Crab Moon is a children's picture book by Ruth Horowitz and illustrated by Kate Kiesler.  It was selected by the National Science Teachers Association as an Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children in 2001.

Summary
A young child, David, follows his mother to the summer rental and is amazed at horseshoe crabs that emerge to lay their eggs. The next morning, he finds an upside down crab and he places her right-side up.

Reception
A Kirkus Reviews review says, "Along with books such as Saviour Pirotta's Turtle Bay (1997), this conveys a respectful attitude toward sea- and shore-dwelling wildlife in an unpreachy way. Young children whose interest is piqued by David's brief encounter with such ancient, alien-looking creatures will welcome the concluding page of general horseshoe crab facts".  A review in The New York Times says, "In Ms. Kiesler's inviting pictures, you can virtually smell the salt air.  Publishers Weekly in their review said that "Horowitz's poetic descriptions are buried throughout the text as smooth as sea glass. The reader sees how "the fat, round face of the full moon wavered on the surface of the water" and "curly black seaweed was strewn on the sand, like streamers left over from a party." Kiesler's seascapes are skillfully rendered but static, trading the ethereal qualities of her Fishing for a Dream for realism. Glowing yet somber, they do little to engage readers' emotions in Daniel's mild adventure."  Patricia Manning in here review for School Library Journal said that "Horowitz's quiet text reflects the moonlit awe of this ageless pattern, and Kiesler's luminous oils capture freeze-frame moments in perfect step"

References

2000 children's books
American picture books
Candlewick Press books
Children's books about animals
Children's books set on beaches


is a passenger railway station locted in Miyazaki City, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by JR Kyushu and is on the Nippō Main Line.

Lines
The station is the terminus of the Miyazaki Kūkō Line and is located 1.4 km from the opposing terminus of the line at .

Layout
The station consists of one elevated island platform and two tracks, and the platform is slightly curved. In front of the exit the station building is the entrance to the Miyazaki Airport Passenger Terminal Building and the bus terminal.

Management of the passenger facilities at the station has been outsourced to the JR Kyushu Tetsudou Eigyou Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of JR Kyushu specialising in station services. It mans the Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.

Platforms

History
The station was opened on 18 July 1996.

Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2016, the station was used by an average of 864 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), and it ranked 183rd among the busiest stations of JR Kyushu.

Surrounding area
Miyazaki Airport
Miyazaki East Hospital

See also
Miyazaki Airport
List of railway stations in Japan
Airport rail link

References

External links

JR Kyushu station information

Railway stations in Miyazaki Prefecture
Stations of Kyushu Railway Company
Airport railway stations in Japan
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1996
Miyazaki (city)


Polica () is a settlement in the Municipality of Naklo in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia.

Name
The name Polica is derived from the Slovene common noun polica 'terraced earth between two embankments', thus referring to the local geography. The flat terrain of the village rises sharply on the northeast side of the settlement, toward the Udin Woods, and it drops sharply to the southwest, toward the Dobrava Forest above the Sava River.

References

External links

Polica on Geopedia

Populated places in the Municipality of Naklo


The 1906 Circuit des Ardennes was a Grand Prix motor race held at the 53.5 mile Bastogne circuit on 13 August 1906.

Classification

References

Ardennes
Ardennes Circuit
Sport in Bastogne


The Turuun River is a river of western Mongolia. It flows through the sum of Baruunturuun in Uvs Province.

References

Landforms of Uvs Province
Rivers of Mongolia


Ealdgyth (fl. c. 1057–1066), also Aldgyth or Edith in modern English, was a daughter of Ælfgar, Earl of Mercia, the wife of Gruffudd ap Llywelyn (d. 1063), ruler of all Wales, and later the wife and queen consort of Harold Godwinson, king of England in 1066. She was described by William of Jumièges as a considerable beauty.

Family
Ealdgyth was the daughter of Ælfgar, who had been earl of East Anglia a number of times in the 1050s and was appointed earl of Mercia in c. 1057, in succession of his father Earl Leofric. Ælfgar's wife Ælfgifu was probably her mother, and Eadwine, the later earl of Mercia, and Morcar, earl of Northumbria, were her brothers.

In 1055, Ælfgar was exiled on the charge of treason. He went to Ireland to muster troops and formed an alliance with Gruffudd ap Llywelyn, who had been king of Gwynedd (1039–1055) but assumed the sovereignty of all Wales in 1055. Ælfgar and Gruffudd invaded England and plundered Hereford, bringing great humiliation to Earl Ralph, who needed to call in external support to repel the invaders. When peace was made, Ælfgar resumed office before succeeding his father as earl of Mercia in c. 1057.

Marriages and issue

Gruffudd ap Llywelyn

It was presumably in the year of her father's appointment (c. 1057) that Ealdgyth married his political ally, King Gruffudd ap Llywelyn. William of Jumièges describes her as a woman of considerable beauty. Walter Map also wrote of a beautiful lady much beloved by the king and so he may have had Ealdgyth in mind. On her marriage, she was given a modest amount of land in England, though the only estate which can be certainly identified as having belonged to her is one at Binley, Warwickshire. She bore the king a daughter called Nest. Nest later became the wife of Osbern fitzRichard, a marcher lord on the Herefordshire border, who acquired Binley. Nest and Osbern had a daughter who married Bernard de Neufmarché, also a marcher lord. The chronicles also record two of Gruffudd's sons, Maredudd and Ithel, probably for Idwal, who died in 1069, and a third son may be Owain ap Gruffudd (d. 1059).

The alliance between Ealdgyth's father and husband was of great significance in resisting the growing power of the Godwinesons. On the death of Earl Ralph in 1057, Hereford was added to Harold's earldom. The following year, Ælfgar was outlawed for a second time, but he was restored to office before long. Ælfgar is last heard of in 1062 and seems to have died by 1063, when Harold Godwineson invaded Wales. Gruffudd was killed in the event.

Harold Godwinson

Ealdgyth later became the wife and queen consort of her late husband's enemy Harold. The date of the marriage is unknown, but it must have taken place at some stage before the Conquest, whether before or after Harold's coronation as king of England (January 1066). It seems that Harold's choice of bride was "aimed not only at securing the support of the Mercian house for himself in his royal ambitions, but also at weakening the links between that same house and the rulers of north Wales". In any event, Ealdgyth was soon to be widowed for a second time. In October that year, Harold was defeated and died in the Battle of Hastings, which was fought against the invading forces of William, Duke of Normandy, who would subsequently ascend the English throne. At the news of Harold's death, Ealdgyth's brothers went to London to fetch her and immediately sent her to Chester for shelter. It is unknown what happened to her thereafter. Harold had a number of children with his common law wife Edith the Fair, but his marriage to Ealdgyth may not have produced any offspring. It has been suggested that Ealdgyth may have been the mother of Harold's son Harold, but this possibility is not universally accepted.

Notes

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11th-century English people
11th-century English women
English royal consorts
Anglo-Saxon royal consorts
Remarried royal consorts


Wang Jurong (Xiao'erjing: , 1928–2006) was a Chinese-Muslim martial artist and Wushu professor in the Shanghai Institute of Physical Education.

A longtime promoter of Wushu, a teacher, an organizational officer, and a Wushu event-announcer, she was the first woman who was a certified judge of national ranking for both Wushu and Archery. Wang was also the founder of the Flying Rainbow Fan art.

Family life
Wang Jurong was the daughter of Wang Ziping, a renowned figure in Chinese Martial Arts and Traditional Medicine. In 1955 Wang married Wu Chengde, who was a student of her father, a doctor and a professor of Traditional Chinese Medicine. She had three daughters Helen Wu (Xiaorong), Grace Wu (Xiaogo) and Wu Xiaoping.

Education
Wang began her Wushu training at age five studying with her father. She learned Tan Tui, Chaquan, Huaquan, Bajiquan, Pao Chuan and Tai chi. As a child Wang would train six hours a day, including training Pai Dai (body striking) with her mostly male classmates. Though it was a peculiar request,  her father also allowed her to learn the Kwan Do (heavy broadsword) as her first weapon.  In 1952 Wang graduated from Aurora University in Shanghai.

Professorship and research
Wang Jurong became a founding professor of the East China Physical Education College (Shanghai Physical Education College). Teaching there for 36 years and conducting research in the field of Chinese martial arts, including Shaolin, Wudangquan, Tai chi, Tongbeiquan and Nanquan. She was interested in not only their techniques but also their theory.

The first graduate program was also developed  at the college by her and she was the first professor to have two students earn a 'Masters of Martial Arts' degree in Tai chi.

Accomplishments
Wang is a wushu champion athlete and coach, her professional accomplishments include:

 Women's Championship at the 7th National Athletic Games (1946)
 Gold Medal for Chaquan routine
 Women's Championship at the National Wushu Competition (1953)
 Gold Medal for Green Dragon Sword Technique
 First female coach of New China Wushu Team with Wang Zi-ping (1960)
 Director of the Chinese Martial Arts Association and Archery Association
 Vice-Chairman of the Shanghai Wushu Association, head of the Judging Committee
 Vice-Chairman of theShanghai Archery Association
 President of the Chinese Martial Arts Research Institute
 Advisor to the Wu Dang Research Association
 Advisor Shanghai Qi Gong Research Association
 Advisor United States Kungfu Federation
 Advisor US Kuoshu Federation
 Honorary Advisor Chinese Wushu History Association
 Women of the Year Inside Kung-fu Magazine (1995)
 Lifetime Achievement Award from the United States Wushu Kungfu Federation (1997)

Flying Rainbow Fan
The Flying Rainbow Fan form was developed by Wang Jurong. The seven series of this form combine the styles of Tai chi, Bagua and Kung fu.

Wang Jurong describes the Flying Rainbow Fan in her own words:
I included the following elements: unification of stillness and motion, the mutual coordination of yi and qi, the harmony of the six internal and external components, strength building movements, practical applications, and artistic expression. These elements allow men, women and children of all ages to be able to grasp, and attain a strong healthy body. Through the combined internal and external training, one can achieve the goal of eliminating illness and extending years.

Flying Rainbow Fan is a current form in Wushu practice and in competition. It is taught by Wang Jurong's daughters Grace Wu and Helen Wu.

References

1928 births
2006 deaths
Chinese wushu practitioners
Chinese Muslims
Hui people


To Be or Not to Be is a play written by Nick Whitby, based on the 1942 film To Be or Not to Be. The play, described as a "black comedy"  was produced by the Manhattan Theatre Club, and ran on Broadway in 2008.

Plot

The time is 1939, the place is Warsaw, Poland. A theater troupe run by Josef and Maria Tura is involved in pre-war problems. Josef and Maria
help catch a spy, with the aid of Stanislaw Sobinskya, a handsome fighter pilot. Stanislaw has a romantic yearning for Maria.

Production
To Be or Not to Be premiered on Broadway at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on September 16, 2008, in previews and officially on October 14, for a limited engagement, closing on November 16 after 40 performances.

