P. Kakkan (18 June 1908 – 23 December 1981) or fondly known as Kakkan, was an Indian politician and freedom fighter who served as a member of the Constituent Assembly of India, Member of Parliament, President of the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee and in various ministerial posts in Congress governments in the erstwhile Madras state between 1957 and 1967.

Early life
Kakkan was born into a Tamil Paraiyar family on 18 June 1908 in a village called Thumbaipatti in Melur Taluk, Madurai district of Madras Presidency. His father Poosari Kakkan was a priest in the village shrine.

Indian independence movement

Kakkan was drawn to the independence movement from an early stage in his life. While in school, he joined the Indian National Congress. When the state government brought forth the Temple Entry Authorisation and Indemnity Act in 1939, which removed restrictions on Paraiyar and Shanars entering temples, Kakkan led the temple entry at Madurai. He also participated in the Quit India Movement and was sent to Alipore jail. In 1946, he was elected to the Constituent Assembly and served from 1946 to 1950.

Politics of Free India

Kakkan served as a member of the Lok Sabha from 1952 to 1957. When K. Kamaraj resigned as the President of the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee in order to take office as the Chief Minister of Madras state, Kakkan was elected as the President of the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee. Following the 1957 elections when the Indian National Congress was re-elected to power in the Madras state, Kakkan was sworn in as the Minister for Public Works (excluding Electricity), Harijan Welfare, Scheduled Areas and Scheduled Tribes on 13 April 1957. From 13 March 1962 to 3 October 1963, Kakkan served as the Minister of Agriculture. On 24 April 1962, he was appointed as a member of the Business Advisory Committee and as Home Minister on 3 October 1963 and served till 1967 when the Indian National Congress was defeated in the Assembly elections.

Later life and death
In the 1967 Assembly elections, Kakkan stood for elections from Melur (South) constituency and lost to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam candidate O. P. Raman. Following his defeat in the 1967 elections, Kakkan retired from politics.

Work

Some of Kakkan's achievements as Minister have been the construction of the Mettur and Vaigai reservoirs and the formation of the Harijan Seva Sangh for the upliftment and welfare of Scheduled Castes. As Minister of Agriculture, he established two Agriculture Universities in Madras state. In 1999, the Government of India released a postage stamp commemorating Kakkan and his contributions to the nation.

Family
Swarnam Parvathi Kakkan, his wife was a very simple person. She worked as a school teacher in Madurai. She was a great companion and supporter of his principles.

Children:
He had five sons and one daughter.
P K Padmanthan, his first son, served the Tamil Nadu Government as President and Registrar of Cooperative societies.  He was married to Prof. V S Krishnakumari who is a paediatrician and worked as the Director of Institute of Child Health Egmore, Chennai (see Madras Medical College). His eldest granddaughter Meenakshi Vijayakumar is currently the Deputy Director in TN fire Services. She is one of the two woman fire officers recruited in Fire service in the country. His second granddaughter Shanthi Krishnan, works in the UK for the National Health Service.

His second son, P K Pakkiyanathan, worked for Simpson's Chennai.
His third son, P K Kasiviswanathan, was an IPS officer who worked as Assistant commissioner of Police in Madurai.
His fourth son, Dr. P K Sathyanathan served as Medical Officer in Tamil Nadu Municipal Service and retired. Dr. Sathyanathan's son
S Anand is involved in politics and is now serving as State Research Chairman in Tamil Nadu Youth Congress. His last son is P K Nadarajamoorthy. His daughter Kasthuri Sivasamy was involved in state politics. Her husband Sivasamy is a retired Chief Engineer at Port Blair Andaman. Their third daughter Rajeshwari is an IPS officer and DIG of police Tamil Nadu

Kakkan's brother Viswanathan Kakkan, an advocate, was a former Vice-President of the Hindu Munnani and a well-known devotee of the Shankaracharya of Kanchi, Jayendra Saraswathi. He unsuccessfully contested the 2006 Assembly election in Tamil Nadu from Perambur as a candidate of the Janata Party.

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1908 births
1981 deaths
Indian National Congress politicians from Tamil Nadu
Indian independence activists from Tamil Nadu
Lok Sabha members from Tamil Nadu
India MPs 1952–1957
Tamil Nadu ministers
Members of the Constituent Assembly of India
People from Madurai district
Prisoners and detainees of British India
Madras MLAs 1957–1962
Madras MLAs 1952–1957


A xanthine oxidase inhibitor is any substance that inhibits the activity of xanthine oxidase, an enzyme involved in purine metabolism.  In humans, inhibition of xanthine oxidase reduces the production of uric acid, and several medications that inhibit xanthine oxidase are indicated for treatment of hyperuricemia and related medical conditions including gout.  Xanthine oxidase inhibitors are being investigated for management of reperfusion injury.

Xanthine oxidase inhibitors are of two kinds: purine analogues and others.  Purine analogues include allopurinol, oxypurinol, and tisopurine.  Others include febuxostat, topiroxostat, and inositols (phytic acid and myo-inositol).

In experiments, numerous natural products have been found to inhibit xanthine oxidase in vitro or in model animals (mice, rats).  These include three flavonoids that occur in many different fruits and vegetables:  kaempferol, myricetin, and quercetin.  More generally, planar flavones and flavonols with a 7-hydroxyl group inhibit xanthine oxidase.  An essential oil extracted from Cinnamomum osmophloeum inhibits xanthine oxidase in mice.  The natural product propolis from selected sources inhibits xanthine oxidase in rats;  the specific substance responsible for this inhibition has not been identified, and the generality of these findings is unknown.  An extract of leaves of Pistacia integerrima also inhibits xanthine oxidase at a level that appears to merit further research.

In folk medicine the tree fern Cyathea spinulosa (formerly Alsophila spinulosa) has been used for gout, but its most active component, caffeic acid, is only a weak inhibitor of xanthine oxidase.

References

Uric acid


The Schijen is a mountain of the Glarus Alps in Switzerland, located west of the Ortstock. The summit is the tripoint between the cantons of Schwyz, Uri and Glarus. The Schijen lies on the range that lies between the Glattalp and the Urner Boden.

References

External links
 Schijen on Hikr

Mountains of the Alps
Mountains of Switzerland
Mountains of the canton of Schwyz
Mountains of the canton of Uri
Mountains of the canton of Glarus
Schwyz–Uri border
Glarus–Schwyz border
Glarus–Uri border


Kéknyelű is a white Hungarian wine grape planted primarily in the Badacsony wine region near Lake Balaton. The grape produces full bodied, smokey wines.

It was assumed to be identical with the Italian grape variety Picolit.  Nonetheless, in 2006  isoenzymes and microsatellite analyses have confirmed that these two cultivars are different.

References

White wine grape varieties
Grape varieties of Hungary


Edmund de Ferrers, 6th Baron Ferrers of Chartley (1386–1435) was the son of Robert de Ferrers, 5th Baron Ferrers of Chartley and Margaret Le Despenser, a daughter of Edward le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer.

He inherited the title of Baron Ferrers of Chartley upon his father's death in 1413 but was never summoned to parliament. Edmund fought in most of the great victories of King Henry V including the Battle of Agincourt and married Helen, daughter and co-heir of Thomas de la Roche, by whom he acquired large landed possessions, amongst which was that of Castle Bromwich in the county of Warwickshire.

The couple had two sons, Edmund (to whom his estates were entailed) and William (who became William, 7th Baron Ferrers of Chartley) as well as one daughter, Margaret de Ferrers, who married John Beauchamp, 1st Baron Beauchamp of Powick becoming Lady Beaucamp of Powick.

Edmund de Ferrers, 6th Baron Ferrers of Chartley, died aged 49 in 1435.

See also
Earl of Stafford
Earl of Derby

References
Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.

1386 births
1435 deaths
15th-century English people
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People of the Hundred Years' War


Henry Currey (1820–1900) was an English architect and surveyor.

Family life
He was born in October 1820, the third son of a solicitor, Benjamin Currey of Old Palace Yard, Westminster. He married Emily Harriet Rugge-Price in Spring Grove, London on 2 April 1845.  Emily, born in 1818 and two years Henry's senior, was the daughter of Sir Charles Rugge-Price. There were four children from the marriage: Annette, Charles, Henrietta and Percival, who also became an architect.

Education and work
Educated at Dr Pinckney's School at East Sheen and at Eton College, where he rowed in the school eight against Westminster, Currey was articled to the architect Decimus Burton for five years. He then worked for five years at the office of William Cubitt (1791–1863) and Company of Gray's Inn Road, London.
His first medical works were for the Surrey Lunatic Asylum, and soon after, in 1847, he was appointed as the architect and surveyor to the governors of St Thomas' Hospital, a post he held until his death. In this post, he designed the new hospital, built in the 'pavilion style', which opened on the Albert Embankment by Westminster Bridge in 1871, including a teaching hospital and a nursing school to a design approved by Florence Nightingale.
He was also the architect and surveyor to Coram's Foundling Hospital and to the Magdalen Hospital in London.

Other notable works include the hotel at London Bridge Station, 1861–62, a grand 250-room terminus hotel built at a cost of £111,000, later turned into offices for the LBSCR in 1892 and demolished after bomb damage in 1941

He was a Fellow of the RIBA from 1856 and served as its vice-president in 1874–77 and 1889–93.  He was also a fellow of the Surveyors' Institute (now the RICS) and an associate of the Institution of Civil Engineers.

In 1859, he was appointed by the 7th Duke of Devonshire to replace his former architect, James Berry. Currey held the position for 40 years.

Work at Buxton

As architect for the extensive Devonshire Estate in Buxton, Currey was highly influential in the town's development as a Victorian spa resort, much in his preferred Italianate design. Between 1852 and 1853 the Thermal Baths and Natural Baths (on either side of The Crescent) were completely rebuilt to his designs. He also designed Buxton's St Ann's Well of 1852. He was the architect of Corbar Hall and Devonshire Villas in the same year. Currey's Market Hall was built in 1857 but it was destroyed by fire in 1885 (the present Buxton Town Hall was built on the site in 1889). In 1859 he remodelled half of John Carr's Great Stables as the Devonshire Hospital (to which Robert RIppon Duke later added the dome), now known as the Devonshire Dome. In 1863 he designed the grand Palace Hotel in the style of a French château. The dining room extension to the Old Hall Hotel was designed by Currey. During the 1860s he designed various villas on Cavendish Terrace (now the Broad Walk). He was also the architect of several churches: Holy Trinity Church (built in 1873), Christ Church at Burbage (built in 1861), Congregational Church (built in 1863, demolished in 1983), Devonshire Park Chapel (built in 1873, demolished c.1970) and the vicarage for St John's Church. In 1894 he designed Buxton's new Pump Room (at the foot of The Slopes), which was opened by the 8th Duke of Devonshire in front of a vast crowd.

