title: 1997 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Men's 100 metre butterfly

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The men's 100 metre butterfly competition at the 1997 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 12 at the NISHI Civic Pool.  The last champion was Scott Miller of Australia.

This race consisted of two lengths of the pool, all in butterfly.

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 12.

B Final
The B final was held on August 12.

A Final
The A final was held on August 12.

References

1997 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships


title: Barquero

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Barquero is a 1970 American Western film starring Lee Van Cleef and Warren Oates directed by Gordon Douglas.

Plot
After stealing a shipment of silver and weapons, the brutal and unstable Remy and his band of mercenaries must cross a river in order to flee into Mexico. Travis, the maverick owner-operator of a barge that ferries people and goods across the river, learns that Remy and his band are on the way. Travis and his woman, Nola, transport the nearby settlement's inhabitants and a group of passing settlers to the river's far side. When Remy and his band arrive, Travis refuses to cross back to pick them up, knowing that Remy and his men will kill everyone else after they cross the river. A tense standoff develops between Remy and his gang, and Travis and the inhabitants and settlers, who occupy opposite sides of the river. Remy is advised by Marquette, a Frenchman he trusts. Travis is greatly assisted by Mountain Phil, a friend of his who is similarly independent-minded in the way he lives. Both Remy and Travis have to contend with dissenters within their own camps. It all explodes into a violent and bloody battle, leading to a final confrontation between the two.

Cast
 Lee Van Cleef as Travis
 Warren Oates as Remy
 Forrest Tucker as Mountain Phil
 Kerwin Mathews as Marquette
 Mariette Hartley as Anna
 Marie Gomez as Nola
 Armando Silvestre as Sawyer

External links

See also
 List of American films of 1970

References

1970 films
1970 Western (genre) films
American Western (genre) films
1970s English-language films
Films directed by Gordon Douglas
Films scored by Dominic Frontiere
Films shot in Colorado
United Artists films
Revisionist Western (genre) films
1970s American films
English-language Western (genre) films


title: Love Insurance

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Love Insurance is a lost 1919 American silent comedy film directed by Donald Crisp, produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is based on the novel of the same name by Earl Derr Biggers, Love Insurance.

Love Insurance was later remade in 1924 as The Reckless Age and in sound era in 1940 as One Night in the Tropics.

Plot
As described in a film magazine, Lord Allan Harrowby (Elliott), upon arriving in America to wed an heiress, goes to the New York office of Lloyd's of London and insures against the lady changing her mind. Dick Minot (Washburn), assistant manager of the office, is assigned to the task of preventing that occurrence. He meets Cynthia Meyrick (Wilson), the lady in question, but not knowing her identity falls in love with her. However, business is his first thought and when she decides that she does not love her fiancé and is about to break her engagement, he does all in his power to bring about the wedding. This involves defeating a stranger who claims to be the real Lord Harrowby, outwitting a customs official who seeks to arrest the nobleman for smuggling in a diamond necklace, the routing of a clever criminal who tries to steal the necklace, and effecting the dismissal of a young woman who threatens a suit for breach of promise. After all this is effected and the wedding about to proceed, Cynthia again changes her mind, but this time it is because of an act by Harrowby. By the terms of the policy, this releases the company, so Dick presents his own case to Cynthia, which she accepts and they elope.

Cast
Bryant Washburn as Dick Minot
Lois Wilson as Cynthia Meyrick
Theodore Roberts as Spencer Meyrick
Frances Raymond as Mary Meyrick
Frank Elliott as Allan Harrowby
Edwin Stevens as Martin Wall
Clarence Geldart as George Harrowby
A. Edward Sutherland as Jack Paddock
P. Dempsey Tabler as Hunt
Fred E. Wright as O'Malley
Edward Alexander as Jarvis
Wilton Taylor as Stacy
Fred Huntley as Jenkins
Willard Louis as Trimmer
Ethel Fleming as Gabrielle

References

External links

allmovie.com
Film still (University of Washington, Sayre collection)
Film stills at silenthollywood.com

1919 films
American silent feature films
Lost American comedy films
Films based on American novels
Paramount Pictures films
Films directed by Donald Crisp
1919 comedy films
American black-and-white films
Films based on works by Earl Derr Biggers
Silent American comedy films
1919 lost films
1910s American films


title: Pasila dumping ground

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The Pasila dumping ground was a dumping ground in Ilmala, Helsinki between 1949 and 1963. It was the main dumping ground of the city at the time, one of the “big three”. The other two were the Iso-Huopalahti dumping ground and the Vuosaari dumping ground. It was located at the present site of the Ilmala Railyard. Before 1949 it was the main dumping ground of the Finnish State Railways. Technically the site is part of the Pasila neighbourhood.

Household waste and industrial waste were taken to the site, and the place was not guarded.

History

Finnish State Railways dumping ground
The Finnish State Railways first used the site to dispose of its used cross ties, sinking them into the local marsh.

City of Helsinki dumping ground
Helsinki started using the site as its dumping ground in 1949. At first, the area was filled from the east, and the process continued towards the west. Many fires occurred at the site, and sometimes even the old railroad ties underneath caught fire. It is estimated that around  of waste was taken to the site. The area of the site was .

Finnish State Railways railyard
The use of the site as a dumping ground came to an end when the Iso-Huopalahti dumping ground started operating. Land was brought to the area, and it was levelled into a sand field. Then the area was left to settle for seven years, after which, in 1970, the first tracks and a hall for passenger cars were built. The area became the railroad depot for the passenger cars of the State Railways.

Later a sorting station for the Finnish Postal Service as well as a depot for Pohjolan Liikenne was built in the western fringes of the area. From time to time, the ground has caved in, and during the 2000s major repairs of the area were required, as holes have appeared in the ground and the tracks have sunk in places. The city of Helsinki has estimated the repair works will not incur significant costs.

The site at present
The area is now in use that resembles industrial use, and the dumping ground can not be discerned any longer. The waste has decomposed completely.

Despite the city's estimates that the area will not give rise to significant costs, a scientist who studied the topic has stated:

Even though the dumping ground has officially not existed for decades the site still contained wrecked cars in 2006 when photos of the site were posted to the internet.

Present effects on the surrounding areas
A lake, Huopalahdenjärvi, existed at the site of the dumping ground in the 19th century. The waters of this area, now known as Pohjois-Pasila flow down the Kumpulanpuro brook into Kumpula and into the sea in Vanhankaupunginselkä Bay.

Earlier these waters were directed to an industrial water treatment plant in the city, but since May 2011, the waters have been allowed to empty into the Kumpulanpuro. Occasionally contaminated water will overflow into nearby areas such as the Vallila allotment garden, causing problems.

The construction of an urban runoff park in the Isonniitty Park area in Kumpula has begun, and the former “recreational and playground grass is just a memory now”. The permission for this work was applied for by the Finnish Transport Agency and the State Railways. The permission was granted by the Regional State Administrative Agency for Southern Finland.

References

External links
The Pasila dumping ground
Kaatopaikkojen ympäristövaikutukset ja Helsingin entiset kaatopaikat. (Tanja Toivola’s Thesis for engineer's degree)

Former landfills of Helsinki
Pasila
Vallila


title: House of Representatives (Libya)

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The Libyan House of Representatives (HoR; ) is the legislature of Libya resulting from the 2014 Libyan parliamentary election, which had an 18% turnout. On 4 August 2014, in the course of the progressing August 2014 Islamist coup in the capital Tripoli in the context of the Libyan Civil War, the House of Representatives relocated itself to Tobruk in the far east of Libya. Several HoR sessions were held in Tripoli in May 2019 while Tripoli was under armed attack, electing an Interim Speaker for 45 days. Between 2014 and 2021, the House of Representatives supported the Tobruk-based government led by Abdullah al-Thani before supporting the incumbent Government of National Unity led by Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh. In September 2021, the House of Representatives passed a no-confidence motion against the interim GNU government and later appointed a rival Government of National Stability (GNS).

History

Formation
The Libyan House of Representatives officially became a legislative body on 4 August 2014, following an election on 25 June 2014, replacing the General National Congress. Turnout at the election was 18%, down from 60% in the first post-Gaddafi election of July 2012. Because of security concerns no voting took place in some locations.

 the chairman was Aguila Saleh Issa.  the deputy presidents of the Council of Deputies were Imhemed Shaib and Ahmed Huma.  , the HoR's associated executive authority was the Second Al-Thani Cabinet, led by Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thani, based in Bayda, Libya.

The Tripoli-based Libyan Supreme Constitutional Court ruled on 6 November 2014 that the June elections were unconstitutional and that the House of Representatives should be dissolved. The House of Representatives rejected the ruling, saying that the ruling was made "at gunpoint", with the court being controlled by armed militias.

On 23 August 2014, a rival parliament in Tripoli was restored, the General National Congress (GNC). The House of Representatives did not recognize the new GNC, and voted on 6 October 2015, 112 out of 131, "to extend its term beyond 20 October", given the inability to hold elections.

Shift to Tobruk
On 4 August 2014, following the occupation of Tripoli by armed Islamist groups during the Second Libyan Civil War, the House of Representatives relocated to Tobruk in the far east of the country. Since there was not enough housing for them, they initially hired a car ferry from a Greek shipping company, the Elyros of ANEK Lines, for members to live and meet in. Later the HoR relocated to the Dar al-Salam Hotel in Tobruk.

Skhirat agreement

In October 2015, the UN envoy for Libya, Bernardino León, announced a proposal for the House of Representatives to share power with the rival new GNC government, under a compromise prime minister, Fayez al-Sarraj. However, the terms of the final proposal were not acceptable to either side, and both rejected it.  Nonetheless, the proposal did spark a revised proposal put together by Fayez al-Sarraj and others, which was subsequently supported by the United Nations. On 17 December 2015 members of the House of Representatives and the new General National Congress signed this revised political agreement, generally known as the "Libyan Political Agreement" or the "Skhirat Agreement". Under the terms of the agreement, a nine-member Presidency Council and a seventeen-member interim Government of National Accord would have been formed, with a view to holding new elections within two years. The House of Representatives would have continued to exist as a legislature and an advisory body, to be known as the High Council of State, would have been formed with members nominated by the New General National Congress. On 31 December 2015, Chairman of the House of Representatives, Aguila Saleh Issa declared his support for the Libyan Political Agreement.

As of April 2016, the Libyan National Elections Commission was still considering its recommendations on legislation to implement the next election of the House of Representatives.

