The eleventh legislative assembly election of Tamil Nadu was held on 2 May 1996. The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) led front won the election and its leader M. Karunanidhi, became the chief minister. This was his fourth term in office. S. Balakrishnan, also known as So. Balakrishnan, of Tamil Maanila Congress ( TMC ), became the Leader of the Opposition. The incumbent All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) government was defeated in a landslide with its general secretary and outgoing chief minister J. Jayalalithaa losing the election from the Bargur constituency. She became the first Incumbent Chief Minister since M. Bakthavatsalam in 1967 to lose her own constituency.

Background

Anti-Jayalalithaa
The J. Jayalalithaa led All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) government, which had been in power since 1991 was beset with corruption scandals and public discontent. A series of corruption scandals, a growing reputation for high handedness and an extravagant public wedding for Jayalalithaa's foster son Sudhakaran all combined to erode the AIADMK support base and the goodwill she had enjoyed with the electorate in the 1991 elections.

Formation of TMC
The AIADMK's alliance with Indian National Congress (INC), which had helped it to win the 1991 elections ran into trouble midway through the AIADMK's term. J. Jayalalithaa terminated the alliance and Congress served as the principal opposition party in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly. When the 1996 elections drew closer, it was expected that the Congress would contest the elections in alliance with the DMK. However against the wishes of the Tamil Nadu state unit of the Congress, the national congress leader (and then Indian prime minister) P. V. Narasimha Rao announced that the Congress would ally with the AIADMK. This led to a split in the Tamil Nadu Congress with a majority of the party workers and cadre forming the Tamil Maanila Congress (TMC) led by G. K. Moopanar. The TMC contested the elections in alliance with the DMK.

Formation of MDMK
In 1993, the DMK suffered a split when one of its more prominent second rung leaders, Vaiko was expelled from the party membership. The next year Vaiko floated a new party – the Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK).

Coalitions
There were four main coalitions in the 1996 elections. The DMK-TMC front which also included the Communist Party of India (CPI) and the AIADMK-Congress front were the main political groupings in the state. Both fronts had a number of smaller parties as constituents. The Indian National League and the All India Forward Bloc were part of the DMK front, while the AIADMK front also had Muslim Leagues, Forward Block, All India Republic Party, Uzhavar Uzhaippalar Katchi and United Communist Party. Apart from these two fronts, there was a MDMK led coalition which included the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), the Janata Dal (JD) and the Samajwadi Janata Party (SJP). The alliance between Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) and All India Indira Congress (Tiwari) (Tiwari Congress) led by Vazhappady Ramamurthy was the fourth coalition that contested the elections. Initially, before the TMC was formed, the DMK put together a seven party alliance comprising itself, PMK, CPI, Tiwari Congress and a few other parties. However, this alliance fell through when the Tiwari Congress and PMK left the front after differences between Karunanidhi and Ramamurthy. After this, Cho Ramaswamy (editor of Thuglak) played a vital role in bringing together the DMK-TMC coalition and obtaining actor Rajinikanth's support for it.  There were a few other smaller political formations and parties contesting the election – the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) contested the elections alone; Subramanian Swamy's Janata Party contested in alliance with the caste organisation Devendra Kula Vellar Sangam led by Dalit leader K. Krishnasamy.

Rajinikanth's support
The DMK-TMC alliance enlisted the popular Tamil film actor Rajinikanth to campaign against the AIADMK in the elections. Rajinikanth declared his support for the DMK-TMC combine and members of his numerous fan clubs campaigned for the DMK front across Tamil Nadu. In a widely watched campaign appearance broadcast in Sun TV, he declared "even God cannot save Tamil Nadu if AIADMK returns to power".Rajinikanth's support gave enormous victory to DMK

Seat allotments

AIADMK-INC Front

DMK-TMC Front

MDMK-CPI(M) Front

PMK-Tiwari Congress Front

Voting and results
Polling took place on 2 May 1996 and results were announced on 12 May. The turnout among registered voters was 66.95%. The assembly elections were held simultaneously along with the Indian parliamentary elections.

Constituency results

List of winners and runners-up by constituency

Impact
AIADMK suffered a rout in the elections. Most of sitting ministers of the AIADMK government, including the chief minister Jayalalithaa lost their seats. Jayalalithaa lost to DMK's E. G. Sugavanam by a margin of 8,366 votes in the Bargur constituency. A year after the election, the AIADMK split, when a faction led by the Arantaki MLA Su. Thirunavukkarasar broke away from the party. The MDMK which was contesting its first statewide elections since its formation in 1994 drew a blank. MDMK leader Vaiko was defeated in both the Vilathikulam Assembly constituency and the Sivakasi parliamentary constituency. This election also saw the PMK electing four members to the assembly. The massive victory of the DMK-TMC-CPI combine in the assembly elections spilled over to the parliamentary elections. The coalition was able to win all 39 parliamentary seats in Tamil Nadu and the lone parliamentary seat in the nearby Pondicherry. This tally of 40 seats enabled the DMK-TMC combine to be part of the United Front government during 1996–98.

Cabinet

| After the death of the minister Thiru V.Thangapandian there is a Inclusion of Thiru Pasumpon Tha Kirittinan as Minister for  Highways and seniority changes done he is placed in No 9 in ministers list and the cabinet re-designated several changes shuffling done.

See also
 Elections in Tamil Nadu
 Legislature of Tamil Nadu
 Government of Tamil Nadu

References

External links
 Election Commission of India

State Assembly elections in Tamil Nadu
1990s in Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu
May 1996 events in Asia
1996 in Indian politics


Peregrine of Opole ( 1260 – ?) was a Silesian Dominican friar. He was twice elected a provincial of his Order and became designated an inquisitor of Wrocław by the pope John XXII.

His major literary achievement is his twofold collection of Latin sermons: Sermones de tempore (sermons on the feasts of the liturgical year) and  Sermones de sanctis (sermons on feasts of particular saints).

References

Further reading
Peregrini de Opole sermones de tempore et de sanctis. Warsaw, 1997. (Introductory notes in German, Latin and Polish.)
Brückner, Aleksander. Literature religijna w Polsce średniowiecznej 1: Kazania i piesni. Warszawa, 1902.
Hervé, Martin. Pérégrin de Opole (vers 1260-vers 1330): Un prédicateur dominicain à l'apogée de la chrétienté medieval. Rennes, 2008.
Scheneyer, Johannes Baptist. Repertorium der lateinischen Sermones des Mittelalters IV. (1969), 557–74.
Tatrzyński, Richard. "Peregrini de Opole Sermones Editoris Nota". Studia "Przeglądu Tomistycznego" 1 (1997).
 Wünsch, Thomas. "Zur Gestaltung von Predigtexempla aus den "Sermones de tempore" des Peregrinus von Oppeln." In Die Anfänge des Schrifttums in Oberschlesien bis zum Frühhumanismus, edited by Gerhard Kosellek, 139–67. Frankfurt/Main, 1997.

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"Ring a Bell" is a song by Japanese musician Bonnie Pink. Initially released in English as a digital single on April 16, 2008, the song was re-released in Japanese as a full-length single, retitled , on August 6, 2008. The song was used as the theme song for the Namco game Tales of Vesperia, with the English version of the song used for the game's overseas release.

The song was one of Bonnie Pink's most commercially successful singles, with the Japanese-language version selling over 250,000 digital downloads in Japan, becoming Platinum certified by the RIAJ.

Track listings

Digital download
Ring a Bell - 4:07

Physical single
Kane o Narashite – 4:07
Pump it Up! – 4:05
A Perfect Sky (Björn Remix) – 3:31
 – 4:09
Pump it Up! (Instrumental) – 4:05

Chart rankings

Sales and certifications

Release history

References

2008 singles
2008 songs
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Warner Music Japan singles


Peter Brandes (born 5 March 1944 in Assens, Denmark) is a Danish painter, sculptor, ceramic artist and photographer.

Brandes' art is abstract and often in brown colours. He had his breakthrough as artist in the beginning of the 1980s. He has, inter alia, done artwork on Roskilde Domkirke and mosaic (colored glass) windows in a church at Nordkap and the church Village of Hope, south of Los Angeles. In 1998, he created the enormous Roskilde Jars which stand outside the main Roskilde railway station.

Brandes is self-taught and his art circles around themes from Christianity. Ancient Greek mythology has also inspired his art. Brandes has illustrated a number of books, for example Homer’s Iliad. A great part of Brandes' ceramic works are inspired by ancient Greek art and mythology.

Brades now lives in Colombes near Paris together with his wife Maja Lise Engelhardt who is also a painter.

Represented
Statens Museum for Kunst
ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
Danish Museum of Art & Design
Vejle Kunstmuseum
Kunstmuseet Trapholt
Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum
Horsens Kunstmuseum
Randers Kunstmuseum
Sønderjyllands Kunstmuseum
Skovgaard museum
Funen's Art Museum
Danmarks Keramikmuseum – Grimmerhus
Cornerstone_University|Cornerstone University Chapel

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Martha Baillie (born 1960) is a Canadian poet and novelist.

Biography
Baillie was born in Toronto, Ontario. She studied history, French and Russian at the University of Edinburgh, and completed her studies at the Sorbonne, Paris and the University of Toronto. It was there that she became involved in theatre. In 1981, after an extended trip through Asia, she decided to shift her focus from acting to writing. After her return - and a brief interlude as a French immersion and ESL teacher - she took up a position at the Toronto Public Library where she is currently employed. Her writing has been published in Canada, Germany and Hungary.

Her most popular novel to date is The Shape I Gave You (2006), listed as a national bestseller by Maclean's magazine in May 2006.

In The Incident Report (2009), Baillie uses the format of 144 short reports to recount incidents from her own experiences as a librarian. As a work of fiction the novel contains conventional elements such as "a love story and a mystery"; as a report, it presents a subtext depicting "how Toronto libraries have become a refuge for the city's marginalized".The Incident Report was long listed for the 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

Besides five novels, Baillie has had poems published in journals including Descant, Prairie Fire and The Antigonish Review. Other literary work includes a treatment on The Legacy of Joseph Wagenbach, an installation environment by Iris Häussler, first published in Brick in 2007.

The author lives in Toronto.

Selected works
 My Sister, Esther. Turnstone, Winnipeg 1995
 Madame Balashovskaya's Apartment. Turnstone, Winnipeg 1999
 The Shape I Gave You. Knopf Canada, 2006
 The Incident Report. Pedlar Press, Toronto 2009
 La disparition d'Heinrich Schlögel, roman. Trad. de l'anglais: Paule Noyât. Éditions Jacqueline Chambon, Arles 2017 ; Leméac, Montreal 2017  (A novel around Samuel Hearne). Shortlisted 2017 Governor General's Awards, Category Translation English-French

References

Sources

External links
 Martha Baillie's Website (includes book excerpts and other writing)
 My Sister, Esther, accessed 28 March 2009
 Madame Balashovskaya's Apartment, accessed 28 March 2009
 The Shape I gave You, accessed 28 March 2009
 The Incident Report, accessed 28 March 2009

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Vladimir "Vlad" Kuljanin (born April 2, 1985) is a Canadian basketball player, who plays as a center.

