The Royal Australian Corps of Military Police (RACMP) is a corps within the Australian Army. Previously known as the Australian Army Provost Corps, it was formed on 3 April 1916 as the ANZAC Provost Corps. It is responsible for battlefield traffic control, security duties, prisoner of war handling, the investigation of service offences, maintaining discipline and the running of military prisons. Its name was changed in 1918 and it was disbanded in 1920. The corps was reformed during World War II and was granted the "Royal" prefix in 1948, adopting its current name on 4 September 1974. The then Duchess of Cornwall became the first Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Australian Corps of Military Police in November 2012. The Royal Australian Corps of Military Police have played a role in World War I, World War II and aided in conflicts since the finish of the second world war, including Afghanistan and the Timor Leste Crisis. The Corps have embellishments such as the Governor General’s banner which they received in 2001. As well as specific uniform requirements up to and including their standout scarlet beret. The Military Police has a range of training pathways which leads to the many different specialised roles the members hold.

Role
The role of the Royal Australian Corps of Military Police is to aid the Australian Defence Force (ADF) in the restoration of peace and law and order. The Corps have also played roles in peace keeping since World War II in which they have occasionally worked with the Australian Federal Police. Specific peace keeping operations involve; manoeuvre support, custody of POWs, civil affairs, security, mobility support and law enforcement. They have additionally been known to be involved with military detention within Australia as they were in charge of Military Detention Facilities in the Northern Territory prior to 1943. The Corps have held positions in traffic control and monitoring as well as a back-up communication team for the front line.

The Corps are trained in specific ways to help maintain law and order. Such skills include in power of arrest and detention, judicial expertise and liaising experience. As well as the investigation roles of the Royal Australian Military Police and their detention training. The range of skills that the Corps hold allow them to operate over a large spectrum of Australian Defence Force Units, including high-threat situations.

Personnel of the Royal Australian Corps of Military Police are posted in several units: those being the 1st Military Police Battalion, the Domestic Policing Unit (disbanded), the Joint Military Police Unit (JMPU), the Australian Defence Force Investigative Service (a section of JMPU) , the Defence Police Training Centre, Defence Force Corrective Establishment and the Office of the Provost Marshal Army.

History
The Corps group was formed in April 1916 and was originally named the ANZAC Provost Corps. It then was renamed the Australian Army Provost Corps in January 1918 which was subsequently disbanded at the end of World War I. It was reformed during the World War II and on 4 September 1974 its name was changed to its currently held name the Royal Australian Corps of Military Police. The corps are also known as the (Australian) Military Police in literature and army writings. At the time of the name change, the RACMP motto was changed as well. The Australian Army Provost Corps motto was "First in Last Out" and with the name change the motto of the Australian Corps of Military Police which is still currently held is "For the Troops, With the Troops".

World War I
The Corps was formed during World War I in order to maintain order and discipline within the large number of troops within Egypt after the end of the Gallipoli campaign. Corps personnel were spread throughout the Middle East and Europe during the war, taking part in actions at Gallipoli, on the Western Front and in the Sinai and Palestine in order to help keep troops under control and to aid with detention. The Australian Military Police's role to keep Australian troops under control caused a lot of tension between the two groups and this continued through into the Second World War.

World War II
When the corps was reinstated in 1939 at the start of World War II, there were members of this unit positioned within all Australian Army deployments this was allowed by their 4600 members. The Australian Army Provost Corps were involved in the removal and arrest of Japanese families from Australian society at the start of World War II and took them to camps such as the ones at Adelaide River. The Australian Military Police were also recorded as directing traffic in Larrisa, Greece after the battalion there was directed to move South causing traffic issues and as the roads were under attack by Stukas. One of the Australian Military Police captains was awarded a Military Cross for actions while under attack from Stuka dive bombers, grounding two of these aircraft. The Corps in the Middle East and Greece also helped Australian soldiers in directing them to their attack lines as well as handling and guarding prisoners of war. During the war training camps for the Military Police were set up in order to increase the skill of the newly reinstated Corps.

Post World Wars
The Corps served Korea in the 1950s and assisted in the Malayan Emergency in 1955 and then in Vietnam from 1965. Up until 1990 women were not employed by the Army in combat-based roles and at the start of 1990 one of the beginning positions opened up to women was the military police. In the early 2000s, the Australian Military Police were also deployed to the situations occurring in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

Recent history
The Royal Australian Corps of Military Police also provided aid in 2006 East Timorese crisis when the country experienced civil upset. This is one of the deployments in which the Australian Federal Police also attended and worked with the Military Police. In this situation they worked under the control of the United Nations and the agreement of the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands.

In November 2012, the Royal Australian Corps of Military Police were appointed a Colonel-in-Chief, the Duchess of Cornwall. This inauguration is a representation of the relationship and traditional ties between the Corps and the Royal Family. The Duchess of Cornwall officially accepted this title on 9 November 2012 at the Victoria Barracks in Sydney.

Corps embellishments

Banners
The Royal Australian Corps of Military Police were provided with the Governor General’s banner on April 7, 2001 at the Lamia Barracks in Holsworthy. This was the first time the Corps had been presented with a banner and it is now house at the Defence Force School of Policing.

Badge
The Royal Australian Corps of Military Police badge does not include their motto, this occurs only one other Australian Army corps. The current badge consists of: a laurel wreath, the Crown of St Edward and crossed Roman broadswords. The swords are surrounded by the wreath and the Crown of St Edward sits in the foreground at the top of the wreath. The Corps before 1949 were recognised only by their red MP (Military Police) armband which they still wear today as they only received an official badge in 1949. The badge is worn either on the Corps’ collar of their uniform or on their hat or beret.

Lanyard
All members of the Royal Australian Corps of Military Police wear the corps lanyard. The lanyard for this corps was authorised on 25 June 1995. It is coloured red and black rope intertwined; these colours are in line with RACMP official colours. The lanyard is not worn in the field, instead it is worn during ceremonial activities and in some other work environments. The lanyard is worn by all RACMP members excluding those of ranks senior regimental sergeant major’s and all those ranking colonel or above.

Uniform
The Royal Australian Corps of Military Police have several different attires as they wear different clothing dependant on the occasion, the following encompasses their polyester general duty dress. One of the RACMP’s more distinguishing items of clothing is their scarlet beret, it has been the official headdress for the authorised members of the Corps since March 1975. The Corps ranking below Colonel, wear a slouch hat and those Colonel and above as well as those with regimental appointments or honorary Corps are permitted to wear the beret. The beret has been considered a standout item from those such as their Colonel-in-Chief, The Duchess of Cornwall, who made the following comment while on her visit to Australia in 2012. "I am delighted to see that you are all wearing your rather dashing scarlet berets and wondered if the Colonel-in-Chief might possibly get to wear one, too?". The Military Police must wear a white belt with equipment attached in addition to their scarlet MP identification badges. The holster pistol, hand cuff pouch and tactical baton holders and items are only worn when the Corps have been ordered to do so. Although if a RACMP is currently posted within the Australian Defence Force Investigative Service (ADFIS) unit they will wear the ADFIS identification patch. Another significant item of this uniform are the scarlet and black lanyard. The uniform then includes a capped sleeved khaki shirt, khaki slacks and socks and black leather boots. The main differences between the polyester general duties dress and the Patrol Order Services dress are that the khaki necktie, a long sleeve khaki shirt and either a service dress; skirt, slacks or trousers are required for patrol order.

Specialisation
The Royal Australian Corps of Military Police are involved in many smaller or separate units throughout the defence force. The Military Police are placed and involved in the Domestic Policing Unit which is unit that works on Army bases to help commanders keep civilian law intact while also being in charge of Garrison Policing and small investigations involving illegal activity. Another area that the Corps specialise into is the Australian Defence Force Investigator role. These Corps are trained at the Defence Force School of Policing and are taught how to deal with very complicated and important investigations, they are also taught forensics. Once the Military police reach a satisfactory level they are placed into ADFIS. This unit was previously the Special Investigations Branch, which was formed in 1940 and whose members had similar duties to the Investigators of the Military Police and fulfilled a role similar to ADFIS. The members of the Royal Australian Corps of Military Police can also be trained to specialise in dog handling. These personnel are required to train and handle dogs used for a wide range of Military Police roles such as tracking, crowd control and apprehension of criminals. Another Military Police specialist role is that of personal protection, this protection from the Corps is provided to those of high importance. Corps Specialists undergo close protection for are those at high risk of terrorist, military or criminal attack due to their high stature whether it be due to influence, power or that they are vulnerable. Each of these Military Police specialisations come with their own specifically catered training schemes.

Training
Personnel received little training within the corps' early years of service. The unit had been put together out of necessity during the first world war and therefore members were not provided with the high amount of training they’re now receiving over 100 years since their original formation. The Corps were highly disliked by Australian troops in both the First and Second World Wars. In an effort to make the Australian Provost Corps a more respectable unit the Provost Marshal of October 1939 decided to create a syllabus for training the military police. Simultaneously, the Corps was expanding at a rapid rate meaning members had to be trained quickly and therefore the training syllabus only had a minor effect in improving the ability of the unit. This resulted in a training camp being created in 1941 in Palestine which increased the corps' professionalism and ability to conduct their orders. Personnel who enter the Military Police through the general Army are sent to Kapooka to complete their recruit course. The recruits then undergo their initial training at the Defence Force School of Policing and dependant on the specialisation of their role will move throughout different training regimes.

Gallery

See also
 ADFIS
 Royal Military Police
 Corps of Royal New Zealand Military Police

References

Military Police
Australian army units with royal patronage
Australia
1916 establishments in Australia
Military units and formations established in 1916


Brooks McNiven (born June 19, 1981 in Terrace, British Columbia) is a Canadian professional baseball pitcher. He last played in the San Francisco Giants organization.

McNiven was drafted by the Giants in the 4th round of the 2003 Major League Baseball draft.

McNiven has represented Team Canada during several international baseball tournaments.  He played for Canada at the 2007 Baseball World Cup, the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and most recently was a member of the Canadian contingent at the 2009 World Baseball Classic.  However, he did not enter either of Canada's games during the tournament. He now works at rockridge secondary as a PE teacher.

References

External links

The Baseball Cube
 Olympic Canada

1981 births
Living people
Baseball pitchers
Baseball people from British Columbia
Canadian expatriate baseball players in the United States
Connecticut Defenders players
Fresno Grizzlies players
People from Terrace, British Columbia
Salem-Keizer Volcanoes players
San Jose Giants players
UBC Thunderbirds baseball players
World Baseball Classic players of Canada
2009 World Baseball Classic players


The Nicaean–Venetian Treaty of 1219 was a trade and non-aggression defense pact signed between the Empire of Nicaea and the Republic of Venice, in the form of an imperial chrysobull issued by Emperor Theodore I Laskaris (r. 1205–1222). This treaty provided the Venetians freedom of trade and imports without customs duties throughout the Empire, in exchange for not supporting for the newly created Latin Empire.

