Charles Young (January 12, 1893 – May 12, 1952) nicknamed "CY", was a professional baseball pitcher. He played for one season in Major League Baseball, appearing in 9 games for the Baltimore Terrapins of the Federal League during the 1915 season.

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The Pont d'Aël is a Roman aqueduct located in a village of the same name in the comune of Aymavilles in Aosta Valley, northern Italy. It was built in the year 3BC  for  irrigation purposes and supplying water for the newly founded colony of Augusta Praetoria, which is now known as Aosta. The water was directed through a neighbouring valley 66 m above the floor of the  Aosta valley, through a sophisticated system. The aqueduct is 6 km long in total. In addition to its unusual position, the construction, which was originally thought to be a three-story structure, shows more unique features such as a control corridor below the water line, as well as explicit private funding. Today, the water channel of the aqueduct serves as a public walking trail.

Besides the Pont d'Aël, two other Roman bridges in the Aosta valley are still intact: the Pont-Saint-Martin in the town of the same name and the Pont de Pierre in Aosta.

Research and function

The bridge traverses the Grand Eyvia river at Pont d’Aël next to the entrance to the Cogne Valley, 8 km West of Aosta. Pingone recorded the first description, along with a sketch in the year 1550. Further illustrations were contributed by  Baron de Malzen in 1826 and Aubert in 1860, which already showed the construction  in its present form. Barocelli added measurements from 1864 after excavations on the eastern edge of the bridge in 1930.

A complete survey and documentation was first carried out in 1996 by Mathias Döring. Here it was discovered that the bridge  was used to transport iron ore, as previously thought, but belonged to the growing colony of Augusta Praetoria Salassorum (modern Aosta), used as an irrigation pipeline for agricultural land and a washery for the iron ore in Cogne. The idea of it being a water supply for Augusta Praetoria was ruled out, because the town itself is supplied from the nearby river Buthier. Nevertheless, the water may have also been used, in addition to its main economic function, to meet local drinking water needs.

Irrigation line

One end of the 6 km long pipeline opened onto a 200 hectare farm situated in west Aosta, 50 to 150 m above the main river Dora Baltea using a gradient line from the neighbouring valley. On the way the water was diverted for ore washing, probably located near the village of Aymavilles. The technical difficulties in laying the pipeline along the steep rock faces of the Cogne valley were solved by the Roman engineers by using a gravity pipeline. The water from the Grand Eyvia, which is diverted 2.9 km above the Pont d’Aël, was directed downhill onto the steep slopes of the Cogne valley in open channels with an average gradient of 6.6 per mille. Tunnels or qanats were formed due to the hard rockface. The  line was cut as a half-gallery in the rocky slope, so that a parapet, up to 3 m high, was formed that ended in the bedrock on the valley side. The advantage of this method was that unlike a normal tunneling process, the tunneling work could start at any number of points because it was easily visible. This meant there was a significant decrease in the construction time. Such half-galleries in Roman engineering can only be found rarely  in particularly rough terrain, such as at the water line of Side in Turkey.

In the flatter areas they decided on a two to four meter wide terrace, through which the line ran as a rectangular brick canal with cover tiles. Overall the line traverses 2.25 km down a slope and then 0.6 km down a rocky path to Pont d'Aël. The other pipeline underneath the bridge could not be investigated because of construction and agricultural use; the end point could possibly be situated in the said irrigation zone in what is today known as the village of Aymavilles.

Construction

The  and  bridge is the only possible crossing point over the  and up to  canyon of the Grand Eyvia. Its only arch spans the gorge, which here is only 12 m wide but 66 m deep, with a span of 14.24 m. The bridge arch consists of a single key stone. On the lower floor of the bridge, which was once probably three stories high, a  corridor served to verify the density of the overlying water pipe in antiquity. On both sides of this  control corridor there are two rows of small windows from which the lower floor and the upper ceiling are illuminated so that the bridge keeper could quickly identify leaking water, which could have damaged the stonework with frost. Döring was able to prove beyond reasonable doubt the existence of the ancient aqueduct, where the trail runs today, on the basis of the altitude and course of the preserved remains of the walls, as well as a subsequent tunnel west of the bridge. It was 1.90 m high and 1.0 m wide. At the time the third floor was possibly an open walkway, which gave the building a total height of 22.15 m.

Bridge inscription
IMP CAESARE AVGVSTO XIII COS DESIG
C AVILLIVS C F CAIMVS PATAVINVS
PRIVATVM

Completed:
Imperatore Caesare Augusto XIII consule designato
Gaius Avillius Gaii filius Caimus Patavinus
privatum

Translated:
"When emperor Caesare Augustus was consul for the 13th time"
"Caius Avillius Caimus from Padua, son of Caius, [built this bridge]"
"using private funds"

Sources

See also
 Roman bridge
 List of Roman bridges
 Roman architecture
 Roman engineering

External links

 Mathias Döring: Roman Irrigation Aqueduct in Aosta/Italy
 Pont d'Aël : le pont-aqueduc romain
 Aqueduc.info: L’histoire d’un aqueduc devenu chemin muletier

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Turmstraße (Tower street) is a main street in the Berlin district of Moabit.

The street runs along the "Kleiner Tiergarten" park, and past the Moabit courthouse.

Turmstraße is also the name of an U-Bahn stop on the U9.

Moabit Courthouse and Moabit Hospital are located over here, as shown in the images on the right.

External links
 Complete path of the Turmstraße 1837

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Jeremy Gardiner (born 26 April 1957) is a contemporary landscape painter who has been based in the United Kingdom and the United States. His work has been featured in books. It has also been reviewed in The Boston Globe, Miami Herald, The New York Times, and British newspapers including The Guardian and The Observer.

Early life and education
Jeremy Gardiner was born in Münster, Germany. He was educated at Newcastle University, UK (BA Hons in Fine Art, 1975–79) and the Royal College of Art in London (MA in Painting, 1980–83), where he was awarded a John Minton Scholarship.

Work themes

Gardiner seeks to capture the genius loci or a sense of place, with his artworks having been compared with those of Paul Nash and Graham Sutherland. His paintings are the product of a long engagement with coastal landscapes in Britain. He has continued the approach to landscapes of 20th-century St Ives modernist artists such as Peter Lanyon, Ben Nicholson, and John Tunnard. Gardiner's landscape subjects have included locations from the Jurassic Coast, especially in Dorset, and the coastline of Cornwall, in southern England.

Jeremy Gardiner's work Purbeck Light Years used hybrid techniques combining computer animation, painting and drawing, and immersive virtual reality. Gardiner also worked on a project Light Years Coast, a virtual recreation of the Jurassic Coast in Dorset.

Fellowships, grants, and awards
During 1984-86, Gardiner was a US Harkness Fellow in the MIT Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States. Also in 1984, he was awarded a UK Churchill Fellowship.

Gardiner was the winner of the 2003 Peterborough Art prize for the work Purbeck Light Years. In 2013, he was awarded The Discerning Eye ING Art Prize for the work Pendeen Lighthouse Cornwall.

In 2017, Gardiner was awarded a Senior Fellowship by the UK Higher Education Academy, in 2020 he was awarded an Arts Council England Grant, and in 2022 he was awarded a British Council UK-China Connections through Culture Grant.

Exhibitions
Gardiner's work has been exhibited widely, including: A Panoramic View at the Pallant House Gallery in Chichester; Exploring the Elemental at The Nine British Art, St James's, London; Shorelines at St Barbe Museum, Lymington; Drawn to the Coast at the Paisnel Gallery, London; and South by Southwest at The Nine British Art, London.

In 2021, Gardiner's work was included in the Chengdu Tianfu Art Museum as part of the Chengdu Biennale, China.

Selected solo exhibitions
2013: Unfolding Landscape, Kings Place Gallery, London, UK
2013: Jeremy Gardiner, ING, City of London, UK
2015: Jurassic Coast, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, UK
2016: Pillars of Light, The Nine British Art, London, UK
2018: Geology of Landscape, Candida Stevens Gallery, Chichester, UK
2019: Tintagel to Lulworth Cove, The Nine British Art, London, UK
2020: South by Southwest, St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery, Lymington, UK
2022: Contraband, Candida Stevens Gallery, Chichester, UK

Selected group exhibitions
1986: 42nd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2010: Earthscapes, Geology and Geography, Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton, Devon, UK
2015–16: Facing History, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
2021–22: Superfusion, Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu, China

Works in collections
Jeremy Gardiner’s paintings are held in international collections in the United Kingdom including Hatton Gallery, Pallant House Gallery, Southampton City Art Gallery, Victoria Art Gallery, and elsewhere. Other collections with his work include BNP Paribas, London; Davis Polk & Wardwell, Paris; Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi (Eni), Milan; Government Art Collection, London; Imperial College Art Collection, London; ING Group, Amsterdam; NYNEX Corporate Collection, USA; Pinsent Masons; Royal College of Art Collection, London; Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), London.

Academic positions
In parallel with being an artist, Jeremy Gardiner has held academic positions at Birkbeck, University of London, the University of West London, Bath Spa University, the University of Florida, Printmaking at the Royal College of Art, Department of Digital Arts at the Pratt Institute (New York), the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a full professor position at Ravensbourne University London in east London.

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Sand Springs or Sand Spring can be:

Places
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Jersey Airways was an airline that operated air services to and from the Channel Islands from 1933 until 1947, when it became part of British European Airways.

History
Jersey Airways Limited was formed by Walter Thurgood on 9 December 1933. The first commercial service took place on 18 December; a passenger service from Jersey to Portsmouth. In the absence of a proper airport, the aircraft used St. Aubin's beach at West Park, St. Helier, and the airline had its maintenance base at Portsmouth Airport, (moving to Southampton Airport in 1935).
On Sunday, 28 January 1934, the first flights began from Heston Aerodrome in Middlesex (with a special bus connection from London) to Jersey, in March 1934 flights began from Southampton, and during summer 1934, a service was operated to Paris. In its first full year, Jersey Airways carried 20,000 passengers, using a fleet of eight de Havilland DH.84 Dragons, each capable of carrying eight passengers.