Work at Eastbourne
The Duke of Devonshire owned many buildings and much land in Eastbourne. In 1870, he designed the original College House for Eastbourne College, a project which was followed three years later by drawings for the chapel, and in 1879, Currey was to design the school's Cavendish Library.  The gables and dormer windows of many of the large houses in the same part of Eastbourne (now known locally as 'Lower Meads') also bear witness to his style of architecture. Between 1874 and 1875, he designed the Winter Garden and Pavilion in Devonshire Park, both of which are now Grade II listed buildings. Nearby is the Devonshire Park Theatre, in Italianate style, a building which was influenced by his travels to Italy in the early 1860s. The Queen's Hotel on Marine Parade was his largest single project in the town. The building took a mere 11 months to erect and opened for guests in June 1880.  The hotel stands in a prominent position opposite the pier and enjoys easterly views to Hastings and to Beachy Head in the west.  Between 1881 and 1883, he designed the Bedfordwell Pumping Station for the Eastbourne Waterworks Company; the yellow- and red-brick Classical-style building was listed at Grade II in March 2014. His Kentish ragstone and Bath Stone St Peter's Church, again in the 'Lower Meads' area of the town, was completed in 1895 in Early English Gothic Revival style and could accommodate 800 worshippers. It was, however, made redundant and demolished in 1971.

Death and interment
He died at his home, The Chestnuts, Lawrie Park, Sydenham, on 23 November 1900 and was buried in West Norwood Cemetery.

See also
Listed buildings in Eastbourne
List of demolished places of worship in East Sussex

References

External links

 For more about Henry Currey (in particular his hospital buildings) see
 For more about St Thomas's Hospital see British History Online at

1820 births
1900 deaths
19th-century English architects
English civil engineers
Burials at West Norwood Cemetery
Fellows of the Royal Institute of British Architects


Albert Eugen Rollomann (25 October 1909 – 5 August 1982), better known as Dieter Borsche, was a German actor. He appeared in more than 90 films between 1935 and 1981. Since 1944, he suffered from muscle atrophy and had to use a wheelchair since the late 1970s. He was born in Hanover, Germany and died in Nuremberg, Germany. Borsche became a film star after World War II following his performance in Keepers of the Night (1949).

Selected filmography

 All Because of the Dog (1935)
 A Prussian Love Story (1938)
  Keepers of the Night (1949)
 A Day Will Come (1950)
 The Falling Star (1950)
 Dr. Holl (1951)
 The Sinful Border (1951)
 Fanfares of Love (1951)
 No Greater Love (1952)
 Father Needs a Wife (1952)
 The Great Temptation (1952)
 Le Guérisseur (1953)
  Fanfare of Marriage (1953)
 The Chaplain of San Lorenzo (1953)
 His Royal Highness (His Royal Highness) (1953)
  Must We Get Divorced? (1953)
 Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1954)
 The Barrings (1955)
 I Was an Ugly Girl (1955)
 Stopover in Orly (1955)
 San Salvatore (1956)
 If We All Were Angels (1956)
 Queen Louise (1957)
 At the Green Cockatoo by Night (1957)
 A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)
 U 47 – Kapitänleutnant Prien (1958)
 Two Hearts in May (1958)
 I Learned That in Paris (1960)
 The Dead Eyes of London (1961)
  (1962, TV miniseries)
 Der rote Rausch (1962)
 I Must Go to the City (1962)
 The Happy Years of the Thorwalds (1962)
 The Brain (1962)
 Fanfare of Marriage (1963)
 The Lightship (1963)
 The Black Abbot (1963)
 Scotland Yard Hunts Dr. Mabuse (1963)
 The Shoot (1964)
 The Seventh Victim (1964)
 The Phantom of Soho (1964)
 The Doctor Speaks Out (1966)
 When Ludwig Goes on Manoeuvres (1967)
 The Doctor of St. Pauli (1968)
 The Priest of St. Pauli (1970)
 The Last Days of Gomorrah (1974, TV film)
  (1975, TV miniseries)

References

External links

1909 births
1982 deaths
Actors from Hanover
People from the Province of Hanover
German male film actors
German male television actors
20th-century German male actors
German military personnel of World War II
Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
German prisoners of war in World War II


Loureiro is a white wine grape cultivated in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula. This includes Galicia,  Spain and Minho,  Portugal. In the latter, it is notably cultivated along the Lima River, a sub-region of Vinho Verde (wines produced in Minho).

Synonyms
Loureiro is also known under the synonyms Branco Redondo, Branco Redondos, Dorado, Dourada, Dourado, False Pedro, Gallego Dourado, Loeireiro Blanco, Loureiro, Loureiro Blanco, Marques, Marquez, and Rutherglen Pedro.

See also
List of Portuguese grape varieties

References

Spanish wine
Grape varieties of Spain
White wine grape varieties
Galicia (Spain)


Loureiro may refer to:

People
Artur Loureiro (1853–1932), Portuguese painter
Bruno Loureiro (born 1989), Portuguese professional footballer
Claudio Loureiro, Brazilian advertising executive and entrepreneur
Cleber Santana Loureiro (1981–2016), Brazilian professional footballer
Daniel Pedrosa Loureiro (born 1996), Spanish footballer
Fábio de Souza Loureiro (born 1980), former Brazilian footballer
Felipe Jorge Loureiro (born 1977), Brazilian football coach and former footballer
João de Loureiro (1717–1791), Portuguese Jesuit missionary and botanist
João Loureiro (born 1963), President of the Board of the Portuguese football club Boavista FC, 2013–2018
José Jorge Loureiro (1791–1860), Portuguese soldier and politician
Kiko Loureiro (born 1972), Brazilian heavy metal guitarist
Luís Loureiro (born 1976), Portuguese former footballer and coach
Luís Miguel Loureiro, Portuguese state television journalist
Manel Loureiro, Spanish author
Miguel Loureiro (born 1996), Spanish footballer
Oswaldo Loureiro (1932–2018), Brazilian film and television actor
Valentim Loureiro (born 1938), Portuguese politician, former football chairman of Boavista FC

Places
 Loureiro (Oliveira de Azeméis), a civil parish in the municipality of Oliveira de Azeméis, Portugal
 Loureiro, a civil parish in the municipality of Peso da Régua, Portugal

Other
 Loureiro (grape), a grape variety

Portuguese-language surnames


The Sri Lanka national cricket team toured Zimbabwe in November 2008 to play 5 Limited Overs Internationals.

It was the first international series for new Zimbabwe coach Walter Chawaguta.</ref>

ODI series

1st ODI

2nd ODI

3rd ODI

4th ODI

5th ODI

Tour Matches

First Class:TBC v Sri Lankans

List A:TBC v Sri Lankans

References

External links

2008 in Sri Lankan cricket
2008 in Zimbabwean cricket
International cricket competitions in 2008–09
2008-09
Zimbabwean cricket seasons from 2000–01


The Skol Company produced Skol antiseptic for sunburn and Skol sunglasses from the 1920s  through the mid-1940s. Based in New York City, their products were available in the United States and Canada. George Gallowhur was president of the business. He developed Skol suntan lotion in the Austrian Alps in the 1920s. He also introduced  Skat insect repellent.

In April 1938, the firm signed a five-year contract with the J. Walter Thompson Company for car-card advertising.
The following month the Skol Company launched a nationwide campaign to promote Skol sunglasses, utilizing newspapers throughout the United
States.

Merger and sale

On November 6, 1946, the Skol Company merged with the Gallowhur Chemical Company. Gallowhur maintained his titles as president and treasurer.  The Skol business was
sold to the J.B. Williams Company in 1948.

Gallowhur died at the age of 69 at the Miami Heart Institute in Miami, Florida, in March 1974.

References

Skol Company
Skol Company


The Georgia Land Conservation Program (GLCP) works to permanently protect land and water resources in the U.S. state of Georgia through public/private partnerships. Created in 2005 by former Governor Sonny Perdue through the Georgia Land Conservation Act, the GLCP provides grants, low-interest loans, and tax credits to achieve permanent land conservation through conservation easements and fee simple ownership.

Conservation objectives
Managed by the Georgia Environmental Finance Authority, the GLCP has 10 conservation objectives:

Water quality protection
Flood prevention
Wetlands preservation
Erosion prevention
Wildlife habitat maintenance
Preserving agriculture
Enhancing historic sites
Maintaining scenic views
Recreation provision
Connecting natural and recreational areas

The Georgia Conservation Tax Credit Program
The GLCP also administers the Georgia Conservation Tax Credit Program. The tax credit allows landowners who donate fee-title lands or permanent conservation easements to apply for a credit against their state income taxes. Approved donors may earn credits equal to 25 percent of the fair market value of their donations, up to $250,000 for individual donors, and $500,000 for corporate and partnership donors.

The Land Conservation Council
The Land Conservation Council, which governs the GLCP, includes five state agency leaders and four gubernatorial appointments.

References

Environment of Georgia (U.S. state)
Conservation projects in the United States
Land Conservation Program


Geoffrey Hodgson Warde (23 August 188920 May 1972) was an Anglican bishop in the 20th century.

Biography
The son of Henry John Warde (a priest), he was educated at Tonbridge School and Keble College, Oxford; in 1915, he married Eileen (daughter of F.K. Hogkinson, priest).

Ordained priest on 3 October 1915 by Arthur Winnington-Ingram, Bishop of London, at St Paul's Cathedral, he was a curate at St Pancras New Church.  In June 1916, he was interviewed for a commission as an Army Chaplain, was described as 'Young, bright fellow' and, although an Anglo-Catholic in a predominantly low-church organisation, he was appointed  and, in January 1917,posted to Salonika. He spent one year there, enjoying the considerable opportunities for sport, at which he excelled, but enduring the tragedies of serving near the front line, caring for the wounded, burying the dead and dodging machine gunner bullets.  Like so many in Salonika, he caught malaria which terminated his service on the front line.  He returned to England in January 1918 and was posted to East Leeds Military Hospital, which had been established in an old workhouse. After demobilisation, he was Priest-in-Charge All Saints, Pimlico and then Vicar of St Mark's, Regent's Park. From 1922 to 1928 he was Deputy Priest-in-Ordinary to George V and then Dean of Gibraltar. Returning to England in 1933 he became Vicar of Grantham and Rural Dean of North Grantham until 1939, then Archdeacon of Carlisle and ex officio a canon residentiary of Carlisle Cathedral before his last appointment as Bishop of Lewes (a suffragan bishop of the Diocese of Chichester). He was consecrated a bishop on All Saints' Day 1946 (1 November) at Westminster Abbey; he also became an honorary canon of Chichester Cathedral, 1947–1963. He retired in October 1959 and died at Hove in 1972.

References

1889 births
People educated at Tonbridge School
Alumni of Keble College, Oxford
Deans of Gibraltar
Archdeacons of Carlisle
Bishops of Lewes
1972 deaths
World War I chaplains
Royal Army Chaplains' Department officers
20th-century Church of England bishops


Bunny Campione (born Carolyn Elizabeth Fisher; c. August 1946) is an English antiques expert known for her many appearances on the television programme Antiques Roadshow since 1985 and has published her own works on antiques.

Biography
Campione is the daughter of Squadron leader Francis Colborne Fisher, of Mudeford, Hampshire, and Iris (née Stewart), sister of British actor Stewart Granger. Campione became known as "Bunny" as a young child, after she was given a coat that had a hood with rabbit ears on it. She also later collected soft toy rabbits. She has been known to bizarrely claim that her given name is “Anastasia”.  She studied at university in France and worked at the Bear Lane Gallery in Oxford for a year. She then worked at Sotheby's for 23 years until 1996, gaining a wide knowledge of antiques, firstly in the furniture department and then the collectors' department. She was a senior consultant at Christie's in London until 2002.

