Greenwood County Airport  is a county-owned, public-use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) north of the central business district of Greenwood, a city in Greenwood County, South Carolina, United States. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility. The airport does not have scheduled commercial airline service.

History
Greenwood County Airport opened in November 1943 as a United States Army Air Force military airfield called Coronaca Army Airfield.  It was a sub-base of Greenville Army Air Base, supporting B-25 Mitchell medium bomber training for Third Air Force.  Training was accomplished by the 50th Station Complement Squadron.

The military use of the airport ended on December 31, 1945 and the airfield was turned over to civil authorities and converted into a civil airport in 1947.  It replaced the smaller Chinquapin Airport which was subsequently closed.

Facilities and aircraft
Greenwood County Airport covers an area of 1,380 acres (558 ha) at an elevation of 631 feet (192 m) above mean sea level. It has two runways designated 5/23 with an asphalt surface measuring 3,600 by 60 feet (1,097 x 18 m), and 9/27 with an concrete surface measuring 5,001 by 100 feet (1,524 x 30 m).

For the 12-month period ending June 16, 2022, the airport had 12,100 aircraft operations, an average of 33 per day: 93% general aviation, 6% air taxi, and <1% military. At that time there were 53 aircraft based at this airport: 48 single-engine, and 5 multi-engine.

See also

 South Carolina World War II Army Airfields
 List of airports in South Carolina

References

 Manning, Thomas A. (2005), History of Air Education and Training Command, 1942–2002.  Office of History and Research, Headquarters, AETC, Randolph AFB, Texas

External links
 Aerial image as of March 1999 from USGS The National Map

Airports in South Carolina
Buildings and structures in Greenwood County, South Carolina
Transportation in Greenwood County, South Carolina
Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in South Carolina


The Government of the Czech Republic, led by Prime Minister Jan Fischer, was a caretaker government established after Mirek Topolánek and his government lost confidence vote in the Chamber of Deputies.

History
Fischer, an independent statistician, was chosen as non-party candidate for the office of Prime Minister. Government ministers were recommended by Civic Democratic Party, Social Democratic Party and Green Party. Christian Democrats firstly supported the idea of establishing a temporary government until the next legislative election takes place. Jiří Čunek, leader of the Christian Democrats, later announced that his party would not nominate any candidate to this government but was willing to support it if they approve the government's programme. Regardless the decision of the presidium of the party, Miroslav Kalousek, Vlasta Parkanová and four other MPs, declared that they support new cabinet. Overally Civic Democrats nominated 6 Ministers and Prime Minister, Social Democrats 8 Ministers and Greens 2 Ministers.

Jan Fischer was named Prime Minister on 9 April 2009. The rest of his cabinet was named on 8 May 2009. According to the Constitution of the Czech Republic, Fischer and his cabinet have to survive confidence vote in the Chamber of Deputies in 30 days.

Government ministers

References

Czech government cabinets
Civic Democratic Party (Czech Republic)
Czech Social Democratic Party
Green Party (Czech Republic)
Coalition governments of the Czech Republic


Nazareth Academy was an independent all-girls Catholic high school in Wakefield, Massachusetts.

History
This independent school opened its doors on September 9, 2009.  In February 2009, after the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth announced the decision to close Our Lady of Nazareth Academy in Wakefield, Massachusetts, a group of parents, alumnae, and community business leaders started an organizing effort for a new girls' school, independent of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth,  with performing arts department head Patricia Tamagini as the new head of school.

On  April 14, 2009, by unanimous vote of the Wakefield School Committee, the new Nazareth Academy was granted official school status by the Town of Wakefield in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, indicating approval of the Academy's curriculum and state recognition for its graduates' diplomas.

Nazareth Academy graduated its first class of 17 seniors in May 2010.

In 2016, with a student body of less than 30, it was announced that Nazareth Academy was closing.  Girls and their families who were interested in an all-girls educational environment were invited to attend The Academy at Penguin Hall, a new school in Wenham, located in a mansion which had served as a residence for the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur from 1962 until the mid-1990s. Nazareth Academy graduated its final class of 8 seniors in May 2016.

Campus
Nazareth Academy was housed at the former Hurd school on Cordis Street in Wakefield, near Lake Quannapowitt. The academy was the sole respondent to a request for proposals the town issued in March 2009 to use the vacant building.

Statistics

References

External links
Nazareth Academy website (via archive.org)
The Academy at Penguin Hall

Educational institutions established in 2009
Girls' schools in Massachusetts
Catholic secondary schools in Massachusetts
Schools in Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Buildings and structures in Wakefield, Massachusetts
2009 establishments in Massachusetts


The Greater Yellowstone Coalition is a conservation organization protecting the lands, waters and wildlife of the  Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming.

Founding
The Greater Yellowstone Coalition was founded in 1983. Its core premise is that “an ecosystem will remain healthy and wild only if it is kept whole.” It aims to protect one of the last largely intact temperate ecosystems in the United States. Its founding president was conservationist Rick Reese.

Organizational goals
The organization seeks to protect the lands, waters and wildlife of the 20-million-acre (81,000 km2) Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. It advocates for “conservation, sound science, and protective management.”

Some causes for which the GYC has advocated for are: river and waterway protections, defense of grizzly bear populations and the institution of human-bear coexistence policies, and battles against gold mining in the Paradise Valley north of Yellowstone National Park. They have also pushed for improved land use plans and protections for wild trout in the Greater Yellowstone Area.

In addition, the GYC led the fight against the New World gold-silver-copper mine, which was proposed to be sited only about four miles from the northeast entrance to Yellowstone National Park, during the early 1990s.

Description
The current organization encompasses land around Yellowstone National Park and Grand Teton National Park, including Montana, Wyoming and Idaho. It covers over 20 million acres (34,000 square miles) with Yellowstone National Park at its center. This area is used recreationally by large numbers of people every year, which “puts strains on its environment, wildlife and infrastructure."

The main office of the GYC is based in Bozeman, Montana, and the organization has other offices in Jackson, WY, Cody, WY and Idaho Falls, ID. Its current director is conservationist Scott Christensen.

Currently, the Montana State University Library holds the papers of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition from 1984 to 2018, which document the organization's efforts for the majority of its existence.

References

External links

Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem


David Paul Arnold (born November 21, 1966) is a former American football player.  He played college football as a defensive back for the University of Michigan from 1985 to 1988.  He played professional football in the National Football League (NFL) for the Pittsburgh Steelers during the 1989 NFL season.

Early years
Arnold was born in Warren, Ohio, in 1966. He attended Warren G. Harding High School in Warren, Ohio.

University of Michigan
Arnold enrolled at the University of Michigan in 1985 and played college football as a defensive back for head coach Bo Schembechler's Michigan Wolverines football teams from 1985 to 1988. He started two games at cornerback in 1986, nine games in 1987, and 10 games in 1988.  He was selected by conference coaches as a first-team defensive back on the 1988 All-Big Ten Conference football team. In four years at Michigan, he recorded 105 tackles, 15 pass breakups, five interceptions, and three fumble recoveries.

Professional football
Arnold was selected by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the fifth round (118th overall pick) of the 1989 NFL Draft. He appeared in 15 games, none as a starter, for the Steelers during the 1989 NFL season. In February 1990, Arnold was taken from the Steelers by the Houston Oilers pursuant to Plan B free agency.  Arnold signed a three-year contract with the Oilers, but he did not appear in any games for the Oilers.

References

1966 births
Living people
Players of American football from Warren, Ohio
American football defensive backs
Pittsburgh Steelers players
Michigan Wolverines football players


Lucy Goodale Thurston (October 29, 1795October 13, 1876) was a Protestant missionary and author. She was the wife of Asa Thurston and was one of the first American Christian missionaries to Hawaii. She is noted for her letters documenting her life and missionary works in the islands.

Background
Lucy was born to a prosperous family on October 29, 1795, on the Goodale Homestead in Marlborough, Massachusetts, in what would later become Hudson, Massachusetts. Her parents were Abner Goodale, a deacon and American Revolutionary War veteran, and Mary Howe. She graduated from Bradford Academy and became a school teacher.

In 1819, she applied to a newspaper advertisement seeking volunteers to missionize in Hawaii through the invitation of King Kamehameha II. To be accepted, however, the applicants were required to be married beforehand. On October 12, 1819, she married Thurston, a scythe maker and minister from Fitchburg. He was one of the theological graduates from Yale University who posted the mission announcement. Lucy and Asa were complete strangers prior to their wedding. Several days later, she accompanied her husband on a five-month voyage on board the ship Thaddeus. They reached Kawaihae, Hawaii, on March 30, 1820.

The couple helped build churches and schools after securing permission for their ministry at Kailua-Kona from King Kamehameha and Queen Ka'ahumanu. The Thurstons, unlike most missionary couples, spent most of the rest of their lives in the islands.

In 1855, Lucy was diagnosed with breast cancer. As treatment for her illness, Lucy had a mastectomy to remove her left breast in the same year. The procedure was conducted by Seth Porter Ford without anaesthetic, which had not been developed at that time. The operation was successful and she lived for another twenty years. She died on October 13, 1876, in Honolulu.

One of the Thurstons' grandchildren, Lorrin Andrews Thurston, would later play an important part in King Kalakua's decision to sign the Bayonet Constitution, which paved the way for the abolition of the Kingdom of Hawaii and for its annexation to the United States.

Memoir
After her husband's death on March 11, 1868, Lucy started writing a memoir. She compiled her letters and other writings (completed by her daughter Persis Goodale Taylor and Walter Freer, and published under the title of Life and Times of Mrs. Lucy G. Thurston in Ann Arbor in 1876). It is one of the most vivid accounts of the early mission days.

The autobiography was divided into several parts. The first was devoted to the mission's early work in Hawaii. Later parts covered her journey to New York, the death of her daughter Lucy in 1841, and her experience battling cancer. The book also included accounts concerning Hawaiian chiefs.

References

1795 births
1876 deaths
People from Marlborough, Massachusetts
People from Hudson, Massachusetts
American Protestant missionaries
Female Christian missionaries
American women memoirists
19th-century American memoirists
19th-century American women writers
American emigrants to the Hawaiian Kingdom
Protestant missionaries in Hawaii
Schoolteachers from Massachusetts
19th-century American educators
19th-century American women educators


Jack Prince (6 June 1906 – 13 October 1971) was an English football goalkeeper who played for Nantwich, Oldham Athletic, Port Vale, Rochdale, Wrexham, Shrewsbury Town, Northwich Victoria, and Crewe Alexandra. He won the Third Division North title with Port Vale in 1929–30.

Career
Prince played for Nantwich and Oldham Athletic, before joining Port Vale in May 1928. His debut came on Potteries derby day; a 2–1 defeat to Stoke City at the Victoria Ground on 15 September 1928. Taking the number 1 jersey from Alf Bennett, he enjoyed a spell as the first choice keeper, playing 32 league and cup games as the "Valiants" were relegated out of the Second Division in 1928–29. He lost his first team place to Ben Davies in November 1929, and only featured 12 times as Vale won the Third Division North title in 1929–30. He was released from The Old Recreation Ground in May 1930, and moved on to Rochdale, Wrexham, Shrewsbury Town, Northwich Victoria and then returned to old club Nantwich, before finishing his career with his hometown club Crewe Alexandra.

