title: 1858 United States elections

text:
The 1858 United States elections occurred in the middle of Democratic President James Buchanan's term and marked the end of the transitional period between the Second Party System and the Third Party System. Members of the 36th United States Congress were chosen in this election. In the first election since the Supreme Court decided Dred Scott v. Sandford, the Republican Party won a plurality in the House, taking control of a chamber of Congress for the first time in the party's history. Although Democrats lost control of the House, they retained their majority in the Senate.

In the House, Democrats suffered a major defeat, losing seats to Republicans and a group of southern party members who opposed secession, running on the Opposition Party ticket. Although no party won a majority, Republicans won a plurality of seats. Republican William Pennington won election as Speaker of the House, becoming the first Republican Speaker.

In the Senate, Republicans picked up several seats, but Democrats retained a commanding majority.

See also
1858–59 United States House of Representatives elections
1858–59 United States Senate elections

References

1858 elections in the United States
1858
United States midterm elections


title: James Woods (Canadian business executive)

text:
Sir James Woods KBE (1855 – April 25, 1941) was a Canadian industrialist and philanthropist who was knighted in 1915 for wartime industrial work and named
knight commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1917 for his work as a member of the British War Commission in New York.

In 1928, he was vice-president of Imperial Bank of Canada.

He was president of York Knitting Mills Ltd. and of Gordon Mackay and Company Ltd., a wholesale dry goods company. Archives of Gordon Mackay are held by Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario.

In 1930, he proposed a merger of knitting mill companies including Zimmerknit and Gordon Mackay.

Philanthropy
In 1912, he founded St. Christopher House, a settlement house in Toronto now known as West Community House. Later, he was vice-chairman of the Health League of Canada.

Activism
He helped establish the "Forty to Fifty Club", which was intended to help men in this age group find appropriate work.

In 1938, he published a pamphlet titled Insurance of Employment.

Personal life

Woods married Euphemia Douglas on 8 June 1880. Their son, Captain John Robinson Woods, was killed in action on 24 October 1917 during the Third Battle of Ypres, also known as Passchendaele. Another son, Captain William Blakeney Woods, also served.

References

1855 births
1941 deaths
Canadian chief executives
People from Woodstock, Ontario
Canadian Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire


title: Classic Example

text:
Classic Example was an American contemporary R&B group that was active in the early 1990s. The group consisted of Darin Campbell, Gerald Alston, Jami Thomson, Marvin Harris and Robert Rose.

The group's only charting single was their debut single "It's Alright", which peaked at #68 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1992. The single appeared on the soundtrack to the film South Central as well as on the group's eponymous debut album, but neither album charted in the United States.

Discography

Albums
 Classic Example (1992)

Singles

References

External links

African-American musical groups
American contemporary R&B musical groups
Hollywood Records artists


title: Switch (2011 film)

text:
Switch is a 2011 French action film directed by Frédéric Schœndœrffer.

Plot

Sophie Malaterre, an unemployed Canadian graphic designer, spontaneously accepts a chance of a holiday abroad: from an acquaintance, Claire Marras, she learns of a website called "Switch", through which she can temporarily swap her home for someone else’s. Sophie arranges a swap for a Paris apartment owned by a woman called Bénédicte Serteaux.  They exchange their apartment keys by mail and Sophie flies to Paris.

On arrival, Sophie is delighted with her “holiday” apartment, although she notices one room is locked and she has not been provided with the key. However, happy to be in Paris, she enjoys a day sightseeing in the city. She briefly meets a young man called Kourosh, who gives her his phone number so she can call him for a date. Back at the apartment, Sophie prepares a meal with food from the refrigerator, which she eats in the garden within sight of the Eiffel Tower. She takes photos and sends them to Claire with a message.

The next morning Sophie wakes feeling groggy and unwell. She takes a shower to refresh herself, but is alarmed when a police task force storm into the apartment and proceed to search it. In the locked room, a headless corpse is found; the man is Thomas Huygens, the boyfriend of Benedicte Serteaux. Believing Sophie to be Benedicte, the police arrest her.

At the police station, Sophie tries to convince the investigators that she is not Serteaux, but any evidence that would prove her true identity seems to have been destroyed overnight. Sophie explains that she thinks she must have been drugged. In the apartment, investigators find a passport with Sophie’s photo, in the name of Bénédicte Serteaux. All traces of the Switch website, and Sophie’s flight to Paris, have disappeared from the internet. Neighbours identify Sophie’s photo as that of Bénédicte, and so does Bénédicte’s mother. Sophie is in despair. She gives the investigators her Montreal address and begs them to make enquiries there. The lead detective, Forgeat, asks her why, if she is from Montreal, she does not have an accent. Sophie tells him she lived in France with her parents until she was 12.

Sophie is taken for a psychiatric assessment, as Benedicte’s records show that she has a history of mental problems, suicide attempts and criminal behaviour. Sophie asks the police to check her blood group against that of Bénédicte, but it turns out they both have the same rare blood type, which only further convinces the detective that Sophie is in fact Bénédicte. She is about to be temporarily committed to a psychiatric ward, while further investigations are carried out in Montreal, but in despair Sophie begs Forgeat to take her to a dentist, believing this will reveal that work done on her teeth is not of French origin. At the dentist’s office, Sophie grabs a scalpel and holds it to the dentist’s neck. She tells Forgeat to unfasten her handcuffs and handcuff himself to a pipe. Then she grabs his gun, and Benedicte’s file, and makes her escape.

On the run, a desperate Sophie hijacks a car and forces the driver, a young Japanese woman, to hand over her credit card and PIN. She tells the woman that the police have forced her to resort to these measures. She then drives off and eventually dumps the car, and withdraws money from the Japanese woman’s bank account.

Sophie takes the Metro to another area, where she finds a small shop selling a variety of items, including clothes. She buys a change of clothes and a cell phone. The shop owner suspects she is running away from something or someone, but he is sympathetic to her. Then Sophie checks into a small hotel for the night.

Meanwhile, in Montreal, a woman wearing a headscarf and sunglasses arrives on a flight from Paris. She tells the taxi driver to take her to Sophie’s address, stopping only to collect a package from a delivery office. Later, detectives arrive at Sophie’s house to question this woman, but she says she is Sophie Malaterre and they believe her.

Back in Paris, Detective Forgeat interviews renowned sculptor Alice Serteaux, who is Benedicte’s mother. Many of Alice’s sculptures represent the DNA helix. She identifies Sophie as her daughter, from a photo. It becomes clear during the interview that Alice and her daughter were on bad terms, and that she did not love her child. Before leaving, Forgeat surreptitiously takes some hair from Alice’s hairbrush, for DNA.

Holed up in her hotel, Sophie is leafing through the file on Bénédicte Serteaux, looking for something that would link them. She calls her mother Marianne in Montreal and asks her to go to her, Sophie’s, house and try to find something that will prove her identity. Mother and daughter stay in contact by phone during the trip. When Marianne Malaterre arrives at the darkened house Sophie has a change of heart and pleads with her mother to call the police instead of entering on her own. But Marianne is determined to follow through and, taking a loaded shotgun and a flashlight from the trunk of her car, she goes into the house. The lights don’t work, but by the flashlight beam she finds her way to Sophie’s bedroom, where Thomas Huygens’s decapitated head is displayed on the pillow, surrounded by blood and candles, and with slogans daubed in blood on the wall. In a panic, Marianne tries to run, but is felled, and her throat cut, by a woman dressed in black (presumably Bénédicte). Hearing the scuffle on the phone, Sophie is distraught. The mysterious woman then sets fire to the house and leaves.

The next day the manager of Sophie’s hotel recognises her from TV news bulletins and calls the police. Forgeat arrives, with a fellow officer, and sees Sophie in the street. He gives chase, but Sophie is a keen runner in her spare time, and is able to keep ahead of him. After a lengthy chase through gardens and houses, Sophie reaches a busy road, steals a man’s motorbike, and rides off.

By this time, Montreal police have also gone to the house of Claire Marras, and find her lying dead, with her throat cut, in a blood filled bath. It is noted that Claire had paid a large sum of money into her bank account a few days previously.

At the Paris police headquarters, a DNA analysis of the headless corpse has been made. The results are surprising; Thomas and Sophie are half-siblings. Forgeat interviews Thomas's parents and his mother explains that she was artificially inseminated, as her husband is sterile. Similarly, Benedicte’s mother admits that she was also artificially inseminated, as she and her husband were not genetically compatible.

Finding herself once again with nowhere to go, Sophie calls Kourosh, who invites her to stay at his apartment. She tells him the whole story, and he appears sympathetic, but later she hears him on the phone and realises he is in league with Bénédicte. She manages to escape from the apartment, but Kourosh pursues her. During the chase, he falls from a balcony into the street and is killed.

By now, Detective Forgeat has managed to piece everything together. When Sophie’s parents lived in Paris they were desperately hard up, and her father sold his sperm for extra cash. He thus unknowingly became the father of both Thomas and Bénédicte. Bénédicte, under an assumed name, took a job at the laboratory in question and discovered the true facts about her parentage.

Sophie returns to Benedicte’s flat to look for clues, but Bénédicte is there and attacks her. Sophie runs off and calls Forgeat, but she has been followed by Bénédicte, who overpowers her and knocks her out.

When Sophie wakes, she is at the laboratory in chains. Bénédicte tells her that she had the worst childhood imaginable, with a mother who hated her, and when she found out who her biological father’s other children were, she decided to punish them for having been happy when she was not. Bénédicte had cosmetic surgery to look more like Sophie, and she employed Claire Marras, who was a computer expert, to create the Switch website. Claire also deleted the website afterwards, along with Sophie’s flight details. Benedicte is about to kill the hysterical Sophie when Forgeat and his men arrive and shoot Bénédicte dead.

