title: Lewis Wharf

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Lewis Wharf is a showpiece of waterfront urban renewal in Boston's historic North End. The granite structures on the wharf were built as an early 19th-century shopping mall in the era before railroads when water transport was the most efficient way to move commodities to marketplaces.

History

Boston was the trade center of the colonial Province of Massachusetts Bay. Waterfront property was developed as a shopping center of stores selling goods unloaded from adjoining wharfs. Property was owned by wealthy wharfingers who collected fees from ships loading or unloading cargoes and leased the stores and warehouse space to local merchants who purchased, stored and sold those cargoes. Lewis Wharf was within an area known as Clark's Wharf while owned by provincial councilor William Clark. It was later owned by Thomas Hancock and inherited by his nephew John Hancock in 1764. Thomas Lewis of Lynn, Massachusetts, was a successful merchant during the years following the American Revolution. He reorganized a portion of the property from John Hancock's estate in 1793 as Thomas Lewis and Son with three leased stores. Thomas Lewis had three sons: Thomas, David and John. Thomas assumed control of the wharf when his father died in 1809. John became heir to the property when his brother died in 1824. John and his cousin Samuel G. Lewis established the Lewis Wharf Company in 1834, and upgraded the property with stores which were among the earliest granite masonry buildings in Boston.

Lewis Wharf stores represented the apex of New England marketplace architecture in the age of water transport. Merchandise arrived at the wharf in watercraft of all sizes from Middlesex Canal boats to oceangoing schooners. Items advertised for sale included cocao, cod, "Guadeloupe cotton", "Jamaican fish", gin, rice, salt, white sugar, "brown Havana sugar", tar, and turpentine. As railroads extended inland from port cities like Boston, wharves became locations for transfer of freight and new marketplaces were built near population centers. The most efficient freight transfer wharves were those designed for bulk cargoes; so demand for wharf warehouse space declined through the 20th century and practically disappeared as intermodal containerized freight transport became standardized. In 1973, the old granite and timber warehouses were renovated by Carl Koch. The two lowest floors were designated for commercial occupancy while the upper four stories became residential condominiums.

Sources

Boston Harbor
Wharves in Boston
North End, Boston


title: Indian Public Schools' Conference

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Indian Public Schools Conference was established in 1939. The Indian Public Schools are an independent and private institutions of secondary education. Top notch boarding and day-cum boarding and the Sainik and Military Schools form part of this school conference. Therefore, these schools are considered private schools.  These 77 schools have an independent board of governors. Their aim is to facilitate all around development of students through emphasis on both academics and extra-curricular activities.

Dr. Gaur Hari Singhania IPSC Life Time Achievement Award
The award carries cash prize of Rs. 51, 000/-, Silver plaque and a shawl. But the honour extended surpasses all the material accolades. The award is sponsored by J K White Cement Works and L K Singhania Education Centre, Gotan (http://www.lksec.org/).
 R.M. Saran (2004)
 Dr. S.D. Singh (2004)
 S.K. G
Mrs. Jyotsna Brar ( 2013)
 Mr. Anubhav Saxena Entab Infotech (2018)

References

External links
 http://www.ipsc.co.in/

Educational organisations based in India
1939 establishments in India
Organizations established in 1939


title: Trisha Edwards

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Trisha Edwards is an Academy Award-nominated set decorator. She was nominated at the 77th Academy Awards in the category of Best Art Direction for her work on the film Finding Neverland. She shared her nomination with Gemma Jackson.

Selected filmography

 Excalibur (1981)
 The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)
 Moll Flanders (1996)
 Iris (2001)
 Finding Neverland (2004)

References

External links

Living people
Set decorators
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre freestyle

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The Men's 200 metre freestyle competition of the 2014 European Aquatics Championships was held on 19–20 August.

Records
Prior to the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows.

Results

Heats
The heats were held at 09:30.

Semifinals
The semifinals were held at 19:15.

Semifinal 1

Semifinal 2

Final
The final was held at 18.52.

References

Men's 200 metre freestyle


title: Clyde (mascot)

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Clyde was the official mascot of the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. Clyde is an anthropomorphic thistle (the floral emblem of Scotland) and is named after the River Clyde which flows through the centre of Glasgow. The mascot was designed by Beth Gilmour from Cumbernauld, who won a competition run by Glasgow 2014 for children to design the Mascot. Beth's drawing was then brought to life by digital agency Nerv, who turned it into a commercial character, created a full backstory, gave it a name – Clyde – and created a website for him. Clyde was finally revealed in a seven-minute animated film created by Nerv at a ceremony at BBC Scotland's headquarters in Glasgow. The organiser, Glasgow 2014, said the mascot's design was chosen, because of its "Scottish symbolism and Glaswegian charm and likeability".

Clyde was named as the official mascot for Team Scotland at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England.

Statues

25 life-size Clyde statues were erected at places of public interest across the city including the Glasgow Botanic Gardens, the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and at George Square. However following vandalism at a statue in the Govan area of the city, the statues were taken down. They are expected to be re-erected in secure areas.

Commercial
By the final day of the Games, over 50,000 Clyde mascot cuddly toys had been sold.

Post-Glasgow 2014
Due to popularity in the city, a petition was set up to make Clyde the mascot of the Glasgow City Council in the aftermath of the Commonwealth Games, the petition gained over 1,500 signatures.

In October 2021, it was announced that Clyde would be the official mascot for Team Scotland at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England.

See also

List of Commonwealth Games mascots
Borobi (mascot)
Karak (mascot)
Matilda (mascot)
Shera (mascot)
Perry (mascot)

References

External links
 https://web.archive.org/web/20150227141514/http://www.nerv.co.uk/work/glasgow-2014-commonwealth-games/
 http://www.glasgow2014.com/celebrate/mascot

2014 Commonwealth Games
Sport in Glasgow
Scottish mascots
Sports mascots
Commonwealth Games mascots
Mascots introduced in 2014


title: Pleasant Hill, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana

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Pleasant Hill is an unincorporated community in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, United States

Unincorporated communities in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana
Unincorporated communities in Louisiana
Populated places in Ark-La-Tex


title: Beyond the Reef (film)

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Beyond the Reef  is a 1981 American adventure film directed by Frank C. Clarke and written by Louis LaRusso II and James Carabatsos. The film stars Dayton Ka'ne, Maren Jensen, Kathleen Swan, Keahi Farden, Oliverio Maciel Diaz, George Tapare, David Nakuna, Robert Atamu and Bob Spiegel.

Cast
Dayton Ka'ne as Tikoyo
Maren Jensen as Diana
Kathleen Swan as Milly
Keahi Farden as Jeff
Oliverio Maciel Diaz as Manidu
George Tapare as The Hawaiian
David Nakuna as Mischima
Robert Atamu as Maku
Bob Spiegel as Turpin
Maui Temaui as Milly's Boyfriend
Teriitehu Star as Grandfather
Joseph Ka'ne as Tikoyo as a child
Titaua Castel as Diana as a child
Andre Garnier as Jeff as a child

References

External links

American adventure films
1981 films
1981 adventure films
Universal Pictures films
Films produced by Raffaella De Laurentiis
1980s English-language films
1980s American films


title: Day 1 (song)

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"Day 1" ("Dia 1") is a song recorded by American singer Leslie Grace. This is her second single from her album Leslie Grace 2013,  which was released by Top Stop Music on November 19, 2012. The music video was released early February 2013. In a studio, Leslie is singing into the camera modeling. The video ends with Leslie close up to the camera saying "You've had me from day one." It was recognized as among the most successful tropical songs by ASCAP in 2014. To version of this song. A mostly Spanish version and another version with more English in to the lyrics.

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

See also
List of number-one Billboard Tropical Songs of 2013

References

2012 singles
2012 songs
Bachata songs
Spanish-language songs
Leslie Grace songs
Top Stop Music singles


title: Peasants' Agreement

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The Polish People's Party – Peasants' Agreement (, PSL-PL), commonly known simply as Peasants' Agreement (PL), was an agrarian and Christian-democratic political party in Poland.

History
The party originated from the People's Agreement, an electoral list consisting mainly of Rural Solidarity (RS) and two dissident groups of the Polish People's Party (PSL), the so-called "Polish People's Party (Mikołajczyk)" and the "Polish People's Party (Wilanów)".

The People's Agreement participated in the 1991 parliamentary election, obtaining 5.5% of the vote, 28 seats in the Sejm and five in the Senate. Subsequently, PSL-W's Henryk Bąk was elected Deputy Marshal of the Sejm and the group was part of the government led by Jan Olszewski, with RS' Gabriel Janowski as Minister of Agriculture.

The PL was formally established in March 1992, under the leadership of Janowski, who retained his job as Minister of Agriculture also in the government led by Hanna Suchocka, which included also PL's Zygmunt Hortmanowicz as Minister of the Environment and Jerzy Kamiński as a minister without portfolio. The dismissal of Janowski from the government in April 1993 led to the formal departure of the PL from the coalition, however during the no-confidence vote, only individual members of this party spoke against the government.

Due to several splits and internal disagreements, the 1993 parliamentary election saw the party's vote share fall to 2.4%. As it had failed to pass the 5% electoral threshold, it lost all its parliamentary representation. Following the election, the party disintegrated, although it was part of Solidarity Electoral Action in the 1997 parliamentary election and won three seats in the Sejm (including one for Janowski) and one in the Senate. In January 1999, during a congress, the party decided to merge into the Social Movement.

Election results

Sejm

Senate

References

1991 establishments in Poland
1999 disestablishments in Poland
Agrarian parties in Poland
Christian political parties
Defunct political parties in Poland
Polish People's Party
Political parties disestablished in 1999
Political parties established in 1991


title: Ruslan Kurbanov (fencer)

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Ruslan Kurbanov (; born 17 September 1991) is a Kazakhstani épée fencer, who earned a silver medal in the  individual event at the 2013 Summer Universiade and a bronze medal in the team event. The same year, he became champion of Kazakhstan after defeating Asian champion Elmir Alimzhanov.

His ex-wife Tamara Pochekutova is a sabre fencer. They have one son, born in 2013. Kurbanov is from Tatar descent.

References

External links

1991 births
Living people
Tatar sportspeople
Kazakhstani people of Tatar descent
Sportspeople from Oskemen
Kazakhstani male épée fencers
Fencers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic fencers for Kazakhstan
Fencers at the 2014 Asian Games
Fencers at the 2018 Asian Games
Fencers at the 2022 Asian Games
Asian Games silver medalists for Kazakhstan
Asian Games bronze medalists for Kazakhstan
Asian Games medalists in fencing
Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games
Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games
Medalists at the 2022 Asian Games
Universiade medalists in fencing
Universiade silver medalists for Kazakhstan
Medalists at the 2013 Summer Universiade
World Fencing Championships medalists


title: Factory (band)

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Factory was a band from Stockholm in Sweden, active between 1978 and 1982, scoring chart successes in Sweden during the late 1970s and 1980s.