Campione lives at Daws Hall, a private nature reserve, in Lamarsh, Essex. Her husband Iain Grahame, Idi Amin’s old commander and friend, passed away on 4 September 2023. She runs her own company, Campione Fine Art, buying and selling antiques on behalf of clients. She has a particular interest in, and knowledge of, automata, bird-cages, corkscrews, dolls, dolls' houses, miniature and early furniture, and soft toys.

References

External links

Living people
Antiques experts
1946 births


George Vincent Orange (24 September 1935 — 26 November 2012) was a British-born New Zealand historian of military aviation. A lecturer at the University of Canterbury for many years up until his retirement in 2002, he wrote several biographies of senior Royal Air Force officers, including Hugh Dowding and Keith Park. He was also involved in academic controversy through his supervision of a student that produced a master's thesis denying some aspects of the Holocaust.

Biography
George Vincent Orange was born on 24 September 1935 in Shildon in County Durham, England. He was educated at St. Mary's Grammar School in nearby Darlington. He then served in the Royal Air Force from 1953 to 1956, after which he went to the University of Hull. Graduating with a Doctor of Philosophy, he emigrated to New Zealand in 1962, where he took up a position lecturing in history at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch. His academic interests was the medieval period and the First and Second World Wars. He was considered to be a popular lecturer, teaching in an engaging style.

Orange authored numerous articles and conference papers in addition to several books, primarily biographies of senior officers of the Royal Air Force. His subjects included Hugh Dowding and Keith Park, both of whom played prominent roles in the Battle of Britain as well as Johnny Checketts, a New Zealand flying ace. He also contributed several biographical essays to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

In 2000, Orange's supervision of a master's student, Joel Hayward, was the subject of academic and media attention. The resulting thesis, written by Hayward in 1993 but embargoed until 1999 and for which he received an A+ grade, was determined to deny some aspects of the Holocaust. The New Zealand Jewish Council had sought revocation of Hayward's master's degree but after an investigation, the University of Canterbury found it had no powers to do so. The investigation found that while the thesis should have not been awarded such a high mark, a degree could only be revoked upon evidence of dishonesty. It could find no such evidence. The university issued an apology for accepting the thesis. Orange, who had defended his supervision of Hayward during the investigation, later commented on the lack of expertise on Holocaust revisionism among the members of the inquiry.

After 40 years of teaching at the University of Canterbury, Orange retired in 2002, by which time he was a reader. He later lectured at the New Zealand Defence Force's Command and Staff College. He died on 26 November 2012 and was survived by his wife and two step-children. His last book, exploring the relationship between Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the senior command of the Royal Air Force, was released posthumously by the publishing company Grub Street. It received praise for "offering a readable and at times insightful account of Britain’s leading airmen" but noted that its discussion of Bomber Command's air offensive "seems inadequate".

Selected publications
His published titles include:
 Churchill and His Airmen: Relationships, Intrigue and Policy Making 1914-1945, (Grub Street, March 2013)
 Dowding of Fighter Command: Victor of the Battle of Britain, (Grub Street, September 2008)
 Slessor: Bomber Champion - The Life of Sir John Slessor, (Grub Street, October 2006)
 Tedder: Quietly in Command, (Routledge, April 2004)
 Winged Promises: History of No.14 Squadron, RAF 1915-1945, (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, November 1998)
 Ensor's Endeavour: A Biography of Wing Commander Mick Ensor, (Grub Street, May 1994)
 Coningham: A Biography of Sir Arthur Coningham, (Methuen, February 1990)
 Johnny Checketts: The Road to Biggin Hill, (Airlife, February 1987; re-published by Grub Street in an updated edition, March 2007)
 Park: The Biography of Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park, (Methuen, August 1984)

References

1935 births
2012 deaths
Academic staff of the University of Canterbury
20th-century New Zealand historians
Air force historians
People from Shildon
English emigrants to New Zealand
21st-century New Zealand historians
Alumni of the University of Hull


Barbara Rütting (21 November 1927 – 28 March 2020), also known as Barbara Ruetting was a German film actress, politician, author and vegetarianism activist. She appeared in 50 films between 1952 and 1979.

Biography

Rütting won the German Film Award as Best New Actress of the Year in 1953. She was a star of German cinema in the 1950s and 1960s, appearing in Canaris with O. E. Hasse and in The Last Bridge with Maria Schell. In 1961, she played the female lead as a journalist in the American-German film Town Without Pity, co-starring Kirk Douglas and Christine Kaufmann.

After the 1970s, Rütting's film and television appearances were sporadic. She instead focused on her career as a writer of children's and lifestyle books. She was a vegetarian and became a vocal supporter of animal rights and environmental protection. She joined the Alliance 90/The Greens in the 1980s, and was elected twice, in 2002 and 2008, into the Landtag of Bavaria (Bavarian parliament). She left the Greens in 2009, and became a member of V-Partei3 in 2016.

Rütting authored natural food cookbooks including a vegan cookbook in 2013.

Partial filmography

 Turtledove General Delivery (1952) – Ilse Krüger
 All Clues Lead to Berlin (1952) – Tamara, Dolmetscherin
 Christina (1953) – Christina Neuhaus
 The Country Schoolmaster (1954) – Ursula Diewen
 The Last Bridge (1954) – Militza
 A Double Life (1954) – Sybil
 Canaris (1954) – Irene von Harbeck
 Espionage (1955) – Nadeschda
 A Girl Without Boundaries (1955) – Maria Johnson
 In Hamburg When the Nights Are Long (1956) – Karin Thorwaldt
 The Vulture Wally (1956) – Geierwally
 Rot ist die Liebe (1957) – Lisa
 Glücksritter (1957) – Alice Dreher
 Liebe, wie die Frau sie wünscht (1957) – Renate
  (1957) – Charlotte Bernhardt
 All the Sins of the Earth (1958) – Dr. Regine Lenz
 I Was All His (1958) – Anette Klinger
 Heart Without Mercy (1958) – Anja Wegener
 Un homme se penche sur son passé (1958) – Hannah Malloy
 A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958) – Woman Guerrilla
  (1958) – Marianne Ospel
 Frauensee (1958) – Martina Nissen
  (1959) – Monika
 Arzt ohne Gewissen (1959) – Dr. Marianne Cordt
  (1961) – Lysistrata
 Town Without Pity (1961) – Inge Koerner
 The Shadows Grow Longer (1961) – Christa Andres
 Doctor Sibelius (1962) – Sabine Hellmann
 Love Has to Be Learned (1963) – Hermine
 The Squeaker (1963) – Beryl Stedman
  (1963) – Susanne
 The Phantom of Soho (1964) – Clarinda Smith
 Operation Crossbow (1965) – Hanna Reitsch
 Neues vom Hexer (1965) – Margie Fielding
 Four Queens for an Ace (1966) – Miss Parker (uncredited)
  (1968) – Mutter Bricks
 Eine Frau sucht Liebe (1969) – Helen
  (1969, TV series, 6 episodes) – Dr. Kramer
  (1972) – Celia
 Der Kommissar: Ein Playboy segnet das Zeitliche (1975, TV series episode) – Frau Eber
 The Old Fox: Der Neue (1980, TV series episode) – Beate Wallner
 The Old Fox: Das letzte Wort hat die Tote (1980, TV series episode) – Brigitte Moland
 Derrick: Prozente (1981, TV series episode) – Frau Mertens
 Ein Fall für zwei: Das Haus in Frankreich (1981, TV series episode) – Birgit Weißenborn
 In the Land of Cockaigne (1981, TV film) – Adelheid Türkheimer
 Schwarz Rot Gold: Um Knopf und Kragen (1984, TV series episode) – Frau Lövenich
 Rosamunde Pilcher: Im Licht des Feuers (2000, TV series episode) – Catherine

Selected publications

 1976 Mein Kochbuch – naturgesunde Köstlichkeiten aus aller Welt
 1979 Ach du grüner Kater (for children)
 1979 Koch- und Spielbuch für Kinder
 1985 Mein neues Kochbuch
 1988 Mein Gesundheitsbuch
 1991 Lieblingsmenüs aus meiner Vollwertküche
 1993 Träumen allein genügt nicht
 1997 Grüne Rezepte für den blauen Planeten
 Essen wir uns gesund. 30 Jahre unterwegs in Sachen Vollwerternährung,
 Lachen wir uns gesund. Anleitungen zum Glücklichsein. 3-7766-2236-9
 Bleiben wir schön gesund,
 Koch- und Spielbuch für Kinder vorgestellt von dem Kater Fettucini,
 Ach du grüner Kater (Hörbuch)
 Mein neues Kochbuch. Schlemmereien aus der Vollwertküche,
 … und dennoch. Erfahrungen eines Lebens. Herbig Verlag, München, 2004
 2007 Ich bin alt und das ist gut so. Meine Muntermacher aus acht gelebten Jahrzehnten. Nymphenburger Verlag,
 2013 Vegan und vollwertig: Meine Lieblingsmenus für Frühling, Sommer, Herbst und Winter Nymphenburger Verlag.

References

External links

1927 births
2020 deaths
20th-century German actresses
20th-century German women writers
20th-century German writers
21st-century German women writers
21st-century German writers
German film actresses
German television actresses
German vegetarianism activists
People from Ludwigsfelde
Actors from the Province of Brandenburg
Rajneesh movement
Vegan cookbook writers
Women cookbook writers


The Grieshorn (also known as Corno Gries) is a mountain of the Lepontine Alps, located on the Swiss-Italian border. With an altitude of 2,969 metres above sea level, it is the culminating point of the group lying between the Gries Pass, the San Giacomo Pass and the Nufenen Pass.

On the west lies the slightly lower Klein Grieshorn.

References

External links
 Corno Gries on Hikr

Mountains of the Alps
Mountains of Switzerland
Mountains of Italy
Italy–Switzerland border
International mountains of Europe
Mountains of Ticino
Lepontine Alps


"Don't Drink the Water" is the third single from Stone Gods, and the second song on their debut album, Silver Spoons & Broken Bones. It was announced on September 2, 2008, on the official website blog, and released on 27 October 2008, and reached number 2 in the UK Rock Chart and 10 in the UK Indie Chart. Along with the title track came two B-sides, ("Making It Hard" and "Knight Of The Living Dead") recorded at Norwich Waterfront in June. They are both live.

The current Stone Gods drummer, Robin Goodridge, does not play on this single, as it was recorded before Ed Graham's departure.

The lyrics detail a man's holiday in Spain, not caring and relieving stress, with the title of the song referring to the warning phrase "Don't drink the water", used to deter foreign visitors from drinking water of which their metabolism may be unused to, causing illness.

Music video
The music video is performed entirely in a small, dark room, in which there are a few bright lights, which occasionally pulse with the music. The band is dressed in dark colours, with frontman Richie wearing a leather jacket and a pair of trademark opaque Aviator sunglasses. The camera shots are all close, swaying around and brief, resting on an individual band member for only a few seconds, and many close-ups of guitars. The video is six seconds longer than the studio track, due to the silence at the beginning of the video.

