The 1974 Australian Indoor Championships was a men's professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney, Australia. It was part of the 1974 Commercial Union Assurance Grand Prix circuit as a Group A category event. It was the second edition of the tournament and was held from 13 October through 20 October 1974. First-seeded John Newcombe won the singles title.

Finals

Singles

 John Newcombe defeated  Cliff Richey 6–4, 6–3, 6–4
 It was Newcombe's 12th title of the year and the 60th of his career.

Doubles

 Ross Case /  Geoff Masters defeated  John Newcombe /  Tony Roche 6–4, 6–4
 It was Case's 5th title of the year and the 8th of his career. It was Masters' 3rd title of the year and the 5th of his career.

References

External links
 ITF – tournament edition details

Australian Indoor Championships
Australian Indoor Tennis Championships
Indoor
Australian Indoor Championships


Vladimir Rolović (21 May 1916 – 15 April 1971) was a Yugoslav politician, diplomat, and a former high officer of the State Security Administration (UDBA). Holder of the "Commemorative Medal of the Partisans of 1941" and as a former commander of the infamous Goli Otok prison, he was assassinated in 1971 while serving as the Yugoslav ambassador to Sweden by Anđelko Brajković and Miro Barešić, members of the Croatian National Resistance neo-Ustaša terrorist organization.

Biography
Rolović was born on 21 May 1916 in the village of Brčeli within Crmnica region near Bar. Born during World War I in a poor family, he spent his childhood in his home village, where he attended elementary school. Despite difficult conditions, he continued his education in Bar, Peć and Cetinje, and enrolled in the University of Belgrade's Faculty of Law.

In 1935, the 19-year-old became a member of SKOJ, the youth wing of the then-banned Yugoslav Communist Party (KPJ). Only several months later, in early 1936, he became a full-fledged member of the KPJ. Due to his involvement with the organization, he was arrested twice by the authorities of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia – first in 1935 in Cetinje and later in 1938 in Belgrade. Rolović continued his climb up the party ladder and in 1940, he was elected a member of the Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in Montenegro.

After the invasion and subsequent occupation of Kingdom of Yugoslavia by Nazi Germany and its allies in April 1941, Rolović was actively involved in preparations for an armed uprising in Montenegro. In December 1941, he participated in the attack on Pljevlja. He served as political commissioner of the First Montenegrin partisan battalion. He was also a director of the Political department of the First Dalmatian and Fifteenth Majevica Brigades and Seventeenth East-Bosnian Division of the Yugoslav Army.

He served as a member of the Montenegro government, as assistant of federal Minister of Foreign Affairs, member of the city Committee of the Communist Party of Belgrade and ambassador of Yugoslavia in Norway, Japan and finally in Sweden.

He was a commander of the Goli Otok prison used to incarcerate political prisoners.

Death
In Stockholm on 7 April 1971, Rolović was attacked by a group of Croatian National Resistance members in a attack on the Yugoslav embassy, and was mortally wounded. Eight days later, on 15 April, he succumbed to his injuries. The assassins Miro Barešić and Anđelko Brajović were caught and convicted in Sweden.

He was awarded the People's Hero of Yugoslavia gallantry medal on 9 April 1971, two days after getting wounded in Stockholm.

References

Literature
National heroes of Yugoslavia, Mladost, Belgrade, 1975.

1916 births
1971 deaths
People from Bar, Montenegro
Yugoslav Partisans members
Ambassadors of Yugoslavia to Sweden
Ambassadors of Yugoslavia to Japan
Ambassadors of Yugoslavia to Norway
University of Belgrade Faculty of Law alumni
Recipients of the Order of the People's Hero
Order of the Polar Star
Assassinated diplomats
Terrorism deaths in Sweden
Montenegrin communists


Masud Jani (, ) was the Governor of Bengal during 1247–1251 CE.

Life
Masud was the son of a previous Bengali governor Alauddin Jani.

Masud Jani was appointed Governor of Bengal after the death of the rebellious Tughlaq Tamar Khan in 1247 CE. He adopted the title Malik al-Muluk ush-Sharq (King of the Eastern kings) after defeating an Odia garrison at Lakhnauti, the old Capital of the Province, however mutinies among his men and Tamar Khan's loyalists prevented him from consolidating on this victories. In 1249, he renovated a sacred building in Gangarampur, Old Malda which was originally built during the reign of Sultan Iltutmish. Jani is referred to in the inscription as "The Great King, Jalal al-Haqq wad-Din, King of the Eastern kings, Masud Shah Jani" ().

After four years of unsuccessful warfare against King Narasingha Deva I of the Eastern Ganga empire, Masud Jani was removed from office in 1251 CE in favour of the more competent Malik Ikhtiyaruddin Iuzbak.

See also
List of rulers of Bengal
History of Bengal
History of Bangladesh
History of India

References

13th-century Indian Muslims
13th-century Indian monarchs
Governors of Bengal
Year of death unknown
Year of birth unknown


Michelle Anches was a woman who claimed to be the Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia.

Michelle made plans to travel to see her purported grandmother, the Dowager Empress of Russia, but she was killed in her house under very mysterious circumstances before being able to travel and do so.

The remains of all members of the Romanov family killed at Ekaterinburg in 1918, including Grand Duchess Tatiana, have been discovered and identified through DNA testing, confirming Anches was an imposter.

See also
Romanov impostors

Notes

Romanov impostors
Year of birth missing
1926 deaths


Arewa or Arewaland is a Hausa word which means  "The North". The term is used to refer to Northern Nigeria general. The terms  (literally "north") and Arewacin Nijeriya (literally "Northern Nigeria") are used in Hausa to refer to the historic region geopolitically located north of the River Niger.

The continued use of the term, Arewa ...  has conjured up an image among educated Northerners that resonated far beyond the institutional structures Sir Ahmadu Bello created: the successor to the Bornu and Sokoto Caliphate; the vision of God's Empire in the region; the universality of its claim to suzerainty; and in a more prosaic but no less powerful sense, the concept of a polity with an emphasis on unity and sense of shared purpose in northern West Africa beyond the popular slogan--'one North, one People'.

In the history of Nigeria specifically, it is used to refer to the pre-1967 Northern Region, Nigeria. In Niger, it has a very specific meaning: a small pre-colonial animist dominated state of the Dallol Maouri valley, known for the indigenous "Maouri"/"Mawri" Hausa culture. In Nigeria, some towns have been called simply "Arewa" in the past, before British colonisation.

In recent years, the Northern Region has gained prominence in the digital space, with the rise of news websites and online platforms that focus on the region's affairs. One such platform is AREWA.ng, a news website that primarily covers news from Northern Nigeria.

Usage
In post independence Nigeria, some use the word as a general term for Nigerian Hausaland: a contraction of "Arewacin Nijeriya" (Northern Nigeria). Much of the north was once politically united in the Northern Region, a multi-ethnic entity, and was previously home of the seven Hausa states, later the Sokoto Caliphate in the pre-colonial period, and the Northern Nigeria Protectorate under British colonial rule.

Northern Nigeria regionalist groups, such as the Arewa Consultative Forum, and the related Arewa House are examples of this. These groups do not advocate independence from Nigeria, albeit, focus on unity of the Hausa–Fulani which forms the majority in the north. And as such, the term has become synonymous with machinations in lieu of extending political and cultural hegemony to capture the federal state.

References

History of Nigeria
Geography of Nigeria
History of Niger
Geography of Niger
Regions of Africa


Insurance Continuing Education are requirements for insurance agents in the United States to maintain their ability to sell different types of insurance products after getting licensed by the state department of insurance (DOI).

There is no nationwide accreditation since insurance agents are licensed by individual states. CFP, CPA, and CLU/ChFC (PACE) are an exception since these designations are administered by a national board.

Insurance continuing education, CFP, CPA and CLU/ChFC usually have a set credit hour requirement for a period of year(s), sometimes with specific hour requirements for special topics including but not limited to ethics, long term care and other topics.

Since late 1990s, all states allow insurance continuing education classes to be taken on-line. Often, a portion of the requirements may be satisfied through reading and other self-study as well.

The number of credit hours of study required to get insurance licenses renewed vary from state to state. All online courses are prepared based on the credit hour requirements set by the state's department of insurance. Only those courses that are approved are accepted towards fulfilling the state requirements of insurance continuing education
.

See also
 Continuing professional development

References

Insurance in the United States
Continuing education


Olivia is a fictional pig character in a series of children's picture books written and illustrated by the late Ian Falconer, the first entry of which was published in 2000. A computer animated television series of the same name inspired by the character premiered in 2009.

Development
The Olivia book series was inspired by Ian Falconer's niece, Olivia.

The series is different from many children's picture books because of its stark minimalism. Inspired by the style of Dr. Seuss, Falconer chose to draw uncluttered images in black and white with the occasional splash of red, along with the insertion of real artwork by famous artists — Degas and Pollock, for example. Each book in the series explores the use of another signature color in addition to the original black, white and red images.

Olivia books have been translated into many languages including Czech, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Chinese, Japanese, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Russian, Hebrew and Latin.