A new round of talks that started in October 2017 in Tunis broke down a month later without a deal. On 17 December 2017, general Khalifa Haftar declared the "so-called" Skhirat agreement void.

2019 Tripoli meetings
Early in April 2019, during the 2019–20 Western Libya campaign, 31 members of the House of Representatives made a public statement supporting the attack on Tripoli and 49 members made a public statement opposing the attack. On 2 May, 51 members of the HoR held a session at the Rixos al-Nasr Hotel. They stated that their session was not intended to split up the HoR nor Libya and called other members of the HoR to attend another Tripoli session planned for 5 May. They opposed the use of military force, called for a political solution to the offensive, and called for the Presidential Council, in its role as the head of the Libyan armed forces, to appoint a new head of the army to replace Khalifa Haftar, who had been appointed by the HoR on 2 March 2015.

On 5 May, a Tripoli session of 47 members of the House of Representatives elected al-Sadiq al-Kehili as Interim Speaker, Musaab al-Abed as a rapporteur and Hammuda Siala as a spokesperson, for a period of 45 days, with 27 votes in favour.
In the 2014 Libyan parliamentary election, al-Kehili was elected with 1596 votes in electorate 56, Tajura; Musaab al-Abed (Musab Abulgasim) was elected with 2566 votes in electorate 59, Hay al-Andalus; and Sayala (Siyala) was elected with 6023 votes in electorate 58, Tripoli Central. On 8 May, another session was held in Tripoli, creating an Internal Code Review committee, to review HoR decisions made since 2014, under Article 16 of the Skhirat Agreement; an International Communication committee; a Secretarial Office; and a Crisis committee, to "follow" the work of the emergency committee created by the Presidential Council in relation to the 2019 Western Libya offensive. Sayala stated in a televised interview that solving the crisis in Libya would require a political agreement in which the HoR is "restored" as the highest legislative authority in Libya.

Disappearances

On 17 July 2019, one of the Benghazi members of the House of Representatives, Seham Sergewa, well-known for her documentation of rape as a weapon of war during the 2011 Libyan Civil War, was detained by the Libyan National Army (LNA). , her location was unknown.

Government of National Unity
On 10 March 2021, the House of Representatives met in the central city of Sirte to formally approve the formation of a Government of National Unity (GNU) led by Mohamed al-Menfi as chairman of the Presidential Council and Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh as Prime Minister. 121 members of the House voted to approve the formation of the unity government. The Government of National Unity was seeking to unify the rival Government of National Accord based in Tripoli and the Second Al-Thani Cabinet based in Tobruk.

On 21 September, the House of Representatives passed a no-confidence vote against the GNU led by Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh after 83 out of the 113 members present voted for the motion, thus practically acknowledging support for the Government of National Stability.

Government of National Stability
On 10 February 2022, the House of Representatives selected Fathi Bashagha as prime minister-designate, after HoR Speaker Aguila Saleh announced the only other candidate, Khalid Al-Baybas, withdrew his candidacy. However, Al-Baybas has denied withdrawing from the race. Prime Minister of the GNU Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh rejected Bashagha's appointment as prime minister, stating that he will only hand power after a national election. Khalifa Haftar and his Libyan National Army welcomed Bashagha's appointment. Civilian and military leaders in Misrata rejected the formation of a new government and declared support for the GNU. Egypt's foreign ministry supported the “new government,” but the United Nations said it continued to recognize Mr. Dbeiba's leadership.

On 1 March, the House of Representatives voted to give confidence to Bashagha's Government of National Stability (GNS). According to HoR Speaker Saleh, 92 out of 101 attending members voted for the new government. A HoR member raised questions about the validity of the vote by stating that 10 votes from absent members were cast via voice messages sent to the Speaker. The High Council of State rejected "unilateral" steps by the HoR and regards the HoR decision to grant confidence to a new government a violation of the Libyan Political Agreement. The United Nations has voiced concerns over the vote due to reports on lack of transparency and procedure, and acts of intimidation prior to the HoR session.

On 16 May 2023, Finance Minister Osama Hamada was appointed acting Prime Minister of Libya by the House of Representatives.

See also
High Council of State (Libya)
Libyan Civil War (2014–2020)
Libyan Crisis (2011–present)
2014 Libyan parliamentary election

References

External links
Official website
Official Facebook page

Politics of Libya
Political organizations based in Libya
Libya
Libya
2014 establishments in Libya
Libyan Crisis (2011–present)


title: John Ringling Causeway

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John Ringling Causeway (also known as Ringling Bridge or Gil Waters Bridge) is a bridge that extends past the Sarasota Bay, from Sarasota to St. Armands Key and Lido Key.  The  bridge, built in 2003, is a segmental box girder bridge named after John Ringling, one of the founders of the Ringling Brothers Circus and resident of the Sarasota area.

History
The first bridge was built in 1925 by John Ringling, who owned large tracts of land on both Lido and Longboat Keys. He wanted to develop the islands and financed the cost of the bridge at the cost of approximately $750,000, equivalent to $ in , to connect the islands with the mainland. The ornate bridge opened for traffic on February 7, 1926. It was labeled "one of the greatest engineering accomplishments in the South” by the Sarasota Herald, which also proclaimed, “There are no words adequate with which to express our appreciation.” Ringling donated the bridge to the city in 1927.

Around 1950, the first bridge began to show that it could not adequately handle increased traffic to the islands. In 1951, the State Road Department opted to replace the bridge with a four-lane drawbridge, which was completed and opened to traffic in 1959. The drawbridge was built for $20 million, and the original bridge was demolished.

Around 2000, the drawbridge began to suffer the same fate as its predecessor. With the drawbridge opening as many as 18 times a day, it was unable to handle increasing amounts of traffic. To remedy the situation, construction began on the current high-span bridge in 2001. The  tall bridge opened for traffic in 2003 for $68 million. Landscaping around the bridge was financed by private donors.

References

Road bridges in Florida
Bridges completed in 2003
1925 establishments in Florida
Box girder bridges in the United States
Transportation buildings and structures in Sarasota County, Florida


title: Azerbaijani dialects

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Azerbaijani dialects reflect relatively minor language differences and are mutually intelligible. The Azerbaijani language has two distinct sublanguages: Northern and Southern.

Southern Azerbaijani contains many Arabic and Persian words that are not familiar to northern speakers. This began to increase in 1828.

Dialect groups
The main dialect groups are Eastern (Derbent, Baku, Shamakhi, Mugan and Lankaran dialects), Western (Qazakh, Karabakh, Ganja and Ayrum dialects), Northern (Nukha, Zaqatala - Qakh dialects) and Southern (Yerevan, Nakhchivan, Ordubad and Tabriz dialects). The dialects are mutually intelligible but differ with regard to accent, syntax, and vocabulary. Eastern and northern groups of dialects were influenced by the Kypchak language.

The dialects can be distinguished by geographical location such as Iran, Turkey, Iraq, Dagestan and Georgia. Afshar, Qashqai, Aynallu, Bayat, Shahsven, Qajar and Turkman dialects stem from these areas. Others are Tabriz, Urmia, Khoy, Kushchinskiy (central Ostan), Maraga, Merende, Uryantepin, Turkmenchay, Ardabil, Sarabian, Mian, Galugiha (Mazandaran), Lotfabad and Dergez (Khorasan- Rizaui) dialects.

According to Encyclopedia Iranica:

According to Ethnologue, North Azerbaijani has the following regional dialects, each of which is slightly different from the other: "Quba, Derbend, Baku, Shamakhi, Salyan, Lenkaran, Qazakh, Airym, Borcala, Terekeme, Qyzylbash, Nukha, Zaqatala (Mugaly), Qabala, Nakhchivan, Ordubad, Ganja, Shusha (Karabakh), Karapapak, Kutkashen, Kuba". While South Azerbaijani has the following dialects: "Aynallu (Inallu, Inanlu), Karapapakh, Tabriz, Afshari (Afsar, Afshar), Shahsavani (Shahseven), Moqaddam, Baharlu (Kamesh), Nafar, Qaragozlu, Pishagchi, Bayat, Qajar".

According to the second edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam, there are four main dialects of Azeri: 1) Baku-Shirvan, 2) Ganja-Karabakh, 3) Tabriz, and 4) Urmia.

Publications
The first comparative analysis of the Turkic (Azerbaijani) dialects was carried out by Mirza Kazimbey in his 1839 book The General Grammar of the Turkish – Tatar Language.

During 1924 - 1930, Soviet researchers collected some 60 thousand dialect words. The program was prepared to compile a comprehensive dictionary. N.I. Ashari led this program. The Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan SSR published a one-volume dictionary named Dialectological Dictionary of the Azerbaijani Language in 1964, which covered more than six thousand words.

At the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, the Dictionary of the Dialects of the Azerbaijani language was published. The dictionary contained samples from Zangibasar, Sharur, Yardimli, Tebriz, Gubadli, Lachin, Kalbacar, Balakan, Qakh and Zagatala.

See also
Turkish dialects

References

Azerbaijani language dialects
Azerbaijani


title: Indianapolis Traction Terminal

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The Indianapolis Traction Terminal was a major interurban train station in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. It was the largest interurban station in the world and at its peak handled 500 trains per day and seven million passengers per year. The station opened in 1904 and remained in use until 1941, when interurban operation ended. It continued to serve as a bus station until 1968 and was demolished in 1972. The Hilton Indianapolis now stands at its location.

Design

The terminal was designed by D. H. Burnham & Company, an architectural firm based in Chicago. The terminal consisted of three parts: a nine-story office building, a passenger waiting platform, and an adjoining train shed.

The train shed was  wide and covered nine tracks. It was positioned north-south, with trains entering from Market Street and exiting to Ohio Street. The train shed severed Wabash Street.

East of the train shed was the waiting station. This consisted of a  by  platform covered by a skylight, with waiting rooms underneath.

The office building stood nine stories tall and was  by  at its base. The building's frame was constructed with steel. The exterior of the first two stories was covered in Bedford limestone, native to Indiana, while the remaining seven stories were "speckled brick."

The original complex included a freight-handling area in the northwest corner. By 1918 freight traffic outstripped the terminal's ability to handle it and the Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Eastern Traction Company constructed a separate freight station on Kentucky Avenue. All freight traffic to the terminal ended in 1924.

History

The terminal was the joint effort of seven interurban railroads which provided service to Indianapolis: Indiana Traction; Indianapolis and Eastern Railway; Indianapolis and Cincinnati Traction; Indianapolis, Columbus and Southern Traction; Indianapolis and Martinville Rapid Transit; Indianapolis Coal Traction; and the Indianapolis and Northwestern Traction. Construction began in July 1903 and was completed in September 1904. The total cost of construction exceeded . It was the largest interurban station in the world.

