title: John J. "Bald Jack" Ryan

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John J. Ryan (1862-1930) was an American gambler.

Early life
Jack Ryan was born on August 9, 1862, in Cincinnati, Ohio. His parents, Michael Ryan and Helen Considine, were born in Ireland and came to the United States, probably through New York, in the 1840s. Michael was employed for most of his life in Cincinnati as a carpenter, making coffins, and as the keeper of the city morgue. He died in March 1903. Jack had three brothers: Edward, Michael, and Richard; and six sisters: Catharine, Anna, Elizabeth ("Honey"), Bessie, Mary, and Loretta. Except for Jack, whose remains were cremated, and Ed and Richard whose remains are buried in Calvary Cemetery in St. Louis, the remains of the parents and the most of the rest of their children are buried in St. Joseph's Cemetery, in Cincinnati.

Ryan and his siblings grew up in Cincinnati. It appears the girls worked in factories. What the boys did is unclear but Ryan claimed to have worked as a clerk at the Reeds Hotel.

Politics and business
Ryan began to be mentioned in newspaper articles in St. Louis in the early 1900s, when he and "Cuddy Mack" McGilcutty, attempted to take control of the City's Fourth Ward after the city's political boss, Ed Butler, had lost power after being convicted of bribery. Thomas "Snake" Kinney, later to become the longest serving Missouri state senator, resented Ryan's effort to muscle in on the graft-connected political scene. Kinney, whose gang operated with the Egan's Rats, sent Red Houlihan to Ryan's saloon to kill him, but Ryan gunned him down. Kinney tried to kill Ryan a second time, sending a gang of thugs to attack him in the street. They came upon Ryan at Twelfth and Grand, across from the Four Courts, and began shooting. Struck in the abdomen by a slug, Ryan returned fire before falling to the pavement. Recovering from his wound, Ryan left St. Louis.

Less than two years later, in the fall of 1902, Ryan reappeared in St. Louis as the operator of the John J. Ryan Turf Investment Company. Ryan became connected with George and John Considine of New York through his horse racing activities. In the early 1890s, George F. Considine had managed Jim Corbett in several of his heavyweight fights, and acted as stakeholder; he was also the owner of several hotels. The Considines were connected to Big Tim Sullivan who, as a Tammany Hall politician, controlled the territory of Manhattan below 14th Street. It is not known if the Considines (and Sullivan) were silent partners with Ryan in the turf investment scheme. After leaving St. Louis in 1901, Ryan got control of a piece of land in the suburbs of Covington, Kentucky, across the Ohio River from Cincinnati, which had been used as a racetrack in the past. He reopened the track as the Newport Race Track; acting as track manager he brought together a group of horsemen and began organizing races. At the same time, he opened a poolroom in Tuxedo Gardens, an unincorporated area a mile north of the track. He also operated a horse farm at Elkton, Maryland, where he claimed that he owned and bred a racing stable.

With this setup, Ryan returned to St. Louis, and opened an office for the John J. Ryan Turf Investment Company, and began offering shares of stock to the public at $5.00 per share. The shares came with five, $1.00 coupons attached, entitling the shareholder to cash in one coupon one week at a time. Investors were told that the company's capital was to be used to bet on the outcome of horse races at the Newport track selected by Ryan. Because of the lack of public transport there was no substantial public attendance at the races. It appears reasonably clear that Ryan, through his control of the track operations, controlled the outcome of the races. Whether or not the company took paper profits or losses on betting the horses, Ryan's game was a pyramid scheme. By paying large sums for newspaper advertisements, and mailing promotional literature, he attracted capital and used part of it to pay for the redemption of the coupons from shares sold earlier, skimming, in the process, huge sums for himself.

Between November 1902 and February 1903, Ryan's company gained 60,000 subscribers and accumulated capital of over $1 million. In February 1903, other "get rich quick" scams going on in the city collapsed when the public panicked; the panic spread to Ryan's operation, causing him to seek bankruptcy protection. At the end of the process, the company's creditors: paper manufacturers, printers, and newspapers, received a penny on the dollar.

John Folk, the city circuit attorney, indicted Ryan for fraud in late 1903. At the trial, the charge was dismissed by Judge Ryan O'Neill on the grounds that the subscription agreement the shareholders had signed made it clear that the risk of loss was theirs not Ryan's. According to his daughter, Marie Ryan, at the time the scheme collapsed, Ryan put over $800,000 in a satchel, and escaped the city in a buggy over the Eads Bridge into Illinois.

During this period, the U.S. Postal Department had become involved, investigating Ryan to determine whether any of his activities - using the mails to transact business, receiving money from subscribers, betting by mail etc., - were illegal. He was on the verge of being indicted in federal court, when he was granted immunity by becoming a federal witness, based on his claim that Postal Department employees had accepted bribes from him in exchange for allowing him to continue to operate. The trial of the alleged perpetrators eventually resulted in acquittal.

In August 1903, Ryan appeared at Saratoga Springs, New York, and became known to the public attending the horse races as "Plunger Ryan", making $30,000 bets on the outcome of races. When the Saratoga meeting ended at the end of August, Ryan took his betting spree on to the New York tracks, Sheepshead Bay and Brighton Beach Race Course among others, winning on occasion as much as $70,000 on a single race, according to the New York papers.

By 1905, Ryan was back in Cincinnati, having been ruled off legitimate tracks by track managers who did not want the sensational publicity that he attracted. In Cincinnati, Ryan invested the money he escaped from St. Louis with in real estate and in a chain of vaudeville theaters he developed, which at one time extended from St. Louis to New York State. The chain drew its performers from a circuit established by Big Tim Sullivan and John W. Considine (not to be confused with George Considine's brother). Sullivan died in 1912, George Considine, in 1916. John Considine became Ryan's lifelong friend and business associate; his only friend as far as the record shows. The theater business collapsed in about 1913, probably the consequence of the collapse of vaudeville and a major change in the motion picture business and the manner in which films were distributed.

In February 1907, Ryan took his wife, Anna, and daughter, Marie, on a trip around the world. Leaving from Seattle on board the J.J. Hill owned steamer, SS Dakota, the trio went to Hawaii and then to Japan, where the ship sank on a sand bar in Yokohama in March. Finding another ship, the party went on to the Middle East, then to Western Europe ending up in Paris. They returned to the United States in November 1907, landing in New York just in time for the Panic of 1907 which drove the bulls out of Wall Street for a time, bringing the financial sector to ruins.

By 1911, Ryan was operating from a "cottage" he owned on Harsen's Island, in Lake St. Clair just off Algonac, a village located about thirty miles north of Detroit. From his theater business connections, Ryan had become acquainted with J. Stuart Blackton who was a principal founder of the Vitagraph Motion Picture Company. Blackton lived in a Long Island mansion, with a fleet of boats moored in the sound in front of his residence.

Thinking there was money to be made, Ryan formed a company with an Algonac mechanic named Chris Smith, to build a racing motorboat. The company was called the Smith & Ryan Boat & Engine Company and the one-step hydroplane boat the two men designed and built was called the Baby Reliance. Blackton bought the first of several of these boats and they were raced at regattas held at New York, Chicago and other places during 1910 and 1911. Ryan was at the wheel during several of these races and won, among others, the Wrigley Trophy, which was displayed for years in a window of Marshall Field's in Chicago. (Another reference has Blackton, owner of the power boat Baby Reliance II, and a member of the Atlantic Yacht Club of New York, winning the Wrigley trophy in August 1912.)

In the fall of 1913, Ryan became bored with the boat-building business and dumped Smith. According to his daughter, Marie, he took $100,000 from the company safe and walked away. Eight years later, as the Roaring Twenties began, Chris Smith, with his brothers, was building the great speed boats of the Chris-Craft line, selling thousands.(During World War I, Ryan got a contract with the Navy Department to build, using the Baby Reliance design, what was essentially a prototype PT boat. This episode ended in litigation.)) Ryan moved on to manage a famous casino at 21 West Elizabeth Street in downtown Detroit.

For a brief period in 1914, Ryan operated a gambling house in Detroit, called the Pelican Club; but the district attorney had it shut down quickly.

Later life
When Jack Dempsey met Jess Willard on July 4, 1919, at Toledo, OH, Ryan was there in the capacity of betting commissioner for Arnold Rothstein. Dempsey's manager, Doc Kearns, in the company of Damon Runyon, came to Ryan and asked for odds on the chance Dempsey might knock Willard out in the first round. Ryan offered Kearns 10 to 1 odds and Kearns put down a check for $10,000. Dempsey knocked Willard down seven times during the round, and when it ended, Ollie Pecord, the referee, had counted Willard out. Dempsey, at Kearn's urging, leaped from the ring, while Warren Barbour, the official timekeeper, screamed at Dempsey over the roar of the crowd to get back in the ring, or he would declare Willard the winner. Barbour claimed that the round had ended when Pecord's count had reached seven; because of noise, and a supposed fouling of the bell cord, no one had heard it clang. Whether of not Barbour was in conspiracy with Ryan to give Willard a chance to survive Dempsey's relentless attack is unknown, but Kearns lost his bet.

Ryan, with law enforcement on his payroll, ran his Detroit club until the spring of 1925. He became associated with three men from St. Louis who would go on to become operators of famous gambling clubs. Lincoln Fitzgerald and Danny Sullivan, would open the Nevada Club in Reno, in the 1930s, and George "Dutch" Weinbrenner, would open the Christiana Club in Sun Valley. Weinbrenner set up a factory in Detroit to manufacture gaming equipment, under the auspices of a mob-connected company, B.C. Willis. These three men, along with Ryan and the Werthheimer brothers, operated a number of gambling clubs in Detroit, including the Chesterfield Club in Macomb County, Michigan, which, thanks to bribes paid to authorities, stayed open to about 1939. By that time Fitzgerald and Sullivan had moved on to Reno and "Dutch" Weinbrenner, who had married Ryan's daughter, Helen, to Sun Valley.

By 1925, with Ryan now aged 65, the gambling business in Detroit took a dark turn when Italian mobsters began battling the Purple Gang for control of the city's vices. The Italians kidnapped gamblers, including Ryan and "Dutch" Weinbrenner, holding them hostage for ransom. They hired the Purple Gang, led by Joe Burnstein, as protection and the result was open gangster warfare in the city. Ryan decided to retire.

