Anton de Vieira

António Manuel de Vieira, known in Russia as Count Anton Manuilovich Devier, Антон Мануилович Девиер (1682? – ), was one of Peter I's foreign associates, who proved to be an efficient administrator in St Petersburg and Siberia.

His date and place of birth are uncertain - sources differ on whether he was born in Portugal in 1673-1674, or less likely in Amsterdam c. 1682. His mother was a Christian but his father was a Jew who moved with his family from Portugal to the Low Countries. During the Grand Embassy of Peter the Great to Europe (1697), the tsar was allowed by the Dutch sailors to command a ship, where Vieira served as a cabin-boy. He was taken by the tsar to Russia in the capacity of his page and orderly, gradually rising to the rank of adjutant-general in 1718.

That same year, he fell in love with Prince Menshikov's sister and seduced her. They were apprehended by her brother, who ordered Vieira to be beaten to death. The latter, however, appealed to the tsar for mercy, and Peter ordered Vieira to be liberated and married to Menshikov's sister the very next day. A month later, he was appointed the first chief of St Petersburg Police. During his term in office, Vieira gained renown for his strict attitude towards brigands and outlaws who had previously crowded to the newly built Russian capital.

After Peter's death, Vieira managed to maintain his position, chiefly through the influence of his wife, a lady-in-waiting at the court of Catherine I. On October 24, 1726 he was made count and admitted to the Senate. His brother-in-law's influence on the Empress, however, was paramount. As Vieira dared to oppose Menshikov's plan of marrying his daughter to the future Peter II of Russia, he was arrested and put to the torture. After 10 days of inquest, Vieira was stripped of his estates and titles and exiled to Yakutia, where he would live in utter oblivion for 4 years.

In 1731, when Vitus Bering was commissioned to set a separate government for Okhotsk, he could not find anywhere in the Far East a more capable and experienced man than Vieira. The latter was summoned to Okhotsk and appointed its governor in 1739. During his term in office, he established a shipyard and a nautical school, which would continue for a century.

Upon Elizaveta Petrovna's ascension to the throne in 1741, she was told that the associate of her father was still living on the shores of the Pacific. The old man was recalled to St Petersburg and reinstated as its police chief. Having been restituted in his comital title and invested with the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky, Vieira died in 1745.

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David McCallum

David Keith McCallum, Jr. (born 19 September 1933) is a British actor and musician. He first gained recognition in the 1960s for playing secret agent Illya Kuryakin in the television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E..
In recent years, McCallum has gained renewed international recognition and popularity for his role as NCIS medical examiner Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard in the American television series NCIS.

Early life
McCallum was born September 19, 1933, in Maryhill, Glasgow, the second of two sons of Dorothy Dorman, a cellist, and orchestral violinist David McCallum Sr. When he was three, his family moved to London for his father to play as concertmaster in the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Early in the Second World War, he was evacuated back to Scotland, where he lived with his mother at Gartocharn by Loch Lomond.

McCallum won a scholarship to University College School, a boys' independent school in Hampstead, London, where, encouraged by his parents to prepare for a career in music, he played the oboe. In 1946 he began doing boy voices for the BBC radio repertory company. Also involved in local amateur drama, at age 17, he appeared as Oberon in an open-air production of A Midsummer Night's Dream with the Play and Pageant Union. He left school at age 18 and was conscripted for National Service. He joined the British Army's 3rd Battalion the Middlesex Regiment, which was seconded to the Royal West African Frontier Force. In March 1954 he was promoted to Lieutenant. After leaving the army he attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (also in London), where Joan Collins was a classmate.

Career
In 1951, McCallum became assistant stage manager of the Glyndebourne Opera Company. He began his acting career doing boy voices for BBC Radio in 1947 and began taking bit parts in British films from the late 1950s. His first acting role was in Whom the Gods Love, Die Young playing a doomed royal. A James Dean-themed photograph of McCallum caught the attention of the Rank Organisation, who signed him in 1956. However, in an interview with Alan Titchmarsh broadcast on 3 November 2010, McCallum stated that he had actually held his Equity card since 1946.

Early roles included a juvenile delinquent in Violent Playground (1957), an outlaw in Robbery Under Arms, (1957) and as junior  radio operator Harold Bride in A Night to Remember (1958). His first American film was Freud: The Secret Passion (1962), directed by John Huston, which was shortly followed by a role in Peter Ustinov's Billy Budd. McCallum played Lt Cdr Eric Ashley-Pitt (a.k.a., "Dispersal") in The Great Escape, which was released in 1963. He took the role of Judas Iscariot in 1965's The Greatest Story Ever Told. Other television roles included two appearances on The Outer Limits and a guest appearance on Perry Mason in 1964 as defendant Phillipe Bertain in "The Case of the Fifty Millionth Frenchman".

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

The Man from U.N.C.L.E., intended as a vehicle for Robert Vaughn, made McCallum into a sex symbol, his Beatle-style blond haircut providing a trendy contrast to Vaughn's clean-cut appearance. McCallum's role as the mysterious Russian agent Illya Kuryakin was originally conceived as a peripheral one. McCallum, however, took the opportunity to construct a complex character whose appeal rested largely in what was shadowy and enigmatic about him. Kuryakin's popularity with the audience and Vaughn's and McCallum's on-screen chemistry were quickly recognized by the producers, and McCallum was elevated to co-star status.

Although the show aired at the height of the Cold War, McCallum's Russian alter ego became a pop culture phenomenon. The actor was inundated with fan letters, and a Beatles-like frenzy followed him everywhere he went. While playing Kuryakin, McCallum received more fan mail than any other actor in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's history, including such popular MGM stars as Clark Gable and Elvis Presley. Hero worship even led to a record, Love Ya, Illya, performed by Alma Cogan under the name Angela and the Fans, which was a pirate radio hit in Britain in 1966. A 1990s rock-rap group from Argentina named itself Illya Kuryaki and the Valderramas in honour of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. character.

McCallum received two Emmy Award nominations in the course of the show's four-year run (1964–68) for playing the intellectual and introvert secret agent.

McCallum and Vaughn reprised their roles of Kuryakin and Solo in a 1983 TV film, Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.. In 1986 McCallum reunited with Robert Vaughn again in an episode of The A-Team entitled "The Say U.N.C.L.E. Affair", complete with "chapter titles", the word "affair" in the title, the phrase "Open Channel D", and similar scene transitions.

In an interview for a retrospective television special, McCallum recounted a visit to the White House during which, while he was being escorted to meet the U.S. president, a Secret Service agent told him, "You're the reason I got this job."

After The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

McCallum never quite repeated the popular success he had gained as Kuryakin until NCIS, though he did become a familiar face on British television in such shows as Colditz (1972–74), Kidnapped (1978), and ITV's science-fiction series Sapphire & Steel (1979–82) opposite Joanna Lumley. In 1975 he played the title character in a short-lived U.S. version of The Invisible Man.

McCallum appeared on stage in Australia in Run for Your Wife (1987–88), and the production toured the country. Other members of the cast were Jack Smethurst, Eric Sykes and Katy Manning.

McCallum played supporting parts in a number of feature films, although he played the title role in the 1968 thriller, Sol Madrid.

McCallum starred with Diana Rigg in the 1989 TV miniseries Mother Love. In 1991 and 1992 McCallum played gambler John Grey, one of the principal characters in the television series Trainer.
He appeared as a British double agent in a 1989 episode of Murder, She Wrote.
In the 1990s McCallum guest-starred in two U.S. television series. In season 1 of seaQuest DSV, he appeared as the law-enforcement officer Frank Cobb of the fictional Broken Ridge of the Ausland Confederation, an underwater mining camp off the coast of Australia by the Great Barrier Reef; he also had a guest-star role in one episode of Babylon 5.

In 1994, McCallum narrated the acclaimed documentaries Titanic: The Complete Story for A&E Networks. This was the second project about the Titanic on which he had worked: the first was the 1958 film A Night to Remember, in which he had had a small role.

In the same year McCallum hosted and narrated the TV special Ancient Prophecies. This special, which was followed soon after by three others, told of people and places historically associated with foretelling the end of the world and the beginnings of new eras for mankind.

NCIS

Since 2003 McCallum has starred in the CBS television series NCIS as Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard, the team's chief medical examiner and one of the show's most popular characters. In Season 2 Episode 13 "The Meat Puzzle", NCIS Special Agent Caitlin Todd (Sasha Alexander) asks Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon), "What did Ducky look like when he was younger?" and Gibbs replies, "Illya Kuryakin".

According to the behind-the-scenes feature on the 2006 DVD of NCIS season 1, McCallum became an expert in forensics to play Mallard, including attending medical examiner conventions. In the feature, Donald P. Bellisario says that McCallum's knowledge became so vast that at the time of the interview he was considering making him a technical adviser on the show.

McCallum appeared at the 21st Annual James Earl Ash Lecture, held 19 May 2005 at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, an evening for honouring America's service members. His lecture, "Reel to Real Forensics", with Cmdr. Craig T. Mallak, U.S. Armed Forces medical examiner, featured a presentation comparing the real-life work of the Armed Forces Medical Examiner staff with that of the fictional naval investigators appearing on NCIS.

In late April 2012 it was announced that McCallum had reached agreement on a two-year contract extension with CBS-TV. The move meant that he would remain an NCIS regular past his eightieth birthday.
In May 2014 he signed another two-year contract. He has since signed extensions in 2016,  beginning a limited schedule in 2017 and renewing the same for seasons 15, 16 & 17 - each one separately.

Music
In the 1960s, McCallum recorded four albums for Capitol Records with music producer David Axelrod: Music...A Part of Me (Capitol ST 2432, 1966), Music...A Bit More of Me (Capitol ST 2498, 1966), Music...It's Happening Now! (Capitol ST 2651, 1967), and McCallum (Capitol ST 2748, 1968). The best known of his pieces today is "The Edge", which was sampled by Dr. Dre as the intro and riff to the track "The Next Episode", "M.I.A" by Missin' Linx, and "No Regrets" by Masta Ace. McCallum's version of "The Edge" appears on the soundtrack to the 2017 film Baby Driver.

