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Scheffel Boyle and Allison Knapp & Siekmann, Ltd. Join Forces
September 24, 2014 /in Blog, Frontpage, Scheffel News /by brett@bonniburns.com
SCHEFFEL BOYLE AND ALLISON KNAPP & SIEKMANN, LTD JOIN FORCES
Effective October 1st, 2014, The Scheffel Boyle team is pleased to announce a new addition to their already dominant force in the St. Louis region. The firm of Allison Knapp & Siekmann has joined forces with Scheffel Boyle. This combination will increase Scheffel Boyle's geographical footprint in Southern Illinois and the St. Louis metropolitan area.
In business since 1950, Allison Knapp & Siekmann (AKS) shares the same dedication to high quality client service that Scheffel Boyle has prided itself on for nearly a century. AKS had office locations in Belleville and Bethalto, Illinois, where their professionals will remain on staff and continue their current positions as the newest members of the Scheffel Boyle team.
Now that AKS has joined forces with Scheffel Boyle, the full-service accounting, auditing, tax, business, and financial consulting firm has now expanded its footprint in the St. Louis metropolitan area to 10 offices and approximately 100 employees, while adding a greater depth of resources and expertise for their clients. Scheffel Boyle's Dennis Ulrich, CPA & Managing Partner, and Allison Knapp & Siekmann's Henry Siekmann both feel the acquisition will only further enhance the quality service they have offered clients for years.
"Bringing our two firms together is a great step not only for us, but for all our clients. We are constantly growing as a firm, bringing a new level of knowledge and expertise to the work we do. I feel AKS shares our dedication to an exceptional standard of service that we hold dear at Scheffel Boyle," said Dennis Ulrich, Managing Principal of Scheffel Boyle. "I'm confident that this combination will bring positive changes for both firms and our combined family of clients."
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Grand Chutzpah
The English Rothschilds
by Richard Davis
University of North Carolina Press, 272 pp., $17.95
Dear Lord Rothschild: Birds, Butterflies and History
by Miriam Rothschild
Balaban, 421 pp., $29.95
A Jewish landed aristocracy seems about as improbable as Bertie Wooster breakfasting on lox and bagels. But the Rothschilds, at their grandest, have been impeccable in breakfasts as in everything else. A famous piece of Rothschild lore has a butler asking a house guest whether he would prefer to take his morning tea with milk from the Jersey or the Guernsey herd.
At least some of the perennial fascination with the dynasty is not much more than amazed gawking at their singularity. But Rothschild history, especially in England, signifies a great deal more than the Judengasse come to horse-and-hounds in the Vale of Aylesbury, astonishing though that alteration was. To those left behind in the shtetl or peddling shmattas off a barrow, their social conquest was balm to the wounds of humiliation. So that, among other Jews at any rate, their magnificence more often aroused vicarious pleasure than envy. When a Rothschild horse crossed line at the Derby, the barrow boy could reckon his winnings as a kind of share in the stock of the mighty.
This symbolic solidarity was just as well. For once the Jews of Europe had been freed from the ghetto, only to face other barriers less visible but just as daunting, their uncertainty generated a need for secular authority: figures that could face up to states and statesmen in a way denied to rabbinical tradition. So the transformation of the Rothschilds from old-style Hofjuden—Court Jews—to the frock-coated gentry of New Court in London, boosted collective confidence in incalculable ways. The model was not just that of financial success (though of course that counted), but success without apostasy. The Rothschilds themselves relished their role as unofficial nasim—prince–interlocutors of the exile, with all the prestige as well as responsibilities incurred. (One member of the family when asked his motto replied, only half in jest, "Service," and added, "And by God we get it.") But their triumph among the goyim ought not to be taken for some Shylockian satisfaction for historical wrongs. It was, in fact, born of a sturdy optimism about the ultimate reasonableness of governing elites to make room for a Jewish notability not as creditors but as peers. And it is a matter of much self-congratulation in Britain—and, until recently in France—that this essentially liberal scenario of graceful gentile concession reciprocated by Jewish patriotic devotion did indeed come to pass.
The Rothschilds, however, have generally declined to rest on their laurels. Resolved to turn their own family victories into institutional improvements, they acted as benign irritants against liberal complacency. Perhaps their most important gesture in this respect was their flat rejection of what might be called the nineteenth-century emancipation contract: "You shall be made free and equal," decreed the emancipators, but on condition that you shed your unsavory manners, your gibbering tongue, and your chronic superstition. It was a tempting offer. Isaac d'Israeli eagerly grasped it and his son reaped the rewards in the next generation, compounding the apostasy by trading on a fatuous mystique of the high blood and bulging brains of the Semites. The Rothschilds, not so easily seduced, were bent on securing equality as a right rather than by supplication. Lionel de Rothschild endured the repeated embarrassment of election followed by denial at the bar of the House of Commons until his ordeal ended in the removal of the disabling Christian oath. When his tenacity, and that of the City of London's electors, finally prevailed over the recalcitrant House of Lords, he did not melt into the benches—though he did say very little—but flagged his triumph by sporting a white top hat to the House.
The Rothschilds were able to indulge this taste for grand chutzpah for a very particular set of historical reasons that are all-too-lightly touched on in Richard Davis's amiable but unexciting book. The years when they knocked on the doors of the European states, as the founders of the English and French dynasties, Nathan and James well appreciated, were a period when maximum governmental pretentions were supported by minimum resources. The reigning fiction was that new direct tax systems had liberated the nineteenth-century state from the old regime's dependence on improvised loans from private contractors. The reality was that the scale of the Napoleonic wars and the hugely inflated expenditures thought indispensable to support great power foreign policy had generated a kind of fiscal panic. The Rothschilds, handily situated in each of the major European capitals, and with long experience at both generating and managing public funds, assuaged this nervousness with apparently unlimited supplies of ready cash, which they lent at a generous commission. And as Davis rightly emphasizes, they were prepared to do so without political strings. The dynasty's collective capital multiplied tenfold in the three years after the Vienna Congress, and Nathan went from Manchester cloth factor to millionaire. The social corollary was that his sons were granted tentative admission to a kind of well-appointed waiting room (Cambridge, the beginnings of county society), beyond which, they were given to understand, lay the Barsetshire elysium of titles, green acres, and receptions at court.
The delicacy and secrecy of the transactions by which the Rothschilds gratified the hungry requirements of the liberal English state (not to mention the Prussian, French, Austrian, and Spanish states) and in return were taken to its bosom inevitably exposed them to a kind of whispering campaign, both during their apogee and in much historical literature since. And their guarded approach to their own papers did nothing to dispel some of the mysteries of public finance and private fortunes. It would be good to report that Richard Davis, who is the first historian to be given free access to the English bank's papers, has emerged from this historical Fort Knox laden with bullion, but there is very little glitter to be mined from his rather leaden prose. In her much more engaging book on Walter Rothschild, his niece Miriam claims that the "truth about the Rothschilds" is that their indifference to posterity led them to commit trunkloads of letters to the bonfire. If so, it is a great pity, for it robs the historian of the ability to document with any kind of textured detail just what it was that made the Rothschilds kings of the financial jungle. Davis emphasizes their superior intelligence gathering and courier service, which rather than carrier pigeons, it seems, was the cause of Nathan's great coup after Waterloo, but he is never able to show us how that service worked.
His book is at least a great advance on the uninformed tittle-tattle that has passed for so much of the writing about the English Rothschilds. Instead we get informed gossip based on the Rothschild correspondence, but it is of varying interest and importance. We learn exactly who married whom and whether this aroused pleasure or pain in the family, and much about the Gunnersbury stud and the other horsy passions that the English family cultivated with at least as much eagerness as their bank. We learn something of their human dimensions, though often in the kind of language reserved for police descriptions ("All were somewhat below medium height"). All of this is done with polite gratitude rather than any vivid enthusiasm. Even the Rothschild chateaux—flamboyant confections sitting in the Buckinghamshire greensward, Fontainebleau out of St. Pancras Station—provoke not much more than warmed-over passages from architectural texts.
Once the Rothschilds enter politics in the late nineteenth century—as classic Whiggish Liberals, socially conservative but politically moderate, and committed to what might be called the policy of heroic caution—Davis's narrative takes on more color and vigor. But even here his approach is cramped by the need to navigate carefully between hearsay and history. He dutifully exonerates the Rothschilds from all suspicion of improper use of financial influence to affect the conduct of policy of successive governments (though in at least one case in 1880, he makes clear, Natty had a good shot at sabotaging Gladstone's foreign policy toward the Turks by leaking its details to Bismarck via the Berlin house). But all this studious advocacy misses the point, which is not whether they used the power of money or the friendship of statesmen to engineer lucrative schemes but whether some policies would have been possible without them.
Careful not to lend credence to the wilder kind of Rothschild demonologies, Davis errs on the side of prissiness. Even at the height of Victorian public finance, the lines between the public and private good were less clear than they are supposed to be now. And as gung-ho imperialists right from Palmerston through Disraeli to Chamberlain and Cecil Rhodes's "New Imperialism," the Rothschilds saw a perfectly proper conjunction of patriotism and profit. As they became more and more embedded in the landscape of home countries and the cityscape of imperial finance, what they came to detest was a kind of low-Church Little Englandism that put chapel morals above hearty British self-interest. Accordingly Gladstone and Lloyd George were anathema, Irish Home Rule prompted their desertion of the Liberals. It was when Zionism pointed to an opportunity to create another outpost of Empire in the Near East that their enthusiasm was really kindled.
It would be a mistake, though, to conclude from this that the English Rothschilds are no more than mildly Jewish variations on the Galsworthy gentry—bankers in jodhpurs, addicted to claret, collecting paintings, breeding livestock, and cultivating politicians along with herbacious borders. For they have been rich in more than sterling and acres, and their family saga in its intimate detail has been the theater of great drama. But so long is the shadow cast by their aura of power and grandeur that perhaps it takes a Rothschild to write about the Rothschilds with all the candor and gusto that the subject demands. Miriam Rothschild may have set out to write the biography of her uncle Walter, the second lord and the first in a great line of Rothschild naturalists and zoologists, as an act of family piety, but the result is a fascinating and brilliant family history: by far the best book about the family that has yet been written.
This is not just because the author, who is herself an entomologist of great distinction, can write about the Rothschilds from the inside, and with no holds barred, but also because it has plainly been, from start to finish, a labor of love. That she has a gift for evoking places and people is an added bonus. In contrast to Davis's bland description of the Rothschild milieu, she uses a Proustian excursus on coal scuttles to conjur up the peculiar atmosphere of Walter's estate, Tring, with its "smoking room like a steamer saloon." To say that her book has something of the feel of a family memoir—complete with a wonderful array of album photographs—is not to belittle its importance in the least. It is, in fact, the first book about the Rothschilds to have married family history with the public world in a wholly convincing way.