Factory broke through in Sweden with the 1978  single Efter plugget 1978. The single was followed up by the album Factory. The band toured the Nordic Region in the late 1970s and early 1980s and also released the 1980 album Factory II.

After Factory broke up, bassist Siewertson joined the Swedish hair metal band Treat and played on their early albums before leaving in 1989.

During the 1990s, the band was reunited temporary touring with, among others, Magnum Bonum, Attack and Snowstorm.

Members
 Mats Carinder, vocals
 Ted Leinsköld, guitar
 Lars-Olof Larsson, keyboard
 Ken Siewertson, bass
 Mats Söderberg, drums

Discography

Studio albums
 Factory (1979)
 Factory II (1980)

Compilation albums
 Best of Factory (1989)

Singles
 Lumpna funderingar (1978)
 Efter plugget (1978)
 Kuddsnack (1979)
 Face to Face (1981)
 Jag ställer inte upp (1981)
 Hårt mot hårt (1982)
 Ooa hela natten (with Attack och Magnum Bonum) (1992)

Maxisingles 12"
 Efter plugget (1989)

References

1978 establishments in Sweden
1982 disestablishments in Sweden
Musical groups established in 1982
Musical groups disestablished in 1982
Musical groups from Stockholm


title: Colubroidea

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Colubroidea is a superfamily of snakes in the clade Colubroides that includes Colubridae, with some studies splitting Colubridae into multiple families that make up Colubroidea. Historically, Colubroidea also included other caenophidian snakes such as cobras and vipers, as these snakes form a clade. However these groups are now divided into several distinct, but related, families. Zaher et al. (2009) proposed to redefine Colubroidea for colubrids and related families, while designating Colubroides as the group containing vipers and cobras as well as colubroids. The ReptileDatabase considers Colubroidea to be composed of Colubridae and the members of its sister group, Elapoidea, and does not recognize the division of Colubridae into multiple families.

Classification
Phylogeny

Families and Subfamilies

Usual taxonomy:
 Family: Colubridae Oppel, 1811
 Subfamily: Grayiinae Günther, 1858
 Subfamily: Calamariinae Bonaparte, 1838
 Subfamily: Ahaetullinae  Figueroa, McKelvy, Grismer, Bell & Lailvaux, 2016
 Subfamily: Colubrinae Oppel, 1811
 Subfamily: Sibynophiinae Dunn, 1928
 Subfamily: Natricidae Bonaparte, 1838
 Subfamily: Pseudoxenodontidae McDowell, 1987
 Subfamily: Xenodontinae Dunn, 1928
 Subfamily: Dipsadinae Bonaparte, 1838
Alternate taxonomy:

Family: Sibynophiidae Dunn, 1928
 Family: Natricidae Bonaparte, 1838
 Family: Pseudoxenodontidae McDowell, 1987
 Family: Dipsadidae Bonaparte, 1838
 Subfamily: Carphophiinae Zaher et al., 2009
 Subfamily: Xenodontinae Dunn, 1928
 Subfamily: Dipsadinae Bonaparte, 1838
 Family: Colubridae Oppel, 1811
 Subfamily: Grayiinae Günther, 1858
 Subfamily: Calamariinae Bonaparte, 1838
 Subfamily: Ahaetullinae  Figueroa, McKelvy, Grismer, Bell & Lailvaux, 2016
 Subfamily: Colubrinae Oppel, 1811

Unknown Genera incertae sedis (not currently placed in a family, usually because of the absence of genetic data, but suspected to be colubroids based on morphology)

Fossil Colubroidea

North America

 Mexico

South America

 Legend

 Age - bold is type age (SALMA)
 Formation - bold is Lagerstätte

References

Alethinophidia


title: Three's a Crowd (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic)

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"Three's a Crowd" is the eleventh episode of the fourth season of animated television series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic as well as the seventy-sixth overall. With Britt McKillip and John de Lancie guest starring as Princess Cadance and Discord, the episode follows Twilight Sparkle and the former, who visits from the Crystal Empire, trying to have a relaxing day. When they are interrupted by a sick Discord, they must venture to the edge of Equestria to prevent him from disrupting their visit. Co-directed by Jim Miller, with Jayson Thiessen as executive producer, and written by Meghan McCarthy, the episode aired on January 25, 2014, receiving over 400,000 viewers during its original broadcast. The episode received mixed to positive reviews from critics, who praised Discord.

Plot
Princess Cadance visits Ponyville to spend the day with Twilight, who anticipates quiet bonding time with her sister-in-law, while Fluttershy departs to see the Breezies. Twilight's friends promise to not let anything disrupt her and Cadance's time together as the last times they saw each other, the fate of Equestria hung in the balance. To their dismay, Discord shows up who appears to have come down sick with the "blue flu". Rainbow Dash escapes from the situation while Pinkie Pie is distracted by a balloon; Discord sneezes on Rarity and Applejack, making them sick too. After Twilight's friends become unavailable, Discord approaches Twilight and Cadance, the latter of whom creates a "magic health bubble" to prevent them from getting sick too. While Discord badgers them to take care of him while Fluttershy is away, his list of increasingly outlandish demands get on Twilight's nerves until he finally asks them to make a cure from a flower that grows at the edge of Equestria.

Twilight and Cadance recover the flower and fight off a giant Tatzlwurm guarding it, only to find upon returning that Discord had faked his illness to test how far Twilight was willing to go for his well-being. Despite Twilight's anger at him for ruining her day with her sister-in-law, Cadance injects by pointing out that she actually enjoyed their adventure as a change of pace from her predictable life in the Crystal Empire. The Tatzlwurm suddenly reappears, and sneezes on Discord, Twilight and Cadance. While the latters are protected by the health bubble, the former actually falls sick and he is returned to Ponyville for Fluttershy's care. Twilight documents what she learned in the friendship journal: that the most chaotic days can be great experiences when with a good friend.

Background and production
The episode includes a reference to Fear and Loathing writer Hunter S. Thompson. Discord also sings his first solo. Originally, the Tatzlwurm had more resemblance to a sea creature. Later, it was developed into a creature similar to a worm. Rebecca Dart of DHX Media stated: "[h]ow scary a creature is can be changed by color. [...] [W]hen coloured lighter or more vibrantly, [it] can be less frightening." On Discord's appearances, co-director Jim Miller said "he [...] became a kind of character where you could just throw him in a different costume and have him do something extra silly—it seems to work really well for him."

Broadcast and reception
Prior to the premiere of "Three's A Crowd", Yahoo! recommended the episode to fans of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. It aired on January 25, 2014 and was viewed by 483,000 people. The episode received mixed to positive reviews from critics. Daniel Alvarez of Unleash the Fanboy gave the episode four out five stars, praising the characters, monster fight and the moral. Agony Booth Sofie Liv was more ambivalent towards the episode and rated it two and a half out of five. She complemented Discord's entertainment and humor but felt his appearances in the series "will never be as good as his first appearance".

References

Book

External links

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episodes
2014 American television episodes
2014 Canadian television episodes


title: Henry Quastler

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Henry Quastler (November 11, 1908 – July 4, 1963) was an Austrian physician and radiologist who became a pioneer in the field of information theory applied to biology after emigrating to America.  His work with Sidney Dancoff led to the publication of what is now commonly called Dancoff's Law.

Life
Quastler spent his early career in Vienna as a doctor. He received his medical degree in Vienna in 1932, focusing on histology and radiology. He met his wife, Gertrude Quastler, a milliner, when she came to him for treatment for tuberculosis. They married in 1933. The couple moved to Albania when King Zog asked for Quastler to train up radiologists. While there he also worked on malaria. Quastler's malaria expertise earned him a place on the International Health Board. As World War II approached in 1939, the couple left Albania and traveled to America. Within a year Quastler was working as a radiologist at New Rochelle Hospital in New York. In 1942, the Quastlers relocated to Urbana, Illinois, where Henry was employed as chief radiologist at Carle Hospital Clinic. While in Illinois, Gertrude Quastler studied art. She soon became a noted artist. Henry also painted as an amateur. According to his sister Johanna, the couple sometimes exhibited together.

In 1949 Quastler gave up his medical practice to concentrate on science. Heinz von Foerster, who knew Quastler well, said that he became even more interested in radiation after the invention of the atomic bomb, which he considered "a horrifying human catastrophe". Foerster recalled Quastler pondering: "[Quastler asked] 'Can I now, as a working person, find out what damage has been done by the radiation of atomic bombs?'—that was his research question. Thus he started to conduct experiments on radiation damage in living organisms."  ... Henry Quastler learned the basic concepts and formalisms of information theory with a speed that was almost unbelievable. And why? Because he needed this instrument urgently.".

In the 1940s Quastler met Dancoff and collaborated with him to develop information theory in biology. They were interested in the problem of how to define the information content of a gene. After Dancoff's death, Quastler organized the symposium Information Theory in Biology, founded by him in 1952. Quastler soon became interested in how information theory could be used to understand the origin of life. In 1953 he edited Information Theory in Biology. He edited another collection of essays, Information Theory in Psychology: Problems and Methods, in 1956. That same year he helped to organize the Symposium on Information Theory in Biology in Gatlinburg, Tennessee which two years later resulted in an eponymous book.

Despite his best efforts, his wife's tuberculosis slowly worsened. A deterioration in his wife's health led Quastler to take a job at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, where he continued to work on both radiation and information biology. When his wife died in 1963, Quastler was devastated. He took an overdose of pills, laid down beside her and held her hand until he died. Richard Diebenkorn later said, "Neither my wife nor I can think of a couple we encountered more indivisible." Heinz von Foerster said of Quastler that he was "an exceptionally conscientious, ethically and morally conscious human being."

Work with Dancoff
In Foerster's words Quastler and Dancoff attempted to answer the following problem:

According to Lily E. Kay, Quastler and Dancoff created "the first technical application of the Weiner-Shannon theory in genetics." Quastler and Dancoff proposed that the replication errors inevitable in biological reproduction must be held in check by a statistical process that functioned as a "checking device" within the gene. Quastler compared this to the system of "checks and balances" in the American constitution. The proposition known as "Dancoff's Law" emerged from this work. A non-mathematical statement of this law is, "the greatest growth occurs when the greatest number of mistakes are made consistent with survival".

The Emergence of Biological Organization
In 1964 Quastler's book The Emergence of Biological Organization was published posthumously. In 2002, Harold J. Morowitz described it as a "remarkably prescient book" which is "surprisingly contemporary in outlook". In it Quastler pioneers a theory of emergence, developing model of "a series of emergences from probionts to prokaryotes".

