Faunsdale Plantation is a historic slave plantation near the town of Faunsdale, Alabama, United States. This plantation is in the Black Belt, a section of the state developed for cotton plantations. Until the U.S. Civil War, planters held as many as 186 enslaved African Americans as laborers to raise cotton as a commodity crop.

A number of the workers' former cabins remain standing, and they are among the most significant examples of slave housing in Marengo County. These cabins are also among the last remaining examples of this building type in the state of Alabama.

The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on 13 July 1993, as a part of the historic district associated with the Plantation Houses of the Alabama Canebrake and Their Associated Outbuildings Multiple Property Submission.

Description of house and cabins
The plantation house at Faunsdale Plantation is a simple Greek Revival style, two-story, wood-frame structure with a gabled roof, flanked on each side with one-story gabled wings.

The nearby one-room slave cabins date from 1860 and are also wood-frame structures. They have high-pitched gables and scalloped barge boards, which show a Carpenter Gothic influence.

Detailed records of enslaved families
Faunsdale Plantation is one of the few large plantations in Alabama where detailed slave records were kept and preserved as part of the historical record. These records indicate that the Harrison family owned roughly 99 slaves in 1846, a few years after they acquired this property. Harrison is listed in the 1850 Federal Census of Marengo County as having $18,300 in property, based mostly on the value of the enslaved people he held.  By 1857, the number of people enslaved at the farm had increased to 161.

A list from 1 January 1864 indicates that Harrison's widow, Louisa, enslaved 186 people, who likely comprised at least 35 families. Unusually, her records also included the surnames used by many of the enslaved people: Barron, Brown, Francis, Harison, Iredell, Mutton, Nathan, Newbern, Paine, Parsons, Richmond, Washington, and Wills. By the end of 1864, 14 of these enslaved people had died of infectious disease, ranging from typhoid fever to measles.

History of owners and the people they held in slavery

The plantation was developed during the 1830s by Bird Pearson and Henry Augustine Tayloe.  This area of the state had been ceded by the Choctaw to the United States by the Treaty of Fort St. Stephens in 1816.  The owners used enslaved African Americans to clear and develop the lands of the Canebrake.

At this time, Tayloe was also acting as the local land agent for his brothers; located in Washington, D.C., and Virginia, they invested deeply in the Canebrake region, buying numerous plantations through him. The brothers were Benjamin Ogle Tayloe of Washington, D.C., who owned Windsor, Sidson and Meadow Hill; William Henry Tayloe of Mount Airy, Virginia, co-owner of Oakland, Adventure (later part of Cuba Plantation), and Larkin plantations ; Edward Thornton Tayloe of Powhatan Plantation, co-owner of Oak Grove here; with George Plater Tayloe of Buena Vista Plantation, in Virginia. He also bought land for a nephew, Col. George E Tayloe, owner of Elmwood in Arcola, and co-owner of Walnut Grove on the Demopolis-Uniontown Road.

H. A. Tayloe and his brothers were sons of Col John Tayloe III, a wealthy Virginia planter who built the Octagon House in Washington, D.C., for his use in the city. Their grandfather was Colonel John Tayloe II, another wealthy planter, who developed the colonial plantation Mount Airy in Richmond County, Virginia, and had tens of thousands of acres in other farms in Virginia and Maryland. The Tayloes' extensive acquisitions in Alabama demonstrate the economic reach of wealthy planters in the Upper South, to control good lands in the Deep South. In 1947, historian J.W. Dubose wrote that the Tayloes were "considered the most important pioneer cotton planters of the Canebrake, as to the extent of their enterprise there."

In 1843, Dr. Thomas Alexander Harrison purchased 960 acres in the Canebrake from Charles City County, Virginia. According to Dubose's 1947 account, after Harrison acquired his property, which he named Faunsdale Plantation, he no longer practiced as a doctor, but devoted himself to cotton. Harrison named his plantation after Faunus, the ancient Roman deity of the forest, plains, and fields.

As was typical of other planters, Harrison brought numerous slaves with him from Virginia. This was part of a forced migration of about one million enslaved African Americans to the Deep South as it was developed.

Harrison was said to insist on the enslaved persons saluting him, the men by raising their hats and the women by curtsies. By the 1850s, he wanted to acquire another 340 acres, but initially his neighbor, a Mr. Armstead, was not ready to sell. Harrison happened to see him one morning, when Armstead announced his imminent move to Montgomery, the state capital, to serve as United States Marshal of the District Court, under President Franklin Pierce's administration. He sold the land to Harrison that the latter wanted.

About 1855 Harrison also bought land in Louisiana near the Mississippi River. The bottomland had dense underbrush and trees, and he sent a work party of enslaved people there to start clearing the property.

Mrs. Louisa Harrison was described as an educated woman, taught privately by a governess and tutor while growing up at her family's plantation of Edenton, Virginia, as was typical for girls of her class. She later attended a girls' boarding school in New York for seven years. Dr. and Mrs. Harrison had one child together, a daughter Louise. As an adult, she married her cousin, William B. Shepard of Edenton.

After being widowed, Mrs. Harrison built a chapel at Faunsdale for use by the enslaved workers. Her example was followed by other planters in the area: the widow Mrs. McRae of the Athol plantation, also built a slave chapel; both Mr. Bocock of the Waldwic plantation and Mr. Terrell of the Brame plantation also provided them for the people they enslaved. In 1864 the widowed Louisa Harrison married again, to Rev. Stickney, Episcopal minister of St. Michael's. They lived at Faunsdale.

St. Michael’s Church
In 1844 Harrison and his wife, Louisa, gave  of their plantation for construction of a log church across from their house. In 1846, Alabama's first Episcopal bishop, Nicholas Hamner Cobbs, visited Faunsdale Plantation. He noted that Louisa Harrison gave regular instruction to her slaves by reading the church services to them and teaching the catechism to their children.

In 1852 the church was renamed as St. Michael's Episcopal Church. By  1855 the log structure had been replaced by a Gothic Revival-style church building, with likely all the skilled labor provided by enslaved African Americans.

A churchyard for burials was established in 1858; Dr. Harrison was the first interment. Beginning in 1860, enslaved persons and, later, freedmen who lived on the plantation were also buried in this churchyard. The church building was moved to the town of Faunsdale in 1888. It was destroyed by a tornado in 1932. The churchyard on the plantation grounds continued to be used as an active burial ground.

A sister church to this one, St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in nearby Prairieville was built in part by master carpenter slaves owned H. A. Tayloe.

Gallery

References

External links

Sankofa's Slavery Data Collection: Faunsdale Plantation

National Register of Historic Places in Marengo County, Alabama
Historic districts in Marengo County, Alabama
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Alabama
Plantation houses in Alabama
Greek Revival houses in Alabama
Carpenter Gothic architecture in Alabama
Houses in Marengo County, Alabama
Houses completed in 1844
Carpenter Gothic houses in the United States
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Alabama
Plantations in Alabama
Slave cabins and quarters in the United States
History of slavery in Alabama


The Return of Doctor X (also billed as The Return of Dr. X) is a 1939 American science fiction-horror film directed by Vincent Sherman and starring Wayne Morris, Rosemary Lane, and Humphrey Bogart as the title character. It was based on the short story "The Doctor's Secret" by William J. Makin. Despite supposedly being a sequel to Doctor X (1932), also produced by Warner Bros., the films are unrelated.

This was Bogart's only science fiction or horror film.

Plot summary
A pair of bizarre murders occur wherein the victims are drained of their rare Type One blood type. Reporter Walter Garrett consults with his friend Dr. Mike Rhodes which leads them to  Rhodes' former mentor, hematologist Dr. Francis Flegg. Flegg is initially unhelpful, but Garrett and Rhodes notice a striking resemblance between Flegg's strange assistant, Marshall Quesne and the late Dr. Maurice Xavier in old press cuttings. After opening Xavier's grave and finding it empty, they confront Flegg. Flegg admits using his new scientific methods to bring Xavier back from the dead and has employed synthetic blood to sustain his life. However, the blood cannot replace itself, and therefore, Quesne/Xavier must seek out human victims with the rare Type One blood type contained in the formula in order to stay alive.

A hunt begins for Quesne, who has discovered that Joan Vance, a nurse and Rhodes' sweetheart, is a carrier of the rare blood type. He escapes with her in a taxi, professing to be taking her to Rhodes. Barnett and Rhodes, accompanied by the police, track them to their location. Quesne is shot dead, and Joan is saved from the fate of the others.