Kuljanin was seventh place with the Canadian national men's basketball team at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro. He moved to Toronto from his birth city of Sarajevo at the age of ten. Kuljanin played in the 2005 FIBA U21 World Championship, where Canada won the bronze medal.

References
Canadian Olympic Committee

External links
UNC Wilmington Seahawks bio

1985 births
Living people
Basketball players at the 2007 Pan American Games
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Hag's Head is the name given to the most southerly point of the Cliffs of Moher in County Clare, Ireland, where the cliffs form an unusual rock formation that resembles a woman's head looking out to sea.  It provides a vantage point over much of the cliff formation.

Etymology
A local legend relates how an old hag or sea-witch, Mal of Malbay, fell in love with the Irish hero, Cú Chulainn and chased her would-be suitor across Ireland. Cú Chulainn escaped by hopping across sea stacks as if they were stepping stones. Mal, however, not being so nimble lost her footing and was dashed against the rocks.

Features
A tower ruin known as Moher Tower stands at Hag's Head. Until the early 19th century, it was the site of a promontory fort known as Mothar or Moher. Hag's head also features a natural arch.

References

Geography of County Clare
Hags


The Ibn Uthman Mosque ( Jami Ibn 'Uthman) is a mosque in Gaza City, in the Gaza Strip, Palestine. It is regarded as second only to the Great Mosque of Gaza in terms of beauty and status as a Friday mosque. Noted for its architectural patterns, the mosque was established in three different stages during the Burji Mamluk period of rule in Gaza.

Location
The Ibn Uthman Mosque is situated along Suq Street ("Bazaar Street") in the Turukman Quarter in the southeastern Shuja'iyya district of Gaza City. The large Shuja'iyya Market is located across the building. The mosque lies below street level.

History
The mosque was founded by Sheikh Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Uthman ibn Umar ibn Abdullah al-Nabulsi al-Maqdisi and its name is attributed to him. Born in Nablus, he moved to Gaza where he became locally well known as a holy man. In 1402-03 Sheikh Ahmad ibn Uthman died in Mecca. Local tradition has it that he was min al-salihin ("of the righteous people.") Although there are no inscriptions in the mosque that mention Sheikh Ahmad ibn Uthman, literary sources from the Mamluk era confirm the mosque was named after him.

In 1394-95 Emir Arzamak assigned the surplus of the Shuja'iyya marketplace, four shops bordering the Ibn Marwan Mosque and his residence in Gaza to a waqf ("religious endowment") dedicated to the maintenance of the Ibn Uthman mosque. Other revenue from this waqf was allocated to the madrasa ("Islamic law school"), kuttab ("boys' elementary school"), sabil ("public fountain") and bread distribution center Arzamak founded.

The initial components of the mosque, including its double-entrance western facade, the first few room spaces behind the facade and the minaret were not laid out until 1399-1400. According to one inscription in the mosque, this first stage of construction occurred under the auspices of the Emir Aqbugha ibn al-Tulutumari. However, because Emir Aqbugha's term as governor of Gaza ended prior to 1398, it is likelier that building work on the mosque, or reconstruction of some of its parts, started during his term but ended after his reassignment to Karak in 1399. A second inscription credits Emir Azdamur, the Circassian general of Sultan Barquq, as the mosque's founder on 18 April 1398.

The mosque was either largely demolished or destroyed prior to 1418 according to an inscription placed above the mihrab in the courtyard. Sultan Mu'ayyad Shaykh commissioned the mosque's second stage of construction on 13 September 1418. In addition to restoring the original mosque, this project, which was supervised by Shaykh's emir, Abu Bakr al-Yaghmuri, the head of the sultan's guard in Gaza, saw the construction of the courtyard and the portico positioned in front of the qibla wall. The current size and architectural form of the building is attributed to Shaykh's works. Emir Alam al-Din Sanjar oversaw the final building stage in 1430-31. He had the northern and southern porticoes as well as the main mihrab and its dome constructed. Other repairs were undertaken as well.

According to Muslim scholar and historian al-Sakhawi, the mosque is also the tomb of one of Gaza's short-lived governors, Sa'd al-Din Yilkhuja al-Nasiri, writing "He was buried in the mosque of Ibn Uthman, outside Gaza." Yilkhuja was an emir of Sultan Barquq and later, Sultan Nasir al-Faraj, who requested burial in the mosque before he died in Gaza in August 1446. An inscription dated from 13 February 1450 commemorates Sultan Jaqmaq's decree abolishing the taxation of imported salt in Gaza is fixed above the mosque's entrance.

Architecture
The plan of the Ibn Uthman Mosque follows the traditional layout of Mamluk-era mosques. Its total area is 45 meters by 36.5 meters, making it the second largest Muslim edifice in Gaza. A courtyard measuring 30.8 meters by 27.9 meters is situated in the center of the complex and is bordered on all four sides by porticoes. There are two entrance portals both situated at the western facade. Between the two portals stands the minaret which consists of a base, a double-story octagonal shaft, and a gallery. Behind the facade are three chambers, one of which is occupied by the tomb of Yilkhuja al-Nasiri. The other two serve various functions.

The four porticoes are each divided into two parts by rows of pillars, all of which are covered by cross-vaults. The original portico was built in front of the qibla ("direction towards Kaaba"). The northern and southern porticoes contain pointed arches carried by square pillars.

Consisting of a semi-circular niche topped by a dome, the mihrab ("prayer niche" directed towards Kaaba) of Emir Sanjar is a "unique masterpiece" according to Islamic architecture expert Mu'en Sadeq. The mihrab is inlaid with marble plating. The minbar ("pulpit") is also built out of marble.

References

Further reading

External links

Mosque of Shihab al-Din Ibn ‘Uthman  Pictures and address of Ibn Uthman Mosque.

Religious buildings and structures completed in 1431
15th-century mosques
Mamluk architecture in the State of Palestine
Mosques in Gaza City
Shuja'iyya


Marco Beltrame (born December 23, 1986) is a retired Italian World Cup ski jumper.

Beltrame, born in Gemona del Friuli, placed third in the large hill event of the 2005 Italian championships of ski jumping. He competed in the Winter Olympics in Torino 2006, but did not pass the qualification. His personal best is 185 metres, that he took in Planica 2005.

References

Italian male ski jumpers
Living people
1986 births
People from Gemona del Friuli
Sportspeople from Friuli-Venezia Giulia


The Virginian Railway's class EL-2B comprised four two-unit electric locomotives with AAR (B+B-B+B)+(B+B-B+B) wheel arrangements.  The locomotives were used on the  electrified portion of the railroad, from Roanoke, Virginia to Mullens, West Virginia. These large motor-generator locomotives weighed , were  long, and were capable of producing .

The EL-2B locomotives were built at General Electric's Erie works in 1948. Numbered 125–128, they were the largest two-unit electric locomotives used in North America.

The locomotives were retired and sold for scrap shortly after the 1959 merger of the Virginian with the Norfolk and Western Railway. None of the 4 examples built have survived.

Gallery

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Diedrich is both a masculine German given name and a German surname. Notable people with the name include:

Given name
Diedrich Bader (born 1966), American actor, voice actor and comedian
Diedrich A. Bohlen (1827–1890), German-born American architect
Diedrich Diederichsen (born 1957), German writer, music journalist and cultural critic
Diedrich Henne (1834–1913), German-born Australian botanist
Diedrich Hermann Westermann (1875–1956), German missionary, Africanist and linguist
Diedrich Téllez (born 1984), Nicaraguan footballer
Diedrich Uhlhorn (1764–1837), German engineer
Diedrich Wattenberg (1909–1996), German astronomer
Diedrich Willers Jr. (1833–1908), American politician

Surname
Friedrich Diedrich (1935–2015), German Roman Catholic theologian
John Diedrich, Australian actor, director and producer

See also
Diedrich Coffee, an American coffee company
Diedrick, given name and surname

German masculine given names
Masculine given names


William Cleary (20 April 1931 – 12 March 1991) was an English footballer who played at half-back for Sunderland, Norwich City, Wisbech Town, Port Vale, Boston United, and King's Lynn.

Career
Cleary played for South Bank East End and Sunderland (without making a first team appearance), before joining Norman Low's Norwich City in 1953. He played 18 Third Division South games for the "Canaries", as the Carrow Road outfit posted mid-table finishes in 1953–54, 1954–55, and 1955–56. He then played non-League football for Wisbech Town. He was signed again by Norman Low, now manager of Port Vale, in November 1957. He played eight Third Division South and two FA Cup games in the 1957–58 season, but failed to nail down a regular slot at Vale Park and so was transferred to Southern League side Boston United in July 1958. He moved on to King's Lynn, before returning to old club Wisbech Town. He became a coach, manager, and finally a director at the club.

Career statistics

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1931 births
1991 deaths
Footballers from Middlesbrough
English men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
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Antonio Signorini (2 April 1888 – 23 February 1963) was an influential Italian mathematical physicist and civil engineer of the 20th century. He is known for his work in finite elasticity, thermoelasticity and for formulating the Signorini problem.

Life

Honors
He was awarded the gold medal of the Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL in 1920, while he was working at the University of Palermo: the members of the judging commission were Luigi Bianchi, Guido Castelnuovo and Tullio Levi-Civita.

In 1924, on 8 June, he was elected ordinary non resident member of the mathematics division of the Accademia Pontaniana.

On 30 May 1931 he was elected corresponding member of the Società Nazionale di Scienze, Lettere e Arti in Napoli: later on, precisely on 11 February 1933 and on 4 June 1949 he was elected, respectively, ordinary member and ordinary non resident member of the same academy.

He was elected corresponding member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei on July 15, 1935, and then national member on February 4, 1947. However, he was never awarded the royal prize of this academy, because he became a very early a member of it, thus losing the right to win a prize.

Work

Research activity
His scientific production includes more than 114 works, being papers, monographs and textbooks, 17 of which have been collected in his "Opere Scelte" (Selected works).

Teaching activity
Among his "allievi" there are some of the most important Italian mathematicians and mathematical physicists; a partial list of them is below:

Carlo Cattaneo
Ida Cattaneo Gasparini
Piero Giorgio Bordoni
Giuseppe Grioli
Giuseppe Tedone
Carlo Tolotti

He was also a close friend and teacher of Gaetano Fichera at the Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica, inspiring his research in continuum mechanics, his solution of the Signorini problem and the creation of the field of variational inequalities.

Selected publications
. An important work, summarizing Signorini's approach to continuum mechanics of finite strains.
. A volume collecting the most important works of Antonio Signorini with an introduction and a commentary of Giuseppe Grioli.

