kgb (stylized in lower case) is a privately held, New York–based company that provides directory assistance and enhanced information services across Europe and North America. It describes itself as "the world’s largest independent provider of directory assistance and enhanced information services." Founded in 1992 by Robert Pines under the name INFONXX, the company rebranded in 2008. The term knowledge generation bureau is from an advertising copy line, and is not the name of the company, which is kgb.

In 2003, after the UK yellow pages directory market has been opened, kgb launched 118 118 (UK), a UK directory enquiries provider that assists customers with telephone number enquiries and general queries.

After the success of 118 118 in the UK, kgb launched 118 218 in France when the French market has been opened. Thanks to a very good advertising campaign, it became quickly and is still the most used directory assistance service in France with around 200,000 calls each day on the phone number. Its 118218.fr website was in the top 100 French websites based on traffic.

In December 2008, kgb acquired Texperts, a United Kingdom–based firm, in order to benefit from their "innovative software platform and industry experience." Shortly afterwards, in January 2009, kgb launched a new suite of products in the United States, providing answers to customers’ questions through multiple platforms. The first is through a mobile search service known as 542542 (kgbkgb). It launched January 5, 2009, following the launch of the similar 118118 "Ask Us Anything" service in the United Kingdom.    In February 2013, after investigation by the US Department of Labor, a judge ordered kgb to pay $1.3 million to internet researchers who had been sharply underpaid.

The company has also entered the internet group buying space with a business called kgbdeals. kgbdeals seeks to offer lifestyle deals to consumers in the US, UK, France and Italy.

542542 (kgbkgb)
542542 is an "Ask Anything 2-way text service", whereby United States users can submit questions via SMS for a cost of $1.49 per question.

Class action lawsuit
In January 2013, kgb USA settled to pay $1.3 million in unpaid minimum wage and overtime wages to 14,000 current and former employees. The lawsuit alleged that from January 19, 2009 to December 4, 2012, kgb USA repeatedly violated the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) by (1) misclassifying the Special Agents as independent contractors instead of employees, (2) failing to pay minimum wage and overtime amounts, and (3) failing to make, keep, and preserve adequate and accurate employment-related records of the “Special Agents.”

References

External links
 Official website

Telecommunication services
Companies based in New York (state)
SMS-based question answering services


Nicholas Brendan Beard (born 16 September 1989) is a New Zealand former professional cricketer. He played as a left-handed batsman and left-arm slow bowler for Otago. He was born at Dunedin and educated at Kavanagh College.

Beard played for the New Zealand under-19 side at the 2008 Under-19 Cricket World Cup, playing in two warm-up matches and five Youth One Day International matches during the competition. He went on to make two Youth Test appearances and two further Youth One Day International appearances against the England under-19 side on the side's 2008 tour of England.

Having first played for Otago's Second XI in January 2009, Beard made his first-class cricket debut two months later for the side, against Auckland. He took his career best innings bowling figure of six wickets for 107 runs against Auckland in March 2010 and played for a New Zealand emerging players side later in the year before touring Zimbabwe with the New Zealand A side in October.

Beard took his best Twenty20 cricket bowling figures of 4/16 against Wellington in December 2012 and later in the same season scored his only first-class century. Batting as a nightwatchman he made 188 runs against Auckland in February 2013, and innings that included 31 fours and one six and was described as "remarkable" by CricInfo. His previous highest score of 62, and only other score in excess of 50 runs, had been made in 2010.

By the 2014–15 season however, Beard's bowling action was under scrutiny. He remodelled his action and was cleared to bowl again ahead of the 2015–16 season but experience more problems with his action during the season. Beard had already qualified to trade as a real estate agent and initially planned to take some time away from cricket whilst working in that industry. He played his last matches for Otago during the 2015–16 Plunket Shield and later chose to retire from cricket and become a full-time real estate agent.

References

External links

1989 births
Living people
New Zealand cricketers
Otago cricketers
People educated at Trinity Catholic College, Dunedin
South Island cricketers


This is a list of Canadian television personalities. It should only include people associated with non-fiction programming, not actors.

A
Steve Anthony, MuchMusic VJ and morning show host
Thalia Assuras, newscaster
Nahlah Ayed, journalist

B
Bryan Baeumler
Isabel Bassett, journalist
Ralph Benmergui, journalist and talk show host
Rod Black, sportscaster
Mike Bullard, talk show host
Arlene Bynon, talk show host

C
Elaine Callei, 1970s daytime talk show host and cohost of Canada AM
Rick Campanelli, entertainment reporter and MuchMusic VJ
Maggie Cassella, talk show host
Erin Cebula
Don Cherry, sportscaster
Catherine Clark, journalist
Tom Clark, newscaster
Adrienne Clarkson, arts journalist
Steven Cojocaru, fashion critic and correspondent for Entertainment Tonight
Ernie Coombs, children's entertainer known as "Mr. Dressup"

D
Sarah Daniels
Marilyn Denis, talk show host
Bernard Derome, newscaster
Alexandre Despatie
James Doohan
Dwight Drummond, newscaster
Francis D'Souza, journalist
Mario Dumont, talk show host
Philip DuMoulin
Darren Dutchyshen, sportscaster

E
Rosey Edeh
Tyrone Edwards, MuchMusic and eTalk
Erica Ehm, MuchMusic VJ
Mary Jo Eustace, cooking show host

F
Peter Fallico
Jebb Fink, talk show host
Dave Foley, Etobicoke comedian
Kevin Frankish
Dawna Friesen, newscaster
Liza Fromer

G
Vicki Gabereau, talk show host
Martine Gaillard, sportscaster
 Chris Gailus, newscaster
 Céline Galipeau, newscaster
Sean Gehon, entertainment reporter
Tom Gibney
Anne-France Goldwater, court show judge
Bill Good, newscaster
Richard Gizbert
Tom Green, Pembroke
Peter Gzowski, talk show host

H
Avery Haines, newscaster
Monty Hall, game show host
Adrian Harewood, newscaster
Phil Hartman, sketch comedian
Jane Hawtin, talk show host
Jennifer Hedger, sportscaster
Cheryl Hickey, entertainment reporter
Heather Hiscox, newscaster
Johnny Hockin
Mike Holmes, home renovation contractor
Bob Homme, children's entertainer known as "The Friendly Giant"
Tommy Hunter, variety show host
Helen Hutchinson, journalist
Chris Hyndman, HGTV designer and talk show host

I
Marci Ien, newscaster and talk show host
Orin Isaacs, talk show bandleader

J
Doug James, former CNN correspondent, former CBC reporter and host
Stu Jeffries, VJ
Peter Jennings, newscaster
Jenny Jones, London television host

K
Arthur Kent, journalist
Peter Kent, newscaster
Tanya Kim
Harvey Kirck, newscaster
Ken Kostick, cooking show host
Elvira Kurt
Keltie Knight, entertainment journalist

L
Lisa LaFlamme, newscaster
Amanda Lang, business newscaster
Ricardo Larrivée, chef
René Lecavalier
Philippe Létourneau, driving expert
Art Linkletter, talk show host
Elaine "Lainey" Lui, entertainment reporter and talk show host

M
Ron MacLean, sportscaster
Rita MacNeil, variety show host
Howie Mandel
Peter Mansbridge, newscaster
Jay Manuel
Pamela Martin, newscaster
Gord Martineau, newscaster
Shahir Massoud, chef and talk show host
Bob McAdorey, entertainment reporter
Mark McKinney, Ottawa comedian
Ann Medina, journalist and documentarian
Anne-Marie Mediwake, newscaster
Suhana Meharchand, newscaster
Rick Mercer, comedian and commentator
Wendy Mesley, journalist
Jon Montgomery, The Amazing Race Canada
Tracy Moore, talk show host
Anne Mroczkowski, newscaster
Ben Mulroney

N
Pascale Nadeau, newscaster
Kevin Newman, newscaster

O
Candice Olson
David Onley, journalist
Jay Onrait, sportscaster
Seamus O'Regan, journalist
Dan O'Toole, sportscaster
Dvira Ovadia

P
Amanda Parris
Tony Parsons, newscaster
Norm Perry, newscaster
Russell Peters, comedian
Dini Petty, talk show host
Benjamin Quddus Philippe, MTV presenter
Suzanne Pinel, children's entertainer known as "Marie-Soleil"
Sue Prestedge, sportscaster
Valerie Pringle, newscaster
Dina Pugliese, talk show host

Q

R
Joel Recla, radio and television creator, producer, and host
Graham Richardson, newscaster
Sarah Richardson, HGTV designer
Sandie Rinaldo, newscaster
Sandra Rinomato, HGTV host (Property Virgins, Buy Herself)
John Roberts, news reporter
Leslie Roberts, newscaster
Lloyd Robertson, newscaster
Ken Rockburn, talk show host
Ann Rohmer, newscaster

S
Steven Sabados, HGTV designer and talk show host
Morley Safer, Toronto-born television reporter
Simi Sara
Joe Schlesinger, journalist and documentarian
Ken Shaw, newscaster
Trish Stratus, WWE wrestler and star of the TV show Armed and Famous
George Stroumboulopoulos, talk show host
David Suzuki
Diana Swain, newscaster

T
Jane Taber
Tamara Taggart
Mutsumi Takahashi, newscaster
Jan Tennant, newscaster
Scott Thompson, sketch comedian
Beverly Thomson, journalist
Kathy Tomlinson, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reporter
Ziya Tong
Cheryl Torrenueva
Debbie Travis
Alex Trebek, game show host
Peter Trueman, newscaster

U

V
Jennifer Valentyne
Jody Vance, sportscaster
Adnan Virk

W
Bill Walker, variety and game show host
Pamela Wallin, journalist and talk show host
Patrick Watson, journalist and documentarian
Bill Welychka, MuchMusic VJ
Murray Westgate, advertising pitchman
Roz Weston
Brian Williams, sportscaster
Harland Williams, sketch comedian

X

Y
Benny Yau
Elwy Yost, TV host of classic movies on TVO's Magic Shadows and Saturday Night at the Movies
Andrew Younghusband

Z
Mary Zilba, star of Real Housewives of Vancouver

References

Television personalities
Personalities


The following are tertiary education institutions, or programs within parent institutions, that are specifically intended for non-traditional students in North America.

Canada
Athabasca University
Thompson Rivers University
Woodsworth College, University of Toronto
York University
Southern Alberta Institute of Technology

United States
Agnes Scott College
Bard College
Beloit College
Boricua College
Brown University
Bryn Mawr College
Charter Oak State College
Columbia College (Missouri)
Columbia University School of General Studies
Connecticut College
Empire State College, State University of New York
Excelsior College, University of the State of New York
Fordham University
Grinnell College
Hampshire College
Harvard University Extension School
Jacksonville University
Loyola University Chicago
Mount Holyoke College
The New School for Public Engagement
New York University
Northeastern Illinois University
Northeastern University
Northwestern University
Pitzer College
Reed College
Simmons College (Massachusetts)
Smith College
St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe)
Thomas Edison State College
Texas State University
Trinity College (Connecticut)
Tufts University
Union Institute & University
University of Oklahoma
University of Pennsylvania
University of Washington
Vassar College
Washington University
Wayfinding Academy
Wellesley College
Western Governors University
Williams College
Wilmington University
Yale College: Eli Whitney Students Program

See also

 Continuing education

References

Lists of schools
University and college admissions


"Zemlyanka" was the name for a German-Soviet War song written by Alexey Surkov (verses) and Konstantin Listov (music) in 1941 during the Battle of Moscow. The use of zemlyankas by soldiers is mentioned in the song.

Story
In November 1941, Alexey Surkov (who became a war correspondent of the Krasnoarmeyskaya Pravda newspaper at the very beginning of the Great Patriotic War) came under fire from German infantry near the Kashino village along with 258th Rifle Regiment. Having broken through the offensive and crossed the river on thin ice under mortar fire, Surkov found that his overcoat was all cut by shrapnel. After arriving in Ulyashino village, everyone was placed in a zemlyanka. The Chief of Staff fell asleep right at the table, as he had not slept for four days; the others settled down near the stove, someone started playing the accordion. Surkov began to make sketches for the report, but the poem turned out. In February 1942, Konstantin Listov composed the melody to the poem. On March 25, 1942, the song was published in Komsomolskaya Pravda.