The work is based on lectures given by Quastler during the spring term of 1963, when he was Visiting Professor of Theoretical Biology at Yale University. In these lectures Quastler argued that the formation of single-stranded polynucleotides was well within the limits of probability of what could have occurred during the pre-biologic period of the Earth.  However, he noted that polymerization of a single-stranded polymer from mononucleotides is slow, and its hydrolysis is fast; therefore in a closed system consisting only of mononucleotides and their single-stranded polymers, only a small fraction of the available molecules will be polymerized.  However, a single-stranded polymer may form a double-stranded one by complementary polymerization, using a single-stranded polynucleotide as a template.  Such a process is relatively fast and the resulting double-stranded polynucleotide is much more stable than the single single-stranded one since each monomer is bound not only along the sugar phosphate backbone, but also through inter-strand bonding between the bases.

The capability for self-replication, a fundamental feature of life, emerged when double-stranded polynucleotides disassociated into single-stranded ones and each of these served  as a template for synthesis of a complementary strand, producing two double-stranded copies.  Such a system is mutable since random changes of individual bases may occur and be propagated.  Individual replicators with different nucleotide sequences may also compete with each other for nucleotide precursors.  Mutations that influence the folding state of polynucleotides may affect the ratio of association of strands to dissociation and thus the ability to replicate.  The folding state would also affect the stability of the molecule.    These ideas were then developed to speculate on the emergence of genetic information, protein synthesis and other general features of life.

Lily E. Kay says that Quastler's works "are an illuminating example of a well reasoned epistemic quest and a curious disciplinary failure". Quastler's aspiration to create an information based biology was innovative, but his work was "plagued by problems: outdated data, unwarranted assumptions, some dubious numerology, and, most importantly, an inability to generate an experimental agenda." However Quastler's "discursive framework" survived.

Forty-five years after Quastler's 1964 proposal, Lincoln and Joyce described a cross-catalytic system that involves two RNA enzymes (ribosymes) that catalyze each other's synthesis from a total of four component substrates.  This synthesis occurred in the absence of protein and could provide the basis for an artificial genetic system.

Publications

References

1908 births
1963 suicides
1963 deaths
Austrian scientists
Cyberneticists
Systems scientists
Complex systems scientists
Scientists from Vienna
Austrian emigrants to the United States
Drug-related suicides in New York (state)
Origin of life


title: Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships – Women's 100 metre breaststroke

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The Women's 100 metre breaststroke competition of the 2014 European Aquatics Championships was held on 19–20 August.

Records
Prior to the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows.

Results

Heats
The heats were held at 09:53.

Semifinals
The semifinals were held at 18:38.

Semifinal 1

Semifinal 2

Final
The final was held 18:57.

References

Women's 100 metre breaststroke


title: White Hall Foundry

text:
The White Hall Foundry is a historic iron foundry located at 102 S. Jacksonville St. in White Hall, Illinois. The foundry was built in 1877 for brothers George W. and Richard B. Winn. It produced cast iron for new buildings in White Hall, making it an important part of the city's economy during a building boom in the late 19th century. The building is a small brick structure with particularly well-crafted details for an industrial building, such as its cornice and fanlights. The internal truss system supporting the building's roof is an example of an inverted Kingpost truss; it is one of the few well-preserved examples of such a truss in Illinois.

The foundry was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 28, 1980. It is also part of the White Hall Historic District, which is also listed on the National Register.

References

Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Illinois
Industrial buildings completed in 1877
Buildings and structures in Greene County, Illinois
National Register of Historic Places in Greene County, Illinois
1877 establishments in Illinois


title: Christian Democracy (Poland)

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Christian Democracy (, ChD) was a political alliance in Poland.

History
The alliance was formed to contest the 1991 elections, and consisted of five small Catholic parties, including the Christian Democratic Labour Party (ChDSP), the Christian Labour Party (ChPP) and the Polish Christian Democratic Forum (PFChD). In the elections it received 2.4% of the vote, winning five seats in the Sejm. It was represented by Józef Hermanowicz and Henryk Rospara from the ChPP, Stefan Pastuszewski from the ChDSP, Tadeusz Lasocki of the PFChD and Władysław Staniuk, an independent. The alliance supported the government of Jan Olszewski.

The three parties contested the 1993 elections separately.

References

Defunct political party alliances in Poland
Political parties established in 1991
Political parties disestablished in 1993
1991 establishments in Poland
1993 disestablishments in Poland


title: Mujauna

text:
Mujauna may refer to any of the following villages in India:

Uttar Pradesh:

 Mujauna, Gola, a village in the Gola Tahsil of Gorakhpur district (Census code 188102)

Bihar:

 Mujauna, Alauli, a village in the Alauli block of Khagaria district (Census code 238571)
 Mujauna, Dariapur, a village in the Dariapur block of Saran district (Census code 234165)
 Mujauna, Sugauli, a village under the Sugauli panchayat, in the Narkatiaganj block of Pashchim Champaran district (Census code 216684)
 Mujauna, Shikarpur, a village under the Shikarpur panchayat, in the Narkatiaganj block of Pashchim Champaran district (Census code 216599)
 Mujauna, Parsa, a village in the Parsa block of Saran district (Census code 234093)
 Mujauna, Sikta, a village in the Sikta block of Pashchim Champaran district (Census code 217241)
 Mujauna, Samastipur, a village in Samastipur district


title: Luigi Piavi

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Luigi Piavi, OFM (born on 17 March 1833 in Ravina, Italy - died on 24 January 1905 in Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine) was a Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.

Life

Luigi Piavi received his priestly ordination in 1855. Pope Pius IX appointed him in 1876 Apostolic Delegate to Syria and Apostolic Vicar of Aleppo. He received his episcopal ordination as Titular Archbishop of Siunia on 18 November 1876, and in 1889 Piavi was appointed  Patriarch of Jerusalem by Pope Leo XIII, the only Catholic Latin Patriarch in the East.

From 1889 until his death in 1905 he was Grand Master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.

References

External links
 http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bbiavi.html

1833 births
1905 deaths
Latin Patriarchs of Jerusalem
20th-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops
19th-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops
Apostolic Nuncios to Syria
Grand Masters of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre


title: Broom Hill, London

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Broom Hill, sometimes spelt Broomhill, is a suburb of Orpington in southeast London, England, located in the London Borough of Bromley in Greater London. Prior to 1965 it was within the historic county of Kent. It lies south of Poverest, west of Orpington High Street, north-east of Crofton, and south-east of Petts Wood.

History
Broom Hill takes its name from a shrub located on the hill that was used to make brooms. It was historically a rural locality, noted only for its broom and bonnet-making industries. In 1819 a Zion Chapel was built on Devonshire Road, however this was later converted to cottages and then the cottages torn down in 1935. In the early 20th century housing development began in the southern part of the area, including a golf course, to cater for commuters using Orpington railway station. Further development occurred, and the golf course was built over, with the area losing its rural character completely and merging into Orpington and the surrounding suburbs.

Nowadays the area essentially forms a western suburb of Orpington, centred on Broom Hill Common, which is protected under the Commons Preservation Act 1965. There is one pub - The Cricketers - located here, a very small row of shops on Fordwich Close, and further shops lining Chislehurst Road.

Notable people
 Malcolm Campbell (1885-1948) - British racing motorist who set the world speed record on land and on water in the 1920-30s, practised flying from Broom Hill in the 1910s.

Gallery

References

Districts of the London Borough of Bromley
Orpington


title: Jarvis Landing (Oregon)

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Jarvis Landing was a landing place on the north side of the entrance to Coos Bay in Oregon, United States.

Description
Jarvis Landing was on the east side of the north spit at the entrance to Coos Bay.

Jarvis Landing was named after Fred Jarvis, who in the 1880s took over the stage line running along the beach from Coos Bay north to the mouth of the Umpqua River.  Jarvis established what is known as the Jarvis Landing Beach Road on the spit.

Travelers who arrived at Jarvis Landing from the beach stage could proceed by water transport, rowboats and first, to Empire City or later, by steamboat or gasoline launch, to North Bend or Marshfield.

References

Geography of Coos County, Oregon


title: Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre individual medley

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The Men's 200 metre individual medley competition of the 2014 European Aquatics Championships was held on 19–20 August.

Records
Prior to the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows.

Results

Heats
The heats were held at 10:07.

Semifinals
The semifinals were held at 18:46.

Semifinal 1

Semifinal 2

Final
The final was held at 19:22.

References

Men's 200 metre individual medley


title: The Hundred Parishes

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The Hundred Parishes is an area of the East of England with no formal recognition or status, albeit that the concept has the blessing of county and district authorities. It encompasses around 450 square miles (1,100 square kilometres) of northwest Essex, northeast Hertfordshire and southern Cambridgeshire. The area comprises just over 100 administrative parishes, hence its name. It contains over 6,000 listed buildings and many conservation areas, village greens, ancient hedgerows, protected features and a historical pattern of small rural settlements in close proximity to one another.

Origins
The idea of recognising the area for its special heritage characteristics was originally conceived by local historian and author David Heathcote. A steering group of local historians, conservationists and a local authority representative, spearheaded by the Essex branch of the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE), progressed the idea and defined a boundary. The name arose in response to the fact that the defined area covered just over 100 administrative parishes. The initiative steadily gained support and the Hundred Parishes name was approved in 2012 at a constitutional conference to which all local authorities and many other local organisations were invited. The conference was attended by delegates from more than 30 authorities and organisations and The Hundred Parishes Society was established as a company limited by guarantee immediately afterwards.

The Hundred Parishes Society
This society was formed to raise public consciousness of the area and to encourage preservation of the area's special characteristics. It was formed in 2012 and launched to the general public in 2014 after being registered by the Charity Commission.  Its website www.hundredparishes.org.uk includes introductions to each of the area's 103 administrative parishes and to a number of notable people associated with the area, as well as an extensive series of walk routes which site visitors are encouraged to download: each parish is included in at least one route. Some 20 routes start and finish at railway stations. Membership of the Society is open to households and organisations and includes a growing number of parish councils.

In 2018 the Society published the first book to focus on the area, The Hundred Parishes: An Introduction (). This hardback book comprises 432 pages and includes almost a thousand photos. The text and photos focus on the area's history and extensive heritage. The book was well received and is now out of print, although copies are available through libraries.

Geography
The Hundred Parishes is at its highest in the chalk hills in the northwest of the area, generally sloping down towards the southeast. The whole area lies between 100 and 500 feet (30 and 150 metres) above sea level.

There are no major rivers but the many small ones follow valleys that give the area its attractive, gentle landscape. In the west, the rivers Rib, Ash and Stort flow south from the Hundred Parishes to meet the Lea and then the Thames. In the east, the Chelmer and Pant flow from the Hundred Parishes into the Blackwater and then the North Sea. The Cam flows northwards through the middle of the northern half of the Hundred Parishes, gathering up the Granta and Rhee before leaving the Hundred Parishes bound for Cambridge and the North Sea. And in the south, the Roding, which gives its name to several villages in the Hundred Parishes, flows south to meet the Thames at Barking Creek.