See also
Constitutive equation
External ballistics
Finite strain theory
Signorini problem

Notes

References

Biographical and general references
. The "Yearbook" of the renowned Italian scientific institution, including an historical sketch of its history, the list of all past and present members as well as a wealth of information about its academic and scientific activities.
. The "Yearbook 2015" of the Accademia Pontaniana, published by the Academy itself and describing its past and present hierarchies and its activities. It also gives some notes on its history, the full list of its members and other useful information.
, available from the Biblioteca Digitale Italiana di Matematica.

. The birth of the theory of variational inequalities remembered thirty years later (English translation of the title) is an historical paper describing the beginning of the theory of variational inequalities from the point of view of its founder.
.
 . This article, published in Signorinis's "Selected works" and whose English translation title is "The work of Antonio Signorini in Mathematical Physics" in the English translation, is an ample commentary on Signorini's work in mathematical physics written by one of his "allievi".
. The "Commemoration of Antonio Signorini" written by his colleague and close fiend Mauro Picone.
. The "Yearbook" of the renowned Italian scientific institution, including the list of all past and present members as well as a wealth of information about its academic and scientific activities.

Scientific references
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, . The encyclopedia entry about problems with unilateral constraints (the class of boundary value problems the Signorini problem belongs to) he wrote for the Handbuch der Physik on invitation by Clifford Truesdell.

1888 births
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Stewart Wheeler is a Canadian diplomat, and served as Chief of Protocol of Canada till September 2023.

Education
Wheeler graduated from Trent University in 1992 and attended Universidad de Granada in Spain

Career
He began his career in the public service in 1993, working in the Public Information Office at the House of Commons. In 1994, he joined External Affairs and International Trade Canada. He served abroad in Washington, D.C., as second secretary, covering congressional relations and energy trade policy; Bogotá, as political counsellor; London, as head of the public affairs team at High Commission; and Kabul, as political program manager at the Canadian embassy in Afghanistan (2010 to 2011). He also served as parliamentary relations officer, departmental spokesperson in the Press Office, deputy director of Mexico Relations, deputy director of corporate and internal communications, and, director of Cabinet relations.

He earned the Minister's Award for Foreign Policy Excellence as a member of a Canadian foreign ministry task force set up during the conflict in Kosovo in 1999.

From 1999 to 2004, Wheeler served as press secretary to the Governor General of Canada, Adrienne Clarkson, and in that capacity accompanied her on her State Visit to Iceland in 2003.

He was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal in 2002.

From 2012 to 2016, he served as Canadian Ambassador to the Iceland.

From July 2016 to December 2018, he served in the Ontario Public Service as the Assistant Deputy Minister of International Relations and Chief of Protocol in the Cabinet Office – Ministry of Intergovernmental Affairs.

He was appointed Chief of Protocol of Canada in January 2019.

References

External links
Diplomatic Appointments

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The Artificial Heart is an Austin, Texas-based band featuring Rory Phillips and Craig Tweedy, both formerly of The Impossibles.  It also featured guitarist Scott Clapsaddle, vocalist Andrew Collins, and drummer Santiago "Jimmy" Vela III.

History
The band's beginnings can be traced as far back as 2004, when Rory begin the project Nineteen Ninety-Now with Scott Clappsaddle.  The short lived project produced the song "Love Won't Be Enough", which has since become part of The Artificial Heart's live shows.  Phillips rejoined with The Impossibles bassist Craig Tweedy and the band changed their name.  The band name began as Rory and the Artificial Heart, but has since been shortened to just The Artificial Heart.

Rory and the Artificial Heart began posting songs on their Myspace page in the spring of 2006.  Phillips has produced all of the band's material and the early demo recordings were recorded on his own.  They played their first official show on June 10, 2006 at Emo's in Austin, TX.  At the time of the first show Jess McGress played keyboards, Grant W Anderson played drums, Craig Tweedy played bass, Scott Clapsaddle played guitar, and Rory Phillips played guitar and vocals. Other members have included Devon Orr (keys, vocals), Santiago "Jimmy" Vela III (drums), and Andrew Collins (keys, vocals).

The band has shared the stage with Samiam, Sparta, Jim Ward, and Recover.  The band has used the internet to gain a national audience.  Using their Myspace page, the band has posted versions of every song that will be on their debut.  The band's self-titled debut was released digitally May 12, 2009 and re-released on vinyl in August 2010.

The Artificial Heart album
 Again, With Feeling	 2:32
 No Way Out	2:49
 Don't Turn Away	3:19
 Self Esteem	3:25
 Overcome	3:34
 Let It Go	3:37
 Hello Mother, Hello Father	3:51
 Cold Cold Day	3:26
 Love Won't Be Enough	4:04
 Meantime	4:27
 Hope	3:38
 False Positives	4:41

Non-album songs
 "Little White Lie"
 "Faking a Feeling"
 "Blood Keeps on Bleeding"
 "No Way Out" (demo)
 "We Shall Overcome" (demo)
 "Cold, Cold Day" (demo)
 "Love Won't Be Enough" (demo)
 "Meantime" (demo)
 "Hope" (demo)
 "False Positives" (demo)

References

External links
 The Artificial Heart Official Website
 The Artificial Heart on Facebook
 The Artificial Heart on Myspace

Rock music groups from Texas
Musical groups from Austin, Texas
2005 establishments in Texas
Musical groups established in 2005


Palaeoephippiorhynchus is an extinct genus of large stork from the Oligocene of Africa: its closest living relative is the Saddle-billed stork.

References

 Mlíkovský, J. 2003. Early Miocene birds of Djebel Zelten, Libya. J. Nat. Mus., Nat. Hist. Ser. 172: (1–4):114–120.
 Rasmussen, T.; Olson, S. L. & Simons, E. L. 1987. Fossil birds from Oligocene Jebel Qatrani Formation, Fayum Province, Egypt. Smithsonian Contributions for Paleobiology 62: 1–19.

Ciconiidae
Cenozoic birds of Africa
Oligocene birds
Miocene birds
Fossil taxa described in 1930
Storks


General  Sigfrid Henrici  (10 May 1889 – 8 November 1964) was a German general during  World War II.

During the invasion of Poland in 1939, Henrici was the commander of the 16th Infantry Division (motorised).

He commanded XXXX Panzer Corps from November 1942 to October 1943, when he was severely wounded in Ukraine. He returned to service in 1944 and became again commander of the XXXX Panzerkorps in September, which he led until the end of the war.

He was taken prisoner by the Red Army on 9 May 1945 and was released from Soviet captivity in 1955. He died on 8 November 1964.

Awards
 Iron Cross (1914)  2nd Class (14 September 1914) & 1st Class (24 December 1915)
 Clasp to the Iron Cross (1939)  2nd Class (20 September 1939) & 1st Class (20 May 1940)
 German Cross in Gold on 13 August 1943 as General der Panzertruppe and commanding general of the XXXX. Panzerkorps
 Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
 Knight's Cross on 13 October 1941 as Generalleutnant and commander of the 16. Infanterie-Division (motorized)
 Oak Leaves on 9 December 1943 as General der Panzertruppe and commanding general of the XL. Panzerkorps

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Bibliography

1889 births
1964 deaths
People from Soest, Germany
Military personnel from the Province of Westphalia
Generals of Panzer Troops
Luftstreitkräfte personnel
Recipients of the clasp to the Iron Cross, 1st class
Recipients of the Gold German Cross
Recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
German prisoners of war in World War II held by the Soviet Union
Reichswehr personnel
Military personnel from North Rhine-Westphalia
German Army generals of World War II


Seven merchant ships have been named SS Samuel Mather.

 , U.S. propeller, bulk freighter, Official No. 116142.
 SS Samuel Mather (1892), also known as , U.S. propeller-whaleback, Official No. 116484.
 SS Samuel Mather (1906), U.S. propeller, Official No. 203407.
 SS Samuel Mather (1926), U.S. propeller, Official No. 225409.
 William Mclauchlan, U.S. propeller built in 1926, renamed Samuel Mather from 1966–1975, Official No. 226176.
 Henry II Ford, U.S. propeller built in 1924, renamed Samuel Mather from 1989 - 1994 but never operated under that name, Official No. 223,980.
 Frank Armstrong, U.S. propeller built in 1943, renamed Samuel Mather in 1976, Official No. 243425.

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Ship names


Simri Bakhtiyarpur is a subdivision and town in the Saharsa district of Bihar state, India.

There are 116 sub-villages and 15 wards(Nagar-Panchayat) in Simri Bakhtiyarpur.

Simri Bakhtiyarpur block headquarters is Simri Town, it belongs to Kosi Division and located about 20 km South from District headquarters Saharsa district.

Geography
It is located at  at an elevation of 31 m above MSL.

The climate here is mild, and generally warm and temperate.

The average annual temperature in Simri Bakhtiyarpur is 25.2 °C,and receives annual rainfall of about 1100 mm.

Rivers
The Koshi River and its tributaries flood annually, affecting about 21,000 km2 (8,100 sq mi) of fertile agricultural lands and affecting the rural economy. This is the most devastating river of Bihar, earning it the epithet "Sorrow of Bihar".

Notable villages

Educational institutions
 +2 High School, Simri Bakhtiyarpur
 Hariwansh madhya Vidyalay
 Quantum Central School
 The Green Planet School
 Kosi Public School
 Rose Valley Secondary School
 Nirmala Classes
 Holy Cross School
 Islamia High School
 International Public School
 Kidzee Simri Bakhtiyarpur
 Sunshine Academy
 Ambition Prestigious school
 D.C inter college
 Government Girls High School
 +2 High School
 Dhyanam Classes.(chandan sir)
 Indian Institute
 Government ITI college
 Chaudhary Mohammed Salahuddin P.V.T ITI college
 Indian Public School
 National Public School
 Top-20 Coaching
 Gayatri Siksha Niketan
 Rose Valley Secondary School-2
 St. Teresa Public School
 Doon Public School
 Colombus Public School
 Vivekanand Public School
 St. Xavier's School
 CMS World School
 Gyaansagar Coaching Institute
 Lucent Public School
 Red Rose Public School
 Primary School Ganga Prasad
 Challenger classes Ranginia
 Madarsa Haneefia Ranginia
 Integral Public school
 Madarsa Qasmia Darul Quran
 MADARSA ISLAHUL MUSLEMIN PAHLAM, PAHARPUR
 Madarsa Falahul Muslemein

Location
National Highway 107 passes through Simri-Bakhtiarpur.

Nearest Railway Station- Simri Bakhtiyarpur (SBV) Railway station which comes under Samastipur Railway Division, East Central Railway zone of Indian Railways.

Nearest Post Office-Simri Bakhtiyapur Post office (852127).

References

External links
 About Simri-Bakhtiarpur
 Satellite Map of Simri-Bakhtiarpur

Blocks in Saharsa district


The First Church in Windsor, Connecticut is the oldest Congregational church in Connecticut. Its origin can be traced back to 1630, when 140 men and women sailed out of Plymouth, England on the Mary & John. This was the first of 17 ships in the so-called Winthrop Fleet, bound for the Massachusetts Bay Colony. When they heard from the Indians about the fertile land along the Connecticut River in what is now called the Connecticut River Valley, a small contingent of settlers travelled southwest and established the first settlement in Connecticut at Windsor in 1633. Word soon spread that Windsor was a good place in which to settle: in 1635, the congregation of the First Church departed from their homes in Dorchester, Massachusetts to relocate to Connecticut.

