title: 1993–94 Regal Trophy

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The 1993–94 Regal Trophy was a British rugby league knockout tournament. It was the 23rd season that the competition was held, and was the fifth staging of the competition since it was re-named the Regal Trophy.

Castleford won the final, beating the pre-match favourites Wigan by the score of 33-2. The match was played at Headingley, Leeds in front of an attendance of 15,626.

Background
This season saw virtually a complete re-vamping of the  competition for instance; The Preliminary round was renamed "First Round", with every other succeeding round being renamed. The (newly named) First Round now consisted of 16 matches involving 32 clubs, with a further 16 clubs being given byes into the Second Round. The number of entrants was further increased by inviting eleven of the top junior clubs. The  inclusion of two French clubs continued with the inclusion of AS Saint Estève. The sixteen First Round winners added to the  sixteen clubs given byes, gave a total of entrants into the  second round as thirty-two. There were no drawn matches in the competition this season.

Competition and results

Round 1 - First Round

Involved  16 matches and 32 clubs, with 16 byes

Round 2  Second  Round

Involved 16 matches and 32 clubs. The 16 winners of the first round were joined by the 16 First Division clubs in the second round.

Round 3 - Third  Round

Involved  8 matches and 16 Clubs

Round 4 -Quarter Finals

Involved 4 matches with 8 clubs

Round 5 – Semi-Finals

Involved 2 matches and 4 Clubs

Final

Teams and scorers

Prize money
As part of the sponsorship deal and funds, the  prize money awarded to the competing teams for this season is as follows:

The road to success
This tree excludes the First Round fixtures

Notes and comments
1 * West Bowling are a junior (or amateur) club from Bradford
2 * Leigh Miners' Welfare are a Junior (amateur) club from Leigh (formed by merger of Astley & Tyldesley and Hope Rangers - and now Leigh Miners Rangers)
3 * Queens are a Junior (amateur) club from Leeds
4 * Woolston Rovers are a Junior (amateur) club from Warrington, becoming Warrington Woolston Rovers in 2003 and Warrington Wizards in 2002. the ground is the old Warrington Home Ground of Wilderspool
5 * Carcassonne played in the French League at Stade Albert Domec
6 * Myson are a Junior (amateur) club from Hull
7 * Ellenborough Rangers are a Junior (amateur) club from the Ellenborough suburb of Maryport, Cumbria
8 * Irlam Hornets ARLFC are a junior club from Irlam, Salford, playing at Cutnook Lane
9 * Wigan official archives gives the club name as Nottingham Borough. There appear to be no other references anywhere to this name and assume it is an misprint
10 * AS Saint Estève was a French rugby league team from Perpignan, which in 2000 it merged with nearby neighbours XIII Catalan to form Union Treiziste Catalaneto compete in the Super Leagueas the Catalans Dragons.
11 * Hemel Stags are a semi professional club based in Hemel Hempstead and playing at the Pennine Way stadium (capacity 2000)
12 * Saddleworth Rangers are a Junior (amateur) club from Oldham
13 * Egremont are a Junior (amateur) club from Cumbria
14 * Wigan St Patricks are a Junior (amateur) club from Wigan
15 * RUGBYLEAGUEproject gives the attendance as 851 but Hull official archives gives it as 819
16 * RUGBYLEAGUEproject gives the attendance as 5,185 but Wigan official archives gives it as 5,128
17 * RUGBYLEAGUEproject gives the attendance as 3,075 but Widnes official archives gives it as 3,074
18 * RUGBYLEAGUEproject and Widnes official archives gives the attendance as 3,412 but Hull official archives gives it as 3,421
19 * RUGBYLEAGUEproject gives the attendance as 6,342 but Wigan official archives gives it as 6,500
20 * Wigan official archives - special details give this as the third round, obviously a mis-print
21 * RUGBYLEAGUEproject gives the attendance as 7,321 but Wigan official archives gives it as 7,231
22 * RUGBYLEAGUEproject and Wigan official archives gives the score as 26-6 but Hull official archives gives it as 24-6
23  * Headingley, Leeds, is the home ground of Leeds RLFC with a capacity of 21,000. The record attendance was  40,175 for a league match between Leeds and Bradford Northern on 21 May 1947.

See also
1993-94 Rugby Football League season
Regal Trophy
Rugby league county cups

References

Sources

External links

Regal Trophy
League Cup
League Cup
League Cup
League Cup


title: 1994–95 Regal Trophy

text:
The 1994–95 Regal Trophy was a British rugby league knockout tournament. It was the 24th season that the competition was held, and was the sixth staging of the competition since it was re-named the Regal Trophy.

Wigan won the final, beating Warrington 40-10 at the McAlpine Stadium in Huddersfield. The attendance was 19,636.

Background
This season saw no changes from last season's re-vamping, with no new members and no withdrawals, the number remaining at forty-eight.

The entrants still included two French clubs and eleven junior clubs

The sixteen First Round winners added to the sixteen clubs given byes, gave a total of entrants into the second round as thirty-two.<br/ >

Competition and results

Round 1 - First Round

Involved 16 matches and 32 clubs.

Round 2 - Second  Round
Involved 16 matches and 32 Clubs. The 16 winners of the first round were joined by the 16 First Division clubs in the second round.

Round 3 - Third  Round
Involved 8 matches and 16 Clubs

Round 3 - Third  Round Replays
Involved 1 match and 2 clubs

Round 4 -Quarter Finals
Involved 4 matches with 8 clubs

Round 5 – Semi-Finals
Involved 2 matches and 4 Clubs

Final

Teams and scorers

Prize money
As part of the sponsorship deal and funds, the prize money awarded to the competing teams for this season was as follows:

The road to success
This tree excludes the First Round fixtures

Notes and comments
1 * AS Saint Estève was a French rugby league team from Perpignan, which in 2000 it merged with nearby neighbours XIII Catalan to form Union Treiziste Catalaneto compete in the Super Leagueas the Catalans Dragons.

2 * XIII Catalan were a French rugby league team from Perpignan, founded in 1935, founding members of the French rugby league championship. In 2000 they merged with AS Saint Estève to form Union Treiziste Catalane (or Catalans Dragons)

3 * The highest score and the highest winning margin, at the  time. The record stood for approximately two days before it was beaten. This record includes club records of (1) joint highest try scorer in a match by Steve Rowan with 6 tries, (2) highest number of goals kicked in a match by Darren Carter with 17, and (3) the highest number of points in a match also by Darren Carter with 17 goals and 2 tries making a total of 42

4 * This beat the record for the highest score, and equalled the at of the highest aggregate win, set two days earlier. This record included the  all time British record of most tries by a centre in a match when Greg Austin scored 9 tries

5 * Queens are a Junior (amateur) club from Leeds

6 * Myson are a Junior (amateur) club from Hull

7 * Bradford Dudley Hill are a Junior (amateur) club from Bradford

8 * Ovenden are a Junior (amateur) club from Halifax

9 * Hensingham are a Junior (amateur) club from Whitehaven

10 * Leigh Miners' Welfare are a Junior (amateur) club from Leigh (formed by merger of Astley & Tyldesley and Hope Rangers - and now Leigh Miners Rangers)

11 * Hemel Stags are a semi professional club based in Hemel Hempstead and playing at the Pennine Way stadium (capacity 2000)

12 * Woolston Rovers are a Junior (amateur) club from Warrington, becoming Warrington Woolston Rovers in 2003 and Warrington Wizards in 2002. the ground is the old Warrington Home Ground of Wilderspool

13 * West Hull are a Junior (amateur) club from Hull

14 * Saddleworth Rangers are a Junior (amateur) club from Oldham

15 * Thatto Heath are a Junior (amateur) club from St Helens

16 * RUGBYLEAGUEproject gives the attendance as 4,807 but Widnes official archives gives it as 4,831

17  * The McAlpine Stadium is the home ground of Huddersfield Town and Super League side, Huddersfield Giants. The stadium is 40% owned by Kirklees Metropolitan Council and 60% by the two clubs, hosted its first match in August 1994 and seats 24,499 people along with hospitality boxes and conference rooms. Since opening the stadium has been sponsored as The John Smith's Stadium, originally the Alfred McAlpine Stadium and more lately the Galpharm Stadium, is a multi-use sports stadium in Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, England

See also
1994-95 Rugby Football League season
Regal Trophy

References

Sources

External links

Regal Trophy
League Cup
League Cup
League Cup
League Cup


title: Trichomycterus diatropoporos

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Trichomycterus diatropoporos is a species of pencil catfish endemic to Brazil, where it occurs in the da Prata and Turvo river basins, tributaries of the das Antas river, in the Laguna dos Patos system in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. This species reaches a maximum length of  SL.

Etymology
The specific name diatropoporos is derived from the Greek diatropos, meaning variable, and poros, meaning pore, and refers to the variation in the presence of pores i1 and i3 of the infraorbital sensory canal of the species.

Habitat and ecology
At the species' type locality (Passo do Despraiado, municipality of Nova Prata), the da Prata river is rapid flowing, wide and shallow, with an average depth of 0.5 m, clear water, rocky bottom and large amounts of submerged vegetation.

T. diatropoporos feeds on larvae of Diptera (Chironomidae, Simuliidae) and nymphs of Ephemeroptera.

References

Further reading

External links

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Fish of South America
Fish of Brazil
Endemic fauna of Brazil
Fish described in 2013


title: Edward Henry Cooper

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Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Henry Cooper  (1827 – 26 February 1902) was an Irish officer in the British Army, a landlord in County Sligo, and a Conservative politician.