Cast
 Wayne Morris as Walter Garrett (Barnett in the on-screen credits)
 Rosemary Lane as Joan Vance
 Humphrey Bogart as Dr. Maurice Xavier, a.k.a. Marshall Quesne
 Dennis Morgan as Dr. Mike Rhodes
 John Litel as Dr. Francis Flegg
 Lya Lys as Angela Merrova
 Huntz Hall as Pinky
 Charles Wilson as Detective Ray Kincaid
 Vera Lewis as Miss Sweetman
 Howard Hickman as Chairman (scenes deleted)
 Olin Howland as Undertaker
 Arthur Aylesworth as Guide
 Cliff Saum as Detective Sergeant Moran
 Creighton Hale as Hotel Manager
 John Ridgely as Rodgers
 Joe Crehan as Editor
 Glen Langan as Interne
 DeWolf Hopper as Interne

See also
 Vampire film

References

External links

1939 films
1939 horror films
American science fiction horror films
American black-and-white films
1930s English-language films
Films based on short fiction
Films directed by Vincent Sherman
American sequel films
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Ann or Anna or Anne Davies may refer to:

 Anne Davies (British journalist) (born 1958), presenter for the BBC local news programme East Midlands Today
 Anne Davies (figure skater) (1930–1995), American figure skater
 Anne Davies (Australian journalist), Washington correspondent for Australian newspapers The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald
 Anne Davies (academic), lawyer at the University of Oxford
 Ann Davies (occultist) (1912–1975), American occultist
 Ann Davies (actress) (1934–2022), English actress
 Ann Davies (translator) (1914–1954), British actress and translator
 Ann Catherine Davies (1894–1965), later Ann Horton, British physicist
 Ann Romney (born 1949 as Ann Davies), wife of politician Mitt Romney
 Anna Morpurgo Davies (1937–2014), Italian philologist
Anna Davies, novelist in the Point Horror series, novels include Wrecked and Identity Theft

See also
Ann Davis (disambiguation)


Vasile Valentin Avădanei (born 30 December 1979) is a Romanian former football player and played as a defender.

External links

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Living people
Romanian men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
Liga I players
Liga II players
CSM Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț players
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Eriogonum deflexum is a species of wild buckwheat known by the common names flatcrown buckwheat,  flat-top buckwheat, and skeletonweed. This plant is native to the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, where it is common and grows in a variety of habitats, especially desert scrub. It is somewhat weedy where it is most abundant. This is an annual which varies in size from small patches on the ground to tangled bushes approaching two meters in height; it may be dense or thin and spindly. This is a brown or greenish weedy-looking herb with a many-branched stem. The leaves are located at the base of the plant and are rounded and woolly and one to four centimeters long. Small clusters of flowers appear at intervals along the branches with each flower only one to three millimeters wide and white or pinkish in color.

External links
Jepson Manual Treatment
Photo gallery

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The 1998 Australian Super Touring Championship was the sixth running of a CAMS sanctioned motor racing series in Australia under the Super Touring Car regulations and the fourth to carry the Australian Super Touring Championship name.  It began on 5 April 1998 at Calder Park Raceway and ended on 30 August at Oran Park Raceway after eight rounds. The series was promoted by TOCA Australia as the 1998 BOC Gases Australian Super Touring Championship. As in the British Touring Car Championship the race format changed with each meeting now consisting a shorter "sprint" race and a "feature" race, 25% longer than previous races featuring a mandatory two-tyre stop to be taken between 15 and 75% distance. The one exception was the round at Lakeside Raceway where the pit lane was deemed unsuitable.

Team and Driver changes
 1997 championship winners Paul Morris and BMW left the series as BMW scaled back its touring car operation.
 Volvo switched from the 850 to the new S40 for Jim Richards.
 Cameron McLean drove the 1997 championship winning BMW switching from the Opel/Holden Vectra he raced in 1997.
 Tony Newman upgraded to an ex BTCC Peugeot 406
 Mark Adderton switched from the Phoenix Motorsport Toyota Camry to a Honda Accord.

Entry List
The following teams and drivers competed in the 1998 Australian Super Touring Championship.

Results and standings

Race calendar
The 1998 Australian Super Touring Championship was contested over eight rounds with two races per round.

Drivers Championship
Points were awarded 15-12-10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 based on the top ten race positions in each race. There was a bonus point allocated for pole position.

Manufacturers Championship

Teams Championship

TOCA Challenge - Independents Cup

Independents Cup points were awarded on a 15-12-10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis for relative positions achieved by drivers in entries nominated as Independents at each race.

The TOCA Challenge - Independents Cup was won by Cameron McLean in his Greenfield Mowers Racing-entered BMW 320i, scoring 205 points. Second was Mark Adderton on 151 points, and third was Peter Hills on 136 points.

References

External links
 1998 Racing Results Archive at www.natsoft.com.au
 1998 Australian Super Touring Championship at www.teamdan.com
 1998 Australian Super Touring Championship entry list at www.supertouringregister.com

Australian Super Touring Championship
Super Touring Car Championship


Skeletonweed is a common name for many species of plants, including:

Chaetadelpha wheeleri, an asterid
Chondrilla juncea, an invasive asterid
Eriogonum deflexum, a buckwheat
Pleiacanthus spinosus, an asterid
Shinnersoseris spp. of the asterids


The levator ani nerve is a nerve to the levator ani muscles. It originates from sacral spinal nerve 4.

References

Nerves of the lower limb and lower torso


ISO/TC 223 Societal security was a technical committee of the International Organization for Standardization formed in 2001 to develop standards in the area of societal security:
i.e. protection of society from and response to incidents, emergencies, and disasters caused by intentional and unintentional human acts, natural hazards, and technical failures.

The sinking of the Russian submarine Kursk to the bottom of the Barents Sea in 2000 can be cited as a major impetus for the formation of ISO/TC 223. The international salvage operation that followed the accident provided painful evidence that the international community lacked the tools necessary to cooperate effectively in emergency situations, resulting in an initiative from the Russian standards organization, GOST,  to establish ISO/TC 223. Originally titled Civil defence, the committee was created to standardize international emergency procedures.

The initiative lay dormant for some time. However, terrorist actions, including the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington, as well as a surge in natural disasters in recent years, led ISO to conduct a large-scale assessment of the role of standardization in the security field. One important decision was to put ISO/TC 223 into action.

In 2005 the chairmanship of the committee was taken over by SIS, the Swedish Standards Institute. To better reflect its ambition to take a broader approach toward disruptive incidents that threaten the civil society, the committee was renamed Societal security.

ISO/TC 223 was actively developing a series of international standards for more than eight years. In 2014, the Technical Management Board of ISO decided to merge ISO/TC 223 with other committees in the area of security for better coordination. The new committee began on 1 January 2015 and is called ISO/TC 292 Security and resilience

Scope
ISO/TC 223 worked under the following scope:

Leadership and organisation
Chair
 2006-2012 Mr Krister Kumlin
 2013-2014 Mrs Åsa Kyrk Gere

Secretary
 2006 Mr Per Forsgren
 2006-2013 Dr Stefan Tangen
 2013 Mrs Sanna Edlund
 2014 Mr Bengt Rydstedt

ISO/TC 223 established the following working groups: WG 1, WG 2, WG 3, WG 4, WG 5 and WG 6.

ISO/TC 223 became one of the larger committees in ISO with around 70 member countries.

Introduction to societal security
The term societal security was introduced as a political science concept developed by Nicholas Cringall in 1984. The definition of societal security for ISO/TC 223 is broader than just TO DEAL what might challenge the group's identity.

In recent years there have been many highly consequential natural disasters, terrorist attacks and severe crises, which have propelled the issue of crisis management to the top of the national agenda in many countries. As functions in society are shared there is a need to engage individuals, organizations, the private sector and the government in an inclusive discussion on how to better prepare, respond to and recover from crises.

Now and in the future, survival of nations and citizens concerns the security of critical functions of society, rather than only the classical focus on the security of the territory. This shift entails the ability of the government and civil society to function, critical infrastructures to be maintained, the democratic ability to govern, and to manifest certain basic values. Such abilities are put under pressure during severe crises.
In societal security several elements that traditionally have been kept apart are becoming fused: procedures for peace and war merge, internal and external security are interlocked, and the ambitions of enhancing state security and providing citizen safety become blurred.

