title: Sketch Engine

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Sketch Engine is a corpus manager and text analysis software developed by Lexical Computing CZ s.r.o. since 2003. Its purpose is to enable people studying language behaviour (lexicographers, researchers in corpus linguistics, translators or language learners) to search large text collections according to complex and linguistically motivated queries. Sketch Engine gained its name after one of the key features, word sketches: one-page, automatic, corpus-derived summaries of a word's grammatical and collocational behaviour. Currently, it supports and provides corpora in 90+ languages.

History of development
Sketch Engine is a product of Lexical Computing Limited, a company founded in 2003 by the lexicographer and research scientist Adam Kilgarriff. He started a collaboration with Pavel Rychlý, a computer scientist working at the Natural Language Processing Centre, Masaryk University, and the developer of Manatee and Bonito (two major parts of the software suite), and introduced the concept of word sketches.

Since then, Sketch Engine has been commercial software, however, all the core features of Manatee and Bonito that were developed by 2003 (and extended since then) are freely available under the GPL license within the NoSketch Engine suite.

Features
A list of tools available in Sketch Engine:
 Word sketches – a one-page automatic derived summary of a word's grammatical and collocational behaviour
 Word sketch difference – compares and contrasts two words by analysing their collocation
 Distributional Thesaurus – automated thesaurus finding words with similar meaning or appearing in the same/similar context
 Concordance search – finds examples of a word form, lemma, phrase, tag or complex structure
 Collocation search – word co-occurrence analysis displaying the most frequent words (to a search word) which can be regarded as collocation candidates
 Word lists – generates frequency lists which can be filtered with complex criteria
 n-grams – generates frequency lists of multi-word expressions
 Terminology / Keyword extraction (both monolingual and bilingual) – automatic extraction key words and multi-word terms from texts (based on frequency count and linguistic criteria)
 Diachronic analysis (Trends) – detecting words which undergo changes in the frequency of use in time (show trending words)
 Corpus building and management – create corpora from the Web or uploaded texts including part-of-speech tagging and lemmatization which can be used as data mining software
 Parallel corpus (bilingual) facilities – looking up translation examples (EUR-Lex corpus, Europarl corpus, OPUS corpus, etc.) or building parallel corpus from own aligned texts
 Text type analysis – statistics of metadata in the corpus

Keywords and terminology extraction
It is a tool for automatic term extraction for identifying words typical of a particular corpus, document, or text. It supports extracting one-word and multi-word units from monolingual and bilingual texts. The terminology extraction feature provides a list of relevant terms based on comparison with a large corpus of general language. This tool is also a separate service operating as OneClick terms with a dedicated interface.

List of text corpora
Sketch Engine provides access to more than 700 text corpora. There are monolingual as well as multilingual language corpora of different sizes (from thousand of words up to 60 billions of words) and various sources (web, books, subtitles, legal documents, etc.). The list of corpora includes British National Corpus, Brown Corpus, Cambridge Academic English Corpus and Cambridge Learner Corpus, CHILDES corpora of child language, OpenSubtitles (a set of 60 parallel corpora), 24 multilingual corpora of EUR-Lex documents, TenTen Corpus Family (multi-billion web corpora), trends corpora (monitor corpora with daily updates), etc.

Architecture

Sketch Engine consists of three main components: an underlying database management system called Manatee, a web interface search front-end called Bonito and a web interface for corpus building and management called Corpus Architect.

Manatee

Manatee is a database management system specifically devised for effective indexing of large text corpora. It is based on the idea of inverted indexing (keeping an index of all positions of a given word in the text). It has been used to index text corpora comprising tens of billions of words.

Searching corpora indexed by Manatee is performed by formulating queries in the Corpus Query Language (CQL).

Manatee is written in C++ and offers an API for a number of other programming languages including Python, Java, Perl and Ruby. Recently, it was rewritten into Go for faster processing of corpus queries.

Bonito

Bonito is a web interface for Manatee providing access to corpus search. In the client–server model, Manatee is the server and Bonito plays the client part. It is written in Python.

Corpus Architect

Corpus Architect is a web interface providing corpus building and management features. It is also written in Python.

Applications
Sketch Engine has been used by major British or other publishing houses for producing dictionaries such as Macmillan English Dictionary, Dictionnaires Le Robert, Oxford University Press or Shogakukan and four of the UK's five biggest dictionary publishers use Sketch Engine.

See also
 SkELL – a free web service for language learning based on Sketch Engine

References

Related publications

External links

 Sketch Engine website
 List of corpora available in Sketch Engine
 OneClick terms – an online term extractor with term extraction technology from Sketch Engine

Applied linguistics
Computational linguistics
Corpus linguistics
Database management systems
Data mining and machine learning software
Lexicography
Linguistic research
Natural language processing
Text analysis
Text mining


title: 2014–15 Harvard Crimson women's ice hockey season

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The Harvard Crimson represented Harvard University in ECAC women's ice hockey during the 2014–15 NCAA Division I women's ice hockey season. The Crimson played in the NCAA Division I National Championship, losing to Minnesota.

Offseason
August 8: Crimson players Miye D'Oench and Michelle Picard, plus freshman Lexie Laing earned invitations to the USA Hockey Women’s National Festival at Lake Placid, New York.

Recruiting

News and notes
October 31: In her NCAA debut, Lexie Laing logged her first career goal for Harvard. Said goal was logged on the power play and would prove to be the game winning tally in a 4-1 triumph over RPI. Of note, the Crimson goaltender was Lexie's sister Brianna.

Roster

Schedule

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!colspan=12 style="  style="background:#af1e2d; color:#fff;"| ECAC Tournament

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!colspan=12 style="  style="background:#af1e2d; color:#fff;"| NCAA Tournament

Awards and honors
Emerance Maschmeyer, Patty Kazmaier Award nominee
 Sarah Edney, 2015 CCM Hockey Women's Division I All-Americans, Second Team
Sarah Edney, ECAC Defenseman of the Year Award
Sarah Edney, First Team All-ECAC
Lexie Laing, ECAC All-Rookie Team honoree
Lexie Laing, ECAC Rookie of the Year Finalist
Mary Parker, Second Team All-ECAC
Emerance Maschmeyer, Third Team All-ECAC
Emerance Maschmeyer, ECAC Goaltender of the Year Finalist
Emerance Maschmeyer, ECAC All-Tournament Team
Mary Parker, All-Ivy League First Team
Emerance Maschmeyer, All-Ivy League First Team
Mary Parker, ECAC Forward of the Year Finalist
Mary Parker, ECAC All-Tournament Team

References

Harvard
Harvard Crimson women's ice hockey seasons
NCAA women's ice hockey Frozen Four seasons
Harvard Crimson women's ice hockey
Harvard Crimson women's ice hockey
Harvard Crimson women's ice hockey
Harvard Crimson women's ice hockey


title: Gerald Westbury

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Gerald Westbury OBE  FRCS (29 July 1927 – 12 June 2014), usually known as Charley Westbury, was an English surgeon who pioneered treatments for cancer, particularly sarcoma, developing techniques for preserving muscle function after surgery.  He also developed new techniques of reconstructive surgery for cancers of the head and neck, and championed a multidisciplinary approach to cancer treatment.