Indianapolis stood at the center of a large interurban network; in 1914 the terminal handled 500 trains per day and seven million passengers per year. Interurban service to the terminal ended in 1941 as the industry collapsed. The tracks were paved over but the terminal remained in use as a bus station until October 1968, at which time the former train shed was removed. In April 1972 the office building was demolished as well. The Hilton Indianapolis, originally constructed as the headquarters of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Indiana (part of Anthem), now occupies the block.

When the Terminal's train shed was torn down in 1968, it was dismantled, not demolished. The structural steel girder sections were numbered and removed to the site of the Indiana Museum of Transport and Communication (known today as the Indiana Transportation Museum) in Forest Park, located in Noblesville, Indiana. The $10,500 cost for that portion of the project was almost entirely financed (all but $500) by a donation from Ruth Lilly, and the original goal was to eventually reassemble the shed and use it to shelter the museum's existing and future railroad equipment collection. An adjoining two-story office and waiting room was envisioned, which was to include a scaled-down replica of the terminal's original waiting room. However, the plan languished due to the prohibitive projected cost of its reconstruction. The stacked girders remained untouched until the early 1980s, when they were finally hauled away as scrap.

The only surviving remnants of the complex today are two stone eagle sculptures that once flanked either side of the train shed. They were removed in 1968 and are now located on the steps of the Old Indianapolis City Hall.

References

External links

 Indianapolis Traction Terminal at Historic Indianapolis

1904 establishments in Indiana
Buildings and structures in Indianapolis
Former railway stations in Indiana
Railway stations closed in 1941
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1904
Transportation buildings and structures in Marion County, Indiana
1972 disestablishments in Indiana
Buildings and structures demolished in 1972
Demolished railway stations in the United States
Railway stations in the United States closed in the 1940s


title: Oswald Lancashire

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Oswald Philip Lancashire (10 December 1857 – 23 July 1934) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Lancashire, Cambridge University and the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), plus other amateur sides, between 1878 and 1888. He was also a successful Association football player. He was born at Newton Heath, Manchester and died at West Didsbury, also in Manchester.

Lancashire was educated at Lancing College and at Jesus College, Cambridge. He won a Cambridge Blue for football in 1878, 1879 and 1880, when he captained the team against Oxford University; in all three years, Cambridge won the university match.

As a cricketer where he played as a right-handed batsman, often appearing in the lower middle-order, Lancashire played for both Cambridge University and for the county side of Lancashire in 1878 and 1879 without much success. In 1880, he passed 50 for the first time in making an innings of 60 for Cambridge against the "Gentlemen of England" side in a high-scoring match. He was then awarded his cricket Blue, and in the 1880 University match he made 5 and 29 as a strong Cambridge team beat Oxford by 115 runs. Lancashire was still at Cambridge in 1881 but though he played a few more matches for the university cricket team he did not do well enough to win a second Blue.

After leaving Cambridge, Lancashire continued to play county cricket fairly regularly for the next half dozen years without ever making much of an impact: in 1886, for example, he played in 19 first-class matches, all but one of them for the Lancashire county team, but he averaged only 10.03 with the bat and his highest score that year was just 49. In 1884, he scored 119 for Lancashire in a non-first-class game against Cheshire. But his highest first-class score was an innings of 76 against MCC in 1885, when he was left undefeated when Lancashire won the match by eight wickets. He did not play first-class cricket after the 1888 season.

Unmarried, Lancashire appears to have had no profession or occupation and to have been of "independent means". He was a Justice of the Peace for Lancashire from 1887. He was chairman of Lancashire County Cricket Club from 1913 to 1927 and president in 1923-24.

References

1857 births
1934 deaths
English cricketers
Cambridge University cricketers
Lancashire cricketers
Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers
Gentlemen of England cricketers
Gentlemen of the North cricketers
People educated at Lancing College
Alumni of Jesus College, Cambridge


title: Machibuse

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Machibuse () is a 1970 Japanese drama film directed by Hiroshi Inagaki.

Cast
 Toshiro Mifune − 'Yojimbo'
 Yujiro Ishihara − Yataro
 Ruriko Asaoka − Okuni
 Shintaro Katsu − Gentetsu
 Kinnosuke Nakamura − Heima Ibuki
  Chusha Ichikawa − Unknown Samurai

Plot
A ronin (Toshiro Mifune, often referred to as "yojimbo") is instructed to go to a mountain pass and await further instructions. On the way he rescues Okuni (Ruriko Asaoka), a woman abused by her husband. While at a roadside inn, the ronin meets several characters including the disgraced doctor, Gentetsu (Shintaro Katsu), a pompous police constable, and a criminal he has arrested. The ronin uncovers a plot for bandits to steal gold as it is being transported along the mountain pass. As Mifune's yojimbo had done in previous plots, he plays all sides and pretends to aid the bandits. At the end another layer to the scheme is uncovered, and the mastermind who dispatched the ronin and informed the bandits about the gold is the same person. There was never any gold, and it was all a ruse to have the bandits killed.

Release
Machibuse was produced by Toshiro Mifune's production company and released in Japan by Toho on April 29, 1970. It was released by Toho International in the United States with English subtitles as The Ambush on December 18, 1970. The film was re-issued in 1971 under the title Machibuse. It is also known in English as Incident at Blood Pass.

Actors Toshiro Mifune and Shintaro Katsu performed in movies produced by each other. Earlier, in January of 1970, another film starring Mifune and Katsu was released, Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo. That film was produced by Katsu's own production company.

Reception
Despite its big budget and the appearance of four of the country's biggest stars, the film was not a success.

References

Footnotes

Sources

External links

1970 drama films
1970 films
Films directed by Hiroshi Inagaki
Films with screenplays by Hideo Oguni
1970s Japanese-language films
Films scored by Masaru Sato
Toho films
1970s Japanese films


title: Frankie Jones

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Frankie Jones may refer to:

 Frankie Jones (reggae singer), 1970s/1980s Jamaican singer, also known as Jah Frankie Jones
 Frankie Jones (boxer) (1933–1991), Scottish flyweight/bantamweight boxer
 Frankie Jones (gymnast) (born 1990), Welsh Olympic gymnast
 Frankie Lee (musician) (1941–2015), American soul blues singer-songwriter, born Frankie Lee Jones


title: Graham Marsh (producer)

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Graham N. Marsh (born September 27, 1979) is an American record producer, recording engineer and multi-instrumentalist from Georgia. He has helped produce four Grammy Award-winning albums from sixteen nominations. He is also half of the Brooklyn indie pop duo CLAVVS with singer-songwriter Amber Renee. Marsh began releasing songs from his instrumental project Draigh in early 2019.

Career
Marsh is a graduate of Full Sail University's Recording Arts program. He started his career in Atlanta working at Jermaine Dupri's "Southside Studios" for So So Def Recordings where he worked with Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, Nelly and Bryan-Michael Cox.  While at Southside Studios, Marsh met Dallas Austin's engineer/programmer, Rick Sheppard and was hired to work at Dallas' DARP Studios. Marsh worked at DARP as an assistant to Dallas and Sheppard, engineering recordings for Natalie Cole, George Clinton, Joss Stone, Sugababes and Lionel Richie.

Marsh steadily became in very heavy demand as more people became aware of his amazing talents as an engineer. He has engineered, produced and given his multi-instrumentalist talents to a very long list of well known megastars including Asher Roth, Fantasia, Leona Lewis, Estelle, Nas, Travie McCoy, The Constellations, Plies, Ciara, Amerie, Juvenile, Ludacris, "Rick Ross", Common, Novel, Kelis, Kid Cudi, Chase & Status, The Teddybears, and Bruno Mars. In recognition of his engineering talents Marsh was nominated for "Outstanding Creative Achievement" at the 27th annual TEC Awards.

Marsh met CeeLo Green at one of his freelancing jobs which proved to be a Grammy winning union. Marsh and CeeLo Green formed the production team The Grey Area to work on music that would be mainstream hits.  He collaborated on Gnarls Barkley's The Odd Couple and CeeLo's 2010 multi-platinum smash "Fuck You" from The Lady Killer album. The result of this collaboration was Graham receiving two Grammy nominations, with one win for Best Urban/Alternative Performance for the song "Fuck You".

Marsh met Amber Renee in summer of 2013, and the pair started writing songs together under the name CLAWS (eventually changed to CLAVVS). They released their first singles in 2015. CLAVVS' music has been featured on the CW's Charmed and MTV's Teen Wolf. They have earned praise from NPR, The Line of Best Fit, and Consequence of Sound, among others.

Grammy Awards
Graham Marsh has won four Grammy Awards from sixteen nominations.

Discography
 Sugababes – Taller in More Ways (2005)
 Sugababes – Push The Button (2005)
 Lionel Richie – Coming Home (2006)
 Da BackWudz –  Wood Work (2006)
 Stacie Orrico – Beautiful Awakening (2006)
 Natalie Cole – Leavin (2006)
 Leona Lewis – Spirit (2007)
 Ludacris – Release Therapy (2007)
 Elliott Yamin – Sounds of the Season: The Elliott Yamin Holiday Collection (2007)
 Elliott Yamin – My Kind of Holiday (2008)
 Kung Fu Panda Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2008)
 Estelle – Shine (2008)
 Amerie – In Love & War (2009)
 Asher Roth – Asleep in the Bread Aisle (2009)
 SpongeBob's Greatest Hits (2009)
 Kate Earl – Kate Earl (2009)
 The Falcon Lords - Straight From the Center of Their Volcano Lair (2010)
 CeeLo Green – The Lady Killer (2010)
 CeeLo Green – F**k You (2010)
 Bruno Mars – It's Better If You Don't Understand (2010)
 Bruno Mars – Doo-Wops & Hooligans (2010)
 Sex and the City 2 – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2010)
 Rick Ross – Teflon Don (2010)
 Fantasia Barrino – Back to Me (2010)
 Common – Universal Mind Control (2010)
 Rave On Buddy Holly (2011)
 The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2011)
 CeeLo Green – Stray Bullets: The Mixtape Made Of Gold (2011)
 CeeLo Green – Bright Lights Bigger City (2011)
 "Footloose 2011 Soundtrack" (2011)
 Cobra Starship Night Shades (2011)
 Sparkle Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2012)
 Why? (American band) - "Mumps, etc." (2012)
Cisilia - Ring Den Alarm (2015)
 CLAWS  – Feel It All (2015)
 Como Brothers Band  – Imagination (2015)
Lauryn Hill - Nina Revisited: A Tribute to Nina Simone (2015)
CLAVVS - halfblood (2016)
Empty Houses - Daydream (2016)
CLAVVS - World Underwater (2017)
CLAVVS - No Saviors EP (2019)
Draigh - Palm single (2019)

References

1979 births
Living people
American multi-instrumentalists
American record producers
American writers about music
American audio engineers
Full Sail University alumni


title: S.S. Jolley Bridge

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S.S. Jolley Bridge (also known as Judge S.S. Jolley Bridge) is a bridge located in Collier County, Florida connecting Marco Island with the mainland in Naples. The bridge is a good location for fishing.

