title: List of publications by Fred Melville

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This is a list of publications by Fred Melville. The list is primarily of philatelic books, however, Melville also wrote a great many articles about philately and in addition was editor of the popular journals Heartsease Library, Cosy Corner, Good Words and Sunday Magazine, for all of which he most probably produced articles.

Melville Stamp Books
British Central Africa and Nyasaland Protectorate, 1909, 84pp
British New Guinea and Papua, 1909, 63pp
Cape of Good Hope, 1913, 96pp
Cayman Islands, 1912, 72pp
Confederate States of America; Government Postage Stamps, 1913, 72pp
Gambia, 1909, 84pp.
Great Britain: Embossed Adhesive Stamps, 1910, 39pp
Great Britain: King Edward VII Stamps, 1911, 83pp
Holland, 1909, 77pp
Jamaica, 1910, 89pp
Nevis, 2nd edition 1910, 60pp (1st edition 1909)
Portugal: Postage Stamps, 1880-1911, 1911, 85pp
Portugal; The cameo stamps, 1911, 90pp
St Helena, 1912, 92pp
Tonga, 1909, 65pp
United States Postage Stamps 1870-1893, 1910, 55pp
United States Postage Stamps 1894-1910, 1910, 76pp

Philatelic Institute publications
Aero Stamp Collecting: A Practical Guide and Descriptive Catalogue, 2nd edition, 1924, 62p. (1st edition, 1923, 56p.)
Aero Stamps: A descriptive catalogue with prices, November 1920, 16p.
Andorra, 1936, 48p.
Antigua, 1929, 57p.
Azerbaijan, n.d. (1924), 24p. Philatelic Institute papers; no. 17.
Baden, 1928, 59p.
The Boys Own Guide to Stamp Collecting, 1924, 55p.
The British Prisoners' Stamps of Ruhleben, 1919, 4p. Philatelic Institute papers; no. 2.
Brunei, 1932, 37p.
Cape of Good Hope: The Fourpence Black Triangular Stamp, 1927, 7p. Philatelic Institute papers; no. 19.
The Complete Philatelist, 1924, 246p.
The Grammar Of Philately, 1924, 18p. Philatelic Institute papers; no. 8.
Great Britain: The Line Engraved Stamps, 3rd Edition, 1925, 82p. (Previous editions: 1909 and 1910).
History from the Stamp Album, 1924, 16p. Philatelic Institute papers; no. 11.
How to Collect War Stamps: practical and suggestive hints for the collector accompanying a representative collection of 100 different stamps issued during the Great War, 1919, 16p.
Local Postage Stamps, 1924, 14p. Philatelic Institute papers; no. 13.
Oil Rivers and Niger Coast Protectorates, 1924, 58p.
Origins of the Penny Post, 1930, 130p.
Phantom Philately: A descriptive list of stamps that are not what they seem, 1923, 204p.
Philatelic Accessories, 1924, 15p. Philatelic Institute papers; no. 9.
The Philatelic Library, 1924, 20p. Philatelic Institute papers; no. 16.
The Postage Stamps of the Mozambique Company, 1918, 9p. Philatelic Institute papers; no. 3.
Postal Stationery, c1924, 12p. Philatelic Institute papers; no. 14.
Postmarks, c1924, 11p. Philatelic Institute papers; no. 15.
A Simplified Collection, 1924, 8p. Philatelic Institute papers; no. 12.
Switzerland: The Children's Stamps, Pro Juventute, 1925, 14p. Philatelic Institute papers; no. 10.
United States Postage Stamps 1922-1925, 1925, 93p.
The Victory Album Of War Stamps, 1920, 44p.
Virgin Islands, 1928, 68p.
The War Stamps of Turkey, S.A., 14p. by Lieut.-Col. H Wood, edited by Fred J. Melville. Philatelic Institute papers; no. 5.

Other publications

A Penny All the Way. The Story of Penny Postage, W H Peckitt, 2nd edition, 1908, 48pp
A Penny All the Way. The Story of Penny Postage, Warren H Colson, American edition, 1908, 34pp
Abyssinia, C Baldwin, 1909, 31pp
All about Postage Stamps, T. Werner Laurie, London, 1914, 255pp
An Historical Catalogue of the Stamps of the New Europe, 2nd edition 1919, 48pp
An Innocent Afloat, F J Melville, 1926, 15pp
Catalogue of War Stamps, 1914–15, J F Spriggs, 1st edition 1915, 16pp
Catalogue of War Stamps, 1914–15, J F Spriggs, 2nd edition 1915, 48pp
Chats on Postage Stamps, Fisher & Unwin, 1911, 362pp
Chats on Postage Stamps, Frederick A Stokes Company, American edition, 1911, 362pp
El nuevo ABC del coleccionista de sellos, Santiago de Cuba, Arroyo Hnos, Castilian edition of The New ABC of Stamp Collecting translated by J D Sague, 1926, 166pp
Egypt, Stanley Gibbons, London, 1915, 84pp
Frimärken Värda Förmögenheter, Sveriges Filatelist-Förenings Förlag, Swedish edition of Postage Stamps Worth Fortunes translated by L Harald Kjellstedt, 1910, 43pp
Great Britain: Reel printing for postage stamps, 1924, 7pp
Guide to Stamp Collecting, G F Rapkin, 1924, 60pp
How to Start a Philatelic Society, Peckitt, 1910
Latvia Map Stamps. A tentative check list, 1922
Les premières emissions de timbres de la Grande-Bretagne, Mendel, French edition of Great Britain: The Line Engraved Stamps translated by Georges Brunel, 1912
Les timbres de Gambie, Édition des publications modernes, French edition of Gambia translated by Georges Brunel, 1914
Les timbres de la Jamaïque, Édition des publications modernes, French edition of Jamaica translated by Georges Brunel, 1914
Modern Stamp Collecting, English Universities Press Ltd, 1940, 316pp
New Hebrides, C Baldwin, c1910, 20pp
Phantom Philately; a descriptive list of stamps that are not what they seem, Emile Bertrand, 1950, 204pp (with a foreword by Lowell Ragatz)
Pioneer Stamp Men of Liverpool, W G Warner, 1926, 19pp
Postage Stamp Printing, Pardy, 1925, 19pp
Postage Stamps in the Making, Stanley Gibbons, 1916, 198pp
Postage Stamps of the Hawaiian Islands in the Collection of Henry J. Crocker of San Francisco, Stamp Lover, 1908, 9pp
Postage Stamps of the United States of America, Junior Philatelic Society, 1905, 116pp
Postage Stamps worth Fortunes, (self published), 1908, 46pp
Postage Stamps worth Fortunes, Severn-Wylie-Jewett Co, American edition, 1918
Rare stamps: How to Recognize Them, Melville Book Co, 1922, 46pp
Siam: Its Posts and Postage Stamps, Stamp Collectors' Fortnightly, 1906, 53pp.
Stamp Collecting, 1897.
Stamp Collections for War Museums, Stanley Gibbons, 1918, 40pp
Stamps of the Steamship Companies: A Rough List, 1915, 34pp
The ABC of Stamp Collecting, Henry J Drane, 1903, 159pp
The Boys Friend Book of Stamps of the British Empire, 1925, 19pp
The Cradle of the Postage Stamp,  Harmer Rooke, 1923 30pp
The Lady Forger: an original play, Junior Philatelic Society, 1906
The Mayfair find of Rare Stamps, H R Harmer, 1925, 44pp
The Mystery Of the Shilling Green, Chas Nissen & Co Ltd, 1926, 16pp
The New ABC of Stamp Collecting, Melville Stamp Company, 1922, 145pp
The Postage Stamp in War, 1915, 160pp
The Postage Stamps of British Central Africa, Severn-Wylie-Jewett, 1918, 28pp
The postage stamps of China; with a history of the Chinese Imperial Post, 1908, 44pp
The Postage Stamps of Great Britain, Junior Philatelic Society, 1904, 56pp
The Postage Stamps of Hayti, C Nissen & Co, 1905, 69pp
The Postage Stamps of Sarawak 1869-1906, C Nissen & Co, 1907, 84pp
The Postage Stamps of the Cayman Islands, Severn-Wylie-Jewett, 1920, 22pp
The Romance of Postage Stamps, W.H. Peckitt, London, 1910, 36pp
The Romance of Postage Stamps: A Short Introduction to the Joys of the Stamp album, Peckitt, 1908, 30pp
The Soldier and His Stamps Together with the Junior Philatelic Society's Roll of Honour, Stanley Gibbons, 1918, 60pp.
The Tapling Collection of Stamps and Postal Stationery at the British Museum, 1905.
The Wm. H. Crocker Collection of rare stamps of the whole World, Harmer Rooke & Co., 1938, 42pp
The World's Stamp Errors Part I The British Empire, W H Peckitt, 1910, 59pp (under pseudonym Miss Fitte)
The World's Stamp Errors Part II Foreign Countries, W H Peckitt, 1910, 50pp (under pseudonym Miss Fitte)
Then and Now, Whitfield King, 1938, 43pp
United States Postage Stamps 1847-1869, Stanley Gibbons, 3rd edition 1915, 71pp
United States Special Service Stamps, Stanley Gibbons, 1915, 69pp
War Stamps of Salonika & Long Island, Stanley Gibbons, 1916, 54pp

References

Further reading

Williams, L.N. & M., A "Melville" Bibliography, H.F. Johnson, London, 1941. (Reprinted with additions and amendments from The Stamp Lover, January to May, 1941.)

British philatelists
Philatelic authors


title: Bawk Ja

text:
Bawk Ja Lum Nyoi (, born 4 December 1967) is an ethnic Kachin land rights activist and politician from Burma (Myanmar). She serves as the chair of the National Democratic Force's Kachin State branch. She lives in Aungya village, Hpakant Township.

Early life and education
She matriculated from Basic Education High School in Kyauktada Township, Rangoon. In 1993, she graduated from Yangon University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History.

Career
In October 2010, she led a group of Hukawng Valley farmers whose lands had been confiscated (over  of farmland), and sued Yuzana Company and its chairman Htay Myint (MP), over the illegal land confiscations. Her advocacy work brought her national attention.

In the 2010 Burmese general election, she contested the a seat in the Pyithu Hluttaw for the Hpakant Township constituency, running against Ohn Myint, a former military general. The Union Election Commission (UEC) declared Ohn Myint the winner, despite fraud allegations and voting irregularities. Ohn Myint had won the election by a margin of 7,793 votes, with a massive 13,255 votes declared invalid.

On 7 January 2011, she submitted an official grievance to the UEC. As part of a bargain between Ohn Myint, she agreed to withdraw her complaint contingent on Ohn Myint's commitment to pave roads in the township and suspend the Myitsone Dam project.

In the 2012 Burmese by-elections, she announced her intent to contest the same seat (as Ohn Myint had vacated it to become a cabinet-level minister), but her constituency was among three withdrawn by the government following renewed fighting between the Burmese military and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA).

In July 2013, she was arrested on politically motivated charges of negligent homicide of a man killed in 2008. The deceased victim's wife, Kai Am, asked to withdraw the charges in September 2013. She was freed on 24 January 2014.

