Birgit Ridderstedt (November 26, 1914 – September 16, 1985) was a Swedish-American folk singer who appeared at festivals and on television in the 1950s and early 1960s with material she produced herself.

Background
Born in Ludvika, Sweden, a daughter of Stefan Anderson and  Ragnhild Fredrika Sandberg, she emigrated with her husband C. Erik Ridderstedt and their two small sons Stefan and Lars-Erik to the United States in 1950, settling in Chicago and later in Batavia, Illinois.

Career
Ridderstedt gave presentations on Scandinavian music and folklore on WTTW and WGN television in Chicago in the 1950s and early 1960s. She began by assisting her husband's business as an importer of gift items and handcrafted artwork from Sweden. She appeared on public service and commercial television in Chicago. On Polka Go-Round she featured young children singing Swedish songs and high school youths folk dancing. When after 12 years Ridderstedt left Illinois, a total of 45 young people had been with her on some ten TV programs about such Scandinavian celebrations as Midsummer, Lucy Day and Passion Plays; she had also performed four times with her groups in the annual Swedish Days festivities of Geneva, Illinois, and had appeared with orations and songs for various organizations.

Ridderstedt organized entertainment for festivals and parades in the Fox Valley (Illinois), and also opened her own gift shop. Ridderstedt returned to Sweden in 1962 with her family, but was also active in western Florida in the 1970s with her folk song programs.

The Ridderstedt couple lived in the Stockholm suburb of Täby after they retired; her husband died in 1982. They are buried in Stora Tuna Churchyard.

Songs
Ridderstedt wrote several songs of her own in the early 1950s, which have been registered with STIM.

References and Notes

Swedish folk singers
Swedish emigrants to the United States
1914 births
1985 deaths
20th-century American women singers
20th-century American singers
20th-century Swedish women singers
People from Batavia, Illinois
People from Ludvika Municipality


Anne Frank: Letters from Amsterdam to Iowa is a 2003 book about Anne Frank and her pen pal, Juanita Wagner. It is written by Susan Goldman Rubin.

Summary
In 1939, a ten-year-old girl named Juanita Wagner was the pen pal of Anne Frank and she only sent two letters. Juanita lived in Danville, Iowa. Juanita and her older sister, Betty (the pen pal of Margot), wondered what had happened to the Franks in the war. After the production of a 1955 show called The Diary of Anne Frank on Broadway, the sisters realized who their pen pals were. The book tells the story of Anne Frank's life and Juanita Wagner's life.

Reception
Roger Sutton, of Horn Book Magazine, reviewed the book saying, "Rubin wisely eschews much retelling of Anne's days in hiding, and her coverage of later events, including the publication and reception of the diary, is illuminating in its demonstration of Anne Frank's reach". A Kirkus Reviews review says, "responded with a long handwritten letter about Anne's capture and death. This letter did not survive. Every bit of information about the time Anne spent in the concentration camp before her death, every photograph--and there are some new ones here--fascinates. However, the bland correspondence, if one can call it that, provides a weak premise for another book about Anne Frank". A Publishers Weekly review says, "Abundant visuals include photos, movie stills and ephemera. Like the text, however, the contrast between the illustrations of wartime Holland and those of homefront America suggests a chasm more than a link".

References

External links
Museum of Tolerance

2003 non-fiction books
21st-century history books
Books about Anne Frank


The Wort Hotel was built in downtown Jackson, Wyoming, United States by brothers John and Jess Wort, who were significant figures in the transformation of the economy of Jackson Hole from ranching to tourism. The somewhat Tudor-style building was the first luxury hotel in Jackson. The two-story building features brick facing, with half-timbering and stucco on the second floor and a series of gables facing the street.

The hotel was built on property that had been bought by Charles Wort, father of John and Jess, who operated a livery stable on the site from 1915 to 1932. From 1932 to 1940 the Wort Family operated what is now Signal Mountain Lodge in Grand Teton National Park, until the Wort Hotel was opened in 1941. In 1950 the Silver Dollar Bar was added, with 2032 uncirculated silver dollars embedded in the surface of the bar.

Wort Family
Charles J. Wort first arrived in Jackson Hole in 1893 at age 19 to visit his brother Hamilton and half brother Stephen Leek. Charles remained to homestead in the South Park region of Teton County. After a trip to his native Nebraska to marry his wife Luella Perkins in 1899 he returned with Luella. In the early 1900s he began to work as an outfitter, assisted by his sons John and Jess. The Worts began to assemble land in the center of Jackson in 1915 with the aim of eventually building a hotel. In the meantime Charles built the Wort Livery Stable and Corral on the property, operating until 1932, along with the Wort Garage at Broadway and Cache. In 1917 Charles and Luella bought the Jackson Hotel at North Cache and Deloney, operating it for slightly more than a year. In 1925 they built a house across from the future hotel on West Broadway, ending their career as ranchers. The house was moved to Wilson, Wyoming in the 1960s. They had previously built a log cabin at Broadway and Cache for their sons to stay in when inclement weather prevented them from returning home from school in Jackson. Known as the Wort boys' cabin, it was later used as a law office by Will Simpson. Moved into Town Square, it is still used by a stagecoach ride concession in the summers. During the 1920s the Worts obtained the first concession in Grand Teton National Park at Jenny Lake, where they ran a boating concession. In the 1930s the Worts operated their hunting concession in the Gros Ventre Mountains at what is now the Gap Puche Cabin. In 1932 the Worts purchased the Ole Warner Camp on Jackson Lake, naming it the Wort Lodge and Camp and operating it until 1940 when it was sold as the Signal Mountain Lodge.  The proceeds from the sale financed the construction of the Wort Hotel, undertaken by John and Jess, Charles having died in 1933.

Hotel
The Wort Hotel was designed by self-taught architect Lorenzo "Ren" Grimmett of Idaho Falls, Idaho.  After observing the success of the Wort, Grimmett subsequently designed a near twin of the Wort, the Stage Coach Inn, in West Yellowstone, Montana, which he owned and operated himself. The Wort was finished just before the outbreak of World War II. Despite wartime restrictions, the hotel became popular with servicemen on furlough. Gambling was officially illegal, but tolerated until the 1950s, when Wyoming Governor Milward Simpson began a campaign against gambling.  At the Wort, gambling retreated to the basement Teton Room, locally known as the "Snake Pit." Gambling finally ceased in the mid 1950s.

A fire in 1980 severely damaged the hotel, destroying much of the second floor, but it was reopened in 1981 with some changes. In 1984 the hotel was sold out of the Wort family. The hotel was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. It was also inducted into Historic Hotels of America, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, in 2002.

Meet me at the Wort, which is released on 2006 by Charles Craighead with photography by David J. Swift, is a detailed history of the hotel.

See also
 List of Historic Hotels of America
 Gap Puche Cabin

References

External links

  at the National Park Service's NRHP database
 Wort Hotel at the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office

Hotels in Wyoming
Hotel buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Wyoming
Hotels established in 1941
Hotel buildings completed in 1941
National Register of Historic Places in Teton County, Wyoming
Preferred Hotels & Resorts
Historic Hotels of America


The Umgeni Steam Railway is a  gauge heritage railway at Inchanga, near Durban. The Durban to Pietermaritzburg line was built in the 1880s;  it runs through a  long tunnel at Drummond built in 1878, which is probably the oldest tunnel in use today in South Africa

In 1982, a small Dubs locomotive was donated by the Illovo Sugar company to local enthusiasts; this was the start of the preservation group. A Class-3BR locomotive is used every month; it was built by North British Locomotive Company in February 1912. The coaches used were built between 1908 and 1953, with most being built in the 1930s.

Excursion Trains
On the last weekend of every month excursion trains are run from Inchanga to Bothas Hill because of flood damage between Bothas Hill and Kloof.

Museum
The Inchanga Railway Museum in the old Station Master's house next to the Inchanga Station, covers the history of South African Railways. It is open to the public on days when trains are operating.

Routes

The Umgeni Steam Railway currently operates trains on the last Sunday of all months of the year between Kloof and Inchanga, with special trains running from Pietermaritzburg to Inchanga and Nottingham Road. The route from Kloof to Inchanga follows the old main line from Durban to Pietermaritzburg and traverses some of the steepest railway gradients in South Africa (1:30 to 1:50).

Fleet

The fleet of steam locomotives includes a Class 3BR, Class 12R, Class 14R, two Class 19Ds, a Class GF Garratt and a Class GMAM Garratt, along with the locomotive that the company was started with - namely an 1892 vintage Class A "Dübs A".

Picture Gallery

(Click to enlarge)

External links
 http://umgenisteamrailway.com

References

Railway lines in South Africa
Heritage railways in South Africa
Railway museums in South Africa
3 ft 6 in gauge railways in South Africa
KwaZulu-Natal


William Anderton (born 1879 in Blackpool) was an English professional footballer. He spent six years at Blackpool in the 1900s, making over 100 Football League appearances for the club. He played in midfield.

Anderton made his debut for Blackpool on 21 December 1901, in a 3–0 home victory over Gainsborough Trinity. He went on to make a further twenty appearances in the 1901–02 season, scoring four goals.

