title: A Black Veil for Lisa

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A Black Veil for Lisa (, lit. "Death has no sex") is a 1968 thriller film directed by Massimo Dallamano.

Plot
Lisa Buloff wears a black dress and veil at a funeral for an unspecified deceased loved one.

Weeks beforehand, Willie Zoll is drinking at a bar, ready to provide Inspector Franz Buloff, leading investigator in the Hamburg narcotics department for Interpol, information on major drug world target Harry Scheurermann. When he turns a corner into an alley, a figured stabs him to death, leaving the switchblade used and his dime-store disguise behind at the scene. Buloff is extremely disgruntled, as he was going to provide their best lead. Two other contract killings silenced witnesses and whistleblowers beforehand, somehow around the time they were to give information to the police. His boss, Ostermeyer, is most provoked and insists Buloff find another lead.

Buloff returns home to his wife Lisa. She had previous affiliations with Scheurermann, but Buloff believed she wasn't involved in his enterprises and married her. However, Buloff has been controlling and domineering of her, tracking her activities out of paranoia. He demands to know why she didn't answer the phone, and when he doesn't believe her answer that she was sleeping, she bitterly retorts she was waiting for him to suspect something. When he storms off to pour himself a drink, Buloff later sees Lisa changed into a nightdress, and they make love.

Buloff tries to call his wife the next day to check on her again, but she leaves the phone ringing when she heads out the door. He then interrogates a young woman, Marianne Loma, who he briefly hallucinates as Lisa. Under threat of false detainment, the woman reveals her friend Ursula Stein had her pick up a score for Ursula's boyfriend, Kurt Mueller, who can't leave since the drug ring is after him. Marianne is provided protective custody for her cooperation. Lisa then arrives at the station wanting money from Buloff, which he obliges; he tries to ask about her activities later, but she politely refuses the question and says he's too jealous and works too much. The police try to get to Mueller at Ursula's place, but Scheurermann's thugs are there first, beating Ursula even though she doesn't talk, then kidnapping her. Buloff goes to his informant at the news stand, nicknamed "The Rabbit", and all he can provide is tulips are involved in the ring. When asked about Mueller, he avoids giving information out of fear.

The hitman, Max Lindt, meets his employer Olaf, a middle man to Scheurermann. Lindt, while tossing his lucky dollar with a bullet hole he keeps everywhere he goes, takes his pay and plans to by a plane ticket out of the country. Olaf demands he take one more hired murder, leaving Lindt in a tight spot despite Lindt wanting to flee while he's still at large, but Lindt only agrees when Olaf threatens Scheurermann's goons will kill him. Kurt Mueller is his assigned target. When Buloff returns home, he sees a note Lisa left him under a bouquet of tulips. She says she's out having a supper with a school friend, but Buloff finds she left the restaurant early when he heads there. Mueller calls for his fix from Fritz, a bar owner involved with the mob, but Mueller is lured to a post office box by Fritz, with the goons in earshot to report to Lindt. Mueller gets to the letter box, where Lindt is waiting and stabs him to death, leaving his flashlight and disguise behind and breaking Mueller's watch when set to the wrong time.

Buloff interrogates Lisa on her whereabouts, which makes her angry as she's not believed and Buloff doesn't stop wanting to possess her and keep her movements in his orbit. When Buloff criticizes her for her involvement with the drug ring, ironically because of one of the victims Lindt killed, Rhinehardt, Lisa merely counters with how her home life isn't better. When she proclaims in spite she'll find an affair to have with another man, Buloff hits her and she runs off. Mueller is found by the police, and the package, in a letter box under "Wiener", was really filled with baking soda, but Buloff catches a break as he finds Lindt accidentally left his lucky dollar behind. Lindt flips out when he realizes he's lost it and tears apart wherever he worries it might be. Buloff finally fingers Lindt when he sees him in lobby footage at headquarters, remembering his habit of tossing it.

Buloff has his men check up on a red Porsche he knows Lisa was in. He finds Lindt's friend, Eric Scheurer, at his job at the fun fair, accosting him for info he doesn't give. When Scheurer calls Lindt's hotel from a payphone, Buloff watches and intercepts the call to get Lindt's location. Buloff gets Lindt's room from the hotel staff, arresting him while he packs. When Lindt is given the dollar back, he tries to drop it on the floor for an escape, but Buloff hits him to put it out of his mind. Lindt surrenders and is amazed Buloff is the detective on his case since he's in Narcotics. On the drive to headquarters, Buloff sees Lisa get into a red Porsche, trying to follow her, but losing her. Uncuffing Lindt, Buloff blackmails him into a plan for Lindt to kill Lisa, in exchange for his freedom.

Lisa's friend she mentioned, Irini von Klaus, does have such a car, so when Buloff finds out, he tries to stop Lindt. He finds Lisa at home, still alive, and Buloff apologizes to her. She scolds him for harassing her over how she lives her life and not believing her, and he tries to show he loves her by vehemently kissing her. Buloff gets a call from The Rabbit, who has more info on the tulips, but he's later killed by a car slamming into him, revealing the enforcers got him first. Buloff has Lisa stay at home for the day, as Lindt still believes the job is on and she can't be seen by him. Lindt instead shows up at the house, pretending to be an insurance salesman. Lisa doesn't by it, but they're both attracted to each other and have sex, shortly after Lisa lies to Buloff over the phone no one's at the house.

Buloff is again relieved Lisa is still alive when he returns home, until he reconvenes with max at an abandoned factory. Lindt shamelessly reveals their tryst, before Buloff throws him into his own car hood and says the job is still on. Lindt is torn, but in the end, he doesn't care for killing Lisa and progresses into a full affair with her, where he tells her his real name but not his activities. Buloff tracks them both to the hotel they meet at, then Lisa to a tulip stand. She calls Scheurermann from a payphone, revealing she's the leak who's been ratting the victims out to his ring. As Lisa is also a lover of Scheurermann and gets fixes from him, his henchmen corner Lindt on Olaf's boat and beat him into not seeing her any longer. Lindt calls Buloff for a meeting in the woods to get this lucky dollar back.

Buloff concedes to the consequences of his actions and Lisa's, writing a full report on what he knows about Scheurermann and Lindt, along with his actions, but leaving Lisa out of the details to protect her. Lindt is prepared to meet Buloff, leaving Lisa behind and taking a switchblade with him. When at the rendezvous, Buloff places Lindt under formal arrest, seeing through Lindt's lie about him killing Lisa. Lindt boasts Buloff will pay to, which he accepts. Lindt pulls his knife and slits Buloff's throat before stabbing him, Buloff's last words being "you're done for anyway". While Lisa's at the hotel phoning Scheurermann for another meeting, the police are dispatched to arrest Max. Max runs into the woods and fires Buloff's service weapon, but he's shot dead in retaliation. Lisa meets Scheurermann, who rejects her and reveals he knows about Lindt's affair with her; he shocks her from revealing Buloff hired Lindt to off her. The episode ends with Lisa at the funeral, revealed to be for her late husband. Ostermeyer says to Lisa that Buloff "was an outstanding man [...] to the end"; it's never revealed if he's confirmed her involvement, but he heavily implies wanting her silence about Buloff's corruption.

Cast

Production
A Black Veil for Lisa was shot in 1968 in Hamburg under the title Vicolo cieco. Curti described the style of the film as "remarkably different" from the Italian thrillers of the period, and closer to Anglo-Saxon and German models of the style.

Release
A Black Veil for Lisa was released in Italy in September 1968. was shown in Germany as Das Geheimnis der jungen Witwe (translation: Mystery of the Young Widow). in this country, it was promoted as being part of the Edgar Wallace series.

It was also released as Showdown.

Reception
From contemporary reviews, "Whit." of Variety described the film as an "okay programmer" and that "Massimo Dallamano's direction [...] is as sturdy as script, on which he also collabed, will permit, and color camera work by Angelo Lotti is particularly effective."

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Sources

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1968 films
Giallo films
1960s Italian-language films
Films directed by Massimo Dallamano
Films set in West Germany
Films scored by Gianfranco Reverberi
Films scored by Giovanni Fusco
1960s Italian films


title: Santa Clara e Castelo Viegas

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Santa Clara e Castelo Viegas is a civil parish in the municipality of Coimbra, Portugal. It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes Santa Clara and Castelo Viegas. The population in 2011 was 11,624, in an area of 17.63 km².

References

Freguesias of Coimbra


title: PSK Sakhalin

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PSK Sakhalin (Russian: ПСК «Сахалин»), formerly known as HK Sakhalin and Sakhalin Sea Lions, was an ice hockey team based in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia. Sakhalin joined the Asia League Ice Hockey (ALIH) in 2014 and played in the competition until 2022, when the ALIH voted to remove the team in protest of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Honours
Asia League Ice Hockey:
Regular season winners (2): 2017–18, 2019–20
Championship winners (2): 2018–19, 2019–20

References

External links
Official website

Defunct ice hockey teams in Russia
Asia League Ice Hockey teams
Ice hockey clubs established in 2013
Ice hockey clubs disestablished in 2022
Sport in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
2013 establishments in Russia
2022 disestablishments in Russia


title: 41 Leonis Minoris

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41 Leonis Minoris is a single star in the northern constellation Leo Minor, located near the southern border with the neighboring constellation of Leo. It is visible to the naked eye as a dim, white-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.08. This object is located approximately 229 light years away from the Sun, based on parallax, and is drifting further away with a radial velocity of +18.5 km/s.

This is an ordinary A-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of A3Vn, where the 'n' suffix indicates "nebulous" (broadened) lines due to rapid rotation. It is about 182 million years old with a high projected rotational velocity of 201 km/s. The star has 2.5 times the mass of the Sun and 2.1 times the Sun's radius. It is radiating 55 times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 9,902 K.

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title: George M. Grueb

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George Grueb (1835 - September 26, 1893) was an American soldier who fought in the American Civil War. Grueb received his country's highest award for bravery during combat, the Medal of Honor. Grueb's medal was won for his capturing a flag at the Battle of Chaffin's Farm, Virginia on September 29, 1864. He was honored with the award on April 6, 1865.

Grueb was born in Württemberg, Germany. He joined the Army from Brooklyn in August 1862, and mustered out with his regiment in June 1865. He was buried in Bath National Cemetery in Bath, New York.

Medal of Honor citation

See also
List of American Civil War Medal of Honor recipients: G–L

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1835 births
1893 deaths
American Civil War recipients of the Medal of Honor
Burials in New York (state)
German-born Medal of Honor recipients
Württemberger emigrants to the United States
People of New York (state) in the American Civil War
Military personnel from Brooklyn
Union Army soldiers
United States Army Medal of Honor recipients


title: Marlou van der Kulk

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Marlou van der Kulk (born 9 September 1993) is a Dutch Paralympic swimmer. She competed in the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, winning two bronze medals. Van der Kulk has also competed in two IPC Swimming World Championships winning four gold medals.