References

1967 births
Burmese politicians
Burmese activists
Living people
University of Yangon alumni
Burmese people of Kachin descent
People from Kachin State


title: INMED

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The Irish Network of Medical Educators (INMED) is an interprofessional association for healthcare education professionals in Ireland.  INMED was founded in 2008 by National University of Ireland, Galway, Queen's University Belfast, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, University College Cork, University College Dublin, and Trinity College Dublin.

Activities

Conferences
INMED's largest events is its Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM), an international conference which includes keynote lectures, workshops, demonstrations, and student-led sessions.  The inaugural ASM took place in 2008 and was opened by Minister for Disability and Mental Health Services Jimmy Devins.

Symposia

Travel grants
In 2014, INMED established travel and medical education research grants.

In 2020, INMED South Africa has reported that it has launched its "Seeds for Life" project to help 2,500 households struggling to grow homegrown gardens.

See also
Medical education

References

2008 establishments in Ireland
Medical education in the Republic of Ireland
Medical education in the United Kingdom
Organizations established in 2008
Medical and health organisations based in the Republic of Ireland


title: Samuel Costa (skier)

text:
Samuel Costa (born 30 November 1992) is an Italian Nordic combined skier. He was born in Bolzano. He competed at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 in Oslo, the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2013 in Val di Fiemme, and at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

References

External links

1992 births
Living people
Nordic combined skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Nordic combined skiers at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Italian male Nordic combined skiers
Olympic Nordic combined skiers for Italy
Sportspeople from Bolzano
Skiers from South Tyrol
Nordic combined skiers of Fiamme Oro


title: Aliette de Bodard bibliography

text:
This is a list of the published works of Aliette de Bodard.

Novels

Obsidian and Blood series
 Servant of the Underworld, Angry Robot Books and JABberwocky Literary Agency, 2010
 Harbinger of the Storm, Angry Robot Books and JABberwocky Literary Agency, 2011
 Master of the House of Darts, Angry Robot Books and JABberwocky Literary Agency, 2011

Dominion of the Fallen series
 The House of Shattered Wings, Gollancz and Roc, August 18, 2015. Winner BSFA Award for Best Novel of 2015. Finalist for Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel of 2016.
 The House of Binding Thorns, Gollancz and Ace Books, April 4, 2017
 The House of Sundering Flames, Gollancz, July 25, 2019

Xuya universe
 The Red Scholar's Wake, Gollancz, 24 November 2022. Nominated for the 2023 BSFA Award for Best Novel; shortlisted finalist for the 2023 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.
 A Fire Born of Exile, Gollancz, 12 October 2023.

Other
 In the Vanishers' Palace, JABberwocky Literary Agency, October 15, 2018

Novellas

Xuya universe
 On a Red Station, Drifting, Immersion Press, 2012. Finalist for Best Novella for the 2013 Hugo Awards, 2012 Nebula Awards, and 2013 Locus Awards.
 The Citadel of Weeping Pearls, Asimov's, October–November 2015, and JABberwocky Literary Agency. Finalist for Best Novella for the 2016 Locus Awards.
 The Tea Master and the Detective, Subterranean, 2018. Winner 2018 Nebula Award for Best Novella. Finalist for 2019 Hugo Award for Best Novella. Finalist for 2019 World Fantasy Award for Best Novella.
Seven of Infinities, Subterranean, October 2020. Shortlisted 2021 Locus Award for Best Novella.

Dragons and Blades
Dragons and Blades is a spinoff series from de Bodard's Dominion of the Fallen universe.
 Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders, Jabberwocky, January 6, 2020. Shortlisted 2021 Locus Award for Best Novella.
 Of Charms, Ghosts and Grievances, Jabberwocky, June 28, 2022. Winner 2023 BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction.

Other

 Fireheart Tiger, Tordotcom, Feb 9, 2021. Nominated for 2022 Hugo Award for Best Novella.

Collections
 Scattered Among Strange Worlds, Nine Dragons River, 2012. Includes short stories "Scattered Along the River of Heaven" and "Exodus Tides".

Short stories

Xuya Universe
 "Rescue Party," in Mission Critical, ed. Jonathan Strahan, July 9, 2019.
"A Game of Three Generals," in Extrasolar: Tales of super Earths and hot Jupiters, ed. Nick Gevers, August 2017.
 "The Dragon That Flew Out of the Sun," in Cosmic Powers, ed. John Joseph Adams, Saga Press, April 2017.
"First Presentation," in Chasing Shadows, ed. David Brin and Stephen W. Potts, January 2017
 "Pearl," in The Starlit Wood, ed. Navah Wolfe and Dominik Parisien, Saga Press, October 2016. Finalist for 2017 Locus Award for Best Novelette.
"A Hundred and Seventy Storms," Uncanny Magazine, July/August 2016.
 "Crossing the Midday Gate," in To Shape the Dark, ed. Athena Andreadis, May 2016
 "A Salvaging of Ghosts", Beneath Ceaseless Skies, special Science Fantasy issue, March 2016.
 "A Slow Unfurling of Truth", in Carbide-tipped Pens, ed. Ben Bova and Eric Choi, Tor, December 2014
 "Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight", Clarkesworld Magazine, issue 100, January 2014. Winner BSFA Award for Best Short Story of 2015.
 "Memorials", Asimov's, January 2014. Reprinted in Apex Magazine, June 2016. Companion piece for "The Weight of a Blessing". Finalist for 2014 Locus Award for Best Short Story.
 "In Blue Lily's Wake," in Meeting Infinity, ed. Jonathan Strahan, Solaris, December 2015
 "A Slow Unfurling of Truth," in Carbide-Tipped Pens, ed. Ben Bova and Eric Choi, Tor Books, December 2014
 "The Days of War, as Red as Blood, as Dark as Bile," Subterranean, Spring 2014
 "The Breath of War," Beneath Ceaseless Skies, March 2014. Finalist for Best Short Story 2014 Nebula Award.
 "The Frost on Jade Buds," in Solaris Rising 3, August 2014.
 "The Weight of a Blessing," Clarkesworld Magazine, March 2013.
 "The Waiting Stars," The Other Half of the Sky, 2013. Reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois, 2014. Winner 2014 Nebula Award for Best Novelette. Finalist for Best Novelette in the 2015 Hugo Awards and 2015 Locus Awards.
 "Ship's Brother," Interzone, 2012. Reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois, 2013. Reprinted in Clarkesworld Magazine, January 2014.
 "Starsong" Asimov's 36/08 (Aug 2012)
 "Two Sisters in Exile," in Solaris Rising 1.5, July 2012. Reprinted in The Year's Best SF 18, ed. David G. Hartwell, Tor Books, December 2013.
 "Immersion," Clarkesworld Magazine, issue 69, June 2012. Winner 2012 Nebula Award for Best Short Story. Winner 2012 Locus Award for Best Short Story. Finalist for Best Short Story for the 2013 Hugo Awards, 2013 BSFA Awards, and 2013 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Awards.
 "Scattered Along the River of Heaven," Clarkesworld Magazine, issue 64, January 2012. Reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2013. Finalist for Best Short Story in the 2012 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Awards.
 "Shipbirth", Asimov's, February 2011
 "The Shipmaker," Interzone, issue 231, September 2010. Winner BSFA Award for Best Short Story of 2010.
 "The Jaguar House, in Shadow", Asimov's, July 2010
 "Fleeing Tezcatlipoca", Space and Time magazine, issue 111, Spring 2010
 "Butterfly, Falling at Dawn, Interzone, issue 219, November 2008. Reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection, 2009.
 "The Lost Xuyan Bride," Interzone 213, November 2007
Science fiction book series

Obsidian and Blood series
This section is arranged in the order the author suggests you read the stories:
 "Obsidian Shards", Writers of the Future XXIII, September 2007
 "Beneath the Mask," Beneath Ceaseless Skies, issue 8, January 2009.
 "Safe, Child, Safe," Talebones, issue 39, Winter 2009

Dominion of the Fallen series
This section is arranged in the order the author suggests you read the stories:
 "Court of Birth, Court of Strength," Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Tenth Anniversary Issue, October 2018.
"Children of Thorns, Children of Water," Uncanny Magazine, July/August 2017. Finalist for 2018 Hugo Award for Best Novelette and 2018 Locus Award for Best Novelette.
"The House, in Winter," in the UK mass market paperback of The House of Shattered Wings, 2016
"Against the Encroaching Darkness," Grimdark Magazine, issue 5, October 2015
"Of Books, and Earth, and Courtship," Nine Dragon Rivers ebook, September 2015
 "In Morningstar's Shadow," August 2015:
 "The Face of Heaven"
 "Paid Debts"
 "What Has To Be Done"
 "The Death of Aiguillon," A Fantasy Medley 3, 2015

