Valérie Ducognon (born 1972) from Granier near Beaufort, Savoie, is a French ski mountaineer.

Selected results
 1999:
 1st, La Belle étoile race (together with Delphine Oggeri)
 1st, La Tournette race (together with Delpine Oggeri)
 2nd, European Championship team race (together with Delpine Oggeri)
 3rd, European Cup race "Miage Contamines Somfy" (together with Delpine Oggeri)
 2000:
 1st, French Championship team race (together with Delpine Oggeri)
 1st, La Tournette race (together with Delpine Oggeri)
 1st, Miage Contamines Somfy race (together with Delpine Oggeri)
 1st, L'Ubayenne race (together with Delpine Oggeri)
 1st, European Cup race "Vacheressane" (together with Delpine Oggeri)
 1st, European Cup race in Bivio (together with Delpine Oggeri)
 2nd, European Cup race in Bormio (together with Delpine Oggeri)
 2nd, European Cup total team ranking (together with Delpine Oggeri)
 3rd, French national ranking
 2001:
 1st, French Championship team race (together with Delpine Oggeri)
 2nd, European Championship team race (together with Delpine Oggeri)
 2nd, European Cup total team ranking (together with Delpine Oggeri)
 2nd, French national ranking
 2002:
 1st, World Championship single race
 1st, World Championship team race (together with Delpine Oggeri)
 1st, World Championship combination ranking
 1st, Trophée des Gastlosen (together with Delpine Oggeri)
 2003:
 2nd, European Championship team race (together with Delpine Oggeri)
 3rd, European Championship single race
 3rd, European Championship combination ranking
 2004:
 4th, World Championship team race (together with Delpine Oggeri)
 2005:
 1st, Pyramide d’Oz (together with Delpine Oggeri)

Pierra Menta

 1999: 5th, together with Delphine Oggeri
 2000: 2nd, together with Delphine Oggeri
 2001: 2nd, together with Delphine Oggeri
 2002: 1st, together with Delphine Oggeri
 2003: 1st, together with Delphine Oggeri
 2005: 2nd, together with Delphine Oggeri
 2008: 5th, together with Delphine Oggeri

References

1972 births
Living people
French female ski mountaineers
World ski mountaineering champions
21st-century French women


Aedes serratus is a species of mosquito.

See also
 Oropouche fever

References

Ochlerotatus
Insects described in 1901


Armatage can refer to:

People
John Armatage

Places
Armatage, Minneapolis, Minnesota

See also
Armitage (disambiguation)


Kolka parish (, ) is an administrative unit of Talsi Municipality in the Courland region of Latvia.

Villages of Kolka parish
 Kolka - parish administrative center
 Košrags
 Mazirbe
 Pitrags
 Saunags
 Sīkrags
 Uši
 Vaide

References

External links

Parishes of Latvia
Talsi Municipality
Courland


Culicoides paraensis is a species of midge found from the northern United States to Argentina, which acts as the vector of the Oropouche fever virus.

References

paraensis
Diptera of North America
Diptera of South America
Insects described in 1905


The 1996 Speedway Grand Prix of Germany was the third race of the 1996 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on 9 July in the Rottalstadion in Pocking, Germany It was second German SGP and was won by Danish rider Hans Nielsen. It was the third win of his career.

Starting positions draw

The Speedway Grand Prix Commission nominated Gerd Riss as Wild Card who started in German SPG last season.
Draw 5.  (11) Tommy Knudsen →  (13) Joe Screen
Draw 9.  (14) Gary Havelock →  (4) Greg Hancock
Draw 17. track reserve →  (19) Tomasz Gollob
Draw 18. track reserve → Emply

Heat details

The intermediate classification

See also
 Speedway Grand Prix
 List of Speedway Grand Prix riders

References

External links
 FIM-live.com
 SpeedwayWorld.tv

Speedway Grand Prix of Germany
Ge
Speedway Grand Prix of Germany
1996


Agricola's gracile opossum (Cryptonanus agricolai) is a species of opossum in the family Didelphidae endemic to eastern Brazil. Its habitat is the caatinga and cerrado. While its conservation status has not been determined, expansion of agricultural activities is leading to loss of some of its habitat. There are several protected areas in the species' range but it has not been collected from these areas. The species is named after Brazilian physician Ernani Agricola.

References

Opossums
Mammals described in 1943
Mammals of Brazil
Endemic fauna of Brazil


Ķūļciems parish () is an administrative unit of the Talsi Municipality, Latvia.

Towns, villages and settlements of Ķūļciems parish
 Ķūļciems
 Dzedri
 Krievragciems
 Jādekšas

References

Parishes of Latvia
Talsi Municipality


James Clarke (July 5, 1812 – July 28, 1850) was the third Governor of Iowa Territory from November 18, 1845 until December 3, 1846, being appointed to the office, as a Democrat, by President James Polk.
Born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, Clarke was secretary of Iowa Territory from 1839–1841 and mayor of Burlington, Iowa from 1844-1845. Clarke was the son-in-law of Henry Dodge, whom Fort Dodge, Iowa, is named in his honor. Clarke County, Iowa was named after James Clarke. He died in Burlington.

Iowa's statehood was still a year away when Clarke was appointed the third governor of the Iowa Territory in 1845. Clarke already was well known in political circles since he had been territorial secretary to Iowa's first territorial governor, Robert Lucas.

Clarke was a printer by trade when in 1836 he moved to Belmont, the new capital of the Wisconsin Territory. He married Christiana Dodge, the daughter of territorial governor Henry Dodge, and became territorial librarian.

When the territorial capital moved from Belmont to Burlington (now Iowa) Clarke and his family followed, and he founded the Wisconsin Territorial Gazette and Burlington Advertiser, a newspaper, on July 10, 1837.

When the Iowa Territory was established, President Van Buren appointed Clarke "Secretary in and for the Territory of Iowa," as shown in two of the donated documents, dated November 27, 1839, and February 19, 1840.

By 1842, the territorial capital had moved from Burlington to Iowa City, where Clarke assisted Governor Lucas with government and political business.
Some people opposed Clarke's appointment because of his close personal ties to the Dodge family, but as the mayor of Burlington and editor of the Burlington Gazette, Clarke had gained a reputation as one of the leading advocates for statehood.

President Polk appointed Clarke governor of the Iowa Territory on November 8, 1845.

Clarke played a pivotal role in the development of Iowa, helping to define the state's boundaries and forming the first constitutional conventions. Only four weeks after Clarke delivered his last official message as governor in December 1846, Iowa became the 29th state to join the union.

Clarke resumed his work as a newspaper editor in Burlington. He became the first president of the Burlington School Board and remained active in local political affairs until tragedy struck in July 1850.

His wife and infant son succumbed to a cholera epidemic that swept through Burlington and other Mississippi River towns. Just two weeks later, Clarke, just 38, also died of cholera. The Clarkes are buried in Aspen Grove Cemetery, Burlington.

References

1812 births
1850 deaths
Governors of Iowa Territory
People from Belmont, Wisconsin
Politicians from Burlington, Iowa
Editors of Iowa newspapers
Editors of Wisconsin newspapers
Politicians from Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
19th-century American politicians
Mayors of places in Iowa
Infectious disease deaths in Iowa
Deaths from cholera
19th-century American newspaper editors
School board members in Iowa


Riccardo Garrone (1 November 1926 – 14 March 2016) was an Italian actor and dubber.

Biography
Garrone began his acting career in 1949 and attended the Silvio d'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Arts. He appeared in more than 140 films from 1949 until his retirement in 2014. He made his debut in the film Adam and Eve directed by Mario Mattoli. He also worked in several theatre productions alongside other actors such as Vittorio Gassman, Diana Torrieri and Elena Zareschi.

Garrone often portrayed characters with persuasive, polite personalities in a variety of B movie comedies, spaghetti-westerns and horrors. In the 1980s, he made frequent stage collaborations with Antonella Steni and he made more appearances on television. One of his most popular television roles was on Un medico in famiglia in which he portrayed Nicola Solari. He also had a recurring role on Amico mio starring Massimo Dapporto.

Garrone also worked occasionally as a voice actor and dubber. He often dubbed characters in animated films. He was internationally renowned for providing the Italian voice of Lots-O'-Huggin' Bear in Toy Story 3.

Personal life
Garrone was married to Grazia Maria Verità and they had one daughter, Francesca. Garrone was also the younger brother of director Sergio Garrone. He retired in 2014.

Garrone died in Milan on 14 March 2016 at the age of 89.

