title: Joseph Reed (playwright)

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Joseph Reed (March 1723 – 15 August 1787) was an English playwright and poet known for his 1761 farce The Register Office and the 1769 comic opera adaptation of Henry Fielding's Tom Jones.

Childhood and early career

Reed was born at Stockton, Durham, in March 1723, the second son of John Reed, a presbyterian ropemaker. After a very scanty education he succeeded to his father's business, which he practised with success through life. His leisure he devoted to a study of English literature, and he developed literary aspirations; but he always regarded himself as an amateur, and, when he began to publish, often described himself on his title-pages as "a halter-maker."

In August 1744 there appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine a poem by Reed, "in imitation of the Scottish dialect, on the death of Mr. Pope." In 1745 he printed, at Newcastle, a farce called The Superannuated Gallant. In 1747 he visited London with a view apparently to gaining an entrance into theatrical society. Ten years later he removed his business and family to Sun-tavern Fields, Stepney, London, and on 6 July 1758 Theophilus Cibber produced, at Covent Garden, a burlesque tragedy by Reed, in five acts, called Madrigal and Trulletta. It was humorous but critics regarded it as very long, although Reed blamed Cibber for its want of success. Tobias Smollett denounced it, when published, in The Critical Review, and Reed replied to his critic in a pungent pamphlet called A Sop in the Pan for a Physical Critick, 1759.

Success with The Register Office
Somewhat more successful was a boisterous and indelicate farce, entitled The Register Office, which was produced at Drury Lane on 23 April 1761. Two of the best characters, Lady Wrinkle and Mrs. Snarewell, were suppressed by the stage censor, but the unexpurgated piece was published, and in an advertisement at the close Reed pointed out that the manuscript had been submitted to Samuel Foote in August 1758, and that Foote had stolen his Mrs. Cole in The Minor from the Mrs. Snarewell of The Register Office. When the farce was revived at Drury Lane on 12 February 1768, Reed supplied a new character, Mrs. Doggerel. The play long held the stage, and was included in John Bell's, Cawthorn's, Mrs. Inchbald's, and other familiar collections.

Reed next essayed a tragedy on the subject of Dido, and obtained an introduction to Samuel Johnson, with a view to submitting his labours to him. "I never did the man an injury," Dr. Johnson afterwards lamented, "yet he would read his tragedy to me." Dido was acted at Drury Lane for Holland's benefit on 28 March 1767, with a prologue, written by Garrick and spoken by King, in which humorous reference was made to Reed's trade in halters. In 1787 Reed, in The Retort Courteous, or a Candid Appeal, attacked Thomas Linley, the manager of Drury Lane, for declining to revive Dido. It was performed at Drury Lane, under the title of The Queen of Carthage, for Palmer's benefit on 28 April 1797, when Mrs. Siddons played the heroine. Reed's friend, Joseph Ritson, prepared it for the press in 1792; but, although it was at once printed, it was not announced for publication till 1808. Before the day of publication arrived, however, all the copies were burnt in the fire at Nichols's printing-office, and it was never reprinted.

Adaptation of Fielding's Tom Jones
Reed was a friend of the author Henry Fielding who had had great success with the novel, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. Reed worked on an adaption of the story as a comic opera, a project that Fielding encouraged. The drama opened on 14 January 1769 at Covent Garden, with Shuter as Western and Mattocks as the hero, and was repeated thirteen times. Fielding praised Reed's version publicly.

In 1772 Reed, in the Morning Chronicle, defended Garrick — despite a pending quarrel between them — from apparent libel by Dr. William Kenrick, who had just issued the scandalous Love in the Suds. Reed wrote under the pseudonym of Benedict, and Kenrick reprinted his letters in the fifth edition of his pamphlet. Reed's last acted play was The Impostors, or a Cure for Credulity, which he adapted from Gil Blas, and brought out at Covent Garden, for Woodward's benefit, on 17 March 1776. Reed died on 15 August 1787, aged 64, at his residence in Sun-tavern Fields, and was buried at Bunhill Fields. He married, in 1750, Sarah, daughter of John Watson, a flax-dresser of Stockton, and three children survived him. The eldest, John Watson Reed, was an attorney of Ely Place, Holborn, with antiquarian tastes; he died on 31 January 1790.