Books

Written by Falconer
 Olivia (2000) – a 2001 Caldecott Honor book, listed as one of the "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children" by the National Education Association in 2007, listed in the "Top 100 Picture Books" of all time in a 2012 poll by School Library Journal
 Olivia Saves the Circus (2001) – the 2002 Booksense Illustrated Children's Book of the Year
 Olivia's Opposites (2002) – a board book
 Olivia Counts (2002) – a board book
 Olivia...and the Missing Toy (2003)
 Teatro Olivia (2004) – a fold-out theater with paper dolls
 Olivia Forms a Band (2006) – winner of 2006 Child Magazine's Best Children's Book Award
 Olivia Helps with Christmas (2007) – Falconer won the 2008 Illustrator of the Year in the Children's Choice Book Awards for this title
 Olivia Goes to Venice (2010)
 Olivia and the Fairy Princesses (2012)
 Olivia the Spy (2017)

Tie-ins to the Nickelodeon TV show (not written by Falconer)
 Olivia Acts Out (2009) – hardcover
 Dinner with Olivia (2009) – paperback
 Olivia Trains Her Cat (2009) – paperback (a Ready-To-Read book)
 Olivia Leaps! (2009) – board book
 This is Olivia (2009) – hardcover (a fold-out book)
 Olivia the Magnificent: A Life-the-Flap Story (2009) – paperback
 Meet Olivia (2009) – a coloring and activity book
 Brava Olivia (2009) – a coloring and activity book with stickers
 Olivia and Her Ducklings (2010) – paperback (a Ready-To-Read book)
 Olivia and the Babies (2010) – paperback
 Olivia Takes a Trip (2010) – paperback (a Ready-To-Read book)
 Olivia Opens a Lemonade Stand (2010) – paperback
 Olivia and the School Carnival (2010) – paperback
 Olivia and the Snowy Day (2010) – hardcover (a Ready-To-Read book)
 Olivia Cooks Up a Surprise (2011) – hardcover
 Olivia Plants a Garden (2011) – hardcover (a Ready-To-Read book)
 Olivia Leads a Parade (2011) – paperback
 Olivia Goes Camping (2011) – hardcover (a Ready-To-Read book)
 Olivia Becomes a Vet (2011) – hardcover (a Ready-To-Read book)
 Olivia and the Rain Dance (2012) – hardcover (a Ready-To-Read book)
 Olivia and the Kite Party (2012) – hardcover (a Ready-To-Read book)

Awards
 Caldecott Honor for Olivia, 2000
 Parent's Choice 2000, Gold Award Winner
 Nick Jr. Best Book of 2001
 ALA Notable Children's Books 2000 & 2001
 Child's Best Book of 2001
 Los Angeles Times Best Books of 2000 & 2001
 Publishers Weekly, Best Books of 2000 & 2001
 BookSense Illustrated Children's Book of the Year for Olivia Saves the Circus, 2002
 Voted "Favorite Illustrator" for Olivia Helps with Christmas by over 50,000 children at the Children's Choice Book Awards, 2008

In other adaptations
 In 2006, Olivia was one of eight characters to be featured by the United States Postal Service on first-class stamps as part of the "Favorite Children's Book Animals" issue.
 In 2008, Nickelodeon partnered with children's media company, Chorion, to bring the bestselling Simon & Schuster Olivia books to life in a new animated television series. The new 3D CGI series was produced by Academy Award nominated animation studio Brown Bag Films and launched on Nickelodeon on January 26, 2009.
 In 2011, Polin8 Media partnered with children's media company, Chorion, to create an interactive iPad application "Olivia Acts Out" available on the iTunes Store.

See also

 Olivia (TV series)
 List of Olivia episodes

References

External links
 Olivia on Nick Jr.
 Chorion
 Brown Bag Films

 Simon & Schuster - Ian Falconer Author Profile
 Polin8 Media

Olivia (TV series)
Anthropomorphic pigs
DreamWorks Classics
Literary characters introduced in 2000
Pigs in literature
Series of children's books


Howard Gilbert "Dutch" Webber was a professional American football player who played running back for four seasons for the Kansas City Blues Cowboys, Cleveland Bulldogs, Hartford Blues, New York Giants, Green Bay Packers, Newark Tornadoes, and Providence Steam Roller.

1901 births
1985 deaths
Players of American football from Nebraska
American football running backs
Cleveland Bulldogs players
Hartford Blues players
New York Giants players
Green Bay Packers players
Providence Steam Roller players
Kansas State Wildcats football players
People from Oxford, Nebraska


Salvia staminea is a herbaceous perennial shrub native to a wide area in Asia Minor that includes Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, and Iran, where it grows at elevations from  to . It is typically found growing in alpine meadows, screes, and cliffs, sometimes growing with scrub oak. Due to the wide variety of habitats in which it is found, there is a wide degree of variation in the species. It was first described in 1836 and has only slowly come into use in horticulture.

Salvia staminea is an erect plant that grows up to  tall and less in width. The dark green ovate leaves grow on a petiole and vary in size, reaching up to  long and  wide. The flowers are creamy to off-white, and less than  long. The branched inflorescences reaches  long, with two to six flowers growing in spaced whorls.

Notes

staminea
Flora of Asia
Flora of Armenia
Flora of Georgia (country)
Flora of Iran
Flora of Turkey
Plants described in 1836


Riley Armstrong is the name of:

 Riley Armstrong (ice hockey) (born 1984), Canadian hockey player
 Riley Armstrong (musician) (born 1976), Canadian Christian singer and songwriter
 Riley Armstrong (album), the eponymously named music album by Riley Armstrong


Together Through Life is the 33rd studio album by singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on April 28, 2009, by Columbia Records. The release of the album, which reached number 1 in multiple countries, was unexpected and surprised fans. Dylan co-wrote most of the songs with Robert Hunter and recorded with musicians including Mike Campbell of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and David Hidalgo of Los Lobos. The album was recorded at Jackson Browne's Groove Masters studio in Santa Monica, California and produced by Dylan under the pseudonym Jack Frost.

Composition and recording

In a conversation with music journalist Bill Flanagan, published on Bob Dylan's official website at the time of the album's release, Dylan said that the genesis of the record came when French film director Olivier Dahan asked him to supply a song for his new road movie, My Own Love Song, which became "Life is Hard". Indeed, according to Dylan biographer Clinton Heylin, "Dahan was keen to get a whole soundtrack's worth of songs from the man" – and "then the record sort of took its own direction".

Dylan wrote all but one of the album's songs with Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter, with whom he had previously co-written two songs on his 1988 album Down in the Groove. In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Dylan commented on the collaboration: “Hunter is an old buddy, we could probably write a hundred songs together if we thought it was important or the right reasons were there... He's got a way with words and I do too. We both write a different type of song than what passes today for songwriting”. The only other writers Dylan has collaborated with to such a degree are Jacques Levy, with whom he wrote most of the songs on Desire in 1976, and Helena Springs, with whom he co-wrote a plethora of songs in the late 1970s (although the majority of them remain unrecorded or unreleased).

Dan Engler, writing in the Verde Independent, noted, "Bob Dylan claimed he could feel the presence of Buddy Holly while recording his landmark album Time Out of Mind in 1997. On his latest disc, Together Through Life, you get the feeling the ghost of old Dylan chum Doug Sahm was haunting the recording sessions". In their book Bob Dylan All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track, authors Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon note that Sahm "embodied the long history of American popular music, from blues to Tex-Mex. It is to this history that Dylan referred when he composed Together Through Life." Dylan is backed on the album by his regular touring band plus guitarist Mike Campbell of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and David Hidalgo of Los Lobos (whose accordion playing on many of the album's tracks caused critics to describe it as possessing a "south of the border" feel). Dylan commented on Campbell's guitar work in his interview with Flanagan, "He's good with me. He's been playing with Tom for so long that he hears everything from a songwriter's point of view and he can play most any style".

Release and promotion
News of the album first broke in a Rolling Stone article on March 4, 2009, the month before the album's release. Critic David Fricke described it as a "dark new disc with a bluesy border-town feel" and quoted a source close to Dylan's camp as saying the album "came as a surprise". A follow-up article in Rolling Stone on March 16 claimed the album contained "struggling love songs" and had little similarity to Dylan's previous album, 2006's Modern Times.

The album's opening track and lead single, "Beyond Here Lies Nothin'", was made available as a free download on Dylan's official website from March 30 to March 31, and a music video for the song, consisting of a montage of Bruce Davidson's photographs, premiered on Amazon on April 21. A second music video for the song, directed by Nash Edgerton, premiered on the website of the Independent Film Channel on May 12, 2009. Edgerton's video sparked controversy because of its depiction of extreme violence.

Artwork
The album's cover features a black-and-white photograph of a young couple in the back seat of a car taken by photographer Bruce Davidson in 1959. The photo had previously been used on the cover of American author Larry Brown's short story collection Big Bad Love. The back cover photograph of gypsy musicians was taken by Josef Koudelka in 1968. The inner sleeve pictures of Dylan and band in the studio were taken by Danny Clinch. The package design is credited to Coco Shinomiya.

Sources and quotations
As with many of his previous albums, Dylan took words and music from a wide array of sources and incorporated them into his own songs on Together Through Life. The phrase "If you ever go to Houston, you better walk right", for example, is taken from the folk song "Midnight Special" (Dylan played harmonica on Harry Belafonte's 1962 recording of the song); and Willie Dixon's "I Just Want to Make Love to You" was the clear musical template for "My Wife's Hometown", resulting in Dixon receiving a co-writing credit on Dylan's song. In their 2009 interview, Flanagan suggested a similarity of the new record to the sound of Chess Records and Sun Records, which Dylan acknowledged as an effect of "the way the instruments were played".

Reception

Critical reception of the album was favorable. The record maintains a score of 76/100 at critic aggregator Metacritic ("Generally favorable reviews"). During the Flanagan interview, Dylan gave his own thoughts about how the record would be received: "I know my fans will like it. Other than that, I have no idea".

Rolling Stone gave the album 4 stars out of 5. Describing the album as a "murky-sounding, often perplexing record", David Fricke of Rolling Stone writes, "Dylan, who turns 68 in May, has never sounded as ravaged, pissed off and lusty". BBC noted that the album is "a masterful reading of 20th century American folk, albeit shot through with some mischievous lyrical twists" and compares it to "some Chicago urban blues tribute". According to Mojo, "Together Through Life is an album that gets its hooks in early and refuses to let go". The reviewer described it as "dark yet comforting". Uncut and Blender both gave the album 5 stars out of 5, saying that it was "unbelievably good".

Corey DuBrowa of Paste Magazine, in his 8.10/10 review, stated:
"Dylan's never spent much time contemplating the rearview mirror, but Together Through Life finds him more resolutely focused on the treacherous horizon than ever before: Song after song decries the mess we're in (the sneering, sarcastic jump-blues 'It's All Good,' in which Dylan's ravaged voice attacks the clichéd phrase as if it represented every banker, politician and Ponzi-scheme cheat he could conjure; 'My Wife's Home Town,' a bluesy jaunt that surveys the current economic wreckage as if from the passenger-side window of a car up on blocks) without forsaking the idea that love—and the comfort we find in shared misery—is essentially all we have left when a lifetime of ambition and achievement are swept away by the winds of change. You'd have to go all the way back to 1974’s Planet Waves—which Dylan summarized as 'cast-iron songs & torch ballads'—to find a record on which he sounds so simultaneously anxious and enervated. Indeed, when Dylan croaks in 'I Feel a Change Comin’ On,' '[I’ve] got the blood of the land in my voice,' you can hear quite plainly the sadness, disappointment and exhaustion of which he sings".

