Arnold L. "Arnie" Roblan (born April 8, 1948) is an American former educator and a Democratic politician who served as a member of the Oregon House of Representatives from the 9th district, which spans the southern Oregon Coast. He also served as co-speaker of the House for the 2011–2012 session along with Republican Bruce Hanna. He served as a member of the Oregon State Senate from 2013 to 2021

Early life and education
Roblan was born in Port Angeles, Washington. He attended the University of Washington and the University of Oregon.

Career
Roblan is a former high school principal and math teacher. Roblan was first elected to the Oregon House of Representatives in 2004. In the 2009–2010 session, Roblan served as speaker pro tem. Roblan chaired the Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee and the Rural Policy Committee. He was a member of the Education Committee.

In 2016, Roblan defeated then Lincoln City Councilman Dick Anderson, a Republican, by 30,388 votes to 30,039, 48.2% to 47.7%.

Roblan did not seek re-election in 2020. Anderson ran again and defeated former Coos County Commissioner Melissa Cribbins, a Democrat, 49.4% to 46.5%.

Personal life
He has lived in Coos Bay since the early-1970s with his wife Arlene. They have three children.

External links
 Campaign website
 Legislative website

References

Speakers of the Oregon House of Representatives
Democratic Party members of the Oregon House of Representatives
People from Coos Bay, Oregon
Educators from Oregon
University of Oregon alumni
Living people
1948 births
21st-century American politicians


Štefanja Gora (; ) is a village in the Municipality of Cerklje na Gorenjskem in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia.

The local church is dedicated to Saint Stephen and was originally built around 1132. The current building dates to 1805, when the entire church was rebuilt after the older one was destroyed by lightning.

References

External links

Štefanja Gora on Geopedia

Populated places in the Municipality of Cerklje na Gorenjskem


is a video game music composer who has contributed to such Sega titles as Fighting Vipers 2 (1998) and F-Zero GX (2003). He is perhaps best known for his work as the music director of the Yakuza series and its Judgment spin-off series. He is a member of H., a band composed of Sega sound designers.

Live performances
Shoji performed two songs from the Yakuza series at the 2008 Tokyo Game Show. Together with H., he performed several rock arrangements of Out Run and Fantasy Zone themes at music event in October 2008.

Works

References

External links
Siliconera Interview with Hidenori Shoji

Japanese male musicians
Japanese musicians
Living people
Sega people
Video game composers
1975 births


José Kelvin de la Nieve Linares (born August 28, 1986, in Los Alcarrizos, Dominican Republic) is a boxer who competed in the light flyweight weight class at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics for Spain.

He became a Spanish citizen in 2000 and is based out of Huelva.  He has been competing with the Club Deportivo Yoon.  After failing to qualify for the 2004 Olympics, he won the bronze medal in the 2005 Mediterranean Games and was able to become the only boxer from Spain to box in Beijing.  He lost his Olympic debut to American southpaw Luis Yanez 9:12.

De la Nieve won silver at the 2008 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Liverpool, England after he lost to Hovhannes Danielyan in the final.

At the 2010 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Moscow, Russia he won the bronze medal after he lost to Paddy Barnes from Ireland in the Semifinals.

He qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics, but again lost in the first round, this time to Carlos Quipo of Ecuador.

References

External links
Yahoo profile
Interview in Spanish

1986 births
Living people
Dominican Republic male boxers
Olympic boxers for Spain
Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Boxers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Light-flyweight boxers
Naturalised citizens of Spain
Dominican Republic emigrants to Spain
Spanish male boxers
Boxers at the 2015 European Games
European Games competitors for Spain
Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Spain
Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Spain
Competitors at the 2005 Mediterranean Games
Competitors at the 2013 Mediterranean Games
Mediterranean Games medalists in boxing


Moranak Meada (Khmer:មរណមាតា) (English - Mother Death) is a Khmer 2004 fantasy/drama film which received several awards in Khmer film festival including second prize of silver award for best movies. The film is based on Khmer old folk tales, written in verse by Dhamma Panha Ouk in 1877, which is similar to the European fairy tale Cinderella.

Plot
After her mother is killed by her father during a fishing trip, Komarey gets a new name from the mother's death meaning Moranak Meada. Moranak Meada works hard every day as her life is full of sadness  and misery. She is also abused by her cruel, lazy stepmother and stepsisters and her uncaring father. However, her mother's body turns into a catfish to take care of her when she is sad. But the stepmother knows and starts a plan to kill the poor catfish by using her daughter who has a face and appearance identical to Moranak Meada to lure the catfish into the trap and kill it for food. Moranak Meada finds out and cries alone under the house but a talking duck gives her the fin of her mother, so she could plant it and later that night miraculously turns into the eggplant. The stepmother cuts out the eggplant and grills it for food again but Moranak Meada finds the plant's leaf and buries it far away from the house as it suddenly grows as a little golden banyan tree which could talk to her every time she wants it to.

Many years later, Moranak Meada grows up as a beautiful and kind girl. Meanwhile, a Young King visits the village and loves the golden banyan tree and orders his servants to take it but they couldn't until he asks Moranak Meada for it as well as he crowns her as his Queen. However, the stepmother and stepsisters start a plan to kill her and manage to get her daughter as Moranak Meada but the king knows and punishes the fake Moranak Meada by killing her and chopping her into food, sent to her mother. The mother and family are afraid and try to run but they are killed by a cobra.

Now, Moranak Meada is turned into a bird by a fairy and flies to live with her husband for waiting for becoming human again, but one of the king's girls hates the bird and wants to kill it. But the bird is rescued by a white king mouse which then kills the king's girl by biting her nose.

Three years later, the king finds Moranak Meada as a human and now with a three-year-old son. They finally return to the palace and live happily ever after.

2004 films
Khmer-language films
Cambodian drama films
2004 drama films
Romantic fantasy films
Cambodian fantasy films


Dargwa (or Dargin) may refer to:

 Dargwa people, a people of the Caucasus in southern Dagestan
 Dargwa language, their language


Gerardo Camps Devesa (born 30 June 1963) is a Spanish politician who belongs to the People's Party (PP).

Camps was born in Barcelona, Spain, and qualified in law. He is married with two children.  He entered politics in the 1980s, serving as Provincial secretary of the Popular Alliance (the predecessor of the current PP) from 1984–1986 and Regional Secretary 1985–1986. He also served as Regional President of the party's youth wing. In 1993 he was elected to the Spanish Congress of Deputies representing Valencia province. In Congress, he served as PP spokesman on issues related to Social Security, serving for example on the Commission established by the Pact of Toledo which aimed to study the future viability of the Spanish pension system. He was re-elected to Congress in 1996 and 2000, but on the latter occasion, resigned after just one month after being named Secretary of State for Social Security. In 2003, he was appointed Minister for Economy, Manufacturing and Employment in the Valencian regional administration. He was succeeded in this role by José Manuel Vela Bargues in 2011.

References

1963 births
Living people
Politicians from Barcelona
Members of the 5th Congress of Deputies (Spain)
Members of the 6th Congress of Deputies (Spain)
Members of the 7th Congress of Deputies (Spain)
Politicians from the Valencian Community
People's Party (Spain) politicians
Members of the 12th Congress of Deputies (Spain)
Secretaries of State of Spain


The Golovin–Sivtsev table () is a standardized table for testing visual acuity, which was developed in 1923 by Soviet ophthalmologists Sergei Golovin and D. A. Sivtsev. In the USSR, it was the most common table of its kind, and  its use is still widespread in several post-Soviet states.

The table consists of two parts with 12 rows each, representing visual acuity values between 0.1 and 2.0. The left part consists of series of the Cyrillic letters Ш, Б, М, Н, К, Ы, and И in a definite order, and the right part of the table consists of a series of Landolt C symbols. The width of each character is equal to its height, and the contours have standard  gaps of the overall size.

The value D, indicated to the left of each row, gives the distance in meters from which a person with a visual acuity of 1.0 can read the corresponding row. The value V, indicated to the right, gives the minimum visual acuity needed to read the row from a distance of 5 meters. The first row contains symbols 70 mm in size (V = 0.1); the second row, 35 mm; the bottom third row, 7 mm (V = 1.0); the bottom row, 3.5 mm (V = 2.0).

Black and white pattern identification at 1 arcminute angle is considered to be visual acuity of 1.0, which is around 1 mm per 3.44 m distance. A character 7 mm in size has 1.4 mm pattern gaps, so over the 5 m view distance it gives an angle of around 1 arcminutes (atan(0.007/5/5)≈0.963').

References

Ophthalmology
Medical signs


Estadio Municipal de Guillermo Amor is a stadium in Benidorm, Alicante, Valencian Community, Spain. Its former name was Estadio Municipal de Foietes or simply Foietes, but its name was changed in 2010 because of Guillermo Amor, one of the most famous sportsman who had born in the town. The sports venue has a capacity of 9,000, the majority of which is on one very large bank of terracing on one side of the field. The more commonly used main stand runs down the opposite side of the pitch and hosts the club facilities. The seating area is found here, concentrated at the half-way line of the field.

The main use is as the home ground for the local football team Benidorm CD.

It has been known to host large concerts.

External links
Estadios de España

References

Football venues in the Valencian Community
Buildings and structures in Benidorm
Sports venues completed in 1964
Sport in Benidorm


The Society of Estonian Literati ( – EKmS) was an influential association of Estonian intellectuals based in Tartu between the years 1871 and 1893.

History
The articles of the Society of Estonian Literati was adopted in 1871. In March 1872 the first meeting was held in Viljandi. The society included the main Estonian writers, poets, artists and journalists of the time. Leading personalities were, among others, Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Hans Wühner, Jakob Hurt, Carl Robert Jakobson, Hugo Treffner and Johann Köler.

The aim of the society was the promotion of the Estonian language and literature in to enrich Estonian social life and a greater understanding by Estonians of their history and culture.

The society published approximately 100 items during its 18-year existence between 1873 and 1890. From 1887 the society also organized literary competitions. Under Jakob Hurt the Society systematically collected Estonian folk poetry. Members of the Society collected old documents, coins and ethnological artifacts. The society built an extensive library and organized numerous lectures.

At the beginning of the 1880s were internal political disputes between Jacob Hurt and Carl Robert Jakobson on future direction. In 1881 Hurt left with a group of his followers and  Jakobson died a year later. The beginning of the Russification of Estonia split the society further. One group took a moderate stance towards the Tsarist demands, the other was an Estonian nationalist faction who largely rejected these concessions.

On 28 April 1893, the society was shut down by the Tsarist authorities.

Presidents
 Jakob Hurt (1872–1881)
 Carl Robert Jakobson (1881/1882)
 Mihkel Veske (1882–1886)
 Hugo Treffner (1887–1890)
 Karl August Hermann (1890/1891)
 Johann Köler (1891–1893)

Publications
 Friedebert Tuglas: Eesti Kirjameeste Selts. Tegevusolud, tegelased, tegevus.. Tartu 1932

See also
 Learned Estonian Society

References

Estonian literature


Ivan Stojmenović (1957 – 3 November 2014) was a Serbian-Canadian mathematician and computer scientist well known for his contributions to communications networks and algorithms.  He has published over 300 articles in his field and edited four handbooks in the area of wireless sensor networks.

