Dan McCorquodale (born December 17, 1934 in Longville, Louisiana) is an American politician from Newton, Texas, a former California State Senator, and a member of the Democratic Party.

Early career
Before entering politics, McCorquodale was a teacher in the California public schools. McCorquodale then served as a Santa Clara County Supervisor, winning election in 1972 and being reelected in 1976 and 1980.

State Senate
In 1982, McCorquodale was elected to the San Jose based 12th district in the California State Senate, narrowly defeating Republican incumbent Dan O'Keefe.

Defeat
In 1986, he won a difficult reelection against Santa Clara County Supervisor Tom Legan. Although he won easy reelection in 1990, McCorquodale lost his seat in 1994 to Dick Monteith a conservative Republican businessman. His senate district had shifted from his home base of San Jose into the more conservative Central Valley after reapportionment partly leading to his defeat in a mid-term election in which the GOP made significant gains.

Controversy
In 2022, the San Jose Mercury News reported that McCorquodale's wife, Jean, had earned millions of dollars from Santa Clara County through grant writing and the authorship of a government history book. Further investigation by the newspaper found that large portions of the county government history book's working manuscript were copied directly from websites like Wikipedia and The History Channel. A county-led inquiry prompted by District 3 Supervisor Otto Lee found that Jean McCorquodale was paid over $1 million to produce the book.

References

External links
JoinCalifornia Dan McCorquodale

1934 births
Living people
Democratic Party California state senators
County supervisors in California
People from Newton, Texas
20th-century American politicians


Dawid Banaczek (born 3 June 1979) is a Polish former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder or forward.

Early life
Dawid was born in Gdynia and grew up in Gdańsk (both being parts of Tricity urban area in Poland). Dawid's father, Ryszard, was a rugby Polish national team player and then a rugby coach in Lechia Gdańsk, while his mother Barbara was a volleyball player. Dawid is the eldest of two boys.

Early career
Banaczek made his first appearance for Lechia Gdańsk where he began his trainings in 1987.
As a teenager, Banaczek represented Poland U16 to U21. In 1995, he participated in the U16 European Championships, held in Belgium.

Playing career
He had played in the Lechia senior team for three seasons. In 1999, Banaczek signed a 2-year contract with Bayern Munich II. In the new club, Dawid played for two seasons for the reserves team.

In 2001, he had signed a contract with the Swedish club IFK Norrköping in which he debuted in Allsvenskan. Between 2001 and 2003, Banaczek (with a short, three-month interval in RKS Radomsko), played continuously for the IFK.

In 2005, he moved to Ekstraklasa side Amica Wronki. Under supervision of coach Maciej Skorża, he spent one round as a substitute.

He enjoyed his greatest successes as a player in Zagłębie Lubin, with whom, in the 2006–07 season, he won the championship of Poland. A year prior, Zagłębie finished the season in 3rd. Beside Zagłębie and Amica Wronki, Banaczek played in two more teams of the Ekstraklasa: RKS Radomsko and Widzew Łódź.

The last high-level stop in his football career was the Czech team Sigma Olomouc, whom he joined in 2007.

National team
He was repeatedly a member of Polish youth national teams, from U15 to U21. In 1995, under coach Andrzej Zamilski, he participated in the European U16 Championship in Belgium.

Managerial career

Lechia Gdańsk
In 2012, Dawid Banaczek started cooperation with Lechia Gdańsk, where he led the team of the Lechia Gdańsk Football Academy U9.

Kaszubia Koscierzyna
On 1 July 2013, Banaczek assumed the position of the head coach of the Kaszubia Kościerzyna, on a one-year deal.

Lechia Gdańsk
From July to August 2015 he was the head coach of Lechia Gdańsk's U17 team.

After 8 weeks of working with U17s, he became the assistant for Thomas von Heesen in the senior team. Following von Heesen's dismissal, he became the caretaker manager on 3 December 2015.

From 1 July 2016, he was an assistant coach of Drutex Bytovia Bytów.

Personal life
Dawid is married to Anna Iga. Together they have a daughter Laura, who is an artistic gymnast in SGA Gdynia.

In 2011, Dawid Banaczek has established the Football Pro Academy. The principal goal of the academy, to be achieved within several years, is to search for talents and children with passion and enthusiasm to practice this sport, and subsequently, beginning of trainings on a more advanced level.

Banaczek speaks English and German.

Honours
Zagłębie Lubin
Ekstraklasa: 2006–07

External links

1979 births
Living people
Polish men's footballers
Poland men's youth international footballers
Poland men's under-21 international footballers
Polish expatriate men's footballers
Ekstraklasa players
III liga players
Allsvenskan players
Football League (Greece) players
Lechia Gdańsk players
Lechia Gdańsk II players
FC Bayern Munich II players
IFK Norrköping players
Widzew Łódź players
FC Vaduz players
Amica Wronki players
Zagłębie Lubin players
SK Sigma Olomouc players
Ethnikos Asteras F.C. players
FC Viktoria Köln players
RKS Radomsko players
Kaszubia Kościerzyna players
Expatriate men's footballers in Germany
Expatriate men's footballers in Liechtenstein
Expatriate men's footballers in Sweden
Expatriate men's footballers in Greece
Polish expatriate sportspeople in Germany
Polish expatriate sportspeople in Sweden
Polish expatriate sportspeople in Greece
Men's association football midfielders
Men's association football forwards
Footballers from Gdynia
Polish football managers
Lechia Gdańsk managers
Ekstraklasa managers
Polish expatriate sportspeople in Liechtenstein


The Circolo Speleologico Romano (CSR) is an Italian, non-profit speleological organization dedicated to the exploration, research, and conservation of caves. The CSR  is one of the oldest caving groups in Italy. Its activity has contributed to the birth and the increase of the Italian Speleology

History
The Circolo Speleologico Romano (CSR) was founded on the 5th of July 1904 by Guido Cora, the illustrious geographer and brave mountain climber, Baron Carlo Franchetti, Alessandro Datti and others. Immediately the CSR established relationships with other European groups, especially Swiss, French and Belgium sharing the exploration of the Abruzzo region (Luppa’s cave, Val de Varri’s Cave) and in France. The first major exploration campaigns outside Italy, of the Anatolia caves, began after the First World War leading to important biological discoveries. In this period the bio-speleological activity received a strong acceleration especially due to the two associates Patrizi and Cerruti. More than 200 new species of troglobites carry the name of CSR associates. Since the beginning of the exploration activity all the data collected about each cave has been organized in the cave cadastre. In the 90s the regional cave cadastre was passed to the Federazione speleologica del Lazio. In 1924 the club published its first bulletin, detailing the explorations and the scientific activities of its associates. This bulletin (renamed Notiziario del Circolo Speleologico Romano in 1946) is exchanged with the publications of similar organizations in more than 40 nations around the world, continually expanding the social library of the association. In 1954 for its merits in scientific field, to the fulfilment of its 50 year of activity, the CSR was named "Ente Morale" by decree of the President of the Italian Republic Luigi Einaudi.
In the 1960s the CSR began to mount large international expeditions (1962 Gouffre Berger in France, 1963 in Lebanon, in 1964 Ojo Guareña in Spain and then Poland, Turkey, Albania. Since 1969 its research in Chiapas  (southern Mexico) has been particularly relevant, where it has explored and surveyed more than 60 km of new caves. The bio-speleological results of these activities are published in three volumes of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei with the title “Subterranean Fauna of Mexico”.
To commemorate the 100th year of activity of the Circolo Speleologico Romano Poste Italiane  has produced a special stamp in 3.5 million of pieces.

Caving organizations
Sport in Rome
Clubs and societies in Italy


The men's vault or "long horse vaulting" event was part of the gymnastics programme at the 1932 Summer Olympics. It was contested for the fifth time after 1896, 1904, 1924, and 1928. The competition was held on Wednesday, August 10, 1932. Ten gymnasts from four nations competed. Each nation was limited to three gymnasts. The event was won by Savino Guglielmetti of Italy, the nation's first medal in the event. Americans Al Jochim and Ed Carmichael took silver and bronze, respectively.

Background

This was the fifth appearance of the event, which is one of the five apparatus events held every time there were apparatus events at the Summer Olympics (no apparatus events were held in 1900, 1908, 1912, or 1920). Four of the gymnasts from 1928 returned: István Pelle and Miklós Péter of Hungary, Mario Lertora of Italy, and Al Jochim of the United States; none had finished better than 21st among the 85-man field that year. The vault was still not an event at the gymnastics world championships, and there was no clear favorite (especially without reigning Olympic champion Eugen Mack not present).

No nation made its debut in the men's vault. The United States made its fourth appearance, most of any nation, having missed only the inaugural 1896 Games.

Competition format

In the early Olympics, the vault format changed considerably. The 1932 competition bore little resemblance to the 1924 or 1928 events. The 1932 event used a "vaulting horse" aligned parallel to the gymnast's run (rather than the modern "vaulting table" in use since 2004). Each gymnast made two compulsory vaults and two voluntary vaults, with the better of the two counting in each category. The score for each vault was up to 30 points, with a combined score of 60 points maximum. A jump-off, with each gymnast making another compulsory and another voluntary vault, was held to break a tie for third place.

For the second (after 1896) and last time, the vault competition was entirely separate from the individual all-around rather than being entirely aggregated into the all-around or sharing qualification results.

Schedule

Results

References

 Olympic Report

Vault


Ruth Pearce is an Australian diplomat ambassador in Honiara, Moscow - with accreditation to 12 former Soviet republics - Manila and Warsaw.”

Her years of service were: Ambassador to Poland (2008- 2011), Ambassador to the Philippines (2002-05), Ambassador to the Russian Federation (1999-2002) and as High Commissioner to the Solomon Islands (1992-94).

When she was Ambassador to Russia in 1999, she was one of six female ambassadors out of almost 170 ambassadors. When she was ambassador to the Philippines, she had to stay in a hotel during renovations to the Embassy. Due to security concerns, she was driven in an armored car and had round the clock bodyguards.  Despite the security, “the hotel was taken hostage” during a coup attempt and parts of the area immediately surrounding the hotel had been booby trapped with explosives.  Pearce was safely escorted from the building.

Pearce graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Bachelor of Laws degree with Honours.

References

Ambassadors of Australia to Poland
Ambassadors of Australia to Russia
Ambassadors of Australia to the Philippines
Ambassadors of Australia to Ukraine
High Commissioners of Australia to the Solomon Islands
University of Melbourne alumni
Australian women ambassadors
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people


A petal is one member (or part) of the corolla of a flower.