McCallum did not sing on these records, as many television stars of the 1960s did when offered recording contracts. As a classically trained musician, he conceived a blend of oboe, English horn and strings with guitar and drums, and presented instrumental interpretations of hits of the day. The official arranger on the albums was H. B. Barnum. However, McCallum conducted, and contributed several original compositions of his own, over the course of four LPs. The first two, Music...A Part of Me and Music...A Bit More of Me, have been issued together on CD on the Zonophone label. On Open Channel D, McCallum did sing on the first four tracks, "Communication", "House on Breckenridge Lane", "In the Garden, Under the Tree" (the theme song from the film Three Bites of the Apple) and "My Carousel". The music tracks are the same as the Zonophone CD. This CD was released on the Rev-Ola label. The single release of "Communication" reached No. 32 in the UK Singles Chart in April 1966.

In the Man from U.N.C.L.E. episode "The Discotheque Affair", McCallum plays the double bass as part of a band in a night club. He also played guitar and sang his own composition, "Trouble," with Nancy Sinatra on "The Take Me to Your Leader Affair," and played several instruments in "The Off-Broadway Affair".

In the 1970s, McCallum also recorded three H.P. Lovecraft tales for Caedmon Records, an imprint of August Derleth's Arkham House publishing venture: "The Rats in the Walls" (TC 1347, 1973); "The Dunwich Horror" ("slightly abridged"; TC 1467, 1976); and "The Haunter of the Dark" (TC 1617, 1979).

Fiction
In 2016, McCallum published a crime novel entitled Once a Crooked Man. The narrative is set in New York and London and centres on a young actor who tries to foil a murder. McCallum has stated that a second novel is in progress.

Personal life
On 11 May 1957, McCallum  married actress Jill Ireland in London. The two had met during production of the film Hell Drivers. The marriage lasted 11 years. After leaving McCallum, Ireland married Charles Bronson, whom McCallum had introduced to her 1963 while McCallum and Bronson were filming The Great Escape. McCallum and Ireland had three sons: Paul, Jason and Valentine (Val). Jason, who was adopted, died from an accidental drug overdose in 1989. Val McCallum is a guitar player, playing with Jackson Browne most recently in 2014 and is a member of the faux country band, Jackshit.

In 1967, McCallum married Katherine Carpenter. They have a son, Peter, and a daughter, Sophie. McCallum and his wife are active in charitable organisations that support the United States Marine Corps: Katherine's father was a Marine who served in the Battle of Iwo Jima and her brother was killed in the Vietnam War. On 27 August 1999, McCallum was naturalized as a United States citizen. McCallum has six grandchildren. He was friends with Tibor Rubin.

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

References

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 David McCallum Fans Online
 Fans from U.N.C.L.E.

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Niko Lee Hang

Niko Lee Hang is the former Minister of Finance of Samoa. He is an accountant by profession and a former Public Trustee. He was elected to one of the two parliamentary seats reserved for Individual Voters for the first time in December 2001.  Between 2002 and 2006 he served as a Parliamentary Undersecretary, first to the Minister of Justice, and then to the Minister of Revenue.  Following his re-election in March 2006, he was nominated to a Cabinet post by the Prime Minister, which he held until March 2011.

External links
 Profile at the Samoan Fono.
 Workshop on Effective Implementation of Strategic Plans and Programs

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2012 Drake Bulldogs football team

The 2012 Drake Bulldogs football team represented Drake University in the 2012 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by fifth-year head coach Chris Creighton and played their home games at Drake Stadium. They were a member of the Pioneer Football League. They finished the season 8–3, 7–1 in Pioneer Football League play to claim a share of the League championship for the second consecutive year.

Schedule

Source: Schedule

References

External links
 2012 Drake Football Media Guide

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Playing dead

Playing dead may refer to:

Playing dead, a variation of Planking (fad)
Playing dead, or apparent death, an animal behaviour
"Playing Dead", a track on the 2015 album Every Open Eye by Chvrches
"Playing Dead", an episode of TV series Law & Order: Criminal Intent (season 8)
"Playing Dead", a story in the book Just Tricking! by Andy Griffiths
Je fais le mort, a 2013 French comedy film, also shown as Playing Dead

See also
Play Dead (disambiguation)


Dmitry Itskov

Dmitry Itskov (Russian: Дмитрий Ицков) is a Russian entrepreneur, billionaire and the founder of New Media Stars, a web-based media company. He has made a reported £1bn from his Moscow-based news publishing company. Itskov is best known for being the founder of the 2045 Initiative, which aims to achieve cybernetic immortality by the year 2045. Itskov started his foundation in 2011.

Itskov said, in a 2016 BBC Horizon TV documentary, that the "ultimate goal of [his] plan is to transfer someone’s personality into the new artificial carrier."

See also
 Transhumanism
 2045 Initiative
 Immortality

References

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The Olsen Gang's Last Trick

The Olsen Gang's Last Trick () is a 1998 Danish comedy film directed by Tom Hedegaard and Morten Arnfred, and starring Ove Sprogøe. The film was the 14th and last in the Olsen Gang-series.

Cast
 Ove Sprogøe as Egon Olsen
 Morten Grunwald as Benny Frandsen
 Poul Bundgaard as Kjeld Jensen
 Tommy Kenter as Kjeld Jensen (Stand-in)
 Kurt Ravn as the voice of Kjeld
 Grethe Sønck as Ruth Hansen
 Jes Holtsø as Børge Jensen
 Axel Strøbye as Kriminalassistent Jensen
 Ole Ernst as Politiassistent Holm
 Bjørn Watt-Boolsen as Hallandsen
 Henrik Koefoed as J.M.R. Holm Hansen Jr.
 Ove Verner Hansen as Bøffen
 Michael Hasselflug as Alf
 Jesper Langberg as Direktør for Statsadministrationens Destruktionsanstalt
 Claus Ryskjær as Portvagt
 Henrik Lykkegaard as Sikkerhedsvagt
 Benny Hansen as Portør
 Jan Hertz as Ejendomsmægler
 Holger Perfort as Forstander for Institut for Teoretisk kriminalitet

Reception
The movie is generally considered a disaster, both on and off screen. Main actor Poul Bundgaard and director Tom Hedegaard both died during production, Benny Hansen who appeared briefly as a hospital porter died two days after the end of filming, and veteran actor Bjørn Watt-Boolsen, who had appeared as the evil mastermind in most of the previous movies in the series, died just 10 days after opening night. The movie itself was generally scolded by critics, and even Olsen Gang creator and script writer Erik Balling later regretted having made it.

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Westport, Oklahoma

Westport is a town in Pawnee County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 298 at the 2010 census, a gain of 12.9 percent from 264 at the 2000 census.

History
The city is much newer than most towns in northeast Oklahoma. It was incorporated in the mid 1960s, after completion of Lake Keystone. Most of the residences were built between 1960 and 1979. Its first Federal census reported 146 residents in 1970. The census population peaked at 325 in 1990, then dropped to 264 in 2000, perhaps because of major damage inflicted by an F4 tornado that occurred as part of the April 26, 1991 tornado outbreak. Over 96 percent of the employed residents commuted to work in Stillwater or Tulsa.

Geography
Westport is located at  (36.196315, -96.360476).  According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which,  of it is land and  of it (52.78%) is water.

Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there were 264 people, 99 households, and 82 families residing in the town. The population density was 66.1 people per square mile (25.5/km²). There were 109 housing units at an average density of 27.3 per square mile (10.5/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 87.88% White, 0.76% African American, 3.03% Native American, 0.76% Asian, and 7.58% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.89% of the population.

There were 99 households out of which 29.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 80.8% were married couples living together, 2.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 16.2% were non-families. 12.1% of all households were made up of individuals and 6.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.67 and the average family size was 2.86.

In the town, the population was spread out with 22.0% under the age of 18, 8.7% from 18 to 24, 20.8% from 25 to 44, 36.4% from 45 to 64, and 12.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 44 years. For every 100 females, there were 91.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 92.5 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $54,250, and the median income for a family was $64,375. Males had a median income of $36,667 versus $32,083 for females. The per capita income for the town was $23,345. About 4.3% of families and 6.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including none of those under the age of eighteen and 15.6% of those sixty five or over.

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Apeejay Stya University

Apeejay Stya University (ASU) is a private, co-educational, international university located in Sohna, Gurgaon Haryana, India. It is India's first meta and liberal arts university. ASU is a part the Apeejay Education Society, the managing body. It was established in 2010. ASU offers a wide range of innovative graduate, postgraduate and doctoral programmes.

Background
The university was established by Dr. Stya Paul, the founder of the Apeejay Education Society. It was given the autonomous status in 2010 under the Act No. 10 of Haryana Private Universities (Amendment Act 2010).
Currently, Ms. Sushma Paul Berlia, the daughter of Dr. Stya Paul is the Chancellor and Aditya Berlia, the grandson of Dr. Paul is the Pro–Chancellor.

Departments and Faculties

 School of Bio Sciences
 School of Engineering and Technology
 School of Design
 School of Education
 School of Journalism and Mass Communication
 School of Management
 School of Pharmacy

Hostel and Campus
The university has a small campus with hostels for both boys and girls. The entire campus has a WI-FI facility. There is a basketball ground, football ground, gymnasium, dance room and music room to be used by the hostelers as well as for the day scholars.
There are various clubs in Apeejay Stya University that work for the society and contribute in many diverse ways for the betterment of the society. Those clubs are:
 Rotract Club of Apeejay Stya University: in collaboration with the Rotract Club. The students and the teachers become active members of this club and join hands together to educate poor and destitute and help them in various ways.
 Fusion International Club: Since students from various corners of the world come to study here, the university provides them a common platform, where they can interact and discuss about their respective culture and traditions. Students get the opportunity to celebrate the respective Independence Day and Republic Days of their country.
 We the Students: This is a club, where all the book lovers join. Students and teachers with a passion for reading books and novels meet here to discuss about various topics.
 Proxima: This is a technical club formed by the School of Engineering and Technology of Apeejay Stya University. Which focuses on improving the technical skills of the students and organize a number of technical events in the University.

