Pallas Projects/Studios

The Pallas Projects/Studios (PP/S, Pallas Studios, Pallas Contemporary Projects) is an artist-run and non-commercial gallery and studio space in Dublin, Ireland.

History

Pallas Projects was founded in 1996 and has had several locations in Dublin. It is currently housed at the end of an alley in an old school building in the Coombe. The founders of Pallas say its survival is owed to “a stubborn willingness to adapt and transform”.

Offside was a 2005 project in The Hugh Lane and included works by Albano Afonso, Antistrot, Anna Boyle, Rhona Byrne, Mark Cullen, Brian Duggan, John Dummet, Brendan Earley, Andreas Gefeller, Niamh McCann, Alex McCullagh, Nina McGowan, Nathaniel Mellors, Clive Murphy, Adriette Myburgh, Cris Neumann, Paul O’Neill, Garrett Phelan, Abigail Reynolds, Mark Titchner, Rich Streitmatter-Tran. It also had two off-site locations, including a partially inhabited public housing apartment building – the exhibitions in this location were titled: Pallas Heights.

In 2009 Pallas hosted a solo exhibition by Stephanie Syjuco called Unsolicited Fabrications: Shareware Sculptures, in which the artist made sculptures from Google SketchUp models out of cheap materials.

Since 2010, Mark Cullen and Gavin Murphy, the directors of Pallas Projects, annually invite two curators to assist in a thematic survey show, titled: Periodical Review. It is ostensibly an exhibition of contemporary artistic activity in Ireland in the preceding year.

The Future is Self-Organised – Artist-Run Spaces was an exhibition curated by Pallas Projects at the Limerick City Gallery of Art. A number of artist-run spaces and projects from Ireland and abroad were represented, as well as artists whom have worked with Pallas over its 20 year history, in this 2015–16 exhibition.

Bibliography

 Murphy, Gavin. Artist-Run Europe: Practice/Projects/Spaces. Eindhoven: Onomatopee (2016).

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Huang Chih-peng

Huang Chih-peng () is a Taiwanese politician who received a bachelor's degree from National Chengchi University, with a major in Public Finance. He is the former Administrator of International Affairs in the Ministry of Economic Affairs

References

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Éxitos (Fey album)

Éxitos is a 2000 greatest hits album by the Mexican pop singer Fey.

Track listings

U.S. version
 "Media Naranja"
 "Fiebre De Sabado"
 "Gatos En El Balcon"
 "Diselo Con Flores"
 "Canela"
 "El"
 "Me Enamoro De Ti"
 "Subidon"
 "Te Pertenezco"
 "Ni Tú Ni Nadie"
 "Azucar Amargo"
 "Bajo El Arcoiris"
 "La Noche Se Mueve"
 "Cielo Liquido"
 "Muévelo"

Mexican version
 "Media Naranja"
 "Azucar Amargo"
 "Diselo Con Flores"
 "Gatos En El Balcon"
 "Bajo El Arcoiris"
 "El"
 "Me Enamoro De Ti"
 "Subidon"
 "Te Pertenezco"
 "Ni Tu Ni Nadie"
 "Fiebre De Sabado"
 "Canela"
 "La Noche Se Mueve"
 "Cielo Liquido"
 "Muévelo"
 "Mega Mix" (Gatos En El Balcon/Ni Tu Ni Nadie/La Noche Se Mueve/Azucar Amargo/Media Naranja/Me Enamoro De Ti/Muévelo)

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KKAI

KKAI, virtual and UHF digital channel 50, is a religious independent television station serving Honolulu, Hawaii, United States that is licensed to Kailua. The station is owned by Kailua Broadcasting, LLC. KKAI's two transmitter sites are located near Waimanalo Beach and at Mauna Kapu at the top of the Waianae mountain range. Since March 2018, the station is available statewide on Oceanic Spectrum digital channel 50.

History

The station first hit the air in 2004. Originally intended to sign on as a UPN affiliate, it began airing family programming from Faith TV in addition to local programming. In 2012, the station became a full-time affiliate of the Retro Television Network. In 2017, the station switched to a religious format.

In late 2018, KKAI added Telemundo programming on its second digital subchannel, simulcasting Kailua-Kona-based KSIX-TV.

Digital television

Digital channels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Analog-to-digital conversion
Because it was granted an original construction permit after the FCC finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997 , the station did not receive a second (companion) channel for a digital television station. On January 15, 2009, KKAI flash-cut to a digital signal on the same channel.

On April 13, 2017, the FCC announced that KKAI will relocate to RF channel 29 by April 12, 2019 as a result of the broadcast incentive auction.

References

External links
KKAI.tv - Official website

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Benassay

Benassay is a former commune in the Vienne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in western France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Boivre-la-Vallée.

The Boivre river runs through it.

See also
Communes of the Vienne department

References

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Éric Houde

Éric Pierre Joseph Houde (born December 19, 1976) is a professional ice hockey player who played 30 games in the National Hockey League for the Montreal Canadiens.

Career
Houde was drafted 216th overall by the Montreal Canadiens in the 1995 NHL Entry Draft and made his debut for the team during the 1996–97 NHL season, playing 13 games for Montreal.  He would play 17 more games over two seasons for a total of 30 games, scoring two goals and three assists for five points. Over the next two seasons, Houde had spells in the American Hockey League for the Hamilton Bulldogs and Springfield Falcons and the International Hockey League for the Utah Grizzlies and the Chicago Wolves.

In 2001, Houde moved to Italy's Serie A for Asiago and then moved to Germany's Deutsche Eishockey Liga in 2002 with the SERC Wild Wings. He returned to Quebec in 2003, signing for the Verdun Dragons of the Quebec Semi-Pro Hockey League before returning to Europe, joining Swiss Nationalliga B side SC Langenthal.

In 2004, Houde returned to Germany, spending three seasons in the 2nd Bundesliga for the Essen Mosquitoes and the Landshut Cannibals. He moved to France in 2007 with Dragons de Rouen.

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Order of the Crown (France)

The Order of the Crown is an Order founded by the northern French nobleman Enguerrand VII, Lord of Coucy in 1378 and belongs to the historical orders of France.

Enguerrand founded the order after a successful campaign in Normandy where he had conquered, for his king, the town of Bayeux and the other Norman possessions of King Charles II of Navarre. Enguerrand was a nobleman who excelled in "courtly" behavior and a loyal vassal of the French king Charles V of France.

The order was given a crown as a symbol because this object is, as can be read on the matter-devoted poem of Eustache Deschamps' "not only the symbol of greatness and power, but also of dignity, virtue and quality behavior of the courtiers of the ( French) king". The recognition sign of the order was a diadem with twelve pearls. These were the twelve flowers of authority, faith, virtue, temperance, piety, prudence, sincerity, honor, power, mercy, generosity, solidarity and largesse. Properties that "yield their light upon all who were less common name".

How the order looked is unknown, at this time it was usual that a common recognition sign was worn hanging from a chain around the neck or were embroidered on the clothes. The order will have resembled, on that point, the Order of the Dragon. In the period that Enguerrand founded his order, he chose a new seal. Upon it, on a background of little crowns, one can see a chartacter holding a reversed crown. This may be an indication of how the award looked like.

One thing special to the Order of the Crown, is that it included not only knights, but also boys (not yet knighted warriors of good family) and married or unmarried ladies.

On 26 April 1390, as he prepared for a campaign against the Muslims in the kingdom of Barbary Coast, gave Enguerrand the Order of the Celestines, a strict and ascetic monastic order, an income of 400 livres per year and money to found a cloister for twenty monks on his property in Villeneuve-Saint-Germain on the banks of the Aisne, just outside Soissons. The document speaks of "perpetual prayers for himself, his current wife, his ancestors and descendants and all the knights and ladies of his Order of the Crown".

The Order was, even though it was founded not a reigning monarch but by a powerful vassal of the French king, recognized as knighthood order by Louis I, Duke of Orléans, Regent of France.

Sources
 Baron von Thurn und Zurlauben:"Histoire d'Arnaut de Cervolle, dit l' archiprêtre" in "Histoire de l'académie royale des inscriptions et belles-lettres" deel XXV, Paris 1759
 Eustache Deschamps: "Œvres complètes" gathered under the direction of the Marquis de Queux de Saint-Hillaire and G.Raynaud, part II/XII Blz.35, deel IV/XII Blz.115, Paris 1878
 Dom Michel Toussaints Chrétien Duplessis: Histoire de la ville et des seigneurs de Coucy", Parijs 1728.
 Germain Demay: "Inventaire des sceaux de la Flandre", part I, Paris 1883
 Germain Demay: "Inventaire des sceaux de la collection Clairembault",Paris 1886
 Barbara Tuchman: "A distant mirror", New York 1978
 Gustav Adolph Ackermann, " Ordensbuch, Sämtlicher in Europa blühender und erloschener Orden und Ehrenzeichen ", Annaberg, 1855, p 208 n°78. "Orden der Krone" - Google Book (Former orders of France : p. 205-214). Ackermann gives the Order of the Crown as founded in 1390 by Enguerrand VII and mentions that the Order "has not survived the death of its founder in 1397 in a cruisade".
 Abbé R. Roussel: "Histoire de l'abbaye des Célestins de Villeneuve-les-Soissons. Soissons 1904.

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Homadaula lasiochroa

Homadaula lasiochroa is a moth in the family Galacticidae. It was described by Lower in 1899. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from New South Wales.

The wingspan is 10–12 mm. The forewings are snow-white, strongly spotted throughout with black, except for the basal third of the costa. There is a well-marked elongate blackish blotch, just before the middle and nearer to the inner margin than to the costa. There is also a blackish spot in the middle of the disc at five-sixths from the base. The costa and inner margin are spotted with black, except for the basal third of the costa. The hindwings are shining greyish-fuscous, becoming whitish towards the base. The apex is fuscous.

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Andrew Peterson

Andrew Peterson may refer to:

 Andrew Peterson (musician) (born 1974), American Christian singer-songwriter and author
 Andrew Peterson (soccer) (born 1984), American soccer player, currently playing for Minnesota Thunder in the USL First Division
 Andrew Thomas Turton Peterson (1813–1906), Anglo-Indian barrister, spiritualist and amateur architect
 Andrew Peterson (American football) (born 1972), retired American professional football player
 Andrew Peterson, namesake of the Andrew Peterson Farmstead, Waconia, Minnesota
 Andrew Peterson, flight engineer on Federal Express Flight 705
 Andy Peterson, American college football coach

See also
 Andrew Petersen (1870–1953), U.S. Representative from New York


Celeuthetini

The Celeuthetini are a weevil tribe in the subfamily Entiminae.