English Lyrics

The fire is flickering in the narrow stove
Resin oozes from the log like a tear
And the concertina in the bunker
Sings to me of your smile and eyes.

The bushes whispered to me about you
In a snow-white field near Moscow
I want you above all to hear
How sad my living voice is.

You are now very far away
Expanses of snow lie between us
It is so hard for me to come to you
And here there are four steps to death.

Sing concertina, in defiance of the snowstorm.
Call out to that happiness which has lost its way.
I'm warm in the cold bunker,
Because of your inextinguishable love.
(Stalingrad by Antony Beevor (c)1998.

Russian Lyrics
Бьётся в тесной печурке огонь,
На поленьях смола, как слеза.
И поёт мне в землянке гармонь
Про улыбку твою и глаза.

Про тебя мне шептали кусты
В белоснежных полях под Москвой.
Я хочу, чтобы слышала ты,
Как тоскует мой голос живой.

Ты сейчас далеко, далеко,
Между нами снега и снега.
До тебя мне дойти не легко,
А до смерти — четыре шага.

Пой, гармоника, вьюге назло,
Заплутавшее счастье зови.
Мне в холодной землянке тепло
От моей негасимой любви.

Popular culture
The entire poem was mentioned in the 2005 Canadian historical novel, Four Steps to Death, by John Wilson, in which Red Army soldiers sing it on the way from Moscow to Stalingrad (present-day Volgograd). The title of the novel is derived from a line of the poem, "And here there are four steps to death."

The song is part of the repertoire of the Alexandrov Ensemble.

Well-known performers
 Yaroslav Alexandrovich Evdokimov
 Mikhail Novokhizhin

See also
Four Steps to Death

References

Wilson, John. Four Steps to Death. Toronto: Kids Can Press, 2005.

Russian songs
Soviet songs
1941 songs
Lidia Ruslanova songs


Auchenrivock Tower is a ruined late 16th century tower house situated near Langholm, Dumfries and Galloway.  The remains of the tower, which rise 8 feet at their highest, are currently built into a garden wall.

An earlier stronghold of the Irvings of Eskdale, called Stakehugh, lay near the current site.

The place name Auchenrivock is derived from the Scottish Gaelic, Achadh Riabhach, meaning "brindled field".

References

 Coventry, Martin (2001) The Castles of Scotland, 3rd Ed. Scotland: Goblinshead
Maxwell-Irving, A. M. T. (2000) The Border Towers of Scotland, Creedon Publications

External links
 Picture of the tower at scran.ac.uk

Castles in Dumfries and Galloway


Coelobathra is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. It contains only one species, Coelobathra ochromorpha, which is found in Australia.

References

Pyraustinae
Crambidae genera
Monotypic moth genera
Taxa named by Alfred Jefferis Turner


Prevx is a discontinued anti-malware utility. There are separate real-time and on-demand versions. It can remove low-risk adware for free, but the user has to purchase and enter a license key if it is more serious. Scanning can take anywhere from less than two minutes to five minutes.

Reception
Tony Zaitoun, of About.com, liked the utility except that he had some confusion about configuring the interface and that key protection was disabled by default. The issue referenced has since been corrected.

Awards
Editors' Choice by PC Magazine
Platinum & Standard Checkmark  by West Coast Labs

History
Prevx Limited was formed in March 2001 in the UK and registered under the name “Immunify”, changing its name to “TrustCorps” later that year and finally re-branded as “Prevx” in 2003. The founder team was led by Nick Ray as CEO and Paul Stubbs as COO.

Originally positioned as a Host Intrusion Prevention System, the company's initial software product was designed to protect UNIX / Linux servers from advanced malware threats without reliance on malware signatures, thus providing protection from unknown or “Zero-Day” threats.   The software was positioned the last line of defence against threats that had bypassed or overcome firewall, network security and any installed anti-virus or other host-based protection systems.

This early product monitored the behaviour of executables in real-time and would block system calls that breached its rules, thus providing protection.  It offered protection against buffer overflow attacks  and could successfully detect rootkits that attempted to hide themselves in memory or on disk.

At the end of 2002, the company received investment from South East Growth Fund and in early 2003 from private investors through an angel network, Hotbed.

In 2003, the company rebranded to Prevx and in June 2004 launched its first product for the Windows platform, “Prevx Home - Beta”, offered as a freeware download.  Prevx Home 1.0 (also free) followed in September 2004.  Prevx Home 2.0 launched in October 2004 and incorporated functionality to report the security events it detected to a central database, operated by Prevx, which would allow Prevx to monitor new virus outbreaks and detect and block spyware.  By the end of 2004, 6 months after launching, over 1m copies of Prevx had been downloaded.  Subsequent versions included Prevx 3.0, Prevx Edge and Prevx CSI.

Controversy
Prevx stirred up controversy amongst the internet communities when they announced on November 27, 2009 that a recent Windows update was causing a "Black Screen of Death", affecting users of Windows XP, Vista and 7.  They claimed this bug rendered the machine unusable.  It was later discovered that the black screen was caused by a malware infection (with Daonol), unrelated to the Windows update. Prevx then apologized for its earlier claims.

Acquisition
In 2005, Prevx was acquired in an all share offer by Retento Limited, an investment vehicle owned by serial entrepreneur Mel Morris, who had joined the Prevx board in June 2003 and was an investor in Prevx introduced by Hotbed.  Retento was subsequently renamed Prevx Group Limited.

In November 2010, Prevx was acquired by US-based Internet security company Webroot. The full conditions of the deal were not released but the announcement was made that Webroot will fully integrate Prevx's behaviour-based antivirus technology into their existing software and also make Mel Morris, founder and chief executive of Prevx Group, the vice president of Webroot's Prevx division.  Webroot has since discontinued the Prevx product line although the technology and concepts continue to underpin Webroot products.

References

Windows security software
Antivirus software


Coelorhyncidia is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae.

Species
Coelorhyncidia elathealis (Walker, 1859)
Coelorhyncidia flammealis Hampson, 1917
Coelorhyncidia nitidalis Hampson, 1907
Coelorhyncidia ovulalis Hampson, 1896
Coelorhyncidia purpurea Hampson, 1907
Coelorhyncidia trifidalis Hampson, 1897

References

Spilomelinae
Crambidae genera
Taxa named by George Hampson


Robert Henry  "Farmer" Ray (September 17, 1886 – March 11, 1963) was a  Major League Baseball pitcher. Ray played for the St. Louis Browns in the 1910 season. In 21 career games, he had a 4–10 record, with a 3.58 ERA. He batted left and threw right-handed.

Ray was born in Fort Lyon, Colorado, and died in Electra, Texas.

External links
Baseball Reference.com page

1886 births
1963 deaths
St. Louis Browns players
People from Bent County, Colorado
Shreveport Pirates (baseball) players
Fort Worth Panthers players
Hartford Senators players
Houston Buffaloes players
Sherman Lions players
Sherman Hitters players
Denison Railroaders players
Baseball players from Colorado


Bernardino Varisco (April 20, 1850 – October 21, 1933), was an Italian philosopher and a professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Rome La Sapienza from 1905 to 1925.

Life
Bernardino Varisco was born on April 20, 1850, in Chiari, a commune in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy, northern Italy. His mother was the daughter of the Italian philosopher Francesco Bonatelli and his father, Carlo, was the director of the Ginnasio Locale (public school) in Chiari. After the death of his mother in 1864, Varisco pursued classical studies at the Collegio Nazionale di Torino, and finally completed them first at the University of Padua then later at the University of Pavia where he graduated with a degree in mathematics. From 1874 to 1905, he taught as a professor of mathematics at various secondary schools and technical colleges. In 1906, he was appointed Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Rome La Sapienza, where he remained until his retirement in 1925.

After his retirement from the University of Rome in 1925, Varisco returned to Brescia. In 1928, he was appointed as a Senatore del Regno (national senator). He died at the age of 83 in his hometown on October 21, 1933. Bernardino's tomb is located in the Varisco family area of the town cemetery of Chiari. Above his tomb stands a bronze bust of the philosopher with the stern gaze of a man who spent his life absorbed in philosophical thought.

Philosophy
Varisco's early philosophy adhered to the positivism and the empiricism that underlies the fundamental presuppositions of science. This position later evolved into something closer to a pluralistic form of idealism with strong theological tendencies. In his later years he eventually arrived at a blend of monadology and panpsychism. The most obscure and therefore weakest part of Varisco's philosophy was his attempt to move from the apparent plurality of subjects to an all-encompassing unitary reality. In his posthumous work Dall'uoma a Dio (From Man to God) he completed his gradual transformation from positivism to theism by arguing for a God who limits Himself by his own creation in order that we human beings can cooperate with Him in creative activity. Varisco, therefore, believed that philosophy supports a religious attitude of life fully compatible with the tenets of Christianity. His eventual metaphysical view was thus a pluralistic form of Philosophy of Spirit similar to the works of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Hermann Lotze. There is also a strong similarity between the philosophical theories of Bernardino Varisco and his British counterpart, James Ward.

Although his work is seldom referenced by contemporary philosophers, during Varisco's lifetime his reputation was considerable both in the United States and in Europe—especially in Italy. In fact, two of his major works were translated into English in order to accommodate popular demand.

Principal works
 Scienze e opinioni. Rome, 1901.
 La conoscenza. Pavia, 1905.
 I massimi problemi. Milan, 1910.
 Conosci te stesso. Milan, 1912.
 The Great Problems., translated by R. C. Lodge, London: Allen, 1914.
 Know Thyself., translated by Guglielmo Salvadori, London: Allen and Unwin, 1915.
 Linee di filosofia critica. Rome, 1925.
 Sommario di filosofia. Rome, 1928.
 Dall'uomo a Dio Padua, 1939, (released posthumously.)

Works on Varisco
 Chiapetta, L. La teodicea di Bernardino Varisco. Naples, 1938.
 De Negri, E. La metafisica di Bernardino Varisco. Florence, 1929.
 Drago, P. C. La filosofia di Bernardino Varisco. Florence, 1944.
 Librizzi, C. Il pensiero di Bernardino Varisco. Padua, 1944; rev. ed., 1953.

External links

Biography of Bernardino Varisco (PDF download in Italian)

References
 Preface to The Great Problems., translated by R. C. Lodge, London: Allen, 1914.
 Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Philosophers.

1850 births
1933 deaths
20th-century Italian philosophers
Academic staff of the Sapienza University of Rome
Writers from the Province of Brescia


Coenostolopsis is a genus of moths in the family Crambidae.

Species
Coenostolopsis apicalis (Lederer, 1863)
Coenostolopsis selenophora (Hampson, 1912)
Coenostolopsis terminalis Munroe, 1960

References

Spilomelinae
Crambidae genera
Taxa named by Eugene G. Munroe


Colomychus is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae.

Species
Colomychus florepicta (Dyar, 1914)
Colomychus talis (Grote, 1878)

References

Spilomelinae
Crambidae genera
Taxa named by Eugene G. Munroe


Compacta is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. The genus was erected by Hans Georg Amsel in 1956.

Species
Compacta capitalis (Grote, 1881)
Compacta hirtalis (Guenée, 1854)
Compacta hirtaloidalis (Dyar, 1912)
Compacta nigrolinealis (Warren, 1892)

References

Spilomelinae
Crambidae genera
Taxa named by Hans Georg Amsel


Compsophila is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. It contains only one species, Compsophila iocosma, which is found on Fiji.

The wingspan is about 24 millimeters, the forewings rust-red in color and the hindwings snow-white with a large rust-red subbasal spot, a broad discal band, and a small oblique spot near the middle of the outer margin.

