This is a list of notable alumni of Brisbane State High School.

Business
Michael Bryce – Class of 1955 – Principal Design Advisor to the Sydney Olympic Games; husband of Quentin Bryce
Robin Gibson – Class of 1947 – architect noted for designing QPAC, the Queensland Art Gallery, the State Library, the Queensland Museum and Queen Street Mall
John Lazarou – Class of 1978 – one of the owners of The Coffee Club
Andrew Liveris – Class of 1971 – CEO Dow Chemicals, Co-Chair of President Obama's Advanced Manufacturing Partnership; selected by President Donald Trump to head the American Manufacturing Council
Paul Morgan – Class of 1964 – Co-founder of the Brisbane Broncos
Katie Page – Class of 1973 – CEO of Harvey Norman; co-owner of the Magic Millions; first woman elected to the board of the National Rugby League
Ed Tweddell – CEO, F.H. Faulding & Co.
Chris Wallin – Class of 1969 – businessman
Graeme Wood – Class of 1964 – co-founder and Executive Director of wotif.com; 2008 Queenslander of the Year

Education
Paul Memmott – Class of 1966 – architect, anthropologist and academic

Entertainment, media and the arts
Jessica Anderson – novelist
Ray Barrett – Class of 1942 – actor
Gordon Bennett – artist
Paul Bishop – Class of 1984 – actor and Councillor for Redland City
John Blight – Class of 1931 – poet
Carol Burns – Class of 1964 – actor
Laurence Collinson – playwright, actor, poet, journalist, and secondary school teacher
Barry Creyton – Class of 1955 – actor and playwright
Brett Dean – Class of 1978 – composer
Paul Dean – Class of 1983 – clarinetist
Diana Doherty – Class of 1983 – Oboist
Penny Downie – Class of 1970 – actress
Jackie French AM – Class of 1970 – author; Senior Australian of the Year 2015
Luke Haralampou – Class of 2000 – slam poet
Neil Johnson – Class of 1984 – film and music video producer, editor and director
Steve Kipner – 1962-1963 – songwriter and record producer
Becky Lucas – Class of 2006 – comedian, writer and presenter
Fintan Magee – Class of 2000 – street artist
Tahu Matheson – Class of 1993 – classical pianist and conductor
Matt Okine – Class of 2003 – comedian, actor and radio host
Charles Osborne – Class of 1943 – journalist, theatre and opera critic, poet and novelist
John Peart – Junior Class of 1961 – artist
Barrett Reid – Class of 1943 – librarian, poet and literary editor
William Robinson – Class of 1951 – artist, twice winner of the Archibald Prize
Lillian Roxon – Class of 1948 – author and journalist
Donald Shanks – Class of 1956 – bass-baritone singer
Christopher Sommers – Class of 1994 – actor
Patrick Thomas – Class of 1949 – conductor
Avra Velis – singer-songwriter
Liam Young – Class of 1996 – film director and architect

Governance and politics
Len Ardill – Labor MLA for Salisbury (1986–1992) and Archerfield (1992–1998)
Chris Bombolas – Class of 1978 – Labor MLA for Chatsworth; former Channel 9 sports presenter and reporter
Fred Campbell – Class of 1925 – Liberal MLA for Aspley
Max Chandler-Mather – Class of 2009 – Australian politician and trade unionist
Mal Colston – Class of 1955 – Australian Labor Party senator representing Queensland 1975–1999
Manfred Cross – Class of 1946 – Federal member for Brisbane in the House of Representatives (1961–1975, 1980–1990)
John Dempsey – Class of 1984 – Queensland Minister for Police and Community Safety
George Georges – Class of 1939 – Labor senator
Bill Hayden – Class of 1949 – 21st Governor-General of Australia; Foreign Affairs Minister 1983–1988
Sir Leo Hielscher AC – Class of 1941 – past Head of Queensland Treasury, Head of QIC and QIDC
Alasdair Hutton – Class of 1960 – Member of European Parliament, Author, Narrator
Myer Kangan – Junior Class of 1934 – public servant and educationalist
John-Paul Langbroek – Sub-Senior Class of 1978 – Liberal National MLA for Surfers Paradise – Minister for Education, Training and Employment 2012–2015 – Leader of the Opposition and parliamentary leader of the LNP from 2009 to 2011
Amy MacMahon – Greens MLA for South Brisbane
Charis Mullen – Class of 1991 – Labor MLA for Jordan (Qld)
Bill O'Chee – Class of 1982 – National Party Senator; Australian Skelton representative at World Cup and World Championships 1998-2002
Lin Powell – Class of 1954 – National MLA for Isis
Guelfi Scassola – Class of 1958 – Liberal MLA for Mt Gravatt
Lyle Schuntner – Class of 1954 – Liberal MLA for Mount Coot-tha
Murray Watt – Class of 1989 – Labor MLA for Everton, Labor Senator for Queensland
Lawrie Willett – Director-General of Health (1983–1984); Chancellor of Charles Sturt University (2002–2014)
Jason Woodforth – Class of 1984 – Liberal National MLA for Nudgee

Journalism
Matt Carmichael – Class of 1998 – sports journalist
Jenny Coopes – Junior Class of 1960 – political cartoonist, illustrator and painter
Nick Etchells – Class of 1991 – journalist
Heather Foord – Class of 1982 – journalist
Archer Hamilton – Class of 2008 – former journalist
Edgar George Holt – poet, journalist and public relations officer
Sylvia Jeffreys – Class of 2003 – journalist and Nine Network presenter
Sandra Sully – Class of 1978 – journalist and Network 10 presenter
Matt Wordsworth – Class of 1991 – journalist

Law
Peter Applegarth – Class of 1975 – Justice of the Supreme Court of Queensland
Glenn Martin – Class of 1972 – Justice of the Supreme Court of Queensland – President, Industrial Court of Queensland

Medicine and science
Paul Glasziou – Class of 1971 – academic physician
Martin Green – Class of 1965 – scientist; Research Director of the University of New South Wales Photovoltaic Centre of Excellence
James Morton – Class of 1982 – medical doctor
 Professor Geoffrey Pryde – Class of 1991 – Quantum Physicist, Deputy Director, Centre for Quantum Dynamics, Australia

Military
Virgil Brennan – Junior Class of 1934 – flying ace of the Second World War
Ray Funnell – Class of 1952 – Chief of the Air Staff - RAAF 1987 - 1992
Geoff Shepherd – Class of 1969 – Air Marshall; Chief of the RAAF 2005-2008
Douglas Vincent – Class of 1934 – Major General in the Australian Army

Religion
Eva Burrows – Class of 1946 – 13th World Leader of the Salvation Army
Ken Ham – senior science teacher, young-Earth creationist and creator of the Creation Museum in the US
John Mavor – Class of 1951 – minister of religion
David Tribe – Class of 1949 – secularist and humanist

Sport
Many students of the school have gone on to represent Australia at the Olympics and win medals.  More than thirty past students have competed in the Olympics during the school's history, winning numerous bronze, silver and gold medals, some with world records, across a range of sporting disciplines.

Athletics
Naa Anang – Class of 2012 – Australian Long Jumper, Commonwealth Games 2018
Nik Bojic – Class of 2009 – Australian high jumper, Commonwealth Games 2014
Norma Croker – Class of 1952 – Olympian 1956 gold medal, 1960
Cedric Dubler – Class of 2012 – Olympic decathlete 2016, Bronze Medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, 3rd Best Australian Decathlete of all time
Marion Hoffman – Class of 1967 – Olympic sprinter 1972, Gold and Bronze Medals at the 1970 Commonwealth Games
Jenny Lund – Australia long-distance runner

Australian rules football
Jaspa Fletcher – Class of 2022 – Brisbane Lions

Badminton
Wendy Chen – Class of 2010 – Olympian 2016 and 2020

Basketball
Chris Goulding – Class of 2005 – Olympian 2016 – professional basketball player in Australia and Spain
Shyla Heal – Class of 2016 – Australian professional basketball player
Mojave King – professional basketball player
Brock Motum – Class of 2007 – Olympian 2016 – professional basketball player in Italy

Cricket
Ian Healy – Class of 1981 – Australian test cricketer, Australian wicket-keeper of the century
Mel Johnson – Class of 1959 – Australian Test cricket match umpire
Michael Kasprowicz – Class of 1989 – Australian test cricketer
Marnus Labuschagne – Class of 2011 – Australian test cricketer
Stuart Law – Year 9 1982 – Australian test cricketer
John Maclean – Class of 1963 – Australian test cricketer
James Peirson – Class of 2009 – Queensland cricketer
Glenn Trimble – Australian ODI cricketer
Jack Wildermuth – Class of 2010 – Brisbane Heat, Queensland and Australian T20 cricketer

Cycling
Stuart Jones – Class of 1986 – Paralympian

Hockey
Fred Quine – Class of 1956 – Olympian 1968 silver medal

Kayaking and canoeing
Lyndsie Fogarty – Class of 2002 – Olympian 2008 bronze medal, 2012

Netball
Peta Stephens – Class of 1995 – Queensland Firebirds Captain

Rowing
Tim Conrad – Class of 1969 – Olympian 1976
Ian Edmunds – Class of 1978 – Olympian 1984 bronze medal
Bo Hanson – Class of 1990 – Olympian 1992, 1996, 2000 & 2004; three bronze medals

Rugby league
Elijah Alick –  Class of 2014 – Brisbane Broncos
Jay Aston – Class of 2006 – Papua New Guinea Rugby League World Cup Side 2008
Greg Holben –  Class of 1968 – Queensland
Wally Lewis – Class of 1977 – Australian national team captain from 1984 to 1989
Andrew McCullough – Class of 2007 – Brisbane Broncos
Ryan McGoldrick –  Class of 1999 – Cronulla, Castleford Tigers, Hull F.C, USA RL Team
Paul Morgan – Class of 1964 – Queensland
John Plath – Class of 1986 – Brisbane Broncos
Murray Taulagi – Class of 2016 – North Queensland Cowboys
Will Tupou – Class of 2007 – North Queensland Cowboys

