The Oaks railway station served the community of The Oaks in Bromley Cross, Lancashire, England, from 1850 to 1950.

History

The station was possibly opened by the Bolton, Blackburn, Clitheroe and West Yorkshire Railway (BBC&WYR) in January 1850, although an earlier date of 1849 is given by W. D. Tattersall in his book about the branch line. The station was a request stop until 1852. The short length original low height platform survives, as replicated at nearby Bromley Cross. It is  from , and 2 miles, 438 yards distance from Bolton. The BBC&WYR was renamed the Blackburn Railway on 24 July 1851, and was amalgamated into the Lancashire and Yorkshire (LYR) and East Lancashire Railways (ELR) on 1 January 1858. It became wholly owned by the LYR in 1859 when the ELR amalgamated with the LYR.

Henry Ashworth, cotton mill owner and deputy chairman of the BBC&WYR, claimed £6,492 from the company for nine acres of land bordering The Oaks, his Georgian home.  He was awarded £4,100 at arbitration, resulting in his resignation from the railway company, causing nervousness among the railway's proprietors, who had expected the wealthy member of the local hierarchy to take a large shareholding.  He held 50 shares in the Blackburn, Darwen and Bolton company.

The minutes of the railway company held at the National Archives, Kew, reveal that the contract to build more substantial stone station buildings along the branch line in 1859 included a 'station and cottage attached' for The Oaks at the estimated cost of £270. The station building survives next to the level crossing and its design features are replicated in the building that survives at Turton railway crossing, higher up the line towards Entwistle and there are also design similarities with the cottage that survives at nearby Bromley Cross, all built as part of the same original contract. The Oaks was expanded in 1886, with raised platforms, a timber waiting room on the Blackburn departure side and a stone booking hall in what is now the front garden of the former station (now a private house) at the level crossing. The building next to the booking hall was divided into two parts, the station master's house to the right and the part closest to the railway sub-divided into a lamp and porters' room at the corner nearest the crossing, a general waiting room and ladies waiting room with attached WC.  The men's WCs and urinals were at the northern end of the building. Further works were carried out in the early 1900s, when the platforms were reconstructed on two passing loops.  The contract was awarded to J. C. & F. Woods for £2,696 on 20 November 1901. The new platforms were reported to be 230 ft long. No provision was made for a goods yard at this station. The Oaks station closed on 6 November 1950.

Signal box
A signal box recorded as a Yardley/Smith type 1 brick structure, as at Bromley Cross, equipped with a 20 lever Smith frame was located close to the level crossing. It opened in 1875. It received a new L&Y frame to control the southern end of the loops installed in 1902. The original box was replaced in November 1942 by a LMS ARP type 13 box fitted with a 20 lever REC rear-mounted frame, positioned on the up side (Bolton bound), just to the north of the station. The replacement box closed in October 1966 when the loops were taken out of use. The gates of the level crossing were never locked or controlled by the lever frame, unlike Bromley Cross.

Incidents
In 1906, L&YR Class 5 2-4-2T No. 869 suffered a boiler explosion at the station. Both crew members were injured, but survived.

References

Notes

Bibliography

Welch, S. Lancashire Steam Finale,

External links
The Oaks Station on navigable O.S. map

Disused railway stations in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton
Former Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1850
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1950


List of hospitals in Nashville, Tennessee (U.S. state), sorted alphabetically.

Hospitals
 Millie E. Hale Hospital (19161938)
 Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt
 Nashville General Hospital
 Saint Thomas–Midtown
 Saint Thomas West
 The Children's Hospital at TriStar Centennial
 TriStar Centennial Medical Center
 TriStar Skyline Medical Center
 TriStar Southern Hills Medical Center
 TriStar Summit Medical Center
 Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital
 Vanderbilt Stallworth Rehabilitation Hospital
 Vanderbilt University Medical Center
 Veterans Affairs Medical Center
 Tristar Mount Juliet - Freestanding ER

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Nashville
Tennessee, Nashville


Shamsi means of sun or solar in Arabic. It may refer to:

Places
Samsi, Malda
Shamsi, Iran
Shamsi, Nepal
Shamsi airfield, Balochistan, Pakistan
Shamshy, a village in Naryn Region, Kyrgyzstan
Shamshy, Chuy, a village in Chuy Region, Kyrgyzstan

People
Shamsi (name), a family name
Samsi (Also spelt Shamsi), an Arab queen who reigned in the 8th century BC
Pertaining to or related to Shams ud-Din Iltutmish, Sultan of Delhi ()

Other
The Shamsīyah, a Mesopotamian sun-worshipping group
Shamsi Calendar, also known as the Iranian calendar
Shamsi (Also spelt Shemsi), a former sun-worshipping cult in Upper Mesopotamia

See also
 Şemsi (disambiguation)
 Shams (disambiguation)


The Secret of Hidden Lake (also titled Deadly Season outside the United States) is a 2006 American made-for-television thriller film starring Rena Sofer and Winston Rekert. The film first aired on October 29, 2006 on Lifetime Network.

Plot
A young woman named Maggie Dolan (Rena Sofer) who works at a legal aid center in Chicago, suddenly hears that her father, Frank Dolan (Winston Rekert) got injured while hunting.  Maggie then returns to her hometown in Colorado to be at her father's side.  During her stay, she learns that her father's injury was not an accident.  As Maggie tries to unravel the mystery of what really happened, hidden secrets start to surface, putting her life in jeopardy.

Cast
Rena Sofer as Maggie Dolan
Winston Rekert as Frank Dolan
Linda Darlow as Alice Crandell
Adam Harrington as Sam
William B. Davis as Judge Landers
Bill Mondy as Zach Roth
Renae Morriseau as Sheriff Tillane
Kett Turton as Jack Ford Jr.
Dean Wray as Jack Ford Sr.
Jodelle Ferland as Young Maggie Dolan
Elfina Luk as Barb
Timothy Paul Perez as Dr. Perez
Christine Barrie as Maggie's mother

References

2006 television films
2006 films
2006 thriller films
Lifetime (TV network) films
American thriller television films
Films set in Colorado
2000s English-language films
2000s American films


Bhadaure may refer to:

Bhadaure, Janakpur, Nepal
Bhadaure, Sagarmatha, Nepal


In August, 1851, a band of Shoshoni Indians led by Cho Cho Co (also called Has No Horse) reportedly attacked a wagon train led by Thomas Clark on the Oregon Trail near where the Raft River joins the Snake River in present-day Idaho. Afterward, reports held that the Indians' primary objective was to steal horses from Thomas Clark's wagon train party, and that the indigenous tribe killed Clark's mother and brother and another man traveling with them during the horse robbery.

Thomas Clark

Thomas Clark was an Englishman who loved hunting.  He came overland to the Willamette Valley in Oregon in 1848, but soon decamped with Jackson Vandevert and others to the California Gold Rush.  They decided to invest their gains in bringing high quality cattle and horses to Oregon.  By the spring of 1851 Thomas had acquired 17 horses and a few cattle from Kentucky and Illinois.   On the trail west he brought with him his mother, his 25-year-old sister Grace, his 17-year-old brother, Hodgson, another brother named Charlie, and another married sister with her family.  He had a first class hack built for Grace to drive and his mother to ride in.  It may have been the first such vehicle to cross the plains. He had also become the pilot for several other Illinois families headed to Oregon.   The company moved slowly so the animals could graze and arrive in Oregon in good condition.

Cho Cho Co

Cho Cho Co was only twenty years old in 1851 but was already a veteran guerilla fighter.  He led a band of warriors of the Tussawehee sub-tribe of the Shoshone, the most powerful tribe in the area that would become Eastern Oregon, Idaho, and Western Montana.  In this area, the Shoshone were often known by white people as the Snakes.  By late August, the band was short of supplies, particularly good horses, guns, and ammunition.  Cho Cho Co traveled east along the Oregon Trail to meet his uncle, Deer Fly, and borrow soldiers from him.  Now reinforced, he identified the Clark party as his target.

The Attack

At about noon on Wednesday, August 6, the wagon train stopped to rest and eat lunch.   As usual, Mrs. Clark, Grace, and Hodgson drove a mile ahead of the main train to a good stopping place and began to prepare the noon-day meal.  They stopped by the Raft River and Thomas Clark headed up the river to hunt ducks.  The Raft River is about  west of the current Massacre Rocks State Park, an area where several wagon trains were attacked later in the 1850s.  Other men brought many of the horses up to the river ahead of the rest of the wagon train.

The attackers' strategy was to have some of their number charge the main body of the wagon train at full gallop, creating the maximum amount of confusion.  Meanwhile, Cho Cho Co and others would cut out the horses and drive them away.

As they saw the warriors approaching, the men with the company's horses took shelter behind some rocks by the river.  Hodgson Clark was shot and killed instantly as he climbed up on a wagon wheel to get a gun from the wagon.   An older Shoshoni man came to unhitch some horses that were tied to the wagon.  When Mrs. Clark yelled at him, he started shooting at her.   Grace put her arms around her mother to protect her, but a bullet went through Grace's wrist and continued through her mother's heart. She died that evening.

Grace was subsequently wounded below the armpit by a bullet that passed entirely through her body.  The warriors tore off her clothes.  She was stunned and pretended to be dead.  Grace said they talked American and some of them were blue eyed.  The warriors began to scalp her but stopped when they saw a cloud of dust coming.   Thomas Clark had heard the shooting and rode back at full speed with his hunting hounds baying beside him.  The warriors thought he was leading a large party, so they threw Grace down over the bluff and rolled stones down on her, leaving scars on her forehead that remained the rest of her life.  Linwood Clark says her leg was "fractured".

The main body of the wagon train was too paralyzed by the fury of the attack to come to the assistance of the Clark family.  Charles Clark, Thomas' brother, organized a party to pursue Cho Cho Co's band and caught up to them where they had taken refuge in a natural fortress.  The band could not be dislodged and the pursuit was abandoned.  The pursuing emigrants reported several men among the group with long sandy-colored beards. Cho Cho Co's band killed one man, wounded another, and escaped with the horses.

Linwood Clark reports that Mormons had offered to buy some of the horses earlier in the trip and that some of the stolen horses were later seen in Salt Lake City.  Clark opines that the whites among the raiders may have been "ordinary outlaws who later sold the horses to the Mormons."

Americus Savage's account corroborates the above story, although Savage places the events on August 18 (this is likely an error in Savage's journal - it was more likely the 8th). According to Savage, a man (possibly Charles Clark) was sent to Savage's wagon train, which was about 4 days drive ahead of Clark's company. Savage recounts that:

"The man was trying to raise a company to pursue the Indians and get back the stock and horses. We had only two horses in our company and two men volunteered to go and were soon on the way. They raised fifteen volunteers from all the companies and by hard riding overtook the Indians at 12 o'clock the same day.
...before them on a hillside they could see the horses grazing quietly... They made a charge when close to the hill. The Indians sprang up from behind bush and rock, gave the warhoop and discharged their guns into the little band of volunteers, killing one horse, mortally wounding one man and lodging a bullet in one by the name of Powell, a man from our company. They saw the folly of further effort to recover their horses from the Indians in their chosen strong hold. They therefore retreated."

Clark continues

Clark expected his sister to die and waited for a day or so before moving on.