References

Acentropinae
Taxa named by Edward Meyrick
Monotypic moth genera
Moths of Fiji
Crambidae genera


Krøderen may refer to:
 Krøderen (lake) in Norway
 Krøderen (village) in Norway


Conchylodes is a genus of snout moths in the family Crambidae. The genus comprises 21 species and is placed in the tribe Udeini.

Recently, the monotypic genus Nonazochis, described by Hans Georg Amsel in 1956, was synonymized with Conchylodes. This led to the transfer of its type species, Azochis graphialis, to Conchylodes as Conchylodes graphialis.

Species
Conchylodes aquaticalis (Guenée, 1854)
Conchylodes arcifera Hampson, 1912
Conchylodes bryophilalis Hampson, 1899
Conchylodes concinnalis Hampson, 1899
Conchylodes diphteralis (Geyer in Hübner, 1832)
Conchylodes erinalis (Walker, 1859)
Conchylodes gammaphora Hampson, 1912
Conchylodes graphialis (Schaus, 1912)
Conchylodes hebraealis Guenée, 1854
Conchylodes hedonialis (Walker, 1859)
Conchylodes intricata Hampson, 1912
Conchylodes nissenalis (Schaus, 1924)
Conchylodes nolckenialis (Snellen, 1875)
Conchylodes octonalis (Zeller, 1873)
Conchylodes ovulalis (Guenée, 1854)
Conchylodes platinalis (Guenée, 1854)
Conchylodes salamisalis Druce, 1895
Conchylodes stictiperalis Hampson, 1912
Conchylodes terminipuncta Hampson, 1912
Conchylodes vincentalis Schaus, 1924
Conchylodes zebra (Sepp, 1850)

References

Spilomelinae
Crambidae genera
Taxa named by Achille Guenée


Condylorrhiza is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae.

Species
Condylorrhiza epicapna (Meyrick, 1933)
Condylorrhiza oculatalis (Möschler, 1890)
Condylorrhiza vestigialis (Guenée, 1854)
Condylorrhiza zyphalis (Viette, 1958)

References

Spilomelinae
Crambidae genera
Taxa named by Julius Lederer


Coniesta is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae.

Species
Coniesta araealis (Hampson, 1912)
Coniesta forsteri (Bleszynski, 1965)
Coniesta ignefusalis (Hampson, 1919)
Coniesta williami (de Joannis, 1927)

References

Haimbachiini
Crambidae genera
Taxa named by George Hampson


Conocramboides is a monotypic moth genus of the family Crambidae described by Stanisław Błeszyński in 1970. Its only species, Conocramboides seychellellus, described by Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher in 1910, is found in the Seychelles, Réunion and in Mauritius.

Subspecies
 Conocramboides seychellellus seychellellus from Seychelles
 Conocramboides seychellellus emmerezellus (de Joannis, 1915) from La Réunion and Mauritius

Ecology
Food plants of the larvae of this species are Poaceae (Cynodon dactylon, Axonopus compressus, Digitaria didactyla, Zoysia matrella and Cynodon dactylon)

References
Fletcher 1910. "Lepidoptera exclusive of the Tortricidae and Tineidae, with some remarks on their distribution and means of dispersal among the islands of the Indian Ocean". (The Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905). Transactions of the Linnean Society of London (2)Zool. 13(1):265–324; plate 17

External links
 Lépidoptères de La Réunion: picture of Conocramboides seychellellus

Crambinae
Crambidae genera
Moths of Africa
Monotypic moth genera
Taxa named by Stanisław Błeszyński


Conocrambus is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae.

Species
Conocrambus atrimictellus Hampson, 1919
Conocrambus dileucellus (Hampson, 1896)
Conocrambus medioradiellus (Hampson, 1919)
Conocrambus wollastoni (Rothschild, 1916)
Conocrambus xuthochroa (Turner, 1947)

References

Crambinae
Crambidae genera
Taxa named by George Hampson


The Fitzhugh is a weekly newspaper serving the Jasper, Alberta area.

The Fitzhugh formerly billed itself as Jasper's independent, locally owned newspaper. It was started in 2005 by a group of five colleagues from Jasper. In 2012 it was sold to Aberdeen Publishing Limited Partnership, comprising a stable of newspapers which is based in British Columbia, so it is no longer locally owned nor truly independent. It is distributed free on Thursdays  in Jasper, Hinton and Valemount, B.C.

The paper's name comes from what the town of Jasper was once called, Fitzhugh, named after the general manager and vice president of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. The town's name was changed to Jasper in 1913.

The Fitzhugh became the only community paper serving Jasper when the Jasper Booster closed. The Booster printed its last issue on March 11, 2009.

See also
List of newspapers in Canada

References

External links
The Fitzhugh official site

Weekly newspapers published in Alberta
Newspapers established in 2005
Jasper, Alberta


Conogethes is a genus of moths in the subfamily Spilomelinae of the family Crambidae. The currently 17 recognized species are distributed in the Indomalayan and Australasian realm.

The genus contains several species that are considered pests on economically important food plants such as Ipomoea, Elettaria and Curcuma, on ornamental plants like Alpinia, and on Shorea, Dipterocarpus and several genera of the pine family, which are used as timber trees.

Within Spilomelinae, Conogethes is placed in the species-rich tribus Margaroniini, where it was found to be closely related to the genera Azochis, Ghesquierellana and Megastes. Imagines of Conogethes resemble in their wing pattern those of Marwitzia, the Polygrammodes eleuata species complex and Syllepte incomptalis, and to a lesser degree Dichocrocis, Notarcha and Trigonobela.

The polyphagous Conogethes punctiferalis is a major pest species in India, Southeast Asia and Australia and has therefore been the focus of extensive research. In several cases, populations of C. punctiferalis associated with different hosts were found, eventually resulting in the recognition of different species, such as C. parvipunctalis, C. pinicolalis and C. sahyadriensis. DNA barcoding data indicates several additional undescribed species, and a comprehensive taxonomic revision of the genus is required to unravel the validity and circumscription of these new species.

DNA barcode data for altogether 25 operational taxonomic units or BINs (Barcode Index Numbers) of Conogethes are stored in the Barcode of Life Data System (BOLD), although only sequences of 19 of these BINs (or putative species) are publicly accessible.

Species
Conogethes clioalis (Walker, 1859)
Conogethes diminutiva Warren, 1896
Conogethes ersealis (Walker, 1859)
Conogethes evaxalis (Walker, 1859)
Conogethes haemactalis Snellen, 1890
Conogethes mimastis Meyrick, 1897
Conogethes pandamalis (Walker, 1859)
Conogethes parvipunctalis Inoue & Yamanaka, 2006
Conogethes pinicolalis Inoue & Yamanaka, 2006
Conogethes pluto (Butler, 1887)
Conogethes punctiferalis (Guenée, 1854)
Conogethes sahyadriensis Shashank, Kammar, Mally & Chakravarthy, 2018
Conogethes semifascialis (Walker, 1866)
Conogethes spirotricha Meyrick, 1934
Conogethes tenuialalis Chaovalit & Yoshiyasu in Chaovalit, Yoshiyasu, Hirai & Pinkaew, 2019
Conogethes tharsalea (Meyrick, 1887)
Conogethes umbrosa Meyrick, 1886

References

Further reading

Spilomelinae
Crambidae genera
Taxa named by Edward Meyrick


Conotalis is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae.

Species
Species:
Conotalis aurantifascia (Hampson, 1896)
Conotalis nigrisquamalis Hampson, 1919
Conotalis nigroradians (Mabille, 1900)

References

Crambinae
Crambidae genera
Taxa named by George Hampson


Events in the year 1760 in Norway.

Incumbents
Monarch: Frederick V

Events
Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters was founded in Trondheim by the bishop of Nidaros Johan Ernst Gunnerus, headmaster at the Trondheim Cathedral School Gerhard Schøning and Councillor of State Peter Frederik Suhm under the name Det Trondhiemske Selskab (the Trondheim Society).

Births
30 January – Jonas Rein, priest, poet and member of the Norwegian Constituent Assembly at Eidsvoll (died 1821)
15 February – Lars Ingier, military officer, road manager, land owner and mill owner (died 1828).
4 March – Gabriel Schanche Kielland, businessman and ship owner (died 1821)
30 October – Matz Jenssen, businessperson (died 1813)

Full date unknown
Lars Jakobson Thingnæsset, farmer and politician (died 1829)

Deaths

See also

References


Contiger is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. It contains only one species, Contiger vittatalis, which is found on North America, where it has been recorded from Florida.

The wingspan is about 15 mm. Adults have been recorded on wing in January, from March to April, from June to July and from September to October.

References

Acentropinae
Crambidae genera
Monotypic moth genera


Contortipalpia is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae.

Species
Contortipalpia masculina Munroe, 1964
Contortipalpia santiagalis (Schaus, 1920)

References

Glaphyriinae
Crambidae genera
Taxa named by Eugene G. Munroe


Coptobasis is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae.

Species
Coptobasis arctalis (Guenée, 1854)
Coptobasis dentalis Pagenstecher, 1900
Coptobasis lophocera Hampson, 1907
Coptobasis luminalis Lederer, 1863
Coptobasis mesospectralis Hampson, 1897
Coptobasis moellingeri Snellen, 1895
Coptobasis monochromalis (Walker, 1865)
Coptobasis opisalis (Walker, 1859)
Coptobasis ridopalis Swinhoe, 1892
Coptobasis spretalis Lederer, 1863
Coptobasis sulcialis (Walker, 1859)
Coptobasis textalis Lederer, 1863

Former species
Coptobasis lunalis (Guenée, 1854)

References

Spilomelinae
Crambidae genera
Taxa named by Julius Lederer


The old Ekebergparken station was a tram stop on the Simensbråten Line of the Oslo Tramway.

The station opened on 30 September 1931 when the Simensbråten Line was opened as a branch from the Ekeberg Line. The station was closed with the line on to 29 October 1967, following the political decision seven years earlier to gradually close the tramways. Ekebergparken was the first line on the line, located after Jomfrubråten on the Ekeberg Line, and before Smedstua. The line was served by shuttle trams to Jomfrubråten, except during rush hour when there were direct services to the city center.

References

Ekeberg
Oslo Tramway stations in Oslo
Disused Oslo Tramway stations
Railway stations opened in 1931
Railway stations closed in 1967
1931 establishments in Norway
1967 disestablishments in Norway
Railway stations in Norway opened in 1967


Coptobasoides is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae.

Species
Coptobasoides comoralis Viette, 1960
Coptobasoides djadjoualis Viette, 1981
Coptobasoides latericalis Marion, 1955
Coptobasoides leopoldi Janse, 1935
Coptobasoides marionalis Viette, 1960
Coptobasoides ochristalis Marion, 1956
Coptobasoides pauliani Marion, 1955

Former species
Coptobasoides leucothyralis (Mabille, 1900)
Coptobasoides rubralis (Hampson, 1898)
Coptobasoides rubrifucalis (Mabille, 1900)

References

 Janse, 1935 . Mém. Mus. r. Hist. nat. Belg. (Hors Sér.) 4 (12) : 7.
 afromoths

Pyraustinae
Crambidae genera


The 6th Goya Awards were presented in Madrid, Spain on 7 March 1992.

Amantes won the award for Best Film.

Winners and nominees

Major award nominees

Other award nominees

Honorary Goya
 Emiliano Piedra

06
1991 film awards
1991 in Spanish cinema


Ausonia Montes  is a mountain (officially mountains) in the Mare Tyrrhenum quadrangle of Mars, at 25.42° south latitude and 99.04° east longitude.  It is  across and was named after an albedo feature name.

References

Mare Tyrrhenum quadrangle
Mountains on Mars


The Italian general election of 2006 took place on 10–11 April 2006.

The election was won in Sardinia by the centre-left The Union, which prevailed also nationally.

