, whereas the range of bearded and harp seals consists of the eastern coast of Ellsemere Island. The largest Canadian population of polar bears is found near Churchill, Manitoba, on the coast of Hudson Bay.

The salt marshes and tidal flats of Hudson Bay contain transient and permanent populations of waterfowl that are among the most densely concentrated in the world, and the northwest coast is home to one of the largest populations of peregrine falcons.

References

Ecozones and ecoregions of Nunavut
Ecozones and ecoregions of the Northwest Territories
Canadian Arctic Archipelago


Borgo (; ; ) is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica.

The Bastia-Poretta Airport is located in Borgo. It was the site of the 1768 Battle of Borgo during the French Conquest of Corsica when a French force was defeated by Corsican troops.

Population

Sights
Torra di Punta d'Arcu

See also
Communes of the Haute-Corse department

References

Communes of Haute-Corse
Haute-Corse communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Normantown is an unincorporated community in Gilmer County, West Virginia, United States, along the Left Fork Steer Creek.  It lies at an elevation of 741 feet (226 m).

History
James Norman, a son of John and Lydia (Brown) Norman, was born in Duffield, Derby, England in 1776 and was christened at Derby parish May 19, 1776.  At this writing, it is not known when or how James came to America.  We do know that he married Mary Nedley, who was born in 1775 in Virginia.  In 1810, the Randolph County VA (WV) Census listed the 12 member family of James Norman.

James "Jimmy" Norman (1910-1982), son of Elmer Dotson Norman, helped build the two-story stone "Norman Cottage" in Normantown, WV just west of the school on US 33/119. His grandfather, James Paul Norman, told how James, Mary, and one son, Semore, came over the mountains by wagon, from present-day Barbour County WV, to settle in the fertile valleys sometimes called "the blue grass belt of WV" prior to 1830. They spent their first winter on the Left Fork of Steer Creek, in a bark lean-to, built in a small ravine just below the present road near where Richard Parsons now lives. The following year, they built a house at the forks of White Oak Camp Run and the Left Fork of Steer Creek. For many years a large stone stood in the meadow marking the site of their home.  Then one hot summer day, Jimmy Norman removed it.  In his words, "I had skinned my knuckles just one too many times, trying to maneuver the horses and equipment around that rock." According to Jimmy, James received a 1,000 acres land grant from the Governor of Virginia.

Jimmy recalled: "I can show you every corner."  The stone house is on the original grant.  James also received a grant in 1831 from the Governor of Virginia for 45 acres on Steer Creek, and in 1837 another tract of 50 acres on Steer Run. Daniel DeWeese (1821-1905), a Confederate Civil War Veteran and lifelong resident of Gilmer and Calhoun Counties, recalled James Norman in his 1904 book, "Recollections and Experiences of a Lifetime":

"During the Summer of 1843, one Sunday at prayer meeting, which was being conducted at the residence of Wm. Boggs, James Norman, a man of devout mind and very reserved and timid, a gray haired pilgrim whose sands of time were nearly run, in the course of the services arose and for the first time he was ever known to speak in public gave such a profound and convincing exhortation that all who were present were soul feelingly stirred and sensibly impressed. "I myself being so forcibly imbued and touched by Father Norman's appeal that not long after I joined the Church and was baptized in Steer Creek just below the forks of Steer Creek at Stumptown by the Rev. Carr Bailey who was pastor of Mt. Pisgah Church from 1842 to 1844 and was received into full fellowship and continued a member of the Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church at Stumptown, Gilmer County, then Virginia, now WV, over fourteen years." James and Mary (Nedley) Norman were enumerated in the 1850 Census of Gilmer County (He was 74 and she 75).  James wrote his will June 10, 1852 and died less than a month later on July 6, 1852.  His will is recorded in Will Book l, Page 8 at the Gilmer County Court House, Glenville, WV

See also
 Stumptown Wildlife Management Area

References

Unincorporated communities in West Virginia
Unincorporated communities in Gilmer County, West Virginia


Brando (, ) is a French commune in the Haute-Corse department, island of Corsica.

Population

See also
Torra d'Erbalunga
Torra di Sacru

See also
Communes of the Haute-Corse department

References

Communes of Haute-Corse
Haute-Corse communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Rosedale is an unincorporated community in Braxton and Gilmer counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia.  It lies along the Right Fork Steer Creek, at an elevation of 778 feet (237 m).

The community was named after wild rose bushes near the original town site.

References

Unincorporated communities in West Virginia
Unincorporated communities in Braxton County, West Virginia
Unincorporated communities in Gilmer County, West Virginia


Campana is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica.

Population

See also
Communes of the Haute-Corse department

References

Communes of Haute-Corse


Campi is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica.

Administration
Campi is part of the canton of Ghisonaccia, together with 19 other communes.

Geography
Campi is  to the southeast of Moïta. Its territory reaches the summit of Campana at . The village has beautiful old houses.

Population

See also
Communes of the Haute-Corse department

References

Communes of Haute-Corse


The Lure of the Circus is a 1918 American adventure film serial directed by J. P. McGowan for Universal.

Cast
 Eddie Polo as Eddie Somers
 Eileen Sedgwick as Alicia Page
 Molly Malone as Nan Harden - Chapters 1 thru 5
 Harry Carter as Edward Lawrence
 Noble Johnson as Silent Andy
 Fred Starr as Steve Harden (as Frederick Starr)
 Duke R. Lee as Richard Van Norman
 Charles Hill Mailes as Malcolm Somers
 James Gordon as Guy Brock
 Andrew Waldron as Dynamite Dan
 Fred Montague as Howard Mason
 Sydney Deane as Reynolds (as Sidney Deane)
 Josie Sedgwick

Chapter Titles
 The Big Tent
 The Giant's Leap
 Beaten Back
 The Message On The Cuff
 The Lip Reader
 The Aerial Disaster
 The Charge of The Elephant
 The Human Ladder
 The Flying Loop
 A Shot For Life
 The Dagger
 A Strange Escape
 A Plunge For Life
 Flames
 The Stolen Record
 The Knockout
 A Race With Time
 The Last Trick

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

References

External links

1918 films
1918 adventure films
American silent serial films
American black-and-white films
Circus films
Films directed by J. P. McGowan
Universal Pictures film serials
American adventure films
1910s American films
Silent adventure films
1910s English-language films


Canari () is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica.

Population

See also
Communes of the Haute-Corse department

References

Communes of Haute-Corse


Casabianca (; also ) is a commune in the French department of Haute-Corse,  collectivity and island of Corsica.

Population

See also
Communes of the Haute-Corse department

References

Communes of Haute-Corse
Haute-Corse communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


The England national badminton team represents England in international badminton team competitions and is controlled by Badminton England, the governing body for badminton in England. The English team is ranked 13 on the world ranking and has had many appearances in international team events.

England were runners-up at the 1963 and the 1984 Uber Cup. They've also been semifinalists 4 times at the Uber Cup. The men's team had two semifinal finishes at the 1982 and 1984 edition of the Thomas Cup. England only finished in the final four once in the Sudirman Cup which was in 2007.

Next to Denmark, England is one of the dominant badminton nations in Europe, having won the European Mixed Team Badminton Championships five times and having many podium finishes at the European Men's and Women's Team Badminton Championships.

Summer Olympic Games

List of medalists

Participation in BWF competitions

Thomas Cup

Uber Cup

Sudirman Cup

**Red border color indicates tournament was held on home soil.

Participation in European Team Badminton Championships

Men's Team

Women's Team

Mixed Team

**Red border color indicates tournament was held on home soil.

Junior competitive record

Suhandinata Cup

European Junior Team Badminton Championships
Mixed Team

Current squad

Male players
Toby Penty
Johnnie Torjussen
Ethan Rose
Ben Lane
Sean Vendy
Marcus Ellis
Chris Langridge
Ethan van Leeuwen
Matthew Clare
Steven Stallwood
Callum Hemming

Female players
Abigail Holden
Freya Patel-Redfearn
Estelle van Leeuwen
Chloe Birch
Lauren Smith
Jessica Hopton
Jessica Pugh

References

Badminton
National badminton teams
Badminton in England


Casanova () is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica.

Population

References

Communes of Haute-Corse
Haute-Corse communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Castiglione () is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica.

Population

See also
Communes of the Haute-Corse department

References

Communes of Haute-Corse
Haute-Corse communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Costa (; ) is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica.

It is in the north of the island, about 5 km south east of Belgodère, just off the D71 corniche. The commune is built on the site of the medieval parish of Tuani.

Population

See also
Communes of the Haute-Corse department

References

Communes of Haute-Corse


Croce is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica.