Background
Following the Sack of Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade in 1204, the Venetians, who had played a crucial role in the Crusade's diversion and the eventual sack of the Byzantine capital, stood preeminent amongst the victors. In the subsequent arrangement between the Crusaders, the Partitio terrarum imperii Romaniae, the Venetians were to receive three-eighths of the Byzantine Empire, including three-eighths of Constantinople itself. Although Venice did receive the greatest benefit from the Crusade, they renounced direct sovereignty over the territories of Epirus, Acarnania, Aetolia, and the Peloponnese, which were originally assigned to the Republic. Instead, the Republic of Venice claimed the islands in the Aegean Sea, most importantly Crete, and a chain of ports and coastal forts along the Greek shores, thus coming to dominate the trade centers and routes all across the former Byzantine Empire.

With Venetian support, the Latins continued their campaign into the Balkans to assert their control over former Byzantine lands, but were halted at the Battle of Adrianople in 1205 by the Bulgarians. The newly established Latin Empire, together with Venice, signed a secret treaty with Ghiyaseddin Kay-Khusraw I, the Turkish Sultan of Rûm for a joint war against the chief Byzantine Greek successor state, the Empire of Nicaea. In response, Nicaean emperor Theodore Lascaris made contact with King Leo I of Lesser Armenia in Cilicia who was also threatened by the Sultanate. The agreement between the two realms was concluded by the marriage of Philippa of Armenia, niece of Leo to Lascaris as his second wife in 1214.

The treaty
There had been a long trading relationship between the Venetians and the Byzantines before, starting with the Byzantine–Venetian treaty of 1082. However, with the chaotic events of 1204, the relationship between the two powers had greatly changed. In order to undercut the Venetian military support from the Latin Empire, the major inheritor of Constantinople, Theodore Lascaris, signed a trade agreement with Venice in August 1219 that provided freedom of trade and duty-free imports to the Venetians throughout the Nicaean Empire. In addition to the trading rights, the Doge of Venice, Pietro Ziani, was recognized the titles of Despot and 'Lord of one-quarter and one-eighth of the Empire of Romania' (), that he had claimed after 1204. The Latin text of the treaty was published in the collection of Venetian diplomatic documents compiled by Gottlieb Tafel and Georg Thomas for the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna.

Aftermath
The treaty gave the newly established Nicaean Empire sufficient breathing space to consolidate and later expand its territory at the expense of the Latin Empire, while Venice gained access to markets that had not been open to them before, including recognition of their presence in Constantinople. However, the treaty itself was subsequently undermined by Theodore Lascaris's fiscal austerity and policies of autarky: he forbade his subjects to buy foreign luxury goods and admonished them to be content with "the products of Roman soil and the craftsmanship of Roman hands". This protectionism was obviously directed against Venice, but they could do little as it would have been the Emperor's right to deny his subjects excessive luxuries. This treaty remained in effect with few complications, until the Treaty of Nymphaeum between the Nicaean Empire and Venice's rival, the Republic of Genoa in 1261.

During the early 1270s, Pope Gregory X ordered the Venetians not to renew the treaty until the union between the Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches was complete, thus permanently invalidating the treaty.

See also
 Treaty of Nymphaeum (1214)
 Treaty of Nymphaeum (1261)

References

Sources

Further reading

Economy of the Byzantine Empire
Treaties of the Empire of Nicaea
1210s treaties
Treaties of the Republic of Venice
1219 in Asia
1219 in Europe
13th century in the Republic of Venice
Treaty 1219


Love Is Not Pop is an album by El Perro del Mar. It was released in Sweden on 1 April 2009 and in the US on 20 October. The first single, "Change of Heart", was released on 23 February 2009.

Track listing
All songs written by Sarah Assbring, except where noted.

 "Gotta Get Smart" - 5:03
 "Change of Heart" - 5:08
 "L Is for Love" - 4:32
 "Let Me In" - 3:02
 "Heavenly Arms" (Lou Reed) - 5:37
 "It Is Something (To Have Wept)" (lyrics by G. K. Chesterton) - 5:10
 "A Better Love" - 4:24

References

2009 albums
El Perro del Mar albums


Devil and the Deep is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Marion Gering, based on Maurice Larrouy's novel (Sirenes et Tritons), and starring Tallulah Bankhead, Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton and Cary Grant. It follows a naval commander who has alienated his wife due to his insane jealousy over every man she speaks to. After his obsessive behavior drives her to the arms of a handsome lieutenant, tragic drama ensues.

Plot
Charles Sturm (Laughton) is a naval commander whose jealousy and abuse makes life miserable for his wife Diana (Bankhead). His suspicions fall on his own subordinate, Lieutenant Jaeckel (Grant). Although his suspicions are baseless, Sturm has Jaeckel transferred.  After Charles falls into another fit of paranoid rage and strikes Diana, she wanders off into the streets during a festival and soon encounters another officer, who turns out to be Jaeckel's replacement, Lieutenant Sempter (Cooper). Learning of their affair, which this time is real not imagined, Charles plots a terrible revenge.

On the night Commander Sturm's submarine is to sail, Diana goes aboard to warn Sempter of Sturm's dangerous frame of mind. But when Sturm arrives, he immediately orders the sub out to sea before Diana can return to shore. In the busy channel outside the harbor, Sturm deliberately maneuvers into the path of an oncoming ship, which rams and sinks the sub. Several compartments are flooded, but the crews are able to get out in time.

Trapped on the bottom, the survivors gather in the control room; Sempter and Sturm square off, asserting command, while Diana exposes Sturm's madness. Sempter takes control and organizes the crew's escape. In a detailed and substantially accurate technical sequence, Diana and the crew exit through the sub's escape trunk using Momsen lungs, and are rescued at the surface. Refusing to leave the ship, Sturm stays behind and lapses into raving insanity; he opens a watertight door to let in the sea, laughing maniacally as the water rises.

Afterwards, cleared of most charges by a court martial, Sempter encounters Diana again in a shop on the street. Soon it begins to rain, and they depart in a cab together.

Cast

 Tallulah Bankhead as Diana Sturm
 Gary Cooper as Lieutenant Sempter
 Charles Laughton as Commander Charles Sturm
 Cary Grant as Lieutenant Jaeckel
 Paul Porcasi as Hassan
 Juliette Compton as Mrs. Planet
 Henry Kolker as Hutton
 Dorothy Christy as Mrs. Crimp
 Arthur Hoyt as Mr. Planet
 Gordon Westcott as Lieutenant Toll
 James Dugan as Condover

Production
This is the only film featuring both Gary Cooper and Cary Grant as the movie's leading men but they never appear together onscreen. However, in the following year's film version of Alice in Wonderland, Grant played the Mock Turtle and Cooper played the White Knight, having their only movie scene together (of sorts) as the entire cast appears in the tea party scene (including W.C. Fields as Humpty Dumpty).

Reception
The film was generally well received by critics. David Fairweather of Theatre World stated: "This picture is, in my opinion, the best dramatic talkie we have yet seen. It is unabashed melodrama at times, but Charles Laughton's magnificent acting disarms criticism of the more violently sensational incidents". He further added "Tallulah Bankhead has better opportunities than of late as the distrait wife, but she is overshadowed by Laughton's amazing performance". Michael Orme of The Illustrated London News thought that the film was "generally thoughtful", but felt that Gering has over-staged certain scenes. He further praised Laughton: "To say that Mr. Charles Laughton succeeds in making this frankly melodramatic premise convincing is to pay the highest possible tribute to the uncanny way in which his personality and his acting dominate the film, even when he is absent from the screen."

References

Sources

External links

1932 films
1932 romantic drama films
American black-and-white films
American romantic drama films
Films directed by Marion Gering
Films set in the Mediterranean Sea
Paramount Pictures films
Submarine films
1930s English-language films
1930s American films
Films with screenplays by Benn Levy


The discography of Little Man Tate, an English-based Indie Rock band, consists of 2 studio albums and 10 singles along with several accompanying music videos.

Studio albums

Singles

Music videos

Rare Songs/B-Sides

References

Discographies of British artists
Rock music group discographies


Minuscule 429 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 398 (in the Soden numbering), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on cotton paper. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 14th century (Apocalypse – 15th century).

Description

The codex contains the text of the New Testament except Gospels on 204 paper leaves (). It is written in one column per page, in 29 lines per page. The leaves are arranged in quarto. It contains Prolegomena and many marginal readings.

The order of books: Acts of the Apostles, Pauline epistles, Catholic epistles, and Book of Revelation.

It contains the Comma Johanneum added by a later hand.

Text

The Greek text of the Acts of the Apostles and the Catholic epistles Aland placed in Category III. It exhibits a remarkable text. The text of the Pauline epistles and Apocalypse is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.
In the Pauline epistles, the text is close to the codices 206, 522, 1891, and 2815.

In Acts 12:25 it reads εξ Ιερουσαλημ εις Αντιοχειαν (from Jerusalem to Antioch) along with 945, 1739, e, p, syrp, copsa geo; majority reads εις Ιερουσαλημ (to Jerusalem);

In 2 Timothy 2:14 it reads Χριστου (of Christ) for θεοῦ (of God) along with 206, 1758.

History

Acts and epistles were written by George, a monk in the 14th century (Scrivener 13th century). The Apocalypse was added later in the 14th or 15th century.

The manuscript was examined by Franz Anton Knittel in 1773, Matthaei (designated by X), and Franz Delitsch. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1891. Formerly it was labelled by 69a, 74p, and 30r. In 1908 Gregory gave the number 429 to it.

The manuscript is currently housed at the Herzog August Bibliothek (Codd. Aug. Quarto 16.7.4) in Wolfenbüttel.

See also

 List of New Testament minuscules
 Biblical manuscript
 Textual criticism

References

Further reading

 Franz Anton Knittel, Beyträge zur Kritik über Johannes Offenbarung, Schröder, Braunschweig und Hildensheim 1773.

External links

 Minuscule 429 at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism

Greek New Testament minuscules
14th-century biblical manuscripts
15th-century biblical manuscripts
Herzog August Library


Todo modo (also known as One Way or Another) is a 1976 Italian drama film directed by Elio Petri. Loosely based on the novel of the same name by Leonardo Sciascia, it is the last of the cinematographic, but also political and ideological union of the director Elio Petri and the actor Gian Maria Volonté, a partnership that contributed to the success of Italian political cinema of the seventies. It represents the portrait of the deviant men of power of the Christian Democrats. The premiere of the film was 30 April 1976.

