James H. Adlington (1872 – after 1896) was an English professional footballer who played in the Football League for Small Heath. He played as an outside right.

Adlington was born in Shifnal, Shropshire. He began his football career with Ironbridge F.C., and joined Small Heath in August 1895. He made his debut in the First Division on 23 November 1895, deputising for Jack Hallam in a home game against Preston North End which Small Heath won 5–2. Adlington, a pacy player, scored in four of his next five games, but lost his place and never played for the club again. He returned to non-league football with Berwick Rangers (Worcester) and then Stourport Swifts.

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1872 births
Year of death missing
People from Shifnal
English men's footballers
Men's association football outside forwards
Ironbridge F.C. players
Birmingham City F.C. players
Worcester City F.C. players
Stourport Swifts F.C. players
English Football League players
Place of death missing
Footballers from Shropshire


Shlomo Katz () is a contemporary religious Jewish singer in Israel.

Biography
Shlomo Katz was born in New Jersey, the son of Cantor Avsholom Katz. His father was an Argentine immigrant from Buenos Aires, and was named for his uncle Avshalom Haviv. His family moved to Israel when he was nine years old and he has subsequently moved back and forth between Los Angeles and Israel. While studying in a Raanana yeshiva, Katz was introduced to the music and teachings of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach.

Katz received his rabbinical ordination at Yeshivat HaMivtar in Efrat under Rosh HaYeshiva, Rav Chaim Brovender.
Shlomo has been invited as a scholar in residence to university campuses and synagogues to teach Torah and give concerts, lead melave malkas and kumsitzim. He was the lead Baal Tefilah and spiritual guide in the Carlebach Minyan of Beth Jacob of Beverly Hills.

Today, Shlomo serves as the Rabbi and spiritual leader of Cong. Shirat David in Efrat, where he teaches several Torah classes weekly on various topics.

His brother,  Reb Eitan, is also a well-known performer and the two often perform together.

Musical style
Shlomo was born into a family of musicians, most notably his father Cantor Avshalom Katz. As a youth he sang in choirs and was trained in violin for seven years. Shlomo eventually switched to guitar and is best known for his performances with that instrument.
He is a headliner in the post-Carlebach musical movement performing both his own compositions and covers.

Discography
 Eilecha (with Avshalom and Eitan Katz) (1999)
 Biglal Avos (with Eitan Katz) (2001)
 VeHakohanim (2006)
 K'Shoshana (with Chaim-Dovid Saracik & Aharon Razel (2008)
 Malei Olam (2009)
 Live From Melbourne (2012)
 Likrat Shabbat (2014)
 Yismach Melech (2016)
 Brit Avot (2018)
 A Moment To Breathe (2021)
 Breslov (2022)

References

Hasidic singers
Jewish American composers
Jewish American musicians
American Orthodox Jews
Hasidic entertainers
Living people
1980 births
Musicians from New Jersey
Date of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Shlomo Carlebach
Jewish folk singers


James Barbour (February 26, 1828 – October 29, 1895) was a Virginia lawyer, planter, politician and Confederate officer. He represented Culpeper County, Virginia, in the Virginia General Assembly, as well as in the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850 and the Virginia secession convention of 1861. Barbour also served among Virginia's delegates to the 1860 Democratic National Convention, and as a major in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

Early life and education
Barbour was born on February 26, 1828, at Catalpa in Culpeper County, Virginia. Among the First Families of Virginia, his family had been prominent in the area since colonial times, when his namesake great-grandfather (and grandfather) settled in Virginia's Piedmont region. He was among the sons of John S. Barbour, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia's 15th congressional district, and his wife Ella A. Byrne.

Barbour attended Georgetown College from September through December 1840. and then the University of Virginia School of Law between 1841 and 1842. Barbour read law under John Tayloe Lomax in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and was admitted to the Virginia bar in 1844.

Early political career
In 1850, voters from the central Piedmont district that combined Culpeper County, as well as Greene, Madison and Orange Counties elected Barbour among their three delegates to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850, along with Robert A. Banks and John Woolfolk.

In the decade before the American Civil War, Culpeper county's voters elected James Barbour to the Virginia House of Delegates for the 1852–1853 session (where he succeeded his brother John S. Barbour, Jr. to the part-time position). However, voters selected Perry J. Eggborn in the next two elections. Barbour resumed the seat during the 1857–58 session, and was re-elected to the 1859–60 and 1861 (January) sessions. By the 1860 census, James Barbour owned 13 slaves and also hired two older slaves to assist with his plantation while he practiced law.

Barbour was among the delegates representing Virginia at the 1860 Democratic National Convention in Baltimore, Maryland. A year later, Barbour became Culpeper County's delegate at the 1861 Virginia secession convention.

Marriage and children
Barbour married Fanny Thomas Beckham, daughter of Coleman Coals Beckham and his wife Mary C. Beckham, on September 1, 1857. They had seven children:

 Ella B. Barbour Rixey (born February 27, 1858) m. John Franklin Rixey (1881)
 Mary B. Barbour Wallace (born 1860) m. Clarence B. Wallace (1890)
 James Byrne Barbour (1864–1926)
 John Strode Barbour (August 10, 1866 – May 6, 1952) m. Mary B. Grimsley (1894)
 Edwin Barbour (January 2, 1868 – March 5, 1902) m. Josie McDonald
 A. Floyd Barbour (born July 1868)
 Fanny C. Barbour Beckham (born January 1874) m. Benjamin Collins Beckham (1899)

Barbour and his family lived at Beauregard near Brandy Station in Culpeper County, Virginia.

American Civil War
During the American Civil War, Culpeper County voters again elected James Barbour to the Virginia House of Delegates; he served during the sessions 1861/62, 1862 (April), 1862 (September), and 1863 (January). However, John H. Rixey succeeded him for the session which began on September 7, 1863.

After Virginia's secession, Barbour volunteered to serve in the Confederate States Army and was commissioned as a major on the staff of General Richard S. Ewell, whee he served as an assistant adjutant general. After a dispute with General Jubal Anderson Early, Barbour resigned on January 30, 1863. Other sources cite ill health as Barbour's reason for resigning.

About six months later, the Battle of Brandy Station, perhaps the largest cavalry engagement of the conflict, took place on and around the Barbour family's estate. Beauregard mansion is now colloquially known as the Graffiti House because it contains graffiti inscribed both Union Army and Confederate States Army soldiers.

Later life
After the war, Barbour acquired a controlling interest in the Richmond Daily Enquirer and Examiner on July 15, 1867, and became its editor. Barbour owned the newspaper until January 30, 1870, when it was acquired by interests affiliated with the Pennsylvania Railroad.

In 1877, Barbour returned to the Virginia House of Delegates, succeeding his relative Thomas B. Nalle for one term, after which fellow Confederate veterans Jonathan C. Gibson or Jacob S. Eggborn held the seat. In 1885, Culpeper's delegate Daniel A. Grimsley resigned and Barbour returned to the remainder of the session (March 1887) and then won election again for 1887/1888 session.

Death
Barbour died of pneumonia at Clover Hill near Jeffersonton in Culpeper County, Virginia on October 29, 1895.

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1828 births
1895 deaths
19th-century American newspaper editors
American planters
American Presbyterians
Barbour family
Confederate States Army officers
Deaths from pneumonia in Virginia
Georgetown University College of Arts & Sciences alumni
Democratic Party members of the Virginia House of Delegates
People from Culpeper County, Virginia
People of Virginia in the American Civil War
University of Virginia School of Law alumni
Virginia lawyers
Editors of Virginia newspapers
Virginia Secession Delegates of 1861
American male journalists
American slave owners
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Ernesto Andrés Livacic Gazzano (March 23, 1929 – May 29, 2007) was a prominent Chilean academic and author who published more than 50 books on literature and on the field of education.

Livacic was born in the southern Chilean city of Punta Arenas to a family of Croatian origin. He earned a Master of Education degree and worked for 14 years as a teacher in a number of secondary educational institutions in Chile. In 1961 he became a professor at the University of Chile, and in 1962 he also became an educational authority and planner for UNESCO.

Livacic worked for the Chilean Ministry of Education for 8 years as technical secretary of the Superintendency of Education (1965–1969); he later served as Sub Secretary of Education (1969–1970). He was also a distinguished member of the National Council of Education in Chile from 1965 to 1973.

Since 1983 he was a principal member of the Chilean Academy of Language, where he served as secretary (1983–1999), vice-director (1995–1998) and the president of the Commission for Literature (1999–2005).

He was an academic in the Catholic University of Chile from 1955 to 1994 where he held the post of Director of the Institute of Letters for four years. In 1995, the Catholic University of Chile distinguishes him as Professor Emeritus of the Faculty of Literature.

In 1993, he was awarded the National Prize for Education Sciences and was a member of Chile's Educational Curriculum Association since 1993 and honorary member of the Chilean Society of the History of Education since 1994.

Livacic was also president of the directors council of the Metropolitan University of Educational Sciences (1990–1992), a distinguished member of the directors council of the University of Magallanes (1993–1999) and he was on the superior council of the Universidad de las Américas (Chile) (1989–2004).

He was also a corresponding member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts and he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Magallanes in 1999.

Livacic published more than 50 books and hundreds of articles on the field of education and literature, and some of his works were translated into numerous languages.

References

Instituto Chileno Croata de Cultura

External links
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

1929 births
2007 deaths
Academic staff of the University of Chile
Chilean people of Croatian descent
Chilean people of Italian descent


Cao Thượng is a township (Thị trấn) and town and capital of Tân Yên District, Bắc Giang Province, in north-eastern Vietnam.

References

Populated places in Bắc Giang province
Communes of Bắc Giang province
District capitals in Vietnam
Townships in Vietnam


Numerous ships have been named Marquis of Rockingham, or Marquess of Rockingham:

Marquis of Rockingham was a vessel British built in 1764, of 100 tons (bm), Heywood and Co., owners. This may be the Marquis of Rockingham (1764), of 160 tons (bm), that became the Reina de Portugal.
Marquis of Rockingham was a vessel of 400 tons (bm). 22 guns, and 60 crew. She made a voyage from Britain in 1769 to Bombay, via Johanna and Tellicheri, to remain in the East Indies.
Marquis of Rockingham, Captain Isaac Pocock, was a transport that an American privateer, possibly the Sturdy Beggar, captured on 14 November 1777. , , and  recaptured her.
Marquis of Rockingham was a transport that on 17 December 1778 was sailing from Newport, Rhode Island, to New York City to with a cargo of hay when she wrecked at Gardiner's Island, New York. The American privateers American Revenue and  rescued the five survivors of her crew of 22.
 , an East Indiaman that made one voyage for the East India Company before she sank off Madras in May 1777 during her second voyage.
 , a barque launched in 1769 under the name Marquis of Rockingham, that the Royal Navy purchased and that sailed with Cook in the early 1770s. The navy sold her in 1783 and she traded as a merchantman until she was wrecked in 1811.