Rugby union
Paul Alo-Emile – Class of 2009 – Samoan International, Melbourne Rebels, Stade Français, Australian U20's,
Mark Bartholomeusz – Class of 1994 – Wallaby, ACT Brumbies
Curtis Browning – Class of 2011 – Queensland Reds
Paul Carozza – Class of 1983 – Wallaby, Queensland Reds
Joel Faulkner – Class of 2009 – Australian U20's
Chris Feauai-Sautia – Class of 2011 – Wallaby, Queensland Reds, Highest capped Australian Schoolboy
Charlie Fetoai – Class of 2005 – Queensland Reds
Peter Hynes – Class of 2000 – Wallaby, Queensland Reds
Simon Kasprowicz – Class of 1994 – Waratah
Mafileo Kefu – Class of 2000 – Tongan International, Toulon
Samu Kerevi –  Class of 2011 – Wallaby, Queensland Reds
Adam Korczyk – Class of 2012 – Queensland Reds
Ryan McGoldrick –  Class of 1999 – New South Wales Waratahs
Peter McLean – Class of 1969 – Wallaby
William McLean – Class of 1933 – Wallaby Captain
Ben Meehan – Class of 2011 – Melbourne Rebels, London Irish
Paul Mooney – Class of 1946 – Wallaby
James Moore – Class of 2010 – Japan International, Sunwolves
David Paice – Class of 2000 – England International, England Saxons, London Irish
Jordan Petaia – Class of 2017 – Wallaby, Queensland Reds, Youngest player to debut for the Qld Reds, Youngest player to debut for the Wallabies in a World Cup
Ed Quirk – Class of 2008 – Wallaby, Queensland Reds
Jacob Rauluni –  Class of 1989 – Fiji Captain, Queensland Reds
Mosese Rauluni –  Class of 1992 – Fiji Captain
Rodney Seib – Class of 1992 – professional rugby union coach
Peter Slattery – Class of 1983 – Wallaby, Queensland Reds
Brian Smith – Class of 1983 – Wallaby and Ireland International, Queensland Reds, Former England Attacking Coach
Patrick Tafa – Class of 2016 – NSW Waratahs
Matt To'omua – Class of 2007 – Wallaby, ACT Brumbies
Tuaina Taii Tualima – Class of 2015 – Queensland Reds
Will Tupou – Class of 2007 – Japan International, Sunwolves
Brando Va'aulu – Class of 2005 – Samoa, Queensland Reds
David Wilson – Class of 1984 – Wallaby

Rugby union 7's
Charlotte Caslick – Class of 2012 – Olympian 2016 gold medal, Women's Rugby sevens player

Sailing
Peter Conde – Class of 1975 – Australian sailor and leading Australian sport administrator

Soccer
Ben Halloran – Class of 2009 – Gold Coast United FC, Brisbane Roar, Fortuna Düsseldorf, Socceroo World Cup 2014
Chris Harold – Class of 2009 – Gold Coast United FC, Perth Glory
Golgol Mebrahtu – Class of 2007 – Gold Coast United FC, Melbourne Heart

Softball
Marissa Carpadios – Class of 1995 – Olympian 2004 silver medal
Danielle Stewart – Class of 1998 – Olympian 2008

Speed skating
Deanna Lockett – Class of 2013 – speed skater – Olympian 2014

Swimming
Evelina Afoa – Class of 2015 – Olympian 2016 representing Samoa
Duncan Armstrong – Class of 1985 – Olympian 1988 gold and silver medal, 1992
Susie Baumer – Year 9 1981 – Olympian 1984, 1988
Jodie Clatworthy – Class of 1989 – Olympian 1988
Brad Cooper – Class of 1971 – Olympian 1972 gold medal
Justin Lemberg – Class of 1983 – Olympian 1984 bronze medal
Hayley Lewis – Class of 1991 – Olympian 1992 silver and bronze medal, 1996
Scott Logan – Class of 1993 – Olympian 1996
Lise Mackie – Class of 1993 – Olympian 1992, 1996 bronze medal
Dwade Sheehan – Class of 1991 – Commonwealth Games 1994 gold medal (relay)
Jon Sieben – Class of 1983 – Olympian 1984 gold and bronze medal, 1988, 1992

Tennis
 Mark Draper – Class of 1987 – former professional tennis player from Australia
 Scott Draper – Class of 1991 – Australian Open Mixed Doubles Champion with Samantha Stosur 2005

Triathlon
Rina Hill – Year 9 1983 – Olympian 2004

Volleyball
Jarryd Christensen – Class of 2004 – Australian team member
Zane Christensen – Class of 2002 – Olympian 2004

Water polo
Kate Gynther – Class of 1999 – Olympian 2004, 2008 bronze medal, 2012 bronze medal
Amy Hetzel – Class of 2000 – Olympian 2008 bronze medal

References

Brisbane State High School
Brisbane State High School


The San Agustin de Laredo Historic District is a historical district that covers what was once the original city of Laredo, Texas that was established by Don Tomás Sánchez. Today, the district is located in Downtown Laredo. The San Agustin District is home to San Agustin Cathedral (which the district's named after) and to the Republic of the Rio Grande Capitol. Most of the district's streets are made from bricks. Most of the buildings in the district reflect Spanish and Mexican influences and are made from masonry. The district is considered the last example of Spanish Colonization of the Lower Rio Grande Valley. The San Agustin de Laredo Historic District is registered in the National Register of Historic Places since 1973. Its historic significance is Architecture and Engineering. Its architectural style is Mission, Spanish Revival, and Greek Revival.

Gallery of San Agustin Historic District

See also

National Register of Historic Places listings in Webb County, Texas

References

External links

Neighborhoods in Laredo, Texas
History of Laredo, Texas
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Texas
National Register of Historic Places in Webb County, Texas


Geriatric intensive care unit is a special intensive care unit dedicated to management of critically ill elderly.

Origin
Geriatric intensive care units began because the world population is aging. Geriatric medicine is distinct from adult or pediatric medicine, especially if they are critically ill. Geriatric medicine was not included in the curricula of undergraduate or advanced medical training until recently, so not all critical care physicians are oriented to the specific needs of geriatric patients. Despite the fact that many critically ill patients are older, the training of critical care teams still lacks a geriatric focus.

Older adults admitted to intensive care units can suffer from severe infections, such as MRSA or systemic fungal infections, and may need special post-operative analgesia. People age 75+ may need assessment by special instruments to predict their ICU prognosis. One quotation has said "geriatric ICUs are the future".

World distribution
Geriatric care units are present in Japan, United States, China, Egypt, Europe France, Italy, Iran, and India.

Training & education programs
Physicians are trained in geriatric medicine & critical care medicine.

Nurses receive special training in critical care of elderly in their basic training, advanced and clinical training.

Ventilators

A geriatric ventilator is a machine that provides mechanical ventilation by moving breathable air into and out of the lungs, to deliver breaths to a geriatric patient who is physically unable to breathe, or breathing insufficiently.

Open-source ventilators

A geriatric open-source ventilator uses open-source hardware. They are valorated in COVID-19 pandemic.

See also
 Geriatrics
 Intensive care unit
 Open-source hardware
 Ventilator

References

Intensive care medicine
Hospital departments
Geriatrics


Population centre, in Canadian census data, is a populated place, or a cluster of interrelated populated places, which meets the demographic characteristics of an urban area, having a population of at least 1,000 people and a population density of no fewer than 400 persons per square km2. The boundaries of a populated place are not necessarily contiguous with municipal boundaries; a population centre may both include areas outside the boundaries of a municipality, if their urban development is directly contiguous, and may exclude areas inside the boundaries of a municipality which are less densely populated. A municipality may also not be classified as a population centre at all, but may simply be part of another municipality's population centre. Accordingly, do not confuse this list with List of municipalities in Quebec, which lists all municipalities by their actual municipal populations.

The term was first introduced in the Canada 2011 Census; prior to that, Statistics Canada used the term urban area.

In the 2021 Census of Population, Statistics Canada listed 273 population centres in the province of Quebec and 2 population centres located in part in Quebec.

See also
List of cities and towns in Quebec
List of the largest population centres in Canada

References

Lists of populated places in Quebec


Charles Curtis (1853 – 23 August 1928) was an English botanist who was sent by James Veitch & Sons to search for new plant species in Madagascar, Borneo, Sumatra, Java and the Moluccas, before settling in Penang, where he became the first superintendent of the Penang Botanic Gardens.

Early days
Curtis was born in Barnstaple, Devon,  the youngest of four brothers. His paternal grandfather, a Norman by the name of Courtois, had settled at Barnstaple many years previously. Like his brothers, Curtis worked as a garden boy at the local Bale's Nursery. On completing his education, Curtis joined James Veitch & Sons' Royal Exotic Nursery at Chelsea, London in 1874, where he received his botanical training in the "New Plant Department".

Plant hunting
In 1878, Harry Veitch despatched him to Mauritius and Madagascar, from where he sent seeds of Nepenthes madagascariensis, a species of pitcher plant, and various other tropical plants, including Angraecum sesquipedale. Unfortunately, following "treachery" by one of the African helpers, who cut the rope which held the raft on which the plants were being floated downriver, the first consignment of plants collected was lost and, as a result, the collecting work had to be repeated.

Curtis returned to England in 1879, but a year later was sent to the Dutch East Indies, where he explored Borneo, Sumatra, Java and the Moluccas. Veitch instructed him to collect specimens of Nepenthes northiana, which had been discovered by Marianne North in Borneo, although the precise locality where the plant grew was unknown. On the trip to Borneo, Curtis was accompanied by a young gardener, David Burke, who later became a plant collector himself. The search for the elusive pitcher plant was unsuccessful, but the pair discovered many other species, including many interesting stove (hot-house) plants, palms, and orchids. At the end of the trip, Curtis accompanied Burke to Singapore, from where Burke returned to England with the collection of plants, including large consignments of the  slipper orchids, Paphiopedilum stonei and P. lowii, as well as many Vandas, Rhododendrons, and the beautiful foliage plant for British hot-houses, Leea amabilis.

From Singapore, Curtis travelled to Pontianak in Dutch Borneo, with the special object of obtaining a consignment of Phalaenopsis violacea, then known in England but still rare. He was successful in locating the plant, but again, owing to a mishap with the boat, a month's collections and all his clothes and instruments were lost, and he narrowly escaped with his life.

In 1882, Curtis eventually located Nepenthes northiana in Borneo and sent seeds back to Chelsea, as well as N. stenophylla and seed from a plant that became known as N. curtisii, although now known as N. maxima. Curtis was not meticulous in recording where he located individual plants – although it was originally believed that he collected N. curtisii in Borneo, Charles Clarke points out that he also visited Sulawesi on the same trip, and N. maxima is common there. He also sent back the orchid which was originally named Paphiopedilum curtisii, although now known as a synonym for Paphiopedilum superbiens; Curtis did not reveal where he found the plants, other than saying that this was in Sumatra.

According to the account in Hortus Veitchii, Curtis had been commissioned to go in search of Nepenthes northiana, and "after long and unsuccessful effort, Curtis gave up hope, under the impression that Miss North had been wrongly informed, but fortunately before leaving the district it occurred to him to look over a steep escarpment in the hill-side, accomplished by lying prostrate on the ground, when to his great joy he discovered the long-looked-for plant some distance below. He succeeded in gathering ripe capsules, and lost no time in transmitting them to Chelsea, where the seed soon germinated", and was introduced in the James Veitch & Sons catalogue in 1883.