Much the least interesting chapters deal with Walter's role as the recipient of the Balfour Declaration. Miriam Rothschild makes short work of historians (including this one) who have supposed her uncle's part in the famous document as largely adventitious. She argues instead that the long acquaintance of his father Natty with Balfour made the family the only logical addressee. Understandably she overdoes this case, but what is more striking than whether or not the Rothschilds had major or bit parts in the action is that once his father was dead, Walter, who had been painfully shy of public occasions, assumed the mantle of leadership with uninhibited outspokenness.
The Balfour Declaration may have been the founding charter of Jewish Palestine, but for Walter Rothschild it was a kind of emotional therapy. It enabled him to be freed from the awful burden of disappointed paternal expectations that had clouded his life almost from the start. Natty was perhaps the most powerful of all the English clan, the student companion of the Prince of Wales, Disraeli's confidant, the crutch that Randolph Churchill leaned on in both his prime and his decline, the maker and breaker of imperial fortunes. For him the revelation of his eldest son and heir as a butterfly and moth enthusiast was a terrible joke. It did nothing to soothe his sense of outrage to be attacked by one of Walter's flock of cassowaries while hacking in the park, or to have the villagers complain that his son's pet wolf had (not surprisingly) got the better of dogfights down at the local pub. And when Natty's wife Emma responded to his attempts to bluster this nonsense out of Walter with the over-protectiveness of what the author calls the "iron apron strings," the result was to send him headlong into a world as far removed as possible from the standard Rothschild expectations.
Family pathos, then, created zoological genius. For Walter, the second Lord Rothschild, was the grand refus of the family. Terror and misery at his father's brow-beetling disapproval made him tonguetied for the rest of his life (except, Freudians will note, when he could assume another's character in amateur dramatics at Cambridge). He did all the wrong Rothschild things: He took mistresses who blackmailed him almost to ruin, instead of female cousin Rothschilds to ensure the integrity of the line. He bred giant tortoises and zebras instead of little Rothschilds, and went furtively AWOL from the bank to mingle with the inert legions of stuffed insects and animals at the Natural History Museum. The bank was an eighteen-year sentence to penal servitude and only the magnitude of his transgressions—both sexual and, especially, the folly of the speculations that were supposed to placate his persecutors—at last released him from its shackles.
The way in which Walter, with his good-natured bewilderment at the awfulness of people (as distinct from animals), coped with his crises was to block them out. Letters that seemed likely to inflict pain were consigned unopened to laundry baskets and sealed. And he fled instead to "My Museum" on the grounds of the house at Tring, a colossal collection of mounted specimens, the like of which had never been seen before and without which British natural history—and its museum—would certainly have never been the same. As his enthusiasm became an addiction and the tide of specimens flowing into Tring rose to oceanic proportions, the collection turned into a major scientific enterprise of identification and classification. Two and a quarter million butterflies and moths, not to mention three hundred thousand birds and two hundred thousand birds' eggs, were set and mounted. Two thousand varieties of birds were actually displayed. Learned German naturalists were hired to act as scholarly curators—though Walter's own organizational genius and prodigious memory was such that he ran this huge empire of the stuffed and the fixed with characteristic Rothschild toughness and efficiency.
This is a book, then, in which Rothschild features as a nomenclature not attached to wine but giraffes, porcupines, butterflies, and a rare kind of intestinal worm. But it is a Rothschild book all the same. For Walter was, in his way, just as much a pioneer, an opportunist, an entrepreneur and intrepid projector, as any of his kin. If all of his energies and acumen went toward accumulating specimens rather than money, they were still exercised on an epic scale. Did giant tortoises need rescuing? The answer was to lease one of the Galapagos islands for some years and dispatch a team to scoop them up. Walter himself went to Algeria in hot pursuit of rare species of birds, and his brother Charles was sent to tropical Africa for fleas. Expeditions were mounted to recover rare items and dispatch them dead or alive to Tring. And so the book abounds in fantastic voyages and improbable heroes: a 150-year-old giant tortoise that was sprung from the park of a Sydney lunatic asylum only to die of sexual excitement in the pastures of Tring; an alcoholic taxidermist called Otis Bullock; a feverish collector called Wollaston murdered in his study at King's College, Cambridge, by a deranged undergraduate after seeing the spectral presence of the dead brother, Charles. Walter himself is irresistible, going up to Cambridge with his live kiwis or down to Brighton with his dingo, or driving into Buckingham Palace forecourt with three zebras and a pony harnessed to his carriage.
Walter's boyish glee in all this was more than simply animal crackers. As Miriam Rothschild points out, it was the unaffected simplicity of his character that led him to understand the delight that ordinary people would have in beholding "the biggest sea elephant or the biggest bath sponge in the world mounted in as life-like a way as possible." And before natural history made prime-time television, the Tring museum was a stunning introduction to the immense range and variety of the animal realm. Walter was perhaps the only Rothschild to have been instinctively both aristocrat and democrat, for if in his own branch of science he had hardly a peer, in his taste he was truly blessed with the common touch. In the splendid curiosity of his life it is difficult not to regard him (as the author invites us to) as an endangered species, immense and benign like one of his treasured tortoises. But in his niece's vivid portrait he has avoided the fate of being preserved, stuffed, and mounted as a dynastic trophy. Instead he has been brought to life as one of the most astonishing figures in the menagerie of a rare and exotic breed, the genus Rothschildia.
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Remembering Pembroke Dock's Sunderland flying boats
By John Jones
The ML824 Sunderland being dismantled in 1971, the last memorial to the flying boats' proud history in Pembrokeshire. Photo: Pembroke Dock Heritage Centre
This month marks 50 years since one of the RAF's longest serving aircraft - the Short Sunderland - and an icon of Pembroke Dock - was moved from Pembrokeshire to London.
With the transfer of the aircraft, serial number 'ML824', to the Royal Air Force Museum at Hendon, the last poignant chapter in the story of the Sunderlands of the Haven waterway finally came to a close.
The Sunderland was and is synonymous with Pembroke Dock which was a vital flying boat base in the Second World War. Ironically, it was only in the early 1960s that - through the generosity of the French Navy - one of the RAF's most unsung aircraft - which had been was such a familiar sight at the Haven in wartime - returned.
ML824 on its arrival at Pembroke Dock in 1961. Photo: Pembroke Dock Heritage Centre
The Sunderland 'ML824' patrol bomber, which had played an important role in the Battle of the Atlantic during the war, was displayed at Pembroke Dock after being gifted by the French Navy in 1961, becoming the town's first major tourist attraction. But its stay was sadly shortlived, just 10 years.
Despite a campaign to keep it at its ancestral home (Sunderlands first entered RAF service at Pembroke Dock in the 1930s) the costs of protecting and renovating the plane became too much, and ML824 was donated to the RAF Museum in 1971, where it remains on show to this day
Flying boat historian and author, John Evans, a patron of the Pembroke Dock Sunderland Trust, said there was "great sadness" among locals when it departed for Hendon after just a decade in the town.
"It was a sad day when it left," he said. "The community and county had lost a unique heritage attraction.
"We didn't celebrate its going to Hendon – we lamented it, because it's such an important part of Pembroke Dock's history.
"Pembroke Dock's a military town, and you won't find another community in Britain which has such long connections with all three Armed Services – so it was a big loss."
Mr Evans, a leading authority on maritime aviation who has written 11 books on flying boats, regards the Sunderland as "one of Britain's most iconic aircraft".
"You think of the likes of the Spitfire, the Hurricane or the Mosquito – I would say the Sunderland was up there with them," he said.
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"It had a long, long service too, remarkably for its era. It was the largest aircraft the RAF had in 1938, but served with them until 1959, and then even continued with others right up until the 1960s, when aircraft were coming in and going out of service very quickly."
By the start of WWII in 1939, three RAF squadrons had been equipped with Sunderlands. Seven hundred and forty-nine aircraft were built in all, and served throughout the war.
Sunderlands were one of the most widely used flying boats throughout the war, and were heavily involved in Allied efforts to counter the threat of German U-boats during the Battle of the Atlantic. They also proved themselves useful in the Mediterranean theatre, performing maritime reconnaissance flights and assisting in the evacuation of Crete in 1941.
Sunderland II W3983/RB-R of No 10 Squadron Royal Australian Air Force, about to be brought out of the water at Pembroke Dock, 3 October 1941.
"In the Battle of the Atlantic, it had a pivotal role in the battle against the U-boats and, of course, things like convoy protection too.
"Maritime trade was all important – if we'd have not been able to continue our maritime trade and bringing supplies across the Atlantic, we would have lost the war."
The final Coastal Command Sunderland operational mission took place in June 1945.
Post-war, Sunderlands took part in the Berlin Airlift and during the Korean War Sunderlands based in Japan undertook nearly 900 sorties. The aircraft finally retired from RAF service in 1959 when the last aircraft were scrapped in Singapore.
The Sunderland's design was so good that it remained in front line service for over twenty years. It was also the last flying-boat operated by the Royal Air Force.
Following the war, ML824 served mainly in west Africa with the French Navy, and made its final flight on 24 March 1961, flying from Lanveoc-Pouloc, near Brest, to Pembroke Dock and landing on the Haven. It was then refurbished and repainted in RAF colours, before going on display behind the Royal Dockyard Chapel, where it attracted many tourists during the following seasons.
However, as it was displayed outside, the Welsh weather took its toll on the airframe, with much remedial work having to be carried out during its decade at the dockyard.
ML824 pictured on display at Pembroke Dock in the 1960s on a postcard. Photo: Pembroke Dock Heritage Centre
In 1971, ML824 was finally dismantled, and for local people in Pembroke Dock, with much reluctance, transported to Hendon, having been donated to the Royal Air Force Museum, which opened the following year.
More than 30 years later, Mr Evans, along with three other trustees, set up the Pembroke Dock Sunderland Trust. This has now developed into the Pembroke Dock Heritage Centre, which celebrates the town's history, and has many displays and artefacts of flying boats, particularly the Sunderland.
"What we're trying to do with the Heritage Centre is tell the town's stories, those links with the armed services, and of course the social history of a once very prosperous town," says Mr Evans .
"But we also tell the story of the Sunderland – it was an aircraft which the people who were connected with it have a great affinity."
While the centre is currently closed due to lockdown, it remains accessible online, with digital content enabling visitors to experience the collection and stay connected to the town's heritage.
ML824's final resting place at the Roya Airforce Museum Hendon; Photo: RAF Museum
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The first oviraptor was discovered in Mongolia in 1922. It was given its name, which means "egg thief", because it was found near a nest of what appeared to be Protoceratops eggs.
The next year, Norell was back in Mongolia when he spotted bones and claws protruding from the sand. But Norell had limited space in his trucks. The bulky fossil might have stayed where it was had team member Luis Chiappe not injured his foot. He wanted to collect a specimen rather than walk around searching for more. A day or two later, Chiappe drove up to Norell and another team member, Jim Clark. "We found something you won't believe," Chiappe told them.