Career history
Van der Kulk was born on the 9 September 1993 in Huizen, Netherlands. She started swimming at the age of 12, and began competitive swimming while still in high school. Classified as an S14 swimmer, for athletes with an intellectual impairment, she was part of the Netherlands team chosen to compete on home soil at Eindhoven for the 2010 IPC Swimming World Championships. Entered in her favoured 100m backstroke and 200m freestyle, she took both events making her a double gold medal world champion at the age of 16.

Two years later van der Kulk was back representing the Netherlands, this time in London for the 2012 Summer Paralympics. In her first event, the 100m backstroke, she posted a time of 1:09.98, coming in second to Britain's Chloe Davies, but her time was good enough for her to qualify for the final. In the final later that evening she swam an improved time of 1:09.50 just 4 hundredths of a second behind second placed Taylor Corry, to give van der Kulk the bronze, her first Paralympic medal. Two days later in the 200m freestyle she won her heat with a time of 2:14.43. In the final van der Kulk swam slightly slower with a time of 2:14.80, but it was enough to push Australia's Kayla Clarke into fourth place to give van der Kulk her second Paralympic bronze. Her final event was the 100m breaststroke. By winning the first heat in the inaugural SB14 100m backstroke, van der Kulk, by default, set a new Paralympic record. This record was short-lived being taken from her moments later in the second heat by teammate Magda Toeters. In the final, van der Kulk came sixth.

In her second World Championships, in 2013 in Montreal she entered four events. She took two medals, both gold. She retained her 100m backstroke title won in Eindhoven and also won the 200m medley, but she could only manage a fourth in the 200m freestyle.

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1993 births
Living people
Dutch female backstroke swimmers
Dutch female breaststroke swimmers
Dutch female freestyle swimmers
Paralympic swimmers for the Netherlands
Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
Paralympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands
People from Huizen
Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
S14-classified para swimmers
Medalists at the World Para Swimming Championships
Medalists at the World Para Swimming European Championships
Paralympic medalists in swimming
Sportspeople from North Holland
21st-century Dutch women


title: Johnnie Colemon

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Johnnie Colemon (February 18, 1920 – December 23, 2014) was  an influential minister and teacher in the New Thought movement. She is often referred to as the “First Lady of New Thought”. Colemon founded several large organizations within the African-American New Thought movement, including Christ Universal Temple (CUT) and the Universal Foundation for Better Living (UFBL). The Johnnie Colemon Theological Seminary is named in her honor.

Colemon was born to John and Lula Haley in Centerville, Alabama on February 18, 1920 but her family moved to Columbus, Mississippi at an early age, and she identified more with that location as her birthplace, leading others to misidentify Columbus, Mississippi as her place of origin. She attended Union Academy High School and graduated from Wiley College with a Bachelor of Arts in 1943. She then taught at schools in Mississippi and Chicago.

After being diagnosed with an incurable disease, Colemon had a crisis of faith deciding to attend Unity School of Christianity. Colemon was the third Black student ordained as a Unity Minister in 1956. While a student at Unity School,  Colemon like all Black students at the time, was told she could not live on campus. For two years, Colemon commuted 15 miles each way to the YWCA in Kansas City before the campus was desegregated.

Colemon founded Christ Unity Temple, later Christ Universal Temple, a Chicago-based megachurch. In 1974 Colemon founded the Universal Foundation for Better Living, in response to racism experienced as part of Unity, "an international association of Bible-based New Thought Christian churches, centers, and study groups." She received a Candace Award from the National Coalition of 100 Black Women in 1987.

Christ Universal Temple under Colemon became the largest and one of the most influential churches in Chicago. When built it became the first mega church on the South Side. The church was the site of the funeral of Chicago Mayor Harold Washington. Barack Obama spoke at the church both as senator and president.

Colemon served as Director of the Chicago Port Authority and Commissioner of the Chicago Transit Authority Oversight Committee, recognition as one of Chicago’s Living Legends by the Institute for African American Youth Development. She was honored by DuSable Museum as an African American History Maker.

Colemon retired in 2006. She died at Mercy Hospital in Chicago on December 23, 2014 at the age of 94.  She is interred in Oak Woods Cemetery in Chicago.

References

External links
 Universal Foundation for Better Living (UFBL)
 Johnnie Colemon Theological Seminary
 Christ Universal Temple

1920 births
2014 deaths
American theologians
Wiley College alumni
People from Conecuh County, Alabama
People from Columbus, Mississippi
New Thought people
Religious leaders from Chicago


title: Hanna Andersson

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Hanna Andersson is a Portland, Oregon-based corporation that specializes in children's apparel. The company operates online and mail-order in the United States and ships to almost 200 countries around the world.

History
In 1983, Swedish-born Gun Denhart founded the company in Portland, Oregon, in the garage of her home. The company began as an exclusively mail-order catalog retailer; Hanna Andersson mailed out its first catalog in 1984. Co-founder Tom Denhart would remain the company's creative director until 1995. The first brick-and-mortar store opened in 1990, but now operates as an online only retailer.

In 1995, the Denharts hired Phil Iosca as CEO/President. He refocused the company on young children's apparel. Then, in 2001, the Denharts sold the company for $175 million. Following the initial sale, Hanna Andersson was sold to a succession of private equity firms and purchased by Sun Capital Partners. Gun Denhart remained on the Board of Directors until 2007. When Iosca retired in 2010, then-COO Adam Stone was named the new CEO of the company.

In August 2016, Hanna Andersson was sold to L Catterton for an undisclosed amount. The company's executive team was kept intact. In 2022, Aimée Lapic was named as the CEO of Hanna Andersson.

Philanthropy and company policies
The company has received notable attention over the years due to Denhart's advocacy of progressive workplace policies. Denhart's initiatives included family-friendly employment policies in support of work-family balance and the charitable donation of 5% of the company's pre-tax profits to groups working for children's welfare. These efforts, along with Denhart's other work, led the Oregon Commission of Women to name her the "Woman of Achievement" for 2013. The company's "HannaHelps" program also garnered attention for awarding yearly grants to schools and non-profit groups serving children throughout the United States.

Products
Hanna Andersson manufactures clothing for babies, toddlers, kids, and women. Over 60% of the company's products are OEKO-TEX Standard 100 certified and many items are made with organic cotton. In 2014, the company expanded its offerings to include home décor and bedding.  Currently the brand focuses on high-quality clothing and pajamas for babies, toddlers, kids, and adults and was and is known for bright, happy designs and matching family pajamas.

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1983 establishments in Oregon
Children's clothing brands
Companies based in Portland, Oregon
Clothing companies established in 1983
Retail companies established in 1984
Privately held companies based in Oregon


title: 38 Leonis Minoris

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38 Leonis Minoris is a binary star system in the northern constellation of Leo Minor. It shines with a combined light of apparent magnitude 5.84, which indicates it a dimly visible to the naked eye under good viewing conditions. An annual parallax shift of 19.11 mas provides a distance estimate of around 171 light years. It has a relatively high proper motion, traversing the celestial sphere at a rate of 0.226 arcseconds per year, and is moving away from the Sun with a radial velocity of +31 km/s.

This is a single-lined spectroscopic binary with an orbital period of 7.8 days and a low eccentricity of 0.023 – nearly circular. The visible component has a stellar classification of G0 IV, matching a G-type subgiant star that is exhausting the hydrogen at its core and evolving into a giant. It is about two billion years old with 1.68 times the mass of the Sun and is spinning with a projected rotational velocity of 14.5 km/s. The star has a higher than solar abundance of iron in its spectrum. It is radiating 11 times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 6,106 K.

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G-type subgiants
Spectroscopic binaries
Leonis Minoris, 38
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title: Henri Houben

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Henri Houben (1858–1931, born and died in Antwerp) was a Belgian genre painter.

Life
He originally studied to be a violinist, but his interest in painting took the upper hand, so he enrolled at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Antwerp, where he studied under Charles Verlat. He later assisted Verlat with his panoramic paintings ("March of the Russian Army" and "The Battle of Waterloo") and executed decorative paintings from designs by Albrecht De Vriendt in the Antwerp City Hall. In 1885, he became a Professor at the Academy.

In Belgium, he worked primarily in Antwerp and the Kempen. He also travelled in Italy and Spain, but developed a particular fondness for the Netherlands, especially the maritime areas and Zeeland, working in Katwijk, Middelburg, Volendam, Veere, Vlissingen, Sluis and Yerseke. In Volendam he was a regular guest at the Hotel Spaander, a favorite spot for many painters, including Renoir.

His preferred subjects were the picturesque villagers who, at that time, still often dressed in native costume. He also produced five etchings for "Les Pittoresques", a book of sonnets by Georges Eekhoud.

Further reading
Le dictionnaire des peintres belges du XIVe siècle à nos jours, Brussels, 1994.
Schilderdorpen in de Kempen. De Molse School (exhibition catalog), Eindhoven (Museum Kempenland), 2007.
Dick Brinkkemper et al., Volendam. Schildersdorp 1880-1940, photographs by Jan Tuijp. Zwolle, Waanders (2006)

External links

 Internet Archive: Les Pittoresques by Eekhoud, with illustrations by Houben.
 ArtNet: More paintings by Houben

1858 births
1931 deaths
Genre painters
19th-century Belgian painters
Belgian male painters
19th-century Belgian male artists
20th-century Belgian painters
20th-century Belgian male artists


title: 2011 Bolsover District Council election

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The 2011 Bolsover District Council election took place on 5 May 2011 to elect members of Bolsover District Council in Derbyshire, England. The whole council was up for election and the Labour party stayed in overall control of the council.

Election result

Ward results

By-elections between 2011 and 2015

Shirebrook South West
A by-election was held in Shirebrook South West on 25 August 2011 after the death of the independent councillor Alan Waring. The seat was gained for the Labour party by Sandra Peake with a majority of 97 votes over the Green party.

Whitwell

South Normanton East
A by-election was held in South Normanton East on 14 August 2014 after the death of Labour councillor Terry Cook. The seat was held for Labour by Tracey Cannon with a majority of 173 votes over the Conservatives.

Bolsover North West
A by-election was held in Bolsover North West on 8 January 2015 after the death of Labour councillor Thomas Rodda. The seat was held for Labour by Susan Statter with a majority of 21 votes over the UK Independence Party.

References

2011
2011 English local elections
2010s in Derbyshire


title: Hálendið (novel)

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(literally "The Highlands") is a 2011 novel by Steinar Bragi published by Mál og menning. It enjoyed very positive reviews.

