title: Mary Francis Hill Coley

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Mary Francis Hill Coley (August 15, 1900 – March 1966) was an American lay midwife who ran a successful business providing a range of birth services and who starred in a critically acclaimed documentary film used to train midwives and doctors. Her competence projected an image of black midwives as the face of an internationally esteemed medical profession, while working within the context of deep social and economic inequality in health care provided to African Americans. Her life story and work exist in the context of Southern granny midwives who served birthing women outside of hospitals.

Biography
Coley was born Mary Francis Hill in Baker County, Georgia. She was the youngest of four children, a sole-surviving twin  at birth. She was raised by relatives after her parents died. She received almost nothing in the way of formal education, leaving after third grade but relied instead on practical training and apprenticeship.

In 1930, she married Ashley Coley, a carpenter, and moved with him to Albany, Georgia. He abandoned the family with ten children, and she turned to practical nursing and midwifery under the tutelage of Onnie Lee Logan. Coley was a particular type of lay midwife, often referred to as a "granny-midwife", one who was called to the profession spiritually and who apprenticed under an older midwife. Coley developed a busy practice, serving over half the families in the area and charging double the fees of other midwives ($30). Her business afforded her a home, a car, a telephone, an assistant, and a surplus of ready supplies for emergencies. She knew that many families had to save up to pay her, and she knew which families could afford more or less than others. She would also accept payment in kind in some circumstances.

Coley pursued a career in midwifery at a time of increased scrutiny and regulation (Sheppard-Towner Act or the Promotion of the Welfare and Hygiene of Maternity and Infancy Act of 1921) and during an era when public resources were invested in the expansion of hospitals and obstetric care (Hill-Burton Act of 1946) rather than the midwifery model of care. Although increased surveillance of midwifery practice cut in half the number of midwives between 1930 and 1950 (dropping from 3000 to 1,322), Coley went on to provide a range of birth and family services across Georgia for more than three decades. As an African American, she advocated for the health of Georgia's black population and was known for her willingness to work with women regardless of race in a time of segregation. It is estimated that she delivered over 3,000 babies in her career, and she offered additional services to families such as assistance in cooking, cleaning, child-minding, laundering, and helping new parents file official forms and birth certificates. She was known affectionately by her patients as "Miss Mary".

Coley served as President of the Women's Auxiliary in the Church of the Kingdom of God, and taught Sunday school classes. She died in Albany in March 1966 after a career of over 30 years as a midwife.

The Use of Midwives
Beginning in the 1920s, midwives performed almost half of the births in the United States. The Sheppard-Towner Act, introduced by the Children's Bureau, became effective November 23, 1921 following concerns of high infant mortality. The act regulated hygiene, infancy care and put an emphasis on the licensure of midwives. The Act required nurses to supervise and train midwives. By 1929, the Sheppard-Towner Act was repealed, and the use of midwives had decreased to approximately 10% of births in the United States. More than half of the women using midwives were African American. Black midwives were targeted for lack of cleanliness and lack of training. Many black women were associated with dangerous and ignorance, even while midwives attended classes and were trained on the proper protocols of creating a safe birthing environment. The Hill-Burton Act was introduced and became effective in 1946, it funded the construction of hospitals in areas that mostly used midwives. This shifted many pregnant women to use a hospital instead of at-home birthing methods. The use of hospitals for child delivery increased from 27% to 96% by 1960.

All My Babies

In 1952 documentary filmmaker George C. Stoney was recruited by the Georgia Health Department to produce an instructional film for midwives in training. Following a criteria-based selection process, Stoney and Dr. Mason (a local black physician) interviewed more than 20 Georgia midwives before selecting Coley. Aware of the social dimensions of media, Stoney initially hesitated to cast Coley because he worried that her screen image could be conflated with contemporary representations of black women on screen, like Hattie McDaniel's Academy Award-winning performance as Mammy in Gone with the Wind.  Ultimately, Coley's fit as a model of hygienic clinical practice that could be exported internationally as evidence of the competence of American medicine secured her the role.In her documentary film performance, Coley exhibited multiple layers of credibility—as a mother, as a spiritual leader, and as a science-based health professional.

Over a four-month period, Stoney accompanied Coley as she went about her work of visiting women and delivering babies in the Albany area. Coley not only performed but also collaborated in developing the script. Her sons and three grandchildren performed roles in the film as well. The filming focused on two women (Ida and Marybelle), in circumstances both ideal as well as challenging, and included a live birth scene. He filmed her, her patients and their surroundings, and her interactions with patients and medical professionals. Stoney became impressed with the skill, ingenuity, and high standards for cleanliness that Coley brought to her work, as well as the strong influence she had with her patients and their families.

The resulting film, All My Babies: A Midwife's Own Story followed Coley through the births of two babies. During one of the filmed births, the physician confirms Coley's suspicions of preeclampsia, and the patient chooses to have the doctor perform the delivery. Another scene portrayed the death of one of the newborns delivered by a midwife and all of the ways the midwife had done wrong. Two very different, but likely, interactions demonstrated the midwife to be a qualified form of healthcare but also their limits. All my Babies gained major influence on education for midwives and also training physicians. Medical students were assigned to watch the film in order to immerse them in the birthing experience. As doctors would be working alongside midwives and other forms of skilled birthing attendants, the film introduced the medical students to different forms of care.

All my Babies was used for the training of midwives expanded from Georgia to other parts of the American South and eventually the rest of the world, via UNESCO and the World Health Organization. The film was critically acclaimed as a documentary. In 1953 it was honored with a special Robert J. Flaherty Award for documentary film. In 2002, the Library of Congress selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry, calling it a "landmark". A 1999 retrospective of the work of George Stoney described All My Babies as having made Mary Coley "one of the towering figures of the documentary tradition".

In 2007, Stoney produced a second film about Coley, a reunion of 150 people whom Coley had delivered as a midwife.

Controversy Surrounding All My Babies
Though many health officials used All my Babies as a useful educational tool, some used it as a cautionary tale of second-class health care. Issues arose surrounding the film, emphasizing the mistreatment of Martha Sapp, one of the women who gave birth on screen and the graphic depiction of birth. Many critics addressed the need for setting boundaries for education, as many suggested the scenes were sexually suggestive.

Promoting midwifery was an intolerable concept for health care officials who feared the film would depict the alternative birthing method as the ideal form of delivery. Dr. Martha Eliot, director of Children's Bureau, was an advocate for the film at first viewing. Once seeing the final results, felt the United States may face backlash for the portrayal of an African American woman receiving second-class health care. Thus, a male physician's voice was used to introduce Mary Francis Hill Coley, in order to preserve stakeholder's intentions, without promoting or alienating midwifery to only African Americans.

Legacy
Mary Francis Coley assisted with the birth of over 3,000 babies during her career as a midwife. Coley was featured in the 2005 exhibition "Reclaiming Midwives: Pillars of Community Support" at the Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum, and in a traveling photograph and film exhibit entitled, "Reclaiming Midwives: Stills from All My Babies", which ran from November 13, 2006 to April 2, 2007. In 2005 she was also featured in exhibitions at the Columbia University School of Nursing and the Mailman School of Public Health.  In 2011 she was inducted onto the list of Georgia Women of Achievement.

See also
 Onnie Lee Logan

References

Bibliography
Bowdoin, J. P. (1928). The Midwife Problem. Journal of the American Medical Association, 91(7), 460-462.

Fraser, G. (1995). Modern bodies, modern minds: Midwifery and reproductive change in an African American community. Conceiving the new world order: The global politics of reproduction, 42-58.

Fraser, G. J. (1998). African American midwifery in the south. Harvard University Press.

Goode, K. L. N. (2014). Birthing, blackness, and the body: Black midwives and experiential continuities of institutional racism.

Hine, D. C. (1989). Black women in white: Racial conflict and cooperation in the nursing profession, 1890-1950. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Hine, D. C. (2011). Taking Care of Bodies, Babies and Business: Black Women Health Professionals in South Carolina, 1895-1954. In Writing Women’s History: A Tribute to Anne Firor Scott (pp. 117–141). University Press of Mississippi.

Holmes, L. J. (1986). African American midwives in the South. The American way of birth, 273-91.

Smith, S. L. (1995). Sick and tired of being sick and tired: Black women's health activism in America, 1890-1950. University of Pennsylvania Press.

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title: Sullivan House (Laurens, South Carolina)

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Sullivan House, also known as Tumbling Shoals, is a historic home located near Laurens, Laurens County, South Carolina. It was built about 1838, and is a two-story, frame I-house dwelling, two rooms in length, and one room deep, with a side-gabled roof.  The house typifies the first post-pioneer permanent settlement in the lower Carolina Piedmont.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

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title: 2014 Rugby Europe Sevens – Division A

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2014 European Sevens Championship Division A is a lower division European Championships, that was held in Kaunas, Lithuania between 14 June and 15 June 2014. The winner of the division will get promoted to elite championships.

Results

Group A

Group B

Group C

Final standings

Lithuania got promoted to 2015 Sevens Grand Prix Series.

References

Rugby Europe Sevens
Sevens Grand Prix Series
European Sevens
Europe
Sevens


title: POM Wonderful LLC v. Coca-Cola Co.

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POM Wonderful LLC v. Coca-Cola Co., 573 U.S. 102 (2014), was a United States Supreme Court case that held that a statutory private right of action under the Lanham Act is not precluded by regulatory provisions of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.

Background

Regulation of food and drug labeling
In 1938, the United States Congress passed the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, in order to regulate the safety of food, drugs, and cosmetics. Under the Act, the Food and Drug Administration has issued regulations governing food and beverage labeling, including the labeling of mixes of different types of juice into one juice blend. In particular, if a juice blend does not name all the juices it contains and mentions only juices that are not predominant in the blend, then it must either declare the percentage content of the named juice or "[i]ndicate that the named juice is present as a flavor or flavoring."

Private parties are not allowed to bring enforcement actions under the Act. In addition, Congress amended it in order to provide for preemption of certain State laws dealing with product misbranding.

Lanham Act claims
In 1946, Congress enacted the Lanham Act in order to govern the use of trademarks. Among its stated aims was the regulation of "commerce within the control of Congress by making actionable the deceptive and misleading use of marks in such commerce," and provision was made for civil enforcement actions to be available for private parties in the federal courts.

The case at hand
POM Wonderful is a grower of pomegranates and a distributor of pomegranate juices, including a pomegranate-blueberry juice blend. The Coca-Cola Company, through its Minute Maid division, created a pomegranate-blueberry juice product that in reality was 99.4% apple and grape juices. The front label of its package carried the words "pomegranate blueberry" in capital letters, below which the phrase "flavored blend of 5 juices" appeared in much smaller type, followed in still smaller type by "from concentrate with added ingredients and other natural flavors" (presented over two lines).