Selected filmography

 Adam and Eve (1949) - Pistolero sudista (uncredited)
 Torment of the Past (1952) - Complice di Bianchi
 Brothers of Italy (1952)
 I sette dell'Orsa maggiore (1953)
 Two Nights with Cleopatra (1954) - Ufficiale delle guardie (uncredited)
 Woman of Rome (1954) - Giancarlo
 Il Bidone (1955) - Riccardo
 La rossa (1955) - Pierre
 Una sera di maggio (1955)
 Helen of Troy (1956) - Minor Role (uncredited)
 Guardia, guardia scelta, brigadiere e maresciallo (1956) - The Driver into No-Parking Area
 The Railroad Man (1956) - L'amico di Marcello (uncredited)
 Una voce, una chitarra, un po' di luna (1956) - Mario
 Il prezzo della gloria (1956) - capo macchinista Morabito
 Addio sogni di gloria (1957)
 Fathers and Sons (1957) - Carlo Corallo (uncredited)
 The Most Wonderful Moment (1957) - Il dottor Benvenuti
 Doctor and the Healer (1957) - Sergeant
 Lazzarella (1957) - Sandra's father
 Pretty But Poor (1957) - Franco
 L'ultima violenza (1957) - Giorgio Carani
 Love and Chatter (1958) - Il telecronista
 Le dritte (1958) - Lello
 Venice, the Moon and You (1958) - Don Fulgenzio
 Caporale di giornata (1958) - The Lieutenant
 The Friend of the Jaguar (1959) - Il rappresentante
 My Wife's Enemy (1959) - Michele
 Ciao, ciao bambina! (1959) - Guido Branca
 La cento chilometri (1959) - Cesare Malabrocca
 Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti (1959) - Virgilio, 'Il milanese'
 Nel blu dipinto di blu (1959) - "Tre Stecche"
 La Dolce Vita (1960) - Riccardo
 The Loves of Salammbo (1960) - Hamilcar
 Gentlemen Are Born (1960) - Enzo
 The Warrior Empress (1960) - Hyperbio
 The Traffic Policeman (1960) - Il tenente dei vigili
 Madri pericolose (1960) - Count Massimo Soderini
 Girl with a Suitcase (1961) - Romolo
 Captain Fracasse (1961) - Lampourde
 Laura nuda (1961) - Alvise
 Cronache del '22 (1961)
 Day by Day, Desperately (1961) - Dottore
 Caccia all'uomo (1961) - Commissario Nardelli
 Cacciatori di dote (1961) - Manlio
 Fra' Manisco cerca guai (1961) - Don Liborio
 Pontius Pilate (1962) - Galba
 Peccati d'estate (1962) - Toni
 Eva (1962) - Michele - a player
 Swordsman of Siena (1962) - Don Carlos
 The Legion's Last Patrol (1962) - Paolo
 I Don Giovanni della Costa Azzurra (1962) - Protettore di Assuntina
 The Reunion (1963) - Sandrino
 Il successo (1963) - Ex fidanzato di Laura
 La pupa (1963) - Barone
 I terribili 7 (1963) - Giornalista
 Il treno del sabato (1964) - Riccardo
 Let's Talk About Women (1964)
 Amore facile (1964) - Carlo (segment "Una casa rispettabile")
 The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964) - Bomba
 2 mattacchioni al Moulin Rouge (1964) - Proprietario locale
 I due pericoli pubblici (1964) - Il Barone
 Terror-Creatures from the Grave (1965) - Joseph Morgan
 Two Sergeants of General Custer (1965) - Specialista
 I complessi (1965) - Alvaro Morandini (segment "Una Giornata decisiva")
 Idoli controluce (1965) - Arturo Baldi
 I soldi (1965)
 Spiaggia libera (1966) - Riccardo
 Deguejo (1966) - Foran
 Le voyage du père (1966) - Un voyageur
 Maigret a Pigalle (1966) - La Pointe
 Three Bites of the Apple (1967) - Croupier
 The Seventh Floor (1967) - The Barber
 How to Kill 400 Duponts (1967) - Vladimiro Dupont
 Bang Bang Kid (1967) - Killer Kossock
 Un colpo da re (1967) - Moulin Rouge
 Se vuoi vivere... spara! (1968) - Donovan
 The Killer Likes Candy (1968) - Nicolo
 Madigan's Millions (1968) - Matteo Cirini
 La vuole lui... lo vuole lei (1968) - Ferruccio
 I ragazzi di Bandiera Gialla (1968) - Pizzini, the Producer
 Il ragazzo che sorride (1969) - Father of Livia
 A Noose for Django (1969) - Mr. Fargo
 Oh, Grandmother's Dead (1969) - Galeazzo Ghia
 Death Knocks Twice (1969) - Amato Locatelli
 Pensando a te (1969)
 The Avenger, Zorro (1969) - Albert Pison
 How Did a Nice Girl Like You Get Into This Business? (1970) - Olivetti
 La colomba non deve volare (1970)
 Il divorzio (1970) - Umberto
 A Girl Called Jules (1970) - Carvalli
 A Man Called Sledge (1970) - The Warden
 Basta guardarla (1970) - Pediconi
 Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù? (1971) - Agilulfo, the crusader
 Grazie zio, ci provo anch'io (1971) - Agente X-15
 Trastevere (1971) - Il produttore (scenes deleted)
 A Girl in Australia (1971) - Giuseppe Bartoni
 Siamo tutti in libertà provvisoria (1971)
 Cerco de terror (1972) - Doctor Warren
 Decameron proibitissimo (Boccaccio mio statte zitto) (1972) - Count Guidobaldo
 La bella Antonia, prima Monica e poi Dimonia (1972) - Giovanni Piccolomini
 Return of Halleluja (1972) - Zagaya
 Sting of the West (1972) - Sheriff
 What Am I Doing in the Middle of a Revolution? (1972) - Peppino
 Decameroticus (1972) - Gerbino
 Maria Rosa la guardona (1973)
 Giovannona Long-Thigh (1973) - Robertuzzo
 Rugantino (1973) - Il Principe
 Il figlioccio del padrino (1973) - Petruzzo
 4 marmittoni alle grandi manovre (1974) - Tenente Spezzini
 Il bacio di una morta (1974) - On. Lampedusa
 Di Tresette ce n'è uno, tutti gli altri son nessuno (1974) - Frisco Joe / Tutti Frutti
 Scusi, si potrebbe evitare il servizio militare?... No! (1974)
 L'eredità dello zio buonanima (1974) - Notaio Potenza
 La mafia mi fa un baffo (1974) - Police Manager (uncredited)
 The Silkworm (1974) - Commissario Guarnieri
 Il fidanzamento (1975) - Vincenzo - brother of Luigi
 The Cursed Medallion (1975) - Police Inspector
 The Loves and Times of Scaramouche (1976) - Citoyen Capitain
 Confessions of a Lady Cop (1976) - Federico Innocenti, detto 'Borotalco
 La sposina (1976) - Arnaldi
 La campagnola bella (1976)
 The Cynic, the Rat and the Fist (1977) - Natali
 La vergine, il toro e il capricorno (1977) - Enrica's Husband
 Rene the Cane (1977) - Karl
 Peccatori di provincia (1977) - Zito / Lawyer
 The Cricket (1980) - Ermete
 Don't Play with Tigers (1982) - Admiral Olderisi
 Odd Squad (1983) - Tenente Rondi
 Vacanze di Natale (1983) - Giovanni Covelli
 Fantozzi subisce ancora (1983) - Ragionier Calboni
 Amarsi un po' (1984) - Principe Cellini
 Windsurf - Il vento nelle mani (1984) - Anacleto Stella
 My First Forty Years (1987)
 Paprika (1991) - Zio
 A Cold, Cold Winter (1996) - Avv. Rossi Mannelli
 Simpatici & antipatici (1998) - Fausto
 The Dinner (1998) - Diomede
 I fobici (1999) - Carlo's father (segment "Ho chiuso il gas?") (voice, uncredited)
 At the Right Moment (2000) - Direttore TG
 Padre Pio: Between Heaven and Earth (2000, TV Movie) - Eminenza
 Arresti domiciliari (2000)
 I Love You Eugenio (2002) - Maresciallo
 Amore 14 (2009) - Tommaso
 La città invisibile (2010) - Nonno Carmine
 La legge è uguale per tutti... forse (2014) - Barbone

References

External links

1926 births
2016 deaths
Italian male film actors
Italian male voice actors
Italian male television actors
Italian male stage actors
Italian film directors
Male actors from Rome
20th-century Italian male actors
Nastro d'Argento winners
People of Lazian descent
Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico alumni


Laidze parish () is an administrative unit of Talsi Municipality, Latvia.

Towns, villages and settlements of Laidze parish

References

Parishes of Latvia
Talsi Municipality


Lauciene parish () is an administrative unit of Talsi Municipality, Latvia.

Towns, villages and settlements of Lauciene parish

See also
 Nurmuiža Castle

Parishes of Latvia
Talsi Municipality


Abraham Munn (1818 – 1910) was the founder of the city of Lakeland, Florida. Hailing originally from New Jersey, Munn gained notoriety as a producer of agricultural implements, through Munn & Company, in Louisville, Kentucky. This company was incorporated into Brennan & Co. Southwestern Agricultural Works when Thomas Brennan became a partner in 1882. In 1884, at the Munn property that is now part of Lakeland, the South Florida Railroad passed through, connecting Kissimmee to Tampa. Munn provided local amenities and a railroad station to supplement the line, as well as plots of land adjacent to the line. In 1885, the area was incorporated as Lakeland, Florida. The central park of Lakeland is named Munn Park in honor of the city's founder.

References

Lakeland, Florida
American city founders
1818 births
1910 deaths


Lībagi Parish () is an administrative unit of Talsi Municipality, Latvia.

Towns, villages and settlements of Lībagi parish
  — parish administrative center

References

Parishes of Latvia
Talsi Municipality


Jan Vilímek (; 1 January 1860 – 15 April 1938) was a Czech illustrator and painter.

Vilímek was born on 1 January 1860 in Žamberk, Bohemia. He created many portraits of famous personalities from Bohemia and other Slavonic nations. During the 1880s, these portraits were regularly published in magazines such as Humoristické Listy, Zlatá Praha and Světozor. In the 1890s, some of these illustrations were assembled into a book, České album. He died on 15 April 1938 in Vienna.

External links

 List of Vilímek's portraits on Czech Wikipedia (incomplete, sorted by source, with links to digitized images on Wikimedia Commons and external sites)

1860 births
1938 deaths
People from Žamberk
19th-century Czech painters
Czech male painters
20th-century Czech painters
Czech illustrators
19th-century Czech male artists
20th-century Czech male artists
Painters from Austria-Hungary


Derrick Brown (born 21 November 1963) is a male retired English athlete who specialized in the long jump. His career best jump was 8.00 metres, and his best international result was a fifth place at the 1986 Commonwealth Games.

Career
As a junior athlete, Brown had a personal best jump of 7.54 metres, achieved in June 1982 in Hull. The next year, he won his first medals in senior competitions, with a bronze medal at the Amateur Athletics Association (AAA) Championships, behind guest jumper Mike Conley, Sr. and Fred Salle, and a gold medal at the UK Championships. UK Championship gold medals followed in 1984, 1986 and 1988. At the AAA Indoor Championships, he won a gold medal in 1984 and silver medals in 1985 and 1987, and at the AAA Championships, he won silver in 1985 and gold in 1986.

Internationally, he competed for England at the 1986 Commonwealth Games, where he finished fifth with a jump of 7.65 metres.in Edinburgh, Scotland. His career best jump was 8.00 metres, achieved in July 1985 in Viareggio. He did have one wind-assisted 8.12 result from June 1986 in Loughborough.

References

1968 births
Living people
English male long jumpers
Commonwealth Games competitors for England
Athletes (track and field) at the 1986 Commonwealth Games


Black's Medical Dictionary (42nd ed, 2010, ) is a comprehensive medical dictionary featuring definitions of medical terms, concepts and conditions, published by A & C Black Publishers. It was first published in 1906, and is now in its forty-second edition. It is considered a simplified home reference for medical terms. According to the publisher, It contains over 5000 definitions and descriptions of medical terms and concepts with over 1000 diagrams.

The latest edition contains new and expanded sections on:
 HPV vaccine
 Monoclonal Antibodies
 Fibroid treatment
 Endoscopy and laparoscopy
 Coronary angioplasty
 MRSA and stem cell research

On April 1, 2010, Bloomsbury Academic & Professional became the new U.S. publisher of A&C Black titles. Distribution continues through Macmillan Publishers.

List of editors
John Dixon Comrie
1906 (1st edition) – 1942 (17th edition)
H. A. Clegg
1944 (18th edition)
W. A. R. Thomson
1948 (19th edition) – 1984 (34th edition)
C. W. H. Havard
1987 (35th edition) – 1990 (36th edition)
Gordon MacPherson
1992 (37th edition) – 2002 (40th edition)
Harvey Marcovitch
2005 (41st edition) -

References

1906 non-fiction books
Medical dictionaries
A & C Black books


Hants and Sussex Aviation Ltd (alternatively known as H+S Aviation) was a British aviation manufacturer. Based at Portsmouth Airport, Hampshire, England, throughout much of its existence, the company is still in business in the aircraft components industry.

