title: Camille Rowe

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Camille Chrystal Pourcheresse, known professionally as Camille Rowe, is a French-American model and actress who appeared on the cover of Playboy in 2016.

Early life
Rowe was born in Paris, France to an American mother, who was a model and dancer at Le Lido club, and a French father, a prominent restaurateur. Rowe was raised in the suburbs of Ville-d'Avray, Paris. Her childhood was split between France, New York and California.

Modeling career

Rowe was spotted in 2008 at a café in Le Marais, Paris, while studying at university, and became the face of Chloé. She has appeared in magazines such as Vogue Paris, Marie Claire Italia, Madame Figaro, Vogue Italia, Vogue España, and Elle France. She has also modeled for Louis Vuitton, Opening Ceremony, Gap Inc., Abercrombie & Fitch, Tommy Hilfiger, Seafolly, Rag & Bone, H&M, Tory Burch, Ralph Lauren, and Adidas Originals. In 2016, Rowe appeared on the cover of Playboy and walked for the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.

Personal life
Rowe was in a relationship with Harry Styles from 2017 to 2018. She inspired his 2019 album Fine Line.

Filmography

Film

Music videos

References

External links

Living people
French female models
Actresses from Paris
French film actresses
21st-century French actresses
2010s Playboy Playmates
French people of American descent
French expatriates in the United States
French expatriates in England
The Society Management models
Age controversies
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: Unity Building (Chicago)

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The Unity Building in Chicago, Illinois, at 127 North Dearborn Street in the Chicago Loop, was a 17-story building that was once the tallest skyscraper in Chicago. Gustave Loehr had an office in this building, and it was in his office that Rotary Club of Chicago, held its first club meeting, on February 23, 1905.

The Unity Building was built between 1890 and 1892 by John Peter Altgeld, who became the 20th Governor of Illinois. It was demolished in 1989.

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1892 establishments in Illinois
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title: Perseus-M

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Perseus-M is a pair of microsatellite developed by Russian-American company Dauria Aerospace and launched in 2014. The satellite is built in 6U Cubesat bus (0.3x0.2x0.1m), optimized for piggy-back launch.
All instruments are powered by solar cells mounted on the one side of spacecraft, providing approximately 6W average power.

Launch
Perseus-M1 and Perseus-M2 were launched from Dombarovsky site 13, Russia, on 19 June 2014 by a Dnepr rocket. Telemetry beacons were received and decoded by multiple amateur ground station operators starting on 6 July 2014.

Mission
The satellites are intended primarily for radio-frequency maritime surveillance under contract with Russian Federation.

See also

 2014 in spaceflight

References

External links

 Dauria Aerospace facebook page (mixed English and Russian)
 http://www.deimos-space.com/en/

Satellites orbiting Earth
Satellites of Russia
Spacecraft launched in 2014
2014 in Russia
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title: Atlantic 10 Conference baseball awards

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At the end of each regular season, the Atlantic 10 Conference names major award winners in baseball.  It currently names a Coach, Pitcher, Player, and Rookie of the Year.  The Coach of the Year, dating to 1988, is the oldest.  Pitcher and Player were added in 1993, Rookie in 1994.

Through the end of 2014, Rhode Island has won the most major awards, with 12.  The only other school to win more than ten is George Washington, with 11.

Three players have won more than one of the awards.  In 2000, George Washington's Greg Conden was named both Rookie and Pitcher of the Year. Duquesne's B. J. Barns was Rookie of the Year in 1997 and Player of the Year in 1999; Rhode Island's Dan Batz did the same in 2001 and 2004.

Coach of the Year
The Coach of the Year award is presented annually to the conference's most outstanding coach, as voted by the A-10's coaches at the end of each regular season.  The award has been presented since 1988.

In 2014, Saint Joseph's head coach Fritz Hamburg received the award for the first time.  After tying for 8th and missing the conference tournament in 2013, the Hawks went 35-16 (18-8 A-10) in 2014, setting a program wins record.

Mike Stone of UMass and Fred Hill of Rutgers have each won the award three times, a conference record.  Both coaches won their awards in consecutive seasons, Stone from 1994–1996 and Hill from 1991–1993.  Only one other coach, Rhode Island's Frank Leoni from 2003–2004, has won the award in consecutive years.

George Washington is the only school to have three coaches win the award. The Colonials' John Castleberry won it in 1989, Tom Walter in 1998, and Gregg Ritchie in 2013.  Three other schools have had two coaches earn the honor: Xavier (John Morrey in 1997 and Scott Googins in 2008), La Salle (Larry Conti in 1999 and Mike Lake in 2010), and Rhode Island (Frank Leoni in 2003 and 2004 and Jim Foster in 2011).

Winners by school

By school
The following is a table of the schools whose coaches have won the award, along with the year each school joined the conference, the number of times it has won the award, and the years in which it has done so.

Pitcher of the Year

The conference's Pitcher of the Year award is given annually to the best pitcher in the Atlantic 10, as voted by the conference's coaches at the end of the regular season. It was first presented in 1993.