Genera
Acoptorrhynchus – Albertisius – Apiezonotus – Apirocalodes – Apirocalus – Apotomorhamphus – Arrhaphogaster – Atactoglymma – Atactophysis – Aulacophrys – Behrensiellus – Bonthaina – Borneobius – Borodinophilus – Brachynedus – Calidiopsis – Celeuthetes – Choerorhamphus – Cnemidothrix – Colpomus – Coptorhynchus – Cyrtetes – Ectemnomerus – Elytrocheilas – Enaptomias – Eupyrgops – Grammicodes – Hellerrhinus – Heteroglymma – Hypotactus – Idiopsodes – Javaulius – Kietana – Kokodanas – Levoecus – Lophothetes – Machaerostylus – Mesocoptus – Microthetes – Moluccobius – Mutilliarius – Nanyozo – Neopyrgops – Nothes – Oeidirrhynchus – Ogasawarazo – Opterus – Oribius – Pachyrhynchidius – Parasphenogaster – Paratactus – Peteinus – Philicoptus – Phraotes – Picronotus – Piezonotus – Platyacus – Platysimus – Platyspartus – Pseudottistira – Pteros – Pyrgops – Resites – Samobius – Sphaeropterus – Sphaerorhinus – Sphenogaster – Strotus – Syntorophus – Tarunus – Temnogastrus – Tetragynetes – Thompsoniella – Trigonops – Trigonospartus – Zeugorrhinus

References

 Kuschel, G. 2008: Curculionoidea (weevils) of New Caledonia and Vanuatu: ancestral families and some Curculionidae. In: Grandcolas, P. (ed.), Zoologia Neocaledonica 6. Biodiversity studies in New Caledonia. Mémoires du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, 197: 99-250.
 Lacordaire, T. 1863: Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Genera des Coléoptères ou exposé méthodique et critique de tous les genres proposés jusqu'ici dans cet ordre d'insectes. Vol.: 6. Roret. Paris: 637 pp.

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Pete MacArthur

Peter MacArthur (born June 20, 1985) is an American professional ice hockey player who currently plays with HC Pustertal Wölfe in the Alps Hockey League (AplsHL).

Playing career
On July 9, 2009, he was signed as a free agent to a one-year contract by the Chicago Blackhawks. After signing with the Las Vegas Wranglers of the ECHL for the 2011–12, MacArthur enjoyed a successful stint with the Lake Erie Monsters of the AHL, before returning to lead the Wranglers to the Kelly Cup finals.

On July 13, 2012, MacArthur signed his first European contract, on a one-year deal with Augsburger Panther of the German Deutsche Eishockey Liga. During the 2012–13 season, MacArthur established himself on the Panthers top scoring line. He finished second on the club with 34 points in 52 games to be rewarded with a one-year contract extension on March 23, 2013.

On August 6, 2014, MacArthur secured a try-out contract with the Vienna Capitals of the Austrian Hockey League. After establishing a role with the Capitals for the season, MacArthur signed a one-year contract to remain in Austria with the Graz 99ers on June 17, 2015.

In the 2015–16 season, MacArthur played in 26 games with the 99ers but was unable to adapt in Graz before he opted to return to North America, signing with the Adirondack Thunder on December 19, 2015. He quickly returned to his scoring ways and was later named team Captain in finishing with 36 points in 46 games.

After two seasons with the Thunder, MacArthur left as a free agent in order to sign with fellow ECHL club, the Allen Americans on September 30, 2017. In the 2017–18 season, MacArthur appeared in 22 games with the Americans, posting 13 points before his year was cut short due to injury.

As a free agent MacArthur signed a one-year contract to return to previous club, the Adirondack Thunder, on July 9, 2018. Following the conclusion of the 2018–19 season, MacArthur initially ending his 11-year professional career.

On November 20, 2019, MacArthur returned to the professional circuit, agreeing to a contract for the remainder of the season with Italian club, HC Pustertal Wölfe of the Alps Hockey League.

Personal life
MacArthur is married to Cristina Blackwell, host of Great Day SA on KENS5, and former weather reporter for Despierta America, Univision Network.

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Awards and honors

References

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1771 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events
 April 9 – Portuguese poet Pedro Correia Garção is arrested and committed to prison (where he will die) by Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal.
 English poet William Mason is employed to lay out a flower garden at Nuneham Courtenay in Oxfordshire by Viscount Nuneham.

Works published

English Colonial America
 Jane Dunlap, Poems upon Several Sermons Preached by the Rev'd George Whitefield, Colonial Massachusetts
 Levi Frisbie, "A Poem on the Rise and Progress of Moor's Indian Charity School", English, Colonial America
 John Trumbull, "An Elegy on the Death of Mr. Buckingham St. John", English, Colonial America

United Kingdom
 James Beattie, The Minstrel; or, The Progress of Genius, Book 1, (Book 2: The English Garden 1774, in 4 volumes 1771–1781)
 James Cawthorn, Poems
 John Langhorne, The Fables of Flora
 Henry Mackenzie, Pursuits of Happiness, published anonymously after a stay in London; Scottish
 Thomas Percy, The Hermit of Warkworth, published anonymously
 Henry James Pye, The Triumph of Fashion
 John Wesley, The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, published in 32 volumes (1771–1774) by the Methodist divine and hymn writer
 Phillis Wheatley, an elegy to George Whitefield first published (shortly after his death) in Colonial America in 1770, where it received widespread acclaim. It was published within weeks of his death as a broadside in Boston, then in Newport, Rhode Island, then four more times in Boston and a dozen more times in New York, Philadelphia and Newport.

Other
 Ambrosius Stub, Arier og andre poetiske Stykker ("Arier and Other Poetic Works"), edited by T. S. Heiberg; Denmark, posthumous
 Christoph Martin Wieland, Der neue Amadis ("New Amadis"), a comic poem in 18 cantos; Germany

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 March 21 – Thomas John Dibdin (died 1841), English dramatist and songwriter
 June 3 – Sydney Smith (died 1845), English writer, wit and Anglican clergyman
 August 15 – Walter Scott (died 1832), Scottish poet and historical novelist
 November 4 – James Montgomery (died 1854), Scottish editor and poet
 November 11 – Thomas Green Fessenden, (died 1837), American
 December 25 – Dorothy Wordsworth (died 1855), English author, poet and diarist
 Bankidas Asiya (died 1833), Rajasthani poet and scholar
 Liang Desheng (died 1847), Chinese poet and writer during the Qing Dynasty

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 July 30 – Thomas Gray (born 1716), English poet, classical scholar and professor at Cambridge University; died in Cambridge, then buried beside his mother in the churchyard of Stoke Poges, the setting for his famous 1750 poem, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
 May 21 – Christopher Smart (born 1722), English poet
 August 19 – Daniel Schiebeler (born 1741), German writer and poet
 September 13 – John Gambold (born 1711), Anglo-Welsh bishop of the Moravian church and poet
 September 17 – Tobias Smollett (born 1721), Scottish poet and author
 October 2 – James Plumptre (died 1832), English clergyman, dramatist and hymnodist
 December 23 – Johann Friedrich Löwen (born 1727), German poet, intellectual, drama theorist and at one time a confidant of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
 Francis Williams (born 1702), black Jamaican scholar and poet

See also

 List of years in poetry
 List of years in literature
 18th century in poetry
 18th century in literature
 French literature of the 18th century
 Sturm und Drang (the conventional translation is "Storm and Stress"; a more literal translation, however, might be "storm and urge", "storm and longing", "storm and drive" or "storm and impulse"), a movement in German literature (including poetry) and music from the late 1760s through the early 1780s
 List of years in poetry
 Poetry

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List of bishops of Hólar

The Diocese of Hólar is a suffragan diocese of the Church of Iceland. The Bishop of Hólar is one of two suffragan bishops to the Bishop of Iceland. The Diocese of Hólar existed between 1106 and 1801 when it was amalgamated into the Diocese of Iceland under the leadership of the Bishop of Iceland. In 1909 the diocese was revived as a titular see of the Church of Iceland.

The following people were bishops of Hólar, Iceland:

Roman Catholic

Former bishopric
1106–1121:  St. Jón Ögmundsson
1122–1145:  Ketill Þorsteinsson
1147–1162:  Björn Gilsson
1163–1201:  Brandur Sæmundsson
1203–1237:  Guðmundur góði Arason
1238–1247:  Bótólfur
1247–1260:  Heinrekur Kársson
1263–1264:  Brandur Jónsson
1267–1313:  Jörundur Þorsteinsson
1313–1322:  Auðunn rauði Þorbergsson
1324–1331:  Lárentíus Kálfsson
1332–1341:  Egill Eyjólfsson
1342–1356:  Ormr Ásláksson
1358–1390:  Jón skalli Eiríksson
1391–1411:  Pétur Nikulásson
1411–1423:  Jón Henriksson
1425–1435:  Jón Vilhjálmsson
1435–1440:  Jón Bloxwich
1441–1441:  Róbert Wodbor
1442–1457:  Gottskálk Keneksson
1458–1495:  Ólafur Rögnvaldsson
1496–1520:  Gottskálk grimmi Nikulásson
1524–1550:  Jón Arason

Lutheran
1552–1569:  Ólafur Hjaltason
1571–1627:  Guðbrandur Þorláksson
1628–1656:  Þorlákur Skúlason
1657–1684:  Gísli Þorláksson
1684–1690:  Jón Vigfússon
1692–1696:  Einar Þorsteinsson
1697–1710:  Björn Þorleifsson
1711–1739:  Steinn Jónsson
1741–1745:  Ludvig Harboe
1746–1752:  Halldór Brynjólfsson
1755–1779:  Gísli Magnússon
1780–1781:  Jón Teitsson
1784–1787:  Árni Þórarinsson
1789–1798:  Sigurður Stefánsson

The Diocese was amalgamated in 1801 and now forms part of the Diocese of Reykjavik.

Suffragan bishopric
The see was discontinued from 1801 to 1909. It was revived in 1909 as a suffragan bishopric to the Bishop of Iceland, with the bishop's cathedra in the traditional Hólar cathedral church. In 1990 fresh legislation increased the authority and responsibilities of the Bishop of Hólar as an assistant bishop in the Reykjavik diocese.