See also:
Wreck of the Rockingham, 1775

Citations

Ship names


Savage Messiah are an English heavy metal band formed in May 2007 in London. The band was formed by guitarist and lead vocalist Dave Silver and also consists of guitarist Joff Bailey, bassist Míra Sláma, keyboardist Carlos Alcalde De Lema and drummer Charly Carretón.

History
Savage Messiah were formed in London in 2007 by Dave Silver. Their debut self-financed EP Spitting Venom was released on 1 October 2007 by SMR Productions (the band's own label) to positive reviews.

In January 2009, the band was signed to Candlelight Records, and entered the studio with Grammy-nominated producer Chris Tsangarides  to record their first full-length album, Insurrection Rising. The album was mixed by Scott Atkins (Cradle of Filth, Gama Bomb, Sylosis), and would be the start of a long term working relationship between the band and Scott Atkins.

Insurrection Rising was released on 19 October 2009. The band immediately hit the road as support to Overkill for a 19 date European Tour as well as picking up additional support shows with Sylosis, Death Angel and playing festivals such as Hellfire Festival at the Birmingham NEC with Saxon, Napalm Death etc., and Hammerfest  with Iced Earth, Five Finger Death Punch, Suicidal Tendencies etc.

It was announced on 13 August 2010 that Savage Messiah was to be signed by Earache Records, with whom they signed a worldwide multi-album deal.

The band entered Grindstone Studios in July 2011 to begin recording what would become Plague of Conscience, once again with producer Scott Atkins. Taking breaks from recording to pick up shows with Skeletonwitch, Devilstone Open Air Festival in Lithuania, and then embarking on a 15 date UK tour with label mates Evile, for which they released an advanced mix of the song "The Accuser" On 12 October 2011.

The band's second album, Plague Of Conscience, was released on 23 January 2012.

The first live activity in support of Plague of Conscience saw the band take part in the HMV "next big thing" series of concerts with Evile at HMV Ritz in Manchester, another appearance at Hammerfest and a string of UK headline dates supported by Diamond Plate as well as an appearance at the UK's Bloodstock Open Air Festival.

In June 2012 the band contributed a cover version of the Metallica song "Of Wolf and Man" to the Kerrang! Magazine "A Tribute to the Black Album" CD which was released on 20 June 2012.

On 12 December 2012 the band premiered their video for the song "All Seeing I" on the front page of Vevo.

On 1 July 2013 Savage Messiah entered the studio to record their third studio album, The Fateful Dark, with producer Scott Atkins. Once again taking a break from the studio to support Finish metallers Wintersun on a UK tour. Lead guitarist/vocalist Dave Silver also took part in a Century Media sponsored guitar clinic at Carvin Guitars in West Hollywood, California before returning to the UK to complete recording.

Prior to the release of The Fateful Dark the band joined Denver, Colorado Thrashers Havok and Spanish metal act Angelus Apatrida for a 28 date European tour, taking in UK, France, Italy, Slovenia, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Spain and Belgium.

The Fateful Dark was released on 10 March 2014 in Europe by Earache Records, 12 March 2014 in Japan by Trooper Entertainment and 18 March 2014 in the US by Century Media Records.

On 17 February 2014 the band released a promo video for the track "Hellblazer" directed by Tom Walsh (Bullet for my Valentine, Pendulum) and featuring Game of Thrones star Pixie-Le-Knot. The video received regular play on UK metal Sky TV channel Scuzz.

Upon the release of the album Savage Messiah joined Soulfly for 8 dates across the UK, followed by another run of UK headline dates culminating in another appearance at Hammerfest.

On 10 April 2014 it was announced that the band had been nominated for a Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards in the category of "Best New Band"

In 2014, the band was awarded a grant by the British Phonographic Industry and performed on Channel 4 News as well as being interviewed regarding the grant.

The rest of 2014 saw the band take in headlining tours of Europe and the UK.

In October 2014 the band were confirmed as support on a 27 date European tour as an opening act for Amon Amarth and Huntress commencing in January 2015.

In February 2015 Warner Bros. Records announced the Metal Matters compilation disc including songs from Deep Purple, Slipknot, MC5 and many others. The Savage Messiah track "Hellblazer" was amongst the songs included.

In 2016 the band performed on several tours in the UK and Europe, opening for Testament, Trivium, Armored Saint. They also performed at the Download Festival in the UK, Prog Power USA and opened the main stage at Loud Park Festival in Japan.

In August 2017 the band announced that they had signed a new record contract with Century Media Records for the release of their fourth full-length album titled Hands of Fate. The album was recorded at Rockfield Studios in Monmouth and produced by long time collaborator Scott Atkins. The album was mastered in Los Angeles by Dave Collins (Metallica, Linkin Park, Soundgarden) and has artwork created by Travis Smith (Avenged Sevenfold, Opeth).

In October and November 2017 they toured the UK and Ireland playing 11 venues, supporting Cradle of Filth.

The band announced Charly Carretón as a new full time drummer in February/March 2019.

In March 2019 the band released their first single 'Under No Illusions' off their upcoming album titled "Demons" which will be released on 17 May 2019, they also announced 3 special album launch shows in the UK in that month and a European tour with Symphony X as special guests for May/June 2019. Carlos Alcalde de Lema joined the band as a live keyboardist for the tour and remained the band's new member afterwards.

In August 2019 former lead guitarist Joff Bailey reunited with the band and made his first appearance at Wacken Open Air 2019.

Members
 Dave Silver – lead vocals, guitars (2007–present)
 Míra Sláma – bass (2014–present)
 Joff Bailey – guitars (2011–2015; 2019–present)
 Carlos Alcalde De Lema – keyboards (2019–present)
 Charly Carretón – drums, percussion (2019–present)

Past members
 Sasha Krohn – bass
 Chris O'Toole – bass
 Stefano Selvatico – bass
 Andy Faulkner – drum programming
 Pete Hunt – drums
 Andrea Gorio – drums (2012–2017)
 Ernesto Nogara – drums
 Mauricio Chamucero – drums
 Tom Draper – guitar
 Sy Taplin – guitar
 James Tyler – guitar
 Sam Saadat – guitar

Touring members
 Ali Richardson – drums (2017–2018)
 Dan Wilding – drums (2017–2018)

Discography
Studio albums
 Insurrection Rising (Candlelight 2009)
 Plague of Conscience (Earache 2012)
 The Fateful Dark (Earache 2014)
 Hands of Fate (Century Media 2017)
 Demons (Century Media 2019)

EPs
 Spitting Venom (SMR 2007)

Singles
 "Cross of Babylon" (Earache 2014)
 "Hands of Fate" (Century Media 2017)
 "Under No Illusions" (Century Media Records May 17, 2019)

References

External links
 Official website

English heavy metal musical groups
English thrash metal musical groups
Musical groups from London
Musical groups established in 2007
Earache Records artists
Candlelight Records artists


Joe Kavanagh (born 27 February 1973) is an Irish sportsperson. He played Gaelic football with his local club Nemo Rangers and was a member of the Cork senior inter-county team from 1992 until 2002.  His brother, Derek Kavanagh, also played football with Cork.

References

1973 births
Living people
Nemo Rangers Gaelic footballers
Cork inter-county Gaelic footballers
Munster inter-provincial Gaelic footballers


John Frederick France F.R.C.S. Eng., JP (Born on 15 December 1817, christened on 16 January 1818 at St Luke, Chelsea, London, died on 6 October 1900 at St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex) was the Ophthalmic Surgeon at Guy's Hospital from 1847 until 1849.

Career
He received his medical education at Guy's Hospital, entering as a medical student in 1835. He immediately distinguished himself and in 1838 received the prize  in surgery at the Physical Society. Next year he gained the Silver Medal for Ophthalmic Surgery and became M.R.C.S. Eng. in 1840.

Shortly afterwards he was appointed Assistant ophthalmic surgeon to the school. In 1847, he succeeded the late Mr John Morgan as lecturer on Ophthalmic Surgery at the school. He retired from active service at Guys in 1861 and was appointed Consulting Ophthalmic Surgeon. In 1855 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons; he was also a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and JP for Middlesex, London and Westminster.

France edited, with notes, the second edition of Morgan's work on Lectures on Diseases of the Eye (1848) and was a voluminous writer himself on Ophthalmic subjects. To the ‘Guys Hospital Reports’ he contributed 17 papers between 1848 and 1861, and numerous other papers appeared in various periodical publications.
Examples of these were:

On Syphilitic Blotch of the Conjunctiva'.Case of Diabetic Cataract. (1858) – France was one of the authors who supported the theory of causal connection between diabetes and cataract, which at that time was still questioned by many physicians.On the use of Forceps in Extraction of Cataract. – France used for fixation of the eyeball, a simple artery forceps (without spring lock) in 27 patients and had success in all of them.

France also published clinical observations about eye injuries, paralysis of the pupil and ptosis. GHR (V, page 26, VI, page 24, page 243, 1847–8) In the same journal (October 1845) he reported about the successful extraction of a traumatic calcified cataract from the anterior chamber. (Lancet 1850,1,14)

Personal
He used the leisure time of his somewhat withdrawn life for scholarly studies and for charity. France was one of the earliest supporters of Epsom College and was an active member of its council until ill health prevented his attendance. He was a Vice-President of the school. He was also greatly interested in the Royal Asylum of St Anne's Schools, and was always in attendance at the council meetings. In his last four years he purchased ten life presentations for girls to St Anne's and presented them to the governing body of Epsom College for necessitous orphan daughters of medical men of not less than five years' practice. The cost of these amounted to the sum of £12,000. He was also a Vice-President of the British Medical Benevolent Fund, and a generous donor to it.