Population

See also
Communes of the Haute-Corse department

References

Communes of Haute-Corse


John Lord may refer to:

John Lord (historian) (1810–1894), American historian and lecturer
John Lord (footballer, born 1937) (1937–2021), Australian rules footballer with Melbourne
John Lord (footballer, born 1899) (1899–1980), Australian rules footballer with Melbourne and St Kilda
John Chase Lord (1805–1877), Presbyterian minister and writer
John King Lord (1848–1926), American  (New Hampshire) classical scholar and historian (See )
John Vernon Lord (born 1939), author and illustrator
John Wesley Lord (1902–1989), American Bishop of the Methodist Church
John Whitaker Lord Jr. (1901–1972), U.S. federal judge
Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet (1776–1861), born John Lord
John Lord (cricketer) (1844–1911), Australian  cricketer
John Keast Lord (1818–1872), English veterinarian, naturalist, journalist and author
John Lord (admiral) (born 1948), Royal Australian Navy admiral

See also
Jon Lord (disambiguation)
Jack Lord (1920–1998), American actor


Revadim (, lit. terraces) is a kibbutz in southern Israel. Located in the southern Shephelah (Judean foothills) region, it falls under the jurisdiction of Yoav Regional Council. In  it had a population of .

History
Revadim was founded on 14 February 1947 as the fourth settlement of the Etzion Bloc in the Hebron Hills. It was established by the Tzabar pioneering group (distinct from the more recent Garin Tzabar) on tracts of land purchased by the Jewish National Fund in Ein Abu Zeid and Shuweika. While the land was being reclassified as musha'a [collectively owned land], the group cleared 100 dunams, 70 in Ein Abu Zeid and 30 in Wadi Abu Nofal, where the JNF owned a tract of mafruz [individually owned tracts]. Plans included the reclamation of 70 dunams in Wadi Abu Nofal and 150 in Dhahr al-Masatikh, which were acquired as part of a land exchange agreement.

On 13 May 1948, the village was razed to the ground by the Arab Legion. Survivors were taken prisoner by Jordan. The kibbutz was re-established in a new location on 28 November 1948. The released POWs were joined by immigrants from Bulgaria and other countries. The new Revadim was located on the land of the newly depopulated Palestinian village of Al-Mukhayzin, close to Al-Khayma.

Economy
The economy is based on tourism and small industry. It operates a guest rooms and a museum of antiquities. The Roman Glass Co. designs original jewellery for a worldwide market.

Landmarks
The kibbutz has a memorial for members who fell in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. Tel Miqne-Ekron, an archaeological tell on the grounds of the kibbutz, is believed to be the site of the biblical city of Ekron. A  reconstructed Philistine street is open to visitors. The kibbutz operates the Ekron Museum of the History of Philistine Culture which displays finds from the excavations.

Archaeology

Prehistory
An archeological site in the Revadim region, other than Tel Miqne-Ekron, is at least 300 to 500 thousand years old (based on paleomagnetism analysis and uranium date series), and the archaeological finds there belong to the Late Acheulean. Numerous faunal remains were excavated at the site, as well as some flint tools with fat residue, suggesting that the bones (including those of straight-tusked elephant) belong to butchered game.

Tel Miqne, the Philistine city of Ekron

Tel Miqne-Ekron (Khirbat al-Muqanna') is one of the largest Iron Age (12th century–586 BC) sites in Israel. Archaeologists have discovered over 100 7th-century BC oil presses there, as  well as the Ekron Inscription from that same century, which identifies the site as Philistine Ekron.

The tell shows signs of occupation in the Chalcolithic period (4500–3100 BC) and throughout the Bronze Age (3100–1200 BC), but only becomes an important city in the 12th century BC with the arrival of the Philistines, one of the Sea Peoples.
Once the Kingdom of Judah managed to take over the dominant position from the Philistines in the 10th century BC, Ekron was reduced in importance and size (from 10 acres to 5 acres, with the abandonment of the Lower City). The Assyrian conquest of the 8th century BC actually brought an economic revival, with a huge olive oil industry occupying 20% of the space within the city, and with a large number of loom weights found in the oil production rooms indicating that the population developed an active textile industry for the time outside the olive processing season. Ekron supplied Egypt and the Assyrian empire with 700 tons of olive oil a year, making it the largest olive oil industrial center in the ancient Middle East. After the Babylonian onslaught of the 6th century BC, the Philistine culture and identity disappeared.

The reconstructed Philistine street in the kibbutz, which can be visited only by previous appointment, features an oil press, a potter's wheel and a loom.

References

External links
Official website
Kibbutz Revadim Collection on the Digital collections of Younes and Soraya Nazarian Library, University of Haifa

Jewish villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War
Kibbutzim
Populated places in Southern District (Israel)
Populated places established in 1947
Populated places established in 1948
1947 establishments in Mandatory Palestine
1948 establishments in Israel


The Galațca river ( or Галадска/Galadska) is a tributary of the Bega river. It originates in Romania and crosses the border into Serbia. It follows the course of a former channel of the river Mureș. Today, the large part of this river is channelized, and lower part of its course is now included into the Kikinda Canal, part of the Danube-Tisa-Danube canal system. The course of the Galacka river through the city of Kikinda is now mostly made into an underground pipeline, except for a small part, through the Števančeva bara (pond).

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Rivers of Romania
Rivers of Timiș County
Rivers of Serbia


Lama () is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica.

Population

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Communes of the Haute-Corse department

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Communes of Haute-Corse


Lano (; ) is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica.

Population

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Communes of the Haute-Corse department

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Communes of Haute-Corse


The Copper Queen Mine was a copper mine in Cochise County, Arizona, United States. Its development led to the growth of the surrounding town of Bisbee in the 1880s. Its orebody ran 23% copper, an extraordinarily high grade. It was acquired by Phelps Dodge in 1885.

In the early 1900s, this was the most productive copper mine in Arizona. While copper mining declined in the area in the 1930s and 1940s, the Copper Queen continued to be mined by the open-pit process during the years following World War II. With decreasing returns, Phelps Dodge closed it in 1985.

History

The presence of copper ore in the Mule Mountains of southeast Arizona may have been known as early as 1876, but the first mining claim was filed on August 2, 1877. In 1877, a U.S. Cavalry patrol from Fort Bowie was tracking Apache Indians and camped at what is today known as Iron Springs. The men didn't like the quality of the water and they sent Scout Jack Dunn to look for better quality water. During his search he found a spring along a very large cliff of limestone, known today as Castle Rock, and on his return an outcrop containing lead carbonate, which was known to carry silver, in a gorge later known as Tombstone Canyon. Dunn told his commanding officer Lt. John Rucker and a packer named Ted Byrne of his discovery. They named the find the "Rucker" and planned to file a claim, but were delayed when their patrol was ordered to resume pursuit of a band of Apache warriors. Before departing Fort Bowie, they met a 42-year old George Warren and persuaded him to file a claim for them with the agreement that Warren would name Dunn in all notices of locations for mining claims that he located. They provided him with a  grubstake, provisions, and a map to mining claim site.

Warren didn't keep his agreement with Dunn. On his way to the claims office, Warren stopped in a saloon, got drunk, and gambled away the grubstake given him by Dunn and the others. He went to Fort Huachuca and recruited additional backers from Tombstone. On September 27, 1877, 56 days after Dunn located the Rucker Mine, Warren filed a claim for the Mercy Mine  up Mule Pass Canyon from Iron Spring. Over the next six months his name is mentioned either as the locator or witness in several other claims in the Tombstone Canyon and Mule Mountains and established what became known as the Warren Mining District. He held a one-ninth interest in the new Copper Queen mine.

While drinking with acquaintances in Charleston, Warren made a friendly, drunken bet that he could outrun a man on a horse, but lost the bet and his one-ninth interest in the Copper Queen Mine, later estimated to be worth US$20,000 (or about  $ today).

Entrepreneurs Edward Reilly and Levi Zeckendorf bought an option to purchase the mine in 1880 for US$20,000. When the ore assayed at 22% copper, Reilly became enthusiastic about the mine's possibilities. He bought out others' interest in the claims in April, 1880, and went to San Francisco to see if he could market his option on the claims. Reilly persuaded engineers DeWitt Bisbee, William H. Martin, and John Ballard in San Francisco to visit the mine, and they were pleased with the prospects. On May 12, 1880, Martin and Ballard agreed to furnish the funds to mine and smelt the ore and received seven-tenths interest in the Copper Queen mine and two-thirds interest in the Copper King. Reilly retained the remainder.

James Douglas, of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania who had invented new methods of smelting copper, learned of the Warren mining district early on. He was sent by the  Phelps Dodge company of New York City to examine potential copper mines. During his research, Douglas concluded the risk was great but persuaded the company they should go forward. Offered the choice of a flat fee or a 10% interest in the property for his services, he chose the latter, a decision that subsequently made him a fortune.  The company bought the Atlanta Mine and poured over $76,000 (or about  $ today) into exploration before they found the ore body. When the claims and ore bodies in the area would likely overlap, leading to potential costly litigation, they merged with their neighbor the Copper Queen mine, forming the Copper Queen Consolidated Mining Company in 1885.