History
The first settler who arrived in Windsor was William Holmes and his crew from Plymouth in 1633 who built the first trading house. A different group representing Dorchester, Massachusetts came to explore the settlement in 1634. Under the leadership of Reverend John Warham many colonists from Dorchester finally came to settle in Windsor originally naming it Dorchester. Warham led the first congregation for many years and owned the first gristmill in Connecticut. Warham was described as "the principal pillar and father of the colony" by Cotton Mather.

The original site of the First Church of Windsor was a meetinghouse built under the direction of Ephraim Huit, a town leader and teacher now buried in the Palisado Cemetery. The building stood at the center of the Palisado Green and was enclosed in a stockade (palisado) for protection against the indigenous people, wolves and other intruders. The church was covered by a thatched roof with a cupola in the center. Later, a platform was added to the cupola, as a place for beating drums to notify nearby residents of Sunday services and to warn them of imminent attacks. The Church functioned as the political and religious center of the early town.

Windsor was the first location in the New World where suspected witches were accused for witchcraft. The Church was probably involved in condemning these women. The accused witches Alice "Alse' Young in 1647 and Lydia Gilbert in 1654 were sent to Hartford for their trials and subsequent executions by hanging. This began the trend of witch-hunting in New England that culminated in the infamous Salem witch trials. In the winter of 2017, The First Church of Windsor officially apologized for their participation in past condemnation of Alice Young and Lydia Gilbert and supported a resolution by Windsor Town Council to acknowledge these victims and symbolically clear their names within the town of Windsor.

Around 1668, a schism in the church resulted in the formation of a Presbyterian Party of Windsor. This group ordained their first minister in 1669 and held services in the town house; the First Church, meanwhile, continued as Congregationalist and occupied the meetinghouse. Several attempts at reconciliation occurred during the next 10 years; however, it appears that the congregation of the First Church would only readmit former members of the congregation if they surrendered unconditionally. Eventually, reconciliation was accomplished by Samuel Mather, the cousin of Cotton Mather. Stiles’ History of Ancient Windsor records that, during Mr. Mather’s ministry (1684-1728) “not a shadow of complaint seemed to have darkened his or their pathways", suggesting that this reconciliation was received peacefully by the local community.

By 1711, a separate ecclesiastical society had been established in every town in Connecticut, including the First Church in Windsor. Near the end of the 18th Century, responsibility for the local cemeteries and for public education was transferred to the newly organized First School Society. In time, education fell under the control of the community government in Windsor; however, the First School Society still carries out the administration for the Palisado and Riverside cemeteries.

The location of the meetinghouse near the convergence of the Connecticut River and the Farmington River created challenges when members of the congregation tried to attend services during flooding. Additionally, when a fire destroyed the meetinghouse in 1754, the parishioners decided to build two meetinghouses, one on each side of the river. The Rev. William Russell, and later the Rev. David Rowland, ministered to the First Ecclesiastical Society on the south side of the river, and the Rev. Theodore Hinsdale ministered to the parishioners on the north side. Two years later, the present meetinghouse was built on the north side of the river; in addition, a covered bridge was built across the river to allow parishioners from the south side to attend easily. Shortly afterwards, the school was built on the south side of the river.

Major changes in the meetinghouse were undertaken in 1844, 50 years after its construction. A Greek-Revival portico was built, replacing the tower with its tall steeple; in addition, the box pews were removed and replaced with the "slips” found today. The high pulpit and stairs were removed and the present pulpit installed. A Sunday School room was built at the rear of the meetinghouse in 1890; this now serves as a space for the church choirs to rehearse.

In the 1950s, Windsor experienced major population growth. The First Church acquired additional property in 1953 (the adjacent Pierson and Russell houses) and in 1955 broke ground for the construction of a new Parish House. In 1961, the First Church voted to become a member congregation of the recently formed United Church of Christ, a 1957 merger of the Congregational and Evangelical & Reformed churches.

Currently, a Long-Range Planning Committee is discussing how the spiritual mission of the church relates to worship, music, youth and the attraction of new members.

Notable members
Notable members over the years include Oliver Ellsworth (1745-1807), the third chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. He served as a senator in the newly formed Congress (1789-1796). Ellsworth is primarily remembered for his contribution to the formation of the U.S. Constitution and for drafting the Judiciary Act of 1789, which laid the foundations for a strong federal judiciary system and created the U.S. Supreme Court. Ellsworth is buried at Old Cemetery, now known as Palisado Cemetery, behind the First Church.

Another notable member was Joseph H. Rainey (1832-1877), the first African American person to serve in the United States House of Representatives and the second African American person to serve in the United States Congress. The Rainey family was active in the First Church of Windsor, and in 1876 Rainey gave a speech at the town's observance of the American Centennial celebration.

See also
Oldest churches in the United States

References
 The History of Ancient Windsor, Henry R. Stiles (1892)
 Historical Sketches, Jabez H. Hayden (1900)
 Dorset Pilgrims, Frank Thistlethwaite (1993)
 Glimpses of Ancient Windsor, Daniel Howard (1993)
 Highlights of History of the First Church in Windsor, compiled by Florence Mills, Bruce Whyte, Maureen Sullivan (1995)
 The First Church in Windsor Annual Reports (1959 to date)
 First Congregational Church, Windsor, Connecticut (1880)
 The First Church of Christ, 275th Anniversary (1905)
 Tercentenary First Church, Windsor, Connecticut (1930)
 350th Commemorative Year Book (1980)
Windsor Community Television, "Delayed Justice: Windsor Atones For Its Witch Trial History", July 6, 2017

External links
 First Church in Windsor website
 Historic Buildings in CT-First Church 1794
 Historic Buildings-Joseph Rainey House
  Historic Buildings-Oliver Ellsworth Homestead

17th-century Protestant churches
Churches in Connecticut


Morten Giæver (born 20 May 1982) is a Norwegian football midfielder who most recently played for Moss FK.

Career
He was born in Alta, but moved to Tromsø at the age of two. As a footballer he came through the youth system of Tromsø IL; made his first-team debut in a friendly match in 1999 and then in the Norwegian Premier League in August 2000. He got three Premier League games in 2000 and 2001. In addition, while at Tromsø he spent some time on loan in Finnsnes IL.

After the 2001 season he joined IF Skarp. Ahead of the 2006 season he joined Tromsdalen UIL. After four seasons at TUIL he joined Sarpsborg 08 in 2010, where he helped the team achieving promotion to Tippeligaen, both in 2010 and 2012 (relegated in 2011).

Among Tromsø IL fans Giæver is still remembered for an incident in his first senior league match when he came on as a substitute in a home game against Molde FK in 2000. Six minutes into stoppage time Tromsø, that were trailing one goal, were awarded a penalty, and surprising the home crowd (and reportedly the Tromsø staff and players as well) Giæver, then aged 18, stepped up. He blasted the penalty wide, effectively wasting the occasion for a late equalizer. Some cite the incident (and the ensuing ill treatment by fans as well as fellow players) as one of the reasons Giæver, considered to hold great potential and to be as promising as fellow junior Morten Gamst Pedersen, never became a big hit at Alfheim.

In 2004, he was sentenced to two weeks in prison for refusing mandatory military service.

Career statistics

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1982 births
Living people
Footballers from Tromsø
Norwegian men's footballers
Tromsø IL players
Eliteserien players
Tromsdalen UIL players
Sarpsborg 08 FF players
Ullensaker/Kisa IL players
Bærum SK players
Moss FK players
Norwegian First Division players
Norwegian Second Division players
Norwegian prisoners and detainees
Prisoners and detainees of Norway
Men's association football midfielders
People from Alta, Norway


Uchuu may refer to:

Uchuu Keiji Gavan (Space Sheriff Gavan), the first of the Metal Heroes TV series broadcast 1982–1983
Uchuu Keiji Shaider (Space Sheriff Shaider), the third of the Metal Heroes series
Uchuu Keiji Sharivan (Space Sheriff Sharivan), the second of the Metal Heroes series
Uchuu no kishi Tekkaman Blade Space Knights, the second soundtrack album for the anime series, Tekkaman Blade
Uchuu Race: Astro Go! Go!, racing game for the Super Famicom system, exclusive to Japan
Uchuu simulations A large and realistic simulation of the Universe created using ATERUI II, the world's most powerful supercomputer dedicated to astronomy
Uchuu, Palau, a bar in Palau


The Flat Rock Brook Nature Center is a  preserve and education center situated on the western slope of the Palisades in Englewood, New Jersey, United States of America. The Center was established in 1973 by citizens who were committed to land conservation and environmental education. This nature center has 3.6 miles of trails.

This natural woodland is one of the last remnants of the Palisades Forest. The Flat Rock Brook Nature Center is managed by the Flat Rock Brook Nature Association. Its purpose is to maintain and preserve the lands under its supervision as a natural sanctuary for plant and animal life in our urban area and as a natural environment available to the public for trail walks, nature study and other passive recreation.

It provides environmental education programs for all ages in order to generate understanding and appreciation of nature and to instill a sense of responsibility and knowledge of the means to protect the natural world and its resources for future generations.

A network of self-guiding trails leads to streams, wetlands, ponds, wildflower meadows, quarry cliffs, woodland, and even a park.  Flat Rock Brook trails and picnic area are open free to the public every day from dawn to dusk.

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Nature centers in New Jersey
Protected areas of Bergen County, New Jersey
Tourist attractions in Bergen County, New Jersey
Education in Bergen County, New Jersey
Buildings and structures in Bergen County, New Jersey


Paul Stephenson OBE (born 6 May 1937) is a community worker, activist and long-time campaigner for civil rights for the British African-Caribbean community in Bristol, England.

As a young social worker, in 1963 Stephenson led a boycott of the Bristol Omnibus Company, protesting against its refusal to employ Black or Asian drivers or conductors. After a 60-day boycott supported by thousands of Bristolians, the company revoked its colour bar in August. In 1964 Stephenson achieved national fame when he refused to leave a public house until he was served, resulting in a trial on a charge of failing to leave a licensed premises. His campaigns were instrumental in paving the way for the first Race Relations Act, in 1965. Stephenson is a Freeman of the City of Bristol and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2009.

Early life
Stephenson was born in Rochford, Essex, in 1937 to a West African father and a British mother. His maternal grandmother Edie Johnson was a well known actress in the 1920s. At age 3 he was evacuated to a care home in Great Dunmow, Essex, where he stayed for seven years. He received his secondary education at Forest Gate Secondary School in London, where he was the only black child in the school. Service in the Royal Air Force followed from 1953 to 1960. Stephenson gained a Diploma in Youth and Community Work from Westhill College of Education, Birmingham, in 1962 and then moved to Bristol to work as a youth officer for Bristol City Council, becoming the city's first black social worker.