Hants and Sussex Aviation was established shortly after the end of the Second World War; initially perusing a wide range of aviation activities, including the development of its own internally-designed light aircraft, the company became focused on engine overhaul services and the aerospace component markets. Over the years, it has formed numerous agreements and partnerships with other companies to provide repair and support services to their customer bases, orientated especially towards engine manufacturers such as Pratt & Whitney and Rolls-Royce. The company adopted the H+S Aviation name during 1986. During March 1998, the company was acquired by British aircraft engineering and transport company BBA Group, becoming its subsidiary thereafter.

History
The business was originally established during 1946 as Hants and Sussex Aviation by the Hawes family. It initially established its offices at Bognor Regis as well as its first workshop in Fratton, outside Portsmouth. During 1947, Hants and Sussex Aviation opted to center its operations at a site on the edge of Portsmouth Municipal Airport, Hampshire; this would serve as its long-term base, even following the airport's closure during 1973, into the 21st century.

Early on, Hants and Sussex Aviation found work via government contracts for the demolition of surplus aircraft and aeroengines from the Second World War. By 1949, scrapping activities were reducing due to a decrease in demand for such work; in response, the company chose to expand its aircraft maintenance and engine overhaul activities. It became the first independent engine overhaul facility to be equipped with its own dynamometer test cell in 1956. The aeroentine engine sector would provide much business for Hants and Sussex Aviation across the remainder of the 20th century.

During 1949, the company decided to design its first aircraft, the Hants and Sussex Aviation Herald. It was a single-seat ultra-light aircraft, furnished with a fixed tricycle undercarriage and powered by an Aeronca-JAP J-99 piston engine, capable of generating up to 40 h.p. During 1953, the Herald underwent a series of flight tests at Portsmouth Airport; however, testing revealed that the aircraft possessed a poor performance, leading to the type's grounding. The aircraft was dismantled without ceremony during 1955.

On 16 January 1950, the company purchased a batch of six Avro Lancastrian Mk. CII as surplus airframes from the RAF (Serial Numbers VL980, VM702, VM725, VM726, VM727, VM735); the post-service histories of these aircraft are unknown, as are their civilian call signs. During 1964, Hants and Sussex Aviation was contracted to manufacture a pair of pre-First World War flightworthy replica aircraft for the film Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines. This two replicas were of the Antoinette IV, which was powered by a single de Havilland Gipsy I engine.

Despite these side ventures, Hants and Sussex Aviation continued to concentrate much of its resources on the overhaul, modification and repair of aircraft engines and components. During 1968, it acquired rival firm RTZ Pillar Engineering Group; three years later, the company also bought out Air Engine Services Ltd. During 1971, the firm began servicing gas turbine engines for the first time, providing repair and overhaul technical services for the Rolls-Royce Dart turboprop. Two years later, it was appointed an official distributor for the Allison Model 250 turboshaft engine. The closure of Portsmouth Airport in 1973, where Hants and Sussex Aviation had the majority of its workshops, directly led to the discontinuation of the firm's aircraft maintenance activities.

During the late 1970s, Hants and Sussex Aviation was promoting its capabilities for the overhaul and repair of Continental piston engines for aircraft. In 1980, the company signed a technical assistance agreement with American conglomerate General Electric to provide services for its T58 turboshaft engine. During the following year, Hants and Sussex Aviation purchased the design rights for the de Havilland Gipsy Major and de Havilland Gipsy Queen piston engines. In 1983, another agreement with General Electric covering its CT7 powerplant was finalised; it also received approval to support the Rolls-Royce Nimbus turboshaft engine. During 1986, the company was formally renamed H+S Aviation. By September 1986, the firm was engaged in overhauling and modifying multiple turboprop engines, including the Pratt and Whitney PT6.

During 1992, all of H+S Aviation's activities were relocated to its Portsmouth hub. During the following year, the firm was acquired by MB Caradon plc; it would be sold onto Vector Corporation three years later. By 1995, H+S Aviation had reportedly become the largest authorised maintenance centre for the Allison 250 powerplant in Europe. In June 1997, it was announced that H+S Aviation had launched a new venture, H+S Proptech, to repair and overhaul propellers of various manufacturers, including Hamilton Standard, McCauley, Hartzell and Dowty. That same year, it decided to discontinue all overhaul and repair activities on piston engines. During 1998, the firm agreed with Sundstrand Corporation to establish a European Service Centre for servicing the latter's auxiliary power units (APU). By 2008, the company was providing support for various engines in Pratt and Whitney's lineup, such as the PW100 and PW901 APU series. During 2015, H+S Aviation received approval to overhaul the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW200 family at its Abu Dubai facility; H+S Aviation managing director Mark Taylor stated that the firm aimed to expand its rotorcraft support capabilities throughout the region.

During March 1998, British aircraft engineering and transport company BBA Group acquired H+S Aviation from its previous parent Vector Industries in exchange for £29.5 million; the move came as part of the former's strategy of building up its regional aviation services business. Later that year, the firm owned a new APU overhaul facility, having previously secured work via a support agreement with American company AlliedSignal.

References

Citations

Bibliography

Defunct aircraft manufacturers of the United Kingdom


Lube Parish () is an administrative unit of Talsi Municipality, Latvia.

Towns, villages and settlements of Lube parish
  – parish administrative center

References

Parishes of Latvia
Talsi Municipality


Kingfield or King Field may refer to the following places:
Kingfield, Maine, a New England town
Kingfield (CDP), Maine, the main village in the town
King Field, Minneapolis, Minnesota, a neighborhood
Kingfield, an area of Woking, Surrey, England
Kingfield Stadium, Woking

See also
Kingfield and Dead River Railway, Maine
Kingsfield (disambiguation)
King's Field


Jonathan J. Lewis is an American surgeon, biomedical researcher and entrepreneur.   He was trained in surgery in South Africa, Britain, and the United States, and is a fellow of both the Royal College of Surgeons and the American College of Surgeons. Dr. Lewis was awarded an MB.B.Ch. from University of the Witwatersrand School of Medicine, and his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from Witwatersrand and Yale School of Medicine.  He completed his Surgical Residency at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital and at Yale-New Haven Hospital.  Lewis was a Professor of Surgery and Medicine Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, before working in the biotechnology and healthcare industries, serving in several CEO and Chairman roles.  He is currently chairman and co-founder of the Molecular Ninja Group and chairman and co-founder of Dugri Inc.

Education
Lewis received his MB. B.Ch. from University of the Witwatersrand in 1982 and his Ph.D. degree in the Molecular and Cell Biology of Growth Factor Signal Transduction from the University of Witwatersrand and Yale School of Medicine in 1990.  He was elected a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1987.  At Yale he trained with Elton Cahow and William Collins, and at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center he trained with Sir Murray Brennan. At Sloan-Kettering, he completed postdoctoral research in the immunology lab of Alan Houghton.

Research and scientific contribution
Lewis’ research has contributed to the development of innovative cancer treatments and treatment approaches.  Lewis' work focused on better understanding the biology and treatment of difficult-to-treat cancers. This includes the early use of peptides and DNA vaccines with active immunotherapy using T cells, a better understanding of the biology and role of surgery in retroperitoneal sarcoma, the liberal and correct use of re-resection in extremity sarcoma, and the potential use of vaccines in pancreatic cancer.
Lewis has authored over 200 scientific publications, which include work in the biology and treatment of sarcoma, the biology and treatment of pancreatic cancer, molecular cancer vaccines, gene therapy and the translation of laboratory findings to the clinic, in addition to writing chapters or sections in 15 textbooks.

Lewis has worked with Yotam Dagan, Sir Murray Brennan and others to help hone the development of next-generation technology platforms for scale in the management of operational stress management and PTSD.

During his career as a physician, Lewis cared for Kitch Christie, the head coach of the 1995 South Africa national rugby union team, Chief Justice Ismail Mahomed,   and Kate McGarrigle.  He has served on multiple boards of non-profits, including as chairman of the board of trustees and Scientific Advisory Council of the Hope Funds for Cancer Research and as an Honorary Member of the Board of Directors of the Sarcoma Foundation of America.

References

1959 births
Living people
Yale School of Medicine alumni
Yale School of Medicine faculty
American surgeons
People from Fairfield County, Connecticut
People from Johannesburg
Businesspeople from New Haven, Connecticut
Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England


Mērsrags Municipality () is a former administrative unit of Latvia, formed in 2011. As of 2020, the population was 1,407.

History
In 2009, Roja Municipality was formed by merging Mērsrags Parish and Roja Parish, both at the coast of the Baltic Sea. In January 2010, the residents of Mērsraga in a general meeting decided to withdraw from the new municipality and create an independent Mērsrags municipality. In September 2010, the national parliament Saeima in a first reading supported a change of the law of administrative territories and populated areas for the establishment of Mērsrags municipality. Separate Roja and Mērsrags municipality council elections took place on 18 December 2010. Officially, Mērsrags Municipality came into life on 3 January 2011.

On 1 July 2021, Mērsrags Municipality ceased to exist and its territory was merged into Talsi Municipality.

See also
 Administrative divisions of Latvia

References

Former municipalities of Latvia


Cóir Connacht ar chath Laighean ("Justice of Connacht on the battle of Leinster") is a fourteenth-century Irish poem.

It is an address to Aedh Ó Conchobair, King of Connacht (d. 1309 and is thought to be "the earliest extant bardic poem containing an 'arming the hero' sequence with reference to the new Norman style of arms.'

It is of a piece with An sluagh sidhe so i nEamhuin?, composed nearly four hundred years later.

References

Irish literature
Irish poems
Texts in Irish
Early Irish literature
Irish-language literature
Medieval poetry
O'Conor dynasty


Roja Parish () is an administrative unit of Talsi Municipality in the Courland region of Latvia. From 2009 until 2021, it was part of the former Roja Municipality.

Towns, villages and settlements of Roja parish

References

Parishes of Latvia
Talsi Municipality
Courland


Barbara Brown Taylor (born 1951) is an American Episcopal priest, academic, and author. In 2014, Time magazine placed her in its annual Time 100 list of most influential people in the world.

Education and recognition
Taylor was born on September 21, 1951, in Lafayette, Indiana. She did her undergraduate studies at Emory University where she graduated in 1973. She then went on to study at Yale Divinity School, where she graduated in 1976.  She was ordained in 1984, and became the rector of Grace-Calvary Episcopal Church (Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta) in Clarkesville, Georgia, in 1992. She later left parish ministry and became a full-time professor at Piedmont College in Demorest, Georgia, and an adjunct professor of Christian spirituality at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia. She taught world religions and exposed her mainly Christian students to other faiths so they could better understand how various groups worship.

In 1996, she was named one of the twelve "most effective" preachers in the English-speaking world by Baylor University. She was awarded the 1998 Emory Medal by the Emory Alumni Association of Emory University for her distinguished achievement in education. In February 2009, Barbara Brown Taylor led the second annual Piedmont College religion conference in Athens, Georgia. Taylor had been the keynote speaker at the conference in previous years. In addition, Taylor gave the 2009 Annual Buechner Lecture at the Buechner Institute at King University. She has written twelve books on faith and spirituality.
In February 2010, days before Piedmont College's religion conference, Taylor ranked in the top ten most influential living preachers in a poll conducted by the Southern Baptist Convention.