On 1 December 1934, Channel Islands Airways was registered as a holding company for Jersey Airways Ltd. and its subsidiary Guernsey Airways Ltd. which had been formed a week earlier.
Shares were bought by the Great Western Railway and the Southern Railway. This allowed expansion, and in 1935, six four-engined de Havilland DH.86 Expresses and two de Havilland Dragon Rapides were introduced to replace the Dragons. On 8 January 1935, a service began to Rennes in France, although on 29 March 1935 it ceased. In April 1936, a Plymouth-Jersey service began, and in 1938 to Exeter, Dinard and Shoreham.

Jersey Airport opened on 10 March 1937, and Jersey Airways was able to operate a fixed timetable that no longer depended on the state of the tides. This also meant the company obtained the mail-carrying contract, freight traffic increased, and night flights could begin.

Meanwhile, in Guernsey, things were at a less advanced stage, and most air services were those by flying boats and amphibians. Guernsey Airways was very much smaller than its sister company in Jersey. Two flying boats were used: Saro Windhover G-ABJP and Saro Cloud G-ABXW, named "Cloud of Iona". In May 1939, Guernsey's new airport was opened. On 8 May 1939, Guernsey Airways began a service to Southampton, using a DH.86A (G-ADVK) and a DH.86B (G-AENR), later joined by a DH.95 Flamingo (G-AFUF). In June 1939, the prototype Flamingo (G-AFUE) was evaluated by Jersey Airways, but further orders for the type were frustrated by world events.

At the outbreak of war on 3 September 1939, flights to the Channel Islands ceased. In November 1939, services resumed from Shoreham, under the direction of National Air Communications. On 13 June 1940, all scheduled air services between the United Kingdom and the Channel Islands were suspended. The following day, Jersey Airways began flying its staff and equipment to the United Kingdom mainland, and on 18–19 June 1940, the DH.86 fleet was used to evacuate 320 islanders to the mainland, before German forces occupied the islands on 1 July 1940. One DH.86 (G-ADVK) was on overhaul at Jersey at the time, and was abandoned; the rest of the fleet was impressed into RAF service.

Following the liberation of the islands in 1945, Channel Islands Airways resumed scheduled services in June 1945, using ex-RAF DH.89A Dragon Rapides. Jersey Airways and Guernsey Airways flights then terminated at Southampton and at Croydon Airport. In May 1946, a Bristol 170 Wayfarer (G-AGVB) was loaned to Channel Islands Airways.

In 1947, the British government nationalised the UK airlines, including Jersey Airways, to form British European Airways (BEA). The Channel Islands authorities resisted this move, feeling that it was unacceptable to be dictated to by the British Government, who had no legal jurisdiction over the islands. However it was made plain that flights from the Channel Islands would not otherwise be allowed to land in England, and consequently on 1 April 1947, the airline staff, the eight Dragon Rapides and their routes all became part of BEA.

Fleet 1933-1940

Accidents
 29 June 1936: de Havilland DH.84 Dragon Rozel Bay overshot Alderney Airport. It was landing with six passengers on board and the pilot, Mr Martin, a pilot new to the airline, ran out of runway, breaking the starboard propeller, and damaging the undercarriage as he hit a bank. He had the choice of hitting six cows or the bank; he chose the bank. There were no fatalities, and the aircraft flew soon after.
 31 July 1936: Saro A.19 Cloud amphibian G-ABXW "Cloud of Iona" went missing on a flight from Guernsey to Jersey on a stormy evening. All ten occupants died. The investigation concluded that the aircraft was forced to land in the sea due to loss of engine power, and was then swamped by the waves.
 4 November 1938: DH.86 G-ACZN "St. Catherine's Bay" crashed at St. Peter's shortly after take-off from Jersey airport, en route to Southampton. All 13 occupants were killed in addition to one person on the ground.

See also
 List of defunct airlines of the United Kingdom

Notes

References
Doyle, Neville. 1991. From Sea-Eagle to Flamingo: Channel Islands Airlines 1923-1939.
Jackson, A.J. (1974). British Civil Aircraft since 1919 Vol 2. Putnam.
Scott-Hill, I & Behrend, G. Channel Silver Wings. Jersey Artists, 1972
Sherwood, Tim. 1999. Coming in to Land: A Short History of Hounslow, Hanworth and Heston Aerodromes 1911-1946. Heritage Publications

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Lenie () is a village and a former municipality in the Elbasan County, in central Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Gramsh. The population at the 2011 census was 779. It comprises six villages:
Shënepremte (), the center of the commune, also known as Lenie
Bicaj
Kuratë
Grabovë e Poshtme
Grabovë e Sipërme ()
Valth (Tarragjin)

Geography
The commune is the southeasternmost one of Elbasan County. It is surrounded by mountains, whereas the stream of Grabova, flowing east to west from Valamara mountain, into Devoll river, divides the area in two parts. To the north the commune borders with Komjan mountain, in the south lies Sogor mountain (), to the east it borders with Valamara mountain and to the southeast with Lenia mountain. The whole region slopes gradually down to the Devoll valley in the western part. Archaeological evidences tell the region was inhabited from ancient times. It is possible to visit the ruins of a medieval castle of the 14th century.

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John Donald Millar (February 27, 1934 – August 30, 2015) was a physician and public health administrator who rose to prominence as the director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health from 1981 through 1993.

Education
Donald Millar was born February 27, 1934, in Newport News, Virginia, to Dorothea (née Smith) and John Millar. Donald attended the University of Richmond, earning a B.S. in chemistry in 1956. He continued his education at the Medical College of Virginia. In 1957, he married Joan Phillips and two years later he completed his M.D. He completed his residency at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.

Millar began working for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 1961. Beginning in 1963 he directed CDC's Smallpox Eradication Program and its predecessors, an effort he led until 1970. In 1966, he was awarded a D.T.P.H. (Lond.)—a degree equivalent to a Master's of Public Health degree in the United States—from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Early career
Millar began working for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health under then-director John Finklea. Finklea was the Institute's second director. Since taking over the head spot in 1975 from Dr. Marcus M. Key, Finklea had tried to change the Institute's direction, taking a more aggressive approach than Key had. Finklea began to feel pressure to resign from stakeholders inside and outside of the organization. He resigned abruptly in March, 1978, which left Millar as NIOSH's acting director. Millar held the post, sorting out conflicts within the Institute, until Anthony Robbins was appointed director 1979. Following Robbins's appointment, Millar was hired as the director of the National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH). He served in that capacity until Robbins resigned in 1981. Millar was appointed in his place as director of NIOSH, a position he held until 1993.

NIOSH Director
In his more than decade as director of NIOSH, Millar established the Institute as a mature organization. He expanded NIOSH's focus beyond chemical hazards, an area which had consumed the attention of his predecessors. He led studies concerning such varied topics as vibration syndrome (caused by vibrating tools such as pneumatic hammers and gasoline chain saws); electrocution from metal ladders being too near power lines; and occupational fatalities in confined spaces. His approach to occupational safety was typified by his manner of addressing tractor rollovers, which he referred to as an "occupational obscenity". He advocated the use of a rollover protective structure (ROPS) on every tractor in use, saying, "There is no scientific excuse for the persistence of this problem. This is something we know how to prevent".

In addition to his work at NIOSH, Millar chaired the executive committee of the National Toxicology Program (NTP) from 1989 to 1993. He maintained an adjunct professorship of occupational and environmental health at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta (1988–1998). He served on a panel of occupational health experts for the World Health Organization, and he continued his efforts to eradicate smallpox. In 1987, he was presented with the Gorgas Medal from the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States (AMSUS).

For his work, Dr. Millar has been twice honored with the Distinguished Service Medal (1983 and 1989), highest honor bestowed by the United States Public Health Service. He was named Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine, Royal College of Physicians, London (U.K.). He received the William S. Knudsen Award from the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine for "outstanding contributions to occupational medicine." In 1993, Millar was given the William Steiger Memorial Award from the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists, the Health Watch Award for "outstanding contributions toward improving the health of minority populations", and the Surgeon General's Medallion for "exceptional skill and fortitude."

Workplace health consultant
Millar retired from NIOSH and the US Public Health Service with the rank of Rear Admiral in 1993, turning his directorship over to Linda Rosenstock. He started a consulting company in 1993, Don Millar & Associates, Inc., in Murrayville, GA. As president of the company, Millar provided his services in the occupational and environmental health industry. He chaired several scientific panels and workshops, and served as vice chairman of the Public Health Policy Advisory Board (PHPAB), a Washington "think-tank" fostering science-based public health policy. He also served on editorial and advisory boards of the American Journal of Industrial Medicine, the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, and the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology.

Personal
Millar was an accomplished musician who was part of the DeKalb Symphony Orchestra, Gainesville, GA; the Truett-Mcconnell College Wind Symphony; and the Toccoa Symphony Orchestra. He enjoyed sailing and was an amateur Civil War historian. He and Joan had three children. He died of kidney failure on August 30, 2015.

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Richard Ennis Young (June 3, 1928 – January 7, 2018) was a professional baseball player. He played parts of two seasons in Major League Baseball for the Philadelphia Phillies for two seasons, primarily as a second baseman. He played 15 games for the Phillies during the 1951 Philadelphia Phillies season and five games during the 1952 Philadelphia Phillies season.

Young died January 7, 2018.

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The Greenville Presbyterian Church is located on NY 32 just north of its intersection with NY 81 in Greenville, New York, United States. Its three buildings on two acres were listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1985.

The church itself was established in 1790, the first non-Dutch church in the Catskill region. Its current building dates to 1860, and is a well-designed late example of the Greek Revival architectural style. The chapel and former school building, now part of the local library, were added in 1885 and 1906 respectively.

Church complex

There are three buildings considered contributing properties to the NRHP listing. All are located on a strip of land along the west side of Route 32 just north of the Route 81 intersection in the center of Greenville. To the immediate west is property owned by the Town of Greenville, and Greenville High School.

Church
The church itself is a one-and-a-half-story structure on a stone foundation sided in clapboard on all sides save the east-facing front, done in flush board. That facade has square pillars and a pediment topped by a three-story tower with a belfry and octagonal gold-colored spire with weathervane. The tower's three sections all feature corner pilasters and overhanging eaves. A small stained glass window looks out from the front of the base section.