POM brought suit under the Lanham Act in the United States District Court for the Central District of California, alleging that the name, label, marketing, and advertising of Coca-Cola's juice blend misled consumers as to its actual content, thereby causing POM to lose sales.

Lower courts
The District Court granted partial summary judgment to Coca-Cola, ruling that the FDCA and its regulations preclude challenges to the name and the label of Coca-Cola's juice blend. On appeal, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed in the relevant part.

Supreme Court decision
The Ninth Circuit ruling was reversed and remanded. In a unanimous decision written by Justice Kennedy, the Court held:

 The case was one not of preemption but of preclusion and so any "presumption against pre-emption" has no force. "Although the Court's pre-emption precedent does not govern preclusion analysis in this case, its principles are instructive insofar as they are designed to assess the interaction of laws that bear on the same subject."
 As this is a statutory interpretation case, the Court relies on traditional rules of statutory interpretation. That does not change because the case involves multiple federal statutes, nor does it change because an agency is involved.
 "When two statutes complement each other, it would show disregard for the congressional design to hold that Congress nonetheless intended one federal statute to preclude the operation of the other."
 "A holding that the FDCA precludes Lanham Act claims challenging food and beverage labels would not only ignore the distinct functional aspects of the FDCA and the Lanham Act but also would lead to a result that Congress likely did not intend."
 "Even if agency regulations with the force of law that purport to bar other legal remedies may do so, it is a bridge too far to accept an agency's after-the-fact statement to justify that result here. An agency may not reorder federal statutory rights without congressional authorization."

Subsequent jury trial
The case went back to the California federal district court and eventually proceeded to jury trial, where it was established that Coca-Cola Co.'s Minute Maid "Enhanced Pomegranate Blueberry Flavored 100% Juice Blend" was 99.4% apple and grape juices and only 0.3% pomegranate juice, 0.2% blueberry juice, and 0.1% raspberry juice.

On March 18, 2016, POM made its closing arguments, and the case went to the jury with POM claiming losses of $10 million per year from 2007 to 2014 (totaling more than $77 million) caused by Coca-Cola's Minute Maid pomegranate and blueberry juice drink misleading labeling and advertising. On March 21, 2016, the California jury unanimously rejected POM's claim that the labeling of Minute Maid's pomegranate-blueberry juice blend (which did comply with FDA labeling requirements) was either misleading or unfair competition and found that the labeling did not mislead a substantial portion of consumers, in favor of Coca-Cola, ending eight years of litigation.

See also
 List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 573

References

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title: Thomas Affleck (planter)

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Thomas Affleck (July 13, 1812  – December 30, 1868) was a Scottish-American nurseryman, almanac editor, and agrarian writer and Southern planter. He published the Southern Rural Almanac and Plantation and Garden Calendar from 1851 to 1861.

He and his wife, Anna M. Dunbar Smith, owned Ingleside, an estate in Washington, Mississippi, where he founded his Southern Nurseries, one of the earliest nurseries in the South. His wife also owned several plantations in Adams and Wilkinson Counties. In the mid-1850s, Affleck purchased Glenblythe Plantation in Gay Hill, Washington County, Texas, where he, his family, and enslaved people moved in 1860. Affleck also published Affleck's Southern Rural Almanac and Plantation and Garden Calendar from Ingleside, 1851 to 1859, and Glenblythe, 1860 to 1861. At Glenblythe, he established Central Nurseries. He was the first Southern writer whose work on plants was widely read; he also published two best-selling and pioneering guides for cotton and sugar plantation and farming accounting.

Early life
Thomas Affleck was born on July 13, 1812, in Dumfries, Scotland. His father was Thomas Affleck and his mother, Mary (Hannay) Affleck. He graduated from the University of Edinburgh, where he studied agriculture. Not yet 20, he immigrated to the United States, arriving on May 4, 1832.

Career
From 1832 to 1840, he worked as a clerk and merchant in New York City, Pennsylvania, Indiana and Ohio. He served as the editor of the Western Farmer and Gardener in Cincinnati, Ohio from 1840 to 1842.

He acquired Ingleside Farm in Washington, Mississippi, where he established Southern Nurseries in 1848. It became one of the earliest commercial plant nurseries in the Southern United States. He was one of the first nurserymen in the South, selling plants and writing about plants from the South. Most agricultural and gardening advice had previously been written by authorities from Europe or the Northern United States.

In 1848, Affleck edited Norman's Southern Agricultural Almanac, an almanac published by Benjamin Moore Norman (1809-1860). He also published the Southern Rural Almanac and Plantation and Garden Calendar from 1851 to 1861. His "Report on Agricultural Grasses,"  appeared as a Senate executive document in 1879. He is credited with advancing agriculture in Texas thanks to his writing. Moreover, he published two books about his plantation, where he cultivated the commodity crops of cotton and sugar cane with slave labor: Cotton Plantation Record and Account Book and Sugar Plantation Record and Account Book. They became widely popular among the planter class, who used them as models for their own plantations.

In 1859, he purchased the Glenblythe Plantation in Gay Hill, Washington County, Texas. He discovered the Old Gay Hill Red China rose, which is native to Gay Hill. He also made mustang wine with mustang grapes found on the plantation. During the American Civil War of 1861–1865, he invited Thomas Neville Waul (1813–1903), a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army, to organize the Waul's Legion on the Texas plantation, who used it as a military camp.

Affleck supported recruiting more English and Scottish immigrants to come to Texas. He tried to establish beef-packing factories with direct shipping lines from Texas to Europe.

Personal life
He married Anna Dunbar Smith, the niece of Jane Herbert Wilkinson Long (1798–1880), on April 19, 1842, in Washington, Mississippi. They had one son, Isaac Dunbar Affleck, who married the poet Mary Hunt Affleck.

Death
He died on December 30, 1868, on the Glenblythe Plantation in Gay Hill, Washington County, Texas.

Bibliography

 Bee-Breeding in the West (1841)
 Cotton Plantation Record and Account Book (1847)
 Sugar Plantation Record and Account Book (1848)
 Hedging and Hedging Plants in the Southern States (1869)

References

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title: 2014 Rugby Europe Women's Sevens – Division B

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2014 Rugby Europe Women's Sevens Division B is a lowest division European Championships, that will be held in Vingis Park Rugby Stadium, Vilnius, Lithuania.

12 Teams had to compete in the championships: Lithuania, Austria, Slovakia, Luxembourg, Andorra, Turkey, Malta, Latvia, Serbia, Israel, Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Eventually Andorra and Bosnia & Herzegovina withdrew, so they were replaced by Slovenia and Bulgaria.

Results

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Knockout stage

Bowl

Plate semifinals (5th/8th)
Slovakia 0-39 Malta
Luxembourg 0-33 Turkey

7th/8th place
Slovakia 24-5 Luxembourg

Plate final (5th/6th)
Malta 26-12 Turkey

Cup semifinals (1st/4th)
Lithuania 15-5 Latvia
Hungary 35-12 Israel

3rd place
Latvia 14-31 Israel

Cup final
Hungary 40-5 Lithuania

Semifinals

Final

Final standings

References

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B
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title: Elastic Future

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Elastic Future is an experimental theatre company founded in San Francisco with the aim of making plays more accessible to a non-theater visiting audience. Founded in 2004, it moved to London in 2011.

History
Elastic Future was founded by creative director, Marc Blinder, and artistic director, Erin Gilley, with a founding team of artists including Josh Peek, Randy Sterns, Connie Hwong, Evren Odcikin, and Sara Razavi. Later the company added Wesley Cabral and Denmo Ibrahim.

Elastic Future's use of Google Hangouts on Air to create digital theatre in Peek A Boo and Longitude, was described as "a world first" and "a brand new art form." Longitude was covered in Vice (magazine). Longitude was conceived, rehearsed and performed entirely online, using Google Hangouts, with a cast in London, Barcelona and Lagos. Elastic Future had earlier experimented with this format in Peek A Boo which used performers in New York City, London, and Beirut.

Artworks
June 2014, "Longitude", London International Festival of Theatre and The Space commissioned Elastic Future to make a digital performance for LIFT 2014 using actors in London, Barcelona and Lagos, Nigeria. Longitude aired as a series of three live online performances during LIFT 2014.

July 2013, "Peek A Boo", created by Elastic Future in partnership with LIFT.  "Peek a Boo" was an experiment using Google Hangouts On Air to perform live theatre with a cast of actors from New York City, London and Beirut.  Peek A Boo tells the story of two computer programmers, one webcam girl, an NSA agent and a GCHQ agent.

April 2011, "The Lily’s Revenge", Elastic Future worked with the Magic Theatre, to produce The Lily’s Revenge, a 5-hour play written by Taylor Mac.  It included elements circus, live music, animation and dance. Over 40 performers and 6 directors participated in the creation of this show.  The Lily's Revenge was a political satire created in response to the political debate around California's Prop 8.

February 2008, "Not Eye", A video and performance installation, was presented as part of the art gallery Root Division’s show Blackout.  Blackout was an exhibition of self-illuminating work shown in a darkened art gallery.

October 2007, "Beautiful Redux", a remounting of the original production from 2005.  Beautiful mixed elements of cabaret and drag show with theatre.  Beautiful Redux was described as "decadent, loud, and possibly audience-fondling" by the SF Weekly.

January 2007, "The Greek Play", one part art exhibition and one part play. Directed by Evren Odcikin and curated by artist Katie Vida.

April 2006, "The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Deal", a hybrid rock concert/play performed at Amnesia (in San Francisco's Mission district). This play was intended as commentary on celebrity culture and the mythology people build around their heroes. The show tells a completely fictionalized story of the lives of Kim and Kelley Deal.  The show paired live theatre with members of the band Fans of Jimmy Century playing live The Pixies and The Breeders covers.

References

External links

Peek A Boo on YouTube
Longitude on TheSpace.org

Theatre in the San Francisco Bay Area
Organizations based in San Francisco
Cultural organisations based in London
Experimental theatre


title: William Dunlap Simpson House

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William Dunlap Simpson House is a historic home located at Laurens, Laurens County, South Carolina, USA. It was built about 1839 for a planter to use as his town house. The three-story, three bay, Greek Revival style clapboard dwelling has a total of twelve rooms.

It was later the home of Congressman and South Carolina Governor William Dunlap Simpson (1823-1890).

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.  It is located in the Laurens Historic District.

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title: Ada Blanche

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Ada Blanche (born Ada Cecilia Blanche Adams; 16 July 1862 – 1 January 1953) was an English actress and singer known early in her career for vivacious performances in Victorian burlesque and pantomime and later in character roles in Edwardian musical comedy.