The Jolley Bridge opened in 1969 and was the second vehicular bridge connecting to Marco Island.  The first was the original span of the Goodland Bridge built in 1938.  In 2011, a second parallel span was built next to the original to provide two additional travel lanes.  Today, southbound traffic uses the newer span, and northbound traffic uses the original span.

The Jolley Bridge is named for former Collier County Judge Seward Stokley Jolley, who served from 1935 until 1959.

References

Road bridges in Florida
Bridges completed in 1969
Concrete bridges in Florida
Buildings and structures in Naples, Florida
Transportation buildings and structures in Collier County, Florida


title: Hank Burnine

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Harold Henry "Hank" Burnine (November 9, 1932 – January 21, 2020) was an American football end who played two seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the New York Giants and Philadelphia Eagles. He was drafted by the New York Giants in the twelfth round of the 1955 NFL Draft. He played college football at the University of Missouri and attended Richmond High School in Richmond, Missouri.

College career
Burnine played for the Missouri Tigers from 1953 to 1955. He led the NCAA in receptions with 44 and in receiving yards with 594 his senior year in 1955 while also earning All-American honors. He recorded career totals of 75 receptions for 1,145 yards. Burnine was team captain his senior season and also played in the Blue–Gray Football Classic and Senior Bowl. He won two track letters for the Tigers as a broad jumper. He was inducted into the University of Missouri Intercollegiate Athletics Hall of Fame in 1993.

Professional career

New York Giants
Burnine was selected by the New York Giants with the 140th pick in the 1955 NFL Draft. He played in one game for the Giants during the 1956 season.

Philadelphia Eagles
Burnine played in fourteen games, starting seven, for the Philadelphia Eagles from 1956 to 1957.

Personal life
Burnine was also a sergeant in the United States Army. He started selling life insurance during the college football offseason.

He died on January 21, 2020, in Higginsville, Missouri at age 87.

See also
 List of NCAA major college football yearly receiving leaders

References

External links
Just Sports Stats

1932 births
2020 deaths
Players of American football from Missouri
American football ends
Missouri Tigers football players
New York Giants players
Philadelphia Eagles players
American male long jumpers
College men's track and field athletes in the United States
United States Army soldiers
20th-century American businesspeople
American businesspeople in insurance
Insurance agents
Businesspeople from Missouri
People from Ray County, Missouri


title: The Walking Dead: A New Frontier

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The Walking Dead: A New Frontier is an episodic graphic adventure video game based on the comic book series of the same name developed by Telltale Games. It is the sequel to The Walking Dead: Season Two, and the third game in The Walking Dead video game series. The first two episodes released on December 20, 2016, and a retail season pass disc edition released on February 7, 2017. The game employs the same narrative structure as the past seasons, where player choice in one episode will have a permanent impact on future story elements. The player choices recorded in save files from the first two seasons and the additional episode "400 Days" carry over into the third season.

The game takes place in the same fictional world as the comic, where a zombie apocalypse has caused society to collapse. The main characters of the game are mostly original characters; however, due to time skips in season two and between seasons two and three, the timeline is caught up to where the comics are. Clementine (voiced by Melissa Hutchison), who was the player's companion during the first season and the protagonist in season two, returns as a playable character, but the main protagonist of the season is an original character named Javier "Javi" Garcia (voiced by Jeff Schine). In A New Frontier, Javi and Clementine must work together with other survivors to rescue their respective families from the eponymous group, which Clementine used to be a member of.

Unlike the first two seasons, the game received mixed reviews from critics with praise aimed at its new cast of characters, updated engine, certain aspects of its choices and overall new direction, but criticism for the short episode lengths, treatment of the second season's endings, some of its characters, and Clementine's shift to a supporting role. A fourth and final season, titled The Walking Dead: The Final Season, was episodically released from August 26, 2018 to March 26, 2019.

Gameplay
Similar to the previous seasons, The Walking Dead: A New Frontier is a point-and-click adventure game. In contrast to previous seasons, there will be two playable characters: Clementine, the heroine from the previous games; and Javier, a new character introduced this season.  Players can direct the current character under their control around the environment, examine and interact with various scenery elements and collect and use objects to advance the story. The player can also initiate conversations with non-player characters via conversation trees. Certain replies from other characters may offer the player multiple choices to select from, including the option to stay silent, with a limited amount of time to make the selection; if the player does not select an option, the conversation will continue as if they had stayed quiet. Such choices can affect how the other characters will later react to the player-character which can influence later events in the story.  Other scenes are more action-oriented, requiring the player to complete quick time events to prevent the player-character or their allies from getting killed. If the player fails these events, the game will restart at the start of such scenes. Such action scenes may also require the player to make a key decision within a limited time frame, such as which of two characters to save from attacking walkers.

The player's choices and actions will impact story elements in later episodes; for example, a character that the player does not choose to be saved will not appear in later scenes. A New Frontier will incorporate player choices made in previous games in the series through existing save files; Telltale states they will offer multiple options for how players can bring in previous saves into the game, including for players that have switched their choice of platform prior to A New Frontier. A New Frontier will not be released on the PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360, but players that have saves from Season Two on these platforms will be able to download a patch on those consoles as to upload their saved game to Telltale's servers, and then access that from their new choice of platform. Telltale will also provide a separate tool for players to "quick-create a tailored backstory" for Clementine to this point, with a possible 42 different variations, and create a save file from which to start the new season with. Players may also opt to use the default backstory that Telltale has created as the basis for the game. Unlike the first two seasons, the third makes extensive use of flashback narrative structure.

Synopsis

Setting
The Walking Dead: A New Frontier follows on the first game, and coincides with events of the comic books, in which a zombie apocalypse has occurred, turning humans that are bitten or die into zombies, or "walkers"; the only way to stop this conversion is to damage the brain. The game is primarily set four years after the apocalypse began, and roughly two years after The Walking Dead: Season Two.

A New Frontier features two playable protagonists: Javier "Javi" Garcia (Jeff Schine), a former professional baseball player living with his sister-in-law Kate (Shelley Shenoy) and nephew, Gabe (Raymond Ochoa) and niece, Mariana (Vale de la Maza); and Clementine (Melissa Hutchison), a young teenager trying to survive on her own while continuing to look after Alvin Jr., the baby from the last season. Possibly also returning are either Kenny (Gavin Hammon) or Jane (Christine Lakin), depending on the player's decisions from the previous season. During the season, Javi's group is joined by Paul "Jesus" Monroe (Brandon Keener), the ambassador of the Hilltop community appearing in the comic series, and several survivors from the idyllic town of Prescott, including their leader Tripp (Troy Hall), town doctor Eleanor (Kelly Crowder), and bartender Conrad (William Christopher Stephens). Later episodes introduce the New Frontier, a larger group of survivors who have "lost their way" due to past events. The group is led by four people: Joan (Jayne Taini), the head of diplomacy; Dr. Paul Lingard (Yuri Lowenthal), the head of medicine; Clinton "Clint" Barnes (Andrew Heyl), the head of rations and food; and Javi's older brother and Kate's ex-husband David (Alex Hernandez), the head of security. Other members include David's right-hand woman Ava (Ally Johnson), and scouts Badger (Jon Curry), Max (Sean Lynch), and Lonnie (Charles Halford).

Plot

At the onset of the walker pandemic, Javi is living in Baltimore with David, Kate, Gabe, and Mariana. After Javi and David's father dies of cancer, he reanimates and bites their mother. David takes her to the hospital but doesn't return, while Javi and Kate eventually move on and set off on the road with Gabe and Mariana. Four years later, while scavenging for supplies at a junkyard, the four have a run-in with a group led by Max, Badger, and Lonnie. Javi is separated but is rescued by Clementine, who offers help in exchange for their family truck. Clementine takes Javi to Prescott—a fortified community within an old airfield—where he meets Tripp, Conrad, and Eleanor. Tripp and Eleanor agree to help rescue Javi's family.

During their rescue attempt, Mariana is killed and Kate is critically wounded by Badger and his men. Clementine identifies one of the attackers as a member of the New Frontier—a large group of survivors she had once met, who have since turned corrupt. The group returns to Prescott to treat Kate's injuries, but Badger arrives with reinforcements and releases a horde of walkers, which overrun the town. Javi, Clementine, Kate, Gabe, Tripp, Eleanor, and Conrad escape and head to another survivor camp in Richmond, Virginia. They are later joined by Jesus, who reveals Richmond is now controlled by the New Frontier. Clementine admits to Javi that she used to be a member of the New Frontier, but Conrad listens to their conversation and suggests using Clementine as a bargaining chip to secure their safe entry into Richmond. Javi either accepts the plan or rejects it by killing Conrad.

The group reaches Richmond and is let in after David is called. While Kate and Gabe are taken to Dr. Lingard for medical care, David shows Javi around Richmond and explains he became the New Frontier's head of security after being unable to return to Baltimore. Although David is glad to have his family back, his relationship with Kate is deteriorating. Javi later meets with David, Joan, and Clint to argue his case for staying in Richmond. Max arrives and accuses Javi of stealing New Frontier supplies and killing his men at the junkyard. Although David supports Javi, Joan and Clint decide to exile him and his group. Before they leave, David asks the group to meet him at a warehouse, where Clementine accuses him of causing AJ's death; flashbacks reveal that Clementine and AJ were forced to travel alone until they met Ava, who invited them into the New Frontier. When AJ became deathly ill, Clementine attempted to steal medicine from Lingard to save his life, which caused David to exile her without AJ. David reveals that AJ recovered from his illness and Lingard knows his whereabouts.