The album received two Grammy Award nominations in 2010: "Best Americana Album" and "Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance" for "Beyond Here Lies Nothin'".

Versions
The album is available as a one-CD version containing only the new material that Dylan recorded, or as a 3-disc deluxe version including the album itself, the "Friends & Neighbors" episode of Theme Time Radio Hour and a DVD featuring an interview with Dylan's first manager Roy Silver (recorded for the Martin Scorsese documentary No Direction Home, but unused).

There is also a two-LP deluxe vinyl version, containing the same songs as the CD. In the US, the CD is included as part of the vinyl package.

Track listing

When pre-ordered from iTunes, consumers also got a bonus track of a studio rehearsal of "Lay Lady Lay" recorded in 1969.

3-disc deluxe version also has
Disc two
Theme Time Radio Hour: Friends & Neighbors

Disc three

Personnel
Bob Dylan – guitar, keyboards, vocals, production
Robert Hunter – lyricist

Additional musicians
Mike Campbell – guitar, mandolin
Tony Garnier – bass guitar, upright bass
Donnie Herron – steel guitar, banjo, mandolin, trumpet
David Hidalgo – accordion, guitar
George Receli – drums

Technical personnel
David Bianco – recording, mixing
Eddy Schreyer – mastering
Bill Lane – assistant engineering
Rafael Serrano – engineering
David Spreng – engineering
Rich Tosti – assistant engineering

Charts
The album debuted at number 1 in several countries, including the U.S. and the UK. It was Dylan's first chart-topping album in Britain since New Morning in 1970. The album debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200, selling 125,000 copies in its first week of release. It then reached number 1 on the Top Internet Album, Top Digital Album, Tastemaker, Top Rock Album, and Most Comprehensive Album listings. In the U.S. the album has sold more than 300,000 copies by August 2009.

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications and sales

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Notes

References

External links
Lyrics at Bob Dylan's official site
Chords at Dylanchords

2009 albums
Bob Dylan albums
Albums produced by Bob Dylan
Blues rock albums by American artists
Columbia Records albums


Robert Elliot may refer to:
Rob Elliot (born 1986), English-born Irish footballer
Robert Henry Elliot (1837–1914), Scottish writer
Robert Elliot (Royal Navy officer), English naval officer and topographical draughtsman
Robert Elliot (surgeon) (1864–1936), British ophthalmic surgeon and author

See also
Robert Elliott (disambiguation)


The Hamilton Mill Brick House is a historic house at 16 High Street in Southbridge, Massachusetts. Built c. 1855 by the Hamilton Woolen Mill Company, it is one of a small number of brick company housing units to survive from that time. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 22, 1989.

Description and history
The Hamilton Mill Brick House on the west side of High Street, just south of Main Street and west of High Street's junction with Ash Street. Facing south, the house is a -story brick structure, five bays wide, with a side gable roof and single off-center brick chimney. It has a granite sills and lintels, and a recessed front door with sidelight and transom windows. A secondary entrance on the north side, which is three bays wide, is sheltered by a gabled porch.  The side gables are fully pedimented, with two sash windows in the gable.

Although brick was not a house building material commonly used in Southbridge when this house was built c. 1855, most of the worker housing built by the Hamilton Woolen Mill Company was. This is one of a few surviving brick houses of the period in Southbridge (the other, the Vinton-Torrey House, is also listed, but is a farmhouse outside the downtown and industrial area). Many other instances of the company's housing in the High and Sayles Street have since been demolished, but this one and the Hamilton Millwright-Agent's House survive. This house was still in company ownership at the turn of the 20th century, and was probably used to house senior company management.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Southbridge, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places listings in Worcester County, Massachusetts

References

Houses completed in 1855
Houses in Southbridge, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places in Southbridge, Massachusetts
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Worcester County, Massachusetts
Greek Revival houses in Massachusetts
Company housing


Elwin Elton "Tiny" Feather (February 23, 1902 – July 15, 1965) was a professional American football player who played running back for eight seasons for the Cleveland Bulldogs, Detroit Wolverines, New York Giants, Staten Island Stapletons, and Cincinnati Reds. Elwin was  and weighed .

References

1902 births
1965 deaths
People from Ottawa County, Kansas
Players of American football from Kansas
American football running backs
Kansas State Wildcats football players
Cleveland Bulldogs players
New York Giants players
Staten Island Stapletons players
Cincinnati Reds (NFL) players


George Yates (1843–1876) was an officer in the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment.

George Yates may also refer to:

George Edwin Yates (1871–1959), Australian politician
George Yates (Western Australian politician) (1908–1998), Australian politician
George Yates (Derbyshire cricketer) (1858–1933), cricketer
George Yates (Lancashire cricketer) (1856–1925), cricketer
George Yates (socialist) (fl. 1898–1904), British engineer and writer
 George Worthing Yates (1901–1975), American screenwriter


The Hamilton Mill—West Street Factory Housing is a historic house at 45 West Street in Southbridge, Massachusetts.  Built in the second quarter of the 19th century, it was a particularly architecturally elaborate example of a worker tenement house with Greek Revival elements, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989 for its architecture.  It has since been resided, losing most of those features.

Description and history
The Hamilton Mill—West Street Factory Housing is located in Southbridge's Globe Village area, on the south side of West Street west of Lovely Street.  It is one of a row of three similar tenement houses, from which it is now relatively undistinguished.  .  It is a -story wood-frame house, with four doorways, two in front, and one on each of the sides.  The building, at the time of its listing, had significantly more elaborate styling (in the Greek Revival style popular at the time of its construction), than typical worker housing from later in the 19th century.  It had panel corner pilasters, which rose to an entablature that extended across the front, with corner returns on the sides.  The front roof face is pierced by two gabled dormers, and the front entrance is sheltered by a shed-roof porch with a gabled peak at its center.  Much of the building's fine styling has been removed or obscured by the application of modern siding.

The house was one of four identical tenements built sometime between about 1830 and 1850 to house workers at the nearby Hamilton Woolen Mill complex.  Relatively few of these early company-built worker tenements survive in the city; one of the four in this group has been torn down.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Southbridge, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places listings in Worcester County, Massachusetts

References

Apartment buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
Buildings and structures in Southbridge, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places in Southbridge, Massachusetts
Houses in Worcester County, Massachusetts


The Hamilton Millwright–Agent's House is a historic house at 757–761 Main Street in Southbridge, Massachusetts.  Built about 1840, it is a rare surviving house from the Hamilton Woolen Company's early period of worker house construction.  It is also rare as a brick house of the period; they were not commonly built in Southbridge at the time.  The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

Description and history
The Hamilton Millwright–Agent's House is set on the south side of Main Street (Massachusetts Route 131), just near its junction with Hamilton Street in Southbridge's Globe Village.  The house stands on a rise overlooking the former Hamilton Woolen Company mill.  It has typical Greek Revival characteristics, and is stylistically similar to the Judson–Litchfield House on South Street.  It has a doorway with sidelights and transom, and window openings with granite sills and lintels.  There is a side ell, in front of which is a porch with Doric posts and a Greek entablature.

Although brick was not a house building material commonly used in Southbridge when this house was built c. 1840, most of the worker housing built by the Hamilton Woolen Mill Company was.  This house was probably built for John Edwards Bacon, the millwright who built the 1836 Hamilton Company's mill, then the nation's largest mill building.  By 1855 the house was occupied by the mill's agent, Joshua Ballard, who held leading positions in the company for forty years, during its period of greatest success.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Southbridge, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places listings in Worcester County, Massachusetts

References

Federal architecture in Massachusetts
Houses completed in 1840
Houses in Southbridge, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places in Southbridge, Massachusetts
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Worcester County, Massachusetts


Elmer Loyd Hackney (July 8, 1916May 30, 1969) was a professional American football running back in the National Football League. Hackney was an 11th-round selection (92nd overall pick) by the Philadelphia Eagles in the 1940 NFL Draft out of Kansas State University. Hackney played seven seasons for the Eagles (1940), the Pittsburgh Steelers (1941), and the Detroit Lions (1942–1946). He was known as the "One Man Gang," "Stinkfist," and "Iron Man".

In college, Hackney was an All-Conference back and was also twice the collegiate national champion at shot put (1938 and 1939). He set an American record of 55 feet, 11 inches, and qualified for the 1940 U.S. Olympic Team, but the Games were cancelled because of World War II.

References

External links

1916 births
1969 deaths
People from Oberlin, Kansas
American football running backs
Kansas State Wildcats football players
Philadelphia Eagles players
Pittsburgh Steelers players
Detroit Lions players
American male shot putters


The Hamilton Woolen Company Historic District encompasses the well preserved "Big Mill" complex of the Hamilton Woolen Company, built in the mid 19th century.  Located at the confluence of McKinstry Brook and the Quinebaug River in central Southbridge, Massachusetts, the complex consists of a cluster of mill buildings and a rare collection of 1830s brick mill worker housing units located nearby.  The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

The site of the Hamilton Company's mill had been used as a mill site since 1750, when the first water privilege was granted to William Plimpton.  In 1812 James and Perez Wolcott established a cotton mill on the site, building in 1814 what was at the time the world's largest cotton mill.  The Wolcotts continued to expand their business, until a dam they built gave way, irreparably harming their business.  Its remains were acquired by Boston investors, who formed the Hamilton Woolen Company in 1831.  They rebuilt the dam to a higher level, and in 1836 embarked on a major expansion of the premises.

Among the buildings erected in 1836 are the Big Mill, a five-story brick structure that is the dominant feature of the complex.  Extensively modified in 1850, the most distinctive feature of this building is an end stairwell which is capped by a tower with a Romanesque belfry.  Immediately adjacent to the mill Brick Square was established.  This was a cluster of brick housing units arranged around a quadrangle.  This area, now bounded by Mill Street, Canal Street, and Brick Row, includes five surviving worker houses.  Built in the then-popular Greek Revival style, one of them was later adapted for company offices.