The traditional story is that, rather than follow the usual route of the Oregon Trail northwest to join the Columbia River, Clark headed west until he could steer towards the mountains known as the Three Sisters in the Cascade Range.  According to the story, the Clark company was the first group of whites to camp by the Deschutes River on the future site of Pioneer Park in Bend, Oregon.  Menefee argues persuasively that Clark followed the usual Oregon trail in 1851 and the story has been confused with the 1853 trip of Thomas and Charles Clark when they crossed eastern Oregon south of the Blue Mountains with the "Lost Wagon Train" following the Elliott Cutoff.  In either case it was Thomas Clark who gave a prominent extinct volcano within the city limits the name Pilot Butte.  Menafee is supported by Thomas Clark's own letter in which he reports meeting his brother James on the 1851 trip about thirty miles east of The Dalles on the Columbia River.

Grace Clark married Thomas' partner, Jackson Vandevert, and settled in the Willamette Valley.  Grace dedicated substantial efforts to the welfare of the local Native Americans.  She died in 1875. The couple's first of seven children, William Plutarch Vandevert, born in 1854 in Cottage Grove, Oregon, established Vandevert Ranch south of Bend in 1892.  Thomas, Charles, and James Clark moved to Petrolia, California in 1857 and raised cattle.  All three brothers fought in the Rogue River Indian Wars of 1855-1856 in Southern Oregon. James Clark returned to Oregon where his ranch (afterwards called "Burnt Ranch") was burned by Indian marauders and where James, with Howard Maupin, tracked down Chief Paulina and killed him in 1867.  Thomas died in Oxnard, California, 11 November 1903 at the age of 88 years.

Notes

Sources

 Brogan, Phil, East of the Cascades, Binford & Mort Publishing, October 1976,
 Burgderfer, Don, The Clark Massacre Party of 1851, article in Little Known Tales of Oregon History Volume III, Sun Publishing, Bend, Oregon 2001, pp. 81–84
 Clark, Linwood LeBoeuf, Clark Family History, monograph written in 1980.  Link to
 Clark, Thomas, Letter to Mr. T.A. Wood, Port Hueneme, California, August 7, 1902.  Link to
 Clark, TK, Regional History of Petrolia and the Mattole Valley, Miller Press, Eugene, Oregon 1983, pp. 5–14
 Evans, Jane Coultas (member of the Clark party), diary written in 1904 and quoted at length in The Sunday Oregonian, February 14, 1965
 Jones, Randall S., Bend Resident Relates Stirring Story of Indian Raid on Pioneer Travelers, Oregon Historical Society SB#272 p. 61
 McNellis, Grace Vandevert (great-granddaughter of Grace Clark), interviewed on October 26, 2008
 Ontko, Gale, Thunder Over the Ochoco:  The Gathering Storm, Volume I, Seven Locks Press, Santa Ana, CA,    pp. 5–17
 Power, Evada R., Old Days Revived in Stories Told by William Vandevert, of La Pine, The Redmond Spokesman, August 20, 1936
 Menefee, Leah Collins and Tiller, Lowell, Cutoff Fever, Oregon Historical Society Quarterly, Portland Oregon, December 1976, March, June, September, and December 1977.  (See especially September 1977, pp. 215–219)
 Newsom, David, Letter to the Illinois Journal written December 15, 1851 in Salem, Oregon.  Quoted in TK Clark (above)
 Bill Vandevert, Bear Hunter, Bend Oregon, in The Oregon Journal November 22–23, 1922.
 Vandevert, Claude (Grace Clark's grandson), Indian Meadows, unpublished transcript of monologue, 1971.  Link to

1851 in the United States
Conflicts in 1851
Massacres by Native Americans
Oregon Trail
Murder in Idaho
Crimes in Idaho
August 1851 events
Shoshone


Crushing Digits is the second studio album by the Danish electrorock band VETO. It was released May 2008 in Denmark and in September in rest of Europe.

Track listing

2008 albums


Syncopy Inc. is a production company founded by English-American filmmaker Christopher Nolan and his wife, English film producer Emma Thomas. The name of the company is a play on syncopation and was suggested to Nolan by his late father, who was a classical music fan. It has offices in London and Los Angeles.

History
Founded on 27 February 2001, the majority of Syncopy's productions have been distributed by Warner Bros. They partnered with Legendary Pictures to produce Batman Begins (2005), The Prestige (2006), The Dark Knight (2008), Inception (2010), and The Dark Knight Rises (2012). In 2013, Syncopy released Zack Snyder's Man of Steel, and in 2015, they formed a joint venture with Zeitgeist Films to release Blu-ray editions of Zeitgeist's prestige films. The first title in their partnership was Elena (2011), from director Andrey Zvyagintsev. Recently the production company has produced the science fiction film Interstellar (2014), the documentary short Quay (2015), the war film Dunkirk (2017), and the spy film Tenet (2020), all directed by Christopher Nolan.

Other than Nolan and Thomas, the company employs only two people. In a 2018 interview for Vanity Fair, Thomas said, "We're not empire builders, we're about the individual film." In October 2021, it was announced that Nolan's next film, titled Oppenheimer, would be shot in IMAX and 65mm film, which released on 21 July 2023. The film stars Cillian Murphy in the title role, with Hoyte van Hoytema, Jennifer Lame, and Ludwig Göransson all returning in their respective technical roles. This is Nolan's first film distributed by Universal Pictures, as well as his second film set in the backdrop of World War II after Dunkirk.

Filmography

Feature films

References

Further reading

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American companies established in 2001
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Mass media companies established in 2001


Jane Marken (born Jeanne Berthe Adolphine Crabbe, sometimes credited as Jeanne Marken, 13 January 1895 in Paris 10th arrondissement – 1 December 1976 in Paris 4th arrondissement) was a French actress. She was the first wife of the actor Jules Berry.

Marken began her film career under the aegis of Abel Gance in 1915. She made several films with Marcel Carné including Hotel du Nord (1938), and as Madame Hermine, the hotelier (a comic role) in Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise, 1945). She also appeared in films of Julien Duvivier, Jacques Becker, Sacha Guitry, Renoir's Partie de campagne (A Day in the Country 1936), Yves Allégret's Une si jolie petite plage (1949) and Manèges (1950), Dr. Knock (1951), The Turkey (1951), and in Roger Vadim's And God Created Woman (1956). Her last appearance was in L'Humeur vagabonde (1971), directed by Édouard Luntz.

Selected filmography

 Fioritures (1916) - Anny Dorleville
 Géo, le mystérieux (1917) - Ginette Dorville
 Madame et son filleul (1919)
 Chouquette et son as (1920) - Chouquette
 Ce cochon de Morin (1932)
 The Ironmaster (1933)
 Court Waltzes (La guerre des valses, 1933)
 The Lady of the Camellias (1934) - Prudence
 Ferdinand the Roisterer (1935) - Mme Bertimey
 Napoléon Bonaparte (1935) - Marie-Anne
 Le chemineau (1935) - Catherine
 La marmaille (1935)
 La Garçonne (1936)
 Beethoven's Great Love (1936) - Esther Frechet - la cuisinière
 L'homme à abattre (1937)
 L'ange du foyer (1937) - Augustine
 Lady Killer (Gueule d'amour, 1937) - Madame Cailloux
 Remontons les Champs-Élysées (1938) - La mère de Louisette
 Three Waltzes (Les trois valses, 1938) - Céleste
 Hôtel du Nord (1938) - Louise Lecouvreur
 There's No Tomorrow (1939) - Mme Béchu (uncredited)
 Paradise Lost (1940) - Madame Bonneron - la concierge
 The Marvelous Night (La nuit merveilleuse, 1940) - Mathilde, l'hôtelière
 La prière aux étoiles (1941)
 A Woman in the Night (1943) - Madame Béghin
 Two Timid Souls (1943) - Tante Valérie
 Summer Light (1943) - Louise Martinet
 Love Eternal (L'Éternel retour, 1943) - Anne
 Adrien (1943) - Madame Hortense
 Les Petites du quai aux fleurs (1944) - Madame Chaussin (uncredited)
 Children of Paradise (1945) - Mme Hermine
 Paris Frills (1945) - Mme Lesurque, la tante de Micheline (uncredited)
 Land Without Stars (1946) - La secrétaire
 The Idiot (L'idiot, 1946) - Naria
 The Eternal Husband (1946) - Amélie Zakhlebinine
 Night Warning (Nuits d'alerte, 1946) - Madame Morizot
 Pétrus (1946) - Mme Portal, la charcutière
 Gates of the Night (1946) - Mme Germaine
 The Beautiful Trip (1947) - La femme d'Albert
 Copie conforme (1947) - La concierge
 Love Around the House (1947) - Madame Jobic
 L'arche de Noé (1947) - Christine Pelpail
 Route sans issue (1948) - Tante Agathe
 Parade du rire (1948) - Mme de Saint-Jules
 Scandals of Clochemerle (1948) - La baronne de Courtebiche
 Dédée d'Anvers (1948) - Germaine
 Night Express (1948) - Mme Louis
 The Woman I Murdered (1948) - Maria Le Querrec
 Une si jolie petite plage (1949) - Madame Mahieu
 The Ladies in the Green Hats (Ces dames aux chapeaux verts, 1949) - Rosalie Davernis
 The Secret of Mayerling (1949) - La baronne Hélène Vetsera
 Return to Life (1949) - Tante Berthe (segment 1 : "Le retour de tante Emma")
 Manèges (1950) - La mère de Dora
 La Marie du port (1950) - Madame Josselin - la patronne du bar
 Lady Paname (1950) - Madame Gambier
 Chéri (1950) - Charlotte Peloux
 Just Me (1950) - Mme Deply
 Darling Caroline (1951) - Cathy, la nourrice
 Dr. Knock (Knock, 1951) - Mme Parpalaid
 The Passerby (La Passante, 1951) - Mme. Pomont
 Boîte de nuit (1951) - Irma
 Sins of Madeleine (1951) - Mme Antonine
 Two Pennies Worth of Violets (1951) - Madame Dubreck
 Chacun son tour (1951) - Mme Lepage
 The Turkey (1951) - Madame Pinchard
 Et ta soeur (1951) - Amélie
 The Man in My Life (L'Homme de ma vie, 1952) - Emma
 Monsieur Leguignon, Signalman (1952) - Mme. Leguignon
 Mister Taxi (Monsieur Taxi, 1952) - Tante Louise
 A Mother's Secret (1952) - Rosa
 Crazy for Love (Le Trou normand, 1952) - Augustine Lemoine, la tante
 Companions of the Night (Les Compagnes de la nuit, 1953) - Madame Anita
 Captain Pantoufle (Capitaine Pantoufle, 1953) - Madame Cauchard
 Maternité clandestine (1953) - La tante de Jacques
 Leguignon the Healer (1954) - Mme Leguignon
 The Little Rebels (1955) - La déléguée
 Tant qu'il y aura des femmes (1955)
 Marie Antoinette Queen of France (1956) - Mme Victoire
 Pity for the Vamps (1956) - Mme Edith
 And God Created Woman (1956) - Madame Morin
 Les 3 font la paire (1957) - Georgette Bornier
 L'auberge en folie (1957) - Mme. Portafaux
 L'inspecteur aime la bagarre (1957) - Nène Thierry
 Lovers of Paris (1957) - Eléonore Josserand
 Women's Prison (1958) - Mme Rémon, la belle-mère d'Alice
 Life Together (1958) - Madame Fourneau
 Le Miroir à deux faces (1958) - Madame Vauzange
 Maxime (1958) - Coco Naval
 Ce corps tant désiré (1959) - Mme Féraud
 The Road to Shame (1959) - Mme. Cassini
 Il fiore e la violenza (1962) - Juliette Dufur (segment "La scapagnata")
 La Bonne Soupe (1964) - Mme Alphonse
 Patate (1964) - Berthe

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is a Japanese tokusatsu erotic-comedy film based in some works of Go Nagai. Directed by Minoru Kawasaki, it was produced and distributed by Total Media Corporation (TMC), and released in 2004. The movie draws several elements from many works of Nagai, most prominently the characters Maboroshi Panty and Henchin Pokoider, but some others are also featured in the film such as Satan no Ashi no Tsume from Kekko Kamen.