Other plants introduced to England by Curtis, include two species of Vireya rhododendron –  Rhododendron multicolor (with the red variety Curtisii named after him) and R. teysmannii (now considered to be subspecies of R. javanicum) – before he terminated his engagement with Veitch early in 1884.

Honours

Amongst the many plant species named after Curtis in recognition of his services to botany and horticulture were the following:

Acanthephippium curtisii
Cirrhopetalum curtisii
Gastrochilus curtisii
Hexapora curtisii
Luisia curtisii
Medinilla curtisii
Nepenthes curtisii (subsequently synonymised with Nepenthes maxima)
Paphiopedilum curtisii (subsequently synonymised with Paphiopedilum superbiens)
Pentace curtisii
Rhododendron multicolor var. curtisii
Shorea curtisii (dark red meranti)

He was also honoured by the genus Curtisina, but the only member of the genus, Curtisina penangensis, was subsequently identified as a taxonomic synonym of Dacryodes longifolia.

Penang Botanic Gardens
In mid-1884, following a recommendation from Kew Gardens, Curtis was appointed to the position as Assistant Superintendent of Forests and Gardens  under the Straits Settlements administration. Curtis reported to a Superintendent, Nathaniel Cantley, who was also the Curator of the Singapore Botanic Gardens. Curtis was placed in charge of the Penang region of the Forest and Gardens Department, which included the "Waterfall Gardens", together with some 3,575 ha of forest reserves. The forest reserves included areas reserved for recreational, fuel, forestry harvesting and protection purposes, mostly on Penang Island. The Forests and Gardens Department was initially engaged mainly in the cultivation of essential commercial plants, inspecting crops and advising the planting community.

When the department's work in connection with economic crops and forestry was taken over by the Agriculture and Forestry Departments, Curtis was appointed the first superintendent of the newly re-created Penang Botanic Gardens, responsible for the layout of the gardens, and their transformation from an old granite quarry site. The Gardens, as distinct from the Forest Reserves, became Curtis' passion. Curtis was presented with a tropical valley, including a nutmeg plantation with associated structures, and a prominent location on the trail to and at the foot of the "Great Waterfall". While an avid and acknowledged botanist and plant collector, he proved himself to be a creative landscape designer in crafting the design and development of the Gardens.

On accepting the position, Curtis proposed a long-term strategy as to the development of the gardens and its potential role as a botanical repository and clearing house. Curtis' immediate actions were to develop a plant nursery and undertake a programme of works to create a pleasurable recreational and botanical garden in the valley. This vision was spelt out in detail in his 1885 annual report to Cantley as part of the Department's Annual Report. This included proposals to extend and develop the existing "Waterfall Gardens", the construction of road circuits, the erection of plant-houses for the propagation and cultivation of various species, and the provision of recreational venues.

His immediate steps in 1885–86 were focussed upon increasing the area of the Gardens in the valley together with improving road and pedestrian access. In his 1885 report, Curtis commented on "the poor gravelly soil in the valley" which required that considerable attention should be given to the preparation of the ground for tree planting. However, the "natural advantages of the surroundings, from a landscape gardening point of view, ... in a great measure compensate for this defect."

From the outset, Curtis introduced aesthetic considerations into the design of the Gardens, through the strategic placement of trees and the clearance of jungle. The circular road circuits he had constructed carefully weave through the valley opening up views, framing vantage points, and providing surprises to the visitor. Curtis' design was motivated by his objective to take advantage of and exploit the natural landscape in the first instance, and then locate plantings in functional or species family associations. A later curator, Frederick Sydney Banfield, observed of  the planting design structure established by Curtis that: "There is little systematic arrangement even in the botanical sections, the principal aim having been to arrange the plants in such a way as to enhance the natural beauty of the Gardens".

On short leaves of absence he made collections of both living and herbarium specimens at Penang, Burma and neighbouring coastal areas. On some of the trips he was accompanied by Henry Nicholas Ridley, superintendent of The Singapore Botanic Gardens.  Both men were interested in the development of the rubber industry, and experiments they made in Penang proved exceedingly valuable to planters.

Curtis' health began to deteriorate from 1890 onwards.  He took leave of absence from Penang "on account of ill-health" from 26 January to 25 December 1891. Curtis blamed his ill-health on the quality and location of the accommodation made available to him. Returning in December 1891, Curtis spent another five months at the quarters "during which the health of myself and family suffered severely from fever" forcing him to vacate the house and rent accommodation elsewhere.

His 1892 Annual Report includes "A list of the more important Plants and Trees flowered in the Botanic Gardens, Penang, 1892", and provides an extensive review of the flowering species in the Gardens' collection. Two years later he published "An Extensive Catalogue of Flowering Plants and Ferns Found Growing Wild in the island of Penang" in the Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society: containing 1,971 species of 793 genera and 129 natural orders, it is a significant record of Malaysian flora.

Curtis also maintained his professional association with the Veitch family during his tenure as Assistant Superintendent. Often forwarding specimens to their nursery, he always visited them while on leave in England, and James Herbert Veitch reported on the Gardens during a visit in 1896, as part of an extensive tour of inspection of South East Asian and Australasian botanic gardens and public gardens, in his "Traveller's Notes" (1896).

In March 1903, Curtis took early long service leave due to a "complete breakdown in February" from fever. Walter Fox was appointed Superintendent on 7 December 1903, "the date of Mr Curtis's retirement".

Following his appointment, Fox reflected that Curtis' administration was one of important developments in Penang:"In Curtis's retirement the Government loses an able conscientious and hardworking officer. It falls to the lot of few men on their retirement to leave their life's work in so visible and concrete a form. Eighteen years ago the site of the present beautiful Gardens was practically a waste ground. It is now the pride of the Colony and the admiration of all who visit it". Ridley recorded in 1910 that "Mr Curtis was a man full of energy and skill as a landscape gardener and was not to be daunted by difficulties".

Retirement
Following his retirement, his main herbarium was transferred to the Singapore Botanic Gardens. Curtis returned to England, settling in his native town of Barnstaple, in Devon, where he spent his retirement tending his own collection of peach trees, carnations, orchids, sweet peas, streptocarpus, and meconopsis in a garden close to Barnstaple Victoria Road railway station.

In the summer of 1928 he fell ill and in need of an operation in hospital. For a while it appeared as though he might make a full recovery, but five weeks after surgery, on 23 August, he died at his home at Barnstaple.

References

External links
Article on www.orchids.co.in

1853 births
1928 deaths
People from Barnstaple
English botanists
Veitch Nurseries
Plant collectors


Joseph William Dellapenna (born December 28, 1942) was a Professor of Law at Villanova University School of Law. He was born in Detroit.

Academic Background
Professor Dellapenna holds a B.B.A. earned at the University of Michigan in  1965, a J.D. cum laude from the Detroit College of Law earned in 1968, an LL.M. in Public International & Comparative Law from George Washington University completed in  1969 and an LL.M. in environmental law  from Columbia University completed in 1974.  Dellapenna has been admitted to practice as an attorney in Michigan and also for cases before the United States Supreme Court.

Abortion
Professor Dellapenna's book Dispelling the Myths of Abortion History (Carolina Academic Press, 2006) was cited extensively in Justice Samuel Alito's majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which overruled Roe v. Wade.

Water Law
He represented the Connecticut Water Works Association in City of Waterbury v. Town of Washington, 260 Conn. 506, 802 A.2d 1102 (2002).

Dellapenna has been Director of the Model Water Code Project of the American Society of Civil Engineers since 1996 and served as Rapporteur of the Water Resources Committee of the International Law Association from 1996 to 2004.

International and Comparative Law
Dellapenna was co-counsel for the family of Raoul Wallenberg in a case brought by Wallenberg's half-brother, Guy von Dardel. Von Dardel v. U.S.S.R., 623 F. Supp. 246 (D.D.C. 1985). Although the judgment subsequently was vacated, 736 F. Supp. 1 (D.D.C. 1990), the Soviet government then opened its records to the family regarding Wallenberg's fate, resulting in a report jointly released by the Swedish and Russian governments in 2000 confirming Wallenberg's murder in 1947.

Honors
Dellapenna was awarded the Raoul Wallenberg Medal by the Raoul Wallenberg Foundation for his work on litigation seeking to determine what became of Wallenberg.

References

Living people
Detroit College of Law alumni
George Washington University Law School alumni
Columbia Law School alumni
Villanova University faculty
Ohio State University faculty
Academic staff of Jilin University
Widener University faculty
University of Cincinnati faculty
American lawyers
Willamette University College of Law faculty
1942 births
Ross School of Business alumni


Georg Heinrich Mettenius (24 November 1823 – 18 August 1866) was a German botanist born in Frankfurt am Main. He was son-in-law to botanist Alexander Braun (1805–1877).

In 1845 he received his medical doctorate from the University of Heidelberg. After graduation, he studied marine algae in Helgoland and Fiume. In 1848, he returned to Heidelberg as a privat-docent, and was later appointed an associate professor of botany at Freiburg. In 1852 he became a full professor at the University of Leipzig as well as director of its botanical garden. He died of cholera in Leipzig at the age of 42.

Mettenius was a leading authority in the field of pteridology. The plant genus Metteniusa (family Metteniusaceae) is named in his honor.

Selected publications
 Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Rhizocarpeen (1846) - Contributions to the knowledge of Rhizocarpaceae.
 "Filices horti botanici Lipsiensis" (1856)
 "Filices Lechlerianae Chilenses ac Peruanae cura" (1856).
 Über einige Farngattungen (volumes 1 to 6, 1857) - On some fern genera.

References
 Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (biography)

19th-century German botanists
Pteridologists
Scientists from Frankfurt
Academic staff of the University of Freiburg
Academic staff of Leipzig University
1823 births
1866 deaths


Gordon Clay Seyfried (born July 4, 1937) is a retired American professional baseball player. The former right-handed pitcher spent 12 years as a professional and appeared in five games in  Major League Baseball for the  and  Cleveland Indians. The native of Long Beach, California was listed as  and . He attended Wilson Classical High School and Long Beach City College.

Baseball career
Seyfried was signed by the Detroit Tigers in 1956. In the minor leagues, he won over 100 games, leading the Eastern League in wins in 1958, with 17, while playing for the Lancaster Red Roses. From 1960–1962, as a member of the Triple-A Denver Bears, he posted a combined won–lost record of 40–24. On November 27, 1962, Seyfried was traded with fellow hurler Ron Nischwitz to the Cleveland Indians for veteran third baseman Bubba Phillips.