In the second half of the 19th century Hamilton was the dominant employer in Stockbridge, producing primarily woolen products, especially after the American Civil War cut off cotton supplies.  It remained a major presence in town, although it had been eclipsed in size by the American Optical Company, until a strike in 1934 closed its doors forever.  Its complex underwent expansion in the late 19th century, but many of these buildings have not survived.  The company added several buildings to the complex in 1929, most notable the dye building, which features a large segmented arch window, but is not in a prominent position of visibility in the complex.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Southbridge, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places listings in Worcester County, Massachusetts

Archives and records
Hamilton Woolen Company records at Baker Library Special Collections, Harvard Business School.

References

Historic districts in Southbridge, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places in Southbridge, Massachusetts
Textile mills in the United States
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts


Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur, also called Kartarpur Sahib, is a gurdwara in Kartarpur, located in Shakargarh, Narowal District of Punjab, Pakistan. It is built on the historic site where the founder of Sikhism, Guru Nanak, settled and assembled the Sikh community after his missionary travels (udasis to Haridwar, Mecca-Medina, Lanka, Baghdad, Kashmir and Nepal) and lived for 18 years until his death in 1539. It is one of the holiest sites in Sikhism, alongside the Golden Temple in Amritsar and Gurdwara Janam Asthan in Nankana Sahib.

The gurdwara is also notable for its location near the border between Pakistan and India. The shrine is visible from the Indian side of the border. Indian Sikhs gather in large numbers on bluffs to perform darshan, or sacred viewing of the site, from the Indian side of the border. The Kartarpur Corridor was opened by Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on 9 November 2019, the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and just days before the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak. This historic moment officially allowed Indian Sikh pilgrims rare visa-free access to the site in Pakistan. It is also claimed to be the largest gurdwara in the world.

Location

Gurdwara Kartarpur Sahib is located in the Shakargarh Tehsil of the Narowal District in Punjab, Pakistan. It is a top tourist attraction for people visiting Pakistan. The shrine is located five kilometres from the Indo-Pakistani border.

Significance

The gurdwara was built to commemorate the site where Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, settled after his missionary work and did farming. Guru Nanak founded the Kartarpur town by Ravi River in 1504, plowing the fields and setting up a community kitchen, or Langar. He assembled a Sikh commune there, and lived for 18 years until his death on 22 September 1539. The gurdwara is built where Guru Nanak is said to have died. It is therefore the second holiest site of the Sikh religion after Gurdwara Janam Asthan – the birthplace of Guru Nanak located in Nankana Sahib, Pakistan.

Here, Guru Nanak gave the three principles of Kirat Karo, Naam Japo, Vand Chako, which means work hard for a livelihood, keep remembering God and share your bounties with the world. Guru's teachings have been peace, harmony, and universal brotherhood. Guru Nanak believed in equality between castes, religions, and genders and gave the word Ik Onkar meaning there is only one God.

According to Lahore-based art historian Fakr Syed Aijazuddin, the shrine houses the last copies of the original Guru Granth Sahib. A Sikh pilgrim remarked, "Every step here reminds us of the Guru's life". Indian Sikhs gather in large numbers on bluffs on the Indian side of the border to obtain darshan, or sacred viewing, of the site.

As per popular legend, there was a dispute between the local Hindus and Muslims after Guru Nanak died. Muslims, who saw him as their pir, wanted to bury him while Hindus, who claimed Nanak as their guru, wanted to cremate his body. But the legend follows that Guru Nanak's body was turned into flowers, which were then divided between the two communities.

Shrine
The Shrine is located at Kartarpur, a small town beside the River Ravi in Punjab and it is one of the holiest places for up to 30 million Sikhs around the world. The main shrine building was built in 1925 at a cost of Rs. 1,35,600, donated by Sardar Bhupindar Singh, the Maharaja of Patiala. It was repaired by the Government of Pakistan in 1995, and fully restored in 2004, at a significant cost. In May 2017, the US-based NGO "EcoSikh" proposed establishment of a 100-acre "sacred forest" around the shrine. The Gurdwara was further expanded in November 2018 with the construction of a new courtyard, museum, library, dormitories and locker rooms spread across an area of 42 acres (17 hectares). There is a 20-foot well, made of small red bricks which is 500 years old and believed to have been built during the lifetime of Guru Nanak Dev.

Access via Kartarpur Corridor

Proposals for visa-free access
The call for a visa-free Kartarpur Sahib corridor was an old, strong, persistent demand from the Sikh community. The move was mooted first during the then Prime Minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s bus ride to Lahore in 1999, while Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf approved the idea in 2000, and issued various tenders for construction purposes. India, however, maintained that the two-decade-old request has been lying pending with Pakistan. As the shrine lies only 3 kilometers from the border with India, Pakistan, in the year 2000, agreed to allow Sikh pilgrims from India to visit the shrine visa-free by constructing a bridge from the border to the shrine.

In May 2017, Indian parliamentary standing committee members announced that no such corridor would be established, given the poor state of India-Pakistan relations. Instead, it was said that the government of India might install four binoculars for viewing the site from Dera Baba Nanak situated close to the India–Pakistan border in the Gurdaspur district of the Indian state of Punjab.

In August 2018, then Tourism Minister of the Government of Punjab, Navjot Singh Sidhu was invited to the oath-taking ceremony of his friend from cricketing days and newly elected Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan. After facing criticism for receiving a hug from General Qamar Javed Bajwa, Chief of the Pakistan Army, Sidhu claimed that Bajwa had assured him of opening the corridor before the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak.

The Government of Pakistan in September 2018, unilaterally decided to open the corridor before the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak for visa-free entry of 5000 Indian Sikhs per day from India to Pakistan. The Government of India approved the building and development of Kartarpur corridor from Dera Baba Nanak in Gurdaspur district to International India–Pakistan border. The long-awaited Kartarpur Corridor is taking shape and has been termed a “Corridor of Peace. The step was welcomed by Sikh community across the world. After the corridor opening was confirmed by Pakistan's information minister Fawad Chaudhry, Navjot Singh Sidhu appreciated the friendly gesture of Imran Khan. Kartarpur Corridor was welcomed by United Nations and United States Department of State.

Inauguration
Ahead of Guru Nanak Dev's 550th Prakash Purab celebrations the Kartarpur corridor, connecting Sri Darbar Sahib Dera Baba Nanak in India's Punjab with Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur, was thrown open on 9 November 2019 (the anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall) facilitating the first Jatha (batch) of more than 550 pilgrims to travel to the last resting place of Guru Nanak Dev. On Indian side, Prime Minister Narendra Modi thanked his Pakistani counterpart Imran Khan for respecting sentiments of Indians and flagged off the pilgrimage and handed over the flag of the Jatha to Jathedar of Akal Takht Giani Harpreet Singh.

Under the leadership of Akal Takht jathedar Giani Harpreet Singh, the Jatha traveled through the corridor into Pakistan to pay obeisance at Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur. On Pakistan side, Imran Khan received the pilgrims and formally inaugurated the Kartarpur corridor by removing a curtain that was lifted by hot air balloons to reveal a huge Kirpan (dagger). Giani Harpreet Singh, speaking at the occasion, thanked both governments for corridor and requested corridor access to Pakistani Sikhs to pay obeisance at Sri Darbar Sahib Dera Baba Nanak on Indian side. Poetry about Guru Nanak, from Muhammad Iqbal's Bang-e-Dara was read by former Indian prime minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and also by Pakistani speakers at inauguration.

Gallery

See also
 List of gurdwaras in Pakistan
 Gurdwara Shahid Ganj Singh Singhania
 Gurdwara Dera Sahib
 Gurdwara Chowa Sahib
 Gurdwara Beri Sahib
 Gurdwara Rori Sahib
 Gurudwara Shaheed Bhai Taru Singh

References

External links

 Kartarpur Corridor
 www.etpb.gov.pk/kartarpur-corridor, Sri Kartarpur Sahib Corridor official website
 prakashpurb550.mha.gov.in, Indian website portal for registration

1925 establishments in British India
Cultural heritage sites in Punjab, Pakistan
Gurdwaras in Pakistan
Memorials to Guru Nanak
Narowal District
Religious buildings and structures completed in 1925
Rebuilt buildings and structures in Pakistan
Religious buildings and structures in Punjab, Pakistan
Religious buildings and structures with domes
Tourist attractions in Punjab, Pakistan
20th-century gurdwaras
20th-century architecture in India


Barry Young may refer to:
Barry Young (cricketer) (born 1975), English cricketer
Barry Young (footballer) (born 1970), Australian rules footballer
Barry Young (musician) (1931–1966), American pop singer
Wolfgang (wrestler) (born 1986), English professional wrestler born Barry Young


Léon Joseph Aelter (born  6 January 1890) was a male sprinter from Belgium.

Aelter competed for his home nation at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden. He finished third in his heat in the 200 metres, failing to qualify for the following round. He finished second in his heat in the 100 metres qualifying, qualifying for the semi-final, which he was unable to finish.

References

External links
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Belgian male sprinters
Olympic athletes for Belgium
Athletes (track and field) at the 1912 Summer Olympics
1890 births
Year of death missing


Firestarter is a 1/3 scale exhibition monster truck conceived and completed in 2008 by Firestarter Racing of Essex County, Ontario.

The vehicle, the body of which is based on the actual firefighting pumpers manufactured by Seagrave Fire Apparatus in the 1930s, possesses all the characteristics of a full-scale monster truck.  Specifications include a 3.0 V6 engine, rear steering, Knight Stalker nitrogen shocks, a dual chain drive and 35" Super Swamper tires.  Engineer Steve Combs of KS Enterprises, Inc. who initially developed the nitrogen charged shock, was instrumental as a consultant in the suspension setup.  Steve currently calibrates and makes shocks for such major monster trucks as Grave Digger.

Firestarter made its public debut on January 17, 2009, at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan.  Driven for major motorsports promoter Feld Entertainment, Firestarter appeared at Monster Jam and was recorded for broadcast by Speed Channel.  In addition, Firestarter completed several summer dates driving for Chris Arel Motorsports and the Monster Spectacular in both 2009 and 2010, and is currently driving with Monster Jam with bookings running into 2012.