See also
 State University of Performing And Visual Arts
 State Institute of Film and Television

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George Mulligan

George F. Mulligan (1880 - 1955) was the leading sports promoter in Connecticut during the early 1900s. He was also the founder and owner of the Hartford Blues of the National Football League. The Blues, which were referred to as the Waterbury Blues, began as a semi-pro football team in 1924, before joining the early NFL in 1926.

Boxing
Mulligan operated professional boxing clubs in Hartford and Waterbury, Connecticut. He promoted three world championship boxing matches. The first was the Joe Lynch-Pete Herman bantamweight championship bout in 1919 in Waterbury. The second was the 1925 featherweight championship match between Kid Kaplan and Babe Herman in Waterbury. The final bout occurred in 1926 in Hartford between Kaplan and Bobby Garcia for the featherweight title.

Football
In 1925, Mulligan signed Harry Stuhldreher of Notre Dame's Four Horsemen as the first national star to ever play pro football in Connecticut. Mulligans offer to Stuhldreher play for the Blues was for $7,500, plus a $500 bonus. In 1925, he moved the Blues to Hartford and into Clarkin Field. In 1926 the NFL accepted Mulligan's Blues as one of its 22 franchises. The Blues finished the season with a 3-7-0 NFL record and 13th place.

However, after the Blues' 1926 season, the NFL's owners voted to streamline the league and cut back from 22 to 12 teams. Red Grange's New York Yankees, from the first American Football League were also to be included as one of the 12 teams. As a result, half of the 1926 NFL teams were scrapped, including the Hartford Blues. In 1927, he ran the Hartford Giants, a semi-pro team with many of the players from the Blues, however that team folded after the season.

Death
Mulligan died on July 27, 1955 at the age of 74.

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Edward Chaney

Edward Chaney PhD FSA FRHistS  (born 1951) is a British cultural historian. He is Professor Emeritus at Solent University and Honorary Professor at University College London (School of European Languages, Culture and Society (SELCS) – Centre for Early Modern Exchanges London).
He is an authority on the evolution of the Grand Tour, Anglo-Italian cultural relations, the history of collecting, Inigo Jones and the legacy of ancient Egypt. He also publishes on aspects of 20th-century British art. In 2003, he was made a Commendatore of the Italian Republic.
He is the biographer of Gerald Basil Edwards, author of The Book of Ebenezer Le Page which he succeeded in publishing following the author's death in 1976. This has since been recognised as a twentieth-century classic.

Life

Education
He was educated at Leighton Park School, Reading, Ealing School of Art and subsequently gained a first class degree in History of Art at Reading University. He completed an MPhil and PhD at the Warburg Institute, University of London. He also has a Laurea from the University of Pisa. He married biographer Lisa Chaney (née Jacka) in Paris, 1973, and has two daughters, Jessica Chaney, former art director of Apollo magazine, and singer-songwriter Olivia Chaney. Marriage dissolved 2002.

Work
From 1978 to 1985 he lived in Florence where he was a 'Ricercatore' at the European University Institute, adjunct assistant professor at Georgetown University's Villa Le Balze, an Associate of Harvard University's Villa I Tatti and taught at the University of Pisa.
From 1985 to 1990 he was the Shuffrey Research Fellow in Architectural History at Lincoln College, Oxford.
He subsequently worked for English Heritage as historian to the London region and lectured in the History of Art at Oxford Brookes University.
In 1997 was appointed Professor Fine and Decorative Arts at the Southampton Institute, now Southampton Solent University, where he established the History of Collecting Research Centre.
In 2014 he was appointed Visiting Professor of Art History at the New College of the Humanities and January–March 2015 Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence.

He was co-founder and editor of Journal of Anglo-Italian Studies, and has served on the Executive Committee of the British-Italian Society, the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) and the Catholic Record Society.

He currently serves on the Editorial Boards of:
 The Journal of Wyndham Lewis Studies.
 The British Art Journal.
 The Court Historian.

In 2016 he was appointed Governor of University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust.

Bibliography

Books
 Oxford, China and Italy:  Writings in Honour of Sir Harold Acton (ed. with Neil Ritchie, Thames and Hudson, 1984)
 The Grand Tour and the Great Rebellion: Richard Lassels and ‘The Voyage of Italy’ in the Seventeenth Century (C.I.R.V.I., Slatkine, 1985)
 A Traveller's Companion to Florence (intro Harold Acton, Constable, 1986; 2nd ed. Constable and Robinson, 2002)
 England and the Continental Renaissance (ed with Peter Mack:  Boydell Press, 1990)
 English Architecture: Public and Private (ed with John Bold:  Hambledon Press, 1993)
 The Evolution of the Grand Tour: Anglo-Italian Cultural Relations since the Renaissance (1998; 2nd, paperback edition, Routledge, 2000)
 The Stuart Portrait: Status and Legacy (with Godfrey Worsdale; Paul Holberton Publishing, 2001).
 The Evolution of English Collecting: Receptions of Italian Art during the Tudor and Stuart Periods (Yale University Press, 2003)
 Richard Eurich 1903–1992: A Visionary Artist (with Christine Clearkin, Paul Holberton, 2003)
 Introduction, updated bibliography and corrections to new edition of John Hale's England and the Italian Renaissance (Blackwell, Oxford 2005)
 Inigo Jones's 'Roman Sketchbook''', 2 vols. (Roxburghe Club, 2006)
 William Rose: Tradition and an Individual Talent (Bath, 2009)
 The Jacobean Grand Tour: Early Stuart Travellers in Europe (with Timothy Wilks; I.B. Tauris, 2014).
 Genius Friend: G.B. Edwards and The Book of Ebenezer Le Page (Blue Ormer, 2015)
 Florence: A Traveller's Reader (Robinson, 2018)

Digital publications (selection)
 Edward Chaney – academia.edu profile and digital publications
 The Grand Tour; consultant editors Jeremy Black, Edward Chaney and Rosemary Sweet; Adam Matthew Digital, 2009.
 Obelisk: A History – History Today 60:1, 1 January 2010
 R.B. Kitaj (1932–2007): Warburgian Artist, emaj: online journal of art, 30 November 2013. Retrieved 1 October 2015.
 G.B. Edwards and The Book of Ebenezer Le Page (podcast) – interview with Edward Chaney about Gerald Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, and his new biography, Genius Friend – Guille-Allès Library podcast
 ‘The Guernsey Gattopardo’, The Island Review, 18 November 2015.

Extracts from Book Reviews
For The Grand Tour and the Great Rebellion:
For the Early Modern period, Edward Chaney's path-breaking 'The Grand Tour and the Great Rebellion' on English royalists ... underlines the dynamics of exile and the varied forms of interaction between exiles and their host societies.Philip Mansel & Torsten Riotte, Monarchy and Exile: The Politics of Legitimacy from Marie de Médicis to Wilhelm II (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)

For The Evolution of the Grand Tour:
No one interested in the impact of Italy on English civilisation from the Middle Ages onwards will read this remarkable book without finding out something he did not know and experiencing the thrill of a connection he has not seen. Professor Chaney’s range is as wide and refreshing as his learning is exact. He uses his eyes and his judgement is never indecisive.Richard Ollard

This is a brilliant, original and refreshing account, teeming with new and fascinating material.Professor J. B. Trapp (Professor Emeritus, History of the Classical Tradition, University of London)

Original and scholarly essays on a fascinating subject: the transformation of our art and life through a continuing stream of English travellers to Italy. Scholars, artists, architects, poets, collectors, ideological exiles, are all here: first a trickle, soon to be thinned by religious differences, finally expanding into the flood of the institutionalised eighteenth-century Grand Tour. Four centuries of cultural transfusion. A wonderful subject and a remarkable book.Lord Dacre of Glanton (Hugh Trevor-Roper)

We tend to think of the Grand Tour as the province of Georgian lords and gentlemen living in a golden age of light and proportion and good taste. The reality began much earlier, lasted longer and was neither so tidy nor so predictable. Professor Chaney's constant endeavour – and success – in expanding the boundaries and exploring the diversity of the concept stimulates us all to a new appreciation of the enormous indebtedness of our island culture to Renaissance Italy, and of the manifold ways in which the transalpine lands remain our spiritual home.Kerry Downes (Emeritus Professor of History of Art, University of Reading).

... I fell for its irresistible enthusiasm. Chaney has a profound scholarly knowledge of the Anglo-Italian historical relationships, but he is also a writer full of surprise and discursive curiosity ... a most beguiling delight.Jan Morris' 'Book of the Year', The Independent.

Edward Chaney's fascinating book illuminates the magnetic attractions of Italy ... a work of meticulous scholarship about the origins and evolution of the Grand TourJohn Mortimer, The Sunday Times.

[written with] verve and precision and tremendous authority ... this book, richly illustrated and handsomely produced, will become an indispensable work for cultural historians, Italophiles and all latter-day Grand Tourists.Noel Malcolm, The Sunday Telegraph

this collection of 14 brilliant essays provides us with much new material and many new insights.David Watkin, Country Life.

Chaney is a scholarly and learned writer and he shed light on a wide range of topics. A wealth of humane learning ... characterises this attractive volume.Sir Keith Thomas, Apollo: International Magazine of the Arts.

This bran-tub of Anglo-Italian delights sustained by seriousness and enthusiasm in equal measure.Jonathan Keates, Literary Review.

To those who know, even in part, their sources in the continuing unravelling of the Grand Tour, this book is an indispensable, a quite golden, addition ... Professor Chaney holds us all in his debt in this collection of occasional essays touching on subjects and connection that, quite simply, have not occurred to others less erudite than himself ... the style is of a 'plein air' ease such that one might be listening to a soliloquy in the gardens of Villa Lante ... taken as a whole it could not be bettered.Patrick Reyntiens, The Tablet.