In the 1903–04 campaign, Anderton was an almost ever-present, appearing in 33 of the club's 34 league games. He sat out the entire 1904–05 season, however, due to injury.

Anderton almost missed the entire 1905–06 season too, but made his return to the team on 14 April 1906, with four league games remaining. He appeared in only one more of those four games, however.

In his final season with Blackpool, 1906–07, Anderton made eighteen league appearances and scored two goals. His final appearance for the club occurred on 20 April 1907, a 4–3 victory over Grimsby Town at Bloomfield Road in the penultimate match of the season.

Notes

References

1879 births
Footballers from Blackpool
English men's footballers
Blackpool F.C. players
English Football League players
Year of death missing
Men's association football midfielders


The October 2008 Central America floods were caused by a series of low-pressure areas including Tropical Depression Sixteen, a short-lived tropical cyclone in the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season that made landfall in Honduras. Heavy rainfall began in early October 2008 while a tropical wave passed through the region. On October 14, Tropical Depression Sixteen formed just off the northeast coast of Honduras, and at the same time a low-pressure system was on the Pacific coast. Both systems increased rainfall across the region, although the depression dropped heavy rainfall close to its center when it moved ashore on October 15. Although Tropical Depression Sixteen quickly dissipated over land, its remnants persisted for several days. Another low-pressure area interacted with a cold front on October 21, adding to the rainfall in the region.

Heavy rainfall extended from Costa Rica to southeastern Mexico, causing what was considered the worst natural disaster in the region since Hurricane Mitch in 1998. In the former country, rainfall totaled  over several weeks, making the week ending October 17 the wettest in San José since 1944. Floods in Costa Rica damaged 32 bridges and roads in 174 locations, while 1,396 homes were damaged, killing seven people. In Nicaragua to the north, weeks of heavy rainfall killed 16 people and damaged or destroyed 1,333 houses. In Honduras where the tropical depression made landfall, rainfall reached  in some areas, although the highest official total there related to the depression was  on the offshore Roatán over six days. About 40% of municipalities in the country experienced flooding, forcing over 50,000 people to leave their homes. The floods damaged about 50% of roads in Honduras, and over 10,000 houses were damaged or destroyed. Damage totaled about 3 billion lempiras (HNL, $225 million USD), and there were 60 deaths.

In northern Guatemala, the floods damaged about  of crop fields, accounting for Q128.9 million (2008 GTQ, US$16.8 million) in crop damage. There were 17 deaths and about 4,000 damaged houses in Guatemala. In neighboring El Salvador, the rains contributed to October 2008 being the third-wettest month across the country, after Hurricane Stan in 2005 and Hurricane Mitch in 1998. One person died, and hundreds were forced to evacuate their houses. In Belize, the rains flooded about 1,000 homes, forcing the evacuation of one entire town due to health reasons. The rains caused additional flooding following Tropical Storm Arthur striking the country in May, damaging a bridge that was rebuilt after Arthur. Nationwide, the floods caused BZ$54.1 million (BZD, US$27.1 million) in damage and two deaths.

Meteorological history
Widespread rainfall occurred throughout Central America in early October 2008 due to the passage of a tropical wave through the region. Later, another tropical wave approached the region, which was believed to have left the west coast of Africa on September 17. The wave developed a low-pressure area on October 10 in the southwestern Caribbean, with sporadic convection. On October 13, the system consisted of a large area of convection drifting northward offshore eastern Central America, and Dvorak classifications began, indicating gradual organization. At that time, there was another low-pressure area on the Pacific coast, and both systems were producing rainfall across Central America.

At 1200 UTC on October 14, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) indicated that Tropical Depression Sixteen developed about  northeast of Cabo Gracias a Dios, a point where the border of Nicaragua and Honduras meet the Caribbean. In the hours after the depression's formation, the convection decreased, and hurricane hunters indicated that the small low-level circulation was rotating around a broader circulation. Shortly after 1200 UTC on October 15, the weak tropical depression made landfall just west of Punta Patuca in northern Honduras, with a broad and ill-defined circulation. Continuing west-southwestward over land, the circulation dissipated on October 16 over the mountains of central Honduras, although the depression's remnants continued to produce rainfall across the region for several days. On October 21, a cold front was moving through the Yucatán peninsula, interacting with a newly formed low in the Gulf of Honduras to produce additional rainfall.

Preparations

Around the time when the NHC began issuing advisories on the depression, officials issued a tropical storm warning for northern Honduras that eventually covered the country's entire coastline. A tropical storm warning was also issued for the coast of Belize. When the NHC began issuing advisories on the depression, the agency anticipated the depression would intensify into a strong tropical storm, based on low wind shear and warm sea surface temperatures; however, the agency noted uncertainty in the track. A ridge to the north was expected to steer the nascent depression westward, and two tropical cyclone forecast models predicted the storm would continue west-northwestward to strike Belize. Other models forecast a more immediate landfall, which would limit intensification. While the storm was active, officials in Honduras issued a yellow alert for seven departments where heavy rainfall had occurred. A nationwide yellow alert was also issued for El Salvador, meaning there was potential for flooding and landslides, although alerts were dropped on October 21 when the threat of rainfall diminished.

Impact
Although a weak tropical cyclone, the depression and its remnants dropped heavy rainfall across Central America for several days, spreading into Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, and Belize. In Honduras where it made landfall, rainfall peaked at  on the offshore Roatán over six days. A member from Mercy Corps estimated the rainfall in October to have totaled around  in some areas. On the mainland, rainfall reached  at El Empalme. In El Salvador, the depression dropped heavy rainfall, mainly in the southern coastal portion, with a 24-hour peak of  in Puerto Parada en La Unión. Over a period of eight days, rainfall in Belize reached  at Baldy Beacon. Rainfall extended as far north as southeastern Mexico. Throughout the region, the flooding destroyed about 10,000 homes and left about 250,000 people homeless. News agencies considered the flooding the worst in the region since Hurricane Mitch in 1998.

According to Costa Rica's National Meteorology Institute, the week ending on October 17 was the wettest in San José since 1944. Over a period of several weeks, rainfall reached about . The influence between the precursor to the depression and a low-pressure area in the eastern Pacific caused flooding in Costa Rica that killed seven people. In Guanacaste Province, a landslide covered three cars, and in Monteverde, another landslide knocked over a power line that killed two people. In Parrita, an ambulance carrying four people was struck by a fallen tree, while in Puntarenas, another vehicle was struck by a tree, killing one of its occupants. Transport was disrupted in widespread areas in the north and south of the country due to landslides blocking roads. Across the country, the floods compromised roads in 174 locations and damaged 32 bridges. Flooding isolated about 6,900 people in 75 communities, and about 77,000 people were forced to leave their homes. Power outages affected 89 communities, and 424 water wells along the Pacific coast were polluted. Nationwide, the floods damaged 1,396 houses and 39 schools.

In early October, heavy rainfall began affecting Nicaragua, causing mudslides and flooding. The tropical depression added to weeks of heavy rainfall that killed 16 people, many caused by people attempting to cross swollen rivers. Toward the end of October 2008, Lake Managua overflowed, causing flooding in the capital city of Managua. Across the country, 2,273 people evacuated to storm shelters after the floods damaged or destroyed 1,333 houses. Transportation was disrupted when the floods wrecked four bridges and  of highways. Classes were canceled in León and Chinandega departments. The crops in the latter department were almost entirely destroyed.

Following months of drought conditions, the heavy rainfall in Honduras caused flooding, initially in the southern and central portions, although the entire country experienced rainfall, with 40% of municipalities experiencing flooding. The rains caused widespread landslides, particularly in the western and central portions. In the capital city Tegucigalpa, the rainfall in October was estimated to have been twice the average annual total. In two locations, the Pan-American Highway was disrupted by either landslide or flooding, and widespread areas were isolated nationwide by flooded roads. According to Reuters, about 50% of the roads in Honduras were damaged during the floods, with 227 roads and 106 bridges damaged. A landslide near Corquín blocked a river and created a natural dam, forcing hundreds of nearby residents to leave. In Colón Department, the Tocoa River overflowed, while flooding in Atlántida damaged crop lands. A total of  of crops were damaged, mostly in Comayagua Department. 14 water systems were damaged, and 150,000 people lost power in Olancho Department. Landslides in Tegucigalpa killed six and displaced about 500 people. In El Progreso, 375 inmates from a jail had to be evacuated to another facility. A total of 50,676 people were forced to evacuate in the country, most of whom stayed in shelters. 2,474 homes were destroyed in Honduras, with another 8,688 damaged or flooded. In addition, at least nine schools were damaged or destroyed. Nationwide, the floods killed 60 people, and damage was estimated at about 3 billion lempiras (HNL, US$225 million). The low death toll compared to Hurricane Mitch was largely due to the widespread evacuations.