Other
 "The Long Tail," in Wired, The Future of Work, November 30, 2020.
"The Scholar of the Bamboo Flute," in Silk & Steel: A Queer Speculative Adventure Anthology, ed. Janine A. Southard, Cantina Publishing, November 2020
"The Inaccessibility of Heaven," Uncanny Magazine, July/August 2020. Finalist for Best Novelette for 2021 Hugo Awards, Locus Awards, and Ignyte Awards.
 "In the Lands of the Spill," Avatar anthology, Xprize, March 2020. Finalist for 2021 Locus Award for Best Short Story.
"Among the Water Buffaloes, a Tiger's Steps," in Mechanical Animals, ed. Selena Chambers and Jason Heller, Hex Publishers, November 2018.
"A Burning Sword For Her Cradle," in Echoes: the Saga Book of Ghost Stories, ed. Ellen Datlow, Fall 2018.
"The Counting of Vermillion Beads," in A Thousand Beginnings and Endings, ed. Ellen Oh and Elsie Chapman, Greenwillow Books, June 2018.
"At the Crossroads of Shadow and Bone," in Children of a Different Sky, ed. Alma Alexander, Kos Books, November 17, 2017.
"In Everlasting Wisdom," in Infinity Wars, ed. Jonathan Strahan, Solaris, September 2017.
"Cicada Song, in a Country Since Long Gone," in The Death of All Things, ed. Zombies Need Brains, September 1, 2017.
"Lullaby for a Lost World," Tor.com, June 8, 2016.
 "Prayers of Forges and Furnaces," Mammoth Book of Steampunk, Running Press, 2012. Reprinted in Lightspeed, issue 52, September 2014.
 "The Moon Over Red Seas," Beneath Ceaseless Skies, October 2014.
 "The Dust Queen," in Reach for Infinity, ed. Jonathan Strahan, Solaris Books, June 2014. Finalist for 2014 Locus Award for Best Short Story.
 "The Angel at the Heart of the Rain," Interzone 246, May/June 2013
 "Heaven Under Earth," Electric Velocipede, issue 24, August 2012. Tiptree Honor List for 2013.
 The Numbers Quartet, co-written with Nancy Fulda, Stephen Gaskell, and Benjamin Rosenbaum, Daily Science Fiction, 2012
 "The Heartless Light of Stars"
 "The Princess of the Perfume River"
 "Worlds like a Hundred Thousand Pearls"
 "Exodus Tides", InterGalactic Medicine Show, issue 22, April 2011
 "Blessing the Earth", Tales of Moreauvia, 2011
 "As the Wheel Turns," GUD Magazine, issue 6, September 2010. Reprinted in Epic, Tachyon, 2012. Reprinted in Lightspeed, November 2012.
 "Age of Miracles, Age of Wonders," Interzone, issue 230, September 2010
 "Father's Last Ride," The Immersion Book of Science Fiction, September 2010
 "Father's Flesh, Mother's Blood," Dark Futures, September 2010
 "Silenced Songs," Music for Another World, August 2010
 "Memories in Bronze, Feathers and Blood," Beneath Ceaseless Skies, issue 45, June 2010.
 "Desaparecidos", Realms of Fantasy, June 2010 issue
 "The Wind-Blown Man," Asimov's, February 2010. Reprinted in International Speculative Fiction Annual Anthology, 2012.
 "Melanie," Realms of Fantasy, February 2010. Reprinted on The World SF Blog, October 2010.
 "By Bargain and by Blood," Hub Magazine, issue 108, January 2010
 "The Church of Accelerated Redemption" (with Gareth L. Powell), Shine: An Anthology of Optimistic SF, Spring 2010
 "Eye of the Destroyer," Blood and Devotion, Spring 2010
 "In the Age of Iron and Ashes," Beneath Ceaseless Skies, issue 33, December 2009.
 "After the Fire", Apex Magazine, November 2009
 "On Horizon's Shores", Intergalactic Medicine Show, issue 14, September 2009. Reprinted in Intergalactic Medicine Show: Big Book of SF Novelettes (Intergalactic Medicine Show Big Books) Volume 1.
 "Golden Lilies," Fantasy Magazine, August 2009
 "Blighted Heart," Beneath Ceaseless Skies, issue 22, July 2009.
 "Healing Hands," Fantastical Visions IV, July 2009
 "Memories of my Sister," Expanded Horizons, issue 7, May 2009
 "Ys", Interzone, issue 222, May 2009. Reprinted in The Alchemy Press Book of Ancient Wonders, 2012.
 "Dancing for the Monsoon", Abyss & Apex, issue 30, April 2009
 "The Lonely Heart," Black Static, issue 9, February 2009. Reprinted in Eight Against Reality, Panverse Publishing, June 2010. Reprinted in Lightspeed, January 2015.
 "City of the Gods," Alternative Coordinates, issue 1, Spring 2009
 "Murder in Laochan," New Ceres Nights, Spring 2009
 "The Dragon's Tears," Electric Velocipede, issues 15/16, Autumn 2008
 "Dragon Feasts", Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, issue 35, June 2008
 "Horus Ascending", Intergalactic Medicine Show, issue 8, April 2008
 "Within the City of the Swan", Shimmer Magazine, Art Issue, February 2008
 "The Dancer's Gift", Fictitious Force, issue 5, Spring 2008
 "At the Gates of White Marble," Leading Edge Magazine, issue 54, December 2007
 "Autumn's Country", Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, issue 30, August 2007
 "Sea Child," Coyote Wild Magazine, Autumn 2007
 "Deer Flight", Interzone, issue 211, Summer 2007
 "The Naming at the Pool," Reflection's Edge, May 2007
 "Weepers and Ragers," Abyss & Apex, 2nd Quarter 2007
 "Calling the Unicorn," Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, issue 27, 2007
 "Through the Obsidian Gates," Shimmer Magazine, Autumn 2006 issue
 "For a Daughter," Haruah, May 2006 issue
 "Kindred Spirits," Deep Magic, May 2006 issue
 "Citadel of Cobras," The Sword Review, May 2006 issue
 "The Triad's Gift," Deep Magic, February 2006 issue
 "A Warrior's Death," Shimmer Magazine, Spring 2006 issue

References

Bibliographies by writer
Bibliographies of American writers
Bibliographies of French writers
Science fiction bibliographies


title: ASAF Zinder

text:
Association Sportive des Amis de la Fada de Zinder or simply ASAF Zinder is a Nigerien football club based in Zinder, a town approximately 14 hours east of the capital Niamey.  The team competes in the Niger Premier League on past.

External links
Team profile  - The Biggest Football Archive of the World

Zinder
Zinder


title: Bruno Piglhein

text:
Elimar Ulrich Bruno Piglhein (19 February 1848, in Hamburg – 15 July 1894, in Munich) was a German sculptor and painter. He was a founder and first President of the Munich Secession.

Life
His father was a decorator. Upon graduating from the Gymnasium, he studied with the sculptor Julius Lippelt. After Lippelt's death from tuberculosis, Piglhein went to the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, but had to leave after two years for an alleged lack of talent. The sculptor Johannes Schilling saw that he had some potential, however, and took him into his studio. After a short stay in Italy, Piglhein decided to take up painting instead and, on Schilling's recommendation, began studies with Ferdinand Pauwels at the Weimar Saxon-Grand Ducal Art School. Finding the small town atmosphere uncongenial, in 1871 he moved to Munich, where he became an associate of Wilhelm von Diez. Despite the attention given to his painting of the Crucifixion at the Munich exhibition and the positive critical reception accorded to his portraits of children, he was not very successful. At the suggestion of his agent, he turned to pastel portraits of women; favoring Spanish dancers, pierrettes and belles-of-the- ball with low décolletage. He then came into fashion, but also found himself being criticized as a bad moral influence and a "courtesan painter".

The Crucifixion

In 1885, he found an opportunity to restore his reputation. Joseph Halder, a businessman from Munich, conceived plans for a circular, panoramic painting depicting the Crucifixion of Christ and, recalling Piglhein's work at the Munich Exhibition, the commission was given to him. From 1885 to 1886, he made a trip to Jerusalem, where he made sketches for what would become his magnum opus. Under his direction the landscape painters Josef Block, Johann Adalbert Heine (1850-1905) and Josef Krieger (1848-1914) created the scenes, while Piglhein executed the figures. The work was displayed in Munich, Berlin and Vienna, where it was destroyed by a fire in 1892. Ten photographs of the work were taken on opening day. At least 15 copies of the work were made (some of which were made by his assistants, who were not under Piglhein's contractual obligations to produce but one panorama).  Extant panoramas are located in Einsiedeln, Switzerland and Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré in Québec, Canada.

In 1886, he was appointed a Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich. With his reputation reestablished, he began to produce large canvases on religious themes and portraits. In 1892, he became one of the founders and first President of the Munich Secession, although he was already suffering from physical ailments that inhibited his ability to work.

References

Further reading
Monographs:
 Maximilian Donop: Katalog der Ausstellung der Werke von Bruno Piglhein. Königl. National-Galerie, Berlin 1895
 Maximilian Vincenz Sattler: Führer durch das Panorama der Kreuzigung Christi. Hof- und Univ.-Druckerei, München 1886 (parallel text in English and French)
 Maximilian Vincenz Sattler: Kurzführer durch das Panorama.
 Franz Schiermeier: "Panorama München, Illusion und Wirklichkeit, München als Zentrum der Panoramenherstellung'". Franz Schiermeier Verlag, München 2010,

Essays:
 Panoramaführer von Robert Wecker-Piglhein. Siehe: "Das Piglhein - Wecker - Panorama: Jerusalem und die Kreuzigung Christi".
 Ludwig Trost: Bruno Piglheins Panorama: Jerusalem und die Kreuzigung Christi. DVA, Stuttgart 1887.

External links

 Bruno Piglhein website: includes a larger view of the panorama, pastels, photographs and documentary material.

1848 births
1894 deaths
19th-century German sculptors
German male sculptors
19th-century German painters
German male painters
19th-century German male artists


title: Shediac Bay

text:
Shediac Bay is a tidal embayment, an extension of the Northumberland Strait in New Brunswick, Canada.

It is located about  north-east of Moncton. The nearest population centre is Shediac. There is a large island in the bay, Shediac Island.

There is one major beach, Parlee Beach, which runs close. The bay contains Shediac Harbour which is a popular touristic, boating and fishing area. The Canadian Coast Guard maintain an inshore rescue boat station (CCG IRB Shediac) at Pointe du Chêne.

History
Skull Island is a small island within the harbour. Its name comes from the discovery of skulls on the site by archaeologists. The population of the island was once composed of Micmac and Acadian Wabanaki soldiers.

In 2019, Hurricane Dorian accelerated the erosion of the island.

The bay was a stopover location for Italo Balbo's transatlantic mass flight in 1933.

Major streams feeding into the bay are the Shediac River, Bateman Brook, and Scoudouc River.

See also
Notable landforms and features nearby:
 Parlee Beach Provincial Park
 Greater Shediac
 Pointe-du-Chêne

References

Bays of New Brunswick
Landforms of Westmorland County, New Brunswick


title: Uchaly Mining and Metallurgical Combine

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Uchaly Mining and Metallurgical Combine  (UMMC or UGOK , ) is a Russian metallurgical combine based in Uchaly, Bashkortostan.  In 2016, UMMC incorporated Chelyabinsk Zinc Plant (CZP) and became the largest producer of zinc concentrate in Russia.

Gallery

References

External links
Company website
Bashkir enciklopedy web-site(in Bashkir)
Махмудов Искандар. Президент Уральской горно-металлургической компании — «lenta.ru» сайты
Башҡортостан Республикаһы Башлығы. Рәсми сайт(in Bashkir)

Mining companies of Russia
Companies based in Bashkortostan
Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company
Mining companies of the Soviet Union


title: Urana FC

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Urana FC d'Arlit is a Nigerien football club based in Arlit. The club plays in Niger Premier League.

Stadium
Homematches plays at the 7,000 capacity Stade d'Arlit.

References

External links
Soccerway
RSSSF

Football clubs in Niger
Super Ligue (Niger) clubs


title: Marianna Madia

text:
Maria Anna "Marianna" Madia (; born 5 September 1980) is an Italian politician of the Democratic Party and a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies since 2008.

She was Minister of Public Administration and Simplification from 22 February 2014 to 1 June 2018 (Renzi Cabinet and Gentiloni Cabinet).

Biography

Madia was born in Rome in 1980. Her family came from Calabria and settled in Rome. Her great-grandfather, Titta Madia, was a lawyer, journalist, and Fascist and MSI member of the Chamber of Deputies. Her father was the politician, journalist and actor Stefano Madia.

She studied at Lycée français Chateaubriand in Rome. She studied at the University of Rome La Sapienza and undertook a PhD at IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca in political science.

In June 2013 she married Mario Gianani, a television and film producer. They have twins, Francesco and Margherita, born on 8 April 2014.

She considers herself a practising Catholic.

Career
Madia began her career in February 2008 when she was chosen by the Secretary of the Democratic Party, Walter Veltroni, who proposed her to be candidate for Chamber of Deputies. In April 2008 she was elected. She was reelected in 2013 and in 2018.

References

External links
 Official Website of Marianna Madia

21st-century Italian women politicians
1980 births
Living people
Politicians from Rome
Italian Roman Catholics
Democratic Party (Italy) politicians
Deputies of Legislature XVI of Italy
Deputies of Legislature XVII of Italy
Deputies of Legislature XVIII of Italy
Politicians of Lazio
Renzi Cabinet
Women government ministers of Italy
Women members of the Chamber of Deputies (Italy)


title: US GN

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Union Sportive de la Gendarmerie Nationale is a Nigerien football club based in Niamey. It was founded in 1996, and competes in the Niger Premier League. In 2021, it won both the league and the cup, the first titles in the club's history.

Stadium
The team plays its home matches at the 35,000 capacity Stade Général Seyni Kountché.