Bus boycott
In January 1955 the Passenger group, that is the section representing those working in Passenger Transport, of the local branch of the Transport and General Workers Union had passed a resolution that "coloured workers should not be employed as bus crews" by the Bristol Omnibus Company. The Bristol Evening Post ran a series of articles in 1961 exposing this colour bar. The union publicly denied the bar, but the company general manager, Ian Patey, did admit it. He attempted to justify the company policy by stating in a meeting with the city's Joint Transport Committee that he "had 'factual evidence' that the introduction of coloured crews in other cities downgraded the job, causing existing (white) staff to go elsewhere."

Several members of the city's West Indian community set up an organisation, the West Indian Development Council, to fight discrimination of this sort, aided by Stephenson, who was the city's first black youth officer. In 1963 Stephenson established that the bus company was indeed operating a colour bar and inspired by the example of Rosa Parks' refusal to move off a "whites only" bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, leading to the Montgomery bus boycott, a Bristol Bus Boycott was organised.

As an articulate and university educated person, Stephenson became spokesman for the boycott, which soon attracted nationwide media interest and the campaign grew to receive support from Bristolians of all colours, Tony Benn, MP for Bristol East, and Harold Wilson, leader of the Labour opposition. After 60 days, on 28 August 1963 (the same day that Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his historic "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington, DC), the bus company capitulated and in September Raghbir Singh became Bristol's first non-white bus conductor.

In August 2014, a plaque was unveiled inside Bristol Bus Station commemorating the bus boycott.

Further career

In the following year Stephenson achieved national prominence when he refused to leave a public house, the Bay Horse pub in Bristol, without being served. The bar manager reportedly told Stephenson, "We don't want you black people in here – you are a nuisance." Stephenson was arrested and charged with failing to leave a licensed premises. The case attracted media attention, and the Bristol Evening Post ran the story with the headline "West Indian leader made a fool of himself." At his trial in a magistrate's court, prosecutors alleged that he had behaved aggressively, but witness accounts refuted this claim. The case was dismissed and the barman was dismissed by his employers.

Following this, Stephenson left Bristol to work in Coventry as a Senior Community Relations Officer. In 1972 he went to London to work for the Commission for Racial Equality. While in London he worked with boxer Muhammad Ali setting up the Muhammad Ali Sports Development Association in Brixton, and also set up the Cleo Laine Schools' Music Awards from 1977 to 1982 with Cleo Laine and John Dankworth. In 1975 he was appointed to the Sports Council and campaigned prominently against sporting contacts with apartheid South Africa. Stephenson became honorary president of Bristol's West Indian Parents' Association in 1979 and in 1981 was appointed to the Press Council.

On his return to live in Bristol in 1992, he helped set up the Bristol Black Archives Partnership (BBAP), which "protects and promotes the history of African-Caribbean people in Bristol." It was initiated when he placed his own personal archives with Bristol Record Office for safekeeping.

Awards and honours/legacy

In 1988 Stephenson received the Bristol City Council Community Award for Achievement and Services Rendered to the Black Community and the West Indian Community Publishers Award. Further awards include the Bristol West African and Caribbean Council Community Achievers' Award (1996), and the city council's One Person Can Make a Difference Award (2006).

In 2007 Stephenson was granted the Freedom of the City of Bristol, being the first black person to be so honoured.  The citation stated: "Paul Stephenson has devoted his life to improving race relations and encouraging community involvement and is a founder member of the Bristol Black Archives Project which has contributed greatly to an understanding of the history of the City and has helped to build closer relations between all the communities of Bristol."

In 2009 he was given an OBE "for his services to equal opportunities and to community relations in Bristol". He received honorary degrees from the University of the West of England (Master of Education) in November 2009, "in recognition of his substantial contribution to pioneering work in race relations and the extension of opportunity to socially excluded young people", and the University of Bristol (Doctor of Law) in July 2014 "for his dedication to fighting for equality and civil rights across Bristol and around the world for over 60 years".

In November 2017, Stephenson received a Pride of Britain Award for Lifetime Achievement, presented to him by Lenny Henry, who said: "It is a well-known saying that to achieve greatness you have to stand on the shoulders of giants. You really are a giant. So without you, there wouldn't be any black or Asian politicians." The judges' citation said: "Thanks to Paul's courage, principles and determination, Britain is a more open and tolerant place today. He has changed the way we all live for the better, and his story reminds us that the battle for civil rights was not confined to America."

In June 2020, following the toppling of the Edward Colston statue in central Bristol by Black Lives Matter protestors, a campaign began to replace the statue with one of Paul Stephenson. On October 20, 2020, Great Western Railway named one of its Intercity Express Trains (800 036) in Stephenson's honour at a ceremony at Bristol Temple Meads.

Archives and personal papers
Photographs, newspaper cuttings, letters and other miscellaneous items relating to Paul Stephenson and the 40th anniversary commemorations of the Bristol Bus Boycott campaign are held by Bristol Archives (Ref. 42840) (online catalogue).

The Bristol Black Archives Partnership collections are held at Bristol Archives (A Guide to African-Caribbean Sources at Bristol Record Office, multiple collections noted)

Further reading
 Paul Stephenson OBE with Lilleith Morrison,  Memoirs of a Black Englishman (Foreword by Tony Benn), Tangent Books, 2011, .

References

Work cited
 Madge Dresser, Black and White on the Buses, Bristol: Bristol Broadsides, 1986. .

External links
 "Open Letter to Bristol City Council from Paul Stephenson on EDL", Ujima Radio, 10 July 2012.
 Thomas L. Blair, "They fought racism on the buses – but has progress followed?", Chronicleworld's Weblog, 24 August 2013.

1937 births
20th-century Royal Air Force personnel
Black British activists
Black British history
Black British politicians
British civil rights activists
English people of Nigerian descent
English social workers
Living people
Military personnel from Essex
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
People from Rochford
Royal Air Force airmen


Hägg is a Swedish surname. Hägg is also the Swedish name for the bird cherry (Prunus padus),  a species of cherry native to northern Europe. Hägg was commonly included on the listing of soldier's names taken from nature. Hägg may refer to:

People

 Carina Hägg (b. 1957), Swedish Social Democratic politician
 Göran Hägg (1947–2015), Swedish author and critic
 Gunder Hägg (1918–2004), Swedish runner and multiple world record breaker of the 1940s
 Gustaf Hägg (1867–1925), Swedish organist and composer
 Jacob Hägg (1839–1931), Swedish admiral and marine artist
 Jacob Adolf Hägg (1850–1928), Swedish composer
 Mia Hägg (b. 1970), Swedish architect based in Paris, France
 Robert Hägg, Swedish hockey player

See also
 Hagg (disambiguation)

Swedish-language surnames


Hagg or Haggs may refer to:

Hagg
Hägg, Swedish surname
Arthur Ernest Hagg (1888–1985), British aircraft and boat designer
Eric Hagg (born 1989), former American football safety
Fox Hagg, a nature reserve in Sheffield
Robert Hagg (born 1995), Swedish ice hockey player
Russell Hagg (born 1938), Australian designer and director
Levitt Hagg, largely abandoned hamlet in South Yorkshire, England
Henry Hagg Lake, artificial lake in northwest Oregon, United States
Ḥaǧǧ: Hajj, annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca

Haggs
Haggs, village in Falkirk, Scotland
Haggs Castle, 16th-century tower house, Pollokshields, Glasgow, Scotland
Sea Haggs, 1990s Australian indie rock band

See also
 Hag (disambiguation)


Hákonarson is a Scandinavian surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Einar Hákonarson (born 1945), Icelandic artist, an expressionistic and figurative painter
Eiríkr Hákonarson (960s–1020s), earl of Lade, ruler of Norway and earl of Northumbria
Grímur Hákonarson (born 1977), Icelandic film director
Sveinn Hákonarson (died 1016), earl of the house of Hlaðir and co-ruler of Norway from 1000 to c. 1015


Gaganjeet Singh Bhullar (born 27 April 1988) is an Indian professional golfer who plays on the European Tour. He was awarded Arjuna Award in 2013.

Amateur career
Bhullar was born to Sikh parents in Kapurthala, India. He was India's number one amateur in 2004 and 2006 and was part of the Indian team that won the silver medal at the 2006 Asian Games. He finished in a tie for seventh in the individual competition. Bhullar turned professional in 2006.

Professional career

2006-2008
Bhullar started his professional career on the Professional Golf Tour of India where he has yet to miss a cut. He played in seven events in the 2006-07 season and never finished lower than T-18. He also recorded three top ten finishes, including two runners-up. He finished fifth on the tour's Order of Merit list. In 2007-08, he played in 14 events and recorded 10 top-10 finishes, including three runners-up. For the second year in a row, he finished in fifth on the Order of Merit. 2009 has been Bhullar's most successful year on tour but he has played in fewer tournaments due to his concentration on the Asian Tour. Bhullar has won three of the four tournaments he has played in. He won the PGTI Players Championship at Panchkula Golf Club in March, his first professional victory. He also won the PGTI Players Championship presented by Rambagh Golf Club and the PGTI Players Championship presented by Aamby Valley Golf Club in back to back weeks in May. He finished in a tie for second at the SAIL Open which was co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour.

Bhullar began his career on the Asian Tour in 2007. He played in nine events, making seven cuts while recording a runner up finish at the Indonesia President Invitational. He finished in 77th on the Order of Merit with $52,413. 2008 was Bhullar's first full season on the Asian Tour. He played in 21 events, making 14 cuts while recording one top-10 finish. He didn't secure his tour card for 2009 until the second to last tournament of the year, when he finished T-11 at the Johnnie Walker Cambodian Open. Bhullar entered the tournament in 67th on the Order of Merit, needing to finish in the top 65 to earn his tour card for 2009. Neven Basic, who was in 65th, missed the cut so on the final day of the event it was a battle between Bhullar and Adam Groom, who was in 66th. Bhullar entered the day three shots behind Groom but shot the best round of the day (64) while Groom shot a 75. The combination of Bhullar's eight under round and Groom's poor performance put Bhullar into 65th, only $681 ahead of Groom.

2009
Bhullar's 2009 season started out slow but eventually picked up. Between March and July, Bhullar made four of six cuts, finishing in the top-10 four times. He recorded a runner up finish at the SAIL Open and recorded his first victory on the Asian Tour in July at the Indonesia President Invitational. The victory catapulted him into 10th on the Order of Merit and he jumped from 417 to 255 in the Official World Golf Rankings. The victory also makes Bhullar the youngest Indian to win on the Asian Tour and gives him exempt status on the Asian Tour until 2011.

The week before his win in Indonesia, Bhullar played in his first major at the 2009 Open Championship. He qualified for the Open by winning the Asian International Final Qualifying in April. Bhullar put himself into position to make the cut after the first round, shooting a 71 (+1) which put him in a tie for fifteenth but his second round of 77 (+7) saw him miss the cut by four strokes. Bhullar is the youngest Indian to play in a major.

