title: Megan Fletcher

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Megan Fletcher (born 2 August 1989) is an Irish judoka, who was born in England. She previously represented England and Great Britain judo at the international level before competing for  the Republic of Ireland.

Personal history
Megan Fletcher was born on 2 August 1989 in Reading, England. She was schooled at The Emmbrook School, in Wokingham, before going to the University of Bath, where she has trained since 2007 with Team Bath.  she resides in Wokingham, which is where her club, Pinewood Judo Club, is located.

Besides judo, Fletcher is a trained geography teacher, and teaches part-time at The Castle School, Thornbury, South Gloucestershire.

Judo career
Fletcher began judo at the age of 5, and became a first dan black belt at the age of 15. In 2011, Fletcher participated for Great Britain at the World University Games in China.

At the 2014 Commonwealth Games, held in Glasgow, Scotland, Fletcher beat Moira de Villiers of New Zealand in the 70 kilograms judo final, by ippon with tate shiho gatame. Fletcher reached the final despite the fact that she had her face taped up after suffering an injury to her nose against the "gold medal hope" Sally Conway of Scotland in the semi-finals; Conway was the British judo number one going into the tournament. After her victory in the final, Fletcher dedicated it to her sensei, Don Werner, who had been her coach at Pinewood and died in January 2014 of cancer. Fletcher's younger brother Ben Fletcher was due to compete in the judo  category, but a week before the event he suffered an injury and was forced to withdraw; he was replaced by Danny Williams. Megan is currently ranked 40th in the world in the 70kg category by the International Judo Federation.

In 2020, she competed in the women's 70 kg event at the 2020 European Judo Championships held in Prague, Czech Republic. In 2021, she competed in the women's 70 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.

Megan now works as a Geography teacher at The Castle School Thornbury.

References

External links

1989 births
Living people
English female judoka
Irish female judoka
Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England
Judoka at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Sportspeople from Reading, Berkshire
Sportspeople from Wokingham
Commonwealth Games medallists in judo
European Games competitors for Ireland
Judoka at the 2015 European Games
Judoka at the 2019 European Games
Judoka at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic judoka for Ireland
Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Alumni of the University of Bath


title: Godfrey Talbot

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Godfrey Walker Talbot OBE (8 October 1908 – 2 September 2000) was an English broadcast journalist. After an early career in print journalism, his time as a BBC Radio journalist included periods as a war reporter and royal correspondent. He was the first officially accredited court correspondent at Buckingham Palace.

Life
Talbot was born on 8 October 1908 at Walton, near Wakefield, Yorkshire, and he was educated at Leeds Grammar School. He joined the Yorkshire Post at the age of 20. Four years later, he was editor of the Manchester City News, then worked at the Daily Dispatch, before joining the BBC in 1937.

During World War II, having been sent to replace Richard Dimbleby, he reported on North African battles such as Al Alamein and Cassino, for which he was mentioned in despatches and, in 1946, made a military Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).

He appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 29 August 1960. In the same year, he was appointed a Member of the Royal Victorian Order. He published two volumes of autobiography.

He died peacefully at home on 3 September 2000. He and his wife Bess Owen had two sons; she and one of them pre-deceased him.

Bibliography

  (autobiography)
  (autobiography)

References

External links

 Godfrey Talbot: The Voice of the Desert and the 8th Army Oral history, at the Second World War Experience Centre

1908 births
2000 deaths
BBC radio presenters
English male journalists
English newspaper editors
Members of the Royal Victorian Order
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
People educated at Leeds Grammar School
People from the City of Wakefield
Place of death missing
War correspondents of World War II
Journalists from Yorkshire
Royal correspondents


Administradora Coahuilense de Infraestructura y Transporte Aéreo (ACITA) is the operator of four airports in the State of Coahuila, Mexico.

Operating Airports

It is a company incorporated under SA with 51% by the Government of the State of Coahuila, and 49% ACITA (Administradora Coahuilense de Infraestructura y Transporte Aéreo).

Passenger's number
Number of passengers at each airport by 2021:

See also

List of the busiest airports in Mexico

References

External links
 Government of Coahuila State

Airport operators of Mexico
Airports in Mexico
Aviation in Mexico


title: Philomena Cheyech

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Flomena Cheyech Daniel (born July 5, 1982 in West Pokot, Kenya) is a Kenyan athlete who competes in long distance and marathon races. She set her personal best of 2:22:44 winning the 2014 Paris Marathon and was a gold medalist at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. She represented Kenya at the 1999 IAAF Junior World Cross Country Championships in Dublin, Ireland and at the 2009 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships. She was based in Japan between 2007 and 2010, running for the Uniqlo corporate team, and was a two-time winner of the Japanese Corporate Half Marathon. She has also won marathons in Vienna and Toronto.

Career

Daniel's international debut came as a junior at the 1999 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, where she ranked tenth individually and helped Kenya to the team silver medal. She later focused on the 10,000 metres track distance and improved from 33:22.3 minutes in 2004 to 33:10.5 minutes in 2006. That same year she ran her first marathon race at the Nairobi Marathon and placed seventh in a time of 2:42:31 hours.

Coached by Eric Kimaiyo in Japan's corporate running system, she set personal bests on the track of 9:16.21 minutes for the 3000 metres, 15:54.70 minutes for the 5000 metres and 32:47.98 minutes for the 10,000 m. She made her debut over the half marathon in the 2008 All-Japan Corporate Half Marathon Championships and was runner-up to Yukiko Akaba with a time of 69:06 minutes. That time ranked her 14th in the world that year for the distance. She again improved her bests in the Japanese track season with 15:38.83 minutes for the 5000 m and 31:58.50 minutes for the 10,000 m. She returned to the Corporate Half Marathon in 2009 and was the winner in a new best of 68:44 minutes. After a seventh-place finish at the Sapporo Half Marathon she was chosen to represent Kenya at the 2009 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, where she came in eighth place. She also had success over 10,000 m that year, winning at the Hyogo Relays and coming third at the Japanese Corporate Track and Field Championships.

Daniel won her second Japanese Corporate title at the 2010 half marathon race and also placed third in Sapporo that year. She missed the rest of the season and all of 2011 after being dropped by the corporate team, only returning in mid-2012. She began to establish herself in the marathon, winning in Porto Alegre with a best of 2:34:13 hours then coming second at the Singapore Marathon. She began working with Gianni DeMadonna's training group in Italy. A series of road wins followed in 2013. She won the Roma-Ostia Half Marathon in a time of 67:39 minutes, knocking over a minute of her best and ranking ninth in the world that year. The Vienna Marathon proved to be a big breakthrough for Daniel: she ran the distance in 2:24:34 hours (an almost ten-minute improvement on the previous year) and won the race by a margin of nearly seven minutes. She was also the clear victor at the Toronto Waterfront Marathon in October.

Daniel's first big race of 2014 was the Ras Al-Khaimah Half Marathon and although she was defeated by Priscah Jeptoo, she was the runner-up in 68:13 minutes. She confirmed her ability over the longer marathon distance that April by winning the high-profile Paris Marathon with a new personal best of 2:22:44 hours – second-placed Yebrqual Meles was three and a half minutes behind her. She was chosen to represent Kenya in the marathon for the first time at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. In that race she was a clear leader throughout and in the final stages eased away from compatriot Caroline Kilel to win the gold medal – taking the first individual international medal of her career at the age of 32.

Personal bests
3000 metres – 9:16.21 min (2007)
5000 metres – 15:19.47 min (2009)
10,000 metres – 31:58.50 min (2008)
10K run – 31:43 min (2010)
Half marathon – 67:39 min (2013)
Marathon – 2:22:44 min (2014)

International competition record

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External links

Living people
1982 births
Kenyan female long-distance runners
Kenyan female marathon runners
People from West Pokot County
Sportspeople from Rift Valley Province
Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Kenya
Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
Paris Marathon female winners
Kenyan female cross country runners
Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games


title: Chapultepec Uno R509

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Chapultepec Uno R509, previously Punto Chapultepec, is a skyscraper in Mexico City at the corner of Paseo de la Reforma and Río Ródano street, immediately west of Torre Mayor. Chapultepec Uno is Mexico City's third tallest building upon completion at 241m and 58 stories high. Part of the tower will be occupied by The Ritz Carlton Mexico City which is expected to open in Autumn 2021.

Previous buildings on site
In 2005 there was a project to remodel the existing towers on the lot, Torre Reforma 509 and Torre Reforma 506, but it was not successful. In 2009, Serrano Arquitectos planned to build a skyscraper 303m and 69 floors high but in 2010 the project was cancelled in favor of a shorter tower.

See also
List of tallest buildings in Mexico City

References

External links

 Chapultepec Uno R509 official website
 The Ritz Carlton, Mexico City official website
 Page on edemx.com

Skyscrapers in Mexico City
Buildings and structures under construction in Mexico
Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City
Paseo de la Reforma


The 1998 Robocup 2D Soccer Simulation League was a simulated soccer competition contested in the 1st Annual RoboCup International Symposium, held in Paris, France.

Round stage

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group E

Group F

Group G

Group H

Knockout stage

Honours

See also
 RoboCup
 RoboCup Simulation League
 RoboCup 3D Soccer Simulation League

External links
 RoboCup Soccer Simulator Wiki
 Team Assistant for 3D Visualisation
 Official Data Repository (Log Files, Team Binaries...)

RoboCup
Robot soccer competitions
1998 in robotics


title: Lars Mathias Hille Esmark

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Lars Mathias Hille Esmark (9 May 190818 July 1998) was a Norwegian civil servant and business person in the tourist industry.

He was born in Voss, and graduated as cand.jur. in 1932. From 1935 he was appointed hotel inspector for the government. In this position he was responsible for deciding which overnight accommodations that qualified as hotels. After World War II he was appointed the government's tourist manager. From 1964 he was manager of the travel agency Bennett Reisebureau. He was a board member of the Norwegian Trekking Association, and eventually also chairman of the organization. He was decorated Knight, First Class of the Order of St. Olav in 1961. He was Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog and of the Order of the Polar Star.

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1908 births
1998 deaths
People from Voss
Norwegian civil servants
Knights of the Order of the Dannebrog
Knights of the Order of the Polar Star
20th-century Norwegian civil servants
20th-century Norwegian businesspeople


title: Maksym Marusych

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Maksym Vyacheslavovych Marusych (; born 17 July 1993) is a Ukrainian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Veres Rivne.