Born into a theatrical family, Blanche made her stage debut at the age of fourteen and had a forty-five year career, almost exclusively on the British stage, in the West End and on tour. In the 1890s she was a leading principal boy in London's most lavishly staged pantomimes. In the 20th century her career changed to playing comic, formidable older women. Her most celebrated role of this kind was in the hit musical The Arcadians (1909), staged by her brother-in-law Robert Courtneidge.

Beyond musical comedy, Blanche appeared in farces and other comedies in non-singing roles between 1906 and her retirement in 1921. Among her co-stars during her long career were George Grossmith Jr., Dan Leno, Marie Lloyd, Walter Passmore, Kate Santley and Little Tich.

Life and career

Early years
Blanche was born in Brixton, London, the daughter of the singer and actress Cicely Nott and her husband, Sam Adams, a theatre manager. The couple had five children, all of whom were later professionally associated with the theatre, including Rosaline, known professionally as Rosie Nott, who married the impresario Robert Courtneidge and was the mother of Cicely Courtneidge.

At the age of fourteen Blanche made her stage debut in London's Adelphi Theatre Christmas show, Little Goody Two Shoes. In 1878 she toured in Britain with the actor-manager Charles Calvert in Olivia, W. G. Wills's adaptation of Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield, playing Polly Flamborough to her mother's Mrs Primrose. In the same year she appeared in her first breeches role in pantomime, playing Dandini in Cinderella at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. In 1879–80 she played at the Imperial Theatre in a rival version of Goldsmith's story, adapted by Tom Taylor and starring Marie Litton, Lionel Brough and Kyrle Bellew. For the same company she appeared in As You Like It in 1880.

For the 1880 pantomime season, Blanche returned to Drury Lane in Mother Goose. The principal breeches part was played by Kate Santley, and the cast included John D'Auban, Frank Wyatt and Arthur Roberts. Blanche was cast as the Princess, and her sister Addie Blanche took the title role. In 1882 Ada played the soprano role of Fiametta, to her mother's Peronella, in Emily Soldene's touring production of Suppé's operetta Boccaccio. The Manchester Guardian commented, "Miss Cecily Nott has a nice voice, which she would do well not to force too much. Miss Ada Blanche was pleasant and ingenuous, if not very finished." The theatre historian Kurt Gänzl writes that Blanche left this engagement "to fulfil the kind of substantial pantomime principal boy engagement which would be the backbone of her early career".

Touring and burlesque; pantomime stardom

In 1883–84 Blanche toured with Lila Clay's all-women operetta company; in 1885 she went to the US, joining the Holmes Burlesque Company on tour. Returning to Britain she joined Dion Boucicault's touring company, together with her mother and another sister, Edith Blanche. Between tours Blanche was establishing herself in the West End. In 1886 she appeared at the Gaiety Theatre, under the management of George Edwardes, in a supporting role in the burlesque Monte Cristo Jr.. She understudied the theatre's star, Nellie Farren, and when Edwardes assembled touring companies Blanche was cast in Farren's principal boy parts in this and later shows. On tour or in London she played in the burlesques Little Jack Sheppard (1886) and Miss Esmeralda (1887), and, as Farren aged, Blanche took the title roles in Ruy Blas and the Blasé Roué (1890) and Joan of Arc (1891).

Blanche was only briefly among the top names in West End burlesque, but in the 1890s she achieved and maintained the highest degree of stardom in pantomime under the management of Sir Augustus Harris at Drury Lane. In the six seasons from December 1892 she starred there in the theatre's lavish pantomime versions of Little Bo-Peep, Robinson Crusoe, Dick Whittington and His Cat, Cinderella, Aladdin and Babes in the Wood. In the title role of Robinson Crusoe, she was singled out by The Times for mention before her famous co-stars, Little Tich, Dan Leno, Marie Lloyd and Herbert Campbell. The paper commented, "Miss Ada Blanche as Robinson Crusoe would probably have astonished Daniel Defoe; but her liveliness and amusing impertinence atoned for lack of fidelity to the original character." In Dick Whittington, a reporter for The Era thought she "sang well, danced well and acted well", going onto say: "she was the life and soul of the evening.  When the entertainment was flagging, on she came with her relentless spirit and energy."

Later career

As the 1890s went on, Blanche was given a few starring roles in musical comedy. Harris presented an English version of La demoiselle du téléphone, an operette by Maurice Desvallières and Gaston Serpette. With an English text by Harris and F. C. Burnand, The Telephone Girl debuted in 1896 and toured the provinces off and on until 1900, with Blanche in the title role. The Manchester Guardian observed:

Outside the pantomime season, Blanche's West End seasons during the late 1890s and early 1900s were few. In 1898 she co-starred with Courtice Pounds and Lottie Venne in The Royal Star, which ran only briefly; the following year she joined George Grossmith Jr. and Willie Edouin in Great Caesar, as Cleopatra to Grossmith's Mark Antony. In 1903 she was in another musical comedy, The Medal and the Maid, which ran for six months. She played in Robert Courteidge's pantomimes in 1903 to 1905 and toured in a farce, What the Butler Saw, from 1906 to 1908.

The great West End success of Blanche's career came in her mid-40s in the hit musical comedy The Arcadians, in which she had the non-singing comic role of Mrs Smith, the wife of the protagonist. The piece ran from April 1909 until August 1911. Courtneidge later cast her in three more of his productions: she played Mitsu in The Mousme (1911), Mrs Baxter-Browne in The Pearl Girl (1913), and  Lady Elizabeth Weston in The Rebel Maid (1921). Under other managements in 1917, she played Miss Carruthers in a "comedy of terrors", Seven Days, and Madame Morney in the farce The Spring Song with the young Ralph Lynn.

Despite a starry cast in which Blanche's co-stars included Walter Passmore and C. Hayden Coffin, The Rebel Maid ran for only four months. When it closed, Blanche retired, first to Yorkshire and later to west London.

Blanche never married. She died at St. Mary's Convent in Chiswick on 1 January 1953 at the age of 90.

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title: James Dunklin House

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James Dunklin House, also known as the Williams-Watts-Todd-Dunklin House, is a historic home located in Laurens, Laurens County, South Carolina. It was built about 1812, and is a two-story, five bay, upcountry farmhouse, or I-house.  It features informally spaced columns and two pipe-stem chimneys.  An 1845 wing was removed in 1950 and converted into a six-room apartment building located behind the main house. At this time a first-floor sun porch was added to the rear of the house. Also on the property are outbuildings including a renovated slave cabin, a garage apartment, and a reconstruction of a kitchen at Colonial Williamsburg.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.  It is located in the Laurens Historic District.

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Houses completed in 1812
Houses in Laurens County, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Laurens County, South Carolina
Historic district contributing properties in South Carolina


title: Nickels-Milam House

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Nickels-Milam House is a historic plantation house located near Laurens, Laurens County, South Carolina. It was built about 1828, and is a three-story, five bay, Greek Revival style frame dwelling. The interior has original moldings, paneled doors, mantels, wide-board flooring and much of the original hardware. Also on the property are several barns and the family cemetery.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

References

Plantation houses in South Carolina
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Greek Revival houses in South Carolina
Houses completed in 1828
Houses in Laurens County, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Laurens County, South Carolina


title: Hoploparia

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Hoploparia is a genus of fossil lobster belonging to the family Nephropidae. The type species of this genus is Hoploparia longimana.

These epifaunal carnivores lived from the Jurassic to the Paleogene period (from 201.6 to 28.4 Ma). Fossils of this genus have been found in sediments of Europe, Argentina, Madagascar, Canada and United States.

Species

References

True lobsters
Hettangian first appearances
Early Jurassic crustaceans
Early Cretaceous crustaceans
Paleocene crustaceans
Eocene crustaceans
Oligocene extinctions
Fossils of Argentina
Fossil taxa described in 1849
Fossils of Madagascar
Fossils of Canada
Fossils of the United States
Oligocene crustaceans
Middle Jurassic crustaceans
Late Jurassic crustaceans
Late Cretaceous crustaceans


title: Dance!

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Dance! may refer to:

Dance! (Lumidee and Fatman Scoop song), 2006 song included on the album FIFA World Cup 2006 Soundtrack featuring R&B artist Lumidee and Fatman Scoop
Dance! La Fuerza del Corazón, 2011 Uruguayan telenovela, widely known by the shortened title Dance!

See also
Dance (disambiguation)


title: Uroš Stamenić

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Uroš Stamenić (; born 14 October 1996) is a Serbian footballer who plays as a winger for IMT.

Club career
He made his Serbian SuperLiga debut for Vojvodina on 25 May 2014 in 2:0 away win against Napredak Kruševac. After two spells he spent with Proleter Novi Sad while with his home club, Vojvodina, Stamenić permanently moved to Borac Čačak in August 2017. In June 2018, Stamenić moved back to Proleter Novi Sad as a single-player.

References

External links
 Uroš Stamenić Stats at utakmica.rs

1996 births
Footballers from Novi Sad
Living people
Men's association football forwards
Serbian men's footballers
FK Vojvodina players
FK Proleter Novi Sad players
FK Borac Čačak players
FK Zlatibor Čajetina players
FK IMT players
Serbian First League players
Serbian SuperLiga players


title: Pederstrup

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Pederstrup is a historic manor house located  north of Nakskov on the Danish island of Lolland. The half-timbered building from 1686 was rebuilt from 1813 to 1822 in the Neoclassical style by the statesman Christian Ditlev Frederik Reventlow. Since 1940, it has housed the Reventlow Museum.

History
Pederstrup was first mentioned in the 1340s when the estate belonged to Rigsdrost Laurits Jonsen. A vaulted cellar from the mid-16th century is the oldest remaining part of the building which then served as the residence of the king's vassal. In 1576, King Frederick II sold the property to the Venstermand family. In 1684, the half-timbered building was purchased by the statesman Peder von Brandt who added two symmetrical wings in the Baroque style.

In 1725, the estate was acquired by Count Christian Detlev Reventlow, the half-brother of Anna Sophie Reventlow, Frederick IV's second wife. A countship was created for the Reventlow family in 1729, known as Christianssæde. From 1775, his son Christian Ditlev Frederik Reventlow brought Pederstrup into a period of great prosperity. Between 1813 and 1822, with the assistance of the architect C.F. Hansen, he undertook major extensions in the Neoclassical style. In 1858, his grandson Ferdinand Reventlow commissioned Ferdinand Meldahl to convert the manor into a little French château complete with towers and spires. In 1938, after the Reventlows ran into economic difficulties and had to sell the property, Viggo Sten Møller restored the building to its former Neoclassical appearance in order to serve as a museum.

