title: William D. Gordon (politician)

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William D. Gordon (1858–1917) was a politician and attorney from Michigan who served as United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan from 1898 to 1906, and who had previously served in the Michigan House of Representatives, and as Speaker of the House during the 38th and 39th Legislatures.

Born in Canada in 1858, Gordon's family moved to Michigan when he was 17, and Gordon attended school in Bay City. Graduating from the University of Michigan Law School at age 21, Gordon established a practice in Midland and became active in the local Republican Party. Gordon would go on to serve as the circuit court commissioner, county prosecuting attorney, probate judge, and later city attorney. He was elected to the House of Representatives in 1893 and served three terms, his final two as Speaker. Gordon was appointed U.S. Attorney in 1898 by President William McKinley and he served in that office for eight years. Gordon died in Bay City in 1917, aged 59.

References

1858 births
1917 deaths
University of Michigan Law School alumni
Speakers of the Michigan House of Representatives
Republican Party members of the Michigan House of Representatives
United States Attorneys for the Eastern District of Michigan
19th-century American politicians
Canadian emigrants to the United States


title: Elizabeth Kent

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Elizabeth Kent may refer to:

Isis Pogson (1852–1945), British astronomer, also known as Elizabeth Isis Kent
Elizabeth Kent (writer), 19th-century British writer on botany and horticulture
Elizabeth Thacher Kent (1868–1952), environmentalist and women's rights activist


title: Miguel Guilherme

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Miguel Guilherme (born 15 November 1958) is a Portuguese actor. He has appeared in more than seventy films since 1980.

Selected filmography

References

External links

1958 births
Living people
Male actors from Lisbon
Portuguese male film actors
20th-century Portuguese male actors
21st-century Portuguese male actors


title: Al Khayat

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Al Khayat, El Khayat, al-Khayyat may refer to:

Sidi Abdallah Al Khayat, a small town and rural commune in Meknès Prefecture of the Fès-Meknès region of Morocco
Abdullah Al Khayat, Emirati doctor, hospital director
Rita El Khayat, Moroccan psychiatrist, anthro-psychoanalyst, writer, and anthropologist
Abu Ali al-Khayyat,

See also
Khayat

Occupational surnames


title: 2014 Copa Claro – Doubles

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Simone Bolelli and Fabio Fognini were the defending champions, but they decided not to participate.
Marcel Granollers and Marc López won the title, defeating Pablo Cuevas and Horacio Zeballos in the final, 7–5, 6–4.

Seeds

Draw

Draw

External links
 Main Draw

Copa Claro - Doubles
2014 Doubles


title: Shree Krishna Shrestha

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Shree Krishna Shrestha (; April 19, 1967 – August 10, 2014) was a Nepalese actor and producer known for his work in Nepali cinema. One of the most popular and celebrated stars of Nepali Cinema, Shrestha is renowned for his talents as an actor and dancer and was one of the highest-earning actors in Nepali cinema history.

Shrestha made his acting debut with Bhumari, which was successful in box office. Since then he has worked in commercially successful films like Maiti, Bar Pipal, Aafno Manche, Gorkhali, A Mero Hajur, Upakar, Sukha Dukha etc..and record-breaking all-time blockbusters, Hami Tin Bhai, Kaha Bhetiyela and Kohinoor. He was also the producer of the later two.His movie Kohinoor broke all the records at the box office and was recorded as Highest grossing nepali movie of all time and the first Nepali movie to cross 100 million Neplease Rupees. It's record was broken after 2 years later by movie Chhakka Panja

Personal life
Shree Krishna Shrestha married Shweta Khadka in July 2014. They met when she made her film debut in Kaha Bhetiyela (2008), a film which he produced. The two had been in a relationship for a long time when they married on July 7, 2014.

Illness and death
Shrestha and his wife Shweta Khadka travelled to India shortly after their marriage, where his health began to decline. He was diagnosed with pneumonia and bone cancer. He died at the age of 47 in Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, on 10 August 2014 at 5am local time. Thousands of people participated in the funeral proceeding in Kathmandu. He was given a national honor by the Nepal Government. Many personalities of Nepal, including the prime minister of Nepal, expressed their deep condolences to him.

Partial filmography

References

External links

1967 births
2014 deaths
Male actors from Kathmandu
Deaths from pneumonia in India
Nepalese male film actors
21st-century Nepalese male actors
20th-century Nepalese male actors
Newar people


title: Boerhavia gracillima

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Boerhavia gracillima, the slimstalk spiderling, is a plant species native to Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and Mexico. It prefers dry, rocky areas such as grasslands, desert scrub, roadsides and pinyon-juniper woodlands.

Boerhavia gracillima is a perennial herb, often woody at the base. Stems are trailing to erect, with many branches. Leaves are mostly on the lower half of the plant, getting smaller further up. Flowers are red, clustered in the axils of the leaves or at the tips of the stems, each flower up to 4.5 mm (0.2 inches) long.

References

gracillima
Flora of Arizona
Flora of Texas
Flora of Mexico
Flora of New Mexico


title: Nicholas Macdonald

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Nicholas Gardiner Macdonald (born October 22, 1944) is an American author and filmmaker (as Nick Macdonald) who made several independent films during the 1970s, including Break Out! (1971) and The Liberal War (1974). His book In Search of «La Grande Illusion»: a Critical Appreciation of Jean Renoir's Elusive Masterpiece was published in November 2013.

Macdonald's anti-Vietnam War film, The Liberal War, is set in a utopian, anarchist future, looking back critically on the John F. Kennedy administration's prosecution of the war in Vietnam. Contrary to the belief held by many that JFK intended to decrease American military involvement in Southeast Asia at the time of his assassination, The Liberal War argues that he had every intention of continuing his expansion of the conflict in Vietnam. The Liberal War was acquired for the Study Collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in 1976.

His films have been shown in New York City at Film Forum, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Brooklyn Academy of Music and many independent forums and universities. In 2016, the first major retrospective of Macdonald's films outside of New York was held at the University of Chicago, sponsored by South Side Projections (which originated the screening) and the Chicago Underground Film Festival. The same program showed at UnionDocs in New York in April 2017.

Macdonald lives in Brooklyn, New York, and is the son of American writer and critic Dwight Macdonald.

References

American non-fiction writers
Living people
People from Brooklyn
American documentary filmmakers
American male screenwriters
1944 births
American male non-fiction writers
Screenwriters from New York (state)


title: Kilmoon

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Kilmoon () is a civil parish of County Clare, Ireland,  north of Ennistymon. The parish contains the town of Lisdoonvarna.

History
The parish was listed as "Kilmugoun" in the Papal taxation of 1302. There is a Romanesque standing stone in the area on the site of a ruined church, St Mogua.

Kilmoon fell under the poor law union of Ennistymon in the barony of Burren, and ecclesiastically belonged to the Diocese of Kilfenora in the Province of Cashel as of 1810.

Geography
The civil parish of Kilmoon is in the northwestern part of the county and is bordered by Rathborney to the northeast, Killeany to the east, Kilfenora to the southeast, Killilagh to the southwest, and Killonaghan to the northwest. It is divided into 22 townlands, including Kilmoon East (319 acres), Kilmoon West (372 acres), Knockaskeheen (457 acres),  and Caherbarnagh (183 acres).

Antiquities
The townland of Cahercloggaun contains a cashel (ringfort) and Cahercloggaun Castle. The latter is a ruined 15th-century castle originally owned by the O'Loghlens and built in the southern corner of the ringfort. The property is mentioned several times in 16th-century documents, when inhabitants of the castle were pardoned for committed crimes.

See also
List of townlands of County Clare

References

External links
 Kilmoon at the Clare County Library

Civil parishes of County Clare
Towns and villages in County Clare


title: Zice

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Žiče or Žice may refer to:

Žiče [ˈʒiːtʃɛ]
Žiče, Slovenske Konjice, a village in the Municipality of Slovenske Konjice, northeastern Slovenia
Žiče Charterhouse, a charterhouse near Žiče, (Municipality of Slovenske Konjice)
Žiče, Domžale, a village in the Municipality of Radomlje, northern Slovenia
Žice, a village in the Municipality of Sveta Ana, northeastern Slovenia


title: Ian Stenton

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Ian Stenton is a former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s and 1970s. He played at representative level for Yorkshire, and at club level for Castleford (Heritage No. 492) and Hull F.C. (Heritage No.), as a , i.e. number 3 or 4.

Playing career

County honours
Ian Stenton won a cap for Yorkshire while at Castleford, he played right-, i.e. number 3, in the 34-8 victory over Lancashire at Wheldon Road, Castleford on 24 February 1971.

Challenge Cup Final appearances
Ian Stenton played left-, i.e. number 4, in Castleford's 7-2 victory over Wigan in the 1970 Challenge Cup Final during the 1969–70 season at Wembley Stadium, London on Saturday 9 May 1970, in front of a crowd of 95,255.

BBC2 Floodlit Trophy Final appearances
Ian Stenton played right-, i.e. number 3, in Castleford's 7-2 victory over Swinton in the 1966 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy Final during the 1966–67 season at Wheldon Road, Castleford on Tuesday 20 December 1966, played left-, i.e. number 4, in the 8-5 victory over Leigh in the 1967 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy Final during the 1967–68 season at Headingley Rugby Stadium, Leeds on Saturday 16 January 1968.

References

External links
Search for "Stenton" at rugbyleagueproject.org
Ian Stenton Memory Box Search at archive.castigersheritage.com

Living people
Castleford Tigers players
English rugby league players
Hull F.C. players
Place of birth missing (living people)
Rugby league centres
Year of birth missing (living people)
Yorkshire rugby league team players


title: Chapel Hill (Lexington, Virginia)

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Chapel Hill is a historic home located near Lexington, Rockbridge County, Virginia. It was built about 1842, and is a two-story, Federal style brick dwelling. It has a lower two-story rear wing with a brick first story and weatherboard-sided second story add about 1910.  It features a molded cyma recta brick cornices below a metal sheathed side-gable roof.  It has highly unusual vernacular mantels and a stone chimney from a former outbuilding.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
Houses completed in 1842
Federal architecture in Virginia
Houses in Rockbridge County, Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Rockbridge County, Virginia


title: Ruy de Carvalho

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Ruy de Carvalho GCM (born 1 March 1927) is a Portuguese actor.

Career
He is one of the most renowned Portuguese actors of all time, and is still active as an artist. For being a role model to young artists, he was awarded with the 2013 Active Aging Award in the "Arts" category.