Petal, Petals, or variants may also refer to:

Entertainment
 Petal (band), a rock band from Scranton, Pennsylvania
 Petals (TV series), 1989–1999 Australian children's TV series
 A Petal, a 1996 South Korean film

Other uses
 Petal, Mississippi, United States
 Petal Maps, an online map service based on data from OpenStreetMap
 Petal Search, a search engine, developed by Huawei
 Breast petal, a type of nipple shield
 In mathematics, portions of a topological space; see Rose (topology)

See also

 Pedal (disambiguation)
 Peddle, to sell something by going from place to place
 Peddle (surname)


FCM Dinamo Onești was a Romanian professional football club from Onești, Bacău County, Romania, founded in 1994 and dissolved in 2015.

History
It all started in 1988. Mecon Onești, a team that has just been established, promoted in Divizia C. With a new stadium, Mecon hopes to have something to say in Romanian football. Promoted with Steluș Roșca, Mecon calls his coach Gheorghe Zaharia. Beyond the batch, the leadership, an enthusiastic one, dreamed at great moments for Mecon.

In 1994, AS Electromecon Onești merge with CSM Borzești. This merger took place at the initiative of Nicolae Puiu, the president of AS Electromecon with the support of Simion Albu – manager at that time of RAFO – and of Ion Marian – the leader of the "RAFINORUL" syndicate.

In 1994–95 season, he took second place in the Divizia C Seria I after Foresta Fălticeni, but promoted in Divizia B defeating in a play-off game held in Săcele (Brașov County) with a score of 1-0 through the golden goal on Flacăra Moreni.

For three years, FC Onești has worked in Divizia B occupying every time, at the end of the championship, a place in the first half of the standings. In the last of these three years, in the summer of 1998, FC Onești promoted to Divizia A (for the first time). As a result of the second place at the end of the competition (after a fierce fight with Astra Ploiești, the winner of the series) for promotion, FC Onești defeated at Făgăraș in a play-off game Electroputere Craiova with 2–1 through the golden goal, the coach of the team being Professor Toader Șteț.

At the end of his first Divizia A championship, FC Onești took 14th place out of 18 participants.
The following year, FC Onești took the 16th place, a relegated position at the end of the championship.

The club was dissolved in the middle of the 2003–04 Divizia B season, after its main sponsor, RAFO, withdrew its support.
The club was refounded in 2009 under the name of FCM Onești.
In the summer of 2012, the club was renamed once again, as FCM Dinamo Onești. For three years the club played in Liga IV. The club was dissolved once again, in 2015.

Chronology of names

Honours
Liga I
Best finish 14th 1998–99
Liga II
Runners-up (1): 1997–98
Liga III
Runners-up (1):1994–95

Notable players

  Valeriu Răchită
  Ionel Pârvu
  Vasile Jercălău
  Alin Artimon
  Adrian Blid
 Daniel Scânteie
 Ionel Iriza
 Giani Gorga
 Dănuț Oprea
 Costel Bîrsan
 Marius Bilașco
 Altin Masati

Notable managers
  Petre Grigoraș
  Alexandru Moldovan
  Toader Șteț

References

Association football clubs established in 1994
Association football clubs disestablished in 2015
Defunct football clubs in Romania
Football clubs in Bacău County
Liga I clubs
Liga II clubs
Liga III clubs
Liga IV clubs
1994 establishments in Romania
2015 disestablishments in Romania


Ruwanga Nirashad Samath is an American record producer and songwriter born in Sri Lanka. He is best known for his music in blockbuster movies such as Fast Five and Ted.

Biography

Early life
Ruwanga was born in Sri Lanka, into a musically influenced environment. Through his mother, Renuka, who is a musician, young Ruwanga was surrounded by some of the best musicians in the country. At the height of the country's unstable political atmosphere and civil war, his family decided to and eventually moved to Pasadena, CA when he was 12. Since then, Ruwanga attended John Muir High School before moving to La Verne, California, and graduating from Bonita High School. After High School, Ruwanga attended Cal State San Bernardino for a semester until he dropped out to pursue a career in music.

Career

Music in Film
Ruwanga has either composed and produced music for over 50 movies including the end title songs for movies such as Fast Five (Universal Pictures) Busta Rhymes, Don Omar and J. Doe titled "How we Roll, Morgan Spurlock's The Greatest Movie Ever Sold (Sony Pictures) "CameraBuggin" features Big Boi from the legendary Outkast, as well as Matt & Kim, Reality High (Netflix) &Gideon's Army (HBO). He has also placed songs in movies such as TED (Universal Pictures), Spare Parts (Lionsgate), Tower Heist (Universal Pictures), You're Next (Lionsgate), Generation Iron, Saw IV (Lionsgate), Christmas in Compton, Son of Morning, Doubletime & Wonder(Lionsgate).

TV shows
Ruwanga has written and produced theme songs for several television programs, including History Channel's Mounted in Alaska, TLC's Unleashed : K9, Lifetime's Preacher's Daughters Seasons 1 & 2, Playboy's King of Clubs & Hulu's Mother Up! His songs were also featuring in MTV's Jersey Shore and Battle Ground Earth : Ludacris vs Tommy Lee

Composer
Ruwanga has composed several movies, including Netflix Original #RealityHigh, STARZ original Flock of Dudes &  National Lampoon's" Another Dirty Movie". He has also composed several documentaries such as "Cosplay Universe", "Long Live Rock... Celebrate the Chaos'',  "How I Got Over" and the upcoming Muhumad Ali documentary titled "City of Ali''.

Mixtapes/ Remixes
In 2013, Ruwanga released his first mixtape through Roc Nation/ Three Six Zero titled #Backin20

Ruwanga has done several remixes for artists such as including Beyoncé Knowles' "Ring the Alarm" remix, Britney Spears' "Break the Ice" remix, Kelly Rowland's "Work" remix, The Virgins' "Rich Girls" remix.

Artists
Ruwanga has worked with and collaborated with artists such as Busta Rhymes, Rachel Crow, Meghan Trainor, Ke$ha, Mistah F.A.B., Clyde Carson, Don Omar, SOB X RBE & Leven Kali. Ruwanga founded the record label/ multimedia company, Smooth Blaq in 2017. Smooth Blaq artists include Tyler Sellers.

Discography

References

1985 births
Living people
American people of Sri Lankan descent
American record producers
Hip hop record producers
Sinhalese singers


Anon were a band made up of pupils from Charterhouse School in Surrey.  Members of the group would eventually merge with another Charterhouse group, called Garden Wall, to form the progressive rock band Genesis. The band formed in May 1965 and split up in December 1966. It originally consisted of Rivers Jobe (bass), Richard Macphail (vocals), Anthony Phillips (lead guitar), and Rob Tyrrell (drums). They were later joined by future Genesis guitarist/bassist Mike Rutherford on rhythm guitar. During a short period of time, Rutherford was forced to leave the band by his house master at Charterhouse and was replaced by Mike Colman.

History
The band was formed when Anthony Phillips met up with Rivers Jobe (born Rivers Job). While friends at prep school, Phillips and Jobe were in a band called The Spiders. The Spiders had been a Beatles type band, and when Phillips entered Charterhouse in April 1965, he hooked up with his old friend and formed Anon with Rob Tyrrell and Richard Macphail within a week. The band's name was short for "anonymous".

Just after Anon had formed, a young guitarist called Mike Rutherford, who had been at Charterhouse since November 1964, heard that there was a chance he would be let into the band as a rhythm guitarist. He met up with and befriended Phillips and Macphail, passed an audition and was subsequently given a place in the band.

Anon was dedicated to covering songs by the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and rhythm and blues music from that era, like John Mayall. The only recording the band ever made was the only original song that the band had during this period, a demo of a song called "Pennsylvania Flickhouse" written by Anthony Phillips.

The members of Anon and Garden Wall were seen as the rebels of the school, as Charterhouse offered an extensive range of activities for pupils, but the members of the bands chose to play music. All music except for classical music was frowned upon by the teachers in the school. The members of Anon used to have their hair longer than everyone else and go down to the local pubs as a sign of rebellion. As a result, the band suffered a lot of pressure from their parents and teachers, and this led to Macphail departing the band because of his parents' attitude to him being in a rock band (leaving Rutherford to take over as singer), and Rutherford leaving the group because his guitar was confiscated by his house master. Rutherford was replaced by a returning Richard Macphail and guitarist Mike Colman, with Colman departing shortly thereafter and Rutherford returning to the fold.

The band continued to go on with the five-piece lineup until July 1966, when Rivers Jobe and Richard Macphail were scheduled to leave Charterhouse. Macphail decided that his band should do a concert with Garden Wall both as top acts and with a third band opening, so Anon set about getting together a concert that was staged within the school. The event marked the end of the five-piece lineup, and Jobe and Macphail both quit the band. Jobe went on to join Savoy Brown, Macphail went on to become a sound engineer for Genesis until 1973.

The band, now only Phillips, Rutherford (who took on Macphail's duties whilst Jobe went unreplaced), and Tyrrell, carried on. Eventually Tyrrell left, leading the band to break up in December 1966. Tyrrell would later surface as the drummer in Freddie Mercury's pre-Queen group, Sour Milk Sea. Phillips and Rutherford then went on to join with all three members of Garden Wall (vocalist Peter Gabriel, keyboardist Tony Banks, and drummer Chris Stewart) in 1967, to form Genesis (with Mike buying his first bass), in January 1967.

Personnel

Members
Rivers Jobe – bass (May 1965 – July 1966; died 1979)
Richard Macphail – lead vocals (May 1965 – Spring 1966, Spring 1966 – July 1966)
Anthony Phillips – lead guitar (May 1965 – December 1966), rhythm guitar (May 1965)
Rob Tyrrell – drums (May 1965 – December 1966)
Mike Rutherford – rhythm guitar (May 1965 – Spring 1966, Spring 1966 – December 1966), lead vocals (Spring 1966, July 1966 – December 1966), bass (July 1966 – December 1966)
Mike Colman – rhythm guitar (Spring 1966; died 2010)

Lineups

Timeline

References

Genesis (band)
1965 establishments in England
1966 disestablishments in England
Musical groups established in 1965
Musical groups disestablished in 1966
English rock music groups


Garden Wall was a band from Charterhouse School in Surrey that went on to merge with the remains of another band from the same school, Anon, to form the progressive rock band Genesis in 1967. The band was formed around May 1965 and consisted of Peter Gabriel (vocals), Tony Banks (keyboards) and Chris Stewart (drums).

History
The band formed in May 1965, although it had its roots back in September 1963 when Tony Banks and Peter Gabriel both entered Charterhouse. Both of them did not like the school for their first year there, and as arriving at the same time, they stuck together throughout the first year. It did not take long for them to discover their common passion of music. This led the two of them to going into the nearby towns and villages and listening to whatever music would be playing in the record stores at the time. The two of them were members of the Duckites house at Charterhouse, and there was a piano in the main hall which they used to go and play on. These occasions in the main hall were the first musical collaborations between Banks and Gabriel.