Features and attractions
Many of the area's individual parishes appear in the Domesday Book of 1086 and there is considerable evidence of earlier settlements. Relics from the Iron Age and Bronze Age have been found in a number of locations. Roman roads including Stane Street and Ermine Street cross the Hundred Parishes. An ancient long-distance trackway, the Icknield Way, which may pre-date the Roman roads, passes from west to east through the northern part of the area.

Saffron Walden is the area's largest settlement, with a population of 17,000 in 2021. It has been a market town since the 12th century. There are three more market towns: Buntingford, Great Dunmow and Thaxted. Most of the area's villages have a historical church, a pub and a village green, and most are within easy walking distance of the next settlement.

Individual visitor attractions include Audley End House, a Jacobean mansion now cared for by English Heritage, and Hatfield Forest, a medieval royal hunting forest now within the care of the National Trust. The area has several small museums and galleries.

Architecture
The Hundred Parishes has over 6,000 listed buildings, an especially high number for its population of around 150,000 – around 5 times the average ratio of listings to population for England as a whole. Of these listings, 106 are Grade I, including 60 churches.

Typical architectural features include timber-framed buildings, flint (especially for churches), thatched roofs, whitewashing and/or pargeting on external walls.

Cultural heritage
The Hundred Parishes has a strong cultural heritage from the 20th century when it was the home of, among others, Gustav Holst, H. G. Wells, Henry Moore and the Great Bardfield artists including Eric Ravilious and Edward Bawden. Henry Moore's home and studio in Perry Green is open to the public. The artists are particularly celebrated at the Fry Art Gallery in Saffron Walden and Thaxted hosts annual festivals of classical music and Morris dancing.

The parishes
Albury, Anstey, Arkesden, Ashdon, Aspenden, Aythorpe Roding, Barkway, Barley, Barnston, Bartlow, Berden, Birchanger, Braughing, Brent Pelham & Meesden, Broxted, Buntingford, Castle Camps, Chickney, Chrishall, Clavering, Debden, Duxford, Eastwick & Gilston, Elmdon & Wenden Lofts, Elsenham, Farnham, Felsted, Finchingfield, Flitch Green, Furneux Pelham, Great & Little Chishill, Great Amwell, Great Bardfield, Great Canfield, Great Chesterford, Great Dunmow, Great Easton & Tilty, Great Hallingbury, Great Waltham, Hadstock, Hatfield Broad Oak, Hatfield Heath, Helions Bumpstead, Hempstead, Henham, Heydon, High Easter, High Roding, High Wych, Hildersham, Hinxton, Hormead, Hunsdon, Ickleton, Langley, Leaden Roding, Lindsell, Linton, Little Bardfield, Little Canfield, Little Chesterford, Little Dunmow, Little Easton, Little Hadham, Little Hallingbury, Littlebury, Manuden, Matching, Much Hadham, Newport, Nuthampstead, Pleshey, Quendon & Rickling, Radwinter, Saffron Walden, The Salings (formerly Bardfield Saling and Great Saling), The Sampfords, Sawbridgeworth, Sewards End, Shalford, Sheering, Standon, Stanstead Abbotts, Stansted Mountfitchet, Stebbing, Steeple Bumpstead, Stocking Pelham, Strethall, Takeley, Thaxted, Thorley, Thundridge, Tilty, Ugley, Wareside, Wendens Ambo, Westmill, Wethersfield, White Roding, Wicken Bonhunt, Widdington, Widford, Wimbish, Wyddial.

References

External links
The Hundred Parishes Society

Geography of Essex
Geography of Cambridgeshire
Geography of Hertfordshire


title: Hamilton Corbett

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Hamilton Forbush "Ham" Corbett (December 13, 1888 – May 7, 1966) was a prominent Portland, Oregon businessman and in his younger years was a leading amateur American football player.  He played college football for Harvard University and was a consensus first-team selection to the 1908 College Football All-America Team.

Early life

Corbett was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1888, the son of Henry Jagger Corbett and Helen Ladd Corbett.  The Corbett family was one of the influential families in Oregon at that time.  Corbett's paternal grandfather was Henry W. Corbett, a leading businessman and banker and a United States senator from Oregon.  His maternal grandfather, William S. Ladd, had been an early mayor of Portland (the fifth  and again as the eighth). Ladd was also a major business figure and founder the Ladd and Tilton Bank, the first bank established in the state of Oregon.

Corbett grew up in Portland, where he attended the Portland Academy.  His father died in 1895, when he was 7 years old.  Since his father and his brother had predeceased his grandfather, Henry W. Corbett, who died in 1903, Corbett and his two older brothers Henry L. Corbett and Elliott R. Corbett inherited the responsibility for the H. W. Corbett estate.

Sports career
Corbett attended Harvard College from 1907 to 1911 and played on the freshman football team in 1907.  He was five feet, eleven inches tall and weighed 167 pounds while at Harvard.  From 1908 to 1910, he played on the Harvard Crimson football team.  He was selected as a consensus first-team fullback on the 1908 College Football All-America Team.  In 1909, Walter Camp selected him as a third-team All-American at the halfback position.  In 1910, he was selected as a first-team All-American halfback by sports writer, W.S. Farnsworth, of the New York Evening Journal, and a second-team All-American by The New York Times.

In the fall of 1913, he served as an assistant coach under Percy Haughton for the 1913 Harvard Crimson football team.

World War I service
In May 1917, with the United States entry into World War I, Corbett entered the Officer's Training Camp at the Presidio of San Francisco.  He was commissioned as a first lieutenant and sailed to France in September 1917, serving there with the 151st Field Artillery, 42nd Division. He was wounded in July 1918 and was promoted to captain. When the war ended, he remained with the occupation forces in Germany, serving as aide-de-camp to Major General James Harbord.  He received his discharge from the military in May 1919.

Family

Corbett was married to Harriet Cumming  at Portland in 1920. They built their home on Palatine Hill in Dunthorpe in 1928, designed by Pietro Belluschi. He had one daughter by his first marriage: Harriet Corbett, born in 1922. The first marriage was later dissolved.

Corbett married for a second time, to Charlotte Breyman Thomson, in 1944, at Lakewood, Washington.

Business career
Hamilton Corbett was the youngest of three brothers but was an equal partner with his two elder brothers Henry L. Corbett and Elliott R. Corbett in the Corbett Investment Company, with offices on the tenth floor of the Corbett Building, which the Corbett brothers had built in 1907.

With the death of their grandfather Henry W. Corbett in 1903, the three brothers inherited his businesses, including 27 downtown Portland properties. The three Corbett brothers also then controlled the First National Bank of Portland.

Hamilton Corbett was President of the Security and Saving Trust Company, a saving and trust company the brothers controlled through the bank.

They were also involved in a number of large real estate ventures in Portland.  As well as building the Corbett Building in 1907, Corbett and his brothers built  the ten-story Pacific Building in 1926 on property they owned across the street from the Pioneer Courthouse in Portland.  The building site was on the Yamhill frontage of the landscaped "cow pasture" in the grounds of the house and gardens of their grandfather, Henry W. Corbett, which occupied the block bounded by Taylor, 5th Avenue, Yamhill and Sixth Avenues. His widow remained living in the house fronting on Taylor on the other part of the block until her death in 1936.

Today, the Pacific Building, built by Corbett and his brothers, is a historic landmark in downtown Portland. The classic ten-story office building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The real estate holding company owned by the Corbett brothers, sold several of its downtown buildings in 1956.  The properties included the Pacific Building, the ten-story Corbett Building, and the Corbett Brothers Auto Storage Garage plus two quarter-block lots in downtown Portland.

Hamilton Corbett served as President of the Portland Chamber of Commerce and aided many volunteer organisations.

Death
Hamilton Forbush Corbett died in Portland in 1966 at age 77 and is buried in the Corbett plot on the crest of River View Cemetery, in Portland.

References

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1888 births
1966 deaths
American football fullbacks
Hamilton
Harvard Crimson football players
All-American college football players
Harvard University alumni
Players of American football from Portland, Oregon
United States Army personnel of World War I
Businesspeople from Portland, Oregon
The Oregonian people
Philanthropists from Oregon
Burials at River View Cemetery (Portland, Oregon)
20th-century American philanthropists


title: William Hammill

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William Hammill (c.1822 – 1 September 1871) was a merchant and politician in colonial Victoria, a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.

Hammill was a partner in a mercantile firm in Calcutta, India, and arrived in Melbourne in January 1853. Hammill married  Mary Rigmaiden.

In November 1856, Hammill was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Wimmera, a position he held until resigning in March 1857.

Hammill died at Springfield, Toorak, Victoria on 1 September 1871.
He was buried in St Kilda Cemetery.

References

1820s births
1871 deaths
Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
19th-century Australian politicians


No. 1 General Reconnaissance School RCAF was a flight training unit in 3 Training Command, of the Royal Canadian Air Force, flying Avro Ansons from RCAF Station Summerside, PEI.

RCAF Eastern Air Command was the part of the Royal Canadian Air Force's Home War Establishment responsible for air operations on the Atlantic coast of Canada during the Second World War, including BCATP flight schools.  Many of its assigned training schools conducted advanced flying courses including Service Flying Training (SFTS), Air Observer (AOS), Bombing and Gunnery (BGS), General Reconnaissance (ocean patrol) (GRS), Naval Aerial Gunnery (NAGS), Air Navigation (ANS) and Operational (OTU) training throughout the war. Together with some advanced aircraft types these units mainly flew older bomber and patrol aircraft that had been removed from active service.

These schools were not part of the Order of Battle of RCAF Eastern Air Command. However, 3 Training Command aircraft were very active over the entire Eastern Command Area of Operations. They made an important contribution to the surveillance of the region as a force multiplier, providing extra eyes and ears. During the emergency known as the Battle of the St. Lawrence their role was very important and some units undertook combat patrols.

See also
List of Royal Air Force schools
British Commonwealth Air Training Plan
RCAF Eastern Air Command
List of British Commonwealth Air Training Plan facilities in Canada

References

Training units and formations of the Royal Canadian Air Force


title: SS San Wilfrido (1914)

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SS San Wilfrido was a  steam-powered British tanker that was launched in February 1914 and sunk by a German mine less than six months later. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd built her on the River Tyne for the Eagle Oil Transport Co Ltd.

San Wilfrido struck the mine in the North Sea on 3 August 1914, one day before Britain declared war on Germany. She was Britain's first naval loss of the First World War.

This was the first of two Eagle Oil tankers to be called San Wilfrido. The second was the Empire ship , which Eagle Oil bought and renamed Sain Wilfrido in 1946.