External links
Official website  at TMC
Nagai Go World: Maboroshi Panty VS Henchin Pokoider  at allcinema
Nagai Go World: Maboroshi Panty VS Henchin Pokoider  at the Japanese Movie Database
Nagai Go World: Maboroshi Panty VS Henchin Pokoider at Superheroes Lives website

Tokusatsu films
2004 films
2000s sex comedy films
Erotic fantasy films
Go Nagai
2000s Japanese-language films
Japanese sex comedy films
2004 comedy films
2000s Japanese films


Mart de Kruif MSM is a three-star general in the Royal Netherlands Army and served as its executive commander.

Biography

Mart De Kruif received his military education at the Royal Military Academy in Breda. Later he was also educated at the Führungsakademie der Bundeswehr and the U.S. Army War College. He held several positions within the Netherlands Army before he became commander of the 43 Gemechaniseerde Brigade in Havelte in 2007.

On 1 November 2008 he was promoted to Major General. On the same day he took over the Regional Command South (RC-S) of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan from Canadian Major General Marc Lessard. Under his command the size of RC-S doubled to 40.000 troops. He held this command until 1 November 2009, when he was succeeded by British Major General Nick Carter.

From May 2010 till October 2011 he served as the Deputy Commander of the Royal Netherlands Army. Promoted to Lieutenant General on 17 October 2011, de Kruif assumed the post of Commander of the Royal Netherlands Army on 25 October. He retired on 24 March 2016.

References

1958 births
Living people
Commanders of the Royal Netherlands Army
Royal Netherlands Army generals
Royal Netherlands Army officers
Dutch military personnel of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
People from Apeldoorn
Knights Commander of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Commanders of the Order of Orange-Nassau
United States Army War College alumni
Graduates of the Koninklijke Militaire Academie


League of Iraqi Communists () was a communist organisation in Iraq, led by Daud as-Sayegh. The League was founded in February 1944, after a split in the Iraqi Communist Party. As-Sayegh had revolted against Fahd's leadership in the Iraqi Communist Party, accusing him of adventurism and undemocratic practices. The League published the publication al-'Amal.

References

Defunct communist parties in Iraq
Iraqi Communist Party breakaway groups
Political parties established in 1944


Victoria Valley is one of the larger McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica.  Lake Vida is the largest lake of the valley.  The Victoria River drains the Victoria Upper Glacier, with Upper Victoria Lake just below it and  northwest of Lake Vida, into Vida Lake on its western side. Lake Thomas is  east of Lake Vida.

See also
Dry Valleys Geology

Valleys of Victoria Land
McMurdo Dry Valleys


Andrew Davies (born 1 February 1981) is a Welsh jazz trumpet player. At the London Jazz Festival, 2007, he played the role of Chet Baker in the play, "Speedball".

According to Dave Gelly of The Observer, "Andy Davies has a lovely trumpet sound, and in the totally acoustic setting of a small club, it blossoms.". In addition to his musical talents, Davies also provides continuity announcements on digital television channel 5* (previously Fiver) along with Cartoon Network & ITV.

References

External links
Official website

1981 births
Welsh jazz musicians
British jazz trumpeters
Male trumpeters
Living people
21st-century trumpeters
21st-century British male musicians
British male jazz musicians


The Men's Freestyle 90 kg at the 1972 Summer Olympics as part of the wrestling program at the Fairgrounds, Judo and Wrestling Hall.

Medalists

Tournament results
The competition used a form of negative points tournament, with negative points given for any result short of a fall. Accumulation of 6 negative points eliminated the wrestler. When only two or three wrestlers remain, a special final round is used to determine the order of the medals.

Legend
DNA — Did not appear
TPP — Total penalty points
MPP — Match penalty points

Penalties
0 — Won by Fall, Passivity, Injury and Forfeit
0.5 — Won by Technical Superiority
1 — Won by Points
2 — Draw
2.5 — Draw, Passivity
3 — Lost by Points
3.5 — Lost by Technical Superiority
4 — Lost by Fall, Passivity, Injury and Forfeit

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Round 4

Round 5

Round 6

Final

Results from the preliminary round are carried forward into the final (shown in yellow).

The tie was broken by comparing the finalists' falls records. Peterson had 3, while Strakhov had 2.

Final standings

  and
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References

External links
Official Report

Freestyle 90kg


Darren Holden (born 4 July 1972) is an Irish singer-songwriter who has performed on Broadway as part of Riverdance and Movin' Out and in the national tours for both shows. His debut solo album was released in Ireland in 1998. He later joined the Irish folk group, the High Kings, along with Finbarr Clancy and Brian Dunphy.

Early life
Darren Holden was born in the County Kilkenny town of Mooncoin in Ireland.

He toured extensively in support of the Dublin group Boyzone from 1995 to 1997. His debut solo album, Suddenly, was released in Ireland at the end of 1998.

Career

Rhythm of the Dance, Riverdance and Movin' Out
Holden joined the new Irish dance/musical Rhythm of the Dance as lead vocalist in 1999 and spent 10 months performing in Scandinavia, Germany, Hungary, Belgium and Yugoslavia. He joined the Broadway production of Riverdance in February 2000 as a featured vocalist. The show ran for 18 months and included promo slots on NBC's Today Show and CBS' Early Show.

While in New York City, New York Holden teamed with country music producer Don DiNicola and recorded an album of contemporary/traditional country tunes. Recording took place in New York as well as at OmniSound in Nashville. Several US country radio stations played the album, and by the end of 2003, three of the tracks had featured heavily on the airplay charts including "Blood and Smoke", which was released by Universal Records, with Miles Copeland's ARK 21 label releasing "Wherever You Are" (a number 17 hit) and "Ecstatic Electricity". Rodney Crowell once referred to Holden as an Irish Bryan White and invited him to Nashville. He co-wrote the song "Wendy's World" with Crowell.

Holden left Riverdance in June 2003 and moved back to Broadway as the lead piano man in the Billy Joel/Twyla Tharp rock musical "Movin' Out". He performed the role on Broadway for six months before originating the lead role for the US National Tour, which ran from January 2004 to January 2007. The show also performed in Toronto and Japan.

In August 2006 he released a CD called Roadworks, much of which he wrote himself. It was produced by Bryan Steele and Tommy Byrnes (Billy Joel, Stray Cats) The album was distributed by Columbia in Japan where after a TV and radio promotional campaign it sold in excess of 30,000 copies.

Holden has performed with Paul Young, Belinda Carlisle, and Bonnie Tyler. In addition, he has worked with such bands and artists as Boyzone, B*Witched, Peter Andre and Backstreet Boys. His rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" garnered such respect that he was invited to sing it for President George W. Bush at the White House.

The High Kings

In June 2007, Holden was invited to become a member of the High Kings, then a new Irish ballad group featuring Brian Dunphy, Finbarr Clancy and Martin Furey.

Their debut CD was released on EMI in February 2008 and hit No. 2 on the Billboard world music charts, as well as hitting the top spot on various Amazon Music charts. It reached No. 7 in their native Ireland and has since been certified platinum. There have been three sold-out tours of the US and Ireland.

Holden performed solo in March 2009 with the Kilkenny Gospel Choir, at St Mary's Cathedral, Kilkenny. He endorsed Optilase Laser Eye Clinic in a TV advertisement. In August 2009, the Sunday World and Daily Mirror newspapers reported that Slash was headhunting Holden to replace Scott Weiland as the new Velvet Revolver lead vocalist. Sources close to the LA-based group confirmed that Holden had been in talks and material had been recorded.

At the Keith Duffy Masquerade Ball on 5 December 2009 in Dublin, Holden was one of the performers, as were Aslan and Keith Barry.

On 9 October 2009 Holden was one of seven Irish celebrities to spend a week in Tanzania while climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in aid of Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin. An RTÉ television documentary on the event was shown on RTÉ 1 television on 18 July 2011.

The High Kings album Friends for Life was released in 2013, and the opening track was a Holden original called "Oh Maggie", which became the most-played and downloaded song from the album in Ireland, the UK and particularly Germany. The album reached number 5 in the Irish Top 40, Number 3 on Billboards World Albums chart.

On 30 January 2017 at the Sunday World Entertainment Awards, the High Kings were presented with the final award of the night: "Outstanding achievement in Irish Music around the world". TV3 invited Holden back to The 6 O'Clock Show for a fourth time to discuss the award.

Holden presented some episodes of the SKY TV Channel 389 series Keep it Country which is broadcast in Ireland, the UK and the US. He interviewed some of his industry friends, as well as other singer/songwriters.

After the High Kings played to a sold-out Drexel Hall in Kansas City, Missouri, on 8 March as part of their 2017 US tour, Kansas City Star entertainment correspondent David Freese said that Holden's vocal on "The Town I Loved so Well" was "nothing short of sensational". Standing ovations for Holden's version of this classic song continued across the USA throughout the tour, including in New York City on 12 March when the applause lasted more than 3 minutes according to The New York Times correspondent Jim Fuselli.

On 28 April 2017, Holden was invited to lead the panel on TV3's daytime show The Elaine Show. He was introduced as "the High Kings leader", a tag which The Evening Herald suggested "has been gaining obvious momentum and apparition in recent years" whilst reviewing the episode.

On 24 August 2017, Crashed Records rereleased Holden's "Lady", marking the 20th anniversary of its initial release in 1997. It was dedicated to the memory of Diana, Princess of Wales. Originally a top-20 single, the reaction from fans to the Holden-penned tribute and video sent it to Number 3 on iTunes, the first solo chart placing for Holden since becoming a High King.

On 2 November 2017 Holden appeared again on the TV3's The 6 O'Clock Show, marking his sixth appearance on the show, talking about the High Kings' new album Decade: The Best of the High Kings. The album was released on 3 November 2017 and rose to Number 1 on iTunes.

The band kicked off an Irish tour at the end of March 2018. On 7 June 2018, Holden and The High Kings were nominated for Best Album at the Irish Post Awards at the INEC in Killarney. The band were joined by Phil Coulter for a live performance of their hit "Hand me down my Bible" which was written by Coulter. Holden joined him at the end of the show to play accordion on his song "Thank God this was My Life".

Charting singles
Holden has had a number of singles in the Irish charts:
 "Don't Give Up on Us" – Ireland #23, 1997
 "More Than I Can Say" – Ireland #20, 1997
 "The Rose of Mooncoin" – Ireland #28, 1998

References

External links
 Official website
 Official Blog of Darren Holden

Irish male songwriters
Irish male pianists
Living people
1972 births
Musicians from County Kilkenny
Irish male accordionists
Irish male mandolinists
21st-century accordionists
21st-century Irish male singers
People from Mooncoin
21st-century Irish pianists
20th-century Irish mandolinists
21st-century Irish mandolinists
20th-century Irish songwriters
21st-century Irish songwriters
20th-century Irish accordionists
21st-century Irish accordionists


Xin Los Angeles (also known as XLA) is a container ship owned and operated by China Shipping Container Lines. She was the largest in the world at the time of her completion in 2006, but since been overtaken in size by several vessels, some with more than double her capacity. Xin Los Angeles has a capacity of 9,600 TEU and is one of a class of six. She is registered in Hong Kong.