Results

Chamber of Deputies

|-
|- bgcolor="#E9E9E9"
!rowspan="1" align="left" valign="top"|Coalitions leaders
!rowspan="1" align="center" valign="top"|votes
!rowspan="1" align="center" valign="top"|votes (%)
!rowspan="1" align="center" valign="top"|seats
!rowspan="1" align="left" valign="top"|Parties
!rowspan="1" align="center" valign="top"|votes
!rowspan="1" align="center" valign="top"|votes (%)
!rowspan="1" align="center" valign="top"|seats
|-
!rowspan="8" align="left" valign="top"|Romano Prodi
|rowspan="8" valign="top"|550,889
|rowspan="8" valign="top"|52.5
|rowspan="8" valign="top"|10

|align="left"|The Olive Tree
Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy
Democrats of the Left
|valign="top"|349,259
|valign="top"|33.3
|valign="top"|6
|-
|align="left"|Communist Refoundation Party
|valign="top"|69,895
|valign="top"|6.7
|valign="top"|1
|-
|align="left"|Party of Italian Communists
|valign="top"|34,200
|valign="top"|3.3
|valign="top"|1
|-
|align="left"|Rose in the Fist
Italian Democratic Socialists
Italian Radicals
|valign="top"|28,808
|valign="top"|2.7
|valign="top"|1
|-
|align="left"|Italy of Values
|valign="top"|24,236
|valign="top"|2.3
|valign="top"|1
|-
|align="left"|Populars–UDEUR
|valign="top"|23,827
|valign="top"|2.3
|valign="top"|-
|-
|align="left"|Federation of the Greens
|valign="top"|13,552
|valign="top"|1.3
|valign="top"|-
|-
|align="left"|Pensioners' Party
|valign="top"|7,115
|valign="top"|0.7
|valign="top"|-

|-
!rowspan="6" align="left" valign="top"|Silvio Berlusconi
|rowspan="6" valign="top"|475,966
|rowspan="6" valign="top"|45.4
|rowspan="6" valign="top"|8

|align="left"|Forza Italia
|valign="top"|236,679
|valign="top"|22.6
|valign="top"|4
|-
|align="left"|National Alliance
|valign="top"|135,247
|valign="top"|12.9
|valign="top"|2
|-
|align="left"|Union of Christian and Centre Democrats
|valign="top"|80,877
|valign="top"|7.7
|valign="top"|2
|-
|align="left"|Social Alternative
|valign="top"|7,828
|valign="top"|0.7
|valign="top"|-
|-
|align="left"|Christian Democracy–Socialist Party
|valign="top"|6,246
|valign="top"|0.6
|valign="top"|-
|-
|align="left"|others
|valign="top"|9,089
|valign="top"|0.9
|valign="top"|-

|-
!rowspan="1" align="left" valign="top"|Gavino Sale
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|11,648
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|1.1
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|-

|align="left"|Independence Republic of Sardinia
|valign="top"|11,648
|valign="top"|1.1
|valign="top"|-
|-
!rowspan="1" align="left" valign="top"|Bastianu Cumpostu
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|11,000
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|1.1
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|-

|align="left"|Sardinia Nation
|valign="top"|11,000
|valign="top"|1.1
|valign="top"|-
|-
|- bgcolor="#E9E9E9"
!rowspan="1" align="left" valign="top"|Total coalitions
!rowspan="1" align="right" valign="top"|1,049,503
!rowspan="1" align="right" valign="top"|100.0
!rowspan="1" align="right" valign="top"|18
!rowspan="1" align="left" valign="top"|Total parties
!rowspan="1" align="right" valign="top"|1,049,503
!rowspan="1" align="right" valign="top"|100.0
!rowspan="1" align="right" valign="top"|18
|}
Source: Ministry of the Interior

Senate

|-
|- bgcolor="#E9E9E9"
!rowspan="1" align="left" valign="top"|Coalitions leaders
!rowspan="1" align="center" valign="top"|votes
!rowspan="1" align="center" valign="top"|votes (%)
!rowspan="1" align="center" valign="top"|seats
!rowspan="1" align="left" valign="top"|Parties
!rowspan="1" align="center" valign="top"|votes
!rowspan="1" align="center" valign="top"|votes (%)
!rowspan="1" align="center" valign="top"|seats
|-
!rowspan="8" align="left" valign="top"|Romano Prodi
|rowspan="8" valign="top"|482,668
|rowspan="8" valign="top"|50.9
|rowspan="8" valign="top"|5

|align="left"|Democrats of the Left
|valign="top"|162,798
|valign="top"|17.2
|valign="top"|2
|-
|align="left"|Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy
|valign="top"|119,084
|valign="top"|12.6
|valign="top"|1
|-
|align="left"|Communist Refoundation Party
|valign="top"|77,870
|valign="top"|8.2
|valign="top"|1
|-
|align="left"|Together with the Union
Federation of the Greens
Party of Italian Communists
|valign="top"|41,847
|valign="top"|4.4
|valign="top"|1
|-
|align="left"|Italy of Values
|valign="top"|28,211
|valign="top"|3.0
|valign="top"|-
|-
|align="left"|Rose in the Fist
Italian Democratic Socialists
Italian Radicals
|valign="top"|23,545
|valign="top"|2.5
|valign="top"|-
|-
|align="left"|Populars–UDEUR
|valign="top"|21,509
|valign="top"|2.3
|valign="top"|-
|-
|align="left"|Pensioners' Party
|valign="top"|7,804
|valign="top"|0.8
|valign="top"|-

|-
!rowspan="6" align="left" valign="top"|Silvio Berlusconi
|rowspan="6" valign="top"|429,731
|rowspan="6" valign="top"|45.3
|rowspan="6" valign="top"|4

|align="left"|Forza Italia
|valign="top"|215,516
|valign="top"|22.7
|valign="top"|2
|-
|align="left"|National Alliance
|valign="top"|122,697
|valign="top"|12.9
|valign="top"|1
|-
|align="left"|Union of Christian and Centre Democrats
|valign="top"|73,673
|valign="top"|7.8
|valign="top"|1
|-
|align="left"|Social Alternative
|valign="top"|6,120
|valign="top"|0.7
|valign="top"|-
|-
|align="left"|Christian Democracy–Socialist Party
|valign="top"|5,920
|valign="top"|0.6
|valign="top"|-
|-
|align="left"|others
|valign="top"|5,805
|valign="top"|0.6
|valign="top"|-

|-
!rowspan="1" align="left" valign="top"|Antonio Delitalia
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|16,733
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|1.8
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|-

|align="left"|Sardinian Action Party
|valign="top"|16,733
|valign="top"|1.8
|valign="top"|-
|-
!rowspan="1" align="left" valign="top"|Gavino Sale
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|10,881
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|1.2
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|-

|align="left"|Independence Republic of Sardinia
|valign="top"|10,881
|valign="top"|1.2
|valign="top"|-
|-
!rowspan="1" align="left" valign="top"|Bastianu Cumpostu
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|8,412
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|0.9
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|-

|align="left"|Sardinia Nation
|valign="top"|8,412
|valign="top"|0.9
|valign="top"|-
|-
|- bgcolor="#E9E9E9"
!rowspan="1" align="left" valign="top"|Total coalitions
!rowspan="1" align="right" valign="top"|948,425
!rowspan="1" align="right" valign="top"|100.0
!rowspan="1" align="right" valign="top"|9
!rowspan="1" align="left" valign="top"|Total parties
!rowspan="1" align="right" valign="top"|948,425
!rowspan="1" align="right" valign="top"|100.0
!rowspan="1" align="right" valign="top"|9
|}
Source: Ministry of the Interior

Elections in Sardinia
2006 elections in Italy
April 2006 events in Europe


Pyro-Magnetics Corporation was a Whitman, Massachusetts based manufacturer of industrial furnaces. The business produced a processor for disposing hazardous wastes. The product's technical requirements were approved by the Environmental Protection Agency in June 1982.

Insolvency

In late 1982 the corporation sold its two operating units to pay debts and after the sale few of its employees remained. The Pyro-Magnetics Corporation filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy at a federal bankruptcy court in Whitman, in April 1983. Prior to this the firm embarked on an unsuccessful attempt to raise cash by developing commercial applications for its high-temperature melting technology. It failed to have enough funds to prepare and file an annual report with the Securities and Exchange Commission in the spring of 1983. The Pyro-Magnetics Corporation reported a loss of $71,093 in the first quarter of 1982 compared to an annual loss of $198,862 for the entire year of 1981.

References

Manufacturing companies disestablished in 1983
Companies that filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 1983
Companies that have filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy
Defunct manufacturing companies based in Massachusetts
Waste management companies of the United States


Farmers Valley is an unincorporated community in Keating Township, McKean County, Pennsylvania, United States, situated between Coryville and Smethport.

References

Unincorporated communities in McKean County, Pennsylvania
Unincorporated communities in Pennsylvania


Cinna latifolia is a species of grass known by the common name drooping woodreed. It is a native bunchgrass to the Northern Hemisphere, where it has a circumboreal distribution. It grows in moist habitat, such as forest understory and riverbanks. It reaches nearly two meters in maximum height. The inflorescence is an open array of spikelets generally green to purple-tinted in color. It flowers in late summer and fall.

References

External links
Jepson Manual Treatment
USDA Plants Profile
Photo gallery

Pooideae
Bunchgrasses of North America
Native grasses of California
Grasses of the United States
Grasses of Canada


Smedstua was a light rail tram stop on the Simensbråten Line of the Oslo Tramway. It was located at Smedstua in Ekeberg, in the borough of Nordstrand, in Oslo, Norway.

The station opened on 30 September 1931 when the Simensbråten Line was opened as a branch from the Ekeberg Line.  The station was closed with the line on to 29 October 1967, following the political decision seven years earlier to gradually close the tramways.  Smedstua is located between the old Ekebergparken and Simensbråten.  The line was served by shuttle trams to Jomfrubråten, except during rush hour when there were direct services to the city center.

References

Ekeberg
Oslo Tramway stations in Oslo
Disused Oslo Tramway stations
Railway stations opened in 1931
Railway stations closed in 1967
1931 establishments in Norway
1967 disestablishments in Norway
Railway stations in Norway opened in the 1930s


Auchenskeoch Tower is a 17th-century tower house situated in Dumfries and Galloway, south-west Scotland. It is near Dalbeattie in the civil parish of Colvend and Southwick, in the county of Kirkcudbrightshire. It is thought to be built on a Z-plan, making it the only such tower in Galloway.  Dalswinton Tower in the neighbouring county of  Dumfriesshire is the only other example in Dumfries and Galloway. The remains of the tower are within the modern Castle Farm and are a scheduled ancient monument.

References

 Coventry, Martin (2001) The Castles of Scotland, 3rd Ed. Scotland: Goblinshead
Maxwell-Irving, A. M. T. (2000) The Border Towers of Scotland, Creedon Publications

Castles in Dumfries and Galloway
Scheduled Ancient Monuments in Dumfries and Galloway


Manqoba Mngqithi (born 25 April 1971 in Umzimkhulu) is a South African football coach who is the "senior coach" of Mamelodi Sundowns. He has managed a number of clubs in the Premier Soccer League.Manqoba Mqithi is considered as one of the best coaches in South Africa.
He has been a coach for more than 15 years and is a former schoolteacher by profession.

In 2020 Mngqithi became co-coach of Mamelodi Sundowns alongside Rulani Mokwena. In October 2022, "Mngqithi was assigned to a new role as Sundowns' senior coach in what is a demotion from the position of co-coach. He will now be working under new head coach Rhulani Mokwena", Goal.com reported.

Personal life
Isibaya actress Asavela Mngqithi is Manqoba Mngqithi's daughter.

Honours
Mamelodi Sundowns
Premier Soccer League: 2021
MMTN8: 2009, 2021.