The group overhears Max, Badger, and Lonnie in the warehouse, and discovers the New Frontier is raiding other communities for supplies. They kill Badger and interrogate Max, who admits that Joan ordered the raids. Jesus takes his leave to warn his group while the others return to Richmond to confront Joan. If he was spared, Max exposes Joan's corruption to Clint. However, Joan turns on David by labeling him as a conspirator alongside Javi and prepares to hang him the next day at the town square. Javi escapes confinement and organizes his group, aiming to expose Joan and rescue David. He and Clementine meet up at the hospital, where Lingard, no longer able to cope with the New Frontier's actions, demands being killed by injection in exchange for information on AJ's whereabouts. Javi either capitulates to his demands or refuses, allowing Lingard to live.

The next day, Kate admits her love for Javi, who has the option of reciprocating. Javi's bid to expose Joan at the hanging fails via a betrayal from Eleanor, and he is forced to choose between a captured Ava and Tripp to save him from execution. Joan murders whoever Javi chose to be spared, and Clint offers Javi a deal to peacefully leave Richmond with his group, which he can accept but David will kill Clint or refuse by killing Joan. Regardless, David is rescued as a firefight breaks out. Kate races into the square but crashes into a fence, which opens a breach and allows walkers to pour through. The group barricades themselves in an apartment building and plans on how to save Richmond. However, David views Richmond as a lost cause and suggests leaving the city. Jealous of Javi and Kate's growing closeness, David fights his brother until walkers begin to close in on them. As David leaves in a truck with Gabe, Kate decides to man a bulldozer help save Richmond; Javi must decide whether to pursue David or help Kate. Depending on the choices she made in her flashbacks, Clementine will either follow Javi's lead, split up from him, go after Gabe and David, or stay with Kate. Their choices result in Javi losing David, Gabe, and/or Kate. Jesus returns with reinforcements and helps the survivors round up the walkers and lead them out of Richmond, saving the town.

Days later, Javi memorializes the ones lost and meets Jesus, who suggests that he becomes Richmond's new leader. If he is still alive, Lingard tells Clementine where AJ is, and she decides to leave Richmond to find him. After Javi gives Clementine a new haircut, they bid goodbye and she departs.

Episodes
The game is separated into five episodes, like the first and second seasons.

Development
When Telltale Games acquired the right to make video games based on The Walking Dead comics, they signed a contract for a "multi-year, multi-platform, multi-title" license. This license went into effect after the success of the first season of The Walking Dead, when Telltale commissioned a second series of games based on the franchise. The first season was considered highly successful, helping to revitalize the adventure game genre which had been in decline since the mid-1990s, with Telltale being recognized as one of the top development studios in 2012.

During an interview on IGN's Up at Noon, writer Gary Whitta teased more The Walking Dead from Telltale sooner than later. "You won't have to wait for season two to play more Walking Dead", he claimed. "I can tell you what you already know, which is season two is coming. There's not much to say because it really is very early... it's a way off", said Whitta. "But, knowing that it's a way off, and knowing that people are hungry for more Walking Dead there may very well be more Walking Dead from Telltale before season two. We may have a little something extra for you between season one and two". Whitta continued to tease that something is in the works right now "that will make the wait for season two slightly less agonizing". This was revealed at the 2013 Electronic Entertainment Expo in June 2013 to be an additional episode called The Walking Dead: 400 Days that is available as downloadable content for the first season. It introduces five new characters that journalists expect to carry into Season Two. 400 Days will use data about the player's decisions in season one, and decisions made in 400 Days will carry into Season Two.

Telltale's Sean Ainsworth and Dennis Lenart stated that the third season features a "new angle" from the story. It was confirmed by Robert Kirkman that Clementine would return for Season 3. Robert Kirkman also said the game would almost be at the same point as the current comic timeline. He also said more comic-related events would happen. During a 2015 E3 Discussion with Greg Miller and Job Stauffer, Stauffer implied that Season 3 was "a long ways off" and "considerably larger" than previous games. Stauffer hinted that some Comic Series characters would appear in Season 3.

Season 3 was planned to tie in all the possible endings that players from previous seasons may have taken, but as well as to draw in new players to the series. With the planned influx of new players and those that have transitioned off older consoles and do not have access to save games, Telltale provided a story generator tool that asks the player several questions as to customize a starting point for A New Frontier. These questions were developed by evaluating around 40,000 playthroughs that covered Season One and Two, and grouping the general pattern of choices made by players into a total of 42 distinct scenarios, from which they derived questions that would help guide a new player to fall in one of these sets. Bruner said they were more looking at patterns of behavior rather than specific decisions that had been made; for example, the decision whether to kill Lee at his request before he turns or leave him at the end of Season One was found to be "representative of some pretty complicated motivations" of the sum of players' choices in the game, and thus wanted this story generator to capture the motivation rather than the result.

In an interview with IGN, Kirkman stated that the third season would bring the video game closer to the comic book's current time frame at the time of its planned release. This season takes place a few years after the second season, and includes a somewhat older Clementine along with AJ, the infant she rescues at the end of Season 2 and now a toddler. Clementine is a playable character along with a new character, Javier. Telltale adapted its previous data about player choices from the first two seasons, which were saved locally to a player's computer or console, to work with their new cloud-based saving approach, so that these previous choices will affect how the story in the third season will play out. The game uses the updated Telltale game engine that it is using for its Batman game.

During the 2016 PAX Expo, Telltale revealed the third season would be released in November 2016, with the subtitle A New Frontier. Telltale later had to delay the first episode's release until December 20, 2016. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment published retail versions of Season 3 as part of a deal with Telltale for Batman that was released in August 2016. The physical edition was expected to release on February 24, 2017 in North America and March 3, 2017 in Europe; it contained the first two episodes on disc and through digital codes to redeem the other episodes once they were available.

A Nintendo Switch version was scheduled for release in 2020.

Soundtrack
On September 10, 2019, an official soundtrack album of Jared Emerson-Johnson's score to the game was released for digital download and on streaming services, with a special edition set of vinyl lps due to release shortly thereafter.

Sequel
In July 2017, Telltale Games and Skybound Entertainment announced the fourth and final season titled The Walking Dead: The Final Season which was released from August 2018 to March 2019.

Reception

The Walking Dead: A New Frontier received mixed reviews from critics with praise aimed at its new cast of characters, updated engine, and overall new direction, but criticism for the short episode lengths, treatment of the second season's endings, and Clementine's shift to a supporting role.

Episode 1: Ties That Bind Part One
Aggregating review website Metacritic gave the Microsoft Windows version 81/100 based on 35 reviews, the PlayStation 4 version 80/100 based on 10 reviews and the Xbox One version 78/100 based on 14 reviews.

Episode 2: Ties That Bind Part Two
Aggregating review website Metacritic gave the Microsoft Windows version 80/100 based on 33 reviews, the PlayStation 4 version 80/100 based on 9 reviews and the Xbox One version 78/100 based on 13 reviews.

Episode 3: Above the Law
Aggregating review website Metacritic gave the Microsoft Windows version 75/100 based on 29 reviews, the PlayStation 4 version 69/100 based on 8 reviews and the Xbox One version 73/100 based on 6 reviews.

Episode 4: Thicker Than Water
Aggregating review website Metacritic gave the Microsoft Windows version 72/100 based on 28 reviews, the PlayStation 4 version 65/100 based on 5 reviews and the Xbox One version 73/100 based on 4 reviews.

Episode 5: From the Gallows
Aggregating review website Metacritic gave the Microsoft Windows version 74/100 based on 23 reviews, the PlayStation 4 version 71/100 based on 5 reviews and the Xbox One version 59/100 based on 6 reviews.

Notes

References

External links
 Official website

2016 video games
Android (operating system) games
Episodic video games
Interactive movie video games
IOS games
Nintendo Switch games
PlayStation 4 games
PlayStation Network games
PlayStation Vita games
Point-and-click adventure games
Telltale Games games
Video game sequels
Video games developed in the United States
Video games featuring female protagonists
Video games scored by Jared Emerson-Johnson
Video games set in Baltimore
Video games set in Virginia
Video games set in Ohio
Video games set in 2007
Video games with cel-shaded animation
Windows games
Xbox Cloud Gaming games
Xbox One games
New Frontier
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title: 2014 Eastern Syria offensive

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The 2014 Eastern Syria offensive was an offensive launched by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or IS) against government-held military installations in eastern Syria during the Syrian Civil War, after expelling the Syrian rebels from the region. The offensive is considered to be the largest military attack against the Syrian government launched by ISIL since its establishment. It is also considered to be a reaction to Syrian Army military operations against ISIL positions in eastern Syria.

The offensive

Raqqa, Al-Hasakah, and Aleppo assaults
Late in the evening on 23 July, a 640-men strong Islamic State assault force (of which 40 were infiltrators) launched an attack on the Division 17 base, north of Raqqa, from three sides. The attack began with two suicide attacks. Both were thwarted by the defenders before they could reach their targets. However, the explosions did leave 19 soldiers dead. The next day, just hours after the attack on Division 17 started, ISIL launched an attack on the Regiment 121 base (known as the Melbiya Regiment), south of Al-Hasakah, and the Panorama checkpoint at the southern entrance to the city. According to some reports, militants breached the base and killed General Mozid Salama along with 20 of his men. A Syrian Army official denied this claim. At the same time, four infiltrators disguised as NDF members attacked the Ba'ath party building in Al-Hasakah, killing a high-ranking Ba'ath political leader. The four ISIL infiltrators eventually blew themselves up, killing a total of 12 persons.

During the night of 25 July, a suicide car-bomb was detonated at the Panorama checkpoint, killing five soldiers. Meanwhile, clashes at the southern perimeter of Al-Hasakah city killed three YPG fighters, while 11 Syrian soldiers (including an officer) died while defending the Artillery Regiment 121 base. 17 ISIL fighters were also killed near the base.

On 26 July, ISIL took control of Division 17 after government forces retreated, following two days of fighting. Hundreds of troops retreated from the base towards Brigade 93 and nearby villages. Three groups were pulled out, while one group stayed behind to cover the retreat. One of the retreating groups got ambushed by ISIL, but two other groups, numbering hundreds of soldiers, reached Brigade 93 that day. 300 other soldiers were still held up in the village of Al Rahyat. 50 soldiers from the ambushed group were captured and summarily executed. Overall, 85 soldiers were killed in the battle for Division 17. The fate of 200 others remained unknown, according to the Syrian Observatory For Human Rights (SOHR). Some of the executed Syrian soldiers were paraded in Raqqa, where the heads of soldiers were put on poles. 28 ISIL fighters were also killed during the takeover of Division 17.

On the same day, ISIL forces penetrated the besieged Kwayres air base, east of Aleppo, and captured parts of the airport campus.