Achievements
Super Ligue: 1
2020–21

Niger Cup: 1
2021

Niger Super Cup: 0

CAF competitions record
Last update: 24 February 2023

Notes

 PR: Preliminary round
 1R: First round
 2Q: Second qualifying round
 PO: Play-off round
 GS: Group stage

References

Football clubs in Niger
Super Ligue (Niger) clubs
Sport in Niamey


title: Lake Charest (Mékinac)

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Lake Charest (Mékinac) is located in the area Montauban-les-Mines, in the municipality of Notre-Dame-de-Montauban, in the Mékinac Regional County Municipality (RCM), in the extreme east of the administrative region of Mauricie, in Québec, Canada.

Geography
Lake Charest is located just east of the mining village of Montautan-les-Mines. It is located close to the limit of Saint-Ubalde.

The lake turns to be the head of the Charest River which, a priori, flows south-west over 1.5 kilometers in the territory of Notre-Dame-de-Montauban until the limit of Saint-Ubalde.

In Saint-Ubalde’s territory, the river flows through the rows Saint-Paul, Saint-Achilles and Sainte-Anne, going gradually away from the boundaries of the Lac-aux-Sables. In his course in Saint-Ubalde, the river recovers waters of fews lakes, including Sainte-Anne and "à la Perchaude" (perch). Then the river flows south-east (almost in parallel to the Batiscan River) and through 16 lots in the row Price in the eastern section of Saint-Adelphe, where its course becomes very coil down to its mouth.

The shape of the lake Charest resembles to a pear which is raising his hat, and the top facing north. Lake Charest has a length of 0.56 km and a maximum width of 0.27 km. Streets "Des Écureuils" (Squirrels), "du camping" et "Saint-Paul" are surrounding Charest lake.

Toponymy
The name "Lake Charest" was officially registered on December 4, 1982 at the Bank of place names of Commission de toponymie du Québec (Geographical Names Board of Québec). The name "River Charest" takes its name from headwater lake of the same name. Formerly the lake Charest was designated "lake Narcisse"; this name appears on some old maps of the area.

See also

 Charest River
 Sainte-Anne River
 Mauricie
 Notre-Dame-de-Montauban
 Lac-aux-Sables
 Saint-Ubalde
 Mékinac Regional County Municipality

References

Lakes of Mauricie
Mékinac Regional County Municipality


title: Palisota flagelliflora

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Palisota flagelliflora is a plant species endemic to Cameroon. It grows on the ground in secondary tropical forests.

Palisota flagelliflora is the only known species in its genus that reproduces by means of stolons arising aerially within a rosette then running horizontally along the forest floor. Leaves are mostly in rosettes, the petioles up to 20 cm, the blades up to 40 cm. Inflorescences are created at nodes along the stolon, each inflorescence consisting of maroon bracts up to 4 cm long, subtending a small group of flowers, some staminate, others hermaphroditic. Sepals are boat-shaped, up to 8 mm long, red and glabrous on the upper side, with long hairs on the under side. Petals white, up to 6 mm long.

References

flagelliflora
Endemic flora of Cameroon
Plants described in 1995


title: Kandadji Sport

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Kandadji Sport is a Nigerien football club based in Niamey. The club plays in Niger Premier League.

Stadium
Currently the team plays at the 35000 capacity Stade Général Seyni Kountché.

References

External links

Football clubs in Niger
Sport in Niamey


title: Battle of Lüneburg Heath

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The Battle of Lüneburg Heath (also called the Battle of Ebstorf) was a conflict between the army of King Louis the Younger and the Norse Great Heathen Army fought on 2 February 880 AD, at Lüneburg Heath in today's Lower Saxony.

 Following defeat by Alfred the Great at the Battle of Edington, the Norse Great Heathen Army moved from England to pillage the Duchy of Saxony. The army of Louis met the Norsemen at Lüneburg Heath. The Saxons were routed in a snowstorm, with the army being destroyed or captured.

Known combatants include Marquard of Hildesheim, Theodoric of Minden, Lothar I, Count of Stade, an unidentified count named "Bardonum" and Bruno, Duke of East Saxony who, according to the chronicles Annales Fuldenses and the Gesta Francorum, drowned in a river during the Saxon retreat. Those killed were recognized by the Catholic Church as the Martyrs of Ebsdorf, whose feast day is 2 February.

The Norse army was subsequently defeated at the Battle of Thimeon later that month and finally checked at the Battle of Saucourt.

References

Battles involving France
Battles involving the Vikings
880s conflicts
Battles in Lower Saxony
880
9th century in East Francia


title: Wushu at the 2002 Asian Games – Men's sanda 60 kg

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The men's sanda 60 kg at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea was held from 10 to 13 October at the Dongseo University Minseok Sports Center.

12 men from 12 countries competed in this event, limited to fighters whose body weight was less than 60 kilograms.

Liu Zedong from China won the gold medal after beating Kim Gwee-jong of the South Korea in gold medal bout 2–0, The bronze medal was shared by Vanxay Oudomphon and Vichan Toonkratork.

Schedule
All times are Korea Standard Time (UTC+09:00)

Results
Legend
KO — Won by knockout
RET — Won by retirement

References

2002 Asian Games Report, Page 791
Results

External links
Official website

Men's sanda 60 kg


title: 2002 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group IV

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The Group IV tournament was held March 20–24, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on outdoor hard courts.

Format
The eight teams were split into two groups and played in a round-robin format. The top two teams of each group advanced to the promotion pool, from which the two top teams were promoted to the Asia/Oceania Zone Group III in 2003. The bottom two teams of each group were placed in a second pool to determine places 5–8.

Pool A

Results of Individual Ties

Pool B

Results of Individual Ties

Promotion pool
The top two teams from each of Pools A and B advanced to the Promotion pool. Results and points from games against the opponent from the preliminary round were carried forward.

Results of Individual Ties

Kyrgyzstan and Bahrain promoted to Group III for 2003.

Placement pool
The bottom two teams from Pools A and B were placed in the placement group.  Results and points from games against the opponent from the preliminary round were carried forward.

Results of Individual Ties

References

2002 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone
Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone


title: Terra Mystica

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Terra Mystica is a Euro-style board game for two to five players designed by Helge Ostertag and Jens Drögemüller. The game was first published by Feuerland Spiele in Germany in 2012, and was later published in English and French by Zman Games and Filosofia Édition in 2013. Feuerland Spiele released a second German edition of the game in 2013.

Gameplay

The game starts with each player picking one of fourteen fantasy factions, each with its own unique special abilities and costs associated with actions. Players expand their territories by constructing buildings on the game board. Each faction is limited to building on only one of seven different terrain types found on the game board; this makes terraforming spaces so they can be built upon a key aspect of the game.

The game is split into six rounds during which players take any number of actions to improve their society. Actions may involve settling new spaces, upgrading existing buildings, improving infrastructure like shipping, or increasing the faction's status in an elemental cult. When a player cannot perform any more actions (or they choose not to), they must pass. A round ends upon all players passing.

One unique aspect of the game is its power point mechanic. Power points are used to cast spells, and may also be converted for resources. Power points are split among three bowls. When points are gained, they first move from bowl one to bowl two. When bowl one is empty, they can move from bowl two to bowl three. Power points can only be used when they are in bowl three, at which point they return to bowl one.

Victory points are accrued throughout the game for a variety of actions. The game lasts for six rounds, at the end of which additional victory points are awarded for end-game goals. The player with the most victory points wins.

Expansions

 Four additional town tiles were handed out as a free promotional expansion at Spiel 2013.
 An additional bonus tile was included in the June 2013 edition of Spielbox.
 A full expansion to the game, Terra Mystica: Fire & Ice, was released in November 2014. It introduces six new factions, two new terrain types and new rules variants.
 A new promo expansion, Terra Mystica: Erweiterungsbogen (or Terra Mystica Mini-Expansion in North America), was released in 2015. It contains the previously released town tiles and bonus tile along with a new round scoring tile and new terrain tiles for each faction to better balance the game. Suggested rules for the faction town tiles were created as part of a contest by the Board Game Geek community.
 A mobile app of the game was released in April 2017 and ported to Steam on June 8, 2017. The Fire & Ice expansion is included with the Steam port and is available as an additional purchase for the mobile version of the game.
 A new expansion, Terra Mystica: Age of Innovation, was announced in May 2018 and was expected to be released in 2019. It was released in 2023 as its own standalone game, titled Age of Innovation.
 In 2018, Gaia Project was released as a science fiction version of Terra Mystica. It features many of the same mechanisms as Terra Mystica but many of the systems have been streamlined.
 A second full expansion to Terra Mystica, called Terra Mystica: Merchants of the Seas, was released in late 2019. It introduces a new structure for each faction (including the Fire & Ice factions), the Shipyard, which can be used to build ships that can travel along river spaces and trade with other players' structures. Some factions have additional abilities once they build their Shipyard. It also includes new bonus cards and favor tiles and a new set of round scoring tiles.

Unofficial
 The fan-made expansion Artifacts was made in 2015. It introduces cards that player can take when they pass in the final round that award extra points depending on what they have done during the game. It is free to print and play on BGG.

Awards
 2013 Deutscher Spiele Preis, 1st place
 2013 International Gamers Award, Multiplayer Strategy Game, 1st place
 2013 Jogoeu User's Game, Adult Game of the Year, 1st place
 2013 Hra Roku, Game of the Year Winner
 2013 Gouden Ludo, Winner
 2013 Le Tric Trac d'Or
 2013 Nederlandse Spellenprijs Best Expert Game Winner

Critical reception and influence

As of May 2017, the game was ranked fourth on BoardGameGeek, and has been cited as one of the most influential board games of the last decade.

Shut Up & Sit Down gave the game an overwhelmingly positive review.

Ryan Meltzer of the Dice Tower gave the game a generally positive review, and Tom Vasel, also of the Dice Tower, gave the game a mixed review, saying that he could not be sure how well balanced it was without first playing the game many more times.

Terra Mystica's upgrade system was the inspiration for a similar system in Scythe.

References

External links

Tile-laying board games
Deutscher Spiele Preis winners
Board games introduced in 2012
Fantasy board games


title: List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1976

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This is a list of singles that have peaked in the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 during 1976.

Captain & Tennille scored three top ten hits during the year with "Lonely Night", "Shop Around", and "Muskrat Love", the most among all other artists.

Top-ten singles

1975 peaks

1977 peaks

See also
 1976 in music
 List of Hot 100 number-one singles of 1976 (U.S.)
 Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1976

References

General sources

Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Seventies ()
Additional information obtained can be verified within Billboard's online archive services and print editions of the magazine.

1976
United States Hot 100 Top 10


title: Lengipromez

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Lengipromez  () is a Russian engineering company.

The Open Joint-Stock Company “Lengipromez” is a legal successor of the Leningrad State Institute for Designing Iron and Steel Plants (Lengipromez) constituted by a Decree of the Government in 1926.

In 2003 the Institute has been granted the TϋV CERT Certificate for compliance with the DIN EN ISO 9001-2000 requirements.

List of the Engineering and Consulting Services Rendered by “Lengipromez”
Severstal, Ironmaking Plant
Uralskaya Stal, Electric Furnace Shop
Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works, 1929-1934

Services
Lengipromez prepares designs of the units included into the makeup of a metallurgical complex as well as of the allied units and facilities:
Mechanical – repair shops and foundries;
Metallurgical departments at machine – building plants;
Nature conservation projects;
Utilities facilities with implementation of the advanced energy- saving technologies;
Infrastructure units.