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Vertebrates animal specimens in the Brooklyn museum. Collections and Galleries.
THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM
The Hall of Vertebrates of the Brooklyn Museum (Room 4 on plan), leading out of Room 5 toward the west, contains exhibits of all the important groups of backboned animals from fish to man, arranged so that, by passing up the left or south side of the room and down the right or north side, the animals are considered in evolutionary sequence; also each group or series is arranged so that the lower or simpler forms appear at the left, and therefore the exhibits should be studied from left to right.
The first floor case on the left contains an introductory series of vertebrates like fishes, preceded by the lancelets, the lowest of the backboned animals, having neither skull, jaws nor brain and in which the skeleton is represented only by a slender longitudinal cord. The hagfish, lamprey and other intermediate types are also shown, and, on the right, examples of a typical bony fish, showing skeletal characteristics, and a model of the anatomy.
Various tropical fishes are exhibited on the other side of this case, and, in cases behind and in front of it, going up the hall, examples of the various orders of fishes are shown, together with models of many of their extinct relatives. A diagram, on the right-hand end of the first upright floor case, shows the various deep-sea fishes and the depths at which they live. Models of deep-sea fishes are shown in a near-by case; the phosphorescent organs possessed by some species are their most striking characteristics.
Here in this vertebrates part of the Brooklyn Museum a model of the great white shark, or man-eater, is exhibited on the north wall, and plates from the United States Fish Commission series, representing the important food and game fishes of North America, are also shown.
Following the fishes, there are other vertebrates, like the amphibians, intermediate between water and land animals, are exhibited in the next floor case, and here an enlarged model of the frog's anatomy, with skeleton, indicates the main structural differences involved in the change of conditions. Salamanders, toads and other representative amphibians are here exhibited, and, on the other side of the same case, a mounted American alligator and skull of a crocodile assist in making clear the difference between crocodiles and alligators, emphasized elsewhere.
Facing these, on the north wall, is an exhibit illustrating the characteristics of the Class Reptilia, which, with many descriptive labels, provides the visitor with a comprehensive view of general and special points of structure of this class of animals.
On the wall behind this exhibit are maps showing the distribution of dangerous snakes and of amphibians, and a painting at the side shows the color changes of the common chameleon.
Proceeding up the hall, exhibits of crocodiles, snakes and lizards, including the more important and interesting types of these vertebrate animals, among which may be mentioned the rare tuatara from New Zealand, a primitive lizard-like reptile belonging to an order of which every other family is now extinct. Models of the extinct Plesiosaurus, a marine reptile with crocodilian characteristics, of the Stegosaurus, an extinct armored dinosaur of the Jurassic period, and of an Ichthyosaur, a fish-like lizard representing a group of rep-tiles abundant in Triassic times, help to relate the existing species of reptiles with those of ages of the past. The Ichthyosaurs were adapted to life in the sea, having four paddles and a powerful tail for swimming.
Typical examples of harmless and poisonous snakes are shown and the lizards are especially well represented; a study collection of these is available for students and includes many species of snakes, lizards, iguana, horned toad, running lizards, blue and green lizards of Europe and the skink of Egypt, as well as the Congo monitor, the Gila monster and others.
The collection of vertebrates is completed with the fresh-water turtles of the Brooklyn Museum, with skeletons, models and maps of distribution, appears next. The specimens include the rare matamata of South America, giant tortoise of the Galapagos Islands and examples of the leather-back, hawksbill and other important turtles. A pictorial representation shows the extinct giant sea turtle found in the Cretaceous deposits of South Dakota. In all these exhibits the inclusion of skeletons with the mounted specimens makes possible a clearer understanding of the animals under consideration.
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Obviously just because people are searching for a particular candidate doesn't necessarily mean that they're going to vote for them, but it's surely indicative of the nation's interests and curiosity to say the least.
So clearly in the last couple of weeks Ed Miliband is at least doing something to make more people look him up on Google. Whether that will translate into votes on 7th May – only time will tell!


