title: Rebeca Andrade

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Rebeca Rodrigues de Andrade (born 8 May 1999) is a Brazilian artistic gymnast. She is the 2020 Olympic, 2021 and 2023 World champion on the vault and 2022 World all-around champion. Andrade is the first Brazilian female gymnast to medal at an Olympic Games, and she is only the second Brazilian woman to win a gold medal at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. She is also the 2020 Olympic silver medalist, the 2023 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships silver medalist and the 2021 Pan American champion in the all-around, and won silver on the uneven bars at the 2021 World Championships, silver on the floor exercise at the 2023 World Championships, bronze on the balance beam at the 2023 World Championships and a bronze on the floor exercise at the 2022 World Championships. Andrade is one of only 11 female gymnasts to have medalled on every event in the history of World Championships, and one of only three gymnasts to have done so in the 21st century, alongside Simone Biles and Aliya Mustafina.

Andrade was a member of the teams that won silver at the 2023 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships; gold at the 2021 Pan American Championships, silver at the 2018 Pan American Championships, and has won a total of six gold medals on the FIG World Cup circuit. She is the 2012 Junior Pan American champion in the all-around and on vault and floor exercise. Additionally, she is the 2014 Junior Pan American champion on the vault, uneven bars, and balance beam. After a successful junior career, Andrade's senior debut in 2015 was cut short by the first of three ACL tears. She returned to competition and represented Brazil at the 2016 Summer Olympics, where she placed eleventh in the all-around final. She tore her ACL for the second time in 2017 but made her World Championships debut in 2018. After her third ACL tear in 2019, Andrade represented Brazil at the 2020 Summer Olympics and at the 2021 World Championships, where she won the vault gold medal at both events. She is the most decorated Brazilian gymnast of all time with a total of eleven Olympic and World Championship medals and is considered to be the greatest Latin American gymnast in history.

Early life and background
Rebeca Andrade was born on 8 May 1999 in Guarulhos. She is one of eight children of a single mother, Rosa. Her mother cleaned houses and walked to work in order to pay for Rebeca's gymnastics training. She began gymnastics when she was four years old after her aunt took her to the gym where she worked. When she was nine years old she moved to train in Curitiba, and a year later she moved to Rio de Janeiro to train at Flamengo. She speaks both Portuguese and English, and she is Afro-Brazilian.

Junior career

2012
Andrade made her international debut when she was thirteen years old at the Junior Pan American Championships. She helped Brazil win the team silver medal behind Canada and ahead of Mexico. Individually, she won the gold medal in the all-around, on vault, and the floor exercise, and she won the bronze medal on the balance beam. Then at the Junior South American Championships in Cochabamba, she placed first with the Brazilian team as well as in the individual all-around. She also competed at the Brazil Trophy, a domestic competition for both juniors and seniors, where she edged out Olympians including Jade Barbosa and Daniele Hypólito to claim the all-around title.

2013
Andrade continued her success at the junior level in 2013. She began her 2013 season at the Nadia Comăneci Invitational in Oklahoma City, and she won the gold medal in the junior all-around. In August, she competed at her second Junior South American Championships, and the Brazilian team won the gold medal. Individually, Andrade won the bronze medal in the all-around behind teammates Lorrane Oliveira and Flávia Saraiva. She also won the gold medal on vault and uneven bars and the silver medal on the balance beam behind Saraiva. In November, she competed at the Gymnasiade, which were held in Brasília. The Brazilian team won the silver medal behind Russia, and Andrade won the bronze medal in the all-around behind Alla Sosnitskaya and Flávia Saraiva. In the event finals, she won the gold medal on vault and placed sixth on the floor exercise.

2014
In February, Andrade began the season by competing at the WOGA Classic in Plano, Texas. She won the gold in the all-around, on vault, and uneven bars, and she won the silver with the team, on balance beam, and on floor exercise. She later competed at the Junior Pan American Championships in Aracaju where she helped team Brazil win the silver medal behind Canada. Individually, she won the silver in the all-around and on floor exercise both behind Flávia Saraiva and the gold on vault, uneven bars, and balance beam. She was initially scheduled to represent Brazil at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China. However, she withdrew due to a broken toe and was replaced by teammate Flávia Saraiva. Andrade did not compete for the rest of the 2014 season.

Senior career

2015
Andrade became age-eligible for senior international competitions in 2015. She recovered from her toe injury and made her senior international debut at the Ljubljana World Cup, where she won the bronze medal on the uneven bars behind Isabela Onyshko and Jonna Adlerteg. She then went to the São Paulo World Cup and won the silver medal on vault behind Deng Yalan; she placed seventh on the uneven bars. She then went to the Flanders International Team Challenge in Ghent where a mixed team of Brazilian and Italian gymnasts won the bronze medal. In the all-around, she won the silver medal behind Flavia Saraiva. In June, Andrade tore her ACL which caused her to miss her most important competitions of the season – the Pan American Games and the World Championships.

2016
In 2016, Andrade returned to competition after her ACL injury and won five medals on the World Cup circuit and also competed at her first Olympic Games. She returned at the City of Jesolo Trophy. She only competed on the vault, uneven bars, and balance beam. She helped the Brazilian team win the silver medal behind the United States. She qualified for the uneven bars event final where she finished eighth. She then competed at the Doha World Cup and won the silver medal on the uneven bars behind Jonna Adlerteg.

She was selected to compete at the Olympic Test Event alongside Jade Barbosa, Daniele Hypólito, Lorrane Oliveira, Carolyne Pedro, and Flavia Saraiva to attempt to qualify Brazil a team quota for the Olympic Games. Andrade competed on vault and uneven bars only, and she performed a double-twisting Yurchenko vault and a clean uneven bars routine. The Brazilian team won the gold medal in the team event and qualified a full team to the 2016 Summer Olympics. Individually, she qualified for the uneven bars final, where she won the bronze medal behind Germans Elisabeth Seitz and Sophie Scheder.

She then competed at the São Paulo World Cup, where she qualified for the uneven bars and balance beam finals. In the uneven bars final, she tied with German Kim Bui for the silver medal. The next day on the balance beam, she won the bronze medal behind teammate Daniele Hypólito and Simona Castro. She then went to the Anadia World Cup where she won two silver medals on balance beam and floor exercise, both behind teammate Flavia Saraiva.

After the Anadia World Cup, Andrade was named to represent Brazil at the 2016 Summer Olympics alongside Jade Barbosa, Daniele Hypólito, Lorrane Oliveira, and Flavia Saraiva. Her final competition in preparation for the Olympics was a friendly meet in the Netherlands on 10 July where she tied with Dutch gymnast Eythora Thorsdottir for the gold medal in the all-around.

At the 2016 Olympics, Andrade performed well in the qualification round and helped Brazil qualify for the team finals in fifth place. She qualified individually to the all-around final in third place with a total score of 58.732 behind American gymnasts Simone Biles and Aly Raisman. During the team finals, Andrade fell on the floor exercise, and the Brazilian team finished eighth. In the individual all-around, she finished eleventh with a total score of 56.965.

After the Olympics, Andrade competed at the Brazilian Championships in November. She won the gold medal with the Flamengo club team in the all-around, uneven bars, and balance beam. She won the silver medal on the floor exercise behind Thais Fidelis.

2017
Andrade won three World Cup medals in 2017 but also endured two different injuries. She began her season at the City of Jesolo Trophy, where the Brazilian team won the silver medal behind the United States. Andrade won the silver medal in the all-around behind American gymnast Riley McCusker. In the event finals, she finished fifth on the uneven bars, sixth on the balance beam, and fourth on the floor exercise. She then competed at the Koper Challenge Cup and won the gold medal on vault. Then at the Osijek Challenge Cup, she only competed on the uneven bars but did not qualify for the event final.

In May, Andrade injured her ankle during training and had to wear a protective boot for two months. She returned to competition in August at the Brazilian Championships, where she only competed on the uneven bars and won the gold medal. She then competed at the Varna Challenge Cup and won the gold medal on both the vault and the uneven bars.

Andrade was initially named to the World Championships team along with first-year senior Thais Fidelis; however, she tore her ACL for a second time during the warmups for podium training and withdrew.

2018–19
Andrade competed at her first World Championships in 2018 after returning from her second ACL tear but only was able to compete for a little less than a year before tearing her ACL for the third time. She returned to competition in September 2018 at the Pan American Championships. She only competed on two events, the vault and uneven bars. She helped the Brazilian team win the silver medal behind the United States. She was then named to the Brazilian team for the 2018 World Championships alongside Jade Barbosa, Thais Fidelis, Lorrane Oliveira, and Flavia Saraiva. Andrade made her World Championships debut and competed on the vault, uneven bars, and balance beam, and Brazil qualified for the team final in fifth place. In the team final, the Brazilian team finished seventh after Andrade, Barbosa, and Saraiva all fell on the uneven bars. After the World Championships, Andrade competed at the 2018 Cottbus World Cup where she won the gold medal on vault and balance beam and the silver medal on uneven bars behind Nina Derwael.

Andrade only competed once in 2019; at the DTB Team Challenge in Stuttgart, she helped the Brazilian team win team gold, and she won the all-around gold medal. At the Brazilian Championships, Andrade tore her ACL for the third time in her career. This ended her 2019 season and caused her to miss the 2019 World Championships. At the World Championships, the Brazilian team without Andrade finished fourteenth and did not qualify a team for the 2020 Olympic Games.

2020
Andrade's comeback was cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic. She returned to competition at the Baku World Cup, where she finished third on uneven bars behind Fan Yilin and Anastasia Ilyankova and second on balance beam behind Urara Ashikawa during qualifications and therefore qualified to the event finals. However, the event finals were canceled due to the pandemic in Azerbaijan. In July, Andrade and numerous other Brazilian Olympic hopefuls traveled to Portugal as they were unable to resume training due to the pandemic in Brazil remaining unstable and gyms remaining closed. In December 2020, she tested positive for COVID-19 but was asymptomatic.

2021
Andrade had a breakthrough year in 2021 and won her first Olympic and World medals. She returned to competition at the Pan American Championships which offered her a chance to qualify for the Olympic Games as an individual. The Brazilian team of Andrade, Christal Bezerra, Ana Luiza Lima, Lorrane Oliveira, and Júlia Soares won the gold medal. Individually, Andrade won the gold medal in the all-around with a total score of 56.700. This result earned her and Luciana Alvarado the continental quota spots for the 2020 Olympic Games.