Reventlow Museum

The museum contains items belonging to C.D.F. Reventlow, his family and friends, especially those concerned with the reforms in Danish society around 1800. There is an important collection of portraits painted by the most influential artists of the day including Jens Juel, C.A. Jensen and C:W: Eckersberg. The house, with period furnishings, also displays many of Reventlow's personal effects including his orders and medals. There is also a  park which is open throughout the year. The museum itself is open from 11 am to 4 pm on Saturdays and Sundays year round and from Tuesday to Sunday from June to August.

List of owners
 (      -1340) Laurids Jensen
 (1340-1354) Halsted Priory
 (1354-1576) The Crown
 (1576-1587) Lave Venstermand
 (1587-1606) Knud Venstermand
 (1587-1610) Morten Venstermand
 (1606-      ) Kirsten Venstermand gift Grubbe
 (      -      ) Jørgen Grubbe
 (1610-1616) Anne Galt gift 1.) Venstermand og 2.) Brahe
 (1616-1625) Falk Brahe
 (1625)        Holger Rosenkrantz
 (1625)        Hans Grabow
 (1625-1634) Joachim Grabow
 (1634-1657) Hans Johan Grabow
 (1657-1666) Hans Wilhelm von Harstall
 (1666-1673) Hans Friderich von Harstall
 (1673-1681) Cai Rumohr
 (1681)        Heinrich von Stöcken
 (1681-1684) Boet efter Heinrich von Stöcken
 (1684-1701) Peder von Brandt
 (1701-1725) Henrik von Brandt
 (1725-1738) Christian Ditlev Reventlow
 (1738-1775) Christian Ditlev Reventlow
 (1775-1827) Christian Ditlev Frederik Reventlow
 (1827-1851) Christian Ditlev Reventlow
 (1851-1875) Ferdinand Carl Otto Reventlow
 (1875-1929) Christian Einar Ferdinand Ludvig Eduard Reventlow
 (1929-1935) Boet efter Christian Einar Ferdinand Ludvig Eduard Reventlow
 (1935-1938) L. M. Reventlow
 (1938-2009) Reventlow-Museet, Pederstrup
 (2009-present) Museum Lolland-Falster

References

Literature

External links

Reventlow Museum (in Danish)

Houses completed in 1686
Listed buildings and structures in Lolland Municipality
Listed castles and manor houses in Denmark
Manor houses in Lolland Municipality
Neoclassical architecture in Denmark
Tourist attractions in the Central Denmark Region
Museums in Region Zealand
Historic house museums in Denmark
1686 establishments in Denmark
Buildings and structures of the Reventlow family


title: John Calvin Owings House

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John Calvin Owings House is a historic home located at Laurens, Laurens County, South Carolina. It was designed by architect George Franklin Barber and built in 1896.  It is a -story, Queen Anne style frame dwelling. It features high multiple roofs, turrets, oriels, cresting, turned spindles, and porches. The projecting front gable includes a decorated second-story portico.  Also on the property are four contributing outbuildings.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

References

External links

Historic American Buildings Survey in South Carolina
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Queen Anne architecture in South Carolina
Houses completed in 1896
Houses in Laurens County, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Laurens County, South Carolina


title: Juha Ahokas

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Juha Matti Ahokas (born September 18, 1969, in Kokkola) is a retired amateur Finnish Greco-Roman wrestler, who competed in the men's super heavyweight category. Ahokas has won thirty Finnish championship titles, collected four medals (one gold, two silver, and one bronze) at the European Championships, and also represented his nation Finland in four editions of the Olympic Games (1988, 1992, 1996, and 2004). Throughout his sporting career, Ahokas trained for Nurmon Jymy Wrestling Club in Seinäjoki under his father and personal coach Risto Ahokas.

Ahokas made his official debut, as an 18-year-old teen, at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, where he lost the second round of the elimination pool to U.S. wrestler Dennis Koslowski in the men's heavyweight division. Four years later, at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Ahokas competed in the super heavyweight category (130 kg) and slammed Greece's Panagiotis Poikilidis off the mat with a 1–0 sudden death lead to finish strongly in seventh.

Determined to return to the Olympic scene and medal, Ahokas entered the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta as a top medal favorite in the men's 130 kg class. He beat Sweden's Tomas Johansson in his opening match, but suffered a tremendous fall from the unbeatable Russian and reigning Olympic champion Aleksandr Karelin in the third round. Facing off against Ukraine's Petro Kotok in the fourth repechage, Ahokas could not score a single point to subdue his opponent and lost the match with a fourteenth-place finish.

Despite a stunning upset from his third Games, Ahokas took home his first medal at the 1997 European Championships in Kouvola, and continued to flourish his sporting success in the late 1990s and early 2000s, until he wrestled Hungary's Mihály Deák-Bárdos for the gold in the 120-kg division at the 2003 European Championships in Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro.

Eight years after his last Olympics and having missed the previous Games due to back injury, Ahokas qualified for the Finnish squad, as a 34-year-old veteran, in the men's 120 kg class at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Earlier in the process, he received a ticket and rounded out the seventh spot from the 2003 World Wrestling Championships in Créteil, France. Aged and frail, Ahokas lost two straight matches to his former rival Deák-Bárdos (0–3) and Iran's Sajjad Barzi through a 1–2 tight brawl in the prelim pool, finishing only in seventeenth place out of twenty super heavyweight wrestlers.

Ahokas ended his illustrious sporting career with another silver medal at the 2006 European Championships in Moscow, before he officially retired by the following year due to spinal and shoulder injuries sustained in the past.

References

External links
Profile – International Wrestling Database

1969 births
Living people
Olympic wrestlers for Finland
Wrestlers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Wrestlers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Wrestlers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Finnish male sport wrestlers
Wrestlers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Kokkola
20th-century Finnish people
21st-century Finnish people


title: Évançon

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The Évançon (sometimes written Évençon) is the stream which flows through the val d'Ayas and flows into the Doire baltée. Its name in Franco-Provençal might mean "Grand River" or "River from the Mountaintops" (eva d'en som). In archival documents it is often referred to as l'eau blanche (French for "White water").

The Unité des communes valdôtaines de l'Évançon takes its name from the stream.

Course
The stream has its origin in the Great Glacier of Verra at the top of the val d'Ayas. After coursing right through the valley, the Évançon flows into the Dora Baltea in Verrès, near the bridge of Fleuran. It flows through: Ayas, Brusson, Challand-Saint-Anselme and Challand-Saint-Victor. Near Targnod in the commune of Challand-Saint-Victor, the stream flows through the Gorge de Brisecou (French for "Breakneck Gorge"). Its base can be reached by a short walk from the road to Isollaz and a good observation spot can be reached by car on the road which leads to Verrès Castle.

The Évançon is a typical glacial river, which means that maximum flow is reached in the summer and the minimum flow occurs in winter. The colour of the water in the stream varies from azure in the morning and when it is cold through to a grey-white towards the evening and after a hot day. Only in winter the river is transparent, while in summer it is more or less clouded by sediment and sand from the glacier.

Fauna
The stream is inhabited exclusively by trout (both brown and rainbow, repopulated annually by the regional fish consortium. Among the wildlife must be mentioned the white-throated dipper which is present in great numbers.

Human activity
To protect the inhabited area of the plain which has suffered from flooding in the past, protective walls have been built. Unfortunately, in addition to harming the naturalness and aesthetic appearance of the stream, these have made it less hospitable to the trout.

Along its course the stream is used to produce hydroelectric power. In Brusson is located the Isollaz dam.

Note

External links

Rivers of Aosta Valley
Rivers of the Alps
Rivers of Italy


title: Teachers Life

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Teachers Life Insurance Society (Fraternal), operating as Teachers Life, is a Canadian fraternal benefit society which provides life insurance and disability insurance to members in Alberta, British Columbia and Ontario.

History

Teachers Life was founded to by a group of Ontario secondary school teachers with the goal of helping each other. Teachers Life was incorporated in 1939 and federally incorporated in 2008.

Teachers Life Today

Teachers Life is a Fraternal Benefit Society providing life insurance products to its members. As a Fraternal Benefit Society membership is limited to members of the education community and their immediate families.

Teachers Life is regulated by the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions and Financial Services Commission of Ontario.

References

Philanthropic organizations based in Canada
Mutual organizations
Organizations established in 1939
Life insurance companies of Canada


title: Saša Ćurko

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Saša Ćurko (; born 12 June 1996) is a Serbian football forward who plays for Cement Beočin.

Personal life
Saša is a son of a former goalkeeper Goran Ćurko.

Club career

Vojvodina
He made his Jelen SuperLiga debut for Vojvodina on 25 May 2014 in 2:0 away win against Napredak Kruševac.

Honours
Vojvodina
 Serbian Cup: 2013–14
Proleter
 Serbian First League: 2017–18

References

External links

1996 births
Living people
Men's association football forwards
Serbian men's footballers
FK Vojvodina players
Serbian SuperLiga players
FK Cement Beočin players
People from Reutlingen


title: St. Peter's Cathedral, Bandung

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Bandung Cathedral (Indonesian Gereja Katedral Bandung) is a Roman Catholic Cathedral in Bandung. Its official name is Katedral Santo Petrus ("St. Peter's Cathedral"). It is located at Jalan Merdeka, Bandung, Indonesia. The building was designed by Wolff Schoemaker in Neogothic style. Bandung Cathedral has a land area of 2,385 m2 and building area of 785 m2.

The first building of the church was named St. Regis Francis on June 16, 1895. After Bandung received the status of gemeente (municipality) in 1906, it was decided to build a new church building. Construction of the new building was started in 1921. The construction was finished in 1922 and the new cathedral was blessed on February 19, 1922, by Mgr. E. Luypen.

See also

List of church buildings in Indonesia

References

External links

 Bandung Cathedral official website

Buildings and structures in Bandung
Roman Catholic cathedrals in Indonesia
Roman Catholic churches completed in 1922
Cultural Properties of Indonesia in West Java
Gothic Revival church buildings in Indonesia
Dutch colonial architecture in Indonesia
Churches in Java
20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Indonesia


title: Maccabi Ironi Amishav Petah Tikva F.C.

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Maccabi Ironi Amishav Petah Tikva () is an Israeli football club based in the Amishav neighbourhood of Petah Tikva.It currently competes in Liga Bet South A division, playing home matches at the Sportek Stadium in Kfar Sirkin.

History
Since the 1960s, the football club which have operated in the Amishav neighborhood was Hapoel Amishav Petah Tikva. however, they were folded after failed attempt of merging with other Petah Tikva clubs, Hapoel Mahane Yehuda and Beitar Petah Tikva. one season later, in 1997, Maccabi Amishav Petah Tikva was founded, and started in Liga Gimel, the lowest tier of Israeli football.