References

1971 births
Living people
People from Umzimkhulu Local Municipality
Zulu people
South African schoolteachers
South African soccer managers
Premier Soccer League managers
Lamontville Golden Arrows F.C. managers
AmaZulu F.C. managers
Chippa United F.C. managers
Mamelodi Sundowns F.C. managers


Rear Admiral Sir Francis Augustus Collier, CB, KCH (7 August 1785 – 28 October 1849) was a senior officer of the British Royal Navy during the early nineteenth century. Born into a naval family, Collier served in the French Revolutionary Wars and fought at the Battle of the Nile on Horatio Nelson's flagship. During the Napoleonic Wars he was engaged in campaigns in the West Indies and in 1819 he commanded an operation against pirates in the Persian Gulf. He remained in service for the next thirty years, holding several commands before his death in 1849 as commander of the China Squadron at Hong Kong.

Early life

Collier was born on 7 August 1785 in Ireland and baptised in Wandsworth 16 September  the same year,  the son of Admiral Sir George Collier and his wife Elizabeth Fryer. In 1794 he entered the Royal Navy aged 11 and served with the Channel Fleet for several years before being transferred to the Mediterranean to serve aboard Admiral Horatio Nelson's flagship HMS Vanguard. In 1798, Vanguard and Collier were engaged at the Battle of the Nile, and he subsequently moved with Nelson to HMS Foudroyant, serving aboard until 1802 and the Peace of Amiens.

Command

In 1803 he was promoted to Lieutenant and in 1805 to Commander. Between 25 October 1805 and 15 January 1806 he commanded Nimrod in the Caribbean.

Pearl Rock and Martinique
On 12 December 1808, Commander Collier was captain of  was in charge of a squadron that included ,  and . The vessels joined to attack the French 16-gun brig Cygne and two schooners off Saint-Pierre, Martinique. Circe sent in her boats, which the French repelled, causing 56 casualties, dead, wounded and missing.

That evening , under the command of Captain Edward Pelham Brenton, joined Circe and Stork. The next day fire from Amaranthe compelled the crew of Cygne to abandon her and Amaranthe's boats boarded and destroyed the French vessel. For her part Amaranthe lost one man killed and five wounded due to fire from batteries on the shore. One schooner was run ashore and destroyed.

Amaranthe's boats, assisted by boats from the schooner Express, boarded the second schooner and set fire to her too. This expedition cost Amaranthe her sailing master, Joshua Jones, who was severely wounded. The other British vessels that contributed boats also had casualties. Including the losses in the earlier fighting before Amaranthe arrived, the British had lost some 12 men killed, 31 wounded, and 26 missing (drowned or prisoners) for little gain. Brenton was promoted to Post-captain soon after the battle, with the promotion being back dated to 13 December, the date of the battle. In 1847 the Admiralty authorized the award of the Naval General Service Medal with the clasp "OFF THE PEARL ROCK 13 DECR. 1808".

For his part in this action, Collier received a promotion to post captain, with the confirmation back-dating the promotion to 13 December 1808. As a result, he was still a commander in 1809 when as captain of  he participated in the invasion of Martinique. In 1847 the Admiralty authorized the award of the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Martinique" to all surviving claimants from the campaign.

Subsequent career

Collier served as captain of  from September 1810 until May 1812. In early 1812, a seaman named Oakey struck Collier, was charged, found guilty and sentenced to death. His plea for a stay of execution was denied, and every ship in port sent a boat of seamen to witness the hanging. Oakey came on deck with his arms tied behind him, attended by the Chaplain, and the sentence of the Court Martial was read. Then Captain Hall produced a letter from the Prince Regent that, at Collier's request, commuted Oakey's sentence to transportation. The reprieve surprised Oakey, who fell on his knees and wept.

Post-war

At the end of the war in 1815 Collier was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath for his services, mainly in the West Indies.

In 1818, Collier took command of the fourth rate  and joined the squadron on the East Indies Station. The following year he was given command of a joint Navy and East India Company squadron including the 20-gun post-ship , the 18-gun brig-sloop , several East India Company cruisers, and a number of gun and mortar boats. Several vessels belonging to the Sultan of Muscat joined them, while Major General Sir William Keir commanded 3,000 troops in transports.

The squadron's task was to destroy the pirate bases in the Persian Gulf and simultaneously eliminate the company's competition in the region. The operation lasted from 4 to 8 December and was a resounding success for the Royal Navy. The capture and destruction of the fortifications and ships in the pirate capital of Ras al-Khaimah was a massive blow to the local pirates. The Royal Navy suffered no casualties during the action.

In 1820 the pirate states signed a treaty that effectively eliminated them as a threat to British shipping. In 1822 Collier returned to Britain, and between 1826 and 1830 he was the commodore in command of the West African Station. He raised his pennant in Sybille; during the time she was engaged in anti-slavery duties off West Africa, Sybille captured numerous slavers and freed some 3,500 slaves.

Late career and honours

For his varied service he was knighted on 28 July 1830 and then admitted to the Persian Order of the Lion and the Sun for his service in the Persian Gulf. In 1833 he was made a Knight Commander of the Royal Guelphic Order and in 1841 became the commandant of Woolwich Dockyard, moving in 1846 to command a squadron in the Channel Fleet as a rear-admiral. In April 1848 he was made commander on the East Indies and China Station and took up his position at Hong Kong later in the year.

Death
He died in October 1849 at Hong Kong, and is buried at Hong Kong Cemetery. He was survived by his second wife, Catherine Thistlethwaite, whom he had married in 1831, and their child, Selina Catherine Collier, although few details are known of his family life. He was, however, a well-known figure on the racecourse in the 1830s and early 1840s and won the 1836 Ascot Derby (now known as The King Edward VII Stakes) with Lieutenant.

Notes

See also

References
Collier, Sir Francis Augustus, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, J. K. Laughton, (subscription required), Retrieved 20 March 2009

External links

1786 births
1849 deaths
Royal Navy rear admirals
Royal Navy personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars
Royal Navy personnel of the Napoleonic Wars
Companions of the Order of the Bath
Knights Bachelor
Officers of the West Africa Squadron
Burials in Hong Kong
Irish military personnel


John Denison Hibbard (July 31, 1864 – November 17, 1937) was an American baseball pitcher and businessman. He played for the Chicago White Stockings in 1884. He also pitched four years of college baseball at the University of Michigan from 1884 to 1887 and played briefly for the Hamilton Clippers of the International League in 1886. From 1887 to 1923, he had a successful career in the metals and manufacturing businesses in Chicago. He served as president of the John Davis Co., Davis Construction Co., North American Securities Co., the Chicago Metal Trades Association, and the Central Supply Association. He also served as the commissioner of the National Metal Trades Association from 1913 to 1922.

Early years
Hibbard was born in Chicago. His father, Homer Nash Hibbard, was a Vermont native who attended Harvard Law School and then established a law practice in Chicago. The younger Hibbard grew up in Chicago, attended public primary school, and prepared for college at Hyde Park High School.

University of Michigan

In the fall of 1883, he enrolled at the University of Michigan as part of the first class of six students in the mechanical engineering program. He was a member of the Michigan Wolverines baseball team for four years from 1884 to 1887 and the team's captain in 1885 and 1886. He was the team's principal pitcher all four years at Michigan. While attending Michigan, Hibbard was also a member of the University Athletic Board, the University Glee Club, and the Sigma Chi fraternity.

Professional baseball
Between July 31 and August 2, 1884, Hibbard played in two games for the Chicago White Stockings of the National League, compiling a record of one win and one loss and an earned run average of 2.65.

Despite his brief stint in professional baseball in the summer of 1884, Hibbard returned to play for Michigan for three more years. He also appeared in three games for the Hamilton Clippers of the International League in 1886, compiling a record of two wins and one loss and an earned run average of 2.00.

Business career

After graduating from Michigan, Hibbard worked as a metallurgical engineer. In 1887, he accepted a position with The John Davis Co. in Chicago. In December 1889, Hibbard married Josie W. Davis, the daughter of John Davis for whose company he was employed. He was the company's vice president from 1889 to 1901. When John Davis died in 1901, Hibbard became the company's president. He remained as the company's president until 1909, after the company was taken over by the United States Steel Corporation. By 1906, the company had grown to have millions of dollars in annual business. In 1907, the company' steam-fitting operation was incorporated as the Davis Construction Co. with Hibbard as the president.

While associated with The John Davis Co., Hibbard also served as the president of the Chicago Metal Trades Association. In July 1904, McClure's Magazine wrote:"The Chicago Metal Trades Association is an organization of more than one hundred manufacturers, employing 15,000 men. Its president is John D. Hibbard . . . Mr. Hibbard is the genius of the association, a man of enthusiasm and earnestness, a graduate of the University of Michigan, with a training in fair play on the college ball field."

Hibbard was an opponent of unionism and went through "no fewer than seventeen strikes in as many years" at The John Davis Co. The American Employer noted that, in 1904, as president of the Chicago branch of the National Metals Trade Association, Hibbard "successfully fought a stubborn strike of machinists." By 1907, Hibbard also served as the president of the Central Supply Association. From 1909 to 1912, he was the president of the North American Securities Co.

National Metals Trade Association
In 1913, Hibbard was appointed as the commissioner of the National Metals Trade Association, a trade association of companies employing machinists, polishers, pattern makers and other machine shop workers. He served in that position until January 1922. In July 1914, Hibbard appearance before the Commission on Industrial Relations conducting an investigation of industrial conditions and relations in Chicago. Hibbard testified in opposition to the labor union movement and collective bargaining. He testified that the National Metals Trade Association was made up of manufacturers of automobiles, anchors, chains, motorcycles, machine tools, and "almost anything that is made in the ordinary machine shop." He testified that the preliminary purpose of the organization, and the reason for its existence, was mutual protection in labor disputes. During his time as commissioner, the organization grew from 732 to 1,013 members.

Hibbard retired in 1924.

Family and later years
Hibbard and his wife Josie had two children, Helen Hibbard (born 1891) and John Davis Hibbard (born 1895). After retiring, Hibbard moved to Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. At the time of the 1930 United States Census, he was living in a house valued at $50,000 at 1805 Fuller Avenue in Hollywood. He lived there with a housekeeper (May Glanville) and two servants. In February 1931, Hibbard and his second wife May Hibbard traveled to Havana, Cuba on the S.S. Cartago. In December 1935, Hibbard and his second wife May G. Hibbard traveled to Yokohama, Japan, aboard the S.S. Roseville. In July 1937, Hibbard and his wife May traveled to Honolulu, Hawaii. In November 1937, Hibbard died at age 72 in Hollywood.

References

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1864 births
1937 deaths
Chicago White Stockings players
Hamilton Clippers players
Michigan Wolverines baseball players
Baseball players from Chicago
19th-century baseball players


Maurice Fingercwajg also Mojsze, Fingercweig (25 December 1923 in Warsaw – 21 February 1944 in Mont Valérien), was a volunteer soldier in the French liberation army FTP-MOI and a member of the group of Missak Manouchian. He  was one of the resistance fighters shot at Fort Mont Valérien.

Biography
Fingercwajg was born on 25 December 1923 in Warsaw, Poland. He was less than three years old when his parents settled in Paris. His father, a tailor, worked hard to feed his family. The young Maurice went to school and could have been a happy child were it not for the loss of his mother at the age of ten. Despite his youth, he worked as an upholsterer. Fingercwajg's elder brother Jacques was a member of the Jeunesse Communiste and influenced him greatly. In 1940 Fingercwajg in his turn joined the Jeunesse Communiste, where he became very active.

When the second Jewish detachment of the FTP immigrés was formed in the spring of 1942, Maurice was one of the first fighters. His bravery and devotion led to his being transferred to the elite derailment teams under the command of Missak Manouchian, where he carried out many audacious operations.

Fingercwajg's father and two brothers, Jacques and Léon, were deported during the great round-ups of Jews; he was left alone in the world and with the antifascist fighters as his only family. In November 1943, he was arrested along with his leader, Manouchian, and handed over with his other brothers in arms to the tribunal known as the procès des 23 (trial of the 23). Sentenced to death, he was shot at the Fort Mont Valérien on 21 February 1944.