Made in the same period of Illustrious corpses (1976) by Francesco Rosi, also inspired by a work by Sciascia, Todo modo contributes to the efforts of Italian cinema in questioning the political future of a country in crisis. In 2014 the film was restored thanks to the work of the Bologna Film Library and the National Cinema Museum of Turin.

Plot
I forced Sciascia's hands even in the tone of the film...and so it seemed to me, not only to follow an indication from Sciascia, but to evoke that climate of very black farce that one breathed and still continues to breathe in Italy.
—Elio Petri, 1979

During a mysterious epidemic that claims numerous political leaders, big industrialists, bankers, and business leaders of the ruling party, the Christian Democrats arrive in a hotel/hermitage/prison called Zafer. They gather for an annual three-day retreat (inspired by the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola) to atone for their past crimes of corruption and unethical practices. These exercises are practiced under the guidance of the unusual Don Gaetano (Marcello Mastroianni), a very influential but corrupt priest, who dominates all those at the retreat.

The retreat acts as a sort of renewal of the party's structure, leaders, and interests in order to maintain power in the country. Between constant violent quarrels, mutual accusations, and little actual spiritual practice, a series of crimes develop that eliminate the leading figures of the party one by one.

Cast
 Gian Maria Volonté as M.
 Marcello Mastroianni as Don Gaetano
 Mariangela Melato as Giacinta, M.'s wife
 Ciccio Ingrassia as Voltrano
 Franco Citti as M.'s driver
 Tino Scotti as the cook
 Renato Salvatori as Dr. Scalambri
 Michel Piccoli as He
 Cesare Gelli as Arras, Vice Commissioner

Production
The character of the President openly resembles Aldo Moro (who, at the time of the film's release, had been the head of the Italian government for two years). In the film, he is a conciliatory, good-natured leader who tries to please everyone but secretly hungers for power and domination. Moro isn't ever mentioned directly; but the President's physical appearance and behavior are similar.

Volonté closely studied Moro's speeches and learned to imitate his facial and body language as well as the inflections of his voice when speaking in a conciliatory tone. Petri recalled that the first two days of filming were discarded by mutual agreement because the resemblance between the two "was so embarrassing, you felt it in the pit of your stomach." Petri and Volonte decided that he did not have to imitate Moro exactly, but to provide him with a mask, like a caricature. Petri also realized that if the character had been explicitly Aldo Moro, the film would never have been distributed.

Among the other actors involved in the film is Marcello Mastroianni in the role of Don Gaetano, a shrewd and calculating priest who is very influential in politics and also thirsty for power.

References

External links

1976 films
1976 comedy films
1976 drama films
1976 comedy-drama films
Italian black comedy films
Films about politicians
Films based on Italian novels
Films based on works by Leonardo Sciascia
Films critical of the Catholic Church
Films scored by Ennio Morricone
Films directed by Elio Petri
Italian comedy-drama films
1970s Italian-language films
Italian political satire films
Films à clef
Depictions of Aldo Moro on film
1970s Italian films


St Joseph's Convent School is  an English medium girls school located at Idgah Hills Bhopal, India. Affiliated to the CBSE, the school was founded in 1956 by the Indian Province of the Sisters of St Joseph of Chambery, an order founded at Chambéry, France in 1812, it is administered by the Sisters of St Joseph's Convent, Idgah Hills,
Ranked as the best school in Bhopal for the 2nd consecutive time. Bhopal.

Overview
The school is an English Medium Senior Secondary School for girls, affiliated to Central Board of Secondary Education. The school conducts classes from Kindergarten to Senior Secondary level. The school is dedicated to St Joseph, and aims at forming a noble character through the practice of virtues.

The school has separate buildings for the kindergarten, primary and the higher secondary section. The campus is huge with lush, green trees and gardens. The school has an auditorium and an assembly hall. Sports facilities include a variety of games like Basketball, Volleyball, Kho-Kho, Badminton etc. And has two basketball courts, one Volleyball court, a Kho-Kho field and a big athletics track.

In addition to the Computer labs, the school also has labs for Physics, Chemistry, Biology, English and Mathematics.

The schools regularly organizes Annual Functions, Sports Meets and various other fests. The students of the school are known as the "Josephites".

Chronology of School History
1956 - Founded by Rev Mother Ignatius Steiret
1957 - Permanent Recognition from M.P. Board for Classes 1st to VIIIth.
1960 - Further recognition from M.P. board up to class XIIth and 1st batch of students appeared for 10th board exams(all in merit positions)
1961 - Introduction of NCC and House system
1962 - 1st Annual sports meet
1965 - National accolades to N.C.C. cadet- Miss Jaya Bhaduri as the Best Cadet at All India Level
1973 - Closure of admission for boys in school
1981 - Inauguration of Women Empowerment cell-PREM SEVA KENDRA
1987 - Composite switch over from M.P. Board to C.B.S.E. affiliation
2003 - 1st Missionary school of M.P. to obtain ISO 9000:2001 Certification
2006 - Flagged off Golden Jubilee Celebration on 9 July
2016 - Celebrated Diamond Jubilee
2016 - Students win medals in Colombo

School Anthem
                School life is long
                The end seems so far
                But ambitions are hitched to the star
                As we train and we learn
                We shall ever remember
                Virtue alone ennobles

Chorus:-
         Work and prayer are chosen way of life
         Hope and peace to gladden every day
         Confidence and courage in every form of strife
         Faith and love to conquer all the way

              School life is a rock
              On which we shall build
              With a spirit of God to filled
              As we grow in our minds
              May this truth be instilled
              Virtue alone ennobles

Notable alumni
 Jaya Bachchan

References

Sources

External links
 St Joseph's Convent School, Bhopal at wikimapia
Official website of the school

Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Joseph
Catholic secondary schools in India
Private schools in Madhya Pradesh
Girls' schools in Madhya Pradesh
Christian schools in Madhya Pradesh
Schools in Bhopal
Educational institutions established in 1956
1956 establishments in Madhya Pradesh


The Sergeant is a series of nine pulp-novels written by Len Levinson under the pseudonym Gordon Davis. Len Levinson has over 60 novels to his credit, including two Western novels, Apache Dawn (1989) and Gold Town (1989), under the name of "Clay Dawson".

"The Sergeant" is Clarence Joseph "CJ" Mahoney, a fictional character created by the author. The series details his adventures and exploits as a U.S. GI, and former US Army Ranger, fighting in France during World War II.

The Series
The series consist of 9 books over a 3-year period beginning in 1980. Mahoney, we learn, has often been promoted and busted in his long career. During the period of the Novels, May 1944 to December 1944, Mahoney is a Master Sergeant, that serves in special missions with the Rangers, and as a Company Sergeant, Platoon Leader, and Squad Leader in the "Hammerhead" Division. Mahoney, with his always present side-kick, Corporal Edward Cranepool, become involved in several of the key battles for the liberation of France, and invasion of Germany. Mahoney, as a US Army Ranger aides the French Resistance before, during, and immediately after the June 6, 1944 D-Day invasions of France. Later, tired of always finding himself involved in "suicide" missions, Mahoney and Cranepool transfer to the "Hamerhead" Division in General George S Patton's 3rd Army. With the Hammerheads, Mahoney participates in the battles of the hedgerows after the Normandy invasions, the liberation of Paris, the crossing of the Moselle and battle for Metz, and the defense of Bastogne.

In the first book in the series, Death Train, which takes place in the summer of 1944, Mahoney is a US Army Ranger working behind German lines with the French Resistance, "maquis", to disrupt a rail-road line that will be essential to German troop and supply movement after the D-Day invasion on Omaha Beach. The book establishes Mahoney as a tough, career Army, individual, and an experienced combat veteran that had seen action since the initial US amphibious landings in 1942 at Morocco.

The series ends with Book 9, Hammerhead, circa late December 1944. Mahoney, disgusted by all the death he has seen, and killing he has done, is praying in a small Catholic church. Facing the altar, with his back to the church, he is nearly killed, before two of his arch enemies end up shooting each other. After determining that one of the men has died and the other likely did as well, Mahoney returns to his prayer. We do not learn any more of Mahoney, or Cranepool, after this.

There was several more months of European battle left to fight after December 1944. It is not known why the author, or publisher, discontinued the series.

List of Characters from The Sergeant Novel Series

Main characters
 Clarence J. "CJ" Mahoney – The series' protagonist, veteran of combat in Africa, Sicily, Italy, and France. Fluent in several languages, including French and German, through a natural talent for learning by hearing, he was nicknamed "Perroquet" (parot) by the French Resistance. He was often promoted and busted in rank. During the course of the novels he is a Master Sergeant. Winner of the Distinguished Service Cross for actions at the Battle of Kasserine Pass, the Silver Star three times, and the Purple Heart (he was wounded multiple times in combat). Mahoney hailed from New York City, Manhattan, either from Yorkville (Death Train), or Hell's Kitchen (Doom River) both are cited as his "home-town" on several occasions. Mahoney trained at Fort Dix, NJ, and Fort Benning, GA. He believed he would be killed-in-action before the end of the war, and often sought ways to avoid the hottest combat. In this he was almost never successful, finding himself not only in the thick of battle, but as an essential leader for US victory. He also had an insatiable sexual appetite, and counted many women in his sexual conquest including a mother / daughter pair, and a movie star in France with the USO.
Edward Cranepool – A corporal in the US Army Rangers, and later Hammerhead infantry division, Cranepool is Mahoney's fiercely loyal side-kick. He aspires to be promoted and even attend Officer's Candidate School, believing that as an enlisted man he would make a popular officer with his men. He is much younger than Mahoney (whose age is never given), being about 20 years old during the time period covered by the novels. He has fought side by side with Mahoney at least since the Italian campaign, and treats Mahoney like a father figure. Cranepool enjoys combat, and killing, and is always next to Mahoney is the thickest part of the battle; however he is very rarely hurt or wounded. He starts out as a rather innocent Iowa farm boy, inexperienced sexually, and without the vices of gambling and drinking (which Mahoney partakes of often). As the series progresses, so does Cranpool's worldly knowledge. Mahoney begins to believe that Cranepool's innocence kept him safe, and that as he engages more and more into sin he will be wounded and maybe killed.

The Rangers
The 23rd Rangers, to which Mahoney and Cranepool belonged in the first two novels.

"Bulldog" Boyton – Mahoney and Cranpool's C.O. in the 23rd Rangers. KIA - June, 1944.

The Hammerheads
The 33rd Infantry Division of the Third Army. Known as the "Hammerheads" for their tough fighting style, they were one of Patton's favorites. The Hammerhead's landed on Utah Beach, D-Day plus 1 (Bloody Bush). The Hammerheads were often fight in the heaviest combat zones of the front, and often took substantial casualties. Mahoney and Cranepool joined the Hammerheads in Book 3, believing an infantry division would be safer than the combat they had seen as Rangers.