In 2014, Saint Joseph's Jordan Carter received the award.  On the regular season, the senior had 10 wins, a 2.19 ERA, and 75 strikeouts.  He was selected by the Cleveland Indians in the 22nd round of the 2014 MLB Draft.

Richmond's Tim Stauffer is the only pitcher to win the award twice. He won it in 2002 and 2003. Stauffer and 1993 winner Steve Kline went on to play in Major League Baseball.

Winners by season
Below is a table of the award's winners since it was first presented in 1993.

By school
The following is a table of the schools whose pitchers have won the award, along with the year each school joined the conference, the number of times it has won the award, and the years in which it has done so.

Player of the Year
The conference's Player of the Year award is given annually to the best position player in the A-10, as chosen by the conference's coaches at the end of the regular season.  It was first presented in 1993.

In 2014, Saint Joseph's outfielder Collin Forgey won the award. In the regular season, he hit .368 and slugged .561 for the Hawks.  Two players have won the award twice: Fordham's Bobby Kingsbury in 2001 and 2002 and St. Bonaventure's Brian Pellegrini in 2006 and 2007. Kingsbury and 1996 recipient Kevin Barker later played in Major League Baseball.

Winners by season
Below is a table of the award's winners since it was first presented in 1993.

By school
The following is a table of the schools whose players have won the award, along with the year each school joined the conference, the number of times it has won the award, and the years in which it has done so.

In 2014, Massachusetts pitcher/designated hitter Mike Geannelis won the award. During the summer, he played for the Nashua Silver Knights of the Futures Collegiate Baseball League.

Rookie of the Year
The Rookie of the Year award is annually presented to the conference's best freshman, as chosen by the league's coaches at the end of the season. It was first presented in 1994. Both pitchers and position players are eligible.

Winners by season
Below is a table of the award's winners since it was first presented in 1994.

By school
The following is a table of the schools whose players have won the award, along with the year each school joined the conference, the number of times it has won the award, and the years in which it has done so.

References

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College baseball conference trophies and awards in the United States
NCAA Division I baseball conference coaches of the year
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title: East Hamilton High School

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East Hamilton High School is a public school located in Ooltewah, Tennessee. Established and opened in 2009, it was originally a "middle high school" that enrolled students from grades 6–12. In December 2020, the new East Hamilton Middle School opened and East Hamilton Middle High School became just East Hamilton High School. Now students in grades 6-8 attend the new East Hamilton Middle School, and students in grades 9-12 attend East Hamilton High School. Both schools also now have separate school web addresses. Currently, the principal of East Hamilton High School is Brent Eller.

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title: Fabio De Luigi

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Fabio De Luigi (born 11 October 1967) is an Italian actor, voice actor, comedian, film director, television presenter, and former baseball player.

Biography
Great-grandson of Tonino Guerra; has a son, Dino, born in 2007, and a daughter, Lola, born in 2011, had by his partner Jelena.

Selected filmography
Marriages (1998)
All the Moron's Men (1999)
Johnny the Partisan (2000)
Commediasexi (2006)
Natale a New York (2006)
Natale in crociera (2007)
As God Commands (2008)
Natale a Rio (2008)
Many Kisses Later (2009)
The Friends at the Margherita Cafe (2009)
Men vs. Women (2010)
Women vs. Men (2011)
The Worst Week of My Life (2011)
Love Is in the Air (2012)
The Worst Christmas of My Life (2012)
Wannabe Widowed (2013)
A Woman as a Friend (2014)
Soap Opera (2015)
Si accettano miracoli (2015)
Tiramisù (2016)
Questione di karma (2017)
Put Grandma in the Freezer (2018)
When Mom Is Away (2019)
When Mom Is Away... With the Family (2020)

Discography
 2002 - Olmo & Friends.

External links

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Living people
Italian baseball players
Italian male film actors
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title: Not Cool (film)

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Not Cool is a 2014 American romantic teen comedy film directed and edited by Shane Dawson (in his feature directorial debut), written by Dan Schoffer, and produced by Lauren Schnipper, Dawson, and Josh Shader. The film centers on a group of high school friends reuniting over their Thanksgiving break during college. Along with Hollidaysburg, it is one of two films that were produced for the Starz reality competition show The Chair, where the competitors use the same screenplay to create their own film. The film stars Cherami Leigh, Shane Dawson, Drew Monson, Michelle Veintimilla, Lisa Schwartz, and Bill Laing. The film grossed $36,026 in the US against an $800,000 budget and received negative reviews. As of 2023, it is Dawson's only directed feature film.

Plot
In a small Pennsylvania town, a group of high school friends reunite during a Thanksgiving break from their college classes. Former prom king Scott (Shane Dawson) is dumped by his hyperactive, erratic girlfriend Heather (Jorie Kosel) and finds a new love interest in Tori (Cherami Leigh). Meanwhile, Scott's younger sister Janié (Michelle Veintimilla) is approached by Joel (Drew Monson), who tries to woo her using the knowledge he gained from her social media posts.