Ryan gave a Lincoln dealer a promissory note for $3,500, apparently signed by his brother Ed. In exchange the dealer allowed him to drive a car off the lot. In August 1925, Ryan, in the company of a young woman named Flora, drove to El Paso, Texas, his plan was to end up in Los Angeles where he would meet his old friend, John Considine who owned a number of west coast movie theaters. Arriving in El Paso, Ryan was arrested by a federal officer on two charges: taking a minor across state lines in violation of the Mann Act, and grand larceny, the latter charge based on the fact that when the dealer presented the promissary note to Ed for payment he refused to honor it. The Mann Act charge was dropped when Ryan quickly married Flora. (Anna died in 1923.)

Returned to Cincinnati on the grand larceny charge, Ryan delayed the trial for almost two years. During this time Ed, who had sometimes run Ryan's operations in his absence, died, apparently leaving the State without the means of proving its case. At his trial in 1927, the judge directed a verdict in Jack's favor on the basis of the state's failure to prove its case. (The only trial Ryan lost occurred in 1910 when a civil action was brought by a man he had attacked in a rage in a Cincinnati bar, resulting in the man suffering an eye injury. The jury awarded the man $3,000.)

Upon dismissal of the larceny charge, Jack, with Flora in tow, resumed his trip to California, reaching Los Angeles in the summer of 1927. By the fall of 1927, Ryan took up residence on a parcel of land at a place called Potero, about thirty miles east of San Diego, on the road to El Centro, California. Potero is in the Cuyamaca Mountains, about a mile from the Mexican border at Tecate. Jack remained at Potero until his death in October 1930 at the age of 70. During this time, he managed a string of horses owned by Alexander Pantages and raced the horses at the Mexican border tracks. The house he lived in still exists, but it is rubble.

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1930 deaths
American people of Irish descent
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title: Belgrade, Namur

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Belgrade (; Walloon: Belgråde) is an ancient village of Wallonia and a district of the city of Namur, located in the province of Namur, Belgium. It was named after Belgrade, Serbia in 1718 to commemorate the Austrian Empire's conquest of the city from the Ottoman Turks (the county of Namur was a dependency of the Austria-ruling royal house of Habsburg).

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title: West Jefferson Historic District

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West Jefferson Historic District is a national historic district located at West Jefferson, Ashe County, North Carolina.  The district encompasses 50 contributing buildings in the central business district of West Jefferson.  The district primarily includes one-story and two-story commercial buildings dating to the early- to mid-20th century.  Notable buildings include the West Jefferson Hotel (1917), Graybeal's Rexall Drugstore Building (c. 1950), Parkway Theater (1939), Dr. Pepper Bottling Company building (c. 1940), First Baptist Church (1929), Benjamin Cornett House, and West Jefferson Depot.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

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title: Gushikawa Castle (Itoman)

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is a Ryukyuan gusuku in Itoman, Okinawa.

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Gushikawa Castle Photos - Flick River
Gushikawa Castle Remains - Okinawa Film Office
 Gushikawa Castle Ruins - Itoman City
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Itoman, Okinawa


title: Nguyễn Văn Khoi

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Nguyễn Văn Khoi (born 1935) is a former Vietnamese cyclist. He competed in the individual road race and team time trial events at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

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title: Pleasantly Surprised (TV series)

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Pleasantly Surprised (), also known as Love Myself or You, is a 2014 Taiwanese romantic-comedy television series produced by Sanlih E-Television. Starring Puff Guo and Jasper Liu as the main leads, with Jolin Chien and Lene Lai as the main supporting leads. The original title has a double meaning which literally translates to "Like Someone" or "Like To Be Alone", depending how it's read. Original title during development of the drama was "Love Met Cupid 愛情遇見邱比特", the title was then changed to "Love Myself or You 喜歡·一個人" during start of production. The English title was once again renamed "Pleasantly Surprised" right before the drama began airing. Filming took place from April 23 to October 13, 2014 and was filmed as the drama aired. First original broadcast began May 23, 2014 on SETTV channel airing every Friday at 10:00-11:30 pm. Final episode was aired on October 17, 2014, with 22 episodes total.

Synopsis
Du Kai Qi is an aspiring young chef, her only interests are cooking and reading manga comics. She doesn't have many friends and doesn't want anymore. After enjoying her most delicious full course meal prepared by a chef named Louis, she snaps a picture of his signature from the plate and request to meet him. However, a family emergency forces her to leave before meeting Louis. She looks to Louis's signature as strength and inspiration for her upcoming sous chef promotion test. On the day of her test the new restaurant intern Ah Jie, who has to decide the winner, chooses Kai Qi's rival dish over hers. Losing out on her promotion, Kai Qi makes instant enemies with Ah Jie. What she doesn't know is Ah Jie is her boss's son, her new next door neighbor, the chef Louis that she admires so much and her long lost childhood friend Fu Zi Jie who she had a close bond with.

Plot summary
The once cheerful and happy Du Kai Qi has grown up to be a cold, fierce and isolated person due to her harsh upbringing. Her father is a money asking, alcoholic and abusive person. Even though both of her parents have been separated for many years, her father still harasses and abuses her mother for money. With so many difficulties in her life, it has made her liked to be left alone. Kai Qi works as an assistant chef at "Figaro Cuisine", a fancy French restaurant owned by her mother's former employer. At Figaro's, it brings her pleasant memories of her childhood when both she and her mother had their most delicious meal there. Knowing how happy that meal made her mother feel, it drives her to become an accomplished chef hoping to provide a better life for her and her mother. Already struggling financially, she is forced to take in her young nephew when his father abandons him to get remarried.

Fu Zi Jie has just returned home for the first time after many years living abroad in France. A highly skilled French chef, he has never risen pass an intern position because of a promise he made to his brother. During dinner with his parents, his mother begs him to take a position as an intern for one month at one of his father's restaurants hoping it will change his mind to stay in Taiwan and takeover his father's business. Seeing his mother's persistence he agrees, but ask that his real identity be concealed from the restaurant staff and that he moves out on his own. He arrives at "Figaro Cuisine" and instantly remembers the happy times he had as a child with his nanny and her daughter who became his best friend. He tells the restaurant staff to call him Ah Jie. On his first day at the restaurant he is asked by the executive chef to judge the sous chef promotion test between Kai Qi and her rival Cheng Le Xuan. Not happy with the outcome of the sous chef promotion test, Kai Qi instantly makes enemies with Ah Jie, but also finds out her dish has been sabotaged by the executive chef because she rejected his advances to be his girlfriend earlier.

Ah Jie finds out by accident that Kai Qi besides being a fierce new co-worker is also his childhood friend and his nanny's daughter. He becomes intrigue to find out why she has become a total opposite of how he had remembered her to be. Stalking her after work he finds out from a drunk shouting Kai Qi how much that work promotion meant to her as the salary increase would have made her able to provide for her mother. While taking her home he discovers that they are also next door neighbors and mistakes her nephew to be her son when her nephew accidentally calls her mom. Curious of Kai Qi's current life he becomes extra kind and nice to her at work to get closer to her, even though she keeps pushing him away. Le Xuan notices Ah Jie over helping Kai Qi, so she forces them to participate in a cooking competition and win a title or else both will be fired, hesitant to compete but with their jobs on the line he breaks one of his promises to his brother for Kai Qi's sake. He uses this opportunity to let Kai Qi mentor him in cooking, even though he is more skilled than her, as an excuse to become closer to her.

Through their lessons and time together Ah Jie starts to uncover the difficult life Kai Qi has had to go through for the past years. Using his reliance and her discovering his real identity, he gets the once isolated Kai Qi to start opening up and warm up to others. However, Ah Jie starts to show his jealous side when Kai Qi resolves her misunderstanding with her estranged college buddy Cheng Hao Wei. He soon realizes that his feelings for Kai Qi has turned from friendship to love. With his one month in Taiwan almost up and sensing Hao Wei actively pursuing Kai Qi, he is torn between telling her how he feels or just leaving Taiwan quietly. Living abroad all these years has also made Ah Jie adjust to life being alone, but for the first time in his life he has formed a bond with someone outside of his family and don't want to lose that feeling. Knowing he can't stay in Taiwan and can't take Kai Qi with him, also not wanting her to end up with Hao Wei, he decides to confess his feelings for her hoping to leave with a lasting memory.

After confessing his feelings and Kai Qi returning the same feelings for him, Ah Jie breaks all of his promises to his brother by staying in Taiwan. His brother who holds a grudge against him is unhappy with this news and threatens Ah Jie with Kai Qi's job. Ah Jie threatens his brother back, that he will retaliate by taking over all of their father's businesses and competing in all the cooking competitions he can. His brother then resorts to offering to buy off Kai Qi hoping she will break up with Ah Jie. Kai Qi slowly starts to understand the volatile relationship between Ah Jie and his brother, she helps and supports Ah Jie in making his brother realizes how much Ah Jie has sacrificed to make him happy. His brother finally drops his grudge against Ah Jie and promises that he won't come between Ah Jie and Kai Qi anymore.

However, Ah Jie and Kai Qi's happiness is short lived when her father is part of a gang that kidnaps Ah Jie's brother for ransom. Kai Qi knowing her father is one of the cohorts protects him from the police by withholding information about the kidnappers identities when she thinks this will cause her to lose her new-found happiness with Ah Jie. Soon Ah Jie's brother is found badly injured in a comatose state, the authorities show Ah Jie's family that Kai Qi's father is one of the kidnappers. Ah Jie becomes furious with Kai Qi and blames her for not telling the authorities earlier as it might have saved his brother from serious injuries. Due to her father's actions Kai Qi is too ashamed to face others and starts to revert to her isolated self, but once Ah Jie's anger cools down he tries hard to overlook what her father has done to save their relationship.

Kai Qi unable to deal with the guilt her father has burden her with, quits her job at the restaurant and moves to the countryside to live with her mother in order to avoid Ah Jie. Hao Wei uses this opportunity to be a friend in need while still hoping that he might still have a chance with Kai Qi. He invests in a restaurant according to Kai Qi's dreams and ask her to be the head chef. Hao Wei also uses this chance to see if there is still any hope for Kai Qi and Ah Jie before confessing his feelings to her, by suggest the two complete in a cooking competition. If Kai Qi wins ShiFu Restaurant Corp will have to provide free advertisement for Hao Wei's restaurant for a month, but if Ah Jie wins Kai Qi must reconcile with him.