Affiche rouge
Fingercwajg's name appeared on the Affiche Rouge German propaganda poster, with the caption Fingercwajg, Juif polonais, 3 attentats, 5 déraillements (Fingercwajg, Polish Jew, 3 attacks, 5 derailments).

See also
 Main-d'œuvre immigrée
 Francs-tireurs et partisans - Main-d'œuvre immigrée
 Affiche rouge
 Brigades Spéciales
 Geheime Feld Polizei

Bibliography
 FFI - FTPF, Pages de gloire des vingt-trois, Immigration, 1951.

Notes

External links
    La journée d'un "Terroriste"
   Discours d'André SANTINI et Henry KARAYAN

Polish Jews who died in the Holocaust
1923 births
1944 deaths
FTP-MOI
Resistance members killed by Nazi Germany
Polish emigrants to France
Jews in the French resistance
Jews executed by Nazi Germany
French people executed by Nazi Germany
Affiche Rouge
People executed at Fort Mont-Valérien


Coremata is a monotypic moth genus of the family Crambidae described by Hans Georg Amsel in 1956. It contains only one species, Coremata stigmatalis, described by George Hampson in 1899, which is found in São Paulo, Brazil.

The wingspan is about 24 mm. The forewings are white with a slight yellowish tinge and with four black dots at the base, as well as a subbasal fuscous eight-shaped mark.

References

Spilomelinae
Taxa named by Hans Georg Amsel
Monotypic moth genera
Crambidae genera


The Płonka is a river in central Poland.

Płonka may also refer to:

Places
Płonka, Lublin Voivodeship
Płonka, West Pomeranian Voivodeship

People
Beata Kempa (née Płonka, born 1966), Polish politician
Eric Plonka, member of Yakuza (band)
Ewa Plonka (born 1982), Polish opera singer
Gerlind Plonka, German mathematician
Jan Płonka (1920–2003), Polish skier
Marek Płonka, member of the Poland national rugby union team
Michał Płonka (born 1992), Polish footballer


Cornifrons is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae.

Species
Cornifrons actualis Barnes & McDunnough, 1918
Cornifrons albidiscalis Hampson in Poulton, 1916
Cornifrons phasma Dyar, 1917
Cornifrons ulceratalis Lederer, 1858

References

Evergestinae


The Annual Bulletin of the Comparative Law Bureau of the American Bar Association (ABA) was a U.S. specialty law journal (1908–1914, 1933). The first comparative law journal in the United States, it surveyed foreign legislation and legal literature. Circulated to all ABA members, it was absorbed in 1915 by the newly formed American Bar Association Journal.

History

Bureau
In 1905, a committee of the Pennsylvania State Bar Association considered the creation of a comparative law society and recommended to bring such large project to the American Bar Association. The ABA created such entity at its 1907 annual meeting, as a new section named the Comparative Law Bureau: the Bureau members would meet annually at the ABA's summer meeting and publish an annual bulletin.

The Bureau's officers included: Simeon E. Baldwin (as director, 1907–1919; ABA co-founder and president, later Governor of Connecticut) and William Smithers (as secretary, also the chairman of the Bulletins editorial staff). The Bureau's managers included: James Barr Ames (dean at Harvard), George Kirchwey (dean at Columbia), William Draper Lewis  (dean at Pennsylvania, later the founding director of the American Law Institute), and John Henry Wigmore (dean at Northwestern).

The Bureau's aims were presented in the Bulletin'''s first issue: (1) to publish an annual Bulletin with foreign legislation and reviews of foreign legal literature; (2) to translate and publish foreign legislation as well as relevant expert opinions; (3) to hold an annual conference for discussing comparative law; (4) to improve means by which foreign laws can become available to U.S. lawyers; (5) to promote research in the areas of foreign law; (6) to establish a list of foreign correspondents; and (7) to gather information on foreign law, such as bibliographies, for the benefit of practicing lawyers, law teachers, and students.

The Bureau met annually and published its Bulletin (separately, then within the Journal) until financial difficulties in the 1930s due to the Great Depression. In 1933, after publishing an ultimate separate Bulletin, the Bureau was merged with the ABA's International Law section, forming the ABA Section of International & Comparative Law.

Bulletin
In July 1908, the Annual Bulletin (no ISSN) was founded by the Bureau. The first comparative law journal in the United States, it provided a survey of foreign legislation and legal literature. Its first issue was a 200 or so page bulletin.

The editor (chairman of the editorial staff) was Bureau secretary Smithers (from Philadelphia, where was also the Bulletins printer). The editorial staff in 1908 included: Simeon E. Baldwin (Yale) for general jurisprudence; Ernest Lorenzen (George Washington) and Roscoe Pound (then at Northwestern) for Germany; Charles Wetherill for Great Britain; Masuji Miyakawa for Japan; Leo Rowe (University of Pennsylvania) for Latin America; William Hastings (University of Nebraska, dean in 1910) for Russia; Samuel Scott for Spain; and Gordon Sherman for Switzerland. There were foreign correspondents from fourteen countries, including Gaston de Leval from Belgium and Eugen Huber (creator of the Swiss civil code of 1907, still in force) from Switzerland.

The Bulletin was circulated to all ABA members and to other subscribers. Published by International Printing Co. in  Philadelphia, it ran from July 1, 1908, to July 1, 1914, for volume 1 to 7.

The separate Bulletin was discontinued for two reasons: in 1914, World War I disrupted cross-Atlantic connections; and in 1915, the ABA started publishing its own Journal, into which the Bulletin was merged as an annual issue. (Though in 1933, there was an ultimate separate Bulletin, 215 page long. And in 1964, two backissues were reprinted.)

Journal

In 1915, the American Bar Association Journal () was founded by the American Bar Association as a quarterly magazine (it became monthly in 1921). From 1915 to 1928, the Bulletin was merged into it: the Comparative Law Bureau controlled the second issue each year, the April number. Bureau issues stopped in 1929, but comparative and foreign law articles still regularly appeared in the Journal (about five to ten per volume).

Notes

References
Sources used for this article:
 Clark, David S. (2005). "Establishing Comparative Law in the United States: The First Fifty Years" (HTML from the original PDF), Washington University Global Studies Law Review (), vol. 4:583–593, October 28, 2005, esp. p. 584 & 588–589 — With a short history of the Bulletin and early Journal.
 LOC (2009). "Annual bulletin (American Bar Association. Comparative Law Bureau)",  (also ), Library of Congress Online Catalog, consulted in March 2009
 LOC (2009). "Bulletin for 1933",  (also ), Library of Congress Online Catalog, consulted in March 2009 — With a brief history of the Bulletin in Notes.

Further reading
Annual Report of the American Bar Association
 (For 1914 apparently not available online.)
  — Bulletin merged into the new Journal''.

 (For 1933 apparently not available online.)

American law journals
Annual journals
Comparative law journals
Defunct journals of the United States
English-language journals
Publications disestablished in 1933
Publications established in 1908
American Bar Association
1908 establishments in the United States
Academic journals associated with learned and professional societies of the United States


Corynophora is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae.

Species
Corynophora argentifascia (Hampson, 1919)
Corynophora lativittalis (Walker, 1863)
Corynophora torrentellus (Meyrick, 1879)

References

Crambinae
Crambidae genera


Balmangan Tower is a ruined 16th-century tower house situated near Borgue, Dumfries and Galloway.

References
 Coventry, Martin (2001) The Castles of Scotland, 3rd Ed. Scotland: Goblinshead
Maxwell-Irving, A. M. T. (2000) The Border Towers of Scotland, Creedon Publications

Castles in Dumfries and Galloway
Category B listed buildings in Dumfries and Galloway
Listed castles in Scotland
Tower houses in Scotland


Cosipara is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae.

Species
Cosipara chiricahuae Munroe, 1972
Cosipara cyclophora (Dyar, 1918)
Cosipara delphusa (Druce, 1896)
Cosipara flexuosa (Dyar, 1918)
Cosipara modulalis Munroe, 1972
Cosipara molliculella (Dyar, 1929)
Cosipara smithi (Druce, 1896)
Cosipara stereostigma (Dyar, 1918)
Cosipara tricolor (Zeller, 1872)
Cosipara tricoloralis (Dyar, 1904)

References

Scopariinae
Crambidae genera
Taxa named by Eugene G. Munroe


The Wings of Freedom Aviation Museum in Horsham, Pennsylvania is a museum dedicated to preserving the aviation history of the Greater Delaware Valley including NAS Willow Grove and Harold F. Pitcairn. It is owned and operated by the Delaware Valley Historical Aircraft Association (DVHAA), a non-profit organization. Opened in 2004, the museum features restored historic aircraft, flight helmets, flight gear, air to air missiles, Martin-Baker ejection seats, and military service medals.

History
The museum traces its history back to the work of Lieutenant Commander David Ascher. Shortly after becoming the aircraft maintenance officer in May 1946, Ascher acquired a Curtiss TP-40N Warhawk from a local high school and displayed it at NAS Willow Grove. Later, through his efforts, an Arado Ar 196 was also added for display. Finally, in 1947, several captured Axis aircraft were recovered from Patuxent River and transported to the base for display.

Although most of the aircraft were later transferred to the National Air and Space Museum, Naval Aviation Museum, and other institutions, the Delaware Valley Historical Aircraft Association was able to found a new museum. Construction on the new building began in May 2002 and the museum opened to the public in 2004.

Aircraft on display
Aircraft are on display both inside the museum and outside on the ground, and include:

 Beechcraft T-34 Mentor
 Bell H-13G Sioux
 Bell UH-1V Iroquois
 Convair F2Y Sea Dart
 Douglas A-4M Skyhawk
 Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II
 Fokker D.VIII
 Grumman C-1A Trader
 Grumman F9F-2 Panther
 Gyrodyne QH-50C DASH
 Kaman SH-2G Super Seasprite
 Lockheed P-3B Orion
 Lockheed TV-1 Shooting Star
 McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II
 McDonnell Douglas F/A-18A Hornet
 North American FJ-4B Fury
 Piasecki HUP-2 Retriever
 Pitcairn PA-8 Mailwing
 Republic F-84F Thunderstreak
 Sikorsky UH-34J Seabat
 Vought F7U-3 Cutlass
 Vought F8U-1 Crusader

References

External links
Wings of Freedom Aviation Museum

Aerospace museums in Pennsylvania
Museums in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
Military and war museums in Pennsylvania


This is a list of Canadian radio personalities.

