title: August Grahl

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August Grahl (26 May 1791, Göhren-Lebbin - 13 June 1868, Dresden) was a German portrait painter and miniaturist.

Life
He was the son of the Court Jeweler to the Hohenzollerns. From 1811 to 1813, he studied at the Berlin University of the Arts. He quit school to join the Black Hussars of Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow and fight in the War of Liberation. He retired with a commission.

His first success came in 1816, with a portrait of King Friedrich Wilhelm III. In 1817/18, he took a trip to Italy, visiting Rome, Florence, Venice and Bologna. Following his wife's death in 1821, after only two years of marriage, he began travelling more extensively, ending in Rome where he lived until 1830 at the Palazzo Caffarelli. It was there that he met his second wife, the daughter of a wealthy banker from Königsberg. He spent 1831 in England, where he painted a portrait of Queen Adelaide that was later made into an engraving by Samuel William Reynolds. In 1832, he returned to Germany to get married and moved to Dresden in 1835, remaining there except for a brief period from 1853 to 1855, when he returned to Rome to attend to his son-in-law, the painter Alfred Rethel, who was suffering from a severe episode of depression.

He is probably best known for his portrait of Hans Christian Andersen, which is on display at the Andersen Museum in Odense. Another familiar work is his portrait of Gabriele von Bülow, Wilhelm von Humboldt's daughter. He was also a significant art collector, possessing a large selection of Italian paintings and lithographs. Virtually all of his miniatures are still privately owned.

His granddaughter was artist, Else Sohn-Rethel.

References

Further reading
 "August Grahl" In: Thieme-Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Vol.14, E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1921, pgs.493–494
 Georg Poensgen: Die Bedeutung des Miniaturmalers August Grahl (1791–1868); in: Pantheon, Nr.3, May/June 1966

External links

 ArtNet: More paintings by Grahl, including his portrait of Vittoria Caldoni.

1791 births
1868 deaths
19th-century German painters
19th-century German male artists
German male painters
Portrait painters
People from Mecklenburgische Seenplatte (district)
Berlin University of the Arts alumni


title: Studio D Recording

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Studio D Recording, Inc. is a San Francisco Bay Area based recording, mixing, and mastering studio opened in 1984 in Sausalito. Studio D is most well known for its live room, equipped with a 20 foot ceiling and tunable acoustics. Studio D has been a major presence in the Bay Area's music scene since its inception, recording a number of multiplatinum and Grammy Award winning albums.

Artists having worked at Studio D include Soundgarden, Earth, Wind, & Fire, Faith No More, Aretha Franklin, Huey Lewis and the News, Eddie Money, Bruce Hornsby, Chris Isaak, Carlos Santana, Joe Satriani, Dick Dale, Bonnie Raitt, Third Eye Blind, and Ringo Starr.

Selected List of Albums Recorded at Studio D

Some notable albums recorded and/or mixed at Studio D include:

 Aretha Franklin: Aretha  1986
 Huey Lewis and the News: Fore!  1986
 Bruce Hornsby and the Range: The Way It Is 1986
 Melvins: Gluey Porch Treatments 1986
 Earth, Wind & Fire: Touch the World  1987
 Pebbles: Pebbles  1987
 Faith No More: Introduce Yourself  1987
 Huey Lewis and the News: Small World  1988
 Faith No More: The Real Thing  1989
 Margaret Becker: Immigrant's Daughter  1989
 Soundgarden: Badmotorfinger  1991
 Flipper: American Grafishy 1992
 Dick Dale: Tribal Thunder  1993
 Testament: Low  1994
 Chris Isaak: Forever Blue  1995
 Huey Lewis and the News: Time Flies... The Best of Huey Lewis & the News  1996
 The Verve Pipe: Villains  1996
 The Call: The Best of The Call  1997
 Bonnie Raitt: Souls Alike 2005
 Umphrey's McGee: Safety in Numbers 2006
 Eddie Money: Wanna Go Back  2007
 The Doobie Brothers: World Gone Crazy 2010
 Kenny Wayne Shepherd: How I Go  2011
 Ray Manzarek & Roy Rogers Twisted Tales   2013
 Exodus: Blood In, Blood Out 2015
 Van Morrison & Joey Defrancesco: You're Driving Me Crazy 2018
 Van Morrison & Joey Defrancesco: The Prophet Speaks 2018
 Sheryl Crow: Threads 2019
 Bonnie Raitt: Just Like That...  2022

References

External links
 Mix Online  Mix Magazine details some projects by Studio D
 Mix Online  Mix magazine comments on Studio D's place in the 80's
Studio D company website

Recording studios in California
Music of the San Francisco Bay Area
Companies based in Marin County, California
1984 establishments in California
Sausalito, California


title: Northern Storm Brigade

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The Northern Storm Brigade (, Liwā’ ’Āṣifat ash-Shamāl), also known as the Northern Hurricane Brigade is a Syrian rebel group formed in 2011 and based in Azaz in northwestern Syria, near the border with Turkey. Its leader and other members of the group were smugglers from the city and its surrounding before the Syrian Civil War. The group retained exclusive control of the Bab al-Salam border crossing.

History

Founded in 2011, the Northern Storm Brigade took part in the rebel conquest of Azaz and the Siege of Menagh Air Base. It accepted the Supreme Military Council's authority in late 2012. The group's former leader Ammar Ibrahim Dadikhi was severely wounded in the middle of January 2013, during the siege of Menagh Air Base, which resulted in him losing one of his legs and eventually his life. He was succeeded by the group's former political leader, Samir Amouri. Two senior commanders (Hadi Salo and Samir Akkash) were also killed in this period, while other members of the group defected to Islamic rebel formations.

US Senator John McCain met with fighters from the group on May 27, 2013.

Tensions rose between the group and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in mid-September 2013, after a dispute over a German doctor working in Azaz, ISIL claimed the doctor was a spy and was photographing ISIL's headquarters in Azaz, ISIL also claimed the Northern Storm Brigade was assisting the German doctor in his espionage activities and helped him escape from ISIL killing two ISIL members in the process. The hospital in Azaz released a statement denying the doctor was a spy, and that he was actually photographing sick patients being treated in the hospital. The hospital's statement also claimed that ISIL gunmen went into the hospital demanding the hospital's staff hand him over. Following this incident ISIL fought the Northern Storm Brigade and other groups in the area eventually taking over the city of Azaz. Following the clashes the Tawhid Brigade mediated a cease-fire between ISIL and the Northern Storm Brigade, where ISIL agreed to withdraw from the Northern Storm Brigade's headquarters and both sides were to release prisoners.

The Northern Storm Brigade claimed ISIL had not held up its end of the agreement, along with another local group known as Ahrar Azaz. The next day ISIL claimed that the Northern Storm Brigade helped Pro-Assad forces escape from the Menagh airbase and that the group was collaborating with Blackwater and the CIA, ISIL also referenced the group's meeting with John McCain as evidence. Later ISIL issued a statement demanding that the Northern Storm Brigade turn in their arms and join ISIL, as repentance in the Azaz region, otherwise ISIL liquidate the group. By 2 October 2013 ISIL declared the deadline was over and began attacking the Northern Storm Brigade, ISIL claimed that after the fighting Northern Storm Brigade members fled to Kurdish held areas.

After the fighting the Aleppo Sharia Committee, which the Tawhid Brigades is affiliated with that attempted to mediate a cease-fire between ISIL and the Northern Storm Brigade, declared the Northern Storm Brigade was a criminal group and was not allowed to carry arms.

Samir Amouri reportedly fled to Turkey and was replaced by the current leader, Mahmoud Naddom. Under his rule, the group began to develop relationships and begin coordinating with other rebels. During this period they were based in the Turkish city of Kilis.

On 2 March 2014 the Northern Storm Brigade announced that they would join the Islamic Front under the leadership of the al-Tawhid Brigade.

Military capabilities
As of early 2015 Northern Storm had around 500 fighters, including several Kurds. The group's headquarters were located at a military base to the north of Azaz. It lacked heavy weaponry and vehicles, which had led to criticism of the group's abilities as a fighting force.

Criminal activities
The Northern Storm Brigade has been accused of kidnapping and smuggling, and was responsible for the kidnapping of eleven Lebanese men in 2012. Nine of them were released on 19 October 2013.

See also
List of armed groups in the Syrian Civil War

References

Free Syrian Army
Military units and formations established in 2011
Anti-ISIL factions in Syria


title: Hans Besser

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Hans Besser (1510-after 1558) was a German Renaissance portrait painter. His exact date of death is not known.

Not much is known about Besser's life except through his works. He was probably born in Aachen, Cologne and left in 1537 because of religious persecution, and found refuge in the Electoral Palatinate. He became a citizen of the city of Speyer. In 1546 he was appointed official court painter for Frederick II, Elector Palatine. After the death of Frederick in 1556, Besser continued as court painter to Otto Henry, Elector Palatine.

Besser was primarily a portrait painter. Before these portraits were detectable through documentation, attributions of his works were originally assigned to either Master of Pfalz or Master of Margrave. These names were given to the painter because of the frequent representation of the Palatinate princes. Besser demonstrated none of the leading visual style of the Renaissance in Germany. His cool portraits with their motionless poses and rigid facial expressions show a distant contemplation, which seems to follow a sober objectivity of Dutch painting of the period of the Reformation.

References
 K. holes: Hans Better - The Master of Pfalz- and Margrave. (With a contribution by Barbara Schock-Werner.) In: Munich Yearbook of Fine Arts, the third episode, 47 (1996), pp 73–102
 Hans Besser. In: Art Encyclopedia. The Concise Grove Dictionary of Art, Oxford University Press Online Edition 2002 called, April 2010
 Holes, Kurt: Hans Besser. In: Saur. General Artist Encyclopedia, Vol. 10, Munich / Leipzig 1995, p 208–209.
 Baden State Museum Karlsruhe: The Renaissance in the southwest of Germany between the Reformation and the Thirty Years' War. Catalog. Bd. 1 Karlsruhe 1986

1510 births
Year of death unknown
16th-century German painters
German male painters
German Renaissance painters
Artists from Aachen


title: List of United States Army Air Force modification centers

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United States Army Air Forces Modification Centers were World War II facilities at which military aircraft underwent post-production changes in order to modify or install equipment needed for specific roles or theaters of operation. The majority of newly produced combat aircraft were channeled to the modification centers immediately after leaving the production facility, and before departing to the active theaters of war. The use of modification centers avoided disruption to the production lines to incorporate continuous improvements or other changes to the aircraft design. They were the only "set of field installations" constructed for Material Command. Modification Centers were for:

"the tailoring job of the AAF which fills the gap between the time we decide on an alteration of a plan and the time the factory can incorporate the change into production. To modification centers, operated by contract by commercial airline companies and manufacturers, go most of our airplanes before shipment overseas. Here they are modernized with the newest equipment available. Planes also are dressed up or stripped down according to the military requirements and weather conditions of the theater for which they are destined.  Modification is continued on operational aircraft by service personnel in the theaters, where many modification ideas originate."