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The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
This work is considered an important early work in feminist literature and one which explored issues about women's health, both physical and mental.
Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Publisher: GENERAL PRESS
The Yellow Wallpaper is considered a groundbreaking feminist masterpiece and one of the most exquisite horror stories in American literature. Charlotte Perkins Gilman was America's leading feminist intellectual of the early twentieth century. In addition to her masterpiece 'The Yellow Wallpaper', this new edition also includes a selection of her best short stories. This work is considered an important early work in feminist literature and one which explored issues about women's health, both physical and mental.
The book describes in detail how she sees imagined beings and ghostly sightings in the house.
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'The Yellow Wallpaper', by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is a short story first published in January 1892. The psychological thriller by the renowned US women's rights writer and campaigner is an autobiographical-inspired novella based upon her own experience of severe postnatal depression, leading to post-natal psychosis. At the time, women with PND (known in America as postpartum depression) were seen as hysterical and were often dismissed by doctors who overlooked treatment options through lack of understanding of the condition. In Perkins' short story, written tellingly from the first-person perspective, the nameless female protagonist is forced to sleep in an attic with yellow wallpaper and is driven mad by her enforced imprisonment following the birth of her first child. The book describes in detail how she sees imagined beings and ghostly sightings in the house. Disturbing in its nature yet utterly realistic to the heroine, the protagonist offers a diary-style narrative detailing her experience as a new mother suffering with severe mental illness: "I don't know why I should write this. I don't want to. I don't feel able. And I know John would think it absurd. But I must say what I feel and think in some way—it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief." Evoking gothic themes of Charlotte Bronte's 'Jane Eyre', in both Jane Eyre's own tortuous and notorious Red Room and Bertha Mason's confinement in her loft prison, the book was made into a film in 2011 – directed by Logan Thomas and starring Aric Cushing and Juliet Landau. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, also known as Charlotte Perkins Stetson, was born on 3rd July 1860 in Connecticut, USA. Her early family life was troubled, with her father abandoning his wife and family; a move which strongly influenced her feminist political leanings and advocator of women's rights. After jobs as a tutor and painter, Perkins – a self- declared humanist and 'tom boy' – began to work as a writer of short stories, novels, non-fiction pieces and poetry. Her best known work is her semi-autobiographical short story, inspired by her post-natal depression, entitled 'The Yellow Wallpaper' which was published in 1892 and made into a film in 2011. A member of the American National Women's Hall of Fame, Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a strong believer that "the domestic environment oppressed women through the patriarchal beliefs upheld by society". A believer in euthanasia, she was diagnosed with incurable breast cancer in January 1932 and chose to take her own life in August 1935, writing in her suicide note that she "chose chloroform over cancer".
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What would happen if society was run by women? Charlotte Perkins Gilman imagines the result... When three American men discover a community of women, living in perfect isolation in the Amazon, they decide there simply must be men somewhere.
What would happen if society was run by women? Charlotte Perkins Gilman imagines the result... When three American men discover a community of women, living in perfect isolation in the Amazon, they decide there simply must be men somewhere. How could these women survive without man's knowledge, experience and strength, not to mention reproductive power? In fact, what they have found is a civilisation free from disease, poverty and the weight of tradition. All alone, the women have created a society of calm and prosperity, a feminist utopia that dares to threaten the very concept of male superiority. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY LINDY WEST
The Yellow Wallpaper And Selected Writings
In addition to her masterpiece 'The Yellow Wallpaper', this new edition includes a selection of her best short fiction and extracts from her autobiography.
Publisher: Hachette UK
It is stripped off - the paper - in great patches . . . The colour is repellent . . . In the places where it isn't faded and where the sun is just so - I can see a strange, provoking, formless sort of figure, that seems to skulk about . . .' Based on the author's own experiences, 'The Yellow Wallpaper' is the chilling tale of a woman driven to the brink of insanity by the 'rest cure' prescribed after the birth of her child. Isolated in a crumbling colonial mansion, in a room with bars on the windows, the tortuous pattern of the yellow wallpaper winds its way into the recesses of her mind. Charlotte Perkins Gilman was America's leading feminist intellectual of the early twentieth century. In addition to her masterpiece 'The Yellow Wallpaper', this new edition includes a selection of her best short fiction and extracts from her autobiography.
The Yellow Wall Paper and Other Stories
The introduction to this edition places Gilman in the cultural and historical context of the American divided self, her Beecher heritage, and her contribution to the female Gothic.
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Charlotte Perkins Gilman was America's leading feminist intellectual of the early twentieth century. The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories makes available the fullest selection of her short fiction ever printed. It features her pioneering feminist masterpiece, her neglected stories contemporary with The Yellow Wall-Paper, and her later explorations of `the woman of fifty'. The introduction to this edition places Gilman in the cultural and historical context of the American divided self, her Beecher heritage, and her contribution to the female Gothic.
The Portrait of a New Woman in The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Those who read the story were totally confused and unable to understand the author's intentions. As Gilman writes in her essay Why I Wrote "The Yellow Wallpaper" : "[A] Boston physician made protest in the Transcript.
Author: Anna Dabek
Category: Literary Collections
Essay from the year 2008 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: A, , course: American Literature, language: English, abstract: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" was first published in the Forerunner, in 1913, and it aroused a lot of controversy among the readers. Those who read the story were totally confused and unable to understand the author's intentions. As Gilman writes in her essay Why I Wrote "The Yellow Wallpaper" : "[A] Boston physician made protest in the Transcript. Such a story ought not to be written, he said; it was enough to drive anyone mad to read it." [Gilman 1913:1] Why was the doctor so affected by Gilman's story? What was so extraordinary about it? First of all, the story was written at the time when women's roles were solely defined by men. At the beginning of the twentieth century, women were mainly supposed to be devoted to the needs of their families. As stated in The Changing Role of Womanhood: From True Woman to New Woman in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Deborah Thomas, men created: (...) an ideological prison that subjected and silenced women. This ideology, called the Cult of True Womanhood, legitimized the victimization of women. The Cult of Domesticity and the Cult of Purity were the central tenets of the Cult of True Womanhood. [Thomas 1998 :1] Women attempted to reject the traditional model of behaviour their fathers and husbands imposed on them. However, most of their endeavours were doomed to failure. Thomas quotes Welter who states that: "If anyone, male or female, dared to tamper with the complex virtues which made up True Womanhood, he was dammed immediately as the enemy of God, of civilization, and of the Republic." [Ibid]
The Yellow Wall Paper Herland and Selected Writings
Both are included in this volume, along with a selection of Gilman's major short stories and her poems.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
A collection of the groundbreaking feminist writer's most famous works, with a thought-provoking introduction by bestselling author Kate Bolick Wonderfully sardonic and slyly humorous, the writings of landmark American feminist and socialist thinker Charlotte Perkins Gilman were penned in response to her frustrations with the gender-based double standard that prevailed in America as the twentieth century began. Perhaps best known for her chilling depiction of a woman's mental breakdown in her unforgettable 1892 short story 'The Yellow Wall-Paper', Gilman also wrote Herland, a wry novel that imagines a peaceful, progressive country from which men have been absent for two thousand years. Both are included in this volume, along with a selection of Gilman's major short stories and her poems. New York Times bestselling author Kate Bolick contributes an illuminating introduction that explores Gilman's fascinating yet complicated life. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman s The Yellow Wall paper
This sourcebook combines extracts from contemporary documents and critical reviews, providing an introduction, a publishing and critical history, a chronology of key events, a guide to further reading and original pictures.
The Collected Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
This volume also contains "Why I wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'", "Herland" (a novel set in a society consisting solely of women), "Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution", ...
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a leading feminist thinker of her age, is best known for her novella "The Yellow Wallpaper" which is a chilling description of post-partum depression. This volume also contains "Why I wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'," "Herland" (a novel set in a society consisting solely of women), "Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution," and a selection of her verse.
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Presents fiction and non-fiction selections from the twentieth-century American feminist and sociologist, displaying keen analysis of economic and women's issues.
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Episode One-Derland: Blue Dragon
September 22, 2017 April 10, 2022 fiddletwix Episode One-derland (Anime)adventure, akira toriyama, Ami shibata, anime, blue dragon, fantasy, first impression, review
Plot: Thousands of years ago, at the dawn of humanity, God blessed the world with prosperity and light. However, the humans, greedy for more, wished for darkness as well. They were granted their wish, and darkness fell upon them. It invaded the hearts of men, and humanity had to fight against it. Warriors of light emerged and triumphed over the darkness, but now the darkness has returned, heralding in the call for warriors of light.
A dark and evil king named Nene is terrorizing villages everywhere looking for a special power, kidnapping children that he believes possess the ability to wield it. One day, Nene's forces target the village of a boy named Shu, who wishes for nothing more than to be a brave warrior called a Knight Master and travel the world to look for adventure.
He believes he's found a Knight Master when he meets the stoic woman named Zola, but is disappointed when she states that she is no such thing. When the attack commences on Shu's village, he races to find Zola and her companion, a boy named Jiro, to recruit them to help fight them off. They refuse, however, and tell him that if he wants his village saved he must do it himself.
Jiro and his friends, a girl named Kluke and three others, make a valiant effort to fight off the soldiers, but to no avail. The leader of the soldiers is met with Zola and he prepares for battle by calling on his shadow, which turns into a goblin-like beast. Zola too calls upon her shadow, a killer bat.
The goblin is no match for Killer Bat, but the resulting battle causes debris to fly everywhere. Just as Shu's friends are about to be killed by a falling heap of debris, he leaps into the path of danger with nothing but the wish to save them behind him. As he's about to get crushed, his shadow suddenly emerges as a brilliant blue dragon, aptly named Blue Dragon, the incredible power everyone's been looking for.
Breakdown: Blue Dragon is a title I've been aware of for quite some time, but I've never bothered to look up any information on it.
At face value, there's not really anything special about this series so far besides the Akira Toriyama aesthetics. Being clear, Toriyama only lent his talent to the art. He had no hand in the story.
The opening in particular about the powers of light and darkness battling each other was very milquetoast. The aspect of the shadows is also not horribly creative since it's basically just a fancy way of saying 'familiar.'
As a first episode, it fares okay. We get the personalities of all of the main characters fairly effectively, even if a good chunk of them are also stereotypes. Shu is the headstrong shounen fighting fantasy anime lead character who has a heart of gold, wants to protect the people he loves and is kinda dense. But he has the best power because main character. I'll stave off of making a stark comparison between him and Goku for now.
You have the perpetually grumpy rival in Jiro.
Kluke is a bit of a generic love interest, though she's also sort of a big sister to Shu, and her love of gadgetry is a nice touch.
Zola in particular caught my eye because holy shit it has gotten annoying to not have many prominent legit female fighters throughout shounen. Zola is one kickass pirate-clad assassin girl.
The enemies are horribly generic, destroying villages and beating up kids while chuckling evilly. Even the leader's shadow is a typical goblin thing.
Shu discovering his power through a desire to save his friends is also typical. Bear in mind, using tropes is not inherently bad. You just have to do enough with the tropes to make them interesting and as unique as possible, and they just aren't doing that so far.
They don't explain these powers much at all in this episode. We know that some people can summon monsters through their shadows and that's about it. We have no clue what constitutes gaining this ability, why certain people get certain shadows, why it seems like they were collecting kids for the sake of summoning the blue dragon (you can't really argue that only kids can summon shadows because the leader guy is definitely an adult and Zola's a teen at least), what's so special about the shadows, how they work etc. They don't even explain Nene and the Gran Kingdom well.
That being said, it is obviously very stylized because Akira Toriyama, and I never felt bored while watching. I was never really immersed in it that much, but I didn't find it to be that bad, especially with Zola.
A slightly reluctant yes. Yet another freshly hatched Shounen Step-By-Step. Hopefully it just gets better after this point.
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I heard of this, but never saw Blue Dragon. I thought it would be another DBZ rehash with Toriyama's art style, but I didn't know he wasn't in charge of the story. There was also a manga spin-off called Ral Grad which had Takeshi Obata (Death Note, Hikaru no Go, Bakuman, etc.) doing the art.