Career
In the early 2000s, she chose to leave active ministry, while retaining her ordination. Her memoir of this time Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith was the first of a trilogy of books about redefining her faith followed by An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith and Learning to Walk in the Dark.

Private life
She lives on her farm in northern Georgia, with husband Edward Taylor.

Bibliography

Learning to Walk in the Dark. HarperOne. 2014. p. 200. .

Co-editor with David L. Bartlett, Feasting on the Word Commentary Series. Westminster John Knox Press. 2008.

References

Further reading

External links

1951 births
20th-century American non-fiction writers
20th-century American women writers
21st-century American non-fiction writers
21st-century American women writers
Academics from Georgia (U.S. state)
American Christian writers
American Episcopal priests
American religion academics
American women academics
American women non-fiction writers
Anglican scholars
Emory University alumni
Living people
People from Lafayette, Indiana
People from Clarkesville, Georgia
Women religious writers
Yale Divinity School alumni
Episcopalians from Indiana


Fathers and Sons ( and also known as A Tailor's Maid) is a 1957 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli. At the 7th Berlin International Film Festival Monicelli won the Silver Bear for Best Director award.

Plot
In Italy, in the 1950s, the lives of five families intersect. Vincenzo Corallo is a widowed tailor who has no control over his teenager, Marcella, who skips school to go with her boyfriend, Sandro Bacci, older than her, in assize trials. Her son, Carlo, is the master of the family who can't stand his sister's bad manners and wants to put her back on the right track.

At the Bacci, the father, Vittorio, has problems with his eldest son.

In the same building, Guido and Giula Blasi are expecting their first child. Anxious, Guido contacts a nurse, Ines Santarelli, who offers him injections for his pregnant wife.

Ines Santarelli, married to a zookeeper, is the overworked mother of five children. She entrusts one of her sick sons to her sister Rita, happy to welcome him, because she cannot have children with her husband.

Cast
 Vittorio De Sica - Vincenzo Corallo
 Lorella De Luca - Marcella Corallo
 Riccardo Garrone - Carlo Corallo
 Marcello Mastroianni - Cesare
 Fiorella Mari - Rita
 Franco Interlenghi - Guido Blasi
 Antonella Lualdi - Giulia Blasi
 Memmo Carotenuto - Amerigo Santarelli
 Marisa Merlini - Ines Santarelli
 Ruggero Marchi - Vittorio Bacci
 Emma Baron - Missis Bacci
 Gabriele Antonini - Sandro Bacci
 Franco Di Trocchio - Alvaruccio
 Raffaele Pisu - Vezio Bacci

References

External links

Father and Sons at Variety Distribution

1957 films
1957 comedy films
Italian comedy films
1950s Italian-language films
Films directed by Mario Monicelli
Films scored by Carlo Rustichelli
Films set in Rome
Films with screenplays by Age & Scarpelli
1950s Italian films


MCJ (or variants) may refer to:

 MCJ (company), a Japanese company
 MCJ and Cool G, a former Canadian hip hop duo
 Men's Central Jail, a Los Angeles Country jail


An English Expositor: teaching the interpretation of the hardest words used in our language, with sundry explications, descriptions and discourses is a dictionary of hard words compiled by John Bullokar and first published in London in 1616.

The book is significant as the second monolingual dictionary to be printed in the English language. Its aim, as laid out in the preface, was to catalogue the "great store of strange words" in the English language, and "open the signification of such words, to the capacitie of the ignorant". It was extensive in scope, covering not only foreign loanwords and words that had become obsolete, but also terms associated with science and philosophy. It contained twice as many entries as its sole predecessor, Cawdrey's A Table Alphabeticall, from which it borrowed heavily.

John Bullokar lived only to see the second edition of his book, but at least sixteen more editions and revisions appeared over the next 150 years, including An English Expositor, or, Compleat Dictionary (1698), and The English Expositor Improv'd (1719).

References

English dictionaries
1616 books


Kerkenna may refer to:

The Kerkenna Islands, an alternative spelling for the Kerkennah Islands
USS Kerkenna, a United States Navy cargo ship in commission from 1918 to 1919


Sabile Municipality () was an administrative unit (2000-2009) of the Talsi District, Latvia.

Towns, villages and settlements of Sabile Municipality
 Sabile
 Valgale
 Veģi
 Lielvirbi

Former municipalities of Latvia


Grupo Werthein (Werthein Group) is a holding company based in Argentina. It is owned and controlled by the Werthein family. Its activities began more than 100 years ago in the agribusiness sector.

History

León Werthein emigrated from Bassarabia in 1904 and arrived in Argentina, after coping with difficulties in the Russian Empire. The family established its home in a first company owned by the group.

Founders

Daniel Werthein
Adrián Werthein
Gerardo Werthein
Darío Werthein

Company

Activities

 Telecommunications: Until 2017, the group was a shareholder, originally along with Telecom Italia, of Sofora Telecomunicaciones S.A., which controlled Telecom Argentina.
 Agribusiness: The industry where Grupo Werthein originated and began its consolidation process. They are involved in various businesses related to this activity: livestock genetics and meat production, commodity production, specialty crops, and dried fruit. High-pedigree animals of Argentina - such as Aberdeen Angus, Hereford, Braford, and Brangus - are raised in their establishments. Grupo Werthein produces wheat, soybeans, and corn (among others). Part of those commodities is industrialized in the plant located in Lima, Buenos Aires, and exported to global markets. In the fruit and vegetable market, they are engaged in the processing and marketing of fruit derivatives, mainly apples. Their establishment is based in the Valley of Río
 Consumer goods: The group sells tea brands Cachamai and Té José and flavoured yerba mate Cachamate. Besides supplying the domestic market, the company exports to France, Spain, Japan, England, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, and the United States, among other destinations.
 Insurance: By means of its participation in Caja de Ahorro y Seguro S.A., the group has more than 20 years of experience in the market. The company controls, among others, La Caja de Seguros S.A. and La Caja de Seguros de Retiro S.A. and owns 50% of La Caja Aseguradora Riesgos del Trabajo S.A. and La Estrella S.A. Compañía de Seguros de Retiro. It also has a minority stake in the Argentina subsidiary of Europ Assistance.
 Financial services: For 35 years it owned Banco Mercantil Argentino, which once had more than 60 branches nationwide. It also participated with the Standard Bank of South Africa in the acquisition of BankBoston Argentina (2007). The bank changed its name to Standard Bank until it was sold in 2011 to the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China. During the 1990s it was part of the Citicorp Equity Investments, which conducted numerous transactions in various sectors of the economy.
 Oil: Since 2006 the group has had a joint venture together with Petrosiel (Sielecki family) and Energial for oil exploration in a 2,000km² area of Salina Grande I in La Pampa. Their total reserves reach about 6.2 million barrels.
 Real estate: Through its companies, Grupo Werthein has built over 330,000 m² in different facilities (Torres Figueroa Alcorta, Altos Porteños, Barrio La Damasia in San Fernando and Libertador and Paroissien in Núñez).
 Wines: Dario Werthein is president of Bodega Riglos, whose vineyards - located in Alto Valle de Uco - produce quality wines in the varieties Malbec, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc and Corte. Sophenia is a wine cellar with over 130 hectares of vines, in Tupungato, Mendoza. Their wines began trading in 2004 and are sold in 30 countries.
 Horse breeding and sports: Located at Capilla del Señor, Haras El Capricho was established in 1999 and has since conducted the international equestrian competition CSIO-W (horse jumping) for which renowned riders from all over the world have travelled to Argentina. Its president is Gerardo Werthein.

Investments, acquisitions and participations

 AFJP Activa (1994-1996)
 Banco Mercantil Argentino (1963-1993)
 Bank of America (2007)
 Bodega Riglos (2002)
 Cachay (2005)
 Caja de Ahorro y Seguro (1994)
 Citicorp Equity Investment (1992-1998)
 Citrex (1965-1979)
 EDELAP (1992-1997)
 Finca Flinchman (1980-1987)
 GNNW (1928)
 Haras El Capricho (1999)
 Hotel Llao Llao (1997)
 Industrias del Vestir Argentino (1970)
 Multicanal (1994)
 Telecom Argentina (2003)
 TGS (1992)
 Torneos y Competencias (1997)

Social responsibility

Grupo Werthein works in various social responsibility actions aimed at reducing the social gap and shortening distances by means of educational, inclusive, technological, environmental, and sports activities.

The Wertheins have been carrying out social action initiatives related to developing the community in which they are embedded.

 Noel Werthein was co-founder of Tel Aviv University together with George S. Wise en 1968, president of ORT Schools Argentina and president of the Argentina-Israel Chamber of Commerce.
 Julio Werthein was head of Asociación ORT-Escuelas Técnicas, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador (1995), and president of the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange (2002-2005).
 Leo Werthein was president of the Tzedaká Foundation and president of the Argentine Angus Association.
 Daniel Werthein is the former vice president of the DAIA Foundation.
 Adrián Werthein is the president of INEBA Foundation.
 Gerardo Werthein is president of the Argentine Olympic Committee and a member of IOC.
 Darío Werthein was president of the Tzedaká Foundation, current secretary of World ORT, and a member of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.

References

External links

Companies based in Buenos Aires
Conglomerate companies established in 1928
1928 establishments in Argentina
Holding companies of Argentina
Holding companies established in 1928

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Strazde Parish () is an administrative unit of Talsi Municipality, Latvia.

Towns, villages and settlements of Strazde parish
  - parish administrative center

References

Parishes of Latvia
Talsi Municipality


The Schweizerischer Niederlaufhund (Small Swiss Hound), is a breed of dog of the scenthound type from Switzerland. Niederlaufhund means short-legged hound.  The breed has a number of different varieties (all of the same breed).

Description
The Swiss Niederlaufhund is an excellent hunting dog used to find and follow a scent even through difficult ground. This dog is also often used to pursue and find wounded animals.

Appearance

These dogs' height lies between 35 and 43 cm (13.8 -16.9 ins) for the males and 33 and 40 cm (13 and 15.7 ins) for the females. The general appearance is of a hound similar to the Schweizer Laufhund, with a smaller body and shorter legs. They appear to be square but are a little longer than they are tall and well-structured. The head is well clearly shaped and noble with a friendly and alert expression. The chest. The legs are strong with a robust structure. At a calm pace they carry the tail low; when they run it is a bit lifted. The breed has long, drop ears and a long tail.

The coat can be short and smooth or a bit longer and stiff depending on the type.