Synopsis

Characters
The novel is implicitly set around the time of the 2008–11 Icelandic financial crisis. It has four main characters, whose back-stories and psychological peculiarities the novel gradually develops through narratorial exposition and the characters' own flashbacks and conversations:

 Hrafn, born into an elite Icelandic family, who after a troubled youth has become a leading entrepreneur in Iceland's financial boom.
 Vigdís, Hrafn's girlfriend, who, notwithstanding the death of her mother in a car accident and a distant father, has done well in her education and become a psychiatrist.
 Egill, a childhood friend of Hrafn's who despite heavy drinking and womanising has by dint of hard work become a lawyer and also a leading player in Iceland's financial boom.
 Anna, Egill's girlfriend, noted in the novel for her sexual drive, who is a successful journalist and writer. She brings with her her dog Tryggur.

Plot
The four go on holiday in the Icelandic highlands, driving in a jeep to the south of Askja. Losing the road in foggy darkness, Hrafn accidentally drives the jeep into the wall of a house mysteriously located in the highland desert, making the jeep unusable and forcing the characters to demand the reluctant hospitality of the house's two inhabitants: an old woman, Ása; and an old man who in the characters' estimation is at an advanced stage of Alzheimer's disease. The novel is quick to imply that there is something strange and dangerous about the situation.

With no mobile phone signal and unsure of their location, the characters seek to find a way to reach civilization and get help, and the plot of the novel largely comprises the failure of these efforts. On the first day they try to drive to a village in an old jeep which Ása lends them, but it crashes in a pothole (which Hrafn thinks may be newly dug) and they walk home. Tryggur goes missing overnight.

On the second day Hrafn, Vigdís, and Egill try walking north to get a phone signal; Anna stays behind with an injured ankle. The walkers soon find a dam in a glacial river and an abandoned settlement, and explore the village, finding disturbing, man-made piles of animal bones, one surmounted with a photograph of Vigdís sleeping, taken with her own polaroid camera. Hrafn attacks Egill due to factors including old enmities and Egill's apparent lust for Vigdís, and the three become separated, returning home separately through a sandstorm. Meanwhile, Anna explores the house, discovering the old man's office and that he is one Kjartan Aðalsteinsson, a doctor and one-time member of the Icelandic business elite, associated with Björgólfur Guðmundsson and Margrét Þóra Hallgrímsson. From the office she finds a hidden room containing a bed, a pistol, and a switch labeled 'see me' which, when pressed, gives her a serious electric shock. Piecing clues together, Anna concludes that Kjartan had a child by his own sister, and the family moved to the highlands to escape public shame. It is also implied that he was 'a once-famous scientist who has undertaken dangerous experiments on human subjects'.

On the third day, Egill and Anna set off at daybreak without telling Hrafn and Vigdís, as Egill wishes to escape from Hrafn. Before going far, they find Tryggur's collar with an arrow made with stones pointing down the gully through which the glacial river runs. Following this sign, Egill enters a tunnel in the gully's side, sees a mutilated Tryggur, and nothing more is seen of either in the novel. It later emerges than Anna follows Egill into the tunnel. Setting off later, Hrafn and Vigdís find Anna and Egill's bags; Hrafn sees that their tracks enter the tunnel but do not emerge, but does not tell Vigdís, and the two return to the house through another sandstorm. That night, the electricity cuts out and various other unnerving developments occur, leading up to a knock on the door. Despite Ása's demands, Hrafn and Vigdís open it to find Anna wrapped in fishing line stolen from their car and mutilated, primarily by the removal of her fingers and tongue, blinded and deafened. She bears a message which appears to be an attempt by Egill to ask for help.

Early on the fourth day, Hrafn and Vigdís set off to look for Egill. The narrative perspective shifts to Hrafn and as he becomes increasingly confused or indeed deranged, it becomes increasingly unclear to the reader how reliable the account is. It is implied that Hrafn either is or starts to believe himself responsible for at least some of the violence that has taken place. Hrafn and Vigdís become separated during an increasingly confused sequence, and Hrafn returns to the house and for the first time tries to explore the basement; the sequence ends with what appears to Hrafn's mental return to a childhood trauma.

The novel closes with a confused account of Vigdís being discovered wandering naked in the highlands, the police investigating events at the 'house', and Vigdís's hospitalisation. Yet it also appears at this stage that the house was in fact a large rock; 'thereupon the reader has to wonder whether everything that goes on in between [the car-crash and the ending] was only hallucinations, triggered by the consumption of alcohol and drugs, but above all by the powerful impulse to self-destruction which the four young people experience'.

Form and themes
The novel is written in the third person. It contains a map of the region where the novel is set (p. 6) and a reproduction of Seb Patane's 'Four Generations' (p. 182). It is divided into four sections: 'Eyðimörkin' ('the desert', 12 chapters), 'Það hefur enga sál' ('it has no soul', 12 chapters), 'Húsið' ('the house', 11 chapters), and 'Náttúra' ('nature', 1 chapter). The narratorial perspective shifts from one character to another, explicitly labelling from whose perspective each sequence of chapters is presented.

The novel has been understood as a self-conscious Icelandicisation of the American genre of the horror story, showing the influence of, amongst others, H. P. Lovecraft, and making subtle use of traditional Icelandic folklore. Thus, for example, Vigdís fulfils the trope of the final girl, while the fact that the house is in fact a rock recalls the homes of trolls and elves in Icelandic folklore, as does the name of Ása herself.

The novel prominently addresses the power of the natural world in Iceland, and the lack of understanding and respect of the characters for it; Icelandic culture at the height of the early twenty-first century boom; and characters' psychology.

Translations
 Steinar Bragi, Excursion, trans. by Patrick Guelpa, Bibliothèque nordique (Paris: Métailié, 2013),
 Steinar Bragi, Höglandet: Roman, trans. by Inge Knutsson (Stockholm: Natur & Kultur, 2014),
 Steinar Bragi, De hoogvlakte, trans. by Kim Liebrand (Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Luitingh-Sijthoff, 2015),  (Dutch)
 Steinar Bragi, Højlandet, trans. by Rolf Stavnem (København: Gyldendal, 2015),  (Danish)
 Steinar Bragi, Felföld, trans. by Utassy Ferenc (Budapest: Animus, 2015),  (Hungarian)
 Steinar Bragi, Ødemarken, trans. by Silje Beite Løken (Oslo: Gyldendal, 2016),  (Norwegian)
 Steinar Bragi, Sumu, trans. by Tuomas Kauko (Helsinki: Like, 2016),  (Finnish)
 Steinar Bragi, The Ice Lands, trans. by Lorenza Garcia (London: Macmillan, 2016),  (English)
 Steinar Bragi, Planina, trans. by Lucie Korecká (Zlín: Kniha Zlin, 2016),  (Czech)
 Steinar Bragi, El silencio de las tierras altas, trans. by Enrique Bernárdez (Barcelona: Ediciones Destino, 2016),  (Spanish)

References

Sources

External links
 English translation of pp. 198–200

2011 novels
Highlands of Iceland
Icelandic novels
Icelandic-language novels
Mál og menning books


title: Mario Mendoza Zambrano

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Mario Mendoza Zambrano (born January 06 1964) is a Colombian writer, professor, and journalist.

Biography
Mario Mendoza Zambrano was born in 1964 in Bogotá, Colombia. He studied at Colegio Refous and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, where he earned an MA in Latin American Literature. Later, he was Professor of Literature at the same university where he studied. He went to Toledo to attend courses of Spanish American literature, and also went to Israel where he lived in Hof Ashkelon. It was after this trip, upon returning home, that his work began to be published in Colombian magazines and newspapers. During fall of 1997, he worked at James Madison University in Virginia, US.

After graduation in 1980, Mendoza commenced his literary career by combining writing with teaching and collaborating with various cultural print media, such as Journal Bacánika and El Tiempo Newspaper. He has taught literature for over ten years.

Thanks to his novel Satanás, Mendoza won the Seix Barral Premio Biblioteca Breve in 2002. He is one of the most renowned Latin American writers today.

About his work
Through the images described in several of his texts, Mendoza recreates Bogotá, a city that hardly anyone has dared to sketch. This is firstly introduced in La Ciudad de los Umbrales, published in 1992. In this novel he starts to show the image of Bogotá as the "transvestite city". A concept he only thoroughly explained later on, at a discussion held at the Luis Angel Arango Library in May 2004.

Now, the city that reveals Mario Mendoza in the triptych [Scorpio City (1998), El Relato de un Asesino (2001) and Satanás (2002)] is a dark muse whose beauty is dark because it condenses the infernal and the sacred, the criminal and the virtuous, the disgusting and the desirable, the painful and the pleasant. A late-century metropolis, which has the strange case of Harry Jekyll and Edward Hyde, as she has multiplicity of overlapping facets in constant tension; she is a seductive monster whose essence is not possible to determine. Whether she came "deep down from heaven or emerged from the abyss."

"Through agile and concise prose, Mendoza achieves a milestone in his own narrative universe; a universe in which it is possible to find beauty in the ugly and disgusting, without trying to cover it up with facile catharsis. Since writing proposes a hyper visceral aesthetic, which fears do not travel intricate regions of the human psyche, or skirting the limits of madness."

Mendoza lives taking the pulse of the city. He has been a literary spokesman for the city of Bogotá for over 20 years. In his novels, it can can be traced neighborhoods, bridges, schools, streets, universities, parks and the changes that the Colombian Capital has been experiencing during these decades. Thus, this Bogota author noted for his interest in creating resistance, not with a guild of fans of his literary work but apparently by forming activist fighters like him, through their writings. Thus, literature, as resistance to the injustices of the system, accounts for that social reality and openly expose them to society. Eventually the work of Mendoza is on track to be recognized as a valuable work related to the Colombian urban literature, especially in regard to the representation of the city of Bogotá in Colombian writings.

Works

Novel
 La ciudad de los umbrales (1994)
 Scorpio City (1998)
 Relato de un asesino (2001)
 Satanás (2002)
 El viaje del loco Tafur (2003)
 Cobro de sangre (2004)
 Los hombres invisibles (2007)
 Buda Blues (2009)
 Apocalipsis (2011)
 Lady Masacre (2013)
  La melancolía de los feos (2016)
  Diario del fin del mundo (2018)
  Akelarre (2019)

Story
 La travesía del vidente (1997)
 Una escalera al cielo (2004)
 La locura de nuestro tiempo (2010)
 La importancia de morir a tiempo (2012)

Junior Novel
 Mi extraño viaje al mundo de Shambala (2013)
 La colonia de Altair (2013)
 Crononautas (2013)
 Metempsicosis (2014)
 El hijo del carpintero (2014)

Comic and Graphic Novels
 2018 Satanás
 2019 El Último Día Sobre la Tierra - Volumen 1: Imágenes Premonitorias
 2019 El Último Día Sobre la Tierra - Volumen 2: Están entre Nosotros
 2020 El Último Día Sobre la Tierra - Volumen 3: El Astrólogo
 2020 El Último Día Sobre la Tierra - Volumen 4: Los Híbridos

Awards
 Premio Nacional de Literatura del Instituto Distrital de Cultura y Turismo de Bogotá (1995)
 Premio Biblioteca Breve from Seix Barral for the novel Satanás (2002)
 Premio Nacional de Literatura Libros y Letras (2011)

References

External links

 Entrevista: Mario Mendoza: Historias del Bogotá profundo
 Novela negra:Entrevista a Mario Mendoza
 Entrevista a MM por Álvaro A. Bernal
 El espejo de la crítica: Mario Mendoza y Satanás
 Entrevista: La locura que vive Mario Mendoza
 Apocalipsis, el rompecabezas de dos décadas
 Confesiones de MM en "la locura de nuestro tiempo"

20th-century Colombian novelists
21st-century Colombian novelists
Colombian male novelists
Colombian male short story writers
Colombian short story writers
1964 births
Living people
20th-century short story writers
21st-century short story writers
20th-century male writers
21st-century male writers


title: Mark Reber

text:
Mark Reber (born 14 January 1969) is a former professional rugby league footballer who played for North Sydney in the ARL and NRL,  and Wigan in the Super League.