1909–1927: Geir Sæmundsson
1928–1937: Hálfdán Guðjónsson
1937–1959: Friðrik J. Rafnar
1959–1969: Sigurður Stefánsson
1969–1981: Pétur Sigurgeirsson
1982–1991: Sigurður Guðmundsson
1991–2002: Bolli Gústavsson
2003–2012: Jón Aðalsteinn Baldvinsson
2012–present: Solveig Lára Guðmundsdóttir

Sources
 Sigurdson, Erika Ruth, 'The Church in Fourteenth-Century Iceland: Ecclesiastical Administration, Literacy, and the Formation of an Elite Clerical Identity' (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Leeds, 2011), p. 242, http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/2610/ https://academia.edu/1795158/The_Church_in_Fourteenth-Century_Iceland (pre-Reformation bishops).
 Gunnar Kristjánsson et al., eds, Saga biskupsstólanna: Skálholt 950 ára 2006, Hólar 900 ára (Akureyri: Hólar, 2006), pp. 854–55.

References

External links
 GigaCatholic with incumbent lists and linked biographies

See also
 List of Skálholt bishops
 Bishop of Iceland

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Fair Deal Cafe

Fair Deal Cafe was a historically significant diner for the African American community in North Omaha, Nebraska. Once known as the "Black City Hall", Fair Deal was located at North 24th & Burdette in the Near North Omaha neighborhood from 1954 - 2003.

History

Opened in 1954, the original Fair Deal Cafe is reputed for playing a major role in the history of North Omaha. A variety of politicians and community leaders gathered there throughout the years, and as a social and cultural hub for almost 50 years in the second half of the 20th century there was no parallel in the community.

The cafe was called Omaha's "Black City Hall" because "people from all over came and local people had meetings there to discuss politics and run campaigns running for major offices at the state level as well as the national level."  Senators and governors came to the cafe. Leaders including Ernie Chambers, Brenda Council, Ben Gray, Gene Haynes, and others met there to discuss the important issues facing the city. Celebrities including Bill Cosby, Ella Fitzgerald, and Jesse Jackson came there, too.

Famous for serving chitlins and candied sweet potatoes, the Fair Deal Cafe has Art Deco fixtures, including the lunch counter, stools, and ceiling fans, as well as a tin ceiling. The cafe was located near the St. Martin de Porres Center, which was home to the De Porres Club, an anti-racial segregation organization active in Omaha from the 1940s into the 1970s.

In the early 1990s the cafe was owned by a man named Charlie Hall, and was reputed to be Omaha's only soul food restaurant during that period.

After changing owners, Fair Deal closed in 2003. The cafe building was bought by the Omaha Economic Development Corporation in 2008.

Redevelopment

In Summer 2011, the local Empowerment Network announced a $1.43 billion North Omaha Village Revitalization Plan approved by the City of Omaha. As part of the plan, a redeveloped Fair Deal Cafe will become the showcase of the new "Fair Deal Urban District". The district, which is generally bounded by North 24th, 26th, Blondo and Burdette Streets, will contain several elements. They include a proposed art campus for the Union for Contemporary Arts, and a 40-unit apartment complex for senior citizens and five single family homes at 25th Street near Patrick Avenue. Details of the site of the $12.2 million redevelopment work were announced in September 2012 at a ground-breaking ceremony that drew about 50 city, neighborhood and business leaders.

Officials said that the urban district was the first tangible sign of a larger vision to be carried out over decades and would require billions of dollars in private and public investment.

On December 10, 2015, the building was demolished by Omaha Economic Development Corporation to make room for Fair Deal Marketplace which opened in December 2016.  Terri Sanders, with the Omaha Economic Development Corporation, said, “The North Omaha area is considered a food desert. We've not had a grocery store here in over 40 years so there will be a fresh food market, a Fair Deal Village Café restaurant. There will be an outside eating area and there will be room for at least 12 microbusinesses.”

The new Fair Deal Cafe, LLC  modernized and reopened in December 2016 is owned and operated by Jon Nielle Allen and is located slightly South of the original cafe at 2118 North 24th Street, Suite 101. The Cafe features salvaged nostalgia and soul food menu favorites.  The cafe is part of the Fair Deal Village MarketPlace, a structure built out of shipping containers.

See also
 History of North Omaha, Nebraska
 List of African American historic places in Omaha, Nebraska

References

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Kazangulovo

Kazangulovo () is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Kazangulovsky Selsoviet, Davlekanovsky District, Bashkortostan, Russia. The population was 441 as of 2010. There are 6 streets.

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Open Your Arms

"Open Your Arms" is a 1988 single by Scottish alternative rock group Goodbye Mr Mackenzie. It was their second major label single recorded for EMI's Capitol Records.

"Open Your Arms" later featured on the band's debut album Good Deeds and Dirty Rags which was released the following year. In 1991, after Goodbye Mr Mackenzie had signed to Gary Kurfirst's Radioactive Records, "Open Your Arms" was remixed and featured on their debut international album release, the self-titled Goodbye Mr. Mackenzie.

Track listings

UK 7" single Capitol Records CL 513
UK 7" single Capitol Records CLG 513 (Gatefold sleeve)

"Open Your Arms" - 3:37
"Secrets" - 3:44

UK 12" single Capitol Records 12CL 513
UK 12" single Capitol Records 12CLP 513 (Picture disc)

"Open Your Arms" - 3:37
"Secrets" - 3:44
"Amsterdam" - 3:25 (Jaques Brel/Mort Shuman)

UK 12" single Capitol Records 12CLG 513 (Gatefold sleeve)
"Open Your Arms" - 7:21
"Secrets" - 3:44
"Amsterdam" - 3:25 (Jaques Brel/Mort Shuman)
"Pleasure Search" - 3:32

UK CD single Capitol Records CDCL 513

"Open Your Arms" - 3:37
"Secrets" - 3:44
"Amsterdam" - 3:25 (Jaques Brel/Mort Shuman)
"Pleasure Search" - 3:32

Comprehensive charts

References

External links
Goodbye Mr Mackenzie website
"Open Your Arms" music video at YouTube
"Open Your Arms" discography

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SN 1572

SN 1572 (Tycho's Supernova, Tycho's Nova), or B Cassiopeiae (B Cas), was a supernova of Type Ia in the constellation Cassiopeia, one of eight supernovae visible to the naked eye in historical records. It appeared in early November 1572 and was independently discovered by many individuals.

The remnant of the supernova has been observed optically but was first detected at radio wavelengths; it is often known as 3C 10, a radio-source designation, although increasingly as Tycho's supernova remnant.

Historic description

The appearance of the Milky Way supernova of 1572 belongs among the more important observation events in the history of astronomy. The appearance of the "new star" helped to revise ancient models of the heavens and to speed on a revolution in astronomy that began with the realisation of the need to produce better astrometric star catalogues (and thus the need for more precise astronomical observing instruments). It also challenged the Aristotelian dogma of the unchangeability of the realm of stars.

The supernova of 1572 is often called "Tycho's supernova", because of Tycho Brahe's extensive work De nova et nullius aevi memoria prius visa stella ("Concerning the Star, new and never before seen in the life or memory of anyone", published in 1573 with reprints overseen by Johannes Kepler in 1602, and 1610), a work containing both Tycho Brahe's own observations and the analysis of sightings from many other observers. Tycho was not the first to observe the 1572 supernova, although he was probably the most accurate observer of the object.  Almost as accurate were his European colleagues, such as Wolfgang Schuler, Thomas Digges, John Dee, Francesco Maurolico, Jerónimo Muñoz, Tadeáš Hájek, or Bartholomäus Reisacher.

In England, Queen Elizabeth had the mathematician and astrologer Thomas Allen, come and visit "to have his advice about the new Star that appeared in the Cassiopeia  to which he gave his Judgement very learnedly", as the antiquary John Aubrey recorded in his memoranda a century later.

In Ming dynasty China, the star became an issue between Zhang Juzheng and the young Wanli Emperor: in accordance with the cosmological tradition, the emperor was warned to consider his misbehavior, since the new star was interpreted as an evil omen.

The more reliable contemporary reports state that the new star itself burst forth soon after November 2, and by November 11 it was already brighter than Jupiter.  Around November 16, 1572, it reached its peak brightness at about magnitude −4.0, with some descriptions giving it as equal to Venus when that planet was at its brightest.  The supernova remained visible to the naked eye into early 1574, gradually fading until it disappeared from view.

The supernova

The supernova was classified as type I on the basis of its historical light curve soon after type I and type II supernovae were first defined on the basis of their spectra.  The X-ray spectrum of the remnant showed that it was almost certainly of type Ia, but its exact classification continued to be debated until the detection of a light echo in 2008 gave final confirmation that it is a normal type Ia.

The classification as a type Ia supernova of normal luminosity allows an accurate measure of the distance to SN 1572.  The peak absolute magnitude can be calculated from the B-band decline rate to be .  Given estimates of the peak apparent magnitude and the known extinction of  magnitudes, the distance is  kpc.

Supernova remnant
The distance to the supernova remnant has been estimated to between 2 and 5 kpc (approx. 6,500 and 16,300 light-years), with recent studies suggesting a narrower range of 2.5 and 3 kpc (approx. 8,000 and 9,800 light-years).

Initial radio detection
The search for a supernova remnant was negative until 1952, when Hanbury Brown and Cyril Hazard reported a radio detection at 158.5 MHz, obtained at the Jodrell Bank Observatory.  This was confirmed, and its position more accurately measured in 1957 by Baldwin and Edge using the Cambridge Radio Telescope working at a wavelength of .  The remnant was also identified tentatively in the second Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Sources as object "2C 34," and more firmly as "3C 10" in the third Cambridge list (Edge et al. 1959). There is no dispute that 3C 10 is the remnant of the supernova observed in 1572–1573. Following a 1964 review article by Minkowski, the designation 3C 10 appears to be that most commonly used in the literature when referring to the radio remnant of B Cas, although some authors use the tabulated Galactic designation G120.7+2.1 and many authors commonly refer to it as Tycho's supernova remnant. Because the radio remnant was reported before the optical supernova-remnant wisps were discovered, the designation 3C 10 is used by some to signify the remnant at all wavelengths.

The X-ray observation
An X-ray source designated Cepheus X-1 (or Cep X-1) was detected by the Uhuru X-ray observatory at 4U 0022+63. Earlier catalog designations are X120+2 and XRS 00224+638. Cepheus X-1 is actually in the constellation Cassiopeia, and it is SN 1572, the Tycho SNR.