One week after his win in Indonesia, Bhullar almost picked up his second win on the Asian Tour at the Brunei Open. On the 72nd hole of the tournament he had an eight-foot birdie putt to win the tournament but he missed it. He went into a playoff with Darren Beck and Boonchu Ruangkit. Boonchu was eliminated after bogeying the second hole and Beck won the tournament on the third hole when he scored a birdie while Bhullar made par. The runner-up finish helped him jump from 255 to 203rd in the Official World Golf Rankings. He ended up finishing the year 6th on the Order of Merit.

Bhullar picked up his fourth win on the Professional Golf Tour of India at the PGTI Players Championship presented by Eagleton. The win elevated him to first on the tour's Order of Merit. But the very next week, Mukesh Kumar won his 3rd event of the season, replacing Bhullar at the top of the Order of Merit. His 5th win of the season came in September at the DLF Masters, winning by 5 strokes. The victory launched Bhullar to first on the Order of Merit but he finished the year in 5th. Bhullar played in the fewest events out of anyone in the top 25, a stat which greatly contributed to his 5th-place finish.

2010
Bhullar represented Asia for the 2010 Royal Trophy where Europe pulled out a narrow victory. Bhullar picked up his first victory on the Asian Tour in February at the Asian Tour International. Bhullar was six strokes behind the leader going into the final round but shot a 64 (-8) to win the event by one stroke. Bhullar's superb round set a new course record at Suwan Golf and Country Club. The victory launched him from 174th to 115th in the Official World Golf Rankings, his highest ranking to date. Two months later, Bhullar finished in sixth at the SAIL Open in his home country.

Bhullar won his sixth title on the Professional Golf Tour of India at the PGTI Players Championship in May. Bhullar recorded two triple bogeys on the front nine during round three but made a fantastic recovery in the last 27 holes to win the tournament. On the back nine in the third round he shot six under and then shot a 6 under in the final round to secure the championship. He finished the year 8th in the ROLEX Rankings with five top ten finishes in seven events and no missed cuts.

Bhullar received a special invitation to play in the Japan PGA Championship due to his consistent performances in India and Asia. He missed the cut after shooting an 80 in the second round. In his first European Tour event of the year, Bhullar finished tied for 30th in the Estoril Open de Portugal. Later in the month, he played in two tour events in India, finishing tied for third and tied for twelfth. Bhullar continued his success on the Asian Tour in July with a fourth-place finish at the Brunei Open. In September, Bhullar notched another top ten finish at the Handa Singapore Classic where he finished in a tie for 8th. Bhullar finished the year 17th on the Order of Merit, earning $165,225. He recorded four top ten finishes and only missed two cuts in 14 events.

2011
In January 2011 Bhullar won the inaugural Gujarat Kensville Challenge to become the first Indian player to win a tournament on the Challenge Tour, the official development tour organised by the PGA European Tour.

On 29 January, Bhullar won the Bangladesh Open on the Professional Golf Tour of India, thanks to a 64 (-8) in the third round, the best round of the tournament by two strokes. The following week he won the PGTI Players Championship in similar fashion, shooting the best round of the tournament in the third round, 65 (-7). This is the second time in his career that he has won back to back tournaments on the PGTI. On 5 March he won his third PGTI event of the year at the Aircel PGTI Players Championship.

2012
Bhullar won the Yeangder Tournament Players Championship on 17 September 2012. The following month he won the Venetian Macau Open.

2013
Bhullar's 2013 season started on good note. In March, Bhullar finished runner-up at Avantha Masters, earning him prize money of $258,700. He scored 20-under 268, but lost to South African Thomas Aiken by three strokes.

In August, he became seventh golfer to receive the Arjuna Award since its introduction in 1961.

Later in December, he won his fifth Asian Tour title with the victory at Indonesia Open. He defeated Malaysian Nicholas Fung and Chapchai Nirat from Thailand. His first tournament win of the season pushed him up to fourth place on the Asian Tour's Order of Merit. The win improved Bhullar's chances to qualify for the Ryder Cup-styled EurAsia Cup where the top four Asian players at the end of the 2013 season qualify for Team Asia.

2014–2018
In 2014, Bhullar played a full season on the European Tour, where his best result of tied-10th came at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship  in January. In 2015, Bhullar played a full season on the Asian Tour with a tied-10th at Philippine Open as his best result of the season. In 2016, Bhullar added two more wins on the Asian Tour: Shinhan Donghae Open in September and Bank BRI-JCB Indonesia Open in November, helping him finish 9th on the Order of Merit. In 2017, Bhullar once again won on the Asian Tour at the Macao Open in October and finished runner-up at the Thailand Open in May. He also had two more top-10 finishes to the season. In 2018, Bhullar's big moment came with a win at the Fiji International in August, his first European Tour victory. The win catapulted him once again to the European Tour, where he has been playing since 2019.

2019–present
In March 2019, Bhullar finished fifth at the Kenya Open for his best result of the season. The COVID-19 pandemic shortened his season in 2020. In the 2021 season, he finished joint runner-up at the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters in March.

Amateur wins
2005 World Junior Masters Championship

Professional wins (22)

European Tour wins (1)

1Co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour and the PGA Tour of Australasia

Asian Tour wins (10)

*Note: The 2012 Yeangder Tournament Players Championship was shortened to 54 holes due to weather.
1Co-sanctioned by the Korean Tour
2Co-sanctioned by the European Tour and the PGA Tour of Australasia

Asian Tour playoff record (0–2)

Challenge Tour wins (1)

1Co-sanctioned by the Professional Golf Tour of India

Professional Golf Tour of India wins (12)

1Co-sanctioned by the Challenge Tour

Results in major championships

Note: Bhullar only played in The Open Championship.
CUT = missed the half-way cut

Results in World Golf Championships
Results not in chronological order before 2015.

"T" = tied

Team appearances
Amateur
Eisenhower Trophy (representing India): 2006

Professional
Royal Trophy (representing Asia): 2010
World Cup (representing India): 2013, 2018
EurAsia Cup (representing Asia): 2014

See also
List of golfers with most Asian Tour wins

References

External links

Profile on the Indian Tour's official site

Indian male golfers
Asian Tour golfers
European Tour golfers
Asian Games medalists in golf
Asian Games silver medalists for India
Golfers at the 2006 Asian Games
Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games
Recipients of the Arjuna Award
Sportspeople from Amritsar
People from Kapurthala
Punjabi people
1988 births
Living people


Cristián Undurraga (born October 13, 1954 in Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean architect.

Early life
He graduated from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in 1977.

Career
In 1978 he founded Undurraga Deves Studio. Among his foundational works is the ‘House on a Hill’.

In 2009 Undurraga was recognized as Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.

References

1954 births
Living people
Chilean architects
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile alumni
Chilean people of Basque descent


Charles Henry Keyes (6 September 1858 – 16 January 1925), was an American educator. He was the first president of the Throop Polytechnic Institute (now Caltech) (1891–1896) and he became the first president of Skidmore College in 1912.

In 1911, Keyes wrote a well-received study on the progress of education in a New England school district. Keyes was already successful at Throop and Columbia University Teachers' College when Lucy Skidmore Scribner asked him to become Skidmore's first president. In 1922, Skidmore was chartered. Keyes helped define the school as a liberal arts college with a successful nursing program. He also assisted with the college's acquisition of additional property. Skidmore College have named the Keyes Quadrangle after him. He is the subject of a biography by Maud Keyes Decker ().

References

1858 births
1925 deaths
Presidents of the California Institute of Technology
Presidents of Skidmore College
Teachers College, Columbia University faculty


Gunilla is a Swedish female name, derived from Gunhild. It was among the top feminine names in the Scandinavian countries in the 1940s.

People named Gunilla
Gunilla Andersson (born 1975), ice hockey player from Sweden
Gunilla Bergström (1942–2021), Swedish author, journalist, and illustrator
Gunilla Bielke (1568–1597), the second spouse and queen consort of John III of Sweden
Gunilla Carlsson (born 1963), Swedish politician
Gunilla Carlsson (Social Democrat) (born 1966), Swedish Social Democratic politician
Gunilla Florby (1943–2011), Swedish academic
Gunilla Forseth (born 1985), Norwegian football striker
Gunilla Gerland (born 1963). Swedish author
Gunilla Hutton (born 1944), Swedish actress
Gunilla Knutson, Swedish model and actress
Gunilla Lindberg (born 1947), Swedish sports official
Gunilla Süssmann (born 1977), Norwegian classical pianist
Gunilla Sköld-Feiler (born 1953), Swedish artist
Gunilla Svärd (born 1970), Swedish orienteering competitor
Gunilla Tjernberg (1950–2019), Swedish Christian Democratic politician
Gunilla Wahlén (born 1951), Swedish Left Party politician

References

Swedish feminine given names
Norwegian feminine given names
Feminine given names


The Carthage nursing home shooting was a mass shooting that occurred on March 29, 2009, when a gunman opened fire at Pinelake Health and Rehabilitation, a 120-bed nursing home in Carthage, North Carolina. The shooter, 45-year-old Robert Kenneth Stewart, killed eight people, including a nurse at the home, and wounded a ninth. He was shot and apprehended by the responding police officer, who was also wounded by gunfire. It was the worst mass shooting in North Carolina's history.

Stewart was said to have intended to kill his estranged wife, a nurse at the nursing home, who had hidden and survived the shooting unharmed. Initially charged with first-degree murder, Stewart was tried in 2011 and convicted on eight counts of second-degree murder. He was sentenced to 179 years, four months, and 20 days.

Shooting
Robert Stewart, 45, dressed in a bib overall, arrived at the parking lot of the nursing home just before 10:00 a.m., where he fired several shots at the empty car of his estranged wife, shattering its windows. Stewart then fired at the car of visitor Michael Lee Cotten as he was driving into the parking lot, hitting him in the left shoulder. Cotten, who later stated that Stewart was "very calm...very deliberate" during the shooting, managed to run into the building and warn the people inside of the gunman. Police received the first emergency calls at approximately 10:00 a.m. and the only police officer on duty in Carthage, 25-year-old Cpl. Justin Garner, was dispatched to the scene.

Leaving a camouflaged Remington 597 .22 caliber rifle atop a Jeep Cherokee, Stewart entered the nursing home armed with a .357-caliber handgun, a .22 Magnum semi-automatic pistol, and a 12-gauge Winchester 1300 shotgun and went down the hall, apparently searching for his estranged wife, Wanda Neal. She had left him three weeks earlier because of his abusive behavior, drinking, violent temper, and possessiveness. She had been reassigned to the Alzheimer's unit that morning. When she heard the shooting, she hid in a locked and passcode-protected bathroom.

Upon realizing that his wife wasn't where she usually worked, Stewart headed to the area for Alzheimer's patients, which was secured by passcode-protected doors. As he walked through the hallways of the nursing home, Stewart killed seven residents—two of them in their wheelchairs—while the staff tried to move other patients to safety. He shot and killed nurse Jerry Avant, who tried to stop the gunman. Avant was the only employee killed.