Sites

During 1942, 21 modification centers were activated, "eight being operated by commercial airlines and the remainder by aircraft manufacturers. Nineteen of the centers remained in operation at the end of the year after two other centers had been closed out":

 Atlanta, Georgia (Eastern Airlines)
 Atlanta, Georgia (Delta Airlines)
 Birmingham, Alabama (Betchel, McCone, and Parsons)
 Brownsville, Texas, Texas (Pan American)
 Buffalo, New York (Curtiss Aircraft)
 Cheyenne, Wyoming (United Air Lines)
 Dallas Love Field in Dallas, Texas (Lockheed Aircraft)
 Daggett, California (Douglas Aircraft)
 Denver, Colorado (Continental Airlines)
 Evansville, Indiana (Republic Aviation)
 Fairfax Field in Kansas City, Kansas (North American Aviation Kansas)
 Kansas City, Missouri (Transcontinental and Western Airlines)
 Long Beach, California (Douglas Aircraft)
 Louisville, Kentucky (Convair)
 Louisville, Kentucky (Curtiss Aircraft)
 Memphis, Tennessee (Southern Airlines)
 Niagara Falls, New York (Bell Aircraft, Buffalo)
 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (Douglas Aircraft)
 Omaha, Nebraska (Martin Aircraft)
 St. Paul, Minnesota (Northwest Airlines)
 Tucson, Arizona (Convair Aircraft)
 Tulsa, Oklahoma (Douglas Aircraft)
 Vandalia, Ohio (Northwest Air Lines)

Depots, e.g., Fairfield, Ohio (FAD), did modifications but were not modification centers.

The commercial modification centers were distinct from the USAAF Air Service Command domestic depot system, which also performed modification as an addition mission function. There were four major depots in the system which expanded to about a dozen during the war. The depots had sub-depots and auxiliary locations. There were also major overseas depot and sub-depot systems which predated addition modifications to combat aircraft.

See also
 List of United States Air Force plants

Notes

References

 AAF Historical Studies: No. 62, Modification of Army Aircraft in the United States 1939–1945; O'Toole, Virginia, G., 1947

United States Army Air Forces lists
World War II sites in the United States


title: List of people with motor neuron disease

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This is a list of notable people who have or had motor neuron diseases, a group of rare neurodegenerative disorders that selectively affect motor neurons, the cells which control voluntary muscles of the body. This includes amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), progressive bulbar palsy (PBP), pseudobulbar palsy, progressive muscular atrophy (PMA), primary lateral sclerosis (PLS), spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) and monomelic amyotrophy (MMA), as well as some rarer variants resembling ALS.

Living

Ady Barkan (born 1983), American lawyer and political activist.
Jason Becker (born 1969), American musician, songwriter and composer.
Charlie Bird (born 1949), Irish journalist.
Jesper Björkman (born 1993), Swedish footballer.
Jason Bowen (born 1972), Welsh footballer.
David Bradley (born 1954), American artist.
O. J. Brigance (born 1969), American football player.
Esteban Bullrich (born 1969), Argentine politician.
Rob Burrow (born 1982), English rugby league player.
Neale Daniher (born 1961), Australian rules footballer.
Stephen Darby (born 1988), English footballer.
Daniel L. Doctoroff (born 1958), American businessman and government official.
Roberta Flack (born 1937), American singer.
Yasuhiko Funago (born 1957), Japanese politician.
Steve Gleason (born 1977), American football player.
Kerry Goode (born 1965), American football player.
Tim Green (born 1963), American football player, commentator and author.
Frank Hansen (born 1952), American bobsledder.
John Driskell Hopkins (born 1971), American bassist (Zac Brown Band).
Mark Kirton (born 1958), Canadian ice hockey player.
George Kooymans (born 1948), Dutch musician (Golden Earring).
Sarah Langs (born 1993), American sportswriter
Euan MacDonald (born 1974), Scottish entrepreneur
Ed Martin (born 1962), American football player.
Steve McMichael (born 1957), American football player and professional wrestler.
Kenneth Mitchell (born 1974), Canadian actor.
Emanuel Morales (born 1987), Argentine footballer.
Tim Shaw (born 1984), American football player.
Ed Slater (born 1988), English rugby union player.
Eric Stevens (born 1989), American football player.
Marcus Stewart (born 1972), English footballer.
Kyousei Tsukui (born 1961), Japanese voice actor.
Juan Carlos Unzué (born 1967), Spanish footballer and manager.
Ken Waters (born 1961), Welsh rugby union player.
Carl Webb (born 1981), Australian rugby league player.
Moamen Zakaria (born 1988), Egyptian footballer.

Deceased

Eddie Adams (1933–2004), American photographer.
José Afonso (1929–1987), Portuguese singer-songwriter, revolutionist against the Estado Novo regime.
Gordon Aikman (1985–2017), British political researcher and motor neurone disease campaigner.
Frank Alamo (1941–2012), French singer.
Bruce Allpress (1930–2019), New Zealand actor.
Pietro Anastasi (1948–2020), Italian footballer.
Billy Anderson (1941–1996), American football player.
Hideyuki Ashihara (1944–1995), Japanese karate master.
Edda Heiðrún Backman (1957–2016), Icelandic actress.
Dale Baer (1950–2021), American animator.
Derek Bailey (1930–2005), English guitarist.
Victor Bailey (1960–2016), American bassist (Weather Report).
Katharine Balfour (1921–1990), American actress.
Marc Basnight (1947–2020), American politician.
Richard Beeman (1942–2016), American historian.
Mauril Bélanger (1955–2016), Canadian politician.
Emory Bellard (1927–2011), American college football coach.
Randall C. Berg Jr. (1949–2019), American attorney.
Giovanni Bertini (1951–2019), Italian footballer.
Nicholas Bianco (1932–1994), American mobster.
Ashley Bickerton (1959–2022), Barbadian-born American visual artist.
Beatle Bob (1953–2023), American dancer.
Stefano Borgonovo (1964–2013), Italian footballer
Jeff Bourne (1948–2014), English footballer.
Laurent Bouvet (1968–2021), French political scientist.
Michael Bowden (1947–2020), Australian footballer.
Fred Branfman (1942–2014), American anti-war activist and author.
Scott Brazil (1955–2006), American television producer.
Barbara Brenner (1951–2013), American health activist.
Donna Britt (1958–2021), American news anchor.
Harry Browne (1933–2006), American politician.
Jens Bullerjahn (1962–2022), German politician.
Heinz Burt (1942–2000), German-born British bassist and singer.
Ben Byer (1971–2008), American playwright, subject of the film Indestructible, documenting his life post-diagnosis.
Jeff Capel II (1953–2017), American basketball coach.
Jim Caple (1962–2023), American sportswriter.
Linda Carlson (1945–2021), American actress.
Alicinha Cavalcanti (1962–2021), Brazilian event promoter.
Jane Cederqvist (1945–2023), Swedish Olympic swimmer.
Paul Cellucci (1948–2013), American politician and diplomat.
Ezzard Charles (1921–1975), American professional boxer.
Neil Cherry (1936–2003), New Zealand environmental scientist.
Marián Čišovský (1979–2020), Slovak footballer.
Dwight Clark (1957–2018), American football player.
Preston Cloud (1912–1991), American earth scientist.
Sammy Conn (1961–2014), Scottish footballer and manager.
Ronnie Corbett (1930–2016), Scottish comedian and actor.
John Coster-Mullen (1946–2021), American nuclear archaeologist.
Kevin Cullen (1922–1994), Australian medical doctor, researcher, and winemaker
John Curran (1953–2013), American financial journalist.
George Curry (1944–2016), American football coach.
Cyril Cusack (1910–1993), Irish actor.
Garth Dawley (1933–2020), Canadian journalist.
Dennis Day (1916–1988), American singer and actor.
Patrick Dean (1976–2021), American cartoonist.
Dieter Dengler (1938–2001), German-American aviator POW.
Papa Bouba Diop (1978–2020), Senegalese footballer.
Rickey Dixon (1966–2020), American football player.
Masayuki Dobashi (1935–2013), Japanese baseball player and manager.
Jim Dooley (1930–2008), American football player and coach.
Ann Downer (1960–2015), American author.
Jo-Anna Downey (1967–2016), Canadian comedian.
Brad Drewett (1958–2013), Australian tennis player and sports administrator.
John Drury (1927–2007), American news anchor.
Richard Ellman (1918–1987), American literary critic.
Cai Emmons (1951–2023), American author.
Sam English (1908–1967), Northern Irish footballer.
Jenifer Estess (1963–2003), American theatre producer and activist, subject of HBO film Jennifer; founding member of Project ALS.
Richard J. Ferris (1936–2022), American businessman.
Rose Finn-Kelcey (1945–2014), British artist.
Anto Finnegan (1973–2021), Northern Irish Gaelic footballer.
Hal Finney (1956–2014), American computer scientist.
Jay S. Fishman (1952–2016), American business executive.
Simon Fitzmaurice (1973–2017), Irish film director.
Roberto Fontanarrosa (1944–2007), Argentine cartoonist, comics artist and writer.
Phil Freelon (1953–2019), American architect.
Adam Kelso Fulton (1929-1994), Scottish rugby union player.
Lou Gehrig (1903–1941), American baseball player.
Vic Gilliam (1953–2020), American politician.
Richard Glatzer (1952–2015), American film director and screenwriter.
Sonny Gordon (1965–2023), American football player.
Nina Griscom (1954–2020), American model and television host.
Stanislav Gross (1969–2015), Czech politician, Prime Minister of the Czech Republic.
Ingrid Hafner (1936–1994), British actress.
David Hagen (1973–2020), Scottish footballer.
Jacques Haitkin (1950–2023), American cinematographer.
Darryl Hammond (1967–2017), American football player.
Stephen Hawking (1942–2018), English theoretical physicist.
Mo Hayder (1962–2021), British author.
Toshiko Hayashi (1940–2022), Japanese politician.
Tony Hendra (1941–2021), British comedian and actor.
Hermann of Reichenau (1013–1054), German Benedictine monk and scholar.
Pierce Higgins (1977–2023), Irish hurler.
Wally Hilgenberg (1942–2008), American football player
Stephen Hillenburg (1961–2018), American animator, creator of SpongeBob SquarePants.
Jeremy Hindley (1944–2013), British horse trainer.
Bob Holman (1936–2016), British academic.
Alexis Hunter (1948–2014), New Zealand painter and photographer.
Catfish Hunter (1946–1999), American baseball player.
Giancarlo Ibarguen (1963–2016), Guatemalan businessman and academic.
Tunch Ilkin (1957–2021), Turkish-American football player and broadcaster.
Mick Imlah (1956–2009), Scottish poet.
Tari Ito (1951–2021), Japanese performance artist.
Jacob Javits (1904–1986), American politician.
Axel Jensen (1932–2003), Norwegian author.
Derrick Jensen (1956–2017), American football player.
Egil Johansen (1962–2023), Norwegian footballer.
Lenny Johnrose (1969–2022), English footballer.
Tony Judt (1948–2010), British-American historian.
Gordon Kannegiesser (1945–2022), Canadian ice hockey player.
Novy Kapadia (1952–2021), Indian football journalist.
Jaan Kaplinski (1941–2021), Estonian author, translator, philosopher, and culture critic.
Yuzo Kawashima (1918–1963), Japanese film director.
Norman Kay (1929–2001), British composer.
George Keiser (1946–2021), American politician.
Hans Keller (1919–1985), Austrian-born British musician and writer.
Khaled Khan (1958–2013), Bangladeshi actor.
Shahidul Islam Khokon (1957–2016), Bangladeshi filmmaker.
Motoo Kimura (1924–1994), Japanese biologist.
Suna Kıraç (1941–2020), Turkish-American businesswoman.
Mark R. Kravitz (1950–2012), American judge.
Harry Kroto (1939–2016), English chemist.
Mike Kullman (1962–2003), American football player.
Jean-Yves Lafesse (1957–2021), French humorist and actor.
Hannu Lahtinen (1960–2020), Finnish wrestler.
John Land (1938–2021), British field hockey player.
Gary LaPaille (1954–2022), American politician.
Lead Belly (1888–1949), American singer.
Scott Lew  (1968–2017), American film director and screenwriter.
Stefan Lindqvist (1967–2020), Swedish footballer.
Tinus Linee (1969–2014), South African rugby player.
Tony Liscio (1940–2017), American football player.
Eric Lowen (1951-2012), American musician (Lowen & Navarro)
Klemens Ludwig (1955–2022), German astrologist.
Rebecca Luker (1961–2020), American actress and singer.
Antoine "T.C.D." Lundy (1963–1998), American musician (Force MDs).
Francisco Luzón (1948–2021), Spanish banker.
Brenda MacGibbon (1944–2022), Canadian mathematician.
David MacLennan (1948–2014), Scottish actor.
Pave Maijanen (1950–2021), Finnish musician.
Sergei Mandreko (1971–2022), Russian-Tajik footballer.
Mao Zedong (1893–1976), Chinese leader.
Tu'u Maori (1988–2022), Papua New Guinean rugby league player.
Mickey Marvin (1955–2017), American football player.
Scott Matzka (1978–2018), American ice hockey player.
Nicky McFadden (1962–2014), Irish politician.
Mike McGlinchey (1944–1997), American college football coach.
Fred McNeill (1952–2015), American football player.
Jim McMullan (1936–2019), American actor.
David McSkimming (1950–2016), Australian pianist.
Mark Merlis (1950-2017), American writer and health policy analyst.
Brian Merrett (1945-2023), Canadian photographer and architectural activist.
Denny Miller (1934–2014), American actor.
Sherron Mills (1971–2016), American basketball player.
Charles Mingus (1922–1979), American jazz composer and bandleader.
Ray Minus (1964–2023), Bahamian boxer.
Kyle Morrell (1963–2020), American football player.
Matthew Saad Muhammad (1954–2014), American boxer.
Colm Murray (1952–2013), Irish broadcaster.
Dawn Clark Netsch (1926–2013), American politician.
Arch Nicholson (1941–1990), Australian film director.
Augie Nieto (1958–2023), American entrepreneur, founder of Life Fitness.
David Niven (1910–1983), British actor.
Krzysztof Nowak (1975-2005), Polish footballer.
Pablo Olivares (1965–2014), Spanish film writer and producer.
Juan Carlos Orellana (1955–2022), Chilean footballer.
Carlos Pacheco (1961–2022), Spanish comic book artist.
Neon Park (1940–1993), American artist.
Aleksandar Petrović (1959–2014), Serbian basketball coach.
Ricardo Piglia (1941–2017), Argentine author.
Scott Pilarz (1959–2021), American academic administrator.
Christopher Pitchford (1947–2017), British judge.
Polly Platt (1939–2011), American production designer and film producer.
Jim Poole (1966–2023), American baseball player.
Mike Porcaro (1955–2015), American musician (Toto).
Boris Powell (1964–2022), American boxer.
Sergei Eduardovich Prikhodko (1957–2021), Russian diplomat and government official, former deputy prime minister (2013–2018).
Anton Pronk (1941–2016), Dutch footballer.
Patrick Quinn (1983–2020), American co-founder of the Ice Bucket Challenge
James C. Renick (1948–2021), American academic administrator.
Don Revie (1927–1989), English footballer and manager.
Fernando Ricksen (1976–2019), Dutch footballer.
Tommy Robson (1944–2020), English footballer.
Sue Rodriguez (1950–1994), Canadian right to die activist.
Benet Rossell (1937–2016), Spanish artist.
Stanley Sadie (1930–2005), English musicologist.
Tetsurō Sagawa (1937–2021), Japanese actor.
Börje Salming (1951–2022), Swedish ice hockey player.
Washington César Santos (1960–2014), Brazilian footballer.
Mike Schwartz (1950–2013), American anti-abortion activist.
Morrie Schwartz (1916–1995), American sociology professor, subject of Tuesdays with Morrie.
Peter Scott-Morgan, (1957–2022), English-American scientist.
Kim Shattuck (1963–2019), American singer and songwriter (The Muffs).
Luton Shelton (1985–2021), Jamaican footballer.
Sam Shepard (1943–2017), American actor and playwright.
Michael Shute (1951–2020), Canadian academic.
Gianluca Signorini (1960–2002), Italian footballer.
Keith Skillen (1948–2013), English footballer.
Thomas Sleeper (1956–2022), American conductor.
Lane Smith (1936–2005), American actor.
Steve Smith (1964–2021), American football player.
Chris Snow (1981–2023), Canadian ice hockey executive.
Michael Soles (1966–2021), Canadian football player.
Jack B. Sowards (1929–2007), American screenwriter.
Jadranka Stojaković (1950–2016), Bosnian singer.
Jon Stone (1931–1997), American television writer.
Ezra Swerdlow (1953–2018), American film producer.
Tempt One (1969-2023), American graffiti artist.
Jim Thistle (1955–2016), Canadian politician.
Orlando Thomas (1972–2014), American football player.
Robin Thomas (1962–2020), Czech-American mathematician.
Stacy Title (1964–2021), American director, screenwriter and producer.
Dan Toler (1948–2013), American guitarist.
David Tomassoni (1952–2022), American politician.
Francis Tsai (1967–2015), American comic book artist.
Kevin Turner (1969–2016), American football player.
Bea Van der Maat (1960–2023), Belgian singer, television presenter and actress
Dmitri Vasilenko (1975–2019), Russian gymnast.
Angelo Venosa (1954–2022), Brazilian sculptor.
Bob Vidler (1957–2023), Australian cricketer.
Roy Walford (1924–2004), American pathologist.
Robert Webber (1924–1989), American actor.
Charlie Wedemeyer (1946–2010), American high school teacher and football coach.
Paul C. Weiler (1939–2021), Canadian lawyer and professor.
Irv Weinstein (1930–2017), American news anchor.
Doddie Weir (1970–2022), Scottish rugby union player.
Joost van der Westhuizen (1971–2017), South African rugby union player.
William White (1966–2022), American football player.
Mitch Wilson (1962–2019), Canadian ice hockey player.
Baron Wolman (1937–2020), American photographer.
Rocky Wood (1959–2014), New Zealand-Australian writer.
Lynn Wright (1952–2022), American politician.
Robert C. Wright (1944–2014), American politician.
George Yardley (1928–2004), American basketball player.
Justin Yerbury (1974–2023), Australian molecular biologist.
Marius Žaliūkas (1983–2020), Lithuanian footballer
Michael Zaslow (1942–1998), American actor.