Biography
He studied mathematics, earning a
B.Sc. (1979) and
M.Sc. at the University of Novi Sad,
and a
Ph.D. (1985) at the University of Zagreb, where he continued as assistant professor (1985–87). He held the chair in Applied Computing in the School of Engineering at the University of Birmingham in the UK 2007/8. After visiting appointments at Washington State University and University of Miami he joined the faculty at University of Ottawa (1988) where he was a professor.

He was also editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.

Books
Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks: Algorithms and Protocols for Scalable Coordination and Data Communication (Wiley, 2010).
Handbook of Applied Algorithms: Solving Scientific, Engineering and Practical Problems (Wiley, 2008).
Handbook of Sensor Networks:  Algorithms and Architectures (Wiley, 2005).  Bundled with Crossbow Technology sensorkits.
Mobile Ad Hoc Networking (Wiley, 2004).
Handbook of Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing (Wiley, 2002)

Awards and honors
In 2008 he was named an IEEE Fellow "for contributions to data communication algorithms and protocols for wireless sensor and ad hoc networks".

Death in car accident
Stojmenović died on 3 November 2014 after he lost control of his car and slammed into an overpass on Highway 416.

References

Serbian mathematicians
Canadian computer scientists
University of Novi Sad alumni
Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb alumni
Fellow Members of the IEEE
1957 births
2014 deaths
Academic staff of the University of Ottawa
Academics of the University of Birmingham


Beirut Naval Base () is the first naval base and the headquarters of the Lebanese Navy, established in 1950. The base comprises a part of Port of Beirut, and was affected by the massive ammonium nitrate explosion on 4 August 2020.

References

Ports and harbors of Lebanon
Lebanese Navy bases
Ports and harbours of the Arab League


Bicton House, or Bickton House, is a late 18th- or early 19th-century country house, which stands on the campus of Bicton College, Bicton, near Exmouth, East Devon. It is a Grade II* listed building. The park and gardens are Grade I listed in the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.

It is located about three miles from Sidmouth, in Devonshire. It had been in the East Budleigh Hundred.

Manor

12th and 13th centuries
This manor was held in demesne by William Portitor, the king's door-keeper, at the time of the taking the Domesday Survey. It was held as the king's gaol for the county of Devon.
The manor of Bicton was granted by King Henry I to John Janitor. In 1229, Ralph Balistarius, or Le Balister (the cross-bow-bearer), occupied the manor. His descendants, the Alabasters, a corruption of Le Balister, held the manor for five generations. It then was passed to the Sacheville, or Sackville, and Copleston families through female heirs.

16th to 18th centuries

The lord of Bicton held responsibility for managing the gaol, but it was removed from Bicton House to Exeter. It was purchased in the 16th century of the Coplestones by Sir Robert Denys (1525–1592) of nearby Holcombe Burnel, who built a new manor house and created one of the county's first enclosed deer parks. Sir Robert Denys's son, Sir Thomas Denys died and his daughter Anne Denys received the manor. She had married Sir Henry Rolle (d.1616) of Stevenstone, Devon and the estate was conveyed to her husband. Henry was the son of John Rolle, and great grandson to the founder of the Rolle family of Stevenstone, George Rolle (died 1552). Henry and the former Miss Deny's son, Dennis Rolle, Esquire died in 1638, leaving a son who died in his infancy and a daughter named Florence.

Henry's nephew, also named Henry, of Beam near Torrington, inherited the estate, but died without a living heir in 1647. The manor was then passed to John Rolle through marriage to his cousin Florence Rolle, co-heiress of Dennis Rolle, Esquire of Bicton, who at the time of his death in 1706 held nearly 40 manors in Devonshire and estates in Cornwall, Somersetshire, and Northamptonshire.  John had married the heiress of Marrais and settled there. He was made Knight of the Bath (K.B.) and was a representative for the county. John and Florence had four sons, the eldest son was the grandfather of Henry was made Baron Role in 1748 and died in 1750 without issue and the title became extinct. In 1787 the lord of the manor was exonerated from the superintendence of the county gaol. The title Baron Rolle was revived in 1796, when Henry Rolle's nephew, John Rolle, Esquire was created a peer by the same style and title.

19th and 20th centuries

In about 1800 John Rolle, 1st Baron Rolle (d.1842), son of Dennis Rolle (d.1797), replaced the old manor house with the existing three-storey mansion, designed by architect James Wyatt and built in red brick and limestone. Wyatt also designed the Lodge, built at the same time.

The site was described about 1820 to have a "commanding full view of the British Channel" and ancient beech and oak trees within the estate's park. The mansion, with two extensive wings, held an extensive collection of art, including works by Rembrandt and Ruysdael. It looked over the village of Otterton, with its little church, and the "lovely peep" between the Saltern and the ocean. A Gothic lodge is located at the main entrance, followed by a rustic inner lodge. Another entrance is by a "neat cottage-lodge." An obelisk is seen from most parts of the ground.

John Rolle, 1st Baron Rolle married the Hon. Louisa Trefusis, a relative and second daughter of Robert Trefusis, 17th Baron Clinton. He died without issue in 1842. The Stevenstone and Bicton estates, amounting to some , devolved by his will to Hon. Mark George Kerr Trefusis (1836–1907), then aged 6, the nephew of his second wife Louisa Trefusis (1794–1885) (daughter of Robert George William Trefusis, 17th Baron Clinton (1764–1797)), and second son of the 19th Baron Clinton. On his inheritance in 1852 he changed his surname to Rolle; he died without issue in 1907, his heir being his nephew Charles John Robert Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, 21st Baron Clinton (1863–1957).

Agricultural college
In 1947 the 21st Baron Clinton leased (and later in 1957 sold) the house and part of the grounds to Devon County Council for the creation of Bicton Farm Institute, which later became Bicton College. In 1957 the same property was sold to the council. The present Baron Clinton continues to own part of the grounds and Bicton Arena, used for equestrian events, and the headquarters of the Clinton Devon Estates Company, which owns  of agricultural land in Devon ( of the county), is nearby.

During the Second World War it housed St Ronan's School, which is now based near Hawkhurst in Kent.

Notes

References

Grade II* listed buildings in Devon
Grade I listed parks and gardens in Devon
History of Devon
Country houses in Devon
Rolle family
Grade II* listed houses
Historic estates in Devon


Sweet Adeline may refer to:

"Sweet Adeline" (song), a 1903 ballad best known as a barbershop standard
Sweet Adeline (musical), a 1929 Broadway musical by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II
Sweet Adeline (1934 film), a Warner Brothers film based on the Broadway musical
Sweet Adeline (1926 film), starring Charles Ray
"Sweet Adeline", a song by Elliott Smith from his album XO

See also

Sweet Adelines International, a worldwide organization of women singers of barbershop harmony


The South Australian Railways 400 class comprised ten 4-8-2+2-8-4 articulated steam locomotives built in France in 1952 and 1953 under licence to Beyer, Peacock & Co. Ltd, Manchester, UK. The locomotives mainly hauled ore on the  narrow-gauge  line from the New South Wales/South Australia border to smelters at Port Pirie until 1963, when they were replaced by diesel locomotives. They also operated on the line to the break-of-gauge station at Terowie. Some locomotives were returned to service in 1969 while narrow gauge diesel locomotives were converted to . Subsequently some were stored at Peterborough before being scrapped.

Two have been preserved, in static condition:
No. 402 at the Zig Zag Railway, Lithgow
No. 409 at the National Railway Museum, Port Adelaide.

Gallery

Notes

References

Select bibliography

External links

Locomotive Specifications at SteamLocomotive.com

Franco-Belge locomotives
Beyer, Peacock locomotives
4-8-2+2-8-4 locomotives
Garratt locomotives
400
Railway locomotives introduced in 1953
3 ft 6 in gauge locomotives of Australia

Freight locomotives


James Sutton Van Pelt (November 11, 1935 – July 2, 2022) was an American professional football player who was a quarterback for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the Canadian Football League (CFL). He played college football for the Michigan Wolverines from 1955 to 1957. Playing in the CFL in 1958 and 1959, he led the Blue Bombers to consecutive Grey Cup championships and set league records with seven touchdown passes in a game, a 107-yard touchdown pass, and 22 points scored in the 1958 Grey Cup championship game.

His professional football career ended in 1960 when he was drafted into the United States Air Force for a three-year term of service. He died on July 2, 2022, at the age of 86.

Early life
Van Pelt was born on November 11, 1935, in Chicago, the son of Jean (Barkdull) and James Sutton Van Pelt. He attended Evanston Township High School. He was Evanston's starting quarterback in his junior and senior years (1952 and 1953), and was inducted into the Evanston Township High School Athletic Hall of Fame.

University of Michigan
After graduating from high school, Van Pelt enrolled at the University of Michigan in 1954.  He played in the quarterback position in 22 games for Michigan during the 1955, 1956 and 1957 football seasons.  He was the starting quarterback for the 1957 Michigan Wolverines football team that opened the season 4–1, including a victory over USC, but finished with a 5–3–1 record.  In Michigan's four wins in the first half of the 1957 season, Van Pelt completed 21 of 31 passes for 315 yards and three touchdowns.  Prior to the 1957 Northwestern game, Van Pelt was bed-ridden with the flu, but despite the illness, he led the Wolverines to a 34–14 win.  Van Pelt completed three of four passes in the game for 66 yards and two touchdowns, including a 45-yard touchdown pass to Gary Prahst.  He also ran for a touchdown and successfully kicked three extra points.  In a 24–7 win over Minnesota, Van Pelt was responsible for 18 of Michigan's points as he threw two touchdown passes (including a 37-yard completion to Dave Bowers), kicked a field goal and added three extra points.

In his final game for Michigan, Van Pelt passed for 106 yards (including a 33-yard touchdown pass to Brad Myers), the highest single-game total during his three years Michigan career. However, it was not enough as Ohio State beat Michigan, 31–14.

After the 1957 season, Van Pelt played in two post-season all-star games.  He played in the North–South Shrine Game at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida, throwing a touchdown pass for the winning North team.  In January 1958, he also played in the Senior Bowl in Mobile, Alabama.

In three years at Michigan, Van Pelt completed 66 of 134 passes for 989 yards, ten touchdowns and five interceptions.  He also had two rushing touchdowns and one receiving touchdown.

Professional football
Van Pelt was selected by the Washington Redskins in the fifth round (55th overall pick) of the 1958 NFL Draft.  Instead of playing in the NFL, Van Pelt signed a contract in February 1958 to play for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.  In his rookie season, Van Pelt began the season playing principally as a defensive halfback, but he got the chance to start at quarterback when Kenny Ploen was injured.  He played so well in place of Ploen that he won the job as Winnipeg's starting quarterback.  Van Pelt also handled placekicking for the Bombers.  He set a Canadian Football League record with a 107-yard touchdown pass to Ernie Pitts during a 1958 game against Calgary.