During his time at Charterhouse, Peter Gabriel had been drumming for an R & B band called "The Spoken Word", and another band called "Millords". As a result of his time in this band, Gabriel started songwriting with Banks. The first song the two of them ever wrote together eventually evolved into a track called 'She Is Beautiful', and eventually became known as 'The Serpent' (released on Genesis' debut album From Genesis to Revelation, in 1969).

In May 1965, when future Genesis guitarist Anthony Phillips had joined the school, a five-piece band called Anon had come into existence. It was around this time that Gabriel and Banks got together with Phillips' friend Chris Stewart (who was not a member of Anon), and together they formed a three-piece band featuring Gabriel on vocals, Banks on piano, and Stewart on drums. This band named itself Garden Wall. The band simply carried on like this, playing covers and new songs that Banks and Gabriel were writing together.

In December 1965, Garden Wall played their only concert, on a stage inside Charterhouse School on a double bill with Anon. Gabriel showered the audience with rose petals that he had spent the afternoon picking, this was to be the first of his famous onstage antics.

Garden Wall's fellow band splintered at this point, with two of the members leaving in the summer and a third member leaving towards the end of the year. This left Phillips and Mike Rutherford, the band's two guitarists, who then joined all three of the members of the Garden Wall in 1967 to form Genesis.

Members
Tony Banks - keyboards (May 1965 - January 1967)
Peter Gabriel - lead vocals (May 1965 - January 1967)
Chris Stewart - drums (May 1965 - January 1967)

References

English rock music groups
Musical groups from Surrey


An Overdose of Death... is the third full-length album released by American thrash metal band Toxic Holocaust on September 2, 2008. Music videos have been made for "Wild Dogs", "Nuke the Cross", and "The Lord of the Wasteland". Critical reviews also mark these as the best songs of a good but mixed album.

Track listing

All songs written by Joel Grind.

The Japanese edition includes the bonus track "666".

Personnel
Toxic Holocaust
 Joel Grind - vocals, rhythm guitar, bass
 'Personality' Paul Barke - lead guitar, production
 Donny Paycheck - drums

Production
 Jack Endino - producer
 Halseycaust - artwork

References

2008 albums
Toxic Holocaust albums
Relapse Records albums
Albums produced by Jack Endino


Benito Juárez Municipality may refer to one of several Mexican municipalities:

Benito Juárez Municipality, Guerrero
Benito Juárez Municipality, Quintana Roo
Benito Juárez Municipality, Sonora
Benito Juárez Municipality, Tlaxcala
Benito Juárez Municipality, Veracruz
Benito Juárez Municipality, Zacatecas

See also
Juárez Municipality (disambiguation)

Municipality name disambiguation pages


Major General Edwin Kwamina Sam (born 10 August 1940) is a member of the Council of State of Ghana. He is also a former Chief of the Defence Staff of the Ghana Armed Forces.

Education

Edwin Sam had his secondary school education at Achimota School between 1955 and 1959.

Career

Sam was a career military officer. He was appointed as the Chief of the Defence Staff briefly between November and December 1979.

Politics

Edwin Sam was appointed onto the Council of State of Ghana due to his position as a former Chief of Defence Staff.

Other interests

Major General Sam has interests in farming and military-civilian relations.

References

External links
Interview with Majar General Edwin Sam

Living people
Ghanaian soldiers
1940 births
Alumni of Achimota School
National Defence College, India alumni


William Frederick James Harvey DFC & Bar MC MBE (8 January 1897 – 21 July 1972) was a British flying ace in World War I credited with twenty-six victories.  He was the first recipient of the DFC & Bar and was also awarded the MC.

Involvement in World War I
Harvey served with the Signal Company of the Royal Engineers until he transferred to the RFC in December 1916.  In December 1917 he was posted as a pilot to No. 22 Squadron flying Bristol F.2B fighters. His first air victory, a downed Pfalz D.III, was recorded 16 March 1918, followed by an Albatros D.V two days later.

With three more kills in March Harvey established himself as a flying ace. In May 1918 he was promoted to captain and commanded 'B' Flight. In the last decade of May Harvey, flying with Lt. George Thomson as his flight observer, downed two observation balloons and four German airplanes; on 20 June he downed three enemy airplanes. Shortly after this success Thomson was replaced with Captain Dennis Waight, who remained Harvey's teammate until the end of campaign. The crew scored 9 kills during the Battle of Amiens in August 1918.

Of his twenty-six victories (comprising 3 balloons, 12 and 2 shared destroyed, and 9 'out of control') credited to Harvey, eighteen were achieved utilising his front gun.

Later military service
After the war, Harvey served as an instructor with 33 TD Squadron of the Army of the Rhine.  On leaving the RAF he became a farmer.  During the Second World War he was awarded the MBE for his service.  When the war ended he retired to Kent, writing many aviation-related articles and the history of his old RAF Squadron, No. 22, entitled 'Pi in the Sky'.

Harvey married Mary Gurdon, sister of his squadron mate John Everard Gurdon, in 1920.

Honours and awards
 3 August 1918 - Distinguished Flying Cross - Lt. William Frederick James Harvey:

"As a fighting pilot this officer has the real offensive spirit regardless of personal danger. He has destroyed several enemy machines whilst fighting against superior numbers."

 3 December 1918 - Bar to the Distinguished Flying Cross - Lieut. (A./Capt.) William Frederick James Harvey, D.F.C. (FRANCE.)

"A brilliant fighting pilot, who has proved himself a capable leader in many offensive patrols. During the August operations he personally accounted for seven enemy machines and, in company with another pilot, destroyed an eighth, displaying courage and tenacity of high order."

 10 April 1945 - Member of the Order of the British Empire - Captain (temporary Major) William Frederick James Harvey, D.F.C. (73684), Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.

Notes

References
 . The book is dedicated personally to Harvey "and all the other Biff Boys"

1897 births
1972 deaths
British World War I flying aces
Royal Corps of Signals officers
Royal Flying Corps officers
British Army personnel of World War I
Recipients of the Military Cross
Members of the Order of the British Empire
Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom)
People from Wingham, Kent


Marius Costel Gherman (born 14 July 1967) is a Romanian artistic gymnast who represented Romania at the 1988 Olympic Games and at the 1992 Olympic Games. His best event was the horizontal bar for which he medaled bronze at the 1988 Olympic Games  and silver at the 1993 World Championships. He is also a bronze continental medalist on vault and on horizontal bar.

After retiring from competitions Gherman worked in United Kingdom as a gymnastics coach.

References

External links

Living people
1967 births
Gymnasts at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Gymnasts at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Romanian male artistic gymnasts
Olympic gymnasts for Romania
Olympic bronze medalists for Romania
Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
Olympic medalists in gymnastics
Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Sibiu


Fotbal Club Rapid 1923 II, commonly known as Rapid II București (), or simply as Rapid II, was the reserve squad of Romanian top-flight side, FC Rapid București. Rapid II was based, as the first squad, in Bucharest.

Rapid II was originally founded in 1946, as Vestitorul București, then was renamed as Electromagnetica București and finally as Rapid II București, after FC Rapid București bought Electromagnetica in the early 2000s. The best performance of "the Little Railwaymen" was a 3rd place at the end of the 2001–02 Divizia B season.

History

Vestitorul & Electromagnetica (1946–2001)
FC Rapid II București was founded right after the end of the World War II, in 1946, as Vestitorul București. Vestitorul played for years at the level of Bucharest Municipality (Divizia D), before being bought by Electromagnetica, the main manufacturer of telecommunications equipment in Romania. Vestitorul București was renamed as Electromagnetica București in the 1960s, but important achievements did not appear in the following years, and Electromagnetica remained a fourth tier squad.

After the 1989 Romanian Revolution and fall of communism in the country, the factory was privatized and for the football team started its most glorious time. The club based in Veseliei Street promoted in the Divizia C, for the first time in its history, at the end of the 1994–95 season, after crowning as champions of Bucharest. At the end of the first season Electromagnetica was ranked 15th of 20, achieving its goal, the avoidance of relegation.

In the next seasons, Electromagnetica was a constant presence in the top of its Divizia C series, being ranked 3rd for three times in a row (1996–97, 1997–98, 1998–99) and as runner-up at the end of the 1999–2000 season, before winning its series and promoting in the Divizia B, at the end of the 2000–01 season. The club from Bucharest won the fourth series with an advance of only one point in front of former Divizia A side Flacăra Moreni.

Rapid II (2001–present)
After promotion, Electromagnetica started a collaboration with Divizia A side Rapid București, becoming its "satellite". From the perspective of Rapid, this new collaboration gave them the chance of having a second senior squad at the level of second division, where the players who finished the youth academy could be accommodated with the intensity of seniors level of football. On the other hand, for Electromagnetica was a mouth of oxygen, both from a financial point of view, as well as the transfers.

In its first season, Rapid-Electromagnetica collaboration was a fruitful one, the team being ranked 3rd, best performance in its entire history. In the next seasons the club was ranked: 6th (2002–03) and 13th (2003–04).

In the summer of 2004, Electromagnetica București has come under the sole control of FC Rapid București and was renamed as Rapid II București, but continuing to play its home matches in Vesliei Street, on Electromagnetica Stadium. At the end of the 2004–05 season, Rapid II was ranked 6th of 16, then, next season, relegating after being ranked 13th of 16, three positions under the red line.

However, during the 2005–06 season, Rapid II achieved one of the greatest performance in the club's history by  eliminating Steaua București, in the Round of 32 of the Romanian Cup, with 8–7 at penalties, after the score was 0–0 during regular time and extra time.

Rapid II continued to play at the level of Liga III, but the financial crisis of 2007–08 and the problems of the parent club, FC Rapid București, made the team to struggle in mediocrity, finally withdrawing from the championship during the winter break of the 2012–13 season.

In the summer of 2019, after the promotion of Rapid in the Liga II, it was decided the re-foundation of Rapid II, the squad being enrolled in the Liga IV – Bucharest. Marian Rada was named the new manager of the "Burgundy Little Eagles".

Grounds

Electromagnetica București used to play its home matches on Electromagnetica Stadium. The stadium holds 5,000 people and was opened in the interwar period, being the only stadium opened in Bucharest in that period that is still in use. The scoreboard is an unusual one, being the old scoreboard from the Stadionul Republicii, moved here when the stadium was demolished.

Rapid II continued to play on Electromagnetica Stadium until its relegation to Liga III. After relegation, the second squad of Rapid used various home ground, since July 2019 the stadium used as home ground being Coresi Stadium, with a capacity of 100 people.

Honours
Liga III
Winners (1): 2000–01
Runners-up (1): 1999–00
Liga IV – Bucharest
Winners (1): 1994–95
Runners-up (1): 2019–20

League history

Notable players
Hristu Chiacu
Nicolae Grigore

References

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Michael Hames was a Detective Superintendent in the Metropolitan Police, head of the Obscene Publications Branch from 1990 until his retirement in 1994, including being involved in Operation Spanner.