MLB tenure
After spending the 1963 minor league season at Triple-A, Seyfried made his MLB debut on September 13, 1963, against the Los Angeles Angels at Dodger Stadium, only a few miles up the freeway from his Long Beach home town. Relieving Early Wynn, Seyfried pitched one inning and allowed two hits and no runs before being lifted for a pinch hitter; Cleveland prevailed in 12 innings, 7–6, with Gary Bell getting the win. In the third and final game of his 1963 late-season trial, Seyfried received his only big-league start. Facing the Kansas City Athletics at Municipal Stadium, Seyfried allowed only one earned run in 5 innings, but departed the game trailing 2–1; when Cleveland could not rally from behind, Seyfried was tagged with the loss in his only MLB decision. In 1964, Seyfried worked in two scoreless April relief appearances for the Indians, before returning to Triple-A.

Seyfried retired as a pitcher in mid-1967, and spent the remainder of that season as the manager of the Gulf Coast Indians, Cleveland's Rookie-level affiliate.

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The National Committee of the Republic of Estonia (, EVRK) was a deliberative and legislative body, formed by the government of Republic of Estonia (the last government of Estonia before the Soviet occupation) to control the resistance movement in German-occupied Estonia in March 1944. By April 1944 a large number of the committee members were arrested by the German security agencies.

History
The original initiative to form the committee came from the Estonian former pre-plebiscite of 1933 opposition parties and it denied the constitutional authority of Jüri Uluots, the last pre-war Prime Minister of the Republic of Estonia. The Committee aimed to establish a provisional government, during the German withdrawal expected as the Red Army had reached the border of Estonia on February 2, 1944.

On 1 August 1944 the "committee" declared itself even the bearer of the supreme power of State (instead of people).

The Committee succeeded in establishing a communication network with the Estonian diplomats in Finland and Sweden.

In response to this unconstitutional "committee", on 20 April 1944, Jüri Uluots convened the Electoral Committee of the Republic of Estonia (Vabariigi Presidendi Asetäitja Valimiskogu, the institution specified in the Constitution for electing the Acting President of the Republic), which held a clandestine meeting in Tallinn. The participants included:

Jüri Uluots, the last Prime Minister of Estonia before the Soviet occupation, appointed 12 October 1939,
Johan Holberg, the acting Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, appointed 1 December 1943,
Otto Pukk, the Chairman of the Chamber of Deputies, elected 17 October 1939,
Alfred Maurer, the Second deputy Vice-Chairman of the National Council, elected 21 April 1938,
Mihkel Klaassen, Chairman off the Administrative Department of the State Court of Estonia, appointed 26 September 1938.

The Committee determined that the Soviet-era appointment of Johannes Vares as Prime Minister by Konstantin Päts had been illegal and that Uluots had assumed the President's duties from June 21, 1940, onwards. On 21 April 1944, Jüri Uluots appointed Alfred Maurer and Otto Tief as deputy prime ministers. On 18 September 1944, Uluots, suffering from cancer, named Otto Tief the Acting Prime Minister and appointed a Government which consisted of 11 members. Thus some members of the "national committee" became now members of the constitutional government. On 20 September 1944, Uluots departed for Sweden. Tief assumed office in accordance with the constitution and took the opportunity, with the departure of the Germans, to declare the legitimate Estonian government restored. Most of members of this government left from Tallinn on 21 September and Tief on 22 September. As reported by the Royal Institute of International Affairs at the time, the Estonian national government was proclaimed in Estonia and Estonian military units seized the national government buildings in Toompea Castle and ordered the German forces to leave. The flag of Germany was replaced with the flag of Estonia in the Pikk Hermann tower of Toompea. Tief’s government, however, failed to stay in power as Estonian military units led by Johan Pitka clashed with both Germans and Soviets. On 22 September, the Soviet Leningrad Front took control of Tallinn. Most of the members and officials including Tief were caught, jailed, deported, or executed. Tief managed to survive a decade in Siberia and, after return from deportation, died in 1976. Kaarel Liidak, Minister of Agriculture, died in hiding on 16 January 1945.

After Uluots died on January 9, 1945, in Sweden, August Rei, as the most senior surviving member of the government, assumed the role of acting head of state. Rei was supported by the surviving members of the Tief's government in Sweden. Rei was the last Estonian envoy in Moscow before the Soviet annexation and had managed to escape from Moscow through Riga to Stockholm in June 1940.

On 12 January 1953, the Estonian Government in Exile was appointed in Oslo, Norway.

See also
Supreme Committee for the Liberation of Lithuania
National Committee for the Liberation of Yugoslavia
National Committee for a Free Germany
Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia
Japanese People's Emancipation League
Free Albania National Committee

References

Military history of Estonia during World War II
World War II resistance movements
Eastern European World War II resistance movements
Generalbezirk Estland


Cedarlawn Cemetery is a cemetery located in Philadelphia, Mississippi. It is also sometimes spelled Cedar Lawn Cemetery. Multiple people of note are interred at Cedarlawn Cemetery:
 Adam M. Byrd (1859–1912), US Congressman
 Florence Mars (1923–2006), Author
 Bubba Phillips (1928–1993), MLB player
 W. Arthur Winstead (1904–1995), US Congressman

References

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 Political Graveyard

Cemeteries in Mississippi
Philadelphia, Mississippi
Buildings and structures in Neshoba County, Mississippi


Hugh Dane (October 21, 1942 – May 16, 2018) was an American character actor. He was best known for playing Hank the security guard on the television sitcom The Office from 2005 to 2013.

Acting career
Dane's professional acting career began with a role in the 1989 video game, It Came from the Desert, before moving on to his first television role in a two-part episode of Hunter.  In 1991, Dane acted in his first film role as a corrections officer in the crime-thriller Ricochet.  In the following years, Dane played small roles in popular television series' such as The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Hangin' with Mr. Cooper, Boy Meets World, Martin, Friends, Sister, Sister, Monk and Girl Meets World.

Dane received the most recognition for his role as Hank, the head of security, in The Office. He also played the role of a judge in Netflix's Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp.

In 1999, Dane returned to film, acting in such movies as Restraining Order, Joy Ride, Reflections: A Story of Redemption, Ralph & Stanley, Beautiful Dreamer, For Heaven's Sake, StarStruck, and Bridesmaids.

Death
Dane died on May 16, 2018, at the age of 75 from pancreatic cancer.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

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American male television actors
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20th-century American male actors
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Deaths from pancreatic cancer in California
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George Sessions Perry (May 5, 1910 – December 13, 1956) was an American novelist, World War II correspondent, and one of the highest paid popular magazine contributors of his time. He is remembered best for his 1941 novel Hold Autumn in Your Hand, which won the National Book Award and the Texas Institute of Letters award in 1941. In 1945, French director Jean Renoir directed The Southerner, based on Hold Autumn in Your Hand, starring Zachary Scott and Beulah Bondi. The critical praise and comparisons to John Steinbeck established Perry as one of the top writers of his era.

Early days

Born in Rockdale, Texas, he was the only son of Andrew Perry, a businessman who owned the local drug store, and Laura Perry. After the death of his father in 1922 and the suicide of his mother a year later, George lived with his maternal grandmother Mai Van de Venter, whom he later immortalized in his book My Granny Van, and his Uncle Perry. He spent a year at Southwestern University in nearby Georgetown, the first of three attempts at a college education that included stints at Southwestern, Purdue and the University of Houston, never earning a degree. At Southwestern he met Claire Hodges, daughter of a Beaumont medical doctor.

Career

In 1931, he returned from traveling abroad to marry Claire and move back to Rockdale. Insulated from the worst effects of the Great Depression by a small inherited income, Perry spent the next six years writing six novels and more than 50 short stories about rural and small-town Texas and the semifeudal system of tenant farming that prevailed at the time. Claire Perry acted as his typist, grammarian, and audience. In 1937, The Saturday Evening Post published one of his stories, and soon thereafter Doubleday published his first book, Walls Rise Up, a comic novel about three vagrants living along the Brazos River. In 1941, Perry firmly established his place on the Texas literary scene with Hold Autumn in Your Hand, a novel about a year in the life of a tenant farmer, perhaps the best agrarian novel about Texas. The book won the Texas Institute of Letters "Book of the Year" award in 1941 and became the first Texas book to win the National Book Award. The novel also was named Bookseller Discovery of 1941, voted by members of the American Booksellers Association. According to The New York Times, the Discovery was "a sort of consolation prize that the booksellers hope will draw attention to his work"; 7,000 copies had been sold.

George and Claire Perry acquired a second home in Guilford, Connecticut in the late 1940s. He became one of the most popular writers in the nation in the postwar period as a correspondent for The Saturday Evening Post, particularly with the series "Cities of America" and "Families of America." To the consternation of many of his fans and literary critics, however, he never returned to novels. In declining physical and mental health in his later years, he disappeared on December 13, 1956 after walking into a river near his home there. His body was recovered February 13, 1957 in a small stream, and a coroner's inquest ruled accidental drowning.

Notes

References

Further reading

External links
George Sessions Perry in the Handbook of Texas Online

1910 births
1956 deaths
Writers from Texas
American war correspondents
National Book Award winners
20th-century American non-fiction writers
People from Rockdale, Texas


is a 1931 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment directed by Tomikazu Miyata. It is based on the original story of a wandering gambler written by the popular author Shin Hasegawa. This is the first film adaptation of his story, which later inspired many filmmakers to create further adaptations of his work. The film was remade in 1957.

The first half of the movie depicts a man's jealousy of his best friend and the woman he loves. The second part depicts a hero who is ready to put the past behind him and risk his life for his friend.

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Franklin Pitcher "Pitch" Johnson (January 2, 1901 – September 21, 1967) was an American track and field athlete who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri and died in Rubidoux, California.

In 1924 Johnson was selected for the US Olympic Team at the Paris Games in the 110 meter hurdles, and made it through to the semi-finals before being eliminated. 110 metre hurdles competition

Johnson was the track and field coach (1928–40) and director of the Drake Relays (1933–40) at Drake University, and the director of track and field (1941–43) at Stanford University. He served as an athletic instructor there until the end of World War II. After the cessation of hostilities in the Pacific he went to the Philippines and Japan in 1945 for the US Army to organize and conduct the Pacific Army Olympics. He entered private business in Southern California in 1947.

He married Mary Caroline MacDavitt, whom he had met at the University of Illinois, in 1927. They had two children, Franklin Pitcher Johnson Jr., and Martin Lee Johnson, both of whom were track athletes at Stanford.

In 2009, he was selected by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) for that organization's hall of fame. The award was given at their annual meeting in Orlando, FL on December 16, 2009. The citation issued by them read:

Drake University established the title of "The Franklin P. Johnson Director of the Drake Relays" on April 22, 2010, in conjunction with the 101st running of the Relays. The first holder of the title, Brian Brown, was the director of the Relays from 2006-16. He was succeeded in 2016 by Blake Boldon, the 12th director of the Drake Relays since its founding in 1912.