Forgeat comforts the traumatised Sophie, reassuring her that he knows everything and that she is finally safe.

Cast
 Karine Vanasse as Sophie Malaterre
 Éric Cantona as Damien Forgeat
 Mehdi Nebbou as Stéphane Defer
 Aurélien Recoing as Delors
 Niseema Theillaud as Alice Serteaux
 Karina Testa as Bénédicte Serteaux
 Bruno Todeschini as Verdier
 Stéphane Demers as Inspecteur Lachaux
 Stéphan Guérin-Tillié as Policeman
 Maxim Roy as Claire Marras

Locations
 Paris
 Le Plessis-Robinson
 Montreal

References

External links

2011 action films
2011 films
French action films
Films directed by Frédéric Schoendoerffer
2010s French films


title: TabletSat-Aurora

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TabletSat-Aurora is a Russian micro-satellite launched in 2014. The satellite is built in shape of hexagonal prism, with 6 foldable solar panels. It is claimed to be the first privately developed satellite in Russian Federation.

Launch
TabletSat-Aurora was launched from Dombarovsky site 13, Russia, on 19 June 2014 by a Dnepr rocket. Two-way communication with Earth was successfully established soon after launch.

Mission
It intended to verify technologies for the future satellite constellation earth observation technologies Main payload is the panchromatic photo camera capable of 15m resolution at nadir.

See also

 2014 in spaceflight

References

External links
 Gunters space page on TabletSat-Aurora

Earth observation satellites of Russia
Spacecraft launched by Dnepr rockets
Spacecraft launched in 2014


title: Arjunan (actor)

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Arjunan is an Indian actor who has appeared in supporting roles in predominantly  Tamil-language films. He made his breakthrough portraying Siva, a hopeless college romantic, in Balaji Mohan's bilingual film, Kadhalil Sodhappuvadhu Yeppadi (2012), winning critical acclaim for his portrayal.  He has since featured in comedy roles in films including Suseendran's Aadhalal Kadhal Seiveer and in Balaji Mohan's next bilingual Vaayai Moodi Pesavum (2014).

Career
Arjunan made his breakthrough with Balaji Mohan's bilingual romantic comedy Kadhalil Sodhappuvadhu Yeppadi portraying Siddharth's friend Siva, a hopeless romantic. The film, a remake of a short film by the director, which Arjunan also featured in saw him double up duty as an assistant director.  A critic from The Hindu noted "despite appearing gawky and untrained as an actors",  he "makes that up by being natural and uninhibited."  After winning good reviews, he went on to feature in Siddharth's next Telugu film Jabardasth (2013) and then played a supporting role in Suseendran's Aadhalal Kadhal Seiveer, where a critic praised his contribution, writing he "ensures some laughs even in the most serious scenes."  Arjunan next played a supporting role in Balaji Mohans's following bilingual film, Vaayai Moodi Pesavum.

He has several films in production including Ravi K. Chandran's Yaan and Anand Shankar's Arima Nambi. Arjunan will also be seen in a major role in the forthcoming Anirudh-musical Aakko.

Personal life
Arjunan has twin children: son Ilan and daughter Iyal, both of whom are child actors.

Filmography
All films are in Tamil, unless otherwise noted.

Television series

References

External links

Living people
Film producers from Chennai
Male actors in Tamil cinema
Indian male film actors
21st-century Indian male actors
Tamil comedians
1986 births
Male actors from Chennai
Indian male comedians


title: Twenty One (Geri Allen album)

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Twenty One is an album by pianist Geri Allen with bassist Ron Carter and drummer Tony Williams recorded in 1994 and released on the Blue Note label. The title of the album refers to the commitment Allen made at age 21 to continue and extend the tradition of the jazz masters.

Reception

AllMusic awarded the album 3½ stars, stating, " Allen's style is fairly original, with hints of Herbie Nichols, and her chancetaking but logical solos are generally quite stimulating".

Writer Gary Giddins called the album "a display of strength" and "a mature work by a performer... who was repositioning herself as a jazz centrist." He commented: "This is a trio fearsomely alive... The triumph of Twenty One is in the certainty with which Allen's individuality asserts itself in a setting that might have neutralized her."

Track listing
All compositions by Geri Allen except as indicated
 "RTG" - 2:46
 "If I Should Lose You" (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) - 4:36
 "Drummer's Song" - 3:52
 "Introspection/Thelonious" (Thelonious Monk) - 4:36
 "A Beautiful Friendship" (Donald Kahn, Stanley Styne) - 3:23
 "In the Morning" - 6:10
 "Tea for Two" (Irving Caesar, Vincent Youmans) - 3:18
 "Lullaby of the Leaves" (Bernice Petkere, Joe Young) - 5:15
 "Feed the Fire" - 6:17
 "Old Folks" (Dedette Lee Hill, Willard Robison) - 6:18
 "A Place of Power" - 3:16
 "In the Middle" - 4:25

Personnel
 Geri Allen - piano
 Ron Carter - bass
 Tony Williams - drums

References

1994 albums
Geri Allen albums
Blue Note Records albums
Albums produced by Teo Macero
Instrumental albums


title: Missouri Tigers baseball 2010–2019

text:
Amid an otherwise undistinguished decade, the Missouri Tigers baseball team won the Big 12 Conference tournament in 2012. The team moved from the Big 12 Conference to the Eastern division of the Southeastern Conference in 2013. The Tigers struggled the first two seasons after the change of Conference, then improved to a limited extent.  their best performance during the decade in a Conference league was in 2015 (won 15 out of 30, 50.0%) and their best overall performance was in 2018 (won 25 out of 37, 67.6%). Tim Jamieson retired as head coach in 2016 after 22 years, to be replaced by Steve Bieser.

2010

Roster

Schedule

! style="background:black;color:#F1B82D;"| Regular season
|- valign="top"

|- bgcolor="#ffdddd"
| February 19 || vs.  || 6-10 || 0-1 || –
|- bgcolor="#ddffdd"
| February 20 || vs.  || 17-6 || 1-1 || –
|- bgcolor="#ddffdd"
| February 21 || vs.  || 2-1 || 2-1 || –
|- bgcolor="#ddffdd"
| February 26 || vs.  || 4-2 || 3-1 || –
|- bgcolor="#ddffdd"
| February 27 || at  || 11-7 || 4-1 || –
|- bgcolor="#ffdddd"
| February 28 || vs.  || 6-14 || 4-2 || –
|-

|- bgcolor="#ffdddd"
| March 5 || vs.  || 0-3 || 4-3 || –
|- bgcolor="#ffdddd"
| March 6 || vs. TCU || 3-4 || 4-4 || –
|- bgcolor="#ffdddd"
| March 7 || vs. Texas || 5-8 || 4-5 || –
|- bgcolor="#ddffdd"
| March 10 ||  || 10-3 || 5-5 || –
|- bgcolor="#ddffdd"
| March 12 ||  || 7-6 || 6-5 || –
|- bgcolor="#ddffdd"
| March 13 || Xavier || 4-2 || 7-5 || –
|- bgcolor="#ffdddd"
| March 14 || Xavier || 1-5 || 7-6 || –
|- bgcolor="#ddffdd"
| March 18 ||  || 17-5 || 8-6 || –
|- bgcolor="#ddffdd"
| March 19 || North Dakota || 7-3 || 9-6 || –
|- bgcolor="#ddffdd"
| March 20 || North Dakota || 6-0 || 10-6 || –
|- bgcolor="#ddffdd"
| March 23 ||  || 9-0 || 11-6 || –
|- bgcolor="#ddffdd"
| March 24 || Arkansas Pine Bluff || 28-2 || 12-6 || –
|- bgcolor="#ffdddd"
| March 26 || at  || 1-3 || 12-7 || 0-1
|- bgcolor="#ffdddd"
| March 27 || at Texas A&M || 4-5 || 12-8 || 0-2
|- bgcolor="#ddffdd"
| March 28 || at Texas A&M || 13-4 || 13-8 || 1-2
|- bgcolor="#ddffdd"
| March 30 ||  || 22-14 || 14-8 || –
|- bgcolor="#ffdddd"
| March 31 || Purdue || 3-6 || 14-9 || –
|-

|- bgcolor="#ffdddd"
| April 2 ||  || 6-20 || 14-10 || 1-3
|- bgcolor="#ffdddd"
| April 3 || Baylor || 3-7 || 14-11 || 1-4
|- bgcolor="#ddffdd"
| April 4 || Baylor || 13-9 || 15-11 || 2-4
|- bgcolor="#ddffdd"
| April 6 ||  || 14-3 || 16-11 || –
|- bgcolor="#ddffdd"
| April 7 || vs.  || 5-4 || 17-11 || –
|- bgcolor="#ffdddd"
| April 9 || at  || 4-6 || 17-12 || 2-5
|- bgcolor="#ffdddd"
| April 10 || at Oklahoma || 4-10 || 17-13 || 2-6
|- bgcolor="#ddffdd"
| April 11 || at Oklahoma || 12-11 || 18-13 || 3-6
|- bgcolor="#ffdddd"
| April 14 || at  || 4-5 || 18-14 || –
|- bgcolor="#ddffdd"
| April 16 ||  || 9-2 || 19-14 || 4-6
|- bgcolor="#ffdddd"
| April 17 || Oklahoma State || 7-10 || 19-15 || 4-7
|- bgcolor="#ffdddd"
| April 18 || Oklahoma State || 3-4 || 19-16 || 4-8
|- bgcolor="#ffdddd"
| April 21 || vs.  || 0-1 || 19-17 || –
|- bgcolor="#ddffdd"
| April 25 || Kansas State || 4-2 || 20-17 || 5-8
|- bgcolor="#ddffdd"
| April 25 || Kansas State || 9-8 || 21-17 || 6-8
|- bgcolor="#ddffdd"
| April 27 || vs.  || 10-2 || 22-17 || –
|- bgcolor="#ddffdd"
| April 30 || at  || 12-8 || 23-17 || 7-8
|-