The surface pockets of cerussite were soon exhausted, but the owners found that the orebody ran 23% copper, with silver and gold as byproducts. Most mines of that era could profitably mine ore containing 8% to 10% copper, so the Copper Queen orebody was considered extraordinarily high grade. The surface oxide ore was exhausted after three or four years, but miners explored deeper and eventually found even larger orebodies.

In 1884–85 the mine was offered for sale to London investors for £350,000, but the offer was not taken up. In the early 20th century, the Copper Queen ranked as the most productive copper mine in Arizona and was viewed by many as the best run copper mine in the United States. Deposits of gold and silver were also discovered in the mine.

The mining work was extremely hazardous. The Phelps Dodge mine operators routinely demanded unpaid work, subjected miners to intrusive physical strip searches, and followed dangerous practices like blasting while miners were in the mine and not permitting safety operators on drills and elevators. There were also widespread claims of discrimination against non-white miners. A miners union organized in 1917, when the mine was the site of an Industrial Workers of the World miners' strike. Phelps Dodge resisted union organizing and illegally used private police to arrest more than 1300 miners. They put them on railroad cars and expelled them from the town and area in what became known as the Bisbee Deportation.

Before engines were used to transport cars of ores, mules were trained to pull ore cars out of the mines. The loaded cars weighed up to . The mules lived in the mines 24/7, sleeping in stables in the mines. The mules would spend four years working in the mines, after which time their eyesight deteriorated. In order to adjust them to daylight, blinders were placed over the mules' eyes with small holes poked in the material. The holes were slowly widened as the mule's eyes adjusted to the light.

In the 1950s, Phelps Dodge developed open-pit mining at the Copper Queen; this enabled mining operations to continue. Underground work was also done. By the mid-1960s, the grade of ore from the Copper Queen had declined to 4%. The mine ceased production in 1975.

As proposed by the mayor and volunteers seeking an alternative economic base, the company agreed to allow part of the mine to be open for tours. This area was renovated by paid and volunteer workers to create a heritage tourism site. More than one million visitors have seen the mine since it reopened in 1976. Phelps Dodge's former headquarters building in Bisbee has been adapted as a mining museum, which offers interpretation of the mining era and its effects in the region.

The company was acquired by Freeport McMoRan, which in the early 21st century was investigating new means of mining in this area.

See also

 Bisbee Massacre
 Copper mining in Arizona
 Courtland, Arizona
 Lavender Pit

References

External links
 Copper Queen Mine website

Copper mines in Arizona
Buildings and structures in Cochise County, Arizona
History of Arizona
Underground mines in the United States
Museums in Cochise County, Arizona
Mining museums in Arizona
Industrial Workers of the World in Arizona
1877 establishments in Arizona Territory


Dan Zetterström (born 1 June 1954) is a  Swedish ornithologist and bird artist. He is best known as a co-author of the  Collins Bird Guide, with Killian Mullarney, Lars Svensson and Peter J. Grant.  He has designed several series of Swedish stamps.

He has contributed to the following titles:
 Collins Bird Guide, with Killian Mullarney, Lars Svensson and Peter Grant
  Handbook of Bird Identification, Mark Beaman and Steve Madge
  Country Life Guides, Birds of Britain and Europe, Håkan Delin et al.
  Handbook of the Birds of Europe The Middle East and North Africa (Birds of the Western Palearctic), S. Cramp et al.

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1954 births
Swedish artists
Swedish illustrators
Living people
Swedish bird artists


Matra () is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica.

Population

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Communes of Haute-Corse


Alvis Wayne (December 31, 1937 – July 31, 2013) was an American rockabilly singer.

Career

Alvis Wayne Samford was born in Paducah, Texas and listened to country music on the radio as a child and was given a guitar at age ten. He began playing in local bars and clubs at 12 and joined Tony Wayne & the Rhythm Wranglers at 20. This group released one single in 1957 and then disbanded. Following this, Alvis signed with Westport Records.

He recorded enough for Westport to put out an LP; though none were released, his single "Don't Mean Maybe Baby" was a regional hit in Texas, and he toured extensively in the state. He put his career in music on hold and joined the Air Force in 1960; after his tour of duty, he continued recording and performing.

In subsequent decades, Alvis became the subject of a cult following in the United Kingdom, where his singles were in great demand. In 2000, Wayne signed with Rolling Rock Records and released two full-length albums, Rockabilly Daddy (2000) and Proud of My Rockabilly Roots (2001).

Singles

References

Sources
 Profile, allmusic.com; accessed August 17, 2015.

1937 births
2013 deaths
American rockabilly musicians
Musicians from Texas
Place of death missing
People from Paducah, Texas
Country musicians from Texas


Monte is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica. Since 2015, it is part of the canton of Golo-Morosaglia.

Geography
Monte is at the foot of Monte Sant'Angelu,  from Borgo.

Population

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Communes of the Haute-Corse department

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Communes of Haute-Corse


Monticello (Corsican: U Munticellu) is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica.

History
The area has been inhabited since the Neolithic period.

In 1541, Monticello was raided and set aflame by the Barbary pirates led by the Turkish admiral Dragut.

Population

Monuments
Tour de Saleccia
Église Saint-François-Xavier de Monticello

See also
Communes of the Haute-Corse department

References

Communes of Haute-Corse


Jon Lord (1941–2012) was an  English orchestral and rock composer, and member of Deep Purple

Jon or Jonathan Lord may also refer to:
Jon Lord (politician) (1956–2014), Canadian politician
Jonathan Lord (born 1962), British MP for Woking
Jonathan Lord (criminal)

See also
John Lord (disambiguation)


Jean-Pierre Dantan (28 December 1800, in Paris – 6 September 1869, in Baden-Baden), known as Dantan the Younger, was a French portrait sculptor. His subjects include many famous figures from the realms of politics (for example, Talleyrand, William Douglas-Hamilton), music and the arts (Beethoven, Paganini, Verdi, Chopin, Liszt, Berlioz), and literature (Victor Hugo, Balzac). He is said to be the inventor of the sculptural caricature.

The Dantan family
He was born in Paris, where his father was a wood carver, and Dantan's first teacher. His elder brother Antoine-Laurent ("Dantan the Elder", 1798–1878) was also a sculptor. The Dantans are sometimes confused in the literature. Indeed, they both entered the studio of François-Joseph Bosio, at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris, at the same time in 1823.

From the perspective of the art world of the time, Antoine-Laurent was the more talented brother. He won the Prix de Rome in 1828 and began a successful career producing officially commissioned, academic sculpture. Although gaining less official recognition than his brother's, Jean-Pierre's work gained a following among the intelligentsia, and is better remembered today, as well as being more influential on other artists, having inspired, in particular, Honoré Daumier.

Both brothers are buried in the family plot in Père Lachaise Cemetery (Division IV) in Paris. The tomb is decorated with relief medallions by Antoine-Laurent (of Dantan père and of Jean-Pierre) and by Jean-Pierre (of Antoine-Laurent and of Mme Dantan).

In a later generation, his nephew Édouard Joseph Dantan (1848–1897) knew some success as a painter, but is now remembered only as a minor artist.

Career
Antoine-Laurent was capable of large scale historic and figure sculpture, but Jean-Pierre's talents were better suited to portraiture, and to a smaller scale. This meant he was less likely to win prizes such as the Prix de Rome, but he was not without success. He exhibited at the Salons, and won a second class medal in 1831. And from very early in his career he had begun to explore the style that would ultimately make him the better-remembered sculptor: the first of his works to gain notice was a portrait bust of the painter César Ducornet in the guise of an accursed poet. Dantan's talent as a portraitist who could add expressive, romantic emotion to his subject was already apparent. (Apart from his work as a sculptor, Dantan was also a capable graphic caricaturist.)

It is for such caricature busts and also statuettes that Dantan is remembered, and for which he received most praise during his own lifetime. During the 1820s he had begun to frequent the salon of Pierre-Luc-Charles Cicéri, and in 1831 he produced a caricature bust of Cicéri. This gained him a certain renown throughout artistic circles in Paris, while his connection to Cicéri eventually gave him access to the salon of the Princesse de Belgiojoso. The members of de Belgiojoso's circle included Italian revolutionaries, political radicals, and prominent members of the European artistic intelligentsia. From this milieu, Dantan began to receive many requests, either for original caricatures or for casts of busts he had already made. For example, in an 1835 letter to Madame Hanska, Balzac speaks with pride of Dantan's caricatures of himself (there were two).

A frequent feature of Dantan's caricatures was the inclusion of a rebus on the socle, allowing the identity of the subject to be made out. In the illustration of the bust of Hugo, an axe (une hache, which sounds like the name of the letter H in French), the letters UG, and some crossed bones (des os, where os is pronounced "O" in the plural) are visible, spelling "HUGO". The rebus for the bust of the actor Pierre-Frédéric Achard was a letter A on a chariot (char).