References

External links

 USTFCCCA Hall of Fame Class of 2009 Announcement

1901 births
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Lights is the self-titled debut EP by Canadian recording artist Lights, released on iTunes on July 24, 2008. It was released as a 12-inch vinyl on September 16, 2008.

Background

Cover art
The cover art is a picture of Lights that she took in her apartment in Toronto heavily edited in a "cheap program" she owned for her computer at the time. She color-blocked and re-outlined the image rendering it to what it is. The cover led some to believe that the vinyl was a calendar, which prompted some mistakable purchases.

Songs in media
Beginning in February 2008, her song "February Air" was featured in a series of Old Navy television ads. The music video for the song premiered in December.
Another track, "Drive My Soul", appeared during a 2008 episode of MTV's The Hills.

Release and reception
The EP was released on July 24, 2008. It was made available in Canada through Best Buy, HMV, and iTunes, and in the United States on iTunes. Later in the year, coinciding with Lights' touring, the EP was made available on CD in the US on September 16, 2008.

Three songs from Lights were released as singles: "Drive My Soul", "February Air", and "Ice". These songs, along with "The Last Thing on Your Mind", were later reworked and included on Lights' debut album, The Listening (2009).

Lights peaked at number 27 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers albums chart. Matthew Chisling of Allmusic remarked that the EP "found a large amount of commercial success" and "critical praise"—including Lights' 2009 Juno Award for New Artist of the Year—which led Warner Bros. to allow Lights to release The Listening almost a year later.

Track listing

References

2008 debut EPs
Lights (musician) albums
Synth-pop EPs


Bruce P. McDonald (died May 10, 2005) was a provincial court judge in Manitoba, Canada.  He resigned in 1993, following controversy about racist and sexist statements he had made from the bench.

Early career

McDonald became a judge in Portage la Prairie in 1962.  He was criticized in 1987 for issuing only a $500 fine in a drunk driving case that resulted in a man's death.  By the 1990s, he was one of the last small-town resident judges in the province.

Controversy

Three of McDonald's rulings in 1992-93 attracted widespread attention and condemnation.  In August 1992, he declined a request for assistance from a woman who worked in the same office as her ex-boyfriend, whom she accused of harassment.  McDonald was quoted as saying, "Ever thought of quitting work?".  A few months later, the Winnipeg Free Press reported that McDonald declined a woman's request for a peace bond, and told her to "work something out" with the man she accused of assaulting her.  The woman, a resident of the Sandy Bay Indian Reserve, said that she was humiliated by the experience, and that McDonald's comments made it seem as though she was at fault.  Advocates for abused women said the incident made a mockery of Manitoba's zero tolerance rules against domestic violence.

In April 1993, McDonald ruled that a 73-year-old man who pleaded guilty to sexual assault against four of his relatives was motivated by "curiosity", and sentenced him to two years' probation.  In response, several critics argued that McDonald was insensitive to issues of abuse.  Ann McGillvray of the University of Manitoba said that his approach was "40 years out of date" and that he stood out "like a sore thumb" in Manitoba's judicial system.  Provincial Justice Minister James McCrae announced a review into McDonald's sentence, and ordered the Manitoba Judicial Council to launch a broader review into McDonald's activities.  McCrae also announced that he would overhaul the Judicial Council and introduce provincial legislation to ensure the better screening of judicial applicants.  In June 1993, the appeals court overturned and denounced McDonald's ruling, and issued a six-month jail term against the defendant.

Further investigative reporting by the Winnipeg Free Press revealed that McDonald was known in the legal community for granting discharges in sexual assault cases.  He frequently berated Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers for minor technical errors, and kept personal records on accused persons who appeared before him.  Several lawyers refused to criticize him on the record, fearing repercussions if they appeared again in his courtroom.

McDonald was suspended on May 11, 1993, after chief provincial judge Kris Stefanson reviewed a transcript of remarks that he made in a December 1969 court hearing.  During this case, McDonald said he was "distressed" that residents of the Long Plains Indian Band had refused to cooperate with the RCMP, and expressed "hope" that they would not receive RCMP help if they ever needed it.  He then added, "[the] joyful result would be that the residents of the reserve would kill one another off".  In the same transcript, McDonald said, "I am well aware of the fact that there is more violence on Indian reserves than anywhere else in the country. I am well aware of the fact that when an Indian [...] fights, (he) doesn't fight, he tries to massacre somebody. The amount of damage inflicted on various complainants is considerable, and if it weren't for the fact that most of them have the thickest skulls in the country, there would be many more possibilities of murder charges that would be incapable of being proved because all the witnesses hadn't seen anything."  These remarks were widely condemned, with Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs leader Phil Fontaine saying that he was outraged by McDonald's behaviour.

As the scandal unfolded, it was reported that several complaints had been filed against McDonald in the previous decades.  A transcript of McDonald's remarks was reportedly sent to chief provincial judge Harold Gyles after the 1969 case, although Gyles said that he never received the document.  In 1978, Crown Attorney Bob Maxwell submitted a complaint alleging that McDonald showed bias against aboriginal Canadians, made derogatory remarks made from the bench, and was generally rude and unprofessional in his behaviour.  Portions of this complaint were submitted to provincial Attorney-General Gerald Mercier and later forwarded to Gyles, who reprimanded McDonald in private and requested that he give up control of the docket to the Crown.  McDonald complied, and a senior official in the Attorney-General's department described the matter as resolved.  During this period, Gyles also told Mercier that a public inquiry would cause adverse publicity.  Gyles later said that he did not investigate other complaints against McDonald during this period because they were not made in writing.  Gord Mackintosh, opposition critic for the New Democratic Party, said that this explanation was not acceptable.

In 1987, the Manitoba Advisory Council on the Status of Women filed a complaint to Attorney-General Roland Penner about McDonald's handling of sexual assault cases.  Penner referred MACSW to the Manitoba Judicial Council.  Gyles, who served on the council, investigated the matter and sent McDonald a letter of admonition.  Several complaints about McDonald were later submitted between 1988 and 1993.

Aftermath

McDonald resigned in December 1993, just as the Judicial Council was about to begin an investigation into his activities.  His resignation caused the immediate cancellation of the hearings.  Rosemary Vodrey, who succeeded McCrae as Justice Minister, subsequently rejected requests for an independent inquiry.  In 1994, she announced a policy change allowing judicial inquiries to continue after a judge's retirement, if it is in the public interest.

Ruth Teichrob won a Manitoba Human Rights Award in late 1993 for her coverage of the McDonald controversy.

McDonald died on May 10, 2005, at age 86.

Footnotes

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Judges in Manitoba
Year of birth missing


The Alchemist's Cookbook is an EP by producer The Alchemist. The EP was digitally released on iTunes on November 18, 2008, before his second full-length album Chemical Warfare in 2009.  Guest appearances include Prodigy, Evidence, Blu, and Kid Cudi.

Track listing

References

Albums produced by the Alchemist (musician)
2008 EPs
The Alchemist (musician) EPs


Ratchawithi Road, also spelled Rajvithi (, ) is a major road in Bangkok, Thailand. It begins in Ratchathewi district at Sam Liam Din Daeng Junction, where it intersects with Din Daeng Road and Ratchaprarop Road, and runs northwest, past Victory Monument Circle, through Dusit district, and ultimately crossing the Chao Phraya River on Krung Thon Bridge and ending in Bang Phlat district at Bang Phlat Intersection, where it intersects with Sirindhorn Road and Charan Sanitwong Road.

Ratchawithi Road was formerly known as Sang Hi Road (). It was originally constructed during the reign of King Chulalongkorn, as one of three new roads constructed at the time Dusit Palace was built, along with Lok Road (, now Rama V Road) and Duang Tawan Road (, now Si Ayutthaya Road). The name "Sang Hi" comes from Chinese (囍), and means "exceedingly happy".

The original road stretched only from behind Dusit Palace to the edge of the Chao Phraya. It was later expanded to connect to Ratchaprarop Road, and then extended across the river to Charan Sanitwong Road when the Krung Thon Bridge began construction in 1954. Because it connected the two sections of the former Sang Hi Road on either side of the river, the Krung Thong Bridge has been called by locals Sang Hi Bridge (, Saphan Sang Hi) since before it was officially christened. The intersection of Ratchawithi and Samsen roads, the final intersection before crossing the bridge on the east side of the river, is named Sang Hi Intersection.

The name was changed to Ratchawithi Road on February 16, 1918 by King Vajiravudh. The term is derived from the Pali/Sanskrit,  + , and means "royal way" or "king's road".

The stretch of the road from Victory Monument to Kamphaeng Phet 5 Road is lined with a large number of hospitals and health-related institutions. These include Rajavithi Hospital and Boromarajonani College of Nursing, the Institute of Dermatology, Queen Sirikit National Institute of Child Health (Children's Hospital), Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Phramongkutklao Hospital and College of Medicine, the Royal Thai Army Nursing College, Prasat Neurological Institute and the under-construction extension of Ramathibodi Hospital.

At Ratchawithi Intersection, where it meets Rama V Road near Chitralada Royal Villa and Dusit Zoo at about 6:30 am on Sunday October 14, 1973, there was a clash between a group of protesters demanding a constitution and  police. It escalated into a bloody uprising recorded in history known as "Oct 14 event".

References

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Transport in Bangkok
Ratchathewi district


The 14th Canadian Hussars was a light cavalry and later light armoured reconnaissance regiment of the Non-Permanent Active Militia of the Canadian Militia and later the Canadian Army. First raised in 1910 as the 27th Light Horse, the regiment was Redesignated in 1920 as the 14th Canadian Light Horse and again in 1940 as the 14th Canadian Hussars. On 31 March 1968, the regiment was reduced to nil strength and placed on the Supplementary Order of Battle.

Lineage

14th Canadian Hussars

 Originated on 1 April 1910, in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, as the 27th Light Horse.
 Redesignated on 15 March 1920, as the 14th Canadian Light Horse.
 Redesignated on 1 August 1940, as the 14th Canadian Hussars.
 Redesignated on 11 February 1941, as the 2nd (Reserve) Regiment, 14th Canadian Hussars.
 Redesignated on 1 April 1941, as the 8th (Reserve) Reconnaissance Battalion, (14th Canadian Hussars).
 Redesignated on 8 June 1942, as the 8th (Reserve) Reconnaissance Regiment, (14th Canadian Hussars), CAC.
 Redesignated on 2 August 1945, as the 8th (Reserve) Reconnaissance Regiment, (14th Canadian Hussars), RCAC.
 Redesignated on 19 June 1947, as the 8th Armoured Car Regiment (14th Canadian Hussars).
 Redesignated on 4 February 1949, as the 14th Canadian Hussars (8th Armoured Car Regiment).
 Redesignated on 31 July 1954, as the 14th Canadian Hussars (8th Armoured Regiment).
 Redesignated on 19 May 1958, as the 14th Canadian Hussars.
 Reduced to nil strength on 31 March 1968, and transferred to the Supplementary Order of Battle.