Captain Anderson – Commanding Officer, Charlie Company, 15th Regiment, Hammerhead Division, Third Army. Promoted from Lieutenant to Captain during the battle of the hedgerows (Bloody Bush), with a little help from Mahoney. He was a recent West Point graduate just before the D-Day invasion and unfamiliar with actual combat. KIA - December, 1944

The Maquis and other Resistance Fighters
Captain Montegnac – Thirty-five-year-old (in 1944) with a black Charles de Gaulle mustache. Member of the Free French Army, and French resistance fighter.

The Germans

Colonel Richter – First seen as a Major in the Gestapo, in Death Train, Richter was ultimately promoted to Colonel in charge of an SS combat division. He encounters Mahoney on 3 occasions throughout the series. In their first meeting Mahoney badly beats Richter up, breaking his nose and cheek bones, disfiguring his once handsome face. After that meeting, Richter recognizes Mahoney, who never seems to recognize Richter, and makes several attempts to kill him out of revenge. However, on each occasion Mahoney further beats up Richter, until Richter is presumably killed by GI Lt. Woodward in a small church. Woodward himself had been about to kill Mahoney, for humiliating him in combat for his lack of prowess, when he saw an SS Officer (Richter) moving in his peripheral vision and shot him instinctively (Woodward also died from a gunshot inflicted by Richter, Hammerhead). Richter had crawled away to an underground passage under the monastery where the battle occurred, but it was felt that he probably didn't survive.

Non-Combatants
Laura Hubbard – Film actress under contract with MGM studios. Sam Goldwyn once gave her a gift of a gold cigarette lighter for signing with them. Traveled through France entertaining GIs at USO shows with Bob Hope. 26 years old in 1944, she earned half a million dollars a year. She was extremely beautiful and popular. She once had a one night stand with Mahoney (who had stolen into her room for sex on a bet), about which she made him swear he would never reveal, under any circumstances (a promise he kept even to the detriment of his own reputation) (Doom River).

Historical
General George S. Patton Jr. – Mahoney met General Patton on several occasions. Patton's impression was always positive, believing Mahoney to be an iconic example of the tough, resourceful American Fighting Soldier.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery
General Anthony McAuliffe

The Books
(all by Gordon Davis)
The novels were all published Kensington Publishing, Corp., in the United States. The first three were printed by the Zebra Books division. They used a uniform cover design featuring a large color, portrait drawing of a US GI (Mahoney), and a small combat action scene in the lower right. Starting with the fourth book in the series, the novels were printed by the Bantam Books division, and the title graphics changed, though the artwork remained relatively unchanged.

Death Train 1980, Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing, Corp.
Hell Harbor: The Battle for Cherbourg 1980, Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing, Corp.
Bloody Bush 1980, Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing, Corp.
The Liberation of Paris 1981, Bantam Books, Kensington Publishing, Corp.
Doom River 1981, Bantam Books, Kensington Publishing, Corp.
Slaughter City 1981, Bantam Books, Kensington Publishing, Corp.
Bullet Bridge 1981, Bantam Books, Kensington Publishing, Corp.
Bloody Bastogne 1981, Bantam Books, Kensington Publishing, Corp.
Hammerhead 1982, Bantam Books, Kensington Publishing, Corp.

Notes

External links
 - Follow the action-crammed exploits of Sgt. CJ Mahoney, the big, brawling career GI as he battles the Nazis from D-Day to the Battle of the Bulge. Site has all book cover graphics.
  - The Sergeant Series at Alibris Books
 The Sergeant Series on Amazon.com

Fictional soldiers
Pulp fiction
Novels first published in serial form
Works published under a pseudonym


SC Preußen Breslau was a German association football club from the city of Breslau, Lower Silesia (today Wroclaw, Poland). The club was briefly part of the top flight regional Südostdeutscher Fußball-Verband (SOFV, en:Southeast German Football Association) in the early 1900s.

Established 15 December 1902 the team made its only appearance in the playoffs at the end of the 1912–13 season. They beat Britannia Posen 1:0 in qualifying play before facing Askania Forst in a semifinal contest. They lost the match 1:2 and then protested the result. The match was replayed, but Forst again came away as 2:1 winners.

After World War I Preußen disappeared as a separate side when they joined Verein Breslauer Sportfreunde (previously SC 1904 Breslau) to form Vereinigte Breslauer Sportfreunde. The combined club continued to play until 1933 until they merged again.

Camillo Ugi represented Preußen on the Germany national team, earning a single cap before leaving in 1909 for VfB Leipzig where he would earn another 14 caps.

References

Defunct football clubs in Germany
Association football clubs established in 1902
Defunct football clubs in former German territories
Football clubs in Wrocław
History of Wrocław
1902 establishments in Germany


Shane Fell (born 29 September 1967) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Sydney in the Australian Football League (AFL).

A forward, Fell played his early football at Kingsville Football Club now Yarraville Seddon and Footscray Under 19s then Glenorchy and was the TFL Statewide League's leading goal-kicker in 1989 with 114 goals before opting to ply his trade on the mainland.

Fell was initially recruited to Geelong but they offloaded him to Sydney in the 1989 VFL draft. He was one of four Sydney player to make their debut in the opening round of the 1990 AFL season, one of which was future Brownlow winner Paul Kelly. The forward kicked five goals to equal the club record of most goals by a player in their first game with the club. He finished the year with 30 goals, his tally including a six-goal haul against Geelong at the SCG.

Daughter = Scarlett Fell

References

Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.

1967 births
Living people
Australian rules footballers from Tasmania
Sydney Swans players
Glenorchy Football Club players
Tasmanian State of Origin players


Mission Cobra (also known as Sidewinder in Australia and Asia) is a 1989 action arcade game developed by Joy Van and published in Australia by HES Interactive and in Brazil by Milmar. It was later published in the U.S. by Bunch Games.

Plot
As commander of a fast and powerful helicopter, the player must fight through waves of enemy aircraft and destroy their commander.

Gameplay
The game can be played by a single player, or by two players co-operatively. The player's life consists of an "Exx" counter. The player begins with 66 and this is not only health but also fuel. This will be drained constantly when flying and a large amount will be lost if hit by enemy fire. When an enemy vehicle is destroyed they leave power-ups and some refill the "Exx" counter. If the "Exx" counter reaches zero by flying the player will still be able to fly but will die instantly if hit by enemy fire.

Stages
There are three levels in the game and they all end with a boss fight. If all levels are beat the game loops and stage one will act as stage four and so on. There is no ending apart from the game over screen.

References

1989 video games
Helicopter video games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Unauthorized video games
Bunch Games games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games developed in Taiwan


Drive to the City is a single from British band Go:Audio. It is the third single taken from their debut album Made Up Stories. The official music video was released by Go:Audio onto their official YouTube channel on 18 March 2009. The single was released on 20 April 2009. It failed to make the UK top 40, peaking at #90 on the chart.

Track listing

CD single
 Drive To The City
 Why (Piano Version)

CD Single Special Edition
 Drive To The City
 Brake! Brake! (Live)
 All Because Of You (Demo)

iTunes Version
 Drive To The City
 Drive To The City (Dance Mix)

References

2009 singles
2009 songs


Harry Davies may refer to:

Harry Davies (footballer, born in Chorley) (fl. 1922–1923), English footballer for Chorley, Port Vale and Bacup Borough
Harry Davies (footballer, born 1876) (1876–?), English footballer for Doncaster Rovers, Gainsborough Trinity, Hull City and Wolverhampton Wanderers
Harry Davies (footballer, born 1888) (1888–1958), English footballer for Stoke
Harry Davies (footballer, born 1904) (1904–1975), English footballer for Huddersfield Town, Port Vale and Stoke City
Harry Davies (rugby union, born 1899), Welsh international rugby player
Harry Davies (rugby union, born 1994), Welsh rugby union player
Harry Davies (politician) (1878–1957), Southern Rhodesian politician
Donny Davies (Harry Donald Davies, 1892–1958), English cricketer, amateur footballer and journalist
Harry Davies (socialist) (1888–1927), Welsh socialist politician and trade unionist
Harry Elinder Davies (1915–2005), Rhodesian and Zimbabwean lawyer and judge

See also
Harry Parr-Davies (1914–1955), Welsh composer and songwriter
Harry Davis (disambiguation)
Harold Davies (disambiguation)
Henry Davies (disambiguation)
Harrison Davies, a character in Tru Calling


is the fourth studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter Yosui Inoue, released in October 1974.

All tracks which appeared on the album were recorded at the studios in Los Angeles, owing to a record producer Hidenori Taga's suggestion. Except an arranger Katz Hoshi and a guitarist Hiromi Yasuda, recording for the album were completed by the Western session musicians. In addition to Hoshi who had participated in Inoue's previous albums, Gene Page joined the arrangement for some songs. The title track was arranged by Jack Nitzsche, who appointed all personnel and controlled the recording of the song rigidly.

Highly recommended by the recording artist himself, the song "Yūdachi" was released as a single prior to the album. It features an arrangement reminiscent of "Sympathy for the Devil" by The Rolling Stones. Because of the contribution for the song, an arranger Katz Hoshi won the 16th Japan Record Awards for "Best Arrangement" category.

Like a predecessor, Nishoku no Koma also reached the top on the Japanese Oricon Weekly LP charts, and remained there for ten consecutive weeks.

Track listing
All songs written and composed by Yōsui Inoue

Side one
All songs arranged by Katz Hoshi (except "Gomen", "Tsuki ga Warau" arranged by Gene Page, "Nishoku no Koma" arranged by Jack Nitzsche)
" (Introduction)" - 1:09
"" - 2:35
"" - 1:11
"Happy Birthday" - 3:56
"" - 3:05
"" - 2:59
"" - 3:43
"" - 5:18

Side two
All songs arranged by Katz Hoshi (except "London Kyūkou" and "Taiyou no Machi" arranged by Gene Page)
"" - 3:31
"" - 2:54
"" - 3:38
"" - 4:29
"" - 4:14
"" - 3:03

Personnel
Yosui Inoue - Vocals, guitar
Ray Parker Jr. - Guitar
David T. Walker - Guitar
Louie Shelton - Guitar
Jesse Ed Davis - Guitar
Hiromi Yasuda - Guitar
Dennis Budimir - Guitar
Orville Red Rhodes - Steel guitar
Edward Green - Drums
Harvey Mason - Drums
Wilton Felder - Bass guitar
Max Bennett - Bass guitar
Scott Edwards - Bass guitar
Reine Press - Bass guitar
Larry Muhoberac - Keyboards
Joe Sample - Keyboards
Clarence McDonald - Keyboards
Peter Robinson - Keyboards
Jack Nitzsche - Keyboards
Joe Clayton - Percussion
Milt Holland - Percussion
Alan Estes - Percussion
Gary Coleman - Percussion

Production
Hidenori Taga - Produce
Yasuo Kawase -  Assistant
Katsuya Amuro -  Assistant
Yoshiyuki Okuda - Management
Henry Lewy - Engineer
Bruce Botnich - Engineer
Susumu Ohno - Engineer
Fuyuo Nakamura - Photography
Yosui Inoue - Photography
Fukuyo Inoue - Photography
Osamu Sakai - Layout design

Chart positions

Album

Singles

Awards

Release history

References

1974 albums
Yōsui Inoue albums


Paul Winter (1904–1969) was born in Moravia. He was a successful barrister in Czechoslovakia but fled in 1939 due to the Nazi takeover (he was a Jew), became a British soldier.