Optical detection

The supernova remnant of B Cas was discovered in the 1960s by scientists with a Palomar Mountain telescope as a very faint nebula.  It was later photographed by a telescope on the international ROSAT spacecraft. The supernova has been confirmed as Type Ia, in which a white dwarf star has accreted matter from a companion until it approaches the Chandrasekhar limit and explodes. This type of supernova does not typically create the spectacular nebula more typical of Type II supernovas, such as SN 1054 which created the Crab Nebula. A shell of gas is still expanding from its center at about 9,000 km/s. A recent study indicates a rate of expansion below 5,000 km/s.

The companion star
In October 2004, a letter in Nature reported the discovery of a G2 star, similar in type to our own Sun and named Tycho G. It is thought to be the companion star that contributed mass to the white dwarf that ultimately resulted in the supernova. A subsequent study, published in March 2005, revealed further details about this star:  Tycho G was probably a main-sequence star or subgiant before the explosion, but some of its mass was stripped away and its outer layers were shock-heated by the supernova. Tycho G's current velocity is perhaps the strongest evidence that it was the companion star to the white dwarf, as it is traveling at a rate of 136 km/s, which is more than four times faster than the mean velocity of other stars in its stellar neighbourhood.
This find has been challenged in recent years. The star is relatively far away from the center and does not show rotation which might be expected of a companion star.

In Gaia DR2, the star was calculated to be  light-years away, on the lower end of SN 1572's possible range of distances, which in turn lowered the calculated velocity from 136 km/s to only 56 km/s.

In literature
In the ninth episode of James Joyce's Ulysses, Stephen Dedalus associates the appearance of the supernova with the youthful William Shakespeare, and in the November 1998 issue of Sky & Telescope, three researchers from Southwest Texas State University, Don Olson and Russell Doescher of the Physics Department and Marilynn Olson of the English Department, argued that this supernova is described in Shakespeare's Hamlet, specifically by Bernardo in Act I, Scene i.

The supernova inspired the poem "Al Aaraaf" by Edgar Allan Poe.

The protagonist in Arthur C. Clarke's 1955 short story "The Star" casually mentions the supernova.  It is a major element in Frederik Pohl's spoof science article, "The Martian Star-Gazers", first published in Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine in 1962.

See also

 List of supernova remnants

References

External links
 Light curve and spectrum of Tycho's Supernova

 solstation.com: Tycho's Star
 The Search for the Companion Star of Tycho Brahe's 1572 Supernova
 cnn.com: Important days in history of universe

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L'histoire de Manon

L'histoire de Manon, generally referred to as Manon, is a ballet choreographed by Kenneth MacMillan to music by Jules Massenet and based on the 1731 novel Manon Lescaut by Abbé Prévost. The ballet was first performed by The Royal Ballet in London in 1974 with Antoinette Sibley and Anthony Dowell in the leading roles. It continues to be performed and recognised internationally.

Background
Kenneth MacMillan had been thinking about choreographing a ballet about the story of Manon Lescaut for some time. Three years into his artistic directorship of The Royal Ballet, he wanted to create a large-scale operatic ballet that would provide exciting roles both for the company's principal dancers and the corps de ballet.

On the last night of the company's summer season in 1973, MacMillan left a copy of Prévost's novel in Antoinette Sibley's dressing room, with a note informing her that it would "come in handy for March 7, '74". As the copy of Manon Lescaut was in a double volume with the novella Carmen by Prosper Mérimée, Sibley asked Anthony Dowell to find out which story was to be turned into a ballet, while she performed onstage in The Sleeping Beauty.

MacMillan began choreographing Manon during the 1973–74 season. He left the title character open to differing dancer interpretations, but was himself sympathetic to her poverty, believing that it was her desire to escape this that underpinned her decisions.

MacMillan used the designs of Nicholas Georgiadis, which reflected the "precarious division between opulence and degradation" with "the stench of poverty ever-present". The ballet's narrative structure is based on that of MacMillan's earlier Romeo and Juliet, with hero and heroine meeting each other as young innocents and their love being revealed through a series of pas de deux.

Critical responses to the opening night performance were mixed. The Guardian newspaper stated, "Basically, Manon is a slut and Des Grieux is a fool and they move in the most unsavoury company", while the Morning Star described the ballet as "an appalling waste of the lovely Antoinette Sibley, who is reduced to a nasty little diamond digger". The opening night audience gave the ballet a standing ovation.

Synopsis

Act I – Paris
Scene 1 – The courtyard of an inn near Paris
The courtyard at the inn is frequented by actresses, gentlemen and the demimonde from Paris. Among them are des Grieux, a young student, the wealthy Monsieur GM, and Lescaut, who is there to meet his sister Manon on her way to enter a convent. A coach arrives bringing Manon and an old gentleman who has been very much attracted to her. Lescaut notices this and takes the gentleman into the inn to come to an arrangement with him over Manon. Manon remains outside and meets des Grieux. They fall in love and decide to escape to Paris with the help of the money that she has stolen from the old gentleman. Lescaut and the old gentleman come out of the inn, having made a bargain, and to their dismay see that Manon has disappeared. Monsieur GM tells Lescaut that he too is interested in Manon and because of this wealth Lescaut promises to find Manon and persuade her to accept GM.

Scene 2 – Des Grieux's lodgings in Paris
Des Grieux is writing a letter to his father but Manon interrupts by declaring her love for him. Des Grieux goes to post the letter and in his absence Lescaut arrives with Monsieur GM. Manon yields to GM's advances and when des Grieux returns, Lescaut persuades him that there will be great wealth for all of them if he, des Grieux, will sanction the liaison between Manon and GM.

Act II
Scene 1 – A party at the hotel particulier of Madame
Manon arrives at the party given by Monsieur GM and is clearly torn between the wealth of her companion and her love for des Grieux, who is also there with Lescaut. Des Grieux tries to persuade Manon to leave with him but she tells him that the time is not right and only will be when he takes more of Monsieur GM's money at cards. Des Grieux is caught cheating and he and Manon rush away.

Scene 2 – Des Grieux's lodgings
Manon and des Grieux once again declare their love for one another but Monsieur GM arrives with the police and Manon is arrested as a prostitute. In the ensuing struggle Lescaut is killed.

Act III – New Orleans
Scene 1 – The port
The gaoler of the penal colony awaits the arrival of the convicts from France. Manon has been deported to America as a prostitute and des Grieux has followed her there by pretending to be her husband. The gaoler now turns his interest towards Manon.

Scene 2 – The gaoler's room
The gaoler has arrested Manon but offers her rewards in the hope that she will desert des Grieux and live with him. Des Grieux, however, breaks in and kills the gaoler.

Scene 3 – The swamp
Manon and des Grieux have escaped into the swamp of Louisiana. All her former ambitions of wealth and splendour have been renounced for her love for des Grieux. While eluding their pursuers, Manon collapses and dies in his arms.

Music in L'histoire de Manon
MacMillan chose not to use music from Massenet's opera Manon, instead selecting other well-known pieces by the same composer such as Elegie and Méditation. The music, originally arranged and partially orchestrated by the British composer Leighton Lucas and re-orchestrated by the conductor Martin Yates in 2011, draws on thirteen operas and two oratorios as well as Massenet's orchestral suites, various mélodies and piano works.

Act I
 "Le dernier sommeil de la Vierge" from La Vierge
 "Entr'acte: Manola" from Chérubin
 Aubade: "Vive amour" from Chérubin
 "Scènes dramatiques: Scène finale" (second theme)
 "Scènes pittoresques: Marche"
 "Scènes dramatiques: Prélude et Divertissement" (second theme)
 Overture to Le Cid
 "Crépuscule" (song)
 "Entr'acte: Idylle" from Grisélidis
 "Scènes dramatiques: Prélude et Divertissement" (third theme)
 Ballet: No. 4 (Allegretto)  from Thaïs
 "Lament d'Ariane" from Ariane
 "Élégie" from Les Érinnyes
 "Les moulins" from Don Quichotte
 "Marche des Princesses" from Cendrillon
 "Le sommeil de Cendrillon" from Cendrillon
 "Ouvre tes yeux bleus" (song)
 "Les filles de noblesse" from Cendrillon
 Valse très lente (piano work, later orchestrated by Massenet)
 "Scènes dramatiques: Prélude et Divertissement" (first theme)

Act II
 "Scènes alsaciennes: Au cabaret"
 "Danses: Chaldéennes" from Cléopâtre
 "Crépuscule" (song)
 "Danses: Scythes" from Cléopâtre
 "Chanson de Capri" (song)
 "Scènes pittoresques: Air de ballet"
 Nocturne  from La Navarraise
 "Divertissement: Valse" from Le roi de Lahore
 "Élégie" from Les Érinnyes
 "Valse des esprits" from Grisélidis
 Prélude to Part Two of Ève
 Aria: "Il partit au printemps" from Grisélidis

Act III
 Introduction to Act One of Don Quichotte
 Chanson: "En Avignon, pays d'amour" from Grisélidis
 "Crépuscule" (song)
 "Malédiction" from Ève
 Improvisation No.3 from 7 Improvisations for Piano
 Introduction to Act One of Don Quichotte
 "Aria de Pandolfe" from Cendrillon
 Aria: "Il partit au printemps" from Grisélidis
 "Valse des esprits" from Grisélidis
 "Élégie" from Les Érinnyes
 "L'extase de la Vierge" from La Vierge

Original cast
Antoinette Sibley and Anthony Dowell were selected by MacMillan to create the roles of Manon and Des Grieux. The first performance was at the Royal Opera House,  Covent Garden on 7 March 1974, with the following cast:
 Antoinette Sibley – Manon
 Anthony Dowell – Des Grieux
 David Wall – Lescaut
 Monica Mason – Lescaut's mistress
 Derek Rencher – Monsieur GM
 David Drew – Gaoler

Jennifer Penney and Wayne Eagling led the second cast late in the month.

Notes

References

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Darmian

Darmian may refer to:

Matteo Darmian, Italian footballer
Darmian, Lorestan, a village in Lorestan Province, Iran
Darmian, South Khorasan, a village in South Khorasan Province, Iran
Darmian County, in South Khorasan Province, Iran
Darmian Rural District, in South Khorasan Province, Iran


Laid to Rest (film)

Laid to Rest is a 2009 American slasher film written and directed by Robert Green Hall. It was followed by a 2011 sequel entitled ChromeSkull: Laid to Rest 2.