Cast
 Cherami Leigh as Tori, is an 18-year-old girl who is the main character and narrator. She is known to be downbeat and suicidal, but then falls for her old bully, Scott, who has changed since high school.
 Shane Dawson as Scott, an 18-year-old, who starts to develop feelings for one of his old high school victims after he notices she has changed.
 Drew Monson as Joel, is an 18-year-old nerdy "player" who has feelings for Scott's younger sister Janie.
 Michelle Veintimilla as Janie, is a 17-year-old popular girl and Scott's younger sister who looks all put together on the outside, but is lonely on the inside.
 Lisa Schwartz as Marisa, Tori's successful, blind 22-year-old sister, who is marrying Gil, who Tori considers a "freak show/nutjob."
 Bill Laing as Ray, Scott and Janie's father, who is selling his store that Scott and Janie love and Joel works at, so he can be with a woman named Anastasia.
 Jorie Kosel as Heather, is Scott's erratic and hyper ex-girlfriend who is obsessed with sex and anything that involves sex. She forces herself on Scott at a party, humiliating Tori when she walks in on them.

Production
Not Cool, along with Anna Martemucci's Hollidaysburg, is one of two films sponsored by the Starz reality competition show The Chair. The films vied for a $250,000 prize based on multi-platform voting system. The film cost $800,000 and took 20 days to shoot.

Release
The film was released through Starz Digital Media theatrically on September 19, 2014.

The film was released digitally on September 23, 2014.

Reception
On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 14% based on seven reviews and an average rating of 2.1/10. On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of one based on four reviews, indicating "overwhelming dislike". This puts the film among the lowest rated films on Metacritic.

Frank Schreck of The Hollywood Reporter wrote, "Filled with ethnic stereotypes, scatological humor, profane language and characters who are not so much caricatures as cartoons, Not Cool well lives up to its title." Neil Genzlinger of The New York Times wrote that the "characters are vile; the acting is terrible (Mr. Dawson, who has had some YouTube success, cast himself in a leading role); the tone is a confusing mishmash; and there’s not an original thought or joke in the thing." The Los Angeles Times called the film "an abyss, an insult to the craft of filmmaking, storytelling and entertainment in almost every way."

On the final episode of The Chair, broadcast on November 8, 2014, it was revealed that Dawson's film won the prize. The results were tabulated with SurveyMonkey, where Not Cool averaged 63 out of 100 in comparison to Martemucci's film which averaged 58. In total, 39% of the votes cast were disqualified for lack of evidence that the voter viewed both films. Chris Moore, executive producer of The Chair, noted that Dawson's film was mainstream. The Chair producer Zachary Quinto called Dawson's film "ultimately a vapid waste of time," but was "glad Shane won — he set out to do what he wanted to do."

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American sex comedy films
American teen films
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2010s English-language films
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Point Park University
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title: African Women's Development Fund

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The African Women's Development Fund (AWDF) is the first pan-African foundation to support the work of women's rights organisations in Africa. AWDF was founded in 2001 by Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi, Joana Foster and Hilda M. Tardia. AWDF belongs to the International Network of Women’s Funds, an umbrella organisation for feminist foundations that focus on supporting women's human rights.

Achievements
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia and 2011 Nobel Peace Prize winner, delivered AWDF's tenth anniversary lecture at the celebrations in Accra, Ghana, in November 2010. On the occasion, Sirleaf said: "Heartfelt congratulations to you, AWDF Sisters, on reaching your tenth year! You have succeeded in your goals; you have weathered the global economic crisis; you have demonstrated resilience and determination to succeed in your noble cause to promote leadership and empowerment for African women."

Between 2001 and 2016 the AWDF distributed US$26 million to women's rights organizations.

AWDF signed a working document to guide its analysis and practices during The African Feminists Forum that took place in Accra from 15 to 19 November 2016.

References

External links
 Official website

Women's organisations based in Ghana
Non-profit organizations based in Africa
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Organizations established in 2001
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title: Systemic vulnerability

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Systemic vulnerability is a concept in political economy of development which refers to conditions that tend to make a state more effective in promoting development. These conditions have been described as "broad [governing] coalitions", "resource constraints", and "external threat".

References

Political economy


title: Pseudonemacladus

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Pseudonemacladus is a genus of plants in the Campanulaceae. It contains only one known species, Pseudonemacladus oppositifolius, native to north-eastern Mexico (States of San Luis Potosí and Hidalgo).

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title: Mascom

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Mascom Wireless Proprietary Limited, is a Botswana mobile telecommunications company. Its head office is in Gaborone. It was established in Gaborone, Botswana on February 17, 1998.

History
The company was first licensed on 17 February 1998. It was founded by Strive Masiyiwa.

Until 2003, Portugal Telecom owned a controlling stake in the company. In 2005, MTN Group purchased a 44% stake in Mascom for $128 million.

In 2016, Dzene Makhwade-Seboni was appointed Chief Operations Officer and became CEO of the company in 2019.

It provides the widest coverage in Botswana, reaching over 95% of the population.

Services

Internet
Mascom offers users mobile internet via EDGE, 3G, 4G and 4.5G, 4G wingle. Mascom also offer internet service via FTTH (Fiber To The Home). On the 25th of February 2022, Mascom has been the first mobile telecommunication to introduce 5G on four different places around Gaborone.