Education and career

Westbury was born in London and was educated at St Marylebone Grammar School, followed by studying medicine at Westminster Hospital Medical School.  His National Service was carried out in the Royal Air Force, following which he became the resident surgical officer at the Brompton Hospital, then registrar at Westminster Hospital.  Here he worked with Sir Stanford Cade, a pioneer in performing radical surgery for cancer, and combining this with radiotherapy.

Following a fellowship at Harvard Medical School, he was appointed consultant surgeon at Westminster Hospital in 1960, taking the place of Cade. In addition to being a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Westbury was also a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, an unusual combination of qualifications for a surgeon. His other appointments included being foundation Professor of Surgery at the Royal Marsden Hospital, and the Dean of the Institute of Cancer Research, where he established a Sarcoma Unit.

His honorary appointments included being honorary consultant surgeon to the British Army, president of the British Association of Surgical Oncology, and a Founding Fellow of Breakthrough Breast Cancer. Westbury was also an examiner at a number of medical schools. In 1990 he was appointed OBE.

Therapeutic advances
At the time that Westbury was working with Cade it was believed that in the surgical treatment of cancer, the more tissue that was removed the better the outcome would be. But in many cases this caused severe disfigurement or loss of function. Westbury was one of the first to develop procedures that would preserve function as well as give good survival rates. He specialised in the treatment of sarcomas, and his surgical technique was, wherever possible, to leave some muscle tissue to preserve a degree of function.

Cade, who was a pioneer in the treatment of cancer by radiotherapy, first conducted joint clinics with radiotherapists at the Westminster Hospital. Westbury continued similar interdisciplinary clinics where surgeons worked with colleagues from other disciplines, an approach that has been shown to result in better outcomes.

He also played a part in developing new techniques and reconstructive procedures for treating cancers. In his 'commando procedure', one of the earliest such procedures to be developed, the diseased tissue is removed and replaced by transposed tissue from elsewhere still attached to the parent site so that its blood supply was maintained. He was also one of the physicians who introduced isolated limb perfusion for treating melanoma in his clinic. He studied the effect of injecting patients with cancer with the smallpox vaccine and human interferons.

References

1927 births
2014 deaths
English surgeons
English oncologists
Alumni of Westminster Hospital Medical School
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Physicians of the Royal Marsden Hospital
Physicians of the Westminster Hospital


title: Veerapandiyan

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Veerapandiyan () is a 1987 Indian Tamil-language masala film, directed by Karthik Raghunath and produced by Durai. The film stars Sivaji Ganesan, Vijayakanth, Raadhika and Jaishankar. It was released on 14 April 1987.

Plot
Ranjith (Ranjeet) plots to steal the temple jewels in the town of Manimangalam with the help of the temple's dharmagatha (V. K. Ramasamy) and townsman Nanjappa (Radha Ravi). Their initial attempt is foiled by Manimaaran (Vijayakanth), the son of the periya pannaiyar, Dharmalingam (V. S. Raghavan) and Nanjappa's nephew. The trio are forced to wait until the next year when the temple festival takes place again to attempt to steal the jewels. Pandiyan (Sivaji Ganesan) is the village president and lives in Manimangalam with his sister Meenatchi (Raadhika). He was engaged to marry Gowri (Sumithra) but he called off the wedding when he learned his horoscope dictates his wife would die prematurely. Gowri has refused to marry anyone else and remains a major part of Pandian and Meena's lives. Pandian also has a long-standing feud with Dharmalingam that started when he won the post of village president. Manimaaran and Pandian both inadvertently continually foil the plans of the trio to further their plans to learn more about the temple. The police also become interested and send police officer Shankar (Jaishankar) undercover to the town. He secretly works to protect Pandian and Manimaaran from falling victim to the trio. More problems arise when Meena and Manimaaran fall in love however. Pandian is willing to give his blessings if Dharmalingam will agree to the marriage but the latter refuses. Manimaaran and Meena marry regardless and Nanjappa uses the conflict to his advantage. As the temple festival nears, he kills Dharmalingam and frames Pandian to sow discord between the two in hopes of keeping both distracted. Pandian and Manimaaran must deal with the fallout from Nanjappa's plan and prevent the theft of the temple jewels.

Cast
Sivaji Ganesan as Pandi
Vijayakanth as Manimaaran
Raadhika as Meenatchi
Sumithra as Gowri
Jaishankar as CID Shankar
Radha Ravi as Nanjappa
Ranjeet as Ranjith
V. K. Ramasamy as Dharmagatha
V. S. Raghavan as Dharmalingam (Manimaaran's father)
Ennatha Kannaiya as Kannaiya
Kallapatti Singaram as Kanakupillai
Pandari Bai as Manimaaran's mother
S. N. Lakshmi as Paati
Bindu Ghosh
Anuradha as Sweety

Soundtrack
The soundtrack was composed by Shankar–Ganesh.

Reception
On 5 May 1987, The Indian Express wrote "Veerapandiyan despite being a potpourri of elements sacred and mandatory to the masala genre is within its rather constructed ambit, a fair sample of all that is good, bad, and mediocre in commercial Tamil cinema."

References

External links

1980s Tamil-language films
1980s masala films
1987 action films
1987 films
Films scored by Shankar–Ganesh
Indian action films


title: 1920 Yale Bulldogs football team

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The 1920 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1920 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 5–3 record under third-year head coach Tad Jones.  Yale guard Tim Callahan was a consensus selection for the 1920 College Football All-America Team, receiving first team honors from Walter Camp, the United Press, and the International News Service.  Yale's other guard, John Acosta, also received first-team All-America honors from Walter Eckersall.

Schedule

References

Yale
Yale Bulldogs football seasons
Yale Bulldogs football


title: Anne Hege Simonsen

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Anne Hege Simonsen (born 1 April 1965) is a Norwegian social anthropologist and journalist.

Simonsen has worked as a journalist in NRK and Klassekampen, she has been the editor of Ny Tid and Verdensmagasinet X and is now an associate professor of journalism at Oslo and Akershus University College. She has published several non-fiction books, among others a biography on Norwegian aviation pioneer Tryggve Gran.

Anne Hege Simonsen is married to journalist and writer Bjørn Westlie.

References

Bibsys listing (Norwegian)

1965 births
Living people
Norwegian journalists
Norwegian non-fiction writers
Norwegian women non-fiction writers
Academic staff of Oslo University College


title: Jack Harper (tennis)

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Jack Edwin "Jock" Harper (8 April 1914 – 17 January 2005) was an Australian amateur tennis player who competed mainly in the 1930s and 1940s. He reached the quarterfinals of the Australian Championships in 1946 and was runner-up in the men's doubles in 1937 partnering John Bromwich.

In April 1946 Harper lost just a single point when he defeated J. Sandiford 6–0, 6–0 at the Surrey Open Hard Court Championships in a match that lasted 18 minutes, the shortest singles match on record.

Grand Slam finals

Doubles: (1 runner-up)

References

External links

1914 births
2005 deaths
Australian male tennis players
Tennis players from Melbourne
20th-century Australian people
Sportsmen from Victoria (state)


title: Ralph Wells

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Ralph E. Wells (September 3, 1940 – August 2, 1968) was an American professional basketball player. He played for the Chicago Zephyrs in the National Basketball Association for three games during 1962–63 after a collegiate career at Northwestern University. He shot 0-for-7 in free throw attempts in his NBA career.

Wells also played for the Pittsburgh Rens in the American Basketball League before the league folded in December 1962. On August 1, 1968, Wells drowned.