Career
Marusych is the product of the FC Vorskla Youth School System. But in July 2014 he signed 4,5 years deal with another Ukrainian Premier League club Karpaty. He made his debut for FC Karpaty entering as a second-half substitute against FC Hoverla Uzhhorod on 27 July 2014 in Ukrainian Premier League. But on 31 August 2014 the contract with Marusych was terminated.

Desna Chernihiv
In 2016 he signed for Desna Chernihiv.

On 1 March 2017, Maksym was announced as a member of Lithuanian A Lyga side Jonava.

In August 2019, Maksym joined FK Jelgava. He was released by the end of 2019.

FK Riteriai
In 2 July 2021 signed with Riteriai.

Honours
RFS
 Latvian Cup: 2019, 2021

References

External links

1993 births
Living people
Footballers from Poltava
Ukrainian men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Ukraine men's under-21 international footballers
Ukraine men's youth international footballers
Ukrainian Premier League players
Ukrainian First League players
A Lyga players
Latvian Higher League players
Kazakhstan Premier League players
FC Vorskla Poltava players
FC Karpaty Lviv players
FC Hirnyk-Sport Horishni Plavni players
FC Desna Chernihiv players
FK Jonava players
FK RFS players
FK Jelgava players
FC Caspiy players
FK Riteriai players
Ukrainian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Lithuania
Expatriate men's footballers in Latvia
Expatriate men's footballers in Kazakhstan
Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Lithuania
Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Latvia
Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Kazakhstan


title: 2005 Istanbul Park GP2 Series round

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The 2005 Istanbul Park GP2 Series round was a GP2 Series motor race held on August 20 and 21, 2005 at Istanbul Park in Istanbul, Turkey. It was the ninth round of the 2005 GP2 Series season. The race weekend supported the 2005 Turkish Grand Prix.

Classification

Qualifying

Feature race

Sprint race

References

External links
 Motorsportstats

Istanbul Park
GP2
Auto races in Turkey
August 2005 sports events in Turkey


title: Surendra Nath

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Surendra Nath (1926 – 9 July 1994) was the Governor of Punjab from August 1991 to July 1994. He also held additional charge as the Governor of Himachal Pradesh from November 1993 to July 1994. He was a career Indian Police Service officer. He died in an aeroplane crash in 1994, still in office as governor. His father was Mahashe Rajpal, publisher of Rangila Rasul.

References

Governors of Punjab, India
Governors of Himachal Pradesh
Indian police officers
1926 births
1994 deaths


title: José Peñarroya

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José Peñarroya Peñarroya (Forcall, Castellon, 1910 – Barcelona, 1975) was a Spanish cartoonist of the Bruguera School, creator of famous characters such as Don Pío (about a mild-mannered man and his demanding wife) or Gordito Relleno (about a fat and kindly man people always take advantage to). He also was, alongside Cifré, the "official" cover artist of many of the publications of the house, until well into the 1960s. As a result, he is considered one of the "Big Five" of that editorial of the 1950s, along with Conti, Escobar, Giner (this, in realistic style) and Cifré.

Biography
During the Spanish Civil War he was a combatant in the republican army.

After the war he left his job as an accountant for the study Estudios Chamartín, where he participated in the creation of several short films. In 1947 he began collaborating with Editorial Bruguera, for which he created Don Pío (1947), Calixto (1947), Gordito Relleno (1948) and Don Berrinche (1948, about a man who was always angry). He was involved in several magazines of the publisher, especially Pulgarcito and El DDT.

At this time, he worked with his friends Cifré and Escobar in a rented studio. They liked to catch red pine mushrooms in autumn and joke about it among themselves.

In 1957, together with these and other cartoonist of Bruguera, Carlos Conti and Eugenio Giner, he created an independent company that began publishing a new journal, Tío Vivo, keeping the typical schemes of Bruguera magazines. For this magazine, Peñarroya draw new characters, such as La familia Pi (very similar to his Don Pío) After the economic failure of Tío Vivo, he returned to Bruguera, for which continued creating characters, such as Floripondia Piripí (1958), Pepe, el hincha (1962, about a fanatic of a very unlucky soccer team), Pitagorín (1966, about a kind and gifted child) and Rudesindo el bucanero (1966). He also created new series for the magazine "Tele Chico".

Style
Peñarroya graphic style evolved over the years toward greater statism, abandoning kinetic curves and symbols. An author of a later generation, Joan March, described Peñarroya humor as more subtle, but also more poetic than other authors of Bruguera.

Work

References

External links
Peñarroya in Lambiek comiclopedia

1910 births
1975 deaths
Spanish comics artists
Spanish comics writers


title: Richard Cockett

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Richard Cockett (born 1961) is a British historian, journalist and writer.

He is a regional editor of The Economist, with experience in Mexico, Central America, Africa and Singapore. He was previously a senior lecturer in politics and history at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Selected works
 Thinking the unthinkable: think-tanks and the economic counter-revolution, 1931–1983. (Fontana Press, 1995). .
 Sudan: Darfur and the failure of an African State. (Yale University Press, 2010).
 New Left, New Right and Beyond. Taking the Sixties Seriously (with Geoff Andrews, Alan Hooper, Michael Williams) (Palgrave Macmillan, 1999).
 David Astor and The Observer (Andre Deutsch, 1990).
 Twilight of Truth: Chamberlain, Appeasement, and the Manipulation of the Press (St. Martin's Press, 1989)

References

External links
Official Website

British male journalists
British historians
British economics writers
Academics of Royal Holloway, University of London
The Economist people
1961 births
Living people


title: The Good Soldier Schweik (1955 film)

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The Good Soldier Schweik () is a 1955 Czechoslovak animated film directed by Jiří Trnka based on the novel The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek. Its length is 76 minutes and consists of three episodes, From Hatvan to Halič, Švejk train accidents and Švejk Budějovice anabasi. Narrator: Jan Werich.

External links

1955 films
1955 animated films
Czechoslovak animated films
1950s Czech-language films
Films directed by Jiří Trnka
Films based on Czech novels
Films based on works by Jaroslav Hašek
The Good Soldier Švejk
World War I films set on the Eastern Front
Animated films based on novels
Czech war comedy films
1950s war comedy films
Film remakes
Czech World War I films
Czech animated comedy films


title: Dyrnæs

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Dyrnæs was a Norse settlement in Eastern Settlement in Greenland. It was located to the north of modern-day Narsaq.

History
According to Ívar Bárðarson, Dyrnæs was one of the largest parishes in Norse Greenland. It consisted of a church and several farms, and probably covered the entire western part of the Narsaq peninsula. The ruins of the church were discovered during an archaeological dig in 1932.

References

Norse settlements in Greenland


title: Surendranath

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Surendranath is a common Indian male name. It may refer to:

 Surendra Nath Kohli (1916–1997), Indian admiral
 Surendra Nath (1926–1994), Punjab governor
 Surendranath Banerjee (1848–1925), Indian National Congress president
 Surendranath (cricketer) (1937–2012), Indian cricketer
 Surendranath Dasgupta (1887–1962), Sanskrit scholar
 Surendranath Medhi (1930–2011), real name of writer Saurabh Kumar Chaliha
 Surendranath Mitra (circa 1850 – 1890), devotee of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

Indian masculine given names
Masculine given names


title: McCorkle-Fewell-Long House

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McCorkle-Fewell-Long House is a historic home located at Rock Hill, South Carolina.  It was built prior to 1821, and extensively rebuilt about 1880, incorporating Queen Anne style elements. It is a two-story, five bay dwelling of heavy timber-frame construction sheathed with weatherboard and flushboard siding. It features a full-width front porch with square columns and decorative scrollwork.  Located to the rear of the house is the former carriage house (c. 1900).

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Queen Anne architecture in South Carolina
Houses completed in 1880
Buildings and structures in Rock Hill, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Rock Hill, South Carolina
Houses in York County, South Carolina


Samuel Addison Shute (1803–1836) and Ruth Whittier Shute (1803–1882) were a husband and wife team of itinerant portrait painters active in New England and New York State during the 1830s. Ruth Whittier Shute continued painting through the 1870s.

Early life
Samuel Addison Shute was born to Aaron and Betsy Poore Shute and lived in Byfield, Massachusetts. He had a sister, Adelaide Montgomery Shute, who was born disabled, and lived with her mother for the majority of her life. A third child, named Maria Antoinette Shute, was born in 1831, but died nine days after her birth. Aaron Shute died five years later in Champlain, New York, and both were buried in Concord, New Hampshire.

Samuel was a professional physician, a Freemason, and an orator as well as a painter. He attended the Governor Drummer Academy (now named The Governor's Academy) and then Dartmouth College to study medicine. Samuel Shute also delivered a Fourth of July speech in 1827 for Weare, New Hampshire. He married artist Ruth Whittier in 1827 in Dover, New Hampshire.

Ruth Whittier Shute was born to Sarah Austin and Obadiah Whittier, the eighth of nine children, and was the first cousin of the well known abolitionist and poet John Greenleaf Whittier.

The couple settled in Weare, New Hampshire, and a year later started painting as a couple. They traveled together as nomadic artists to locations such as New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, Vermont, and Rhode Island. Between 1827 and 1831, Samuel and Ruth painted separately, and periodically drew influences and ideas from each other, which led to collaborations between 1830 until 1833.

Portraits
 Together they painted many portraits, some of which are now in notable collections, such as in the American Folk Art Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Ralph Esmerian, a well-known collector and supporter for the American Folk Art Museum, donated several watercolor pieces made by Samuel Addison and Ruth Whittier Shute. The subjects were men, women, and children, primarily workers of local textile mills in Lowell, Massachusetts and New Hampshire due to the influx of textile jobs that were available to locals. The couple would also set up in hotels and offer their services to possible clients and also placed ads in the local newspapers.

Ruth Shute would create the underlying drawing of the subject, while Samuel Shute would then paint the image using either watercolor or oil paint as the medium. Sometimes this would be denoted on the signature that was found on the back of their paintings in order to identify their separate contributions to the work: “Drawn by R. W. Shute/ and/ Painted by S. A. Shute.”.

Many of their portraits depict young working-class women who had migrated from their rural family homes to work in the textile mills that were then a strong part of the industrial economy of New England.