Gallery of the WTISD 2017 Masunga, North East District

See also
 Mobile telephony in Africa
 Telephone numbers in Botswana

References

External links

Telecommunications companies of Botswana
Telecommunications companies established in 1998
Internet service providers of Botswana


title: Yasser Salihee

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Yasser Salihee (1974–2005) was an Iraqi doctor and journalist from Baghdad. After the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, he published in newspapers throughout the United States, and was known among colleagues for mixing medical and journalistic work. In 2005 Salihee began an investigation of torture and killings by Iraqi Interior Ministry commandos known as the Wolf Brigade. Salihee was killed by a U.S. army sniper on 24 June 2005 while approaching an unmarked checkpoint.

Salihee's death received international attention as emblematic of the problems facing journalists and security in Iraq during the war.

Career

At the start of the American-led Iraq War, Salihee was a doctor in Baghdad, and married to another doctor in the city. Struggling to support his family on the Iraqi Health Ministry's salary, he began working for the U.S. National Public Radio and for Japanese news services. Salihee was able to earn a whole months' salary as a doctor working a single day while translating for American media. In early 2004, Salihee approached Knight Ridder'''s Baghdad bureau requesting work as a journalist. The bureau was looking for an office manager but nevertheless hired Salihee, who quickly became a favorite among his colleagues. As a correspondent for Knight Ridder, Salihee took great risks "to gather scraps of truth in a place filled with deceit and danger," according to colleague and reporter Hannah Allam. Allam wrote that Salihee was motivated by a desire to show American readers the reality of life for Iraqis in a war zone.

Salihee covered fighting in the Sunni region dubbed the "Triangle of Death," and the consequences of fighting in Najaf. He interviewed senior Iraqi politicians and insurgents, and saved the lives of some journalists by convincing armed insurgents that he and his colleagues were not combatants. Salihee sometimes used his medical expertise to aid the wounded at sites he reported on, once joking that he "was doing sutures, taking notes, doing sutures, taking notes." Salihee's patients often became his sources. On or off work, Salihee took pains to teach fellow journalists about his native country.

Writing for the San Jose Mercury News and other papers throughout the United States, Salihee's articles often covered subjects related to police torture of detainees in Iraq, and the dangers of driving alone, as a man, in Baghdad.

Colleague and fellow journalist Philip Robertson described Salihee as more of "a scientist than a reporter," with "a great deal of curiosity and respect for facts." Juan Cole, professor of Middle Eastern history, described Salihee as having "a great deal of promise," and as "a brave and decent man, and an excellent reporter who drew back the veil on key events in Iraq and their meaning."

Investigation of Iraqi Interior Ministry

In May 2005, The New York Times Magazine published a story on the creation of Iraqi Interior Ministry commandos called the "Wolf Brigade," with the help of U.S. military advisors, following the model used by death squads in El Salvador in the 1980s. Following the story's publication, Salihee began his own investigation into the brigade's formation and activities, at the same time that the brigade was conducting an anti-insurgent campaign in Baghdad termed "Operation Lightning." In this project he worked as a special correspondent for Knight Ridder news service.

Salihee and his colleague found "more than 30 examples in less than a week" of instances in which Iraqis would be detained by commandos, and their bodies later brought to morgues with signs of torture and execution. Investigating individual cases, Salihee and Lassiter found that Iraqis would be abducted by commandos in white police Land Cruisers and American-made pistols and body armor. They would then be tortured using whips, electrocution, beating and choking, before being executed.

Investigative journalist Nicholas Davies describes Salihee's report, published after his death, as "one of the most thorough investigations conducted into the reality behind the horrors of the dirty war in Iraq." He adds, "In fairness to later investigators, Salihee's death and the growing climate of terror in Baghdad certainly had the effect of making subsequent investigations increasingly dangerous for reporters."

Death

Salihee was killed by a single American sniper bullet that struck his head on 24 June 2005, at a checkpoint created that morning by U.S. and Iraqi soldiers, near Salihee's home in western Baghdad. Salihee was on his day off, going to fuel his car before picking up his daughter for swimming.

According to one eyewitness interviewed by journalist Philip Robertson, Salihee tried to pass a first car, then pulled over, raised his hands, and was shot. Another witness interviewed by Robertson stated that two American soldiers fired at the same time.

According to a witness interviewed by NPR, Salihee was killed by the first bullet fired. Another witness interviewed by NPR stated that Salihee saw the soldiers, and was shot as he hit the brakes. A third witness interviewed by NPR said that three shots were fired, the first as the car tried to stop. The witness said the car was coming "very fast" but screeched to a halt.

An Iraqi police report describes Salihee's car as stationed parallel against the curb following his death, and Salihee's brother states that the car's transmission was in neutral, and Salihee's foot on the brake, when he arrived. Salihee lost a number of fingers on his right hand, suggesting according to Robertson that he was shot with his hands raised.

The American and Iraqi soldiers at the checkpoint did not put up warning cones or protective wire. After the shooting, American soldiers left Salihee in his car and left the area.