Building
Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd built San Wilfrido at Low Walker as yard number 856. She was launched on 11February 1914 and completed in April 1914.

San Wilfrido was the third of four sister ships. In 1913 Armstrong Whitworth built San Urbano and Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company built San Valerio. In 1914 Palmer's launched San Zeferino the day after Armstrong, Whitworth launched San Wilfrido.

San Wilfrido was  long, with a beam of  and a depth of . Her tonnages were ,  and . She had a single screw, powered by a quadruple expansion engine built by the Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Company Ltd, Wallsend. It was rated at 554 nhp and gave San Wilfrido a speed of .

San Wilfridos UK official number was 136658 and her code letters were JFHC.

History
San Wilfrido made trips with usually 8,000 tonnes of oil out of her tonnage of 9,000. The ship was sunk just four months after her completion.

Sinking
On 3 August 1914 San Wilfrido was sailing from Hamburg to Portland in ballast. The trip was expected to take two and a half days, after which she would sail for New Orleans.

While navigating the Elbe about eight miles above Brunsbüttel she was given permission to proceed until Cuxhaven at the mouth of the North Sea. No pilot vessel was available to take her through the minefield at Cuxhaven so she tried to proceed on her own along the usual channel. Tugboat men of the harbour tried to warn San Wilfrido'''s master of the danger by shouting. The master then tried to evade the mines by attempting to go full speed astern. However, at about 4 p.m., a strong ebb tide carried San Wilfrido into the mines. Three explosions followed and crippled the ship making her the first British naval loss of the war. A German tug took the crew away as internees.

The British Consul-General in Antwerp was informed and he in turn notified the British Admiralty. The information was passed on to Lloyd's of London. When the news of the ship's sinking arrived to Britain four days later, on 7 August, Britain was already at war with Germany.

Most of her 44-strong crew were from Tyneside, with three or four believed to be from London. Her Master was Captain CH Williams of Cardiff. The crew was interned and had to survive on raw herring for two days until they were transferred to Ruhleben internment camp.San Wilfrido carried a Marconi Company wireless telegraphy installation. Ben Baxter, one of her wireless operators, made a model ship of San Wilfrido while interned, and after the war he submitted it to the Ruhleben Exhibition at Central Hall Westminster. The model is now in the collections of the Imperial War Museum in London.

The wreck was removed from Cuxhaven in September 1920.

See also

 , the first British merchant ship to be sunk by a submarine after war had been declared.

References

External links
  – article including photograph of either San Wilfrido'' or one of her sisters

1914 ships
Ships built by Armstrong Whitworth
Maritime incidents in August 1914
Ships sunk by mines
Ships sunk with no fatalities
World War I shipwrecks in the North Sea
Steamships of the United Kingdom
Tankers of the United Kingdom
World War I merchant ships of the United Kingdom
Ships built on the River Tyne


title: Foxbury

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Foxbury is an area in the London Borough of Bromley, located to the east of Chislehurst. It is home to the Grade II-listed Foxbury Manor, several educational institutes and a number of sports and athletic grounds.

References

Districts of the London Borough of Bromley
Chislehurst


title: Flor Silvestre, vol. 7

text:
Flor Silvestre, vol. 7 is a studio album by Mexican singer Flor Silvestre, released in 1968 by Musart Records. It features the Mariachi México and the Mariachi Los Mensajeros.

Track listing
Side one

Side two

Personnel
 Mariachi México – accompaniment
 Mariachi Los Mensajeros – accompaniment

External links
 Flor Silvestre, vol. 7 at AllMusic

1968 albums
Flor Silvestre albums
Musart Records albums
Spanish-language albums


title: Tom Champion

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Thomas Matthew Champion (born 15 May 1986) is an English former professional and semi-professional footballer who last played for Lewes.

Career

Early years
Born in London, Champion began his professional career with Barnet, after playing for Watford's youth setup. In February 2005, he joined Wealdstone on loan for a month. Champion subsequently returned to the Bees, and joined Bishop's Stortford in July.

Dartford
In the 2010 summer, after appearing regularly with Bishop's Stortford (and with a short stint at Braintree Town), Champion joined Dartford. He featured regularly for the side, also being an ever-present figure during the promotion campaign to the Conference Premier, featuring in 39 matches.

Cambridge United
On 8 May 2013 Champion joined Cambridge United, alongside Dartford teammate Tom Bonner. He appeared in all league matches during the season, helping the club return to League Two. On 8 August 2014 Champion played in Cambridge's first match back in League Two, starting in a 1–0 home win against Plymouth Argyle.

Barnet
Champion rejoined Barnet on a two-year deal in May 2015. He scored his first goal for the club in a 2–0 win during an FA Cup first round tie against Blackpool. Champion was made available for a free transfer at the end of the 2015–16 season, and joined Lincoln City on a 93-day loan on 12 September 2016. A month later his loan was cancelled early by mutual consent. Champion was released by the Bees at the end of the 2016–17 season. In total, he played 57 times, scoring two goals.

Boreham Wood
Champion joined Boreham Wood on a one-year deal in June 2017.

Woking
On 8 June 2021, Champion joined fellow National League side, Woking on a one-year deal. On 21 August 2021, Champion made his Woking debut during their 2–1 away victory over Wealdstone, replacing Max Kretzschmar in the 74th minute. He went onto feature thirty-eight times in all competitions before leaving at the end of his contract in July 2022.

Lewes
On 8 August 2022, it was announced that Champion had joined Lewes ahead of the 2022–23 campaign. He announced his retirement from football after the 22/23 season on April 6, 2023, and played his final game on April 22, in a 3-1 win against Canvey Island.

Career statistics

Honours
Cambridge United

FA Trophy: 2013–14

References

External links

Aylesbury United profile

1986 births
Living people
Footballers from the London Borough of Barnet
English men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Barnet F.C. players
Wealdstone F.C. players
Bishop's Stortford F.C. players
Dartford F.C. players
Braintree Town F.C. players
Cambridge United F.C. players
Lincoln City F.C. players
Boreham Wood F.C. players
Woking F.C. players
Lewes F.C. players
English Football League players
National League (English football) players


title: Dynamo Kyiv junior squads and Academy

text:
The Dynamo Kyiv junior squads and Academy includes several junior teams of FC Dynamo Kyiv youth system. Besides some reserve teams that competed in lower leagues, the club also has junior teams that participate in competitions under-21 and under-19 of the Ukrainian Premier League. In additions to that the club also has its own football academy (school) that exists since 1957.

The Dynamo Kyiv junior squads under-21 and under-19 along with the club's reserves (Dynamo-2 and Dynamo-3) are based out of the club's training base located at southern outskirts of Kyiv, Koncha-Zaspa, while the football academy (school) is located in the western part of the city known as Nyvky.

Dynamo Kyiv children-youth football school of Valeriy Lobanovsky
The children-youth football school Dynamo Kyiv of Valeriy Lobanovsky () is a football school (academy) of Dynamo Kyiv. The club operates the academy for boys from the age of seven upwards. The school is located in residential area of western parts of Kyiv known as Nyvky.

Unlike the club's older junior squads that competed in parallel competitions of the Ukrainian Premier League, the school fields teams in following age categories in the Ukrainian Youth Football League, U-14, U-15, U-16, and U-17. The earlier age category teams participate in the regional city competitions.

The graduates of senior squad, U-17, get promoted to the youth (U-21 and U-19) squads which play in separate youth competition organized by the Ukrainian Premier League.

Squads

Under-21 and doubles
The section existed since the introduction of Doubles Championship for the Soviet Football Championship Pervaya Gruppa (precursor of the Soviet Top League) in 1946.

After dissolution of the Soviet Union and liquidation of the Soviet Top League, in 1992 Dynamo joined Ukrainian Top League. The competitions for junior squads were discontinued, instead there was created a reserve team which entered competition in lower leagues.

In 2004 competitions among youth squads were resumed later transforming into competitions among under-21 squads. In 2021 these competitions were discontinued once again.

Under-19
In 2012 the Ukrainian Premier League created competition for under-19 squads which ran parallel with the championship of first squads and the championship of under-21 squads, three simultaneous competitions.

Current technical staff

Honors

Domestic
 Doubles championship
 Champions: 1949, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1972, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1990
 Runners-up: 1952, 1962, 1964, 1967, 1984, 1988
 U-21 (youth)/doubles championship
 Champions: 2004–05, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2018–19, 2020–21
 Runners-up: 2008–09, 2012–13, 2014–15, 2017–18, (2019–20)
 U-19 championship
 Champions: 2012–13, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, (2019–20)
 Runners-up: 2014–15, 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23
 U-17 championship
 Champions: 1998–99, 2009-10 (group 1), 2013-14
 U-16 championship
Runners-up: 1999-2000

International
 Subroto Cup (India)
Champions: 2017

References

External links
YFS Dynamo Kyiv

Youth
Football academies in Ukraine
Youth football in Ukraine
Sport schools in Ukraine
UEFA Youth League teams
1957 establishments in Ukraine
Association football clubs established in 1957


title: MV Empire Star (1935)

text:
MV Empire Star was a UK refrigerated cargo liner. She was built by Harland and Wolff in 1935 as one of Blue Star Line's -class ships, designed to ship frozen meat from Australia and New Zealand to the United Kingdom. She served in the Second World War and is distinguished for her role in the Evacuation of Singapore in February 1942. She was sunk by torpedo in October 1942 with the loss of 42 lives.

She was the second of three Blue Star ships to be called Empire Star. The first  was a steamship that was built in 1919, renamed Tudor Star in 1935 and scrapped in 1950. The third  was a replacement Imperial Star-class ship that was built in 1946 and scrapped in 1971.

Building
Harland and Wolff in Belfast built Empire Star, launching her on 26 September 1935 and completing her in December. She was owned by Frederick Leyland & Co, a ship-owning company controlled by Blue Star Line.

The Imperial Star class were motor ships. Empire Star had a pair of six-cylinder two-stroke single-acting marine Diesel engines developing a total of 2,463 NHP and driving twin screws. The engines were built by Harland and Wolff but were a Burmeister & Wain design from Denmark. Her navigation equipment included wireless direction finding, an echo sounding device and a gyrocompass.

Second World War service
Empire Stars regular cargo liner route was from London via South Africa to Australia or New Zealand, returning by the same route laden with frozen meat. En route she tended to call at either Las Palmas or Cape Verde, presumably for bunkering.

During the war it was strategically important to continue meat imports to the UK. However, under wartime conditions Brisbane Stars route was increasingly changed. After France surrendered to Germany in June 1940 the Port of London became too dangerous, so instead the ship used Liverpool or sometimes Avonmouth or Newport, Wales. From the end of 1940 her voyages home from Australia or New Zealand tended to be eastward via the Pacific Ocean and Panama Canal instead of westward via the Indian Ocean, South Africa and the South Atlantic.