Playing career
He then switched to rugby league and made his first grade debut for North Sydney in round 20 of the 1995 ARL season against Western Suburbs at North Sydney Oval.  In the same year, he played in North Sydney's elimination final loss against the Newcastle Knights at Parramatta Stadium.

In the 1996 ARL season, Reber only made one appearance for the first grade team which came against the Western Reds in round 11 at North Sydney Oval.

Reber started at Hooker in the 1997 preliminary final between the North Sydney Bears and the Newcastle Knights.  Newcastle won the match 17–12.

The next season, Reber made 25 appearances for Norths and was in the sides that lost both finals matches in succession.  In 1999, Reber joined Wigan where he made 18 appearances over 2 seasons.

References

External links
 Profile at wigan.rlfans.com

1969 births
Living people
North Sydney Bears players
Wigan Warriors players
Rugby league hookers
Australian rugby league players
Place of birth missing (living people)


title: Stelios Pozatzidis

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Stelios Pozatzidis (; born 24 June 1994) is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Super League 2 club Athens Kallithea.

Career
Born in Thessaloniki, Pozatzidis came through the academy at PAOK, making his first team debut at age 20 in August 2014. He would make five Super League 1 appearances in the 2014/15 season before moving on from his hometown club.

After gaining experience in a series of short stints at Panionios, Kalamaria, Kalloni, and Lamia, Pozatzidis would become a regular starter for the first time in his career in the 2017/18 season, splitting the season between Karditsa and Panserraikos.

In summer 2018, Pozatzidis signed for Platanias, and he would be a key player in the team that made a run for promotion in 2018/19, ultimately finishing in second place and losing 3-2 on aggregate to Super League 1 club OFI Crete in a promotion-relegation playoff.

Pozatzidis spent two seasons at Platanias followed by two seasons at Ergotelis, before joining Kifisia last summer.

In the 2022/23 season, Pozatzidis made 16 appearances (13 starts) as Kifisia edged out AKFC by one point to achieve promotion to the first division.

In July 2023, Pozatzidis signed with Athens Kallithea FC.

Personal life
Pozatzidis' cousin, Theocharis, is also a professional footballer.

Career statistics

References

1994 births
Living people
Greek men's footballers
PAOK FC players
Apollon Pontou F.C. players
Panionios F.C. players
Ergotelis F.C. players
Men's association football defenders
Footballers from Thessaloniki


title: Section 3 (NYSPHSAA)

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Section 3 is one of the eleven sections of the New York State Public High School Athletic Association (NYSPHSAA). The section covers Central New York and, like the other sections of the NYSPHSAA, is further divided into leagues. Each school is also given a class (i.e. AA, A, B...) based on the size of the school. Schools compete with their leagues mostly, but also compete with other schools throughout the season, especially towards the end of a season during championship time.

Leagues
Section 3 comprises seven leagues, some of which are even further broken down into smaller groups. The following is the list of leagues with their member schools in order of size, from largest to smallest, based on the number of schools in the league.

Onondaga High School League
The OHSL divides itself into three conferences based mostly on the size of the school. It is not exact however because of reclassifications. The Freedom Conference comprises Class A Schools, the Liberty Conference comprises Class B Schools, and the Patriot Conference comprises Class C and D Schools.

Freedom Conference
 Chittenango High School
 Cortland High School
 East Syracuse-Minoa High School
 George Fowler High School
 Fulton High School
 Jamesville-Dewitt High School
 Mexico High School
 Phoenix High School

Liberty Conference
 Cazenovia High School
 Christian Brothers Academy
 Hannibal High School
 Homer High School
 Jordan-Elbridge High School
 Marcellus High School
 Skaneateles High School
 Solvay High School
 Westhill High School

Patriot Conference
 Bishop Grimes High School
 Bishop Ludden High School
 Cato-Meridian High School
 Fabius-Pompey High School
 Faith Heritage School
 Lafayette High School
 Manlius Pebble Hill School
 Onondaga High School
 Port Byron High School
 Pulaski High School
 Syracuse Academy of Science
 Institute of Technology
 Tully High School
 Weedsport High School

Center State Conference
The Center State Conference is broken up into four divisions.

Division I
 Adirondack Central High School
 Canastota High School
 Central Valley High School
 Clinton High School
 Holland Patent Central High School
 Mount Markham High School
 Sherburne-Earlville High School

Division II
 Dolgeville Central High School
 Frankfort-Schuyler High School
 Herkimer High School
 Little Falls High School
 West Canada Valley Central High School

Division III
 Cooperstown Central High School
 Hamilton Central School
 Morrisville-Eaton High School
 Sauquoit Valley Central School
 Waterville Central School
 Westmoreland High School

Division IV
 New York Mills High School
 Oriskany High School
 Owen D Young High School
 Poland Central High School
 Remsen Central School
 Rome Catholic
 Town Of Webb School District

Frontier
Frontier is divided into four divisions.

A Division
 Carthage High School
 Immaculate Heart Central
 Indian River High School
 Watertown High School

B Division
 Altmar-Parish-Williamstown
 General Brown
 Lowville High School
 South Jefferson High School

C Division
 Beaver River High School
 Sandy Creek High School
 South Lewis High School
 Thousand Islands High School

D Division
 Alexandria High School
 Belleville-Henderson High School
 Copenhagen High School
 Lafargeville High School
 Lyme High School
 Sackets Harbor High School

CNYCL
The CNYCL is broken into five sections.

National
 Baldswinville High School
 Cicero-North Syracuse High School
 Henninger High School
 Liverpool High School
 West Genesee High School

American
 Auburn High School
 Central Square High School
 Corcoran High School
 Fayetteville-Manlius High School
 Nottingham High School
 Oswego High School

Tri-Valley
 New Hartford High School
 Notre Dame High School
 Oneida High School
 Rome Free Academy
 Utica Proctor
 Whitesboro High School

Central Counties
 Brookfield High School
 Cincinnatus High School
 DeRuyter High School
 Madison High School
 McGraw High School
 Otselic Valley High School
 Stockbridge Valley High School

Independents
 Blessed Virgin Mary High School
 Camden High School
 Living Word Academy
 Tyburn Academy
 Vernon-Verona-Sherrill High School

References

Organizations based in New York (state)
High school sports associations in the United States
Sports governing bodies in the United States
New York State Public High School Athletic Association sections


title: Deadly Inheritance

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Deadly Inheritance (), is a 1969 Italian giallo film directed by Vittorio Sindoni.

Plot
An old man named Oscar is "accidentally" run over by a train in France. According to his will, his heirs must wait until the youngest among them (a simpleton named Janot) reaches the age of 21 before the estate can be settled. Janot unfortunately soon after turns up dismembered by a train as well, in another "accident". Then Rosalie and her husband meet untimely deaths, which calls the affair to the attention of a police inspector. A young family member named Collette is next on the killer's list.

Cast

Production
Director Vittorio Sindoni stated that the film was initially set to film in France, but ended on location in Anguillara Sabazia, just outside of Rome. The director stated they had tried to pass off the location as Aix-les-Bains. Film critic and historian Roberto Curti stated that the film was low budget and barely had time to complete and mix the film.

Release
Before the film's initial release, the Italian rating board  rejected it in January 1968 due to scenes of Femi Benussi nude. It was only distributed the following year in 1969.
The film was later re-released as L'assassino ha le mani pulite  on home video in the early 1980s.

References

Footnotes

Sources

External links

1969 films
Giallo films
1960s Italian-language films
Films directed by Vittorio Sindoni
1960s Italian films


title: S. N. Balakrishnan

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S N Balakrishnan was the second Chancellor of Shiv Nadar University and the Chairperson of the Executive Council, the apex statutory body at the University. His brother, Shiv Nadar, is the founder of the university bearing his name.

An engineer and scientist, Balakrishnan has previously served as the founding Pro-Chancellor of the University. He heads IST Rolla, an engineering firm focused on providing clients with engineering research, development and technology.  He has done work in missile defence, aircraft control, launch vehicle and spacecraft control areas. Balakrishnan teaches at the Missouri University of Science and Technology and is the Curator's Professor for Aerospace Engineering at Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.

Balakrishnan took charge of the Office of the Chancellor in April, 2014, and continued to carry forward the objectives of the University, while at the same time defining organizational structures for the University. His appointment was announced on April 11, 2014. His brother, the founder, Shiv Nadar talked about Balakrishan's "rich experience and depth in academics and research" and his "expertise in global learning pedagogy" being important for shaping up the young university.

Education
Balakrishnan completed his doctoral thesis in 1983, at the University of Texas at Austin, receiving a PhD in Aerospace Engineering.

References

Heads of universities and colleges in India
Cockrell School of Engineering alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Missouri University of Science and Technology faculty


title: Titanomis

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Titanomis is a genus of moths containing a single species Titanomis sisyrota, also known as the frosted phoenix.  Taxonomists have difficulty placing this moth within an existing superfamily. The species is currently regarded as endemic to New Zealand. Only ten specimens have ever been found and none since 1959; it is classified as "Data Deficient" by the Department of Conservation.

Taxonomy and etymology

Titanomis is considered an enigmatic unplaced genus and may require its own family. The genus and species were first described by Edward Meyrick in 1888 using a specimen collected by George Hudson.

The location of collection of that specimen was unclear as a result an error made by Meyrick. Hudson, in his 1928 book The Moths and Butterflies of New Zealand, discussed and illustrated this species. There he recorded the holotype being caught in 1882 in Nelson. However the label written by Meyrick stated that the holotype was collected by Hudson on 10 May 1885 in Wellington. John S. Dugdale, in his Annotated Catalogue of New Zealand Lepidoptera, accepted that the type locality of the species was Nelson. The error arose as Meyrick confused the details of the capture of the holotype with the details of its shipment to the United Kingdom.  The holotype specimen is held at the Natural History Museum, London.