He appeared in several television programmes, including the Dispatches episode "Beyond Belief" in 1992, the Brass Eye episode "Paedogeddon" in 2001, The Dark Side of Porn episode "Does Snuff Exist?" in 2006 and Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story on Netflix.

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The men's Indian clubs event was part of the gymnastics programme at the 1932 Summer Olympics at Los Angeles. It was contested for the only time at the Olympics. The 1904 Summer Olympics saw a club swinging event. The competition was held on Tuesday, August 9, 1932. Four gymnasts from two nations competed.

Medalists

Results

See also
 Gymnastics at the 1904 Summer Olympics – Men's club swinging
 Indian club

References

External links
 Olympic Report

Indian clubs


Raining Cats and Frogs (French: , literally "The Prophecy of Frogs") is a French traditional animation children's feature film, released in 2003, directed by Jacques-Rémy Girerd and written by Girerd, Antoine Lanciaux and Iouri Tcherenkov at the animation studio Folimage. It is the first feature produced by Folimage and is distributed internationally by Universal Pictures.

The film is loosely based on the story of Noah's Ark.  It is about a group of frogs who predict an imminent disaster where it will rain for forty days and forty nights.  They tell a boy and girl who subsequently help save the animals in a zoo.

The French DVD was released in 2005 with English subtitles.

The US and Canada DVD Raining Cats and Frogs was released in 2008.

Plot
Ferdinand Bauer lives with his wife Juliette on a farm on a hill with their adoptive son (actually his grandson), Tom.  The film begins when they agree to care of Lili, his other granddaughter, whom they will look after while Lili's parents travel by car and trailer to Africa to find crocodiles for their zoo, which they also leave in the care of Ferdinand and Juliette.

On the farm, there is a small pond. The frogs in the pond are restless, as their calculations have shown that the Earth is about to be flooded for forty days and forty nights. The frogs initially are reluctant to tell them, since they cannot change anything but decide to tell Tom and Lili, so that they can warn people.

Suddenly the flood starts, apparently washing away all live on Earth. The zoo animals escape to the barn which is on top of a hill, the foundations of the building are torn away by the flood and floats on a huge tractor tire on the water. Ferdinand, an experienced sailor, takes on the role of the captain and every one agrees that they will only survive if they stick together. When the rains finally stop all the animals are very hungry. Ferdinand has stored 28 tons of potatoes which he uses to make French fries, but the carnivores are unhappy because they cannot survive only on French fries but Ferdinand convinces the carnivores to yield in view of the greater good of everyone on the floating barn.

A tortoise appears, injured by a crocodile attack and has lost a leg. Lili befriends the tortoise and Tom notices that she has kept her distance from him ever since. The fox and the lion grudge about their lot of having to feed on potatoes when a voice tells them that they should raise against such decision but the lion prevails in that they should respect the captain's law, however after a few days their huger gets the best of them and they attack a sheep and Ferdinand vanishes the carnivores to a bathing tub that floats behind the barn. In the meantime, Ferdinand and Tom talk about his father, who was the machinist at Ferdinand's boat, who was very handy with them. Ferdinand manages to "motorize" the barn by modifying an old tractor engine to oars at the side of the building.

The tortoise tells Lili her story of how she saved her life and three of her eggs despite losing her limb to the crocodiles, who attacked everyone, including humans, at the time of the flood and convinces Lili that her parents died. Ferdinand and Juliette adopt Lili as their own. At night the carnivores notice that the tortoise is actually in cahoots with the crocodiles to feed the entire barn to them, but she must get rid of the captain. The carnivores are initially unconvinced, but they latter agree to mutiny and in the ensuing fight they throw Ferdinand off the board in a barrel and Juliette jumps off after him. The rest of the animals and the children are locked away at the bottom of the barn. Lili sees now that she fell into the tortoise's trap, who had told her that she would not be her friend if she continued being friends with Tom.

The children and the animals hear a commotion upstairs, which is the result of the carnivores feeding on the poultry, so the children decide to climb on the giraffe's neck, but are overcome by the others. The tortoise convinces most of the carnivores to eat the children next, only the lion and one of the cats are reluctant to do it, but the majority decision is that they are next. The tortoise explains that she is taking revenge on humans because they have pursued and killed her family and her kind for their flesh, eggs and to make luxury items with their carapace, telling the children that the eggs that she keeps in her carapace are not her own but the crocodiles' who believe that the humans had eaten them and thus prompting the attacks on them. Meanwhile, one of the cats convinces the other to help the children, since humans had taken them in when they had no home and if this senseless flesh-eating frenzy continues, there is no guarantee that the kittens inside her womb will be safe.

The tortoise signals the crocodiles to start the attack, the cat frees the children who manage to start the tractor engine and escape from the crocodiles, who are in pursuit of the barn. In the meantime Ferdinand finally manages to wake up and sees that the barn is coming at them at full speed. The tortoise finally manages to break the engine down and the barn seems finally at the mercy of the crocodiles, but the elephants manage to rip the carapace off the tortoise and everyone sees that it is not a female but a male, therefore the eggs cannot be his. As the tortoise is trying to explain his way out the situation, the eggs hatch and out of them come little crocodiles, proving the case against the tortoise. The tortoise is at the mercy of the angry animals who are about to throw him off to the crocodiles, but Ferdinand arrives at the last minute and berates everyone for their violent conduct. He resumes his command as captain, crocodiles leave after acknowledging that they were duped by the tortoise, who remains caparaceless in the barn.

A few days go by and the kittens are born. The general happiness is interrupted when the elephants, who have been unable to move during all their time in the barn, appear at the door to congratulate the proud mother. Ferdinand walks out of the barn and sees that the water has finally gone and that dryland is finally there. There is a lot of mist and as it lifts, all the people and animals at the barn see that there are more boats on the top of other mountains and that there are many survivors. Later that night all celebrate but a huge light interrupts the festivities, it is a large car driven by Lili's parents, who tell the rest that the flood did not take place in Africa.

Characters

Humans

Animals

Critical reception
The film was honored at the 4th International Festival of Animated Feature Films where it was awarded the prize for Best Feature Picture.

References

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 Trailer

French children's films
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2000s children's animated films
2000s French animated films
Seafaring films
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Noah's Ark in film
2003 directorial debut films
Films directed by Jacques-Rémy Girerd


The Story of Maths is a four-part British television series outlining aspects of the history of mathematics. It was a co-production between the Open University and the BBC and aired in October 2008 on BBC Four. The material was written and presented by University of Oxford professor Marcus du Sautoy. The consultants were the Open University academics Robin Wilson, professor Jeremy Gray and June Barrow-Green. Kim Duke is credited as series producer.

The series comprised four programmes respectively titled: The Language of the Universe; The Genius of the East; The Frontiers of Space; and To Infinity and Beyond. Du Sautoy documents the development of mathematics covering subjects such as the invention of zero and the unproven Riemann hypothesis, a 150-year-old problem for whose solution the Clay Mathematics Institute has offered a $1,000,000 prize. He escorts viewers through the subject's history and geography. He examines the development of key mathematical ideas and shows how mathematical ideas underpin the world's science, technology, and culture.

He starts his journey in ancient Egypt and finishes it by looking at current mathematics. Between he travels through Babylon, Greece, India, China, and the medieval Middle East. He also looks at mathematics in Europe and then in America and takes the viewers inside the lives of many of the greatest mathematicians.

"The Language of the Universe"
In this opening programme Marcus du Sautoy looks at how important and fundamental mathematics is to our lives before looking at the mathematics of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Greece.

Du Sautoy commences in Egypt where recording the patterns of the seasons and in particular the flooding of the Nile was essential to their economy. There was a need to solve practical problems such as land area for taxation purposes. Du Sautoy discovers the use of a decimal system based on the fingers on the hands, the unusual method for multiplication and division. He examines the Rhind Papyrus, the Moscow Papyrus and explores their understanding of binary numbers, fractions and solid shapes.

He then travels to Babylon and discovered that the way we tell the time today is based on the Babylonian 60 base number system. So because of the Babylonians we have 60 seconds in a minute, and 60 minutes in an hour. He then shows how the Babylonians used quadratic equations to measure their land. He deals briefly with Plimpton 322.

In Greece, the home of ancient Greek mathematics, he looks at the contributions of some of its greatest and well known mathematicians including Pythagoras, Plato, Euclid, and Archimedes, who are some of the people who are credited with beginning the transformation of mathematics from a tool for counting into the analytical subject we know today. A controversial figure, Pythagoras' teachings were considered suspect and his followers seen as social outcasts and a little be strange and not in the norm. There is a legend going around that one of his followers, Hippasus, was drowned when he announced his discovery of irrational numbers. As well as his work on the properties of right angled triangles, Pythagoras developed another important theory after observing musical instruments. He discovered that the intervals between harmonious musical notes are always in whole number intervals. It deals briefly with Hypatia of Alexandria.

"The Genius of the East"
With the decline of ancient Greece, the development of maths stagnated in Europe. However the progress of mathematics continued in the East. Du Sautoy describes both the Chinese use of maths in engineering projects and their belief in the mystical powers of numbers. He mentions Qin Jiushao.

He describes Indian mathematicians’ invention of trigonometry; their introduction of a symbol for the number zero and their contribution to the new concepts of infinity and negative numbers. It shows Gwalior Fort where zero is inscribed on its walls. It mentions the work of Brahmagupta and Bhāskara II on the subject of zero. He mentions Madhava of Sangamagrama and Aryabhata and illustrates the - historically first exact - formula for calculating the π (pi).

Du Sautoy then considers the Middle East: the invention of the new language of algebra and the evolution of a solution to cubic equations. He talks about the House of Wisdom with Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī and he visits University of Al-Karaouine. He mentions Omar Khayyám.

Finally he examines the spread of Eastern knowledge to the West through mathematicians such as Leonardo Fibonacci, famous for the Fibonacci sequence. He mentions Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia.

"The Frontiers of Space"

From the seventeenth century, Europe replaced the Middle East as the engine house of mathematical ideas. Du Sautoy visits Urbino to introduce perspective using mathematician and artist, Piero della Francesca's The Flagellation of Christ.

Du Sautoy proceeds to describes René Descartes realisation that it was possible to describe curved lines as equations and thus link algebra and geometry. He talks with Henk J. M. Bos about Descartes. He shows how one of Pierre de Fermat's theorems is now the basis for the codes that protect credit card transactions on the internet. He describes Isaac Newton’s development of math and physics crucial to understanding the behaviour of moving objects in engineering. He covers the Leibniz and Newton calculus controversy and the Bernoulli family. He further covers Leonhard Euler, the father of topology, and Gauss' invention of a new way of handling equations, modular arithmetic. He mentions János Bolyai.

The further contribution of Gauss to our understanding of how prime numbers are distributed is covered thus providing the platform for Bernhard Riemann's theories on prime numbers. In addition Riemann worked on the properties of objects, which he saw as manifolds that could exist in multi-dimensional space.