See also
 Monster truck
 List of monster trucks
 Mini monster truck

References

External links
Still Photo Of Firestarter At Ford Field In Detroit, MI
Video Of The Vehicle Performing At Monster Jam
Factory Demonstration Video
Still Photo Of Firestarter At The WFCU Centre In Windsor, Ontario
Video Of Firestarter Performing At The Monster Spectacular
Newspaper Article On Firestarter And Its Creator, Douglas Papak As It Appeared In The Windsor Star On May 14, 2009
Newspaper Article On Firestarter As It Appeared In The Sarnia Observer On June 11th, 2009
Video Of Firestarter Being Introduced At The SSEC (Sarnia Sports And Entertainment Centre) On June 19th, 2009
Video Of Firestarter Performing At The SSEC For Chris Arel Motorsports And The Monster Spectacular
Newspaper Article On Firestarter And Its Creator, Douglas Papak As It Appeared In The London Free Press On March 5th, 2010
Video Of Firestarter Performing For Monster Jam in London, Ontario, Canada
Magazine Article On Firestarter And Its Creator, Douglas Papak As It Appeared In Windsor Life Magazine On May 2nd, 2011

Monster trucks
One-off cars


The Theodore Harrington House is a historic house at 77 Hamilton Street in Southbridge, Massachusetts.

Description and history
The -story wood-frame house was one of the first houses built when Hamilton Street was laid out. It was built for Theodore Harrington, son of Henry Harrington, founder of Southbridge's Harrington Cutlery Company, a manufacturer of knives used in the manufacture of shoes. Its most notable feature is its ornate architrave and doorway with sidelights and transom window.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 22, 1989.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Southbridge, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places listings in Worcester County, Massachusetts

References

Houses completed in 1850
Houses in Southbridge, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places in Southbridge, Massachusetts
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Worcester County, Massachusetts
Greek Revival houses in Massachusetts


R W D Turner FRCP, FRCPE, OBE was a physician, cardiologist and author. He was born in Purley in 1909, a grandson of Sir James Wainwright, and died in Ditchling in 1992. Turner served as a lieutenant colonel in the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) and then as chief physician of the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh, where he collaborated with Andrew Logan to carry out the first mitral valve replacement in the UK. He founded the Turner-Dumbrell Trust, a conservation charity in Ditchling and was married to the daughter of Henry Meulen.

In 1949 Turner was elected a member of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh and served as president in 1973.

Books
Turner, Richard Wainwright Duke.  Auscultation of the Heart.  (1963, 1964, 1968, 1972,1984)
Turner, Richard Wainwright Duke.  Electrocardiography  (1963, 1964)

References

Royal Army Medical Corps officers
People from Purley, London
British cardiologists
1909 births
1992 deaths


Rahlstedt () is a quarter (Stadtteil) in the Wandsbek borough (Bezirk) of the Free and Hanseatic city of Hamburg in northern Germany. In 2020, the population was 92,511.

History
The quarter was first mentioned in 1248 with the name of "Radoluestede".The name refers to a foundation as a Saxon settlement by a man named Radolf, the suffix -stede denotes a location on safe ground.

Rahlstedt was located on the eastern edge of the city of Hamburg, belonged to the Duchy of Holstein under the Danish crown and fell with it to Prussia in 1864. In 1927, the villages of Altrahlstedt, Neurahlstedt, Meiendorf and Oldenfelde as well as parts of Tonndorf-Lohe and Jenfeld were merged to form the Prussian municipality of Rahlstedt and became part of Hamburg under the Greater Hamburg Act of 1937.

Geography
The quarter, situated in the north-eastern side of Hamburg, is the largest of its boroughs and one of the most extensive in the city. It borders Hamburg's quarters of Volksdorf, Farmsen-Berne, Tonndorf and Jenfeld; and with the district of Stormarn, in Schleswig-Holstein.

The stream Wandse, originating near the municipality Siek (district Stormarn), and its confluents Rahlau, Stellau and Stellmoorer Quellfluss, run through Rahlstedt. The Rahlau flows into the Wandse near Nordmarkstraße, whereas the Stellau does near Wilhelm-Grimm-Straße. The Stellmoorer Quellfluss within the Stellmoorer Tunneltal.

The most significant features, remains from the ice age, are located within the nature reserves Stellmoorer Tunneltal and Höltigbaum.

The Rahlstedt Cemetery contains 19,000 graves, including that of the 19th century poet Detlev von Liliencron.

Demographics
In 2006 86,413 people lived in the Rahstedt quarter. The population density was . 17.4% were children under the age of 18, and 22.5% were 65 years of age or older. Resident aliens were 9% of the population. 3,983 people were registered as unemployed.

In 1999 there were 41,301 households, out of which 22.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them and 38.8% of all households were made up of individuals. The average household size was 2.05.

Education
Among the schools in Rahlstedt are Gymnasium Oldenfelde, Gymnasium Rahlstedt, Gymnasium Meiendorf, and Neue Schule Hamburg.

Places Of Interest

 The Old Rahlstedt Church, built in its oldest parts of fieldstones from the 13th century.
 Many central parts of Rahlstedt are characterized by Art Nouveau and Wilhelminian style villas, which are often well preserved. Among architects, Rahlstedt is known for its Art Nouveau ensembles. Many houses are therefore protected as historic monuments or ensembles, e.g. Remstedtstraße.
 Rahlstedt has a modern core with the pedestrian zones Schweriner Straße, Rahlstedter Bahnhofstraße and around the train station.
 Rahlstedt is home to Liliencronstraße and the small Liliencronpark including a monument - both are dedicated to the poet Detlev von Liliencron.
 Near the former local office is also the public library, also named after von Liliencron.

Notes

References

 Selectable database: Statistical office Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein Statistisches Amt für Hamburg und Schleswig-Holstein.

External links

 Rahlstedt official site

Quarters of Hamburg
Wandsbek


The George H. Hartwell House is a historic house at 105 Hamilton Street in Southbridge, Massachusetts.  It is a rare example of a modest vernacular Italianate house in Southbridge, and one of the only ones built of brick.  It was built in the 1850s, not long after that stretch of Hamilton Street was laid out, for Dr. George Hartwell, nephew of Dr. Samuel Hartwell.  The Hartwells controlled the Hartwell Block on Main Street, and George Hartwell ran a pharmacy, which continued in business into the 1970s.  While the house has significant Italianate features such as bracketed eaves and paired windows, it lacks the flat roof line that is characteristic of other local Italianate houses, and is less massive than the more imposing James Gleason House and Chamberlain-Bordeau House.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Southbridge, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places listings in Worcester County, Massachusetts

References

Houses in Southbridge, Massachusetts
Italianate architecture in Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places in Southbridge, Massachusetts
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Worcester County, Massachusetts


The Spinning Top is the seventh studio album by Blur guitarist Graham Coxon on new record label Transgressive Records. The album is produced by Stephen Street and was released on 11 May 2009. It was Coxon's first album since Crow Sit on Blood Tree (2001) to be released while concurrently a member of Blur, and the first to be released following his returned to Blur in 2008. It is a concept album that follows a narrative of a man from birth to death.

The album was supported by the single "Sorrow's Army", released on 18 May.

Production
The cover art and liner artwork, like previous releases, was painted by Coxon himself.
The two music promos Sorrow's Army and In the Morning were filmed by creative director Nick Craske. Dead Bees, the third single from The Spinning Top, was filmed by Chris Hopewell.

Live Album Tour

Coxon took the album on tour around the release date in May 2009 and also in November 2009 after the cool down from July's Blur reform gigs at Hyde Park and Glastonbury. Coxon played with his Power Acoustic Ensemble. Live Members included Coxon (Guitar, Vocals and Soprano Saxophone), Graham Fox (drums), Gareth Davies (Bass), Lucy Parnall and Jen Clayton (Vocals), Owen Thomas (Bass, Guitar), Louis Vause (piano), Ranbir (dilruba), Bee2 (Percussion). The short tour played the full album in order. The last concert on the list was at the Barbican Theatre in London where Coxon would play with some of his all time heroes. The gig featured Robyn Hitchcock and Martin Carthy (guitars), Natasha Marsh (Opera Vocals) and Max Eastley (The Arc). It also featured Radiohead visual artist Chris Hopewell.

Track listing
 "Look Into the Light" - 3:18
 "This House" - 2:54
 "In the Morning" - 8:26
 "If You Want Me" - 5:43
 "Perfect Love" - 2:51
 "Brave the Storm" - 5:19
 "Dead Bees" - 3:25
 "Sorrow's Army" - 4:20
 "Caspian Sea" - 4:54
 "Home" - 4:21
 "Humble Man" - 3:43
 "Feel Alright" - 4:37
 "Far From Everything" - 4:09
 "Tripping Over" - 4:52
 "November" - 5:40

References

2009 albums
Graham Coxon albums
Transgressive Records albums
Albums produced by Stephen Street
Concept albums


The men's basketball tournament at the 1967 Pan American Games was held from July 24 to August 2, 1967 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Men's competition

Participating nations

Preliminary round

Final round

Final ranking

Medalists

Awards

Women's competition

Participating nations

Final ranking

Awards

References
 Results
 basketpedya

1967
Basketball
1967–68 in South American basketball
1967–68 in North American basketball
International basketball competitions hosted by Canada


James Michael Montgomery (born July 10, 1949) is a former American football running back in the National Football League (NFL) for the San Diego Chargers, Dallas Cowboys and Houston Oilers. He played college football at Kansas State University.

Early years
Montgomery attended Dodge City High School, where he played as a quarterback, before being switched to running back as senior. He contributed to the team's 1966 undefeated season, although it resulted only in a league championship title, because at the time there was no playoff system or state championship game.

He accepted a football scholarship from Kansas State University, where he played as a running back and wide receiver. In 1969, he posted 408 rushing yards (second on the team), 217 receiving yards and 4 touchdowns. As a senior, he registered 436 rushing yards (second on the team), 386 receiving yards and 4 touchdowns.

Professional career

San Diego Chargers
Montgomery was selected by the San Diego Chargers in the third round (65th overall) of the 1971 NFL Draft. Because of his versatility he was used at running back (60 carries for 226 yards and one touchdown), wide receiver (28 receptions for 361 yards and 2 touchdowns), quarterback (3 of 6 attempts for 80 yards and one touchdown) and on special teams (2 fumble recoveries).