In June 1874, John F France, offered to provide a chapel for the proposed Kensington Workhouse, 'to be erected free of all cost to the Guardians'. His wife, Eliza France, had previously left £2,500 in her will for this specific purpose.
There is also a stained glass window in the Lady Chapel of Chichester Cathedral dedicated to France, his wife and their two children Beatrice and Bernard. It is the easternmost window on the south side.

After his retirement France lived for many years at 2 Norfolk Terrace, Westbourne Grove, and died at St Leonards-on-Sea on Oct 6th, 1900. His funeral took place in Chichester Cathedral. By his will this much-respected philanthropist, whose fine motto had been 'May God me guide', left some £25,000 for the public use, and subject to this and some smaller legacies the residuary estate was left in trust for the Royal Medical Benevolent College at Epsom.
He also compiled and edited Preces Veterum, cum Hymnis Coaevis'', second edition (I887).

John Frederick France was the son of William Beckwith France (Deputy Lieutenant) of Cadogan Place, Chelsea and grandson of William France Jnr (cabinetmaker).

References

External links
 British Medical Journal – Obituary
 Google Books
 British History Online (section on Chapel of Elizabeth)
 RCS Biography

British surgeons
Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London
1817 births
1900 deaths
People from Chelsea, London
British ophthalmologists
Physicians of Guy's Hospital


Mary Anne Rawson (1801–1887) was an abolitionist who also a campaigned with the Tract Society and the British and Foreign Bible Society, for Italian nationalism and against child labour. She was first involved with a Sheffield group, which successfully campaigned for people to boycott sugar from the West Indies, as it was produced by slave labour. She is pictured attending the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1840.

Early life
Mary Anne Read was born to Joseph Read (1774-1837), of Wincobank Hall in the Wincobank suburb of Sheffield, and his wife Elizabeth, wealthy parents who encouraged her involvement in good causes. Joseph Read had taken over his father's business- which would later become the Sheffield Smelting Company- but later experienced financial difficulties and had to sell Wincobank Hall, which Mary, as the widow of a banker, was able to reclaim. Her sister, Elizabeth (1803-1851), was married to William Wilson (1800-1866), chairman of the Nottingham Anti-Slavery committee; their son was the MP Henry Wilson Homfirth MP, his half-sister being the missionary Sarah Poulton Kalley. Henry Wilson and his brother John Wycliffe Wilson were beneficiaries and trustees of Mary's estate, and ensured her plans for Wincobank Hall were carried out.

Abolitionism and campaigning
Her abiding interest from the mid-1820s to the 1850s was a campaign in the Sheffield area against slavery. Rawson was a founding member in 1825 of the Sheffield Female Anti-Slavery Society, which campaigned for the rights of slaves in the British Empire. The Sheffield society was the first to campaign not for a gradual and managed end, but for an immediate end to slavery. The society used lectures and pamphlets to achieve a decrease in sales of slave-produced West Indian goods, such as coffee and sugar. It formally wound up after the passage of abolition legislation in 1833.

In 1837 Rawson became secretary of the Sheffield Ladies Association for the Universal Abolition of Slavery, which continued the case for enslaved workers across the world. The anti-slavery organisations run by women were first started by Lucy Townsend and they were sometimes dismissed as of marginal interest, but recent research has revealed that these groups had a national impact.

Rawson corresponded with figures such as George Thompson in Britain as well as Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison in the United States. Her visitors included Lord Shaftesbury and William Wilberforce. With her mother Elizabeth Read as treasurer, Rawson was prominent in the Sheffield Female Anti-Slavery Society. Her father Joseph Read owned a business involved in the smelting of precious metals.

Her father having died subsequent to his financial difficulties and loss of Wincobank Hall, Rawson's early widowhood allowed her to return and pay off her father's debts. She and her mother resumed residence at Wincobank Hall, both leading politically active lives.

The painting shows Rawson in a commemorative painting of the world's first international anti-slavery conference, which attracted delegates from America, France, Haiti, Australia, Ireland, Jamaica and Barbados in 1840. With the exception of Mary Clarkson, all of the women in the painting are shown to the far right and none of them is in the foreground of the painting. No females were allowed into the main body of the convention. This caused some difficulties with the American delegation. Women included in the painting included Elizabeth Pease, Amelia Opie, Baroness Byron, Anne Knight, Mrs John Beaumont, Elizabeth Tredgold, Thomas Clarkson's daughter Mary and right at the back Lucretia Mott. After the convention she played host to Charles Lenox Remond as well as Nathaniel Peabody Rogers.

In 1841, Rawson and her sister, Emily Read, arranged for a day school to be created in the chapel on the grounds of Wincobank Hall. The school was open to local children. In 1860 the sisters created a trust to provide for its financial endowment and management. The school continued until 1905.

In 1899, Wincobank Hall was opened as a ‘rescue home’ by the Salvation Army, which ran on the site until 1915. By 1921, Wincobank Hall was said to be in ‘a state of desolation’. The hall was subsequently demolished to make way for the Flower Estate, a housing estate so-called as all the streets are named after flowers and plants.

Today the chapel has been restored for community use.

Personal life
She married William Bacon Rawson, a Nottingham banker and iron founder, but the marriage was short-lived due to William's early death in 1829. Their only child, Elizabeth, died in 1862 aged 33.

Publications
In 1834, Rawson compiled a collection of original writings against slavery and in favour of its abolition in the British colonies. The contributions came from fifty writers.

Legacy
The Indiana University's Lilly library has an extensive collection of Rawson's letters and photographs, including a collection of her watercolours of Italy. The University of Sheffield holds a collection of Rawson's materials related to the poet James Montgomery.

References

1801 births
1887 deaths
English abolitionists
People from Sheffield


Susan Marshall McDonald (October 7, 1918 – March 17, 1992), of Ohio, was a philatelist who authored articles on philatelic subjects, and helped other philatelists edit their work.

Collecting interests
She had a wide range of collecting interests, but was most known for her collections of United States/Canada cross-border and Treaty mails, which she exhibited at national and international stamp shows.

Philatelic literature
In addition to writing articles on her studies McDonald edited various philatelic publications, such as The Chronicle of U.S. Classic Postal Issues, where she remained editor and then editor-in-chief for two decades. She co-authored, with Creighton C. Hart the “Directory of 10¢ 1847 Covers” published in 1970. In addition to her own editing, she helped edit books and articles of other philatelic writers.

Honors and awards
McDonald received numerous awards including the U.S. Philatelic Classics Society's Ashbrook Cup in 1971, the Luff Award for Exceptional Contributions to Philately in 1986, the Brookman cup in 1990, and the Lichtenstein Medal in 1989. She was named to the American Philatelic Society Hall of Fame in 1993.

See also
 Philately
 Philatelic literature

References
 Susan Marshall McDonald

Philatelic literature
American philatelists
Writers from Cleveland
1918 births
1992 deaths
American Philatelic Society
Women philatelists


The Rhön Biosphere Reserve includes the entire central area of the Rhön Mountains, a low mountain range in the German states of Hesse, Bavaria and Thuringia.

Aim
In 1991 the Rhön was recognised at international level by UNESCO as a biosphere reserve. The aim of this biosphere reserve is, taking account of local agriculture, nature protection, tourism and trade, to ensure the variety and quality of habitats in the whole Rhön region. This involves creating a long term, economic environment for agriculture and trade that is in tune with the protection and care of nature and the local landscape. People are at the heart of the Rhön Biosphere Reserve. The idea is to have a so-called sustainable development, which harmonises economic and social issues as far as possible with environmental issues.

History
As early as 12 September 1990, the Thuringian Rhön was declared a Rhön Biosphere Reserve by the Council of Ministers of the German Democratic Republic as part of the GDR'S National Park Programme. The "Ordinance on the Designation of Nature Conservation Areas and a Landscape Protection Area of Central Importance with the Overall Designation of Rhön Biosphere Reserve" was published on
1 October 1990 in the Gesetzblatt of the German Democratic Republic.

In the winter of 1990/91, i.e. immediately after the Peaceful Revolution and German reunification, the three federal states of Bavaria, Hesse and Thuringia then submitted separate applications for its recognition as a UNESCO biosphere reserve. The Environment Minister at the time, Klaus Töpfer, made a joint proposal from them. On 6 March 1991, the three-state Rhön region was designated a biosphere reserve by UNESCO.

In Bavaria, Hesse and Thuringia, administrative offices have been set up that work together on the basis of an administrative agreement between the three states dated November 2002. At the same time, experts began to develop a framework concept. This framework concept, which was first handed over in April 1995, was the basis for all planning and measures.

In June 2014, the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Rhön successfully underwent a review of its previous work by the International Coordinating Council, after which UNESCO status was confirmed for a further 10 years. At the same time, the Bavarian part of the UNESCO biosphere reserve was expanded by 58,000 hectares.

Between 2014 and 2017 the content of the framework concept was revised. The revised framework concept was presented on 16 May 2018.

Zoning

The Biosphere Reserve currently has a total area of , of which 72,802 ha are in Bavaria, 63,564 ha in Hesse and 48,573 ha in Thuringia. From 1991-1995 a "Concept for the Protection, Care and Development" for the Rhön with objectives and measures was drawn up in conjunction with the districts, communes, authorities and societies. Following the UNESCO zoning system, 4,199 ha (2.27%) of land were designated as a core areas that are not allowed to be directly used for any purpose e.g. agriculture or forestry. A further 67,483 ha (36.49%) are designated as buffer zones where there should only be careful use of land compatible with nature. The remaining areas are the zones of cooperation in which the villages and towns of the Rhön are situated.

Gallery

See also
 Rhön Mountains
 Bavarian Rhön Nature Park
 List of biosphere reserves in Germany

References

External links
The website of the Rhön Biosphere Reserve
Board of trustees for the Naturpark and Biosphere Reserve Bayerische Rhön e.V.
Thuringian Environment Ministry
The orchids of the Rhön
 Private Rhön photo gallery

Rhön Biosphere Reserve
Biosphere reserves of Germany
Protected areas of Hesse
Protected areas of Bavaria
Protected areas of Thuringia
International Dark Sky Reserves


is a late 10th century Japanese story. Along with Ochikubo Monogatari, it is representative of Japanese Cinderella-type literature dealing with stepmother bullying and harassment. It belongs to the tsukuri monogatari genre.

It was translated into English by Sir Harold George Parlett in volume 29 of Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan.