Such games with "codes" would have enhanced the "counter cultural" effect of the works, in a society where caricature was an important political tool. But the rebuses also played the simple role of identification, because not all of Dantan's caricature's were immediately recognizable. Dantan appears to have been influenced both by the theories of phrenology and of Romanticism, with its emphasis on expressiveness, so he may have aimed as much to depict the true essence of his subjects as much as their exact physical semblance, and the small scale of his works would have emphasized this, allowing him greater freedom in the handling of his materials.

In fact, however, unlike comparable artists such as Daumier and David d'Angers, Dantan did not risk really engaging with the political issues of his time. This may not be very surprising considering the sort of risk that would have been involved. Writers and artists associated with Charles Philipon's magazines La Caricature and Le Charivari, including Philipon himself, were imprisoned during the reign of Louis Philippe. It is known, however, that Dantan made a bust of Louis Philippe, but it was never exhibited and is now lost, while he had some issues when in London (1833–34) for caricatures he made of the royal family, even though these were relatively harmless.

It may be that Dantan preferred a more reliable source of income than was available on commissions from the artistic and political avant-garde. He had begun in the 1820s making many "serious" portrait busts of the celebrities of the time. This was a commercial venture, and Dantan produced hundreds of busts, modelled on a small scale (20 to 60 cm high), and available in plaster and bronze editions for relatively low prices. This practice was his main activity before he became known for his caricatures, and it remained his predominant output in his later years. This work, however, is rarely interesting to modern eyes.

The better to sell his work, Dantan established a "Dantanorama" in the Passage des Panoramas in Paris, where he sold both is caricatures and serious works. He produced a catalogue illustrated by the caricaturist Grandville, first printed in 1834, which gives a good idea of his output. Grandville's illustrations of the Dantanorama itself make it look a grander place than it perhaps was. Contemporary photographs show a shop sufficiently cluttered to suggest an attitude of "pile 'em high and sell 'em cheap" and this attitude was certainly detected by some commentators of the time. In 1835, an anonymous critic in L'Artiste warned the elder Dantan, Antoine-Laurent, not to chase after merchandise, nor after popularity, and to learn from the unfortunate example of his younger brother who had the talent to be great artist but who had abandoned art for a profession, sculpture for caricature, and had prostituted the noble tradition of sculpture.

Dantan died in Baden-Baden, aged 68.

Reputation and influence
Arguably this last consideration, the concern that Dantan was too commercial and too populistic, is among the most fascinating questions about the artist. Most critics agree that he was not a great artist, but his work is an important link in the history of caricature, and even if they are artistic failings, both commercialization and populism are important aspects of the Paris which Dantan's younger contemporary, Charles Baudelaire would describe as essentially modern.
 Commending Dantan's caricatures in L'Artiste in 1839, Gustave Planche mocked Dantan's subjects, whose appetite for notoriety made them commission their own disfigurement in caricature, and then he pointed out how Dantan's works, apparently not very like their subjects, first provoke the reaction, "How horrible!" but then the realization "But it so looks like him!". If the question is Dantan's own status, it would be too much to read into this a pre-figurement of Picasso's remark about his own portrait of Gertrude Stein, "Everybody says that she does not look like it but that does not make any difference, she will." The matter might be different if the question is the position of caricature.

Caricature is a comparatively new form. The Oxford Dictionary of Art notes that "political caricature as we know it today emerged in the last three decades of the 18th century" in Britain, where artists such as Gillray learned how to distill the likenesses of kings and politicians into recognizable stereotypes. But the greatest master of the genre was Honoré Daumier in nineteenth century France. This is close to what the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica has to say, but Britannica also notes the importance of Dantan's "admirable portrait-busts" alongside the realistic sketches of Henri Monnier and the low life drolleries of Nicolas Toussaint Charlet in the development of the French caricature towards Daumier. Dantan's natural talent as a portraitist, his skill at capturing a rapid likeness, his interest in phrenology, and his association via the salons of Cicéri and the Princesse de Belgiojoso with an intellectual elite interested in a new form of realism, a romantic or expressive realism that captured the psychological realities of human life, would have pushed him to a form of caricature that was neither about superficial resemblance, nor about manufacturing stereotypes. Such an "evidently talented portraitist, whose talents nevertheless did not reach the level of David d'Angers, nor the intensity of Honoré Daumier," might nonetheless be representative of a new style of caricature, and even of art, that moved away from just presenting its subject to actively representing, revealing, and perhaps to an extent creating it.

He produced a grotesquely antisemitic 1833 caricature statue of financier Nathan Mayer Rothschild.

If we avoid speculating on the nature of caricature and simply point to examples, then it is clear that Dantan was a prominent exemplar of the caricaturist in Paris, and that his busts and statuettes are good examples of caricature. He may have refrained from much political caricature, but his busts and statuettes were exaggeratedly expressive if not always quite satirical (a statuette of Liszt has the "spiderlike composer take possession of his piano with an inspired air and spindly limbs"). He was undoubtedly a direct influence on Daumier, and he was a close associate of other caricaturists. Grandville illustrated his catalogue, and he was good friends with the gifted, younger graphic caricaturist, Cham. Dantan had made a caricature bust of Cham, and in his CHAM, sa vie et son oeuvre Félix Ribeyre reproduces a drawing by Dantan of Cham being carried about by his pet dog at the baths in Baden-Baden, which were popular with Parisian society. Ribeyre and Pierre Véron tell stories of Dantan and Cham playing jokes and pranks at Baden-Baden. Dantan's most prominent students were Gustave Deloye and Prosper d'Épinay.

And if nothing else, the five hundred or so sculptures that Dantan made from a detailed documentary of a significant portion of Parisian society in the years 1830-1850.

That Dantan is a relatively important artist in his own right, and certainly significant in the history of caricature, combined with his extremely high productivity, might provoke the question as to why he is not better known today. Part of the answer is that much of his production consisted of the essentially uninteresting "serious" work. But perhaps more important is the fact that on his death, his much younger wife, Elise Polycarpe Moutiez, 28 years his junior, destroyed many of the moulds of for his caricature busts, as well as much other material relating to her husband. This may have been done to increase the commercial value of his surviving works, or to boost his artistic reputation, but it may also have been done out of some concern for respectability, as she is also reputed to have destroyed any trace of a secret museum of erotic work within the Dantanorama. Whatever the reasons, Dantan's reputation declined into near oblivion until Janet Seligman published a monograph on him in 1957. His artistic status has remained somewhat ambiguous, as his work has provoked both positive and negative reactions from critics since his own time to the present. Laurent Baridon, taking into account both the verve of the caricatures and the fatuity of the ever-so-bourgeois "serious" busts, as well as the rather unsophisticated games with rebuses, concludes that Dantan is himself as interesting as a caricature of an artist as he is as an artist.

A recent (late 2009) sale from a catalogue of thirty busts and statuettes by Dantan, was held by Bertrand Talabardon et Bertrand Gautier in Paris. The works were priced from €10,000 to "much more". The sale included thirty caricatures, mostly of musicians, believed to have come from the collection of Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria. For those who cannot afford such prices, works by Dantan can be found in many museums and private collections, especially in France and Britain. The Carnavalet Museum in Paris has the most significant collection.

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1800 births
1869 deaths
Sculptors from Paris
French caricaturists
Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery
19th-century French sculptors
French male sculptors
19th-century French male artists


Muro is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica.

Population

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Communes of the Haute-Corse department

References

Communes of Haute-Corse


Nessa is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica.

Population

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Communes of the Haute-Corse department

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Communes of Haute-Corse


Phoenix Union Bioscience High School is part of the Phoenix Union High School District, with campus  in downtown Phoenix, Arizona, US. The school specialises in science education. A new building was constructed and the existing one renovated, opening in the fall of 2007.

Enrollment
Bioscience hosts approximately 180 freshmen through seniors.  The first class of 43 students graduated from Bioscience in May 2010.  97 percent of its 10th graders passed the AIMS Math exam (in 2009), the highest public (non-charter) school percentage in the Valley, and No. 2 in the state. Their science scores were No. 3 in the state among non-charter schools.

In its first year of eligibility, Bioscience earned the maximum "Excelling" Achievement Profile from the State.

Campus
The US$10 million campus which opened in October 2007 is located in Phoenix's downtown Biotechnology Center and open to students throughout the District.  The Bioscience High School campus, which was designed by The Orcutt-Winslow Partnership  won the American School Board Journal's  Learning By Design 2009 Grand Prize Award. The school received this award for its classrooms, collaborative learning spaces, and smooth circulation.

Phoenix Union High School District received a $2.4 million small schools grant from the City of Phoenix to renovate Bioscience's existing historic McKinley building for a Bio-medical program.  It includes administrative office, four classrooms, a library/community room and a student demonstration area.

In 2014, Bioscience ranked number 27 on the Best Education Degrees Web site's "Most Amazing High School Campuses In The World" list, ranked by their modern designs. The school has a solar charging station, and is partially powered by solar panels.