Plot
A young woman with amnesia breaks out of a coffin in a funeral home, and dials 911 in the morgue, but accidentally unhooks the telephone while speaking to the operator. The mortician appears, and is impaled by a man equipped with a chrome skull mask, and a shoulder mounted camera. The girl stabs ChromeSkull in the eye, and runs off while he treats his wound. The girl is picked up by Tucker, who takes her home to his wife Cindy, and promises her that they will go to the sheriff's station in the morning, as Tucker's truck is low on gas, and their phone service has been cut off.

ChromeSkull tracks the girl (who has been nicknamed "Princess") to Tucker's house, and kills Cindy. Tucker and Princess escape in Tucker's truck as ChromeSkull deals with Cindy's brother Johnny and his girlfriend, who had come by to check on Cindy. Tucker and Princess seek aid from a recluse named Steven, who uses his computer to email for help, and research ChromeSkull, discovering he is a serial killer whose modus operandi is to send tapes of himself murdering women to the authorities.

The trio go to the police station, and find the sheriff and a deputy dead, and ChromeSkull waiting for them. The group wound ChromeSkull's leg, and drive away, reaching the funeral home. Princess explores the area, and discovers that a nearby barn contains several of ChromeSkull's previous victims. ChromeSkull beheads a still-living captive, knocks Princess out, and places her in a casket. Before ChromeSkull can kill Princess, he is shot by Tucker, who drives away with her and Steven in ChromeSkull's car.

Princess looks at footage on ChromeSkull's camera, which shows he was in league with the mortician, whom he killed due to the man becoming a liability. Princess takes the car while Tucker and Steven are removing bodies from the trunk, and is locked inside by ChromeSkull, who uses his cellphone to take control of the onboard computer as he follows Princess to a convenience store. Via paperwork in the car, Princess finds out ChromeSkull's name is Jesse Cromeans, right before he attacks her.

ChromeSkull prepares to kill Princess, but he is out of tapes for his camera, so he coerces her into going into the store to get one. The clerk sees the threatening messages ChromeSkull is sending Princess through a cellphone, goes out to confront him, and has his head blown off when ChromeSkull turns his own shotgun on him. A customer, Anthony, goes to lock the backdoor, and is decapitated by ChromeSkull. Tucker and Steven reach the store, grab ChromeSkull's suitcase on the way in, and replace the glue he uses to keep his mask on with Cyanoacrylate. ChromeSkull cuts the power, and causes Steven's face to explode by injecting canned tire inflator into his ear. Tucker is stabbed while trying to give Princess enough time to escape with Tommy, the murdered customer's friend.

ChromeSkull locks Tommy out of the building, and traps Princess in a freezer. To taunt Princess, ChromeSkull gives her his camera, which reveals she was a drug addicted prostitute he had picked up, and that she lost her memory when ChromeSkull beat her with a bat. Princess smashes the camera in frustration, and while struggling with ChromeSkull, knocks his mask off. ChromeSkull goes to reaffix his mask, unknowingly using the Cyanoacrylate that Steven had replaced his adhesive with. The chemical melts ChromeSkull's face as he peels his mask off, and as he writhes in agony, Princess bludgeons him with an aluminum bat.

Princess finds her missing persons notice (which Steven had printed off his computer) in Tucker's pocket, who dies of his injury, and leaves with Tommy to Atlanta, after finding out that Anthony was murdered by ChromeSkull. The police arrive, and find the flyer, which Princess had written an explanation on the back of.

Cast
 Bobbi Sue Luther as The Girl/Princess Gemstone
 Kevin Gage as Tucker Smith
 Sean Whalen as Steven
 Johnathon Schaech as Johnny
 Thomas Dekker as Tommy
 Nick Principe as ChromeSkull / Jesse Cromeans
 Jana Kramer as Jamie
 Lucas Till as Young Store Clerk
 Seraphine  DeYoung as Bound Girl
 Anthony Fitzgerald as Anthony
 Richard Lynch as Mr. Jones
 Lena Headey as Cindy Smith

Production

Filming locations
A majority of principal photography occurred in southern Maryland, notably the state-owned, abandoned Crownsville Hospital Center near Annapolis. The crew spent 24 days shooting in April and May 2008. While the above-the-line production team was based out of Los Angeles, a few department heads were locals to DC-Maryland-Virginia, as well as most of the crew. Lead actress/producer Bobi Sue Luther is a native of the area, and was able to use personal connections to secure key locations. The production employed creative methods to save money; for instance, Chromeskull's on-camera vehicle was director Robert Hall's daytime rental car, and the VW Jetta that Princess rides off in at the finish was owned by the production designer.

Cinematography
A majority of the film was shot using a Panasonic AJ-HPX3000 1080p camera system.

Release

Laid to Rest received a limited theatrical run in March 2009. It was released on home video April 21, 2009.

Reception

Dread Central gave the film a four out of five, concluding "Laid to Rest does have some minor issues with pacing at first but really finds its stride about 30 minutes in and just keeps moving along until the very end. What I like here is that Hall was able to create a slasher film with characters we care about but definitely doesn't take anything too seriously either, giving horror fans a movie that's both entertaining and a lot of fun to watch". DVD Talk awarded three out of five, which said that while Laid to Rest "contrives a lot of convenient coincidences to keep the plot rolling" and was "admittedly lacking in logic" it was still "an entertaining 90 minute thrill ride". DVD Verdict also responded well to Laid to Rest, writing that it was "an inventive, sick as all get out thrill-ride" and "an entertaining, engaging slasher movie". Scott Weinberg of Fearnet wrote, "Powerfully gory, peppered with unexpected doses of weird humor, and backed by a colorful cast of familiar faces, Rob Hall's Laid to Rest is hardly the most original or trail-blazing terror tale out there -- but it's an '80s-style throwback piece that gains a lot of mileage out of very little gas."

Sequels
The film has been followed by a sequel titled ChromeSkull: Laid to Rest 2 and has an upcoming prequel in development.

A third film, Laid to Rest: Exhumed is due to start principal photography in December 2017 in northern Alabama.

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Little Gransden

Little Gransden is a civil parish and village in South Cambridgeshire, England. In 2001 the population was 262 people,including Waresley and increasing to 296 at the 2011 Census.   It is 11 miles (18 km) from Cambridge, on the border with the district of Huntingdonshire. Little Gransden has two airfields, one of which was used in World War II.

History
The village's name is derived from 'valley of a man named Granta or Grante'. It was spelled Grantandene in 973 and Grante(s)dene in the 1086 Domesday book.

Woodland was important in the settlement's early history; there was enough to support 60 pigs in 1086. By 1251, a large area of woodland in the south-east of the parish had been split into Hayley Wood and Littlehound Wood (the latter no longer exists, but the shape can still be seen in field boundaries).

Little Gransden village evolved as an offshoot of Great Gransden. The church and manor house of the abbey of Ely face Great Gransden across the low-lying land along Home Dole Brook; the village grew southwards from a street alongside the brook. There were 56 inhabited houses in 1666, but the number had dropped to 38 by 1801. By 1961 there were 84 houses.

Due to its isolated location, there were no inns in the village until 1800, though by the 1840s there were four (the Sun in Church Lane, the Chequers, the Double Chequers at Mill Hill and the Hardwicke Arms). In 1834, the overseer of the poor considered that an excess of beer-houses may have been partly responsible for recent problems. Only the Chequers was left after 1967.

Despite the heaviness of the soil, most of the parish land has been used mainly for arable farming. It was cultivated in three open fields until parliamentary inclosure in 1814. High, flat land in the east of the parish was hard to drain before mechanisation and was usually used for pasture and as the village common. In 1940, after the outbreak of World War II, the area was made into an airfield, called Gransden Lodge Airfield. It was in operational use from 1941 to 1946 but was unoccupied after 1948 and then sold off.  Since October 1991 it has been the home of the Cambridge Gliding Centre.

Governance
Little Gransden is represented on South Cambridgeshire District Council by one councillor for the Caldecote ward and on Cambridgeshire County Council by one councillor for the Gamlingay electoral division. It is in the parliamentary constituency of South Cambridgeshire, represented at the House of Commons by Anthony Browne.

Geography

Little Gransden is 11 miles (18 km) from the county town of Cambridgeshire, 10 miles (16 km) south-east of Huntingdon and 47 miles (76 km) north of London. The village stands on the B1046 road between Abbotsley, to the west, and Longstowe, to the east. A minor road runs south-west to Gamlingay. The district council boundary, marked by the Home Dole Brook, separates Little from Great Gransden. The parish's northern boundary follows the line of a disused road between Great Gransden and Longstowe, formerly called Deadwomen's Way after Deadwomen's Cross at the north-east corner of the parish.

The parish has an area of 1,920 acres (777 hectares) and ranges from 45 metres, along the Home Dole Brook, to more than 80 metres above sea level in the eastern part of Hayley Wood. The soil is light sand and heavy clay, with a subsoil of beds of stone and sand.

Demography
At the time of the 2001 census, Little Gransden parish had 262 residents living in 99 households. 98.5% described themselves as White and 1.5% Asian or British Asian. 79.9% said they were Christian, 1.1% followed another religion and 18.9% had no religion or did not state one.

Landmarks
The parish has two airfields: Little Gransden Airfield, located at Fuller's Hill Farm, which holds an air and car show every summer; and Gransden Lodge, a former Royal Air Force station which saw active service in World War II, but is now a gliding site, its three paved runways having been removed.

A cross in the churchyard commemorates Little Gransden men who were killed in World Wars I and II. There are 16 listed buildings in the village, including the Old Rectory, the parish church and various houses.

Religious sites
The parish church, dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul, was built from stone in the 13th Century and comprises a chancel, a nave of four bays, and an embattled western tower containing three bells. In 1858 the chancel was restored and its east end rebuilt; a stained window was put in by the Rev. Alfred Newby, a former rector, in 1875. The church was restored between 1885 and 1888 at a cost of £700.

References

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 http://www.littlegransden.org

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Peace Will Come

"Peace Will Come" was sung by blind Georgian singer Diana Gurtskaya and represented Georgia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2008. It qualified from the second semi-final on 22 May 2008 at 7th and eventually finished in 11th place out of the twenty five countries that took part. It was written by Kim Breitburg and Karen Kavaleryan.