References

Lists of people by medical condition
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title: Arno Voss

text:
Arno Voss (April 16, 1821 – March 23, 1888) was a German American military commander, lawyer, and politician. After studying law in Ohio, Voss came to Chicago, Illinois to edit a newspaper. He later established a law practice there. In 1862, he was named colonel of the 12th Illinois Cavalry, leading the brigade until 1864. After the war, Voss re-opened his practice and served one term in the Illinois House of Representatives.

Early life and education
Voss was born in Rahden, Prussia on April 16, 1821. Voss married in Germany but he and his wife had no children. Early in his adulthood, he immigrated to the United States. He settled in Lancaster, Ohio, where he was admitted to the bar.

Career
Voss moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1848 to take a position as the editor of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung, a German-language newspaper. The next year, Hermann Kriege assumed the editorship and Voss opened a law practice. He became involved with the Chicago German Off Battalion, a citizen soldier group that was attached to the 60th Regiment, Illinois State Militia. Voss was elected Chicago City Attorney in 1852 and was re-elected the next year. In 1854, Voss was named an adjutant of the newly formed Washington Independent Regiment. Voss was still serving in this role upon the outbreak of the Civil War.

On September 4, 1861, Voss was named major of the 6th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry. On February 1, 1862, he assisted in the creation of the 12th Illinois Cavalry, closing his law firm so that he could focus on the regiment. It was then deployed to Virginia as part of the Peninsula Campaign. The regiment was attached to VIII Corps and was present for the disastrous Battle of Harpers Ferry. Voss took two thousand cavalry to the enemy lines, creating an opening to let the regiment retreat. They regrouped in Greencastle, Pennsylvania and were attached to Army of the Potomac in time for the Battle of Antietam. The regiment also witnessed the Battle of Gettysburg and Stoneman's 1863 Raid. In early 1864, Colonel Voss was forced to resign due to poor health.

Later life and death

Voss recuperated over the next couple of years on his farm in Will County, Illinois. In 1869, he returned to Chicago to re-establish his law practice. In 1876, he was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives as a Democrat, where he served one two-year term. On December 1, 1880, he was named a master of chancery of the Circuit Court of Cook County. Voss died at his home following a stroke he suffered in his office earlier in the day on March 23, 1888. He was buried in Waldheim Cemetery (now part of Forest Home Cemetery). President Grover Cleveland signed a bill appropriating a grant to Voss' widow over the loss of a trunk during the war.

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1821 births
1888 deaths
Democratic Party members of the Illinois House of Representatives
People from Rahden
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People of Illinois in the American Civil War
Union Army colonels
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title: Summit View, Washington

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Summit View is a census-designated place (CDP) located in Pierce County, Washington.

Demographics
In 2020, it had a population of 9,758 inhabitants.

Geography
Summit View is located at coordinates 47°8'11"N 122°21'7"W.

Education
Two school districts include portions of Summit View: Franklin Pierce School District, and Puyallup School District.

Most of the Franklin Pierce portion of Summit View is zoned to Collins Elementary School in Clover Creek, while a portion is zoned to Central Avenue Elementary in Summit. All of the Franklin Pierce portions is zoned to Morris E. Ford Middle School in Midland and Franklin Pierce High School in Clover Creek.

References

Census-designated places in Pierce County, Washington


title: Leonard Hilty

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Leonard Franklin Hilty (September 5, 1896 – January 9, 1978) was an American football player.  He played college football for the University of Pittsburgh and was a consensus selection at the tackle position on the 1918 College Football All-America Team.

Hilty was raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and attended Peabody High School.  He enrolled at the University of Pittsburgh where he was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. He was also a member of the Pittsburgh Panthers football team and was selected as a consensus first-team All-American in 1918.

After graduating from Pitt, Hilty moved to Houston, Texas, by 1920.  He lived there with his wife, a Texas native, and their two children.  He was employed for many years as a salesman for a paper company, L.S. Bosworth Co.  Hilty died in 1978 at Brenham, Texas, at age 81.

References

1896 births
1978 deaths
American football tackles
Pittsburgh Panthers football players
All-American college football players
Players of American football from Pittsburgh


title: Air Force Plant NC

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Air Force Plants NC (NAA-K company ID, Government Assembly Plant No. 2,  facility ID #2503) was an aircraft production facility established during World War II adjacent to Fairfax Field near Kansas City. Although operated by North American Aviation, the plant was built and owned by the United States government.