References

External links
 Bioscience High School
 Phoenix Union High School District website
 Arizona Department of Education School Report Card
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Biology education
High schools in Phoenix, Arizona
Educational institutions established in 2006
Public high schools in Arizona
2006 establishments in Arizona


Eileen Sedgwick (October 17, 1898 – March 15, 1991) was an American actress of the silent era.

Biography
Born in 1898, Sedgwick was in her first film in 1914 and appeared in more than 110 films during her 15-year career. She was the sister of film director Edward Sedgwick and actress Josie Sedgwick.

Sedgwick changed her name to Gretel Yoltz in the fall of 1927, after which she "found constant work". Before the change, Sedgwick was known as "Queen of the Serials" and was typecast in roles in Western films. The actress disappeared for long enough that casting lists no longer included Eileen Sedgwick.

When Gretel Yoltz visited Gotham Productions, affecting an accent and dressed in "a stunning outfit of clothes", she was given a part in the film The River Woman, after which she was cast for a second film. Eventually people began to recognize her and the ruse ended.

Partial filmography

 Man and Beast (1917)
 Hell's Crater (1918)
The Lure of the Circus (1918)
The Great Radium Mystery (1919)
The Diamond Queen (1921)
Terror Trail (1921)
In the Days of Daniel Boone (1923)
Beasts of Paradise (1923)
The Riddle Rider (1924)
The Fighting Ranger (1925)
 The Sagebrush Lady (1925)
The Winking Idol (1926)
Beyond All Odds (1926)
Strings of Steel (1926)
Tin Hats (1926)
Lure of the West (1926)
When Danger Calls (1927)
A Girl in Every Port (1928) (credited as Gretel Yoltz)
The Vanishing West (1928)
Beautiful But Dumb (1928)
Yellow Contraband (1928)
The Jade Box (1930)

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1898 births
1991 deaths
American film actresses
American silent film actresses
Actresses from Texas
Actors from Galveston, Texas
Deaths from pneumonia in California
20th-century American actresses
Burials at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City


Novella (; ) is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica.

Population

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Communes of the Haute-Corse department

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Communes of Haute-Corse


This article provides a List of threatened historic sites in the United States.  A site is deemed historic if it has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places or an official State or Local landmark list.  While there are many historic places in the U.S. that are not listed in an official government listing of landmarks, the purpose of this article is to report threats only to government-listed landmarks.  A site is deemed threatened for this article if there is verifiable information that it is threatened.  Documentation may include:
credible reports in publications, including news articles
listing on various watch organizations' lists

United States sites which are both historic and threatened

Fort Jackson and Fort St. Philip in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana were heavily damaged in Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.  They are forts that were battlegrounds in the American Civil War and are National Historic Landmarks.  Both are listed by the  Civil War Preservation Trust in 2006 as among the Top 10 Endangered Civil War Battlefields.

Great Falls Portage, a National Historic Landmark site in Montana, is threatened by an electric power generating station.
The upper post area of Fort Snelling, a National Historic Landmark in Minneapolis–St. Paul, Minnesota, is listed with a threat level of "emergency" by the National Historic Landmarks Program and was named as one of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places.  While the original fort buildings dating back to the 1820s have been reconstructed and are operated as a historic site by the Minnesota Historical Society, newer buildings built after the 1880s are deteriorating rapidly.
The SS United States, a passenger liner built in 1952 for the United States Lines.  She captured the Blue Riband on her maiden voyage in 1952—with the fastest eastbound and westbound transatlantic crossings record of three days, twelve hours, and twelve minutes. To this day she holds both the fastest westbound and eastbound transit records.  The ship's fate is unknown and has been in disregard for many years since her retirement in 1969.
Barton Academy, a Greek Revival school building in Mobile, Alabama.  It was built 1836–39 to the designs of architects James H. Dakin, Charles B. Dakin, and James Gallier.  First listed on the Alabama Historical Commission's "Places in Peril" in 2005 due to the threat of demolition by neglect, it was re-listed in 2009.
The Beckley Courthouse Square Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Beckley, West Virginia, was added to the list of most endangered historical resources in West Virginia by the Preservation Alliance of West Virginia (PAWV). The 2015 nomination resulted from a declaration by the State Historic Preservation Office that the district could be removed from the national register as the result of the inappropriate alteration of contributing structures. The PAWV declared in its assessment that the threat was the result of the nonfeasance of the city landmarks commission.

Organizations which note threatened status
National Park Service of the United States monitors the status of National Historic Landmark sites, many of which are privately owned.
World Monuments Fund covers a top 100 list worldwide, several of which in the United States.  For example, following Hurricane Katrina, it lists New Orleans as a whole, which includes many NRHP sites.  Of the NRHPs in New Orleans, some in low-lying areas were damaged by Katrina and remain threatened while others in the French Quarter and elsewhere were not and are not.
Civil War Preservation Trust
The Alabama Historical Commission names Alabama's top 10 threatened historic sites in their yearly "Places in Peril" listing.
The Northwest Georgia Threatened Historic Sites Project identified 19 threatened historic sites in Georgia, some of which may be NRHPs.
National Trust for Historic Preservation lists America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places.
Preservation Maryland identifies a top 10 Endangered Maryland Sites each year.  2009 listings are here, and include the skipjack Flora A. Price.

See also
America's Most Endangered Places

References

Threatened


Arthur Grimsdell (23 March 1894 – 12 March 1963) was an English professional footballer. He was born in Watford, Hertfordshire and played at centre-half and later wing-half for Tottenham Hotspur. and England. He captained both teams during the 1920s.

He was also a cricketer who played for Hertfordshire County Cricket Club at minor counties level. He was considered a sports personality of his era, featuring on footballer cigarette cards and interviewed for sports magazines.

He died, aged 68, in Watford on 12 March 1963.

Football career

Club
Grimsdell started his career at St Albans City and Watford but transferred as a schoolboy player to Tottenham Hotspur at the age of 18 in April 1912. He played his first game that year. His career was interrupted by the First World War, in which he served as a trooper in the 1st Regiment of Life Guards and a lance corporal Guards Machine Gun Regiment. On his return in 1919, he captained Tottenham and scored 14 goals in the 1919–20 season, and led the team to win the Second Division that year. In the following season he captained the side, which won the FA Cup in 1921.

His successful club career continued until he broke his leg during the 1925 season. He did not return to play for the side until 1927 and he went on to play for Spurs until April 1929 when he was released by the club. He subsequently went to Clapton Orient where he took on a player-manager-secretary role.

He made a total of 418 appearances for Tottenham scoring 43 goals including 324 League appearances (26 goals) and 36 FA Cup matches (1 goal). In recognition of his distinguished career and service to the club he was admitted into the Tottenham Hotspur Hall of Fame.

Following the conclusion of the Second World War, Grimsdell served on Watford's board of directors from 1945 until 1951.

International
Grimsdell had a trial for the England team in 1913 but only started his international career after the war when he played for England six times between 1920 and 1923 as a left-half, captaining the team on three of these occasions.

Cricket career
Grimsdell was a right-handed batsman and occasional wicketkeeper who played for Hertfordshire County Cricket Club in the minor counties league. He played once for the East of England side against New Zealand at Wisbech, Cambridgeshire in July 1927, scoring 3 runs (1st innings) and 40 runs (2nd innings).

Personal life
Grimsdell's brother Ernie also became a footballer.

Career statistics

International

Honours
Tottenham Hotspur
Football League Second Division: 1919–20
FA Cup: 1920–21

References

English men's footballers
Tottenham Hotspur F.C. players
Watford F.C. players
Watford F.C. directors
Men's association football central defenders
England men's international footballers
English cricketers
1894 births
1963 deaths
Hertfordshire cricketers
Footballers from Watford
East of England cricketers
Men's association football wing halves
English Football League players
English Football League representative players
British Army personnel of World War I


Olmo (; ) is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica. Since 2015, it is part of the canton of Golo-Morosaglia.

Geography
Olmo is  from Borgo.

Population

See also
Communes of the Haute-Corse department

References

Communes of Haute-Corse


, born , also as Bekki Akitsura, and Bekki Dōsetsu, was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period who served the Ōtomo clan. He was the father of Tachibana Ginchiyo and adopted father of Tachibana Muneshige.

Dōsetsu was born in Yoroigatake Castle, Bungo Province. He led an attack at Tachibana Castle and took both their castle and clan. In 1571, he become the head of Tachibana clan, and changed his name, becoming Tachibana Dōsetsu. He was known as one of the wisest of the Ōtomo retainers and is remembered in part for a letter he sent other leading Ōtomo retainers that included a condemnation of the spread of Christianity in the Ōtomo's domain. Under Otomo Sorin, Dōsetsu fought at Siege of Moji (1561) and Battle of Tatarahama (1569). He was one of Sorin's greatest vassals and, as the keeper of the Tachibana Castle, he was responsible for the defense of the Bungo's northwestern reaches.