"To Infinity and Beyond"

Hilbert's first problem
The final episode considers the great unsolved problems that confronted mathematicians in the 20th century. On 8 August 1900 David Hilbert gave a historic talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris. Hilbert posed twenty-three then unsolved problems in mathematics which he believed were of the most immediate importance. Hilbert succeeded in setting the agenda for 20thC mathematics and the programme commenced with Hilbert's first problem.

Georg Cantor considered the infinite set of whole numbers 1, 2, 3 ... ∞ which he compared with the smaller set of numbers 10, 20, 30 ... ∞. Cantor showed that these two infinite sets of numbers actually had the same size as it was possible to pair each number up; 1 - 10, 2 - 20, 3 - 30 ... etc.

If fractions now are considered there are an infinite number of fractions between any of the two whole numbers, suggesting that the infinity of fractions is bigger than the infinity of whole numbers. Yet Cantor was still able to pair each such fraction to a whole number 1 - 1/1; 2 - 2/1; 3 - 1/2 ... etc. through to ∞; i.e. the infinities of both fractions and whole numbers were shown to have the same size.

But when the set of all infinite decimal numbers was considered, Cantor was able to prove that this produced a bigger infinity. This was because, no matter how one tried to construct such a list, Cantor was able to provide a new decimal number that was missing from that list. Thus he showed that there were different infinities, some bigger than others.

However, there was a problem that Cantor was unable to solve: Is there an infinity sitting between the smaller infinity of all the fractions and the larger infinity of the decimals? Cantor believed, in what became known as the Continuum Hypothesis, that there is no such set. This would be the first problem listed by Hilbert.

Poincaré conjecture
Next Marcus discusses Henri Poincaré's work on the discipline of 'Bendy geometry'. If two shapes can be moulded or morphed to each other's shape then they have the same topology. Poincaré was able to identify all possible two-dimensional topological surfaces; however in 1904 he came up with a topological problem, the Poincaré conjecture, that he could not solve; namely what are all the possible shapes for a 3D universe.

According to the programme, the question was solved in 2002 by Grigori Perelman who linked the problem to a different area of mathematics. Perelman looked at the dynamics of the way things can flow over the shape. This enabled him to find all the ways that 3D space could be wrapped up in higher dimensions.

David Hilbert
The achievements of David Hilbert were now considered. In addition to Hilbert's problems, Hilbert space, Hilbert Classification and the Hilbert Inequality, du Sautoy highlights Hilbert's early work on equations as marking him out as a mathematician able to think in new ways. Hilbert showed that, while there were an infinity of equations, these equations could be constructed from a finite number of building block like sets. Hilbert could not construct that list of sets; he simply proved that it existed. In effect Hilbert had created a new more abstract style of Mathematics.

Hilbert's second problem
For 30 years Hilbert believed that mathematics was a universal language powerful enough to unlock all the truths and solve each of his 23 Problems. Yet, even as Hilbert was stating We must know, we will know, Kurt Gödel had shattered this belief; he had formulated the Incompleteness Theorem based on his study of Hilbert's second problem:

This statement cannot be proved

Using a code based on prime numbers, Gödel was able to transform the above into a pure statement of arithmetic. Logically, the above cannot be false and hence Gödel had discovered the existence of mathematical statements that were true but were incapable of being proved.

Hilbert's first problem revisited
In 1950s American mathematician Paul Cohen took up the challenge of Cantor's Continuum Hypothesis which asks "is there is or isn't there an infinite set of number bigger than the set of whole numbers but smaller than the set of all decimals". Cohen found that there existed two equally consistent mathematical worlds. In one world the Hypothesis was true and there did not exist such a set. Yet there existed a mutually exclusive but equally consistent mathematical proof that Hypothesis was false and there was such a set. Cohen would subsequently work on Hilbert's eighth problem, the Riemann hypothesis, although without the success of his earlier work.

Hilbert's tenth problem
Hilbert's tenth problem asked if there was some universal method that could tell whether any equation had whole number solutions or not. The growing belief was that no so such method was possible yet the question remained, how could you prove that, no matter how ingenious you were, you would never come up with such a method. He mentions Paul Cohen. To answer this Julia Robinson, who created the Robinson Hypothesis which stated that to show that there was no such method all you had to do was cook up one equation whose solutions were a very specific set of numbers: The set of numbers needed to grow exponentially yet still be captured by the equations at the heart of Hilbert's problem. Robinson was unable to find this set. This part of the solution fell to Yuri Matiyasevich who saw how to capture the Fibonacci sequence using the equations at the heart of Hilbert's tenth.

Algebraic geometry
The final section briefly covers algebraic geometry. Évariste Galois had refined a new language for mathematics. Galois believed mathematics should be the study of structure as opposed to number and shape. Galois had discovered new techniques to tell whether certain equations could have solutions or not. The symmetry of certain geometric objects was the key. Galois' work was picked up by André Weil who built algebraic geometry, a whole new language. Weil's work connected number theory, algebra, topology and geometry.

Finally du Sautoy mentions Weil's part in the creation of the fictional mathematician Nicolas Bourbaki and another contributor to Bourbaki's output - Alexander Grothendieck.

See also
 Chemistry: A Volatile History
 The Story of Science: Power, Proof and Passion

References

External links

 OU on the BBC: The Story of Maths - About the series at OpenLearn

2008 British television series debuts
2008 British television series endings
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Edward Arthur Albrecht (February 28, 1929 – December 29, 1979) was a professional baseball pitcher. He played parts of two seasons in Major League Baseball, 1949 and 1950, for the St. Louis Browns.

In 1949, at the age of 20, Albrecht earned his shot at the majors by having a record-breaking season in what was then the Class C Cotton States League. Pitching for the Pine Bluff Judges, Albrecht won 29 games and struck out 389 batters, both all-time records for the league. The Browns called him up to make a start for them on the last day of the season, in which he earned his one and only major league win. Albrecht pitched in two games for the Browns in 1950 before returning to the minors, retiring in 1953.

In an odd statistical coincidence, Albrecht's ERA in both of his major league seasons was exactly the same as his career ERA of 5.40.

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Henry Nicholas John Gunther (June 6, 1895 – November 11, 1918) was an American soldier and possibly the last soldier of any of the belligerents to be killed during World War I. He was killed at 10:59 a.m., about one minute before the Armistice was to take effect at 11:00 a.m.

Gunther had recently been demoted, and was seeking to regain his rank just before the war ended.

Early life
Henry Gunther was born into a German-American family in east Baltimore, Maryland, on June 6, 1895. His parents, George Gunther (1869–1919) and Lina Roth (1866–1938), were both children of German immigrants.  He grew up in Highlandtown, an East Baltimore neighborhood heavily influenced by German immigrants, where his family belonged to Sacred Heart of Jesus Roman Catholic parish.  Henry Gunther worked as a bookkeeper and clerk at the National Bank of Baltimore. He had joined the Roman Catholic service order for laymen, the Knights of Columbus, in 1915.

Military service
Being of recent German-American heritage, Gunther did not automatically enlist in the armed forces as many others did soon after the United States declared war on Germany in April 1917. In September 1917, he was drafted and quickly assigned to the 313th Infantry Regiment, nicknamed "Baltimore's Own"; it was part of the larger 157th Brigade of the 79th Infantry Division. Promoted as a supply sergeant, he was responsible for clothing in his military unit, and arrived in France in July 1918 as part of the incoming American Expeditionary Forces. A critical letter home, in which he reported on the "miserable conditions" at the front and advised a friend to try anything to avoid being drafted, was intercepted by the Army postal censor. As a result, he was demoted from sergeant to private.

Gunther's unit, Company 'A', arrived at the Western Front on September 12, 1918. Like all Allied units on the front of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, it was still embroiled in fighting on the morning of November 11. The Armistice with Germany was signed by 5:00 a.m., local time, but it would not come into force until 11:00 a.m.  Gunther's squad approached a roadblock of two German machine guns in the village of Chaumont-devant-Damvillers near Meuse, in Lorraine. Gunther got up, against the orders of his close friend and now sergeant Ernest Powell, and charged with his bayonet. The German soldiers, already aware of the Armistice that would take effect in one minute, tried to wave Gunther away. He kept going and fired "a shot or two". When he got too close to the machine guns, he was shot in a short burst of automatic fire and killed instantly. The writer James M. Cain, then a reporter for the local daily newspaper The Sun, interviewed Gunther's comrades afterward and wrote that "Gunther brooded a great deal over his recent reduction in rank, and became obsessed with a determination to make good before his officers and fellow soldiers".

American Expeditionary Forces commanding General John J. Pershing's "Order of The Day" on the following day specifically mentioned Gunther as the last American killed in the war.  The Army posthumously restored his rank of sergeant and awarded him a Divisional Citation for Gallantry in Action and the Distinguished Service Cross. Several years later, a  post, number 1858 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in east Baltimore, was named after him.  The VFW Post honoring the name of Sergeant Gunther has since ceased to exist.

Gunther's remains were returned to the United States in 1923 after being exhumed from a military cemetery in France, and buried at the Most Holy Redeemer Cemetery in Baltimore. Subsequent investigations revealed that on the last day of World War I, during the armistice negotiations in the railroad cars encampment at the Compiegne Forest, French commander-in-chief Marshal Foch refused to accede to the German negotiators' request to declare an immediate ceasefire or truce so that there would be no more useless waste of lives among the common soldiers. The failure to declare a truce, even between the signing of the documents for the Armistice and its entry into force "at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month", caused about 11,000 additional men to be wounded or killed – far more than usual, according to the military statistics.

Memorials

On "Veterans Day" (in France,  "Armistice Day"), November 11, 2008, a memorial was constructed near the place in Chaumont-devant-Damvillers in Lorraine where Gunther died. Two years later on the same remembrance holiday observance, November 11, 2010, a memorial plaque was also unveiled at his grave site in America at 10:59 a.m. by the German Society of Maryland.

See also
Albert Mayer, the first soldier killed, 1914
George Edwin Ellison, the last British Army soldier killed, 1918
George Lawrence Price, the last Canadian Army and British Empire/Commonwealth soldier killed, 1918
Marcel Toussaint Terfve, the last Belgian soldier killed in World War I, 1918
Augustin Trébuchon, the last French Army soldier killed, 1918
John Parr, the first British Army soldier killed, 1914
Jules-André Peugeot, the first French Army soldier killed, 1914
History of the Germans in Baltimore

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A stowaway is someone who travels illegally on a vehicle.