Samuel Addison Shute fell ill around the year 1834, which led the couple to move to Champlain, New York. Ruth Addison Shute decided to start painting on her own, using pastels and oil paint as a primary medium. She also still traveled within New York, setting up in hotels and painting miniature portraits for the locals. When her husband died in 1836, while still in his early 30s, Ruth Whittier Shute later remarried to Alpha Tarbel and moved to Lexington, Kentucky, where she had two daughters and continued to paint for another 45 years until her death in 1882.

Style
The Shutes were known for their particular art style, which included emphasis on the decorative elements of the subject's appearance, which included clothing, hair, and jewelry. Along with watercolor and oil, the couple would use pastels, collage, gouache, and even gold foil. They were also able to capture expressive and emotional facial expressions with these media.

The faces have a great amount of detail when compared against the subject's body and clothing, which was a common theme within the couple's portraits. When the face is rendered this way, it gives the viewer a sense of emotion and feeling from the subject. These details found within the face correlate with the intricacies found within the garments when they contained lace or a decorative print. The shoulders of the female subjects angle downward sharply, elongating the figures. Typical to these portraits, the sleeves of the garments appear oversized and rounded compared to the arms, which could appear thin, especially on a male figure. On many of their male and female figures, the torso is short and the waist can be pinched inward, giving the body an hourglass shape.  The backgrounds of these portraits contain intense strokes of watercolor that contain various mixes of blues, greens, and browns. The women's hair was commonly stylized in brown rolls, simulating pinned curls. On the contrary, the males’ hair was commonly short.

Some subjects can be found sitting, standing, and holding certain objects, relating to the subject in general. For example, a subject could be holding a book, which could represent their intelligence, and decorative elements found on the subject's chair could represent their knowledge and appreciation of current fashion trends and home décor.

See also

References

External links
American Folk Art Museum: works by Samuel Addison Shute and Ruth Whittier Shute
Metropolitan Museum of Art: works by Samuel Addison Shute and Ruth Whittier Shute

Shute
Shute
Shute
Shute
Shute
American women painters
19th-century American male artists
19th-century American women artists
People from Newbury, Massachusetts
Painters from Massachusetts
People from Weare, New Hampshire
Painters from New Hampshire
Dartmouth College alumni
Artists from Lexington, Kentucky
Painters from Kentucky
Shute
Shute
Shute
The Governor's Academy alumni


title: Daniel Burton

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Daniel Paul Burton (born December 4, 1963) is an American bicycle enthusiast from Eagle Mountain, Utah, and the first person to complete an expedition from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole by bicycle (though not the first to cycle to it).

Burton began his expedition, "The South Pole Epic", on December 2, 2013, at Hercules Inlet and arrived at the South Pole on January 21, 2014.

Background
Burton was a computer programmer by trade. Twenty-three years into his career and out of shape in his 40s, Burton went to get his blood checked. His cholesterol levels were poor, his blood pressure was high and he was a bit overweight. He started to mountain bike and in 2008 established a bike shop in Saratoga Springs, Utah, called Epic Biking. He finished the LOTOJA Classic six times and wanted to do more. He decided to set out on his Antarctic ride to inspire people and to encourage donations to the American Diabetes Association. He also wanted to ride in honor of his mother, whose high cholesterol contributed to her death on November 30, 2012.

South Pole
Burton began riding fatbikes, which are fortified bikes with wide tires that are intended for sand, ice and snow. He became interested in Eric Larsen's attempt to travel to the bottom of the world in 2012. Larsen made it a quarter of the way before turning around. Training for a year, Burton set off on his expedition December 2, 2013. He started at Hercules Inlet and rode  on a Borealis Yampa fatbike until he reached the Geographic South Pole.

See also
List of Antarctic cycling expeditions

References

External links
 South Pole Epic Blog
 Official Page, Everyday Epic
 TEDx talk at Hill AFB, 2014
 Story Untold podcast interview, 2019

1963 births
Living people
American explorers
American motivational speakers
Sportspeople from Corvallis, Oregon
Explorers of Antarctica
American male cyclists
People from Eagle Mountain, Utah
People from Saratoga Springs, Utah


title: Charles Lawrence, 2nd Baron Trevethin

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Charles Trevor Lawrence, 2nd Baron Trevethin, DSO, DL, MA (29 May 1879-25 June 1959) was a peer of the British Realm.

He was the eldest surviving son of Alfred Lawrence, 1st Baron Trevethin,a British lawyer and judge who served as Lord Chief Justice of England from 1921 to 1922 ; and the brother of Geoffrey Lawrence, 1st Baron Oaksey, the main British Judge during the Nuremberg trials after World War II, and President of the Judicial group.

He was educated at Haileybury and New College, Oxford. He then served with distinction in the Royal Horse Artillery: during World War I he was Mentioned in despatches three times and awarded the DSO and the Order of St. Anna. He was made a Deputy Lieutenant of Breconshire in 1949.

Arms

References

1879 births
1959 deaths
Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
Royal Artillery officers
Alumni of New College, Oxford
Deputy Lieutenants of Brecknockshire
Recipients of the Order of St. Anna, 2nd class


title: Stokes-Mayfield House

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Stokes-Mayfield House is a historic home located at Rock Hill, South Carolina.  It was built in 1907, and is a two-story, frame residence with cross-gabled slate roof in the Neo-Classical style. The house features a two-story tetrastyle Corinthian order pedimented portico and a balcony with decorative iron brackets above the front door.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Neoclassical architecture in South Carolina
Houses completed in 1907
Buildings and structures in Rock Hill, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Rock Hill, South Carolina
Houses in York County, South Carolina


title: Atlantic Coast Conference baseball awards

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At the end of each regular season, the Atlantic Coast Conference names major award winners in baseball. Currently, it names a Coach, Pitcher, Player, and Freshman of the Year. The Player of the Year award, which dates to 1969, is the oldest. The others– Coach (1981), Freshman (1991), and Pitcher (2005)– were added later.

Through the end of the 2014 season, Clemson has won 19 major awards, the most of any program. Five other schools have won at least ten: Florida State (17), Georgia Tech (16), North Carolina (16), Virginia (13), and NC State (10).

On four occasions, a school has swept all the major awards given out in a season. No team has done so since the fourth award (Pitcher of the Year) was added in 2005. One team (Clemson in 1995) did so between 1991 and 2004, when three awards were given. Three teams did so between 1981 and 1990, when two awards were given: Wake Forest in 1982, NC State in 1984, and Georgia Tech in 1987.

Coach of the Year

The Coach of the Year award was first presented in 1981. It is given annually to the conference's best head coach, as chosen by a vote of the ACC's coaches.

Pitcher of the Year

The Pitcher of the Year award was first presented in 2005. It is given annually to the conference's best pitcher, as chosen by a vote of the ACC's coaches.

Player of the Year

The Player of the Year award was first presented in 1969. It is given annually to the conference's best position player, as chosen by a vote of the ACC's coaches.  From 1969 to 2004, both pitchers and position players were eligible.

Freshman of the Year

The Freshman of the Year award was first presented in 1991. It is given annually to the conference's best freshman pitcher or position player, as chosen by a vote of the ACC's coaches.

References

Atlantic Coast Conference baseball
College baseball conference trophies and awards in the United States


title: Frye-Randolph House and Fryemont Inn

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The Frye-Randolph House and Fryemont Inn are a pair of historic properties on Fryemont Road in Bryson City, North Carolina.  The two buildings occupy a prominent site overlooking the Tuckasegee River and Bryson City, and are well-known local landmarks.  The house is an L-shaped wood-frame structure, whose oldest portion was built c. 1895 by Amos Frye, a prominent local lawyer and landowner.  The inn is a rustic mountain lodge, two stories high, part of which is clad in bark shingles.  It was built by the Fryes in 1923, and is a well-preserved example of a period vacation hotel.

The properties, now under separate ownership, were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.  The inn is still in operation.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Swain County, North Carolina

References

External links
Fryemont Inn website

Hotel buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
Commercial buildings completed in 1895
Buildings and structures in Swain County, North Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Swain County, North Carolina


title: Whitesville, Georgia

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Whitesville is an unincorporated community in Harris County, Georgia, United States.

History
A post office called Whitesville was established in 1837, and remained in operation until 1905. The community was named after the White family of first settlers.

The Georgia General Assembly incorporated Whitesville as a town in 1837. The town's municipal charter was repealed in 1995.

The Whitesville United Methodist Church and Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

Geography
Whitesville is located in the northwestern part of Harris County in west central Georgia, and is served by I-185 and GA-219.

References

External links
 Whitesville Methodist Church Cemetery historical marker
 Whitesville Methodist Episcopal Church historical marker

Former municipalities in Georgia (U.S. state)
Unincorporated communities in Harris County, Georgia
Populated places disestablished in 1995
Unincorporated communities in Georgia (U.S. state)


title: End of the Earth: Voyage to Antarctica

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Creating End of the Earth: Voyage to Antarctica is a 2004 book by Peter Matthiessen published by National Geographic Books.

Content
The book describes two journeys taken by Matthiessen to Antarctica: the first is embarked upon from Tierra del Fuego in South America to the Antarctic Peninsula west of the Weddell Sea and the second is from Tasmania to the Ross Sea. The second journey was, therefore, taken to a position that is almost on the other side of the continent of Antarctica. These two trips were made between 1998 and 2001.

Matthiessen discusses a wide range of topics relating to Antarctica, including the geological and hydrographic forces that historically led to the formation of the  continent in the first place, the history (and environmental politics) of southern whaling, the details of many of its native species, and the vexed question of global warming and its effects on the continent as a whole (and, of course, its longevity). As an example, he discusses the problem of ice coming off the Larsen Ice Shelf as an example of the kind of problems that are currently occurring and may occur with more frequency in the future.

References

2004 books


title: Ebenezer Academy

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Ebenezer Academy is a historic school building located at Rock Hill, South Carolina.  It was built about 1860, and is a one-story, rectangular brick structure of simple design. The school was originally associated with Ebenezer Presbyterian Church until Rock Hill public schools were established about 1888 and was leased to York County for an elementary school.  The school continued until 1950 when it was deeded back to the church. It is the oldest known school building standing in York County.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

References

School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Houses completed in 1860
Buildings and structures in Rock Hill, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Rock Hill, South Carolina


title: Rouguy Diallo

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Rouguy Diallo (; born 5 February 1995) is a French athlete who specialises in the triple jump.