Career statistics
Source:

Honours
Port Vale
Football League Third Division North: 1929–30

References

Footballers from Crewe
English men's footballers
Men's association football goalkeepers
Nantwich Town F.C. players
Oldham Athletic A.F.C. players
Port Vale F.C. players
Rochdale A.F.C. players
Wrexham A.F.C. players
Shrewsbury Town F.C. players
Northwich Victoria F.C. players
Crewe Alexandra F.C. players
English Football League players
1906 births
1971 deaths


Brian Gottfried was the defending champion but lost in the final 1–6, 6–0, 6–1, 6–2 to Ivan Lendl.

Seeds
The draw allocated unseeded players at random; as a result seven seeds received a bye into the second round.

  Ivan Lendl (champion)
  Brian Gottfried (final)
  Stan Smith (semifinals)
  Tomáš Šmíd (semifinals)
  Sandy Mayer (quarterfinals)
  Rolf Gehring (quarterfinals)
  Carlos Kirmayr (quarterfinals)
  Shlomo Glickstein (second round)
  John Austin (third round)
  Sammy Giammalva Jr. (second round)
  Stanislav Birner (third round)
  Pavel Složil (third round)
  Ulrich Pinner (first round)
  Trey Waltke (first round)
  Ángel Giménez (first round)
  Nick Saviano (third round)

Draw

Finals

Top half

Section 1

Section 2

Bottom half

Section 3

Section 4

External links
 1981 Fischer-Grand Prix draw

1981 Fischer-Grand Prix


Anneke is a Dutch and Low German female diminutive given name, meaning little Anna or little Anne, i.e., Annie, an alternate pet or endearing form of Anna. The given name and later surname Anneke also Annecke is a diminutive of the male short name Anno, a variant of Arno, itself derived from Arnold. Notable persons with that name include:

People with the given name
Anneke Beerten (born 1982), Dutch mountain cyclist
Anneke Esaiasdochter (1509–1539), Dutch Anabaptist
Anneke van Giersbergen (born 1973), Dutch singer, songwriter, guitarist, and pianist
Anneke von der Lippe (born 1964), Norwegian actress
Anneke Venema (born 1971), Dutch rower
Anneke Wills (born 1941), English actress

People with the surname
Fritz Anneke (1818–1872), German-American socialist and newspaper editor, owner, and reporter
Mathilde Franziska Anneke (1817–1884), German-American feminist and socialist

See also
 Aneke

Dutch feminine given names
Feminine given names


Vevo LLC ( , an abbreviation for "Video Evolution", stylized in all caps until 2013) is an American multinational video hosting service, best known for providing music videos to YouTube. The service is also available as an app on selected smart TVs, digital video recorders, digital media players and streaming television services. The service once offered a consumer mobile and tablet app; however this was shut down in May 2018 to allow the service to focus on its other platforms.

The service was concluded after negotiations on June 16, 2009, as a joint venture among three major record companies: Universal Music Group (UMG), Sony Music Entertainment (SME) and shortly before its launch by EMI. In August 2016, Warner Music Group (WMG), the world's third-largest record company, agreed to license premium videos from its artists to Vevo.

Initially, the service hosted only music videos from Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment, syndicated on YouTube and its app, and the advertising revenue was shared by Google and Vevo. Originally, Warner Music Group was reported to be considering hosting its content on the service after it launched, but formed an alliance with rival MTV Networks (now Paramount Media Networks). In August 2015, Vevo expressed renewed interest in licensing music from WMG and a deal with WMG was completed on August 2, 2016, making again the entirety of the "big three" record companies' music available on Vevo.

History

The concept for Vevo was described as being a streaming service for music videos (similar to the Hulu streaming service for movies and TV shows after they air), with the goal being to attract more high-end advertisers. The site's other revenue sources include a merchandise store and referral links to purchase viewed songs on Amazon Music and iTunes. UMG acquired the domain name vevo.com on November 20, 2008. SME reached a deal to add its content to the site in June 2009. The site went live on December 8, 2009, and later that same month became the number one most visited music site in the United States, overtaking Myspace Music. Upon Vevo's launch, many YouTube videos added by Vevo over the course of the year had their views inflated. In early 2013, these views were subtracted from various Vevo channels, most notably Lady Gaga's Vevo channel. The affected videos include the "Just Dance" video, which lost more than half of its existing views. Other affected videos include "Heartless" and "Toxic", whose graphs showed similar traces of inflation.

In June 2012, Vevo launched its Certified awards, which honors artists with at least 100 million video views on Vevo and its partners (including YouTube) through special features on the Vevo website.

In 2017, Vevo announced in a brief online statement the departure of Erik Huggers as the company's president and CEO and his replacement by CFO Alan Price as the interim CEO.

In April 2018, Vevo's YouTube channel was hacked by two hackers using the name of Prosox and Kuroi'SH and caused the renaming of many videos and the deletion of the most viewed YouTube video, "Despacito" by Luis Fonsi.

On May 24, 2018, Vevo announced that it was shutting down its consumer website and removing its app from mobile platforms, so that it could focus on YouTube syndication. However, Vevo is still available through various apps and devices including YouTube, DVRs, smart TVs, gaming consoles and streaming devices such as Roku. In October 2020, it was announced that Vevo partnered with Netherlands-based music video service Xite.

Vevo TV
On March 15, 2013, Vevo launched Vevo TV, an Internet television channel running 24 hours a day, featuring blocks of music videos and specials. The channel was only available to viewers in North America and Germany, with geographical IP address blocking being used to enforce the restriction. Vevo had planned launches in other countries. After revamping its website, Vevo TV later branched off into three separate networks: Hits, Flow (hip hop and R&B), and Nashville (country music). Vevo shut down the service during the first half of 2016 as part of a site-wide redesign.

Vevo TV ran on an automated schedule, similar to video-exclusive networks run by Viacom Media Networks. Music videos would play twice within an hour and original programming, such as Top 10 Now and Vevo Lift, would air several times per day. After rebranding in 2016, Vevo TV was slowly phased out. Vevo's mobile app continued to run the channel until they were relaunched later that year.

Availability
Vevo was available in Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, the Philippines, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States. The website was scheduled to go worldwide in 2010, but as of March 23, 2018, it was still not available outside these countries.  Vevo's official blog cited licensing issues for the delay in the worldwide rollout. Most of Vevo's videos on YouTube are viewable by users in other countries, while others will produce the message "The uploader has not made this video available in your country."

The Vevo service in the United Kingdom and Ireland was launched on April 26, 2011. On April 16, 2012, Vevo was launched in Australia and New Zealand by MCM Entertainment. On August 14, 2012, Brazil became the first Latin American country to have the service. It was expected to be launched in six more European and Latin American countries in 2012. Vevo launched in Spain, Italy, and France on November 15, 2012. Vevo launched in the Netherlands on April 3, 2013, and on May 17, 2013, also in Poland. On September 29, 2013, Vevo updated its iOS application that now includes launching in Germany. On April 30, 2014, Vevo was launched in Mexico.

Vevo is also available for a range of platforms including Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Windows 8, Fire OS, Google TV, Apple TV, Boxee, Roku, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation 4.

In May 2018, Vevo announced that it would be discontinuing its consumer website and app on mobile platforms in order to focus on YouTube syndication. However, Vevo is still available through various apps and devices including YouTube, DVRs, smart TVs, gaming consoles and streaming devices such as Roku.

Edited content
Versions of videos on Vevo with explicit content such as profanity may be edited, according to a company spokesperson, "to keep everything clean for broadcast, 'the MTV version. This allows Vevo to make their network more friendly to advertising partners such as McDonald's. Vevo has stated that it does not have specific policies or a list of words that are forbidden. Some explicit videos are provided with intact versions in addition to the edited version. There is no formal rating system in place, aside from classifying videos as explicit or non-explicit, but discussions are taking place to create a rating system that allows both users and advertisers to choose the level of profanity they are willing to accept.

24-Hour Vevo Record

The 24-Hour Vevo Record, commonly referred to as the Vevo Record, is the record for the most views a music video associated with Vevo has received within 24 hours of its release. The video that currently holds this record is Taylor Swift's "Me!" with 65.2 million views.

In 2012, Nicki Minaj's "Stupid Hoe" became one of the first Vevo music videos to receive a significant amount of media attention upon its release day, during which it accumulated around 4.8 million views. The record has consistently been kept track of by Vevo ever since. Total views of a video are counted from across all of Vevo's platforms, including YouTube, Yahoo! and other syndication partners. On April 14, 2013, Psy's "Gentleman" unofficially broke the record by reaching 38.4 million views in its first 24 hours. However, this record was not acknowledged by Vevo because it was not associated with them until four days after its release to YouTube.

On August 19, 2014, Minaj broke the record with her "Anaconda" video which garnered 19.7 million views. Swift broke the record with "Bad Blood" with 20.1 million views, on May 17, 2015, which was later surpassed by Adele's "Hello", which received 27.7 million views in first 24 hours.

On August 28, 2017, both YouTube and Vevo records were eclipsed by Swift again, with "Look What You Made Me Do", which gained 43.2 million views in 24 hours. On December 1, 2018, Ariana Grande's "Thank U, Next" broke the record, accumulating 55.4 million views in 24 hours. Swift then regained the record on April 27, 2019, when her video for "Me!" garnered 65.2 million views in first 24 hours. Swift's channel is the first and only to break the record three times. One Direction, Justin Bieber, Nicki Minaj and Miley Cyrus, have all broken the record twice (Minaj would have tied Swift if features were included in the count).

Record holders

List of Vevo videos which held the record for most views in their first 24 hours online

Vevo Certified

Vevo Certified is given to artists with over 100 million views on Vevo and its partners (including YouTube) through special features on the Vevo website. It was launched in June 2012.

Artists with the most Vevo Certified videos
Top 30 artists with the most Vevo Certified music videos. All lead and co-lead appearances are counted towards the artists' total. Featured appearances are not counted.

See also
 Music on demand
 Digital media certification
 List of most-viewed YouTube videos

References

External links
 Official website

Advertising video on demand
Google services
Internet properties established in 2009
American music websites
Sony Music
Universal Music Group
Warner Music Group
YouTube
Multi-channel networks
PlayStation 4 software


Gibson Hall is a building at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.  It sits across from Audubon Park.

History

Constructed in 1894, Gibson Hall is the oldest structure on the present Tulane University campus. It faces on to St. Charles Avenue and is the entry landmark to the uptown campus. It was designed by architects Harrod and Andry in the Richardsonian Romanesque style and constructed of stone over brick.

It was named for Randall Lee Gibson, an alumnus, Confederate General, U.S. Senator from Louisiana, and the first President of the University Board of Administrators. The building houses most of the senior level administration as well as the Office of Undergraduate Admission and the School of Professional Advancement.

Gallery

References

Tulane University buildings
School buildings completed in 1894
Richardsonian Romanesque architecture in Louisiana
University and college administration buildings in the United States
1894 establishments in Louisiana


Saint-Pierre-de-Broughton is a municipality located in the Municipalité régionale de comté des Appalaches in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 883 as of 2009.