Robertson was also able to interview the sniper who killed Salihee by embedding with his unit. The soldier had originally trained as a member of the special forces, becoming a sniper for the U.S. Army Rangers. Leaving the army, he rejoined the National Guard after the 11 September 2001 terrorist attack. According to the soldier, the intersection where Salihee was killed was a dangerous one for American soldiers, where one had been killed or wounded only the day before Salihee's death, prompting them to search the area the next morning. The soldier stated that two cars approached their position, the second driven by Salihee, traveling "more than 20 miles an hour" and then swerving around the first car. The soldier stated that he fired three warning shots, the first at 150 meters, while the car did not slow down, before firing the fatal shot at 20 or 30 meters. The soldier expressed extreme remorse for his action, which he stated was driven by fear that Salihee might be a suicide bomber. A U.S. Army investigation found that Salihee was killed under the rules of engagement. The soldier was later imprisoned for alleged possession and distribution of drugs.

Salihee was killed just one week before his birthday on 30 June. His killing received international publicity and worsened relations between Iraqis and U.S. soldiers at the location of his death.

Salihee's brother describes the Army report on his death as a cover-up meant to protect U.S. and Iraqi soldiers from wrongdoing, and like most in the neighborhood where Salihee was killed, believes that Salihee had stopped before he was shot. Hannah Allam calls the investigation "callous," but also wrote that "there's no reason to think that the shooting had anything to do with [Salihee's] reporting work." James Cogan, writing for the World Socialist Web Site'', states that Salihee's "last assignment gives reason to suspect that it was," citing Salihee's effort to investigate alleged death squads. Davies writes that "the links between the forces Yasser Salihee was investigating and the ones that killed him cast a long dark shadow over his death." According to the Daily Kos blog, three journalists, including Steve Vincent, Yasser Salihee and Fakher Haider, were shot to death in Iraq in 2005 while investigating Interior Ministry commandos. After interviewing the American soldier and nearby witnesses, Robertson concluded that the death was tragic but "a typical misunderstanding, of the sort that happens all the time in Iraq."

After Salihee's death, Juan Cole wrote that "most Iraqi civilians killed by US military forces remain anonymous." Cole described Salihee's death as a "symbol for the current debacle in Iraq," writing that as Iraq's situation worsened, journalists were unable to report on it, either because they had fled, been killed, or feared for their lives.

See also
 Knight Ridder
 Ministry of Interior (Iraq)
 Wolf Brigade (Iraq)
 256th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (United States)

References

Journalists killed while covering the Iraq War
1974 births
2005 deaths
Deaths by firearm in Iraq
Physicians from Baghdad
20th-century Iraqi physicians
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title: Joseph Gaudentius Anderson

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Joseph Gaudentius Anderson (September 30, 1865 – July 2, 1927) was an American Roman Catholic bishop.

Biography
Born in Boston, Massachusetts on September 30, 1865, Anderson was ordained a priest for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston on May 20, 1892. On April 29, 1909, he was appointed titular bishop of Myrina and auxiliary bishop of the Boston Archdiocese. He was ordained bishop on July 27, 1909, and died in Boston on July 2, 1927, while still in office.

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title: Sir George Hill, 2nd Baronet

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Sir George FitzGerald Hill, 2nd Baronet (1 June 1763 – 8 March 1839) was an Irish politician.

Family and early life
He was the oldest son of Sir Hugh Hill, 1st Baronet of Brook Hall, County Londonderry,
who had been a member of the Parliament of Ireland for Londonderry City from 1768 to 1795.
His mother Hannah was a daughter of John McClintock,

Hill was  educated in Londonderry and at Trinity College, Dublin. He then studied at Lincoln's Inn and was called to the bar in Ireland in 1786. In 1788, he married Jane Beresford, daughter of Hon. John Beresford (son of the Marcus Beresford, 1st Earl of Tyrone), who was President of the Irish Board of Revenue).

Career
Hill was a member of the Orange Order, serving for time on the committee of the Grand Lodge of Ireland.

He was a member of the Parliament of Ireland for Coleraine from  1791 to 1795, and then succeeded his father as MP for Londonderry City 1798.

In the Parliament of the United Kingdom, he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for County Londonderry  from 1801 to 1802, and for Londonderry City from 1802 to 1830.

He became a member of the Privy Council of Ireland in 1808, and of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom in 1817.

He was Governor of Saint Vincent from 1830 to 1833, and then Governor of Trinidad from 1833 until his death in 1839.

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title: Lake Maloye Miassovo

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Lake Maloye Miassovo (Russian: Малое Миассово) is located in Chelyabinsk Oblast on the east side of the Ural Mountains,  west of Chelyabinsk and  east of Miass. It partially adjoins Ilmen Nature Reserve.

The lake is of tectonic origin; a duct connects the lake to Lake Bolshoye Miassovo. The lake has extensive aquatic vegetation, with wetlands and wooded ridges along the shore. The bottom is mainly rocky, with silt in places. Inflow of water is from keys and small rivers.

Fish found in the lake include roach, perch, pike, ruff, tench, crucian carp, burbot, and whitefish.