Design
Xin Los Angeles was launched in 2004 in the ship-yard of Samsung Heavy Industries and was completed in 2006. She has a deadweight tonnage of 107,200 metric tons, is 336.7 meters long and has a beam of 45.6 meters and a draft of 14.3 meters, when fully loaded. The design of the hull allows for decreased water resistance and the hull paint prevents the growth of duckweed and molluscs.

Engine
Xin Los Angeles  main engines are MAN B&W 12K98MC-C Mk6. During sea trials the ship achieved a ballast service speed of 25.4 knots. At full power the engines provide 68,520 kW  and a cruising speed when fully loaded of 23.4 knots.

References

External links

Xin Los Angeles Position

Container ships
Merchant ships of Panama
2006 ships
Ships built by Samsung Heavy Industries


The 2001 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team represented Texas Tech University as a member of the Big 12 Conference during the 2001 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their second season under head coach Mike Leach, the Red Raiders compiled a 7–5 record (4–4 against Big 12 opponents), finished in a tie for third place in Southern Division of the Big 12, lost to Iowa in the 2001 Alamo Bowl, and outscored opponents by a combined total of 402 to 281. The team played its home games at Jones SBC Stadium in Lubbock, Texas.

Previous season
The Red Raiders finished the 2000 season with an overall record of 7–6, 3–5 in Big 12 play, to finish fourth in the Big 12 South. The team was invited to the Galleryfurniture.com Bowl, where they lost 27–40 to East Carolina.

NFL Draft

Tackle Kris Kocurek was drafted in the 6th round (181st overall) by the Seattle Seahawks.

Schedule

Personnel

Game summaries

New Mexico

At UTEP

The game was initially scheduled to take place on September 13, but was then postponed following the September 11 attacks. The game was eventually canceled on September 21 when the two teams could not agree on a date to reschedule that would work for both. Texas Tech would eventually play Stephen F. Austin to make up for the lost game.

Vs. North Texas

At Texas

Kansas

The Red Raiders would not lose to the Jayhawks again until October 26, 2019, with Kansas defeating Texas Tech 37–34 in Lawrence.

Kansas State

At Nebraska

At Baylor

Texas A&M

At Oklahoma State

Oklahoma

Stephen F. Austin

Vs. Iowa (Alamo Bowl)

References

Texas Tech
Texas Tech Red Raiders football seasons
Texas Tech Red Raiders football


The 2000 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team represented Texas Tech University as a member of the Big 12 Conference during the 2000 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their first season under head coach Mike Leach, the Red Raiders compiled a 7–6 record (3–5 against Big 12 opponents), finished in fourth place in Southern Division of the Big 12, and outscored opponents by a combined total of 330 to 278. The team played its home games at Jones SBC Stadium in Lubbock, Texas.

Of the team's staff and players, 23 went on to coach either in the NFL or in college football, including eight head coaches of FBS football teams and eight more who were FBS coordinators.  Defensive coordinator Greg McMackin, running backs coach Art Briles, wide receivers coach Sonny Dykes, inside receivers coach Dana Holgorsen, linebackers coach Ruffin McNeill, special teams coordinator Manny Matsakis, and starting quarterback Kliff Kingsbury all went on to become FBS head coaches, with Kingsbury eventually becoming an NFL head coach.

Schedule

Personnel

Game summaries

New Mexico

At Texas A&M

Nebraska

At Oklahoma

Vs. East Carolina (Galleryfurniture.com Bowl)

Team players drafted into the NFL

References

Texas Tech
Texas Tech Red Raiders football seasons
Texas Tech Red Raiders football


The 2002 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team represented Texas Tech University as a member of the Big 12 Conference during the 2002 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their third season under head coach Mike Leach, the Red Raiders compiled a 9–5 record (5–3 against Big 12 opponents), finished in a tie for third place in Southern Division of the Big 12, defeated Clemson in the 2002 Tangerine Bowl, and outscored opponents by a combined total of 537 to 439. The team played its home games at Jones SBC Stadium in Lubbock, Texas.

Quarterback Kliff Kingsbury totaled 5,017 passing yards and received the Sammy Baugh Trophy. Lawrence Flugence set the NCAA single-season record for most tackles.

Schedule

Roster

Game summaries

At Ohio State

At SMU

Ole Miss

NC State

At New Mexico

At Texas A&M

At Iowa State

Missouri

At Colorado

Baylor

Oklahoma State

Texas

At Oklahoma

Vs. Clemson (Tangerine Bowl)

Team players in the NFL

References

Texas Tech
Texas Tech Red Raiders football seasons
Cheez-It Bowl champion seasons
Texas Tech Red Raiders football


The 2003 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team represented Texas Tech University as a member of the Big 12 Conference during the 2003 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their fourth season under head coach Mike Leach, the Red Raiders compiled an 8–5 record (4–4 against Big 12 opponents), finished in fourth place in Southern Division of the Big 12, defeated Navy in the 2003 Houston Bowl, and outscored opponents by a combined total of 552 to 442. The team played its home games at Jones SBC Stadium in Lubbock, Texas.

Quarterback B. J. Symons totaled 5,833 passing yards and received the Sammy Baugh Trophy, and Wes Welker totaled 1,099 receiving yards and received the Mosi Tatupu Award.

Schedule

Personnel

Game summaries

Texas A&M

B.J. Symons 34/46, 505 Yards, 8 TDs (Big 12 record)

Colorado

References

Texas Tech
Texas Tech Red Raiders football seasons
Houston Bowl champion seasons
Texas Tech Red Raiders football


The 2004 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team represented Texas Tech University as a member of the Big 12 Conference during the 2004 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their fifth season under head coach Mike Leach, the Red Raiders compiled an overall record of 8–4 record with a mark of 5–3 in conference play, finished in a tie for third place in Southern Division of the Big 12, defeated California in the 2004 Holiday Bowl, and outscored opponents by a combined total of 434 to 314. The team played its home games at Jones SBC Stadium in Lubbock, Texas.

The team was led by senior quarterback Sonny Cumbie, who finished the season with 4,742 passing yards, 32 touchdowns, and 18 interceptions, leading the NCAA in passing yards. Cumbie would later serve as an assistant coach for the program starting in 2009, eventually being promoted to co-offensive coordinator in 2013. He would then serve as TCU's offensive coordinator from 2014 to 2020. Cumbie would return to Texas Tech following the 2020 season, being hired as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach under head coach Matt Wells. In 2021, Cumbie would be promoted to interim head coach after Wells was fired on October 25.

Previous season
The 2003 team finished the season 8–5, 4–4 in Big 12 play, finishing in 4th place in the Southern Division. The team was invited to the Houston Bowl, defeating Navy 38–14. Quarterback B. J. Symons won the Sammy Baugh Trophy, while wide receiver Wes Welker won the Mosi Tatupu Award.

NFL draftees

Schedule

Personnel

Game summaries

At SMU

At New Mexico

TCU

The Horned Frogs jumped out to a 21–0 lead midway through the second quarter before the Red Raiders scored 56 unanswered points.

At Kansas

Texas Tech got on the board first, with Kansas running back John Randle being tackled in his own end zone for a safety. The Jayhawks then scored 14 unanswered points, with a 36-yard pass from Adam Barmann to Randle and a 1-yard Randle run. Texas Tech would then respond with a 34-yard field goal from Alex Trlica with under a minute left in the first quarter. Kansas went on another scoring run in the second, scoring 16 unanswered points, including a pass from wide receiver Charles Gordon to Brandon Rideau. Gordon would then score on a receiving touchdown from Barmann, but the ensuing two-point pass would fail. The Red Raiders would score their first touchdown in the closing seconds of the first half, with a 32-yard pass from Sonny Cumbie to Trey Haverty. Texas Tech would attempt a two-point conversion, but the pass fell incomplete. The Red Raiders went into halftime trailing 11–30. The Jayhawks were shutout in the second half as the Red Raiders scored 20 unanswered points, with running back Taurean Henderson scoring the game-winning touchdown with 2:37 left.

Quarterback Sonny Cumbie had an uneven game, completing 28-of-52 passes (53.8%) for 356 yards with two touchdowns and four interceptions. Wide receiver Danny Amendola lost a fumble, bringing the Red Raiders' turnover total to five. The Jayhawks would capitalize on the turnovers, scoring 16 points off of turnovers. Kansas would commit three turnovers, all interceptions by quarterback Adam Barmann.

At Oklahoma

Nebraska

Texas Tech forced eight turnovers while only committing one and had 523 yards of total offense while Nebraska only had 292. The 70 points given up and the 60 point margin of defeat are both the largest in Nebraska school history. In 2020, the Omaha World-Herald ranked this game as the seventh most painful loss in the Cornhuskers' history since a 36–62 loss to Colorado in 2001.

Texas

At Kansas State

Baylor

At Texas A&M

Oklahoma State

Vs. California (Holiday Bowl)

Rankings

Players drafted into the NFL

References

Texas Tech
Texas Tech Red Raiders football seasons
Holiday Bowl champion seasons
Texas Tech Red Raiders football


The 2005 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team represented Texas Tech University as a member of the Big 12 Conference during the 2005 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their sixth season under head coach Mike Leach, the Red Raiders compiled an overall record of 9–3 record with a mark of 6–2 in conference play, finished in a tie for second place in Southern Division of the Big 12, lost to Alabama in the 2006 Cotton Bowl Classic, and outscored opponents by a combined total of 473 to 226. The team played its home games at Jones SBC Stadium in Lubbock, Texas.

Previous season
The 2004 team finished the season with an overall record of 8–4, 5–3 in Big 12 play, finishing tied in third place in the Southern Division. The Red Raiders finished the regular season with a 31–15 upset victory over the no. 23 ranked Oklahoma State Cowboys. The team was invited to the Holiday Bowl, defeating no. 4 California 45–31. The 2004 team was ranked no. 18 and no. 17 in the final AP and Coaches' polls, respectively. Quarterback Sonny Cumbie finished the season leading the nation in passing yards, throwing for 4,742 yards.

NFL draftees

Schedule

Personnel

Game summaries

FIU

Sam Houston State

Indiana State

Kansas

At Nebraska

Kansas State

Quarterback Cody Hodges finished the game 44-of-65 for 643 yards with five touchdowns and two interceptions. Hodges's 643 passing yards are the fourth most by a quarterback in Division I-A (now Division I FBS) and the second time a Texas Tech quarterback threw for over 600 yards in a single game, with B. J. Symons throwing for 661 yards against Ole Miss in 2003.

At No. 2 Texas

At Baylor

Texas A&M

At Oklahoma State

Oklahoma

Vs. No. 13 Alabama (Cotton Bowl Classic)

Rankings

Players drafted into the NFL

Notes

References

Texas Tech
Texas Tech Red Raiders football seasons
Texas Tech Red Raiders football


The 35th General Assembly of Nova Scotia represented Nova Scotia between 1911 and 1916.

The Liberal Party led by George Henry Murray formed the government.

James F. Ellis was named speaker in 1912.

The assembly was dissolved on May 22, 1916.

List of Members

Notes:

References

Terms of the General Assembly of Nova Scotia
1911 establishments in Nova Scotia
1916 disestablishments in Nova Scotia
20th century in Nova Scotia


Giuseppe Alessi (29 October 1905 – 13 July 2009) was an Italian politician.