Composition

The author is unknown. Sone no Yoshitada (曽禰好忠) is suggested as a possible candidate. Originally written late in the 10th century, the original text is now lost. It only survives now in a c. 12th century revised edition.

The story was quite influential on Japanese literature. It is referenced in works such as Makura no Sōshi and Genji Monogatari. The Tamakatsura chapter of Genji was written with Sumiyoshi Monogatari in mind. Its popularity is evident in that it inspired more than 120 existing manuscripts. In addition, many later stories, generally of the Otogizōshi genre, dealing with similar motifs are referred to as Sumiyoshi-style.

Contents

The story exists in single and two volume editions. It tells the story of a Middle Chancellor's daughter who runs away from home to escape the bullying from her stepmother.

Plot

Once, a Middle Chancellor has two wives and three daughters. The first wife has a very beautiful daughter named "Himegimi" (Little Princess), while the second wife had two daughters, namely "Naka no Kimi" (Middle Princess), and "San no Kimi" (Third Princess). Himegimi's mother died when she is about eight years old, and her stepmother began to favor her own daughters but ill-treat her stepdaughter.

One spring morning, when the Middle Chancellor's children were around twelve to thirteen years old, a man of important family and with the rank of a Middle Captain saw Himegimi from his chariot and fell in-love with her. She too, falls in love with the Minor Captain and gets engaged. However, her stepmother forces him to marry her real daughter, San no Kimi. The stepmother also obstructs her from serving in the palace or marrying a Left Watch Guard. When the daughter discovers the truth, she runs away from home to Sumiyoshi Shrine, a shrine in the village of Sumiyoshi, a fishing village in Osaka, Japan, to serve as a servant to her dead mother's nurse, who is now a nun.

The Minor Captain is appointed as Major Captain, but his marriage with San no Kimi was an unhappy one. After a series of fasting, he is led to the shrine through a mystical dream. There he found Himegimi, and carried her back to his palace where she truly belongs. They marry, Himegimi reveals herself to her family, and the stepmother and her envious daughters end their lives in poverty and disgrace.

See also
 Ochikubo Monogatari, a similar Cinderella-like story dealing bullying and harassment

Notes

References

External links
Manuscript scans, Waseda University Library.

Late Old Japanese texts
Early Middle Japanese texts
Monogatari


Jamshid Nassiri (born 15 March 1959 in Khorramshahr) is an Iranian-Indian football manager and former footballer, who is currently the head coach of the Calcutta Premier Division side Calcutta FC. Nassiri is known for forming a successful attacking duo with Majid Bishkar in the 80's. He was one of the most expensive player in Indian football during his playing days and is the first foreign player to score 100 goals across several tournaments in the country.

He has played for several clubs in India during his playing career. At international level, Nassiri has represented Iran at the 1977 FIFA World Youth Championship. Nassiri currently lives in Kolkata and holds the Indian citizenship.

Playing career
Nassiri started his career at Takht Jamshid Cup side Rastakhiz Khorramshahr, but it didn't last long as the club was shut down due to Islamic revolution. In 1979, he came to India to pursue his studies and joined the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU). On seeing his performance for the university in the North Zone Inter University championship, Nassiri was signed by East Bengal along with other Iranian players Majid Bishkar and Mahmud Khabbasi. The 1980 Federation Cup was his debut tournament with the Red and Golds, where he won the tournament with the them. In the same season, East Bengal also won the Rovers Cup where Nassiri played a big part.

In 1982, he was signed by Mohammedan SC. His transfer was very effective for the side as they were able to win the Federation Cup for the first time in its history. In 1984 Federation Cup final against East Bengal, he scored the winner.

His consistent form saw him returning to East Bengal in 1984 where Nassiri had an impressive run. He scored 17 goals in the Calcutta league and became the league's topscorer. He was also part of the team that won Federation Cup in 1985 and participated in 1985–86 Asian Club Championship in Saudi Arabia, under coaching of legendary footballer P. K. Banerjee. They also won the Coca Cola Cup of Central Asia.

In 1986, Nassiri had his last big transfer move, as he rejoined Mohammedan for a sum of Rs. 250,000, making him as one of the most expensive football player in the country at that time. He continued to play till the late 80's and became the first foreigner in Indian football to score more than 100 goals.

Managerial career

Nassiri enjoyed his playing days in India and began his coaching career in the Mumbai Super Division side Bengal Mumbai. He managed the club from 1998 to 2001 and helped them winning the Rovers Cup alongside Mumbai Super Division league in 1998. In 2003, Nassiri was appointed as technical director of Wari Athletic Club, which was then promoted to Calcutta Football League Super Division.

In 2003–04 season, Nassiri managed Mohammedan Sporting in the National Football League. In 2021, he was appointed technical director of Calcutta Police Club, a CFL second division outfit. In June 2022, Nassiri acquired post of technical director in Peerless ahead of the new season of Calcutta Premier Division League. He also guided the team reaching semi-final of Naihati Gold Cup. He was later roped in by Calcutta Cricket and Football Club for rest of the league season.

Personal life

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Since the 1980s, Nassiri lives in Kolkata. He is also a follower of Bengali traditions, foods and culture.

Nassiri is married to Susanne, who is born and brought up in India, and lives in Queens Mansion on Park Street. The couple has two sons, Jaswa and Kiyan Nassiri. His younger son Kiyan is a professional footballer (born 2000) currently playing for Indian Super League side Mohun Bagan. Kiyan began his youth football career in CC&FC – where Jamshid served as coach, and appeared with Mohammedan. He then moved to Mohun Bagan and currently plays professionally for ATK Mohun Bagan in the Indian Super League.

Honours
Player
East Bengal
Federation Cup: 1980–81, 1985
IFA Shield: 1986
Calcutta Football League: 1985
Darjeeling Gold Cup: 1985
Sait Nagjee Trophy: 1986
Stafford Cup: 1986

Mohammedan Sporting
Federation Cup: 1983–84, 1984–85
IFA Shield: runner-up: 1982
Rovers Cup: 1984; runner-up: 1982, 1983
Sait Nagjee Trophy: 1984
Bordoloi Trophy: 1985; runner-up: 1983
DCM Trophy: runner-up: 1982, 1983
Darjeeling Gold Cup: 1984

Individual
 Calcutta Football League top scorer: 1985 (with 17 goals)

Manager
Bengal Mumbai
Rovers Cup: 1998
Bombay Super Division League: 1998

See also

List of foreign players for SC East Bengal
List of Indian football players in foreign leagues

References

Further reading

Chatterjee, Partha. The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Post-colonial Histories (Calcutta: Oxford University Press, 1995).

External links

 Jamshid Nassiri archive at The Times of India''
Interview of Jamshid Nassiri at Sportskeeda

Living people
1959 births
People from Khorramshahr
Footballers from Khuzestan province
Iranian men's footballers
Indian men's footballers
Iranian expatriate men's footballers
Indian expatriate men's footballers
Iranian expatriate football managers
East Bengal Club players
Mohammedan SC (Kolkata) players
Men's association football forwards
Iranian football managers
Indian football managers
Iranian expatriate sportspeople in India
Iranian emigrants to India
Indian people of Iranian descent
Naturalised citizens of India
Footballers from Kolkata
Mohammedan SC (Kolkata) managers
Calcutta Football League players


Bích Động is a township (Thị trấn) and town and capital of Việt Yên District, Bắc Giang Province, in north-eastern Vietnam.

References

Populated places in Bắc Giang province
Communes of Bắc Giang province
District capitals in Vietnam
Townships in Vietnam


Helmut Pfleger (born August 6, 1943) is a German chess grandmaster and author. He was one of the most promising chess players in the 1960s and 1970s. From 1977 until 2005, Pfleger hosted a series of chess programs on German public TV, including Chess of the Grandmasters, often together with grandmaster Vlastimil Hort. By profession, he is a doctor of medicine.

Chess career
In 1960 he won the German Junior Championship, in 1961 was fourth in the World Junior Chess Championship. In 1965 he tied for 1st with Wolfgang Unzicker in the German Chess Championship in Bad Aibling, but lost an additional match to him there.

He took 1st at Maputo 1973, tied for 1st–2nd at Polanica-Zdrój 1971, tied for 1st–2nd at Montilla 1973, tied for 2nd–3rd at Montilla 1974, tied for 2nd–5th at Manila 1975, tied for 2nd–3rd at Havana 1982, was 4th at Royan 1988.

Pfleger played for Germany in the Chess Olympiads of 1964, 1968, 1972, 1974, 1978, 1980 and 1982. At the Tel Aviv Olympiad of 1964, he was awarded the gold medal for best performance on fourth board and a bronze medal for his contribution to the team's overall performance. He was awarded the Grandmaster title in 1975.

On the April 2009 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating of 2477, although he has been virtually inactive since 1990.

Notable games
 Helmut Pfleger vs Anatoli Karpov, Hastings 1971, Queen's Indian Defense: Classical, Main Line (E19), ½–½
 Helmut Pfleger vs Mikhail Tal, Tallinn 1973, Modern Defense: Queen Pawn Fianchetto (B06), ½–½
 Helmut Pfleger vs Bent Larsen, Manila 1974, English Opening: Great Snake Variation (A10), 1-0
 John Nunn vs Helmut Pfleger, Plovdiv ETC 1983, Pirc Defense: General (B07), ½–½

Bibliography

References

External links

 Helmut Pfleger at 365Chess.com
 Rating data for Helmut Pfleger
 Books by Helmut Pfleger
 Chessmetrics Player Profile: Helmut Pfleger
 ChessBase.com – Chess News – Happy Birthday Helmut Pfleger!

1943 births
Living people
People from Teplice
Chess grandmasters
Chess Olympiad competitors
German chess players
German chess writers
German people of German Bohemian descent
German male non-fiction writers
Sudeten German people


Piedmont Wildlife Center is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. The center conducts programs in nature education and wildlife conservation.

Mission
Inspiring people to develop a positive lifelong connection with nature & encouraging active engagement in conservation. Piedmont Wildlife Center accomplishes this mission through a community oriented approach to nature education, leadership development and conservation science.

Facility
The Piedmont Wildlife Center was founded in 2003. The office is located at Leigh Farm Park which is an 82.8 acre city park in South Durham. The center itself is located in a log cabin at the end of the Leigh Farm road.  This is the location of their main office and outdoor raptor viewing exhibits.