Ah Jie's brother wakes up from his coma on the day the winner of the cooking competition is to be decided. Kai Qi wins and Ah Jie knowing that she can now accept being together with him again leans in for a kiss, however Kai Qi's reaction surprises everyone. Hao Wei sees it as a sign to confess his feelings for Kai Qi, but she rejects him midway into his confession. Knowing what her answer will be beforehand, Hao Wei tells her he will be leaving the country to pursue his real interest. Ah Jie unhappy with Kai Qi running out on him that day, has the entire restaurant staff help him teach her a lesson by pretending to ignore his love for her. Knowing she has done Ah Jie wrong, Kai Qi puts her pride aside and publicly confesses her love for Ah Jie.

One year later Kai Qi is now a successful chef recognized by food writers and on the cover of magazines praising her restaurant. She is also no longer alone as she and Ah Jie are finally in a stable loving relationship cohabiting together. Ah Jie tells Kai Qi that even if they weren't who they were he would still encounter her and fall in love with her.

Cast

Main cast
Puff Guo 郭雪芙 as Du Kai Qi 杜凱琪 - Age 28
Aspiring  French chef who has worked at "Figaro Cuisine" for 6 years. When her chance for a promotion to the Sous Chef position is dashed because of the Executive Chef and the new intern Ah Jie, she becomes enemies with Ah Jie. But through his extra kindness to her she starts to open up to him. Growing up in a difficult family has made her cold and isolate from others. Her guilty pleasures are reading manga comics because it help takes her mind away from reality. A mysteries chef named Louis enters her life when she tastes his food. When she finds out that Ah Jie is her childhood friend and Louis he becomes the only person she can depend on. Their friendship soon turns to love when each other misunderstands that the other might like someone but not knowing that someone is each other. Her and Ah Jie's happiness is short lived when her father is part of a gang that kidnaps Ah Jie's brother. Unable to face Ah Jie or his family she breaks up with him and later quits her job at the restaurant. Her university senior and friend Hao Wei, opens a restaurant according to her dreams in hopes she will accept him one day but in the end when all hers and Ah Jie's problems are settle it is still Ah Jie that she loves and chooses. In the end she is no longer alone and is in a loving stable relationship cohabiting with Ah Jie.
Jasper Liu 劉以豪 as Louis Fu Zi Jie (Ah Jie) 傅子杰 - Age 28
A skilled French chef who has never risen past an interning position. He has been living alone in France for the pass 10 years due to guilt and a promise he made to his older brother who holds a grudge against him. He suffers from fear of the dark due to his brother locking him in the closet when he was younger. Not intending to stay in Taiwan long his mother pleads with him to take up an interning position at one of his father's restaurant for 1 month, he agrees but his identity as the boss's son must be concealed and he has to move out on his own. On his first day at work he is surprised to find his childhood friend Kai Qi has grown up to be a cold, stern, fierce person. Curious to find out why she turned out this way he becomes extra nice to her even though she pushes him away. While getting to know her and becoming closer to her, he realizes he has fallen in love with Kai Qi and becomes jealous when her college friend Cheng Hao Wei comes back into her life. Kai Qi and him become a couple but due to her father's consequences they break up, not wanting to give up on his happiness he works hard to win Kai Qi back. He agrees to Hao Wei's bet on a cooking competition with Kai Qi in hopes that she will put the burden her father has given her aside and reunite with him. In the end even with Hao Wei finally confessing his feelings to Kai Qi, it is still Ah Jie that Kai Qi chooses to be with and loves.
Lene Lai 賴琳恩 as Cheng Le Xuan 程樂瑄 - Age 28
Du Kai Qi's rival and fellow chef at "Figaro Cuisine". Also Cheng Hao Wei's younger sister. She becomes the new sous chef when Ah Jie chooses her dish over Kai Qi's. Due to everyone calling her a "flower vase" (someone with looks but no talent) she is always looking to prove her worth. Though not a mean or bad person, she shows her bitter side when the executive chef acknowledges that Kai Qi is a better chef than her and that she only won the sous chef test because he had sabotaged Kai Qi's dish. Feeling inferior to Kai Qi she starts to give her a hard time at work by singling her out. She develops feelings for Ah Jie because of his kindness but he lets her know time and time again that it is Kai Qi that he loves. When she finds out Kai Qi was the girl that broke her brother's heart in college her hatred for Kai Qi grows. After being rejected numerous times by Ah Jie she later realizes that Ji Yong Qian the executive chef is the one that she truly loves. With help from the entire restaurant staff, she and Yong Qian become a couple and later get engage.
Jolin Chien 簡宏霖 as Cheng Hao Wei 程浩威 - Age 30
Cheng Le Xuan's older brother. Du Kai Qi's college buddy who shares an interest in manga with her. He is a huge "One Piece" fan who had planned to confess his feelings to Kai Qi when they were in college. Due to a misunderstanding caused by Kai Qi's father he mistook her for conning him and shows hatred for her even though he still loves her very much. Though interested in astronomy, he eventually becomes a food critic hoping to still have a connection to Kai Qi when they break off their friendship. When he and Kai Qi reconcile their friendship, he hopes their relationship will move beyond being just friends, but she comes clean that she has feelings for Ah Jie and only want to be friends, which he abides by. Never really confessing his feelings to Kai Qi he relates to Schrödinger's cat theory as hope that there might be a chance for the both of them to be together if she does not give him a reject answer even though he knows that her heart belongs to Ah Jie. When he finally confesses his feelings to Kai Qi she rejects him. Finally getting an answer from Kai Qi he gives up his job as a food critic and pursues his real interest in astronomy.

Supporting cast

Figaro Cuisine restaurant staff
Sean Lee 邵翔 as Ji Yong Qian 紀永謙 - Age 34
The executive chef at "Figaro Cuisine". A shallow person who is not respected by the restaurant staff due to his superficial attitude. He sabotages Kai Qi's dish during the sous chef promotion test because she had rejected his advances earlier. With no hope on Kai Qi's liking him he moves his focus on Le Xuan who becomes his next target for a love interest. He shows that his heart is true to Le Xuan when he comes to her aid time after time. He and Le Xuan eventually become a couple and later get engaged.
Ba Yu 巴鈺 as Lin Bao Zhu 林寶珠 - Age 35
Restaurant manager and head waitress at "Figaro Cuisine". Kai Qi's best and only friend, she was the only person Kai Qi opened up to until Ah Jie came along. When her ex-husband shows up at the restaurant as a customer he causes her trouble. Like Kai Qi, she doesn't like to gossip about other peoples personal life. Even though she says she doesn't want anything to do with men she would rather have someone by her side then be alone. Through learning more about Da Zhi's past the two later develop an attraction for one another. The two began a relationship and later are expecting a child together.
Yorke Sun 孫沁岳 as Wang Da Zhi 王大智 - Age 28
A former triad gangster who served prison time for his triad boss's crime. He works as an assistant cook at "Figaro Cuisine". He likes Kai Qi, but doesn't dare to pursue her, because she was the only one that took a chance on him by helping him get his job at the restaurant when he couldn't find employment anywhere. Once married, his Japanese wife divorces him while he was in prison to marry his triad boss. After being helped by Bao Zhu the two become close and start a May December relationship. At the end both are expecting a child together.
Verna Lin 林欣蓓 as Wen Xiao Li 溫小莉 - Age 26
A waitress at "Figaro Cuisine" with a bubbly personality. She desperately wants to find a companion and easily falls in love with each new male staff that arrives at the restaurant. All the male staff are afraid of her persistent pursuing of each one of them since she has confessed to each one of them. Ah Jie becomes her new target when he arrives at the restaurant. She pretends it is her birthday every time she wants to confess to a male staff. Though still single she happily still searches for a boyfriend by asking guys she encounters if they are single.
Stanley Mei 梅賢治 as Fang Xiao Shu 方小樹 - Age 22
An assistant cook at "Figaro Cuisine". He kisses up to whoever is of superior rank at the restaurant. Though not close to Wang Da Zhi, he gives him a hard time when he misunderstood Da Zhi for going back to the triads. But shows his braveness and loyalty when he protects Da Zhi when Da Zhi's triad boss comes to the restaurant to cause trouble. He likes to convince his co-workers to contribute into the employee petty cash fund only to secretly take from it to help support the elderly people that raised him.
Zooey Tseng 曾允柔 as Linda - Age 25
The pastry chef at "Figaro Cuisine". She likes to listen to loud heavy metal music on her head phones and has psychic powers that can read a person's future. She proves her readings are accurate when she predicts what will happen to Ah Jie on his first day and warning Da Zhi to avoid his ex-wife. She develops a connection with Xiao Qiang when she finds out he can read her mind.
Deyn Li 李迪恩 as Xiao Qiang 蕭強 - Age 25
Waiter at "Figaro Cuisine". He was Wen Xiao Li last romantic target until Zi Jie came along. Known as the muscles of the restaurant because of his physical stature he later develops a connection with Linda due to him being able to read her mind. He and Linda later start a budding relationship.

Fu family
Zhang Fu Jian 張復建 as Fu Zhi Yuan 傅致遠 - Age 60
Fu Zi Jie and Fu Zi Xiang's father. A former chef and successful restaurateur who owns many high end restaurants and is the President of ShiFu Restaurant Corp. He was Du Kai Qi mother's former employer. Kind and generous he treated both mother and daughter to their first French meal which left them with happy and fond memories.
Hu Pei Lian 胡佩蓮 as Zhuo Wan Ru 卓婉如 - Age 55
Fu Zi Jie and Fu Zi Xiang's mother. Missing her younger son who has been living in France for 10 years she begs him to take an intern position at one of her husband's restaurants, hoping to prolong his stay in Taiwan. When Ah Jie announces that he has decided to stay in Taiwan because he is in love and in a relationship with Kai Qi, she is elated with the news and thankful that he has a reason to finally stay in Taiwan.
Vic Chen 陳仲熙 as Fu Zi Xiang 傅子翔 - Age 33
Fu Zi Jie's older brother. He was a talented child chef who won many competitions, but due to saving his brother from a traffic accident he injured his left hand causing him unable to cook. Blaming his brother for his injury he has held a grudge against him since they were young. Besides locking Zi Jie in a closet, he makes him take the fall and go to rehab for his alcoholic problem, promise to leave the country wishing he will never come home, never enter cooking competitions and not become a professional chef.