Perpetuations

 209th (Swift Current) Battalion, CEF

History

Early history
On 1 April 1910, the 27th Light Horse was authorized for service. The regiment had its regimental headquarters in Swift Current and had squadrons in Maple Creek and Swift Current.

First World War
On 6 August 1914, Details of the 27th Light Horse were placed on active service for local protection duties.

On 15 July 1916, the 209th (Swift Current) Battalion, CEF was authorized for service and on 1 November 1916, the battalion embarked for Great Britain. After arriving in the UK, on 5 December 1916, the battalion's personnel were absorbed by the 9th Reserve Battalion, CEF to provide reinforcements for the Canadian Corps in the field. On 21 May 1917, the 209th Battalion, CEF was disbanded.

1920s–1930s
On 15 March 1920, as a result of the post-war reorganization of the Canadian Militia following the Otter Commission, the 27th Light Horse was redesignated as 14th Canadian Light Horse.

Second World War
With the outbreak of World War II, the 14th Canadian Light Horse was not mobilized right away for service. On 1 August 1940, the regiment was redesignated as the 14th Canadian Hussars.

On 26 January 1941, the regiment mobilized the 14th (Active) Canadian Hussars, CASF for active service. On 11 February 1941, the regiment was converted to armour and redesignated as the 8th Reconnaissance Battalion (14th Canadian Hussars), CASF and later on 8 June 1942, as the 8th Reconnaissance Regiment (14th Canadian Hussars), CAC, CASF. Formed from reinforcements from Canada and personnel of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division in the United Kingdom, the regiment was organized as the reconnaissance regiment of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division. On 7 July 1944, the regiment landed in France along with the rest of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division, where it fought in North-West Europe until the end of the war. On 2 August 1945, the regiment was Redesignated as the 8th Reconnaissance Regiment (14th Canadian Hussars), RCAC, CASF. On 15 December 1945, the overseas regiment was disbanded.

Post war
After returning to Canada, the 14th Canadian Hussars resumed their role as an armoured regiment in the Canadian Army Reserve. On 19 June 1947, the regiment was redesignated the 8th Armoured Car Regiment (14th Canadian Hussars) and again on 19 May 1958, as the 14th Canadian Hussars. On 31 March 1965, the regiment's role was converted from that of an armoured regiment to a reconnaissance regiment. On 31 March 1968, as part of the major reorganization of the Canadian Armed Forces at the time, the 14th Canadian Hussars was reduced to nil strength (virtually disbanded) and placed on the Supplementary Order of Battle.

Lineage chart

Organization

27th Light Horse (1 April 1910)

 Regimental Headquarters (Moose Jaw)
 A Squadron (Maple Creek)
 B Squadron (Swift Current)

14th Canadian Light Horse (15 March 1920)

 Regimental Headquarters (Swift Current)
 HQ Squadron (Shaunavon)
 A Squadron (Maple Creek)
 B Squadron (Swift Current)
 C Squadron (Climax)

14th Canadian Hussars (31 March 1968)

 Headquarters Squadron (Swift Current)
 A Squadron (maintained a detached troop at Vanguard until 1954) (Swift Current)
 B Squadron (maintained a detached troop at Gull Lake until 1954) (Maple Creek)
 C Squadron (maintained a detached troop at Frontier until 1954) (Shaunavon)

Alliances

  14th King's Hussars (Until 1922)
  14th/20th The King's Royal Hussars (1922–1965)
  'Queen Alexandra's Mounted Rifles'

Battle honours
The battle honours in small capitals were awarded for participation in large operations and campaigns, while those in lowercase indicate honours granted for more specific battles. Battle honours in bold type are emblazoned on the regimental guidon.

First World War

 Ypres, 1915, '17
 Festubert, 1915
 Arras, 1917, '18
 Hill 70
 Amiens
 Hindenburg Line
 Pursuit to Mons

Second World War

 Caen
 Falaise
 Falaise Road
 Clair Tizon
 The Laison
 The Seine, 1944
 Antwerp–Turnhout Canal
 The Scheldt
 Woensdrecht
 South Beveland
 The Rhineland
 Twente Canal
 Groningen
 Oldenburg
 North-West Europe, 1944–1945

Notable members

 Brigadier-General George Tuxford
 Captain Bert Lawrence

See also

 List of regiments of cavalry of the Canadian Militia (1900–1920)

Notes

References

14th Canadian Hussars
Military units and formations of Saskatchewan
Supplementary Order of Battle


Charlotte Lee, Lady Baltimore (23 March 1678, (13 March 1678 OS) – 1 February 1721, (22 January 1721 OS), was an English noblewoman, and granddaughter of King Charles II of England and his mistress Barbara Villiers. She married in 1699, Benedict Leonard Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore, from whom she separated in 1705; she later married Christopher Crowe. She was the mother of Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, and of Benedict Leonard Calvert, who was Governor of Maryland from 1727 to 1731.

Early life
Lady Charlotte Lee was born on 13 March 1678 at St. James's Park, St. James, London.  She was the eldest of at least fourteen children of Edward Henry Lee, 1st Earl of Lichfield (4 February 1663 – 14 July 1716) and Lady Charlotte Fitzroy (5 September 1664 – 17 February 1718), illegitimate daughter of King Charles II by his mistress Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine, Duchess of Cleveland.

Lady Charlotte's mother was thirteen years old at the time of her birth, having married the Earl of Lichfield at the age of twelve. Her father was also only fifteen at the time of her birth

Her paternal grandparents were Sir Francis Henry Lee of Ditchley, 4th Baronet of Quarendon and Elizabeth Pope, daughter of Thomas Pope, 2nd Earl of Downe.

Marriage to Lord Baltimore

On 2 January 1699, at the age of twenty, she married her first husband Benedict Leonard Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore (21 March 1679 – 16 April 1715), son of Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore and Jane Lowe.

Charlotte assumed the title of Lady Baltimore in February 1715, when her husband succeeded to the title of 4th Baron Baltimore upon the death of his father, the third Baron Baltimore. The title of Proprietary Governor of the Province of Maryland had been lost to the third Baron during the Glorious Revolution and would be restored to Charles Calvert, the son of Charlotte and Benedict, upon the latter's death on 16 April 1715.

Charlotte and Lord Baltimore had six children:
 Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, 18th Proprietor Governor of Maryland, FRS (29 September 1699 – 24 April 1751), married Mary Janssen, daughter of Sir Theodore Janssen, 1st Baronet Janssen and Williamsa Henley, by whom he had three children, including Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore, Louisa Calvert, and Caroline Calvert. He also had an illegitimate son, by the name of Benedict Swingate Calvert, who settled in Maryland, and married his cousin Elizabeth Calvert.
 Hon. Benedict Leonard Calvert, Governor of Maryland, (1700–1731). He died 1 June 1732 on his passage home to England
 Hon. Edward Henry Calvert (born ca. 1700), held the office of Commissary General and President of the council of Maryland.
 Hon. Charlotte Calvert (died December 1744), married Thomas Breerwood, by whom she had a son, Francis Breerwood
 Hon. Jane Calvert (died July 1778), married John Hyde, with whom she had three children.
 Hon. Cecil Calvert (born 1702)

Charlotte and Lord Baltimore were separated in 1705. In 1706 Charlotte had an affair with Colonel Robert Fielding, then the bigamous husband of her grandmother the Duchess of Cleveland, and was rumoured to have borne a child by him, born on 23 April 1707.

In 1711, Lord Baltimore brought a Bill before the House of Lords (which adjudicated on matters of inheritance of titles and estates) to confirm his divorce from Lady Charlotte, their financial settlement, and that any subsequent children she bore would be declared illegitimate.

Marriage to Christopher Crowe
Lady Baltimore married her second husband Christopher Crowe (c.1681 – 9 November 1749), Consul at Leghorn, sometime before 10 December 1719. Charlotte was three years older than her husband. This marriage produced five more children:

 James Crowe (1715-1801), married Rebecca Sarah Crowberry (1717-1761)
 Christopher Crowe (1716–1776), married Barbara Duncombe
 Catherine Crowe (1717 – 1782), married Roger Henry Gale
 Charlotte Crowe (1718–1742)
 George Crowe (25 November 1719 – 10 October 1782), married Anne Swift, by whom he had a son, Robert.

Death and legacy
Charlotte Lee died of rheumatism on 22 January 1721 at Woodford Hall, Woodford, Essex. She was buried at Woodford on 29 January 1721. She died intestate and her estate was administered on 4 March 1721 at Woodford Hall.

In fiction
Charlotte Lee appears as a minor character in Anya Seton's historical romance Devil Water.

Ancestry

References

Sources
 G.E. Cokayne, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extanct, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910–1959)
 Antonia Fraser, King Charles II, Weidenfeld and Nicolson Ltd., London, 1979
 www.ThePeerage.com.pp. 7641,#76403
 Antonia Fraser, King Charles II'',p. 414

External links
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8th Reconnaissance Regiment may refer to:

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Met 107 is a radio station of MCOT Public company limited in Bangkok, Thailand.

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Following is a patience or card solitaire that uses a single pack of playing cards. It is so called because a player has to follow a rotation of suits. It was first described in 1892 in Games of Patience by Mary Whitmore Jones and has since appeared in other books and software.

Rules
At the onset, one has to lay six cards in a row; this will compose the tableau. The object is to remove the aces and build them up to kings. The catch of this game is the rotation of suits that the player must remember: A Club must be placed over a Heart, a Diamond over a Club, a Spade on a Diamond, and a Heart on a Spade. This rule applies to both the foundations and the tableau.

Building on the tableau is down, provided that the rotation of suits described above is followed. An entire sequence in any length can be moved, again retaining the rotation of suits. When the cards in the tableau are not sufficient for building, the stock is dealt one card at a time onto a wastepile. The top card of the wastepile can be used to build on the tableau and the foundations. Once the stock is used up, the wastepile is picked up to become the new stock. This can be done only once in the game. Also, spaces in the tableau can be filled up with any card, whether it is from one of the cards already in the tableau, the top card of the wastepile, or the next card from the stock.

The game ends soon after the stock runs out the second time. The game is out when all cards are built into the foundations, with the King of a foundation pile being the same suit as the Ace that started the pile.

See also
 List of patiences and solitaires
 Glossary of patience and solitaire terms

References

Bibliography
 Whitmore Jones, Mary (1892). Games of Patience for One or More Players. 3rd Series. London: L. Upcott Gill.