Van Pelt led the Blue Bombers to the Grey Cup championship.  He scored a record 22 points (two touchdowns, two field goals and four extra points) in the 1958 Grey Cup championship game, as the Blue Bombers defeated the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 35–28.  Van Pelt's first touchdown came on a trick play when he pitched the ball to halfback Leo Lewis and then took a pass from Lewis to run untouched 29 yards into the end zone.  His second touchdown was a game-winning touchdown in the fourth quarter—a one-yard run that gave the Bombers a 35–28 lead.  In its game coverage, The Montreal Gazette reported:

Jimmy Van Pelt, a freshman import quarterback from the University of Michigan was the producer, director and principal actor in Winnipeg's unexpected decision over the defending champions. He scored 22 points for a new Grey Cup record. ... Van Pelt took over as the stream-lined Grey Cup hero ... the country's national football pin-up boy.  The Flying Dutchman grabbed a surprise pass from Leo Lewis for one touchdown, plunged over center from one yard out for another.

During the 1958 season, Van Pelt completed 90 of 160 passes for 1,445 yards, nine touchdowns and ten interceptions.

In August 1959, Van Pelt dislocated a bone in his left hand during an exhibition game featuring a rematch of the Grey Cup championship game between Winnipeg and Hamilton.  Despite the injury, Van Pelt was the starting quarterback in Winnipeg's season opener against the British Columbia Lions.  Wearing a cast on his left wrist, Van Pelt scored 27 points as he threw three touchdown passes with his right hand, rushed for a fourth touchdown and kicked a field goal.  Van Pelt led the Winnipeg team to another western division championship in 1959, but he suffered a shoulder separation late in the season.  Before suffering the injury, Van Pelt was having the best year of his career.  During the 1959 season, he completed 160 of 300 passes for 2,706 yards, 31 touchdowns and 15 interceptions.  He also set a Western Conference record by throwing seven touchdown passes in a single game against the Saskatchewan Roughriders.

Winnipeg coach Bud Grant noted, "Until Van Pelt was injured, I was pretty sure we had a better team than the 1958 champions. ... For 32 games Van Pelt played 99 percent of the time at quarterback. ... Before he was injured Jim had the team moving real well."  Winnipeg went on to win its second consecutive Grey Cup championship with Kenny Ploen playing quarterback in the championship game.

Later years
Van Pelt's football career was cut short when he was drafted into the United States Air Force in the summer of 1960 for a three-year period of service.

In November 1962, Van Pelt, then a lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force, watched the Blue Bombers defend their Grey Cup championship as the guest of the club.  Winnipeg general manager Jim Ausley would have Van Pelt back "if he wants to play football again."

In June 1963, Van Pelt announced that he would not resume his football career after his discharge from the Air Force.  Van Pelt said he planned to take an accounting job in Chicago.  In an interview with the Winnipeg Tribune, he explained, "My wife and I talked it over for a long time and decided the job in Chicago was the best move."

After his retirement from football, he worked with the Quaker Oats Company and Grundy Industries.

Van Pelt died on July 2, 2022, at his home in Winnetka, Illinois, at the age of 86. He was married to Catherine Carrero from 1963 until her death in 2020. They had two children.

References

1935 births
2022 deaths
American people of Dutch descent
American players of Canadian football
Canadian football quarterbacks
Michigan Wolverines football players
Players of American football from Chicago
Players of Canadian football from Chicago
Winnipeg Blue Bombers players


Trata pri Velesovem () is a village in the Municipality of Cerklje na Gorenjskem in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia.

Name
The name of the settlement was changed from Trata to Trata pri Velesovem in 1953.

Church
The Baroque church in the village is dedicated to Saint Margaret.

Notable people
Notable people that were born or lived in Trata pri Velesovem include:
Jože Šerjak (1918–1945), writer and poet

References

External links

Trata pri Velesovem on Geopedia

Populated places in the Municipality of Cerklje na Gorenjskem


Peter Harness (born 1976) is an English playwright, screenwriter and actor. He has contributed to programmes such as McMafia, City of Vice and Case Histories.

Early life
He grew up in Hornsea, East Yorkshire and attended Oriel College, Oxford where he studied English. He is a former president of the Oxford Revue. He was one of Screen International's Stars of Tomorrow, 2007 and is a recipient of the Dennis Potter Screenwriting Award.

Early works
Mongoose, his first original stage play, was performed at the Southwark Playhouse in 2003 (directed by Thea Sharrock) and later at the Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh and the Trafalgar Studios, London.  The text is published by Nick Hern Books.

In 2005, he adapted the M.R. James short story "A View From A Hill" for BBC4. It was the first in a new annual series of BBC Ghost Stories for Christmas. Harness went on to write several other single films for BBC4, including a biopic of Frankie Howerd, Rather You Than Me, starring David Walliams and Rafe Spall, which was part of the Curse of Comedy season, as well as the Spanish flu drama, The Forgotten Fallen, starring Bill Paterson, Mark Gatiss and Charlotte Riley, which dealt with the efforts of a medical team in Manchester to combat the disease in 1918.

Career
Harness was the lead writer of the third and fourth seasons of the BBC's Wallander, starring Kenneth Branagh. He wrote all of season three, comprising three films: The Dogs of Riga, Before the Frost, and a new story developed by Henning Mankell and Harness called An Event in Autumn. He wrote two out of three films for season four, A Lesson in Love and The Troubled Man, and was executive producer for the series as a whole.

Aside from Wallander, Harness has worked on several other successful series.  City of Vice, starring Ian McDiarmid and Iain Glen, was shown on Channel Four to critical acclaim. Harness (along with co-writer Clive Bradley) was nominated for a Writers Guild of Great Britain Award for Best Series. In 2011, he adapted Kate Atkinson's novel When Will There Be Good News? as part of the BBC1 series Case Histories, starring Jason Isaacs as private detective Jackson Brodie. Harness's episodes of the series won a Scottish BAFTA for Best Television Drama, 2011. Harness also adapted the fourth Jackson Brodie book, Started Early, Took My Dog for the second series of Case Histories, which filmed in Summer 2012.

His first original screenplay, Is Anybody There? was filmed by award-winning Irish director John Crowley in 2007. The movie, set in an old people's home, starred Michael Caine, David Morrissey, Anne-Marie Duff and Bill Milner. It was premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, 2008, and released theatrically across Europe and the US in 2009. Harness was nominated for a Writers Guild Award for the film.

He adapted Susanna Clarke's novel Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell into a 2015 television series of the same name.

In 2014 he wrote the seventh episode for the eighth series of Doctor Who, "Kill the Moon", starring Peter Capaldi as the Twelfth Doctor. In 2015, wrote a 2-part story titled "The Zygon Invasion" and "The Zygon Inversion" (the latter co-written with Steven Moffat) for the ninth series of Doctor Who. Harness novelised these episodes as part of the Target Collection. He also co-wrote the seventh episode of the tenth series with Moffat, titled "The Pyramid at the End of the World".

In 2018, Harness wrote for the crime drama series McMafia, about the Russian Mafia. In 2019, he wrote a new miniseries adaptation of The War of the Worlds for BBC One, produced by Mammoth Screen. On April 6, 2022, it was announced Apple TV+ had greenlit Harness' conspiracy thriller series Constellation.

Other projects
He has also been active in the Malmö theatre community as part of the theatre group Teater Insite both as an actor and a writer.

References

External links

1976 births
Living people
People from Hornsea
British science fiction writers
English television writers
English screenwriters
English male screenwriters
English male dramatists and playwrights
English dramatists and playwrights
English male stage actors
Alumni of Oriel College, Oxford
British male television writers


Vašca (; in older sources also Vašce, ) is a settlement in the Municipality of Cerklje na Gorenjskem in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia.

References

External links

Vašca on Geopedia

Populated places in the Municipality of Cerklje na Gorenjskem


Velesovo (; ) is a settlement in the Municipality of Cerklje na Gorenjskem in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia.

References

External links
Velesovo on Geopedia

Populated places in the Municipality of Cerklje na Gorenjskem


Vicki Berger (born 1949) is an American businessperson and politician in the state of Oregon. A native Oregonian, she is a Salem civic leader and a former Republican member of the Oregon House of Representatives. Her father, Richard Chambers, came up with the idea for the Oregon Bottle Bill.

Early life
Born Vicki Chambers in 1949, she was the youngest of three children of Richard Chambers. In 1967, she graduated from South Salem High School in the state's capital city before she married Jerry Berger in 1969. The couple had three children, and she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in anthropology in 1974 from the University of Wyoming.

From 1972 to 1975, Berger worked as a bailiff for the county court. She taught racquetball at Chemeketa Community College in the early 1980s and then as a project manager for a local manufacturing company from 1988 to 1995. That year she became a franchisee of a Lazerquick copy shop in West Salem, retaining ownership until 2000.

Civic leader
In 1985, she joined the board of the Salem YMCA where she remained until 1998. From 1995 to 1998 she served as that organization's first female president. Berger was on the Salem-Keizer School District board from 1988 to 1992 and helped lead the campaign for a bond measure for capital improvements in what is the state's second largest school district. In 2001, along with her husband, she shared the award as First Citizens from the local chamber of commerce.

Political career
In August 2001, Berger announced she would run for a seat in the Oregon House of Representatives. In the May 2002, primary she defeated Greg Warnock and Irv Blake to win the Republican nomination. Berger defeated Democrat Lloyd Kumley in the November general election with 13,408 votes to 7,884. She joined the House beginning with the 2003 session representing District 20, which spans parts of Polk and Marion counties.

After running unopposed in the May 2004 primary, she beat Democrat Jeanne E. Deane 17,595 votes to 11,400 votes in general election. Berger again ran without competition in the Republican primary in 2006, and then beat her Democratic Party opponent Connie Garcia, collecting 13,382 votes to Garcia's 9,040. During the 2007 to 2008 legislature she served on the Revenue Committee. In 2007, she worked to pass legislation to amend the Oregon Bottle Bill to require deposits on water bottles. Her father, Richard Chambers, was the person responsible for proposing the original bill that passed the Oregon Legislature in 1971.

She was the first Republican in the House to vote in favor of an increase in the tax on cigarettes to pay for more health insurance of children in 2007. Seeking a fourth term in 2008, Berger was unopposed in the May primary, and then defeated Richard Riggs in the November election to win another term. Her district covers parts of Salem, Independence, and Monmouth, and switched from a primarily Republican district to a primarily Democratic district in 2008. Berger is considered a moderate Republican whose votes are occasionally inline with the Democrats. Berger calls herself a fiscally conservative and business-oriented politician.  In 2008, she became the first person in the Oregon House to be cross-nominated by the Independent Party of Oregon.