While performing research at libraries in London Winter worked menial jobs such as a porter and died in 1969 in London, in poverty, after having published around a hundred articles in scholarly journals concerning earliest Christianity. Winter's 1961 book On the Trial Of Jesus, received hundreds of reviews, because it detailed critical analysis of the evidence regarding the trial of Jesus, from the standpoint of the legal practices which were applied during the 1st century, analyzed according to Jewish Law, and separately according to Roman Law.

Winter's general conclusion was that Jesus was tried, and ultimately convicted and crucified, solely for his having violated Roman Law, sedition, because he claimed to be the king of the Jews, despite Rome's having appointed the Herodian family to that post. Crucifixion was solely a Roman form of execution, for sedition and other serious violations of Roman Law. Jewish Law did not employ crucifixion, not even for crimes which were capital offenses under Jewish Law.

References

Bibliography
 Paul Winter, On the Trial of Jesus. Berlin: Walter de Gruyer, 1961 (second revised edition edited by T.A. Burkill and Geza Vermes, Berlin: Walter de Gruyer, 1974).

Historians of Jews and Judaism
British historians of religion
1904 births
1969 deaths
Czechoslovak emigrants to the United Kingdom


Eszter Hollosi is a Budapest, Hungary-born, Vienna, Austria-reared stage and film actress, and director.

She trained with the Royal Shakespeare Company (UK), the Theatre of the Oppressed (Brazil), the Gardzienitze (Poland), the Teatr Piesn Kozla (Poland) and El Instituto del Teatro (Barcelona, Spain). She earned her degree in European Theatre Arts from London's Rose Bruford College.

She made her Austrian stage debut in My Children! My Africa!. She appeared in the Italian short film, Goddess, and the Austrian feature film, Oh Fortuna.

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Hungarian film actresses
Hungarian stage actresses
Hungarian emigrants to Austria
Austrian film actresses
Austrian stage actresses
Actresses from Budapest
Actresses from Vienna
Hungarian theatre directors
Austrian theatre directors
Hungarian women theatre directors
Austrian women theatre directors


Cockermouth School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in Cockermouth in the English county of Cumbria.

Previously a community school administered by Cumbria County Council, Cockermouth School converted to academy status in September 2015. However the school continues to coordinate with Cumberland Council for admissions.

History
In 1984, Derwent School and Cockermouth Grammar School merged to become Cockermouth School, a comprehensive school operating on two sites. In 1991, the former Derwent School site was expanded to accommodate all students. In 2023 the School was found to have potentially unsound reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete in the library and the school sports hall.

Programmes of Study
Cockermouth School offers GCSEs and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils, while students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of A-levels and further BTECs.

We Will initiative
The school is co-operating and following the advice given by the students in the 'We Will' initiative. These were youngsters who were failed by the local CAMHS services, who gathered together in 2018, researched the issues and started lobbying to have them addressed.

Notable former pupils
 Luke Greenbank, swimmer
 Ven Catherine Pickford, Archdeacon of Northolt
 Ben Stokes, cricketer, all-rounder for Durham and England – Test Captain
 James Trafford, professional footballer

Cockermouth Grammar School
 Christine Alderson, film producer
 Sir David Carter (surgeon), Chief Medical Officer for Scotland from 1996–2000
 Neil Mercer, Professor of Education at the University of Cambridge
 Judith Stamper, television presenter from 1985–95 of Look North

References

External links
Cockermouth School official website
We Will official website

Secondary schools in Cumberland (unitary authority)
Academies in Cumberland (unitary authority)
Cockermouth


Hasan Anami Olya (;  / , ; born 15 March 1967) is an Iranian opera singer. Since 1997, he has been a soloist of the Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre in Baku, Azerbaijan. He has performed many concerts both in Azerbaijan and abroad, including Russia, Georgia, Turkey, Bolivia, Ukraine, France,  Japan, Germany, and Dubai.

Biography
Hasan Anami Olya was born in Tabriz, Iran on 15 March 1967, to a fairly well-off family. In 1972 he entered the primary school. From 1977 to 1981 he attended guidance school, and from 1981 to 1985 he studied in Vahdat Industrial High School. Then he joined the army service and completed it in 1988.

Since his childhood he had felt an attraction to music, but had no opportunity to get professional musical education, because following the Iranian Revolution no musical occupation was allowed in Iran. At age 14, he started to learn Azerbaijani music through cassette recordings. Gradually he felt he has ability to sing, and started, on his own, to learn and perform Azerbaijani songs. Some of his friends managed to create a small musical group which performed in the houses of Azerbaijani music lovers. In 1988 the government permitted the opening of private musical schools. He attended one of these schools, where he studied theory of music and solfeggio.

In 1990 he attended a concert of three tenors, and decided to sing opera as well. He went to Baku for musical education there. He spent a relatively long time managing accommodation and finding a proper school to attend. After two years he was able to join a preparatory branch of the Baku Musical Academy, vocal class. After he passed the examinations, the rector of the Academy, Mr. Bedelbeyli, allowed him to study free of charge. Then he completed his undergraduate and graduate levels of music school and now lectures at the Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre. He has been awarded the position of "People's Artist" in the Republic of Azerbaijan, which is the highest honor given to artists in that country. He has been introduced in "Azerbaijan Temporary Music Ontology" as one of the most outstanding opera singers in Azerbaijan Republic.

He is married to Narmina Afandiyeva, who is a well-known pianist in Azerbaijan. They have a son and a daughter.

Opera repertoire
 Giuseppe Verdi, Duke of Mantua, (Rigoletto)
 Giuseppe Verdi, Alfredo, (La traviata)
 Giuseppe Verdi, Radames, (Aida)
 Giuseppe Verdi, Manrico, (Il trovatore)
 Giuseppe Verdi, Riccardo (Un ballo in maschera)
 Giacomo Puccini Cavaradossi (Tosca)
 Giacomo Puccini, Pinkerton (Madam Butterfly)
 Giacomo Puccini, Rudolfo (La bohème)
 Georges Bizet, Don Jose (Carmen)
 Ruggero Leoncavallo, Canio (Pagliacci)

Awards
1997, awarded the First Prize in the Republic Vocalists' competition, Baku, Azerbaijan Republic.
1997, awarded the title of "Best Tenor" and the Second Prize in The 1st  Byul-Byul International Vocalists' Competition, Baku, Azerbaijan Republic.
1998, awarded Perspectivity Prize at Tchaikovski International Competition, Moscow, Russia.
2002, awarded the title of "Merited Artist of the Azerbaijan Republic".
2002, awarded an Azerbaijan Republic President's scholarship,

Sources
 Azerbaijan International magazine
 Azerbaijan Republic, Official site of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism
  Azerbaijan State Museum of Musical Culture
 Azerbaijani Music
 Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater
 Bakililar (Baku inhabitants)

1967 births
Living people
Iranian opera singers
Operatic tenors
Musicians from Tabriz
21st-century Azerbaijani male opera singers


Doc Stewart may refer to:

Charles Stewart (ice hockey) (1895–1973), Canadian ice hockey player
E. J. Stewart (1877–1929), American football, basketball, and baseball player


The 1947–48 Serie C was the tenth edition of Serie C, the third highest league in the Italian football league system.

As the previous edition, it was divided into three independent leagues: the Northern, the Central and the Southern League. In order to reduce the number of teams in Serie B and Serie C, there were no promotions and most of the teams were relegated to the newly created Promozione, while the worst teams of every group would be relegated to Prima Divisione. Promozione would be organized by the three interregional leagues again, while the new Serie C will become the third division of the Football League.

Legend

Northern Italy
The Central League was a championship with 144 clubs. All group winners would be promoted to the new Third Series of the Football League, while the last five clubs of each group would be relegated into the regional leagues.

In summer 1948 the FIGC decided that all the runners-up and some historically strongest followers would be admitted into the Football League, while only the last three clubs of each group would be relegated into the regional leagues.

Girone A

Girone B

Girone C

Girone D

Girone E

Girone F

Girone G

Girone H

Girone I

Central Italy
The Central League was a championship with 96 clubs. All group winners and best runners-up would be promoted to the new Third Series of the Football League, while the last five clubs of each group would be relegated into the regional leagues.

In summer 1948 the FIGC decided that all the runners-up and some historically strongest followers would be admitted into the Football League, while best clubs relegated into the regional leagues could pay a re-admittance into the Central League.

Girone A

Girone B

Girone C

Girone D

Girone E

Girone F

Southern Italy
The Southern League was a championship with 48 clubs. All group winners and best runners-up would be promoted to the new Third Series of the Football League, while the last five clubs of each group would be relegated into the regional leagues.

In summer 1948 the FIGC decided that all the runners-up and all third placed clubs and some historically strongest followers would be admitted into the Football League, while all clubs relegated into the regional leagues could pay a re-admittance into the Southern League.

Girone A

Girone B

Girone C

Serie C seasons
3
Italy


Benjamin Elazari Volcani (Hebrew: בנימין אלעזרי-וולקני, born 4 January 1915, died 1 February 1999) was an Israeli microbiologist who discovered life in the Dead Sea and pioneered biological silicon research at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego.

Biography
Volcani was born January 4, 1915, in Ben Shemen, in what was then the Ottoman Empire the son of Yitzhak Elazari Volcani (1880–1955) and Sarah Krieger. He had two sisters, Ruth and Zafrira. His father, as a young Zionist in Lithuania, had studied agricultural economics, and agronomy before immigrating to Palestine in 1908, where he became a world leader in these fields. Yitzhak Elazari Volcani is considered the founder of modern agriculture in Israel. The Volcani Institute of Agricultural Research is named for his father, as is Beit Elazari, a moshav in central Israel.

As a teenager Benjamin Volcani wanted to become an actor, but as an undergraduate became interested in biology. He received his Master of Science degree in microbiology from Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1936. That same year, he found that the Dead Sea, so called because it was thought to be too salty to sustain life, in fact supports several types of microorganisms now classified as halophilic archaea. Both his M.Sc. degree (1936) and Ph.D. (1940) were from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. His Ph.D. thesis was the first ever written in Hebrew (“Studies of the Microflora of the Dead Sea”).