Other works
Reed's other publications include:
A British Philippic inscribed to the Earl of Granville, 1756, 4to.
The Tradesman's Companion, or Tables of Averdupois Weight, 1762, 12mo.
An Epitaph on the … Earl of Chatham, 1784.
St. Peter's Lodge, a Serio-comic Legendary Tale in Hudibrastic Verse, 1786, dedicated to the Prince of Wales.
A Rope's End for Hempen Monopolists, or a Dialogue between a Broker, a Ropemaker, and the Ghost of Jonas Hanway, Esq. In which are represented the pernicious effects of the rise in the price of hemp. By a Halter-maker at the service of all monopolists, 1786; an attack on those who were seeking to corner the market in hemp.

In 1761 Reed contributed to the Monitor, a periodical issued in support of the Earl of Bute's administration; and in 1764 he sent to the Universal Museum an amusing autobiography.

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1723 births
1787 deaths
English dramatists and playwrights
18th-century English writers
18th-century English male writers
Writers from London
People from Stockton-on-Tees
English male dramatists and playwrights
English male poets


title: Siân Welby

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Siân Welby (born 3 September 1986) is an English television presenter and radio host, best known for her work with Channel 5, BBC, ITV and Channel 4. Welby used to host her own national radio show on Heart every Monday to Thursday from 7–10 pm. Welby now fronts Capital Breakfast with Roman Kemp and Chris Stark.

Early life
Welby was born in Nottingham and grew up in Upton, a small village in Nottinghamshire, England. She attended Minster School, Southwell. She began presenting at 19, and she was still working part-time as a shop assistant for New Look when a starring role in an advert for New! Magazine, led to her being spotted by former Channel 5 owner Richard Desmond in October 2010. She was unveiled as the new face of Channel 5 News in November 2010. She has described how she would work as a retail assistant by day, and record online videos in the fitting room after the shop had closed.

Career

Television
She presents Formula E's global TV show, Street Racers, on Channel 5. Welby hosted the Revolution cycling show series for Channel 4, alongside co-worker from 5 News, newscaster Matt Barbet. She presented her first documentary, 'Sarah Storey’s Longest Hour’ on Channel 4. Previously she has presented cycling shows for BT Sport, Eurosport and ITV4 and is the female face of Electronic Arts.

From 2010 to 2016, she was the lead weather presenter on Channel 5. In 2016, she was shortlisted by the Radio Times in a poll to be named Great Britain's best ever weather presenter.

In September 2018, Welby was announced as the face of Barbour's new Autumn/Winter 'Weather Comfort Collection'.

Welby became a presenter for the online quiz game, HQ Trivia in the UK, making her first appearance on Monday 9 July 2018.

In February 2019, Welby became the presenter for another online quiz game called Heart's Triple Play, broadcast exclusively on Facebook Watch. Heart's Triple Play is run by the British radio network, Heart, and is scheduled to run for 10 weeks.

On 9 October 2021, Welby appeared on CBBC show Saturday Mash Up alongside Capital Radio co-star Sonny Jay. Having received a record 79% of the viewer vote, Welby took part in Slime and Punishment, and was covered in 20 buckets of multi-coloured gunge .

Radio
Since January 2017, Welby has hosted her own national radio show on Heart every Monday to Thursday from 7pm to 10 pm. In July 2018, she took over the Sunday morning breakfast show from Stephen Mulhern and Emma Willis. In 2017, she teamed up with Ed Sheeran to record a kazoo cover of his hit 'Shape of You' live on air. She has a personalised written thank you note from Sheeran framed in her house. On 20 March 2020, it was announced that Welby would join Capital Breakfast with Roman Kemp which is fronted by Kemp and co-hosted by Sonny Jay as a replacement for Vick Hope who left on 21 February 2020.

On 26 March 2021, as her years anniversary on Capital, Welby was given an opportunity to beat a Guinness World Record for the most sounds recognised in a minute, and beat the current record. In 2019 she covered The Sky VIP Official Big Top 40 on Capital and Heart

Streaming

In 2018 Welby became one of the presenters at HQ Trivia. She hosted episodes of the UK show from mid-2018 until the show's conclusion in late 2018.