At the age of 36 the Dublin-born soldier inherited Markree Castle in County Sligo from his uncle, and left the army to manage his country estate. As one of the major landlords in the county, he assumed many of the roles which still accompanied that status.  He promptly became a local magistrate, and in 1865 was returned unopposed by the county to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.

Having followed five previous Cooper landlords of Markree to serve as Member of Parliament (MP) for Sligo, his unpopularity as a landlord led to his defeat in 1868, after one term. He then reactivated his uncle's Markree Observatory, and commissioned archaeological drawings of County Sligo. He served as the Lord Lieutenant of Sligo for the 25 years until his death, and for the last three as a Privy Councillor.

Early life
Cooper was the oldest of seven children of Richard Wordsworth Cooper (1801–1850)
of Longford Lodge in Kingstown (now Dún Laoghaire), County Dublin;
their home later became Glengara Park School.
His father was the third-born (and second surviving) son of Edward Synge Cooper MP of Markree Castle in County Sligo.
His mother was Emilia Eleanor, daughter of the 1st Viscount Frankfort de Montmorency.

Cooper was educated at Eton,
before joining the British Army in 1845.

Army

In May 1845, the 18-year-old Cooper purchased an army commission as a cornet in the 7th Light Dragoons.
He was promoted in 1846 to lieutenant,
and bought a further promotion to captain in 1848.
He transferred in 1851 to the 72nd Foot,
then in 1852 to the Grenadier Guards.

In 1857 Cooper purchased a promotion to lieutenant colonel of the Grenadier Guards,
and on 9 August 1858, he married Charlotte Maria Mills at the church of St Mary's, Bryanston Square in London.
His uncle Edward Joshua Cooper had died in April 1863. Having five daughters but no sons, Edward Joshua had bequeathed Markree Castle to Edward Henry, who retired from the army in July 1863.

Parliament
Having inherited a  estate,
Cooper was appointed as a magistrate in August 1863.
At the 1865 general election he was nominated as a Conservative candidate for County Sligo. The county had two Conservative MPs, and the more-recently elected was Charles William O'Hara, who had been popular with all parties.
O'Hara stood down due to ill-health, and Cooper was returned unopposed along with the sitting Conservative MP Sir Robert Gore-Booth, 4th Bt.

As an MP for the county, Edward Henry was the last of six Cooper landlords of Markree to hold the seat. His predecessors had been MPs for County Sligo for all but 23 of the years 1719 to 1841. In the 18th century Joshua Cooper and his son Joshua II had sat for County Sligo in the pre-union Irish House of Commons.
The second Joshua's oldest son was Joshua Edward Cooper, who had held the seat at the time of the Act of Union in 1800, and sat for the county at Westminster until 1806.
The seat was then held by his younger brother Edward Synge Cooper (grandfather of Edward Henry) until 1830, when he retired in favour of his son Edward Joshua Cooper, who sat until 1841.

1868 election
The Liberals had rarely contested County Sligo, and had not fielded a candidate since the defeat in 1857 of their only winner, the one-term MP Richard Swift. Apart from Swift, Sligo's two seats had been held continuously by Conservatives, usually drawn from the county's major landlords.

There had been Liberal moves to contest the 1865 election, and the Freeman's Journal had confidently predicted that it would happen,
but no contest took place.  However, at the 1868 general election, the Liberals decided to contest the seat. On 9 July, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Elphin Dr Laurence Gillooly (whose diocese includes part of County Sligo) chaired a meeting which adopted Denis Maurice O'Conor as the Liberal candidate.
The second son of the O'Conor Don, O'Conor was a barrister educated at Downside and the University of London, and had been High Sheriff of Roscommon in 1865.
His older brother Charles had been an MP for the neighbouring County Roscommon since 1860.

On the same day, Owen Wynne of Hazelwood chaired a meeting of the County Registration Society to organise the campaign for the re-election of Cooper and Gore Booth.
With three candidates for the two seats, County Sligo had its first contested election in over a decade.
Gore-Booth, the owner of Lissadell House in the north of the county, had been a Sligo MP since 1850 and his return was considered almost certain.
The Liberal target was Cooper, making the election effectively a two-way race between him and O'Connor, who had been canvassing since at least August.

The nomination took place at the courthouse in Sligo on 26 November, when both O'Connor and Gore-Booth were given a hearing, but Cooper's address was delivered in what The Times of London described as "great uproar".
After explaining that unpopular conditions which he had sought to impose on his tenants had been withdrawn when they met objections, he was forced to abandon his speech.

Cooper had been nominated by his predecessor Charles William O'Hara, who had been heard respectfully. However, his seconder Wynne was denied a hearing.
Hecklers had told O'Hara that he would have been a popular candidate, and when O'Hara asked why Cooper was unpopular the reply was "he's a Tory".

The Rev J. Conway, a parish priest who seconded O'Conor's nomination, said that sitting MPs were being opposed because they "systematically opposed the wishes of the majority of their constituents". He said that the Conservatives were elected as result of coercion by the landlords rather than by the fair votes of the people.
A show of hands favoured Gore-Booth and O'Connor, but Cooper demanded a vote,
making County Sligo the last constituency in Ireland to complete its election.

After the violence which accompanied the election in Sligo Borough two weeks beforehand, The Times of London reported that "the passions of the peasantry have been inflamed by incessant appeals, and a bitter feeling of hostility against the landlords has been aroused".
The Freeman's Journal reported a different picture, asserting that "a reign of landlord terrorism appears to have been inaugurated in the county".
It noted that the plan to flood the county with military "to protect Catholic voters" did not have happy precedents, citing the Dungarvan massacre
during the December 1866 by-election when lancers charged a crowd, killing one person and injuring 19.

The deployment proceeded: 300 men were added to the local police force, and the British Army arrived. General Arthur Borton commanded detachments of infantry (the 17th Foot) and cavalry (the Carabiniers) who were distributed around the county.

The county poll was largely free of the public violence which marred the election in Sligo Borough two weeks beforehand,
although one man was reported to have had his finger shot off at a voting station.
Priests had stood at polling places instructing Catholics to vote Liberal, while the landlords brought in their tenants under close supervision.
O'Hara claimed that isolated houses had been visited at night by mobs, and their occupants forced to swear not to vote for the landlords.
O'Connor contended that the issue at stake was of freedom of election versus what he called the "monstrous doctrine" that votes belonged to the landlord. He said that he did not support any acts of violence, but that it was unsurprising that people had sought to counter one injustice with another injustice.

Polling took place over 3 days, and was completed on 2 December.
O'Connor had topped the poll with 1671 votes, Gore-Booth had 1208 votes, and Cooper with 1129 votes lost his seat.
A fourth candidate, Cornelius Keogh, had put himself forward at the hustings as a Liberal,
but received only 2 votes.

Two petitions were lodged against the result.
A petition claiming that Cooper should be seated in the place of O'Conor was lodged by Henry Griffith, a deputy lieutenant of Sligo.
Griffith alleged that O'Conor had benefited from bribery, intimidation, and many forms of corruption.
Another petition, signed by John Hannon and James Casey, asked that the return of Gore Booth be voided on grounds of bribery, treating and intimidation.

Cooper's defeat marked the beginning of the end of County Sligo's representation by Conservative landlords. The introduction of the secret ballot in the 1872 Act ended landlord's control over their tenants' votes, and at the 1874 general election O'Connor was returned as a Home Rule League candidate alongside Gore-Booth, without a contest.  On Gore-Booth's death in 1877, the Home Ruler Edward King-Harman was returned unopposed in his place, and the county never again elected a Conservative MP.

After Parliament

Cooper's uncle Edward Joshua had built on his lands Markree Observatory, an astronomical facility whose telescope contained what was then the largest lens in the world. After his death, the observatory was left unsupervised until 1874, when  was hired as its director.

The observatory was uncovered, and after 43 years of exposure to the Irish weather, the large refractor had corroded badly. Doberck supervised its restoration, and used it mainly for observing double stars.
In 1883 Doberck left to become government astronomer in Hong Kong, and was succeeded by Albert Marth,
a controversial astronomer whose salary of £200 per annum plus accommodation required him only to make meteorological observations.
On Marth's death in 1897 he was replaced by Frederick William Henckel, who ran the observatory until Cooper's death in 1902.

In the 1876, Cooper commissioned the archaeologist William Frederick Wakeman to produce a series of drawings of the archaeology of County Sligo. The illustrations were produced between 1886 and 1882, and enhanced with watercolours. They were published as bound folio editions in 1893: the 140-sheet "Drawings of the Antiquities of County Sligo", and the 80-sheet "Drawings from the Island of Inishmurray". The originals were donated to Sligo County Library in the 1950s by Cooper's grandson Edward Francis Cooper.

Cooper was High Sheriff of County Sligo in 1871.
Almost a decade after losing his parliamentary seat, he was appointed by Queen Victoria to the by-then largely ceremonial roles of Lord Lieutenant of Sligo and Custos Rotulorum of Sligo, which he held until his death.
In 1899 he was sworn as a member of the Privy Council of Ireland.

Death
After a long illness, Cooper died on 26 February 1902, aged about 75, at his London residence 42 Portman Square. His wife had died 4 weeks beforehand.

His oldest son Major Francis E. Cooper had died of typhoid in South Africa in 1900, and Markree was inherited by Francis's oldest son Bryan Ricco Cooper. Bryan, who then only 17 years old, was briefly a Unionist MP for South Dublin in 1910, and in the 1920s became one of the few former Westminster MPs to be elected to Dáil Éireann. He sold most of the estate's 30,000 acres and closed the observatory, sending the lens to Hong Kong Observatory (where Doberck was government astronomer).