References

External links

Commission de toponymie du Québec
Ministère des Affaires municipales, des Régions et de l'Occupation du territoire

Municipalities in Quebec
Incorporated places in Chaudière-Appalaches


The Association of Plaine Valley communes (French: Communauté de communes de la Vallée de la Plaine) is a former administrative association of communes which straddled the Vosges and Meurthe-et-Moselle départements of eastern France in the region of Lorraine. It was created in December 1996. It was merged into the new Communauté d'agglomération de Saint-Dié-des-Vosges in January 2017. The association had its administrative offices at Raon-l'Étape, which contained more than 75% of the grouping's total population.

The name of the commune comes from the River Plaine which crosses the district.

Composition
The Communauté de communes comprised the following communes:

Meurthe-et-Moselle / 54
Bionville
Pierre-Percée
Raon-lès-Leau

Vosges / 88
Allarmont
Celles-sur-Plaine
Luvigny
Raon-l'Étape
Raon-sur-Plaine
Vexaincourt

References

Vallee de la Plaine
Vallee de la Plaine


Magdalena Feistel (born Magdalena Mróz 22 August 1970) is a former Polish tennis player.
She holds the record for most Fed Cup ties played for Poland (24; 43 matches) and most Fed Cup wins for Poland (23).

In her career, she won one singles title and 11 doubles titles on tournaments of the ITF Circuit.
Feistel's career-high singles ranking is world No. 192 (reached in February 1994), and her best doubles ranking, achieved in June 1994, is 91.

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 4 (1–3)

Doubles: 20 (11–9)

External links

1970 births
Living people
Polish female tennis players
Sportspeople from Gdynia
Universiade medalists in tennis
Universiade silver medalists for Poland
Medalists at the 1997 Summer Universiade
20th-century Polish women
21st-century Polish women
21st-century Polish people


Angel Moya Acosta (born 20 September 1964) is a Cuban construction worker and the founder of the Alternative Option Movement.

Moya fought for one-and-a-half years in the Cuban intervention in Angola in the late 1980s. In the following decade, Moya was arrested several times for his activism. In December 1997, he was arrested on his way to join a public memorial, and in November 1999 he was arrested for participating in a prayer session for dissident Oscar Biscet. On 15 December 1999, he was arrested and imprisoned after a demonstration along with fellow Alternative Option Movement members Guido and Ariel Sigler Amaya; the latter arrest caused Amnesty International to designate him a prisoner of conscience. In 2000, he was arrested and imprisoned for a year for "disrespect" after commemorating the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

He was again imprisoned during the Black Spring in 2003, and sentenced to 20 years in jail. His wife Berta Soler, now leader of the Ladies in White movement, campaigned on his behalf.

When Moya suffered a herniated disc in October 2004, Soler began a campaign to urge the government to give him an operation, submitting a letter to President Fidel Castro on his behalf and staging a rare protest in Havana's Plaza de la Revolución with the Ladies in White. She described the protest as "my right and duty as a wife". After two days of protest, Moya was given surgery.

After Moya's early release from prison in 2011, he and Soler chose to remain in Cuba and continue their calls for the release of political prisoners, despite being offered emigration to Spain.

In March 2012, Soler and Moya were detained along with three dozen other demonstrators when they staged their weekly protest ahead of a visit of Pope Benedict XVI. Soler told reporters that authorities had warned the Ladies to avoid Benedict's public appearances, including masses.

Family
Soler is a microbiology technician at a Havana hospital. Moya and Soler have two sons, Luis Angel and Lienys.

References

Living people
Cuban dissidents
Cuban democracy activists
1964 births
Cuban prisoners and detainees
Amnesty International prisoners of conscience held by Cuba


The Portsmouth and Southsea Synagogue, also known as the Portsmouth (and Southsea) Hebrew Congregation, is an Orthodox Jewish synagogue located in Elm Grove, Southsea in Portsmouth, England. It is one of the oldest Jewish congregations in England. It was founded c. 1747 and had a rabbinate of its own. During the Napoleonic wars, the commercial activity of Portsmouth as a garrison and naval town attracted a large number of Jews. In 1780, a synagogue was built in White's Row. In 1850 the synagogue was redecorated and in 1876 renovated.

History
The current Ashkenazi Orthodox Synagogue is located at Thicket House, Southsea. It was established in 1936 when a house was converted. Many of the fittings from the original 1780 Synagogue including the Ark are present in the current synagogue. The original Synagogue building, which until its closure in 1936 was the oldest provincial Synagogue still in use, was destroyed during the Second World War in an air raid.

In December 1942, a day of mourning, fasting was held in the Synagogue for Jewish victims of Nazi massacres. In 1967, in the light of the good relationship which existed between Portsmouth and the Israeli Navy based in Haifa, Israel the Synagogue donated a Kiddush cup to the crew of the Submarine INS Dakar for its maiden voyage which ended in tragedy when the Submarine sank.

The Synagogue still holds regular services according to the Ashkenazi Orthodox Nusach.

Rabbis
Reverend Gabriel Burns is currently the part-time leader of the Congregation.

Past rabbis have included Rabbi David H. Lincoln who was rabbi in 1965 and Reverend Isaac Philips who was rabbi in 1866 and served the congregation for fifty six years.

See also
List of places of worship in Portsmouth

References

External links
Synagogue homepage
Portsmouth and Southsea Hebrew Congregation on Jewish Communities and Records - UK (hosted by jewishgen.org).
Jacobs, J and Harris, I. 'Portsmouth,' ''Jewish Encyclopedia
Kushner, T and Knox, K. Refugees in an Age of Genocide, (Routledge 2001.), Pg. 33-149; 197

Ashkenazi Jewish culture in England
Ashkenazi synagogues
Religion in Hampshire
Religious buildings in Portsmouth
Orthodox synagogues in England
Religious buildings and structures in Hampshire


Thomas Eugene DeWeese (January 31, 1934 – March 19, 2012) was an American writer of science fiction, best known for his Star Trek novels.  He also wrote Gothic, mystery, and young adult fiction, totalling more than 40 books in his career. He published as Gene DeWeese and Jean DeWeese; his pseudonyms as a collaborator included Thomas Stratton and Victoria Thomas.

Background and fandom
DeWeese was born January 31, 1934, in Rochester, Indiana. He began writing science fiction stories in grade school, beginning with a Mickey Mouse story he wrote. In high school, he wrote articles and science-fiction columns for his local newspaper. DeWeese became an active member of science fiction fandom, and his stories were published in science fiction fanzines such as Yandro, Fan-Fare, and The Chigger Patch of Fandom. He earned an associate degree in electronics from Valparaiso Technical Institute in 1953. He worked for General Motors' Delco Electronics Division as an electronics technician in Kokomo, Indiana, from 1954 to 1959, and as a technical writer (including for the Apollo Program) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from 1959 to 1974 (when he became a full-time freelance writer).

Professional writing
DeWeese's first professionally published fiction was a Man from U.N.C.L.E. book written with Robert Coulson under the pseudonym Thomas Stratton, which used DeWeese's first name and Coulson's middle name. This first novel was The Invisibility Affair and was followed up in the series by The Mind-Twisters Affair (both 1967) Coulson was a fellow science fiction fan, and the two had previously used the Stratton name for fiction published in fanzines. He wrote nine Gothic novels as Jean DeWeese, and co-wrote a romance novel with Connie Kugi under the pseudonym Victoria Thomas. DeWeese wrote over forty books, including science fiction, mystery, horror, and romance, and nonfiction books on computers and doll making. He has written novels in the Star Trek, Lost in Space, and Dinotopia series. His best-known young adult novel is The Adventures of a Two-Minute Werewolf, which was made into a television movie of the same name. He has also written for Ravenloft (King of the Dead and Lord of the Necropolis) and the Amazing Stories series.

Papers and personal life
His papers from 1967 to 2002 are held at the library of the University of Southern Mississippi.

He and Beverly lived in Milwaukee from 1959 to his death at home in 2012 from Lewy body dementia.

Star Trek novels
Chain of Attack (1987) - Based on Star Trek: The Original Series
The Peacekeepers (September 1988) - Based on Star Trek: The Next Generation
The Final Nexus (December 1988) - Based on Star Trek: The Original Series
Renegade (1991) - Based on Star Trek: The Original Series
Probe (1992) - Credited by Margaret Wander Bonanno for being the actual writer of most of the book
Into the Nebula (1995) - Based on Star Trek: The Next Generation
Engines of Destiny (2005) - Based on Star Trek: The Next Generation, though the main character is Montgomery Scott

References

External links
2003 interview with DeWeese

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2012 deaths
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Valparaiso University alumni
Writers from Milwaukee


Joan of Armagnac (French: Jeanne d'Armagnac; 24 June 1346 – 1387) was a French noblewoman of the Armagnac family, being the eldest daughter of Count John I of Armagnac and his wife Beatrice of Clermont. She became Duchess of Berry by her marriage to John, Duke of Berry in 1360.

Marriage and issue

She married John, Duke of Berry, son of John II of France and his first wife Bonne of Bohemia. Joanna and John had five children:
Charles of Berry, Count of Montpensier (1362–1382)
John de Valois, Count of Montpensier, (1363–1402), married Princess Catherine of France, daughter of Charles V, King of France
Louis of Berry (1364–1383)
Bonne of Berry (1365–1435), married Amadeus VII of Savoy and Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac
Marie of Berry, Duchess of Auvergne (1367–1434), married: 1) Louis III of Châtillon, 2) Philip of Artois, Count of Eu; 3) John I, Duke of Bourbon

Her daughter, Marie was the mother of Bonne of Artois, second wife to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy. Joanna's daughter, also called Bonne, was the mother of Antipope Felix V.

References

Sources

 Jeanne d'Armagnac

1346 births
1387 deaths
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Leif Martin Holmgren (born May 25, 1953 in Kiruna, Sweden) is a former Swedish ice hockey player.

Playing career
Holmgren spent the majority of his career, which began in 1971, with AIK.  His best season came in 1977–78, scoring 21 goals and 31 points in 32 games.  He was then named into the Swedish All-Star Team in 1979, having contributed 18 assists as well as scoring 11 goals for 29 points. As a member of AIK, Holmgren won the Elitserien playoff championship in 1982 and 1984 as well as the regular season championship also in 1984. Afterwards, Holmgren moved to the Allsvenskan and signed with Vallentuna BK where he scored 32 points with 17 goals to his credit. He then return to AIK for one last season before retiring in 1986.

International play
Holmgren played in three Ice Hockey World Championships for Sweden, winning a bronze medal in 1979.  He also won a bronze medal at the 1980 Winter Olympics.

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Living people
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Ice hockey players at the 1980 Winter Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for Sweden
Olympic ice hockey players for Sweden
Olympic medalists in ice hockey
People from Kiruna Municipality
Swedish ice hockey centres
Medalists at the 1980 Winter Olympics
Ice hockey people from Norrbotten County


NCID may refer to:

 Network Caller ID, an open-source client/server network Caller ID package
 NCID (book identifier), an identifier for books, used by CiNii, a bibliographic database maintained by the Japanese National Institute of Informatics
 National Centre for Infectious Diseases, a quarantine and management centre for contagious diseases in Singapore


The County of Nevers () was a county in central France. Its principal town was Nevers. It roughly corresponds to the later province of Nivernais and the modern of department of Nièvre.