Berger did not run for reelection in 2014. Her seat was the only one to change party control in the Oregon House of Representatives that year, with Democrat Paul Evans, a former mayor of Monmouth, defeating Republican candidate Kathy Goss.

Electoral history

References

External links
 Vicki Berger – Oregon House of Representatives

1949 births
Living people
Politicians from Salem, Oregon
University of Wyoming alumni
Republican Party members of the Oregon House of Representatives
Women state legislators in Oregon
South Salem High School alumni
Businesspeople from Oregon
21st-century American politicians
21st-century American women politicians


This is a list of premiers of Victoria by time in office. The basis of the list is the inclusive number of years and days between dates.

Rank by time in office
Parties

See also
Premier of Victoria
List of premiers of Victoria
List of prime ministers of Australia by time in office
List of Australian heads of government by time in office
List of premiers of New South Wales by time in office
List of premiers of Queensland by time in office
List of premiers of South Australia by time in office
List of premiers of Tasmania by time in office
List of premiers of Western Australia by time in office
List of chief ministers of the Northern Territory by time in office
List of chief ministers of the Australian Capital Territory by time in office

Victoria, Premiers of
Premiers
Victoria, Premiers
Premiers


Asnières Volley 92 is a French volleyball team based in Asnières-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine. The flagship men's team and its affiliates have historically formed one of the most successful organizations in French volleyball, claiming a total of 45 national titles across all age and gender groups as of 2016.
The club was defunded by the city of Asnières and pulled out of the second-level Ligue B Masculine during the 2016 offseason. It later resumed its activities in the amateur Nationale 2 (fourth level).

History
The organization traces its lineage to 1948, when it was founded as the volleyball section of multisports club Asnières Sports. It established itself as one of the country's best, winning five national men's titles between 1965 and 1984. However, following a Coupe de France final appearance in 1986, Asnières Sport declined sharply and went winless in 1988–89, causing it to be relegated.
In 1991–92, the club returned to the national elite (then called Pro A) but only narrowly escaped another relegation. That summer, it was propped up by an injection of funds from soccer's Paris Saint-Germain, which had just launched a diversification plan into other sports, and became known as PSG Asnières Volley for the following three seasons. As PSG Asnières Volley, the team won its sixth French championship in 1993, and its second Coupe de France the following year. In 1995, PSG walked away from the alliance, keeping the team's top flight licence and forcing the Asnières side to resume competing independently at the fourth level under the new name Asnières Volleyball 92.
Asnières reached the top level once more in 1998–99 and fluctuated between the first and second levels (although spending more time at the latter) until 2016 when it pulled out of Ligue B Masculine to focus strictly on amateur competition.

Honors
French Championship (6)
 Winner : 1965, 1966, 1979, 1980, 1984, 1993
 Finalist : 1978, 1982, 1983, 1985
French Cup (2)
 Winner : 1984, 1994

References

External links

 Asnières Volley 92 official website

Volleyball clubs in France
Volleyball in Paris
Sports clubs and teams in Paris
1948 establishments in France


Ippo Yamada (山田一法 Yamada Ippō) is a video game music composer. He has contributed music to such titles as Mega Man Zero (2002), Mega Man ZX (2006), Mega Man 9 (2008), and Azure Striker Gunvolt (2014). He is a founding member of Inti Creates, a Japanese video game development company formed by ex-Capcom staff in May 1996.

Works

References

External links
Inti Creates
Official Website

20th-century births
Year of birth missing (living people)
Capcom people
Japanese composers
Japanese male composers
Living people
Musicians from Kanagawa Prefecture
Video game composers


The WAGR W class is a class of 4-8-2 steam locomotives operated by the Western Australian Government Railways (WAGR) between 1951 and 1972.

Engineering Background
The class was first proposed by Chief Mechanical Engineer Frederick Mills in 1947. However, the death of Mills in 1949 put a hold on the project, with his successor Charles Clarke, taking up the project on his appointment later that year.

Mills had requested Beyer, Peacock & Co to reserve capacity for their construction when the design was first proposed, however, by the time Clarke took over, Beyer, Peacock & Co had identified a number of possible problems with the design. This led to a meeting in the United Kingdom in 1950, the outcome of which was a substantial redesign of the locomotive.

The resultant locomotive included many proprietary boiler and ancillary fittings, as well as parts interchange ability. The firebox was substantially altered to take into account the properties of Collie coal. This included a combustion chamber, thermic syphons and arch bar tubes.

The running gear was based heavily on Beyer, Peacock & Co's Standard Light Garratt, which was built for the South Australian Railways as its 400 class. The first 40 were delivered partially erected, whilst the final 20 were fully assembled prior to shipping. The last 20 had larger tenders, capable of holding an additional . All were delivered between April 1951 and June 1952.

Operational history

The light axle load of the W class, 9.5t, gave it availability across the entire WAGR Network. Although essentially a freight engine, the W class regularly hauled The Australind from Perth to Bunbury. It effectively replaced the aged O and G classes still working on lighter parts of the network.

The class had a reputation for being free steamers and strong pullers. Although they have a well-deserved reputation for their reliability, like any new class the W locos suffered some minor teething problems, including ashpan failures, and leaks in and around the foundation ring. The leaks were traced to faulty welding. The class suffered from stay failures in its early days, particularly in and around the throat plate. The first to fail was W913 in 1952. At one point, no fewer than 34 of the class were in Midland Railway Workshops or regional depots for stay repair. The problem was traced back to the thermic syphons creating significant water movement in the area, overstressing the boiler plates, as well as problems with the quality of the original stays. The syphons were progressively removed over a seven-year period, eliminating the problem.

Following the modification, the last of which was made in 1959, the class gave excellent service. As dieselisation of WAGR continued, the class was gradually moved to the southern parts of the network. Withdrawals commenced in 1968 with the last condemned in 1972. Most of the class was scrapped in 1971, although 19 were held in reserve at Midland Railway Workshops until 1972. The last few remained at Midland until 1980.

Sister Locomotives
Beyer, Peacock & Co built four additional engines to the same design for the Silverton Tramway Company, designated as its W class.

Preservation

The light axle load of the W class along with their relative youth resulted in them being sought after by tourist operators, both in Western Australia and interstate with 15 preserved. Today they form the backbone of the Hotham Valley Railway and Pichi Richi Railway fleets with each having three operational examples. Until 2006, Hotham Valley Railway's Ws operated services on the Brookfield Rail network, but today they are confined to its own heritage line.

Preservation
W901: to Steamtown, Peterborough SA 1979, recommissioned 1985. Boiler condition unknown as stored wet. Currently on static display.
W903: to Hotham Valley Railway 1977, Stored out of service; Pending overhaul
W907: to Steamtown, Peterborough SA 1979, never recommissioned, plinthed early 2013 (missing major components) painted a bright green and repainted into dark green.
W908: to Hotham Valley Railway 1979, restored to operation in 1988, currently in long-term storage out of service
W916: to Pichi Richi Railway 1974, restored 2003 as Silverton Tramway Company W22, operational
W919: to Esperance Bay Historical Society 1974, static display
W920: to Hotham Valley Railway 1976, named Sir Ross McLarty then Pinjarra, Stored out of service at Dwellingup
W924: to Great Southern Steam, Albany 1978, but operated on only a few occasions. Sold to the Ghan Preservation Society and shipped to Alice Springs 1984, recommissioned 1987, currently on static display.
W931: to Pichi Richi Railway 1980, stored
W933: to Pichi Richi Railway 1974, formerly operational, now stored
W934: to Pichi Richi Railway 1974, mechanical overhaul completed in early 2019, currently operational.
W943: static display at Collie Museum
W945: to Hotham Valley Railway 1977, named Banksiadale, operational as of July 2018.
W947: to Great Southern Steam, Albany 1973. Hauled last Albany Progress from Albany to Elleker in December 1978. Sold to Western Australian Rail Transport Museum 1984, sold to Hotham Valley Railway 2011 and moved to Pinjarra in November 2013 with boiler removed for long term overhaul
W953: to Western Australian Rail Transport Museum 1972, on static display

See also

Rail transport in Western Australia
List of Western Australian locomotive classes

References

Notes

Bibliography

External links

Beyer, Peacock locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1951
W WAGR class
3 ft 6 in gauge locomotives of Australia
4-8-2 locomotives


Bobo is a monthly Dutch children's magazine published by Blink Publishers. Consisting of comics and stories, it is named after the protagonist Bobo, a nine year old blue rabbit. The magazine has run since 1968 and was initially translated from the English-language Bobo Bunny magazine, published from 1969 to 1973.

Each issue is devoted to one subject. The purpose of the magazine is to educate four- and five-year-olds in a playful way, and it is therefore mainly distributed through the first two years of primary school.

Since 2010, Bobo has developed into a cross-media brand. Bobo has its own apps, an educational television series made by Studio 100 (started in 2011), an online training program to be used on digital schoolboards and smartboards in the classroom, and a complete merchandise line.

Indonesian version

The Indonesian franchise of Bobo was first published on 14 April 1973. Unlike the Dutch version, the Indonesian version is aimed at children aged 6-12. Published by Kompas Gramedia Group, Bobo magazine become the most popular kids magazine in Indonesia. The magazine has the tagline "teman bermain dan belajar (friends to play and study)". In 1980, the lowercase b on Bobo's t-shirt was replaced by a capital B to distinguish the Indonesian rabbit from the Dutch counterpart, but it was changed back to lowercase b in the early 1990s.

The magazine in Indonesia has several 'trademark parts'. As of July 2012, it already has:
Cergam (cerita bergambar) (picture stories): Comics without speech bubbles. There are currently three comic series in the Indonesian version: Cergam Bobo; Negeri Dongeng (short of Ceritera dari Negeri Dongeng (Stories From The Land Of Tales)); Paman Kikuk, Husin, & Asta (Oom Stuntel, Heintje, en Flap); and Bona gajah kecil berbelalai panjang (Pinkie Puff the little elephant with long trunk).
Chosen Stories: A collection of short stories.
FB Friends Story: A collection of stories from reader's suggestions. The stories' plots are decided on the readers' ideas on Facebook. There are currently two titles: Rahasia Hantu (Ghosts' Secret) and Liontin Pusaka Kerajaan Peri (The Heirloom Pendant Of The Fairy Kingdom).
Dear Nirmala, Halamanku, Arena Kecil, Tak Disangka: Dear Nirmala is an advice column in which the readers can send a letter by Facebook to have their questions answered. There are two letters featured each week. Halamanku is a page to show fan art and poems sent by readers. Arena Kecil, Tak Disangka are two specific columns in one page. Arena Kecil (Little Arena) is where readers can tell their fun and memorable experiences, while Tak Disangka (Unexpected) is a place where readers can tell embarrassing and funny experiences.
Kreatif: A page of art suggestions for the reader each week. It has been put there since Kreatif Magazines (by Kompas Gramedia Group) was not published anymore.
Potret Negeriku (The Portrait Of My Nation): Descriptions about specific parts of Indonesia.
Keliling Dunia (Travel Around the World): Similar to Potret Negeriku, but specifies on a place outside Indonesia.
Ensiklo Bobo: Interesting facts from around the world. Usually about science, math, or history.
Sayembara Bobo (Bobo Quiz): A quiz part. Usually in the form of crossword quiz. Readers can deliver the right answer to the publisher to get a chance to win a prize, usually in the form of money or sponsored items.