Stowaway or Stowaways may also refer to:

Film and television

Film
Stowaway (1932 film), an American romance film
Stowaway (1936 film), starring Shirley Temple
Stowaway (1978 film), a Soviet comedy film
Stowaway (2001 film), directed by Clarence Fok
Stowaway (2021 film), a sci-fi thriller film
Stowaway (2022 film), a yacht thriller film

The Stowaway (1922 film), a German silent comedy film
The Stowaway (1958 film) or Le Passager clandestin, a French film starring Martine Carol and Karlheinz Böhm
The Stowaway (1997 film) or De Verstekeling, a Dutch film
The Stowaway (2014 film), a short based on the SF short story "The Cold Equations"

Television episodes
 "Stowaway", a 1993 episode of Hurricanes
 "Stowaways" (Monsters Inside Me), 2010
 "Stowaway" (Fringe), 2011

Literature
"The Callistan Menace" (working title "Stowaway"), a 1940 short story by Isaac Asimov
Stowaway, a 1961 novel by Lawrence Sargent Hall
The Stowaway, a 2000 novel in the Roswell High series by Melinda Metz
The Stowaway, the 2008 first novel in the Stone of Tymora series by R.A Salvatore

Music
"Stowaway", a song by Barbara Lyon, 1955
"The Stowaway", a song by Yamit Mamo from the Doctor Who episode "Voyage of the Damned", 2007

See also


Cimentul Fieni was a professional Romanian association football club from Fieni, Dâmbovița County, founded in 1936 and dissolved in 2005.

The club was dissolved in 2005 after a merger with a club from Buftea, the resulting club being named CS Buftea.

Cimentul never reached Liga I. They were close to gain promotion in 2002, when they played a play-off against Sportul Studențesc. Sportul Studențesc won both legs, 3–0 in Fieni and 2–1 in Bucharest, thus remaining in Divizia A.

Honours
Liga III
Winners (2): 1991–92, 1997–98
Runners-up (1): 1996–97

Liga IV – Dâmbovița County
Winners (2): 1972–73

References

External links
 Club's page at soccerway.com
 Club's page at futbol24.com

Association football clubs established in 1936
Association football clubs disestablished in 2005
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Football clubs in Dâmbovița County
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The two slashes // may indicate:
 a comment in several programming languages including C, C++, JavaScript and Java
 the root directory path in Domain/OS
 the operator for integer division, in Python 2.2+ and other programming languages
 the empty pattern in Perl, which evaluates the last successfully matched regular expression
 the logical defined-or operator in Perl, called the null coalescing operator in other programming languages
 the authority indicator in the URI scheme, which follows a colon (://) from the scheme component
 the descendant-or-self axis specifier in XPath
 an emoticon symbolizing blushing or embarrassment
 an empty segment of a file path
 a double vertical bar (||) where the vertical line character  is unavailable for technical reasons
 the parallel operator stylized in pseudo-italics
 a caesura in musical notation

Text enclosed by two slashes / / may represent:
 Broad phonetic transcription
 Italic type in computer files or communications that do not support rich text
 Subforums or imageboards when referred to by URL path segment

See also
 Slash (punctuation)
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The London and North Western Railway (LNWR) "Precursor Tank" Class was a type of 4-4-2 tank steam locomotive. Fifty were built to the design of George Whale between May 1906 and April 1909, being a tank engine version of his "Precursor" Class.

Chronologically, the class was constructed three distinct blocks, from May to September 1906 (works nos. 4560–4589), March to April 1907 (4590–4599), and March to April 1909 (4820–4829). The first 30 locomotives had  carrying wheels, but the size of these was reduced to  thereafter.

The LNWR reused numbers from withdrawn locomotives, so the numbering system was completely haphazard.  The 3 ft 9 in engines were numbered by 528, 531, 784, 1295, 1305, 1981–1985, 97, 111, 181, 196, 562, 616, 803, 1356, 1508, 2210, 139, 653, 834, 874, 1506, 1572, 1589, 1671, 1714, and 2165. The 3 ft 3 in engines were numbered 44, 527, 612, 762, 827, 875, 1427, 1764, 2196, 2446, 920, 935, 1164, 1219, 1523, 1536, 1551, 2077, 2223 and 2228.

All fifty passed into LMS ownership in 1923.  The LMS gave them the power classification 2P.  The LMS also renumbered them into solid block of numbers: 6780–6809 for the 3 ft 9 in engines and 6810–6829 for the 3 ft 3 in engines, in the order given above.

Due to their weight, the Precursor Tanks were unable to operate on some branch lines, but had primarily been designed for use on heavy suburban trains. Initially, they were put to work on local services between Sutton Coldfield and Birmingham, and also between Watford and London . In 1921, they were reported as being employed on the latter to the near-total exclusion of other locomotive types, as well as on other routes. 1572, which was possibly one of the earliest locomotives to have the initials "L&NWR" on its sides replaced by "LMS", was noted to be working on the Morecambe branch in 1923.

One member of the class was withdrawn in October 1927, and the others between December 1931 and February 1940. None were preserved.

References

Sources

Precursor tank
4-4-2T locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1906
Standard gauge steam locomotives of Great Britain


Melvin D. Synhorst (January 21, 1914 – March 28, 1999) was the Iowa Secretary of State from 1949 to 1965 and from 1967 to 1980.  Elected on November 2, 1948, and on November 8, 1966, he was a native of Sioux County.  Serving for the two years between his terms was Gary L. Cameron.  Synhorst's second term ended at his resignation; he was replaced by Mary Jane Odell.  From 1959 to 1960, Synhorst was the president of the National Association of Secretaries of State.

References

External links
Melvin D. Synhorst at the Political Graveyard
Melvin D. Synhorst's obituary at the Herald Tribune

1914 births
1999 deaths
Iowa Republicans
People from Sioux County, Iowa
Secretaries of State of Iowa
20th-century American politicians


Sidestrand Halt was a railway station on the Norfolk and Suffolk Joint Railway which briefly served the Norfolk coastal village of Sidestrand from 1936 to 1953.

History
Much like its counterpart at Cromer Links Halt, Sidestrand consisted of a simple wooden platform capable of accommodating one coach. Hidden away at the end of a public footpath, the station did not have any ticket-issuing facilities, and these could only be purchased on the trains. The halt had been opened in an attempt to increase revenues on the line by further exploiting the tourist potential of "Poppyland", but in the event it only lasted seventeen years and closed along with the section of the line between Cromer and Mundesley in 1953.

References

Disused railway stations in Norfolk
Former Norfolk and Suffolk Joint Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1936
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1953


John Robert Brayford (born 29 December 1987) is an English professional footballer who plays as a defender for Burton Albion.

Born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, he began his career at Burton Albion, which was then a non-League club, before moves to Crewe Alexandra and Derby County preceded his time at Cardiff City. He also spent time on loan at Sheffield United prior to joining permanently, and returned to Burton on a permanent basis in 2017. He has made seven appearances for the England C team.

Career

Early career
As a youth player, Brayford had played for Manchester City but was released by the club at a young age. He instead joined non-League side Burton Albion, becoming the first graduate of the club's revamped youth academy. He made almost 80 league appearances, before signing for League One side Crewe Alexandra on a three-year contract for an undisclosed fee on 1 September 2008. Burton later revealed that the fee was an initial up-front payment of £80,000, which would be raised to £130,000 if he were to progress into the first team. He made his debut for the club in a 3–0 defeat to Scunthorpe United on 11 October. Although Brayford's first season with Crewe ended in relegation for the club, it was a successful season on a personal level, as he won the Fans' Player of the Season, and attracted the interest of several bigger clubs.

In the summer of 2009, Crewe confirmed Brayford's former manager Nigel Clough was interested in taking Brayford to Derby County, and that they were prepared to sell him to a club that matched Crewe's valuation of the player. No deal materialised however and Brayford remained with Crewe for the full 2009–10 season, missing just one game and being named captain. Starting the season at right back, he finished it at centre half and earned a place in the PFA League Two Team of the Season as well as retaining the club's Player of the Season award.

With this form, Derby's long standing interest seemed to have reached its conclusion with reports that the Crewe had agreed a deal for £400,000 plus add-ons, though this was denied by Crewe boss Dario Gradi. Brayford was again linked with Derby as part of a joint £1m move to the Rams with teammate James Bailey, with Crewe confirming that an offer for the pair, of around £1m, rising to £1.3m with add-ons and a percentage sell on clause, had been accepted.

Derby County
Brayford formally completed his move to Derby County on 19 May 2010 for an undisclosed fee, signing a three-year deal. With the sale of Paul Connolly to Leeds United, Brayford found himself as the only naturally right sided defender at the club and was placed straight into the first team during the club's 2010–11 pre-season fixtures. Brayford kept his place when the 2010–11 Championship season began, and played every minute of all Derby's 48 league and cup matches during the season. Although primarily employed as a right back, consistent injuries to other members of the Derby defence saw Brayford employed at centre-back and left-back through the course of the campaign. Earning plaudits for his ability to combine an attacking role with his defensive duties, Brayford scored once (in a 4–1 home victory over Watford) and assisted three times, and was considered one of the star performers as Derby initially challenged for promotion (being 4th in the table in November 2010) before a run of 4 wins in 24 games saw them plummet down to 19th in the table by the end of April. He was named the Derby County Supporters' Club Player of the Year at a Gala Dinner on 19 April 2011, before picking up the Jack Stamps Trophy before the final home game of the season against Bristol City on 30 April, having won the voting by a "considerable margin."

In August 2011, Brayford signed a new contract extending his stay at the club until the summer of 2014. He appeared in Derby's first ten games of the season, as Derby had their best start to a season for over 106 years, picking up 19 points from the first 10 games to sit third in the table. However, an injury in training, prior to the match against league leaders Southampton, ended a run of 59 consecutive appearances and caused him to miss his first minutes of Derby action since joining 15 months previously. In his absence, Derby recorded just five points from six games to fall out of the play off places. Brayford returned in a 2–0 defeat against Hull City on 19 November 2011, however he picked up a thigh injury in the following game. keeping him out of action for a further three weeks. Having returned to the side, a recurrence of his thigh injury in February ruled Brayford out for a further six weeks. Brayford returned to the first team squad in April 2012, but was unable to reclaim a regular spot in Derby's starting eleven.

Brayford started the 2012–13 season as the regular starter at right back once more and scored his first goal in over two years in a 4–1 win at home to Blackpool. In November, Brayford was linked with a move to Premier League side West Ham United amid rumours that Derby needed to raise funds in the summer, although Rams manager Nigel Clough denied the rumours. During the January transfer window, Brayford was linked with a move to Championship leaders Cardiff City, but after the window closed he dismissed the rumours and stated his intention to stay at Derby. Brayford's ever-present role in Derby's starting eleven during the season was apparently ended in early March when he sustained a torn hamstring. Brayford did return for the final five games of the season, but having only a year left on his contract, manager Nigel Clough expected Brayford to move to a Premier League club during the summer of 2013. The first confirmed interest in Brayford came at the end of June 2013, when a £1m bid from Wigan Athletic was rejected by Derby. A month later, a £1.5 million bid from Premier League newcomers Cardiff City was accepted.