Awards
Order of the Red Banner of Labour, 1976
Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
 the Red Banner of the Ministry of Ferrous Metallurgy of the USSR etc.

References

External links
 Company website

Engineering companies of Russia
Companies based in Saint Petersburg


title: Wushu at the 2002 Asian Games – Men's sanda 65 kg

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The men's sanda 65 kg at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea was held from 10 to 13 October at the Dongseo University Minseok Sports Center.

A total of ten competitors from ten different countries competed in this event, limited to fighters whose body weight was less than 65 kilograms in competition.

Angkhan Chomphuphuang from Thailand won the gold medal after beating Mohammad Aghaei of Iran in gold medal bout 2–0, The bronze medal was shared by Yu Dawei and Eduard Folayang.

Schedule
All times are Korea Standard Time (UTC+09:00)

Results
Legend
KO — Won by knockout

References

2002 Asian Games Report, Page 792
Results

External links
Official website

Men's sanda 65 kg


title: Wushu at the 2002 Asian Games – Men's sanda 70 kg

text:
The men's sanda 70 kg at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea was held from 11 to 13 October at the Dongseo University Minseok Sports Center.

Schedule
All times are Korea Standard Time (UTC+09:00)

Results

References

2002 Asian Games Report, Page 793
Results

External links
Official website

Men's sanda 70 kg


title: John Young (brewer)

text:
John Allen Young CBE (7 August 1921 in Winchester – 17 September 2006, Wisborough Green, West Sussex) was an English brewer. He was for many years chairman of the Young's Brewery in Wandsworth, working there for over 50 years.

Early life
Both his father, William Allen Young and his mother, Joan Barrow Simonds, were from well-known brewing families. John was educated at the Nautical College in Pangbourne. During the Second World War, he served as a fighter pilot in the Fleet Air Arm, attaining the rank of lieutenant commander in 1945 at the age of 24.  During his service in the navy, he had flown 25 different types of aircraft and landed on six aircraft carriers.. After the war he continued his education at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he obtained an honours degree in economics.

He started a career in shipping, and while in Antwerp, Belgium, he met his future wife, Yvonne Lieutenant. They married in 1951.

Career at Young's Brewery
In 1954, while living in West Sussex, John, together with his brothers, were needed at Young's Brewery. He settled down there and by 1964 he had become chairman of Young's, replacing his father. He remained chairman of Young's until his death in 2006, a period of 40 years. His management style was "hands-on", frequently visiting his outlet pubs and departments at the brewery. Innovation was made, but tradition was acknowledged. For example; he introduced children's rooms to many pubs.

John Young had a love for working horses and was instrumental in preventing the disappearance of Shire horses from Britain.  At the brewery, he determined that local deliveries by horse drawn drays should continue into the 21st century.  He was president of the London Harness Horse Parade from 1957 to 1968 and of the Greater London Horse Show 1972–74.

Charity
John Young was active in charities. He was chairman of the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases in Bloomsbury. He raised a considerable amount for this and other charities. He was also governor of the National Society for Epilepsy.  For this work and his activity in brewing, he was appointed a CBE in 1975, and he was made a Freeman of the City of London in 1986.

Association with the Real Ale Movement
John Young became a champion in the eyes of the Real Ale Movement when he decided that Young's would continue brewing cask ale at a time when most breweries were changing to keg beer, a method considered more efficient, but according to many drinkers, less flavourful. This also resulted in a number of Young's brews being given approval by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA).

Later life and death
Young's Brewery was situated in the centre of Wandsworth, and although it had been there for 500 years, the borough wished to develop the area. After much negotiation, John Young agreed to give up the site. He made an association with Wells Brewery in Bedford, to combine the companies and to have Young's beers brewed in Bedford. Brewing in Wandsworth was tapered off, so that the last beer was brewed in September 2006, the same week as John Young died of cancer. Some of the last brew was served at his funeral. He was survived by his son, James, and his daughter, Ilse.

John Young Award
The John Young Award was introduced by CAMRA, London branch, to celebrate the memory of Young and his impact on real ale and pubs within London.

Its purpose is to acknowledge any individual or organisation that the London branches believe has done the most for Real ale in that year, or to raise the profile of CAMRA within London.

John Young Room
The John Young Room was created in 2012 to commemorate both John and the Ram Brewery. It is situated in the Old Sergeant, in Garratt Lane, Wandsworth, and is the room over the old coach house, which can be seen from the street at the right of the building. Historic photos, signs and posters are displayed on the walls and a cabinet holds smaller articles.

The Old Sergeant has existed as a licensed premises since at least 1785, when John Nash held the licence. The Young family purchased it from Earl Spencer, in 1857. Although it is typical of a small pub in a less affluent area, it was awarded as the Best Community Pub in Britain for 2012. The building has an example of a 19th-century Coach house, which is visible from the street

Sources

1921 births
2006 deaths
English brewers
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Businesspeople from Winchester
People from Wisborough Green
20th-century English businesspeople


title: Antal Ruprecht

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Antal Ruprecht (1748–1818) was a Hungarian Chemist.

He was born in Szomolnok, Hungary in 1748. He graduated from the Mining Academy of Selmecbánya where he later became a professor of chemistry and metallurgy in 1779. He was the first to melt platinum and contributed to the discovery of tellurium in 1784. Ruprecht was the first to theorise that alkaline earth metals were compounds rather than elements; later proved by Humphry Davy. This theory caused some controversy in the chemistry community due to the previous assumption of earths being fundamental substances.

References

Hungarian chemists
1748 births
1818 deaths
People from Gelnica District


title: Desloge Chapel

text:
Desloge Chapel is a Gothic church in St. Louis, Missouri. Located at Grand Avenue and Vista Avenue, it was designed by Gothic revivalist architect Ralph Adams Cram to echo the Sainte-Chapelle chapel in Paris.

Built in 1931-33 for the Firmin Desloge Hospital, now St. Louis University Medical Center, the chapel serves as an ecumenical pastoral chapel for the hospital complex, and is formally designated the Chapel of Christ the Crucified King by the Roman Catholic church within the Archdiocese of St. Louis.

History
Like the hospital it serves, the Desloge Chapel was underwritten by gifts from the family of Firmin V. Desloge, one of the oldest French families in the United States and wealthy through lead mining and other endeavors. Firmin's wife Lydia Holden Davis Desloge gave $100,000 ($ today) to build the chapel.

Roman Catholic Archbishop John J. Glennon laid the cornerstone of the hospital on June 22, 1931, and consecrated the chapel on November 9, 1933.

In 1952, the funeral of the founder's son, Firmin V. Desloge II, was held at the chapel.

In 1998, Saint Louis University sold the Chapel, along with the Hospital, to Tenet Healthcare, a for-profit chain based in Dallas.

In 2015, the university bought back the hospital, then sold it to SSM Health, the Creve Coeur-based health care system sponsored by the Franciscan Sisters of Mary, formerly Sisters of Saint Mary.

Design
The stained glass windows were planned by Father Maurice B.McNamee, designed by Rodney Winfield, and fabricated by Emil Frei Associates in 1983. An artisan since 1898, Emil Frei also designed the stained glass windows for St. Louis University's St. Francis Xavier (College) Church. Frei's son, Emil Frei III, became an American physician and oncologist at Firmin Desloge Hospital. An earlier plan, with windows depicting Jesuit missions in North America, was created by the firm of Reynolds, Francis & Rohnstock of Boston.

At the altar is a major sculptural group of the Crucifixion by John Angel, the British-born sculptor, medallist, and lecturer.

Future
As of October 2015, SSM Health was planning to spend $500 million to rebuild and expand the hospital. Various media reported that the options under consideration include demolishing the Chapel and the 1933 hospital tower; SSM officials say they have not ruled that out.

Desloge scion Christopher Desloge has launched an effort to preserve the chapel and hospital that his family helped build.

The original architectural firm of Ralph Adams Cram (now Cram & Ferguson) which designed Desloge Chapel in 1931 has, eighty-five years later in 2016, joined the list of Stakeholders signing a letter to the owner SSM appealing for preservation.

In November 2016, St. Louis University released its redevelopment plans for the area. The plan does not call for demolishing Desloge Chapel, leading the St. Louis Post Dispatch to report that "the iconic Firmin Desloge tower along Grand Boulevard appears safe for now."

References

Roman Catholic churches in St. Louis
Roman Catholic chapels in the United States
Desloge family


title: List of former employees of Goldman Sachs

text:
This list of former employees of Goldman Sachs catalogs notable alumni of the New York City-based investment bank in different fields.