These are new and more complex challenges. These challenges have implications for what (concepts and) tools we need to enhance security, citizens safety and crisis management capacity in an increasingly interdependent and borderless world. Such trans-boundary challenges are not covered by the traditional concept of national civil defence.

Thus, the proposed umbrella-concept of societal security is aimed at countering the threats and vulnerabilities in society that require comprehensive crisis management and business continuity systems which are multi-sector, multi-national and multi-continental.

Increased societal security requires a capacity for holistic crisis management emphasizing interoperability and including all key phases of crises. This capacity should have an overall flexibility in order to be able to manage crises that include un-predicted and unexpected elements and events. The purpose is to build a greater overall resilience in the face of a broad range of societal vulnerabilities and disruptive challenges.

The ISO 22300 series
The following international standards and other publications have been developed by ISO/TC 223

ISO standards
 ISO 22300:2012 Societal security – Terminology
 ISO 22301:2019 Security and Resilience – Business continuity management systems – Requirements
 ISO 22311:2012 Societal security – Video-surveillance – Export interoperability
 ISO 22313:2012 Societal security – Business continuity management systems – Guidance
 ISO 22315:2014 Societal security – Mass evacuation – Guidelines for planning
 ISO 22317:2015 Societal security – Business continuity management systems – Guidelines for business impact analysis (BIA)
 ISO 22320:2011 Societal security – Emergency management – Requirements for incident response
 ISO 22322:2015 Societal security – Emergency management – Guidelines for public warning
 ISO 22324:2015 Societal security – Emergency management – Guidelines for colour-coded alert
 ISO 22397:2014 Societal security – Guidelines for establishing partnering arrangements
 ISO 22398:2013 Societal security – Guidelines for exercises

Others forms of publications
 ISO/TR 22312:2011 Societal security – Technological capabilities
 ISO/TR 22351:2015 Societal security – Emergency management – Message structure for interoperability
 ISO/PAS 22399:2007 Societal security – Guideline for incident preparedness and operational continuity management
 ISO/TS 17021-6:2014 Conformity assessment - Requirements for bodies providing audit and certification of management systems - Part 6: Competence requirements for auditing and certification of business continuity management systems (Joint project with ISO/CASCO)

See also
 Business continuity planning
 Crisis management
 Gold–silver–bronze command structure
 Interoperability

References

External links
 ISO/TC 292

223


Dolabrifera dolabrifera is a species of sea hare, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Aplysiidae, the sea hares. Dolabrifera dolabrifera, otherwise known as a Warty Seacat. The animal goes by many names, including the common sea hare. The Hawaiian name for Dolabrifera dolabrifera, is Kualakai.

Description & Biology
The Seacat is a flat sea hare that grows to about 10 cm long. The maximum recorded length is 108 mm.  It is commonly spotty green or brown, but it can also be reddish. The animal's back half is typically wider and rounded, it narrows towards the head. Warty Seacats are soft-bodied gastropods, who have lost a protective shell over time. All species of sea hares have ink glands for chemical defense, though Dolabrifera dolabrifera does not release ink.

Distribution
This species is found in warm tropical and subtropical waters.

Habitat
These animals are majorly preyed on in their habitat. The Seacats live in shallow-flat pools that contain large boulders, near-shore. Collections of the hares gather underneath rocks in the intertidal zone. At night the warty Seacats hide themselves in between cracks found in the boulders. During the day, when the tide rises, the Seacats emerge. Due to the varying in color and pattern, it is hard to distinguish them from other species in the habitat. The minimum recorded depth for this species is 0 m; the maximum recorded depth is 3 m.

Life cycle

References

 Keen M. (1971). Sea shells of Tropical West America. Marine mollusks from Baja California to Perú. (2nd edit.). Stanford University Press pp. 1064:
 Bebbington A. (1977) Aplysiid species from Eastern Australia with notes on the Pacific Ocean Aplysiomorpha (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia). Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 34: 87-147.
 Rolán E., 2005. Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda.
 Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009. Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.

Further reading
 Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979

Aplysiidae
Gastropods described in 1828


The Shire of Bass was a local government area about  south-southeast of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of , and existed from 1871 until 1994.

Its administrative centre was located in Archies Creek.

History

Bass was first incorporated as the Phillip Island Road District on 8 September 1871, and became the Shire of Phillip Island and Woolamai on 24 December 1874. When the Phillip Island Riding was severed on 19 September 1928, its name changed to the Shire of Woolamai, and finally the Shire of Bass on 8 January 1929. It was reduced and redefined in 1977, including the loss of North Wonthaggi to the Borough of Wonthaggi.

The shire's area covered the majority of the mainland of the currently existing Bass Coast Shire, except for the areas of Wonthaggi, Inverloch, parts of the areas south of Korumburra and some of the coastline southwest of The Gurdies. The shire area spanned from the tiny township of The Gurdies (located approximately  south of Melbourne, on the Bass Highway) to Dalyston, while the northern parts spanned around Kernot, Almurta, Glen Forbes and other areas northwest of Inverloch.

On 2 December 1994, the Shire of Bass was abolished, and along with the Borough of Wonthaggi, the Shire of Phillip Island and parts of the City of Cranbourne and the Shires of Korumburra and Woorayl, was merged into the newly created Bass Coast Shire.

Wards

The Shire of Bass was divided into three ridings, each of which elected three councillors:
 Bass Valley Riding
 Powlett Riding
 Woolamai Riding

Towns and localities
 Almurta
 Anderson
 Archies Creek*
 Bass
 Corinella
 Coronet Bay
 Dalyston
 Glen Alvie
 Glen Forbes
 Grantville
 Kernot
 Kilcunda
 San Remo
 Woolamai

* Council seat.

Population

* Estimate in the 1958 Victorian Year Book.

References

External links
 Victorian Places - Bass Shire

Bass


The Father Sebastian Englert Anthropological Museum is a museum in the town of Hanga Roa on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in Chilean Polynesia. Named for the Bavarian missionary, Fr. Sebastian Englert, OFM Cap., the museum was founded in 1973 and is dedicated to the conservation of the Rapa Nui cultural patrimony.

The museum is administered by the  (, SNPC), and houses the William Mulloy Library.

Background

The museum was founded in 1973 and is named after Sebastian Englert, who also recorded the language and culture of the island. As part of his research he formed a large collection of objects relating to his work, which ultimately formed the foundation of the museum's collection.

Collections
The museum collection contains approximately 15,000 objects. These include items collected by Sebastian Englert, as well as the archives of decades of archaeological investigation. Archaeological material also includes human remains from excavations on the island. The museum houses the only female mo‘ai, as well as one of the coral eyes that were placed in the mo‘ai. There are obsidian stone tools, wood statuettes, ancient fish hooks, as well as a photographic collection and archives of traditional music. The museum also includes displays of rongorongo glyphs.

Natural science collections are also part of the work of the museum. One significant aspect of the zoological collections are the bones of cetaceans there, including two blue whale vertebra.

The William Mulloy Library forms part of museum and is an extensive collection of scientific literature about the island.

Objects in overseas collections
Due legacies of colonial extraction from Rapa Nui, as well as the work of international researchers on the island, objects that are culturally significant are held in museums around the world. The University of Wyoming Art Museum holds a collection that was constituted by William Mulloy Jr., who was a former anthropologist at the university. It comprises 180 small sculptures carved from a variety of materials, including volcanic rock, stone and wood. There are over 70 mo'ai in overseas collections, including at the British Museum, Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, and other institutions.

Gallery of objects in overseas collections

Repatriation

Human remains
Since 2013 there has been independent program of repatriation and reburial of ivi tupana (human remains). This program is led by members of the Rapa Nui community in collaboration with researchers and the museum. In the context of Rapa Nui and repatriation, human remains are not considered property of the Chilean state and must be returned directly to communities.

Kon-Tiki voyage material
In 2019 the government of Norway and Chile signed an agreement to enable the return of cultural artefacts and human remains that were taken as part of Thor Heyerdahl's research between the 1950s and 1980s. The returned objects are to be transferred to the museum collection.