The varieties of the Schweizerischer Niederlaufhund are arranged by coat colour and texture:
Small Bernese Hound (Berner Niederlaufhund) - tricolour: white, black and tan, tan marks over the eyes.
short-haired Small Bernese Hound - short and smooth coat
wire-haired Small Bernese Hound - harsh single coat, small beard on the face
Small Jura Hound (Jura Niederlaufhund) -smooth single coat, black with tan markings above the eyes, some white.
Small Lucerne Hound (Luzerner Niederlaufhund) - smooth white coat speckled with grey or black to give a blue appearance, with black patches and tan marks over the eyes.
Small Schwyz Hound (Schwyzer Niederlaufhund )- smooth white coat with yellow-red to orange-red patches. There was once a wire-haired variety of the Small Schwyz Hound, but it is now extinct.

Berner Niederlaufhund
This type is bred in both short-haired and wire-haired varieties and both are always tri-colored: white, black and tan. The base color is white with big black spots. Some little spots are allowed. Over the eyes and on the cheeks these dogs have maroon-colored spots.
A black mantle is allowed. The skin is black pigmented under the dark coat and marbled under the white coat.

Jura Niederlaufhund
This type usually has a smooth coat. A deep-black color with some maroon-colored spots over the eyes, on the cheeks, chest and legs is preferred. A maroon base color with a black mantle is also allowed. White spots are tolerated only on the chest if they are not too big.
The skin is dark pigmented under the black coat and paler under the spots.

Luzerner Niederlaufhund
This type has a smooth, short coat. The base color is white, white and gray mottled or white and black mottled. Some bigger black spots or a black mantle are allowed. Maroon-colored spots over the eyes and on the cheeks can appear. The skin is dark pigmented under the black coat and paler under the mottled coat.

Schwyzer Niederlaufhund
This type has a smooth coat. The base color is white with reddish-colored spots. Some smaller spots and a mantle are allowed. The skin is dark grey-colored under the reddish coat and marbled under the white coat.

Temperament
The Niederlaufhunde have a great sense of smell; they are fast, agile and passionate hunters which keep good track of the scent they are supposed to follow. Their voice is pleasant. These dogs are friendly, courageous and never aggressive. Some specimens are calmer than others.

History

Around 1900 the hunting activities were restricted to districts, and since the hounds used until then were too fast for these limited areas, it was decided to establish a new type of hound. Using selected specimens of the medium-sized Schweizer Laufhund, smaller, shorter-legged hunting dogs were created. The Schweizer Niederlaufhund Club was formed on July 1, 1905.

See also
 Dogs portal
 List of dog breeds
 Schweizer Laufhund

References

External links

 Search The Open Directory Project (DMOZ) links for clubs and information about the Schweizerischer Niederlaufhund

FCI breeds
Rare dog breeds
Scent hounds
Dog breeds originating in Switzerland


Vandzene parish () is an administrative unit of Talsi Municipality, Latvia.

Towns, villages and settlements of Vandzene parish
 Vandzene

References

Parishes of Latvia
Talsi Municipality


Virbi parish () is an administrative unit of Talsi Municipality, Latvia.

Towns, villages and settlements of Virbi parish
  – parish administrative center

References

Parishes of Latvia
Talsi Municipality


Camp Mataponi (formerly known as Highland Nature Camps) is an all-girls sleepaway camp in Naples, Maine, United States for girls approximately 7 to 15 years old.  The camp is situated on Sebago Lake and accounts for over 5,000 feet of lakefront property. Camp Mataponi has grown to accommodate about 500 campers. Originally, the camp was called Highland Nature Camps. In the 1940s, it was renamed to Camp Mataponi.

It was founded in 1910 by Eugene Lehman, his wife Madeleine Davidsburg Lehman, and Estelle B. Davidsburg as Highland Nature Camps. Mostly visited by distinguished Jewish families and from people from New York City, it was a nonsectarian all-girls summer camp. In 1926, the camp had rifle shooting as an activity. In 1935, the camp ran between mid-June and September. To allow campers to both do sports and learn scholarly subjects, the affiliated Highland Manor School ran classes.

The current directors of the camp are Marcy and Dan Isdaner.

Some activities at Camp Mataponi include: water sports, high ropes, baseball, archery, boating, and water trampoline.  Business Insider in 2012 included Camp Mataponi on an "Absurdly Expensive Summer Camps" list, noting that students had to pay $10,400. Business Insider said the camp's lunch salad bar has 30 choices and it hosted themed barbequeues every week with names like "Under the Sea", "Funky Princess Super Hero", "Western night", and “Barbie”.

In September of 2023, the camp opened up its doors to the 8th grade class of Shore Country Day School, located in Beverly, MA. Student arrived before lunch on Wednesday, September 6th, and left shortly after lunch on Friday, September 8th. The 39 students indulged in many fun activities, slept in bunks, and bonded with classmates and teachers during their short stay at camp Mataponi.

References

External links
 Official website

Organizations established in 1910
Mataponi
Buildings and structures in Cumberland County, Maine
Naples, Maine


Dia libh a laochruidh Gaoidhiol is a poem by Aonghas Mac Daighre Uí Dhálaigh. The title can be translated as 'God be with you, O war-band of the Gaels.'

Background
Aonghus Mac Daighre Ó Dálaigh (sometimes known as Aonghus Fionn Ó Dálaigh, or Enyes O Dalye, of Palees' or 'Enos O Dalie' of 'Pallice') was a poet from a prominent bardic family, patronised for centuries by the MacCarthy's of Desmond. He was a descendant of Raghnall Ó Dálaigh whose death is noted in the Annals of the Four Masters.

Fifty-four poems in total are accredited to Aonghus Fionn Ó Dálaigh, only five of which deal with secular topics - he stated that he disliked writing bardic praise poems for Gaelic chieftains.

Text of the Poem
The poem is written as a call to arms, inviting young Irishmen to fight for God against the Tudor conquest of Ireland. In the poem, Uí Dhálaigh"contrasts the hardship endured by the Uí Bhroin (Byrne) on the Wicklow mountains, not with the ease they would have enjoyed in peace-time, but with the prosperity of their Anglo-Irish enemies occupying the fertile lowlands which were once the patrimony of the Uí Bhroin themselves. ... [it belongs] ... to the late sixteenth century, when the original idea of the contrast between ease and hardship had become perhaps a little hackneyed, and required some new slant to lift it out of the commonplace."

In Translation and Reprint

Dia libh a laochruidh Gaoidhiol is the 16th century Irish language poem that most influenced generations of Irish nationalists. It was included in Leabhar Branach in the early 17th century and by Samuel Ferguson in "Irish Minstrelsy" in the 19th century, who noted:

He appears to be animated by hope and trust in God, and by deep love of his own country and nation. If he were to come to life again and meet the present Anglicised descendants of the sturdy warriors of Ballinacor, what would he think? To use his own words, do cuirfidhe a meanma i míneart... Most of this poem could be applied to the present time.

Ferguson translated the poem into English under the title "God Be With The Irish Host".

References

 Katherine Simms (1990) "Images of Warfare in Bardic Poetry", Celtica 21.
 P Harbison (1976) 'native Irish arms and armour in medieval Gaelic literature, 1170-1600', The Irish Sword 12, 173-99
 S. Mac Airt (ed.) (1944) Leabhar Branach Dublin, no. 35.

Irish literature
Irish poems
Texts in Irish
Early Irish literature
Irish-language literature


The Riverside County Transportation Commission (RCTC) is the County Transportation Commission for Riverside County, California, United States. It is an association of local governments in the county, with policy makers consisting of mayors, councilmembers, and county supervisors, and is the funding agency for the county's transit systems, which include Corona Cruiser, Riverside Transit Agency, SunLine Transit Agency, Pass Transit Agency and Palo Verde Valley Transit Agency. It also provides funds for city transit in Corona and Riverside and is one of Metrolink's five governing agencies. It is additionally the planning agency for the Coachella Valley–San Gorgonio Pass Rail Corridor Service.

RCTC is also a member of Southern California Association of Governments.

See also
 Transportation in the Inland Empire

References

External links
Riverside County Transportation Commission
Metrolink

County government agencies in California
Government of Riverside County, California
Transportation in Riverside County, California
Organizations based in Riverside County, California


Roger "Cliff" Clifton Poole (born December 31, 1936) served twice as interim president of The Citadel. His first term was in 1996-1997, his second in 2005-2006. Poole is brevet Major General in the Unorganized Militia of South Carolina (UMSC).

Poole was born in Fayetteville, NC.  He received his B.A. from The Citadel in 1959, then continued his education at the University of South Carolina, receiving his M.B.A. (1962) and Ph.D. (1974) at that school. Poole also did post-doctoral study in international finance at the London School of Economics.

Poole joined the E. Claiborne Robins School of Business at the University of Richmond, Virginia in 1975 as assistant professor, and later became a full professor and served as interim dean and associate dean of the graduate business school on two occasions. Poole has twice earned the Distinguished Educator Award from the University of Richmond.

He joined The Citadel as Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College in July 1993, and served as the interim president for the academic year 1996-1997. He teaches business finance in the Baker School of Business.

Honors
 Board Of Visitors Air University - appointed for nine-year term by Secretary of Defense
 Alumnus of the Year - The Citadel (1999)
 Palmetto Medal Award - Distinguished Service - awarded by the Board of Visitors, The Citadel (1998)
 Officer's Cross of the Sovereign Order of St. Stanislaus
 Beta Gamma Sigma National Honor Society in Business
 Omicron Delta Epsilon National Honor Society in Economics
 Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Society
 Kappa Delta Pi International Honor Society in Education
 Phi Kappa Phi Academic Honor Society
 Legion of Merit Award
 Meritorious Service Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster
 Army Commendation Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster
 Army Reserve Components Achievement Medal with Two Oak Leaf Clusters
 National Defense Service Medal (with star)

References

Living people
1936 births
United States Army generals
University of Richmond faculty
Recipients of the Legion of Merit
The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina alumni
The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina faculty
Presidents of The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina


Marcus Prinz von Anhalt (born Marcus Frank Adolf Eberhardt; 20 December 1966), more commonly known as Prinz Markus, is a German businessman, nightclub and brothel owner, whose luxurious lifestyle results in some coverage in the German yellow press.

Early life and career
Prinz von Anhalt was born Marcus Frank Adolf Eberhardt on 20 December 1966, in Pforzheim, Germany, allegedly to a wealthy family. Prinz von Anhalt claims his parents owned a jewelry store, before their business was declared bankrupt and the family lost vast amounts of their wealth. At age 13, Eberhardt held many jobs, and left school at 16 to become an apprentice butcher. He started a cleaning service, which was a subsidiary for the butcher business, and was receiving a combined income of 6000 Deutsche Mark at age 16. He completed another apprenticeship to become a chef, opening several restaurants and starting an interior design business.

Eberhardt further diversified his organization by opening several table-dance bars and gentlemen's clubs in the United States. He later bought several brothels, earning the nickname "red-light king." After this investment, Eberhardt was charged with money laundering, tax fraud and human trafficking.