In the qualification round, Andrade qualified in third place to the vault final, fourth to floor exercise final, and second to the all-around final. Following Simone Biles’ withdrawal, Andrade entered the all-around final as the top qualifier. After leading the competition in the first two rotations of the all-around final, Andrade won silver in the all-around after stepping out of bounds on two of her floor exercise tumbling passes. This was the first-ever Olympic medal for a female Brazilian gymnast.

Setting another record for her country, she won the gold medal in the vault final with an average score of 15.083. This made her the first Olympic champion in Brazilian women's artistic gymnastics history.

In the floor final, Andrade placed fifth with a score of 14.033 after stepping out of bounds on two of her tumbling passes. Reflecting on her success at the Games, Andrade told reporters, "[T]his is not only for me but for the whole of Brazil. I want to inspire younger kids with my achievements... It's not just the medals. I made everybody proud of me." She was chosen to be the flag bearer for Brazil at the closing ceremony.

Andrade continued training after the Olympic Games. She helped her club win the team gold medal at the Brazilian Championships. She also won the gold medal in the all-around. At the World Championships in Kitakyushu, she competed on the vault, uneven bars, and balance beam. She chose not to compete on the floor exercise in order to preserve her health. She qualified for all three event finals. She finished first on both the vault with an average score of 14.800 and on the uneven bars with a score of 15.100, and she finished eighth on the balance beam. She became the first Brazilian gymnast to ever qualify for a World uneven bars event final.

In the vault final, she won the gold medal with an average score of 14.966, nearly a full point ahead of silver medalist Asia D'Amato. This was Brazil's second women's gold medal at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, the first being Daiane dos Santos's gold medal on the floor exercise in 2003. Then in the uneven bars final, she scored a 14.633 and won the silver medal behind Chinese gymnast Wei Xiaoyuan becoming the first Brazilian gymnast to win a World medal on the uneven bars. On the next day, she finished sixth in the balance beam event final, tying the best-ever finish of a Brazilian woman in this event with Flávia Saraiva in 2019.

2022
Andrade began her 2022 season in May at the Trophy Brazil, where she won the gold medal on the uneven bars and the silver on the balance beam.

In July, Andrade was named to the Brazilian team for the Pan American Championships alongside Flávia Saraiva, Christal Bezerra, Lorrane Oliveira, Carolyne Pedro and Júlia Soares. On the first day of competition, which determined the all-around and apparatus results, Andrade won the gold medal on the uneven bars as well as the silver medal on the balance beam behind Saraiva. Additionally, she helped Brazil qualify to the team final in first place. She opted not to compete on floor exercise. In the team final, Andrade contributed scores on vault, uneven bars and balance beam towards Brazil's first-place finish ahead of the United States and Canada — their first victory over the United States at the competition since 1997. Andrade stated that "This win is very big for the future of gymnastics [in Brazil], for the girls that are coming up and the ones who came before us."

In August, Andrade competed at the Brazilian Championships, where she won the all-around ahead of Saraiva and Soares and also received the highest scores on vault, uneven bars and balance beam, as well as the second highest on floor exercise, despite performing watered-down routines.  In September Andrade competed at the Paris World Challenge Cup; she only competed on the uneven bars. She won silver behind American Shilese Jones.

In October, Andrade was named to the team to compete at the World Championships in Liverpool alongside Saraiva, Soares, Oliveira, Pedro and Bezerra. In the qualification round, Andrade qualified in first place to the all-around final, second to the floor final, third to the uneven bars final, seventh to the beam final, and helped Brazil qualify to the team final in third place. On vault, she scored 15.066 for her first vault, a Cheng, however, her hands slipped on the table during her second vault attempt, performing just a Yurchenko back tuck instead of her intended double twist. Her second vault scored 11.466, putting her outside the final. In the team final, Brazil finished fourth behind the United States, Great Britain and Canada. In the all-around final, Andrade won the gold medal ahead of Shilese Jones and Jessica Gadirova with a score of 56.899, becoming the first South American gymnast to win a World all-around title. Andrade then won the bronze medal in the floor exercise final alongside Jade Carey, finishing behind Jessica Gadirova and Jordan Chiles, who finished in first and second place respectively.

Personal life
Andrade won a celebrity status in Brazil after her success at the 2020 Summer Olympic Games.Three months after the Games in October 2021, she appeared on the cover of Vogue Brasil. She was also awarded the Brazil Olympic Prize which recognized her as the best Brazilian female athlete of the year.

Andrade has worked with a psychologist on visualization techniques. She underwent three ACL reconstruction surgeries, all on her right knee. Her main idol in gymnastics is the Brazilian world champion Daiane dos Santos.

Selected skills

Competitive history

Notes

References

External links

1999 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Guarulhos
Brazilian female artistic gymnasts
Olympic gymnasts for Brazil
Gymnasts at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Gymnasts at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Gymnasts at the 2023 Pan American Games
Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
Olympic gold medalists for Brazil
Olympic silver medalists for Brazil
Olympic medalists in gymnastics
World champion gymnasts
21st-century Brazilian women


title: Welcome Acres

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Welcome Acres is a historic house in Goshen, New Hampshire.  It is located on the east side of New Hampshire Route 10, about 1/2 mile north of its junction with Brook Road.  Built c. 1835, it is one of a cluster of plank-frame houses in the community, and is unusual in that set for being two stories high, and for its unusual construction.  The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

Description and history
Welcome Acres is located north of the village center of Goshen, on the east side of NH 10.  It is a -story wooden structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. It has a central brick chimney, and a single-story ell extending to the right.  It is framed with three-inch planking laid horizontally, one of only two houses in Goshen's cluster of plank-frame houses where the planks are not set vertically.  The house is five bays wide and two deep, and occupies a prominent position in the Mill Village section of Goshen.  The main facade is symmetrical, with sash windows flanking the center entry.  The entry is a modern door, flanked by pilasters which rise to a peaked entablature.  The second level has no window above the entry.  The building corners also have pilasters, which rise to the main roof ridge, which has Greek Revival style returns on the sides.

The house was built about 1835.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Sullivan County, New Hampshire

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in New Hampshire
Houses completed in 1835
Houses in Goshen, New Hampshire
National Register of Historic Places in Sullivan County, New Hampshire


title: Big Data to Knowledge

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Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) is a project of the National Institutes of Health for knowledge extraction from big data.

BD2K was founded in 2013 in response to a report from the Working Group on Data and Informatics for the Advisory Committee to the Director of the National Institutes of Health.

A significant part of BD2K's plans is to have organizations make plans to share their research data when they make a proposal in response to a funding opportunity announcement.

Philip Bourne was the lead in managing the project until early 2017.

References

External links

National Institutes of Health
Big data


Nossa Senhora da Vila, Nossa Senhora do Bispo e Silveiras is a civil parish in the municipality of Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal. It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes Nossa Senhora da Vila, Nossa Senhora do Bispo and Silveiras. The population in 2011 was 11,568, in an area of 419.49 km2.

References

Freguesias of Montemor-o-Novo


title: Fish Mooney

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Maria Mercedes "Fish" Mooney is a fictional character created by producer and screenwriter Bruno Heller for the television series Gotham, portrayed by actress Jada Pinkett Smith.

Development
Pinkett-Smith drew inspiration from various different individuals for taking on the role, including the fictional character of Norma Desmond from the 1950 film Sunset Boulevard, played by Gloria Swanson; and Griselda Blanco, a real-life drug lord of the Medellín Cartel.

Fictional character biography

Season 1
Fish Mooney is mob boss Carmine Falcone's most trusted lieutenant. Unbeknownst to Falcone, Fish is plotting to usurp his criminal empire, and employs a young woman named Liza, who resembles Falcone's late mother, to distract the lonely, aging mafia chieftain while Fish undermines his control of Gotham City. She has good relations with the Gotham City Police Department, and decides to help detective Harvey Bullock in investigating the murder of Thomas and Martha Wayne in return for him leaving her alone. When her underling Oswald Cobblepot informs on her to the GCPD, she hobbles him — giving him his trademark "penguin walk" — and orders him killed along with Bullock and his new partner, Jim Gordon. Falcone intervenes, however, and spares their lives. Cobblepot gradually works his way up the ladder of Gotham's underworld to become the right-hand man of both Falcone and his rival, mob boss, Sal Maroni, and gets revenge on Fish by revealing her treachery to Falcone. Hurt and angered by Fish's betrayal, Falcone has her and Butch tortured, however Butch escapes custody and frees Fish. Wanting revenge against Penguin, she goes to her former club to find him there and proceeds to beat him. Before she can do much harm she and Butch are pursued by Zsasz and his crew. Butch helps her escape while staying behind to fend them off to buy her time. Harvey meets up with her later that night and helps her flee from Gotham City.

However, she is captured again by unknown peoples and wakes to find herself held prisoner in a large basement area with other random abductees, many of whom have been there for years. She learns that they are kept as "spare parts" by the man who owns the large estate and his security staff, with different prisoners being selected by the guards every few days, taken away, and returning (if at all) with missing body parts. Fish takes control of the basement and organizes a resistance by promising she'll be able to save "some" of them (but not all). She forces a meeting with the man in charge, Francis Dulmacher, a mad scientist who is running a blackmarket organ transplant farm and recreationally creating human monsters out of his victims' body parts. When Dulmacher tells her he is going to remove her eyes, she gouges out her own eye with a spoon so he can't use it in his experiments or sell it. Impressed by her resolve he offers a chance to prove her value as a go-between for himself and the prisoners in the basement, promising her safety as long as the supply of body parts isn't interrupted again. She uses this position to prepare an escape and, by sacrificing some of the detainees who had previously been bullying and abusing the weaker prisoners, she uses the ensuing chaos to escape with the rest and return to Gotham with a small band of devoted followers.

In the last episode of the first season, "All Happy Families Are Alike", Fish recruits the young Selina Kyle into her gang, and makes an alliance with Maroni in order to get rid of Falcone. Fish captures Falcone, Cobblepot, Gordon and Bullock. Fish reveals Cobblepot's treachery to Maroni in exchange for an agreement to divide the city between them. When Maroni reveals that he intends to rule the city with Fish as his lieutenant and treats her with sexist condescension, Fish loses her temper and shoots him in the head. An all-out gang war ensues between Fish and Maroni's forces, during which Cobblepot fights her on a rooftop and pushes her into the river below.