Selected filmography

References

External links

1927 births
Living people
Male actors from Lisbon
Portuguese male film actors
Portuguese male television actors


title: First Hawaiian International Auto Show

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The First Hawaiian MotorCon (formerly First Hawaiian International Auto Show) is an annual auto show held every year between the middle week of March and the first week of April in Honolulu, Hawaii. The event takes place at the Hawaii Convention Center (near the Ala Moana Center), whose location site was once the location of a Chevrolet dealership, Aloha Motors. The event, affiliated with the Motor Trend regional auto show circuit since 2000, is produced by the Hawaii Automotive Dealers Association (HADA) and sponsored by First Hawaiian Bank, with the Honolulu Star-Advertiser serving as the media sponsor. The recent event, going into its 42nd year, was planned for March 27-29, 2020. Hawaii Governor David Ige announced at his press conference March 17, that he is closing the Hawaii Convention Center for 30 days to limit social contact in light of recent community spread of Covid-19 virus infections. The auto show was cancelled for 2020, but returned for February 2022.

Event background
The idea to organize the auto show began in 1978, when First Hawaiian and HADA collaborated on a plan to improve FHB's relationships with dealers and build its image and business. The inaugural show that year drew 67,000 visitors and helped generate business for both the bank and the dealerships. The event, later adding the "International" name to its title in 2000, allows HADA-affiliated dealerships in the state of Hawaii and the automakers themselves to showcase the latest cars, crossovers, trucks, vans, and SUVs to Hawaiian residents, military/DOD/civilian personnel and dependents, car enthusiasts, and tourists (especially from Asia and Oceania). Most of the vehicles showcased are from the dealerships themselves, although a handful of display and concept models will directly come from the companies, which they have shipped by sea or cargo plane weeks in advance of the show because of Hawaii's geographical location. Since its inception, attendance has grown in numbers, with most of the visitors coming to see the event's popular display, the luxury vehicles, which at times have seen sales generated after the show's conclusion.

Other features at the event include displays featuring various car and motorcycle collections sponsored by local car clubs, advice and money-saving promotion booths set up by First Hawaiian Bank, Hawaiian Electric, and numerous auto-related businesses, test drives, and a showcase of Skyline, which is scheduled to start service on June 30, 2023.

Participating automakers
Unless otherwise noted, the brands listed are sold by more than one dealership in Hawaii

Current Participants
General Motors
Chevrolet
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles
Chrysler
Dodge
Jeep
Ram
Fiat (Sponsored by The Cutter Auto Group, the state's sole Fiat dealership)
Ferrari (as part of JN’s Velocity Automotive banner)
Maserati (as part of JN’s Velocity Automotive banner)
Ford Motor Company
Ford
Volkswagen Group
Audi (Sponsored by JN Automotive Group)
Bentley (as part of JN’s Velocity Automotive banner)
Lamborghini (as part of JN’s Velocity Automotive banner)
Porsche (as part of JN’s Velocity Automotive banner)
Volkswagen
Tata Motors (Sponsored by JN Automotive Group)
Jaguar
Land Rover
Lotus Cars (as part of JN’s Velocity Automotive banner)
BMW North America (Sponsored by Fletcher Jones Automotive Group)
BMW
Mini
 DaimlerBenz (Sponsored by Fletcher Jones Automotive Group)
Mercedes-Benz
Hyundai Kia Automotive Group
Hyundai
Kia (Sponsored by Aloha Kia, the state's sole Kia dealership)
Honda Motor Company
Acura
Honda
Nissan Motors
Infiniti
Nissan

Secondary Participants
Brands that are shown occasionally; some brands had opted not to participate in the 2020 event, which was announced before its cancellation of the Auto Show in March 2020:

Buick/Cadillac/GMC (note: Cadillac discontinued participating after the 2013 event; Buick and GMC was excluded in the 2014 show but returned for the 2015 show. They withdrew after the 2019 event)
Lincoln (discontinued participation after the 2015 event; its Honolulu dealership Honolulu Ford discontinued selling the brand in 2017. Returned under a new deal with JN Autogroup in 2020 but has not announced plans to participate in future shows)
Toyota Motor Corporation (Sponsored by Servco Automotive Group; withdrew after the 2019 event)
Lexus
Toyota
Mazda (Sponsored by Cutter Automotive Group; withdrew after the 2019 event)
Subaru (Sponsored by Servco Automotive Group; withdrew after the 2019 event)
Tesla Motors (withdrew after the 2018 event)
Volvo (Sponsored by Cutter Automotive Group; withdrew after the 2018 event)

Former/Inactive Participants
A list of brands that were withdrawn from the event:

Harley-Davidson
Mitsubishi
Smart

References

External links
 Press Release from First Hawaiian Bank
 HADA's official website
 The Official Website of the First Hawaiian International Auto Show

Auto shows in the United States
Festivals in Hawaii
Recurring events established in 1978


title: Émile Michelet

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Émile Michelet (born 16 July 1867, date of death unknown) was a French sailor who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics in Meulan, France. With crewmember Marcel Meran, Michelet, as helmsman, took the 3rd place in the race of the 0.5 to 1 ton.

Further reading

References

External links

1867 births
French male sailors (sport)
Sailors at the 1900 Summer Olympics – .5 to 1 ton
Sailors at the 1900 Summer Olympics – Open class
Olympic sailors for France
Year of death missing
Olympic silver medalists for France
Olympic bronze medalists for France
Olympic medalists in sailing
Sportspeople from Paris
Medalists at the 1900 Summer Olympics
Sailors at the 1900 Summer Olympics – 3 to 10 ton
Place of death missing


title: Flour kurabiye

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Flour kurabiye (Turkish: Un kurabiyesi) is a kind of Turkish cookie that is made from butter, sunflower oil (or another mild flavored oil), baking powder, and the namesake ingredient flour. Generally, vanilla powder (commonly used as a substitute for vanilla extract in Turkish baked goods) is also added. Flour kurabiye is a variant of kurabiye.

See also
Acıbadem kurabiyesi
Osmania Biscuit

References

http://www.giverecipe.com/the-feast-of-sacrifice-and-flour-cookies.html

Turkish pastries
Cookies

Shortbread


title: Biathlon at the 2014 Winter Paralympics

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Biathlon at the 2014 Winter Paralympics was held at the Laura Biathlon & Ski Complex near Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. The eighteen events took place on 8, 11, and 14 March 2014.

Events
The program included 6 event types (3 for men and 3 for women) that were divided into three classifications each (sitting, standing, and visually impaired), for a total of 18 events. Standing biathletes are those that have a locomotive disability but are able to use the same equipment as able-bodied skiers, whereas sitting competitors use a sitski. Skiers with a visual impairment compete with the help of a sighted guide and an acoustic aiming system. The skier with the visual impairment and the guide are considered a team, and dual medals are awarded.

Men's events
 7.5 km
 12.5 km
 15 km
Women's events
 6 km
 10 km
 12.5 km

Competition schedule
The following is the competition schedule for all events.

All times are (UTC+4).

Medal summary

Medal table

Women's events

Men's events

See also
Biathlon at the 2014 Winter Olympics

References

2014 Winter Paralympics events
Winter Paralympics
2014
Biathlon competitions in Russia


title: Punjabi Tamba and Kurta

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Punjabi Kurta and Tamba are traditional costume for men of Punjab.

Punjabi Tamba

Tamba/Tehmet

The tamba, which is also called tehmat is the Punjabi version of the lungi which has folds at the front and is the traditional dress for Punjabi men. The tamba is worn by Bhangra dancers. Although the use of the Punjabi tehmat in East Punjab has declined in recent years, being replaced by the pyjama, men can be seen wearing the tehmat and its use has not completely stopped. The tamba or the lungi can also be seen on Punjabi men in West Punjab and the Punjabi men of adjoining Hazara, Pakistan (in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa). A tehmat is of one colour and has no border. The tehmat or laacha can be long reaching to the heels. It can also be short to just below the knees.

Laacha
A laacha differs from the tehmat in that it has a border and is variegated so that it has more than one colour. The laacha is popular in West Punjab.  The laacha is worn in a like manner to the tehmat except it has more folds. Women in some parts of Punjab wear the tehmat and the laacha, especially the districts of Gujarat, Gujranwala, Shahpur and Muzzafargarh.

Punjabi Kurta
The Punjabi kurta is made of two rectangular pieces with side slits, and a front opening below the neck. In the past, it was traditional for men to wear a gold or silver chain (zanjiri) woven around the buttons.

This form of kurta gradually began to replace the older angarkha worn in the Punjab region which fell to the knees, opened to either the left or the right, and was sometimes known as the anga, the older form of the angarkha and is similar to a gown or a loose coat and wadded with cotton. By the 1960s the Punjabi kurta had almost replaced the angarkha but it was still popular in present-day Haryana.

The Punjabi form of kurta is popular throughout the sub-continent. It is for this reason that, in Bengal and Bangladesh the kurta is known as 'Panjabi' as the kurta is associated with the Punjab and considered an article of Punjabi dress. The Punjabi kurta was introduced to Assam by King Garib Niwaj of Manipur during his reign sometime between 1709 A.D. and 1749  A.D. where it is also known as Panjabi. It is also worn in Uttar Pradesh and since the 1960s has been replacing the traditional saluka (short shirt) worn in Madhya Pradesh.

History
The term kurta is a generic term to cover different types of upper garments worn by men. Kurta refers to the upper garments worn in South Asia inspired from garments worn by Central Asian Turks who spread their use beyond their region, reaching the Indian sub-continent.

The traditional male attire for men in India consisted of the dhoti and an unstitched cloth draped around the shoulders extended to cover the upper body.

However, men in North India especially Rajasthan and the Punjab region wore the jama of the Rajput type, the chola (robe) (which in the Punjab region remained popular in some parts as recent as the 1980s), the Mughal jama and the angarkha as upper garments, which eventually led to different versions of the kurta being developed, such as the Punjabi angarkha, Punjabi kurta, the Gujarati angarkha and the Rajasthani angarkha, also termed ‘kurta’.   A non region specific angarkha is also worn   in various areas such as in Himachal Pradesh, Uttrakhand and Uttar Pradesh.

The Punjabi kurta also draws inspiration from the Mughal kurta,  which was in common use in the region. However, The Mughal kurta was much looser than the Punjabi kurta, had no side slits  and the upper part of the Mughal kurta was also very loose.

The other inspiration for the Punjabi kurta is the Punjabi angarkha which was called the old kurta in the early 20th century A.D. and is a loose tunic which falls to below the knees.

During the 11th century C.E., AL Biruni noted women in north India wore the kurtaka which was a short shirt, with sleeves extending to the shoulders, to the middle of the body, and had slashes on the left and the right sides. Thiis similar to the modern Punjabi kurta worn by women  and men which has side slits rather than slashes. The use of shirts and trousers was earlier observed in the Punjab region in the 7th century by Hsuan Tsang and I-Tsing.

In modern usage, a short kurta is referred to as the kurti. However, traditionally, the kurti is a short cotton coat  (without side slits) and is believed to have descended from the tunic of the Shunga period (2nd century B.C.). The kurti is front opening and is buttoned. Traditionally, a chain of gold or silver called zanjiri is woven into the buttons. The use of the kurti by women has been noted during the 1600s to the present day. The kurti can be front opening from below the neck to the waist, or cover the back but leave the stomach exposed. Some styles fasten at the back or are worn as pullovers with no side slits and font opening.