Police Cpl. Garner confronted Stewart in the hallway at about 10:05 a.m. After refusing several orders to drop his weapon, Stewart lowered his shotgun and fired a shot at Garner, hitting him in the leg. Garner returned fire and hit Stewart in the chest, incapacitating him. Years later, Garner recalled that the wounded Stewart had said only: "Kill me, kill me."

At the end of the shooting, six people were dead at the scene; five others, including Stewart, were taken to a nearby hospital, where two of the wounded died the same day.

Victims

Aftermath
Stewart was charged with eight counts of first-degree murder. On September 3, 2011, a jury convicted Stewart of eight counts of second-degree murder (and several other lesser charges). "The judge imposed the maximum sentence – 15 years, nine months to 19 years, eight months – for each count of murder, with the terms to run consecutively." He was sentenced to a total incarceration term of 179 years, four months, and 20 days.

Stewart's defense attorneys, Jonathan Megerian and Franklin Wells of Asheboro, North Carolina, had argued that Stewart was under the influence of Ambien during the shooting, and therefore not capable of premeditation and deliberation, two elements of first degree murder under North Carolina law. He had been taking it for two years prior to the shooting, and defense experts said he was unable to control his actions. The prosecution made the case that he had carried out elaborate planning prior to the attack and on that morning, so was in charge of his actions.

Perpetrator
Robert Kenneth Wayne Stewart (born September 12, 1963) was born in Robeson County. When he was a young boy, his family moved to Eastwood in Moore County. His father was a house painter, and his mother worked at an office of a paving company in Pinebluff. After finishing middle school in Aberdeen, Stewart attended Pinecrest High School, but dropped out before graduating. Among his peers Stewart was known as a quiet loner, who showed a volatile bad temper at times.

At the age of 18, Stewart married for the first time in 1981; his marriage lasted only for a few months. In 1983 he married then 17-year-old Wanda Gay Neal, but this marriage failed within three years, reportedly due to Stewart's extreme possessiveness, his excess drinking, and his violent temper. Wanda Neal's mother Margaret Neal later stated: "He had a rage, it would just explode over everything. He would be good and then something would just set him off." Both Margaret Neal and Wanda Neal's 14-year-old daughter Jamie said that, as far as they knew, Stewart had never hit his wife.

In 1986 Stewart married again, though he still harbored feelings for his former wife. According to his third wife, Sue Griffin, Stewart would often compare her to Wanda Neal and complain that "Wanda doesn't do it like that."

Stewart worked as a house painter and had his own painting business, but had filed twice for bankruptcy. He had been out of work for over a year before the shooting, after injuring his back and leg. He served six years in the National Guard and never rose above the rank of private before receiving an honorable discharge. In 1995 he joined the Clay Road Farm Hunt Club in Moore County, where he soon alienated the other members because of his drinking problem and his temper. He was eventually thrown out of the hunting club, after threatening Larry Allred, one of its founders.

In 2001, after 15 years of marriage to Sue Griffin, Stewart divorced again and returned to Wanda Neal. After he promised her he would change, stop drinking, and treat her well, they married a second time in June 2002. But as time passed, Stewart again showed extreme possessiveness and would not let his wife go anywhere alone. After he put a gun to her head and threatened to kill her, Wanda Neal left her husband and returned to her parents' home, three weeks prior to the shooting. After his wife had left him, Stewart began calling her family, sometimes at 2:00 or 3:00 a.m., claiming there was an emergency and he needed to see Wanda and her parents. He also tried to contact his former wife, Sue Griffin, through her family, telling them that he was suffering from prostate cancer, that he was preparing to "go away", and that he "was planning on leaving town to visit places he hadn’t seen." According to Mack Hancock, who had seen him in the last week before the shooting, Stewart seemed very depressed, saying that "everything had gone to hell."

As of July 2016, Stewart is housed at the Lanesboro Correctional Institution in Polkton, North Carolina.

See also
 List of rampage killers in the United States
 2011 Grand Rapids mass murder
 2011 Seal Beach shooting
 Azana Spa shooting
 2014 Harris County shooting
 Covina massacre

References

External links
Search warrant for Stewart's house

2009 murders in the United States
Moore County, North Carolina
Murder in North Carolina
Mass murder in 2009
Mass murder in the United States
Massacres in the United States
2009 mass shootings in the United States
Mass shootings in the United States
2009 in North Carolina
Deaths by firearm in North Carolina
Crimes in North Carolina
Attacks in the United States in 2009
March 2009 crimes in the United States
Mass shootings in North Carolina


Charles Keyes may refer to:
Charles Patton Keyes (1822–1896), British Indian Army officer
Charles Henry Keyes (1858–1925), American educator
Charles R. Keyes (1871–1951), Iowa archaeologist
Charles Rollin Keyes (1864–1942), American geologist
Charles F. Keyes (1937-2022), American anthropologist


Zaboo may refer to:

 Zaboo, a character in the web series The Guild
 Zaboo, a character in the video game Lunacy

See also
 Zabu, a fictional saber-toothed tiger in Marvel Comics


Alexandros A. Mátsas (, 1911 – 1969) was a Greek poet and ambassador of Greece. He was born in Athens, Greece. After following courses on political science and classical studies at Oxford University, he entered the Greek diplomatic service in 1934. He served in various posts in Egypt, Paris, The Hague, and Rome, and was Royal Greek Ambassador to Turkey and the United States of America.

He published several books of poetry (the first written in French) and three poetical dramas on ancient themes, of which two (Clytemnestra and Croesus) were produced by the Royal Theater of Athens in 1957 and 1963 respectively.

Works
Poems. Athens. 1946.'ReferencesModern European Poetry.'' Bantam Books, 1966. Kimon Friar editor and translator of the Greek section.
Columbia dictionary of modern European literature

Modern Greek poets
1911 births
1969 deaths
Writers from Athens
Ambassadors of Greece to the United States
Ambassadors of Greece to Turkey
Ambassadors of Greece to Iran
Ambassadors of Greece to Pakistan
20th-century Greek poets
Diplomats from Athens


Sub-Division 3, Border Patrol Police Aerial Reinforcement Unit () also known as  Special Operation Unit Naresuan 261  (),  Naresuan 261 () is a tier 1 special operations unit of The Border Patrol Police, Royal Thai Police (RTP).

History
Special Operations Unit "Naresuan 261" was set up in 1983, Buddhist year 2526, by a Thai cabinet resolution. The resolution, dated 1 February 2526 (1983), was a major policy decision designed to provide a force for counter-terrorism efforts. It was named in honor of King Naresuan the Great.

The Royal Thai Police were given orders to set up training for a special division to accomplish these goals. The unit was founded in 1984, Buddhist year 2527, and placed under the control and responsibility of the Thai Border Patrol Police Police Aerial Reinforcement Unit (PARU).

In late 1986, a royal decree, proclamation number 14, reorganized the Royal Thai Police and Naraesuan 261 was assigned as company 4 under the Border Patrol Police's Aerial Reinforcement Unit.

In 2005, a royal decree, proclamation raised company 4 to the level of Sub-Division 3, Border Patrol Police Aerial Reinforcement Unit.

Naresuan 261 has responsibility for counter-terrorism and resulting criminal cases. The company also plays an important role as executive protection for the king, the queen, and other members of the royal family when they travel. They also train female operatives as executive escorts for Princess Siridhorn when she visits Border Patrol Police schools around Thailand. The company acts as escorts for foreign dignitaries and heads of state visiting Thailand.

Organization Management
Naresuan 261 consists of a 3 special operation companies,  Rescue Company, explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) company and one security company

Training
Initial training was performed by members of the Royal Thai Police Department. Teams are divided up into units of five persons following the model set by Germany's GSG-9. Teams are trained in military tactics, sniping, waterborne operations, martial arts, and operation of a variety of vehicles.

After initial training, groups pass on their experiences to other members of the company. The company will also assign members to train in foreign countries and bring the knowledge back to Thailand to further help train the company. Standard training is broken up into five parts:

1. International counter-terrorism training consisting of 24 weeks of training for new police privates.

2. International counter-terrorism training consisting of six weeks of training for police on active duty as well as one week of anti-terrorism planning.

3. Explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) training consisting of 12 weeks of training.

4. Sniper/counter-sniper training consisting of four weeks of training for those assigned to sniper positions.

5. Electronics proficiency training consisting of 12 weeks of training for those assigned to the duty of electronics proficiency officer.

The company takes part in cross-training with special operations divisions of the Royal Thai military as well as training with their counterparts in various units in Australia, South Africa, Germany, and the United States.

Operations
The company has been involved in a number of high-profile criminal cases, including:

1. Burmese student takeover of the Myanmar Embassy in Bangkok on 1–2 October 1999 (2542).

2. Takeover of the Ratchaburi Hospital in Ratchaburi Province on 24–25 January 2000 (2543).

3. Release of hostages from the Karen-Burmese rebellion at Samut Sakhon Province Prison on 22–23 November 2000 (2543).

These three major successful operations were all under the control of Naresuan 261. In all these situations, the mission was accomplished and the hostages were rescued.

See also
Border Patrol Police
List of Special Response Units
List of special forces units

References

External links

Official Royal Thai Police website
English Information on the Royal Thai Police
 Unofficial Naresuan 261 site
English Information on the Royal Thai Police

Organizations established in 1983
1983 establishments in Thailand
Special forces of Thailand
Hostage rescue units
Royal Thai Police
Police tactical units


Farallon (Farallón meaning cliff in the Spanish Language) may refer to:

Farallon Capital, American capital management firm
Farallon Computing, later known as Netopia, known for PhoneNet networking and Timbuktu remote control software
Farallon de Medinilla, small island in the Northern Mariana Islands chain
Farallon de Pajaros (Birds Rock), the northernmost island in the Northern Mariana Islands chain
Farallon de Torres, a former name of Zealandia Bank in the Northern Mariana Islands chain
Farallon Island Light, lighthouse on Southeast Farallon Island, California
Farallon Islands, group of islands and rocks in the Gulf of the Farallones, off the coast of San Francisco, California, USA
Farallon Plate, ancient oceanic plate
Farallon Steamship Disaster, wooden steamship hit Black Reef in the Farallon Islands in 1910 and sank in Alaska
Farallon Trench, ancient oceanic trench on the west coast of North America during the Late Cretaceous period
Kula-Farallon Ridge, ancient mid-ocean ridge between the Kula and Farallon plates in the Pacific Ocean during the Jurassic period
Pacific-Farallon Ridge, former mid-ocean ridge between the Pacific and Farallon plates in the Pacific Ocean during the Tertiary period
Farallon (island), Panama


KGBC (1540 AM) is a terrestrial American brokered time AM radio facility, paired with an FM relay translator. KGBC is licensed to serve the City of Galveston, Texas. K269GS is licensed to serve Houston, broadcasting from a location near Baytown, off of W Baker Road & Texas Highway 330. Established in 1947, KGBC Radio is wholly owned by SIGA Broadcasting, Inc., of Houston, Texas.

 it is the only radio station in Galveston.