His discovery of microorganisms in the Dead Sea was the focal point of his work from 1936 to 1945 and was the theme of his doctoral thesis. From 1939 to 1958 Volcani served on the staff of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, and in 1948 he was appointed head of the Institute's Section of Microbiology. During the 1940s, he also spent time in the United States as a research fellow at the University of California, Berkeley; Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University; the California Institute of Technology; and the University of Wisconsin.

In March 1948, Volcani married Eleanor Susan Brownell Anthony "Toni" Solomons Jackson, the daughter of Theodore Solomons, in New York City. After their marriage, the couple settled in Israel. Volcani smuggled in a small field-radar unit in his baggage. His wife remembers walking to the market in Rehovot, about one mile (1.6 km) from their house, and diving into foxholes along the road when pairs of small two-seater Arab planes came over on bombing runs. They came in low, each dropping its  bomb as it flew off. The first bomb of the war fell on the street in front of the Volcani’s house. Volcani and his wife had one child, Yanon Volcani, born in Israel in January 1949. Yanon is a clinical psychologist practicing in San Diego, California.

Volcani died on February 6, 1999, in La Jolla, California.

Scientific career
In 1939, Volcani became a member of the Sieff Institute in Rehovot, later renamed the Weizmann Institute of Science. He headed its laboratory of microbiology until 1959, when he joined the faculty at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He decided to focus on diatoms, one of the very few organisms that use silicon rather than calcium for their skeletal structures. Silicon is one of the most abundant elements on earth, and in 1959 no one was working on its metabolism. The biology of silicon had been shunned by all biochemists, the dogma being that it was inert. Volcani realized that diatoms, whose life cycle is based on silicon, provided an ideal experimental canvas. From 1959 onward, his lab made multifaceted discoveries centered on biologically active silicon in marine diatoms. The lab became a focal point for the study of silicon metabolism and biomineralization at the molecular level, embracing experimental techniques, from elegant electron microscopy of diatom shells to gene cloning and the expression of silicon transporting proteins in frog eggs.

He invented ways to synchronize the cell division cycle of diatoms. He showed that silicon activates the gene coding for the polymerase enzyme that copies diatom DNA. He was also interested in the toxic and pathological effects of polysilicates, such as talc and asbestos, on mammalian cells in tissue culture, and was the first to do tissue culture at Scripps. He spent a one-year sabbatical at the University of Swansea studying the effects of polysilicates on mammalian cells, and published papers on the uptake of silicic acid by rat liver mitochondria.

His studies of silicon metabolism often involved growing diatoms of various species in different concentrations of silicon and then studying the effect on specific metabolic pathways. These experiments studied pigments, lipids, amino acids, cell wall synthesis, DNA synthesis, ribosomes, sodium-potassium membrane pumps, cell membrane characterization, glycolate metabolism, cyclic nucleotide metabolism, protein kinases, and a catalog of genes that were turned on by silicon. Several papers centered on the effects of silicon on photorespiration in diatoms.

He published over 100 papers related to silicon metabolism and co-edited Silicon and Siliceous Structures in Biological Systems (Springer, 1981). He received  continuing grants from the National Institutes of Health for 32 years. He trained many doctoral students and had a constant stream of postdoctoral associates and visitors passing through the lab until his retirement in 1985.

Notes

References

Bibliography
Dexter, Franklin Bowditch.Biographical sketches of the graduates of Yale college with annals of the college history ... Volume 3 of Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College with Annals of the College History  Publisher: Holt & Company, 1903.
Jordan, John W. Genealogical and personal history of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania. New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Company 1913.
Railsback, Brian E; Michael J. Meyer A John Steinbeck encyclopedia Publisher: Greenwood Publisher Group, 2006
Raymond, Marcius Denison. Gray genealogy : being a genealogical record and history of the descendants of John Gray, of Beverly, Mass., and also including sketches of other Gray families. New York: Higginson Book Company, 1887.
Raymond, Marcius D. Sketch of Rev. Blackleach Burritt and related Stratford families : a paper read before the Fairfield County Historical Society, at Bridgeport, Conn., Friday evening, Feb. 19, 1892. Bridgeport : Fairfield County Historical Society 1892.
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Volcani, Benjamin Elazari. Studies of the microflora of the Dead Sea: (Dissertation) Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1940.
Wineapple, Brenda.Sister Brother: Gertrude and Leo Stein   Publisher: Lincoln, Nebraska. University of Nebraska Press, 2008

External links
Volcani Center
 Aharon Oren & Antonio Ventosa: Benjamin Elazari Volcani (1915–1999): Sixty–three years of studies of the microbiology of the Dead Sea (PDF-Datei; 53 kB)

1915 births
1999 deaths
American microbiologists
Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni
Israeli microbiologists
Israeli expatriates in the United States
20th-century Israeli Jews
Jewish-American history
Jewish American scientists
Jewish American writers
Scientists from Jerusalem
Writers from San Diego
20th-century American Jews


Philip Braham (18 June 1881 – 2 May 1934) was an English composer of the early twentieth century, chiefly associated with theatrical work.  From 1914, he composed music for such musicals and revues as Theodore & Co (1916) and London Calling! (1923), including several revues produced by André Charlot.  His best-known song is "Limehouse Blues," which has been recorded by many artists.  He wrote for film in the 1930s.

Biography
Braham studied at Cambridge University. He began to compose music for the theatre in 1913 with Alice up to Date at the London Pavilion and became musical director of The Comedy Theatre in London. In World War I, Braham volunteered for medical work, being unfit for active service and worked as a casualty dresser at Charing Cross Hospital. He contributed additional music to musicals such as The Girl in the Train (1914), and Theodore & Co and See Saw, both in 1916.  He wrote the music for the hit revue Tails Up! (1918), together with his frequent collaborator Douglas Furber, which played at the Comedy Theatre in London for 467 performances.

The best-remembered show on which Braham worked was probably London Calling! (1923) on which he collaborated with Noël Coward.  In 1925, he collaborated with Coward in On with the Dance and with John Hastings Turner on Bubbly, starring Cyril Ritchard.  He wrote for several revues produced by André Charlot. His best-known song is the jazz standard "Limehouse Blues", which he co-wrote with Douglas Furber. It was introduced by Teddie Gerard in the 1921 West End revue A to Z, but it was soon closely associated with Gertrude Lawrence and was subsequently recorded by several artists and used in films.

In the early 1930s, Braham turned to film music, working as musical director at Wembley Studios and writing music for such films as Money for Speed (1933).  He was managing director of Philip Braham and Campbell and was on the board of directors of the London Pavilion. He was known in the theatrical world as "Pa" and was noted for his hospitality. He died suddenly in his office in London, aged 52.

Notes

External links

Braham discography at All Music Guide
Braham's Victor recordings

1881 births
1934 deaths
English musical theatre composers
English male composers
20th-century British male musicians


The Diocese of Karimnagar is  a diocese of Church of South India in Telangana state of India.The diocese is one among the 22 dioceses of Church of South India.

History of the Diocese
The Wesleyan Methodist Missionaries from England began working since 1879 in the Districts of Hyderabad, Medak, Nizamabad, Karimnagar and Nalgonda. As a result of their mission work churches were established along with Schools and Hospitals. After the formation of Church of
South India in the year 1947, Karimnagar and Nalgonda areas from Medak were annexed to the Dornakal Diocese. Diocese of Karimnagar was formed in the year 1978 by bifurcating Dornakal Diocese. The churches in the district of Karimnagar and Nalgonda were bifurcated from Dornakal Diocese along with Warangal District to form the new diocese.

Bishops

Before the formation of the Church of South India
 V. S. Azariah
 A. B. Eliott (1945-1955)

After the formation of the Church of South India before bifurcation
 A. B. Eliott (1945-1955)
 P. Solomon (1955-1978)

Post-bifurcation from the Diocese of Dornakal
 B. Prabhudass (1978-1982)
 G. Benjamin Devasahayam (1982-1987)
 K. E. Swamidass (1987-1992)
 S. John Theodore (1992-2007)
 P. Surya Prakash (2007-2014)
 K. Reuben Mark (2015-)

Notable Churches in the Diocese
Wesley Cathedral, Karimnagar
The CSI Wesley Cathedral church was built by the missionaries in the year 1978. Wesley Cathedral has been completely
renovated and rededicated in 2011. The cathedral celebrated its centenary in 2012.
CSI Wesley Church, Jagital
 CSI Church Panigiri

Institutions Under the Diocese
Bishop Prabhudass Memorial Evangelistic Training School, Jagtial
Bishop K.E.Swamidass Laity Training Institute, Karimnagar
C.S.I High School, Karimnagar
C.S.I High School, Alier
C.S.I Mission High School, Parkal
C.S.I Lant Memorial ITI, Karimnagar
C.S.I Primary School, Jagtial

Further reading

References

External links

Karimnagar
Christianity in Telangana
Karimnagar


Malaysian Politicians Say the Darndest Things is a series of Malaysian non-fiction books compiled by Amir Muhammad (director) and published by Matahari Books. Each books takes over 100 humorous, unusual or just interesting quotes from actual Malaysian politicians, complete with source citation, and is illustrated by a different artist.

Vol 1

Vol 1 () was published was launched on 16 September 2007 in Kuala Lumpur, in conjunction with the 44th anniversary of the formation of Malaysia. It was illustrated by Shahril Nizam.
The most-quoted politician in the book is Dr. Mahathir Mohamad.
The back-cover blurb reads: "The species called the Malaysian politicians often gets in the news, but sometimes not for the right reasons. Malaysian Politicians Say the Darndest Things is a collection of over 100 quotes that span almost three decades. There are things that make you go hmmm, things that make you go gaga, and things that given you a refreshingly pithy introduction to several issues of their time. It is a jaunty stroll through contemporary Malaysian culture, society and (of course) politics. We are sure there is more to come, which is why this is only Vol. 1."
It was the 9th best-selling local English book of 2007, according to the Popular bookstore chain.

Vol 2

Vol 2 ( ) was published in late 2008 but had its official launch on 14 February 2009, in conjunction with Valentine's Day. It was illustrated by Fahmi Reza, who like Amir is a documentary film maker. It sold 3,000 copies in the first three months alone.
The most-quoted politician in the book is Samy Vellu.
The back-cover blurb reads: "The Malaysian politician continues to be a gift that keeps on giving. Hot on the heels of the best-selling Vol.1 of Malaysian Politicians Say the Darndest Things, this compilation is further proof that we don't need to travel far to experience shock and awe. Join us for another dance through some of the top-tapping delights of the past two decades. Some of the quotes are witty and pithy, others are weird and prickly, and still others are just out-of-tune. If all History lessons were this painless, none of us would have ever skipped classes. "
Fahmi used a photo-montage method inspired by the anti-Nazi artist John Heartfield. Amir was a little worried that some of the artwork was too confrontational, and asked for three pages to be altered.