Season 2
During the second season Fish's corpse is revealed to have been sent to Indian Hill, a scientific division of Wayne Enterprises run by Hugo Strange, who brings her back to life augmented with cuttlefish DNA. The side-effects of the revival gives Fish the ability to take control of anyone who comes in contact with her. She escapes and runs across Cobblepot, who since her death has taken over Gotham's criminal underworld as "The Penguin". Shocked, he passes out.

Season 3
Soon after her rebirth, Fish starts going into rapid physical decline, and raids every pharmacy in Gotham for drugs to keep herself alive. She forms a new gang with her fellow Indian Hill escapees. She interrogates Strange's assistant Ethel Peabody, who tells her that her body is rejecting the cells Strange implanted in her, and that only Strange can save her. Fish has her fellow escapee Marv, who can accelerate or slow a person's metabolism, deplete the energy from Peabody's cells, literally stealing her life.

Fish frees Strange, intent on making him create more mutants to do her bidding. By then, however, Cobblepot has amassed an angry mob of Gothamites bent on killing the mutants. When Cobblepot has her at his mercy, Fish says she is proud of having transformed him into "The Penguin". Moved, Cobblepot tells her to leave Gotham and never come back. Later, when Gotham is in chaos from the effects of a homicidal mania-inducing virus, Fish joins forces with Cobblepot and Strange to create an antidote and hold the city to ransom. An infected Gordon shows up and attacks Mooney, accidentally impaling her with a sword and destroying the antidote. With her dying breath, Fish tells Cobblepot to either take Gotham for his own or burn it to the ground.

Powers and abilities
After her resurrection by Hugo Strange near the end of the second season of Gotham, Mooney develops the ability to control people with just a touch of her hand.

References

Gotham (TV series) characters
American female characters in television
DC Comics metahumans
DC Comics television characters
Fictional hypnotists and indoctrinators
Fictional African-American people
Fictional amputees
Television characters introduced in 2014
Fictional crime bosses
Fictional lieutenants
Batman characters
DC Comics female supervillains
Fictional criminals in television
Fictional gangsters


title: German-American Bank Building

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The German-American Bank Building is a historic bank building located at St. Joseph, Missouri.  It was built in 1889, and is a six-story, rectangular brick building designed in the Richardsonian Romanesque style with added Beaux-Arts detailing.. The bank originally was created to provide service to the large number of German-speaking citizens in the region. In 1918 it was renamed the American National Bank. Later, it became First Federal Savings and Loan.

It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.  It is located in the St. Joseph's Commerce and Banking Historic District.

In 1986 a number of aspects were photographed and documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey.

It was announced in July, 2014, that Heartland Health and Mosaic Life Care would be renovating the building along with surrounding properties in a 2-year, $20 million effort. As part of a revitalization project in downtown St. Joseph, it will provide office space for up to 200 health workers. At the time of the announcement, it is being used by Legal Aid of Western Missouri and several other businesses. The renovation is intended to blend historic bank features such as the natural brick walls and the carved columns with the company's standard design look and modern features.

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Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in Missouri
Historic American Buildings Survey in Missouri
Bank buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri
Richardsonian Romanesque architecture in Missouri
Commercial buildings completed in 1889
German-American culture in Missouri
Buildings and structures in St. Joseph, Missouri
National Register of Historic Places in Buchanan County, Missouri


title: Williamson House (Goshen, New Hampshire)

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The Williamson House is a historic house on Messer Road in Goshen, New Hampshire. Built about 1850, it is one of a cluster of plank-frame houses in the town, and is unusual in that group for its framing style. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

Description and history
The Williamson House is located in a rural setting in northern Goshen, on the north side of a bend in Messer Road, about  east of Nutting Road. It is a -story wooden house, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. It is distinct in Goshen's cluster of plank-frame houses in its use of two-inch planking instead of the more typical three inches. The walls are further likely to be load-bearing, as the house lacks corner posts, and are pinned to the frame rather than the more typical mortise-and-tenon method seen in other such houses. The main block is five bays wide and four deep, with an attached ell that is four bays by three. The main facade has five irregularly spaced sash windows, with the main entrance located in the front of the ell, which is sheltered by a shed-roof porch.

The house was built about 1850, probably for Isaac Messer, who is known to have lived here by 1860. The property remained in the Messer family until the 1940s. Outbuildings on the property include a small sugar house (behind the main house), and a barn (across the road).

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Sullivan County, New Hampshire

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in New Hampshire
Houses completed in 1850
Houses in Goshen, New Hampshire
National Register of Historic Places in Sullivan County, New Hampshire


title: Shock Treatment (1973 film)

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Shock Treatment () is a 1973 psychological horror thriller film directed by Alain Jessua. It was released in the United Kingdom by distributor Antony Balch as Doctor in the Nude.

Plot
Feeling at a dead end in life, Hélène Masson, the 38-year-old unmarried owner of a fashion business, books into the private clinic of Dr Devilers on the Brittany coast. Most of the workers, she notices, are unskilled Portuguese men who do not seem healthy, as they are prone to fainting. The clinic's regime for its wealthy clients, all regulars, is centred round fresh cell therapy. Her friend Jérôme, who recommended the place but can no longer afford the hefty fees, warns her that the injections are addictive. Next day he is found dead at the foot of the cliffs, an incident the police inspector considers suicide.

Hélène, who is not a woman to shut her eyes to suspicious faintings or to a suspicious death, starts her own investigating. As she talks Portuguese, she befriends Manoel, one of the unhappy employees, and going to his room finds him unconscious. Hiding behind a curtain, she sees doctors take a large amount of blood from him.

The young and charming Dr Devilers, aware of what she is up to, takes her to bed. Afterwards, while he is asleep, she roots through his files and discovers what she suspected. Attempting to leave, she finds her car sabotaged and the phone lines not working. Breaking into the laboratory, she finds Manoel's corpse partly harvested for serum. Devilers catches her there and, in a final confrontation that mirrors their earlier sexual bouts, she stabs him fatally.

The police inspector, a regular patient who hopes the clinic will be able continue as before, considers all her tales of horror to be the delusions of a disturbed woman and arrests her for murder.

Cast
 Annie Girardot as Hélène Masson
 Alain Delon as Dr Devilers
 Michel Duchaussoy as Dr Bernard
 Robert Hirsch as Jérôme Savignat
  as Camille Giovanelli
  as Me René Gassin
 Gabriel Cattand as Attorney De Boissière
 Robert Party as Colonel de Riberolles

Critical reception
TV Guide wrote that the film "starts off with some clever and suspenseful moments in a relatively good looking setting. However, the tension quickly degenerates. Some attempts at satirizing the affluent pay off but aren't new or terribly witty. Delon gives some energy to his part and Girardot works, but the film never quite comes together" ; while Time Out wrote, "Jessua handles his mixture of suspense and satire with assurance, drawing fine performances from Girardot, confused and finally uncertain of her sanity, and Delon as the diabolic yet half-sympathetic doctor in whose arms she finds herself. A neat cautionary tale on human vanity cum fable about hypocrisy."

References

External links

 Shock Treatment at the British Film Institute

1973 horror films
1970s psychological horror films
1970s psychological thriller films
Films about immortality
Films set in Brittany
Films shot in France
French horror thriller films
French psychological horror films
French psychological thriller films
Italian horror thriller films
Italian psychological thriller films
Mad scientist films
1970s Italian films
1970s French films
French-language Italian films


title: Dudley Perkins

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Dudley Perkins may refer to:

 Dudley Perkins (soldier) (1915–1944), New Zealand soldier
 Dudley Perkins (broadcaster), BBC Radio broadcaster and writer on legal and consumer matters
 Dudley Perkins (motorcyclist) (1893–1978), American champion hillclimb competitor and Harley-Davidson motorcycle dealer
 Dudley Perkins (rapper), American rapper and singer from Oxnard, California
 F. Dudley Perkins (1875–1960), American football player and coach


title: Nymphicula samoensis

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Nymphicula samoensis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by David John Lawrence Agassiz in 2014. It is found on Samoa.

References

Nymphicula
Moths described in 2014


title: Jim Gerritsen

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Jim Gerritsen is an American farmer and activist from Maine. He is mostly known for his involvements in the politics of Organic Faming as the proponent of the same. Gerritsen is President of the Maine-based national trade organization Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association (OSGATA).

In March 2011, Gerritsen and other farmers filed a lawsuit (OSGATA et al v. Monsanto)  against Monsanto Corporation to prevent it from suing farmers who have been contaminated by their genetically modified seeds for patent infringement. Gerritsen used to own and operate Wood Prairie Farm in Bridgewater, Maine, where he primarily grew organic Maine Certified seed potatoes and other organic seed since the farm was established in 1976. The farm's ownership and operations have been handed over to Gerritsen's son 2016 onwards

Activism
In January 2014, the Supreme Court of the United States refused to hear OSGATA et al v. Monsanto, effectively ending the case. However, American farmers gained partial protection with the ruling by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C. which had issued an estoppel, ordering Monsanto not to sue farmers for patent infringement should they become contaminated by trace amounts of Monsanto's patented seed technology.

Gerritsen co-founded the Slow Food Aroostook and he is also known as the co-founder of the local chapter of the Organic Crop Improvement Association.

In November 2011, the Utne Reader named Gerritsen an "Organic Food Champion" and one of the magazine's "world visionaries" for that year.

Gerritsen has connected the message of Occupy Wall Street to the loss of family farms and spoke at the Occupy Farmers March in New York City in December 2011.

In 2013, he received Jim Cook Award for his contributions to Maine's local food movement.

In January 2014, Gerritsen participated in the first ever Agrarian Elders Conference in Big Sur, CA.

On Mother Earth Day 2014, Gerritsen spoke about the superiority of organic farming systems before the United Nations in New York City as a panel member of the 4th Interactive Dialogue of the General Assembly.

In 2016, Gerritsen along with his wife legally sold their farm Wood Prairie Family Farm to their son. In March 2018, Gerritsen and his wife filed for a 'personal bankruptcy protection'. They listed for $460,000 in debt.

References

Anti-GMO activists
Farmers from Maine
Living people
Organic farmers
People from Aroostook County, Maine
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: Tonga National Museum

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The Tonga National Museum is a national museum located in Nukuʻalofa, Tonga.

Background
The Tonga National Museum was established in 1998. Prior to its opening, displays of artefacts were held in the Tonga National Cultural Centre. Soon after its establishment, it was hoped that Tongan objects from across the world would be loaned back to the country for display, and that the TNM would be able to export touring exhibitions globally.