Career
Diallo was born in Nice, and began triple jumping in 2006. She set a new French national junior record at an event in Argentan in 2014, with an attempt of 13.74 m.

Diallo won her first major medal at the 2014 World Junior Championships in Athletics in Eugene, Oregon. She broke her own national junior record twice during the event, landing a 14.24 m jump in her first attempt with a 3.2 m/s headwind. After a foul in the second round, she jumped 14.44 m with help from a 3.3 m/s headwind, an attempt that was enough to win her the gold medal. However, these two attempts were not accepted as national junior records as there was too much headwind when they were made. Her fourth attempt of 14.20 was accepted as a national junior record, and also became the 15th longest attempt of all time in the junior women's triple jump. She became the third French triple jumper to win a world junior title for France after Benjamin Compaoré in 2006 and Teddy Tamgho in 2008.

Personal life
Diallo is mentored by fellow French triple jumper Teddy Tamgho, who is the current triple jump world indoor record holder at 17.92 m. She currently trains at the Nice Côte d'Azur Athlétisme club in Nice.

References

External links

 Rouguy Diallo at FFA

1995 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Nice
French female triple jumpers
French sportspeople of Guinean descent
French Athletics Championships winners
Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes for France
Black French sportspeople


title: Carlos Moreno (producer)

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Carlos Moreno Laguillo (born in Mexico) is a Mexican telenovelas producer.

Filmography

Awards and nominations

Premios TVyNovelas

Premios ACE

Premios People en Español

References

External links

Living people
Mexican telenovela producers
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Mexican television producers


title: Podger spanner

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A podger spanner, or podger, is a tool in the form of a short bar, usually tapered and often incorporating a wrench at one end.

Podgers are used for erecting scaffolding and steel scenery - The pointed end is used to align the bolt holes while the spanner end is used to tighten the nuts.

Variations

Some podgers are fitted with reversible ratchet sockets for tightening/loosening nuts.
Often they come with two sizes such as a 17 mm × 19 mm or a 19 mm × 24 mm and a 27 mm × 30 mm.
Often a podger has a hole in the wrench shaft that is used to tether the wrench to the person for safety and securing the tool whilst working at heights.

References

 BS 2583: "Specification for podger spanners" (1955)

Hand tools
Scaffolding


title: Bosea

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Bosea may refer to:
Bosea (bacterium), a genus of bacteria in the order Hyphomicrobiales
Bosea (plant), a genus of plants in the family Amaranthaceae
Bosea (Loan), in Ghana is the local name for loans


title: Listed buildings in Wistaston

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Wistaston is a civil parish in Cheshire East, England.  It contains four buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as designated listed buildings.   Of these, one is listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade.  The parish is partly residential and partly rural.  The listed buildings consist of three farmhouses and a church.

Key

Buildings

References

Citations

Sources

Listed buildings in the Borough of Cheshire East
Lists of listed buildings in Cheshire


title: 5th General Assembly of Newfoundland

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The members of the 5th General Assembly of Newfoundland were elected in the Newfoundland general election held in 1852. The general assembly sat from 1853 to 1855.

John Kent was chosen as speaker.

Ker Baillie-Hamilton served as civil governor of Newfoundland.

Although Baillie-Hamilton was opposed to any change in the colony's system of government, in March 1854, Philip Francis Little and Robert John Parsons, with the support of Joseph Hume, were able to persuade the secretary of state for the colonies, the Duke of Newcastle, to grant responsible government to the colony.

Later in 1854, the assembly passed a Representation Act to double the number of seats in the assembly; this satisfied one of the conditions set by Newcastle for implementation of responsible government.

Baillie-Hamilton delayed the upcoming general election until May 1855 because he felt that a winter election would be unfair to Protestant voters living in remote areas of the colony.

Members of the Assembly
The following members were elected to the assembly in 1852:

Notes:

By-elections
None

References

Newfoundland
005


title: Time of Our Lives (Chawki song)

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"Time of Our Lives" is a 2014 single by Moroccan singer Chawki (full name Ahmed Chawki) released in time with the launch of the 2014 FIFA World Cup. An Arabic language version retitled "Farhat al 'Aalam" (in Arabic فرحة العالم) was also released for the Arab World. It was produced by RedOne and released on RedOne Records.

Background
The various language song was released in partnership with BeIn Sports, the football (soccer) themed song came almost simultaneously with the immense commercial success of "Magic in the Air" by the Ivory Coast band Magic System featuring Chawki.

The song "Time of Our Lives" is in English language but as the release was targeted mainly for the French-speaking markets where Chawki had already had a previous hit with "Habibi I Love You", the song presented a bilingual refrain: "Allez, Allez, here we go, allez / This is the time of our lives) allez being French for "come on" used throughout the song.

A football and Brazilian Capoeira-themed outdoor partying video was also promoted in time for the opening of the 2014 World Cup.

The song found commercial success reaching number 15 in SNEP the official French official Singles Chart and went on high rotation on French commercial radio giving Chawki two simultaneous hit singles in France's Top 20, "Time of Our Lives" alongside "Magic in the Air" that reached number 3 in French main chart and number 1 in French Club 40 dance chart.

Language versions
A more extensively French language version was offered under the title "Time of Our Lives (Notre Moment)".

An Arabic language version of the song destined for Arab markets was retitled "Farhat al 'Aalam" (in Arabic فرحة العالم meaning the joy of the world), actually a trilingual version in Arabic (main lyrics) and English and French (refrains).

Charts

References

2014 singles
Ahmed Chawki songs
Eurodance songs
French-language songs
Songs in Arabic
Song recordings produced by RedOne
2010 songs
2014 songs
Songs written by RedOne
Songs written by Travon Potts


title: Media in McCook, Nebraska

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McCook, Nebraska is a center of media in southwestern Nebraska.  The following is a list of media outlets in the city.

Print

Newspapers
The McCook Daily Gazette is the city's newspaper, published five days a week.

Radio
The following is a list of radio stations licensed to and/or broadcasting from McCook:

AM

FM

Television
McCook lies within the Lincoln-Hastings-Kearney television market.

The following is a list of television stations that broadcast from and/or are licensed to the city.

References

Mass media in Nebraska


title: Chester Cornett

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Chester Cornett (1913–1981) was an American chair-maker and artisan His work have been the subject of monographic treatment both by regional museums and the University of Kentucky Press.

Cornett's grandfather, Cal Foutch, taught him chairmaking. Cornett worked in many styles: "pegged and slat-backed armchairs, rockers, and folding chairs from a variety of local woods, weaving seats from hickory bark.". The 1981 documentary film Hand Carved by  Appalshop features Cornett's chair-building process. The eight-legged, two-in-one rocker created over the course of the film was loaned by Appalshop to KFAC for its 2014 traveling exhibit.

Cornett's work "Crucifix" is in the collection of the American Folk Art Museum. According to Cornett, he dreamed in 1968 that Eastern Kentucky would experience a biblical flood.  He decided to prepare for it by building an ark.  Cornett built the ark, but it was destroyed in a storm.  What remained was a 20 foot long crucifix that he had carved for the bow.  After moving to Cincinnati, Ohio, Cornett donated the cross to the museum

In 2014, Kentucky Folk Art Center ("KFAC") presented the first comprehensive exhibition of Cornett's work, "Chester Cornett: Beyond The Narrow Sky", complete with an extensive, illustrated catalogue.

References

Jones, Michael Owen. Craftsman of the Cumberlands: Tradition and Creativity. Lexington, KY: Univ. Press of Kentucky, 1989.
Swain, Adrian, Chester Cornett: Beyond The Narrow Sky. Morehead, KY: Kentucky Folk Art Center, 2014.

External links
Beyond the narrow sky
American Folk Art Museum
Kentucky Folk Art Center

1981 deaths
1913 births
American carpenters


title: Tillman Hall

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Tillman Hall, originally known as Main Building, is a historic academic building located on the campus of Winthrop University at Rock Hill, South Carolina, United States.  It was built in 1894, and is a three-story, red brick building in the Richardsonian Romanesque style. The building includes a basement and attic, has a combination gabled and hipped roof configuration, projecting bay windows, and features a conical-roofed clock tower with open belfry. In 1962, Main Building was renamed Tillman Hall for Governor, Democratic U.S. Senator, and avowed white supremacist Benjamin Tillman.  Tillman Hall's Auditorium has hosted concerts by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons in 1970, Jars of Clay in 1997, Florida's metal band Trivium in 2005, Celtic rock band Seven Nations in 2005, Recycled Percussion in 2007, and pop folk pianist Vienna Teng in 2008. The 2008 direct-to-video horror film Asylum was filmed outside of and inside Tillman Hall. The ending of the 1999 horror film Carrie 2 was filmed at Tillman Hall.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

On June 19, 2020, Winthrop University's Board of Trustees passed unanimously a resolution requesting South Carolina state legislators to consider amending the Heritage Act of 2000 to "allow Winthrop to restore Tillman Hall to its original name of Main Building."

References

External links

Winthrop University - Newspaper Notes
Winthrop Farm at Winthrop University

Clock towers in South Carolina
Historic American Buildings Survey in South Carolina
University and college buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Romanesque Revival architecture in South Carolina
School buildings completed in 1894
National Register of Historic Places in York County, South Carolina
Benjamin Tillman


title: All-you-can-eat seats

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All-you-can-eat seats, also called all-inclusive sections, are blocks of seats in a stadium or arena in which seat holders are entitled to unlimited food and drink (typically fast food and junk food including hot dogs, nachos, popcorn, peanuts, soft drinks, and bottled water) before and during a game. Typically located in less desirable areas of the venue, such as the bleachers and upper decks, all-you-can-eat (AYCE) seats are priced approximately 50% higher than seats in the same section, but are viewed by patrons as a bargain considering the high cost of concession food and drinks.

The first AYCE section was introduced at Dodger Stadium in 2007. The trend spread to 19 of the 30 Major League Baseball parks by 2010 and numerous Minor League Baseball parks by 2012. While most common among baseball stadiums, by 2008 AYCE seats were also inaugurated in venues of other sports, including six National Basketball Association and nine National Hockey League arenas, Canadian Football League stadiums, and several NASCAR racetracks. The National Football League remains the only North American major pro sports league where no stadiums have implemented AYCE seats.