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title: Keeno

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Will Keen (born 26 February 1994), known by his stage name Keeno, is a British record producer and DJ from Winchester, known for adding orchestral elements to drum and bass. His debut album, Life Cycle, was released on 30 June 2014 through Hospital Records' imprint label Med School. It entered the UK Albums Chart at number 198, the UK Dance Chart at number 13 and the UK Indie Chart at number 34. Keeno has also received airplay on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra drum and bass shows.

His song "Nocturne", released on 9 December 2013, was used as the title screen for the 2014 racing game Forza Horizon 2.

Keeno's second album, Futurist, was released on his 22nd birthday, 26 February 2016. The album's first instant grat single, "At Twilight", was released on 12 February 2016.

He released his third studio album, All The Shimmering Things, in November 2017.

After the closure of Hospital Records' MedSchool imprint, Keeno was taken under contract with Hospital Records in 2019 and in March 2020, his first single, Troopers Peak / Old School Lane was released on the label.
His fourth studio album, titled I Live I Learn is currently scheduled for release on 27 November 2020.

Personal life
From the age of seven, Keen took part in a choir. He went to Winchester College and later studied music at the University of Manchester, although he left in January 2015 prior to graduation in order to pursue his music career full-time.

Discography

Studio albums

Extended plays

Singles

Promotional singles

Other appearances

References

Remixers
English record producers
Living people
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1994 births
Musicians from Bristol


title: Cycling at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's track time trial

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The men's track time trial cycling event at the 1936 Summer Olympics took place on 8 August and was one of six events at the 1936 Olympics. Nineteen cyclists from 19 nations competed, with each nation limited to one competitor. The event was won by Arie van Vliet of the Netherlands, the nation's first victory in the men's track time trial after two consecutive silver medals in 1924 and 1928. Pierre Georget's silver put France on the podium for the third time. Germany earned its first medal in the event with Rudolf Karsch's bronze.

Background

This was the fourth appearance of the event, which had previously been held in 1896 and every Games since 1928. It would be held every Games until being dropped from the programme after 2004. None of the cyclists from 1932 returned. Arie van Vliet of the Netherlands was the favorite; he had come in second in the sprint at the 1934 and 1935 World Championships and (the day before this competition) the 1936 Games. The sprint winner, Toni Merkens, was not competing in the time trial, however.

Bulgaria, Finland, Hungary, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, and Sweden each made their debut in the men's track time trial. France and Great Britain each made their fourth appearance, having competed at every appearance of the event.

Competition format

The event was a time trial on the track, with each cyclist competing separately to attempt to achieve the fastest time. Each cyclist raced one kilometre from a standing start.

Records

The following was the Olympic record prior to the competition.

* World records were not tracked by the UCI until 1949.

Arie van Vliet set the new Olympic record at 1:12.0. Pierre Georget also beat the old record.

Schedule

Results

Dimitrov withdrew "owing to bicycle defect."

References

Cycling at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Cycling at the Summer Olympics – Men's track time trial
Track cycling at the 1936 Summer Olympics


title: Victorian People

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Victorian People: A Reassessment of Persons and Themes, 1851-1867 is a book by the historian Asa Briggs originally published in 1955. It is part of a trilogy that also incorporates Victorian Cities and Victorian Things.

Content
Briggs's analysis spans a relatively short part of the Victorian era, encompassing the period between the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the passage of the Second Reform Act of 1867. In particular he focuses upon the involvement of key individuals in the policies and cultural developments of the time. He argues that the period in question was one that had traditionally suffered from a lack of historical scholarship and was interesting in its own right, being the high-Victorian stage marked by a focus upon 'thought', 'work' and 'progress' and a belief in British institutions after the negotiation of the cataclysms and challenges of 1848.

The chapters are as follows:

 Introduction
 The Crystal Palace and the Men of 1851
 John Arthur Roebuck and the Crimean War
 Trollope, Bagehot, and the English Constitution
 Samuel Smiles and the Gospel of Work
 Thomas Hughes and the Public Schools
 Robert Applegarth and the Trade-Unions
 John Bright and the Creed of Reform
 Robert Lowe and the Fear of Democracy
 Benjamin Disraeli and the Leap in the Dark
 Epilogue

References

External links
 Victorian People by Asa Briggs at the Internet Archive

1955 non-fiction books
History books about the United Kingdom
History books about the 19th century


title: John Midgaard

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John Midgaard (29 August 1891 – 22 August 1971) was a Norwegian principal and politician for the Liberal Party.

He was born in Oddernes as a son of Nils Andreas Midgaard (1858–1922) and Anne Marie Hagen (1870–1914). In 1922 he married officer's daughter Anne Sofie Sire.

He finished his secondary education in 1910, graduated from the Royal Frederick University with the cand.philol. degree in 1917 and took the pedagogical examination in 1919.

He was a teacher in Ålesund from 1917, Nordstrand from 1925 and Oslo Cathedral School from 1937. In 1946 he became principal of Vahl in Oslo. In 1936 he also took the dr.philos. degree with the doctoral thesis Fra Madrid til Tanger, and he later wrote school textbooks in history and English.

In 1948 he was elected to the executive committee of Oslo city council, and also became chairman of Oslo Liberal Party. He was a minor ballot candidate in the 1953 and 1957 parliamentary elections. He died in August 1971.

References

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title: George R. Price House

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George R. Price House is a historic home located at Columbia, South Carolina. It was built in 1939, and is a two-story, "L"-shaped, steel-framed, masonry dwelling in the Streamline Moderne style.  It has a flat roof, glass block windows, multiple porches, and a three-car garage.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998 by Elaine Gillespie, the owner at the time. She also started a tradition about that same time that has remained in place through several owners. She began placing two decorative robots on the upstairs front porch for holidays. She named them Freddie and Tobar and the community loved them so much the house became known at “The Robot House.”

References

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National Register of Historic Places in Columbia, South Carolina


title: 1995–96 Regal Trophy

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The 1995–96 Regal Trophy was a British rugby league knockout tournament. It was the 25th and final season that the competition was held, and was the seventh staging of the competition since it was re-named the Regal Trophy.

The last final was won by Wigan, who beat local rivals St. Helens 25-16 at the McAlpine Stadium in Huddersfield. The attendance was 17,590.

Background
This season saw a reduction in the  number of entrants, the number decreasing to forty-two.

The inclusion of two French clubs continued, but the number of invitations to the top junior clubs was reduced by six from eleven last season, to just five this season.

The ten first round winners added to the twenty-two clubs given byes, gave a total of entrants into the second round of thirty-two.
There were no drawn matches during this season's competition

Competition and results

Round 1

Involved  10 matches and 20 clubs with 22 byes

Round 2
Involved 16 matches and 32 clubs. The 10 winners of the first round were joined by the 11 Championship clubs and 11 First Division clubs in the second round.

Round 3
Involved  8 matches and 16 clubs

Quarter-finals
Wigan won their tie against Widnes after extra time.

Semi-finals
The semi-final between St Helens and Warrington was originally scheduled to take place on 30 December 1995, but was postponed due to a frozen pitch. The result in the re-scheduled fixture was a record defeat for Warrington.

Final

Teams and scorers

Prize money
As part of the sponsorship deal and funds, the  prize money awarded to the competing teams for this season is as follows :-

The road to success
This tree excludes any First round fixtures

Notes and comments
1 * AS Saint Estève was a French rugby league team from Perpignan, which in 2000 it merged with nearby neighbours XIII Catalan to form Union Treiziste Catalaneto compete in the Super Leagueas the Catalans Dragons.
2 * Pia are a French League Club playing at Stade Daniel-Ambert
3 * Park Amateurs were a Junior (amateur) club from Halifax
4 * Woolston Rovers are a Junior (amateur) club from Warrington, becoming Warrington Woolston Rovers in 2003 and Warrington Wizards in 2002. the ground is the old Warrington Home Ground of Wilderspool
5 * RUGBYLEAGUEproject gives the venue as Clarence Street, York. At the time Bramley were playing their home matches at Clarence Field, Kirkstall, Leeds
6 * Doncaster Dragons were now playing at Belle Vue
7 * Hemel Stags are a semi professional club based in Hemel Hempstead and playing at the Pennine Way stadium (capacity 2000)
8 * Ellenborough Rangers are a Junior (amateur) club from the Ellenborough suburb of Maryport, Cumbria
9 * West Hull are a Junior (amateur) club from Hull
10 * RUGBYLEAGUEproject gives the venue as Clarence Street, York. At the time Bramley were playing their home matches at Clarence Field, Kirkstall, Leeds
11 * RUGBYLEAGUEproject gives the attendance as 4,180, but Hull official archives gives 4,180 and St Helens official archives give 5,102

Postscript
To date, this was the last season for the John Player sponsored trophy competitions, which had taken place annually since its inauguration in the 1971-72 for a period of 25 seasons.
It was unfortunately such a short period for what was intended to be the "League Cup" and that very few of the professional clubs managed to have their name inscribed on the trophy, or even reach the semi-final stage
The reasons given by the ruling body, the Rugby Football League for the  competition's demise, were that  it was deemed the trophy was adding to fixture congestion for more successful sides and a clean sweep was needed to herald the "Summer Rugby" image of the game.