Efforts

Piedmont Wildlife Center's nature education programs reach adults, teens, and children in the Triangle Region of North Carolina. The programs feature hands on experiences with a focus on primitive skills, field natural history, nature conservation and community leadership. They are inspired by the tradition of Coyote Mentoring, established by the Eight Shields Institute.

Piedmont Wildlife Center supports conservation projects with a goal of developing a greater understanding of the current state of bio-diversity in the greater Piedmont area in order to conserve local species and habitats.

Biological Inventory
Leigh Farm Park (home of PWC) is a critical biological buffer area that links a chain of ecosystems across the Piedmont region, maintaining a wildlife corridor across central North Carolina and beyond. The park and the surrounding North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission (NCWRC) area include five habitat types: bottomland hardwood forest, upland hardwood forest, pine forest, forested wetlands and fields.

Habitat fragmentation is a significant threat to wildlife. As a means of habitat protection, Piedmont Wildlife Center (PWC), associated scientists, and volunteers are currently surveying the biodiversity of Leigh Farm Park. Past survey methods have included animal tracking, the use of trail cameras, and GPS and GIS software.

The goal of this ongoing inventory is to inform a more complete understanding of the current condition of diversity in the parklands—this information shapes the education and outreach programs PWC organizes in support of biodiversity in the greater Piedmont area.

External links
The Piedmont Wildlife Center website
Guide to the Piedmont Wildlife Center Records 2003-2009

Nature centers in North Carolina
Organizations based in Durham, North Carolina
Education in Durham, North Carolina
Protected areas of Durham County, North Carolina
Tourist attractions in Durham, North Carolina


Nham Biền is a township (thị trấn) and capital of Yên Dũng District, Bắc Giang Province, in north-eastern Vietnam.

References

Populated places in Bắc Giang province
Communes of Bắc Giang province
District capitals in Vietnam
Townships in Vietnam


Louis Aliot (; born 4 September 1969) is a French politician, a lawyer by profession, and the vice president of the National Rally (previously named National Front) since 16 January 2011. A member of the FN Executive Office, Executive Committee and Central Committee, Aliot has been a regional councillor since 1998 (Midi-Pyrénées: 1998–2010, Languedoc-Roussillon: 2010–) and a municipal councillor of Perpignan (2008–2009). Louis Aliot has been the mayor of Perpignan since 3 July 2020.

Politics and elections (1998–2011)
Aliot was born in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, to a family of ethnic French and Algerian Jewish heritage, who had resided in Algeria (Pied-noir). In the 1998 French regional elections, he was elected regional councillor of the Midi-Pyrénées and represented the department of Haute-Garonne during six years.

He then became a close collaborator of FN leader Jean-Marie Le Pen and played an active role in Le Pen's 2002 electoral campaign. He was sent to Perpignan to re-launch a divided and weakened FN federation.

In the 2004 regional elections, he led the FN list in the Midi-Pyrénées and polled 11.78% (141,598 votes) in the first round and 12.06% (149.417 votes) in the run-off with eight regional councillors elected. He has been a president of the FN group in the regional council during six years (2004–2010).

In the 2008 municipal elections, he led the FN list in Perpignan, polling 12.29% in the first round (4,543 votes) and 10.42% in the run-off (4,368 votes) with two municipal councillors elected. His result was one of the few good results for the FN, which suffered severe loses nationwide.

In the 2009 municipal by-election, he again led the FN list but lost his municipal seat in the first round (9.42%, 3,382 votes). Since June 2009, the FN is not represented in the municipal council of Perpignan. In order to take part in the run-off, a municipal list must cross the minimal threshold of 10% of the valid votes.

In the 2009 European elections, he led the FN list in the South-West France constituency. Polling 5.94% (155,806 votes), he was not elected as MEP.

In the 2010 regional elections, he led the departmental list in the Pyrénées-Orientales whereas France Jamet led the regional list in the Languedoc-Roussillon. Polling 13.64% (19,785 votes) in the first round, his list achieved 19.99% (30,581 votes) in the run-off with two councillors elected in the Pyrénées-Orientales. After having sat during twelve years in the regional council of Midi-Pyrénées, he has been a regional councillor in the Languedoc-Roussillon since March 2010.

On 14 March 2011, Louis Aliot and Mario Borghezio MEP accompanied Marine Le Pen MEP during her stay in Lampedusa island. On 15 March 2011, they together took part in an international press conference in Rome.

In the 2011 cantonal elections, he was the FN candidate in the urban canton of Perpignan-9. Polling 34.61% (1,083 votes), he won the first round by a large margin. Despite an increase of 11.63% (514 votes) in the second round, he was defeated by the Socialist candidate supported by the UMP.

Since 2012

During the 2012 presidential election, Aliot was the operational head of Marine Le Pen's campaign and one of her spokesmen. One of his most notable trips was to Israel in December 2011 to meet local politicians and French citizens to establish links.

He was, along with Florian Philippot, a spokesman for the party in the legislative elections. In the Pyrénées-Orientales' 1st constituency, he gathered 24.13% of votes in the first runoff, facing the candidates of the Union for a Popular Movement and the miscellaneous left, but he ended up in the third position with 23.24% in the second round; the candidate of the left won with 42.95%.

Municipal elections of 2020 in Perpignan
On 15 March, his list topped the first round with 35.65% of the vote, well ahead of the outgoing mayor, Jean-Marc Pujol (18.43%).

In June 2020, it was reported that Aliot won the mayor election in Perpignan with 54 percent of the vote versus 46 percent for the sitting conservative mayor, Jean-Marc Pujol. it would be the first time Marine Le Pen's party has won a city of more than 100,000 people. He was replaced in Parliament by his substitute, Catherine Pujol.

At his first city council meeting, he voted for a 17% increase in his salary (which corresponds to an increase of 60,000 euros over his entire term of office).

Political mandates
 Regional councillor of Languedoc-Roussillon: since 26 March 2010
 Regional councillor of Midi-Pyrénées: 15 March 1998 – 21 March 2010 (leader of the FN group 2004–2010)
 Municipal councillor of Perpignan: 23 March 2008 – 21 June 2009

References

1969 births
Living people
20th-century French lawyers
Politicians from Toulouse
National Rally (France) MEPs
French people of Algerian-Jewish descent
MEPs for South-West France 2014–2019
Deputies of the 15th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
National Rally (France) politicians


Frederick Allen (July 1860 – c. 1926) was an English professional footballer who played in the Football Alliance for Small Heath.

Allen was born in the Hockley district of Birmingham and played football for Springhill Methodists before joining Small Heath in 1890. He played three times for them in the Football Alliance in the 1891–92 season when Jack Hallam was switched to a more central forward position. He died in Birmingham in about 1926.

A forward called Fred Allen is recorded to have played for Luton Town in the Southern League from 1892 to 1895. He was the club's top goalscorer during the 1893–94 season.

References

1860 births
1926 deaths
Footballers from Birmingham, West Midlands
English men's footballers
Men's association football wingers
Birmingham City F.C. players
Luton Town F.C. players
Southern Football League players
Date of death missing
Football Alliance players


William Beckman (May 12, 1881 – June 14, 1933) was an American wrestler who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. In 1904, he won the silver medal in the freestyle welterweight competition. Beckmann was born in New York City.

References

External links
William Beckman's profile at Sports Reference.com

1881 births
1933 deaths
Wrestlers at the 1904 Summer Olympics
American male sport wrestlers
Olympic silver medalists for the United States in wrestling
Sportspeople from New York City
Medalists at the 1904 Summer Olympics


Brigitte Neveux is a French politician and a member of the far-right FN.

In the 2004 regional elections, she led the FN list in Brittany and obtained 8.47% of the votes in the first round, below the 10% threshold for a place in the runoff. Therefore, no members of the FN were elected to the Regional Council of Brittany.

In 2009, the FN selected Neveux to head the FN list in the West France constituency for the 2009 European elections. Her list gained 3.06% of the vote, not enough to elect a member to the European Parliament.

In 2009, she was selected to be the National Front's top candidate in the Pays de la Loire region for the 2010 regional elections.

In the 2015 regional elections, she was on the list in the Pays de la Loire region for the National Front and elected.

References

Living people
National Rally (France) politicians
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)


Vitas Gerulaitis won in the final 6–4, 3–6, 6–3, 6–2 against Andrew Pattison.

Seeds

  Tom Gorman (semifinals)
  Balázs Taróczy (semifinals)
  Andrew Pattison (final)
  Bob Hewitt (second round)
  Raymond Moore (quarterfinals)
  Hans Kary (quarterfinals)
  Frew McMillan (second round)
  Christian Kuhnke (first round)

Draw

Final

Section 1

Section 2

External links
 1974 Stadthalle Open Draw

Singles


"So Good" is the lead single for the debut album How to Be a Lady: Volume 1 by dance-pop girl group Electrik Red. The single was released on February 3, 2009 in the US and internationally on April 7, 2009. The remix version features rapper Lil Wayne, both the original and remix versions have music videos and were included on the album. Billboard named the song #80 on their list of 100 Greatest Girl Group Songs of All Time.

Track listing
Russian CD Single
So Good (Clean) – 3:32
So Good (Dirty) – 3:32
So Good (Instrumental) – 3:30

US Digital Download 1
So Good (Main Version) – 3:25

US Digital Download 2
So Good (Remix) (Feat. Lil Wayne) – 3:29

Chart performance

References

External links
So Good (music video) Electrik Red official site
So Good (Remix featuring Lil Wayne) (music video) Electrik Red official site
Electrik Red official site

2009 singles
Electrik Red songs
Lil Wayne songs
Music videos directed by Melina Matsoukas
Songs written by Tricky Stewart
Songs written by The-Dream
Song recordings produced by Tricky Stewart
2009 songs
Def Jam Recordings singles
Song recordings produced by The-Dream


Douglas Francis Reinhardt (born October 22, 1984) is an American former baseball player, sports agent, and television personality. He is best known for playing minor league baseball with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and Baltimore Orioles organizations, and for his appearances on the hit television show The Hills.

Early life
Reinhardt was born on October 22, 1984, in Torrance, California, to John and Kelly Reinhardt (now Kelly Roberts). He was raised in Laguna Beach, California with his sister, Casey Reinhardt, who is two years younger. After his parents divorced, his mother married Duane Roberts, inventor of the frozen burrito and owner of the Mission Inn, a historic landmark hotel in Riverside, California.