Luxury boxes and club seating are typically all-inclusive with unlimited food and drink during the duration of the event; however, they are not referred to as AYCE seats due to their desirable location in the venue and higher ticket price relative to other seating. Furthermore, the menu for luxury box and club seating is higher quality, ranging from buffets to chef-prepared gourmet dishes and fresh produce (as opposed to AYCE which consists mostly of fast food and junk food), and often with servers to cater to these patrons.

History
The Los Angeles Dodgers introduced the first Major League Baseball AYCE section in April 2007 after conducting three pilots during the 2006 season. Soon after, the Atlanta Braves, Baltimore Orioles, Kansas City Royals, and Texas Rangers converted their under-utilized seats to AYCE seats. The concept spread to 13 Major League Baseball parks in 2008 and 19 parks in 2010.

Major League Baseball teams offering all-you-can-eat seats include the Arizona Diamondbacks, Atlanta Braves, Baltimore Orioles, Cincinnati Reds, Detroit Tigers, Houston Astros, Kansas City Royals, Los Angeles Dodgers, Miami Marlins, Minnesota Twins, Pittsburgh Pirates, San Diego Padres, Tampa Bay Rays, Texas Rangers, and Toronto Blue Jays.

Beginning with the 2018 NFL season, the Detroit Lions introduced Club 200. This premium seating option includes all-you-can-eat items such as hot dogs, popcorn, nachos, pretzels, chips, cotton candy, salad and soda. The section in Ford Field also includes two drink tickets and a dedicated giveaway item at each game.

Description

All-you-can-eat seats are typically located in "distant bleacher or upper-deck sections". Seat prices are marked up approximately 50% over the regular price of seats in that section.

The AYCE buffet generally operates from the time the stadium gates open until the beginning or end of the seventh inning.  Some parks put an hourly limit on it – for example, food service is open for two hours after the first pitch at San Diego Padres games and until 9 p.m. at Minnesota Twins games. The basic menu includes traditional ballpark food such as hot dogs, nachos, peanuts, popcorn, and soft drinks. Some ballparks add other options, such as "veggie dogs" at Petco Park, green salad, ice cream, and kosher and veggie dogs (by advance request) at Oriole Park at Camden Yards, and "burgers, salads, peanut butter-filled pretzels and ice cream" at PNC Park.

Some ballparks limit the amount of food an AYCE patron can take on each trip to the buffet. At Dodger Stadium, AYCE patrons are limited to four hot dogs per visit, but can take as many soft drinks and bottles of water as they wish. At Camden Yards, patrons may take up to two of each food item on each visit. A further appeal to AYCE patrons is that the lines move quickly, as no cash transactions are involved.

At Dodger Stadium, AYCE ticket-holders enter and exit through a different gate than other ticket-holders and can access only the AYCE buffet and a set of restrooms. At other ballparks, ticket-holders wear colored wristbands to identify themselves as AYCE patrons. At Camden Yards, AYCE ticket-holders have their hand stamped.

Popularity

All-you-can-eat seats have successfully boosted attendance in ballparks experiencing low turnouts, as well as increased occupancy of stadium sections that were previously under-used. At Dodger Stadium, for example, before 2007 the right-field bleachers were opened only when the left-field bleachers sold out, or for group sales. Following the conversion of the right-field bleachers into an AYCE section of 3,300 seats, occupancy zoomed to 85%. The Arizona Diamondbacks boosted ticket sales by 70% when it created a left-field AYCE section in 2009, while the Houston Astros averaged 95% capacity in its AYCE section.

From the patrons' point of view, AYCE seats are viewed as a bargain considering the added cost of ballpark food. After a few orders of hot dogs, nachos, and soft drinks, the AYCE seat pays for itself. The Atlanta Braves estimated that a typical AYCE patron in 2007 consumed 3.35 hot dogs, 20 ounces of soda, 7.9 ounces of peanuts; 3 ounces of nachos; and 32 ounces of popcorn. AYCE seats have been described as a way to indulge in junk food "with baseball as a nominal backdrop", an opportunity to eat a cheap dinner with a baseball game thrown in, and a way to feed a family on a budget. AYCE patrons have been known to engage in eating contests and to sneak food home with them.

References

Further reading
"An MLB guide to all you can eat" ESPN, May 18, 2011
"Where the empty calories just keep on coming" The Washington Post, May 1, 2012

External links

"An Open Letter to Bud Selig Regarding MLB's 'All-You-Can-Eat' Tickets" from Ralph Nader and Ken Reed (2013)

Major League Baseball venues
Serving and dining


title: Big 12 Conference baseball awards

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At the end of each regular season, the Big 12 Conference names major award winners in baseball. Currently, it names a Coach, Pitcher, Player, Freshman, and Newcomer of the Year. With the exception of the Pitcher of the Year award, first given out in 2001, the awards date to the 1997 season, the conference's first.

Through the end of the 2014 season, Texas has won 25 major awards, the most of any program. Two other schools have won at least ten: Nebraska (16) and Texas A&M (14).

Texas Tech is the only program to sweep all the awards in a single season. In 1997, it won all four awards presented.

Coach of the Year

Pitcher of the Year

Player of the Year

The Player of the Year award is given to the conference's best position player. From 1997 to 2000, before the Pitcher of the Year award came into being, both pitcher and position players were eligible for it.

Freshman of the Year

The Freshman of the Year award is given to the conference's best first-year player. From 2000 to 2002 and 2004 to 2005, it was split in the Freshman Player of the Year and Freshman Pitcher of the Year.

Newcomer of the Year

The Newcomer of the Year award is given to the conference's best transfer player. In 2000 and 2001, it was split into the Newcomer Player of the Year and Newcomer Pitcher of the Year.

References

Big 12 Conference baseball
College baseball conference trophies and awards in the United States


title: Ted Williams (equestrian)

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Edward F Williams (1912–1993) was one of the leading British show jumping riders in the 1950s and 1960s, especially with his horse Pegasus.

Equestrian
In 1957, he won the Airedale Stakes, riding an Australian mare named Dumbbell, owned by Nora Oawthraw, at Odsal Stadium, Bradford. In a single trip to the United States and Canada in the same year, he won all three major Grand Prix (Harrisburg, Toronto and New York) and jumped 27 clear rounds.

Other interests
He appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 23 January 1961.

Williams was mentioned in the House of Commons, on 28 February 1969, in a debate on Sunday trading.

Greyhound racing
After retiring from show jumping he took out a greyhound trainer's licence under the rules of the National Greyhound Racing Club. He won the 1975 BBC Television Trophy with Lizzies Girl, at (Monmore).

References

External links
  Queen At Horse Of The Year Show At Haringey 1957 - British-Pathé newsreel including Queen Elizabeth II presenting a trophy to Williams.
 Ted Williams on Pegasus - 1963 photograph
 Memorial page

Place of birth missing
Place of death missing
British show jumping riders
1912 births
1993 deaths
British greyhound racing trainers
British male equestrians


title: General Register House

text:
General Register House is an Adam style neoclassical building on Princes Street, Edinburgh, purpose built by Robert Adam between 1774 and 1788 as the headquarters of the National Archives of Scotland. It is a Category A listed building.

The premises is the official office of both the Lord Clerk Register, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal and Lord Lyon King of Arms.

Background

Scottish records of importance were previously held in Edinburgh Castle but James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton in his capacity as Lord Clerk Register proposed a new building in the newly proposed New Town of Edinburgh around 1760. He got the government to allot £12,000 from forfeited estates of the Jacobites and investing this the sum plus interest proved enough to commence the project and Robert Adam was commissioned to design this major work in 1765. The foundation stone was laid on 27 June 1774 by Lord Frederick Campbell, Lord Register of Scotland. Thomas Miller of Barskimming, the Lord Justice Clerk, and James Montgomery, the Lord Advocate were his co-trustees in ensuring the progress of the project. The site architect was Robert's brother John Adam and James Salisbury was the Clerk of Works. The master masons in charge of the construction were John Wilson and David Henderson, using stone from Craigleith and Hailes. The clock and weather vane were built by Benjamin Vulliamy.

By 1803 the building was incomplete but was already concluded as inadequate in scale. In 1813 Archibald Elliot redesigned the front to conceal a new basement area, not in the original design. In 1822 Robert Reid was commissioned to redesign the north section to be more commodious and this section was eventually completed in 1834, sixty years after the project began.

Architecture
The building is a quadrangle in shape, built in ashlar of polished cream-coloured sandstone, with two storeys and a raised basement. The ground floor, and both storeys of the pavilions, are arcaded with timber-framed sash windows of twelve panes and decorated with a base course and an impost course. On the first floor storey is a cill course, a cornice, and a blocking course. The corners and the centre of each of the sides has a projecting taller pavilion consisting of one bay, with one window on each storey, with those at the building's corner topped with a square base supporting a cupola and freestanding columns at each angle. The corner towers at the front carry a weather vane and a clock; while the corresponding openings on the towers at the rear are blind. In the central courtyard is a circular reading room under a dome.

The front elevation consists of thirteen architectural bays, of which the outermost one at each end, ornamented by a balustrade, comprise the advanced pavilions at the corners. Each of the corner pavilions has on the upper storey a single Venetian window with Ionic columns in a recessed round arch and framed by Corinthian columns. The other windows on the upper storey are decorated with architraves and cornices, while those three that are above the central portico have balustrades and consoled cornices. Beneath the upper and lower storeys, the building is of rusticated ashlar to the ground level. The entrance, in the centre of the front, is approached by an imperial staircase and framed by a tetrastyle portico of the Corinthian order. Decorative panels in Liardet's stucco with festoon motifs decorate the wall above the portico, while the royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom decorates the pediment.

At the rear of the original building, the portico's place in the centre is taken by a five-bay centrepiece, with arcaded windows on the lower storey and corniced and pedimented windows alternating on the upper floor. The roof is of slate and of piended contraction, though the roof of the central dome is of lead. Inside, the dome was plastered by Thomas Clayton to neoclassical designs by Adam made in 1785. Robert Reid designed the metal gates that enter the rotunda under the dome. There are staircases in the east and west ends of the building, each now fitted with a lift shaft. The Lord Clerk Register's room is behind the entrance portico, adorned with a frieze and a chimneypiece in grey marble. Beyond the rotunda is "Historical Search Room", previously the "Antiquarian Room", a two-storey timber-galleried room of bookcases with a coffered ceiling with rosettes.