Behind the pillars is the main entrance, framed by pilasters supporting a full entablature with another stained glass window above. On either side the double doors have a fluted Ionic column in front of a small window. Paneled corner pilasters support the gabled roof and its cornice, with a full entablature. Both north and south profiles are fenestrated with four  stained glass windows, with an additional smaller one on the north. The rear has cornice returns and a single double-hung sash window in the gable. A brick chimney rises from the south side of the roof.

Inside, the vestibule is flanked by small rooms. In the nave, oak pews become curved toward the chancel. There, the dark oak pulpit is raised and flanked by similar balustrades on either side. Behind it is a large pedimented cornice with similar pilasters and columns to the entrance. The organ is located in the recess. At the rear of the church is a gallery and the stairs to the bell tower. The interior is lit with a chandelier over the pulpit and teardrop lights over the congregation. The ceiling is plaster with canted corners. On the side walls there is wainscoting and a molded entablature, with all the large windows having broad molded surrounds.

Chapel

The chapel building, built a quarter-century later, is similar to the church, on a smaller scale. It is a one-story clapboard building on a stone block foundation with a shallow gabled roof and smaller belltower with tent roof. Its facade shows some Italianate influence such as an overhanging cornice with full entablature. The chapel's double-doored entrance is itself topped by a projecting cornice with scroll-sawn brackets and drop pendants.

Its rear has a small shed-roofed wing with windows and a door with small projecting gable. The interior of the chapel has been altered, but retains its original wainscoting and window surrounds.

Greenville Free Academy building

The school building, newest of the three, is a square two-story building of similar materials with a pyramidal roof pierced by a brick chimney just south of the peak. It comes to exposed rafter ends at the roofline's overhanging eaves. The entrance is a reconstruction of the one on the previous school building, a porch with Doric columns supporting a full balustrade and a double-doored entrance with broad transom. The interior has been extensively renovated but still has its original tin-embossed ceiling on the first floor hall.

Aesthetics

The Greek Revival style gained popularity in the 1820s with a nation that saw itself carrying on the classical ideals of freedom and democracy. By the 1850s it had run its course, with few new residential, commercial or public structures using it. But it remained popular for churches until the Civil War, and the Greenville church is a well-developed, sophisticated late application of the style, using the classical forms correctly and with a high degree of decoration.

The school building, now used as the town library and administrative offices, is also of some architectural note. While it typifies the rural school designs of the early 20th century, it is an unusually large example.

History

The Greenville area, known originally as Freehold, was first prepared for settlement by Augustine Prevost, who received a  patent from the British Crown in 1767 as a reward for his service during the French and Indian War. He built roads and mills, and continued to own the property through the Revolution. In the 1790s, his efforts paid off as a new wave of pioneers came to New York, the younger sons of New England farmers and their families.

Although there were already long-established communities along the Hudson River, the New Englanders avoided them as they were leery of the Dutch-descended inhabitants and their language, religion and customs. They organized their congregation in 1790, receiving a two-acre gift from Prevost that restricted the property's future use to educational and religious purposes. It was the first non-Dutch church in the Catskill region.

The original meeting house was built in 1793 on a site just to the northwest of the current church. In 1794 the congregation formally incorporated and called the Rev. Beriah Hotchkiss to be its pastor, and in 1796 it became affiliated with the Northern Association Presbytery. Four years later, at the turn of the century, a newer, larger meeting house was built. It was described as having "a lofty spire, a spacious gallery, unpainted box pews, and an octagonal pulpit supported by a lofty column". The original meeting house was bought and moved to a nearby site, going through several uses before it was eventually demolished.

In 1815 the educational aspect of the land gift was secured with the construction of the first Greenville Free Academy Building, the first free public school in Greene County. Nine years later the church formally became known as the Greenville Presbyterian Church when it joined the Synod of Albany.

The meeting hall was expanded and remodeled in 1845. At the beginning of 1859 that work was lost when it burned down. The current church was its replacement, although a marble commemorative plaque was not placed over the door until 1872. A quarter-century later, in 1885, its original mahogany pulpit was replaced along with its white pews. The chapel was built the same year to accommodate smaller functions such as prayer gatherings and meetings of the board of trustees.

The stained-glass windows were added to the church between 1904 and 1913. During that time, in 1906, the new school building was built. In 1930, the school became part of the new Greenville Central School District and was extensively renovated by the Presbyterian Society. The chapel was sold to the local American Legion post in 1938 and has since been used by them and a local Boy Scout troop.

The school building underwent further renovations to become the Greenville library in 1957. In 1975 the porch was remodeled to resemble the porch on the 1815 building. There have been no significant alterations to the property since.

Notes and references

External links
Greenville Public Library website
 Greene County Properties website

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Doriprismatica sedna is a species of colorful sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chromodorididae.

Taxonomy
This species was previously placed in the genus Glossodoris Ehrenberg, 1831, but it was transferred to genus Doriprismatica by Johnson & Gosliner in 2012 on the basis of molecular results.

Distribution
Originally described from the Eastern Pacific, records from the Caribbean are considered the result of a recent introduction, presumably human-introduced. The indigenous distribution of Doriprismatica sedna includes Eastern Pacific: from the Gulf of California to the Galapagos Islands and non-indigenous in the Western Atlantic: Florida, Belize, Bahamas and Panama.

Description

The body is oval and the mantle margin is ruffled. The foot and mantle of this seaslug have three different colours at the border: white, red and yellow on the outer border. Background colour is white with two coloured bands (inner red and outer yellow) bordering the foot and mantle. Upper half of the rhinophoral clubs and tips of the branchial leaves of the gill are red. It is up to 65 mm long.

Habitat
This species was found on mangrove roots covered with sponges in Panama. The minimum recorded depth for this species is 1 m; maximum recorded depth is 29 m.

The diet of Doriprismatica sedna was studied by Verdín Padilla et al. (2010) on the Pacific coast of Mexico. By examining the stomach content and feces, they found that this species feeds exclusively on spiculated demosponges and exhibits a variable diet, which includes 17 different species: Mycale psila, Microciona sp., Myxilla incrustans, Lissodendoryx isodictialis, Haliclona caerulea, Haliclona turquoisia, Callyspongia californica, Cliona californiana, Cliona amplicavata, Cliona flavifodina, Cliona papillae, Pione mazatlanensis, Pione carpenteri, Tethya taboga, Aaptos niger, Geodia media and Dysidea uriae.

References
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Belgium chose their Junior Eurovision entry for 2008 through Junior Eurosong, a national final consisting of 10 songs split into two quarter-finals, a semi-final and a grand final. The winner of Junior Eurosong was Oliver Symons, with the song "Shut Up!".

Before Eurovision

Junior Eurosong 2008
Junior Eurosong was the national final for Belgium at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2008, organised by Belgian broadcaster Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep (VRT).

Format
The format of the competition consisted of four shows: two quarter-finals, one semi-final and a final. All shows were hosted by Ben Roelants.

Results during the heats and the semi-final shows were determined by the three-member jury panel and votes from the public. In the quarter-finals the songs first faced a public televote where the top two entries qualified. The jury then selected an additional qualifier from the remaining entries to proceed in the competition. In the semi-finals the songs first faced a public televote where the top three entries qualified. The jury then selected an additional qualifier from the remaining entries to proceed in the competition. In the final, public televoting exclusively determined the winner.

The jury participated in each show by providing feedback to the competing artists and selecting entries to advance in the competition. The panel consists of:

 Stijn Kolacny
 Pascale Platel
 Andre Vermeulen

Competing entries
A total of 548 songs were received by VRT for the contest, with only 10 (nine in Dutch and one in French) being chosen to compete in the national final.

Quarter-final 1
The first quarter-final took place on 6 September 2008. Three entries qualified to the final. The five competing entries first faced a public televote where the top two songs advanced: "Waarom?" performed by The Pinsons and "Vergeet-mij-liedje" performed by Mathilde. An additional qualifier was selected from the remaining three entries by the jury: "Shut Up!" performed by Oliver.

Quarter-final 2
The second quarter-final took place on 13 September 2008. Three entries qualified to the final. The five competing entries first faced a public televote where the top two songs advanced: "Samen" performed by Didier & Charlotte and "Ik hou van muziek" performed by Guust. An additional qualifier was selected from the remaining three entries by the jury: "Un nouveau rêve" performed by Chloé.

Semi-final
The semi-final took place on 20 September 2008. Four entries qualified to the final. The six competing entries first faced a public televote where the top three songs advanced: "Un nouveau rêve" performed by Chloé, "Ik hou van muziek" performed by Guust and "Samen" performed by Didier & Charlotte. An additional qualifier was selected from the remaining six entries by the jury: "Shut Up!" performed by Oliver.

Final
The final took place on 27 September 2008. "Shut Up!" performed by Oliver was selected as the winner after accumulating the highest number of televotes.

At Junior Eurovision
At Junior Eurovision, Belgium performed in seventh position, before Bulgaria and after Georgia. The presentation of the Belgian song was changed. Three female dancers and a drummer were introduced to the performance. Belgium placed in 11th position with 45 points; the highest of which was 10 points, which came from the Netherlands.

Voting

After Junior Eurovision
After the Belgian national final, Junior Eurosong, "Shut Up!" was released into the Flemish charts. Its peak in the charts was at #19.

Notes

References

External links
 Official Belgian JESC Site
 Official Oliver's page at broadcaster's website

Junior Eurovision Song Contest
2008
Belgium


Alaska Wilderness Lake is a 1971 American documentary film produced by Alan Landsburg. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. It was based on the book Red Salmon, Brown Bear by Theodore J. Walker.

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Films shot in Alaska
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The South African Masters was one of the most prestigious golf tournaments on the Sunshine Tour. It was last played in 2011. Before its discontinuation, it had a prize fund of 1.2 million rand and was held at the Wild Coast Sun Country Club on the KwaZulu-Natal border, South Africa.

History
The tournament had its roots in the South African Professional Match Play Championship, the running of which was taken over by the PGA of South Africa in 1957. Under the sponsorship of Dunlop the event transitioned into a 72-hole stroke play event in 1960.