Records from the John Player trophy competition

See also
1995-96 Rugby Football League season
Regal Trophy
Rugby league county cups

References

External links

Regal Trophy
Regal Trophy
Regal Trophy
Regal Trophy
Regal Trophy


title: TTC Berlin Eastside

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TTC Berlin Eastside e.V. is a table tennis club based in the German capital Berlin. It is best known for its women's elite team, which is one of the strongest in Europe and won the ETTU Champions League both in 2012 and 2014. Additionally, it is a three time ETTU Cup winner, having obtained the title in 2002, 2004 and 2007. Besides, the club also has teams in lower leagues in both genders.

Team

Roster
Roster for the 2013–2014 season
 Irene Ivancan
 Georgina Póta
 Kristin Silbereisen
 Shan Xiaona

Staff members
 President: Alexander Teichmann
 Team Manager: Tanja Krämer
 Coach: Irina Palina
 Treasurer: Jürgen Heinrich
 Press Officer: Alexander Teichmann

Honors
ETTU Champions League:
Winner: 2012, 2014
ETTU Cup:
Winner: 2002, 2004, 2007

References

External links

Table tennis clubs in Germany


title: Cycling at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's sprint

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The men's sprint cycling event at the 1936 Summer Olympics took place on 6 and 7 August and was one of six events at the 1936 Olympics. There were 20 competitors from 20 nations, with each nation limited to one cyclist. The event was won, in a disputed final, by Toni Merkens of Germany, the nation's first medal in the men's sprint. Arie van Vliet took the silver medal, the fifth consecutive Games that a Dutch cyclist had finished in the top two. Louis Chaillot of France became the first man to win multiple medals in the event, adding a bronze to his 1932 silver; it was the fourth consecutive podium appearance for France.

When van Vliet began to overtake Merkens in the first race of the final, Merkens swerved to the right and blatantly interfered with Van Vliet. No penalty was called, and a disconcerted van Vliet lost the second race. The Dutch team protested, but instead of being disqualified, Merkens was fined 100 marks instead.

Background

This was the eighth appearance of the event, which has been held at every Summer Olympics except 1904 and 1912. Two of the semifinalists from 1932 returned: Louis Chaillot of France, who had won the silver medal, and Dunc Gray of Australia, who had not started the bronze medal race but had won the track time trial event. The favorites in 1936, however, were Toni Merkens of Germany and Arie van Vliet of the Netherlands, the winner and runner-up in the 1935 World Championship.

The Republic of China, New Zealand, Norway, and Peru each made their debut in the men's sprint. France made its eighth appearance, the only nation to have competed at every appearance of the event.

Competition format

This track cycling event consisted of numerous rounds. Each race involved the riders starting simultaneously and next to each other, from a standing start. Because the early part of races tend to be slow-paced and highly tactical, only the time for the last 200 metres of the one-kilometre race is recorded.

The competition involved five main rounds and a repechage. In the first round, there were ten heats of two cyclists each. The winner of each heat advanced directly to the second round, while the loser competed in a repechage. The repechage featured four heats, two of three cyclists and two of two cyclists. The last-placed finisher in each repechage was eliminated, while the winner advanced along with the second-place rider in the three-man heats. Round 2 and the quarterfinals were each head-to-head, single-elimination races: eight heats in round 2 and four heats in the quarterfinals. The semifinals were also head-to-head competitions, with the winners advancing to the final and the losers going to a bronze medal match.

The 1932 competition had introduced the best-of-three format for the final (and only the final); the 1936 version expanded that best-of-three format to the bronze medal match as well. The two cyclists in each match competed up to three times, with the first cyclist to win two races being the winner.

Records

The records for the sprint are 200 metre flying time trial records, kept for the qualifying round in later Games as well as for the finish of races.

* World records were not tracked by the UCI until 1954.

No new Olympic record was set during the competition.

Schedule

Results

Round 1

The winner in each heat qualified for the second round. The loser was relegated to the repechage for another chance at qualifying.

Round 1 heat 1

Round 1 heat 2

Round 1 heat 3

Round 1 heat 4

Round 1 heat 5

Round 1 heat 6

Round 1 heat 7

Round 1 heat 8

Round 1 heat 9

Round 1 heat 10

Repechage

The last place finisher in each repechage was eliminated. The winner of each heat advanced to the second round, along with the second place finisher in heats where there were three cyclists.

Repechage heat 1

Repechage heat 2

Repechage heat 3

Repechage heat 4

Round 2

The winner of each heat advanced; the loser was eliminated.

Round 2 heat 1

Round 2 heat 2

Round 2 heat 3

Round 2 heat 4

Round 2 heat 5

Round 2 heat 6

Round 2 heat 7

Round 2 heat 8

Quarterfinals

The winners qualified for the semifinals; the losers were eliminated.

Quarterfinal 1

Quarterfinal 2

Quarterfinal 3

Quarterfinal 4

Semifinals

The semifinal winners advanced to the gold medal final, while the losers competed in the bronze medal final.

Semifinal 1

Semifinal 2

Finals

Both the gold and bronze medal finals were conducted as best-of-three competitions. In each case, the same cyclist won both of the first two races, making a third race unnecessary. Merkens was fined for "deviating from the racing lane" in the first race of the final, though was allowed to finish the competition.

Bronze medal match

Final

References

 1936 Official Report.

Cycling at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Cycling at the Summer Olympics – Men's sprint
Track cycling at the 1936 Summer Olympics


title: VGA-Copy

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VGA-Copy is an MS-DOS program to copy floppy disks. It is able to read defective floppy disks.

Development
VGA-Copy was created by the German software developer Thomas Mönkemeier. The main code was developed in Turbo Pascal; some low-level hardware parts were written in Turbo Assembler.

VGA-Copy was originally released as shareware: A free test version was spread through bulletin board systems and shareware CDs; a license key file to turn the test version into a full version could be ordered for a payment. The shareware version had two limitations: it had a ten-second waiting time on startup and it was not able to write to individual boot sectors. Later the limitations changed to requiring to enter a 5-digit number on startup.

The first public version of VGA-Copy was 2.0. Some earlier full versions were published by cdv Software Entertainment. Later versions were published under the names VGA-Copy Pro and VGA-Copy/386.

VGA-Copy Pro 5.3 was the last version to work on an Intel 286 (AT class) computer with 1MB of RAM, as well as on Micro Channel architecture systems. VGA-Copy/386 versions 6.x improved performance on modern machines, but required an Intel 386 CPU and 4MB of RAM.

In 1999 the latest version, 6.25, of VGA-Copy/386 was released as freeware without restrictions. It is still available for download on the author's web page. Later, Mönkemeier confirmed the freeware status extends to any previously released full version.

Features
VGA-Copy was popular because it could often read floppy disks with errors. It does so by automatically doing multiple read retries on errors. Furthermore, VGA-Copy can read floppy images and saves them with the extension  as a 1:1 raw copy of the floppy disk without special headers and formats.

A special feature of VGA-Copy is the ability to format floppies with capacities beyond the normal specifications. It is able to format floppy disks with a specified capacity of 1.4 megabytes with up to 1.7 megabytes of capacity (see also 2M). It also supports the Distribution Media Format used by Microsoft. To access such over-formatted floppies VGA-Copy delivered a special persistent DOS driver.

VGA-Copy has the ability to compress images with the ARJ packer. It is able to scan floppies for boot sector viruses with an
internal heuristic and can also scan the full floppy with F-Prot.

See also
HD-Copy

References

Further reading

External links
 Official website at the Internet Archive
 Shareware downloads at the Internet Archive

DOS software
Floppy disk computer storage


title: Raymond Price House

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Raymond Price House is a historic home located at Columbia, South Carolina. It was built in 1952, and is a two-story, "L"-shaped, steel-framed, masonry dwelling in the Streamline Moderne / International style.  It has a flat roof and front a rear balconies. Also on the property is a one-story structure that is now an office.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Moderne architecture in South Carolina
International style architecture in South Carolina
Houses completed in 1952
Houses in Columbia, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Columbia, South Carolina


title: Supernova (Alice Nine album)

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Supernova is the sixth studio album by Japanese rock band Alice Nine. It was released on March 19, 2014 in two editions: the regular edition containing only the CD and the limited edition containing the CD and a DVD. Supernova peaked at the 39th position on the Oricon Albums Chart.

Track listing

Personnel
 Shou (将) – vocal
 Hiroto (ヒロト) – guitar
 Tora (虎) – guitar
 Saga (沙我) – bass
 Nao (ナオ) – drums

References

Japanese-language albums
2014 albums
Alice Nine albums


title: Seo Dong-won

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Seo Dong-won, a Korean name consisting of the family name Seo and the masculine given name Dong-won, may refer to:

 Seo Dong-won (footballer born 1973)
 Seo Dong-won (footballer born 1975)


title: A. Fletcher Spigner House

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A. Fletcher Spigner House, also known as the Spigner-Wilson-Seibels House and Hanner House, is a historic home located at Columbia, South Carolina. It was built in 1920, and is a -story double-pile, rectangular frame residence in the Tudor Revival style.  It has a one-story, central front portico, a red terra cotta tile roof, and faux half-timbering with a finish of stucco on the second floor. Also on the property is a -story garage. It was built for A. Fletcher Spigner, a prominent Columbia attorney, State Senator, and South Carolina's Fifth Circuit Solicitor.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Tudor Revival architecture in South Carolina
Houses completed in 1920
Houses in Columbia, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Columbia, South Carolina


title: Seo Dong-won (footballer, born 1973)

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Seo Dong-won  (born December 12, 1973) is a South Korean former football player who played at forward.

He was included in the South Korea U20 for the 1991 FIFA World Youth Championship and 1993 FIFA World Youth Championship.