The director was Casey Nicholaw, with principal cast including Peter Benson, David Rasche, Peter Maloney and Jan Maxwell.
Sets were by Anna Louizos, costumes by Gregg Barnes and lighting by Howell Binkley.

Several cast changes were made prior to the previews: David Rasche took over the part of Josef Tura from Craig Bierko, and Peter Maloney replaced Brian Murray in the role of Dowasz.

Critical reception
The CurtainUp reviewer called the play an "overcooked theatrical perogi", but goes on to write that the play: "...does follow his
[Lubitsch] comedy classic's basic plot of having the thespians foil a Nazi plan to entrap the leaders of the underground movement. Its few laughs come when the script sticks to Edwin Justus Mayer's screenplay...But it's all weighed down by added and unfunny jokes."

References

External links
 (archive)
To Be or Not To Be manhattantheatreclub.com

Broadway plays
2008 plays


The Loser is a novel by Thomas Bernhard, originally published in German in 1983.

Plot introduction
The novel does not take place at the time of the events recounted, but at the time its narrator recalls them. There are three main characters: the narrator (who is the only survivor), Glenn Gould, who died a natural death at fifty-one, and Wertheimer who committed suicide some time later. The novel consists almost entirely of recollections and ruminations relating to the relationships between the three. Wertheimer and the narrator were students in a piano class taught by Vladimir Horowitz at the Mozarteum in Salzburg in 1953, where they met a young Canadian piano prodigy (Gould).

Plot summary
In Mozarteum in Salzburg in 1953 the main characters meet a young Canadian prodigy who plays the Goldberg Variations miraculously and who, they quickly come to realize, is a greater pianist than even their teacher—indeed, "the most important piano virtuoso of the century," as the narrator puts it in the novel's opening sentence.

The encounter with Gould affects both characters decisively for almost three decades, as they experience an endless series of personal and intellectual travails. Gould’s talent triggers the suicidal tendencies of his two colleagues: so great is the impact of Gould's genius on the other two that, even as it nourishes them, it destroys them: they realize that Gould represents an artistic ideal to which they cannot hope to aspire. So the narrator eventually decides to give up the piano in favour of philosophy, and spends much of his subsequent time composing a rambling, never-completed essay entitled "About Glenn Gould". Wertheimer, who had been a very promising virtuoso himself, follows suit, abandoning music and moving into the "human sciences", the meaning of which is left vague. Eventually, Wertheimer's behaviour becomes more and more erratic and self-destructive; he alienates all his friends, and tyrannises his devoted sister. It is Gould who, with his "ruthless and open, yet healthy American-Canadian manner" first calls Wertheimer, to his face, "The Loser" ("Der Untergeher"—a much more evocative word, lit. "the one who goes under"). As Wertheimer comes to see the accuracy of this epithet, he gradually loses his grip on life.

Allusions to actual events
Bernhard and Gould never met in real life; however, Gould did play twice in Salzburg: the Bach D Minor Concerto with Dimitri Mitropoulos on 10 August 1958, and a Sweelinck-Schönberg-Mozart-Bach recital on 25 August 1959.

Narrative style
The novel is written in the form of a continuous first person interior monologue, with no paragraph indentations and a high number of run-on sentences, obsessive repetitions, unexplained uses of italics, and alienating leaps (without transition) from verb tense to verb tense.

Adaptations
The Brooklyn Academy of Music commissioned a one-act chamber opera by David Lang based on the novel, which had its premiere in September 2016.

References

External links
Bernhardiana, a Critical Anthology of Bernhard's works
 The Loser reviewed by K. Bazzana (Libraries & Archives of Canada, 2002)
The Novels of Thomas Bernhard by J.J. Long (2001)
The Scabrous Lyricism of Thomas Bernhard, by Eric Ormsby (2003)
Excerpt from The Loser.

1983 novels
Novels by Thomas Bernhard
Alfred A. Knopf books
Fiction set in 1953
Novels set in Austria
Novels about music
Novels adapted into operas
Postmodern novels
Suhrkamp Verlag books
Glenn Gould


Luoyang Glass Company Limited or Luoyang Glass (, ) is a state-owned enterprise in Luoyang, Henan, China, which is involved with the production and sales of float sheet and flat glass and reprocessing of automobile glass.

History
Luoyang Glass was established in 1994 by its parent company, China Luoyang Float Glass Group. Its H shares were listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 1994, while its A shares were listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange in 1995.

References

External links
Luoyang Glass Company Limited
China Luoyang Float Glass Group Company Limited

Companies listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Companies listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange
Government-owned companies of China
Glassmaking companies of China
Manufacturing companies established in 1994
Companies based in Luoyang
Manufacturing companies of China
Chinese brands
H shares
Chinese companies established in 1994


Joanna Bessey (born 1976) is an actress and director from Malaysia. She is best known for her role as Marie Tan in the situation comedy Kopitiam which ran for 7 seasons.

Early life
Bessey was born in West Sussex to a British father and Malaysian  mother of Malay descent with Minangkabau lineage.

Career
Bessey has appeared in over 200 episodes of television, 6 TV movies, 5 feature films, commercials with 2 major celebrity endorsements, voice-over work for commercials and animated series and numerous theatre productions, over the last 10 years. Other TV credits include La Dolce Amira, Bilik 13, All Mixed Up and Island FM. She has been in feature films such as Lips to Lips, Buli, 1957- Hati Malaya and Waris Jari Hantu.

Bessey appeared on BBC World News hosting the
travel documentary "Exploring Malaysia". She is also an environmentalist.

In 2020, Bessey made her videogame debut by voice acting as Eve in No Straight Roads

Personal life
She is married to German husband Aurel Wunderer. They have a son born in 2011.

Accolades
She has had the following nomations: 'Best Actor in a Supporting Role' at the 'Boh' Cameronian Arts Awards 2007, "Best Director" for her directorial debut of Ibsen's 'An Enemy of the People", 'Best Actress in a Comedy Role' for the award-winning sitcom, "Kopitiam" at the Asian Television Awards (Singapore) and was highly commended. She was voted Best Female Artist in 2000 by a public online poll.

References

External links

 JoannaBessey.com

1976 births
Living people
People from West Sussex
British emigrants to Malaysia
British people of Malaysian descent
Malaysian people of Malay descent
Malaysian people of Minangkabau descent
Malaysian people of British descent
Malaysian people of English descent
Malaysian film actresses
Malaysian television actresses
Malaysian television personalities
Malaysian women environmentalists


is a train station located in Chūō-ku. The station's symbol mark is a jar which is designed the arabesque scroll to look like the letter "". It has the station number "K05".

Lines

Platforms

Vicinity
Hawks Town (approx. 15 minutes by foot)
Fukuoka Yahoo! Japan Dome
Hilton Fukuoka Seahawk (ex-JAL Resort Seahawk Hotel Fukuoka)
Zepp Fukuoka
HKT48 Theater
National Hospital Organization Kyushu medical center (just across from Fukuoka Dome)
Tōjinmachi Shopping District
Heiwadai Hotel 5
several Elementary and High Schools
Nishi-nippon Junior College
United States Consulate
Republic of Korea Consulate General

References

Railway stations in Japan opened in 1981
Kūkō Line (Fukuoka City Subway)
Railway stations in Fukuoka Prefecture


Max Hoffman House is a Frank Lloyd Wright designed waterfront home in Rye, New York, built in 1955 for European automobile importer Max Hoffman.

History
Hoffman had commissioned Wright to design the Hoffman Auto Showroom for his Jaguar dealership at 430 Park Avenue in New York City in 1954. The following year, Wright designed a large single-story L-shaped home and garden for the Hoffmans on the shore of North Manursing Island overlooking Long Island Sound.

The Max Hoffman House was later owned by Emily Fisher Landeau and Alice and Thomas Tisch. In 2019, Marc Jacobs acquired the home for $9.175 million.

Design
Constructed of stone, plaster, and slate roof, with a copper-trimmed fascia, the  single-story home sits on a 1.97-acre lot and features a Japanese-style garden designed by Stephen Morrell, curator of the John P. Humes Japanese Stroll Garden in Locust Valley, New York. In 1972 Taliesin Associated Architects built an additional wing to the north. An interior renovation in 1995 was designed by architect Emanuela Frattini Magnusson.

Ownership history
 1955–1972: Built and expanded for Hoffman
 1972–1993: Purchased by Emily Fisher Landau
 1993–2019: Purchased by Tom & Alice Tisch (son and daughter-in-law of former CBS president and CEO Laurence Tisch)
 2019–present: Purchased by Marc Jacobs

See also
 List of Frank Lloyd Wright works

References
 Storrer, William Allin. The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion. University Of Chicago Press, 2006,  (S.390)

External links

 Photo on Arcaid

Frank Lloyd Wright buildings
Modernist architecture in New York (state)
Houses in Westchester County, New York
Buildings and structures in Rye, New York


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André Marcel Desoutter (31 January 1894–13 April 1952) was an English aviator, who lost a leg in an early flying accident, but went on to a successful career in the aviation industry.

Early life
Desoutter was one of six children of Louis Albert Desoutter, an immigrant French watchmaker, and Philomène Duret. Along with his four brothers, Rene, Charles, Louis and Robert, Marcel trained as a watchmaker.

Aviation career
Learning to fly with the Blériot Company at their Hendon works, he passed the flying tests at the age of 17, but could not receive his licence until he was 18, receiving Royal Aero Club Aviators' Certificate no. 186 on 27 February 1912. He became an instructor, test and demonstration pilot.

Desoutter's accident occurred at the London Aviation Meeting held at Hendon Aerodrome at Easter 1913: whilst flying his 50-h.p. Gnome-Blériot on the afternoon of 23 March, the control stick slipped from his hand and the Blériot dived into the ground at the edge of the aerodrome. Desoutter's leg was badly broken, and later had to be amputated above the knee.

He was fitted with the standard wooden leg, but his younger brother Charles used his knowledge of aircraft materials to design a new jointed Duralumin alloy leg of half the weight, with which he was able to return to flying.

In 1914 the pair formed a company, Desoutter Brothers Limited, at 73 Baker Street, London, to manufacture the legs. The firm expanded greatly during and after the First World War, and moved to The Hyde, Hendon in 1924, where they manufactured both artificial limbs and the pneumatic portable Desoutter Tools which had been developed initially as a sideline.

Marcel married Margaret F. Rust in 1918; they had three children.

Marcel Desoutter left the business in 1928 and formed the Desoutter Aircraft Company Ltd. at Croydon to build the Dutch Koolhoven F.K.41 three-seat monoplane, renaming it as the Desoutter I.
41 of this type and the improved Desoutter II were produced, but the business folded in 1932 after its main customer, National Flying Services at London Air Park, Hanworth, went into liquidation.

In 1935 Desoutter became a partner with Morris Jackaman in Airports, Ltd., which had been set up to develop Gatwick and Gravesend aerodromes as airports, and was still managing director of the company when he died at his home in Horley, Surrey on 13 April 1952.