Dōsetsu was in possession of a famous sword called 'Chidori' (千鳥, (A) Thousand Birds). One day, while he was still a young man, he was taking shelter under a tree, as it was raining. Suddenly, a bolt of lightning struck him. However, Dōsetsu used his Chidori to cut the Thunder God inside the lightning bolt, allowing him to survive. After this incident, he renamed his 'Chidori' to 'Raikiri' (雷切, Lightning Cutter).

He fought in 37 battles while about half of his body was paralyzed. It was for this he was known as 'Oni Dōsetsu'. He died while leading an attack on Neko'o Castle, Chikugo Province in 1585. An account cited that while fighting together with Takahashi Shōsetsu, he fought using the hōen formation, which included six ranks of arquebusiers and two ranks of bows to fend off attacks. In this battle, Shōsetsu used the kōyaku defense.

Further reading
Nishizu Hiromi (1998). Honō no gunsen Tachibana Dōsetsu 炎の軍扇立花道雪. (Tokyo: Sōbunsha).

In popular culture
In the popular anime series Naruto, there are techniques named “Chidori” and “Raikiri”. To reference the story of Dōsetsu, a major character named Kakashi Hatake uses one of these techniques to cut a bolt of lightning in half.

In the anime series Katana Maidens, Chidori is the sword used by the main character, Eto Kanami.

Tachibana appears in the video game Samurai Warriors 2: Empires as a generic officer.

Tachibana is mentioned in the description of the Raikiri, which is usable in the fantasy RPG Nioh.

See also
Battle of Tatarahama (1569)
Siege of Tachibana
Shigashi

References

Samurai
Daimyo
1513 births
1585 deaths
Tachibana clan
Japanese Buddhist clergy
Deified Japanese people
People from Ōita Prefecture


Piano (; ) is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica.

Population

See also
Communes of the Haute-Corse department

References

Communes of Haute-Corse


Israel Shochat (;1886–1962) was a founder of and a key figure in Bar-Giora and Hashomer, two of the precursors of the Israel Defense Forces.

Biography

Russia and Germany
Israel Shochat was born in 1886 in Lyskovo, in the Grodno Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Belarus, a few km west of Ruzhany). As a child, he had tutors for Hebrew and Russian. He was a founder member of Poale Zion in  Grodno and set up a Jewish self-defence league in 1903 after the Kishinev pogrom. He went to Germany to study agronomy but left his studies after only three months and left for Palestine.

Palestine
In 1904 Israel Shochat and his brother, Eliezer Shochat, immigrated to Ottoman Syria (later Palestine). They worked as field hands in the fields and orchards of Petah Tikva. He moved to Rishon LeZion to work in the winery. He was greatly influenced by Michael Halperin, a Jewish visionary who wanted to create a tribe of Jewish Bedouin and a Hebrew army. While at Rishon LeZion he met Alexander Zaïd and shared with him his radical socialist ideas. Zaid received them enthusiastically and declared "I'm with you, for life or death, let's start as of now!" In Rishon LeZion, he suffered the first bout of malaria, which was to plague him for the remainder of his life.

Israel Shochat moved to Jerusalem to persuade the yeshivot leaders to join the efforts to create a national workforce. His attempts failed. To support himself, he shined shoes at Jaffa Gate. As a result of asthma, he was forced to give up manual labour and worked as Israel Belkind's assistant. He became interested in the Circassians living in Palestine, as an example of how a small minority could preserve its identity and pride in an often hostile environment. The key for Shochat was that they cultivated their land and protected it with their own hands.

Shochat was a natural conspirator and by 1906 he had formed an underground group with about 25 followers mostly based in Lower Galilee. He used to inspect new arrivals coming off the boats at Jaffa looking for new recruits. It was there he spotted 20-year-old David Ben Gurion who he invited to attend the founding conference of the local branch of Poale Zion - "Jewish Social-Democratic Workers' Party in the Land of Israel" - in October 1906. Also attending the conference was the only other Marxist group based in Jaffa, the Rostovians, a group of 30 young men from Rostov dedicated to creating a single Arab-Jewish proletariat.  Using his followers Shochat engineered the election of Ben Gurion as chairman who created an impression by insisting that proceedings be held in Hebrew. For practical reasons discussions were in Russian and Yiddish. Shochat also rigged the secret ballot so that both he and Ben Gurion were members of the 10 man committee who were delegated the responsibility of writing their manifesto. The resulting Ramleh Program was accepted by a second 15 delegate meeting held the following January. The program, in Hebrew, bore many similarities to the Communist Manifesto but included: "the party aspires to political independence of the Jewish People in this country." It also dictated that all party activities should be conducted in Hebrew and that there should be segregation of the Jewish and Arab economies. i.e. Jewish enterprises should not employ Arabs. Shochat and Ben Gurion continued to work closely together for a short time before Ben Gurion returned to his life as a pioneer. At that time he was less militant than Shochat and in particular he was not comfortable with reports of Shochat's gunmen expropriating funds in Jerusalem.

The arrival of Yitzhak Ben-Zvi in April 1907 changed everything. A fresh conference was held in May at which Ben-Zvi and a Rostovian were elected as the Central Committee; all of Ben Gurion's policies - Hebrew over Yiddish, segregation of Jewish and Arab economies - were overturned; Shochat and Ben-Zvi were selected as delegates to the World Zionist Congress held that year in The Hague. On their return they established Bar-Giora - a secret paramilitary organisation committed to armed struggle. The initial group of nine met on 27 September 1907 in Ben Zvi's room in Jaffa. They swore themselves to secrecy - on pain of death - and pledged absolute allegiance to their leader Israel Shochat. Their motto was "Judea fell in blood and fire, Judea shall rise again in blood and fire". Shochat's vision was to create Hebrew military force which could lead an armed uprising and create a Jewish state. The inner circle of nine were to create subordinate organisations which could be manipulated towards the ultimate goal. Two areas were to be developed: security guards for the existing settlements and shepherds to conduct detailed surveys of the land. They would set up new border settlements modelled on the Circassian villages, with residents combining army training and farming.

In May 1908 he married Manya Wilbushewitch and in September they led his group, now 20 strong, to Sejera where they took over the running of the training farm. Their first action was the engineering of the sacking of the Circassian night watchman. This led to several months of night time gunfire aimed at the farm and Moshav. Bar Giora organised night-time security and the arming of the farm workers. The following summer at a secret meeting at Kfar Tavor Bar Giora reinvented itself as Hashomer with the prime objective of providing security for, as well as establishing, remote colonies. Shochat remained absolute leader. Hashomer never had more than a hundred members. Its launch coincided with the collapse of the Second Aliyah with more Jews leaving than arriving. Convinced that the future road to an independent Jewish state lay through the Young Turk revolution, and what he understood to be the promise of autonomous community status, Israel and Manya moved to Istanbul where Shochat enrolled in the university to study law. During the 1913 Balkan War he approached the Ottoman leadership offering to raise a Jewish cavalry unit, claiming to already have fifty volunteers. The war ended before his plans could be acted on.

Politics and Jewish self-defence
Along with Israel Giladi, Alexander Zaid and Mendel Portugali, he convinced some of the Jewish farmers to let them help with guarding the fields. It was a modest start.

Israel represented Poalei Zion in the Zionist Congress of 1907, which took place in The Hague in the Netherlands. He was his party's first representative from Palestine. He was unable to present his idea to the assembly and in a private conversation, Menachem Ussishkin told Israel that he was much too young to succeed in achieving the goal of a national defence. Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, a representative from the Ukraine, was receptive and they travelled back to Palestine together, working along the way.

Paramilitary organisations
In 1907, Israel Shochat was one of the 10 people who, in Yitzhak Ben-Zvi's Jaffa apartment, founded Bar-Giora, a clandestine organisation which sought to create an armed Jewish force. It took its name from one of the leading Jewish rebels of the First Jewish–Roman War. Manya Wilbuszewicz, the leader and founding member of the collective at Sejera, convinced Shochat to join the agricultural settlement there. He accepted, becoming the second leader of the community which he used as a base for training Jewish guards. In May 1908, Israel and Manya got married. The next year, Israel and Manya Shochat were among the leading founders of Hashomer (lit. The Watchman), a more ambitious enterprise than Bar-Giora, being the first attempt to provide an organised defence for all the Jewish communities in Palestine.

World War I: deportation
In 1914 the Ottoman Empire entered World War I. The Turkish authorities viewed the Jews of Palestine with a great degree of distrust, particularly Russian nationals like the Shochats; after the Shochats were found hiding weapons for the Hashomer organisation, they were deported to the Anatolian city of Bursa, in Turkey. While their first-born soon, Gideon ("Geda"), had been born in Palestine during their first years of marriage, their daughter Anna was born in Anatolia in 1916.