A
Charles Adler
Jerry Agar
Ismaila Alfa
Tom Allen
Steve Anthony
Paul Arcand
Peter Armstrong
André Arthur

B
Brent Bambury
Carl Banas
Andy Barrie
Marie-France Bazzo
Stephanie Beard
Jaymz Bee
Paul Bellini
Ralph Benmergui
Avril Benoît
Dorothée Berryman
Dennis Beyak
Ferdinand Biondi
DJ Blitz
Dean Blundell
Dave Bookman
Joe Bowen
Dave Brindle
Craig Bromell
Harry Brown
Jim Brown
Robin Brown
Barbara Budd

C
Stan Carew
Bill Carroll
Maggie Cassella
Rita Celli
Dave Chalk
Christiane Charette
Piya Chattopadhyay
Wei Chen
Lisa Christiansen
Christy Clark
Saroja Coelho
Leon Cole
Carla Collins
Scruff Connors
Michael Coren
Gavin Crawford
Alan Cross

D
Erin Davis
Mark Day (actor)
Gill Deacon
Marc Denis
Marilyn Denis
Bernard Derome
John Derringer
Jeff Douglas
Raina Douris
Darren Dreger
Dan Dunleavy
Dan Duran
Josie Dye
Jesse Dylan

E
Mark Elliot
Michael Enright
Mary Jo Eustace

F
Jane Farrow
Laura Fernandez
Mary Lou Finlay
Robert Fisher
Martina Fitzgerald
Andy Frost
Barbara Frum

G
Vicki Gabereau
Matt Galloway
Lana Gay
Jian Ghomeshi
Clyde Gilmour
"Humble Howard" Glassman
Dale Goldhawk
Jurgen Gothe
Jane Gray
Lowell Green
Lorne Greene
David Grierson
Peter Gzowski

H
Marie-Lynn Hammond
Keith Hampshire
Adrian Harewood
Tom Harrington
Jane Hawtin
Foster Hewitt
Maureen Holloway
Chris Howden

I
Mary Ito
Steve Ivings

J
Don Jackson
Doug James
Stu Jeffries
Molly Johnson
Taborah Johnson

K
Linda Kash
Paul Kennedy
Vish Khanna
Cory Kimm
Wab Kinew
Leora Kornfeld
Ken Kostick
Andrew Krystal

L
Anne Lagacé Dowson
Grant Lawrence
Sook-Yin Lee
Marilyn Lightstone

M
Bob Mackowycz
Pierre Mailloux
Rafe Mair
Alan Maitland
John Majhor
Katie Malloch
Jeff Marek
MC Mario
David Marsden
Pat Marsden
Bob McAdorey
Stuart McLean
Bernie McNamee
Casey Mecija
Kim Mitchell
Alain Montpetit
John Moore
Terry Moore
Terry David Mulligan
Rex Murphy

N
Alan Neal
Julie Nesrallah
Craig Norris

O
Carol Off

P
Candy Palmater
Amanda Parris
Fred Patterson
Lise Payette
Deb Pearce
Holger Petersen
Kathleen Petty
Geoff Pevere
Cameron Phillips
Catherine Pogonat
Ross Porter
Tom Power
Amanda Putz

Q

R
Jim Ralph
Sean Rameswaram
Jim Richards
Bill Richardson
Erika Ritter
Leslie Roberts
Tom Roberts
Ken Rockburn
Shelagh Rogers
Richard Ryder

S
Bernard St-Laurent
Simi Sara
Patti Schmidt
Dave Seglins
Shad
Tetsuro Shigematsu
Peter Shurman
Gordon Sinclair
Lister Sinclair
Richard Z. Sirois
Alison Smith
Shelley Solmes
Martin Streek
George Stroumboulopoulos
Kevin Sylvester

T
Tim Tamashiro
Jowi Taylor
Rich Terfry
Angeline Tetteh-Wayoe
John Tory
Anna Maria Tremonti

U

V
Gene Valaitis

W
Bill Walker
Bill Watters
Odario Williams
David Wisdom
Ted Woloshyn
Cajjmere Wray

X

Y
Nora Young

Z

Radio personalities


Ekebergparken (Formerly: Sjømannsskolen) is a light rail station on the Ekeberg Line of the Oslo Tramway. It is located near Sjømannsskolen (the Seamen School) in Ekeberg and Ekebergparken Sculpture Park nearby. The station is located in the borough of Nordstrand, in Oslo, Norway.

The station opened on 11 June 1917 as part of the Ekeberg Line to Sæter.
The station is served by lines 13 and 19, using both SL79 and SL95 trams.

References

Ekeberg
Oslo Tramway stations in Oslo
Railway stations opened in 1917
1917 establishments in Norway
Railway stations in Norway opened in the 1910s


Cosmopterosis is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae.

Species
Cosmopterosis hispida Solis in Solis, Metz & Janzen, 2009
Cosmopterosis jasonhalli Solis in Solis, Metz & Janzen, 2009
Cosmopterosis spatha Solis in Solis, Metz & Janzen, 2009
Cosmopterosis thetysalis (Walker, 1859)

References

Glaphyriinae
Taxa named by Hans Georg Amsel
Crambidae genera


Juan Cárdenas Arroyo (born 1939) is a Colombian figurative painter. He was born in Popayán. He graduated from Columbia University in New York, and in 1962 he studied painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, in the United States.

His career began as a cartoonist in El Tiempo, La República, El Espacio, and in the magazine Flash. He was jailed for a cartoon. From 1969 to 1972 he was professor of Painting, Drawing, and Anatomy, University of the Andes, Colombia. He participated in and won first prize in the 25th National Salon of Colombian Artists in 1974 for his self-portrait ("Autorretrato Dibujo").

Notes

References
Great Encyclopedia of Colombia, Circulo de Lectores, Bogotá
Art of Colombia, Salvat, Bogotá

Colombian painters
Colombian male painters
1939 births
Living people

Columbia University alumni
Rhode Island School of Design alumni
Arroyo family


Cotachena is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae.

Species
Cotachena aluensis Butler, 1887
Cotachena alysoni Whalley, 1961
Cotachena brunnealis Yamanaka, 2001
Cotachena fuscimarginalis Hampson, 1916
Cotachena heteromima Meyrick, 1889
Cotachena hicana (Turner, 1915)
Cotachena histricalis (Walker, 1859)
Cotachena nepalensis Yamanaka, 2000
Cotachena pubescens Warren, 1892
Cotachena taiwanalis Yamanaka, 2001

Former species
Cotachena octoguttalis (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
Cotachena smaragdina (Butler, 1875)

References

Spilomelinae
Crambidae genera
Taxa named by Frederic Moore


The Lost World of Communism is a three-part British documentary series which examines the legacy of communism twenty years on from the fall of the Berlin Wall. Produced by Peter Molloy and Lucy Hetherington, the series takes a retrospective look at life behind the Iron Curtain between 1945 and 1989, focusing on three countries in the Eastern Bloc - East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Romania. Through film and television footage and the personal recollections of those who lived in these countries, the series offers a glimpse of what daily life was like during the years of Communist rule.

The Lost World of Communism debuted on BBC Two on Saturday 14 March 2009 at 9:00pm. There is also a book which accompanies the series.

Episode list

References

External links

2000s British documentary television series
2009 British television series debuts
2009 British television series endings
British television miniseries
English-language television shows
BBC television documentaries about history during the 20th Century


Crambixon is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. It contains only one species, Crambixon zarathustra, which is found in Afghanistan.

References

Crambinae
Crambidae genera
Taxa named by Stanisław Błeszyński
Monotypic moth genera


Nikolai Alexandrovich Kulikovsky (5 November 1881 – 11 August 1958) was the second husband of Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia, the sister of Tsar Nicholas II and daughter of Tsar Alexander III.

He was born into a military landowning family from the south of the Russian Empire, and followed the family tradition by entering the army. In 1903, he was noticed by Grand Duchess Olga during a military review, and they became close friends. Olga wanted to divorce her first husband, Duke Peter Alexandrovich of Oldenburg, and marry Kulikovsky, but neither her husband nor her brother, the Tsar, would allow it.

During World War I, Olga eventually obtained a divorce and married Kulikovsky. They had two sons. Her brother was deposed in the Russian Revolution of 1917, and Kulikovsky was dismissed from the army by the revolutionary government. The Kulikovskys were forced into exile, and he became a farmer and businessman in Denmark, where they lived until after World War II. In 1948, they emigrated to Canada as agricultural immigrants, but within four years of their arrival they had sold their farm and moved into a small suburban house. He became increasingly disabled by back pain, and died in 1958 aged 76.

Early life
Nikolai Kulikovsky was born into a military family from the Voronezh province of Russia. His grandfather was a general during the Napoleonic Wars, and his family owned two large estates in Ukraine. He rode from an early age, became an expert horseman, and was educated at Petrograd Real College of Gurevich, followed by the  , from where he graduated with a degree.

He joined the Blue Cuirassier regiment of the imperial Russian cavalry shortly before 1903. Grand Duke Michael, the younger brother of Tsar Nicholas II, was the regiment's honorary colonel. In April 1903, during a military parade at the Pavlovsk Palace, Grand Duchess Olga, the youngest sister of Nicholas and Michael, saw Kulikovsky and begged Michael to arrange the seating at a casual luncheon so she and Kulikovsky were adjacent. The Grand Duchess was already married to Duke Peter Alexandrovich of Oldenburg, who was covertly believed by his friends and family to be homosexual. A few days after her brief meeting with Kulikovsky, Olga asked Oldenburg for a divorce, which he refused with the qualification that he would reconsider his decision after seven years.

Kulikovsky was appointed as captain in the Blue Cuirassiers and posted to the provinces. By 1906, he and Olga were corresponding regularly, when Olga's husband Duke Peter appointed Kulikovsky as his aide-de-camp. With Peter's permission, Kulikovsky moved into the 200-room residence in Sergievskaya Street, Saint Petersburg, that Peter shared with Olga. According to a fellow officer, gossip about a possible romance between Kulikovsky and the Grand Duchess, based on little more than their holding hands in public, spread through high society.

Marriage and revolution

Though Olga repeatedly asked Tsar Nicholas II to allow her to divorce, her brother refused on religious and dynastic grounds; he believed marriage was for life and that royalty should marry within royalty. When their brother, Grand Duke Michael, eloped with his mistress, Natasha Wulfert, the Tsar and Olga were scandalized along with the rest of society. Natasha was a commoner who had been divorced twice, and one of her former husbands was an officer in the same regiment as Kulikovsky. Michael was banished from Russia, and the likelihood of the Tsar ever granting Olga's divorce, or permitting her to marry a commoner, looked remote.

At the outbreak of World War I, Kulikovsky was sent to the front with his regiment. Michael was recalled from abroad, and Olga went to work in a military hospital as a nurse. Olga continued to press the Tsar to allow her divorce. In a letter she wrote, "... finish with the divorce now during the war while all eyes and minds are occupied elsewhere—and such a small thing would be lost in all the greater things". The war went badly for the Russian imperial forces, and the Central Powers, led by Germany, advanced into Russia. Fearful for Kulikovsky's safety, Olga pleaded with the Tsar to transfer him to the relative safety of Kiev, where she was stationed at a hospital. In 1916, after visiting her in Kiev, the Tsar officially annulled her marriage to Duke Peter, and she married Kulikovsky on 16 November 1916, in the Kievo-Vasilievskaya Church on Triokhsviatitelskaya (Three Saints Street) in Kiev. Only the officiating priest, Olga's mother the Dowager Empress Marie, Olga's brother-in-law Grand Duke Alexander, two fellow nurses from the hospital in Kiev and four officers of the Akhtyrsky regiment, of which Olga was honorary colonel, attended. Their two-week honeymoon was spent in a farmhouse in Podgorny that had belonged to family friends of the Kulikovskys. After visiting Kulikovsky's parents and grandmother in Kharkov, Olga and Kulikovsky returned to Kiev.

During the war, internal tensions and economic deprivation in Russia continued to mount and revolutionary sympathies grew. After Nicholas II was deposed in early 1917, many members of the Romanov dynasty, including Nicholas and his immediate family, were held under house arrest. The new government retired Kulikovsky from the army with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. Dowager Empress Marie, Grand Duke Alexander, Grand Duchess Olga, and Kulikovsky managed to escape to the Crimea where they lived for a time before they too were placed under house arrest at one of the imperial estates. As a commoner, Kulikovsky was permitted more freedom of movement than the Romanovs, and was occasionally able to leave the estate in a pony-cart, which allowed him to run errands, obtain food, and seek news of the outside. On 12 August 1917, Olga and Kulikovsky's first child and son, Tikhon, was born in the Crimea. He was named after one of the Grand Duchess's favorite saints, Tikhon of Zadonsk. Although the grandson of an emperor and the nephew of another, Tikhon received no titles because his father was a commoner.

As newspapers were banned and letters infrequent, the Romanovs under house arrest knew little of the fate of Tsar Nicholas and his family. Nicholas, his wife, and their children, were originally held at their official residence, the Alexander Palace at Tsarskoye Selo, but the provisional government under Alexander Kerensky relocated them to Tobolsk, Siberia. Eventually, in July 1918, after being transferred to Yekaterinburg, Nicholas and his family were killed by their Bolshevik guards. In the Crimea, the Grand Duchess's family were condemned to death by the Yalta revolutionary council but the executions were stayed by the Sevastopol council, who refused to act without orders from Moscow. In March 1918, German forces advanced on the Crimea, and the revolutionary guards were replaced by German ones.