There have been calls to release this single across Europe to raise funds for the needy following the conflict in Abkhazia & South Ossetia.

When the song was performed at the Eurovision Song Contest 2008, Anri Jokhadze was one of the featured backing vocalists. Anri Jokhadze went on to represent Georgia as a solo artist in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012.

References

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Gerardo López

Gerardo López (born September 6, 1947) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed in the late 1960s. He was eliminated in the repechages of the K-4 1000 m event at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.

References

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Keren Ann (album)

Keren Ann is the fifth studio album by French musician Keren Ann, and her third English-language album. The album was released on 23 April 2007 in France by Delabel and EMI. It was released on 8 May 2007 in the United States by Blue Note Records.

Critical reception

In his review for MSN Music, music critic Robert Christgau cited "Lay Your Head Down" and "It Ain't No Crime" as highlights and quipped that it was "music to pretend you're having sophisticated casual sex to, only remember -- you're not actually that sophisticated".

Track listing

Charts

References

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Brighstone Bay

Brighstone Bay is a bay on the south west coast of the Isle of Wight, England. It lies to the south and west of the village of Brighstone from which it takes its name. It faces south west towards the English Channel, its shoreline is 7 km in length and is gently curving. It stretches from Sudmoor Point in the north west to Artherfield Point in the south east.

Several chines, some with streams like the Buddle Brook (Grange Chine) lie along this coast.

Like most of the coast along the South-West of the Island, Brighstone Bay is suffering from coastal erosion.

Projecting out from this coast is one several ledges along the Back of the Wight. Brighstone Ledge has been the site of many shipwrecks as storms drive ships onto the hidden rocks.

The seabed is a mixture of mud, sand and shells. The beach is predominantly shingle.

The bay is best viewed from along the Isle of Wight Coastal Path which follows the whole bay along the cliff top.

References

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Diablo 630

The Diablo 630 was a daisy wheel printer (computer printer) sold by the Diablo Data Systems division of the Xerox Corporation from 1980. The printer was capable of letter-quality printing; that is, its print quality was equivalent to the quality of an IBM Selectric typewriter, Selectric-based printer, or similar quality printer. The printer was capable of this quality at a nominal speed of 30 characters per second (roughly twice the speed of the Selectric).

Several technologies enabled this quality and speed:
 The lightweight daisy wheel was rotated by a closed-loop servo and could be positioned rapidly and accurately. Because the wheel could turn in either direction, the next character was never more than 180° away from the previous character (and related characters were grouped together so the average "seek" was much less than 180°).

 Like the element on a Selectric the daisy wheel could be easily changed, allowing a wide variety of fonts and character pitches.
 Some models supported wheels with two rows of characters, allowing for the machine to print in two different languages or with a large set of special symbols.
 The printer used cartridge-loaded ribbons; both an economical endless cloth ribbon and a high-quality single-use film ribbon were available with colored ribbons provided by third parties. By contrast, Selectric-based printers could use only one type of ribbon—cloth or single-use carbon film—and were almost always equipped for the former for economic reasons.
 The carriage was also servo-controlled and the printer could print with the carriage moving either forward or backward, saving most of the time that would otherwise be spent executing carriage-returns.
 The servo control of the carriage permitted the use of proportionally spaced fonts, wherein each character does not have to occupy the same amount of horizontal space.
 Unlike Selectric-based printers, daisy wheel printers support the entire ASCII printing character set.
 Bidirectional paper motion was similarly servo-controlled allowing quick printing of subscripts and superscripts as well as fast slewing past white space.
 Servo control of both paper and carriage permitted the unit to be used for plotting, with resolution of 120×48 steps per inch. This was popular enough that special daisy wheels were made with a reinforced period (.), the character most often used for plotting.
 The logic permitted simultaneous motion of the wheel, the carriage, and the paper. The hammer automatically struck only after all three motions completed. This minimized the time spent waiting for the motions to complete.

A related model, the Diablo 1620, included a keyboard and strongly resembled a slightly overgrown Selectric typewriter. In fact, a "local/remote" switch permitted it to be used as an offline typewriter as well as an interactive computer terminal. Unfortunately for a typist (in either role), the daisy wheel mechanism hides the area just printed.  Firmware in the machine would make the carriage move quickly to the right of the typing position, revealing the most recently typed characters, after a few moments of inactivity.  The result was still unsatisfactory to many users.  Only a very slow typing speed would allow the wheel to get out of the way after every character; faster typing speeds resulted in the wheel continuously hiding the typed copy until the typist paused.  This made checking the copy for errors a bit more awkward and slow than on actual typewriters or on Selectric-based terminals.

The same mechanism was used in Xerox's 850 display typing system and 860PDS word processor, and was also sold to OEMs. One notable user was Digital Equipment Corporation who resold the printer as the LQP01 (with a parallel interface) and the LQPSE (with an RS232 serial interface) and supported by Digital's WPS-8 word processing software.

The printer became so common, with so much software supporting its command language, that Diablo emulation became an expected feature on other daisy-wheel printers and even on early laser printers. This was so pervasive that at least one company lived by testing printers for full Diablo 630 compatibility.

References

Further reading

External links
Diablo Model 630/630 ECS Printers/Terminals API Interface Complete description of printers and command language, with all modes
Brief description of Diablo 630 command language
Diablo 630 to PostScript Translator

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Lake Weir High School

Lake Weir High School (LWHS) is a public high school located in unincorporated southeastern Marion County, Florida, United States. It is part of the Marion County School District and serves students residing in southeastern Marion County, including the Ocala National Forest, Silver Springs Shores and Summerfield. The school colors are purple and gold and its mascot is the hurricane.

Lake Weir High School was established in 1955 as a consolidation of Weirsdale and Summerfield High Schools on a hill overlooking Lake Weir with a student body of about 300 students in grades 7 through 12.  Mr. Leo Armstrong, former principal of Weirsdale High School was the first principal.  The school served students coming from elementary schools at Belleview, Florida, Summerfield, Florida and Weirsdale, Florida that served the communities of Belleview, Candler, East Lake Weir, Ocklawaha, Pedro, Summerfield, Sunset Harbor, and Weirsdale.  The first class of 1956 graduated 33.  In 1967, Marion County changed to the elementary, middle and high school organization and the school changed to grades 9 through 12.  In August, 1975, a new Lake Weir High School was constructed on Maricamp Road in Candler with a student body in excess of 1200 students, which grew to 2500 by 1993.  The former Lake Weir High School campus then became home to Lake Weir Middle School, which serves grades 6 through 8.

Notable alumni
Tim Hicks, gridiron football player
Eddie L. Johnson, professional basketball player
Frank Johnson, professional basketball player
Ted Potter Jr. (class of 2002), PGA Tour golfer, two-time PGA Tour winner
Grace Daley, WNBA player

References

External links

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Nothin' Better to Do

"Nothin' Better to Do" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist LeAnn Rimes.  It was released in May 2007 as the lead-off single to her album Family.  It was Rimes' fourteenth Top 20 hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, peaking at number 14 in December 2007.  Rimes wrote the song with then-husband Dean Sheremet and Darrell Brown.

Rimes set a record on the Billboard charts by being the first artist to simultaneously chart with a single on their Country, AC, and Club Play charts with "Nothin' Better to Do." The song was also nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance.

Content

"Nothin' Better to Do" is an up-tempo song, backed by primarily by acoustic guitar and banjo. The song's female narrator, a young Mississippi woman, describes being a restless lover, running around with some boys. Her mom expresses her disapproval of her daughter's behavior, but the narrator believes there is "nothin' better to do."

Mama said, "Idle hands are Devil's handywork"
Oh, the trouble you'll get into
You got nothin' better to do, got nothin' better to do
You got nothin' better to do, got nothin' better to do
Yeah!

Rimes co-wrote the song with musician Darrell Brown and then-husband Dean Sheremet.

Track listing
Digital Download
 Nothin' Better to Do (Bimbo Jones Radio Edit) 3:03
 Nothin' Better to Do (Soul Seekerz Radio Edit) 3:19
 Nothin' Better to Do (Bimbo Jones Mix) 7:56
 Nothin' Better to Do (Soul Seekerz Extended Mix) 7:51
 Nothin' Better to Do (Soul Seekerz Dub Vocal Mix) 7:51
 Nothin' Better to Do (Jason Nevins Club Electro Dub) 6:53
 Strong (Cicada Mix) 7:17

UK CD single
 Nothin' Better to Do 3:51
 Probably Wouldn't Be This Way (Dann Huff Remix) 3:42

Music video
The music video, which was co-directed by Rimes with David McClister, was released in May 2007. In the video, Rimes is shown in a Women's Correctional Facility, performing choreography with fellow inmates and singing into an old-fashioned microphone. This leads up to a prison break, which is led by Rimes; she is the only inmate to escape, but she is stopped in the prison yard shortly after when the gate closes. This video was her directorial debut.

Chart performance
"Nothin' Better to Do" debuted at number 55 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart; it was a Top 20 hit, reaching a peak of number 14 in December 2007. The song also experienced some crossover success, reaching the Top 20 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart and the Top 10 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart. Additionally, it reached number 48 on the UK Singles Chart.

References

External links
 "Nothin' Better to Do" official music video at CMT.com

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Vintage Flying Museum

The Vintage Flying Museum is a non-profit aviation museum located at Meacham International Airport, Fort Worth, Texas. The primary mission of the museum is to preserve America's flying heritage in word, deed and action.

History
In October 2010, the museum sold its B-17, "Chuckie", to the Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Programs
The museum provides educational programs that include aviation summer camps for middle and high school students, and Take Flight Days, which are programs for elementary school students.