For The Evolution of English Collecting:
[This book] will be indispensable to anyone with an interest in the development of the cultural history of England in the 17th century. That it is also stimulating, informative and very readable are the book's incidental merits. Thomas Tuohy, The British Art Journal, V:1, Spring/Summer 2004

For The Jacobean Grand Tour:
This book's 107 black-and-white illustrations and photographs and 11 colour plates are a tremendous boon; ... But the real skill on show here is Edward Chaney and Timothy Wilks' recreation of the social and artistic milieu for this originary moment of one of the most important cultural practices to shape elite young Englishmen for more than 300 years.Claire Jowitt, Times Higher Education Supplement, 20 March 2014

A timely, original and superbly illustrated demonstration of the European character of English culture.Philip Mansel

An excellent study of seventeenth century travel by the leading specialists in the field.Jeremy Black

A lucid, entertaining and deeply learned account which brilliantly reconstructs the intellectual stimulus and daily realities of cultural travel in early seventeenth-century Europe.Gordon Higgott

This is a major contribution to British collecting studies, capturing that magical morning of the Jacobean Grand Tour when everything was new and exoticJames Stourton

...enterprising... packed with suggestive detail... sumptuously and tellingly illustrated.Blair Worden, The Spectator

This fascinating study charts the diplomatic and cultural shifts that made travel to Europe both possible and appealing in the Jacobean age.Apollo Magazine

Well researched... lavishly illustrated... a dozen colour plates and more than 100 black-and-white drawings and photographs make the reader feel they have been on a grand tour themselves.John Ure, Country Life

For Genius Friend: G.B. Edwards and The Book of Ebenezer Le Page'':
‘This is a remarkable book which sets out to show us that the half-forgotten Gerald Edwards, author of a single magnum opus, should (like Lampedusa) be acknowledged as one of the great novelists of the twentieth century. Writing with skill and conviction, calling on some impressive witnesses (in particular John Stewart Collis) to give evidence, Chaney makes a powerful case that will surprise and impress readers to-day.’Sir Michael Holroyd

‘No one is better fitted than Edward Chaney to write this book. It is a seminal study of a great, but neglected writer, and it places G.B. Edwards in his proper historical, literary and philosophical context for the first time.‘Peter Goodall

'G.B. Edwards was a cryptic and mystifying man, a writer with rare and sometimes perverse gifts, whose character mixed elements of the rascal and of the recluse, who yet produced one astounding classic, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page. In his last years he gave his trust and affection to Edward Chaney, whose matchless enthusiasm, perseverance and insight make him the best possible biographer of this puzzling misfit Guernseyman.' Richard Davenport-Hines

 'A consistently fascinating attempt to chart the life of a geniune literary outsider.' D.J. Taylor, 'Patches, tricks and wickedness', Times Literary Supplement, 9 September 2016

'... the author's researches and his personal knowledge of Edwards do bring this strange and wayward man to life..' William Palmer, 'Guernsey's Finest', Literary Review, August 2016

Media
 Broadcast appearances on BBC Radio 4 programmes: Start the Week, Woman's Hour, Science Now and In Our Time ('The Grand Tour' – 30 May 2002),
 He has acted as consultant for programmes on the Grand Tour by Brian Sewell and Kevin McCloud (Channel 4) and 'Great British Art Collectors – Lady Helen Rosslyn' on BBC4 (2012–13).
 He has contributed articles to: Apollo, The Burlington Magazine, Country Life, The Daily Telegraph, The English Historical Review, History Today, The Independent, Literary Review, The Milton Quarterly, Modern Painters, The Salisbury Review, The Spectator, Times Higher Education, The Times Literary Supplement, The Victorian.

Awards
 Leverhulme European Studentship. 1978-9.
 Huntington Library Research Fellowship (British Academy travel funded). 1995.
 Mellon British School at Rome Award. 2006.
 Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship: 2010–2012. 'Polytheism and its Discontents: Cultural Memories of Egypt in England.'.
 British Council: travel expenses to International Travel and Illustration conference (keynote speaker), Bangalore, India, November 2014.
 Fernand Braudel Senior Research Fellowship; European University Institute, Florence; January–March 2015.

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Abad railway station

Abad railway station (, ) is located in Abad village, Jacobabad district of Sindh province of the Pakistan.

See also
 List of railway stations in Pakistan
 Pakistan Railways

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Timo Descamps

Timo Descamps (born 27 May 1986) is a Belgian actor, voice actor and singer. He is best known for his former roles on the Flemish soap operas Spring and Familie. In 2007, Descamps released his first music single, "Phonecall," which rose to 36 on the Ultratop 50. In January 2010, it was announced that Descamps would be co-starring in the film Judas Kiss, playing the character of Shane Lyons.

Career

Television
Timo's television debut was in 2004, appearing on the Belgian soap opera Familie. His character, Ghijs, was a problem child in the home of Marc and Mieke. After growing up and leaving home, Ghijs returned for the funeral of Marc and Lennart.

From 2005 to 2008, Descamps portrayed Jo De Klein, the new bass player of the music group in Spring. In his spare time, Jo was a painter and loved strange pets: he had a pet Tarantula called Mary and after its death he got a snake he named Picasso.

In 2006, Descamps competed on Steracteur sterartiest, a televised Belgian singing competition, finishing in third place. In 2009-2010, Descamps played the role of South African emigre Nelson Batenburg on the Dutch series SpangaS.

In addition to his acting roles, Descamps has worked as an onscreen host for Disney Channel The Netherlands & Flanders and for the Belgian VT4 Network. In 2007, he hosted the show Superstar: The Battle on Nickelodeon. He is currently hosting for OutTV.

Film
Timo Descamps made his motion picture debut in the 2011 film Judas Kiss, released by Blue Seraph Productions, playing the privileged bad boy Shane Lyons. Judas Kiss is also Descamps' feature debut to an American and international audience.

Voice acting
Prior to making his film debut with Judas Kiss in 2011, Descamps provided his voice for the Flemish adaptions of such films as 2006's Happy Feet, in which he voiced Mumble, 2007's Surf's Up, voicing protagonist Cody Maverick, and 2010's How to Train Your Dragon, voicing the lead of Hiccup.

Theatre
In September 2008, Descamps played Dolf Vega in the musical version of Crusade in Jeans.

Personal life
In 2009, Descamps publicly announced his homosexuality and relationship with Danny de Jong.

Discography
In 2007, Descamps released his a single "Phonecall," which rose to number 36 on the Ultratop 50. Three years later, in 2010, he released the single "Like It Rough."

In 2011, Descamps released his third single, entitled "Tomorrow."

Filmography

Awards

References

External links
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 Judas Kiss Official Website

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Five-dimensional space

A five-dimensional space is a space with five dimensions.  If interpreted physically, that is one more than the usual three spatial dimensions and the fourth dimension of time used in relativistic physics. It is an abstraction which occurs frequently in mathematics, where it is a legitimate construct. In physics and mathematics, a sequence of N numbers can be understood to represent a location in an N-dimensional space. Whether or not the universe is five-dimensional is a topic of debate.

Physics
Much of the early work on five-dimensional space was in an attempt to develop a theory that unifies the four fundamental interactions in nature: strong and weak nuclear forces, gravity and electromagnetism. German mathematician Theodor Kaluza and Swedish physicist Oskar Klein independently developed the Kaluza–Klein theory in 1921, which used the fifth dimension to unify gravity with electromagnetic force. Although their approaches were later found to be at least partially inaccurate, the concept provided a basis for further research over the past century.

To explain why this dimension would not be directly observable, Klein suggested that the fifth dimension would be rolled up into a tiny, compact loop on the order of 10 centimeters. Under his reasoning, he envisioned light as a disturbance caused by rippling in the higher dimension just beyond human perception, similar to how fish in a pond can only see shadows of ripples across the surface of the water caused by raindrops. While not detectable, it would indirectly imply a connection between seemingly unrelated forces. The KaluzaKlein theory experienced a revival in the 1970s due to the emergence of superstring theory and supergravity: the concept that reality is composed of vibrating strands of energy, a postulate only mathematically viable in ten dimensions or more. Superstring theory then evolved into a more generalized approach known as M-theory. M-theory suggested a potentially observable extra dimension in addition to the ten essential dimensions which would allow for the existence of superstrings. The other 10 dimensions are compacted, or "rolled up", to a size below the subatomic level. The KaluzaKlein theory today is seen as essentially a gauge theory, with the gauge being the circle group.

The fifth dimension is difficult to directly observe, though the Large Hadron Collider provides an opportunity to record indirect evidence of its existence. Physicists theorize that collisions of subatomic particles in turn produce new particles as a result of the collision, including a graviton that escapes from the fourth dimension, or brane, leaking off into a five-dimensional bulk. M-theory would explain the weakness of gravity relative to the other fundamental forces of nature, as can be seen, for example, when using a magnet to lift a pin off a table — the magnet is able to overcome the gravitational pull of the entire earth with ease.

Mathematical approaches were developed in the early 20th century that viewed the fifth dimension as a theoretical construct. These theories make reference to Hilbert space, a concept that postulates an infinite number of mathematical dimensions to allow for a limitless number of quantum states. Einstein, Bergmann and Bargmann later tried to extend the four-dimensional spacetime of general relativity into an extra physical dimension to incorporate electromagnetism, though they were unsuccessful. In their 1938 paper, Einstein and Bergmann were among the first to introduce the modern viewpoint that a four-dimensional theory, which coincides with Einstein-Maxwell theory at long distances, is derived from a five-dimensional theory with complete symmetry in all five dimensions. They suggested that electromagnetism resulted from a gravitational field that is “polarized” in the fifth dimension.