The kurti also forms part of male dress as a waist coat worn over the kurta.

Before the use of the kurta, people in Jammu traditionally wore  the peshwaj which flowed to the ankles. However, the traditional attire now is the kurta and Dogri pajjamma. The use of the kurta was very rare in Kashmir until Kashyap Bandhu encouraged its use in the 1930s cultural revolution.

Muktsari Kurta Pajama

The Muktsari kurta pajama is the modern Punjabi version of the traditional kurta pajama outfit which is very popular on the sub-continent.

Muktsari kurta pajamas were initially worn by youngsters in the Muktsar area. However, they are now popular all over Punjab. The Muktsari kurtas are snug with lapels on either side and the pyjamas are similar to well-fitted slim pants.  The kurta length is short and there's no pleating anywhere.

See also
Dashiki
Tunic
Angarkha
Kurta
Jama costume

References

Indian clothing
Pakistani clothing
Punjabi culture
Punjabi clothing


title: Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead

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Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead () is a 2014 comedy horror film directed by Tommy Wirkola. It is a sequel to Wirkola's 2009 film Dead Snow. The film was released in Norway on 12 February and in the United States on 10 October 2014. Vegar Hoel reprises his role from the first film as Martin, the sole survivor of an attack by Nazi zombies led by the evil Herzog (Ørjan Gamst). Filming took place in Iceland.

Plot
Previously, Martin and his friends draw the ire of Nazi zombies after unwittingly taking the gold they are after. When Martin is bitten on the arm, he removes the infected arm with a chainsaw. After returning their gold to the Nazi zombies, Martin realizes he forgot a coin. The zombies chase after him, and their commander, Herzog, tenaciously holds on to Martin's car as he flees. An oncoming truck slices off Herzog's arm, which remains in the car with Martin.

After Martin passes out at the wheel and is involved in an accident, he wakes in a hospital. The police disbelieve his wild stories about zombies and charge him with the murder of his friends. To his horror, Martin finds that a surgeon has attached Herzog's arm to his stump (believing it to be Martin's). The zombie arm goes berserk and attacks everyone within reach. After Martin kills several people against his will, he is sedated and strapped tightly to the bed. In the meantime, Herzog has his lost arm replaced and begins to conscript more zombie troops by resurrecting freshly killed locals.

Bobby, a young American tourist, sneaks into Martin's room when he hears rumors of a zombie attack. Impressed with Martin's zombie arm, Bobby frees Martin and tells him about the Zombie Squad, American professional zombie hunters. Before Bobby can contact them, the zombie arm throws Bobby out a window. Panicked, Martin follows and administers CPR, but the zombie arm instead crushes Bobby's chest, killing him. Martin flees the police, who believe him a child killer, and makes contact with the Zombie Squad - who turn out to be three nerdy friends: Daniel, Monica, and Blake - who promise to come to Norway and assist. In the meantime, they ask Martin to find out what Herzog wants.

At a World War II museum, Martin meets Glenn Kenneth, the souvenir shop's clerk. After the zombie arm intimidates him, Glenn takes Martin to the museum, where they read about Herzog's history: Herzog was originally tasked by Hitler himself to wipe out Talvik for their anti-Nazi sabotage. As Martin realizes Herzog intends to carry out his orders, Herzog and his Nazi zombies attack a group of tourists outside, and following the slaughter, Herzog has his troops arm themselves with old weapons from the museum, including a World War II-era Tiger tank. Martin and Glenn escape death by pretending to be mannequins in the museum. While surveying the carnage, Martin accidentally discovers that his zombie arm can also raise and control the dead. When Daniel arrives, he kills the zombie Martin has resurrected; Martin demonstrates his newfound power by raising it again.

Martin, Daniel, and the sidekick zombie race to find the burial ground of a group of Russian POWs, who had been executed by Herzog during the war, as Monica, Blake, and Glenn work to slow down Herzog. Monica and Blake convince Glenn to act as bait to draw some of the zombies into a local swamp, where they kill them with pipe bombs they made from the supplies they had. After shooting at them with the tank gun several times, Herzog continues on his way, believing Blake, Glenn and Monica to be dead. Meanwhile, the others discover the graveyard, and Martin raises an entire troop of loyal Russian zombies. All converge at the town, where Martin confronts Herzog. Martin points out that they have evacuated the townspeople and thus prevented Herzog from completing his orders, but Herzog does not care and attacks them.

The battle goes well at first, but the Nazi zombies eventually overpower Martin's Russian zombies after Herzog kills the Russian Commander, Lt Stavarin. As the Nazi zombies close in on them, Monica tells Martin to kill Herzog, as it is their only chance. Daniel attempts to take control of the Nazi zombie's tank, Martin directly confronts Herzog, and the others fight Herzog's remaining zombies. Glenn is killed by a sneaky knife attack to the throat by a Nazi zombie, and Monica and Blake are about to be overwhelmed when Daniel fires the tank gun directly at Herzog while Martin keeps him distracted. Herzog is decapitated, and the head goes far off into the further away mountains; his troops fall lifelessly to the ground, saving Monica and Blake.

After they have celebrated, and having been exonerated from the murder charges as the police witnessed the zombie battle, Martin drives to the church where Hanna (his girlfriend who died during the first film) is buried, digs up her corpse, and brings her back as a zombie. The two proceed to make out and have sex as the sidekick zombie looks on in the distance. In a post-credits scene, the Nazi doctor recovers Herzog's severed head, which opens its eyes.

Cast

 Vegar Hoel as Martin Hykkerud
 Ørjan Gamst as Standartenführer (Oberst) Herzog
 Martin Starr as Daniel
 Jocelyn DeBoer as Monica
 Ingrid Haas as Blake
 Stig Frode Henriksen as Glenn Kenneth
 Hallvard Holmen as Gunga
 Kristoffer Joner as Sidekick Zombie
 Amrita Acharia as Reidun
 Derek Mears as Stavarin
 Bjarte Tjøstheim as Priest
 Christian Rubeck as Policeman
 Charlotte Frogner as Hanna
 Jesper Sundnes as Nazi Doctor
 Tage Guddingsmo as Zombie Navigator
 David Skaufjord as Zombie Tank Driver
 Daniel Berge Halvorsen as Major Stubbe
 Guðmundur Ólafsson as Elderly Woman
 Ingar Helge Gimle as Doctor Brochman
 Carl-Magnus Adner as Bobby
 María Guðmundsdóttir as Dame I Rullestol

Production
Dead Snow 2: Red vs Dead was shot in both English and Norwegian at the same time. Filming took place in Iceland. Many of the zombies were professional mixed martial arts fighters, and Wirkola found it easy to direct them, as they were willing to perform showy stunts.

Release
Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead had its world premiere at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on 19 January 2014 before being released in its home country of Norway on 12 February. The film screened at the 2014 Stanley Film Festival on 25 April. It was released online on 7 October before receiving a limited theatrical release in the US on 10 October. Well Go USA released the film on home video on 9 December in the US, and Entertainment One released the DVD and Blu-ray on 12 January 2015 in the United Kingdom.

Critical reception
Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 81% of 32 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review; the average rating is 6.6/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead expands the original's canvas without sacrificing any of its bloody fun, adding up to a sequel that fans of the first are bound to enjoy". On Metacritic, the film has a 59/100 rating based on 10 reviews, signifying "mixed or average reviews".

Dennis Harvey of Variety criticized the film's Troma-style tone and described the addition of the American characters as pandering to international audiences. Boyd van Hoeij of The Hollywood Reporter summed up the film as "cartoon violence and action, gore and humor, all rolled into one schlocky but enjoyable package". Jeannette Catsoulis of The New York Times wrote, "...if the movie's hilariously cruel treatment of the halt and the lame upsets you, you can enjoy the crisp cinematography, operatically repulsive effects and frequently witty dialogue". Robert Abele of the Los Angeles Times wrote: "As bad-taste splatter comedies go, Dead Snow 2 is one of the more charitably nutty ones, less about gorging on gore than reveling in how silly the whole genre can be". Clark Collis of Entertainment Weekly rated it B and called it "dementedly enjoyable".

Ryan Daley of Bloody Disgusting rated it 4/5 stars and called the film "a textbook example of a talented director using extreme violence as a cathartic safety valve". Brad McHargue of Dread Central rated it 4/5 stars and wrote, "Dead Snow 2 is an utterly silly film that revels in its absurdity, and that’s why it works".

See also
 Zombie Squad

References

External links

2014 comedy horror films
2014 films
2010s English-language films
2010s German-language films
2010s monster movies
English-language Icelandic films
English-language Norwegian films
Films directed by Tommy Wirkola
Films shot in Iceland
Icelandic comedy horror films
Nazi zombie films
Norwegian comedy horror films
Norwegian-language films
Norwegian splatter films
Zombie comedy films


title: Dulwich Manor

text:
The Dulwich Manor, also known as Dulwich Farm, Dulwich House, and Amherst Academy, is a historic home located near Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia. It was built in 1909, and is a 2½-story, five bay, Classical Revival style brick dwelling. The façade is dominated by a large, two-story portico capped by a pediment formed by a cross gable roof with a small tripartite Palladian window in the tympanum. The house is covered by a steeply-pitched hipped roof of slate shingles.  Also on the property is a contributing shed and gateposts.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
Houses completed in 1909
Neoclassical architecture in Virginia
Houses in Amherst County, Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Amherst County, Virginia
U.S. Route 60


title: Khait

text:
Khait may refer to:

Chait, an alternative transliteration
Hait (disambiguation), an alternative transliteration


title: Florian Volpe

text:
Florian Volpe (born 19 May 1990) is a French former footballer.

He played for Chilean second-tier side Magallanes, being the first French footballer to play in the history of Chilean professional football.

External links

1990 births
Living people
French men's footballers
French expatriate men's footballers
FC Sète 34 players
Club Silvio Pettirossi footballers
Club Atlético 3 de Febrero players
Deportes Magallanes footballers
Primera B de Chile players
Expatriate men's footballers in Chile
French expatriate sportspeople in Chile
Men's association football midfielders


title: Chait (disambiguation)

text:
Chait is a Hebrew surname.

Chait may also refer to:
Chaitra or Chait, Hindu calendar month (March–April)
Chaitra (Nepali calendar) or Chait, a Nepali month

See also
Chaitra (film), 2002 Indian film


title: Marcel Meran

text:
Marcel Meran was a French sailor, who represented his country at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Meulan, France. With Émile Michelet as helmsman, Meran took the 3rd place in the race of the .5 to 1 ton.