The first exhibition to be held at the museum was entitled 'From the Stone Age to the Space Age in 200 Years: Tongan Art and Society on the Eve of the Millennium' which opened on 4 July 1998. It was curated by Adrienne Kaeppler and featured objects on loan from institutions in the US, as well as Fiji, and Tonga's own collections. It also included objects from Princess Pilulevu Tuita's private collection. The exhibition also included shoes made of fau (hibiscus fibre) worn by Queen Salote to the coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953.

Collection

Tonga National Museum has a wide-ranging collection, including models of indigenous boats, photographs and objects relating to the royal family. It also has an archaeological collection of Lapita culture ceramics. It also holds a collection of material relating to Tonga traditional textiles, including several kupesi tui. The museum has a focus on historical and contemporary Tongan works of art.

The collection also includes Tu'i Malila, a radiated tortoise who reportedly lived to 189 years old and had been given as a gift to the king of Tonga by James Cook. Tu'i Malila died in 1966 and was preserved as a taxidermy specimen in the lobby of the International Dateline Hotel until they were transferred to the museum.

Closure
The museum closed to the public due to a lack of funding. Its collections were transferred to Tupou College Museum. By 2014 there were calls for the museum to be re-established - in particular as a home for archaeological archives.

Revival
In 2017 a project began to explore the possibility of reopening the museum. It was supported by the then Minister of Tourism, Semisi Sika, curator Kolokesa Māhina-Tuai and sculptors Tui’one Pulotu & Steven Fehoko, amongst others. A feasibility study demonstrated that there was a need to re-establish the institution. The redevelopment was funded by the Ministry of Tourism. In 2017 staff from Tonga visited Fiji Museum for training in museum management.

The Tonga National Museum was reopened on 30 October 2020 by HRH Salote Pilolevu Mafile’o Tuita at the Queen Salote Memorial Hall. She gave a speech stating that the national museum has a key role in preserving the heritage of Tonga. Collectors Mark and Carolyn Blackburn loaned objects from their private collection to the museum for the reopening.

Administration
The CEO is Sione Moala Mafi. As of 2020, the museum was open five days per week, from Monday to Friday. The museum is run by staff from the Culture Division of the Ministry of Tourism and Heritage.

Location
The Tonga National Museum is located in Nuku'alofa; it is close to the Tonga National Cultural Centre and Tonga Botanical Gardens.

See also

 List of museums in Tonga
 List of national museums

References

External links

 Flickr: Tonga National Museum's Tortoise
 Google Arts & Culture: Ngatu, Cultural Wealth of the Kingdom of Tonga

Museums in Tonga
Buildings and structures in Nukuʻalofa


title: Crazy Enough (Bobby Wills album)

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Crazy Enough is the third studio album by Canadian country music artist Bobby Wills. It was released on June 24, 2014, via MDM Recordings and distributed by Universal Music Canada. The album includes the singles "Crazy Enough" and "Never Didn't Love You".

Critical reception
Shenieka Russell-Metcalf of Top Country gave the album five stars out of five, calling it "the definition of great country music" and writing that "his voice, range and lyrical versatility is the real deal."

Track listing

Chart performance

Singles

References

External links

2014 albums
Bobby Wills albums
MDM Recordings albums


title: Harry Whitlohn

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Sir Harry Whitlohn was a spoof character who appeared as a "castaway" on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs and was interviewed as though he were real, by the presenter Roy Plomley, on 1 April 1963 - April Fools' Day.

Whitlohn was variously presented as a "man of affairs, musician, mountaineer, and mystic", an "88-year-old mountaineer, mystic and spy" and "the only man living who had collaborated with Brahms".

In reviewing the book "Desert Island Discs: 70 Years of Castaways" by Sean Magee for The Guardian in 2012, Stephen Moss wrote:

The role of Whitlohn was played by the actor Henry Sherek, himself a former castaway on the programme. The character was originally to be called "Harry Whitlow".

References

April Fools' Day
1963 in radio
BBC Radio
April 1963 events in the United Kingdom


title: Golok Rembau

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Golok rembau is a type of golok in a shape of the Tumbok Lada, but in a larger version originating from Sumatra, Indonesia. It is also commonly found in Malaysia.

Description
This golok has an angular hilt and a curved blade. A ricasso or finger coil on the blade after the handle is a common design in most Golok Rembau. The blade has a pointy tip with a slight drop point and is approximately  in length. The edge along the blade has a S shape curvature. While most Golok Rembau use a convex edge, some are made with somewhat hollow or flat ground on the edge near the finger coil for small whittling purposes. The scabbard is usually made of wood, however cheap leather sheath can also be found.

Culture
In Asahan Regency, Indonesia, the Golok Rembau is thought to have the magical power to protect its bearer from attack by tigers. Hence sometimes this golok is also referred to as Golok Rimau or Golok Harimau. Because of this belief, men who owned or had been able to borrow the Golok Rembau, exhibited their weapons with complacency and pride.

See also

Jimpul
Wedung

References

Blade weapons
Machetes
Weapons of Indonesia
Weapons of Malaysia


title: The Burned Barns

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The Burned Barns () is a 1973 French drama film directed by Jean Chapot. The fim score was composed by Jean Michel Jarre and released as album in 1973. In 2003, the soundtrack album was reissued on CD by Disques Dreyfus. The album has been reissued again in 2023 on vinyl and digital formats from Transversales on Bandcamp.

Cast
 Simone Signoret - Rose Cateux
 Alain Delon - Pierre Larcher
 Paul Crauchet - Pierre Cateux
 Bernard Le Coq - Paul Cateux
 Pierre Rousseau - Louis Cateux
 Catherine Allégret - Françoise Cateux
 Miou-Miou - Monique Cateux
 Béatrice Costantini - Lucile Cateux
 Jean Bouise - Reporter
 Renato Salvatori - hôtelier

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External links

1973 drama films
1973 films
French drama films
1970s French-language films
1970s French films


title: The Walking Dead (video game series)

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The Walking Dead  is an episodic graphic adventure game series developed and published by Telltale Games and Skybound Games. It is based on the comic book series of the same name by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adler. First released in April 2012, the series currently spans four main five-episode seasons, an additional episode as downloadable content, and a mini three-episode season, with the fourth and final season being released in 2018 and ended in 2019. The games have been released to personal computers, game consoles, and mobile devices and have had both digital and physical releases.

The series, like the comic, starts with a pandemic that turns the dead into zombie-like "walkers" that decimates civilization, and takes place along the United States eastern seaboard. The series focuses on the character of Clementine, a young girl that is cared for by Lee Everett during the first season, and subsequently travels both by herself and with other groups in later seasons after Lee sacrifices himself for her. During the second season, she becomes the adoptive caretaker of AJ, an infant left parentless. When Clementine later joins with a survival group called the New Frontier in the third season, they strip AJ from her, and Clementine works with another survivor, Javier Garcia, to rescue both their families from the New Frontier. During the final season, some years later, Clementine and AJ join other teenagers holding out at their boarding school to protect it from bandits and walkers. Some of the characters from the comic series, such as Shawn Greene, Glenn Rhee, Hershel Greene, Michonne, Siddiq and Paul "Jesus" Monroe, have appeared during the video game series.

The games in The Walking Dead series eschew typical puzzles and exploration found in most adventure games and instead offer a stronger narrative and interaction with other characters. The game mixes such scenes with more action-oriented ones based on quick time events to elicit excitement during the games. Telltale introduced the feature of having numerous determinants that could result from the player's choices, such as which of two characters to save during an attack, that influenced the story in later episodes and seasons, and the company has used this aspect of player choice in its subsequent adventure games.

While the series was primarily developed and published by Telltale Games under license from Skybound, the studio effectively shuttered in late 2018 in the midst of the fourth main series, The Final Season. Robert Kirkman, creator of The Walking Dead and of Skybound, felt it was necessary to finish off Clementine's story, and hired some of the Telltale staff to finish off the series. Skybound also took over publishing duties for the other games in the series.

The series has been praised for its strong narratives and impact of player choices. The first season was particularly noted as having been considered as revitalizing the waning adventure game genre, which had been languishing since around 2000.

Concept
The Walking Dead series is based on the comic series of the same name. The game's events run concurrently to the comic, starting at the onset of a zombie apocalypse, where dead humans have become undead "walkers" that feed on the living which quickly overwhelmed most of the population. As established in the comic and show, this is a result of a virus that all living humans possess that takes over the brain of the body once the person dies, and the only way to stop this is to destroy the brain.

The game series initially starts in Georgia, with the whole of the first season and the events of 400 Days content taking place within the state. The second series follows the protagonists as they move north along the United States' eastern seaboard, believing there to be a human encampment in the north as well as the colder temperatures slowing the walkers' speed.

Gameplay
The Walking Dead games follow the same point-and-click adventure game approach that other Telltale Games episodic series have followed. Within an episode, the player controls a protagonist as the story progresses through several scenes. Within a scene, the player can move the character to explore the area, examine items, and initiate conversation trees with non-player characters; in these dialogs, the player has the option of selecting a number of options to reply to characters, including the option to stay silent. Other scenes are based on cinematic elements using quick time events in which the player must hit a controller button or a keyboard command as indicated on screen to react to an event. Failure to do so in time can lead to the character's death or other undesirable ending, and the game will restart just prior to these scenes.

All choices made by the player in The Walking Dead are tracked by the game, and certain choices ("determinants") will influence later scenes across the episodes and the series to date, when the player continues from the same saved game state. For example, in the first episode of the first season, the player has an option to save one of two non-player characters from a walker attack; the other character is killed, while the surviving character will uniquely impact other aspects of the story. Other times, selection of certain dialog options will influence the attitude of a non-player character towards the protagonist, and can manifest in later scenes as providing additional options for the player to select from.  Telltale Games tracks these decisions, including five main choices made during the course of each episode, allowing players to compare their choices to others.