Wellington Statue

The highly emotive statue of the Duke of Wellington, mounted on a rearing horse, and pointing with significance to Waterloo Place to the east, was erected in 1852, designed by Sir John Steell. Surviving Scottish soldiers who had fought at the Battle of Waterloo were invited to the unveiling ceremony.

Restoration
In 1969, the stonework was cleaned by abrasive blasting. The plasterwork in the dome was repainted in 1973–4. The entrance hall was restored and adapted in 1993, and a new chimneypiece installed. In 2008 the statue of George III by Anne Seymour Damer was restored, and the dome salon was repainted following research by Historic Environment Scotland according to the original 1790 paint scheme of stone colour and white.

References

Historic buildings and structures in Scotland
Buildings and structures in Scotland


Afro-American Insurance Company Building is a historic commercial building located at Rock Hill, South Carolina.  It was built about 1909, and is a two-story, brick commercial building. The façade has a tan brick veneer, while the sides and rear are in red brick. It is an important surviving example of a commercial building related to the African-American community of the early-20th century.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

References

African-American history of South Carolina
Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Commercial buildings completed in 1909
Buildings and structures in Rock Hill, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Rock Hill, South Carolina


title: People's National Bank Building (Rock Hill, South Carolina)

text:
People's National Bank Building, also known as Franklin's Clothing Store, is a historic bank building located at Rock Hill, South Carolina. It was built about 1909–1910, and is a four-story brick building, plus basement. It was the first building in the city constructed as a speculative office building, the first with a passenger elevator, and the tallest commercial building in Rock Hill. The People's National Bank merged with Citizens and Southern National Bank of South Carolina in 1964 and moved out of the building in 1972.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

References

Bank buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Commercial buildings completed in 1910
Buildings and structures in Rock Hill, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Rock Hill, South Carolina


title: Frau Antje

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Frau Antje is a Dutch character used in the advertising of cheese (and other dairy products). "Frau" is German for "Ms.", and "Antje" is a first name that is as acceptable in German as it is in Dutch: the character was created specifically for the advertising the export of Dutch cheese to Germany.

Frau Antje was born during the 1959 edition of the Berlin International Green Week, a trade fair for agriculture and nutrition. Apparently, a young Dutch woman from The Hague named Antje was working the booth of the Dutch Dairy Organization (NZB), serving cheese; when she fell ill and her colleagues kept being asked "where Frau Antje was", the chief of the NZB decided there was commercial potential in the idea. He hired Kitty Janssen to be the first Frau Antje (1961), dressed in a supposedly traditional Dutch costume and wearing wooden shoes.

Frau Antje's costume, which was designed specifically for her, does not represent any specific traditional Dutch costume, though the "wings" on the headdress are reminiscent of the traditional costume of Volendam: since Volendam is a well-known tourist destination, it can be said to represent "Dutchness" pars pro toto. The name Antje was chosen (or retained) since it appears to Germans as a typically Dutch name, and is indeed common in the three northernmost Dutch provinces.

Frau Antje's image
Early in her career, Frau Antje resembled an exemplary housewife or even a home economics teacher. From an authoritative position she addressed herself to housewives, and the world portrayed in those advertisements was typical of the post-World War II period, whose values were cleanness, sobriety, propriety, with the family at the center. In the mid-1960s she became a more coquettish figure, even enticing the viewer into her bedroom (while she's holding a cheese, of course). Of more importance in the ads of the 1970s and 1980s was the stereotypical portrayal of the Dutch landscape, with green meadows, blue canals, and black and white cows; it is in this landscape that Antje presents the viewer with a table full of cheese. Antje returns to the kitchen in the mid-1980s, but this time, unlike in the 1960s, she is an emancipated, private person, no longer a traditional teacher, in an attempt to appeal to a more fragmented audience living a multitude of lifestyles. In the second half of the 1990s, Antje, now an independent and self-assured cheese expert, was even more emancipated, and while still dressed in her traditional garb she dances to techno music. Finally, after 2003, she is turned into a kind of fairy character, and rather than work in her own (Dutch) environment, she is inserted into German household situations where she advises families in their hypermodern kitchens, emphasizing the chronological distance between those interiors and her own old-fashioned clothing.

Frau Antjes
Kitty Janssen (1961–1963)
Emilie Bouwman (1963–)
Ellen Soeters (from 1973)
Emilie Bouwman
Madeleen Driessen
Jeannette van Enst
Floor Schothorst (2012-)

References

Notes

Bibliography

Fictional Dutch people
Mascots introduced in 1961
Food advertising characters
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Santa Maria ad Ogni Bene dei Sette Dolori, also known as Santa Maria de Sette Dolori, is a Roman Catholic church in Naples, Italy. It stands on a hill, providing an excellent view of Spaccanapoli, a Decumanus of Naples which ends across via Francesco Girardi. From the door of the church, one has a direct view across Naples through the straight decumanus. The church also faces the former convent of Santissima Trinità delle Monache.

History
In 1411, a shrine with a statue of the Virgin was converted by the locals into a chapel called Santa Maria d'Ognibene (Holy Mary of all gifts). After the plague of 1516, the chapel and statue became a convent and church run by the Servite Order. In 1597, the cardinal Alfonso Carafa made this into a parish church, which was then briefly attached to the Congregation of Pii Operari, which had been started by Carlo Carafa. It was retransferred to the Servites, and remained so till 1809, till the monks were expelled. When they left, they took with them the statue of the Addolorata.

The church and the Servite order were attached to a form of Marian devotion centered around the sette dolori, which roughly translates to the seven sorrows, of  the Maria Addolorata (Our Lady of Sorrows).
These sorrows are roughly identified from scriptural interpretations.

When the cholera struck Naples in 1836, the parish retrieved the statue and  in 1837 placed it on the main altar. The church in 1849  was named a minor basilica by Pope Pius IX.

The church we see now was mainly built starting 1640, by designs of Giovanni Cola Cocco. Other sources attribute the work to Nicola Tagliacozzi Canale. A number of artworks are associated with the church. The first chapel on right had a Christ heals the lame San Pellegrino Laziosi by Paolo de Matteis, with two lateral paintings by Carlo, the son of Nicola Malinconico. In the fourth chapel is a canvas depicting St Sebastian by Mattia Preti, and a St Jerome by followers of Ribera. In the first chapel to the left was a Baptism attributed to Silvestro Buono and in the 5th chapel, the Francesco di Paola has been attributed to Marco Cardisco. The famous sculptor and architect Cosimo Fanzago is buried in this church. The repertoire of paintings in the church now differs in many regards from the catalogue of Galante.

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Roman Catholic churches in Naples
Baroque architecture in Naples
17th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy


title: Stephen March

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Stephen March (died June 2, 1880) was a merchant and politician in Newfoundland. He served in the Newfoundland House of Assembly from 1852 to 1869.

The son of William March, he was born in Old Perlican and went into business there as a supplier to the local fishery. March was opposed to confederation with Canada and he was defeated as an anti-Confederate candidate in 1869. He retired to Torquay, England, where he died in 1880.

The business that he established, S. March & Sons, continued under the ownership of his sons Stephen and Nathaniel.

In 1854, he published The present condition of Newfoundland : with suggestions for improving its industrial and commercial resources.

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Members of the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly
1880 deaths
Year of birth uncertain
Newfoundland Colony people


title: Erraid Davies

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Erraid Davies (born 9 February 2001 in Dundee, Scotland) is a Scottish swimmer from Skeld in Shetland. In 2014 at the age of 13 she became the youngest person to compete for Scotland in the Commonwealth Games and achieved a bronze medal in the SB9 category for 100m breaststroke. Her parents are Joyce and David Davies, and she has two older sisters.

Disability
Davies was diagnosed with Perthes disease, a hip problem, at the age of four and was in a wheelchair for another four years.

Swimming
Since being diagnosed and advised not to do any weight-bearing exercise she took up swimming so she could stay fit. She swam her first mile before the age of six.

Davies is a member of the Delting Dolphins swimming club based in Brae, which claims to be "the most northerly active swimming club in the UK". Davies trains in the afternoons and evenings in a 16.66m pool, which is a third of the length of the Olympic-sized pool in which she won her bronze medal. In June 2016 Davies was notified that she was no longer eligible to perform as a Para-sport swimmer as her impairment was now not serious enough.

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2001 births
Living people
Swimmers at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Scotland
Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming
Scottish female swimmers
Sportspeople from Dundee
Sportspeople from Scottish islands
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title: Big Ten Conference baseball awards

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At the end of each regular season, the Big Ten Conference names major award winners in baseball. Currently, it names a Coach, Pitcher, Player, and Freshman of the Year. The Player of the Year award, which dates to 1982, is the oldest. Coach and Freshman of the Year were added in 1988, and Pitcher of the Year was added in 1993.

Through the end of the 2014 season, Ohio State has won 28 major awards, the most of any program. Four other schools have won at least ten: Minnesota (18), Illinois (15), Michigan (15), and Indiana (12).

Coach of the Year

The Coach of the Year award is given annually to the Big Ten's best head coach, as chosen by a vote of the conference's coaches. It was first presented in 1988.

Pitcher of the Year

The Pitcher of the Year award is given annually to the Big Ten's best pitcher, as chosen by a vote of the conference's coaches. It was first presented in 1993.

Player of the Year

The Player of the Year award is given annually to the Big Ten's best position player, as chosen by a vote of the conference's coaches. It was first presented in 1982. From 1982 to 1992, both pitchers and position players were eligible for it.

Freshman of the Year

The Freshman of the Year award is given annually to the Big Ten's best freshman, as chosen by a vote of the conference's coaches. It was first presented in 1988. Both pitchers and position players are eligible.

References

Big Ten Conference baseball
College baseball conference trophies and awards in the United States


title: Lexington Hotel (New York City)

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The Lexington Hotel, Autograph Collection is a hotel at 509 Lexington Avenue, at the southeast corner with 48th Street, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. The 27-story hotel was designed by Schultze & Weaver in the Romanesque Revival style and contains 725 rooms. The Lexington, one of several large hotels developed around Grand Central Terminal as part of Terminal City, is a New York City designated landmark.