He is one of the largest and most visible owners of brothels in Germany, with over twenty brothels and night clubs. He has served four years in prison, for human trafficking and tax evasion. He claims to be a millionaire "in the three digit range," owning about 40 cars, real estate in Los Angeles (a mansion in Bel Air he shared with Zsa Zsa Gabor and Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt), Fort Lauderdale, Pforzheim, St. Gallen, Dubai and Monaco, and to have 12 bodyguards and 25 servants.

Adoption and title
In 2006, he bought his name for several million U.S. dollars by being adopted by Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt, husband of Zsa Zsa Gabor, who had himself obtained his name by adoption. The adoption and name change did not confer any actual title or nobility. "Prinz von Anhalt" is a surname (literally Prince of Anhalt), rather than a title, as per German laws abolishing the country's former nobility in 1919. Furthermore, the Anhalt family does not include Marcus Prinz von Anhalt as a member. He likes to refer to himself as "Prinz Germany". His brothers by adoption include Oliver Prinz von Anhalt, Michael Prinz von Anhalt and Markus Maximilian Prinz von Anhalt. His sister by adoption is Francesca Hilton, who is the stepdaughter of his adoptive father and birth daughter of his adoptive mother. In 2008, he organized the "Royal Race", a tour of expensive cars and prominent drivers across Europe. Pamela Anderson was his partner at the race. In February 2009 he was seen having lunch with her in Los Angeles. In 2009, when Zsa Zsa Gabor lost a substantial amount of money to Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme, he helped out with a cheque for $6 million.

Imprisonment
In November 2014 Marcus Prinz von Anhalt was sentenced to prison again. The judgement is not legally binding yet. While appealing the sentence, Prinz von Anhalt spent two years in detention.

The prison sentence of 4 years was based on charges of tax evasion and fraud. The prosecution had accused Prinz von Anhalt of tax evasion of 1.5 million Euros. The prosecution had put forward an estimation of monetary damages for the tax authorities by Anhalt of Euro 747,000 and another attempt to evade taxes of Euro 820,000. In particular, the prosecution accused von Anhalt that he declared the private usage of his 14 luxury cars (all of a value of at least 1 Million Euros) and vacations in Las Vegas as professional and business expenditures towards the tax authorities. Von Anhalt argued that "his glamorous lifestyle" is part of his profession as a "TV star" and that therefore, he merely used his luxury cars for "representational" reasons, stating: "Driving in my Porsche, Ferrari and Rolls-Royce and traveling to a show in Las Vegas occurred for professional reasons only." In addition, von Anhalt attempted to persuade the judge and the prosecution that if he did commit tax evasion, then it must have been unintentional as he did not fully understand the German tax laws at the time concerned, stating: "I know that the German tax laws are extremely complicated and maybe even the most complicated in the world. Some people may be able to understand the German tax laws but he is not one of them; but he knows how to successfully manage a brothel". The judges did not believe von Anhalt's explanations and consequently imposed a prison sentence of 4 years. Von Anhalt had declared previously that "he does not see a criminal offense in his case" and that the sums he supposedly evaded from tax authorities are "petty" and "ridiculous" given that "his brothels and disco clubs generate revenues in the two digit million range."

In prison it was discovered that von Anhalt had sent a letter to an acquaintance where he would insult the district attorney who had represented the prosecution in Von Anhalts trial. Von Anhalt had stated in the letter that "the district attorney is probably the dumbest district attorney in the world, that he has serious personal issues, that he squints and is poky and he merely is a cheap George Clooney wannabe." Von Anhalt was consequently imposed a fine of 60,000 Euros.

Crypto criminal

in the year 2021, he was implicated in a global scam including the brand Atari and a token initiated by them and for who he had a contract with the company in charge of the promotion. A audio message with a clear statement which is proving that Markus was at the origin of a organized pump and dump action had been given to the justice together with a claim filled by more than 120 victims during the summer 2023. More informations are available at this website where you can testify if you had been yourself victim of Markus.

Connections to Hells Angels
Marcus Prinz von Anhalt reportedly has connections to the Hells Angels with whom von Anhalt engaged with in the past as business or security partners for his brothels.

Animal abuse
Marcus Prinz von Anhalt is frequently criticized by animal rights activists, such as PETA, for animal abuse. He owns a private zoo in Dubai, where several wild animals such as tigers or white lions, are kept under poor conditions and are treated as toys.

In August 2023, von Anhalt posted a video on Instagram that showed him hitting his pet tortoise by kicking a soccer ball at it.

See also
 Prostitution in Germany

References

External links

 Official website

1966 births
Living people
Gabor family
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Sir Thomas Butler, 3rd Baronet of Cloughgrenan (a townland near Carlow), (died c. February 1704) was an Irish baronet and politician.

He was the son of Sir Edmund Butler, 2nd Baronet and Juliana Hyde, daughter of Bernard Hyde. By 1650, he succeeded his father as baronet. In 1670 and again in 1691, Butler was High Sheriff of Carlow. From 1692 until his death, he sat for County Carlow in the Irish House of Commons.

Marriage and issue
Butler married firstly Jane Boyle, daughter of the Right Reverend Richard Boyle, Bishop of Leighlin and Ferns, and secondly Jane Pottinger, daughter of Captain Edward Pottinger and widow of John Reynolds, in July 1700. By his first wife, he had two sons. Pierce, the oldest of them, was a Member of Parliament for the same constituency his father had represented and succeeded to the baronetcy.

See also
 Butler dynasty

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Politicians from County Carlow
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Casualties of the Iranian Revolution refers to those who lost their lives during the Iranian Revolution. Observers differ on how many people died during the Iranian Revolution. The Islamic government uses the figure of 60,000 killed; in reference to this figure, the military historian Spencer C. Tucker notes that "Khomeini's regime grossly overstated the revolution's death toll for propaganda purposes". The sociologist Charles Kurzman, drawing on later more detailed records from the Islamic Republic, believes the number was closer to 2,000-3,000.

Tucker explains that the consensus of historians regarding estimated deaths during the Iranian Revolution (from January 1978 to February 1979), numbers between 532 and 2,781.

The number of protesters and political prisoners killed after the fall of the Shah by the new Islamic Republic as it consolidated power is estimated by human rights groups to be several thousand. According to Tucker's estimations, in the period of 1980 to 1985, between 25,000 to 40,000 Iranians were arrested, 15,000 Iranians were tried and 8,000 to 9,500 Iranians were executed.

Casualties of the monarchy

The Preamble of the 1979 Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran speaks of the Islamic Revolution being "watered by the blood of more than 60,000 martyrs and 100,000 wounded and disabled". The revolution's leader, Ruhollah Khomeini also stated that "60,000 men, women and children were martyred by the Shah's regime." In reference to the 60,000 figure, the military historian Spencer C. Tucker notes that "Khomeini's regime grossly overstated the revolution's death toll for propaganda purposes". Tucker explains that the consensus of historians regarding estimated deaths during the Iranian Revolution (from January 1978 to February 1979), numbers between 532 and 2,781.

Emadeddin Baghi, while a researcher at the Foundation of Martyrs and Veterans Affairs (Bonyad Shahid) -- established after the revolution to compensate the survivors of fallen revolutionaries -- found a smaller number were killed. Between 1963 and 1979 he estimated 3164 in the anti-Shah movement were killed. The Foundation of Martyrs identified 744 dead in Tehran (where the majority of the casualties were supposed to have occurred). The coroner's office counted 895 dead; and Tehran's main cemetery, Behesht-e Zahra, 768 dead.

According to Kurzman, "the shah frequently told foreign emissaries that he was unwilling to massacre his subjects in order to save his throne".

By date
According to one collection of 'martyrs of the revolution,` Laleh'he-ye Enqelab, examined by Charles Kurzman,
35 demonstrators died in the first eight months of 1978,
33 in Shahrivar (August–September 1978) and
18 in Mehr (September–October 1978), when the revolution turned to strikes instead of street protests.

When the military regime was installed in Mehr 1978, the number of deaths jumped to
45 in Aban (October–November 1978), then to
85 in Azar (November–December 1978),
137 in Dey (December 1978 – January 1979), and
179 in Bahman (January–February 1979).

19 Day protest in Qom

The 9 January 1978 (Dey 19, 1356) protest in the holy city of Qom against a libelous story about the Ayatollah Khomeini was perhaps the first major protest of the revolution. The official death toll of monarchy was nine. U.S. diplomats first reported to Washington that 20 to 30 died, then fourteen. Rumors spread immediately that one hundred or more were killed, and "opposition estimates ranged up to 300." Public opinion at the time as reflected in "a small survey in Tehran the following week" found that "more people believed the opposition's casualty figures than the government's".
In contrast, a list recently produced by the Center for Documents on the Islamic Revolution, a "pro-revolutionary institute", found five people died in the protest.

29 Bahman protest in Tabriz
40 days later, on 18 February 1978, (Bahman 29), groups in a number of cities marched to honour the fallen and protest against the rule of the Shah. The state brought in "troops and tanks from nearby bases." This time, violence erupted in the northwestern city of Tabriz. According to the opposition, 500 demonstrators were killed there, according to the government ten were.  "A recent [circa 2004] pro-revolutionary review of the event, however, has stated definitively that the total was 13 dead."

Cinema Rex fire in Abadan
The 19 August 1978 fire at a movie theater in Abadan killed at least 420 people. The event started when four men doused the building with airplane fuel before setting it alight.

Khomeini immediately blamed the Shah and SAVAK for setting the fire, and, due to the pervasive revolutionary atmosphere, the public also blamed the Shah for starting the fire, despite the government's insistence that they were uninvolved. Tens of thousands of people took to the streets shouting "Burn the Shah!" and "The Shah is the guilty one!"

According to Roy Mottahedeh, author of The Mantle of the Prophet, "thousands of Iranians who had felt neutral and had until now thought that the struggle was only between the shah and supporters of religiously conservative mullahs felt that the government might put their own lives on the block to save itself. Suddenly, for hundreds of thousands, the movement was their own business."

After the revolution, many claimed that Islamist militants had started the fire. After the Islamic Republic government executed a police officer for the act, a man claiming to be the lone surviving arsonist claimed he was responsible for starting the fire. After forcing the resignation of the presiding judges in an attempt to hamper the investigation, the new government finally executed Hossein Takb'alizadeh for "setting the fire on the Shah's orders," despite his insistence that he did it on his own accord as an ultimate sacrifice for the revolutionary cause.

"Black Friday," 17 Shahrivar
The clash between government and protestors that is said to have enraged anti-Shah forces and eliminated "any hope for compromise," occurred on 8 September 1978 (Shahrivar 17) in Tehran. The Shah introduced martial law, and banned all demonstrations, but thousands of protesters gathered in Tehran. Security forces shot and killed demonstrators in what became known as Black Friday.