Social media
Her forecasts have attracted over 30 million views online, and have been featured by TIME magazine, New York Times and MTV. In 2016, Welby was challenged to a pun battle with Greg James live on BBC Radio 1.

Welby is the face of BBC One social channels. She launched the award-winning Snapchat account and has presented live from events such as the BAFTAs, Sports Personality of the Year, BRIT Awards and BBC Music Awards. In 2017 she won a Digiday Publishing Award for Best Use of Snapchat for her work on the BBC One campaign.

Personal life
Growing up, she looked up to kids TV presenter Cat Deeley. She stated "Cat was a bit of an idol. Mainly because she wasn't afraid to laugh at herself and be silly." Her favourite TV show is Curb Your Enthusiasm and she states that comedy drives a lot of her work, stating in an interview that "no matter what kind of show I am working on, or what kind of day I might be having, my goal is always the same – find the funny in everything."

Charity work
Welby is an active supporter of several charities including the Sick Children's Trust and Leonard Cheshire Disability Centre. She told The Daily Express that "The Sick Children’s Trust is a wonderful charity. My older sister sadly died from meningitis before I was born, so it's a cause that’s close to my heart". Since 2013, she has been the face of the NHS Keep Well, Keep Warm campaign, aimed at keeping vulnerable members of society warm during the cold winter months. In 2016, she was recognised for her creativity and commitment to charity work in London by the Mayor of Wandsworth, Cllr Nicola Nardelli.

References

1986 births
Living people
Weather presenters
English television presenters
People from Upton, Newark and Sherwood
5 News presenters and reporters
BT Sport presenters and reporters


title: Atomic Brain Invasion

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Atomic Brain Invasion is a 2010 American science fiction horror film directed by Richard Griffin. The film premiered in August 2010, and released to DVD on October 12, 2012.

Premise
When a spacecraft carrying an intergalactic plague crash-lands in a small New England town, it's up to a group of high schoolers and an alien abductee to stop the army of slime-spewing brain creatures from their one goal: kidnapping Elvis Presley!

Cast

References

External links

 https://web.archive.org/web/20140727023414/http://www.best-horror-movies.com/review?name=atomic-brain-invasion-2012-review
 https://web.archive.org/web/20140714115956/http://www.cinema-suicide.com/2010/10/14/atomic-brain-invasion-review/

2010 films
2010s science fiction horror films
2010 horror films
American science fiction horror films
2010s English-language films
2010s American films


title: Rumford Archaeological Sites

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The Rumford Archaeological Sites are a collection of prehistoric Native American sites in the vicinity of the Androscoggin River near Rumford, Maine. These six sites provide a window of observation into the movements and practices of Native Americans from c. 7,000 BCE (the early Archaic period) to the Late Woodland period and contact with Europeans. These sites are the subject of three separate listings on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972: the Rumford Falls I-IV Sites, the Rumford V Site, and the Town of Rumford Site. The locations of these sensitive sites are not generally publicized.

Rumford Falls I
This site, Maine Survey Number 49.24, is located on a terrace above the river, and has been undisturbed by plowing.  The site is deeply stratified,   and has been dated to the Archaic period, with evidentiary finds dating to the early Archaic.  Finds at this site include stone tools sourced from Mount Jasper in Berlin, New Hampshire.

Rumford Falls II
This site, Maine Survey Number 49.25, is located on the banks of the river. has been dated to the Woodland period.  The site is stratified in time across much of the Woodland period; ten high-quality ceramic vessels were found here.  The number and quality of the ceramics found here are the best in the area.  Relatively few stone artifacts were found here.  The style of the ceramics found are consistent with finds elsewhere dated to the Early and Middle Woodland Periods.

Rumford Falls III
This site, Maine Survey Number 49.26, is located on a terrace above the river.  Its features include a depression, which may be evidence of occupation (a house pit).  Most of the artifacts collected at this site consist of fire-cracked rock, but stone artifacts from material mined at Mount Jasper were also recovered.  The site has been dated to the Woodland period.