The first edition of the new Dunlop Masters, at Houghton Golf Club in 1960, was won by Gary Player with an aggregate score of 266, a record that stood for 44 years. Player's total was equalled in 1970 by John Fourie, the only amateur to claim the title. Andrew McLardy posted 264 at the Wild Coast resort in 2004 and Darren Fichardt holds the record of 263 set on the par-70 course in 2009.

The South African Masters, along with the South African Open and the South African PGA Championship formed the Triple Crown. Winning all three titles in the same season was a feat only achieved by Gary Player and Ernie Els.

Winners

References

External links
Sunshine Tour - official site

Former Sunshine Tour events
Golf tournaments in South Africa


Kukur is a village and a former municipality in the Elbasan County, central Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Gramsh. The population at the 2011 census was 2,560. The municipal unit consists of the villages Snosem, Sojnik, Mukaj, Irmath, Kalaj, Gribe, Vreshtas, Kukur, Rashtan and Grazhdan.

References

Former municipalities in Elbasan County
Administrative units of Gramsh, Elbasan
Villages in Elbasan County


Derek Brooke Pearson (born 29 March 1937) is an English former first-class cricketer who played from the mid-1950s until the early 1960s, taking over 200 wickets. He played all but two of his games for Worcestershire, who capped him in 1959; the others were for Combined Services.

Career
Pearson's career was at times controversial. He was called for throwing in his second match in 1954, and in the opening match of the 1959 Indian tour, he was no-balled five times by umpire Syd Buller on the first day. He was no-balled again once in a County Championship match three weeks later, and then twice more in a match in 1960.

Pearson made his first-class debut for Worcestershire at Worcester against Cambridge University in June 1954, taking four wickets; his first victim was Colin Smith.
He played one more first-class match that summer, but none at all in 1955 and just two in each of 1956 and 1957. In that last year, both appearances were for Combined Services: Pearson was in the Royal Air Force, for whose team he had appeared in a minor match against his county in 1956.

Pearson's first-class career really began in 1958: that season he played 24 times for Worcestershire and collected 62 wickets at 22.22, twice managing five wickets in an innings. He was capped the following season, and repaid his county with his best season's aggregate: 79 wickets, taken at 25.69 apiece. That year too he achieved his career-best bowling performance, claiming 6–70 against Leicestershire,
picking up three more five-wicket hauls in the course of the season.

Pearson began 1960 as a first-team regular, and early in the year produced his best match figures, 11–145 against Glamorgan;
he also took nine wickets in the game against Oxford University.
He held his place until mid-season, but some disappointing figures then saw him drop into the Second XI, whence he did not re-emerge until August. He then played three County Championship games for a total return of just two wickets,
and was out of the side again by the end of the season, ending with only 45 wickets for the summer.

Except for an early (and wicketless) outing against the Australians, Pearson was confined to the Second XI for the first half of 1961. However, he took plenty of wickets for the seconds, and was restored to the first team in mid-August, playing Worcestershire's last five matches of the season. Sadly for him, his promotion was not successful: despite four wickets in his first game back, against Nottinghamshire,
he took only four more wickets in total. His career came to a quiet end against Sussex at Hove in early September, a game in which Pearson bowled just four overs.

After he retired from cricket he worked in the probation service, where "he became a national expert in divorce court liaison work".

References

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1937 births
Living people
Sportspeople from the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley
Cricketers from Staffordshire


Harlan Edward Young (September 28, 1883 – March 26, 1975) nicknamed "Cy the Third", was a professional baseball pitcher. He played for two Major League Baseball teams in 1908, eight games for the Pittsburgh Pirates and six games for the Boston Doves.

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1883 births
1975 deaths
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Poroçan is a village and a former municipality in the Elbasan County, central Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Gramsh. The population at the 2011 census was 1,269. The municipal unit consists of the villages Poroçan, Lleshan, Gjere, Kabash and Holtas.

References

Former municipalities in Elbasan County
Administrative units of Gramsh, Elbasan
Villages in Elbasan County


The House of Tiesenhausen is the name of an old Baltic-German noble family. The origins of the family are in Lower Saxony. During the Baltic crusades they settled in Livonia in the first half of the 12th century. Bishops Albert of Riga and Herman of Tartu had a sister whose husband Engelbertus de Tisenhuse was the progenitor of the family in the Baltic. After some time in southern Livonia in the early stages of occupation, Engelbertus joined his brother-in-law bishop Herman to obtain the northern Livonian country of Ugaunia around Otepää and Tartu. It was Ugaunia where the family held its main early properties and positions. Engelbertus' son married a daughter of the castellan of Koknese in Latgale and through this marriage, the family claims descent from indigenous princes of the Latgalians. Some branches of Tisenhusen clan settled later to the Latvian Vidzeme holdings of Ergli and Berzaune. From the ancestral place of Ugaunia, sons of the family managed to obtain estates in other parts of Estonia, also so-called Danish Estonia and Osilia-Rotalia, both by services and by marriages. (Raplamaa was apparently a favorite place in northern Estonia for them to obtain estates.)

In Livonia they became one of the wealthiest and most important noble lineages between the 14th and 16th centuries. During the changeful history of Livonia several members of the family served under various suzerains, first under the Livonian Brothers of the Sword and the Teutonic Knights and later in Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth ("Tyzenhauz"), Swedish and Tsarist Russian ("Тизенгаузен") service.

Notable members
Ferdinand von Tiesenhausen (1782–1805), Russian military officer whose death in Austerlitz inspired Tolstoi's character Andrei Bolkonsky in War and Peace
Dorothea von Tiesenhausen (1804–1863), Countess de Ficquelmont by marriage, famous for her letter-writing telling her life as a high society aristocrat in 19th century's Europe
Gerhard von Tiesenhausen (1878–1917), Baltic-German architect in Russia
Hans-Diedrich von Tiesenhausen (1913–2000), U-boat captain
Georg von Tiesenhausen (1914–2018), German-American rocket scientist.

Estates

Rapla Manor (Rappel), in Rapla, Estonia
Alu Manor (Allo), near Rapla
Valtu Manor (Waldau), near Rapla (was destroyed during the Revolution of 1905)
Hertu Manor (Hermet), near Rapla
Castle of Fall (Schloß Fall), in Keila-Joa, Estonia
Sausti Manor (Groß-Sauß), Estonia
Rokiškis Manor (Rokischken Castle), in Rokiškis, Lithuania (see picture above)
Lubeja Manor (Gut Lubey), Latvia

References

External links
 Genealogic Handbook of the Baltic Knighthoods, 1930

German noble families
Lower Saxon nobility
Swedish nobility
Swedish people of German descent
Baltic-German people


Berdakh, pseudonym of Berdimurat son of Gargabay (Karakalpak: Бердақ; Бердимурат Ғарғабай улы, 1827–1900) was a Karakalpak poet.

He was born in Karakalpakstan, in a remote village near modern-day Muynak. His father was a poor fisherman and his mother, who gave him the nickname Berdakh, died when he was 10 years old. His father also died while Berdakh was still a child, and so Berdakh became an orphan. Berdakh studied in a mektep and at the same time he grazed his fellow villagers' cattle. His brother helped him to go to Karakum madrasah, a Muslim religious school, but Berdakh dropped out from the school because of his freethinking poetry.

The young poet began to study folk poetry and narrative classical masterpieces of the East. His tutor Kunxoja (1799–1880), who was famous for his folk poetry, helped him with his poetry. Ajinyaz (1824–1878) another famous poet of that time, also played a significant role in Berdakh's life. For a long time Berdakh had to earn money playing the dutar at weddings. He sang his songs at weddings and different festive occasions. His songs were about the fate of a deprived man whose life was very hard. His most famous poems are: Ahmaq patsha (Tsar Samodur in Russian) that shows his life and poetic experience and lyrical Bolģan emes, which describes the struggles and hardships of Karakalpak people. His other poems included Xalıq ushın (For the people), Amangeldi, Aydosbiy, and Ernazarbiy.

During Berdakh's lifetime there was a rise in national liberation movements among the nations of the Aral Sea territory, especially among the Karakalpaks. Karakalpakia became a hotspot of discord among those nations. The khanate of Khiva considered Karakalpakia to be a nabob and was constantly imposed duties on its people. The Russian Empire was also interested in Karakalpakia as it was a gateway to Central Asia. Berdakh wrote not only about social problems but also about the protection of women's rights and
1827 births
1900 deaths
People from Karakalpakstan
dignity. He propagated equality and women's rights. His dream was to unite nations which were separated by different wars.


Džamila Stehlíková (), née Ordabayeva (born 6 February 1962, in Almaty) is a Kazakh-born Czech politician and a doctor. She is a member of the Czech Green Party (Czech Green Party), and was the Minister for Human Rights and Minorities from 2007 to 2009.

Stehlíková is a naturalized Czech citizen by marriage. On 17 February 1992, Stehlíková was sworn in as a Czech citizen.

External links
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Government ministers of the Czech Republic
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1962 births
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Qendër Librazhd is a former municipality in the Elbasan County, eastern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Librazhd. The population at the 2011 census was 8,551. The municipal unit consists of the villages Arez, Babje, Dorëz, Dragostunjë, Gizavesh, Kuterman, Librazhd Katund, Librazhd Qendër, Marinaj, Qarishte, Spathar and Togez.

References

Former municipalities in Elbasan County
Administrative units of Librazhd


John Howey (1932 – October 26, 2019) was a Florida architect known as part of the group of architects at work since 1965 that followed the Sarasota School of Architects led by Paul Rudolph.  John Howey Associates is his Tampa Bay architectural firm formed in 1973.  Some of his projects include Tampa City Hall Plaza, Village Presbyterian Church, and the Williers Residence in Tampa. John Howey passed away on Saturday, October 26, 2019.

Notable career achievements

Honors and awards

John Howey Associates has received numerous local, state and American Institute of Architects Design Awards for the Florida/Caribbean Region.  In 2000, they received the AIA Award of Honor for Design as one of Florida top design firms of the 20th century.  Their work has been exhibited at Selby Gallery and New College, Sarasota;  Tampa Bay AIA Gallery;  and at the AIA National Convention, Orlando, as well as the AIA Regional Convention Tour of Homes, Tampa.  John Howey was selected for AIA’s most prestigious honor, the designation as a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.