In the 2004–05 season, the club won Liga Gimel Sharon division, and promoted to Liga Bet, after 19 wins and one draw, scoring 88 goals and conceding 11. in their first season in Liga Bet, former Israeli top flight players, Liron Basis and Alon Mizrahi joined the club, and at the end of the season, Maccabi Amishav won Liga Bet South A division, and made another successive promotion, this time to Liga Alef. the club played two seasons in Liga Alef, and relegated back to Liga Bet at the 2007–08 season, after finished second bottom. in the following season in Liga Bet, the club finished second, and even though they lost in the promotion play-offs to the third bottom club in Liga Alef South, Hapoel Nahlat Yehuda, they were eventually promoted, as one spot in Liga Alef was vacated, after Hapoel Umm al-Fahm folded.

Following their return to Liga Alef, the club have also established a youth section.

Honours
Liga Bet South A:
2005–06
Liga Gimel Sharon:
2004–05

External links
Maccabi Ironi Amishav Petah Tikva Eli Israel Football Association

References
Interview with Amishav Petah Tikva chairman Avi Shitrit about everything from everything Doublepass, 2.7.2013

Amishav Petah Tikva
Amishav Petah Tikva
Association football clubs established in 1997
Sport in Petah Tikva
1997 establishments in Israel


title: 2014–15 Danish 1st Division

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The 2014–15 Danish 1st Division season is the 19th season of the Danish 1st Division league championship, governed by the Danish Football Association.

The division-champion and runners-up are promoted to the 2015–16 Danish Superliga. The teams in the 11th and 12th places are relegated to the 2015–16 Danish 2nd Divisions.

Participants
AGF and Viborg FF finished the 2013–14 season of the Superliga in 11th and 12th place, respectively, and were relegated to the 1st Division. They replaced Silkeborg IF and Hobro IK, who were promoted to the 2014–15 Danish Superliga.

Skive IK and FC Roskilde won promotion from the 2013–14 Danish 2nd Divisions. They replaced BK Marienlyst and Hvidovre IF.

Stadia and locations

Personnel and sponsoring
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players and Managers may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Managerial changes

League table

Top scorers

Updated to matches played on 6. June

See also
2014–15 in Danish football

References

External links
  Danish FA

2014–15 in Danish football
Danish 1st Division
Danish 1st Division seasons


title: Hugo Hammarskjöld

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Åke Hugo Hammarskjöld (20 January 1845 in Tuna, Kalmar county – 3 June 1937 in Tuna), was a Swedish public servant and politician, brother to Carl Hammarskjöld and cousin of Carl Gustaf Hammarskjöld and Hjalmar Hammarskjöld.

His parents were captain Carl Leonard Hammarskjöld and Beata Hammarskjöld, born Tham. In 1870, he married Lucie von Krusenstjerna, daughter of Captain G. F. von Krusenstjerna and Fredrika von Krusenstjerna, born in Danielsson.

After finishing secondary school at the Katedralskolan, Uppsala, Hammarskjöld studied to become an architect at Konsthögskolan's (Higher School of Art), graduating in 1869. When his father died, the family willed the Tuna mansion to Hugo Hammarskjöld and brother Carl Hammarskjöld, whereupon Hugo would reside at the estate.

Hammarskjöld entered politics at a young age, but mostly dealt in church politics. He was elected to the second chamber of the Swedish riksdag in 1893 and was re-elected in 1903 serving two separate terms, 1894-1896 and 1903-1908.

From 1909-1918 he was part of the Första kammaren. In 1905, he was offered a position as the minister of education and ecclesiastical affairs but declined. Nonetheless, another offer was made in 1906 from Arvid Lindman, which Hammarskjöld accepted. Even as a minister, Hammarskjöld's interest for religion and church related topics would to be critical. Through a proposal that the elementary school should be run by the city council in Sweden's biggest cities, something that already was being done in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö, he received a great deal of resistance from the likes of Gottfrid Billing. When he later made a proposal concerning the so-called priestly privileges, which Hammarskjöld found old fashioned, and the wage control for priests, it was voted down in the first chamber. After this, Hammarskjöld chose to leave the government.

References

Notes

Print
Swedish biographic lexicon (Svenskt biografiskt lexikon), Vol. 18, page 174-175
Norberg, Tvåkammarriksdagen 1867-1970, Vol. 2.
Swedish Men and Women (Svenska män och kvinnor''), Vol. 3.

1845 births
1937 deaths
People from Kalmar County
Members of the Första kammaren
Members of the Andra kammaren
Swedish Ministers of Education and Ecclesiastical Affairs
Hugo


title: Archery at the 2006 Asian Games – Men's individual

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The men's individual recurve competition at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar was held from 9 to 12 December at the Lusail Archery Range.

Schedule
All times are Arabia Standard Time (UTC+03:00)

Results

Qualification

Knockout round

Finals

Top half

Bottom half

References

Official Results

External links
Official website

Men


title: Anthony Keck (Woodstock MP)

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Anthony Keck (1708 – 29 May 1767) was an English politician.

Early life
He was born the second son of John Tracy of Stanway House, Gloucestershire and Anne (née Atkins) Tracy.

His mother was the only daughter of Sir Robert Atkins of Saperton, Chief Baron of the Exchequer. His father was the only surviving son of Hon. Ferdinando Tracy (third son of John Tracy, 3rd Viscount Tracy) and Catherine Keck (eldest daughter of Sir Anthony Keck MP and Commissioner of the Great Seal).

Career
He succeeded to the Keck estates at Great Tew in Oxfordshire of his great-uncle Francis Keck in 1729, adopting the name of Keck according to a condition of the bequest. From 1744 he lived at Richmond House in Twickenham.

A protégé of the Duke of Marlborough, he was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Woodstock from 1753 to 1767.

Personal life
He had married well in 1736 to Lady Susan Hamilton (1706–1753), the daughter of James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton and Hon. Elizabeth Gerard (only daughter and heiress of Digby Gerard, 5th Baron Gerard). Together, they had two daughters:

 Henrietta Charlotte Tracy (1740/1–1817), who married Edward Devereux, 12th Viscount Hereford in 1774.
 Susan Tracy (d. 1835), who married Francis Charteris, Lord Elcho, a grandson of James Wemyss, 5th Earl of Wemyss, in 1771.

A keen participant in horse racing, he died of apoplexy at Epsom races in 1767 when his horse won a race.

References

1708 births
1767 deaths
Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies
British MPs 1747–1754
British MPs 1754–1761
British MPs 1761–1768


title: Hoploparia longimana

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Hoploparia longimana is a species of fossil lobsters belonging to the family Nephropidae. It is the type species of the genus Hoploparia.

These epifaunal carnivores lived during the Cretaceous of Argentina and the Netherlands and Poland, from 139.8 to 66 Ma.

References

True lobsters
Late Cretaceous crustaceans
Early Cretaceous arthropods of Europe
Fossils of the Netherlands
Fossils of Argentina
Early Cretaceous animals of South America
Cretaceous arthropods of South America
Late Cretaceous arthropods of Europe
Early Cretaceous crustaceans
Fossil taxa described in 1826
Fossils of Poland
Cretaceous Argentina
Cretaceous Poland
Valanginian species first appearances
Maastrichtian species extinctions
Hauterivian species
Albian species
Barremian species
Aptian species
Cenomanian species
Turonian species
Santonian species
Coniacian species
Campanian species


title: Cadmus, Kansas

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Cadmus is an unincorporated community in Linn County, Kansas, United States.

History
A post office was opened in Cadmus in 1877, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1902.

Education
The community is served by Prairie View USD 362 public school district.

References

Further reading

External links
 Linn County maps: Current, Historic, KDOT

Unincorporated communities in Linn County, Kansas
Unincorporated communities in Kansas


title: Farlinville, Kansas

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Farlinville is an unincorporated community in Linn County, Kansas, United States.

History
Farlinville had a post office from the 1860s until 1917.

References

Further reading

External links
 Linn County maps: Current, Historic, KDOT

Unincorporated communities in Linn County, Kansas
Unincorporated communities in Kansas


title: Mantey, Kansas

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Mantey is an unincorporated community in Linn County, Kansas, United States.

History
The post office in Mantey closed in 1905.

References

Further reading

External links
 Linn County maps: Current, Historic, KDOT

Unincorporated communities in Linn County, Kansas
Unincorporated communities in Kansas


title: Spillover of the Syrian civil war

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The spillover of the Syrian Civil War is the impact of the Syrian Civil War in the Arab world and beyond. Since the first protests during the Arab Spring, the increasingly violent Syrian Civil War has been both a proxy war for the major Middle Eastern powers, Turkey and Iran, and a potential launching point for a wider regional war. Fears of the latter were realized when the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a Salafi Jihadist militant group and alleged former al-Qaeda affiliate, established itself in Syria in 2013, and later combined with the War in Iraq (2013–2017) into a single conflict the following year.

Iraq

Iraqi–Syrian border incidents

The Akashat ambush was a well planned assault against a Syrian Army convoy defended by Iraqi soldiers that took place on 4 March 2013, as the group was travelling in the province of Anbar, next to the border with Syria. The Islamic State of Iraq claimed responsibility for the ambush on 11 March. 51 Syrian soldiers were killed in the clashes.

In March 2013, a source from Sinjar hospital said that Free Syrian Army attacked Iraqi soldiers after entering Iraqi territories. This led to greater fighting throughout the country, Operation al-Shabah in May 2013 in which the Iraqi Army failed to wipe these militias out and the consolidation of several of them with ISIL. Armed conflict broke out in Al Anbar Governorate in late 2013 and by January 2014, Islamic State had mutated and grown into a massive pseudo country which has taken over much of Iraq and Syria and erased the border between the two countries in a new, multinational war. In June 2014 ISIL launched an offensive in northern Iraq taking large swaths of the country and threatening Baghdad itself, thus turning the conflict into a full-scale war that lasted until 2017.

In June 2016, the Syrian Free Army, backed by the United States, overtook ISIL forces in the border town of al-Bukamal. The city is essential to a key route linking eastern Syria to Iraq. However, in the hours following ISIL launched a counteroffensive and retook al-Bukamal, with the Syrian Free Army suffering significant casualties.

As of May 10, 2017, ISIL has maintained control over al-Bukamal and the key route linking Syria and Iraq. ISIL has additionally conducted attacks near the Waled-Tanif Border Crossing to the south, and west of Mosul in the north. The significant territorial control ISIL maintains surrounding al-Bukamal allows for relatively easy passage between the two nations.

Lebanon

The Syrian Civil War has led to incidents of sectarian violence in northern Lebanon between supporters and opponents of the Assad government, and armed clashes between Sunnis and Alawites in Tripoli. Fighting between rebels and government forces has spilled into Lebanon on several occasions. The Syrian Arab Air Force has conducted air strikes on targets in Lebanon, while rebels have launched rockets on Hezbollah targets. Fighting between supporters of the Sunni sheikh Ahmed Al-Assir, who is against Hezbollah's involvement in Syria, and the Lebanese army has killed at least 15 of its soldiers.