Aircraft on display
The museum's collection includes:

 Aeronca 11 Chief
 Aeronca L-3B
 American Flea
 Beechcraft E18S
 Beechcraft TC-45G Expeditor
 Boeing-Stearman PT-27
 Cessna 140
 Cessna U-3
 Culver Cadet LFA-90
 Douglas B-26K Counter Invader
 Douglas C-49J
 Douglas EA-3B Skywarrior – on loan
 Knight Falcon
 Lockheed T-33
 LTV L450F
 Morrissey 2000
 North American F-86F Sabre
 North American Harvard III
 Piasecki CH-21B Workhorse – on loan
 Piaggio P.136 Royal Gull
 Ryan PT-22 Recruit
 Stinson L-5E Sentinel – on loan
 Stinson Reliant

The museum also hosts aircraft from the B-29/B-24 and Invader Squadrons of the Commemorative Air Force when they are not out touring the country:
 Boeing B-29 Superfortress "Fifi"
 Douglas A-26 Invader

See also
 Commemorative Air Force
 Fort Worth Aviation Museum

References

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431

Year 431 (CDXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Bassus and Antiochus (or, less frequently, year 1184 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 431 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events
 By place
 Roman Empire
 Flavius Aetius, Roman general (magister militum), fights a campaign in Rhaetia (Switzerland) and Noricum (Austria). He is attested in the city of Vindelicia (modern Augsburg), reestablishing Roman rule on the Danube frontier.
 Aetius pushes the Salian Franks back across the River Somme. King Chlodio signs a peace treaty and becomes a foederati of the Western Roman Empire.

 Africa
 Hippo Regius becomes the capital of the Vandal Kingdom. After 14 months of hunger and disease, the Vandals ravage the city. Emperor Theodosius II sends an imperial fleet with an army under command of Aspar, and lands at Carthage.
 Aspar is routed by the Vandals and Flavius Marcian, future Byzantine emperor, is captured during the fighting. He negotiates a peace with King Genseric and maintains imperial authority in Carthage.

 Mesoamerica
 K'uk' B'alam I, the first known ruler of the Mayan city of Palenque, comes to power.

 By topic
 Arts and Sciences
 Greek Neoplatonist philosopher Proclus begins studying at the Academy in Athens.

 Religion
 June – First Council of Ephesus: Nestorianism is rejected, the Nicene creed is declared to be complete. Nestorius is deposed from his see.
 October 1 – Maximianus is enthroned as Patriarch of Constantinople.
 Pope Celestine I dispatches Palladius to serve as bishop to the Irish.

Births
 Anastasius I, emperor of the Byzantine Empire (approximate date)

Deaths
 June 22 – Paulinus of Nola, Christian bishop and poet (b. 354)
 Qifu Mumo, prince of the Chinese Xianbei state Western Qin

References


Plackett

Plackett is the surname of:
 Robin Plackett (1920–2009), English statistician
 William H. Plackett, US Navy officer
 Lawrence Plackett (1869–1939), English footballer
 Harry Plackett (1871–1948), English footballer
 Zandra Plackett, a fictional character in the UK TV series Bad Girls


Morisset, New South Wales

Morisset is a commercial centre and suburb of the City of Lake Macquarie in New South Wales, Australia, and is located west of Lake Macquarie just off the Sydney-Newcastle Freeway. The count at the 2011 Census was 2,857 for the gazetted suburb of Morisset. The estimated urban population of the Morisset area, including Cooranbong, was 25,309 as at June 2018. The area is growing steadily, with population increasing 2.6 percent over the prior year, 2017, and having five-year average annual growth of 1.8 percent.

History
The town is named for Major James Thomas Morisset, who camped there in 1823 while making the overland journey from Sydney to Newcastle. Morisset went on to become Commandant at Norfolk Island prison between 1829–1833, where his brutal regime led to a rebellion. Historically there has been considerable confusion over the spelling of the suburb: Morissett, Morriset, Morrissett and Morrisset have been used.

The earliest settlement in the area was at Cooranbong in 1826, about  west of the current town and near the foot of the Watagan Mountains.  Initially, various kinds of agriculture were conducted, and before long forestry became an important industry. Most of the transport to the area at the time was by river boat on Dora Creek meaning that Cooranbong was the most accessible part of town. The town of Morisset itself was essentially non-existent until 1887, when the Sydney-Newcastle railway was built. Morisset sprang up as a sawmill town clustered around the train station, and the township was proclaimed on 3 December.

In 1908, a psychiatric hospital opened on a large estate along the lake shore. At its height in the 1960s, Morisset Mental Hospital had 1,600 patients. The Hospital continues to dominate Morisset's reputation, although it is now only a 130-bed hospital.

The first bus service was started by the Ward family.

In more recent times, the Morisset Peninsula to the east of the town has become the main residential area. It has experienced a high rate of growth since the construction of Eraring Power Station in 1986. Most of Bonnells Bay is now what long-time residents quaintly refer to as "high-density housing", although by city standards it is decidedly low-density. Several retirement villages have been built, most of them only in the last decade. Subdivision of larger blocks has come close to saturation in many suburbs, with only a few hobby-farms still remaining, although the majority of the Morisset district and peninsula remain bushland and National Park and Aboriginal reserves.

Heritage listings

Morisset has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:
 Morisset Park Road: Morisset Hospital

Education
Morisset contains a state primary school, a state high school and a Catholic school. Morisset Public School opened in 1891 and started accommodating high school classes in 1951. These classes transferred to a new high school campus, Morisset High School, at the start of the 1965 school year, with the public school returning to purely primary education.

A Catholic primary school, St John Vianney School, opened on 17 January 1962, and was initially administered by the Sisters of St Joseph until becoming part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle in 1966.

Transport

Morisset railway station, located on Dora Street, is linked to Sydney and Newcastle by NSW TrainLink services on the Central Coast & Newcastle Line, and to Maitland and towns further north by long distance services.

The train station serves as a terminus for bus services 278 and 279 covering the Morisset Peninsula towns and 280 to Cooranbong. These services are operated by Hunter Valley Buses, which acquired the previous provider Toronto Bus. In July 2009, Rover Coaches commenced a new weekday service, Route 163, to Cessnock and Kurri Kurri.

Media
Christian radio may be heard on 87.8 FM around the town broadcasting 3ABN Australia Radio Network.
3ABN Australia Production Centre is also located in Morisset.

Further reading
 Iron Horse and Iron Bark: A history of Morisset and district, Beryl Mullard,
 A Private World on a Nameless Bay - a history of Morisset Hospital, Morisset Hospital Historical Society,

References

External links

 History of Morisset  (Lake Macquarie City Library)
 Morisset Hospital Historical Society
 3ABN Australia, Inc.

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Category:Morisset, New South Wales


Stiletto (disambiguation)

Stiletto may refer to:
Stiletto, a type of dagger
stitching awl, a tool used in sewing
Stiletto heel, a type of footwear
Stiletto snake, a common name for a family of venomous snakes found in Africa and the Middle East
Stiletto feminism

Military
M80 Stiletto, a prototype naval ship proposed for the United States Navy SEALs
UR-100N, a Russian intercontinental ballistic missile, also known as the "S-19 Stiletto"
USS Stiletto (1885), a wooden torpedo boat
X-3 Stiletto, experimental jet by Douglas Aircraft

Popular culture
Films and television
Stiletto (1969 film)
Stiletto (2008 film)
"Stiletto", an episode of Smallville; also alternate identity of Lois Lane in that episode
Stiletto Mafiosa, a recurring character in the TV series, Danger Mouse

Music
The Stiletto Formal, an experimental-indie band
Stiletto (album), an album by Lita Ford
Stiletto, a 1989 album by Michael Shrieve
 Stiletto, an Australian group who released Licence to Rage in 1978, which peaked at number 93 on the Australian Kent Music Report.
"Stiletto", a song by Billy Joel from the album 52nd Street
"Stilettos", a 2005 song by Crime Mob
"Stilettos", a 2015 song by Kelsea Ballerini
"Stilettos", a 2010 single by Sirens

Others
Stiletto (comics), a Marvel Comics character
Stiletto (novel), 2016 novel by Daniel O'Malley
Stiletto, 1960 novel by Harold Robbins

Technology
Sirius Stiletto 100, Sirius satellite radio portable unit
Sirius Stiletto 2, Sirius satellite radio portable unit
Stiletto 27, an American catamaran design
Sunbeam Stiletto, a British motor car


Charles A. Wolverton

Charles Anderson Wolverton (October 24, 1880 – May 16, 1969) was a Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives for nearly 32 years, from 1927 to 1959.

After receiving a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1900, Wolverton practiced law in his native Camden, New Jersey. He was Camden County prosecutor from 1906 to 1913 and special assistant attorney general of New Jersey in 1913 and 1914.

He was then elected to the New Jersey State House of Assembly (1915–1918) becoming speaker in 1918. Wolverton first ran for a Congressional seat in 1926, winning that election and eventually serving 16 terms as a representative.

He eventually became chairman of the influential Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee. During his tenure in the US House Wolverton crossed the aisle, voting for a number of FDR's New Deal programs. In 1933 he voted for the National Industrial Recovery Act. In 1935 he voted for the Social Security Act. Wolverton voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

A resident of Merchantville, New Jersey, he retired from political office in 1958 to resume his legal practice. He died at age 88 and was interred in Harleigh Cemetery in Camden.

References

External links

Charles A. Wolverton

Charles A. Wolverton from The Political Graveyard

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Jim Watton

James Watton (born 1 November 1936) is an English former footballer who played as a half-back. He made 129 league appearances in a six-year career in the Football League.

He began his career with English non-league side Bromsgrove Rovers and Dutch club De Graafschap, before joining Port Vale in September 1962. He was allowed to move onto Doncaster Rovers in July 1964. He helped "Donny" to the Fourth Division title in 1965–66, before he left the club for non-league side Burton Albion in 1968.

Playing career
Watton played for Bromsgrove Rovers and Dutch side De Graafschap, before joining Norman Low's Port Vale in September 1962. He made his debut in a 1–0 win at Colchester United on 10 September 1962, but only made four further Third Division appearances that season. He did not appear under new boss Freddie Steele in the 1963–64 season, and left Vale Park for Doncaster Rovers in July 1964. Rovers finished ninth in the Fourth Division in 1964–65 under the stewardship of Bill Leivers, before winning the league in 1965–66 after finishing ahead of Darlington on goal difference. They could not survive in the league above under new boss Keith Kettleborough however, and were relegated in 1966–67 after finishing nine points short of safety. They finished tenth in the Fourth Division in 1967–68 under the management of George Raynor. Watton then left Belle Vue and later played for Southern League side Burton Albion.

Statistics
Source:

Honours
Doncaster Rovers
Football League Fourth Division champion: 1965–66

References

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First Presbyterian Church of Tonkawa

The First Presbyterian Church of Tonkawa is a historic church at 109 S. 4th Street in Tonkawa, Oklahoma. It was built in 1905.  It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

It is a side-steeple church.