Further reading

References

External links

French male sailors (sport)
Sailors at the 1900 Summer Olympics – .5 to 1 ton
Olympic sailors for France
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
Olympic silver medalists for France
Olympic bronze medalists for France
Olympic medalists in sailing
Place of birth missing
Place of death missing


title: Charles Marvin

text:
Charles Marvin may refer to:

 Charles Marvin (coach) (born c. 1928), American football and baseball coach
 Charles Marvin (Connecticut politician) (1804–1883), American politician in Connecticut
 Charles A. Marvin (1929–2003), district attorney and state circuit court judge in North Louisiana
 Charles F. Marvin (1858–1943), American meteorologist
 Charles Thomas Marvin (1854–1890), writer on Russia


title: Jill Afrin

text:
Jill Afrin (born 1962) is a psychiatrist who specializes in working with deaf populations in South Carolina, and is also credited as the first telepsychiatrist in the state.

Biography
Afrin was born in Suffern, New York in 1962. Jeanette Newman, her mother was a social worker, public relation counselor, and a journalist while Edward Newman worked as a crime reporter who died when she was 4 years old.

Afrin earned her undergraduate degree in biochemistry from State University of New York at Binghamton in 1984. The same year Afrin enrolled into Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. After graduating with her medical degree, Dr. Afrin completed an internship and residency in psychiatry at the Medical University of South Carolina. She was later awarded a fellowship in community and emergency psychiatry in 1992. Throughout college and medical training she learned sign language which she later on applied in her career.

In 1989, the South Carolina Department of Mental Health began the Deaf Services Program to provide psychiatric help to the deaf and hard of hearing throughout the state. While case managers and clinical staff were fluent in sign-language, the non-signing psychiatrists had to rely on the clinical staff and the case managers in providing the help which took away from the crucial relationship needed to develop between the patient and psychiatrist due to having an interpreter. Ideally, they needed a psychiatrist who was also fluent in sign language.

Career
In 1992, Afrin started working with the Department of Mental Health's Deaf Services Program. Afrin's work primarily consisted of holding therapy sessions with deaf patients through the mid-1990s and initially, she was required to travel across the state to visit patients. This allowed her to see about 10 patients each week. In 1995, Afrin wanted to start a family, and could not continue to travel as she been doing. The Deaf Services Program was able to accommodate her needs and installed videoconferencing equipment in several hospitals and health centers in the state, and expanded the opportunities for Afrin to treat patients. This method of treating patients using telecommunication, called telepsychiatry, was therefore initiated through Afrin's efforts, making her the first telepsychiatrist in the state.

Publications

References

Living people
1962 births
Binghamton University alumni
Vanderbilt University alumni
Deafness
People from Suffern, New York
American women psychiatrists
American psychiatrists


title: Caryota mitis

text:
Caryota mitis, known as the clustering fishtail palm or fishtail palm, is a species of palm native to Tropical Asia from India to Java to southern China, now sparingly naturalized in southern Florida and in parts of Africa and Latin America. The species was originally described from Vietnam in 1790. In Florida, it grows in hummocks and in disturbed wooded areas.

Botany

Caryota mitis has clustered stems up to 10 m (33 feet) tall and 15 cm (6 inches) in diameter. Leaves can be up to 3 m (10 feet) long. Each leaf is made of many pairs of leaflets shaped like tail fins that give this palm its name.

Flowers are purple and grow on hanging spikes. Its fruits turn dark purple or red when they are ripe, they are harmful to humans. The tree slowly deteriorates not long after it bears fruit.

Uses
Cultivated mainly as an ornament plant in Cambodia, where it is named tunsaé töch, traditional healers burn the heaps of felted hairs from the leaves' axils to treat ill limbs of patients.

Its trunk pith can be extracted to make a kind of flour that has similar properties like sago.

In Cochinchine, Vietnam, this plant were used as a wedding gate in the past before 2000s

Toxicity
The fruit of C. mitis is saturated with raphides, sharp, needle-shaped crystals of calcium oxalate. The raphides are strong irritants that cause damage and subsequent itching upon contact with skin, and if ingested, the mouth. This is a result of the physical structure of the raphides, and not any chemical reaction.

Gallery

References

mitis
Flora of China
Trees of Indo-China
Trees of Malesia
Garden plants of Asia
Ornamental trees


title: Michael Allen (rugby union)

text:
Michael Allen (born 28 November 1990) from Belfast is a retired Irish rugby union player. He played at both centre and wing during his career. Allen started his career with Irish provincial side Ulster, before signing for Scottish side Edinburgh in 2015. However, after finishing with Edinburgh in 2017, Allen decided to retire from the sport at the age of 26 to focus on his family life.

Early life
Allen was educated at Methodist College Belfast. He twice won the Ulster Schools' Cup, scoring several tries in the 2009 Semi-Final as the school won the cup two years running, beating Regent House in 2008 and R.B.A.I in 2009.

He attended his first rugby match at only two weeks old to watch his father play for what is now Belfast Harlequins and spent his childhood at the club.

Allen's mother, Corinne, is a former Northern Ireland Netball international and his sister also excelled at the sport.

Ulster
Allen has represented Ulster Rugby at Under 18,  Under 19 level and Academy level. He also played for the Ulster Ravens in the British and Irish Cup Semi-Final in 2010 against Munster A.

He made his Ulster first team debut against Leinster at The RDS in 2012 and was awarded with a Senior Ulster Contract in 2013.

In the 2012–13 season, Allen scored his first senior Ulster try against Cardiff Blues and was named on the bench for the Final, coming on in the 64th minute in the 24–18 defeat to Leinster.

In the 2013–14 season, Allen made his breakthrough playing Wing due to injuries to Tommy Bowe and Andrew Trimble, scoring a try against Connacht and two against Treviso. He has spoken about the competition he faces at wing with Bowe, Trimble and Craig Gilroy, who are all Ireland Internationals, saying "Obviously they’re three world class players but I can’t dwell on that. I have to try and make the most of the game time that I get but at the same time I recognise how tough it is. My priority is to play well enough to ensure that Mark (Anscombe, Ulster coach) has a decision to make each week.”

Ireland
Allen represented Ireland Schools at under-19 Level.

In 2013, Allen was selected for the Emerging Ireland squad to play at the 2013 IRB Tbilisi Cup in Georgia where he scored a try in a 19–8 defeat to South Africa President's XV. Emerging Ireland beat Uruguay 42–33 on 16 June 2013 to secure a second-place finish in the tournament. At the end of the 2014 season Allen was selected for the Emerging Ireland squad which travelled to Romania.

References

1990 births
Living people
Irish rugby union players
Ulster Rugby players
People educated at Methodist College Belfast
Rugby union players from Belfast
Rugby union centres


title: HMS Avenger (1794)

text:
HMS Avenger was a 16-gun ship-sloop of the British Royal Navy. Previously she was the French privateer Marseillaise and then naval corvette Vengeur, which the British Army captured during the battle for Martinique in 1794. The Admiralty sold her in 1802.

French career
Prior to her service in the French Navy,  Vengeur was a French privateer called Marseillaise and may even have been a British armed merchantman Avenger, before that. Marseillaise (the -ois termination gave way to -ais at this period), was a 300-ton, 16-gun privateer corvette from Martinique, commissioned in 1793.

Lloyd's List reported on 27 August 1793 that the French privateer Marsellois, of 22 guns and 180 men, from Dunkirk, had captured  and two Dutch vessels from the West Indies, and sent all three into Boston.

At some point she captured , which the Royal Navy promptly recaptured.

The French Navy acquired Marseillaise in January 1794 in the Antilles. She was stationed at Martinique when on 5 February, a fleet under the command of Admiral Sir John Jervis landed troops under the command of General Charles Grey. On the 17 February the British troops captured  Venguer at St Pierre.

British career
Vengeur was commissioned as a British warship in Martinique and was initially placed under the command of Lieutenant James Milne. On 17 March, boats from Avenger took part in a cutting out expedition in Fort Royal Bay, which captured the French frigate Bienvenue. When Milne was killed in action, command of Avenger passed to Lieutenant Henry William Bayntun.

Avenger and her crew took part in the capture of Gaudeloupe in April 1794. Bayntun remained in command of Avenger until 4 May 1794 when he was promoted to Post Captain and appointed to Bienvenue, the frigate he had captured the previous month. Edward Griffith became the captain of Avenger and on 22 September he arrived with her at Portsmouth. In 1795 she was under the command of Charles Ogle. She was registered as HMS Avenger in June 1798 but was not fitted out for sea again.

In 1797 Avenger was among the vessels that qualified for prize money for stores and the like captured at Martinique, St Lucia, and Guadeloupe between March and April 1794. There was a second, much larger disbursement in 1800. A third disbursement, smaller than the first, took place in 1806.

Fate
The  Admiralty sold Avenger on 9 September 1802.

Citations

References

Captured ships
Privateer ships of France
Age of Sail naval ships of France
Age of Sail naval ships of the United Kingdom
1790s ships


title: Howard Sokolowski

text:
Howard Sokolowski,  is a property developer, philanthropist and sport business owner from Toronto. He is the husband of Linda Frum and was the former co-owner of the Toronto Argonauts with David Cynamon from 2003 to 2010. His parents, Henry and Eva Sokolowski,  were Holocaust survivors from Poland.

Biography
Sokolowski was born to a Jewish family and raised in Toronto and attended York University. Upon graduation he went into property development, eventually co-founding Tribute Communities. Over the next 25 years, the company went on to develop more than 25,000 homes. Later, Sokolowski founded another property development company, Metropia. At the moment, Howard Sokolowski serves as chairman and chief executive officer at Metropia, where he has developed over 10,000 homes

He is a benefactor of Mount Sinai Hospital, the UJA Federation, Yad Vashem, the Bishop Strachan School, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Gardiner Museum, York University among other institutions. Sokolowski has received awards from J.D. Powers and Associates, the Ontario Home Builders Association, and the Greater Toronto Home Builders Association (BILD) including Project of the Year, Community of the Year and Builder of the Year.

Personal life
He is married to the Honourable Linda Frum, a writer and Conservative member of the Senate of Canada. In 2011, Sokolowski was appointed to the Order of Ontario for 'his contributions to the arts, healthcare and education'.

Toronto Argonauts
On 5 November 2003, Sokolowski and David Cynamon purchased the Toronto Argonauts from the Canadian Football League. Immediately, on assuming control of the club, they sought moving the team into a smaller stadium. The Rogers Centre (formerly called the SkyDome until 2005) has a capacity of over 50,000 and although attendance at games increased during their ownership, it rarely was over 25,000. This made the stadium cavernous and unappealing to supporters. Discussions were made to play games at either University of Toronto, York University or BMO Field but all of them fell through.

On the field, the team won the 92nd Grey Cup in 2004 under the head coach Michael 'Pinball' Clemons, the first black coach to ever win the Grey Cup.

Nevertheless, despite on field success and increased ticket attendance, without a purpose-built stadium, the team lost money over the six years of Sokolowski's and Cynamon's ownership. It was eventually sold to David Braley on 9 February 2010.

References

External links
 Metropia.ca
 Tribute Communities

Businesspeople from Toronto
Canadian sports businesspeople
Jewish Canadian philanthropists
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Members of the Order of Ontario
Real estate and property developers
Toronto Argonauts owners
York University alumni


title: Rogério Samora

text:
José Rogério dos Anjos Filipe da Conceição Samora (28 October 1958 – 15 December 2021) was a Portuguese film, television and stage actor.