Floods in Guatemala overflowed rivers and caused landslides in Izabal and Petén departments, blocking many roads. The rising rivers damaged about 175 houses, forcing hundreds of people to leave their homes. About  of crop fields were damaged or destroyed, including corn, rice, and beans, and crop damage nationwide was estimated at Q128.9 million (2008 GTQ, US$16.8 million). About 2.5% of the national corn crop and 3.7% of the rice crop were wrecked during the floods. Nationwide, about 4,000 houses and 82 roads were damaged or destroyed, and 17 people died in the country from the floods. In neighboring El Salvador, floods affected the houses of about 600 families. High levels forced officials to release water from several dams, causing urban flooding. Along the coastline, the floods damaged maize and bean crops. The average rainfall across El Salvador for the month of October was . This was the third-highest for October since such record keeping began in 1971, after 2005 when Hurricane Stan struck and 1998 when Hurricane Mitch crossed the area. The tropical depression killed one person in the country.

In Belize, the rainfall in one week represented the average monthly values at some stations. Heavy rainfall from the depression caused levels to rise along rivers and creeks. A bridge that had been rebuilt following earlier Tropical Storm Arthur was flooded, prompting the Belize Defence Force to assist in crossings. This isolated much of Cayo District from the rest of the country until the bridge was repaired. On the western portion of the district, flooding along the Macal River damaged a bridge crossing into northern Guatemala, which restricted traffic only to people returning home. Levels along the Macal and the Belize River were higher than the floods of Hurricane Mitch in 1998, but less than that of Hurricane Keith in 2000. The floods caused residents to evacuate after over 1,000 homes were flooded; 311 people stayed in shelters, while the remainder stayed with families and relatives. Of the affected houses, 12 were destroyed and 802 were severely damaged. Most of the affected population was in rural areas of western Belize. One village in Orange Walk District had to be quarantined due to the health threat from the floods for 25 days. Many roads were closed, and there were widespread school closures. Overall, the floods killed two people in the country and caused BZ$54.1 million (BZD, US$27.1 million) in damage. Most of the damage was agricultural, accounting for BZ$28.2 million (BZD, US$14.1 million), or 25% of the country's agricultural gross domestic product. Other damage included BZ$11.7 million (BZD, US$6.3 million) to roads and bridges. The ongoing floods caused BZ$2.7 million (BZD, US$1.5 million) in tourism losses, due to closed facilities and water damage.

Aftermath
Following the floods in Costa Rica, the country's Red Cross opened shelters to house storm victims. The government advised residents not to drink water out of fear it could be polluted from the flooding. A state of emergency was declared on October 18 due to the effects in Costa Rica. In Nicaragua, officials deployed about 3,000 soldiers to assist in flood operations. The World Food Programme provided about 8 tons of food to families in El Salvador affected by the flooding. Then-president of Honduras Manuel Zelaya declared a national state of emergency on October 19. In Honduras, pre-positioned supplies from UNICEF quickly diminished due to the widespread distribution of blankets and medical kits, raising fears for the spread of disease. The World Food Programme provided about 58 tons of food to 5,500 families in Honduras. Residents returned home as floodwaters gradually receded. The Mercy Corps later provided corn and bean seeds to 1,300 Honduran farmers to regrow the damaged crops. In May 2009, the World Bank provided $25 million (USD) to Honduras to rebuild damaged roads and bridges. Workers in Guatemala airlifted food to storm victims due to residual flooding. The Guatemalan government provided $6.6 million to residents in the northern portion of the country, including medical supplies and seeds to regrow crops. A state of emergency was declared for Cayo District in Belize. Search and rescue teams were deployed to the district, and medical crews visited several towns, providing help to 3,000 people. The Belize National Emergency Management Organization provided meals to about 9,000 people following the floods.

Across the affected areas, the Red Cross spent about $247,000 to provide food and blankets. In the weeks and months following the flooding, various international groups provided aid totaling nearly $11 million. The United States donated $622,732 worth of assistance, mainly to help with logistical work and relief efforts. The United States military also worked to purify drinking water in Honduras. Canada donated $412,201 worth of assistance, including providing shelter in Honduras and rebuilding schools. The country of Brazil donated about $1.68 million worth of food. The Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection department of the European Commission provided nearly $2.2 million for relief efforts. Other European country donations included nearly $500,000 from Ireland for hygiene and food supplies, $675,675 from the Netherlands for general relief efforts, $154,570 from Spain through the World Food Programme, $159,559 from Germany for shelters, and $892,468 from Sweden. Several Asian countries donated to the relief efforts, including $123,810 from Japan to Honduras to purchase emergency goods, $22,000 from South Korea, and $10,000 from Singapore to Honduras. Non-governmental organizations and other groups providing aid included $1.5 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund, $300,000 from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, $120,000 from Catholic Relief Services, and $289,000 from ACT Alliance.

In November, weeks after the tropical depression struck Honduras, Tropical Storm Paloma formed in the western Caribbean and caused additional rainfall in the region.

Notes

References

External links

 Disaster and news reports from ReliefWeb

2008 Atlantic hurricane season
2008 October Central America floods
Floods
Floods
Floods
Central America
2008 Central floods


Brave: Shaman's Challenge is a puzzle video game by American developer Collision Studios that was planned for release for the Nintendo DS in North America and PAL regions in early 2009. The game is a spin-off of the PlayStation 2 platformer Brave: The Search for Spirit Dancer. Brave, the main character, has to use quick thinking and magic spells to battle Shamans terrorizing him in his dreams. The game was however cancelled.

References

2009 video games
Cancelled Nintendo DS games
Nintendo DS games
Nintendo DS-only games
SouthPeak Games
Puzzle video games
Video games developed in the United States


Sacred Arias may refer to:

 Sacred Arias (Andrea Bocelli album)
 Sacred Arias (Katherine Jenkins album)


Ghosthunting With... is a British paranormal reality television programme  based on investigating purported paranormal activity. Yvette Fielding hosts the programme, broadcast on digital channel ITV2 between 2006 and 2011, where she takes celebrities to haunted buildings to investigate.

2006

Girls Aloud
First broadcast: 12 December 2006
Only four of the five members of Girls Aloud took part in the pilot episode of the show, which was set in North Wales. Nadine Coyle opted out of the show because she was too scared. This left Nicola Roberts, Kimberley Walsh, Cheryl Cole and Sarah Harding to go ghost hunting.

Plas Teg
Yvette gives the girls a tour of the house, where she speaks out. They hear knocking noises throughout the house. They then decide to have a séance. Nicola then leaves the group and retreats to the taxi and psychologist Professor Geoffrey Beattie. During the séance objects are thrown around the room, supposedly by a squire who used to work at the house. Cheryl feels something  touch her arm just before the séance. After the séance, the group split to find more ghosts. Cheryl and Kimberley go downstairs, while Sarah and Yvette stay upstairs. When Cheryl and Kimberley return, Cheryl's finger is flicked, presumably by the ghost.

Crossley Hospital
The next site the girls visit is Crossley Hospital an abandoned sanatorium. The hospital itself is derelict, but there are many out-houses which the girls enter, such as the morgue and the nurses' quarters. In the morgue, Yvette decides to play with the Ouija board. Nicola opts out, but stays to watch. But while touring the morgue, she reached the end of her nerve and left the group again. She is soon followed by Sarah. The remainder of the group, accompanied by security, continue their expedition to the basement. Sarah decides to rejoin the group at this point. While in the basement, the group gets stones thrown at them. Cheryl, Kimberley and Sarah decide to call it a night and depart for the safety of the taxi and Geoff. But Yvette stays to face the spirit. But the longer she stays, the more stones get thrown at her so she decides to leave.

2007

The Dingles (Emmerdale)
First broadcast: 18 September 2007
In this episode  Yvette takes Lucy Pargeter (Chastity Dingle), Verity Rushworth (Donna Windsor-Dingle), Hayley Tamaddon (Delilah Dingle), Joseph Gilgun (Eli Dingle) and Mark Charnock (Marlon Dingle), to three of the reputedly most haunted locations in York, including the National Railway Museum.

McFly
First broadcast: 23 October 2007
For this episode, Yvette takes the McFly band into the Northumbrian countryside to visit three different locations. While the four band members were in high spirits for the tours of the locations, their personalities change completely upon switching to night-vision.

Underground mine
Yvette takes the band underground to explore a dark and damp mine; all five were required to wear hats and welly boots in order to pass through the mines. The first person to be scared is Dougie, who loses his hat, runs into the wall and cuts his lip upon being startled. Knocks are heard almost frequently whenever Yvette called out, and after a while suggests the group split up to explore the two different tunnels. Upon arriving at the end of their tunnel, Tom and Harry play a prank on Yvette, Dougie and Danny by knocking when she attempts to call out. However, their prank is apparently mimicked by an unseen entity, and the five decide to move on upon Harrys instructions to "leg it".

Forest & cottage
Yvette takes the boys to a forest, where a cottage, formerly used for keeping male slaves in cramped conditions, also resides. During a séance, Yvette and McFly make contact with a male spirit who throws a stone around the room. Next, Yvette prepares a challenge for the four of them; she assigns Tom and Dougie to one tent in the forest, and Harry to another. Danny, however, is told to remain in the cottage; after 15 minutes, Yvette blows a whistle as a sign for the boys to return to her. Danny gets freaked out when he hears knocking, Harry becomes too scared to do anything, and Tom and Dougie become distracted with a game to hide their fear; the two later admit to having felt like something was touching them during the challenge.