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1968 deaths
American Basketball League (1961–62) players
American men's basketball players
Basketball players from Chicago
Chicago Zephyrs players
Guards (basketball)
Northwestern Wildcats men's basketball players
Undrafted National Basketball Association players
Deaths by drowning in the United States


title: X Troop

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X Troop may refer to:

No. 10 (Inter-Allied) Commando#No. 3 (X) Troop
A section from No. 11 Special Air Service Battalion that conducted Operation Colossus


title: MV Melbourne Star (1936)

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MV Melbourne Star was a British refrigerated cargo liner. She was built by Cammell Laird and Co in 1936 as one of Blue Star Line's -class ships, designed to ship frozen meat from Australia and New Zealand to the United Kingdom. She served in the Second World War and is distinguished for her role in Operation Pedestal to relieve the siege of Malta in August 1942. She was sunk by torpedo in 1943 with the loss of 115 lives.

Building
Cammell Laird and Co in Birkenhead, England built the sister ships Melbourne Star and  and launched them on the same day, 7 July 1936. Melbourne Star was completed in November 1936, followed by Brisbane Star in January 1937. Both ships were initially owned by Union Cold Storage, a ship-owning company controlled by Blue Star Line.

The Imperial Star class were motor ships. Melbourne Star and Brisbane Star each had a pair of 10-cylinder, two-stroke, single-acting Sulzer Bros marine diesel engines. Melbourne Stars engines developed a total of 2,806 NHP. Her navigation equipment included wireless direction finding, an echo sounding device and a gyrocompass.

War service
On 5 October 1940 Melbourne Star was in the North Atlantic between 400 and 500 miles west of Achill Island in Ireland en route from Freetown, Sierra Leone to Glasgow, Scotland, when a Luftwaffe aircraft attacked her with several bombs. Only one hit the ship and it failed to explode. The aircraft then subjected the ship to cannon and machine gun fire, wounding an able seaman, L Williams, who later died. The ship was repaired and returned to service.

Melbourne Star seems to have spent Christmas 1940 and New Year 1941 in Suez.

Operation Substance
In July 1941 Melbourne Star and another Blue Star Line Imperial Star-class ship, , were among six merchant ships that took part in Operation Substance to relieve the siege of Malta. The two Blue Star vessels and other merchant ships for the operation sailed from the Firth of Clyde on 12 July as part of Convoy WS 9C, which reached Gibraltar on 20 July. There they transferred to Convoy GM 1 which left for Malta the same day.

Melbourne Stars Master, Captain David MacFarlane, had already survived the sinking of  in 1940 and was appointed Commodore of the Operation Substance convoy. During the voyage Melbourne Star was attacked in the Mediterranean by an E-boat on 24 July but reached Valletta safely. The operation's flag officer, Admiral Somerville, commended the six merchant ships for their "steadfast and resolute behaviour during air and E-Boat attacks" and singled out Captain MacFarlane "who set a high standard and never failed to appreciate directly what he should do".

Captain MacFarlane was one of two Merchant Navy officers from Operation Substance who in December 1941 were awarded the OBE for their bravery. The London Gazette reported that MacFarlane "set a high standard and it is largely due to his leadership that the operation was successful".

After Operation Substance Melbourne Star returned independently to Gibraltar and then crossed the Atlantic to Trinidad, where she arrived on 17 November 1941. Twelve days later she left and sailed independently back to Liverpool, where she arrived on 29 November. She seems to have spent Christmas 1941 and New Year 1942 in Liverpool, where she loaded a cargo for South Africa of armoured vehicles, motor transports, artillery, stores and two aircraft. She joined Convoy WS 15, which left on 10 January and reached Freetown on 25 January. Melbourne Star continued south, reaching Durban on 13 February.

Melbourne Stars movements for the next four months are not known. She may have sailed east across the Indian and Pacific Oceans, for she left Panama on 13 June 1942 and reached the Clyde a fortnight later.

Operation Pedestal
In August 1942 Melbourne Star again relieved the siege of Malta, sailing with her sister Brisbane Star in Operation Pedestal. Melbourne Stars cargo included 1,350 tons of kerosene, 1,450 tons of high-explosive shells and cartridges and drums containing several thousand tons of heavy oil. She also carried extra Bofors 40 mm guns as deck cargo to augment Malta's air defence, but mounted so that they could also supplement the convoy's air defence en route to Malta. The two Blue Star vessels and other merchant ships for the operation sailed from the Firth of Clyde on 2 August as part of Convoy WS 21S, which reached Gibraltar on 10 August. There they transferred to Convoy MW 12 which left for Malta the same day.

At 0810 hrs 13 August twelve Junkers Ju 88 bombers attacked the refrigerated cargo ship , which was immediately ahead of Melbourne Star. Waimarama was carrying aviation fuel and immediately burst into flames, showering Melbourne Star with débris including a piece of steel plate  long. The base of a ventilator  high hit and damaged one of Melbourne Stars machine gun posts. The bottoms of Melbourne Stars lifeboats were burnt to charcoal. The damage, fire and smoke were so close that many of Melbourne Stars crew assumed she had been hit and 36 of them leapt into the sea, although fuel on the surface of the sea was also on fire.

The   entered the fire and smoke, rescuing 22 men from Melbourne Star and a few survivors from Waimarama. Nine of Melbourne Stars crew and five of her DEMS gunners were not found. Melbourne Star reached Valletta's Grand Harbour later the same day. Twelve hours after entering port a  shell from Waimaramas cargo was found embedded in the deck above the captain's day cabin. It had been blown in the air when Waimarama exploded, smashed through the wooden surface of Melbourne Stars deck, embedded itself in the steel plate beneath but failed to explode.

Captain MacFarlane was one of three Merchant Navy captains from Operation Pedestal who shortly afterwards were awarded the DSO "for fortitude, seamanship and endurance... in the face of relentless attacks... from enemy submarines, aircraft and surface forces".

For their part in the Malta convoys chief officer Leslie Parsons and chief engineer Harry Blandford were awarded the DSC, and boatswain J Cook, chief steward Herbert O'Connor, lamp-trimmer Frederich McWilliam and able seamen James Fleming and Alexander Greenwood were awarded the DSM. petty officer H Ince was awarded the King's Commendation for Brave Conduct. second officer W.E. Richards, third officer G.D. Knight and chief refrigerating engineer C.W. Almond were mentioned in dispatches.

On 7 December 1942 Melbourne Star left Malta with Convoy ME 11, which reached Suez four days later. She seems to have passed through the Suez Canal and the Indian Ocean, for on 2 February 1943 she left Montevideo in neutral Uruguay for Liverpool, where she arrived on 22 February.

In 1943 Blue Star transferred her ownership from Union Cold Storage to Frederick Leyland and Co.

Loss
On 24 March 1943 Melbourne Star left Liverpool for Sydney via the Panama Canal. She carried torpedoes, ammunition, other materiel, 76 crew, 11 DEMS gunners and 31 passengers. Melbourne Stars Master was now James Hall, who had commanded the liner  until she was sunk in October 1942. Several of his officers and men were veterans of Melbourne Stars participation in Operation Pedestal. Six other crewmen were survivors of another Imperial Star-class ship, , which had been sunk in November 1942.

Half of Melbourne Stars passengers and several of her crew were from Australia or New Zealand, including five junior Royal Australian Navy officers, a RAAF wing commander and a young Roman Catholic priest. Two of Melbourne Stars crew and two of her passengers were from the Republic of Ireland. One passenger was a young woman from Dundee, Scotland, travelling with her two sons aged eight and four.