Mo'ai
In 2006 Chilean artist Rosa Velasco organised the repatriation of the mo'ai that she had inherited from her father. In 2018 the government of New Zealand repatriated two mo'ai, from Te Papa Museum and Otago Museum. On display at the British Museum is Hoa Hakananai’a, a mo'ai whose return to the Rapa Nui people was formally requested in 2019. The British Museum reportedly agreed to a loan.

Digital repatriation
As part of the ongoing partnership to enable repatriation of the collections held at the University of Wyoming, a programme of digital repatriation was ongoing as of 2021. This programme involves the sharing of digital models and files of objects in the collection, with the goal of hosting simultaneous exhibitions in both museums, using the same materials in future.

Gallery of objects subject to repatriation requests

Awards
In 2006 the museum was presented with an award from UNESCO for the "INFOLAC Web 2005 Contest, as the best museum on line with a scientific foundation".

References

External links

 Father Sebastian Englert Anthropological Museum
 Easter Island Foundation

Museums established in 1973
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Anthropology museums
Museums in Oceania
Museums in Valparaíso Region
Englert, Sebastian
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1973 establishments in Oceania


Eremein (6 November 2001 – 8 March 2020) was a notable Australian Thoroughbred racehorse. He was a chestnut gelding foaled in 2001 and bred by Bhima Stud in New South Wales. Eremein was by Timber Country (USA) from Marrego (won $78,520) by Marscay.

His best wins were the Rosehill Guineas and the Australian Derby in 2005, and the Ranvet Stakes, BMW and AJC Queen Elizabeth Stakes in 2006.  Injuries and the equine influenza outbreak affected his chances to prove himself as one of the best Australian Thoroughbreds of recent years.

He had 27 starts for 12 wins, 7 seconds and 2 thirds for A$4,260,445 in prize money.

References

External links
 Eremein's racing record

2001 racehorse births
Thoroughbred family 1-i
Racehorses bred in Australia
Racehorses trained in Australia
2020 racehorse deaths


Abdul Qayyum "Zakir" (born 1973), also known by the nom de guerre Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul, is the acting Deputy Minister of Defense of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. He previously served as the acting Defense Minister, from 24 August 2021 to 7 September 2021.

Zakir joined the Taliban movement in 1997 and took part in the Afghan civil war. He held the positions of deputy army commander, northern front commander and minister of defence for a short period during the first Taliban government of Afghanistan. Following the United States invasion of Afghanistan, Zakir surrendered to US forces and was interned in the US Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba. He was transferred from US custody to Pul-e-Charkhi prison in Afghanistan, from where he was later released.

After his release, Zakir rose through the ranks of the Taliban, running military operations in Helmand and Nimroz provinces before becoming the Taliban's overall military commander. During his tenure he was often described as one of the movement's hardliners and was reported to maintain close links to Iran. In 2014, he stepped down, reportedly following an internal leadership dispute, then was appointed as a deputy to the military head in 2020.

Early life
Abdul Qayyum was born in the Kajaki District of Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan in 1973, and grew up in Jowzjan Province in northern Afghanistan. He is an ethnic Pashtun of the Alizai tribe. He studied at a religious school in Afghanistan before travelling to Pakistan, where he enrolled in a madrasa (religious school) in Quetta, Balochistan. The school was affiliated with an Afghan mujahideen group under the command of Mohammad Nabi Mohammadi that was fighting against the Soviets in Afghanistan.

Taliban activities and Guantanamo Bay internment
Mohammad Nabi Mohammadi instructed Qayyum and Nematullah to join the Taliban movement after it formed, and they joined it in Spin Boldak District in eastern Afghanistan. Qayyum joined in 1997. His nom de guerre on the Taliban's walkie-talkie network was "Zakir", and he became commonly known by that name. During the Afghan civil war, Nematullah was killed in a fight against Ismail Khan in Herat province and Zakir took command of his group. During the Taliban rule in Afghanistan, Zakir held the positions of deputy army commander, northern front commander and minister of defence for a short period.

Zakir surrendered to United States-led forces in Mazar-i-Sharif in 2001 and was interned in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 8.

On March 4, 2010, Afghan intelligence officials said that the captive known as "Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul" was really "Abdul Qayyum", and that "Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul" had been his father's name.
They reported his nom de guerre is "Qayyum Zakir". He was named "Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul" on most of the documents published by the US Department of Defense. He was named "Mullah Y Abdhullah" on the Summary of Evidence memo prepared for his 2007 annual Administrative Review Board.

Zakir was transferred from Guantanamo Bay to the American-renovated Block D of Pul-e-Charkhi prison in Afghanistan in December 2007. The Afghan government released him in May 2008, possibly due to pressure from tribal elders. Patrick Mercer, a member of the United Kingdom Parliament and its counter-terrorism subcommittee, expressed surprise that he had been allowed to rejoin the Taliban, wanting to know why he had been released. Peter M. Ryan, an American lawyer who represented another former captive who had been held in Pul-e-Charkhi, described the Afghan review procedure in Pul-e-Charkhi as "chaotic", and more influenced by tribal politics than by guilt or innocence.

Return to Taliban leadership
After his release, Zakir joined the Taliban and was appointed the leader of the Gerdi Jangal Regional Military Shura, a regional military command that oversaw operations in Helmand and Nimroz provinces. On March 9, 2009, the Department of Defense reported that he had emerged as a Taliban leader. British officials believed he became the Taliban's operations commander for southern Afghanistan soon after his release and blamed him for masterminding an increase in roadside attacks against British and American troops. He was living in Quetta and had command of the four southern provinces of Helmand, Kandahar, Uruzgan and Zabul, with the power to appoint Taliban governors there.

The New York Times reported that Zakir led a December 2008-January 2009 delegation to the Pakistani Taliban to convince them to refocus their efforts away from the Pakistani government and towards the American-led forces in Afghanistan. Anand Gopal reported that Zakir helped write a Taliban "rule book" that sought to limit civilian casualties. In 2010, he was appointed as "surge commander" by the Taliban and was tasked with countering the surge of Coalition and Afghan forces and their strategy to deny the Taliban safe heavens in the southern provinces of Helmand and Kandahar.

On March 1, 2010, The News International reported that Zakir was part of the Taliban's Quetta Shura, and that he had been arrested by Pakistani authorities in recent raids along with nine other leaders, the most senior of whom was Abdul Ghani Baradar. In addition to Baradar, the raids were reported to have captured
Mir Muhammad,
Abdul Salam,
Abdul Kabir,
Mohammad Hassan Akhund,
Abdul Rauf,
Ahmad Jan Akhundzada and
Muhammad Younis. Zakir was released without explanation. On March 4, 2010, the Associated Press reported "two senior Afghan intelligence officials" claimed Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul had emerged to be a senior Taliban leader, and that he was under consideration to replace Abdul Ghani Baradar as number two in the Taliban's chain of command, following Baradar's arrest. He did take over as the chief military commander in 2010.

The Wall Street Journal reported in April 2014 that Zakir had left the position of chief military commander. The Taleban leadership officially said that he stepped down due to "ill health". Some informants said that he was demoted, because of his strong opposition to peace talks with the Afghan Government and disagreements with more moderate leaders such as Akhtar Mansour. Zakir was succeeded by Ibrahim Sadar.

After the death of Taliban founding leader Mohammad Omar was announced in 2015, Mansour was appointed supreme leader. Zakir and others boycotted the process that appointed Mansour. He preferred Mohammad Yaqoob, Omar's eldest son, for the position. After some delay Zakir pledged allegiance to Mansour.

In May 2020, Yaqoob was appointed as the head of the military, replacing Sadar, with Zakir and Sadar appointed his deputies.

In June 2020, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty described Zakir as an Iran-linked Taliban commander who opposed peace talks between the US, Afghan government and the Taliban.

During the 2021 Taliban offensive, he was one of the commander of Taliban forces in southern part of Afghanistan and led the march towards Kabul. He was reportedly the first to enter the presidential palace upon Ashraf Ghani’s flight. After the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan on 15 August 2021, Zakir was appointed as the Taliban's deputy minister of defense.

On 21 August 2022, Zakir was appointed as the military commander of Panjshir province. Long War Journal notes that Zakir appointment to lead the fight against National Resistance Front (NRF) in Panjshir and the district of Andarab is a clear indication that the NRF is challenging the Taliban's primacy in central and northern Afghanistan.