References
Flight magazine, 29 March 1913
Flight magazine, 2 May 1929
Flight magazine, 25 April 1952 (Obituary)
Jackson, A J. British Civil Aircraft since 1919 Volume 2. Putnam, 1973
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Volume15. Oxford University Press, 2004
 The origins of De Soutter Medical

English aviators
English people of French descent
1894 births
1952 deaths
20th-century English businesspeople


The Zeppelin LZ 3 was a German experimental airship constructed in Friedrichshafen under the direction of Ferdinand von Zeppelin.  It was first flown on 9 October 1906 and was later purchased by the German Army and operated as Z I until being retired in 1913. Before being purchased by the Army, LZ 3 made many flights and carried a number of influential passengers, including the German Crown Prince.

Design and development
The design of LZ 3 closely followed that of its predecessor, the LZ 2.  The hull framework was of identical layout and size and the same engines and propellers were used, although the volume of lifting gas was increased.  LZ 2 had shown severe pitch instability, and LZ 3 was fitted with two pairs of biplane elevators, one set in front of the forward gondola and the second behind the rear gondola, and fixed biplane horizontal stabilisers at the rear of the hull.

Following the first flights in 1906 some modifications were made: the triangular section keel between the gondolas was extended fore and aft, the biplane elevators were replaced by two sets of quadruple elevators mounted at either end of the cylindrical section of the hull and the rudders were mounted between the tips of the horizontal stabilisers.

After the destruction of LZ 4 it was extensively rebuilt, with the addition of an extra bay increasing its length by 8 m (26 ft 6 in) and gas capacity to 12,888 cu m (430,800 cu ft).  A large vertical fin was added above the stern of the hull and new engines, each providing 105 hp (78 kW) were fitted, giving a maximum speed of (27.5 mph)

Operational history
LZ was first flown  on 9 October 1906, when a successful flight was made lasting 2 hours 17 minutes and carrying eleven people. A second shorter flight was made the next day, following which it was deflated and laid up for the winter.  These flights caused a reevaluation of Zeppelin's work on the part of the German government, and a grant of 500,000 marks was made to him. However it was stipulated that an acceptance flight lasting 24 hours would have to be completed before any airship could be bought by the Government: realising that LZ 3 was incapable of meeting this requirement, work was started on the LZ 4.  Following modifications to the control surfaces LZ 3 was next flown on 24 September 1907, when it made a flight lasting 4 hours 17 minutes, and a series of successful flights was made in the following days, including one on 30 September lasting 7 hours 54 minutes during which it was flown over land for the first time, flying north as far as Ravensburg.  During this flight some difficulty in managing the airship due to the up and downdraughts produced by the hilly terrain was experienced.  On 8 October a brief flight was made with Crown Prince William, the heir to the throne, on board and the airship was then deflated for the winter.  On 14 December the floating hangar broke loose from its moorings during a storm and was driven ashore, severely damaging LZ 3.

Following the destruction of LZ 4, LZ 3 was repaired and enlarged.  It was reinflated on 21 October 1908 and a series of short test flights were made between 23 and 26 October.  On 27 October a flight lasting 5 hours 55 minutes was made with the Kaiser's brother, Admiral Prince Heinrich, on board. On 7 November, Prince William was a passenger, and the airship flew 80 km (50 mi) to Donaueschingen, where the Kaiser was then staying.  In spite of poor weather conditions, the flight succeeded: two days later LZ 3 was officially accepted by the Government and on 10 November Zeppelin was rewarded with an official visit to Friedrichshafen by the Kaiser, during which Zeppelin was awarded the Order of the Black Eagle.

The renamed Z I'''s military crew and ground staff, commanded by Major Sperling, arrived at Friedrichshafen in March 1909 to begin training.  In June it was flown to Metz, where it was stationed until being broken up as obsolete in March 1913.

Specifications (as first flown)

See also

List of Zeppelins
Zeppelin LZ 24 (L 3)

Notes

References
Robinson, Douglas H., Giants in the Sky'' Henley-on Thames: Foulis, 1973

1900s German experimental aircraft
Zeppelins
1906 in Germany
Aircraft first flown in 1906


Lucknow Swarna Shatabdi Express  is one of the Shatabdi Express trains operated by Indian Railways that connects the capital of India,  to state capital of Uttar Pradesh, .

Overview
This train is a Swarna category Shatabdi Express train, Swarna is a Sanskrit word meaning gold. Swarna Shatabdi means that it caters better amenities to passengers and also generates better revenue for Indian Railways as compared to other Shatabdi Express trains. Not every train in Indian Railways carries Swarna tag. It is hauled by an Electric Loco Shed, Ghaziabad WAP-7 or WAP-5 Locomotive.

History
Earlier this train used to run between  and New Delhi non-stop, a 435 km stretch. After the gauge conversion in 1993, it was extended and previous terminal, Kanpur Central was converted to its only halt and later halted at Aligarh. Later on, it was also given halt at Ghaziabad and Etawah.
Lucknow Swarna Shatabdi Express is the first train in Indian Railways to get LHB coach on trial basis.

Initiatives
Lucknow Swarna Shatabdi has been awarded the ISO certification.

Routes

Swarna Shatabdi Express
12003 – Lucknow Junction railway station to New Delhi

12004 – New Delhi to Lucknow Junction

Coaches

Speed
Its all coaches are of air conditioned LHB coach type which is capable of reaching 160 kmph but it does not touch. Sometimes people become confused because according to Indian Railways Permanent Way Manual (IRPWM) on Indian Railways website or Indian Railway Institute of Civil Engineering website, the BG (Broad Gauge) lines have been classified into six groups ‘A’ to ‘E’ on the basis of the future maximum permissible speeds but it may not be same as present speed.

The maximum permissible speed is 130 kmph except two parts - first 29 km of journey or New Delhi (NDLS) – Chipyana Buzrung (CYZ) part where Railway is trying to raise maximum permissible sectional speed to 130 kmph from 110 kmph  and after leaving route towards Howrah, last 72 km of journey or Kanpur (CNB) – Lucknow NE Jn (LJN) route has sectional speed of 110 kmph but speed of about first 2 Kms, under North Central Railway of this route is unknown - it is as per System Map of Northern Railway (as on 31.03.2021)

Railway board has approved the speed policy which envisages operation of passenger trains at 160 kmph on Delhi – Howrah (incl CNB-LKO that is Kanpur - Lucknow NR) route and this train leaves route towards Howrah from Kanpur and then passes through Kanpur (CNB) – Lucknow NE Jn (LJN) route which is about same as Kanpur (CNB) – Lucknow NR (LKO) route but it is still unclear what will its impact on this train in future like increasing of speed but not up to 160 kmph or up to 160 kmph

See also
Lucknow Charbagh railway station (LKO)
Kanpur Shatabdi
Aligarh Junction railway station

References

External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20130723014914/http://www.indianrail.gov.in/shatabdi_trn_list.html
Lucknow Shatabdi Timetable in Hindi

Passenger trains originating from Lucknow
Rail transport in Delhi
Railway services introduced in 2014
Shatabdi Express trains
Transport in Delhi


Jackie Goss (born 1967 in Snowville, New Hampshire) is an American media artist, utilising videos and web-based projects, often featuring Flash animation techniques. Goss graduated from Brown University and received an M.F.A from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.  She teaches at Bard College in New York.

Her work has shown in the New York Film Festival, London Film Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival, and Wexner Center for the Arts among other venues. She has received awards from the Tribeca Film Institute, Creative Capital Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Herb Alpert Foundation, and the Berliner Kunstlerprogramm. Her videos are distributed by Video Data Bank in Chicago.

Filmography
2007 - Stranger Comes to Town

References

American artists
Brown University alumni
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni
Bard College faculty
1967 births
Living people
People from Carroll County, New Hampshire


The Uganda Landmine Survivors Association (ULSA) is a non-governmental organization, focused primarily on advocacy and victim assistance throughout Uganda. The organization was founded in April 2005 in order to campaign against the use, production and transfer of landmines, cluster munitions and explosive remnants of war (ERWs). ULSA also serves as a peer to peer support network for survivors, providing them with training in vocational, leadership and advocacy skills in partnership with other organizations throughout Northern and Western Uganda.

The Uganda Landmine Survivors Association is composed of district-level survivor groups across the country and other like minded NGOs and stakeholders whose mandate include addressing landmine related issues, support to landmine survivors and other persons with disabilities, including survivor groups in Apac, Lira, Gulu, Kasese, Kitgum, Oyam and Pader. There are 2,039 estimated victims of antipersonnel mines living in Uganda.

Contamination throughout Uganda

Decades of violence and incivility have forced some 1.8 million people to leave their homes in Northern Uganda. Since 2006, the landlocked African nation has been negotiating a peace deal with the Lord's Resistance Army, a rebel group known for terrorizing the Acholi and Lango people of the North through child-abductions, mutilation, massacre and sexual enslavement.

There is also significant contamination in the Western region of Uganda, stemming from conflict on the Congolese border.

Despite improving political conditions, however, landmine survivors continue to face serious injustices daily in Uganda, including inadequate medical support and inability to find sufficient employment or food. Moreover, victims are often shunned by their families for fear of becoming a burden.

While the landmine problem in Uganda is less severe than countries like Angola, Mozambique and Afghanistan, the nature of the weapon has made it difficult to overcome. According to Ugandan officials, there are more than 350 suspected hazardous areas in the country, of which 153 are Kitgum; 91 in Gulu; 61 in Amuru and 57 in Kasese.

See also
 International Campaign to Ban Landmines
 Convention on Cluster Munitions

References

External links
 Uganda Landmine Survivors Association (ULSA) Web Site

Mine action organizations
Non-profit organisations based in Uganda
Organizations established in 2005
2005 establishments in Uganda


The Stadio Franco Ossola (also called Luigi Ganna Velodrome) is a sports stadium and velodrome currently in use by the football team A.S.D. Città di Varese.

Constructed in 1925, and originally named the Stadio del Littorio, the stadium was renamed in September 1950 in memory of Franco Ossola, an Italian from Varese and player for Torino F.C. who died in 1949 in the Superga air disaster.

The cycling track was used for the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in 1971 and is named after Luigi Ganna, the winner of the first Giro d'Italia in 1909, who was born in nearby Induno Olona.

Originally, the stadium could accommodate up to 23,000 spectators, but the capacity has been reduced to comply with safety standards, so much so that now the north stand, which houses the home fans, is not usable.

In recent years, plans have been drawn up to create a new 10,000 seater stadium to replace the existing one.

References

External links

Varese
SSD Varese Calcio
ASD Città di Varese
Franco
Franco
Velodromes in Italy
Cycle racing in Italy
Sports venues in Lombardy
1925 establishments in Italy
Sports venues completed in 1925


The following is the list of squads that took part in the men's water polo tournament at the 1956 Summer Olympics.

CF=Centre forward
CB=Centre back
D=Defender
GK=Goalkeeper

Australia
Australia entered a squad of nine players.