 Jacob Aarup-Andersen – Danish head of banking for Danske Bank
 Bradley Abelow – Former Chief of Staff and Treasurer of New Jersey under Jon Corzine, and President of MF Global, Inc.
 Guy Adami – CNBC's Fast Money
 Olusegun Olutoyin Aganga – Former Nigerian Finance Minister, Nigerian Minister for Trade and Investments
 Sergey Aleynikov – Goldman Sachs computer programmer convicted of stealing Goldman's code
 Erik Åsbrink – Minister for Finance of Sweden (1996–1999)
 Cliff Asness – billionaire hedge fund manager, co-founder of AQR Capital Management
 Ziad Bahaa-Eldin – Deputy Prime Minister of Egypt (2013–2014)
 Steve Bannon – Former executive chairman of Breitbart News LLC, and chief executive officer of the Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016
 Chetan Bhagat – Indian author
 Fischer Black – Co–author of the Black–Scholes equation and the Black-Derman-Toy model
 Lloyd Blankfein – investment banker, Senior Chairman of Goldman Sachs and former chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs.
 Joshua Bolten – Former White House Chief of Staff
 António Borges – Portuguese economist and banker
 Diethart Breipohl – Head of Group Finance at Allianz
 Willem Buiter – Chief Economist of Citigroup (2010–)
 Erin Burnett – CNN host
 Mark Carney – Governor of the Bank of England (2013–) and former Governor of the Bank of Canada (2008–2013)
 R. Martin Chavez – American investment banker and entrepreneur, former Goldman Sachs CFO
 Efthymios Christodoulou – Governor of the Bank of Greece (1991–1993)
 Petros Christodoulou – General Manager of the Public Debt Management Agency of Greece (2010–2012) and Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the National Bank of Greece (2012–)
 Gary Cohn – Director of the National Economic Council and chief economic advisor to President Donald Trump from 2017 to 2018, vice-chairman of IBM
 Michael Cohrs – Member of Court and the Financial Policy Committee at the Bank of England
 Leon Cooperman – billionaire investor, hedge fund manager
 Jon Corzine – Former CEO of MF Global, Inc., former Democratic Governor (2006–2010) and US Senator (2001–2006), New Jersey
 Jim Cramer – Founder of TheStreet.com, best-selling author, and host of Mad Money on CNBC
 Charles de Croisset – General Treasurer of Société des amis du Louvre
 Guillermo de la Dehesa – Secretary of State of Economy and Finance of Spain (1986–1988)
 Emanuel Derman – South African co-developer of the Black-Derman-Toy model
 Vladimír Dlouhý – Minister of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic (1992–1997)
 Mario Draghi – Italian, President of the European Central Bank (2011–2019)
 William C. Dudley – President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
 Rahm Emanuel – Mayor of Chicago (2011–2019)
 Hafize Gaye Erkan - Governor of CBRT (2023-present), first female governor of the Central Bank
 Óscar Fanjul – Spanish founding Chairman and CEO of Repsol
 Michael D. Fascitelli – President & Trustee of Vornado Realty Trust
 Fang Fenglei – deputy chief executive of China International Capital Corporation
 Henry H. Fowler – Former United States Secretary of the Treasury (1965–1969)
 Gary Gensler – Chairman of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (2009–2014) and chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (2021-)
Mark Gilbert – Major League Baseball player, and US Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa
 Judd Gregg – Governor of New Hampshire (1989–1993) and United States Senator from New Hampshire (1993–2011)
 Chris Grigg – CEO of British Land (2009– )
 Charlie Haas – Wrestler, working for World Wrestling Entertainment
 Victor Halbertstadt – Professor of Public Sector Finance at the University of Leiden
 Guy Hands – English CEO of Terra Firma Capital Partners
 Jim Himes – member of the House of Representatives (2009–present), representing Connecticut
 Kazuo Inamori – Chairman of Japan Airlines (2010–)
 Reuben Jeffery III – Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs (2007– )
 Neel Kashkari – Former Interim Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability (2008–2009)
 Paul B. Kazarian — Founder of Japonica Partners and President of Charles & Agnes Kazarian Foundation
 Edward Lampert – Hedge fund manager of ESL Investments. Brought Kmart out of Bankruptcy, merged with Sears and serves as CEO
 Jason Lee – Founder of Dailypay and acquitted of rape
 Gianni Letta – Secretary to the Council of Ministers of Italy under the governments of Silvio Berlusconi
Matt Levine – columnist for Bloomberg News
 Arthur Levitt – Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (1993–2001)
 Klaus Luft – German businessman and Honorary Consul of Estonia to Bavaria
 Ian Macfarlane – Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia (1996–2006)
 Stephen Mandel - billionaire investor, hedge fund manager, and philanthropist. He founded Lone Pine Capital
 Tito Mboweni – Governor of the Reserve Bank of South Africa (1999–2009)
 Evan McMullin – Independent candidate for President in the 2016 US presidential election
 Scott Mead – Photographer and an investment banker
 Karel Van Miert – European Commissioner for Transport and Consumer Protection (1989–1993) and European Commissioner for Competition (1993–1999)
 Carlos Moedas – Portuguese, European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation
 R. Scott Morris – Former CEO of Boston Options Exchange
 Dambisa Moyo – Zambian economist and author of Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is a Better Way For Africa
 Steven Mnuchin – Former United States Secretary of the Treasury (2017–2020), National Finance Chairman for the Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign, and Former Chief Information Officer For Goldman Sachs
 Phil Murphy (D) – Current Governor State of New Jersey
 Ashwin Navin – Indian-American President and co-founder of BitTorrent, Inc.
 Daniel Och – billionaire investor, hedge fund manager, and philanthropist. He is the founder, chairman and former CEO of Och-Ziff Capital Management Group
 Dr. Ann Olivarius, American-British chair, McAllister Olivarius, employment and discrimination lawyer
 Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau – Younger brother of Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
Andrea Orcel – President of UBS Investment Bank (2014–2018)
 Lucas Papademos Greek economist
 Mark Patterson – Chief of Staff to the United States Secretary of the Treasury of the United States (2009–)
 Henry “Hank” Paulson – Former United States Secretary of the Treasury (2006–2009)
 Romano Prodi – Prime Minister of Italy (1996–1998, 2006–2008) and President of the European Commission (1999–2004)
 Justin B. Ries – scientist and inventor known for discoveries in the field of global climate change
 Robert Rubin – Former Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, ex–Chairman of Citigroup
Anthony Scaramucci – Former White House Communications Director (2017)
 Harvey Schwartz – American investment banker, former Goldman Sachs CFO and co-COO.
 Robert F. Smith (investor) - Billionaire founder and CEO of private equity firm Vista Equity Partners. Wealthiest African-American.
Robert Steel – Former Chairman and President, Wachovia
Milojko Spajić – Incoming prime minister of Montenegro
 Gene Sperling – Director of the National Economic Council (2011–2014)
 Rishi Sunak – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (2022–present)
 Peter Sutherland – UN representative for refugees; former EU commissioner; former attorney general of Ireland; Chairman Emeritus of GS International
 David Tepper – billionaire hedge fund manager and owner of NFL team Carolina Panthers
 John Thain – Former Chairman and CEO, Merrill Lynch, and former chairman of the NYSE
 Massimo Tononi – Treasury Undersecretary of the Ministry Of Economy and Finance of  Italy (2006–2008)
 Malcolm Turnbull – Former Prime Minister of Australia (2015-2018)
 George Herbert Walker IV – chairman and CEO at Neuberger Berman and member of the Bush family
 Thomas B. Walker, Jr. – established Goldman Sachs' presence in the Southwestern United States
Elisha Wiesel – chief information officer of Goldman Sachs; hedge fund manager of the Niche Plus; son of Elie Wiesel
 Robert Zoellick – United States Trade Representative (2001–2005), Deputy Secretary of State (2005–2006), World Bank President (2007–2012)

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Employees by company


title: Annette Zippelius

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Annette Zippelius (born 25 June 1949) is a German physicist at the University of Göttingen. In 1998 she became a Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winner.
Her research focuses on complex fluids and soft matter – materials that are intermediate between conventional liquids and solids. Examples are glasses, polymeric melts or solutions, gels and foams, but also granular matter. With her research group she aims at elucidating the underlying principles of self-organization that govern their behavior.

Career
Annette Zippelius studied Physics at the Technical University of Munich and the University of Colorado in Boulder, USA. There she received a master's degree. In 1977 she finished her PhD in Munich. As a postdoc she worked at Harvard University, US, for two years and at Cornell University, US, for a third year. In 1982 she gained her habilitation at Munich. In 1983 she joined the Forschungszentrum Jülich as a researcher.

Since 1988 she is full professor at University of Göttingen, at the Institute for Theoretical Physics.

Awards and honors

 1993: Member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen).
 1998: Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
 2002 – 2006: Member of the Executive Board of the German Physical Society (Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft)
 2005 – 2011: Member of The German Council of Science and Humanities (Wissenschaftsrat)
 2007 – 2014: Max-Planck Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen
 2008: Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society
 2022: Max Planck Medal of the German Physical Society

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20th-century  German physicists
20th-century  German women scientists
21st-century  German physicists
21st-century  German women scientists
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellows of the American Physical Society
German women physicists
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners
Living people
Max Planck Society people
Theoretical physicists
Academic staff of the University of Göttingen
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title: Vince FitzGerald

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Vincent William John FitzGerald  (born 13 July 1944) is a former senior Australian public servant, now a private consultant.

Early life
Vince FitzGerald was schooled at St Augustine's College, Cairns. FitzGerald graduated from the University of Queensland in 1969 with a Bachelor of Economics with first class honours in Econometrics, and a University Medal.

Career
FitzGerald joined the Australian Public Service in 1969 as a research officer with the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

In 1985, FitzGerald was appointed a Deputy Secretary in the Department of Trade. He was promoted to Secretary of the Department in March 1986.

In July 1987, FitzGerald was shifted to the newly created Department of Employment, Education and Training. FitzGerald left the role in 1989 to join the firm Allen Consulting, a higher-paid job in the private sector.

As a consultant, FitzGerald was the architect of the compulsory superannuation scheme introduced by the Keating government in 1992. Superannuation was later refined in response to FitzGerald's June 1993 publication National Savings: A Report to the Treasurer in which he identified the importance of national saving, and recommended ways in which national saving could be increased.

In 1995, Paul Keating called FitzGerald a "sour ex-bureaucrat" and claimed that FitzGerald had wanted to be Secretary of the Treasury but was upset to have never made it. This was a response to a criticism FitzGerald made to aspects of a Keating Budget.

Awards
In June 2016, FitzGerald was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for distinguished services to business through executive and advisory roles in economic policy development, public administration and financial management organisations, and to the community.

References

1944 births
Living people
Secretaries of the Australian Government Education Department
Harvard University alumni
Officers of the Order of Australia
University of Queensland alumni


title: Prelude for Clarinet (Penderecki)

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The Prelude for Clarinet in B-flat major, sometimes also referred to as Prelude for Solo Clarinet, is a work by Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki. It was composed in 1987 and is one of the pieces from the series of compositions for solo instruments that Penderecki composed during the 1980s, such as Cadenza for Solo Viola (1984) and Per Slava (1986).

Composition

The work was a gift for British composer Paul Patterson for his fortieth birthday. The composition did not receive a formal premiere due to its short length, but the first performance took place in Manchester, in December 1, 1987. Joanna Patton played it for the first time to the great public. It was published by the Polish Music Publishing House and Schott Music.

Analysis

This composition is in one movements and takes approximately 3 minutes to perform. It is marked lento sostenuto at the beginning, which is the general tone of the piece. The composition is notated without bar lines, which transforms the piece into a pseudo-improvisatory composition, leaving the performer great room for expression. It starts with a low G being played in a pulsating manner and develops from there a sighing tone adding higher notes. Then the general mood of the composition becomes more fast and rampant, until a high-pitched glissando is reached, returning slowly to the G played at the beginning.

Notable recordings

Following are some of the most well-known recordings of this piece:

References

Compositions by Krzysztof Penderecki
1987 compositions
Contemporary classical compositions
Solo clarinet pieces


title: Marina Chapman

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Marina Chapman (born circa 1950) is a South American-born British woman known for her claim to have spent much of her early childhood in the jungle, alone except for a colony of capuchin monkeys.

Born sometime in the 1950s, Chapman states that as a child, she was taken from her village (whose name she was too young to have learned), and then released for a reason she did not understand; she spent the next several years following capuchin monkeys, until hunters rescued her—by which point she had no human language. According to Chapman, she later was sold to a brothel in Cúcuta, then lived on the streets, and then became a slave of a mafia family.

A neighbour, Maruja, rescued her from her predicament. Maruja's daughter, Maria, adopted Chapman when Chapman was approximately 14, and Maruja sent Chapman to Bogotá to live with one of her daughters. This family had connections to the city of Bradford, Yorkshire, England, through the textile industry. The family sent their children to Bradford in 1977 and sent Chapman to be a nanny. She still lives in Bradford, England.

She subsequently wrote her autobiography, "The Girl With No Name" (published 2013 by Mainstream Publishing), with the help of her daughter Vanessa; it was rejected by several publishers because they believed it was not authentic. She currently lives in Bradford and married a scientist from the Bradford area.
Chapman and her husband have two children.

National Geographic created the documentary Woman Raised By Monkeys. It premiered on Thursday 12 December 2013.

Analysis
Carlos Conde, a professor in Colombia, stated that he did a test using pictures of Chapman's adopted family and capuchin monkeys that strongly suggested that Chapman was telling the truth. A University of London psychology professor, Christopher French, argued that Chapman may be affected by false memories.

References

External links
Audio interview with Chapman, on Q

Living people
Feral children
People from Bradford
Colombian women writers
British women writers
1950 births


title: List of Plastic Ono Band line-ups

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This is a list of the line-ups of the Plastic Ono Band, the backing band established by John Lennon and Yoko Ono. It was active in various incarnations from 1969 to 1974, and was revived by Ono from 2009 until 2015. The group had a constantly shifting line-up, so this page reflects each individual incarnation under the name.