There are several yearly events organized by Bobo magazine in Indonesia which are held at Jakarta and Surabaya: Bobo Fair, which has fun activities meant for the readers, and Operet Bobo, which was held every year until it was discontinued and joined with the Bobo Fair. From 2001 to 2016, Bobo magazine held a Konferensi Anak (Children's Conference). This event was attended by participants aged 9-12 years.

In 2010, the magazine was completely renewed and in 2012, Bobo magazine Indonesia launched Bobo Online, the Indonesian magazine's official website. In 2016, Bobo Online was closed and replaced by Kidnesia.com, which closed on 14 April 2017. It was replaced with its current website to celebrate Bobo's 44th anniversary in Indonesia. The magazine has an active Instagram presence, and celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2023.

Until 2022 Kompas Gramedia Group also published Bobo Junior, an Indonesian translation of the Dutch counterpart for younger readers.

References

External links
Bobo homepage, in Dutch
Bobo homepage, in Indonesian

1968 establishments in the Netherlands
1968 comics debuts
1973 establishments in Indonesia
Biweekly magazines
Children's magazines published in the Netherlands
Comics magazines published in the Netherlands
Dutch-language magazines
Fictional rabbits and hares
Comics about animals
Comics about rabbits and hares
Indonesia–Netherlands relations
Magazines published in Indonesia
Magazines established in 1968
Magazines established in 1973
Weekly magazines published in the Netherlands
Kompas Gramedia Group


Viševca (; in older sources also Uševica, ) is a small settlement in the Municipality of Cerklje na Gorenjskem in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia.

References

External links

Viševca on Geopedia

Populated places in the Municipality of Cerklje na Gorenjskem


Hashalom (Peace) was a Sephardic journal published in Belgrade from 1903 until 1906. The number of pages differed from 8 to 24 and the format was 15×23 cm.

History and content
The editor was Isaac Mitrani, articles were written in Judeo-Spanish in Rashi letters, and it basically brought "national news, Jewish history, religious education, very interesting stories" (novedades nasyonales, istorya de los đudeos, sensya reližyoza, kuentos muy kuryozos), as stated on the cover page. The magazine was decidedly Zionist-oriented, called for Jewish unity and the creation of a Jewish state. News usually concerned the persecution of Jews in Europe and appeals for help. Literary texts described themes from history or prominent persons from that time. The magazine did not have a precise publishing schedule, but depended on subscription payments. For example, the second issue of the third year was published at the beginning of spring 1906, on Purim, and the third one not before the beginning of summer of that year. At the end of that issue, the editorial board wrote an apology (Eskuza) in which they asked for understanding for the delay and informed their audience that timely subscription payments would enable bi-monthly publishing.

Although the magazine was printed in Belgrade, the editorial board moved from one city to another. It shows how the state boundaries did not represent any kind of obstacle and that the circulation of Jews among their communities throughout the Balkans went undisturbed. The editor of the second issue in the third year was Isaac Mitrani from Belgrade, while the editor of the third number of the same year was his relative Barouh Mitrani from Sofia.

Donations
In one of the articles, the editorial board acknowledges the receipt of donations and appeals to readers to donate. It proves that the destiny of the magazine depended solely on its readers. This text also evinces that the magazine was read throughout the Balkan Peninsula:

To our friends in Belgrade! We thank you for your promises: the anonymous reader who helped us with the costs of this number! We praise him from the depth of our heart, hoping the others would do the same! Friends in Sofia and Filipolje, we wait for your good promises: to our subscribers in Pazardzhik, Niš, Vidin, Yambol, Varna, Kragujevac, Dupnica, thank you for continuation of your favors to enable us continue: subscribers in Sarajevo and Šabac, we thank you as well (Hashalom III, 2: 16).

References
 Pesic, Dimitrije, (2007), Magazines as a Way of Maintaining Regional Intra-Ethnic Communication. the Case of Balkan Jewish Periodicals. Ethnologia Balkanica, Volume 11/2007

1900s in Belgrade
History of Sofia
Jewish Bulgarian history
Jewish newspapers
Jewish Serbian history
Jewish Bosnian history
Jews and Judaism in Belgrade
Judaeo-Spanish-language newspapers
Publications disestablished in 1906
Newspapers established in 1903
Sephardi Jewish culture in Serbia
Zionism in Europe


Bennetts Water Gardens is an  garden in Chickerell, near Weymouth, Dorset, in southern England. It holds national and international collections of water lilies which flower from late May through to September. The plants are displayed in a series of ponds and lakes. A feature of the garden is a blue Japanese bridge built in 1999 to celebrate 100 years since Claude Monet painted his famous piece Water Lily Pond 1899.

The site was originally a clay pit as far back as 1859; Oxford Clay was dug by hand from the ground for brickmaking. Today a museum on the site details this local history, including Chickerell village, which is mentioned in the Domesday Book; Chesil Beach; and The Fleet lagoon.

The collection of Nymphaea (Water Lily) is accredited with Plant Heritage as a National Plant Collection.

In media
 Gardeners' World. Episode 19, 2012, BBC2. First broadcast 17 Aug 2012

References

External links

 Great British Gardens
 Visit Dorset
 West Dorset District Council's Tourism website
 RHS Garden Finder

1959 establishments in England
Botanical gardens in England
Gardens in Dorset
Local museums in Dorset
NCCPG collections in England


Vopovlje () is a settlement in the Municipality of Cerklje na Gorenjskem in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia.

References

External links

Vopovlje on Geopedia

Populated places in the Municipality of Cerklje na Gorenjskem


The Syro-Malabar Church, an Eastern Catholic church of the Catholic Church, traces its origin to apostolic times. Historically,  the church developed as the Malankara Church, a suffragan of the Metropolis of Persia and India under the Church of the East and later elevated as the Metropolis of All India of the Church of the East in the seventh century by Patriarch Ishoʿyahb III. It had the jurisdiction all over India. After the Schism of 1552, the church was integrated with the Chaldean Catholic Church. The efforts of the Portuguese Padroado to liturgical latinisation under the Latin Church archidiocese that culminated in the Synod of Diamper in 1599, led to a suppression of the Syro-Malabar customs and rites, and liturgical Latinisation. In the 20th century, Syro-Malabar Catholics attained greater autonomy and were ultimately made a major archeparchal sui iuris church.

Eparchies in Proper Kerala Territory

Eparchies outside Kerala

Apostolic Visitations

Timeline
May 20, 1887 Two independent Vicariates of Kottayam (present Changanaseri1) and Thrisur2 for Syrians; Charles Lavigne and Adolf Medlycott were made Vicar Apostolic respectively (Quod Jampridem, Pope Leo XIII).

 September 16, 1890 Seat of Kottayam Vicariate moved to Changanaseri.

July 28, 1896 Vicariate of Ernakulam3 created, with territories from both Vicariates of Changanaseri and Thrissur and Bishop Louis Pazheparambil, Bishop Mathew Makkil, and Bishop John Menachery were made the bishops respectively (Quae Rei Sacrae, Pope Leo XIII).
August 29, 1911 Establishment of Kottayam4 Vicariate for the Knanaya (Suddists) Community of the Syrians.

 December 21, 1923 Establishment of the Syro-Malabar Hierarchy with Ernakulam as the Metropolitan See.

July 25, 1950 Eparchy of Pala5
December 31, 1953 Eparchy of Thalaseri6

 July 26, 1956 Changanaseri made Archiparchy

January 10, 1957 Eparchy of Kothamangalam7
March 31, 1962 Eparchy of Chanda,8 Maharashtra (CMI)
July 29, 1968 Eparchy of Sagar,9 Madhya Pradesh (CMI)
July 29, 1968 Eparchy of Satna,10 Madhya Pradesh (VC)
July 29, 1968 Eparchy of Ujjain,11 Madhya Pradesh (MST)
March 23, 1972 Eparchy of Bijnor,12 Uttarakhand (CMI)
March 23, 1972 Eparchy of Jagdalpur,13 Chattisgargh (CMI)
March 1, 1973 Eparchy of Mananthavady14
June 20, 1974 Eparchy of Palakkad15
February 25, 1977 Eparchy of Rajkot16, Gujarat (CMI)
February 26, 1977 Eparchy of Kanjirappally17
June 22, 1978 Eparchy of Irinjalakkuda18
June 19, 1984 Eparchy of Gorakhpur,19 Uttar Pradesh (CST)
April 28, 1986 Eparchy of Thamaraseri20
April 30, 1988 Eparchy of Kalyan,21 Maharashtra

 December 16, 1992 Establishment of Major Archiepiscopal see of Ernakulam-Angamaly
 May 18, 1995 Eparchies of Thrisur and Thalaseri made Archieparchies.

November 11, 1996 Eparchy of Thuckalay,22 Tamil Nadu

 February 3, 1998 Major Archiepiscopal Headquarters at Mount St. Thomas, Kakkanad.

April 24, 1999 Eparchy of Belthangady,23 Karnataka
July 23, 1999 Eparchy of Adilabad,24 Andhra Pradesh (CMI)
July 6, 2001 Eparchy of St. Thomas of Chicago,25 USA.
December 19, 2002 Eparchy of Idukki26

 May 9, 2005 Eparchy of Kottayam made Archieparchy.

August 21, 2007 Eparchy of Bhadravathi,27 Karnataka (MCBS)
 December 23, 2013 Eparchy of Saint Thomas the Apostle of Melbourne established in and for Australia, also acting as Apostolic Visitator for neighbouring New Zealand

References

External links
Syro-Malabar Church Official website
GigaCatholic
Archdiocese of Tellicherry
The website for Synod of Diamper
Archdiocese of Changanacherry
Archdiocese of Trichur
Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly
Archdiocese of Kottayam
Syro Malabar Mission of San Francisco
Diocese of Palai
St. Raphael Syro Malabar Catholic Mission of Cleveland
St. Thomas Syro-Malabar Church of Philadelphia
Syro-Malabar Mission of Los Angeles
Syro-Malabar Mission of New Jersey
Welcome to Indian Christianity
Christian Musicological Society of India
Congregation of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux: CST Brothers
Carmelites of Mary Immaculate Homepage
Syro-Malabar / Discalced Carmelite Nuns
New Head for Syro-Malabar Church

Syro-Malabar


The brownback trevally (Carangoides praeustus), also known as the brown-backed trevally, is a species of small inshore marine fish classified in the jack family, Carangidae. The brownback trevally is distributed in two populations through the tropical waters of the Indo-west Pacific region, ranging from the Persian Gulf east to India, South East Asia and the Indonesian islands. The species is distinguished from similar species by its completely scaled breast and black-tipped second dorsal fin, and is known to reach a maximum length of 25 cm. The brownback trevally inhabits inshore waters including bays and estuaries, where it preys on demersal crustaceans and small fish. Other aspects of its biology are poorly known, and it is of minor importance to fisheries, occasionally caught by hook and line or trawls. William Smith-Vaniz has recently suggested the two distinct populations may actually represent two distinct species.