The hotel building contains a facade of brick, limestone, and architectural terracotta. It contains light courts facing north and west, as well as setbacks to comply with the 1916 Zoning Resolution. The limestone base is two to three stories high and contains storefronts, a main entrance on 48th Street, and an archway on Lexington Avenue. The upper stories are generally clad with plain brick and contain random projecting groups of bricks; there is a narrow tower at the top of the building. The basement contains a restaurant space that formerly housed event venues, including the Hawaiian Room. When the hotel opened, it had 814 guestrooms, though this has been reduced over the years.

The Lexington opened on October 15, 1929, and was originally operated by the Hotel Lexington Corporation, led by J. Leslie Kincaid. The hotel went into foreclosure in 1932, and Ralph Hitz's National Hotel Management Company operated the hotel until 1937, when Hotel Lexington Inc. took over. Lawrence Wien bought the hotel in 1954 and leased it to a syndicate led by Saul Hertzig. Indian conglomerate Tata Group acquired the Lexington in 1981 and operated it for several years. The hotel became the Radisson Hotel New York-East Side in 1999 after becoming a franchise of Radisson Hotels. DiamondRock Hospitality acquired the hotel in 2011, and the Lexington left the Radisson chain and became part of Marriott's Autograph Collection. Since 2021, a joint venture between MCR Hotels, Three Wall Capital, and Island Capital Group has owned the Lexington.

Site
The Lexington Hotel is at 509 Lexington Avenue, at the southeast corner with 48th Street, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. It sits on the western portion of a city block bounded by Lexington Avenue to the west, 48th Street to the north, Third Avenue to the east, and 47th Street to the south. The hotel occupies a rectangular land lot with an area of . The site has a frontage of  on Lexington Avenue and  on 48th Street.

The building is across from 245 Park Avenue to the southwest, 277 Park Avenue to the west, the InterContinental New York Barclay Hotel and 299 Park Avenue to the northwest, and the New York Marriott East Side to the north. The Lexington was part of "Hotel Row", a collection of hotels developed along Lexington Avenue in the early 20th century. Prior to the development of the Hotel Lexington, the site had been occupied by a brick "elevator building". The surrounding section of Lexington Avenue from 42nd to 52nd Street did not experience significant development until the late 19th century, when row houses and tenements, made of brick and brownstone, were developed in the area.

Architecture
The original architect was Schultze & Weaver, whose first major commission had been the Millennium Biltmore in Los Angeles. The hotel was designed in the Romanesque Revival style, with a facade of brick, limestone, and architectural terracotta. The hotel building contains setbacks to comply with the 1916 Zoning Resolution. It is variously cited as being 25, 27, or 30 stories high. This discrepancy is based on whether the towers atop the building, which have pyramidal roofs, are counted.

Facade
The building's base is clad with limestone and ranges from two to three stories high. The rest of the facade is clad with red brick; at arbitrary intervals, there are projecting bricks which are laid on their header faces. In addition, there are light courts on the north and west elevations above the 2nd floor, and there are windows with brick spandrels above the 5th floor.

Base
The center of the Lexington Avenue facade contains a round arch, which was originally an entrance but has since been converted to a storefront. The arch is flanked by black-marble piers, and there is an overhanging marquee and a semicircular glass window directly above the entrance. On the second floor, the archway is flanked by windows with engaged columns on either side, which in turn are topped by tympana. In addition, the facade contains sculptural details such as griffins, rosettes, and six sculpted figures (two sitting, four standing) that signify the seasons. The third floor contains two arcaded windows, both of which are flanked by columns that contain winged lions at their bases and human faces at their capitals. On either side of the black-marble piers are large windows, which originally contained doorways. Next to these windows are angled piers, which contain depictions of eagles with shields at their capitals. A pair of flagpoles projects from these piers; the bases of the flagpoles are shaped like eagles.

To the north and south of the Lexington Avenue archway are two-story wings, which are divided into multiple bays by angled piers. Each of those wings contains a storefront at ground level. The tops of these piers contain Corinthian capitals, above which are engaged columns with winged lions atop them. Above the second-story windows of both wings are tympana, followed by a frieze with alternating rosettes and griffins. The 48th Street facade is similar in design to that on Lexington Avenue, except that some of the windows have been infilled and replaced with ventilation grates. The easternmost bay of the 48th Street entrance is recessed from the rest of the facade and contains a round arch with a service entrance. Directly above the service entrance, the second floor contains a pair of round-arched windows within a stone frame.

The center of the 48th Street elevation contains the main entrance, which is three bays wide and is shielded by a projecting marquee with the hotel's name. Each bay is separated by a geometric pier, ornamented with a gilded capital at the first story and a stone lion above the second story. A small set of steps leads up to a recessed foyer, and there is also a wheelchair ramp. Above the entrance, there is a railing at the third story, behind which is a light court.

Upper stories
The upper stories are generally clad with plain brick and contain random projecting groups of bricks. The spandrels, between the windows on each story, contain geometric motifs. The windows, parapets, and the side walls adjacent to the parapets are decorated in terracotta. Some of the bricks, windows, and terracotta detailing have been replaced over the years. In the easternmost bay on 48th Street, the third-floor windows have stone frames, while the fourth-floor windows have stone sills.

The 21st-story windows consist of round arches, although the transom windows on this story (at the top of each arch) have been infilled. There are bird-shaped finials above the 21st-story spandrels and lintels. A narrow tower, with round arches and a pyramidal roof, rises above the Lexington Avenue facade on the 21st story. In addition, the southern wing on Lexington Avenue has a mansard roof and a chimney. There are an additional chimney and tower on 48th Street.

Features

Public rooms
Unlike in older hotels, the Lexington's ground level originally had retail space instead of meeting areas. The basement of the hotel initially contained a dining room known as the Silver Grill, which opened in 1932 and was converted into the Hawaiian Room in 1937. Jac Lessman redesigned the Hawaiian Room with a wall mural painted by Carl Koeck, a blue ceiling, and palm-tree decorations. According to The Wall Street Journal, the restaurant was described as having the "best Polynesian cuisine east of the Pacific". By 2012, the hotel had three restaurants: a Latin-American cafe named Taina Café, a gourmet Chinese restaurant named S. Dynasty, and a casual eatery called Raffles. The lobby contained a reception desk with an illuminated clock behind it.

The modern design of the Lexington's public rooms dates to a 2016 renovation by architectural firm dash design, which converted the S. Dynasty space into a  meeting space. The ground level contains a pair of Art Deco-style meeting rooms known as the Speakeasy and the Interlude, which can collectively fit 120 people. The rooms are designed with neutral colors and purple hues, as well as artwork by Mao Kudo and Rose Dickson. The spaces are accessed from a pre-function space called the Swing Room, which adjoins a small niche for meetings. The hotel also contains a two-story lobby with furnishings and art from the early 20th century, as well as a bar called the Mixing Room.

Guestrooms
The hotel originally had 801 guestrooms. Following a renovation in 2001, the hotel had 522 regular rooms, 101 deluxe rooms, and 82 suites. By 2012, the hotel had 712 rooms. At that time, the guestrooms were redecorated in a Jazz Age-inspired style with Art Deco patterns and furniture. One of the 18th-floor suites, formerly occupied by baseball player Joe DiMaggio and his actress wife Marilyn Monroe, is themed to baseball and contains a living room, a kitchen, a bedroom, two bathrooms, and a terrace. , MCR Hotels operates the Lexington as a 725-room hotel.

History
In the 19th century, New York Central Railroad lines north of Grand Central Depot in Midtown Manhattan were served exclusively by steam locomotives, and the rising traffic soon caused accumulations of smoke and soot in the Park Avenue Tunnel, the only approach to the depot. After a fatal crash in 1902, the New York state legislature passed a law to ban all steam trains in Manhattan by 1908. The New York Central's vice president William J. Wilgus proposed electrifying the line and building a new electric-train terminal underground, a plan that was implemented almost in its entirety. The old Grand Central Depot was torn down in phases and replaced by the current Grand Central Terminal. Construction on Grand Central Terminal started in 1903, and the new terminal was opened on February 2, 1913. Passenger traffic on the commuter lines into Grand Central more than doubled in the years following the terminal's completion.

The terminal spurred development in the surrounding area, particularly in Terminal City, a commercial and office district created above where the tracks were covered. Terminal City soon became Manhattan's most desirable commercial and office district. A 1920 New York Times article said, "With its hotels, office buildings, apartments and underground Streets it not only is a wonderful railroad terminal, but also a great civic centre." The Lexington was one of several hotels developed in Terminal City, along with other hostelries such as the Barclay, Commodore, Roosevelt, and Biltmore.

Development and early years
Tishman Realty & Construction had purchased the site at the southeast corner of Lexington Avenue and 48th Street, then quickly resold it to the Lexington Hotel Corporation, in the late 1920s. General J. Leslie Kincaid, the president of the American Hotel Corporation (parent company of the Lexington Hotel Corporation), announced in May 1928 that he would begin demolishing existing structures on the site and construct a hotel at a cost of $6.5 million. S. W. Straus & Co. placed a $4.5 million mortgage loan on the hotel that month. At the time, many hotels, commercial structures, and office buildings were being developed on Lexington Avenue north of 42nd Street. Schultze and Weaver were hired as the architects, while Turner Construction was the general contractor. Several workers received craftsmanship awards at a ceremony in August 1929. The Hotel Lexington opened on October 15, 1929, one of several hotels to be built in Midtown Manhattan during the 1920s. From the outset, customers were banned from tipping the waitstaff at the hotel's bar and restaurant; instead, a 10 percent gratuity was applied to all guests. The Lexington was one of 33 hotels in the American Hotel Corporation chain.

The restaurant space in the basement was initially unoccupied until 1932, when the Silver Grill opened there. Because the Lexington had opened at the beginning of the Great Depression, its business suffered, and the hotel defaulted on both its $3.9 million first mortgage and $600,000 second mortgage. The National Hotel Management Company, operated by the New Yorker Hotel's manager Ralph Hitz, acquired the Lexington Hotel in March 1932. Reliance Property Management, headed by Frank W. Kriedel, was placed in charge of the Lexington's day-to-day operations. Shortly thereafter, as part of a foreclosure proceeding against the Lexington Hotel Corporation, a federal judge appointed Robert P. Patterson of Irving Trust as the hotel's receiver, and two groups were created to represent the hotel's bondholders. In August 1934, a group of bondholders asked the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York to reorganize the Lexington Hotel Corporation; the corporation was reorganized the next year.