The main novelty of Einstein and Bergmann was to seriously consider the fifth dimension as a physical entity, rather than an excuse to combine the metric tensor and electromagnetic potential. But they then reneged, modifying the theory to break its five-dimensional symmetry. Their reasoning, as suggested by Edward Witten, was that the more symmetric version of the theory predicted the existence of a new long range field, one that was both massless and scalar, which would have required a fundamental modification to Einstein's theory of general relativity. Minkowski space and Maxwell's equations in vacuum can be embedded in a five-dimensional Riemann curvature tensor.

In 1993, the physicist Gerard 't Hooft put forward the holographic principle, which explains that the information about an extra dimension is visible as a curvature in a spacetime with one fewer dimension.  For example, holograms are three-dimensional pictures placed on a two-dimensional surface, which gives the image a curvature when the observer moves.  Similarly, in general relativity, the fourth dimension is manifested in observable three dimensions as the curvature path of a moving infinitesimal (test) particle.  'T Hooft has speculated that the fifth dimension is really the spacetime fabric.

Five-dimensional geometry
According to Klein’s definition, "a geometry is the study of the invariant properties of a spacetime, under transformations within itself." Therefore, the geometry of the 5th dimension studies the invariant properties of such space-time, as we move within it, expressed in formal equations.

Polytopes

In five or more dimensions, only three regular polytopes exist.  In five dimensions, they are:

 The 5-simplex of the simplex family, {3,3,3,3}, with 6 vertices, 15 edges, 20 faces (each an equilateral triangle), 15 cells (each a regular tetrahedron), and 6 hypercells (each a 5-cell).
 The 5-cube of the hypercube family, {4,3,3,3}, with 32 vertices, 80 edges, 80 faces (each a square), 40 cells (each a cube), and 10 hypercells (each a tesseract).
 The 5-orthoplex of the cross polytope family, {3,3,3,4}, with 10 vertices, 40 edges, 80 faces (each a triangle), 80 cells (each a tetrahedron), and 32 hypercells (each a 5-cell).

An important uniform 5-polytope is the 5-demicube, h{4,3,3,3} has half the vertices of the 5-cube (16), bounded by alternating 5-cell and 16-cell hypercells. The expanded or stericated 5-simplex is the vertex figure of the A5 lattice, . It and has a doubled symmetry from its symmetric Coxeter diagram. The kissing number of the lattice, 30, is represented in its vertices. The rectified 5-orthoplex is the vertex figure of the  D5 lattice, . Its 40 vertices represent the kissing number of the lattice and the highest for dimension 5.

Hypersphere
A hypersphere in 5-space (also called a 4-sphere due to its surface being 4-dimensional) consists of the set of all points in 5-space at a fixed distance r from a central point P. The hypervolume enclosed by this hypersurface is:

See also
5-manifold
Gravity
Hypersphere
List of regular 5-polytopes

References

Further reading

 Weyl, Hermann, Raum, Zeit, Materie, 1918. 5 edns. to 1922 ed. with notes by Jūrgen Ehlers, 1980. trans. 4th edn. Henry Brose, 1922 Space Time Matter, Methuen, rept. 1952 Dover. .

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Josephine Tey

Josephine Tey was a pseudonym used by Elizabeth MacKintosh (25 July 1896 – 13 February 1952), a Scottish author best remembered for her mystery novels. She also wrote plays under the name Gordon Daviot.

Life and work
MacKintosh was born in Inverness, the oldest of three daughters of Colin MacKintosh, a fruiterer, and Josephine (née Horne). She attended Inverness Royal Academy and then, in 1914, Anstey Physical Training College in Erdington, a suburb of Birmingham. She taught physical training at various schools in England and Scotland and during her vacations worked at a convalescent home in Inverness as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse. A youthful romance ended with her soldier friend's death in the Somme battles. In 1923, she returned to Inverness permanently to care for her invalid mother, and stayed after her mother's death that year to keep house for her father.

The curriculum for "physical training" included much more than athletics. Tey used her school experience in Miss Pym Disposes when describing the subjects taught at the school, and the types of bruises and other injuries sustained by the pupils. When she graduated, Tey worked in a physiotherapy clinic in Leeds, then taught in schools, first in Nottinghamshire, then in Oban, where she was injured. A boom in the gymnasium fell on her face. Tey repurposed this incident as a method of murder in Miss Pym Disposes.

While caring for her father she began her career as a writer. Her first published work was in The Westminster Gazette in 1925, under the name Gordon Daviot. She continued publishing verse and short stories in The Westminster Review, The Glasgow Herald and the Literary Review.

Her first novel, Kif: An Unvarnished History, was well received at the time with good reviews, a sale to America, and a mention in The Observers list of Books of the Week. Three months later, her first mystery novel, The Man in the Queue, was published by Benn, Methuen. It was awarded the Dutton Mystery Prize when published in America. This is the first appearance of her detective, Inspector Alan Grant. It would be some years before she wrote another mystery.

MacKintosh's real ambition had been to write a play which would receive a run in London's West End. Her play Richard of Bordeaux was produced in 1932 at the New Theatre (now the Noël Coward Theatre) under the Daviot pseudonym. She stated she was inspired by John Gielgud's performance in Hamlet and by the Royal Tournament. Tey had an excellent knowledge of military tactics, which she put to good use in several of her books. Two more of her plays were produced at the New Theatre, The Laughing Woman (1934) and Queen of Scots (1934).

She wrote about a dozen one-act plays and another dozen full-length plays, many with biblical or historical themes, under the name of Gordon Daviot. How she chose the name of Gordon is unknown, but Daviot was the name of a scenic locale near Inverness where she had spent many happy holidays with her family. Only four of her plays were produced during her lifetime. Richard of Bordeaux was particularly successful, running for 14 months and making a household name of its young leading man and director, John Gielgud. (Tey writes of Inspector Alan Grant that "he had in his youth seen Richard of Bordeaux; four times he had seen it".)

Her only non-fiction book, Claverhouse, was written as a vindication of someone she perceived to be a libeled hero: "It is strange that a man whose life was so simple in pattern and so forthright in spirit should have become a peg for every legend, bloody or brave, that belonged to his time."

MacKintosh's best-known books were written under the name of Josephine Tey, which was the name of her Suffolk great-great grandmother.

In five of the mystery novels, all of which except the first she wrote under the name of Tey, the hero is Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant. (Grant appears in a sixth, The Franchise Affair, as a minor character.) The most famous of these is The Daughter of Time, in which Grant, laid up in hospital, has friends research reference books and contemporary documents so that he can puzzle out the mystery of whether King Richard III of England murdered his nephews, the Princes in the Tower. Grant comes to the firm conclusion that King Richard was totally innocent of the death of the Princes.

The Franchise Affair also has a historical context: although set in the 1940s, it is based on the 18th-century case of Elizabeth Canning. The Daughter of Time was the last of Tey's books published during her lifetime. Her last work, a further crime novel, The Singing Sands, was found in her papers and published posthumously.

Death
Tey was intensely private, shunning all publicity throughout her life.  During her last year, when she knew that she was mortally ill, she resolutely avoided all her friends as well. Her penultimate work, The Privateer (1952), was a romantic novel based on the life of the privateer Henry Morgan. She died of liver cancer at her sister Mary's home in London on 13 February 1952.  Most of her friends were unaware that she was even ill, including Gielgud, who was shocked to read news of it in The Times during a matinee performance of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. Her death notice in The Times appeared under her "Gordon Daviot" pseudonym, with no mention of her real name or "Josephine Tey".

Proceeds from Tey's estate, including royalties from her books, were assigned to the National Trust.

Appearances and adaptations in other works

The heroine of Mary Stewart's The Ivy Tree (1961) uses Tey's book Brat Farrar as a model when impersonating the missing heir to an estate. She describes the book as "the best of them all".

Tey is mentioned in the Stephen King novella, Apt Pupil (1982).

Tey appears as a main character in a series of novels by Nicola Upson called the "Josephine Tey Mysteries". An Expert in Murder (2008), the first in the series, is a detective story woven around the original production of Richard of Bordeaux.

Tey's Brat Farrar is mentioned extensively as a work vividly remembered and imagined by the narrator in the first section of Gerald Murnane's 2009 novel Barley Patch.

The Daughter of Time influenced later mystery writers, notably Barbara Mertz. Mertz, writing as Elizabeth Peters, refers explicitly to Tey in The Murders of Richard III, which sets a country house murder mystery among a group who believe that Richard III was innocent.

Reception and legacy
In 1990, The Daughter of Time was selected by the British Crime Writers' Association as the greatest mystery novel of all time; The Franchise Affair was 11th on the same list of 100 books.

In 2012, Peter Hitchens wrote that "Josephine Tey's clarity of mind, and her loathing of fakes and of propaganda, are like pure, cold spring water in a weary land", and that "what she loves above all is to show that things are very often not what they seem to be, that we are too easily fooled, that ready acceptance of conventional wisdom is not just dangerous, but a result of laziness, incuriosity and of a resistance to reason".

In 2015, Val McDermid argued that Tey "cracked open the door" for later writers such as Patricia Highsmith and Ruth Rendell to explore the darker side of humanity, creating a bridge between the Golden Age of Detective Fiction and contemporary crime novels, because "Tey opened up the possibility of unconventional secrets. Homosexual desire, cross-dressing, sexual perversion – they were all hinted at, glimpsed in the shadows as a door closed or a curtain twitched. Tey was never vulgar nor titillating.... Nevertheless, her world revealed a different set of psychological motivations."