Background
North American Aviation's president had inspected the field by December 1940 when the US government approved construction of a Kansas City production plant to produce B-25 Mitchell bombers for the USAAF and PBJ-1D bombers for the US Navy.  Survey work began in December, the city of Kansas City, Kansas, purchased the airport in February, and the plant's groundbreaking was on 8 March 1941.  Contract W535 AC 19341 for the initial production of 1,200 B-25D (NA-87) bombers was approved on June 28, 1941; production began in December 1941.

B-25 production
Fairfax's first B-25D was accepted by the USAAF in February 1942 (the first production block was B-25D-1).  North American provided parts for the first 100 Fairfax B-25Ds from AFP #09 in Inglewood, California, and the company had a test flight office at Fairfax.

A USAAF Modification Center was built at Fairfax Field from May–October 1942 for altering the plant's B-25s.  The plant's "high bay" expansion was completed for a 1942 North American contract (never implemented) to build 200 Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers at Fairfax alongside B-25 Mitchell.  The expansion began in July 1942 on the east side of the bomber plant and added  of floor space with twice the height of the existing final assembly bay (completed in March 1943).  After several outbuildings were added to the modification center, in October 1944 it became an adjunct to the final assembly line.

Employment peaked at 24,329 in October 1943, and the first Fairfax B-25J was accepted in December 1943 (555 B-25Js were in the first production block: B-25J-1-NC.)  D model production ended in March 1944 with block 35 (B-25D-35-NA) and after North American's California plant ended B-25 production on July 7, 1944; Fairfax was the sole source for B-25 Mitchells and set a January 1945 record with AAF acceptance of 315 Fairfax aircraft.

Planning for Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star jet fighter production included a visit in February 1945 by two Lockheed representatives, and in April Lockheed shipped a P-80 to the bomber plant for study.  Work began on building jigs for P-80 production, space was cleared for P-80 production in the high bay, and the B-25 assembly line was shortened.

B-25J production - which was scheduled to continue through December 1945 - was terminated on August 15, the day after V-J day. Fairfax had built 2,290 B-25Ds (152 Navy PBJ-1D variants) and 4,318 B-25Js of the ~11,000 produced. The federal Reconstruction Finance Corporation set up a depot in the Fairfax district to liquidate war surplus not sent to depots or elsewhere for government use (reusable materials like aluminum and steel were reclaimed.) Seventy-two incomplete but flyable B-25Js were sold to the public.

Buick-Oldsmobile-Pontiac Assembly Plant
The Buick-Oldsmobile-Pontiac Assembly Plant adjacent to Fairfax Field, was initiated with the "November 7, 1945 [announcement] that General Motors had signed a five-year lease for the former bomber plant" which had several interior railroad spurs from the north.  "The reconverted factory finished its first automobile in June 1946", and in 1953 when the Republic F-84F Thunderstreak fighter was unveiled, its assembly line was in the same  building as the automotive production line.

General Motors produced 599 F-84Fs at the Fairfax plant; the aircraft and vehicle production lines running parallel simultaneously. GM purchased the plant in 1960,. In 1985 production started in the new General Motors Fairfax Assembly Plant built on runways of the closed municipal airport.  Production at the former Air Force Plant ceased in May 1987 and the structure was razed in 1989.

References

1941 establishments in Kansas
1987 disestablishments in Kansas
Buildings and structures in Kansas City, Kansas
Plants of the United States Air Force


title: 1999 Meath County Council election

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An election to Meath County Council took place on 10 June 1999 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 29 councillors were elected from five local electoral areas  for a five-year term of office on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).

Results by party

Results by local electoral area

Dunshaughlin

Kells

Navan

Slane

Trim

External links
 Official website

1999 Irish local elections
1999


title: Man Afraid

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Man Afraid is a 1957 American film noir directed by Harry Keller and starring George Nader, Phyllis Thaxter and Tim Hovey.

Plot
A minister (George Nader) accidentally kills a young burglar. The father of the burglar (Eduard Franz) sets out to revenge his son's death by threatening the minister's son.

Cast
 George Nader as Rev. David Collins
 Phyllis Thaxter as Lisa Collins
 Tim Hovey as Michael Collins
 Eduard Franz as Carl Simmons
 Harold J. Stone as Lieutenant Marlin
 Judson Pratt as Wilbur Fletcher
 Reta Shaw as Nurse Willis
 Tom Nolan as Ronnie 'Skunky' Fletcher
 Mabel Albertson as Maggie
 Martin Milner as Shep Hamilton
Troy Donahue as reporter

See also
 List of American films of 1957

External links

1957 films
Film noir
1950s thriller films
American thriller films
American black-and-white films
Films scored by Henry Mancini
Universal Pictures films
Films directed by Harry Keller
1950s English-language films
1950s American films


title: Falcon (Duinrell)

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Falcon is a steel roller coaster at the amusement park Duinrell, located in Wassenaar, Netherlands. The roller coaster is a Gerstlauer Euro-Fighter model coaster which was opened to the public on 14 May 2009. At 97 degrees, Falcon has a steeper-than-vertical drop, and the steepest drop of any roller coaster in the Netherlands.

History
Soon after it opened in 1935, Duinrell had the Netherlands' first artificial ski slope. This ski slope was ultimately removed for the installation of Falcon in 2009. The municipality of Wassenaar had often had disputes with Duinrell in regards to noise levels created by the amusement park. This was true again with the proposed construction of a new coaster. The new coaster was given the code name "Rick's Delight"—which was a reference to Duinrell's mascot, Rick the Frog. The park was awarded when a permit from the municipality of Wassenaar over the objections of some residents and after a lengthy court battle. Noise and traffic studies were conducted and showed that the new coaster would not adversely influence these environmental factors in the area surrounding the park (results were just under the 45 decibel benchmark). A Duinrell spokesperson also stated that measures were being taken to further mitigate the noise from the park. On 14 May 2009, Mayor Hoekema van Wassenaar and the director of Duinrell, Philip van Zuylen van Nijvelt opened the ride to the public. Objections from the community, however, had delayed the coaster opening 2 years later than had originally been planned.

Layout
Falcon has a track length of , a height of , and achieves a maximum speed of . The coaster has three inversions: a vertical loop, a cutback and a heartline roll. The coaster layout for Falcon is particularly close to two other Euro-Fighter (model 320+) roller coasters: Rage at Adventure Island amusement park and Untamed at Canobie Lake Park.

References

Roller coasters in the Netherlands
Wassenaar


title: Kit and Ace

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Kit and Ace is a Canadian clothing brand.

History
Kit and Ace was founded in 2014 by Shannon Wilson, former lead designer of Lululemon Athletica, and her stepson J. J. Wilson.

The company was founded to sell machine-washable cashmere wool clothing and accessories. The first store opened in July 2014 in Vancouver's Gastown neighbourhood.

In 2015, the brand opened retail stores in the US, the UK and Australia.

In September 2015, the company installed shop-in-shop cafes from Toronto-based Sorry Coffee Co. in its London and Toronto stores.

In April 2017, Kit and Ace closed all its international stores, focusing on e-commerce and its eight Canadian shops. Hold It All Inc., a Vancouver-based company, owned the brand until the end of August 2018.

In 2018, CEO George Tsogas acquired it from the company's founders and changed the brand direction creating apparel that is Smart, Easy to Love, and Made to Last on a mission to Amplify Optimism in the world.

In November 2019, Kit and Ace opens its first West Vancouver location in The Village, Park Royal.

In December 2020, Kit and Ace returns to Edmonton opening a new location on Whyte Ave.

In June 2022, Kit and Ace opened a new location on Queen Street in Toronto.

Awards
In 2018, the Navigator pant was selected as part of the "Ultimate Travel Gear" of 2018 by enRoute Magazine.

References

External links
 Official website

Clothing brands of Canada
Clothing companies of Canada
Retail companies established in 2014
2014 establishments in British Columbia
Companies based in Vancouver


Wahhabi Islam: From Revival and Reform to Global Jihad is 2004 a book by academic Natana J. DeLong-Bas, published by Oxford University Press. It is based "on a close study of the 14 volumes" of collected works of Wahhabism's founder, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab and has been called "the first extensive explication of the theology" of Wahhabism.

It is divided into sections: a brief religious biography and history of Ibn Abd al-Wahhab, theology, Islamic law, women and Wahhabism, jihad and the evolution of Wahhabism.

Critical reception
Wahhabi Islam: From Revival and Reform to Global Jihad has been praised as a "monumental work ... lucid and carefully documented", "often fascinating", and presenting "a nuanced discussion of Wahhab's Quranic interpretation", but also criticized as a "piece of scholarly trash" and of "markedly inferior quality", and guilty of "special pleading".

It has received positive reviews. David E. Long of Middle East Journal who called it a "monumental work ... a lucid and carefully documented assessment of Wahhabism." Sara Powell of Washington Report on Middle East Affairs described it as "...a well-regarded, logically constructed, and considered --if perhaps somewhat sympathetic--analysis of Abd al-Wahhab's beliefs." History magazine  called it "a ground-breaking study ... both controversial and informative"

However, others have questioned the book and DeLong-Bas's views on Wahhabism. Author Stephen Suleyman Schwartz has called her an "apologist", criticizing her for among other things, receiving financial support from Saudi Arabia; not including as a source the correspondence of ibn Abd al-Wahhab, "which critics of Wahhabism and other Saudis consider key to understanding him"; and failing to mention the religious and/or governmental background of some Saudi Arabians mentioned in her acknowledgments.

Reviewer Michael J. Ybarra, called the book "often fascinating", and providing "a nuanced discussion of Wahhab's Quranic interpretation", but also complained that she "seems to bend over backward to give Wahhab the benefit of the doubt while dismissing his critics as biased." He also notes that DeLong-Bas "doesn't say ... where on earth" the tolerant form of Wahhabism described by her "ever existed", and that "the voice of Wahhab himself is largely absent from this book" because the author rarely quotes him.

Khaled Abou El Fadl, professor of law at University of California, Los Angeles who writes frequently on Islamic jurisprudence, expressed sorrow that Oxford University Press had published the book, stating "This doesn't qualify as scholarship -- it falls within the general phenomenon of Saudi apologetics."

References

Further reading

2004 non-fiction books
Books about Islamic fundamentalism
Books about Wahhabism


title: Ollin Yoliztli Prize

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The Ollin Yoliztli Prize (Spanish: Premio Ollin Yoliztli) was a prestigious but short-lived international prize that was bestowed by the President of Mexico for three consecutive years — 1980, 1981, and 1982 — to living Spanish literature poets, novelists, essayists, and playwrights.

History

Eligibility and criteria

The Ollin Yoliztli Prize was open to all Spanish language writers of literature.  The recognition was for collective works rather than any single work and was structured to be presented in any of the four literary genres: poetry, novels, essays, and drama.

Ollín yoliztli, means "life movement" or "life force" in Náhuatl. The prize each year was presented by the President of Mexico, José López Portillo. His sister, Margarita López Portillo (es) (2014–2006), was a prolific novelist and his wife, Carmen Romano, was an exponent of fine arts and humanities.