Lebanese–Syrian border

At the beginning of summer 2012, two Hezbollah militants were killed in a clash with Syrian rebels who were on Lebanese territory. On 17 September, Syrian Ground-attack aircraft fired three missiles  over the border into Lebanese territory near Arsal. It was suggested that the jets were chasing rebels in the vicinity. The attack prompted Lebanese president Michel Sleiman to launch an investigation, whilst not publicly blaming Syria for the incident.

On 22 September 2012, a group of armed members of the Free Syrian Army attacked a border post near Arsal. This was reported to be the second incursion within a week. The group were chased off into the hills by the Lebanese Army, who detained and later released some rebels due to pressure from dignified locals. Michel Sleiman praised the actions taken by the military as maintaining Lebanon's position being "neutral from the conflicts of others". He called on border residents to "stand beside their army and assist its members." Syria has repeatedly called for an intensified crackdown on rebels that it claims are hiding in Lebanese border towns. In October 2012 Hassan Nasrallah denied Hezbollah members were fighting alongside the Syrian army, but that Lebanese in Syria were only protecting Lebanese inhabited villages from the Free Syrian Army.

In August 2014, the Syrian air force bombed the Lebanese side of the border. In December of that year, they used barrel bombs on suspected rebel installations northwest of Arsal.

Lebanon vs. ISIL and al-Nusra Front

From 2–5 August 2014, the Lebanese Army clashed with Syrian gunmen in the town of Arsal, which left over a hundred soldiers on both sides dead.

On 21 August 2014, the al-Nusra Front invaded Lebanon near Arsal and the Bekaa Valley town of Al-Fakiha. Following a battle between them and Hezbollah, seven Hezbollah fighters and 32 Syrian terrorists died in clashes around the Syrian village of Nahleh, just over the border from Arsal.

Dozens of hostages were taken back to Syria during the battle of Arsal. After fruitless negotiations, the Lebanese cabinet voted to authorize the army to invade Syria to free them on 4 September 2014, something that they have yet to do. There was another attempted invasion of Lebanon by a joint ISIL-Nusra force in early October, which was beaten back by Hezbullah, and in January 2015.

In December 2015, after over a year and a half in captivity, Lebanese troops held prisoner by Al Nusra were exchanged for prisoners held in Lebanon.

Hezbollah vs. ISIL
In June 2015, the Hezbollah claimed that it was in the midst of a major battle with ISIL, which it claimed had invaded Lebanon and seized territory.

Turkey

With a thousand-mile border with Syria and Iraq, there have been a number of incidents involving this nation with various factions in the conflicts south of the border.

Syrian–Turkish border clashes

Openly supporting the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad Turkey permitted the establishment of a "jihadist highway" where rebels of all stripes, including ISIL, were permitted to cross both supplies and personnel South of the border. There were various incidents including the shooting down of a Turkish Air Force jet by Syria which killed the 2 pilots and also the shooting down of a Syrian Air Force jet by Turkey, and a February 2015 raid by the Turkish army to evacuate a tiny exclave in Syria.

Turkey and ISIL

Turkey had been allegedly supporting ISIL throughout its many incarnations as a "lesser evil" against the Assad government. This to some extent began to change with the 2013 Reyhanlı bombings and a retaliatory airstrike in January 2014. ISIL shook this off and began its conquest of northern Iraq, followed by consolidation of territories in Northern Syria. In the summer of 2014 it began taking over the border area with Turkey, leading to hundreds of thousands of refugees coming north along the border, riots, the use of teargas, rubber bullets, and live ammunition, as well the end of the truce with the PKK.

A vote to authorize military action was passed by the Turkish parliament on 2 October 2014. However, it had no follow-through and further rioting ensued through much of Turkey's cities as the government demanded more and more conditions to join in the war. The riots intensified and several dozen protesters have been killed.

The relationship between ISIL and Turkey deteriorated during the spring and summer of 2015, leading to sniping at the border and airstrikes by the Turks.

Siege of the Süleyman Shah Tomb
On 22 February 2015, the Turkish army invaded Syria via Kobani and drove to the Tomb of Suleyman Shah, which was dismantled and brought back to Turkey. The 40 guards, who were due to return home months before, were also rescued. About 100 military vehicles, including 39 tanks, were involved along with 572 military personnel, one of which was killed in an accident.

Thirty to thirty-six Turkish soldiers were stationed there to guard the tomb. An attack on the tomb, considered Turkish territory under a 1921 Franco-Turkish agreement, was under threat earlier in the year, prompting the government to declare that it would retaliate against any such attack, and would serve as a casus belli.

The Syrian government said the raid was an act of "flagrant aggression" and that it would hold Ankara responsible for its repercussions.

Russian warplane downing

On 24 November 2015, a Russian warplane was shot down in the Syrian-Turkey border area. Turkey claims the plane violated Turkish airspace, a claim Russia denies. Early reports from multiple Russian news agencies indicated that the plane had been downed by a ground-based strike from Syrian rebels, but Russian officials later confirmed the Turkish reports that the plane had been downed by Turkish fighter jets. According to Turkish officials, the Russian jet, an SU-24, was shot down by two Turkish F-16 jets after multiple requests (10 requests in a five-minute span) for the Russian jet to change its course. Turkey maintains that the Russian jet violated its airspace, flying over Turkish territory despite warnings to change course, while Russia states that its jet never entered Turkish airspace and was over Syria the whole time. Turkey produced a graphic showing the Russian plane's flight pattern, which appears to show it crossing the southern tip of Hatay Province before being shot down and crashing near Turkmen Mountain near the Syria-Turkey border.

Turkey had previously warned Russia about violations to Turkish airspace, and had also warned them of strikes against civilian Syrian Turkmen living along the Turkish border. Russia has steadfastly maintained "throughout its flight, the aircraft remained exclusively above Syrian territory." In response, Russian president Vladimir Putin stated that the attack was "a stab in the back by the accomplices of terrorists."

Kurdish conflict

The 2015 conflict between Turkey and the PKK broke out following two year-long peace negotiations, which began in late 2012, but failed to progress in light of the growing tensions on border with Syria in late 2014, when the Siege of Kobani created an unprecedented wave of Kurdish refugees into Turkey. Some of the Kurds accused Turkey of assisting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) during the crisis, resulting in widespread Kurdish riots in Turkey involving dozens of fatalities. The tensions further escalated in summer 2015 with the 20 July bombing in Suruç, allegedly executed by an ISIL-affiliated Turkish group against Kurdish supporters. On 21 July, the PKK killed a Turkish soldier and wounded 2 more in Adıyaman. Some PKK supporters then claimed responsibility for the 23 July killing of two Turkish police officers in Ceylanpinar, describing it as a retaliation.

Jordan

There have been several incidents on the 375 km long border between Syria and Jordan. Jordan hosts nearly 600,000 registered Syrian refugees—although Jordanian officials say the total number is 1.4 million.

Heavy shelling aimed at Daraa in Syria has accidentally hit the Jordanian side of the border from time to time, usually causing only light or no damage. However, there have been occurrences where armed men have been killed or injured in engagements with Jordanian border patrols soldiers.

In April 2014, the Jordanian Air Force launched an airstrike on soldiers trying to illegally cross the border from Syria. Since then, attempted militant infiltration into Jordan has become commonplace. Some of this was due to the return of Jordanian citizens who, as jihadists, went to fight in Syria for a while and decided to go home for various reasons. According to reports, there are over 2000 Jordanian Jihadis fighting in Syria. Over a hundred have been arrested and charged for crossing the border to fight, which is illegal in Jordan.

Since October 2014, Jordan has been an active part of the anti-ISIS coalition, contributing to the American-led campaign of airstrikes.

Two incidents occurred in January 2016. On 23 January Jordanian armed forces spokesman stated that a total of 36 armed men tried to infiltrate the border and an engagement with Jordanian border patrol left 12 dead while the rest retreated back into Syria. They were found to have 2,000,000 drug pills. The spokesperson also stated that "Jordan will not tolerate any infiltration attempt and will strike with an iron fist to whoever tries to disrupt Jordanian national security".

On 25 January, two armed men tried to infiltrate the borders and were killed. They were found to have 2600 palm-sized bags of cannabis and 2.4 million Captagon pills.

Syrian–Israeli ceasefire line

On 25 September 2012, several mortar shells landed in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, landing in an open area adjacent to the border fence. Overall, throughout October and early November, several Syrian mortar and light artillery shells hit the Golan Heights. One mortar round may have been responsible for a brushfire that erupted in the area. On 3 November, three Syrian tanks entered the demilitarized zone in the central Golan Heights as a number of mortar shells were fired into the area. On 5 November, an Israeli army jeep was damaged by Syrian army gunfire as it patrolled the border. On 11 November, after a Syrian 120mm mortar round hit the eastern Golan Heights, the Israeli army responded by firing an electro-optic anti-tank missile in the direction of a Syrian mortar crew, but they deliberately missed them, intending it as a warning shot. On 12 November, another Syrian mortar shell struck the Golan Heights, and Israeli tanks deployed along the border responded by targeting two Syrian mortar launchers. A direct hit was confirmed. A shell fired from Syria, where insurgents and government troops are locked in fierce fighting, exploded in the Israeli-occupied part of the Golan Heights plateau on Sunday, 14 July 2013.

On 22 and 23 June 2015 two ambulances transporting wounded Syrian rebels were attacked by Druze protesters in the Golan Heights. One of the injured persons was killed in the incident. The attacks followed an interview with a rebel who had been treated in Israel and promised to come back to Syria to fight against the Druze minority.

On 10 February 2018, an Iranian drone was reported to have entered Israeli airspace, which was shot down by the Israeli Air Force. In retaliation, the IAF struck Iranian targets inside Syria. During the attack on the Iranian targets, Syrian anti-air defense systems shot down an Israeli F-16 fighter jet.

Distant spillover locations

Libya

The takeover of the city of Derna in Cyrenaica, Libya by the self-declared Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) took place in late 2014. In November 2014, Wilayat Darnah (the province of Darnah) or Wilayat Barqah (Province of Eastern Libya) was declared an integral part the so-called "Islamic State". ISIL controlled the city from October 2014 until it fell to the Shura Council of Mujahideen in Derna in June 2015 who were subsequently defeated by the Libyan National Army during the Battle of Derna.

ISIL in Libya posted a video online on 15 February 2015 depicting the killing of 21 Egyptian Copts. The video bore similarities to previous videos showing the "execution" of Western and Japanese hostages, including the orange jumpsuits worn by the victims and the method of killing by decapitation. Egypt responded to the video by launching airstrikes against targets in Derna.