Games

Series overview

Season 1 (2012)

At the onset of the zombie apocalypse, Lee Everett rescues young Clementine whose parents had traveled to Savannah prior to the apocalypse. They join with other survivors in Macon, Georgia to protect themselves from the undead, taking shelter in a defensible motel. When their position is overrun by both walkers and scavengers, the group flees and heads towards Savannah hoping to find boats to flee the mainland. Lee promises to reunite Clementine with her parents while teaching her rules of survival in this new world. In Savannah, they find no boats, and a strange man communicating to Clementine via walkie-talkie. When Clementine goes missing, Lee in his panic searching is accidentally bitten by a walker. With his time short, Lee assures the safety of the remaining survivors and goes to rescue Clementine, held by a man who has blamed Lee directly for the death of his family. Lee and Clementine overwhelm the man, and as they escape, they witness Clementine's parents, who have already become walkers. Clementine drags a weakening Lee to a safe location, and Lee, in his final moments of rationality, directs her to find the other survivors, before telling her to kill him or leave him before he fully becomes a walker.

400 Days (2013)
400 Days is a downloadable special episode. It focuses on five different protagonists and it serves as a bridge between Season 1 and Season 2. In the final scene, the survivors of each story are offered to be taken into a safe camp.

Digital pinball adaptation
A 3-D virtual pinball adaptation of the first season, developed jointly by Telltale Games and Zen Studios, was released on August 27, 2014, as downloadable content for most of Zen Studios' family of pinball games and also as a standalone paid mobile app.

Season 2 (2013–14)

More than a year after the first game, Clementine is separated from the other survivors and forced to fend on her own. She meets up with another group that are attempting to flee a man named Carver, who runs the human survivor camp at a strip mall, as alluded to in 400 Days. Clementine learns Carver seeks to capture Rebecca believing her to be carrying his child while she insists it is her husband Alvin's. They come into another group, discovering that Kenny, one of the survivors that Clementine traveled with from the first season and who had lost his wife and son to walkers, has managed to survive. In the midst of a walker attack, they are captured by Carver. Learning that a massive walker horde is approaching the strip mall and will readily overrun it, the group manages to escape with other prisoners, killing Carver in the process after he kills Alvin. During their escape, a woman that Kenny had taken a romantic interest in is bitten by a walker, forcing Clementine to intercede to kill her before she can turn, angering Kenny. As they regroup, Clementine becomes close to Jane, a loner that was part of the prisoners at Carver's camp and who teaches Clementine survival skills. Later, Rebecca dies after giving birth to a child, which they name Alvin Jr. (AJ) As winter sets in, Jane and Kenny become hostile towards each other, and Kenny's distrust of the group leads to a fraction of them fleeing from Kenny, Jane, Clementine, and Alvin Jr.. Jane forces Clementine to see what Kenny has become from witnessing the deaths of his loved ones by faking the death of Alvin Jr., and Clementine is forced to intercede, killing one of them and opting to continue with the other while overseeing to Alvin Jr. herself.

Michonne (2016)

In June 2014, Telltale announced a three-episode series The Walking Dead: Michonne. The mini-series released on February 23, 2015 for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One; February 25, 2015 for iOS and Android; and March 1, 2015 for PC, and serves as a tie-in between the first two The Walking Dead seasons developed by Telltale. The series mostly focuses on Michonne's untold story on what took Michonne away from Rick, Ezekiel, and the rest of Rick Grimes' trusted group and what brought her back. Samira Wiley voiced Michonne in the game. The mini-series was originally scheduled to be released as downloadable content for Season 2. However, in December 2014, Telltale announced that the game would be released as a standalone title that would not require any previous game in the series to play

Season 3: A New Frontier (2016–17)

The third season of The Walking Dead launched with two episodes on December 20, 2016. The season plans to tie in all the possible endings from previous seasons without compromising the story to avoid pushing away new players to the series. In an interview with IGN, Kirkman stated that the third season would bring the video game closer to the comic book's time frame. It takes place a few years after the second season, and includes a somewhat older Clementine along with AJ, the infant she rescues at the end of Season 2 who is now a toddler. Clementine is a playable character along with a new character, Javier. A New Frontier uses the updated Telltale Tool, the same game engine Telltale used for Batman: The Telltale Series.

During the 2016 PAX Expo, Telltale revealed the third season will be released in November 2016, with the subtitle "A New Frontier". Telltale later had to delay the first episode's release until December 20, 2016. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment published retail versions of Season 3 as part of a deal with Telltale for Batman that was released in August 2016. The physical edition was released on February 7, 2017, featuring the first episode on disc and download codes to obtain all future episodes of the series.

The Walking Dead Collection (2017)

Announced in November 2017, The Walking Dead Collection includes all episodes from the first three seasons, as well as "400 Days" and The Walking Dead: Michonne. The collection was released on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on December 5, 2017. The content of the first two seasons and "400 Days" has been visually improved, reflecting on improvements Telltale has made in their engine since these seasons were first released, including high-definition texture mapping for all survivor characters, improved dynamic lighting, and upgrading the game's graphics to use DirectX 11 over DirectX 9. The older games also use the user interface elements developed for the third season as to provide a consistent interface to the players.

The Walking Dead Collection was nominated for the Tappan Zee Bridge Award for Best Remake at the New York Game Awards 2018.

Season 4: The Final Season (2018–19)

Announced during the July 2017 San Diego Comic Con, The Walking Dead: The Final Season, launched as four-episode series on August 14, 2018 for Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, with a Nintendo Switch version to launch later that year. Episodes are expected to launch roughly each month through December 2018. Clementine will return as the lead character, voiced by Hutchinson, as Telltale found that fans of the series were not pleased with how little interactivity there was with Clementine in A New Frontier. Telltale wanted to have the final season call back to what fans had praised about the first season, and knew they needed to make Clementine the focus. With this direction, Telltale decided to make this the final season for The Walking Dead series so that they can create a satisfactory conclusion to Clementine's story arc. For this purpose, Telltale brought back Gary Whitta, the writer for the first season and "400 Days" content, to help close out Clementine's story.

The story follows from A New Frontier with Clementine having rescued AJ from the McCarroll Ranch, with an ellipsis a few years ahead, where AJ is now a young boy. With diminishing resources amid the apocalypse, Clementine and AJ find the importance of staying with communities of vital importance, meeting other characters who have little memory of the time before the downfall of society. Clementine starts to teach AJ the essentials of survival as Lee had taught her. Telltale had initially considered writing a version of Clementine that had become more jaded, but found this was far too different from the established version of the character, and reworked her to be more sympathetic.

The final season used the updated version of the Telltale Tool first introduced in Batman: The Telltale Series, along with improvements in the visual style to approach the style used in The Walking Dead comic. Some scenes will feature "unscripted" zombies who may attack Clementine if the player is not careful, creating new freeform combat sequences, while other parts of the game will continue to use quick-time events as from previous games.

Despite the title The Final Season, Telltale did not rule out future The Walking Dead games; Creative Director Kent Mudle said that The Final Season title represented the end of Clementine's journey from Telltale's view, but could revisit the franchise through other characters.

However, due to the sudden near-closure of Telltale Games on September 21, 2018, only two of the four episodes were released and production on the latter two were cancelled, effectively leaving the season half-finished. Skybound Entertainment later stepped in to develop the rest of the season, re-hiring some ex-Telltale staff in the process, as Kirkman had felt it necessary to properly complete Clementine's story. Skybound has also acquired the publishing rights to all previous Telltale The Walking Dead games.

The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series (2019)

Skybound published The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series that includes all episodes from all four seasons, as well as 400 Days and The Walking Dead: Michonne, for release on Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on September 10, 2019. Each of the previous episodes in the series was remastered to use the new rendering system that was introduced in The Final Season, and adds over ten hours of developers and voice actor commentary. Additional improvements have been made in character models movement and lip syncing.

Additional releases
In addition to the Definitive Series edition, Skybound has also published all four seasons (including the 400 Days content) for the Nintendo Switch by January 21, 2020, and republished all four seasons, 400 Days and Michonne on personal computer digital storefronts in January 2020, after they had been pulled from sale from Telltale Games' closure.

Main cast and characters

The Walking Dead video game series introduces new characters developed by Telltale for the games. Season One is based around Lee Everett (voiced by Dave Fennoy), a Georgia college professor who had been charged with murder, and was in the midst of being sent to prison at the start of the walker outbreak. Lee escapes and encounters young Clementine (voiced by Melissa Hutchison), hiding in her treehouse after her babysitter had turned and her parents not yet back from vacation. Lee becomes a protective figure to her to help reunite her with her parents. Within Season Two taking place about a year later, Clementine is now the central character, struggling to find a place in several survivor groups.

Other major characters include Kenny, a fisherman who has suffered numerous losses of family and loved ones and has become emotionally unstable, Luke, a former entrepreneur who carries himself logically than emotionally, Jane, a young lone-wolf woman that teaches Clementine the values of self-preservation that a person's life comes first than anybody else, Carver, a principle antagonist of Season Two that seeks out the group of survivors that Clementine has joined believing one carries his child, and A.J., the newborn infant that Carver seeks who Clementine takes care of after his mother succumbs to the elements. The fate of several characters are determinant based on the actions that the player has taken in previous episodes, or otherwise unresolved within the narrative of the games. As the game takes place within the comic's universe, there have been some character crossovers with the series; Hershel Greene, Shawn Greene and Glenn, three characters from the comic series, have appeared briefly in Season One. Michonne, a prominent comic character, is featured as the playable-character in the Michonne mini-series, which also features comic characters Pete, Siddiq, Elodie, Dominic and Colette (the latter two are mentioned, but not seen, in the comics). Jesus makes an appearance in The New Frontier.

Reception

Sales
According to Telltale, the combined games in the series have sold over 50 million episodes worldwide by July 2017.

Season 1 and 400 Days
The Walking Dead has received critical acclaim, with reviewers giving praise for the harsh emotional tone, the characters, story and the resemblance to the original comic book, although criticizing the graphical glitches. The game received over 80 Game of the Year awards and many other awards.

"Episode 1 – A New Day" received positive reviews. Aggregating review websites GameRankings and Metacritic calculated scores of 85.14% and 84/100, respectively, for the PlayStation 3 version, 83.87% and 79/100 for the Xbox 360 version, and 83.38% and 82/100 for the PC version. The game received various accolades including the IGN "Editors' Choice", PC Gamer "Editors' Choice", Xbox Editors' Choice Award, and the PlayStation Gold Award.

"Episode 2 – Starved for Help" received positive reviews. GameRankings and Metacritic calculated scores of 86.53% and 84/100, respectively, for the PC version, 86.26% and 84/100 for the Xbox 360 version, and 85.90% and 84/100 for the PlayStation 3 version. The game won the GameSpy E3 2012 award for "Best Adventure Game".