|- bgcolor="#ffdddd"
| May 1 || at Texas Tech || 4-5 || 23-18 || 7-9
|- bgcolor="#ffdddd"
| May 2 || at Texas Tech || 15-16 || 23-19 || 7-10
|- bgcolor="#ddffdd"
| May 4 || Missouri State || 11-6 || 24-19 || –
|- bgcolor="#ffdddd"
| May 7 || at Kansas || 3-10 || 24-20 || 7–11
|- bgcolor="#ffdddd"
| May 8 || at Kansas || 8-9 || 24-21 || 7–12
|- bgcolor="#ffdddd"
| May 9 || at Kansas || 9-10 || 24-22 || 7–13
|- bgcolor="#ddffdd"
| May 14 ||  || 2-0 || 25-22 || 8–13
|- bgcolor="#ddffdd"
| May 15 || Nebraska || 12-7 || 26-22 || 9–13
|- bgcolor="#ddffdd"
| May 16 || Nebraska || 6-5 || 27-22 || 10–13
|- bgcolor="#ffdddd"
| May 21 || Texas || 2-5 || 27-23 || 10–14
|- bgcolor="#ffdddd"
| May 22 || Texas || 4-6 || 27-24 || 10–15
|- bgcolor="#ffdddd"
| May 23 || Texas || 11-20 || 27-25 || 10–16
|-

|-
! style="background:#F1B82D;color:black;"| Post-season
|-

|- bgcolor="#ddffdd"
| May 26 || vs. Texas || Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark || 7-3 || 28–25
|- bgcolor="#ffdddd"
| May 27 || vs. Texas A&M || Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark || 2-7 || 28–26
|- bgcolor="#ffdddd"
| May 29 || vs. Texas Tech || Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark || 7-3 || 29–26
|-

Tigers in the 2010 MLB Draft
The following members of the Missouri Tigers baseball program were drafted in the 2010 Major League Baseball Draft.

2011

Schedule and results

2012

The Tigers won the Big 12 tournament and went 1-2 in the Tucson Regional in the NCAA tournament.

Roster

Schedule

! style="background:black;color:#F1B82D;"| Regular season
|- valign="top"

|- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd"
| February 17 || at  || Plainsman Park || 2-5 || Anderson (L; 0-1) || 3,577 || 0-1 || –
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ddffdd"
| February 19 || at Auburn || Plainsman Park || 6–4 || Emens (W; 1-0) || 2,406 || 1–1 || –
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ddffdd"
| February 19 || at Auburn|| Plainsman Park || 4-3 || Ross (W; 1-0) || 2,598 || 2–1 || –
|- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd"
| February 24 || at  || Benedetti Diamond || 1-3 || Anderson (L; 0-2)|| 147 || 2-2 || –
|- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd"
| February 25 || at San Francisco || Benedetti Diamond || 1-3 || Zastryzny (L; 0-1) || 225 || 2-3 || –
|- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd"
| February 26 || at San Francisco || Benedetti Diamond || 0-6 || Cline (L; 0-1) || 220 || 2-4 || –
|-

|- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd"
| March 2 ||  || Taylor Stadium || 2-5 || Anderson (L; 0-3) || 524 || 2-5 || –
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ddffdd"
| March 3 || Ball State || Taylor Stadium || 15-5 || Zastryzny (W; 1-1) || 1,314 || 3-5 || –
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ddffdd"
| March 4 || Ball State || Taylor Stadium || 9-2 || Holovach (W; 1-0) || 1,249 || 4-5 || –
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ddffdd"
| March 6 ||  || Taylor Stadium || 14-4 || Graves (W; 1-0) || 543 || 5-5 || –
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ddffdd"
| March 9 ||  || Taylor Stadium || 10-4 || Emens (W; 2-0) || 539 || 6–5 || –
|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"
| March 10 || Charlotte || Taylor Stadium || 5-3 || Zastryzny (W; 2-1) || 744 || 7-5 || –
|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"
| March 10 || Charlotte || Taylor Stadium || 3–2 || Holovach (W; 2-0) || 744 || 8-5 || –
|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"
| March 13 ||  || Taylor Stadium || 10-7 || Miles (W; 1-0) || 502 || 9-5 || –
|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"
| March 13 || North Dakota || Taylor Stadium || 21-5 || Yuengel (W; 1-0) || 482 || 10-5 || –
|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"
| March 16 ||   || Taylor Stadium || 8-7 || Walsh (W; 1-0) || 451 || 11–5 || –
|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"
| March 17 || High Point || Taylor Stadium || 4–0 || Holovach (W; 3-0) || 434 || 12-5 || –
|- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd"
| March 18 || High Point || Taylor Stadium || 7-13 || Platts (L; 0-1) || 4,088 || 12–6 || -
|- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd"
| March 21 ||  || Taylor Stadium || 1-15 || Graves (L; 1-1) || 159 || 12-7 || –
|- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd"
| March 24 ||  || Taylor Stadium || 2-3 || Walsh (L; 1-1) || 1,032|| 12–8 || 0–1
|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"
| March 24 || Oklahoma State || Taylor Stadium || 4–1 || Holovach (W; 4-0) || 1,032 || 13–8 || 1–1
|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"
| March 25 || Oklahoma State || Taylor Stadium || 4–2 || Emens (W; 3-0) || 1,072 || 14–8 || 2–1
|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"
| March 27 ||  || Taylor Stadium || 12-7 || Barbeck (W; 1-0) || 383 || 15–8 || –
|- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd"
| March 28 || Central Arkansas || Taylor Stadium || 2–8 || Graves (L; 1-2) || 370 || 15–9 || -
|- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd"
| March 30 || at  || Olsen Field || 6-8 || Miles (L; 1-1) || 4,498 || 15–10 || 2-2
|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"
| March 31 || at Texas A&M || Olsen Field || 4–3 || Holovach (W; 5-0) || 5,535 || 16–10 || 3–2
|-

|- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd"
| April 1 || at Texas A&M || Olsen Field || 6–7 || Graves (L; 1-3) || 3,947 || 16–11 || 3–3
|- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd"
| April 5 ||  || Taylor Stadium || 1-3 || Zastryzny (L; 2-2) || 486 || 16-12 || 3-4
|- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd"
| April 6 || Baylor || Taylor Stadium || 3-5 || Holovach (L; 5-1) || 1,003 || 16-13 || 3–5
|- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd"
| April 7 || Baylor || Taylor Stadium || 7–12 || Walsh (L; 1-2) || 677 || 16–14 || 3–6
|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"
| April 10 ||  || Taylor Stadium || 10–5 || Walsh (W; 2-2) || 360 || 17–14 || –
|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"
| April 11 ||  || Busch Stadium || 5-4 || Graves (W; 2-3) || 1,399 || 18–14 || –
|- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd"
| April 13 || at  || Mitchell Park || 5-6 || Emens (L; 3-1) || 622 || 18–15 || 3–7
|- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd"
| April 14 || at Oklahoma || Mitchell Park || 4-8 || Holovach (L; 5-2) || 1,146 || 18–16 || 3–8
|- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd"
| April 15 || at Oklahoma || Mitchell Park || 4-5 || Graves (L; 2-4) || 930 || 18–17 || 3–9
|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"
| April 20 ||  || Taylor Stadium || 13-4 || Zastryzny (W; 3-2) || 584 || 19–17 || 4–9
|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"
| April 21 || Kansas State || Taylor Stadium || 4–3 || Ross (W; 2-0) || 2,049 || 20–17 || 5–9
|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"
| April 22 || Kansas State || Taylor Stadium || 7–0 || Graves (W; 3-4) || 752 || 21–17 || 6–9
|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"
| April 25 || at  || Hammons Field || 4–3 || Miles (W; 2-1) || 2,540 || 22-17 || –
|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"
| April 27 || at Texas Tech || Dan Law Field || 9–0 || Zastryzny (W; 4-2) || 2,856 || 23–17 || 7-9
|- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd"
| April 28 || at Texas Tech || Dan Law Field || 3–4 || Holovach (L; 5-3) || 3,224 || 23-18 || 7–10
|- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd"
| April 29 || at Texas Tech || Dan Law Field || 0-7 || Graves (L; 3-5) || 3,018 || 23–19 || 8–10
|-

|- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd"
| May 1 || at Arkansas || Baum Stadium || 3–6 || Holovach (L; 5-4) || 7,051 || 23–20 || -
|- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd"
| May 2 || at Arkansas || Baum Stadium || 0-2 || Walsh (L; 2-3) || 6,840 || 23–21 || -
|- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd"
| May 4 || Texas || Taylor Stadium || 4-6 || Zastryzny (L; 4-3) || 1,387 || 23–22 || 8-11
|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"
| May 5 || Texas || Taylor Stadium || 5-4 || Ross (W; 3-0) || 2,210 || 24–22 || 8-12
|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"
| May 6 || Texas || Taylor Stadium || 7-6 || Graves (W; 4-5) || 1,140 || 25–22 || 9-12
|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"
| May 9 || Missouri State || Taylor Stadium || 10-5 || Yuengel (W; 2-0) || 1,004 || 26–22 || -
|- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd"
| May 11 ||  || Taylor Stadium || 4–6 || Zastryzny (L; 4-4) || 886 || 26–23 || –
|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"
| May 12 || Memphis || Taylor Stadium || 9–1 || Miles (W; 3-1 || 779 || 27–23 || –
|- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd"
| May 13 || Memphis || Taylor Stadium || 7–8 || Ross (L; 3-1) || 3,299 || 27–24 || –
|- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd"
| May 17 ||  || Taylor Stadium || 0–1 || Zastryzny (L; 4-5) || 1,209 || 27–25 || 9–13
|- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd"
| May 18 || Kansas || Taylor Stadium || 3–6 || Miles (L; 3-2) || 1,510  || 27–26 || 9–14
|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"
| May 18 || Kansas || Taylor Stadium || 6–3 || Holovach (W; 6-4) || 1,536  || 28–26 || 10–14
|-