Founding sponsor
The President's wife established the prize to promote Spanish literature and its important authors — and to strengthen cultural links among Spanish speaking countries.  She was instrumental in launching several large-scale cultural programs, which led to the founding of The National Fund for Social Activities (Spanish: Fondo Nacional para Actividades Sociales), commonly known by its acronym, FONAPAS.  She prevailed in initiatives to make fine arts more accessible, particularly for low-income and young people.  Her initiatives included erecting new fine arts venues and establishing professional orchestras.  One such venue in Mexico City, which opened in 1979, bears the named Centro Cultural Ollin Yoliztli and is home to several cultural organizations, including the Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra, founded in 1978.

While many cultural initiatives of Portillo and his wife endure today, the economic, diplomatic, and cultural wisdom of their efforts was not without criticism.  In particular, critics viewed their cultural initiatives as wasteful and part of a larger scheme of building personal projects with public money. Control of a wide range of projects was assigned to family members and close associates. Portillo's presidency ended in November 1982.  But criticism was amplified toward the end of his term, starting in February 1982, after a sharp devaluation of the peso and ensuing economic crisis. The succession-continuity of the Ollin Yolilztli Prize ended when Portillo's presidential term ended.

Juries and award ceremonies
The juries for the Ollin Yoliztli Prize were formed under the auspices of the Festival Internacional Cervantino in Guanajuato, Mexico.  When establishment of the prize was announced on November 10, 1979, by Hector Vasconcelos (es), Director of the Cervantes Festival, the jury had been selected.  Their appointments were for life.  The jury was composed of six major critics and writers.

 José Luis Martínez Rodríguez, from Mexico, was a journalist from Mexico City and director of Fondo de Cultura Económica
 Ramón Xirau, from Mexico, is a poet and a member of National College of Mexico
 Juan Marichal, from Spain, was a professor of Spanish literature at Harvard
 Dámaso Alonso, from Spain, was president of the Royal Spanish Academy in Madrid
 Emir Rodríguez Monegal, from Uruguay, was a professor of Spanish literature at Yale
 Enrique Anderson Imbert, from Argentina, was Professor Emeritus of Spanish literature at Harvard

The festival dates back  years, to 1953, but was formalized  years ago, in 1972.  The festival is one of the most important artistic and cultural events in Mexico and Latin America.  Its host city, Guanajuato, is  west of Mexico City.

 In 1981, the jury, according to Vasconcelos (es), reached its decision unanimously in favor of the Argentine poet during the first meeting of the jurists, Monday morning, May 11, 1981.
 The award ceremony took place in early June.  The President of Mexico, José López Portillo, presented the award at his official residence, Los Pinos.  Attendees included the Emilio Casinello Auban, Ambassador of Spain in Mexico from 1982 to 1985.  The award to Jorge Guillen and the presence of the Ambassador had diplomatic overtones because five years earlier, in 1977, Mexico had reestablished diplomatic relations with Spain following the end of Francoist Spain in 1975.  The lower prize amount was mostly the result of a sharp devaluation of the peso in February 1982 and subsequent economic crisis.

Prize winners
 1980: Octavio Paz, from Mexico, then 66 years old, won the inaugural Ollin Yoliztli Prize – approximately $73,000
 1981: Jorge Luis Borges, from Argentina, a blind poet and short-story author, then 81 years old, the award was presented by the President of Mexico, José López Portillo – 6 million pesos ($70,000)
 1982: Jorge Guillen, from Spain, then 89 years old; the award was presented by the President of Mexico, José López Portillo – $37,500

References

Awards established in 1980
Mexican literary awards
1980 establishments in Mexico
Awards disestablished in 1983
Literary awards honoring lifetime achievement
Spanish-language literary awards
Literary awards honoring writers
Poetry awards
1983 disestablishments in Mexico


title: Guy de Fayolle

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Marquis Guy de Fayolle (8 July 1882 – 12 March 1944) was a French philatelist who was added to the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1939. In 1913 he won a gold medal at the Exposition Philatelique Internationale in Paris for his display of the stamps of Greece. His collection of the classic stamps of Mexico was sold by Harmers in 1956.

Selected publications
Les premieres emissions du Mexique (1856 a 1874). 1935. (With Paul de Smeth)
Catalogue détaillé des timbres du Mexique. 1936.

References

Signatories to the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists
1882 births
1944 deaths
French philatelists
French nobility
Philately of Mexico


title: Audio (musician)

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Gareth Greenall, better known by his stage name Audio, is a British DJ and producer from Redhill, UK. Currently signed to RAM Records and his own label Snake Pit Records, he has released three albums on Virus Recordings. Greenall is also part of the record production group Pixel Fist.

Biography

Attending the "Dance Kiss FM" events in London as a teenager, Audio became familiar with the jungle and Drum and bass scene and soon booked his own party with DJs Ed Rush & Optical. He was hired as studio engineer at the UK hard house label "Alphamagic" and later became an A&R. In 2002, he founded "Resonant Evil" along with Colin Worth and Jason Bull, for which he released several records until 2005. His debut album To the Edge Of Reason, released in 2008 on Tech Freak Recordings, received praises throughout the scene and also caught the attention of Virus Recordings executives Ed Rush & Optical (DJ) where he subsequently was signed to. His follow-up albums Genesis Device and Soul Magnet saw further  successful singles such as "Vacuum" and "Headroom". In 2013, his final album with Virus Recordings came out after his successful "Sabretooth" remix by Optiv & BTK.

In 2014, Audio signed with RAM Records and had his first release shortly thereafter, "Heads Up" / "Stampede".

In 2019, Audio founded his own label Snake Pit Records. Shortly after, he released the first single on the new label titled "Frog March".

Discography

Albums

Singles

References

External links

 Audio on bandcamp.com
 Audio on ramrecords.com

English DJs
English record producers
English drum and bass musicians
Living people
Electronic dance music DJs
Year of birth missing (living people)
RAM Records artists
People from Redhill, Surrey
Musicians from Surrey


title: Sullivan Branch

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Sullivan Branch (also known as Sullivan Run or the Sullivan Branch of East Branch Fishing Creek) is a tributary of East Branch Fishing Creek in Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is approximately  long and flows through Davidson Township.

Sullivan Branch is acidic, with an average pH ranging from 3.99 to 4.19. The stream contains dissolved oxygen and dissolved aluminum. It also has a large number of waterfalls. The upper reaches of the stream are on North Mountain.

Sullivan Branch is designated as a high-quality coldwater fishery. It is in the Pennsylvania State Game Lands Number 13.

Course
Sullivan Branch begins in northern Davidson Township. It flows east for a short distance before turning southeast and entering a valley. After more than a mile, it receives the tributary Ore Run and turns south-southeast. The valley of the stream is approximately  deep at this point. Eventually, Sullivan Branch receives the tributary Hunts Run and turns southeast. Shortly afterwards, it merges with Big Run to form East Branch Fishing Creek.

Tributaries
Tributaries of Sullivan Branch include Ore Run, Hunts Run, and Pigeon Run. The watershed of Ore Run has an area of . The watershed of Hunts Run has an area of . The watershed of Pigeon Run has an area of .

Discharge, aluminum, acidity, and alkalinity
The discharge of Sullivan Branch at its headwaters is 3,276,000 gallons per day. The concentration of aluminum in Sullivan Branch at its headwaters is 0.43 milligrams per liter. The daily load of aluminum there is . The averaged acidity and alkalinity at an upstream point, both expressed in units of mg CaCO3 per litre, were found to be 7.23 and 5.03 respectively. The daily loads of these substances are  and , respectively.

Downstream of the tributary Ore Run, the discharge of Sullivan Branch is 11,177,000 gallons per day. The aluminum concentration at this point is 0.39 milligrams per liter and the load is  per day. The acidity concentration is 6.70 milligrams per liter and the daily alkalinity load is . The alkalinity concentration is 5.33 milligrams per liter and the daily alkalinity load is .

Downstream of the tributary Pigeon Run, the discharge of Sullivan Branch is 14,693,000 gallons per day. The concentrations of aluminum, acidity, and alkalinity are 0.37, 7.57, and 5.57 milligrams per liter, respectively. The daily load of aluminum is . The load of acidity is  per day and the alkalinity load is  per day.

Acidity and water quality
The pH of Sullivan Branch at its headwaters is 3.99. Below Ore Run, the pH is 4.11 and below Pigeon Run, it is 4.19. The average temperature is  at the stream's headwaters,  downstream of Ore Run, and  below Pigeon Run. At the headwaters of Sullivan Branch, the concentrations of dissolved oxygen and dissolved organic carbon are 10.40 and 3.322 milligrams per liter, respectively. Below Ore Run, the dissolved oxygen concentration is 9.87 milligrams per liter and the concentration of dissolved organic carbon is 3.232 milligrams per liter. Downstream of Pigeon Run, the concentrations of these substance are 10.09 and 3.190 milligrams per liter, respectively. Sullivan Branch experiences chronic acidification throughout.

As of 2011 it was not clear how much the acidity was due to sulfuric acid coming from the atmosphere and how much due to organic acids derived from humic substances.

A total of  of streams in the watershed of Sullivan Branch are considered to be impaired. This includes parts of all three of its tributaries and its unnamed tributaries. The water quality of the stream is considered to be poor in normal conditions and very poor in high flow conditions. Its water quality is significantly degraded by its tributaries.

Geography and geology
The headwaters of Sullivan Branch are on North Mountain. A plateau separates the stream from another stream known as Heberly Run. The elevation of the stream at its mouth is between  and  above sea level. The elevation of the stream's source is between  and  above sea level.

The gradient of Sullivan Branch is about equal to that of Kitchen Creek.

Watershed
The watershed of Sullivan Branch has an area of .

There are at least ten waterfalls on Sullivan Branch, some of which are unnamed. The shapes of these waterfalls include bridal veil falls and wedding cake falls. The highest waterfall is the Fifth Falls, which have a height of . The lowest waterfall is the Tenth Falls, which have a height of . Several of the stream's tributaries also have waterfalls on them.

Proposed methods to increase alkalinity in the Sullivan Branch watershed include high flow buffer channels, forest surface liming, in-stream limestone sand dosing, and road liming. The restoration of the stream is estimated to cost $600,000.

Sullivan Branch is described as "the prettiest stream in Pennsylvania" in Scott E. Brown's book Pennsylvania Waterfalls: A Guide for Hikers and Photographers.

Biology
As a tributary of East Branch Fishing Creek, Sullivan Branch is designated as a high-quality coldwater fishery.

Plants found along Sullivan Branch include red trillium, violets of various colors, and squirrel corn. Hobblebush also occurs on the stream's edges.

Recreation
The entirety of Sullivan Branch is in Pennsylvania State Game Lands Number 13. It is possible to hike up the stream, but scrambling is required in some places.

See also
Heberly Run
List of tributaries of Fishing Creek (North Branch Susquehanna River)

References

Rivers of Sullivan County, Pennsylvania
Tributaries of Fishing Creek (North Branch Susquehanna River)
Rivers of Pennsylvania


title: Rancho Feeding Corporation

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Rancho Feeding Corporation was a slaughterhouse in Petaluma, California. The facility halted operations in February 2014, after several recalls of beef, including one amounting to 8.7 million pounds. The recalled beef had been processed between January 2013 and January 2014, and may have reached up to 35 states. The United States Department of Agriculture had alleged that Rancho processed diseased animals and circumvented federal inspection rules. The facility was then sold to new owners, who, after overhauling the slaughterhouse, began processing cattle and hogs in April 2014. On August 18, a federal grand jury indicted two former owners and two employees of the facility on felony charges, including slaughtering cows with "cancer eye" when inspectors were temporarily not present. The 1906 Federal Meat Inspection Act requires USDA inspectors to be present during all stages of slaughterhouse operations.