The genus name is derived from Titan, meaning giant, and anomis, meaning anomalous. It refers to the size and unusual morphology of the group in which the species was originally placed. The epithet is derived from sisyrota, meaning wearing a shaggy garment, and refers to the hairs on the inner margin of the hindwings.

Description
Meyrick described the species as follows:
The appearance of this moth may give clues as to its preferred habitat. It has been hypothesised that the whitish border of the wings assists the camouflage of the moth against mottled bark, indicating a possible preference for forest habitat.

Distribution

The species is currently accepted as endemic to New Zealand.  However this is an extremely rare species with only 10 reliable records. Based on this irregular pattern of occurrences it has been hypothesised that the species may be a sporadic immigrant.

It has been found in the Waikato, Taupō, Wellington, Nelson, Marlborough, Westland and Southland areas. The earliest capture recorded was at Greymouth in December 1874, and other specimens were taken in Nelson at around the same time. Other than the type specimen mentioned above, specimens were also collected in Blenheim in 1883, in Otaki in 1886, again in Nelson in 1898, in Haldane in Southland in 1900, and in Rangataua in 1921. The last collection of this species took place at Waipapa Dam in 1959.

Biology and behaviour
Very little is known of the biology of this species. The adults are on the wing from December until March. They are attracted to light with at least two specimens collected in living rooms and another at the flood lights of Waipapa Dam. It has been hypothesised, based on the living room collections, that the adult moth may be more attracted to weaker or less ultraviolet light sources.

Host species and habitat
The host niche is unknown however based on the morphology of the species it has been hypothesised that the host may be woody branches or stems of living plants, rotten wood, or even a bracket fungus, as females likely insert their eggs into the larval host. Beech forest habitat had been located near where many of the specimens have been taken. It has also been hypothesised that larvae of the moth may be associated with rotten podocarp wood as all the collection localities are close to valley floor kahikatea and matai forest. The 1959 collection of this species also occurred near a kanuka forest. It has been hypothesised that this species may be associated with wetland habit. The basis for this theory is that the females of this species come to light more frequently than the males and are therefore more likely to feed on scattered food sources. Species that have this attribute include those that prefer wetland habitat.

Conservation status
This species has been classified as having the "Data Deficient" conservation status under the New Zealand Threat Classification System. Unfortunately there has been no record of capture of this species for over 50 years and as such the species is regarded by some as possibly extinct. However other experts regard extinction as not yet proven given the few New Zealand lepidopterists collecting specimens and searching for this species.

References

External links

Image of holotype specimen
 Titanomis sisyrota discussed on RNZ Critter of the Week, 9 August 2019

Moths described in 1888
Monotypic moth genera
Moths of New Zealand
Endemic fauna of New Zealand
Taxa named by Edward Meyrick
Endemic moths of New Zealand


title: Den lilla fågeln

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Den lilla fågeln is a song that Karin Gustafsson and Mikael Timmermann from Getinge appeared in the television show Chansen that originally aired over Sveriges Television in early 1981. The song was written by Karin Gustafsson, and received major airplay over Sveriges Radio Halland.

The song lyrics tell a story about young girl named Lena, who is sleeping on a Sunday morning when being wakened up by a bird appearing next to her window looking for food, and she wants to let the bird in for a while, but not strip the bird on its freedom.

Other recordings
In 1984, the song was recorded by Stig Lorentz on the album Räck ut din hand, and in 1989 Thord Åhman recorded the song on the album På väg 3.

Stefan Borsch scored a Svensktoppen hit charting for 20 weeks between 29 November 1987–17 April 1988.

Paul Sahlin wrote another lyris version, Luffarpojken, describing a young boy on the run from an orphanage, who sleeps at the haylofts and prays to the Lord wondering who his parents are. With these lyrics the sogn was recorded by Paul Sahlin and Säwes at the album named after the song. and by Jirix on the 1988 album Hemmets jord.

References

1981 songs
Swedish songs
Swedish-language songs
Stefan Borsch songs
Songs about birds


title: Lewis Oliva

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Lewis Oliva (born 23 August 1992) is a Welsh racing cyclist from Monmouthshire, Wales, who has ridden on the track for the Welsh Cycling backed professional track team since September 2016. Prior to this he was part of the Great Britain cycling team for eight years as a sprint athlete.

In addition to his five British titles, Lewis is the current British keirin champion after successfully defending his title on 26/01/2018. He was successful in winning various international accolades, culminating in five world cup medals and multiple European and world championship honours. Oliva has also represented Wales at the Commonwealth Games at Delhi 2010,  Glasgow, 2014 and Gold Coast 2018. He took the silver medal in the keirin in the 2018 Games, after progressing from the first round via the repechages. His most recent competition (World Championship) representing Great Britain was the 2017 Worlds, where he competed in the keirin, his favourite event whilst balancing a vigorous training regime alongside his demanding studies at Cardiff Medical School. In October 2018 he announced that he would be stepping away from international competition after that year's edition of the Six Days of London in order to concentrate on his medical studies, although he did not rule out a comeback once he had completed his medical degree.

Oliva was educated at Shirenewton Primary School, then at Monmouth School: he participated in the Queen's Baton Relay there in September 2017, ahead of the 2018 Commonwealth Games. He subsequently spent six years studying for a degree in philosophy with the Open University whilst being part of the British Cycling Academy programme. Since 2016, he has been a student of Medicine at Cardiff University in Wales. He is married to fellow racing cyclist and physiotherapist Ciara Horne.

Prize list

2009
1st Keirin, British National Track Championships

2010
2nd Keirin, British National Track Championships
3rd Sprint, British National Track Championships

2011
3rd Team sprint, British National Track Championships

2012
2nd Sprint, British National Track Championships
1st Team Sprint, British National Track Championships
3rd Team Sprint, European Track Championships

2013
3rd Keirin, British National Track Championships

2014
3rd Team Sprint, Round 3, Mexico, 2013–14 UCI Track Cycling World Cup
3rd Keirin, Round 3, Mexico, 2013–14 UCI Track Cycling World Cup
3rd Keirin, British National Track Championships
1st Team Sprint, British National Track Championships

2015
1st Sprint, British National Track Championships
2nd Keirin, British National Track Championships

2016
3rd Keirin, Round 1, Glasgow, 2016–17 UCI Track Cycling World Cup
6th Keirin, Round 2, Apeldoorn, Holland. (DQ'd from 2nd), 2016–17 UCI Track Cycling World Cup

2017
4th Keirin, Round 3, Los Angeles, 2016–17 UCI Track Cycling World Cup
1st Keirin, National Championships, Manchester
3rd Sprint, National Championships, Manchester
3rd Team sprint, National Championships, Manchester
2nd Keirin, Round 3, Milton, Ontario 2017-18 UCI Track Cycling World Cup
7th Sprint, Round 3, Milton, Ontario 2017-18 UCI Track Cycling World Cup
8th Keirin, Round 4, Santiago, Chile 2017-18 UCI Track Cycling World Cup

2018
2nd Keirin, Commonwealth Games, Gold Coast
3rd Keirin, Round 5, Minsk, Belarus 2017-18 UCI Track Cycling World Cup
6th Sprint, Round 5, Minsk, Belarus 2017-18 UCI Track Cycling World Cup
1st Keirin, National Championships, Manchester
2nd Sprint, National Championships, Manchester
Finished season ranked 3rd in the world overall (UCI world cup rankings- sprint)
Finished season ranked 3rd in the world overall (UCI world cup rankings- keirin)

References

External links

1992 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Monmouthshire
People educated at Monmouth School for Boys
Welsh male cyclists
Cyclists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
Cyclists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Cyclists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
Alumni of the Open University
Commonwealth Games medallists in cycling
Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Wales
Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games


title: The Boat Race 1982

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The 128th Boat Race took place on 27 March 1982. Held annually, the Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge along the River Thames.  Oxford won by  lengths, securing their seventh consecutive victory.  Their number five, Boris Rankov, won a record fifth Boat Race as a rower, and Oxford's Clay brothers became the first twins to win the event.

In the reserve race, Oxford's Isis beat Cambridge's Goldie by  lengths, and in the Women's Boat Race, Cambridge were victorious.

Background
The Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing competition between the University of Oxford (sometimes referred to as the "Dark Blues") and the University of Cambridge (sometimes referred to as the "Light Blues").  First held in 1829, the race takes place on the  Championship Course on the River Thames in southwest London.  The rivalry is a major point of honour between the two universities and followed throughout the United Kingdom and broadcast worldwide.  Oxford went into the race as reigning champions, having beaten Cambridge by eight lengths in the previous year's race.  However Cambridge held the overall lead, with 68 victories to Oxford's 58 (excluding the "dead heat" of 1877).

The first Women's Boat Race took place in 1927, but did not become an annual fixture until the 1960s. Up until 2014, the contest was conducted as part of the Henley Boat Races, but as of the 2015 race, it is held on the River Thames, on the same day as the men's main and reserve races.  The reserve race, contested between Oxford's Isis boat and Cambridge's Goldie boat has been held since 1965.  It usually takes place on the Tideway, prior to the main Boat Race.

During the pre-race preparations, the Cambridge crew struck a floating railway sleeper near Chiswick Eyot, damaging their boat, which needed repair before the race.  Oxford's crew suffered illness in the days leading up the race, in particular the president Nick Conington who was moved from stroke to bow to reduce the chances of a possible recurrence of glandular fever.

Crews
The Oxford crew weighed an average of just below 14 st (88.7 kg) per rower, and had a  per man advantage over Cambridge.  Oxford saw four former Blues return, including the first female cox in Sue Brown.  Cambridge's crew contained a single Blue in boat club president Roger Stephens. Despite retiring from rowing, Boris Rankov, a junior fellow at St Hugh's was persuaded back into the crew by the Oxford boat club president Nick Conington.  Rankov was rowing in his fifth consecutive Boat Race, alongside Steve Foster whom he supervised in classics. Oxford's crew also contained the Clay twins, Robert and Hugh.

Race

River conditions were calm: Jim Railton of The Times described the course as "a smooth and flat Queen's highway from Putney to Mortlake."  Michael Muir-Smith was the umpire for the race, for which Oxford were "heavily favoured".   They won the toss and elected to start from the Surrey station. A good start from the Light Blues saw them a length ahead by Craven Cottage and passing the Mile Post one second ahead of Oxford.  From Harrods Furniture Depository, Oxford fought their way back into contention with cox Brown forcing her counterpart Bernstein to steer towards the centre of the river.  Both crews shot Hammersmith Bridge a second apart, with Oxford quickly gaining a length's lead and a clear water advantage.  Cambridge were nine seconds down by Chiswick Steps and a further second behind at Barnes Bridge.  Oxford passed the finishing post eleven seconds and  lengths ahead of Cambridge, in a time of 18 minutes 21 seconds, to record their seventh consecutive victory.

In the reserve race, Isis beat Goldie by  lengths and five seconds in a time of 18 minutes 43 seconds to record their third consecutive victory.  In the 37th running of the Women's Boat Race, Cambridge triumphed, their first win in three years.