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! style="background:#F1B82D;color:black;"| Post-season
|-

|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"
| May 23 || vs. Texas || Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark || 5–0 || Zastryzny (W; 5-5) || 3,853 || 29–26
|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"
| May 24 || vs. Texas A&M || Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark || 5–3 || Holovach (W; 7-4) || 4,285 || 30–26
|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"
| May 26 || vs. Kansas || Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark || 12–2 || Emens (W; 4-1) || 5,299 || 31–26
|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"
| May 23 || vs. Oklahoma || Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark || 8–7 || Ross W; 4-1) || 6,343 || 32–26
|-

|- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd"
| June 1 || vs. Arizona || Hi Corbett Field || 3–15 || Holovach (L; 7-5)|| 5,086 || 32–27
|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"
| June 2 || vs.  || Hi Corbett Field || 6–2 || Emens (W; 5-1) || 451 || 33–27
|- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd"
| June 3 || vs.  || Hi Corbett Field || 3–11 || Ross (L; 4-2) || 1,430 || 33–28
|-

Awards and honors
Blake Brown
All-Big 12 Honorable Mention
All-Big 12 Tournament Team

Jeff Emens
All-Big 12 Tournament Team

Eric Garcia
Big 12 Tournament Most Outstanding Player

Blake Holovach
Big 12 Newcomer of the Week (3/26)

John Miles
Big 12 Newcomer of the Week (5/7)

Dane Opel
All-Big 12 Honorable Mention
All-Big 12 Tournament Team
Big 12 Player of the Week (2/20)

Dusty Ross
All-Big 12 Second Team

Ben Turner
All-Big 12 Honorable Mention

Rob Zastryzny
All-Big 12 Honorable Mention
Big 12 Pitcher of the Week (4/30)

Tigers in the 2012 MLB Draft
The following members of the Missouri Tigers baseball program were drafted in the 2012 Major League Baseball Draft.

2013

Schedule and results

Record vs. conference opponents

2014

Schedule and results

Record vs. conference opponents

2015

Schedule and results

Record vs. conference opponents

2016

Schedule and results

Record vs. conference opponents

2017

Roster

Schedule and results

Record vs. conference opponents

2018

Schedule and results

Record vs. conference opponents

2019

References

Missouri Tigers baseball seasons


title: 1862 United States elections

text:
The 1862 United States elections occurred in the middle of Republican President Abraham Lincoln's first term, during the Third Party System and the Civil War. Members of the 38th United States Congress were chosen in this election. West Virginia and Nevada joined the union during the 38th Congress, but several states were in rebellion, reducing the size of both chambers of Congress. The Republican Party kept control of Congress, although it was reduced to a plurality in the House.

In the House, Democrats won several seats, ending the Republican majority. Republicans won a plurality of seats, while several seats were occupied by politicians identifying as Unionists. Republican Schuyler Colfax won election as Speaker of the House.

In the Senate, Republicans picked up a small number of seats, retaining a commanding majority.

See also
1862–63 United States House of Representatives elections
1862–63 United States Senate elections
Unconditional Union Party
Constitutional Union Party

References

1862 elections in the United States
1862
United States midterm elections


title: World Federalist Movement-Canada

text:
The World Federalist Movement — Canada (WFMC) is a member organization of the World Federalist Movement, a global citizens movement dedicated to promoting institutions of world governance. WFMC has a national headquarters in Ottawa, and active branches in Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, and Montreal.
Since its founding in 1951, the WFMC and its predecessor organizations have been a strong advocate for the application of the principles of democratic federalism to world affairs. It advocates for the strengthening international bodies and democratizing existent global institutions.

The current National President of the Canadian section of the movement is scientist and conflict researcher Walter Dorn, who succeeded former Cabinet Minister Hon. Warren Allmand in August 2016. Other well known Canadians have also served as WFMC President, including Hon. Flora MacDonald, The Very Rev. Sen. Lois M. Wilson and Hon. Allan Blakeney.

Current Activity

The organization's slogan is "Building a World Community." With a broad mandate, World Federalists undertake national and international programs that push for long-term goals in international relations and Canadian foreign policy.

United Nations Reform

On Sept. 13, 2013, the WFMC organized the release and publication of a booklet of essays by 18 former diplomats, cabinet ministers, and foreign affairs experts spoke out against Canada's diminishing relationship with the United Nations. Their views were published in an accompanying booklet of essays, compiled and published by the WFMC, titled: “The United Nations and Canada: What Canada has done and should be doing at the UN“.

Peacekeeping and Security

The WFMC advocates a much larger role for Canada in support of United Nations peace operations, and releases biannual updates on this topic.

"UN peace operations provide unparalleled legitimacy to international efforts" said Walter Dorn in a WFMC statement to The Globe and Mail “That’s why Canadians, as shown in many polls, continue to support peacekeeping, even when Canada is at an all-time low in contributions of personnel.”

The WFMC also advocates for a United Nations Emergency Peace Service (UNEPS) to provide the UN with a permanent rapid reaction to conflict.

In 2012, the WFMC joined other civil society organizations to lobby for changes in Canada’s draft legislation to implement the Convention on Cluster Munitions.

Global Democratization

Modern communications and technological change and the end of the Cold War have contributed to a growing recognition of the need for strengthened democratic governance around the world. In addition to the need for greater democratic governance around the world's nations, World Federalists call for the democratization of global governance. One practical program supported by the World Federalists is the Campaign for the Establishment of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly at the United Nations.

The organization also closely monitors and comments on the UN's Post-2015 Development Agenda. They suggest “one world goals," and an agenda that can be addressed in all countries.

Responsibility to Protect

WFMC monitors and supports the progressive development of the Responsibility to Protect normative framework and is a supporting member of the International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect (ICRtoP).
WFMC is also a member of NGO networks that correspond to the organization's international goals, including the Coalition for the International Criminal Court, the Canadian Council for International Cooperation, the Canadian Network to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the Climate Action Network - Canada.

Objectives

In their constitution, the WFMC states it seeks a balance between the rights of nation-states and the collective rights and responsibilities of the global community. As per its programming, its main efforts are to establish a rule of law above state sovereignty. "These world institutions must have the legal and political authority to make and/or enforce international
law in order to deal with those problems that can only be resolved effectively at the global level, while affirming the sovereignty of the nation-state in matters which are essentially internal," reads a portion of their national constitution's preamble.
It goes on to state the organization's particular attention to:

Promoting a consciousness of humanity as one community and of every person as a citizen of one world;
Ending the arms race and the elimination of all weapons of mass destruction;
Ending the use of military force save in the common interest to maintain peace and to prevent aggression;
Implementing the International Bill of Human Rights and establishing democratic world institutions;
Promoting international development to reduce world poverty, to provide an equitable distribution of global wealth and to *shape globalization positively;
Protecting our common environment and the preservation of the ecosystem for succeeding generations; and
Reforming the United Nations system to render it more democratic and effective in the pursuit of its mission and goals.

History

The organization's history is rooted in the immediate post-war period, when it was recognized by many that the new United Nations was inadequately structured to fulfil its primary purpose -- the maintenance of international peace and security.

Decentralized Canadian Network

Toronto lawyer and political icon Lewis Duncan lost his only child on a Dutch battlefield, a month before the end of the Second World War. In the wake of this loss, Duncan used his local connections to assemble a group of prominent individuals into a new public-service organization called the World Government Association, Dec. 1945. The group became associated with the larger movement as the philosophy of federalism began to gain traction globally.

With more of a political edge than their Toronto counterparts, the Ottawa world federalists took advantage of their location in the national capital. In 1949, the group was successful in drumming up support for world federalism from seven CCF Members of Parliament and two PCs, including leader John Bracken. In response to a speech by Prime Minister Mackenzie King, Bracken said "our path as Canadians is clear. Collective security for humanity is possible only in international collective agreement.[...]That price is the sacrifice of some degree of national sovereignty."
The Hon. Lester B. Pearson, Liberal Secretary of State for External Affairs, congratulated the Ottawa group "...on its work to extend and consolidate international cooperation..."

In April 1949, ten world federalists who had been meeting since Fall 1948 organized themselves into the Saskatoon World Government Association. It was modelled after the Toronto group, and was active in lobbying Saskatchewan Members of Parliament, and even interested Premier Tommy Douglas in world federalism. Douglas was inspired enough to make several speeches on the subject, advocating for an international court, police force and parliament. He also devoted one of his famous weekly fireside chats to the topic of world federalism. The Saskatoon world federalists spread their message by sending speakers throughout the province, and having a letter to the editor published in the Saskatoon Star Phoenix.

After a Dec. 1949 talk by Toronto world federalist Charles Millard at the Winnipeg YMCA, 18 members of the YMCA Citizen's Forum Group and the Phoenix Club formed a world government group. Dr. Bernard G. Whitmore, associate professor at the University of Manitoba Department of Physics, was elected chairman of the Winnipeg World Government Association. The group was successful in holding several public meetings and debates, and received support from Liberal MP Ralph Maybank, CCF MP Alistair Stewart, and later PC MP Gordon Churchill.