Head coach:

Great Britain
Great Britain entered an unknown number of players. They scored 25 goals but all scorers are unknown.

Head coach:

Hungary
Hungary entered a squad of eleven players. They scored 26 goals but only twenty scorers are known.

Head coach: Béla Rajki

Italy
Italy entered a squad of eleven players. They scored 17 goals but all scorers are unknown.

Head coach: Mario Majoni

Romania
Romania entered a squad of nine players. They scored 26 goals but all scorers are unknown.

Head coach: Balint Adalbert

Singapore
The following players represented Singapore.

 David Lim
 Thio Gim Hock
 Lionel Chee
 Eric Yeo
 Gan Eng Teck
 Wiebe Wolters
 Tan Eng Bock
 Skip Wolters
 Oh Chwee Hock
 Lim Teck Pan

Soviet Union
The Soviet Union entered a squad of eleven players. They scored 21 goals.

Head coach:

United States
The United States entered a squad of eleven players. They scored 15 goals but only three scorers are known.

Head coach: Neill Kohlhase (coach), Sam Greller (manager)

United Team of Germany
Germany entered a squad of eleven players. They scored 16 goals but all scorers are unknown.

Head coach:

Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia entered a squad of eleven players. They scored 25 goals but all scorers are unknown.

Head coach: File Bonačić

References

External links
 Olympic Report

1956 Summer Olympics


The Battle of the Alamo left a substantial legacy and influence within American culture and is an event that is told from the perspective of the vanquished.

Perception
Within weeks of the battle, it began to be compared to the Greek stand at the Battle of Thermopylae.

Efforts to preserve the Alamo have largely been an Anglo-American cause. The first major calls to restore parts of the Alamo occurred after 1860, as English-speaking settlers began to outnumber those of Mexican heritage. Likewise, according to Schoelwer, within "the development of Alamo imagery has been an almost exclusively American endeavor" that focuses on the Texian defenders, with less emphasis given to the Mexican Army or the Tejano soldiers who served in the Texian Army. Many Tejanos viewed the Alamo as more than just a battle site, but they or their ancestors had experienced the benefits of the Alamo compound when it served as a mission, a hospital, or a military post. Americans had arrived in Texas much later, when the Alamo no longer served in those roles, and they tended to see the compound solely in relation to the battle.

According to the author Richard R. Flores, in the early 20th century, the Alamo was perceived by many in the majority white population of Texas as a symbol of white supremacy over the minority Mexican population. That symbolism followed the late-19th-century and the early-20th-century development of a new capitalist system in Texas that placed whites at the top of the social ladder as profit-earners and Mexicans at the bottom of the social ladder as wage-earners.

In Mexico, perceptions of the battle have often mirrored those of Santa Anna. Initially, reports of the Mexican victory concentrated on glorifying Santa Anna, especially among newspapers that supported the centralist cause. Typical headlines included, "Immortal Glory to the Illustrious General Santa Anna: Eternal Praise to the Invincible Army of Mexico". Within days of the news, people began composing patriotic marching songs about Santa Anna and his victory at the Alamo. Santa Anna's political opponents were displeased that the focus had shifted to him; within days, newspapers supporting the federalist viewpoint began questioning whether the victory had come at too great a cost and whether it would actually help Mexico. Many of the newspapers were disenchanted with Santa Anna's deployment of General Martin Perfecto de Cos, who had been paroled back to Mexico after the Siege of Bexar if he no longer took up arms against Texians.

On April 27, 1836, Mexican Secretary of War José María Tornel announced that Mexican soldiers who participated in the campaign to retake Texas would be eligible to receive a special medal. To commemorate the Battle of the Alamo, the establishment date for the program was retroactively set to March 6, 1836. Within weeks, however, the Mexican government learned of Santa Anna's defeat and capture at the Battle of San Jacinto and so the medal program was immediately cancelled. The Texas campaign, including the Battle of the Alamo, was soon overshadowed by the Mexican–American War of the 1840s.

In the 1960s, the battle was often used as a historical parallel to the Vietnam War. U.S. President Lyndon Johnson, whose father had authored the 1905 legislation that allowed the State of Texas to buy the long barracks, often compared the war to the Alamo. He remarked once that his decision to send more troops to Southeast Asia was "Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid." Those and other similar remarks prompted a strong anti-Alamo backlash in the United States. The New York Times editorialized, "If Americans must remember the Alamo, let's remember that gallant men died needlessly in that old mission and that their sacrifice led eventually to a war that reflects little credit on the United States.... To persevere in folly is no virtue. To dare to retreat from error can be the highest form of courage." In the late 1960s and the early 1970s, numerous anti-war protests were held on the grounds of the Alamo.

A program on the Craft of Writing: Rewriting History on Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth with Bryan Burrough and Chris Tomlinson co-sponsored by Writers' League of Texas with the Bullock Texas State History Museum, included the development of the Alamo's mythos during the Jim Crow era. It was canceled four hours before the program time by Republican Lieutenant-Governor Dan Patrick: “As a member of the Preservation Board, I told staff to cancel this event as soon as I found out about it,” he wrote on Twitter. ”This fact-free rewriting of TX history has no place @BullockMuseum.” The book received mostly-positive reviews, including from The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, with a consensus that it builds on widely-accepted academic research. The third author, Jason Stanford, wrote one of the myths about the Alamo "leaves... out that Texians opposed Mexican laws that would free the enslaved workers they needed to farm cotton." That censorship is occurring when Texas conservatives, like those across the country, are against the teaching of critical race theory which the book represents.

Alamo Mission

After the Mexican victory at the Battle of the Alamo, Mexican troops quartered in the Alamo Mission. As the Mexican army retreated from Texas following the Battle of San Jacinto, it tore down many of the walls and burned the palisade that Crockett had defended. Within the next several decades, various buildings in the complex were torn down, and in 1850, the United States Army added a gable to the top of the chapel. Speculation is that the gable was originally at Mission San José because of its presence at that mission in 1846–1848 sketches and its absence in later images.

Today, the remnants of the Alamo are in Downtown San Antonio, Texas. The church building remains standing and serves as an official state shrine to the Texian defenders. As the 20th century began, many Texans advocated razing the remaining building, the Long Barrack. A wealthy rancher's daughter, Clara Driscoll, purchased the building to serve as a museum. The Texas Legislature later bought the property and appointed the Daughters of the Republic of Texas as permanent caretakers. In front of the church, in the center of Downtown San Antonio's Alamo Plaza, is a cenotaph, designed by Pompeo Coppini and erected in 1939, which commemorates the Texians who died during the battle. According to Bill Groneman's Battlefields of Texas, the Alamo has become "the most popular tourist site in Texas."

Literature

Many of the Mexican officers who participated in the battle left memoirs, although some were not written until decades after the battle. Among those who provided written accounts of the battle were Antonio López de Santa Anna, Vicente Filisola, José Enrique de la Peña, José Juan Sánchez Navarro, Juan N. Almonte, and Francisco Becerra. Texians Juan Seguín and John Sutherland also left memoirs, although some historians believe Sutherland was not at the Alamo and wrote his memoirs from hearsay. Of the Texian survivors, more weight was given to the account of Susannah Dickinson, the only American adult to live.  The other survivors, including former slaves and several Tejanos, were not lauded as much as Dickinson.

The first report of the names of the Texian victims of the battle came in the March 24, 1836 issue of the Telegraph and Texas Register. The 115 names on the list came from John Smith and Gerald Navan, who had left as couriers. In 1843 former Texas Ranger and amateur historian John Henry Brown wrote and published the first history of the battle, a pamphlet called The Fall of the Alamo. He followed this in 1853 with a second pamphlet called Facts of the Alamo, Last Days of Crockett and Other Sketches of Texas. No copies of the pamphlets have survived. The next major treatment of the battle was Reuben Potter's The Fall of the Alamo, originally published in 1860 and republished in The Magazine of American History in 1878. Potter based his work on interviews with many of the survivors of the Battle of the Alamo. One of the most used secondary sources about the Alamo is Amelia W. Williams's doctoral dissertation, "Critical Study of the Siege of the Alamo and of the Personnel of Its Defenders". Completed in 1931, it attempted to positively identify all of the Texians who died during the battle. Her list was used to choose the names carved into the cenotaph memorial in 1936. Several historians, including Thomas Ricks Lindley, Thomas Lloyd Miller, and Richard G. Santos, believe her list included men who had not died at the Alamo. Despite the errors in some of her work, Williams collected a large amount of information and her work serves as a starting point for many historians. The first full-length, non-fiction book covering the battle was not published until 1948, when John Myers Myers' The Alamo was released. Since then, a litany of books have followed, most notably Walter Lord's seminal work in 1961, A Time to Stand.

As the 19th century progressed, the battle began to appear as a plot device in many novels and plays. In 1869, novelists Jeremiah Clemens and Bernard Lile wrote fictionalized accounts of the battle. Novelist Amelia Barr produced her own fictional version, Remember the Alamo, in 1888.  In her book, Alamo Images, Susan Pendergrast Schoelwer noted that in these early novels "the Alamo passages seem almost incidental to the main plot, included perhaps as a means of attracting interest and encouraging sales".

Art
The first artistic depiction of the battle came in 1838 in John Milton Niles's History of South America and Mexico.  In Schoelwer's opinion, the scenes "bore absolutely no resemblance to the original". These and other early paintings often depicted buildings that looked nothing like the Alamo and battles that occurred very differently than the 1836 battle at the Alamo.  However, their presence and popularity increased the Alamo's fame, and likely contributed to the early waves of tourism at the battle site.

Film

According to Todish et al., "there can be little doubt that most Americans have probably formed many of their opinions on what occurred at the Alamo not from books, but from the various movies made about the battle." The first film version of the battle appeared in 1911, when Gaston Melies directed The Immortal Alamo, which has since been lost. Through the next four decades, several other movies were released and variously focus on Davy Crocket, Almeron Dickinson, and Louis Rose. The Alamo achieved prominence on television in 1955 with Walt Disney's Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier, which was largely based on myth. In the early 1950s, John Wayne began developing a film based on the Battle of the Alamo.  When he left his contract with Republic Pictures, he was forced to leave behind a partial script. Republic Pictures had the script finished and developed into the 1955 movie The Last Command. Although the film had its historical inaccuracies, it was the most detailed of the films on the Texas Revolution. Wayne continued to develop an Alamo movie, which resulted in the 1960 film The Alamo, starring himself as Davy Crockett. Although the screenwriter James Edward Grant claimed to have done extensive historical research, according to Todish, "there is not a single scene in The Alamo which corresponds to an historically verifiable incident," and the historians J. Frank Dobie and Lon Tinkle demanded for their names to be removed from the credits as historical advisors. The movie was banned in Mexico. The set built for the movie, Alamo Village, includes a replica of the Alamo Mission and the Mexican city of San Antonio is still used as an active movie set.