Politics, Work Battalion and Haganah
The Shochat family returned to Palestine around Passover, 1919, after attending the Poalei Tziyon convention in Stockholm. They both joined the Ahdut HaAvoda, a workers' party led by David Ben-Gurion. At first Israel Shochat worked the land in Kfar Giladi, but soon became involved in founding the famous Work Battalion and in organizing the defence of the Galilee. In 1920 the Ahdut HaAvoda decided to replace the existing Hashomer militias with a new organisation, the Haganah, established as the paramilitary arm of the Histadrut. During the riots of 1921, Israel Shochat took an active part in defending Tel Aviv and Jaffa. The same year his wife left for the United States on mission to collect money for the Histadrut and, rather on her own initiative, for the Haganah. Due to political opposition within the Jewish community, she only managed to raise several thousand dollars, which she sent to Israel Shochat who was waiting in Vienna, where he oversaw the purchase and shipment of weapons to the now British-administered Palestine.

In the years 1921–26, Israel Shochat was on the Jewish National Council. He was also instrumental in forming Hapoel. In the 1930s, after a long conflict with the Histadrut, he retired from political life.

State of Israel

Death
Israel Shochat died in 1962 and is buried in Kfar Giladi alongside his wife.

Family

Israel and Maya had a son and a daughter together.

Notes

References
 "Anshei Hashomer Bechayeihem Ubemotam" (Members of Hashomer in life and in death) Gershon Gera.

External links

 Israel Shochat Jewish Agency for Israel

1886 births
1962 deaths
People from Pruzhany District
People from Volkovyssky Uyezd
Belarusian Jews
Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the Ottoman Empire
Jews from Ottoman Palestine
Jews from Mandatory Palestine
Jewish socialists
Israeli people of Belarusian-Jewish descent
Members of the Assembly of Representatives (Mandatory Palestine)
Poale Zion politicians
Hapoel
Istanbul University Faculty of Law alumni


Antoine Laurent Dantan (8 December 1798 in Saint-Cloud – 25 May 1878 in Saint-Cloud) was a French academic sculptor, known as 'Dantan the Elder' to distinguish him from his slightly younger brother, Jean-Pierre Dantan (1800–1869), who was also a sculptor. He won the Prix de Rome for sculpture in 1828.

The Dantan brothers are sometimes confused in the literature. Indeed, they both entered the studio of François-Joseph Bosio, at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris, at the same time in 1823. He was the subject of an article in the French newspaper L'Illustration in 1850. He had a son, Édouard Joseph Dantan (1848–1897), who became a well-known painter in his lifetime.

References

1798 births
1878 deaths
People from Saint-Cloud
19th-century French sculptors
French male sculptors
Prix de Rome for sculpture
Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery
19th-century French male artists


Pino (; ) is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica.

Geography
The town of Pino is located in the Eastern "Alpine Corsica", a distinction limited to the northeast of the island, composed of various terrains, originating from a former oceanic crust called Liguro-Piedmontese (a Tethys Ocean whose age is between -170 to -60 Ma) and its continental margins. In this part of Corsica, it is distinguished that the metamorphic schists or "lustrous schists" and the ophiolites of Cap Corse are of Jurassic and Cretaceous age.

The commune occupies an "alveolus" in the western Cap Corse, a valley surrounded by mountains to the north, east, and south, which are also its territorial limits. Starting from the coast south of the , its boundaries follow a ridge line from Punta d'Alisgia (155 m), Punta Pastricciola (305 m), to Monte Popolu (520 m). It then follows the Cape ridge southwards over the Bocca di Santa Lucia pass (387 m), beneath which lies the Santa Lucia chapel, past the Tour de Sénèque (566 m), Monte Rotto (630 m - Luri), Punta Rasiccia (714 m), and Monte Ventigliole (712 m) towards Monte Grofilieta (836 m). From there, it heads back west towards the sea, passing Monte Cupieta (756 m), Punta di Caterraggio (514 m), Punta di Piestrone (430 m), and follows the course of the small river, fiume di Mare Morto, to the coast.

Hydrography
On Pino's seafront are the mouths of six small rivers, all of which rise from the heights of the Pino Valley. From North to South, they are: the di Marinascu, the di Fichetu, the di Sorbinca, the di A Pietra, the di Cucchiara, and the di Mare Morto.

Climate and vegetation
Pino's geographical location on the Cape's western coastline means it is subject to the prevailing westerly winds. The soil is covered with tall holm oak trres and dense scrubland that conceal the ancient cultivation terraces, developing on a soil composed partly of silky, wrinkled sericite schists, and partly of very resistant ophiolites composed of volcanic rocks, causing sharp, abrupt reliefs in the ground. Many roads are cut into the rock, and feature prasinites on the walls, tinted green by epidote minerals.

The Santa Lucia Chapel is surrounded by laricio pines. On the rocky coastal slopes, are the numerous agave and prickly pear trees that originated in Mexico and have become widespread around the Mediterranean.

Etymology
Pino derives from the Latin word pinus, meaning umbrella pine, a species of tree endemic to the commune.

See also
Torra di Scalu
Communes of the Haute-Corse department

Sources

References

Communes of Haute-Corse


Lippincott is an American brand strategy and design company. Based in New York, it is part of the Oliver Wyman Group, a business unit of Marsh & McLennan Companies.

History
Lippincott was founded in 1943 as Dohner & Lippincott by Donald R. Dohner and J. Gordon Lippincott, who taught together at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. After Dohner's sudden death in December of that year, the name was changed to J. Gordon Lippincott & Associates. In the late 1940s, Lippincott joined forces with Walter P. Margulies, and the firm was renamed Lippincott & Margulies.

Works
The company's early design work included the Campbell Soup Company's red-and-white can, the FTD Mercury logo, the Betty Crocker spoon, the G on General Mills products, and adaptations of the Coca-Cola logo. In 1947, automobile designer Preston Tucker hired J. Gordon Lippincott & Associates to replace automotive designer Alex Tremulis in the body development of the 1948 Tucker Sedan. The Lippincott team designed a new front end and modified the rear end of the car to match the side panels and roof previously developed by Tremulis.

By the early 1960s, Lippincott & Margulies had moved into emphasizing marketing and corporate image. It was J. Gordon Lippincott who first coined the term "corporate identity", and the firm pioneered the linking of name, logo, advertising and packaging into an integrated and uniform marketing tool. Lippincott & Margulies designed many of the world's most familiar corporate logos, including those of S.C. Johnson, Chrysler, Eastern Air Lines, Del Monte, RCA, MGM, American Express, Amtrak, Pizza Hut, Red Lobster, Baskin Robbins, Infiniti, and Nokia.

Acquisition
Lippincott & Margulies was acquired in 1986 by Marsh & McLennan, an insurance conglomerate expanding its focus into management consulting. Lippincott & Margulies soon began working with another Marsh & McLennan property, Mercer Management Consulting; both shared some of the same corporate clients. In January 2003, Lippincott & Margulies was merged into Mercer as a division called Lippincott Mercer; this combined name was used until 2007, when the unit became known as simply Lippincott.

References

External links

Reputation Management
Internet Reputation Management

Brand valuation
Companies based in New York City
1943 establishments in New York City
Design companies established in 1943
American companies established in 1943
International management consulting firms
Branding companies of the United States


Pruno is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica.

Population

See also
Communes of the Haute-Corse department

References

Communes of Haute-Corse


Aransas ( ) is a placename for several neighboring places in coastal Southern Texas.
Aransas County, Texas
The Aransas River, which begins in Bee County, Texas, and flows into Copano Bay in Aransas County
The Aransas Bay, fed by Copano Bay
Aransas Pass, Texas, which borders the Aransas Bay
Port Aransas, Texas
The Aransas Pass, a navigable salt water channel connecting the Gulf of Mexico with Aransas Bay
The Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, north of Aransas River
The ghost town of Aransas City

Geography of Texas


The Red Glove is a 1919 American film serial directed by J. P. McGowan for Universal. The film is considered to be lost.

Plot
Walcamp played a "fearless cowgirl" engaged in "perilous adventures" in the cliffhanger style. One episode featured a train robbery, and that scene was filmed at the Sierra Railway  on May 26, 1919.

Cast
 Marie Walcamp as Billie
 Pat O'Malley as Kern Thodes (early chapters)
 Truman Van Dyke as Kern Thodes (later chapters)
 Thomas G. Lingham as Starr Wiley
 Leon De La Mothe as The Vulture
 Alfred Allen as Gentleman Geoff
 Evelyn Selbie as Tiajuana
 William Dyer

Chapter Titles
 The Pool of Mystery (a.k.a. The Pool of Lost Souls)
 The Claws of The Vulture
 The Vulture's Vengeance
 The Passing of Gentleman Geoff
 At The Mercy of A Monster
 The Flames of Death
 A Desperate Chance
 Facing Death
 A Leap For Life
 Out of Death's Shadow
 Through Fire and Water (a.k.a. In the Depths of The Sea)
 In Death's Grip
 Trapped
 The Lost Millions
 The Mysterious Message
 In Search of A Name (a.k.a. In Deadly Peril)
 The Rope of Death
 Run To Earth

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

References

External links

1919 films
1919 lost films
1910s action thriller films
American silent serial films
American black-and-white films
American action thriller films
Films directed by J. P. McGowan
Lost American films
Universal Pictures film serials
1910s American films
Silent thriller films


Red Glove may refer to:
 The Red Glove, 1919 film serial
 Red Glove (book), 2011 fantasy book


Tox is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica.