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ICANN green-lights new top-level domains
Martyn Williams
At the end of the a four-day meeting in Yokohama, Japan, the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has voted unanimously to create new top-level domains for the Internet.
Under the resolution, ICANN will appoint an unspecified number of registry operators by the end of 2000 to operate new top-level domains as alternatives to the current .com, .net and .org domains.
The board's failure to specify the number of new top-level domains it will create came under fire from some at the conference. Although ICANN Interim-Chairperson Esther Dyson said she would rather see approximately ten new top-level domains created, other board members cautioned that number may be too high given ICANN's staffing problems, which are in turn related to funding problems.
The application period will run for two months from Aug. 1, and then the public will have a two-week period in which to comment. The organization plans to announce its selections by Nov. 20 and then enter into final negotiations with those applicants, aiming to finish negotiations by Dec. 31.
Applicants will be required to pay a non-refundable application fee of US$50,000, which will be used to fund the examination of application forms at both administrative and legal levels, said ICANN spokesperson Pam Brewster.
The plan, which was at the top of the agenda for the final day's board meeting, received a mixed reception from attendees.
"Fifty thousand dollars is too much for what they are offering," said Cary Karp, a member of the International Council of Museums which is hoping to operate a non-commercial .museum top-level domain. "It is at the high end of expectations, for a start, and I am not sure I can justify that much money."
Karp's concerns revolve around the failure to specify the number of domains to be issued and so his inability to rate his chances of being awarded a top-level domain.
"I need to talk to ICANN and find out realistically my chances of getting one. If I think I can get one, the museum community can raise $50,000 if it is needed, but I might just withhold from the process on principle."
For some potential registry operators, the money presents no problem because of the huge potential profits that could be reaped from operating a new domain, although competition to win a new top-level domain remains a risk.
In answer to this, a group of leading registrars including Register.com Inc., Tucows.com Inc. and Melbourne IT Ltd. are considering a joint application for the creation of a new commercial top-level domain, said Elana Broitman, director, policy and public affairs for Register.com. The cooperative will bid for the rights to operate the registry but not register domain names. This will be left up to domain name registrars, she said.
"We are thinking of creating a common registry, open to all registrars whether they are members of the consortium or not," Broitman said.
New domains – especially generic domains such as .shop – would mean that companies that now have to deal with .com cybersquatters would have a lot more virtual territory to worry about. That prospect "is something that's the nightmare of every brand owner, certainly," said Sally Abel, an intellectual-property attorney at Fenwick & West LLP in Palo Alto, Calif. On the other hand, businesses that have lost out on getting the best .com names would have a new shot at an attractive name in a different domain.
But the importance of a catchy or simple-to-remember domain name in establishing a business is debatable, said Gary Szenderski, a senior partner at brand development and advertising firm Szenderski Rohani Worldwide in Irvine, Calif.
"A brand is only as good as what's behind the name," said Szenderski. "[Companies] that have established .coms are going to remain established." Observers said ICANN also may introduce a series of "chartered," or closed, domains that limit registrations to specific companies or organizations – like .airline, for example. These domains would be limited in much the same way .edu has been restricted to educational institutions.
But closed domains could raise other issues. For example, the Labour Policy Association Inc. in Washington, which represents human resources executives at major corporations, has sent a letter to ICANN opposing the introduction of a .union domain. The group claims that the domain could confuse employees and lead them to believe they're being represented by unions formed by their companies. But proponents say a .union domain such as Nike.union or Microsoft.union could help foster communication among workers.
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Romanian Gabriela Matei will take over as the new general manager of Microsoft Romania starting July 1, the company announced on Thursday, June 23. She will replace Greek executive Kostas Loukas, who will take a new role at Microsoft Central and Eastern Europe.
Loukas has led Microsoft Romania for three years. During his mandate, the company saw a growth of 22%, above the market growth rates, the consumer segment being the main contributor to this increase. Moreover, the revenues generated by the Cloud business tripled, this segment's contribution to the company's turnover reaching 30%.
Gabriela Matei has been leading Microsoft Romania's SME business since January 2014. Before that, between 2012 and 2014, she was Cloud Manager.
Prior to joining Microsoft Romania, Matei worked 15 years at telecom operator Vodafone. She graduated from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest.
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Q: Which way did Gandalf mean for the fellowship to take into Mordor? Before the fellowship of the ring broke and Frodo and Sam decide to go on alone, Gandalf lead the group. I've been wondering which way he meant for the group to choose into Mordor.
There seem to be only two known ones, Black Gate and Cirith Ungol. The Black Gate seems insurmountable, at least in the movies, and Gandalf, again in the movie, seemed shocked at the foresight of Frodo taking the path of Cirith Ungol. So I wonder what was his intention.