Track listing
CD Single; all songs written by Dan Hawkins, Ritchie Edwards, Toby MacFarlaine and Ed Graham.
"Don't Drink The Water" - 2:47
"Making It Hard (Live)" - 3:56
"Knight Of The Living Dead (Live)" - 4:22

References

External links
Official Stone Gods website
"Don't Drink The Water" - Official video

2008 singles
Songs written by Dan Hawkins (musician)
Songs written by Ed Graham
Stone Gods songs
2008 songs


Katarzyna Wilk (born 3 January 1982 in Lubin, Poland) is a Polish contemporary rhythm and blues singer, more commonly known as Kasia Wilk.

In 2008, she began her solo career with the hit single "Pierwszy raz" which reached position 51 on the Polish National Top 50 music chart. Previously she was a vocalist for KTO TO, Dreamland, and Groovestreet. She has also collaborated with Mezo. In 2004, she received an award at the Polish National Song Festival in memory of Anna Jantar.

Discography

Solo albums

Collaborative albums

References

External links
 Official website

1982 births
Living people
People from Lubin
Polish hip hop singers
Polish pop singers
21st-century Polish singers
21st-century Polish women singers


General elections were held in Brazil on 2 December 1945, the first since the establishment of Getúlio Vargas' Estado Novo. The presidential elections were won by Eurico Gaspar Dutra of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), whilst the PSD also won a majority of seats in both the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. Voter turnout was 83.1% in the presidential election, 83.5% in the Chamber elections and 76.7% in the Senate elections.

Background
Following the end of World War II, Vargas was forced by the military to re-democratize the country. However, the military feared that Vargas would suspend the elections like he had suspended the scheduled 1938 elections in 1937 and staged a preventive coup which prematurely removed Vargas from power on October 29, 1945 and installed a caretaker government led by José Linhares to ensure the free and fair carry-out of the elections.

During this era of liberalization, Vargas founded two parties: the Social Democratic Party (PSD), a centre-right party composed primarily of the national industrial bourgeoisie which had supported Vargas and Vargas' interventors in the states, and the Brazilian Labour Party (PTB) composed of the urban working class and trade union movement. The PSD would become the largest party of the two, although Vargas used the PTB as his personal machine. The PSD consistently had the largest number of deputies until the 1964 military coup. The Vargista coalition had nominated Vargas' War Minister Eurico Gaspar Dutra earlier in 1945, but the PTB and Vargas offered Dutra's fledgling candidacy only lukewarm support.

Vargas' traditional opponents had founded the National Democratic Union (UDN) in April 1945. The UDN, a conservative party defending economic liberalism through public incentive to foreign capital, was mostly a party of intellectuals and the urban middle-class, as well as the remnants of the oligarchic interests of the República Velha. It nominated the former tenente and Air Force brigadier Eduardo Gomes, later known for participating in the 1964 coup, as its presidential candidate. Gomes notably advocated repealing a majority of the social legislation and labour reforms passed during the Vargas rule.

The recently legalized Brazilian Communist Party elected 14 deputies, and the party's popular leader, Luís Carlos Prestes was elected to the Senate in Guanabara. Getúlio Vargas, nominated by the PSD and his Brazilian Labour Party (PTB) in various states including Rio Grande do Sul was elected to the Senate representing Rio Grande do Sul and São Paulo as well as elected to the Chamber in six states and Rio de Janeiro. He opted to accept the Senate seat he won for the PSD (although he supported the PTB) in Rio Grande do Sul. Former President Artur Bernardes standing for election to the Senate in Minas Gerais for the Republican Party was defeated, placing third with 21.4% of the vote.

Results

President

Chamber of Deputies

Senate
In the Senate elections each voter had two votes.

References

General elections in Brazil
Brazil
General
Brazil
Election and referendum articles with incomplete results


The Kosciusko and Southwestern Railway  was formed in 1998 to operate in the former Aberdeen District of the Illinois Central Railroad between Aberdeen Junction and Munsons Crossing, Mississippi. The 21.66 mile railroad line was purchased from the Illinois Central Railroad by the Mississippi Department of Transportation and leased to the Kosciusko & Southwestern Railway.

The company once specialized in transporting wood products from local woodyards, but after 2005 existed entirely by storing surplus freight cars for large leasing companies. The railroad interchanged with Canadian National, and later with Grenada Railway at Aberdeen Junction.

On July 28, 2011, Grenada Railway filed an embargo due to a bridge problem, which took a portion their line out of service.  This embargo, which included the part of their line which connected to KSRY, meant that no traffic would be accepted to or from points within that section.  On September 20, 2011, Grenada Railway filed a formal petition to abandon that segment which included the KSRY interchange.  That petition was later withdrawn, but the embargo remains in effect as of early 2013.

With no rail service available to move cars in or out, KSRY was essentially a railroad to nowhere.  Although KSRY was actively working with three prospective shippers in Kosciusko at the time of the embargo, any such efforts were rendered useless as long as the connecting line was not in service.

Planned repairs to two KSRY bridges were put on hold. Maintenance efforts were reduced to vegetation control in specific areas. The remaining freight cars stored on the line were sold by the owner, removed from the railroad by a contractor in early 2014, and scrapped.  With no revenue and no foreseeable prospect for resumption of service on the Grenada Railway line which connected KSRY to the rest of the nation's rail system, the contract with the state was terminated and the company filed for dissolution.

As of late 2014, the portion of Grenada Railway which connects to the former KSRY remains out of service.  The state still owns the former KSRY line.  There has been a suggestion that the rails be removed and a hiking trail be created along the right of way.  It is also possible that a new operator could resume service at some point in the future.

Motive Power
The KSRY had three small locomotives:
1 GE 25-ton switcher (no number)
1 GE 45-ton switcher (KSRY 503)

Both were sold to North Mississippi Rail Services and trucked from the property.

A third locomotive, *1 Plymouth Locomotive Works 12-ton switcher (KSRY 202) was privately owned and is also no longer on the property.

References

Mississippi railroads
Spin-offs of the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad


The St Symphorien Military Cemetery is a First World War Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground in Saint-Symphorien, Belgium. It contains the graves of 284 German and 229 Commonwealth soldiers, principally those killed during the Battle of Mons. The cemetery was established by the German Army on land donated by Jean Houzeau de Lehaie. It was initially designed as a woodland cemetery before being redesigned by William Harrison Cowlishaw after the Imperial War Graves Commission took over maintenance of the cemetery after the war.

Notable Commonwealth burials in the cemetery include John Parr and George Lawrence Price, traditionally believed to be the first and last Commonwealth soldiers killed in action during the First World War, and Maurice Dease, the first posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross of World War I. Notable German burials include Oskar Niemeyer, the first Iron Cross recipient of World War I.

History

Battle of Mons

The Battle of Mons took place as part of the Battle of the Frontiers, in which the advancing German armies clashed with the advancing Allied armies along the Franco-Belgian and Franco-German borders. The British position on the French flank meant that it stood in the path of the German 1st Army. The British reached Mons on 22 August 1914 and at the time, the French Fifth Army, located on the right of the British, was heavily engaged with the German 2nd and 3rd armies at the Battle of Charleroi. The British agreed to hold the line of the Condé–Mons–Charleroi Canal for twenty-four hours, to prevent the advancing German 1st Army from threatening the French left flank. The British thus spent the day digging in along the canal.

At dawn on 23 August a German artillery bombardment began on the British lines; throughout the day the Germans concentrated on the British at the salient formed by the loop in the canal. At  the first German infantry assault began, with the Germans attempting to force their way across four bridges that crossed the canal at the salient. The initial German attack was repulsed with heavy losses but after the Germans switched to an open formation their advance progress more quickly as the looser formation made it more difficult for the British to inflict casualties rapidly. By the afternoon the British position in the salient had become untenable and by  the British began retreating to a new defensive line.

Establishment
Most of the British and German dead from the Battle of Mons were initially buried in church and local cemeteries in Mons and surrounding villages rather than a purpose built military cemetery. Subsequently, the German Army decided to exhume and re-inter the dead in a single location, as they determined the care and maintenance of isolated graves was unsustainable over the long term.

In spring 1916, a German officer by the name of Captain Roemer was searching for an appropriate piece of cemetery land south-east of Mons. During this search he approached renowned biologist and local landowner Jean Houzeau de Lehaie, who offered some former quarry land on his family estate lands between the districts of St. Symphorien and Spienne, possibly to ensure that land associated with Neolithic flint mines of Spiennes was not employed instead. Roemer initially proposed that the land be requisitioned, with compensation being provided by the local authorities. Houzeau de Lehaie refused to accept payment for the land and agreed to part with it only under the condition that it be donated instead of requisitioned, and that in the cemetery the dead of both sides be treated with equal respect. During 1916 and 1917 Landsturm Infantry Battalions exhumed burials from isolated and less maintainable sites and re-interred them in the new cemetery. Most of the bodies that were exhumed were from the north and north east of the Mons battlefield especially near Nimy and Obourg where the British stopped Imperial German units from crossing the Mons-Conde canal. The German and British dead were reburied in graves with markers containing the message Enemies in Life but United in Death (), a common German practice during the First World War. The cemetery was inaugurated on 6 September 1917 with a ceremony attended by prominent German figures, including Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria,  Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg, and Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

The cemetery contained 245 German and 188 British graves at the end of the war. This number increased in the post-war period, as both British and German remains from numerous isolated burial locations were concentrated to St. Symphorien until the cemetery reached its current number of 284 German soldiers and 229 Commonwealth soldiers. Most of the identified German dead in the cemetery died in 1914 and were from units of IX Corps, which originated from the north of Germany from towns like Kiel, Hamburg and Bremen, and in Schleswig-Holstein.

Post-war

At the end of the war in November 1918, the maintenance of Commonwealth graves passed to Imperial War Graves Commission (now the Commonwealth War Graves Commission). From June 1921, the Belgian War Graves Commission appointed a supervisor to maintain the German graves as the Germans could not do so themselves on account of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. In 1926, Belgium and Germany reached an agreement for the gradual transfer of maintenance responsibility to the Official German Burial Service in Belgium () representative at the embassy to Germany in Brussels. The Germans officially referred to the cemetery as Ehrenfriedhof Saint-Symphorien-Spiennes. Number 191. The name recognized that the cemetery was both located in close proximity to the town of Saint-Symphorien and technically located in the administrative areas of Spiennes while concurrently incorporating the number assigned to the cemetery in a Belgian ordered list of German cemeteries.