Population

See also
Communes of the Haute-Corse department

References

Communes of Haute-Corse


The Diocese of Ales-Terralba () is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church located in Sardinia, Italy. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Oristano.

History
Gregory the Great alludes to the episcopal see of Ales (anciently Uselli), in his letter to Januarius of Cagliari in 591. After this nothing is to be found about it until 1147, when the name of Bishop Rello appears in a diploma. The local traditions of Terralba have preserved the memory of a Bishop Mariano, who erected the cathedral about 1144.

The diocese of Ales and the diocese of Terralba were united by Pope Julius II, in 1503.

It would appear that a process has begun to permanently unite the diocese of Ales-Terralba and the archdiocese of Oristano. The Bishop of  Ales-Terralba, Roberto Carboni, O.F.M. Conv., was promoted on 4 May 2019 to be Archbishop of Oristano and on the same date was appointed Apostolic Administrator of his former diocese of Ales-Terralba.  However, on 3 July 2021, without losing his position as Archbishop of Oristano, he was reappointed Bishop of Ales-Terralba. The announcement specifies that this act unifies the two dioceses in persona Episcopi ('in the person of the Bishop').

Ordinaries

Diocese of Ales
Erected: 7th Century
Pedro Garcia (21 Jul 1484 – 14 Jun 1490 Appointed, Bishop of Barcelona)
Juan Crespo, O.S.A. (2 Oct 1493 – )

Diocese of Ales e Terralba
Diocese of Ales united with Diocese of Terralba: 8 December 1503
Latin Name: Uxellensis et Terralbensis
Metropolitan: Archdiocese of Oristano

Pedro del Frago Garcés (6 Nov 1562 – 20 Dec 1566 Appointed, Bishop of Alghero)
Miguel Maigues, O.S.A. (13 Dec 1568 – 1584 Died)
Pedro Clement, O. Carm. (23 Jan 1585 – 1601 Died)
Antonio Surredu (13 Aug 1601 – Aug 1605 Died)
Lorenzo Nieto y Corrales Montero Nieto, O.S.B. (17 Apr 1606 – 12 Aug 1613 Appointed Bishop of Alghero)
Diego de Borja, O.F.M. (26 Aug 1613 – 1616 Died)
Gavino Manconi (30 May 1616 – 1634 Died)
Melchiorre Pirella (7 May 1635 – 1638 Died)
Miguel Beltrán Castellón (13 Sep 1638 – 1644 Died)
Antonio Manunta (18 Apr 1644 – Oct 1662 Died)
Giovanni Battista Brunengo (13 Aug 1663 – Nov 1679 Died)
Serafino Esquirro (15 Jul 1680 – 1681 Died)
Domenico Cugia (10 Apr 1684 – 1693 Died)
Francesco Masones y Nin (2 Jan 1693 – 15 Sep 1704 Appointed Archbishop of Oristano)
Isidoro Masones y Nin (15 Dec 1704 – Jan 1724 Died)
Salvatore Ruyu (17 Mar 1727 – Jan 1728 Died)
Giovanni Battista Sanna (14 Jun 1728 – Jan 1736 Died)
Antonio Giuseppe Carcassona (26 Sep 1736  – 1 May 1760 Died)
Giuseppe Maria Pilo, O. Carm. (25 May 1761 Confirmed – 1 Jan 1786 Died)
Michele Antonio Aymerich de Villamar (15 Sep 1788 – 23 Jul 1806 Died)
Giuseppe Stanislao Paradiso (29 Mar 1819 – 4 Sep 1822 Died)
Antonio Raimondo Tore (28 Jan 1828 – 2 Oct 1837 Confirmed Archbishop of Cagliari)
Pietro Vargiù (22 Jul 1842 – 3 Aug 1866 Died)
Francesco Zunnui Casula (22 Feb 1867 – 16 Jan 1893 Appointed Archbishop of Oristano)
Palmerio Garau (12 Jun 1893 – 27 Mar 1906 Died)
Francesco Emanuelli (29 Aug 1910 – 10 Oct 1947 Died)
Antonio Tedde (5 Feb 1948 – 6 Aug 1982 Died)
Giovanni Paolo Gibertini, O.S.B. (23 Mar 1983 – 11 Jul 1989 Appointed Bishop of Reggio Emilia-Guastalla)
Antonino Orrù (9 Apr 1990 – 5 Feb 2004 Retired)
Giovanni Dettori (5 Feb 2004 – 10 Feb 2016 Retired)
Roberto Carboni, O.F.M. Conv. (10 Feb 2016 – 4 May 2019 Appointed Archbishop of Oristano)
Roberto Carboni, O.F.M. Conv. (3 Jul 2021 – Appointed additionally Bishop of Ales-Terralba)

Notes

Ales-Terralba
Ales-Terralba


Social Finance is a not for profit consultancy organisation that partners with governments, service providers, the voluntary sector and the financial community to find better ways of tackling social problems in the UK and globally. Founded in 2007, they have helped pioneer a series of programmes to improve outcomes for individuals with complex needs. Their innovations include the Social Impact Bonds (SIB) model which has mobilised more than £500 million globally in areas such as  offender rehabilitation, children and family, homelessness and housing, young people at risk of becoming NEET, mental health and employment, loneliness and social isolation, and domestic violence.

History
Social Finance's initial team supported the work of the Commission on Unclaimed Assets, which recommended the establishment of a Social Investment Bank in March 2007 and in turn developed the blueprint for what is now named Big Society Capital. Initially financed by a group of philanthropists, later financial support included charitable trusts and foundations including: Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation and the Big Lottery Fund.

Social Finance helped develop the first Social Impact Bond project in the world in the UK in 2010, a six-year social impact bond pilot scheme run by Social Finance to see around 3,000 short-term prisoners from Peterborough prison, serving less than 12 months, receiving intensive interventions both in prison and in the community. Funding from investors outside government was initially used to pay for the services, which were delivered by Third Sector providers with a proven track record of working with offenders. If re-offending is not reduced by at least 7.5% through all tranches, the investors will receive no recompense. In August 2014, the first set of results were released, showing that the Social Impact Bond reduced reoffending by 8.4 per cent. This was not high enough to trigger any repayments to investors at this point (10% reduction would have been necessary for payments to investors by August 2014) but was on track for payments to investors in the next tranche – as an 8.4% reduction is in line with the overall reduction rate needed.

In January 2011, Social Finance US was launched to bring social impact bonds to the US market. Today the "Social Finance Global Network" includes Social Finance UK, Social Finance US, Social Finance Israel, Social Finance India, and Social Finance Netherlands.

Social impact bonds

There are a range of interpretations of what the term ‘social impact bond’ means. Broadly speaking, social impact bonds are a type of bond, but not the most common type. While they operate over a fixed period of time, they do not offer a fixed rate of return. Repayment to investors is contingent upon specified social outcomes being achieved. Therefore, in terms of investment risk, social impact bonds are more similar to that of a structured product or an equity investment.

Social Finance UK describes social impact bonds as "a public-private partnership which funds effective social services through a performance-based contract."

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Howard William Weiss (October 12, 1917 – November 12, 1997) was an American football fullback.  He was drafted in the third round of the 1939 NFL Draft by the Detroit Lions and played two seasons with the team. Later he played with the Milwaukee Chiefs of the American Football League (AFL).

A three-sport letter winner in high school, he led the football team to its first conference championship while outscoring its opponents 208–12 during the year. He won the state junior golf championship in 1934. In 1935 Weiss enrolled at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and joined the Wisconsin Badgers football team as a fullback. He was named Wisconsin's Most Valuable Player in 1937 and again in 1938 when he also was awarded the Chicago Tribune Silver Football, given to the Big Ten Conference's Most Valuable Player. He was the first Badger to win the award. In the 1938 Heisman Trophy balloting Weiss came in sixth. He was elected class president for the 1938-–9 school year. Weiss graduated in June 1939 with a degree in economics.

After a stint in the Navy during World War II, Weiss settled in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to begin a career in insurance. At the age of 39 he was named president of the Roberts Company, one of Wisconsin’s oldest and largest insurance companies. Weiss and his wife Geraldine involved themselves with Milwaukee’s civic affairs, donating their time and money to the Milwaukee Boys Club, the United Way, and the Milwaukee Art Museum.

Weiss was one of 35 charter members named to the UW Athletic Hall of Fame in 1991.

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