Reaction
Rankov, who became the first rower to win five consecutive Boat Races (C. R. W. Tottenham had won five as a cox in the 1860s), admitted, "The beginning was all right.  We expected them to be up on us before Hammersmith.  But the burn we did there was exhausting. It was really hard just to keep in front for the rest of the way." Defeated Cambridge cox Bernstein said, "I can't wait to get back at them next year", while his stroke Simon Harris stated, "we will have six of this crew left next year.  That's a good base". The Clays became the first twins to win a Boat Race.

References
Notes

Bibliography

External links
 Official website

The Boat Race
1982 in English sport
1982 in rowing
March 1982 sports events in the United Kingdom
1982 sports events in London


title: Zimbabwe flyafrica.com

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Zimbabwe flyafrica.com was a low cost carrier, the first from the flyafrica.com group to start operations.  Flights commenced in  between Victoria Falls and Johannesburg, and subsequently on additional routes. However operations have been suspended since October 2015, on removal of the airline's operating licence, reportedly following shareholder disputes and failure to meet statutory requirements.

History
Test flights were conducted in  in order to meet South African Civil Aviation Authority and Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (CAAZ) requirements. The carrier advised that the first service was launched between Victoria Falls and Johannesburg on , and scheduled services were slated to commence a week later, on 23 July. However, these services reportedly did not commence citing operational logistics issues. It was later advised that the fact the carrier had their aircraft registered in Zimbabwe and their pilots licensed in South Africa prevented scheduled services from being launched, as the CAAZ demanded the pilots to be licensed in the country.  Flights eventually commenced in August 2014.

Flights on all routes were suspended in October 2015, after the airline's AOC was withdrawn by the CAAZ. In addition to disputes between the shareholders, there was a failure to meet the regulatory requirements (including that the aircraft were not based in Zimbabwe, and the company did not have an accountable manager and a local head of maintenance) and the airline had not been remitting passenger services charges to CAAZ. The suspension was upheld by the High Court of Zimbabwe in November 2015.

There was a sister carrier Namibia flyafrica (based at Windhoek, Namibia), which was also forced to suspend operations given that it was wet-leasing a B737-500 from Zimbabwe flyafrica for its flights to South Africa. The Namibian Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) suspended the carrier's licence in November 2015 after an investigation showed it had failed to inform the DCA of Zimbabwe flyafrica's AOC revocation while continuing to operate its aircraft.

Corporate affairs

Ownership
The airline is a joint venture between the Zimbabwean infrastructure company Nu.com (previously associated to the Zimbabwean start-up carrier Fresh Air, a project that never materialised) and Flyafrica Ltd, a private aviation group.

Key people
Zimbabwe flyafrica.com CEO was Chakanyuka Karase, but he is no longer an officer of the company.

Destinations
According to its timetable, the carrier served the following destinations , although these have now all been terminated:

Fleet
Flyafrica acquired  ex-Czech Airlines Boeing 737-500 aircraft. , the airline fleet consisted of the following equipment, although only two aircraft were ever registered for use in Zimbabwe:

See also

Transport in Zimbabwe

References

External links

Defunct airlines of Zimbabwe
Airlines established in 2014
Airlines disestablished in 2015
Low-cost carriers


title: XHUDG

text:
XHUDG may refer to either of two stations owned by the Universidad de Guadalajara and broadcasting to Guadalajara, Jalisco:
 XHUDG-FM, 104.3 FM radio
 XHUDG-TDT, television channel 44


title: Credell Calhoun

text:
Credell Calhoun (born May 20, 1943) is an American businessman and Democratic politician. He served as a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives from the 68th District from 2003 to 2020. Calhoun decided not to run for reelection in 2019.

References

1943 births
Living people
People from Natchitoches, Louisiana
Democratic Party members of the Mississippi House of Representatives
African-American state legislators in Mississippi
21st-century American politicians
21st-century African-American politicians
20th-century African-American people


title: Yoshiko Okada

text:
was a Japanese stage and film actress who defected to the Soviet Union in the 1930s.

Childhood and youth

Yoshiko Okada was born in Hiroshima Prefecture on April 21, 1902. Her father was a newspaper reporter, her mother came from a farming family in Fukuoka prefecture; her maternal grandfather was one-quarter Dutch. Though the family moved several times, including to Busan in Korea, and she changed school eight times in her childhood, she received an excellent education. Her father's political leanings were very liberal (for instance, when her school visited the Imperial Palace he had her stay home) and this independent outlook remained with her throughout her life. In 1915 she entered the department of western painting at the Joshibi University of Art and Design. In 1917 her father became editor-in-chief of Hokumon Nippo, a Hokkaido newspaper, and upon graduation she joined him as a female reporter. Her beauty earned her some local attention and she was called on to act in amateur theatricals for charity. Her father was friends with Hogetsu Shimamura, founder of the revolutionary Geijutsu-za (Art Theater) and with the playwright Kichizo Nakamura, so in 1919, he took her to Tokyo to become Nakamura's apprentice.

Shingeki actress

The Geijitsu-za staged avant-garde Western plays with real women cast in the female roles, something that hadn't been seen on the Tokyo stage for almost three centuries. When founder Shimamura died in November 1918 in the influenza epidemic and his star actress Sumako Matsui committed suicide in despair two months later the theater was disbanded, but Nakamura partnered with Shochiku to launch the Shin-Geijutsuza (New Art Theater) and on March 1, 1919, Okada made her professional stage debut in a minor role in Carmen. This theater also disbanded and she toured the Tohoku region with the Shin-bungei Kyōkai (New Literary Association). She had a relationship with Yoshiharu Hattori, a member ot the troupe and became pregnant; Hattori urged her to marry him but she refused and the child was registered at birth as her brother (he would become a doctor after the war and in Shanghai took care of deposed emperor Pu Yi's niece). She continued as a guest performer with many theater companies and rose to become a star of modern theater. While on tour, she became lovers with her co-star Takaya Yamada; A jealous Hattori would throw himself under a train in 1925.

Cinematic stardom

In the fledgling film industry as well women were only starting to be cast in female roles; in 1922, senior onnagata including the actor and director Teinosuke Kinugasa, transferred from Nikkatsu Mukojima Studio to Kokkatsu to protest the hiring of actresses by the company. To replace them Nikkatsu hired Okada and Shizue Natsukawa. Okada's first film role was in 1923's Eizō Tanaka's Dance of the Skull based on Hyakuzo Kurata's play Serenity and His Disciple ; with the huge success of this film her star quickly rose. She continued to appear in movies in parallel with her stage career, but Nikkatsu Mukojima studios were destroyed in the Great Kanto Earthquake of the same year. She also found out that Yamada, whom she had wanted to marry, already had a wife and patroness 30 years his elder. Troubled by the situation she left Tokyo and made a contract with Nikkatsu Kyoto Film Studios.

In 1925 she starred in The Magician of the City. Though she felt Minoru Murata's detailed cuts had not made the most of her acting, her performance in this work was highly praised as "perfect". Her following film, the melodrama The Earth Smiles directed by Kenji Mizoguchi was also a major success. She appeared in a total of 9 films in 1925 and despite the scandal of being known as Yamada's common-law wife regularly topped public popularity polls, in both 1926 and 1927 was second in Kinema Junpō magazine's Top Ten and won a great reputation as a breath of a new cinematic era. Her parents left their newspaper in Karafuto (South Sakhalin Island) and came to Kyoto to be with her.

Scandal

In 1927, she was cast as the heroine of Tsubakihime, a big-budget adaptation of Dumas fils' La Dame aux Camélias. She began shooting highly motivated, but when violently scolded by Director Minoru Murata in front of the crowd at the location site, she ran off the set in embarrassment with co-star Ryoichi Takeguchi and disappeared; the newspapers wrote that she was in danger of committing suicide.  Their romantic escape made them idols of the public but Okada, fired from Nikkatsu and backballed by the film industry, had to return to the stage as her sole livelihood. The same year she and Takeguchi married but her beloved mother died of illness at the age of 46. In 1928 she launched the "Yoshiko Okada Theater Company" with the support of Sanjugo Naoki, a popular writer, and toured successfully throughout Japan and even China and Korea until April 1930 when the troupe disbanded.

Era of Struggling Talkies

She then returned to Tokyo and established her own production company, turning her attention to talkies, which had only just begun in Japan and in which she felt her stage experience would allow her to excel. With her as star and Takeguchi as director they produced and marketed more than a dozen films about traditional music and dance. Taking up Japanese dance in earnest, she became a disciple of Shizue Fujima, earning the right to the dancing stage name of Yoshiko Fujikage.

In 1932, she signed a contract with the leading studio of the day Shochiku Kamata on the condition that she would take over the debts of Nikkatsu. With the growing popularity of younger stars such as Sumiko Kurishima, Kinuyo Tanaka, Hiroko Kawasaki, Sanae Takasugi and Yumeko Aizome, Okada had to settle for more mature and usually lesser roles but was still capable of star performances, including in Yasujirō Ozu's and Hiroshi Shimizu's first talkies. Until the Day We Meet Again, with only musical interludes and sound effects but no dialogue, couldn't make the most of her stage skills but was still critically acclaimed, ranking 7th among Kinema Junpō's list for 1932. That film is considered lost but Ozu's Woman of Tokyo and Shimizu's See the Women Who Cry in Springtime largely owe their masterpiece reputations to her lead roles. Both directors had praise for her acting but she was shunned as a difficult actress to work with, and she wanted to create works that she could devote herself to. Ironically her last great film role might have been in A Sword Comes on the Scene, the lost avant-garde masterpiece of Teinosuke Kinugasa, whose rebellion against women actresses led to Okada's first steps in cinema.

Escape to the Soviet Union

Alongside some minor film appearances she joined Masao Inoue's theater company and concentrated on stage appearances. Her relationship with Takeguchi was weakening and they had been living separately for a year. In August 1936, she fell in love with , a Russian-style method acting instructor who was directing the troupe. Sugimoto was also married, and was a member of the Communist Party .director who Yoshiko's stage, and was a communist. In 1931 he had unsuccessfully attempted to enter the Soviet Union under secret orders from the leadership of the Japanese Communist Party in order to restore contact with Comintern.