Publications
Howey has published numerous articles and two books: The Sarasota School of Architecture (M.I.T. Press, 1995) and Florida Architecture, A Celebration (A.I.A. Florida, 2000).  Recognition of his work has been widespread, from the New York Times and the
Architectural Review (London) to the Images Publishing Group in Australia.

Significant works
Howey began his practice in Tampa, Florida, in 1965 after winning a design competition for a waterfront residence on Tampa Bay.  His work includes public and private architecture, historic preservation, interior design, and planning.

Tampa City Hall Plaza, Tampa, Florida – The brick topography was designed to be a welcoming and gathering point for Tampa's outdoor events.
Williers Residence, Tampa, Florida – This residence is made up of two zones connected by a bridge with continuous bands of glass for views of the mature oak trees and other natural landscaping.
Kennedy Residence, Wesser, North Carolina – The residence sits on a 45 degree slope of rock outcroppings which function as part of the walls and floors.
Presbyterian Church, Tampa, Florida – The octagonal sanctuary has a focal design element made from four skylights that provide indirect daylight inside.
CBA Building, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida – A 34,000 square feet multi-use college building to hold classrooms as well as faculty offices.
Medical Offices, St. Petersburg, Florida – High horizontal bands of glass window boxes intersect with the ceiling grid, which also features continuous strips of glass.
101 South Franklin Street, Tampa, Florida – The 13,700 square feet existing 100+ year old brick building was restored and renovated into office and retail space.

External links
 John Howey + Associates Official Website

Architecture Week - Architects Directory
Amazon.com Book Review
Gallery AIA Exhibition
 Florida Architect and the Florida/Caribbean Architect
 Florida Institute of Architects Publications Digital Collection', including the American Institute of Architects' Florida Association's Florida Architect, Florida/Caribbean Architect, and others

References

1932 births
2019 deaths
Architects from Florida


The Frenchgate Interchange (also known as Doncaster Interchange) is a rail and bus transport interchange located within the Frenchgate Shopping Centre in the city centre of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. It has 30 bus stands, with a large number of destinations accessible from Doncaster railway station.

History
Frenchgate Interchange was designed by local transport executive South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive (SYPTE) and shopping centre owners Teesland. It had received planning permission by 2001, and was intended to open in 2004 at a cost of £70 million.

Work began in 2003. It opened in June 2006 and became the city's main transport hub, with SYPTE predicting that it would receive around 12 million passengers per year. The previous Doncaster North and Doncaster South bus stations, which dated from the 1960s and were located underneath multi-storey car parks, were closed. However, the South Bus Station remained a multi storey car park and has recently become the main car park for the developing civic area.

Services
, the stand allocation is:

References

External links
 Real time departures at Frenchgate Interchange
 Doncaster Interchange Spider Map (August 2010) Travel South Yorkshire
 Doncaster Interchange Fabsec.co.uk

Bus stations in South Yorkshire
Transport infrastructure completed in 2006
Transport in Doncaster
2006 establishments in England


Viktor Savin (; ; 21 November 1888 – 11 August 1943) was a Komi poet, and an playwright, actor who lived in the Soviet Union. He was born in the village of Nebdino. He created the anthem of the Komi Republic. He founded the Komi National Theatre. He was the one of the founders who founded Soviet literature and theatrical art in Komi.

Komi people
1888 births
1943 deaths
Soviet poets


Lunik is a village and a former municipality in the Elbasan County, eastern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Librazhd. The population at the 2011 census was 2,621. The municipal unit consists of the villages Dranovice, Koshorisht, Kostenjë, Letëm, Lunik, Prevall and Zgosht.

Demographic History
Lunik (Lubnik) is attested in the Ottoman defter of 1467 as a village in the vilayet of Çermeniça. It had a total of 30 households represented by the following household heads: Jovanec Porteviri, Bogdo Milloshi, Nikolla Marini, Gjurevici son of Meçi, Petër Karshuli, Dimitri Hutina, Rado brother of Dimitri, Miho son of Rajko, Petër Lonja, Miho Gërdi, Dragoi son of Lipa, Stan Ivgjeçi (possibly, Vgjeçi), Pop Shyti, Miho Koleci, Gjergji Varsaqi, Nikolla Lopësi, Lekë Shoku, Gjergj Teraku, Marko son of Papa Nikolla, Niko Stani, Kojo Bogdishi, Gjergj Pazajiti, Petko Vllahu, Petko Martini, Petko Krakoviqi, Gjure Radeci, Petko Disini, Tutko Gërdi, Petër Duldini, and Mihal Paniçeri.

Notable residents

Taulant Balla (born 1977), politician

References

Former municipalities in Elbasan County
Administrative units of Librazhd
Villages in Elbasan County


Billie Jean Horton (née Jones; born June 6, 1933) is an American country-music singer-songwriter and music promoter. She had high profile marriages, first to country musician and singer-songwriter Hank Williams in 1952 until 1953 and subsequently to singer Johnny Horton from 1953 until 1960.

Biography
Horton was the daughter of a police chief from Bossier City, Louisiana. She divorced her first husband Harrison Eshleman when she was introduced to Hank Williams by her then-boyfriend, country singer Faron Young. They married in a private ceremony in Minden, Louisiana, on October 18, 1952, then repeated their vows before sold-out audiences at two Williams concerts at the Baton Rouge High School gymnasium and the Municipal Auditorium in New Orleans, Louisiana. She was 19 years old at the time of her marriage with Williams.

Williams died from heart failure on New Year's Day, 1953, five days before his daughter Jett Williams with Bobbie Jett was born. That September, she married country singer Johnny Horton and became important in promoting his career. They had two daughters, Yanina and Melody, and Horton adopted her daughter Jeri Lynn. Horton died on November 5, 1960, in a traffic collision with a truck, widowing Billie Jean a second time.  She then worked as a recording artist; her record "Ocean of Tears" hit the country top 40 in 1961. She had a relationship with Johnny Cash (while he was still married to his first wife, Vivian Liberto).  Later she married insurance executive Kent Berlin, whom she subsequently divorced.

In 1971, a judge ruled that despite  her divorce from Eshleman not being finalized before her wedding with Williams, she entered the marriage in good faith and thus their union was entitled to a presumption of validity.

Horton engaged in numerous court cases defending her status as his widow and establishing claims to copyrights and estates. In the early 1970s, she sued MGM to stop distribution of the film “Your Cheatin’ Heart,” a cinematic version of Williams’ story starring George Hamilton, which she believed portrayed her in a negative light. She won.

As of 2016, she resides in an assisted-living facility and her three daughters live in Shreveport.

Film depiction
Horton is portrayed by actress Maddie Hasson in the 2015 biopic film about Hank Williams' life titled I Saw the Light, based on Hank Williams: The Biography.

References

1933 births
Living people
American women country singers
American country singer-songwriters
Music promoters
People from Bossier City, Louisiana
Singer-songwriters from Louisiana
Country musicians from Louisiana
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Ra (also known as The Ra Expeditions) is a 1972 documentary film directed by Lennart Ehrenborg and Thor Heyerdahl about the expeditions organised by Thor Heyerdahl in 1969 and 1970 in attempt to cross the Atlantic on papyrus boats. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Cast
 Norman Baker
 Roscoe Lee Browne as Narrator
 Abdullah Djibrine
 Santiago Genovés
 Thor Heyerdahl as Himself
 Carlo Mauri
 Kei Ohara
 Madanni Ait Ouhanni
 Yuri Senkevich
 Georges Sourial

References

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1972 documentary films
Films directed by Thor Heyerdahl
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Documentary films about water transport
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Balderton railway station was a minor railway station serving the village of Balderton in Cheshire, England. It was located on the Great Western Railway (GWR) main line from London Paddington to Birkenhead Woodside. The  Balderton Tunnel is just south of the station site, and there is an automatic half-barrier (AHB) level crossing adjacent to the site today.

The  gauge Eaton Hall Railway, opened in 1896 to serve the estate of the Duke of Westminster, met the GWR line at Balderton.

History
The station was opened by the GWR and stayed with that company during the Grouping of 1923. On nationalisation in 1948, the line passed on to the Western Region of British Railways. Balderton was closed to passengers in 1952 and the goods service was closed in 1954.

References

Further reading

External links
 Balderton on navigable O.S. map
 Balderton station at Disused Stations by Subterranea Britannica
 Railscot on the North Wales Mineral Railway

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Musaed Abdullah () is a Kuwaiti retired footballer who played in centre back for Kuwaiti Premier League club Al Naser.

He played for Al-Arabi in the 2007 AFC Champions League group stage.

References

Living people
1981 births
Kuwaiti men's footballers
Al-Sulaibikhat SC players
Footballers from Kuwait City
Men's association football defenders
Kuwait men's international footballers
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Al-Nasr SC (Kuwait) players
Kuwait Premier League players


Stëblevë (, ) is a village and a former municipality in the Elbasan County in eastern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Librazhd. The population at the 2011 census was 809. The municipal unit consists of the villages Borovë, Llangë, Moglicë, Prodan, Sebisht, Steblevë and Zabzun.

History
Steblevë appears in the Ottoman defter of 1467 as a village in the vilayet of Golloborda with 13 households that produced 776 ducats per annum. The register displayed mixed Albanian and Slavic anthroponymy, with instances of individuals bearing both Slavic and Albanian names (e.g., Petko Gjonko): Kojo Porteviri, Martini son of Petra, Miho Pishtaj, Petko Gjonko (possibly, Gjoneko), Gjon Mathinevi, Bogiçi brother of Gjoni, Devasili, Nikolla son of Devasili, Bogdo Jerakari, Kolë Vlladini, Staneci, Simko Çermenika, and Vasko grandson or nephew (unclear) of Petko.

According to local legends, the village was founded by three families of cattle breeders from the village of Magarevo. Subsequently, the population increased, with many converting to Islam.