The lake is popular for recreation because of the beautiful landscapes. Pine and mixed forest grow on the banks. There are rock outcrops in the form of stone ridges, slabs, boulders and stone deposits.

Near the lake there are archaeological sites. The ancient human settlement "Linden oxbow lake" (Russian: Липовая курья) was a haven of a small tribe of about 5,000 years ago. A total of about 30 prehistoric settlements have been found, with a variety of artifacts: pottery vases with ornaments, stone knives, and scrapers.

Lakes of Chelyabinsk Oblast


title: The Circular Staircase

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The Circular Staircase is a mystery novel by American writer Mary Roberts Rinehart. The story follows dowager Rachel Innes as she thwarts a series of strange crimes at a summer house she has rented with her niece and nephew. The novel was Rinehart's first bestseller and established her as one of the era's most popular writers. The story was serialized in All-Story for five issues starting with the November 1907 issue, then published in book form by Bobbs-Merrill in 1908.

Rinehart was inspired to write the novel after a visit to Melrose, a Gothic Revival castle in Northern Virginia.

The Circular Staircase pioneered what became known as the "had I but known" school of mystery writing, which often feature female protagonists and narrators who foreshadow impending danger and plot developments by reflecting on what they might have done differently. Rinehart employed this formula in many of her later works, and it inspired dozens of subsequent stories. The novel was adapted for the screen twice: as a silent film in 1915, and for the television series Climax! in 1956. Its best known adaptation was as the play The Bat, which became a major Broadway hit and inspired a number of later works, including several adaptations of its own.

Plot
Rachel Innes is a spinster who has had custody of her orphaned niece and nephew since they were children. The siblings Halsey and Gertrude are now 20 and 24, respectively, and they talk Rachel into renting a house in the country for the summer.
The country-house is owned by the Armstrong family (who is currently away on vacation), and currently only has a housekeeper named Mary.

Upon arriving Rachel and her long-time maid Lydia set about hiring staff and setting up in the house before Halsey and Gertrude arrive the next day.  They receive an ominous warning that there is a ghost in the house from Thomas, an older man who has worked for the Armstrongs for many years and agrees to return and work as a butler for Rachel.  The first night Lydia and Rachel are awoken by the sounds of an intruder sneaking around and dropping a metal golf stick on a staircase.
The next morning Gertrude and Halsey arrive along with Jack Bailey, a local banker who is a friend to Halsey and engaged to Gertrude.

The next night Rachel is again woken by a loud sound and a dead body is found at the bottom of a circular set of stairs.  The police arrive led by Detective Jamieson and the body is identified as Arnold Armstrong, the estranged son of the house owner Paul Armstrong.  Halsey and Jack are both missing and while searching for them Rachel discovers Halsey's pistol thrown into a tulip bed.  She hides this discovery from the police who question both her and Gertrude.  Gertrude provides an alibi for Halsey and Jack, claiming they left just before Arnold was shot to death.

Rachel is determined to remain in the house until the mystery is solved and her nephew is cleared of all suspicion despite the fact that there continue to be break-ins and mysterious tapping noises during the night.  A few days later Halsey returns without Jack and refuses to provide any explanations.  Jack and Halsey both had a poor relationship with Arnold because Arnold treated Gertrude badly.  The day Halsey returns news breaks that the local bank (which is owned by Paul Armstrong, and where Jack works, and also where Halsey and Gertrude keep their substantial inheritance) has gone bankrupt because someone who worked there stole a bunch of money.  Suspicion immediately falls on the missing Jack Bailey, who turns himself into police custody that day proclaiming his innocence.

Jack is released from police custody due to claimed illness.  Rachel continues to investigate and hires a new gardener on the recommendation of Halsey.  She discovers that Thomas and the housekeeper Mary have been hiding a very ill Louise Armstrong (the step-daughter of Paul Armstrong and fiance of Halsey) in the groundskeeper's house.  News arrives that Paul Armstrong has died due to heart disease and poor health.  Thomas the groundskeeper dies of a heart attack not much later.

The stable is lit on fire as a distraction so someone can break into the house, but Rachel realizes this and manages to shoot the would-be-burglar in the foot but the burglar still gets away.  Louise breaks off her engagement with Halsey against her own wishes to marry the local coroner.  Late at night Detective Jamieson and the new gardener wake up Rachel and take her to a graveyard, where they dig up the grave of Paul Armstrong and determine that the body in the grave is not that of Paul Armstrong.  When Halsey finds out he takes off angrily, and then his car is found crashed into a train with him still missing.  Halsey remains missing for several days until finally being discovered tied up in a train car by a hobo.  Investigation into the bank fraud determines it was Paul Armstrong who stole the money, not Jack Bailey.  Paul Armstrong had then hid the money in his house in a secret room and faked his own death, promising the local coroner a marriage with his stepdaughter Louise if the coroner would go along with the plan.  Paul and the coroner had been the burglars trying to break into the house over the past month.