With the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937, Okada's films were censored as part of militarist restrictions on freedom of expression and Sugimoto, on probation due to his proletarian activism, was in fear of being sent to prison; to escape their mounting problems in Japan the couple decided to defect to the Soviet Union. On December 27, 1937 they departed from Ueno Station headed via Hokkaido for Karafuto. Okada had some familiarity with the area as her parents had lived there. On December 31, they stayed at an inn in Shikuka (in the present-day Russian oblast of Poronaisk). On January 3, 1938 they headed for the border on the pretext of visiting the police and crossed into the Soviet Union in a severe snowstorm. It was reported in newspapers as an elopement incident and surprised all of Japan. On January 10, the Soviet authorities notified the Japanese Consul General in Ako (now Alexandrovsk Sakhalinsky) that the couple had been escorted to the continent. The consul general requested their return but on January 13 Soviet officials informed him that upon investigation it was determined that both persons had entered the USSR voluntarily and by their own means. In reality, as they had entered the country illegally their reception was very harsh; they were separated just three days after entering the country and would never see each other again. The Soviet authorities of the time, seeing Japan as a potential threat, accused them of espionage regardless of their intentions. Tortured and threatened, on January 10 Okada confessed to crossing the border for the purpose of spying. Also under torture Sugimoto, confessed that he, Seki Sano and Yoshi Hijikata, Japanese dramatists living in Moscow, and also soviet playwright and director Vsevolod Meyerhold were all spies.Their confessions were among the pretexts used for the 1940 purge and execution of world-renowned director Meyerhold.

On September 27, 1939 a trial was held in Moscow where Okada fully admitted the indictment and was sentenced to 10 years deprivation of liberty. Sugimoto completely denied the charges, was sentenced to death by firing squad, and was executed on December 26 (His execution was only revealed to Okada after perestroika; she had previously been told he died of illness in prison). Okada was sent to the NKVD's Vyatka Camp 1 in Kirov province, 800 kilometers northeast of Moscow. She wrote petitions to the Soviet authorities for a retrial, which were ignored. On January 7, 1943, she was transferred to the NKVD Prison of Internal Affairs in Moscow, and was released on December 4, 1947. Soviet authorities fabricated a fictional career for the five years before her release but her activities and duties in the NKVD prison in Moscow are not clear; she was rumored to have been on a top-secret mission. After the war, she worked at Radio Moscow as an announcer for a Japanese-language broadcast married Shintaro Takiguchi, a Japanese colleague 11 years younger than her and a popular pre-war actor. She also attended the Lunacharsky State Institute for Theatre Arts, where she reappeared as a theater performer and was selected to co-direct the film Ten Thousand Boys with Boris Buneev, a work that has been called "the first Russian film about Japan not intended to be a depiction of the vicious Japanese enemy"

Return to Japan

When World War II started, Okada was almost completely forgotten in Japan but when in 1952 Tomi Takara, a Diet member on an official visit to the Soviet Union, confirmed that Yoshiko was alive, interest in her suddenly grew. In April 1967, she appeared on a Japanese TV program broadcast from Moscow, speaking with the same straightforwardness she had been known for. In 1972, at the initiative of Ryokichi Minobe, the governor of Tokyo she returned to Japan for the first time in 35 years,. She re-entered the Japanese entertainment world, appearing on the stage, in several films including one of Yōji Yamada's Tora-san series, and on TV shows such as “Quiz Fun Seminar” and “Tetsuko's Room”. In 1994 interviews concerning her imprisonment in the USSR were posthumously aired on the NHK as a documentary The World: My Heart's Journey: Soviet Confinement and published the December 1994 issue of "Chūō Kōron" magazine as "Yoshiko Okada's Lost Ten Years."

Last Years in the Soviet Union

In 1986, she retired from the Japanese entertainment industry and returned to the Soviet Union, saying, "Now that I am a Soviet citizen, I want to settle down and live there." She never returned to Japan, but gave interviews for Japanese TV programs, and even showed the inside of her Moscow apartment, saying she was always very happy when a crew from Japan came. In her later years, she suffered from mild dementia, and was cared for by people from the Moscow Japanese Association She died in 1992 in a Moscow hospital at the age of 89.

Selected filmography
1932: No Blood Relation – dir. Mikio Naruse
1933: Woman of Tokyo – dir. Yasujirō Ozu
1934: Our Neighbor, Miss Yae – dir. Yasujirō Shimazu
1935: An Inn in Tokyo – dir. Yasujirō Ozu
1976: Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset – dir. Yoji Yamada

External links

1902 births
1992 deaths
Japanese film actresses
Japanese silent film actresses
20th-century Japanese actresses
Actors from Hiroshima
Japanese expatriates in the Soviet Union
Defectors to the Soviet Union
Japanese defectors
Prisoners and detainees of the Soviet Union


title: Holy Ghost (film)

text:
Holy Ghost is a 2014 American Christian documentary film written and directed by Darren Wilson, to take the viewer to locations around the world to see if the Holy Spirit can really lead a film.

Production
Filmmaker Darren Wilson, director of Father of Lights, Finger of God and Furious Love set out to make a movie that was completely inspired by the Holy Spirit. With no set plan, Wilson relied completely on spiritual guidance to lead him wherever the adventure is. He and his team journeyed around the world in search of nature and evidence of the Holy Spirit and to explore the role of the Holy Spirit in art, ministry and Christian life.

The filmmakers had sought $200 thousand in financing through Kickstarter and exceeding their goal.  The funding campaign began on April 18, 2014 and within 24 hours had raised $77 thousand. Within 48 hours they had reached $100 thousand, and in five days time, had exceeded $125 thousand.  By June 1, 2014 the project had received $357 thousand.

The film did not rely on a shooting script. Director Wilson "was interested in letting the film build organically instead of having a rigidly pre-determined structure or set interviews."  Production ended up with footage enough for two films. Based upon having so much footage, a sequel, Holy Ghost Reborn, was released in late 2015.

Synopsis
The film consists of interviews with religious figures as well as musicians, all speaking about the ways their faith informs their work or the miracles they have witnessed.

Cast
Film interviewees include Meredith Andrews, Heidi Baker, Reginald 'Fieldy' Arvizu, DeVon Franklin, Jake Hamilton, Bill Johnson, Brian Johnson, R.T. Kendall, Lenny Kravitz, Banning Liebscher, Jeremy Riddle, Michael W. Smith, Phil Vischer, Kim Walker-Smith, Brian 'Head' Welch, Gary Wilson, and William P. Young, among others.

Release
Wanderlust Productions is partnering with Tugg, a site the allows users to request that a film be brought to their local theaters. Once the theater approves the request, users can sell tickets on a personalized "event page."

Wanderlust CEO Braden Heckman is offering the film free for theatrical viewing due to it being fully funded through Kickstarter, and is expecting that DVD sales will bring future profits. The film raising nearly $360 thousand in 45 days represents the most money raised by a faith-based film in the history of the Kickstarter platform.

The film was shown at the Soul Survivor Summer Festival in the summer of 2014. Darren Wilson introduced it personally before the showing. The film was released September 6, 2014.

Sequel
A sequel, titled Holy Ghost: Reborn was released in 2015

See also
Korn

References

External links

2014 films
Documentary films about Christianity
Films about Christianity
American documentary films
2010s English-language films
2010s American films


title: Timeline of Birmingham, Alabama

text:
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Birmingham, Alabama, USA.

19th century

 1871
 Birmingham founded and incorporated.
 Robert Henley becomes mayor.
 1874
 Birmingham becomes seat of Jefferson County.
 First Colored Baptist Church founded.
 Cholera epidemic.
 1874 - Birmingham Iron Age newspaper in publication.
 1880 - Population: 3,086.
 1881 - Alabama Christian Advocate newspaper begins publication.
 1882
 Sloss Furnace begins operating.
 O'Brien's Opera House opens.
 1887 - Howard College active in East Lake.
 1888 - Evening News and Birmingham Age-Herald newspapers in publication.
 1890
 Population: 26,178.
 Labor Advocate newspaper begins publication.
 1891 - Birmingham Commercial Club incorporated.
 1893
 Cathedral of Saint Paul built.
 St. Mark's School opens.
 1895
 Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company headquarters relocated to Birmingham.
 Birmingham Conservatory of Music established.
 1896 - Spencer Business College established.
 1900 - Population: 38,415.

20th century

1900s-1950s
 1901 - March 25: Storm.
 1907
 Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company acquired by United States Steel Corporation.
 Miles Memorial College active in nearby Fairfield.
 1909
 City expands to include Ensley, North Birmingham, Pratt City, Woodlawn.
 Birmingham Terminal Station and Empire Building constructed.
 1910 - Population: 132,685.
 1912 - John Hand Building constructed.
 1913 - City Federal Building constructed.
 1916
 October 18: 1916 Irondale earthquake.
 Robert E. Lee Klan No.1 formed.
 1917 - Civitan Club founded.
 1918 - Birmingham–Southern College established.
 1919 - Alabama Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs formed in Birmingham.
 1920
 Progressive Farmer magazine headquartered in Birmingham.
 Population: 178,806.
 1922 - WAPI radio begins broadcasting.
 1923 - Traffic lights installed.
 1924 - Avondale Sun newspaper begins publication.
 1925 - WBRC radio begins broadcasting.
 1927 - Alabama Theatre opens.
 1928 - Exchange-Security Bank established.
 1929 - Thomas Jefferson Hotel built.
 1930
 Southern Worker newspaper begins publication.
 Population: 259,678.
 1933 - Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union active.
 1936
 Local Steel Workers Organizing Committee formed.
 Vulcan statue erected atop Red Mountain.
 1940 - Population: 267,583.
 1942 - Birmingham Historical Society founded.
 1949 - WAPI-TV  and WBRC-TV (television) begin broadcasting.
 1950
 Birmingham Post-Herald newspaper in publication.
 Population: 326,037.
 1955 - Birmingham Zoo established.
 1956
 Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights headquartered in Birmingham.
 Alabama Symphony Orchestra active.
 1958 - EBSCO Industries in business.
 1959 - West End Hills Missionary Baptist Church built.

1960s-1990s
 1960
 Briarwood Presbyterian Church (later megachurch) established.
 Eastwood Mall in business.
 Population: 340,887.
 1961 - First Baptist Church, Kingston built.
 1962 - Two North Twentieth built.
 1963
 April 3: Birmingham campaign for civil rights begins.
 April 16: Martin Luther King Jr. writes his "Letter from Birmingham Jail", first published in June 1963 issues of Liberation, The Christian Century, and The New Leader.
 May: Birmingham riot of 1963.
 September 15: 16th Street Baptist Church bombing.
 Birmingham Botanical Gardens open.
 1965
 Airport Drive-In cinema opens.
 Southern Museum of Flight established.
 1966 - Southern Living magazine headquartered in Birmingham.
 1969 - Birmingham Terminal Station demolished.
 1970
 Daniel Building constructed.
 Population: 300,910.
 1971 - First Alabama Bancshares headquartered in city.
 1972 - South Central Bell Building and First National-Southern Natural Building built.
 1975 - Birmingham Vulcans football team formed.
 1979 - Richard Arrington, Jr. becomes mayor.
 1980 - Population: 284,413.
 1982
 Community Food Bank of Central Alabama and Bama 6 cinema open.
 Sister city agreement established with Hitachi, Japan.
 1986
 South Trust Tower built.
 Alabama Humanities Foundation headquartered in Birmingham.
 1988 - AmSouth-Harbert Plaza (hi-rise) built.
 1990
 Birmingham Islamic Society formed.
 Population: 265,968.
 1992 - Birmingham Civil Rights Institute established.
 1993
 Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame opens.
 Spencer Bachus becomes U.S. representative for Alabama's 6th congressional district.
 1995 - Sister city agreement established with Székesfehérvár, Hungary.
 1996
 City website online (approximate date).
 Sister city agreement established with Anshan, China.
 1997 - Sister city agreement established with Gweru, Zimbabwe.
 1998
 April 6–9, 1998 tornado outbreak.
 Establishment of sister city agreement with Pomigliano d'Arco, Naples, Italy, and friendship city agreements with Chaoyang District, Beijing, China, and Maebashi, Japan.
 1999 - Friendship city agreement established with Krasnodon, Ukraine.
 2000 - Population: 242,840.