References

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Category:Buildings and structures in Kay County, Oklahoma
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Turner Soccer Complex

Turner Soccer Complex is a 1,700-capacity stadium located in Athens, Georgia. It is primarily used for soccer and serves as the home field for the Georgia Bulldogs women's soccer team.  The complex is named for Hoyt "Jack" Turner, an Athens native who has financially supported Bulldogs soccer and other athletic endeavors for several years.

The stadium opened on September 1, 1998. Turner Soccer Complex hosted the 2000 Southeastern Conference Women’s Soccer Tournament.

External links
 Turner Soccer Complex

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Lead(II) oxalate

Lead(II) oxalate is an organic compound with the formula PbC2O4. It is naturally found as a heavy white solid.

Preparation
This compound is commercially available. It may be prepared by the metathesis reaction between lead(II) nitrate and sodium oxalate:

Pb2+(aq) + C2O42− → PbC2O4 (s)

Solubility
Lead(II) oxalate is sparingly soluble in water. Its solubility is increased in presence of excess oxalate anions, due to the formation of the Pb(C2O4)22− complex ion.

References

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Frederick Prince

Frederick Prince may refer to:

Frederick O. Prince (1818–1899), American lawyer, politician, and mayor of Boston, Massachusetts
Frederick H. Prince (1859–1953), his son, American stockbroker, investment banker and financier


Herriottsville, Pennsylvania

Herriottsville is an unincorporated community in South Fayette Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. The community is located in the southeast corner of the township near Chartiers Run. Herriottsville had one of the first post offices in South Fayette Township and was a stagecoach stop on the Black Horse Trail.

Notable people
John Herriott, Lieutenant Governor of Iowa

References

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1637 in music

The year 1637 in music involved some significant events.

Events
The first public opera house, Teatro San Cassiano, opens in Venice.
Johann Jakob Froberger travels to Rome to study under Girolamo Frescobaldi.
Delphin Strungk becomes organist at the Marienkirche in Brunswick.
Robert Ramsey, organist of Trinity College, Cambridge, becomes Master of the Children at the college.
Antonio Cesti joins the Franciscan order.
The Westminster Musicians Guild attempts to assert control over the musicians of London, in competition with the Worshipful Company of Musicians.

Classical music
Benedetto Ferrari – Musiche varier a voce sola, volume 2, published in Venice
Girolamo Frescobaldi – Partite sopra l'aria della Romanesca
Tarquinio Merula – Canzoni overo Sonate concertate per chiesa e camera

Opera
Benedetto Ferrari & Francesco Manelli – Andromeda (the first publicly shown opera, premièred at Teatro San Cassiano in Venice, during carnival)
Virgilio Mazzocchi & Marco Marazzoli – Chi soffre, speri (premièred February 12)

Births
February 11 – Friedrich Nicolaus Brauns, composer and music director (died 1718)
December 7 – Bernardo Pasquini, composer of opera and church music (died 1710)
date unknown – Giovanni Grancino, luthier (died 1709)
probable – Dieterich Buxtehude (died 1707)

Deaths
May 29 – Jiří Třanovský, hymn-writer (born 1592)
July 6 – Charles d'Ambleville, French composer
September 14 – Theodoor Rombouts, painter of musicians (born 1597)
dates unknown – Basilius Froberger and Anna Froberger, parents of Johann Jakob Froberger (plague)

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Wanker (disambiguation)

Wanker is a pejorative term.

Wanker may also refer to:

Wanker (surname)
Cockney Wanker, a character from the British comic magazine Viz
Wanker Records, an independent record label
Wanker County, Wisconsin, the fictional place of origin of Peggy Bundy, née Wanker, in Married ... with Children

See also
www.tism.wanker.com, a 1999 album by Australian alternative rock group TISM
Malakas the Greek equivalent of wanker from the bad meaning
Wank (disambiguation)
Wanka (disambiguation)
Wanké


Asbill Pond Formation

The Asbill Pond Formation is a geologic formation in South Carolina. It preserves fossils dating back to the Cambrian period.

See also

 List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in South Carolina
 Paleontology in South Carolina

References

Category:Cambrian geology of South Carolina


Larry Dixon (dragster driver)

Larry Dixon Jr. (born October 23, 1966) is an American professional drag racer in the NHRA. Larry is the son of Larry Dixon Sr., who won Top Fuel Eliminator at the 1970 NHRA Winternationals.

1980s and 1990s
Dixon's NHRA career began when he was a worker for a team owned by Larry Minor that had Gary Beck as driver. Dixon began his long friendship with Don "The Snake" Prudhomme in 1988 while working on Prudhomme's Funny Car. In 1994, he earned his Top Fuel license with 4.76-second pass at Gatornationals at Gainesville, Florida. In 1995, his rookie season, he earned Rookie of the Year honors. That season became third rookie to win $100,000 Budweiser Shootout, the first Top Fuel rookie to win at Indianapolis since Gary Beck in 1972 and set NHRA's elapsed time record at Englishtown.

In 1997 Dixon was the runner-up in Budweiser Shootout from the No. 8 qualifying spot. In 1998, he won Pomona 1, joining his father on the Top Fuel winner’s list at the event.  He qualified #1 at Indianapolis. In 1999 he became the first Top Fueler to go under 4.5 seconds.

2000s
In 2000 Dixon won six events in nine final round appearances, including the Mac Tools U.S. Nationals for the second time in his career. The victories propelled him to finish in the top 10 of the POWERade point standings for his seventh consecutive season. He also won the $100,000 Budweiser Shootout bonus event.

Dixon earned first NHRA POWERade championship in 2002 after leading the points standings all season. He tied the single-season Top Fuel record for victories with nine, and was named Driver of the Year for the second quarter.

Dixon became fifth Top Fuel driver to win consecutive NHRA POWERade Top Fuel championships in 2003. He was only the fourth driver in NHRA history to sweep the Western Swing. That year he moved to fourth on Top Fuel all-time win list and in the process recording his career-best speed (332.75 mph) which stood as national record for 15 events. He won the rain delayed 2002 Budweiser Shootout, which was completed at '03 season-opener

In 2004 he earned two victories in three final round appearances and finished his tenth consecutive NHRA POWERade Series season in the top 10 points. That season he tied legendary "Big Daddy" Don Garlits for third on all-time Top Fuel wins list with 35 career victories. He finished second at the $100,000 Budweiser Shootout after gaining starting spot in bonus event via wild-card selection.

Dixon raced to three victories in seven final rounds in 2005 clocking a career-best elapsed time (4.481s) at Pomona 1 and also posted three No. 1 qualifying positions.  His victory at Englishtown, on Father's Day was his fifth consecutive victory on the day. With victory at Las Vegas 1, Dixon moved ahead of Don Garlits on all-time Top Fuel wins list. He won his third Mac Tools U.S. Nationals that year.  It was his eleventh consecutive POWERade Series Top 10 finish when he finished second in the POWERade point standings.

2006 saw Larry advance to his only final round of the season on Father's Day (Englishtown), but lost on that day after having previously won the event for five consecutive seasons.  He also posted four semifinal appearances and earned his twelfth consecutive POWERade Series Top 10 points finish.  Dixon finished in the runner-up spot at four races in 2006, including the Mac Tools U.S. Nationals.

2008, Phoenix, AZ. Larry tied 2nd on All-Time Wins with Tony Schumacher with 43 wins in NHRA Top Fuel Competition. Then, only three weeks later in Gainesville, FL, Tony took over 2nd place on the All-Time winners table when he won the Gator Nationals. As of May 2009, Schumacher leads the table with 59 wins with Dixon currently on 44.  Joe Amato ranks 2nd on All-Time leader board with 52 victories in NHRA Top Fuel Competition.

In 2009, Dixon left the Prudhomme Racing camp, and went to work as the Top Fuel driver at Al-Anabi Racing, with legendary crew chief Alan Johnson working his pits, as both crew chief, and team owner.  Johnson himself had been crew chief with Dixon's biggest rival, five-time champion Tony Schumacher, and was the crew chief of perhaps one of Dixon's biggest rivals in his career, Alan's brother Blaine Johnson.

In 2010, Dixon won his third Full Throttle Series world championship title. He won a record 12 races in 12 finals, including the prestigious Mac Tools U.S. Nationals for the fourth time. Dixon earned eight No. 1 qualifying positions and in the Countdown playoffs claimed three wins and three of those top-qualifying efforts. His 62 round-wins during the 2010 season tied for fifth best all-time and second-best all-time in Top Fuel.

Sponsor Change

In 2007 Miller Lite choose to leave Don Prudhomme Racing and stay with Penske Racing in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (then called "NEXTEL Cup"). Larry Dixon then got a sponsorship on February 8, 2007 from SkyTel Wireless.  In 2008, when teammate Tommy Johnson Jr. left to drive for the re-retired Kenny Bernstein in the Monster Energy Drink Dodge Charger, Dixon got the sponsorship of the U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Co.

After Leaving the Snake
Dixon bought out the last year of his contract with Snake Racing, in order to sign with Al-Anabi as driver of the Qatar/Al-Anabi-sponsored top fuel dragster. His crew chief is Jason McCulloch, son of Funny Car legend and fellow crew chief Ed "The Ace" McCulloch. Dixon's Funny Car teammate is Del Worsham.
Out of nine final round appearances in 2009, Dixon won five, including winning the Gatornationals in Gainesville, Florida and was runner-up to Tony Schumacher at the Mac Tools U.S. Nationals. Dixon finished 2009 just two points behind NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series champion Schumacher.
Dixon would go on to win the 2010 Top Fuel championship, netting twelve event wins, including three during the Countdown to the Championship.

In 108 career final round appearances, Dixon has won 61 (54%). At the end of 2011, Dixon had compiled 637 round wins.

At the end of the 2011 season, Dixon and Al-Anabi racing agreed to mutually separate. The reasons of this mutual decision are private team matters; no further was provided.  Dixon spent much of 2012 on the sidelines before switching to a part-time Australian team, Rapisarda Racing, where he set the fastest official quarter-mile drag race at 4.503 seconds with a 332.18 MPH record in Australia, where ANDRA races the distance at circuits that are possible.  Dixon made starts for Bob Vandergriff in the NHRA for 2014 and 2015, even fighting throat cancer in a battle which he won, finishing fourth in 2015 before losing his ride at the end of 2015.  He returned to Rapisarda for IHRA races in Australia, winning the City of Ipswich Winternationals,

Personal life
Larry lives in Avon, Indiana and is married to Allison Dixon and they have 3 children: Donovan, Alanna, and Darien.

References

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