Biography

Alessi was born in San Cataldo, Caltanissetta, Sicily. He was one of the founding members of the Christian Democratic (Democrazia Cristiana) party on the island and became the first elected President of the Regional Government of Sicily. He was a member of the reform wing of the DC. From 1968-72, he was a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies.

Journalist Alexander Stille interviewed Alessi in the 1990s and asked him about the relations between the Christian Democrats and the Mafia: "It happened this way. Some people in the Christian Democratic Party approached the separatists, whose backbone were these Mafia bosses and invited them to join the national parties ... [T]he Mafiosi were looking for the road to power, to secure the support they needed for their economic affairs. If the mayor was Republican, they became Republican, if he was Socialist, they were Socialist, if he was Christian Democrat they became Christian Democrat." Alessi defended them as a necessary evil of the Cold War period: "The Christian Democrats subordinated their ideals for a supreme interest of national importance: saving the democratic state. The victory of Communism would have meant Italy ended up behind the Iron Curtain."

Political views
Alessi's justification of his party's dealings with the Mafia is based on a romantic view of the Mafia of the 1940s and 1950s: "They weren't criminals, they were local potentates, neighbourhood bosses, proud men of prestige. Their crimes were basically economic - fraud, forgery, illegal appropriation of property - but they disliked real crime."

Death
Alessi died in Palermo, aged 103, on 13 July 2009.

Honour
 : Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (10 may 1974)

References

External links
 "Giuseppe Alessi. Il primo presidente", Articolo da “Il venerdì” di La Repubblica, 22 June 2007
 Announcement of Giuseppe Alessi's 103rd birthday (in Italian)
 Obituary (in Italian)

1905 births
2009 deaths
People from San Cataldo, Sicily
Italian People's Party (1919) politicians
Christian Democracy (Italy) politicians
Senators of Legislature IV of Italy
Deputies of Legislature V of Italy
Presidents of Sicily
Presidents of the Sicilian Regional Assembly
Italian centenarians
Knights Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
Knights Commander of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Men centenarians
Politicians from the Province of Caltanissetta


Petr Eben International Organ Competition (or The Competition for Young Organists) is held in Opava in the Czech Republic since 1978. It is named in honour of the Czech organist and composer Petr Eben (19292007).

The competition consists of three rounds, held at the Petr Bezruč Library, the Church of the Holy Ghost and the Cathedral of the Assumption of Our Lady in Opava.

Jury
 Roberto Antonello (Italy)
  (Germany)
  (Czech Republic)
  (France)
 Jon Laukvik (Germany)
 Petr Rajnoha (Czech Republic)
  (Germany)
  (Norway)
 Imrich Szabó (Slovakia)
 Jaroslav Tůma (Prague)
  (Czech Republic)

Laureates of Competition
 Maria Mokhova (Russia)
 Arnfinn Tobiassen (Norway)
  (Hungary)
  (Czech Republic)
 Pavel Svoboda (Czech Republic)
  (Czech Republic)
 Liene Andreta Kalncinema (Latvia)
  (Czech Republic)
  (Czech Republic)

External links
 Websites

Pipe organ
Music competitions in the Czech Republic


Gordon Hugh Mawhinney (born 4 January 1943) is a former politician in Northern Ireland.

Mawhinney married Maureen Gribben (born 5 January 1943) on 4 April 1967. In 1981, Mawhinney stood for the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland in Newtownabbey District "C", but was not elected. He was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly, 1982, in South Antrim. He stood in the equivalent Westminster constituency at the 1983 general election, receiving 11.9% of the votes cast, and increased his share to 16.0% at the 1987 general election, in which he took second place.

In 1987, Mawhinney was elected as Deputy Leader of the Alliance Party, a position which he held until he resigned in 1991, claiming "health and business reasons". In 1989, he finally won a seat on Newtownabbey Borough Council, in Manse Road In 1993, he won a seat in the successor district of University, but he did not restand in 1997.

References

1943 births
Living people
Members of Newtownabbey Borough Council
Alliance Party of Northern Ireland politicians
Northern Ireland MPAs 1982–1986
Alliance Party of Northern Ireland councillors


Lerman is an Ashkenazi Jewish surname. It may refer to:

Anita Lerman (born 1944), American politician
Antony Lerman (born 1946), a British writer who specializes in the study of antisemitism and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
April Lerman (born 1969), American actress
 Bruce Lerman, American cardiologist; Chief of the Division of Cardiology and Director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratory at Weill Cornell Medicine and the New York Presbyterian Hospital
Diego Lerman (born 1976), Argentine film director, producer and screenwriter
Dragutin Lerman (1863–1918), Croatian explorer
Eleanor Lerman, American poet, novelist, and short story writer
Jonathan Lerman (born 1987), American artist
Kristina Lerman (born 1967), American network scientist
Leo Lerman (1914–1994), American writer and editor
Leonard Lerman, American biologist
Logan Lerman (born 1992), American actor
Miles Lerman (1920–2008), American activist
Oscar Lerman (1919–1992), American nightclub and gallery owner, and film producer
Rhoda Lerman (1936–2015), American author

See also
Lehrman (disambiguation)

References

Surnames of Jewish origin
Yiddish-language surnames


The Corporación Oaxaqueña de Radio y Televisión (CORTV, "Oaxacan Radio and Television Corporation") is a government agency of the Mexican state of Oaxaca charged with the operation of radio and television stations in the state.

CORTV operates a television network of the same name, with 16 transmitters, and it owns a 32-station FM radio network with an additional station in Oaxaca. The television network has shed 30 transmitters in recent years and also dropped six additional transmitters by failing to convert them to digital.

History
Public broadcasting in Oaxaca began in the early 1980s under Governor Pedro Vásquez Colmenares, with the insertion of local opt-outs into the programming of the Canal 7 network of Imevisión. Original output consisted entirely of plays staged for television by the Compañía Teatral Palo Bravo, as the state lacked production resources. In 1988, the Instituto Oaxaqueño de Radio y Televisión (IORTV) was established.

On March 21, 1989, under the direction of Virgilio Caballero Pedraza, IORTV was reorganized as Radio y Televisión de Oaxaca (RTO). It adopted its present name in 1993.

Television transmitters
CORTV holds virtual channel 9 throughout Oaxaca. In 2022, its concessions for television service were consolidated into one: XHCPBR-TDT (primary RF channel 36), which can have transmitters throughout the state. However, the existing transmitters were not moved to channel 36.

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In March 2018, in order to facilitate the repacking of TV services out of the 600 MHz band (channels 38-51), the transmitters for Juchitán de Zaragoza and Pinotepa Nacional were assigned new channels for continued digital operations.

Radio transmitters
Note that XHOAX-FM "Global 96.9" broadcasts different programming from the other 32 stations in the network. XHCRR on Cerro Corral de Piedra is receivable in the city of Oaxaca.

The CORTV transmitters serving Oaxaca (XHOAX and XHCRR) broadcast in HD Radio.

References

Public television in Mexico
Television stations in Oaxaca
Mass media in Oaxaca City
Public radio in Mexico


The Voodoo Envy 133 was a notebook computer designed by VoodooPC after its acquisition by Hewlett-Packard. It was positioned as a mobile ultraportable notebook and was introduced at HP's Connecting Your World Live event in Berlin, Germany on June 10, 2008.

Overview
The chassis of the Voodoo Envy is made of carbon fiber, and it weighs  and is  thick all around. The system utilizes the Windows Vista operating system as well as a Linux kernel dubbed "Voodoo Instant On" or "Voodoo IOS." The laptop has often been compared to the MacBook Air for its similar size and specifications. HP claimed it to be the world's thinnest notebook, although this record has now been broken, as it is 0.70 inches throughout, whereas the Dell Adamo is 0.65 inches thick all around.

According to the specifications, its 3-cell Lithium ion battery will provide up to 3 hours and 10 minutes' battery life, depending on usage.

The HP Envy line of laptops and other products replaced the Voodoo Envy when HP and VoodooPC merged.

References

External links
VoodooPC web site
VoodooPC community site

HP laptops


Alampu  () is a village development committee in Dolakha District in the Janakpur Zone of north-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3,392 people living in 739 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Dolakha District

Populated places in Dolakha District

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Iraqi Communist Vanguard Organisation was a political organization in Iraq. The organisation was set up by the Baathist regime after the break between the Baath Party and the Iraqi Communist Party in 1979. The Iraqi Communist Vanguard Organisation was used by the regime to issue criticism against the Communist Party, claiming that the Communist Party had 'given up the struggle'.

References

Defunct communist parties in Iraq
Iraqi Communist Party breakaway groups


The Philanthropist is an American action drama television series that aired on NBC from June 24 to August 12, 2009. The program was a limited summer series, principally filmed in South Africa. It opened to strong ratings, but saw a drop in viewers in subsequent weeks. The Philanthropist is a Carnival Films production in association with The Levinson/Fontana Company and Original Media. Tom Fontana, Barry Levinson, Peter Horton, Charlie Corwin, Gareth Neame, and Teri Weinberg served as executive producers.

On October 21, 2009, NBC cancelled the series after one season.

Synopsis
The title character, Teddy Rist (portrayed by James Purefoy), is a billionaire playboy haunted by the death of his only child. His life changes when he rescues a young boy during a hurricane in Nigeria. As a result, Rist begins using his fortune to personally change the lives of others. The Philanthropist is based loosely on the life of Bobby Sager.

Cast and characters

Main

 James Purefoy as Teddy Rist – a British billionaire, driven to do good works after the death of his son
 Neve Campbell as Olivia Maidstone – Philip's wife, who runs the company's charitable foundation
 Michael Kenneth Williams as Dax, an Iraq war veteran and Teddy's bodyguard
 Lindy Booth as A.J. Butterfield – the director of special projects at Maidstone-Rist

Recurring
 Jesse L. Martin as Philip Maidstone – the co-CEO of Rist's company and best friend to Teddy
 Krista Allen as Julia Carson Rist – Teddy's ex-wife
 James Albrecht as Gerard Kim – Teddy's personal assistant

Episodes

Reception

U.S. ratings

Critical reception
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the first season has an approval rating of 61% based on 23 reviews, with an average score of 6.5/10; the critical consensus reads: "Though it stumbles on its James Bond-esque premise, The Philanthropist is saved by its beautiful cinematography and the enigmatic charisma of its main star, James Purefoy." On Metacritic, the first season has a weighted average score of 60 out of 100 based on 17 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".

Non-US showings and re-airings
In December 2010 and January 2011, the show was aired in Australia on 7Two, a Seven Network digital channel. In August 2013 started on polish TVP1.

Home media releases
The complete series was released on January 5, 2010 on DVD in Region 1. It was released as a two-disc set, with a total running time of 300 minutes.

Inspiration
The Philanthropist is inspired by the hands-on philanthropy of Bobby Sager.

References

External links

 Original music by Jose Villalobos

2000s American drama television series
2009 American television series debuts
2009 American television series endings
English-language television shows
NBC original programming
Television series by Universal Television
Television shows set in South Africa
Television series created by Tom Fontana


Contact is the third studio album by the Canadian band Platinum Blonde, released in 1987. It sold more than 150,000 copies in its first year of release.  The album reached a high of 20 on the Canadian charts. The first single was the title track; its video was shot at Lamport Stadium.