21st century

 2001 - Church of the Highlands (megachurch) founded.
 2003 - Sister city agreement established with Vinnytsia, Ukraine.
 2005
 Birmingham Post-Herald newspaper ceases publication.
 Locust Fork News-Journal'' begins publication.
 Sister city agreements established with Al-Karak, Jordan; Guédiawaye, Senegal; Plzeň, Czech Republic; and Rosh HaAyin, Israel.
 2009 - Sister city agreement established with Winneba, Ghana.
 2010
 Alabama Symphony Youth Orchestra formed.
 William A. Bell becomes mayor.
 Population: 212,237.
 2011 - Terri Sewell becomes U.S. representative for Alabama's 7th congressional district.
 2015
 Minimum wage approved in city.
 Sister city agreement established with Liverpool, England.
 2017 - Randall Woodfin becomes mayor.
 2020 - Population: 200,733.
 2021 - Birmingham Stallions football team is formed
 2022 - 2022 World Games were hosted.

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See also
 History of Birmingham, Alabama
 List of mayors of Birmingham, Alabama
 National Register of Historic Places listings in Birmingham, Alabama
 List of neighborhoods in Birmingham, Alabama
 Timelines of other cities in Alabama: Huntsville, Mobile, Montgomery, Tuscaloosa

References

Bibliography

Published in 19th century

 John W. DuBose, ed., The Mineral Wealth of Alabama and Birmingham (Birmingham, 1886)

 Henry M. Caldwell, History of the Elyton Land Company and Birmingham, Ala. 1892.

Published in 20th century
 Code of City of Birmingham, Alabama. 1917.

 Cruikshank, A History of Birmingham and Its Environs (2 vols., Chicago, 1920)

 Harrison A. Trexler, "Birmingham's Struggle with Commission Government," National Municipal Review, XIV (November 1925)
 George R. Leighton, "Birmingham, Alabama: The City of Perpetual Promise," Harper's Magazine, CLXXV (August 1937)

 Florence H. W. Moss, Building Birmingham and Jefferson County (Birmingham, Ala.: Birmingham Printing Company, 1947)
 John C. Henley, Jr., This Is Birmingham: The Story of the Founding and Growth of an American City. 1960.
 Paul B. Worthman, "Black Workers and Labor Unions in Birmingham, Alabama, 1897-1904," Labor History, 10 (Summer 1969)
 Paul B. Worthman, "Working Class Mobility in Birmingham, Alabama, 1880-1914," in Anonymous Americans: Explorations in Nineteenth-Century Social History, ed. Tamara K. Hareven (Englewood Cliffs, 1971)

 McMillan, Malcolm C. Yesterday's Birmingham. Miami: E.A. Seeman Publishing, 1975.

 Valley and the Hills: An Illustrated History of Birmingham and Jefferson County. 1981

  1991-

 Lynne B. Feldman, A Sense of Place: Birmingham's Black Middle Class Community, 1890-1930 (Tuscaloosa, 1999)

Published in 21st century

External links

 Items related to Birmingham, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)

Birmingham, Alabama-related lists

Birmingham
Years in Alabama


title: Cadmogenes

text:
Cadmogenes is a genus of moths of the  family Plutellidae. It contains only one species, Cadmogenes literata, which is found in New Zealand. This species is endemic to New Zealand. It has been classified as "Not Threatened" by the Department of Conservation.

Taxonomy

The genus Cadmogenes was described in the family Plutellidae, but is considered an enigmatic unplaced genus (along with the genus Titanomis) and may require its own family.

Cadmogenes literata was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1923 using specimens collected at Silverstream and Auckland in January. George Hudson described and illustrated this species in his 1928 book The Butterflies and Moths of New Zealand. The lectotype specimen was collected at Kauri Gully, Birkenhead, Auckland by George Hudson and is held at the Natural History Museum, London.

Description

Meyrick described the species as follows:
The wing venation of the adult moth differs depending on whether the larvae is reared from Pterophylla  or Caldcluvia inflorescences.

Distribution
This species is endemic to New Zealand. C. literata occurs in the Northland, Auckland, Taupo, Taranaki and Wellington areas.

Host species and biology
The larvae feed on the flowers of Caldcluvia and Weinmannia species. There is one generation per year. The type locality of Kauri Gully now has few Weinmannia trees but these are abundant at Silverstream.

Conservation status
This species has been classified as having the "Not Threatened" conservation status under the New Zealand Threat Classification System.

References

Moths described in 1923
Plutellidae
Moths of New Zealand
Endemic fauna of New Zealand
Taxa named by Edward Meyrick
Endemic moths of New Zealand


title: Kentucky Route 2860

text:
Kentucky Route 2860 (KY 2860) is a state highway in the city of Louisville in Kentucky. The highway runs  along Grinstead Drive from U.S. Route 31E and US 150 east to US 60 Alt. KY 2860 was established in 1984.

Route description
KY 2860 begins at US 31E and US 150, which concurrently follow Bardstown Road, in The Highlands area of the city of Louisville. Grinstead Drive continues west as a municipally maintained street one block to KY 1703 (Baxter Avenue). KY 2860 follows Grinstead Drive east between the Cherokee Triangle neighborhood to the south and Cave Hill Cemetery to the north. The highway passes Louisville Collegiate School before reaching its eastern terminus at US 60 Alt. on the western edge of Cherokee Park. The alternate route follows Cherokee Parkway west of the intersection and Grinstead Drive to the east. The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet classifies KY 2860 as a state secondary highway.

History
The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet established KY 2860 through a September 10, 1984, official order that also changed the routings of US 60 and US 60 Alt. and eliminated US 60 Bus., and US 60 Truck. KY 2860 replaced the part of US 60 Bus. along the state route's current course. The transportation agency upgraded KY 2860 from a supplemental road to a state secondary highway via a November 18, 2004, official order.

Major intersections

References

2860
2860
Transportation in Jefferson County, Kentucky


title: USRC Massachusetts II

text:
Massachusetts II was a small sloop operated by the Revenue-Marine used in the collection of customs duties. She was completed in June 1793 and replaced , one of the first ten cutters of the Revenue-Marine, when it was determined that the older ship was too large and slow to perform her assigned tasks. Massachusetts II was constructed by Adna Bates of Cohasset, Massachusetts for a cost of 1,600. Her area of operation was along the Massachusetts coast as a smaller less expensive replacement to the original Massachusetts. When the original Massachusetts was sold at auction, the second and third mates were discharged and Massachusetts II was crewed by two officers and four sailors.

Massachusetts II was sold in June 1804 for 900.

Notes
Footnotes

Citations

References used

External links
 Massachusetts, 1793, — United States Coast Guard Historian's Office website

Ships of the United States Revenue Cutter Service
1793 ships
Ships built in Massachusetts
Cohasset, Massachusetts


title: Valeria Ciangottini

text:
Valeria Ciangottini (born 6 August 1945) is an Italian film-, television-, and stage-actress.

Life and career
Born in Rome, at fourteen years old Ciangottini was chosen by Federico Fellini, after he noticed her at the exit of the school, for the role of Paola in La Dolce Vita (1960). From then she started a successful acting career, being usually cast in the stereotypical role of young, pure, and tender girls. She is also active on television, in which she played main roles in several TV-movies and -series, and she hosted several programs for children. Over the years Ciangottini has essentially focused her career on theater, in particular on comedy plays. She is married to journalist Fabrizio Ricci.

Selected filmography
 Béatrice ou la servante folle (1959, film corto)
 La Dolce Vita (1960)
 La giornata balorda (1960)
 Don Camillo monsignore... ma non troppo (1961)
 Cronaca familiare (1962)
 I Giacobini (1962, Serie televisive)
 Le vice et la vertu (1963)
 Giuseppe Verdi (1963, Serie televisive)
 Mastro Don Gesualdo (1964, Serie televisive)
 Il treno del sabato (1964)
 L'amour à la chaîne (1965)
 Idoli controluce (1965)
 Coplan FX 18 casse tout (1965)
 Per qualche dollaro in meno (1966)
 Una questione privata (1966)
 Eine Handvoll Helden (1967)
 The Two Orphans (1965)
 Caroline chérie (1968)
 Omicidio per vocazione (1968)
 Deadly Inheritance (1968)
 Darling Caroline (1968)
 La legion d'onore (1970, Film TV)
 Fegefeuer (1971)
 La pietra di luna (1972, Serie televisive)
 Il commissario De Vincenzi (1974, Serie televisive)
 Il pane altrui (1974, Film TV)
 Anna Karenina (1974, Serie televisive)
 Contronatura (1976)
 La regia è finita (1977)
 D'improvviso al terzo piano (1977)
 Racconti di fantascienza (1979, Serie televisive)
 Luigi Ganna detective (1979, Serie televisive)
 Il matto (1979)
 Orient-Express (1979, Serie televisive)
 L'ultimo spettacolo di Nora Helmer (1980, Film TV)
 L'assedio (1980, Serie televisive)
 Il fascino dell'insolito (1982, Serie televisive)
 Il passo falso (1983, Film TV)
 In punta di piedi (1984)
 Murder of a Moderate Man (1985, Serie televisive)
 L'estate sta finendo (1987)
 Appointment in Liverpool (1988)
 Colletti bianchi (1988, Serie televisive)
 Una storia importante (1988)
 Errore fatale (1992, Film TV)
 Il maresciallo Rocca (1988, Serie televisive)
 I ragazzi del muretto (1988, Serie televisive)
 Le madri (1988, Film TV)
 Un posto tranquillo (2003, Film TV)
 Part Time (2004, Film TV )
 Amanti e segreti (2004, Serie televisive)
 Famiglia Campione (2004, Film corto)
 Amanti e segreti 2 (2005, Serie televisive)
 L'enigma Tewanna Ray (2006, Film TV)
 E poi c'è Filippo (2006, Serie televisive)
 Un passo dal cielo (2015, Serie televisive)
 Cronaca di una passione (2016)

References

External links

1945 births
Living people
Italian film actresses
Italian television actresses
Italian stage actresses
Actresses from Rome