The county itself dates from approximately the beginning of the 10th century. The county has frequently been associated with the neighboring Duchy of Burgundy; it was included among the lands and titles held by Duke Henry I of Burgundy. Beginning with Renauld I, the county was held jointly with that of the County of Auxerre. Nevers came under the rule of the count of Flanders in the 14th century, and from there, into the possessions of Duke Philip the Bold of Burgundy, briefly reuniting the two lands. Philip's younger son Philip II was granted the County of Nevers, passing later into the possession of a cadet branch of the dukes of Cleves. The count was raised to duke in 1539. In 1565 Louis Gonzaga became duke of Nivernais by marriage with Henriette of Cleves. His successor Charles II sold the duchy to Cardinal Mazarin. The duchy survived until the French Revolution, the last duke being Louis Jules Mancini Mazarini, who lost his title in the Revolution, but survived the Reign of Terror to die of natural causes in 1798.

See also
Counts and dukes of Nevers
Duchy of Nivernais
Nivernais
Nevers

References

States and territories established in the 10th century
States and territories disestablished in 1798
County of Nevers


This is a list of British television related events from 1990.

Events

January
1 January
New Year's Day highlights on BBC1 include the network television premiere of the 1985 romantic drama Out of Africa, starring Robert Redford and Meryl Streep as well as the 1982 musical sequel Grease 2.
Debut of the iconic sitcom Mr. Bean on ITV, starring Rowan Atkinson as the titular character.
2 January
Granada's flagship nightly news programme Granada Reports is rebranded as Granada Tonight.
The first episode of the sixth T-Bag series airs in which Georgina Hale debuts as Tabatha Bag, the second T-Bag.
The 30-minute weekday 6am Ceefax slot returns to BBC1, but rather than the special pages used for Ceefax AM, the content is the same as for all other Ceefax broadcasts.
3 January – The US animated series Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles makes its debut on BBC1. The show's original US title, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is changed for the UK because of controversy surrounding ninjas and related weapons such as nunchaku. The intro sequence is heavily edited because of this, replacing the word ninja with hero or fighting, using a digitally faded logo instead of the animated blob and removing any scenes in which the character Michelangelo wields his nunchaku. Scenes of Michelangelo using his nunchaku are likewise edited out of the episodes themselves, leading the American producers to drop the weapons from the series entirely, in order to make the show more appropriate for the international market.
4 January – Debut of the sitcom One Foot in the Grave on BBC1, starring  Richard Wilson.
6 January
The US action drama series Baywatch, starring David Hasselhoff and Pamela Anderson, makes its UK debut on ITV. Made by NBC, the series proves popular with British viewers with audience figures regularly reaching 13 million. When NBC cancels the series after its first season, ITV teams up with an international consortium of broadcasters to sponsor the show for further seasons. The series comes to an end in 2001, following an eleven-year run.
Debut of Jekyll & Hyde on ITV, a made-for-television film starring Michael Caine and Cheryl Ladd.
8 January – The popular classic children's song Nellie the Elephant has been spawned into a five-minute animated cartoon series on ITV, featuring the voices of singer Lulu and Tony Robinson. The first episode is called Nellie and the Ghost and was shown every Monday until 9 April with the episode Nellie Rescues Mrs Maple's Moggy. The series will return on 5 September with Nellie Goes Ballooning and will be shifted onto a Wednesday timeslot. The last three episodes will be broadcast in January 1991 with the final one being shown on 21 January.
9 January – The Secret Cabaret, an innovative and shocking magic-based programme hosted by magician Simon Drake, makes its debut on Channel 4.
14 January – The Observer reports that TVS have started searching for a buyer for a 49% stake in US production company MTM Enterprises which it bought in 1988.
24 January–3 February – The BBC broadcasts the 1990 Commonwealth Games. BBC1 stays on the air all night to provide live coverage. This is the first time that BBC1 has provided full live coverage of an overseas Commonwealth Games with around 12 hours of live action broadcast each day.
27 January – The final episode of Bob's Full House is broadcast on BBC1.
31 January – The network television premiere of the James Bond film A View to a Kill on ITV, starring Roger Moore, Tanya Roberts, Patrick Macnee, Christopher Walken and Grace Jones.
January
For the first time, Emmerdale is networked across almost all of ITV, airing at 7pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Chrysalis Television takes over the contract to produce LWT News.

February
2 February – The BBC Schools gay-themed television film Two of Us is given its first daytime showing on BBC2. It is shown in two parts, on consecutive Friday lunchtimes. The channel had previously shown the film late at night in March 1988.
5 February – Sky Movies is fully encrypted and becomes Sky's first pay channel.
11 February
Live coverage is aired of the African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela's release from Victor Verster Prison, near Cape Town, South Africa.
Sky Movies broadcasts its first special event, the boxing fight between Mike Tyson and Buster Douglas.
13 February – The US science fiction series Quantum Leap makes its UK debut on BBC2, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell.
15 February – The hugely popular game show The Crystal Maze makes its debut on Channel 4, presented by Richard O'Brien.
19 February – The documentary series Cutting Edge makes its debut on Channel 4.
20 February – Steve McFadden makes his first appearance as the EastEnders character Phil Mitchell. Ross Kemp's debut as Phil's brother, Grant would air two days later.

March
4 March – The Observer newspaper reports that it has formed a partnership with Central to create Central Observer, making environmental themed films for British Satellite Broadcasting and other terrestrial channels with funding from the charity Television Trust for the Environment.
12 March
Ahead of the first free legislative election in the German Democratic Republic, BBC1 airs an edition of Panorama in which Fred Emery reports from the GDR and West Germany on the opportunities and strains facing the Germans.
The final episode of Blankety Blank presented by Les Dawson is broadcast on BBC1, although it would return in 1997 with Lily Savage as its host.
20 March – Chancellor John Major delivers the first budget to be broadcast on television.
25 March – British Satellite Broadcasting launches on cable in the as a rival to Sky Television which launched the previous year.
26 March
The science-fiction soap Jupiter Moon makes its debut on the Galaxy channel. 150 episodes are commissioned, but only 108 are aired before the series is cancelled in December.
Debut of the game show Turnabout on BBC1, presented by Rob Curling.
27 March – BBC1 airs the first of two flashback episodes of EastEnders as part of a storyline in which Diane Butcher, played by Sophie Lawrence ran away from home. The episodes show Frank Butcher (Mike Reid) going to meet his teenage daughter at King's Cross station after she contacted him following a three-month absence. Scenes showing Frank waiting for Diane and their subsequent reunion are interspersed with flashbacks to January showing her leaving home and living rough on the streets. Sophie Lawrence did research among real homeless people for the storyline.
28 March – ITV airs the Granada documentary drama, Who Bombed Birmingham?. The programme which looks at the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings and the conviction of the Birmingham Six names several people believed to have actually been behind the bombings.
31 March – Opportunity Knocks returns to BBC1 for the 1990 series with its original title and with Les Dawson as host.

April
3 April – ITV airs the First Tuesday documentary Sonia's Baby, the story of a woman's fight with the medical establishment to have a test tube baby using her late husband's sperm.
6 April – The Australian children's science-fiction comedy Round the Twist makes its UK debut on BBC1.
10 April – The UK's first Asian TV channel TV Asia launches and becomes Europe's first entertainment and information channel for the South Asian community from the Indian subcontinent. It initially broadcasts through the night during Sky One's downtime.
14 April – BBC2 begins showing the 91-part 1988 Indian serial, Mahabharat, a dramatisation of the epic poem the Mahabharata. The programme is shown in Hindi with English subtitles and is repeated the following day in a late-night slot on BBC1.
16 April
BBC1 airs Nelson Mandela – an International Tribute, a concert held at Wembley Stadium in honour of Nelson Mandela. The concert features a number of prominent musicians, including Anita Baker, Tracy Chapman, Stanley Clarke, Natalie Cole, George Duke, Peter Gabriel and Patti LaBelle. Nelson Mandela himself is also in attendance.
BBC1 airs Wogan on Ice, a special edition of Terry Wogan's chat show that gives viewers a rare chance to see ice dancers Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean performing together. The pair who achieved success during the 1984 Winter Olympics, are appearing together in the UK for the first time since 1985.
Debut of You've Been Framed! on ITV, presented by Jeremy Beadle.
17 April – The Channel Four Daily is revamped in a bid to attract more viewers. Some of the segments are changed and the programme starts 30 minutes later, at 6:30am.
19 April – Original airdate of a French & Saunders episode featuring the sketch "Modern Mother and Daughter" which forms the basis of the hugely popular sitcom Absolutely Fabulous that starts in 1992.
21 April
The BBC reverts to airing just one summer Saturday morning magazine show and replaces On the Waterfront and UP2U with a new show, The 8.15 from Manchester, named after its start time and broadcast location.
The final episode of You Bet! presented by Bruce Forsyth, is broadcast on ITV.
29 April – British Satellite Broadcasting launches on satellite television.

May
5 May – Italy's Toto Cutugno wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1990 from Yugoslavia with "Insieme: 1992"; the programme is notable for a technical fault with Spain's entry from Azucar Moreno.
6 May – Original airdate of the Everyman episode A Game of Soldiers, a documentary which concerns a group of soldiers exploring their feelings about being trained to kill.
10 May – The Broadcasting Bill receives its third reading in the House of Commons and is passed with 259 votes to 180.
19 May – Helen Rollason becomes the first female presenter of BBC1's Grandstand.
22 May – ITV airs Trojan Horse, an episode of The Bill in which the character PC Ken Melvin, played by Mark Powley is killed off while trying to park a booby trapped car when a bomb explodes.
25 May – The anarchic cult comedy series Vic Reeves Big Night Out makes its debut on Channel 4, starring Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer.
27–28 May – ITV stages its second nationwide Telethon.
28 May – ITV airs a special edition of Coronation Street as part of its Telethon in which Hilda Ogden (Jean Alexander) returns for a special visit.

June
1 June – The game show The $64,000 Question makes its debut on ITV, presented by Bob Monkhouse.
2 June – Opportunity Knocks ends its run on BBC1 after four series with the 1990 final.
8 June–8 July – The BBC and ITV provide television coverage of the 1990 FIFA World Cup.
15 June – The long-running children's arts and crafts series Art Attack makes its debut on Children's ITV, presented by Neil Buchanan.
 16 June – Pages from Ceefax is shown after 10am for the final time and as from 19 June, BBC2 begins broadcasting programmes when Daytime on Two is not on the air at 10am rather than at lunchtime.
20 June – Archie MacPherson commentates his last football match for BBC Scotland with the Scotland v Brazil World Cup match in Italy which Brazil win 1–0 leaving Scotland eliminated from the finals. He is replaced by Jock Brown (who has commentated the same match on STV) as main commentator when Sportscene returns on 25 August. Brown is replaced by Gerry McNee for Scotsport which is shown the following day.
24 June – The network television premiere of James Cameron's 1984 US science fiction film The Terminator on BBC2 as part of the channel's Moviedrome strand, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn and Lance Henriksen.
28 June – The sitcom Waiting for God makes its debut on BBC1, starring Stephanie Cole.