Club career
 1997–1999 Ulsan Hyundai

References

External links

1973 births
Living people
Men's association football midfielders
South Korean men's footballers
South Korea men's international footballers
K League 1 players
Ulsan Hyundai FC players
Pohang Steelers players
Korea University alumni
Place of birth missing (living people)
South Korean football managers
South Korean expatriate football managers
Dong-won


title: Police Python 357

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Police Python 357 (also known as The Case Against Ferro) is a 1976 French crime-thriller film written and directed by Alain Corneau.  It is an adaptation of the storyline of Kenneth Fearing's 1946 novel, The Big Clock, though with obvious stylistic influences from earlier 70's police thrillers like Dirty Harry (the film's opening sequence directly copies that of Magnum Force).

Cast
 Yves Montand as Inspector Marc Ferrot
 François Périer as Police Commissioner Ganay
 Simone Signoret as Thérèse Ganay
 Stefania Sandrelli as Sylvia Leopardi
 Mathieu Carrière as Inspector Ménard
 Vadim Glowna as Inspector Abadie
 Claude Bertrand as Merchant of pigs
 Serge Marquand as "The Red"

References

External links

1976 films
1976 crime films
1970s crime thriller films
1970s French-language films
1970s police films
Films based on American crime novels
Films directed by Alain Corneau
Films scored by Georges Delerue
French crime thriller films
French police films
Police detective films
1970s French films


title: Estefanía Muñiz

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Estefanía Muñiz Villa (León, 8 January 1974) is a Spanish film director, scriptwriter and critic. Author of two poetry books.

Career

Film

Estefanía is an attorney at law who practiced for over five years before finally dedicating herself exclusively to film making. She studied drama at Escuela de Actores (Acting School) with Daniel Cicaré and took various scriptwriting courses at Estudio Internacional with Juan Carlos Corazza and at Escuela de Guión (Scriptwriting School) with Alicia Luna.
Her first release was Construir (2003), a short film codirected with Ana Prieto Gracia starring Carmelo Gómez. Construir was awarded the first prize at The Torino Film Festival and was broadcast on the Swedish and Norwegian television for a long period of time.
She then directed two other short films. The first one No me quieras tanto (2003) was awarded Best Video Creation at the Alcalá de Henares Film Festival, and the second prize at the Jerez Short Film Festival, Best Gender Equality Short Film at the Villareal Film Festival, and received the Jury Prize at the Valladolid La Fila Film Festival, among others.

Recognition outside Europe came with her third short film Ecos (2006), starring Mercè Llorens and the Armenian origin violinist Ara Malikian, who also composed the film’s music. Ecos received the first prize at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival, Best Short Film at the Lago Film Festival of Treviso, Italy, and Best soundtrack at the Sant Sadurní Film Festival.
After gaining experience as a short film maker, Estefanía Muñiz wrote the script to her first feature film Vértice, funded by Comunidad de Madrid, which awarded and published the project in 2008.
In 2014 she signed up a contract with various American production companies. The independent Light Age Films entrusted her with the creation of a script for a feature film that will be released in 2015.
She works as a film critic for the digital version of the leisure magazine Guía del Ocio.

Poetry
She published two poetry books. Her first book, Corazón ombligo (Sistemas Editoriales, 2004) was illustrated by painter and sculptor from León, José Ramón Villa. Her second book of poems, Versos bipolares y otras criaturas luminiscentes (Ediciones Atlantis, 2009)   whose prologue was written by Spanish singer and composer Joaquín Sabina. She took part in two poem anthologies published by Ediciones Atlantis: Tic-tac (2006) y Golpe a la corrupción (2013).

References

External links

Estefanía Muñiz at Interviú (Spanish magazine)
Fanioka Blue Estefanía Muñiz web-blog

1974 births
Living people
Spanish women film directors
Film directors from Castile and León
Spanish women screenwriters


title: The Boat Race 1931

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The 83rd Boat Race took place on 21 March 1931. Held annually, the Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge along the River Thames.  In a race umpired by the former rower John Houghton Gibbon, Cambridge won by two and a half lengths in a time of 19 minutes 26 seconds.  The victory took the overall record to 42–40 in their favour.  It was the first race for which John Snagge provided a radio commentary for the BBC.

Background

The Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing competition between the University of Oxford (sometimes referred to as the "Dark Blues") and the University of Cambridge (sometimes referred to as the "Light Blues").  The race was first held in 1829, and since 1845 has taken place on the  Championship Course on the River Thames in southwest London.  The rivalry is a major point of honour between the two universities; it is followed throughout the United Kingdom and, as of 2014, broadcast worldwide.  Cambridge went into the race as reigning champions, having won the 1930 race by two lengths, and led overall with 41 victories to Oxford's 40 (excluding the "dead heat" of 1877).

Cambridge were coached by R. W. M. Arbuthnot (who had rowed for Cambridge four times between 1909 and 1912), J. A. MacNabb (who had rowed in the 1924 race) and P. H. Thomas (a four-time Blue between 1902 and 1905).  Oxford's coaches were A. V. Campbell (who took part in the 1922 and 1925 races), Stanley Garton (who had rowed three times between 1909 and 1911) and P. C. Mallam (a Dark Blue from 1921 to 1924 inclusive).  The race was umpired by former Cambridge rower John Houghton Gibbon who had participated in the 1899 and 1900 races.

The rowing correspondent for The Times stated that the crews were "well-matched", while The Manchester Guardians correspondent predicted a "gruelling struggle".  It was the first time John Snagge provided a radio commentary for the BBC.  He would go on to commentate for the corporation every year up to and including the 1980 race.

Crews
The Cambridge crew weighed an average of 12 st 4.625 lb (78.1 kg),  per rower more than their opponents.  Oxford saw three rowers return to their crew with Boat Race experience, including D. E. Tinne who was making his third consecutive appearance.  Cambridge's crew included five rowers who had participated in the event prior to this year, including their stroke T. A. Brocklebank who was also rowing for the third year in a row.  All of the participants in the race were registered as British.

Race

Oxford won the toss and elected to start from the Middlesex station, handing the Surrey side of the river to Cambridge.  In wind gusting from the south-west, the umpire Gibbons started the race.  Cambridge took an early lead, although they were out-rated by the Dark Blues.  The boats were close, with oars nearly touching, for the first two minutes of the race, before the Light Blue cox steered to avoid a collision.  By the end of Fulham Wall, Cambridge held a half-length lead although Oxford kept in touch, and even reduced the deficit to a quarter of a length by the time the crews passed the Mile Post.

By the Crab Tree pub, Cambridge's stroke Brocklebank made his first push for ten strokes to which Oxford responded in kind.  A second push from the Light Blues however saw them pull away and lead by one and a quarter lengths as they passed below Hammersmith Bridge.  As both crews encountered a headwind, they dropped to 29 strokes per minute, but their styles were markedly different: Cambridge were lively while Oxford laboured. By Chiswick Steps the lead was two and a half lengths and three by Barnes Bridge.  The Dark Blues pushed hard in the final stretches and slowly reduced Cambridge's lead until Brocklebank put one final spurt in at Mortlake Brewery to secure the victory.

Cambridge won by two and a half lengths in a time of 19 minutes 26 seconds, their eighth consecutive win in the event and the narrowest margin of victory since the 1923 race.  The win took the overall record in the event to 42–40 in their favour.

References
Notes

Bibliography

External links
 Official website

1931 in English sport
The Boat Race
March 1931 sports events
1931 sports events in London


title: Rogoff

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Rogoff is a surname based on an alternate spelling of Rogov. Notable people with the surname include:

 Alice Rogoff (born 1951), American publisher and philanthropist
 Barbara Rogoff, American academic
 Irit Rogoff (born 1947), academic
 Kenneth Rogoff (born 1953), American economist and chess grandmaster
 Lynn Rogoff, American film and television producer

See also
 Rogov


title: The Boat Race 1996

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The 142nd Boat Race took place on 6 April 1996. Held annually, the Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge along the River Thames.  Umpired by a former Blue, Mike Sweeney, Cambridge won by  lengths in the second-fastest time in the history of the race.

In the reserve race, Cambridge's Goldie defeated Oxford's Isis in a record time, while Cambridge won the Women's Boat Race.

Background
The Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing competition between the University of Oxford (sometimes referred to as the "Dark Blues") and the University of Cambridge (sometimes referred to as the "Light Blues").  First held in 1829, the race takes place on the  Championship Course on the River Thames in southwest London. The rivalry is a major point of honour between the two universities and followed throughout the United Kingdom and broadcast worldwide.  Cambridge went into the race as reigning champions, having won the 1995 race by four lengths, with Cambridge leading overall with 72 victories to Oxford's 68 (excluding the "dead heat" of 1877).

The first Women's Boat Race took place in 1927, but did not become an annual fixture until the 1960s. Up until 2014, the contest was conducted as part of the Henley Boat Races, but as of the 2015 race, it is held on the River Thames, on the same day as the men's main and reserve races. The reserve race, contested between Oxford's Isis boat and Cambridge's Goldie boat has been held since 1965.  It usually takes place on the Tideway, prior to the main Boat Race.

The previous year's race was watched by seven million viewers in the United Kingdom alone.  Oxford coach Dan Topolski suggested that part of the appeal was that the contest was "absolutely amateur" but still "represents quality".  Former Oxford Blue and Olympic gold medallist Jonny Searle agreed, calling the Boat Race "a unique experience".  Both Topolski and Searle predicted a close race; Cambridge coach Robin Williams agreed: "We've got to accord Oxford some respect.  I think we're again the better crew ... but the only way to find out is on the water." Penny Chuter, one of the other Oxford coaches, noted "Cambridge have a continuity ... but we have more power this year."  Cambridge's boat club president John Carver had earlier withdrawn from the race with injury.  Oxford's director of rowing, Steve Royle, said of his crew: "these guys love a scrap."