Melbourne Star started her Atlantic crossing from Liverpool with Convoy ON 175, which was bound for New York. En route she detached from the convoy to head for Panama. About 0300 hrs on 2 April Melbourne Star was in mid-Atlantic in heavy weather about 480 miles south-east of Bermuda when the German Type IXC submarine  hit her with two or three torpedoes, one of which detonated in her boiler room. Part of her cargo detonated, destroying three-quarters of the ship instantly and sinking her within two minutes. There was no chance to transmit a distress signal, and if any of her four lifeboats survived the explosion there was no chance of anyone launching them.

But the ship also carried Carley floats, which were either thrown into the sea by the explosion or floated clear as the remains of the ship sank. Eleven people from the ship managed to find and board three of the floats: seven people in one, three crewmen in another and an engine room greaser, William Best, alone in a third.

At daybreak U-129 approached the floats. The Germans asked the survivors for the name of their ship and what its destination and cargo were. From one of the floats able seaman Leonard White replied, giving the ship's true name but claiming she was bound for Panama with "general supplies". U-129 then left them to fend for themselves.

A/B White shared a float with ordinary seaman Ronald Nunn and engine room greaser William Burns. At daybreak they sighted William Best alone in his float and the two paddled toward each other. White, Nunn and Burns transferred to Best's float. They sighted the float with seven occupants but could not reach it. It was never seen again. A/B White took charge of the party of four survivors and "was responsible for the intelligent planning of the rations and the morale of his shipmates which was excellent at all times".

Their float was stocked with biscuits, chocolate, Horlicks tablets, Bovril pemmican,  of water and  of massage oil for use against exposure. There was also a sail, which they rigged as a makeshift shelter. After three days of rough weather the sea calmed and the raft drifted. The men's health deteriorated, but the ration cans had keys to open them, and from one of these White improvised a fishing hook. He untwisted the fibres of a rope and made them into a fishing line. With this they caught about 50 fish, which they ate raw. This gave the survivors both protein and nutritious fish oil, which improved their health and did much to keep them alive.

On 9 May a Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boat of US Navy Patrol Squadron 63 (VP-63) was on anti-submarine patrol when its crew sighted the raft about 250 miles off Bermuda. The plane circled overhead, touched down on the sea nearby and launched an inflatable boat, in which aircraft navigator Lieutenant Knox came over to the Carley float. The four survivors greeted Knox by offering him a fresh fish they had just caught.

The Catalina flew the four to Bermuda where they were admitted to a US Navy mobile hospital. All had developed saltwater sores but considering they had been adrift for 38 days they were in relatively good health. A/B White had lost only  in weight in 38 days adrift, and on 28 May was passed medically fit to return to duty. The Catalina's crew, lieutenants Kaufmann, Rex Knorr and Elliott, received US Navy commendations for the rescue.

In August 1944 Best, Burns, Nunn and White were all awarded the BEM for displaying "outstanding qualities of courage, fortitude and endurance which enabled them to survive". The award came too late for Ronald Nunn, who had been killed on 10 June 1944 when the coaster , carrying ammunition and fuel oil for the invasion of Normandy, was sunk in the English Channel off the Isle of Wight.

On 1 April 1943, the day before U-129 attacked Melbourne Star, an eastbound ship purporting to be the Portuguese four-masted  cargo steamer  had passed the cargo ship in mid-Atlantic. The Admiralty enquiry into the loss of Melbourne Star established that no Portuguese ship answering that description had been anywhere near that part of the Atlantic that day. It was therefore suspected that this was a Kriegsmarine merchant raider disguised as a neutral Portuguese ship, and that she had passed Melbourne Stars position and course to the BdU.

Successor ships
After the War, Blue Star Line ordered three more Imperial Star-class ships from Harland and Wolff in Belfast to replace some of its war losses. They included a second , which was launched on 10 August 1947 and completed in July 1948. Blue Star sold her in 1972 to Embajada Compania Naviera SS, who registered her in Greece and renamed her Melbo. Later that year she was sold to the Tung Cheng Steel and Iron Works of Taiwan, who scrapped her at Kaohsiung in 1973.

In 1971–72 Bremer Vulkan of Bremen-Vegesack built four container ships for ACT, a consortium of Blue Star, Port Line and Ellerman Lines. One was , which in 1992 was transferred to Blue Star's sole ownership and renamed Melbourne Star. In 1998 Blue Star became part of P&O Nedlloyd, who kept Melbourne Star under the same name and livery. In 2003 she was sold to shipbreakers in Shanghai to be scrapped.

Postage stamp
On 10 August 2012, the 70th anniversary of Convoy MW 12's departure from Gibraltar, MaltaPost issued a 26-cent commemorative stamp bearing a picture of Melbourne Star entering the Grand Harbour. It is one of a set of 26-cent stamps issued that day, which between them commemorate every ship that took part in the convoy.

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Maritime incidents in October 1940
Maritime incidents in April 1943
Merchant ships of the United Kingdom
Ships built on the River Mersey
Ships of the Blue Star Line
Ships sunk by German submarines in World War II
World War II merchant ships of the United Kingdom
World War II shipwrecks in the Atlantic Ocean


title: Grange Hill (series 1)

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The first series of the British television drama series Grange Hill began broadcasting on 8 February 1978, before ending on 5 April 1978 on BBC One. The series follows the lives of the staff and pupils of the eponymous school, an inner-city London comprehensive school. It consists of nine episodes.