In the Ethnography of the Provinces of Adrianople, Monastir and Thessaloniki, published in Constantinople in 1878 and reflecting the statistics of the male population from 1873, Stébléo is listed as a village with 150 households with 150 Bulgarian inhabitants and 200 Pomak inhabitants. In 1900, Vasil Kanchov gathered and compiled statistics on demographics in the area and reported that the village of Stëblevë was inhabited by about 380 Bulgarian Christians and 400 Bulgarian Muslims. According to the secretary of the Bulgarian Exarchate Dimitar Mishev ("La Macedoine et sa Population Chrétienne") in 1905 there were 396 Bulgarian Exarchists in Steblevo and there was a Bulgarian school in the village. According to statistics from the Debarski Glas newspaper, in 1911 there were 53 Bulgarian Exarchist and 1 Greek Patriarchist houses as well as 220 Pomak houses in Steblevo. In a report by Srebren Poppetrov, chief inspector-organizer of the church-school work of the Bulgarians in Albania, from August 1930 Stebleno is marked as a village with 100 houses, some of which are Orthodox Bulgarian and the rest Pomak. In 1939, Petre Stankov, on behalf of 9 Bulgarian houses in the village, signed a petition from 19 villages in the region to the Bulgarian Queen Joanna, asking for her intervention to protect the locals.

Demographics
The villages of Zabzun, Borovë, Llangë, Moglicë, Prodan are located in the Stëblevë administrative unit and two villages are inhabited by Slavic populations: Stëblevë, which is inhabited solely by a Slavic speaking population that according to some authors contains Torbeš. Sebisht is inhabited by an Albanian population that dominates demographically in the village and contains three families from the Torbeš and Orthodox Macedonians population. The Torbeš and Orthodox Macedonian population of the area are speakers of a Eastern South Slavic (Macedonian or Bulgarian)

Notable people
Hazis Lila, Albanian religious and educational activist.

References

Former municipalities in Elbasan County
Administrative units of Librazhd
Villages in Elbasan County


The FIDE Grand Prix is a biennial series of chess tournaments, organized by FIDE and its commercial partner Agon. Each series consist of three to six chess tournaments, which used to form part of the qualification cycle for the World Chess Championship or Women's World Chess Championship.

History
The Grand Prix was first played in 2008. The initial Grand Prix saw Magnus Carlsen withdraw (along with Michael Adams) due to changed incentives toward the World Chess Championship, (see FIDE Grand Prix 2008–2010 for details).

The first two Grand Prix consisted of six tournaments, but the 2014–2015 edition had only four. Often there were problems finding sponsors and many announced host cities were changed eventually (to date, 8 of the 16 locations have been changed). The 2014–15 edition was announced late, with only 4 events instead of 6, reduced the prizes per event to about 1/3 of the previous amounts, and had no money for overall placings (as in the earlier editions). In 2014–15, four top 10 players (Carlsen, Anand, Topalov and Aronian) didn't participate, with the small prize funds and organizational uncertainty being the usual reasons given.

The winner of the Grand Prix (and sometimes lower finishers) gets entry to the Candidates Tournament. The winner of the women's cycle is directly qualified to a championship match. The women's edition has been dominated by Chinese GM Hou Yifan, though she withdrew from the 2015–16 series.

The format was changed for the FIDE Grand Prix 2017 with 24 players taking part in the cycle. Four events took place with 18 players in competing in each nine-round Swiss tournament. The events were originally announced to take place on Oct. 12 to 23, 2016; Feb. 10 to 21, 2017; May 11 to 22, 2017; and July 5 to 16, 2017. On May 26, 2016, Agon CEO Ilya Merenzon hoped to announce the venues within the next two weeks. After the FIDE meetings at the 42nd Chess Olympiad in Baku in early September 2016, Peter Doggers of Chess.com reported that the Grand Prix has been postponed until 2017. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Alexander Grischuk qualified to the 2018 Candidates Tournament.

In 2019, the format has been changed by FIDE once again, making Grand Prix a knock-out series with 21 players taking part in the Series and 16 player in each event. 20 players qualified by rating and 2 are wild cards invited by organizers. The cities were Moscow, Riga, Hamburg and Jerusalem. The Series is organized by World Chess (formerly Agon) and was broadcast on  worldchess.com and via media partners.

The 2022 Grand Prix took place in Berlin, Belgrade, then Berlin again.

Results
The players who qualify for the Candidates Tournament are marked with green background.

See also
 FIDE Women's Grand Prix
 Chess World Cup

References

External links
Official FIDE site
Official 2019 World Chess Grand Prix Site

Sports competition series
FIDE competitions


Orenjë is a village and a former municipality in the Elbasan County, eastern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Librazhd. The population at the 2011 census was 3,883. The municipal unit consists of the villages Ballegjin, Floq, Funares, Gurakuq, Mexixe, Neshte, Orenjë, Rinas, Zdrajsh and Zdrajsh Veri.

Notable people
 Hafiz Sabri Koçi - Albanian Grand Mufti

References

Former municipalities in Elbasan County
Administrative units of Librazhd
Villages in Elbasan County


Mohammedia District is a district located in Mascara Province, northwestern Algeria.
It is located about 70 km from Oran and 420 km from Algiers. The seat of the district is the town of Mohammadia.

Municipalities
The district is further divided into 6 municipalities:
Mohammadia
El Ghomri
Ferraguig
Mocta Douz
Sedjerara
Sidi Abdelmoumen

Districts of Mascara Province


The Hamilton School District is a school district in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, United States.

It serves all of and Butler, most of Lannon and Sussex, parts of Lisbon and Menomonee Falls, and a small part of Pewaukee.

Established as a K-12 school district in 1961, Hamilton serves a  area of suburban and rural communities about  north and west of downtown Milwaukee. The population is estimated at 40,000. Student enrollment is approximately 5,000.

School sites in the district
The Hamilton School District has eight schools that serve students from pre-kindergarten through high school:

4 year old kindergarten
An optional half-day kindergarten program is offered to 4-year-olds at Willow Springs Learning Center. Willow Springs also houses a private daycare provider, enabling parents to pay for daycare services for their children during the portion of the day when they are not participating in the kindergarten program.

Elementary schools
The four elementary schools focus on the basic skills of reading, writing, mathematics, science and social studies. Each school has a full-time reading-writing specialist and library-media specialist. Specialists also provide instruction in art, music and physical education. Guidance counselors offer a developmental guidance program. The Hamilton School District has four elementary schools that serve students from kindergarten through fourth grade.

Intermediate School
Silver Spring Intermediate School is a newly added addition to the growing Hamilton School District that now holds grades 5 and 6,  with elementary schools serving students in 5K - grade 4. It was formally dedicated in a public ceremony on Aug. 26, 2019, on the school's grounds.

Middle school
A true middle-level education philosophy exists at Templeton Middle School. It was named for two consecutive years as a “middle school of excellence” by the state Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction and the Association of Wisconsin School Administrators. Templeton uses a house system, which groups students with a core team of academic teachers who collaboratively plan instruction, teach and meet student needs. The structure promotes interdisciplinary instruction, integrated units, team teaching, positive student-teacher relationships and flexible scheduling. The school was also the subject of a diss track by Lil Beeter, which was his first song.

High school
Hamilton High School has a program that serves college-bound students (98.5% graduation rate), as well as those who plan to attend technical school or enter the world of work. The school has advanced placement and world language courses and an honors program. Co-op and youth apprenticeship programs allow students to apply theory to real world work settings.

Schools

The Hamilton School Board
Seven Hamilton School Board members are elected to serve three-year terms. While placed in office by a vote of the entire district, members are elected from five specified district areas and two at-large positions.

Meetings are the first Tuesday (curriculum meeting) and the third Monday (regular meeting) each month. The agenda is posted and submitted to local newspapers prior to each meeting.

References

External links
Hamilton School District website

School districts in Wisconsin
Education in Waukesha County, Wisconsin
School districts established in 1961
1961 establishments in Wisconsin


A closet is a small, enclosed storage space, often used for clothes. Historically, the term referred to a small private room in a large house.

Closet may also refer to:
Various forms of toilet, notably:
Earth closet, one type of dry toilet
Pail closet, several types of dry toilet
 Water closet (W.C.), another term for a flush toilet
 Closet (album), a 2022 album by Yoh Kamiyama
 Closet (film), a South Korean film
 Closet (room), a type of cabinet
 Closet drama, a play intended for reading rather than performing
Closet narcissism, narcissism with a deflated, inadequate self-perception

See also
The Closet (disambiguation)
In the closet (disambiguation)
Coming out (of the closet), is a figure of speech for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people's disclosure of their sexual orientation or gender identity
Passing (sociology), a more general description of hiding one's identity
Skeleton in the closet (idiom), phrase describing any undisclosed personal fact


Max Holden is a fictional character from the American soap opera One Life to Live.  The role was originated by James DePaiva.

Casting
James DePaiva originated the role of Max Holden on the series episode first-run January 6, 1987, leaving the role in February 23, 1990. The character was then recast with Nicholas Walker in a plastic surgery storyline (see "Larry Wolek") on March 5 of that year. DePaiva returned to the series on October 25, 1991, with no mention made of the character's return to his previous appearance, portraying Max through the character's departure on October 27, 2003. He briefly returned from August 17 through August 20, 2007, for the on-screen funeral of lead character Asa Buchanan (Philip Carey).

Storylines
Max Holden arrives to Llanview in 1987 to seek a loan from fellow Texan and family friend Maria Roberts (BarBara Luna), who agreed to give him the money he needed on the condition that Max lure Tina Lord (Andrea Evans) away from her son, Cord (John Loprieno). Max soon falls for Tina, while she is still in love with Cord. When Max and Tina are marrying in ceremony, she accidentally says Cord's name during her vows, and Max calls off his relationship with her. Max's brother Steve Holden (Russ Anderson) comes to town in 1987 and soon becomes involved with and marries Gabrielle Medina (Fiona Hutchison), Max's ex-girlfriend and mother to his son, Al. Gabrielle still cares for Max, however, and the relationship with Steve falls apart in 1988. Steve dies later that year.