Cardiff City
On 26 July 2013 Brayford signed a four-year contract with Cardiff City, becoming their second signing of the summer. Brayford was unable to make the break into Cardiff's first team however, playing only two League Cup matches during the first half of the 2013–14 season. He failed to even make the substitutes' bench in any other match, and did not even make the Cardiff bench for their league games.

On 24 January 2014 Brayford joined Sheffield United on loan until the end of the season, to be reunited with Nigel Clough for the third time in his career, and made his debut two days later in a 1–1 FA Cup draw with Fulham. Sporting a beard during his time with the Blades, Brayford became a cult figure with the fans, as the team rose from the bottom of the table to finish seventh and reach the FA Cup semi-final. Brayford finished his loan having played 20 times, scoring twice. Sheffield United had hoped to resign Brayford in the summer transfer window, however Cardiff City manager Ole Gunnar Solskjær insisted that he wanted to give Brayford a chance in the first team following his successful loan.

With Cardiff City back in the Championship following relegation from the Premier League, Brayford became first choice right-back for the Bluebirds and played 28 times in all competitions during the first half of the 2014–15 season. On 23 January 2015, it was confirmed that Cardiff City had rejected a £1.2 million bid from Sheffield United for Brayford.

Sheffield United

On 24 January 2015, Brayford signed for former loan club Sheffield United on a three-and-a-half year deal for an undisclosed fee, believed to be around £1.5 million. Brayford later revealed that he took a pay cut to rejoin Sheffield United.

Burton Albion

Brayford was released by Sheffield United after two-and-a-half years and returned to Burton on 31 August 2017 for a third spell. He signed a two-year deal and would be playing under Nigel Clough's management for a fourth time. He signed a new one-year contract in June 2019. Brayford signed a new two-year contract in June 2022.

Career statistics

Honours
Individual
 PFA Team of the Year: 2009–10 League Two
 Crewe Alexandra Fans' Player of the Year: 2008–09, 2009–10
 Derby County Fans' Player of the Year: 2010–11
Burton Albion Players' Player of the Year: 2021–22
Burton Albion Fans' Player of the Year: 2021–22
Burton Albion Community Player of the Year: 2021–22

References

External links

 Football cards featuring John Brayford

1987 births
Living people
Footballers from Stoke-on-Trent
English men's footballers
England men's semi-pro international footballers
Men's association football defenders
Burton Albion F.C. players
Crewe Alexandra F.C. players
Derby County F.C. players
Cardiff City F.C. players
Sheffield United F.C. players
National League (English football) players
English Football League players


Laleli is a village of the Refahiye District of Erzincan Province in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey. The village is populated by Turks and had a population of 29 in 2022.

Name
The word "lale" means "tulip" in Turkish. The suffix "-li" has various meanings, including "with", "has", and "by". Accordingly, the word "Laleli" could be translated into English as "full of tulips".

References

Villages in Refahiye District


Complete list of the 108 Lower Canadians prosecuted before the general court-martial of Montreal in 1838-1839. The trials occurred between December 6, 1838 and 1 May 1839, following the suspension of habeas corpus on November 8, 1838. Nine of the persons in custody were acquitted, and 99 sentenced to death. 12 patriots were hanged in public between December 1838 and February 1839. 58 of the 99 who were initially condemned to death saw their sentence commuted into deportation to Australia on September 27, 1839. (Pardoned in 1843, they returned home in 1845.) 29 were freed under bail or condition.

The 58 deported to Australia

Saint-Clément
Michel Alary - carpenter
Désiré Bourbonnais - blacksmith
Jacques Goyette - farmer and stone man
Joseph Goyette - carpenter
André Papineau dit Montigny - blacksmith
François-Xavier Prévost - merchant and innkeeper
Toussaint Rochon - teamster and painter
Basile Roy - farmer
Charles Roy dit Lapensée père - farmer
Joseph Roy dit Lapensée, son of Louis - day labourer

L'Acadie
Théodore Béchard - owner
Antoine Coupal dit Lareine - farmer
Etienne Langlois - farmer

Sainte-Martine
Charles Bergevin dit Langevin, père - farmer
Constant Buisson - blacksmith and bailiff
Ignace-Gabriel Chèvrefils - farmer
Joseph Dumouchel, - farmer - brother of Louis
Louis Dumouchel - innkeeper and cultivator
Jean Laberge - farmer and carpenter
François-Xavier Touchette - farmer and blacksmith
Louis Turcot - farmer

Napierville
François Bigonesse dit Beaucaire - owner
Louis Defaillette - farmer
Jacques-David Hébert - farmer
Joseph-Jacques Hébert - farmer
Charles Huot - notary
Pierre Lavoie - farmer
David-Drossin Leblanc - farmer
Hubert Drossin-Leblanc - farmer
Joseph Marceau dit Petit-Jacques - farmer and cloth weaver
Gabriel-Achille Morin - merchant (son of Pierre-Hector)
Pierre-Hector Morin - ship captain
Joseph Paré - farmer

Terrebonne
Charles-Guillaume Bouc - clerk
Edouard-Pascal Rochon - teamster and painter

Saint-Césaire
Louis Bourdon - farmer and merchant
Jean-Baptiste Bousquet - farmer and grain miller
François Guertin - carpenter

Montréal
Léandre Ducharme, clerk

Saint-Timothée

 David Gagnon - farmer and carpenter
 François-Xavier Prieur - merchant

Châteauguay
Louis-Guérin Dussault - merchant and baker
Joseph Guimond - farmer and carpenter
François-Maurice Lepailleur - painter
Samuel Newcomb - Médecin
Jean-Louis Thibert - farmer
Jean-Marie Thibert - farmer
Jean-Baptiste Trudelle - farmer and carpenter

Saint-Rémi
Hippolyte Lanctôt - notary
Louis Pinsonnault - farmer

Saint-Constant
Etienne Languedoc - farmer
Moyse Longtin, fils de Jacques - farmer

Saint-Philippe
Pascal Pinsonnault - farmer

Saint-Edouard
René Pinsonnault - farmer
Théophile Robert - farmer

Saint-Vincent-de-Paul
Jérémie Rochon - machine operator

Alburg, Vermont
Benjamin Mott - farmer

The 26 released under bail
 François Camyré
 Antoine Charbonneau
 Joseph Cousineau
 David Demers
 Paul Gravelle
 Louis Héneault
 Louis Julien
 Joseph L'Écuyer
 Michel Longtin dit Jérôme, son
 Léon Leclaire
 Charles Mondat
 Clovis Patenaude
 Charles Rapin
 Antoine Roussin, alias Joseph
 Joseph Roy
 François St-Louis
 Thomas Surprenant, dit Lafontaine
 François Surprenant
 François Trepanier, son
 Édouard Tremblay
 Phillippe Tremblay
 François Vallé
 Bennoni Verdon
 Joseph Wattier dit Lanoie

The 12 hanged
December 21, 1838
Joseph-Narcisse Cardinal, lawyer and Member of Parliament
Joseph Duquet, notary
January 18, 1839
Pierre-Théophile Decoigne, hotelman and notary
François-Xavier Hamelin, farmer
Joseph-Jacques Robert, farmer
Ambroise Sanguinet, farmer
Charles Sanguinet, farmer
February 15, 1839
Amable Daunais, fermier
François-Marie-Thomas Chevalier de Lorimier, notary
Charles Hindelang, merchant and military officer
Pierre-Rémi Narbonne, painter and bailiff
François Nicolas, teacher

The nine acquitted
 Jean-Baptiste Dozois, father
 Antoine Doré
 Louis Lesiege, aka Lesage
 Louis Lemelin
 Joseph Longtin
 James Perrigo
 Jacques Robert
 Édouard Therien
 Isidore Tremblay

The three freed on condition
 Jean-Baptiste-Henri Brien (remain at a distance of 600 miles from the province)
 Antoine Côté (remain within the province)
 Guillaume Lévesque (leave the province)

Notes

References
 Faubert, Michel (2003). Liste des patriotes prisonniers (list of some 1366 persons detained during the period 1837-1840)
 Messier, Alain (2002). Dictionnaire encyclopédique et historique des patriotes. 1837-1838, Montréal: Guérin, 497 p.
 Boyer, Raymond (1966). Les crimes et les châtiments au Canada français du XVIIe au XXe siècle, Montréal: le Cercle du livre de France, 542 p.
 Borthwick, John Douglas (1866). History of the Montreal prison from A.D. 1784 to A.D. 1886 : containing a complete record of the Troubles of 1837-1838, burning of the Parliament buildings in 1849, the St. Alban's raiders, 1864, the two Fenian raids of 1866 and 1870 [...], Montreal: A. Periard, bookseller, publisher and importer, 269 p.
 Colborne, John (1839). Report of the State Trials, Before a General Court Martial Held at Montreal in 1838-9: Exhibiting a Complete History of the Late Rebellion in Lower Canada, Montreal: Armour and Ramsay, (online: volume 1, volume 2)

External links
BANQ, Copies des sentences de mort prononcées contre Joseph Robert,Ambroise Sanguinet,Charles Sanguinet,Pascal Pinsonnault,François-Xavier Hamelin, Théophile Robert et Jacques Longtin

People prosecuted before the general court-martial of Montreal in 1838-39
Lower Canadians prosecuted before the general court-martial of Montreal in 1838-39
Lower Canadians prosecuted before the general court-martial of Montreal in 1838-39
Lower Canadians prosecuted before the general court-martial of Montreal in 1838-39
Lower Canadians prosecuted before the general court-martial of Montreal in 1838-39


The 2007–08 Liga III season was the 52nd season of Liga III, the third tier of the Romanian football league system. It was the second in this format (six series of 18 teams each).

The winners of each division got promoted to the 2008-09 Liga II season. There were also two playoff tournaments held at neutral venues involving the second placed teams, one with those from series 1, 2 and 3, the other with those from series 4, 5, and 6. The winners of the playoffs also got promoted to the 2008-09 Liga II season.
The bottom three from each division were relegated at the end of the season to the county football leagues (Liga IV). From the 15th placed teams, another three were relegated. To determine these teams, separate standings were computed, using only the games played against clubs ranked 1st through 14th.