On August 1, 1972, he was traded along with wide receiver Billy Parks to the Dallas Cowboys in exchange for running back Duane Thomas, who was a player the Chargers coveted.

Dallas Cowboys
In 1972, he was a backup running back. Playing against his former team the San Diego Chargers, he returned a fumble 54 yards for a touchdown on special teams. He registered 8 receptions for 131 yards, 3 receiving touchdowns, 35 rushes for 81 yards and one rushing touchdown.

In 1973, he was moved to wide receiver during training camp. He replaced Otto Stowe in the starting lineup after he suffered a broken ankle in the seventh game of the season against the Philadelphia Eagles, but Montgomery would also fell to injury in the next game and open the door for third-string rookie Drew Pearson to take over and never relinquish the position. He finished the season with 14 receptions for 164 yards and 3 touchdowns.

On July 5, 1974, he was traded to the Houston Oilers, after he signed a contract for the 1975 season with the Birmingham Americans of the World Football League. The Cowboys received a fourth round draft choice (#90-Pat Donovan).

Houston Oilers
On October 24, 1974, he suffered a serious knee injury against the St. Louis Cardinals. He later had a blood clot from complications from the surgery. He appeared in 5 games and made 9 receptions for 179 yards and one touchdown.

Montgomery spent the next year on the injured reserve list. On August 24, 1976, he was released after not being able to fully recover from his previous injury.

References

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Living people
People from Dodge City, Kansas
Players of American football from Kansas
American football running backs
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Dallas Cowboys players
Houston Oilers players


Luigi "Gigi" Riccio (born 28 December 1977) is an Italian football coach and former midfielder and currently the assistant manager of Valencia.

Career
Riccio began his career as a professional in Giarre, before moving to Perugia. In 1997, he had a trial spell at Everton before moving to Rangers in 1998. He made only one appearance as a substitute during a league match against Motherwell on 15 May 1999. Riccio was also an unused substitute as Rangers memorably won the league away at rivals Celtic in May 1999. He left for Belgian club K.S.K. Beveren in 1999.

Back in Italy in 2000 with Pistoiese then on to Ternana, Ancona and finally Piacenza, where he played and has been captain. He played his last match on 29 May 2011 for Sassuolo.

In the summer of 2012 he followed his friend Gennaro Gattuso (which he knew from his time at the Rangers) to the Swiss club Sion. While Gattuso was signed as a player, Riccio was named as the assistant manager.

On 19 June 2013, Riccio again followed Gattuso, this time to Italian Serie B club Palermo. Gattuso was named as the new manager with Gattuso appointing Riccio as his assistant. Riccio followed Gattuso to OFI Crete, Pisa, Milan Primavera, and A.C. Milan's first team. In December 2019, the duo was hired at Napoli, replacing Carlo Ancelotti.

References

External links
Profile at Piacenza

1977 births
Living people
Footballers from Naples
Italian men's footballers
Italian expatriate men's footballers
ASD Giarre Calcio 1946 players
AC Perugia Calcio players
Rangers F.C. players
K.S.K. Beveren players
US Pistoiese 1921 players
Ternana Calcio players
AC Ancona players
Piacenza Calcio 1919 players
US Sassuolo Calcio players
Serie A players
Serie B players
Scottish Premier League players
Belgian Pro League players
Expatriate men's footballers in Scotland
Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium
Expatriate men's footballers in England
Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland
Italian expatriate sportspeople in Scotland
Italian expatriate sportspeople in Belgium
Italian expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
Men's association football midfielders
Italian football managers
FC Sion managers
FC Sion non-playing staff


was a Japanese politician who served as Japan's Minister for Foreign Affairs in 1994.
 After his death, he had been conferred as Junior Third Rank, Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun.

After graduating from the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Economics, Kakizawa  worked as a bureaucrat within the Ministry of Finance before entering politics. During his enrollment in the ministry, Kakizawa was transferred to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Economic Planning Agency. He was first elected to the House of Councillors in 1977 as a member of the New Liberal Club (NLC), which is now defunct. He moved to the House of Representatives of Japan beginning in 1980. Kakizawa then left the NLC in order to join the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).

In 1994, Kakizawa defected from the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in order to help found the now-defunct Liberal Party that same year. He held the post of Foreign Minister of Japan for about two months in 1994 within the coalition government of Prime Minister Tsutomu Hata. Hata's government had excluded the LDP from power.

Kakizawa rejoined the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in 1995.

Kakizawa unsuccessfully ran for Governor of Tokyo in the 1999 election after being expelled from the LDP.  He continued to serve a total of seven terms within the Japanese House of Representatives until his retirement in 2003.

Koji Kakizawa died of esophagus cancer on January 27, 2009, at the age of 75 at a hospital in Tokyo. His son Mito Kakizawa became a member of the Diet later that year.

References

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2009 deaths
University of Tokyo alumni
Foreign ministers of Japan
Members of the House of Representatives (Japan)
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New Liberal Club politicians
Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) politicians
Liberal League (Japan) politicians
Tokyo gubernatorial candidates


The High–School Streets Historic District encompasses a cluster of fourteen houses representing one of the best well preserved mid-19th century residential districts in Southbridge, Massachusetts.  Located in the city's Globe Village area, the houses are predominantly Greek Revival in style.  The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

Description and history
The Hamilton Woolen Company was established in the 1830s on the north bank of the Quinebaug River northwest of Southbridge's town center.  The company owned much land in the area, and in the 1840s began to sell off land along High and School Streets, south of Main Street.  These lots were sold with the restriction that houses with a value of at least $1000 be built on them.  The result of this was a collection of Greek Revival houses, in a variety of configurations.  Most are 1-1/2 to 2-1/2 stories in height, wood frame in construction, and have typical Greek Revival elements, including pilastered corners, entrances with sidelights and/or transoms, with gabled pediments above.  Some houses have later 19th-century stylistic elements that were applied after their construction, giving them Italianate or later Victorian flavor.  Two houses (26 School and 56 High) in the district are built out of brick.

Most of the houses are on the west side of High Street, extending north from South Street nearly to Main Street.  One house stands at the northeast corner of South and High, and two face School Street immediately west of High Street.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Southbridge, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places listings in Worcester County, Massachusetts

References

Historic districts in Southbridge, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places in Southbridge, Massachusetts
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts


The Llancaiach Branch railway line was a mineral branch line in Glamorganshire, South Wales. It was authorised in 1836 as part of the Taff Vale Railway, and its purpose was to connect collieries at Llancaiach and bring their output to Cardiff for onward shipment. It was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and built on the standard gauge. It opened in 1841 from a junction (later known as Stormstown Junction) with the Merthyr line immediately south of Abercynon (then called Navigation House). It was intended to be horse worked, and included a self-acting rope-worked inclined plane near the junction. The collieries were slow to use the line, preferring their customary use of a tramroad and the Glamorganshire Canal, and the value of the line was diminished when the Taff Vale Extension line, an east-west connecting line belonging to the Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway, intersected it and cut off the colliery connections, and the line became dormant.

In 1878 the Taff Vale Railway tried to reinvigorate the line by building a line by-passing the inclined plane, with the intention of connecting with new collieries at the north end, but access over the Taff Vale Extension line was refused.

In 1884 a new connection from Pont Shon Norton, immediately north of Pontypridd, to Albion Colliery on the east side of the River Taff was opened, and in 1900 this line was extended north to join the Llancaiach line. A passenger train service operated through from Pontypridd to Nelson station, just short of the Taff Vale Extension line, but access to that line was still problematic.

The passenger service was popular at first, but it was discontinued in 1932, and as the coal industry declined, the branch was successively cut back, finally closing completely in 1970.

Early transport systems
Colliery working near Llancaiach had been in operation since the end of the eighteenth century. The work was hampered by the difficulty of getting the output of the mines to market, as the roads in the district were primitive and unsatisfactory. This was eased a little when the Glamorganshire Canal opened fully in 1794. Its authorising Act of Parliament included a "four mile clause" which permitted any mine operator within four miles of the canal to construct a mineral tramroad from their mine to the canal, across the land of third parties if necessary, without further legal formality.

The proprietor of Llanfabon Colliery, near Nelson, constructed such a tramroad to the canal at Navigation House (Abercynon); this was in operation before 1812. It was known as Sir Christopher Smith's tramroad.

The Taff Vale Railway

The Taff Vale Railway was authorised by Act of Parliament in 1836. Its main purpose was the conveyance of the products of the iron-making industry in Merthyr and Dowlais, to the docks at Cardiff for onward transport by sea. In addition, several connections to collieries were planned, including pits at Llancaiach, and passenger transport was also authorised. The line was engineered by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, but it was to be on the standard gauge.

The first main line of the Taff Vale Railway, between Merthyr and Cardiff, was opened on 9 October 1840, and by that time the emphasis there had been a significant change of emphasis. The potential of the district for coal extraction had become clear: iron was still important, but the main traffic was now seen as the movement of coal from existing and new collieries, to Cardiff and to the ironworks. The first main line included a rope-worked incline near Quaker's Yard: to overcome a large and sudden ascent there, a length of double track was installed together with a stationary steam engine, and passing trains were hauled up and let down on a rope. The times of the trains were arranged so as to pass up and down at the same time, to some extent balancing the load.

The first Llancaiach branch
The authorised Llancaiach branch was being constructed at the same time. The branch was to leave the main line by a junction, "Llancaiach Branch Junction", between Pontypridd and Abercynon, and to climb by an inclined plane to reach high ground. The gradient was 1 in 8 and the length was 600 yards. As the dominant business was to be the bringing down of coal, the inclined plane was on the balanced system, whereby loaded coal wagons were to descend by gravity, hauling lighter empty wagons up in the process, without the application of a separate power supply. The line was engineered so that the remainder of the branch was practically level, enabling horse traction to handle the loads. From the head of the inclined plane it followed a similar course to that of the earlier tramroad.

On 22 October 1841 the Taff Vale Railway board decided it would shortly be ready for opening. It gave notice to the Board of Trade, which inspected new lines prior to opening for passenger operation, but the BoT informed the TVR that as passenger operation was not contemplated on the Llancaiach branch, no inspection was necessary. The line probably opened in November 1841.