Single-deck patience card games
Simple packers


is a Japanese actress. Jazz pianist Yōsuke Yamashita is her parents' friend. She won the award for best actress at the 19th Hochi Film Award for Crest of Betrayal.

Filmography

Film
 cf girl (cfガール, 1989)
 Swimming Upstream (バタアシ金魚, 1990), Sonoko
 The River with No Bridge (橋のない川, 1992), Nanae Minemura
 Crest of Betrayal (忠臣蔵外伝 四谷怪談, 1994), Oiwa
 Kyoko (KYOKO, 1996), Kyoko
 Happy People  (HAPPY PEOPLE, 1997)
 Young Thugs: Nostalgia (岸和田少年愚連隊 望郷, 1998), Miss Itō
 Tales of Terror (怪談新耳袋「手袋」, 2004)
 Koi wa go-shichi-go! (恋は五・七・五!全国高校生俳句甲子園大会, 2004)
 Nureta akai ito (濡れた赫い糸, 2005)
 Female (female フィーメイル, 2005), Masako Kihara
 Desire (欲望, 2005)
 Nezu no ban (寝ずの番, 2006)
 Kanashiki Tenshi (悲しき天使, 2006)
 A Long Walk (長い散歩, 2006), Saichi's mother
 Like a Dragon (龍が如く 劇場版, 2007), Yumi Sawamura
 The Harimaya Bridge (The Harimaya Bridge はりまや橋, 2009), Noriko Kubo
 The Tempest 3D  (2012)
 Eden (2012)
 Lesson of Evil (2012)
 Love For Beginners (2012)
 Monster (2013)
 A Courtesan with Flowered Skin (2013)
 5-nijyu-Go (2014)
 Shinya Shokudo (2015), Tamako Kawashima
 Cosmetic Wars (2017)
 The Lowlife (2017)
 Snow Flower (2019)
 First Love (2021)
 Rika: Love Obsessed Psycho (2021), Rika Amamiya
 Masquerade Night (2021)
 Just Remembering (2022)
 In Love and Deep Water (2023), Misaki Kuruma

Television
 Tekkōki Mikazuki (2000)
 Gunshi Kanbei (2014), Okon
 Rika (2019), Rika Amamiya
 Detective Yuri Rintaro (2020), Sakura Hara
 Rika: Rebirth (2021), Rika Amamiya
 Welcome Home, Monet (2021), Satoko Takamura

References

External links

profile - yahoo.co.jp (ja)
filmography - allcinema.net (ja)

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Stephen Switzer (1682–1745) was an English gardener, garden designer and writer on garden subjects, often credited as an early exponent of the English landscape garden.  He is most notable for his views of the transition between the large garden, still very formal in his writings, and the surrounding countryside, especially woodland.

He himself called his intended style the "Natural and Rural way of Gardens", and a modern garden historian has termed it the "English Forest Style", turning sites such as Wray Wood behind Castle Howard into "a network of meandering walks creating a sort of labyrinth woodland".  But his main work on the subject, Ichnographica Rustica, or The Nobleman, Gentleman, and Gardener's recreation (1715–18) came rather too early for the flood of new American trees and shrubs that led to the development of the shrubbery a generation later, and subsequently the woodland garden, and Switzer's schemes for the more distant parts of sites from the house seem to have firmly remained woodland rather than garden.  Like many later gardening writers, his views are often expressed with more intemperate fervour than clarity.

Although he had never travelled abroad to see them,  Switzer admired and emulated the formal grandeur of French broad prospects and woodland avenues, finding in the state of horticulture an index of cultural health, in Augustan Rome as in contemporary Britain, where August Designs [his example is Blenheim Palace], denote that Greatness of Mind that reigns in the English Nobility and Gentry".

His landscape design principles parallel those expressed in Alexander Pope's Epistle to Lord Burlington and the views on "natural" gardening expressed in essays by Joseph Addison, but his rejection of formality was perhaps rather limited by later standards.  The contrast between the text and the illustrations in the Ichnographica, which show highly formal gardens with fearsomely high and straight clipped hedges, "has puzzled historians for many years", and perhaps results from a lack of communication with the illustrator, or a loss of nerve.

Life and work

Switzer received sufficient early training in Hampshire to be taken on as a garden boy working for George London and Henry Wise in their  Brompton  nursery, in Kensington, now part of London.

Rising through the ranks of the largest nursery and landscaping operation of the day, Switzer helped execute London's designs at Castle Howard, Yorkshire (from 1706), notably the wilderness, at Cirencester Park, Gloucestershire (from about 1713), and at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire. Switzer also designed the garden at Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire (about 1716). He is credited with the landscaping of Leeswood Hall, Flintshire, for Sir George Wynne in the 1720s.

In 1715 Switzer published a work on "Forest, or Rural Gardening", The Nobleman, Gentleman, and Gardener's Recreation, which he expanded to form his Ichnographia (1718; lightly revised and enlarged with two further essays as Ichnographia Rustica 1741–42). He also published The Practical Husbandman and Planter (1733) and An Introduction to a General System of Hydrostaticks and Hydraulicks (1729).

Ichnographia seems targeted "at the owners of villas who sought a small estate near London", recognising that "the Fatigues of Court and Senate often force the illustrious Patriots of their Country to retreat, and breathe the sweet and fragrant Air of gardens", many of which were on gentle hills.  He advised that "all the adjacent Country be laid open to view", showing the "extensive charms of Nature, and the voluminous Tracts of a pleasant County", still a realistic hope at that date.

He distinguished between city and country gardens, and saw no point in growing flowers in the latter, as "the nobler Diversions of the Country take place ... [after the end of May] ... when the Beauty of Flowers is gone, and Borders are like Graves, and rather a Blemish than Beauty to our finest gardens".  Even in 1715 this was a considerable exaggeration, but not a complete one.  He was always concerned with the cost of gardening, and opposed walled gardens, except for some fruit in the kitchen garden, most landscaping, topiary ("monstrous shapes of Screws, Monkeys, Giants etc.") and expensive exotic plants.

Switzer included the first lengthy historical sketch of the progress of gardening in England in The Nobleman, Gentleman, and Gardener's Recreation was vocal in the criticism of topiary and the formality of the "Dutch Garden" and introduced the term ferme ornée, the "ornamental farm" integrating the "useful" and "profitable" aspects of kitchen gardening and animal husbandry  with apparently artless beautiful and charming views and details.

His main rival in the practical, though not the literary, aspects of early tentative exercises in "naturalistic" planting schemes was Charles Bridgeman, another gardener trained by London and Wise. Coming from Cambridgeshire, Bridgeman probably escaped Switzer's scorn for "several Northern Lads which ... by the help of a little Learning, and a great deal of Impudence ... invade the Southern provinces and ... pretend to know more in one Twelve-month, than a laborious, honest Southern Countryman does in Seven Years ... ."  Capability Brown (1716–1783), from Kirkharle in distant Northumberland, may not have done.

Selected publications
 1715-18: Ichnographica Rustica, or The Nobleman, Gentleman, and Gardener's recreation. Volume 1; Volume 2; Volume 3.
 1724: The Practical Fruit Gardener.
 1727: The Practical Kitchen Gardener.
 1729: Introduction to Hydrostatics and Hydraulics. Volume 1; Volume 2.
 1731: Cythisus of the Ancients.
 1733–1734: The Practical Husband and Planter. or, Observations on the Ancient and Modern Husbandry, Planting and Gardening, Etc. Monthly journal. Volume 1 ; Volume 2.
 1734: Universal System of Water and Water Works. 2 Vol.

Notes

References
Johnston, Mark, The Tree Experts: A History of Professional Arboriculture in Britain, 2021, Windgather Press, , google books
Quest-Ritson, Charles, The English Garden: A Social History, 2003, Penguin,
Uglow, Jenny, A Little History of British Gardening, 2004, Chatto & Windus,

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Aleksandrs Ņiživijs (born September 16, 1976) is a former Latvian professional ice hockey player. His last club was Dinamo Riga of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). He was also a regular Latvia national ice hockey team player.

International play
He was named to the Latvia men's national ice hockey team for competition at the 2014 IIHF World Championship. He competed for Latvia at the Winter Olympics in 2002, 2006, and 2010.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

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Dinamo Riga players
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Wang Yun (, 1228–1304), was a writer of Chinese Sanqu poetry from Weizhou (卫州, in modern Henan province). He was born during the Jin dynasty, but became an official under the Yuan Dynasty. Initially a local official, he was given a series of appointments in Central Region, Henan Jiangbei and Jiangzhe provinces starting in 1268. Later he was summoned to the capital where he served in the Hanlin Academy. At twenty, he became the acquaintance of the renowned writer Yuan Haowen. He was a noted prose stylist in the Tang manner of unadorned directness. His poetry often depicted the downtrodden and the poor. His collected works in one-hundred fascicles is extant. A biography of Wang exists in the official history of the Yuan Dynasty (). Forty-one of his sanqu are extant.

Translations
(Yuediao: Pinghuyue)

Untitled

1.

Autumn green lotuses

And a calm lake stitched with clouds.

A cassia boat sews the moistness.

A song, a full cup of wine

Relieve the sorrow.

How can a man's life be as before?

When drunk I remember;

Then as now there were flowering branches,

Though now they blush above this old man's head.

(Yuediao: Pinghuyue)

On the Birthday of Mrs. Li

1.

The eyes enjoy a person at peace.

Your bracelets and ornaments are graced with fragrance.

The gem in the grotto shows its luster.

Eight thousand springs!

Mists announce this letter of long life,

I buy another cup of wine.

You, goddess by the vast sea,

Watch in peace

The stirrings of the world's dust.

See also
 Qu (poetry)

References
 Hu Qiaomu ed., The Great Encyclopedia of China, Chinese Literature, vol. 2, Beijing-Shanghai, 1986, p. 910.
 Lu Weifen and Wu Gengshun ed., Complete Yuan Period Sanqu Lyrics, Liaoning, 2000, vol. 1, pp. 144–51.
 Ma Liangchun　and Li Futian ed., The Great Encyclopedia of Chinese Literature, Tianlu, 1991, vol. 2, p. 658.
 Carpenter, Bruce E. 'Chinese San-ch’ü Poetry of the Mongol Era: I', Tezukayama Daigaku kiyo (Journal of Tezukayama University), Nara, Japan, no. 22, pp. 34–5.

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1304 deaths
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Reverend Henry Watson Barnard (10 January 1792 – 9 July 1855) was an English clergyman and amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket between 1815 and 1823. He served in the Church of England in Somerset and was a canon of Wells Cathedral.