Du family
Xing Feng 邢峰 as Du Qing Shi 杜清石
Du Kai Qi's gambling addicted, money asking, abusive drunk father who has caused her many turmoils in her life. Even though he and his wife have been separated for many years he still harasses and beats her for money. Due to his deceitful ways he tricked Cheng Hao Wei into giving him the college manga club funds which caused Hao Wei to misunderstand Kai Qi as a con. In order to extort money from the Fu family he is part of a gang that kidnaps Fu Zi Xiang.
Ivon Huang 黃雅珉 as Zhang Qian Lan 張倩蘭 - Age 52
Du Kai Qi's soft hearted mother and Fu Zi Jie's childhood nanny. Due to her husband's constantly harassing her boss for money she is forced to quit her job as Ah Jie's nanny leaving him lonely and without Kai Qi as a friend. When her deceased older daughter ex-boyfriend drops off his son Xiao Yi for her to raise, she gladly accepts without thinking of the financial burden and responsibilities it will bring for Kai Qi .
Mason Zeng 曾柏崴 as Yan Xiao Yi 顏曉翼 - Age 6
Du Kai Qi's young nephew who is the son of her deceased older sister. His father abandons him to get remarried and start a new family without him. Ah Jie mistaken him to be Kai Qi's son when they first meet because he had accidentally called her mom. He soon becomes friends with Ah Jie. Ah Jie uses their friendship to get closer with Kai Qi.

Guest role
Jacko Chiang 蔣偉文 as Enzo
Fu Zi Jie's friend and owner of the French restaurant that he had subbed as a chef under the name of Louis.
Patrick Li 李沛旭 as Food critic 美食雜誌主編
A food magazine writer that dined at "Figaro Cuisine". He is extremely nitpicking of his food.
Lin Yi Xun 林奕勳 as Zhen Zhi Qiang 甄志強
A "Figaro Cuisine" customer who decides to cause trouble once he finds his ex-wife Lin Bao Zhu working as a waitress there.
Sophia Lu 呂馥伶 as Kiki
Zhen Zhi Qiang's current wife who was his mistress and accountant whom he cheated with during his marriage to Bao Zhu.
JR 紀言愷 as David Bu Da Wei 卜大衛
Judge at the cooking competition Du Kai Qi, Fu Zi Jie, Cheng Le Xuan and Ji Yong Qian complete in.
Liu Xing 劉行 as Mr. Shun 順伯
Owner of the duck farm that Du Kai Qi and Fu Zi Jie go to get their duck for a cooking competition.
Ralf Chiu 邱彥翔 as Bao Ge 豹哥
Wang Da Zhi's former triad boss who his ex-wife had left him for.
Reina Ikehata 池端玲名 as Aiko 愛子
Wang Da Zhi's ex-wife who ask him for help when her current husband triad boss Bao Ge physically abuses her.
Rex Kao 高允漢 as Ah Biao 阿標
One of Du Qing Shi's cohorts in kidnapping Fu Zi Xiang.
Chen Wan Han 陳萬漢 as She Ji (Snake boy) 蛇仔
One of Du Qing Shi's cohorts in kidnapping Fu Zi Xiang.
Double Lin 林家磑 as Benny
Fu Zi Jie's personal assistant when Ah Jie takes on as ShiFu Restaurant Corp General Manager during his brother's coma.
Ian Chen as Xiang Yu 向宇
Food magazine writer and Cheng Hao Wei's friend who will help judge the competition between Ah Jie and Kai Qi's cook off.
Livia Yin 尹嘉萱 as Blind date 相親女
Ji Yong Qian's matchmaking date. Le Xuan discovers that it is Yong Qian that she is in love with when she sees Yong Qian on a matchmaking date.

Soundtrack
Nobody And Princess 小人物大公主 by Ian Chen 陳彥允
I’ll Always be here 隨時都在 by Victor Wong 品冠
World Of Two People 兩人世界 by Alan Ko 柯有倫 & Huang Yali 黃雅莉
Just Because 就因為 by Koala Liu 劉思涵
Gene Says I Love You 基因決定我愛你 by Ian Chen 陳彥允
Sleepless Happiness 幸福夜未眠 by Ian Chen 陳彥允
The Glimmer In My Heart 心口的微光 by Sawmah Chen 陳詩妤
Silently 默默 by Victor Wong 品冠
Set You Free 還你自由 by Victor Wong 品冠

Publications

 28 Aug 2014 : Pleasantly Surprised Original Novel (喜歡一個人原創小說) -  - Author: Sanlih E-Television 三立電視監製 & Li Wan Rong 李婉榕 - Publisher: Taiwan Kadokawa 台灣角川
A novel based on the drama was published detailing the entire story line of the drama. Spoilers are revealed in the novel before the drama finished airing.
 4 July 2014 : S-Pop Vol. 18 July 2014 (華流 7月號/2014) - barcode 4717095576124 - Author: Sanlih E-Television 三立電視監製
For the July 2014 issue of S-Pop magazine, two different covers were published with the lead actors of "Pleasantly Surprised" on the cover. Both covers has Jasper Liu and Puff Kuo in couple poses with different outfits. One is the regular newsstand edition and the other is a limited special edition that includes one out of four random poly folders with drama promotional images. The limited special edition also contains additional images not published in the regular version.
 8 August 2014 : S-Pop Vol. 19 July 2014 (華流 8月號/2014) - barcode 4717095582248 - Author: Sanlih E-Television 三立電視監製
For the August 2014 issue of S-Pop magazine, three different covers were published with the lead actors and co-star Jolin Jian of "Pleasantly Surprised" on the cover. For the regular edition one cover featured Jasper Liu and the other Puff Kuo, for the limited special edition it features Liu, Kuo and Jian on the cover. The limited special edition also includes a one of two random cover notebooks with illustration artwork of the main leads on the front and back cover of the book.
 24 July 2014 : Iwalker No.4 July/Aug 2014 (愛玩客 第4期/2014) - barcode 4717095572690 Sanlih 三立電視 - Author: Sanlih E-Television 三立電視監製
For the July/August 2014 issue of iwalker magazine, "Pleasantly Surprised" lead actors Jasper Liu and Puff Kuo are featured on the cover. The issue comes with one out of four heart shaped coasters with images of Liu or Kuo.
 3 October 2014 : S-Pop Vol. 21 Oct 2014 (華流 10月號/2014) - barcode 4717095578616 - Author: Sanlih E-Television 三立電視監製
For the October 2014 issue of S-Pop magazine, one of three covers published was devoted to "Pleasantly Surprised" featuring both Jasper Liu and Puff Guo posing similar to the drama closing screen. The "Pleasantly Surprised" cover is the limited special edition of the October 2014 issue which comes with a mini tote bag with illustration artwork of the main characters.

DVD release
 25 December 2014 : Love Myself or You (DVD) (Taiwan Version) - DVD Region 3 - Disc: 6 (Ep.1-22) - Publisher: Cai Chang International Multimedia Inc. (TW)
Official Taiwan version of the drama DVD set comes in original Mandarin language and Chinese subtitles only.
 13 February 2015 : Love Myself or You (DVD) (Malaysia Version) - DVD All Region - Disc: 7 (Ep.1-22) - Publisher: Multimedia Entertainment SDN. BHD. (MLY)
Malaysia version of the drama DVD set comes in original Mandarin language with English and simplified Chinese subtitles.
 2 July 2015 : Love Myself or You (恋する、おひとり様) (Set 1 DVD) (Japan Version) - DVD Region 2 - Disc: 4 (Ep.1-7) - Publisher: NBC Universal Entertainment Japan (JP)
Japan version of the drama DVD set 1 comes in original Mandarin language with Japanese subtitles. Addition bonus feature includes Japanese trailer of the drama and cast interview of Jasper Liu and Jolin Chien. A 4 page leaflet detailing drama information is also inserted with the DVD set.
 5 August 2015 : Love Myself or You (恋する、おひとり様) (Set 2 DVD) (Japan Version) - DVD Region 2 - Disc: 4 (Ep.8-14) - Publisher: NBC Universal Entertainment Japan (JP)
Japan version of the drama DVD set 2 comes in original Mandarin language with Japanese subtitles. Addition bonus feature includes cast interview of Puff Kuo and the 2014 Sanlih Drama Awards presentation. A 4 page leaflet detailing drama information is also inserted with the DVD set.
 2 September 2015 : Love Myself or You (恋する、おひとり様) (Set 3 DVD) (Japan Version) - DVD Region 2 - Disc: 4 (Ep.15-22) - Publisher: NBC Universal Entertainment Japan (JP)
Japan version of the drama DVD set 3 comes in original Mandarin language with Japanese subtitles. Addition bonus feature includes Japan exclusive behind the scenes and cast makings of drama photage. A 4 page leaflet detailing drama information is also inserted with the DVD set.

Filming locations
Pleasantly Surprised was filmed entirely in Taiwan. The French restaurant "Figaro Cuisine" depicted in the drama is an actual Italian restaurant named "Buono Bella", located in Hsinchu City, Taiwan. During filming of the drama the restaurant would close on Monday's for the cast and crew to film without disturbance. The residence of where both main characters reside at is an actual newly built condo tower located in Hsinchu City, Taiwan near Zhiping Rd, East District called Hsinchu Infinity 新竹大無限. The opening and closing sequence of the drama was filmed at Nanliao Port and outside of the Glass Museum of Hsinchu City.