Cast and characters

Pupils

Teachers

Episodes
{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"
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! style="background-color: #333333; color:white"| No.
! style="background: #333333; color:white"| Episode
! style="background: #333333; color:white"| Writer
! style="background: #333333; color:white"| Director
! style="background: #333333; color:white"| Original airdate
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| align="center"| 1
| align="center"| Episode One
| align="center"| Phil Redmond
| align="center"| Colin Cant
| align="center"| 8 February 1978
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| style="background:white" colspan="5" |The new comprehensive looks intimidating to Justin Bennett and Judy Preston. Trisha Yates makes it clear that she's not putting up with any nonsense from Tucker Jenkins and Ann Wilson has some difficulty finding the school at all.
First appearances: Benny Green, Peter "Tucker" Jenkins, Alan Humphries, Justin Bennett, Ann Wilson, Tommy Watson, Trisha Yates, Carol Yates, David Lewis, Mr Tony "Old Mitch" Mitchell, Mr "Frosty" Foster, Mr Rankin, Margaret Shaw, Mary Johnson, Jackie Heron, Brenda, Lucy, Mrs Monroe and Mr Garfield.
|- style="background:#333333; height:2px"
| colspan="5" |
|-
| align="center"| 2
| align="center"| Episode Two
| align="center"| Phil Redmond
| align="center"| Colin Cant
| align="center"| 15 February 1978
|-
| style="background:white" colspan="5" |When Benny Green kicks his football across the path of Mr. Mitchell's car, the teacher tells him off for being careless. Relenting a little, Mr. Mitchell asks if Benny will be trying for the team, but Benny tells him he has no football boots. In P.E, Mr. Foster makes it clear the correct gear must be worn, but Benny's still trying to find the right place – after embarrassingly getting undressed in what turns out to be the girls changing room, he does find the gym.
|- style="background:#333333; height:2px"
| colspan="5" |
|-
| align="center"| 3
| align="center"| Episode Three
| align="center"| Phil Redmond
| align="center"| Colin Cant
| align="center"| 22 February 1978
|-
| style="background:white" colspan="5" |Judy is unhappy because she has no friends, but Trisha sticks up for her when Tucker playfully plays Piggy in the Middle with Judy's satchel. Outside, Jackie Heron and her cronies demand money with menaces, but find Judy's 20p insufficient. Jackie takes Judy's precious fountain pen as security against 75p to be brought the next day. The next day, Jackie finds Judy outside near the sweet shop, and insists she goes home to get the money – but Trisha is also watching with her sister Carol.
|- style="background:#333333; height:2px"
| colspan="5" |
|-
| align="center"| 4
| align="center"| Episode Four
| align="center"| Phil Redmond
| align="center"| Colin Cant
| align="center"| 1 March 1978
|-
| style="background:white" colspan="5" |When Form One Alpha's boys go swimming, Tucker hides Justin's trousers. Mr. Mitchell appeals to the class for information about the missing apparel. "Are you sure you put them on this morning?" asks Benny innocently. There's another swimming lesson for the boys the next day, due to staff limitations. Early on, proceedings come to a halt when Winkle Graham cuts his toe on a loose tile, and the boys sent back to change. Benny goes back to the pool to recover his missing medal, but Tucker can't resist extending their stay. Tucker and Benny use the benches as improvised boats and race each other the length of the pool.
First appearances: Mr Malcolm
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| align="center"| 5
| align="center"| Episode Five
| align="center"| Phil Redmond
| align="center"| Colin Cant
| align="center"| 8 March 1978
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| style="background:white" colspan="5" |Trisha won't admit to her family that she has a crush on Mr. Rankin, nevertheless it is true that she helps the biology teacher out in the lab at lunchtimes cleaning the test tubes and cages. In the lunch hour, intent on doing a magazine article about the school animals, Judy visits the biology lab and finds Trisha there. Against her better judgement, Trisha lets Judy look at the grey school hamster, but it escapes when the bossy Miss Clark suddenly enters. Trisha earns a detention for her earrings. In trying to corner the creature, Trisha and Judy bring down a bookcase. Judy decides they can replace the animal, and Trisha remembers she has school holiday money. Judy runs to buy a hamster from the nearby pet shop while Trisha tidies up the lab.
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| align="center"| 6
| align="center"| Episode Six
| align="center"| Phil Redmond
| align="center"| Colin Cant
| align="center"| 15 March 1978
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| style="background:white" colspan="5" |Benny finally is able to go to school with the proper blazer. In woodwork, Tucker challenges Benny to go with him to visit an old ammunition dump; Justin, wanting to prove he is no chicken, agrees to go too. Tucker leads them through the site, but they are disappointed to find it is just a derelict house next to a junkyard. Wandering around, the trio get stuck in a room, with weird sounds nearby. They break down the door to find it was just a cat, which scampers. Upstairs is a lifting trolley, which Tucker uses to give Benny and Justin rides, but outside, a truck is heading in their direction with workmen inside. Tucker, Benny and Justin realize they will be seen leaving from the front, so scale the wall at the rear. It is no use – the workmen have seen them, but Justin is still climbing the ladder and has nowhere to go; he falls backwards with a yell.
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| align="center"| 7
| align="center"| Episode Seven
| align="center"| Phil Redmond
| align="center"| Colin Cant
| align="center"| 22 March 1978
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| style="background:white" colspan="5" |Judy and Trisha speculate that Miss Mather is seeing Mr. Mitchell. It is time to elect representatives to the school council, but to start with each form has to come up with likely candidates. Mr. Mitchell tells his form that the possibilities are Trisha, Tucker and Ann, although some unlikely other options are Snoopy, the Six Million Dollar Man and "our budgie". Trisha immediately wants to opt out, while Ann, with support from both Judy and Trisha, suggests that Tucker is an inappropriate choice, because he messes around. A fourth choice materializes in the form of new boy Doyle, whose credentials include having a father on the local council, but who has a history of bad behaviour. Form One Alpha easily votes in Ann to be their candidate, and then the campaigns get started.
First appearances: Michael Doyle
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| align="center"| 8
| align="center"| Episode Eight
| align="center"| Phil Redmond
| align="center"| Colin Cant
| align="center"| 29 March 1978
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| style="background:white" colspan="5" |While chasing after Benny, Doyle knocks over some paint and gets into trouble. Trisha Yates' stripy socks earn her a detention. Doyle's eyes light up when he sees valuable flintlocks on loan to the school: he and his friend grab one of them, brushing past Tucker as they escape. With Form One Alpha under suspicion the head suspends the impending school festival unless the valuable object is returned. Tucker tells Doyle he knows it was him, but Doyle won't admit the truth – Trisha overhears and gets Mary and Ann involved, but the girls aren't entirely sure Tucker is trustworthy. Doyle is sent to Coventry: it is made clear that no-one wants to know him, and before long he's fighting Tucker. After a week, it is clear more action is needed – it is suggested that an amnesty is set up, allowing an anonymous return of the pistol. Ann tells Mr. Mitchell and the Head of First Year, Mrs Monroe, and the Headmaster agrees. Doyle gets beaten up by Tucker, Benny and Alan.
Final appearance: Miss Monroe
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| align="center"| 9
| align="center"| Episode Nine
| align="center"| Phil Redmond
| align="center"| Colin Cant
| align="center"| 5 April 1978
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| style="background:white" colspan="5" |Both Benny and Trisha are disillusioned with Grange Hill – Benny, because he gets called names like "gollywog" by the likes of Doyle, and Trisha because the rules about uniform are, to her mind, very strict. When Trisha wears nail varnish, Mr. Mitchell won't take any more excuses, and tells her he's going to write to her mother. When the letter arrives, Trisha takes it herself, but she knows she is only delaying the inevitable. On Monday, neither Benny nor Trisha are present at registration, although Benny was seen before school began. Ann knocks on Trisha's door at lunchtime – her mother is unaware that Trisha is not at school. Mr. Mitchell overhears Ann and Mary talking, and with Miss Mather taking his tutorial, as he goes out to try to find the lost sheep.
Last appearances: Ann Wilson, David Lewis, Anthony Underwood, Mr Rankin, Mr "Frosty" Foster, Margaret Shaw, Mr Malcolm, and Miss Mather
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DVD release
The first series of Grange Hill was released on DVD in the UK in 2007. The set includes all nine episodes.

Notes

References

1978 British television seasons
Grange Hill


title: 1919 Yale Bulldogs football team

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The 1919 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1919 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 5–3 record under first-year head coach Albert Sharpe.  No Yale player received first-team honors on the 1919 College Football All-America Team.

Schedule

References

Yale
Yale Bulldogs football seasons
Yale Bulldogs football


title: Media in Aurora, Colorado

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Aurora is a center of media in north-central Colorado. The following is a list of media outlets based in the city.

Print

Newspapers
The Aurora Sentinel is the city's primary newspaper, published weekly. Given Aurora's proximity to Denver, local readers can also purchase the daily print edition of The Denver Post.

Other newspapers published in Aurora include:
Buckley Guardian, Buckley Air Force Base news
Denver Urban Spectrum, African American news, monthly
El Hispano, Spanish language newspaper, weekly

Radio
Aurora is in the Denver-Boulder radio market. Local listeners can also receive the signal of radio stations broadcasting from nearby communities including Centennial, Colorado Springs, Greenwood Village, Longmont, and Loveland.