On 13 October 1930, representatives of the Official German Burial Service in Belgium, the Belgian War Graves Commission and the Imperial War Graves Commission met in Brussels to discuss the status of mixed British-German cemeteries in Belgium. In particular, they met to discuss the status of cemeteries established by Germans during the war where the majority of those buried in the cemetery were German. This meeting was brought about because the Imperial War Graves Commission had begun altering the layout of cemeteries containing a high percentage concentration of German dead and began replacing the existing headstones on the Commonwealth graves with the standardized Imperial War Graves Commission headstones, all without first consulting with the German Burial Service in Belgium. The German delegation hoped to retain the established design character of the cemeteries but were ultimately unsuccessful. Control for the cemetery was immediately passed to the Imperial War Graves Commission and further German contribution was limited to providing headstones for a number of graves that were lacking markers. Now that the Imperial War Graves Commission was in full control of the cemetery they immediately set about redesigning it, assigning the task to Assistant Architect William Harrison Cowlishaw. In 1933 Fritz Schult, Chief of the Official German Burial Service in Belgium, wrote to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Berlin to request that the Imperial War Graves Commission be approached to take control over other split British-German cemeteries such as those at Marcinelle New Communal Cemetery and Hautrage Military Cemetery. The Imperial War Graves Commission was maintaining the German graves at St. Symphorien at no cost to Germany and Schult believed it favorable to transfer management of other cemeteries if the Imperial War Graves Commission would assume all maintenance costs for those cemeteries as well.

Modern
On 4 August 2014, a ceremony was held at the cemetery to mark the 100th anniversary of the British and Belgian declaration of war following the German invasion of Belgium. It was attended by many important dignitaries including: King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of The Belgians, Prince William, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry as representatives of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Head of the Commonwealth, Joachim Gauck President of Germany, Michael D. Higgins  President of the Republic of Ireland, Prime Minister of Belgium Elio Di Rupo and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron.

Design

Original design
Captain Bäumer designed the cemetery, assisted by militia-private Pieper. They developed a site plan based on the concept of Cemetery Reform (), which was popular in Germany at the time. In the cemetery design, particular attention was paid to ensuring simplicity with uniformity in each plot, all within a calming, arboreal environment consistent with a woodland cemetery () style. Thirteen plots were marked off and young trees – and later extra conifers – were planted between the plots to ensure their visual and physical separation. The cemetery land itself had many artificial created differences in elevation due to the site being used as a dumping location for surplus soil associated with phosphate mining in the area. The cemetery plants were donated by the city of Bielefeld.

The German graves were grouped according to military unit. Every grave in each grouping receiving a similar headstone, but not necessarily the same as that in other groupings. There were a number of organizations in Germany that were particularly opposed to mass-produced identical headstones and by consequence the cemetery contains a number of differently styled headstones. The German headstones were carved from locally quarried stone, principally bluestone and Belgian Petit Granit. German officers were offered larger headstones to illustrate their higher military rank. The cemetery contains a number of German regimental memorials within the cemetery which were paid and provided by the city or town where the regiment was based.

The Germans treated the British dead in a similar manner to their own. All of the British were buried in individual plots and, like the Germans, grouped by unit as far as possible. The deceased British officers were buried in a plot separate from their troops and it is not known how these graves were marked before they were provided with the standardized Imperial War Grave Commission headstone. The Germans also erected simple regimental memorials that identified the unit or regiment within a number of the British groupings. This included one to the Middlesex Regiment which was mistakenly referred to as the "Royal Middlesex Regiment" although that was not its name at the time.

A classical  high obelisk memorial made of bluestone was placed near the entrance at the highest point in the cemetery. The monumental inscription on the obelisk is written in German and is dedicated to the German and British soldiers that died during the Battle of Mons: "In memory of the German and English soldiers who fell in the actions near Mons on the 23rd and 24th August 1914." (). Near the cemetery entrance, a tablet in Latin was set out to explain the land was gifted for the purpose of a cemetery by Jean Houzeau de Lehaie.

Cowlishaw redesign
Full control of the St Symphorien cemetery was transferred to the Imperial War Graves Commission in 1930 after which William Harrison Cowlishaw set about redesigning the cemetery. The main change was the conversion from a woodland cemetery to the more open English garden style cemetery present at most Imperial War Graves Commission cemeteries. Many of the trees were chopped down, particularity those in the predominantly British south-eastern side, and grass sown in this area. The cemetery was made to feel more open but no changes were made to the location of the graves, effectively leaving each plot layout in situ choosing instead to remove vegetation that provided the visual compartmentalization to each plot. The predominantly German north-eastern half was left more characteristically in a woodland cemetery style, although many trees were pruned to ensure that an open view was created between the various plots. The original German headstones were retained and several German headstones added due to transferred graves from other sites. The other principal change was earthwork to create a raised hill where the Cross of Sacrifice would be erected. The German general monument was in no way modified but Cowlishaw likely created the hill to ensure the Cross of Sacrifice was not dwarfed by the German monument. Special memorials were erected to five soldiers of the Royal Irish Regiment believed to be buried in unnamed graves. Other special memorials record the names of four British soldiers, buried by the Germans in Obourg Churchyard, whose graves could not be found. Approximately 100 Commonwealth soldiers buried at St Symphorien were unidentified. They are interred under a headstone with a quote by Rudyard Kipling: "A Soldier of the Great War, Known Unto God."

Notable graves

Notable German burials include Musketier Oskar Niemeyer from the 84th Infantry Regiment was the first recipient of the Iron Cross during the war. Having come to a crossing of the Mons–Condé canal with a closed swing bridge he swam across the canal, returned across the canal with a requisitioned small boat, paddled back across the canal with a team and then opened the bridge allowing the Germans troops to cross in greater numbers. He was killed shortly after opening the bridge.

Notable Commonwealth burials in the cemetery include Private John Parr, of the 4th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment and George Lawrence Price of the Canadian 28th (Northwest) Battalion each believed to be the respective first and last Commonwealth soldiers killed in action during the First World War, as is George Ellison. Also buried in the cemetery is Maurice Dease who was the first posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross in the war. Dease was awarded the Victoria Cross for defending Nimy Bridge and maintained firing of a machine gun until he was hit for a fifth and final time. and Pte EW Mason of 4th Middlesex Regiment because he is much loved by his family.

Notes and sources

Bibliography

External links

 St. Symphorien Military Cemetery, the Battle of Mons and British Centenary Commemoration

World War I memorials in Belgium
World War I cemeteries in Belgium
Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries in Belgium
Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front)


Karl Friedrich Anton Hermann "Charles" Régnier (22 July 1914 – 13 September 2001) was a German actor, director and translator. He appeared in more than 135 films between 1949 and 2000. In the 1950s and the 1960s, he was one of the busiest German theatre and film actors.

Family life and upbringing
Born at Freiburg in 1914, Regnier owed his name to his grandfather, a native Frenchman. Regnier was the first child of Anton Karl Regnier and Emile (Milly) Maria Friederike Harrer, born in Freiburg im Breisgau. His father was a general practitioner and Charles initially wanted to become a doctor.

Charles Regnier grew up in Strasbourg and Badenweiler where his maternal grandparents owned the Schloss Hausbaden hotel. After his father's suicide in 1924, his mother first moved with her four sons to Heidelberg, and then to Montreux on Lake Geneva. When his mother contracted tuberculosis in 1929, the family decided to move to the sanatorium at Davos. Here, Charles met a number of celebrities, including the writer Klabund, who awakened Regnier's interest in literature and the theatre. Together with his brothers, Charles produced Klabund's comedy XYZ: For three actors in three acts for a performance in Klabund's private living room. His first acting performance was starring as the Countess Y in this piece. "As an actor I never again had the opportunity to play a lady, but often showed how one plays a lady," Regnier wrote in his personal memoirs.

Career
Regnier's first engagement was in 1938 at the theatre at Greifswald, where he met actress and singer Pamela Wedekind, a daughter of the playwright Frank Wedekind. They married on 21 June 1941 in Berlin. In 1941, Regnier was invited by Otto Falckenberg to join the ensemble of the Munich Kammerspiele, where he remained until 1958. From 1946, Regnier worked as a drama teacher at the newly founded Otto-Falckenberg-Schule.

From 1961 to 1962, he was an ensemble member of the Wiener Burgtheater. Regnier preferred not to make a distinction between high art performances and entertainment, saying, "The public should find my work effective, entertaining, in short: agreeable."

Regnier lived in Germany, Italy and Switzerland. He died on 13 September 2001 after suffering a stroke in Bad Wiessee. He was buried in the Badenweiler-Lipburg cemetery, close to his childhood home.

His literary estate can be found in the archives of the Academy of the Arts in Berlin.