The new line attracted almost no business at first. The mine owners near Llancaiach continued to send their coal to Cardiff over Smith's tramroad and the canal, although that required physical transshipment at the canal wharf; the Taff Vale charges were stated to be too high. Duncan & Co.'s colliery at Llancaiach started to use the line from 30 June 1842 and in 1843 more traffic was sent by the railway.

The Taff Vale Extension Railway
The Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway was authorised in 1846 to build a line between those places, and in 1847 it obtained authority to build a westward line from Pontypool to reach the Taff Vale Railway at Quaker's Yard. This line, belonging to the NA&HR, was called the Taff Vale Extension Railway. It crossed several of the South Wales Valleys in the course of its route, eventually making a connection with the railways in many of the valleys.

The Taff Vale Extension opened through to Quaker's Yard on 5 January 1858. Running east to west on the high ground at Llancaiach, intersected the northern extremity of the TVR's Llancaiach branch, which branched into three just south of this point, serving also the Gelligaer and Tophill collieries there. The Taff Vale Extension line provided a passenger station at Llancaiach. The collieries also had a connection into the Taff Vale Extension line, and it became possible to bring out Llancaiach coal through Quaker's Yard, avoiding the rope worked inclined plane on the branch. Traffic had increased considerably on the branch by this time, and serious congestion was being experienced.

Formalising the Llancaiach connection
The intersection at Llancaiach and the relationship between the Taff Vale Railway and the Extension line seems not to have been formalised. The Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway was formed into the West Midland Railway in 1860, and that company amalgamated so as to join the Great Western Railway in 1863, so that the GWR was now the owner of the Taff Vale Extension line. As time had passed, the coal traffic had further increased and in 1867 it was felt to be time to modernise the arrangements. An 1867 Act of the GWR gave structure to the connection at Llancaiach, and formalised the running powers of the TVR into Quaker's Yard. The TVR was given the right to require a junction between the two systems at Llancaiach.

This led to discussions between the two companies, at which it was agreed that a proper junction would be provided at Llancaiach, and that the GWR would provide proper sidings on the north side of the Extension line for the colliery traffic. For ordinary goods traffic, the GWR would use the TVR goods station on the south side of their line. As the TVR would now take all the colliery traffic out via Quaker's Yard, the three level crossings by which the collieries were accessed from the TVR line would be abolished.

The new arrangements started on 3 March 1870, and the whole of the Llancaiach branch, with the exception of the stub at Llancaiach now used by the GWR, was taken out of use.

The Taff Bargoed Joint Line
After much rivalry in securing authority for the line, the Rhymney Railway and the Great Western Railway agreed to sponsor jointly a line from Llancaiach to Dowlais, to get access to the thriving iron and steel works there. The line was authorised on 15 July 1867, and was known as the Taff Bargoed Joint Line. The authorising Act gave the Taff Vale Railway running powers over it. The TVR already had access to Dowlais ironworks, but this was over the Dowlais Railway, which had an obsolescent rope worked incline. The Taff Bargoed line opened to goods and mineral traffic on 10 January 1876, and to passengers on 1 February 1876, although the intervening terrain was very thinly populated.

The second Llancaiach branch
As the Taff Bargoed line neared completion, the TVR considered what use might be made of it. It started from Llancaiach, but the TVR branch to that place had long since been out of use, and access to it was over the Taff Vale Extension line from Quaker's Yard. The TVR decided on the construction of a new branch to Llancaiach, and obtained Parliamentary authorisation on 21 July 1873. The earlier line was still extant, although disused. The new powers were to build a deviation on it to pass the old inclined plane; and to confirm the making of the junction at Llancaiach with the GWR Taff Vale Extension line, and also to make a new east-facing junction there.

Opening, and a dispute
After a delayed start, the line was said to be ready on 18 July 1878, but the GWR had not yet made the junction connection at Llancaiach. The east curve there had been laid in, but its junction with the GWR was also not formed. The TVR seems to have acquiesced in leaving the east curve unused: it had no running powers eastward; it removed most of the track and the east curve was never opened.

The TVR informed the GWR that it intended to use its running powers over the joint line from 1 September 1878, but Dowlais as an objective seems to have reduced in priority: the TVR's own connection to the Dowlais Railway was still in existence. The priority now was access to the Navigation Colliery at Treharris, and traffic from the Taff Bargoed line itself, as well as the collieries at Llancaiach. The GWR disputed the use of the running powers to get access to Navigation Colliery: the running powers were to get access to the Taff Bargoed line, not to serve intermediate locations.

This led to an impasse, and the line was not used; the situation remained until the Dowlais Iron Company was sinking new pits at Aberdare Junction (Abercynon) and desired to send construction materials there from Dowlais. The GWR conveyed them to Llancaiach and the TVR took them on from there from November 1889, the first regular use of the Llancaiach branch for 19 years. From 1890 some traffic was brought down from the Llancaiach colliery, on the north side of the line; the TVR had to pay the GWR a toll to cross the Taff Vale Extension line. The volume of traffic was not great.

The Pont Shon Norton branch
The TVR submitted a Bill in the 1879 session for what became known as the Pont Shon Norton branch. It was a new line from a junction not far north of Pontypridd, crossing immediately to the east side of the River Taff and running north, and connecting with the Llancaiach branch not far from Stormstown. New pits were being explored in the area to be served and they promised good production; moreover the TVR saw this as a defensive move to keep competitors away from those pits and indeed to discourage the construction of a through line to points further north. This line was authorised by Act of 21 July 1879, but only as far as Cilfynydd Inn.

Having obtained the Act and apparently kept out interlopers, the TVR was very slow to actually build the line, as the pits to be served were not yet productive, but it seems to have been opened in 1884. In 1896 the TVR submitted a fresh bill to extend from Cilfynydd Inn to join the Llancaiach line, as earlier intended, at Ynysydwr Junction. This was authorised by Act of 7 August 1896, and opened in 1900.

Passenger services
With the development of the collieries at Cilfynydd, it was clear that a large population of miners and their families would be resident, and a passenger service began to be considered. After passage of the 1896 Act the TVR negotiated with the GWR over the use of the GWR station at Llancaiach, but these talks were not fruitful, and the TVR decided to make Nelson, just short of the Taff Vale Extension line, their northern terminus. The opportunity was taken to make considerable improvements to Pont Shon Norton Junction, for passenger operation on the branch and also to provide relief to the congestion at Pontypridd station. These works were ready in 1900, and passenger traffic started on 1 June 1900. Stations northward from Pontypridd, were Coedpenmaen, Cilfynydd and Nelson. The Nelson station was just short of the junction with the Taff Vale Extension line, and was still in use by the GWR as a goods station. A further station, for the use of miners at Dowlais-Cardiff Colliery, was provided at Travellers Rest, opening on 18 March 1901.

In 1903 the TVR experimented with what it referred to as "motor cars": railmotors, that is single passenger coaches with a small integrated steam engine. Although a crew of three was required, these motor cars enabled a frequent service to be run, calling at low-cost stopping places with minimal facilities. After experimentation on the Penarth branch in 1903, it was decided to introduce the system more widely: platform level access was decided upon, the alternative of using retractable steps on the motor car to access ground level accommodation having been decided against. On 10 October 1904 a motor car service was introduced on the Nelson line; a new "platform" was opened at Llanfabon Road (Abernant). The platforms were 40 feet long and did not have any shelter. Llanfabon Road platform was extended in 1906, revealing that if there were conventional trains operating, the short motor car platforms were not adequate.

Berw Road Platform had been located on the main line, but a replacement Berw Road stopping place, suitable for motor cars, was opened on the Nelson line in July 1908.

The introduction of passenger tramcars operating out of Pontypridd provided serious competition for the motor car service, and usage of Cilfynydd station declined steeply; it was closed on 1 June 1915.

Nelson and Llancaiach station
On 5 August 1912 the GWR opened a new, larger station called Nelson & Llancaiach, a little west of Llancaiach station; they transferred their goods facilities from Nelson TVR to the new station and they closed their own Llancaiach station.

From 1923
The Government passed the Railways Act 1921, which forced the consolidation of most of the railways of Great Britain into four new, large companies, the "groups". Although this is generally considered to have taken place at the beginning of 1923, the Taff Vale Railway became a constituent of the Great Western Railway on 1 January 1922. The process was known as "the grouping".

During this period competition from road transport, especially for passenger business, became exceptionally strong and passenger carryings on the railway fell considerably. Steel making ceased at Dowlais in 1930, making further inroads into both passenger traffic (as the community depopulated) and mineral carryings. The decline was considered irreversible and the GWR closed the Pontypridd to Nelson passenger service from 12 September 1932. The line north of Albion Colliery at Cilfynydd was closed completely at the same time.

At Stormstown Junction, the stub of line to Dowlais-Cardiff Colliery was retained. Albion Colliery closed on 2 September 1966, and after removal of surface stocks, the line closed on 14 November 1970.

Topography

Llancaiach branch

 [Nelson & Llancaiach]; GWR station on Taff Vale Extension and Vale of Neath connection;
 Nelson; opened June 1900; closed 12 September 1932;
 Llanfabon Road Platform; opened 10 October 1904; renamed Llanfabon Road Halt 1922; closed 12 September 1932;
 Traveller's Rest; opened 18 March 1901; renamed Traveller's Rest Abercynon Upper 1924; closed 12 September 1932;
 Ynysydwr Junction;
 Llancaiach Branch Junction; convergence with main line, Merthyr to Pontypridd.

Pont Shon Norton Branch

 Ynysydwr Junction (above);
 Cilfynydd; opened 1 June 1900; closed 12 September 1932;
 Coedpenmaen; opened 1 June 1900; closed 1 June 1915;
 Berw Road Platform; opened July 1908; renamed Berw Road Halt 2 October 1922; closed 12 September 1932;
 Pont Shon Norton Junction; convergence with main line, Merthyr to Pontypridd.