In Vancouver, Elmore Philpott worked with Lewis Duncan on his national initiatives, and even ran as an independent candidate in a provincial election, campaigning on a world government platform and achieving a close second place finish. Between 1949 and 1950, other coordinated world federalist activity went on in Halifax, Hamilton, and Norfolk County.

Formation of the World Federalists of Canada

While the Ottawa, Montreal, and Saskatoon groups called for a national meeting, the Toronto branch was reluctant to pursue a Canada-wide union after their bad experiences with the World Government Association under Duncan's leadership. The Toronto world federalists were committed in assisting the other Canadian groups, but it eventually fell to Winnipeg to organize them into what Whitmore proposed as a "...loose national organization...for the purpose of making joint pronouncements and representations if for nothing else."

By March 1951, Toronto has softened and a news sheet called "Canadian World Government News" was ready for distribution among the groups. On February 5, 1951, Winnipeg discussed a draft national constitution at its first annual general meeting. And on July 28, 1951, Whitmore arranged a meeting of the different regional groups at the Ottawa YMCA. Representatives from Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, and Winnipeg attended, with Saskatoon representing itself by correspondence. The assembly reviewed and adopted Winnipeg's draft constitution. The Toronto group had already applied for membership in the World Movement for World Federal Government and turned their application over to the new national association.

World Peace Award

The idea to establish a peace award was introduced by Richard Plant in 1972. He wrote:

See also
 World Federalist Movement

References

World federalist movement member organizations
Political advocacy groups in Canada


title: Copper Basin (Nevada)

text:
Copper Basin is a basin located between the Copper Mountains and Fox Creek Range of northern Elko County, Nevada, United States. The basin, located on the border of the Mountain City and Jarbidge ranger districts within the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, is known for its displays of wildflowers during early summer. It is accessed via Elko County Route 748, also known as Charleston-Jarbidge Road, by way of either Charleston or Jarbidge.

References

Landforms of Elko County, Nevada
Humboldt–Toiyabe National Forest
Basins of Nevada


title: BugSat 1

text:
BugSat 1 (nickname Tita) is an Argentine microsatellite launched on 19 June 2014. The satellite is built in flattened box shape, optimized for piggy-back launch. All instruments are powered by solar cells mounted on the spacecraft body. The satellite is running the Debian operating system.

Launch
BugSat 1 was launched from Dombarovsky Air Base, site 13, Russia, on 19 June 2014 by a Dnepr rocket. Although there has been no official release, amateur radio operators have succeeded in downloading status data from the satellite.

Mission
The satellite is intended primarily for technology verification in space, mostly of Earth observation telescope. Also, after the end of the primary mission phase, the satellite will serve the amateur radio community by providing a digipeater service.

See also

 2014 in spaceflight

References

External links
 http://lu4eou.blogspot.com.ar/

Amateur radio satellites
Satellites of Argentina
Spacecraft launched in 2014
2014 in Argentina
Spacecraft launched by Dnepr rockets


title: Copper Basin

text:
Copper Basin may refer to:

Copper Basin (Tennessee)
Copper Basin (Nevada)
Copper Basin Railway, Arizona
Copper Basin High School, Copperhill, Tennessee


title: Florida Naval Militia

text:
The Florida Naval Militia was the official naval militia of the state of Florida. Naval militias were organized as naval parallels to the National Guard as dual federal and state obligations, with the naval militias normally being under state control but subject to federal activation. The Florida Naval Militia was active during three periods in Florida history: between 1897 and 1903; between 1911 and 1917;  and between 1934 and 1941.

History

History of predecessor units

Florida Naval and Marine Militia (C.S.)
The Florida Naval and Marine Militia served as a predecessor to the Florida Naval Militia. The Florida Naval and Marine Militia was a Confederate naval force which served between the years of 1861 and 1865.

Spanish–American War – World War II

1897–1903
The Florida Naval Militia was first created in 1897, and consisted of one battalion of four divisions, located at Jacksonville, Pensacola, Port Tampa, and Tampa. From 15 December 1898 until 21 June 1899, the  was loaned to the Florida Naval Militia by the U.S. Navy. During the Spanish–American War, the members of the Florida Naval Militia were drafted into the federal Navy and Coast Guard, with only the Jacksonville Division being reorganized after the war until its disbandment in 1903.

1911–1917
The Florida Naval Militia was reinstated in 1911 with three divisions located in Key West, Jacksonville, and Sarasota. After the onset of World War I, the entire naval militia was activated for the duration of the war, and not reconstituted under state service after the war ended. Before being federalized, members drilled once per week (later increased to twice per week), underwent physical examinations and measurements for uniforms, and were vaccinated for typhoid and smallpox.

1934–1941
Due largely to the efforts of Governor David Sholtz, the Governor of Florida and an officer in the Naval Reserve, the Florida Naval Militia was reorganized in 1934. However, with the entrance of the United States into World War II, the members of the naval militia were once again called into federal service, and the organization was dissolved in 1941.

Legal status

Although currently not organized, federal and state laws still allow each state to maintain its own military forces, including a naval militia. United States Code specifically defines the Naval Militia as one of the components of the United States organized militia, along with the National Guard. So long as at least 95% of a state's naval militia's membership is composed of Navy Reserve and Marine Corps Reserve members, naval militias may be loaned or issued vessels, material, armament, equipment, and other facilities of the Navy and the Marine Corps that are available to the Navy Reserve and Marine Corps Reserve.

States creating a naval militia may therefore either create a naval militia completely out of civilian volunteers under Title 32; a naval militia composed of Navy and Marine Corps Reserve members and eligible for federal equipment under Title 10; or a hybrid naval, composed of some units of civilian volunteers and ineligible for federal aid, and some units of federal reservists, whose units are eligible for federal aid, which allows the organization as a whole to receive federal equipment and aid while opening membership to civilians as well. The New Jersey Naval Militia offers an example of a hybrid-approach to the naval militia; the New Jersey Naval Militia was composed of three battalions. The first battalion was composed solely of navy and marine reservists in order to receive access to federal support and Navy and Marine Corps facilities. The second battalion was organized as an operational Naval State Guard, and the 3rd Division provided support and auxiliary functions. By only seeking federal recognition for the first battalion as a naval militia, and considering the other two as divisions of the New Jersey State Guard, the NJNM was able to receive federal aid and include significant numbers of civilian volunteers into the state naval force. Such an organizational method is legal so long as only the units with federal recognition are given access to federal equipment.

Floridian state law grants the governor the authority to create and maintain a naval militia as well; maintaining a naval militia organized under federal guidelines is authorized under Title XVII of chapter Chapter 250 in the Floridian state law. Florida law also allows the creation of a state defense force, which could include or wholly consist of a naval unit not held to federal standards. As such, the governor of Florida has the ability to reactivate the Florida Naval Militia based on existing legal permission at any time.

See also

 Florida National Guard
 Florida State Guard
 Florida Wing Civil Air Patrol
 State defense force
 United States Coast Guard Auxiliary
 United States Naval Sea Cadet Corps
 United States Power Squadrons

References

External links
 Florida Naval Militia Roster 1898-1914

Military in Florida
State defense forces of the United States


title: 1866 United States elections

text:
The 1866 United States elections occurred in the middle of National Union/Democratic President Andrew Johnson's term, during the Third Party System and Reconstruction. Johnson had become president on April 15, 1865, upon the death of his predecessor, Abraham Lincoln. Members of the 40th United States Congress were chosen in this election. As this was the first election after the Civil War, many ex-Confederates were barred from voting, and several Southern states did not take part in the election. Delegations from Arkansas, Florida, Alabama, North Carolina, Louisiana, and South Carolina were re-admitted during the 40th Congress.

President Andrew Johnson held a National Union Convention in hopes of rallying supporters against the Radical Republicans. However, the Republican Party maintained a dominant majority in both houses of Congress, and ultimately impeached Johnson in 1868.

In the House, both parties picked up several seats, but Republicans retained a majority.

In the Senate, Republicans won massive gains and increased their already-dominant majority, while Democrats suffered slight losses.

See also
1866–67 United States House of Representatives elections
1866–67 United States Senate elections

References

1866 elections in the United States
1866
United States midterm elections


title: Beaches of Andhra Pradesh

text:
The state of Andhra Pradesh has a coastline of  and hence, there exist many beaches. The seacoast extends along the Bay of Bengal from Srikakulam district to Nellore district.

The state tourism board APTDC promotes tourism and develops infrastructure in tourist destinations. APTDC maintains certain water sports facilities. The tourism board maintains Haritha Beach Resort at most of the beaches for promoting tourism.

Beaches

See: List of beaches in Andhra Pradesh

Among the beaches present in the state, there are beaches in almost every district, with Visakhapatnam district having many. Rushikonda Beach is 8 km from the port city of Visakhapatnam. RK Beach, Lawsons Bay, Tenneti, Sagarnagar beaches etc., attracts many tourists to the city of Visakhapatnam. The beaches are a popular location to celebrate Holi. The beach of Bheemunipatnam has relics of the Dutch rulers with many dilapidated forts and monuments and has divine presence. It lies at the opening of the Gosthani River.

Uppada Beach, located 5 km from Kakinada has a wide and shallow beach. Vodarevu Beach is near Chirala town in Bapatla district. Nellore district, which is more famous for its port, has Krishnapatnam Beach and Mypadu Beach. Motupalle Beach is in Prakasam district.

Kalingapatnam Beach, which has a Buddhist Stupa and a light house, is located in Kalingapatnam of Srikakulam district and Baruva Beach in Srikakulam district an oldest beach in Andhra Pradesh . The State Government is promoting the development of this area as a tourist destination. The roads end in the bed of the sea shore and hence, the beach is also referred as the Open Road Sea.