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It's always a challenge to make your content stand out, but this doesn't mean that you should be discouraged from creating it.
As the average human attention span has dropped to just 8 seconds, however, how can you make content that captures your audience's attention before it's gone?
This is the first thing that will help you beat the readers' attention span. It is very important to understand your audience, as this will help you create more relevant content for them.
Monitor your competitors' content and find the gaps that you can fill in.
Having well-structured content helps readers to stay longer on your page. It's not just the quality of the content that maintains readers' interest, but also the way you present it.
Add takeaway tips at the end of your content to help readers digest the most important parts.
As with a good content structure, images make reading a page more appealing.
From the header or feature image that offers an introduction to the topic (which may also be the image used on your social shares), to the additional images included throughout the text, images help to separate one section from another in the most engaging way.
They also help the eyes relax from a long sequence of text (which might otherwise be a little dull to read), while making it easier for the brain to process what it just read.
Moreover, images can offer additional value with the use of quotes, stats, or even tips that facilitate quick reading. These images can double as shareable content on your readers' social feed, giving you more mileage from your content.
You might assume that a short attention span will require an equally short piece of content for consumption. This is not always the case, as well-executed long-form content is still a valuable asset to your blog.
Provided that you're adding value to a topic they find interesting, length should not discourage your readers from consuming your content. Remember that long-form content doesn't have to be boring: structure and images can contribute to make the reading experience easier.
In fact, according to Orbit Media Studios, blog content is getting longer year by year. In 2016 the average blog post length was 1054 words – up from 887 words in 2015.
This is a good reminder for all of us that there's no need to be afraid of longer content. All you need is to focus on relevance and a good user experience to keep people engaged on the site.
Every type of content serves its own goal, and all of them can enhance your message.
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If you want to find new ways to repurpose your content, then you can turn a blog post into a presentation, a video, or a podcast.
These allow you to promote your content across new platforms and reach the right audience with the right type of content. And many of these content formats are more engaging to time-starved audiences than a text-based post.
After all, content marketing is all about being creative with your content and its distribution.
If you're wondering how social proof can convince your audience to spend more time on your site, here's an example of how it can work in practice.
We all have more chances to read the content that our friends, or our favourite influencers, share on their social feeds. This is due to the trust that we've built up with them, and the belief that their approval serves as the credential we need to visit a page.
This can become even more important if it's about a page that we haven't visited in the past.
It's not a bad idea to build relationships with other people to ensure that our site's content reaches more people. This way the connection becomes more genuine and there are more chances for new readers to actually pay attention to our content.
If you want to maintain your readers' attention while reading your content, you have to test your page for any distractions.
It's easy for the reader's eye to be distracted by a pop-up, a shiny sidebar, or even untidy formatting. That eye-catching banner ad might be doing its job extremely well – and it may also be competing with your content for attention.
Content success is all about focusing on the reader and the browsing experience. That's why it's always useful to switch sides and visit your pages from time to time as a reader.
Are you willing to spend enough time to read the content?
Is there something you need to change?
It's useful to keep in mind that the shorter the attention span, the bigger the challenge to appeal to your audience.
Don't underestimate the importance of quality content – whether long or short-form.
When done well, content marketing can contribute to boosting a site's position in search rankings. And although this may not seem like the most obvious benefit to a successful content marketing strategy, it's an effect that no business can ignore.
On February 28, 2017, ClickZ Intelligence presented the webinar 'Still using .com? Here's why 50% of all Fortune 500 companies are about to use .brand' in association with Neustar.
It's not easy to create a successful inbound marketing strategy, but it still offers great opportunities once marketers understand its potential.
A new study by HigherVisibility.com, whose findings were shared exclusively with Search Engine Watch, has set out to investigate the relationship between the top ranked websites in various industries and the inclusion of keywords in their URLs.