In the evening, it was reported that ISIL managed to capture large parts of Artillery Regiment 121 base, and by the next day, according to SOHR, had fully taken control of the base. However, according to Kurdish sources, government troops recaptured the base after ISIL forces retreated under heavy artillery fire. It was also reported that YPG units seized weaponry from the SAA in Hasakah city, while YPG and pro-government fighters set up joint patrols in the southern parts of Al-Hasakah to prevent ISIL taking control of the city. According to the state news agency SANA, the military recaptured the Penitentiary center for teenagers, the Martyrs Cemetery and the al-Ahrash area on the southern outskirts of Hasakah.

Meanwhile, dozens of government soldiers, fleeing from the captured Division 17, reached the Al-Thawrah air base, also known as Al-Tabqa. Also during this time, ISIL forces retreated from the Kwayres air base due to heavy shelling.

Syrian Army counterattack

On 31 July, ISIL fighters retreated from the Al Mashtal area towards Mafraq Sediq, 7 kilometers west of Al Hasakah city, because of potential shelling by government forces. Meanwhile, ISIL itself shelled Al Hasakah with mortars, leaving three people dead.

On 1 August, the military counter-attacked and ISIL forces retreated from areas south-east of Al Hasakah city. Government troops captured the villages of Al Homor, Al Slaleyyi, Al Fallaha, Al Ma’ruf and Al Maqbara, eventually reaching the old junction of Al Shaddadi during the advance.

Further ISIL advances

After overnight clashes that started with a triple suicide bombing, on 7 August, ISIL forces captured large parts of the Brigade 93 base. The next day, ISIL was in full control of the base and started preparing to attack Al-Tabqa air base, the last government stronghold in Raqqa province. In the past, different rebel groups besieged the Al-Tabqa air base at different time periods. On 25 November 2013, they had shot down a government helicopter outside the base, killing all of its crew members.

By this time, the number of confirmed soldiers killed at Division 17 was updated to 105, while another 140 soldiers remained missing. 108 of the missing soldiers arrived at the air base on 14 August.

On 8 August, ISIS repelled a Kurdish and pro-government forces attempt to recapture the Geweran neighbourhood of Hasakah city through the Beiruti bridge.

Battle of Al-Tabqa airbase

Around 10 August 2014, ISIL started to continuously attack Al-Tabqa airbase.

After two weeks of fighting, and several repelled ISIL assaults, on 24 August, ISIL fighters breached Al-Tabqa and took control over large parts of the air base. This attack occurred when the Army was already retreating from the base to the Ithriya area, leaving a small garrison behind. The base was eventually captured that day.

In the final assault, Syrian 170 soldiers were killed, while since the start of the battle, 346 ISIL fighters and 195 Syrian soldiers had been killed. The number of dead soldiers was later updated to 200. Another 150 soldiers were reportedly captured, while 700 soldiers managed to retreat.

Mohasan and Baath Dam
On 28 August, Syrian fighter jets launched a precise attack on an ISIL HQ in the city of Muhasan, during a meeting between military leaders and sharia judges. The attack resulted in the death of most leaders inside (numbering six), while others were wounded. Another airstrike occurred the same day against an ISIL camp near Baath Dam, killing and wounding dozens of insurgents. According to SOHR, ISIL executed 160 Syrian soldiers between 27 and 28 August. At the beginning of October, 29 soldiers missing from the Brigade 93 base managed to reach the Army headquarters at Al-Hasakah city.

Aftermath

An ISIL training camp in eastern Syria was bombed by the Air Force on 14 September, resulting in 17 ISIL casualties. The next day, Special forces and Syrian Army engineers blew up the Political Bridge in Deir ez-Zor, killing all the militants who were on it. ISIL thus lost the only available land route to move into parts of the city it controlled. Further supplies had to be delivered by boats.

See also

 Deir ez-Zor clashes (2011–14)
 Siege of Deir ez-Zor (2014–17)
 Battle of the Shaer gas field
 Siege of Kobanî
 Palmyra offensive (May 2015)
 Northern Iraq offensive (June 2014)
 Northern Iraq offensive (August 2014)
 Eastern Syria campaign (2017–present)

References

Military operations of the Syrian civil war in 2014
Military operations of the Syrian civil war involving the Syrian government
Military operations of the Syrian civil war involving the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Military operations of the Syrian civil war involving the People's Protection Units
Military operations of the Syrian civil war involving the Syrian Democratic Forces


title: Erzsébet Szekeres

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Erzsébet Szekeres is a Hungarian disability rights activist and social entrepreneur. She has worked to minister to disabled people of Hungary by "training, employing, and housing disabled adults."

Beginning in the early 1980s, Szekeres began to strive toward greater opportunities for people with disabilities. Her own son, Tibor, had microcephalus and "severe mental retardation." Once Szekeres realized Tibor's chances of survival to adulthood were good, she determined to work toward providing her son and others with disabilities a fulfilling and productive adulthood. Such opportunities for people with disabilities were very rare; according to the Ashoka Innovators for the Public website, "In Hungary, the lack of integration of disabled people into society is extreme. Disabled people...{can not} gain access to public buildings or public transportation....the state solution is institutionalization for life." This state of affairs did not satisfy Szekeres. She began to connect with other parents of disabled children and established an "informal cooperative business running out of her basement." However, such business endeavors were not recognized legally until 1986, when Szekeres founded Összefogás Ipari SzÖvetkezet, or in English, the Alliance Industrial Union. Although progress was slow for a few years, in 1989 the Ministry of Welfare in Hungary awarded substantial funds to the Alliance. This helped to speed up the development of housing as well as facilities and supplies that would enable those with disabilities to earn money. Szekeres has worked to create an environment in which those with disabilities, including her son Tibor, could work and live as unimpeded by their handicaps as possible. According to Szekeres, "...In institutions, you can't leave, you can't be in couples. Here you have a lot of freedom. Here you are challenged to become part of a community." Szekeris was admitted as an Ashoka fellow in 1997 for her entrepreneurial approach to those with disabilities.

References

External links
 Erzsébet Szekeres' profile at Ashoka Innovators for the Public

Hungarian disability rights activists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Ashoka Fellows


title: Valentin Wolfenstein

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Valentin Wolfenstein (19 April 1845 – 3 February 1909) was a Swedish-American photographer who worked both in Stockholm and Los Angeles, California. He was one of the first photographers to use flash-lamps for photography.

He owned the first successful photography studio in Los Angeles where he photographed many famous Californians in the 1870s in 1880s.

After returning to Sweden, Wolfenstein owned Atelier Jaeger, the official court photographer's studio in Stockholm, from 1890 to 1905. He was a pioneer in his field and possibly the first in Sweden to make interior pictures in theaters using flash-lamp photography. He took pictures of theater scenes and actors' dressing rooms. A particular skill he developed was taking "look-alike pictures", a double exposure technique that combined images of the same person in two different poses, for example, sitting and standing.

Early life
Wolfenstein was born August Valentin Wolfenstein on 19 April 1845 in Falun. His parents were Viktor Adolf Wolfenstein (1817–1881) and Anna Elisabeth Brostrom (1807–1851). He emigrated to the United States during the American Civil War and enlisted in New York City on 31 January 1865. After the war he worked as a photographer in New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he had a photography studio in 1867.

He established a studio in Los Angeles in 1871 on the second floor of New Temple Block in Downtown Los Angeles. Here he bought the services of Henri Penelon, a French painter, for color tinting portraits. He is also listed as still being at Temple Block in 1875 in the Los Angeles city directory.

Mid-life
Wolfenstein married Philopena Brown (1863–1884) on 26 February 1884 while he was in New Bedford. They had a daughter the same year, named Florentina. Philopena died later that year. He then married Clara Brown (1868–1892). They had two sons, Robert (1889–1977) and Walter (1890 – d. before 1909). When he failed at some Los Angeles side businesses in the 1880s, he sought new surroundings and went to Guatemala and Mexico where he ran photographic studios.

He returned to Sweden in the 1890s, sometime after Clara died, and settled in Stockholm, where he became an employee of the royal photographer Johannes Jaeger at his studio, Atelier Jaeger. In the 1890s, Wolfenstein established a photographic studio at Drottninggatan 33 in Stockholm. When Jaeger moved back to Germany, his home country, Wolfenstein bought both of his studios for 60,000 kronor. Wolfenstein continued to call the studio of 30 employees by its original name "Atelier Jaeger", because of its already established reputation as the official court photographer.

Later life and death
Wolfenstein sold Atelier Jaeger in 1905 and returned to the United States. Albin Roosval and Herman Sylwander, who took over his studios, kept the same original name for the studio.

Wolfenstein died in Los Angeles on 3 February 1909 at the age of 63. He is buried at Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery in Central Los Angeles.

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title: Meadowmont, North Carolina

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Meadowmont is a mixed-use community in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, which contains the Meadowmont House and Meadowmont Village, among other notable locations, in addition to residential areas, shopping, and office space and has been profiled in recent years in local periodicals such as Chapel Hill Magazine.

History
There was considerable controversy about the development of this community.  Ground was officially broken in 1999 after 8 years of planning.

Meadowmont House

The Meadowmont House, built in 1933 by David St. Pierre DuBose and Valinda Hill DuBose, was one of the first private homes in the United States equipped with central air conditioning. The Georgian Revival style manor house consists of a -story main block with -story flanking wings connected by -story hyphens. It is a steel frame and concrete building with a brick veneer.  The front facade features a two-story portico and Palladian window.  Associated with the house are eight contributing buildings and three contributing structures including: the play house; pool house and pool; the vegetable garden; garage; well house; poultry house; and stable.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985 by the National Park Service of the United States Department of the Interior as a national historic district.  The community was subsequently named for this property.

The Rizzo Conference Center of UNC Chapel Hill's Kenan-Flagler Business School, which also includes other buildings, incorporates this historic property.

Meadowmont Village
Meadowmont Village is a shopping center built and located in Meadowmont and is an example of New Urbanist architecture.

References

External links
 http://meadowmont.net/about/
 http://www.yelp.com/biz/meadowmont-village-chapel-hill
 http://www.rizzoconferencecenter.com/
 http://www.visitnc.com/listing/meadowmont-village
 http://www.bellapartmentliving.com/NC/Raleigh/Bell-Meadowmont/

Chapel Hill-Carrboro, North Carolina
New Urbanism communities
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
Georgian Revival architecture in North Carolina
Houses completed in 1933
Houses in Durham County, North Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Durham County, North Carolina
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title: Jim Leslie (journalist)

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James S. Leslie (October 27, 1937 – July 9, 1976), known as Jim Leslie, was a journalist for The Shreveport Times who became a public relations and advertising executive in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States. He is known for having been murdered in Baton Rouge on July 9, 1976, in a case described by the police as a "professional hit." George W. D'Artois, the Public Safety Commissioner in Shreveport, was twice arrested in the case; the first time he was released for lack of evidence. He was arrested again on charges of first-degree murder in April 1977, suspected of contracting for the murder of Leslie, but died in June of that year during heart surgery. No one was tried in the case.