References

External links

 Who are 'the worst of the worst'? Andy Worthington

1973 births
Living people
Year of birth uncertain
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People from Helmand Province
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Holy Smoke is the fourth solo studio album by English musician Peter Murphy. It was released on 14 April 1992 through Beggars Banquet Records. Produced by Mike Thorne, the album features contributions from Alison Limerick, Jonathan Carney, Audrey Riley and The Hundred Men, his backing band since 1988's Love Hysteria album.

Although the album didn't meet with the commercial success of its predecessor, Deep (1990), it peaked at number 108 on Billboard 200 chart. The lead single off the album, "The Sweetest Drop", peaked at number 2 on Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart.

Critical reception
Ned Raggett of AllMusic was mixed in his assessment of the album. He stated: "Released in the initial craze of the grunge/alternative mega-crossover, Smokes elegant ballads and angular, arty rockers simply didn't fit in." Nevertheless, he also described the album as "quite a strong release, due to "avoiding any cloning of Deep or "Cuts You Up" in favor of a different approach meant to bring out the band's live power more directly." He also praised Mike Thorne's production work, commenting that it gives the album "a crisp, solid punch throughout, even during its quieter moments." Bill Wyman of Entertainment Weekly also praised the albums "sophisticated" production, calling it as "lush and very adult." He also wrote: "When the music and lyrics come together, it's almost touching, as on the sardonically named "Hit Song", which sounds to me like a vampire pleading for his mortality back."

Track listing

Personnel
 Peter Murphy – vocals, production, composition, guitar (6); keyboards (7)

The Hundred Men
 Terl Bryant – drums, percussion
 Eddie Branch – bass
 Paul Statham –  bass (6); acoustic guitar (7); keyboards
 Peter Bonas – guitar, acoustic guitar

Additional musicians
 Gini Ball – strings (9)
 Jonathan Carney – strings (9)
 Zoe Caryl – backing vocals (4, 9)
 Alison Limerick – vocals (4, 9)
 Chris Pitsillides – strings (9)
 Audrey Riley – strings (9)
 Rick Shaffer – guitar (5, 8)
 John Vartan – ney (1); zurna (1); tambura (7)

Other personnel
 Mike Thorne – production, synclavier
 Jason Appleton – production assistant
 Jack Skinner – mastering
 Fernando Kral – engineering, mixing
 Anton Corbijn – photography
 Stuart Every – assistant engineer
 Laura Janisse – production assistant

Chart positions

Album

Singles

References

External links

1992 albums
Peter Murphy (musician) albums
Albums produced by Mike Thorne
Beggars Banquet Records albums


Hanoi International American Hospital' (American Hospital in Vietnam) - an up-to-date hospital, which began to be built in Vietnam since 2007. The investment license has already been issued by the Ministry of Planning and Investment of Vietnam in 1997, although the project implementation was only on paper since that time.

The management group of facility will be run by Healthcare Corporation of America, or Ted Bowen and Associates and headed by well known gi surgeon, Dr. Michael Debakey.

Main services and facilities
The hospital will supposedly offer such services: General Medical Care, Surgery, Emergency Medicine, Pediatrics, Dentistry, Chiropractic, Psychiatry, Neurology, Gynecology, Ophthalmology, Plastic Surgery, Nuclear Medicine, Nursing Services, Otorhinolaryngology, Acupuncture, Oncology, Cardiology, Pathology.

According to the plan, it will be equipped by: Pharmacy, Radiology (X-Ray, MRI, CT), Telemedical Monitor, Blood Bank, Health Food Store, Full Laboratory Services, Satellite Clinics, Transplanting Store.

As of March 25, 2020, this hospital is abandoned.

References

Hospital buildings completed in 2007
Hospitals in Hanoi
Hospitals established in 2007
2007 establishments in Vietnam


USS Thomason (DE-203) was a Buckley-class destroyer escort in service with the United States Navy from 1943 to 1946. She was scrapped in 1969.

History
USS Thomason was named in honor of Marine Raider Sergeant Clyde A. Thomason (1914–1942), the first Marine to be awarded the Medal of Honor in World War II – posthumously, for heroism during the Makin Island raid.

Thomason was laid down on 5 June 1943 at the Charleston Navy Yard; launched on 23 August 1943; sponsored by Miss Sara Jeanette Thomason; and commissioned on 10 December 1943.

Pacific War
The destroyer escort held shakedown training in the Bermuda area and performed convoy escort duty along the east coast from Newport, R.I., to Panama. She transited the Panama Canal on 21 March 1944 and headed for the New Hebrides. The ship called at Galapagos, the Society Islands, and Samoa before arriving at Espiritu Santo on 18 April. She joined the U.S. 3d Fleet and, in addition to performing antisubmarine duty in Indispensable Strait which separates Guadalcanal and Malaita Islands, escorted ships to Guadalcanal.

On 26 May, she arrived at Cape Cretin to join the U.S. 7th Fleet for operations along the coast of New Guinea. On 3 June, the ship got underway for Wakde and arrived there the following week. On the 13th, her gunners helped Army antiaircraft units repel an enemy air attack. Six days later, she took Army artillery observers along the coast to Sarmi where she shelled enemy emplacements and an air strip. The ship operated from Wakde until 7 August when she shifted her base of operations to Noemfoor, Schouten Islands. In early September, she returned to Espiritu Santo for an overhaul.

On 4 October, DE-203 stood out to sea to rendezvous with two ammunition ships to escort them to the Palaus. She remained at Kossol Passage for a month, serving as harbor entrance control ship before returning to Hollandia. On 6 November, the destroyer got underway for Maffin Bay. Two days later, Thomason and Neuendorf (DE-200) bombarded Sarmi and targets along the bay. With the aid of Army spotting planes, the two ships set fire to enemy storehouses and several other buildings.

Thomason headed for the Philippines on 9 November in the screen of a large convoy of landing craft and supply ships. She arrived in Leyte Gulf on the 15th and sailed the same day with a convoy bound for Hollandia. The destroyer escort then conducted intensive antiaircraft and antisubmarine training at Mios Woendi and landing exercises at Aitape with attack transports that were scheduled to participate in the invasion of Lingayen Gulf.

On 28 December 1944, the destroyer escort sortied for Luzon with Task Group 78.1 (TG 78.1), the San Fabian Attack Force. En route to the Philippines, she was detached to accompany two fuel oil tankers who were scheduled to refuel the escort ships of Task Force 79 (TF 79), which was also en route to Lingayen Gulf.

Thomason began antisubmarine patrols in Mangarin Bay, off Mindoro on 7 January 1945. One month later, she and Neuendorf began antisubmarine patrol duty off the west coast of Luzon. At 22:22 on 7 February, Thomason'''s SL surface radar made a contact at a range of 14 miles (26 km), which was thought to be a small boat. She closed the range and challenged the craft with a flashing light. There was no answer, and surface radar lost contact. However, sonar soon made an underwater contact.

The escort made a hedgehog run but did not fire because she was going too fast. She made another run and fired a pattern of hedgehogs. On both runs, a large submerged mass, outlined by phosphorescence, was seen moving through the water at a depth of between 25 and 50 feet. Four to six of the hedgehogs detonated almost simultaneously, and contact with the target was lost. A heavy oil slick, 250 yards in diameter, rose to the surface. The two ships patrolled until late in the morning, in an expanding search pattern, but never regained contact with the Japanese submarine.  had been sunk in over  of water.Thomason returned to Mangarin Bay where she resumed antisubmarine patrols. On the 24th, she rescued four airmen who had bailed out of their burning B-24 Liberator bomber. From March through August, the ship was engaged in antisubmarine patrols and escort duty between various Philippine ports, Palau, and Hollandia. On 15 August 1945, the Japanese surrendered to the Allies. In September, she escorted two convoys from Luzon to Okinawa.

Decommissioning and fate
On 4 October, Thomason stood out of Subic Bay and headed for the United States. She called at San Francisco, California on the 27th and moved to San Diego for inactivation. Thomason was decommissioned on 22 May 1946 and struck from the Navy list on 30 June 1968. On 30 June 1969, she was sold to the National Metal & Steel Corp., Terminal Island, Long Beach, Calif., for scrap.Thomason'' received three battle stars for World War II service.