Max falls in love in 1991 with Luna Moody (Susan Batten). Luna later gives birth to their twins, Thomas and Leslie Diana. During his marriage, Max engages in an affair in 1993 and 1994 with Blair Cramer (Kassie DePaiva), who had previously married Asa in a marriage of convenience. Max is widowed when Luna is killed in 1995. Max goes on to enjoy relationships with Maggie Carpenter (Crystal Chappell), as well as a reunion and marriage with Blair and a fling with Kelly Cramer (Gina Tognoni). He also reunites with Gabrielle, but it does not last. From 1999 to 2001, he pretends to be the son of Asa and Renée Divine (Patricia Elliott) before being exposed by Todd Manning (Roger Howarth). In 2002, in a drunken Las Vegas escapade, he awakes to find himself married to Roxy Balsom (Ilene Kristen), a union that quickly fizzles.

When Al dies of liver failure in the fall of 2003, at the advice of Luna's spirit, Max leaves Llanview to be with his and Luna's twins, Frank and Leslie, in North Carolina. Max returns in August 2007 for the funeral of Asa and reveals that he, Frank, and Leslie are all living in Gabrielle's home country of Argentina. He invites Blair to join him there and kisses her, but Blair gently rebuffs him. Wishing his best to Blair, Max returns to Argentina.

Reception
Charlie Mason from Soaps She Knows placed Max on his list of soap opera recasts that should not have happened, commenting that "Nicholas Walker, best known for playing Trey Clegg on Capitol, is so talented that we would've thought he could play any part. But when he was tapped to replace James DePaiva as Llanview's foremost playboy in 1990, we were reminded that nope, some roles can only be played by one actor — in this case, DePaiva, who was enticed to return in '91."

References

External links
 James DePaiva as Max Holden – ABC.com (archived)
 Max Holden profile – SoapCentral.com
 Max Holden profile – The Llanview Labyrinth

One Life to Live characters
Television characters introduced in 1987
Fictional businesspeople
Fictional characters from Texas
American male characters in television


Polis is a village and a former municipality in the Elbasan County, eastern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Librazhd. It has an area of approximately 100km^2. The population at the 2011 census was 3,385. The name of the village comes from the Greek word for city, the name may have been retained from ancient times when Greeks would trade in Illyria, hence the name never changed. This shows the now village of Polis may have been a larger settlement in ancient times.

References

Former municipalities in Elbasan County
Administrative units of Librazhd
Villages in Elbasan County


Ahmed Saad Al Rashidi (born 18 June 1984) is a former Kuwaiti footballer.

International goals

References

1984 births
Living people
Kuwaiti men's footballers
Kuwait men's international footballers
2011 AFC Asian Cup players
Men's association football defenders
Al-Arabi SC (Kuwait) players
Al-Shabab SC (Kuwait) players
Al-Nasr SC (Kuwait) players
Kuwait Premier League players
Al-Tadamon SC (Kuwait) players


Percy Downes (19 September 1905 – 1989) was an English professional footballer. He spent six years at Blackpool in the early 20th century, making over 150 Football League appearances for the club, and over 350 league appearances in total. He played as a midfielder.

Playing career

Early career
Downes' first senior team was Dinnington Main Colliery Welfare, where he started playing during the early 1920s. He later transferred to Gainsborough Trinity, where his performances earned him a move into professional football in the Football League with Blackpool.

Blackpool
Downes made his debut for the Seasiders six games into their 1925–26 league season, a single-goal defeat to Darlington at Bloomfield Road on 14 September 1925. He went on to make 21 further league appearances that campaign, scoring five goals. He also appeared in Blackpool's sole FA Cup tie that season.

The following season, 1926–27, Downes made 28 starts in the league, and scored six goals. Again, he appeared in the FA Cup as Blackpool exited at the third-round stage once more.

Frank Buckley, who signed Downes, was replaced as Blackpool manager by Sydney Beaumont prior to the 1927–28 term, but he was still kept in favour, making nineteen appearances in the league and scoring four goals.

Downes appeared in well over half of Blackpool's league games in 1928–29, which was Harry Evans' first season in charge. Downes scored four goals, all in Blackpool victories. He also appeared in Blackpool's FA Cup third-round exit match at Plymouth Argyle.

In the 1929–30 campaign, Downes missed only five games as Blackpool finished as Division Two champions. He also scored thirteen goals, his highest season-total for the club, including a hat-trick in a 7–1 victory at home to Bristol City on 26 October 1929. Blackpool also made it to the fourth round of the FA Cup for the first time in four seasons, but Downes missed out on the match.

Downes' final season with Blackpool, 1930–31, saw his make sixteen appearances in the top flight for the club. He failed to score in the league for the first time in his six seasons with the Seasiders, but he did score Blackpool's goal in their FA Cup fourth-round 2–1 defeat at Southport on 24 January 1931.

His final appearance for Blackpool occurred on 18 February 1931, in a single-goal defeat at home to Birmingham City.

Hull City
In 1931, Downes joined Football League Third Division North side Hull City, where he played eleven matches and scored three goals as the team finished eighth in their division. He stayed at Hull for just one season.

Stockport County
Downes signed for Third Division North outfit Stockport prior to the 1932–33 season. He racked up 82 appearances and notched 17 goals for the club as they secured consecutive third-placed finishes in the division.

Burnley
Downes' consistent goalscoring in the Third Division earned him a move to Second Division side Burnley in the summer of 1934. He spent two seasons with the Clarets, but only managed to score a total of six goals in the league. He helped Burnley to the semi-final of the FA Cup in the 1934–35 season, and played a total of 61 league games before he left to join Oldham Athletic.

Oldham Athletic
Downes played a total of 51 matches for the Latics, scoring just 4 times in two seasons. In 1938, he retired from professional football and returned to Gainsborough Trinity.

Notes

References

1905 births
1989 deaths
English men's footballers
Gainsborough Trinity F.C. players
Blackpool F.C. players
Hull City A.F.C. players
Stockport County F.C. players
Burnley F.C. players
Oldham Athletic A.F.C. players
English Football League players
People from Bassetlaw District
Footballers from Nottinghamshire
Men's association football midfielders


Hotolisht is a village and a former municipality in the Elbasan County, eastern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Librazhd. The population at the 2011 census was 5,706. The municipal unit consists of the villages Buzgare, Dardhe, Hotolisht, Kokreve, Vehcan, Vulcan and Xhyre.

Demographic history
The village of Hotolisht appears in the Ottoman defter of 1467 as a settlement in the vilayet of Çermeniça with a total of 13 households, represented by the following household heads: Pop Shtjafenim, Pop Kozmai, Gjergj Vlashi, Mekshe Koleci, Progon Goroda (possibly, Guruda or Gruda), Tolë Penkuli, Gjon Primiqyri, Nikolla Bosi, Nenko Andropoli, Progon Pilashi, Petër Vlashi, Ishri Vlashi, and Gjergj Koja.

References

Former municipalities in Elbasan County
Administrative units of Librazhd
Villages in Elbasan County


The Hopalong Cassidy River Trail is a 0.5 mi; (0.8 km) flat trail on the bank of the Vermilion River in Streator, Illinois. The trail is mostly gravel, with a section of cement next to the Bridge St. Bridge on the north and south side of the road. The trail is part of the local flood control system. It is named after the Hopalong Cassidy western series of books written by author Clarence E. Mulford, whose childhood house sits next to the trail on the south side of the road.
The trail is lined with a forest of mulberry, oak and maple trees.

References

Hiking trails in Illinois
Protected areas of LaSalle County, Illinois
Streator, Illinois


Michel Bécot (born 10 October 1939) is a former member of the Senate of France who represented the Deux-Sèvres department from 1995 to 2014. He was a member of the Union for a Popular Movement centre-right political party.

References
Page on the Senate website

1939 births
Living people
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
French senators of the Fifth Republic
Senators of Deux-Sèvres
20th-century French politicians
21st-century French politicians


Stravaj is a village and a former municipality in the Elbasan County, eastern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Prrenjas. The population at the 2011 census was 2,427. The municipal unit consists of the villages Farret, Gaferr, Shqiponje, Sopot, Stranik and Stravaj.

References

Former municipalities in Elbasan County
Administrative units of Prrenjas
Villages in Elbasan County


"Well I Ask You" is a song written by Les Vandyke and successfully recorded in 1961 by English singer Eden Kane.

Song information
Recorded in 1961, by Richard Graham Sarstedt, under stage name Eden Kane, as the follow-up to his debut single, "Hot Chocolate Crazy" (1960), "Well I Ask You" was also issued as a single in the UK and reached number one in the UK Singles Chart in August 1961.  Written by Les Vandyke,  arranged by John Keating, and produced by Bunny Lewis, it spent one week at the UK chart pinnacle.

The B-side of the record, released by Decca was "Before I Lose My Mind", also penned by Vandyke.

Kay Starr also recorded the song as "Well I Ask Ya" for Capitol Records in 1961.

See also
List of number-one singles from the 1960s (UK)
UK No.1 Hits of 1961

References

External links
Eden biography and discography at 45-rpm.org.uk
Song lyrics at ntlworld.com

1961 singles
UK Singles Chart number-one singles
Songs written by Les Vandyke
1961 songs
Decca Records singles


The Gloom is a comic book by writer Tony Lee and artist Dan Boutlwood, originally released through the publisher APC. It was created as a 5-issue mini-series, but despite some critical attention the title was canceled before it was finished due to the publisher going out of business.

In 2020 it was announced that MTV would be serializing a new, redrawn version of the book on their MTV Geek site, starting from 1 February 2011.

References

British graphic novels


Claude Belot (born 11 July 1936) is a former member of the Senate of France, representing the Charente-Maritime department. He is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.

External links
Page on the Senate website

1936 births
Living people
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
French senators of the Fifth Republic
Senators of Charente-Maritime
20th-century French politicians


The Benny Goodman Story is a 1956 American musical biographical film starring Steve Allen and Donna Reed, directed by Valentine Davies, and released by Universal-International. The film was intended as a follow-up to Universal's 1954 hit The Glenn Miller Story, dramatizing a popular bandleader's life.