The supporting tour was a disappointment, with the band forced to cancel dates due to low ticket sales; the band claimed that the cancellations were due to substance abuse issues.

Production
CBS Canada pushed the band to adopt a style that would appeal to U.S. album-oriented rock radio stations; the company admitted its mistake when Canadian sales declined. Leroy "Sugarfoot" Bonner sang on the cover version of "Fire".

Critical reception

The Gazette wrote that "lead singer Mark Holmes has little or no vocal personality, but at least this time he keeps the whining to a minimum." The Vancouver Sun determined that Platinum Blonde "do a pretty fair Duran Duran imitation, only their lyrics are a little dumber, their melodies aren't as catchy and ... they don't exactly measure up in the looks department, either." The Ottawa Citizen called the album "reminiscent, although not imitative, of the metalized funk of Power Station."

The Kingston Whig-Standard deemed the band "talented craftsman who do deserve respect if not superstardom." The Toronto Star labeled Contact "an album rooted in the hot, street-tough funk of New York City, not in the fluff of snow-covered hockey arenas, suburban high school dances or video dreams."

Track list

Credits
Platinum Blonde:
 Sergio Galli: guitar, backing vocals
 Mark Holmes: lead and backing vocals, guitar
 Kenny MacLean: bass, guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
 Sascha Tukatsch: drums, percussion

with:

 David Bendeth: guitar
 Jeff Bova: keyboards
 Michelle Cobbs: backing vocals
 Claude Desjardins: percussion, keyboards, drums
 Bernard Edwards: bass
 Peter Fredette: backing vocals
 Eddie Martinez: guitar
 B.J. Nelson: backing vocals
 Lou Pomanti: bass, keyboards
 Fonzi Thornton of Chic (band): backing vocals
 Uptown Horns: horns
 Tony Thompson: drums, percussion
 Tom Weir: drums, percussion

Engineers:
 Jay Mark, Scott Church, Don Wershba, Bruce Robbins, Randy Staub

References

External links
 Platinum Blonde Official Website

Platinum Blonde (band) albums
1987 albums
CBS Records albums
Albums produced by David Bendeth
Albums produced by Bernard Edwards


The Siemensstadt Settlement (; also known as Ring Settlement or Ringsiedlung) is a nonprofit residential community in the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district of Berlin.  It is one of the six Modernist Housing Estates in Berlin recognized in July 2008 by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site because of their outstanding modernist architecture and contribution to the progressive housing reform movement during the Weimar Republic.

Geography
Despite its name, the larger part of the estate is situated within the locality (Ortsteil) of Charlottenburg-Nord, only the smaller westernmost part belongs to Siemensstadt in the district of Spandau.

History
It was built between 1929 and 1931, under the overall master plan of German architect Hans Scharoun.  Six prominent Weimar-era architects took part: Hans Scharoun, Fred Forbát, Otto Bartning, Walter Gropius, Paul Rudolph Henning, and Hugo Häring.  The nickname Ringsiedlung came from the association of some of these architects with Der Ring collective.

The open spaces were designed by the German modernist landscape architect Leberecht Migge.

Unlike the other significant public housing projects of the time, which were produced under government cooperative Gehag sponsorship, the Siemensstadt was constructed by a private housing cooperative as worker housing for Siemens' nearby electrical factory, which employed 60,000 workers.

The shape of the settlement marked a turning point in urban thinking, the point at which Berlin's city planner Martin Wagner abandoned a low-rise, garden city-style project with individual gardens, in favor of much denser multi-story apartment blocks.

Special offers
Distributed within the whole settlement are information columns that give short, concise information on the architects and his buildings (currently in German language only).

Gallery

See also
Siemensstadt
Gropiusstadt

References

External links

 Mann.Mit.Hut.Touren, English language tours on request.
 New York Times, Visionary Design for Berlin's Workers, J.S. Marcus, June 6, 1993
 City of Berlin website on the project, in English
 Siemensstadt Estate on Architectuul

World Heritage Sites in Germany
Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf
Housing estates in Germany
Walter Gropius buildings
Modernist architecture in Germany
Siemens


The World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion.
The 1958 competitions for men, ladies, pair skating, and ice dancing took place from February 13 to 15 in Paris, France.
It was the first time that a team from the Soviet Union entered the competition.

Medal table

Results

Men

Judges:
  Aleksey Andrianov
  P. Baron
  E. Fenner
  Martin Felsenreich
  B. Srbová
  Nigel Stephens
  Harold G. Storke
  E. Usemann
  J. Wilson

Ladies

Judges:
  Bruno Bonfiglio
  Pamela Davis
  M. Drake
  E. Fenner
  V. P. Gross
  G. D. Jeffery
  Oskar Madl
  Gérard Rodriguez-Henriques
  Emil Skákala

Pairs

Judges:
  Aleksey Andrianov
  Bruno Bonfiglio
  Jadwiga Dąbrowska-Mętlewicz
  Pamela Davis
  Martin Felsenreich
  Emil Skákala
  Nigel Stephens
  Harold G. Storke
  E. Usemann

Ice dance

Judges:
  Pauline L. Barrajo
  M. Drake
  B. M. Haanappel
  G. D. Jeffery
  Hans Meixner
  Jacqueline Meudec
  Hermann Schiechtl
  Emil Skákala
  C. Somasca-Bianchi

Sources
 Result List provided by the ISU

World Figure Skating Championships
World Figure Skating Championships
World Figure Skating Championships
International figure skating competitions hosted by France
World Figure Skating Championships
World Figure Skating Championships
International sports competitions hosted by Paris


John Lee (4 November 1920 – 12 January 1995) was an English footballer who played as a forward. He scored 136 goals from 231 appearances in the Football League playing for Leicester City, Derby County and Coventry City, and was capped once by England. Lee was born in Sileby, Leicestershire and died in Rugby, Warwickshire, and also played first-class cricket for Leicestershire.

Lee began his professional career with Leicester City, moving to Derby County in 1950. He won his only England cap that same year when he played and scored in their 4–1 win over Northern Ireland at Windsor Park. He finished his career in 1955 at Coventry City.

At cricket, Lee was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler. He made a single first-class appearance for Leicestershire, in 1947, against Glamorgan. Lee scored 3 runs in the first innings and a duck in the second, and took 1/13 from four overs.

References

1920 births
1995 deaths
People from Sileby
Footballers from Leicestershire
English cricketers
Leicestershire cricketers
English men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
England men's international footballers
Leicester City F.C. players
Derby County F.C. players
Coventry City F.C. players
English Football League players
Quorn F.C. players


The 1997–98 New York Knicks season was the 52nd season for the New York Knicks in the National Basketball Association (NBA). During the off-season, the Knicks acquired Chris Mills from the Boston Celtics, and acquired Chris Dudley from the Portland Trail Blazers in a three-team trade. At midseason, the team traded Herb Williams to the Philadelphia 76ers in exchange for former All-Star forward Terry Cummings. However, Williams never played for the 76ers, and was re-signed by the Knicks for the remainder of the season. In the regular season, the Knicks held a 25–21 record at the All-Star break, and finished with a 43–39 record, which placed them in a tie for second place in the Atlantic Division with the New Jersey Nets. Despite their lowest winning percentage since the 1990–91 season, the team qualified for the NBA playoffs as the #7 seed. They also hosted the 1998 NBA All-Star Game at Madison Square Garden. The Knicks had the fourth-best team defensive rating in the NBA.

This season saw All-Star center Patrick Ewing break his wrist trying to catch an alley-oop during a road game against the Milwaukee Bucks on December 20, 1997. The injury kept Ewing out for the rest of the regular season, and the entire Eastern Conference first round series against the Miami Heat. However, he did return for Game 2 against the Indiana Pacers in the Eastern Conference semi-finals. Ewing averaged 20.8 points, 10.2 rebounds and 2.2 blocks per game in 26 games.

Without their star center for most of the season, Allan Houston finished second on the team in scoring, averaging 18.4 points per game, while Larry Johnson averaged 15.5 points and 5.7 rebounds per game. In addition, John Starks provided scoring off the bench, averaging 12.9 points per game, and finished in fourth place in Sixth Man of the Year voting, while Charles Oakley provided the team with 9.0 points and 9.2 rebounds per game, and was named to the NBA All-Defensive Second Team, and Mills contributed 9.7 points and 5.1 rebounds per game off the bench. The team also used Charlie Ward as its starting point guard, with Chris Childs coming off the bench. Ward contributed 7.8 points, 5.7 assists and 1.8 steals per game, and Childs provided the Knicks with 6.3 points and 3.9 assists per game. During the All-Star Weekend, Houston participated in the 2Ball competition, which replaced the Slam Dunk Contest this season, and Ward participated in the Three-Point Contest.

The 1998 NBA Playoffs matched the Knicks against the #2 seed Heat, who had eliminated the Knicks in the 1997 playoffs in a series that featured a brawl during Game 5. The altercation led to the suspension of six players, including five Knicks. In the 1998 series, after the Heat took a 2–1 series lead, another brawl occurred in the closing seconds of Game 4, which the Knicks won at home, 90–85 to even the series at two games each. Johnson and Heat center Alonzo Mourning, both former teammates on the Charlotte Hornets, exchanged punches, and New York coach Jeff Van Gundy clung to one of Mourning's legs at one point in an attempt to separate the two. Three players were suspended for Game 5: Johnson and Mourning were both suspended for two games, and Mills, who left the bench during the fight, was suspended for one game. The Knicks won Game 5 at Miami, 98–81, to advance to the second round, where they lost to the Pacers in five games.

Following the season, Oakley was traded to the Toronto Raptors after ten seasons in New York, while Starks, Mills and Cummings were all traded to the Golden State Warriors, who Starks had previously played for during the 1988–89 season. Meanwhile, former All-Star forward Buck Williams retired after seventeen seasons in the NBA.

For the season, the Knicks changed their home uniforms, adding blue side panels to their jerseys and shorts, while their alternate uniforms they wore on the road frequently for the previous two seasons became their primary road jerseys. Both uniforms remained in use until 2012, although they were slightly redesigned in 2001, where the side panels were removed from the bottom of their shorts.

NBA draft

Roster

Roster notes
 Center Herb Williams was traded to the Philadelphia 76ers at midseason, but did not play for them, and was re-signed by the Knicks for the remainder of the season.

Regular season

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Playoffs

|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 1
| April 24
| @ Miami
| L 79–94
| Larry Johnson (21)
| Charles Oakley (12)
| Charles Oakley (4)
| Miami Arena15,200
| 0–1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 2
| April 26
| @ Miami
| W 96–86
| John Starks (25)
| Terry Cummings (14)
| Charlie Ward (7)
| Miami Arena15,200
| 1–1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 3
| April 28
| Miami
| L 85–91
| Allan Houston (27)
| Johnson, Oakley (7)
| four players tied (3)
| Madison Square Garden19,763
| 1–2
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 4
| April 30
| Miami
| W 90–85
| Houston, Johnson (18)
| Larry Johnson (9)
| Charlie Ward (7)
| Madison Square Garden19,763
| 2–2
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 5
| May 3
| @ Miami
| W 98–81
| Allan Houston (30)
| Buck Williams (14)
| Charlie Ward (14)
| Miami Arena15,200
| 3–2
|-

|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 1
| May 5
| @ Indiana
| L 83–93
| John Starks (17)
| Charles Oakley (11)
| Charlie Ward (6)
| Market Square Arena16,630
| 0–1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 2
| May 7
| @ Indiana
| L 77–85
| John Starks (20)
| Charles Oakley (9)
| Charlie Ward (10)
| Market Square Arena16,765
| 0–2
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 3
| May 9
| Indiana
| W 83–76
| Patrick Ewing (19)
| Chris Mills (8)
| Chris Childs (5)
| Madison Square Garden19,763
| 1–2
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 4
| May 10
| Indiana
| L 107–118 (OT)
| Houston, Starks (19)
| Charles Oakley (10)
| Chris Childs (6)
| Madison Square Garden19,763
| 1–3
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 5
| May 13
| @ Indiana
| L 88–99
| Allan Houston (33)
| Patrick Ewing (7)
| Patrick Ewing (11)
| Market Square Arena16,767
| 1–4
|-

Player statistics

NOTE: Please write player statistics in alphabetical order by last name.