When Germany surrendered to the Allies of World War I in November 1918, the German troops evacuated, allowing the surviving members of the imperial family time to escape abroad. The British warship HMS Marlborough rescued the Dowager Empress Marie and some of her family from the Crimea but Grand Duchess Olga and Kulikovsky decided to stay in Russia and travelled to the Caucasus region, where the Bolsheviks had been pushed back by the White Army. During the journey, a coupling on the train carriage in which they were travelling developed a fault, possibly from sabotage, and Kulikovsky crawled over the carriage roofs to reach the driver and stop the train. In the Caucasus, Kulikovsky took a job working on a farm as he was unable to secure a military posting in the White Army because the commanding general, Anton Denikin, wished to avoid association with the Romanovs. In a rented farmhouse at the large Cossack village of Novominskaya Olga and Kulikovsky's second son, Guri, was born on 23 April 1919. He was named after Guri Panaev, who had been killed serving in Olga's Akhtyrsky regiment. As the White Army was pushed back and the Red Army approached, the family set out on what would be their last journey through Russia; they travelled to Rostov-on-Don, and from there took refuge at Novorossiysk in the residence of the Danish consul, Thomas Schytte, who informed them of Dowager Empress Marie's safe arrival in Denmark.

After a brief stay with the Danish consul, the family were shipped to a refugee camp on the island of Büyükada in the Dardanelles Strait near Istanbul, Turkey, where the Kulikovsky family shared three rooms with eleven other adults. After two weeks, they were evacuated to Belgrade in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. The Yugoslav Regent Alexander Karageorgevich, later to become King Alexander I, offered them a permanent home there, but Dowager Empress Marie summoned her daughter to Denmark. The Grand Duchess complied, and the family arrived in Copenhagen on Good Friday 1920. They lived with Kulikovsky's mother-in-law, Dowager Empress Marie, at first at the Amalienborg Palace and then at the royal estate of Hvidøre. Kulikovsky and Marie did not get along; he was resentful of his wife acting as Marie's secretary and companion, and Marie was distant toward him.

Danish residency and exodus
Without a role or rank, Kulikovsky brooded in Denmark, becoming moody and listless. A spinal injury sustained during the war, for which he had to wear a corset, remained unhealed. In 1925, Kulikovsky accompanied his wife to a Berlin nursing home to meet Anna Anderson, who claimed to be Olga's niece, Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia. According to Harriet von Rathlef, who witnessed the meeting, while Olga and Anderson conversed, he sat in a corner and sulked. Although Olga felt sympathy for Anderson, if only because she was ill, she eventually denounced her as an impostor. Possibly, she was pressured to do so by Kulikovsky and Dowager Empress Marie.

Marie died on 13 October 1928, and the Kulikovskys moved out of Hvidøre. After a brief stay in the Amalienborg Palace, the Kulikovskys moved to Holte, near Klampenborg, where a Danish millionaire, Gorm Rasmussen, engaged Kulikovsky to manage his stables. Hvidøre and some of Marie's jewellery were sold. With Olga's inheritance, Kulikovsky and his family were able to purchase Knudsminde Farm, several miles outside of Copenhagen. Kulikovsky was appointed to the board of a Russian insurance company based in Copenhagen, and oversaw the running of the farm. The farm-estate became a center for the Russian monarchist and anti-Bolshevik community in Denmark.

On 2 February 1935, he and Olga attended and acted as godparents, to the baptizing of Aleksander Schalburg, the son of Christian Frederik von Schalburg.

On 9 April 1940, neutral Denmark was invaded by Nazi Germany and was occupied for the rest of World War II. As Olga's sons, Tikhon and Guri, served as officers in the Danish Army, they were interned as prisoners of war, but their imprisonment in a Copenhagen hotel lasted less than two months. Other Russian émigrés, keen to fight against the Soviets, enlisted in the German forces. Despite her sons' internment and her mother's Danish origins, Olga was implicated in her compatriots' collusion with German forces, as she continued to meet and extend help to Russian émigrés fighting against communism. After the surrender of Germany in 1945, the Soviet Union wrote to the Danish government accusing the Grand Duchess of conspiracy against the Soviet authorities. With the end of the war, Soviet troops occupied the easternmost part of Denmark, and Olga grew fearful of an assassination or kidnap attempt. She decided to move her family across the Atlantic to the relative safety of rural Canada, a decision with which Kulikovsky complied.

Later life

In May 1948, the Kulikovskys travelled to London by Danish troopship. They were housed in a grace-and-favour apartment at Hampton Court Palace while arrangements were made for their journey to Canada as agricultural immigrants. On 2June 1948, Kulikovsky, Olga, Tikhon and his Danish-born wife Agnete, Guri and his Danish-born wife Ruth, Guri and Ruth's two children, Xenia and Leonid, and Olga's companion and former maid Emilia Tenso ("Mimka") departed Liverpool on board the Empress of Canada. After a rough crossing, the ship docked at Halifax, Nova Scotia. The family proceeded to Toronto, where they lived until they purchased a 200-acre (0.8 km2) farm in Halton County, Ontario, near Campbellville. Kulikovsky was relieved to move out of Toronto, and escape media attention.

By 1952, the farm had become a burden to the elderly couple. Their sons had moved away; labour was hard to come by; Kulikovsky suffered increasing back pain and disability, and some of Olga's remaining jewellery was stolen. The farm was sold, and Kulikovsky, Olga, and Mimka, moved to a smaller 5-room house at 2130 Camilla Road, Cooksville, Ontario, a suburb of Toronto (now amalgamated into the city of Mississauga). Mimka suffered a stroke that left her disabled, and Olga nursed her until Mimka's death in 1954. Neighbours and visitors to the region, including foreign and royal dignitaries, took interest in Olga as the "last Romanov", and visited their small home, which was also a magnet for Romanov impostors whom both Kulikovsky and Olga considered a menace. Welcome visitors included Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, the daughter of her first cousin Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia, in 1954.

By 1952, Kulikovsky had shrunk more than 4 inches (10 cm) from his peak height of 6 ft 2 inches (188 cm). He distrusted conventional medicine and tried homeopathy instead. By 1958, he was virtually paralyzed, and had difficulty sleeping. At the end of his life he was sleeping on the sofa in the living room of the couple's Cooksville house, to avoid waking his wife. He died there on the night of 11 August 1958. His estate was valued at 12,123.47 Canadian dollars, about 98,000 Canadian dollars as of 2012. The Grand Duchess died two years later, and was interred next to her husband in York Cemetery, Toronto.

Notes and sources

References

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Kulikovsky-Romanoff, Olga (Undated) "The Unfading Light of Charity: Grand Duchess Olga As a Philanthropist And Painter", Historical Magazine, Gatchina, Russia: Gatchina Through The Centuries, retrieved 6 March 2010
Kurth, Peter (1983). Anastasia: The Life of Anna Anderson. London: Jonathan Cape.
Phenix, Patricia (1999). Olga Romanov: Russia's Last Grand Duchess. Viking/Penguin.
Vorres, Ian (2001) [1964]. The Last Grand Duchess. Toronto: Key Porter Books.
Zeepvat, Charlotte (2000). Romanov Autumn. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton.

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1958 deaths
Danish emigrants to Canada
White Russian emigrants to Denmark
Morganatic spouses of Russian royalty
Burials at York Cemetery, Toronto
20th-century Danish farmers


Golica  () is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Świeszyno, within Koszalin County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. It lies approximately  south-west of Świeszyno,  south of Koszalin, and  north-east of the regional capital Szczecin.

For the history of the region, see History of Pomerania.

The village has a population of 130.

References

Golica


Criophthona is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae.

Species
Criophthona anerasmia (Turner, 1913)
Criophthona aridalis Hampson, 1913
Criophthona baliocrossa (Turner, 1913)
Criophthona celidota (Turner, 1913)
Criophthona ecista Turner, 1913
Criophthona finitima Meyrick, 1884
Criophthona haliaphra Meyrick, 1884
Criophthona sabulosalis Hampson, 1910
Criophthona trileuca

References

Spilomelinae
Crambidae genera
Taxa named by Edward Meyrick


Crocidocnemis is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae.

Species
Crocidocnemis pellucida Warren, 1889
Crocidocnemis pellucidalis (Möschler, 1890)

References

Spilomelinae
Crambidae genera
Taxa named by William Warren (entomologist)


Crocidolomia is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae.

Species
Crocidolomia luteolalis Hampson, 1893
Crocidolomia pavonana (Fabricius, 1794)
Crocidolomia subhirsutalis Schaus, 1927
Crocidolomia suffusalis Hampson, 1891

References

  & , 2013: Review of the genus "Crocidolomia" Zeller, 1852 from China (Lepidoptera: Crambidae), Shilap Revista de Lepidopterologia, 41 (163): 357-364. Full article:

Evergestinae


This is a list of encyclopedias in the Arabic language.

History
The Arabic word for encyclopedia is mawsūʿah (موسوعة).  It is derived from the word wāsiʿ (واسع), which means "wide".

The early Arabic compilations of knowledge in the Middle Ages included many comprehensive works, and much development of what would become known as the scientific method, historical method, and citation. The first Arab encyclopedist was Ibn Qutaybah (828–889), who wrote a number of books organizing the knowledge of his day, most importantly 'Uyun Al-Akhbar (Quintessential Reports).  About 960 AD, the Brethren of Purity of Basra were engaged in their Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity, which may be a unique example of a classical Arabic encyclopedia written by a group rather than a solitary scholar. Other notable works include Abu Bakr al-Razi's encyclopedia of science, the Mutazilite al-Kindi's prolific output of 270 books, and Ibn Sina's The Canon of Medicine, which was a standard reference work for centuries. Also notable are works of universal history (or sociology) from the Asharites, al-Tabri, al-Masudi, al-Tabari's History of the Prophets and Kings, Ibn Rustah, Ali ibn al-Athir, and Ibn Khaldun's Muqadimmah.

Following the conquests of much of the Arab world by the Ottoman Empire, few Arabic encyclopedias were published until the 1950s. Modern Arabic encyclopedias include the online Marefa project. In 2006, the Arab League proposed the creation of a new online encyclopedia in Arabic.

Historic encyclopedias
 Kitāb al-ṣifāt fi ʾl-lugha by al-Nadr ibn Shumayl (before 820, now lost)
 'Uyun Al-Akhbar by Ibn Qutaybah (9th century)
 Al-ʿIqd al-Farīd (10th century)
 Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity (10th century)
 Kitab al-Aghani (10th century)
 Al-Tasrif (11th century)
 The Canon of Medicine (11th century)
 The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition (14th century)

Contemporary encyclopedias

Print

 Arab Encyclopedia (2008–...)
 Arabic Legislations Encyclopedia
 Khalf Aswar el Elm (Behind Scientific Barriers)
 Marefa
 Al-Arabi
 Mawsooat Al mawsooa Al tarikheya lel-alam al Arabi (الموسوعة التاريخية للعالم العربي)
 Anabaa
 Marefah

Digital

General
 Dahsha (2003–...)
 Intaaj
 Global Arabic Encyclopedia (1992–...)(الموسوعة العربية العالمية)
 Arab Encyclopedia  (الموسوعة العربية)
 Arabic Wikipedia (ويكيبيديا العربية)
 Mawdoo3 (موسوعة موضوع)
 Marefa (معرفة)

Scientific
 Arabic Chemistry Encyclopedia
 Al-Mawsooa

Literature
 Alankaa: Encyclopedia of Dictionaries
 Al-Waraq
 Ajeeb Sakhr

Historical
 Arabiah

Religion
 Nabulsi
 Muslimedia  Free Wiki-based Islamic Encyclopedia in Arabic
 copticpedia  Coptic Orthodox Encyclopedia الموسوعة القبطية الأرثوذكسية

Social
 Istisharaat

Law
 JurisPedia

Medical
 King Abdulllah Abdul Aziz Health Encyclopedia

See also
 List of Arabic dictionaries

References

Lists of encyclopedias