The alternative minimum tax, or AMT, is a tax that was originally intended to prevent higher income individuals from benefiting from many of the tax deductions that lower income individuals benefit from. The AMT can be viewed as a separate tax system that may apply to taxpayers with higher incomes and a lot of deductions.
The AMT was originally set up as a way to plug loopholes that benefit affluent taxpayer's. Because it was not adjusted for inflation, what was considered wealthy when the AMT began is now beginning to hit the upper-middle class.
What should flight crew members do if they think they may be affected by the AMT?
As mentioned earlier, the AMT is a separate, or parallel, tax system. If a flight crewmember thinks they might be affected by the AMT, they should fill out IRS Form 6251. Failure to pay the AMT could subject a taxpayer to fines imposed by the IRS if a tax return is ever examined in an IRS audit.
What happens to the per diem deduction if a flight crew member's tax return is hit by the AMT?
If the AMT affects a flight crewmember, then itemized tax deductions that the flight crewmember may have incurred will not help that year because the AMT tax will need to be paid instead. That means an airline crewmember's employee business expenses and per diem deduction don't result in a lower tax liability because those are components of the itemized deductions for a flight crewmember.
If the AMT affects a taxpayer in a given year, the taxpayer may get tax credit for it in future years.


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Marlene Knaus – Life Story of Niki Lauda's Ex-Wife
Marlene Knaus Facts
Famous As:- Niki Lauda's Ex-wife
Born Country:- United States
Wife/Husband/Ex:- Niki Lauda (m. 1976–1991)
Children:- Lukas Lauda, Mathias Lauda
Marlene Knaus is a Chilean-Austrian former fashion model, photographer and interior designer who is best known as the first wife of late Austrian Formula One driver and aviation entrepreneur, Niki Lauda. She is also the daughter of famous Austrian realist painter Robert Knaus. She was an emerging fashion model when she became acquainted with Lauda, but later left her career to be with her husband. They were married for 15 years and share two sons. Their younger son, Mathias Lauda, is also a race driver.
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She Is the Daughter of painter Robert Knaus
While various sources on the internet contain contradicting information on Marlene Knaus' childhood and nationality, according to an article in the 2008 issue of the Spanish Ibiza Style Magazine, she is the daughter of Austrian realist painter Robert Knaus and his Spanish wife Elena. She was born in the city of Valdivia in southern Chile and was raised alongside two sisters, Birgitte and Renata, and a brother, Tilman. The article, which is about an exhibition by her sister, artist Renata Clary, details how her father had married in Spain before moving to Venezuela, and lived in Valdivia, Chile for nearly a decade before returning to Europe in 1963. Marlene attended a German school in the Valdivia, and earned Austrian citizenship after relocating to Europe. Interestingly, the Spanish sports daily Mundo Deportivo had reported in April 1982 that Marlene's then husband Niki Lauda wanted to go and live in a farm near Valdivia that the family owned.
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She Was Known for Her Fashion Sense
Despite the fact that Marlene Knaus did not pursue art like her father or sister, her artistic gift became evident as she gained recognition for her impeccable fashion sense. She began her career as a fashion model during her teenage years in Austria and had already earned considerable reputation when she garnered media attention because of her relationship with Niki Lauda. She was known for her signature loose top-knot bun hairstyle, which became widely popular as pictures of her posing for various magazines and photoshoots alongside Lauda were published. While she did not pursue modeling for long, she later worked as a photographer and interior designer and became a socialite.
She First Met Niki While Dating Curt Jürgens
Both Marlene Knaus and Niki Lauda were in different relationships when they first met in 1975. In fact, Knaus was at the time dating veteran German-Austrian stage and film actor Curd Jürgens, and met Lauda for the first time in 1975 at a dinner party hosted by her then-boyfriend Jürgens at his residence. Lauda was also engaged to his longtime girlfriend, Styrian model Mariella von Reininghaus, but he ended the eight-year-old relationship and began dating Knaus soon after their first meeting. They had a whirlwind affair for a few months before getting married in 1976. They welcomed their first child, son Lukas, in 1979, followed by another son two years later: Mathias Lauda (born on January 30, 1981).
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Her Husband Was Unfaithful to Her
During their initial years together, Marlene Knaus and Niki Lauda appeared to be the perfect couple as she gave up her own career to accompany her husband as they travelled across the world for his racing tournaments. She also stood by him while he recovered from the near-fatal accident during the 1976 German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring. Knaus, who reportedly fainted after seeing Lauda's burnt face following the crash, put up a brave face to give him courage during those testing times: "she just made me feel to be a great man and gave me the will to heal." Nevertheless, years later, as he divided his attention between racing and managing his newly founded airlines business, he became involved with an unidentified woman who gave birth to his third child, Christoph, in 1982. Lauda never disclosed any information about Christoph's mother, and considering that he remained married to Knaus for about a decade after he was born, it is fair to assume that Knaus was not immediately aware of her husband's extramarital affair. However, the iconic couple eventually parted ways in 1991, but neither provided any insight into the reason behind their divorce. While Knaus did not remarry, Lauda married Birgit Wetzinger, who was a flight attendant for his airline Lauda Air, in 2008, after dating for four years. They share twins Max and Mia, born in September 2009.
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Her Son Is Also a Race Driver
Mathias Lauda, the younger son of Marlene Knaus and Niki Lauda, followed his father into the circuit and became a race car driver. Their older son Lukas also remained connected to motorsport as the manager of his younger brother Mathias. Mathias made his debut in 2002 in Formula Nissan 2000 and went on to represent A1 Team Austria in the 2005-06 A1 Grand Prix season. As he failed to earn any significant achievement in single-seater racing, he shifted his attention towards touring cars during the second half of the decade. Since 2015, he is racing for Aston Martin Racing as a factory driver in the FIA World Endurance Championship. In 2017, he achieved his career-best 1st position for the Endurance Trophy for LMGTE Am Drivers.
Alexandra Maria Lara Portrayed Her in Rush
The budding love story between Marlene Knaus and Niki Lauda was captured in the 2013 movie Rush, which was focused on the rivalry between Lauda and British race driver James Hunt. In the film, starring Chris Hemsworth as Hunt and Daniel Brühl as Lauda, her character was portrayed by Romanian-German actress Alexandra Maria Lara. The film, in its presumably dramatized depiction, also captures the moment the two first met: while leaving the party of Curd Jürgens, Lauda takes lift in the car of Knaus, who is unaware of who Lauda is. On the way, he surprises her with his knowledge about automobiles and his skills behind the wheel after she ridicules his appearance and his credentials.
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One of the best features Postgres boasts is the ability to adapt. Any schmo off the street can write an extension and bolt it onto Postgres with nary a second glance. As proof, I'm going to whip one up really quick. That should be enough to convince anyone that it takes no skill at all to add functionality to Postgres.
There's a bit of sad truth there. But the real problem is how we reached the point where this was even possible. The amount of incredulity on display here is actually quite shocking to anyone that was paying attention. I knew Trump had some small chance given the political environment in America right now, yet I never thought he could actually win. The reason behind that misapprehension should shock some sense into every single one of us.
This Super Tuesday, it became readily apparent that Bernie Sanders and his unprecedented run were finally done for. So now that we've finally dispensed with the one candidate that genuinely cared, who remains? Donald Biff Tannen Trump, Ted Insane Zealot Cruz, and Hillary Nixon Clinton. Well, if those are my choices, then I may just vote Trump to finally burn the whole thing down, because we clearly deserve it.