Season

Playoffs

Awards and records
Charles Oakley, NBA All-Defensive Second Team

Transactions

References

1997 in sports in New York City
New York Knick
1998 in sports in New York City
New York Knicks seasons
1990s in Manhattan
Madison Square Garden


Greatest Hits is a compilation album by the British band Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel, released by EMI in 1987.

Background
Greatest Hits was the first Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel compilation to be released by EMI since 1980's The Best of Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel. It would also be the band's first compilation to be released on CD. Upon release in October 1987, the compilation did not make an appearance on the UK chart.

The compilation was digitally re-mastered, and released by EMI on vinyl, CD and cassette, in the UK and Europe. The CD edition of the compilation featured extra tracks. The vinyl and cassette editions feature twelve tracks from 1973 to 1976, focusing on the commercial heyday of the band's two most commercially successful line-ups - Cockney Rebel (1973–74) and Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel (1974–77). The CD version featured three further tracks; "(Love) Compared with You", "Riding the Waves (For Virginia Woolf)" and "Freedom's Prisoner". The latter two Steve Harley solo tracks are taken from 1978's Hobo with a Grin and 1979's The Candidate respectively, and were therefore produced after the band's split in 1977.

Track listing
All songs written by Steve Harley except "Here Comes the Sun" by George Harrison and "Freedom's Prisoner" by Harley and Jimmy Horowitz.

LP/Cassette version

CD version

Critical reception

Upon release, Mark Sinker of New Musical Express reviewed the compilation and stated: "[Harley] was five years late on the eccentric cameo Englandisms that Bowie and the Kinks had defined and exhausted. He had a sillier speech defect than Ian Hunter, and a more absurdly elevated sense of rock's theatrical possibilities. He was camper than Queen could be, and far less forgiveable than Ferry. And still, for all that, he wrote a wicked little melodrama of a tune. The art-pomp of most of these songs has exactly the wistful tinge that Ray Davies had lost, by the early '70s. I don't suppose we noticed that. We were too busy thinking ourselves smart for knowing what he was on about, or hating him for not being real ROCK. I'm obviously going senile, but this is a brilliant record."

Donald A. Guarisco of AllMusic retrospectively wrote: "Of all the glam-rock acts to hit it big in England during the 1970s, Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel were second only to David Bowie himself in terms of artsy ambition. Tunes like "Judy Teen" and "Love's a Prima Donna" may have been poppy enough to sail into the English singles charts, but they also boasted unconventional instrumentation and poetic lyrics with lots of surreal, Bob Dylan-esque wordplay. The result was a string of intelligent yet catchy singles, all of which are compiled on this collection. Greatest Hits also includes a generous array of album favorites, and highlights Harley's oft-underrated skill with ballads. The only real downside is that its surprisingly short track list omits some early gems: the compilers could have easily thrown in another two or three songs to fully flesh out the track selection. Despite this quibble, Greatest Hits is a fine collection and makes a great introduction to this group's ambitious, artsy style of pop."

References

Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel albums
1987 greatest hits albums
EMI Records compilation albums
Glam rock compilation albums


Captain Egerton Bagot Byrd Levett-Scrivener (1857–1954) was a Royal Navy Flag Lieutenant and aide to Vice Admiral George Willes in the Far East. He was later promoted to Captain, and following his retirement became Bursar of Keble College, University of Oxford. Born Egerton Levett, he changed his name to Levett-Scrivener on an inheritance from his aunt of Scrivener family properties at Sibton Abbey, Suffolk, which he later managed. Levett was married to the daughter of English diplomat and ambassador Sir Harry Smith Parkes.

Egerton Levett was the son of Col. Richard Byrd Levett of Milford Hall, Staffordshire and his wife Elizabeth Mary (Mirehouse) Levett. Egerton Levett entered the service of the Royal Navy, where during a posting as aide to Admiral Willes in 1884, he met Mabel Desborough Parkes, the daughter of Ambassador Parkes, who was then serving as British ambassador to China and Korea. Levett and Miss Parkes were married in 1884, and in 1885 their son Evelyn Harry Byrd Levett was born, prompting Ambassador Parkes to write "one of his happiest letters... written in January 1885 to his daughter, Mrs. Levett, on the memorable occasion when he became a grandfather."

In 1889, Levett inherited the Sibton Abbey Estate with the Lord of the Manorship Sibton with the Members from his aunt. The property, which was the only Cistercian abbey in East Anglia, had been in the Scrivener family since its purchase in the early seventeenth century by John Scrivener, son of an Ipswich barrister and bailiff grown rich in the wool trade. The Scrivener family later purchased  from the Duke of Norfolk to add to their Suffolk holdings. After inheriting Sibton Abbey, Egerton Levett changed his name to Levett-Scrivener in accordance with his aunt's wishes.

In 1890, six years after their marriage, Levett's wife Mabel was killed in a fall from her horse. A year later, in 1891, Levett married in Bristol his cousin Mary Millicent Mirehouse. (Levett's mother was a Mirehouse, and his brother Richard Byrd Levett ultimately also changed his name to Richard Walter Byrd Mirehouse on succeeding to Mirehouse family property at The Hall, Angle, Pembrokeshire, where by-then Richard W.B. Mirehouse served as High Sheriff of Pembrokeshire as well as Lieutenant Colonel of 4th Batt. North Staffs Regiment.)

Levett-Scrivener became an avid agriculturalist and farmer on the Sibton Abbey estate. He improved the farmland, and studied the manorial records of the Sibton properties, which were still in family hands, and shared them with historians. Levett-Scrivener tracked the produce grown on the farms, the cost of labor and the rentals accruing to the Scrivener owners. He also opened the Abbey periodically to county historians and antiquarians so they could investigate the ruins of the once-wealthy abbey, which had fallen during the Dissolution of the Monasteries to the Howard family.

Royal Navy Captain Egerton Bagot Byrd Levett-Scrivener died in 1954. He was survived by one son from his first marriage and three daughters from his second marriage, Iris, Winnifred and Pamela.

The Levett-Scrivener family has longstanding ties to the Royal Navy. Egerton Levett-Scrivener's son Evelyn Harry Byrd, also joined the Royal Navy, where he rose to the rank of Commander and predeceased his father on 22 August 1950.  He had two full siblings, Egerton Alaric Parkes Levett-Scrivener, named in part for his grandfather Parkes, and a sister Dorothy who died in infancy, and the three were baptized at the Berkswich, Staffordshire, church where their father Levett-Scrivener worshipped as a child.

The Levett-Scriveners, and most of their Scrivener relatives, are buried at St. Peter's Church in Sibton, near Yoxford, Suffolk. In 2005, the Levett-Scrivener family felt compelled to purchase the local village post office and shop facing closure in this quiet corner of rural England.

Royal Navy Captain Egerton Bagot Byrd Levett-Scrivener's great-great grandfather, John Freston Scrivener, was a cousin of Horatio Nelson, source The Nelsons of Burnham Thorpe by M. Eyre Matcham published by The Bodley Head, 1911. Amusingly amongst the ancestors of this generation of the levett-scrivener family is another Royal Navy stalwart, Admiral William Bligh, captain of the ill-fated HMS Bounty during its mutiny.

References

Sources
  The Levetts of Staffordshire, Dyonese Levett Haszard, Milford, Staffordshire, privately printed

1857 births
1954 deaths
Egerton
19th-century English farmers
People from the Borough of Stafford
People from Suffolk Coastal (district)
Fellows of Keble College, Oxford
Royal Navy officers
20th-century English farmers


Raymond Picard (6 August 1917 – 5 September 1975) was a French author, prominent Sorbonne professor and Jean Racine scholar.

Work
Picard is noted for his scathing tract "Nouvelle critique ou nouvelle imposture?" ("New Criticism or New Fraud?"), which was aimed at the "subjective" analytical approach of Roland Barthes (as found in "On Racine") and other non-traditional approaches by writers and academics of  "New Criticism", including Lucien Goldmann, Charles Mauron, Jean-Paul Weber and Jean-Pierre Richard. Barthes' response to this critique came in the form of Critique et vérité, which postulated a 'science of criticism' to replace the 'university criticism' perpetuated by Picard and his colleagues   The heated, public debate between Picard and Barthes became somewhat of a watershed moment in the development of literary structuralism.  Picard felt that "Barthes was 'the instrument of a criticism that operates by instinct,' that uses a pseudoscientific jargon to make inept and absurd assertions in the name of biological, psychoanalytic and philosophic knowledge" and of "New Criticism" believed that "the mixture of impressionism and dogmatism set to a modernist rhythm of indetermination 'makes it possible to say absolutely any stupid thing'."

Bibliography
The Career of Jean Racine
The Complete Works of Racine
New Criticism or New Fraud?

References

External links
 "New Criticism or New Fraud ?"
 Essay touching on Picard's critique of so-called "New Criticism"

1917 births
1975 deaths
Academic staff of the University of Paris
French literary critics
French male non-fiction writers
20th-century French male writers


The Best of Niemen is a compilation of Czesław Niemen's greatest hits released between 1966 and 1969.

Track listing
 "Pod papugami" - 3:15 (music Mateusz Święcicki, lyrics Bogusław Choiński, Jan Gałkowski)
 "Wspomnienie" - 3:50 (music Marek Sart, lyrics Julian Tuwim)
 "Baw się w ciuciubabkę" - 3:05 (music Czesław Niemen, lyrics Jacek Grań)
 "Płonąca stodoła" - 2:30 (music Czesław Niemen, lyrics Marta Bellan)
 "Sen o Warszawie" - 3:20 (music Czesław Niemen, lyrics Marek Gaszyński)
 "Czy wiesz" - 2:30 (music Czesław Niemen, lyrics Marek Gaszyński)
 "Spiżowy krzyk" - 2:15 (music Czesław Niemen, lyrics Czesław Niemczuk)
 "Nie wiem czy warto" - 4:15 (music Zbigniew Bizoń, lyrics Krzysztof Dzikowski)
 "Przyjdź w taką noc" - 2:15 (music Mateusz Święcicki, lyrics Krzysztof Dzikowski)
 "Włóczęga" - 2:30 (traditional with lyrics by Marta Bellan)
 "Jeszcze sen" - 2:15 (music Czesław Niemen, lyrics Marta Bellan)
 "Jeżeli" - 3:20 (music Czesław Niemen, lyrics Julian Tuwim)
 "Domek bez adresu" - 2:25 (music Andrzej Korzyński, lyrics Andrzej Tylczyński)
 "Dziwny jest ten świat" - 3:35 (music Czesław Niemen, lyrics Czesław Niemen)

1979 greatest hits albums
Czesław Niemen compilation albums


Walter P. Schuetze (August 2, 1932 - October 27, 2017) was Chief Accountant of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission during 1992-1995, and the Chief Accountant of the Commission's Enforcement Division between 1997 and 2000.  He is known for being an advocate of mark-to-market accounting, which increases consistency between accounting statements' asset values and actual values of assets.