The 250 officers from Wandsworth Police lining the embankments were able to replace their traditional helmets for peaked caps for the first time, in order to discourage members of the crowd from removing them and throwing them into the river. The race was sponsored for the tenth consecutive year by Beefeater Gin, and umpired by former Cambridge Blue Mike Sweeney.

Crews
The Oxford crew weighed an average of  more per rower than their opponents.  Each crew saw just one former Blue return, Clegg for Oxford and Barnett for Cambridge, in addition to Barnett, Cambridge's crew contained five former Goldie rowers.  Oxford's crew contained more international rowers with four Americans and a Canadian.

Race

Cambridge started as pre-race favourites.  They won the toss and elected to start from the Surrey station.  After a close start, where neither boat took a significant lead, Cambridge were a half a length up at the Mile Post. They pushed on at Harrods Furniture Depository to take two thirds of a length lead over Oxford by Hammersmith Bridge.  Under pressure from the Dark Blues, Whyman steered his crew to record times between the Mile Post and Barnes Bridge, Hammersmith Bridge to Barnes Bridge, Chiswick Steps to Barnes Bridge and Chiswick Steps to the finishing post.  Cambridge won by  lengths in a time of 16 minutes 58 seconds, the second-fastest time on record (thirteen seconds slower than the winning time in the 1984 race).

In the reserve race, Cambridge's Goldie won by eleven lengths, in a record time, over Isis. It was Cambridge's ninth victory in ten years.  Cambridge won the 51st Women's Boat Race by four lengths in a time of 6 minutes and 12 seconds, their seventh victory in eight years.

Reaction
During the race, David Miller of The Times claimed that Cambridge's stroke James Ball "conducted a continual tactical conversation with Kevin Whyman, the Cambridge cox".  Miller suggested that while Oxford were the more powerful crew, Cambridge were technically superior.

Oxford coach Chuter concluded: "we did not find the cohesive and relaxed rhythm which we have had."  Her counterpart, Williams, exclaimed "you have got to be happy with that".

References

External links
 Official website

The Boat Race
1996 in English sport
1996 in rowing
1996 sports events in London
April 1996 sports events in the United Kingdom


title: Šimon Kupec

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Šimon Kupec (born 11 February 1996) is a Slovak football player who plays as a left back for FC Stadlau in Austria.

Club career

FK Dukla Banská Bystrica
He made his professional debut for Dukla Banská Bystrica against Košice on 12 July 2014.

References

External links

 FK Dukla Banská Bystrica profile
 Eurofotbal profile

1996 births
Living people
Slovak men's footballers
Slovak expatriate men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
FK Dukla Banská Bystrica players
FC ViOn Zlaté Moravce players
MFK Ružomberok players
GKS Katowice players
KFC Komárno players
FC Petržalka players
Slovak First Football League players
2. Liga (Slovakia) players
I liga players
Sportspeople from Žiar nad Hronom
Footballers from the Banská Bystrica Region
Expatriate men's footballers in Poland
Expatriate men's footballers in Austria
Slovak expatriate sportspeople in Poland
Slovak expatriate sportspeople in Austria


title: Maroš Balko

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Maroš Balko (born 16 September 1995) is a Slovak football player who plays as a midfielder for UFC Tadten in Austria.

Club career

FK Dukla Banská Bystrica
He made his professional debut for FK Dukla Banská Bystrica against FK AS Trenčín on 31 May 2014.

References

External links

 FK Dukla Banská Bystrica profile
 Eurofotbal profile

1995 births
Living people
Slovak men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
FK Dukla Banská Bystrica players
MFK Zvolen players
Slovak First Football League players


title: J. Davis Powell House

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J. Davis Powell House is a historic home located at Columbia, South Carolina. It was built in 1919–1920, and is a two-story, irregular plan, yellow brick, Prairie Style dwelling believed to be designed by Floyd A. Dernier (1879-1934).  It has a broad, low-pitched, hipped roof and sets of elongated, repeated windows on both floors.  Also on the property are the contributing garage (c. 1920) with a second story addition (c. 1940); a pool house (c. 1920) and pool (c. 1935); four cast stone classical columns (c. 1920); a goldfish pond or pool (c. 1920); and an outdoor fireplace (c. 1922).

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Prairie School architecture in South Carolina
Houses completed in 1920
Houses in Columbia, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Columbia, South Carolina


title: Obinitsa museum

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Obinitsa museum is a local museum, opened in 1995 in Obinitsa in Estonia.

The museum has two units: Obinitsa Seto Muuseumitarõ (situated in Obinitsa village) and Seto fortress-farm or Luikjärve farm (situated 4 km from Obinitsa).

The museum hosts displays about Setumaa history and culture. Among them for example handicraft of Seto women, archaeological exhibition, and a tsässon. The purpose of the museum is to collect and preserve the history, objects and cultural heritage of the villages in, foremost, Meremäe rural municipality area. A large portion of the museum objects date back to 1910-1940. As of 2012, there are around 2000 exhibits in the museum collection. Among others the following farmhouse objects are represented: Bedding, towels, holy icon scarves, floor rugs, table cloths, dishes, wooden tools, furniture. The collection of Seto folk clothes: Chemises, over-garments, overcoats, sashes, ribbons, linen pants, headdresses, aprons, stockings, jackets, moccasins, boots etc.

Before 1994, the building of the museum had the Obinitsa library in it, managed by Liidia Sillaots. In April 1994, the library moved into the building of the newly built Obinitsa kindergarten. At the same year, in August, there was an exhibition of holy icon scarves in the empty library building together with the I Seto Kingdom Day and so it seemed that the building would be suitable for organising exhibitions. This ignited the wish of Liidia Sillaots to create a small local lore museum in Obinitsa. The year 1995 became the year of the creation of the museum and on 3 June 1995, Obinitsa Muuseumitarõ was inaugurated. It was the same day that large granite stones were brought to the statue of Singing Mother of the Seto People, to place memorial stones to local great leelo singers: To Hemmo Mast, Nasta Lust, Okse Luik and Tepa Vahvik. Obinitsa Artificial Lake in the valley under the Muuseumitarõ was inaugurated by Rafael Hindrikus, priest of Obinitsa congregation.

References

Setomaa Parish
Buildings and structures in Võru County
Tourist attractions in Võru County
Museums in Estonia


title: 2000 Rallye de Portugal

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The 2000 Rallye de Portugal (formally the 34th TAP Rallye de Portugal) was the fourth round of the 2000 World Rally Championship. The race was held over four days between 16 March and 19 March 2000, and was won by Subaru's Richard Burns, his 7th win in the World Rally Championship and second in a row this season.

Background

Entry list

Itinerary
All dates and times are WET (UTC±0).

Results

Overall

World Rally Cars

Classification

Special stages

Championship standings

FIA Cup for Production Rally Drivers

Classification

Special stages

Championship standings

References

External links
 Official website of the World Rally Championship

Portugal
Rally de Portugal
2000 in Portuguese motorsport


Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium, is an international cricket stadium in Lucknow, India. The arena has a seating capacity of 50,000, thus it is the fifth largest international cricket stadium of India. In 2018, the stadium was renamed to the current name by Uttar Pradesh government in honour of former 10th Prime Minister of the nation Atal Bihari Vajpayee. It was formerly named as Ekana Cricket Stadium, which locals prefer to address it as.

The stadium has the longest straight boundaries in comparison to all the stadiums in India. It is the home ground of Uttar Pradesh cricket team, UP women's cricket team and IPL franchise the Lucknow Super Giants.

In 2019, the Afghanistan cricket team used it as their home ground. K.D. Singh Babu stadium used to host international cricket matches in Lucknow before the venue was built.

The arena is also hosting the five matches of the 2023 Men's Cricket World Cup.

History
The project for constructing the world class stadium in Lucknow was commissioned in 2014, and the stadium was built under public-private partnership between Ekana Sportz City and Lucknow Development Authority. Ekana Sportz City is a Joint venture between Nagarjuna Construction Company, GC Construction & Development Industries Pvt Ltd. As per the agreement of the partnership, the government provided Ekana Sportz City with 35 year lease of 71 acres to build the cricket stadium, with the lease running through 2052. In addition, the government also provided 66 additional acres of land for real estate projects on a 99 year lease. The cricket stadium has been built with a budget of 360 crores (3.6 billion rupees).

Before its international debut, it also hosted the final of the 2017–18 Duleep Trophy. The stadium was allocated the 3rd ODI between India and New Zealand to be held on 27 Oct 2017. However, the venue was shifted to Kanpur after the stadium was declared incomplete. On 6 November 2018, the stadium hosted its first international match, a Twenty20 International (T20I) between India and the West Indies, becoming the 52nd stadium in India to host an international cricket match. International cricket match returned to Lucknow after 24 years, after the India and Sri Lanka test match of 1994. In that match Rohit Sharma became the first cricketer to score four centuries in T20Is. India won that match by 71 runs. The last time Lucknow hosted an international match was in January 1994, when India played a test match against Sri Lanka at the K.D. Singh Babu Stadium.

In May 2019, Afghanistan Cricket Board requested the BCCI to use this venue for their international matches. In August 2019, BCCI awarded the venue to Afghanistan national cricket team as their third home venue in India, being previously played in Dehradun and Greater Noida.