"Episode 3 – Long Road Ahead" received positive reviews. GameRankings and Metacritic calculated scores of 88.47% and 88/100, respectively, for the Xbox 360 version, 86.11% and 87/100 for the PlayStation 3 version, and 85.41% and 85/100 for the PC version. IGN's Greg Miller gave the game a 9 out of 10, saying "It's a disturbing, depressing and entertaining entry in a journey that's been nothing short of excellent so far." GameSpot gave the game an 8.5, saying "The Walking Dead has passed the midway point of its series of five episodes with every indication that the game will keep getting better right through to its inevitably depressing and unsettling conclusion." MTV also gave it a positive review, saying "Telltale has created a series of wrenching, emotional decisions in the middle of a collection of not-too-hard puzzles in a visually-impressive adaptation of the Robert Kirkman comic series (with some nods to the TV show)."

"Episode 4 – Around Every Corner" received positive reviews, but to a lesser extent than the previous episodes. GameRankings and Metacritic calculated scores of 84.00% and 80/100, respectively, for the PC version, 82.50% and 82/100 the Xbox 360 version, and 78.94% and 81/100 for the PlayStation 3 version.

"Episode 5 – No Time Left" received critical acclaim. GameRankings and Metacritic calculated scores of 94.75% and 89/100, respectively, for the PC version, 88.15% and 89/100 for the Xbox 360 version, and 87.75% and 88/100 for the PlayStation 3 version.

400 Days received positive reviews. GameRankings and Metacritic calculated scores of 78.20% and 78/100, respectively,  for the PlayStation 3 version, 78.00% and 78/100 for the PC version, and 76.88% and 80/100 for the Xbox 360 version.

Season 2
The Walking Dead: Season Two overall received generally positive reviews from critics earning praise for its atmosphere, tension, and Clementine's newly appointed role as the protagonist, but earned criticism for its lack of hub areas and certain aspects of its storytelling.

Episode 1 – All That Remains received positive reviews. Aggregating review websites GameRankings and Metacritic gave the PlayStation 3 version 81.29% and 82/100, the PC version 78.76% and 78/100 and the Xbox 360 version 77.50% and 80/100. Matt Liebl from GameZone gave the episode an 8.5/10, stating that it "...is just a taste of what's to come -- a mere setup for the horror that awaits us in the final four episodes."

Episode 2 – A House Divided received positive reviews. Aggregating review websites GameRankings and Metacritic gave the PlayStation 3 version 87.29% and 82/100, the PC version 81.39% and 81/100 and the Xbox 360 version 79.44% and 80/100. Mitch Dyer from IGN gave the episode a 9.5/10, saying it is one of the best episodes Telltale Games has ever made.

Episode 3 – In Harm's Way received positive reviews. Aggregating review websites GameRankings and Metacritic gave the PlayStation 3 version 82.43% and 80/100, the Xbox 360 version 82.25% and 82/100 and the PC version 82.22% and 81/100.

Episode 4 – Amid the Ruins received mixed to positive reviews. Aggregating review websites GameRankings and Metacritic gave the PlayStation 3 version 79.22% and 78/100, the PC version 78.58% and 78/100 and the Xbox 360 version 72.00% and 71/100.

Episode 5 – No Going Back received positive reviews,
higher than its predecessor. Aggregating review websites GameRankings and Metacritic gave the PlayStation 3 version 81.67% and 87/100, the PC version 79.19% and 78/100 and the Xbox 360 version 77.00% and 84/100. Mitch Dyer of IGN gave the episode a 9.5/10 saying that the finale is "an impressive and intelligent episode, and among Telltale Games' finest stories."

Michonne

The Walking Dead: Michonne received mixed reviews from critics earning praise for its action sequences, atmosphere, and the character development of Michonne, but earned criticism for its story, side characters, short episode lengths, and graphical glitches.

Season 3: A New Frontier

The Walking Dead: A New Frontier received mixed-to-positive reviews  from critics with particular praise directed at the game's updated graphics, new cast of characters, action sequences, and overall new direction. However, the short episode lengths and the treatment of the Season 2 endings were both subjects of criticism. The game's story and Clementine's shift to a supporting character were both met with a mixed response.

Season 4: The Final Season

The Walking Dead: The Final Season received generally positive reviews earning praise for its characterization, visuals, and upgraded gameplay mechanics, and is considered by both critics and fans to be an improvement over its predecessor and a return to form for the series.

Notes

References

External links

Video game franchises


title: Albany Town House

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The Albany Town House is a historic town hall building at the junction of Maine Routes 5 and 35 with Vernon Street and Hunt's Corner Road in Albany Township, Maine.  Built in 1848, it is the only surviving governmental structure of the former town of Albany, which was incorporated in 1803 and disincorporated in 1937.  Since 1947 the building has been owned by the non-profit Albany Improvement Association, and continues to serve the area as a community hall.  The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

The town house is a single story wood-frame structure on a small rise.  Nearby area a few houses, as well as the township's two other public buildings, a grange hall (1909) and church (1877–78).  It is about  square, with its main entrance facing south, toward Hunt's Corner Road.  The main facade consists of a central entry flanked by sash windows.  There is evidence that the doorway originally had sidelight windows; these appear to have been covered over or removed in a 20th-century re-siding of the structure.  The door is topped by a slightly triangular header, a vernacular nod to Greek Revival styling popular at the time of the building's construction.  A small addition, containing a privy and woodshed, extends north from the main block.

The interior of the building is an open hall with a small separated kitchen area in the southwest corner.  The ceiling is finished in tin, a replacement (at unknown date) for the original plaster ceiling.  The floor is narrow hardwood, and the walls are lined with beadboard wainscoting.  There is a raised platform in the northeast corner, which once held a wood stove.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Oxford County, Maine

References

City and town halls on the National Register of Historic Places in Maine
Greek Revival architecture in Maine
Buildings and structures completed in 1848
Buildings and structures in Oxford County, Maine
Town halls in Maine
National Register of Historic Places in Oxford County, Maine


title: Morgan Lloyd (gymnast)

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Morgan Lloyd (born 7 June 1999) is a Caymanian artistic gymnast. She represented the Cayman Islands at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics and 2015 Pan American Games.

Competitive History

2014

Lloyd competed at the Junior Pan American Championships in Aracaju, Brazil. She finished 34th with an all-around score of 39.334.

At the Summer Youth Olympics, she placed 37th with an all-around score of 41.250.

2015

At the Pan American Games in Toronto, Lloyd placed 30th in the all-around with a score of 40.050. She advanced to the apparatus final as a reserve. In the final, she scored 41.150 and placed 23rd overall.

References

1999 births
Caymanian female artistic gymnasts
Gymnasts at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics
Living people
Gymnasts at the 2015 Pan American Games
Pan American Games competitors for the Cayman Islands


title: 5:01

text:
5:01 is the second studio album by Canadian country music artist Tim Hicks. It was released on August 5, 2014 via RGK Entertainment Group/Open Road Recordings. The album features appearances by Blackjack Billy, Clayton Bellamy and Madeline Merlo.

A special edition of the album, 5:01+, was released on September 4, 2015, including the single "Young, Alive and In Love".

Track listing

Chart performance

Album

Singles

References

External links

2014 albums
Tim Hicks albums
Open Road Recordings albums


Media coverage of the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict were varied depending on the media source. In the English-speaking world, U.S. news sources were often more sympathetic to Israel, while British news sources were more critical of Israel. Commentators on both sides have claimed that the media is biased either for or against Israel. According to The Times of Israel, British sources were more often critical of Israel. As the conflict progressed and Palestinian deaths increased, media became somewhat more critical of Israel.

Within Israel, the newspaper Haaretz issued an editorial that the "soft Gaza sand ... could turn into quicksand" for the Israeli military and warning about the "wholesale killing" of Palestinian civilians. The article declared, "There can be no victory here." Naturally there was a lot of coverage in the Israeli media.

In Egypt, Hamas received criticism from TV hosts.

Operation names
 The Israeli media the operation called "מבצע צוק איתן" meaning "Strong Cliff".
 Israel chose to use "Operation Protective Edge" in English. Most media around the world didn't distinguish between the operation against Hamas and the Israel–Gaza conflict.
 Hamas's media called the operation "العصف المأكول". The last sentence from Surat Al-Fil, "and He made them like eaten straw".
 PIJ called it "البنيان المرصوص", also from the Quran, Surat 61.4, "Verily, God loves those who fight in His cause in rows as if they were a solid structure"

Threats against reporters
Hamas allegedly threatened reporters in Gaza and deterred them from reporting news that was critical of Hamas. This is allegedly why many news updates were released only after the TV teams left Gaza strip. NDTV published news that Hamas had fired from civilian areas. The reporter Gallagher Fenwick from FRANCE 24, used exclusive footage of a Hamas rocket to prove the militant group has been firing from populated areas.

Israel's Channel 10 was hacked by Hamas with a message "Prepare for a drawn-out stay in bomb shelters", showing pictures of wounded civilians in Gaza. Thousands of editors requested on Yonit Levi's Facebook page that she should be fired after she reported on, the deaths and casualties in Gaza, on Israel's Channel 2 Prime Time News. Many threats were so abusive that police had to conduct an investigation of them. In the Knesset Yariv Levin called for Gideon Levy, who had been the subject of numerous death threats, which required him to be protected by bodyguards, to be indicted for treason because his articles displayed empathy with Palestinians and were vocal in opposing the war. Eldad Yaniv on Facebook wrote "The late Gideon Levy: get used to it." Friends recommended that he should leave the country for his own safety. Israeli-Arab Knesset member Haneen Zoabi controversially said that those who had murdered the three kidnapped Israeli teenagers were not terrorists but responding to the ongoing Israeli occupation of the West Bank. Later she also became the victim of a death threat campaign and was confined to her home on security grounds.

Criticism of coverage

Purported pro-Israel bias
In The Guardian, Owen Jones called the BBC's headline "Israel under renewed Hamas attack" [as] "perverse as Mike Tyson punching a toddler, followed by a headline claiming that the child spat at him", and that "the macabre truth is that Israeli life is deemed by the Western media to be worth more than a Palestinian life."

In London, Newcastle, Manchester, Liverpool and Glasgow, protesting demonstrators accused the BBC of "pro-Israeli bias" in its coverage of the ongoing conflict. It claimed that news coverage was "entirely devoid of context or background". An open letter to BBC director signed by 45,000 people including Noam Chomsky, John Pilger, Ken Loach, Brian Eno and Jeremy Hardy said it would "like to remind the BBC that Gaza is under Israeli occupation and siege [and] that Israel is bombing a refugee population". (Israel ended its occupation of Gaza in September 2005.) The BBC has defended its coverage.