July
2 July
ITV airs Tom McGurk's film Dear Sarah, a play about Giuseppe Conlon's letters to his wife, Sarah after he was convicted as one of the Maguire Seven for allegedly making IRA bombs.
The Channel 4 game show Countdown celebrates its 1000th edition.
Debut of the cookery competition MasterChef on BBC1, presented by Loyd Grossman.
5 July – The Tavernier family make their EastEnders debut with parents Celestine and Etta (played by Leroy Golding and Jacqui Gordon-Lawrence), their children Clyde (Steven Woodcock), Hattie (Michelle Gayle) and Lloyd (Garey Bridges) and grandfather Jules (Tommy Eytle).
6 July – Channel 4 introduces a third weekly episode of its soap Brookside, airing on a Friday evening. It now airs on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
7 July – In Rome, on the eve of the final of the 1990 FIFA World Cup, the Three Tenors sing together for the first time. The event is broadcast live on television and watched worldwide by millions of people. The main highlight is Luciano Pavarotti's performance of "Nessun Dorma" from Giacomo Puccini's opera Turandot.
9 July – Anglia replaces its news programme About Anglia with Anglia News. It is a new dual news service with both editions broadcast from Norwich. Journalists are also based at seven regional newsrooms and a Westminster bureau. They also begin providing separate news services for the East and West of the Anglia region from that day.
13 July – The network television premiere of Michael Schultz's 1987 science-fiction adventure Timestalkers on BBC1, the film having been postponed from 25 June.
19 July – MPs vote to make televised proceedings of the House of Commons a permanent feature.
21 July – Debut of Stars in Their Eyes on ITV, a series presented by Leslie Crowther in which members of the public impersonate their favourite singers.
31 July – The final edition of Engineering Announcements is shown on Channel 4 at 5:45am.
July – Hey, Hey, it's Saturday! replaces Wac '90 as TV-am's flagship Saturday morning children's programme.

August
9 August – Debut of the sitcom Drop the Dead Donkey on Channel 4.
10 August – Debut of The Word on Channel 4.
14 August – BBC1 begins a repeat of the eight-part New Zealand action thriller Steel Riders.
18 August – BSB's second Marcopolo satellite is launched.
20 August – The final episode of Miami Vice, Freefall is broadcast on BBC1.
25 August – The first series of Stars in Their Eyes on ITV is won by Maxine Barrie, performing as Shirley Bassey.
31 August – The network television premiere of Miracles on BBC1, Jim Kouf's 1986 comedy starring Tom Conti and Teri Garr.

September
 1 September — Sky Movies begins broadcasting 24 hours a day. Previously the channel had broadcast shopping programmes between 6am and 2pm.
2 September
The network television premiere of Heartsounds on BBC1, a film based on the autobiographical book by Martha Weinman Lear and stars James Garner and Mary Tyler Moore.
The long-running US animated series The Simpsons is broadcast in the UK for the first time, making its debut on Sky One. Call of the Simpsons is the first episode to be shown on Sky.
3 September – The children's series Rosie and Jim makes its debut on Children's ITV.
5 September – The new BBC building at White City opens.
7 September – After an eight-year absence, The Generation Game returns to BBC1 with Bruce Forsyth as its returning host and Rosemarie Ford as its hostess.
8 September – Ahead of the UK broadcast of the 1,000th episode of Neighbours, BBC1 airs Neighbours 1,000th Episode Celebration, a TV special produced by Australia's Network Ten which brought together past and present cast members to mark the occasion.
9 September – As part of the Screen One series, BBC1 airs the groundbreaking comedy-drama Frankenstein's Baby which explores the subject of male pregnancy.
10 September – ThunderCats returns to BBC1 with the second half of the first series. However, because of the concerns involving the use of weapons brought about by Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles, the next batch of episodes will have all scenes of Panthro with his nunchakus entirely cut out.
13 September – BBC1 airs the 1,000th episode of Neighbours which features a storyline in which the characters Des Clarke and Jane Harris, played by Paul Keane and Annie Jones) become engaged.
15 September
Raymond Baxter introduces BBC1's live coverage of the fly-past and parade at Buckingham Palace as the Royal Air Force marks the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Britain.
BBC2 screens Horror Cafe, a late-night horror themed special with film-maker's and authors, such as John Carpenter, Clive Barker and Roger Corman telling scary stories.  Followed by the George A. Romero film  Martin the Vampire and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, starring Spencer Tracy and Ingrid Bergman.
16 September – Cliff Michelmore introduces BBC1's coverage of the Battle of Britain Service from Westminster Abbey, conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury Rev. Dr. Robert Runcie.
17 September – BBC1 airs a special edition of Blue Peter in which Yvette Fielding travels to Montserrat to report on efforts to rebuild the island which experienced widespread damage when it was struck by Hurricane Hugo on 17 September 1989.
22 September – Debut of Unsolved Mysteries on Sky One, presented by Robert Stack. It uses a documentary format to profile real-life mysteries featuring reenactments of unsolved crimes, conspiracy theories and unexplained paranormal phenomena.
23 September – Debut of the Screen One drama Sweet Nothing which deals with the subject of homeless young people in London.
24 September
Yorkshire Television launches a third sub-regional news opt-out for south Yorkshire and north Derbyshire called South and is broadcast from Sheffield while East (Hull) continues to air in east Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and north Norfolk and Calendar News is broadcast to the rest of the region, west and north Yorkshire.
Joan Bunting wins the 1990 series of MasterChef on BBC1.
25 September – The children's animated fantasy series The Dreamstone makes its debut on ITV.
26 September
Star Trek: The Next Generation makes its UK debut on BBC2, with the feature-length episode Encounter at Farpoint.
After a nine-year absence, the long-running children's series How is revived as How 2 on ITV, presented by Fred Dinenage, Carol Vorderman and Gareth Jones.
28 September – Debut of the panel game show Have I Got News For You? on BBC2, presented by Angus Deayton.
30 September – The BSB channel Galaxy airs the pilot episode of Heil Honey I'm Home!, a controversial sitcom featuring a fictionalised Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun. The show attracts much criticism and is cancelled after one episode. Several other episodes were recorded, but none have ever been broadcast.

October
2 October – The First Tuesday documentary Swing Under the Swastika airs on ITV. The programme looks at jazz music under the Nazi regime and is narrated by Alan Plater.
3 October – The BBC Radio 1 comedy series The Mary Whitehouse Experience comes to television with a series on BBC2.
6 October – ITV screen the network television premiere of Tony Scott's blockbuster 1986 film Top Gun, starring Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis.
15 October
BBC1 launches a new weekday morning service called Daytime UK. Linked live from Birmingham and running for four hours, from 8:50am until lunchtime, the new service includes hourly regional news summaries, broadcast after the on-the-hour news bulletins.
Fireman Sam returns to BBC1 for a new series with a new character named Penny Morris.
18 October – That day's edition of BBC1's Question Time from Edinburgh becomes the first edition of the programme to feature six panellists after delays require the last-minute substitution of two guests. Tony Benn, Margaret Ewing, Andrew Neil and Malcolm Rifkind were originally scheduled to appear, but Menzies Campbell and Magnus Linklater are drafted in when Benn and Neil are late. They then arrive 20 minutes into the programme and join the discussion.
23 October – David Lynch's critically acclaimed serial drama Twin Peaks makes its UK debut at 9pm on BBC2.
29 October – Debut of the popular sitcom Keeping Up Appearances on BBC1, starring Patricia Routledge.
30 October – Debut of The Sentence, an eight-part BBC2 documentary series looking at life inside Glen Parva Young Offenders Institute near Leicester, Europe's largest prison of its type. It is the first time a television crew has been given access to the prison.

November
1 November – The Broadcasting Act 1990 receives Royal Assent. The Act paves the way for the deregulation of the British commercial broadcasting industry and will have many consequences for the ITV system. The Act also sets out the terms of a license for a fifth UK television channel which would need to be a general entertainment channel with a remit for some public service broadcasting. Additionally, it is estimated that the channel's coverage would reach only 74% of the UK and a video retuning operation would need to be undertaken.
2 November – BSB merges with Sky Television, becoming British Sky Broadcasting. Of BSB's five channels, only two, The Movie Channel and The Sports Channel, remain on the air long-term, though both are eventually renamed. Galaxy is closed with its transponders handed over to Sky One, Now is replaced in the most part with Sky News and The Power Station remains on the air until 8 April 1991 before being replaced with MTV.
8 November – The comedy sketch show Harry Enfield's Television Programme, later called Harry Enfield & Chums makes its debut on BBC2, Harry Enfield, Paul Whitehouse and Kathy Burke.
9 November – The Word is moved from 6pm to a late-night timeslot on Channel 4.
11 November – At 10:40pm, ITV airs an ITN News special in which Trevor McDonald talks to Saddam Hussein. In his first interview with a British broadcaster since his country's invasion of Kuwait in August, the Iraqi President calls for talks and attempts to link the ongoing Gulf crisis with the Palestinian issue.
12 November – The British/Swiss children's series Pingu makes its debut on BBC1.
14 November – Tim Whitnall succeeds Tyler Butterworth as alien Angelo in the ITV children's sitcom Mike and Angelo.
18 November–23 December – The BBC's serialisation of the Chronicles of Narnia concludes with the fourth and final story, The Silver Chair, being aired in six parts.
20 November
Broadcaster John Sergeant's famous encounter with Margaret Thatcher on the steps of the British embassy in Paris. He is waiting for Thatcher in the hope of hearing her reaction to the first ballot in the party leadership contest of 1990, only to be pushed aside by her press secretary, Sir Bernard Ingham when Thatcher emerges from the building. Sergeant later wins the British Press Guild award for the most memorable broadcast of the year.
BBC1 airs The Maze – Enemies Within, an Inside Story special looking at life inside Northern Ireland's Maze Prison.
On today's episode of Emmerdale, Malandra Burrows (as Kathy Merrick) sings "Just This Side of Love", a song that is released by Burrows as a single on 26 November. The song enters the UK Singles Chart at #44, before spending eight weeks in the top 60 and peaking at #11 on 22 December.
22 November – Following Margaret Thatcher's resignation as Prime Minister, this evening's edition of Question Time, broadcast from London's Barbican Centre, is transmitted in two parts, with two different panels. The first part features Enoch Powell, David Owen, James Callaghan and Simon Jenkins while Michael Howard, Nigel Lawson, Paddy Ashdown and Roy Hattersley are the panellists for the second part.
25 November
The final episode of Howards' Way is broadcast on BBC1.
Original airdate of episode three of the ninth series of Spitting Image which concludes with a film showing footage of Britain's homeless crisis over which plays a parody of Dionne Warwick's 1964 song "Walk on By". The piece is introduced as one of the legacies of Margaret Thatcher's government and is rare for the series in that no puppets are used.