References

External links

navsource.org: USS Thomason (DE-203)

Buckley-class destroyer escorts
Ships built in Charleston, South Carolina
1943 ships


The Tahai Ceremonial Complex is an archaeological site on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in Chilean Polynesia. Restored in 1974 by American archaeologist William Mulloy, Tahai comprises three principal ahu from north to south: Ko Te Riku (with restored eyes), Tahai, and Vai Ure. Visible in the distance from Tahai are two restored ahu at Hanga Kio'e, projects that Mulloy undertook in 1972. Like other Mulloy restoration projects at Ahu Akivi, the ceremonial village of Orongo and Vinapu, the ceremonial center at Tahai now constitutes an integral part of the Rapa Nui National Park, designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage site.

William Mulloy and his wife Emily Ross Mulloy are buried at Tahai.

References
 Mulloy, W.T., and S.R. Fischer. 1993. Easter Island Studies: Contributions to the History of Rapanui in Memory of William T. Mulloy. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
 Mulloy, W.T., World Monuments Fund, and Easter Island Foundation. 1995. The Easter Island Bulletins of William Mulloy. New York; Houston: World Monuments Fund; Easter Island Foundation.
 Norwegian Archaeological Expedition to Easter Island and the East Pacific, T. Heyerdahl, E.N. Ferdon, W.T. Mulloy, A. Skjølsvold, C.S. Smith. 1961. Archaeology of Easter Island. Stockholm; Santa Fe, N.M.: Forum Pub. House; distributed by The School of American Research.

External links

 Easter Island Foundation
 William Mulloy Library
 Father Sebastian Englert Anthropology Museum

Easter Island ahu
Archaeological sites in Chile
Archaeological sites in Easter Island
1974 establishments in Chile
1974 establishments in Oceania


Wheel is a brand of laundry soap and detergent owned by Unilever. The brand was introduced in the Philippines in 1952 as a laundry soap by Philippine Refining Company (now Unilever Philippines). The brand was introduced in India in 1985 as a laundry detergent by Hindustan Unilever Ltd.

References

Unilever brands
Laundry detergents
Philippine brands
Indian brands


USS Telfair (APA/LPA-210) was a  that saw service with the US Navy in World War II and the Korean War. She remained in service through most of the 1950s and 1960s, where she participated in various peacetime operations. Telfair was named for Telfair County, Georgia, which was itself named after Edward Telfair, the second Governor of the state, a member of the Continental Congress, and a signer of the Articles of Confederation.

Construction
Telfair was laid down 30 May 1944, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MCV hull 558, by Permanente Metals Corporation, Yard No. 2, Richmond, California; launched 30 August 1944; sponsored by Mrs. J. L. Cauthorn; and commissioned at San Francisco 31 October 1944.

Service history

World War II
Following fitting out at Oakland, California, and shakedown and amphibious training off San Pedro, California, the attack transport returned via San Diego to San Francisco to load troops and cargo for her first westward voyage.

On the second day of 1945, she sailed westward and reached Pearl Harbor on 8 January. Nine days later, Telfair resumed her voyage carrying elements of the 111th Infantry to the Palaus for garrison duty. She disembarked troops at Peleliu between 30 January, and 6 February, and then continued on to the Philippines, arriving at Leyte on 9 February, to prepare for the invasion of the Ryūkyūs.

Invasion of Okinawa

In mid-March, the attack transport embarked elements of the Army's 77th Division and sortied from San Pedro Bay with Task Group (TG) 51.1.

The "Western Islands Attack Group", as TG 51.1 was called, was responsible for conducting the prelude to the Okinawa invasion by securing the anchorage at Kerama Retto, a small cluster of islands just to the south and west of Okinawa. Accordingly, it was the first element engaged in combat in the vicinity of Okinawa during the actual invasion operation. Between 25 March and 2 April, Telfair participated in the assault and occupation of those key islets.

Attacked by kamikazes
On 30 March, she reembarked her troops, and, on the afternoon of 2 April, she cleared the roadstead for a waiting area to the south. That evening, just after 18:30, her task group was jumped by 10 or more kamikazes. Telfair and her sister-ship  "...were attacked by three planes in rapid succession." Her gunners and those of Goodhue combined to explode one in mid-air. A second, after ricocheting between her starboard and port kingposts, smacked into Telfairs bulwark, then careened over the side. The third, his glide deflected by gunfire, crashed into Goodhues cargo boom, smashed her after 20-millimeter gun tubs, and joined his compatriot in the sea.

Repairs
Telfair remained in the vicinity of Okinawa supporting the invasion until 26 April, when she got underway for Ulithi Atoll in the Western Carolines. She entered the lagoon on 30 April, replenished, and repaired battle damage until 22 May. On that day, the attack transport headed east to return to the United States. She reached Seattle, Washington, on 13 June, disembarked passengers, and underwent further repairs.

On 26 June, she steamed out of Puget Sound and again pointed her bow westward. On 13 July, she delivered US Army hospital units safely to Saipan. Four days later, Telfair left the Marianas, bound for San Francisco, where she arrived on the last day of July.

After hostilities
Putting to sea once more on 12 August, the attack transport shaped a course for Ulithi, but peace had returned to the Pacific before she reached that atoll on 28 August. Over the next two months, she steamed between Luzon and Leyte in the Philippines, visiting Manila from 1 to 13 October. On 16 October, she departed Lingayen Gulf to land occupation troops in Japan. She made Hiro Wan and Kure, at Honshū, on 20 October, and subsequently landed her passengers.

Operation Magic Carpet
At the end of October, Telfair reported for Operation Magic Carpet duty. On 2 November, she arrived at Samar, in the Philippines, where she embarked her first load of veterans for the return voyage to the United States. On the 4th, the attack transport departed the Philippines and, after almost three weeks at sea, entered port at Portland, Oregon. Telfair remained on the west coast until Christmas Eve when she weighed anchor to return to the western Pacific. She stopped at Saipan at the end of the first week in January 1946; then continued on to Manila where she moored on 12 January. For the next two months, she operated in the Philippine Islands, visiting Subic Bay and Samar.

First decommission
She departed Samar on 5 March, and, after calling at Pearl Harbor, reached San Francisco on 25 March. On 8 April, she arrived at Stockton, California, to begin inactivation overhaul. On 20 July, she was inactive and berthed with the Stockton Group, Pacific Reserve Fleet.

Korean War
The North Korean attack upon the Republic of Korea in June 1950, returned Telfair to life. She was ordered activated on 7 August, and actually rejoined the US Pacific Fleet when she was recommissioned on 12 September 1950. During the period of fighting in Korea, roughly June 1950 to July 1953, Telfair deployed to the western Pacific on three separate occasions.

During the first, from October 1950 to July 1951, she visited Yokosuka, Kobe, and Sasebo in Japan and Inchon and Chinnampo in Korea, shuttling troops from the former three ports to the latter two. Her first and second Korean War deployments were separated by six months of operations along the west coast of the United States.

Her second tour began with her departure from San Francisco on 26 January 1952, and ended upon her return to the west coast at San Diego on 24 May. In the intervening period, she saw no actual Korean service, but steamed between Okinawa, Kobe, Yokosuka, and Sasebo primarily engaged in training United Nations troops in amphibious operations.

Her third and final deployment during the Korean War began on 30 October 1952 after four months on the west coast. It took her to the already-familiar Japanese ports and to Manila, Subic Bay, and Hong Kong, as well as the Korean ports of Pusan, Inchon, the island of Koje Do and to the vicinity of Sokcho Ri. Telfair returned to San Diego on 20 April 1953, and resumed operations in the eastern Pacific.

Between August 1953 and February 1958, Telfair made three more deployments to the western Pacific. For the most part, her duties during those visits to the Far East consisted of lifting United Nations troops from now-peaceful Korea; shuttling troops and supplies between American bases in Korea, Japan, Okinawa, and the Philippines, and participating in 7th Fleet amphibious exercises.

Operation Passage to Freedom
In August 1954, however, she did depart from her normal routine to participate in Operation "Passage to Freedom", in which Navy ships evacuated Vietnamese refugees from Haiphong, in the communist-controlled northern half of newly-partitioned Indochina, to Saigon, in the pro-western southern portion. She returned to San Diego 21 November 1954. During non-deployment periods, Telfair conducted west coast operations and leave and upkeep periods in California ports.

Second decommission
On 29 February 1958, Telfair was decommissioned once more and laid up with the National Defense Reserve Fleet.