Biography
He appeared in more than one hundred films since 1980.

On 20 July 2021, Rogério Samora suffered two cardiorespiratory arrests during recordings of SIC's soap opera Amor Amor. Subsequently, he was hospitalized in a coma. He died on 15 December 2021, at the age of 63.

Career

Selected filmography

References

External links

1958 births
2021 deaths
20th-century Portuguese male actors
21st-century Portuguese male actors
Male actors from Lisbon
Portuguese male film actors
Portuguese male television actors
Portuguese male stage actors


title: List of earthquakes in 1903

text:
This is a list of earthquakes in 1903. Only magnitude 6.0 or greater earthquakes appear on the list. Exceptions to this are earthquakes which have caused death, injury or damage. Events which occurred in remote areas will be excluded from the list as they wouldn't have generated significant media interest. All dates are listed according to UTC time. The countries and their flags are noted as they would have appeared in this year for example the Dutch East Indies being present-day Indonesia. A quieter year than normal but one with many deaths. The bulk of the deaths in this year came from a quake which struck Turkey in April. The largest event of the year was a magnitude 8.1 earthquake in Greece but this only caused two deaths.

Overall

By death toll

 Note: At least 10 casualties

By magnitude

 Note: At least 7.0 magnitude

Notable events

January

February

March

April

May

June

August

September

October

November

December

References

1903

1903


title: Clifford–New Glasgow Historic District

text:
Clifford–New Glasgow Historic District is a national historic district located at Clifford, Amherst County, Virginia. The district encompasses 43 contributing buildings, 6 contributing sites, and 6 contributing structures in the village of Clifford. The district includes a variety of residential, commercial, and institutional buildings built between about 1772 and 1961.  Notable buildings include the St. Mark's Episcopal Church (c. 1816), the Saddlery (1814), and the Clifford Ruritan Building (c. 1938).  Located in the district and separately listed are Brick House and Winton.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

References

Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Amherst County, Virginia


title: Jean de Chabannes la Palice

text:
Count Jean Alfred Octave de Chabannes la Palice (29 March 1871 – 29 August 1933) was a French sailor, who represented his country at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Meulan, France. De Chabannes la Palice, as helmsman, took the 4th place in first race of the 0.5 to 1 ton.

Further reading

References

External links

1871 births
1933 deaths
French male sailors (sport)
Sailors at the 1900 Summer Olympics – .5 to 1 ton
Olympic sailors for France
Counts of France
Sailors at the 1900 Summer Olympics – Open class


title: Krajčík

text:
Krajčík (Krajcik) is a Slovak-language occupational surname, meaning 'tailor'. Notable people with the surname include:

Matej Krajčík (born 1978), Slovak footballer
Josh Krajcik, American singer-songwriter

Occupational surnames
Slovak-language surnames


title: 2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Men's 100 metre freestyle

text:
The men's 100 metre freestyle competition at the 2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 27–28 at the Yokohama International Swimming Pool.  The last champion was Michael Klim of Australia.

This race consisted of two lengths of the pool, both lengths being in freestyle.

Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:

Results
All times are in minutes and seconds.

Heats
The first round was held on August 27.

Semifinals
The semifinals were held on August 27.

Final
The final was held on August 28.

References

2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships


title: Robert Savin

text:
Robert Savin was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, the elected lower house of the colonial Virginia General Assembly, from "Warrosquoyacke County," later Isle of Wight County, in the assemblies of 1629 and 1629–1630.

The area represented by Savin originally was known as Lawne's Plantation. The colonists also had named the area "Warresqueak County" or "Warrosquoyack County" after the Native American tribe who lived there. Stanard shows the spelling of the county for which Savin was a member as "Warrosquoyacke County."

Stanard shows four members from Warrosquoyacke County in the assemblies of 1629, convening October 16, 1629, and of 1629–1630, convening March 24, 1630 but only one member from "Warrosqueake" County in the assembly of 1631–1632.

In 1620, a movement began to change the name of "Warresqueak County" to "Isle of Wight County" but this was not done until 1637.

Notes

References

 Henings, Statutes at Large, shown as Virginia, William Waller Hening, Virginia (Colony). The statutes at large: being a collection of all the laws of Virginia. Volume 1, Richmond, VA: Printed by and for Samuel Pleasants, Junior, printer to the Commonwealth, 1809–1823. . Retrieved July 15, 2011.
 Long, Charles M. Virginia County Names: Two Hundred and Seventy Years of Virginia History. New York and Washington: The Neale Publishing Company, 1908. . Retrieved February 9, 2014.
 Stanard, William G. and Mary Newton Stanard. The Virginia Colonial Register. Albany, NY: Joel Munsell's Sons Publishers, 1902. , Retrieved July 15, 2011.
 Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, ed. 'Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography'. Volume 1. New York, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915. . Retrieved February 16, 2013.

People from Isle of Wight County, Virginia
Virginia colonial people
House of Burgesses members
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing


title: Benjamin Hunkins

text:
Benjamin Hunkins (September 10, 1810April 27, 1900) was an American politician who had a role in shaping the Wisconsin constitution.

Early life
Hunkins, born in Charleston, Vermont in 1810, was the son of settler Robert Hastings Hunkins and Hannah Emerson.

Hunkins moved to Wisconsin at the age of 28 when his father and family relocated there. He purchased land in what became Waukesha County in the town of Mentor, renamed New Berlin in 1840. The heavily timbered land was cleared by Hunkins for farming, and he cultivated the land himself. He subsequently got involved in local state politics and became one of the first representatives in the territorial legislature.

Politician and federal Indian agent
On April 5, 1842, Hunkins was elected Chairman of New Berlin's board of supervisors. After serving as Chairman, Hunkins served on the board of supervisors in one-year periods in years 1849, 1852, 1853 and 1858.

Hunkins served in the Wisconsin Territorial House of Representatives in 1843 and 1844. He was also a delegate to the first state constitutional convention, held in 1846.

Hunkins was a federal Indian agent for the Green Bay Agency from 1855 to 1857.  He mainly worked with the Menominee tribe, trying to align the United States Government's goals with theirs. Hunkins believed he had made headway in "civilizing the tribe", and called for them to abstain from alcohol. One of his compatriots in this task was Solomon Juneau, founder of  Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Juneau died in the arms of Hunkins while visiting the Menominee tribe. During Juneau's decline, Hunkins had acted as his "faithful friend and constant nurse". He also worked with other Native American tribes, including the Stockbridge, Munsee and Oneida tribes. Hunkins was paid $1,000 per year for the position.

In 1860 Hunkins was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly for a one-year term. He was on the Swamp Land Committee, whose responsibility was to reimburse the general fund from the Swamp Land Fund. He was considered to be "a gentleman of decided force and marked ability - strong in mind, clear in judgment, logical in conclusion, and admirably fitted to have taken, under favorable surroundings, a prominent part in public affairs".

In 1860 upon hearing that Sherman Booth had been recaptured by federal marshals, Hunkins, who admired Booth, introduced a resolution in the Assembly that the Governor of the State should "declare war against the United States", but the speaker ruled it unconstitutional and it went no further.

Hunkins was unanimously nominated as State Senator and then was nominated as Secretary of State, but he declined the offers.

Retirement and death
After leaving state politics, Hunkins relocated to Beaver Crossing in Nebraska. At the age of 88, Hunkins "retain[ed] his mental vigor and occupi[ed] a high place in the estimation of his large circle of friends in Seward County". He died aged 90 on April 27, 1900.

Family
On February 11, 1843, Hunkins married Sophrona Hollister. They had children. Their daughter Carrie Arvilla Hunkins married the politician Eugene W. Chafin.

Legacy
The town of Hunkins, Nebraska was named for Hunkins in recognition of his service. It was eventually renamed Cordova because of issues at the post office.

References

External links

1810 births
1900 deaths
People from Orleans County, Vermont
People from Seward County, Nebraska
People from New Berlin, Wisconsin
Mayors of places in Wisconsin
Members of the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature
Members of the Wisconsin State Assembly
United States Indian agents
19th-century American politicians


title: Pallas's squirrel

text:
Pallas's squirrel (Callosciurus erythraeus), also known as the red-bellied tree squirrel, is a species of squirrel native to Greater China, India, and Southeast Asia.

Description

Pallas's squirrel is a medium-sized tree squirrel, with a head-body length of , and a tail  in length. Both sexes are of similar size and appearance, and weigh between . The colour of the pelt varies considerably between the many different subspecies, but is generally brownish on the upper body with a more reddish tint on the belly, and often with some black on the tail. The precise pattern and shades of the fur are often used to distinguish subspecies from one another, but make it difficult to distinguish the species as a whole from other, similarly variable, tree squirrel species.

Subspecies
Over 30 subspecies have been identified, although not all are recognised by all authorities:

 C. e. erythraeus
 C. e. atrodorsalis
 C. e. bartoni
 C. e. bhutanensis
 C. e. bonhotei
 C. e. castaneoventris
 C. e. erythrogaster
 C. e. flavimanus

 C. e. gloveri
 C. e. gongshanensis
 C. e. gordoni
 C. e. griseimanus
 C. e. griseopectus
 C. e. haringtoni
 C. e. hendeei
 C. e. hyperythrus

 C. e. intermedius
 C. e. michianus
 C. e. ningpoensis
 C. e. pranis
 C. e. qinglingensis
 C. e. rubeculus
 C. e. shanicus
 C. e. siamensis

 C. e. sladeni
 C. e. styani
 C. e. thai
 C. e. thaiwanensis
 C. e. wuliangshanensis
 C. e. wulingshanensis
 C. e. zhaotongensis
 C. e. zimmeensis

Distribution and habitat
Pallas's squirrel is found throughout much of southeastern Asia, including far eastern India, Bhutan, northern and eastern Myanmar, Vietnam, parts of Cambodia and Laos, much of Thailand, northern peninsular Malaysia, Taiwan, and southern and eastern China, including Hainan . Within this region, they are found within a range of forest habitats below  elevation, including tropical and subtropical evergreen, deciduous broadleaf, and subalpine conifer woodlands.

Populations have been introduced in the Buenos Aires Province of Argentina, Dadizele in Belgium (where initially mistaken for Père David's rock squirrel), the Netherlands, Cap d'Antibes in France, and Japan. In these regions it is considered an invasive species, as it can cause considerable damage to trees and may outcompete native wildlife such as the red squirrel. In 2016, the species was included in the European list of Invasive Alien Species of Union concern (the Union list). This implies that it cannot be imported, bred, transported, commercialized, or intentionally released into the environment in the whole of the European Union.

Biology

Like all tree squirrels, Pallas's squirrels are primarily herbivorous. They eat a wide range of different foods, and have differing diets in different parts of their broad range. However, primary foodstuffs include leaves, flowers, seeds, and fruit. They also eat small quantities of insects, as well as occasional bird eggs.