Selected filmography

  (1949)
 The Last Illusion (1949), as Bertram
 Royal Children (1950), as Count Larissa
 Die Tat des Anderen (1951)
 Decision Before Dawn (1951), as German Prisoner (uncredited)
 Captive Soul (1952)
 My Name is Niki (1952), as Newspaper editor Claus
 The Sergeant's Daughter (1952)
 The Chaplain of San Lorenzo (1953), as Police detective Morro
 Street Serenade (1953), as Sachetti
 A Life for Do (1954), as Maurice
 Cabaret (1954), as Music critic
 Sauerbruch – Das war mein Leben (1954), as Head of the psychiatric section
 Consul Strotthoff (1954), as Conrad Eylers
 Clivia (1954)
 Captain Wronski (1954), as Judge of the Volksgerichtshof
 The Witch (1954), as Dr. Harz
 The Phantom of the Big Tent (1954)
 Canaris (1954), as Baron Trenti
 Secrets of the City (1955), as Morton
 Hello, My Name is Cox (1955), as Police detective Carter
 Ein Mann vergißt die Liebe (1955)
 Oasis (1955), as Van Grouten
 Heroism after Hours (1955), as Marro the Magican (segment "Der Zauberer Maro")
 Heaven Is Never Booked Up (1955), as Borelli
 The Ambassador's Wife (1955), as Legationsrat Mattusch
 Island of the Dead (1955), as Father Markus
 Bandits of the Autobahn (1955), as Paul Barra
 Operation Sleeping Bag (1955), as Oberfeldrichter Dr. Kratz
 The Forest House in Tyrol (1955), as Milazzo
 Two Blue Eyes (1955), as Hergentheimer
 Alibi (1955), as Dietmar
 San Salvatore (1956), as Professor Dr. Monthé
 Magic Fire (1956), as Giacomo Meyerbeer
  (1956), as Stadtrat Praun
 My Husband's Getting Married Today (1956), as Niki Springer
 Kitty and the Great Big World (1956), as Monsieur Jeannot
 The Story of Anastasia (1956)
 A Heart Returns Home (1956), as Boerner
 Queen Louise (1957), as Talleyrand
 The Power and the Glory (1957, TV film), as The Governor's Cousin
 Beneath the Palms on the Blue Sea (1957), as Cesare, the Contessa's butler
 Der geheimnisvolle Dr. Mander (1957, TV film), as David West
  (1957), as Hartmann
 El Hakim (1957), as Dr. Kolali
  (1958), as Richard Allhard
 A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958), as Joseph
  (1958), as Polizei-Chemiker Dr. Wagenknecht
 Taiga (1958), as Becker
  (1958), as Roberts
  (1958), as Mr. Kenneweg, teacher
 The Journey (1959), as Capt. Ornikidze
  (1959, TV film), as Lesgate
  (1959, TV film), as Sheppard / Alain Chartier
 Court Martial (1959), as Judge Schorn
 The Rest Is Silence (1959), as Police Inspector Fortner
  (1959), as Metternich
 Reclining Figure (1959, TV film), as Paul Weldon
 Mistress of the World (1960), as Norvald
 Emilia Galotti (1960, TV film), as Marinelli, chamberlain of the prince
 The Man in the Black Derby (1960), as Herr von Seelisberg
  (1960), as Ernst Schenker
 The Secret Ways (1961), as The Count
 The Nina B. Affair (1961), as Schwerdtfeger
 The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi (1961), as Sir Thomas Jones, Minister of Justice
 Bankraub in der Rue Latour (1961), as Camarro
  (1961), as Dr. Hauenstein
  (1962), as Dr. Kampmann
 Der Marquis von Keith (1962, TV film), as Marquis von Keith
  (1962), as Prosecutor Reeder
 The Counterfeit Traitor (1962), as Wilhelm Kortner
 Adorable Julia (1962), as Lord Charles Tamerly
 Lulu (1962), as Jack the Ripper
 Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (1962), as Mortimer
 Freud: The Secret Passion (1962) (uncredited)
The Curse of the Yellow Snake (1963), as Major Spedwell
 Love Has to Be Learned (1963), as Kramer
 Miracle of the White Stallions (1963), as Gen. Stryker
 The Black Abbot (1963), as Detective Puddler
  (1963), as Dr. Alois Kämpfer, newspaper publisher
 Banana Peel (1963), as Le vrai Bontemps
 Les Tontons flingueurs (1963), as Tomate
  (1963), as Director
 An Alibi for Death (1963), as Dr. Hartleben
  (1963), as Charley Nelson
  (1964, TV film), as J. Robert Oppenheimer
  (1964), as Defense attorney
 Condemned to Sin (1964)
 Sicher ist sicher (1964, TV film), as Commodore
 Angélique, Marquise des Anges (1964), as Conan Bécher, inquisitor
  (1965), as Ronald Bruck
 Shots in Threequarter Time (1965), as Henry
 Marvelous Angelique (1965), as Conan Bécher, inquisitor
 Code Name: Jaguar (1965), as Simon Walter
 Pleins feux sur Stanislas (1965), as Man with cat (uncredited)
 Doktor Murkes gesammelte Nachrufe (1965, TV film), as Badallas
 A Study in Terror (1965), as Joseph Beck
  (1965), as Doctor
 Das Leben des Horace A. W. Tabor (1965, TV film), as William H. Brown
 Berta Garlan (1966, TV film), as Klingemann
 The Strangler of the Tower (1966), as Mr. Cliften
 The Doctor Speaks Out (1966), as Professor
 Caligula (1966, TV film), as Cherea
 To Skin a Spy (1966), as Ehrfurt
 Once a Greek (1966), as Petit-Paysan
 Les Femmes Savantes (1966, TV film), as Vadius
 Run Like a Thief (1967), as Piet de Jonge
 Joséphine (1967, TV film), as Talma
 : Nach all den Jahren (1967, TV series episode), as Gunnar Gustavsson
 Marat/Sade (1967, TV film), as Marquis de Sade
  (1968, TV miniseries), as Kaminsky
  (1968), as Professor Sauermann
  (1969), as The General (voice)
  (1970, TV film), as Dr. William Chumley
 Slap in the Face (1970), as Finance minister
 Hier bin ich, mein Vater (1970, TV film), as Mr. von Griese
 Under the Roofs of St. Pauli (1970), as Night club owner
 Der Kommissar: Der Moormörder (1971, TV series episode), as Dr. Strobel
 Preußen über alles... – Bismarcks deutsche Einigung (1971, TV film), as Benedetti
 Die Münchner Räterepublik (1971, TV film), as Kurt Eisner
 The Night in Lisbon (1971, TV film), as Lachmann
 Oliver (1971, TV film), as Finanzdirektor Kaenel
 Kein Geldschrank geht von selber auf – Die Eddie Chapman Story (1971, TV film), as Superintendent
 Der Zeuge (1971, TV film), as Padre Ignacio
  (1971, TV miniseries), as George Baker
 Der Kommissar: Ein Amoklauf (1972, TV series episode), as Dr. Förster, Gefängnispsychologe
 The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of (1972), as Prof. Vladimir Monerow
 Death Under Sail (1973, TV film), as Finbow
 Der Kommissar: Das Komplott (1973, TV series episode), as Jakob Bachmann
 The Devil's Disciple (1973, TV film), as General Burgoyne
  (1973–1975, TV Series, 26 episodes), as Detective Chief Inspector Georg Wieker
 Tod und Teufel (1974), as Lonely man
 Steppenwolf (1974), as Loering
 The Serpent's Egg (1977), as Doctor
 Fabian (1980), as Erfinder
  (1982), as Pharao (voice)
  (1983), as Mr. X
 The Roaring Fifties (1983), as Igor
  (1984), as Yvonne
 Rosa Luxemburg (1986), as Jean Jaurès
 The Passenger – Welcome to Germany (1988), as Silbermann
 Jenseits von Blau (1989), as The Professor
  (1998), as Professor Waldheim
 No Place to Go (2000), as Hanna's Father

Further reading
 Thomas Blubacher: Charles Regnier, in: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theaterlexikon der Schweiz. Vol. 3, Chronos, Zürich (2005) , P. 1469.
 Bernard Gasser/BE: Regnier, Charles. In Historischen Lexikon der Schweiz
 Jörg Hahn: Regnier, Charles. In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Vol. 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin (2003) , P. 274.
 Anatol Regnier: Du auf deinem höchsten Dach. Tilly Wedekind und ihre Töchter. Eine Familienbiografie. Knaus, München (2003) ; also in audio-book format on 3 CDs, .

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2001 deaths
German male film actors
German male television actors
German people of French descent
Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
20th-century German male actors
Actors from Freiburg im Breisgau
Male actors from Baden-Württemberg


Just Visiting is a two-part 2002 extended play series by Australian rock group, Cog. Besides vocals, it was recorded in the late 1990s. Guitar and drums were recorded at Stage Door Rehearsal Studio, in Alexandria, while bass guitar was recorded by drummer Lucius Borich, at his home on a TASCAM 8-track portastudio, before Luke Gower joined the band on bass guitar. These tracks served as demonstration recordings that had them booked for performance, and eventually signed to booking agent TPA, through Owen Orford. Frustrated at the lack of label interest, Orford, despite his lack of experience with record labels started his own to release the Just Visiting EPs, on Little Samurai Records.

Just Visiting Part 1 was issued on 21 January 2002 on the MGM Distribution label, which peaked at No. 14 on the ARIA Heavy Rock & Metal Singles Chart. While Just Visiting Part 2 appeared on 1 October in that year and reached No. 4 on the same component chart. On 18 August 2008 both parts of the series were released as a single album, remastered by Borich, as Just Visiting. It contained all the tracks from both EPs, with a rearranged track listing and longer versions of "Moshiach", "Bondi", and "Paris, Texas" in place of the ones released on the EP.

Track listing

Part One
 "Moshiach" - 5:33
 "Bondi" - 3:33
 "1010011010" - 5:55
 "Moo" - 4:55
 "Holes" - 4:55

Part Two
 "Paris, Texas" - 4:18
 "Stretch" - 5:58
 "The Truth and Other Lies" - 5:13
 "Pseudo" - 5:22
 "Just Visiting" - 8:18

Re-release
 "Bondi" - 4:59
 "100011010" - 6:00
 "Pseudo" - 5:18
 "Moo" - 4:59
 "Stretch" - 5:58
 "The Truth and Other Lies" - 5:24
 "Holes" - 4:56
 "Moshiach" - 6:39
 "Paris, Texas" - 6:16
 "Just Visiting" - 8:19

Personnel

Cog
 Flynn Gower - guitar & vocals
 Lucius Borich - drums, backings & bits
 Luke Gower - bottom end & backings

Players
 Carla Werner - vocals on "The Truth and Other Lies"
 Flynn Gower - guitar, vocals
 Lucius Borich - drums, bass guitar, samples, backing vocals
 Produced by Cog
 Recorded by Cog, except vocals, recorded by Hamish Adam
 Mixed by "Zak" and Cog
 Mastered by Marsen Murad & Michael Macken

Charts

References

2002 EPs
EP series
Cog (band) EPs


Damiano is a surname with Greek and Italian roots. Notable people with the surname include:

Angelo Damiano (born 1938), Italian racing cyclist and olympic champion
Cesare Damiano (born 1948), Italian politician
Christian Damiano (born 1950), French football coach
Diane Damiano, American biomedical scientist and physical therapist
Gerard Damiano (1928–2008), American director of pornographic films
Luca Damiano (born 1946), Italian film director
Pedro Damiano (1480–1544), Portuguese chess player for whom the opening moves called Damiano Defense is named
Jennifer Damiano (born 1991), American actress and singer

Fictional people:
Dante Damiano, fictional characters on the American soap The Bold and the Beautiful
Dino Damiano, son of Dante Damiano

See also
Damiano (given name)
Damiano (disambiguation)


Leonid Aleksandrovich Zolkin () (born 1892; died 1958) was an association football player. He was the brother of Pavel Zolkin.

International career
Zolkin played his only game for the Russian Empire on May 4, 1913 in a friendly against Sweden.

External links
  Profile

1892 births
1958 deaths
Men's footballers from the Russian Empire
Men's association football forwards
Russian Empire men's international footballers


A half-keyboard is a specially designed and programmed keyboard used in limited space situations or when the typist needs a hand free to answer the phone, hold documents, etc.

The "Half-QWERTY" keyboard, invented by Edgar Matias, consists of only the left-hand half of a normal QWERTY keyboard, but when the space bar is held down, it switches to the right half of the keyboard, allowing a person to type with only one hand.

It is said to be quick to learn, because our bodies can easily replicate one motion on one side to the other side, and almost as fast as a normal keyboard.

References

External links
 Half-Keyboard Academic publications

Computer accessibility
Computer keyboard types
Keyboard layouts


Bernie "Mac" McCullough (born Bernard Jeffrey McCullough) is a fictional character loosely based on comic actor Bernie Mac from the Fox sitcom The Bernie Mac Show which ran from 2001 to 2006.

Character biography
Bernard Jeffrey McCullough was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised by his mother, "Big Mama". He barely knew his father and he had two sisters, Bernita (Niecy Nash) and Stacy, and an older brother, Carl (Glynn Turman), and a younger brother, Darryl. In the episode "Sweet Home Chicago, Part Two", Bernie discovers that his father was really his "Uncle" Ellister (In that same episode, he mentions to his niece that his father showed up at his birthday party asking for money. Since his "Uncle Ellister" was his actual father this would make the man he was talking about his stepfather). He decided he wanted to be a comedian. While delivering a package to a friendly customer (who was actually his future father in law, Lloyd), he met his future wife, Wanda (Kellita Smith). He had a rough start but he eventually won her heart and they later married in 1996. When Bernie's career took off they moved to Los Angeles. During that time, Bernie lived a happy life with his beautiful wife throughout a five-year period. In the pilot, he has to take in his sisters three children: Jordan (Jeremy Suarez), Bryana (Dee Dee Davis) and Vanessa (Camille Winbush). At first his patience is put to the test on a daily basis from Vanessa's attitude and Jordan's insecurities, but as the show progressed, he began to love and support the children as if they were his own.