Vol 3

It has been announced that Vol 3 will be illustrated by Chin Yew and all the quotes will be from the 1960s.

Notes

Malaysian books
Matahari Books books
Malaysian non-fiction books
Works about Malaysian politicians
Political satire books


Double Murder () is a 1977 Italian giallo film directed by Steno.

Cast
 Marcello Mastroianni as Bruno Baldassarre
 Agostina Belli as Teresa Colasanti
 Ursula Andress as Princess Dell'Orso
 Peter Ustinov as Harry Hellman
 Jean-Claude Brialy as Van Nijlen
 Mario Scaccia as Marino Cianciarelli
 Gianfranco Barra as Cantalamessa
 Giuseppe Anatrelli as Carru
 Serge Frédéric as Melzio
 Jean-Patrick Junoy as Alex
 Luigi Zerbinati as The 'Debosciato', nephew of Prince Dell'Orso

References

External links

1977 films
Italian crime films
1970s Italian-language films
1977 crime films
Films directed by Stefano Vanzina
Films set in Rome
Films shot in Rome
Films scored by Riz Ortolani
Films with screenplays by Age & Scarpelli
1970s Italian films


The Carolina Challenge Cup is a four-team round robin pre-season competition hosted by the Charleston Battery. It was started in 2004 and features teams from Major League Soccer and the United Soccer Leagues. The 2009 Carolina Challenge Cup was won by Real Salt Lake.

Teams
Four clubs competed in the tournament:

Results
 2009-03-07   D.C. United  Real Salt Lake     0  3
 2009-03-07   Charleston   Toronto FC         1  2
 2009-03-11   D.C. United  Toronto FC         1  2
 2009-03-11   Charleston   Real Salt Lake     1  2
 2009-03-14   Toronto FC   Real Salt Lake     1  2
 2009-03-14   Charleston   D.C. United        0  2

Final standings

See also
Carolina Challenge Cup

External links
 DC United, Toronto FC & Real Salt Lake join Charleston Battery for 2009 Carolina Challenge Cup
 CCC 2009 Matchday 1
 CCC 2009 Matchday 2
 CCC 2009 Matchday 3

2009
2009 in Canadian soccer
Carolina
2009 in sports in South Carolina
March 2009 sports events in the United States


Gerhard Markson is a German conductor. His most recent post was Principal Conductor of the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, but his term ended in May 2009.

Biography
He studied at the Frankfurt Academy of Music. During the 1970s he participated regularly in Igor Markevitch's international conducting classes in Monte Carlo and studied with Franco Ferrara in Rome. Having worked as an opera and symphony conductor at the opera houses in Augsburg, Oldenburg and Freiburg, he became music director at Hagen Theatre from 1991 to 1998. During that time he was invited to such renowned opera houses as the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Hamburg State Opera and the Norwegian State Opera in Oslo. He has worked with over 100 orchestras worldwide, including the St. Cecilia Orchestra in Rome, RAI Turino, Monte Carlo Philharmonic, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Norwegian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Swiss Radio Symphony Orchestra in Basel and the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice. Markson has appeared at such festivals as the Berlin Festival Weeks, Colorado Music Festival, the Hong Kong Festival and the Seoul Festival.

RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra

In September 2001 Gerhard Markson took up the role of Principal Conductor of the Irish RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra. He has conducted many works including Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8, Carl Orff's Carmina Burana. As well as Mozart's, Ludwig van  Beethoven's and Strauss' most famous works. He has been conductor for many Naxos recordings. In May 2009 Markson's term as Principal Conductor ended. He is set though, to return as a guest conductor.

See also
 RTÉ Performing Groups

References

External links
 Official Site
 RTÉ Performing Groups profile

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
German male conductors (music)
RTÉ Performing Groups
21st-century German conductors (music)
21st-century German male musicians


Benjamin Mount, also known as Verse, Ben the Verse, The Verse and Pendulum Man, is an English rapper, MC, record producer and record label owner best known as the former MC in Australian/British drum and bass group Pendulum.

Biography

Pendulum

From 2006 and up until 2012 Ben was the MC for Pendulum's Live Tours, remained their MC at DJ set events until mid 2017. In 2010, he made his studio debut on the band's album Immersion as the vocals to the song "The Vulture".

Ben left the Pendulum Live shows to focus on creating his own songs and running his own label. As of late 2017 he has also ceased to appear on DJ sets.

Producer
Verse is also a known drum and bass and dubstep producer. He had several drum and bass releases on his own label Crunch Recordings alongside other artists such as SP:MC, dBridge and others.
He also has several releases on N-Type's dubstep-label Wheel&Deal.

References

External links

English male rappers
Living people
1977 births
Pendulum (drum and bass band) members
Rappers from London


Pece Korunovski (; born 5 October 1982) is a Macedonian retired football goalkeeper, who last played for FK Mladost Carev Dvor in Second Macedonian Football League.

References

1982 births
Living people
Footballers from Bitola
Men's association football goalkeepers
Macedonian men's footballers
FK Belasica players
FK Pelister players
FK Vardar players
FK Napredok players
KF Tirana players
FK 11 Oktomvri players
FK Mladost Carev Dvor players
Macedonian First Football League players
Macedonian Second Football League players
Macedonian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Albania
Macedonian expatriate sportspeople in Albania


The 1889 Govan by-election was a parliamentary by-election held on 18 January 1889 for the British House of Commons, constituency of Govan in Lanarkshire, Scotland.

The seat had become vacant when the Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) Sir William Pearce had died aged 55 on 18 December 1888. A major shipbuilder and owner of the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Pearce had held the seat since its creation for the 1885 general election.

Candidates
The Conservatives did not field a candidate, and the seat was contested only by the Liberal Party candidate, John Wilson, and by John Pender of the Liberal Unionists. Pender had previously been a Liberal MP for Totnes in Devon and then for Wick Burghs.

Results
The result was a victory for Wilson, who held the seat until he stepped down at the 1900 general election.  Pender returned to Parliament three years later, when he regained his Wick Burghs seat at the 1892 general election.

Votes

See also
 Govan constituency
 1973 Glasgow Govan by-election
 1988 Glasgow Govan by-election
 Lists of United Kingdom by-elections

References

1889 elections in the United Kingdom
Govan
1889 in Scotland
1880s elections in Scotland
By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Glasgow constituencies
1880s in Glasgow


Frank Beard may refer to:
 Frank Beard (golfer) (born 1939), American professional golfer
 Frank Beard (musician) (born 1949), American drummer for ZZ Top
 Frank Beard (bishop), American bishop in the United Methodist Church


Conocybe rickenii is a mushroom from the genus Conocybe. Its edibility is disputed, and it has the appearance of a typical little brown mushroom with a small, conical cap, and long, thin stem. In colour, it is generally a cream-brown, lighter on the stem, and it has a thin layer of flesh with no distinct smell or taste. It is a coprophilous fungus, feeding off dung and it is most common on very rich soil or growing directly from dung. It can be found in Europe, Australia and Pacific islands.

Taxonomy
Conocybe rickenii was first described in 1930 by German mycologist Julius Schäffer and named Galera rickenii. It was reclassified by Robert Kühner, who placed it in the genus Conocybe.

Description

Conocybe rickenii has a conical cap of  across, which is an ochre-brown, sometimes becoming a little more grey at the centre. The stem is typically  in height, by  in thickness, and is whitish cream, darkening to a dirty brown with age. The thin layer of flesh is grey-brown in the cap, while lighter in the stem. It has ochre-cream (later darkening to rusty-ochre) gills, which are adnate, leaving a brown spore print. The spores themselves are elliptic to oval, measuring between 10–20 µm by 6–12 µm. It has two-spored basidia, and a cellular cap cuticle.

It is generally a little larger than the slightly more common coprophilous C. pubescens, while it can be differentiated from other dung-loving Conocybe by its two-spored basidia, large spores and the fact it does not have lecythiform (flask-shaped) caulocystidia.

Edibility
British mycologist Roger Phillips lists the edibility as unknown, while David Pegler considers it inedible. The flesh has no distinct smell or taste.

Distribution and habitat

Conocybe rickenii grows on extremely rich soil, especially on dung and compost heaps. It can be found in very large numbers in gardens where horse manure has been used to enrich the soil. It can be found in Europe, Australia, and Pacific islands and the United States.

References

Bolbitiaceae
Fungi described in 1930
Fungi of Europe
Fungi of Oceania
Fungi of North America
Fungi without expected TNC conservation status


Nittany Mall is an enclosed regional shopping mall in State College, Pennsylvania.  It is located at the intersections of Route 150 and Route 26, one mile off the I-99 corridor.  It is uniquely situated within four miles of the Pennsylvania State University, allowing the mall to attract both area residents as well as college students.  Current anchor stores are Dunham's Sports, Gabe's and Rural King.

History
The Nittany Mall was developed by Crown American and officially opened in January 1968.  The mall originally had just two anchors, Grants and Penn Traffic, and approximately 30 smaller stores. Its first expansion in 1970 included the addition of a Sears store, which was relocated from downtown State College, and over a dozen other smaller stores.  The new Sears included 45 merchandise departments and a 10-bay automotive center.

After the closing of the Grants chain in 1976, Gee Bee took over the space. Penn Traffic, one of the mall's original anchors, was sold to developer and Hess's department store chain owner Crown American in 1982 who rebranded the stores as Hess's. The expansion and renovation of the Nittany Mall in 1989-1990 included the addition of a fourth anchor, JCPenney.  Also at this time, the Sears store was expanded and relocated to a new east section of the mall while the Sears automotive center was moved to a separate location in the mall and eventually moved again to a new standalone building on the property.

In 1992, Gee Bee was converted to Value City after that company acquired the Gee Bee stores chain.  Hess's continued to operate at the mall until 1994 when it was sold to Bon-Ton Stores.  Value City operated until 1997 when it was closed and razed to make room for a new Kaufmann's department store.  The May Department Stores Company, which owned Kaufmann's, was sold to Federated Department Stores in 2005. Federated proceeded to convert various May properties to Macy's, including the Nittany Mall store, in 2006.

The JCPenney store remained at the mall until 2015 when JCPenney announced plans to close 39 of its stores in the United States that year.  The JCPenney store was replaced by a Dunham's Sports, one of the nation's largest sporting goods chains, in 2016.  In November 2017, Sears announced it would be closing 63 more of its stores including the Nittany Mall location.  The Sears store closed in January 2018 but the automotive center remained open for three more years.  In April 2018, it was announced that the entire Bon-Ton stores chain would be closing as the company failed to find a suitable buyer.  The Sears and Bon-Ton closures left the mall with just two anchors (Dunham's Sports and Macy's) for the first time since 1970.