As the 150th anniversary of the battle approached in the 1980s, several additional movies were made about the Alamo, including the made-for-television The Alamo: 13 Days to Glory, which Albert Nof regards as the most historically-accurate of all Alamo films. The movie Todish calls "the best theatrical film ever made about the Alamo" was also filmed in the 1980s. Filmed in IMAX format using historical re-enactors instead of professional actors, Alamo: The Price of Freedom is shown only in San Antonio, with several viewings per day at a theater near the Alamo. It runs only 45 minutes but has "an attention to detail and intensity that are remarkable". In 2004 another film, also called The Alamo, was released. Described by CNN as possibly "the most character-driven of all the movies made on the subject," the movie starred Billy Bob Thornton as Crockett, Dennis Quaid as Sam Houston, and Jason Patric as Bowie. However, the film was one of the year's biggest box office failures. In Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Pee-wee Herman's stolen bike is said by a fortune teller to be in the basement of the Alamo, but during a tour of the structure, he is told by the tour guide that the Alamo has no basement.

Music
A number of songwriters have also been inspired by the Battle of the Alamo. For example:
"Remember the Alamo" (1955), written by Texas folk the singer and songwriter Jane Bowers, was recorded by the Kingston Trio, Johnny Cash, Tex Ritter, Donovan and others.
Tennessee Ernie Ford's cover of "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" (recorded February 7, 1955) spent 16 weeks on the country music charts to and peaked at number 4 in 1955.
In 1960, Marty Robbins recorded a version of the song "The Ballad of the Alamo," which spent and flying at number 34.
English band the Babe Ruth's song "The Mexican" (1972) is about the Mexican point of view.

Replicas
Replicas of the Alamo have also appeared. One is that a 6,533 sq.ft residential home located in Spicewood just northwest of Austin. Built in 2007 and with an estimated value of $1.35 million. Rustic on the outside, it is far more luxurious on the interior than the real Alamo.

Another replica of the historic mission is located on the grounds of the Cy-Hope foundation in Cypress. Built by Kwik Kopy owner and founder 'bud" Hadfield on the Kwik Kopy Northwest Forest Conference Training Center on Telge Road. The complex itself serves as a wedding reception and banquet hall with a seating apacity of 180. In mid 2020, the Cypress Alamo had suffered a decline in visits because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Footnotes

References

Battles of the Texas Revolution
History of San Antonio
Battle of the Alamo


Robert "Bob" Charles Frojen (December 1, 1930 – December 11, 2005) was an American water polo player who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics.

He was born in Hamburg, Germany.

Frojen was a member of the American water polo team which finished fifth in the 1956 tournament. He played all six matches.

In 1981, he was inducted into the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame.

References

External links

1930 births
2005 deaths
American male water polo players
Olympic water polo players for the United States
Water polo players at the 1956 Summer Olympics


Spodnje Duplje ( or ; ) is a settlement in the Municipality of Naklo in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia.

Name
Spodnje Duplje was attested in historical sources as Burla in 1209, Duplach between 1205 and 1208, niderm Devplach in 1348, and Tewͦpplach in 1348, among other spellings.

Church

The local church is dedicated to Saint Vitus.

References

External links

Spodnje Duplje on Geopedia

Populated places in the Municipality of Naklo


No, or the Vain Glory of Command () is a 1990 Portuguese film directed by Manoel de Oliveira. The film, starring Luís Miguel Cintra and Miguel Guilherme, depicts a series of defeats from the entire military history of Portugal – the assassination of Viriathus, the Battle of Toro, the failed attempt of Iberian Union under Afonso of Portugal and Isabella of Spain and the Battle of Alcácer Quibir – and the Lusiads episode of the Island of love, which are told through flashbacks as a professorish Portuguese lieutenant recounts them while marching through a Portuguese African overseas territory in 1974, during the Portuguese Colonial War (1961–74). He easily draws his comrades into philosophical musings, while the little contingent suffers surprise attacks by groups of independentist guerrillas.

It was screened out of competition at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival.

Cast
 Luís Miguel Cintra – 2º Lt. Cabrita, Viriato, Dom João of Portugal
 Diogo Dória – Soldier Manuel, Lusitanian warrior, Dom João's cousin
 Miguel Guilherme – Soldier Salvador, Lusitanian warrior, Alcácer warrior
 Luís Lucas – Cpl. Brito, Lusitanian warrior, Alcácer nobleman
 Carlos Gomes – Soldier Pedro, Alcácer warrior
 António S. Lopes – Soldier, Lusitanian warrior, Alcácer warrior
 Mateus Lorena – Dom Sebastião
 Lola Forner – Princess Dona Isabel
 Raúl Fraire – Dom Afonso
 Ruy de Carvalho – Preacher at funeral, Suicidal warrior (as Rui de Carvalho)
 Teresa Menezes – Venus (as Teresa Meneses)
 Leonor Silveira – Tethys
 Paulo Matos – Radio operator, Vasco da Gama, Camões
 Francisco Baião – Prince Dom João
 Luís Mascarenhas – Dom Afonso V
 Duarte de Almeida – Baron of Alvito

References

External links

1990 films
1990s historical adventure films
Portuguese historical adventure films
1990s Portuguese-language films
1990 drama films
Films directed by Manoel de Oliveira
Adventure films based on actual events
Films produced by Paulo Branco


James Alan Gaughran (born July 5, 1932) is an American water polo player who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics.

He was born in San Francisco and swam and played college water polo for Stanford University. He was a member of the American water polo team which finished fifth in the 1956 tournament. He played two matches.

Gaughran was the head coach of Stanford's water polo team from 1969 to 1973, and was Stanford's swimming coach from 1960 to 1979. He coached Stanford's first NCAA Men's Swimming and Diving Championship team in 1967.

He is a member of the International Swimming Hall of Fame, the Stanford Athletic Hall of Fame and the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame.

See also
 List of members of the International Swimming Hall of Fame

References

External links

1932 births
Living people
Sportspeople from San Francisco
American male water polo players
Stanford Cardinal men's water polo players
Stanford Cardinal men's swimmers
Olympic water polo players for the United States
Water polo players at the 1956 Summer Olympics
American water polo coaches


Trunki is a brand of ride-on/carry-on hand luggage for children, designed by Rob Law. The product became well-known after featuring on the UK television series Dragons' Den in 2006.

Trunki has won more than a hundred product and design awards, including several from Design Week, Progressive Preschool, Mother and Baby Magazine, D & AD, children's retailer Right Start, Practical Parenting magazine and the Nick Jr. television channel.

History
Magmatic, the company that manufactures the Trunki range, was formed on 5 May 2006.

Inventor Rob Law MBE came to public attention in 2006 following an appearance on BBC2's Dragons' Den programme in which panellist, Theo Paphitis, tugged and broke the strap of a sample Trunki.  Dragon Richard Farleigh then expressed interest in £100,000 for 50% of the company, a suggestion which Law rejected.

In 2016 Trunki celebrated its 10th anniversary - Magmatic has sold more than 3,000,000 Trunki suitcases, in over 100 countries worldwide, through retailers including John Lewis, Argos, Harrods, Tesco and Next since May 2006.More than 500 articles have appeared about the Trunki in the British media and several television programmes have since featured Rob Law, including Working Lunch, Beat the Boss, This Morning and GMTV. In June 2011 the Trunki BoostApak was featured on BBC 1's The Apprentice. It was taken to France for contestants to see and broke the record for boardroom orders with an order of €214,000. Following this, sales of the Trunki BoostApak quadrupled.

On 30 August 2008, Duncan Bannatyne, a panelist on Dragon's Den, appeared on ITV's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and when asked by presenter Chris Tarrant "Is there a sort of classic of one you've missed?" replied, "There is one, a little suitcase on wheels... every time I go to an airport I see one or two of these of these... it's the only one we missed out on I think."

Made In The UK
On 5 May 2012, the company's sixth anniversary, Magmatic expanded their production into the UK. The first Trunki to roll off the UK production line was the Team GB Trunki, and the company claimed that by the end of 2012 all Trunki suitcases sold in the UK will have been made there too. All UK made cases will be stamped "Made in England".

The design of the Trunki is registered as a Community Design. On 3 November 2015, the United Kingdom Supreme Court started to hear a case over the extent of legal protection of the Trunki design. PMS International, a Hong Kong firm, produce a similar range of products branded Kiddee Cases. Magmatic won the case in the High Court – the lowest civil court in England and Wales –  in 2013, but it was overturned on appeal in 2014. The issue to be decided is "What significance attaches to the fact that a graphical representation of a Community registered design shows no surface decoration?"

Product Range
Since launching their ride-on suitcase in 2006, Magmatic have expanded their product offering to include the following ranges:

Editions

Sources

References

External links
 Official website

Goods manufactured in England
Luggage brands


was a Japanese statesman in the Meiji and Taishō periods.

Biography
Shōda was born in Matsuyama Domain, Iyo Province on October 19 1869, as the 5th son of a poor samurai. The poet Masaoka Shiki and admiral Akiyama Saneyuki were his friends from childhood. He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University in 1895, and obtained a position at the Ministry of Finance. In 1915, he rose to the position of director of the Bank of Chosen.  He was appointed Finance Minister under the Terauchi and Kiyoura administrations,  and Education Minister under the Tanaka administration. In 1938, he was considered for the post of Home Minister under the 2nd Konoe administration, a somewhat surprising choice, given his age and lack of experience in the Home Ministry, and the nomination was rejected by Emperor Hirohito.

He died on October 10, 1948.

References
Beasley. W.G. Japanese Imperialism 1894-1945. Oxford University Press (1991)
Metzler, Mark. Lever of Empire: The International Gold Standard and the Crisis of Liberalism in Prewar Japan. University of California Press (2006).

Notes

1869 births
1948 deaths
People from Matsuyama, Ehime
University of Tokyo alumni
Ministers of Finance of Japan
Government ministers of Japan
Education ministers of Japan


Amrita Kumbher Sandhane ( , Quest for the Pitcher of Nectar) is a 1982 Bengali film directed by Dilip Roy. It is based on a story by "Kalkut", pseudonym of Samaresh Basu (1924–1988). Music is by Sudhin Dasgupta and stars Shubhendu Chatterjee, Aparna Sen, Bhanu Bandhopadhyay, Samit Bhanja, Ruma Guha Thakurta amongst others.

The film documents one of the largest Indian religious fairs, the Kumbh Mela, which is held at the confluence of the rivers Ganges, Yamuna and Saraswati. The action is seen through the eyes of Shubhendu Chatterjee who has come to the Mela not out of any religious sentiment but to see and understand people and seek the reason why “….multitudes upon multitudes of the old and weak and the young and frail enter without hesitation or complaint upon such incredible journeys and endure the resultant miseries without repining.” (Mark Twain after visiting the 1895 Mela)

Cast
 Subhendu Chatterjee
Aparna Sen
Bhanu Bandopadhyay
Samit Bhanja
Ruma Guha Thakurta
Mahua Roychoudhury
Anup Kumar
Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay

Soundtrack
"Raam Jopo Raam Jopo" - Sujata Sarkar
"Allah Twala Tu Hi" - Shakti Thakur
"Purob Jaiba Piyaba" - Ruma Guha Thakurta
"Ke Tumi Pagolpara He" - Amar Paul
"Amar Bodhu Geche" - Arunadhati Holme Chowdhury
"Sadher Khancha Pore Robe" - Amar Paul

References

1982 films
Bengali-language Indian films
Kumbh Mela
1980s Bengali-language films
Films based on works by Samaresh Basu


Kenneth Al Hahn (June 5, 1928 – August 2, 2006) was an American water polo player who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics.