Taipei, Taiwan
Beitou District
The Gaia Hotel 大地北投奇岩溫泉酒店
Daan District
Façön French Restaurant 法熊法式餐廳
Sperry Top-Sider 台北忠孝概念店
Neihu District
Cha Cha Cafe' & Bistro
Dahu Park 大湖公園
Mastro Cafe
Potager Garden 菠啾花園
Carrefour
Songshan District
Yamaharu Japanese Restaurant 山治日本鄉下料理店
Tokyo Aquarium Design 東京水族設計
Xinyi District
Zheng Yan Ting Video & Book Rental 政大展燕庭影音租書店
Songde Park 松德公園
Zhonghe District
Global Mall 環球購物中心
Zhongshan District
Yingfeng Riverside Park 迎風河濱公園
ARTCO CLASSIQUE 典藏藝術餐廳
Pâtisserie Francis 旋轉木馬點
Shuei Wu 水舞饌大直店
ISLA for Kids
Zhongzheng District
Taipei Botanical Garden
Nanmen Market 南門市場

Hsinchu, Taiwan
Hsinchu City
Buono Bella Italian Restaurant
Nanliao Port
Sagor Bilingual School
Hsinchu Infinity 新竹大無限
Lakeshore Hotel Hsinchu
Sun-View Motel 湖山風景旅館
Glass Museum of Hsinchu City
KEEP Sport 棒壘球打擊場

New Taipei City, Taiwan
Shenkeng District
Tungnan University 東南科技大學
Sanxia District
Cheng Hok Senior Home清福養老院老人長期照護中心
Chengfu Mine 成福煤礦

Taoyuan County, Taiwan
Taoyuan City
Min-Sheng General Hospital 敏盛綜合醫院

Pingtung County, Taiwan
Pingtung County
National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium

T'Ai-Wan, Taiwan
Neiwen
Forest Mountain Hostel 山居森活

Development and casting

Annie Chen was offered the lead actress role in February 2014 during early developments of the drama, but turned it down to concentrate on modeling and advertisement work instead. Also, to let her contract with Sanlih expire without renewing it.
This is Jasper Liu's first collaboration with Sanlih. Rumors that he will be starring in a future Sanlih drama first started circulating when he appeared on the cover of Sanlih's self-published S-Pop magazine October 2013 issue.
Jasper Liu cropped off his famous curly locks, which had made him a popular male model, in order to go for a more mature look in the drama.
Puff Kuo had turned down the lead actress role in Fall in Love with Me (which eventually went to her bandmate Tia Lee) in order to participate in We Got Married Global Edition which was filmed in South Korea, however a month after turning down the lead role in Fall in Love with Me she agreed to take on the lead actress role of "Du Kai Qi" in Pleasantly Surprised when offered to her. Kuo would travel back and forth between South Korea and Taiwan until late June 2014 when the reality show finished filming since both the reality show and drama was filmed at the same time.
Jasper Liu and Puff Kuo first met and collaborated in a short comic skit at the 2013 Golden Bell Awards, ironically playing a romantic idol couple.
The opening lens and blessing ceremony was held at SETTV headquarters main entrance on April 22, 2014.
A press conference was held on April 23, 2014, at SETTV headquarters lobby in Neihu District, Taipei introducing the main leads of the drama.
On May 21, 2014, another press conference was held at SETTV headquarters auditorium introducing the extended cast of the drama.
The drama wrap up party was held at Yun Fu Lou Restaurant 永福樓 located in Daan District, Taipei on the evening of October 13, 2014.

Events
*Date: 10 May 2014 - Location: Zhongzheng District, Taipei - Attendees: Jasper Liu, In a Good Way cast
Jasper Liu attended the goodbye fan meeting for exiting drama In a Good Way outside of the Siyuan Street 7-11 to promote Pleasantly Surprised taking over the timeslot of the exiting drama.
*Date: 22 May 2014 - Location: Neihu District, Taipei - Attendees: Jasper Liu, Puff Kuo, Jolin Chien, Lene Lai
The main leads and main supporting leads attended a live filming of entertainment news show New Show Biz located at Sanlih's headquarters. The cast members played interactive games with the show hosts and randomly picked audience members.
*Date: 4 June 2014 - Location: Neihu District, Taipei - Attendees: Jasper Liu, Puff Kuo, Jolin Chien, Lene Lai, Sean Lee, Yorke Sun, Stanley Mei, Deyn Li, Mason Zeng
The male cast members exposed their upper bodies in keeping with Jasper Liu's promise to go topless if the drama surpasses the 2.00 rating average. The event was held at Sanlih headquarters rooftop garden. A water gun fight was held between the male cast and the two main female cast members before all the male cast took off their shirts.
*Date: 10 July 2014 - Location: Neihu District, Taipei - Attendees: Jasper Liu, Jolin Chien, Sean Lee, Yorke Sun
A fan meet and great was held at Sanlih's headquarters auditorium attended by four of the male cast members. Besides meeting and greeting the attended cast members also played interactive games with randomly chosen audience members.
*Date: 13 July 2014 - Location: Neihu District, Taipei - Attendees: Jasper Liu, Puff Kuo
A fan signing for the July 2014 issues of S-Pop magazine was held at Sanlih's headquarters auditorium. The two main leads posed for pictures and interacted with randomly chosen audience members.
*Date: 16 August 2014 - Location: Hsinchu City, Taiwan - Attendees: Jolin Chien, Lene Lai, Sean Lee, Yorke Sun, Stanley Mei, Deyn Li
Members of the cast met with fans outside of the Hsinchu City's Glass Museum. Interactive games were played with randomly picked audiences. A handshake meet and greet was held for all fans who attended the event.
*Date: 24 August 2014 - Location: Hsinchu City, Taiwan - Attendees: Jasper Liu, Jolin Chien
A fan signing for the August 2014 issue of S-Pop magazine was held outside of Hsinchu City Sogo department store. Liu and Chien posed for pictures before signing their autographs for fans.
*Date: 1 October 2014 - Location: Neihu District, Taipei - Attendees: Jasper Liu, Jolin Chien, Lene Lai, Sean Lee, Ba Yu, Yorke Sun, Verna Lin, Stanley Mei, Zooey Tseng, Deyn Li
The cast attended a recording of entertainment news show New Show Biz located in Sanlih's headquarters that was aired on October 10, 2014 to promote the final episodes of the drama. Games were played within the cast members and hosts of the show.
*Date: 11 October 2014 - Location: Neihu District, Taipei - Attendees: Jasper Liu, Puff Kuo, Jolin Chien, Lene Lai, Sean Lee, Ba Yu, Yorke Sun, Verna Lin, Stanley Mei, Zooey Tseng, Deyn Li, Vic Chen, Mason Zeng
A goodbye fan meeting event was held at Sanlih's headquarters auditorium, attended by most of the cast. Puff Kuo who had other work commitments was only able to attend the later half of the event. Interactive games and prizes were given to randomly selected audience members. At the end a high five meet and greet was held for all fans who attended the event.

Broadcast

Episode ratings

Awards and nominations

References

External links
Pleasantly Surprised SETTV Website
Pleasantly Surprised ETTV Website
Pleasantly Surprised Chinese Wikipedia

2014 Taiwanese television series debuts
2014 Taiwanese television series endings
Sanlih E-Television original programming
Taiwanese romance television series
Television series set in restaurants


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There are 58 scheduled monuments in Bath and North East Somerset. Some of the oldest are Neolithic, including the Stanton Drew stone circles and several tumuli. The Great Circle at Stanton Drew is one of the largest Neolithic monuments ever built, and the second largest stone circle in Britain (after Avebury). The date of construction is not known but is thought to be between 3000 and 2000 BCE, which places it in the Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age. There are also several Iron Age hillforts such as Maes Knoll, which was later incorporated into the medieval Wansdyke defensive earthwork, several sections of which are included in this list. The Romano-British period is represented with several sites, most notably the Roman Baths and city walls in Bath. More recent sites include several bridges which date from the Middle Ages to the 18th-century Palladian bridge in Prior Park Landscape Garden.  Dundas Aqueduct, built in 1805 to carry the Kennet and Avon Canal, is the most recent site in the list. The monuments are listed below using the names given in the English Heritage data sheets.

Monuments

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See also
 Scheduled monuments in Somerset
 Grade I listed buildings in Bath and North East Somerset
 Grade II* listed buildings in Bath and North East Somerset

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Safaruddin Mohd Zain (22 March 1938 – 20 June 2023) was a Malaysian cyclist. He competed in the individual road race at the 1964 Summer Olympics. He did not finish the race and had to stop after 7 laps.

Safar-ud-Din died on 20 June 2023, at the age of 85.

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Marcelo Daniel Pérez Maldonado (born 24 June 1994), is a Chilean footballer who last played for Chilean Segunda División side Independiente de Cauquenes as a left-back.

Club career
Marcelo made his debut at UC playing against Audax Italiano in Estadio Bicentenario de La Florida in 2012. Later, on August 7, 2014, Marcelo was loaned to Coquimbo Unido for a year.

References

External links

Marcelo Pérez at playmakerstats.com (English version of ceroacero.es)

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Lansing Historic District is a national historic district located at Lansing, Ashe County, North Carolina.  The district encompasses 62 contributing buildings in the town of Lansing.  The district includes commercial, residential, and institutional buildings dating to the early- to mid-20th century.  Notable buildings include the Bank of Lansing (c. 1916), French Young Barber Shop Building (c. 1920), Sapp Department Store (c. 1955), Lansing Mill Company mill (c. 1940), Coble Dairy Plant (c. 1942), Lansing Presbyterian Church (1928), Lansing United Methodist Church (1944), French Young House (c. 1930), and Sapp House (c. 1950).

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

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Alex Santos Araújo (born 19 December 1993), commonly known as Alex Santos or just Alex, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a forward.

Career

Coritiba
Alex Santos made his senior league debut for Coritiba on 8 July 2012 in his side's 3–1 loss to São Paulo.

Red Bull Brasil
On 31 July 2013, Alex Santos joined Red Bull Brasil on loan. He made his debut on 31 August 2013, playing the whole match in his side's 1–0 loss to Itunao in the Copa Paulista.

AFC United
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A.  The "Other" column constitutes appearances and goals (including those as a substitute) in the Copa Paulista

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Martha Sheil is an American operatic soprano who made her professional opera debut as the Contessa in Le nozze di Figaro at the New York City Opera under the baton of Julius Rudel. She went on to be a professor of voice at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance for over 30 years before her retirement in 2015.

Early years
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Career
Sheil made her professional debut in 1975 as Alice Ford in Falstaff, and went on to make her debut at New York City Opera in 1976 as The Countess in The Marriage of Figaro. During this time, she also sang Mimi and Musetta in La Boheme, The Mozart heroines, and Suor Angelica. and many other roles.

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title: The Miracle Game

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The Miracle Game (originally Mirákl) is a Czech novel by Josef Škvorecký published in 1972 by Sixty Eight Publishers in Toronto, Canada. It was translated into English in 1990 by Paul Wilson, and according to The Times is Skvorecky's masterpiece. It was his response to Prague Spring events of 1968 Czechoslovakia. and contains unflattering references to real people, Future Czech President Václav Havel becomes "the world-famous playwright Hejl", the writer Bohumil Hrabal appears as the "gifted non-party novelist Nabal".