Paul dies when he falls down the stairs while fleeing from the police after breaking into his mansion again.  Arnold Armstrong was shot by the housekeeper Mary, who was the sister of Arnold's secret ex-wife.  Mary's sister had died giving birth to Arnold's child and Mary had been raising the child without any help from Arnold for several years.  After Arnold was disinherited from his family he began to blackmail Mary by threatening to take his child away from her if she did not give him money.  He also beat her with a golf stick.  Jack Bailey had disguised himself as the new gardener to help with the investigation and ultimately cleared his name of all charges and marries Gertrude.  Halsey and Louise also got back together after her stepfather died.

Adaptations

In 1912, Rinehart's friend Beatrice DeMille, mother of Cecil B. Demille, tried to work out a deal for her son's new film company to purchase the rights to The Circular Staircase and another Rinehart story. Though this failed to come together, Rinehart was soon able to sell her work to film companies, beginning with a group of comic stories that Essanay Studios adapted as short films in 1914. In 1915, Rinehart sold the film rights to The Circular Staircase to Selig Polyscope Company for an apparently small amount. The silent film, released in 1915, was the first feature-length adaptation of Rinehart's work. It was directed by Edward LeSaint and starred Guy Oliver as Halsey, Eugenie Besserer as Ray, and Stella Razeto as Gertrude. It received lukewarm reviews; one critic wrote that it followed the novel too closely to be effectively cinematic. The film is now lost.

The Circular Staircase was also adapted for an episode of the television series Climax! that aired on June 21, 1956. The episode starred Judith Anderson as Rachel Innes.

The Bat

The Circular Staircase'''s most notable adaptation was as the 1920 stage play The Bat. Rinehart started working on the play in 1917 with Avery Hopwood; they made a number of alterations to the source to prepare it for the stage. They renamed characters, changed plot elements, and most significantly, added the titular villain, who disguises his identity under a frightening bat costume until the play's denouement. The Bat opened on August 23, 1920 at Broadway's Morosco Theatre. It was an immediate success with both audiences and critics. It ran for 878 performances in New York, and six additional companies took the show to other cities, in addition to a later London production and numerous individual performances. The play was extremely lucrative for Rinehart and her husband Stan, who had invested much of their wealth into it.

Rinehart later denied that The Bat was connected to The Circular Staircase after the works' similarities led to legal troubles over film rights. In 1920, Rineheart bought back The Circular Staircase rights from Selig Polyscope, and hoped to license The Bat for a film. However, Selig re-released the 1915 Circular Staircase under the title The Bat. Rinehart tried to file suit to keep Selig from using the title. The Bat led to several adaptations of its own. In 1926, Rinehart licensed a novelization of The Bat, published under her name but ghostwritten by Stephen Vincent Benét, partly to distance The Bat from The Circular Staircase. It was filmed three times: as the 1926 silent film The Bat, as the 1930 talking film The Bat Whispers, and as the 1959 horror picture The Bat''.

References

Bibliography

External links

The Circular Staircase at RedeemingQualities

Joyce McDonald at GirleBooks (October 2009)
Full novel at PinkMonkey

1908 American novels
American mystery novels
American novels adapted into films
Works by Mary Roberts Rinehart
American novels adapted into plays
Bobbs-Merrill Company books


title: Last One Home

text:
Last One Home is a 1984 crime novel written by John Ehle. The novel was Elhe's sixth and final book in his Appalachian series that traces the King family from The Land Breakers in 1779. It was published by Press 53, LLC. It is the sixth book in Ehle's six-novel epic about Western North Carolina, and follows his mountain characters from the World War I era around Asheville into modern times.

References

American thriller novels
1984 American novels
Novels set in North Carolina


title: Gaston de Pawlowski

text:
Gaston de Pawlowski (Joigny, 14 June 1874 - 2 February 1933, Paris) was a French writer best known for his prophetic 1911 novel of science fiction, Voyage au pays de la quatrième dimension (Voyage to the Land of the Fourth Dimension).

Voyage au pays de la quatrième dimension
First published in 1911 in the monthly review Comœdia then in 1912, Pawlowski produced a new edition in 1923 in which he discussed the implications of Einsteinian physics upon his work. That edition was published in an English translation by Brian Stableford in 2009.

The illustrations for the book edition of the Voyage were prepared by Léonard Sarluis which Jean Clair thought was the inspiration for Marcel Duchamp's Large Glass.

Selected publications
Voyage au pays de la quatrième dimension. Charpentier, Paris, 1912. (Second edition 1923)
Journey to the Land of the Fourth Dimension. English translation by Brian M. Stableford. Encino, CA: Black Coat Press, 2009.

References

External links

http://dadaparis.blogspot.co.uk/2007_03_28_archive.html
http://forums.bdfi.net/viewtopic.php?id=228

1874 births
1933 deaths
People from Joigny
French science fiction writers
Writers from Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
French male novelists


title: Butlin's Filey

text:
Filey Holiday Camp was a Butlin's holiday camp near Filey, North Yorkshire, England, built for Billy Butlin's holiday organisation. Construction of the camp began in 1939. From 1939 to 1945, the camp was used as a military training base, as RAF Hunmanby Moor. The camp closed in 1983.