Taxonomy and naming
The brownback trevally is classified within the genus Carangoides, one of a number of groups of fish referred to as jacks and trevallies. Carangoides falls into the jack and horse mackerel family Carangidae, the Carangidae are part of the order Carangiformes.

The species was first scientifically described by an unknown author in a publication entitled 'Memoir of the Life and Public Services of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles', in which a chapter was dedicated to fish specimens Raffles had collected. The author is usually presumed to be the English zoologist Edward Turner Bennett, but due to a lack of evidence to support this, his name is placed in parentheses as required by the ICZN code. The species was here published under the name of Caranx praeustus, with the holotype collected from Sumatra, Indonesia. This classification was later changed to the genus Carangoides by Pieter Bleeker, where it has remained. Two junior synonyms have been applied to the species, Caranx ire and Caranx melanostethos, which are invalid under ICZN rules. The species specific epithet praeustus is Latin; meaning "burnt at the tip", in reference to its black dorsal lobe.

In the last revision of the carangids of the Indo-Pacific, William Smith-Vaniz found that the two separate populations have differing gill raker counts and breast squamation, leading him to suggest the possibility of these being two separate species. If further study indicates these are two separate species, the name Carangoides ire should be reinstated, as Georges Cuvier described a fish from this second western Indian Ocean population as Caranx ire.

Description
The brownback trevally is a relatively small species of carangid, growing to a maximum recorded length of 25 cm, but is much more common at lengths less than 16 cm. The species has a similar body profile to other trevallies in the same genus, having an elongate, compressed form with the dorsal and ventral profiles approximately equal in convexity. The dorsal fin is in two parts, the first consisting of 8 spines while the second has 1 spine and 21 to 24 soft rays, with both dorsal fins of approximately equal height. The anal fin has two anteriorly detached spines followed by 1 spine and 18 to 20 soft rays. The lateral line has a moderate anterior arch, with the straight and arched sections being nearly equal in length. The straight part of the lateral line has 4 to 12 scales followed by 23 to 34 scutes. The breast is nearly completely scaled, occasionally having a partially naked midventral area, which rarely extends the entire length of the breast. In the western population, all individuals have this narrow naked midventral area extending the entire length of the breast. Both jaws have an irregular row of small conical teeth, with the upper jaw also having a narrow band of teeth anteriorly. The gill raker count also varies between the two populations, with the eastern population having 32 to 37 in total, while the western population has 40 to 47. There are 24 vertebrae.

The brownback trevally is silvery blue-grey dorsally, shading to silvery underneath, sometimes with a broad brassy midlateral zone. There is no dark opercular spot. The distal area of the second dorsal fin lobe is strongly black, usually with a white tip while the remainder of the fin is dusky. The caudal fin is yellow and all other fins are whitish to hyaline.

Distribution and habitat
The brownback trevally is distributed in two distinct populations in the tropical waters of the Indo-west pacific region. The western population extends from the waters of Iran in the Persian Gulf to the Bay of Bengal off Bangladesh, with records also from the Maldives and Sri Lanka. The eastern population inhabits a wide region in the South East Asian and Indonesian region, from the Gulf of Thailand to Borneo, Philippines and Indonesia.

The brownback trevally is a coastal species, inhabiting both rocky and coral reefs, as well as bay and estuary environments. The species prefers calm, sheltered waters.

Biology and fishery
The biology of the brownback trevally is known only from a single research study on its diet, and observational evidence recorded by divers. The study was located in the South China Sea, and focused on the diets of two species of sillaginids, with investigations into the trophic relationships of fish in the region. It was found the brownback trevally primarily consumes shrimps, with lesser amounts of calanoid copepods and small fish also taken. Observations indicate the fish form schools of up to 13 fish, which patrol reefs, and are inquisitive of divers. In Hong Kong waters, the fish is present from April to October, with a darkening of the fishes colour appearing to indicate spawning occurs in September at this locality.

The brownback trevally is of minor importance to fisheries throughout its range, often taken as bycatch in various trawling and hook and line operations. It is generally not distinguished from other trevally species, and no catch statistics are reported. It is also often taken by small artisanal fisheries by various inshore fish traps.

References

External links
Brownback trevally at Fishbase
Factsheet and picture

brownback trevally
Marine fauna of South Asia
brownback trevally


Vrhovje () is a small settlement in the Municipality of Cerklje na Gorenjskem in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia. In 2017 it had a population of six.

References

External links

Vrhovje on Geopedia

Populated places in the Municipality of Cerklje na Gorenjskem


Inverlochy Castle Hotel, formerly known as Inverlochy Castle, is a 19th-century baronial mansion near Fort William, Scotland. It is located about two miles away from the 13th century Inverlochy Castle, after which it was named.  This is a baronial mansion was built in 1863 by William Scarlett, 3rd Baron Abinger, soon after succeeding his father as Baron Abinger in 1861. Queen Victoria spent a week at Inverlochy during an 1873 visit to Balmoral, remarking "I never saw a lovelier or more romantic spot". The house and estate were sold in 1944 to a Canadian entrepreneur, Joseph Hobbs, the owner of the nearby Ben Nevis distillery. Upon inheriting the estate, Hobbs' son converted the house into a hotel, which opened for the first guests in 1969.

It was voted the number 17 "best hotel in Europe" by Travel + Leisure magazine in 2001.

References

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St Mary's Church, Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire, England is the parish church of the town and its oldest place of worship. It is a Grade I listed building.

Background

Construction commenced in 1140 and the church was dedicated in 1150 although construction continued for another 30 years. It is not known why such a grand church was constructed in what at the time was a small hamlet.

The building is cruciform in shape, with a chancel (the first part to be built), a nave, south and north transepts, and a tower. A spire, one of the tallest in Europe, was added in the 14th century with a total height of 200 feet. It is topped by a gilded weather vane. A 19th century vestry was added on the church's north east corner. The church is built from the local clunch stone and flint with some addition of Roman bricks. The architecture is Norman throughout apart from porches added in the 14th and 15th centuries.

In 1302 a cell to Ashridge Priory was founded in Hemel Hempstead and the church had collegiate status until the Dissolution of the monasteries in 1536. A door at the base of the tower allowed the monks access to the church and avoided them mixing with the townspeople.

The church contains a memorial to Sir Astley Paston Cooper. There is a Walker organ which was refurbished in 2008.

A ring of five bells was recorded in the reign of Edward VI. None of these remain and the present ring is of 8 bells dating from 1590 to 1767.  In 1950, as part of the 800th anniversary, the bells were retuned by Gillett and Johnston of Croydon and rehung on steel frames with completely new fittings.  The eight bells are inscribed as follows:

1. (Treble) Lester and Pack - 1758

2. Lester and Pack - 1758

3. Chandler made me - 1688

4. Praise the Lord - 1633

5. Lawdate Domini - undated

6. God save King James - 1604

7. Sana Manet Christi - 1617

8. (Tenor) Lester and Pack - 1767

The font is original Norman, although surrounded by 19th century decoration.

References

 St Mary's Church guidebook with foreword by the rector Peter Cotton, 2008

External links
St Mary's parish website
Diocese of St Albans

Hemel Hempstead, St. Mary's Church
Former collegiate churches in England
History of Hertfordshire
Tourist attractions in Hertfordshire
Hemel Hempstead, St. Mary's Church


The 1999 Newsweek Champions Cup and the Evert Cup were tennis tournaments played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 26th edition of the Indian Wells Masters and was part of the Super 9 of the 1999 ATP Tour and of Tier I of the 1999 WTA Tour. Both the men's and women's tournaments took place at the Grand Champions Resort in Indian Wells, California in the United States from March 5 through March 14, 1999.

Finals

Men's singles

 Mark Philippoussis defeated  Carlos Moyá, 5–7, 6–4, 6–4, 4–6, 6–2
 It was Philippoussis' 2nd title of the year and the 10th of his career. It was his 1st Super 9 title.

Women's singles

 Serena Williams defeated  Steffi Graf, 6–3, 3–6, 7–5
 It was Williams' 3rd title of the year and the 7th of her career. It was her 1st Tier I title.

Men's doubles

 Wayne Black /  Sandon Stolle defeated   Ellis Ferreira /  Rick Leach, 7–6(7–4), 6–3

Women's doubles

 Martina Hingis /  Anna Kournikova defeated  Mary Joe Fernández /  Jana Novotná, 6–2, 6–2

WTA entrants

Seeds

Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
  Alexandra Stevenson
  Mary Joe Fernández
  Olga Barabanschikova
  Lilia Osterloh

The following players received wildcards into the doubles main draw:
  Olga Barabanschikova /  Magüi Serna
  Steffi Graf /  Anke Huber

The following players received entry from the singles qualifying draw:
  Alicia Molik
  Brie Rippner
  Barbara Rittner
  Tatiana Panova
  Miho Saeki
  María Sánchez Lorenzo
  Andrea Glass
  Jessica Steck

The following players received entry from the doubles qualifying draw:
  Kristie Boogert /  Anne-Gaëlle Sidot

References

External links

 Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) tournament profile
 WTA tournament profile

Newsweek Champions Cup
Evert Cup
Indian Wells Open
Champions Cup and the Evert Cup
Champions Cup and the Evert Cup
Champions Cup and the Evert Cup


The Arboretum de Podestat (4 hectares) is a private arboretum located in Podestat, on the northern outskirts of Bergerac, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France. It is open by appointment; admission is free.

The arboretum was established circa 2000, and now contains a nationally recognized collection of miscanthus, as well as oaks, hornbeams, and various plants from Asia.

See also
 List of botanical gardens in France

References
 Parcs et Jardins entry (French)
 Gralon.net entry (French)

Podestat, Arboretum de
Podestat, Arboretum de


General Charles Rainsford (3 February 1728 – 24 May 1809) was a British Army officer.

Career
He was the second son of alderman Francis Rainsford (died 1770) and his wife, Isabella and received his first education from a cleric friend of Francis's at Great Clacton. His uncle, also Charles Rainsford (died 1778), was deputy lieutenant of the Tower of London and used his influence to get him made second cornet in General Bland's 3rd dragoons in March 1744, a unit at that time active in the Flanders theatre of the War of the Austrian Succession. Rainsford joined it immediately, carrying its standard at Fontenoy and soon after being appointed ensign in the Coldstream Guards. With his new unit he returned to England to face the Jacobite rising, rising to major of brigade and colonel's aide-de-camp. He then served as private secretary to Tyrawley, governor of Gibraltar (1756–7) before returning to England again in 1760. The following year he was given a company to command under Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick in Germany, before re-joining Tyrawley as aide-de-camp, brigadier-general and chief engineer in 1762 to face the threatened Spanish invasion of Portugal. Ordered home in 1763, with promotion second major in the Grenadier Guards and equerry to William, duke of Gloucester (1766–80), he commanded the army detachment at the king's bench prison at Southwark after the May 1768 riot.