Publications

Mystery novels

Inspector Alan Grant novels

 The Man in the Queue (or Killer in the Crowd) (1929) [as Gordon Daviot]
 A Shilling for Candles (1936) [as Josephine Tey] (the basis of Hitchcock's 1937 film Young and Innocent)
 The Franchise Affair (1948)  [Inspector Grant appears briefly at the beginning, mentioned a few times] (filmed in 1950 starring Michael Denison and Dulcie Gray)
 To Love and Be Wise (1950)
 The Daughter of Time (1951) (voted greatest mystery novel of all time by the Crime Writers' Association in 1990)
 The Singing Sands (1952) (turns on the discovery of the lost city of Wabar, based on the legend of Iram of the Pillars)

Stand-alone mysteries
These novels are set in the same fictional 20th-century Britain as the Inspector Grant novels.
 Miss Pym Disposes (1946) [as Josephine Tey]
 Brat Farrar (or Come and Kill Me) (1949) (the basis, without on-screen credit, for the 1963 Hammer production Paranoiac)

Other novels
 Kif: An Unvarnished History (1929) [as Gordon Daviot] - story of a boy who cares for horses and goes through WW1.
 The Expensive Halo: A Fable without Moral (1931) [as Gordon Daviot] - about two pairs of brothers and sisters, one aristocratic, the other working class.
 The Privateer (1952) - a fictionalized reconstruction of the life of the privateer Henry Morgan.

Biography
 Claverhouse (1937) [as Gordon Daviot] (a life of the 17th-century cavalry leader John Graham of Claverhouse, 1st Viscount Dundee)

Plays
 Richard of Bordeaux (1932)
 The Laughing Woman  (1934)
 Queen of Scots (1934)
 The Stars Bow Down (1939)
 Cornelia (1946) [as F. Craigie Howe]
 The Little Dry Thorn (1946)
 Rahab (1947)
 Leith Sands (1947)
 Valerius (1948)
 The Balwhinnie Bomb (1949)
 Sara (1951)
 Dickon (1955)

Radio and television dramatisations
 The Man in the Queue: broadcast in 1955, adapted by H.B. Fortuin
 A Shilling For Candles: broadcast in 1954, 1963 and 1969, adapted by Rex Rienits; in 1998, adapted by John Fletcher
 Miss Pym Disposes: broadcast in 1952, adapted by Jonquil Antony; and 1987, adapted by Elizabeth Proud
 The Franchise Affair: broadcast in 1952, 1970 and 2005
 The Franchise Affair: televised in 1958 (Robert Hall), serials 1962 (Constance Cox) and 1988 (James Andrew Hall)
 Brat Farrar: broadcast in 1954, 1959 and 1980 (all adapted by Cyril Wentzel)
 Brat Farrar: televised in 1986, adapted by James Andrew Hall
 The Daughter of Time: broadcast in 1952 (scriptwriter not credited) and 1982 (Neville Teller)
 The Singing Sands: broadcast in 1956 (Bertram Parnaby); televised in 1969 (James MacTaggart)

Source: Radio Times Archive

References

External links

 Author Dana Stabenow's homage to Josephine Tey's The Daughter of Time — How My Mother and Josephine Tey Led Me into a Life of Crime

 Photo of Tey
 Josephine Tey – A Very Private Person
 "The Elusive Miss MacKintosh" — review in Quadrant

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Headstrong (Headstrong album)

Headstrong is the eponymous debut release and sole album of the band of the same name. It was released on RCA Records in 2002 and proved to be the group's only album before disbanding the following year.

The band chose Dan Brodbeck, the same man behind their demo, to produce the album in their hometown of London, Ontario, Canada..Headstrong features one single in "Adriana," which reached #15 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks and had a music video. Its style features elements of hip hop and funk intertwined with metal and has been compared to bands like Rage Against the Machine, 311, and Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Prior to the release of Headstrong, the band toured through Canada from November to December 2001. Following its release, they performed with Tommy Lee before being curiously pulled from touring in July 2002. The following month they were dropped by RCA Records.

Curiously, despite that all of the members and producers were Canadian by origin, 'Headstrong' was priced at $24.99 in local Canadian markets, making it difficult for the band to earn fans in their debut in their own territory.  The band cites these types of decisions in their reasons to exit the music business.

Reception

Headstrong received mixed reviews. Brian O'Neill of AllMusic described it as "a decidedly Caucasian rap-rock mélange that sounds like it's been heard before, but only because it has." However, Robin Steeley of Music Reviewer gave the album 6/10, noting that it "features dynamic production and skilled instrumentation."
CANOE's Mike Ross also showed a mixed but overall positive reaction:
"For all the cryptic complaining from a singer who sounds like the guy from Soul Coughing when he raps and like every other wigga in the 'hood when he shouts, this is a powerful rap-metal offering that puts shame to all that came before it - or at least adds maturity to a particularly obnoxious and posturing musical genre. . . With inventive production and instrumentation throughout, Headstrong is intelligent rap-metal, if such a thing is possible."

Track listing
 "All of the Above" – 4:01
 "Backlash" – 3:37
 "Inside Joke" – 3:16
 "Swing Harder (Temper Temper)" – 4:10
 "Built" – 0:38
 "Adriana" – 3:31
 "Do What You Feel Like" – 2:53
 "I Am for Real" – 4:20
 "Get In" – 3:15
 "Hoodies & Hood" – 4:01
 "State" – 3:41
 "Open Season" – 3:51

Personnel
 Matt Kinna - vocals
 Jon Cohen - bass guitar
 Joel Krass - guitar
 Brian Matthews - drums
 Dan Brodbeck - producer
 Jack Joseph Puig - mixing

Charts

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Three Girls from Rome

Three Girls from Rome (, released as Girls of the Spanish Steps in the UK) is a 1952 Italian classic comedy drama film directed by Luciano Emmer.

Cast
Lucia Bosè as Marisa
Cosetta Greco as Elena
Liliana Bonfatti as Lucia
Renato Salvatori as Augusto
Marcello Mastroianni as Marcello
Mario Silvani as Alberto
Ave Ninchi as Marisa's mother
Leda Gloria as Elena's mother
Eduardo De Filippo as Vittorio
Anna Maria Gugliari as Leda
Giorgio Bassani as the Narrator

Remake
In 1998 there was a remake for RAI2 television, a miniseries starring Romina Mondello, Vittoria Belvedere and Alice Evans followed by a 180 minute movie Le Ragazze Di Piazza Di Spagna 2 a year later.

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Sar Choluskan

Sar Choluskan () may refer to:
 Sar Choluskan-e Olya
 Sar Choluskan-e Sofla


Hendrick van Brederode

Henry (Hendrik), Lord of Bréderode (December 1531 – 15 February 1568) was a member of the Dutch noble family Van Brederode and an important member during the Eighty Years' War. He was named the "Grote Geus" or the "big beggar".

Biography
Hendrik van Brederode was born at Brussels. He became a convert to the Reformed faith and placed himself at the side of the prince of Orange and Count of Egmont in resisting the introduction of the Spanish Inquisition and Spanish despotism into the Netherlands. In 1566 he was one of the founders of the confederacy of nobles who bound themselves to maintain the rights and liberties of the country by signing a document known as the Compromise of Nobles.

On 5 April that year Brederode accompanied to the palace a body of 300 Knights, for whom he acted as the spokesman, to present to the regent, Margaret of Parma, a petition setting forth their grievances. It was at a banquet at the Hotel Culemburg on 8 April, presided over by Bréderode, that the sobriquet of les Gueux, or "the Beggars," was first given to the opponents of Spanish rule. Bréderode, the "Grote Geus" or big beggar, was banished from the Netherlands by Alva, and died in exile shortly afterwards at the early age of thirty-six.

In March of the year 1567, backed by his friend Lenaert Jansz de Graeff and a large part of the bourgeoisie Brederode became the Generalcaptain of the city of Amsterdam. But in the next month Brederode and De Graeff departure and the Spanish General Philippe de Noircarmes became the military leader of Amsterdam.

Hendrik was the descendant of an ancient family active in the affairs of war and peace, which had for some centuries been settled in Holland Northwest of the village of Santpoort at Castle Brederode and after 1418 at Batenstein Castle in Vianen.
In 1557 he married Amalia of Neuenahr, daughter of Gumprecht of Neuenahr.

In popular culture
Hendrick van Brederode is main character in 1949 novel De grote geus (The Great Geuz) written by Johan Fabricius.

See also
 Castle Brederode
 Batestein Castle
 Battle of Oosterweel

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Bonneville flood

The Bonneville flood was a catastrophic flooding event in the last ice age, which involved massive amounts of water inundating parts of southern Idaho and eastern Washington along the course of the Snake River. Unlike the Missoula Floods, which also occurred during the same period in the Pacific Northwest, the Bonneville flood only happened once. The flood is believed to be the second largest in known geologic history.

Cause and events

About 14,500 years ago, pluvial Lake Bonneville in northern Utah reached its highest water level since its formation. The lake occupied the present-day basin of the Great Salt Lake, but was far larger, covering about . As it rose the lake level caused seepage at, then breached, the ancient level of Red Rock Pass, a mountain pass at the headwaters of the Portneuf River, a tributary of the Snake River above present-day American Falls Reservoir. Ancient Red Rock Pass was the site of two alluvial fans descending from opposite sides of the notch, forming a natural dam. When the dam collapsed, it released a -high flood crest down the Portneuf River valley, also spilling into the neighboring Bear River valley. When it reached the Snake River, it eroded away a lava dam that had been at the site of the present-day American Falls, releasing a  lake, American Falls Lake, that had formed behind the natural dam.

At the peak of the flood, approximately  poured over the Snake River Plain at speeds of up to  per hour and deposited hundreds of square miles of sediments eroded from upstream. The flood scoured the -deep Snake River Canyon through the underlying basalt and loess soil, creating Shoshone Falls and several other waterfalls along the Snake River. It also carved and increased in size many other tributary canyons, including those of the Bruneau River and Salmon Falls Creek. The flood then entered Hells Canyon, significantly widening the gorge. Its waters eventually reached the Pacific Ocean via the Columbia River.