December
1 December – With the media watching, the two ends of the service tunnel of the Channel Tunnel are joined together, linking Britain and France for the first time since the Ice Age. A handshake then takes place between Englishman Graham Fagg and Frenchman Phillippe Cozette, after which British and French workers board trains to complete the first journey between the two countries.
2 December
ITV airs a repeat of the first-ever episode of Coronation Street as the soap approaches its 30th anniversary.
Galaxy and Now are closed down and are replaced on the Marcopolo satellite by Sky One and Sky News, although arts programmes are shown for a short time as a weekend opt-out service from Sky News.
7 December – BBC2 airs Your Move, a pioneering interactive show in which the home audience are invited to play chess against grandmaster Jonathan Speelman using telephone voting to select each move.
9 December
Cilla Black hosts Happy Birthday Coronation Street, an evening of entertainment on ITV to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the long–running soap.
The Greek language channel Hellenic TV, the UK's first foreign-language service to be given a broadcast licence by the Independent Television Commission goes on the air in London.
16 December – The network television premiere of The Muppets Take Manhattan on BBC1, the third feature-length film starring The Muppets.
24 December
BBC1 airs feature-length episode of All Creatures Great and Small, the last to be shown in the long-running series.
The first Wallace & Gromit film, A Grand Day Out, makes its debut on Channel 4. The film itself already had its premiere a year earlier at an animation festival in Bristol and features the voice of Peter Sallis as Wallace.
25 December
The network television premiere of Steven Spielberg's 1982 science-fiction blockbuster E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial on BBC1, starring Dee Wallace, Peter Coyote and Henry Thomas.
Channel 4 airs The Coronation Street Birthday Lecture, a talk delivered by Labour politician Roy Hattersley in which he discusses aspects of the soap in front of an invited audience which includes some Coronation Street cast members. The programme also includes some classic clips from the series.
26 December
The network television premiere of the 1986 supernatural horror film Poltergeist II: The Other Side on BBC1, starring JoBeth Williams and Craig T. Nelson, as well as Toto – Live in Paris, a rare live performance from Toto.
ITV airs a TV adaptation of R. D. Blackmore's historical romance Lorna Doone. The film, produced by Thames is noted for its choice of filming location, footage having been shot near Glasgow rather than in the novel's Exmoor setting.
27 December
BBC1 airs the first part of the Australian film Bushfire Moon. The second part is shown the following day.
The network television premiere of Jim Henson's 1982 fantasy adventure The Dark Crystal on BBC2.
The network television premiere of My Left Foot, Jim Sheridan's 1989 biopic of the writer Christy Brown on ITV, starring Daniel Day-Lewis.
31 December – New Year's Eve highlights on BBC1 include the network television premiere of the 1987 romantic comedy Roxanne, a modern retelling of Edmond Rostand's 1897 verse play Cyrano de Bergerac, starring Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah.

Debuts

BBC1
3 January – Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles (1987–1996)
4 January – One Foot in the Grave (1990–2000)
6 January – Waterfront Beat (1990–1991)
8 January – The Further Adventures of SuperTed (1989)
20 January – Alfonso Bonzo (1990)
8 February – Mick and Mac (1990)
15 February
Ben Elton: The Man from Auntie (1990–1994)
Dizzy Heights (1990–1993)
26 March – Turnabout (1990–1996)
6 April – Round the Twist (1990, 1992, 2000–2001)
21 April – The 8:15 from Manchester (1990–1991)
26 May – Takeover Bid (1990–1991)
29 May – Chain (1990)
28 June – Waiting for God (1990–1994)
2 July – MasterChef (1990–2001, 2005–present)
4 September – On the Up (1990–1992)
14 September – Bump (1990–1994)
22 September – Babar (1989–1991)
3 October
Canned Carrott (1990–1992)
The Trials of Life (1990)
4 October – Uncle Jack (1990–1993)
11 October – Your Cheatin' Heart (1990)
28 October – The Green Man (1990)
29 October – Keeping Up Appearances (1990–1995)
12 November – Pingu (1986–2000, 2004–2006)
13 November – Forget Me Not Farm (1990–1991)
18 November
The Silver Chair (1990)
House of Cards (1990)
23 December – The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries (1990–1994)

BBC2
10 January – Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1990)
13 February – Quantum Leap (1989–1993)
21 March – Never Come Back (1990)
6 April – United (1990)
31 May – The March (1990)
19 September – Portrait of a Marriage (1990)
26 September – Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
27 September – Rab C. Nesbitt (1990–2014)
28 September – Have I Got News for You (1990–present)
3 October – The Mary Whitehouse Experience (1990–1992)
7 October – Saban's Adventures of Pinocchio (1972–1973)
13 October – The Littl' Bits (1980)
23 October – Twin Peaks (1990–1991, 2017)
8 November – Harry Enfield's Television Programme (1990–1998)
22 November – Nicholas Craig Masterclass (1990–1992)

ITV
 1 January – Mr. Bean (1990–1995)
 5 January – Stolen (1990)
 6 January
Jekyll & Hyde (1990)
Baywatch (1989–2001)
 7 January – Rescue (1990)
 8 January – Nellie the Elephant (1990–1991)
 10 January – Wowser (1989)
 13 January – Yellowthread Street (1990)
 20 January – Kappatoo (1990–1992)
 21 January – Tarrant on TV (1990–2006)
 27 January – Haggard (1990–1992)
 7 February
El C.I.D. (1990–1992)
No Job for a Lady (1990–1992)
 21 February – Spatz (1990–1992)
 6 March – Chancer (1990–1991)
 25 March – Not with a Bang (1990)
 26 March – What-a-Mess (1979–1980, 1990)
 16 April – You've Been Framed! (1990–2022)
 20 April – The Chief (1990–1995)
 22 April
Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993)
Perfect Scoundrels (1990–1992)
 23 April  – Families (1990–1993)

 1 May – The Upper Hand (1990–1996)
 2 May – Up the Garden Path (1990–1993)
 19 May – Cannon and Ball's Casino (1990)
 30 May – Missing Persons (1990)
 1 June – The $64,000 Question (1990–1993)
 3 June – Shoot to Kill (1990)
 15 June – Art Attack (1990–2007)
 9 July – ITV News Anglia (1990–present)
 21 July – Stars in Their Eyes (1990–2006, 2015)
 25 July – Cluedo (1990–1993)
 1 September – The New Adventures of Black Beauty  (1990–1993)
 3 September – Rosie and Jim (1990–2000)
 6 September – Emlyn's Moon (1990)
 7 September – The Piglet Files (1990–1992)
 21 September – Paddington Bear (1989–1990)
 24 September – Cannon and Balls Playhouse (1990)
 25 September – The Dreamstone (1990–1995)
 26 September – How 2 (1990–2006)
 9 October – She-Wolf of London (1990–1991)
 26 October – Coasting (1990)
 14 November – Medics (1990–1995)
 22 November – Sea Dragon (1990)
 25 November – Come Home, Charlie, and Face Them (1990)
 26 December – Lorna Doone (1990)
 28 December – Father Dowling Mysteries (1987–1991)
 29 December – The Widowmaker (1990)

Channel 4
2 January – Gophers! (1990)
9 January – The Secret Cabaret (1990–1992)
2 February – The Great Moghuls (1990)
15 February – The Crystal Maze (1990–1995, 2016–2020)
19 February – Cutting Edge (1990–present)
27 February – Nightingales (1990–1993)
27 March – Oh, Mr. Toad (1990)
5 May – Bright Sparks (1989)
10 May – My Two Dads (1987–1990)
25 May – Vic Reeves Big Night Out (1990–1991)
12 June – Set of Six (1990)
4 July – Don't Quote Me (1990)
14 July – Elly & Jools (1990)
29 July – A TV Dante (1990)
9 August – Drop the Dead Donkey (1990–1998)
10 August – The Word (1990–1995)
7 October – Bobobobs (1988–1989)
8 October – Centrepoint (1990)
24 December – A Grand Day Out (1989)
Unknown
Nocturne (1990)
Hero Hungry (1990)

S4C
17 September – Heno (1990–2003, 2012–present)

Sky One
2 September – The Simpsons (1989–present) (Repeated on BBC1 & BBC2 from 1996–2004 and Channel 4 from 2004–present)
3 September – Love at First Sight (1990–1992)
22 September – Unsolved Mysteries (1987–2002, 2008–2010, 2020)
3 October – Alien Nation (1989–1990)

Channels

New channels

Defunct channels

Rebranded channels

Ending this year
19 January – Home to Roost (1985–1990)
27 January – Bob's Full House (1984–1990)
16 February – Colin's Sandwich (1988–1990)
12 March – Blankety Blank (1979–1990, 1997–2002)
16 March – Campion (1989–1990)
25 March – Don't Wait Up (1983–1990)
9 April – The Labours of Erica (1989–1990)
2 June – Opportunity Knocks (1956–1978, 1987–1990)
6 June – Connections (1985–1990)
28 July – The Trap Door (1986–1990)
22 August – Fraggle Rock (1984–1990)
19 September – The Best of Magic (1989–1990)
1 October – Penny Crayon (1989–1990)
25 November
Juke Box Jury (1959–1967, 1979, 1989–1990)
 Howards' Way (1985–1990)
27 November – The Paradise Club (1989–1990)
11 December – Huxley Pig (1989–1990)
13 December – The Brollys (1990)
15 December – Noel's Saturday Roadshow (1988–1990)
24 December – All Creatures Great and Small (1978–1990, 2020–present)
 Coconuts (1990)

Births
 1 March – Harry Eden, actor
 16 May – Thomas Brodie-Sangster, actor
 18 June – Jacob Anderson, actor
 24 June – Rosie Jones, comedian
 29 July – Joey Essex, reality TV personality
 17 October – Scarlett Moffatt, TV presenter

Deaths

See also
 1990 in British music
 1990 in British radio
 1990 in the United Kingdom
 List of British films of 1990

References

External links
List of 1990 British television series at IMDb


Nelly's Folly is a 1961 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon short written and directed by Chuck Jones about a singing giraffe who leaves the jungle to pursue a singing career, but finds herself lonely and out of work following an affair. The short was released on December 30, 1961.

Plot
The cartoon opens as a camera pans across the continent of Africa where the narrator describes how dark and terrifying it is, amid jungle sounds and roars. As the camera pans across the darkest area, we hear the melodious sound of someone singing. A second later, the camera opens on a singing giraffe named Nelly, who is performing for her animal friends. A hunter appears from out of the bush, surprised at the sight of this singing giraffe and remarks, "I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't hoid (heard) it with me own eyes!", and immediately has Nelly sign a contract offering her fame and fortune.

Nelly waves a tearful goodbye to her friends in the jungle as she leaves for civilization, captivated by the idea of show business. Once she arrives in New York City, she is put to work singing jingles for "Algonquin Rutabaga Tonic" - a cure for ailments, puts on live stage shows, and produces a line of giraffe-neck sweaters. The camera closes in on a turtle reading a magazine article on the giraffe-neck clothing. His head turns toward the camera and he says, "Well, that's show business".