Collision at Sydney

At 1107 hrs on 7 March 1940, Empire Star was arriving in Sydney Harbour when she collided almost head on with the Union Steam Ship Co's  steamship . The latter's bow was torn open for  on her port side, her forward topmast was lost and one of her crew was killed. Kairanga saved herself by beaching on Goat Island, and returned to service after repairs lasting three months. Empire Star was also damaged but less seriously, and returned to service on 1 April.

Evacuation from Singapore
In November 1941 Empire Star left Liverpool as a member of Convoy WS 12Z to Freetown, Sierra Leone. She and another of other members of the convoy continued to Bombay, where they arrived on 6 January. On 8 December Japan had invaded Malaya, and on 19 January Empire Star left Bombay for Singapore as part of Convoy BM 11. By the time the convoy reached Singapore on 29 January Malaya was lost, and only the narrow Straits of Johor lay between Japanese forces and the island of Singapore.

On 8 February the Japanese invasion of Singapore began. Within days a British and Empire defeat was inevitable, and an evacuation of key personnel was begun. By 11 February Empire Star had loaded RAF equipment and stores and had embarked what the Master, Selwyn Capon, estimated were more than 2,160 people. Later he wrote that they included 1,573 RAF, British Army and Royal Navy personnel, 139 Australian Imperial Force personnel and 133 army nurses and signalling personnel. The nurses were members of the Australian Army Nursing Service from two Australian Army Medical Corps hospitals. Many of the signalling personnel, like the nurses, would have been women. The total number of women on the ship was 160 and there were also 35 children.

In the early hours of 12 February Empire Star and the Ocean Steam Ship Co cargo ship  left Singapore escorted by the   and anti-submarine vessel , which was a converted Singapore – Penang ferry. At 0910 hrs in the Durian Strait south of Singapore, six Japanese dive-bombers attacked the convoy. Anti-aircraft fire shot down one aircraft and damaged another, which broke off from the attack. Three bombs hit Empire Star, killing 14 people and wounding 17, including her Second Officer and an Able Seaman. She was set afire in three places but her firefighting equipment was not disabled. One of Empire Stars four lifeboats was damaged. In this or a subsequent attack one of the ship's anti-aircraft guns was destroyed.

The Chief Officer Joseph Dawson organised firefighting parties that extinguished all three fires. Australian nurses tended the wounded. As aircraft machine-gunned the ship two nurses, Margaret Anderson and Veronica ("Vera") Torney, threw themselves upon wounded soldiers to protect them from further injury.

At intervals over the next four hours as many as 47 Japanese twin-engined bombers attacked from altitudes of . The already-damaged lifeboat aboard Empire Star was destroyed, but the ship evaded many more bombs by what was recorded as "violent evasive action". The pilot who had guided Empire Star out of Singapore, Captain George Wright, stayed aboard to be evacuated. He and Empire Stars Third Officer, James Smith, observed aircraft movements and attacks for Captain Capon, enabling the latter to make the right changes of course at the right times to avoid being hit. Near misses exploding in the sea seemed to lift the ship in the water.

On 13 February those killed aboard Empire Star were buried at sea. That same day the ship and her evacuees safely reached Batavia in the Dutch East Indies the next day. She underwent emergency repairs and 48 hours later continued to Fremantle, where she arrived on 23 February. The Australian Red Cross met the ship and distributed clothes and other essentials to the evacuees, as they had brought very little with them.

In September 1942 numerous members of the ship's company were decorated for their part in the operation. Captain Capon, who had already been awarded the OBE for his service in the First World War, was now awarded the CBE. Chief Officer Dawson and Chief Engineer Richard Francis were awarded the OBE. Second Officer James Golightly, Senior Second Engineer Herbert Weller and Third Officer James Smith were awarded the MBE. Boatswain William Power and ship's carpenter Sydney Milne were awarded the BEM. Margaret Anderson was awarded the George Medal and Veronica ("Vera") Torney was awarded the Member of the Order of the British Empire (Military MBE).

Commendations were given to engineers JJ Johnson, J Middleton and JR Mitchell, stewards CE Ribbons and TS Hughes, cadets R Foulkner and R Perry, Able Seaman CP Barber and donkeyman HE Heaver.

The London Gazette records:
The Master's coolness, leadership and skill were outstanding and it was mainly due to his handling of the ship that the vessel reached safety.
The Chief Officer showed great organising ability and tireless leadership throughout.
Under the direction of the Chief Engineer, the Engineer Officers remained at their posts throughout the attacks and kept the engines and fire service pumps working, thus releasing all others of the Engine-room staff to help the fire parties.
The Second Officer was in charge of the guns and fought them with gallantry throughout the attacks. One aircraft was shot down and one certainly damaged by the combined fire of the ship and her secort.
The Boatswain and the Carpenter behaved magnificently throughout. They led the crew and worked tirelessly during the attacks. They were always prominent, leading fire parties, dealing efficiently with fires and led parties that carried the wounded to hospital.

Empire Star spent 23–27 February in Fremantle and then 4–23 March in Sydney. She crossed the Tasman Sea to New Zealand's North Island, reaching New Plymouth on 27 March and Wellington on 2 April. She headed east across the Pacific, traversed the Panama Canal on 26–28 August and reached Liverpool on 11 September.

Loss
In October 1942 Empire Star loaded a mixed cargo including some ammunition and a deck cargo of aircraft. She embarked 12 British, five South African and two Polish passengers and on 20 October left Liverpool independently and unescorted, bound for Cape Town and East London.

On 23 October Empire Star was making  in bad weather and had stopped zig-zagging in order to avoid damage to her deck cargo. About 1500 hrs the Type VIIC  started following her, and about 40 minutes later fired a spread of four torpedoes at her. At 1543 hrs two of the torpedoes struck the ship's starboard side. The first was a dud but the second detonated amidships, flooding her engine room, killing four crew and stopping her engines and generators. Two men on the engine room control platform were wounded, one of her two starboard lifeboats was destroyed and the ship listed heavily to starboard.

Empire Star transmitted a distress signal and the order was given to abandon ship. The crew launched the remaining three lifeboats and five liferafts. The boats were fitted with skates, which enabled the port ones to be launched despite the heavy list. Despite a heavy sea, all passengers and crew were evacuated except the four killed in the engine room. The three boats then stood off as the ship righted herself and settled low in the water. The First Officer, Leslie Vernon, considered whether to reboard the ship to see if she could be saved.

About 25 minutes after the first explosion U-615 attempted a coup de grâce by firing a torpedo from one of her stern tubes. This missed, so the submarine reloaded her bow tubes and turned to fire again. The next torpedo struck Empire Star between her No. 4 and No. 5 holds about an hour and a half after the first explosion. The ship remained afloat, so U-615 hit her with another coup de grâce. Empire Stars bow rose from the sea and she sank by the stern, and about five minutes later a strong underwater explosion shook the lifeboats. The submarine did not surface to question the survivors.

One lifeboat contained 38 people and was commanded by Captain Capon. Chief Officer Vernon commanded a second, which with difficulty in the heavy sea collected nine survivors from five liferafts. Mr Vernon's boat transferred the Third Officer, Roland Moscrop-Young, to command the third boat, leaving Mr Vernon's boat with 34 people. Mr Moscrop-Young's boat contained 27 people and was the least crowded boat. Mr Moscrop-Young tried to get it alongside to take some people off Captain Capon's, but was prevented by the heavy sea. Capon ordered the three boats to keep together overnight and then sail for the Azores, which were about 570 miles to the south.

Overnight there was a strong northwest wind and heavy sea, drenching everyone in the boats. At first light on 24 October the boats could not see each other. Mr Vernon's boat hoisted its sail and set off before the wind, until at 1010 hrs his crew sighted the Third Officer's boat several miles to the southwest. They tried to steer towards it, but the heavy weather prevented them. At 1230 hrs Vernon abandoned the attempt and altered course to the southeast. At 1700 hrs he ordered the sail lowered and the boat to heave to with her sea anchor. At 2300 hrs the rudder broke off at the top pintle, so two of Vernon's men used an oar as an improvised and unsatisfactory steering oar. On 25 October the weather was still wild so Mr Vernon's boat drifted before the wind with her sea anchor and sail.

On the afternoon of 25 October the  sloop  found an upturned lifeboat surrounded by wreckage. Then at 1815 hrs the sloop found Mr Vernon's boat and rescued her 34 occupants. Black Swan then searched for 120 miles, and on the morning of 26 October discovered Mr Moscop-Young's boat and rescued its 27 occupants. Captain Capon and his party were never found. His may have been the upturned boat that the sloop had seen on the afternoon of 25 October. Capon's boat included the Chief Engineer, all three radio officers and six passengers. Five of the passengers were South African: 63-year-old Julie Martiessen with her 27-year-old daughter Gisela, and 46-year-old Annie Philpott with her two boys Kenneth (12) and John (nine).

Surviving passengers wrote to Blue Star Line commending the ship's officers and men. One credited Leslie Vernon and Second Officer JP Smith with "unflinching courage" and tirelessness. Another commended Vernon for "seamanship, courage and tact". Seaman James Donaldson was called "outstanding" for his "energy and zeal". Roland Moscrop-Young was credited with "remarkable coolness, ability and seamanship" and Junior Engineer Hickman was thanked for "continuous and unending" help. Vernon and Moscrop-Young were awarded the MBE and Donaldson was awarded the BEM.

Successor ship

After the War, Blue Star Line ordered three more Imperial Star-class ships from Harland and Wolff in Belfast to replace some of its war losses. They included a third , which was launched on 4 March 1946 as Empire Mercia for the Ministry of War Transport but completed in December as Empire Star for the Blue Star Line company Frederick Leyland & Co. She was transferred to another Blue Star company, Lamport and Holt Line, in 1950. In 1971 she was sold to Long Jong Industrial Co of Taiwan who scrapped her at Kaohsiung.

References

Sources

1935 ships
1942 in Singapore
Maritime incidents in October 1942
Ships built in Belfast
Ships of the Blue Star Line
Ships of the United Kingdom
Ships sunk by German submarines in World War II
World War II shipwrecks in the Atlantic Ocean
Ships of the Lamport and Holt Line


title: Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships – Mixed 4 × 100 metre medley relay

text:
The Mixed 4 × 100 metre medley relay competition of the 2014 European Aquatics Championships was held on 19 August.

Records
Prior to the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows.

Results

Heats
The heats were held at 10:38.

Final
The final was held at 19:31.

References

Mixed 4 x 100 metre medley relay
European


title: 1999 Laois County Council election

text:
An election to Laois County Council took place on 10 June 1999 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 25 councillors were elected from five local electoral areas on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV) for a five-year term of office.