References

Petaluma, California
History of the San Francisco Bay Area
Food and drink in the San Francisco Bay Area
Meat processing in the United States
2014 disestablishments in California
Food and drink companies based in California


title: Blast Off! (Stray Cats album)

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Blast Off! is an album by the American rockabilly revivalist band Stray Cats, released in 1989. It marked a reunion of the band, after three years of solo endeavors; the band's previous album, 1986's Rock Therapy, was produced to fulfill a record contract.

The album peaked at No. 111 on the Billboard 200. It peaked at No. 58 on the UK Albums Chart. The first single was "Bring It Back Again".

The band supported Blast Off! by touring with Stevie Ray Vaughan.

Production
The album was produced by Dave Edmunds, who recorded it in two weeks. The band began work on the songs at Brian Setzer's house, in the summer of 1988. "Gene and Eddie" is a tribute to Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran.

Critical reception

Spin thought that the album "sounds even more half-hearted than the Stray Cats original (so to speak) take on the rockabilly revival." The Boston Globe determined that "Setzer can still play rave-up guitar with the best of them, though this album has time warp written all over it." The Ottawa Citizen noted that "the humor is there; they give Mr. Spock a pompadour during a ride around the galaxy, then walk on the moon in blue suede shoes." The San Jose Mercury News wrote that "if the way in which the Cats once played with and to nostalgia was original—in a secondhand sense—it now seems only dreary and rehashed."

The Orlando Sentinel stated that "Edmunds gives the Cats a new lease by rekindling the fire that dimmed after their debut album." The Calgary Herald declared that "it rocks and that's why Blast Off is a fun rerun of the party-hearty sound that saw the Stray Cats top the charts in 1982–'83." The Los Angeles Times panned the album, writing that "these un-cool Cats should feel lucky they even get a second chance—especially since they show no sign of being more than a one-dimensional act." The Gazette opined that "the Stray Cats have returned to their original launching point—as a good club band with no real vision."

AllMusic wrote: "Featuring a set of pleasant, but unexciting, songs, Blast Off indicated that the Stray Cats' revved-up rockabilly ran out of gas quickly." Record Collector concluded that "there’s a fiery venom to the galloping title track ... and then there’s way too much filler." MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide called the album "unjustly ignored."

Track listing

References

1989 albums
Stray Cats albums


title: Swimming at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics – Boys' 50 metre backstroke

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The boys' 50 metre backstroke event in swimming at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics took place on 19 and 20 August at the Nanjing Olympic Sports Centre in Nanjing, China.

Results

Heats
The heats were held at 10:07.

Semifinals
The semifinals were held at 19:00.

Final
The final was held at 18:00.

References

Swimming at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics


title: List of Robert Plant concert tours

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Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant has performed solo tours since 1981.

1980s
Principle of Moments Tour - June 22, 1983 to February 26, 1984.
The Shaken 'N' Stirred Tour – January 18, 1985 to December 19, 1986.
Non Stop Go Tour - December 17, 1987 to December 23,. 1989

Now and Zen tour 1988-89

1990s
Manic Nirvana Tour - May 1, 1990 to January 10, 1991.
Fate of Nations Tour - May 1, 1993 to January 28, 1994.
Priory of Brion Tour - July 23, 1999 to December 20, 2000.

2000s
Dreamland Tour - May 22, 2002 to August 23, 2003.
Mighty ReArranger Tour - 2005.

2010s

2013
The 2013 tours were billed as "Sensational Space Shifters – Robert Plant, the voice of Led Zeppelin".

2014
The 2014 tours were billed as "Sensational Space Shifters – Robert Plant, the voice of Led Zeppelin".

2015

2016

2017
source:

2018

Notes

References

Sources and external links
 Robert Plant Official Website / News
 Robert Plant Official Website / On The Road

ledzepconcerts.com / Robert Plant Concert Dates Past & present versions

Concert tours
Lists of concert tours


title: Twist Phelan

text:
Twist Phelan is an American writer of crime fiction. She is known for her Finn Teller Corporate Spy  mystery series, Pinnacle Peak mystery series, and her short stories, which have won numerous awards (including two International Thriller Writers Awards and the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Short Story of the Year).

Biography
Phelan attended Stanford University for both undergraduate and law school.  She was a trial lawyer. On March 2013, Phelan married Jack Chapple in Denver.

Awards

Thriller Award for Best Short Story of the Year for A Stab in the Heart (2010, won)
Thriller Award for Best Short Story of the Year for Footprints in Water (2014, won)
Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Short Story of the Year for Footprints in Water (2014, won)
Mystery Writers of America Six-Word Mystery Contest/Thriller (2022, won)

Bibliography

Finn Teller
 Fake (2016)
 Exit (2016)
 Doubt (2016)
 Splice (2016)
 Coin (2017)

Pinnacle Peak

Heir Apparent (2002)
Family Claims (2004)
Spurred Ambition (2006)
False Fortune (2007)

Stand-Alone Novels

 The Target (2018)

Short stories

For the Good of the Game, published in Red Herring Mystery Magazine; The Mystery Review
A Trader's Lot (2005), published in Wall Street Noir
Crime Wave (2006), published in Crimespree Magazine
Floored (2007), published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine
Strange Bedfellows (2008), published in Politics Noir
A Stab in the Heart (2009), published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine
Talk to Me (2009), published in ACWL Murder Past, Murder Present
Time Will Tell (2009), published in MWA Presents The Prosecution Rests and republished in By Hook or By Crook and 30 More of the Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year
The Peahen (2010), published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine
Happine$$ (2012), published in MWA Presents the Rich and the Dead
I’m Learning (2012), published in ACWL Murder Here, Murder There
The Fourteenth Juror (2012), published in MWA Presents Vengeance
Footprints in Water (2013), published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
Game (2018), published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
Fathers-in-Law (2019), published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
Rude Awakening (2019), published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
Used To Be (2020), published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
The Bridge (2022), published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
The Kindness of Strangers (2022), published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
It’s a Small World (After All) (2023), published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
List of Contributors (2023), published in The Dark City Crime & Mystery Magazine
Judge Not (2023), published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
Soon It'll Be Over (2023), published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine

Short Story Collection
 Criminal Record (2017)

Articles

Cowboy Up (2002), published in Mystery Scene Magazine
Queen of the Road (2004), published in Mystery Scene Magazine
The Writer's Life...From the Other Side of the Breakfast Table (2005), published in Mystery Scene Magazine
Climb Every Mountain...and Building, Too (2006), published in Mystery Scene Magazine
Paddle Up! (2007), published in Mystery Scene Magazine

Essays

Twist Phelan on Bootlegger's Daughter by Margaret Maron (2006), published in Mystery Muses: 100 Classics that Inspire Today's Mystery Writers
The "Art" of Writing (2022) published in Something is Going to Happen
Writing Is More than Output: Why Writers Shouldn’t Fear AI (2023) published in Something is Going to Happen

References

External links

 Twist Phelan at the Crime Writers of Canada
 Experience: I dated 100 men in 100 days at The Guardian
The First 100 Dates Were Just a Warm-Up at The New York Times

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American crime fiction writers
American women writers
Stanford Law School alumni
Women crime fiction writers
21st-century American women
Trial lawyers


title: Red Lion, Snargate

text:
The Red Lion is a three-roomed Grade II listed public house at Snargate, Kent, TN29 9UQ.

It is on the Campaign for Real Ale's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors.

It was built in the 18th century.

A Finn's of Lydd Brewery, Style & Winch Brewery and later Courage Brewery house which has been in the continuous proprietorship of the Jemisons since 1911, variously named Alf's, Alf's, Doris's and Kate's representing each subsequent licensee from that family. The Jemison family bought the freehold of the pub from Courage in the 1970s.

Real ales and ciders are sold, being poured on gravity dispense from casks in the public bar.

References

Grade II listed pubs in Kent
National Inventory Pubs


title: HMS Scorpion (G72)

text:
HMS Scorpion was an S-class destroyer of the Royal Navy, the eleventh of her name, commissioned on 11 May 1943. Initially she was to be named Sentinel, but this was changed following the loss of the  Scorpion in the Bangka Strait in February 1942. She served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War, mostly in the Arctic Ocean, and fought in the Battle of North Cape. She was sold to the Netherlands in 1945 and scrapped in 1963.

War time service

Home Fleet and convoy escort
Scorpion joined the 23rd Destroyer Flotilla of the Home Fleet at Scapa Flow on 11 May 1943 and was deployed on patrol in the Northwestern Approaches. On 20 October she joined an escort group of nine destroyers, a Norwegian corvette and two minesweepers which sailed to the Kola Inlet as part of Operation FR, tasked to bring back merchant ships that had been waiting in Russian ports over the summer while the Arctic Convoys were suspended. Covered by dense fog, convoy RA 54A arrived safely in Loch Ewe on 14 November, while the destroyer flotilla turned around to escort Convoy JW 54B to Archangel. She returned to Scapa Flow, but was out again on 10 December to screen the battleship  and cruiser  which had been ordered to sea to cover Convoy JW 55A. The Kriegsmarine did not emerge and so she sailed with the battleship all the way through to the Kola Inlet, an unusual and risky move that surprised the Russians.

Battle of the North Cape

Scorpion covered Duke of York as she returned west to refuel in Akureyri in Iceland on 21 December 1943. The Home Fleet left Iceland on 23 December to cover Convoy RA 55A and Convoy JW 55A, alerted of German intentions to intercept one of the convoys by Ultra intelligence. On 26 December the , escorted by five destroyers, attempted to attack the ships of Convoy JW 55A, but were driven away by Admiral Burnett's three light cruisers and then cut off by Admiral Fraser's force. During the action Duke of York hit Scharnhorsts starboard boiler room with a 14 inch shell, slowing her briefly to  as she attempted to evade the British fleet. This provided the destroyers with an opportunity to attack with torpedoes. Closing from astern,  and  fired star-shells, blinding the Germans to the approach of Scorpion and the Norwegian  on the starboard side of the battleship. The two destroyers launched 16 torpedoes, scoring one hit, and driving Scharnhorst into firing range of Saumarez and Savage, which scored two more hits. This crippled the German ship and allowed the slower Duke of York to catch up and sink her. After the battle Scorpion picked up 30 survivors and sailed on to the Kola Inlet, arriving there on 27 December. She returned to Scapa Flow with the rest of the fleet on New Year's Eve.

Operation Neptune

In March 1944 Scorpion was assigned to the "Ocean Escort" force for Convoy JW 58, one of the largest Arctic convoys of the war. All ships arrived safely and Scorpion returned with Convoy RA 58. Scorpion was then assigned to Force S, alongside several other S-class destroyers, part of the fleet for the Normandy landings. During May she took part in preparatory exercises before sailing to Spithead early in June. She crossed the channel on 5 June and took up position off Ouistreham to bombard targets in support of Allied landing forces in the Queen Sector of Sword Beach. On 7 June she was assigned to patrol the Eastern Task Force area following the loss of her sister ship, the Norwegian  to German T-boats. On 9 June she was detached with Scourge to reinforce the O-class destroyer flotilla against the threat posed by the German heavy destroyers from Brest. She spent the rest of June, July and August on patrol in the English Channel protecting convoys from E-boats.