He frequently threatens to beat his children, saying things like, "Bust yo head 'til the white meat shows!" and "Excuse me, America...I gotta go stunt one of them kids growth". Mac would always speak to the audience and address them as "America". The show is somewhat of a spoof of a reality series.

In the series finale, he gets an electrical shock and when he recovers he worries what will happen to his "Angels" if something happened to him. He decides to teach Jordan how to be more masculine (including teaching him how to make a "Mac Sandwich") and Bryana how to be more careful of the things she uses (which was the cause of his shock, because she put a Baked potato wrapped in aluminum foil in the microwave and when he foolishly tried to cut it off, he was electrocuted). Vanessa finally finds a college but does not want him to be involved. With Wanda's advice, Vanessa changes her feelings towards her uncle and they reconcile. Bernie discovers that Jordan has been taking advantage of his kindness and in the final scene of the series, Bernie takes back the iPod he bought him.

Unlike the real Bernie Mac, Bernie McCullough (the TV character) was married with no children; however, in real life, Bernie Mac was married with one daughter. Bernie Mac did not look after his sister's three children after his daughter left home. Bernie Mac did not have a sister in real life. Bernie Mac only had brothers in real life.

From 2005 until 2009, The character Bernie was one of the official U'z Guys on Chicago's television station The U. The U'z Guys is a lineup of all the male main characters from the station's television programs. Bernie was removed from the lineup when The Bernie Mac Show was removed from the station's schedule.

Relationship with family
Bernie uses tough-love parenting tactics and he can be both strict and comical. He narrates the series, and between scenes he talks to the audience by addressing them as "America." Although he loves all three kids, his favorite is Bryana (whom he affectionately calls "Baby Girl" because she is the youngest), and always finds himself going head to head with teenage Vanessa, the eldest sibling, whose poor attitude always gives him a hard time; though it is revealed in the episode Jac and Jacequline that the only reason he's so hard on her is because she reminds him of her mother and he's determined to keep her from suffering a similar fate to her mother.

Reception

Critical response
The character and Bernie Mac's performance have received widespread critical acclaim throughout the series' run. Many viewers have called the character an exceptionally liked lead and critics have associated most of the show's success to Mac. Bernie McCullough was ranked No. 47 in TV Guide's list of the "50 Greatest TV Dads of All Time".

Awards and nominations
Bernie Mac received various individual awards and nominations for his performance as Bernie McCullough. Mac was nominated for 2 consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series in 2002 and 2003 but lost to Ray Romano as Ray Barone in Everybody Loves Raymond and Tony Shaloub as Adrian Monk in Monk, respectively. In 2002, Mac won the award for Individual Achievement in Comedy.

Mac won the PRISM Award for Performance in a Comedy Series and the BET Comedy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. At the annual Golden Globe Awards, Mac was nominated for 2 consecutive Golden Globe Awards for Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical Television Series in 2003 & 2004 but lost to Shaloub and Ricky Gervais as David Brent in The Office, respectively.

Additionally, Mac was nominated for 4 consecutive Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards for Favorite TV Actor. He received 4 consecutive NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series. Mac was also nominated in 2007 but lost to Tyler James Williams as Chris in Everybody Hates Chris. Mac has been nominated three times consecutively for the Satellite Award for Best Actor - Television Series Musical or Comedy in 2002, 2003, and 2004, winning in 2002 and 2003, but lost in 2004 to Jason Bateman as Michael Bluth in Arrested Development.

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Fictional characters from Chicago
Fictional African-American people
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Fictional actors
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Pavel Aleksandrovich Zolkin () (born 1894; died 1962) was an association football player. He was the brother of Leonid Zolkin.

International career
Zolkin played his only game for Russia on May 4, 1913 in a friendly against Sweden.

External links
  Profile

1894 births
1962 deaths
Men's footballers from the Russian Empire
Russian Empire men's international footballers
Men's association football forwards


OSCL may refer to:

 Organización Socialista del Camino para la Libertad - the Spanish name of Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO)
 Ohio Senior Classical League - the Ohio state chapter of the National Senior Classical League (NSCL);also the college-level affiliate of the Ohio Junior Classical League (OJCL)


Kurt Meisel (18 August 1912 – 4 April 1994) was an Austrian actor and film director. He appeared in 65 films between 1934 and 1994. He also directed 21 films between 1949 and 1984. Meisel was married to the actress Ursula Lingen. He was born and died in Vienna, Austria, and is buried on the Vienna Zentralfriedhof.

Selected filmography

 Little Dorrit (1934) - Pit, sein Sohn
 Marriage Strike (1935) - Loisl
 Schlußakkord (1936) - Baron Salviany
 The Court Concert (1936) - Leutnant Florian Schwälble
 The Divine Jetta (1937) - Graf Eugen Opalla
 Such Great Foolishness (1937) - Specht - Rundfunkansager
 Love Can Lie (1937) - August Halfgreen
 Spiel auf der Tenne (1937) - Andreas 'Anderl' Rössmaier
 Another World (1937) - 2. Journalist
 Der Schimmelkrieg in der Holledau (1937) - Thomas, Bräubursch
 Frau Sylvelin (1938) - Herr von Roedern
 Nanon (1938) - Hector
 The Scoundrel (1939) - Ferdinand Scheibler
 A Woman Like You (1939) - Felix Petersen
 Eine kleine Nachtmusik (1940) - Max
 The Fire Devil (1940) - Erzherzog Johann
  (1940) - Francois Coogmann, Kunstmaler
 Der Weg ins Freie (1941) - Ein Student
 Menschen im Sturm (1941) - Oberleutnant Duschan
 The Great King (1942) - Alfons
 The Rainer Case (1942) - Leutnant von Benda
 Die goldene Stadt (1942) - Toni Opferkuch - Annas Vetter, der Anna verführt
 Kolberg (1945) - Claus Werner
 Wozzeck (1947) - Wozzeck
  (1949) - Karli Reindl
 Love on Ice (1950) - Toni Staudtner
 Der Teufel führt Regie (1951) - Poupoulle
 Until We Meet Again (1952) - Willy Wagner
 All Clues Lead to Berlin (1952) - Gregor Pratt
 Arena of Death (1953 - director)
  (1954) - Figaro, valet
 Emil and the Detectives (1954) - Herr Grundeis
 They Were So Young (1954) - Pasquale
 Hello, My Name is Cox (1955) - Oberkellner Youmac
 Jackboot Mutiny (1955) - SS Obergruppenführer
 Operation Sleeping Bag (1955) - Oberleutnant Taut
 Zwei blaue Augen (1955) - Eddi Witt
  (1956) - Mann auf dem Schiff (uncredited)
 Vater sein dagegen sehr (1957) - Schneider
 Drei Mann auf einem Pferd (1957) - Freddy
 The Cat (1958) - Capitaine Heinz Muller
 A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958) - Heini
  (1958) - Mojmir
  (1959) - Baron de Tavel
 Dorothea Angermann (1959) - Mario Malloneck
 Court Martial (1959, Director)
 The Red Hand (1960, director)
 The Longest Day (1962) - Capt. Ernst Düring (uncredited)
  (1963, TV film) - Major Mokry
 The Spendthrift (1964, director)
  (1966) - Sapparov
  (1966) - Semmelbein, the jeweler
 Man on Horseback (1969) - Kanzler
 Strogoff (1970) - Feofar Khan
 The Odessa File (1974) - Alfred Oster
 Derrick – Season 3, Episode 14: "Der Mann aus Portofino" (1976) - Ingo Parenge
  (1986) - Eisenbeiss
 The Post Office Girl (1988, TV film) - Hofrat Elkins

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1994 deaths
Male actors from Vienna
Austrian male film actors
Austrian male television actors
Austrian film directors
Austrian television directors
German-language film directors
20th-century Austrian male actors
Burials at the Vienna Central Cemetery
Lingen family


Esther and the King () is a 1960 American-Italian religious epic film produced and directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Joan Collins as Esther, Richard Egan as Ahasuerus, and Denis O'Dea as Mordecai. Walsh and Michael Elkins wrote the screenplay, which was based on the Book of Esther of the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament. It recounts the origin of the Jewish celebration of Purim.

An international co-production released by 20th Century-Fox, Esther and the King was filmed in Italy in the CinemaScope format (although not signed as such) and the Technicolor color process. Mario Bava, the film's cinematographer, was credited as a co-director on Italian prints of the film.

Plot
In Persia in the 5th century BC, a Jewish woman named Esther comes to the attention of the recently widowed King Ahasuerus. The king has been trying to defeat the campaign of hatred against the Jews by his evil minister Haman. Before the king pairs with Esther to defeat Haman, there are several intervening adventures and an attractive other woman who competes for attention.

Cast
The film's on-screen credits list the cast in the following order and sections:
Starring
 Joan Collins as Esther
 Richard Egan as Ahasuerus, King of Persia
With
 Denis O'Dea as Mordecai
 Sergio Fantoni as Haman
 Rik Battaglia (as Rick Battaglia) as Simon
 Renato Baldini as Klydrathes
 Gabriele Tinti as Samuel
 Rosalba Neri as Zeresh
 Walter Williams (as Robert Buchanan) as Hegai
Also starring
 Daniela Rocca as Vashti
 Folco Lulli as Tobiah

Production
In December 1950, 20th Century-Fox studio executive Darryl F. Zanuck announced his intention to produce The Story of Esther as a follow-up to David and Bathsheba, which he was producing at the time. He entrusted Frank and Doris Hursley with the task of writing the screenplay. George Jessel expressed interest in producing the film.

In February 1951, Henry King was assigned to direct the film. In October, producers Joseph Bernhard and Anson Bond purchased the script from the Hursleys and were planning the film as a 20th Century-Fox release.

In February 1952, Hedy Lamarr bought the Hursley script for $25,000; Arthur B. Krim of United Artists negotiated the deal for her. Lamarr wanted to portray Esther and produce the story as an independent feature and United Artists release, with the possibility of filming it in Italy. She eventually decided to produce it in Rome as the first episode of a British television series titled The Great Love Stories, but the project changed and the story was not filmed.

The 1960 Writers Guild of America strike, which began in January, forced 20th Century-Fox to cease production temporarily. Fox president Spyros Skouras and producer Buddy Adler asked director Raoul Walsh if he could "make a film very quickly for them, because they had nothing at all, the studios were practically shut. That's why we made Esther in Italy."

Release
Esther and the King premiered in New York City at the RKO Palace Theatre on November 18, 1960.

The film grossed 126% and was considered a hit film of the 1960-61 season.

Critical response
James D. Ivers, writing for Motion Picture Daily, was enthusiastically positive: "All the trappings of a Biblical spectacle, exotic sets and costumes, a moving and dramatic story, and the skilled and experienced hand of Raoul Walsh make this a worthy and potentially successful entry in the present cycle of historical epics." Ivers also commended the performances of the leading actors: "Joan Collins plays Esther with beauty and some depth, Richard Egan is properly virile as a soldierly but unstatesmanlike King Ahasuerus, and Denis O'Dea is dignified and devout as Mordecai." The supporting actors who earned notice were a "satisfactory" Rik Battaglia, a "sufficiently menacing" Sergio Fantoni and a "somewhat overly voluptuous" Daniela Rocca. Ivers also admired the technical aspects of the film: "Color by DeLuxe and excellent camera work by Mario Bava give an eye-filling background to the straightforward story."