He attended Santa Margarita Catholic High School, where he played both football and baseball. He turned down a baseball scholarship with the University of Southern California to sign with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim as their 10th round pick (293rd overall) out of high school. In 2008, he signed with the Baltimore Orioles and blew his knee out. His contract was up the following season.

He attended Pepperdine University as an undergraduate and was accepted to Pepperdine University School of Law before being offered the opportunity to work in baseball.

Personal life
In 2013, he got engaged to Allie Lutz, who was featured on The Hills. He became a father in 2019 when he had identical twin boys with fiancé Mia Irons.

Television appearances
The Hills Recurring Season 4–5 (2008–2009)
Paris Hilton's My New BFF (2009)

References

1984 births
Living people
Baseball players from Torrance, California
Participants in American reality television series
Male actors from Los Angeles
Santa Margarita Catholic High School alumni


Jean-Michel Dubois (; born 27 August 1943 in Enghien-les-Bains, Val-d'Oise) is a French politician and a member of the far-right FN.  He was a member of the Gaullist Rally for the Republic until 1985.

Dubois stood for the FN in many elections, mostly regional and local elections, since 1986. Since the 2004 French regional elections, he is a regional councillor in Île-de-France

In 2009, the FN selected him to lead the FN list in the Île-de-France constituency ahead of the 2009 European elections.

References

1943 births
Living people
People from Enghien-les-Bains
Rally for the Republic politicians
National Rally (France) politicians
Recipients of Étoile Civique


The SC Opel Rüsselsheim is a German association football club from the city of Rüsselsheim, Hesse.

Apart from its association with the company Opel, the club's most notable achievement has been playing in Germany's second division from 1965 to 1972.

History
The club was formed on 12 August 1906 as SC Borussia 06 Rüsselsheim. In the 1920s, the club merged with a local gymnastics club, the Turngesellschaft and took its current name in reference to the fact that many of its members were employed at the local Opel factory. However, the club was never directly connected with or dependent on the company.

In 1932, the club took out its first local second-division championship, beating FSV Mainz 05 but it took until 1935 to earn promotion to the first division in the region, the Gauliga Südwest/Mainhessen. SC Opel spent five seasons in this league until the collapse of Nazi Germany in 1945, mostly as an elevator team.

After the end of the Second World War, the club became part of the tier-two Landesliga Hessen, which was then staged in two regional groups. Upon the merger of the two leagues into one in 1947, the club had to step down one level. SC Opel managed to return to Hesses highest league, which was now the tier-three Amateurliga Hessen, in 1950. The club stayed at this level until 1954, when it was relegated once more.

After a decade in the lower levels of amateur football, the club experienced a revival in 1964, earning promotion back to the Amateurliga. In this league, it won the championship convincingly, beating second placed Westend Frankfurt by eleven points. The champions of Hesse, alongside the Bavarian champions, were directly promoted to the Regionalliga Süd, one of Germany's regional second division below the Fußball-Bundesliga at this stage. The club also qualified for the DFB-Pokal 1965–66 where it lost to Borussia Mönchengladbach 1–5 in a qualification round. The club was then mostly listed as SC Rüsselsheim as it was seen as illegal advertising to carry a sponsors name in its title.

Despite support from Opel, the club was always financially struggling at this level, never drawing sufficient attendances for this level of play. A tenth place in the first of seven second-division seasons remained the best result archived in this era. In 1972, relegation ended the club's time in the Regionalliga and almost also its existence; in debt with DM 500,000, the club was only saved from folding by an administrative error when applying for insolvency. The club played a good Amateurliga season in 1972–73 nevertheless, finishing third, but was relegated the year after.

SC Opel spent its next couple of season's stabilising its finances but declined rapidly on the field, dropping to the lower amateur levels. In the late 1980s, another attempt was made to rise through the ranks and in 1989, the Bezirksoberliga, the fifth tier, was reached but another financial collapse was only narrowly avoided.

In the new millennium, the club has stabilised itself financially as well as on the field, spending its time in the tier-seven Bezirksliga Darmstadt-West. In 2008, this league became the Kreisoberliga Darmstadt/Gross-Gerau. In 2010, the club suffered relegation to the tier nine Kreisliga A Gross-Gerau, where it played for two seasons. At the same time the club also came close to insolvency but was saved through a line of credit by members.

In 2012 the club won the league championship in the Kreisliga and returned to the Kreisoberliga Darmstadt/Gross-Gerau.

Honours
The club's honours:
 Amateurliga Hessen (III)
 Champions: 1965
 Kreisliga A Gross-Gerau (IX)
 Champions: 2012

Recent seasons
The recent season-by-season performance of the club:

 With the introduction of the Regionalligas in 1994 and the 3. Liga in 2008 as the new third tier, below the 2. Bundesliga, all leagues below dropped one tier. Also in 2008, a large number of football leagues in Hesse were renamed, with the Oberliga Hessen becoming the Hessenliga, the Landesliga becoming the Verbandsliga, the Bezirksoberliga becoming the Gruppenliga and the Bezirksliga becoming the Kreisoberliga.

References

Sources
Süddeutschlands Fussballgeschichte in Tabellenform 1897–1988  History of Southern German football in tables, author: Ludolf Hyll

External links
Official team site
Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv historical German domestic league tables

Football clubs in Germany
Football clubs in Hesse
Association football clubs established in 1906
1906 establishments in Germany
Opel
Rüsselsheim


Walter Merrill Hall (1888 – 1980 in New Rochelle, New York) was an important figure in the American tennis landscape, both as a player and administrator.

As a player, Hall was ranked in the U.S. Top Ten 1911, 1915 and 1918. He won the US Clay Court doubles title in 1912 (with Harold Hackett) and was a runner-up in singles in 1910 and 1913. He reached the quarterfinals at the US National Championships in 1918 and 1919, and at the tournament now known as the Cincinnati Masters he was a singles finalist in 1911 and a quarterfinalist in 1910.

Hall also won the Middle States singles title three times (1911, 1918 & 1919) and the 1932 New Hampshire state title.

After he ended his playing career, Hall served the sport as an administrator with the United States Tennis Association as treasurer and then as president (from 1933 to 1936).

References
Wright & Ditson's Lawn Tennis Annual (1911 & 1914); Time Magazine (December 4, 1933); New York Times (August 7, 1980); From Club Court to Center Court by Phillip S. Smith (2008 Edition, page 251).

American male tennis players
Sportspeople from New Rochelle, New York
Tennis people from New York (state)
1888 births
1980 deaths


Ukraine has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since 1997. The award is handed out annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue. , fourteen films have been selected to represent Ukraine in this category, and five were accepted and screened by AMPAS. The sixth film, A Driver for Vera was disqualified for having insufficient Ukrainian origins.

Submissions
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited the film industries of various countries to submit their best film for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film since 1956. The Foreign Language Film Award Committee oversees the process and reviews all the submitted films. Following this, they vote via secret ballot to determine the five nominees for the award. Below is a list of the films that have been submitted by Ukraine for review by the Academy for the award by year and the respective Academy Awards ceremony.

Additionally, a Ukrainian film, Wartime Romance, was selected by the Soviet Union in 1984.

The Ukrainians have had a shaky record in this category:

 In 2004, A Driver for Vera was disqualified for being a majority-Russian production. The film was largely shot in Ukraine, and was a co-production between Russian and Ukrainian production companies, but the film was made in Russian by a Russian writer-director (Pavlo Chukhrai, who represented Russia in this category and won an Oscar nomination in 1997) and five of the six top-billed actors were Russian.
 In 2006, a Columbia University film professor alleged that Ukraine's selection process was opaque, and that cancer drama Aurora had never actually screened in accordance with AMPAS rules. Despite the protest, Aurora was accepted and screened.
 In 2007, it was rumored that Ukraine would finally form a special Oscar committee to annually choose a Ukrainian nominee and that supposedly the movie "Koroliova" would be selected in 2007 as Ukraine's Oscar representative. However, eventually it was revealed that the committee did not meet to choose a nominee.
 In 2014, Ukraine's decision to submit Oles Sanin's The Guide ahead of the more acclaimed festival hit The Tribe by Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy, sparked a controversy that resulted in accusations of collusion by several members of the country's selection committee, who were forced to step down.
 In 2015, Ukraine missed the deadline to submit a film. They requested an extension from the Academy but it was denied.

Black comedy Friend of the Deceased (in Russian), surreal romance Mamay (in Ukrainian), and political thriller-cum-fantasy Illusion of Fear (in Russian) all represented the country without incident.

Shortlisted finalists
In 2020, The Earth Is Blue as an Orange by Iryna Tsilyk and My Thoughts Are Silent by Antonio Lukich were also shortlisted for consideration.

See also
List of Academy Award winners and nominees for Best Foreign Language Film
List of Academy Award-winning foreign language films
List of Soviet submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

Notes

References

External links
The Official Academy Awards Database
The Motion Picture Credits Database
IMDb Academy Awards Page

Ukraine
Academy Award


Ramkhamhaeng Advent International School (RAIS; , ) is an international school in Bang Kapi District, Bangkok, Thailand, established in 1999.

Ramkhamhaeng Advent International School (RAIS) is a privately owned Christian school serving students from Daycare to Grade 12 in the greater Bangkok area. It is operated by the G.J. Education Company Ltd. In August 1999, RAIS came into existence under the name, Ramkhamhaeng Adventist International School (a minor alteration was made in the school's name in 2005). In the first school year, RAIS enrolled sixty-nine students, and has experienced a consistent growth in enrollment in each subsequent year since the school's inception. Most recent enrollment figures show the total number of students reaching nearly seven hundred in grades K-12 and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) without counting the feeding programs. In addition to stressing academic achievement, RAIS curriculum places an equal importance on character development. Students are taught and encouraged to demonstrate respect for diverse cultures and people both in words and in deeds. The academics at RAIS revolve around scholastic learning and moral maturation.

The facilities include fully air-conditioned classrooms, indoor and outdoor playgrounds, mess hall, auditorium, air-conditioned gymnasium, Basketball courts, Science labs, three air-conditioned cafeterias, and a soccer field.

This school is a member of Thailand International Schools Association, accredited by Western Association of Schools and Colleges,  and fully approved by Thai Ministry of Education.