Rumford Falls IV
This heavily stratified site, Maine Survey Number 49.27, has been dated to the Archaic period, although there is evidence of later occupation or use. The site includes an open hearth dated to c. 5,000 BCE.  Finds at this site include stone tools sourced from Mount Jasper in Berlin, New Hampshire. This site is among the highest above the river, and was intensively used during the Middle Archaic.

Rumford Falls V
This site, Maine Survey Number 49.28, has been dated to the Archaic period, although there is evidence of later occupation or use. It is also where the earliest radiocarbon dates in this group has been found, and it includes a heavily stratified area documenting significant environmental events. Finds at this site include a toolmaking workshop area, and stone tools sourced from Mount Jasper in Berlin, New Hampshire.

Town of Rumford Site
The Town of Rumford Site, Maine Survey Number 49.20, is a Woodland period site, encompassing a particularly well-defined living area.  The site is particularly significant because it encompasses at least two separate occupation periods, clearly separated by the site's stratigraphy to periods 500 years apart.  Ceramics of the types found in these layers, when found at other sites, had traditionally been folded into a general Late Woodland-Contact Period grouping, but this site's finds moade it possible to differentiate them.  The site suffers from erosion, particular during exceptionally high-water events.

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

References

Sources

Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Maine
Rumford, Maine
National Register of Historic Places in Oxford County, Maine


title: Ansel Galimov

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Ansel Galimov (born April 15, 1991) is a Russian professional ice hockey player. He is currently playing with HC Spartak Moscow in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL).

Playing career
Galimov made his KHL debut playing with HC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk during the 2012–13 KHL season before playing with Metallurg Novokuznetsk in the KHL from September 2013 until April 2015.

After two seasons with Dynamo, Galimov, while still contracted, was granted free agent status from the KHL following the 2016–17 season, due to the club's debt on July 4, 2017. With Dynamo unwilling to offer an improved contract, Galimov left to sign a two-year contract with Avangard Omsk the following day on July 5, 2017.

On 8 May 2020, Galimov agreed to a one-year contract with his seventh KHL club in HC Sochi.

References

External links

1991 births
Living people
Avangard Omsk players
HC Dynamo Moscow players
Metallurg Novokuznetsk players
HC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk players
Russian ice hockey forwards
Severstal Cherepovets players
HC Sochi players
HC Spartak Moscow players
Tatar people of Russia
Tatar sportspeople
Volga Tatar people


title: Virgin Soil

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Virgin Soil () is an 1877 novel by Ivan Turgenev. It was Turgenev's sixth and final novel as well as his longest and most ambitious.

Plot
The novel centres on a depiction of some of the young people in late nineteenth century Russia who decided to reject the standard cultural mores of their time, join the Populist movement, and 'go amongst the people', living the lives of simple workers and peasants rather than lives of affectation and luxury. The novel has a number of central characters around whom the action revolves. It explores, for instance, the life of Alexey Dmitrievich Nezhdanov, the illegitimate son of an aristocrat, who seeks to radicalise the peasantry and involve them in political action. He is given a job as tutor to Kolya, the nine-year-old son of Sipyagin, a local politician, and goes to live on his country estate. Whilst working there he becomes attracted to Marianna, the niece of the family.

Another central character is Vasily Solomin, who manages a local factory and is also a Populist, though one with less optimism about the potential of the movement to effect fundamental socio-economic change.

Reception
One of the major concerns for Turgenev at the time of publication was his anticipated reception from the public on the one hand and the censor on the other; he expected, for instance, that his depiction of Populism and its adherents (seen as good people inherently, but unfortunately undertaking a path that Turgenev saw as not conducive to success) would gain a critical reception as hostile in some quarters as Fathers and Sons (in which he had explored the nihilism, a precursor of populism).

References

External links

 Virgin Soil by Ivan Turgenev at Project Gutenberg

1877 Russian novels
Novels by Ivan Turgenev
Russian political novels
NYRB Classics


title: Richard Blacow

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Richard Blacow MA (died 1760) was a Canon of Windsor from 1754 to 1760.

Career

He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford and graduated BA in 1744, MA in 1747.

He was ordained deacon in Rochester on 24 September 1749.

He was appointed:
Fellow of the Royal Society 1754 - 1760
Rector of Hartley Westpall 1757 - 1760

He was appointed to the eighth stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in 1754 and held the canonry until 1760.