Members

Original era

Timeline

Classic timeline

Recent timeline

Line-ups

References

Plastic Ono Band
John Lennon
Yoko Ono
Plastic Ono Band


title: Banahao shrew-rat

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The Banahao shrew-rat (Rhynchomys banahao) is a species of rodent in the genus Rhynchomys. It was described in 2007.

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Rhynchomys
Mammals described in 2007
Rhynchomys banahao


title: Dil Dhadakne Do

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Dil Dhadakne Do () is a 2015 Indian Hindi-language comedy drama film directed by Zoya Akhtar and produced by Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar under the Excel Entertainment banner. The film stars an ensemble cast of Anil Kapoor, Shefali Shah, Priyanka Chopra, Ranveer Singh, Anushka Sharma and Farhan Akhtar with a voice-over performance and narration by Aamir Khan. The supporting cast includes Rahul Bose, Zarina Wahab, Vikrant Massey, Pawan Chopra, Parmeet Sethi, Dolly Mattdo and Manoj Pahwa. The film tells the story of the Mehras, a dysfunctional family who invite their family and friends on a cruise trip to celebrate the parents' 30th wedding anniversary and later reconcile.

Zoya conceived the film as a family drama centered on a brother-sister relationship. She wanted to depict a more realistic sibling relationship in contrast to the dubious and over-the-top portrayal for which Bollywood is known. She later wrote the script with her friend and longtime collaborator Reema Kagti, while Farhan penned the dialogues. Much of the principal photography was done on Pullmantur Cruises' ship MS Sovereign while sailing across the Mediterranean and Europe, and on land in France, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey and Italy.

The soundtrack was composed by the trio Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy, with lyrics by Javed Akhtar. The film was released worldwide on 5 June 2015 to positive reviews from critics, who praised the performances of Kapoor, Shah, Chopra and Singh, who portrayed the members of the Mehra family, as well as Akhtar's direction, the film's music, cinematography and costumes, but it received criticism for its running time and climax. Nevertheless, it proved to be a commercial success, having grossed  on a budget of .

At the 61st Filmfare Awards, Dil Dhadakne Do received 5 nominations, including Best Supporting Actress (for both Shah and Sharma), winning Best Supporting Actor (Kapoor). It also received 9 nominations at the 2016 Screen Awards, including Best Film and Best Director (Zoya Akhtar), and won 2 awards – Best Supporting Actor (Kapoor) and Best Ensemble Cast.

Plot
Kamal Mehra, a self-made billionaire businessman in Delhi owns AyKa, a company on the verge of bankruptcy, and has a troubled relationship with his wife Neelam, daughter Ayesha and son Kabir. Ayesha has a successful travel business in Mumbai, but is unhappy with her marriage to the narcissistic and controlling Manav Sangha who along with his mother Smita hates her family. Unwillingly Kabir takes part in the business, instead dreaming of becoming a pilot. Kamal and Neelam invite their family and friends for a cruise across the Mediterranean Sea to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary.

Their guests include the Sood family. Kamal and Neelam plan Kabir's wedding to the Soods' daughter Noorie, in exchange to her father Lalit investing in AyKa, aiming to prevent bankruptcy. Aboard, Kabir falls in love with ship performer and British Pakistani dancer Farah Ali. Noorie falls for Rana, the son of the Soods' sworn rival Khannas. Ayesha wishes to divorce Manav. Sunny Gill, the son of Kamal's manager Amrish enters aboard. Sunny is a childhood friend of Ayesha and Kabir; he and Ayesha were in love when they were teenagers and young adults. However, Kamal had arranged and paid for Sunny's scholarship to Yale University, so that Ayesha and Sunny can break-up. Ayesha and Sunny, now a successful journalist, still harbor feelings for each other. Unlike Manav, Sunny appreciates Ayesha's strong and independent personality and is a feminist.

Neelam sees Kamal flirting with a local guest and wonders why she did not divorce him despite his past infidelities. Ayesha confronts Sunny about their separation and kisses him, which shocks them both. Farah hears that Kabir is going to marry Noorie and storms off. Kamal sees Noorie making out with Rana and learns that Kabir and Noorie are not together as he had thought, causing him to have a gas attack.

Kabir reveals to his family that he is in love with Farah and intends to leave the family business. He asks them to consider Ayesha, who is actually interested in business. When he tries to persuade them to let her proceed with her divorce, Kamal and Neelam refuse, believing marriages are lifelong commitments. Infuriated, Kabir bursts out that they are hypocrites for talking of marriage, values, and morals, as the whole family circle is aware of Kamal's adultery and that Neelam has been suffering silently for years. Kamal asks Neelam why she had not left him; she reveals she had no choice because her family would not accept her back due to dishonour. Kamal realises his mistake and asks for Neelam's forgiveness. While trying to reconcile Manav and Ayesha, Kamal sees how his son-in-law mistreats his daughter and orders him and Smita to leave, finally agreeing to the divorce and apologizing to his daughter.

Farah is dismissed from her job for being romantically involved with a passenger and told to leave the ship. Kabir learns about her dismissal after the ship has set sail. He breaks news of Ayesha's now-impending divorce to Sunny, and after publicly rejecting his impending marriage to Noorie, jumps off the ship to swim to shore, believing his family will rescue him. Kamal, Neelam, Ayesha scramble aboard a lifeboat and go after him with the help of their friends. While leaving, Ayesha asks Sunny if he will wait for her, to which he replies "forever". The family rescues Kabir and head toward shore to help him find Farah while being chased by the ship's crew. The Mehra family is seen happy in each other's presence for the first time.

Cast
The cast is listed below:

Production

Development

When Excel Entertainment announced its upcoming films in March 2012, one of them was Zoya Akhtar's next film following Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (2011). It was reported that she was working on a script and that filming was due to start in December 2012. Akhtar dismissed the reports, saying she was yet to start writing her next script. In May that year, media reports suggested Akhtar was already writing her next film. That July, it was reported the script was about siblings partially based on Akhtar and her brother Farhan Akhtar. Farhan Akhtar later denied reports of the film being autobiographical, saying it had nothing to do with their real life relationship and that it is entirely a work of fiction. In November 2012, Akhtar said she was still writing the script and that the film was a family drama.

Akhtar co-wrote the screenplay with her long-time friend and collaborator Reema Kagti. Akhtar had always aspired to make a family drama with a brother-sister relationship at its core. She felt such topics not been well represented in Indian films, and that the brother-sister relationship bond has always been shown "wrapped in rituals" and never portrayed as it really is. She believed the theme of brother-sister relationships "generally have cheesy representations. They are never at ease. This is one of the most important relationships in the world because nobody else shares your parents. I wanted to show that relationship in Dil Dhadakne Do." Akhtar also wanted to showcase the quirkiness of a dysfunctional family, with different layers to each family member, saying, "the beauty of families lies in their flaws".

When asked whether the film had any similarities with her own life and family, she said it had none and that the only thing common to herself and the film's characters was the bond between her and her brother; all their problems and conflicts were unalike. Akhtar said the film was a partly fictionalised version of people around her, such as her friends and their families, and her observations from literature and news articles. Kagti and Akhtar revealed that some of their material came from observing people of Delhi during their friends' back-to-back, elite-class wedding parties as they were finishing the script; they made notes about people's behaviour and demeanor, and incorporated these into their script. After finalising the characters, they felt something was missing, so they added Pluto, the family dog, as an observer. The completed film has 25 characters and a dog.

When asked about interweaving travel in the narrative, Akhtar said she and Kagti wanted a device to bring all the characters—the entire family—together. She said the film could have been set anywhere, such as a hill station, but they chose to set it on a cruise ship because the characters would not be able to leave. Akhtar called it a metaphor for the bigger journey that every family undertakes; the characters are stuck together on a ship in the middle of an ocean and could not leave if they wanted to. The film's title Dil Dhadakne Do was chosen because Akhtar wanted a catchy, easily identifiable title; it makes a reference to an eponymous song, featured on the soundtrack and in the opening credits of Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara.

Casting and characters
During the initial scripting phase, in May 2012, media reports suggested cousins Kareena Kapoor and Ranbir Kapoor had been approached to play the siblings and had accepted the parts. In late December 2012, Hrithik Roshan and Katrina Kaif joined the cast to play the Kapoors' characters' love interests respectively. In June 2013, Ranbir Kapoor dropped out of the film due to scheduling conflicts with his other projects; he was replaced by Ranveer Singh. It was then reported that after her cousin dropped out, Kareena Kapoor was having second thoughts about appearing in the film; the opportunity to act alongside her cousin had been the main attraction for her. She left the production later that month, saying she could not leave her family for the required three months and calling her decision "her loss". In late June 2013, Akhtar approached Priyanka Chopra to part that role, and Chopra accepted. In October, Anil Kapoor was confirmed to play the role of Chopra and Singh's father in the film. It was also reported that Dimple Kapadia could possibly play his wife, but this was not to be.

In December 2013, Farhan Akhtar confirmed he was playing a crucial role in his sister's film. In January 2014, Anushka Sharma was cast for the role of Singh's love interest. Madhuri Dixit, Tabu and Raveena Tandon were all approached to play Chopra and Singh's mother in the film; although they liked the part, all of them turned down the role because they did not want to play a mother. Akhtar later approached Shefali Shah for the part, which she accepted. Newcomer Ridhima Sud joined the cast in June 2014. A few days later, Rahul Bose was cast to play the role of Manav (Chopra's husband) in the film. Zarina Wahab joined the cast to play Chopra's mother-in-law. Parmeet Sethi was later cast in a supporting role.

Although meant for a surprise, the details about Aamir Khan's voiceover performance as the family dog Pluto was leaked before the film's release. Javed Akhtar had initially provided the voiceover for Pluto. After watching the film weeks before the release, however, Akhtar asked Aamir to do the voiceover and the actor accepted, saying, "I had loved the film so much that I was just happy to be a part of it ... I think it is a great film to be part of".

Compared with the rest of the cast, Akhtar spent a whole year persuading Anil Kapoor to sign up for the film. Akhtar's brother Farhan and father Javed Akhtar also spoke to him about the role. However, when Aamir Khan approached him on Akhtar's behalf, he finally accepted the part. Kapoor described his role of Kamal Mehra as a "manipulative patriarch" and a businessman who "has no qualms about manipulating people, even his own family members, to achieve his goal". He said, "Kamal is a self-made man and does not want to lose [his business empire] and will do anything to save it". Kapoor found playing his character very exciting, being completely opposite to his real self; a patriarch whose company, rather than his family, comes first.

Shah called her character, Neelam Mehra, a "Delhi elite society queen bee" with multiple layers, saying, "It looks like nothing can put a chink in her armour, but inside, she is a vulnerable and lost person". She said her character shows an artificial side about her marriage while facing the world, opposed to her behaviour in their home: "It's not one of the best marriages. She hates what’s happened to both of them. But when they come in front of the world, she will stand by her husband". Her character discriminates between her son and her daughter; she said, "She is evidently partial to her son. With her daughter, she displays a mentality typical of many Indian mothers. Even though her daughter is in a bad marriage as well, she discourages her from taking a divorce." Shah said accepted the part because it "was one of the best scripts I had read in a very long time. It was sharp, wicked, and emotional, without being melodramatic." To prepare for her role, she formed an outline of her character by forming Neelam's history and personality.