Other beaches are Perupalem Beach (Narasapuram) in West Godavari district, Manginapudi Beach (Machilipatnam) in Krishna district, Suryalanka Beach in Bapatla district,  Mypadu Beach, Koduru beach in Nellore district.

References

www.buddhabeachresorts.com

Lists of tourist attractions in Andhra Pradesh


The Wellington Heritage Multiple Unit Preservation Trust (WHMUPT) was formed to preserved D 2130, DM 556 and D 2411 or otherwise known as the "Cyclops" EMU set. The trust is based at Maymorn near the Rimutaka Incline Railway Heritage Trust (RIRHT). The set was purchased in January 2013 and arrived at their base on 21 April the same year. One trailer from this unit has been used as a passenger carriage by the RIRHT for their operational running days, and is stored undercover. Minimal conservation work has been done to the rest of the set which is stored outside.

In June 2018, the group purchased a Ganz-Mavag EMU from Greater Wellington Regional Council for the symbolic price of $1. The unit had been sold to an overseas buyer previously, but the deal had fallen through and was in the process of being disposed of by burial when the deal was reached to preserve the unit. The unit has been stored in Wellington Railway yard awaiting a move to Maymorn to join Cyclops, with some graffiti removal work undertaken on the unit.

In February 2022, the Ganz Mavag unit was moved from Wellington yard where it was stored to Hutt Workshops for further storage. The Rail Heritage Trust of New Zealand (RHT) described the unit as having been abandoned by the WHMUPT, and that they were assuming the role of finding it a home. The RHT said the unit would be moving to Maymorn still, but its new caretakers would be the Rimutaka Incline Railway Heritage Trust (RIRHT) instead and that the move to Hutt Workshops was for a limited time while RHT funded the move to Maymorn. The RHT indicated that the WHMUPT was essentially defunct. It is not known at present whether the RIRHT are also to be come the new owners of the Cyclops unit as well.

References

External links
 New Zealand Rolling Stock Register
 NZR Rolling Stock Lists
 NZR Locomotives

Heritage railways in New Zealand
Railway museums in New Zealand


title: Isares

text:
Isares may refer to:

Isares (EP), a 2014 EP by Manual
Macrobrochis or Isares, a genus of moth

See also
Rama Isares, Thai prince whose daughter was the namesake of Ram Buttri Road


title: Loving You

text:
Loving You, Loving U, Lovin' You, or Luvin' You may refer to:

Film
 Loving You (1957 film), a film starring Elvis Presley
 Loving You (1995 film), a Chinese film starring Sean Lau
 Loving You (2003 film), a British television crime drama
 Loving You (2008 film), a Filipino film

Literature
 Loving You (manga), a manga illustrated by Nami Akimoto
 Loving You, a 2003 novel by Maureen Child

Music

Albums
 Loving U, by Sistar, or the title song, 2012
 Loving You (Shirley Horn album) or the title song, 1997
 Loving You (soundtrack), by Elvis Presley, or the title song (see below), 1957
 Loving You, by Lani Misalucha, 2003
 Loving You, by Nick Kamen, 1988
 Loving You, by Tommy Page, 1996
 Luvin' You, by One Voice, or the title song, 2004

Songs
 "Lovin' You", by Minnie Riperton, 1975; covered by Shanice, 1992
 "Lovin' You" (Kristine W song), 2001
 "Lovin' You" (The O'Jays song), 1987
 "Lovin' You" (S.E.S. song), 2000
 "Lovin' You" (Soulhead song), recording as Batti Baas, 2001
 "Lovin' You" (TVXQ song), 2007
 "Loving You" (Chris Rea song), 1982
 "Loving You" (Elvis Presley song), 1957
 "Loving You" (Feargal Sharkey song), 1985
 "Loving You" (Matt Cardle and Melanie C song), 2013
 "Loving You" (Michael Jackson song), 2014
 "Loving You" (Ric Segreto song), 1982; covered by Nina, 2002
 "Loving You (Is a Way of Life)", by Jon Stevens, 1980
 "Loving You (Ole Ole Ole)", by Brian Harvey, 2001
 "Lovin' U", by Melody, 2006
 "Lovin' You", by the Lovin' Spoonful from Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful, 1966
 "Lovin' You", by Pat Travers from Putting It Straight, 1977
 "Lovin' You", by Tony! Toni! Tone! from House of Music, 1996
 "Loving You", by Atomic Kitten from Ladies Night, 2003
 "Loving You", by Badfinger from No Dice, 1992 reissue
 "Loving You", by Duffy, a B-side of "Warwick Avenue", 2008
 "Loving You", by Jennifer Lopez from This Is Me... Then, 2002
 "Loving You", by Jessica Simpson from In This Skin, 2003
 "Loving You", by Marc et Claude, 2001
 "Loving You", by the Orb from the single "A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules from the Centre of the Ultraworld", 1989
 "Loving You", written by Stephen Sondheim for the musical Passion, 1994
 "Loving You", by Sylvia Ratonel from Sylvia Ratonel, 2011
 "Loving U", by Sistar from Loving U, 2012

See also


title: 1870 United States elections

text:
The 1870 United States elections occurred in the middle of Republican President Ulysses S. Grant's first term, during the Third Party System. Members of the 42nd United States Congress were chosen in this election. The election took place during the Reconstruction Era, and many Southerners were barred from voting. It was also the first election after the passage of the 15th Amendment, which prohibits state and federal governments from denying the right to vote on the basis of race, color, or previous condition of servitude, although disenfranchisement would persist. The Republican Party maintained a majority in both houses of Congress, although Democrats picked up several seats in both chambers.

In the House, Democrats won major gains, but Republicans retained a solid majority.

In the Senate, Democrats won moderate gains, but Republicans retained a commanding majority.

See also
1870–71 United States House of Representatives elections
1870–71 United States Senate elections

References

1870 elections in the United States
1870
United States midterm elections


title: Ok (Korean name)

text:
Ok, sometimes spelled Oak or Ock, is an uncommon Korean family name, a single-syllable Korean given name, and an element in some two-syllable Korean given names. It is usually written with a hanja meaning "jade".

Family name
The 2000 South Korean census found 22,964 people and 7,288 households with the family name Ok. The surviving bon-gwan (origin of a clan lineage, not necessarily the actual residence of the clan members) at that time included:

Uiryeong County, South Gyeongsang Province: 19,368 people and 6,157 households
Geoje, South Gyeongsang Province: 1,085 people and 345 households
Kaesong, North Hwanghae Province: 708 people and 232 households
Miryang, South Gyeongsang Province: 537 people and 174 households
Jinju, South Gyeongsang Province: 441 people and 145 households
Uiseong County, North Gyeongsang Province: 467 people and 138 households
Sacheon, South Gyeongsang Province: 197 people and 61 households
Other or unknown: 161 people and 36 households

In a study by the National Institute of the Korean Language based on 2007 application data for South Korean passports, it was found that 84.8% of people with this family name spelled it in Latin letters as Ok in their passports, while another 9.0% spelled it as Ock. Rarer alternative spellings (the remaining 6.2%) included Oak and Ohk.

People with this family name include:
Ok Kwan-bin (died 1933), Korean independence activist
Simon Ok Hyun-jin (born 1968), South Korean Roman Catholic priest, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Gwangju
Ock Joo-hyun (born 1980), South Korean singer, former member of Fin.K.L
Ok Taec-yeon (born 1988), South Korean singer, member of boyband 2PM
Justine Ok, 21st-century American artist and songwriter of Korean descent

Given name

Hanja and meaning
There are five hanja with the reading "ok" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names; they are:

 (): "jade"
 (): "house"
 (: "prison"
 (): "irrigate"
 (): "treasure"

People
People with the single-syllable given name Ok include:
Yeo Ok, poet of the Gojoseon Kingdom which fell in 108 BC
Jeon Ok (1911–1969), South Korean actress
Kim Ok (born 1964), North Korean government employee, personal secretary to Kim Jong-il

As name element
One name containing this element, Kyung-ok, was the 10th-most popular name for newborn girls in South Korea in 1950.

Names containing this element include:
Jong-ok (unisex)
Kyung-ok (feminine)
Myung-ok (feminine)
Seon-ok (feminine)
Sun-ok (feminine)
Yeong-ok (unisex)

See also
List of Korean family names
List of Korean given names

References

Korean given names
Korean-language surnames


title: 1874 United States elections

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The 1874 United States elections occurred in the middle of Republican President Ulysses S. Grant's second term, during the Third Party System. Members of the 44th United States Congress were chosen in this election. The election took place during the Reconstruction Era, and many Southerners were barred from voting. Colorado joined the union during the 44th Congress. Democrats took control of a chamber of Congress for the first time since the start of the Civil War, winning a huge number of seats from House Republicans. However, the Republicans retained a majority in the Senate. The election marked the first occurrence of the six-year itch phenomenon, in which a president's party lost many Congressional seats during the president's second mid-term election.

The Panic of 1873, a series of scandals, and an unpopular Congressional pay raise all damaged the Republican Party's brand. With the passage of the Reconstruction amendments, the importance of the parties' roles in the Civil War also receded in the minds of many. Though Republicans won governorships in Northern states such as Pennsylvania, the election increased Democratic power in the South, which it later dominated after the end of Reconstruction.

In the House, Democrats won massive gains when the Republicans lost a total of 92 seats (the third-largest swing in the history of the House, and the second-largest House loss by the Republican Party), turning a dominant Republican majority into a similarly dominant Democratic majority.

In the Senate, Democrats picked up several seats, but Republicans retained a commanding majority.