The camp was served by its own railway branch and station (Filey Holiday Camp railway station) from 1947, however the station closed in 1977 due to greater car ownership. The derelict railway station platforms remain in situ today; however they are on private land.

Part of the old camp was replaced by Primrose Valley holiday park, and the adjacent "The Bay Filey" holiday resort. The boating lake was filled in and is now a large green area with a central path through it from the holiday park to the beach.

History

Filey Holiday Camp was being built for Billy Butlin in 1939. The outbreak of the Second World War led to an arrangement with the War Ministry whereby the ministry financed the camp's completion and used it as housing for military personnel as RAF Hunmanby Moor. Butlin reclaimed the base in 1945. A branch off the Hull Scarborough railway line was built in 1945 and formally opened in 1947. The line had its own terminal station Filey Holiday Camp railway station.

A  gauge narrow gauge railway was installed at the camp around 1953. The original train, supplied by Baguley, was sold in 1975, the carriages being reused by the Meirion Mill Railway at Dinas Mawddwy in Wales.

At its peak, the camp accommodated 11,000 visitors, with 175,000 visitors in total in the 1975 season. The railway branch became less used by visitors from the 1960s due to the rise of car ownership, and closure was proposed in 1972, after which Butlin's funded the cost of the line. The line was closed in 1977.

The Butlin's holiday camp was closed in 1983. The site was briefly re-opened as Amtree Park in 1986.

The camp buildings were demolished between 1988 and 2003.

In popular culture

The camp was used as a filming location for the 1947 British comedy drama film Holiday Camp. Although Filey camp had its own railway station, the opening shot of a train arriving at the station was filmed at Sandsend railway station, as the view at Sandsend was considered more spectacular.

References

Sources

External links

Filey
Holiday camps
Tourist attractions in North Yorkshire
Tourist attractions in the East Riding of Yorkshire
Filey


title: Don Stap

text:
Don Stap (born 1949) is an American author who writes poetry and nonfiction prose.

Stap grew up in the farm country of southwestern Michigan. Surrounded by hundreds of acres of fields, woods, lakes, and marshes, he developed an interest in the natural world, which is the subject of much of his writing. His mother passed on to him an interest in birds in particular. Stap has a sister and a brother, and a son, Benjamin. Don Stap Website

He graduated from Gull Lake High School in 1967 and attended Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, receiving his B.A. in English in 1972. In 1978, he received a Ph.D. from the University of Utah. He worked for several years as a freelance writer, but from 1985 to 2019 he taught at the University of Central Florida. He is now Professor Emeritus.

Stap has published a collection of poems, Letter at the End of Winter (1987), and two nonfiction works related to natural history, A Parrot Without a Name (Knopf, 1990) and Birdsong (Scribner, 2005).

A Parrot Without a Name focuses on the ornithological exploration of South America and the fieldwork of John O’Neill, who has discovered more than a dozen new species of birds in the neotropics, and the legendary Ted Parker (Theodore A. Parker III), who could identify more than 4,000 species of birds by their songs alone. Stap spent time in Peru with both scientists, including a three-month expedition led by O’Neill into an unexplored region near the Peru – Brazil border. A Parrot Without a Name was widely reviewed, including the front-page review of the New York Review of Books by George Plimpton who called the book a "richly detailed account ... [that] captures the excitement as well as the vicissitudes of the quest" to discover new species.

For Birdsong, Stap accompanied Donald Kroodsma, one of the world experts on birdsong, on trips from Martha's Vineyard to the tropical forests of Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Kroodsma's enduring fascination with the simple question of why birds sing and what their songs mean led to a discovery that sheds light on the mystery of mysteries: why young birds in the suborder oscines—the "true songbirds"—learn their songs but the closely related suboscines are born with their songs genetically encoded. Publishers Weekly called Birdsong "a lucidly written combination of scientific lore and vivid reportage".  Stap and Kroodsma were interviewed on National Public Radio by Terry Gross for her program Fresh Air.

Stap's poetry has appeared in TriQuarterly, Poetry, Northwest Review, The Massachusetts Review, The American Scholar, Alaska Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere.

His prose appears frequently in Audubon, and he's published as well in Smithsonian, Orion, National Wildlife, Living Bird, The North American Review, and Fourth Genre. His prose has been anthologized in many places including The Best American Science and Nature Writing.

Stap is the recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from National Endowment for the Arts and two Individual Artist Fellowships from the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs.

Books
''Birdsong: A Natural History. Scribner], New York, New York. 2005A Parrot Without a Name: The Search for the Last Unknown Birds on Earth. Alfred A. Knopf. New York, New York. 1990Letter at the End of Winter''. [http://upf.com University Presses of Florida. Gainesville, Florida. 1987

References

== External links ==
 Don Stap Website
 Simon and Schuster
 Oxford University Press
 English Department, University of Central Florida

Living people
1949 births
American ornithological writers
University of Central Florida faculty
American male poets
Western Michigan University alumni
University of Utah alumni
20th-century American poets
21st-century American poets
20th-century American male writers
21st-century American male writers
20th-century American non-fiction writers
21st-century American non-fiction writers
American male non-fiction writers