Nelly releases several albums, but, over time, becomes lonely and disenchanted with fame and longs for male companionship. One day, she wanders into the Zoo and falls in love with a male giraffe, but she finds out he's already married (albeit unhappily, as the "wife" catches him looking at her). Scandal ensues and her agent tells her she's ruining her career (reduced to performing in empty opera houses and taking roles in foreign movies). She leaves show business to go back to her lover in the zoo, who is back together with his wife and wants nothing to do with a "has-been" celebrity. A devastated Nelly quits show business and goes back to Africa.

Back in Africa, Nelly is seen singing a beautiful love song, her sad reflection in a pond, tears dripping from her eyes, and from the eyes of her jungle friends. Moments later, a large male giraffe begins singing along with her and, as if all the darkness in her life disappears, the two fall in love and the cartoon ends right then and there.

Crew
Animation: Richard Thompson, Ben Washam, Tom Ray & Ken Harris
Layouts: Maurice Noble
Backgrounds: Philip DeGuard
Film Editor: Treg Brown
Voice Characterizations: Gloria Wood, Mel Blanc & Ed Prentiss
Music: Milt Franklyn
Produced by David H. DePatie
Co-Directors: Maurice Noble & Abe Levitow
Story: Dave Detiege & Chuck Jones
Directed by Chuck Jones

Music
 "Auld Lang Syne"
 "The Flower of Gower Gulch" from Drip-Along Daffy, written by Michael Maltese
 "Voices of Spring", by Johann Strauss
 "Aloha Oe", by Queen Liliuokalani
 "Columbia, Gem of the Ocean", aka "The Red, White and Blue"
 "Then You'll Remember Me", from Balfe's opera "The Bohemian Girl"

Accolades
It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1962.

Home media
"Nelly's Folly" is included on the Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection and Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 3.  It was also included on the DVD release of the Warner Bros. film Sex and the Single Woman.

References

External links

1961 films
1961 animated films
1961 short films
Merrie Melodies short films
Short films directed by Chuck Jones
Films directed by Abe Levitow
Films directed by Maurice Noble
Films scored by Milt Franklyn
Animated films about animals
1960s Warner Bros. animated short films
1960s English-language films
Films set in Africa
Animated films set in New York City
Films about adultery in the United States
Films about singers


The North Carolina Mountain State Fair is a 10-day agricultural fair, which starts the Friday after Labor Day in Fletcher, North Carolina, and was established in 1994. The N.C. Mountain State Fair is focused the people, agriculture, art, and traditions of Western North Carolina. The fair draws about 190,000 people to the WNC Agricultural Center each year. Tickets are $9 for adults and $5 for children and senior citizens.

The COVID-19 pandemic saw the 2020 fair get cancelled.

See also

 North Carolina State Fair

References

External links

State fairs
Fairs in North America
Festivals established in 1994


William Dawes was a 19th century abolitionist who worked at Oberlin College.

Life
Dawes and John Keep toured England in 1839 and 1840 gathering funds for Oberlin College in Ohio. They both attended the 1840 anti-slavery convention in London.

John Keep and William Dawes both undertook a fund raising mission in England in 1839 and 1840 to raise funds from sympathetic abolitionists. Oberlin College was one of the few mult-racial and co-educational colleges in America at that time.

Both John Keep and Dawes are credited with helping to start the collection of African Americana at Oberlin College which inspired other writers.

A house occupied by someone of the same name was in Hudson, Ohio in the 1830s supporting the route for escaping slaves.

References

American abolitionists
People from Oberlin, Ohio
Oberlin College faculty
Year of death missing
Year of birth missing
Activists from Ohio


Stonehenge Avenue is an ancient avenue on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England. It is part of the Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites UNESCO World Heritage Site. Discovered in the 18th century, it measures nearly 3 kilometres, and connects Stonehenge with the River Avon. It was built during the Stonehenge 3 period of 2600 to 1700 BCE.

Along some of its length, the avenue is aligned with the sunrise of the summer solstice, suggesting a time of most frequent use. In 2013 a section of A344 road was closed, which had cut through the avenue close to Stonehenge. After the road surface was removed, it was shown that although the avenue's banks had been sliced off, the filled-in ditches were still in evidence, confirming that the avenue continued through to the stone circle.

At the end of the avenue, a ring of pits, referred to as Bluestonehenge, was discovered in 2009.  No monoliths were found, and stone chips which were assumed to be of bluestone were later found to bear no relation to the bluestones at Stonehenge.

Natural ice age grooves called periglacial stripes are present in the ground underneath the avenue. Mike Parker Pearson of the Stonehenge Riverside Project believes that the avenue was inspired by, and built over the top of, this existing  natural formation of parallel rills which had a significant astronomical alignment. The presence of ridges and gullies that happened to line up with the solstice directions may have been venerated, leading the  Neolithic people to later build Stonehenge at this particular site.

The avenue, along with Stonehenge itself, is a scheduled monument, first designated in the 1882 act which was the earliest legislation to protect British archaeological sites.

References

Sites associated with Stonehenge
Buildings and structures in Wiltshire
Scheduled monuments in Wiltshire


Katarzyna Piter (; born 16 February 1991) is a Polish professional tennis player.

In May 2014, she reached her career-high ranking of No. 95 in singles and in July 2022, No. 66 in doubles. She has won two WTA doubles titles as well as 8 singles and 25 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.

In July 2013, at the Palermo Open, Piter won her first title on the WTA Tour. She and partner Kristina Mladenovic upset Karolína and Kristýna Plíšková in the final, in a super-tiebreak. Partnered with Fanny Stollár, she also won the doubles title at the 2023 Budapest Grand Prix, ten years after her first title.

Fed Cup
Piter played 2009 for Poland in the Europe/Africa Zone I of the Fed Cup and helped them qualify for the World Group II Play-offs against Japan. In the round-robin stage, she lost her match against Monica Niculescu of Romania, won against Johanna Larsson of Sweden, beat Dijana Stojić of Bosnia and Herzegovina and paired up with Klaudia Jans to beat the Bosnian pairing. In the first play-off against Great Britain, she lost the first singles match to Elena Baltacha, 4–6, 1–6. Poland, however, won that tie.

Performance timelines

Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.

Singles
Current through the 2023 Wimbledon Championships.

Doubles
Current after the 2023 Budapest Grand Prix.

WTA career finals

Doubles: 10 (2 titles, 8 runner–ups)

WTA 125 finals

Doubles: 3 (3 runner-ups)

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 20 (8 titles, 12 runner–ups)

Doubles: 49 (25 titles, 24 runner–ups)

Head-to-head records

Record against top 10 players
 She has a 0–2 () record against players who were, at the time the match was played, ranked in the top 10.

See also
 Poland Fed Cup team

Notes

References

External links

1991 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Poznań
Polish female tennis players

21st-century Polish sportswomen


David J. Sloane (born April 6, 1985) is an American former professional ice hockey defensemen and right winger. He played in one National Hockey League (NHL) game with the Philadelphia Flyers during the 2008–09 season. As a youth, he played in the 1999 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with the Philadelphia Flyers minor ice hockey team.

Career statistics

See also
List of players who played only one game in the NHL

References

External links

1985 births
Adirondack Phantoms players
American men's ice hockey defensemen
American men's ice hockey right wingers
Binghamton Senators players
Chicago Steel players
Cincinnati Cyclones (ECHL) players
Colgate Raiders men's ice hockey players
Elmira Jackals (ECHL) players
Ice hockey players from Pennsylvania
Kalamazoo Wings (ECHL) players
Living people
People from Ambler, Pennsylvania
Sportspeople from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Flyers players
Philadelphia Phantoms players
Undrafted National Hockey League players


Entre ses mains is a 2005 French-Belgian drama film directed by Anne Fontaine. It is also known as In His Hands. The screenplay was written by Fontaine and Julien Boivent.

Plot
Claire Gauthier works for an insurance company. Laurent Kessler is a client. When she has to deal with him he tries to seduce her. In spite of her marriage and her daughter she agrees to dating him. When she learns more about Kessler it strikes her how strange he behaves and that he might be the serial killer who currently makes news by murdering women.

Cast
 Benoît Poelvoorde as Laurent Kessler
 Isabelle Carré as Claire Gauthier
 Jonathan Zaccaï as Fabrice Gauthier
 Valérie Donzelli as Valérie
 Agathe Louvieaux as Pauline
 Bernard Bloch as directeur
 Véronique Nordey as Mme Kessler, Laurent's mother
 Michel Dubois as Claire's father
 Martine Chevallier as Claire's mother

Awards and nominations
 César Awards (France)
 Nominated: Best Actor – Leading Role (Benoît Poelvoorde)
 Nominated: Best Actress – Leading Role (Isabelle Carré)
 Nominated: Best Writing – Adaptation (Julien Boivent and Anne Fontaine)
 Joseph Plateau Awards (Belgium)
 Nominated: Best Belgian Actor (Benoît Poelvoorde)

References

External links

 Entre ses mains at the British Film Institute
 Entre ses mains at AlloCine

2005 films
2000s French-language films
Films directed by Anne Fontaine
French drama films
2000s French films
Belgian drama films
French-language Belgian films
Films produced by Philippe Carcassonne


Smooth Sax Tribute to Earth, Wind and Fire is a tribute album to  the R&B band Earth, Wind & Fire by Keyboardist Todd Burrell and Keyboard and Saxophone player Walter Chancellor, Jr. The album was released on May 11, 2004 on Tribute Records and was produced by both Burrell and Chancellor, Jr.

Track listing
"Shining Star" 	  	   4:42
"Reasons" 	  	           4:32
"Devotion" 	  	           4:21
"September"  4:12
"Can't Hide Love" 	  	   4:17
"Sing a Song" 	  	   4:08
"That's the Way of the World	  	4:47
"Serpentine Fire" 	  	   4:18
"Let's Groove" 	  	   4:14
"Getaway 	   4:32

References

2004 albums
Earth, Wind & Fire tribute albums


The Brighton Speed Trials, in full The Brighton National Speed Trials, is commonly held to be the oldest running motor race. The first race was held 19–22 July 1905 after Sir Harry Preston persuaded Brighton town council to tarmac the surface of the road adjacent to the beach between the Palace Pier and Black Rock to hold motor racing events. This stretch was renamed Madeira Drive in 1909 and the event is still held there, normally on the second Saturday of September each year. In 1936 Motor Sport described the event as: "undoubtedly the most important speed-trials on the British Calendar."

The event is currently run as a quarter mile sprint for both cars and motorcycles, held under the auspices of the Motor Sports Association. The event is organised by the Brighton and Hove Motor Club, with the Sprint Section of the Vintage Motorcycle Club in charge of the Motorcycles.

Following a fatal motorcycle combination crash in 2012 Brighton & Hove City Council considered banning the event. However, on 23 January 2014 the Economic Development and Culture Committee voted in favour of the event continuing.

History

The Brighton National Speed Trials is commonly held to be the oldest running motor race. The first race was held 19–22 July 1905 after Sir Harry Preston persuaded Brighton town council to tarmac the surface of the road adjacent to the beach between the Palace Pier and Black Rock to hold motor racing events. This stretch was renamed Madeira Drive in 1909 and the event is still held there, normally on the second Saturday of September each year. In 1936 Motor Sport described the event as: "undoubtedly the most important speed-trials on the British Calendar."