See also
1874–75 United States House of Representatives elections
1874–75 United States Senate elections

References

1874 elections in the United States
1874
United States midterm elections


title: Game of Thrones (season 5)

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The fifth season of the fantasy drama television series Game of Thrones premiered on HBO on April 12, and concluded on June 14, 2015. It was broadcast on Sunday at 9:00 pm in the United States, consisting of 10 episodes, each running approximately 50–60 minutes. The season primarily adapts the storylines from A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons, the fourth and fifth novels in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, though it also uses the remaining elements from the third novel, A Storm of Swords, as well as the upcoming sixth novel The Winds of Winter. It also contains original content not found in Martin's novels. The series is adapted for television by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss.

Like previous seasons in Game of Thrones, the fifth season continues storylines primarily set within the fictional land of Westeros, while a few storylines are set in another continent, Essos. After the murders of King Joffrey and his grandfather Tywin Lannister, Cersei Lannister’s young, indecisive son, Tommen, rules Westeros as king. Tyrion flees to Essos, where he meets Daenerys Targaryen, who struggles to rule Slavers' Bay and regain control over her growing dragons. The Lannister family encounters new enemies, including a religious cult that Cersei foolishly empowers; they arrest her and Queen Margaery; Cersei confesses some sins and is released after a walk of atonement. Jon Snow becomes Lord Commander of the Night's Watch and serves under Stannis Baratheon, who pursues his claim to the Iron Throne by marching on the rebuilt Winterfell. Littlefinger has left Sansa Stark at Winterfell; she marries Ramsay Bolton, who rapes and imprisons her. Stannis is defeated and killed, while Sansa makes an escape with Theon. After Jon loses Night's Watchmen trying to rescue thousands of Wildlings from the White Walkers, several of his men mutiny and kill him. In Braavos, Arya Stark receives training as an assassin but disobeys her trainers, who blind her. Jaime retrieves princess Myrcella from Dorne, but she is murdered.

HBO ordered the fifth season on April 8, 2014, together with the sixth season, which began filming in July 2014. The season was filmed primarily in Ireland, Northern Ireland, Croatia and Spain.

Game of Thrones features a large ensemble cast, including Peter Dinklage, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lena Headey, Emilia Clarke and Kit Harington. The season introduced a number of new cast members, including Jonathan Pryce and Alexander Siddig.

Critics praised the show's production values and cast, giving specific accolades for Dinklage's portrayal of Tyrion Lannister. Viewership yet again rose compared to the previous season. This season set a Guinness World Record for winning the highest number of Emmy Awards for a series in a single season and year, winning 12 out of 24 nominations, including Outstanding Drama Series.

Episodes

Cast

Main cast

 Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister
 Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Jaime Lannister
 Lena Headey as Cersei Lannister
 Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen
 Kit Harington as Jon Snow
 Aidan Gillen as Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish
 Charles Dance as Tywin Lannister
 Natalie Dormer as Margaery Tyrell
 Stephen Dillane as Stannis Baratheon
 Liam Cunningham as Davos Seaworth
 Carice van Houten as Melisandre
 John Bradley as Samwell Tarly
 Sophie Turner as Sansa Stark
 Kristofer Hivju as Tormund Giantsbane

 Hannah Murray as Gilly
 Conleth Hill as Varys
 Gwendoline Christie as Brienne of Tarth
 Michiel Huisman as Daario Naharis
 Nathalie Emmanuel as Missandei
 Dean-Charles Chapman as Tommen Baratheon
 Indira Varma as Ellaria Sand
 Maisie Williams as Arya Stark
 Jerome Flynn as Bronn
 Tom Wlaschiha as Jaqen H'ghar
 Alfie Allen as Theon Greyjoy / "Reek"
 Michael McElhatton as Roose Bolton
 Iwan Rheon as Ramsay Bolton
 Iain Glen as Jorah Mormont

Guest cast
The recurring actors listed here are those who appeared in season 5. They are listed by the region in which they first appear:

At and beyond the Wall
 Peter Vaughan as Maester Aemon
 Owen Teale as Alliser Thorne
 Brian Fortune as Othell Yarwyck
 Michael Condron as Bowen Marsh
 Dominic Carter as Janos Slynt
 Ben Crompton as Eddison Tollett
 J. J. Murphy as Denys Mallister
 Will O'Connell as Todder
 Brenock O'Connor as Olly
 Ciarán Hinds as Mance Rayder
 Birgitte Hjort Sørensen as Karsi
 Zahary Baharov as Loboda
 Ross O'Hennessy as the Lord of Bones
 Murray McArthur as Dim Dalba
 Ian Whyte as Wun Wun
 Ali Lyons as Johnna
 Richard Brake as the Night King

In the North
 Elizabeth Webster as Walda Bolton
 Tara Fitzgerald as Selyse Florent
 Kerry Ingram as Shireen Baratheon
 Charlotte Hope as Myranda

In the Vale
 Lino Facioli as Robin Arryn
 Rupert Vansittart as Yohn Royce
 Daniel Portman as Podrick Payne

In Dorne
 Alexander Siddig as Doran Martell
 Toby Sebastian as Trystane Martell
 Keisha Castle-Hughes as Obara Sand
 Rosabell Laurenti Sellers as Tyene Sand
 Jessica Henwick as Nymeria Sand
 Nell Tiger Free as Myrcella Baratheon
 DeObia Oparei as Areo Hotah

In King's Landing
 Julian Glover as Grand Maester Pycelle
 Anton Lesser as Qyburn
 Ian Gelder as Kevan Lannister
 Roger Ashton-Griffiths as Mace Tyrell
 Finn Jones as Loras Tyrell
 Diana Rigg as Olenna Tyrell
 Eugene Simon as Lancel Lannister
 Ian Beattie as Meryn Trant
 Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson as Gregor Clegane
 Paul Bentley as the High Septon
 Jonathan Pryce as the High Sparrow
 Hannah Waddingham as Septa Unella
 Will Tudor as Olyvar
 Josephine Gillan as Marei

In Braavos
 Mark Gatiss as Tycho Nestoris
 Gary Oliver as Ternesio Terys
 Oengus MacNamara as the thin man
 Faye Marsay as the Waif
 Sarine Sofair as Lhara
 Hattie Gotobed as Ghita

In Slaver's Bay
 Ian McElhinney as Barristan Selmy
 Jacob Anderson as Grey Worm
 Reece Noi as Mossador
 Joel Fry as Hizdahr zo Loraq
 Enzo Cilenti as Yezzan zo Qaggaz
 Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Malko
 Meena Rayann as Vala

Production

Crew

The writing staff for the fifth season includes executive producers and showrunners David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, producer Bryan Cogman, and Dave Hill, who was promoted to staff writer this season after previously working as an assistant to Benioff and Weiss. Author George R. R. Martin, who had written one episode for each of the first four seasons, did not write an episode for the fifth season as he was working to finish writing the sixth novel of the series, The Winds of Winter. The directing staff for the fifth season is Michael Slovis (episodes 1 and 2), Mark Mylod (episodes 3 and 4), Jeremy Podeswa (episodes 5 and 6), Miguel Sapochnik (episodes 7 and 8), and David Nutter (episodes 9 and 10). Nutter is the only returning director with the rest being first-time Game of Thrones directors.

Writing
This season features more original material than previous seasons. The deviations from Martin's novels are in part attributable to the way the television series has covered most of the novel series' published material and in part to the directors' opinions of the actors' abilities. For example, Sansa Stark arrives at Winterfell to marry Ramsay Bolton in "High Sparrow," a plotline that had been given to a minor character in the novels. In an interview, show writer David Benioff explains that Sophie Turner's development as an actress was one of the reasons that they decided to give her character more dramatic scenes, saying, "Even if [child actors] come in and do a great audition, it’s so hard to know if they’re going to quite literally grow into the parts. With Sansa and Arya in particular, their storylines have become quite dark. It was such a gamble and the fact that they’ve both become such great wonderful actresses is a bit of a miracle." Bryan Cogman added that it made more sense to give the Winterfell storyline to a proven actress who was already popular with viewers than to bring in a new character.

Other changes include the portrayal of Tommen as old enough to interact with Margaery and the Faith Militant as an adult, the speeding up or streamlining of several subplots, and the introduction of fewer new characters. According to Benioff and Weiss, "We felt we'd capsize the show if we put in every single character from the books." Critics particularly liked the decision to have Tyrion actually meet Daenerys at the end of "The Gift," which has yet to happen as of A Dance with Dragons. David Benioff cited the television adaptation's faster pace as part of the rationale behind this decision.

Filming

Filming for the fifth season began in July 2014 in Belfast and ended in December 2014. Locations in Northern Ireland included Titanic Studios, Belfast and the cliff edge of Binevenagh Mountain. The Winterfell sets were in the village of Moneyglass.

Some of the scenes that take place in the principality of Dorne were filmed in Spain, beginning in October 2014. Locations explored for the production included the Alcázar of Seville and the University of Osuna. On October 14, some scenes were filmed on the Roman bridge of Córdoba. Benioff and Weiss said that season 5 would include flashbacks, which they had previously avoided, and that Córdoba would represent the city of Volantis.

Cersei's "walk of atonement" from A Dance with Dragons was filmed in Dubrovnik, Croatia, in the Stradun street between the Dubrovnik Cathedral and the Sponza Palace in early October 2014. The production reportedly employed a body double for Lena Headey for part of the scene in which Cersei appears naked.
Meereen scenes were once again shot in Diocletian's Palace in Split, and on Klis Fortress north of Split.

A town on the coast of the Bay of Kaštela in Croatia, the 16th century Kaštel Gomilica stood in for some parts of Braavos.