On January 6, 2020, it was announced that the Macy's store would be closing in March 2020.
In March 2021, Rural King department store opened in the former Sears space.  A few months later in June 2021, Gabe's department store opened in the former Bon-Ton location. Construction of a Bally's mini-casino, which had been expected to open at the former Macy's site in 2022, has been delayed due to ongoing petition hearings.

Gallery

See also
List of shopping malls in Pennsylvania

References

External links
 Official website

Shopping malls in Pennsylvania
Buildings and structures in Centre County, Pennsylvania
Tourist attractions in Centre County, Pennsylvania
Shopping malls established in 1968
Namdar Realty Group


Zahradnik or Zahradník is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

11408 Zahradník, main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 2059
Karel Zahradnik (1848–1916), Czech mathematician at the University of Zagreb
Miloš Zahradník (born 1951), Czech mathematician who works on statistical mechanics in Charles University in Prague
Rudolf Zahradník (1928–2020), Czech chemist
Stanisław Zahradnik (born 1932), Polish historian

See also
Záhradné ()
Zahradníček (cs)
Zahrádkář (cs)

Czech-language surnames


Babylonian astronomy collated earlier observations and divinations into sets of Babylonian star catalogues, during and after the Kassite rule over Babylonia. These star catalogues, written in cuneiform script, contained lists of constellations, individual stars, and planets. The constellations were probably collected from various other sources. The earliest catalogue, Three Stars Each, mentions stars of Akkad, of Amurru, of Elam and others.
Various sources have theorized a Sumerian origin for these Babylonian constellations, but an Elamite origin has also been proposed. A connection to the star symbology of Kassite kudurru border stones has also been claimed, but whether such kudurrus really represented constellations and astronomical information aside from the use of the symbols remains unclear.

Star catalogues after Three Stars Each include the MUL.APIN list named after the first Babylonian constellation , "the Plough", which is the current Triangulum constellation plus Gamma Andromedae. It lists, among others, 17 or 18 constellations in the zodiac. Later catalogues reduce the zodiacal set of constellations to 12, which were borrowed by the Egyptians and the Greeks, still surviving among the modern constellations.

Three Stars Each
The first formal compendia of star lists are the Three Stars Each texts appearing from about the twelfth century BC. They represent a tripartite division of the heavens: the northern hemisphere belonged to Enlil, the equator belonged to Anu, and the southern hemisphere belonged to Enki. The boundaries were at 17 degrees North and South, so that the Sun spent exactly three consecutive months in each third. The enumeration of stars in the Three Stars Each catalogues includes 36 stars, three for each month. The determiner glyph for "constellation" or "star" in these lists is MUL (), originally a pictograph of three stars, as it were a triplet of AN signs; e. g. the Pleiades are referred to as a "star cluster" or "star of stars" in the lists, written as MUL.MUL, or MULMUL ().

MUL.APIN

The second formal compendium of stars in Babylonian astronomy is the MUL.APIN, a pair of tablets named for their incipit, corresponding to the first constellation of the year,  "The Plough", identified with Triangulum plus Gamma Andromedae. The list is a direct descendant of the Three Stars Each list, reworked around 1000 BC on the basis of more accurate observations. They include more constellations, including most circumpolar ones, and more of the zodiacal ones.
The Babylonian star catalogues entered Greek astronomy in the 4th century BC, via Eudoxus of Cnidus and others.
A few of the constellation names in use in modern astronomy can be traced to Babylonian sources via Greek astronomy. Among the most ancient constellations are those that marked the four cardinal points of the year in the Middle Bronze Age, i.e.
Taurus "The Bull", from (𒀯𒄞𒀭𒈾) MULGU4.AN.NA "The Steer of Heaven", marking vernal equinox
Leo "The Lion", from (𒀯𒌨) MULUR.GU.LA "The Lion", marking summer solstice
Scorpius "The Scorpion", from (𒀯𒄈𒋰) MULGIR.TAB "The Scorpion", marking autumn equinox
Capricornus "Goat-Horned", from (𒀯𒋦𒈧𒄩) MULSUḪUR.MAŠ "The Goat-Fish", marking winter solstice. It is a mythological hybrid depicted on boundary stones from before 2000 BC as a symbol of Ea.

There are other constellation names which can be traced to Bronze Age origins, including Gemini "The Twins", from (𒀯𒈦𒋰𒁀𒃲𒃲) MULMAŠ.TAB.BA.GAL.GAL "The Great Twins", Cancer "The Crab", from (𒀯𒀠𒇻) MULAL.LUL "The Crayfish", among others.

The MUL.APIN gives
a catalogue of 71 stars and constellations of the "Three Ways" of the Three Stars Each tradition. The star names (prefixed with MUL 𒀯) are listed with the associated deity (prefix DINGIR 𒀭) and often some other brief epithet.
dates of heliacal risings
pairs of constellations which rise and set simultaneously
time-intervals between dates of heliacal risings
pairs of constellations which are simultaneously at the zenith and at the horizon
the path of the moon and planets.
a solar calendar
the planets and the durations of their solar conjunctions
stellar risings and planetary positions for predicting weather and for adjusting the calendar
telling time by length of the gnomon shadow
length of night watches during the year
omens connected with the appearance of stars, planets, MUL.U.RI.RI (comets?), and winds.

Zodiacal constellations
The path of the Moon as given in MUL.APIN consists of 17 or 18 stations, recognizable as the direct predecessors of the 12 sign zodiac. At the beginning of the list with MUL.MUL, the Pleiades, corresponds to the situation in the Early to Middle Bronze Age when the Sun at vernal equinox was close to the Pleiades in Taurus (closest in the 23rd century BCE), and not yet in Aries.

The "Tail" and the "Great Swallow" (items 15 and 16 above) have also been read as a single constellation the "Tail of the Swallow" (Pisces).  This is the source of the uncertainty over the number of constellations — 17 or 18 — in the Babylonian "zodiac".  All constellations of the Iron Age 12-sign zodiac are present among them, most of them with names that clearly identify them, while some reached Greek astronomy with altered names; thus "Furrow" became Virgo, "Pabilsag" Sagittarius, "Great One" Aquarius, "Swallow Tail" Pisces and "Farm Worker" was reinterpreted as Aries.

Virgo, and her main star Spica, have Babylonian precedents. The MUL.APIN associates Absin "The Furrow" with the Sumerian goddess Shala, and on boundary stones of the Kassite era Shala is conventionally depicted as holding a length of grain. Regarding Sagittarius, Pabilsag is a comparatively obscure Sumerian god, later identified with Ninurta. Another name for the constellation was Nebu "The Soldier".

Aquarius "The Water-Pourer" represents Ea (a water god), dubbed "The Great One" in the MUL.APIN. It contained the winter solstice in the Early Bronze Age. In Greek astronomy, he became represented as simply a single vase from which a stream poured down to Piscis Austrinus. The name in the Hindu zodiac is likewise kumbha "water-pitcher", showing that the zodiac reached India via Greek intermediaries.

The current definition of Pisces is the youngest of the zodiacal constellations. The "Swallow" of Babylonian astronomy included the western fish, but was larger as it included as well parts of Pegasus. The square of Pegasus was the constellation of the "field",  shown in the Dendera zodiac between the two fishes. The northern fish and part of Andromeda represented the goddess Anunitum, the "Lady of the Heaven". Late Babylonian sources mention also DU.NU.NU "The Fish-Cord". It is unclear how the "Farm Worker" of the MUL.APIN became Aries "The Ram" of Greek tradition, possibly by a pun or misunderstanding.

Somewhere around the 5th century BCE, Babylonian astronomical texts began to describe the positions of the Sun, Moon, and planets in terms of 12 equally-spaced signs, each one associated with a zodiacal constellation, each divided into 30 degrees (uš). This normalized zodiac is fixed to the stars and totals 360 degrees.

See also
 Babylonian astrology
 Babylonian calendar
 Constellation
 Enuma Anu Enlil
 Triple deity
 Venus tablet of Ammisaduqa

Notes

References
John H. Rogers, "Origins of the ancient constellations: I. The Mesopotamian traditions", Journal of the British Astronomical Association 108 (1998) 9–28
 Verderame, Lorenzo, "The Primeval Zodiac: Its Social, Religious, and Mythological Background", in J.A. Rubiño-Martín et al., Cosmology Across Cultures, ASP Conference Series 409, San Francisco, 2009, 151-156.

Babylonian astronomy
Former constellations


Brian Rawlinson (12 November 1931 – 23 November 2000) was an English actor and writer for films and TV from the 1950s.

Rawlinson was born in Stockport, Cheshire. He appeared in several films (including several in the Carry On series) but was more frequently on television, a regular role being Robert Onedin in the BBC TV serial The Onedin Line. He also played character roles in many other TV programmes such as Coronation Street, The Baron, Z-Cars, Market in Honey Lane, The Bill, Heartbeat, Danger Man, Goodnight Sweetheart and Last of the Summer Wine, in which he played Cyril Gridley, which was his final appearance. He was also in the series The Buccaneers, playing Gaff Guernsey.

As a writer, Rawlinson wrote several plays, but was most involved in the mid-1970s BBC serial Churchill's People, an adaptation based on Winston Churchill's book A History of the English-Speaking Peoples. He was later interviewed about his association with the series on TV Hell, a theme night that BBC Two ran in 1992 on bad television programmes.

He died in Lyme Regis, Dorset on 23 November 2000 aged 69.

Filmography

References

External links

1931 births
2000 deaths
English male film actors
English male television actors
Male actors from Stockport
20th-century English male actors


Petr Kolář (born 27 September 1962) is a Czech politician.   He served as ambassador to Russia from 2010 through 2012. He is currently a senior advisor to the law firm of Squire Patton Boggs in Prague.

Early life
Kolář graduated from Charles University in Prague in 1986 with majors in  information technology, library science and ethnography. His interests are international politics, sport, literature, history, fine arts. Kolář is married and has two children.

Diplomatic career
Kolář has held numerous positions at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 1996 to 1998, he served as Czech Ambassador to Sweden. In 1999, Kolář became Ambassador to Ireland. He left the office in 2003. From 1 September 2003 to 12 October 2005, he was Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister for Bilateral Relations. Until the end of June 2010 he was the Ambassador of the Czech Republic to the United States.

References

1962 births
Charles University alumni
Politicians from České Budějovice
Living people
Ambassadors of the Czech Republic to Russia
Ambassadors of the Czech Republic to the United States
People associated with Squire Patton Boggs