13th century castle
For the last part of the night, Yvette takes the band to a castle, where paranormal activity is said to be frequent. Harry even tries calling out to one of the spirits himself. After taking them on a tour around the castle, including an old smoking room (now a bedroom), a bathroom and a few old dungeons, Yvette begins her final challenge. She gives the boys a choice to stay in a haunted room for as long as they can handle, or wait outside in the taxi. Tom and Dougie are the only two to refrain from staying in their rooms. Danny stays in the dungeon, lasting a fair few minutes before being let out, while Harry is sent to the old smoking room, where he agrees to stay for only five minutes with security outside the room.

 Radio 1 First broadcast: 3 December 2007BBC Radio 1 DJ's Scott Mills, Comedy Dave, Rachel Jones & Aled Haydn Jones, travelled to a Napoleonic fortress (which included a labyrinth maze of tunnels below ground), a guard house near to the fortress (said to be home to the spirits of three soldiers), Eastbury Manor (built upon the former site of Barking Abbey founded in 666) and their final destination of the night was the Caponier tunnels.

 2008

 Coronation Street First broadcast: 18 February 2008Tupele Dorgu (Kelly Crabtree), Jack P. Shepherd (David Platt), Katherine Kelly (Becky Granger), Kym Ryder (Michelle Connor) and former Weatherfield actress Wendi Peters (Cilla Battersby-Brown) followed Yvette and the ghost-hunting team to three locations on the Isle of Man.

The cast carried out a séance in the auditorium of the Gaiety Theatre where a lady in black allegedly resides, before moving on to the 16th Century Milntown House where the Christian family claims mysterious figures roam the corridors. Their final stop is one of the Isle's ancient watermills.

 I'm a Celebrity...
 First broadcast: 26 March 2008Yvette Fielding takes I'm a Celebrity winners Matt Willis and Christopher Biggins, as well as former contestants Dean Gaffney and Cerys Matthews and ITV2 spinoff show presenter Emma Griffiths to an abandoned hospital and The Black Country Living Museum in the West Midlands.

 Paul O'Grady and Friends
 First broadcast: 4 September 2008Originally stated as Ghost Hunting With... Paul O'Grady and Friends, Paul O'Grady, Jennifer Ellison, Philip Olivier and Natasha Hamilton jet off to Italy to join Yvette Fielding as she investigates some of the most scariest and sinister locations Sicily has to offer. Yvette appeared on the Paul O'Grady Show in April 2008, where she explained with Paul, their experiences whilst filming for the show, during which Yvette and Paul both hinted the episode may be used as a Christmas Special.
In the episode, the team visit Carini Castle, an Opera House, and try to connect with a two-year-old who was entombed in the Capuchin Catacombs in 1920.

During the 2007 Most Haunted Live from Transylvania, in an interview, Yvette Fielding explained that Paul O'Grady had originally been lined up to take part in a Most Haunted celebrity special. This came after he took part in the Most Haunted Live in London during 2005. However, before filming could commence (which was scheduled for the end of 2006), Paul fell ill. Living TV decided to go ahead with the commission, with the exception of turning the recorded programme into a Live show. In 2007, plans were made for Paul to take part in Ghost Hunting With..., fulfilling Yvette's ambition of taking him on a full-length ghost hunt.

 2009

 Louis Walsh and Boyzone
 First broadcast: 29 August 2009Yvette Fielding takes pop supremo Louis Walsh and Boyzone on a trip into the unknown as they brave the shadows underneath the historic city of Edinburgh. Below the city is a terrifying network of subterranean streets once occupied by criminals and the underclasses, named after the former street, Mary King's Close. Yvette will lead Louis and the boys to a hell on three levels as they descend through the forgotten streets to investigate a witches' lair and chambers believed to be haunted by evil ghosts. But will the lads make it that far?. This episode marked the last TV appearance of Stephen Gately as he died 6 weeks later on 10 October 2009.

 The Happy Mondays
 First broadcast: 12 September 2009Yvette Fielding takes legendary Manchester band Happy Mondays on a journey to the dark side in Lincoln and Nottingham's scariest locations. She introduces them to ghosthunting techniques and secrets, before challenging them to spend a lonely night with only ghosts for company. Will the Mondays' reputation for hell-raising help rouse the dead?

 2010

 Katie, Alex and Friends
 First broadcast: 21 August 2010In the first show of 2010  Yvette Fielding will take  Katie Price, new husband Alex Reid,  brother Danny and close friends Gary Cockerill and Phil Turner to spend the night on the sprawling estate Great Tew in deepest darkest rural Oxfordshire.

 The Saturdays
 First Broadcast: 8 November 2010Yvette takes on, The Saturdays to three haunted sites in Wales.

The girls visit three equally terrifying locations, nestled within the Welsh mountains; the clock tower, the manor and the kitchen block. In each of these areas there have been countless reports of strange sightings, the sounds of chatter coming from empty rooms, cooking smells coming from an empty kitchen, and reported ghostly sightings. During the time in the first location, Rochelle Wiseman said she felt someone touch her leg and someone blowing onto her neck.

The second ghostly hot spot is the eerie clock tower, which was constructed using beams taken from an ill-fated ship. The tower is rumoured to be haunted by a restless spirit of a suicide victim and anyone who enters is confronted by his hostile presence.

The final destination of the evening is the manor. The girls will visit the foreboding first floor landing which has been noted as having the most paranormal activity in the building. Next up is the surgery room which was used by the Red Cross for injured soldiers during the first world war and finally the attic where the tormented spirit is said to sway back and forth in an old rocking chair. Strangely, it is said that female entertainers who would perform at the Manor for the former owner complained of being harassed by an evil presence.

 2011

 The Only Way Is Essex
 First broadcast: 14 September 2011It was announced on 31 August 2011 that some of the cast of The Only Way Is Essex'' would join Yvette Fielding in a revived version of the series exploring Essex's Coalhouse Fort. Joining Yvette were Harry Derbidge, Sam Faiers, Joey Essex, Amy Childs, Mark Wright and James Argent.

Ratings
Episode ratings are taken from BARB.

References

External links

 Ghost Hunting Company and TV consultants
 Antix Productions

2006 British television series debuts
ITV (TV network) original programming
Paranormal television
2011 British television series endings


Werner Poetschke (6 March 1914 – 24 March 1945) was a German SS-Sturmbannführer and battalion commander. He commanded SS Panzer Regiment 1 LSSAH during the Ardennes Offensive and is considered to be the primary person responsible for the Malmedy massacre.

Biography
Werner Poetschke was born in Brussels in 1914. In 1935 he entered the SS and served in the Leibstandarte. From March 1938 he was a platoon commander in the SS standard "Der Führer", with whom he participated in the Polish campaign and won the Iron Cross 1st class. In the French Campaign, he commanded a platoon in the 1st Company of the Reconnaissance Battalion with which he captured a bridge over the Maas–Waal Canal. In France he destroyed a motor cycle unit and six anti-tanks guns near Dissen. His evaluation by his superiors however was negative, they considered him to be overreckless and a bad people manager, and Poetschke was transferred to the division Das Reich. Werner Poetschke then took part in the Balkan campaign and in the battles on the Eastern Front for which he received the German Cross in Gold. From April 1942 he was commander of the 2nd company of the reconnaissance battalion of the SS division Das Reich. In early 1943 he was transferred to the 1st Battalion of the 1st Panzer Regiment of the SS Division "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler" as commander of the 1st company. In August 1943, he was sent to Italy, and in December 1943 to Russia. Poetschke received the Knight's Cross in 1944.

Poetschke was characteristically described as unstable, impulsive, fickle and a hothead who had only contempt for the enemy and who was extremely hard on his own men. During the Battle of the Bulge, Poetschke was commander of the 1st SS Panzer Battalion that was part of “Kampfgruppe Peiper”. Poetschke was identified by various persons involved and eyewitnesses as the officer directly responsible for giving the order to execute the American prisoners near the Baugnez crossroads, which culminated in the Malmedy massacre.

In March 1945 he received the Oak Leaves to his Knight's Cross. During the fighting in Hungary, Poetschke was seriously wounded in battle and he died two days later from his wounds.

Awards
 Iron Cross 2nd Class on 27 September 1939, 1st Class on 2 June 1940
 German Cross in Gold on 5 November 1942
 Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
 Knight's Cross on 4 June 1944 as SS-Hauptsturmführer and company commander in SS-Pz.Rgt 1 LSSAH
 783rd Oak Leaves on 15 March 1945 as SS-Sturmbannführer and  commander of the I.(schw)/SS-Pz.Rgt. 1 LSSAH
 Close Combat Clasp in Bronze
 Wound Badge in Gold
 Tank Destruction Badge

References

Bibliography

1914 births
1945 deaths
German mass murderers
Military personnel from Brussels
Nazi war criminals
Perpetrators of World War II prisoner of war massacres
Recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
SS-Sturmbannführer
Waffen-SS personnel killed in action


Archery at the 1968 Summer Paralympics consisted of thirteen events, eight for men and five for women.