He also served as MP for Maldon (1772–74) until his patron William Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford's nephew and heir was elected. He also held Bere Alston (1787–88) thanks to help from Algernon Percy, Lord Lovaine (brother of Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland), leaving it over the Regency Bill, with Lovaine backing the government, but Gloucester and Northumberland opposing it. He was rewarded by Northumberland with Newport, Cornwall (1790–96), before leaving parliament. He had taken little part in parliamentary proceedings, serving at the same time as governor of Chester (1776–96), king's aide-de-camp (1777–82), commander of the troops stationed in Hyde Park and then Blackheath against the Gordon Riots (1780) and nominal commander of the Menorca garrison (1782, though it surrendered to the Spanish before he arrived to take up the post). He was also elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1779, and was also a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, a Rosicrucian, a Freemason and researched alchemy. In 1782 Rainsford and Benedict Chastanier reached out to kindred Illuminist groups in Berlin and Paris by publishing a brochure in French about degrees of the Universal Society. In summer 1783 Rainsford and William Bousie, an Anglo-French merchant, began corresponding with the Parisian lodge of the Philaléthes, preparatory to the Philaléthes convention in Paris in April 1785 to review the rites of many para-Masonic and esoteric societies. Rainsford provided information on Emanuel Swedenborg, Baal Shem of London and the Kabbalistic symbolism of higher degrees. He was then sent to be Robert Boyd's second-in-command at Gibraltar on the outbreak of Britain's war with Revolutionary France, and took over after Boyd's death as Governor (1794–95). On his return to England he became governor of Cliff Fort, Tynemouth, his last active posting. On his death in London in 1809 he was buried in a vault in the chancel of the chapel of St Peter ad Vincula in the Tower of London, alongside his first wife, his father and his uncle Charles.

Marriages and issue
on 18 July 1775 Elizabeth (1758–1781), daughter of Edward Miles
on 16 February 1789, Ann Cornwallis (d. 1 February 1798), youngest daughter of Sir William More Molyneux of Loseley Park, Guildford – the marriage remained childless.

He and Elizabeth had three children:
Colonel William Henry Rainsford (bap. 1776, d. 1823)
Julia Anne
Josephina, baptised with Sir Joseph Yorke as godfather, died in infancy

Works
His nearly forty volumes of manuscript are now held by the British Library.

References

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Andrew Dalgleish (1853 – 1888, on Karakoram Pass, between Ladakh, India and China) was a Scottish trader, traveller and government agent during the Great Game.

Life and murder
He took part in the first trading venture of the Central Asian Trading Company, the company having been set up in 1873 with the encouragement of Robert Barkely Shaw. Dalgleish was one of the first British traders in Ladakh, engaged in trans-Karakoram trade in the 1870s and 1880s. He married a Yarkandi wife. He had for some years traded between Yarkand and Leh and he was fluent in Uyghur.

Dalgleish was murdered by an Afghan named Dad Mahomed, a Kakar Pathan from Quetta who was once a merchant but had gone bankrupt. According to Hamilton Bower, in May 1888 Dalgleish, accompanied by some pilgrims and servants, left Leh for Yarkand. Several days into their journey they were joined by Mahomed. On 8 April 1888 the party crossed the Karakoram Pass and set up some tents to rest. While drinking tea in a tent Dalgleish and Mahomed had a conversation regarding Mahomed's debts. Mahomed excused himself and then returned with a gun and fired into the tent, striking Dalgleish in the shoulder. Dalgleish escaped from the tent but Mahomed pursued him with a sword and killed him. Mahomed did not immediately flee but instead forced Dalgleish's servants to make him a meal, then he slept in his victim's tent. The next day Mahomed departed and Dalgleish's servants and pilgrims made their way to Yarkand. The British community in Yarkand expressed their outrage over the murder and pleaded with the local yamen to have the murderer arrested. Mahomed later arrived in Kashgar and despite pleas from the Russian Consul Nikolai Petrovsky local officials refused to arrest Mahomed.

During his travels through Qing China's Xinjiang Province from 1889–90, British military officer Hamilton Bower attempted without success to pursue Dalgleish's killer. Mahomed was arrested in 1890 in Samarkand (then Russia) and committed suicide in prison.

A small memorial made of marble slab was erected by Bower on the desolate site of his death. It read in English and Persian, "Here fell Andrew Dalgleish, murdered by an Afghan, April 6th, 1888."

His resting place is in a Christian cemetery in Leh, Ladakh.

Further reading
Rizvi, Janet. (1996) Ladakh. Crossroads of High Asia. Oxford University Press, New Delhi. , pp. 105–106

References

External links
A Book of Escapes and Hurried Journeys, by John Buchan pp. 286–291.

1888 deaths
British people in colonial India
People murdered in China
Scottish murder victims
1853 births
British spies against the Russian Empire


Zalog pri Cerkljah (; ) is a village in the Municipality of Cerklje na Gorenjskem in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia. It includes the hamlets of Zgornji Zalog (), Srednji Zalog (), Spodnji Zalog (), Zgornja Trata, and Spodnja Trata.

Name
The name of the settlement was changed from Zalog to Zalog pri Cerkljah in 1953. In the past the German name was Salog.

Church

The church in the hamlet of Zgornji Zalog is dedicated to Saint Matthew. The bell in the belfry is dated to 1434 and is the oldest known bell in the Archdiocese of Ljubljana.

References

External links

Zalog pri Cerkljah on Geopedia

Populated places in the Municipality of Cerklje na Gorenjskem


James Tod Aitken (23 July 1882 – 8 August 1915) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the Victorian Football League.

Family
The son of David Aitken (1843–1907), and Ellen Louisa Aitken (1844–1918), née Tod, James Tod Aitken was born at  "Hopkins Hill", Chatsworth, Victoria (near Hexham, Victoria) on 23 July 1882.

Education
He was educated at Melbourne Grammar School (1895–1899), passing the University Matriculation Examination in 1899. He played cricket with the school's First XI and football with the school's First XVIII from 1897 to 1899.

Football
He played a single game for the Geelong First XVIII in the VFL competition, against St Kilda on 13 June 1903. It seems that he was selected to play against Carlton the following week, but he did not play.

Military service
Employed as a wool clerk with the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., he enlisted in the First AIF on 15 March 1915, and served overseas with the 5th Australian Infantry Battalion.

Death
He was killed in action near Lone Pine at Gallipoli, Ottoman Turkey on 8 August 1915.

He was buried at the Shrapnel Valley Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery, near Gallipoli, Turkey.

See also
 List of Victorian Football League players who died in active service

Footnotes

References

 Dillon, Leigh, "Geelong's Anzac Legends", AFL.com.au, 27 May 2003.

 Main, J. & Allen, D., "Aitken, James", p. 13 in Main, J. & Allen, D., Fallen – The Ultimate Heroes: Footballers Who Never Returned From War, Crown Content, (Melbourne), 2002.
 World War One Nominal  Roll, Private James Tod Aitken (2105), collection of the Australian War Memorial.
 World War One Embarkation Roll, Private James Tod Aitken (2105), collection of the Australian War Memorial.
 World War One Service Record: Private James Tod Aitken (2105), National Archives of Australia.
 Australian Casualties: 77th List Issued: Killed in Action: Victoria, The Argus, (Tuesday, 14 September 1915), p.5.
 Roll of Honour Circular: Private James Tod Aitken (2105), collection of the Australian War Memorial.
 Roll of Honour: Private James Tod Aitken (2105), Australian War Memorial.
 Private James Tod Aitken (2105), Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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A bathroom cabinet is a cabinet in a bathroom, most often used to store hygiene products, toiletries, and sometimes also medications such that it works as an improvised medicine cabinet. Bathroom cabinets are usually placed under sinks, over sinks, or above toilets. Many mirror cabinets are combined with a lamp that illuminates the mirror and thereby (especially in small bathrooms) also the room. Bathroom cabinets often either have an integrated electrical socket or are placed close to one so that appliances such as an electric shaver or hairdryer can be used. Bathroom cabinets have become much more technologically advanced with retailers today offering features like Bluetooth audio, mood lighting, and anti-fog technology.

See also
 List of furniture types
 Toiletry kit
 Shelf (storage)

References

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Is Anybody There? is a 2008 British drama film starring Michael Caine and directed by John Crowley. It was written by Peter Harness and produced by David Heyman, Marc Turtletaub and Peter Saraf. The film premiered at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival under its original title Is There Anybody There? It garnered a nomination from the London Film Critics' Circle for Bill Milner as the Young British Performer of the Year.

Plot
In 1987 Edward (Bill Milner) is a ten-year-old boy who lives at an old people's home run by his parents (David Morrissey and Anne-Marie Duff). Surrounded by death and dying, he becomes obsessed with finding evidence for the afterlife, often using a tape recorder to capture his "encounters".

Edward is helped in his search by Clarence (Michael Caine), an elderly ex-magician in the early stages of dementia who has recently entered the home. They first meet on the road near the home, when he is nearly hit by his camper van. Clarence had been living in it and is resistant to moving into the home.

Frustrated with having all of the residents in his home (he has lost his room, TV control and general privacy and freedom), Edward sets off the fire alarm. While everyone is out in the rain, he wreaks havoc alone inside.

The next day, Edward passes Clarence's van on his way to school. Its engine is running, and Edward opens the door to a cloud of carbon monoxide. While Clarence is hospitalised, Edward looks through his possessions. Clarence has lots of show bills of his past magic acts.

Edward visits Clarence in the hospital, bringing a few things and apologising. From this point on, the film follows their quest and their friendship, which ultimately allows both Edward and Clarence to come to terms with their respective situations.

Edward shows Clarence a peculiar ritual he does, trying to contact the dead. Magic interests both of them, so Edward learns some tricks to show the other children at school. On his birthday Clarence takes them out in the van, but he gets confused at a roundabout, causing a pile up. They cannot get the van started again, so a frustrated Clarence empties it, pushes it into the water, then argues with Edward saying there is no afterlife. Angry, the boy stomps off.

Later on, the home throws a party for Edward's birthday. He is not enthused, until Clarence offers to do magic. The card tricks go well, but one where Clarence is meant to pretend to cut off a finger goes wrong.

Edward organises a bus trip to Clarence's wife's grave. His dementia begins to show, as does not believe it is her grave. Edwards' parents pick them up. He believes Edward's mum is his dead estranged wife, so she accepts his apology.