References

2. http://rais.ac.th/international-school-in-bangkok-rais/   Ramkhamhaeng Advent International School. Retrieved on 7 February 2018

3. https://bangkokpost.com/learning/international-school/1282/ramkhamhaeng-advent-international-school . Retrieved on 18 February 2018

External links

 Ramkhamhaeng Advent International School official website
 Ramkhamhaeng Advent International School in ISAT

International schools in Bangkok
Bang Kapi district
Educational institutions established in 1999
1999 establishments in Thailand
Private schools in Thailand


Bruno Banani is a German fashion company with headquarters in Chemnitz. On 11 March 2009, Bruno Banani launched a product range using the eco-friendly fiber Biophyl from Advansa with class 1 Oeko-tex standard rating.

The marketing rights for the perfumes with the brand name Bruno Banani are held by the COTY company.

Prior to the 2010 Winter Olympics, German media took an interest in a Tongan luger training in Germany, who was apparently also called Bruno Banani. In January 2012, it was revealed that his real name was Fuahea Semi, and that his renaming had been a marketing ploy. In 2013, Semi officially changed his name to Bruno Banani, and competed under that name.

References

Bibliography
 Stuart Slatter, David Lovett, Corporate Recovery: Managing Companies in Distress, Beard Books, 1999. .
 Karl-Heinz von Lackum, Mit Branding an die Spitze!: Wie sie auch ohne Werbemillionen die Konkurrenz, Gabler, April 2004. .

Underwear brands


Rassat may refer to:
Rassat, Minnesota


William "Bill" Harold Scherr (born July 27, 1961) is an American former wrestler who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics, for the United States.

Born in Eureka, South Dakota, Scherr also competed in the World Championships as a freestyle wrestler (85', 86, 87', and 89'), earning a gold medal in 1985 at the FILA Wrestling World Championships in Budapest. In college, Scherr wrestled at the University of Nebraska and won the 190 pound NCAA championship in 1984. His twin brother Jim Scherr was also an Olympian.

In 1998, Scherr was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame as a Distinguished Member.

Accomplishments
 Gold Medal – 1985 FILA World Championship 90 kg
 Silver Medal – 1986 FILA World Championship 100 kg
 Bronze Medal – 1987 FILA World Championship 100 kg
 Bronze Medal – 1988 Olympics Freestyle Wrestling 100 kg
 Silver Medal – 1989 FILA World Championship 100 kg
 1998 – National Wrestling Hall of Fame Distinguished Member

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Living people
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Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in wrestling
Wrestlers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
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Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States
Wrestlers at the 1987 Pan American Games
People from Eureka, South Dakota
Sportspeople from South Dakota


The Trinkhalle (pump house) in the Kurhaus spa complex in Baden-Baden, Germany  was built 1839–42 by Heinrich Hübsch in a complementary architectural style as the spa's main building. The 90-metre arcade is lined with frescos and benches.  The spa waters are said to have curative powers.

Motifs of the frescos
The frescoes by Jakob Götzenberger are listed in the order from left (south) to right (north). Image title and text come from the board that is attached under the respective image.

Notes

References
 MacLachlan, Gordon. (2004).  The Rough Guide to Germany. New York: Rough Guides.
 Schulte-Peevers, Andrea, Anthony Haywood, Jeremy Gray, Sarah Johnstone and Daniel Robinson. (2007).  Germany. Footscray, Victoria: Lonely Planet.

External links

 Baden-Baden official website

Buildings and structures in Baden-Baden
Buildings and structures completed in 1842
Heritage sites in Baden-Württemberg


Thomas Bayley (3 June 1846 – 11 Mar 1906) was a Liberal Party politician in England who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1892 to 1906.

He unsuccessfully contested the 1885 general election in Barkston Ash, and at the 1886 election he stood in Chesterfield, where he was narrowly beaten by the sitting Liberal Unionist MP, Alfred Barnes. At the 1892 general election he unseated Barnes by a majority of 182 votes, and held the seat with slightly increased majorities at subsequent elections until he stood down at the 1906 general election.

He married Annie Mary Bradley Farmer (1850-1904), daughter of Nottingham musician Henry Farmer, in 1874 They had nine children:
Ethel Readett Bayley (1872-1875)
Emily Mildred Bayley (1874-1877)
Marguerite Bayley (b.1875)
Thomas Harold Readdett Bayley (1876-1937)
Sir Henry Dennis Readett Bayley (1878-1940)
Muriel Katherine Bayley (1880-1933)
Annie Katherine Bayley (1881-1933)
Thomas Charles Bayley (1883-1958)
Hester Theodora Bayley (b.1887)

He died aged 59 in March 1906, two months after the 1906 election.

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Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
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William Kurt Black (born September 6, 1951) is an American lawyer, academic, author, and a former bank regulator. Black's expertise is in white-collar crime, public finance, regulation, and other topics in law and economics. He developed the concept of "control fraud", in which a business or national executive uses the entity he or she controls as a "weapon" to commit fraud.

Background
Black earned a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine. Black is currently an Associate Professor of Economics and Law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City in the Department of Economics and the School of Law. He was the executive director of the Institute for Fraud Prevention from 2005 to 2007 and previously taught at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, and at Santa Clara University.

Black was litigation director for the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FHLBB) from 1984 to 1986, deputy director of the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation (FSLIC) in 1987, and Senior VP and the General Counsel of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco from 1987 to 1989, which regulated some of the largest thrift banks in the U.S.

Savings and loan scandal
Black was a central figure in exposing Congressional corruption during the Savings and Loan Crisis. He took the notes during the Keating Five meeting that were later published in the press, and brought the event to national attention and a congressional investigation.

According to Bill Moyers,

The former Director of the Institute for Fraud Prevention now teaches Economics and Law at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. During the savings and loan crisis, it was Black who accused then-house speaker Jim Wright and five US Senators, including John Glenn and John McCain, of doing favors for the S&L's in exchange for contributions and other perks. The senators got off with a slap on the wrist, but so enraged was one of those bankers, Charles Keating — after whom the senate's so-called "Keating Five" were named — he sent a memo that read, in part, 'get Black — kill him dead.' Metaphorically, of course. Of course.

Financial crisis of 2007–2008

Bill Moyers Journal appearances
On April 3, 2009 Black appeared on Bill Moyers Journal on PBS and provided critical commentary on the U.S. banking crisis. Black asserted that the banking crisis in the US that started in late 2008 is essentially a big Ponzi scheme; that the "liar loans" and other financial tricks were essentially illegal frauds; and that the triple-A ratings given to these loans was part of a criminal cover-up. He said that the "Prompt Corrective Action Law" passed after the Savings and loan crisis mandated that ailing banks should be put into receivership. Black also stated that trying to hide how bad the situation is will simply prolong the problem, as happened in Japan and resulted in Japan's lost decade. Black stated that Timothy Geithner was engaged in a cover-up, and that the administration did not want people to understand what went wrong or how bad the banking situation was. On April 23, 2010, Black was again interviewed by Moyers to update the public's understanding  of the financial crisis.

Testimony before Congress on the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers
On April 20, 2010, Black testified before the House Financial Services Committee in a hearing titled "Public Policy Issues Raised by the Report of the Lehman Bankruptcy Examiner." He testified about the role that Alt-A mortgages, what he called "liars' loans," on residential real estate played in the downfall of Lehman Brothers. His testimony was that "Lehman's failure is a story in large part of fraud. And it is fraud that begins at the absolute latest in 2001, and that is with their subprime and liars' loan operations." As explained in his prepared statement, his reference was to Aurora Loan Services, Inc., which was a subsidiary of Lehman: "Lehman's principal source of (fictional) income and real losses was making (and selling) what the trade accurately called 'liar's loans' through its subsidiary, Aurora. (The bland euphemism for liar's loans was 'Alt-A.') Liar's loans are 'criminogenic' (they create epidemics of mortgage fraud) because they create strong incentives to provide false information on loan applications."

On the same page in his prepared testimony Black referenced an article from the Denver Post dated September 16, 2008, the day after Lehman filed for bankruptcy. The article reported on the uncertain fate of Aurora Loan Services, which was based nearby, and quoted Lehman's chief financial officer as saying the previous week that, "The majority of our write-downs were in Alt-A driven by an increase in.. . delinquencies and loss expectations." The article also said that Lehman was "among the first of its peers to originate home loans and securitize them for sale across the globe, and it fueled the growth of the Alt-A loan."

Testimony before Irish Banking Inquiry
Black was invited to testify before the Irish parliament's banking inquiry in February 2015. In his testimony, he described the broad September 2008 Irish bank guarantee, as "the most destructive own goal in history".

Works
 "The U.S. Banking Industry in Transition in Real World Banking", eds. Dan Fireside & Amy Gluckman (Dollars & Sense 2008)
 "When Fragile Become Friable: Endemic Control Fraud as a Cause of Economic Stagnation and Collapse", White Collar Crimes: a Debate, K. Naga Srivalli, ed., Hyderabad, India, The Icfai University Press (2007: 162–178)
 "Corruption Kills", International Handbook of White-Collar Crime, Henry Pontell & G. Geis eds. (Springer 2007)
 "Control fraud v. the protocols", Crime, Law & Social Change, 45(3) (April 2006: 241–258)

 "Control Fraud as an Explanation for White-Collar Crime Waves: The Case of the Savings & Loan Debacle", Crime, Law and Social Change 43(1) (February 2005: 1-29)
 "The Dango Tango: Why Corruption Blocks Real Reform in Japan", Business Ethics Quarterly 14(4) (October 2004: 602–623)
 "The Imperium Strikes Back: The Need to Teach Socioeconomics to Law Students", San Diego Law Review, No. 1 (Winter 2004: 231–256)
 "Beware of Geeks Bearing Gifts: Enron Uses Its High Tech Information System to Defraud", CISIC 2003 Conference Symposium (McGraw-Hill 2003)
 "Re-examining the Law & Economics Theory of Corporate Governance", Challenge 46(2) (March/April 2003: 22–40)
 "A Tale of Two Crises", Kravis Leadership Institute Leadership Review, fall 2002
 "Why do the Non-Heathens Rage?", Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture, 8(3) (2001: 225–276)
 "The Savings and Loan Debacle of the 1980's: White-Collar Crime or Risky Business?" (with K. Calavita & H. Pontell) Law and Policy 17(1) (January 1995: 23–55)
 '"Ending Our Forebearers' Forbearances:  FIRREA and Supervisory Goodwill", Stanford Law & Policy Review 102 (Spring 1990)

References

External links

 , The Young Turks (talk show), April 6, 2009
 "Dollars and Sense, several articles"
 2013 TED talk at TEDxUMKC: How to rob a bank (from the inside, that is)

 "Americans can do anything,..." Black in Huffpost
 "Adam Smith Was Right About Corporate CEO's Incentives Absent Effective Regulation" ... William Black

1951 births
Economists from California
American business writers
Corporate crime
Living people
Savings and loan crisis
Subprime mortgage crisis
University of California, Irvine alumni
University of Michigan Law School alumni
University of Missouri–Kansas City faculty
21st-century American economists
American criminologists


was a Japanese castle located in the city of Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. It was a hirayama-jō, a castle built on a plains rather than a hill or mountain. During the Edo period, Numazu castle was home to the Mizuno clan, daimyō of Numazu Domain under the Tokugawa shogunate.