Medal table

Participating nations

Medal summary

Men's events

Women's events

References

1968 Summer Paralympics events
1968
Paralympics


William Henry Shirreff (baptised 4 April 1785 – 1 December 1847) was a British Royal Navy officer, captain of , , , and . He had six children four of whom were daughters. He had two notable daughters, Maria Georgina Grey and Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff, who transformed the education of British women. He retired as Rear-Admiral of the Blue.

Biography
Shirreff was born in 1785 and he joined the Royal Navy on 1 January 1796.

In 1810, he married Elizabeth Murray, the oldest daughter of the lawyer and Member of Parliament David Murray, a brother of Alexander Murray, 7th Lord Elibank.

From October 1812 until he invalided in July 1814, Shirreff commanded the frigate Barrosa on the coast of North America and in the West Indies.

From 10 September 1817 until September 1821 he commanded Andromache. When patrolling the west coast of South America in protection of the British interests in the region and in support of local independence movement against Spanish authority in the early 19th century when he was advised by Captain William Smith about the discovery of the South Shetland Islands in March 1819. Later that year Shirreff chartered Smith's brig, the Williams, sending Lieutenant Edward Bransfield on board with the mission to survey and map the new lands.

From January to November 1830 he was the captain of Admiral Thomas Baker's flagship the 76 gun . In 1831, he was appointed to Gibraltar. He and his family lived there until 1834. One of his sons had died in 1829 and the other died whilst they were in Gibraltar.

Shirreff was promoted in 1846 to Rear-Admiral of the Blue.

Honour
Cape Shirreff at the north extremity of Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula on Livingston Island, in the South Shetland Islands is named after William Shirreff.

References

Sources
 Alan Gurney, Below the Convergence: Voyages Toward Antarctica, 1699-1839, Penguin Books, New York, 1998

Royal Navy rear admirals
Date of birth missing
1785 births
1847 deaths


Lesley Chamberlain (born 26 September 1951, Rochford, Essex) is a versatile British author who has written in a number of different genres — travel writing, food writing, Russian history, German history, fiction — after beginning as a journalist.

Following her secondary education at Glanmôr Grammar School for Girls, she studied German and Russian at Exeter and Oxford Universities.

After working as a correspondent for Reuters beginning in 1978, she moved to full-time writing; her first of her nine books was published in 1982. She has written for The Independent, The Times Literary Supplement and Prospect magazine.

Chamberlain is married to , a former Czech ambassador to the United Kingdom.

Arc of Utopia (2017)
Chamberlain here starts with Kant's imaginative understanding of the human capacities for self-transformation. She traces the influence of these ideas on subsequent artistic visions of beauty. Such a self-understanding of inherent human creativity then inspired thoughts of revolutionary political change. Her discussion traces the inspiration's philosophical evolution, and also follows its transplant from Germany to Russia during the long 19th century. From Schiller's plays and Hegel's dialectic it came to Herzen, from Fichte to Bakunin, and by various paths from Schelling, Heine, Feuerbach and Marx to Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Plekhanov. The ultimate destination was the tragic Bolshevik revolution of 1917 and civil war that followed. Unfortunately, the result was not the "new kind of living" sought by some, but instead a "metaphysical disappointment", a "philosophical perversity" that led to a "harshly policed" industrial state.

"The great revolutionary art of 1895-1922" terminated. The "whole utopian journey" became an "abject self parody". The "freedom and openness" of the imagination "was not allowed to last" by the Soviet party and state.

Select bibliography
The Food and Cooking of Russia, 1982
Nietzsche in Turin, 1996
The Secret Artist: A Close Reading of Sigmund Freud, Quartet, 2000
Motherland A Philosophical History of Russia, Atlantic Books, 2004
Lenin's Private War: The Voyage of the Philosophy Steamer and the Exile of the Intelligentsia, St Martin's Press, 2007; UK: The Philosophy Steamer Lenin and the Exile of the Intelligentsia, Atlantic Books, 2006
A Shoe Story: Van Gogh, the Philosophers, and the West (Chelmsford: Harbour 2014)
Arc of Utopia: The Beautiful Story of the Russian Revolution (London: Reaktion 2017)
Street Life and Morals (London: Reaction 2021)
Rilke: The Last Inward Man (London: Pushkin Press 2022)

References

External links

1951 births
Living people
British writers
People from Rochford


Love the Beast is a 2009 documentary film directed by Eric Bana, and featuring Bana, Jay Leno, Jeremy Clarkson, and Phil McGraw. It was listed as one of the best automotive documentaries by The News Wheel in 2015.

Synopsis

The film documents the 25-year history of Eric Bana's first car, a 1974 Ford XB Falcon Hardtop that he purchased at the age of fifteen for A$1100. In this film, Eric explores the central role that fixing and racing this car has played in his life and the lives of his friends. He describes it as being, "like a campfire for me and my mates". Celebrities Jay Leno, Dr. Phil and Jeremy Clarkson offer opinions on the emotional attachments that some people form with automobiles.

Box office
Love The Beast grossed $777,351 at the box office in Australia.

See also
 Cinema of Australia
 Targa Tasmania

References

External links

2009 films
2009 documentary films
Documentary films about automobiles
Australian auto racing films
2000s English-language films
Australian sports documentary films


The Communauté de communes du Canton de Forges-les-Eaux was located in the Seine-Maritime département of the Normandy region of northern France. It was created in December 2001. It was merged into the new Communauté de communes des 4 rivières in January 2017.

Participants
The Communauté de communes comprised the following communes:

Beaubec-la-Rosière
Beaussault
La Bellière
Compainville
La Ferté-Saint-Samson
Forges-les-Eaux
Gaillefontaine
Grumesnil
Haucourt
Haussez
Longmesnil
Mauquenchy
Mesnil-Mauger
Pommereux
Roncherolles-en-Bray
Rouvray-Catillon
Saint-Michel-d'Halescourt
Saumont-la-Poterie
Serqueux
Le Thil-Riberpré

See also
Communes of the Seine-Maritime department

References

Forges-les-Eaux


Silver Burdett was an American primary education textbook publishing imprint previously operated by Pearson Education, which is a division of media conglomerate Pearson PLC. The trademark was last owned by Savvas Learning Company.

History
Silver Burdett first formed as a company in 1888 when Frank W. Burdett purchased a controlling interest in the textbook publishing company, Silver & Company. In 1962, it was acquired by Time Inc., and it became the distributor of Time-Life Books to schools and libraries. In 1965 it became the first division of the General Learning Corporation, a multi-million dollar collaboration between Time Inc. and General Electric. Simon & Schuster purchased it in 1986, and merged it with Ginn & Company, a leading el-hi (elementary school and high school) textbook publisher - which formed the imprint Silver Burdett & Ginn. In 1998, Pearson PLC acquired Simon & Schuster's educational businesses (which included Silver Burdett & Ginn) from S&S parent Viacom, and created Pearson Education.

Termination
Pearson closed Silver Burdett in 1999. The Silver Burdett Ginn name persisted for some time as Silver Burdett Ginn Religion, a Catholic publishing division operated under Scott Foresman before it was sold to RCL Benziger in 2007 (which also acquired Benziger from McGraw-Hill in the same year). The trademark registration for Silver Burdett Ginn was transferred to Savvas Learning Company after Pearson sold its US K-12 education division in 2020 and lapsed in 2021.

References

Book publishing companies of the United States
Educational publishing companies
Former Viacom subsidiaries
Publishing companies established in 1888
Gulf and Western Industries


Kaskikot (), commonly known as Kaski, is a Ward no. 24 of the Pokhara metropolitan city. It was earlier a part of the village development committee in Kaski District, a region in northern-central Nepal.

Geography

Kaskikot is located in Annapurna Massif, north of Fewa Lake at a distance of 12 kilometers west of Pokhara after Sarangkot. It is on the trekking route to the Annapurna region. A mountainside ridge at an altitude of 1,788 meters, Kaskikot provides panoramic Himalayan views. On the northern side of Kaskikot, Dhawalagiri can be seen in the far west. The Annapurna mountain range is clearly visible on the same side. To the east, the village overlooks the city of Pokhara across Fewa Lake.

Kaskikot shares its territory with Sarangkot, Chapakot, Dhikurpokhari, and Hemja.

History
Before the unification of Nepal, there were 24 small principalities in west Nepal, one of which was Kaski.

The ruins of the old palace of the rulers of Kaski still exist in the ward. The historical kingdom was an early homeland of the Shah dynasty. Kulamandan Shah Khad was one of the rulers who established his kingdom in west Nepal. His descendant Drabya Shah was the first to establish Gorkha, the source of the legendary Gorkha warriors.

During Dashain holidays, various cultural events can be witnessed. Kaskikot Kalika Temple lies in the historical palace located at the top of the hill (1700 meters). During Nava Durga, Dashain and Chaitra Dashain, Kaski Guthi Sanstha organizes worship to goddess Durga Bhawani. Many people gather in Kaskikot Temple during Dashain Fulpati and Chaitra Dashain.