Building on research by the Glasgow University Media Group that examined the media coverage of recent Israeli attacks on Lebanon and Gaza, Greg Philo, research director of the university's media unit, described how senior BBC journalists have spoken to him about being unable to get the Palestinian viewpoint across. The organization, through a spokesperson, has said in response to criticism, "We cover stories based on how newsworthy they are, and what else is happening."

ABC News received criticism when Diane Sawyer misidentified photos of rubble in Gaza as being in Israel.  Sawyer later apologized on-air for the error.

British politician George Galloway said that "300 Palestinians are completely ignored by the same newspapers, by the same television stations and by the same political leaders who are threatening sanctions and war against Russia.... Why the double standard? Why is the blood in Ukraine so much more noteworthy than the blood in Gaza?"

NBC News was criticized for ordering its correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin out of Gaza after witnessing the killing of four Palestinian children. He was later reinstated. NBC News stated that their deployments are constantly reassessed, but did not officially give a reason for his removal or reinstatement.

Purported anti-Israel bias
CAMERA, a pro-Israel media advocacy and lobbying body and its affiliates (including BBC Watch), criticized British and American news outlets, including The New York Times, CNN, The Guardian, Associated Press, The Washington Post, and the BBC, for an anti-Israel bias. It alleged factual errors, omissions, biased wording and anti-Semitism that led to Israel being portrayed in what it construed as an overly-negative light.

Investigative reporter Judith Miller criticized US media, and her former employer The New York Times in particular, for being unsympathetic to Israel and downplaying the context of the kidnapping and murder of Israeli teenagers.

Diplomat Dore Gold and his Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs think tank have been highly critical of international media coverage of the conflict, saying "The real truth about what transpired during the war was superseded by a highly subjective presentation that suited the Hamas interest, and which it skillfully sold to international opinion-makers."

In June 2015 the Israeli Foreign Ministry released a controversial cartoon video that mocked international media coverage of the conflict, claiming it was heavily biased against Israel. The Foreign Press Association in Jerusalem released a statement officially rebuking the video.

Social media
The ubiquity of social media in this conflict has in its immediacy changed how people understand war, given how it short circuits the traditional editorial process. There are more journalists on the ground than during the 2009 conflict, and what once could have been a remark made to a friend in bar can now be sent out on Twitter.

In the eight days leading up to Operation Protective Edge, the social media site Twitter hashtag #GazaUnderAttack was used over 375,000 times. Often the hashtag was used on tweets using photos that claimed to show how people were suffering due to Israeli attacks. A BBC study showed that in some cases these photos were from previous Israeli attacks, or from wars in Syria and Iraq,
with some images being recycled from as long ago as 2007.

A false report was circulated on social media and via SMS that a rocket from Gaza had hit a petrochemical plant in Haifa. These reports cited Haaretz as their source but turned out to be false. Haaretz denied issuing such warnings.

A photograph published by Danish journalist Allan Sørensen on Twitter caused uproar online, gathering more than 8,500 retweets. It showed Israelis in Sderot gathered on top of a hill to celebrate and cheer as they watched Israeli airstrikes on Gaza. People reportedly brought chairs, sofas, popcorn, and hookahs with them. The scene was described as "something resembling a party". Similarly, according to The Jerusalem Post, Palestinians in Hebron cheered as Gazan rockets were fired at Tel Aviv. People reportedly stood at rooftops chanting "Allahu Akbar!" ["God is greatest!"] at the sight. When four Palestinian children were killed by Israeli fire while playing on a beach in Gaza, the Israeli newssite Walla!'s talkback received comments ranging from "There isn't a more beautiful picture than those of dead Arab children," and "Really, these are great pictures. They make me so happy, I want to look at them again and again," to "As many children as possible should die."

After 13 soldiers were killed in Gaza on 20 July, many families found out about their family member's death via WhatsApp hours before officially being told by the IDF, which eventually led to the arrest of three soldiers for leaking the news.

Many foreign journalists inside Gaza have Tweeted that they were witnessing Hamas using human shields by launching rockets from within civilian areas including hospitals and the hotels the journalists were staying, as well as Hamas members allegedly dressing up as civilians while hiding weapons. Pro-Palestinian Tweeters responded by making threats and calling the journalists Israeli spies.

YouTube
Shock Israel's Security is a propaganda song produced by Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades in 2012, advocating shocking the security of Israel by terrorist attacks. It removed from YouTube because it violated its policy prohibiting hate speech.

On 16 July, reserve soldiers resented Netanyahu for not letting them into Gaza after nine days on the border, having left their wives and work. Mordechai Yitzhar of Battalion 630 uploaded to YouTube, a song with the Hebrew title "The Protective Edge Anthem". It reported that soldiers are worried that they have abandoned their private lives in vain if Israel gives up the ground incursion into the Gaza Strip. During the last week of the operation, many citizens, in a parody of the Ice Bucket Challenge uploaded to YouTube under the hashtag "RubbleBucketChallenge" or "GazaBucketChallenge". Instead of emptying a bucket of iced water over their heads, participants used a bucket of dust and rubble to raise awareness of the situation in Gaza.

Ethnix's song, "Tomorrow I will return home" (מחר אני בבית), became one of the most famous songs after operations. It was sung by the band to Israeli soldiers in the middle of the ground offensive.

Advert ban
The Israel Broadcasting Authority banned a 1-minute, 25-second radio advert, produced by the Israeli human rights' group B'Tselem, which listed the names and ages of some Palestinian children killed in the conflict in Hebrew; the grounds given were that the advert was "politically controversial". B'Tselem appealed the decision, which it said was a "far-reaching statement" that amounted to censorship, and the organization asked: "Is it controversial that the children [aren't] alive? That they're children? That those are their names? These are facts that we wish to bring to the public's knowledge." Their appeal was declined. They announced that they would petition the Supreme Court of Israel.

Publication of antisemitic material
The Sydney Morning Herald apologized for running an antisemitic cartoon after Australian Attorney-General George Brandis denounced it as "deplorable".

Questions on civilian deaths

The BBC reviewing the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights figures, stated the 725 civilian men killed outnumbered the 214 women by 3.5 to 1. Additionally 216 confirmed Hamas members makes the disparity larger.

The New York Times presented statistics questioning that 72% were civilians. They stated that men ages 20–29, the most common for Hamas militants, made up 34% of the death toll despite making up 9% of the Gaza population. Additionally women and children made up just 33% of the deaths, despite making up 71% of the population.

Hamas claims during the fighting
During the fighting media sources affiliated with Hamas were reported as claiming to have killed a large number of Israeli soldiers;
taken soldiers captive;
shot down an F16 plane, destroyed at least two Merkava tanks and flying UAVs over Tel Aviv and taking pictures of the IDF HQ.

See also
Media coverage of the Arab–Israeli conflict

References

External links
Use With Care: A Reporter's Glossary of Loaded Language in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (from the International Press Institute)

2014 Israel–Gaza conflict
Media coverage of the Gaza–Israel conflict


title: 2014 Young Hollywood Awards

text:
The 16th Annual and the final Young Hollywood Awards were held on Monday, July 28, 2014 in Los Angeles, California, previously recorded the day before. Kelly Osbourne hosted the show, with Justin Bieber being honored for his charity work and contributions to the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and Vanessa Hudgens was honored with the Trendsetter Award.

The show honors the accomplishments of the entertainment industry's rising young stars from the worlds of television, music, film, fashion, sports and social media. Fans vote online in the categories of Fan Favorite Male and Female Actor.

Winners and nominees

The first-named in each category is the winner.

References

2014 awards
2014 music awards
Young Hollywood Awards 2014
2014 in American music


title: Vivienne (photographer)

text:
Florence Vivienne Mellish (1889–1982), known simply as Vivienne, was a British photographer and singer.

She was married to the artist Ernest George Entwistle (1877–1963), and took up photography in 1934, in order to assist him and their photographer son, Antony Beauchamp, (pronounced Beecham). Another son, Clive Entwistle, was an architect and civil engineer.

Her autobiography, They Came to My Studio: Famous People of Our Time was published in 1956.

She appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 22 July 1963.

208 of her works are in the National Portrait Gallery, as is one photograph of her, and works by Beauchamp.

Bibliography

References

1889 births
Place of birth missing
1982 deaths
Place of death missing
20th-century British women singers
20th-century British photographers
British women photographers
20th-century British women photographers


title: Undulambia lindbladi

text:
Undulambia lindbladi is a moth of the family Crambidae. It is found on the Galapagos Islands. The species has been recorded from fern covered habitats.

The length of the forewings is  for males and  for females. The forewings are dark brown with white and orange markings. The hindwings are usually white with dark brown and orange lines. However, there are darker specimens with dark brown hindwings with inconspicuous lines.

Larvae have been reared on Pteridium aquilinum var. arachnoideum. They mine the stem of their host plant.

References

External links

Moths described in 2006
Musotiminae


title: Bear Valley, Minnesota

text:
Bear Valley is an unincorporated community in Chester Township, Wabasha County, Minnesota, United States.

Geography
The community is located along Wabasha County Road 3 near Zumbro Falls. Cold Creek, a valley tributary of the nearby Zumbro River, flows through the community. 635th Street, 638th Street, and County Road 68 are also in the immediate area. Other nearby places include Zumbro Falls, Mazeppa, Oak Center, Lake City, and Bellechester.

History
A post office called Bear Valley was established in 1857, and remained in operation until 1902. The community was so named on account of a bear sighting by early settlers in the valley.

The Grange association at Bear Valley was one of the earliest in Minnesota, established in 1870.  The Bear Valley Grange Hall was built in 1874.

References

Unincorporated communities in Minnesota
Unincorporated communities in Wabasha County, Minnesota
1857 establishments in Minnesota Territory
Populated places established in 1857


title: Amal Amin

text:
Amal Amin (born 1929) is an Egyptian botanist.