Scheutze's testimony before congress in 2002 regarding the collapse of Enron was, in part, as follows: "The problem is rooted in our rules for financial reporting. Those financial reporting rules need deep and fundamental reform. Unless we change those rules, nothing will change. The problems will persist. Today’s crisis as portrayed by the surprise collapse of Enron is the same kind of crisis that arose in the 1970s when Penn Central surprisingly collapsed and in the 1980s when hundreds of savings and loan associations collapsed, which precipitated the S&L bailout by the Federal government. Similar crises have arisen in Australia, Canada, Great Britain, and South Africa. There will be more of these crises unless the underlying rules are changed."

In 2008, he was listed in the Accounting Hall of Fame.

References

External links
Biography at OSU's Accounting Hall of Fame

1932 births
2017 deaths


Niha ( ) is a town in the Chouf which belongs to Mount Lebanon of Lebanon.
The town is 44 miles from Beirut and it has about 3,750 hectares; there are 6,500 inhabitants of Druze and Christian. However, there are only two public schools in the city. It is famous because of its olive groves and its grapes, apples, plums and almonds production. Its tourist attractions are The church of Saint Joseph, El Qa'ah Spring, The prophet Job tomb and Niha's Castle. Like all Lebanon's corners, Niha owns a cultural or historical richness that dwells in the heritage of the country. Lebanese singer Wadih El Safi was born in Niha. The population speaks Lebanese Arabic.

Etymology
The name Niha is used by four Lebanese cities: Niha, Zahlé; Niha, Batroun; Niha, Tyre and Niha, Chouf.
The word neeha is Syriac and denotes to the place the character of calm, peaceful.

History
It is believed that Niha is the place where biblical prophet Job lived temporarily during the period before and through his healing miracle. Thus there is a relatively modern structure located in a hill overlooking Niha town in the Chouf that is supposed to be the burial site of the prophet Job and the site in which he performed his renowned miracle. The domed shrine of Job with arched courtyards and terraces constitutes most of the site, surrounded by a small cave and mountainous landscapes and green woods.

Moreover, Niha is one of the most known destinations in the area, with many caves, both natural and man-made. One among them, a cave-fortress that was cut into a cliff during the Crusades between 1165 and 1260, is named Niha's Castle or Shakif Tiron. According to the popular tale prince Fakhreddine El Ma'ani II hid there when hiding from the Ottomans in 1635. However, the accurate historic version links these events to prince's father Korkomaz during 1584.

In 1776, Ali al-Zahir,  a nephew of  Zahir al-Umar, was expelled from his strong-hold of Deir Hanna by Cezayirli Gazi Hasan Pasha. After this, Ali al-Zahir took refuge in Niha. In 1838, Eli Smith noted  Niha  as a village, part of Esh-Shuf el-Haity, located in Aklim esh-Shuf, north of Jezzin.

Tourist attractions
 Druze Prophet Job shrine مقام النبي أيوب
 Niha's Castle قلعة نيحا
 Saint George church كنيسة مار جرجس
 Saint Joseph church كنيسة مار يوسف
 Mysterious sarcophagus نواويس
 El Qa'ah Spring عين القاعة

See also
 Druze in Lebanon
 Christianity in Lebanon

References

Bibliography

 Debenham, Frank (1972). "El Atlas de nuestro tiempo", The Reader's Digest Association Limited, London, 241

External links
 Page of Niha in Localiban (in English, French and Arabic)
 About Niha (in English)
 Some cities in the Chouf including Niha (in English)

Populated places in Chouf District
Druze communities in Lebanon
Maronite Christian communities in Lebanon


John A. ("Jack") LaSota is a former Arizona Attorney General (1977–1978). LaSota also served as Bruce Babbitt's Chief of Staff when the former was governor of Arizona. He is a lobbyist for the firm LaSota & Peters, P.L.C.

Career

LaSota is a member of the Arizona State Bar. He has drafted statutes, including telephonic search warrant and electronic eavesdropping laws, many of which are still on the books. He spent three years at the Arizona State University College of Law as a faculty member and assistant dean, during which tenure his principal role was to draft and circulate nationwide to over 500 agencies pioneering Model Rules for Law Enforcement.

Attorney General
After Bruce Babbitt succeeded Wesley Bolin as governor, he appointed LaSota to replace him as Attorney General. Members of the Arizona senate, led by Senate President Ed Sawyer, sued LaSota arguing he was statutorily barred from serving. The senators alleged LaSota was barred by A.R.S. 41-191, which stated that "(t)he attorney general shall have been for not less than five years immediately preceding the date of taking office a practicing attorney before the supreme court of the state." While LaSota was employed at the Arizona State University School of Law his bar membership lapsed to retired status and, as a retired lawyer, he could not practice law or hold himself out as eligible to do so. The court voided the statute.

Footnotes

Arizona Attorneys General
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)


Chiang Mai Zoo and Aquarium is a  zoo on Huay Kaew Road, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand, just west of Chiang Mai University. It is the first commercial zoo in northern Thailand, established on 16 June 1977.

History
In 1950 the US government sent military advisers to train tribal police along the border of Thailand. Among them was Harold Mason Young, son of American missionaries, who had been born in Burma. Young started helping injured animals, and his collection started getting  visitors. The Chiang Mai provincial government set aside  at the base of Doi Suthep, the mountain immediately adjacent to Chiang Mai, and the facility was opened to the public in 1957.

When Young died in 1974, the property was taken over by Chiang Mai Province. The zoo was expanded to its current  footprint, transferred to the Zoological Park Organization under the patronage of the King of Thailand, and opened as the official zoo of Chiang Mai province in 1977.

Exhibits
Chiang Mai Zoo is privately operated and includes a large variety of animals. In addition, it provides two large aquariums. On 28 October 2008, an aquatic tunnel with a length of —the world's longest tunnel aquarium— was opened to the public. It also has a marine aquarium, which is the largest in Asia.

Animals

Overall, 400 animal species are represented in the zoo including Humboldt penguin, Cape fur seal, koala, Indian rhinoceros, hippopotamus, greater flamingo, gaur, red-shanked douc, Bornean orangutan, African spurred tortoise, Asiatic black bear, Malayan sun bear, giant anteater, Indochinese tiger, Barbary sheep, Malayan tapir, and many types of reptiles. The zoo is also home to two Asian elephants and three giant pandas.

Giant pandas Lin Hui and Chuang Chuang arrived at the zoo on 12 October 2003, and are on 10-year loan from China. Their daughter Lin Bing was born at the zoo on 27 May 2009, and will be returned to China when she is two years old. Lin Bing is one of just a few giant pandas born in captivity outside China.

The aquarium has many sea creatures, including invertebrates and Asian arowana.  It also has carnivorous fish such as sharks.

Transportation
The  Chiang Mai Zoo Monorail was opened in 2005. It ceased operations in 2014. The zoo also has trams that take visitors around the zoo for a charge.

See also
Chiang Mai Night Safari
Dusit Zoo

References

External links

Monorails in Thailand
Zoo
Zoos in Thailand
Organizations established in 1977
Tourist attractions in Chiang Mai
1977 establishments in Thailand
1957 establishments in Thailand
Zoos established in 1957
1970s in Chiang Mai


Plectronoceras is the earliest known shelled cephalopod, dating to the Late Cambrian. None of the fossils are complete, and none show the apex or aperture of the shell. Approximately half of its shell was filled with septa; 7 were recorded in a  shell.  Its shell contains transverse septa separated by about half a millimetre, with a siphuncle on its concave side. Its morphology matches closely to that hypothesised for the last common ancestor of all cephalopods.

Plectronoceras is the type genus of the family Plectronoceratidae. Fossils of Plectronoceras have been found in the San Saba Limestone of Texas.

References

Prehistoric nautiloid genera
Cambrian molluscs
Cambrian animals of North America
Cambrian United States

Fossil taxa described in 1933

Cambrian genus extinctions


Tanya Falan Welk (born May 4, 1948) is an American singer who appeared on The Lawrence Welk Show from 1968 to 1977.

Born and raised in Glendale, California, Tanya began singing at age four at her uncle's Los Angeles restaurant. As a teenager, she worked at Disneyland where she had her own band known as Tanya and the Thunderbirds. While in high school, she developed her skills with other instruments such as the drums, cello, bass and xylophone in addition to singing.

Tanya made her Welk show debut on New Year's Eve 1967, and shortly afterwards was made a regular member of the cast. A few months later in the summer of 1968, she also became a member of Lawrence Welk's own family when she married his son Larry, Jr. The couple had two sons, Lawrence Welk, III (born 1970) and Kevin (born 1971).

During her tenure on the show, she sang solo numbers and in many group numbers, pairing with Anacani as a duo and often as a trio with fellow Italian-American music makers Bob Lido and Charlie Parlato.

Tanya also branched out in other areas of television, making guest appearances on Jerry Lewis' Labor Day Telethon and in 1971, guest starred on the soap opera General Hospital.

In 1969, she recorded the album Let It Be Me which was released by Ranwood Records.

She left the show in 1977, and two years later (1979) her marriage to Larry Welk ended.  In 1980 she married former world champion motorcycle racer and racing team owner, Kenny Roberts.

External links
Welk Musical Family.com profile

References

1948 births
Living people
Musicians from Glendale, California
American women singers
American people of Italian descent
Big band singers
Lawrence Welk


Leuenberger is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Matthew Leuenberger (born 1988), Australian rules football player
Moritz Leuenberger (born 1946), Swiss politician
Myriam Leuenberger (born 1987), Swiss figure skater
Niklaus Leuenberger (c1615-1653), Swiss rebel
Sven Leuenberger (born 1969), Swiss ice hockey player
Werner Otto Leuenberger (born 1932), Swiss artist


Babare () is a village (previously: VDC) in Kalinchowk Rural Municipality in Dolakha District in the Bagmati Province of north-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3,392 people living in 739 individual households.

This village is now a ward (ward no. 2) of Kalinchowk Rural Municipality. It has  of area and total population according to 2011 Nepal census is 3,533 Individuals.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Dolakha District

Populated places in Dolakha District


Bhedpu  is a village development committee in Dolakha District in the Janakpur Zone of north-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3,943 people living in 767 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Dolakha District

Populated places in Dolakha District


Leonetti is a surname of Italian origin. People with that name include:

Caroline Leonetti Ahmanson (1918-2005), American fashion consultant, businesswoman and philanthropist
Francesco Leonetti ( - 2017), Italian poet, novelist teacher and political activist
Giovanni Battista Leonetti (19th century), Italian engraver
Joey Leonetti (born 1970), American soccer player
John R. Leonetti (born 1956), American cinematographer
Matthew F. Leonetti (born 1941), American cinematographer
Melissa Leonetti (born 1982), American field hockey player
Phil Leonetti (born 1953), American mobster
Tommy Leonetti (1929-1979), American singer-songwriter and actor

See also
Lionetti

Surnames of Italian origin


Bhirkot is a village development committee in Dolakha District in the Janakpur Zone of north-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2,208 people living in 470 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Dolakha District

Populated places in Dolakha District


Bhusapheda  is a village development committee in Dolakha District in the Janakpur Zone of north-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2,024 people living in 450 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Dolakha District

Populated places in Dolakha District