Population
At the time of the 1991 Nepal census, Kaskikot had a population of 6,075 people residing in 1,185 individual households. According to the census of 2011, the population has decreased to 5,892 people residing in 1,508 households. Most inhabitants depend on agriculture and are members of the Brahmin, Chhetri, Thakuri, Magar and Dalit castes.

Economy
With the Annapurna and Dhaulagiri Himalayas clearly visible to the north, Kaskikot is a tourist destination. There are hotels and guest houses in Deurali and Maula, Nepal. A milk collection center is located in Guntechour, which supplies milk to Pokhara. There are also small industries like poultry farming and handicrafts. General stores provide necessary goods like oil, sugar, and salts to the community.

Kaskikot Women's Financial Organization, founded by Krishna Paudel, has around 1000 members. The Kalika Community Development Organization, located in Guntechour, engages in the development of the village. Numerous organizations and Youths Clubs also organize different cultural and development work around the village.

In addition, there are several Home Stay as well as coffee House which are dedicated to serve the domestic as well as international tourists in Kaskikot.Mr. Tika Ram Tripathi, serving organic and home grown aromatic coffee outside the pokhara valley.

Village amenities
There are primary schools in every ward. Kalika Higher Secondary School, located at Mandredhunga is the only Higher education institution teaching up to Class 12. The other Siddha Bahara Lower Secondary School goes up to Class 8. There is also a private school, namely Shree Bishwajyoti English Boarding School, that goes up to Class 8.

There is a general health post equipped with primary medicine, which operates a monthly health camp around the village. A few health sub-posts provide free treatment and vaccination to children.

Kaskikot is connected by bus routes. Apart from buses, local agricultural transport jeeps also provide a semi-reliable transport service. There are four rough motor roads connecting Kaskikot. A major road connects Kaskikot to Pokhara and Sarangkot. The other road goes from the beach of Fewa Lake, next to the midway of the hill to Guntechour connecting Naudanda [krishi sadak].

Gallery

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Kaski District
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqzwiInew6Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzvhZ1PPv10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj4IFTlmfFI

Populated places in Kaski District
Wards of Pokhara


Seaburn Dene is a northern suburb of Sunderland, England, located about one mile inland from the North Sea, near the boundary with South Tyneside.

The first part of the development (Shields Road) was laid out just before the war but building resumed in the early 50s by a company called Lane Fox (part of Grasmere estates) The oldest houses in Seaburn Dene are those in the bottom half of Shields Road spreading into Grizedale and Staveley. The majority of housing was completed by 1958 with later developments in Dovedale Road and Torver Crescent completed in 1962.  The names of the local streets recall villages and valleys in the Lake District of Cumbria and Peak District of Derbyshire.  Examples of this include Staveley Road, Martindale Avenue, Alston Crescent, and Dovedale Road - the main road through the area.

Recent expansions to the estate include The Square development on Shields Road, on the western edge of the estate.  These executive homes are amongst the most expensive ever built in Sunderland, with some selling for £750,000.

Amenities on the estate include two churches, a newsagent, an off-licence, a takeaway, a sandwich shop, a beauty salon, a glass-blower and a dental surgery.  Educational facilities include a lower school, Seaburn Dene Primary, and the main secondary school for north-eastern Sunderland, Monkwearmouth Academy.  Both schools are on Torver Crescent.
Public transport links include the 23 Stagecoach bus service to Thorney Close via Fulwell Road, Sunderland City Centre, Sunderland Royal Hospital and Thornholme Road. The last number 23 leaves the estate at 2240. From early 2009, the route is served by wheelchair accessible buses. Seaburn Dene is also bypassed by the 20, 20A and X20Go North East bus services at Shields Road, running from South Shields to Durham via Sunderland, Park Lane Interchange, Houghton-le-Spring and Belmont.

Seaburn Metro station, on the Green line of the Tyne and Wear Metro system, is a short walk to the southwest.

The area lies in the Fulwell ward on Sunderland City Council, and is currently represented by three Conservative Party councillors.

References

City of Sunderland suburbs
Sunderland


Sayyid Hassan Khomeini (; born 23 July 1972) is an Iranian cleric. He has been called "the most prominent" grandchild of Ruhollah Khomeini, who had 15 grandchildren in total, and the one "who many think could have a promising political future".

Early life

Hassan Khomeini is a grandson of the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ruhollah Khomeini. He is the son of Ahmad Khomeini and Fatemeh Tabatabai. He has four children.

Career
Hassan Khomeini became a cleric in 1993. He was appointed caretaker of the Mausoleum of Khomeini in 1995 where his grandfather and father are buried, and has had official meetings with officials such as Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah. He also teaches in the holy city of Qom, and has published his first book on Islamic sects.

He has been described as having "expressed frustration with some policies of a regime dominated by fundamentalists", such as former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In an interview in February 2008, Khomeini spoke out against military interference in politics. Soon after, in what some observers believe may have been retaliation, an article in a publication tied to President Ahmadinejad accused him of corruption, "claiming that he drove a BMW, backed rich politicians and was indifferent to the suffering of the poor".

This was "the first time in the history of the Islamic Republic" that one of Khomeini's offspring was "publicly insulted", according to the Iranian daily newspaper Kargozaran. Khomeini met with reformers before the 2009 election and met with defeated presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi and "supported his call to cancel the election results".

On 9 December 2015, he announced that he would enter politics and run for the Assembly of Experts in the 2016 election. His nomination was rejected by the Guardian Council on 10 February 2016.

In June 2020, Iranian media speculated that he would be a presidential candidate in the 2021 election, although he declined to stand on the advice of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

References

1972 births
Al-Moussawi family
Iran's Book of the Year Awards recipients
21st-century Iranian politicians
Iranian reformists
Iranian Shia clerics
Living people
People from Qom
Ruhollah Khomeini


Sacred Arias is the sixth album by Welsh mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins, released on 20 October 2008 in the UK. It is her final album with the Universal Music label.

A Deluxe Edition containing a second disc was also released. This contains the first chapter of Jenkins' autobiography, Time to Say Hello, read by Jenkins herself.

After the first week of release Sacred Arias was at number 5 on the UK Albums Chart.

Track listing
 "Abide with Me" (Henry Francis Lyte, arr. Simon Franglen) - 4:36
 "Pie Jesu" (Andrew Lloyd Webber) - 3:39
 "The Lord is My Shepherd" (Howard Goodall/Sacred text) - 2:57
 "Down in the River to Pray" (Traditional, arr. Steven Baker, Simon Franglen) - 3:00
 "May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You" (Meredith Willson) - 4:36
 "Hallelujah" (Leonard Cohen) - 4:47
 "Panis angelicus" (César Franck, arr. Simon Franglen) - 2:40
 "In Paradisum" (Gabriel Fauré, arr. Simon Franglen) - 3:14
 "Silent Night" (Franz Gruber, arr. Simon Franglen, Nicholas Dodd, Joseph Mohr) - 4:41
 "Ave Maria" (Simon Lindley) - 3:51
 "Misa Criolla: Kyrie" (Ariel Ramírez, arr. Alejandro Mayol, Osvaldo Armando Catena, Jesús Gabriel Segrad) - 3:54
 "Agnus Dei" (Samuel Barber) - 6:28

Personnel
 Simon Franglen - producer, arrangement, keyboards and programming
 Jon Bailey - engineer and mixer
 Nick Cervonaro - assistant engineer
 Geoff Foster - engineer
 Chris Barrett - assistant engineer
 Tony Cousins - mastered by, at Metropolis Mastering
 Andrew Lloyd Webber - orchestral arrangement
 Howard Goodall - orchestral arrangement
 Nicholas Dodd - orchestral arrangement and conductor
 Daniel Roberts - music transcription
Jonathan Rathbone - music transcription
 Steve Baker - piano, organ, music transcription and choral arrangement
 The London Session Orchestra
 Isobel Griffiths - orchestral contractor
 The Crouch End Festival Chorus
 David Temple - musical director and conductor
 Geoffrey Kemball-Cook - music librarian
 Steve James - general manager
 Tony Wren - arrangements manager
 James Fitzpatrick - choral contractor
 The Rodolfus Choir
 Ralph Allwood - musical director and conductor
 James Oldfield - choir manager
 Steffan Hughes - treble
 Gary Kettel - traditional tenor drum

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

Katherine Jenkins albums
2008 classical albums
Universal Classics and Jazz albums


Athletics at the 1968 Summer Paralympics consisted of 70 events, 35 for men and 35 for women.

Participating nations

Medal table

Medal summary

Men's events

Women's events

References

1968 Summer Paralympics events
1968
Paralympics


(Lil) Green Patch was a Facebook application developed by Ashish Dixit and David King  that simulated a small garden on a Facebook user's profile. By tending their and their friends' gardens, the Facebook users were able to raise money for The Nature Conservancy to save the rainforest. In September 2008, it was rated as the number one application on Facebook, ahead of Texas HoldEm Poker. In April 2009, it had slid to a sixth-place ranking.

(Lil) Green Patch became unavailable to users on June 10, 2010, following a decision by new owners Playdom to discontinue the application.