Leslie had been hired by D'Artois in 1974 to manage communications in his re-election campaign; he had been in office since 1962. In the mid-1970s, D'Artois was the subject of an extended investigation by the Times. Leslie had told a friend earlier in 1976 that D'Artois had tried to pay him with city funds for his work on his 1974 campaign, and warned him against testifying before a grand jury. With a full-scale investigation of the commissioner underway, Leslie was called to testify to a grand jury about alleged corruption in D'Artois's department.

Biography
James S. Leslie, known as "Jim", was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, in 1937. He attended public schools before going to college. After graduation, he became involved in journalism and worked for The Shreveport Times for several years as a reporter. He developed a wide network among colleagues, and with people in city and state government. Leslie later went into public relations and ultimately became an advertising executive. He also became involved in political communications and conceived of a number of campaigns.

He married Carolyn S. and they had two sons, Scott and Mickey.

1974 campaign
In 1974 George D'Artois, the Public Service Commissioner in Shreveport since 1962, hired Leslie to manage his communications as part of his campaign for re-election. D'Artois, a Democrat, faced a serious challenge from a Republican competitor in 1970, and was aware that Republicans were growing in strength throughout the city and state as white conservatives started to switch from the Democratic Party. D'Artois won re-election.

A team of reporters from the Times began working on a series of investigative pieces about D'Artois in the mid-1970s. One line led to Leslie, who still held two uncancelled checks from the 1974 campaign. Leslie told reporters that D'Artois had tried to pay him with city funds for his services rather than from the campaign account, which was the only legal source. He told friend and former colleague, Elliot Stonecipher, that D'Artois had told him to cash the checks, and warned him against testifying in an upcoming grand jury in Caddo Parish.

1976 activities
In the summer of 1976, Leslie was involved in the advertising campaign in support of a controversial right-to-work bill under consideration in the Louisiana State Legislature, which was strongly opposed by labor unions. Much of the lobbying in favor of the bill had been directed by Edward J. Steimel of the relatively new organization, Louisiana Association of Business and Industry, which opposed strong unions in the state. The Taft-Hartley Act permits states to prohibit closed shops that require employees of companies to join or pay dues to a labor union.

Leslie had been staying at the Prince Murat Inn in Baton Rouge as the bill was considered in the state senate. After celebrating the victory with colleagues near the Louisiana State Capitol, Leslie returned to the Prince Murat Inn. After he parked his car but before he could reach the hotel, Leslie was shot and killed instantly in the parking lot by an unknown assailant. It was found a panel in the boundary fence had been removed, and the shooter used the space to hit Leslie. Given the lack of evidence, Baton Rouge detectives described it as a "professional hit."

Sheriff Harold Terry of Caddo Parish, who had taken office nine days before, informed the Leslie family in Shreveport about the executive's killing. Josiah Lee "J. L." Wilson III, then a reporter for the Times, reported that deputies told him that Terry's eyes were red from weeping as he left his office to meet with the Leslie family.

There was speculation that D'Artois had hired a man to murder Leslie in relation to the upcoming grand jury. D'Artois was arrested in August 1976 on charges related to Leslie's murder and forced to resign his office. He was released at the time for lack of evidence, but was scheduled to be tried in a separate case for theft of city funds in the amount of $30,000 for payment of police informants.

After his trial was repeatedly postponed due to poor health, D'Artois was arrested again on April 19, 1977 on charges of first-degree murder. D'Artois initially barricaded himself in the attic of his house and refused to accept the arrest warrant. Insisting that he would only go to the jail in East Baton Rouge Parish and not Caddo Parish, D'Artois had appealed to the Louisiana Supreme Court against his arrest, citing his health. The Louisiana Supreme Court refused to block a trial of D'Artois on the theft charges. While there had been media speculation that Leslie had been murdered in relation to the right-to-work bill, the East Baton Rouge Parish police said there was no evidence to support that.

The same day, police from Concordia Parish arrested Donald Gardner of Shreveport in the murders of both Leslie and Russell Griffith, Jr., a Concordia Parish resident. Griffith had been suspected as the gunman in Leslie's murder. Gardner was first arrested in the fall of 1976 and was described as the key figure between D'Artois and Leslie's murderer(s). Also arrested in connection with Griffith's murder in 1977 was Kenneth C. Brouillette of Lettsworth, who was being held at the Concordia Parish Jail. The East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's office said that Gardner and Griffith were accused of killing Leslie for $30,000, paid by D'Artois, in retaliation for Leslie's testimony before a Caddo Parish grand jury.

D'Artois died in June 1977 during open heart surgery in San Antonio, Texas. He never faced trial for his role in the case. The killing of Leslie was never fully solved, and no one was convicted of either Leslie's or Griffith's murders.

Recent studies
In 2009, Bill Keith published a book related to the case: The Commissioner: A True Story of Deceit, Dishonor, and Death, a study of the D'Artois administration, the commissioner's connection to Louisiana crime bosses, and the unsolved Leslie murder. Keith had served as a state senator from Shreveport at the time of Leslie's homicide, and also served as a journalist with both The Shreveport Times and the since defunct Shreveport Journal.

In 2013, Jere Joiner, a retired police detective from Shreveport, published Badge of Dishonor, an exploration of the corruption of the D'Artois administration, and the commissioner's ties to the alleged murders of Leslie and Griffiths. Elliott Stonecipher, a political consultant, analyst, and friend of Leslie, was reported as saying that he "never once doubted that D'Artois was behind the assassination." Stonecipher said that Leslie had told him that he believed D'Artois would try to have him killed. Others had suggested in 1976 and 1977 that passage of the controversial right-to-work bill may have been the catalyst for Leslie's homicide, but the East Baton Rouge Parish police said there was no evidence for that. They said they found many strands between D'Artois and Leslie's killers.

Leslie is interred at Forest Park East Cemetery in Shreveport. After D'Artois died, he was also interred there. Each was a lifelong resident of the city.

See also
List of unsolved murders

Memorial
The American Advertising Federation of Shreveport-Bossier set up the annual Jim Leslie Memorial Scholarship to honor the late public relations executive. They annually award $2,500 to a student studying Advertising, Marketing, or a related field at any 4-year institution in North Louisiana.

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title: Alice Seeley Harris

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Alice, Lady Harris ( Seeley; 24 May 1870 – 24 November 1970) was an English missionary and an early documentary photographer. Her photography helped to expose the human rights abuses in the Congo Free State under the regime of King Leopold II of the Belgians.

Family and origins

Alice Seeley was born in Malmesbury to Aldred and Caroline Seeley. Her sister, Caroline Alfreda Seeley, was a school teacher.

In 1894, she met her future husband John Harris. Finally in 1897, after seven years of trying, Alice was accepted to go out to the Congo Free State. Shortly afterwards, Alice and John got married on 6 May 1898 at a registry office in London.

They had four children: Alfred John, Margaret Theodora, Katherine Emmerline (known as “Bay”) and Noel Lawrence. Alice spent many years in Frome in Somerset and died at the age of 100 in 1970 at Lockner Holt in Guildford, Surrey.

Career

In 1889, aged 19, Alice entered the Civil Service and was later appointed to the Accountant General’s office in General Post Office, London. Alice gave her spare time to Frederick Brotherton Meyer's mission work at Regent's Park Chapel and later Christ Church, Lambeth.

Alice left the Civil Service to enter Doric Lodge, the training college of the Regions Beyond Missionary Union. Four days later, as her honeymoon, Alice sailed with John on the SS Cameroon to the Congo Free State as missionaries with the Congo-Balolo Mission. They arrived in the Congo three months later, on 4 August 1898, and then travelled to the Mission Station Ikau near Basankusu. She was appalled and saddened at what she witnessed there and began campaigning for the human rights of the Congolese natives to be recognised.

Campaigner

Alice was stationed with her husband John from 1898 to 1901 at the Mission Station at Ikau, near the Lulonga River, which is a tributary of the River Congo in the Balolo Tribal region. Later, from 1901 to 1905, they were stationed at the Mission Station at Baringa,  a village in Tshuapa District, Befale Territory, in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It stands on the banks of the Maringa River, approximately 100 km upriver from Basankusu.

During her time in the Congo, Alice taught English to the local children, but her most important contribution was to photograph the injuries that were sustained by the Congolese natives at the hands of the agents and soldiers of King Leopold II of Belgium. Leopold was partly exploiting the local population so fiercely to profit from increased rubber demand after the invention of the pneumatic or inflatable tyre by John Boyd Dunlop in Belfast in 1887. Methods of coercion included whipping, hostage-taking, rape, murder and burning of gardens and villages.

The most famous and shocking atrocity, whose aftermath Harris captured in her photography, was the severing of hands. In 1904, two men arrived at their mission from a village attacked by 'sentries' of the Abir Congo Company (ABIR) after failing to provide sufficient rubber. One of the men, Nsala, was holding a small bundle of leaves which when opened revealed the severed hand and foot of a child. Sentries had killed and mutilated Nsala's wife and daughter. Appalled, Alice persuaded Nsala to pose with his child's remains on the veranda of her home for a picture.

Initially, Alice's photographs were used in Regions Beyond, the magazine of the Congo Balolo Mission. In 1902, the Harrises returned to Britain temporarily. In 1904, Alice's photographs reached wider distribution including Congo Slavery, a pamphlet prepared by Mrs. H. Grattan-Guinness, wife of the editor of Regions Beyond, and in King Leopold's rule in Africa by E. D. Morel. The same year saw the founding of the Congo Reform Association by Morel.

In 1906, Alice and John Harris began working for Morel's Congo Reform Association. In early 1906, they Alice toured the United States. John wrote that they had presented her images at 200 meetings in 49 cities via magic lantern screenings. In December 1906, the daily paper New York American used Harris's photographs to illustrate articles on atrocities in the Congo for an entire week.