The clerical leadership declared that "thousands have been massacred by Zionist troops,"
"Estimate of casualties on ... Black Friday, range from fewer than 100 to many thousands. The post-revolutionary Martyr Foundation could identify only 79 dead, while the coroner's office counted 82 and Tehran's main cemetery, Beheshte-e Zahra, registered only 40."

Revolutionary casualties

Following the overthrow of the Shah's government on 11 February 1979 (22 Bahman 1357), members of the old regime, including senior generals, were executed by the revolutionary leadership. For this purpose, the Islamic regime formed komitehs (committees) in all provinces. Ayatollah Mohammad Reza Mahdavi Kani was the chief of the Central Provisional Komiteh for the Islamic Revolution.

In the first couple of months, over 200 of the Shah's senior civilian officials were killed as punishment and to eliminate the danger of coup d'état. The first death sentences were for four of the shah's generals and were approved by the Tehran court in February 1979. They were Mehdi Rahimi, the military commander of Tehran, Reza Naji, the military governor of Isfahan, Nematollah Nassiri, the head of SAVAK, and Manuchehr Khosrodad, an air force general. All four generals were executed by firing squad on the roof of the then Ayatollah Khomeini's headquarters on 15 February.

On 7 April 1979, Amir-Abbas Hoveyda, former prime minister of Iran, was executed.  Two days later on 9 April ten senior officials of the Shah, including two generals and a cabinet member, were executed in Tehran. Those killed included commander-in-chief of the air force, Amir Hossein Rabi'i. On 11 April, former foreign minister, Abbas Ali Khalatbari, former agriculture minister Mansour Rouhani and former mayor of Tehran, Gholam‐Reza Nikpey and seven other senior figures were killed. On 8 May, a total of 21 former Iranian officials, including three former high-level politicians, were executed. They were Javad Saeed, former Majlis speaker, Gholam Reza Kianpor, former information minister, and Mohammad Reza Ameli Tehrani, former education minister. On 9 May, eight men, including the prominent Jewish executive Habib Elghanian, and former information minister, Abdul Hassan Saadatmand, were executed, raising the number of the executed people 119 since February 1979.

On 23 July 1979, five more men were executed in the Khuzestan province. The death toll became 363 with these executions since February 1979. In August 1979, the courts began to try the members of the ethnic minorities in the country who participated in demonstrations against the new Islamic government , and the trials resulted in massive death sentences. By November 1979, the death toll was 550 and by January 1980, the number had reached at least 582.

Critics complained that the brief trials lacked defense attorneys, juries, transparency or opportunity for the accused to defend themselves, were held by revolutionary judges such as Sadegh Khalkhali, the Sharia judge. Those who escaped Iran were not immune. A decade later, another former Prime Minister, Shapour Bakhtiar, was assassinated in Paris, one of at least 63 Iranians abroad killed or wounded since the Shah was overthrown, although these attacks are thought to have stopped after the early 1990s.

The pace of executions then accelerated, leading to at least 906 executions between January 1980 and June 1981. After president Abulhassan Banisadr was impeached on 20 June 1981 (30 Khordad 1360), a concerted effort was made to find and prosecute the erstwhile supporters turned opposition, primarily leftists. Bloodletting became much worse.  According to Shaul Bakhash,

The number who lost their lives will probably never be known with certainty. Amnesty International documented 2,946 executions in the 12 months following Bani-Sadr's impeachment. A list compiled the following year by the Mojahedin-e Khalq cited 7,746 persons who had lost their lives through executions, in street battles, or under torture in the short period from June 1981 to September 1983.

According to historian Ervand Abrahamian, revolutionary courts executed more than 8000 opponents between June 1981 and June 1985. These were mainly members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq, but also included
Fedayins and Kurds as well as Tudeh, National Front, and Shariatmadari supporters. ... Thus the toll taken among those who had participated in the revolution was far greater than that of royalists. This revolution – like others – had devoured its own children.

According to estimations by the military historian Spencer C. Tucker, in the period of 1980 to 1985, between 25,000 to 40,000 Iranians were arrested, 15,000 Iranians were tried and 8,000 to 9,500 Iranians were executed.

See also
Human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Human rights in the Imperial State of Iran
Slogans of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
Political slogans of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Notes

Citations

Bibliography
Kurzman, Charles, The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran, (Harvard University Press, 2004)
Keddie, Nikki, Modern Iran : Roots and Results of Revolution by Nikki Keddie, Yale University Press, 2003
Mackey, Sandra The Iranians : Persia, Islam and the Soul of a Nation, New York : Dutton, c1996.
Taheri, Amir, The Spirit of Allah: Khomeini and the Islamic Revolution, Adler and Adler, c1985

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Protests in Iran
Rebellions in Iran
20th-century revolutions
1979 in Iran
Iranian civil wars
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
History of civil rights and liberties in Iran


Grimanesa Amorós (born in Lima, Peru) is a Peruvian-American artist known for large-scale light sculpture installations, where she draws inspiration from Peruvian cultural legacies and the communities surrounding her sculptures.

She has exhibited in Mexico, Tel Aviv, Beijing, and New York's Times Square.

Early life and career
Grimanesa Amorós was born in Lima, Peru, and she became fascinated with drawing maps at a young age.
 In her teens, she studied psychology and art. She attended the Miguel Gayo Art Atelier in Lima, Peru. When Amorós was eighteen, she exhibited a sold-out show featuring her paintings.

Amorós moved to New York City to work as an artist in the 1980s. Once there, she was awarded a scholarship to study painting and printmaking at the Art Students League of New York.

She started as a painter but later began to create three-dimensional artworks.

Selected light installations / sculptures

Huanchaco Series

Golden Array (2021)

Golden Array was commissioned by Jio World Drive for a cultural center in the Bandra Kurla Complex of Mumbai, India. The light sculpture is Amorós’ largest work at three blocks long and three stories high. The sculpture was inspired by the number of telephone lines found on Indian streets.

Argentum (2019)

Argentum was commissioned by the Bronx Museum for their new location at 80 White Street. The work was created in stainless steel, inspired by the material's historic usage in the building and expansion of Manhattan.

Cetha (2019)

Created as part of the artists’ residence at the Civita Institute in Civita Di Bagnoregio. Cetha is a red light sculpture inspired by the ancient Etruscan connection to the sun.

Hedera (2018)

As part of its 40th anniversary, BRIC commissioned HEDERA, a large light installation for Prospect Park in New York. Amorós said she wanted the sculpture to bring viewers closer to a utopia in which people could “celebrate nature, diversity, creativity, and their shared humanity."

Ocupante (2016)

In 2016 she exhibited the work title "Ocupante" at the Ludwig Museum Koblenz. The Ludwig Museum Koblenz exhibited three works of Amorós’ pieces; two large-scale installations and a video with the Spanish title "ocupante" - meaning occupiers or owners.

Pink Lotus (2015)

Created for Breast Cancer Awareness Month LED lights sculpture installed on the Beaux-Arts façade of The Peninsula New York hotel. The artwork highlights the two Roman goddesses on the facade.

Golden Waters (2015)
Golden Waters was inspired waterways constructed by the Hohokam tribe in the 13th century. The sculpture is attached to the Soleri bridge, designed by artist, architect and philosopher Paolo Soleri, and runs parallel to the canal channel  west of the bridge. The LED sculpture is a metaphor for the “shifting balance between the city and nature”.

Breathless Maiden Lane (2014)
 Breathless Maiden Laneas an installation in the atrium of 125 Maiden Lane, a glass, marble and granite space in New York's Financial District. Amorós used LED lights, diffusive material, and "bubble" sculptures. The LED tubing was an allusion to reeds that grow in northern Peru, and the bubbles meant to suggest the artificial islands of Lake Titicaca. The light installation is a part of VIP The Armory Show (art fair) event.

The Mirror Connection (2013)
The Mirror Connection was a light sculpture installation which was opened June 2, 2013 and ran through June 22nd, 2013. It included exposed circuitry and unpredictable light patterns.

Fortuna (2013)

Fortuna was a temporary site-specific light installation located at Tabacalera in Madrid, Spain. Commissioned by Ministry of Education and Culture in Spain, Fortuna was named after the tobacco brand that was manufactured there in the former factory, La Fragua.

Uros Series

In her lighting sculptures, Amorós returns to the theme of the "Uros Islands", which are a series of floating islands in Lake Titicaca bordering Peru and Bolivia. The islands are made from dried totora reeds by the pre-Incan Uros people. When Amorós first visited the islands, she was struck by "the sense of weightlessness and spiritual connectivity" she experienced by walking on them.

The reeds are also used as a structural material to build everything from houses to boats in the Uros culture. Amorós has incorporated the shapes and patterns of these reeds into her lighting sculptures.

Works in the series include:

Uros House in Times Square
Part of the Times Square Alliance Public Arts Program in collaboration with The Armory Show (art fair) This piece was later on being exhibited at the Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in Lafayette, Louisiana Uros House uses the traditional shape and design of the Uros islands houses to mirror the beauty of sea foam.

Uros Island at the 54th Venice Biennale (2011)
54th International Art Exhibition in Venice, Italy. Part of the Collateral Event FUTURE PASS

Uros Island, an installation by Grimanesa Amorós that was featured at the 54th Venice Biennale's International Art Exhibition. The exhibition traveled to Wereldmuseum in Rotterdam, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in Taiwan and Today Art Museum in China.

Uros at Tribeca Issey Miyake (2011)

The bubbles created a tension with the store's exoskeletal designed by Frank Gehry.

Golden Uros as part of the 2011 APART Festival
At the Chapelle de la Persévérance in Tarascon, France

Racimo (2010)

Amorós’ first large-scale lighting sculpture. Commissioned by ICART for Royal Caribbean International to create a lighting sculpture for Allure of the Seas, the largest cruise ship in the world.

Racimo is inspired by the vineyards the artist grew up near.

Collaborations
Amorós collaborated with the Biennale Des Antiquaires at the Grand Palais in Paris, France, to create the lighting sculpture piece, Timeless Motion (In Life and Light).

In 2014, Amorós collaborated with Akiko Elizabeth Maie, the newest label from Nepenthes AMERICA INC., presenting Onkochishin 2014.

Ivri Lider of The Young Professionals and Amorós collaborated on the soundtrack of her video, "Miranda". The video premiered with her sculpture, Light between the Islands in 2013.

Amorós worked with Afro-Peruvian singer and Peru's Minister of Culture, Susana Baca, in her video "Between Heaven and Earth". Baca produced an original score for the video, titled "Nacimiento de Voces" ("Birth Voices"). She also produced an interview documentary titled, La Conexion Perfecta de Susana Baca, which was used in Baca's concerts. Amorós' latest collaboration with Baca is the Baca's latest album in 2011, Afrodiaspora, where Amorós designed and used images of her artwork with photos of Susana in the CD packaging.

In her Rootless Algas video, she worked with Hilmar Orn Hilmarsson who produced an original score. The video exhibited with her installation of large multi-colored algae made by casting translucent abaca sheets.