Popularity and area of rainforest saved

In the first quarter of 2008, (Lil) Green Patch users raised over $15,000 in donations, which was enough to save more than  of rainforest. The application was then among the 15 most popular Facebook applications, with 350,000 active users. In June 2008, it was one of the top ten most installed applications, with more than 5,217,180 installations and 521,718 active users a day. By October 2008, the app had raised $91,000 for The Nature Conservancy. By December 2008, the number of users was reported at 6.3 million, and the application was ranked as one of the five most popular Facebook applications. The area of Costa Rican rainforest that had been saved at that time was up to 70 million square feet.

In its final accounting, Causes.com, the independent charity clearinghouse for Facebook apps that processed its donations, reported that (Lil) Green Patch had generated $210,261 in contributions for The Nature Conservancy. As of December 2010, it remained the all-time top recruiter for this charity, with nearly 1,200 users, more than double the next largest contributor.

Controversy

Playdom acquired the independent Green Patch team in November 2009. While Green Patch benefited from the huge increase in Facebook members going on concurrently, many of these new Facebook users were unfamiliar with independent organizations such as Causes.com used to provide accountability for charitable contributions, but hyper aware of similar scams common elsewhere on the web.  As a result, the accuracy of Green Patch's charity donation were widely questioned in blog comments.

Another source of controversy swirled about the amount of the donations relative to the size of the user population. Despite an average donation per contribution ratio exceeding $175 per contributor, some detractors disparaged the game by claiming total donations amounted to just pennies per user.

Dissolution

Rumors, speculation and controversy also surround the surprise cancellation of the still popular (Lil) Green Patch just 6 months after Playdom acquired the Green Patch team and the month immediately prior to the announcement of  Playdom's acquisition by Disney. Playdom also announced they were canceling all other games from the GreenPatch except (Lil) Farm Life.

Also during the time between the rapid rise of (Lil) Green Patch and its subsequent acquisition and eventual cancellation, competitor Zynga initiated trade secrets lawsuits against  Green Patch, Playdom and 22 other rivals. These lawsuits were settled subsequent to Disney's acquisition of Playdom.

Inspiration for a New Genre

(Lil) Green Patch has been described as the "granddaddy of green Facebook apps" and its game play and art style have inspired many other similar applications.

See also
 Pet Society

References

External links
(lil) Green Patch homepage

Meta Platforms applications
Virtual world communities
Browser-based multiplayer online games
Social casual games
Free online games
Internet properties disestablished in 2010


Heidi Grows Up (Heidi jeune fille) also known as Heidi Grows Up: A Sequel to Heidi, is a 1936 novel and sequel to Johanna Spyri's 1881 novel Heidi, written by Spyri's French and English translator, Charles Tritten, after a three-decade-long period of pondering what to write, since Spyri's death gave no sequel of her own. It was originally published by Flammarion in Paris (1936), and in New York by Grosset & Dunlap (1938), illustrated by Jean Coquillot.

It was followed by four more sequels: Au pays de Heidi, Heidi's Children, Heidi grand'mère and Le sourire de Heidi, of which only the second one has been translated to English.

Plot
Heidi's grandfather sends her to a boarding school which has Miss Smith as the headmistress. Within a few weeks Heidi befriends most of its foreign students. Over summer break Heidi offers to take one of the students, Jamy, up onto the Alm, for the girl's parents plan to take a vacation without her. Miss Smith agrees to chaperone them.

On the Alm Jamy sees Peter and his goat herd. Peter introduces the vacationers to a little kid goat named Baerli. The next morning Heidi's grandfather agrees to let Jamy go up with Heidi and Peter to the goat pasture. Peter leads the girls to the top of a nearby peak. Most of the goats follow without difficulty, but one goat gets into a dangerous situation. Peter, Heidi and Jamy are able to rescue him.

Heidi and Jamy are sent down to the village to get supplies for Peter and his goats. While at the village it becomes so overcast with clouds that the girls end up staying at Reboux's mansion. A storm breaks, and then someone announces the grandfather's house is on fire. Heidi runs up the Alm, calling out her grandfather's name. The others run after her. They find the elderly man, with his goats, under the fir trees. The grandfather and some of the villagers rebuild the house, with many improvements. Grandfather tells Heidi and Jamy legends that excite the visitor through the rest of the summer vacation.

Heidi graduates, and is hired to teach at a local school. When the school year begins one of the students breaks a flowerpot and runs off. Peter tells Heidi he's found the child and the next day they go to a cave where the student has been staying. Heidi learns the former teacher would put troublesome children in the cave, and called it the "school dungeon."

Heidi's grandfather becomes ill, and so Jamy takes over teaching the school children. When the grandfather recovers Peter asks Heidi for her hand in marriage, and she accepts. The villagers help prepare for the wedding. Peter wears his green Sunday suit, and Jamy leads a children's choir of school students. Other wedding guests include Heidi's old friend, Clara, and Jamy's little sister, Martha.

After they marry Heidi and Peter leave their wedding party to watch the sun sink.

Sources
Charles Tritten wrote this and the three later novels primarily by adapting from Johanna Spyri's other children's stories, given their similar settings and storylines. For example, the "lost cross" and "kid goat endangered with slaughter" sub-plots, along with the Bearli incident are adapted from the story: "Moni, the Goat Boy".

References

1936 novels
Sequel novels
Heidi books
1936 children's books
Children's books set in schools
Swiss children's novels


William Duke Coleridge, 5th Baron Coleridge, DL (born 18 June 1937), is an hereditary peer who lives in Ottery St Mary in Devon, England.

Biography
The son of Richard Coleridge, 4th Baron Coleridge, Coleridge was educated at Eton College in Berkshire, England, and at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in Berkshire. He served as an officer in the Coldstream Guards in Kenya between 1961 and 1963. Coleridge was Commander of the Guards Independent Parachute Company between 1970 and 1972. He was Governor of the Royal West of England School for the Deaf. He retired from the British Army's Coldstream Guards with the rank of Major in 1977. He succeeded to the title of 5th Baron Coleridge of Ottery St. Mary in 1984 on the death of his father, the 4th Baron.

Coleridge married Everild Tania Hambrough, the daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Beauchamp Hambrough, on 17 February 1962. They have three children, including Coleridge's only son, the Hon. James Duke Coleridge (b. 5 June 1967), the present heir to the barony. A daughter is the model and actress Tania Harcourt-Cooze. The marriage was dissolved in 1977. Later that year he married nurse and explorer Pamela Baker (b. 24 July 1947; d. 12 August 2018), daughter of George William Baker. He has two children from this second marriage. Lady Coleridge died on 12 August 2018. He married for the third time on 15 September 2020. His third wife is Rosemary, Viscountess Exmouth, 78. It is her third marriage also.

The ancestral home is The Chanter's House in Ottery St Mary in Devon. Coleridge was the last family member to live there because the increasing costs of maintaining the property caused the family trust in October 2006 to put the property up for sale and auction the contents. In 1999 Coleridge had attempted to lease part of the family estate in order to raise money to prevent the sale.

References

External links
Superstore plan at poet's historic home

1937 births
Living people
People educated at Eton College
Coldstream Guards officers
Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
William
Deputy Lieutenants of Devon
People from Ottery St Mary
Coleridge


Family & Building History
The Allan family who populate the story of Blackwell Grange Hotel trace their ancestry back in an uninterrupted line of descent from Henry Allan of Buckenhall in the county of Staffordshire in the year 1290. George Allan bought Blackwell Grange from Thomas Hill in 1693. It included an ‘estate and handsome mansion house’ which the Hill family owned. George added the south wing between 1717 and 1722 to welcome back his eldest son George and his new wife Thomasine Prescott from their honeymoon. George died in 1753 and Blackwell Grange passed into the ownership of their daughter Ann Allan. History was understandably kind to this ‘Good Miss Allan’. After her death at the age of 68 in 1785, the local newspapers reported just why her passing deserved to be lamented: "Possessed of an ample fortune, she dispensed blessings to all around her. Wherever she heard of misery or distress, her heart and hand were opened to alleviate them."

Ann left her properties to her cousin, James Allan. Born in 1712, he was the fourteenth and only surviving son of Nicholas, the youngest brother of the George Allan who had first acquired the land on which Blackwell Grange was built. James had more than a passing interest in things historical, as did his son, yet another George Allan, born in 1736 and known as ‘The Antiquary’, who was Blackwell's next owner. For most of their lives these two collected material to chronicle the county's history. The collection remained at Blackwell Grange until it was sold in 1822 to the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne for £400 and went on to form the basis of Newcastle's Hancock Museum. After the death of George ‘The Antiquary’ in 1800, his son, also George, born in 1767, inherited from him property worth £5,000 a year. This George Allan was an MP from 1813 to 1818.

Sir Henry Havelock inherited the Blackwell estates in 1880 on the death of his cousin, Henry Allan and on inheriting the great house, he applied for a Royal Licence to add ‘Allan’ to his own name. Perhaps the best-known of the Havelock-Allan baronets was the 4th, Sir Anthony Havelock-Allan. Born on the Blackwell Estate at Darlington in 1904, he is best-remembered as a brilliant film producer who co founded Cine Guilds and whose early works include Brief Encounter, In Which We serve, and Great Expectations whose later works included Peter Collinson's Up the Junction of 1968, Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet and David Lean's Ryan's Daughter.