She participated in naming the following plants:

 Asteraceae Echinops taeckholmianus Amin
 Asteraceae Launaea subgen. Microrrhynchus (Less.) Amin ex Rech.f.
 Asteraceae Launaea subgen. Pseudosonchus Amin ex Rech.f.
 Asteraceae Launaea sect. Pseudosonchus (Amin ex Rech.f.) N.Kilian
 Asteraceae Launaea subgen. Zollikoferia (DC.) Amin ex Rech.f.
 Asteraceae Launaea brunneri (Webb) Amin ex Boulos
 Asteraceae Launaea exauriculata (Oliv. & Hiern) Amin ex Boulos
 Asteraceae Launaea polydichotoma (Ostenf.) Amin ex N.Kilian
 Asteraceae Launaea procumbens (Roxb.) Amin
 Asteraceae Launaea remotiflora (DC.) Amin ex Rech.f.
 Asteraceae Launaea rueppellii (Sch.Bip.) Amin ex Boulos
 Asteraceae Launaea taraxacifolia (Willd.) Amin ex C.Jeffrey

The species Launaea amal-aminiae is named after her.

References

Living people
1929 births
Egyptian scientists


title: Cycling at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's team time trial

text:
These are the official results of the Men's Team Time Trial at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy, held on 26 August 1960. There were 126 participants from 32 nations.

The event, which was held in extremely hot conditions, was marred by the death of Knud Enemark Jensen, who collapsed from sunstroke and suffered a fractured skull. It was later determined that before the race Jensen had taken Ronicol, a blood circulation stimulant.

Final classification

References

Cycling at the Summer Olympics – Men's team time trial
Road cycling at the 1960 Summer Olympics


title: M. V. Krishnappa

text:
Mothakapalli Venkatarame Gowda Krishnappa (1 July 1918 – 1 August 1980), popularly known and referred to as M.V.K. was an Indian Freedom Fighter, Indian National Congress Politician, Social Reformer and Educationist, rendered immense service for the upliftment of the rural masses throughout his illustrious career, the contributions of Krishnappa to Karnataka in general and Kolar & Chikkaballapur Districts, in particular, are noteworthy and impressive and is a household name to the people of these regions, particularly the farming community and the underprivileged cherish his memory in gratitude.

He was a great visionary to whom the welfare of the underprivileged society was of paramount importance, in their welfare and upliftment he saw a bright future for the country.

Early life and education
The ancestors of M.V.K. were close associates of Magadi Kempe Gowda and were custodians of his royal mint. They hailed from a hamlet called Roddam which is presently in Pavagada Taluk of Tumkur District. The ancestors of M.V.K. settled in Mothakpalli in Mulbagal Taluk of Kolar District, Karnataka. Even today the M.V.K. family is popularly known as Roddagaru Vokkaliga’s indicating the place of their origin.

Into this contented self-made religious family of agriculturists was born a third baby boy on 1/06/1918 to Venkatrame Gowda & Changamma, he was named Krishne Gowda, however, the boy re-christened himself at the tender age of 12 to M.V. Krishnappa. The ethical values nurtured through Folk Tales, Puranas and the lives of great men narrated by the grandmother to all the household children assembled, left a lasting impression on the young mind of Krishnappa.

Krishnappa had his primary education in his native village Mothakpalli, Middle School at Bangarpet and High School at KGF. He had a College education at the Intermediate College, Bangalore and Degree in Law from Maharaja’s College Mysore.

Quit India Movement & Freedom Struggle
During his high school days at KGF, he noticed the inhuman condition under which the miners of the internationally reputed Tylor & Tylor company were working, the company indulged in notorious exploitative methods and extracted work from the miners, though the company was earning significantly high profits it did not provide basic amenities to the miners and any occasional demands from them were suppressed, the young spirit of Krishnappa couldn’t tolerate this oppression and he took up the cause of the miners and organized the agitated miners into a single unified unit and launched a movement for realizing their rights with the company. Tylor & Tylor initially didn’t care for this but the young Krishnappa remained incognito and intensified the agitation in the face of this agitation, the powerful English Company, which had the full support of the authorities, was compelled to yield. The miners finally gained their right to basic amenities and this struggle was to be the first eventful accomplishment in the life of Krishnappa and helped him to shape and sharpen his skills of leadership and laid a strong life-lasting foundation for the future agitations he was to launch along with fellow Freedom Fighters K.C.Reddy for the liberation of the country and the merging of Princely State Of Mysore with the Union Of India.

The coming of M.K. Gandhi into the political scenario of India changed the course of the Freedom Struggle as well as Freedom Fighters respectively including the young Krishnappa. During his college days, Krishnappa was instrumental in urging young students to take up the cause and join the Quit India Movement against the British Raj, Seetharama Shantananda, a young student who gave up his dream of becoming a scholar and joined the movement under the leadership of Krishnappa recalled and wrote in the “Quit India Golden Jubilee Memoirs” that “Krishnaanna (Krishnappa being his first name and "Anna" in the local language being big brother) was a leader of an outstanding merit who inculcated the spirit of Patriotism in myself which ultimately made me jump into the freedom movement”. In 1939 Satyagraha movement started in KGF under the guidance of M.V.Krishnappa, M. Ramakrishnan, and Doraiswami of Kolar, the goal of the Satyagraha Camp was to intensify the agitation.

Political career
Belonging to the Indian National Congress, Krishnappa was elected to the Lower House of Indian Parliament, the First Lok Sabha from Kolar from 1952-1957 at the age of 31, subsequently elected to Second Lok Sabha from Tumkur from 1957-1962, re-elected from Tumkur to the Third Lok Sabha from 1962-1967,elected from Hoskote from 1967-1970, re-elected from Hoskote from 1971-1977 from Mysore State and from Chikballapur in Karnataka in 1977-1979.

He vacated his seat Tumkur in 1962 to make way for Ajit Prasad Jain, who had lost from Kairana in 1962 Indian general elections against Yashpal Singh, an Independent candidate. Subsequently he was inducted in S. R. Kanthi cabinet (1962) with Law & Parliamentary Affairs and Labour Portfolio, also nominated to Mysore Legislative Council on 14 May 1962 and remained as MLC till 6 March 1967 when he resigned following the nomination to Lok Sabha from Hoskote in 1967. He was inducted to Third Nijalingappa ministry in 1962 and was given the Revenue Portfolio till he was re-elected to Lok Sabha in 1967. He was instrumental in the Renovation and expansion of Sri Lakshmi Venkateshwara Swamy Temple, Bangaru Tirupathi, Guttahalli, Kolar district.

B. Rangappa was later nominated as MLC to his vacated seat on 3 May 1967 and got retired on 18 May 1970.

Krishnappa died in Bangalore on 1 August 1980, aged 62.

Family
His brother M. V. Venkatappa was also a politician and was the Karnataka Legislative Assembly speaker from 1999 to 2004. They were born in a Vokkaliga family.

His nephew Rajeev Gowda, (son of M. V. Venkatappa) was also an Indian politician and academician. He was a former member of parliament in the Rajya Sabha from 26 June 2014 till 25 June 2020 and a national spokesperson for the Indian National Congress.

References

External links
Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website

1918 births
1980 deaths
India MPs 1952–1957
India MPs 1957–1962
India MPs 1962–1967
India MPs 1967–1970
India MPs 1971–1977
India MPs 1977–1979
Indian National Congress politicians from Karnataka
Lok Sabha members from Karnataka


title: List of countries by average elevation

text:
This is a list of countries and territories by their average elevation above sea level.

List

Per sources:

See also
List of elevation extremes by country
List of highest points of African countries
List of highest points of Asian countries
List of highest points of European countries
List of islands by highest point
List of highest towns by country
List of highest mountains on Earth

References

Elevation


title: Bruce Meade

text:
Bruce Allen Meade (born c. 1951) is an inductee of both the Independent Softball Association Hall of Fame and the United States Slo-pitch Softball Association Hall of Fame. Meade has also been named to the All-World Tournament Team seven times. During his career, he appeared in nine ISA Super Major World Tournaments and three Senior World Tournaments.

Early athletic career
Born in Bradenton, Florida, Bruce Meade did not play softball as a youth. Meade started roller skating at the age of 8 and won a regional championship for boys 18 and under in the freestyle category. He was also on his high school track team and competed in High Jump and Pole Vault.

Softball career highlights
Meade has a lifetime average of .735 and hit more than 2,000 home runs in his career including 230 home runs in 1978 alone. In his 20-year career, Meade never batted below .625 and for 11 of those years he batted over .700.

510 Foot home run
Meade is best known for hitting a regulation softball (Dudley SB12L red stitch) 510 feet in Amarillo, Texas, in 1978. The distance was documented by an American Softball Association official who was in attendance.

Family
Bruce Meade is married to his wife Ellen and they have two children, Bryce and Blake. Bruce Meade's sister Ellen Meade is an American beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Florida 1973.

References

External links

1950s births
Living people
Softball players from Florida
Sportspeople from Bradenton, Florida


title: T. R. Robinson

text:
T. R. Robinson  was a horologist and an authority on turret clocks. He was a Fellow of the British Horological Institute (FBHI).

Robinson appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 2 December 1963.

Published works

References

Year of birth missing
Place of birth missing
Year of death missing
Place of death missing
English clockmakers


title: Hans-Hermann Sprado

text:
Hans-Hermann "Hannes" Sprado (born 3 July 1956 in Bassum; died 24 July 2014) was a German journalist and author. Until his death he was editor-in-chief and publisher of the popular science magazine P.M. Magazin.

Life
Sprado started his career as journalist with an editorial department traineeship at the Weser-Kurier in Bremen. Later he worked as editor for Bunte, Bild and the German Marie Claire. Since 1994 he worked for Gruner + Jahr. He became editor-in-chief of P.M. and also installed line extensions such as P.M. Biografie and P.M. History. Sprado also wrote novels and popular science books.

He lived with his family in Neubruchhausen near Bremen.

Works
 Risse im Ruhm. Münster, Solibro, 2005,
 Tod auf der Fashion Week. Münster, Solibro, 2007,
 Das dunkle Ritual. Reinbek bei Hamburg, Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verlag, 2009,
 Runengrab. Reinbek bei Hamburg, Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verlag, 2009,
 Verfressen, sauschnell, unkaputtbar: Das phantastische Leben der Kakerlaken. Ullstein. Berlin, Ullstein, 2012,
 Kalt kommt der Tod. Bremen, Edition Temmen, 2013,
 Der Klang des Weltalls: Wie Planetentöne, heilige Klänge und die Musik der Natur heilen können. Arkana, 2014,

References

External links
 Hans-Hermann Sprado at solibro.de

German journalists
German male journalists
1956 births
2014 deaths
German male writers