The following is a list of radio stations that broadcast from or are licensed to Aurora.

AM

FM

Television
Aurora is in the Denver television market. In addition, local viewers can receive the signal of television stations broadcasting from nearby communities including Fort Collins and Greeley.

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

References

Aurora, Colorado
Aurora


title: Thaaiku Oru Thaalaattu

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Thaaiku Oru Thaalaattu () is a 1986 Indian Tamil-language drama film, directed by Balachandra Menon and produced by K. R. Gangadharan. The film stars Sivaji Ganesan, Padmini, Visu and Pandiarajan. It was released on 16 July 1986. The film was a remake of the director's own Malayalam film Oru Painkilikatha.

Plot

Rich industrialist Rajasekar is a loving husband to Dhanam and father to three children. Their oldest son is a Collector and married to a successful managing director of a company. Their youngest, Manju, is a brilliant college student aiming to become a doctor. Their middle child is the unambitious Kannan who couldn't succeed academically and is now working as a labourer in his father's factory. Rajasekar, though he loves his son, is also bitterly disappointed in Kannan and keeps him at an emotional distance. He hopes by withholding affection, he can spur Kannan into becoming more ambitious and successful in life. Dhanam, on the other hand, appreciates that Kannan is kind, funny and considerate of others. She showers him with affection and tries to bridge the divide between father and son. Kannan learns that Manju is in love with fellow college student Ramesh and is supportive. When Rajasekar arranges Manju's marriage to Kumar, Kannan objects. However, Manju is too intimidated to go against her strict father and sacrifices her love to marry Kumar. Kannan's own love affair with the maid, Chellakili comes to light when she becomes pregnant. Unlike Manju, Kannan chooses love despite his father's displeasure at his actions. He and Chellakili marry and move out with the help of family friend, Ponnambalam.

Although he left the family home, Kannan is still desperate for his father's love and approval. Pakkiri, a fellow worker at the factory who's looking to stir up trouble, senses Kannan's desperation and convinces him to join the union. Father and son clash when the workers agitate for better conditions. Padmavathi, a labour relations officer, is called in to mediate. Rajasekar is perturbed as he once knew Padmavathi before his marriage. Padmavathi grows closer to Kannan and Chellakili as Rajasekar continues to take a strict stand with his son. A family tragedy brings matters to a head, forcing Rajasekar to re-evaluate his priorities.

Cast
Sivaji Ganesan as Rajasekar
Padmini as Dhanam
Sujatha as Padmavathi
Pandiarajan as Kannan
Rohini as Chellakili
Visu as Ponnambalam
Vijay Krishnaraj as Pakkiri
Ilavarasi as Manju
Vijayakumar as Kumar
Pandiyan as Ramesh
Nizhalgal Ravi as Rajasekar's oldest son
Rajyalakshmi as Rajasekar's daughter-in-law

Soundtrack
The music was composed by Ilaiyaraaja, with lyrics by Vairamuthu.

Reception
Jayamanmadhan of Kalki felt the film starts without a goal and continues without a goal, adding that the climax also ends tamely.

References

External links

1980s Tamil-language films
1986 drama films
1986 films
Films directed by Balachandra Menon
Films scored by Ilaiyaraaja
Indian drama films
Tamil remakes of Malayalam films


title: Sampson (given name)

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Sampson is the given name of:

People:
 Sampson the Hospitable (died c. 530), venerated as a saint in the Eastern Churches
 Sampson Avard (1800–1869), leader of a band of Mormon vigilantes in Missouri
 Sampson Eardley, 1st Baron Eardley (1744–1824), Jewish-British banker in the City of London, son of Sampson Gideon (see below)
 Sampson Erdeswicke (died 1603), English antiquarian
 Sampson Eure (died 1659), English Member of Parliament
 Sampson Gamgee (1828–1886), British surgeon and indirect namesake of The Lord of the Rings character Sam Gamgee
 Sampson Gideon (1699–1762), Jewish-British banker in the City of London
 Sampson Handley (1872–1962), English surgeon
 Sampson Willis Harris (1809–1857), American politician and lawyer in the South
 Sampson Hele (1582–1655), English Member of Parliament
 Sampson Hopkins (died 1622), English merchant and Member of Parliament
 Sampson Hosking (1888–1974), Australian rules footballer and coach
 Sampson Kempthorne (1809–1873), English architect
 Sampson Lennard (died 1615), English Member of Parliament
 Sampson Lloyd, various members of a family in Birmingham, England; one co-founded a bank which eventually became Lloyds Bank
 Sampson Lort, Welsh Member of Parliament in 1659
 Sampson Low (1797–1886), London bookseller and publisher
 Sampson Mathews (c. 1737 – 1807), American soldier, legislator and college founder
 Sampson Moore (1812–1877), engineer based in Liverpool, England
 Sampson Mordan (1790–1843), British silversmith and co-inventor of the first patented mechanical pencil
 Sampson Nanton (born 1977), journalist and television news presenter in Trinidad and Tobago
 Sampson Sievers (1900–1979), Russian Orthodox Christian priest and mystic
 Sampson Simson (1780–1857), American philanthropist

Biblical figures:
 Samson or Sampson, the man of extraordinary strength in the Book of Judges in the Bible
Fictional Characters
 Sampson, a character in the play Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare
 Sampson, a character from Camp Lazlo.

See also
 Samson (name)


title: James E. M. Barkman House

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The James E. M. Barkman House is a historic house located at 406 North 10th Street in Arkadelphia, Arkansas.

Description and history
The two-story, timber-framed, hipped-roof house was built around 1860 for James E. M. Barkman, son of one of Arkadelphia's early settlers. It is unusual in the state for its combination of Greek Revival and Gothic Revival features. The main block has wide Doric pilasters at the corners, and its first floor windows have semi-circular heads. A full two-story porch extends across the main facade, with a wealth of jigsaw-cut Gothic detail. The house's interior follows a typical antebellum central-hall plan.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 30, 1974.

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

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas
Greek Revival houses in Arkansas
Carpenter Gothic architecture in Arkansas
Houses completed in 1860
Houses in Arkadelphia, Arkansas
National Register of Historic Places in Clark County, Arkansas


title: Malaysia at the 1987 SEA Games

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Malaysia competed in the 1987 Southeast Asian Games held in Jakarta, Indonesia from 9 to 20 December 1987.

Medal summary

Medals by sport

Medallists

Football

Men's tournament
Group A

Semifinal

Gold medal match

References

1987
Nations at the 1987 SEA Games
1987 in Malaysian sport


title: 1917 Yale Bulldogs football team

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The 1917 Yale Bulldogs football team, commonly known in 1917 as the Yale "Informals", represented Yale University in the 1917 college football season. The team compiled an undefeated 3–0 record and outscored opponents by a total of 47 to 0 in games against Loomis Institute (a private boarding school), New Haven Naval Base, and Trinity College. No Yale player received first-team honors on the 1917 College Football All-America Team.