Notes

References

Taff Vale Railway
Mining railways
Railway lines in Wales
Railway lines opened in 1841
Coal in Wales


Ira Lawrence Gordon (born May 5, 1947) is a former professional American football player who played offensive tackle for six seasons for the San Diego Chargers. He was a starter for the last two. Left unprotected in the 1976 NFL Expansion Draft, he was selected by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He was expected to start for the Bucs, but wound up as a surprise training camp cut. Coach John McKay would not comment on outgoing players, but had earlier expressed concern that, although Gordon had potential to be one of the league's better guards, he would have difficulty learning the team's offensive system due to missing much of training camp with a contract dispute. Gordon believed that Buccaneer coaches soured on his outspokenness over harsh practice conditions, which included two-a-day practices in the Tampa sun with no water breaks, and refused to play football after the experience. The brother of Arizona State University and Miami Dolphins linebacker Larry Gordon, he worked in Phoenix, Arizona as a drug counselor after his NFL career.

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The William Hodgson Two-Family House is or was a historic house at 103-105 Sayles Street in Southbridge, Massachusetts.  The -story Greek Revival duplex was built sometime between 1855 and 1870.  At the time of its listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989, it was one of two well-preserved multifamily houses of the period on Sayles Street.  It had a five-bay front facade with projecting gabled porch sheltering the two entrances, corner pilasters, and a frieze across the top of the front, below the gabled roof.  It appears to have been demolished to make way for expansion of the nearby hospital grounds.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Southbridge, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places listings in Worcester County, Massachusetts

References

External links
 William Hodgson Two-Family House MACRIS Listing

Houses completed in 1855
Houses in Southbridge, Massachusetts
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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Worcester County, Massachusetts
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Damian Curtis Johnson (born December 18, 1962) is a former professional American football player who played offensive lineman for five seasons for the New York Giants and the New England Patriots.

Damian Johnson was convicted of theft in April 2009 in a New Jersey court. Sonita Johnson, had testified her husband simply came home one day and told her the Mercedes she leased for his use had been stolen.

Johnson currently owns and operates a transportation company in Michigan known as Giant Transportation.

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Andy Dennehy is the former starting quarterback for the Dublin Rebels in the Irish American Football League. Dennehy was the MVP in Shamrock Bowl XIX in 2005 when he led his side to a 26-19 victory over the Belfast Bulls.

Dennehy recently became the most successful player in Irish American Football League history, winning his 9th Shamrock Bowl at Shamrock Bowl XXXI on 13 August 2017.

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The House at 3 Dean Street in Southbridge, Massachusetts is a rare well-preserved example of a worker housing cottage built by the locally important American Optical Company.  It is a small -story house, three bays wide, presenting its side to the street.  At the time of its listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989, it still had the original siding from its original construction, about 100 years earlier, which included cut shingles in the gable, and bracketed eaves.  These details have since been lost or obscured by the application of modern siding (see photo).

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Southbridge, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places listings in Worcester County, Massachusetts

References

External links
 3 Dean Street MACRIS Listing

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The Primorskaya line was the second line constructed by the Primorskaya railway, near St. Petersburg, Russia. It is now part of the Oktyabrskaya Railway and was electrified in 1952.

History

Its first stage was opened on July 12, 1894 - the line reached Lakhta.
Second stage was opened on October 31, 1894; the railway left on coast of Gulf of Finland opposite to island Kotlin and was integrated with a steamship line.
Later, November 26, the same year, the third turn of a railroad line was opened.
The line reached a final point - the cities of Sestroretsk

Route
Only major stations are shown.
 Primorsky, 0 km
 Lakhta, 17.1 km
 Lisy Nos, 20.3 km
 Kaupilovo, 22.1 km
 Gorskaya, 24.0 km
 Tarkhovka, 26.5 km
 Sestroretsk, 35.1 km

See also
 Connecting Line

References

Oktyabrskaya Railway
1520 mm gauge railways in Russia


Judith Sargentini (born 13 March 1974) is a former Dutch politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP). She is a member of the GreenLeft () party, which is part of The Greens–European Free Alliance, and the European Green Party. Previously, she was chair of the party's delegation in Amsterdam's city council.

Biography
Of distant Italian descent from Bozzano, Province of Lucca, Tuscany, on her paternal side, Sargentini describes her family as being "politically very aware". As a child, her parents took her to demonstrations against the placement of nuclear weapons in the Netherlands. Between 1986 and 1992, she attended high school at the Spinozalyceum in Amsterdam. In 1999 she received an MA of history at the University of Amsterdam (specialising in totalitarian systems and the democratisation of Europe). Since 1990, Sargentini was politically active, first in the PSJG, the political youth organization of the left-socialist Pacifist Socialist Party, and later in DWARS, the political youth organization of the GreenLeft, a new political party in which the PSP had merged. During her study, she was also active in the international student movement. Sargentini is a vegetarian.

Political career
She was secretary of the Dutch Student Union (between 1995 and 1996) and board member of the European Students' Union (in 1998).

In 2002, Sargentini was elected into the Amsterdam municipal council. Between 1999 and 2002, she sat as a co-opted assistant on the municipal council. Between 2006 and 2009, Sargentini served as chair of the GreenLeft party in the Amsterdam municipality. She was spokesperson on work & income, youth policy, and public order.

In addition to her membership of the council, Sargentini worked for various NGOs in the sphere development cooperation. Between 2000 and 2001, she was international coordinator of the European Network for Information and Action in Southern Africa. Following upon that, she worked as international-campaign coordinator for Fatal Transactions, a foundation that highlighted issues surrounding the international trade in conflict diamonds and the financing of (civil) wars in Africa. Between 2003 and 2007, she worked as lobbyist at the Dutch Institute for South Africa. Since 2007, she worked as consultant for the European alliance of development-cooperation organisations Eurostep.

Member of the European Parliament, 2009–2019
In 2009, Sargentini was one of the candidates for the position of party-foreperson on the list of the GreenLeft for the 2009 European Parliament elections. While a candidate for the position of GreenLeft party-foreperson in the EuroParl elections-campaign, Sargentini emphasized issues such as development-cooperation, migration, climate change, and emancipation. On 8 February 2009, it was announced that she was elected as lead candidate and party-foreperson for GreenLeft in the Netherlands European-Parliament elections. After five rounds of vote counting, she was elected with 52.4% of the tally. In 2009, she urged the international community to start negotiations with the Palestinian Hamas, and condemned Israel for its "disproportionate use of power". In 2015, she visited Israel and Palestine, and characterised Israel with the word Apartheid. In 2018 she accused Israel of war crimes for forcibly deporting the Palestinians. In 2015 she said that claiming that ISIS-warriors are coming into Europe with the refugees is just hysteria. In a video  her efforts were praised by the Hamas. She herself and the political stance of her party was criticized by the Chief Rabbi of the Netherlands in a demonstration outside of the office of the Green Party in Utrecht.  Binyomin Jacobs claimed that Sargentini's opinion encouraged antisemitism.

Sargentini became a member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice, and Home Affairs of the European parliament, and substitute for the Committee on Development.

In addition to her committee assignments, Sargentini is a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on LGBT Rights. She is also a vice-chairwoman of the cross-party working groups on fair trade (sponsored by Fair Trade Advocacy), as well as on innovation, access to medicines, and poverty-related diseases (sponsored by Médecins Sans Frontières).

In the European parliament, Sargentini serves as rapporteur on conflict minerals. In 2014, she and Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš persuaded their fellow MEPs to back new rules under which public registers are created listing the beneficial owners of all EU companies and trusts.

From 2014 until 2019, Sargentini was a member of the Democracy Support and Election Coordination Group (DEG), which oversees the Parliament's election observation missions. She has led EU-Election Observer Missions on numerous occasions, including for the 2014 Tunisian parliamentary elections and the 2015 Tanzanian general elections.

Report on use of Article 7 against Hungary
In 2017, she was appointed by the European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs as the rapporteur to examine triggering Article 7 proceedings against Hungary alleging breaches of "core EU values". On 12 September 2018 the European Parliament adopted a resolution based on her report to trigger Article 7. The report  includes concerns mainly regarding the constitutional and electoral system; the independence of the judiciary’, corruption; privacy and data protection; freedom of expression; academic independence; freedom of religion and association; the right to equal treatment; the rights of minorities, migrants, asylum seekers and refugees; and the abolition of economic and social rights, antisemitism, antisemitic acts and hate speech. In point 57 of her report she accused the Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán of delivering antisemitic hate speech. In point 67, she claimed that the conviction of Ahmed H-, a Syrian refugee, who got into conflict with Hungarian policemen at the southern border, raises "the issue of proper application of the laws against terrorism in Hungary, as well as the right to a fair trial". The report was approved by the European Parliament, with 448 votes in favour, 197 against and 48 abstention.

The Hungarian Government questioned the legitimacy of this vote, claiming that this kind of decision would have needed a 2/3 majority. The Orbán-cabinet also stated that the abstinence votes should not have been omitted during the voting process - ignoring that only votes cast, excluding abstentions, were counted on the advice of the Parliament's legal service. Hungary turned to the European Court of Justice for a final decision. The government also edited a 109 pages long answer, which claims that the report contains at least 39 factual errors or fallacies. Ms Sargentini replied to this answer at a press conference, stating that she went through it and found "no holes in [her] report since it is based on sources of intergovernmental bodies such as the UN, the Council of Europe, court cases from Strasbourg and Luxembourg, infringement procedures", adding that the report does not express her personal opinion but that of the European Commission. The dean of the Hungarian university ELTE claimed that contrarily to what Ms Sargentini said, the university had not been consulted during Ms Sargentini's investigation, and asked the removal of its name from the report many times- without response. Another Hungarian university, the University of Pécs also raised this concern. On this issue, Ms Sargentini answered that names were omitted on the interviewed academics' request, who feared of being outed as they would be labelled anti-government and pursued for their opinions. The leaders of the Hungarian Jewish community said that contrarily to what Sargentini stated, antisemitism is actually in decline in Hungary, which is a safer place for Jewry than many West-European countries, due to the government's actions and to the lack of muslim population. Chief Rabbi, Slomó Köves declared that the Sargentini Report is misleading and unfounded concerning Hungarian antisemitism.

Following her report, Sargentini  became the subject of a negative TV campaign financed by the Hungarian government. Deserted by many of his conservative allies, the membership of the Hungarian governing party Fidesz was partially suspended by the European People's Party on 20 March 2019.

Other activities
 Fair Trials International, Patron
 Resistance Museum, Member of the Board

References

External links

 Europaparliament: Judith Sargentini
 Judith Sargentini on parlement.com

1974 births
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