Kuwait

On 26 June 2015, ISIL militants blew up a Shiite mosque in Kuwait City killing dozens and injuring hundreds.

France

A campaign of Islamist attacks occurred in France, beginning with the Île-de-France attacks on 7 January 2015, between the French Government and ongoing terrorist acts committed by jihadist terror groups like AQAP and ISIL, or isolated individuals who sympathise with the jihadist movement. Since 2015 and until July 2016, eight Islamic terrorist incidents have occurred in France, including fatal attacks in Île-de-France, Saint-Quentin-Fallavier and Paris. The November 2015 attacks in Paris were motivated by ISIL as a "retaliation" for the French role in Syrian Civil War and Iraqi War.

Bangladesh
A majority of attacks by Islamic extremists in Bangladesh since October 2015 have been claimed by ISIL. In November 2015, the ISIL magazine Dabiq published an article calling for the "revival of jihad in Bengal". Since then, radical Islamic militants have assassinated Bangladeshi secularists, atheists, writers, bloggers, LGBT activists, Sufi and liberal Muslims, Hindu and Buddhist priests and Christian missionaries, as well as foreign expatriates from Europe and East Asia. On 1 July 2016, six gunmen stormed an upmarket restaurant in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka, killed customers of various nationalities and held hostages for nearly 12 hours, before the Bangladesh army ended the siege. ISIL claimed credit for the attack and reportedly released photographs of both the gunmen and victims from inside the restaurant during the hostage crisis.

See also

 Timeline of the Syrian civil war
 Anbar campaign (2013–2014)
 European migrant crisis
 Refugees of the Syrian civil war
 Islamic terrorism in Europe
 Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict
 List of modern conflicts in the Middle East
 List of ongoing armed conflicts
 List of wars by death toll
 List of wars involving Syria
 List of wars involving Iraq
 List of wars involving Iran
 List of wars involving Kurdistan Region
 List of wars involving Israel
 List of wars involving Jordan
 List of wars involving Lebanon
 List of wars involving Saudi Arabia
 List of wars involving Turkey

References

Syrian civil war
Foreign relations of Syria
Conflicts in 2014
Conflicts in 2015
2016 in the Syrian civil war


title: Iconorama

text:
Iconorama was a Cold War electronic projection system for graphic presentation ("stylized display using an etched plate to produce symbols") developed by the firm Fenske, Fedrick and Miller. The Iconorama was ordered by the United States Air Force in 1959.

The mechanism used a rear projection display, showing both a map overlay from a fixed lantern slide and dynamically updated data from a mechanical plotter.
  The mechanism for etching the slide is somewhat similar to an Etch A Sketch. The display can draw lines and characters, but cannot erase them individually.
The unit was used in the IBM 473L Command and Control System's Large Panel Display Subsystem (e.g., at the National Military Command Center and the Alternate Military Command Center). Advertised in 1961 by Temco Aircraft Corp. (already a subsidiary of Ling-Temco Electronics, Inc.), the system used "a coated slide...one inch square" that was scribed "by a moving stylus" to make traces (e.g., for paths of attacking bombers).  The unit was used by the Strategic Air Command, in the Marine Technical Data System and at the  Air Force Command Post, Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center, Pacific Missile Range, Point Mugu Calif.; the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico; the Atlantic Missile Range at Cape Canaveral, Fla., and the Naval Research Laboratory.  NORAD's Combined Operations Center at the Chidlaw Building and BMEWS Central Computer and Display Facility at Ent AFB used Iconorama, and in 1971 an Iconorama was still being used by NORAD for BMEWS.

References

External links
 - A Canadian perspective on the Iconorama (includes simulation of Iconorama at The Diefenbunker Museum in Carp, Ontario)
Iconorama advertisements from July 1959 issue of Air Force and Space Digest magazine (scroll down) – via Google Books

Display devices
Equipment of the United States Air Force


title: Life Word Mission

text:
Life Word Mission () is a South Korean Christian-based new religious movement founded in 1982 by Lee Yo-han () (aka: Lee Bok-chil ()). It is a splinter group from Yoo Byung-eun's Evangelical Baptist Church.

In South Korea, Life Word Mission is one of several movements commonly known as Guwonpa () meaning Salvation Sect, from the Korean term guwon () meaning "salvations".

References

External links

Christian new religious movements
Churches in South Korea


title: Central Calcutta Polytechnic

text:
Central Calcutta Polytechnic is a government polytechnic college in the city of Kolkata, West Bengal in India. It is affiliated with the West Bengal State Council of Technical Education, approved by All India Council for Technical Education and provides diploma level technical education to its students.

References

External links

Educational institutions established in 1963
Engineering colleges in Kolkata
1963 establishments in West Bengal


title: All Saints Church, Jakarta

text:
All Saints Church, also known as the Anglican Church, is an Anglican church located in Kebon Sirih Administrative Village, Menteng, Jakarta. It is the only Anglican parish in Indonesia but there are 35 other Anglican churches throughout the country. The church is located in Jalan Arief Rahman Hakim, close to the Farmer's Statue. It is among the oldest church in Indonesia and was built in 1832. The churchyard of All Saints Church contains gravestones of British soldiers who fell during World War I and World War II, and earlier memorials e.g. Lieutenant Colonel William Campbell (died in 1811).

History
Land in Batavia was purchased by Rev. John Slater of the London Missionary Society in 1819 to establish a  station for chaplains to disembark to Asian countries such as China or Japan. This is the first English-speaking institution in Indonesia. On 7 January 1822, Reverend Walter Henry Medhurst was sent by London Missionary Society to work among the Chinese. In the same year he built a bamboo church over the land. The bamboo church lasted until 1828 when the church was renovated. The building was finished in 1829 in Georgian Style, without the extensions (the chancel, the sanctuary and the porch). At that time it was called Anglican Church, Dutch Engelse Kerk or Indonesian Gereja Inggris.

The church became affiliated with the Church of England and the original Missionary layout was changed. A sanctuary was added in 1851. A small organ was installed in 1857. This is replaced with a larger organ which is placed in a newly built special room in 1863. In 1924, these two were combined to form the chancel and sanctuary, the layout that is known today. In 1883, the British Protestant Community was formed which took over the church property. As a result, the name of the church was changed into Church of the British Protestant Community (BPC). Electricity was installed in 1909.

The British Protestant community continued to own the property until April 1965 when Australian ambassador Mick Shann transferred the property to the Indonesian Council of Churches as a gift. Then church became known as All Saints Church in 1970 and serves an international community of 30  nationalities.

See also

List of church buildings in Indonesia
List of colonial buildings and structures in Jakarta

References

Further reading
Lake, Rev. Andrew. All Saints Jakarta: Changes and Chances. Jakarta: All Saints Church. 2004.

External links
 All Saints Jakarta website

Churches in Jakarta
Churches completed in 1829
Colonial architecture in Jakarta
Cultural Properties of Indonesia in Jakarta


title: Metal Ware Corporation

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Metal Ware Corporation is a company located in Two Rivers, Wisconsin and manufactures small kitchen appliances primarily marketing them under the NESCO and American Harvest brand names.

History

1927-1940
Metal Ware Corporation was co-founded by Joseph Koenig, who also founded the Mirro Aluminum Company and William H Ellis II.  Metal Ware filed for incorporation on August 18, 1920.   The company was a successor to Two Rivers Plating which was founded by Henry Mixa in 1902. In October, 1920, property was purchased from Two River Plating and Manufacturing Company. The company's primary products were copper and nickel-plated utensils.

The 1920s saw growth in the company with employment reaching 100 by 1927. A popular product of the company was a full feature miniature stove measuring 21 inches wide, 17 inches high and only 10 inches deep.  It was particularly popular with apartment dwellers.  Metal Ware announced an agreement with Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. to sell these compact stoves.  They also announced a contract with General Electric to handle their stoves for export trade.

In addition to several different sizes of electric ranges, they were also producing electric percolators and educational toys including an electric power 'steam' engine.  In the first seven years of existence, the company grew enough that they were advertising that they were the 'Worlds Biggest Electrical Toy Factory".

In 1928, Metal Ware introduced a new style of sandwich toaster with an expandable hinge and was designed to toast both sides of an assembled sandwich at the same time as well as making French toast and grilling bacon.

In December, 1931, Elmer Drumm, who had worked at the Mirro Aluminum Company, along with his brother Charles Drumm, Elmer Bleser, and Victor C. Trastek purchased Metal Ware. At the time of the purchase, the company was renamed The Metal Ware Corporation.

In 1936 the Empire line of toy trains was spun off into a separate business named Empire Products Company.  The Metal Ware Corporation continued to manufacture the toys for the new company.  At this time, it was also announced that they obtained a franchise for making Disney character toys from the Silly Symphonies animated short films.

As with many companies at the time, they experienced the effects of the growth of labor unions with the American Federation of Labor announcing that they completely unionized the employees of the Metal Ware Corporation in 1937.

1941-1945
In April 1942, The Metal Ware Corporation announced that it would have contracts for arms production.

By December 1944, essential consumer goods were in short supply and the War Production Board authorized The Metal Ware Corp to resume production of electrical appliances as materials and labor became available.

In April 1945, because of continued war production, the company began construction of a 2500 s.f. addition to their plant.

For national security reasons, plant production was often not made public until after the war was over.  In 1946, it was reported that The Metal Ware Corporation had been producing electric lanterns for soldiers and electrical appliances for naval ships.

1946-1980
In 1950, The Metal Ware Corporation bought the assets of the Herah Electric Specialty company in Milwaukee and moved the dies, patterns and materials inventory to its Two Rivers plant.  The Herah company was in the business of manufacturing electric wall heaters, electric fireplace logs, portable heaters, and fluorescent lighting specialties...  They had employed fewer than a dozen people.

Business growth continued to fuel expansion.  An additional 6000 s.f. of warehouse space was construction in 1952.

In the mid 1950s, metal toys continued to be a large part of the company's business making up nearly half of their production with the largest portion of that being it the miniature ranges. Other products produced include toy electric irons with ironing boards, electric trains, various small appliances marketed under the Empire name such as electric corn poppers and Lady Aristette hair dryers.

A major change came to the company in March 1960 with the passing of Elmer O. Drumm who had been president of the company since purchasing it in 1931.  Elmer was succeeded in August by his son Wesley C. Drumm.  He was promoted from the position of General Manager.  He had been associated with the firm since 1947 and had become the sales and advertising manager in 1953.

At the end of 1964, the company reported that sales were up from previous years and had a record year for coffee makers. Continued strong growth for the company was evidenced by construction of a 1400 s.f. office space addition to their main building in 1965. By 1973 an additional office space expansion added another 3200 s.f.