The squirrels breed throughout the year, and may mate again as soon as they have weaned a previous litter. Gestation lasts 47 to 49 days, and results in the birth of up to four young, with two being typical. The young leave the nest at 40 to 50 days old, and are sexually mature at one year of age. They have lived for up to 17 years in captivity.

Behaviour

Pallas's squirrels are diurnal, and inhabit much of the forest canopy, and construct both leaf nests  above the ground, and less commonly, in burrows. Females occupy home ranges of just , which usually do not overlap, while males occupy much larger ranges of , which overlap with those of both nearby males and females. Like many other squirrels, they have been observed to cache acorns in the autumn.

The squirrels make calls to warn neighbours of predators, and have been observed to mob tree-climbing snakes, with females protecting young being particularly likely to join in. Males also make loud calls both prior to and after mating.

References

Callosciurus
Rodents of Southeast Asia
Mammals of Asia
Rodents of Bangladesh
Rodents of Myanmar
Rodents of Cambodia
Rodents of China
Rodents of India
Rodents of Laos
Rodents of Malaysia
Mammals of Taiwan
Rodents of Thailand
Rodents of Vietnam
Mammals described in 1779
Taxa named by Peter Simon Pallas


title: Ratthasart Korrasud

text:
Ratthasart Korrasud ( born January 1, 1976) is recognized from both IT Management for various companies and formal Thai pop singer and actor GMM Grammy who released his debut in 1994 with the boyband U.H.T. (ยูเอชที). He is also sometimes known as Pepper UHT. Currently active as an IT/ digital media expert, he has worked in this field for many years and teaches IT for many universities.  Currently, he is head of eCommerce Development of Electronic Transactions Development Agency, Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Royal Thai Government.  Previously he was Vice President of Sanook Online (now Tencent (Thailand)), the operator of Thailand's number one web portal and Country Manager of LINE Corporation (Thailand.)

Biography
Pepper was born in Bangkok in 1976. He is of Thai, Chinese, and German descent. In 1994, he debuted his career as a member of the inaugural famous Thai boyband U.H.T. (ยูเอชที).
He received his bachelor's degree in Public Administration from the Faculty of Political Science, Thammasat University.
From 2000 to 2002, he studied in Chicago, Illinois in the United States for a Master of Information System – Software Engineering where he graduated with honors.
Soon after, he returned to his home country to complete a doctoral degree in Branch Board of Education Curriculum and Instruction (C&I) from Kasetsart University in 2011.

Discography

Work Experiences
2018 SENIOR EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT/ COO, DIGITAL ECONOMY PROMOTION AGENCY (DEPA),MDES
2015 SENIOR DIRECTOR, ELECTRONIC TRANSACTIONS DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (ETDA), MDES
2014 Country Manager/ CEO – LINE Corporation (Thailand)
2011 Vice President – Sanook Online Co.Ltd. (Tencent Technology)
2001 Consultant – Holcim Services (ASIA) Co., Ltd.

Albums with U.H.T.
 1994 – Good good friends / ดูดีดีนะเพื่อน
 1996 – Summertimes / ซัมเมอร์ ไทม์
 2003 – 2U / ทูยู
 2004 – Red Message / เรด เมสเสจ

Special Albums
Group albums with U.H.T., Tata Young, Christina Aguilar, Patiparn Pataweekarn, Myria Benedetti and Jetrin Wattanasin
 1995 – 6.2.12
 2013 – 6.2.13

Filmography

Television
 2004 – Leh Ratree / เล่ห์รตี with
 2004 – Wung Num Won / วังน้ำวน with
 2005 – Buang Ruk / บ่วงรัก with Fang Pitchaya
 2005 – Rak Lhok Lhok Yah Boke Krai / รักหลอกๆ อย่าบอกใคร with Sopitnapa Chumpanee
 2006 – Lord Lai Mungkorn / ลอดลายมังกร with Pimolrat Pisolyabutr
 2007 – Maya Pissaward / มายาพิศวาส with Ann Alicha Laisattruklai
 2007 – Sao Ban Rai Grub Nai Hi-So / สาวบ้านไร่กับนายไฮโซ with Ann Alicha Laisattruklai
 2008 – Sapai Khon Krua / สะใภ้ก้นครัว with Amy Amika Klinprathum
 2009 – Ching Chang / ชิงชัง with Ann Alicha Laisattruklai
 2010 – Rong Raem Pee / โรงแรมผี with Chakrit Yamnam
 2010 – Sao Chai Hi-Tech / สาวใช้ไฮเทค with Amy Amika Klinprathum
 2011 – Talad Arom / ตลาดอารมณ์ with Airin Yoogthatat

Master of Ceremony: MC ON TV

References

1976 births
Living people
Ratthasart Korrasud
Ratthasart Korrasud
Ratthasart Korrasud
Ratthasart Korrasud
Ratthasart Korrasud
Ratthasart Korrasud
Ratthasart Korrasud
Ratthasart Korrasud


title: Sirichok Sopha

text:
Sirichok Sopha (; born 14 June 1967 in Bang Rak, Bangkok), nicknamed Lek (, , "small"), is a former Thai Democrat Party politician who used to represent Songkhla Province in the House of Representatives and previously served as Private Secretary to Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva.

Early life & education
Born as a youngest son (out of three child) to Lao-born Chinese father and Thai mother, Sirichok was educated at Assumption College, St Bede's Preparatory School, Eastbourne College, King's College London (B.Sc. in Chemistry) and Prince of Songkla University (MBA).

Careers
While studying in England, he used to be a DJ in a pub and also used to win a break dance contest. After graduation, he worked for a while as a lecturer.

He first applied for election in the 1995 general election in the Bangkok constituency under Nam Thai Party but not elected.

He also ran for elections in the Bangkok again, in the next election at the end of 1996 under the Democrat Party, but was not elected again.

Sirichok was elected for the first time in the constituency of Songkhla in the general election in early 2001.

Politically, he is regarded as an intimate of Abhisit Vejjajiva, earning him the alias "Wallpaper" as he often appears behind Abhisit while giving press interviews.

After missing the mid-2023 elections (not elected twice in a row), he has announced his retirement from politics.

In addition to his career as a politician, Sirichok also owns a hotel in Vibhavadi area. His hotel is unique in that it is an aquarium hotel. It also serves pla ra (Thai fermented fish)-flavored pizza.

Personal life
His family business produces squid snacks under the brand Squidy.

Sirichok is currently single, and he supports Stoke City FC.

Notes

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Living people
Sirichok Sopha
People educated at St. Bede's Prep School
People educated at Eastbourne College
Alumni of King's College London
Sirichok Sopha
Sirichok Sopha
Sirichok Sopha
Sirichok Sopha
Sirichok Sopha


title: Louis Auguste-Dormeuil

text:
Louis Albert Auguste-Dormeuil (25 August 1868 in Croissy-sur-Seine – 8 October 1951 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye) was a French sailor who represented his country at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Meulan, France.

Further reading

References

External links

1868 births
1933 deaths
French male sailors (sport)
Sailors at the 1900 Summer Olympics – .5 to 1 ton
Sailors at the 1900 Summer Olympics – Open class
Olympic sailors for France
Sportspeople from Yvelines
Olympic gold medalists for France
Olympic medalists in sailing
Medalists at the 1900 Summer Olympics
20th-century French people


title: Walter Knödel

text:
Walter Knödel (May 20, 1926 – October 19, 2018) was an Austrian mathematician and computer scientist. He was a computer science professor at the University of Stuttgart.

Born in Vienna, Walter Knödel studied mathematics and physics at the University of Vienna. Also in Vienna, Knödel received his PhD in 1948 for his work on number theory under the direction of Edmund Hlawka and got habilitated in 1953. In 1961, Walter Knödel became professor for mathematics at the University of Stuttgart.

Walter Knödel authored a number of books and scientific publications. He wrote the first German textbook on computer programming in 1961.
He was the founding dean of the faculty for computer science at the University of Stuttgart and founding member of the German Computer Society the Gesellschaft für Informatik.

The Knödel numbers became named after Walter Knödel. He died in Stuttgart on October 19, 2018.

References

20th-century  Austrian  mathematicians
Academic staff of the University of Stuttgart
1926 births
2018 deaths
University of Vienna alumni
Austrian expatriates in Germany
Scientists from Vienna


title: 1900 (magazine)

text:
1900 is a Dutch bi-monthly sports magazine published in Amsterdam, focusing on the association football club AFC Ajax. It was founded in 2012 with its first edition appearing on 20 December 2012.

History
1900 magazine was created in 2012 by AFC Ajax N.V. and Blue Flower Media to provide a bi-monthly journal surrounding the Dutch association football club AFC Ajax from Amsterdam. The name of the magazine is derived from the founding year of the club, which was first officially registered on 18 March 1900. The first issue appeared on 20 December 2012 and had former Ajax player and head coach at the time Frank de Boer on the cover. The Chief-Editor of the magazine is Joost De Jong, who had previously been an editor for AD Sportwereld, and the editor in chief for NLCOACH.

People on the cover

Staff

Editors
Jan Cees Butter (2012–present)
Maarten Dekker (2012–present)
David Endt (2012–present)
Sander van Hal (2013–present)
Robert Heukels (2012–present)
Mark van den Heuvel (2013–present)
Joost de Jong (2012–present)
Dominic King (2013–present)
Nik Kok (2012–present)
Hein de Kort (2012–present)
Ronald Kres (2013–present)
Diana Kuip (2013–present)
Menno Pot (2013–present)
Martijn Reijnink (2012–present)
Eric Verweij (2012–present)
Rob Willemse (2012–present)
Martin van Zaanen (2013–present)

Chief-editors

See also
AFC Ajax
Ajax Magazine
Ajax-nieuws

References

External links

2012 establishments in the Netherlands
AFC Ajax
Association football magazines
Bi-monthly magazines published in the Netherlands
Sports magazines published in the Netherlands
Dutch-language magazines
Magazines established in 2012
Magazines published in Amsterdam


title: Intelsat II F-4

text:
Intelsat II F-4 was a communications satellite operated by Intelsat. Launched in 1967 it was operated in geostationary orbit at a longitude of 176 degrees east and later 166 degrees west.

The fourth and last Intelsat II satellite to be launched, Intelsat II F-4 was built by Hughes Aircraft around the HS-303A satellite bus. It carried two transponders, which were powered by body-mounted solar cells generating 85 watts of power. The spacecraft had a mass of  at launch, decreasing through expenditure of propellant to  by the beginning of its operational life.

Intelsat II F-4 was launched atop a Delta E1 rocket flying from Launch Complex 17B at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The launch took place at 00:45:00 UTC on September 28, 1967, with the spacecraft entering a geosynchronous transfer orbit. It fired an SVM-1 apogee motor to place itself into its operational geostationary orbit. The spacecraft was operated at a longitude of 176° east until 1970, before being moved to 166° west. In total the satellite remained in service for around three and a half years.