In 1755 he wrote a letter to William King, principal of St Mary Hall in Oxford, giving an account of the riot in Oxford in February 1747 and accusing William King of being responsible for it. Blacow had been in Oxford at the time of the riot, and brought the three ringleaders to the Vice-Chancellor for punishment.

Notes

1760 deaths
Canons of Windsor
Alumni of Brasenose College, Oxford
Fellows of the Royal Society
Year of birth unknown


title: 2014 Chevrolet Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix

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The 2014 Chevrolet Indy Dual in Detroit was the first doubleheader of the 2014 IndyCar Series season, hosting Rounds 6 and 7 of the 2014 IndyCar Series season. Will Power won Race 1, and Hélio Castroneves won Race 2.

Race 1 results

Notes
 Points include 1 point for leading at least 1 lap during a race, an additional 2 points for leading the most race laps, and 1 point for Pole Position.

Race 2 results

Notes
 Points include 1 point for leading at least 1 lap during a race, an additional 2 points for leading the most race laps, and 1 point for Pole Position.

 Graham Rahal was involved in a lap one crash but was able to continue until the damage became too bad to continue.

References

Chevrolet Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix
Chevrolet Detroit Isle Grand Prix
Chevrolet Detroit Isle Grand Prix
Chevrolet Detroit Isle Grand Prix
2014 in Detroit
Detroit Indy Grand Prix


title: Walter Ball (alderman)

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Walter Ball  (died 1598) was from a wealthy Irish merchant family. His father Bartholomew Ball, his brother Nicholas Ball and sons Robert Ball and Edward Ball all served as Mayor of Dublin. He married Eleanor Ussher, daughter of Alderman Robert Ussher of Santry and his first wife Margaret St. John. He conformed to the established religion (Anglican) to progress politically, and became Commissioner for Ecclesiastical Causes, imposing the Reformation on Dublin. This led to the conflict with his mother, Margaret Ball, whom he imprisoned for recusancy in Dublin Castle, where she endured conditions of appalling squalor for four years. Despite protests from other family members, especially his brother Nicholas, Walter defended his actions, arguing that he had shown clemency by sparing his mother's life, and that she could free herself by swearing the Oath of Supremacy (although it was almost impossible for a Roman Catholic to do this in good conscience). He remained implacable and during his brother's term as Mayor managed to thwart his efforts to free their mother. Margaret died in prison, and now is venerated as the Blessed Margaret Ball by the Catholic church for being Martyred for her faith.

Elected an Alderman in 1573, he served as mayor of Dublin from 1580 to 1581.

He took great interest in the foundation of Trinity College Dublin, and was one of the collectors for its building. Along with John Terrel and William Usher, they took possession of the land of All Hallows Monastery. He died on 8 December 1598.

His widow remarried Dr. Robert Conway, Master in Chancery, who died in 1602, and then Sir John Elliott, Baron of the Court of Exchequer (Ireland), who outlived her. She died in 1613. Archbishop James Ussher married Phoebe Challoner, a granddaughter of Walter and Eleanor.

References

Lord Mayors of Dublin
Year of birth unknown
People from Ballygall
1598 deaths


title: William Gibson (priest)

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William Gibson DD (1717 - 1754) was a Canon of Windsor from 1746 to 1754 and Archdeacon of Essex from 1747 to 1752.

Family

He was born in 1717, the son of Bishop Edmund Gibson of London.

Career

He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford and graduated BA in 1737, MA in 1740, BD and DD in 1751.

He was appointed:
Rector of Thorley, Hertfordshire
Rector of Gilston, Hertfordshire
Rector of St Botolph Bishopsgate 1743 - 1752
Rector of St Martin Ludgate 1741 - 1743
Prebendary of Rugmere in St Paul’s 1741 - 1743
Prebendary of Kentish Town in St Paul’s 1742 - 1746
Prebendarty of Chamberlainwood in St Paul’s 1742 - 1746
Archdeacon of Essex 1747 - 1752

He was appointed to the eighth stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in 1746 and held the canonry until 1754.

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1717 births
1754 deaths
Canons of Windsor
Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford
Archdeacons of Essex