Results by party

Results by local electoral area

Borris-in-Ossory

Emo

Luggacurren

Mountmellick

Portlaoise

External links
 Official website

1999 Irish local elections
1999


title: No. 31 GRS BCATP

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No. 31 General Reconnaissance School was a Royal Air Force Second World War flight training school located at RCAF Station Charlottetown, PEI. The school trained pilots and observers in the techniques of patrolling oceans using the Avro Anson.  The British school became part of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan in 1942.

See also
Article XV squadrons
RCAF Eastern Air Command
List of British Commonwealth Air Training Plan facilities in Canada

References

 Hatch, F.J. Aerodrome of Democracy: Canada and the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan 1939–1945. Ottawa: Canadian Department of National Defence, 1983. .

Royal Canadian Air Force


title: Mazda RX-500

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The Mazda RX-500 is a mid-engine concept car developed by Japanese automobile manufacturer Mazda and first shown to the public at the 17th 1970 Tokyo Motor Show. It is a two-door coupé, accessed by forward-swinging butterfly-wing doors. The car received its name due to Mazda celebrating their 50th birthday.

The RX-500 was promoted as a mobile test bed for road safety, including multi-coloured lights at the rear which indicated whether the car was speeding up, braking or cruising. Braking was shown by red lights, cruising by amber lights and speeding up by green lights.

The car weighs  due to the use of light weight plastic in its construction, and is powered by a 982 cc X 2 double-rotor (10A) Wankel engine that was mounted forward of the rear axle. The engine has a power output of . The engine is accessed via gull-wing doors. The car is capable of achieving a top speed of .

It is often implied that at least three cars were made but the claim is not true. The sole example was originally painted orange at its first public appearance and lacked headlamps. It was later repainted silver and was stored in the Mazda factory. The car was restored for the 2009 Tokyo Motor Show and is now on display at Hiroshima City Transportation Museum. The car was also on display at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in the UK in 2014.

References

External links

RX-500
Cars powered by Wankel engines
Cars introduced in 1970
Rear-engined vehicles
Rear-wheel-drive vehicles


title: Hockenden

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Hockenden is a rural hamlet of South East London, within the London Borough of Bromley. It is located on the border of Greater London with Kent, north west of Swanley.

Transport
There are no bus routes that serve Hockenden; the closet link is the 233 route run by Transport for London which goes from Swanley to Eltham via Sidcup.

The closest National Rail station is Swanley.

References

Villages in London
Districts of the London Borough of Bromley
Villages in the London Borough of Bromley


title: Robert Warnock (judge)

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Alastair Robert Lyon Warnock (born 23 July 1953) is a British Circuit judge.

He was educated at Sedbergh School, the University of East Anglia (BA History, 1974), and the College of Law.

He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1977 and was made a Circuit judge in 2003. He has been a Senior Judge of the Sovereign Base Areas since 2012.

References

1953 births
Living people
People educated at Sedbergh School
Alumni of the University of East Anglia
Members of Lincoln's Inn


title: Otin River

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The Otin River is a river in Osun State, Nigeria.  It is impounded by the Eko-Ende Dam.

Legend

According to Yoruba mythology, the orisha Otin is personified in the Otin River.
She once protected the town of Inisa from invasion by its enemies, and the townspeople now worship her as a result.
Otin was originally from the town of Otan, but came to Inisa to help fight against invasions by its neighbors.

Region

The Otin River crosses the  Odo Otin Local Government Area in the northeast of Osun state, and gives it its name.
The river flows through rugged country, with elevations ranging from  above sea level. Rainfall in the area is about , with the rainy season lasting from April to November. Land cover is partly tropical rainforest, but there is also widespread rotational bush farming and cash crops like cocoa, kola and plantain are grown around the settlements.

Course

The Otin River is  long, with a peak discharge of  per second.
The drainage basin covers .
It is a tributary of the Erinle River.
The Eko-Ende Dam in the Irepodun LGA on the Otin River was impounded in 1973 to form a reservoir with a capacity of 5.5 MCM.
The headworks were designed to supply potable water to the communities of Inisa, Oba, Eko-Ende, Eko-Ajala, Ikirun, Iragbiji and Okuku. When the dam was built it flooded farmlands of the Oba people. As a quid-pro-quo, piped water was supplied to Oba.
Downstream, the Erinle Dam in the Olorunda LGA is an extension of the old Ede Dam on the Erinle River.
The reservoir behind the Ede-Ernle dam extends about  north along the Ernle River and covers the lowest portion of the Otin River.

References

Sources

Rivers of Nigeria
Osun State
Rivers of Yorubaland


title: White Hall Historic District

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The White Hall Historic District is a  historic district in White Hall, Illinois. The district, which includes two blocks of Main Street and roughly one block of Jacksonville Avenue, encompasses White Hall's historic commercial district. Most buildings in the district are brick structures built in the 1870s, White Hall's main period of commercial development; however, some date from the early 20th century as well. Some of the early buildings in the district include the White Hall Foundry, which produced cast iron pieces for several other buildings; the Grange Block and the White Hall National Bank, two bank buildings with complementary styling; the Dawdy Building, the only surviving wood-frame structure in the district; and several Italianate buildings, such as the Union Hall, the Masonic Hall, and the Brantzel's Building. Significant 20th-century additions to the district include Whiteside Park, home to a sculpture created by Lorado Taft; the White-Griswold Memorial Library, the city's public library; the Vitagraph Theater, which features a decorative terra cotta facade; and the Prairie School Chapin Building.

The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 20, 1987.

References

Italianate architecture in Illinois
Buildings and structures in Greene County, Illinois
National Register of Historic Places in Greene County, Illinois
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Illinois


title: Auteuring Nollywood

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Auteuring Nollywood: Critical Perspectives on The Figurine is a book released on 31 July 2014, detailing the scholarly analysis of events in the 2009 film The Figurine directed by Kunle Afolayan. The book is the first book in the history of Nigerian Cinema to be devoted to the work of a single Nigerian film director and it contains scholarly essays, which explores "the thematic focus and cinematic style employed in The Figurine". It also contains interviews with the cast and crew of the film and insights into the African and Nigerian film industry. Since its release, the book has been getting rave reviews from critics, educators and film scholars.

Development and overview
Auteuring Nollywood is a 455-page book and it contains a "collection of scholarly essays," interrogating "the thematic focus and cinematic style employed in The Figurine"; it also  provides series of interviews with the key actors and technicians that featured in the film, and explores the trends in the New Nigerian Cinema.

The idea of a book adaptation of The Figurine was originally the idea of Shina Afolayan, who is a Scholar in the department of Philosophy, University of Ibadan. He gave birth to the idea when the film was still in production; after seeing a rough cut of the film, he was very impressed with what he saw that he had to interview Kunle Afolayan, along with the other cast and crew of the film at the time. The idea was not taken seriously, until film scholars in other countries also got keen on writing on the film. The book's content was contributed by a number of scholars from various educational institutions, including: Sola Osofisan, Dele Layiwola, Chukwuma Okoye, Jane Thorburn, Matthew H. Brown, Gideon Tanimonure, A.G.A Bello, Foluke Ogunleye and Hyginus Ekwuazi. Foreword was written by Professor Jonathan Haynes of the Long Island University, an Afterword on "Neo-Nollywood and its Other" by Onookome Okome and the book as a whole was edited by Adeshina Afolayan. The book is packaged and published by Relentless Media, in conjunction with Golden Effects Services.

Release
Auteuring Nollywood was launched on 31 July 2014 at the Agip Recital Hall of the Muson Centre, Lagos. The event was attended by several political and film stakeholders, including Peace Anyim-Osigwe, the former C.E.O of Africa Film Academy, Governor of Kwara State: Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed (represented by Prince Deji Oni), Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly: Honourable Adeyemi Ikuforiji, Corporate Affairs Adviser of Nigerian Breweries: Kufre Ekanem, Nigerian Guild of Editors: Mr. Femi Adeshina, Chairman of Doyin Group of Companies: Chief Samuel Adedoyin, and the event was chaired by Rasheed Gbadamosi, former Nigerian Minister for National Planning. Other notable people at the event include: Chief Tunde Oloyede, Tunde Kelani, Mahmood Ali-Balogun, Yomi Fash Lanso, Ohaneze Ndi Igbo Nollywood, Gabriel Afolayan, Shina Afolayan, media mogul Dayo Adeneye, designer Deola Sagoe, Kenny Saint Brown, talking Drummer: Ara and comedians such as Ali Baba, Julius Agwu, Teju Babyface, Princess and Kofi. Comedian Gbenga Adeyinka was the Host of the event. Some challenges facing the film industry was also discussed at the event as well.

Reception
The book has been met with positive reception since its release. Ikechukwu Obiaya, the director of Nollywood Study Centre, Pan-African University, commends the quality of the book and stated: "This is a highly impressive book. Hope it will be the first of many more to come of Kunle Afolayan's works". He also comments that the book reveals interesting perspectives into "artistic" life of the filmmaker, Kunle Afolayan. Nduka Otiono of Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), and African Studies, Carlton University stated: "this book is seminal in its inauguration of a new chapter in the study of Nigeria's phenomenal contribution to global film culture," "it makes a strong case for a more in-depth artistic and critical approach to the study of Nollywood that triangulates around orality". Akin Adesokan of the Indiana University comments that the book is: "comprehensive and informed about its subject and in unexpected ways gives solidity to the characterization of Nollywood as 'telling our own stories'". Steve Ayorinde of Relentless Media, commended that Auteuring Nollywood arrived  "at a time that the Nigerian film industry is opening up to the Academy Awards and is also being duly acknowledged as a major contributor to the Nigerian economy". He commented that the book is "championing a new and positive development in cinematic and literary studies in Nigeria by focusing exclusively on the work of a single cineaste while also expanding the narrative around a film industry that continues to announce its arrival on the global scene in a spectacular way".

The director of the original film, Kunle Afolayan revealed that after reading a copy of the book, he shed tears of joy, "because this is about me and my work, and because I have never read a book so detailed in its analysis". He also commented: "Releasing one's movie to scholarly interrogation like this is one of the next levels for our film industry to climb and I'm excited that this is already happening through my film". Peace Anyiam-Osigwe of Africa Film Academy comments that: "AMAA is proud to be associated with this project because it serves an important purpose,"  "It is significant to see that five years after The Figurine won AMAA's top award as Best Film, the film is still being discussed and has earned a rich collection of academic essays that are as important to the film as they are to the entire industry". Danjuma Dadu of Nigerian Film Corporation stated: "Auteuring Nollywood was a welcome addition to the body of knowledge on film discourse in Nigeria and that the Film Corporation is proud to be associated with it".

References

2014 non-fiction books
English-language books
Nigerian non-fiction books
Books based on films
Books about individual films
Books of film criticism
Books of interviews


title: Horns Green

text:
Horns Green is an area in the London Borough of Bromley located to the south of Cudham near the boundary with Kent.