Plot introduction
In a Bohemian church in 1948 an apparent miracle is denounced as a hoax by the Communist party. Danny Smiricky (the hero of Škvorecký's 1977 novel The Engineer of Human Souls who also appeared in the previous novel "The Cowards") was present at the church but slept through the event. Twenty years later the case is re-examined during the Prague Spring.

References

External links
Books of The Times; Tricks, Miracles and Consequences, by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times, Published: February 7, 1991.
Kirkus Reviews

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Status Minor are a Finnish progressive metal band from Tampere. The group, currently signed with Lion Music, has released 3 full-length albums as of 2017.

History
The group was formed in 2002 by Sami Saarinen. The drummer, Rolf Pilve, also acts as the drummer for Stratovarius, and keyboardist Jukka Karinen is known from Thunderstone.

Members
Markku Kuikka (vocals)
Jukka Karinen (keyboards)
Sami Saarinen (guitars)
Eero Pakkanen (bass)
Rolf Pilve (drums)

Discography
Dialog (2009)
Ouroboros (2012)
Three Faces of Antoine (2017)

External links

http://www.statusminor.com/
http://www.metalfromfinland.com/Status_Minor

Finnish heavy metal musical groups


title: Richard Morris (New York judge)

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Richard Morris (August 15, 1730 O.S. – April 11, 1810) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was chief justice of the New York Supreme Court from 1779 to 1790.

Early life
He was born on August 15, 1730, in Morrisania, then located in Westchester County, New York, the third son of Lewis Morris (1698–1762) and Katrintje "Catherine" (née Staats) Morris (1697–1731).

His paternal grandfather was Governor of New Jersey Lewis Morris.  His brothers included Continental Congressman Lewis Morris and Gen. Staats Long Morris.  His half-brother was U.S. Senator Gouverneur Morris and Assemblyman Richard Valentine Morris was his nephew.

Morris was a graduate of Yale College in 1748. Then he studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1752.

Career
In 1762, he was appointed by Governor Robert Monckton to the New York Court of Vice-Admiralty. At the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War he sided with the Patriots, and resigned from the bench in 1775.

On March 4, 1778, he was appointed by the New York State Assembly to the New York State Senate as one of the representatives of the Southern District, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Dr. John Jones. He remained in the State Senate until October 1779, sitting in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd New York State Legislatures.

On October 23, 1779, he was appointed by the Council of Appointment as Chief Justice of the New York Supreme Court, and remained on the bench until September 1790 when he reached the constitutional age limit. In 1788, he was a delegate to the New York Convention to Ratify the U.S. Constitution. On October 19, 1789, he administered the oaths of office to Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court John Jay.

In December 1794, he ran on the Federalist ticket for Congress in the Westchester–Richmond district, but was defeated by Democratic-Republican Philip Van Cortlandt.

Personal life
On June 13, 1759, he married Sarah Ludlow (1730–1791), the daughter of Henry Ludlow (1701–1784) and Mary Corbett and the sister of William Henry Ludlow.  Together, they had five children:

 Lewis Richard Morris (1760–1825), who married Theodosia Olcott (d. 1800), who died soon after. He later married Ellen Hunt (1781–1865), daughter of Jonathan Hunt.
 Robert Morris (1762–1851), who married Frances Ludlum (1766–1852).
 Mary Morris (1763–1836), who married William Popham.
 Catherine Morris (1765–1765), who died in infancy.
 Catherine Morris (1766–1767), who also died in infancy.

He owned estates in Westchester county at Mount Fordham and in Scarsdale.  Mount Fordham was burned by the British during the American Revolution.

He died on April 11, 1810, in Scarsdale, New York; and was buried at the Trinity Churchyard in New York City.

Descendants
His granddaughter, Mary Morris (1790–1869), married James Alexander Hamilton (1788–1878), son of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton.  His grandson, Lewis Gouverneur Morris (1808–1900), was married to Emily Lorillard (1819–1850), of the Lorillard Tobacco family.

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1730 births
1810 deaths
Morris family (Morrisania and New Jersey)
Politicians from the Bronx
Lawyers from the Bronx
New York (state) state senators
New York Supreme Court Justices
Yale College alumni
People of the Province of New York


title: Elisa Kadigia Bove

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Elisa Kadigia Bove (born 1942) is an Italian actress of Italian-Somali descent.

Early life and career
Daughter of an Italian soldier and a Somali woman, Bove began her film career acting in commercials. She first gained renown during a television campaign for Atlantic, a popular 1970s TV-set brand. After attending the   directed by Giorgio Strehler, she began a long career as an actress and vocalist, between theater, film and television. She interpreted a number of compositions by the Italian avant-garde composer Luigi Nono, including , , , . She debuted as an actress in the first feature film directed by Valentino Orsini. She later starred in some B-movies in the late 1960s and 1980s, while her last role was in a comedy directed by Cristina Comencini.

Bove later starred in a number of Italian feature films, particularly in the  horror genre. Of the latter, she appeared in the 1980 film Macabre by Lamberto Bava.

Besides cinematic work, Bove is the president of the  (ADIA; Association of African Immigrant Women), a non-profit organization serving immigrant women in Italy.

Personal life
Bove was married to Italian politician Achille Occhetto, with whom she had two sons, Malcolm and Massimiliano (both born in Sicily).

Filmography
Macabre (1980)
 (1983)

See also
Jonis Bashir
Italian Somalis

References

External links

Living people
Somalian actresses
20th-century Italian actresses
Italian people of Somali descent
People from Mogadishu
1942 births


title: We Kyung-yong

text:
We Kyung-yong (born 23 March 1940) is a former South Korean cyclist. He competed in the individual road race at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

References

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1940 births
Living people
South Korean male cyclists
Olympic cyclists for South Korea
Cyclists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Place of birth missing (living people)


title: Bakenrenef (vizier)

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Bakenrenef or Bakenranef was an ancient Egyptian Vizier of the North (Lower Egypt) during the reign of Psamtik I (664 – 610 BC) of the 26th Dynasty. Like Khaemwaset several centuries before, he bore the title of Iunmutef, “Cleaner of the Great House”. His father was a mayor called Padineit, while his mother was a certain Tageb.

Bakenrenef is mainly known for his large rock tomb in Saqqara and its reliefs depicting scenes from the Book of the Dead and from the Amduat. The tomb was later reused for other burials during the 30th Dynasty. The decoration of the tomb was still largely intact when the Lepsius expedition discovered and copied it, in the middle of the 19th century. Since then, the grave has been vandalized: most reliefs were torn away from the walls and sold to various museums and private collectors. For about twenty years an Italian expedition worked there and Bakenrenef's limestone sarcophagus is now in the National Archaeological Museum of Florence.

References

External links

 3D Reconstruction of the tomb
 The tomb, as it was published by Lepsius expedition

Ancient Egyptian viziers
People of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt


title: George Shadid

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George P. Shadid (May 15, 1929 – February 3, 2018) was an American Democratic politician. He was sheriff of Peoria County, Illinois from 1976 to 1993 and was in the Illinois State Senate from 1993 until 2006.

Background
Shadid was born in Clinton, Iowa to immigrants from Lebanon.  At age 14, once in Peoria, Illinois, Shadid worked with future mayor Jim Maloof at the Maloof family cleaning business. They remained friends until Maloof's death.

Career
Shadid became a police officer in 1953.  In 1976, he ran for sheriff of Peoria County.  Running as a Democrat, with a Republican campaign manager, he became the first Democrat elected as Peoria County sheriff since 1892.  He took up the office of sheriff in December 1976.  The 1985 jail and sheriff's complex on Maxwell Road was built during his tenure.

By 1993, Shadid was living near Edwards.  In 1993, the Illinois State Senate 46th Senate District seat was vacated by Richard Luft of Pekin when Luft was appointed Illinois Commissioner of Banks and Trusts.  Shadid was unanimously chosen as a replacement by Democratic leaders of the district, and was appointed to the Illinois State Senate on May 13, 1993.  Al Meisner was appointed to replace Shadid as sheriff.

Shadid retired from the Senate in December 2006 to allow his elected successor, Democrat David Koehler, to take office earlier.

Personal life and death

George Shadid had two sons. James E. "Jim" Shadid, is a federal judge.  George Shadid Jr., died in 2005.

In 2013, Shadid donated his remaining campaign funds to Bradley University.  In November 2014, the Peoria County jail complex on Maxwell Road was named the George P. Shadid Law Enforcement Center.

George Shadid died age 88 on February 3, 2018, of natural causes  in Peoria.

References

1929 births
2018 deaths
American politicians of Lebanese descent
Politicians from Clinton, Iowa
Politicians from Peoria, Illinois
Illinois sheriffs
Democratic Party Illinois state senators


title: Union Glass Company

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The Union Glass Company was a glass manufacturer located at 52 Webster Avenue, Somerville, Massachusetts, and active from 1854–1924. It manufactured a full line of flint glass products during its existence, and art glass (mostly iridescent) from 1892 onwards.

The Union Glass Company was established by Amory Houghton, (1812–1882), of Cambridge's Houghton family, who had previously in 1851 invested in a fledgling glass works started by Mason W. Teasdale and Norman S. Cate. This company, until then known as Cate & Phillips, was renamed the Bay State Glass Company, and produced a variety of flint (lead) glassware from lamps to flasks.

In January 1854, Houghton liquidated his holdings in Bay State Glass to start his own flint glass factory in Somerville, which he named the Union Glass Company It housed two nine-pot furnaces, with each clay pot holding over three thousand pounds of molten glass. The crown furnaces were coal-fired. In its early years, the Union Glass Company manufactured a wide range of flint glass products including lamps, lamp trimmings, bottles, windows, lenses, and tableware. It employed 20 to 40 men ( one who was a very famous paper weight maker and glass blower was Philip Buonomo of Somerville, was one of the best workers. who also managed the company until it closed.

However, during the winter of 1857–58, the company suffered severely amid a nationwide financial crisis. In 1860–61 it fell into insolvency and was reorganized and reopened as The Union Glass Works. By August 1864, the Houghton family had sold its entire interest in Union Glass to K.S. Chaffee. They subsequently purchased one of New York's most reputable glass factories, the Brooklyn Flint
Glass Works. After it too proved financially unsuccessful, in 1868 Houghton moved again to Corning, New York to start the Corning Flint Glass Works, which eventually flourished as Corning Inc.