Schedule

Roster
 A. D. Hendrickson, left end
 W. W. Meekins, left tackle
 G. Williams, left guard
 H. S. Walters, center
 A. M. Vorys, right guard
 K. Hamill, right tackle
 M. Borders, right end
 C. J. Stewart, fullback
 S. L. Reinhardt, right halfback
 C. G. Stradella, left halfback
 G. W. O'Connor, quarterback
 G. M. Sidenberg, substitute guard
 W. Bushby, substitute halfback
 J. P. Weyerhauser, substitute center
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Coaching staff
Tad Jones, who had been Yale's head coach in 1916, was called away from Yale for government service during the 1917 season.  In his place, Arthur Brides served as the team's coach. Charles J. Stewart was the team captain, and Philip C. Walsh was the team manager. John Mack was the trainer and Brides' chief assistant coach.

References

Yale
Yale Bulldogs football seasons
Yale Bulldogs football


title: Ashvini Yardi

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Ashvini Yardi is a producer of Bollywood movies such as OMG – Oh My God!, 72 Miles, Bhaji in Problem, Fugly and Singh Is Bliing.

After having a 20-year-long career in television, Yardi formed Grazing Goat Pictures with actor Akshay Kumar in December 2011. At Zee TV she opted for shows such as Saat Phere, Sailaab, Kasamh Se, Sarrkar, Teen Bahuraaniyaan, Banoo Main Teri Dulhann, Ghar ki Lakshmi Betiyaan, Banegi Apni Baat, among several others. She also conceptualized the singing reality show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge and Lil' Champs before leaving to join Colors. At Colors, she brought in shows such as Uttaran, Balika Vadhu, Bigg Boss, Khatron Ke Khiladi, Veer Shivaji, Laado and took the new channel zooming to the No 1 spot.

She has earned a BA in Psychology, Advertising and Marketing from XIC, Mumbai.

Filmography

Films

Television

Web series

 Jamai 2.0 (2019)

References

External links

Living people
St. Xavier's College, Mumbai alumni
Film producers from Mumbai
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Indian women film producers
21st-century Indian businesswomen
21st-century Indian businesspeople
Businesswomen from Maharashtra


title: La Victoria del Viento

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La Victoria del Viento (Spanish: The Wind-Ridden Victory) is a monument in the city of Pachuca, Mexico, commemorating the bicentenary of the Mexican independence from Spain (1810–2010). Located on the Bicentennial Plaza, the monument was created by Mexican sculptor Bernardo Luis López Artasánchez and consists of 14 individual sculptures.

The personification of Victory refers to the Mexican legend about a young, open-hearted woman, who fell in love with the wind and who sacrificed herself to the earth in return of welfare of the land. The Victory raises her right hand with the torch of freedom, while leaving the north wind play with her hair. The eagle with a snake on a cactus at the Victory's feet, which also appears on the coat of arms of Mexico, refers to the legendary founding of Tenochtitlan. The figures surrounding the Victory are Miguel Hidalgo, José María Morelos, Andrés Quintana Roo and Ignacio López Rayón. The horses symbolize those used at the battlefields during the Mexican war of independence. The Victory's pedestal bears the inscription "Hidalgo, en el nombre llevamos la independencia" (Spanish: "Hidalgo, in your name we convey independence").

See also
Angel of Independence

References

Buildings and structures in Hidalgo (state)
Buildings and structures completed in 2010
Monuments and memorials in Mexico
Pachuca


title: Boechera platysperma

text:
Boechera platysperma, the pioneer rockcress or broad-seeded rock-cress, is a perennial plant in the family Brassicaceae found in western United States mountains.

It is less than  tall.

Habitat and range
It can be found on dry, rocky flats and slopes, from , in mountain ranges including the United States Sierra Nevada range, California's North Coast range, Cascade Range, and ranges in the Great Basin.

Leaves and stems
Leaves are entire.

Inflorescence and fruit
Flowers are 4-petaled and spoon shaped. Seed pods are flat.

References

platysperma


title: 1923 Niagara vs. Colgate football game

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The 1923 Niagara vs. Colgate football game was a college football game between the Niagara Purple Eagles and the Colgate Maroon played on October 6, 1923. The game was played at Whitnall Field in Hamilton Village, New York. The game is known for the Niagara team refusing to tackle their opponents during play and intentionally allowing them to score multiple times.

Coach Pete Dwyer of Niagara wanted to play four quarters of eight minutes in length rather than the standard 15-minute quarters, an agreement reached between the schools at an earlier date. Opposing coach Dick Harlow wanted nothing to do with the rule change and insisted on the standard 15 minutes. In protest, the players of Niagara refused to tackle their opponents. Dwyer told his team "I will dismiss from the squad any man who makes a tackle. I refuse to ruin you as a football team by playing 60 minutes against a team like that, even if they score 1,000 points." Colgate scored three touchdowns in the first two minutes before Harlow agreed to the 8 minute quarters and resumed the game.

Colgate's star halfback, Ed Tryon, scored a team record seven touchdowns in the game. His 42 total points also remain a Colgate record for a single game.

References

1923 college football season
vs. Niagara 1923
vs. Colgate 1923
1923 in sports in New York (state)
October 1923 sports events


title: Julia Trevelyan Oman

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Julia Trevelyan Oman, Lady Strong CBE (11 July 1930 – 10 October 2003) was an English television, theatre, ballet and opera set designer.

Biography
Julia Trevelyan Oman was born on 11 July 1930 in Kensington, London. Her father was Charles Chichele Oman, Keeper of Metalwork at the Victoria and Albert Museum, son of Sir Charles Oman; her mother the historian Joan Trevelyan, daughter of Calcutta High Court judge Sir Ernest John Trevelyan. She was educated at Wimbledon College of Art and then at the Royal College of Art, where she won a silver medal in 1955.

Among the BBC television programmes Oman worked on were Dixon of Dock Green and the Billy Cotton Band Show. In 1966, she won the designer of the year award for her contribution to Jonathan Miller's television production of Alice in Wonderland. In 1968 she won the Plays and Players “Best Set” award for Brief Lives, directed by Patrick Garland, with whom she worked on several occasions. She later designed sets for the Chichester Festival, Hamburg State Opera, the Glyndebourne Festival, the National Theatre, the Royal Opera House, and the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Oman married the art historian Roy Strong on 10 September 1971, at Wilmcote church, near Stratford-upon-Avon, with a special licence from the Archbishop of Canterbury. She was 41 and her husband 35. They lived at Much Birch, Herefordshire, where they made one of Britain's largest post-war formal gardens, The Laskett. In 1995 they commissioned the artist Jonathan Myles-Lea to paint a 'portrait' of the house and gardens and the painting The Laskett was completed the same year. She and Strong also wrote books together.

Oman appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 18 December 1971, and was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1986 New Year Honours.

Death and legacy
She died at Much Birch, on 10 October 2003, of pancreatic cancer.

A number of her paintings, including a self-portrait, are in the University of Bristol's Theatre Collection.

References

External links

Julia Trevelyan Oman archive, Theatre Collection, University of Bristol

1930 births
2003 deaths
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
English set decorators
People from Kensington
Alumni of Wimbledon College of Arts
Alumni of the Royal College of Art
Artists from London
Deaths from pancreatic cancer
Deaths from cancer in England
Wives of knights


title: TruJet

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TruJet was an Indian regional airline based at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad. The airline commenced operations in July 2015 and ceased all operations in February 2022.