Third commission
A little over two years later, it appeared that her naval career was at an end once and for all. On 1 July 1960, Telfair was transferred to the Maritime Administration (MARAD), and her name was struck from the Navy List. However, the Navy reacquired her on 24 August 1961, and her name was reinstated on the Navy List on 1 September. She was placed in commission for the third time on 22 November 1961.

Telfairs new seven-year lease on life took her to new oceans and new ports of call for, immediately following training off San Diego, she headed for duty with the Amphibious Force, Atlantic Fleet. She transited the Panama Canal on 1 February 1962, and arrived in her new home port, Norfolk, Virginia, on 6 February. From then until final decommissioning in 1968, she alternated cruises to the Mediterranean as a unit of the 6th Fleet with operations in the western Atlantic as a unit of the 2nd Fleet.

On her Mediterranean cruises, she joined other units of the 6th Fleet in bi-national and multinational amphibious exercises. She was also on hand in Greek waters in April 1967, as part of the back-up force protecting American lives and property during the takeover by the military junta in Athens. When assigned to the 2d Fleet, Telfair operated from Norfolk and cruised the Atlantic seaboard, in the Caribbean and in the Gulf of Mexico. She was normally engaged in amphibious exercises with Marines from Camp Lejeune, though she also conducted summer training cruises for midshipmen of the US Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland.

In October 1964, she participated in Operation Steel Pike the largest peacetime amphibious landing exercise in history. She landed in Huelva, Spain, with 84 naval ships and 28,000 marines. Afterwards she stopped for liberty at Funchal, on the island of Madeira and then Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.

Final decommission
On 31 October 1968, Telfair was decommissioned for the third and final time at the Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek, Little Creek, Virginia. On the following day, her name was struck from the Navy List. On 26 June 1969, she was transferred to MARAD once more, this time for simultaneous transfer to her purchaser, the Boston Metals Company, of Baltimore, Maryland. She was sold for $103,600.66, and withdrawn from the fleet 14 July 1969.

Awards
Telfair earned one battle star for World War II and three battle stars during the Korean War.

Notes

Citations

Bibliography

Online resources

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Haskell-class attack transports
Telfair County, Georgia
World War II amphibious warfare vessels of the United States
Troop ships
Ships built in Richmond, California
1944 ships
Pacific Reserve Fleet, Stockton Group
Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet


Bhabhanpura is a village on the outskirts of Varanasi city, located 7 km away from the heart of the city. Total population of the village is 2,992 (1,546 male and 1,446 female).

Temples
Nearby temples are an ancient Shiva temple on the ghat of Holy Ganges at Sihvar, and a Hanuman temple.   Many rituals of this village, including marriages, are performed at Garva baba and Bhagauti Maa (Ma Durga). A Sankhya Yoga Ashram (Kapila Mandir) has been constructed at the same place by Swamiji Shree Om Prakash Aranya Ji. Swamiji's Kapila Ashram is at Sarnath and he propagates Samkhya Yoga darshan of Kapila Muni. A new Durga mata temple is constructed, where functions are held during Chaitra and Sharad navratra.

History
Raja Jaichandra of Kannauj and Banaras performed "Jatakarma rite"  and "Namkaran Sanskar" of his son Harishchandra at this place on 10 August 1175 A.D. and 31 August 1175 A.D. respectively. According to a Kamauli inscription (Kamauli is an adjacent village), Raja Jaichandra was crowned king on 21 June 1170 A.D. Muslim accounts, describe him as the Rāi of Banaras (king of Varanasi). The locations around this village remained the capital of major portions of Northern India during the 12th century A.D. for at least 100 years. Muslim historian Ibn Asir in his work Kamil-ul-Tawarikh says that "the king of Benaras was the greatest king in India and possessed the largest territory, extending lengthwise from the borders of China to the province of Malwa, and in breadth from the sea to within ten days journey to Lahore".   Harishchandra succeeded Jaichandra on the Gahadavala throne. In an 1197 CE Kotwa inscription (Kotwa is an adjacent village), he assumes the titles of a sovereign. Nearby villages around Babhanpura are Kamauli, Kotwa, Nevada, Raipura and Sehvar (Shivbar).

Education
There is a primary school in a nearby Raipura village.

Infrastructure projects
A four-lane ring road, proposed to be constructed around Varanasi City, would pass through Babhanpura. Partial work over ring road under Phase-I has been completed up to Sandaha near Sarnath.  Ring road traversing through Babhanpura will be taken up under Phase II, where a 6 lane major bridge of 1.4 km would be constructed over river Ganga. With the construction of Ring road, the distance between Babhanpura up to Lal Bahadur Shastri International  airport, Babatpur and Mughalsarai railway station would be reduced considerably. The construction of Sarai Mohana and Konia bridge over river Varuna will bring the village, much closer to Varanasi city centre.

Babhanpura village is proposed to be included in Varanasi nagar nigam. The village is also chosen under "Namami Gange programme" under National mission for clean Ganga (Ministry of Water Resources).

References

External links
 http://nnvns.org/

Villages in Varanasi district


Australian Formula 1 (AF1) was a motor sport category for open-wheeler racing cars which was current in Australia from 1970 to 1983.

AF1 was introduced by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport in 1970, initially restricting cars to unsupercharged engines of no greater than 2.5-litre capacity, running on commercial fuel. AF1 was essentially a new name for the Australian National Formula which had been Australia’s premier racing category from 1964 to 1969.

Effective 23 February 1971, AF1 was changed to a two-part formula catering for racing cars fitted with 5.0-litre production based pushrod V8 engines (internationally known as Formula 5000 cars) and those fitted with less restricted unsupercharged engines of eight cylinders or less and up to 2000 cc in capacity. The smaller engine option was discontinued after 1976. The main engines used were Chevrolet and Repco-Holden V8's, though occasionally a Ford V8 was seen in action without success.

In March 1979, Formula Pacific cars (using 1.6-litre production-based four-cylinder engines) became eligible for Australian Formula 1 alongside the existing 5.0-litre cars and 1980 saw the addition of 3.0-litre FIA Formula One cars to the mix.  For 1982, Australian Formula 1 was restricted to Formula Pacific cars only. In 1983 CAMS adopted Formula Mondial as the new Australian Formula 1 but allowed cars complying with Formula Pacific to compete alongside the new cars for that year. (Formula Mondial was an FIA approved international formula very similar to Formula Pacific but with cars restricted to using the 1.6-litre Ford Cosworth BDA four-cylinder engine.) For 1984 CAMS changed the category name from “Australian Formula 1” to  “Formula Mondial”.

The Australian Drivers' Championship (for the CAMS Gold Star award) was open to drivers of AF1 cars throughout the life of the formula, i.e. from 1970 to 1983. During those years the term Australian Formula 1 Championship was often used in lieu of Australian Drivers Championship however the latter is used by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport in its official records of the championship.

The Australian Grand Prix was contested by AF1 cars during the years 1970 to 1983 inclusive, although the 1970 event also permitted Formula 5000 cars and the 1981 race was restricted to cars complying with the Formula Pacific section of AF1.

References

Further reading
 CAMS Manuals of Motor Sport, 1964 through 1984

Motorsport categories in Australia
Formula racing
Formula 5000


The 2008 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Fiesta Conference, also known as the 2008 Smart PBA Fiesta Conference for sponsorship reasons, was the last conference of the 2007-08 PBA season. The tournament began on March 29 with a game between the Coca-Cola Tigers and the Talk 'N Text Phone Pals at Panabo, Davao del Norte. Opening ceremonies were held the day after at the Araneta Coliseum.

All ten teams are permitted to acquire one non-Filipino (the "import") of unlimited height as reinforcement. Furthermore, the two worst performers in the elimination round of the previous conference (the Coca-Cola Tigers and the Welcoat Dragons), will also be able to acquire another import but with a height limit of .

Tournament format
Double round eliminations. Worst team would be eliminated.
Sixth- to ninth-best teams figure in the one-game wildcard playoffs.
Sixth seed vs. Ninth seed
Seventh seed vs. Eighth seed
Winners will figure in a playoff to advance to the quarterfinals.
Third- to fifth-best teams, and the winner of the wildcards advance to the best-of-three quarterfinals.
Third seed vs. winner of wildcards.
Fourth seed vs. fifth seed.
The two best teams and the winners of the quarterfinals advance to the best-of-seven semifinals.
First seed vs. winner of the third seed/wildcard winner quarterfinal series
Second seed vs. winner of the fourth seed/fifth seed quarterfinal series
The winners of the semifinals advance to the best-of-seven Finals; the losers figure in a one-game third-place playoff.