Team changes

To Liga III
Relegated from Liga II
 Cetatea Suceava
 Building Vânju Mare
 FC Snagov
 Baia Mare
 Chimia Brazi
 Unirea Dej
 CF Brăila
 Auxerre Lugoj

Promoted from Liga IV
 Filipeștii de Pădure
 Unirea Tărlungeni
 Juventus Bascov
 FCM Târgoviște II
 Turris Turnu Măgurele
 CFR Marmosim Simeria
 CFR Craiova
 Nuova Mama Mia Becicherecu Mic
 Kozara Vințu de Jos
 FC Bihor II Tileagd
 Turul Micula
 Marmaţia Sighetu Marmaţiei
 Rarăul Câmpulung Moldovenesc
 Gaz Metan Târgu Mureș
 Onix Râmnicu Sărat
 Bârlad
 Cetatea Târgu Neamț
 Bujorul Târgu Bujor
 CSO Ianca
 Abatorul Slobozia
 Medgidia

From Liga III
Promoted to Liga II
 Unirea Focșani
 Dinamo II București
 Concordia Chiajna
 Severnav Drobeta-Turnu Severin
 Arieșul Turda
 Liberty Salonta
 Inter Gaz București
 Mureșul Deva

Relegated to Liga IV
 Petrolul Moinești
 KSE Târgu Secuiesc
 Roseal Odorheiu Secuiesc
 Fotbal Oil Terminal Constanța
 Petrolul Brăila
 Phoenix Ulmu
 Politehnica Timișoara
 Petrolul Târgoviște
 Avântul Mâneciu
 Flacăra Moreni
 Unirea Mărăcineni
 Petrolul Țicleni
 Minerul Uricani
 Florea Voicilă Alexandria
 Dacia Orăștie
 FC Sibiu
 Someș Gaz Beclean
 Olimpia Satu Mare
 Victoria Carei
 Fink Fenster Petrești
 Florența Still Model Odoreu

Renamed teams and other changes
EMC Rovinari was renamed as Energia Rovinari.

Timișul Albina was renamed as Alto Gradimento Albina.

FC Ghimbav was renamed as Royal Club Ghimbav.

Astra Ploiești was renamed as FC Ploiești.

Gaz Metan Podari was moved from Podari to Craiova and was renamed as Gaz Metan CFR Craiova.

Maris Târgu Mureș was moved from Târgu Mureș to Ungheni and was renamed as ASA Unirea Ungheni.

Fortuna Covaci took the place of Tim Giroc Timișoara.

Internațional Curtea de Argeș took the place of Voința Macea.

Cisnădie took the place of Kozara Vințu de Jos.

FC Balș took the place of Oltul Slatina.

FC Sibiu took the place of Soda Ocna Mureș.

Victoria Brănești took the place of Transkurier Sfântu Gheorghe.

FC Argeș Pitești II took the place of Juventus Bascov.

Năvodari took the place of Aurora Mangalia.

Inter Pantelimon took the place of FCM Târgoviște II.

Sparta Mediaș withdrew due to financial problems.

Olimpia Satu Mare was spared from relegation.

League tables

Seria I

Seria II

Seria III

Seria IV

Seria V

Seria VI

Playoffs

Group 1

Matches played at Câmpina on Poiana Stadium.
 Buftea – Juventus București 2–2 (2–4 penalty kickout)
 Buftea – Aerostar Bacău 6–3
 Aerostar Bacău – Juventus București 1–1

Group 2

Matches played at Alba-Iulia on Victoria-Cetate Stadium.
 Gaz Metan CFR Craiova – ACU Arad 1–5
 Avântul Reghin – Gaz Metan CFR Craiova  2–0
 Avântul Reghin – ACU Arad 0–0 (3–4 penalty kickout)

See also

 2007–08 Liga I
 2007–08 Liga II
 2007–08 Liga IV

References

Liga III seasons
3
Romania


The men's rope climbing event was part of the gymnastics programme at the 1932 Summer Olympics. It was contested for the fourth and last time after 1896, 1904, and 1924. The competition was held on Wednesday, August 10, 1932. Five gymnasts from two nations competed. All three medalists were from the host nation, as Americans Raymond Bass, William Galbraith, and Thomas Connolly took the honors (in that order).

Background

This was the fourth and final appearance of the event, which had been held in 1896, 1904, and 1924. The event was an unusual one, not one of the standard apparatus competitions held at the world championships. It had been left off the programme in 1928 when other apparatus events were held (no specific apparatus events were held in 1900, 1908, 1912, or 1920). It was more commonly seen in the United States (hosting the 1932 Games) than internationally; the two competitors from Hungary (the only international gymnasts) were unfamiliar with the event.

The United States made its third appearance in the event (1904 and 1924), while Hungary made its debut.

Competition format

The rope climbing event was judged on time, with the fastest to reach the top winning. As in 1904, each competitor received three attempts. The rope this time was 8 metres high (rather than the 25 feet of 1904). None of the apparatus events in 1932 were aggregated into the individual or team all-around scores, instead being entirely separate competitions.

Schedule

Results

Every competitor had the possibility of three trials with the results based on the best time; the Hungarians did not make any attempts after the first, seeing their times in the first round so much slower than the Americans.

All figures in seconds.

References

External links
 Olympic Report

Rope climbing


The  Levene Gouldin & Thompson Tennis Challenger  is a tennis tournament held in Binghamton, New York, United States since 1994. A Binghamton and Vestal area law firm, Levene Gouldin & Thompson, has been the title sponsor of the tournament since 2007. The event is part of the ''ATP challenger series and is played on outdoor hard courts.  Former Wimbledon champion and Olympic Gold medalist Andy Murray won the event in 2005. The 2020 tournament was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine.

Past finals

Singles

Doubles

External links

ITF Search
ATP Vault

ATP Challenger Tour
Hard court tennis tournaments in the United States
Sports in Binghamton, New York


The Copper Beech is a 1992 novel by the Irish author Maeve Binchy. Set in the 1950s and 1960s, the storyline follows the lives of 12 characters living in a small Irish town, in chapters with interlocking plot elements. The novel was recorded as a BBC audiobook in 2007.

Plot
The novel follows the lives of 12 different young people in the small Irish town of Shancarrig, most of them graduates of the stone schoolhouse on the hill where they engraved their initials on a large copper beech tree. Each chapter is told from the viewpoint of one of the characters, although the plot details often reappear in other chapters.

Maura Brennan has no choice but to work after her schooling. She has a drunken father and so is happy to work as a live-in chamber maid in Ryan's hotel. Nessa's mother prefers that her daughter does not speak with Maura even though they went to the same school. Maura falls in love with the barman Gerry O'Sullivan and becomes pregnant. They marry, but the child is born with Down syndrome and Gerry abandons Maura to face it alone. She then works for the Darcys who have opened a new shop in the village. She solves the mystery of Gloria's missing jewels and ends up owning them.

Leo Murphy is the last child still at home. She lives with her injured soldier father and mother. Her teenage life is caught in the tangle her mother has made and she thinks she can never be normal again. She finds love, which helps her to break down the walls she made for herself.

Foxy Dunne from the slums never gives up. He works his way up in life and becomes a builder. He helps Leo forget her miseries and leave them behind.

Eddie Barton lives with his seamstress mother. He writes to his pen friend in Scotland, and eventually it turns into love. Both of them are worried about their appearances and don't know if they will be accepted by the other. The pen friend comes down to Shancarrig and gives a new lease of life to Eddie and his mother.

Nessa Ryan thinks her mother is bossy, and she grows up to be a person of strong character, choosing the right man for her life.

Niall Hayes doesn't know how to get what he wants in life. His cousin Richard takes everything Niall desires: a place in his father's solicitor's firm and the girl he loves. How he gets all this is the crux of his story.

Jim and Nora Kelly, the school master and mistress, are dedicated to teaching the children despite their own infertility. Nora's twin sister Helen returns home to visit with her four-year-old daughter, Maria, and is killed in a freak road accident, leaving the Kellys to care for the child and hope that she can remain with them.

Other characters include Maddy Ross, Father Brian Barry, Michael and Gloria Darcy, Dr. Jims Blake and his son Declan, and Father Gunn and his housekeeper Mrs. Kennedy.

The novel ends with the sale of the schoolhouse, with many of the main characters showing an interest in purchasing it.

Themes
The novel follows a changing Irish society in the 1950s and 1960s. Social barriers that divided families for generations begin to fall, as for example a boy from the lowest socioeconomic class ends up marrying the daughter of an army major. Numerous female characters are also depicted as "strong, independent women of the 1950s [who have] no time for silly romances".

Audiobook
The novel was recorded as a BBC audiobook in 2007.

References

External links
Fantastic fiction

1992 Irish novels
Novels by Maeve Binchy
Fiction set in the 1950s
Fiction set in the 1960s
Novels set in Ireland


A railroad is a means of transport.

Railroad may also refer to:

Places in the United States
 Railroad, Pennsylvania, a borough
 Railroad Township, Starke County, Indiana, a township
 Railroad Canyon, a canyon around some of the San Jacinto River, California
 Railroad Valley, in east-central Nevada
 Rail Road Flat, California, a census-designated place in Calaveras County
 Rail Road Hill, California, a former settlement in Yuba County

Other uses
 The Railroad, a 2006 South Korean film
 Railroad apartment, an apartment with rooms connecting to each other in a line
 Rail Rode, a 1927 short cartoon
 Railroad (album), an album by guitarist John Fahey
 "Railroad" (song), 1970 Maurice Gibb song
 "Railroad", 1971 song by Status Quo from the album Dog of Two Head
 Thomas and the Magic Railroad, a 2000 British-American film

See also
 Rail-road vehicle, a vehicle for rail and road
 Railroad Tycoon (series), a business simulation game
 Sid Meier's Railroads!, a business simulation computer game
 Rail (disambiguation)
 Railway (disambiguation) (a railroad in British and Commonwealth English)
 Railways (disambiguation)


"Hanging Around" is a song written by Peter Svensson and Nina Persson for the Cardigans' 1998 album Gran Turismo. The song is the album's sixth track, and was released as its third single on 12 July 1999, and charted at number 17 on the UK Singles Chart. The music video was directed by Sophie Muller, and is based on the 1965 Roman Polanski film, Repulsion, with Nina Persson playing the role of  'Carol'.

Track listing
UK Maxi Single
Hanging Around (Alternative Radio Mix) - 3:41
My Favourite Game (Rollo's Mix) - 6:37
Hanging Around (Nåid Remix) -4:10)
Hanging Around (CD-Rom Video) - 3:41

Alternate Maxi Single
Hanging Around (Radio Version) - 3:43
Hanging Around (Jasmine St. Claire Mix) - 4:49
Hanging Around (Nåid Remix) - 4:10
Erase / Rewind (Director's Cut Video) - 3:35

Credits and personnel
Vocals: Nina Persson
Guitar: Peter Svensson
Bass: Magnus Sveningsson
Guitar: Lars-Olof Johansson
Drums: Bengt Lagerberg
Recorded at Country Hell, Tambourine Studios, Skurup, Sweden
Producer: Tore Johansson
Engineer: Tore Johansson, Janne Waldenmark
Assistant engineer: Lars Göransson
Audio mixing: Tore Johansson
Mixing assistant: Jim Caruana
Mastering by: Björn Engelmann

Charts

References

External links
The Cardigans' official website

1998 songs
1999 singles
The Cardigans songs
Stockholm Records singles
Polydor Records singles
Music videos directed by Sophie Muller
Songs written by Peter Svensson
Songs written by Nina Persson