History
Turbo Megha Airways Private Limited was incorporated on March 14, 2013 with Ram Charan and Vankayalapati Umesh as promoters, with the backing of 20 investors. The company planned to operate ATR aircraft primarily aimed at pilgrims and middle class travellers to destinations like Tirupati.
The airline obtained a No Objection Certificate from the Ministry of Civil Aviation on 21 July 2014.
In August 2014, the promoters initiated negotiations to sell a majority stake in the airline to Hyderabad-based Megha Engineering and Infrastructures Limited (MEIL) in order to fund their operations.
MEIL holds 90 per cent stake in the airline. TruJet has "temporarily" suspended its flight operations until further notice.

The airline adopted the brand name TruJet in February 2015.
TruJet received its air operator's certificate for regional operations from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation on 7 July 2015. The airline commenced operations on 12 July with a flight from its Hyderabad hub to Tirupati.
The airline's Air Operators Permit (AOP) was changed to the scheduled commuter operator (SCO) category by the DGCA in May 2017, allowing the carrier to operate flights to other regions of India under the government's UDAN Regional Connectivity Scheme.

From 12 July 2020, five out of seven ATR aircraft operated by TruJet were grounded by lessors due unpaid dues.

On 1 April 2021, Trujet announced that US firm Interups had purchased a 49% stake in the company. Laxmi Prasad, the chairman of Interups stated in an interview to the online business site Moneycontrol “We plan to expand services to the length and breadth of the country, overseas, and get into segments such as cargo, private charters, and helicopter ambulance services. We will be operating at full scale.”

Interups' new investment plan would involve the purchase of narrow body aircraft such as the Airbus A220 and the Embraer E-Series .

On 15 February 2022, TruJet ceased all operations owing to financial crisis.

In May 2022, it was announced the Nagpur-headquartered, We Indian Nationals Aviation Private Limited (Winair) had acquired a 79% stake in Trujet.

In June 2023, US-based aviation company NS Aviation acquired an 85 per cent stake in the airline and has plans to revive the airline with 100 A320 Neo aircraft including ten more Airbus cargo aircraft for international cargo operations.

The new Investors Dr Mohammed Ali and Ms Isha Ali, both happen to be associated with Aviation Industry for the past couple of decades. The Airline in its new avatar is slated to start operations by end 2023. Initially, the airline plans to focus on domestic operations, with key metropolitan cities such as Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata and Hyderabad as primary destinations, Subsequently piggyback riding on Trujet's AOP, the launch of International operations will be possible without waiting for the mandatory 5 yrs / 3 yrs of operations.

Destinations
As of June 2021, TruJet flies to the following destinations:

Fleet

As of July 2022, TruJet operates the following aircraft:

References

External links

Defunct airlines of India
Airlines established in 2013
Airlines disestablished in 2022
Companies based in Hyderabad, India
2013 establishments in Andhra Pradesh
Indian companies established in 2013


title: Nannie Gresham Biscoe House

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The Nannie Gresham Biscoe House is a historic house located at 227 Cherry Street in Arkadelphia, Arkansas.

Description and history
Built in 1901, the two-story wood-framed house is a fine local example of Queen Anne styling, which has been passed from mother to daughter within the same family. The house was built by the widowed Nannie Gresham Biscoe as a family home and boarding house, offering residential spaces to students attending the nearby Ouachita Baptist College, where she also taught. The house is the least-altered of several period houses on the street.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 21, 2004.

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

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas
Queen Anne architecture in Arkansas
Houses completed in 1901
Houses in Arkadelphia, Arkansas
National Register of Historic Places in Clark County, Arkansas


title: 1916 Yale Bulldogs football team

text:
The 1916 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1916 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with an 8–1 record under first-year head coach Tad Jones. The team outscored its opponents by a combined score of 182 to 44 and suffered its only loss to Brown. Yale guard Clinton Black was a consensus pick for the 1916 College Football All-America Team, and four other Yale players (ends Charles Comerford and George Moseley, halfback Harry LeGore, and a guard with the surname Fox) also received first-team All-American honors from at least one selector in 1916.

Schedule

References

Yale
Yale Bulldogs football seasons
Yale Bulldogs football


title: Richard H. Anderson (businessman)

text:
Richard H. Anderson (born May 2, 1955) is a retired American lawyer and business executive. In his early career, he served as a prosecutor and corporate attorney, before moving into executive positions. His most prominent roles were as CEO of several large companies in the transportation industry: Northwest Airlines (2001–2004), Delta Air Lines (2007–2016), and Amtrak (2017–2020).

Early life and education

Anderson was born in Galveston, Texas, to Hale Anderson, an office worker for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, and Frances Anderson, a medical receptionist. His family, which also included five sisters, moved to Dallas and later Amarillo, Texas. His parents died of cancer when Richard was 20 years old.

Anderson attended Texas Tech University and the University of Houston, graduating from the latter in 1977 with a degree in political science. He earned a J.D. degree in 1982 from the South Texas College of Law before working as a prosecutor for the district attorney office of Harris County, Texas.

Career

Anderson entered the aviation industry after accepting a legal position at Continental Airlines and served as the airline's representative during the investigation of Continental Airlines Flight 1713 in 1987. Anderson, who had never considered a career in the aviation industry, accepted the position at the urging of Ben Hirst, a neighbor who worked at Continental as a legal counsel.

Hirst and Anderson left Continental for Northwest Airlines in 1990, with the latter serving as a deputy general counsel for the airline. At Northwest, Anderson was initially charged with labor relations and government affairs. Despite having no experience in airline operations, he was named senior vice president of technical operations and airport affairs. Anderson was promoted to CEO of Northwest Airlines in June 2001 after the departure of John Dasburg.

Anderson served as chief executive officer of Northwest Airlines from 2001 to 2004, Executive Vice President of United Healthcare from 2004 to 2007, and as CEO of Delta Air Lines from 2007 to 2016, which would later merge with Northwest. In 2010, during his tenure at Delta, Anderson led an anti-union campaign against the Association of Flight Attendants, calling the labor union "un-Christian" and "immoral."

On February 3, 2016, Delta Air Lines announced Anderson would retire as CEO effective May 2, 2016, and assume position as Executive Chairman of the Delta Air Lines board of directors. On October 11, 2016, Anderson announced his retirement from the Board of Directors effective on the same day. He was succeeded by former chairman and CEO of The Home Depot, Francis Blake.

In June 2017, Amtrak announced Anderson as the organization's next President and CEO, replacing Charles "Wick" Moorman. Anderson assumed the title of President on July 12, 2017. Anderson also assumed the role of co-CEO on that date, serving alongside Moorman. Anderson remained co-CEO with Moorman until the end of 2017, at which time he assumed the role of sole CEO. On March 2, 2020, it was announced that Anderson would step down as CEO on April 15, 2020, after fulfilling his three-year commitment to the company. He remained with Amtrak through the end of the year as a senior advisor to his replacement, William J. Flynn.  During his tenure at Amtrak, Anderson initiated a variety of controversial policies such as storing equipment during Covid rather than maintaining it in serviceable condition, failing to anticipate the surging passenger demand after Covid, and promoting the retirement of many Amtrak senior managers which robbed the company of much of its institutional knowledge and experience.

Awards and honors
Anderson was named Aviation Week's Person of the Year for 2015. In 2013, he was the recipient of the Tony Jannus Award for distinguished achievement in commercial air transportation.

See also
 List of railroad executives

References

External links

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1955 births
American airline chief executives
American lawyers
21st-century American railroad executives
American railroaders
Amtrak presidents
Delta Air Lines people
Living people
Northwest Airlines
People from Galveston, Texas
South Texas College of Law alumni
University of Houston–Clear Lake alumni