The film captures several major moments in Goodman's life but it has been described as less than accurate in details. Goodman's Jewish background is mentioned only implicitly, despite its playing a part in his artistic and personal endeavors for decades. In one scene, where his mother tries to talk him out of a romance with Alice Hammond (played by Donna Reed), whom Goodman eventually married, she says, "Bagels and caviar don't mix."

Plot
The young Benny Goodman is taught classical clarinet by a Chicago music professor. He is advised by bandleader Kid Ory to play whichever kind of music he likes best. Benny begins his professional career by joining the Ben Pollack traveling band.

Later in New York, where his new band gets a lukewarm reception, Benny meets jazz lover John Hammond and his sister Alice. He is invited to the stately Hammond home to perform Mozart's Clarinet Concerto. Alice fears he will be embarrassed, but his playing is impeccable and Benny appreciates her concern.

Benny's performances on a popular Saturday night radio program result in Fletcher Henderson volunteering to do some arrangements for him. On the west coast, the radio show's early start has made Benny's music a sensation with a younger generation. He puts together a quartet featuring Gene Krupa on drums, Teddy Wilson on piano and Lionel Hampton on vibraphone.

The romance with society girl Alice is disconcerting to Benny's mother, but by the time her son plays Carnegie Hall, all is well and Mrs. Goodman has personally invited her future daughter-in-law to sit by her side.

Cast
Steve Allen as Benny Goodman
Donna Reed as Alice Hammond
Berta Gersten as Dora Goodman
Herbert Anderson as John Hammond
Robert F. Simon as David Goodman
Sammy Davis Sr. as Fletcher Henderson
Dick Winslow as Gil Rodin
David Kasday as 10-year-old Benny Goodman
Barry Truex as 16-year-old Benny Goodman
Hy Averback as Willard Alexander
Wilton Graff as Mr. Hammond
Shep Menken as Harry Goodman

The following people appeared in the film as themselves:
Harry James
Gene Krupa
Martha Tilton
Lionel Hampton
Ziggy Elman
Ben Pollack
Teddy Wilson
Edward "Kid" Ory

Production
Benny Goodman recorded most of the clarinet for the soundtrack—except for the opening scenes, where the juvenile Goodman is shown practicing the instrument. Goodman was by then so accomplished that he could no longer reproduce the sound of an amateur clarinetist. The film's star, Steve Allen, was himself a pianist but had never played clarinet, and the squeaky attempts of a beginner were the only sounds Allen could make on a clarinet. Thus the clarinet heard during the film's first scenes was played by Steve Allen.

Many of Goodman's contemporaries made appearances in this film. However, while Ziggy Elman appeared on screen recreating his trumpet solo on "And the Angels Sing", he was unable to record his portion for the soundtrack; Mannie Klein actually performed it, off-camera. Similarly, Red Mack's performance in the film is actually played by Alvin Alcorn.

Fletcher Henderson is portrayed by Sammy Davis, Sr., father of Sammy Davis, Jr.

Talent scout John Hammond was dissatisfied with the way he and the rest of the Hammond family, including his sister Alice, were portrayed in the movie. He objected and the next version of the script saw his character completely removed, with all of his actions given over to another character, Willard Alexander, Goodman's manager. Hammond objected even more strenuously, pointing out that, among many other things, Willard Alexander did not host the party in the Hammond mansion where Goodman first played Mozart publicly, nor did he introduce Alice to Benny. In the end, Hammond reluctantly agreed to leave his portrayal in the film, though he sued for $50,000 for being portrayed in what he thought was an unflattering manner.

References

External links

1956 films
1950s biographical drama films
1950s musical drama films
American biographical drama films
American musical drama films
Biographical films about musicians
Films scored by Henry Mancini
Jazz films
Universal Pictures films
Benny Goodman
Cultural depictions of jazz musicians
Cultural depictions of American men
1956 directorial debut films
1956 drama films
1950s English-language films
1950s American films


Guinness World Records Smashed is a British television show for Sky1, that features record attempts, celebrity guests and death-defying stunts. A one-off pilot episode was transmitted on 23 November 2008, and a full 10-part series was broadcast on Sky1 from 19 April to 21 June 2009. The show was produced by British independent production company, Outline Productions with Guinness World Records.

Filming
The pilot show was recorded in October 2008 at Teddington Studios and around London and invited people to partake in the filming to attempt to break existing world records.

On the back of the November 2008 one-off programme, Sky1 ordered a 10-part series. The studio format invited members of the public to try to set new world records in everything from leaping through burning hoops to somersaulting over cars. Celebrity guests, the audience, and the presenters also got involved with the record-breaking attempts. The series started airing on Sky1 and Sky1 HD on Sunday 19 April 2009. Filmed from February 2009, the studio show has been filmed at Pinewood Studios.

Presenters
Fearne Cotton and Ben Shephard presented the pilot of the show which was transmitted in Winter 2008. Both Cotton and Shephard signed on to take part in some of the record attempts, with Shephard performing a record-breaking reverse bungee jump.

Konnie Huq and Steve Jones presented the series which first aired on 19 April 2009.

The record attempts were commentated on by Peter Dickson.

Official adjudicator
Marco Frigatti is the Director of the global records management team for Guinness World Records and the chief adjudicator on the show.

References

Sky UK original programming
2008 British television series debuts
2009 British television series endings
Guinness World Records


Nawaf Al Shuwaye (, (born 3 August 1983) is a Kuwaiti footballer who is a defensive midfielder for the Kuwaiti Premier League club Al Arabi.

References

External links

1976 births
Living people
Kuwaiti men's footballers
Footballers from Kuwait City
Men's association football midfielders
Kuwait men's international footballers
Al-Arabi SC (Kuwait) players
Kuwait Premier League players


Qukës is a former municipality in the Elbasan County, eastern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Prrenjas. The population at the 2011 census was 8,211. The municipal unit consists of the villages Berzheshte, Dritaj, Fanje, Gurre, Karkavec, Menik, Pishkash, Pishkash Veri, Qukës-Shkumbin, Qukës-Skenderbej and Skroske. In the later Ottoman era about a quarter of the city of Qukes itself was Bektashi. Via Egnatia [5] passes through Qukës, which was a very important trade route in the Balkans during the conquest of the Roman Empire.

References

Former municipalities in Elbasan County
Administrative units of Prrenjas


Victor R. Basili (born April 13, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York), is an emeritus professor at the Department of Computer Science, which is part of the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences, and the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies.  He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin and two honorary degrees. He is a fellow of both the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

From 1982 through 1988 he was chair of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland. He is currently a senior research fellow at the Fraunhofer Center for Experimental Software Engineering - Maryland and from 1997 to 2004 was its executive director.

He is well known for his works on measuring, evaluating, and improving the software development process, as a pioneer of empirical software engineering, especially through his papers on the Goal/Question/Metric Approach, the Quality Improvement Paradigm, and the Experience Factory.
Many of these ideas developed through his affiliation with the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Software Engineering Laboratory (SEL), which he helped to create and was one of its directors from 1976 through 2002.

References

Further reading

External links
cs.umd.edu

1940 births
American computer scientists
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Harvard University alumni
Living people
Engineering academics
Software engineering researchers
University of Maryland, College Park faculty
American software engineers
University of Texas at Austin alumni


Pavol Jurčo (born 12 February 1986) is a Slovak football striker who currently plays for Czech club MFK Karviná.

Club career
Made a guest appearance for Shamrock Rovers in a friendly against Newcastle on 11 July 2009 at Tallaght Stadium.

MŠK Žilina
On 9 February 2014, MFK Zemplín Michalovce sold Jurčo to MŠK Žilina for 60 thousand euros.

Career statistics

Last update at 19 June 2009

References

External links
Corgoň Liga profile

Eurofotbal profile
MFK Košice profile

1986 births
Living people
People from Levoča
Footballers from the Prešov Region
Men's association football forwards
Slovak men's footballers
MFK Ružomberok players
FC Steel Trans Ličartovce players
FC VSS Košice players
1. FC Tatran Prešov players
FK Viktoria Žižkov players
MFK Zemplín Michalovce players
FK Dukla Banská Bystrica players
MŠK Žilina players
FC DAC 1904 Dunajská Streda players
Slovak First Football League players
Czech First League players
Slovak expatriate men's footballers
Slovak expatriate sportspeople in Austria
Expatriate men's footballers in the Czech Republic
Shamrock Rovers F.C. guest players


Valgejõgi (lit. White River) is a river in Northern Estonia. Its source is in Lake Porkuni in Pandivere (Lääne-Viru County) and it drains into Hara Bay (part of Finnish Gulf) at Loksa (Harju County).

Geography
Valgejõgi lacks any major tributaries. Its drainage basin is long and narrow, dominated by forests and wetlands (more than 2/3 of total area). Agricultural land use is concentrated in the upper section of drainage basin, while forests dominate in the middle and lower sections, where the river borders the Põhja-Kõrvemaa Nature Reserve and flows through Lahemaa National Park. The towns of Loksa (in the mouth) and Tapa (about 17 km from the source) are the only bigger settlements  on the river.

Nõmmeveski waterfall
19 km upstream from the river mouth the river flows over the Baltic Klint, forming the Nõmmeveski waterfall. The waterfall and Nõmmeveski canyon (several tens of meters deep and a few hundred meters long) are a popular tourist destination in Lahemaa National Park.

References

Rivers of Estonia
Landforms of Harju County
Landforms of Lääne-Viru County


ArtsBoston is a not-for-profit corporation assisting the performing arts industry in Boston, Massachusetts. Since its founding in 1975, ArtsBoston has been one of the nation's performing arts non-profits, second only to New York City's Theatre Development Fund.

ArtsBoston provides discount tickets to performing arts events at its BosTix booths and through its BosTix Advance program.

History
In 2011, ArtsBoston received a $70,000 grant by the Massachusetts Cultural Council Adams Arts Program.

BosTix
BosTix Booths are located in Faneuil Hall Marketplace and Copley Square, and sell half-price, day-of-show tickets. The booths also serve as a full-service Ticketmaster outlet, selling full-price tickets to events and local cultural attractions.

References

Non-profit organizations based in Boston
Non-profit corporations

External links

 Official website