It hosted all the matches during Afghanistan vs West Indies series in 2019. On 6 November 2019, the venue hosted its first ODI match. On 27 November 2019, the venue hosted its first Test match.

In May 2022, the venue was scheduled to host all the matches of the fourth edition of Women's T20 Challenge. However, later the matches were shifted to Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune.

Events
The venue has hosted two major events organized by the UP government.

Award distribution ceremony
On 19 August 2021, an award giving ceremony was held at the stadium by the state government to honor the athletes who won the medals at 2020 Summer Olympics that was held in 2021 at Tokyo, Japan. They all were facilitated with monetary rewards given by the Uttar Pradesh government. The highest prize was given to Neeraj Chopra who was the only one from India to won gold medal in Javelin throw.

Oath-taking ceremony
On 25 March 2022, at the venue Yogi Adityanath took oath as chief minister of Uttar Pradesh along with his cabinet, after his victory in 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections. The oath was given by the Governor of state, Anandiben Patel.

Many VVIP's, celebrities, big businessmen were invited in the ceremony including the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Central Home minister Amit Shah and the Chief Ministers of NDA lead states.

Cricket World Cup

2023 Cricket World Cup

Records

List of international centuries

Test matches
Only one Test century has been scored at the venue.

One Day Internationals
Three ODI centuries have been scored at the venue, two in a men's match and one in a women's match.

Twenty20 Internationals
Only one T20I century has been scored at the venue.

List of international five-wicket hauls

Test matches

T20Is

Gallery

Explanatory notes

See also

 Saifai International Cricket Stadium
 List of Test cricket grounds
 Atal Bihari Vajpayee Stadium, Himachal Pradesh

References

External links

2017 establishments in Uttar Pradesh
Sports venues in Lucknow
Memorials to Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Sports venues completed in 2017
Test cricket grounds in India


title: Athletics at the 1998 Commonwealth Games – Women's pole vault

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The women's pole vault event at the 1998 Commonwealth Games was held on 19 September in Kuala Lumpur.

This was the first time that this event was contested at the Commonwealth Games.

Results

References

Pole
1998
1998 in women's athletics


title: 2014 Guzzini Challenger

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The 2014 Guzzini Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the twelfth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2014 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Recanati, Italy between 14 and 20 July 2014.

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

 1 Rankings are as of July 7, 2014.

Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
  Salvatore Caruso
  Antonio Massara
  Giacomo Miccini
  Stefano Napolitano

The following player received a special exemption into the singles main draw:
  Kyle Edmund

The following player got into the singles main draw via protected ranking:
  Sergei Bubka

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
  Victor Baluda
  Duilio Beretta
  Guillermo Durán
  Filip Veger

Doubles main-draw entrants

Seeds

1 Rankings as of July 7, 2014.

Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:
  Salvatore Caruso /  Stefano Napolitano
  Edoardo Castagna /  Paride Mangiaterra
  Lorenzo Frigerio /  Matteo Trevisan

The following pair got into the singles main draw via protected ranking:
  Ričardas Berankis /  Sergei Bubka

Champions

Singles

  Gilles Müller def.  Ilija Bozoljac 6–1, 6–2

Doubles

  Ilija Bozoljac /  Goran Tošić def.  James Cluskey /  Laurynas Grigelis 5–7, 6–4, [10–5]

External links
Official Website

Guzzini Challenger
Guzzini Challenger
2014 in Italian tennis


title: 2014 Guzzini Challenger – Singles

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Thomas Fabbiano was the defending champion, but chose not to compete.

Gilles Müller won the title, defeating Ilija Bozoljac 6–1, 6–2 in the final.

Seeds

  Gilles Müller (champion)
  Ričardas Berankis (first round)
  Andrej Martin (withdrew)
  Márton Fucsovics (semifinals)
  Adrián Menéndez Maceiras (quarterfinals)
  David Guez (first round)
  Konstantin Kravchuk (semifinals)
  Ilija Bozoljac (final)
  Nikoloz Basilashvili (first round)

Draw

Finals

Top half

Bottom half

References
 Main draw
 Qualifying draw

2014 ATP Challenger Tour
2014 Singles


title: Col du Petit Ballon

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The Col du Petit Ballon (elevation ) is a mountain pass in the Vosges Mountains in the Haut-Rhin department of France, close to the summit of the Petit Ballon mountain ().

It was crossed on Stage 10 of the 2014 Tour de France cycle race.

Details of climb
From the north, the climb starts in Munster from where the climb is  long, gaining  in altitude, at an average gradient of 6.7%. The climb proper starts at Luttenbach-près-Munster, where it leaves the D10. From here, the climb is  long, at an average gradient of 8.1%.

From the north-west, the climb starts at Metzeral, passing through the village of Sondernach, where the route leaves the D10. The total distance is , gaining  in altitude, at an average gradient of 5.3%.

It is also possible to access the col via the D43 from Wihr-au-Val to the north-east from where the climb is  long, gaining  in altitude, at an average gradient of 5.3%.

Tour de France
The col was used for the first time on Stage 10 of the 2014 Tour de France, when the leader over the summit was the Spanish rider, Joaquim Rodríguez. The col was used again on Stage 20 of the 2023 Tour de France. The leader over the summit was the French rider Thibaut Pinot. During that stage, the top of the climb became known as the "virage pinot" (Pinot's corner). Pinot's fans gathered at the summit to cheer the rider during the last Tour de France mountain stage of his career.

Tour de France Femmes
The col was used on Stage 7 of the 2022 Tour de France Femmes, with Demi Vollering first over the summit.

References

Mountain passes of Grand Est
Mountain passes of the Vosges


title: Ryan Adams (album)

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Ryan Adams is the 14th studio album by American singer-songwriter Ryan Adams,  released on 9 September 2014 on PAX AM. The album features an atmospheric rock-based aesthetic, in comparison to its primarily acoustic predecessor, Ashes & Fire (2011).

Self-produced by Adams, and his recording partner Mike Viola, the album was preceded by the single, "Gimme Something Good", and was recorded following the completion of a now-abandoned studio album, recorded by Adams' Ashes & Fire collaborator, Glyn Johns. The album earned two nominations at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards in Best Rock Song for "Gimme Something Good" and Best Rock Album.

Background
Following the release of Ashes & Fire (2011), and its successful accompanying tour, Adams returned to the studio in 2012 to record its follow-up with producer Glyn Johns. The planned album was set to include "more orchestral flourishes" than its primarily stripped-back predecessor. In March 2013, Adams debuted two new songs, “Where I Meet You In My Mind” and “In The Shadows”, at a one-off live performance. The concert was Adams' first with a backing band since the dissolution of The Cardinals in 2009. The band included Ashes & Fire session musicians, Benmont Tench (keyboards) and Jeremy Stacey (drums); former Cardinals member Cindy Cashdollar (pedal steel); Adams' regular collaborator Ethan Johns (guitar) and Don Was (bass). This performing line-up were reported to be the musicians performing on Adams' forthcoming studio album.

News of the album's recording and eventual release began to fade, with Adams recording albums for other artists at his studio, PAX AM. During this time, Adams produced Fall Out Boy's PAX AM Days (2013), Ethan Johns' The Reckoning (2014), and Jenny Lewis's The Voyager (2014). In 2013, Adams also formed a punk rock band entitled Pornography, releasing a limited edition EP, 7 Minutes in Heaven, for Record Store Day 2013.

In 2014, it was revealed that Adams had scrapped the Glyn Johns-produced successor to Ashes & Fire, and had started afresh at his studios, PAX AM, with his recording partner Mike Viola, and bass guitarist Tal Wilkenfeld. The planned album had been greatly influenced by the death of Adams' grandmother, and reportedly cost $100,000 to produce. Regarding his decision to halt the album's release, Adams noted, "We were recording it in the same a way as Ashes & Fire. It just didn’t feel to me the way Ashes & Fire did, and it didn’t feel like I was exploring or getting anywhere. By the time it was done, I had this impression like, this is a record that sounds like it was produced by somebody. Like another record. Someone else’s vision of my songs."

Recording
Ryan Adams was recorded at Adams' home analogue studio, PAX AM, which he described as "like the Millennium Falcon. So many possibilities." The decision to record at PAX AM was a major factor in the album's creation, with Adams' stating that Glyn Johns had preferred not to use Adams' studio: "[He] didn’t want to use my studio because his favorite room to record in, according to him, in the entire world, is Sunset Sound Studio B. The difference is, that’s right next door to my studio, and four days in that studio next door at Sunset Sound is equal to my rent at my studio once a month. So I really didn’t feel like making that record, but I wanted to give Glyn and myself the benefit of the doubt to try another record."

After working with producers on each of his previous studio albums, Ryan Adams is the first full studio album to be self-produced by Ryan Adams. Upon the album's release he noted,  "I don’t know why it took me so long to just fucking — I guess maybe because I have PAX-AM now, my studio — but I don’t know why it took so long to basically be like: You know what, I’m going to do this my way, and even if it’s fucking weird I’m going to do it my way. [...] There was always somebody somewhere with some fucking idea that I should work with some producer, or there was always some producer that I was working with who I knew. People felt like they could frame my music in a certain way that somehow shined the correct amount of light." Adams recorded the album with his PAX AM recording partner and now bandmate Mike Viola: "Mike is a co-producer. It’s collaborative, but Mike and I were already on that train anyway. Mike was more like a partner in crime toward a sound he knew would work for me. We recorded in my studio all week, every week, every fucking day. I view it as a job. I want to come here, you know?"

Writing and composition
After scrapping the Glyn Johns-produced studio album, which featured "entirely different songs" than those that appear on Ryan Adams, Adams began working on compositions that he felt reflected his true personality, stating, "I’m too old to pretend like I give a shit about doing something that’s not what I am." Adams was inspired by the rock and punk musicians he grew up admiring: "The music that really, really mattered to me, that was emotional music that was fraught with electric guitar — nothing’s ever going to be more important to me than The Wipers, Hüsker Dü, The Replacements. Guys you could just tell they’re grabbing a guitar, they’re just lost in a moment that’s urgent and they’re finding chords that reflect that urgency. And maybe finding pop elements, but also maybe finding discordant elements. I think there’s a simplicity to that stuff that’s always kind of been there, and kind of been hiding out in my music, and waiting to be revealed."

Regarding the album's lyrical content, he noted, "[I would] go in with a couple bros at seven o'clock and just jam. We would, like, smoke a bowl and drink some tea – and the words came free-flowing out of me. It gives me chills just talking about it."

Comparing the album to his past work, Adams noted: "I personally think it sounds more like Cold Roses, some of Love is Hell and a little of Easy Tiger – but not the sound of it, more the chords and the way it came together organically. [...] The songs are ends in themselves and records are their own sort of book or movie."

Title
Regarding his decision to release a self-titled album, Adams stated: "I could not think of a name for this record. Everything I came up with sounded so stupid. Everything sounded like a King Crimson album title, some convoluted shit. [...] I was like, I can’t call this Shadows or something, I just can’t do it."

Commercial performance
The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboards Top Rock Album, making this Adams' first No. 1 on that chart. It was his highest yet debut on Billboard 200 at No. 4, with 45,000 copies sold in its debut week.  The album has sold 118,000 copies in the US as of October 2015.

Track listing

Personnel

Musicians
Ryan Adams – all vocals, guitars
Jeremy Stacey – drums
Benmont Tench – organ and piano weirdness
Mike Viola – all sorts of stuff
Tal Wilkenfeld – bass
Marshall Vore – drums, percussion (8)

Additional musicians
Johnny Depp - guitar on "Kim", guitar and vocals on "Feels Like Fire"(2, 8)
Mandy Moore - vocals on "Trouble" and "Am I Safe" (3, 4)

Recording personnel
Ryan Adams – producer
Mike Viola – co-producer (1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10)
Charlie Stavish – engineer, mixing, co-producer (2)
David LaBrel – additional engineering
Howie Weinberg, Gentry Studer – mastering

Artwork
Andy West Design – art
Julia Brokaw, Alice Baxley, Ryan Adams – photography
Noah Abrams – couch photograph

Singles
 A-side: "Gimme Something Good" / B-side: "Aching for More"

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

2014 albums
Ryan Adams albums
PAX AM albums


title: Edward Wilson (novelist)

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Edward Wilson is a British writer of spy fiction. A native of Baltimore, Maryland, United States, he immigrated to the United Kingdom after serving in the Vietnam War, renounced his US citizenship to naturalise in his new country, and after three decades as a teacher chose to quit to devote himself full-time to his career as a novelist. He has written eight novels, all published by Arcadia Books.

Personal life
Wilson was born in Baltimore, Maryland. His Anglo-Indian-descended father, a merchant sailor, died when Edward was just six months old, leaving Edward's mother to raise him and his two brothers. He did his secondary education at the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute before going on to the University of Virginia on a Reserve Officers' Training Corps scholarship. He was shipped off to the Vietnam War in the aftermath of the 1968 Tet Offensive as an officer in the 5th Special Forces; he stated that "I didn't think it was right to stay at home when others of my generation were being killed and wounded", but the experience sharpened his opposition to the foreign policy of the United States. For his actions in the war he was decorated with the Bronze Star Medal and the Army Commendation Medal for Valor.

After the war, Wilson travelled in Canada and later spent time in Bremen, West Germany as a labourer in a shipyard and a nursing assistant in a hospital. In 1976 he settled in Suffolk, England, where he worked as a teacher for three decades. He naturalised as a British citizen in 1983 and renounced his US citizenship.

Politically, Wilson is a member of the Labour Party and a supporter of trade unions.

Works

Portrait of The Spy as a Young Man
The latest novel in the Catesby series by Edward Wilson, published in 2020.

1941: a teenage William Catesby leaves Cambridge to join the army and support the war effort. Parachuted into Occupied France as an SOE officer, he witnesses tragedies and remarkable feats of bravery during the French Resistance.
2014: now in his nineties, Catesby recounts his life to his granddaughter for the first time. Their interviews weave together the historical, the personal and the emotional, skipping across different decades and continents to reveal a complex and conflicted man.
Catesby's incredible story recounts a life of spying and the trauma of war, but also lost love, yearning, and hope for the future.

A River in May
Wilson's debut novel A River in May, published in 2002, was based on his experiences in the Vietnam War. As he stated, the book "expelled my battlefield demons". It was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize.

The Envoy
The Envoy is set in Britain in the 1950s, and discusses an American plot to sabotage USSR–UK relations. Its protagonist is Kit Fournier, the Central Intelligence Agency station chief at the Embassy of the United States, London. It was the first book in what was originally intended to be a trilogy of spy novels, but later had a fourth book added to it with the publication of The Whitehall Mandarin. The book introduces characters who would go on to play a larger role in Wilson's later novels, including William Catesby [no sign of this character in the Kindle version of The Envoy], a native of a Suffolk fishing village who fits in poorly with either his old neighbours or his government colleagues, and his boss Henry Bone. A running joke in the series describes how Catesby's alleged ancestor Robert Catesby planned the Gunpowder Plot of 1605.

The Darkling Spy
In Wilson's 2011 novel The Darkling Spy, the year is 1956, and Catesby is serving under official cover at the British Embassy in Bonn. Kit Fournier from The Envoy appears again, but in this book he has fallen in love with an English woman who serves as a spy for Moscow, and is considering defection. Publishers Weekly compared Catesby to the John le Carré character George Smiley, and stated that he "will delight those readers looking for less blood and more intelligence in their spy thrillers".

The Midnight Swimmer
The Midnight Swimmer, published in 2012, is set against the build-up to the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.

The Whitehall Mandarin
The Whitehall Mandarin, was published in May 2014. The launch was held at Hatchards bookshop in London. The title is a reference both to bureaucrats and to China, and the question of how China was able to develop thermonuclear weapons so quickly plays a role in the novel. Paul French reviewed it favourably in The Los Angeles Review of Books, stating that: "Finally Edward Wilson is garnering the praise and readers in England he's long deserved, but it is to be hoped that America can discover him too". Denis MacShane expressed similar sentiments in his review in Tribune magazine.

A Very British Ending
A Very British Ending was published on 14 April 2016. It takes Catesby's story into the 1970s.

South Atlantic Requiem
South Atlantic Requiem was published on 15 March 2018, bringing Catesby's story into the era of the Falklands War of 1982. It was included in a round-up of the best Summer Books 2018 by writer Sunny Singh in The Guardian

References

External links

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Writers from Baltimore
University of Virginia alumni
United States Army personnel of the Vietnam War
American emigrants to England
Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom
Former United States citizens
British male novelists
21st-century British novelists
United States Army officers
Members of the United States Army Special Forces


title: Obinitsa graveyard

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Obinitsa graveyard is a graveyard in Setomaa, Estonia.  It is in Meremäe rural municipality in Obinitsa village. The graveyard is the public property of Meremäe rural municipality, but belongs under the Obinitsa Church of Transfiguration of Our Lord.  Obinitsa graveyard was established about 1500 years ago. The oldest part of the graveyard is the Sakalovapalo burial mound. The other part was established in the beginning of the 19th century. Among others, the grave of the Hilana Taarka, the singing mother (1856-1933) is situated in Obinitsa graveyard. The newer part of the graveyard was taken into use in the lower part of the land, near Tuhkvitsa Stream.

In 1950, when church activity in Obinitsa Church-School was stopped, the building of a new church began in the one hectare land next to the graveyard. This sort of activity was grounded on the Soviet Lenin decree that said the school had to be separated from the church and the church building taken from the congregation for the school. This sort of activity was based on a written regulation of the former chairman of the Estonian SSR Council of Ministers, Arnold Veimer to the chairman of the Meremäe rural municipality Executive Committee. In 1950, the local priest Vilemon Talomees, supported by the local community, began to build a new church despite obstacles. At first, he was working alone; later the members of the congregation joined him on his initiative and request. In 1951, they came across many difficulties that interfered the building of the church. Even Võru County deanery did not support the building, as they were busy building Meeksi Church at the time. Regardless, on 9 January 1952, interior decorating of the church began. Valga Church gave Obinitsa congregation the assets from Tõrva Church (church bell, icons, chandelier, candle sticks, altar and service clothes for the priest). A lot of donations (building materials) were made by the local farmers; there was no money to pay wages. Support was provided by the Bishopric of Estonia as well. The church, still surrounded by scaffolding was inaugurated on 15 June 1952. Bishop of Tallinn, Roman inaugurated the Obinitsa Apostolic Orthodox Church in the honour of Transfiguration of Our Lord.
The greatest church and graveyard feast is Passover, when people gather at the graves of their ancestors to commemorate their loved ones. There are thousands of people in the graveyard on that particular day and after church service, a memorial meal takes place on the graves and prayers are said.

References

Setomaa Parish
Cemeteries in Estonia
Eastern Orthodox cemeteries in Estonia