In 1908, the couple became joint organizing secretaries of the Congo Reform Association and, in April 1910, they became joint organizing secretaries of the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines' Protection Society. She soon relinquished her official position, but assisted John at the Society until his death in 1940. She continued her active speaking career and was listed with Christy's Lecture Service alongside Winston Churchill and Ernest Shackleton.

In November 1908, Leopold II ceded administration of the Congo Free State to the Belgian government, thus creating the Belgian Congo. The Harrises returned to the Congo from 1911–12, following the handover of the Congo to Belgium. They noted improved conditions in the treatment of natives and later produced a book, Present Conditions in the Congo, illustrated with Alice's photographs. Soon thereafter, hundreds of Alice's African documentary photographs were displayed at an exhibition at the Colonial Institution.

In 1933, she became Lady Harris when her husband was knighted, but was known for saying, "don't call me Lady!"

In 1970, Alice reached 100 years old and was interviewed by BBC Radio 4 on a programme called Women of Our Time.

She was the first centenarian to be a member of the Frome Society for Local Study, which has placed a plaque near where she lived in Frome.

Legacy
From 16 January to 7 March 2014, Autograph ABP in Rivington Place, London held an exhibition titled When Harmony Went to Hell - Congo Dialogues: Alice Seeley Harris and Sammy Baloji
From 24 January to 7 September 2014, the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool held an exhibition titled Brutal Exposure: the Congo centred on Alice's photographs.
In 2017 a plaque was unveiled at Merchants Barton, Frome, in remembrance of Seeley's life and work. The plaque reads, "Alice Seeley, Lady Harris Anti-slavery campaigner, photographer, missionary to the Congo, artist, scourge of King Leopold II of the Belgians, lived at 3 Merchants Barton 1882 – 1888 Born Malmesbury 24 May 1870. Died Guildford 24 November 1970".

See also
Atrocities in the Congo Free State
Congo Free State propaganda war
Documentary photography
New Woman

References

Further reading

Guinness, Catherine (2018). Rubber Justice : Dr Harry Guinness and the Congo Reform Campaign; Bib ID7506519; 9780648057604 (paperback)

1870 births
1970 deaths
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title: 1997 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Men's 200 metre butterfly

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The men's 200 metre butterfly competition at the 1997 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 10 at the NISHI Civic Pool.  The last champion was Scott Miller of Australia.

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all lengths being in butterfly stroke.

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 10.

B Final
The B final was held on August 10.

A Final
The A final was held on August 10.

References

1997 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships


title: Shoko Inoue

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Shōko Inoue (井上昌己, Inoue Shōko, born Yawatahama, Ehime, 21 July 1969) is a Japanese singer best known outside Japan for her songs for Saint Tail in 1995 and 1996.

Albums
Ai no Kamisama, koi no Tenshi 愛の神様 恋の天使 (1993)
Sweet (1994 mini-album)
Bitter (1994 mini-album)
Fair Way (1994)
Fair Way Live (1995 live)
Bitter II (1995 mini-album)
Sweet II (1995 mini-album)
Up Side Down (1996)
Retsu Ai 熱愛 (1998)
Bana Orange Berry バナ・オレンジ・ベリー (2002)
Shokoland 2nd  (2003 )
Brand-New Feel (2008)
Precious Moment (2009)

References

External links
 このアーティストをご存知ですか？「井上昌己」　[アーティスト]

1969 births
Living people
Japanese women singers
Singers from Ehime Prefecture
People from Yawatahama, Ehime


title: Othello Henderson

text:
Othello Methelda Henderson III (born August 23, 1972) is a former American football defensive back who played two seasons with the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the New Orleans Saints in the seventh round of the 1993 NFL Draft. He played college football at the University of California, Los Angeles and attended Ellison High School in Killeen, Texas.

References

External links
Just Sports Stats
College stats

Living people
1972 births
Players of American football from Killeen, Texas
American football defensive backs
African-American players of American football
UCLA Bruins football players
New Orleans Saints players
21st-century African-American sportspeople
20th-century African-American sportspeople


title: Bayou Sel

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Bayou Sel is a prehistoric and historic archaeological site in Clark County, Arkansas, near Arkadelphia.  The site has archaeological remains, including finds relating to the Caddoan culture, as well as prehistoric and historic evidence linking the site to the Quapaw.  The Quapaw and early French settlers in the area are known to have manufactured salt in at the site, and it was here that a salt-processing operation was run in the first half of the 19th century.

The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Clark County, Arkansas

References

Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas
Clark County, Arkansas
National Register of Historic Places in Clark County, Arkansas


The Commentary on Anatomy in Avicenna's Canon is a manuscript written in the 13th century by the Arab physician Ibn al-Nafis. The manuscript was discovered in 1924 in the archives of the Prussian State Library in Berlin, Germany. It contains the earliest descriptions of the coronary circulation and pulmonary circulation systems.

Latin translation

The manuscript was translated into Latin by the Italian physician Andrea Alpago, In 1520, Alpago returned to Padua with a Latin translation of the commentary, after living  in the Arabian Peninsula for 30 years.

Reception

{{Commentary by Dr. (Ibn al-Nafis regarding the Canon of Avicenna is well documented.}} Many scholars recognize this polymath as the discoverer of the pulmonary circulation.

See also
 The Canon of Medicine

References

Medical manuscripts
Medical works of the medieval Islamic world
Avicenna


title: Prince Frederick's Barge

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Prince Frederick's Barge is a  British state barge. Designed by William Kent, it was built on the South Bank by John Hall for Frederick, Prince of Wales in 1732. Upon Frederick's death in 1751, the barge was used by successive British monarchs until 1849 when she was cut up into three sections and stored in the Royal Barge House at Windsor Great Park. King George VI placed the barge on loan to the National Maritime Museum in 1951, where it is currently on display.

See also
State Barge of Charles II
Queen Mary's Shallop
Gloriana

References

General

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Barges
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title: A. Max Brewer Bridge

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A. Max Brewer Bridge is a girder bridge in Titusville, Florida. The bridge cost $44.8 million to build.  Named in honor of Albert “Max” Brewer, a Titusville attorney in the 1950s who was killed in a private plane crash in 1966.  The bridge was selected for the People’s Choice Award, an award presented by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials.

Reconstruction
The bridge was constructed because of the poor condition of the then-existing bridge, which could have caused its collapse. The high-level fixed bridge was placed over the low-level and short original bridge.

References

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Concrete bridges in Florida
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Bridges in Brevard County, Florida
Bridges over the Indian River (Florida)
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title: The Lust-O-Rama

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The Lust-O-Rama was a Norwegian garage rock band active 1989–1993, started by Geir “Bulle” Underdal of Matchstick Sun with vocalist Arne Thelin from The Cosmic Dropouts.

Discography
The In-Crowd E.P. A1: I Want You A2: Hey Hey Hey B1: Baby Baby B2: Don't Love Her  1990
The Lust-O-Rama EP A1: Do Be Doo A2: Don't Love Her B1: Up And Down B2: Sweet As Sin
Smells Like Teenage Psychosis EP A1: When I'm Gone A2: Midnight Train B1: Ooh Poo Pah Doo B2: Margio	1992
Good Morning Little Schoolboy A1: Mr. Nobody A2: Can't Give You Anything B1: I'm Walkin' Babe B2: Get The Picture 1996
Why? EP A1: Why? A2: Hold B1: Night Of The Phantom B2: Do You Like What You See? 1993
Darkside E.P. A1: If You'll Be Mine A2: Be So Fine B1: I Don't Love Her B2: Werewolf

References

External links
 Allmusic

Norwegian musical groups


title: 2014 Vuelta a España, Stage 1 to Stage 11

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The 2014 Vuelta a España began on 23 August, with Stage 21 scheduled for 14 September. The 2014 edition of the cycle race began with the only team time trial stage of the race, in Jerez de la Frontera.

Stage 1
23 August 2014 — Jerez de la Frontera to Jerez de la Frontera, , team time trial (TTT)

Stage 2
24 August 2014 — Algeciras to San Fernando,

Stage 3
25 August 2014 — Cádiz to Arcos de la Frontera,

Stage 4
26 August 2014 — Mairena del Alcor to Córdoba,

Stage 5
27 August 2014 — Priego de Córdoba to Ronda,

Stage 6
28 August 2014 — Benalmádena to La Zubia,

Stage 7
29 August 2014 — Alhendín to Alcaudete,

Stage 8
30 August 2014 — Baeza to Albacete,

Stage 9
31 August 2014 — Carboneras de Guadazaón to Aramón Valdelinares,

Stage 10
2 September 2014 — Real Monasterio de Santa María de Veruela to Borja, , individual time trial (ITT)

Stage 11
3 September 2014 — Pamplona to Santuario de San Miguel de Aralar,

Notes

References

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Vuelta a España stages


title: Tomahawk Conference

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The Tomahawk Conference is a Minnesota State High School League sanctioned athletic conference comprising schools located in the south central region of Minnesota.

Offerings

Sports
The conference offers the following:

The conference schools football teams play in either the Southern Minnesota Conference or Gopher Conference.  Teams in the Tomahawk Conference compete in competitive classes of A and AA for section and state tournaments.

Activities
The conference offers the following:

Current members
The conference consists of 10 schools, although Cedar Mountain High School and Comfrey High School have a co-op for all sports, leaving 9 teams to compete.

While a majority of schools in the conference are public, Minnesota Valley Lutheran, New Ulm Cathedral, and Sleepy Eye St. Mary's are private schools.

Former members
 McLeod West High School - closed spring 2009.

External links
  Tomahawk Conference

References

 http://www.tomahawkconference.org/g5-bin/client.cgi?G5genie=31

Minnesota high school sports conferences


title: Kary Vincent

text:
Kary Lamont Vincent Sr. (September 19, 1969 – December 26, 2018) was an American football wide receiver who played two seasons in the Arena Football League (AFL) with the Charlotte Rage and Milwaukee Mustangs. After graduating from Thomas Jefferson High School in Port Arthur, Texas, he played college football at Texas A&M University. He was drafted by the New Orleans Saints in the sixth round of the 1992 NFL Draft. He was on the Saints practice squad for two seasons.

Vincent died on December 26, 2018. He was survived by his wife, daughter and three sons.

He was the father of current NFL player Kary Vincent Jr.

References

External links
Just Sports Stats
College stats

1969 births
2018 deaths
American football wide receivers
American football defensive backs
African-American players of American football
Texas A&M Aggies football players
Charlotte Rage players
Milwaukee Mustangs (1994–2001) players
Players of American football from Port Arthur, Texas
20th-century African-American sportspeople
21st-century African-American people
Deaths from pneumonia in the United States