Background
Numazu is at the northern end of Izu Peninsula and the mouth of the Kamo River. As a narrow area where the Tōkaidō highway connecting Kyoto with Edo must pass between the Pacific Ocean and the foothills of Mount Fuji, Numazu commanded a strategic location and was also a good port for shipping to the Izu Peninsula. The settlement of Numazu prospered in the Edo period as Numazu-juku, and eight generations of the Mizuno clan resided at Numazu castle, with their revenues eventually rising to 50,000 koku.

History

Sanmaibashi Castle
The predecessor of Numazu Castle, , was built in the Sengoku period by Takeda Shingen to protect his flank against the Odawara Hōjō during his invasion of Suruga Province. The original castle consisted of three concentric enclosures, each surrounded by a moat connected to the Kano River, with Umadashi-style gates. The Takeda and Hōjō came into conflict in 1578 after the death of Uesugi Kenshin, and Takeda Katsuyori held Sanmaibashi Castle against repeated attacks by the Hōjō from nearby Nagahama Castle.

After the defeat of the Takeda clan in 1582 by the forces of Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu, the castle went to Tokugawa Ieyasu until 1590, when he was transferred to the Kantō region by Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Numazu was awarded to Nakamura Kazuuji, a retainer of Hideyoshi, who also held Sunpu Castle. Following the Battle of Sekigahara, Tokugawa Ieyasu recovered his ancestral possessions in Suruga, and gave Numazu to his veteran general, Ōkubo Tadasuke in 1601. However, Ōkubo died without heir in 1613, and his domain was abolished, and Sanmaibashi Castle fell into ruin.

Numazu Castle
In April 1777, when the former wakadoshiyori Mizuno Tadatomo was transferred from Ohama Domain in Mikawa province to Numazu, he was assigned revenues of 20,000 koku and authorized to build a castle. The site he chose was the ruins of Sanmaibashi Castle, which had been abandoned for over 150 years. As this was in the middle of the period of "Great Peace" under
the Tokugawa shogunate, the new Numazu Castle used only a portion of the former site, and did not make use of the former third bailey. The defenses were only on a nominal scale, and the Tōkaidō highway passed directly through the space between the castle and the Kano River.

The Mizuno clan retained this castle to the start of the Meiji period, but were transferred when Numazu Domain was abolished with the creation of Shizuoka Domain for the retired ex-Shōgun Tokugawa Yoshinobu in July 1868 by the new Meiji government.

The castle was then used by the Numazu Military Academy, one of the first western-style public schools in Japan and a forerunner of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy from December 1868 to 1871. In 1873, the Meiji government ordered the dismantling of all castles and fortifications in Japan. Numazu castle was destroyed, its moats filled in, and its land sold off. The site of the castle disappeared under modern Numazu city

Today almost no ruins remain at the site, except for a small park with a monument marking the site of the donjon in the inner bailey, and a small fragment of the stone walls lining part of the old moats of former Sanmaibashi Castle.

References

External links

Numazu city official home page

Castles in Shizuoka Prefecture
Ruined castles in Japan
Numazu, Shizuoka
Ōkubo clan
Mizuno clan


Leland Gilbert Merrill, Jr. (October 4, 1920 in Danville, Illinois – July 28, 2009 in Princeton, New Jersey) was an American wrestler who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics, for the United States. In 1948, he won the bronze medal in the Freestyle Welterweight competition.

Merrill was West Virginia's first Olympic medal winner in wrestling and the state's first Olympian.

References

External links
 Olympic Profile
 Obit

1920 births
People from Danville, Illinois
Michigan State University alumni
United States Army officers
Wrestlers at the 1948 Summer Olympics
American male sport wrestlers
Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in wrestling
Rutgers University alumni
2009 deaths
Sportspeople from Illinois
Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Military personnel from Illinois
20th-century American people
21st-century American people


Christine M. Jones (December 25, 1929 – January 26, 2013) was an American politician who represented district 26 in the Maryland House of Delegates.

Background
Jones was born in Navasota, Texas, on Christmas Day in 1929.  She attended Huston-Tillotson College where she received a B.A. in 1949. Jones was an educator and teacher in the Prince George's County school system for more than 20 years. She was a member of the Oxon Hill Democratic Club, the John Hanson Women's Club, the Southern Prince George's Business and Professional Women's Club, the Prince George's County Education Association and the Maryland State Teachers Association. Jones was also a member of the National Education Association and the Phi Delta Kappa chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority. She served as a board member of the National Conference of Christians and Jews; PG Mental Health Association; Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Center for Community Development. Founder, honorary member, PG Coalition on Black Affairs. She was a member of the Bethlehem Baptist Church Women's Club.

Jones died on January 26, 2013, a week after being rescued from a house fire.

In the legislature
Jones was a member of the House of Delegates (Prince George's County) from 1982 to 1994. She was the Assistant majority floor leader in 1994 and a member of the Economic Matters Committee during her entire tenure. She also served on that committee's Worker's Compensation Subcommittee and the Joint Committee on Administrative, Executive and Legislative Review, the Joint Committee on Federal Relations and the Joint Committee on Protocol. Jones chaired the Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland from 1991 to 1992.

References

Members of the Maryland House of Delegates
1929 births
2013 deaths
Tennessee State University alumni
Women state legislators in Maryland
People from Navasota, Texas
People from Temple Hills, Maryland
21st-century American women
Politicians from Prince George's County, Maryland


Bare Bones is a 2010 acoustic live album by Canadian rock singer Bryan Adams.

Track listing

Personnel
 Bryan Adams – acoustic guitar, harmonica, vocals
 Gary Breit – piano

Technical personnel
 Ben Dobie – recording
 Bob Clearmountain – mixing
 Jody Perpick – sound

Certifications

References

Bryan Adams live albums
2010 live albums
A&M Records live albums


KGAL (1580 AM, "NewsTalk 1580") is a U.S. radio station licensed to serve Lebanon, Oregon. The station, which began broadcasting in 1995, is owned by the Eads Broadcasting Corporation.

Programming
KGAL broadcasts a news/talk/sports radio format featuring a mix of local and syndicated programs including sports talk, conservative talk, local news, and live sporting events.

Talk shows
Local weekday programs include Morning Update with Weldon Greig and Jeff McMahon, Valley Talk hosted by Jeff McMahon and Hasso Hering.  Weekday syndicated programming includes Midnight Trucking Radio Network, Bill Bennett in the Morning with William Bennett, America in the Morning with Jim Bohannon, plus talk shows hosted by Dennis Prager, commentator and film critic Michael Medved, conservative author Hugh Hewitt, Radio Hall of Fame member Jim Bohannon, plus the Midnight Radio Network.

Sports
In addition to its regularly scheduled talk programming, KGAL airs Seattle Seahawks NFL Football, Lebanon High School varsity sporting events and University of Oregon Ducks football games.

A Moment in Oregon History
Throughout 2009, KGAL and sister station KSHO aired a series of one-minute historical vignettes as part of Oregon's sesquicentennial celebration. The program, titled A Moment in Oregon History, highlights notable Oregon residents and key historical events.  Each of the 240 vignettes was written by author Rick Steber.

History
The Eads Broadcasting Corporation received the original construction permit for this station from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on December 27, 1994.  The new station was assigned the call letters KGAL by the FCC on January 23, 1995.  KGAL received its license to cover from the FCC on November 20, 1995.

KGAL was one of two radio stations in 1997 broadcasting the games of the Portland Forest Dragons of the Arena Football League. That team would ultimately leave Portland after the 1999 season.

Awards and honors
Eads Broadcasting owner Charlie Eads was the Broadcaster of the Year in Oregon and was honored as Volunteer of the Year at the 2009 Ovation Awards given out at the annual Northwest Festivals and Events Conference.  Eads was cited for his work with the Willamette Valley Concert Band, the Linn County Cultural Coalition, and several other community organizations.

References

External links
KGAL official website

GAL
News and talk radio stations in the United States
Sports radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1995
Lebanon, Oregon
1995 establishments in Oregon


A T-bar sandal or T-bar shoe (also known in the United Kingdom as "school sandal" or "closed-toe sandal") is a closed, low-cut shoe with two or more straps forming one or more T shapes (one or more straps across the instep passing through a perpendicular, central strap that extends from the vamp).

Classic T-bars for children are typically made of blue or brown leather, have two thin straps forming a single T shape and fastened with a buckle, a broad and rounded toe box pierced with a pattern of holes, a low heel, and a crêpe rubber outsole stitched-down to the upper. Among boys, T-bars are traditionally worn with socks (though it is possible without them as well), short trousers and a shirt.

History
First seen in Europe and America in the early 1900s, T-bars became very common among children in the 1950s, particularly among boys where they supplanted pre-war Mary Janes. T-bar wearing declined after the 1960s nonetheless, following the cultural and clothing revolution that swept the West.

Today, T-bars are more associated with girls, particularly the more classic styles and are often considered semi-formal shoes, appropriate for school (some primary schools in the United Kingdom require that pupils wear them with their uniform). They may also be viewed as formal shoes for children, suitable for religious ceremonies, weddings, visits, and birthday parties for example.

More modern styles are worn in casual settings, however: playgrounds, shopping centres, etc. Although less popular than in the past, T-bars remain a timeless classic of children's fashion and, for many people, a symbol of childhood.

Gallery

See also
Mary Jane (shoe)—a very similar style

References

Children's clothing
Sandals
Shoes