References

Districts of the London Borough of Bromley
Hamlets in the London Borough of Bromley


title: Ducker & Son

text:
Ducker & Son was a traditional shoe makers in Turl Street in Oxford. The business was founded by Edward Ducker in 1898. A limited company was formed following the deaths of Ducker and his wife in 1947.

The shop was featured in the 2007 film Atonement. Ducker & Son closed at the end of November 2016. Its archives are now held in the Bodleian Library.

Customers
Customers included:

 H. H. Asquith - Prime Minister
 Rowan Atkinson - English actor and comedian known for Mr. Bean and Blackadder.
 Jeremy Clarkson - English broadcaster and writer known for BBC TV show Top Gear.
 David Cornwell - Irish/British author who wrote under the pen name John le Carré.
 Eddie Jordan -  Irish businessman and former Formula One team boss.
 Lady Ottoline Morrell - Literary salonist
 Matthew Pinsent - English Olympic rower and broadcaster.
 J.R.R. Tolkien - English writer and Oxford don known for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
 Evelyn Waugh - English writer known for Brideshead Revisited.

Local legend
A local legend, mentioned by Jan Morris in Oxford (1965), tells of an old basketwork armchair reported to materialise in a room above the shop for a few seconds and then gradually fade away. Yurdan, however, states that it has been a long time since reports of any sightings have been made.

References

External links
Song Sneakers Website

Shops in Oxford
Independent stores
History of Oxford
1898 establishments in England
Shoe companies of the United Kingdom
1898 establishments in the United Kingdom
2016 disestablishments in England
British companies disestablished in 2016
British companies established in 1898
Clothing companies established in 1898
Defunct retail companies of the United Kingdom
Reportedly haunted locations in South East England


title: Miguel Cid

text:
Miguel José Ferreira Andrade Cid (born 21 May 1992) is a Portuguese footballer who plays as a midfielder.

Football career
On 17 August 2014, Cid made his professional debut with Boavista in a 2014–15 Primeira Liga match against Braga.

References

External links

Stats and profile at LPFP

1992 births
Footballers from Porto
Living people
Portuguese men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Boavista F.C. players
BFC Daugavpils players
Kemi City F.C. players
Gondomar S.C. players
Primeira Liga players
Campeonato de Portugal (league) players
Latvian Higher League players
Ykkönen players
Portuguese expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Latvia
Expatriate men's footballers in Finland


title: Luxted

text:
Luxted is a hamlet in the London Borough of Bromley, located to the south of Downe. The area is rural, noted for its abundance of woods and grasslands.
It is a part of the largest ward in Greater London, the Darwin (ward), which also includes Downe, Cudham, Leaves Green, Single Street, Berry's Green, and Westerham Hill.

Partial History

Lord Simon de Manning, a former Lord of the Manor for Kevington, London, (which included Luxted and Berry's Green), and grandson to Rudolf de Manning, (Count Palatine, (who married Elgida, aunt to King Harold 1, (Harold Harefoot), of England; he was the royal Standard Bearer to King Richard the Lionheart. He carried the royal Standard to Jerusalem, in 1190, during the First Crusade.In England, the forms Earl Palatine, and Palatine Earldom, are preferred.

References

Districts of the London Borough of Bromley
Hamlets in the London Borough of Bromley


title: Wat Phrachao Ong Dam

text:
Wat Phrachao Ong Dam (; "Temple of the Black-Bodied Lord") is a ruined temple that is part of the Wiang Kum Kam archaeological site which is located just outside the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai in Chiang Mai province.

The ruined temple is named after a burnt bronze Buddha image that was discovered there.

It is located very close to the north-western side of Wat Phaya Mangrai, another ruined temple located in the area.

See also
Wat Phaya Mangrai
Wiang Kum Kam

References

 Oliver Hargreave: Exploring Chiang Mai, City, Valley & Mountains. Within Books, 4th Edition, 2013.

Phrachao Ong Dam


title: Christoph August von Wangenheim

text:
Major-General Christoph August von Wangenheim  (23 March 1741 in Hanover – 23 June 1830 in Hanover) was a German Hanoverian Army officer and court official.

Biography
Von Wangenheim entered the Hanoverian Army in 1757. Over the next twenty years he was gradual promoted and became a major in 1777. Between 1782–1787 von Wangenheim served in India with the East India Company but retained his commission in the Royal Hanoverian army. During this time, he kept a concise diary, which was published as an annotated version in 2017. He commanded Hanoverian brigade at the battle of Cuddalore (13 June 1783).  Also during that time he led a contingent 1,400 Hanoverians, along with a company of European and sepoy soldiers to suppress a mutiny of a British Army regiment. In 1797 he was promoted to Major-General.

In India in 1783 von Wangenheim treated a wounded French sergeant who was his prisoner with kindness. Two  decades later (in 1803), when France conquered Hanover, Bernadotte, the French commanding general reintroduced himself to von Wangenheim and thanked him for his kindness 20 years earlier.

Between 1814 and 1819 von Wangenheim was a member of the Hanoverian Parliament. In 1819 he accepted the office of Hofmarschall (an administrative post in charge of a princely German court).

Notes

References

Tzoref Ashkenazi, Chen (2019). "German soldiern in eighteenth century India", in MIDA Archival Reflexicon, pp. 1-8.

1741 births
1830 deaths
Military personnel from Hanover
Military personnel of Hanover


title: Harrison Dunk

text:
Harrison Charles Dunk (born 25 October 1990) is an English professional footballer who plays as a left back or left midfielder for  club Cambridge United.

Career
Dunk was born in Hammersmith, Greater London. He joined Bromley on 7 August 2009, after being spotted in an under-18 tournament in Germany, following time with AFC Wimbledon. He featured regularly for the club in his debut campaign, and was also selected the club's Player of the Season.

On 7 June 2011, after picking up another Player of the Season award with Bromley, Dunk joined Cambridge United. He renewed his link with the U's on 23 March 2014.

On 9 August 2014, Dunk played his first match in the Football League, starting in a 1–0 home win against Plymouth Argyle. On 8 January 2018, Dunk became Cambridge United's longest serving player after defender Josh Coulson left the club for Leyton Orient. Dunk made his 300th appearance for Cambridge on 13 August 2019 in a League Cup first round tie against Brentford in which Cambridge won on penalties. He made his 300th league appearance against Scunthorpe on 17 October 2020 with United winning 5–0.

Career statistics

Honours
Cambridge United
EFL League Two runner-up: 2020–21
Conference Premier play-offs: 2014

 FA Trophy winner : 2014

References

External links
Cambridge official profile

1990 births
Living people
Footballers from Hammersmith
English men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
Men's association football midfielders
Bromley F.C. players
Cambridge United F.C. players
National League (English football) players
English Football League players


title: Single Street

text:
Single Street is a hamlet in the London Borough of Bromley in Greater London, located between Luxted and Berry's Green, and centred around a street of the same name. The first record of a settlement under the name 'Single Street' is from an Ordnance Survey map in 1871, but its name is derived from sengel, an Old English word meaning 'burnt clearing'.
It is part of the largest ward in Greater London,  Darwin (ward), covering a rural area including Downe, Cudham, Leaves Green, Berry's Green, and Westerham Hill.

Partial History
Lord Simon de Manning, a former Lord of the Manor for Kevington, London, (which included Single Street, Downe, Cudham, Luxted, and Berry's Green), and grandson to Rudolf de Manning, (Count Palatine), (who married Elgida, aunt to King Harold 1, (Harold Harefoot), of England, was the royal Standard Bearer to King Richard the Lionheart. He carried the Royal Standard to Jerusalem, in 1190, during the First Crusade.
In England, the forms Earl Palatine, and Palatine Earldom, are preferred.

Notable residents
 Nigel Farage, former MEP, leader of the Brexit Party and former chairman of EFDD in the European Parliament.

References

Districts of the London Borough of Bromley
Hamlets in the London Borough of Bromley


title: Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships – Women's 100 metre freestyle

text:
The Women's 100 metre freestyle competition of the 2014 European Aquatics Championships was held on 19–20 August.

Records
Prior to the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows.

Results

Heats
The heats were held at 10:22.

Semifinals
The semifinals were held at 18:11.

Semifinal 1

Semifinal 2

Final
The final was held at 19:18.

References

Women's 100 metre freestyle


title: Luigi Vassalli

text:
Luigi Vassalli (also Luigi Vassalli-bey) (January 8, 1812 – June 13, 1887) was an Italian Egyptologist and patriot.

Biography
Vassalli was born in 1812 in Milan. In 1828 he enrolled at the Brera Academy and around this period he joined the Mazzinian activism but after a failed conspiracy he was sentenced to death, only to be pardoned but exiled. He moved in several places across Europe and later he traveled to Egypt where he began working for the local government.

In 1848 Vassalli returned to his homeland to join the revolutionary movements against the Austrian Empire, but after the failure he returned to Egypt where he became a portrait painter and an archaeological guide for wealthy foreigners. Around 1858 he was appointed Inspector of excavations by the French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette, who was Director of Antiquities at this time. Vassalli assisted in excavations at Giza and Saqqara until 1860, when he gave resignation and returned again home to give his contribution to the Expedition of the Thousand led by Giuseppe Garibaldi. After the victory he was appointed First Class Conservator at the Naples National Archaeological Museum; however, the office was soon abolished by the still pro-Borbonic museum management and Vassalli again came back to Cairo.

In Egypt he made several archaeological explorations in many sites such as Tanis, Saqqara, Dendera and Edfu from 1861 to 1868. He sent many mummy remains to the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale of Milan and in 1871 he made around 150 casts from monuments exhibited in the Bulaq Museum which he brought to Florence with him. During his short stay here the Italian government asked him to inspect many Egyptian collections in Italy, after which he returned to his duties in Cairo.

Still in 1871, along with Mariette he discovered the mastaba of Nefermaat at Meidum, which is well known for the famous scene commonly referred as the "Meidum geese". Vassalli carefully removed the whole scene from the tomb wall and reassembled it inside the Bulaq Museum. This fact sparked a controversy over a century later, when in a 2015 research the Egyptologist Francesco Tiradritti suggested that the Meidum geese scene is a 19th-century forgery possibly made by Vassalli himself, a claim dismissed by Egyptian authorities.

After Mariette's death in 1881, Vassalli became Director ad interim until the installation of Gaston Maspero. He retired in 1884 and returned to Milan and then to Rome; he committed suicide there on June 13, 1887. According to his will, all his papers were donated to the city of Milan.

Significant works
 1867. I monumenti istorici egizi: il museo e gli scavi d'antichità eseguiti per ordine di S.A. Il vicerè Ismail Pascia. Milano 1867.

References

1812 births
1887 deaths
1880s suicides
19th-century archaeologists
Archaeologists from Milan
Italian Egyptologists
Egyptian Museum
Suicides in Italy
Italian people of the Italian unification