In Reflexion Obscura she worked with José Luis Pardo - multiple-Grammy nominated and Latin Grammy Winning Los Amigos Invisibles on the score.

In La Incubadora she worked with multiple Grammy-nominated Meshell Ndegeocello.

In 2011, she did a special collaboration with fashion designer Manuel Fernandez in his "Fashion Art" show, creating a dress called "Precious Nipples".

Awards and grants

Amorós has received the Bronx Museum of the Arts: AIM Alumni Artist Award (NY), The National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship (Washington, DC), among others.

She was a TED global speaker in 2014.

References

External links

 Nina Menocal Gallery
 Arte Al Limite

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The Peugeot armoured car was a four-wheeled armoured vehicle based on a commercial Peugeot truck that was quickly developed by the French in 1914 for use during the First World War.

Design
The Peugeot armoured car was built in two main versions, the Peugeot AM ("automitrailleuse") was armed with an  Hotchkiss Model 1914 machine gun, and the Peugeot AC ("autocannon") armed with a  Hotchkiss M1887 gun. The two armaments were interchangeable and were mounted on a pivot mount fitted with a curved gun shield.

The main production models of the Peugeot armoured car were built on the Peugeot 18 CV ("cheval-vapeur" or horsepower) type 146 or type 148 chassis. The Peugeot armoured car had a front mounted engine, driver in the middle and open topped fighting compartment at the rear. To support the additional weight of the armour and armament, the chassis and suspension were strengthened and double wheels were used on the rear. The driver’s position was protected by well sloped armour, the engine was armoured with steel shutters protecting the radiator.

History

In the early months of the war, commercially acquired Peugeot type 153 tourers were hastily converted to open topped armoured cars by the addition of slab-sided  thick armoured plates around the crew compartment and an unprotected rear fighting compartment with wooden sides with a central pivot mounted machine gun or 37mm Hotchkiss M1887 gun protected by a light gun shield, 120 were built.

Later in the year a purpose designed version was developed, designed Captain Reynault it was based on the larger type 146 chassis. The new design provided armoured protection for the engine and fighting compartment and a more enclosed gun shield for the armament, although the top remained open. 150 were built, later in the production run the type 146 chassis was supplemented by the type 148 chassis.

Service
From 1915 the Western Front had bogged down in trench warfare and there was little use in French service for these cars, some being used for rear area patrols. By 1918 only 28 Peugeots remained in service.

In 1920, 18 Peugeots were provided to Poland for use against the Soviets in the Polish–Soviet War. By the early 1930s the type was considered obsolete and were replaced in Polish Army service, although the type continued in service with the police. Three remained in service in September 1939, seeing combat against the invading German forces.

In 1918 four Peugeots were also provided to the Kingdom of Serbia, they remained use with the Kingdom of Yugoslavia until 1941, seeing combat against the invading Germans.

Gallery

See also
 List of combat vehicles of World War I

References

External links

World War I armoured cars
World War I armoured fighting vehicles of France
Armoured cars of France


was a Japanese diplomat both during and after World War II.

Shun'ichi Kase was a secretary to Japanese Foreign Minister Yōsuke Matsuoka in 1941.  Then he was chargé d’affaires in Italy, as of 1943.  Subsequently, he served as Japanese Ambassador to Switzerland (in 1945), Japanese Ambassador to Mexico (in 1952), and Japanese Ambassador to West Germany (1953-1956).

The names Shun'ichi Kase and Toshikazu Kase are spelled in Japanese using the same characters, but are two different people. Toshikazu was a bureau chief in the foreign office in Tokyo who also served as secretary to several foreign ministers.

Role in final days of World War II

While serving as Japan's ambassador to Switzerland, Kase advised his government about the Potsdam Declaration which demanded the surrender of Japan.  On July 27, 1945, he observed that unconditional surrender applied only to the military and not to the government or the people, and he pleaded that it should be understood that the careful language of Potsdam appeared "to have occasioned a great deal of thought" on the part of the signatory governments—"they seem to have taken pains to save face for us on various points."  Nevertheless, Japan rejected the Potsdam Declaration, and soon thereafter atomic bombs fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, while the Soviet Union joined the war against Japan.  On August 10, 1945, at the behest of Emperor Hirohito, the Japanese government announced its acceptance of the Potsdam terms, provided that the Emperor would remain in place. The announcement of the decision was dispatched to the United States and China through Kase. Great Britain and the Soviet Union were notified through Japan's ambassador to Sweden.

That position still fell short of the U.S. "unconditional surrender" demand, retaining the sticking point that had held up the war's conclusion for months. Strong voices within the administration, including Secretary of State James Byrnes, counseled fighting on. At that point, "[Secretary of the Navy James] Forrestal came up with a shrewd and simple solution:  Accept the offer and declare that it accomplishes what the Potsdam Declaration demanded. Say that the Emperor and the Japanese government will rule subject to the orders of the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers. This would imply recognition of the Emperor while tending to neutralize American public passions against the Emperor. Truman liked this. It would be close enough to 'unconditional.'"

See also
 List of Japanese ministers, envoys and ambassadors to Germany

References

1897 births
1956 deaths
Ambassadors of Japan to Switzerland
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Typhlocoela is a subclass of ctenophores.

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Cyclocoela is a now-invalid classification of Ctenophora.

References

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Obsolete animal taxa


The Hindola Mahal (English translation: “Swinging Palace”), is a large meeting hall, or durbar, in the ancient Indian city of Mandu, Madhya Pradesh. Today the Hindola Mahal is a tourist destination in the ruined city.

History
The Hindola Mahal might have been constructed during the reign of Hoshang Shah about 1425 C.E. but may date to the end of the 15th century during the reign of Ghiyas-al-Din.
  It is one of a set buildings making up the royal palace complex at Mandu, which consists of the Jahaz Mahal, the Hindola Mahal, the Tawili Mahal, and the Nahar Jharokha.  The Hindola Mahal may have been used as an audience chamber.

Architecture

The plan of the Hindola Mahal is a T-shape, though examination of the exterior walls leads to the conclusion that the crossbar was added later.  The vertical mast of the plan consists of one main hall measuring  and  high.  Its lateral walls are  thick and further reinforced by massive inclined buttresses that angle over 77 degrees.  These highly inclined buttresses give the Hindola Mahal (Swinging Palace) its name.  They also neutralize the outward force of five massive ogee arches that once supported the large flat roof of the main hall.  On each exterior of the long sides of the main hall are six recessed arches which hold doors in their lower sections and three slabs of open-work stone windows to let in air and light.  A high wall holds battlements on the roof of the building.

The crossbar of the Hindola Mahal is of about the same proportions as the main hall but is split into two tiers.  The upper floor, which is divided into two rooms, looks onto the main hall through an arched opening.  The ground floor consists of a cruciform gallery with arms that extend to another entrance to the building and an arch to the main hall.

The Hindola Mahal represents the characteristic elements of the architectural style of the Malwa period (1400–1550): simplicity, boldness, and well-proportioned.  The Hindola Mahal emphasizes its architectural simplicity with minimal ornamentation and stands out boldly through massive inclined buttresses.  These elements make the Hindola Mahal a unique exaggerated example of the Malwa style.  In addition, the pointed arches on the building’s interior reflect how Malwa architecture was influenced by the Delhi styles.

Fort of Warangal
An almost exact copy of the Hindola Mahal can be found in the fort of Warangal in the Deccan. The copy, possibly constructed by the same architect, is built on a smaller scale and, unlike the Hindola Mahal, holds a water cistern in the center of the main hall.

References

Palaces in Madhya Pradesh
Royal residences in India
Tourist attractions in Dhar district


Corolla spectabilis, common name: spectacular corolla, is a species of sea butterfly, a floating and swimming sea snail in the family Cymbuliidae.

Distribution
This species is oceanic and has been recorded in European waters, the Gulf of Mexico, and off the coast of Florida, California, Bermuda, Venezuela and Brazil.

Description
The overall length of adults of this sea butterfly is .

References

Further reading
Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009. Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.

External links
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Cymbuliidae
Gastropods described in 1871


Grégory Gachet (born 9 December 1976) is a French ski mountaineer.

Gachet was born in Beaufort, Savoie. He is member of the Club Multisports Arêches-Beaufort and has been member of the national selection since 2002. In 2011, he married Gabrielle Magnenat.

Selected results
 2004:
 7th, World Championship single race
 2005:
 1st, World Cup team race in Salt Lake City (together with Florent Perrier)
 1st, European Championship team race (together with Florent Perrier)
 4th, European Championship single race
 4th, European Championship relay race (together with Florent Perrier, Bertrand Blanc and Tony Sbalbi)
 2006:
 2nd, World Championship team race (together with Florent Perrier)
 2nd, World Championship relay race (together with Stéphane Brosse, Florent Perrier and Patrick Blanc)
 2007:
 1st, European Championship team race (together with Florent Perrier)
 2nd, Tour du Rutor race
 4th, European Championship combination ranking
 6th, European Championship single race
 2008:
 1st, French Championship team race
 3rd, World Championship vertical race
 3rd, World Championship combination ranking
 4th, World Championship team race (together with William Bon Mardion)
 5th, World Championship single race
 2009:
 4th, European Championship team race (together with Yannick Buffet)
 5th, European Championship vertical race
 5th, European Championship combination ranking
 10th, European Championship single race
 2010:
 3rd, World Championship relay race (together with Didier Blanc, Florent Perrier and William Bon Mardion)
 7th, World Championship team race (together with Tony Sbalbi)
 10th, World Championship vertical race

Pierra Menta

 2001: 8th, together with Emmanuel Blanc
 2003: 7th, together with Emmanuel Blanc
 2005: 2nd, together with Florent Perrier
 2007: 1st, together with Florent Perrier
 2008: 4th, together with William Bon Mardion
 2009: 6th, together with Alexandre Pellicier

Trofeo Mezzalama

 2003: 7th, together with Bertrand Blanc and Cyril Champange
 2007: 2nd, together with Florent Perrier and Patrick Blanc
 2011: 6th, together with Xavier Gachet and Alexis Sévennec-Verdier

External links
 Grégory Gachet at skimountaineering.org

References

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USS Antilla was a United States Navy cargo ship in commission from 1918-1919.

SS Antilla was built as a commercial cargo ship at West Hartlepool, England, by William Gray & Company. The U.S. Navy acquired her for World War I service from the New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Company on 14 May 1918 and commissioned her on 20 May 1918 at Hoboken, New Jersey as USS Antilla.

Attached to the Naval Overseas Transportation Service, Antilla made two voyages to Europe while in commission, but spent much of the rest of her time in commission undergoing repairs. She was decommissioned on 20 February 1919 and returned to the New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Company.

Unlike most commercial ships commissioned into U.S. Navy service during World War I, Antilla never received a naval registry Identification Number (Id. No.).

References

External links
 NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive: Antilla

Ships built on the River Tees
1903 ships
Cargo ships of the United States Navy
World War I auxiliary ships of the United States
World War I cargo ships of the United States