The hotel's Silver Grill was one of the most popular entertainment venues in a New York City hotel by the mid-1930s, offering live music during lunch and dinner. The Silver Grill was renovated into the Hawaiian Room in mid-1937. The National Hotel Management Company stopped operating the Lexington in July 1937 because it wanted to focus on managing the nearby Hotel Montclair. John M. Stoddard, who had been elected as Hotel Lexington Inc.'s president, appointed Charles E. Rochester as the new manager. Within a month, hotel officials began planning an outdoor cafe, and they opened the Paul Revere Tavern at the hotel in October 1937. The Hawaiian Room was extremely popular upon its opening, and it remained so in the early 1940s. Although Rochester became the president of Hotel Lexington Inc. in 1946, he continued to manage the Lexington.

1950s to 1970s
Louis Schleiffer acquired the hotel at the end of December 1954. As part of the agreement, Rochester was to continue operating the hotel, and general manager George W. Miller remained in his position. At the time, the hotel contained 801 rooms and was assessed at $3.75 million. The shareholders of Hotel Lexington Inc. approved the sale in early February 1955; Schleiffer would buy 83 percent of the corporation's 91,110 outstanding shares of common stock for $5.25 million. Before Schleiffer could finalize his purchase, real-estate investor Lawrence Wien agreed to buy Schleiffer's contract for the hotel. Wien planned to take title to the hotel on May 2, 1955, he planned to lease it to a syndicate led by Saul Hertzig. In turn, Hertzig planned to spend $250,000 renovating the guestrooms. After Wien took title that May, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance placed a $3.25 million first mortgage on the hotel. Rochester resigned from his position as the hotel's manager that July.

Hotel Lexington Associates, which owned the hotel, announced in 1963 that it would replace the hotel's manually-operated elevators with automatic cabs. To fund this renovation, the owner received a $140,000 mortgage loan on the property. After the Hawaiian Room's business declined sharply during the 1966 New York City transit strike, the room was closed temporarily, and the room was permanently shuttered after a fire the same year. The Chateau Madrid club moved into the Hawaiian Room's space in late 1968; the space could accommodate either 600 or 700 guests. Charles Hertzig served as the hotel's director until he died in 1968. By the 1970s, community college students were trying to encourage business at the Lexington Hotel. The Chateau Madrid was sold in 1974 but continued to operate at the hotel into the late 1970s.

1980s to 2000s

Indian conglomerate Tata Group acquired the Lexington in September 1981, and the Taj Hotels chain began managing the hostelry. During this time, the Lexington operated as a mid-priced hotel. The base of the hotel, which had been altered several times throughout its history, was rebuilt in the 1980s; the rebuilt base resembled the original design. The New York Playboy Club relocated to the Chateau Madrid's former space in 1983, but the club was only housed at the hotel for a short time. The hotel rebranded eight of its floors as the Lexington Towers in 1990, including the 23rd floor, which contained non-smoking rooms. The Lexington Towers also contained a private lounge with a bar, as well as mini-fridges and turndown service in each room.

In December 1999, Radisson Hotels announced that the hotel would operate as a Radisson franchise and would be renamed the Radisson Hotel New York-East Side. Highgate Oxford Hospitality took over the hotel's operation. Lexington Hotel LLC (a joint venture between the Blackstone Group, Goldman Sachs, Whitehall Street Real Estate, and Oxford Capital Partners) owned the hotel, while Highgate Hotels operated the hostelry. The retail space was rented to tenants such as Starbucks. Following the September 11 attacks in 2001, some of the hotel's space was offered to companies that had been displaced from the World Trade Center. The Lexington underwent a $518 million renovation, which was finished in 2001; several rooms were further renovated in 2004. MeriStar Hospitality bought a 49.99 percent stake in the hotel for $50 million in 2004. The hotel was renovated in 2006 for $20 million. LaSalle Bank placed a $100 million mortgage loan on the building in 2007.

2010s to present
In May 2011, DiamondRock Hospitality agreed to pay $335 million for the Radisson Lexington, making a 10 percent down payment. At the time, the new owner planned to sign a short-term agreement with Radisson. DiamondRock obtained a $170.4 million syndicated loan from a consortium of banks in March 2012. The hotel left the Radisson chain in September 2012, becoming an independent hotel known as The Lexington New York City. The Lexington was added to Marriott's "Autograph Collection" brand in mid-2013. Highgate simultaneously announced that it would spend several million dollars renovating the hotel, and the Lexington was renovated at a cost of $46 million. The project, completed in 2016, involved restoring architectural elements including the original brass elevator doors with songbird motifs.

The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) hosted public hearings in 2013 to determine whether the Lexington Hotel and four other structures in East Midtown should be designated as New York City landmarks. In mid-2016, the LPC proposed protecting twelve buildings in East Midtown, including the Lexington Hotel, in advance of proposed changes to the area's zoning. On November 22, 2016, the LPC designated the Lexington Hotel and ten other nearby buildings as city landmarks.

The hotel closed temporarily in early 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City. Hotel operator MCR, along with Three Wall Capital and Andrew Farkas's firm Island Capital Group, acquired the hotel in July 2021 for $185 million. The sale occurred amid a decline in tourism due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Farkas had planned to reopen the hotel shortly afterward; prior to his purchase, the hotel had been closed since early 2020 due to the pandemic.

Notable tenants
When the Lexington opened, some of the space on the southwest corner of the mezzanine was leased by the Sons of the American Revolution. The Hotel Lexington was home to many celebrities, including baseball player Joe DiMaggio, who resided at suite 1806; actress Marilyn Monroe, who lived with DiMaggio during their marriage; and actress Dorothy Lamour, who stayed at the hotel every time she visited the city. Later in the Lexington's history, its guests included U.S. President Bill Clinton, tennis player Roger Federer, and singer-actresses Patti LaBelle and Jennifer Lopez.

The hotel's Silver Grill hosted performances by Artie Shaw's band, which The New York Times described as "an ill-fated attempt to build a swing band around a jazz quartet". During the Hawaiian Room's existence, the room hosted numerous Hawaiian musicians such as Alfred Apaka, Kui Lee, Emma Veary, Mahi Beamer, and Hilo Hattie, as well as bands led by Andy Iona, Ray Kinney, and Lani McIntyre. In addition, entertainer Arthur Godfrey broadcast his radio show live from the Hawaiian Room.

Critical reception
When the Lexington was completed, trade publications such as Architect, The American Architect, Architectural Forum, and Architecture and Building reported on the hotel. When Leonard B. Schultze of Schultze & Weaver applied for membership in the American Institute of Architects in 1929, he listed the then-recently-completed Lexington as one of twelve buildings in the U.S. that he designed. In a book published in 1932, W. Parker Chase wrote of the Lexington: "They term it 'The Hotel with a Heart' as everybody connected with the place from Bell Boy to President seems to have been drilled in the art of courtesy and a desire to please." George Shepard Chappell, writing in The New Yorker under the pseudonym "T-Square", said the Lexington was "a romantic addition" to the avenue with which it shared a name. The hotel was also shown in the 2005 book Grand Hotels of the Jazz Age: The Architecture of Schultze & Weaver.

In 1996, a writer for the New York Daily News described the Lexington as being "ideal for business travelers who need the prestige of a name-brand midtown hotel", saying that it was "decorated in a subdued traditional style, with plenty of lobby room to meet friends or business associates". Christopher Gray wrote for The New York Times in 2009 that the hotel's Lexington Avenue entrance was a "Frappuccino gauntlet" because there was a Starbucks on both sides, but that the flagpoles were a "disrespectful, throwaway cast. Better not to fly the flag at all."

See also
List of New York City Designated Landmarks in Manhattan from 14th to 59th Streets
List of hotels in New York City

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1929 establishments in New York City
Autograph Collection Hotels
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title: Rock Hill Body Company

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Rock Hill Body Company, originally known as Victoria Yarn Mill # 2, is a historic industrial building located at Rock Hill, South Carolina.  It was built about 1915, and is a two-story brick industrial building built as a textile mill. Later modifications include a one-story office addition and an elevator tower addition on the rear. It was the home of the Rock Hill Body Company, one of the earliest makers of truck bodies and school bus bodies in South Carolina, from 1938 to 1986.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

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Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Industrial buildings completed in 1915
Buildings and structures in Rock Hill, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Rock Hill, South Carolina
Textile mills in the United States
Coachbuilders of the United States
Motor vehicle manufacturing plants on the National Register of Historic Places
Transportation buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina


title: TW Pictoris

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TW Pictoris is a 14th magnitude cataclysmic variable star system in the southern constellation of Pictor. It is located at a distance of approximately 1,430 light-years based on parallax measurements. Photometric observations in the visual band suggest a binary system with an orbital period of 6.06 hours. One of the components is an accreting white dwarf.

The X-ray source H0534-581 was identified from the data collected by the HEAO 1 satellite in 1979. In 1984, a candidate optical counterpart was identified by I. R. Tuohy and associates from photographs taken at the Schmidt telescope. A low-resolution spectrum revealed this is a cataclysmic variable, and it was assigned the variable star designation TW Pictoris. It was initially proposed to be an intermediate polar, but the lack of an X-ray pulsation makes this less likely. The current classification remains controversial.

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Cataclysmic variable stars
Pictor
Pictoris, TW


title: Rajwinder Kaur

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Rajwinder Kaur may refer to:

 Rajwinder Kaur (field hockey)
 Rajwinder Kaur (judoka)
 Rajwinder Kaur (sprinter) (born 1980), Indian sprinter


title: List of Oricon number-one singles of 1975

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The highest-selling singles in Japan are ranked in the Oricon Singles Chart, which is published by Oricon Style magazine. The data are compiled by Oricon based on each single's physical sales. This list includes the singles that reached the number one place on that chart in 1975.

Oricon Weekly Singles Chart

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1975 in Japanese music
Japan Oricon
Oricon 1975