Early and professional life
Barnard was born at Chislehurst in Kent in 1792, the son of the Edward and Mary Ann Barnard (née Beadon). His father served in the West Kent troop of the Yeomanry Cavalry at Chislehurst from their formation in 1793 before being ordained in the Church of England in 1797. Barnard's grandfather, also Edward, was a clergyman who had been a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge and was the Headmaster of Eton College between 1754 and 1765 and the College Provost from 1765 until his death in 1781. Barnard's mother Mary Ann was the daughter of Edward Beadon, the vicar of St Nicolas Church, North Stoneham in Hampshire. She married his father, who had also attended St John's, in 1784.

Along with his three brothers, Barnard was educated at Eton. He went up to St John's, Cambridge in 1811, graduating in 1815. He was ordained and appointed as the Vicar of Pilton in Somerset in 1816. In 1826 he moved to become the Vicar of Compton Bishop, before serving as the Vicar of Yatton between 1830 and 1846. From 1817 until his death in 1855 he was Prebendary of Wells Cathedral and from 1833 to 1855 was the Rector of St Cuthbert's Church, Wells and a Canon of Wells Cathedral. He also served as a Justice of the Peace.

Cricket
Barnard played cricket at school and was in the Eton team for the inaugural Eton v Harrow match in 1805. He played in five first-class cricket matches between 1815 and 1823, making his first-class debut for a Kent XI against an England side in 1815 at Wrotham Napps, playing alongside his brother John Barnard who also made his debut in the same match. He played for Old Etonians against the Gentlemen of England in 1816 and 1817 and for MCC against a Hampshire side in 1818. His final first-class match was at Chislehurst Common for Kent against MCC in 1823. He scored a total of 76 runs, with his highest score of 40 made for Old Etonians in 1817. He also took five wickets in his five first-class matches, four of them in the same match for Old Etonians.

John Barnard played in a total of 18 first-class matches and was President of MCC in 1829–30. Another of Barnard's brothers, George, also played first-class cricket, playing twice for Cambridge University in 1825 and 1826, having captained Eton whilst at school.

Family
In 1819 Barnard married Eleanor Clerk, the daughter of Major Thomas Clerk of Westholme House, Pilton. His father-in-law had served in the East India Company Army and purchased the house in 1800. The couple had five children, three daughters and two sons. One of their sons, Henry John Barnard, followed Barnard as the Vicar of Yatton, where he served between 1846 and 1884, and was also Prebendary at Wells. Their younger son, Edward Thomas Barnard, served in the 21st (Royal North British Fusilier) Regiment of Foot between 1846 and 1850 before migrating to Australia where he served as Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Colony of Victoria.

Barnard died of cholera at Granada in Spain in 1855. He was 63.

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John Barnard  (6 July 1794 – 17 November 1878) was an English amateur first-class cricketer who was a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge between 1817 and 1878. Barnard was the President of the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1829 and a noted collector of decorative porcelain.

Life
Barnard was born at Chislehurst in Kent in 1792, the son of the Edward and Mary Ann Barnard (née Beadon). His father served in the West Kent troop of the Yeomanry Cavalry at Chislehurst from their formation in 1793 before being ordained in the Church of England in 1797. Barnard's grandfather, also Edward, was a clergyman who had been a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge and was the Headmaster of Eton College between 1754 and 1765 and the College Provost from 1765 until his death in 1781. Barnard's mother Mary Ann was the daughter of Edward Beadon, the vicar of St Nicolas Church, North Stoneham in Hampshire. She married his father, who had also attended St John's, in 1784.

Along with his three brothers, Barnard was educated at Eton. He was Captain of Montem in 1814. He went up to King's College, Cambridge in 1814 as a scholar, graduating in 1818. He was elected as a Fellow of the college in 1817, retaining his position for the rest of his life.

During his life, Barnard was a collector of antique china and porcelain. He was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1855 and his collection of decorative porcelain was sold by Sotheby's after his death. His entry in Alumni Cantabrigienses also noted that he attended The Derby each year for more than 50 years. He was Senior Fellow at King's when he died in his rooms at the college in 1878 aged 84 and is buried in Mill Road Cemetery in Cambridge.

Cricket
A wicket-keeper, Barnard is not known to have played cricket whilst at school. He made his first-class debut for a Kent XI against an England side in 1815 at Wrotham Napps, playing alongside his brother Henry Watson Barnard who also made his debut in the same match. He played in a total of 18 first-class matches for a variety of sides, most of which were connected to the MCC. He first played for the club in non-first-class matches in 1816. He played twice more for Kent sides in 1822 and twice for Sussex sides in 1830, the final two first-class matches of his career. He appeared three times for the Gentlemen against the Players, playing in the match in 1822, 1825 and 1829, and was President of MCC in 1829–30.

Henry Watson Barnard, who was a clergyman, played in five first-class matches. Another of Barnard's brothers, George, also played first-class cricket, playing twice for Cambridge University in 1825 and 1826, having captained Eton whilst at school.

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William Borradaile (10 July 1792 – 16 March 1838) was an English amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1815 to 1832.  Mainly associated with Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), he made 3 known appearances in first-class matches.  He played for the Gentlemen in the 1832 Gentlemen v Players match.

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Henry James Lloyd (2 February 1794 – 3 September 1853) was an English amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1815 to 1830.

Lloyd was born at Marylebone, London. Mainly associated with Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), he made 34 known appearances in first-class matches.  He played for several predominantly amateur teams including the Gentlemen in the Gentlemen v Players series. He died at Brighton, Sussex.

References

External links
 CricketArchive profile

Sources

Further reading
 H S Altham, A History of Cricket, Volume 1 (to 1914), George Allen & Unwin, 1962
 Derek Birley, A Social History of English Cricket, Aurum, 1999
 Rowland Bowen, Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1970

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Thomas Lord junior (), was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1815 to 1816. Mainly associated with Middlesex, he made five known appearances in first-class matches. He was the son of Thomas Lord, founder of Lord's Cricket Ground.

Early life
Lord was born in 1794 and christened on 27 December 1794 at Marylebone. He died in 1875 at Westminster, London.

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Charles Mitford (31 May 1785 in England – 30 October 1831 at Brighton, Sussex) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket in 1815.  Mainly associated with Middlesex, he made 2 known appearances in first-class matches.

References

External links
 CricketArchive profile

Sources

Further reading
 H S Altham, A History of Cricket, Volume 1 (to 1914), George Allen & Unwin, 1962
 Derek Birley, A Social History of English Cricket, Aurum, 1999
 Rowland Bowen, Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1970

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Gustavus T. Smith (born c.1800 in England; died 6 January 1875 at Alderminster, Wiltshire) was an English amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1815 to 1823.  Mainly associated with Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), he made 5 known appearances in first-class matches.

References

External links
 CricketArchive profile

Sources

Further reading
 H S Altham, A History of Cricket, Volume 1 (to 1914), George Allen & Unwin, 1962
 Derek Birley, A Social History of English Cricket, Aurum, 1999
 Rowland Bowen, Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1970

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Charles Town (born 1796 at Sutton Valence, Kent; died 31 July 1845 at Sandgate, Folkestone, Kent) was an English amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1815 to 1823. Mainly associated with Kent, he made three known appearances in first-class matches.

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John Henry Kirwan (25 December 1816 – 13 June 1899) was an English amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1836 to 1842.  Mainly associated with Cambridge University Cricket Club, he made 18 known appearances in first-class matches and had three brothers who all played first-class cricket.

Career
Kirwan, a right arm fast roundarm bowler, was known as "Wacky". He "bowled jerkily with a low arm, but at a very fast pace". He made his name as a schoolboy player at Eton College, his outstanding performance being to take all ten MCC wickets (all bowled) in 1835. He took a total of 26 wickets in just two matches for Eton that season. He went up to King's College, Cambridge in the same year, and played for the University team thereafter, his cricket career ending when he finally left Cambridge in 1842 to become a curate at St Feock in Cornwall.

Kirwan had an outstanding first-class debut in May 1836 when he played for the university versus Cambridge Town Club at Parker's Piece and took 15 wickets (all bowled) with six in the first innings and nine in the second.

Kirwan's overall first-class career record was 108 wickets (i.e., bowled only) in just 18 matches, a very high rate of six wickets per game.  His 9 wickets on debut was his best single performance. He took 5 wickets in an innings 11 times and 10 wickets in a match 3 times. He was less successful as a right-handed batsman, scoring just 293 runs with a highest of 41. He is credited with only 3 catches and so was almost certainly an outfielder.

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William Meyrick (1808 – 17 February 1846) was a Welsh amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1828 to 1837. He was called to the bar in 1835.

Cricket career
Mainly associated with Cambridge University Cricket Club and Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), Meyrick made 9 known appearances in first-class matches.  He played for the Gentlemen in the 1837 Gentlemen v Players match.

Meyrick was a right-handed batsman. He made his name as a schoolboy player at Winchester in 1826 when he made a century against Harrow School and other good scores against Eton. Proceeding to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1828, he was unable to recapture this form at Cambridge where he made just 135 runs in his 9 matches, including a highest score of 21.

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John Brian Morrissey is a co-founder of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.

Born in Dungarvan, Ireland, he graduated from University College Dublin with a degree in veterinary medicine and became a member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in 1965.

He immigrated to Canada in 1968, and joined the Food Production and Inspection Branch of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and held several positions including Director General of the Food Inspection Directorate, and Assistant Deputy Minister (ADM) of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. Between 1990 and 1992, he served as ADM of the Science Branch at Fisheries and Oceans Canada and in 1992, he was appointed ADM of the Research Branch at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.

In 2001, he was awarded Canada's "Outstanding Achievement Award", and in 2004 was presented with the French Ministry of Agriculture's professional designation known as "Knight of the Order of Agricultural Merit" for advancing Franco-Canadian cooperation in research.

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Wrecks To Riches was an American reality television show shown on Discovery channel. Season one premiered on March 28, 2006. The second and final season ended on June 14, 2007. The show focused on Barry White and his staff buying old cars for little money and turning them into Super Muscle cars. There was usually a deadline of between three and four weeks to complete the cars after which they were auctioned off at various locations around the United States. One of the completed cars has even been auctioned on eBay.

Episode list - Season 1

Episode list - Season 2

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Jaime Boyer (née Cruickshank; born January 4, 1986) is a Canadian Olympic bobsledder who competed in the sport from 2004–08. Her best finish in the Bobsleigh World Cup was second in the two-woman event at Lake Placid in December 2006.

She finished fourth in the mixed bobsleigh-skeleton team event at the 2007 FIBT World Championships in St. Moritz.

She also finished 13th in the two-woman event at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.

Jaime had since decided to retire from the Canadian World Cup Bobsleigh team in late 2008.

References
FIBT profile

1986 births
Living people
Bobsledders at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Canadian female bobsledders
Olympic bobsledders for Canada
21st-century Canadian women