A labor strike by the Aluminum Workers International Union was started on April 2, 1968, over a labor contract that expired On December 31. 1967. Negotiations for a new contract had begun the previous May. The strike lasted three weeks and ended on April 24.  The new contract was to run till the end of 1970.

By the mid 1970s the product line showed a complete shift away from toys and included the Empire line of electric coffee makers and party urns, slow cookers, electric kettles, pop-corn poppers, egg cookers and poachers, hot cups, travel kits, Lady Aristette hair dryers, and the combination Kar 'N Home kits.  The line of metal toys was dropped in the mid 1960s due to increasing federal safety regulations. New products introduced in 1977 included the Little Fry mini deep fryer and the Empire Travl-Mate automatic coffee maker kit.

1981-2014
The 1980s marked a major change in the growth in the company with a series of acquisitions of related cookware manufacturers.

In 1981, Metal ware Corporation Purchased the NESCO trade name for roaster ovens along with all dies, tooling, equipment, and finished goods inventory from the previous owners.  The roasters were being manufactured in New York, but at one time had been previously manufactured in Wisconsin.

In 1985, Metal Ware purchased MIRRO Outdoor Products and began manufacturing and marketing the Open Country® line of camp cookware and in 1987 bought MAFCO (Monarch Appliance and Fabricating Company), a porcelain finishing and metal stamping facility in Algoma, Wis.

A major boost to the company began in 1991 when the QVC television shopping channel began selling their NESCO roasters on national basis. In addition to large phone sales through QVC, the national exposure expanded their access to other retail stores as customers were asking for the roasters in the stores.  The exposure was also a big help with the launch of a new product, a convection roaster called the Roast-Aire. By 1997 one million units had shipped.

In 1996, it acquired a tabletop cooking grill product line from Algonquin Mercantile Corporation, a small appliance maker in Ontario, Canada, and brought that production into Wisconsin.

In 1997, it acquired a Wisconsin plastics molding company and obtained the assets of Minnesota-based American Harvest, Inc., well known for its food dehydrator. With this addition, the company created a new brand—NESCO®/American Harvest™.

Metal Ware continues to expand its product lines and find new paths to develop markets and build value. The Open Country® collection now includes a Fish Scaler, Jerky Seasonings and cooking accessories for outdoor enthusiasts, and the electrics line contains an array of pressure cookers, Jet-Steam Ovens, bread maker, food grinders and slicers, hand blenders, juicers and coffee products. In developing its coffee bean roaster, Metal Ware developed a unique method to convert the harsh odors typical of this process into the fragrance that draws coffee lovers.

The classic Roaster Oven comes in many sizes and colors. The basic design of the Spa Pro® Massage Stone Heater is based on the roaster over. The current product line includes a coffee blade grinder, coffee roasters, coffee urn, food slicers, food grinders, pressure cookers, juice blenders, water kettles, food steamers, bread machine, waffle maker, toasters, and a portable induction cooktop.

2014-Present
In 2016, The Metal Ware Corporation merged with Chard International, an outdoor cooking and meat preparation product company, owned by Richard Carey and business partner Ross Niemi.  The merger brought 14 new employees to Metal Ware. Richard Carey took over as President of Metal Ware and Ross Niemi as the COO.

The Metal Ware Corp is currently expanding, adding new brands and product lines such as Grizzly Docks and DeWALT Coolers. Along with new products, The Metal Ware Corp is also currently working to increase domestic production. To do so, Metal Ware has added three plastic injection molding machines, as well as a new plastic Roto Molding machine increasing production jobs by 50% in the last three years within their six facilities.

Patents and Trademarks
As is common with many corporations, the Metal Ware Corporation applied for and was granted numerous patents for its products over the course of its existence. It has also become the assignee for patents for companies that it has acquired.

Utility Patents
 Canteen construction
 Method for Rapidly Cooking Food
 Cooking system and accessories
 Assemblies for Increasing Airflow and Heating Efficiency in a Multi-shelf Food Heading Device
 Food dehydrator
 Food dehydrator and tray for a dehydrator
 Cooking system and accessories
 Rapid cooking device
 Convection oven
 Method for rapidly cooking food
 Rapid cooking device
 Cooking system and accessories
 Automatic bread making machine
 Food dehydrator
 Food Dehydrator
 Electronically controlled roaster oven with digital control assembly
 Coffee bean roasting apparatus

Design Patents
 Bread slicer
 Convection oven
 Handle for a countertop oven
 Muffin holder
 Convection oven
 Breadmaker
 Extension ring for a convection oven
 Hair braiding device
 Food dehydrator
 Bread pan
 Roaster oven with end caps
 Combined roaster oven with hinged cover

Registered Trademarks
 NESCO
 MONARCH
 SIERRA
 CLEAN-A-SCREEN
 CONVERGA-FLOW
 ADD-A-TRAY
 OPEN COUNTRY
 SNACKMASTER
 GARDENMASTER
 CYCLONIC COOKING
 WEEKENDER
 JET-STREAM OVEN
 AMERICAN HARVEST
 ROAST AIR OVEN
 ROAST-AIR
 AH AMERICAN HARVEST
 NESCOTE
 CIRCLE OF HEAT
 NESCO
 SNACKMASTER VISION
 NESCO
 OPEN COUNTRY
 OPEN COUNTRY
 GRIP 'N GO
 SPA PRO
 TUMBLE DRUMM
 TUMBLE DRUMM FISH SCALER
 NESCO AH AMERICAN HARVEST

References

External links
 NESCO
 Open Country Campware

Manitowoc County, Wisconsin
Manufacturing companies based in Wisconsin


title: Svea Kristina Frisch

text:
Svea Kristina Frisch (15 June 1898 in Ramsberg, Örebro county – 1991), known as Kristina Lindstrand, was a Swedish actor, journalist, author, and poet.

Her first marriage was during 1922–1927 with the actor and director Ivar Kåge, and the second (1929–1946) was with the painter Vicke Lindstrand. She moved from Sweden to Italy in 1969.

Filmography
Där fyren blinkar (1924)

Bibliography
Dagöppning (1942)
Gästspel (1943)
Kvinnan och hemmet (1951)
Pinbänken (1955)
Hemmet (1956)
Våra textilier (1957)
Flytta till solen (1960)
Pranzo (1960)
Soppa på solsken (1963)
Barfotamiljonären (1974)
Maria på Gedevik (1975)
Lyktdansen (1976)
Leva i Ligurien (1978)

References

1898 births
1991 deaths
Swedish film actresses
Swedish stage actresses
20th-century Swedish actresses
Swedish women novelists
20th-century Swedish women writers
Swedish-language writers
Swedish women poets


title: Mario M. DeOptatis

text:
Mario M. DeOptatis (January 26, 1903 – January 28, 1979) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

Life
He was born on January 26, 1903, in New York City. He attended Public School No. 112, New York University, Fordham Law School and Brooklyn Law School.

DeOptatis was a member of the New York State Senate (14th D.) from 1949 to 1954, sitting in the 167th, 168th and 169th New York State Legislatures.

He died on January 28, 1979.

References

1903 births
1979 deaths
Democratic Party New York (state) state senators
Politicians from Brooklyn
New York University alumni
Fordham University School of Law alumni
Brooklyn Law School alumni
20th-century American politicians


title: Anuryzm

text:
Anuryzm is a progressive heavy metal band, based in the United Arab Emirates, featuring contributors from a wide variety of backgrounds and nationalities.

Biography
Anuryzm is a project created by Canadian guitarist John Bakhos in 2003 as a means to branch out from his background in extreme metal in favor of progressive heavy metal music. In 2010, after returning to the United Arab Emirates, Bakhos reconnected with British vocalist Nadeem Michel Bibby and forged the recording incarnation of Anuryzm.

The band independently released their debut album Worm's Eye View in 2011. It featured guest performances by Martin Lopez (Soen, Opeth, Amon Amarth) on drums and by Uri Dijk (Textures, Ethereal), who performed synths on one track. The album was subsequently re-released in 2012 in the United States via Melodic Revolution Records, and in Japan via Asian Rock Rising. The album cycle also saw the recruitment of additional members for live performances.

Throughout 2012 and 2013, the band performed as guests for acts including Nightwish, Epica, Dark Tranquillity, Avenged Sevenfold, and Yngwie Malmsteen.

As part of a one–off show during the recording of the band's second album, Anuryzm performed as special guests to Black Sabbath at the Du Arena, Abu Dhabi, on the Middle Eastern stopover of their world tour.

The band's second album All Is Not For All was released on 15 June 2015. A European tour in support of the album commenced in the fall of 2016, entitled "Awakening The Humanoids."

Following vocalist Nadeem Michel Bibby's departure in 2019,the band are continuing to work on a third album set for release in 2020.

Discography
Studio albums
 Worm's Eye View (11 October 2011, re-released worldwide in 2012)
 All is Not for All (15 June 2015)

Singles
 "Wide Awake" (11 October 2011)
 "Breaking the Ballot" (6 November 2011)
 "Humanoid" (20 April 2015)
 "Depolarized" (18 May 2015)
 "199X" (13 January 2016)
 "Etheride" (December 2019)

Members

Current line-up
 John Bakhos – guitars (2010–present)
 Jay Jahed – keyboards, synths (2011–present)
 Rami Lakkis – bass (2010–2014, 2019–present)
 Simen Sandnes – drums (2019–present)
 Will Patterson – vocals (2007–2009, 2019–present)

Former members
 Nadeem Michel Bibby – vocals (2010–2019)
 Sertaç Ögüt – guitars (2015–2018)
 Faissal Itani – bass (2015–2018)
 Rudy Fares – drums (2016–2018)
 Imad Dahleh – drums (2011– 2015)
 Miltiadis Kyvernitis – guitars (2011–2014)
 Rany Battikh – bass (2014–2016)
 John Laham – drums (2016)
 Colin Krane – guitars (2007–2009)
 Stu McNeil – bass (2007–2009)
 Andrew Bettio – drums (2007–2009)
 Bernard Moussali – guitars (2003–2005)
 Sami Khawam – bass (2003–2005)
 Roger Moussali – drums (2003–2005)
 Yanad Zwein – vocals (2003–2005)

Session musicians
 Martin Lopez – drums on the album Worm's Eye View
 Uri Dijk – synths on the track "Breaking The Ballot" and on the album All Is Not For All
 Christopher James Chaplin – strings on the track "Oceans Apart"
 Charlie Zeleny  – drums and percussion on the album All Is Not For All
 Michael Lepond  – bass guitars on the album All Is Not For All

References

External links

 Anuryzm profile on Melodic Revolution Records
 CDBaby

Progressive metal musical groups
Thrash metal musical groups
Musical groups established in 2010
2010 establishments in the United Arab Emirates