With Chaffee as president and treasurer, the firm's original name of Union Glass Company was restored. In 1893, control passed to Julian de Cordova, who operated the plant until its 1924 closing.

References

Sources
 The Union Glass Company, Somerville, Mass., 1854–1927, Lillian G. Pattinson, 39 pages, 1960.
 Art glass of Union Glass Company, Somerville, Massachusetts (1893–1927), Kelly Ann Conway, 120 pages, 2005. Thesis/Dissertation.
 "Yankee Enterprise! The Houghtons of Massachusetts & the Rise and Fall of 'Corning Incorporated', 1851–1871", Jeffrey J. Matthews, Essays in Economic and Business History, 2002.
 Alanson B. Houghton: Ambassador of the New Era, Jeffrey J. Matthews, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2004.
 The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts, ed. Gordon Campbell, Volume 1, p. 501, Oxford University Press, 2006.

Defunct glassmaking companies


title: 1999 North Tipperary County Council election

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An election to North Tipperary County Council took place on 10 June 1999 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 21 councillors were elected from four local electoral areas  for a five-year term of office on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).

Results by party

Results by local electoral area

Borrisokane

Nenagh

Templemore

Thurles

External links

1999 Irish local elections
1999


title: Phyllis M. Faber

text:
Phyllis M. Faber is an American botanist who did extensive work organizing and promoting the California Native Plant Society.
She was editor of Fremontia: A Journal of the California Native Plant Society for 16 years, from 1983 to 1999. It was said of her that, "Phyllis came to be synonymous with CNPS (California Native Plant Society) publications". She was named a Fellow of the California Native Plant Society (CNPS). She was credited with significant contributions to and successes of CNPS, including raising the botanical literacy of elected officials in California, promoting preservation of native plants through legislation and policies of public agencies, and making closer associations between CNPS and universities.

She served on the California Coastal Commission, Boards of Directors of the Planning and Conservation League, the League for Coastal Protection, and Marin Agricultural Land Trust, which she founded.

References

Living people
21st-century American botanists
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: Kinpurnie Hill

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Kinpurnie Hill is one of the most famous hills of the Sidlaw range in south-east Perthshire.

Kinpurnie Hill is located near Newtyle and is popular with hillwalkers.

Name and etymology
The name Kinpurney was recorded in 1317 as Kylprony and has been described as "enigmatic". The initial element may be Gaelic coille meaning "wood", or ceann, "head". The -purney element appears to occur in several place-names in Aberdeenshire and may derive from Gaelic pronn meaning "crumbly soil". Or else, the element may be Pictish and derivation from a word related to Welsh bron, "breast, breast-shaped hill", has been suggested by linguist Guto Rhys.

Kinpurnie Tower
Atop the hill is Kinpurnie Tower, designed by Rev Alexander Bryce (1713 - 1786), minister of Kirknewton and later East Calder and built by amateur astronomer James Stuart-Mackenzie in 1766 to be used as an observatory. It is  tall and is visible from the roadside.

It stands next to the site of an unfinished iron-age fort; remains of the vitrified walls and the large ditch can be seen in the area of the viewfinder and trig point. The viewfinder is useful for picking out the distant hills on a clear day.

The tower, which has walls  thick, fell into serious disrepair after it ceased to function as an observatory and faced demolition in the early 1970s. However, as it was such a well known landmark, plans were drawn up to restore the structure and the work, funded by the local authority and the Cayzer Estate, was completed in 1974.

References

https://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/angus/kinpurney-hill.shtml
http://www.walkscotland.com/route119.htm

Mountains and hills of Angus, Scotland
Geography of Angus, Scotland


title: Palace Super Falcons Women's Academy

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Palace Super Falcons is a South African women's association football club.

Palace Group formed Palace Super Falcons Women's Academy in 2002. Aiming to develop women soccer and young girls socially and to decrease their involvement in criminal activity, substance abuse and other social ill by participating in sport. The Palace Group also has a youth academy which provided for junior players from previously disadvantaged backgrounds in townships around Midrand. Both senior and junior players are actively participating in competitive women's football competitions around South Africa.

Palace Super Falcons won the 2009–10 Sasol Women's League National Championships beating defending champions, Detroit Ladies, 4–2 in a penalty shoot-out after the score being 2–2 at full time. The match was broadcast on SABC 1 in Seshego, Limpopo on 23 May 2010. It was attended by football personalities like Doctor Khumalo and the President of SAFA, Kirsten Nematandani.

References

Association football clubs established in 2002
Soccer clubs in Gauteng
2002 establishments in South Africa
Ekurhuleni


title: G. W. C. Tait

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George William Campbell Tait (April 28, 1912 – March 9, 1993), was an inventor and pioneer in the field of health physics in Canada and at the Chalk River Project.

Tait lived in Canada and Vienna. His residences included Deep River, Ontario, Canada, and Gibsons, British Columbia, Canada and Vienna, Austria.
1951–1958, Head of Radiation Hazard Control, National Research Council, Chalk River Project, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited.
1958–1960, Director, Division of Health Safety and Waste Disposal, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria.
Tait was involved in early work at the Chalk River Project and during his productive career produced at least two patents that involved gas sampling equipment.

Health Physics Society
Tait was a key member in the formation of the Health Physics Society and represented Canada.
Founding member and Director
Representative from Canada

Patents
ANNULAR IMPACTOR SAMPLING DEVICE.
Apparatus for discharging gases into the atmosphere.

Publications
The vertical temperature gradient in the lower atmosphere under daylight conditions.
FLOWMETER ERROR IN MEASURING PULSATING FLOW.
The Annular Impactor.
Determining concentration of airborne plutonium dust.
Reactor Siting, the Exclusion Area Concept and an Alternative Approach
Radioactive Uniform Extended Sources.
Emergency Radiation Monitoring of Drinking Water.
Respirator problems in atomic energy practice.
REACTOR EXCLUSION AREAS—CAN THEY BE ELIMINATED.
Health and Safety in Canadian Operations .
Effects of Radiation on Man: An International Experiment.
The Integrating Impactor A Monitor for Airborne Alpha Emitters.
Rise of Buoyant Gases Released from Intermittent Sources.
A Simple Photographic Film Dosimeter of Low Energy Dependence.
Cost-benefit analysis: Reality or illusion.
Power to Our Grandchildren: The Future of Energy.
CAN WE BUILD REACTORS IN BIG CITIES? THE UNDERLYING QUESTION IS...

References

1912 births
1993 deaths
Canadian physicists
20th-century Canadian inventors
Atomic Energy of Canada Limited
International Atomic Energy Agency officials
Health physicists
Health Physics Society
Canadian expatriates in Austria


title: Gallow Hill

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Gallow Hill is one of the hills of the Sidlaw range in South East Perthshire, Scotland. At . Gallow Hill is located near Newbigging and is smaller than Craigowl Hill.

References

Mountains and hills of Angus, Scotland


title: Steven Stosny

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Steven Stosny is the founder of Compassion Power in suburban Washington, DC, and the author of several books on improving relationships. He has taught at the University of Maryland, and St. Mary's College of Maryland. Stosny argues that marriage counseling, psychotherapy, anger management, and abuser treatment often makes relationships worse because among other things, the therapists make women feel ashamed of their natural feelings of guilt; requiring a great many weekly one-hour sessions; and because in their efforts to build working alliances with reluctant male clients, counselors reinforce that the husband has been mostly right and the wife mostly wrong. Stosny argues, "Abuser groups fail because they focus on negative attitudes, rather than the core hurts that cause them."

Stosny model
Stosny is the creator of the Stosny model of behavioral intervention programs for intimate partner abusers. Its focus is on nurturing compassion, in contrast to the Duluth model, whose focus is on getting offenders to embrace feminist principles. Stosny's program seeks to use tools such as the Stosny-created 20-minute video "Shadows of the Heart". Stosny's research shows that self-esteem enhancement during treatment for partner violent men is correlated with violence reduction, and does not increase the risk for subsequent relationship aggression.

Bibliography
Stosny is the author and coauthor of several books, as well as a blog in psychology today. His books have been translated into Spanish, Italian, and German.
 Soar Above: How to Use the Most Profound Part of Your Brain Under Any Kind of Stress
 Empowered Love: Use Your Brain to Be Your Best Self and Create Your Ideal Relationship
 Love Without Hurt: Turn Your Resentful, Angry, or Emotionally Abusive Relationship into a Compassionate, Loving One (this book has also been released under the title You Don't Have To Take It Anymore, with the same subtitle.
 Living and Loving after Betrayal: How to Heal from Emotional Abuse, Deceit, Infidelity, and Chronic Resentment
 The Powerful Self: A Workbook of Therapeutic Self-Empowerment
 Treating Attachment Abuse: A Compassionate Approach
 The Laws of Emotion and Meaning
 How to Improve Your Marriage Without Talking About It (with coauthor Patricia Love)
 Why Women Talk and Men Walk  (with coauthor Patricia Love)
 A Man Who Thinks He Knows Who Really Killed the President: A Novel

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Living people
Date of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American psychologists
American businesspeople
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: Allison Argo

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Allison Argo (born December 23, 1953) is an American film producer, director, writer, editor, and narrator. She is best known for her documentaries that focus on endangered wildlife and conservation. Her films have received awards including six National Emmy Awards. and the duPont-Columbia Award for journalism.

In her early career as an actress, Argo performed on Broadway, in television, and in film. Her theatre roles included work as an original cast member in two Broadway theatre productions, and her work in television and film included roles in television movies and a major role in a TV series, along with recurring roles in two soap operas.

In 1989, while on location in the state of Washington, Argo happened upon a gorilla caged as an exhibit in a shopping mall. This experience led Argo to produce and direct her first film, The Urban Gorilla (National Geographic 1992), about the lives of captive gorillas.  Argo received the duPont-Columbia award for the documentary. Since that time, Argo has dedicated her work towards advocating for the welfare and understanding of wild animals through documentary films and public speaking engagements.