He was born in Chicago, Illinois.

Hahn was a member of the American water polo team which finished fifth in the 1956 tournament. He played one match as goalkeeper.

In 1982, he was inducted into the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame.

See also
 List of men's Olympic water polo tournament goalkeepers

References

External links

1928 births
2006 deaths
American male water polo players
Water polo goalkeepers
Olympic water polo players for the United States
Water polo players at the 1956 Summer Olympics
20th-century American people


is a railway station located in Chūō-ku, Fukuoka in Japan. Its station symbol is a Japanese cherry blossom in pink, because many cherry blossom trees are planted near this station.

Lines

Platforms

Vicinity
Fukuoka Family Court
Ōhori Post Office
Konkokyo Branch
Tenrikyo Branch
Ōhori Park
Ōhori Park Noh Theater
Fukuoka Art Museum
Fukuoka Elementary School Attached to Fukuoka University of Education
Fukuoka Junior High School Attached to Fukuoka University of Education
Ōhori Junior High School and High School Attached to  Fukuoka University
Nishi Park (ja)
Fukuoka Castle Ruins (Maizuru Park (ja))
Heiwadai Stadium
Fukuoka Financial Group, Inc.
Fukuoka District Meteorological Observatory
NHK Fukuoka broadcasting station
Japan Post Insurance's Fukuoka Service center

References

Railway stations in Japan opened in 1981
Kūkō Line (Fukuoka City Subway)
Railway stations in Fukuoka Prefecture


Strahinj (; in older sources also Strohinj, ) is a village in the Municipality of Naklo in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia.

Church

The local church is dedicated to Saint Nicholas.

References

External links

Strahinj on Geopedia

Populated places in the Municipality of Naklo


The Cactus Pheasant Classic was an annual curling tournament, held in late October in Brooks, Alberta. It was part of the World Curling Tour. The purse for the event was $70,000 Cdn. It has not been held since 2013.

Past champions
Only skip's name is displayed.

External links

2007 establishments in Alberta
Recurring sporting events established in 2007
October events
Former World Curling Tour events
Curling in Alberta
Brooks, Alberta
2013 disestablishments in Alberta
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2013


Peter Lawrence may refer to:

Peter Lawrence (pirate) (fl. 1693–1705), Dutch privateer and pirate (real name Pieter Laurens)
Peter Lawrence (anthropologist) (1921–1987), British-born Australian anthropologist
Peter Anthony Lawrence (born 1941), English developmental biologist
Peter Lawrence (politician), New York State Assembly member elected 2014
Peter Lawrence (teacher) (1913–2005), British teacher and author
Peter Lee Lawrence (1945–1974), German actor
Peter Max Lawrence (born 1977), American contemporary artist
Peter B. Lawrence, British amateur astronomer
Pete Lawrence (born 1957), musician
Peter Gordon Lawrence, founder of PGL, a provider of school activity courses and summer camps
Peter Godfrey Lawrence (1920–1953), aviator


Robert "Bob" Martin Horn (November 3, 1931 – January 11, 2019) was an American water polo player who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics and the 1960 Summer Olympics. He was born in Minneapolis.

Horn went to Fullerton College and then California State University, Long Beach playing water polo at the later location. Horn was a member of the American water polo team which finished fifth in the 1956 tournament. He played five matches as goalkeeper. Four year later he finished seventh with the American team in the 1960 tournament. He played four matches as goalkeeper. For 28 years, Horn was the water polo coach at UCLA.

In 1977, he was inducted into the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame.

See also
 List of men's Olympic water polo tournament goalkeepers

References

External links

1931 births
2019 deaths
American male water polo players
Water polo goalkeepers
Olympic water polo players for the United States
Water polo players at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Water polo players at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Long Beach State Beach men's water polo players
UCLA Bruins men's water polo coaches
American water polo coaches


Zadraga () is a village in the Municipality of Naklo in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia.

References

External links

Zadraga on Geopedia

Populated places in the Municipality of Naklo


A globe sight is a front sight component used to assist the aiming of a gun/device, usually those intended to launch projectiles, such as firearms, airguns, and crossbows. It is found in particular as a front sight element on rifles.

To obtain a usable sighting line, the diopter has to have a complementing rear sight element.

Diopter and globe sighting lines are commonly used in ISSF match rifle shooting events.

Globe front sight

The globe front sight consists of a hollow cylinder with a threaded cap, which allows differently shaped  interchangeable front sight elements to be used. Most common are posts of varying widths and heights or rings or holes of varying diameter — these can be chosen by the shooter for the best fit to the target being used. Tinted transparent plastic insert elements may also be used, with a hole in the middle; these work the same way as an opaque ring, but provide a less obstructed view of the target. High-end target front sight tunnels normally also accept accessories like adjustable aperture and optical systems to ensure optimal sighting conditions for match shooters. Some high-end target sight line manufacturers also offer front sights with integrated aperture mechanisms.

Complementing rear sight element
The complementing rear sight element may be an open type iron sight or an aperture sight as used in ghost rings and target aperture sights such as a target shooting diopter sight.

Diopter and globe sighting line principle

The use of round rear and front sighting elements for aiming at round targets, like used in ISSF match shooting, takes advantage of the natural ability of the eye and brain to easily align concentric circles (circles all having a common centre).

For optimal aiming and comfort, the shooter should focus the aiming eye on the front sighting element. To avoid eye fatigue and improve balance, the non-aiming eye should be kept open. The non-aiming eye can be blocked from seeing distractions by mounting a semi-transparent occluder to the diopter.

Even for the maximum precision, there should still be a significant area of white visible around the bullseye and between the front and rear sight ring (if a front ring is being used). Since the best key to determining center is the amount of light passing through the apertures, a narrow, dim ring of light can actually be more difficult to work with than a larger, brighter ring.

The precise sizes of the employed components are quite subjective, and depend on both shooter preference and ambient lighting, which is why target rifles come with easily replaceable front sight inserts, and adjustable aperture mechanisms.

Gallery

References

Firearm components
Firearm sights


Ignacio Warnes is one of the fifteen provinces of the Bolivian Santa Cruz Department and is situated in the department's central parts. The province name honors Colonel Ignacio Warnes (1772–1816), a military leader in the South American war of independence.

Location
Ignacio Warnes Province is located between 17° 00' and 17° 42' South and between 62° 42' and 63° 14' West. It extends over 85 km from North to South, and 70 km from West to East. Río Piray is forming the province border in the West and Río Grande in the East.

The province is situated in the Bolivian lowlands and borders Obispo Santistevan Province in the Northwest, Sara Province in the West, Andrés Ibáñez Province in the South, and Ñuflo de Chávez Province in the East.

Population
The population of Ignacio Warnes Province has increased by circa 75% over the recent two decades:
1992: 38,285 inhabitants (census)
2001: 54,593 inhabitants (census)
2005: 60,705 inhabitants (est.)
2010: 67,721 inhabitants (est.)

46.2% of the population are younger than 15 years old. (1992)

The literacy rate of the province is 72.6%.

95.2% of the population speak Spanish, 14.2% speak Quechua, 4.1% Guaraní, and 1.3 speak Aymara. (1992)

41.9% of the population have no access to electricity, 47.9% have no sanitary facilities. (1992)

88.4% of the population are Catholics, 8.8% are Protestants. (1992)

Subdivision
The province is divided into two municipalities which are further subdivided into cantons. The municipalities with their seats are:

References

External links
General map of province
Detailed map of province towns and rivers
Population data (Spanish)
Social data (Spanish)

Provinces of Santa Cruz Department (Bolivia)


Thomas Glazier of Oxford (fl. 1386–1427) was a master glazier active in England during the late 14th and early 15th century; he is one of the earliest identifiable stained glass artists, and is considered a leading proponent of the International Gothic style.

Biography, works

Glazier's workshops were based in Oxford, and he was clearly an important figure in the town; he is recorded in New College's Steward's Book as being regularly invited to dine with the Warden and Fellows. Although we have some record of his professional activities (and appearance; see below) almost nothing is known of his personal life, other than that he was married.

Glazier is particularly notable for his early adoption of elements of the emerging International Gothic style in his work: he may have been influenced by his contacts with European artists through William of Wykeham and his circle. His work is characterised by sophisticated draughtsmanship and placement of figures, and also by its remarkable stylistic development, indicating that such artists were open to absorbing new ideas during the course of their careers. Along with the work of John Thornton of Coventry, Glazier's style was highly influential. It is possible that Robert Lyen, who made windows for Exeter Cathedral, was his apprentice.

Glazier's work survives in the chapels of New College, Oxford and of Winchester College. The latter scheme contains an 1822 copy of a self-portrait included in the original east window: this depicts him kneeling in prayer, wearing a long gown and with a short, forked beard of the sort fashionable in the late 14th century. There is a panel probably executed by him in the church of Thenford, Northamptonshire, as well as windows in Winchester Cathedral and the chapel of Merton College, Oxford.

References

14th-century English people
Artists from Oxford
British stained glass artists and manufacturers
People associated with New College, Oxford


Samuel Gene Kooistra (August 18, 1935 – September 18, 2010) was an American water polo player who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics.

He was born in Chicago and is the younger brother of William Kooistra.

Kooistra was a member of the American water polo team which finished fifth in the 1956 Olympic tournament. He played four matches. Kooistra was a member of the American water polo team that finished first in the 1959 Pan American Games tournament.

In 1977, he was inducted into the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame.

References

External links

 Sam Kooistra's obituary

1935 births
2010 deaths
American male water polo players
Olympic water polo players for the United States
Place of death missing
Water polo players from Chicago
Water polo players at the 1956 Summer Olympics


Santa (1932) is the first Mexican narrative sound film. It was directed by Antonio Moreno and starred Lupita Tovar, based on the novel of the same name by Federico Gamboa. It had its world premiere in San Antonio. In 1994, the Mexican magazine Somos published their list of "The 100 best movies of the cinema of Mexico" in its 100th edition and named Santa its 67th choice.

Plot

A Mexican girl named Santa (Tovar) is seduced and abandoned by a soldier, Marcelino. Rejected by her family and friends, she finds shelter in a brothel in Mexico City. After meeting Santa, the blind piano player Hipólito (Orellana) falls in love with her but is ridiculed by those around him. After she is rejected by her romantic partner Jarameno (due to the meddling of a suddenly returned Marcelino), Hipólito invites Santa to live with him and they attend church together. Later Santa becomes ill and Hipólito goes to the hospital to be with her but she passes away.