Some critics disliked the film. Bosley Crowther of The New York Times wrote that the "beautiful Bible story of Esther" had "been thumped into a crude costume charade." Harrison's Reports found that the film "has a hackneyed script and two incompetent lead players [Collins and Egan]," but it praised O'Dea's portrayal of Mordecai.

In recent years, Rosalba Neri's performance has been evaluated as "memorable."

Home media
In 2014, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment released Esther and the King on DVD as part of the manufactured-on-demand Cinema Archives line.

References

Bibliography

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1960 romantic drama films
20th Century Fox films
American romantic drama films
1960s English-language films
English-language Italian films
Italian romantic drama films
Religious epic films
Peplum films
Sword and sandal films
Cultural depictions of Esther
Cultural depictions of Xerxes I
Films based on the Book of Esther
Films about Jews and Judaism
Films about antisemitism
Films set in ancient Persia
Films set in the 5th century BC
Films directed by Raoul Walsh
Films scored by Angelo Francesco Lavagnino
Films shot in Rome
1960 films
1960s American films
1960s Italian films


Thomas Talbot Bury (26 November 1809 – 23 February 1877) was a British architect and lithographer. There seems to be some dispute about Bury's date of birth. According to Grace's Guide, the 1877 Institution of Civil Engineers Obituaries gives a DOB as 26th of September 1811, the Directory of British Architects 1834-1914 Vol.1 and the Library of Congress agree. The Royal Academy gives a date of simply 1809 and the Science Museum agrees with them.

Bury was articled to Augustus Charles Pugin in 1824 and started his own practice in Soho in 1830. At various times he collaborated with other notable architects including Charles Lee (partners between 1845 and 1849), Lewis Vulliamy and A. W. N. Pugin, with whom he detailed the Houses of Parliament under Sir Charles Barry.

Bury's works included thirty-five churches and chapels, fifteen parsonages, twelve schools and twenty other large public buildings and private homes.   His ecclesiastical works included St Mary the Virgin's Church, Woodlands (near West Kingsdown), Kent (1850); the chapels at Tonbridge cemetery (1856); St James's Church, Dover, (1859); St Ann's Church, Tottenham, (1861); St John the Evangelist's Church in Burgess Hill, West Sussex, (1861–63), St Mary's, Lambourn Woodlands and Welford St Gregory, both near Newbury, Berkshire. He also carried out a restoration of St Peter and St Paul's Church at Temple Ewell near Dover.

Bury was also known for his engravings and lithography, notably of the works of Augustus Welby Pugin and Owen Jones. He exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1846 and 1872, and was noted for the sketches he produced for Ackermann's series of lithographs and aquatints of the "Coloured Views of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway", in 1831, republished in 1976.

Bury was made a Fellow of the RIBA in 1843 and was elected vice-president in 1876. He was also a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, a council member of the Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland and an associate of the Society of Civil Engineers.

Bury died at his home in Cavendish Square, London and is buried at West Norwood Cemetery.

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1877 deaths
19th-century English architects
Fellows of the Royal Institute of British Architects
Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Gothic Revival architects
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Burials at West Norwood Cemetery
English lithographers


Agnes Windeck (; 27 March 1888 – 28 September 1975) was a German theatre and film actress. She appeared in more than 50 films between 1939 and 1973. She was born in Hamburg and started her career at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in 1904. She later worked as a teacher at the drama school of the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. In the 1930s she began to play minor roles in several films but it was not until she was in her seventies when she became a popular character actress of West German cinema and television.

Filmography

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1975 deaths
German film actresses
German stage actresses
German television actresses
Actresses from Hamburg
20th-century German actresses
Rundfunk im amerikanischen Sektor people


The 1993 Alabama Crimson Tide football team represented the University of Alabama for the 1993 NCAA Division I-A football season, competing in the Southeastern Conference Western Division. The team was led by head coach Gene Stallings, who was in his fourth season at the position.

Alabama entered the season as the defending national champion, following their victory in the 1993 Sugar Bowl, and ranked #2 in the AP Poll, behind Florida State.

Alabama won the first five games of the season, extending their winning streak to 28 games, matching the longest win streak in school history. The streak ended with a 17–17 tie against Tennessee.  The unbeaten streak continued to 31 games before Alabama fell to LSU, 17–13.

Alabama finished second in the SEC West in 1993, but played in the SEC Championship Game as Auburn was prohibited from post-season play because of NCAA violations. In the SEC Championship Game, Alabama lost 28–13 to the Florida Gators at Legion Field. Alabama received an invitation to the Gator Bowl versus North Carolina, winning 24–10 and finishing with a 9–3–1 record.

In 1995, the NCAA found Antonio Langham guilty of receiving improper benefits after signing with an agent following the 1992 season, forcing Alabama to forfeit all games in which Langham competed. Officially, Alabama finished the season with a 1–12 record, only winning their bowl game.

Schedule

Roster

Regular season statistics

Team

Quarter-by-quarter statistics

Scoring

Time of possession

Passing

References

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Alabama Crimson Tide football seasons
Gator Bowl champion seasons
Alabama Crimson Tide football


John Robert Gibson (December 20, 1925 – April 19, 2014) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri.

Early life and education

Born in Springfield, Missouri, Gibson was a sergeant in the United States Army from 1944 to 1946. He received an Artium Baccalaureus degree in 1949 from the University of Missouri, followed by a Juris Doctor from the University of Missouri School of Law in 1952. He was in private practice of law in Kansas City, Missouri from 1952 to 1981.

Federal judicial service

Gibson was nominated by President Ronald Reagan on July 9, 1981, to a seat on the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri vacated by Judge Elmo Bolton Hunter. Confirmed by the United States Senate on September 16, 1981, Gibson received his commission three days later. His service was terminated on March 30, 1982, due to elevation to the court of appeals.

On February 2, 1982, Gibson was nominated by Reagan to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit that had been vacated by Judge Floyd Robert Gibson, who had assumed senior status. President Jimmy Carter previously had nominated Howard F. Sachs to the seat, but Sachs' nomination was not acted upon by the United States Senate before Carter's presidency ended, and Reagan chose not to renominate Sachs. Reagan initially had brought forth the name of Hallmark Cards associate general counsel Judith Whittaker (born June 12, 1938) as a nominee to replace Floyd Gibson. However, after it emerged that Whittaker had supported the Equal Rights Amendment, conservatives opposing her nomination launched a letter-writing campaign objecting to her nomination, and Whittaker eventually withdrew her name from consideration. On March 4, 1982, the Senate confirmed Gibson and he received his commission on March 9, 1982. Gibson assumed senior status on January 1, 1994 and died on April 19, 2014.

See also
 Jimmy Carter judicial appointment controversies

References

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1925 births
2014 deaths
People from Springfield, Missouri
Military personnel from Missouri
Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Judges of the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri
Missouri lawyers
United States court of appeals judges appointed by Ronald Reagan
United States district court judges appointed by Ronald Reagan
20th-century American judges
University of Missouri alumni
United States Army personnel of World War II


Gavril A. Yushvaev (Russian: Гаврил Юшваев; born July 23, 1957) is Russian born Israeli businessman and investor known for the foundation of Wimm Bill Dann and investing in Polyus Gold.

According to Forbes, Yushvaev's net worth as of 2023 is $1.9 billion.

Biography
Gavril Yushvaev was born in Makhachkala, Dagestan. He is certified by the Israeli Community of Porto as a descendant of Sephardic Jews.

In 1980, Yushvaev was convicted of robbery and spent nine years in a Soviet prison camp, according to Wimm-Bill-Dann's prospectus for its 2002 IPO. After his release in 1989, Yushavev partnered with David Yakobashvili. In 1993, they invested in the Lianozovo Dairy Plant, which later became Wimm Bill Dann. In 2020, he applied for Portuguese citizenship but, as of 2023, the process is still pending.

Business ventures
Yushvaev became wealthy in the 1990s as the co-founder of Trinity which owned various businesses in Moscow. Yushvaev then invested in Wimm-Bill-Dann, a dairy and juice company. The company was founded in 1995 and had its initial public offering in 2002. Yushvaev was the company's largest shareholder until 2010, when he sold his 19.6% stake in the company to PepsiCo for $1.1 billion.

In 2013, Yushvaev, along with another Russian businessman, purchased a 38% stake in Polyus Gold from Mikhail Prokhorov for $3.6 billion. He sold his stake in Polyus Gold in 2015 and made a $100 million investment in Lyft in 2015 along with joining a consortium that invested $150 million in Humacyte in 2015, a US based biotechnology company. He has also invested in Delivery Hero in 2013, a German delivery service company, and Domo in 2018, a software company.

Yushvaev has a holding company in Cyprus.

Personal life
Yushvaev is married and has eight children.

References

Russian oligarchs
1957 births
Living people
Russian billionaires
Russian food industry businesspeople
People from Makhachkala
Russian businesspeople in Israel


Maria Doukaina Komnene Petraliphaina () was the wife of Theodore Komnenos Doukas, ruler of Epirus and in 1224–1230 self-proclaimed Emperor of Thessalonica. She is the earliest consort of the Epirote state known by name: the two wives of Michael I Komnenos Doukas, predecessor of her husband, were members of the Melissenos family but their first names are unknown.

Life

Origin and family
Maria was a member of the Petraliphas family, of Italian origin. Her brother John Petraliphas  was a ranking noble in the court of the Byzantine emperor Isaac II Angelos (), and was appointed as governor of Thessaly and Macedonia. In 1195, however, he played a leading role in Isaac's ouster and his replacement with Alexios III Angelos (). John's daughter Theodora Petraliphaina married Michael II Komnenos Doukas, the illegitimate son of the founder of the Epirote state, Michael I Komnenos Doukas.

Marriage
She married Theodore Komnenos Doukas sometime during Theodore's stay at the court of the Theodore I Laskaris. Theodore was a son of the sebastokrator John Doukas and of Zoe Doukaina. After the Fourth Crusade captured Constantinople in 1204, he followed Laskaris to Asia Minor, where Laskaris founded the Empire of Nicaea. In , Theodore was invited by his half-brother Michael I Komnenos Doukas to Epirus, where Michael had founded an independent Greek principality. Michael wanted Theodore's aid, as his only son, the future Michael II, was underage and illegitimate, while Michael's other half-brothers were considered to lack the ability to rule. According to Konstantinos Varzos, the firstborn child of Maria and Theodore must have been born . In the sources, Theodora is never mentioned by her original family name, but always by her husband's surnames as "Doukaina" and "Komnene".

Issue
With Theodore, she had had four children:
 Anna Angelina Komnene Doukaina, who married King Stefan Radoslav of Serbia
 John Komnenos Doukas, who became Emperor of Thessalonica in 1237
 Irene Komnene Doukaina, who married John Asen
 Demetrios Angelos Doukas, who succeeded as ruler of Thessalonica in 1244

References

Sources

Consorts of Epirus
Maria
Komnenodoukas dynasty
Empire of Thessalonica
Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown