title: Huston Wyeth

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Huston Wyeth (1863–1925) was an American industrialist and a prominent businessman and social figure in St. Joseph, Missouri.

Early life
Huston Wyeth was born in St. Joseph, Missouri on July 8, 1863, to William Maxwell Wyeth (1832–1901) and Eliza Renick Wyeth (1837–1920).  Huston had two siblings, including Sue Maud (1861–1897).  William's brothers, John and Frank, founded the Wyeth pharmaceutical company.

Career
Huston Wyeth began investing in cattle at age 17. He attended the Racine Business College in Wisconsin.  Upon returning to St. Joseph, Huston associated initially with the hardware firm of Lyon & Judson.  He then began work at his father's firm, Wyeth Hardware and Manufacturing Company, a large wholesale hardware firm, with a large harness, saddle and collar making subsidiary.  In 1888, Huston was elected to be vice-president and director and, when his father died in 1901, Huston became president of the company.  Huston later founded the St. Joseph Artesian Ice and Cold Storage Company, the Standard Vitrified Brick Company, and the Blue Valley Creamery Company.  He also managed a real estate company and was director of St. Joseph and Grand Island Railway, the Leavenworth Terminal Railway and Bridge, and utility concerns.  Wyeth's ice company was targeted during "ice trust" monopoly investigations that swept the U.S. during the early 1900s.

Personal life and death

Huston married Leila Ballinger (1865–1955) on April 4, 1883.  Huston and Leila had four children: William Maxwell, Maud, Alison, and John.  Huston was a recognized breeder of cattle, trotting horses, German Shepherds and mastiffs.  In 1918–1922, the Wyeths built Wyethwood Estate. Huston traveled to Africa, with his son-in-law, to hunt game.  The Wyeths maintained winter quarters in Miami, Florida.  Wyeth donated to the city of St. Joseph property that became Huston Wyeth Park, including Huston Wyeth Hill.  This hill is on the Missouri River bluffs, overlooking the St. Joseph Branch of the Oregon Trail, and is a traditional site for couples to watch the sunset. Huston Wyeth died January 25, 1925, in Miami and is buried at Mount Mora Cemetery in Saint Joseph.

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1863 births
1925 deaths
Businesspeople from Missouri
20th-century American businesspeople
American manufacturing businesspeople
American business executives
People from St. Joseph, Missouri


title: Rotoita basalis

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Rotoita basalis is a small parasitic wasp in the relictual family Rotoitidae. It is known only from New Zealand, and its closest known living relative (and only other extant species in the same family) is endemic to Chile (Chiloe micropteron).

Unique anatomy
Rotoitids are very near to the base of the chalcidoid family tree, close to the Mymaridae. Unusual characteristics of Rotoita include a 14-segmented antennae in the female with a distinct 6-segmented clava (club-like segments at the end of antennae), a basal vein in the fore wing, a transverse scutellum, extremely reduced and hidden prepectus, and absence of notauli.

Specimens are approximately 1mm in length.

Discovery
The family was established for the new genus and species Rotoita basalis by Zdenek Boucek and John S. Noyes in 1987, based on three fully winged females from New Zealand. The authors stated that they also had two other females from the North and South Islands of New Zealand that might represent two additional species.

Biology
Nothing is actually known about Rotoita biology.

Etymology
A slide-mounted female from St. Arnaud (formally Rotoiti Village) is listed as a paratype used to describe the species. Lake Rotoiti is a large fresh water body and a dominant feature when visiting Saint Arnaud Village: it was inspiration when naming the genus. The Maori name "Rotoiti" translates simply as "Little Lake".

References

Insects described in 1987
Chalcidoidea
Hymenoptera of New Zealand


title: Dave Hughes (producer)

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Dave Hughes is an American television producer and editor, currently employed at Williams Street as well the founder of his production studio, Million Monkeys Inc. Hughes previously worked as a video editor while at MTV Animation, working on series such as Beavis and Butt-head, Celebrity Deathmatch and Cartoon Sushi, before meeting with coworker Matt Harrigan to work on Space Ghost Coast to Coast in Los Angeles. He has worked on several Adult Swim series, and is the creator of his own show for the network, Off the Air.

Early life
Hughes had been interested in animation in general as a child, experimenting with computers, stop motion and videography. In high school, he and several friends signed up for television production course, where he found "that it could maybe be more than a hobby." Afterwards, he attended Ithaca College to study television and radio. There, he produced a local TV show and a radio program around 1991, which was broadcast throughout the city and the source of a sponsorship between a local pizzeria.

After graduating college, Hughes moved into New York City. Elaborating on his inspirations, 120 Minutes, Concrete TV, Liquid Television, and Night Flight were among some of the experimental programming in the city from the late 1980s and early '90s to expose him "to a whole new world of ideas, music and people that I just didn't see anywhere else on television."

Career
Hughes' first job in television was at MTV Animation, where he worked from 1995 until it folded in 2003. He described his break into the industry as "a genuine lucky, fluky" one; initially temping on the oil and future trading floor at 399 Park Avenue, he declined a job offer given to him at the building. He cited that, while paying a good salary, the work was "very bizarre" and out of his knowledge base.

A week after declining, he heard a recorded message from production members of Beavis and Butt-head regarding his roommate, Nate, from whom he was subletting at his apartment. Nate, on a concert tour at the time of the call, had sent his resume to the staff "on a whim" before he left. Hughes felt "there was no way I wasn't returning that call", and later, he was interviewed and got the job. Before his interview, Hughes explained that he felt honest about himself and confidence his qualifications, which entailed "running tapes around town". After being hired, Hughes worked on series such as Beavis and Butt-Head, Celebrity Deathmatch and Cartoon Sushi. For his work for Celebrity Deathmatch, Hughes was quoted on how his coworkers had to assemble a weekly series in the five months between its appearance in Cartoon Sushi and premiere in May 1998. Hughes is credited as a special effects artist for its feature film, Beavis and Butt-head Do America, acting as assistant editor for the film's hallucination sequence directed by Chris Prynoski.

After the studio folded, Hughes started working for Nickelodeon, creating station IDs and brand elements for the network's spinoff channel, Nicktoons. Finding the job "not a good fit", he got a call from coworker Matt Harrigan to work on the eighth season of Space Ghost Coast to Coast for Adult Swim in Los Angeles. He promptly accepted the offer, jumping "at the chance to get out of Nickelodeon". Hughes spent the following year working as an offline editor within an abandoned AOL office in Santa Monica, California. Hughes called it "a revelation", observing that, while editing animation at MTV "was kind of an afterthought", reserved for timing and minor tweaks in animation, the editor at Adult Swim was "absolutely essential to the process." In 2005, Hughes founded his own video production studio, Million Monkeys Inc. He has worked on various series and station IDs for the network, among other projects.

Hughes was credited by Christy Karacas and Stephen Warbrick, creators of the Adult Swim series Superjail!, for sharing their animated short Bar Fight which he had edited with the network, which garnered their interest for a full series. Hughes would serve as a story consultant during the first season of the series. Hughes worked with Dan Deacon in 2008 to produce a music video for "Okie Dokie" out of his album Spiderman of the Rings. He later created his own series, Off the Air, which premiered on the network, unannounced, on New Year's Day 2011 at 4 a.m. He took inspiration from the experimental programming he watched while in New York City. He stated that, while he had envisioned the series before, he never realized "it would be me who did it." Hughes stated that he incorporates clips "with some kind of truth or integrity to them", and that viral videos as well as obscure content are put into episodes.

Hughes again collaborated with Deacon to create a special for Off the Air entitled "Dan Deacon: U.S.A.". He also served as producer for the television special Live Forever as You Are Now with Alan Resnick, which premiered on the network in December 2013. For the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con International, he was the creator of an animated short presented in a planetarium-like structure, entitled the Meatwad Full Dome Experience.

Explanatory notes

References

Further reading

External links
 Official website of Million Monkeys Inc.

American television producers
Ithaca College alumni
American television editors
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: Charles Speight (rugby union)

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Charles Richard Barton Speight (13 July 1870 – 23 December 1935) was a New Zealand rugby union player. A forward, who came out of the Parnell club, Speight represented Auckland at a provincial level. He was a member of the New Zealand national side in 1893, playing seven tour matches for the team.

After moving to Hamilton, Speight served as a member of the Hamilton Borough Council and the Waikato Trotting Club committee. He died in Hamilton on 23 December 1935 and was buried at Hamilton East Cemetery.

His brother, Harold Murray Hamilton Speight, also represented Auckland in 1894.

References

1870 births
1935 deaths
Rugby union players from Auckland
New Zealand rugby union players
New Zealand international rugby union players
Auckland rugby union players
Rugby union forwards
New Zealand sportsperson-politicians
Local politicians in New Zealand
New Zealand sports executives and administrators
Burials at Hamilton East Cemetery


title: Calliini

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Calliini is a tribe of longhorn beetles of the subfamily Lamiinae.

Taxonomy
 Acreana Lane, 1973
 Alical Galileo, Santos-Silva & Bezark, 2016
 Amucallia Galileo & Martins, 2008
 Anapsicomus Galileo & Martins, 1988
 Ardeocomus Galileo & Martins, 1988
 Asemolea Bates, 1881
 Callia Audinet-Serville, 1835
 Calliomorpha Lane, 1973
 Callisema Martins & Galileo, 1990
 Callityrinthia Galileo & Martins, 1991
 Camitocomus Galileo & Martins, 1991
 Canindea Galileo & Martins, 1990
 Chalcolyne Bates, 1866
 Chereas Thomson, 1864
 Cicatricallia Martins & Galileo, 2012
 Colombicallia Galileo & Martins, 1992
 Drycothaea Thomson, 1868
 Eumathes Pascoe, 1858
 Eumimesis Bates, 1866
 Euryestola Breuning, 1940
 Graminea Thomson, 1864
 Gryllica Thomson, 1860
 Harringtonia Lane, 1973
 Hastatis Buquet, 1857
 Hemicladus Buquet, 1857
 Hemilophopsis Tavakilian & Santos-Silva, 2019
 Hirticallia Galileo & Martins, 1990
 Icelastatis Galileo & Martins, 1991
 Igualda Thomson, 1868
 Lustrocomus Martins & Galileo, 1996
 Mesestola Breuning, 1980
 Micatocomus Galileo & Martins, 1988
 Miguelia Galileo & Martins, 1991
 Mimolaia Bates, 1881
 Nagma Bezark & Santos-Silva, 2020
 Nappella Santos-Silva, Nascimento & Drumont, 2019
 Neocallia Fisher, 1933
 Pandemicus Bezark & Santos-Silva, 2020
 Paracallia Martins & Galileo, 1998
 Paradrycothaea Galileo & Martins, 2010
 Parasemolea Martins & Galileo, 1990
 Rumuara Martins & Galileo, 1990
 Schiacallia Galileo & Martins, 1991
 Xenocallia Galileo & Martins, 1990
 Zenicomus Thomson, 1868

References


title: Racquetball Association of Pakistan

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The Racquetball Association of Pakistan is national sports governing body to promote and develop sport of racquetball in Pakistan. The association is based in Karachi.

The association is affiliated with the International Racquetball Federation and its continental counterpart, the Asian Racquetball Federation.

References

Racquetball in Pakistan
Sports governing bodies in Pakistan


title: Carey Wilber

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Carey Wilber (June 26, 1916 – May 2, 1998) was an American journalist and television writer born in Buffalo, New York. He began his career in the days of live television, and wrote for a variety of programs over the next three decades, including Captain Video and His Video Rangers, The Asphalt Jungle,  Lost In Space, The Time Tunnel, Bonanza, and Maverick. Wilber wrote the "Ice Princess" storyline for the daytime serial General Hospital in 1981.  He died in Seattle, Washington.

Star Trek
Wilber wrote the original story for, and co-wrote the teleplay of, the Star Trek episode "Space Seed".  The general plot had originally been created by Wilber for the series Captain Video and His Video Rangers, which featured humans from Ancient Greece who were preserved in cryogenic suspension and resurrected. During the conception and writing of the episode, numerous changes were made, as producer Bob Justman felt that it would be too expensive to film. Despite this, and due to the support of NBC executives, Justman gave a series of notes to Wilber for him to redraft the proposal. Eventually, it was passed to Gene L. Coon to revise, and the final draft was also revised by series creator Gene Roddenberry. These revisions include the marooning of the criminals at the end of the episode, and the change of the primary villain from a Nordic character to a Sikh. Roddenberry attempted to claim the primary writing credit for "Space Seed", a request that was turned down by the Writers Guild of America.

Filmography

Films

Television

References

External links

Writers from Buffalo, New York
1916 births
1998 deaths


title: Peter Heydon

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Sir Peter Richard Heydon  (9 September 191315 May 1971) was an Australian public servant, policymaker, and diplomat. From 1961 to 1971 he was Secretary of the Department of Immigration.

Life and career
Peter Heydon was born in Croydon, Sydney, on 9 September 1913. He was educated at Fort Street Boys' High School, and in 1936 joined the Commonwealth Public Service in the Department of External Affairs, soon after having been admitted to the NSW bar.

In 1942, Heydon married Muriel Naomi Slater, a Canadian who had been his personal assistant during his appointment to the staff of Richard Casey in Washington. In a eulogy after Heydon's death in 1971, Finlay Crisp described the couple's relationship as having "a tempo, a temper and a tone".

From 1943 to 1944, Heydon served with the Australian legation to the Soviet Union which had just opened at the wartime capital of Kuibyshev. Between May and September 1950, Heydon was chargé d'affaires in charge of the Australian Embassy in the Netherlands. He was soon after appointed Minister to Brazil, serving until 1953. Between 1953 and 1955, Heydon was High Commissioner to New Zealand. He was subsequently appointed High Commissioner to India, serving in that position until 1958.

From 1961 until his death in 1971, Heydon was Secretary of the Department of Immigration. He died of a heart attack on 15 May 1971, and was remembered by the prime minister, William McMahon, as one of the best-liked and respected public servants in Canberra. He was survived by his wife, Lady Heydon, and three children – two daughters and a son, John Dyson Heydon, who was later made a judge of the High Court of Australia.

Awards
Heydon was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1959 for service as High Commissioner to India. He was made a Knight Bachelor in June 1970, for his service as Secretary of the Department of Immigration.

References

1913 births
1971 deaths
Australian Knights Bachelor
Australian Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Ambassadors of Australia to Brazil
Secretaries of the Australian Government Immigration Department
High Commissioners of Australia to New Zealand
High Commissioners of Australia to India


title: Bob Armstrong (public servant)

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Robert Edward Armstrong (24 July 191119 February 1988) was a senior Australian public servant and policy maker. Between May 1971 and June 1974 he was Secretary of the Department of Immigration.

Life and career
Bob Armstrong was born on 24 July 1911 in Erskinville, Sydney.

In 1940, Armstrong enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force. Posted to the 7th Division headquarters as a clerk, he served in Egypt, Palestine, Africa, Syria and Java.

Between 1971 and 1974, he was Secretary of the Department of Immigration.

Armstrong died in Canberra on 19 February 1988.

Awards
In 1967, Armstrong was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire while Assistant Secretary of the Immigration Department.

References

1911 births
1988 deaths
Australian public servants
Australian Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Secretaries of the Australian Government Immigration Department
People from Sydney
Australian Army personnel of World War II
Australian Army soldiers


title: Ostrowskia

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Ostrowskia is a genus  of plants in the family Campanulaceae. There is only one known species, Ostrowskia magnifica, native to the Central Asian nations of Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.

References

External links
Pacific Rim Native Plant Nursery, Hillkeep Nature Reserve, Chilliwack Mountain, British Columbia, Canada, Ostrowskia magnifica
Pacific Bulb Society, Ostrowskia
Picsearch, Ostrowskia pictures

Campanuloideae
Flora of Kyrgyzstan
Flora of Tajikistan
Flora of Afghanistan
Monotypic Campanulaceae genera


title: Kerawalapitiya

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Kerewalapitiya is a suburb of Wattala, which acts an interchange to connect the Airport Expressway and the OCE-Expressway. Kerawalpitiya has opened an icon for Sri Lanka's largest privately owned power station, the Yugadanavi Power Station, and the beach resorts are attested in provision to satisfy the creation to the Airport Expressway and the reclamation of the old Dutch Canal.

References
Kerawalapitiya Power Station
Airport Expressway

Populated places in Western Province, Sri Lanka


title: Still Crazy After All These Years (song)

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"Still Crazy After All These Years" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Paul Simon. It was the third and final single from his fourth studio album of the same name (1975), released on Columbia Records. Though the song briefly reached the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S., it was a bigger hit on the magazine's Easy Listening chart, where it peaked at number four.

Composition
"Still Crazy After All These Years" begins with the singer singing that "I met my old lover on the street last night."  The "old lover" has been variously interpreted to be either Simon's ex-wife Peggy Harper, from whom he was recently divorced, his former girlfriend from the 1960s Kathy Chitty, or even Simon's former musical partner Art Garfunkel, who appears on the following track, My Little Town.  After sharing a few beers, the singer and the old lover part ways again.  The singer notes that he is "not the kind of man who tends to socialize" but rather leans "on old familiar ways" and is "still crazy after all these years."  The lyrics acknowledge a nostalgia for the past, but also subtly suggest that once the sweet nostalgia is gone, it is replaced by loneliness and even bitterness.

The song features the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section: Barry Beckett (Rhodes piano), David Hood (bass guitar) and Roger Hawkins (drums), arranged by Bob James. The saxophone, played by Michael Brecker, emphasizes the jazz character of the song.  Music theorist Peter Kaminsky analyzed how the key progression of the introduction to "Still Crazy After All These Years" anticipates the key progressions throughout the album.  The song has an AABA form, with the first, second and fourth verses sharing the same basic melody.  The first and second verses are primarily in the key of G major, although there are some unexpected harmonies that differ between the verses.  The key of the third verse, the B section, is never resolved.  G major returns in the final verse, but modulates to the slightly higher key of A major, which according to author James Bennighof gives "a faint sense of slightly demented triumph to the singer's declaration that he wouldn't be held responsible for his potential mayhem."  Music critic Walter Everett considers this modulation to reflect the singer's "unpredictable emotional and mental state."

Reception
Rolling Stone critic Paul Nelson considered "Still Crazy After All These Years" to be the best song on the album.  He praises the "poignancy and openness" of the first verse and Brecker's passionate sax solo, and the fact that the song demonstrates "the fierceness of [Simon's] will."  Billboard described the song as "a superb ballad with excellent lyrics and excellent instrumentation."  Cash Box called the song "a moving, tender ballad" with "flawless" production and a "perfectly constructed" melody. Record World said that the style "is warm and reflective in a way that anyone can latch onto."

Simon has performed the song three times on the late-night comedy series Saturday Night Live. He first performed the song on October 18, 1975 during the show's first season. Simon performed the song a second time during the show's second season, airing just before Thanksgiving in 1976; Simon comically wore a turkey costume and stopped halfway through the track to complain about the outfit to Lorne Michaels. Simon's most recent performance of the song was for the show's Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special in 2015.

Charts

Other versions
In 1979 Paul Simon suggested to Karen Carpenter that she should include a version of the song on her solo album, then in preparation which was also being produced by Phil Ramone. She had Simon change the words 'crapped out' to 'crashed out'. This recording was released in 1996.

Notes

References

Sources

Paul Simon songs
1975 songs
1976 singles
Songs written by Paul Simon
Song recordings produced by Phil Ramone
Song recordings produced by Paul Simon
Columbia Records singles


title: Bust of Victor Herbert

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Victor Herbert is an outdoor bronze portrait bust of Victor Herbert by Edmond Thomas Quinn, located in Central Park in Manhattan, New York.

History
The memorial sculpture, commissioned by the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP), was unveiled by Herbert's daughter in 1927 at a dedication attended by Irving Berlin and Arthur Hammerstein.

References

External links

1927 establishments in New York City
1927 sculptures
Bronze sculptures in Central Park
Busts in New York City
Monuments and memorials in Manhattan
Outdoor sculptures in Manhattan


title: Ukraine in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2013

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Ukraine participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Kyiv, Ukraine. On 2 August 2013 a national selection was held, out of which Sofia Tarasova and her song "We Are One" were later declared the winner and represented Ukraine.

Before Junior Eurovision

National final
The final took place on 2 August 2013, which saw twenty competing acts participating in a televised production where the winner was determined by a 50/50 combination of both public telephone vote and the votes of jury members made up of music professionals. After a four-way tie for the first place, Sofia Tarasova was selected to represent Ukraine with the song "We Are One".

At Junior Eurovision

Voting
The voting during the final consisted of 50 percent public televoting and 50 percent from a jury deliberation. The jury consisted of five music industry professionals who were citizens of the country they represent, with their names published before the contest to ensure transparency. This jury was asked to judge each contestant based on: vocal capacity; the stage performance; the song's composition and originality; and the overall impression by the act. In addition, no member of a national jury could be related in any way to any of the competing acts in such a way that they cannot vote impartially and independently. The individual rankings of each jury member were released one month after the final.

During the allocation draw on 25 November 2013, Ukraine was drawn to perform 6th, following Macedonia and preceding Belarus. Ukraine placed 2nd, scoring 121 points.

Voting

Notes

References

Junior Eurovision Song Contest
Ukraine
2013


title: Calatubo Castle

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The Calatubo Castle (Latin: castrum Calathatubi;  Italian: Castello di Calatubo) is a fortress located near the town of Alcamo,  Sicily, southern Italy.

The site has remains of a settlement of the Elymians and a necropolis.

Being next to A29 motorway, it has fallen into disrepair and is therefore closed to visitors, although the Town Council of Alcamo has often expressed the desire to recover it.

History

The origins of the castle date back to the Norman period around 1093, the year in which Roger I of Sicily defined the boundaries of the diocese of Mazara that included "Calatubo with all its dependencies".

In ancient times, around the castle there was the village of Calatubo, which based its business on the extraction of stones for water and wind mills from the quarries around the creek Finocchio, as mentioned by the Arab geographer Muhammad al-Idrisi in The Book of Roger, written in 1154.

The village of Calatubo was abandoned after the conquest by Frederick II and the castle lost its original function as a military fortress, turning into a farm. During this period, the castle joined warehouses, stables and other structures used for the administration of the agricultural fief of Calatubo.

Since the Middle Ages, because of its visibility, the Calatubo Castle had an important strategic role: it was part of a line of towers and forts along the coast from Palermo to Trapani; this defensive line was used to transmit light signals in case of Saracens' attack. In particular, the castle of Calatubo guaranteed the flow of information that took place between the outposts of Carini, Partinico and Castellammare del Golfo.

At the end of the nineteenth century in the second courtyard some warehouses were set up for the production of the wine "Calatubo".

The castle remained in good condition until the 1968 Belice earthquake. The use of the structure as a sheepfold and illegal excavations, which had as their targets the finds of the necropolis of the seventh century BC pertaining to the castle, have further ruined the castle.

In 2007 it was bought for 60 thousand euros by the municipality of Alcamo and over the past few years (2003-2014) has been reported several times as part of the cultural initiative "I Luoghi del Cuore" sponsored by the Italian Environmental Fund (FAI), which has as its objective the protection and enhancement of the artistic and cultural heritage of Italy.

Description

The Calatubo Castle is actually an architectural complex, consisting of the structure of the original castle that has undergone several changes over the centuries. This complex is large 150×35 meters and stands on a limestone rock that lies at an altitude of about 152 m above sea level and that dominate with its height the surrounding area. From the position of castle you can clearly see Mount Bonifato and the Gulf of Castellammare.

The castle is inaccessible on three sides due to the steep walls of rock on which it is built. The only practicable access is located in the west, which leads to the first line of defense of the castle via a ramp with large steps. From the first line of defense, which includes among other things a well, a church hall and other premises, you can arrive at a court which communicates with the second circle of walls through a portal, up to the third circle of walls, which comprises an oblong tower. Finally the core of the castle, located in the southern part of the fortress, is rectangular with an area of 7×21.50 m.

Popular culture

A popular belief tells about tunnels that linked the Calatubo Castle with the Castle of the Counts of Modica and the tower of Ventimiglia on the Mount Bonifato.

See also
 Alcamo
 Castle of Alcamo
 Castle of Ventimiglia

Notes

Castles in Alcamo


title: Michael Speight

text:
Michael Wayne Speight (born 24 February 1962) is a former New Zealand rugby union player. A lock, Speight represented Waikato, North Auckland and North Harbour at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, in 1986. He played five matches for the All Blacks, including one international against Australia.

References

1962 births
Living people
Rugby union players from Auckland
University of Waikato alumni
New Zealand rugby union players
New Zealand international rugby union players
Waikato rugby union players
Northland rugby union players
North Harbour rugby union players
Rugby union locks
People educated at Whangarei Boys' High School


title: List of rallycross drivers

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This is a list of notable current and former rallycross drivers, many of whom have competed or are competing in the European Rallycross Championship.

Drivers

Rallycross drivers
Rallycross


title: Royal Bolton Hospital

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The Royal Bolton Hospital is an acute general hospital in Farnworth, Greater Manchester. It is managed by the Bolton NHS Foundation Trust.

History

The hospital was established as a fever hospital and built adjacent to the 'Fishpool Workhouse' in 1872.

An isolation block was added in 1893 and a purpose-built infirmary, known as Townley's Hospital, was erected on the site in 1896. The workhouse buildings, by then known as the 'Fishpool Institute', became part of the hospital in 1913.

The hospital joined the National Health Service in 1948 and became Bolton District General Hospital in 1951. After the services of the Bolton Royal Infirmary transferred to Bolton District General Hospital in 1996, the latter facility became the Royal Bolton Hospital. The old 'Fishpool Institute' buildings were demolished in 2011.

In December 2014 it was reported that the hospital had a serious backlog of maintenance problems, amounting to £24.6 million, without which the crumbling concrete structural floor supports under a urology operating theatre could give way - with "dire" consequences. The trust applied for £30 million to upgrade its premises and redesign its information technology in May 2015. The heating and air conditioning systems  had reached the end of their useful life.  It was given a loan of £22.5 million and a grant of £7.5 million in September 2015.

Facilities
The Royal Bolton Hospital is one of the busiest NHS hospitals in the North West and was the busiest in Greater Manchester, having over 32,000 admissions, in 2007-08 year.

References

External links
  Bolton NHS Foundation Trust

NHS hospitals in England
Hospitals in Greater Manchester
Buildings and structures in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton
Farnworth


title: Statue of Walter Scott (New York City)

text:
Sir Walter Scott is an outdoor bronze portrait statue of Walter Scott and the writer's favorite dog Maida by John Steell, located in Central Park in Manhattan, New York. The memorial sculpture, a replica of the 1845 original in Edinburgh's Scott Monument, was cast in 1871 and dedicated on November 27, 1872. It was donated by resident Scottish-Americans.

References

External links

1871 establishments in New York (state)
1871 sculptures
Bronze sculptures in Central Park
Scott, Walter
Scott, Walter
Scott, Walter
Monuments and memorials in Manhattan
Outdoor sculptures in Manhattan
Sculptures in Central Park
Sculptures of men in New York City
Statues in New York City
Scott, Walter
Walter Scott
Sculptures of dogs in the United States


title: Cylindrocarpa

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Cylindrocarpa is a genus  of plants in the Campanulaceae. There is only one known species, Cylindrocarpa sewerzowii, endemic to Kyrgyzstan. It has been found only in the Gory Naryntau mountain range, part of the Tien-Shan chain.

References

External links

Campanuloideae
Flora of Kyrgyzstan
Monotypic Campanulaceae genera


title: Nesthäkchen in the Children's Sanitorium

text:
Else Ury's Nesthäkchen is a Berlin doctor's daughter, Annemarie Braun, a slim, golden blond, quintessential German girl. The ten-book Nesthäkchen series follows Annemarie from infancy (Nesthäkchen and Her Dolls) to old age and grandchildren (Nesthäkchen with White Hair).  This third volume of the series, published 1915/1921, tells the story of ten-year-old Annemarie's bout of scarlet fever, her recovery in a North Sea children's sanitorium, and her desperate struggle to return home at the outbreak of World War I.

Plot summary

At the beginning of Nesthäkchen im Kinderheim, Anne Marie Braun is ten years old. She is a lively child and a good student. Shortly before her birthday, she develops a high fever at school. She has been inadvertently infected with scarlet fever by her father, a doctor in Charlottenburg (Berlin), who has just examined children with scarlet fever. After a long recovery time in the private clinic of her father, Anne Marie is still very weak. She is sent by her parents to recover for a year in the children's sanitorium "Villa Daheim" in Wittdün on the North Sea island Amrum, which is managed by a sea captain's widow, Mrs. Clarsen, and her sister Lina.

Life on the island, the landscape and manners, dress and speech, are described in detail. The North Germans in the story speak Plattdeutsch (Low German), which Ury transliterates, with a German translation of some words in parentheses. Anne Marie makes friends with the naughty boy Peter. The two walk together to seek wealth and swords in the mud, stray off the path, and get into a storm surge. But they find (albeit with difficulty) their way out of the dangerous situation.

Anne Marie befriends a good girl, Gerda. Gerda has a bad leg due to a knee joint problem. Another counterpoint to Peter (who is a replacement for Anne Marie's wild brother Klaus in this part of the novel) is Kurt, whom she already met in Berlin in the hospital. Kurt is in a wheelchair, but manages with much patience and Anne Marie's help, to relearn how to walk.

At the end of the story the First World War breaks out. Anne Marie is now eleven years old. Head over heels the sanitorium's guests flee the island. Anne Marie's doll Gerda falls off the pier into the water. The scene has a symbolic meaning: Anne Marie's childhood is over.

Critical reception
"The context of the surrounding social setting is fascinating—a snapshot of a vanished world presented with charming, black-and-white period illustrations. Ury’s narrative tone is amusingly sardonic at times—affectionate but assessing, as it aims to appeal to both children and their parents. Her portraits of the various adults that Annemarie encounters are refreshingly textured; they’re not the one-dimensional authority figures that were more typical of children’s books of the time. The story also handles Annemarie’s shifting emotions, from feeling forlorn to gradually coming to like many people at Wittdün, in a lively, often charming way. It’s easy to see why this series might have been so popular with German families nearly a century ago." Kirkus Reviews

Later revisions
This volume is the most revised of the Nesthäkchen books. In the original, Anne Marie's school year goes by the old count: in the eighth grade she advances to the seventh. In later editions, it is her third year and she advances to her  fourth year. In the 1921 edition Anne Marie's friend Gerda was from Breslau, the capital of Lower Silesia. After 1945 Gerda was from Munich, capital of Bavaria. In the original, "Princess Heinrich" (that is, Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine, 1866–1953, wife of Prince Heinrich, brother of Kaiser Wilhelm II) visited the island and the children's sanitorium. In later editions Princess Heinrich became the young queen of Denmark.

A final chapter, “War Time,” added after 1945 to maintain continuity of the series after volume 4 was dropped, was a politically correct abridgement of the original version of Volume 4, Nesthäkchen and the World War. The further course of the First World War is reduced to, "However, the terrible war had ended a short time later". Anne Marie's girlfriend Vera, who appears in Volume 4, is introduced in the new chapter with a few words. By 1996 the publisher had dispensed with the new chapter "War Time," and the story ends, as it did in 1921, with Annemarie's return to her home in Berlin.

References

German children's literature
Fictional German people
20th-century German novels
Child characters in literature
Children's fiction books
1915 children's books
Novels set in Germany
Novels set in hospitals
Novels set on islands
Novels set in the 1910s
Children's books set in Germany
Children's books set on islands
Children's books about disability
Children's books set in the 1910s
Children's books set in hospitals


title: Gernon

text:
Gernon is a surname. It may refer to the following notable people:

 Billy Gernon, American college baseball coach
 Edward Gernon (1800–1877), Wisconsin state senator
 Irvin Gernon (born 1962), English footballer
 Luke Gernon (c. 1580–c. 1672), Irish judge
 Ranulf de Gernon, 4th Earl of Chester (1099–1153), Anglo-Norman potentate
 Robert L. Gernon (1943–2005), American jurist
 Thomas Gernon (born 1983), Irish academic

See also
 Gernon Bay


title: 1978 FIFA World Cup Group A

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Group A of the 1978 FIFA World Cup was one of two groups of nations competing for the De facto semifinals  the 1978 FIFA World Cup. The group's first round of matches began on 14 June and its last matches were played on 21 June. All six group matches were played either at the Estadio Chateau Carreras in Córdoba, or the Estadio Monumental in the capital Buenos Aires. The group consisted of West Germany (the Defending Champions) as well as the Netherlands (the former runners up), Italy and Austria. The Netherlands advanced to the final match, and Italy advanced to the third place match.

Qualified teams
The winners of Group 1 and 3 and the runners-up of Group 2 and 4 qualified for Group A of the second round.

Standings

Matches

Austria vs Netherlands
After an unconvincing group stage performance the Netherlands knew they had to play better if they were to qualify for the finals, and took on surprise qualifiers Austria in their first game. They started well when an unmarked Ernie Brandts headed in Arie Haan's free kick. The Dutch then won a penalty kick after Gerhard Breitenberger fouled Wim Jansen and Rob Rensenbrink neatly scored. Rensenbrink then took advantage of some poor defending to provide assist for Johnny Rep to score on either side of half time. Austria which created several chances and were unlucky to score in the first half got one back in the eightieth minute when defender Erich Obermayer scored a brilliant lob over the Dutch goalkeeper for a goal. The Dutch weren't to be deterred as Rensenbrink provided yet another assist this time Willy van de Kerkhof to score just two minutes later.

Italy vs West Germany

Netherlands vs West Germany

This highly anticipated match was a repeat of the 1974 FIFA World Cup Final, with the Netherlands fielding six players who had played that day and West Germany four. The match official Ramón Barreto of Uruguay coincidentally had also been one of the linesmen at the 1974 final.

The 1974 final had started with the Dutch scoring within two minutes, and in this match there was another early goal, although it went the Germans' way. The Dutch goaltender Piet Schrijvers could only parry Rainer Bonhof's free kick right into the path of Rüdiger Abramczik, who headed home. The Netherlands equalized around the thirty-minute mark when Arie Haan let fly from 35 yards and into the top corner.

Knowing a draw would be enough Netherlands refrained from taking chances in the second half. Against the run of play West Germany were awarded a soft free-kick, the Dutch were complaining with the referee and did not keep their concentration Erich Beer crossed for Dieter Müller to power in a header. The goal gave the Netherlands the momentum to score though and eight minutes from time René van de Kerkhof took a pass from his twin brother Willy, cut inside a defender and smashed home. There would be a few more chances as Johnny Rep hit the woodwork and Schrijvers was forced to save from Beer.

The match ended in bizarre fashion, with substitute Dick Nanninga shown a yellow card for an off the ball incident and then seconds later referee Barreto showing the same player a red card for apparently laughing at the decision to give him a card. It took five minutes to restore order on the field as the bewildered Nanninga was led off.

Italy vs Austria

Austria vs West Germany

Italy vs Netherlands
This match was a semifinal in all but name with the winner being assured a place in the final, although the Netherlands could advance with a draw and a Germany draw or loss. Italy started the positive and scored when Ernie Brandts in an attempt to stop Roberto Bettega only succeeded in putting the ball into his own net. The goal would have consequences for the Netherlands as Piet Schrijvers was injured on the play and had to be stretchered off for Jan Jongbloed. Italy dominated the remainder of the first half. In a physical match Johnny Rep was cautioned for fouling Romeo Benetti, who was later to pick up a yellow card himself for fouling Rensenbrink, meaning the Italian defender would miss the final should Italy reach it. Early in the second half Arie Haan was cautioned for a challenge on Marco Tardelli who later also picked up a yellow card meaning he too would miss Italy's next match. Some felt that Antonio Cabrini's challenge on Haan many felt warranted a red card, not just a yellow. Shortly after half time Brandts, who had earlier scored an own goal, blasted home a shot to equalize. Then fourteen minutes from time Haan hit an audacious shot 30 yards out that went off Zoff's left post and into the net.

See also
Austria at the FIFA World Cup
Germany at the FIFA World Cup
Italy at the FIFA World Cup
Netherlands at the FIFA World Cup

References

Groups
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title: Linda Dahle

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Linda Dahle (born 8 November 1991) is a German 4.5 point national wheelchair basketball player who plays for Hannover United, and for the German national team. She won a bronze medal at the U25 European Wheelchair Basketball Championships in August 2013, where she was the team's top scorer with 42 points. She made her senior national team debut in June 2014, winning silver at the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto.

Biography
Linda Dahle was born in Düsseldorf on 8 November 1991. When she was 16, she was forced to give up playing basketball due to severe cartilage damage in her left foot. She then took up wheelchair basketball, with a classification of 4.5 point, the lowest level of disability. She is studying social work degree at the University of Nijmegen.

Dahle moved to Cologne to play with its RBB 99ers. She also coached the U15 girls in Düsseldorf. In 2011, she played with the German team at the U25 Women's World Cup in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, where the German team came sixth. This was followed by a bronze medal at the U25 European Wheelchair Basketball Championships at Stoke Mandeville, England, in August 2013, where she was the team's top scorer with 42 points. She was also a key player in the Hot Rolling Bears' two point win over Bonn in  Wheelchair Basketball Junior National Championship in 2014.

In June 2014, Dahle joined the senior women's team for the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto, Canada. The German team won silver after being defeated by Canada in the final.

Achievements
 2013: Bronze at U25 European Wheelchair Basketball Championships (Stoke Mandeville, England)
 2014: Silver at the World Championships (Toronto, Canada)
 2015: Gold at the European Championships (Worcester, England)

Notes

German women's wheelchair basketball players
1991 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Düsseldorf


title: Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1007

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Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1007 (also known as LXX; P.Oxy. VII 1007; P.Lond.Lit. 199; TM 61956; LDAB 3113; Rahlfs 907) is a fragment of a Greek Septuagint manuscript written on parchment. The manuscript was discovered in Oxyrhynchus, modern El-Bahnasa, Egypt. Using the study of comparative writing styles (palaeography), the manuscript has been dated to the 3rd century CE.

Description

The manuscript is a codex (precursor to the modern book), containing sections of the Book of Genesis (2:7-9, 2:16-19 on the front; 2:23-3:1, 3:6-8 on the back) written in 33 lines in 2 columns. This manuscript contains the name of God "abbreviated by doubling the initial yod, written in the shape of a z with a horizontal line through the middle, and carried unbroken through both characters zz." The fragment is difficult to identify as either Christian or Jewish, as on the barely legible front side it contains the nomen sacrum ΘΣ (characteristic of Christian manuscripts) in Gen 2:18, and the name of God written in Hebrew with a double Yodh (characteristic of Jewish manuscripts).

Alan Mugridge states regarding LXX and Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 656:

History
The manuscript was published in The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, part VII, edited and translated by Arthur S. Hunt, London, 1910, pages 1 and 2. It was catalogued with the number 907 in the list of manuscripts of the Septuagint as classified by Alfred Rahlfs, and also signed as Van Haelst 5. It is given the identification 3113 on the
Leuven Database of Ancient Books.

Current location
The manuscript is located in the department of manuscripts in the British library, London (Inv. 2047).

References

Bibliography

External links

 Description of Manuscript at the British Library
 Images of P. Oxyrhynchus 1007 at the British Library
 The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Part 7 online at Archive.org

3rd-century biblical manuscripts
1007
Book of Genesis
Septuagint manuscripts


title: International Network of Women's Funds

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The International Network of Women's Funds (INWF) is a membership organisation bringing together women's funds from around the world, in order to promote "philanthropy with a feminist perspective". INWF was founded in 2000 with nine members, including the oldest international women's funds Mama Cash and the Global Fund for Women, and in 2014, had 42 members globally. From 2010, the Executive Director has been Emilienne de León (also known as Emilienne de León Aulina).

History
In 1999, the Global Fund for Women and Mama Cash brought together six women's funds from around the world for a brainstorming session. In 2000, the first meeting of INWF was held, with nine members. According to Shirley Waters, founder and chair of the Women's Hope and Education and Training Trust, "these international women's funds provide[d] an easily identifiable way to support the work of women's groups in other countries." Similarly, while discussing women's funds and the history of the INWF in 2013, Musimbi Kanyoro (CEO of the Global Fund for Women) said, "Organized philanthropy can make a difference if the funding is targeted towards addressing the root causes of women’s vulnerability."

References

External links
 Official International Network of Women’s Funds website

International women's organizations
Philanthropic organizations
Women's rights organizations
Women's organizations based in Mexico
Charities based in Mexico


title: First Men to the Moon

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First Men to the Moon is a novella by rocketry expert Wernher von Braun, published in 1960. The book was designed and illustrated by Fred Freeman. Portions of the novella had previously been serialized in the American syndicated Sunday magazine supplement, This Week between 1958 and 1959.

Von Braun dedicated the book to his daughters Iris and Margrit, "who will live in a world in which flights to the moon will be commonplace". It was included in The New York Times "[100] Outstanding Books for Young Readers" on November 13, 1960 and was translated into German as Erste Fahrt zum Mond and French as Les premiers hommes sur la lune, both published in 1961.

First Men to the Moon tells the story of John Mason and Larry Carter, fictional astronauts traveling to the Moon. Von Braun based his novella on his own scientific knowledge and includes technical explanations of the journey and diagrams in footnotes in wide margins on each page. The novella describes the use of a method of investigating the interior of the Moon using seismograph-equipped solid propellant rockets.

Reception
In a review of First Men to the Moon in Galaxy Science Fiction, Floyd C. Gale said that the fictional trip to the Moon was "highly detailed and absorbing", and praised the "exceptional" illustrations. He added that "[e]ven the best grounded SF buff will find new and astonishing material over which to dream". Writing in The New York Times in 1960, Henry W. Hubbard described the story as "average", but called the book "a standout" because of the "authority" von Braun brings to it. Hubbard said the marginal notes on the science behind the journey to the Moon are "excellent" and it is that "scientific solidity" that "is the book's greatest value".

Reviewing the book in Amazing Stories, S. E. Cotts wrote that while it appears to target young adults, the technical details of the voyage will appeal to older readers. He felt that where von Braun adds science to the story, the characters tend to become "experimental robots", but when he discusses the science separately in the book's copious margins, the author brings the tale "alive with authority and interest". Science fiction writer and critic, P. Schuyler Miller described the book as a "thin hybrid" of science and fiction. In a review in Analog Science Fact & Fiction, Miller said the book is "[t]echnically impeccable", but felt it is school library material and "offers very little to adult readers who have any knowledge of science fiction". Miller did, however, compliment the technical discussions and diagrams in the wide margins, adding that it made the book "unusual and interesting."

References

Works cited

External links

"Werner von Braun: An Ethical Analysis", Ian F. Crowley & Joshua R. Trudeau
Roger D. Launius, "The Legacy of Project Apollo", NASA History Office

1960 American novels
1960 science fiction novels
American science fiction novels
American speculative fiction novellas
Novels set on the Moon
Space exploration novels
Hard science fiction
Novels first published in serial form
Wernher von Braun
Holt, Rinehart and Winston books


title: Marsh Award for Conservation Biology

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The Marsh Award for Conservation Biology, established 1991, is an award run in partnership between the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and the Marsh Charitable Trust that recognises an individual for his or her "contributions of fundamental science to the conservation of animal species and habitats".

Recipients

1991 – Robert M. May
1992 – Derek A. Ratcliffe
1993 – Georgina M. Mace
1994 – Ian Newton
1995 – John Goss-Custard
1996 – Jeremy A. Thomas
1997 – Rhys E. Green
1998 – Peter S. Maitland
1999 – John Croxall
2000 – Andrew Balmford
2001 – E.J. Milner-Gulland
2002 – Callum Roberts
2003 – Stuart Pimm
2004 – Chris D. Thomas
2005 – William J. Sutherland
2006 – Sarah Wanless
2007 – Stuart Butchart
2008 – Isabelle M. Côté
2009 – Ana Rodrigues
2010 – Paul Donald
2011 – Jane Hill
2012 – Dave Goulson
2013 – Debbie Pain
2014 – Ben Collen
2015 – Stephen Redpath
2016 – Richard Griffiths
2017 – Susan Cheyne
2018 – Steffen Oppel
2020 - Michael W. Bruford
 2021 - Rosie Woodroffe
 2022 - Kate Jones

See also

 List of environmental awards

References

Ecology
1991 establishments in the United Kingdom
British awards
Environmental awards


title: Justine Lavea

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Justine Lavea (born 10 July 1984) is a former rugby union player. She represented  internationally, and Auckland provincially.

Biography
In 2000, Lavea made her provincial debut for Auckland at the age of 16.

Lavea represented New Zealand at the 2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens in Dubai. She was a member of the 2010 Rugby World Cup champion side, she started in the final against England. She was also selected for the squad to the 2014 Rugby World Cup in France.

Lavea was named in the squad to tour Canada for the inaugural 2015 Women's Rugby Super Series. She is the younger sister of fellow Black Fern, Vania Wolfgramm.

References

External links
Black Ferns Profile

1984 births
Living people
New Zealand women's international rugby union players
New Zealand female rugby union players
New Zealand female rugby sevens players
New Zealand women's international rugby sevens players
Auckland rugby union players
Rugby union flankers


title: Owensmouth

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Owensmouth was a town founded in 1912 in the western part of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County, California. Owensmouth joined the city of Los Angeles in 1917, and was renamed Canoga Park on March 1, 1931. Owensmouth was named for the 1913 Owens River aqueduct's terminus in current Canoga Park.

History
The town was started by the Los Angeles Suburban Homes Company as part of an extraordinary real estate development in Southern California. Los Angeles Suburban Homes Company was owned by a syndicate of rich Los Angeles investors, developers, and speculators: including Harrison Gray Otis, Harry Chandler, Moses Sherman, Hobart Johnstone Whitley, and others. On April 2, 1915, H. J. Whitley purchased the Suburban Home Company so that he would have complete control for finishing the development.  It anticipated possible connections to but was planned independent of the soon to be completed (1913) Los Angeles Aqueduct from the Owens River watershed to the City of Los Angeles through the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County.The newly built Sherman Way double drive and the Pacific Electric street cars, opened on December 7, 1912, gave new access to the town and to the other new towns in the valley Van Nuys (1911) and Marion (now Reseda);
At the time the new road and streetcar seemed like route to an open agricultural fields at the end of the line — but was a necessity to promote development. Sherman Way was a paved boulevard with lush landscaping and no speed limit where one might get up to 35 mph, there was a separate dirt road for farm wagons/equipment, and telegraph lines.

The new town had its problems, not till 1913 did electricity get installed. In 1916 there were only 200 residents. The town and orchards did not get any aqueduct water till 1917, when the City of Los Angeles annexed Owensmouth. The street, Owensmouth Avenue that runs north-south through the valley, is one of the few reminders of the 1910s.

 The community's name was changed to Canoga Park in 1931.
 Current West Hills, Los Angeles, was part of Owensmouth from 1912 to 1931. In 1987 West Hills was formed from a part of Canoga Park, creating a new community.
 Owensmouth Ave, a street running north and south through the San Fernando Valley just east of Topanga Canyon Blvd, from just south of the CA 118 to just north of CA 101.

 Owensmouth Line Street car line to Owensmouth ran from 1911 to 1952.
 San Fernando Line Street car line to Owensmouth (1911 to 1952). Built by Moses Sherman's Los Angeles Pacific Railroad sold to PE.
 Owensmouth Southern Pacific Railroad line and station opened in 1912. The 1912 station was at 21355 Sherman Way, Canoga Park, CA. The station was damaged by fire in 1995 and demolished.

 Part of the old Rancho El Escorpión was in Owensmouth. It was the original Mexican land grant.

 Los Angeles Suburban Homes Company was in Owensmouth. The company built homes, owned by Isaac Newton Van Nuys

 State Bank of Owensmouth, was in Owensmouth. Its President was H.J. Whitley.

 Owensmouth High School in Canoga Park, California, opened October 4, 1914; it is now called Canoga Park High School, the oldest High School in the west San Fernando Valley.
Owensmouth Continuation high school is in Canoga Park.

See also
 State Water Project
 Warner Center (Los Angeles Metro station)
 William Mulholland
 Glendale and Montrose Railway
 Bell Canyon Park
 Sherman Way station (G Line)

References

External links

 Canoga-Owensmouth Historical Museum
LADWP Los Angeles Aqueduct web site
Los Angeles Aqueduct Landscape Atlas
Mono Lake Committee Website
LADWP History page on William Mulholland
Los Angeles Aqueduct Slideshow
The William Mulholland Memorial Fountain
Los Angeles Aqueduct Digital Platform

Former settlements in Los Angeles County, California
West Hills, Los Angeles
History of the San Fernando Valley
Canoga Park, Los Angeles
Communities in the San Fernando Valley
History of Los Angeles


title: Oril

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The Oril () is a river in Ukraine, a left tributary of the river Dnieper. It is  long and its basin area is . The Oril finds its source near the village of Yefremivka in Lozova Raion, Kharkiv Oblast. It flows into the Dnieper near the city Dnipro.

References

 Географічна енциклопедія України: в 3-х томах / Редколегія: О. М. Маринич (відпов. ред.) та ін. — К.: «Українська радянська енциклопедія» імені М. П. Бажана, 1989.

Rivers of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
Rivers of Kharkiv Oblast
Rivers of Poltava Oblast


title: Arizona Fleming

text:
Arizona Fleming (March 23, 1884 – January 18, 1976) was an African-American small business owner from Richmond, Texas, who became part of the Civil Rights Movement by joining a lawsuit against an all-white political club that prevented black voters from participating in the Democratic Party Primary in Fort Bend County. While John Terry's name headed the legal petition, Fleming and Willie Melton provided much of the financial support and work behind the lawsuit. The case was won in United States District Court in 1950 and overturned on appeal in 1952. The case went before the United States Supreme Court in 1953 and African-Americans won full voting rights in the county. In 1994 Arizona Fleming Elementary School was opened in Fort Bend Independent School District.

Early life
On March 23, 1884, Arizona Fleming was born in Richmond, Texas, of parents Beauregard and Laura Fleming. She went to segregated schools through the 12th grade. She attended all-black Guadalupe College in Seguin, Texas, and then was employed as a bookkeeper at the Seagul Laundry in Houston. After four years she went back to her hometown of Richmond where she became a noted seamstress. She married F.A. Hicks on October 21, 1903, and married Robb Simmons on January 10, 1912. In 1927 she joined with several others to establish an undertaking company. After serving as secretary and manager for a few years she emerged as the sole proprietor. Her business survived the Great Depression with financial help from an uncle in Beaumont. Sometime afterward she became a homeowner.

Civil rights activist

In 1889 a white political faction called the Jaybirds seized control of the Fort Bend County government by violence in the Jaybird-Woodpecker War. Since the passage of the Reconstruction Acts in 1867, the black population and their white political allies had consistently won county elections and blacks often held political office. After 1889, the Jaybirds passed Jim Crow laws to ensure that no blacks, Hispanics or Jews were allowed to participate in the nomination of local Democratic Party candidates.

In 1950, a well-to-do African-American farmer, Willie Melton of Kendleton decided to challenge the restriction and vote in the Democratic primary. Melton enlisted NAACP attorney William J. Durham to notify the Jay Bird Democratic Association that they were violating the laws and that blacks wanted to vote in the primary. The Jay Bird Association countered that they were a private club and were within their rights to restrict membership.

Fleming and others soon joined Melton. She threw herself into the project and lent her name to local efforts to end racial discrimination. After unsuccessfully trying to interest Texas Attorney General Price Daniel in the case, Melton approached J. Edwin Smith of a Houston law firm. He was advised to enlist plaintiffs in the lawsuit against the Jay Bird Association but this proved to be difficult because African-Americans feared retaliation. Finally a number of persons over 60 years old agreed to join the case, including 77-year-old John Terry of Beasley, whose name appeared at the top of the petition. In the end, Melton and Fleming paid the bulk of the legal fees although they were assisted by the NAACP, black churches and wealthy Houston blacks.

The United States District Court for the Southern District ruled in favor of their suit on May 1, 1950. The court determined that the Jay Bird Association operated as a political party and therefore came under federal statutes that protected voting rights. With Melton as president and Fleming as secretary, the Fort Bend Civic Club was set up and started getting out the black vote. In the subsequent primary, 400 of the 550 eligible African-American voters went to the polls and no incidents of violence were reported. However, on January 11, 1952 the Jay Bird Association got the verdict overturned by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

After more fund-raising efforts, the Fort Bend Civic Club scraped together $6,000 to pursue the case to the highest court. On May 4, 1953, the United States Supreme Court upheld the original District Court ruling in Terry v. Adams. Of the litigants, only Melton and Fleming were present at the high court session. The case determined that African-Americans in Fort Bend County had the right to vote. The cost of the litigation impoverished Fleming, though she announced, "I'd do it all over again". She died in Richmond on January 18, 1976, and is interred in the Mount Carmel Baptist Church cemetery. In 1994 an elementary school in the Fort Bend Independent School District was named after her.

See also
 History of African Americans in Houston

References

People from Richmond, Texas
Activists for African-American civil rights
1884 births
1976 deaths
Activists from Texas


title: Udai (river)

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The Udai or Udaj () is a river in Ukraine, a right tributary of the Sula, in the basin of Dnieper. It is  long, and has a drainage basin of .

The Udai finds its source near the village of Rozhnivka in Pryluky Raion, Chernihiv Oblast. The river flows through the Dnieper Lowland, within the Chernihiv Oblast and the Poltava Oblast. It is predominantly fed by melting snow (nival regime). It freezes between November and early January, and it stays under the ice until March to mid April. The average discharge of the Uday at 39 km from the mouth is .

The towns of Pryluky and Pyriatyn lie on the Udai, as well as the urban-type settlements of Dihtiari, Varva, Ladan, and the village(selo) of Pisky-Udajsjki.

Tributaries
Left: Burymnya, Ichenka, Radkivka, Smosh, Utka, Lysohir, Varva, Zhuravka, Mnoha.
Right: Halka, Yushchenkova, Stavka, Perevid, Vilshanka.

References

Geographical Encyclopedia of Ukraine: 3 t. / Editorial Board: O. M. Marinych (repl. Ed.) And others. - K.: "Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia" by them. M.P. Bazhana, 1989.
Encyclopedia of Ukrainian Studies: Dictionary part: [in 11 vols] / Scientific society named after Shevchenko; Goal. Ed. Prof. Dr. Volodymyr Kubiyovych. - Paris; New York: Young Life; Lviv; Kyiv: Globus, 1955–2003.
Hydrochemistry of the rivers of the Left Bank forest-steppe / Ed. VK Khilchevsky, VA Stashuk. - K .: Nika-Center, 2014. - 230 p.
Lozovitsky P.S. Environmental assessment of the quality of the water of the upper Uday as a basis for the organization of monitoring of the ecosystems of the national natural parks of the basin [Text] / P.S. Lozovitsky / / Protected case 2016. - No. 1 (22). - with. 21-35
Priluki.info

Rivers of Chernihiv Oblast
Rivers of Poltava Oblast


title: List of Six Nations Championship hat-tricks

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A hat-trick in rugby union, the scoring of three tries or three drop goals in a single match, has been achieved 55 times in the history of the Six Nations Championship. The annual competition, established in 1882, was originally known as the Home Nations Championship and contested between England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. It was expanded to the Five Nations when France joined in 1910, and then to the Six Nations with the addition of Italy in 2000.

The first player to achieve the feat was Charles Wade, who was an Australian student at Oxford University when he was called up as a travelling reserve for England's match against Wales. When Philip Newton got lost on his way to the match, Wade was instated in his place. He scored three tries in England's 2–0 victory, which was the first match of the championship. At that time, a try by itself was not worth any points but allowed the team to try and kick a goal. George Lindsay scored five tries in Scotland's 4–0 win over Wales in 1887, the most tries scored by a single player in a Championship match.

Besides Lindsay, six players have scored more than three tries in a Championship match; of these Ian Smith is the only player to achieve the feat twice. He scored four tries in successive matches during the 1925 Five Nations Championship. Wales' Jehoida Hodges normally played as a forward, but after an injury to winger Tom Pearson during a match against England, Hodges was moved to the wing. Despite playing out of position, he scored a hat-trick in a 21–5 victory for Wales. As of 2017, the only forwards to score a Championship hat-trick while actually playing in the forwards are Michel Crauste; he scored three tries for France in their 13–0 victory over England in 1962 and CJ Stander; he scored three tries for Ireland in a 63–10 win over Italy in 2017.

Four players have scored a hat-trick of drop goals: Pierre Albaladejo, Jean-Patrick Lescarboura, Diego Dominguez and Neil Jenkins. No Italian has scored a hat-trick of tries in the competition, with Dominguez's hat-trick of drop goals the only one by an Italian player. English players have scored the most hat-tricks with 18, while France, Ireland and Scotland have conceded the most, with 12 each. Three players have scored a hat-trick and been on the losing side; Robert Montgomery in Ireland's 0–1 loss to Wales in 1887, Howard Marshall in England's 11–12 defeat to Wales in 1893, and Émile Ntamack in France's 33–34 loss to Wales in 1999. Lescarboura's hat-trick against England in 1985 and Jenkins' against Scotland in 2001, are the only times the feat has been achieved with the match ending in a draw. The most recent hat-trick was achieved by Blair Kinghorn (Scotland) against Italy on 18 March 2023.

Hat-tricks

 All statistics are correct as of 6 February 2022.

Tries

Multiple hat-tricks

Drop goals

Player hat-tricks by their national team

See also
List of Rugby World Cup hat-tricks
List of Six Nations Championship Player of the Championship winners
List of Six Nations Championship records

Footnotes

Bibliography

References
General

Specific

Six Nations Hat-trick
hat-tricks
Lists of rugby union hat-tricks


title: Shark: Mind of a Demon

text:
Shark: Mind of a Demon With Fabien Cousteau was a 2006 documentary/reality television special.  The film was the result of an attempt by Fabien Cousteau to study the great white shark in its natural surroundings using a submarine shaped like a shark called Troy.

Background
Typically, filmmakers throw large amounts of bait into the water to attract sharks for filming purposes, in a practicing knowing as chumming.  Photographers are housed in protective shark cages while filming.  The chum leads to aggressive behavior, and to enhance the footage, bait is pulled toward the cameraman in the cage.  The result is captivating footage of open-mouthed sharks, but such footage does not represent typical shark behavior.

In an attempt to get more natural shark footage, Fabien Cousteau, grandson of famous oceanographer Jacques Cousteau, contracted with engineer Eddie Paul to build a shark-shape submarine named Troy. "I wanted to go beyond the cage," Fabien Cousteau explained, "go beyond that blind and intermingle with these animals as one of them."  Sharks appeared to view Troy as another shark, allowing Cousteau to observe the animal in a more natural way.

Film
Using Troy, Cousteau filmed about 170 hours of footage which was used to make a documentary called Shark: Mind of a Demon.  Originally titled Demon of the Deep, the film was produced by Deep Blue Productions and aired on CBS on June 28, 2006.  Susan Zirinsky was the executive producer.

Underwater footage was drawn primarily from Guadalupe Island, Mexico.  Cousteau had originally planned to film in Australia as well, but budget constraints prevented it.  The raw footage was also made available for scientific study.

Synopsis
Shark: Mind of a Demon has been described as "more reality show than documentary".  It tracks the "problem-plagued" development and deployment of Troy, spanning two years of Cousteau's life.  On multiple occasions the vessel stops functioning, leaving Cousteau stuck at the bottom of the sea.  On one such occasion, he is cut off from his support staff and forced to swim to safety in the dark.  On another occasion, Troy crashed and got pinned at the bottom of the sea.  After some tense moments, Cosuteau's dive team was eventually able to free it.  The frequent problems lead to tensions between Cousteau and his support team, which included his sister Céline Cousteau.  "I began thinking of Fabian pretty derogatory", says one crew member. "I didn't know whether he was trying to ride the laurels of his name."

Reception
National Public Radio critic Andrew Wallenstein said he rarely enjoys watching shark footage, but found Mind of a Demon "absorbing" but "not quite for the reasons intended".  He said he found the tensions between Cousteau and his crew to be "far more compelling" than the shark footage, and said he did not learn anything about sharks.  "I'm not even sure what Cousteau's innovative approach actually yielded in terms of footage", Wallenstein concluded.  "There's nothing in Mind of a Demon that uncovers the secret world of sharks."

Writing for The New York Post, Linda Stasi said Mind of a Demon started out promising, but ended up "as a self-indulgent vanity project."  She called it a "dopey, if well-intentioned journey" and said the only interesting part was the dynamic between Cousteau and the support ship's captain.  In contrast, Alex Strachan of Canwest News Service called Mind of a Demon "fun, entertaining and informative".  Writing for USA Today, Robert Bianco called the show "impressive and frightening, if a bit odd".

References

External links

American documentary films
CBS network films
Documentary films about marine biology
2006 television films
2006 films
2000s American films


title: Aroha Savage

text:
Aroha Savage (born 11 March 1990) is a rugby union player. She plays for  and Auckland. She previously played for the Blues Women in the Super Rugby Aupiki competition. She has competed for the Black Ferns at three Rugby World Cup's — 2010, 2014 and 2017.

Rugby career

Provincial
Savage debuted for the Auckland Storm in 2007 as a 17-year-old. She helped the Storm to several provincial titles, she then moved to Counties Manukau in 2013 and helped them win the 2016 Farah Palmer Cup title. She later moved to Northland in 2020.

International
Savage was a member of the 2010 Rugby World Cup winning squad. On 24 August 2010, she made her test debut for the Black Ferns aged 20 against the Wallaroos at the Rugby World Cup.

Savage was in the Black Ferns squad for the 2013 International Series against .

Savage was named in the squad to the 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup in France. She was also included in the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup squad.

On 3 November 2021, She was named as captain of the Blues squad for the inaugural Super Rugby Aupiki competition. She started in the Blues 0–35 thrashing by the Chiefs Manawa in the final round.

In 2022, She signed with Hurricanes Poua for the 2023 Super Rugby Aupiki season.

References

External links
 Aroha Savage at Black Ferns

1990 births
Living people
New Zealand women's international rugby union players
New Zealand female rugby union players
Rugby union locks
Auckland rugby union players


The Greek Minor Prophets Scroll from Nahal Hever (8HevXII gr) is a Greek manuscript of a revision of the Septuagint dated to the 1st century BC and the 1st century CE. The manuscript is kept in the Rockefeller Museum in Jerusalem. It was first published by Dominique Barthélemy in 1963. The Rahlfs-Siglum is 943.

Discovery and history
In the 1st century CE, the 8HevXII gr with several documents was taken by Jewish fugitives (Bar Kokhba's troops, women and children) who were taking refuge in the Caves of Nahal Hever. After accepting their death, unable to leave because of the presence of Roman camps outside the caves, who besieged the inmates as a military camp located above the cave shows, the refugees decided to make a large bonfire and burn all their belongings, but buried the Greek Minor Prophets Scroll and other important documents between the rocks of the end chamber. Inside the caves, a burnt layer was found which suggests that the last inhabitants of the cave had burned all their possessions. The scroll had been buried, and other documents that would have provided information about other insurgents that wanted to destroy them so as not to let them fall into the hands of the Romans. This practice is mainly known from the later Jewish tradition (Geniza), but was also observed in this twelve-prophet scroll apparently from Wadi Murabba'at.

Between 1946 and 1947 the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered by Bedouins. Since 1948, Nahal Hever has been part of Israel, but the Bedouins reported that the manuscripts came from Wadi Seiyal to legitimize their possession. Due to the excavations of the Bedouins, the archaeological context could no longer be determined. The Bedouins sold their finds to researchers in East Jerusalem, which was under Jordanian control at the time, while Wadi Seiyal was in Israel.

From 1952 to 1954 the manuscripts that comprised what was known as the Seiyâl collection was acquired by the Palestine Archaeological Museum (today is Rockefeller Museum), from clandestine excavators. Among the fragments were also parts of a scroll of the Twelve Prophets book, and were catalogued as Se2grXII (Seiyâl Collection No. 2).

In 1953, scarcely a year after the Bedouin had brought these materials to the École biblique et archéologique française in Jordanian Jerusalem, Dominique Barthélemy published a "brief analysis of the fragments" in French of the Greek Minor Prophets scroll from the then "unknown provenance" somewhere south of Wadi Murabba'at.

Amongst other things, in response to rumors that parts of the sold scrolls came from Israel, Hebrew University of Jerusalem sent two expeditions, in 1960 and 1961, for exploration through the Wadi to the west of the Dead Sea. In the expedition B of the company in spring 1961 under the direction of Yohanan Aharoni, who examined mainly the caves on the southern edge of Nahal Hever, in Cave no. 8 (the Cave of Horror) it found, among other things, fragments of the Greek scroll. Most of which only a few centimeters between large fragments could still be associated with the twelve minor prophets. It also became apparent relatively quickly that the fragments were parts of the same scroll that had been purchased ten years earlier. The locality of this role - as well as most of the other scrolls of the Seiyâl Collection - was therefore contrary to the specification of the Bedouin of the Nachal Hever determined before

The other fragments found in expedition B of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in cave No. 8 in Nahal Hever (Judean Desert) named Cave of Horror, were examined by Baruch Lifshitz. Lifshitz published the Se2grXII fragments together with the other new fragments found in the Cave of Horror. In 1961 and 1962, Lifshitz published the fragments with photographs in Yediot and in Israel Exploration Journal which Emanuel Tov called "the first edition, still substandard". Tov wrote that "these small fragments were published by B. Lifshitz, "The Greek Documents from th Cave of Horror," IEJ 12 (1962) 201-7 as well as in a Hebrew Version." Lifshitz thinks that there are two apart manuscripts of the Greek Minor Prophets Scroll because repeated biblical verses appear in his textual identifications.

In 1963 Dominique Barthélemy publishes his preliminary study in French, and describes in detail the facts of the discovering of the scroll. Here he publishes the main text, but there are still some unidentified fragments.

Already in 1990 Emanuel Tov published the textual edition of the Greek Minor Prophets Scroll from Nahal Hever. Throughout studies of the fragments, and in reference works, acronyms such as Se2grXII, LXXIEJ12, LXXVTS10a, Rahlfs 493a, 8HevXIIa, LXXVTS10b, Rahlfs 493b, 8HevXIIa, Rahlfs 493 and 8HevXII have been used, so in 1990, Emanuel Tov, Robert A. Kraft and Peter J. Parsons recommend that scholars use the acronym 8HevXIIgr, becoming the modern sigla. Tov, as well as George Howard, agree that if Lifshitz's identifications are correct, then there are two manuscripts of the Minor Prophets.

New discovery 2021
New fragments have been found in 2021 and are being studied for the textual reconstruction of the manuscript.

Description

Version
Since its discovery, the editors agree that this is an early revision of the Septuagint in alignment with the Hebrew text. Dominique Barthélemy established that text found "is neither a new translation nor an independent one, but rather a recension of the Septuagint text". According to Tuukka Kauhanen, a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Faculty of Theology at University of Helsinki, this manuscript is an early Hebraizing revision (i.e. in B-text of books such as Joshua, Judges, and Samuel-Kings), Eugene C. Ulrich wrote "attests the recension commonly referred to as Proto-Theodotion or καιγε" recension, which is reaffirmed by Pavlos D. Vasileiadis, a Doctor of Theology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. James A.E. Mulroney quoting Emanuel Tov, Robert A. Kraft and Peter J. Parsons claim that "although 8HevXIIgr was a revision of OG towards the proto-MT, it retained significant continuity with the OG text… was a revision, not a new translation". David L. Washburn wrote that is a direct translation from an MT-type manuscript into Greek, i.e. not part of the Septuagint tradition.

Dimensions and content

The roll is one of the partially preserved, basically better in the lower part. Only column 8 contains parts of all four edges, from most other columns usually only the lower one as well, parts of the right or left edge. Reconstruction attempts show that the average number of lines per column is about 42. In contrast, in the back part, which can be assigned to another hand, the letters are written larger, and therefore the columns contain only 33 lines. The columns therefore had a height of about 27 cm. The column width, however, varies between 7.5 and 9 cm or 29 and 43 letters, in the back even only 22-24 letters. This is apparently related to the width of the individual leather sheets sewn together into a roll. While the sheets themselves were different in width, the columns appear to have been drawn relatively evenly on a sheet. The height of the roll can finally be determined with about 35 cm. Calculations on the number of columns depend very much on what content the role had. Assuming an originally complete twelve-prophecy book, the role should have included between 80 and 94 columns, which would correspond to about 9.6 – 10 m. The role would be longer than any surviving scrolls from Qumran. However, only parts of the books Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah and Zechariah are identified.

Text and scribe
As differences in letter form and size show, the manuscript was written by two different scribes. On the other hand, the assumption that instead the fragments should be divided into two different roles is less likely. The cause of the various clerk hands, however, is unclear. Either the role was first started by a writer and later ended by a second, or else the leather sheets with the second manuscript were inserted for repair. Several lines have been left between the individual books, but possible book titles are not attested. The continuous text is divided into larger and smaller sections, and it is even possible to observe a division into verses. The division into units of meaning agrees largely with the division of the Masoretic text in Setumot and Petuchot. To mark such sections, either draw a horizontal line between the lines - an paragraph - or the new line starts slightly to the left and with a slightly larger initial letter. Between individual words of a verse, however, at first hand there is usually no gap left.

Tetragrammaton

This manuscript shows the use of the tetragrammaton in the 1st century. Clearly Jewish manuscripts of Greek translations of the Old Testament (Septuagint, Proto-Masoretic, kaige, the translations of Aquila of Sinope, Symmachus the Ebionite, Theodotion and the Hexapla) differ from clearly Christian manuscripts in not using Kύριος or the nomina sacra  and  (with a horizontal line above the contracted words) to represent the Tetragrammaton. Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1007 is in fact difficult to identify as either Christian or Jewish, as on the barely legible recto side (in Gen 2:18) it contains the nomen sacrum  (characteristic of Christian manuscripts) and the Tetragrammaton represented as a double yodh יי (characteristic of Jewish manuscripts). According to Edmon L. Gallagher, a faculty member of Heritage Christian University, "extant Greek manuscripts from Qumran and elsewhere that are unambiguously Jewish (because of the date) also include several ways of representing the Divine Name, none of which was with κύριος, the term used everywhere in our Christian manuscripts". He concludes that there is no certainty about whether it was a Jew or a Christian who transcribed the Cairo Genizah  manuscripts of the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible by Aquila (not the LXX), in which the Tetragrammaton is generally given in paleo-Hebrew letters but in one instance, where there was insufficient space at the end of a line, by , the nomen sacrum rendering of the genitive case of Κύριος. Jewish manuscripts, such as those found in Qumran, did not render it into Greek, but instead reproduced it within the Greek text in several different ways. Some gave it in either Hebrew, Aramaic or paleo-Hebrew letters. Others transliterated it in Greek characters as ΠΙΠΙ or ΙΑΩ.

In this manuscript the tetragrammaton in Old Hebrew script appears in Jon 3:3; Jon 4:2; Mic 1:1, 3; Mic 4:4, 5, 7; Mic 5:4, 4; Hab 2:14, 16, 20; Hab 3:9; Zep 1:3, 14; Zep 2:10; Zec 1:3, 3, 4; Zec 3:5, 6, 7; Zec 8:20; 9:1, 1, 4. The scribe himself seems to have inserted the paleo-Hebrew characters directly, probably from left to right, contrary to the normal direction for Hebrew, when writing the Greek text. George Howard states, in Journal of Biblical Literature (1977):

It has the tetragrammaton everywhere in the phrase ἄγγελος יהוה (Angel of YHWH) instead of ἄγγελος Κυρίου (Angel of the Lord) in Zech 3:1-2, 5 and 6. The oldest example of ἄγγελος Κυρίου is in P. Oxy. 1166 from 3rd century, more than two centuries after LXXVTS10a.

In March 2021, archaeologists announced the discovery of a Dead Sea Scroll, this time written in Hebrew, that also wrote the Tetragrammaton in the paleo-Hebrew script.

See also
 Kaige revision

References

Bibliography
 Dominique Barthélemy: Les devanciers d’Aquila. Supplements to Vetus Testamentum 10. Leiden 1963.

External links

 Full text from the fragment of the scroll 8HevXII gr (pdf file)
 Images of the Scroll scanned

1st-century biblical manuscripts
1952 archaeological discoveries
1961 archaeological discoveries
Archaeological discoveries in Israel
Dead Sea Scrolls
Septuagint manuscripts


title: Luhan (river)

text:
The Luhan or Lugan (; ), also known as the Luhanka or Luganka (), is a river in the Donbas region of Ukraine, a right tributary of the Seversky Donets, in the basin of the Don. It is  long, and has a drainage basin of . The city of Luhansk, which stands where the river  flows into the Luhan, took its name from the river. The Luhan river rises in the eastern part of Horlivka in Donetsk Oblast.

References

 Географічна енциклопедія України: в 3-х томах / Редколегія: О. М. Маринич (відпов. ред.) та ін. — К.: «Українська радянська енциклопедія» імені М. П. Бажана, 1989.

Rivers of Donetsk Oblast
Rivers of Luhansk Oblast


title: Richard B. Mather

text:
Richard Burroughs Mather (November 11, 1913 – November 28, 2014) was an American Sinologist who was a professor of Chinese at the University of Minnesota for 35 years.

Life and career
Richard Burroughs Mather was born on November 11, 1913, in Baoding, China, where his American parents were serving as Protestant missionaries.  He lived in China for his entire youth before going to the United States in the early 1930s to attend Princeton University, where he graduated with a B.A. summa cum laude in 1935.  Even though he intended to return to China after his graduation, he was unable to do so due to the chaos of World War II.  Instead, he entered the University of California, Berkeley, as a graduate student, where he earned a Ph.D. in Chinese literature in 1949 with a dissertation entitled, "The Doctrine of Non-Duality in the Vimalakīrtinirdeśa Sūtra."

Once he received his Ph.D. in 1949, Richard B. Mather was hired as a professor at the University of Minnesota, where he founded the Chinese program and developed its courses. Professor Mather taught full-time at the University of Minnesota until he was forced to retire in 1984 because of a university policy that required professors to retire at age 70.  However, because of his specialized wealth of knowledge in classical Chinese, especially in the Chinese Six Dynasties period (220-589), he was allowed to teach part-time for several years after that and do directed studies for advanced students in Chinese.

After he completely retired from university teaching In the late 1990s, Professor Mather and another retired Chinese Professor at the University of Minnesota, Chun-jo Liu, teamed up to form a private Chinese reading and translating group.  The group was composed of Chinese professors and other highly educated individuals who had an advanced knowledge of Chinese, especially classical Chinese.  The group would generally meet once or twice a week to read Chinese literature and poetry and then translate it into English.  The group also participated in Chinese language conferences at which their panel members would read papers on their particular areas of interest and research.

In early 2009, the group switched its focus from reading and translating Chinese to working on getting Professor Mather's biography of his father, William Arnot Mather, and his own autobiography published as a single-volume memoir.  The group that worked on it consisted of Professor Mather and his wife, Virginia Mather; Professor Chun-jo Liu as the project coordinator; classical Chinese specialist James M. Kindler as the editor, typist, and author of the Afterword; Gary August as the official artist, who painted two separate paintings for the book (one of Professor and Mrs. Mather standing by two Chinese scrolls, and one of the Great Wall of China); Professor P. Richard Bohr as the author of the foreword; Daniel H. Donnelly as the copyright specialist; Professor Alan L. Kagan as the group treasurer; Mae A. Kindler as the technical consultant; James H. Nebel as the multimedia talk show host, who interviewed Professor and Mrs. Mather, Professor Chun-jo Liu, and James Kindler for a television special; and Wang Nai-chen as a major financial contributor.  By October 2010, the Mather family memoir was completed by the group and published by Edwin Mellen Press in Lewiston, New York.  On December 3, 2010, the Chinese reading and translating group then hosted a private, by-invitation-only memoir party for Professor and Mrs. Mather to honor them for their success in getting Professor Mather's family memoir published.

The short biography of Richard B. Mather from that family memoir, "William Arnot Mather, American Missionary to China and Richard Burroughs Mather, Professor of Chinese: The Biography and Autobiography of a Father and a Son," is as follows: "Richard B. Mather, an ordained Presbyterian minister and a professor emeritus of Chinese language and literature at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, is a world-renowned specialist of the Chinese Six Dynasties period (220-589).  As the author of several noteworthy books, he is especially well-known for his monumental English translation of the Chinese classic, "Shih-shuo Hsin-yü," by Liu I-ch'ing (403-444).  He and Virginia, his wife of 71 years, reside in Falcon Heights, Minnesota."

A festschrift in honor of Richard B. Mather was published by the T'ang Studies Society in Provo, Utah, in 2003.  Its title is "Studies in Early Medieval Chinese Literature and Cultural History: In Honor of Richard B. Mather & Donald Holzman."  This special festschrift was edited by Paul W. Kroll & David R Knechtges, both of whom are professors of Chinese, and it includes contributions by ten Chinese specialists.  The section specifically about Professor Mather is found on pages (xii)-xxiii: a color photo of Professor Mather is on page (xii), his biography is on pages xiii-xviii, and his bibliography is on pages xix-xxiii.

The Princeton Alumni Weekly (July 15, 2009 - Volume 109, Number 16) featured a short article by Stephen Dittmann about Richard B. Mather that mentions Professor Mather's final book ("William Arnot Mather, American Missionary to China and Richard Burroughs Mather, Professor of Chinese") and provides several paragraphs of biographical information on Professor Mather.  Professor Mather was a Princeton graduate of 1935.  A memorial to Richard B. Mather was also published in the Princeton Alumni Weekly (December 2, 2015 - Volume 116, Number 5) that provides a black & white graduation picture and a brief biography.

Richard B. Mather is best known for his monumental translation of the early medieval Chinese prose collection, "Shih-shuo Hsin-yü: A New Account of Tales of the World" (published title in Wade–Giles); "Shìshuō xīnyǔ" (title in modern Pinyin); 世說新語 (title in Chinese characters).

Selected works
 Mather, Richard B., The Chinese-American Song and Game Book.  New York: A.S. Barnes and Company, 1944.
 Mather, Richard B., The Doctrine of Non-Duality in the Vimalakīrtinirdeśa Sūtra.  Ph.D. dissertation. Berkeley, California: University of California, Berkeley, 1949.
 Mather, Richard B., 1913-2014 (author/translator). Biography of Lü Kuang: [Annotated translation of Chin shu 122]. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1959.
  2nd edition (2002), University of Michigan, Center for Chinese Studies.

 Mather, Richard B., 1913-2014 (author); Kindler, James M. (editor); August, Gary (artist); Bohr, P. Richard (Foreword author); Kindler, James M. (Afterword author). William Arnot Mather, American Missionary to China and Richard Burroughs Mather, Professor of Chinese: The Biography and Autobiography of a Father and a Son. Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2010. One volume, 61 numbered pages; Illustrated with numerous black & white photographs, including the family portrait on the front cover; Index, pages 53–61. 8vo: original grey boards with black and red printing.  .

References
Footnotes

Works cited
University of Minnesota, Department of Asian Languages and Literature Blog, Professor Richard B. Mather Turns 100 Today!

1913 births
2014 deaths
People from Falcon Heights, Minnesota
American sinologists
American centenarians
Men centenarians
American expatriates in China


title: Ian Borthwick

text:
Ian Borthwick  is a former independent politician  initially a member of the Labour Party  who served in local government starting in 1963, and was Lord Provost of Dundee between 2017 and 2022.

He was Scotland's longest-serving councillor and Dundee's oldest politician, having celebrated fifty years in local government in June 2013. He was first elected to Dundee Town Council in 1963, then joined Tayside Regional Council in 1975 and Dundee City Council in 1996.

In 2017, Borthwick became Lord Provost of Dundee at the age of 78, following an agreement which saw the SNP group on the council form a minority administration.

In 2022, Borthwick retired after sixty years as a councillor and five years as the city's lord provost.

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Independent politicians in the United Kingdom
Lord Provosts of Dundee


title: Velyka Vys

text:
The Velyka Vys () is a river in Ukraine, a left tributary of the Synyukha, in the basin of the Southern Bug. It is  long and its basin area is . The Velyka Vys river finds its source near the village of Onykiyeve in Novoukrainka Raion, Kirovohrad Oblast. It flows through Novomyrhorod.

References

 Географічна енциклопедія України: в 3-х томах / Редколегія: О. М. Маринич (відпов. ред.) та ін. — К.: «Українська радянська енциклопедія» імені М. П. Бажана, 1989.

Rivers of Cherkasy Oblast
Rivers of Kirovohrad Oblast


title: Martín Garatuza (TV series)

text:
Martín Garatuza is a Mexican telenovela produced by Fernando Moret and Rosy Ocampo for Televisa in 1986. The plot is based on the life of Martín Garatuza, a Mexican trickster of the 17th century.

Manuel Landeta and Cecilia Toussaint starred as protagonists, Eduardo Capetillo and Cecilia Tijerina starred as co-protagonists, while Julieta Egurrola, Raquel Olmedo, Claudio Báez, Alonso Echánove, Surya MacGregor, Óscar Traven and Alberto Estrella starred as antagonists. Rita Guerrero and Mariana Levy starred as stellar performances.

Cast
 Manuel Landeta as Martín Garatuza
 Mariana Levy as Beatriz de Rivera
 Eduardo Capetillo as Román Garatuza
 Julieta Egurrola as Bruja Sarmiento
 Claudio Báez as Pedro de Mejía
 Alonso Echánove as El Ahuizote
 Óscar Traven as Alonso de River
 Cecilia Toussaint as Antonio de Araujo
 Cecilia Tijerina as Lucía de Rivera
 Rafael Rojas as César de Villaclara
 Rita Guerrero as Blanca de Mejía
 Álvaro Cerviño as Fernando de Quesada
 Surya MacGregor as Luisa Pérez de Varaiz
 Alberto Estrella as Carlos de Arellano
 Héctor Álvarez as Guillén
 Raquel Olmedo as Princess of Eboli
 Lupita Sandoval as Andrea
 Antonio Serrano as Teodoro
 Leonor Llausás as Cleofas
 Maripaz García as Lucrecia
 Jaime Vega as Anselmo
 Fernanda Ruizos as Berenice
 Álvaro Guerrero as Santillana
 Javier Díaz Dueñas as Virrey
 Juan Carlos Bidault as Román Garatuza (child)

References

External links

1986 telenovelas
1986 Mexican television series debuts
1986 Mexican television series endings
Spanish-language telenovelas
Television shows set in Mexico
Television series set in the 17th century
Televisa telenovelas


title: Timothy B

text:
Timothy B is the second solo studio album by Timothy B. Schmit, the bassist and co-lead vocalist for the Eagles. The album was released in 1987 on MCA Records in the United States and Europe, three years after Schmit's debut solo studio album, Playin' It Cool (1984) and seven years after the demise of the Eagles. The album peaked at #106 on the Billboard 200 chart, and the single, "Boys Night Out", hit #25 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, becoming Schmit's best selling single. The album was produced by Richard Rudolph, and it was co-produced by Bruce Gaitsch.

Background
When Schmit was asked about why there were less notable musicians compared to his last album, he said "I decided to stay out of the real glamour studios and to keep the clientele down too. I did it on purpose mainly for less distractions. I mean I really knew what I wanted to do on this album and I decided purposely not to use my famous and semi-famous friends just to have it be more of what I can do on my own. And that's really the reason."

Critical reception
Reviewing for AllMusic, critic Bruce Eder wrote of the album "The tunes and the songs are good enough, and Schmit is in superb voice, and you have to love the luminous guitar sound in evidence throughout. But it's all a little reminiscent of what happened to the Eagles once they became a top arena act -- all of a sudden, their sound started to get bigger and heavier than their music could carry comfortably."

Track listing

Personnel
 Timothy B. Schmit – lead vocals, backing vocals (1, 9), bass (2), cymbals (9)
 Bruce Gaitsch – programming, guitars
 Randy Waldman – keyboards (2), acoustic piano (4, 6, 7), trumpet (7), synthesizers (8)
 Robert Irving – keyboards (2)
 Alan Kendall – guitars
 Jonathan Moffett – cymbals (1, 3, 9), percussion (6)
 Jim Horn – baritone saxophone (9)
 Larry Williams – tenor saxophone (9)
 Gary Grant – trumpet (9)
 Jerry Hey – trumpet (9), horn arrangements (9)
 Siedah Garrett – backing vocals (1, 9), chorus backing vocals (7)
 Julia Waters – backing vocals (1, 9)

Production
 Richard Rudolph – producer, additional engineer
 Bruce Gaitsch – co-producer, engineer
 Robert Irving – additional engineer
 Robbie Weaver – additional engineer
 Bud Rizzo – assistant engineer
 Bill Bottrell – mixing
 Bob Fudjinski – mix assistant
 Doug Parry – mix assistant
 Bernie Grundman – mastering
 Jeff Adamoff – art direction
 Ron Larson – design
 Randee St. Nicholas – photography
 Front Line Management – management

Studios
 Recorded at The Studio (Woodland Hills, CA); Zebra Studio (Studio City, CA); Robert Irving Studios and Bossa Nova Hotel (Los Angeles, CA).
 Mixed at Smoketree Ranch (Chatsworth, CA).
 Mastered at Bernie Grundman Mastering (Hollywood, CA).

Chart performance

Album

Singles

References

External links

1987 albums
Timothy B. Schmit albums
MCA Records albums