Cast
 Lupita Tovar as Santa
 Carlos Orellana as Hipólito
 Juan José Martínez Casado as Jarameño
 Donald Reed as Marcelino
 Antonio R. Frausto as Fabián
 Mimí Derba as Doña Elvira
 Rosita Arriaga as Santa's Mother
 Joaquín Busquets as Esteban
 Feliciano Rueda as Drunk at brothel
 Jorge Peón as Genarillo
 Alberto Martí as Jarameño's friend
 Ricardo Carti as Doctor
 Sofía Álvarez as Prostitute 1
 Rosa Castro as Prostitute 2
 Nena Betancourt as Singer

References

External links

1932 films
Mexican black-and-white films
1930s Spanish-language films
1932 drama films
Films based on Mexican novels
Mexican drama films
1930s Mexican films


Elite Model Look Chile is an annual fashion modeling event held by Elite Model Chile Management since 1997. The winner of the title takes it for one year, taking part later in Elite Model Look international contest. The first runner-up goes to Elite Model Look Latino. The selection of the delegates is realized in "scoutings" in different cities of Chile.

Titleholders

EML Chile for Elite Model Look International

EML Chile for Elite Model Look Latino

Notable past contestants
 Ana Luisa König
 Constanza Silva
 Bernardita Zúñiga
 Gabriela Fuentes
 Sofía Stitchkin
 Inna Moll
 Ignacia Walton
 Carolina de Moras
 Javiera Díaz de Valdés
 Lucy Cominetti
 Angela Prieto
 Josefina Montane
 Fernanda Figueroa
 Isidora de Solminihac
 Carolina Lopez Fortuño
 Tutu Vidaurre

References

External links
Elite Chile
Elite Model Look 27th World Final / Shanghai, China

Modeling competitions
Fashion events in Chile
Recurring events established in 1997
1997 establishments in Chile
Chilean awards


The Confederate Memorial in Mayfield is a commemorative monument and fountain located on the courthouse lawn in downtown Mayfield, Kentucky.

Mayfield

Mayfield during the Civil War was very supportive of the Confederate States of America. Representatives from seven western Kentucky counties and twenty western Tennessee counties met at Mayfield in May 1861 to discuss forming a new state that would join the Confederacy. The secession of Tennessee on June 8, 1861, caused the proposal to be abandoned, In 1864 Union forces occupied the town and forced the townspeople to help fortify the courthouse, which was destroyed later that year. The courthouse behind the memorial fountain was built in 1889.

Description

Mayfield's United Daughters of the Confederacy obtained the fountain in 1917 from the McNeal Marble Company in Marietta, Georgia at the cost of $1,650. (). The fountain, which no longer emits water, is a  obelisk with wings that double as benches. On the end of the wings are  light posts that are eight feet away from the center obelisk; the northern post is inscribed 1861, and the southern post 1865. The center obelisk has three different Confederate flags in copper relief on its top.

National Register of Historic Places
On July 17, 1997, it was one of sixty-one different monuments to the Civil War in Kentucky placed on the National Register of Historic Places, as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky Multiple Property Submission.  One other monument on the list, the Confederate Memorial Gates in Mayfield, is nearby in Maplewood Cemetery, north of downtown Mayfield. Other monuments on the list that are also fountains are the Confederate Monument of Cadiz and the Confederate Memorial Fountain in Hopkinsville.

References

1920 sculptures
Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS
Fountains in Kentucky
National Register of Historic Places in Graves County, Kentucky
Obelisks in the United States
United Daughters of the Confederacy monuments and memorials in Kentucky
1920 establishments in Kentucky


Wales Institute for Research in Art and Design (WIRAD) is a collaborative venture founded by the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff (UWIC) and University of Wales, Newport (UWN).

WIRAD seeks to support research excellence in Art & Design within Wales by sharing expertise across institutions. The Institute will create a significant body of research related to the fields of art, design and media which would be competitive with the research quality and intensity achieved by institutions in Scotland, England & Ireland.

Cardiff School of Art and Design and Newport School of Art, Media and Design have been (in various guises) major contributors to the cultural and creative life of Wales for very many years. Both have been home to a number of significant artists and designers and, more recently, nationally and internationally recognised centres of research.

WIRAD operates an "open door" policy because the institute's success is in many ways predicated on the creation of a critical mass of expertise, experience and capacity that does not currently exist. All Welsh Universities and Colleges are invited to apply for membership.

Lecture programmes and research days are held as open events to facilitate dissemination and the development of a wider research community in art and design in Wales.

Associate membership of the Institute will be developed for academics, HEIs and other research bodies with established interests in this level of research.

External links
 Wirad.ac.uk
 Newport.ac.uk
 Uwic.ac.uk

University of Wales, Newport
Cardiff Metropolitan University


Papillifera papillaris, also known as Papillifera bidens, is a species of small, air-breathing land snail with a clausilium, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails. This is a Mediterranean species.

In Britain this species is now sometimes called the "Cliveden snail", as in 2004 a very small colony was found to have been living on the estate at Cliveden House, a large stately home in Buckinghamshire, England. Individuals of the species had been living on an Italian balustrade which was imported to Britain in the late 19th century, and have survived at the estate for over a century before they were discovered there. Other introduced populations of P. papillaris can be found across South East England.

There is a complicated nomenclatural problem with the name of this species. Some argued that the name should be Papillifera bidens. See further discussion under "Nomenclature".

Nomenclature
The ICZN opinion, number 2176, preserved the name Turbo bidens Linnaeus, 1758, and indicated implicitly that the name Helix papillaris Müller, 1774 was a junior synonym of the same species. However, at this time the meaning of the name Turbo bidens was not fixed with a valid type specimen designation. In 2009 Kadolsky  reviewed the nomenclatural history of the name Turbo bidens and concluded that a neotype designation proposed by Falkner et al. (2002) was invalid because it was not based on an existing specimen but on a figure of Papillifera papillaris published by Gualtierus (1742), which did not agree with Linnaeus' description of Turbo bidens, and which Linnaeus did not quote.

Kadolsky (2009) argued that Linnaeus' brief description was consistent with a figure in Gualtierius' (1742) work that Linnaeus (1758) quoted, and so Kadolsky fixed the meaning of the nominal species Turbo bidens Linnaeus, 1758 with the designation of a neotype. This neotype is a specimen from Florence (where Gualtierius lived and where he might conceivably have collected) of the clausiliid species hitherto known as Cochlodina incisa (Küster, 1876). However, the malacologist Hartmut Nordsieck and others did not accept Kadolsky's interpretation.

One reason for this opinion was Linnaeus' description of the shell suture of Turbo bidens as "subcrenata". This does not apply to Cochlodina incisa, except for minute crenellations which hardly deserve the name, but Gualtierius' figure does actually show these crenellations. Kadolsky argued that Linnaeus accepted the figure as correct and described his species accordingly. Nordsieck and others instead argued that Linnaeus accidentally referred to the wrong figure, but that his verbal description was an accurate description of the Papillifera species.

Kadolsky's neotype designation for Turbo bidens claims to fix the meaning of this name conclusively. In this case the valid name for the Papillifera species would be Papillifera papillaris (Müller, 1774). Others did not accept that the designation of a neotype was valid, in which case the correct name is Papillifera bidens (Linnaeus, 1758).

The issue was raised with the ICZN and their ruling (Opinion 2355) was not to set aside Kadolsky's neotype; hence the name to use is Papillifera papillaris (Müller, 1774).

Subspecies
 Papillifera papillaris affinis (Philippi, 1836)
 Papillifera papillaris circinata (Paulucci, 1878)
 Papillifera papillaris papillaris (O. F. Müller, 1774)
 Papillifera papillaris peculiaris (Monterosato, 1892)
 Papillifera papillaris rudicosta (O. Boettger, 1878)
 Papillifera papillaris tinei (Westerlund, 1878)
 Papillifera papillaris transitans (Paulucci, 1878)

Shell description

The shells of Papillifera papillaris are coiled sinistrally and, like other clausilids, extremely high-spired, with 10–11 whorls.

The width of the shell is 3.2–3.8 mm, and the height of the shell is 12–15 mm.

The genus name Papillifera means "bearing papules", in other words having pimples, a reference to the small white shell structures along the suture line. The papules are very noticeable.

Habitat
In most of its range, this species lives in rocky limestone habitats, and can often be found near the seashore.

Distribution

The native range of this species is Mediterranean; it is originally native only to Italy, Sardinia, Corsica, and Sicily.

This species has been introduced and has become established throughout the Mediterranean region, including
Malta, Spain (Catalonia and Balearic Islands), Gibraltar, the south coast of France, Great Britain, Croatia (Susak), Montenegro, Albania, Greece, Turkey (since 330 AD or before), Libya, Tunisia, Algeria  and Morocco.  At least some of these introductions appear to have been accidental, on imported stonework, and may in some cases date back to the Roman occupation of these areas. But the process is continuing: in 2009–2010, Papillifera papillaris imported on Italian limestone blocks were found to have survived overwinter in a stonemason's yard near Stuttgart, Germany.

In Great Britain

This snail was also accidentally introduced to southern England, more than once, and became established there.

In 2004, the species was found in Buckinghamshire, southeastern England, in the crevices of a travertine marble and brick balustrade. This balustrade was originally constructed in Italy in about 1816, and had stood in the grounds of the Villa Borghese, in Rome. In the late 19th century the balustrade was taken from there, and was installed in the formal gardens of the country house Cliveden in 1896. These small snails shelter in the many nooks and crannies of the travertine marble stonework; presumably they feed on lichens that grow on the surfaces of the stone.

The snails at Cliveden were noticed by a specialist volunteer who was cleaning the stonework and statuary; the identity of the snail was recognized by Janet Ridout-Sharpe. The snails have spread from the balustrade to a red brick terrace and a stone fountain, but apparently no further than that. Although this is certainly an introduced species, it is not an invasive species.

Subsequent to the publicity surrounding this find, it was pointed out that the same species had already been recorded in 1993 from Brownsea Island, Dorset in southwest England. At Brownsea Island, as at Cliveden, the snails live on stonework and statuary imported from Italy a century or more earlier. There are even indications of a Dorset occurrence of this snail, perhaps from the Brownsea Island locality, 250 years earlier.

References

External links
 Paul Eccleston. 21 August 2008. Italian immigrant snail was hiding in marble balustrade for 100 years. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/
 Snails pace discovery reveals amazing find. The National Trust website. (archived December 2011)
 Richard Black. 21 August 2008. Snail hides from march of history. BBC News website.

Clausiliidae
Gastropods described in 1774
Taxa named by Otto Friedrich Müller


William "Bill" Donald Ross (born July 6, 1928) is an American water polo player who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics. He was born in Toronto, Canada. Ross was a member of the American water polo team which finished fifth in the 1956 tournament. He played all six matches. In 1983, he was inducted into the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame.