segmental pressure measurement is a topic covered in the Taber's Medical Dictionary.
Venes, Donald, editor. "Segmental Pressure Measurement." Taber's Medical Dictionary, 23rd ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2017. Nursing Central, nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/731624/all/segmental_pressure_measurement.
Segmental pressure measurement. In: Venes D, ed. Taber's Medical Dictionary. 23rd ed. F.A. Davis Company; 2017. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/731624/all/segmental_pressure_measurement. Accessed April 24, 2019.
Segmental Pressure Measurement [Internet]. In: Venes D, editors. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2017. [cited 2019 April 24]. Available from: https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/731624/all/segmental_pressure_measurement.


Grew up with Gomel Wildcats (Belarus).
Signed for the 1999-00 season by RShVSM-BGPA Minsk.
Signed for the 2000-01 season by Sozh Gomel.
Signed for the 2001-02 season by Spartak Conditer Gomel.
Moved to Russia for the 2002-03 season, signed by Avtodor Saratov.
Signed for the 2004-05 season by Dynamo St. Petersburg.
Signed for the 2006-07 season by BC Khimki Moscow.
Moved to Turkey for the 2014-15 season, signed by Banvit BK Bandirma.
Moved to Italy for the 2015-16 season, signed by Pallacanestro Reggiana Reggio Emilia.
Named the 2010-11 EuroCup Quarterfinals Game-1 MVP.
Named the 2011-12 EuroLeague Top 16 Week-1 MVP.
Won the 2009 and 2014 Russian National Cup with Unics Kazan.
Played the 2000 Belarus All Star Game.
Selected for the 2006 FIBA All Star Game.
Has been member of the Belarus U-16, U-18 and U-20 National Team.
Played at the 2004 Under-20 European Championship.


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Ben Davies and some famous faces helped Notts County to League Two promotion in 2009/10
Ben Davies spent 18 months with the Magpies, alongside the likes of Sven Goran Eriksson and Kasper Schmeichel
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Ben Davies celebrates promotion with Notts County in 2010
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Grimsby Town player Ben Davies is a man who needs no introduction to Notts County fans.
Signed from Shrewsbury in 2009, the midfielder turned defender won the League Two title in his first season with the Magpies – and what a memorable season it was.
Sven Goran Eriksson arrived at the club as director of football, while a young Kasper Schmeichel was one of several high-profile team-mates.
Of course, County also signed Sol Campbell on a five-year contract that summer, only for the former England defender to leave after playing just one game!
Davies himself contributed with 16 goals from midfield, including this fine free-kick against Barnet (see above) as the Magpies lifted the title under Steve Cotterill, their third manager of the campaign.
By that point, ex-England and Manchester City (among others) boss Eriksson had already left – but a quality and, ultimately, successful squad remained.
Schmeichel, who of course went on to win the Premier League with Leicester City in 2015/16, made his mark at Meadow Lane as a young stopper on loan from Manchester City, while Lee Hughes scored 33 goals in all competitions.
Ben Davies with some of his former Notts County team-mates, including Kasper Schmeichel in the background
Davies played both games against the Mariners that season; a 1-1 home draw that was preceded by a 1-0 victory for County at Blundell Park.
For the majority of his 18 months with the Magpies, Davies – who eventually left for Championship side Derby County in January 2011 – played on either flank.
In recent weeks at Blundell Park, the 36-year-old has taken his versatility to a new level, operating at left-back after playing most of the term, so far, on the opposite side of defence.
Davies played 67 league games in his year and a half with County, scoring 20 goals. His return to Meadow Lane, on Saturday, is almost certain to be met with a warm welcome.
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Ekaterina Alekseyevna Dolgorukova (1712–1747) was a Russian noble, engaged to Tsar Peter II of Russia.

Biography
She was the daughter of the Russian Prince Alexei Dolgorukov and niece to Prince Vasily Lukich Dolgorukov.
She grew up with her brother Ivan in Warsaw in the house of her grandfather Gregory Fjodorovitj. Reportedly, she and the Austrian ambassador Melissimo were in love with each other. On 19 November 1729, she was officially engaged to the Tsar, given the title "Her Highness the Bride Empress", and installed the day after in the Golovinskii Palace. Melissimo was exiled.

The wedding never took place because of Peter's death in 1730. Her family, the Dolgorukovs, tried to install her as ruling Empress in the manner of Catherine I of Russia but did not succeed. She left the palace, and at the installment of Empress Anna Ivanovna, she was deported with her family to Beryozov.

In 1740, she was placed in the convent of Tomsk. In 1741, she was freed by Empress Elizabeth of Russia and appointed lady-in-waiting. In 1745, she married Lieutenant General Count Alexander Romanovich Bruce, son of Robert Bruce (1668–1720). She died of a cold in 1747.

References
 Долгорукова, Екатерина Алексеевна // Томск от А до Я: Краткая энциклопедия города. / Под ред. д-ра ист. наук Н. М. Дмитриенко. — 1-е изд. — Томск: Изд-во НТЛ, 2004. — С. 102. — 440 с. — 3 000 экз. — .

1712 births
1747 deaths

Ladies-in-waiting from the Russian Empire
Ekaterina Alekseyevna
Russian princesses

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