Translator

Programming
In the early 2000s, the station carried a Catholic radio format. It later shifted to non-English programming until being forced off the air by Hurricane Ike in September 2008. The station resumed full-power broadcasting in February 2009 with a mix of local talk radio and classic hits.

History

Galveston Broadcasting Company Signs On KGBC
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted a construction permit in August 1946 for a new station to broadcast on 1540 kilohertz and serve the community of Galveston, Texas. The station began broadcasting under program test authority on February 1, 1947, and received its original broadcast license in May 1947. Chosen to represent original owner James W. Bradner's Galveston Broadcasting Company, the "KGBC" call sign was assigned by the FCC. The station has served the Galveston area since 1947. At its launch, the station broadcast with 1,000 watts of power and only during daylight hours. In 1950, the station added nighttime service, but in a directional array and at just 250 watts. The station powers down at night to protect clear-channel station KXEL in Waterloo, Iowa, from skywave interference.

KGBC-FM Launches
After 17 years of continuous operation by Galveston Broadcasting Company, KGBC was sold to Harbor Broadcasting Company, Inc., effective December 20, 1964. On February 11, 1968, KGBC's new owners launched an FM sister station as "KGBC-FM" (106.1 FM). In 1974, the FM station was sold, moved to 106.5 FM, and re-licensed as "KUFO". With shifting ownership and declining fortunes, the station became "KXKX" in 1979 and "KQQK" in 1986 before signing off forever and having its license cancelled by the FCC in March 1989. , the 106.5 frequency is occupied by an unrelated Spanish Adult Hits station licensed as "KOVE-FM".

Siga Purchases KGBC
On February 20, 2002, Prets/Blum Media Company, Inc., contracted to sell KGBC to SIGA Broadcasting Corporation. The sale was approved by the FCC on April 25, 2002, and the transaction was completed on May 9, 2002.

On September 13, 2008, Hurricane Ike made landfall on the upper Texas coast causing flooding and widespread damage. The KGBC broadcast facilities suffered both flooding and damage, knocking the station off the air and keeping it dark for several weeks. The station resumed broadcasting (albeit with low power) on October 6, 2008, and returned to full power operation on February 3, 2009. After spending all of 2009 as a "live and local" broadcaster, the station began leasing all of its airtime, starting January 1, 2010.

In May 2016, KGBC flipped to a business news format with programming provided by the BizTalkRadio network.

In October 2017, 1540 imaging was changed to "KGBC Radio" omitting mention of either the AM or FM dial position altogether. In February 2018, KGBC began simulcasting KLVL fulltime in order to expand the Synergy Radio Network onto the Island and surrounding coastal communities. This proved to be short lived as Siga leased out KGBC and K269GS in April, which both began to air Tejano, branded as Puro Tejano 101.7 FM & 1540 AM.

KGBC's Texas sister stations with SIGA Broadcasting include KTMR (1130 AM, Converse), KLVL (1480 AM, Pasadena), KAML (990 AM, Kenedy-Karnes City), KHFX (1140 AM, Cleburne), and KFJZ (870 AM, Fort Worth).

References

External links
FCC History Cards for KGBC
KGBC official website

GBC
Companies based in Galveston, Texas
Radio stations established in 1947
Mass media in Galveston, Texas
1947 establishments in Texas
Tejano music


ElringKlinger AG is a German automotive supplier and car spare parts manufacturer headquartered in Dettingen an der Erms, Germany. As a worldwide development partner and original equipment supplier of cylinder-head and specialty gaskets, plastic housing modules, shielding components for engine, transmission, exhaust systems and underbody, exhaust gas purification technology as well as battery and fuel cell components ElringKlinger provides its products to almost all of the world's vehicle and engine manufacturers. As at May 3, 2017, in addition to the parent company, the ElringKlinger Group included 44 fully consolidated subsidiaries (including a joint venture with a total of five companies).

Today, ElringKlinger employs roughly 9,724 people in 45 locations worldwide.

History
In 1879, Paul Lechler founded a company trading in gaskets and technical products in Stuttgart. The company began manufacturing its own gaskets in 1914. Its headquarters were moved to Dettingen an der Erms between 1964 and 1965. Back in 1885, Richard Klinger had established an engineering workshop in Vienna, which also started producing cylinder-head gaskets in 1930.

The company's international expansion began in 1971 with the acquisition of its first ownership interest in Spain. Its manufacturing sites in Bietigheim-Bissingen and Langenzenn were set up in the following year.

In 1994, the automotive divisions of Richard Klinger GmbH and Elring GmbH joined forces to form ElringKlinger GmbH, with its headquarters in Dettingen. On October 30, 2000, ElringKlinger GmbH merged with the parent company ZWL Grundbesitz- und Beteiligungs-AG and took the new name ElringKlinger AG. ElringKlinger AG has been listed on the Frankfurt and Stuttgart stock exchanges since January 21, 2002. The company was accepted into the SDAX on November 13, 2003, and the MDAX on March 4, 2009. At its meeting of March 3, 2016, Deutsche Börse agreed changes to the composition of its equity indices, which returned ElringKlinger AG stock to the SDAX with effect from March 21, 2016.

Effective from October 27, 2009, ElringKlinger acquired the automotive supplier Ompaş, based in the Turkish city of Bursa, to gain a foothold in the Turkish market.

This was followed by the purchase of Hug Group, a Swiss exhaust specialist, on May 11, 2011.

Effective from September 12, 2011, ElringKlinger AG acquired 90 percent of the Lenningen-based mold- and toolmaker Hummel-Formen.

ElringKlinger purchased ThaWa GmbH, a manufacturer of metal housings headquartered in Thale, Saxony-Anhalt, on January 3, 2012.

The Japanese joint venture ElringKlinger Marusan Corporation and its subsidiaries were fully consolidated as of December 31, 2013, based on a contractual agreement on the exercise of control.

In July 2014, ElringKlinger AG acquired 75 percent of new enerday GmbH, a company based in the German town of Neubrandenburg.

ElringKlinger Kunststofftechnik GmbH acquired all interests in Polytetra GmbH, a processor of fluoropolymers and conventional high-performance plastics, in October 2014.

In February 2015, ElringKlinger acquired the U.S. automotive supplier M&W Manufacturing Co., Michigan, significantly strengthening its market position for control plates for automatic transmissions in North America and worldwide.

The company entered into a strategic partnership with engineering specialist hofer AG in October 2016, also taking a 53 percent interest in the subsidiary hofer powertrain products GmbH. Acquiring this stake enabled ElringKlinger to benefit from the powertrain system developer's innovative strength for developing and manufacturing alternative drive technologies for hybrid or all-electric vehicles.

In March 2021, the company announced a major contract for the supply of battery components for a global battery manufacturer's German plant, scheduled to commence in 2022 and lasting nine years.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, ElringKlinger suffered a decline of 11.2% in revenues for 2020 compared to 2019.

Management board
The board consists of three members:
 Dr. Stefan Wolf (CEO, chairman)
 Theo Becker (CTO, member of the board)
 Thomas Jessulat (CFO, member of the board)
 Reiner Drews (COO, member of the board)

Business divisions
ElringKlinger is engaging in the following eleven business divisions:
 Cylinder-head gaskets
 Speciality gaskets
 Shielding Technology
 Speciality gaskets
 Lightweighting / Elastomer Technology
 E-Mobility
 Exhaust Gas Purification
 Aftermarket
 Engineered Plastics
 Services
 Industrial Parks

Structure of the ElringKlinger Group

National (Germany)
 100% Gedächtnisstiftung Karl Müller Belegschaftshilfe GmbH
 92,86 % Elring Klinger Motortechnik GmbH
 96% ElringKlinger Logistic Service GmbH
 80% new enerday GmbH
 77,5 % ElringKlinger Kunststofftechnik GmbH
 100% Polytetra GmbH  (subsidiary of ElringKlinger Kunststofftechnik)
 100% KOCHWERK Catering GmbH
 27% hofer AG
 53% hofer powertrain products GmbH / DE (subsidiary of hofer AG)

International
 100% ElringKlinger Abschirmtechnik (Schweiz) AG / CH
 93,67 % Hug Engineering AG / CH
 100% Hug Engineering GmbH / DE (subsidiary of Hug Engineering AG / CH)
 100% Hug Engineering Inc. / US (subsidiary of Hug Engineering AG / CH)
 100% Hug Engineering S.p.A. / IT (subsidiary of Hug Engineering AG / CH)
 100% Elring Klinger (Great Britain) Ltd. / UK
 100% Elring Parts Ltd. / UK
 100% ElringKlinger Italia Srl / IT
 100% ElringKlinger Meillor SAS / FR
 100% HURO Supermold S. R. L. / RO
 100% Technik-Park Heliport Kft. / HU
 100% ElringKlinger Hungary Kft. / HU
 100% Elring Klinger, S.A.U. / ES
 100% ElringKlinger TR Otomotiv Şanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş. / TR
 100% ElringKlinger Canada, Inc. / CA
 100% ElringKlinger North America, Inc. / US
 100% ElringKlinger Automotive Manufacturing, Inc. / US
 100% ElringKlinger Silicon Valley, Inc. / US
 100% ElringKlinger USA, Inc. / US
 100% Elring Klinger México, S.A. de C.V. / MX
 100% EKASER, S.A. de C.V. / MX
 100% Elring Klinger do Brasil Ltda. / BR
 100% Elring Klinger South Africa (Pty) Ltd. / ZA
 100% ElringKlinger Automotive Components (India) Pvt. Ltd. / IN
 100% ElringKlinger China, Ltd. / CN
 88% Changchun ElringKlinger Ltd. / CN
 100% ElringKlinger Chongqing Ltd. / CN
 100% ElringKlinger Engineered Plastics (Qingdao) Commercial Co. / CN (subsidiary of ElringKlinger Kunststofftechnik)
 100% ElringKlinger Engineered Plastics North America, Inc. / US (subsidiary of  ElringKlinger Kunststofftechnik)
 100% ElringKlinger Korea / KR
 50% ElringKlinger Marusan Corporation / JP
 100% Taiyo Jushi Kakoh Co., Ltd. / JP (subsidiary of  ElringKlinger Marusan Corporation / JP)
 46,9 % Marusan Kogyo Co., Ltd. / JP
 100% PT. ElringKlinger Indonesia / ID (subsidiary of ElringKlinger Marusan Corporation / JP)
 100% ElringKlinger (Thailand) Co., Ltd. / TH (subsidiary of ElringKlinger Marusan Corporation / JP)
 53% hofer powertrain products UK Ltd. / UK (subsidiary of hofer AG)

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Companies based in Baden-Württemberg
Companies listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange
Engineering companies of Germany
German companies established in 1879
Manufacturing companies established in 1879