From 1880 to 1953 Blackwell Grange was owned by the Havelock-Allan family. In 1954, the Grange's furniture and furnishings were sold by auction and, in 1955, Darlington Corporation bought the Blackwell Grange property for £37,320 and it became one of the sites of Darlington College of Technology, now Darlington College.  In 1971 Blackwell Grange was acquired under a long lease by Grand Metropolitan and the property opened as a hotel in 1972. The hotel was soon making national and international headlines when it was selected as the venue for a conference, hosted by Northern Ireland Secretary William Whitelaw, to try to end the Northern Ireland conflict.

After several changes of ownership Blackwell Grange is now in the hands of Bruhenny Hotels which embarked on a refurbishment programme in 2018 to restore the grand house to its former glory.

The Tartan Lady
King George II's son William Augustus, the Duke of Cumberland, had spent a night at Blackwell Grange in 1745 on his way to Scotland to fight the Battle of Culloden and then a second night there in 1746 on his way back south. On this return visit, the King's son is said to have brought with him a thank-you gift from Scotland for his Darlington hosts. The story goes that he presented the original oil painting known as The Tartan Lady to Blackwell Grange. This painting adorned the stairs at Blackwell Grange for centuries but due to its ‘ghostly associations’ it was removed and lost to the property. However, photographs of the original painting were available which facilitated the reproduction of a replica oil painting of The Tartan Lady, which now proudly hangs in the hotel's reception.

References

  Photograph and architectural description of listed building
 A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland Sir Bernard Burke (1862), 4th Ed. Pt. 1 p. 12.

1710 establishments in England
Houses completed in 1710
Grade II* listed buildings in County Durham
Country houses in County Durham
Prince William, Duke of Cumberland


"18 til I Die" is a song written by Canadian guitarist, singer and composer Bryan Adams with Robert John "Mutt" Lange for Adams' seventh studio album, 18 til I Die (1996). Its lyrics are about maintaining youthful traits, even as one grows older. Released as a single in Canada in 1996 and in the United Kingdom on April 7, 1997, it peaked at number 21 on the Canadian RPM Top Singles chart and number 22 on the UK Singles Chart. Six songs recorded live at Adams' Wembley Stadium concert on July 27, 1996, were included as B-sides to its single release, spread out over two discs. They were later included in the album release of the concert. Adams continues to play this song at his concerts.

Critical reception
Larry Flick from Billboard wrote, "The title cut to Adams' sadly underappreciated current album kicks with the kind of guitar-happy rock heat that makes radio fun to listen to during the summer. Fans of the singer who still go back to oldies like "Summer Of '69" would be wise to give this jam a listen, as it has a similar "forever young" energy and a stomping, anthemic beat. A perfect choice for car-stereo belters and closet air-guitar heroes." Another editor, Paul Verna felt that "he is far less effective when he tries to sound adolescent, as he does on the title track". Daina Darzin from Cash Box stated that it "is sure to be a radio fave of yuppies everywhere".

Dominic Pride from Music & Media commented, "In this pean to puberty Adams jokes about "being 18 goin' on 55"—possibly, one suspects, without a stroke of irony. The Canadian rocker continues to deliver rock standards which radio will use into the next decade, and this one is an anthem which you can easily see Adams using as a closing number at any one of his epic gigs."

Charts

References

Bryan Adams songs
1996 singles
1996 songs
A&M Records singles
Song recordings produced by Robert John "Mutt" Lange
Songs written by Bryan Adams
Songs written by Robert John "Mutt" Lange


Jean Malaquais (1908 – December 22, 1998) was a French novelist. He was born as Wladimir Jan Pavel Malacki in Warsaw in 1908 of a non-religious Polish family of Jewish descent.

In 1926, he left Poland, traveling in Eastern Europe and the Middle East; he wrote: "I had the feeling that the end of the world was approaching in Poland, so I wanted to discover the life of other lands before it disappeared entirely. Morally and intellectually I was a tramp, a companion of the dispossessed." He settled in France, where he worked as a laborer, and adopted the name of Jean Malaquais (which he took from the Quai Malaquais). He was associated with, though not formally a member of, several French leftist organizations, including the Trotskyist Communist League, and during the Spanish Civil War he joined the Republican forces as a member of the militia columns of the left Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM). He obtained the Prix Renaudot in 1939 for his novel Les Javanais, based on his experience as an immigrant mine worker in Provence; it was admired by André Gide, who made Malaquais his private secretary.

At the beginning of World War II, he was conscripted into the French army, though not a French citizen. He was captured by the Wehrmacht, but managed to escape, and fled to southern France. In 1943, he succeeded in leaving France with the assistance of Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee bound for Mexico, and, eventually the United States, where he became a naturalised citizen; his parents died in Nazi Germany concentration camps. He returned to France in 1947, but left again for the United States in 1948. (Beginning in 1942 and continuing after the war, he was a member of the Left Communist group Gauche communiste de France; in the United States, he was loosely affiliated with a number of non-Communist left groups.) His most famous work, about an international group of exiles in Vichy France, was Planète sans visa (1947), which has been translated into many languages.

Major works

Les Javanais, Éditions Denoël, Paris (1939); translated as The Men From Java (1941)
 Journal de guerre, Éditions de la maison française, New York, 1943
 "Deux nouvelles de Jean Malaquais", in Les œuvres nouvelles 2, Éditions de la maison française, New York, 1943.
Coups de barre, récits, Éditions de la maison française, New York, 1944.
Planète sans visa, Le pré aux clercs, Paris (1947); translated as World Without Visa (1949).
Le Gaffeur, Buchet/Chastel, Paris (1953); translated as The Joker (1953).
Søren Kierkegaard: Foi et Paradoxe, 10/18, UGE, Paris, 1971.
 "Le Nommé Louis Aragon ou le patriote professionnel", Masses, février 1947, repr. in Les archipels du surréalisme, Éditions Syllepse, 1998.
Correspondance (1935–1950) by André Gide and Jean Malaquais, Éditions Phébus, Paris, 2000.

Translations
 Les Nus et les morts, tr. of Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead.
 Occultisme, sorcellerie et modes culturelles, tr. of Mircea Eliade, Ocultism, witchcraft and cultural fashions.

References

External links
 Jean Malaquais obituary

1908 births
1998 deaths
20th-century pseudonymous writers
20th-century French writers
20th-century Polish writers
20th-century American writers
20th-century French translators
English–French translators
Left communists
French military personnel of World War II
Prix Renaudot winners
Writers from Warsaw


Livin' with Lucy is an Irish television programme presented by Lucy Kennedy. First aired on 14 April 2008, the premise of the show is that Kennedy spends a weekend living with a different celebrity each episode, analysing their daily lives and interviewing them in their own homes all the while with cameras filming in the background. The show aired originally on RTÉ Two on Monday nights at 21:30. The programme has proven controversial, with Kennedy being stalked by paparazzi and some of the celebrities airing slanderous views.

Series two began on 20 October 2008. Series three began to air on RTÉ Two on Thursday 11 November 2010 and ended on 16 December 2010.

Episodes on RTÉ

Series 1
Series one began on 14 April 2008. During filming of the show Kennedy was hunted by the paparazzi and subjected to vicious photography and googling when she stayed with British tabloid fodder Jade Goody. She encountered controversy whilst staying with Samantha Mumba when the singer launched a verbal attack on Irish radio presenter Dave Fanning, calling him a number of unprintable expletives. David Norris was said to have commented: "I tire out people half my age. I had Lucy Kennedy staying with me for her Livin' with Lucy series and she had to go to bed for a week afterwards."

Series 2
Series two began on 20 October 2008. In the first episode presenter Lucy Kennedy spent three days with Shane Lynch in his caravan in Surrey. Don Baker enticed Kennedy into his jacuzzi and she also joined him on stage to play the tambourine.

Series 3
Series three began on 11 November 2010 and ended on 16 December 2010.

Episodes on TV3/Virgin Media

Series 1
In August 2016 TV3 (Ireland) announced they had taken over the rights of the show and changed to Living with Lucy. Shane Long, Kerry Katona and Jedward were among the celebrities appearing in the series.

Series 2

Series 3
In September 2018 Virgin Media One, the new name for TV3 broadcast this series.

Series 4

Lodging with Lucy

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and various lockdown rules, Lucy Kennedy hosted a variation of the show, Lodging with Lucy, in which guests came to stay with her in a hired lodge in Meath, Ireland.

Series 5

Series 6

Reception
The Irish Independent claimed self-regard was Kennedy's "most striking trait" and derided her obsession with bodily functions ("poo" and "willies" are frequently mentioned). When Calum Best announced his reasons for taking part (he wanted to "tell the Irish people what's going on -- if they watch this shit show."), the newspaper suggested they give him a job as a critic. It was later named by the Irish Independent as one of its six worst television programmes of 2008.

See also
Stacey Dooley Sleeps Over

References

2008 Irish television series debuts
Irish reality television series
RTÉ original programming