As of February 8, 2014 the derelict Intelsat II F-4 was in an orbit with a perigee of , an apogee of , inclination of 6.00 degrees and an orbital period of 23.95 hours.

References

Intelsat satellites
Hughes aircraft
Spacecraft launched in 1967


title: Lipnitsky

text:
Lipnitsky (Russian:Липницкий, Hebrew: ליפניק) is a surname in male form (the female form is Lipnitskaya or Lipnitskaia [Липницкая]).  Notable people with the surname include:

Isaac Lipnitsky
Aleksandr Lipnitsky

Yulia Lipnitskaya

References

Surnames
Russian-language surnames
Surnames of Jewish origin


title: 2015 Fed Cup

text:
The 2015 Fed Cup (also known as the 2015 Fed Cup by BNP Paribas for sponsorship purposes) was the 53rd edition of the most important tournament between national teams in women's tennis. The final took place on 14–15 November and was won by the Czech Republic for the second year in a row, and for the fourth time in five years.

World Group

Seeds

Draw

Final

Czech Republic vs Russia

World Group play-offs

The four losing teams in the World Group first round ties, and four winners of the World Group II ties entered the draw for the World Group play-offs. Four seeded teams, based on the latest Fed Cup ranking, were drawn against four unseeded teams.

Date: 18–19 April

  remained in the World Group in 2016.
 , , and  were promoted to the World Group in 2016.
  remained in World Group II in 2016.
 , , and  were relegated to World Group II in 2016.

World Group II

The World Group II was the second highest level of Fed Cup competition in 2015. Winners advanced to the World Group play-offs, and losers played in the World Group II play-offs.

Seeds
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Date: 7–8 February

 World Group II play-offs

The four losing teams from World Group II played off against qualifiers from Zonal Group I. Two teams qualified from Europe/Africa Zone, one team from the Asia/Oceania Zone, and one team from the Americas Zone.

Date: 18–19 April

  and  remained in World Group II in 2016.
  and  were promoted to World Group II in 2016.
  and  remained in Zonal Group I in 2016.
  and  were relegated to Zonal Group I in 2016.

 Americas Zone

 Group I
Venue: La Loma Sports Centre, San Luis Potosí, Mexico (outdoor hard)

Dates: 4–7 February

Participating teams

Pool A

Pool B

 Play-offs

  advanced to World Group II play-offs
  and  were relegated to Americas Zone Group II in 2016

 Group II
Venue: Centro Nacional de Tenis, Santo Domingo Este, Dominican Republic (outdoor hard)
 Dates: 24–27 June

Participating teams

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

 Pool D

 Play-offs

  and  were promoted to Americas Zone Group I in 2016.

 Asia/Oceania Zone

 Group I
Venue: Guangdong Olympic Tennis Centre, Guangzhou, China (outdoor hard)

Dates: 4–7 February

Participating teams

Pool A

Pool B

 Play-offs

  advanced to World Group II play-offs
  was relegated to Asia/Oceania Zone Group II in 2016

 Group II
Venue: SAAP Tennis Complex, Hyderabad, India (outdoor hard)

Dates: 14–18 April

Participating teams

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

 Pacific Oceania

 Play-offs

  was promoted to Asia/Oceania Zone Group I in 2016.

 Europe/Africa Zone

 Group I
Venue: Syma Sport and Events Centre, Budapest, Hungary (indoor hard)

Dates: 4–7 February

Participating teams

 Pool A

  Pool B

 Pool C

 Pool D

 Play-offs

  and  advanced to World Group II play-offs
   and  were relegated to Europe/Africa Zone Group II in 2016

 Group II
Venue: Tere Tenniscentre, Tallinn, Estonia (indoor hard)

Dates: 4–7 February

Participating teams

Pool A

 Pool B

 Play-offs

  and  were promoted to Europe/Africa Zone Group I in 2016
  and  were relegated to Europe/Africa Zone Group III in 2016

 Group III
Venue: Bellevue, Ulcinj, Montenegro (outdoor clay)

Dates: 13–18 April

Participating teams

 Pool A

 Pool B

 Pool C

 Pool D

 Play-offs

  and ''' were promoted to Europe/Africa Zone Group II in 2016

References

External links
 fedcup.com

2015 in tennis
2015
2015 in women's tennis


title: William Jones (bishop of Puerto Rico)

text:
William Ambrose Jones  (July 21, 1865 – February 17, 1921) was a bishop of the Catholic Church born in the United States. He served as Bishop of Puerto Rico from 1907 to 1921.

Biography
Born in Cambridge, New York, William Jones was ordained a priest for the Augustinian order on March 15, 1890. On January 12, 1907, Pope Pius X appointed him as the Bishop of Puerto Rico. He was consecrated a bishop by Archbishop Giuseppe Aversa, the Apostolic Delegate to Cuba, on February 24, 1907. The principal co-consecrators were Bishops Pedro Ladislao González y Estrada of San Cristóbal de la Habana and Antonio Aurelio Torres y Sanz of Cienfuegos. He arrived in Puerto Rico on March 16, 1907.

Jones continued to serve as the diocesan bishop until his death on February 17, 1921, at the age of 55. His remains were transferred to San Juan Cathedral, in Puerto Rico.

References

External links

 (for Chronology of Bishops)
 (for Chronology of Bishops)

1865 births
1921 deaths
Augustinian bishops
American Roman Catholic missionaries
Burials at the Cathedral of San Juan Bautista, Puerto Rico
Catholics from New York (state)
Roman Catholic missionaries in Puerto Rico
People from Cambridge, New York
20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Puerto Rico
Roman Catholic bishops of Puerto Rico


title: Doyle Piwniuk

text:
Doyle Piwniuk ( ) is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Manitoba Legislative Assembly in a by-election on January 28, 2014. He represents the electoral district of Turtle Mountain as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba (PCs).

Prior to his election to the legislature, Piwniuk was an insurance broker and financial planner in Virden. He began his political service in opposition, and served in the party's shadow cabinet as critic for multiculturalism and literacy. He was re-elected in provincewide general elections in 2016 and 2019, in which the PCs won government.

Electoral record

|Progressive Conservative
| Doyle Piwniuk
|align="right"| 3,137
|align="right"| 68.20
|align="right"| +2.23
|align="right"|15,355.65

|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|4,600
!align="right"|100.00
!align="right"|
|align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Rejected and declined votes
!align="right"|10
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|4,610
!align="right"|33.55
!align="right"|
|align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Electors on the lists
!align="right"|13,739
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|align="right"|

|}

References

Living people
Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba MLAs
People from Virden, Manitoba
21st-century Canadian politicians
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: Donna Boley

text:
Donna Jean Boley (; born December 9, 1935) is a Republican member of the West Virginia Senate representing the 3rd district. West Virginia Governor Arch A. Moore, Jr. appointed Boley on May 14, 1985, to fill a seat made vacant by the resignation of Sam White on April 24, 1985. Since her election to White's unexpired term in 1986, Boley has gone on to win re-election nine times. From 1990 to 1996, she was Senate Minority Leader. In 1991 and 1992, Boley was also the only Republican member in the 34-member Senate, making her the minority chairwoman for every single Senate committee.

As of 2021, Boley is the longest continuously serving state senator in West Virginia history. Boley represents Senate District 3, which includes Pleasants, Wood, Wirt and part of Roane counties.

Electoral history

References

External links
Senator Donna J. Boley West Virginia Legislature
Donna Boley's Biography Project Vote Smart

1935 births
21st-century American politicians
Living people
People from St. Marys, West Virginia
People from Tyler County, West Virginia
Republican Party West Virginia state senators
West Virginia University at Parkersburg alumni
Women state legislators in West Virginia
21st-century American women politicians


title: HMS Porpoise (1804)

text:
HMS Porpoise was the former mercantile quarter-decked sloop Lord Melville, which the Royal Navy purchased in 1804 to use as a store-ship.

She sailed to the colony of New South Wales in January 1806, arriving seven months later. She was the flagship of William Bligh when he was governor of New South Wales and played a prominent role in the Rum Rebellion. In May 1810 Porpoise sailed from Sydney; after arriving in Britain she underwent a major refit. After voyages to the West Indies, the Cape of Good Hope and North America she served as a harbour ship at Woolwich and Sheerness. She was laid up in 1814 and sold in January 1816.

She then returned to mercantile service under her original name and made one voyage transporting convicts to New South Wales, and a second to Van Diemen's Land. She was last listed in 1820.

Naval service
Lord Melville was built at South Shields, England. The Royal Navy purchased her in September 1804 and fitted her out at Deptford between March and July 1805 for service as a storeship. She was renamed Porpoise and commissioned in April 1805 under Commander Joseph Short as a flagship for Commodore William Bligh. Bligh was formally appointed captain of Porpoise on 13 November 1805.

Voyage to Australia
On 28 January 1806 she left Portsmouth for New South Wales, escorting the transports Lady Madeleine Sinclair, , , Elizabeth, and Justina. Lady Madeleine Sinclair was also carrying Bligh, who was sailing to the colony to assume the governorship. Unfortunately, the Admiralty's orders were ambiguous as to whether Bligh or Short was in command of the convoy. At one point Bligh ignored a signal from Short to return Lady Madeleine Sinclair to her course, after Bligh had ordered a change in direction. Short responded by ordering his first lieutenant, John Putland, to fire one shot across her bows, and then a second across her stern; Bligh ignored both. Short considered ordering Putland to fire a third shot into her, but decided against it. This was fortunate as Bligh was Putland's father-in-law, and Putland's wife Mary was accompanying her father on Lady Madeleine Sinclair.

The convoy passed Madeira on 25 February and were reported all well on 5 March. On 14 May Porpoise, the storeship , and the brig Rolla detained and sent into the Cape of Good Hope the Danish packet ship Trende Sostre (Three Sisters).

Service in Australia
Porpoise arrived in Sydney Harbour on 6 August. Bligh assumed the governorship of the colony and retained Porpoise to act as its principal naval unit. In January 1807 Short returned to Britain on . In his absence Bligh appointed Putland to command Porpoise. Putland died of tuberculosis on 4 January 1808.

Porpoise then came under the command of Lieutenant James S.G. Symons (acting). In April 1808 Lieutenant William George Carlile Kent (acting), replaced Symons, who had discharged himself (that is, deserted) from the vessel and returned to Britain. Later, Bligh pressed charges against Kent for Kent's actions during the Rum Rebellion while Bligh was under arrest. The court martial exonerated Kent, saying that he had tried to carry out his duty for "the good of His Majesty's service" under "extreme and extraordinary difficulties".

In 1808, Lieutenant John Porteous, formerly captain of the royal yacht, was appointed to the rank of Commander and sent out to New South Wales to assume command of Porpoise. He took command in January 1809.

On 29 February 1809 Bligh boarded Porpoise after being held under house arrest for over a year following a revolt by the New South Wales Corps, known as the Rum Rebellion. For a little while he blockaded the port with the idea of capturing the convict transport , but changed his mind and sailed for Hobart.