With her production company, ArgoFilms, LTD, Argo has produced eighteen films. Among others, notable award-winning films have included Keepers of the Wild (National Geographic and PBS 1992), The Last Frog (National Geographic 1996), The Secret Life of Cats (National Geographic 1999), The Urban Elephant (National Geographic and PBS NATURE 2000), Chimpanzees: An Unnatural History (PBS NATURE 2006), Crash: a Tale of Two Species (PBS NATURE 2008), and Parrot Confidential (PBS NATURE 2013), The Last Pig (2017).

Early life
Argo was raised on Cape Cod as one of two daughters of Gordon Harold Argo (06/22/1924–07/10/2003) and Elizabeth "Betsy" Argo (née Brunk; 1922–2016), both actors. The Argos owned and operated the Orleans Arena Theater, America's first summer stock theater-in-the-round, in the town of Orleans, Massachusetts. From childhood, she was immersed in theater and the world of drama, which prepared her for a career as a professional actress in New York and Los Angeles.

Career as an actress
On Broadway, Argo played major roles as an original cast member in the revivals of Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea (1976), and Tennessee Williams’ The Night of the Iguana (1976–1977), and she appeared in the musical Grease. She played a leading role on the CBS television series Ladies Man and was featured on WKRP in Cincinnati, as well as on ten television movies and pilots. Argo played recurring roles on the soap operas Search for Tomorrow and The Bold and the Beautiful. She also voiced cartoon characters, including the character Andrea in the Cathy animated television specials.

ArgoFilms

Argo's experience seeing the gorilla, Ivan, isolated and on display in an enclosure comprising two concrete rooms in a shopping mall was the catalyst for her  forming ArgoFilms, LTD. Concerned about gorillas in similar situations as Ivan's, Argo made them the subject of her first film The Urban Gorilla, which in addition to the duPont-Columbia award was the recipient of two Emmy nominations.

Since The Urban Gorilla, ArgoFilms has gone on to advocate for, among others, frogs, snakes, cats, elephants, chimpanzees, and birds. One film has documented the effects of the September 11 attacks upon people. The Story of Dao, about a street elephant named Pang Dao, has been in pre-production since 2011. A scout (research expedition) was completed in Thailand in 2012.

ArgoFilms has produced eighteen documentaries for National Geographic, PBS, and the NATURE series. Allison Argo has either produced, directed, or written all films. Glenn Close narrated the first two films; and Argo has narrated since. The films have garnered twelve Emmy nominations, with six Emmys having been won in various categories including two for directing. Additionally, ArgoFilms has been awarded four Genesis Awards, most recently in 2014 for the film Parrot Confidential ( PBS NATURE 2013), and has also been recognized by the Missoula, Jackson Hole, and Japan Wildlife Film Festivals. In Parrot Confidential, the circumstances of parrots in captivity who often outlive their owners and suffer as a result are explored. The subject had received little documentation until the film was produced.

In an April 2014 article in a Cape Cod periodical, Argo has said that the most satisfying aspect of her work is when it makes a difference. Her goal is to open eyes; and if people are given the facts, they will do what they can to improve life. The work of ArgoFilms is meant to "foster compassion for animals and to champion wildlife through film, providing a voice for those who have none."

Stage acting credits (Broadway)

Television acting credits

Filmography, awards, and nominations

As producer, director, writer, or editor

References

External links
 ArgoFilms website
  (entry "I", missing "Writer/Producer/Director" details)
  (entry "II", missing "Actor" details)

1953 births
American documentary filmmakers
People from Orleans, Massachusetts
Living people
Writers from Richmond, Virginia
American women documentary filmmakers
Film directors from Virginia
Film directors from Massachusetts
21st-century American women


title: Watkin Jones

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Watkin Jones may refer to:

 Wat Jones (1917–1994), a Welsh cricketer
 Watkin Tudor Jones (born 1974), a South African rapper and record producer
 Watkins Jones, an author of Sherlock Holmes and the Occult: The Case of the Scarlet Women
 Watkin Jones plc, a British construction and build to rent company


title: Nikil Saval

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Nikil Saval (born December 27, 1982) is an Indian-American magazine editor, writer, organizer, activist, and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he represents the 1st district in the Pennsylvania State Senate.

Early life and education
Saval was born in Los Angeles, California to parents from Bangalore growing up in West Los Angeles. He graduated from Columbia College of Columbia University with a B.A. in 2005 and received a Ph.D. in English from Stanford University in 2014.

Writing career
Saval was a co-editor of n+1, as well as a contributor to The New York Times, and The New Yorker, covering architecture and design. He currently serves on the board of directors of n+1.

Saval's book, Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace (2014), examines the long-term evolution of the office, from its roots in nineteenth century counting houses to the cubicle, and considers how such workplaces, and the lives of its workers, could be improved in the future. The book was a New York Times notable book of 2014.

Political career

Activism
Saval was a co-founder of Reclaim Philadelphia, an organization that formed out of the Bernie Sanders 2016 presidential campaign. His group helped elect Larry Krasner to district attorney of Philadelphia. In 2018, Saval became the Ward Leader of Philadelphia's 2nd Ward.

Pennsylvania State Senate
In 2020, he challenged Democratic incumbent Larry Farnese for his seat in the Pennsylvania State Senate, earning the endorsement of Senator Bernie Sanders in May 2020. Saval based his campaign around a Green New Deal, prison reform, guaranteed affordable housing, redevelopment of Philadelphia schools, and Medicare for All. He beat Farnese in the primary and became de facto State Senator-elect, as he had no opposition in the general election.

He was a member of the Democratic Socialists of America from 2014 through at least 2020.

In 2022,  Saval introduced the Whole-Home Repairs Act, legislation which aims to provide eligible residents with grants of up to $50,000 to make health-and-safety focused home repairs. Small landlords would also be eligible to apply for similar loans under the same program, and the state government would also invest in training qualified home-repair workers. This program is partly intended to help low-income residents become eligible for federal grants from the Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP), which subsidizes energy-efficiency upgrades for poorer residents. Despite Saval himself’s position on the left wing of the Democratic party, Saval’s bill has received signals of support from several Republican committee chairs.

Personal life
Saval is married to Shannon Garrison. The couple live in Philadelphia with their son.

Books
 Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace (2014),

References

External links
 Profile at the Pennsylvania State Senate
 Campaign website
 Reclaim Philadelphia

1982 births
Living people
American editors
American male journalists
American politicians of Indian descent
Asian-American people in Pennsylvania politics
Members of the Democratic Socialists of America from Pennsylvania
Democratic Party Pennsylvania state senators
Pennsylvania socialists
Columbia College (New York) alumni
Stanford University alumni
21st-century American politicians
Politicians from Philadelphia


title: Needle Peak (Brewster County, Texas)

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Needle Peak is the local nickname for the Sierra Aguja in Brewster County, Texas, a small range near the Mexican border and just west of Big Bend National Park. Not to be confused with Needle Peak in Presidio County, Texas, about 17 miles away.

The Needle Peak slopes in Brewster County are noted as a source of quartz crystals, including green moss agate, botryoidal geodes, Needle Peak sagenite, and pompom agates.

References

Landforms of Brewster County, Texas
Mountains of Texas


title: Zach Anderson

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Zach Anderson (born November 20, 1989) is a professional American football defensive tackle who is currently a free agent. He played college football at Northern Michigan.

College career
Anderson was named All-GLIAC first team in 2012.

Professional career

Anderson attended the Cleveland Browns rookie camp after going undrafted in the 2013 NFL Draft. In May 2013, Anderson signed with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. On July 5, 2016, Anderson was assigned to the Orlando Predators. On October 14, 2016, Anderson was selected by the Cleveland Gladiators during the dispersal draft.

References

External links
 Winnipeg Blue Bombers bio

1989 births
Living people
Northern Michigan Wildcats football players
Winnipeg Blue Bombers players
Canadian football defensive linemen
People from Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan
Players of Canadian football from Michigan
American football defensive tackles
Players of American football from Michigan
Orlando Predators players
Cleveland Gladiators players


title: Pompejanum

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The Pompejanum (or Pompeiianum) is an idealised replica of a Roman villa, located on the high banks of the river Main in Aschaffenburg, Bavaria, Germany. It was commissioned by King Ludwig I and built in the 1840s. The villa is a replica of a domus in Pompeii, the so-called House of Castor and Pollux (Casa dei Dioscuri).

Location
The Pompejanum is situated on the high bank of the river Main in the city of Aschaffenburg, in the Lower Franconia region of Bavaria. It is located within sight of Schloss Johannisburg. The Pompejanum is surrounded by a small Mediterranean garden, first created in the 19th century when the building was constructed.

History

The Pompejanum was commissioned by King Ludwig I and built in the years 1840-1848 according to the plans of the court architect Friedrich von Gärtner. The Pompejanum was not intended as a royal villa, but as a demonstration that would allow art lovers in Germany to study ancient culture. The building is considered to be an example of the enthusiasm for classical antiquity in the 19th century.

During World War II the Pompejanum was heavily damaged and restored in phases beginning in 1960. A Roman bust found in Texas in 2018, believed to be of Sextus Pompeius, will be returned to the museum in 2023.

Today
Since 1994, the Pompejanum houses original Roman art works from the collections of the Staatliche Antikensammlungen and the Glyptothek in Munich. The building also hosts temporary exhibitions.

References

Further reading
 Das Pompejanum in Aschaffenburg: Amtlicher Führer von Werner Helmberger und Raimund Wünsche (German),
 Simon, E.: Das Pompejanum in Aschaffenburg und seine Vorbilder in Pompeji (German). Aschaffenburger Jahrbuch 6, 1979, pp. 423-428

External links

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title: Polish People's Party "Left"

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The Polish People's Party "Left" (, PSL Lewica) was a political party in Poland.

History
The party was established by Jan Stapiński on 5 April 1914 as a breakaway from the Polish People's Party. In the January 1919 elections to elect the first Sejm of the Second Polish Republic it received 3.5% of the vote, winning 12 seats. However, the 1922 elections saw it reduced to two seats in the Sejm and fail to win a seat in the Senate.

On 11 May 1924 it merged with a breakaway faction of the Polish People's Party "Piast" to form the Agrarian Union. The new party merged with a faction of the Polish People's Party "Wyzwolenie" and People's Unity to form Stronnictwo Chłopskie in 1926.

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1914 establishments in Poland
1924 disestablishments in Poland
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Political parties disestablished in 1924
Political parties established in 1914