Arctic Convoys

Scorpion returned to escorting the Arctic convoys in September 1944, screening the battleship  in support of Convoy JW 60 and then Convoy RA 60. In October she was diverted to support Operation Lycidas, screening two escort carriers,  and , as they carried out aerial minelaying around the Norwegian coast. In November, sailing with Savage, she carried Norwegian troops to the Kola Inlet (Operation Freeman), their role being to join Red Army as it pushed the Germans away from Murmansk back into Norway, lending authority to the Norwegian Government in exile. She then joined the escort for Convoy RA 60A on 11 November. Later in the month she supported two more operations with escort carriers off the Norwegian coast near Karmøy on 20 November (Operation Handfast) and then near Mosjøen on 27 November.

She escorted Convoy JW 63 over the New Year period, her anti-aircraft gunners accidentally shooting at (and missing) two Wildcats which had been launched to intercept a German aircraft. She escorted four more Arctic convoys early in 1945, RA 63 in January, RA 64 in February, and JW 65 and RA 65 in March. She was also deployed to support three more operations in the North Sea in February, Operations Selenium, Shred and Groundsheet. She continued in service with the Home Fleet until VJ Day in August 1945 when she was placed in reserve.

Post war

In October 1945 Scorpion was sold to the Dutch Navy and renamed Kortenaer, serving as a destroyer until 1957 when she was converted to a fast frigate. She was broken up in 1963.

Notes

References

A Home on the Rolling Main A.G.F.Ditcham who served as an officer on Scorpion during the war. Pen and Sword 2013

S and T-class destroyers
1942 ships
World War II destroyers of the United Kingdom
Ships built on the River Mersey


title: Honors and memorials to the Marquis de Lafayette

text:
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757–1834), a French aristocrat and Revolutionary War hero, was widely commemorated in the U.S. and elsewhere. Below is a list of the many homages and/or tributes named in his honor:

Honors

In 1792, James McHenry, whom Lafayette considered a good friend, purchased a tract called Ridgely's Delight about a mile west of Baltimore. On it, he built a country seat on 95 acres and named it Fayetteville in his honor.
In 1824, the U.S. government named Lafayette Park in his honor; it lies immediately north of the White House in Washington, D.C.
In 1824, Lafayette was invited back to the United States to commemorate the anniversary of the American Revolution, and visited the Battle of Yorktown battlefield.
In 1826, Lafayette College was chartered in Easton, Pennsylvania. Lafayette was honored with a monument in New York City in 1917. Portraits display Washington and Lafayette in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives. Numerous towns, cities, and counties across the United States were named in his honor.
In 1831, the French navy surgeon and naturalist René Primevère Lesson honored Lafayette by giving the Sri Lankan junglefowl the scientific name Gallus lafayetii. Hence the spelling lafayetii is considered a lapsus and the corrected spelling G. lafayettii is in common use.
In 1834, upon Lafayette's death, American President Andrew Jackson ordered that Lafayette be accorded the same funeral honors as John Adams and George Washington. Therefore, 24-gun salutes were fired from military posts and ships, each shot representing a U.S. state. Flags flew at half mast for thirty-five days, and "military officers wore crepe for six months". The Congress hung black in chambers and asked the entire country to dress in black for the next thirty days.
In 1899, Lafayette appeared with Washington on a U.S. coin, the Lafayette dollar that was minted in 1899 (though showing the year 1900). It was produced to raise money for a statue of him that was erected in Paris.
On July 4, 1917, shortly after the U.S. entered World War I, Colonel Charles E. Stanton visited the grave of Lafayette and uttered the famous phrase "Lafayette, we are here." After the war, a U.S. flag was permanently placed at the grave site. Every year, on Independence Day, the flag is replaced in a joint French-American ceremony. The flag remained even during the German occupation of Paris during World War II.
In 1943, on visiting Corsica, General George S. Patton commented on how the Free French forces had liberated the birthplace of Napoleon, and promised that the Americans would liberate the birthplace of Lafayette.
In 1958, the Order of Lafayette was established by U.S. Representative Hamilton Fish III, a World War I veteran, to promote Franco-American friendship and to honor Americans who fought in France. The frigate Hermione, in which Lafayette returned to America, has been reconstructed in the port of Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, France.
In 2002, although he became a naturalized American citizen during his lifetime, Lafayette was granted honorary United States citizenship by the United States Congress.
In 2020, President's Square was renamed Lafayette Square stemming from the Black Lives Matter movement's call of change for the sake of liberty as Lafayette had fought for.

Military and maritime
Several warships were named after Lafayette:
The French Navy acquired USS Langley in 1951 and renamed it La Fayette.
The French frigate La Fayette is a modern "stealth frigate" launched in 1992 and in use by the French Navy since 1996. It is the namesake of the La Fayette class of frigates.
The French ocean-liner SS Normandie was to be the troopship USS Lafayette after being acquired by the US Government, but was destroyed by a fire before conversion to the new role was completed. The name was later given to the USS Lafayette, the lead ship of the Lafayette Class of ballistic missile submarines.
The Lafayette Escadrille was an escadrille of the French Air Service during World War I composed largely of American volunteer pilots.

Places

Counties
Fayette County, Alabama
Fayette County, Georgia
Fayette County, Kentucky
Fayette County, Tennessee
Fayette County, Pennsylvania
Fayette County, West Virginia
Lafayette County, Arkansas
Lafayette County, Mississippi
Lafayette County, Florida
Lafayette Parish, Louisiana

Cities, towns, and villages

 Fayetteville, North Carolina was the first city named after Lafayette, and is the only one he actually visited, arriving in Fayetteville by horse-drawn carriage in 1825 during Lafayette's visit to the United States from July 1824 to September 1825. Has the largest city population.
 Fayetteville, Georgia, seat of Fayette County
 Lagrange, Georgia, named for Lafayette's estate in France
 Fayetteville, New York
 Lafayette, Alabama
 Fayetteville, Tennessee is named indirectly; the city is named after Fayetteville, North Carolina.
 Fayetteville, Arkansas is named indirectly; the city is named after Fayetteville, TN, which in turn is named after Fayetteville, NC. Has the largest metropolitan population.
 Lafayette, California
 LaFayette, Georgia
 Lafayette, Oregon
 Lafayette, Indiana, seat of Tippecanoe County and the home of Purdue University, named after Lafayette during his tour of America.
 Lafayette, Louisiana
 LaFayette, New York
 LaGrange, New York

Squares
Lafayette Square in Buffalo, New York, where he spoke during his nationwide tour in 1825.
Lafayette Square in Saint Louis, Missouri, created in 1833 as one of the city's first public parks and named in his honor in 1854.
Lafayette Square, in Washington, D.C.
Lafayette Square, New Orleans, LA
Lafayette Square in LaGrange, Georgia

Streets
Rue La Fayette in Paris, one of the longest roads in the city, which crosses the 9th and 10th arrondissements of the city from southwest to northeast.
Lafayette Street in New Haven, Connecticut
Lafayette Street in Williston Park, New York
New York City
Lafayette Avenue in Brooklyn
Lafayette Avenue in The Bronx
Lafayette Street in Manhattan
Lafayette Street in Queens
Lafayette Street in Staten Island
Lafayette Road in New Hampshire, which extends from the Massachusetts border in Seabrook to Portsmouth
Avenue de Lafayette in Boston, Massachusetts, located in the Downtown Crossing area.
Lafayette Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland
Lafayette Boulevard in Bridgeport, Connecticut
Lafayette Road in Harrington Park, New Jersey
Lafayette Road in Indianapolis, Indiana
Lafayette Street in Cape May, New Jersey
Lafayette Street in Waltham, Massachusetts, located near a critical area during the Revolution.
Ulice Lafayettova in Olomouc, Czech Republic, is near the site of Lafayette's imprisonment.
Lafayette Street in Metamora, Illinois
Lafayette Drive and Lafayette Road in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, both off of Valley Forge Road located near Valley Forge.
Lafayette Boulevard in Fredericksburg, Virginia, located near the boyhood home of George Washington at Ferry Farm.
Lafayette Street in Marianna, Florida.
Lafayette Street in Williamsburg, Virginia.

Schools
Lafayette High School (Alabama), in Lafayette, Alabama
 Lafayette High School (Georgia), in Lafayette, Georgia
 Lafayette High School (Florida), in Mayo, Florida
 Lafayette High School (Lexington, Kentucky), in Lexington, Kentucky
 Lafayette High School (Louisiana), in Lafayette, Louisiana
 Lafayette High School (St. Joseph, Missouri), in St. Joseph, Missouri
 Lafayette High School (Wildwood, Missouri), in Wildwood, Missouri
 Lafayette High School (New York City), in Brooklyn, New York
 Lafayette High School (Buffalo, New York), in Buffalo, New York
 Lafayette High School (Virginia), near Williamsburg, Virginia
 LaFayette Jr./Sr. High School (LaFayette, New York), in LaFayette, New York

Other Places
 Mount Lafayette in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.
Lafayetteville in Milan, New York
 Lafayette Park, a park and neighborhood in Fall River, Massachusetts
 Lafayette Park, a park in Watkins Glen, New York
LaGrange, Georgia, named for the Lafayettes' estate in France
Lafayette Park in San Francisco, California

Lafayette in sculpture

 Bust of Lafayette by Houdon, 1786, marble, in the rotunda of the Virginia State Capitol.
 Bust of Lafayette in National Guard uniform by Houdon, 1790, marble, now at Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
 Statue by Bartholdi in Union Square Park, Manhattan, New York, 1876
 Pediment on the Tippecanoe County Courthouse, Lafayette, Indiana, 1882
 Lafayette on the Green, University of Vermont, 1883
 LaFayette Fountain by Lorado Taft in Lafayette, Indiana, 1887
 Statue in Lafayette Square, Washington, D.C., 1891.
 Statue of Lafayette and Washington by Bartholdi, Place des États-Unis (United States Plaza), Paris, France, 1895
 Equestrian statue by Paul Wayland Bartlett, 1908, Cours-la-Reine, Paris.  An early version appears on the Lafayette dollar.
Lafayette Memorial by Daniel Chester French, 1917, Prospect Park, Brooklyn.
 Equestrian statue by Paul Wayland Bartlett, Metz, France 1919, destroyed by German occupation forces and replaced by another statue by M . Goutin in 2004
 Statue of the Marquis de Lafayette on Lafayette College campus, Easton, Pennsylvania, by Daniel Chester French in 1921
Equestrian statue in front of the Washington Monument in Baltimore, Maryland, 1924
 Statue on Washington Street in Hartford, Connecticut, by Paul Wayland Bartlett. The original of this statue stands in the Louvre, a gift to France from the school children of the United States. 1957.
 Built in 1975, a statue of Lafayette stands atop a fountain in the courthouse square in LaGrange, Georgia.
 Statue of Lafayette on Union Avenue & Warren Street in Havre de Grace, Maryland, 1976
 Statue outside of the Gen. Horatio Gates House and Golden Plough Tavern, York, Pennsylvania, 2007
 Statue of Lafayette, Admiral de Grasse, and General Washington on the Riverwalk Landing in Yorktown, VA, added in 2017.
 Statue of the Marquis de Lafayette (Los Angeles)

Lafayette in Literature
Lydia Sigourney's tribute in poetry, To General Lafayette, was published in her 1827 collection of poems.