A very small portion of one episode was filmed in Calgary, Alberta, Canada: the scenes featuring Jon Snow's wolf Ghost (played by animal actor Quigly) who also appears in season 6.

Casting

The fifth season adds previously recurring actors Indira Varma (Ellaria Sand), Michiel Huisman (Daario Naharis), Nathalie Emmanuel (Missandei), Dean-Charles Chapman (Tommen Baratheon), Tom Wlaschiha (Jaqen H'ghar) and Michael McElhatton (Roose Bolton) to the series' main cast.

In the fifth season, the region of Dorne is introduced as a location. Alexander Siddig joins the cast as Doran Martell, the ruling Prince of Dorne, and elder brother of Oberyn Martell, while his son Trystane Martell is portrayed by Toby Sebastian. The role of Cersei's daughter Myrcella Baratheon, who is Doran's ward and betrothed to Trystane is played by Nell Tiger Free. The role was portrayed by Aimee Richardson in the first two seasons. DeObia Oparei portrays Areo Hotah, the captain of the Dornish palace guard. The three eldest bastard daughters of Oberyn Martell (collectively known as the "Sand Snakes") are portrayed by Keisha Castle-Hughes (Obara Sand), Jessica Henwick (Nymeria Sand), and Rosabell Laurenti Sellers (Tyene Sand).

In King's Landing, Jonathan Pryce joins the cast as the High Sparrow, the leader of the militant faithful in King's Landing, while Hannah Waddingham portrays Septa Unella, one of the "Most Devout", the ruling council of the Faith of the Seven. Nell Williams  was cast as a young Cersei Lannister seen in flashbacks, while Jodhi May was cast as Maggy the Frog, a fortune-teller.

Across the Narrow Sea, Enzo Cilenti joins as Yezzan, a Yunkish nobleman and slave trader, while Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje was cast as Malko, a slaver, who does not appear in the novels. At Castle Black and beyond the Wall, new cast members include Michael Condron as Bowen Marsh, First Steward of the Night's Watch. J. J. Murphy, who was cast as Night's Watch officer Denys Mallister, died in August 2014 shortly after filming his first scenes; his role was not recast. One role that was recast for season 5 was Ross O'Hennessy as the Lord of Bones. O'Hennessy replaces Edward Dogliani who was last seen in the season 3 premiere "Valar Dohaeris". Charles Dance, whose character died in the previous season, returned for one episode to portray Tywin Lannister's corpse.  Isaac Hempstead-Wright (Bran Stark), Kristian Nairn (Hodor) and Ellie Kendrick (Meera Reed) are absent this season because their part in the story has reached the end of A Dance with Dragons.

Music

The soundtrack for the season was released digitally on June 9, 2015, and on CD on July 17, 2015.

Reception

Critical response

The fifth season was met with mostly positive reviews, though many deemed it to be weaker than its predecessors. On Metacritic, the season (based on the first four episodes) has a score of 91 out of 100 based on 29 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". On Rotten Tomatoes, the fifth season has a 93% approval rating from 52 critics with an average rating of 8.61 out of 10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Bloody action and extreme power plays return full throttle, as Game of Thrones enjoys a new-found liberation from the world of the source material, resulting in more unexpected thrills."

The Daily Telegraph stated in regards to the premiere episode, "Essentially, this was an exercise in scene setting, the chess pieces being laid out on the board." New York Daily News praised the season to have "little trouble keeping its pedal to the metal" due to its "cold-blooded characters treating personnel turnover as the natural order", when other shows "are starting to run out of gas by Season 5". Slant Magazine gave the season 3.5 out of 4 and stated, "There's plenty of death in the fifth season of the show, and it's understood as a cautionary symbol of power." Vanity Fair called this season "rich, satisfying and fantastically put together". Variety gave the season a positive review and stated, "Operating on a scale like nothing else on TV, and creatively liberated to play a long game stretching into the future, perhaps no project better distinguishes HBO's status as the leading premium player." IndieWire gave the season a score of 'B+' and found the "first few episodes skew dry, concerned largely with the establishment of allegiances", but still praised them for keeping the audiences "connected to those who have managed to survive thus far in the battle for power."

The Boston Globe gave the season a positive review and stated, "The funny thing about Game of Thrones is that it's built on familiar genres and yet it appeals to those who may not be fans of those genres." James Poniewozik of Time gave the season a positive review and stated, "Game of Thrones is flying, full tilt, toward a destination off the edge of our map of the known world. I can't wait to see what it finds there." Salon.com gave the season a positive review and stated, "In the fifth season, the story has been distilled to just the moments of pathos and characterization and gorgeous direction that make the story work." Slate was concerned about the fact that the season "pulls even further away from the novels (the Sansa plot will drive some fans crazier than King Aerys)", though still thought it was "better for it".

The A.V. Club gave the season a score of 'A−' and stated, "Benioff and Weiss are making the same show but with slightly different rhythms, relying more on character shading and interplay than on staging the next massacre." Christopher Orr of The Atlantic found the season to be an improvement over the source material in terms of pace and focus. David Wiegand of the San Francisco Chronicle gave the season 4 out of 4 and eulogized the "greater sense of urgency", while The New York Times praised the "overall feeling of recharging and regeneration". Mary McNamara of the Los Angeles Times gave the season a positive review and stated, "Breathtaking, heartbreaking, awe-inspiring and addictive, it remains the single most remarkable feat of television, possibly ever, increasingly admirable for its ability to grow rather than simply sustain."

The only major publication to give the season a negative review was John Doyle of The Globe and Mail who stated, "A certain character says to someone who had been believed to be dangerous: "You're not terrifying, you're boring!" I'm with that character, all the way. Yes, everyone's a critic, Ms. Atwood."

The sixth episode, "Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken" was heavily criticized due to the showrunners' decision to have a well-liked character suffer a sexual assault. It received a rating of 54% on Rotten Tomatoes, lower than any previous episode of the show. The eighth episode, "Hardhome", received significant praise and was immediately regarded as one of the best episodes in the series. According to Business Insider, "Despite the attacks, Game of Thrones remains a steady hit."

Season 5 featured more significant changes from the novels. Some of the changes were more well-received than others (the sexual assault scene was heavily criticized and caused great controversy). The various plotlines for the season also differed significantly in reception. The Dornish subplot received an overwhelmingly negative reception. In particular, the hyped Sand Snakes were maligned by critics and fans alike, as many found them cheesy and unlikeable. In contrast, Tyrion's storyline was highly praised. Many fans felt that his subplot progressed overly slowly in the novels, and his meeting with Daenerys was particularly lauded.

Ratings

The gross viewing figure per episode for the show, which include streaming, DVR recordings and repeat showings, averaged at 20 million this season.

 Live +7 ratings were not available, so Live +3 ratings have been used instead.

Business Insider noted a significant difference in the ratings between this season and previous seasons. The typical pattern involves "Solid premiere viewings followed by a slow but steady gain of momentum through to the finale. Historically, the finale episodes of each season have beaten the premiere for total number of viewers". However, this season showed a significant decline from 8 million viewers at the premiere to 5.4 million at the seventh episode, "The Gift". Business Insider cites two likely reasons for the lower ratings: backlash over the rape scene in "Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken", one of many deviations from the novels throughout the season that "have upset fans," and increased online streaming through HBO Now. It also acknowledged a possible effect of the first four episodes leaking online before the season premiere and the decision to air on Memorial Day weekend in the United States (a weekend that had been skipped in previous seasons). Business Insider reached out to HBO for comment, HBO responded that it is seeing an increase in overall viewer numbers this season taking into account streaming services, which are not included in Nielsen ratings. The dip in ratings did not extend to the eighth and ninth episodes, "Hardhome," and "The Dance of Dragons", which were both seen by over 7 million viewers. The season finale, "Mother's Mercy" was seen by 8.11 million people, setting a new record and making it the most watched episode of the series.

Accolades

For the 5th Critics' Choice Television Awards, the series was nominated for Best Drama Series. For the 31st TCA Awards, the series was nominated for Program of the Year and Outstanding Achievement in Drama. For the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards, the series received 24 nominations, the most of any series. It won 12 awards, including Outstanding Drama Series, Peter Dinklage for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, Benioff and Weiss for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series for "Mother's Mercy", and David Nutter for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for "Mother's Mercy". Nominations included Lena Headey and Emilia Clarke both for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, Diana Rigg for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series, and Jeremy Podeswa for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for "Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken".

Release

Broadcast
The season was simulcast to 170 countries by HBO and its broadcast partners. In some countries, it aired the day after its first release. Sky Atlantic, the network serving the United Kingdom and Ireland, aired the premiere the day after HBO, but joined the simulcast for the rest of the season.

Marketing
A half-hour documentary, Game of Thrones: A Day in the Life, aired on HBO on February 8, 2015. It covered one day of production of season 5 on three sets in Belfast, Dubrovnik and Osuna from the viewpoint of key crew members. The first official trailer for season 5 was released on January 30, 2015, and the season's second trailer was released on March 9, 2015. The world premiere of the first episode of the fifth season was held at the Tower of London on March 18, 2015.

Home media
The season was released on Blu-ray and DVD on March 15, 2016, in region 1 and March 14, 2016, in region 2.

Illegal distribution
On April 11, prior to the airing of the season's first episode, screener copies of the first four episodes were leaked to several file sharing sites. According to TorrentFreak, 18 million different IP addresses downloaded the leaked episodes, totaling 32 million downloads during the first week. The fifth season of Game of Thrones was the most-pirated TV series in 2015.

References

External links
  – official US site
  – official UK site
 Game of Thrones – The Viewers Guide on HBO.com
 Making Game of Thrones on HBO.com

2015 American television seasons
Season 5