Legacy
Although the peak of the flood lasted a few weeks at most, erosion at Red Rock Pass continued for a few years before water ceased to spill over. The flood drained the top  of Lake Bonneville, which constituted about  of water, and lowered the lake level to a stage known as the Provo shoreline. The flood transformed the Snake River Plain into a series of channeled scablands resembling the Columbia Plateau. Also left by the flood were the many "melon" boulders distributed throughout the canyons in the Snake River Plain. According to some geologists, the total volume of the Bonneville flood was actually greater than any individual one of the Missoula Floods, although the Missoula floods released more water as a whole, and at least one had a much higher peak flow rate.

Much of the sediment scoured by the flood was deposited near the mouth of the Snake River. It now lies beneath about 20 layers of Missoula Floods deposits.

See also
Outburst flood
Altai flood

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Astrodome (aeronautics)

An astrodome is a hemispherical transparent dome fitted in  the cabin roof of an aircraft to allow the use of a sextant during astro-navigation.

Before the introduction of electronic means of navigation the only way to fix an aircraft's position at night was by taking star sights using a sextant, as had marine navigators for hundreds of years aboard ships. This requires a 360-degree view of the horizon; the astrodome was devised to allow this.

Astrodomes were prominent on many Royal Air Force (RAF) and Commonwealth-operated multi-engined aircraft of the Second World War, and on foreign aircraft ordered by them for their use, such as the Liberator and Dakota, as the RAF performed many of its operations and other flying at night.

Similar hemispherical-shape domes were also installed on some World War II heavy bombers to allow sighting of defensive, remotely operated gun turrets. They were featured on the Heinkel He 177A, with a single forward dorsal dome to aim its remotely operated FDL 131 twin MG 131 dorsal turret, and the complex sighting system for the American B-29 Superfortress heavy bomber's quartet of remote gun turrets. In the early 1960's astrodomes were still being employed in the USMC Lockheed Hercules GV-1 (later designated as C-130), with the navigator employing a bubble sextant hung from a hook in the middle of the dome. The USMC operated its Aerial Navigation School at MCAS Cherry Point, NC with graduates receiving their designation and wings as an Aerial Navigator.

Later use on ocean-racing yachts

In the 1950s and 60's, the use of astrodomes in aircraft was gradually phased out as radionavigation and ground plotting radars took over. Astrodomes did, however, enjoy a second career on ocean racing yachts (especially in singlehanded racing).
Eric Tabarly, record-breaking winner of the 1964 OSTAR single-handed transatlantic race, and former French Aéronavale (Fleet air arm) pilot, had fitted his revolutionary lightweight ketch-rigged racer Pen Duick II with an astrodome scavenged from a Shorts Sunderland decommissioned aircraft.

Not only could he use it for sextant astro-navigation, but it provided a sheltered place from which he could steer his yacht during a stormy race. This was quite useful, as his wind-vane autopilot (also of aeronautical technology) had broken down.

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The Queen of Zamba

The Queen of Zamba is a science fiction novel by American writer L. Sprague de Camp, the first book of his Viagens Interplanetarias series and its subseries of stories set on the fictional planet Krishna. It was written between November 1948 and January 1949 and first published in the magazine Astounding Science Fiction as a two-part serial in the issues for August and September 1949. It was first published in book form as a paperback by Ace Books in 1954 as an "Ace Double" issued back-to-back with Clifford D. Simak's novel Ring Around the Sun. This version was editorially retitled Cosmic Manhunt and introduced a number of textual changes disapproved by the author. The novel was first issued by itself in another paperback edition under the title A Planet Called Krishna, published in England by Compact Books in 1966. A new paperback edition restoring the author's preferred title and text and including the Krishna short story "Perpetual Motion" was published by Dale Books in 1977. This edition was reprinted by Ace Books in 1982 as part of the standard edition of the Krishna novels. The novel has been translated into German, French, Italian, Czech, and Polish. An E-book edition was published by Gollancz's SF Gateway imprint on September 29, 2011 as part of a general release of de Camp's works in electronic form.

As with all of the "Krishna" novels, the title of The Queen of Zamba has a "Z" in it, a practice de Camp claimed to have devised to keep track of them. Short stories in the series do not follow the practice, nor do Viagens Interplanetarias works not set on Krishna.

Plot summary
Victor Hasselborg, a 22nd-century private eye, is hired by a Syrian businessman to track down his missing daughter Julnar Batruni, who it turns out has run off with adventurer Anthony Fallon. Immediate complications ensue when Hasselborg finds himself falling for Alexandra, Fallon's abandoned wife. Discovering that the fugitives have gone off-planet, he tracks them to the planet Krishna, an Earth-like world of the star Tau Ceti with humanoid inhabitants but a medieval culture. Disguising himself as a native Krishnan, Hasselborg goes after them, little-knowing he has entered a web of interplanetary intrigue, spying, and gun-running...

Anthony Fallon, the antagonist in The Queen of Zamba, would reappear in two later Krishna novels; as the protagonist of The Tower of Zanid and as a minor character in The Swords of Zinjaban.

Setting
The planet Krishna is de Camp's premier creation in the Sword and Planet genre, representing both a tribute to the Barsoom novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs and an attempt to "get it right", reconstructing the concept logically, without what he regarded as Burroughs' biological and technological absurdities. De Camp intended the stories as "pure entertainment in the form of light, humorous, swashbuckling, interplanetary adventure-romances - a sort of sophisticated Burroughs-type story, more carefully thought out than their prototypes."

As dated in the 1959 version of de Camp's essay "The Krishna Stories" and James Cambias's GURPS Planet Krishna (a 1997 gaming guide to the Viagens series authorized by de Camp), the Krishnan events of "The Queen of Zamba" take place in the year 2138, falling between "Perpetual Motion" and "Calories", and making it the third story set on Krishna in terms of chronology. The primary portion of the story is preceded and followed by scenes on Earth, each of which is over a decade removed from the main action.

Reception
Early reviewers of the Ace edition were not terribly impressed by the book. J. Francis McComas called it "a tedious account of a private eye's quest through space for a runaway heiress," with "[t]he chase ... a pretty drab affair, without the wit and charm usually found in this author's work." Groff Conklin characterized it as "a cops-and-robbers adventure," rating it "fast-moving and moderately sophisticated entertainment, bubble-light though not bubble-headed, and considerably below the author's best." Anthony Boucher described the novel as  "a fairly primitive and predictable adventure story which is 'science fiction' because it is said to happen on the remote planet Krishna."

More recent critics have struck much the same note. William Mattathias Robins called it "a simple detective adventure in an exotic setting." Colleen Power wrote more charitably that "[w]hile the novel seems dated, with its tough-talking detective slang and philosophy, [its] satire combines nicely with comic swordplay to present the reader with a short, light science fiction detective novel." She also pointed out that "the overwhelming concern ... to prevent modern technological humans from influencing or interfering with the normal development of native cultures" in it and the other Viagens novels "predat[es] 'Star Trek's' 'prime directive' by nearly twenty years." David Pringle characterized it as "[l]ight-hearted planetary romance -- or fantasy in an ostensibly science fictional setting."

Both Boucher and Robins note the novel's primacy in the Viagens series, suggesting they see its primary significance in the establishment of the setting.

Notes

External links

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Fearing Township, Washington County, Ohio

Fearing Township is one of the twenty-two townships of Washington County, Ohio, United States.  The 2000 census found 910 people in the township.

Geography
Located in the central part of the county, it borders the following townships:
Salem Township - north
Liberty Township - northeast corner
Lawrence Township - east
Newport Township - southeast corner
Marietta Township - south
Muskingum Township - west

A small portion of the county seat of Marietta is located in southwestern Fearing Township.

Name and history
Fearing Township was established in 1808, and named for Paul Fearing, an early settler. It is the only Fearing Township statewide.

Government
The township is governed by a three-member board of trustees, who are elected in November of odd-numbered years to a four-year term beginning on the following January 1. Two are elected in the year after the presidential election and one is elected in the year before it. There is also an elected township fiscal officer, who serves a four-year term beginning on April 1 of the year after the election, which is held in November of the year before the presidential election. Vacancies in the fiscal officership or on the board of trustees are filled by the remaining trustees.

References

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Hussein Naim

Hussein Naim is a Lebanese-Swiss biochemist and molecular virologist, known for his research in cell biology (membrane protein sorting and internalization) and virology (measles, SARS, HIV and Influenza). He has held several leading positions at prominent universities and biotechnology centers.

Scientific career
Hussein Naim received his Ph.D. degree in biochemistry from the University of Bern, Switzerland in 1989. After being appointed at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, his research focused on the (i) basis of enveloped viruses assembly, and (ii) the mechanisms of membrane protein sorting and endocytosis in polarized epithelial cells. His research was instrumental towards understanding the intracellular mechanisms of viral and membrane protein sorting in epithelial cells and the cell-surface assembly of several RNA viruses. He was appointed as a faculty member at the institute of molecular biology of the University of Zurich. His research focused on the development of novel viral vectors and therapeutic molecules that paved the way towards translational research (live recombinant vaccines and cancer virotherapy). Later, he became the director of vaccine research at Berna Biotech (now Crucell).