Elimination round

Team standings

Schedule

Bracket

Wildcard phase

First round

Second round

Quarterfinals

(3) Barangay Ginebra vs. (9) Sta. Lucia

(4) Coca-Cola vs. (5) Magnolia

Semifinals

(1) Air21 vs. (5) Magnolia

(2) Red Bull vs. (3) Barangay Ginebra

Third place playoff

Finals

Awards
Finals Most Valuable Player: Ronald Tubid and Eric Menk (Barangay Ginebra)
Best Player of the Conference: Jayjay Helterbrand (Barangay Ginebra)
Best Import of the Conference: Chris Alexander (Barangay Ginebra)
Players of the Week:
March 29-April 6: Kelly Williams (Sta. Lucia)
April 7–13: Danny Seigle (Magnolia)
April 14–20: Cyrus Baguio (Red Bull)
April 22-May 4: Mark Cardona (Talk 'N Text)
May 5–11: Asi Taulava (Coca-Cola) & Rob Wainwright (Welcoat)
May 12–18: Willie Miller (Alaska)
May 19–25: Mark Caguioa (Barangay Ginebra)
May 26-June 1: Gary David (Air21)
June 2–8: Jayjay Helterbrand (Barangay Ginebra)
June 9–15: Jayjay Helterbrand (Barangay Ginebra)
June 16–22: Lordy Tugade (Magnolia) & Ren-Ren Ritualo (Talk 'N Text)
June 23–29: Jayjay Helterbrand (Barangay Ginebra)
June 30–July 6: Gary David (Air21) & Mark Caguioa (Barangay Ginebra)
July 7–July 13: Joseph Yeo (Sta. Lucia)
July 14–July 20: none
July 21–July 27: Mark Caguioa (Barangay Ginebra)
July 28–August 3: Gary David (Air21)

Imports
The following is the list of imports, which had played for their respective teams at least once, with the returning imports in italics. Highlighted are the imports who stayed with their respective teams for the whole conference.

External links
Philippine Basketball Association official website

Fiesta Conference
PBA Fiesta Conference


The Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery (, ) is a Russian Orthodox monastery dedicated to the feast of the Nativity of the Theotokos. It is the preeminent landmark of Zvenigorod, a town located  west of Moscow.

History

Foundation
In 1398, Prince Yuri of Zvenigorod asked Savva, or Sabbas, one of the first disciples of Sergius of Radonezh, to come to his capital city and set up a monastic abode. At first, only one wooden church, dedicated to the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, was established on the high Storozhi hill above the Moskva River. Saint Sabbas sought solitude and prayed in a small cave, dug with his own hands. With time more and more monks settled in the new abode. In 1402 Yury Dmitrievich granted it several villages, vast land and forest tenures. St. Savva of Storozhi was interred in the white stone cathedral of the Virgin's Nativity in 1407. This diminutive, roughly hewn church still stands, although its present-day exquisite look is the result of a 1970s restoration campaign. The frescoes in the altar date back to the 1420s, but the rest of the interior was painted in 1656. A magnificent iconostasis in five tiers and the Stroganov School royal doors were installed in 1652.

Tzar Residence
In 15-17th centuries the monastery served as a military picket, defending the Grand Duchy of Moscow on the West. In 1650, the pious Tsar Alexis selected the Zvenigorod monastery as his suburban residence. An ashlar residence for the tsar and a smaller palace for his wife date from the early 1650s. Alexis had the churches encircled with stone walls and towers, patterned after those of the Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra. Particularly noteworthy is a large belfry, erected in four bays in 1650 and crowned with three tents and a clocktower. A new 'gate church' was built by Ivan Sharutin in 1650 and consecrated to the feast of the Holy Trinity in 1652. In 1650 the Church of the Transfiguration was built by Princess Sophia. She also ordered to establish the refectory and in 1686-1687 rebuilt the Tzar Alexis' palace.

Since the times of Tsar Alexis the monastery was one of the most important religious places in Russia. All the following tzars and tzarines, and later — emperors and empresses, came here to pray and receive a blessing before the ceremony of crowning. The road from the Moscow Kremlin to Zvenigorod and the Savvino-Storozhevsky monastery was called the Tzar Road or The Road Of God Blessed Tzars, nowadays it is known as Rublevskoe shosse.

During the Napoleonic Wars, on September 12, 1812, the Italian corps of viceroy Eugene Bograne defeated Wintzingerode's squadron of light cavalry under the monastery walls. The skirmish is described in the memoirs of Prince Sergey Volkonsky and Count Alexander von Benckendorff. According to the local legend, Eugene Bograne stayed at the Sentry Tabernacle of the Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery. St. Sabba visited Prince Eugene in a dream, promising him a safe return home if his soldiers would not plunder the monastery. Eugene Bograne spared the monastery and indeed returned home safely.

20th century
In May 1918, when the Bolsheviks tried to seize the relics of St. Savva, several persons were shot dead. The monastery was ransacked and pillaged, including the tomb of Saint Savva, made of gold plated silver, then the monks were chased out and finally the cathedral was left to ruin. In 1941 the 35-ton main bell was destroyed.

In 1985, the compound was assigned to the Danilov Monastery in Moscow. St. Savva's relics were returned to the monastery in 1998.

Both major churches used to be entirely covered with frescoes and until the revolution had the old icon screens of five levels. Only a few fragments of the original frescoes have survived the Soviet period.

Tourism

The monastery is a well known touristic attraction on top of being a site of pilgrimage, and is readily accessible from Moscow by a combination of railroad and bus transport. A hotel run by the monastery offers accommodation to pilgrims and tourists wishing to remain overnight. The local Zvenigorod museum operates exhibitions within the Tsarina's palace located in the monastery complex. These deal with several subjects of local history, the life of the nobility and royal family, and religious icons from the 17th to the early 20th century. Not unlike Western European monasteries, the Savvino-Storozhevsky monastery has a brewery, selling kvas and sbiten to the public as well as operating a bakery which produces and sells a wide variety of bread and pastries to visitors. Two canteens for visitors are also operated by the monastery, one right outside the walls of the main monastery complex and another on the road to the skete, serving both the monastery's own products and commercial foods and drinks.

In Culture
Director Andrei Tarkovsky filmed the first and final scenes of his 1972 film Solaris at a dacha near the Monastery of St. Savva of Storozhi.

References

Sources

External links

 Official website

1398 establishments in Europe
Religious organizations established in the 1390s
14th-century establishments in Russia
Christian monasteries established in the 14th century
Russian Orthodox monasteries in Russia
Buildings and structures in Moscow Oblast
Cultural heritage monuments of federal significance in Moscow Oblast


Johnny Daye (March 17, 1948May 6, 2017) was an American soul music singer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who released six singles between 1965, when he signed to Danny Sims and Johnny Nash's Jomada record label, through to 1968 recording two tracks on Stax Records. In 2007 he came out of retirement to sing on two tracks on Robert Peckman's first solo CD, Stirrin' Up Bees.

Daye was taken to Stax Records after being discovered in Pittsburgh by Otis Redding. He recorded the single "What'll I Do for Satisfaction", which was produced and co-written by Steve Cropper. The song was recorded by Janet Jackson on her 1993 album, Janet, as "What'll I Do". His other single for Stax was "Stay Baby Stay". Cropper stated in the liner notes to The Complete Stax/Volt Singles 1959–1968 that "Otis really wanted to do a lot with him. The kid was dynamite. Had Otis lived, he probably would have."

Discography
1965
"I'll Keep on Loving You" b/w "One of These Days" (Blue Star B-230)
"Marry Me" b/w "Give Me Back My Ring" (Jomada M-600) – produced by Johnny Nash

1966
"Good Time" b/w "I've Got Soul" (Jomada M-603) – produced by Johnny Nash

1967
"A Lot of Progress" b/w "You're on Top" (Parkway P-119)

1968
"What'll I Do for Satisfaction" b/w "I Need Somebody" (Stax 238)
"Stay Baby Stay" b/w "I Love Love (Stax 0004)

2007
"Let's Talk It Over" b/w "Stop and Take A Look" (on Robert Peckman, Stirrin’Up Bees, Bonedog Records BDRCD-22)

References

American soul singers
Living people
Singers from Pittsburgh
Stax Records artists
1948 births