Gallery

References

Works cited

Cultural depictions of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
Lafayette, Gilbert Du Motier, (Formerly) Marquis De
Lafayette


title: By Any Name

text:
By Any Name is a 2016 British action thriller film, that has won two awards at the 2016 North Wales International Film Festival and is based on the book of the same name by Catrin Collier. The film follows the story of John West who is admitted to a psychiatric ward suffering from trauma-induced amnesia after he was found half naked running down a motorway and covered in blood. He has no memory of who he is. All he can recall is a detailed knowledge of sophisticated weaponry and military techniques that indicates a background in terrorism.

When two armed soldiers guarding his room are murdered and Dr Liz Santer Samira Mohamed Ali, the psychiatrist assigned to his case, is abducted at gunpoint, a desperate hunt begins for a dangerous killer. Liz attempts to help her captor recover his memory despite all the warnings of what she might find. Is Liz in the hands of a homicidal terrorist or an innocent pawn? Her life depends on the right answer.

Cast
 Cengiz Dervis as John West: A man who is found covered in blood with no memory of who he is, but appears to have knowledge that only a special forces soldier or a terrorist would have. He is immediately taken into custody in order to find out the truth of his identity.
 Samira Mohamed Ali as Dr Liz Santer: A Psychiatrist who is mourning the loss of her husband but is soon caught up in solving the mystery of her latest patient.
 Dan Richardson - Captain Challoner
 Victor Ptak - Colonel Hedingham
 Huw Richards - Sergeant Price
 Phillip Embrey - Major Simmonds
 Chris Hurley - Inspector Barnes
 Ernest Vernon - Dr Dave Watson
 Louise Fellows - Bonnie McKenna
 Claire Richards - Duty Houseman

Production

In 2014, it was announced that Author Catrin Collier (Katherine John) was working with Tanabi, a Welsh production company, to adapt the novel for the big screen in a deal negotiated with Marjacq Scripts Ltd. Filming commenced on the project in August 2014 and will run through to October and will be released in early 2017. It is said to be the first in a series of films that Catrin Collier and Tanabi Films will work on over the next few years. The film is being filmed on location in London, Swansea and Brecon where the films main narrative takes place. Recent film school graduate Shannon Walsh was initially lined up to direct before being replaced by producer Euros Jones-Evans.

Novel
The novel, By Any Name, written by Katherine John, was released in early 2006 and was well received by critics and as well as fans of John herself. Much like the film, the book follows the story of Dr Elizabeth Santer who is desperately trying to help the man known as John West rediscover his memory despite warnings that West might be dangerous and is suspected of Terrorist activities.

References

External links

 https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B06XX4WJ5P/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1497272252&sr=8-1&keywords=by+any+name

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2016 films
Films set in Swansea
Films shot in Wales
2016 directorial debut films
2010s English-language films


title: Timeline of computational mathematics

text:
This is a timeline of key developments in computational mathematics.

1940s
 Monte Carlo simulation (voted one of the top 10 algorithms of the 20th century) invented at Los Alamos by von Neumann, Ulam and Metropolis.
  Dantzig introduces the simplex algorithm  (voted one of the top 10 algorithms of the 20th century).
 First hydro simulations at Los Alamos occurred.
 Ulam and von Neumann introduce the notion of cellular automata.
 A routine for the Manchester Baby written to factor a large number (2^18), one of the first in computational number theory. The Manchester group would make several other breakthroughs in this area.
 LU decomposition technique first discovered.

1950s
 Hestenes, Stiefel, and Lanczos, all from the Institute for Numerical Analysis at the National Bureau of Standards, initiate the development of Krylov subspace iteration methods. Voted one of the top 10 algorithms of the 20th century.
 Equations of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines introduces the Metropolis–Hastings algorithm. Also, important earlier independent work by Alder and S. Frankel.
 Enrico Fermi, Stanislaw Ulam, John Pasta, and Mary Tsingou, discover the Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou problem.
In network theory, Ford & Fulkerson compute a solution to the maximum flow problem.
 Householder invents his eponymous matrices and transformation method (voted one of the top 10 algorithms of the 20th century).
 Molecular dynamics invented by Alder and Wainwright
 John G.F. Francis and Vera Kublanovskaya invent QR factorization (voted one of the top 10 algorithms of the 20th century).

1960s
 First recorded use of the term "finite element method" by Ray Clough, to describe the methods of Courant, Hrenikoff and Zienkiewicz, among others. See also here.
 Using computational investigations of the 3-body problem, Minovitch formulates the gravity assist method.
 Molecular dynamics was invented independently by Aneesur Rahman.
 Cooley and Tukey re-invent the Fast Fourier transform (voted one of the top 10 algorithms of the 20th century), an algorithm first discovered by Gauss.
 Edward Lorenz discovers the butterfly effect on a computer, attracting interest in chaos theory.
 Kruskal and Zabusky follow up the Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou problem with further numerical experiments, and coin the term "soliton".
 Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture formulated through investigations on a computer.
 Grobner bases and Buchberger's algorithm invented for algebra
 Frenchman Verlet (re)discovers a numerical integration algorithm, (first used in 1791 by Delambre, by Cowell and Crommelin in 1909, and by Carl Fredrik Störmer in 1907, hence the alternative names Störmer's method or the Verlet-Störmer method) for dynamics.
  Risch  invents algorithm  for  symbolic integration.

1970s
Computer algebra replicates and extends the work of Delaunay in lunar theory.
 Mandelbrot, from studies of the Fatou, Julia and Mandelbrot sets, coined and popularized the term 'fractal' to describe these structures' self-similarity.
Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken prove the four colour theorem, the first theorem to be proved by computer.

1980s
 Fast multipole method invented by Rokhlin and Greengard (voted one of the top 10 algorithms of the 20th century).

1990s
 The appearance of the first research grids using volunteer computing – GIMPS (1996) and distributed.net (1997).
 Kepler conjecture is almost all but certainly proved algorithmically by Thomas Hales in 1998.

2000s
In computational group theory, God's Number for the Rubik's cube is shown to be 20.
Mathematicians completely map the E8-group.

2010s
 Hales completes the proof of Kepler's conjecture.

See also

 Timeline of scientific computing
 Computational mathematics
 Timeline of algorithms
 Timeline of mathematics from the 20th century onwards
 Timeline of numerical analysis after 1945

References

External links
 The Monte Carlo Method: Classic Papers
 Monte Carlo Landmark Papers

Computational mathematics
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title: Ye Horns Inn

text:
Ye Horns Inn is a restaurant and public house at Horns Lane in Goosnargh parish near Preston, Lancashire, England.

Located near the Forest of Bowland, Ye Horns Inn has welcomed locals and travellers alike over the years. Originally a coaching inn called the Buck Horns, dating back to 1782, it was originally part of a working farm.

During the inter-war period the interior was partially refitted which coincided with render and mock timber being applied to the exterior. This, and the creation of dining rooms, is thought to be an attempt to provide an "improved" pub, popular at the time and stemming from a desire to cut back on the amount of drunkenness associated with conventional Victorian and Edwardian public houses.

Fast forward a few decades and the building was granted a Grade II listing in January 2017 based on its architectural value and the retention of the pub’s interior. Its distinctive characteristics, prior to renovation 2018–2022, earned it a listing on the Campaign for Real Ale's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors. It was one of only three pubs in the UK where the public could sit behind the bar in the area from which the bar staff serve. However, the Campaign for Real Ale claims that the renovations from 2018 to 2022 appear to have damaged historic parts of the interior without listed building consent.

See also

Listed buildings in Goosnargh

References

National Inventory Pubs
Pubs in Lancashire
Buildings and structures in the City of Preston
1782 establishments in England
Goosnargh

Restaurants in the United Kingdom


title: Dorseyville, Maryland

text:
Dorseyville is an unincorporated community in Howard County, Maryland, United States. It is considered part of the modern Glenwood area. The village was situated along a fork in the rolling road that would service Annapolis or Tridelphia, Maryland. A stone dam, named Dorsey's Mill Dam, was situated on the Cattail Creek here before being washed out.

See also
Glenwood, Howard County, Maryland
Roxbury Mill

References

Unincorporated communities in Howard County, Maryland
Unincorporated communities in Maryland


title: Frenchman Hills

text:
The Frenchman Hills are hills in Grant County, Washington, United States of America. The high point is . They are an anticlinal fold in the northeastern part of the larger Yakima Fold Belt. They likely take their name for one of the first non-native residents in the area, who lived near Low Gap in the 1860s and 1870s and was known only as The Frenchman.

Frenchman Gap
Frenchman Gap () near Vantage, Washington is a water gap where the Columbia River carved a path through the Frenchman Hills.

Grandfather Cuts Loose the Ponies, also known as the Wild Horse Monument, is located on a hillside overlooking the Columbia River on the east side of Frenchman Gap.

References

External links

Landforms of Grant County, Washington
Hills of Washington (state)
Water gaps of Washington
Valleys of Washington (state)


title: East London All-Stars

text:
The East London All-Stars are a basketball club based in the Newham area of East London.

The team was formed in 2010 as the senior team of the Newham All-Star Sports Academy, or NASSA for short, and were originally named Newham Neptunes before being rebranded to East London All-Stars in 2015. This name lasted only one season, returning to Newham Neptunes in time for the 2016-17 season. As of the 2018-19 season, the club were the All-Stars once more.

The All-Stars play their home games at the University of East London's SportsDock facility, and currently compete in the English Basketball League (EBL) Division 2. The team achieved a rapid ascension through the lower divisions of English basketball since their establishment and spent several years in Division 1 before being relegated in 2015.

Home arenas
Rokeby School (2011–2012)
University of East London - Sportsdock (2012–present)

References

External links
Official NASSA website

Basketball teams in England
Sport in the London Borough of Newham
Stratford, London
Basketball in London
Basketball teams established in 2010
2010 establishments in England


title: Snowbound (1927 film)

text:
Snowbound is a 1927 American silent comedy film produced and released by Tiffany Pictures and directed by Phil Goldstone. It stars Robert Agnew, Betty Blythe and Harold Goodwin. A copy of Snowbound is preserved at the Library of Congress.

Cast
Betty Blythe as Julia Barry
Lillian Rich as Alice Blake
Robert Agnew as Robert Foley
George Fawcett as Uncle Tim Foley
Martha Mattox as Aunt Amelia Foley
Harold Goodwin as Joe Baird
Guinn "Big Boy" Williams as Bull Morgan (credited as Guinn Williams)
Pat Harmon as Mr. Parker
William A. Carroll as Judge Watkins
Dorothea Wolbert as Maid

References

External links

Lobby poster(Wayback Machine)

1927 films
American silent feature films
Tiffany Pictures films
1927 comedy films
Silent American comedy films
American black-and-white films
Films directed by Phil Goldstone
1920s American films


title: The Victoria, Great Harwood

text:
The Victoria is a Grade II listed public house at St John's Street, Great Harwood, Blackburn, Lancashire BB6 7EP.

It is on the Campaign for Real Ale's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors.

It was built in 1905.

References

Grade II listed pubs in Lancashire
National Inventory Pubs
Buildings and structures in Hyndburn
Great Harwood