Clarence quietly dies, but Edward has grown emotionally and, as his parents earlier on had had some problems, they decide to give it another try.

Cast
Michael Caine as Clarence (magician)
Bill Milner as Edward
David Morrissey as Dad
Anne-Marie Duff as Mum
Leslie Phillips as Reg
Sylvia Syms as Lilian
Peter Vaughan as Bob
Thelma Barlow as Ena
Rosemary Harris as Elsie
Elizabeth Spriggs as Prudence (her final performance)

Production

Shot on location in Hastings and Chalfont St Giles.
Folkestone Central railway station doubled as a Yorkshire station as Clarence and Edward take a trip on the train for a day out. The sea shelter on Princes Parade in Hythe was used as a bus shelter in Hull. St Peter's Church of England Primary school in Folkestone was used as Edward's school in the film.

The ethereal music throughout the film was performed by David Coulter on a musical saw.

Release
The film premiered at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival under the title Is There Anybody There? It was released in the United States on 17 April 2009 and in the United Kingdom on 1 May 2009.

, the film holds a 65% approval rating on review site Rotten Tomatoes, based on 117 reviews with an average rating of 6.30 out of 10. The website's critics consensus reads: "Though Michael Caine gives an excellent performance, Is Anybody There? features a cliche-filled story that ultimately falters."

References

External links

 Is Anybody There? at Big Beach

2008 films
2008 drama films
2000s British films
2000s English-language films
BBC Film films
Big Beach (company) films
British drama films
Films about health care
Films directed by John Crowley
Films produced by David Heyman
Films set in 1987
Films shot at Elstree Film Studios
Films with screenplays by Peter Harness


The 35th General Assembly of Prince Edward Island was in session from February 8, 1904, to October 15, 1908. The Liberal Party led by Arthur Peters formed the government. On February 1, 1908, Francis Haszard became Liberal party leader and Premier after Peters died in office.

There were four sessions of the 35th General Assembly:

Albert E. Douglas was elected speaker.

Members

Kings

Prince

Queens

Notes:

External links
  Election results for the Prince Edward Island Legislative Assembly, 1904-12-07
 Canadian Parliamentary Guide, 1912, EJ Chambers

Terms of the General Assembly of Prince Edward Island
1904 establishments in Prince Edward Island
1908 disestablishments in Prince Edward Island


Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Boyd KB (c. 1710 – 13 May 1794) was a British Army officer.

Life
Boyd was baptized on 20 April 1710 at Richmond, Surrey and attended the University of Glasgow before entering the army in his father Ninian's profession of civilian storekeeper. In 1756 he served at the Siege of Minorca, and attempted to reach Admiral John Byng's fleet in an open boat with a message from the besieged garrison commander, William Blakeney. Boyd was a witness at the subsequent court-martial at which Byng was tried for the loss of the garrison.

He subsequently became commissary general to the Marquess of Granby in Germany (1758 to 1759); he then rose through the officer ranks to be three-times Governor of Gibraltar (1776 to 1777, 1790 and 1790 to 1794). Boyd considered that his and General Sir William Green's work on the King's Bastion in Gibraltar was so important that he asked to be buried there. The site of his burial is not indicated but his body is lost under cement used to strengthen the building still further in the 19th century. A memorial stone was placed within the King's Chapel but the marble stone in the King's Bastion read:
 Within the walls of this bastion are deposited the mortal remains of the late General Sir Robert Boyd, K.B., governor of this fortress, who died on 13 May 1794, aged 84 years. By him the first stone of the bastion was laid in 1773, and under his supervision it was completed, when, on that occasion, in his address to the troops, he expressed a wish to see it resist the combined efforts of France and Spain, which wish was accomplished on 13 Sept. 1782, when, by the fire of this bastion, the flotilla expressly designed for the capture of this fortress were utterly destroyed.

References

External links
Parliamentary Archives, Papers of General Sir Robert Boyd, Governor of Gibraltar

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The siege of Fort St Philip, also known as the siege of Minorca, took place from 20 April to 29 June 1756 during the Seven Years' War. Ceded to Great Britain in 1714 by Spain following the War of the Spanish Succession, its capture by France threatened the British naval position in the Western Mediterranean and it was returned after the Treaty of Paris (1763).

Background
The Spanish island of Menorca was captured by the British in 1708 during the War of the Spanish Succession and along with Gibraltar ceded to Great Britain under the 1714 Treaty of Utrecht. Although considered vital for control of the Western Mediterranean, it was also extremely vulnerable, since the Spanish deeply resented British occupation, while it was only two days sail from Cádiz, and one from the French naval base at Toulon. Attempts by William Blakeney, Lieutenant governor of Menorca and commander of the garrison of Fort St Philip, to reduce local opposition by encouraging his troops to marry local women, and controlling Catholic schools and institutions proved unsuccessful.

A Parliamentary committee later set up to investigate the island's loss noted the poor state of its defences, with crumbling walls and rotten gun platforms, while over 35 senior officers were absent from their posts, including the governor of Fort St Philip, and the colonels of all four regiments in its garrison. In addition, while Blakeney had a long and distinguished military career, by 1756 he was over 80 years old and suffering from Alcoholism.

Aware of the island's vulnerability, the French hoped its capture would provide them with a bargaining chip to persuade Ferdinand VI of Spain to join the war as their ally. In the event this proved not to be the case, as Ferdinand remained neutral until his death in 1759. Although the Seven Years' War did not formally begin until France declared war on Britain on 9 June 1756, at the beginning of the year Jean-Baptiste de Machault d'Arnouville, then head of the French naval ministry, ordered the Duke de Richelieu to prepare an expeditionary force to take the island.

Siege

Richelieu sailed from Marseille on 10 April with transports carrying 16,000 troops and escorted by seventeen naval vessels; he reached Menorca on 18 April, occupied most of the island and then on 8 May began to bombard St. Philip's Castle. Informed of Richelieu's preparations in mid March, Blakeney had substantially strengthened his fortifications but the presence of numerous non-combatants, including over 800 women and children, meant the garrison would quickly run short of supplies.

A squadron of the Royal Navy from Gibraltar under Admiral John Byng attempted to relieve the fort but withdrew after the largely indecisive Battle of Minorca on 20 May. Although the engagement has been described as a "minor cannonade", his retreat effectively sealed the fate of the garrison, and Blakeney surrendered on 29 June, two days after the besiegers captured several important outworks.

During the siege, the British garrison lost 59 killed and 149 wounded, French casualties amounting to some 1,600 dead and 2,000 wounded. Since Blakeney surrendered on terms, the surviving members of the garrison along with British civilians from the local administration, a total of 4,378 in all, were transported to Gibraltar in French ships, arriving there on 11 July. In the inquiry that followed, Byng was condemned of failing "to do his utmost" and executed in March 1757 despite pleas for leniency, prompting French author Voltaire to later write that the English "shoot an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others". Thomas Fowke, Governor of Gibraltar, previously court-martialled but acquitted for his role in the 1746 defeat at Prestonpans, was also found guilty of not sending reinforcements early enough and dismissed.

In contrast, the popular press portrayed Blakeney as a hero, the heavy drinking that left him with "a paralytick disorder" and "nervous tremors" being portrayed as the virtues of a simple soldier. His professional colleagues were far more critical; William Cunninghame, his chief engineer and deputy, strongly objected to the surrender, which he considered premature, and listed numerous deficiencies in the conduct of the defence.

Aftermath

Hyacinthe Gaëtan de Lannion was appointed the first French Governor of Menorca. A British naval squadron led by Sir Edward Hawke sent out to replace Byng, arrived off Menorca shortly after the surrender. As Hawke did not have enough troops on board to land and mount a siege to retake the island he departed, cruising in the waters off Marseilles for three months before sailing home. He was later criticised for failing to mount a blockade of the island, which might have forced it to surrender through starvation.

The French held Menorca until the Treaty of Paris (1763), when Britain exchanged it for the island of Guadeloupe. The Spanish recaptured Menorca in 1781 during the 1779 to 1783 Anglo-Spanish War and it was formally returned to them by Britain in the Treaty of Paris (1783).

Order of battle

British Army
Land forces which formed part of the garrison included:

 4th (The King's Own) Regiment of Foot
 7th Regiment of Foot (Royal Fusiliers)
 23rd Regiment of Foot (Royal Welch Fusiliers)
 24th Regiment of Foot
 34th Regiment of Foot

French Army
The French invasion force consisted of:

 1er Bataillon du Régiment de Cambis (2nd Btn later joined, originally garrisoned in Monaco)
 1er & 2e Bataillons du Régiment de Vermandois
 1er & 2e Bataillons du Régiment de Rohan Rochefort
 1er & 2e Bataillons du Régiment de Médoc
 1er & 2e Bataillons du Régiment Royal
 1er & 2e Bataillons du Régiment de Bretagne
 1er & 2e Bataillons du Régiment de Haynault
 1er & 2e Bataillons du Régiment de Talaru
 1er & 2e Bataillons du Régiment de Briqueville
 1er & 2e Bataillons du Régiment de La Marine
 1er Bataillon du Régiment de La Marche
 1er Bataillon du Régiment de Briqueville
 1er Bataillon du Régiment de Royal Italien
 1er Bataillon du Régiment de Soissonnais
 1er Bataillon du Royal–Artillerie (Chabrié)
 x1 Compagnie du Miners
 x1 Compagnie du Workers

Arriving later as reinforcements:

 1er & 2e Bataillons du Régiment de Traisnel (arriving on 15 May)
 1er & 2e Bataillons du Régiment de Nice (arriving on 21 May)

Notes

References

Sources

Bibliography
 Anderson, Fred (2000). Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766. Faber and Faber.
 Browning, Reed (1975). The Duke of Newcastle. Yale University Press.
 Longmate, Norman (1993). Island Fortress: The Defence of Great Britain, 1603-1945. Harper Collins.
 McLynn, Frank (2005). 1759: The Year Britain Became Master of the World. Pimlico.
 Rodger, N. A. M. (2006). Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649-1815. Penguin Books.
 Simms, Brendan (2008). Three Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire. Penguin Books.

Seven Years' War
Fort St. Philip (1756)
Fort St. Philip 1756
History of Menorca
Fort St. Philip (1756)
Conflicts in 1756
1756 in Europe


The A18 is a motorway in north west Belgium stretching from the French border near Dunkerque to the A10 motorway between Ostend and Bruges.

References

Motorways in Belgium


Old Smokey is the nickname for the electric chair in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Old Smoky or Old Smokey may also refer to:

 John Morrissey (1831–1878), nicknamed "Old Smoke"
 Live in Old Smokey, a 2006 CD by Linda Lewis
 Old Smokey, a location in Beaver Valley
 Old Smokey, an episode of The Captain and the Kids
 "On Top of Old Smoky", a 1951 traditional American folk song
 On Top of Old Smoky (film), a 1953 film

See also
 Smokey (disambiguation)
 Smokie (disambiguation)
 Smoky (disambiguation)