Publications
 Characteristics of the internalization signal in the Y543 influenza virus hemagglutinin suggest a model for recognition of internalization signals containing tyrosine. J. Biol. Chem. 269, 3928-3933
 Apical and basolateral coated pits of MDCK cells differ in their rates of maturation into coated vesicles, but not in the ability to distinguish between hemagglutinin proteins with different internalization signals. J. Cell Biol.  129, 1241-1250.
 Mutations in the Middle of the Transmembrane Domain Reverse the Polarity of Transport of the Influenza Virus Hemagglutinin in MDCK Epithelial Cells. J. Cell  Biol. 142, 51-57.
 Tyrosine-based Membrane Protein Sorting Signals Are Differentially Interpreted by Polarized Madin-Darby Canine Kidney and LLC-PK1 Epithelial Cells. J. Biol. Chem. 273, 26862-26869
 O-linked glycans mediate apical sorting of human intestinal sucrase-isomaltase through association with lipid rafts. Current Biology  9, 593-596.
 Effects of altering palmitylation sites on the biosynthesis and function of the Influenza virus Hemagglutinin. J. Virol. 66, 7585-7588.
 Basis for selective incorporation of glycoproteins into influenza virus envelope. J. Virol. 67, 4831-4841
 Measles Viruses with Altered Envelope Protein Cytoplasmic Tails Gain Cell Fusion Competence.J. Virol. 72, 1224-1234.
 Chimeric Measles Viruses with a Foreign Envelope. J. Virol. 72, 2150-2159.
 Gene Transfer into Neurons from Hippocampal Slices. Mol. Cell. Neurosci. 17, 855-871
 Measles virus spreads in rat hippocampal neurons by cell-to-cell contact and in a polarized fashion. J. Virol. 76, 5720-5728.
 Oncolytic measles virus in cutaneous T-cell lymphomas mount anti-tumor immune responses in vivo and target interferon resistant tumor cells. Blood, 106: 2287-2294.
 Use of viral vectors for the development of vaccines. Exp. Rev. Vaccines, 6 (2): 255-266.
 Reverse genetics of measles virus and resulting multivalent recombinant vaccines. Curr. Topics Microbiol. Immun. 329, 129-162.
 Measles virus matrix protein specifies apical virus release and glycoprotein sorting in epithelial cells. EMBO J. 19, 3576-3585

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Gmina Wola Krzysztoporska

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Gmina Wola Krzysztoporska is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Piotrków County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. Its seat is the village of Wola Krzysztoporska, which lies approximately  south-west of Piotrków Trybunalski and  south of the regional capital Łódź.

The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2006 its total population is 11,575.

Villages
Gmina Wola Krzysztoporska contains the villages and settlements of Blizin, Bogdanów, Bogdanów-Kolonia, Borowa, Budków, Bujny, Dąbrówka, Gąski, Glina, Gomulin, Gomulin-Kolonia, Jeżów, Kacprów, Kamienna, Kargał-Las, Kozierogi, Krężna, Krężna-Kolonia, Krzyżanów, Laski, Ludwików, Majków Duży, Mąkolice, Mąkolice-Kolonia, Miłaków, Moników, Mzurki, Oprzężów, Oprzężów-Kolonia, Parzniewice Duże, Parzniewice Małe, Parzniewiczki, Pawłów Dolny, Pawłów Górny, Piaski, Piekarki, Piekary, Poraj, Praca, Radziątków, Rokszyce, Rokszyce Szkolne, Siomki, Stradzew, Wola Krzysztoporska, Wola Rokszycka, Woźniki, Woźniki-Kolonia, Wygoda and Żachta.

Neighbouring gminas
Gmina Wola Krzysztoporska is bordered by the city of Piotrków Trybunalski and by the gminas of Bełchatów, Drużbice, Grabica, Kamieńsk and Rozprza.

References
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Mukia maderaspatana

Mukia maderaspatana is a species of plant in the family Cucurbitaceae. The species is found throughout Indomalaya and Meganesia.

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Christopher Hansteen

Christopher Hansteen (26 September 1784 – 11 April 1873) was a Norwegian geophysicist, astronomer and physicist, best known for his mapping of Earth's magnetic field.

Early life and career
Hansteen was born in Christiania as the son of Johannes Mathias Hansteen (1744–1792) and his wife Anne Cathrine Treschow (1754–1829). He was the younger brother of writer Conradine Birgitte Dunker, and through her the uncle of Bernhard Dunker and Vilhelmine Ullmann, and granduncle of Mathilde Schjøtt, Ragna Nielsen and Viggo Ullmann. His mother was a first cousin of Niels Treschow.

The intention was for Hansteen to become a naval officer, but since his father died when Hansteen was young, this plan did not materialize. Instead, he attended Oslo Cathedral School from the age of nine. Niels Treschow was the principal of this school. Hansteen took the examen artium in 1802, and in 1803 he enrolled at the University of Copenhagen, where he originally studied law. He later took more interest in mathematics, estranged by the lack of universal validity of a country's laws compared to the mathematical laws. He had also been inspired by the lectures of Hans Christian Ørsted. He was hired as the tutor of a young noble, Niels Rosenkrantz von Holstein, who lived at Sorø. Here, he also met his future wife Johanne Cathrine Andrea Borch, a daughter of professor Caspar Abraham Borch. In 1806 he was hired as a mathematics teacher in the gymnasium of Frederiksborg.

Academic career
In 1807 Hansteen began the inquiries in terrestrial magnetism with which his name is especially associated. His first scientific publication was printed in Journal de Physique, following a contest on magnetic axes created in 1811 by the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. In 1813 he was given a research scholarship by the recently established (in 1811) Royal Frederick University in Christiania, with a promise of a future academic position. After marrying Johanne Cathrine Andrea Borch in May 1814, they left for Norway in the summer. Due to the Swedish campaign against Norway in 1814, they opted to travel by sea, and was threatened by a Swedish privateer as well as seized by a British fregate en route. Reaching Norway after five days, they settled in the street Pilestredet.

Working as a lecturer from 1814, in 1816 Hansteen was promoted to professor of astronomy and applied mathematics. He was the editor of the official Norwegian almanac from 1815, manager of the  city astronomical observatory from the same year and co-director of the Norwegian Mapping Authority (then known as Norges Geografiske Oppmåling) from 1817. In 1819 he published a volume of researches on terrestrial magnetism, which was translated into German under the title of Untersuchungen über den Magnetismus der Erde, with a supplement containing Beobachtungen der Abweichung und Neigung der Magnetnadel and an atlas. By the rules there framed for the observation of magnetical phenomena Hansteen hoped to accumulate analyses for determining the number and position of the magnetic poles of the Earth. In 1822 he co-founded Norway's first journal on natural sciences, Magazin for Naturvidenskaberne. He sat as editor-in-chief for eight years.

In the course of his research he travelled over Finland and the greater part of his own country; and from 1828 to 1830 he undertook, in company with Georg Adolf Erman and with the co-operation of Russia, a government-funded mission to Western Siberia. A narrative of the expedition soon appeared (Reise-Erinnerungen aus Siberien, 1854; Souvenirs d’un voyage en Sibérie, 1857); but the chief work was not issued until 1863 (Resultate magnetischer Beobachtungen). He did not conclude on the issue at hand, but his work was later completed by Carl Friedrich Gauss. Shortly after the return of the mission, in 1833 Hansteen moved with his family into the observatory, which was created from drawings by the architect Christian Heinrich Grosch. A magnetic observatory was added in 1839.

From 1835 to 1838 he published textbooks on geometry and mechanics, largely a reaction to his former research assistant Bernt Michael Holmboe's textbooks. Compared to Holmboe's method of teaching, Hansteen's books were more practically oriented. After Holmboe wrote a review of the first textbook for the newspaper Morgenbladet, in which he advised schools not to use it, a public debate followed, with contributions from other mathematicians. It has been claimed that this was the first debate on the subject of school textbooks in Norway. Holmboe's textbooks proved more lasting, with Hansteen's textbook not being reprinted. In 1842 Hansteen wrote his Disquisitiones de mutationibus, quas patitur momentum acus magneticae. He also contributed various papers to different scientific journals, especially Magazin for Naturvidenskaberne.

Hansteen was a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters from 1818 and of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1857, as well as several learned societies in other countries, including the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1822) and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1863). He was a member of the board of the Royal Norwegian Society for Development for many years, and also chaired the board of the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry.

Later life
For health reasons, Hansteen stopped holding lectures in 1856. In 1861 he retired from active work, but still pursued his studies, his Observations de l'inclination magnetique and Sur les variations séculaires du magnetisme appearing in 1865. He left the position as observatory manager in 1861 as well, but continued as editor of the Norwegian almanac until 1863 and as director of the Norwegian Mapping Authority until 1872.

His wife died in 1840. Their daughter Aasta Hansteen became a notable women's rights campaigner. He was the paternal great-grandfather of Kristofer Hansteen and Edvard Heiberg Hansteen; trade unionist Viggo Hansteen was a later descendant. Christopher Hansteen died in April 1873 in Christiania, and is buried at Gamle Aker kirkegård. The funeral took place at the University.

Awards and legacy
Hansteen was appointed a Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 1847, and received the Grand Cross in 1855. He was also appointed a Grand Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog and a Commander Grand Cross of the Order of the Polar Star, as well as other foreign orders of knighthood. A bust of Hansteen was raised at his observatory in the 1850s.

The crater Hansteen and the mountain Mons Hansteen on the Moon is named after him. In Oslo, the road Christopher Hansteens vei at Blindern has been named after Hansteen. In addition, a street at Majorstuen was named Hansteens gate, but in 1879 it was renamed Holmboes gate in honour of Bernt Michael Holmboe.
In the Møhlenpris neighbourhood in Bergen, the street Professor Hansteens gate was named after Hansteen in 1881.

See also
 Scandinavian Scientist Conference

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List of Haplos episodes

Haplos is a 2017 Philippine television drama series, directed by Gil Tejada Jr. starring Sanya Lopez, Thea Tolentino, Rocco Nacino and Pancho Magno. Which premiered on GMA Network's GMA Afternoon Prime block and worldwide on GMA Pinoy TV on July 10, 2017, replacing D' Originals.

NUTAM (Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement) People in television homes ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines. The series ended on February 23, 2018 with a total of 165 episodes aired.

Series overview

Episodes
In the tables below, the   represent the lowest ratings and the  represent the highest ratings.

July 2017

August 2017

September 2017

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December 2017

January 2018

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3K Battery

3K Battery is a brand of automotive and motorcycle batteries in Thailand and other international markets.  The products are marketed by Thai Storage Battery Public Company Limited (, ABBV: TSB), which manufactures and distributes these batteries.  TSB was established on 10 June 1986.

The company recently delayed a major investment in Thailand due to investor pressures. The company's shares (BAT-3K) are traded on the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET).

The company closed in mid-2017 due the heavy losses.

References

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 Company Website

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