Interruptions

The first speed trial, called the "Brighton Motor Trials", was held in July 1905, but because of the cost and opposition from ratepayers, it was not held again until 1923.

A police ban of racing on public roads interrupted activity from 1925–1931, but because Madeira Drive was a private road owned by the council it was eventually exempt from the ban.

The Speed Trials were not run between 1939–1945 due to World War II. The 1939 event had been scheduled for 23 September.

In 1969 the fuel crisis led to the cancellation of this year's event. Autocar reported in 1970: "Last year this traditional event did not take place because the condition of the road surface was thought unsuitable for the more powerful sprint cars."

In 2013 the council declined the club's application to run the event following a fatal accident in 2012.  Following a Save Brighton Speed Trails campaign the event was reinstated in 2014.

Notable people

George Abecassis
Sydney Allard
Prince Bira
Bill Boddy
John Cobb
Peter Collins
John Cooper
S. F. Edge
Archie Frazer Nash
Jack Fairman
Joe Fry
Bob Gerard
Mike Hawthorn
Earl Howe
Alec Issigonis
Denis Jenkinson
Roy Lane
Dorothy Levitt
Tony Marsh
Dean Moon
Stirling Moss
Reg Parnell
Kay Petre
Mike Pilbeam
David Piper
Dennis Poore
Ian Raby
Jack Sears
Geoffrey Taylor
Mickey Thompson
Ken Tyrrell
Peter Walker
Rob Walker
Peter Westbury
Ken Wharton

The Dragster Era
The first announcement that a dragster would race in Brighton came from Wally Parks, in an editorial in Hot Rod Magazine in August 1958. Parks had nominated Calvin Rice to travel from the USA to England with the Hot Rod Magazine Special for the speed trials. In the event the trip was aborted.

In 1961 Sydney Allard built the Allard dragster in the UK and its first competitive appearance was at the Brighton Speed Trials on 2 September 1961. A new track record over the kilometre was anticipated but a fuel line ruptured caused a misfire and a time of 37.91 secs. Hot Rod Magazine reported: "During warmup it backfired and blew off one set of blower pipes and never got going." The reputation of the car never fully recovered, and Bill Boddy, editor of Motor Sport, called it a fiasco, saying the mechanical problems had also occurred in testing at Boreham. The Autocar described the Allard dragster as a "gallant failure."

At Brighton on 15 September 1962 the Allard dragster clocked two runs at 22.30 and 22.04 seconds. A respectable performance but no outright win or record. Motor Sport reported: "It appears that before the end of the Brighton kilometre the Allard dragster had burst the pipe between supercharger and engine, a common problem with such an installation and the reason why the Americans bolt their blowers on the engine, eliminating a long induction pipe."

Sydney Allard was joined on 14 September 1963, by Dante Duce in Dean Moon's Mooneyes gas dragster and Mickey Thompson with his Ford-powered Harvey Aluminum Special for some match-race style action. It was not to be. The American cars were not really suited to the kilometre, and there were no clocks for a quarter-mile distance. They had no brakes at the front and parachute brakes at the rear, no rear suspension, and advertising on the bodywork. All of this was enough to give the scrutineers (technical inspectors) fits. The cars did demonstrations only, reduced to burnouts and wheelstands, but left a lasting impression on the crowd. The Allard dragster put two rods through the block on Madeira Drive that day. The Worden dragster of Tony Densham and Harry Worrall, a budget effort powered by a Shorrock-supercharged 1,500 c.c. Ford engine, was entered in the 1,101 to 1,500 c.c. racing car class, and, although not geared for the kilometre, finished second to Patsy Burt, in a time of 27.86 sec. Densham would later set the British land speed record at Elvington in the Ford-powered Commuter dragster.

The canny Duce returned in 1964 with the Moonbeam modified sports car, which at least looked like a traditional European sporty car, but with a drag race and Bonneville heritage. The car as raced in Brighton was fitted with a 375-cubic inch supercharged Chevrolet V8 engine and a Devin bodyshell, and was originally built in 1959. Dante Duce also borrowed an A.C. Shelby Cobra, chassis number CSX2345, from John Wyer, and entered it in the GT class, car number 110 at Brighton.
Duce cleaned up that day winning overall in the Moonbeam in a time of 21.95 sec, and first in Sports and GT cars over 2,500 c.c., in the Cobra roadster in 24.35 sec.

Soon Brighton started holding dragster demonstrations over the quarter mile. In 1972 Clive Skilton produced an 8.18 sec run in his rear-engined Chrysler dragster. In 1973 Dennis Priddle ran a smoky 7.69 sec quarter mile in his front-motored Chrysler dragster, which remains the quickest quarter yet seen on Brighton seafront. Motor Sport reported: "The sheer bravery and courage of the West Country lad as the Dragster accelerated along the bumpy, cambered road, brought forth the most incredible spontaneous round of applause heard at a motoring event for many years." It is said that the local police chief came to Priddle after the run and said "That was that most amazing thing I have ever seen and there's no way I am going to let you do it again!"

The dragsters were getting too quick for Brighton and there were concerns about how to deal with fires involving exotic fuels. They faded from the scene with only occasional wins by drag-race type vehicles, such as Shaun Saunders (2000) and Paul Marston (2001, 2002).

Current events
The event is currently run as a quarter mile sprint for both cars and motorcycles, held under the auspices of the Motor Sports Association. The event is organised by the Brighton and Hove Motor Club, with the Sprint Section of the Vintage Motorcycle Club in charge of the Motorcycles. Entrants run individually, although in earlier days vehicles would race side by side. This practice was stopped following a number of accidents. The course length has varied over the years, generally becoming shorter to keep terminal speeds manageable as cars have got faster. The speed trials form a unique event, where vintage and exotic classics meet the latest in street and racing cars. Public access is allowed to the paddock and startline 'funnel' allowing visitors to get much closer to the action than at most events.

Following a fatal motorcycle combination crash in 2012 Brighton & Hove City Council considered banning the event. However, on 23 January 2014 the Economic Development and Culture Committee voted in favour of the event continuing, after a petition of more than 12,000 signatures was presented.

Timetable of events
Times are approximate.

Classes of cars
Handicap – Roadgoing cars of any type
Class 1 – Roadgoing and modified production cars up to 1400cc
Class 2 – Roadgoing and modified production cars over 1400cc and up to 2000cc
Class 3 – Roadgoing and modified production cars over 2000cc and up to 3500cc
Class 4 – Roadgoing and modified production cars over 3500cc
Class 5 – Clubmans
Class 6 – Sports Libre cars up to 1300cc
Class 7 – Sports Libre cars over 1300cc and up to 1600cc
Class 8 – Sports Libre cars over 1600cc
Class 9 – Racing cars up to 500cc
Class 10 – Racing cars over 500cc and up to 1100cc
Class 11 – Racing cars over 1100cc and up to 1600cc
Class 12 – Racing cars over 1600cc and up to 2000cc
Class 13 – Racing and Sports cars constructed on or before 31 December 1959

Results

Track record
Car
1993, John Gray, SPA Judd V10, standing start 1/4-mile 8.90s

Bike
2009, Roger Simmons, Suzuki Hayabusa Turbo, standing start 1/4-mile 8.73s

Fastest time of the day
These are the fastest car times recorded on the day for each year.

Key: R = Course Record; S/C = Supercharged; T/C = Turbocharged.

Motorbikes fastest time of the day

Key: R = Course Record; S/C = Supercharged.

See also
 Firle Hill Climb
 Lewes Speed Trials
 Southport Speed Trials
 London to Brighton Veteran Car Run

References

 For a photograph of Noel Pope on his blown Brough see: Motor Sport, November 1946, Page 248. For a technical description of Pope's Brough see: Motor Sport, February 1948, Page 51.

Bibliography

 Split Seconds – My Racing Years, Raymond Mays "ghosted" by Dennis May, G.T. Foulis & Co. Ltd. 1952. 306 pages.
 Sprint: Speed Hillclimbs and Speed Trials in Britain: 1899–1925, T.R. Nicholson, (Timothy Robin), 1930–, Newton Abbot, David & Charles, 1969.
 Richard Shuttleworth: An Illustrated Biography, Kevin Desmond, Jane’s Publishing Co Ltd., 1982.
 The Brighton National Speed Trials in the 1960s, 1970s & 1980s (2004) Tony Gardiner, Veloce Publishing .

External links
 Brighton and Hove Motor Club Website. "Home Page", www.brightonandhovemotorclub.co.uk
 Vintage Motorcycle Club Sprint Section Website – Many Images of Motorcycles at Brighton throughout the years. "Home Page", www.vmccsprint.co.uk
 Pistonheads Article on the Speed Trials. "Brighton Speed Trials", Pistonheads.com
 Gumpert Apollo at the Speed Trials. "Brighton Speed Trials", Evo Magazine Website
 Pathe News clip from 1932. "Brooklands by the Sea", British Pathe Website''

Brighton
Drag racing venues in Europe
Motorsport venues in England
Sport in Brighton and Hove
Sussex


Bernard I (c. 1090c. 1158) was the first Lord of Lippe. He reigned from 1123 through 1158.

Lords of Lippe
1090s births
1150s deaths
House of Lippe


Vital Signs 2 was  the second album of the Pakistani band Vital Signs released in 1991.

Track listing
All music composed by Vital Signs. All songs written by Shoaib Mansoor.

Personnel
All information is taken from the CD.

Vital Signs
Junaid Jamshed Khan - vocals
Rohail Hyatt - keyboard, backing vocals
Shehzad Hasan - bass guitars
Rizwan-ul-Haq - lead guitars

Production
Produced by Rohail Hyatt
Recorded, Mixed & Mastered at EMI Studios in Karachi, Pakistan

External links
Vital Signs - A Personal History by NFP
Vital Signs 2nd album

1991 albums
Vital Signs (band) albums
Urdu-language albums


Paul Francis Sanchez Yates is an American filmmaker, artist, and musician.

Yates attended NYU for photography, received a BFA in film from SUNY Purchase in 1993 and received his M.F.A. in directing from AFI Conservatory in 2006.

Yates began working in the film industry at age 9. Despite losing his family and becoming homeless at 15, Yates has made music videos or shot footage for Moby, R.E.M., The Dandy Warhols and others. Yates attended NYU for photography, received a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in film from SUNY Purchase in 1993, and received his MFA in directing from AFI Conservatory in 2006. Yates's films have screened in festivals in Berlin, Havana, Singapore, and Tribeca, among others. Yates was the director of photography on the feature documentary Modulations, which screened at Sundance Film Festival. Yates's first directed feature, Moby Presents: Alien Sex Party was released in 2003. Yates's AFI thesis film Onion Underwater was a 2007 Tribeca Film Festival selection.

His German pop star alter ego Schaumgummi has had several pop hits in Germany. Yates was Moby's keyboardist during his live shows during the 1990s. Yates has performed at Woodstock 1999 and the Late Show with David Letterman. He did an extensive shadowing of the writers and director for the TV series Battlestar Galactica.  He was also a pilot for the Red Bull Flugtag event in New York City in 2003. Yates is the founder of The International Surrealist Film Festival.

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American filmmakers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American musicians
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