References

External links

1928 births
Living people
American male water polo players
Olympic water polo players for the United States
Water polo players at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Toronto
Canadian male water polo players


"You're Better Off Dead!" is the first single from the album Hate Crew Deathroll by Children of Bodom. Released in 2002, the single track is the same recording but with a different mix from the album version. The lyrics for the "Somebody Put Something in My Drink" Ramones cover were slightly altered. This cover appeared as the North America bonus track for Are You Dead Yet?, and also appeared as a Japanese bonus track for Hate Crew Deathroll. The single spent two weeks as the best-seller in Finland and was awarded a gold disc.

References

2002 singles
2002 songs
Children of Bodom songs
Spinefarm Records singles
Songs written by Alexi Laiho


Zgornje Duplje ( or ; ) is a village in the Municipality of Naklo in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia.

Church

The local church is dedicated to Archangel Michael.

References

External links

Zgornje Duplje on Geopedia

Populated places in the Municipality of Naklo


The North Sea Region (NSR) of Europe refers to European countries and regions that have access to the North Sea. Cultural and economic co-operation has a strong tradition in the area, dating back to the Vikings and the Hanseatic League.

Although not a formally established entity, in political terms the North Sea Region is consolidated through international organisations like the North Sea Commission and transnational co-operation programmes like the North Sea Region Programme of the European Union.

Geographic area

North Sea Commission
The partnership of the CPMR North Sea Commission consists of most Norwegian county councils (Trondelag, More og Romsdal, Vestland, Rogaland, Agder, Vestfold og Telemark and Viken), the regions Halland, Västra Götaland and Örebro in Sweden, the three Danish regions of Nordjylland, Midtjylland and Syddanmark, the German Länder Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony and Bremen, all coastal provinces of the Netherlands (Groningen, Friesland, Drenthe, Flevoland, North Holland, South Holland and Zeeland) and the Province of West Flanders in Belgium as well as counties and authorities from eastern England (Southend-on-Sea) and Scotland (Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire, Fife and Highland).

North Sea Region Programme – Cooperation Area
The North Sea Region, as defined in the Operational Programme of the Interreg North Sea Programme 2021-2027, covers an area of approximately . The programme covers all of Denmark and the Netherlands, the southern part of Norway, the Flemish Region of Belgium, northwestern regions of Germany, southwestern parts of Sweden and northwestern regions of France.

Geographically, the region is connected by the large sea basin of the North Sea.

Population
Based on the co-operation area of the North Sea Region Programme, about 61  million inhabitants (2023) live in the North Sea Region. The population density of the region varies widely, ranging from sparsely populated areas like Finnmark () in Norway to densely inhabited urban centres like the German city of Hamburg ().

Economy
The North Sea Region belongs to the most prosperous parts of the European Union. The average level of GDP across the region was  €28,516 per capita in 2002 ($ in 2002 conversion rate). The unemployment rate is below the EU average in most areas. However, there are notable differences concerning economic performance and employment between the areas in the North Sea Region.

Currently, the economic structure of the regions bordering the North Sea is undergoing considerable changes, such as shrinking labour markets in the agriculture and fisheries sector and a decline in old industrialised areas.

See also
 North Sea
 North Sea Commission (NSC)
 North Sea Region Programme (NSRP)

References

External links

 North Sea Region Programme VIB 2021–2027
 North Sea Region Programme VB 2014–2020
 North Sea Region Programme IVB 2007-2013
 North Sea Region Programme IIIB 2000-2006

Region
Euroregions
Transnationalism


José Manuel Ramos Delgado (25 August 1935 – 3 December 2010) was an Argentine footballer and manager. He played for the Argentina national football team in two World Cups and had a successful tenure in Brazilian football with Santos. He went on to become a football manager, working in Argentina and Peru.

Early life
Ramos Delgado was born in the city of Quilmes, Argentina. He belonged to the Cape Verdean community in Argentina, as his father was a native of the islands, born in São Vicente.

Playing career

Club
Ramos Delgado started his playing career in 1956 with Lanús. He soon earned a move to River Plate where he played 172 games in seven seasons with the club.

In 1966, Ramos Delgado joined Banfield. After a short spell with the club, he moved to Brazil to play for Santos, where he played alongside Pelé, Coutinho and José Macia in the club's golden years. He continued playing for Santos until the age of 38, making a total of 324 appearances and scoring one goal.

In the last year of his playing career, Delgado played for Portuguesa Santista. He retired at the age of 39.

National team
Between 1958 and 1965, Ramos Delgado played 25 times for the Argentina national football team. He was included in the squads for the 1958 and 1962 FIFA World Cups, and played in the qualifiers for the 1966 World Cup.

Coaching career
After retiring as a player, Ramos Delgado had a spell as manager of Santos, before returning to Argentina where he worked as the manager of several football clubs including Belgrano, Deportivo Maipú, Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata, Estudiantes de La Plata, River Plate, Talleres de Córdoba, Platense, All Boys and his home town club Quilmes. He also worked as the manager of Peruvian club Universitario.

He returned to Santos to work as a youth team coach helping to develop young players such as Robinho and Diego.

Death

Ramos Delgado died in a hospital in Villa Elisa on 3 December 2010, of Alzheimer's disease.

Honours

As a player
River Plate
Primera División runner-up(4): 1960, 1962, 1963, 1965

Santos
Campeonato Paulista (4): 1967, 1968, 1969, 1973
Campeonato Brasileiro (1): 1968
Recopa Intercontinental (1): 1968

Argentina
Taça das Nações: 1964

References

External links

1935 births
2010 deaths
Footballers from Quilmes
Afro-Argentine sportspeople
Argentine people of Cape Verdean descent
Sportspeople of Cape Verdean descent
Argentine men's footballers
Argentine expatriate men's footballers
Argentina men's international footballers
1958 FIFA World Cup players
1962 FIFA World Cup players
Men's association football defenders
Argentine Primera División players
Club Atlético Lanús footballers
Club Atlético River Plate footballers
Club Atlético Banfield footballers
São Paulo state football team players
Santos FC players
Santos FC managers
Associação Atlética Portuguesa (Santos) players
Expatriate men's footballers in Brazil
Argentine football managers
Club Atlético Belgrano managers
Club de Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata managers
Estudiantes de La Plata managers
Club Atlético River Plate managers
Club Universitario de Deportes managers
Talleres de Córdoba managers
Club Atlético Platense managers
All Boys managers
Quilmes Atlético Club managers
Deaths from dementia in Argentina
Deaths from Alzheimer's disease


Ronald "Ron" Duane Severa (born August 13, 1936) is an American water polo player who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics and in the 1960 Summer Olympics.

He was born in Munden, Kansas.

Severa was a member of the American water polo team which finished fifth in the 1956 tournament. He played three matches.

Severa attended Compton College and the University of Southern California.  He was on the water polo team at the later institution.

Four years later he finished seventh with the American team in the 1960 tournament. He played all seven matches and scored four goals.

Severa was also a member of two USA Pan American teams. He won a gold medal in the 1959 games in Chicago, IL, and a silver medal in the 1963 games in São Paulo, Brazil.

In 1977, Severa was inducted into the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame. He was inducted into the USC Hall of Fame in 2007.

References

External links

1936 births
Living people
American male water polo players
El Camino College Compton Center alumni
USC Trojans men's water polo players
Olympic water polo players for the United States
Water polo players at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Water polo players at the 1960 Summer Olympics
People from Republic County, Kansas
American water polo coaches


Leslie Mynard (19 December 1925 – 25 July 2008) was an English footballer who appeared in the Football League for Wolverhampton Wanderers, Derby County and Scunthorpe United.

Mynard joined Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1945, from non-league side Bewdley. He made his debut on 7 February 1948 in a 2–1 win over Huddersfield, the first of three consecutive starts for the winger. However, these proved his only taste of first team action at Molineux and he moved to Derby County in May 1949.

He found playing time equally scare at his new club though and made just 14 appearances in three years. He moved to Third Division Scunthorpe and Lindsey United for the 1952-53 season before dropping into the non-league. He finished his playing career with spells at Worcester City, Halesowen Town, Bromsgrove Rovers and Kidderminster Harriers, respectively.

He died on 25 July 2008, aged 82.

References

1925 births
2008 deaths
People from Bewdley
English men's footballers
English Football League players
Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. players
Derby County F.C. players
Scunthorpe United F.C. players
Worcester City F.C. players
Halesowen Town F.C. players
Bromsgrove Rovers F.C. players
Kidderminster Harriers F.C. players
Men's association football wingers
Footballers from Worcestershire


Rıdvan Bolatlı  (2 December 1928 – 31 March 2022) was a Turkish professional footballer who played in Turkey for Ankaragücü. He was born in Ankara.

International career
Bolatlı made six appearances for the full Turkey national team, including appearing in three matches at the 1954 FIFA World Cup finals and the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.

References

External links

1928 births
2022 deaths
Turkish men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
Turkey men's international footballers
Olympic footballers for Turkey
Footballers at the 1952 Summer Olympics
1954 FIFA World Cup players
MKE Ankaragücü footballers
Footballers from Ankara


Cry Tough is a 1993 collection of Alton Ellis recordings from the rocksteady era of 1966-1968. It was released in 1993 by Heartbeat Records, and features the pick of Ellis' work for Arthur "Duke" Reid, plus some tracks produced by Sonia Pottinger. The album contains most of Ellis' original Mr. Soul of Jamaica album, and contains the same tracks as the 1973 Greatest Hits compilation on Count Shelly Records, plus eight additional tracks. Several of the tracks are alternate takes of some of his biggest hits from the era. The backing band is the Treasure Isle studio band of the time, Tommy McCook and the Supersonics. The album was included in the Rough Guides book Reggae: 100 Essential CDs.

Track listing
 "Breaking Up"
 "Why Birds Follow Spring"
 "I Can't Stop Now"
 "Ain't That Loving You"
 "You Make Me So Very Happy"
 "Remember That Sunday (Alternate Take)"
 "All My Tears Come Rolling"
 "Baby I Love You"
 "Chatty Chatty People"
 "Willow Tree"
 "If I Could Rule This World"
 "What Does It Take (Take Two)"
 "Cry Tough (Take Six)"
 "Girl I've Got A Date (Soul Style)"
 "Can't Stand It (Extended Mix)"
 "I'm Just A Guy (Soul Style)"
 "La Means I Love You"
 "Why Did You Leave Me To Cry"
 "The Same Song"
 "Black Man, White Man (Take Two)"

References

Alton Ellis albums
1993 compilation albums


Cry Tough may refer to:

 Cry Tough (Alton Ellis album), a 1993 album of Alton Ellis' work from 1966 to 1968
 Cry Tough (Nils Lofgren album), a 1976 album by Nils Lofgren
 "Cry Tough" (song), a 1986 single by the band Poison
"Cry Tough", a 1966 single by Alton Ellis
 Cry Tough (film), a 1959 crime drama film