Colonel Lachlan Macquarie of the 73rd Regiment of Foot arrived in Sydney with  and HMS Dromedary on 28 December 1809 and assumed the governorship. Porpoise and Bligh returned to Sydney on 17 January 1810. In May Porpoise, Hindostan, and Dromedary sailed for Britain.

Further service
After returning to Britain Porpoise refitted at Woolwich between May and August 1811. Between 1811 and 1812 she was under the command of T. Stokes, master. She made voyages to the West Indies, the Cape of Good Hope, and North America.

Captain Peter Rye, who had been posted captain in 1812 from the hired armed ship  commanded Porpoise from April 1813 until October 1814. Between December 1813 and February 1814 she was at Deptford fitting out to serve as a receiving ship at Woolwich. She then served as a 16-gun guardship at Sheerness.

Disposal
Porpoise was laid up in ordinary in 1815. The "Principal Officers and Commissioners" of the Royal Navy offered Porpoise for sale in November 1815. She sold on 16 January 1816 for £1,600.

Lord Melville again
Lord Melville, built at Shields and of 400 tons (bm), reappears in the Register of Shipping for 1816 with Weatherall, master, Bell & Co., owner, and trade London–Botany Bay.

On 15 September 1816, Captain Thackray Weatherall sailed her from England. Lord Melville arrived at Sydney on 24 February 1817. She had embarked 103 female prisoners, two of whom died en route On 1 May she sailed for Batavia.

In July 1818 Weatherall again sailed with convicts for Australia; this was the first voyage direct from England to Hobart. Lord Melville arrived on 17 December. This time she carried 149 male convicts, one of whom died on the voyage.

Fate
Lord Melvilles fate after 1820 is currently obscure.

Citations

References

1804 ships
Ships built by Temple shipbuilders
Sloops of the Royal Navy
Storeships of the Royal Navy
Convict ships to New South Wales
Convict ships to Tasmania


title: Shannon Martin

text:
Shannon Martin is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Manitoba Legislative Assembly in a by-election on January 28, 2014. He represents the electoral district of McPhillips as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba.

Martin first ran as a Progressive Conservative candidate in the 1999 Manitoba provincial election, in the Winnipeg division of Kildonan. He was defeated by Dave Chomiak of the New Democratic Party.

Prior to his election to the legislature, Martin was executive director of Reaching E-Quality Employment Services, a Winnipeg-based not-for-profit that assists persons with disabilities find employment. He was also provincial director of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business.

He was re-elected in the 2016 and 2019 provincial elections.

Electoral record

|Progressive Conservative
| Shannon Martin
|align="right"| 2,642
|align="right"| 69.99
|align="right"| -4.01
|align="right"|

| Independent
| Ray Shaw
|align="right"| 138
|align="right"| 3.66
|align="right"| -
|align="right"|

|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|3775
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Rejected and declined votes
!align="right"|17
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|3792
!align="right"|27.51
!align="right"|
|align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Electors on the lists
!align="right"|13782
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|align="right"|

|}

References

Living people
Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba MLAs
21st-century Canadian politicians
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: Robert Dudley Best

text:
Robert Dudley Best (1892–1984) was a British manufacturer deeply involved with the Modern design movement in and immediately after the interwar years. He took over Best & Lloyd, his father's light industrial engineering works in Birmingham, having previously trained as a metal designer at art school in Düsseldorf. He went on to design the Bestlite, an iconic Bauhaus-styled desk lamp that remains in production and was used by Winston Churchill in Whitehall.

Best was an early apostle of the posture therapist F.M. Alexander of the Alexander technique, campaigned for better art-school education for industrial apprentices, and was a founder of the Common Wealth Party in 1942. His social circle included a group of Birmingham artists and intellectuals including Prof. Philip Sargant Florence and others associated with Birmingham University. He also befriended Nikolaus Pevsner during Pevsner's 15 months in Birmingham between 1934-5, and hosted the first visit of Walter Gropius to the Midlands after Gropius's departure from Germany in 1934.

Best wrote prolifically, though only one of his books was published in his lifetime: Brass Chandelier, his history of his father's experiments with metal manufacturing and promotion of progressive German pedagogic ideas, which Pevsner reviewed in the Architectural Review.

Best's history of his own early life and that of his younger brother Frank, both of whom served in the First World War, was published posthumously in 2020 as From Bedales to the Boche.

References

British industrial designers
British industrialists
1892 births
1982 deaths
Common Wealth Party
20th-century industrialists


title: Tunde Kelani

text:
Tunde Kelani (born 26 February 1948), popularly known as TK, is a Nigerian filmmaker. In a career spanning more than four decades, TK specialises in producing movies that promote Nigeria's rich cultural heritage and have a root in documentation, archiving, education, entertainment and promotion of the culture.

He is also known for his love of adaptation of literary material into movies as most of his works have followed that style of filmmaking, including Ko se Gbe, O le ku, Thunder Bolt, The Narrow Path, White Handkerchief, Maami and Dazzling Mirage.

At an early age, he was sent to Abeokuta, to live with his grandparents. The rich Yoruba culture and tradition he experienced in his early years, coupled with the experience he garnered at the London Film School where he studied the art of filmmaking, prepared him for what he is doing today.

Early life
Tunde Kelani was born in Lagos but, at the age of five, he was sent to live with his grandparents at Abeokuta in Ogun State. He attended the Oke-Ona Primary School in Ikija, Abeokuta, and had his secondary school education at Abeokuta Grammar School. During this time, his grandfather was a chief (the Balogun of Ijaiye Kukudi) and he was privileged to have witnessed at close quarters most aspects of Yoruba ways of life, the Yoruba religion, Yoruba literature, Yoruba philosophy, Yoruba environments and the Yoruba world view in arts.

He was introduced to Yoruba literature from an early stage in his life and was also greatly influenced by theatre, as the Yorubas had a very strong travelling theatre tradition at that time. When he was in secondary school, he had the privilege to see most of the great Yoruba theatre classics, including The Palm-Wine Drinkard, Oba Koso, Kurunmi, Ogunde plays and more.

He became interested in photography from primary school dayss, and throughout his secondary-school education, he was actively investing money and taking to time to learn photography. So, inevitably, he became an apprentice photographer after he finished secondary school. Later, he trained at the then Western Nigeria Television (WNTV) and went on to attend the London Film School.

Early career
In the 1970s, Kelani worked as a BBC TV and Reuters correspondent, and in Nigerian TV. For Reuters he travelled to Ethiopia to cover the drought and to Zimbabwe three times to cover independence there. Once he finished from the London Film School, he returned to Nigeria and co-produced his first film with Adebayo Faleti, called The Dilemma of Rev. Father Michael (Idaamu Paadi Minkailu). Other co-producers include Alhaji Lasisi Oriekun, Wale Fanubi – his partner from Cinekraft, Yemi Farounbi and screenplay by Lola Fani-Kayode. Kelani has also worked on most feature films produced in Nigeria in his capacity as a cinematographer. Some of the 16mm feature films he worked on include: Anikura; Ogun Ajaye; Iya Ni Wura; Taxi Driver; Iwa and Fopomoyo. In 1990, Kelani was an assistant director and an actor in the 1990 film Mister Johnson, the first American film shot on location in Nigeria. Starring Pierce Brosnan and Maynard Eziashi, the film was based on a 1939 novel by Joyce Cary.

Literary adaptations
TK developed a soft spot for reading at a very young age and this later developed into his favourite pastime. Starting with the five works of D. O. Fagunwa, which include Igbo Olodumare, Ogboju Ode Ninu Igbo Irunmale, Aditu Olodumare, Irinkerindo Ninu Igbo Elegbeje and Ireke Onibudo, he immersed himself in any literal work he could get his hands on in both Yoruba and English language. Once he discovered the relationship between literature and drama, he adopted literary adaptations as a working model for his filmmaking. Not only does he love the books, he loves the authors too as he's always found hanging among them. His favourite writers include Kola Akinlade, Pa Amos Tutuola, Cyprian Ekwensi, Akinwunmi Ishola, Adebayo Faleti, Wale Ogunyemi and Wole Soyinka.

Some of his most successful films are literary adaptations and they include: Koseegbe, Oleku, Thunderbolt (Magun), The White Handkerchief, The Narrow Path, Maami and recently Dazzling Mirage. He has decided to maintain this model for his future films.

Production company
In 1991, Tunde Kelani started his own production company, Mainframe Films and Television Productions – Opomulero, so he could produce films and not just lend technical support. Having emerged from the world of theatre and literature, adaptations of books and plays for cinema are the core of Kelani's filmmaking practice and through them he celebrates writers and their work to what he sees as a public that reads less and less.

At Mainframe, he has produced movies such as Ti Oluwa Nile, Ayo Ni Mo Fe, Koseegbe, Oleku, Thunderbolt (Magun), Saworoide, Agogo Eewo, The Campus Queen, Abeni, Narrow Path, Arugba and Maami.

His latest work, Dazzling Mirage, an adaptation from a novel by Olayinka Egbokhare, is a love story about how a sickle-cell sufferer overcomes social stigma, prejudice and her own low self-esteem, to achieve success, marriage and motherhood. Through the movie, he hopes to bring much needed awareness and attention to the sickle-cell condition and help people make better informed decisions.

Filmography

See also
 List of Nigerian film producers

References

External links

Tunde Kelani Official website
Dazzling Mirage Official website
Academic analysis of Tunde Kelani's writings

1948 births
Living people
20th-century Nigerian businesspeople
21st-century Nigerian businesspeople
Actors from Ogun State
Alumni of the London Film School
Businesspeople from Lagos
Filmmakers from Lagos
Lifetime Achievement Award Africa Movie Academy Award winners
Nigerian cinematographers
Nigerian film directors
Nigerian film producers
Nigerian television company founders
Nigerian television producers
People educated at Abeokuta Grammar School
Yoruba people
Yoruba businesspeople
Yoruba filmmakers
Yoruba-language film directors


title: Noriko Ueda

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Noriko Ueda  (born 14 March 1972) is a jazz bassist, composer and arranger.

Ueda was born in Hyogo prefecture, Japan, and is based in New York City. She trained in classical piano and voice, as well as acoustic and electric bass and studied classical voice at the Osaka College of Music and jazz composition at Berklee College of Music.

Ueda is a member of the Sherrie Maricle led all-woman big band the DIVA Jazz Orchestra, as well as the DIVA Jazz Trio and Five Play.

She won the third annual BMI Foundation Charlie Parker Jazz composition prize in 2002 for her work "Castle in the North."

References

External links

 The DIVA Jazz website

1972 births
Living people
Women jazz composers
Japanese jazz composers
Japanese jazz double-bassists
Musicians from Hyōgo Prefecture
21st-century women musicians
21st-century double-bassists
Osaka College of Music alumni
Berklee College of Music alumni