Chopra has described her character, Ayesha Mehra, as strong but also feminine and gentle, noting her inner strength. She said Ayesha has complicated emotions, and that she "has no idea what she wants and she keeps changing her mind, probably like most women ... that is exactly what Ayesha does. She doesn't know which direction to go in. She actually has no opinion on love or marriage, but just wants to be able to feel that she can be loved." Chopra had to shed the muscle weight she gained for playing the boxer in Mary Kom (2014). She said, "I was not muscular but had acquired bulked-up physique. I had to be in right shape as I was playing a girly role. I had to ... go on a crash diet and lose shape." Singh called his character, Kabir Mehra, a privileged, "born with a silver spoon" kind of person who wants to pursue different things other than inherit his father's fortune. He said, "Ever since his childhood, he was raised to take over his father's company. But this isn't what he wants to do. He loves planes, he wants to be a pilot. Because of this miscommunication he is in a lot of pain." Khan described Pluto as a "very philosophical" dog who is "really into observing human nature and has a take on everything".

Filming

Principal photography began on 17 May 2014 on the Pullmantur Cruises ship MS Sovereign throughout the Mediterranean Sea and onshore in France, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey and Italy. Filming on the ship was done over a non-consecutive period of five weeks; the cast and crew members would board the ship at Barcelona and would film the scenes while en route to different destinations; five different places in five weeks, where the cast and crew would shoot the onshore scenes. Onshore filming took two months, finishing on 18 July 2014. Filming took ninety days, finishing in early August 2014. The second and final schedule began in mid-August 2014 in Mumbai, and was completed on 23 September 2014.

Filming also took place in several locations in Turkey, such as Antalya, Cappadocia and Istanbul. For one scene set in Istanbul's Sophia Museum, tourists and museum staff were used as extras for the sequence, which took six hours to film. For a sequence featuring Chopra and Bose's characters playing squash, Chopra, helped by Bose, had to learn the sport on set. The pre-production work was a challenge for the makers, who had to plan everything in detail; Akhtar and her team reconnoitered to find perfect places to shoot the film. Akhtar found the filming unforgettable, saying, "Can you imagine the whole crew is in a new country everyday! That is what it is like to be on a cruise ship in the Mediterranean. It was logistically insane, visually gorgeous and emotionally cathartic."

Neil Patel handled the production design. Akhtar's frequent collaborator Carlos Catalan provided the cinematography, and Anand Subaya and Manan Mehta edited the film. Arjun Bhasin designed all of the film's costumes. Bosco–Caesar choreographed the songs; The entire song "Gallan Goodiyaan" was shot in a single five-minute take. It required detailed planning and choreography, which the cast rehearsed before filming it.

Soundtrack

Dil Dhadakne Do soundtrack was composed by the trio Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy and Javed Akhtar wrote the lyrics. The album consists of five original songs. The vocals are performed by Priyanka Chopra, Farhan Akhtar, Sukriti Kakar, Siddharth Mahadevan, Shankar Mahadevan, Yashita Sharma, Manish Kumar Tipu, Sukhwinder Singh, Sunidhi Chauhan, Vishal Dadlani, Divya Kumar and Alyssa Mendonsa. It was released on 2 May 2015 by T-Series.

The soundtrack received positive reviews from critics, who labelled it more narrative-based than a chartbuster. Chopra's singing on the first fully-Hindi song she had recorded was also lauded by critics. Joginder Tuteja of Bollywood Hungama gave a rating of 3.5 out of 5, describing it as "a classy soundtrack [that] is unadulterated when it comes to quintessential Bollywood scheme of things". The Times of India also gave it a rating of 3.5 out of 5, calling the compositions "foot-tapping and swingy". In another positive review, Filmfare said the composers had "done a good job despite the hurdles", noting the limiting setting of the film. Koimoi rated it 2.5 out of 5, terming it a mixed bag. However, it praised the songs "Dil Dhadakne Do" and "Pehli Baar", noting them as standouts. The reviewer wrote that Chopra particularly "impresses with her vocals" in the former song.

Release
Dil Dhadakne Do was one of the most highly anticipated films of 2015, owing to its ensemble star cast and the success of Akhtar's previous films Luck By Chance and Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara. The first-look teaser poster, photographed from behind the 6 pivotal characters and their family dog sunbathing on a cruise deck was released on 21 July 2014, almost a year before the scheduled release. The poster did not reveal the actors' looks, instead making the audience puzzle about the actors from behind. A few days later, the first full poster revealing the position of the actors photographed from the front was revealed. In April 2015, seven character posters, including one for the family dog Pluto, were released. The poster releases generated much hype for the film. The trailer release was highly anticipated in the media because the plot was kept secret.

Emphasizing the theme of the film, Akhtar and Kapoor hosted a private screening of the trailer for their friends and family. The official theatrical release posters were released before the trailer. The almost-three-minute official trailer was released on 15 April 2015, garnering over one million views in less than 24 hours. The trailer was well received by the media, who deemed it promising. Alaka Sahani of The Indian Express called it "overwhelming" and wrote, "The top-view of the cruise line with expansive ocean as the backdrop, stunning foreign locales and beautiful people in their stylish best make for compelling visuals. But scratch the surface, and you find a dysfunctional family trying hard to act normal to the world."

Dil Dhadakne Do released on 5 June 2015 in 2,300 screens worldwide on a budget of 580 million. According to an analysis by Box Office India, the film was likely to perform better in major Indian cities than in smaller centers, but predicted it would perform much better overseas due to its niche content. Distributed by Big Home Entertainment, it was released on DVD in all regions on 30 August 2015 as a two-disc pack in NTSC widescreen format; bonus content included the making of the film and deleted scenes. A VCD version was released at the same time. The film's Blu-ray version was released on 5 September 2015. Dil Dhadakne Do had its Indian television premiere on 24 October 2015 on Zee Cinema.

Reception
Dil Dhadakne Do received positive reviews, receiving praise for the cast performances, humor, cinematography, music, costumes and direction, but it received criticism for its running time and climax. In a 4-star review for Mumbai Mirror, critic Kunal Guha described the film as an "emotional roller-coaster", comparing Akhtar's direction to that of Woody Allen and Wes Anderson, and complimented the performances of the cast. Rajiv Vijayakar from India-West gave a rating of 4 stars, describing it as "entertaining with stellar performances", praising Akhtar's direction and writing, "Zoya gets the emotions right by making the entertainment riveting and the experience full of many perceptive insights into basic relationships". Srijana Mitra Das of The Times of India gave the film 4 stars, praising the performances of the lead actors and writing, "On this ship, a few bolts could be tighter. But these are fleeting clouds on an otherwise beautiful sea, hosting a cruise ... while searching beyond Bollywood's emotional Botox for a family's warts - and its heart." Shubha Shetty-Saha of Mid-Day gave the film 4 stars and complimented the story, stating, "If this film looks like an entertaining, escapist film at the outset, it is, but it is also much deeper than that". She also appreciated the performances, particularly those of Chopra and Singh, writing, "These two blazing talents are magical when they come together sharing what perhaps could be one of the best sibling chemistry in Hindi films".

The reviewer from Bollywood Hungama gave the film 3.5 stars, praising Akhtar's direction for "[pulling] off such a magnificent film with such utmost ease". Writing for Hindustan Times, film critic Anupama Chopra rated the film 3.5 stars, commending the performances - particularly those of Kapoor, Shah and Chopra - and the high production value, writing, "There are soaring top shots of the ship, of gorgeous towns in Turkey and Greece, and of staggering fashions". Rachit Gupta of Filmfare described the film as a "spunky comedy, straight from the heart", attributing the performances of the lead actors as the prime reason for the film's success. Sonia Chopra from Sify also gave 3.5 stars, calling Dil Dhadakne Do a film with a "robust heartbeat", admiring Akhtar's ability to create "real and interesting" characters and writing, "Zoya Akhtar brings in several delightful elements of her filmmaking style - there's the gorgeous cast playing interesting characters, the overt and covert equations between them, the hints at societal hypocrisy and sexism, the romance, the gorgeous locales, and the measured pace".

Raja Sen of Rediff.com gave a 3 out of 5 star rating explaining that "Despite its flaws, I find myself looking back at Dil Dhadakne Do and smiling. Because of Kapoor, a man who is unerringly good when given enough elbow room, and here he’s silver-maned and smooth and selfish and playing his part with superb gusto...And because of Ranveer, who owns his moments of frustration, of resignation, of outrage and of wry comebacks." Film critic Rajeev Masand of News18 gave 3 stars, appreciating the performances of the lead actors - especially that of Kapoor and Shah - calling them "absolutely riveting". He praised the humor in the screenplay and concluded that the film is "easy and breezy, and packed with terrific actors who appear to be enjoying themselves", although he criticized the pacing and climax of the film, calling it "silly". In a 3 star review, film critic Mayank Shekhar of ABP News said that "patiently drawing out emotions from every character" made the film "horrendously long [and] too languidly paced", although he called the film ""intensely real, intrinsically adult, with several sharp observations about relationships and life". Scoring the film 3 stars, Sukanya Verma of Rediff.com wrote that Dil Dhadakne Do "unravels like an entire season of soap opera condensed into a nearly three-hour movie", but found it "too facile to rise above the charming fluff".

Ritika Bhatia of Business Standard wrote that the film "does have its enjoyable moments, but with a three-hour runtime, it fails to sail the high seas", and termed the film "ambitious" but "meandering". Shilpa Jamkhandikar of Reuters called it "Akhtar's weakest film yet, because she tries to tell too many stories at once and tells none entirely". Sarita A. Tanwar of Daily News and Analysis gave the film 2.5 stars, and said it would have "been a lot of fun [if] had it been shorter, crisper and less indulgent".

Box office
Dil Dhadakne Do had a decent opening, with collections of 100 million on its opening day. Collections rose 20% on its second day, collecting 120 million, and another 20% on its third day, with collections of 140 million for the opening domestic weekend of 360 million. Upon its release, the film recorded the highest overseas opening of the year for an Indian film, collecting 195 million in its opening weekend.

Notably, the film debuted at number 9 at the U.K. box office, where it earned $330,000 in its opening weekend. The total worldwide opening weekend collections stood at 675 million, making it the top worldwide opener among Indian films at the time of its release. On its first Monday, the film's collections dropped 40%, earning another 57.5 million. It earned 550 million in its first week at the domestic box office and over 980 million worldwide. In its second weekend, Dil Dhadakne Do earned 100 million. During its theatrical run, the film grossed over 1 billion in India and a further 450 million worldwide, for a worldwide total of 1.45 billion.

Accolades

Dil Dhadakne Do received a number of accolades, particularly for the actors. It earned 5 Filmfare nominations, winning Best Supporting Actor for Kapoor. The film was nominated in 9 categories at the 2016 Screen Awards, including Best Film, Best Director for Akhtar and Best Actress for Chopra. It went on to win two; Best Supporting Actor for Kapoor and Best Ensemble Cast. At the 2015 Stardust Awards, the film garnered 5 nominations, including Actor of the Year – Female for Chopra and Actor of the Year – Male for Singh, winning three awards: Best Supporting Actor for Kapoor, Best Supporting Actress for Shah and Best Costume Design.

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